skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sales from Descender meant I didn't need to do other work during college (it plays perfectly fine in SheepShaver, if you'd like to give it a try), and it probably helped secure me an internship at Apple working on their internal game development team. I helped work on games for clickwheel iPods. Funnily, I'm one of the full motion video characters in Apple's Texas Hold'em!

In 2007, after the release of Intel Macs, I shifted to making original indie games for PC and launched http://doomlaser.com. In 2008, with the release of the iPhone SDK, it suddenly became very lucrative to know how to develop games for Apple devices, and I helped build out the Tap Tap Revenge series. My favorite thing I did for that was the final boss sequence for Justice's Phantom Pt. II in Tap Tap Dance. A friend and I modeled it after the Star Gate sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q8wLtDFtVQ&t=175s)

Since then, I've gone back and forth between working on personal indie stuff and doing contract work or work in the industry. Helped build the game for The Hunger Games movie, worked on a crazy game for Adult Swim about men transforming into cars, helped build futuristic AR experiences for Niantic's in-house AR SDK, etc.

I switched from building games in my own bespoke C++/Obj-C/OpenGL engines to Unity in 2013. The scene has changed a lot. In the 2007-2011 era, you could pretty much know everybody making cool indie game stuff across the entire world. It was a great time, and a great scene. We all met each other through the TIGSource forums and at events like GDC. It's a much, much larger world now, and thus, it's much harder to stand out. "indie games" as a search term peaked in 2013. But of course, I'm still making my own stuff and also curating cool unique indie game work I see at https://twitter.com/Doomlaser

btw: complimentary serial for anyone who wants to give Descender a try, Name: test Registration #: SDSKSER000-5RF7-068A-7C8F-49D3-4034
But again, a lot of these users would have seen both sides of the coin and so I guess that makes them the best audience to participate in that poll
I agree. More generally, any business model where your users and your customers are disjoint sets will cause a misalignment of interests that generates an ever-increasing negative feedback loop. It seems like it can take a long time to play out though.
if I search for "high tc record," I'm not looking for the set of bedsheets with the greatest number of threads.

FWIW, I would also have no idea what that search is supposed to return.
The problem is that FB has changed groups as well. Groups seem to be redesigned to become more like open billboards than private enclaves with a limited membership.

They haven’t gone all the way there, so the groups are still useful, but I’m worried that’s the direction they’re taking.
That's an interesting perspective, I see where you are coming from now. Thanks for elaborating.
> Society is becoming a parody of itself.

We've accepted emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical (to some extent) abstractions of ourselves as our true selves. And exchanged social cues for algorithms to manipulate our behaviors.

In the moments when you can break out of that abstraction the parody becomes so clear, and also terrifying. Like what are we actually building towards?
Creative employees thrive when remote
This is the part that I think leaves Twitter severely exposed, at least in the EU with GDPR (from my limited, basic understanding of GDPR). Twitter does not delete data when requested by users to delete their account.

https://youtu.be/A0A-uOhMU1Y?t=7219
Glad to see they're really thinking long term. After getting rid of their security team, they should maybe rethink those pesky fire extinguishers that have done nothing but expire.
> Looks like the SEO folks do though.

Pretty sure at least 80% (probably 95%+) of low-quality SEO content is generated by computers, or at least by very low-skill outsourced labor in a machine-assisted way.

It then makes sense that the mature Internet can probably match any search query in a manner that leads to a site that sells something vaguely matching the query, through sheer quantity of available content.

In other words - there is enough SEO content generated and indexed that most queries will be able to be monetized by a search engine like Google.
I just want everyone having this wonderful discussion about how to use 'hoi polloi' correctly in a sentence to know that 1.) I love you and 2.) I learned that word literally last night while watching "Better Call Saul". I'm very educated.
If she had raped or murdered someone, would looking at her DNA then be justified?
Define “interesting”.
The main significance here is "please hire the people we're letting go as if they were normal Patreon employees you'd want to poach; they weren't let go for performance or other individual reasons".
> I share the common emotion that this is awful and shouldn't happen, but I have trouble justifying it intellectually.

Incentives.

The justification would be that sexual assault is a serious crime that goes underreported. If victims are afraid to come forward because they fear arrest for other, pettier offenses, then predators are even more likely to escape justice and commit more assaults.
I work in ops and a side of programming, have some related hobbies and that's exactly my feelings about Zachtronics games. "Why play some virtual computer emulating game where I have a dev board with actual computer to program"

But it hasn't happened with Factorio. It just have that perfect blend of everything that I don't mind it being basically what I do for my day job.
Rethinking Machine Learning for Power
There was a time (most of history actually) when "honest farming" also involved improving the crops you grow through selective breeding. That's how we ended up with the modern forms of staples like wheat. Now this activity is being portrayed as theft.

