skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started making games right after I joined my university. Those were simple flash-like games with simple gameplay and basic UI/UX. Fast forward 10 years; I started a game studio and we’re a team of 50+ but still making really simple games for mobile. Not that we didn’t try making “huge” games but constantly creating new games and publishing them and seeing them succeed is what it takes to keep making games. As an indie developer, you’ll probably make a dozen or more games before people actually play one of your games. It’s a long battle but making many simple games is more important than trying to make a blockbuster in the first try.
I think the bigger concern is that distinguishing the terms here is more interesting.
Yeah, I so love not being able to buy a car or a graphics card / going through shady resellers rather than just paying more at a reputable place. Makes me really appreciate the brand.
I'd go for "resource recovery technician" myself :)
Thats not quite true, unless the 3060 Ti counts as a high end card I guess. It was easily the most popular mining card of the 3000 generation, due its excellent MH/Watt compared to the others? And previous to that, the mid-range 5700 from AMD was the best, to the point where you could sell your 5700 to a miner and buy a new 6700 and have cash left over at some points.
Sell your home without missing out on its future worth
Why mobile app environments is practically dominated by Android and iOS?
I think before 2010, mobile app environments were more diverse: we had Windows Phone/Mobile, BlackBerry, Symbian, Palm.

Now practically all we have are android iOS and Android. Some others players joined the competition, and they are either:

- Defunct (like Bada, OpenMoko, Firefox OS etc), or

- Exists in smallish niche (like Kindle, Tizen, PureOS, etc)

I like to see more (preferrably FOSS) significant competitors, but I guess that would be very hard if you are not backed up by big companies?
Probably? What language is this thing written in? Lemme go see if it's something I know anything about. I'm normally a Python guy (and sometimes a little bit of Javascript here and there).

Okay, question; Is there a link anywhere to a repository or is this thing not open source?
No, obviously it’s “somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds.” [0] /s

[0] - https://www.engadget.com/2016-09-30-wanted-one-400-lb-hacker...
>Blaming technology for obviating business models is not a valid complaint.

But where your value proposition is created by code your code defines your business model to a critical extent.
Another option for this is https://decentraleyes.org/
I do a form of this when I want to learn a new codebase. I force myself to write out on paper every class/datamember/method declaration in the file and give a one line summary of what I think it does, as well as I can from the code itself. I am often completely wrong about what the function does but still get huge benefits in understanding the scope of the whole thing.
It was a pragmatic necessity for Ukraine's government to allow them to fight once they were created because of the size differential. Ukraine's government didn't create them.
You can also use Chrome policies to block them. I love using Chrome policies to manage my system-wide settings.
I just got the email for an old account too. Most of the links in the email don't even work anymore.
LowEndTalk webhosts providing ample time to migrate compared to the DigitalOcean, Linode and Colocrossings of the world? Color me not surprised.

It just feels low effort that Null never tried using common carriers rather than unregulated companies to provide Internet access. Many other terrible sites spreading fake news (and losing lawsuits over said fraud) bilking people out of $$$$ use common carriers rather than unregulated hosting companies.
Im doing software engineering now, but did my undergraduate in ECE.
ECE is quite broad. It covers signals & systems, electricity and magnetism, basic circuits, embedded devices, to name a few.
What area are you interested in?

Its going to be hard to learn all without a degree, but pick a subarea.
How low area are you considering?
Embedded shouldn't be a giant transition. Fabricating transitors is a whole other level
If you’ve ever advertised on Twitter, you know a dark reality most people are unaware of.

Most of the clicks are fake.

Not some of the clicks. Not many. A vast MAJORITY of the clicks are fake.

I’m talking 0 time on site, 95% bounce rate. Many are from SouthEast Asia.

It’s so bad that you’ll question why you’re even spending the $$, but it’s hard to convey this to the higher ups demanding a “we need a Twitter branding campaign because reasons.”

