skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely true, but the beauty is that you can calculate exactly how much a car costs, monthly, how much time is wasted by not having it and how much time is wasted by having it, since you are in control of all of this.

I calculated I'm at least saving $1000/month, I live near a car sharing service spot, a major bus stop and the train, so we get to love car-free.

I'd argue that having a car sharing service really highlights how much you spend for a car when is just "sitting there". You see the expense going up when you don't use it. If there was a similar calculator but for your own car, it would make it way easier to think twice about owning one
Also, the reason that people are excited about it is because they really liked Sync for Reddit, and have been anxiously awaiting the Lemmy version that was promised.
Because they are not games. Correct decisions are crucial to the running of the company, and thus your financial stake in it.
This is a personal area of interest for me.

I think a lot of what you have described is flawed. It feels more like trying to systemize something that cannot be systemized.

One time I spent 6 months in a brutal migration of a critical system. Lines of code in production in those 6 months = 20 lines. By your measure, I did not accomplish much.

But where exactly did my time go? It went in getting stakeholders together, performing significant experiments to identify the problem, performing more experiments to find solutions, carefully roll out the experiments in various production datacenter - often over weekends. The output? Migration completed.

It was hard work, stressful and took a lot from me. But for a manager strictly follows your rubric, I was unproductive. And now, I get a poor performance rating. I would likely have to sink more time to produce tons of artifacts to prove that that rating was incorrect. Other engineers sees it. Learn to never take up hard problems ever. Just smash more lines of code to be safe.

You have single handedly shot the success of engineering by having an uninformed performance review criteria.
It depends a bit on what you're into. For a decent sample, have a look at Cyberpunk 2077 (especially with the RT Overdrive update on the PC), Horizon Forbidden West, and Forza Horizon 5.
The stereotype of software devs being the absolute cheapest bastards, despite being well paid, lives on. These people put time and effort into building a thing, and giving them money for it is reprehensible?
You mean where their sailboats and yachts can see them?
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Absolutely agree.

I love the idea behind CRPGs, but have found that I have a difficult time committing to them. I.E. I own Divinity 2, but have struggled to get past the first few hours of the story as the first area makes it so open-ended it's tough to know how to move forward. Additionally, turn-based games often get quickly boring for me as they are often so challenging it doesn't feel worth it (I'm aware I definitely fall under the "casual" category in this realm).

After playing BG3 for over ten hours, I'm hooked. It seems they have struck such a great balance for me (on the "Balanced" difficulty) at making combat engaging, difficult and interesting -- but not so difficult I get bored/hate it. As a casual CRPG gamer, BG3 seems to have struck a near-perfect balance for me.

One of my favorite moments so far: get into a fight with a group of around 10 goblins with my 3-member group. I'm outnumbered so I fall back to a somewhat narrow bridge, to serve as a bottleneck. Once I have all 3 members of my group on the bridge (none of the goblins have made it yet), I throw a grease bottle at the beginning of the bridge to slow down my enemies. Sure enough, it slowed down my enemies enough that when they got to the bridge, I took them out with my two archer party members.

Amazing game.
Yeah no way you don't go to the dentist for 20 years and not have a few millimeter thick worth of plaque on plaque. I brush and floss before I go to bed and go to the dentist every 9 months. I haven't had a cavity since I was 15 and my sweet tooth kind of faded out after that for some reason.
Just use a serious development OS instead

;)
Was nice to see their videos and developer videos in contrast to others like Blizzard/Diablo IV.

I know you can’t really tell based on one parameter like this, but you also kind of can.

You can tell by this they got the product out they wanted and worked till it was complete. That goes a long way.
Cleaning up landing page trash, but it's taught using memes
I think it's easy to come up with such delineation after the fact, but OP was looking for a more comforting answer. By the sound of it, they just didn't like the implications of the initial diagnosis. It wasn't about facts not adding up.

The reality is that modern medicine is absolutely amazing, but there are also many interventions backed by shoddy science or no science at all. Sometimes, "doing your own research" exposes such lapses. Sometimes, it sends you off the deep end and you end up chasing ghosts. To allow the former, you need to tolerate some of the latter.

And yeah, sometimes the shoddy science involves interventions so basic and so common that you'd think they're sorted out. Consider that Europe and the US take wildly divergent views on topics such as wisdom teeth, colonoscopies, or the value of flu vaccines.

"Science literacy" doesn't shield you from being wrong. Maybe it helps, but there's no shortage of Nobel laureates who believe in conspiracy theories or promote dubious medical treatments. Talking about "science literacy" is usually just how geeks convince themselves that their beliefs can't be wrong.
100% agree, that's more or less how I ended up evaluating my time
Productivity can increase on the individual levels and decrease on the team or company level, and it can be difficult for individuals to recognize this. It also isn’t necessarily the same effect across companies.

