skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can also install the latest PowerShell Core (the open-source, cross-platform releases we're talking about) via Scoop, which is a package manager for Windows that works even if you don't have admin rights: https://scoop.sh/#/apps?q=pwsh&s=0&d=1&o=true
Saying "They take hundreds of gigs because they don't use ANY compression." is absurd when you immediately have to caveat that codecs like BC7 are used for texture data, which makes up a large portion of the shipped data.

Sony included dedicated compression support in the PS5, licensed from a leading middleware company, specifically to make it easier to use compression in games. Games are using it.

I don't know why you're trotting out this misinformed BS.

You can also simply watch the statistics when Steam is installing a game - the amount written to disk is larger than the amount downloaded over the network, because they also compress assets in flight to reduce bandwidth usage (the most important thing, since raw assets often load faster from an SSD as long as you have available storage.)

You can argue every single file should be compressed at rest on persistent storage after install, but that's a losing argument. People really hate longer load times, so compression at rest is only appropriate if it improves them.
> dispatchable electricity sources is fully tapped to balance renewables across Europe. We will see very high prices during mornings and evenings and whenever it's cold and dark

It's already a problem in Sweden. It exports electricity to Germany when demand is high... which leaves nothing to Sweden, and the prices skyrocket. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-12/swedish-m...
In case you didn't see - someone found a great resolution:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/50926604693/sizes/o
Thanks and yeah, that's another good application of the idea. It's somewhat similar to iodine[1] in that respect. On the ground in the US, this would probably only be useful if you're hiking in a remote area or something like that, due to how cheap data plans are. It might also come in handy if your carrier doesn't charge for SMS when abroad.

[1] https://github.com/yarrick/iodine
I've tried to move toward this kind of arrangement in the past, but have never quite broken through. While I'm fluent in HTML/CSS, the major obstacle to actually committing code as a UX/UI designer has been the codebase itself.

I can pop open a web inspector and make a bunch of changes, but that's the easy part. Unlike when I'm working on my own, far simpler side projects, I can't just switch over to VS Code and paste the changes in to the requisite selectors: Assuming I have a local environment set up (no easy feat itself!), now I have to track down React components, find their stylesheets, perhaps follow some leads out to other stylesheets coming from different libraries...

It's all something I'd love to get to a point of familiarity with in my next job (which I am currently looking for!), but the upfront time investment (in part by the developer to explain the repo to me) has kept it just out of reach so far.
What likely happened: the CEO got tired of coming to an empty office and not having underlings scurry around as his excellence powerwalks through the stunning estate of Clearlink Inc.

The whole thing reads like a script for an unreleased episode of The Office.
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There generally aren’t financial penalties of any sort in those cases, except that you just don’t get paid the full potential value of the contract. You are generally paid hourly for the work that you do in a freelance gig (if it is an hourly contract) and paid a bonus on completion. If you fail to complete there is no bonus. Or in the case of a fixed price contract you are given a small amount upfront, and the full payment upon completion. You are never penalized for breaking contract—-you just don’t get paid the final amount.
We used to get regular support calls from concerned test operators in military uniforms saying something like "the system is heading southeast instead of the direction I sent it". A bunch of zeros in the command was always the cause. It was our version of "did you try turning it off and on again?".
> one of the plant regularly leaks radioactive material

Probably just Tritiated water which is essentially harmless. Basically water with extra neutrons and it is very weakly radioactive. So weak that you can't detect it with a Geiger counter. Since it is water it does not accumulate in organisms. Tritium is also naturally created in the atmosphere by cosmic radiation.
Journalism vs. ChatGPT 4
Prompt: In school, quite a few years ago, we learned that journalism is the art of describing facts as unemotionally as possible and as factually true as possible. It seems this has changed and journalism in general favors emotions and group-think and tends to ignore facts, if they collide with the generally agreed story. Why could that be?

Response: There are several reasons why some modern journalism tends to focus more on evoking emotional responses and appealing to primitive feelings:

Economic pressures: The rise of digital media and the decline of traditional revenue sources, such as print subscriptions and advertising, have forced many news organizations to seek new ways to attract audiences and generate revenue. Emotional and sensational stories often draw more attention, increasing clicks, views, and shares, which can translate to higher advertising revenue.

Competition: With the proliferation of online news sources and social media, journalists and media outlets face increased competition for attention. To stand out in a crowded media landscape, some journalists may resort to emotionally-charged stories and headlines, often referred to as "clickbait," to capture the attention of readers and drive engagement.

The 24-hour news cycle: The constant demand for fresh content in the 24-hour news cycle can lead to a focus on breaking news and immediate reactions rather than in-depth, factual reporting. This constant churn of news may encourage journalists to focus on stories that elicit strong emotions and quick reactions, as these are more likely to attract attention and generate discussion.