Source: I’ve managed Twitter PPC for almost a decade.
I'm afraid I can't give any credence to a politically divisive & politically-fashionable concept as "toxic masculinity". Especially if "toxic femininity" isn't commonly referenced in the same context-- because without it, a concept targeting only masculinity is biased in my view.

Masculinity kept humanity alive in the face of various dangerous precipices facing a group of social animals seeking to survive during the course of their evolution.

Just because it has become recently politically fashionable to discount it, does not mean it is harmful.

Nor do I believe any absolute-ist interpretation that boys suppress emotions, or that society forces them to suppress emotions. It varies across time & space-- relative to culture, which fluctuates.

To make a blanket statement on the concept is just plain silly, in my view. Human emotions, cultures, and societies are not static.

Therefore any sort of claim by any institution that their <some number> of years of study results in <some outcome> which speaks for <some absolute phenomena> in my opinion, again, is just plain silly.

And it attempts to gatekeep healthy masculinity-- again, pure silliness which demonstrates the nanny mentality of those who attempt such gatekeeping.
“often the state government” does not mean “always.” And I’m not sure how the value of the curb cut fits into the quote and your reply. Can you provide more details?
+1 - curious
China’s Discovery of Lunar Mineral Could Add to Fuller View of the Moon
“We” in your statement is the business community. Developers are craftsmen, and I don’t think I know a single one personally that values speed over quality. It’s the businessman that don’t want to pay for quality, rather the minimum to turn a buck. The bottom line. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it is a bad culture to embrace. There’s a reason Toyota is the number one car manufacturer in the world today. And it wasn’t from bean counting and focusing solely on the bottom line as these western so-called business geniuses embrace.
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Comparing my decision to not learn a specific technology in my free time because a very vocal subset of its community is off putting to COVID tells me two things. 1. Using such a false equivalency means you have no actual argument against my decision making strategy, 2. You're likely part of the subset.
How is it taking away prompt engineering? Prompts still have to be written.
That comes from "huevón", which is... really hard to explain in English. The Argentine "boludo" and "pelotudo" are in the same vein, and mean roughly the same non-sensical thing.

I'm not sure if the etymology is that an egg ("huevo") looks like a zero, so a dumb person or a loser is a "huevo" (an egg, meaning a zero) or "huevón" (huge zero), or if it has to do with testicles (because in Spanish it's common to call them eggs), so a "huevón" might someone who's "as dumb as a giant testicle". "Boludo" and "pelotudo" are more like the latter, for sure, though they could still derived from zero looking like a ball.

> The "w" sound keeps repeating in the themes here, interesting.

In weón it's really just a slight change from huevón, and mostly just dropping the 'v'.
sure, although in the context of a "command line only" game, using a daemon feels a little bit like cheating :-)

Ok, so... a cmd line game:

* receives as input plaintext (the cmd line to be parsed)

* outputs plaintext in some format, perhaps just colorless text, but I imagine it could output something more interesting too
(JSON? SVG? Dotfiles? As long as it can be printed as plaintext or ANSI text! It is also possible to read, say, Dotfiles without rendering them, so ...)

* is not necessarily stateless (requiring the use of file or cookies to save state between runs), it can also make use of a daemon if necessary.

It my mind, the smaller the state that the game needs to run, the more impressive the game would be (assuming it manages to be a fun game, as opposed to some sort of technical demonstration).
Coups need weapons, you know. Preferably tons of them, and generally involve fun activities like killing or summarily imprisoning your political opponents.

Somehow a huge swarm of a generally armed demographic left their guns at home when attempting a 'coup'.

Or maybe they just went to protest what they thought to be a wrongful state of affairs, and the situation devolved into a riot. Who knows. Maybe you can pull off a coup against the United States with selfie sticks instead of F15s.
At a commercial level (megawatts), power companies absolutely get to pick the price.
US will lose China tech war if 5G, AI, microchip ‘core’ fronts are not fortified
The books I tend to listen to share two things in common: they are in English, and they don't have large code samples. I don't doubt that there are excellent non-fiction books with source code - heck, probably some fiction as well - but listening at any speed sounds like something I wouldn't do unless my eyes were disabled.

