skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm your polar inverse: I'm 33 but started coding when I was 4, I've just never worked as a developer (at least not on a team; I've done freelance), and I'm debating making the jump as inflation starts creeping up. I run into the opposite problem: I've played around in frameworks but I don't have the 'years of experience' with them so I worry my resume is going straight in the trash.
Well, sure, fair enough, we need to get to the level at which our averaged personal consumption is (all_carbon_sinks / human_population).

As far as I know that's such a tiny figure that it may as well effectively be zero compared to what everyone I know is doing at the moment, not only in the UK but in less wealthy countries around the world.
I keep seeing this study referenced. However, I find it pretty glaring that the Range Hoods they used are not even adequately rated for gas stove usage.

For instance, they listed "flow rates for the models used as 160–220 cubic feet per minute".

These are range hoods typically used for electric models - not gas. 400 CFM is generally considered a baseline hood for gas stoves (100 CFM / 10000 BTU).

I would feel much more confident in their results had they used more powerful range hoods that were more appropriate for the stoves in question.
The purpose of a college degree (even an applied one like computer science) is not to teach students how to be good tech workers. It's to develop as a person and generate a philosophy on work and life that can guide them through the career and life challenges ahead. I think your professor is perhaps missing the point if he thinks it's about making classes easier/harder.
And population IQ.
So Canada, the second largest country in the world - a width of nearly 1/10th the earth - is second in this list to California. California is a lot like Vancouver and Toronto, but it's not remotely like the Maritimes, or you know, Quebec.

Ah well. Neat poll, thanks.
Consciousness cannot be understood or known in the epistemological sense of the term since it is, by definition, the ultimate subject. It also cannot be experienced as an object. It sounds very hand-wavy and esoteric but if you think hard about it, it is absolutely and undeniably the only tenable logical position.

Put in another way: if you somehow claim to be able to observe or measure consciousness as an object, then what is it that is doing the observing?

Similarly, consciousness is unchanging and without beginning or end, for noticing and knowing any change you need consciousness.
In this context, it's the root-mean-square of the electric charge distribution. (Or more precisely, it's related to the slope of the electric form factor at Q^2=0.) There is also at least a magnetic radius (similar to the electric), and a gravitational radius.
No, I mean there's an entirely new news cycle about Stadia today, why would you post something from a year ago?
The story as told by Bernays himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pyyP2chM8k
I prefer to think of that study as evidence for life after death.
When Develop X sells IAP for their app, Apple demands a cut. Apple didn't ship that IAP or have anything to do with it.

When Apple collects their cut from an app, they don't pass any portion of that on to Best Buy, who sold that device.

Apple insists that Developer X wouldn't have made that profit without Apple's support, and they're due that cut. By that same logic, Best Buy is due a portion of that because they enabled Apple to make that money in the first place.

It's bonkers, which is why everyone's mind rejects that Best Buy would be entitled to anything of the sort. But Apple has managed to sell that line somehow.
Wright brothers were also quoted saying that they can make this table fly (the table where the interview was taking place at) if they could have a powerful enough motor at hand. This was, of course, after the first man flight was achieved.
> I'm glad I can afford it but every time I see one of those "electric's not god-awful anymore, induction's amazing!" posts on Twitter or Reddit or whatever it's like... yeah, great solution for us folks with plenty of disposable income, I guess.

Most of what I see isn’t necessarily cost prohibitive, but looks like it’s built to fail. What products are people using where the experience has been pleasant?
The amount of waste we experience can be really high. At Remind we started tracking this using a metric we call OUCH (Overprivisioned Underutilized Cpu Hours).

Consider a k8s/ECS installation that autoscales.

Each application will have a CPU target. In order to prevent spiky traffic patterns from overwhelming the running containers, we target 70% CPU. As usage goes above 70% CPU, we will launch more containers.

The k8s cluster will have a reservation target. In order to allow fast launching of new containers, we want the cluster to have only an 80% occupancy rate. If more than 80% of the cluster is reserved, we launch more instances and expand the cluster.

So to run my autoscaling container-based applications in a way that will be reactive and respond to incoming load, I have to leave 44% (1 - .7*.8) of my hardware idle. If we also factor in that AWS itself doesn't target a 100% occupancy rate (because then nobody could launch new instances), each unit of CPU I actually use requires a significant amount of idle infrastructure. Easily double, possibly triple in the larger scheme of things. All of that is either directly paid for (k8s nodes) or indirectly paid for (ec2 pricing inevitably has idle capacity costs baked in).

With serverless, we would eliminate many of those inefficiencies. With ultra fast launch times, we don't need to give containers headroom to handle spikes. By not running our compute cluster, we can instantly launch everything we need, eliminating k8s overprovisioning. We're left with AWS idle capacity as the only waste, and AWS mostly has solved that with the spot market.

