skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gaming as-you-define-it is surely dying and it took maybe 15 years for microtransactions to do it in.

However, more people play video games than ever before and more games are released per year than at any other time in human history. So what died exactly? Certainly not an industry. Only a business model has died. A game's business model has always been inextricably tied to its design, going back to arcades. So designs you like are dying.

This is why I classify your behavior as gatekeeping. All those happy gamers must be enjoying games wrong. The designs they like are not valid game designs because they aren't adherent to your design aesthetics.

Do you miss paying a fixed price for a fixed amount of content, never to be updated? Nothing about that is incompatible with microtransactions. In the old days we called them expansions. These days they're called battle passes.

Do you miss paying for access to a live game server? Those used to be called subscriptions. Now we've found a way to offer free subscriptions to any and all, subsidized by gamers who have the financial freedom to support their favorite games.

[edit: for politeness]
I do not believe that is how the joke laws that are GDPR/CCPA operates.
How is this survivorship bias?
Sounds like someone found an easy revenue opportunity in the data to upcharge current owners and implemented it. Probably up for promotion for it.
The point was the other way around, how to justify the adoption of F# in Microsoft shops, when Microsoft itself isn't sure where to go with it, doesn't invest in better VS tooling for it, and recently behaves as the C in CLR stands for C# instead of Common.
It's actually a fairly substantial risk, but from unbuckled passengers in the back slamming into the person in front of them. Studies said about a 20% increase in risk of death to the person in the front.
European gas prices soar after Russia deepens supply cuts
I have a catchall for my domain, so most sites get a unique website@mydomain.com email and a unique password. Not only does is help against password leaks but I also can find out very quickly if someone sells the unique address.
It wasn't clear from the article or comments but they've let go engineers too.

https://mobile.twitter.com/joeldrapper/status/15519405008144...
Off topic, but I'm curious about the two dots over the letter u, which is something I've never seen before in French. Living in a German-speaking land, I'm used to seeing the same name written as Emmäus, where the umlaut serves not only to shift the sound of the a vowel but also to imply the emphasis goes there... Now I understand the normal French u-sound is naturally closer to the German ü than any English vowel without the need for a diacritical mark, so I wonder what effect the dots have here and if they appear in other French words, or is it only something rare such as, in this case, when importing a place name from Hebrew via Greek... Any experts in French orthography with an opinion on this?
Yep, that was my point. The cause was leapseconds: https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/20...

(I'm aware of many others, though I'm not totally sure which might be subject to NDA so I'd prefer to use examples from the press)
Except for the "beautiful webfront" bit, that was my experience too - no popups/banners/ads while waiting patiently for it to finally load the "Connection timed out" page.
It has two modes. To play comfortably you need probably a 6x6x10ft area.
Intel literally did this last month. Seems that some motherboard manufacturers were selling systems that allowed the Alder Lake CPUs to user AVX512, which is not a feature advertised on those CPUs. Intel released a new microcode that disables it.
The extent that this bugs us though is pretty minimal. Any publicly facing form is going to have to handle massive amounts of garbage data as it is (if not just from people, from bots as well) so records that cleanly identify themselves as garbage save us a ton of time.
Makes sense. That car is the perfect car for my family. Electric range is enough to do most of our daily errands, taking the kids to classes, etc. But the gas range is enough to take family road trips.

And in my case, it also happens to have 100% support from Openpilot, which is a requirement for me.
> BMW

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32224378
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32219870
iPhone 11, iOS 15.5 but have noticed for quite a while on older iOS's as well.
It was always supported natively over USB.
To me, calling it a "dealership fee" implies I'm getting something special from the dealership in addition to buying the car from them.
English-language phone scammers posing as Dutch authorities stole €1.7M
You can’t have all A’s. I’d rather have B’s than a hypothetical C who is just trying to hold down a job and not get fired, or a D who DGAF but isn’t middle of the pack and takes your lower-paying job because it’s the best they could do (sure, the B is basically the same, but at least there is some theoretically higher quality on average).
GitHub also promotes remote work. Most of the company is remote and will always be remote.
I'm not speaking to whether one with "the wrong experience" can or cannot pass FAANG-level interviews, I'm just commenting on the recruiter outreach from FAANG or startups (particularly AMZ) don't necessarily know or care about your skill, they only care about the buzzwords listed on your social profile(s) and maintaining a "hot" pipeline; aka getting bodies through the pipeline and hoping not to piss off engineering because of the amount of low quality candidates.

Recruiters are (usually) not technical and/or have never been engineers, so the barrier to the first round (if you've been reached out to) is super low and not necessarily indicative as to whether you have what it takes to make it through the whole loop/offer stage.
Ordered late March, delivered first week of June. It ended up being about in the middle of the ETA range I was originally given.
Yeah, Cassandra uses a Distributed Hash Table with Consistent Hashing.

