skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>but I suspect it really had more to do with tighter quality controls

That was Nintendo's PR spin but it wasn't based in reality. The N64 had some real stinkers (Superman 64) - so let's not delude ourselves that Nintendo's quality standards are what prevented third-parties from releasing games.

>The Gamecube is evidence of this

It's not a valid comparison. The Gamecube was released at a time when DVD players were novel, expensive and exciting, so getting a DVD player with a console was a big deal, and of course, the Gamecube was ... not released with a functioning DVD player. It also came out a year after the PS2 (the best selling console of all time) and at that point, everyone understood that Nintendo was no longer the top-dog in consoles. They were the underdog. There was very little hype for the Gamecube. And yes, if they released a cartridge-based system, they would have been sunk. Even the most hardcore Nintendo fans wouldn't tolerate cartridges at that point.

>neither of them really "lost" the Console Wars the same way SEGA's and Atari's consoles did

That's true. Nintendo found themselves a nice niche, that was in part helped by the fact that the managed to maintain mobile console dominance.

>The third-party options were unremarkable, sure, but the Nintendo 64 was the debut platform for Super Smash Bros

That's true, the N64 had wonderful first and second party games. That was the only reason to own the N64. It's also THE reason to own the Gamecube, Wii, WiiU, and the Switch.

>Can't speak much to RPGs or sports games, since I didn't play very many RPGs back then

You know who played RPGs? Japan, the second biggest console market. It hurt Nintendo incredibly badly that the big multi-disc RPGs were never ported or released for the N64. Sports games were also critically important and the first few years Nintendo did not have the yearly EA FIFA/Madden/NHL offerings. Also top-tier sprite-based (Namco/Capcom) and polygon-based fighting games were never released for the N64. All this really hurt the N64 at the time. Basically if you were at all interested in non-Nintendo first-party games, you had to get a PSOne.

>though I'm pretty sure the Legend of Zelda games and Paper Mario all fall into the RPG genre and all had pretty great critical acclaim and commercial success.

Those were phenomenal games but Zelda was not an RPG. Paper Mario was but that's just one game. N64 did not have Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, and countless others released on PSOne. Final Fanatasy and Dragon Quest were system sellers in Japan.
They can't be too old for a specific role. They can be overqualified for a role.
What system are they using? It's translated as the "traffic" system of stenography, but a google search comes up with nothing.
As they say, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. It seems that most tenants are over leveraged. I'm weathering this pandemic just fine because I scrapped together a little extra every month and don't live in a posh area with 60% of my income going to rent.
The other part is that as the value of your properties increase, you can leverage this to buy more properties, capturing even more wealth.

My old landlord was a civil engineer who went into business buying multi-family homes in Los Angeles with his brother-in-law maybe 30 years ago. They now own close to 30 buildings, maybe around 120 units total.

I'm not unhappy that he's been successful. What's annoying is that this success is not replicatable by other generations. There's no way two people who make less than $100,000 are going to buy a single multi-million dollar residence, let along leverage that process 20 times over.
That doesn't answer my question at all. I'm well aware containers aren't a "real thing". My entire question was about the "if" part that you didn't address. Is anything missed here? is my question.
What does that has to do with https? https does not fix your server side bugs. Nor https prevents anyone from connecting to your server. Only(in general) thing that it provides is content encryption which is going through internet. If you hosting public website, this content is already publicly available.
Everyone should just keep in mind the first look at Unreal Engine 4 all those years ago before getting too too excited. Big step forward, absolutely, but it won't be as seen here.
> Bankruptcy is: a good thing.

This comment represents, unfortunately, what's wrong with capitalism and, at the same time, what makes it work.
Bankruptcy is used by companies to get rid of debt and refocus their business, which is good. In the case of Boeing, an eventual bankruptcy comes as a consequence of a decade of buybacks to fill investor targets and lousy engineering in the case of the 737 Max.
But hey, with infinite FED money, Boeing is not going down that easily.
The pandemic forced it on companies. Before that mass work from home is a Decision that needs Metrics to determine if it was right and if it doesn't work or has issues it could be someone's fault with Career Consequences. Without something forcing their hands conservative managers would have continued to take the easier path of having people come in just because the default decision isn't questioned as much.

Working in the office had huge inertia behind it and it does make things simpler for middle management because they can easily just walk around and look over people's shoulders to tell if they're working on browsing HN all day or interrupt for some face to face.
Can you point me to some online resources? I'd like to learn more about this.
I think that's primarily true for companies that don't pay their engineers enough. The companies that pay a lot of money obviously don't have problems attracting and retaining talent.
https://thetyee.ca/Solutions/2018/06/06/Vienna-Housing-Affor...
Ah! Eop's law!
Those NASA people put manned spacecrafts in an orbit that it goes around ISS few kilos forward, back, above and below such as if they’re orbiting the station in the radial in-out plane, so they could inspect tiles and admire the station a bit, then settle and start docking from a point at aft(Z bar) or below(R bar) the ISS.

