skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't have time right now to run randomized controlled trials, while the number of cases continues to rise rapidly and hospitals fill up. Exactly how dangerous each activity is is difficult to know. We have to apply reasoning to what we know about the transmission mechanisms and people's social behaviors. People sit across from one another without masks for long periods of time at restaurants, and they're social meeting points. It's entirely reasonable to assume they're a likely location for transmission.

The basic point is that at the moment, most public life has to be shut down, so that R drops below 1 and new cases decrease. Restaurants are very low down on the list of essential services that need to be kept running in order for society to function. We can temporarily shut down restaurants and compensate them for their losses.
> In retrospect I think everyone should have taken the Swedish approach

Sweden is now backing out of that plan.

Also, there’s a gradient of response to the virus: some people die, some people survive but suffer long term symptoms/damage and some people appear to simply go back to normal. These survivors are not distributed (by age, other comorbidities) the way fatalities are.
> Oculus couldn't survive by itself.

Do we know how expensive it is to maintain and how much it earns? It probably spends more than the PSVR division at Sony or the Vive division at HTC, but the Quest is quite popular and, if reviews are anything to go by, very close to making VR "mainstream". I'm not convinced it couldn't survive off investor money for a while until it becomes profitable. Silicon Valley is no stranger to unprofitable companies living off investments for years and years after all.
This is only the tip of the iceberg, though. AirBnB hosts are doing hospitality business without having to obey any hospitality law. Also there are a lot of black sheep that occupy multiple flats in best locations so people that actually want to live there don't find a place to live. And the company AirBnB doesn't do anything about that as they only see the money rolling in.
> Government officials didn't risk anything, they risked other people's money

Government has its own accounts, therefore it has its own money to spend. It doesn't matter that they get that money from taxpayers, it belongs to the government by law.

> leverage over politicians

What leverage over politicians was used and what objectives did it achieve? Please give specific examples. AFAIK, the EV credits were designed to get more EVs on the road to reduce pollution and were successful at doing that. They are also not limited to Tesla.

> hoarding attention

What does that mean? You're complaining that people write articles about Musk?
As a just average Joe gamer, art style makes or breaks a game. If you pick a style, stay with it. Indie games like stardew, skullgirls, don't starve, papers please, punch club, and darkest dungeon all proved graphics don't sell games, especially on mobile. If anything word of mouth has probably helped most of those. But mostly, the art style is visually appealing and doesn't look like lazy garbage.
Best advice I got in a similar situation:

Don't plan to do any work in the first month.

I ended up doing a ton of cleaning / organizing my apartment. Straightened out finances. Started journaling. Tried things like taking freakishly long walks.

After a month I not only felt ready to work, but also that I had prepped a lot of useful habits!
So, I am one of the cofounders of Kidoteca, where we got some family members to invest and we released a bunch of games.

1. Kidoteca never turned a profit, mind you over time the revenue is not terrible, but investors lost their money basically, games are still for sale and still generating revenue but too slowly to be useful.

2. Many bigger investors are wary of supporting such business, because they got scammed (games in general have some fraud here and there, mobile game industry, has rampant fraud, IP theft, actual physical stuff theft, and a bunch of other crimes, corruption, government espionage... it is just nuts).

3. If you still want to try anyway, knowing all that... there is a whole industry named "hypercasual" games, where you create a simple game, and publish through some platforms, and if the game is successful, they help you spread it further and share the revenue with you.

4. DO NOT attempt to make PC/console-style games on mobile, you will lose money, people that want "real" games do it on a Switch or PC or a Dingoo (a cheap mobile console from Korea) and so on.

5. As much as I wish selling games directly were a good business model on mobile, it isn't, people just want free stuff, so you have to rely on freemium or ads, sadly for Kidoteca case both of these models are terrible considering our target market (kids below 6). One of our competitors that had success, did so by having the game be the advertising in first place, ie: the game purpose is make the brand known, and then they get money selling cartoons, toys, t-shirts, etc...
Given the Supreme Court has said that would have artistic value, you can do what you want.
Did you have difficulties finding places to self-promote? I'm finding that that is a tricky thing to do. I don't want to jump into a community and start selling my product since a lot of places don't like it and it is tacky as hell, so I have to find ways to engage actively and when the the appropriate time comes (i.e. the conversation would naturally allow it), bring up what I've made.
That is such a perfect example of ingroup bias in action.

