skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really feel like Esports should have been built up slowly around more first principles. Keep the overhead as low as possible in the beginning. You're just going to be losing money in the beginning so why not minimize that cost. Pay the players a liveable wage, and cover their expenses to travel to the venues. As they become more popular do paid meet and greets with fans. Raffles for merch as well as other video game paraphenalia (peripherals, consoles, games, computers etc), and start acquiring sponsors. Have a promotional Amazon link. Make YouTube videos documenting the process, and get the adsense.

The two main goals would be consistent placing at tournaments and breaking even, then becoming cash flow positive. Slowly increase player salaries in line with the profits and larger sponsor ships.

But that isn't what happened. People started creating the teams and spending millions on player salaries. This put immense pressure from the beginning to getting cash flow positive, placing first in every tournament etc. And now we are seeing the ramifications of this.

Don't get me wrong there were other external factors as well. I wouldn't try to create an esports team around any Nintendo Ip for example given their track record. And the collapse of OWL due Blizzard management doesn't help.
NASA was always a public works program, that's one of the reasons LBJ was its biggest high level booster back in the 1960s, it had an explicit mission to uplift the US South. Per the guy who invented the reentry vehicle, the lack of one or more staging space stations along the way for Apollo came from that spending "a billion dollars" more in Texas, call that $10 billion today.

After the end of the Apollo Project, "politics and corruption" were all that was left, as should be obvious from the lethally ridiculous design of the Space Shuttle.
I've worked on a single-machine computer vision system which used RabbitMQ to send messages around, including JPEG frames which were rather heavy, in contrast to other messages.

After we hit a certain number of frames/second, RabbitMQ became a bottleneck. My solution was to write the JPEG frame in the shared memory, then pass around shared memory ID, offset and frame length, instead of the whole frame. Only services that actually needed the frame would read it, others would just pass around a small JSON object. After that was implemented, the bottleneck disappeared.

I don't know if this qualifies as a "hack", but it certainly felt that way in the moment.
Perhaps in the hypothetical scenario that I had the hardware I wouldn't care. But I don't have the hardware, and I do care.

Separately, I'd think you'd want to weigh the memory usage against the utility of the features it enables. The memory is there so that it can be used, of course, but I have a certain memory budget, and I'd rather use that budget on things I care about. So now I can weigh this 1 GiB overhead of Gnome compared to something lightweight against the extra facilities the Gnome provides. I can't think of anything I miss in the lightweight option compared to Gnome, so I'll stick with my lightweight choices.
Yes: People think school should be more about learning the "traditional" subjects and get angry when schools deviate.
Thanks @afidrya, what kind of treatment did you get?

Maybe it helps with mine.
Having some internal point of view matters in as much that not having one means it's not really trying to communicate anything. A text generation AI would be a much more useful interface if it can form a view an express it rather than just figuring it all out from context.
Fail-slow at scale: Evidence of performance faults in large systems (2018)
The only game I really see viable as a true nationally broadcast e-sport is counter-strike. Dead simple concept, intuitive mechanics even to laypeople, and the meta game can be explained in 10 minutes.

Maybe besides COD, everything else is too complex and requires to much prerequisite knowledge to really get into. I could probably get my dad to watch counter-strike. He would probably wouldn't go for valorent. Almost certainly not something like overwatch. And definitely would never watch something like league or dota.

Sure, there is money in e-sports catering to the communities that form around the games, but I think for most games they'll never reach outside their player community.
Yikes, who remembers these https://codepen.io/maheshambure21/pen/ZGevNP :)
They've been popular around here for listening to music in your car for a very long time. Modern cars usually accept USB sticks as is, but there aren't many modern cars here since we're mostly using 10-15 year old leftovers from more developed countries. So people have been using cheap Chinese USB-to-AM-radio converters like this one:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004771224597.html

(first result on aliexpress, I have no idea if it's any good or not)
MarineLord and BeastyQT might agree!
You could maybe put your website behind a captcha? Google's recaptcha works behind the scene, so it won't affect normal users.
> I've often told my partner a lot of his "smart home" devices are solutions in search of problems

"smart home" things are usually hobbies at small scale, and you never know if something ends up being useful/useless until you actually try it out
Isn't the very definition of 'pro' that they get paid to do it? Prize money, sure, but also sponsors.
Either that or we're in a period of rampant global inflation.
Since you seem to be an expert in that field, what is your perspective on fission for the short term? Are smrs really viable ?
> [...] products that ultimately turned out to be dead ends, like the Palm Pilot [...]

Huh? I never had a Pilot, but from everything I've read about it (and how people who did have one describe it) it was quite amazing, and arguably the predecessor of the smartphone, no?

