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> 1. You cannot touch the sacred cow $60 game price. You can go lower, you cannot go higher.

I am merely 23 years old yet I still remember when I used to pay 50€ instead of 60€ for new games on Steam/Retail. And now it's going closer to 70€ for some games. For consoles, I've seen anything between 60€ and 90€. So, at least in Europe, this doesn't seem true.

> 2. Reoccurring revenue & upsells/addons are every business' wet dreams. The game is done, sell it at $60 and shift 9/10ths of the team onto the next game. 1/10th of the team remains in bug-fix/content-churn mode to fulfill whatever season/battle pass scheme they're peddling. Release a new game with the same stuff ~2-4 years later.

That's definitely true for the megabudget games like GTA. There still seems to be a sizeable niche that for pure single-player experiences though, for which I am glad. I find them to be far from dead; there are tons of upcoming SP games I am excited for and I see no reason for this trend to end anytime soon. There are also still expansions. I mean, there's a lot of AAA SP games on the market and coming out.

> 3. Singleplayer games are dead because studios haven't figured out to get cheap secondary/ternary monetization out of them (for cheap.) A lot easier to make a digital hat than keep your design/narrative team making expansions.

The problem with secondary/ternary monetization is that the market will probably saturate quite soon; most people aren't going to pump money into 5+ live service games at once.
But it's not gas chambers. What ICE does is not universally seen as morally bad unlike gas chambers. USA doesn't have a totalitarian government either. A good sanity check is this: if population is split on the issue it means it's not simple and claiming moral high ground is politicizing. Gas chambers are universally seen as morally deplorable. Deporting illegal immigrants isn't.
I've seen this too. I used to think it was surprising. But now I realize it must have happened so many times at all the major banks that even if one of them thought they could sue another and win they would be opening the floodgates to an unknown number of counter-suits. So I think that's why everyone quietly ignores it.
That is an important comment. I really like Postgres, as it is the only free RGDB allowing complex SQL (MySQL is improving), and is also reliable, but some people need to realize that the F22/Cessna comparison is not exagerated.

I professionally use both Postgres and Oracle, for many years, and can confirm that Oracle is so much more advanced.

In addition to the features you listed, I can think of : real-time query monitoring, active session history, inline function definition in SQL, global partitioned indexes, in-memory column store, much more advanced parallel execution capabilities, adaptive plans during query execution, bloom-filters, optimizer baselines, SQL macros, Exadata for tuning at the hardware level, Golden Gate for replication, Enterprise manager for monitoring...and a lot more actually.

And of course : Optimizer hints
Can you elaborate? What collaboration do you mean?
The one with the most hashing power. Just like Bitcoin.
Android is already both more developer friendly and more consumer friendly than iOS despite not having full automatic update support for third party app stores. If that were in place, it would be even better.
Isn’t it funny how they end up chasing the users of a technology they themselves established.
A Bazel Persistent Worker for Rust
A couple strategies that I've employed, that have helped me:

1. Do a start-of-week plan, and end-of-week review. Pick a few milestones that are achievable this week. Hold yourself accountable and check in with yourself to see if you completed them. If you didn't, review why not. Did you snack too much? Did you get pulled into lower-priority meetings? Did you work on some other urgent stuff that is actually OK to drop your tasks for? Keep any insights at the top of your "weekly plans" doc so you can remind yourself of them and try to avoid making the same errors repeatedly. Breaking your long-term goals into milestones also gives you some "snack-like" satisfaction before you get to the finish line and earn the big payoff.

2. Every day, pick a task that you're going to do "hell or high water". Try to get that done before you snack. Typically this is (a piece of) one of your weekly tasks. If your calendar is prone to getting filled up with meetings, block off some "maker time" on your calendar to get this task done. I find it helpful to preemptively schedule timeslots for my project work at the beginning of the week even when my calendar is likely to remain open; it keeps me honest.

3. Timebox your snacking. If you feel like you need a break from longer-range tasks, you want to get an energy boost, etc., set a timebox, say "1 hours refactoring these tests", and try to return to your hell-or-high-water task after that timebox. I find it easy to go down the rabbit hole when I start snacking, especially if I get deep into the flow state. Flow is good! But it can lead you astray from your longer-term goals if you're flowing on something that's not your #1 priority.