On emergencies they could punch Z and that’ll put the spacecraft cleanly away either back below or forward low then way up, you know how orbital mechanics does that.

This little game is for the final approach after that flyaround. They don’t mess around going full throttle towards target retrograde manually at Intersect 1 from different inclinations like we do.
That's fine as long as you send a welcome email immediately that says "If you didn't create this account, use this link and you'll never get another email at this address".

I've seen services forget that, and then it's possible to sign up with someone else's email address, use the account, and have someone else get spammed or harassed. That needs to be part of your threat model. "What if a bot signs up" is about protecting your service and people using it. "What happens if someone signs up with someone else's information" is about protecting other people, who may have nothing to do with the service.
I know it's a common refrain when people defend being salaried that they get some wiggle room if they need to take off, or something, but me? I'd prefer the trade-off on something as precious as my time being very explicitly spelled out.

I have a feeling that the trade-off works in favor of the employer vastly more than the worker, in the general case, and probably even in the case where people think they're getting an okay deal.
>so where is the renters money going exactly?

I think with a lot of land lords, in high COL areas especially, the question of "where isn't the money going" is obvious and more important. It's definitely not back into the property. It's not making improvements to make the property more amenable to tenants. No new windows/insulation. The cheapest utilities and fixtures.

The worst part is, is that they can basically cash out whenever they want. People will buy the property to do the exact same thing.
Fake news, he is not the inventor
When good enough software solves the right business problem, it frees up resources to solve the next most important business problem. Good enough software runs many great businesses.

The one unicorn I worked for had so much cash to spend, there were at least 3 teams of 8-10 engineers on the same floor trying to solve similar business and infrastructure problems with different combinations of open source software.
I thought god was on blockchain and had immutable god's plan encompassing all past and future events? Then prayers are meaningless, since the divine plan can't be changed, and probably discarded on ingress.
pivot_root is supposed to switch the whole system to a new root. chroot applies to a process, but the underlying system keeps going with what it had.
Wow, their forum is rocking phpBB 2.x. They must have patched it manually, 12 years is a long time to run outdated and insecure web software.
The costs are off.

I have an SGI workstation and an HP workstation next to me. They cost $0.

That was >15 years ago, freecycled. Pretty sure they are less than $0 by now!
For sure. Please also see the response of our product manager in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23167232
There is a far slower implementation: http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and...
Why do you think it's a less standard definition?
Why can't you do that today?

Internet connections are much faster. Most people aren't under CG-NAT.

Even a raspberry pi can be a server.

What are you arguing here?

Why is your tech illiterate mum setting up a http server but can't do https?

Wouldn't it be better to create a blog on medium?

Or a site on square space?

How about a free site with GitHub pages?

I just don't understand the idea that people want to set up something and forget about it.
That's how you get hacked and turned into part of a botnet.
His only mistake was trying to predict the unpredictable.
Just like someone is still paying for desktop software, in spite of piracy and SaaS.

All those small companies that manage to have their software exposed on shops like Saturn here in Germany, or do direct sales over their web site.

And just because it is B2C, Prosummer or used via a tablet plugged into a docking station, it doesn't stop being desktop software, from the points of view who's paying and selling it.

And regarding games, anyone with experience on the field knows how much harder it is to make any kind of living out of them versus regular desktop software.

The success/failure rate is much higher, with the large majority of studios never making any dime.
The foundational text of this view, Progress & Poverty, is an absolute masterpiece. No book has shifted my thinking so radically, and I know I’m not an outlier.

Fun fact: It was written in San Francisco after the gold rush when there was obscene wealth around but horrible wealth inequality. This yielded awful urban living conditions, which George set out to investigate. Sounds familiar...
Optimizing UTC → Unix Time Conversion for Size and Speed
Federated login introduces additional friction and is confusing to many customers.
Co-operatives should be more of a thing for starters.
> what does that mean?

What I meant was that future brain imaging technicians might be able to record your brain waves while you sleep and then, when you wake up, correctly tell you what you dreamed about.

However, it is also possible that future brain imaging technicians might be able to record your brain waves while you sleep and then use that data to construct a virtual reality experience that is so convincing that it could make someone else directly experience your dream.

> You can't feel that you're having the same dream as being that person's body.

You have no basis for making this claim except that we currently don't know how to do it. That is a very weak basis for such a claim.

> The problem is understanding how integrated information produces smells and pains.

