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It's always been an estimate, and they've always been crystal clear about the process and releasing new estimates. If you haven't pledged, you aren't receiving the incredible amount of updates from almost every team at CIG. In the past week I have received seven Star Citizen-related emails. There are about two or three videos from CIG uploaded to Youtube every week. If you didn't pledge, you don't see that. You just see whining on Reddit. And again, as someone that's put a ton of money into development, and who is pleased with the state and direction of the game, I hope this isn't released in the next two years. Or the next four. Or however many years before "it's done", because I actually did fund the game, and I went into the Kickstarter expecting to fund Chris Roberts' magnum opus. And that's what I'll wait for, as the person who's put two orders of magnitude more money into it than your average kid whining about it on Reddit.
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I'm disappointed to see that you're being downvoted. People like to play "what about" games comparing the US and China's human rights record, but we're talking about a country that indisputably runs literal prison camps for an ethnic/religious minority:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/muslims-...

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/13/666287509/ex-detainee-describ...
Fair question. It was a combination of several things put together that I think qualifies as pushing boundaries for me. On their own these things may not be a big deal, but altogether and especially on relatively outdated hardware(console) they're great accomplishments.

The game is seamless - and I think God of War does this well also - basically there's really no "loading" once you're in the game; you go from gameplay to cutscene to gameplay without any interruption. The graphics are high quality and that's amazing for how huge the game is and how extremely dynamic it is (e.g. how animals interact with the environment, the weather).

Considering the lag I get on the PS4 with games like Witcher 3 that try to balance high quality graphics with scale, RDR2 is smooth. You can be on a train fighting 30 guys (each with dynamic facial expressions) with animals running around in the distance, explosions, the wind is blowing the trees around you and it's changing from sunshine to pouring rain - all this and more without a hiccup. That's a lot of detail processing at one time.

EDIT: one other thing I found impressive and i'm not sure I've seen this in other open-world games or if they intentionally programmed it this way: during one of the missions I slaughtered about a dozen or two guys and traveled a considerable distance away from the scene. Normally when you come back to something like this, the world around you has pretty much re-rendered, but 30 minutes later when I arrived back, all the dead bodies were in the same place as before.
Can't we process that into something useful? There has to be some useful thing that can be done with that.
OP is referring to the $27000 Legatus Pack (seemingly not on offer anymore) which had almost every ship in the game and some other stuff.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/for...
> Yes, because having extra fire safety in hotels is certainly designed to keep people from operating amateur hotels.

Should fire safety not apply to all large residential buildings? Why just hotels? Would generally applicable regulation not be better?

> And having laws requiring particular fare structures and payment methods is certainly meant to keep companies from competing with taxis.

At least in part.
Wow! Just checked my email and got this. I was considering using this, but KNEW I couldn’t have built parts of my infra around this, because of one thing: the pricing. I even sent a message on their website asking what their roadmap was. After not getting a response for days, I figured the end was nigh.

It was far too low to build a sustainable business around, and so I decided to write my own stack. What I needed they served very well ( ability to run one-shot docker containers as an HTTP rpc ) — similar to AWS Fargate but much much simpler.

Fargates’ RunTask is close but requires way too much configuration of roles and permissions and “provisioning” just to run a container. And even at the scale AWS is providing fargate, their pricing was still higher! I remember the AWS pricing being something like 5c / hr priced out in seconds, but with a minimum charge of 1 minute, but hyper.sh was 1c/hr with a min charge of only 10s! So, roughly here’s why they’re going out of business: the business requires very scaley things ( think dinosaur not lizard ) in order to make very small amounts of money. And it’s making 1/5th of the market dominant service.
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I joined Nextdoor thinking it would be cool to meet with local programmers and computer hobbyists. My first red flag was that apparently things involving computers are not a hobby in nextdoor. The second red flag was that it told me my community "needed" me to invite one other person before I even got to the feed - what? You could skip it but I would absolutely not have known based on the language used. Finally, I got to the feed and... It sucked. It felt like it was all just NIMBYs, but even then it felt dead and lacking any decent content.

Frankly, I can't believe this app exists.
Thanks for the info... I wasn't aware that there was no means of propulsion on those. Oh well, it's not like that option would have been seriously considered if there was.
Comparing VSCode to XCode is pretty unfair. XCode is a vastly more complex application with many, many more features and requirements to support.

Conversely, it’s pretty likely an Electron version of XCode would run like garbage, a native version of VSCode would run faster and consume much less resources (memory, battery etc).