You can label these materials as censorable because you, likely not a follower of islam, believe that material from islamic uploaders talking about a revolution and indoctrination do not belong on your platform.

yet here we are, with thousands of christian, america-first indoctrination videos, calling for an uprising against everything from vaccines to elections. IT IS THE SAME THING.

you do realize this is a "are we the baddies?" situation, no?
So? Get Fedora then.
Same here. I've got current availability to do contract work and could take on some Clojure dev if that's what they need.
Fix the outage, then blatantly copy the competitors' features and force it to their existing user base.
> and now nobody is able to figure out

Ok, but how much of that is just them not knowing Clojure? I've found people that get handed down a code base in a different language tend to hack their way around it, instead of like, pausing for a minute, take some time to learn the language, and then come back to it.

Maybe in your case it was a terrible code base of low quality, but I'm just curious.
I've thought about it, along with security (not the cool kind of security positions mind you, but one that pays well). It all seems more dreadful than software. Most people I know of in these positions spend entire days in meetings.
How to build the strengths of your team members
> I think the election of Trump may have made it possible for these cultural problems to come to light, the same way that (for example) women speaking up about sexual assault can empower others to do the same.

> I personally think many companies have issues focusing on non-technical problems...This is not unique to Uber in any way, these problems show up to various degrees across companies such as Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and others.

I agree with all that. To me, this is about taking responsibility. Our industry has shown a pattern of thinking poorly about non-technical problems while rolling out changes that affect millions of people. That's part of why so many people are angry at the tech industry -- and for good reason.

The thread is thoughtful in a lot of ways, but I get a whiff of not-taking-responsibility through some of it. The first example struck me for whatever reason. I get that people in 2016 didn't necessarily know what was going on or how bad it was. But I would expect that in 2020, we'd look back at 2016 as the time when serious issues beneath the surface were about to explode as a result of choices made at Uber, not some golden time before external forces made life hard for Uber. I don't mean to be too hard on the author or even Uber (and after all, this was a casual tweet thread). I think it's a widespread challenge for our culture in the tech industry.
Yeah, some users weren't ok with human sacrifice... bunch of freeloaders!
I'm not saying this is the route someone should take, but the stardew guy made stardew solely to build his resume up while he was looking for a job.
From Functional to Reactive – Patterns in Domain Modeling (2015) [video]
> Not sure why Axios feels the need to try and pin the whole thing on the Midwest

I didn’t read it that way; I read “previously safer regions are now suffering, and at a greater rate than earlier zones”
The $100K credit (which I've been granted multiple times) is there because if Amazon can get you to invest serious work into their infra, they'll make up for it in the long run. It's not "lock in", it's sales. The only amazon "lock in" really is their bandwidth-out pricing, which is a sleazy tactic for sure but I'm not hesitant to call it out when it's the case.

You can get the $100/$300/$1000 tier if you are in "just checking it out" solo mode. $5k and up requires either connections, partnerships, or a serious application.

Anyway I don't know what your point is, I'm not even sure if you have one. They're not "marketing" their pricing, nor the fact that you are "forced to design systems that use less resources".
The concept behind a simple collaboration tool should be one that is designed for its ease of use and serves a purpose. A tool like Microsoft Teams solves this by creating a matrix type of collaboration tool; however, the result, though helps tremendously for large teams, is also lacking for small teams. Microsoft Teams, in its own way, creates a simple tool to use, however, their "simplistic design," is not actually simplistic. And what's more is that, because the collaboration tool has a lot of hidden features, most teams are not experiencing the full collaboration aspect.

Essentially the problem that needs to be addressed is how do you create a simplistic matrix type of collaboration tool that allows all users to fully use a product without any apparent confusion.
I, for one, keep choosing iPhone exactly for this reason - I want only apple to control the app review process.

Without this, you’d have every single major company pishing their own installers with a ton of crapware on top of them.
To give an example - Epic on Windows requires you to install their own store, with their own update system and notifications, plus ads showing each time you open up their game.

I don’t want this on my phone - battery aside, I want the device to be 100% secure, and such crapware has a poor track record of security.

I’m really for strong antitrust laws - Google and Facebook are monopolosts who abuse their position. But in case of the phones, both users and devs have a choice - they can use either Apple or Google. Unless both companies are guilty of the same thing (and in this case they are not), how this is an issue?
As a native English speaker, I would just like to apologize to all those learning English (as a second language) about the spelling business. We're not really sure how we messed that up so badly. Even the American efforts to improve it actually just made the situation more complicated.
Longer hours than IT? It seems the industry is known for working long hours to meet deadlines and of course on-call schedules.
Illegally, "allegally", of dubious concordance with the spirit of the law, maybe. But immorally? That is very much a matter of opinion don't you think?
This adds to some interestsing acquisition activity in this area: Splunk, for example, just acquired Flowmill (also focusing on eBPF + observability).

https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/24/splunk-acquires-network-ob...