Bear in mind, I'm not saying I myself believe IIT, I'm just trying to describe what it says. I don't know that "integrated information" is the right way to describe what it is about the neural activity in our brains that produces smells and pains.

> Why would some forms of information be conscious?

If I generalize this to "why would some forms of neural activity be conscious?", the answer is that consciousness has survival value, so neural activity that can produce conscious experiences evolved.
Hard pass on Dell, get you a Pixelbook Go instead. Much better Dev experience than vanilla Linux.

(See my other PBG comments over the last two days for more reasons why)
Elon Musk has a complex relationship with the A.I. community
>how is this different from taxation without representation?

there's a layer of abstraction! Duh!
OpenSourceWeekly #11: The many flavors of Linux
To be honest I would be uncomfortable using a work provided computer without at least some rudimentary tracking on it. Majority of my work provided machines were locked down to a limited user account, so it is up to IT to at least make sure that it is updated and not full of viruses.

I mean I don't want it to have a 1 minute timer that clocks me out, but the expectation that work has complete ownership of their provided equipment has been the norm for at least the 10 years I have been working.
Is this really how you want to cope with the world? Are we so childish we have to replace pictures of the bloviator-in-chief with puppies just to exist in a happy state of disinformation all day long?

May as well just buy a Hugbox and have done with it if you can't deal with things you don't like to this extent.
The point is getting that thousand bucks before someone else does. Or to make the company efficient enough to survive in a market where the other company's already efficient.
And what happens if one of Google's robots shuts down my account one day? Do I lose access to your service too? It's not like there are any humans at Google to manually review any of this stuff because they don't care.
According to Wikipedia he's still alive, so I guess it wasn't so serious that it stopped him resurfacing. But yes it would have been nice if the article had clarified what happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Vescovo
ScholarPedia has lots of materials regarding these topics. Suggest you pay a visit
My wife and I just gave away a small library. It hurt
The rich can buy out the new supply and either use it for things like AirBnB (which then just displaces people who need an actual place to stay) or they sit on the property and grow their investment over time because of how limited land is in metro areas. See: Warehousing [1]. Or they just keep those additional units in said building empty, because it would be more of a pain to convert them to residential units when mixed commercial earns easy revenue.

The idea that the rich get no profit from sitting on buildings is wrong.

[1] https://www.brickunderground.com/rent/why-landlords-leave-ap...
Yes, it's certainly a very rough estimate based on questionable analogs. It is, however, the first attempt I've seen to make a scientific estimate of the question I've seen asked so many times in HN threads over the last few months.
I'm not sure if this is what the parent is referring to but there are overlayfs and unionfs in Ubuntu for example.
I clicked on the link not having heard of ERP or SAP and expecting to have my mind blown, too.

But, isn't that software almost the reason why computers and databases and programming happened? To help businesses with there boring business stuff, like inventory and orders and accounting?
buried lede, perhaps: retroactive to Jan. 1, "Unreal Engine royalties waived on first $1 million in game revenue"

> Unreal Engine End User License Agreement for Publishing: This license is free to use and incurs 5% royalties when you monetize your game or other interactive off-the-shelf product and your lifetime gross revenues from that product exceed $1,000,000 USD.
True that! Had a discussion along that line just earlier today about the contact us function on my website. Worst case, I get some more mails in my spam folder. I can live with that, checking it every two weeks or so doesn't hurt.
> Of course people would need to be educated on those risks, which would probably be the biggest issue.

Frankly, that's impossible in any reasonable timeframe compared to just not allowing unsafe "huts".
Show HN: Codesnippetsearch.net – Query code snippets using natural language
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landlords don't deserve sympathy for not correctly assessing their risk tolerance. Not to mention their goal as an investor is to rent the property for more than it's actually worth, taking away properties and increasing prices for people who want to live in their properties.

https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/getting-star...
I am an idiot. Somehow I went to the API documentation and examples instead on the github site. Thanks.
I have received “thanks for ordering directly” and “appreciate you skipping the tech leeches” when placing orders directly. So I think I’m going to go with what my local restaurants prefer.
Or get a USB mouse jiggler!
https://www.amazon.ca/Cru-Dataport-Wiebetech-30200-0100-0011...
I used to run a forum for an indie videogame with a small but passionate userbase. Unfortunately it was completely overrun by spambots to the point that moderators couldn't keep up and they drowned out the real posts. We had to shut it down.
What makes this better or different from all of the other WebRTC video apps?

