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> they're just trying to release their games without paying the Steam Tax.

By not paying the Steam Tax, publishers are paying Engineering Tax and risks for fails in their distribution platforms.

I have Vietnam flashbacks from Origin and Uplay. EA fixed their's in 2015, but latter is still a bughole and the reason I don't even look at Ubi's games. Latest Bethesda release is a clear example of that problem.
> Discoverability features.

Everything was accessible via the menu! You could tell what was a label and what was a button! There were tooltips! There were no hidden gestures--some magic combination of taps and swipes that has you banging on your phone like a monkey.

What's remarkable about GUIs today is that the software is hardware to use despite having less functionality and fewer features than ever. Compare new GMail to Outlook 98; Windows 2000 to Windows 10; the built-in PDF viewers in Edge/Chrome to the Acrobat PDF plugin; etc.
Normalizing property graph databases
> In Finland, the average person pays 30-40% of their income to the State. They don't have a progressive tax system like we do.

What? Finland absolutely does have progressive taxation.
Nope, mopeds, bécanes and motorbikes - all still there, and incredibly annoying at 3 am in the morning.
I don’t see how you interpreted it that way - anything released with a proprietary license, or closed source and not released at all, is proprietary. The fact that it’s derivative of an MIT or similarly licensed work makes no difference.
Whenever I feel too distracted, I find a half hour or so of reading a book to be really grounding. That either regrounds me for whatever I really need to be doing, or it turns into a few hours of really enjoyable, focused reading.

My son is seven, and he's just becoming comfortable enough with reading to enjoy reading for hours at a time. It's such a pleasure to witness this stage of development for him. I also enjoy sharing with him the tech insiders' view of devices. It's really reassuring to him to know that most knowledgeable people are struggling with how to manage the appeal of connected devices, and that it's not just some weakness on his part.
You know this is a pretty new idea when googling "metal-air transistors" links to the posted article and this HN thread, and searching for the same term on YouTube reveals no videos (that I could recognize as being about this topic).

Hey SciShow and/or Computerphile, we need videos to give us the TL;DR on metal-air transistors!
I don't know why you are being downvoted, but providing a source would be welcome, I guess.

Are you saying that it's OK for (certain) polluting vehicles to enter the zone to visit someone and park in a garage, but it's not OK for them to pass straight through the zone and out at the other end? That would be possible, but it sounds even more convoluted.
Germany pushes router security rules, OpenWRT and CCC push back
That's basically what Matrix aims to be (and XMPP almost managed to be, a few years ago).
You can already get a free DNA test if you're willing to donate your genomic data.

Source: https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/nebula-genomics-la...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/24/uk-franc...

Yeah, the governments are either not thinking about the long-term survival of the population and the planet, or they would rather just placate their citizenry by making sure they have jobs. Because a jobless populace will vote you out of the office, so, fuck the environment?
It pretty easily meets the definition of efficiency- it allows users to do more, in less time, and utilizing less resources.
RDR2 sold ~800MM. 25% of that is 200MM, which is far more than it takes to set up a basic digital storefront. I doubt Valve bothers with a fraction of that for ongoing operations given how terrible the steam UX really is.
I have a sneaking suspicion that Niemöller was admonishing his past self and German intellectuals in general for thinking Naziism was something that could be accommodated and compromised with if it didn't affect them directly, not admonishing those corporations that declined to publish their propaganda...
Wasn't that the base of Zeta? An OS sold by a home shopping channel around 2000.

I never understood the hype and then they went bust.
HP 64000 Logic Development System
People Are Stacking Too Many Stones
While I like most of your points, I've got to stand up for our brains (or mathematics, depending on who you think is getting shorthanded there :)).

I would say the exact opposite of "our brains are not wired for [math]": mathematics is the simplest expression of our ultimate thought ("brain") processes.

It is only hard because it is so abstract and builds on a large corpus of what has already been constructed, but it was "designed" exactly after how our brains operate.

