skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easy:

Just Dance Now[0] is not a AAA game. It was made by Massive Entertainment, who makes AAA games.

So, a game being produced by a AAA studio does not make it a AAA game.

What "is" and "is not" AAA is debatable, sure, but some things are clear:

1) they're not mobile games.

2) They have a lot of marketing budget

3) They generally push the limits of the platform (lots of LOD)

4) They have large development teams

AAA usually means that a game needs: Lots of time, Lots of Money and Lots of People.

Fortnite is low fidelity, has been in early access since it's inception (many years at this point) and has a relatively small number of people (<100 direct, compared to >1,400 for The Division) making it, even though it's been "in development" for many years, not AAA level.

FWIW I'm not saying AAA is "good", I'm just saying that Apple isn't chasing AAA- and "fortnite" is not a good counter-argument, the better argument might be call of duty or sims, which have mac ports, but they're definitely not first platform and they actually are emulation shims using Wine.

Fortnite itself does not claim to be AAA, and it's totally fine not being AAA, it's actually better to avoid making AAA games and instead go for "AA" with low fidelity because the stakes are lower and you can take more risks in making a more interesting and engaging game.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Dance_Now
Match is a small part of IAC, no?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAC_(company)
I learned the very basics to become a developer from Codeacademy. Back in 2015 I was a front line support technician at a small hardware startup who did Codeacademy in my free time, which was considerable. My first daughter had just been born and that really gave me motivation to learn and achieve my full potential. My boss was the only software engineer at our company and so was often overloaded with work, so he gave me small tasks to do, starting with learning regular expressions to massage a few thousand lines of data into something useful, and then getting to make PHP edits to Wordpress, and even some Visual C++.

I more than doubled my income from that job to my next job, propelling me to the middle class, and have since achieved consistently high pay raises over the last seven years without much difficulty.

As someone who dropped out of high school due to family issues and lack of motivation, I hope free resources like Codeacademy always exists on the internet and will be a pathway for those who have the aptitude to learn to code. For my personally it totally transformed my life as I was basically destitute before I got my first job as a web developer.
In the same way LPARs preceded Virtual Vaults on System z? :)
Ruby on Rails is meant for your use case.
Is there a specific Synology NAS model with this restriction?

I happen to have Western Digital drives in my Synology DS920+.
Sadly I expect that Google will "handle" those edge cases the same way they handle similar issues on Youtube: have a lot of false positives and tell users to pound sand, except for cases where the outrage goes viral.
The monopoly on dating is definitely not tinder… it is: real life.
They confused it with Sega Saturn, that's the one that was pushed under the bus by Nintendo 64 in 1996. Nintendo however was late to the game, the PS1 was already entrenched.
Russia and China both are accumulating a lot more gold than previously. They can go to a gold backed digital currency pretty reliably at this point. China's been testing digital yuan already, including some nice restrictions that will benefit socialist/communist control - restriction of what certain digital yuan can buy, as well as time-expiring money. Both would increase peoples needs on the state and their short term happiness - they'll feel "richer" able to buy nicer meals or go on vacations, but both would be able to restrict someone from saving or becoming too successful. We'll likely see these same ideas implemented in the CBDCs that roll out in the west.

"Oil backed" makes less sense, IMO.
Sure. It widened the options for most people. Excellent!

That said, as the post I originally responded to suggested, I don’t think that getting banned from Tinder or any dating app in particular is a “big deal”. Maybe a minor inconvenience for most people, but it’s not like someone who gets banned from Tinder is doomed to a life without dates.
I might take a risky job if the upside justifies the risk. But even in the US, the amount of stock options granted to employees (apart from the very earliest ones) will only result in a big pay-offs for the most successful of startups, and even then requires a lot of risk and/or sticking it out. EU startup culture appears less generous with equity and growth potential but doesn't make up for it with higher salaries.
We are comparing what we used 20 years ago on the Amiga. What I think we all fell in love with was the configurability and speed. What Gentoo showed me was that the configurability and UI of the old DirOpus will only get you so far. I did a filededupe plugin for Gentoo, the UI for that made me cry getting that right takes time. I'm glad that DirOpus has gotten better and solve all these things in a good way!
I went through a similar situation 2.5 years ago and had a pretty similar reaction. Reflecting back on this experience, here's what I'd tell myself knowing what I know now.

