skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GP was using "deteriorate" in the same way you were. A well cared-for book will last for a really long time, particularly if it's a hardcover.

I have books on my shelf that are older than I am -- for example, a children's book that was passed down to me from its original owner after being purchased nearly 50 years ago. The pages have some slight yellowing, and the corners are a little banged up as a result of me throwing it into a bookbag a few times, but it's otherwise in great condition. The binding hasn't even deteriorated. Eventually, I'll probably pass it down to a younger relative as well.

Of course with digital goods you get literally no deterioration at all, but given how little they deteriorate I suspect most of the preference for 'newness' where books are concerned is probably mostly psychological, not practical. It's worth considering whether similar psychological effects might also pertain to digital goods.

Handing someone a flash drive with an ebook on it might already count as a 'deteriorated' experience over typing in a code on your ebook reader's official store and getting a nice download that syncs with your account and has a shiny Verified Purchased Badge on the cover or something. There are lots of ways to make a purchase and a downloaded file feel personal and unique.
Dang. I want one of these on my wall!

But, I don't have the $$$ for the real ones [0], nor the knowhow to build one using the info in this post.

Maybe I'll try to get some time together to learn more about PCB design/hardware... or even try and turn this into a side project to try an open-source collab to make it a more complete kit/tutorial.

0 - https://clockclock.com/
Yeah, that Auro art is way too high res for 'pixel art'. It just looks like someone scaled down, or pixelated, some smooth art.

On a phone screen it probably just looks like it should be smooth art but it's running at the wrong resolution. Implying something is wrong with the game.
Seems to me that’s precisely what’s called for in the financial trade world.

The concepts are well known and software packages make the process learnable by anyone. It’s discovered. It doesn’t tickle feudal traders fancy but the idea and technology haven’t vanished.

I guess I don’t see the problem. The idea was discovered and refined and society at large it seems doesn’t want to satisfy your emotional preference, but it has provided cheap/easy ways for you to do so to your heart’s content though.

“Kids these days aren’t nostalgic for the childhood experiences kids had last generation.” is just ... yep that’s how it has always worked.
I think the advantage of an establishment like McDonalds over a government run community center is that McDonalds is a business that has a clear purpose.

People turn their noses up at fast food restaurants, but they are ubiquitous and there are no political arguments over how to fund them. They have the familiarity of a major brand and everyone has been to one and knows how it works.

This is probably how it should be. As long as people have a safe and clean place to meet socially, it doesn't matter where it is. And we can be confident that the free market will keep McDonalds around pretty much no matter what happens
That's the thing a lot of devs who hire don't get. You don't necessarily need someone who knows the language inside and out on day one.

What you need is someone smart and who can demonstrate that they can learn new languages quickly.

They understand the fundamentals of how to write software.

Language specific abstractions are just muscle memory.
> You need to consider the following strategy. Buy game, play for 20h straight. [...]

On average, people don't play a game for 20 hours straight. Even I could not do this during a World of Warcraft release, and most people don't. The few who do are outliers.

Most people sleep 8 hours a day, have a household, a job, school, etc. Even a "weekend no-lifer" (which I suppose is more common than a "complete no-lifer") can only play for about 16 hours a day on 2 days a week in the weekend, and that assumes they have no real-life responsibilities. People like that are most likely teenagers (even though these have homework).

> Either doing this is dirt cheap (say less than $1). If it is not dirt cheap, then it means that the game must depreciate hundreds of dollars per year. Which means the starting price must be like $1000.

> People wont pay $1000 for a game, so the second case is impossible.

Sorry, why must the start price be $1000? This makes no sense.

If you want us to consider a strategy, you need to present a plausible one, with plausible data.

Right now, if you want to buy a game cheap, you can already on G2A (circumventing things as region lock). I believe this is going to render the need to wait for discounts (which I currently use) less. If game developers simply quit with all and every discounts (some already do) then the resale value will stick. The amount of people who play a game, might increase as well, and as long as the game retains value over time the first hand and second hand price will stay the same.

Ultimately, the model of selling licenses might have to adapt to the situation, but that is a Good Thing IMO. The way it should work with content, is that people invest money in it, and then these people get an exclusive right to play it first ie. crowdfunding model. Unfortunately, the rights of investors on crowdfunding are currently very low, but that is merely a legal problem. You can certainly keep game licenses sparse right after release, but it increases the urge for piracy because people in non-West can't afford.
Also, drug crimes in Canada are prosecuted by the feds, not your local prosecutor. And I don't think there's been much federal prosecutorial interest in those cases, even if your local RCMP thinks its a problem.

