Hey I was looking for documentation to learn how to make my own games but I didn't see a link on the website. Do you have any docs? If so please consider putting a link to it on the front page.
I didn't try logging into the studio since it was asking for username and stuff, so maybe the docs are there? I just wanted to read the docs before committing to a login and stuff to see if this is worth my time.
Hey good catch, I will put up links to docs outside of the studio. The studio now has some samples for game node types, eg. shapes, text or assets as well as an llm-focused game guide you can dump into Claude or whatever to have it make games.
But will definitely add some more outside of the studio.
It says it has improved support for speech disfluencies, which is encouraging. I've had a lot of trouble with grok speech to text in the past due to that.
I agree this can be a bit of a pain if you're used to that. There are ways to partially reduce it:
1. use the timeline panel for an individual file to see all the historical changes to a file, and you can highlight multiple ones to see cumulative changes, and you can filter to only git commits or only local changes etc.
2. use the commit history panel in the source control area to do the same across commits, but it doesn't allow you to highlight across commits for cumulative changes
It does require a bit of a paradigm shift sometimes to not rely as much on seeing all cumulative changes for the ticket highlighted as you code, and instead compartmentalize your immediate view to the current commit's task, but often the above 2 alternatives help suffice. Of course, you did mention that you'll commit stuff you're not likely to touch again, which helps a lot too
Sounds like someone who genuinely wants to make an impact, donated his time to do so, and wrote some stuff to potentially help while giving us a glimpse into the daily life of a high-profile group. I really appreciate this.
I think the intent, as stated, appears to match what you're saying. It's hard to ignore that there doesn't appear to be any display of critical thinking involved, though.
He wants recognition for quickly building simple tools (e.g. visual org chart) without the responsibility of what the tool was used for: to fire half a million people. Where are the efficiency gains in this? It's very telling that the interview that he got fired for included his praise that the government was actually more efficient than he expected.
Given all that, I can't take the writing as being all that sincere.
FYI this is Sahil Lavingia, who has a long history in the tech world and HN. He's definitely not a villain and has done some good things in the tech world over the years.
However, he's also very good at PR and spinning things in his favor. He has a long history of going full hustle-culture on trends as they come along, including everything from NFTs to LLMs and now DOGE. He's very good at wiggling out of difficult situations and rewriting history about himself, and this article is a good example of that.
This isn't ancient history, all of this /just/ (is) happened. We were all there. How is it that so many people took one look at DOGE (_before Trump took office even_) and saw it for what it is but this person with "long history in the tech world" couldn't see it? I don't care how many "good things" they've done in tech, they were a willful and active participant all of this.
> He's very good at wiggling out of difficult situations and rewriting history about himself, and this article is a good example of that.
Is it? It makes them look like an idiot. An idiot for not seeing what so many people saw before or an idiot for thinking we would buy this load of BS. In fact, I'm not even sure what this is supposed to accomplish, they do not come off looking smart or any positive trait I can think of.
> he materially contributed to seriously harming people.
There are 2 points:
1. Umm he wasn't an exec who had any power to decide whether to lay off somebody or not.
He built some prototypes and launched 1-2 improved UI. Was improving a website harming people?
2. Laying off unnecessary workforce isn't a net harmful to the society.
Are you saying we should never ever fire or stop hiring anybody ever?
Have you ever stop hiring someone in your life? A house cleaner. A babysitter? Stop going to a restaurant? Did you harm them when you stop paying for their services?
Yeah I think I would say you're right to doubt if this resonates on HN. You're posing it to an audience which has very little GED-level representation. HN more often has people who did well in school and are at a much better disposition for higher-salary jobs.
I'm not part of the target population but my guess is that a large factor has to do with people's tendency to go down the path of life that is most similar to the path they've already tread. If you grew up in a 'cultural center' it's less of a paradigm shift to take the crappy job around the corner rather than move somewhere slightly more remote to start a new career even if in the long run it could actually lead to a more decent life.
This seems like a really political article with not really any tech-related content...
Also note the article starts with the qualifier "in the first few hours", meaning it's not like they're sitting there all day every day with no lights/wifi. This seems like an exaggerated, politically motivated piece that doesn't belong on HN.
When they were first proposed back in 2008 they made a big splash, but afaik they never got past the prototype phase. There was even a push to add them to the SVG spec.
Were they maybe just wanna-be volunteers that were bringing an extra engine down to help and didn't know the formal process to volunteer for something like that? Sounds like the news has no evidence of actual malevolence, so is it fair to give them the benefit of the doubt here?
> Sounds like the news has no evidence of actual malevolence, so is it fair to give them the benefit of the doubt here?
If they were wanna-be volunteers, why would they lie about where they're from?
> “The occupants claimed to be from the ‘Roaring River Fire Department’ in Oregon,” the release stated. “Upon further investigation, the deputies learned that the department name was not a legitimate agency, and the truck was purchased at an auction.”
On that note, the article states that it donates more to higher risk projects, and risk increases by OpenSSF score. One question I had about the article is does that mean that projects with more security vulns get a higher donation? If so, then that might become a perverse incentive to leave security gaps in your code.
I didn't try logging into the studio since it was asking for username and stuff, so maybe the docs are there? I just wanted to read the docs before committing to a login and stuff to see if this is worth my time.