skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cross-compilation to webassembly doesn't typically produce small binaries at this point (although it's possible to make small webassembly programs, compiling arbitrary C code to wasm results in large binaries).
I’m not OP but I’ve been doing game dev for 15 years professionally for the same reasons you mentioned. I’ll be honest up front though, it’s not a great field if you’re going into it trying to make money, but it can be incredibly satisfying.

As far as how long it’ll take, that depends on what kind of things you want to make and how much time/effort you’re willing to put into them, especially on the visual polish side of things.

The hardest part of learning game dev is learning how to program, and it sounds like you already have a good foundation there. The current tools, especially Unity and Godot, are very quick to get up and running with. You could learn the basics in a dozen hours, and be making (bad) games in less than a month. Game design is a skill that is hard to learn except by doing it. Reading books and watching youtube videos about it only goes so far.

For making games that you can actually sell, you’re looking at spending months per game, usually at least 6 months… though often the games you think are going to take 6 months often take much longer!

The number one tip I would give is to actually finish your games, even your little early experiments. In game dev the “last 10%” takes way more than 10% of the effort.
Thanks! I think it still has a ways to go, my bigger concern now is how to make the non visual experience feel/sound great. Auto playing, notifying the transition to a new comment, etc.
To be clear, you disagree because you fundamentally don't understand what's going on. I'll explain it to you.

A company makes a product - it costs $10 per unit to make. To list and sell with Amazon, they are charged $12 per unit. To make a profit the company adds and additional $1 per unit. They sell the product on Amazon for $23 per unit.

Online retailer Foo also has a store, and provide the same services that Amazon for their online shop at $5 per unit. The online retailer adds a profit of $2 per unit. Total price $17 per unit. Retailer Foo is more $ efficient for those services as a result customers price compare. Foo is rewarded for their effi with higher volume, manufacturer is rewarded with higher profit and consumer is rewarded with lower prices. Enforcing market competition led to all 3 parties involved being rewarded. Retailer Foo over time grows a larger customer base as people learn to price compare with them and forces Amazon to stop rent seeking.

But the above doesn't happen in the real world. Amazon enforces that the retailer lower their price on Amazon to $17, while still collecting $12 per unit. The company now can sell on foo, but only by selling on Amazon at a loss. They can't afford that amount of loss from Amazon and stay in business. So Amazon avoids competition. They can't pull their product from Amazon because not enough customers vist Foo retailer yet to make up the volume.

So in the end Foo retailer is more dollar efficient, but is prevented from growing and benefiting the marketplace. Amazon leverages its outside market size to avoid competition. Market participants preventing competition is against the benefits of capitalism and harms the consumer. So, it benefits the consumer to ensure Amazon has to actually compete with the more efficient competitor and stop rent selling behavior.
I prefer JS over TS, and I'm predominantly a Haskell developer.

But then again, I suppose we haven't met.
The only actual monopoly in the tech industry is Google search. There is also a very concerning duopoly with Google / Apple app stores controlling all software loaded on mobile OS that needs to be forced to allow alternate channels. Besides that, I can't think of anything in tech that is actually a concerning monopoly. Amazon has no such monopoly position in e-commerce. The market share really isn't that big.
Wordpress itself is pretty secure. The plugin and Themes are the issue. One of the downsides of open source is that anyone can make a plugin and there is no minimum standards. While I hate ecosystems like Apple, it does have its advantages.
Just keep buying it then, rancid just means exposed to air/oxidized. The good stuff is worth it when eating the oil but not as noticable.

Unless you buy it in small quantities and use it quickly after opening the bottle (within a week), it's rancid though.
The shareholders (me, you, our 401ks) demand growth.
I went to a small talk rms gave in London in around 2009.
The talk was unmemorable (my fault, likely, not his) but the Q&A afterwards was remarkable:

He screamed at people for using 'open source' instead of 'free software' in their questions, raved about the Amazon "Swindle" like a 12-year-old, and talked over and down to everyone. He was often accurate in the core of what he was trying to say, but his attitude was unhinged, and discouraged most people from interacting.

The 100 or so developers all left the talk in silence, mourning the loss of the hero we had imagined him to be.

To those who say we need him for GNU outreach: we absolutely don't. ANYONE would be better for the job.

I thank him for his many incredible contributions to our world, and wish him a speedy recovery, but we don't need these talented assholes to represent our community.
SoftBank CEO says AGI will come within 10 years
Every fortnight during a full moon.

All kidding aside, obviously I don't. That shouldn't detract from my statement at all though, nobody measures anything about software. We're all in the dark. Thats actually reinforcing my beliefs: we are in the dark because software is unmeasurable because of the freedoms taken by programmers that fail to abstract or fail to be formalized.