It likely explains why Toronto had to go the bylaw infraction route to close down shops. Which was still a waste of money...
Physical goods have a couple accidental inefficiencies which are beneficial to content creators:
a) Physical degradation: The book that's been read 500 times will generally be in pretty bad shape.
b) Transaction costs coming from locality: I can't transmit a book from SF to NY for free. It costs time /and/ money. So in the absence of an immediately available copy of the book, I'm likely to pay a bit more for access to a new copy.

Without these constraints, the secondhand goods market is potentially much larger, meaning that the creator gets paid less per license. I can read a book, submit it back into the secondhand marketplace, where it immediately gets rebought by someone in NY, and so on, ad infinitum.

So, purchases-per-consumer presumably decreases, and authors still need to eat. (As do publishers, editors, and the whole weirds quasi-vampiric ecosystem surrounding them.) This increases first-sale price... which encourages piracy... etc.

'It'll be ok!' isn't a sufficient response, because look at how journalism has been gutted over the last twenty years. It's a genuinely tougher world for content creators that aren't disney...
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> There's an amazing 10min !!Con 2016 talk by Sina Bahram, How I Code and Use a Computer at 1,000 WPM!!

At 6:28, Bahram points out how HN (!) is not very accessible to screen readers.
I run SideProjectors, which generates some profit. But my reason for posting is for anyone who wants to take-over someone's side project, then have a look at some of the projects posted - https://www.sideprojectors.com - You don't need to start from zero. :)
There's no "right" about it. You're arguing that _having_ a stable ABI is important, and nobody is denying that. There are other ways to get a stable ABI. All of the other non-Linux OS's have one, they just guarantee it in a different place (generally in a userspace library that manages the syscall interface)
I'm currently looking at becoming caretaker for a large number of people's music collections soon. I hear what you're saying about music being too important to settle for 99%. Hopefully I'll get things right enough.
I don't necessarily think you're right here, but I do know the number of horror stories that have come out of Heroku over the years certainly validates the opinion.

I remember reading about their routing debacle and realizing just how much work went into trying to get ruby to scale.
Not the "most successful", but notable nonetheless - http://www.tinytouchtales.com/end-of-year-2019/

That's the person behind Miracle Merchant and Card Crawl games.
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It may also push toward more one-time consumable items in the digital medium.
How are we going to do that? That same way the rice farmers in Vietnam kicked the ass of the most powerful military in the world.
https://gfycat.com/leanuncomfortableleafhopper

Check out dorcas emblem.

The new FE is pretty good on its flair too. The animations are dynamic with circumstance had how much damage you have which is nifty
CFA customer service and employee quality has declined in recent years as the company's growth has accelerated. In my opinion.
I'd pay double just to not hang out with my dealer.
I don’t see this being a trap to anyone working in a real company doing software developpent for a living. Managers won’t let you recode the same thing over and over in various languages, and you’ll somehow have to maintain the software you’ve developped, optimize it, debug it, etc.. and that means go pretty deep into one technology..
Hey there! Just because you're the first Fire Emblem GBA player I've met on HN, may I ask which Fire Emblem game this was?

Fire Emblem: The Blinding Blade FE6

Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword FE7

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones FE8
I think you're completely backwards about how much ebooks are failures and in what manner. And your comparison to other media is incomplete.

> Compared to hard-copy books, e-books offer a vastly worse user experience, with the only benefit being lower price and easier storage.

For novels, ebooks are a vastly better user experience. Adjustable font size, lighter weight, adjustable brightness and color temperature. There is no curved page warping of the text, each page is perfectly flat and legible. You can actually have the book with you when carrying around a book all day can get impractical. I suppose I should preface this with the fact that if you aren't using an e-ink screen then you really aren't using e-books properly.

> Even children prefer paper books to kindles...

There is a learning curve and pre-novel children books are more of a visual medium than text so children have exposure to page turning prior to actually reading.

> So eight-tracks and CDs getting replaced with mp3s and streaming services is a case of a new technology being displaced by a slightly newer technology. [...] Books on the other hand have had centuries...

This comparison still feels off... The technology of CDs, records, etc. is all pretty new but the content is just as old as the content in books e.g live concerts, live plays, oral history, etc. Bound, mass printed books were just ahead of their time compared to music & video since the latter two contain a lot more actual data (bytes/item) so incremental improvements matter much more.

Of course, I too think there are reasons why e-books don't completely replace physical novels/books.

1. Format is only good for novels and stuff without lots of diagrams or images. Textbooks are a huge market and having e-readers the size of them is kind of impractical at this current time. Even so lots of students prefer the PDFs anyway so it's kind of a toss up.
2. Upfront cost. e-readers are not cheap for a lot of people and people don't read a ton in general so paying for an e-reader + books vs the free library is a tough sell. (Most people don't know or don't know how to use free ebooks services through public institutions and a lot of the time they don't work on all e-readers, etc.)