For a layperson, proving even the basic arithmetic might seem like magic, but once you go through the simple exercise of defining everything in terms of "One" and "Successor(One)" and compare that to how we teach our kids numbers, it's clear mathematics matches exactly how human brains operate.

Then again, I concede that not everybody's brain is "wired the same way," but I am sure there are plenty of us for whom mathematics is just natural: the only problem being the fact that majority of people have not been exposed to true mathematics.
Did you try different terminal emulators? All these features sound like they cause a lot of redraws, so it could be that the terminal emulator's renderer is the bottleneck here.
Completely agree with you. Its very interesting, for those of us looking at computing trends we see it, and the token economics just play a role in this as the foundation for m2m payments going beyond api tokens. What I'm interested to see if decentralised networks built on top of AWS and others. Leveraging what's there, which is what we do when building any next step in the cyclical trend, always reusing past layers.
> Sure, the UI/UX is usually not great, and the documentation is imperfect and there are features missing, but they get the hard things right, they charge per second/hour/GB, and they improve over time.

This is why I recently switched to Azure. UI is a million times better, and each product seems to work. Documentation is fantastic.

AWS is full of bugs and stagnant products that overlap. It’s an absolute mess.
What handling refunds? Some are legit, some will be fraudulent. What a out dealing with foreign currency? What if your game becomes popular in a country where PayPal isn't prevalent?
I think this says more about how inaccurate inflation has been measured.
This is still not true. I’ve personally worked on some
Of these transcoders, unless your affiliate has something running on a Pentium 4 in their back closet from 2003, they’re not broadcasting something that is down converted.
Wikipedia dates the longbow to paleolithic times, so I'm not sure chivalry died with it.

And judging by the effectiveness of the longbow you seem to be making my case for me That chivalry doesn't win wars.

That said I do agree chivalry was useful for making the battlefield survivable. It still existed in some form until the world wars with 'gentlemanly conduct', I'm not sure it was ever internally consistent.
less ergonomics, more resource consumption; what a win :)

when I booted a win95 box last year, I thought to myself, with emacs and sbcl I'd use that as my daily driver
It’s funny. I know the front-facing camera followed demand and was at least partially meant for things like FaceTime and taking photos with friends. But it also fed back into and catalyzed the normalization and popularization of selfies and vanity.

Throughout most of my life, we would break out physical photo albums or an occasional VHS to reminisce. They’d be group photos, vacation pictures, captured moments from a birthday or wedding. I can’t imagine how we would react to a friend pulling out a photo album that contained the stuff many popular Instagram accounts post. They would seem psychotically narcissistic.

Yet, we aren’t that far removed in time from selfie sticks being a joke. And it feels like we are an eternity apart in how our attitudes have adjusted.
The percentage of families with both parents working has increased significantly over the last several decades - perhaps as more families have both parents working, healthy homemade meals are becoming less popular, since the parents just don't have the time required to prepare healthy food.
Now if only Facebook could apply a Content-Security-Policy to their HTTP Headers. How in the world do they not have this? They could at least apply the default one.

I don’t feel like they care about security.

For reference, Twitter has one.
I think that when you send fake data to a server to bypass a paywall (e.g. sending google UA) then you are using the server without the owner's permission, which makes it immoral.
But in general I believe that being a journalist does not mean that others have to pay you. You as a journalist have to figure out a business model that works.
Austerity? America? Ha the US hasn't even TRIED to balance a budget since Clinton. No every politician has to promise deep tax cuts if he wants to get elected. Ostensibly the US economy is booming yet the deficit is at $800 million.
Zeta was based on binaries of BeOS Dano (what was going to be the next version of BeOS before Be went under). It's unclear whether the company ever had the source code.
Lunar Landing Research Vehicle and Lunar Sim Mode
There's a lot of product management work where being a doctor is very helpful. E.g. I know at least one Electronic Medical Record vendor hires doctors for non-medical positions.
GCC gets those loops optimized correctly without hitting the broken code in the linked article. I don't see that that's particularly responsive. Software is a concrete thing, it has concrete behavior, and problems can be solved there instead of pontificating about what paper standards say.
Thanks atombender! This is helpful.
The millenials I have known (USA) are exceptionally bad at managing their finances. Anyone poor who thinks it makes sense to pay $20+ to have a Five Guys lunch delivered often enough to be on a first-name basis with the delivery guy needs their head examined.
There are DynamoDB Local[1] and AWS SAM CLI[2], both from AWS, which allow you to self-host DynamoDB and AWS Lambda functions. ;)