I don’t think it’s appropriate at all to argue VSCode somehow compares favourably.
Good to hear! I’ll definitely play with it when I have some free time.
I strongly suspect that the vast majority of racists, deep deep inside, are just worried about safety.
Spending the absurd amount of money that's going towards building a surveillance state on making staircases safer instead will save several magnitudes more lifes each year.

That's not because a lot of people break their neck walking up stairs, it's because how disproportionate and irrational the response to the terror scare is.

If news reported on every case of people dying a preventable death while utilizing something we have learned to build in a safer manner by now, they'd do little else.

It just isn't as flashy as people blowing up.
But people are very much in right to have negative opinion on how game is being managed and developed. That's what healthy discussion is about: inviting critical opinions.

I've missed the point when fanbase became fiercely defensive of SC, but it's crazy how quickly reaction to any criticism of the game is to shut down that criticism. Saying that "Chris Robets said in advance that game will be developed differently" is not some sort of "get out of the jail card" for criticizing them for ballooning the game out of scope.

It's actually crazy how far some people are putting in "for defense of a dream". I once saw a comment under the article about SC which's author was berating the site for not knowing what they are writing about and telling them to shut it. Because comment was made using facebook comments, I've decided to follow the link to Facebook profile for my own curiosity.

His Facebook profile was literally those things:

- Intro was I am 64 years old retiree living somewhere. I am participating in creation of Star Citizen video game and love it!

- Wall was usual posts with photos of relatives, family meetings, travels and shares of StarCitizen news/commentaries

It's absolutely nuts!
Exactly, Electron apps feel always like webpages :(
Nothing makes "I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain" carnivores faster than dickish vegans. And there's a difference between an ethical problem (killing and eating something morally relevant which would rather not be killed and eaten), and a social problem (violating the social norms of cooperation and causing complication).
Holy crap that fan at
https://youtu.be/IpMxOmUcfOI?t=175

Btw absolutely amazing project. Thanks for posting the link
I'm very impressed that they got that valuation. Looking at the UK CIG accounts for 2017 they had a balance sheet value of -£12,304 , so props to them for getting that much investment.
We changed the title from "Yet another holiday shutdown: Hyper.sh" to one that is less baity and uses representative language from the article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Every country who can afford to already does this. They're simply admitting a little more about it than most.
Which is why they are, imo, the best large news corporation.
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Except that they don’t need to consume 1gb+ and they don’t need to feel sluggish. We’re also not talking about replacing every native app with electron.
I got the shivers from this as well. It is not only absolutely fucking stunning in and of itself but considering what it took to be able to see this image, all of the people responsible are utterly magnificent bastards. Also I have had a thoroughly shit week, so I wish them extra thanks for gifting me a bit of optimism, which I sorely needed. Awe is an overused term, but here it genuinely applies.
As far as US history.

Should I start with the mass slaughter of native Americans, slavery, Japanese internment camps, etc?

All the while the “good Christians” either actively took part or looked the other way?
If she decided to go full vegetarian tomorrow, I'd absolutely support it. But I love the rest of her enough to disagree on this point.
The original idea was that if the West opened its economy to China, they would inevitably liberalize. Many years later it's clear that was naive, but that's why the incredibly one sided rules are/were tolerated.
k8s is really just the scheduler and gives you a uniform way to deploy the "vm" containers in the usual scenario. With k8s you can have workloads run on different runtimes like trusted=runc, untrusted=kata, etc and this is even easier now with RuntimeClass which you can write right inside of a regular k8s deployment yaml.

Kata is actually just several binaries that talk via grpc (kata-agent, shim, proxy, runtime) and interface with QEMU/NEMU. For instance kata-proxy proxies commands over virtios serial interface that's exposed via QEMU.

You could install the binaries and qemu-lite and have a similar system but I'm not really sure how you'd benefit as it's the management through k8s that really won me over. I think in your scenario you'd just be making very complicated QEMU vms. I've linked this to the contribs, maybe they have some thoughts.
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Yeah unless your product is super unique, you still need to market outside of Etsy is the vibe I get. That's good, yeah YouTube and IG are pretty good for those kinda things, not sure of some of the other ones out there that are common for influencers. Might be worth looking at where people are getting paid to be influencers on and that might be a trail worth following.
Think this is bad? Just wait until everyone adopts asm.js. So we can compile C++ code to "fast web apps" which will run in the asm virtual machine, in the javascript DOM sandbox, in the thin webbrowser client, and finally in the OS.

You can laugh, but that day is coming and I fear getting armies of college grad hipster-coders creating unreliable slow layered software until we have nothing but "Material" UI flat buttons and cursor lag when typing simple messages in a simple application. AHHHH
The problem is that you're in another echo chamber. If you took a step back and had a look at what CIG have done as of December 2019, instead of the old build that the Derek Smart echo chamber is harping on about, you'd see that there is actually a game there. While there is still room for concern, "no game at all" is patently false and has been for more than a year.