The math doesn't always come out ahead, but there's a lot of opportunity for serverless to be cheaper in many cases.
It's a lot like the case for and against similes.
I understand that take, but, in the parlance of our time, you're hating the player and not the game.

It might very well be a "both" situation rather than an either/or. But focusing on/scapegoating this manager's behavior, to me, is the wrong takeaway.
CANADA....overall a better and safer place to live in.
This is mostly not true anymore. Houses designed in the last 10-15 years are mostly built to last, especially in the cities.
The person I was describing runs a food production line and has modified various bits of equipment for speed, efficiency, safety and ease of use. They have got great results. They have no formal training, have no software background and basically go to https://www.dfrobot.com and get what they need, then hack.
Wetlands and radioactive soil: How Ukraine’s geography could influence a Russian
If you're interested in a GTA-like game with a really immersive world and great writing, I'd recommend Sleeping Dogs.

A criminally (ha!) underrated game with a cult fanbase.
This is actually way more interesting IMO. THC has many issues, it's very strong and a lot of people either don't like it or can't use it except during breaks. CBN isn't really even psychosomatic, so it can be dosed easily and benefits can be acquired by most people. Now if only it weren't so expensive despite the huge availability
Thanks a lot. Do you have a link to get all of the components? Would be nice if I don't need to solder anything.

BTW found reactivemicro. $340 for a fully assembled board looks fine to me. Not sure where to find other components you mentioned but I'll keep looking.
I don't know if to downvote you for the funny reference or to downvote you for the dark implications those "paperclip maximizers" have in real life :-(
I don't think it's merely _hard_, I think it's fundamentally impossible for us to do it without technological advancement or at least greater application of existing technology.

I don't think that 7 billion people can live net zero without us building loads more solar panels, nuclear plants, changing a bunch of industrial processes, etc.

These are things that individuals literally cannot do. Even trivial things like - I can't buy a net zero fork to eat my dinner with. I mean, I'm sure one or two things I could, but at the scale of my entire life it would become a full time job.

I guess I could start a co2 capture company, that is actually feasibly possible. But I don't think that's what people are getting at with the personal responsibility stuff. It's all - "which brand of tape are you using to fix the leak in your roof?"
I used to work in Manhattan for the reason you mention, but now that remote work is more viable I moved back home to the finger lakes region.
What if the size of the proton is variable?
> Following your logic than all PC makers should be paying a fee to IBM for creating the PC.

This is called patents, so yes, actually. But this is more akin to Microsoft charging 30% for sales in Windows and Xbox, which would be totally allowed.

> politicians are borderline computer illiterate

And developers are ignorant of business and law which is what this case is really about. Absolutely nothing about Apple's sales commission is about tech. Wanting something to be different just because it's digital doesn't make it so. Uber is still a taxi company.

> you already have instruments to monetize on it

And that instrument is charging for access to the platform -- some might say 30%.

> there are no ways to sell people anything without paying Apple

Right. This is the point. This is literally the thing Apple charges for. The one thing. The thing that people, very rationally, want for free. I also want to get all the benefits of a company's work without paying too.

> you must choose either to quit the iOS market entirely

This is the core issue, Apple, and the law in most countries, say you have absolutely no inherent right to access the market they created. You don't get to demand the ability to set up a stall in someone's mall because they charge 30% to the stores.
Do game development companies start a new project from scratch each time they come up with a new version of a game, or is it a lot of dragging and dropping old source files and copy pasting? I am guessing some things are reused but it made me wonder how these new projects are started.
I don't believe it is. This is the problem w/ the philosophical zombies, they are self defeating examples and can't exist in anything but a thought experiment. The fact that you're seeking nutrients at all means you can distinguish between sensory input, and therefore are experiencing something. If you can't distinguish between sensory input, then you are not experiencing anything. How can you be an effective seeker of nutrients if you don't experience anything and get feedback on whether you've found the nutrient or not?

This is why I think the hard problem of consciousness is silly and only exists because language is so imperfect that philosophers have invented a problem which they can't even decide is actually a problem or not. Can any of us even agree on what an "experience" is?

You can tell this is so because every conversation about the hard problem of consciousness starts off by trying to convince people there is a problem to talk about and use the same tired examples. We can "experience" red. There is an "experience" of being a bat.
Thought you were joking at first, how can an entire state be without power? But seems you're right, how the hell does that happen in a first-world country?

Tried to access some dashboards that are supposed to show some data, but not sure if I can't access it because I'm not in the US/Texas or if it's down as well (because they don't have power?)