That said, I agree with your argument, but found it rather funny that you just picked two AWS services you can indeed run locally.

[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerg...

[2]: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-sam-cli/
Seems disengenuis to host on github and post here.
A bus pass is 80 GBP / month.

The fares for outer zones on the Tube are deliberately expensive as a way to reduce demand. There are explicit discounts for avoiding Zone 1 to ease congestion.

So whilst there probably do exist people spending 200 GBP a month on transport on minimum wage, it's not really intended, more of an ephemeral state whilst someone finds a job closer to home.

Funnily enough, London's public transport is actually pretty _cheap_ when compared with e.g. intercity rail. It's only expensive when compared with other countries, and I think it's difficult to compare due to London's high CoL in general and the age of the network.

The walk-up prices for trains are basically robbery. If it's outside of the Oyster zone, you're either driving, booking it well in advance, or it's a business trip so you take the hit anyway.
> However, at this time, does OS responsiveness matter?

Somehow, responsiveness with Windows 10 on my i7-8650U laptop is total garbage, so yes, I think it still does.
In October, I took the month off alcohol. It was difficult sometimes due to social pressure, habit, and shitty days. But I made it the whole month and felt proud of myself.

For December, I decided to take the month of social media. It's day 2 and I've already opened Facebook out of habit 4 times. It's just so deeply ingrained in my habits.

I'm thinking of giving up video games in January and meat in February. I don't think either of those will be as difficult.
It's pretty cool to see all the different ways ECMA-262 has been implemented. I've been working on my own implementation[1] and seeing how other implementations like v8, prepack, mongoosejs, and now this one solve things has been super helpful.

1: https://github.com/devsnek/engine262
My issue is that not all social networks allow you to delete your account. They don't even allow you to suspend your account or disable it so you can't log in. Personally I can't walk away from such sites. If I couldn't login, I'd be far less likely to waste my time on worthless debates. While the commentary on such sites is helpful, for the most part enough of the conversations devolve into authoritarians demanding the rights of others in order to not feel offended, that I'd rather leave permanently. Unfortunate such sites are like a train wreck for me. I can't look away. My only hope is banning.
How is it inaccurate?
Thanks for bringing this to light.

I don't have a weather app installed on my phone specifically because NOAA doesn't publish one...now I know why.

When I'm driving to the office or on travel and want a snapshot of the current weather, I call ASOS for the relevant area and a bot on repeat tells me what conditions look like, e.g. try (650)827-8593 for San Francisco, or (404)762-1121 for Atlanta. It's a resource that really isn't known outside of the aviation industry, but it's there and publicly available.

EDIT: Fat-fingered the number for SFO ASOS...corrected.

EDIT^2: In the spirit of following cookie crumb trails, I did a quick search on congress.gov for "national weather service" and found this particularly damning piece of legislation introduced in the Senate[1]. Unlike the 2005 legislation cited in the article which fell flat on its face[2], this one looks to more systematically nerf the National Weather Service at taxpayer expense to the benefit of commercial interests. It definitely wasn't a political exaggeration that the NWS is under attack.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/570...

[2] https://www.congress.gov/109/bills/s786/BILLS-109s786is.pdf
Thanks. Yes, it’s painful of manage cpp with different compilers, the cross platform of Dust3D mainly benefit from Qt.
But you can't effectively write useful addons for everyone because you can only hand them to dev/nightly users.

