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> We don’t respect grunt work. We only respect art.

The problem with Seattle isn't that plumbers aren't respected, it's political/economic in nature. It's NIMBYism and zoning laws and literally pricing workers into homelessness. I'd like to see more praise of plumbers too, but Seattle's problem is not a shortage of plumbers, it's rent.

Particularly:

> If you are happy that only 10 people play your game, fine, I guess. However, you should ask if you can't be bringing more people happiness with your limited time in the one life you get on this Earth.

The idea that people making video games for 10 people are making so much money that they're skewing the local economy or driving out plumbers, the idea that the reason potholes aren't fixed are because workers are in short supply instead of, I don't know, government spending on public resources -- this is just so silly.

People making games/music for niche audiences can't go out and fix potholes because potholes are on public roads. The city needs to pay people to do that. If blue collar workers can't afford to live in Seattle, the city needs to look at high-priced tech companies that are actually making enough money and paying large enough salaries to influence local economies and politics: ie, FAANG tech companies with massive audiences.

> Give up your dreams of the easy life sitting and making art indoors.

To be clear, nobody stays in indie game development because they want an easy life. The pay is nonexistent. If anyone is looking at indie art as a way of having a comfortable existence they should definitely stop doing that -- not because they're wasting valuable resources, but because actually they're going to be eating ramen for years and then picking up a normal job for a major tech company once they completely hit rock bottom, at which point the overvalued venture-capital space will use them to price all of the plumbers out of the city.
This is such an annoyingly simplistic take and such poison. Some of the things this guy says are outright nasty: like should you want to make your game to have only 10 people play it. Absolutely, yes. And if that detracts you, then maybe you don’t actually want to be making them.

Games, like film, like music and like all the other storytelling mediums are a form of literature. It is completely normal and has always been like this when it came to distribution - everybody wants to tell stories, but only a select few do it so well that they get to do it for a living. And only a few (usually big, industrialized) efforts take 90% of the market.

In my company we make simulation systems for teaching a complex medical skill. If the small local game dev industry/community did not exist we wouldn’t either. The awesome talent that is developed and flows out of games is extremely valuable. The tools and methods that come from gamedev are awesome too and drive innovation themselves. Gamedev delivers value, even when it’s not immediately obvious.

I myself wanted to make films and went to film school as a young man. But I have since pivoted towards becoming a PM (and I still use video in my work). Film school, with a focus on film production was the best practical education in management. I would never tell anyone that there are “too many movies made, you shouldn’t make more”.

Also this person talks about “solving the problem”. The problem doesn’t need solving, the market for these things readjusts and emerges accordingly. And it always has. “We” are not “teaching” young people to do anything, they do the things themselves and making them allows them to grow and develop.
I feel like if instagram were to be driven further in the monetisation direction, we would no-longer have instagram, so someone else could innovate around photos, and take the still photo market.

I feel like instagram is no longer an actual photo sharing app, just a place where high profile users promote stuff to their followers.
You may want to look into using a third-party tool to remove scrolling acceleration. According to web sleuthing you can change this behavior with SmoothScroll, Mac Mouse Fix, USB Overdrive, SteerMouse, Smooze, or Discrete Scroll. (Disclaimer: I never tried these.)
What does vitriol for Facebook have to do with how much money they made? You're post is one giant non-sequitur.
My sleep problem is not that I can't fall asleep when in bed, it's that I can't tell myself to go to the bed to sleep. I think it's some kind of chronic FOMO / productivity bug, but obviously it results in lowered productivity overall because of my effectiveness when fatigued.

Has anyone else addressed this issue in their own lives or know some resources tailored to this problem to learn how to better approach bedtime?
Thanks! All of my comments are original content, unless I have plagerized them from much smarter people who tolerate my company.

It's more than spin, the basic unit of a story is a conflict, and you decorate it with facts. The question is whether the conflict is real, or produced by the logic of a presupposed idea (an ideo-logy). Instead of marxism in the example above, let's take the idea that the world is under the influence or control of evil forces, and you have been selected by God to thwart them, which seems bonkers from the outside, but it's also the theological basis of Christianity.
(this is friendly fire) In that view, "dog bites man," becomes, "God smites man," because it has told the story using a conflict that originated in the logic of that idea. This premise that ideology can manufacture conflict that gets decorated with facts to produce stories probably scales pretty well. The decorative facts remain true and even legitimately associated, but the conflict that yields the story might have been fabricated.

Most of us believe that our ideologies are some version of the substrate of reality or the most encompassing set of intellectual abstractions. As I get older, I think the only reliable source of qualitative truth may be laughter because it's involuntary, but even then, that's mostly sentiment. Anyway, thanks for the prompt. Fun thoughts.
I don’t doubt there are a lot of users in developing markets. Is there much money?
Yes, but you are not the average consumer, who is making Wi-Fi popular.

