skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with almost all public transit is that it converges on a center and branches out into legs that do not connect with each other.

This is the DC map:

https://www.wmata.com/schedules/maps/upload/2019-System-Map....

If two friends move to the outer edges of different legs of the system, then your travel time and inconvenience multiplies a lot.

It is the same reason Manhattan is so popular compared to the outer boroughs:

https://new.mta.info/map/5256

People in manhattan can go west, south, east, north anytime anyhow with few or no connections. People in the outer boroughs have to many times go via Manhattan to get where they are going.

Now take a look at a map of a good subway system:

https://www.tokyometro.jp/en/subwaymap/

Paris is another good one:

https://www.ratp.fr/en/plan-metro

You can get from anywhere to almost anywhere without having to go to the middle of Tokyo.

The Tube is okay, but still has the problem of the lines not connecting once you get out of a certain radius:

https://content.tfl.gov.uk/standard-tube-map.pdf
>He throws this in as well, and I think it's if anything a more important quote. I think anyone working in a creative industry would like for there to be a process whereby you can 'fail fast' and realise that you aren't making something that's fun or meaningful, but from my experience, such a mechanism really doesn't exist.

Oh they do. But they don't fit with the classic waterfall model of publishing where you pitch a title to a publisher, publisher gives you some money, you work your butt off for a few years, deliver the title to the publisher, it goes on sale - and gets panned to the ground because this or that.

Feedback, fast iteration, etc. exists and are applied also in game industry. But it is usually the indies, working with their supporters and fans who release alpha/early beta versions of their games often and then work with the feedback which gets integrated for a future version.

E.g. Factorio is a great example of this. Or Christopher Tin (the composer who made the Grammy winning soundtrack for Civilization) works like this - releasing bits and pieces of his upcoming work to fans and supporters early - and using the feedback he gets as he goes.

With big buck AAA titles you don't have this except for NDAed closed beta testing and sometimes focus groups. But those rarely are your core audiences. And even when the testers say the title is bad/not ready, it gets overruled by the publisher/management because missing the Christmas sale would be disastrous ...
I see Boston as the tech hub of the East more than NYC. New York obviously has a large number of tech jobs, but Boston and DC both have a higher concentration of tech; in NYC the big fish is obviously finance.

I discount DC a little because a lot of that is government and defense related (not a bad thing, just not my cup of tea).

Boston has a lot of diversity in tech, lots of health/pharma like Moderna, web companies like TripAdvisor and Wayfair, robotics like Boston Dynamics, tons of startups doing ai/ml, and it seems like every big company has a substantial presence here (Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce…)
That's what I'm talking about – explanations like yours are abundant (no offence).

Following your advice, let's say I set SMART goal for myself - "Increase number of books I read per month to 10 by the end of the year". It's specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound". It's still a goal, not a strategy.
A child is legally compelled (in most cases) to attend school. I am hardly compelled to visit TikTok, Facebook, Fox/CNN/etc.

I forgo something when I opt out, but I absolutely am in control of that choice whereas a bullied child is not.
Brings back fond memories of MySpace and the garish themes therein.
Bold.

Please keep me/us in here updated!
For comparison, a rail car can carry 120 tons of coal.
I especially appreciate seeing this kind of tool + level of self awareness, as a woman working in tech.

For everyone here who's asking how to get their coworkers using something like this, there's a similar feature in Sesh (web app https://sesh.com/ and zoom app https://marketplace.zoom.us/apps/lmZj36WWSJut8-hAaUJrhQ ) that gives everyone equal opportunities to speak (and plays you off oscars-style when you go too long), and another feature called "talk time" that shows how long each person spent talking at the end of each meeting.

At it's core, it's a really useful meeting agenda app, so sharing it is less "hey you talk too much" and more "let's make our meetings better and more equitable".

I work there & am happy to demo or answer any questions about it :)

Again, really love that you made a version of this that individuals can spin up for their own accountability without the need for whole-team buy in. The design is great too!
> Different situations require different approaches.

I very much agree. When it comes to developing a meaningful strategy, this depends largely on the details of what is at issue.

Imagine some really demanding business idea that could perhaps be put into reality towards the end of this century, like astroid mining or a hotel on the moon. Does it already make sense to found a company, collect money and work on a strategy? If there are too many moving targets or the goal is just too large or too distant or demands too many ressources, there may not exist a feasible strategy, no matter how hard we think about one.

