skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Game development is a weird place. You want to be low level to get the most performance, but you also want to be expressive to be able to write an ambitious game.

The vast majority of games don't need to be low level for performance. Practically nobody outside of massive AAA studios is writing architecture specific assembly for modern PCs or consoles (and even in those studios, there are very few people doing so). The majority of gameplay programmers are writing bog standard C++ that would be just as performant in C#, or in many cases a lot of the logic is written in a higher level scripting language that is orders of magnitude slower than the native C++, or even just writing all of the game code in something like C#.

> Really does invite the notion that there ought to be a better way, you get a sort of itch you can't quite reach to scratch.

Oh for sure, and there often are better ways to solve these problems. In my experience, one of the most common reasons for not doing things better is because the codebase is based on an engine from 20+ years ago when they _did_ have to avoid interfaces and virtual function calls for game performance, and you have "modern" systems that are built on top of those abstractions (in the same way that lots of modern networking libraries still leak details about concerns from the 80s/90s)
> The state is the shareholder,

The people own the state,

> their interests being served
I'm sure there are others but you can still find a 1980's Sharp 555 double casette players.
I have one and had to do minimal maintenance on it and a bit of patching up. If you're not into repairing the electronics it's not a problem. pretty much any repair shop can get these back to working state. You can also find schematics on russian/asian DC++
"The incident was propagated by an external actor who conducted a successful social engineering attack on Mailchimp employees, resulting in employee credentials being compromised."

My dreams of some 4D-chess exploit were squashed 30 seconds into reading the article.
Alright, I will check out my ANA.

My general bloodworks, liver, kidney and c-reactive protein are usually completely normal.

The thing is, I do suffer from medium to severe anxiety and have trouble sleeping. Those things could be the source of me feeling bad.
.... and for most of those, the exact same arguments apply.

Stanley Motta is an electronics store. Both men and women work there and buy electronics. AIFM is an energy company. Ditto. Spanx is the only one on your short list where a supermajority of stakeholders are women. Even with Spanx, one could argue that slimming undergarments are for couples, where having one male voice in the room could help make sensible decisions. Seems like for those oddball cases, it's mostly an upside to diversify representation, even if it's in the opposite direction.

I see a few problems:

- Boards mostly come from an old boys network. I have not seen board members who were exceptional individuals so much as well-connected individuals. Even "diversity hires" -- and they're called that -- seem to pick from a tiny number of individuals who managed to break into that network, rather than individuals from minority communities. It's not a meritocracy.

- Boards don't represent the customers or employees, and often do things which harm some groups. Having all voices in that room helps.

- And so on...

Those sorts of arguments align doing good, doing well, and reducing (legal) corruption.

If I wanted to improve the law, I'd try to come up with ways to have representation from African American inner city communities, poor Southern rural communities, immigrant communities, and a whole slew of other groups who are traditionally underrepresented. I'll emphasizes communities -- people who are aware of culture and day-to-day life.

"Good" laws also do less tokenizing, and are less likely to become obsolete:

- The argument that a woman is on a board because... she's a woman is pretty stigmatizing. The argument that diverse perspectives maximize shareholder value is not.

- If, in 2050, we have 50/50 representation, or a minority group moves into the majority, balanced laws self-correct.
Airbnb reshaped Cuba’s tourism economy in its own image
Hit a pay wall asking for $14.99 a month. What the hell is Quartz (qz.com) offering that's worth that?

I don't know, because I don't want to sign up for a "7 day free trial after you give us your credit card details, and we're assuming and hoping that you forget to cancel your 'subscription' after that 7 day 'free' 'trial'."

If I wanted dark patterns, I'd subscribe to Knitting With Voldemort.

Anyway, https://archive.ph/HzlaA

> If the Emoji Subcommittee recommends the addition of a Catalonia flag emoji, then it looks like favoritism unless all the other subdivisions of Spain are added

Well, why not add all the flags of Spanish autonomous communities? I doubt we're running out of code points. I mean Wales has a flag emoji, is Wales any less or more independent than Catalonia?
To be apolitical now is hardly possible. But still? I'm all for less political discussion in communities!
The Realtek Ethernet is know to cause issues. Based on reports on various Mac forums the most reliable option for Ethernet is Apple's own Thunderbolt adapter which uses the Broadcom BCM57762. For current Macs it needs to be used in connection with the Apple's Thunderbolt 2 to Thunderbolt 3 adapter.
> What do you mean by "better"

More convincing/realistic musical performance. Imagine there was a "Turing test" for music composition and performance and the goal was to convince a trained musician that the performer behind the curtain was a true human being, not a robot.

> There is a market for "band-in-a-box"

Right, and the tool became much better since they use "real tracks", i.e. played by real musicians; I suppose in future these can be complemented by tracks generated by connectionist models like the ones used by MuseNet et al.