I think the burden of proof is on strong IP advocates here. Prove to me that innovation would be stifled if plant patents were not allowed. Because all I see is a massive centralization of that innovation into the hands of a few gatekeepers that get to own the results.
By this time next year I'll be huddled under a bridge with nothing but a few rags to wear and a Switch in my hands. Shit.
I've been seeing this with Twitter also... a lot of the stuff is suggested content and really clickbaity sponsored posts. :(
Do you not believe working in retail or restaurants are real jobs? Because the vast majority of them are not paid a living wage in the US and have to rely on having multiple jobs or welfare. Walmart even teaches you how to sign up for welfare as an employee
Didn't Russia invade Ukraine in early 2014?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Ru...
That's genuinely anxiety-inducing to hear. I have several friends who have signed offers with Google, with start dates set within the next few weeks/months.

Really hoping they don't start pulling offers. I can't put my finger on why, but somehow that seems like it'd be even more cruel than layoffs.
I've been using and recommending this for years. They've broken it twice that I can recall, but both times only briefly. It's the only thing that makes the site tolerable for me. I don't know why other people are reporting that it doesn't work for them. Usually the explanation for such differences would be that they're on the other side of a gatekeeper setting (gatekeeper being the system that FB uses for gradual rollouts) but that doesn't seem likely in this case. Maybe some sort of caching artifact, or something broken about their configs, or HNers just lying because they have an axe to grind, but it does still work at least for some of us.
NGL, performance in Factorio and Dwarf Fortress will probably be criteria for when I will be upgrading my rig.
"The Memory Palace", one of my favorite podcasts, does a touching ode to the women behind this operation.

https://thememorypalace.us/400000-stars/
The word "meme" was created by Dawkins to be similar to "gene", because they spread similarly. Cancer is, in a certain sense, a genetic disease, the result of the malfunction of genes caused by mutation. So, to continue the analogy, a badly mutated meme can be like cancer, and can spread like one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme#Etymology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer#Genetics
This is a phenomenal reference guide - thank you so much for creating it!
Funny to talk about empathy as something regrettably beyond our control
Wait, why does a cockatoo ask to enter your home? I'm in US so to me these birds are generally best left in cages, last time I visited the bird sanctuary, one of them started angrily chasing a lady around
As I said, the FDA can go after the merchants. But most of the people spreading dumb meme beliefs about cannabis aren't selling it. If the FDA wants to make a meaningful dent in the spread of these beliefs, they'll have to earn the public's trust and convince people of the truth.
Have I got the newsletter for you[0]!

Ideas are cool but what you really want to get good at us is market validation! The same idea can be Validated very differently and look good/bad

[0]: https://unvalidatedideas.com
> The aliens even give the game a satisfying environmental and political dimension, though the mechanics in this respect are more straightforward, i.e., just kill the aliens. Though emitting less pollution with solar also helps.

I wish for a factorio clone that explores this more, rather than just an environmental hazard employ/enslave the local population, feed them, and so on.
That's an extremely liberal use of the word friend.

A more accurate way to state it would be to say 'facebook connections'. If you don't regularly communicate with them, they aren't your friends.
We can go further - the very first of Peter Deutsch's Fallacies of Distributed Computing, written in 1994, is [1]:

> The network is reliable.

[1] https://www.computing.dcu.ie/~ray/teaching/CA485/notes/falla...
Your dogs are not allowed to attack me on my property.

There is no formal evidence that cellphone signals are harmful. But a recent survey article noted that of more than a hundred studies reported, none were conducted in such a way as to provide any meaningful information on the subject, except one, which was inconclusive. Such systematic, pervasive incompentence often means something, itself. (E.g., industry-sponsored tests asserting lack of toxicity of Roundup all systematically omit testing with any of the powerful, trade-secret protected surfactants always mixed into it.)

For much of the past century, research into biochemical effects of E-M fields has been effectively forbidden in the US, and any results could generally be reported only at foreign conferences. The official doctrine that the only possible effect could be heating -- wholly unsupported by any research -- has been written into numerous regulations. Robert Becker, uniquely, was supported by the US Veterans Administration on investigations that they must have hoped would lead to regeneration of severed limbs. He demonstrated profound effects of sub-nanoampere currents that could easily be induced by suitably-modulated radio-frequency E-M radiation.

None of this is to say that anybody has demonstrated cellphone radiation really is being modulated in such a way as to affect us biologically. But nobody has been funded to even try demonstrating it is not: the only studies published on 3G, 4G, and now 5G only ever tested wholly unmodulated radiation, which would not be expected to have any effect.

