skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's something I see as a mistake that people do over and over. There are fundamentally two markets you can target: niche or popular. The niche market is small but under-served and so it's much easier to stand out, but your potential market is limited. The popular market is huge, but it also tends to be over-served. You need to really stand out. It's going to require much more to be able to compete, but if you do manage to compete then your potential market is enormous.

Metroidvania and roguelike are two of the most crowded markets. And they're full of very good games that can be had for a few bucks. Competing here means you need something that really stands out. This, by contrast, seems very genetic and lacks the production values that can help mask an otherwise generic product. For instance this [1] is a metroidvania roguelike that can be had for about $4 on a sale (and is a great game as an aside). That's what you're competing against.

I think it makes more sense to aim for niche. And there's also the nice outlier that occasionally proves that niche wasn't really niche at all.

[1] - https://store.steampowered.com/app/252030/
Does anyone know if they take kindly to visitors? I'm always looking for things to do when I'm in SF when I have a few hours to spare and this interests me.
> The policy proposal, which you can read here, essentially bars out-of-network doctors from billing patients directly for their care. Instead, they would have to seek payment from the insurance plan. This would mean that in the cases above, the out-of-network doctors couldn’t send those big bills to the patients, who’d be all set after paying their emergency room copays.

I do love "sensible policy changes" that work by extracting money from physicians to cover patient bills rather than actually fixing the systemic dysfunction.

If you're the surgeon to hand, you don't get to refuse to do emergency surgery. You have to take care of that patient, ethically and legally. Oh, turns out they're out of network, and their insurer isn't obligated to give you a dime? Awesome, free surgery!

Here's a sensible solution: when it comes to emergency-based care, insurers must accept all comers as in-network. There's no such thing as "out of network" emergency-related care.

But hey, insurers have powerful leverage and a near-monopoly. What're the odds we'd take a slice off their profit margin?
My gut reaction to these arguments has always been to disagree, however I think that I have been missing the more nuanced interpretation, with which I actually agree.

Of _course_ biology won't be explainable using just the mathematics for basic physics. Quantum physics and classical physics are able to account for an enormous amount of the complexity of in the universe. However, their representation is so compressed, and has been developed and tested on such 'low dimensional' system, that there are surely mathematical laws that they simply cannot encode, nor should we expect them to.

The number of stable combinations of fundamental particles and the number of different orbital configurations etc. etc. are a set of rules with which everything 'must' be consistent (unless there is a major shift in our understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe). However, they give us little to no insight into what other constraints might be imposed on systems where the phenomena they describe are merely parts (yes I know that I have a wave function).

All this to say that it seems to me that there must be other mathematical laws that do not follow directly from 'basic' physics, that also constrain the behavior of more complex physical systems. The answer is not therefore that biology irreducible to some mathematical description, which is how I usually interpreted these arguments, but rather that there are additional mathematical laws that are needed.
Perhaps that rather than despairing at the 'irreducibility' of biology to physics, we merely need to extend our notion of 'physics' to include the mathematical laws that constrain biology.
Axiom Verge is a Metroid-type clone and it did extremely well. There's a market for it without a doubt, but the hurdles to clear are enormous.
Because monetary policy is only one of a multitude of factors that influence inflation. Regulations, subsidies, tax laws, trade agreements, labor laws, immigration policy are just some of the other things that have wildly disjointed effects on industries, markets and prices.
A deeper problem is with Linux threads you can’t grow the stack beyond whatever limit you choose, so you either have to write all code with very limited stack usage or set a big enough stack for the worst case. Which will be too big for millions of threads.
That assumes a typical daily usage pattern, though, for which yeah owning, fuelling, maintaining, and insuring your own vehicle will probably always make the most sense.

However, for people who do (or plan to) use bicycles or mass transit a significant proportion of the time, being able to fall back on an hailed autonomous car in case of rain, haste, whatever is very appealing. It just depends on being able to look at a monthly bill of $200 (or whatever) in on-demand rides and see it as a huge step forward from what you used to pay in all the fixed costs of car ownership whether you used it or not.

The real trick will be having a workable solution for families with kids— that's an area where current taxis/rideshare have a gap, since they're not willing to supply their own carseats for liability reasons.
PUBG is $30: https://store.steampowered.com/app/578080/PLAYERUNKNOWNS_BAT...
I haven't integrated Org with either my email or my phone (I'm on iOS actually), at least not yet. It's on the road map!
So are they tracking your contacts or can you spoof it from your phone? If one is not possible the other should be.
OP did not assert that “the wage gap is caused by women”. OP said that _IF_ the wage gap was caused by the informed decisions of women, then OP is fine with it. And that is a reasonable view.
What drives rents in San Francisco? (2016)
I also use org-mode as a personal wiki, combined with git version control and ripgrep search. Furthermore, my task/time management is also within the wiki, as a kanban page and as an events page. Org has tons of useful features. Especially for time management and export. But it's also quite simple.