Mozilla is saying "your contribution is not welcome due to US laws" to people who don't even live in the US.
With the exception of local access, over seas channels, and some really small and locally produced content for local affiliates, it’s 1080p. A lot of companies transitioned from 720/1080i in 2012-13. If you have an older STB, you might be seeing content scales down.
Fox’s animation I thought was produced in 720 but broadcasted in 1080i, you see that with Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon.
Sub-Saharan Africa had some pretty advanced and successful civilizations before colonialism.
> I think this is the overhead for mitigating by adding additional code

I think so too - as OP just said "dealing with," it wasn't clear to me that you were talking about just ignoring rather than handling.
I have used SQLite databases sharded at 2GB due to mobile fs limitations, storing 10-14GB in total, total lookup times across whole query was still on the order of 100ms untuned, unoptimized.

SQLite has your back.
This is a lot to take in. Not sure if you're the author, OP, but in case the author is reading: Where would you suggest someone starts? (Note: Don't answer here! Use your answer to shape the organization of information on the site!)

For example, I use ZSH. Should I switch to fish? The list suggests I'd be sacrificing power and the ability to write scripts but gaining, uh, intelligence and user-friendliness? Is that true?

Then there's a ton of stuff about customizing ZSH. I know that oh-my-zsh is the most popular but I did not find it especially performant so I never really looked in to using modular components of it. Now I know there are 50 other guides I could read? Maybe I want a plugin manager. antigen is a plugin manager, maybe it'll be more performant than oh-my-zsh? But what about antibody, which is "faster" and "simpler"? But zgen is "lightweight". Are weight and speed connected? What about weight and simplicity? Maybe I should switch to pure, which is "pretty, minimal, and fast".

Then I moved on to my terminal. Currently I use iTerm 2, which "does amazing things". But maybe I should switch to Terminator, which is the "future of terminals". Or MacTerm, which is "powerful". Or Alacritty, which is GPU accelerated? (Isn't iTerm 2? I don't know?)

I went to macOS package managers. I use homebrew because it's what every webpage for everything I want to install says. Should I get fink instead? Macport, I think is old, but it "simplifies the installation of software". I thought homebrew was pretty simple, but I guess it could be simpler?

Then for text editors, I've never been good at emacs-fu, so I often use nano. Maybe I should replace with micro, which is "modern and intuitive"? Or jed, which is "freely available". I don't think I paid for nano, maybe I did.

How does a curated list of Terminal frameworks, plugins, and resources differ from an uncurated one? Can the author give some example of a framework, plugin, or resource that was considered but not included because of the curation? I suspect the things that I know aren't included simply weren't considered to begin with. Maybe I'm wrong.

Most of this criticism applies to every awesome list that gets linked, of course.
You need to look it up. They don't have the washout rates like the US does. Everyone has to pay taxes. In the US about 50% of the population gets everything, aside from SS/Medicare, taxes back. The US needs to tax everyone fairly. That means everyone has to pay without the refunds.
Why not show our identity? It might let people know about the site and help to grow it. webdesignernews.com and producthunt.com do this, and when I see incoming ref links, I always feel thankful towards them. What is the negative effect?
The per-mile pollution of an electric vehicle (compared to a petrol or deisel vehicle) depends on the upstream power source.

In England, that's about 20% nuclear, 38% natural gas, 35% coal, and remainder other.

Overall, the electric vehicle is cleaner and less impactful on global warming.
First part is correct. Second part: ...that's the basis of all RF systems, and exactly how antennas work, isn't it?

Obviously you can't induce a current in vacuum, but you can definitely convert EM waves to current flux in a receiving structure.
Given that there's special clouds just for gov agencies and now even an HQ near DC, somehow I can't see gov being able to oppose Amazon lobbying
>Also the damn thing wouldn't turn very accurately, e.g. you ask for 90 degrees, you might well get 120.