I think there is also some generational trends that work against e-books such as the older & less tech savvy perhaps reading more but having learned preferences for books BUT I haven't researched this theory yet.
I love this. We are so desperately in need of digital consumer protection laws, like mandatory labeling for the minimum length of time server-dependent products like home automation or games will be supported by the manufacturer.
Does this resonate with anyone else? Is there any studies on this?

I’ve had a similar experience over the past few years — a ton of work focus (at a FAANGM as an ML scientist/engineer) combined with limited social interaction and I’ve noticed my ability to have normal social interactions has declined greatly (“verbally inept” and “difficulty with empathy” pretty much hit it on the head). There’s potentially confounding factors in my case so I’ve been hesitant to attribute it to overfocusing at work although I’ve considered it may be a cause.

In retrospect I’m coming to the conclusion that it’s not really a worthwhile tradeoff and I’ve been pulling back from work a bit. To add to the larger discussion, I thought I was focusing on work for the right reasons (making a difference in the world, gaining skills, self-actualization) but after getting my “dream job” it turned out that it the job wasn’t very fulfilling at all. No technical challenge or abstract impact metrics really did much for my happiness (or money fwiw)... at the end of the day it’s still rewarding social interactions (which don’t necessarily _have_ to be outside of work) that control the needle for me.
The problem with this pixel art is its targetting 1080p for some bizzarre reason and just ends up looking like non anti-aliased graphics. Pixel art should look like this. https://twitter.com/zaebucca/status/1057312889160286215/phot... Even scaled up 4x this looks gorgeous.
I guess this would specifically be a benefit of fork/exec. Though would it need to be decompressed after 1.2? That was my assumption is that it trades speed for memory on the first launch, and memory in subsequent launches would be virtual only
Not going to fight the paywall to read the article, but as a developer consultant (not a quant), hedge fund clients pay better across the board than both commercial and investment banks. They tend to be small shops, so it's not really a fair comparison. I've worked for boutique hedge funds, market makers, wealth management funds, pension funds, and two huge investment banks. The small hedge funds pay a lot more and the work is more interesting and less bureaucratic. Just my anecdotal take.
If Raval were smart he’d take a lesson from the Johnsons and Lehrers of the world and go quiet for a bit. Wait until the heat and the scandal die down and he can make a return. While a real apology would probably help, it may not even be necessary.

Raval will, almost certainly, be fine. If he isn’t it will be owed not to the plagiarism alone, but to the combination of all of the scandals brewing around him. One plagiarized paper may be survivable, but a history of weak citation, a heavily-criticized course and a feeling he misled his community may be enough to make him a pariah.

Still, we’ve seen others survive much worse and it’s clear we’re entering an era where the title “plagiarist” doesn’t disqualify you from any position at all. It’s frustrating as many times it appropriate to sever all ties with plagiarists, but it’s the reality we live in.

In the end, it would be good if Raval could at least thoroughly reexamine his approach to citation, in everything he does. Citation isn’t just about formats and standards, it’s a thought process and a way of creating. Clearly, Raval doesn’t have that right now.

If nothing else good comes of this, maybe he can take this as a learning opportunity and grow from it.
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I think it’s not a meaningful comparison because you aren’t growing your own hops.
You cannot ever reach a level of mastery in which you'll never ever discover anything new. Even the people who came up with the language come up with errors from time to time.

But you can definitely reach a level similar to these people in a couple months full time. If you think the people who design languages have decades of experience, you will be surprised.

I personally would consider it a failure of the language if it really took more than a couple months to master. We are not talking about computer programming in general here; we are talking about a specific programming language: a programming language is an _artificial_ construct whose sole intention is to be easy for humans to work with it. If humans are generally terrible slow with it, then, what is the point of such language?
Name an actual communist/socialist regime that didn't confiscate weapons first. China, NorKo, Venezuela, Soviet Union - hell, even the Nazi's confiscated weapons from the Jews "legally" before loading them into the trains.

Gun confiscation is the canary in the communist coal mine.
I’m way more honest about my values and whether my actions align with those values. When there’s an inconsistency between my actions and values I either realize that the value is not actually a priority and I have the peace of mind to let it go, or I’m motivated to change my actions to align with my values.
I get frustrated too, But then I go on glassdoor if I like the job post :P
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It's like when you're a kid and you think adults have everything figured out.

When you pull on the thread, you find that a lot of successful developers don't really have that clear a picture of what it is they did and how they did it. It gets covered with bluster and bluffs. Impugning the other person for not 'getting it' and getting defensive about the 'documentation' they wrote and how everything you need is in the code.

Fifteen years ago we were still talking about 'cave trolls', the people who work in isolation, and often on their own schedule. Most of those people still exist. They've just had makeovers.
Nice domain man!
> What use do you find for a nfc payments solution?