In addition to (good) earbuds and practice listening at higher speeds, I suspect that not all pitch correction algos are created equal. If you are simply speeding up audio without correcting for pitch, it's going to sound like a cartoon even at 1.25x.

However, the main thing is concentration. I do not perceive that the words are sped up, because I am very actively listening to it while doing wrote, repetitive things. I have to stop the audio if I'm doing anything that requires any attention, computation or decision making whatsoever.

Cooking soup? No problem. Following a recipe? NOPE. Picking up vegetables? Sure. Reading ingredients? Not a chance. Biking on a path? Sure. Driving? Not a chance.
Here, consider watching MIT's edx course on game design [0]. I found it a good overview of many aspects and a reminder that board games (paper prototypes) can play a role in designing a game. I'm assuming you've already watched Extra Credits videos [1] about beginning.

[0] https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-game-design

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5C6QC36h5eA...
If your bank uses phone for 2FA (say OTP via SMS or whatever else), but you have no bank login, now attacker have to hack your PC (to get bank account login) AND phone (to get access to 2FA). So not having your 2FA source in same place as your password would be meaningfully more secure
As someone who loves Indian food, I'd also be interested in naan boxing.
It depends on the game. Some games AMD cards blow Nvidia cards (of the same "tier") away, some it's the opposite. The GP commenter who said they "suck" is incredibly wrong. I can't understand people who fan-boy over giant corporations.
no risk either if they don't return favors?
I think IF games are solidly "command line games" - it is a game that you interact with entirely through commands you type at a... line...

Games you play at "the command line" - or, as the article puts it, "expansive and impressive games that you can run entirely in your Linux shell," is an interesting notion. I'm generally a big fan of decomposing actions out of applications into individual commands run at the shell; I had not applied the same to games.

You could run the game itself in a long running process, talking through (unix?) sockets that the individual commands know how to find. Polling in PROMPT_COMMAND could make it sufficiently interactive for some measure of real-time.
Traditionally, 23" racks are for batteries and behemoth class network gear chassis.
If widely sanctioned instead of largely banned, insider trading by company leaders and decisionmakers. The leaders would be incentivized to make decisions that preference their own interests rather than the interests of the company as a whole. Putting gypsum in with the flour to report better margins, that sort of thing.

I think that that ownership by a diverse group of non-insiders is preferable to consolidating the control over huge individual insider shareholders, for two reasons:

- That ordinary citizens can be shareholders of companies, and so won't make decisions against their own interests.

- That large groups tend to be more ethically moderated (in the nuclear physics sense: slowed down from snap decisions) and less likely to become cynically corrupt than individuals.

Now, big groups still do those things all the time, but the idea is that, for a few reasons (e.g. people don't corrupt at the same rates, so the unless the group shifts all at once they'll identify the people that become corrupt as interlopers and outgroup them), it's still better than taking the chance on an individual.
This is what he’s referring to from Gary Halbert (at least one of the more famous examples of Gary telling students to write out ads)

https://www.thegaryhalbertletter.com/
Interesting story. Could you comment on the economics of running such a studio, which seems to be relying on casual gaming. A bit of insight into the market as well.

Really curious.
This looks really cool, love seeing more innovation in this space!

At first glance this seems to be mostly targeted towards single-user apps where each user would have their own database that can be sync'ed to a remote server, but still isolated from data for other users, similar to the CouchDB+PouchDB model?

At least it looks that way since I couldn't see anything around authorization and conflict resolution. Not that there's anything wrong with focusing on this use case, a lot of apps can function perfectly fine this way.

A few other interesting new players that use an optimistic local update + server validated mutation model to support collaboration:

https://replicache.dev/

https://clientdb.dev/
Well Nato did bomb Serbia because they were genociding the Albanians so I am not surprised they are anti nato.
Dude you’d have to be at the very minimum obtuse to not see why this is a bad thing. At the maximum, malicious.
Perhaps there’s a Nigerian community in Florida you could spend time in?
This feature is built-in in Orion browser.
So you don't ever take advantage of an ICE? Fly a plane? Drive a car? Nor do you ever get a delivery to your house.