> But watching Star citizen unfold

But you clearly haven't been watching it.
The success of fighting it only works as well as 'where does public opinion on the issue currently lie'.

The constitutionality of a law is a political red herring. My favorite example of this is gay marriage. All the way between 1776 and 2015 it was illegal - yet somehow, magically, in 2015, banning it became unconstitutional.

Did the Constitution change in 2015, without us noticing? Did the lawyers advocating for it figure out some sequence of utterances that made a lightbulb go off in the heads of the judges?

No. What happened is public opinion changed.

The constitution gives you theoretical rights. Whether or not you actually have any of them is a direct product of what the public thinks of you
Well, I haven't re-read the thread now, so maybe it has changed (and maybe some of the flamebait was indeed deleted). Last I checked there were tons of reviews complaining about "politics" and "SJWs". If I remember correctly, there was a concerted effort to bring the review ratings down because of this.
I was just considering using this service for a side project that needed isolated containers to run jobs in. Anyone have suggestions for similar alternative services?
What would be good pricing in your point of view?
That said, this submission likely would not have received as many upvotes had it linked to the YouTube video originally, as YT videos rarely do well on HN.
It's a feature, they feel like a part of the web, which is the more important platform, for the majority of people who spend most of their time using web apps.
Well, instead of daily transporting all the oil US is consuming half way around the globe with all the emissions that entails from these tankers, producing locally would seem like a better idea.
Yes but on Ring neighbors for example, it seems most of the “concerns” are just people walking up to the door while having pigment in their skin. Usually it’s obvious they’re doing door to door sales or the like, but the comments imply something is amiss.
I'm a bit confused - werent the NASA landers looking at the Martian dirt for microscopic traces of evidence of water in the past? or perhaps digging for some sign of water? and the NSA probe just flys by and says hey look out the window, there's a entire lake of frozen water, sitting on the surface, that noone has ever observed before.
It's an assumption, but in my experience, the celiac folks tend to be the "screw it, give me the hash browns" type, rather than starting a shouting match over their allotted gluten-free toast.
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I think a lot of people (including me) want China to join the club of first world countries, not just economically, but also in terms of respect of human rights. How do you get there? By banning chinese products and heavily penalizing them? Or by inviting them to get their people richer and more educated?

There's actually a very interesting kurzgesagt video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvskMHn0sqQ
I really enjoy their Bugsmashers series on Youtube, where they walk through fixing code. It's great in its own right, and I'd watch it even if it wasn't about Star Citizen.
Do you think Elixir will help grow the community?
> Let that be a lesson to not rely on cloud infrastructure too much without designing your architecture to be somewhat cloud agnostic.

We need SaaS: Services as a Service
You mean your foster father Gorian? For shame!
Why does this matter on any modern operation system and hardware? What is the point of unused RAM capacity given fast mem/disk IO, compression and seamless paging?
> The Chinese Communist Party is running an authoritarian, draconic police state

Agree. But don't you think it is weird that this did not register during the time when moving production to China was at it's height? How come the whole west were willing to look the other way at most if not all human rights violations in China for most part of the last 3 decades, only to now raise concern?

I believe an honest assessment of those questions reveals without shadow of a doubt that humans rights violations in far off countries only become a concern for the west when it is useful for geopolitical or simple profit reasons.

It has been that way since the opium wars and longer, and we fall for it every single time.
Well, if it is not profitable (net positive in generating wealth) then, yes, its not viable. Its too bad the negative externalities of fossil fuel burning are not placed on those that use it (CO2 tax please) so that we could find out which energy sources are actually profitable.
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Sean’s a cool guy, lots of cool projects on his channel worth a watch.
Now add space travel in three-dimensions, moving between variable gravity and atmosphere environments, make the map the size of a solar system with fairly massive planets that you can fly down to any part of freely. Try to get hundreds or thousands of people in that at one time, then throw tons of NPCs down on top of it to make sure things really seem lively. Etc. Add not just the fully-modeled interior of one or two aircraft carriers, but several of varying size and scale from various manufacturers (and species), add multiple professions for mining, salvaging, refining, etc. which each have mechanics far beyond "press key to do action".