It's one of these things that you don't understand before you start using it. I was also sceptical about NFC payments, but it's just way more convenient than reaching for wallet and searching for a card. The same with reaching for phone for notifications. On a smartwatch paying and checking notifications is just smoother and instant. It's just a better UX.
I think the key to working this out would be extending current practices employed for large buildings with an eye to interconnection. Maybe the best strategy would be to modularize the arcology so that it would be composed of many interconnected structures that are each more or less self sufficient. You could apply this to the Old Man River City by designing it as individual slices of a toroidal pie and then replicating this design until you have the full shape.
Sending on lots of TCP streams can get you to 80% line utilization if the drop rate is good and low. That's often good enough. On some lines, with the "wrong" number of TCP connections, the rate will oscillate, and you will be lucky to get 50%. Tuning that is a black art some people enjoy.
Probably something very concise/dense/terse. https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012/11/which-programmi...

Potentially J or Lua, which were not analyzed in that article. However, Python has a lot of different styles, and those using comprehensions and Julia can often be incredibly concise, but typical highly-readable Python code probably is not particularly concise.
Not a parent commenter but I interpreted that as: given choice between alternatives A (fast and good enough) and B (more complex and much better) you would want to choose B but end up doing A for various reasons (lack of time, unclear ROI etc)
I don't doubt that it works, I'm more interested in how.
Out of curiosity how did you switch to being a quant?
If a State requires a certain label, that's usually fine as long as it doesn't conflict with federal labeling requirements or regs. But you've got to accomplish essentially the same thing you would need to on the federal level, except in one or more states.

As for "voluntary" labeling, the rules have evolved to be weird sometimes, but usually if the EPA claims a chemical is safe, a company can't "override" that on their label. Besides industry specific regs, libel and anti-competitive laws come into play as well.

So even if the EPA let's you add a warning to the label, doesn't mean a competitor won't sue you for doing it. Another concern is tacit admission of guilt. It strengthens the claims made by users/plaintiffs from before a warning was put on the label. There's a lot of conflicting cya aspects to consider.

For a non EPA example of this, look at the battle over milk labeling re: rBST.
Seems like a strong case for encryption. Why is it even possible for these devices to read your info?
The first 2 items are fixed, thanks for the feedback!
No, it's not "Time until you get your money back."

Here's a link:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/returnoninvestment.asp

ROI = Return on Investment. Most people in practice calculate that in excel as a percentage of profit over their capital investment.

Smart business people know there's more important things than a dimensionless number, but hey, Peter Principle and "math is hard." See Black-Scholes and the 2008 recession for how wrong that can go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%E2%80%93Scholes_model

I used to do math tutoring for economics students. Boy, that was an eye-opener! I had to explain over and over what independent variables meant, and how that affected for example derivatives. As bad as p-hacking and the social sciences.

Econ Student: "Can I just plug these lists of numbers in the formula and write down the answer?"

Me: "What are the numbers measuring? Are they independent?"

Econ Student: "No idea."
I can't comprehend how you could judge someone negatively for wanting to provide for their family. So yes there does seem to be a huge cultural gap here and in this case I don't think Scandanavia does it better. Even if I lived in a country with a good safety net I would want to share my success with my family.
I hope it won't.

I mean, this was probably my biggest fear about parenthood. Observing other parents, I've noticed that a lot of them lost everything that made them interesting. The kids are the only things they care about now. I don't see this as a good thing - not for parents, and not for the children. If a parent's entire self gets consumed by child-rearing, what example do they set for their children? That the point of their adult life is to have a (arbitrary, but hopefully well-paying) job in order to support their own children, perpetuating the cycle of doing nothing but breeding and dying? Isn't that meaningless and boring? To me, it is. And I'd hazard a guess that this is where midlife crisis comes from - when one's children are self-sufficient and the role of a parent is over, one realizes they have a 20 years old hole in their life, into which everything they were disappeared.

(This is my perspective as of right now. But the funny thing with perspectives is that they depend on where you stand - so who knows, maybe I'm wrong now and three years from now I'll be arguing the exact opposite? I don't expect to, but I can't rule it out.)
Plot twist: digital assets cannot be duplicated for free. They require storage and transfer.

French plot twist: There are already extensive laws to cover copying and in fact every storage medium is (heavily) taxed to cover losses from copying. You're actually paying few cents per GB on ALL storage mediums like DVD/disks/SSD/usbkeys.
I've been through that stage (grumpy defensive programmer). On the other side is a deep humbleness when as a programmer you realise you know nothing, you never really knew.

You just knew how to research and fix the problem really fast.
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The bug is fixed, thanks for pointing this out!