Prolly because the turns were programmed in minutes, not degrees. If you asked for 90, you would get one and a half full rotations :D
Or sign up for All of Us: https://allofus.nih.gov/
Try pointing them to 0.0.0.0 in your hosts file? Or changing the password to something you don't know? At least then you'll have the chance to think about it when you're about to visit them.
It's not across the board. Red dead redemption 2 is a huge hit. The big launches which are failing and getting lots of press (fallout 76, and battlefield V) are doing so because of anticonsumer practices.
In the case of fallout 76, the game is so buggy nobody wants to play it. Plus, launching fallout 4 after people were wrapping up Witcher 3 really put things into perspective as to how far behind Bethesda is compared to CD project red. Side by side fallout 4 was garbage.

As for Battlefield V. I've been a die-hard battlefield fan since BF 1942, I played the BFV demo and it proved to me that they are continuing to move backwards. Pay to win microtransactions and even less destructible environments show that they are dead set on destroying the mechanics which make battlefield fun and alienating their core customers. Perhaps they are doing this in a misguided attempt to capture some of the fortnite/call of duty market but instead they have sacrificed their core customers in an attempt to entice people away from games they are perfectly happy with. Then they top it off by sanctimoniously insulting their customers and telling us not to buy it if we don't like their changes.
I think those might be reversed...
As TFA points out, Macs have a built in service for caching content downloaded from Apple's various servers that can be turned on in the sharing tab of the control panel on the Mac you would like to adopt this role.

The other Macs and iDevices on your network will detect the caching server and start using it instead of overloading your WAN link every time a large file like a new OS version or OS update needs to be distributed.

Encryption would interfere with caching.

More information on content caching:

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2018/07/17/howto-mac-content-c...
There are no common carriers on the Internet at Layer 7 AFAIK.
Given the prevalence of "grass" in national forests, I suspect it is the kind that has only been legalized at a state level. If the folks growing the "grass" find out they can be detected, especially before their "crop" is ready for harvest, they might be unhappy about it.
I think it is all dependent on how you curate your feed. On Instagram, I only follow friends I know well in real life, and even then only about 50 or 60 of them. I am an avid guitarist, so follow a lot of guitar builders or stores that post some great shots of lovely instruments. I pretty much _never_ follow any celebrities or "influencers" at all as I don't do the whole 'fake life' thing.

For that reason, Instagram is actually a happy place for me. Whenever I need a little inspirational pick me up, I fire up the app and look through pictures of beautiful guitars, chess sets, planes etc. as well as the occasional picture of friends going about their lives and I feel happy.

Now if only I could reduce the number of ads in the feed... ;)
Do they use the term dielectric to mean non-conductive — I’m aware that they’re not equivalent — or does the dielectric nature of the material have any relevance to the device? Maybe it’s relevant to the working of the gate?
I don't see what is very extraordinary about this claim.

The idea of selling of goods predates any government. In their simplest form, how a market operates is determined by the agreement two people, a seller and a buyer for an exchange

When restrictions are applied, how the market operates is still determined by how people interact within those rules or by how they attempt to circumvent them to make their exchange.
It is a few percents. All online marketplaces, steam, apple store, airbnb, booking are 20 to 30% commission.

It takes at least 10% commission to be able to run a company of this type. It's possible to run with as low as 5% in some niches, given a very lean operation and a billion dollar scale to amortize fixed costs. Eventually most of the company will be devoted to customer support and billing related tasks.

There is really not that much that can be shaved off. Small studios could never make a platform any efficient. A small group could spend all their time working on distribution and billing, never shipping an actual game. It's a really good deal to just use steam instead.

For AAA games it's annoying to pay 30% and they're rather make their own platform, that's why steam is dropping commission to 20% for top selling hits.
Manually unfollow everyone. It takes time but worth it. I never check FB anymore (over two years) because I have no news feed. I use Messenger still, unfortunately.
I find that being immersed in a challenging personal project tends to drastically lower the compulsion to fire up dopamine crutches like Instagram, Reddit and HN and also ends up being a far more rewarding experience.