At the other end of the spectrum think of some boring, but established business idea, like opening a restaurant or starting an organic farm. In this case, there exist thousands of role models to learn from. Success is not guaranteed, but one does not need to re-invent the wheel to outline a strategy and get started.
Author here. Nobody has ever asked about the art before. It depicts Maruyama Oukyo, a famous painter of ghosts (and other things), where one of his pieces comes to life and frightens him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maruyama_%C5%8Ckyo
There is definitely demand, but America won't build that demand because the "silent majority" (homeowners who still are fearful of minorities and poor people) won't let that happen.
Tech jobs vary wildly in pay, but their marketing language doesn't. This makes it very hard to know what's worth your time. The reality is, if you're making >$100k and a recruiter comes offering "a great opportunity to work at the next big thing!" but their top range is $90k, then there's almost no chance you'll choose to go there.

Since pay is paramount to the employment arrangement, why wouldn't I expect that to match up near the beginning?

I will add a small note: if a recruiter reaches out with a job that doesn't mention salary, I won't outright ignore it, but asking for a range is always in my first reply. If that isn't answered then things stop there.
It'll eventually collapse under its own weight like Atari in the 80s.
Related thread from yesterday:
Unity merges with IronSource - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32081051
Why 64-bit exactly? Do you have uses for tiny boards with more than 4GiB of virtual address space?
I use Complete Ear Training for interval training, with the grand piano or the Rhodes sound pack. I switch pack every once in a while. I also use TonalEnergy Tuner to sing intervals or scales to it and see if I'm in tune.

In something like a year I went from "telling apart major and minor thirds is black magic" to being able to sing the major scale right like 60% of the time and I have an 80% success rate for all intervals up to a fifth. It did improve my piano improvisational skills by a lot.
aka 52% of youtube from the era where it was fun have been deleted.

badger badger badger badger mushROOM MUSSHROOOMM!!
Recessions are largely unequal in impact. Those who are prepared and/or who don't lose their jobs generally come out OK. Those who get laid off with no backup options are the ones who get screwed.

Predicting the future is always challenging. But preparing for a range of unknown outcomes is often doable.
Lou Montulli didn't cure a damn thing; he was one of the rat bastards who made surveillance capitalism possible.
I remember this guy. John Riccitiello was the CEO of EA when they got the Worst Company in America twice. I can't tell if he was the mastermind of driving EA into the ground, but he accelerated it. He was just as scummy and profit driven then as now.
I recall a few years back, I was going to visit someone, and bought flowers.

Before I left, plans changed, so now I was in the mall parking lot, and had (to me) useless flowers. In the parking lot, I saw an older woman sitting in her car.

I walked up to her, proclaimed "surprise, flowers!", which she took, and I walked away.

It is sad to think that these days, it almost makes more sense to just throw them away, instead of giving a bit of unexpected joy to someone.

(the woman seemed surprised, and happy)
He was president and COO from 1997 to 2004 and CEO from 2007-2013.
Rust manages memory using ownership and borrowing
Interesting! PJ and his partner still own 60%. And Sean Parker is a director of the company?

https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/c...
Article buries it deep in the article probably because it makes this merger a lot less concerning but apparently Unity is acquiring IronSource rather than vice versa.
It was mentioned in the discord that instead of doing `curl something | sh` you could do `curl something | ./pledge.com sh` that looks like an interesting way to see what all those install scripts really want to get access to
Google Play Developer Helpline Invitation
Just received email from Google they are opening up call center for developers if they need help. Sounds promising after many years of ignoring us?

------------------------------------------------

Hello Partner,
We’re always exploring ways to provide more support to developers. We launched the Google Play Developer Helpline and we’re excited to extend the invitation for you to participate.
You can use the Google Play Developer Helpline in English to find more information about any Google Play policy and even resolve issues, such as policy enforcements, appeals, warnings, etc. Call us to learn how to get an app reinstated or how to appeal an enforcement.
How to connect with us

Go to the Developer Help Center.
Open Contact Us > Let’s get started > Contact Options > Get a call.
Complete the Helpline form.

The Helpline is available from 9 am to 6 pm local hours, Monday through Friday, excluding public holidays.
We look forward to speaking with you!
My pinball machines actually track average ball times in the audits. It’s a KPI for operators. Machine setups will be changed to increase difficulty if necessary.
The last call of duty game I played charged me $60 up front and then was largely free from all future costs, except some add-on dlc I chose to buy later. MTX was there but only as cosmetic items. This state of things was fine.

However they eventually added overpowered weapons that could only be unlocked via expensive rng loot boxes and that's when I stopped playing.
It’s okay. If the Progressive Conservatives wave their hands fast enough, they can solve this problem with wind power.
YES! I registered gamblingisnotgaming.com with a view to put some material on there about the difference between games and gambling, the dangers of addiction, etc, but dread the idea of getting sued because of it, so it's currently not hosting anything.