I started implementing a personal wiki using MediaWiki long time ago, trying to replicate the concept of Zettelkasten. But MediaWiki is a bit too heavy and complex, even if you use a SQLite backend. Furthermore, it doesn't compose with my editor and version control system of choice.

I think having a wiki is essential, as the deliverable of many tasks is just a knowledge bit you really want to record. It's interesting to see personal wikis are starting to show up in GitHub and GitLab. I wish both platforms improved their org-mode support to capitalize on this trend. We can all collectively benefit from open-sourced wikis in the same way we benefit from open code.
How was Angular 2 a disaster? I know it was basically a new Framework but I think they made it very clear and even did a rebranding (AngularJS -> Angular) and AngularJS is still being maintained.
As someone who lives in Manhattan, there are many buildings that have entrances on 2-3 different streets: having an address that specifies where the entrance actually is is a feature.
Interesting. During my BSc in physics, I did some experiments with single turn coils, and they certainly formed plasma. One of the most interesting phenomena we noticed was plasma conduction, where the metal vapor of which the coil previously consisted started to conduct, giving two distinct peaks of the magnetic field.

The setup described in the article is different, with a secondary coil, so I was mistaken.
FEEDING MY BALL PYTHONS
Mmm, not sure, do you have more info? Although the pic from the BBC doc here [0] really has a resemblance.

It sure is a really weird/fascinating design...

[0] http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Babel_Fish
Millions of people taking ml courses. Very few get jobs because for every 50 devs you need one data scientist. It's like design but way overhyped. Also from my experiences the ones that get hired are not the best or knowledgeable but the ones with good sales qualities that can continuously bullshit the employer. I'm talking about your average software company not FB/Google.
ML is like painting, writing... it's good to know but not to make a career of it
> "barely anything in the middle"

It's amazing how many people think this. There are metro areas in "the middle" with populations greater than European countries. And Texas, right in the middle, has a population that would put it at #10 in Europe.

#3 Chicago 9.5 million
#4 Dallas 7.4 million
#5 Houston 6.9 million
#14 Detroit 4.3 million
#16 Minneapolis 3.6 million
#19 Denver 2.9 million
#21 St Louis 2.8 million

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

The Chicago metro would be the 20th largest country in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_...
On Linux/x86-32, the default stack size for a new thread is 2 mb. The default stack for a goroutine is 2 kb.

Those 1000 goroutines eat up as much memory as roughy one OS thread.

Granted, I've somewhat shifted the goalpost, but goroutines are cheaper than OS threads or just about every sensible definition of "cheap".
Well I'd be happy to make a pull request to fix it. What is your setup?
Your reflexive concern that parking wont get built is well-founded. Parking is just plain shitty. Let's have less of it.
That was all well before the Snowden relevations.
This also looks a bit like a less polished version of "The Swapper": http://facepalmgames.com/the-swapper/
Gym memberships involve a contract and recurring payments, and the contract is usually not in your favor. A one time charge to an Uber driver is not similar.
Don't think I've ever heard of off-by-0 errors before. Doesn't sound that bad...
Explaining Random Forests on credit-card fraud data
That blog comes up 403.
> if they're forced to leave the workforce to care for a newborn.

Most professional people I know have quit working because they want to take care of their children. Most only work or return to work because they have to.
Web Payments doesn't address micropayments or actual payment authorization. It's just a standard way to collect and submit data.
Excellent point. I hadn’t even thought of all the driving lanes and ramps that you no longer need.
True. But most people aren't as skilled as Notch, or the Stardew guy. It's still definitely NOT a waste of three years, but the author should not expect to make much money off of an indie game. More graphic design and marketing needs to be put into this endeavor, assuming the gameplay itself is any good.
I looked into Tiddlywiki before but it seemed too involved to maintain easily and overkill for my use case. I have recently found https://www.notebooksapp.com/ and am in the process of converting all my desperate notes and documents into it using the internal linking to create my own kind of wiki.

Everything is plain text, has markdown support, apps on most platforms, ability to automate things for everyday use, and easier to use overall.

Also I just can’t stand the idea of “tiddlers”.
> The question is, are there any properties a biological system can have that are not encoded in its physical constituents? Anyone answering ‘yes’ to that question really needs to provide a very clear answer as to how they think that might be possible and how else that property might arise.

I believe the answer is that there are properties which only come into existence once you have the right physical arrangement, but these properties can't be predicted in advance from the physical constituents.

As to how it could be possible that truly novel properties come into existence, that's not really different than how it can be possible that QM can have indeterminate properties, or anything that's physically fundament for which we have no explanation. Something happens to exist, and we don't know whether there is answer to why anything exists.