> all running Transmitting to Nortek GoControl USB stick attached to a rPI running Home Assistant

> and FAR FAR simpler to setup than WiFi

These two sentences are absolutely silly, for that average consumer. An average consumer can install a proprietary app in a few minutes and is totally uninterested in installing operating systems on little computers.
leadership principles for amazon are just a bulleted list of qualities they want candidates to say they have. it's overly emphasized to look for these during hiring rounds. people prep answers to align with them, as it is the easiest route to get into faang

i think most of the answers here have some bad faith interpretation of the listing. i disagree. there's been small scale research about shorter work weeks not impacting productivity. there's a good chance that research is bs. they probably want to run an experiment in-house using their own dev productivity metrics.
What's the condition? No cop present? I know people who've gotten tickets for that.
Well, the VR/metaverse distraction will be their doom! Zuck has lost touch with reality - nobody cared about VR, nobody would!
Can't speak for others but I've never wanted to work at FB, never will, and can honestly say FB is a resume negative when I'm looking at candidates.
> If there are issues with the name "autopilot" for Tesla, the same argument needs to be made for aircraft manufacturers.

Pilots require extensive training (an re-training). The must meet certain criteria to even fly certain types of plains. And they have to go through additional training if they have to switch planes (going from Airbus to Boeing for example).

So, if we're making "teh same argument" for Tesla, then Tesla needs all that to call its system an autopilot.
The shift to Meta is the same reason as Comcast’s shift to Xfinity
I think maybe they banked too heavily on getting their crypto Libra/Diem going in order to power monetization of WhatsApp/Instagram. It could have been as slick as Weixin/WeChat pay and dominate the cross currency remittance market.
Woodside freezes SB 9 projects, citing an exemption for mountain lion habitats
Google didn't voluntarily move on from Google Plus. They were forced out because they lost, badly, and the company they lost to was Facebook. I wouldn't count Zuckerberg and co. out yet. Unlike Google management, he is not afraid to commit to a new direction completely.
But there are different opinions about what colour things are.

You might have the opinion that the bowl on the table in front contains 200 M&Ms while I think that there are at least 300. You might change your mind and switch to 150. Nothing of that changes the fact that the bowl contains 217 M&Ms.

What would you measure to determine that the facts of the universe don't change when you look away?

I would just ask someone that looked while I wasn't. More seriously, you just have to stop somewhere. You can not draw any conclusions if you consider the possibility that the universe might become two dimensional any moment and one plus one afterwards no longer equals two. But even if the electromagnetic properties of atoms vary over time or when no one looks, there would still be a possibility - at least a theoretical one - to objectively characterize the color, now you just have to deal with a reflectivity that not only varies with wavelength and angel and so on but also time and number of onlookers.
Please don't feed the trolls or the bears.
Lots of problem here - it doesn't expand/contract at the same rate.
So it will likely delaminate over time.

It is also not inert.
So it may in fact, be attacked by soil PH, etc (maybe not, not enough info in the article).

Also, one of the problems with coating most things is achieving good enough adhesion that it both doesn't delaminate, and that molecules can't slip through.
Why post emotive comments on a financial post?
This could be a premise for a computer game. Society collapses because too many people spent time making and playing indie games.

But society will only be saved if you can unite the gamers, pool together your combined knowledge from playing too much games, and put it to use in productive tasks in the real world. All those hours levelling up in game skills, finally proven IRL.

And thus, the economy was saved.
Most companies still expect people to document their availability and absences. Some people still frown upon those that don't follow the butt-in-seat rules. Some managers (I've had some really bad ones) will try to keep you under your thumb if they can.

Everything else equal, I would prefer to explicitly have the days off and not have to deal with that.
The data center infrastructure that Facebook (Meta) has is probably in the top 5 in this world (behind only Amazon, Microsoft, Google).

They might want to become a cloud infrastructure provider for some side money and buy themselves some time to figure out this Metaverse fantasy :)

Hey, AWS started because Amazon wanted to lease out their spare infrastructure capacity.
I would never even consider working for Facebook no matter their interview process. They are a loathsome company led by a psychopath. They could offer me a job right now with no interview and I wouldn't take it.

Some people can't be bought. What about you?
> "Trust, but verify" is functionally identical to "verify"

is there some kind of equivalent of aphantasia but for the feeling of trusting something ?
> Naturally, that’s true, but it wouldn’t affect my decision

Your decision for what you buy or your decision to block ads? Which is completely beside the point of my comment. My point is that you are going to be manipulated whether you like it or not. That cute Bernie Sanders slogan, that "Eat the rich" slogan, all the beautiful art produced by your favorite political cause, it's all psychological manipulation by your definition (and it is). And by that point, all human interaction is manipulation.
Good engineers don't join Amazon.
NSO tried to buy access to cell networks for “bags of cash,“ whistleblower says
This is a wild thing to read. I'm not a political expert, but this seems philosophically landing in the world of marxism. Is that vaguely true? Some of this rhetoric has been tried and shown to be incorrect to unfathomable harm so many times in history.
But dogs are cute and fuzzy.
This is interesting, since new features on GH can have such big impact.