Confirmation bias and echo chambers: With the rise of social media and personalized news feeds, people are more likely to be exposed to news and opinions that confirm their existing beliefs and trigger emotional responses. Journalists and media outlets may cater to these preferences, producing content that aligns with their audience's views and emotions to increase engagement and loyalty.

Decline in resources for investigative journalism: Investigative journalism, which often involves uncovering complex and hidden truths, requires significant time, resources, and expertise. As news organizations face economic pressures, they may cut back on this type of reporting in favor of more cost-effective, emotionally-driven stories.

It's essential to recognize that not all journalism is driven by these factors, and many journalists and media outlets still prioritize accurate, factual reporting and adhere to high ethical standards. As consumers of news, it's important to be discerning and seek out reliable, high-quality journalism that values truth and objectivity over sensationalism and emotional manipulation.

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I'd say ChatGPT4 nailed this one.
As I recall, this was a purposeful choice. Titanfall came out in 2014. The minimum requirements were a Core 2 Duo at 2.4 GHz or Athlon X2 at 2.8 GHz. I think that puts it on processors dating back to 2006 or so.

Games sometimes have a lot of sound effects. It's easier to stream 35 GB of data from disk than it is to decompress, like, 10 streams of audio at the same time with whatever CPU you can dedicate to audio.

I do think they could have figured something out, like compressing the right subset of audio assets, but I just want to give the context for why they made that choice.
Cost is not independent of the perception around nuclear though, and its influence on regulatory burdens, insurance, legislation, nimbyism, etc. So it kind of makes sense to focus on other factors. Changing the perception could bring down the cost as well.
>We tried four reactors back then, using a new regulatory process that was supposed to speed construction and reduce costs. Instead, costs and timelines ballooned 3x. Two of the four reactors were abandoned half-way through construction, resulting in rate payers holding the bag for billions of dollars and no Wh delivered to the grid.

These were the Westinghouse AP1000 units to be installed in Georgia and South Carolina, contract beginning in 2008. It's worth noting that four other AP1000 units also from Westinghouse were built and installed in China, beginning construction in 2009 and entering into operation in 2018. The total cost of both systems was slightly more than half the cost of the failed project in South Carolina.

>And construction productivity has stagnated since the 70s, while manufacturing productivity has gone through the roof.

You seem to be arguing that we shouldn't bother building major projects, but I think this implies the opposite: we need to find ways to fix the construction industry. The US is currently facing a situation where cities can't grow like they used to; growing cities quickly become unaffordable, where by contrast Chicago sustained rapid growth for decades before the Great Depression.
Games will be as large as they can be until it starts causing people not to buy the game. Before that point, no one will care.

And as someone who just got 1.5Gbps internet installed, my tolerance for file size is continually increasing.
Here's the larger 2000x2585 version from the link you've given.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/50926604693/sizes/o
> the consumers to pay an extra price

The (botched) green energy transformation has given the country I live in top 3 highest electricity prices in the world and it's not even particularly green at all. Literally cannot get worse. And it seems to me that one half doesn't understand how incredibly bad high energy prices are both for people and industry, while the other half cheers at the prices because it causes deindustrialization and pushes towards degrowth - mainstream talking points of the current generation of climate activists here.
Wind and solar are only possible because they use the rest of the grid as effectively a giant battery. When the sun shines and/or the wind blows, someone else needs to reduce the electricity generation. The end result will be that during good weather the price of electricity is zero, and during any other time the price of electricity is high to pay for unused capacity and additional wear and tear on the equipment due to additional power cycling.

We are already seeing this in Germany[1], where electricity prices are also becoming zero[2] during parts of the day. The problem with renewables will become apparent only once the reserves of easily dispatchable electricity generation is used up across Europe to balance renewable generation.

[1] - https://www.nordpoolgroup.com/en/Market-data1/Dayahead/Area-...
With eat I can even run htop. This means I have the typical char, semi-char, emacs-mode while the terminal application is active but as soon as I exit it I'm returned to normal eshell where I can treat it as a mostly normal buffer and evaluate elisp.

It really feels like the best of all worlds.
Why misguidedly, in your view?
> `docker build` is weirdly slow on btrfs, I always set up a separate ext4 `/var/lib/docker` volume.