> see something like Curtis Roads CMT for a historical overview of paradigms.

See also Deep Learning Techniques for Music Generation -- A Survey: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01620

and Algorithmic Composition - Paradigms of Automated Music Generation: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-211-75540-2
I've been paying for YouTube Premium ever since it became an option, it's basically the only way YouTube is tolerable. It's by fare the subscription I'm getting the most benefit from. If it was not available, my YouTube consumption would drop to damn near zero. When I see other browse YouTube with ads it feels like you're going mad, it's absolutely infuriating to witness.

It's difficult for me to see Netflix as being any different. I'm already not getting that much value from the service, so why should I pay if there where ads?

One fact which is often overlooked in the non-US markets is the lack of ads. For a service like YouTube, it's the same five ads over and over. There simply isn't enough inventory in the ad space to supply something like Netflix.
Yet what will happen, is some marketing yukity-yuk, will see this blog, and proclaim it's getting "lots of comments and traffic". Ports will be changed, for no good reason, as well as a dozen other things. (See! That ID mode confuses people, axe it!)

Meanwhile, they won't look at discussions like this, and on other sites linking to similar discussions about this blog post. And thus, more dumbing down of computing. More reduction in capability, and ease of use.

I bet calling toner, ink, is due to a single person in Iowa, being confused for 12 seconds, and posting about it.

Meanwhile, they got it, are not still confused, but of course who updates a post to reflect that.

(The above is how I view the competences of marketing types)
Sure, the British Government owns a bunch of things, including Railway Companies, several Banks, and lots of special purpose companies like the Low Carbon Contracts Company (which exists ordinarily to pay a subsidy to e.g. wind farms, but with energy prices so high actually they pay it money instead)

Selling off these natural monopolies to a private investor who will then demand extra profits to do roughly the same thing and be an intractable obstacle to any political changes is Tory policy but it does not make any actual economic sense it's purely ideological.
Interesting article, but a shame that the UX removes the scroll bars (consumed via iOS).
You can’t get an overview of how much content there is, hence how much more reading you’re in for…
Tree of life

https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DAR-00121/21
Biggest darknet market shut down by German police
Arendt was very specific though, her book was called Eichmann in Jerusalem. It wasn't 'mid-level German bureaucrat in Jerusalem'. After all, the railway workers (well, the unforced ones, since the Nazis did not have any compunction about slavery) who kept the trains running were fairly banal participants in the Holocaust, but we don't focus on them as the architects of it for a reason. Eichmann had every reason to present himself as a boring- somewhat clueless - bureaucrat as opposed to an architect of horrors of which he understood the full and gruesome extent. The right person in the wrong place can make all the difference.

I'd have to read her responses to the criticism she got again, I believe she did walk back the extent of her claims, but could be wrong (and in saying this, I'm sure someone will correct me if I am misremembering ;))
> differentiation is no longer based on the user experience, but rather uniqueness

I heartily disagree. Ads are a reason to cancel, so that entire point can be put to the side. While the user experience is vastly different between streaming services. Also, the uniqueness of content is a double-edged sword. Netflix has focused on content that pushes boundaries, which is great for some people, but not all. But I digress. The point I was heading towards is that UX is the weak link in stream right now.

Good points of a streaming UX are/would be:

- Being able to restart a show exactly where you left off, and easily find it.

- Navigation being as easy on a roku remote as it is with a mouse and keyboard, including searching.

- Reliable buffering and streaming.

- Closed Captioning, especially if you can configure font size and placement.

- Ease of navigation of all the content.

- Good recommendations of what you would actually watch, not what they are pimping that month.

- Accurate representations of what is new and popular.

I'm sure the list could go on. But no service has nailed the experience yet. They each have their strengths and weaknesses. It is time for streaming to mature - to figure out how to make the experience as good as it can be, step up, and take a leadership position based on just how awesome it is to work with the product.
The very opposite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism

"Libertarianism originated as a form of left-wing politics such as anti-authoritarian and anti-state socialists like anarchists,[6] especially social anarchists,[7] but more generally libertarian communists/Marxists and libertarian socialists"
Netflix's growth for a while has been in not just licensing TV and movies to stream but to become a studio producing TV and movies to stream (and even to show in movie theaters). They've also grown in the TV categories they offer (through production and licensing), like unscripted "reality" TV and anime. If you don't value their growth, you're not likely to give them credit for it.

They are also working on growing into at least one new area, video games.
Then change the model!

I see the value in your point--it reflects our current reality--but we should never lose sight of the fact that we can replace systems that don't serve our best interests. Yes, it takes hard work, but maintaining the status quo is not the only way forward.
Understanding of what? What the joke is about? Then no, it has no idea what any of it means. The syntactic structure of jokes? Sure. Feed it 10 thousand jokes that are based on a word found in two otherwise disjoint clusters (pod of whales, pod of TPUs), with a subsequent explanation. It's fair to say it understands that joke format.

