skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'll be interesting to see what kind of innovations Rockstar is able to come up with for the next GTA, nothing stands out to me from these development leaks.

The problem with GTA is that it's a fairly shallow game, which limits what kind of immersion you can experience. Imagine if it included more realistic elements like economics and persistent characters. You could decide you have a vendetta against Bob and steal his cheese every time he goes out shopping for groceries. Heck, you could become the cheese kingpin and monopolize access to cheese. Although a more thematic approach would probably have to do with drugs, which doesn't seem like too far of a bridge to jump considering the game genre.
GTA 6 is likely still years from release, it is still "early" when it comes to graphical polish.
Very enjoyable and well done, but not "new". This effectively the same as push maze, with non contiguous rule sets.
The book Crucial Conversations is quite good and deals with this. The author says to avoid the "Fool's Choice", which is "I can be honest or maintain a good relationship, but not both". The author's own one-sentence summary is "be 100% honest, and 100% respectful". Stated like that, I realized I could be honest in a smart way and not damage my relationships. Of course, sometimes we still end up not getting our way. I recommend this book.

I've also realized I should avoid any extraordinary efforts to "cover my ass" against abusive leaders. If they're going to be abusive, I don't need an ironclad defense to rub their noses in, I just need to get out. And I need not feel ashamed of not having that ironclad defense nor of reacting poorly to their aggression; like anyone abused by those in a position of power, I'm not at fault and need not be ashamed. Decent people will accept "we talked about this last month and you said..." just as well as they'll accept a written paper trail. This isn't to say never document things, but don't do it as a crutch for bad leaders; don't obsess about it, you shouldn't have to use it as a coping mechanism.
Yeah, you prefer the forced fake-friendlyness of anglo countries, most of us actually do not want that. And yes, I have lived in other countries.
This is not an endorsement of what Joel says but his take is the polar opposite to yours: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-pr...

Lawsuits are expensive and will probably kill your business or time to work on your business either way.
> Above reasoning is in line with why companies don't search for existing patents when developing new technologies. If they search for prior work and are found guilty of infringement, that's considered willful infringement, in which case damages are tripled.

The (US) patent system is so fucked up (granted you're talking about the US), where if you try to lookup patents, you might be fucked. If you don't try to lookup patents, you might be fucked as well. Damned if you do, damned if you don't
> Hoarding is a compulsive disorder that is irrespective of someone's capacity to manage their objects. It's someone who cannot stop acquiring and cannot manage their own collection of items, not even long enough to organize their space or their collected objects.

That makes a lot of sense.

My mom collects records, and she will buy the same record two or three times, and will not care if she ever has time to listen to them. For her, the pleasure of discovery and acquisition is what matters.

In her case, her records fit nicely on one giant wall. But her only limit is how many records she can drag home at once.
Everyone in the comments seem to hate cursive but I actually like it. Not reading other people cursive, but nothing matches the fastness of cursive for writing down rapid thoughts. Sometimes I need to write something very fast and scribbled, even if it won't be readable by anyone one else.
I was not accused of anything. The system randomly selected my transaction for a check. The employee performing the check didn’t make me feel accused at all at any time either, she was very nice and clearly would have rather been doing something else in fact.

I’ve been using this system frequently for years and had to go through this check exactly once.
"These sorts" I guess you mean "insect eating" articles, which, hahaha, I have to say I rarely see, but OK (maybe that's my own sort of...not cultural blindness--we're from the same culture probably--but media-diet blindness? I just don't see a lot of those articles).

So you are suggesting these are the work of PR firms. I mean, maybe... like a corporate PR strategy to slowly normalize the eating of insects? Like I get the "insect meat enviro activism" angle, but I think it's possible to see this article as something that exists without that, independently of that.

I mean, it is kind of a culture-blind doubling-down to be so blind to the fact that other people (real people, not stock images in advertising campaigns) eat insects around the world...that you see any emanation of stories about these as part of a concerted PR strategy. Because maybe that fits your cultural-bias that "this stuff doesn't really happen so if we see it it has to be a corporate profit motive", right?

I mean, why can't it just be a story about another culture and what they do? Why need to get all judgey and like "from only your perspective thou shalt speak the truth" about it?

Personally I don't get the strong "immune" reactions I see here. Is it a sublimated expression of the visceral (but probably culturally relative) revulsion? Or like where is this coming from for you?

Like why can't it just be a story, why does it have to be propaganda for something? I'm curious. Please relate what's there for you, if you want! :P ;) xx ;p
You appear to be making normative statements based on your own experience. Not everyone benefits from exposure therapy.
Projekt CD always had buggy releases, remember how The Witcher 3 was at release?