In other words, those things work because you directly or even indirectly support the system which causes those sorts of catastrophes to happen.
The absence of info can’t be “additional” info. It’s a differentiating factor, but at best it’s on par with any other single info you would have sent through the font fetching request.

Arguably that single boolean characteristic (“fonts disabled”) is way less info than the dozens of characteristics you expose when fetching a font.
Accountable to employees and not "the invisible hand of the market" nor shareholders.
Want to say I've had good luck with rEFInd in my simple use cases, and the author Rod Smith is very active and helpful on the Stack Exchanges, if one runs into issues. His website is also one of the "last few" simple, content-oriented sites around. Thanks Rod.
This makes about as much sense as cancelling Arrested Development and Firefly.

While I'm confident that there are other earbuds, I'm tempted to hit eBay right now to pick up a spare set. They are that good.
I would say there is a lot of creativity involved when you play multiplayer games. It is a mix of strategy and decision making depending on the context of a situation that layers on top of gameplay mechanics.
'an emulator' isn't very specific, but have you tried DeSmuME? I think it's pretty much the most polished DS emulator out there at the moment.
10 billion RISC-V cores were shipped last year - mostly you wont see them because they're heavily embedded - in disk drives/etc - used to be every flash drive had an ARM core in it and paid a few pennies to ARM, that's likely to change quickly
Weird. Expected this to be a 404
This is a solid book. It isn’t even really about game programming, it’s more about data structures and code organization IMO. Someday I need to post my Ultimate Programming Book list - this will be on it.
An amateur space telescope, I started it as a COVID lockdown hobby project. It’s like a much nerdier “build my own car” sort of project at this point. I’m trying to get it ready for when reusable launch vehicles lower the cost of launching to orbit to a suitable level it won’t bankrupt me. Surprisingly the most difficult thing is communicating to the ground. Not batteries, not imaging, not structural engineering… communication!

It’s an absolute nightmare of paperwork and massively expensive fees and hardware. Communication systems and related fees may end up being more than 50% of the entire cost, it used to be over 75% but I gave up and decided to just make the entire thing bigger and more expensive because of how ludicrous it seemed to build a $10k cubesat and spend $135k just to get a permit to communicate with it!

It’s been a fascinating and rewarding endeavour but don’t get me started on how much I hate radio regulations and export control (ITAR) … I’ve had multiple business ideas along the way from all this learning but have done nothing about them because I quickly realised that I’m in the rare realm of needing a legal-expertise cofounder due to how insane these regulations are. I’ve honestly been told by some companies that telling me how much something costs to buy is both a trade secret requiring an NDA and that I’ll need to submit appropriate ITAR paperwork before they can even send me the NDA because if other people knew how much it cost that would be materially aiding efforts to reverse engineer such devices in circumvention of export controls… this is the insane world of aerospace engineering outside of academic projects and big defence subcontractors.

Still working on it though… it’s not like I’m in a rush, launch costs won’t come down for a while, likely 5 years once a couple more fully reusable launchers are competing with SpaceX’s Starship. Plenty of time to find solutions to these kinds of problems, like how I have to use software defined radio to build my own GPS unit since all commercial GPS units have speed and altitude lock outs to prevent use in guided missiles and military jets.
I think we're wired to do this with all sorts of things. I used to spin coins in a makeshift arena to see who would emerge as the over-all winner after multiple rounds. And I recall Lister in Red Dwarf blowing bubblegum bubbles: "ten and three quarters! Plus five for not breaking. The Browns are going to have to do something quite sensational with their last bubble..."

Interestingly, I think that in conkers the player doing the hitting is rather more likely to break the other person's conker, rather than have their's broken, unlike what he says with the eggs. I wonder if it has something to do with where the collision happens on the conker.
> they're using what's called a metaphor

It isn't a metaphor, it is, in the words of Zizek, pure ideology.
"Was there racial discrimination by the HOLC? Maybe."

