skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I loved Alto's Adventure (and some more of those), and it was by no means aggregious, it does include things like watching ads to continue your run (at least once), and other microtransactions.

I don't think I'm a reactionary, and this is a problem on consoles and PC as well, but there is a lot of difference between mobile games and games where you buy an entire experience and everything relevant is designed into that system. Nothing is gated, you can make it easier through a difficulty setting, you can't make it easier by paying extra dollars.

Note that I avoid anything last 5 years EA and similar that can't for the life of them design games that respect their customers.
I learnt a lot from the article Modern JavaScript Explained For Dinosaurs[0] (featured on HN recently), which explains the history of developments from vanilla JS to 2017, "a historical context of how JavaScript tools have evolved to what they are today". I thought it was brilliant at making sense of the jungle you describe.

I'm pretty sure it will remove the dread.

[0] https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/modern-javascript-...
> the amount your company pays you is primarily determined by how much they would have to pay someone else to do the same job.

This is true, but the thing you're missing is that there's not many folks out there that can add value for customers. That's why engineers who create value get paid so well, which is the articles point.

I've noticed that engineers that get paid the most tend to understand the technical and business trade-offs that come from decisions they make.
Traditionally, "realtime" means you can tell, in terms of actual wall clock time, how long different operations will take. Tends to show up in embedded systems because they tend to control devices in which fixed deadlines matter.

Somehow it morphed into a shorthand for "fast".
The company I work for is currently undergoing an effort to move many of the old PHP apis to Graphql. The repo for the graphql api wrapper was quickly becoming a monolith in itself, so it has since been broken down into separate packages.

I do wonder about the sustainability of an architecture like this. This is the largest company I’ve ever worked for, so I’ve never seen how this plays out. Who will manage each package/service as time goes on and they sink into obscurity as the original team transitions out or leaves the company? I totally see some of these becoming the technical debt of the future.
Show HN: Small utility to keep track of your time
I think anyone can write an article like this favoring their choice platform. Doing real complete comparison is hard. There are literally hundreds of features to compare. Include apps like this author and you’re writing forever. The hard part about choosing iPhone or Android is just the sheer magnitude of differences. Security, cost, aging, support, apps, os, hardware ... but maybe more than anything perspective matters.
https://www-cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/news08.html seems to have the desired content, minus certificate error.
Show HN: Peer-to-peer chat example built with JavaScript IPFS
> very few outfits even write music reviews anymore beyond Pitchfork.

There’s still enough music-review sites out there that it can sometimes feel like a chore to keep up with them if you have varied tastes covered by each of them. Besides Pitchfork, look at The Quietus, Consequence of Sound, Tiny Mix Tapes, AV Club, Classics Today, La Folia, etc.
tl;dr: "participants performed better in silence than they did in any music conditions"

Personally, I cannot listen to music and work... I get too caught up in trying to follow the music. I end up just wearing my noise canceling headphones with no music playing and working in relative silence.

That said, I'm interested to know if folks here on HN can relate.
Reminds me of distributed architectures like CORBA turning into spaghetti in the 90's.
This is very interesting, Thank you daniher !!
Sharing and portability are nice features and these systems are so important, as they have already a lot of pre-build tools. Still need a pc or a raspberry pi like system to read usb.
But thanks again !
If they've written some wacky clause into the law in Bosnia and Herzegovina, it isn't going to affect you unless you live in that country. I assume they can't extradite you over it.

Edit: You wouldn't want to visit that country, naturally, after flouting their laws like that.
And you can handle the other direction with a lag. Charge the old lower price for 30 minutes.
Both will give your VPS a "home" IPv6 address, but if you also expect to receive an IPv6 prefix/subnet, DO only gives you a /125 per VPS (8 IPs). I moved my VPN nodes to Vultr for that reason; they give you a /112 (65K IPs) per VPS.

Neither DO nor Vultr actually routes the assigned prefix to your VPS, so you have to run something like ndppd [1] to answer NDP queries for IPs in the IPv6 prefix you've been assigned if you want the local router to send your VPS any traffic on those addresses.

[1] https://github.com/DanielAdolfsson/ndppd
Nice work Rocket Labs!

I was quite disappointed when the launch was aborted because of that "rogue vessel." I've read a suggestion that it was an angry local doing their best to disrupt things. I really hope it wasn't the case, but I don't imagine we'll find out either way.

Had to laugh at the live feed, all I could think of was "Rocket Labs, brought to you by Acer" any time we cut to the control center.
Sturgeon’s law.

If it haven’t worked at a terrible place, and you’ve worked more than four places, then congratulations, you won the lottery.

(If you haven’t worked more than, say, six places, you probably have no business telling anybody how the industry is).
> Maybe because our society isn’t ready for such changes.