- https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards

- https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/gridconditions

- https://www.ercot.com/gridinfo

Says "This request was blocked by the security rules" so I'm assuming it's the former.
I like that list except Waterloo - I think if you're going to make a serious argument about Waterloo than Berkeley/Oakland would be a separate hub from Silicon Valley - and ditto for Worchester, Boston and Cambridge MA. Waterloo definitely has its own thing going on but it's pretty darn close to being an offshoot of Toronto at this point.
It’s funny. It looks like a serious, gritty, violent movie, but at its heart is anarchic, puerile comedy.

It’s more like an episode of South Park than a sandbox car-crash-simulator.
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On the other hand, as of right now, China has 1 point and India 9. That combined is less than Poland, which has 15.

It makes sense to have finer granularity for the poll options people will actually choose.
Do you think there is such a thing as objective morality? Not just human ethics, or social norms or whatever, but that some things that occur are "better" than other things in some important sense. Or maybe, that certain actions are "good" and others are "bad"?

Like for instance, the experience a human would have when relaxing in a hot tub with their friends, is "better" in some important, real sense compared to the experience of dying in a trench in WWI?

If not, I probably can't convince you that there is a hard problem having to do with consciousness where we'd benefit from knowing all the answers. But if so, I could give it a try.
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It's funny how the UK and Germany are growing with the same rate. I checked 10 minutes later and they were 56/57, then I did it again few minutes later and they were 67/68.
Less than 1% of people in Texas lost power from this storm, and most who did lose power lost power for only a few hours tops. More people lost power in Ohio and Tennessee from this storm than people in Texas.

Only two people in my network of people I know lost power in Texas, one of which was a coworker's neighbor because said coworker's tree dropped a branch on the neighbor's overhead power delivery line.
It has its applications in a different way, tool assisted level design.

Software suites like Houdini, which is something of an industry standard in VFX and gamedev can potentially leverage ML techniques. AFAIK the folks who make Houdini have talked in the past about using ML to improve their terrain heightmap modelling, improving the quality of the erosion etc...

The real value add with using procedural tools to automate creating parts of large worlds (eroded terrain, placement of foliage according to rules) is that it frees up artist time to focus on hand crafting individual locations and detail into the map.

There is an interesting talk from Ubisoft which talks about how they leverage tools for building their large worlds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfizT369g60 (slides: https://ubm-twvideo01.s3.amazonaws.com/o1/vault/gdc2018/pres...)
This makes me rather sad, as someone who typically doesn't play "online."

GTA used to have a lot of 'interim releases' or what have you, that were like their own game based on the same engine.

Ballad of Gay Tony, Lost and the Damned, etc.

Just look at the release history on the wiki[1]. They were churning out releases of some type nearly every year, then nothing since 2013. That's what these microtransactions and IAP online lead to :(.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto
PIPs are a courtesy most of the time. You're giving 60-90 days notice that someone needs to find a new job instead of suddenly dismissing them.
Do employees at game studios have to sign NDA's or something? Like "hey what are you working on at Rockstar these days?" "nothing, definitely not GTA6"
This is also not true and is just a "wide brush" principle. Many people are dollar cost averaging into Bitcoin and buying weekly/monthly regardless of the price, saving up in a secondary store of value.
Just because you see a few cryptobros shilling some altcoins on Twitter/Reddit or wherever doesn't mean your assumptions apply to everyone, or even a vast majority.

Many real life folks I know buy little chunks of Bitcoin on a consistent base regardless of the price as a form of savings.
> some really inexcusable design problems, on a fundamental level

Can you be more specific?

I understand that the Topological Naming Problem is big (discussed in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSsVFu929jo), but as I understand it this is being fixed in the RealThunder branch (https://bit.ly/3iBzQly), and fixes may be flowing from this into FreeCAD 0.2.
Probably not impossible, but I think the bigger thing will be the time to research the mechanical design of whatever you're doing. That and finding reasonably priced sensors that will be reliable.
Which is exactly what Rockstar will have when they unveil the next GTA.
Regarding my account, I'll happily admit I am not a fan of speaking publicly about basically anything. If blockchain tech was confined to a bunch of gamblers loosing money amongst themselves and making wild speculative bets it wouldn't matter to me so much - The real issue is that it has gained too much support from people with MASSIVE financial incentives to push these scams onto the general population, and it ends up having two effects that I am strongly against:

First, from the financial and social perspective, cryptocurrencies and NFT's are straight up Greater Fool scams - theres really no way to argue it; The coins are only valuable if you are able to convince a greater fool to buy them. I understand that there are hundreds of categories where this is true, from beany-babies to diamonds, but fraud in one category does not justify rampant fraud in another. The major issue here is that, at their core, digital assets are (practically) infinitely available, and these systems exist to add false scarcity to an asset that legitimately has none.