Yeah. Ok. They literally cited the presence of racial covenants in neighborhoods as a reason to rate them more highly. There are HOLC maps that reference neighborhoods as "threatened by negro encroachment".

How do you expect anyone to take you seriously with this stuff?
> memcpy from bytes to a NaN should work fine

Signaling NaNs are explicitly undefined in C11 F.2.1.: "This specification does not define the behavior of signaling NaNs." - and in practice may be "quieted" by conversion to Quiet NaNs, changing their bit patterns, or may trigger actual signals. Fast math optimization flags will also break the hell out of your code by assuming NaNs are impossible. I want to say there are more circumstances where optimizers and compiler generated code can butcher your NaN payloads, but I'd be working off recollected hearsay and I can't find a source, so don't quote me on that.

NaN boxing is common enough that, if you take the right precautions, a modern compiler should probably support it, maybe. NaN boxing is uncommon enough that, if your codebase needs to be sufficiently portable, you need an opt out for when it breaks. Let's review duktape's scars:

https://github.com/svaarala/duktape/blob/123d9426d5e5b36d5da...

https://github.com/svaarala/duktape/blob/5252b7a50611a3cb8bf...

https://github.com/svaarala/duktape/blob/224a0b89ca08a36e37e...

(for context, a "packed" duk_tval involves NaN boxing)

Note that "the right precautions" involve unions and proper integer types to avoid optimizer-invoked rewrites of the value and debugging when things go wrong, not simply YOLOing bytes into a double via memcpy. Note that debugging when it all goes terribly wrong can be quite painful. I've personally had the misfortune of being forced to debug duktape being built with fast math optimizatoins enabled on one "rare" platform + build configuration that wasn't caught by duktape's #if defined(__FAST_MATH__) checks linked above (wasn't Clang nor GCC, so go figure it didn't make the same #define)
Replicant number zero. This research is terrifying to me because life is never within our control.

What kind of life is it if a mouse or human is reproduced without parents.
Can someone think of a single company that has a positive relationship with Nvidia? They were laughed out of the CPU industry when they tried to buy ARM, virtually nobody wanted them to close that deal. They're such a bizarre company, I mean I've bought several GPUs simply because they were usually the best available when I was looking but most loyalty belongs to the AIB's and not to Nvidia themselves. They're kind of this weird entity that many want but nobody likes.

My guess is that Nvidia, realizing they represent 80% of EVGA's revenue tried to get them to sign a very one sided contract and now they're down one of their biggest AIB's on the eve of their latest GPU launch.

Indeed I think there must be some pretty bad blood here between Nvidia and EVGA leadership.
No, it isn't better. There is no such knowledge whether it is better to invest $100k today or $10k per month over the next ten months.

There is historical data showing that in 2/3 cases, lump sum is better. That says exactly nothing about which will be better today or tomorrow. The future is unknown.
That’s very cool! I was a developer on the MMO “Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising”. Two years after the company cratered in 2008, another company bought the game code and pushed it across the finish line and launched it themselves. So it can be done!
Look, this is an unfortunate experience, but I'm going to give you a wake up call: ML support has literally zero relevance in consumer GPU trends.

The idea that EVGA would make this the reason they don't work with AMD is laughable.

This would be like me claiming that NVIDIA's subpar Linux support is why Sapphire only works with AMD.
Bill was recently found!

https://www.crossville-chronicle.com/news/glade_sun/enjoying...
You'll be buying cheaper and cheaper as rates increase. Much better than buying lump sum today.
I think a lot of the time that's basically synecdoche and unobjectionable. Other times it's confusion and that matters when it matters, outside of which it can be nice to clarify... if it can be done respectfully.

In this case, though, it's writing in The Linux Journal, and it appears to be promising something it's failing to deliver.
According to this[1] when you dig into these deals the "savior of crypto" thing is mostly spin.

This submission seems like a PR piece for SBF / FTX.

1. https://protos.com/heres-why-sam-bankman-fried-is-not-the-jp...