So, we just don't know. The experiment is being conducted, with very large N but no control group, on the public at large. 3G and 4G appear not to have caused, anyway, certain easily-discerned public health disasters. That result of course does not extend to other RF bands or modulations. The cause of US consulate staff afflictions has not been officially identified.

Michael Levin has picked up and carried on Dr. Becker's work, and appears likely to succeed with regenerating severed limbs, using a combination of electrical and chemical treatments. He has numerous utterly astonishing videos on Youtube. He probably knows better than to risk involvement in testing 5G.
The blog post says they will focus on making controller play better on Switch, then make that generic for PC(which implies Steam Deck as well). The PC/Steam Deck version supports mods, which is better than Switch anyway.
How do you know it got flagged by a mod? Users with 500+ karma can flag posts, and if enough of them do that, then it automatically drops off the page. No moderator action is required.
Wish someone could create a tracker for how many coding hours were spent porting PC based management simulation games to handheld systems in order to drive more revenue.
The usual arithmetic conversions linked from the article [0] are a bit different from the ones I know.
In particular, if int can represent all values of all operands, both of them will be converted to int.

Thus comparing unsigned short and short will usually (if short is narrower than int) do the right thing. C++Insights (which I didn't know! This is the real pearl of this article.) agrees with me [1].

[0] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/operator_arithmet...

[1] https://cppinsights.io/lnk?code=I2luY2x1ZGUgPGNzdGRpbz4KCmlu...
Nobody looks like they are going to lose their livelihood over this:

https://blog.patreon.com/a-note-from-jack

3 months' of pay + longer depending on tenure at the company. Healthcare until the end of the year. Mental care up to 6 months. They contracted a placement company to place the laid off staff to other companies in the sector. A lot of those people will already get hooked up by a company within a week or so, even without the placement company being able to take action.

This looks as decent as layoffs go.
Here's a message from the medical board when a covered entity disclosed my information to law enforcement:

>As a detainee of the CBP under the suspicion of drug trafficking, you are subject to search (external and internal). Nurse *** was performing her duties as a nurse of a detainee under the jurisdiction of the Border Patrol (CBP) and therefore not a violation of the Nurse Practice Act

That is, if you are merely detained by police (no court order, warrant, or arrest needed) any act a medical professional performs is automatically unreproachable and considered "under the jurisdiction" of the police rather than the medical care provider. Per my correspondence with the board merely being detained allows them to do whatever they like, including touching you to initiate medical care, without your consent and then share it. This is not my legal opinion but the actual response of the board in my state.

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>That has absolutely nothing in common with this scenario. Nobody detained this woman to collect DNA samples, she volunteered it. And we're talking about HIPAA not the Nurse Practice Act.

This is so far off base I think you must be trolling. Releasing patient information to police has everything to do with HIPAA. "External and internal search" has everything to do with extracting DNA from a patient. The Nurse Practice Acts typically enable boards to punish for improper violations of patient confidentiality, they needn't use the word HIPAA instead of NPA to cover activity protected by HIPAA. Surely the circumstances are not the same, but then again I never said they were. Your statement 'nothing in common' is clearly patently wrong to the point I can only guess it is a purely inflammatory statement.

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>This person voluntarily gave the police that DNA in 2016.

First of all -- I haven't made a claim that it wasn't voluntary. But now you've made the claim it is. This is quite possibly the case, but can you cite where she voluntarily gave it to police, and that she was never detained (which per my correspondence with board, merely her being detained at some point would authorize medical professionals to basically do whatever they like).

If it is the way my state's board has told me, I could voluntarily go to the police, voluntarily have the hospital dna test me and then the officer could briefly 'detain' me as a witness and then take the DNA without my consent. From the article here it's not clear to me how this played out.

>"Nobody detained this woman"

The issue based on my correspondence with the board is that they merely could detain her at any arbitrary time in the future and then whatever a medical professional does at that point, including giving up a DNA sample, would be unreproachable. Not legal advice again, just what my board has told me.
And just like that I cancelled my stream deck order.
You know you spend/have spent too much time on Blind when you immediately think "TC" means "total compensation."
My suspicion (not in a negative way as I'm Christian as well) is that the function was named so because of Larry's faith.
Switch feels like such an interesting platform: not the most powerful out there, not by a long shot, but still has lots of great games on it, perhaps proving that graphics aren't quite everything. At the same time, with some clever optimization, there indeed are great looking games out there as well, in addition to lots of different ones being ported to it!

I wonder for how long Switch will remain as a popular platform and a part of me hopes for games that could run in a lower graphics mode for Switch in the future and a higher quality mode for Switch 2 or whatever might come after.

Personally, I just wonder why something like Genshin Impact isn't on Switch yet, because it seems like a great game for a platform like it!