1. Accept that you are now in a Rest & Vest position. The days of "all hands on deck" are now behind you. Nothing is a fire drill anymore and no one really cares (nor is incentivized) to just do things quickly.

2. Do a problem audit of the biggest challenges you faced/solved for pre-acquisition.

3. Start making an exit plan based on your vest schedule & any other financial incentive schedules you may be on (ESPP, 401k, etc)

4. Start working on solving one of the problems you uncovered in your problem audit. Do your best to pre-sell the solution before you code anything.

5. Leave after you've been able to successfully presell your solution to atleast 10 paying customers.

OR

LEAVE and find a new job at another startup
In a corporate env you don't choose what browser you can use. And FF has other problems (see other comments)
Video: The Wright brothers and their lessons for inventors and founders
This comment is the natural result when a magician and software engineer collide
More important:

> We have also received consistent feedback encouraging us to promptly discard responses to study email. We agree, and we will delete all response data on December 31, 2021.

I wrote one of the blogs posts that got linked here on HN, and I have some strong feelings about that. None of them are joy, though. I think it’s good and appropriate that the study is deleting all the data; since it was collected by misleading methods, I don’t think it was valid. I’m not happy that a study covering an important subject, and led by researchers who had good motivations, went so far off the rails in the first place that it had to be axed.

Edit: I wrote more about my response to this whole situation at https://honeypot.net/post/dealing-with-princetons-flawed-pri... .
Values-wise, Poland is still way closer to the West than, say, Turkey.

NATO has nothing to do with values, though - what matters is where the US wants its Air Force bases.
According to my memory of the time, the Dreamcast launched a bit too early compared to the PS2. The Dreamcast was trying to sell games and systems right when the PS2 marketing engine went into full swing. The marketing hype for PS2 was huge, everyone I knew was talking about how many millions of pixels it would push, how the multi-core architecture would make everything else obsolete, and of course, how it was backwards compatible with existing libraries.

I knew one guy that had a Dreamcast, everyone else saved their pennies for a PS2 and made do with their existing PS1.
There are completely independent risks that you are dealing with here. If you are a small company there is a non-insignificant risk that your cloud account will be closed and it will be impossible to find out why or to fix it in a timely matter. There have been several that were only fixed after being escalated to the front page of Hacker News, and we haven't heard about the ones that didn't get enough upvotes to get our attention and were never fixed.

Also, what we saw on Dec 7th was that the complexity of Amazon's infrastructure introduces risks of downtime that simply cannot be fully mitigated by Amazon, or by any other single provider. More redundancy introduces more complexity at both the micro level and macro level.

It doesn't really cost that much to at least store replicated data in an independent cloud, particularly a low-cost one like Digital Ocean.
You get 1/2 weeks paid at chic fila as a cashier. Grocery stores ie stocking shelves full time is also the same at nearly every chain. Tradesman have it better.
I figured the same
"The AI has determined it has done nothing wrong and as punishment has deleted 50% of your files. Do not make that mistake again."
Isn't Japan also on it's own banking system? You can't use USA Credit/Debit cards most places? Makes sense they would also allow Russia's "third party" option.
Yikes. It's been said several times, don't use Google for anything important. The minute something goes wrong, you're so SOL and they literally could care less.
Mozilla partnered with Yahoo just fine, so I don't see why it can't with DuckDuckGo.
I agree. I thought Stallman was a nut (and in most respects I still definitely do) but since working with proprietary systems of the 80s and 90s I've realized his hardline free software stance is a direct response to companies like SCO.