It's also especially annoying when searching for jobs in games, and these ruddy e-gambling companies keep popping up on searches, because "gaming".
PWAs – Why and How Using Oracle?
Twitter used to provide all Tweets to the Library of Congress for archival, until the library decided it wasn't worth the effort to continue adding that much data. I'm not sure who would be in a position to archive YouTube for the future. Does the Internet Archive make snapshots?
ChromeOS Flex launches to turn your old Mac or PC into a Chromebook
> "My ownership data" has value. perhaps not to you. But for people i interact with.

I don't think you understood what I meant. I said it has no intrinsic value, meaning that it has no value in itself.

> My education degree is something that I own. It can be very useful if I can quickly prove to the world that I indeed really have that degree.

The fact that it is written in a blockchain that you have a degree has no value in itself, it only works if a necessary trusted third-party, the university where you got that degree, approves it. You are not in a decentralized and fully adversarial setting. You do not need (nor want, for efficiency purpose mainly) a blockchain to solve this problem.

What you want is a cryptographic certificate (just like an X.509 SSL/TLS certificate) of your diploma signed by your university, which would play the role of a Certificate Authority, and which you can trust because the government that accredited your university to deliver actual diplomas has a root certificate (it acts as a Trusted Certificate Authority) and has signed the one of your university with it.

> like Twitter allows to prove you own an avatar NFT

Twitter is a central authority and could very well associate any "NFT avatar" with any of its users without relying on any blockchain.
SaaS Enterprise Ready Feature Guide
There are obviously plenty of Wright buildings in Oak Park; we're famous for it. I'm wondering about the infamous money pits.
There isn't anywhere near enough space in this box to answer the question "What is wrong with white people" and that isn't my purpose here. I'm trying to tell you why there are non-obvious reasons why people don't just immediately move to Lincoln, Nebraska, when the rents change in Manhattan. It's because there aren't any Persian restaurants, or whatever people view as an amenity.
The US is trending this way with inflation. 10k is the numerical limit at which everyone treats you like a criminal in the US, which was roughly equivalent to 60k (in 2022 dollars) when the law went into effect. Now it's not even enough to buy a middle of the road 10 year old used car.

One of my bank accounts has been blocked for the last 6 months over this, despite hours on the phone beforehand and countless assurances that this wouldn't happen. It reminds me of traveling to Canada with a credit card in the mid 00s.
Ah yes if you are not actively working to prey on people you are a "fucking idiot".
Transit in Brooklyn and Queens is much worse than Manhattan.

See my other comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32098815
I'm the original creator of this tool. In case it helps, the usage model is:

1. Plug Quine into Kafka or some streaming source of data (blockchain, SSE events, etc. or stream in batch data from CSV/JSON) and write one query to build those into a graph.

2. Set a "standing query" on that graph, which monitors the ever-changing graph for matches to your standing query. Each match triggers a custom action to publish it out to another system, or call back into the graph to make another update.

3. If you need a consistent unchanging view of the graph, you can issue a normal query any time and include a timestamp. You will get results to your query from the graph as it was at that historical moment in time.

The system scales horizontally. We've tested it on a resilient cluster ingesting over 1 million events per second.
The games I mentioned are fantastic, but I feel like they are hobbled by overweight tech.
How does that help clear the excess biomass produced by farming? The primary problem this solves isn't "carbon capture". It's great that it does, and it's what distinguishes it from other solutions in the same primary business: to help deal with the problem of harvest "waste".

You can buy oil and pump it back in the ground, but now you still need to solve the farming problem.
Got any good links?
I would like to write 64bits assembly code paths directly. I know RISC-V ISA has good 64bis->32bits compatibility, but I am looking for something definitive here.
It looks like the intent is to offer tools for taking money from customers. This means that the extent and character of monetization would be up to developers. It might mean adds, it might mean in game purchase opportunities. It does not necessarily mean a choice between two extremes.
I can see why this is happening. For a certain kind of person, New York City is the most desirable place in the world to live. With work from home becoming possible, all the people across the country with the desire and money to do so will want to move to NYC, where they might have been in Omaha or Cleveland or Dallas for work.
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Hey gscho – Thank you so much for letting me know, have NO idea how that http:// got in there (?)

Please don't tell me you're getting a browser error after the click (?)

Do you know who/how can help me update that title?
Yep.

I mean, there's absolutely a market for the stuff, but it should NOT be our goal to make every game the same cookie cutter formula for "how to maximize money".

In fact, I think there's a bigger problem at hand here.

It's something about how people want to find a formula for X, so they essentially don't have to be creative and think about how to make something interesting and new.

I don't know what it is exactly, but I've been trying to pin it down for a while now.
I did that before I asked, and found a Wright house 2 blocks from where I grew up (in Beverly, not Oak Park) that was a "money pit", because the previous owners had built an addition and plastered around the interior, and they decided to restore it and add period-appropriate window decorations. I didn't find any references to money pit Wright houses in Oak Park.