Our society has been killing jobs with automation for the past 150 years or so. Think of all the jobs that don’t exist anymore because of your fridge, dishwasher, washing machine, car, etc. Before alarm clocks, people used to get paid to go yell in front of your house for 10 minutes until you got up. Before cars, there were tons of people living off horses as a transportation medium. Before automatic doors in the trains there was one employee in each coach to close them. Pretty much every complex object you touch nowadays has killed jobs when it first appeared.
Major thing that pissed me off recently: My kid likes to play solitaire. on one Windows 10 machine I see him opening the game and an freaking AD pops up. It made me angry. To my surprise the ad was for a slot game on Windows store. I tell him to open the ad and the game is literally a casino, where you buy "credit", so you won't play for money. This really pissed me off that Microsoft is pushing casino ads on my machine where I have paid for the licence. I have given thousands of euros through my life for Microsoft with licence fees. I wanted to literally shake someone high up on Microsoft for allowing to push casino for my child.
The steady 'progress' is not what it seems. Improved and earlier detection of cancer means that a patient will survive for significantly longer after the detection past the 5 year mark. Several decades ago the patient would die relatively quickly between the period of detection and within the 5 year period.
As one of the posters ( reasonattlm )pointed out,cancer can be regarded as one of the diseases of aging. To kill cancer cells will not improve things beyond a point because the body will produce more. I would speculate if detection methods we sufficiently sensitive, we would _all_ have some cancer cells within us. It is a matter of degree.
Summary: Except of a few types of cancer, the treatment has not improved the outcome for cancer patience during the past few decades. Also remember: lies, damn lies and statistics.
My sources: A non-mainstream cancer doctor ( but is a conventional MD ) who was widely regarded as a quack, by the mainstream medical community. Heresy is not tolerated well.
Some poking around suggests that currently they scale to a single copy, so for sporadic workloads latency will be good (relative to normal latency for warm code).

Based on the roadmap in the repo[0] (under "In Design").

Disclosure: I also work on a FaaS project, Project Riff.

[0] https://github.com/nuclio/nuclio/blob/master/ROADMAP.md
Does all music distract you or just music with lyrics? Do you know music theory?

I'm only distracted by lyrics, but maybe I knew more about music, I'd be distracted by instrumentals.
I'm interested in reading the pages you wrote! Please loop me in ;)
A friend of mine bought a MAME cabinet about ten years back. I've replace a couple pieces on it here and there, hard drive, monitor, but it's still pretty much the same as is was back then.

We might play it twice a week, but nothing beats drinking a couple games and battling it out in some classic games.
I suggest anyone interested in this google the “rat utopia” experiment.
Extremely choppy on Firefox 57/Win10, quad core Ryzen with 16GB and a GTX 1060 (not that the GPU should matter). This is on a 100Mbit cable connection. It was worst when I got zerg rushed, but even just roaming around the map was too choppy to be playable.
>I suppose, with Mencken, you should make reference to his racism

I think that the things worth making a reference for, in regards to a historical figure, is things that weren't shared by 60% or more of the population of his time.
Hello, I made this! Please try it out and tell me what you think. Annotated source is public here: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmVUvLMxTEaVBpiQBiBBdnv7ZTwt7pv8BxNhpPC...
Whenever I watch documentaries about the food industry, I find myself unable to eat meat for at least 10 days.

I bet that if we were reminded somehow (like for cigarettes), lots of people will eat a lot less meat.
Shakespearean Insult Generator
This kind of logic when applied to law is debunked in the widely circulated essay "What Colour are your bits?": http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23.

Short answer: the law sees right through trickery like this, focusing on your intent instead.
Amazon opens a supermarket with no checkouts
I use my earbuds to calm down sometimes but then after one song I stop the music and then I have silence.

I have started to just use earplugs but the cheap ones I have have less isolation than my earbuds so I generally use those.

Turning off the phone is a great way to not only accomplish the above but also to reduce distractions . Or just invest in good earplugs .

Headphones that do noise cancellation for some reason irritate me more than natural isolation (I guess that might be the fact that there is sound there I just can’t hear it?).

Or if you are lucky find a quiet room and use that.
I mean a heavy beginner wrestler vs a smaller intermediate or advanced wrestler. You would need to at least know the basics of the sport to compete without breaking the rules.
Last I heard, you had big claims and have yet to test your ideas in physical hardware. People will probably be less likely to ignore you if you have something that you can demonstrate being able to manufacture reliably and that you aren't just exploiting some simulation artifact.
It's not exclusive to inheritance, though. There are lots of times that the original principal decides that he could have done it better and winds up in exactly the same place. It could be progress, too, if it trades on set of failure modes for another that is less severe or less frequent.