As for the mechanics of tracking your work, I have used a personal Trello, todo.txt doc, Roam, GDoc, pen & paper -- this is immensely personal but just having a single place where you can go back and remind yourself what you were supposed to be working on is really helpful.
It's more complicated to the point that Netflix offered a $1,000,000 prize for someone who could build a better one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize
> Being upset that a miner is able to pick transactions that they want to include in their block demonstrates a clear lack of knowledge in how these distributed databases (blockchains) work and any critique similar to this can be disregarded.

I think me & the author both identified exactly how dangerous it is that large powerful forces in these pools can pick & choose which transactions they want to win.

The author had to go peer with others to make their own large coordinated/centralized pool to try to make sure they had some chance of winning.

Agreed that this was a public contract, & they managed to save the bacon via this coordination. But it's amazing how user-hostile it is trying to get anything done in these distributed environments. The power is enormously shifted to the hands of the large players. In many ways, a centrally managed but observable is a higher trust, higher security, more user-supporting system than these distributed systems.
So you're suggesting that Facebook should try to absolve itself of responsibility, but not actually solve the problem? No offense, but that seems exactly opposite to where you started. We're done.
What if the content is actually really criminal? Child exploitation and the like.
>How are we able to shift a cow to and from the milk shed with the click of a button?

A fence can't move a cow from one location to another at an assigned time.
AFAIK only the pool operator can see the full set of transactions for the block being mined. Pool workers only get to see the block header for the new block. This header only contains the hashed root of the transaction tree, and so they are unable to front-run private transactions in this way.
You can stay as long as you like and call yourself an American, you just have to allow everyone else that same right.
Criminals will do crime. The thing that always buffles me is WHO buys heroin, cocaine, weed, etc. over the internet.. Aren't they scared that DHL, FedEx, USPS will scan/sniff the packages? Or they use "Drug delivery express"?

Or they buy online and they meet someone in a parking lot for the pick-up? Why not buy then and there then?

As we see in the movies, most drug trafficking is a drive-by thing.. is it not?
What happens when someone creates a decentralized darknet marketplace that transacts using zero knowledge proofs? This is such a waste of resources. Just make all drugs legal and regulate them like anything else. How many times have I bought weed off a dealer in the last two years? The answer is zero, because I purchase my weed legally from a reputable company that follows all applicable regulations.
So, without knowing anything about me, would you guess I'm pro-blacklist, or anti-blacklist?

The Devil can indeed cite Scripture for his purposes.
Another reason you didn't list is that it is surprisingly difficult to generate recommendation algorithms that don't empower hate speech. As an example we had to update the filters downstream of the main recommendation model dozens of times over the course of a week to stop Epstein and Pizzagate "researchers" from connecting with each other during the last election
It did age, it was just paralysed so it didn’t develop wrinkles. Same effect as Botox.
The floor is certainly lower than 33%. For example, here is another poll by the same firm showing only 16% total acceptance of "- The Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, CT was a hoax spread by people who want to impose strict gun control laws.", and only 12% among Trump voters (6% for Clinton voters).

https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/docume...
Twizzlers aren't exactly Pomfrey (Pontefract) cakes. You'd really need to go to town on them. On t'other hand, if you pick through Allsorts to avoid the more creamy ones (ugh), or actually dealing with Pomfrey cakes (or their other Nothern European relatives) you really have to watch it. But then, if you're doing 60-ish grams of any sweet daily, you might want to rethink your diet.
You mean it didn't up to now? I've always assumed that when I delete something it's gone.
> Just to be clear, my point was that reasonable people can disagree on these issues. Do you think that reasonable people can disagree on these issues or not?

Not on the child prisoner treatment by ICE, since nobody thinks that has been or was handled properly, regardless of political party affiliation. You don't seize children and then "lose them in the system", or put them on concrete floors to sleep, or fail to provide classes, or the dozens of other things they were subjected to, as reported by both the media and visiting doctors.

You can read about the infamous Romanian orphanages fiasco to understand the long-term impact of this kind of treatment on children. (Textbooks had to be re-written on child psychology problems after that.)