I'm the weirdo who actually reads our local newspapers, for what it's worth. Like I said, I actually live here.
That specific video actually predated YouTube itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badgers_(animation)

And it’s still up on YouTube: https://youtu.be/EIyixC9NsLI
Have you been affected by the rent increase yet? Curious how much power the landlords have there. Can they raise your rent without warning, are they trying to force you out, etc.
Unity sure knows how to pick its leadership.

Instead of trying to make the technology compete with Unreal, Godot, and custom-rolled game engines, they are gonna double down on a sea of forgettable mobile games that aren't sustainable once the whales leave.
It's the same way that burning 1 kilogram of gasoline produces more than 1 kilogram of CO2. Oxygen from the atmosphere gets bound to the carbon.
I thought Russia had good GPS-jamming technology. I guess like many "I thought Russia had ..." statements, we're learning how real and/or widely deployed various capabilities are.
Is there anybody who uses more than one browser as daily drivers simultaneously? What's your workflow like? I have tried to give Nyxt multiple tries but had to give up cause some things just don't work and had to use Firefox for those.
We talk about this at least once a week here, usually in the scope of software, but it’s a problem that exists in other domains (though VCs and us are constantly pushing for more businesses to run like software, which is nuts considering how not in order we know our own house to be).

Ageism and cultishness are how you end up with simple oversights that anyone who has been around the block a few times would either prevent, or at least have enough self consciousness not to breathlessly talk about it in front of strangers.

I think what we miss consistently about the VC model is that we make the 10:1 ratio about chance and betting big, but I suspect the dominant force there is that 4 times out of 5, experience will save you from doing something expensively stupid. However once in a while it’s a clever generalist or someone who “doesn’t know any better” that uncovers a major advancement that the experienced people are blind to. So less than half of those failures are not thinking outside of the box, and most of the rest are not even knowing there was a box to begin with.

We tend to see this as an either or scenario. Throw a bunch of kids together or hire a bunch of cranky old men and women who say no all the time. That’s a false dichotomy. Hire some of both, don’t let the older ones steal all of the glory.
20 minutes to most parts of manhattan?!?!

I'm sorry, but... you might be able to get to FiDi from downtown BK in 20 minutes, door to door. If you live anywhere else in BK, from Greenpoint to Sheepshead Bay, you're looking at 30 minutes minimum to get into manhattan -- probably closer to an hour door-to-door.

Not trying to be rude here, but your statement does not seem to match my lived experience. Maybe you can get 20 minutes door-to-door on a citibike?
As the page itself suggests, perhaps they should just talk about the issue with their colleagues first.
> Not sure why you wouldn't be.

Art is an end in itself. Not everything that takes work needs to make needs to be immediately converted into money.
> It used to be the case that developers would throw their game over the wall to the publicist and sales force with literally no interaction beforehand.

The thing about a decent monetization model is that is _has_ to be thought about and structured from the very beginning.

If you are going to have a live team creating content for a game over the long term, then the game has to make money over the long term as well. If you try to hamfist that monetization model at the end, it looks like a hamfisted monetization scheme that players are _very_ attuned to.

Bad monetization design is like bad game design, it makes the game worse. Good monetization design can allow you to support your game for _decades_.

League of Legends would have died years ago if not for a monetization model that worked over the long term.
> I don't get it why they ditched the signature Pokemon fighting system for something pretty arbitrary,

This is the biggest fumble and what cemented the death of the game to me. Here’s what I think should have happened:

* Used the regular fighting system (turn based fighting)

* Allow players to have 6 on-hand Pokémon with the ability to preset teams.

* Any Pokémon caught after all 6 slots are filled are stored in the PC.

* Utilize the nostalgia of the old Gameboy/DS System and allow players that are within a certain distance to start a battle.

* Allow the creation of local tournaments (no exp gained )

* Hold regional based Tournaments where the winner is named the champion of that region and is qualified to participate in a National tournament.

* Hold a Worldwide tournament crowning a Pokémon World Champion. Participants must be winners of their nation’s tournament. (World Cup but for Pokémon)

* After a quantifiable amount of World Champions are made have prestigious “Pokémon Master” Tournament where the winner is crowned a Pokémon Master. Participants must be winners and runner ups of the World championship. Pull out all the stops to make this a hyped event on the same standing as League of Legends/Valorant E-sports tournaments since your already suing an IP greater than it.

* Add Dual Battle’s with a friend

* Hold Safari Zones/Events that allow rare specific Pokémon to be captured with increase of shinies (should have made these rare)

* For non PVP-players add in a Pokémon Snap like competition where participants can submit Photos of their Pokémon or wild Pokémon.

So much potential squandered.
I just remember a Wright exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry when I was a kid, and them explaining that all the furniture was built in to the house.