I got into free software relatively early in my life and it was like watching a parody film before the original.
Windows 10 kernel supports “Sandbox”, which might be what comes closest.
> with a varying over time definition of "known"

This is called progressive revelation[0].

> what would be the "naive view"

That the Bible is no different than, say, the Aeneid, or the Odyssey, or any other epic saga whose purpose is to provide a myth (in the literary sense) as an explanation for why things are, though are not tied to history explicitly.

> Assuming that the Bible is stating that such a being exists?

The Bible makes clear and explicit claims about its author, where creation came from, how and why humanity exists, as well as its ultimate end.

People often criticize those who hold to a Biblical faith as people trust in some "invisible, almighty, sentient being" yet themselves don't actually have any real answers to any of the most basic questions of creation and human existence.

[0]: https://www.blueletterbible.org/faq/don_stewart/don_stewart_...
For sure, in my context I meant a ATS in single rack/cabinet. If that went bad the blast radius would be contained to a single cabinet. But yeah, anything can and will happen. At another place I worked at, a site UPS took down an entire server room. It was pretty nice Eaton system but there was some event that fried the whole thing. Eaton had to send an specialist to investigate the matter as those events are pretty rare.
I guess so, but I was constraining myself to UNIXes. :)
I believe they’ve attempted to measure synapse weights from real worms for training the net, the firings themselves are just basic electrochemistry.
A Growing Army of Hackers Helps Keep Kim Jong Un in Power
> 1) Porting costs are not per game but per engine, which can be shared between multiple games.

True but they're still big enough that that cost is significant. Even when diluted across game budgets.

> 2) The majority of costs is ongoing support, not writing to a different API.

Ongoing support is still required for writing to a different API. Ongoing support involves (a) updating in line with API version changes and (b) updating API-integration abstractions in line with game engine API updates. Supporting multiple APIs adds at least some amount of friction to every code-change.

There's also the increase in cost of testing every engine code change across multiple graphics APIs.
Rust has a parser combinator library called Nom [^1] that is really a joy to use. I know a little Rust—enough to know what a lifetime is but not so much that I don’t have to keep referring to the documentation when building something. It took me just a few hours with the docs and examples to get a decent parser together. So nice to work with combinators!

[^1]: https://github.com/Geal/nom
I give ten percent of my income to charity and spend a lot of time looking into them. While I personally don't engage with race or gender specific organizations as a matter of principal, looking at that Glassdoor this isn't a organization that deserves my money. Loudly correcting this behavior would go a long way to restoring trust for those who would donate. If given the choice between providing mosquito netting in Africa or allowing someone to show up late and bully her staff, I pick the former every time.
Say all of those costs are $2,000,000, and you have 25,000 billable endpoints in the datacenter… you’re looking at less than $0.01/hour for that overhead on a unit basis.

Obviously, there’s a huge capital investment component too that has to be incorporated. Those costs may be really high if you’re in a growth phase as you need to overbuy capacity.

Just to be clear, I’m not arguing that on-prem is magically cheap. :) But it has its place too!
The irony is last time I used Tinder it was clear they're totally unable or unwilling to deal with all the women using Tinder for "business".
Dual-booting needs to become easier and less bug-prone. People need to be able to try Linux before committing their main system. One year ago I tried setting up dual-booting on my system with Ubuntu and it irreparably trashed the Windows boot process; and I needed to do a full nuke & pave. At this time I don't perceive installing Linux to be a good idea unless you're buying a dedicated Linux workstation from System76 or similar.
Sure, I plan for it but I do not expect it. And it never happened for me over decades. But I did plan for it, just not in the way the parent said and it did cost me far less.
So, are societies allowed to maintain any standards at all if it can be argued that the maintenance of standards has disparate impacts on racialized bodies?
My wife kept failing math proficiency test. Despite having been a successful teacher for many years.
Finally I started testing her myself and realized she knew nothing about math. Maybe 2nd grade level. She grew up in Canada and said math wasn’t really taught.