Formalizing software, and then starting to measure changes rigourously, is the first step we have to take towards becoming a mature industry.

Formalization is the oposite of freedom. People think software is like art, where freedom of expression broadens horizons. This is no longer true, most software is not art, most software is buttons that make money when clicked.
This article might be right in an academic sense. I suggest the author and those who believe similarly that its a "hill to die on" rethink their approach and spend 5-8 years doing professional consulting (do not confuse consulting with staff augmentation). You will indeed die on the hill as a business cannot expect everyone it hires to believe the same thing, and you cannot expect to force anyone to use strong typing properly. In short, while you may believe this is the right path, most folks dont care, and all that remains is an extremely complex, antipatterned, mysterious ball of mud that no one wants to work with because no one fully bought into the concept for which you were willing to die.
The opinion piece doesn't claim any of these items are issues for students being absent. This feels like you are trying to distract from the issue with a different agenda.
Woah, very cool idea.
> Which, BTW, is not content made by Canadians. If you're a Canadian creative you have to jump through a lot of hoops in order to be officially recognized as "Canadian Content".

This is the backstory of Bob and Doug McKenzie, a pair of characters developed for the sketch comedy show SCTV:

> Bob and Doug, two dim-witted beer-swilling brothers wearing heavy winter clothing and tuques, would comment on various elements of Canadian life and culture, frequently employing the interjection "Eh?" and derisively calling each other "hoser."

> The sketch was conceived when SCTV moved to the CBC television network. Due to the difference in the amount of time allocated for commercials, each episode to be broadcast on that network was two minutes longer than those syndicated to the United States. The CBC network heads asked the show's producers to add specifically identifiably Canadian content for those two minutes, in line with government broadcast regulations. Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas thought that this was a ridiculous request, given that the show had been taped in Canada, with a mostly Canadian cast and crew, for two years.[2] The request inspired them to create a parody that would incorporate every aspect of the humorous stereotype of Canadians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_and_Doug_McKenzie
Ask HN: Getting in Touch with Support at Airtable
Airtable recently eliminated the option to connect with a human being as far as I can tell. I am a paying customer and have tried to debug an issue with Outlook Calendar syncing for months to no avail.

Would anyone from Airtable be willing to connect with me?

Does anyone else on HN have an issue with their outlook calendar sync capability claim?
Roofs should do more than just capture the energy of the sun, it needs to capture and store the water that hits it, because diffusing that water is enormously expensive at a city level. Hint: shingle roofs inject things into otherwise fresh water.
K8s is pretty wonderful when it “clicks” but it’s still obscenely over complicated. I hope the next big thing in container orchestration is built with long term maintainability in mind.
It's not at all clear to me. I still don't get why he elaborated on his naive nonsense instead of just sticking with "let's maybe not judge dead people when they can't defend themselves for things that have not yet been proven even in other cases".
I just got back from overseas and while there went to a Michelin star restaurant where we got to sample different fresh olive oils and I can confirm they did taste somewhat like grass.
I think this is especially true for line of business applications that have the following qualities:

1. It's simple. Let's not lie, let's not pretend. It's CRUD. You can put in K8S, you can add AI, it can be behind an API Gateway, you can make it all Event Driven, you can use CQRS for every entity because you really, really want to feel clever. But it's still CRUD.

2. Other people are working on it, many other people.

3. People from other companies are interfacing with it.

So knowing what to expect trumps everything. Types help with that. They help a lot.
> Except that if they put the same money into their public school that they do into the private schools, they'd get even more superior outcomes than they do from funding private schools.

No, they wouldn’t. Schools have extremely small effects on student learning, if that[1]. Private schools buy a safer, more class homogeneous environment which is worth a lot but you can get the same effect by living in the right suburbs.

[1] Education and Intelligence: Pity the Poor Teacher because Student Characteristics are more Significant than Teachers or Schools