Are there examples where users have been working around this potentially “missing” feature previously?

Also, sometimes GH has expansive blog entries contextualizing changes after the feature or UI update has gone live. Perhaps that is coming.
This is a tech community, not a "making bank" community. You may be looking for a subreddit on investing for the reactions you're expecting.
I would probably say the same thing if I had first-hand knowledge that my earnings are going to be sorely disappointing.
It's so confusing to me see headlines calling this a "huge earnings miss". Revenue was greater than expected, as was ARPU. I get that the users are under, but this seems pretty far from a huge miss, no?
I've had mixed experiences with python (mosquitto is fine for example) but more uniformly bad experiences with node stuff.

I would vastly prefer all of this crap to be written in Rust or Haskell or OCaml or anything oriented towards correctness. It's relatively very important that the code which runs your home works correctly.
The vitriol is well-deserved.

While there is no such thing as a perfectly-ethical company within a Capitalist framework, there are degrees of ethical behavior that rightly influence a company's reputation.

Would I choose to work or support a company that clubs baby seals?

Less hyperbolic, would I choose to support a company that continually seeks to profit from promoting extremism in dialogue, creating self-perpetuating echo-chambers which have real-world consequences (re: the very real danger to American democratic processes), in addition to brainwashing people's parents into believing in utter hogwash and tearing families apart?

Yes, they are making bank. But at what cost? And should that cost influence your interaction with said company?
This is ironic considering that Apple displaced the former unstoppable phone monopoly.

Never mind that Walmart displaced the former unstoppable Sears monopoly, and Amazon did the same to Walmart.

IBM which people predicted was unstoppable, was going to rule the world. IBM's descent into irrelevance (I B What?) has been profound.

The only interesting thing is people still insist that this time it's gonna be different.
We have optimization features early in R&D for RDS, ElastiCache, and OpenSearch. If you'd like to try them out at some point, feel free to shoot me a note: kaveh@usage.ai
One answer is "no one, at least not full time, we're gonna try and get by with existing works and amateur quality art"

Which is of course fantastically unpopular and will never happen, so people will continue to brutally compete for who gets to make art instead of doing grunt work
I remember I dumped GNOME around 2.4, due to discussions about print UI and how close to every setting should be removed from it, possibly retained in Gconf. At the time there was still the idea that "sure, we lost a lot of settings and features in rewrite between 1.4 and 2.0, but we're going to add them back"... and the printing discussion gave me red alert of moving to "developers know best". The further evolution of GNOME only reinforced that feeling.
I think even highly skilled engineers end up needing to be available for certain kinds of meetings.

To whatever extent I'm highly skilled, I'd prefer that it be reflected in my responsibilities and compensation, rather than leverage to blow off meetings.
You just excluded 60% of luxury market. Peugeot/Citroen almost not exists in US.
Kia and Hundai they will be the biggest competitors among legacy auto brands. Even though their tech is not ambitious, basically copy paste from best and make it a bit cheaper, but not very cheap :)
Gamers are obsessed with censorship and think that anything changed from the original region release is oppression, even if the original creators approved of it. Japan of course does censor some things too.

This isn't enough to stop it from happening, because when you don't do it your entire release gets banned in other countries (UK and Australia are known for this.)
Sure, but try being critical about something that they can actually be faulted for rather than their incredible earnings. The OP was just pointing out that a lot of the criticism here made no sense.
Read through some other posts - author is a game developer who founded his own company. This post feels like one of three things:

1. burnout, as someone else pointed out.

2. a very good troll :)

3. A somewhat poorly guided but honest attempt to dissuade people from joining the games industry (possibly mixed with 1.)

As someone who started their career in games and left - he's not wrong. The games industry is kind of shit. It doesn't pay well, the hours suck, and you might work for months or years on something that either never sees the light of day or nobody ends up playing (not to mention that in the beginning you're somewhat replaceable, there's a dozen young developers who would love to be in your shoes) - and this is just the life of a salaried game dev - the indie life is even harder.

...on the other hand, the projects and problems are interesting/unique and the people in it are some of the most wonderful I've ever met. I miss shipping games, even though I bailed out of my own volition. I don't blame anyone for wanting to join, especially as a young developer.

I remember at the age of 19 or so being asked (paraphrased) "why the hell would you want to do that?" by an ex-Bungie developer (and now good friend, even if we haven't chatted for a while) when I said I wanted to join the games industry. For better or worse I persevered, showed him I had some potential as an engineer and eventually he helped me get some interviews and a job. But I'd ask the same question of any young developer who came my way hoping to get in.