This is why a team needs access to good architect who's seen the paradigms shift, or even cycle. You're almost never starting from scratch, so you really need someone who's able to incorporate better or more suitable tech without throwing out the baby.

If you're microservices-based, that last part is easier, even if it falls into one of the described pitfalls, e.g., system-of-systems.
In Search of a Bigger Boom
Everyone and their aunt are buying them for the last couple of months out of the crypto craze, for mining. Whether it's worth it I don't know, but it's annoying for the rest of us who want to get one.
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>This article leaves out the fact that the 'Sage of Baltimore' was also a miserable racist and anti-semite

Which is neither here, nor there. Half of the population or more was at the time (and for far later). Was he exceptionally more of those things? I don't think so, he just expressed some of those things in public works.

So it's like mentioning that Julius Cesar wasn't against keeping slaves, or that Washington didn't think women should vote.
Youtubes actual reencoding rate is faster than realtime. This is only a balanced comparison in what is available, not in efficiencies.
> Such a situation could never have come about without certain fundamental confusions having been firmly established, and these begin with language itself. Victims have traditionally been minority groups, but in fact women, who in the United States are a slight majority, have been deemed victims, whereas the Jews and the Chinese in America, though clearly minorities (and vastly less numerous than blacks or Hispanic people), are not usually counted as victims and thus rarely get included in affirmative action or other quota favoritism programs. A victim, then, is someone who insistently declares himself a victim.

I was just wondering about this last year. I still haven't had anybody explain it to me in a logically-consistent way. I think it's a fair ask.
Do you get paid by Israel to make posts? Because I've heard that people do get paid to make favorable posts.
This comment isn't going to help with keeping people on a
more positive discourse.
With the cost of employemnt and lack of VCs I doubt they would be very successful.
Arguably, there is: https://php-fpm.org/
That's the opposite of DevOps - that's the old model of separate development and operations teams (the "throw artifact over the wall"-model).
Sam's Club has an app like this for some stores. Works really well for large bulk items.
If you get recognition as the golden goose, many companies will promote rather than kill. Getting recognition is a part of figuring out where value is added .
What about that ambient/"cognitive/aural beats" stuff on youtube? I've been trying that lately and it seems nice. No data to see if better or not, but definitely more relaxing.

I've also started just using earplugs which can also seem to be (subjectively) effective.
> What it seems like to me is unpaid emotional labor.

Are cashiers not paid?
I'd like to see pro and cons for all the lower 'smaller' frameworks and methods. Maybe we can contribute? I have used many of them. Seems like the ones with pros and cons, React, Vue, Angular etc everyone already knows. I think there is opportunity here to give more depth to lesser known frameworks. The top 5 are pretty well discussed at this point.
>80% of the American population lived in what is called an urban area in the 2010 census [1]. While their definition of urban is looser than you might use, still >60% lived in 'cities'[2].

Unless the wealthier, more connected, more educated readership of Hacker News strongly bucks every trend suggested by their demographics, it's pretty safe to say we mostly live in urban areas.

[1]https://www.citylab.com/equity/2012/03/us-urban-population-w...
[2]https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-33....
I think what people want and what they need are often very far apart.

Since self awareness matters to me, I’m miserable at places where the koolaid is strong. Maybe you’re picking up on something similar.
Yacob was a remarkable thinker, to be sure, but there is no reason to connect him to the Enlightenment: He didn't influence it, nor was he influenced by it, as far as we can tell.

The only reason the article seems to connect Yacob to the Enlightenment is because he wrote around the time of Descartes, and on similar themes. But that's not enough of a connection - without a causal interaction between him and the Enlightenment, the timing is just a coincidence.

Other rational and secular philosophers have lived in various times and places (China, ancient Greece, India, etc.). Yacob deserves a place of honor among them, but none of them are part of the Enlightenment.

It's odd how the article tries to connect Yacob to the Enlightenment - it doesn't make logical sense, and so seems more out of the author's desire to see that connection.
I think this paper is important in ways not related to applicability or cost efficiencies, but more as a what if we treated a warehouse scale computer a million core device? What if we programmed this device like simd or a gpu?
What a useless article.
Freemium vs. Free Trial vs. Hybrid Customer Acquisition Model in SaaS
Think about it in terms of physical documents or items, and it might make more sense.

Suppose, for example, I have leased a rare car from you. The lease has expired and I have refused to return the car. You have sued me for the return of the car. You have won, and the court has ordered me to turn over the car.

The court can force me to comply, even if I'm keeping the car in a garage I rent across the border in Mexico.

Does that raise issues of extraterritorial jurisdiction? Will Mexico be upset with the court? Will the court have to work with Mexican authorities to enforce its order?

The answer to all three of those questions is no.

The key is that the court is not ordering anything to happen in Mexico. It is just ordering me to produce the car.