I think in these discussions everyone oversimplifies to one single conclusion that should apply to all companies in all locales and all employees. There’s way more nuance to this.
Superposition comes from geology, meaning one strata over another.
That would make sense if we were speaking German. But we, and they, are not
I also found this with accountants. My tax affairs are semi-complicated, and every accountant I speak with has a totally different approach and advice. I think if I went to see ten, none of the advice would overlap.
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Is this game mostly an inventory management game like Divinity Original Sin 2? I tried playing it but I was just clicking around menus 80% of the time.
> What about competing with foreign giants, for example? China probably won’t break up their large companies

ANT Group? Alibaba?
> It is not that hard to measure, at the end of the day code needs to be written. If the work you are doing is design heavy, then documents and charts need to be created. And then code needs to be written. Then finally, a product or feature needs to actually be launched.

Very naive. If this was my manager, I would immediately know that my manager is unskilled.
Oh I see. That is a huge escalation then.
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This article was run in 1997. It reads exactly like what a modern dental experience is.

If dentists want to start drilling, capping, or pulling. Go get a second opinion.

I was referred to the Otho within my dentists office to look at my wisdom teeth. I was not in pain, they weren’t impacted, instead I was told “It’s a standard practice just to check.” It was supposed to be a consultation, but the ortho wanted to rip them out right then and there. He was frustrated at my insistence that we understand the total cost after insurance. I was awake for the procedure, local anesthetic only.

My dentist at the next visit looked at my X-rays and asked why I got my wisdom teeth out. The ortho was no longer with them.

Good riddance
What the U.S. could learn from Japan about making healthy living easier
>If scientists are going to complain that's its too hard or too expensive to replicate their studies, then that just shows their work is BS.

1 mg of anti-rabbit antibody (a common thing to use in a lot of biology experiments) is $225 [1]. Outside of things like standard buffers and growth medium for prokaryotes, this is going to be the cheapest thing you use in an experiment.

1/10th of that amount for anti-flagellin antibody is $372. [2]

A kit to prep a cell for RNA sequencing is $6-10 per use. That's JUST isolation of the RNA. Not including reverse transcribing it to cDNA for sequencing, or the sequencing itself. [3]

Let's not even reach things like materials science where you may be working on an epitaxial growth paper, and there are only a handful of labs where they could even feasibly repeat the experiment.

Or say something with a BSL-3 lab where there are literally only 15 labs in the US that could feasibly do the work, assuming they aren't working on their own stuff. [4]

[1] - https://www.thermofisher.com/antibody/product/Goat-anti-Rabb...
[2] https://www.invivogen.com/anti-flagellin
[3] https://www.thermofisher.com/order/catalog/product/12183018A
[4] https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/tufts-regional-biocontain...
Any time someone gives me some max capacity estimate to aim for, I multiply it by 10 and design the system for that. That’s 10x developer thinking.
It’s also the only high production game with native MacOS & M1 support I could find.
I got the early access just to see what M1 GPU can do and was impressed.
We at pganalyze would definitely welcome help here - and if anyone would like to give this a try - feel free to email me, happy to talk this through, email is in my profile.

Postgres itself supports Windows, the main challenge is identifying the relevant files to pull in (since we use a subset of the full source code), and testing the changes. It should be fairly quick for someone who has C development experience on Windows, with a working development environment.
I have many dentist anecdotes (I switch dentists often), and generally don't believe what dentists tell me. My first suspicion began when one told me to floss more, so I flossed daily for an entire year. When I went back in after six months, they told me to floss more. I told then I had flossed daily for an entire year and they did not believe me. I went to another dentist and they were impressed by my teeth from my flossing! I was more happy with the second dentist for noticing!

I had another one tell me I had a 'dead' tooth and it needed extraction as it would rot my mouth. I saw a different dentist and I asked about my 'dead' tooth. They responded I had no dead teeth and weren't sure what I was referring to.

Another anecdote: My child's teeth were coming in crooked, and had some late adult teeth. The first orthodontist suggested a spreader (a common procedure where your palate is split and made wider), followed by braces. The second said that they could also suggest an alternative, with only braces.