Education has not changed from the beginning of recorded history. The problem is that focus has been on schools and teachers and not students. Here is a simple thought experiment with two conditions: 1) 50 teachers are assigned by their teaching quality to randomly composed classes of 20 students, 2) 50 classes of 20 each are composed by selecting the most able students to fill each class in order and teachers are assigned randomly to classes. In condition 1, teaching ability of each teacher and in condition 2, mean ability level of students in each class is correlated with average gain over the course of instruction. Educational gain will be best predicted by student abilities (up to r = 0.95) and much less by teachers’ skill (up to r = 0.32). I argue that seemingly immutable education will not change until we fully understand students and particularly human intelligence. Over the last 50 years in developed countries, evidence has accumulated that only about 10% of school achievement can be attributed to schools and teachers while the remaining 90% is due to characteristics associated with students. Teachers account for from 1% to 7% of total variance at every level of education. For students, intelligence accounts for much of the 90% of variance associated with learning gains. This evidence is reviewed.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/spanish-journal-of-p...
Spending on the education apparatus is not spending on the education of the child. Local teacher salaries are the same here as they've been for the past 10+ years, while the school's budget has gone up millions.
Administration and overhead is a self-perpetuating growth industry. Also renovating buildings, changing standards for buses and playgrounds and such - tons of cash around educating the kids, but still, the teachers and books and such are the last to get anything.
My whole life.
But you can watch another season of stranger things and find out what happens in the 90s!
Assuming my reply is advocating for those types of policies is a strawman as well. Central to my post is that there needs to be a balance.
Sure, hypothetically. It's just not what I'm seeing the wealthy parents in the town I grew up in doing. Most of them are fighting for school vouchers so they can divert money from public schools into their private schools.
Just sent out my resume for Staff/senior SRE roles. Would be nice if I could get a bump. Thanks.
Give humans a way to be lazy and they will take it every time, this is just a fundamental law of nature.
>the good olive oil does have a really bitter after taste, that people would really not enjoy.

That heavily depends on the olive variety. Try Arbequina if you want sweeter olive oil.

Also, the chemical composition of the olive do change over time and very ripe olives produce a less greenish, mild flavored oil, but it's not clear one is healthier than the other.
Well, people have always been fanatical about thing a they are attached to emotionally, rather than rationally.

Fact is: the “types lead to fewer bugs” claim is just a feeling, it is “truthy”.

https://blog.metaobject.com/2014/06/the-safyness-of-static-t...

And it’s not for lack of trying. You might say the claim has been disproven.

That said,I personally like static types, but primarily for the documentation effect that is, maybe not entirely coincidentally, the only positive effect for which there actually is solid empirical evidence.
I see — so it seems like what confused me about your comment is that your definition of ‘closely connected’ doesn't mean in a theoretical sense, i.e. that there's a well-understood mapping between them, but is more about a cultural connection in which people make choose to make active use of category-theoretical concepts when working in a more concrete field?

Thank you for explaining :)
It's not yet possible, but is planned. I haven't thought too much about it but you're right for lectures that would be extremely helpful.
Show HN: Common Ground – A Better Discord
Common Ground is a group messenger like Discord that’s simpler to use yet more powerful. The platform can be white-labeled. The app is built as a PWA. The business is organized as a coop, owned by its users.

Interested in your feedback.
This is like someone saying there's no proof of God and then responding with there's no proof that there isn't a God. It's safe to say that the burden of proof falls on the one making outrageous claims which is you.
I need more time to shower when I exercise, probably could save a lot of water by shaving my head.
I believe Notion uses them.
And media companies...
Unfortunately this attitude is not profitable, and also smacks of someone who works on their own island and costs a business more than they add value given their inability to work as a team. This attitude might find a way to be profitable when held by a university professor, though that does not mean its desirable.
Oh but remember:
"Bigger is better!" and "Economies of scale"/s
From your Wikipedia link:

> by a 4,500 km (2,800 mi) 3 GW HVDC transmission line.

3 GW

Also it's still a project, a very ambitious one that is, which is projected for shipping in ten years, and whose budget has already doubled compared to what's initially projected and has already bankrupted once before getting saved, so it's a bit early to use that as a example of how straightforward such thing is… At this point, it is as “real” as fast neutron reactors…

> Maybe you should let them know about the cloudy days? You said solar doesn’t work.

Who said that? Not me. You know discussing energy technology isn't like supporting a sport team… If anything, I'd argue that the environmental impact of solar makes it the worst of the non-fossil energy source. But it works, it just doesn't work the way you think it works, you are off by orders of magnitude at every levels, that's the problem and that's why you end up with science-fiction “ideas” to save the world.

> Not leveraging spinning, we are installing solar globally because the sun shines everywhere.

Then you've abandoned your idiotic idea you started with and we're good, there's no much need to continue this discussion since you retracted the take I've been criticizing from the beginning.