Spent months training her up to a middle school level. We moved states and she took test. No math questions on it…
I was listening to a lot of Mixergy some 10 years ago and I really enjoyed it but for some reason stopped. I was looking for something to listen to couple weeks ago and after spending some 20 minutes to remember the name "Mixery" I listened to couple of his latest podcasts. It feels so different now. I think the general attitude of Andrew towards his guests has changed a lot. He is so pushy now and it feels like the episodes are more about him, rather than the story of the guest.
Not only that, but it has a lot of pain points, including ARM CPUs in a world where a lot of games used to target 32 bit windows.

Proton supported macos at first[1]. I think support is still more or less there, though not integrated with "steam play". Proton "glue" scripts are also mostly python, and macos does not (did not?) support python3.

I think the community could step in and help support it, but valve pretty much stopped efforts on that front (some rationale in [2]), although I think community efforts on wine would be welcomed.

[1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/commit/a84120449d817...

[2] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1493#issuecom...
> There would be no need for any country to own or acquire similar defences.

That is incredibly naive.

All countries must lean towards maximum ability to hold on to power. In certain cases that might mean abstaining from certain weapons to get favorable trade agreements from other countries. But that is just a deference to the more powerful country which needs those weapons to enforce their global trading position.
A game about machine learning: https://store.steampowered.com/app/619150/while_True_learn/
I can’t downvote yet, but you can indeed lower unemployment without rampant inflation or devaluations.
Linux for the Paranoid Does the Work for You
As a foreigner you have lived a significant amount of time in England, people with little mastery of the language can be very annoying. It is frustrating to exchange with people who don’t understand slowed down conversational English. Also global english is a myth. In my experience people somewhat understand other speakers of their native language who mispronounce following similar patterns and can somewhat mimic the mistakes of other foreigners while inferring an often incorrect meaning from the context.
Do you mean the graphical Windows Sandbox tool? Can it also be used headless to run a service for example? That would come pretty close.
Key differences between this situation and IE6/7:

1. IE6/7 were just egregiously bad experiences for both users and developers, with Microsoft being almost entirely disinterested to the point of disbanding their browser team. Holding the web back was clearly part of their strategy.

2. Chrome, on the other hand, is well-maintained and rather good. Unlike Microsoft in the 2000s, the web is a core pillar of Google's business. Any challenger to the throne will have to overtake a moving target powered by a world-class engineering powerhouse, rather than a static dinosaur like IE6/IE7.

3. The barrier to entry in the browser market today is roughly an order of magnitude greater than it was back then. Browsers today are far more complex; they're more like operating systems.

As far as the free market is concerned, nobody is seriously challenging Chrome in this area. Ever. Unless/until Google loses interest and stops competing.
> I think it isn't a huge deal if an English or French or Social Studies teacher isn't great in math, but is otherwise a good candidate.

The test covers the grades 3-9 math curriculum. Not having that kind of basic math literacy is pretty big barrier to being able to evaluate, much less teach, Social Science materiak at the secondary level (the only level where you would likely have a dedicated Social Science teacher.)

And subjecting students to that kind of incompetence—as those from already-disadvantaged backgrounds will be the least likely to have a home environment that counterbalances it—is a far bigger force institutionalizing racial disadvantage than the test itself ever could be.
> The Mac menu is all the way up the top left. That makes using any app in any window that isn't top left difficult because I have to keep sending the mouse away long distance.

