skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC They have some type of nuclear power. Not like a reactor but something much simpler that generates heat from radioactive decay.
There is a balance between making a game to difficult and boring. You were likely talking a moment when the game got boring or repetitive, because you already understood the mechanics, when you encountered another gameplay tutorial explaining it.

Also games might target new players, while you might have encountered similar game mechanics before. But even then a good tutorial will make it fun, although it may be easy to solve. It's also helps to make it solvable fast if you already know the mechanics.

But still, if you add a new game mechanics 20 into a game, it is good practice to add a situation where you can learn to handle it. A good example is the gravity gun in half life, or specific features of it that only get available in the endgame.
The desktop version of Balsamiq with a one-time-payment is still available, but you have to hunt for it a little.
They (or someone they hired) actually rewrote their whole app about a year ago, I remember seeing lots of people complaining about how much worse and buggier it got after the rewrite.

I have no idea if the back end was also replaced then or if the vulnerabilities were present in the previous version as well.
I think it is inevitable that organizational "culture" changes. The tricky part is figuring out exactly what parts need change and what parts don’t.

For example JPL used to have beauty pageants ("Miss Guided Missile"). More recently, management appears to be trying to adopt policies and procedures from some venture funded commercial space companies. It is not clear how helpful these efforts will be given that these organizations are in fundamentally different businesses.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/slice-of-history-70th-annive...
KVM got more and more integrated with the rest of Linux as more virtualization features became general system features (e.g. posted interrupts). Also Google and Amazon are working more upstream and the pace of development increased a lot.

Keeping a KVM port up to date is a huge effort compared to bhyve, and they probably had learnt that in the years between the porting of KVM and the founding of Oxide.
I love Haskell the language, but Haskell the ecosystem still has a way to go:

* The compiler is slower than most mainstream language compilers

* Its ability to effectively report errors is poorer

* It tends to have 'first error, breaks rest of compile' problems

* I don't mind the more verbose 'stack trace' of errors, but I know juniors/noobs can find that quite overwhelming.

* The tooling, although significantly better than it was, is still poor compared to other some other functional languages, and really poor compared to mainstream languages like C#

* This ^ significantly steepens the learning curve for juniors and those new to Haskell and generally gets in the way for those more experienced.

* The library ecosystem for key capabilities in 'enterprise dev' is poor. Many unmaintained, substandard, or incomplete implementations. Often trying their best to be academically interesting, but not necessarily usable.

The library ecosystem is probably the biggest issue. Because it's not something you can easily overcome without a lot of effort.

I used to be very bullish on Haskell and brought it into my company for a greenfield project. The company had already been using pure-FP techniques (functors, monads, etc.), so it wasn't a stretch. We ran a weekly book club studying Haskell to help out the juniors and newbies. So, we really gave it its best chance.

After a year of running a team with it, I came to the conclusions above. Everything was much slower -- I kept telling myself that the code would be less brittle, so slower was OK -- but in reality it sapped momentum from the team.

I think Haskell's biggest contribution to the wider community is its ideas, which have influenced many other languages. I'm not sure it will ever have its moment in the sun unfortunately.
Or I have...
Has that really changed recently? Different people have always enjoyed different things, and some don't like puzzles. That was as true a hundred years ago as now.
A Minimal Blog Design for Maximal Reading Pleasure
I designed my blog to enhance the reading experience and this article goes through on how I went about designing it. If you have feedback on what I can do to make it better, it would be much appreciated.
Oracle!
Sugar is pretty bad for teeth, and also risks diabetes. Sugar also suppresses the immune systems, thereby seriously risking infections and even cancer. Sugar is effectively a carcinogen.
Not sure if it would be out of scope to have support for PlantUML etc programmatic generation
You can't get EVs with a long range at much lower weight with current technology. Batteries are heavy.