There's also other possibilities, like the existence of abstract and universal entities, such as numbers or universals. How is it that every electron has the exact same charge and mass? Is electron a universal? Why does math work so well for physics? Are there laws of nature that govern the world (make it be a certain way as opposed to just being regularities)? That sort of thing.
No offense, but in light of the conclusions TFA describes, this sounds like a heroin addict just after getting a shot. Right now, everything is glorious, and the future looks bright, as long as I can just ignore the problems that exist when I look at the world sober.
> dont have access to good coffee places near by

This is a major problem. Either move to a place where such places exist or don’t do remote working. This kind of isolation ends up being a disaster for morale and productivity (speaking from experience).
Peavey and the Motorola DSP56000
It’s where it is because of happenstance. It’s not a city that needs some specific natural resource that’s only produced right there.

There’s nothing stopping Silicon Valley companies from migrating to other areas in California or even other states. I’m sure there are more than enough places that would be willing to throw out ridiculous tax advantages to lure big companies there.
I disagree about replacement programmers--at the moment, practically every graduating electrical engineer and computer engineer will have a working knowledge of C. Embedded C has lost some ground to C++, but primarily in ARM and x86 architectures, since for more memory constrained AVR/PIC/etc. microcontrollers, you absolutely avoid template inheritance because vtables are untenable, there often isn't an available STL for the chip toolchain anyways, templates balloon the program space, and you are still constrained to using just stack allocation. That right there pretty much means there will always be a space where C is more pragmatic.

I see this pattern a lot on HN. Many aren't aware that there are fields alive and well that require the use of unsafe, deterministic C that can compile to programs on the order of kb.
You sort of did. Depends on what you expect.

You got half decent at a whole bunch of skills, which you can reapply. I'd say it was equal to going to a school for this, but not an exceptional school. It's a start, and it's a toolset.

Me and my brother make games. I do a brainstormy intuitive thing, and he builds stuff brick by brick. He has a tendency to decide things like 'I will build an Asteroids', build the skeleton of such a thing (with all the effort going into code elegance) and not have anywhere to go from there. I have a tendency to have wild exciting-sounding ideas, implement about a quarter of them, and end up with something that's certainly not like anything else, but isn't necessarily FUN or even a game.

I think I have a slightly higher chance of breaking through into the realm of 'making an actual game', but it hasn't really happened yet and may never happen. Even if it did, there wouldn't be money in it. I'm just not that good a designer, though I AM a sort of nascent designer. Plus, I'm too devoted to open source these days and that would likely be a handicap to market adoption; if nobody else can get rich off it either then it ain't gonna be a hit.

To make a hit thing you have to be able to see how exploitative third parties can get rich off you, and then let them do it and hope you get a cut (or some publicity).

I think the future isn't creative (insofar as popular hit products). It's basically focus-grouped artificial blandness and knock-offs consuming the market, and will not go back (occasional fluke successes will doubtless happen)

The future is learning how to manage these creative exploits as communication, perhaps to a very small audience for whom they're specially crafted. You'll be a craft beer or a hand made cheese. You have nothing to do with the market as we know it, it's all about what manner of distribution you can function under at the scale you will forever remain.

So who did you get to know in that three years? Did you form a community, perhaps of other game makers?
The Binding of Isaac seems to trike a good balance, if you're into that sort of thing.
HN is surprisingly slow when it comes to 21st Century PhilSci. It didn't stop with Feynman.
Does it have an app for my phone? Can I download maps to my phone for offline use?
helps to flag if you find shady submissions
I'm honestly shocked to see someone say they found React natural, but felt Vue was confusing.
If you look at most of the recent smash hit indie games\* they really don't innovate graphically at all, instead they bring something new to the table in terms of gameplay.

Most are "rogue-lite" which is a hot genre right now but all have something that make them stand out.

Rogue like games have the potential to become indie hits because they are very good for twitch/youtube audiences, because in general, up until the moment the player loses, they are winning.

This is great for streamers, no long-drawn out sequences where they know they've probably lost, no ability for audiences to get bored watching the player struggle in a losing fight. Instead the player gets to live out their power fantasy up until the moment that fantasy is betrayed and they lose.

And then it's a quick or instant reset and they're back to the pit / whale / plane and off they go again.

But a rogue-lite platformer? Ok that can work, Risk of Rain did an OK job with really poor graphics. But the gameplay was top-notch to compensate, and that was released before the big indie-deluge, that might not do so well if it were released today and had to go up against competetion from the likes of gungeon or dungreed.

With regards to this game, the graphics are too low to look good but haven't masked that by making the choice of going pixel-art, instead it just looks like it's from a PC gamer cover CD circa 1999.