Sure, I may have to act in Mexico to do this, by sending someone to go get it, or calling up the garage there and paying them to ship the car back, but those are ordinary acts that I am allowed to do in Mexico at will. As far as Mexico is concerned all that is happening is that someone (me) who has legally stored a car in a garage there is legally retrieving that car. They don't care WHY I'm retrieving the car.

Now if the court was not ordering me to produce the car, but instead was authorizing a sheriff to go seize the car from the garage, that would be an attempt at a US court at exercising extraterritorial jurisdiction, and Mexico would quite strongly object. The sheriff would have to go through the Mexican judicial system and get a Mexican order to seize the car.

The above example used a civil case, but the principles apply in general. I used the US and Mexico, but that's how it is between pretty much any pair of countries.

If it did NOT work this way, it would be a complete disaster for consumer protection regulation (and most other regulation). Any company that wanted to keep their records secret from regulators could simply keep those records in another country.

Nowadays, in the age of paperless, this could even be made automatic. Keep your internal mail servers and file servers in another country that does not have good relations with your home country and most of your internal records are now out of reach of regulators.
Because the title is "The iPhone is Dead" instead of something like "Why I Switched to Android".
This implies it's possible to steer the HN community into positive discourse.
Thanks for the info! Can you tell me how many nvlink Lanes are used? Do you have any benchmarks showing performance of copies compared to pcie?
Thanks for the insight.

The vpx runs were done on normal VMs. But I see that approaching a smaller runtimes, VMs are not economical.

The theoretical bound of splitting the source material into 5s chunks and encoding them all in parallel is still a useful comparison to make. Especially considering an endless supply of jobs keeping VMs busy.
Check out zodb and durus.
The Strange History of the Internet's First Viral Videos
>"Theodore Sturgeon, who once observed, “It can be argued that 90% of film, literature, consumer goods, etc. is crap.” The “It can be argued” part usually isn’t quoted, and the figure is very ballpark."

Actually it sounds like the author wasn't critical enough. They believed wikipedia. Strange. But I remembered reading about this recently, that Sturgeon used the word "crud", not crap.

The rest is pasted from wikiquote:

"I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of it is crud.

The Revelation: Ninety percent of everything is crud.

Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

Corollary 2: The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field. - Venture Science Fiction (March 1958)

The original expression of this has often been declared to have been "Sure, ninety percent of science fiction is crud. That's because ninety percent of everything is crud." According to Philip Klass Sturgeon made the remark during a talk at New York University around 1951. It has also commonly appeared in variant forms such as "Ninety percent of everything is crap" and is often referred to as "Sturgeon's Law" — though he himself gave that title to another phrase:

Sturgeon's Law originally was "Nothing is always absolutely so." The other thing was known as "Sturgeon's Revelation".
Isn't the preference for experience due to the cost of respins?
Just like the article says in the very beginning: in 2011-2012, when Zynga was "the next big thing" and the ps3/x360 successors have not been revealed yet, every ( * ) article about the games industry was essentially about how the consoles came to the end, mobile and social games destroyed them and even if there is going to be a next generation of consoles - it's going to be definitely the last one.

( * ) it's an exaggeration, there probably were some other articles somewhere but the vast majority was about the decline of console business.
Yeah. In Japan its not a safety issue, so I am not sure why they dont carry it around. Maybe because they already have a smartphone anyway and dont want to carry tons of devices around?

Anyway this kind of defeats the purpose of having a portable console format for the Switch if it is not used in this way.
Yep, this has been my experience as well. When micro services work well they have a simple and well-defined API that is easy to keep backwards compatible as it evolves, and it tends to be something that evolves quite slowly compared to the primary application codebase.

For the posters who said "like a library," yeah that's exactly the idea, but consider if you have an operation that can be done by a library but that has very different scaling characteristics compared to the rest of your system. Eg. you have one highly compute intensive operation while the rest of your system is IO bound. If you can split these apart it's easier to deal with scaling.
Audio is fast however if you are attempting to encode hours of content ~min it's gonna be a bottleneck
The counterpoint was the places I mentioned, which you've seemed to miss. I'm not talking about NYC and Austin and Seattle and SF, I'm talking middle America, normal small towns.

What's rude is people saying "Amazon is killing all social interaction" while not stopping to wonder why all of their social interaction is small talk at a Walmart. That's the problem. Again, like I've said over and over and over and over and everyone ignores to nitpick, that's not social interaction. That's small talk. I have no idea why you're treating standing in a checkout lane like it's the Roman Forum.
This just says you didn't figure out the system but happened to 'luck out' one time. If you learn where the value is, you will know how to get recognition for any value you add (e.g. who values it and who's attention to bring it to that you are boosting it). In the case that the company is dysfunctional and doesn't promote value creators you will also get an earlier heads-up this way.