For those unaware, ICE also holds adult detainees in tents out in the middle of the desert without adequate AC, from what I've read. If you're 100% healthy you would live a while, but not if you're ill in any way.

Regarding the VA failures, at least the patients were old enough to advocate for themselves, unlike children.

tuna-piano: Why are you attempting to defend something that can't be defended, and is actively harmful to children? Are your writings sophistry, were you bribed, or what is the story exactly?
I had a similar issue with the acute HBP out of nowhere and constant headaches. My liver levels were also all out of whack. I never figure out what caused it but it did resolve after several weeks. My BP and liver are completely normal now. The best I could do was narrow it down to recently starting to drink a ton of green tea or some supplements that I had started taking. I just cut it all out and it went away.
> That said, i dont see how paying the apple tax for the apps i buy is benefiting me at all, since i'm in Europe.

Do you see how VAT benefits you when you pay it when buying almost any product/service (including the ones from Apple) in your country?

I agree with your taxation stance though, because taxes are not voluntary. AppStore is, I can either pay for it and use it, or jailbreak it and use it, or walk away to open platforms and enjoy their freedom. And if there isn't one, I am free to organise with others and to build my own.

Besides, Apple doesn't want you to pay for it, it wants to get a fee from the developers who use the platform to profit from it. It's either developers who consciously put this burden of their fees on your shoulders, or there's a ridiculous law in place that doesn't allow the developers to put different price tags on different platforms, which results in higher prices for end users.
Google is particularly well known for killing off their less profitable services though.
The distinction between "steal coins" and "double spend" is academic at best, though. In practice, in a double spend you are either lucky to be getting "free coins" stolen from deflation/inflation or the double spend is caught, unwound, and someone is designated the "loser" that lost money in the transaction. Either way meets many practical user definitions of "stolen coins".
From what I've been reading, Apple specifically worked with Amazon to tweak Safari to support Luna. Definitely opens up questions of anticompetitive similar to how Prime Video has a special deal with Apple to not pay the full 30% App store fee.
well at least once in my life I had accidentally deleted something important without backing it up (nobody's perfect) and I was glad I could recover it from the trash.

I'd honestly prefer if the policy would at least excempt reasonably small files or textfiles.
What does it matter? They're fighting for something that benefits everybody (except Apple) now.
I'm really surprised that people are trying to make open source something it's not because closed source has become such a boogyman. There is a very real practical need for companies that write software to use Copyright to protect their business -- there's nothing evil about it! It's what Copyright is for!

This kind of "screw the big guys" is something I can totally get behind -- power to them for setting the terms of their relationship with them but it's not and shouldn't be open source. And that should be okay. The right to run a piece of software for any purpose whatsoever is fundamental to the spirit of open source.
Yes, the sound of a pulse of electricity similar to the fence they're already familiar with. Cows are typically kept in pens with high-voltage electric fencing. The energizer fires a 3,000V pulse, lasting about 300 microseconds, every second or two.

This 1Hz impulse is often audible as a repetitive hum if you stand near the wire. By replicating the sound I expect you could suggest the cattle move somewhere else.
The name rung a bell, and I realized Michael Pollan also visited Stamets for his recent book 'How to Change Your Mind'. Pollan also recites the same anecdote of Stamets's climbing a tree while tripping on psilocybin and getting caught in a lightning storm. I suppose the man, even if questionably credentialed, has sufficient cachet among the mycological community to make him an almost required stop on any survey of the subject.
Of course those things are also needed, but that wasn’t really what my comment is talking about. Nor are they mutually exclusive.

The issue I’m referring to is at the institutional level, not the individual one. As far as I’m concerned, when anyone with critical thinking skills analyzes the media, it all looks like propaganda. That doesn’t really help society get more accurate information.
This bug has been around forever and of course it's a likely wontfix for Google.

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/209777/drive-sen...
Ring announces security drone flies around inside your home
Well, you didn't provide a link to the study, and people mistaking correlation for causation is a frequent thing even in science (replication crisis).

The hypothesis "smart people are likely to buy more books, and smart people are likely to have smart children" sounds quite plausible to me. Does it seem implausible to you?