This is a non-exhaustive comparison. There are an insane number of aspects where Star Citizen is trying to take it to another level. Trying to compare Battlefield 1942 to an approach like Star Citizen is like comparing a deck of playing cards to Battlefield 1942. You're trying to compare a first-person shooter which allows for a handful of straightforward game loops to a game that attempts to include the full scope of MMOs and sandbox games with the graphical and environmental fidelity of a first-person shooter.
That would be an interesting study.
Kind of like Top Gear or WWE. It's full of fake but we kind of implicitly get that. I think a bit of the issue here is that a lot of people (myself included) assumed there was no staging.
Woa... I was evaluating this service a couple of months ago. The conclusion was, even if it looks nice the major downside was that the company hadn't been around long enough and we didn't know if they were profitable. These kinds of moves with sub-30 days during major holidays is really scary. I feel for everyone out there having to work during the holidays. I hope the CEO did this out of financial necessities. Otherwise he should be put on some type of do-not-purchase-from-these-founders-blacklist.
Can't you do it to the ashes? I'd assume that most of the mass is gone by then, so whatever processing needs to be done could be cheaper.

If you compress your radioactive ash into bricks and take them to my currently fictional interesting materials recovery facility, I may even pay you for the trouble.
Daggerfall was a buggy mess or randomly generated, yet still always the same dungeons. No reason whatsoever to walk in the always-same, never ending landscape. The plot was good, the scale huge.

Morrowind fixed all of that - much smaller scale, less generated stuff, excellent plot, few (er) bugs - it was actually possible to finish the game. Landscape with purpose, it was actually interesting to walk and explore.
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I call BS.

The device had GPS tracker and it was used just few times, so chances of him NOT reviewing theif's route after each incident are zero. So he surely knew that the thief lived across the street.
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Micro pricing only works when your customer is running high frequency transactions. I would have been happy to pay $25 but even 50-100/ month for a starter service that does this well.
I long for a proliferation of 'adventure' or slower RPGs, instead of the FPS-type we see so much of. One advantage of the former is there's often a party component, like the old-school Wasteland (or the new Wasteland II), old Bard's Tale, etc. Or perhaps the party component fell out of favor for a different reason?

I've quite enjoyed Witcher 3's atmosphere and story, but there's something hack-and-slash about the combat and the skill system that makes one not really want to explore the different skill paths. For example, almost everyone will deploy a large fraction of their points in strong and fast sword attacks -- because it's a hack and slash.

Is it there's not a lot of demand for RPGs, or they're too expensive to make, or the old-school creators are replaced with a younger generation?

Don't get me wrong, Witcher 3 and the late GTA series are great games, but they're not old school RPG's in their style of play: some of the missions are gauntlet runs (somewhat linear), and the energy is fast-paced and requires more reflexes than they require planning.
I've just read all the way through the kickstarter page where SC raised it's first $2m dollars (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen) in 2012.

In there they very clearly commit to delivering the game in specific timelines, nowhere that I can find does it say "it'll be done when it's done" or "this is an estimated time it could be much later"

Perhaps I'm missing where the page that backers used to decide whether to commit to the project says that their timelines are an estimate...
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To just run a container and have it available over the web?

Azure has Azure Container Instances. AWS has Fargate. Zeit has Docker deploys with v1. GCP is coming soon with Serverless Containers.
I've watched people play the alpha on streams and jesus it looks boring and terrible.
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The complaint by fcc was these objects were too small to be tracked (which was not true in the first place). How would turning them in to many more smaller pieces of debris in orbit help?
It does. There's no free market for soup kitchens for the homeless, for example.

There exist entities who are willing to provide soup kitchen services below operating costs in perpetuity (i.e. charitably, for free). The price for services is kept artificially low ($0) by constant infusions of capital from outside the market (charitable donations), which prevents for-profit vendors who don't receive constant cash infusions from being able to compete on a level playing field. The resulting market is thereby warped by the distorting influence from non-market forces, preventing it from operating efficiently. It's not "free", in the technical sense.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing, to be clear. The charitable funding system may well provide better aggregate social outcomes than a free market would for any number of reasons, not the least of which being that one of the freedoms that "free market" implies is the freedom for vendors to decide that some of their potential customers are more trouble than they're worth to serve.
Well, that's completely false. Neither Chris Roberts nor CIG have ever "promised" a release date. Even in the Kickstarter it was an estimate. They have been totally transparent about that from the start. Stop spreading lies.
Sure, but if you made it extremely convenient, the usage would increase by a few orders of magnitude and the price could stabilize.
I've worked with Electron and previously NW.js for over 6 years. Here's what you need to know – if an apps performance is bad 99.9% of the time it's the developers code, not Electron that's the issue.

Sure, the bundle size is large and the memory footprint is ~200Mb but those should not be limiting factors if you have a computer from this decade.
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