You might want to check out Menuwhere:

https://manytricks.com/menuwhere/

I started using it after deciding to minimalize my desktop and hide my menu bar by default and put my dock on the right, since the monitor is wider than it is tall.
It’s more complicated than that. The email I received was wrong about my legal obligations to respond. First, I received the email regarding a tiny personal site I operate for the fun of it, and I don’t meet the CCPA deadlines. Second, nothing in the CCPA said I have to reply to random information-gathering requests anyway. And yet, the email gave me a deadline to respond and cited a specific law, claiming that I owed them a response.
It was already going to blow up. Internationally, every country is in a credit hole so deep most will be unable to make interest payments in the next few years. The collapse was coming one way or the other, so the controlled demolition was chosen.

Whether you feel it was planned or not, the lockdowns did pretty much halt the velocity of money. Sure they printed a ton of social care money, but again the inflationary trap had already been set, it was the velocity that needed to be killed to buy some time.
I have the unpopular idea that Math, and in a broad sense, STEM, is mandatory for EVERYONE, especially teachers, regardless what they teach. Can a teacher teach well if his language skill is poor? Probably not, same for STEM.

Of course how much mandatory Math needed and IF a previous test has been passed is good enough is up to debate.
I was asking about what to use now.
Thank you for the tip, even watching this thread. I'm tempted to argue with people. But I'm not, I left my phone at home and went for a walk. It's very peaceful to not have to argue with the entire world every single second of your existence.

I'm hoping going forward to have phone free weekends where I just shut the thing off and listen to a simple FM radio on my walks.
The article covers that extensively.
In .NET specifically a reason I can think about doing that is that you'd need to implement your visitor twice, as the type argument cannot be void (if I recall correctly).
Do you have a reference for that? I setup a Synology very recently with non-Toshiba drives.
A future U.S. president helped avert nuclear disaster near Canada's capital
Blundered into a BestBuy early one Sunday, and the Dreamcasts were in a pile by the door at $50 with bags of games included. I then had one, running Crazy Taxi, for years and years.
We're not family and that's okay
I think HDI stands for Human Development Index. The cited article mentions neither HDI nor Human Development Index.
I commented previously that the Uganda case was the first truly legitimate application of NSO's tech and the first one that wasn't actually a scandal, as it was by a state without a mature domestic intelligence capability going to market to buy tools of one, to spy on actual spies in its borders. It seems this particular NSO case is being used as bargaining leverage to discredit Israel's position in the Iran nuclear talks. NSO is subject to being a pawn on that board, it's plausible they get sacrificed and this is the story around it. It's a very weird place to be even lightly defending this company based on abstract principles, but they weren't taken out by some of the really egregious things they've done, and this seems fait accompli and we're just waiting for the narrative to complete. I suppose everything within a degree of the world they operate in is smoke and mirrors, but accepting the sanctimony around it at face value makes me feel like a rube.
Weirdly, I think your second bit (solving from first principles) is much closer to the truth of how human brains work than "copy-paste?" Which harmonizes quite well with my first point?

As great as computers are, I think a big problem is how they've created this tendency for bad analogies when it comes to the details. Not really different from how Frankenstein came about from people watching the advent of mechanical stuff like gears and pistons and such, and then made the LEAP to "HUMAN LIKE MONSTER."

I'm not saying it will never ever happen -- but I'm still comfortable saying, even today, computers are NOTHING AT ALL LIKE human brains.
I would expect an eighth grader to ace a test of this variety.

We expect too little of people. The bar is too low.
Not the legal system which requires the steep cost of representation?
Really depends on your definition of a web app.

I'd highly recommend bubble.io for a reasonable set of functionalities. It's pretty easy to pick up and very effective in getting usable products out.

We personally think it doesn't scale particularly well, but scaling is a good problem to have and can be addressed when the situation arises.

Feel free to DM me
Bad test ;). The offspring needs to be fertile.
Esperanto could be OCaml: reasonably straightened and cleaned but still on the "practical" side.

For a Haskell equivalent, I'd take Lojban.
I wouldn’t expect English as the dominant language of tech, business, etc to change soon after US hegemony comes to an end. There’s a lot of inertia there.