[blatantly promoting my substack]
Been following this area about a year, first wrote about some of startups using eBPF here in late 2019: https://monitoring2.substack.com/p/ebpf-a-new-bff-for-observ...
I did this, twice. Shit financial decision. Thought it would be fun but it just burned me out more with millions of little cuts. Thinking about doing it again.

Where in spain? Shout out from Valencia!
The shift from 'Developer/Programmer' to engineer has indeed been part of a push away from creativity towards cookie-cutter work.

An interesting analogue would be the Automotive industry; As time progressed, Companies focused more and more on 'engineering' versus art/tradition/etc. But as the industry evolved, "Flashy" vehicles that took risks became moreso either a halo product for a brand, or relegated to Luxury/Boutique.

And, of course, there was the dark side of this shift; A good example from the 70s, the level of 'engineering' driving the design of the vehicle and it's assembly didn't take into consideration the actual line worker; in Ohio the workers wound up getting overworked, burned out, and in some cases actively sabotaged the product, because they were being treated like automated machines.
Not to mention everything you have to do to get a machine to parity with Kubernetes--set up SSH, process management, monitoring, logging, etc. I don't think I'd go so far as to say Kubernetes is the right tool for this use case, but I certainly empathize with the sentiment.
Lol Don’t do it.
Yes, GPL + commercial.

And if you are going to tell me about Red-Hat being built on top of GPL software, well there is Fedora.
Fair enough, I need to be more specific about what I believe is the point of the piece.

It's intended to give would-be entrepreneurs insight into traits of previously successful entrepreneurs. In particular traits the writer believes should be emulated.

Those will naturally be positive traits, because the entire point of the piece is to give readers something to aim for.
Oh, did not know there had been other series in this case.
I would highly recommend you not quit but perhaps see if there are any more flexible working arrangements you can come to with your current employer.

Perhaps you can go part time or take 3 or 6 month (unpaid) leave?

I wish you all the best whatever you choose to do. Make sure you post an update when you have something to show.

Also maybe go the 'devlog' route and document the process on YouTube and Twitch as those are pretty popular right now and is a good way to gauge interest and feedback for "free".
Reminder that if you disconnect from the internet while setting up win10 you won't be asked for a microsoft account and can make a local only account like in the past.

You can also use this to allow you to tweak personalization settings on an unactivated copy of windows before it hits up the activation servers and locks you out of personalization options.
I should add that we decided to stop doing this when we realized we were now playing the lottery for a living. We had a few times where we got featured in stores and made thousands a day but didn't take off from there and that was that for that title.

If I can offer any advice it is to focus on simple mechanics and keep production costs way down. Don't spend more than three months on launching your first title.
I disagree. I think this could only happen in a place where they don't value human life and have a concept of "face" that is more important than people's lives, and where they don't give a flying f. about people in other countries. They also have CCP party members talking officially about how great it is that so many westerners died: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI2_Qz_kdRY

If CCP handled the Virus at the start of it quickly and not lied to the last minute, then the virus would have been contained.
I think China's CCP is very much responsible for a lot of dead people all over the world, but I understand that not everyone shares this opinion.
I mean on the other hand the west didn't take this seriously and the good thing is that the virus is not that deadly and we hopefully be ready for the next one.
As a foreigner I see: 9/11 in USA -> USA invades Afganistan. Wuhan Virus -> USA doesn't seem to care, even if more people died, some even don't believe it exists(please fix your education system)
I mean as a CCP member I would think: ok now lets make another virus with long incubation and more deadly and let it loose somewhere in the western country or in Taiwan and then we invite ourselves there as a peace protectors...

I think we have to make Chinese people care about their government and we can do it buy using Sanctions so that CCP will lose money and chinese people will stop spewing nationalistic bullshit start caring about economy and by extension how the government does things.
>Judges have even thrown out elections even after the candidate is sworn into office.

And those judges were probably presented solid evidence that amounted to more than conspiracy and hand waving.

So far Trump and co are something like 1 win, 50 losses, from judges all over the country, local, federal, Supreme Court, GOP and Dem appointed, Trump appointed (who incredibly dismissed the Trump nonsense with prejudice, which is quite rare, and signals just how ridiculous the Trump suits are).

So don't use a false equivalence. There is none here.
That is so Apple, I can't stand it.
>Most wars have been fought by conscripts, slaves or soldiers who otherwise only wanted to come back home alive

I don't think you've spent much time with US military types if you believe this to be the case. Willingness to die for a country or cause was even more prevalent in the past than it is now.