The best way to convince me that books directly increase IQ is to donate a ton of books to kids who need it, and measure the gains. (As a side effect, you would probably win a Nobel price if that worked.) My experience with charity says that actually many people are willing to donate books to charities; charities refuse them, because they already have enough books and the kids are not reading them anyway.

There are many ways how poverty can hurt intellectual development. This is not one of them.

There are many people who want to get rid of old books for kids, because the kids grew up and don't need them anymore; if you asked them to donate the books to you, you would be doing them a favor -- saving them from a dilemma between the bad feeling of throwing the book away, and the wasted space at home. If any NGO would bring a truck and say "please give us the books for kids you no longer need", the truck would be full in an afternoon. Then... according to your theory, the truck could go a few blocks further and turn hundred poor kids into Einsteins. I would be so happy if that worked! Unfortunately, it does not.
Show HN: Power Timer, the versatile timer app that supports iOS 14 Widgets
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Are you kidding?
What's the differences between your solution and Excalidraw from Google team?

https://excalidraw.com
I think CloudFlare is supporting IPFS. I can only speculate as to how this is monetized.
This depends on the task. The non-neural techniques aren't making huge leaps in performance though the way neural methods are. There are tasks where traditional methods still excel or are at parity with neural methods, but the metrics haven't moved much in recent years so you don't see them in the news.
A closer look at Luna, Amazon's cloud gaming service
That's interesting, thanks. So a dev can be working on a feature over an open ended number of sprints? What is the significance of the sprint, then?

We don't have "planning cycles" except for quarterly prioritization to realign on which features matter the most (exceptional features occasionally get prioritized outside the process). When you finish one project, you pick another that's interesting to you that's near the top of the priority list, with support from our Product team and Engineering Operations.
If anyone is interested in using a source-available license for their own code, the Polyform Project has a set of standardized, source-available licenses.
https://polyformproject.org/

PolyForm Shield would probably achieve the same result as the Timescale License.
https://polyformproject.org/licenses/shield/1.0.0/
I’ve given up on content-based recommendation. The issue is that people’s interests in their topics and subtopics is primarily dictated by their individual circumstance and environmental real-world context. That is, if you are able to perfectly know the interests of an individual today, perfectly label the topic of all content, you’ll still give them incorrect content after a few days—-and with news article recommendations, by the next session of platform engagement (since they’ve sufficiently extracted the maximum value from the present topics by the nature of the session).
I’m actively looking for a good cacao drink. Just preordered!
It is still useful in business applications, big and small.
Now let's only upgrade it to compile with Delphi versions later than D2007. Aim is to support the latest Delphi (10.4)

//RIL
The employees seem to only focus on the bad, but there is heck of a lot of good FB is doing. It’s. controversial place to work for, and they should understand it.
Why do you conflate indie developers with startups? They're entirely different.
I'm curious why you think it's a problem to refuse service to customers you think behave unethically

That is within their right, why is it bad? Are you making a slippery slope argument?

Separately, I do think that the current polarization is very concerning, and I don't know how to mitigate it.
> But the smartphone has grown beyond a simple "nice-to-have" utility.

Lets frame the discussion accordingly indeed. Not all gaming machines are consoles and not all smartphones are iPhones.
Why should we prevent Sony from providing a console just because the PC is much more than a nice-to-have utility and their console competes with PC's? Apple is not a monopoly, and they are not even the majority of smart phones. Why should they be forced not to deliver a console experience (that many even if not the majority enjoy) simply because the category as a whole is an essential utilty?

Why should we enforce through law what can be perfectly well accomplished by people voting with their feet and just buying the smartphone devices that aren't walled gardens?

I don't particularly like Pepsi, and rather enjoy coka cola, but I'm not going to go out on a mad rager about how "cola products are abundant throughout our society, so we desperately need to force Pepsi to change their recipe to align with coka-colas because otherwise our society is going to suffer from drinking bad cola!"

If you don't like iPhones don't buy them. If you don't like consol don't buy them. But trying to argue that the pc is such a essential utility and that it competes in some subset of functionality and that no-one should therefore be allowed to produce or own consoles is just absurd.