Oh, and also why Nintendo treats the console IP like others do: where you can't just do export from game engines like Godot for it, like you can with desktop computers/phones, but instead have to go the proprietary route.
It kinda depends on what kind of aircraft you want to fly.

Thrustmaster t16000m is more geared towards military aircrafts.

If you want to fly Airbus, TCA Officer Pack Airbus Edition (which under the hood is the t16000m) is very good and works well with FS2020's Airbus A320 (even better with the free FlyByWire A320 mod)

If you want to fly general aviation aircrafts, the Logitech Yoke is pretty good. The Honeycomb Aviation stuff is much better but cost double your budget.
Lisp Is a Chameleon
Thanks for the reminder. I was a subscriber for a few years and then I stopped when I hit a long time crunch with no time to read much news. I just subscribed now that I feel I have some leisure time again for this and HN in general.
The stickiest feature for me is Facebook groups. I go to Facebook to see what the people who share my interests are up to, where the next group bike ride is, etc. The recommended content (read: auto-playing reels) just distracts from that and literally any other content / media I'd rather be consuming. I'm really bummed that the platform is trending towards being a Tik-tok clone.

I remember at some point there were a bunch of Facebook ads about how it was a great platform for groups. What happened to that focus?

e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88mIXSdF7nw
People who weren't elderly or didn't have significant co-morbidities rarely ended up in the hospital for COVID. Thus the "flatten the curve" argument doesn't make sense for that population.

This is the basis of Bhattacharya's thesis: focus the isolation efforts on the elderly people who actually end up in hospitals when they get infected, not just blindly applying lockdowns across all of society.
He said the same thing last year lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV-3GgU6rlo

It seems to be what most CEO are saying lately.
i also keep getting the "you broke reddit" screen (even though it's a 503 so actually reddit broke it, but blaming it on the users?) on old.reddit.com but works on new.reddit.com

is this reddit's not-so-subtle way to stop people from using old.reddit?
When tightly controlled, Rust compilation times are quite good. Without attention it can bloat tremendously with proc macros and excessive generics (turn them into dyns!), but it's totally manageable. Depending on your corners of the ecosystem, your default experience could be a few orders of magnitude better or worse than someone else's.
> Cryptic names are horrible. It's a layer of cognitive overhead that no one needs

I disagree with that. Cryptic names can become jargon, and jargon is useful in expert teams. At my last job we had a service whose role was to convert operations from system A to system B so at first we named it systemAOperationsToSystemBOperations. The name was clear but it was a pain in the ass to talk about it. We renamed it adios as a shorter name (irks like a fake acronym of the initial name) and it became way easier to talk and reason about our system. We lose a few minutes once in a while to remind juniors what adios does but we gain an efficient name to discuss the service day to day.
It's _A_ truth, but it's a truth that is inextricably intertwined with a certain context. If your software components are services running in the backend of a large web service company, then their purpose is likely to mutate as time goes on. In that paradigm, I totally believe it tends to be true that you're better off giving up from the beginning and just choosing unique names from the get-go. Your system is more like an ecosystem of organisms that will grow and adapt.

But in OTHER contexts, your software components might be more like organs. If the heart has also become responsible for digestion, then it indicates your system design needs to be revisited. In lots of software projects, this is not an untenable proposition, such as it presumably is in a web service company.

As somebody who works in one of those other contexts, it's important to me that the web service monoculture be correctly contextualized. Otherwise you have people cargo culting it in situations where the wisdom no longer applies. That's probably why I'm being so bitter. :(
That the drugs work in very different ways so we shouldn't assume they have the same intoxication profile? I feel like that's basic knowledge.

For where I say we're looking at general purpose vs. driving-specific, that just seems to me like the most reasonable statement they would have been making.
Thank you for sharing this! I realized it was really hard to verbalize what I wanted from Stable Diffusion, so will be trying some of these and see what it comes up with.
I'm actually much more likely to buy a game on Steam for $9.99 than for $0. The former game probably costs $9.99, while the latter will either turn out to be a casino in disguise or a second job.

And I'm also extremely wary of any price point below $5. At that level, it's less likely that the game is just cheap, and more likely that it's a barely-playable asset flip. So is $9.99 a fair price for a game that's actually free? Maybe it's a little expensive, but it's not ridiculously so.
If you knew how much some of those people who are doing 'remote jobs' on Only Fans, Patreon now...
Even better cockatoo action: when they decide to be a dog and run around barking
> Unfortunately, all libraries that abstract concurrency on an application-level break the ability to get meaningful stack traces.

This is completely false. Years ago we (7mind) added async stack traces to ZIO. Now both Cats and ZIO support them.
Only if they are criminals?