I agree the Founding Fathers would very likely not have been on the side of anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers, they were generally intellectual and on the side of science. However I'm not so sure about the lockdowns, they would almost certainly oppose giving the federal gov. the power to issue a lockdown but may have been okay with local lockdowns.
Given the process required to obtain the credentials for that, might as well go into something interesting.
> You get a degree

Not a given. A kid just has to walk down that hallway where the yearly grad photos hang, and take note of how less populated they are than just that one lecture he or she just came out of.
Which is still pretty much a Bayer sensor, just with a different filter layout. You still have to demosaic to get a usable file. And a well-tuned RAW convertor to do so.
If you have the time or resources, try doing something that interests you in programming that doesn't have any "super cool feats of hacker ability" or commercial value. It might be more artistic or maybe just silly, but the value of expressing yourself for your own needs can help give you a bit of inspiration and feel back in the groove. Manipulating a computer should serve you first, whether that's with something you like or for your job.

Outside of that, be sure to take care of yourself. You're more than just your ability to type and watch a screen light up. Rewatching Kiki's Delivery Service helps in your situation too.
Thx for writing that. To me it seems mind-boggling that in the 21st century you still have to point out to people that you shouldn't just adopt a technology because it seems cool. Of course you should ask yourself what problem you're trying to solve. Apparently people still don't get this.

I'm not sure I agree about templating YAML files–why is templating JSON any better, really?–but YMMV.
Decide what your monetisation strategy is. Lots of people say they don't want to "pump money" from customers, bit you do need a way of making money, and if most of your customers will give you very little / no money, some customers are going to have to give you a lot.

I would personally recommend ruthless simplicity. Particularly on mobile (other than gatcha), most of the most popular games are fairly simple, but polished to a shine. Extra features won't help attract players, and anything that puts people off in the first 5 minutes of play is a disaster. No-one likes a 10 minute intro, that explains 20 different things to them.
Is your game for sale or available? I'm releasing my first game now and am curious to see examples of negative results -- since all I ever see are positive results.
not “inflated dollars” but a weakened dollar that naturally inflates assets
And immediately preceding that in the video is:

"They have a couple of scenarios that they're looking toward. One is messing up absentee balloting, so that they then get maybe a narrow advantage in the electoral college, on election day."
Not really an exact or closed form solution since it contains an integral. It is an explicit solution compared to the implicit one we had before.
„Monopolizes access to 50% of users” - by definition, a monopoly is when you have access to the vast majoroty of the users :)
Mine is health insurance profitability lol.
Don't quit your job. At least not until after you actually have a playable game. It always takes way longer than you think it will. You're going to want your day job so you can bootstrap the game development.

As for engine, Unity if you know C#, Unreal if you prefer C. Unity if you like documentation, Unreal if the lack of documentation doesn't deter you. Unreal has a better networking stack.
I think the days of successful games developed by one person are gone.

Or you could do it just for portfolio building.
Historically understood to be plural by you.

Actual-historically, from 1375, not so much.

https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...
> One thing I've found about k8s is running a cluster can be very costly, and using a managed cluster on one of the big three clouds is even more so.

I run a 3-node Kubernetes cluster on Google cloud. It costs me around $100 per month (with 1-year reserved instances). Not terribly expensive.
What you're looking at doing is buying a lotto ticket that has 12 - 18 months of wages and time attached to it.

Why not just work on it as a side project. Like is there a hard deadline where you have to meet that requires this rush to release?
And, not everything should be in a container. Just because you can does not necessarily mean you should. Containers are awesome but they are not a cure-all silver bullet.
> If you were not religious and conservative (I have my own anecdotes), you did not fit in

I think that people underestimate just how common this very same thing is here in California.

> but lots of people live in the 'burbs and around the smaller areas and do not get the benefit of this peaceful coexistence

Again, very similar to California.

I grew up in California and moved to Texas for 13 years, and have recently (begrudgingly too) moved back to California. Things have not changed a whole lot here. Once you get out of the cities and into more rural areas, it's about the same as you'd experience anywhere else.
> Stocks and houses are being bought with inflated dollars

How do we know the number of dollars is inflated? Maybe there were too few before?
NWS is an amazing resource for pre-trip planning for a variety of different people. I frequently consult it for weather forecasts prior to hiking. I'm not sure a company like Accuweather could provide me with access to such great forecasts or sensor data as NWS does given how reliant they are on NWS data themselves.

The other problem here is that Accuweather charges huge fees for access to their forecasts and I'm not sure that I, as a private citizen, could afford that. So my choices go from pay a little bit of tax to get access to high-quality, reliable weather forecasts and warnings, to being totally unable to get access to this information without paying exorbitant fee. Or alternatively just not knowing these things and having to pay higher insurance costs for my ignorance.

This is a really good example of how making government smaller makes a lot of peoples' lives much crappier.
I'll have to check that out!
The best way, and probably the only way, to get a 25% pay raise, is to jump ship.