I'm currently doing this for a different reason. My docker builds started failing after some Ubuntu upgrade. I gave up and used ext4 for that docker directory to fix everything. https://serverfault.com/q/1127148

It unsettled me because now I'm not sure whether btrfs (or docker with btrfs) is production-ready.
I think in today's machine (be it PC, Mac or even Smartphones) the reading-and-transform of a png asset for the GPU is hard coded in the processor : so VERY fast. It works well.
> Has copyright been infringed?

yes

now if he had written a specification as to what the function should be, then passed it to someone else that had never seen the function and worked from the spec then he'd be ok

see: IBM BIOS
The problem is that this line of thinking usually turns into just doing nothing and letting them roll over us anyway because they've taken our silence as consent.
This is a science experiment.
In France it does.
AFAIK accrued PTO sits on the books of the companies as a liability (or expense or whatever) since they have to pay for it when the employee leaves/is terminated.

Unlimited PTO doesn’t accrue and hence does not show on the books.

That IMHO is the primary benefit to the companies.
Any ideas on what causes the docker issue? Or have you not poked it with a stick yet?
It's a meme. It comes from 9GAG. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hard-times-create-strong-men

Those Who Remain: A Postapocalyptic Novel is not an academic work of sociology.
Compression does not guarantee faster loads anymore. Uncompressed assets can be DMA'd directly to their destination. This is part of why GPU decompression (gdeflate like in directstorage, or the special decompression tech in the PS5) is on the rise because it allows you to DMA resources to their destination on the GPU and then decompress them there to avoid the loading time hit involved in decompressing them on-CPU after copying them disk->page cache->userspace app memory.

For HDDs, yes, compression is generally a win. HDDs are dead as far as game development is concerned, all modern targets have flash storage.

Some compression codecs that produce smaller files are also MUCH slower to decompress, which swamps any benefits from the reduced i/o. This is part of why sometimes people pick less efficient formats for use in games.
We went through and got Oracle out of our enterprise after a particularly nasty licensing negotiation and audit with them some years ago. So it does happen.

I expect at some point we'll have a similar initiative around cloud providers.
US 5-year credit default swaps rise to highest since 2011
First of all, I take with a grain of salt any piece about Facebook or Meta from a traditional media company (Vox belongs to Comcast) because they compete for add revenue and historically Facebook has been better at it. Should be noted that Comcast also competes with Meta for engineering talent.

> This represents a stark about-face for a company that, until recently, had been offering outrageous salaries and basically hoarding people in these highly sought-after technical positions.

I'm not sure what's the narrative they are trying to push here with the ambiguous term "outrageous" when this comp was mostly tied up to... stock performance! It's good to remember that it's in Comcast's interest to see engineering compensation go down.

Meta needed that talent if they were to be able to bring the Metaverse to market (wether it was a success or not). Think about the ground-breaking work by Occulus. The Quest is basically a 10x price reduction for VR hardware between 2010 and now.

It's good to remember that most layoffs outside of Meta (who has been pivoting pretty hard) were "tech adjacent" positions [0] [1] [2] [3] [4]

> "Additionally, Keum said that Elon Musk, who fired 80 percent of his staff but still has a (sort of) functioning product, has become a sort of inspiration for other tech CEOs, who see his extreme cuts as a way of making their more modest ones seem morally and culturally acceptable. Their stance? "Thank you, Elon Musk, for showing us that it can be done. And thank you Elon Musk for taking the blame," Keum said."

Yeah... So far Twitter completely gave up it's API. Rumor has it they lacked the manpower to actually keep it running and it was a last-ditch attempt at getting rid of bots. Same bots who flocked to the platform after the layoffs started since people in charge of mitigating these were fired.

Firing abuse and content moderation teams meant there was a lot more unsavory spam on the platform and advertisers didn't want any of it near their brand. Remember the Twitter Blue two days of spam? [5] [6]

[0] https://interviewing.io/blog/2022-layoffs-engineers-vs-other...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-24/tech-layo...

[2] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3690309/about-those-te...

[3] https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-03-0...

[4] https://techreport.com/news/3493451/microsoft-layoffs-ethics...

[5] https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-lost-half-top-advert...

[6] https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/11/4/23438917/twitter-verifi...
The cost of nuclear today has more to do with the fact that we aren’t building nuclear plants. There are minimum companies with small operations making nuclear reactor technologies for just maintenance of existing ones and military contracts. If we were building new nuclear plants with modern reactors, the costs wouldn’t be a big deal anymore because the production of them would have scaled better.

But instead we’re spending tens of billions on windmills and solar panels that won’t last 15 years or operate well in many regions, including Germany and especially south Germany. This is why Germany is now reliant on France’s nuclear power to handle the majority of its power needs and the citizens are paying massive premiums for it. Not the government.

So maybe we should ignore the pesky cost issue cause we certainly ignored the financial and economic cost consequences of solar and wind.
Sounds like he's declaring "war on drugs". I bet that will work really well.
> In terms of attracting engineering talent, how does the video games industry fare?