In comparison, last big release Rockstar had was Red Dead Redemption 2, and I don't think anyone would call that game rushed in any way, it was very polished at launch.
>Tangentially, it also reminds me of going back to the UK last week to visit a conference. The trains were just so much different to those in Germany, even the crappy "Stansted Express", those here in Germany feel very utilitarian and unfriendly (particularly the Deutsche Bahn "Bombardier Double-deck Coach") while in the UK similarly priced train services are more explicitly friendly and caring in their design.

The friendliest thing a train can do is bloody show up on time, which National Rail seems to have had a problem with lately.
The Narrative Takeover section is lazy thinking and lazy writing. Nearly every sentence is a claim made in thin air, devoid of practical guidance.

So much advice about communication is couched in the language of victimhood vs unspecified aggressions. That’s fine for memes on LinkedIn, maybe. We should expect more from someone who studies psychology for a living.

No one should say “It’s not about me.” It’s always, for you, about you, first. You judge yourself, position yourself, posture yourself, plan your next move, on and on relentlessly. You must do this. Even the author of this piece wrote it for her own needs, first, and expressed a philosophy that makes her feel better.

Conversation is an exchange. When someone points a finger at a supposed “takeover,” that in and of itself, is attempt at a takeover. EVERY utterance can be interpreted as a takeover if you choose to see it that way. Or instead of takeover you can see it differently: as energy flow. Sometimes I talk to a friend who needs me to hear him. He indicates this by talking without stopping. He hasn’t “taken over,” though. He has signaled his need and I can choose to accept it or make a counter proposal of my own need.

A better way to have written about this would be for the author to stop blaming people for wanting to share anecdotes and connect in that way (which IS a kind of empathizing, regardless of what she claims). Instead, simply say “if you don’t make room to hear quiet narratives from ambivalent or timid people, then you may never hear them. If you care about these people, consider how your behavior might be disabling them.” In other words, it is all about me, and I am playing a First-Person Talker game as I live my life. So if I want be safe and happy I better do things that encourage the people my happiness depends upon to open up to me.

That is my choice, and it is a pragmatic choice, not a moral one. No moral order requires me to self-censor my voice, because if that were true then we would have to say that anyone who ever spoke up in a conversation was committing a sin, since anyone who breaks the silence has blocked others from talking.

I went on a date with a woman in 1991. I talked constantly. She seemed reluctant to say anything. We were married a few weeks later. I am still married to her 31 years later. After we were married she helped me learn how to make quiet space for her to share her thoughts with me. I do this because I choose for her to be happy; because it’s all about my own safety and happiness, which comes through her.
It's few months o'clock already - we haven't learned much since the conflict has started. Why the next few months would make a difference?
This is a huge powergrab by our industry - it is the only industry in the world that gets both patent and copyright protection. Think about it, you can patent a car engine, but you cannot get copyright on it. You get copyright on a book, but you can't patent a book.

Also that's mostly US. By contrast, in Europe, software is generally not patentable.
> Twitter can't ban them though.

People should be able to opt into a variety of filters, some even provided by third parties, to clean their feed according to their views. That won't cause an issue with the senders as the receivers are entitled to filter what they read. People can have control but Twitter can't dictate.
That does look like technical bankruptcy, however rewrites of large projects almost always fail (especially without management buy-in and feature-freezes)

A strategy you can use is to incorporate any refactor into the estimates for a "new feature" development with the idea being that if you have to touch this part of the codebase that it gets refactored.

In this case since there's no framework I suggest to have a framework gradually take over the functionality of the monolith and the fact all the routes are in nginx will actually help you here because you can just redirect the route to the new framework when the functionality is refactored and ported into the new framework.

Do not refactor the database as interoperability between the legacy project and the new project can fail although migrations should be executed in the new project.

What I do suggest is to get development, staging, pre-production and production environments going because you will have to write a lot of pure selenium tests to validate that you didn't break important features and that you did correctly recreate/support the expected functionality.

You can run these validation tests against a pre-production environment with a copy of production. This also gives you feedback if your migrations worked.

On the team, that's the hard part. If they walk out on you, you will lose all context of how this thing worked.

As precaution, get them to record a lot of video walkthroughs of the code as documentation and keep them on maintaining the old project while you educate them on how to work in the new system. The video walkthroughs will be around forever and is a good training base for new senior devs you bring in.

Last, make sure you have good analytics (amplitude for example) so you know which features are actually used. Features that nobody uses can just be deleted.

Over time, you will have ported all the functionality that mattered to the new project and feature development in the new project will go much faster (balancing out the time lost refactoring).