If you somehow manage to invent a kind of joke never before seen in the vast training corpus, that alone would be impressive. If PaLM can then explain that joke, I will change my mind about language models, and then probably join the "NNs are magic you guys" crowd, because it wouldn't make any sense.
TCS techie turns Zomato delivery agent. His 6 challenges, including petrol price
Three, BBC, Channel 4 and S4C.

Even Australia with only 25 million has two, and IMO it's nowhere near enough. Ireland has two.

Germany has twelve and through those also participates in two transnational public media organisation. Much of it is a purposeful legacy of the allied occupation because one of the earliest things Hitler did is consolidating all broadcasting.

Why you ask have more than one public media organisation? Because you ensure diversity of opinion, create a resilient network, create specialities, ensure regional representation, provide funding and funding options, provide diversity in all manners, more independence from government interventions, etc., etc.

Spain has 13.

The public service remit is vital.

And don't use the term 'broadcaster' for the concept because it limits their role. It might be much of what they do, but think video game funder, social media, keeper of historical heritage, open-source development, educational platform, trusted source of facts (as in Wikipedia), diplomatic tool, amplifier of diversity in all aspects, keeper of audio-visual libraries ... the possibilities are endless.
The article is proposing offering a two tiers, one with ads and one without, which is what most of Netflix's competitors do.

That would allow you and others who feel similarly to continue watching ad-free.
To be fair, it's not just investor greed that does it.

Plenty of good managers and engineers just want more money too. Once the hyper-growth stalls, many early employees cash out their lottery ticket and leave to take higher-paying jobs elsewhere. They don't care as much about maintaining the product and experience that they built as they do about making more money.

(And this is exacerbated by the fact that many people prefer building new things than to maintain the existing things they built.)
> Even though the browser would guess MIME types based on filename, HTTP didn't have MIME types until HTTP 1.0

correct

but guessing the mime type is what many tools still do today

MIME types were one of the (many) emergent features added to HTTP out of necessity

like, for example, HEADERS

HTTP/0.9 had no headers, no status code it was basically nothing more than

- GET THAT

- HERE IT IS ITS RAW CONTENT

But Lee HyperMedia browser had support for different file types because he already envisioned it as a mean to browse a "web" of hosts in search of "resources of different kind"

WWW was text only the same way Excel was text only, meaning they could not show text and images side by side, not in the sense "VT100 text only"

Ask you this: was there another software that let you click on a link representing a file on another computer possibly on the other side of the planet, download it and show it to you in (almost) real time?

This [1][2] is the best Microsoft could do using all its resources in 1990, on a platform that was already very advanced for graphics (Word 1.1 for Windows looks like sh*t), T.B.Lee was basically himself writing the code for the server, the client on a platform that was still in its infancy while also having to learn the framework (NeXTSTEP)

[1] https://www.versionmuseum.com/images/applications/microsoft-...

[2] https://www.versionmuseum.com/images/applications/microsoft-...

> or the page you posted is wrong about what NeXtStEp could support in 01990.

you can check by yourself by buying (or downloading) a copy of the manual

https://findingaids.library.cmu.edu/repositories/2/archival_...
We use a modified version of this system for my six-person team. For the first two folder levels, we use numeric folder notation with a max of 10 folders for each level. We do allow for deeper levels as needed. For example, we often need a bunch of folders for data.
Is that really true though? Aside from graphics and physics, which seems to be highly reusable, where's the performance critical stuff? Lots of engines seem to be mostly using scripting languages for everything a game developer needs to do.

I wonder if there's a DBMS out there somewhere that already does what you need? Seems like by the time you got to a scale where you would need custom stuff, you'd have money to redo it(Unless it's a foss thing meant to be big but not commercial, or to run on a server you're paying for yourself)
Teams calls don't work with Firefox or Chromium, only with Edge or Chrome or Chromium which spoofs Firefox.
On the one hand, I find myself aligned with many ideas exposed here. On the other hand I fight myself constantly to avoid keeping too much around, or to prevent the archiving process from becoming more important than the archived material itself.

Unlike others I ended up consolidating everything into a big dumb set of folders on my NAS just because it’s cognitively easier to keep track of than a smattering of online services.

But then again… what is worth keeping, really? How often do we go back to old photos? How often do we need a 10y old bank statement? How hard is it to redownload some film or music?
Depends entirely on what you want to do. Use a bog standard engine, and you get Satisfactory. If you build your own, you can have Factorio. The former will never reach the sort of simulation complexity the latter can even on modest hardware.
My guess is that, to a person on the verge of stealing such an artifact, whether there is a policy of no investigation on safe return is near the last thing on their mind. A person acting on impulse isn't putting much effort at all into thinking it through, and the motivations and attention of someone who has planned the heist in advance are all focused in the opposite direction - they have already chosen on an action in which return plays no part. Therefore, I would lean towards there being no investigation, or at least no public investigation.