I get that the product line is dead, but the concept was very much viable...
CockroachDB 22.2 adds user-defined functions and changefeeds on SQL queries
I wonder what else this will start happening to. The massive VC boom had a knock-on effect of pumping huge amounts of advertising spend into everything advertising dollars could be spent on.

In a lot of places, the slack is being picked up by sports gambling (one of the few VC sectors with an actual revenue model), but how long will that last? Particularly when their services are only legal for about 1/3 of the US population, and of questionable value in the first place?
I guess manufacturers assumed people will first and foremost use them to move data around, not to backup/archive it, which makes sense as they were somewhat pricey initially, while the role of "write once, read many" was occupied by CD-R discs.

Of course, at some point the prices dropped, and eventually some people ended up owning a dozen USB sticks of various sizes and shapes, some of which used for archiving, but none of them labeled.
Limited value is better than no value.
Interestingly my sway is clocking in at 131mb resident set size.

This actually surprises me, I have three screens, and a fair few applications open..
No. “Debit” isn’t “debt”.

A credit card offers you credit.

credit:
noun
An arrangement for deferred payment of a loan or purchase.
All interest rates set by central banks are an intervention into the economy. A central bank has the purpose of intervention.

>setting the base price of labour by guaranteeing people a job?

Minium wages are setting a floor to the cost of labour. "Guaranteeing jobs" is totally meaningless inside a somewhat capitalist system. People work if and only if there is an employer paying them a wage the person deems adequate for the job.
If a person wants a compensation nobody is willing to offer they won't get a job.
The only thing the government can do is either create fake jobs for the person to do give them welfare, which are the same thingv but the later is far simpler and cheaper.
For me personally it's because there are too many random events for all the different games. There is no one big tournament that many people could focus on and talk about.

E.g. even if I was interested in some particular event, it would not feel appropriate to mention it to my friends because they most likely will not care about it... so there is no community feeling.
Writing at work
Data Engineering Trends for 2023
> Who is still buying ... SD cards?

Photographers.
> They use less data.

And generally they do that by offering fewer features (and yes - aesthetics and ergonomics are features!).

By the time I'm installing Gnome/KDE... I've already picked a heavy DE - I want it to be extensible (js/css in gnome is pretty great), pretty, and fast on a modern machine. I'm not picking those DEs for a constrained environments.

In those envs - I may well just skip the DE although, or go with something lighter like Sway.

But when I have 32gb of RAM... I really would prefer the feature rich DEs continue to focus on features when the usage is ~6% of RAM (2/32's). The RAM is, all things considered, outrageously cheap compared to their dev team's time.

When I want to conserve RAM... I'll pick a different tool.
A quip I picked up from a Boeing engineer:

“Engineering is designing failure.”

Obviously that has darker tones in aerospace, but I think it applies to even CRUD apps:

- my app will choke and fall over if TPS exceeds 1k/sec

- my app will drop data when we exceed 2TiB in the DB total

- etc.

You’re “engineering” when you design and control those modes in your system.
Tesla trucks are a bad application here, even though you were conspicously careful to keep your route quite short.
Esports is as strong as the popularity of the games they are based on. I used to follow a few and it was always because I played the games heavily, sometimes at a decently high level. But if I stop playing the games, I stop watching the streams.

Is that true for you as well?
If I could alleviate my wife of the pain and risks associated with childbirth, I'd do it.

But it seems that nature has some division of responsibilities cut out for us.
It is not entirely accurate (thankfully) the animations are done by CSS which is generated by JavaScript. But the way it understands context is pretty impressive.
Can the mouse scroll speed be configured in KDE, nowadays?

I'm flabbergasted that this is a question that should even be asked. Linux Desktop is so advanced and at the same time so lacking in stupidly simple matters such as this one, but here we are, look at how complex the answer marked as solution looks here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/285689/increase-mouse-wheel-...

(hint: the reasonable expectation, IMHO, would be to "open System Settings, go to Mouse Settings, and change a slider")

I've been in love with Linux Mint's Cinnamon and the very good balance between functionality and out-of-the-box experience. But no, the system settings don't allow to change the scroll speed. I won't complain, but it does confuse me...
It has been removed from web standards, but at least today it still works both in Chrome and Safari, I just tested. See for yourself: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ma...
Almost 25 years ago i got an trial version of NuMega Soft-Ice for Win 95. And i was able to hack it using same Soft-Ice.
I don't use or carry a phone. The long and short of it boils down to things working just the way they do with a phone, just more human involvement, like requesting a paper menu, or handing someone money directly. You make plans to be at a place at a time, then you just show up.
I personally wouldn't transfer a dime into Binance, but demonstrating the ability to perform a transaction of a specific time, place, and amount isn't shenanigans.
Also for (2), any worries that your own providers might imagine you're trying to mount some half-baked DOS campaign?
Mesh networks, maybe?