A business making 20 million/year should be able to afford a proper dev-team though, what are they doing with all that money?

You should be able to get budget for a team of 5 seniors and leave the juniors on maintenance of the old system.
It depends on how you use passwords and TOTP. I think the expectation is that busy people have a generator on their phone so it is know your password and have your phone.

Of course if you are like me and keep your TOTP secret in your password manager than it is basically the same factor as a password.
This is definitely true but honestly I'd love more websites to switch everything around and use a password for the optional second factor.

Many messenger apps already do something like this (using your phone numbers as a first factor and using an optional password for account protection) and IMO the login flow is much easier for services that I don't care about.

Let me register and login with WebAuthn alone and I'll be very happy. You can even use the same logic you're already using for password resets, just re-enroll the FIDO key when someone clicks "I can't log in" and proces access to their email account. Immune to credential stuffing and many other digital attacks that can happen from the other side of the world while you're asleep!
People on twitter are already sharing Linkedin profiles of employees connected to the recorded videos, asking for more or acting like they found the leaker. Which is absolutely idiotic since the video were stolen from Slack and the people who recorded them have nothing to do with the leak.
Took me about 2 minutes to figure out how to successfully move and quite a few more to fully solve it. A lot of fun!
The original version of the British form (Robot Wars) used to give an extra weight allowance to robots with legs, for the excitement factor. IIRC, it was abused by robots technically complying with lots of tiny "legs" that you couldn't actually see.
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> It'll be interesting to see what kind of innovations Rockstar is able to come up with for the next GTA, nothing stands out to me from these development leaks.

I just saw the video quickly, without viewing it all. But the added interaction menu (multiple choices, one was "Rob") seems like it'll add a lot of interactivity to the world. AI seems to have much more complex behavior as well, which would add even more "life-like" feel to the game and again, more interactivity.

But, this is a early development build, those could just be prototypes that won't make it into the final game. Certainly a lot of new features are also not shown in the video.

Don't think Rockstar would work and release a GTA that is just a minor improvement on the previous version, they always make leaps when it comes to quality of GTA releases.
> What makes a placea cesspool is not the position someone is taking, but how they are taking that position

Disagree. You can have a cesspool of civility (Stormfront users were (are? Is the site still up?) quite civil on their forums… as long as you didn’t admit to being a non-white immigrant for example).

You can also have something like TopMindsOfReddit, which is all sarcasm all the time, yet still empathetic and wholesome.
Hg64: A 64-bit histogram data structure
Hopefully it has a good single player mode. I have no interest in GTA online or any other online game for that matter. Gaming for me is about escape and immersion, not toxic interactions with others which is 90% of what I got when I tried GTA online.
Arm execs: We respect RISC-V but it's not a rival in the datacenter
My experience with visual scripting or coding is that it’s hard for more than one person to work on for anything other than a single screen of complexity. No git merge, so serial development. Hard to understand and tweak for anyone except the creator.
If this is by Conrad Barski (the Land of Lisp author), I wonder if early versions were done in Lisp and translated to JavaScript or whatever is needed for the web. Just curious how the development went.
So the robots that build panels or that take the panel and mount it into the ground?
> Not likely, but it does lead to cooler global temperatures which provides a temporary respite from global warming.

Indeed. The Niña episodes after 1998 were a big part of the denialists’ talking points about the end of global warming for the next decade.

> The last couple of years would have been way hotter if we were not experiencing la niña conditions.

Considering how 2022 is going, this is actually frightening because it means that the next couple of years are likely to be way worse.
I'd strongly advocate for what I call "The Boy Scout Campsite Approach to Code Improvement". Boy Scouts have a motto "Leave the Campsite Better than You Found It". What I'd do is:

* Pair program to teach people you work with that there is another way; they may simply not know any better.
* Make any code you touch better; new / old it doesn't make any difference. Do it right.
* Important: NEVER, EVER COMPROMISE ON THIS!!! Seriously you skip one time and it can all be downhill after that (sayeth the voice of regretted experience).
TF2 source code leaked somewhat recently i think. the guy didn't leak the source code (yet) this time though.

Other than that notin gaming i don't think
I was the same. I only realized they could occupy the same space at the end. It was kind of a fun realization, so the author might keep it that way. Although maybe use an easier puzzle to teach people this fact about the game.
And also starting by fixing the js/css/html front end is likely the safest, as it wont corrupt any customer data & it will be visible when something breaks. That can probably be the next best candidate to do a major overhaul. I'd also hope that a $20M/year project can afford to hire someone senior in addition to these 3 juniors?
Look up GTA V section on twitch. It is constantly in top 5 categories by viewers, some months of the year on par with Just Chatting (Real Life). All of that thanks to Rockstar ability to create realistic world and community Role Play servers.
Oh yeah, I had to reset once lol. It has to do with getting a couple of characters stuck in the arrow trap without being able to get someone on a tree to escape...I think
The UK "joined up" handwriting has the same letter forms as the keyboard I'm typing on.