End result-- the dentists that give options are the better ones (IMO). If they give only one option, I am cautious. In general, get a second opinion.
How is middle management controlling this? I would think this is a director level decision.
General consensus I've heard is it's nothing like BG1/2. Less atmospheric, less writing overall:

> Baldur's Gate 3 tells its story differently too. Those atmospheric chapter introductions, where the narrator sets the scene, are sadly gone. Dialogue is short and to the point, with no great walls of descriptive text drawing you into the world. And honestly, that's something I miss. I love the sheer wordiness of the old games, and how a flurry of prose would bring those pre-rendered backgrounds to life.
:x

Of course, the truely old school will point out that vi doesn't have :x and that its vim that does. Thanks Bram.
> It seems like Supabase has been able to collaborate really effectively with other teams in the Postgres space (including pgAdmin and pgmigra, for the `diff` migrations tooling)

I'm thankful to Supabase for their efforts, but I'm not sure I'd pick pgAdmin and migra as examples of "really effective" collaboration with other teams: as far as I know, pgAdmin's CLI feature wasn't merged upstream and sits in an outdated Supabase fork of pgAdmin which doesn't fully support Postgres 15, and migra (which has been abandoned for a while) was just used as-is.
Surely floss daily should be the advice? It only takes an extra minute when you are brushing so there’s no reason not to.
Read up on past monopoly busts, you don’t need an overwhelming market share to be broken up. Standard oil was down to 64% and that didn’t save it.
What do they mean, concurrent players? Did they turn it into a multiplayer game?
Employers have no obligation to provide studies. They set the rules if they pay the salaries. Employees can choose to leave. In the end, the decisions by both will determine winners and losers. That’s a market!
It's all just one giant pyramid scheme anyway...

https://youtu.be/z-iWe4qXUD8?t=7s

Funny how "Holy Grail" is woven through with it ... so many scenes of "kissing up and kicking down":

And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers! By 'angin on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences... (just as apt / relevant for the above linked scene)

And, as has been proven repeatedly EVERY SINGLE time it is tested, what "trickles down" ain't "wealth".

What a racket this whole universe is! This God fella's got some 'splainin to do... XD
Went to a new dentist after moving. She found two "small spots that could go bad if left untreated!" and "should be drilled and filled!". A year later I am still in pain some time.

Dentists are fucking psychopaths and we are literally cattle at their mercy. I have no idea how to continue, how to find a dentist I can trust with my stupid teeth. I am terribly afraid of them now.
"Bank robbers abuse Toyota for bank robbery, escaping police"
I have a macro in my personal library called BINDING-BLOCK that eliminates many (though not all) of the parens in common code idioms:

https://github.com/rongarret/ergolib/blob/master/core/bindin...

It's also helpful in preventing code from crawling off the right side of the screen.

However, like many of the sibling comments point out, if you think getting rid of the parens entirely is desirable then you have missed the point, which is that Lisp code is not text, it's a data structure, a linked list, and the textual representation of the code is just a serialization of that data structure. And the most straightforward way to serialize a linked list is with delimiters at the start and end, like so:

(1 2 3)
Interest in Tears of the Kingdom dropped off pretty quickly.

Is that all?

edit: I didn't play the other two games. One's a remake of a game I never played (I never owned playstations) and I don't really play fighting games. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

edit2: this is getting ridiculous.
Yeah, when he is out of office and termed out...

Politicians shouldn't promise things they won't be around to deliver on.
There's an episode of Marketplace in Canada[1] where they found similar results themselves:

"By the end, the dentists had recommended treatments covering 19 different teeth, ranging from nighttime mouth guards to veneers promising a "complete smile makeover," with cost estimates ranging from $144 to $11,931."

When they asked for answers they were told "Dentistry is more of an art than a science". I damn near fell out of my chair when I heard that.

[1]https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/dentists-vary-widely-on-diagn...
Correct, but they are not yet recording in order to augment their own citizens.
Flossing&brushing is better than a waterpik, any dentist worth their salt will tell you that. I think it's a money grab. You don't need it.
this is one of the early rfcs where it would be most desirable to see a scan of the original document
Properly drawn isometric is timeless ...
The concept of a "flow state" is useful in responding to the retort "So what if you have interruptions?"
Agreed. But if the only people you are around and depend on for your mental health is your coworkers, that is unhealthy. There should be other relationships in your life that are meeting your social needs outside of work. If that is not the case, it is unhealthy.
Blink WEI “will not ship in current form”
> floss weekly

For me daily makes a big difference. If I leave it until weekly my gums will start to suffer for it.

I use the little floss picks, as they're much easier to manage for me than floss, and - here's something - they're reusable. Rinse them off like you would your toothbrush and you can keep those suckers going for a long time. You can also get them made from bio-plastic, so that they'll degrade once they go to landfill.
There is a weird assumption that Chinese tech corporations are permanently immune to American law. At most, this is an artifact of unidirectional free trade agreements written generations ago.

Similar to Europe, I doubt US regulators would dissolve one giant just to see it replaced by a foreign one. The current status quo that Chinese tech companies can operate in the US, but US ones are unable to operate in China is an historic abnormality.
The idea of Stardew Valley with microtransactions just ruined my day.
All examples rotate a node with a single child, what about the case where you have two children?
>Also, as the 90s Microsoft case showed, just having a monopoly isn’t bad. It’s the harm caused by having the monopoly.