The solution if you want smaller/lighter cars is to consider something like a Prius or similar hybrid. Those weigh less and can still drive 80% of the time electric. But they come with the downsides of having a complex ICE with the maintenance costs that go with it.
Absolutely not. The kind of stunts they've pulled mean I wouldn't ever base anything I do on Unity (unless I was specifically paid to).
Alias|Wavefront Maya Unlimited (now Autodesk Maya)
A friend of mine recently let the domain used for documentation of Pykka, a Python actor library, expire. Some of course registered the domain, resurected the content and injected ads/spam/SEO junk.

Since the documentation is Apache License 2.0 there isn't much one can do, other than complain to the hosting about misuse of the project name/branding. But so far we haven't heard back from the hosting provider's abuse contact point (https://github.com/jodal/pykka/issues/216 if anyone is interested).
This is so true. I've seen this so many times. The darling of product, who can deliver so fast. They leave a trail of smoking rubble and half working features behind them.
I'm someone with a weakness for design (luckily, my other half is the opposite). I was so excited to try gpt-4-turbo and others in their vision mode to try and get design feedback.

Some was ok. But I soon realised, the key feed back, was about the content or amount of content/actions in relation to the rest of the app.

I have tried feeding in multiple steps as images. This hasn't really helped (maybe it's too complicated)

The overall journey of the user seems to be the most important part. If they slow down at one stage, it reduces their enthusiasm.. and a great later design only feels good

Is there any way your tool in the future could do that? More to the point, and very much an anti-thesis of your starting with an extension here, the use case I see is connecting this with screen recorders of users to analyze, which would be the opposite of an extension. But much more useful for me. I have thousands of sessions a day; tens of errors. I can't watch them all (and stay sane - I suppose I could watch moments before users purchase, but that's weird).

Any thoughts?
"Unnecessary" is a very strong word and even Go has a centralized module proxy nowadays. So there is an obvious benefit of centralization here, and you should explain what and how much is the overside to give it up.
I recently had a fire alarm with a failing battery and their way of telling you about the battery problem is a single loud warning beep every 70 or so seconds (something irregular of course), just enough to wake you up to an entirely silent room. Battery voltage was right on the edge and the detection circuit hopelessly naive so it would generally only beep at night when temperatures fell, often not even repeatedly. Horrible product.
Sexual preferences and such are special category data, and if you are an engineer dealing with this stuff you should treat it as though data breaches could get someone killed.

Sure, part of the responsibility of this is on management, but it's absolutely on the engineers too.
Autodesk Maya is currently about $1900 per year and seat, with some more esoteric Autodesk products going much higher:

https://www.autodesk.com/products

UE5 has a seat-based subscription model in the same ballpark:

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/license
Not so coincidentally, the EU is mandating salary transparency:

https://fikku.com/111920
Only for the video distribution piece. The control plane code is on Linux.
> Higher productivity in this environment pretty much universally translates to fewer staff on shift.

Depends on demand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

> PS: $18 an hour in the bay in 2024 might as well be under minimum wage. It’s unconscionably low if one wants to maintain any standard of living.

That wasn't in 2024. It's $20 now.

https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Fast-Food-Minimum-Wage-FAQ.htm
> I was terrified of our culture stagnating.

That’s something I can relate to.

A lot of my personal “secret sauce” is habit, and a lot of habit is synonymous with motivation.

I find that establishing great habits has a kernel of great motivation.

Sometimes, I just do something a certain way, because of the way it makes me feel. No other reason.

Personal satisfaction and Integrity are vital parts of all that I do, and these come from a lifetime of experience.

I heard a great quote from a friend of mine, recently, who is a retired union exec:

What’s the substitute for 30 years of experience?

There is none.
The Tokyo government is trying that: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/07/japan-pushes-citizens-toward...
Not true, you can sign up for Foundry today and pay per compute second / storage second. It is pay per use.

Of course big companies sign huge deals for discounts, but that is the same for Snowflake, Databricks, etc.
In the case of aimbot: it is very easy to detect aimbot though, and you can always look for patterns, even in cases of triggerbot.