How do you address this issue that video chat on WebRTC is really bad?
Had the same experience in the midwest early in my career. Underpaid, overworked, our boss expected us to work weekends without any extra pay because we "all needed to pitch in". Corporate culture in the midwest is horrifically outdated.
Link to repo: https://github.com/novoselrok/codesnippetsearch
Thank you for posting that link. That post was far more informative and, as you mentioned, avoided "cheap shots". This subject is best discussed without politically partisan language; all of us are affected, regardless of how or even whether we vote. Thanks again.
Gas stove cooking routinely generates unsafe levels of indoor air pollution
I didn't even know there was an Eclipse Foundation either. I thought they were an Apache Foundation project.
I love the idea of arcologies. I’m been told one of the reasons that people don’t make 100-story-tall cubes is that the “up” part is so expensive it only makes sense in places whose land-value is really high, e.g. Manhattan.

Of course, urban design is a field in its own right so I can’t weight up the pros and cons of each option. Public transport? Zoning? Other?

That said, I agree with you: there can’t possibly be no solution to the housing shortages when there is so much land between different cities.
This is the utilization theory of dwellings, which I think is bunk. Actual utilization is over 90% in California cities, so fiddling with vacant and underused properties can only make a small difference while being rather difficult to achieve. 10% vacancy is actually desirable because it makes the marketplace work.

Land, on the other hand, is severely underused. Zoning changes could easily triple the housing supply in American cities. That's a lot better than 5-10%.
Syntactic malleability is actually a red herring. The key insight of Lisp is: Lisp code is not text. Lisp code can be serialized as text, and it can be parsed from text, but it is not text, it is S-expressions, and S-expressions are not text, they are data structures, specifically, they are trees of cons cells. And because they are trees of cons cells you can construct them without ever constructing any text, i.e. without any parsing.

Syntactic malleability is a consequence of this property of the language. It is not in and of itself the central idea.
Many of them see through the facade of false choice, and the fact that their is only one political party in this country when it comes to a large % of issues. I don't blame them, you shouldn't either.
He's definitely copying Matt Levine's style.
They’re moving from Canada, so assume people can’t/won’t travel to Canada.
I have Excel spreadsheets showing every bit of the calculation of AES and DES: https://www.nayuki.io/page/aes-cipher-internals-in-excel ; https://www.nayuki.io/page/des-cipher-internals-in-excel

Also, some people have been sharing a video explanation of AES/Rijndael. It is actually rendered from someone's Shockwave Flash movie. https://web.archive.org/web/20051124061027/http://www.cs.bc....
/r/conspiracy kids discovers public city weather and traffic cameras that have been around Since the 00s
Timelines from Wikidata
Sam at UserOnboard has teardowns of a bunch of onboarding flows. It's the single best reference I can suggest around optimizing the process:

https://www.useronboard.com/
What’s tricky? The small business owner employs people. The landlord merely purchases the right to keep productivity off of valuable land.

Agreed that they are not villains, but nor should we act like they’re doing some service. No one pays their rent because they believe their landlord is adding value. They pay it for access to the jobs, amenities, services that the community (not the landlord) provides.
Though I am not working with Erlang or Elixir right now I am so pleased that this is seeing improvements. I had as much fun learning Elixir as I did learning Ruby ages ago. It's just a fun language with great construct!
When my parents were renting houses we spent a lot of time on them. Most of the money from rent goes to the mortgage, property tax, insurance, and maintenance. You can get some back on maintenance if you put in some sweat equity. This was how they were going to afford retirement, by working their asses off.

There is very little left over as positive income. Maybe 10% if you are lucky, which makes up a little for the huge headaches. It can be really bad if you get bad renters. You get some back as equity over time and that is nice, unless the housing market crashes.

As for evicting people, it sucks. Once you start eviction you are stuck paying someone else's mortgage. In fact you are also paying to evict them too. Some renters go from house to house just paying a deposit and first month's rent then sitting on the house for as long as possible. If you try to be nice to them and give them more time they will bankrupt you.

In the meantime they are actively trashing the house, peeing on walls, keeping dogs in the fireplace like it's a kennel without cleaning it for months, putting holes in walls, flooding bathrooms, and spreading feces inside wall spaces. Then when you finally get them out by offering to give them back their deposit (Cheaper than eviction) they move in next door and trash the next poor landlord's place.

If you are doing background checks and credit checks you can keep the above from happening for 95% of cases. However the moment you start being nice and renting to that poor family on section 8 funding because "Someone has to" you are back cleaning poop out of your walls after paying their mortgage for 6 months and being called a "Slum Lord" because the people you rented to have trashed the pristine house you put hundreds of hours into.
Lets Encrypt (and most other issuers) are happy to issue certificates to whoever controls the DNS for a domain, which could be your TLD administrator at their whim.

I don't think DANE is going to make any progress, but opposing it because it gives TLDs more power is kind of bunk -- the TLDs already have that much power, DANE just makes it more explicit.