The second part, which is why I'm so vocal about the issue, is that from a technological perspective blockchain is total garbage. There really is no nice way to say it, if a software engineer is a proponent of blockchain as the driver for "Web 3.0" they are either totally ignorant of how the technology works, or are blatantly lying so they can push a scumbag Ponzi scheme they are personally invested in. The technology has been around for as long as the iPhone, and I have yet to hear a single legitimate use case (besides wild speculative gambling and driving more crypto-related schemes) that can't be implemented cheaper, faster, safer, more private, and more secure using existing technologies. You'll hear the phrase "It's still in it's early stages" a lot, with proponents giving vague promises that one day it will work well - that is simply not how actual technological progress is made.

Mix these issues with the fact that there are only two ways to drive the technology - one that creates so much waste it uses more energy than Argentina (that is a legitimate fact, not an exaggeration), and the other is that we literally give the ultra-rich a system that rewards more money with more power and greater returns - and it should be pretty clear that blockchain and it's related assets are super, super dangerous.
Actually our grid has held up pretty well this time around.
Ah, yes, I will do this with all the free money I have laying around.
That's not my experience. The dynamic range of our induction hob is phenomenal. We can boil water faster than anything else, and the low mode is just excellent for very low temperatures (you can leave it on just to stay warm). I just wish the buttons worked better!
> smoking, eating fat or living an unhealthy life

Eating fat is not unhealthy.
>Profit maximization requires them to use the cheapest method if they can get away with it.

well, not really. Just like consumers can be shamed into buying fair trade coffee rather than the non-fair trade coffee, corporations can be shamed into being zero emission. There's quite a few wealthy tech companies that do just that.

>Except for pretty much the entire market of products that exist currently, you mean?

And who's on the other side of those markets? Are consumers buying oil because oil companies has drilled them out of the ground and need to unload them, or do consumers want oil (and don't care much where it comes from) and oil companies are fulfilling that demand?

>Right, because the 5-10% of consumers that are able to afford it and are shamed into “personal carbon footprint” mindset choose to take on economic harm in order to produce even more profits for the same scammy corporations that often own those “eco-friendly” brands.

>It’s mind boggling you don’t see anything wrong with all this.

Flip side of this is that 90-95% of consumers can't afford it and/or don't care about the environment that much to pay for zero carbon gasoline or whatever, but you're unhappy with that and you want the government to step in and force them to switch to zero carbon gas.
And why should a future reader trust your word over theirs?
You don't need to understand universe, just the tools you'll be using to make an app.
Especially considering most of the world would have already signed off for the weekend by now.
That sounds like a terrible user experience.
I know that within the GTARP communities there are sex workers, but I don't know to what extent FiveM enables this.
I think it's properly conscription yet doesn't quite become as bad as prison labor. They'd have better personal security, more freedom, get to choose and keep their own stuff, and access to the world. Compared to prison, a military base is a spa.
So let me paraphrase to see if I understand the context correctly:

- the only guaranteeS are argc>=0, argv[argc] == NULL, and envp comes right after argv

- argc is _almost always_ >= 1

- a widely used sbin (polkit) just assumes argv is always at least 1 element and so iterates starting at argv[1] (without checking argc)

- said polkit also mutates argv, so if it is fed with argc actually zero, it actually mutates envp

- some devs want a patch to the kernel to prevent calling execve with argc==0, (which probably should have been in the original spec, but that ship has sailed) as a way of preventing other similar footguns.

- other devs are like "that's gonna potentially break userspace" which is a valid concerne

Is that more or less it?
I remember vaguely being young and friday nights meaning something different than other nights... Meanwhile I'm (in Portugal) trying to fix a dependent type tutorial that bit rotted.
I can confirm GTA 7,8,9, etc
It's 04:33 in the morning in China (in one of the timezones at least), makes sense.
China also has relatively few people that simultaneously speak English well enough to read/post here while also having easy access to VPNs. If I had to take a guess I would bet there are more people that are Chinese first generation emigrants that live outside of China on HN than there are Chinese citizens that live inside China on HN.
I much prefer cooking on my gas stove, thank you.
It's... still one country, though. And while I understand that Americans are very preoccupied with the difference between California and New Jersey, please understand that it's not that important (or obvious) to the rest of us.
Many studios maintain a game engine that is used across multiple titles. Often there is some shared code, especially for sequels, and especially when the sequels are frequently released.
The linux-rt project has a variety of test programs for this:

https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/realtime/documentation/howt...

But beware, "scheduling latency" has very little to do with responsiveness as it would appear to a user of some desktop environment.
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Can he help stop my Microwave from blinking 12:00 all the time?
Game developers do just that on Microsoft’s consoles…
That and Dead by Daylight.