As far as assistance goes: I despise it. Modern games have "aim assist" which is just a built-in aimbot. sighs
> "Cheating on your taxes = stealing from the people" is a such a well established fundamental axiom

Excuse me?! Cheating on your taxes is illegal. Minimizing your taxes is what everyone of us does - it is perfectly normal and justified behavior.

And the discussion was not about that - companies are paying their taxes just fine. The discussion was about governments colluding to form a cartel to uniformly raise taxes. That is not OK.

Even if the stated purpose is somehow justifiable, government collusion is not good for the people. By definition governments are natural monopolies, they don't have internal competition. The only competition keeping them in check is external. And it comes in two forms: destructive (wars) and constructive (free trade). Without competition democracy alone cannot keep governments in check - just witness the decay towards populism and autocracy together with the raise of left and right extremism of the Western governments during the last few years. We need alternatives. We, the people, need to be able to pack our bags and go to a place with values and laws better aligned to ours. Otherwise we will end up prisoners behind barbed wire on the borders like the Eastern Europe the Cold War or facing fines and exit taxes like certain countries already impose on their citizens today.

In a world of bigger and bigger governments, with larger and larger budgets and deficits but smaller and crappier results, inter-national competition is the only recourse we have left. For example, the EU would be supremely satisfied with itself right now if USA's economic performance didn't point out that the Emperor is naked.

> argue that if Apple doesn't pay taxes, all those gains are passed on to us

Yes, smaller costs for Apple directly translate in cheaper products for us or larger profits for its shareholders - which is also us. On the other hand, that money going to the tax man will fund millions of fat bureaucrat jobs and countless wasteful government programs out of which an extremely tiny part will actually benefit us.

> democratic governments (us)

Even if you think democratic governments represent us (a debatable idea at best, then logically you should want competition for them. Because like us, without competition, they go lazy, wasteful and abusive.
It is not. There are still ridiculous hoops you have to jump through to orient your sketch. The first thing I do is draw an arrow that points up in the sketch and then reorient the sketch. The reason for this is that the attachment editor just randomly picks a "random" orientation based on the "orientation" of the face or datum plane you are using. The attachment editor is fundamentally broken and needs a complete revamp.

The other part is that FreeCAD is still this "enter numbers by hand and hope for the best" CAD tool. When you perform an extrusion, there are no visual arrows to pull the extrusion along. When you do a pocket and it goes in the wrong direction you just see nothing, instead of a transparent preview of the operation that is being attempted.

I say this as someone who built a design in the Assembly 4 workbench using dozens of individual parts and probably redesigned every part at least twice. Sure the official assembly workbench is a good idea in the very long run, but they fixed none of the short term pain points I have. You know, things you run into every single damn day. Meanwhile migrating to the new assembly workbench will cost me even more time. I.e. there are switching costs but hardly any benefits.
I hate Discord because of that.

Subreddits are okay, although I preferred the less centralised way of the past with the myriad vBulletin forums etc.

But Discord is built to replace IRC, not to replace forums, yet people use it for the latter.
Creo Design Engineering Professional

$29,400, floating license (Annual).

Engineering 3D Cad modelling/design tool. I learned it when it was called Pro Engineer at University.
Yes and No,
i think modern games lead more people to be like this. Because quest markers and gps navigations and hints and creative/story modes. Also a heavy emphasis on the rewards rather than the quest.

I notice this myself when going back to older games like Final Fantasy 7 or 8 and misremembering how complex and complicated the UI, Menus and systems are.

You just get used to these things, but i also think they are a bit immersion breaking and shift the focus a lot on the destination and not the journey.
I guess that's one way of keeping Solaris alive :)
the flow of electrons to allow systems to work is not the same as the expulsion of gasses to provide thrust
If we are including ready-made B2B products, your high score will probably come from some obscure semiconductor, healthcare, banking, insurance or logistics vendor. Much of the cost is then about consulting & configuring more than any specific code pile.