Can you elaborate your thoughts here because the point of breaking up companies with monopolistic power is they cannot be divorced from monopolistic abuse of that power. It is written into US law that the company has a legal duty to it's shareholders. It seems your point is a distinction without a difference.
That is not independent hosting. Substack still hosts and controls all of your data even if you use a custom domain name.
woa, so many people are still using google for search?
If you use PPP that would make India the 3rd largest economy and they have a ways to go before they can be considered developed.
10-20% cheaper than similar sized non-flex unit. They only rent these to companies so I'm guessing it reduces the demand pool.
What Apple did to Nokia, Tesla is now doing to the motor industry
Agree about sound design, both in this game and its importance in general. That's something I failed to mention. The sound of combat and just environmental sound is great and adds even more to immersion.

If you're a fan of sound in games, check out the original Dead Space. Master class in using sound to create atmosphere.
Like 290+ million, just to get started.
Fair observations broadly, but gp’s points are fair too. It’s hard to predict hits but the points listed are all factors that helped the title out. Larian got the contract precisely because they proved themselves to be what you describe in your last sentence through the Divinity releases gp mentions. And even that was no guarantee here.
Sure there's no general formula, but it's really not a surprise that the first big D&D videogame in a long time would be a huge success, after several years of tabletop D&D skyrocketing in popularity.
Just to be clear, I wasn't proposing a law.

Here's the thing. Right now, it's difficult to work 25% less for only a 25% pay cut, especially when you include other benefits. And that's because people who work less than 40 hours are considered more temporary and less dedicated—because the market of "part-time" job seekers usually is more temporary and less dedicated, as of today.

But I think that's cultural.

I'd like to encourage more people to re-evaluate how they're spending their time. If a certain mass of workers decided they'd prefer to work 30 hours, it would become easier for others to work 30 hours as well. Not entirely unlike how normalizing remote work allows more people to do it.
I think it’s unrealistic to expect a non-franchise game to be a top seller. Every franchise has years of player base, nostalgia, marketing, lore, etc that lead to sales, not just the merits of the game. Additionally, most franchise games are data driven refinements on past recipes that work. Listen to feedback, make changes. And often times players buy franchise games with the expectation that it’s mostly the same but a little different, and in some cases that’s desirable.

It doesn’t mean franchises make the best games, it’s just unsurprising they’re top sellers.
Higher churn in India (people quit after a few months) and the quality of the talent. There is talent that is at parity with US, but it's a smaller pool and the cost delta is much smaller. With India, you can choose your own price point (though that's positively correlated to the quality of the talent).
We’re talking about what happens if you lose your keys. If all I need to do is call and say “this is netheril96” and they’ll give me access, the yubikey is theatre.
They are avoiding entering long term contracts on the hope that prices will come back up. I don't see that happening, though.
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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Mindgrub put on AI-generatet concert
AI in A Minor uses AI-generated compositions that leverage the power of Amazon Web Services (AWS)’ machine learning and AI cloud technologies, alongside a range of open-source and commercial tools. By using various models, AI can generate music that is influenced by existing artists like Philip Glass, Nat King Cole, and Taylor Swift, while adhering to a specific style of music and instrumental constraints. Once generated, the music is transformed into sheet music, enabling the talented musicians of the BSO to bring it to life through their performances.
If you have an ongoing problem of plaque/tartar build up on your teeth then this BBC article[1] could be a life changer for you. It was for me. After a year of doing it right my gums are now close to perfect.

I notice though that neither my hygenist's or my dentist's office has been handing out information about this approach. Not good for business perhaps. I believe this technique works via abrasion so toothpaste is a must. I use a Braun 4000 but any sturdy electric toothbrush should work.

[1]https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220718-the-best-way-to-....
Does Cyberpunk 2077 count as 0 years or 32 years old when it released in 2020?
Two things:

1. As it's been said before, if you go at it MBA style you'll end up with a crap soul less design by commitee game.

2. DnD has a lot of brand power? The only thing related to DnD that I did was play some computer RPGs. The Infinity Engine games could have had any other RPG system in the background and they'd have been as much fun.

3. Getting Early Access wrong too. It got popular in early access because some people considered it good.

4. You may be right about Baldur's Gate nostalgia, that is probably the greatest driver behind this. Personally I will get the game because of said nostalgia, but I'll wait for enough reviews to have something to read between the lines and decide if the game is any good.
Okay so in this case, companies are complaining that they’re noticing “lower productivity.” What are they noticing exactly?

One accusation is that they’ve noticed nothing and are demanding changes on entirely false pretenses.
How much money do doctors make and why is it such a lot?
Buy tickets at https://my.bsomusic.org/overview/18690 and read a full press release of the event at https://mindgrub.com/news/presenting-ai-in-a-minor/
> You need people who care and know what they are doing and let them do what they love.

That includes Pillars of Eternity, and the other games I mentioned. They made great games but they just weren't that popular. I agree in general about checkbox thinking.