Compare that to Slay the Spire, which has very basic art but has an engine that is well made, so it's limited art is still delivered very nicely. In the case of slay the spire they compensate with a good soundtrack which doesn't get irritating even on repeat playthroughs and some really solid gameplay.

Those are the smash-hits and a hits-based industry follows a power-law, so there's a vast quantity of mediocre games below there. What hope does a game which appears to mostly replicate previous gameplay with weak graphics stand?

That's not to say it was a waste of time, only the author can judge that.

\* Far too many to list, but I'm thinking along the lines of Slay the Spire, Enter the Gungeon, They are Billions. Even Playerunknown's battlegrounds or fortnite in some way fits the 'rogue-lite' formula of facing ever more difficult challenges up until a sudden and final death and complete reset.
How much would such a system cost to build and maintain, and how safe would it be re: vagrants, children? You’d be able to handle more customers of course, but would it compensate for the costs?
Ok, I’ll try to point that out.

Charmers argues that quaila cannot be reduced to physical causes. However we know for sure that any conceivable information or process that can be performed on information must be tractable to physical encoding.

It seems to me that qualia are simply information, or a process performed on information. If so, clearly they can have a physical cause. To refute this, Chalmers would have to show some property or characteristic of qualia that is not information or a process performed on it. But this is impossible. Any such explanation would by definition have to be encoded in information or a process performed on information.

Therefore if it is even possible for Chalmers to explain or adequately describe his thesis in a complete and consistent way, it must be true that his thesis is false.
Wow, hats off to the vuejs team. Vue is already lightning fast and I've been able to pull off some pretty computationally intense state changes which render like butter whilst other frameworks lagged. A speed increase of 100% is almost unimaginable—but welcome!
> How would you have price fixing and rationing?

For example, by enacting laws which retard women's economic and geographic mobility, so that fewer are able to leave the local market.

> not because Chinese parents don't love their daughters.

Devaluation of women as a class is entirely compatible with love for individuals.
They've shown this quite some time ago, but it still didn't go further than the cute online demo, unfortunately. Really hope they release something tangible to play with.
I might use that as my title for my partner case.

Automating (super dull financial industry department) is the industry of superstars
Absolutely. All things are turning into the economics of superstars so long as they're subject to network effects and the widest, most fluid and well-informed possible market.

Uber drivers will turn into the economics of superstars. Amazon warehouse workers will turn into the economics of superstars. You'll keep on getting individual ultra-high performers who dominate whatever area it is, and more ordinary performers will just plain fail.
Have you checked the time is set up correctly? This could explain the TLS errors.
So you don't do an untrasound because of stairs? how does that fit with the Hippocratic oath.
Allow me to be skeptical of such a seemingly simple solution to a complex problem. Will we still be able to pay for this when the developing nations also adopt the first-world lifestyle? And how does it address landscapes wasted through nuclear accidents, fracking, and coal mining?
Sorry but the reason that your game and others have not sold is because they aren’t new and they don’t offer anything that consumers want. It’s so simple.

The graph of steam sales, as you mentioned, is poisoned with shovel-ware. But it’s also inflated by another kind of game that nobody wants: games that are just remakes of the same old tropes and mechanics — nobody is interested in playing them even though they are implemented with care. It’s a problem that is huge in the programming world: lack of high level thought and consideration. The super meat boy guy who you linked to should have asked himself if anyone really is excited about platformers before sinking all that time into it. There is no indie game problem. It’s a bad ideas problem.

Look at the witness. It did good. It’s because it’s a good game with freshness and insight. Messages are passed from developer to player through every aspect of the game. It is something to sit down and consider for hours. Something to be inspired by. There has to be actual value in the game. This torrent of let’s players and people who use video games and v.g. Culture as some kind of crutch or something to give them identity — endlessly grinding away at meaningless and stupid achievements and 100% completions — all of that is nonsense and it is your own fault for diving into it.
From Basic Idea to Impact: The Story of Modern Cryptography [video]
Those are closed price projects, they do use hours for reports and all but its really a fixed payout for a fixed amount of features.
Do you know about Firefox Screenshots?

https://screenshots.firefox.com/

Just for the browser (but that could include PDFs and other things), I think they aim for a workflow very similar to the one you envision.
What are you looking to do exactly? I don’t quite get it. Pay as you go SIMs don’t have a monthly fee (at least not in the UK).
How about everyone gets to bill through the hospital instead of every person who tangentially heard of you one way or another sending you their own bill. If the hospital is in-network, they bill based on in-network rates, and all those "providers" can take up their bill with the hospital (who at least knows they're there, unlike the patient).
Won't let me reply to you. A tax on housing is different than a tax on business. You've got the priciest real estate in the U.S. If you can afford that, you can afford to pay more in taxes.