When I talk to people in the game industry, it sounds a lot like my experiences outside it. Plenty of programming skill to go around, but the skill is often allocated inefficiently, and everyone's under pressure to just ship stuff and move on to the next deliverable.
> on consumer GPU

You make it sound like my electricity bill would be lower by just downloading the bigger files...
To limit mesh size at less than 300 points for a scene.

I am pretty sure most modern video games use more mesh points than that for, like, a hat your character can wear.
I think this is a pretty stupid argument; I think this is an idiotic law, and I would even if I did agree with the bizarre LGBT grooming conspiracies.

It’s poorly worded, likely to be abused, and also not just K-3 anymore like people keep incorrectly asserting. Even if I did think that there was some grooming conspiracy, I wouldn’t want to teach in Florida because I don’t want to be sued by some parent who has a relatively risk-free way to get free money by claiming I mentioned some LGBT agenda.

Also, you understand that “move to a blue city” only gets you so far right? This will (and to some extent already has) lead to a shortage of decent teachers in Florida, because a lot of teachers who can move to a more hospitable state have (or will).
Yup. They just copied manually.
The uncompressed audio was on purpose to manage CPU usage, you can find quotes explaining this in interviews.

https://www.escapistmagazine.com/titanfall-dev-explains-the-...

I can attest that MP3 and OGG decompression (the two audio codecs that would have likely been used at the time) are both pretty slow. It adds up.
I love when someone has an experience which is rather unique to them (or at least definitely not universal) and vehemently shouts in absolutes.

I definitely agree with the article. I've given extended notice for many jobs I've left (again, usually on the order of several months). I had a good relationship with my manager, and I like to leave stuff "tied up with a bow". Similar to the experience in the article, it was good for both me and my employer.

I'm sorry you didn't have a relationship with your employer where you felt this was possible. And to be clear, I don't believe my experience is universal, but I think if most people stop to think about it, they will be able to figure out how their employer will respond.
What state is this? This would only apply here if you already had a contract for a fixed term. Most employment here is at will and so this won't work.

Everyone else: please talk to a lawyer in your state familiar with employment law before banking on this.
To hide the fact that this whole post is a marketing campaign with flat out wrong facts and examples that are nothing more than goading.
Many servers only run one type of workload. Do you want to just use half the cores? That's not cost effective.
> that was back when devices were slower

It was also back when websites relied less on JS.

For every improvement that gets added to browsers, in executing JS faster, web developers will take that extra perf and spend it to do more. The result of that is that only the heavily optimised browsers will be able to deliver the experience that the people expect.

A browser without JIT today, would be a no-go. It would be noticeably slower, and it would drain the battery faster.
The lesson here is that if the founder retains majority control of the voting stock, you should apply a big discount to any options or RSUs in a comp package, because he can run the company into the ground on a whim without any checks.
It is terrible advice and especially if you are an at-will employee. 2 weeks is fine, but as others have mentioned, most of the time you get put into a hermetically sealed jar once you give notice.
This list appears to be largely indie games, many with sizes under a gigabyte. I'm not sure why at-rest compression would be a high priority for a small team when their game fits on a $5 thumbdrive and will be compressed during the install process by Steam or Itch.
> ”Nuclear has a load factor of 95%”

That’s very optimistic. Perhaps an ideal nuclear plant with a perfect operating record might approach 95%, but real-world load factors are lower as most plants end up requiring extended outages for repairs as some point in their lifetime.

France’s lifetime load factors for its nuclear plants are around 77%, but that declined sharply in recent years to 72% in 2020-21 and even lower in 2022 due to many plants being taken offline for repairs. In the UK, load factors are even lower: 67% during 1970-2017.
You're saying Jedi Survivor doesn't use block texture compression? On which target? All targets?

Can you capture a trace in RenderDoc to prove this? Or show raw bmp/uncompressed dds files on disk?
I feel like we’re living in the age of an unidentified, “Committee to Stop Maintenance of Civil Infrastructue.”
Whoa. So why didn’t the Windows store work? Some kind of trusted environment thing?
They'll often pay severance, which is the part of the job the employee materially benefits from.
AWS lambda seems dirt cheap, or am I mistaken?
Nope, he's got that right. It's been a pretty major recurring story in the news in France through this autumn. I haven't really followed through the details, but the idea was that several reactors were down for a planned overhaul/maintenance for something like this (material defects) through the summer. As the delays ("nuclear projects are never on time") piled up story was "will they make it in time for winter". Pretty nail biting actually, specially if You add up to it the halt on Russian gas
What are you basing these statements on?