I like smart homes in principle, but the current implementations are awful. I end up sitting in the dark because software on my lightbulbs locks up, and a robot tells me "Sorry, I can't find 'lights on dammit' in your music library".
Wow, this is what is missing on my blog.
Same here, although it was bedroom furniture and bed/mattress etc., to the tune of a couple of thousand dollars. Even set up autopay.

Never once charged. Two years later, company was shutdown. Ten years ago now.
A Brief History of Client Side Routing
I went to school for History, but I'm obsessed with programming.

I tried to make an introduction to a tutorial about client side routing, and I ended up with over 8,000 words and 40 sources.

Let me know what you guys think. I tried really hard.
I've still got a brand new box of floppies in my desk as we've still got test equipment that has floppy drives. The equipment is still top notch and modifying it to swap in a USB floppy emulator will ruin the calibration so I just keep my USB floppy drive and a well used floppy in my bag. Despite the outdated media format, our equipment is future proof. The files and formats they all use are plain text files with a somewhat standardized data format along with PNG or GIF image formats. In addition, the equipment all have GPIB interfaces which are kind of a pain to use but they all use the same API and there's a very good chance you can swap two boxes decades apart and still use the same commands to get the same measurements. When I started my career, I was a little upset at being given such outdated looking equipment (1990s desktop white, floppy drives, AT keyboard connectors, 10base2 Ethernet!) but shortly realized that care was taken to ensure that no matter how old the equipment looks, data can still be pulled into a modern computer in file formats that will never be outdated.
I actually used this for a while. I even made the official ARM port for it. Super cool project from what I remembered.
So the classic sports model?

Step 1. Be good at a sport and become famous
Step 2. Convert Fame into money by endorsing products.
Unfortunately, energy storage is still an unsolved problem. Research on batteries may get us there soon, but today they aren't feasible. It's very much worth putting effort into both approaches. IMO the best outcome is a wide variety of clean energy sources and storage solutions, so the best solution can be chosen for a given geographical/political/etc situation.
> Indeed, it seems most Rust code today agrees: widely turning off the borrow checking with copies and the like.

I here this and that `unsafe` is widely used in Rust code bases repeated a lot, but is there any actual data backing this?
Interesting how you'd infer that a simple user shell (remote) would tick all the boxes I'd associate with running a VM. Root access, networking (between the VMs), works offline, can (doesn't have to) use GUI programs.
I think the problem with your approach is competition. If you did as you described, a competitor would see the opportunity and start their own league, offering bigger salaries to get the best players. So anyone seriously trying to corner the market kind of has to go in with the big bucks and hope that eventually the popularity catches up.
Yeah you see it in the NBA/NFL with a lot of players building their personal brand via Youtube/TikTok/Podcast/etc. It will be interesting to see how this plays out over the next decade. Will businesses keep dumping money into influencer advertising, or will it die down and go back to just the mega stars getting deals.

I know right now even people with 10-20k followers on a platform can still get brand deals because it is a new form of targeting. I think the hard thing to solve for is how do you measure the ROI besides use code "XYZ" for 20% off your first month or whatever.
Another definition is that the left wing generally believe that a society's wealth should be more evenly distributed to those of the right. This can be done by taxation not necessarily by socialist central control. Also the right wing can believe in the inherent superiority of one section of society, e.g. a class or a "race".
That’s essentially the thesis of the article, yes. Hype here refers not to the players or the fans but rather to the business side. Investors are looking for returns and not finding them.
It is still today the fastest way to move large amount of data around.

If both parties have 1 Gbps connection it will take about 20 min to move about 128 GB. But if one end has only 100 Mbps, then it is already 3,5h. If can only maintain reliably 25 Mbps, then it is already shy over 14h. So you can almost mail a thumb drive faster.
I think they mean that if you are, say, Real Madrid you can sign a player who was born in Sevilla, Brazil or Turkey or wherever.
Tables? pft. Frames. Frames were the business.
Solar and batteries are already cheaper than fossil fuels in most markets. Nuclear isn’t competing with renewables, it’s competing against batteries and almost free renewables that charge them.

Nuclear is still possibly a great fit for niche locales where renewables aren’t feasible at all. Not a nuclear hater by any means (we need every innovation we can get), just show your math.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.365.6449.108
I stand corrected on that matter it seems.
E-sports is essentially advertising for computer games. More people that sub to that the more sales a company can get for computer games/hardware etc. Same goes for Twitch - yes there is community that is build aruond that but it is for the underlying reason of making more sales for the businesses.
Using new technology and old books to combat disease
Starcraft II was really the only esport I ever cared about or watched. I think it is also widely considered the first esport. Make of that what you will.
I remember trying to interface a PCs Limited (original Dell) parallel port to a Slo Syn paper tape reader on Excellon PCB drills and routers around 1995.
It hurt me a little bit to read what she had to say, but I don't think she detracts from your sentiment at all. Retaining a childlike playfulness has helped me through career, marriage, parenting, a PhD (in roughly that order.) I joke that we're like onions, simply adding a new layer every year, getting to keep who we were before.