When a new node added, it takes responsibility for a segment of a ring. When node removed, it's segment get redistributed.

It's however in no way a drop-in replacement for RDBMS and requires a careful planning around application read and writes patterns that is very different from your typical RDBMS. Definitely, can't be used in this scenario - every node needs to be able to access every other node and client must be able to access at least one node.
I'm not sure how that could be implemented with Litestream since it runs as a separate process. It could be possible with LiteFS where it just pages in data on the fly. That's on the roadmap but it's probably still a ways out.
Dealership lists are more like we'll call you if one comes in, and we'll call everyone else on the list right after. First one here gets to buy it. Also, if we have a buddy that wants it, we'll give him a heads up before we call you.
your website is down homie.

"What kind of chip you got in there, a Dorito?"
Does Google even want you to call them Alphabet though? Facebook's rebrand is far more intentional than Google's
It's alright, I don't have any juridicial power. I simply desire their demise(slow and painful one). In case I acquire some, we can discuss what's the proper punishment for spammers.
As someone who owns a Quest 2 yet never actually bought a Quest 2 game (I use it for PCVR with AirLink) I think this makes sense. While I don't have numbers, a Quest 2 is roughly equivalent to a very expensive phone (beefy CPU + lots of RAM + high-res screen) that comes with two controllers. Even at 400USD they are probably still far from breaking even.
I bought one last Fall for sticker price and as the commute to my daughters school is 50 miles rt we fill the tank once a month or so.

Basically a great gateway drug to fully electric, which is what I want when I can get an F150 which is not taking orders atm.
Actions does seem to be winning, but having used both extensively I'm convinced that it's on name recognition alone (with pricing being a second). Gitlab CI is my favorite of the many I've tried (gitlab, circle, travis, github), Actions is probably my least preferred. It gets the job done but there are always a lot of actions-specific stuff for every job, whereas with most of the others they're relatively portable. Actions feels like it was designed with lock-in as a primary goal.
Nitpick: the modifications aren't illegal. Driving with some modifications is illegal

You can modify your car to your heart's desire and put it in a garage or drive it on a race track. You just cannot go into a public road with them. Totally sensible.
Small business owner. Consultant. I've been a Windows user and developer for 2 decades. I get immense value from my work station with Windows 10 on it (will update to Windows 11 soon) and I get immense value from my Office 365 Business subscription as well as my home one. Windows has a broad range of corporate tools that I haven't even gotten to the level where I have use of them, so for the time being, I don't see any disadvantage.

I can just work with client files as they all use Windows, I can use all my favorite development tools, I can play my favorite games. Contrary to what a lot of people seem to have experienced, all my Windows devices have been plug and play for the longest time. I can make pretty presentations in Powerpoint and just send them to customers. I can collaborate on Word documents with other people, get spell checked, have actually humane formatting (I'm looking at you OpenOffice, Libre)... anyway, I'm just listing benefits, I could go on for a long time.

What advantages would switching to Linux bring me at this point? I run all my servers on Linux and wouldn't switch that to Windows for ideological reasons.
How is building dedicated trolley tracks cheaper than buying a bus and running it on ordinary pavement?

And streetcars have no reason to be faster either. It's easier and historically faster to have a dedicated bus lane than a dedicated trolley lane, but there's just not enough will for even that.
Lol, it's web development it's not rocket science. He doesn't need to wait for the next reincarnation cycle before he can be made fresh again to learn Redux.
It's amazing that people keep reporting on Neom as if it is actually going to happen. It's not a credible plan. This is a rich kid's over-funded sci-fi.
Or do all your tutorials in TypeScript and let's move forward.
Look into reverse SSH tunnelling. SSH from primary to secondary, which then connects back to the primary through the already-established SSH connection.
It’s in scare quotes because it’s not a fee, it’s just a way of raising the price.
I'm unsure about GDPR. Unsure it will produce net-positive in the world. It seems like "the right thing to do" Kant-style morality, but in the end will it really matter?

The places that really go to lengths implementing GDPR-deletion or use tools like this GDPRizer, are probably not the most nefarious to have your data, it's the ones who don't care and will sell it, abuse it and hide from it.

So you call company X and ask to be forgotten. Company X is one of the good ones, so they set their engineers on it (automatic or manual etc.), can you really be sure all traces are deleted? If not yea X can be fined, but does that really (truly) benefit you if the data was still present and leaked? What about company Y that you haven't even heard about that got the data from somewhere else, you wont call them.