> You didn’t refute my math on panels, is it wrong? I’m happy to learn. Or you just trolling? (Your error earlier was thinking you needed to produce the whole years worth of electricity every second… but you don’t need to do that, you have a whole year to produce it)

The fact that you think that I “needed to produce the whole years worth of electricity every second…” in my previous calculation is an example where your math is wrong. There's also the fact you don't realize that your “136km²” is off by multiples orders of magnitude (Hawaii is 16 THOUSAND of square kilometers, and even your project in Australia is going to be 150km² wide[1]), or that you don't even realize that your calculation ended up with “45 million panels” and one sentence after that you say with a straight face that “We've already installed 1.75 billion panels globally”, without realizing that somehow it would mean that we'd have 30 times too many solar panels already… In addition to the math, there's also a lack of basic practical sense, like you can't multiply the size of the panel by their number to get the surface of a solar farm, and you cannot fit a solar farm on a mountainous island of the same surface unless you also plan to level the mountain altogether, and so on and so on.

[1]: https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3091182/w...
I have a friend who does HR & payroll database management for one of the largest health insurers. In the past couple of years, they've switched over to Workday from Peoplesoft. After 25 years with them, it's making my friend want to quit. It's that bad, from the inside too. Apparently, things that were routine in Peoplesoft are difficult in Workday, and things that were merely hard are simply impossible.
First off, thank you.

Secondly, it feels like in a federate network of any type that growing the network should be top priority, even over the user experience.

Put another way, it seems to me as a newbie that Mastodon's growth effort itself has been federated, which is probably not ideal for the growth necessary to really challenge the walled gardens.
Sure, if you're going to be in an environment where the code is going to be bad because of inadequate testing (and I admit this is quite common, due to the cost of the testing needed), static typing lets it be somewhat less bad. It's just important to understand it's a band-aid, not a panacea.
Do you propose thin or thick client? How about Java applets or MS Silverlight?
“It’s not really expression of anything. It’s freedom of manipulation; freedom of engineering people’s brains to be ideal victims. Maybe that’s something society needs to prohibit.”

I think governments were first in this space of “engineering people’s brains to be ideal victims” and will remain active in that long after any regulation is crafted to limit individuals and corporations from doing the same. Engagement optimization seems like a thing that can be regulated, but it’s just the same thing tv stations have been doing forever, basically marketing. I think really the problem is a different one. People need better education especially when it comes to ethics. Psychological experiments (a/b testing for example) should be governed by boards that oversee the ethics of experimenting on human subjects. Stallman identifies the problem as “popularity” but what if popularity required behaving ethically and not doing what is incontrovertibly unethical human subject research for personal greed.
A primary source of oppression in some nations is the education system. To think that it's impossible to be wielded against us in kind, at some point in the future, is naive. You might think conservatives are stupid for homeschooling, but it's only a matter of time before the things being pushed in public school are things you morally/ethically oppose as well.

Be the one to break the cycle. Be educated, educate your children to the best of your ability with the fundamentals, and show them how to want to learn more. That's how to set your kid up for success.
Yes. But it can also prove you were near a crime you did not commit and thus used as evidence you did commit it.

The problem is you don’t have control over the data.

Example. Somebody was killed in a hit and run. PD says “give me all the people where in this location at this tome in a car”. Your name is the only one that shows up. You just became the top suspect. And and after the investigation a homeless guy who was given a hot meal in return for looking at some photos indicates he saw you do the hit and run.

Good job. Your data locked you up in jail for 10 years. Hope Google is logging how many times you dropped the soap.
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We have unique insights into how to solve this problem based on our time building products for startups and fintech compliance.

We have a functioning MVP built with Django going live with our first customer soon. We’re looking for someone to join as a technical co-founder and help us refine the product as we onboard the next 5 customers we have lined up.

This is an equity only position until we raise our first round of funding. You will receive up to 40% of the company, depending on your availability. We understand that not everyone is able to make that work and are flexible on full time or part time. Our CEO is based in Los Angeles, but we’re open to candidates anywhere in Americas time zones.

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No it's not.

But maybe you're forgetting that days aren't 12 hours of noon.

Maybe the “average at noon, including sunny and cloudy days, across landmass is 60%”, but that's very much not the same thing as “the average on a cloudy day is 60%”…
Vue is not too great with TypeScript in my experience. That's one of the reasons why I switched from Vue to React.
Same issue here.

Gmail offers this functionality in their own settings. There is no way to add SPF or DKIM records.

So if I use gmail to send using a third-party domain to a gmail address, it bounces.

I guess they forgot that people use the function.

Any hacks found in the meantime?
A more recent report echoing similar findings: http://hechingerreport.org/a-decade-of-research-on-the-rich-...

https://hechingerreport.org/new-data-even-within-the-same-di...

https://www.epi.org/publication/public-education-funding-in-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/09/upshot/biden-school-fundi...
Review: Michael Lewis's Going Infinite
One of the benefits of a tightening economy is that people pay a lot more attention to monopolies. The pain inflicted by a monopoly reaches a boiling over point when money is tight.