Here are a couple of Einstein quotes on the matter:

“People like you and me, though mortal, of course, like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live. What I mean is that we never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we are born.” – Albert Einstein

“There is, after all, something eternal that lies beyond the reach of the hand of fate and of all human delusions. And such eternals lie closer to an older person than to a younger one who oscillates between fear and hope. For us, there remains the privilege of experiencing beauty and truth in their purest forms.” – Albert Einstein

Hopefully he actually said them!
Right. But slapping boiling water around the burning plasma is kind of a rube goldberg usually. See LLNL's LIFE design for example [1]. Things like molten salt walls circulating through a steam turbine and all that.

There are other ideas too, but it's hard to beat a Rankine cycle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Inertial_Fusion_Energy
Dota is kind of fun to watch even if you're not that well-educated, but the announcing/casting style needs a serious overhaul, and general popularity needs a lot of "support" from good production: information overlays, slow-motion replays, giving casters the ability to zoom out to a full-map view and draw arrows, etc.

Look at hockey, American football, and road cycling for examples of complicated sports that are somewhat hard to understand without prior knowledge, and people really enjoy watching those, too.
Esports look exactly like the venture capital industries that propped them up. Lighting money on fire for the sake of scale was a natural play for them, and arguably the only way they got those ad/sponsor dollars in the first place. It's not surprising that they reflect the environment they grew up in.

But you are correct that now the question becomes who can create a sustainable model in the ashes of what came before.
> spinning bullying

Who is he bullying? If you're talking about his Fauci comments, well, I'd have 2 responses.

1) We usually say that "punching down" is the wrong thing to do and a characteristic of bullying. And despite Musk being among the world's richest and most influential men, isn't it still reasonably debatable if he's been more powerful than Fauci? Musk just makes some products and does some weird humor online. Fauci had basically had many peoples' life/death, the global economy, the world health apparatus, the media, and peoples' livelihoods wrapped around his fingers. Who is punching down here? I'm not sure it's clearcut.

2) Regardless if you like/dislike Fauci, isn't disparaging the conduct of government officials by citizens always fair game?
The mainline PPA does not include Linux-tools, so using it means you lose access to many tools: perf, turbostat, cpupower, powertop, …
Now combine that with speech to text and text to speech, and chatGPT will become a fantastic secretary, making and taking reservations and the like.
My bet: Data testing, data monitoring and data catalog solutions will consolidate to cover data quality all together.
> and unless you're a top streamer the income is very low.

For rocket league, the content creation scene is much bigger than the pro scene. As a developer once said, is very GIFable. Combined with the flexibility of the game itself, you see nearly endless possibilities for content creation. More than half of the top content creators for this game are "casual" players[1]. Casual is quoted because they're still grand champion level but nowhere near the pro level. There are also pros turned content creators that are familiar with unreal engine and create really cool stuff (eg lethamyr). On the other end of the spectrum is sunless khan who creates video essays about rocket league[2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rocket+league&s...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuV2SGAZaig
The beauty of that argument of course is that no causal links need to be proven, and no agency or ownership of their actions needs to occur for the ‘victims’?

That’s like saying the copper miners are somehow responsible for war deaths because copper is an essential component of ammunition, and if they just figured that out and didn’t sell or allow their products to be sold to ammunition manufacturers, we’d have world peace.
I think it's difficult to give full credit to macOS as being a true Unix workstation. It is more like a desktop operating system built over Unix since the desktop environment and utilities are not as well integrated into the underlying Unix environment.
> In Dota, in particular, Valve has tried to make changes to encourage team stability, but the fundamental problem is that pay is so heavily stacked towards winning a few top tier tournaments per year, that people become very mercenary.

And ironically, Valve is the organization that created this problem.
It's not that amazing. You can find complete examples of calc in Rust and Python all over the Internet. It just spit out a copy of someone else's code, and gave it to you.

Instead of you having to Google search everywhere or look in multiple sources, you were able to just ask ChatGPT.
Okay, makes sense.

Doesn’t seem to restrict the ability of soccer clubs to build fanatical fanbases though
They are in a position to build platforms that make cryptocurrency trading less attractive, and presumably that demand for liquid trading has to go somewhere.
mathstodon
Wow, excellent.
Somewhere in the end of the 90s, my "personal website" had a snow effect around this time of year. I guess like fashion, website effects have comeback trends...