I guess it's functional but less beautiful. Maybe not very traditional.
Which reqion and field? Trying to get a bearing how common this is.
I've also seen some very aggressive contracts, even for non-tech jobs in NZ and Canada. Default template contracts can be very aggressive in this sense.
Games let you pretend to do a terrorist attack. Twitter lets you plan to do one.
Others have said that, but I'd like to put emphasis on getting everything in source control. If other developers don't know about source control (!) they will love it. I'd spawn my own local source control solution for my own control and after a few changes, show them the advantages.

Second: making a change without tests is like walking in the dark without a flashlight. Having tests is a very important thing.

Read Working Effectively With Legacy Code", by "Michael Feathers, one of the best books I've read that really can help in situations like that. In summary, it boils down to having tests to aid your changes you need to make.
Prior to this the contract let the employer claim rights over all IP I created unless specifically exempted.

From this: https://www.russell-cooke.co.uk/insight/briefings/2020/intel...

"The general position under English law is that IP rights created by an employee within the course of employment automatically belong to the employer; where there is any doubt as to whether an employee or their employer owns IP rights, the relevant legislation largely favours employers."

"If material which includes IP rights is created outside office hours and/or using the employee’s private resources this may give rise to arguments that the rights belong to the employee rather than their employer, but that is not decisive. The fact that work is done outside normal working hours does not necessarily mean that the work is not done in the course of employment as, for many employees, there is often no clear demarcation of the hours of work."

"The key question to be asked is whether the work was the kind of work which the employee was employed to do i.e. whether it was within the scope of their employment. Could the employee have been ordered to do the work and would it have been a breach of contract for the employee to not do it? The terms of any contract of employment and job description will be relevant, however, these (and duties more generally) often evolve in the course of time and it may therefore not be appropriate to rely on them exclusively."

IANAL, but my reading of that is that if I wrote a novel about unicorns and rainbows, that wouldn't be owned by the company, but if I wrote software, it would.
If you don't learn to write cursive, don't be surprised when your vote gets discarded because your signature didn't match exactly with the scan on record.

https://www.aclu.org/news/voting-rights/signature-match-laws...
Hope so too, but online is such a cash cow for companies they often don't care much about the single player experience anymore
Big fish in a small pond.
It should be clear that the user you're replying to was using humor.
You have a great experience and did a great job indeed. My only question is how does one get 20 years of such experience without horrific flashbacks of “let’s just rewrite it” decisions. Do you do rewrites/redesigns often? What’s your success rate?
I don't deny he has range, but at the same time, it's hard to get way from the fact he is a stage actor playing a character that sounds and acts like a stage actor in almost every scene. He fits the role like a glove, and the role makes a lot of sense in the show (his dignity and gravitas is something that is arguably missing in the reboots and new takes on the show).
The idea is very surprising to me. I still semi regularly had to write a dozen pages for two hours exams a decade ago and I don’t see how I could have done that without writing somewhat fluidly. Print is very legible but it’s so slow.

Then again, I don’t understand how you can learn to properly write cursive without using Seyes paper and for a reason I can’t explain only France does that.
I'd love to see the formulation for this problem written out in proper form that can be fed to a solver like MiniZinc or CPLEX or whatever type of solver can handle it.
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In the very long term, and even then it was uncertain as the planet would be on a cooling trend right now. Even then, we’re talking about “glaciers might disappear in 10 000 years” versus “80% of alpine glaciers will be gone in a century”.
Ask HN: Should billionaires exist?
My girlfriend has always typed with 2 fingers and still types faster than me.

Touch typing is not necessary to type fast.
It has a full campaign, don’t worry.
You can still read and write printed script and cursive.

And if you had to do it for more than 3 days, your skills would be back.
Sweet excited for the abstract nightmares tonight where I’m asking myself about the deeper intrinsic connection between rabbits and trees and dogs and how it’s all a DAG and what do DAGs and dogs have in common besides three letters with a vowel in between

Really stoked
Also, we are currently in the beta stage, please bear with us if we are late to onboard you. We try to onboard as many users as possible every week!
I found that added systems, like survival stats, to Red Dead 2 distracted from the incredible story. I think I just want a mature, emotionally deep story from Rockstar games. GTA5 got a bit close, but RDR2 proved they’re fully capable of making a masterpiece story.