So I guess I agree with what the author is trying to say (the games industry is full-up! are you sure you want to try and squeeze in?), even if I don't agree with words he's using to say it.
Were you on ios?
The market, which is the subject, seems to have more vitriol than HN about their current performance.
There’s a difference between hating Meta for its ethics and hating Meta as a money making machine. People are doing the latter and that’s pretty silly. Meta is, however unethically, a good entity at the goal of making money.
I think you're forgetting about the reason why they switch names in the first place. Meta is signaling that they are all in with their own hardware platform.
Any plans for a full DOOM (not render-only)?
The shell doesn't know what the underlying filesystem is.

: is special on NTFS for alternative data streams, and I think HFS+ named forks? (The mac syntax is foo/..namedfork/rsrc, I don't know how that translates to linux)

"foo\:bar" is a file name with a colon in it. "foo:bar" is an ADS named bar on the file foo.
It is definitely unsafe to enter an intersection where visibility is compromised by an obstruction, hill, or curve. Rolling such stops is dumb even when you don't see anything to stop for.
They better, everything is expensive and only getting worse. Taxes and rent is absurd. I'm getting robbed every month.
I still have it. I replaced the alternator and battery myself - 2 hours of my time. I call it my train station car now. I don't consider it reliable enough to be the transportation for the ones closest to me given that the odometer is at 210,000 miles.
Those are terrible!

@enricozb, below, posted a much better Garamond Italic:

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/EB+Garamond#standard-style...
Facebook hasn't gone away. I get that it's not literally a child company under the parent Meta, but the product is still very much alive and is not going anywhere
Milgram experiment, sorry... must have got hit by autocorrect there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

You can add the Stanford Prison Experiment (Zimbardo) to the list of, now unfalsifiable, experiments that inexplicably are regularly taught in university settings when they cannot possibly provide any useful data to the sciences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

The idea that many if not most universities create educational programs based on these very obvious problematic studies, leads me to believe that the scientific community can be as guilty of info-tainment bias as the general public. I only wish that I'd been able to continue in academia so that i could have at least a small voice in changing this problematic dynamic we live with.

They literally made a movie about the Zimbardo experiment in 2015. It couldn't be more obvious that people care more that it be true than whether it might be false: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stanford_Prison_Experiment...
> You should try talking to other guys who have attempted this. If porn is distracting you, you're probably not going to go for women your age*. Past 40 or so, unless you're outstandingly rich or a 10, you're just not what young women are looking for.

I know no one that has attempted this tbh. Most guys stick and live miserable all the time, or don't even stop to think

> My guess is, you're going to end up paying a lot for sex, you're going to fall into another relationship without intent, or you're going to die lonely. Probably an undesirable combination of the three. And single guys die early.

I've never understood the worry of how you die. Yes if I divorce and never marry again I'll die lonely, for sure. But should I be miserable for 40 years of my adult life just to not die lonely? I prefer to try to be happy for the good years that I have left instead of worrying and acting now in preparation for my death.

> you're going to fall into another relationship without intent

I really hope I'm smart enough to remember this experience and be aware to not hurt another woman like this again.
Its pretty great CMS but its mostly laravel you need to be comfortable with it or its going to be rough. I think it makes sense if your site requires advanced functionality.

I think there are more productive alternatives for most people like Kirby CMS, Craft CMS that have great docs and focus on the CMS part very well.
"a “Carmack” compression, which is John Carmack’s variant of the LZ (Lempel-Ziv) method. According to the Black Book, without much access to the literature, Carmack would “invent” an algorithm to later find out that someone else had done it before.". Wow, he really is amazing.
I saw an ad for a phone plan that was a lot cheaper than the plan I was about to buy.
This guy has his head so far up his exhaust that fan he thinks his cities infrastructure is suffering because "too many people want to create games" !

Spoiler: The infrastructure is suffering because someone, somewhere, much higher up the food chain, is not willing to spend the money on it.
in the world? ali baba would like to have a word
Honestly, I agree that it can be draining and lonely. That doesn't mean it isn't rewarding or that it is somehow regrettable. Maybe it is just me, but I do feel that men in general have trouble sharing the load they carry. Being busy, which you definitely are if you are parenting little kids, will make that self evident. If you aren't able to share your thoughts and emotions, it can make you feel both of those things. I am a bit of an introvert so I drift in this direction at times and am always refreshed when I talk to other parents for a bit. I should do it more, but it is not in my nature. I could see a resource like this being useful.
It does not. Really the strings just never get long enough that O(n²) would be catastrophic; the maximum possible length is 2e5.
I think it's the guidance that caused the dip.
Financial loss can be pretty emotional.