Top of my mind right now would be the EDA tools used by semiconductor designers.
Adobe wanted £24K for a ColdFusion maintenance licence. We were code frozen into an old version and didn't actually need any support or upgrades as we were migrating to a new and different platform. They also wanted another £24K for the dev instance we retained in case any issues turned up with our old code. Adobe had changed licensing terms and so dev instances needed full licencing too. This instance was spun down for most of the time.

In effect, they wanted £48K for nothing.

Yes, Lucee was in our future, but I left before that came to be.

About 3yr after leaving that company, Adobe tracked me down via LinkedIn and my personal Web site and messaged me using my personal email address to put them back in touch directly with someone at my old job who could pick up licence negotiations.

I told them to phone Head Office - they said they'd done that but had not received a return call. I very politely told them to fu....go away as it was not my problem.
The original pre-print is available at: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3647379/v1

which is probably a less spammy source than the ResearchGate link.
Whenever I see Haskell stuff, Steve Yegge's famous 2010 blog post instantly comes to mind:

"Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit"

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers-...
Maya comes to mind; total cost for my small team ended up more than an entire artists salary.

Another that comes to mind was when I was forced to buy “Mindmanager” and was shocked at the cost. Even the base licence was something like €1600/u/year; but the extensions are required, and paid.

Theres a bunch of “top” items of things, gitlab ultimate and sourcegraph being €99/u/m come to mind, which are off the shelf, and actually useful even for frugal people like myself.
Here it goes: https://chatgpt.com/share/37ec51fc-732f-4d1b-a03e-47fd50e21c...

Long story short, thank you for pointing that out.

Here’s the postmortem:

- I specifically searched for the debate transcript on Google.

- Initially found the ABC transcript, but I remember it seemed incomplete, had ads, or some other issue that made it hard to use. However, I now see it's complete, so either my perception was wrong, or it has since been updated.

- Then turned to the CNN transcript, which appeared accurate.

- While copying and pasting, I noticed Biden at the end, but I mistakenly assumed it was part of a long transcript (my fault)
This was solved even before internet or wifi existed.
> who cares what the thing looks like as long as it gets the job done?

Aesthetics (or lack thereof when things are messy) does have some direct unconscious cost to mental load, and a direct tension between cleanliness and horror vacui.

https://ignorethecode.net/blog/2014/11/11/horror_vacui/

> And let's not forget, a well-designed system can actually make troubleshooting and maintenance easier. I've seen some beautifully cable-managed rigs that make it a joy to work on. Maybe I've been wrong to dismiss aesthetics all these years... you've got a point, aesthetics maybe matter.

That's where we start talking about "design" instead of "aesthetics"! Dieter Rams's 2 to 6 would definitely apply:

https://www.vitsoe.com/gb/about/good-design
Ah! That makes sense, thanks - today I learned!
What’s Luci (for the uninitiated)?
Ansys can also be very expensive. Although it also seems very variable. I've heard of smaller shops paying between $7k and $30k/year.
If you are willing / able to report these pain points in detail to the Haskell Foundation, this is going to be valuable feedback that will help orient the investments in tooling in the near future.
> So…some friendly government officials and security vendors but no press or members of the public ensure "the highest level of transparency" in Microsoft's book?

Sometimes the message you need your 'partners' to receive is: "Yes, we fucked up 3 times, but over the same period you lot fucked up 100 times so we're going to severely curtail what you can do, if you don't like it tough"

And if you're Linus Torvalds you can just say that in public.

But if you're a business with a PR department and lawyers, and some of these partners are actually important to your business and you want to maintain a good relationship with them?