The much trickier problem, not uncommon in art theft, is when the thief attempts to ransom the artifact.
Except it’s not: in Canada, legal sales have already surpassed illegal sales.
netflix could add a "live" channel that is similar to a twitch channel
Building Better Neighbourhoods by Strengthening Bonds and Bridges
DOE Explains
> Germany has seized control of a local unit of Russian natural-gas giant Gazprom, saying it will do 'what is necessary' to maintain energy supply in the country

this action doesn't make much sense then, does it?
One of my favorite memories of NYC. I was late catching my train at Penn Station. I was only two or three long blocks away, but dragging a heavy suitcase, and my timely arrival was uncertain. Traffic was decent and a taxi was right nearby, so I hailed, got in, and explained the situation. "I'll get you there", the driver said.

Then to my dismay, I realized I only had $2 cash in my wallet. "Shit. Let me out. I only have $2. I'm so sorry."

He looked back at me and said solemnly, "You're late, you're broke, and you're not that good looking." Then he turned off his meter, took what money I had, and drove me the rest of the way. I made my train with time to spare, thanks to him.
For any comparison to C# (it being slower or having GC pauses), it probably doesn't take into account the latest advances (.NET 6). That's understandable given there isn't really incentive to gain a mastery in every language during a comparison.

With regards to C#/.NET 6, it is now easy to:

- Have zero-allocation code through the whole stack, making garbage collection zero/near-zero.
[Span<T>, Memory<T>]

- Distribute platform specific all-in-one binaries with no unbundling/uncompression or need to install any runtime.
[dotnet publish -r win-x64 -c Release -p:PublishSingleFile=true -p:PublishTrimmed=true]

- For hot-path optimisation (many available profiling tools), dive into new high-performance APIs such as CPU vector intrinsics, or native memory allocation (aligned or unaligned).
[System.Runtime.Intrinsics.X86, System.Runtime.InteropServices.NativeMemory]

- For faster startup times: AOT compilation.
(Not necessarily faster at runtime in general; JIT has advantages there with being able to detect hot paths)

These are just the features I've used, there are doubtless many more. In the future .NET 7, it will be possible to disable runtime marshalling so interop calls to C DLLs have no overhead (along with a compile-time analyzer to throw errors if the types you're using are not compatible, aka 'blittable').

Credit to Vale - it appears to be addressing all these things so there's certainly an interesting future ahead.
Sure. What about simulation? Like I mentioned Factorio in your neighboring comment. It does things with a custom engine that you simply can't do using "highly reusable" systems.

Existing engines are great as long as you want your game to look and behave like every other game written in the same engine. It's gotten to a point where a careful observer can tell which engine a game is written in just by looking at it and feeling how much input lag and framerate variance it has.
Linux 5.11 to Land Optimization That Helps io_uring Performance (2020)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/german-regulator-tak...
I love Netflix for the instant content and no ads. The fact I can binge watch and not have to wait every week for an episode I love. I pay Netflix not to wait and not to be distracted by unsolicited content (i.e. ads or previews of other shows when I start an episode).

Youtube ads drive me nuts. I refuse to pay for a subscription for user generated content. A real paradox here. I am ok with it remaining as is. Just don't bring ads to Netflix! I am happy to pay the subscription.

Netflix exploring games and other types of content delivery is a smart move. Going from offering passive content to interactive content is not easy though. Wonder where that will lead...
Did you even read the article?

> Germany's economy minister announced the seizure in a statement on Monday. The move came after the ministry of economic affairs learned that Gazprom Germania had been acquired by JSC Palmary and Gazprom export business services LLC — but it wasn't clear who the owners behind the two companies were, per the statement.

> Germany's economy ministry justified the takeover by saying it had not granted permission for the Gazprom Germania acquisition. Permission is required, the ministry said, if the investors are not from the European Union and "critical infrastructure" is involved.
Of course wealth defines fitness for service (in America, anyway).

Isn't "money for college and healthcare" kinda obvious about it? Like there's almost a wink and a nudge at the end of it.

It's super blatant that having very few economic options and no healthcare chooses fitness for service for you.
It's even worse than that : I had some comments deleted but others shadowbanned (!), merely from using timestamp links to the same video and/or posting multiple comments and/or writing long comments ! (And I first noticed it about a year ago.)

P.S.: Even the deleted comments are deleted silently.
I like when science comes around to put the rigor on what we already knew.
In my first year of 3D printing, I printed mostly parts about upgrading and modding my 3D printer.

But the good thing is it also made me get used to the whole process of refining a 3D print and after a year I barely started to print functional&useful things.

So yeah, I don't see a problem with this approach :)