What about the complications about GDPR and trading/using products from overseas, seems like everyone is breaking the law, because there are so many laws.
Also did a 40x40 in two and a half hour
Literally everything is $20+ on their store, with very little demo-like content. The software isn't worth $20+...
They were never really intended to "win" because Google values their partnerships with other phone mfgs. They spend way less on marketing the Pixels and they really exist just to keep mfgs honest and to showcase what Android can/should do when it's not inundated with bloatware and crappy firmware/drivers. Meanwhile, Samsung is trying to sell you a Tizen dishwasher with dedicated Bixby buttons that sells data to marketing agencies and will irreparably break within a few years.
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My current employer is investing heavily into - I wouldn't say hordes, but they are many - juniors because "culture" sculpting Devs for our specific needs.

Or at least that's the official story. While these reasons may be real, I think it boils down to money and loyalty. Can't blame them but yeah, makes me feel a bit uneasy
I get terrible motion sickness so I opted for teleportation. I still get sick in a playthrough. The part where you free the vort in the square was the first time I started really feeling sick, but that's because you have to take an elevator.

After like 3 playthroughs I've gotten the teleporting movement down and it's pretty much second nature. Outside of the game I found myself holding out my hand and flicking to try to pick things up IRL
> Be careful: encryption is not enabled by default.

Wait, what?
Normal home users are administrators, they have to go through the pop-up to run things with escalated privileges but that, according to Microsoft, is not a security boundary.
Tesla is such an odd company. They apparently have a great product, hardware and software. But the rest of the company is just an absolute shitshow

Like, a friend recently received delivery of a Tesla. They went to the dealer 4 times before they got the car. Each time it was "Your car is available, come pick it up" and then when they got there the car wasn't actually there. By the last time they demanded that the person at the dealership actually walked out to the car and physically touched it, verified it was actually the correct vehicle, before they would go out again

It's not hard to find those kinds of stories. It is not a luxury experience.
Also, the strange thing is it is off in both directions. I had a family member order a Model X with a 5 month delivery timeline. He was super surprised to get the call to arrange delivery 3 weeks later.
Let's do it in one of those underwater caves you have to decompress for a week to leave.
> "Socially disallowed" is not a thing that can be implied through "can't" though ….

You are actually implicitly doing it right there! A slight re-wording of your post is "'Socially disallowed' can't be implied through 'can't'" … meaning that it is socially/linguistically unable to be so implied (though I disagree), not legally or technically so.

And of course there are tons of other examples—when I say that "you can't just [do that thing]", I very often mean it is socially unacceptable to do it, not that it is illegal or technically impossible to do it.
That sucks. Got a link by chance?

That's definitely not a standard practice, but I can see how that would happen by mistake (e.g. forget to remove FSD from the spec sheet) and then be difficult to get fixed. It's near-impossible to reach the right human at Tesla, so when things fall through the cracks, it's a nightmare. I suspect that's the issue OP is quoting, too -- there's likely a reasonable person at Tesla who can and would help if they knew about this story.
You are getting something special -- the fact that they have one on hand. :)
I don't understand this point. Buses don't have inherently fixed routes, so that isn't why they go down the road empty. It's because, in many places, their routes haven't been replanned to compensate for suburban sprawl, and their service is bad.

The fixed-route nature of trolleys is not an inherently bad thing. In fact, it was the dominant (and eminently sustainable) form of urban expansion for over 75 years[1]. It turns out that fixed routes mean stability, which in turn means that businesses feel comfortable investing in long-term presence. Residents similarly find them desirable, since they can be certain that their streetcar won't be taken away from them (unlike a bus).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar_suburb
In Tamizh, "pongo" literally means "go" :).
All modern trolleybuses have either batteries or diesel engines for detours.

Infrastructure costs aren't "enormous", that would be if you're putting rails in the ground for trams.
Funny, when I tried out the range of hybrid Crossover SUVs (like the RAV4) in late 2020, I found the RAV4 Prime felt like driving a boat. It had a kind of inertia I didn't feel in other cars.

I ended up getting a Ford Escape Hybrid (not plug-in) instead, which I really like (then again, I guess it's a different kind of product, not being a plug-in hybrid)
This is actually kind of clever, but only if you give us a real email address.

We will often take your name and insert them into emails (for some dumb reasons around personalization supposedly increasing opens). But an email being stuffed full of spam words is a good way to get it flagged by anti-spam software and potentially hurt our sender reputation score.

You would probably have to do it en masse and use real inboxes. A couple other names you could use would be "free", "lovers", "singles", or any sort of mid word character substitution.
That's a good question. I thought that was the case but I just double checked and it looks like you can load a VFS as an extension [1].

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/loadext.html
> An anecdote does not a system make.

You could publish a dozen similar anecdotes every day for a decade. What's unusual about this one is that the girl was stupid enough to later admit she'd been lying.

> Generally speaking, "innocent until proven guilty" is a cornerstone in most legal systems. This has been the case, literally, for millennia, dating back to Roman times.

> It is also one of the UN's human rights, and is enshrined in several countries' constitutions.

So? Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Constitution_of_the_Sovie...:

> The Soviet Constitution included a series of civil and political rights. Among these were the rights to freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of assembly and the right to religious belief and worship. In addition, the Constitution provided for freedom of artistic work, protection of the family, inviolability of the person and home, and the right to privacy. In line with the Marxist-Leninist ideology of the government, the Constitution also granted social and economic rights not provided by constitutions in some capitalist countries. Among these were the rights to work, rest and leisure, health protection, care in old age and sickness, housing, education, and cultural benefits.

Of course, having the rights in the constitution didn't mean anyone was allowed to exercise those rights, and they most certainly weren't. "Innocent until proven guilty" is a set of words that people believe in saying, but it is not a set of beliefs that people are willing to put into practice. It has nothing to do with the legal system of any country in the world. For most crimes, proof of guilt cannot even theoretically exist. (As was true of Elizabeth Coast.)

This was covered fairly extensively in my first link:

> What’s doing the work in many of the convictions, I suspect, is that the very ubiquity of the risk makes factfinders realize that — if we were to constantly consider this generalized risk, in the absence of more specific information — a wide range of crimes couldn’t be effectively prosecuted. That’s especially true of child molestation and rape, but it’s also true of many sorts of felons’ possession of guns, robberies, and the like. It’s always possible, and not extremely unlikely, that a police officer was just trying to frame someone he already thought was a bad guy.

> But I think many people (again, deliberately or subconsciously) are unwilling to see acquittals in all such cases. A seemingly disinterested supposed victim’s testimony thus tends to be credited (unless the victim seems untrustworthy for other reasons, such as the victim’s own past criminal record). A police officer’s testimony tends to be credited, at least by many jurors. And this is so even though there is good reason for doubt, simply because whenever we are dealing with human testimony there is good reason for doubt.

> So... the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard ends up being, in many cases, considerably less defendant-protective than one might think. Maybe that’s bad, or maybe it’s a necessary evil
I notice you don't mention conflicts in Ethiopia, Eritrea, or Sudan that have accumulated 300,000–500,000 fatalities. I notice you don't mention the ongoing conflict in Myanmar. I can only assume it's because of racism against black Africans and Asians.
15k dealership fee is unreasonable.
Inversion and the Power of Avoiding Stupidity
If you can wait tell a dealer to put you on a list for allocation at the retail price.
Github has always had a social media aspect. Profiles, stars, feeds, followers have been there since early days. One of their tag lines was "social coding".
As a bonus - write yourself a little browser script that accumulates companies you do this to so that you can sign every spammer up for every other spammer's mail.
Whenever I want to view my private repos, I have to navigate a painful UI first.

I'm given badges, and other gamification crap.

Then again, when I publish my projects I tend to post them either here or on Reddit.

Maybe Microsoft, with some justice, wants a cut of the traffic?
When Iran went into a similar position there were rumours that the state undertook its own piracy efforts. Incidentally there are a lot of software you'll only find cracks for in Iranian website if you use an Iranian IP.
It's not just supply and demand, because the manufacturers have been pissed at the dealership markups, because it makes them look bad. And the manufacturers can't do anything about it because of state enforced middlemen in the car sale process.

And it's not scare quotes, I'm just using the phrase that they used, which I had never heard of before.

And, it was unreasonable, because of some details which I did not include, which is that the specific vehicle was listed as for sale on their website for $40k, but only when I called did they say that it was actually only for sale for $55k. That's a bait and switch.
Latency would be horrible, but you could do it. There were a few WMs/DEs that did things like that in the past.
receiving feedback sounds good on the paper, and i understand how it would be helpful and ideal to receive it, but its just not how the real world works, as there is no business incentive to provide the feedback.

i would say in tech its fairly easy to establish hard skill competence during the interview. the remaining portion of why person gets hired is more fuzzy and is much like dating. they like you or they don't. asking why not rarely leads to any response or a meaningful response, because a lot of times they don't even know why, it might just be a gut feeling thing.

i wouldn't obsess about the outcome, as long as person is working on themselves in all areas and keeps trying, success will come.
Financially not worth it, the amount of time it takes to just figure out how to build/run the project + the time it takes to figure out the general architectures / file arborescence is too big.

But if someone marketed it as "a way to practice programming and move from high beginner to low intermediate skill on real world projects" it could work.
I don't think the average programmer would think to do the Vec indexing for this situation in the first place

> that's when to turn to other more expensive approaches such as Rc

If you're saying this was done just as an optimization... all I can say is, I hope you benchmarked first. As estebank pointed out, Rc is very fast: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32240478. It can even be faster than mark-and-sweep in some situations. In fact the Swift language only uses reference-counting, not mark-and-sweep, at the language level.

If you profiled and found that the Vec approach solved some performance problem you had with reference-counting, then so be it. But I would be surprised if it meaningfully helped, and shocked if it helped enough to outweigh the extra complexity.