Then it's probably a lot easier for you to deliver the message clearly and frankly if you do it behind closed doors.
Draw.io changes license to disallow Atlassian integrations
Half serious/Half Joke

- The Sims 4

Total cost is around 1200$ (with ALL DLCs, packs, etc.)

https://www.thegamer.com/the-sims-4-base-game-all-dlc-cost/
That's like saying not everyone has eyes, so why should anyone create visual content. It totally misses the reality of those numbers.
"The point is that the diner gets to see the chicken they will eat and understand the process."

What do you mean by "understand the process"? You only get that if you are in the kitchen with the cooks. Only open restaurants where you can see the cooks cooking help with that. Seeing a dead chicken ahead of time doesn't teach a guest anything. It is merely a flex, a story the restaurant sells to increase the price of a meal.
What made me think of this was a documentary I saw years ago called "Hitler's Private World" where they used a lip reader and some video enhancements (I don't exactly remember) to be able to read his lips that didn't contain audio, such as those taken at his private villa. I don't know if what they found was ever vetted for accuracy, but it was quite amazing to be able to use lip reading to try and determine what all was being discussed privately.

I found a copy of it on Dailymotion [1] and a brief description [2]. It's well worth a watch! I always wondered why they didn't use these techniques on other recordings of video that have some mystery surrounding them.

[1] https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xlvimo

[2] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1193023/
Before Microsoft released the Z3 SMT solver under an MIT license, you could buy a commercial license for it for $9999 from the Microsoft online store, just like you'd buy a copy of Windows or Office, or, for that matter, an XBox.

Of course, that's nowhere near as expensive as lots of other enterprise software, but it was as "off-the-shelf" as you could get short of your local Fry's or Best Buy. No "call us for details" pricing, per-core licensing, recurring subscriptions and support contracts... just old-fashioned software sold directly as a product.

Unfortunately, I can't find screenshots now, so I'm just going off my hazy memories and the details might be a bit off :P
Nit: we take 20w of chemical energy not electrical one like computers, way worse efficiency compared to solar panels Id say
Don't know why you are getting downvoted. OP also mentioned RDBMS as an option.

I don't think that people understand how expensive Oracle gets. Larry Ellison is the 9th wealthiest person in the world (US$137B). You don't get that kind of wealth by selling cheap software.
Max headroom used to scare the shit out of me when I was a kid. I think they used him in an ad campaign, and I just remember people talking about the show but not understanding it and then seeing it occassionally and being totally freaked out.

But then again The Young Ones also scared me because there's one where Neil drives a nail through his foot or something.
This I believe, it accepts Cold Fusion Markup Language.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucee
back in 2003 I saw an ad for Vienna Sound Library, a state of the art sample library for symphonic instruments. At the time, it was way already way out of my league, but the product has since grown and now the bundle sits at €10450 - the bundle for the pianos is €3195 by itself
A second question - must be your biggest newest fan sorry - how do you know which extensions will get approved?

I built 4 and applied with 3. 2 got rejected and at the time (3-6 years back) the rules and reasons were not very clear. One was rejected for "doing multiple things" which I understand is in the rules, but those things were e.g. to translate/save transcript for highlighted text, in my opinion, pretty related. The other rejection made sense when I reread the rules.

Have you had 10/10 accepted?
Ronald Reagan... the actor?!
Thanks, but I do every now and then also want to rebase without applying the fixup commits yet. Just using shell autocomplete gives me the flexibility to do that with little effort. (And honestly since it already autocompletes if I type `git re`, this nor Git aliases wouldn't even really save me anything anyway.)
I read the blog, and the situations given - which are common in most workplaces - wouldn't lead me to compare them to a life or death situation in any way.

I also can't imagine thinking that concentrating on someone's speech while in conversation with them as taxing, beyond the normal difficulties that attempting concentration can bring.

Perhaps I'm missing something. The only time I could think of such things as laborious would be when faced with intransigence or my own frustration, and that's really about not getting my own way.

Isn't it normal to try to have good, productive conversations, pay attention to others, and give support where needed?