skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does that actually happen with GKE? If so: do not use GKE. Other vendors surely have better-supported k8s services.
Show HN: Constructing the Reals from Sets, a Visual Walkthrough
Game publishing is a numbers game. Most games go unnoticed, very few will break even, only "lottery winners" will make real money. The stores are full of well executed games with original ideas that you/we never heard about and never will. Games in page 1 of each category will make money, then there is those from page 2 to 10000.

We've spend a year and a half building a game that made us just over $1000. You increase your odds by having a name in the industry: known game designer, known franchise, known publisher, something that will put you in the front page of gaming websites for a few hours, but even that is just a push, no guarantees. You can also go for a quantitative strategy: build lot of small simple games. This last strategy worked better for us.

Make sure you take this decision knowing that failing is by far the most likely outcome. That's the hard truth about the game industry.

Sorry if those are not the encouraging words you hoped.
Thank you so much for sharing this post. I admit that I'm a bit dismayed that so many of the top comments on this thread (on a website that's all about sharing ideas re: technology startups, no less) are basically just a gripe session.

Virtually everything I've heard from people who have actual, personal interactions with the AirBnB founders is positive, and especially that their interactions were inspiring - that is, the AirBnB founders inspired people around them to do better work. I just think that's an amazing quality and something I'm so grateful for when I find it.

Sure, I may have my own gripes about AirBnB, but I can certainly appreciate the unique combination of talent in the founders that made their success possible.
Yeah, too many people, for some reason, don’t understand that “Life expectancy at age N” is not at all the same, in general, as “Life expectancy at birth minus N”.
The invention is just the claims of a particular patent.

The patent description must include enough information so the invention as recited in the claims could be replicated. Patent descriptions do not have to disclose details about the supporting/surrounding components of the whole system or platform.

E.g., a patent claiming a method for selecting 5G channels does not need to describe how to build out a 5G network.
> 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".

I think they are referring to this statement:

> > AWS pricing is a part of your design. With some exceptions (that you aren't talking about), they charge you more for using more resources. You are forced to design systems that use less resources if you want to optimize your bill.

It is a defense that I've heard in many AWS talks in the past.

Where it turns into a 'marketing' blurb to me is my real world experience in these AWS talks in the places I work. As a real world example, we had a product that required -some- architectural work, but otherwise was solid, and could run on 3 live EC2 instances (2 web LB, 1 live backend) and 1 spare (spare backend)

The Consultant that AWS partnered us with? Suggested a very overdone architectural revamp, moving everything possible into AWS Specific technologies.

It's marketing in that in many of our experiences, we know there is often at least one person on a team who does -not- have the discipline and/or experience to -keep- a system using less resources as the field goes from green to brown.
Damn right it's a matter of opinion. My opinion is that the deliberate abuse and exploitation of social niceties is immoral. What I don't see is how it being an opinion does anything to invalidate it, nor how pointing it out is an opinion is expected to convince me against holding it.

Edit: Perhaps I am a bit harsh here. I am frustrated overall at the general idea that nothing can ever be condemned, and morals may not be discussed, merely because they include a subjective value judgment. Those value judgments occur at all times, and are what give importance to the facts.
If you're curious about how this changed, "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox" by Lina Khan article is a wonderful read: https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...

The summary is that the Chicago school of Economics promoted the idea that in a competitive market, predatory pricing is not possible. Thus, when you see an industry structure emerge (e.g. duopoly), you should assume that it is an efficient competitive outcome. After this, instead of focusing on market share percentages, antitrust authorities began to focus primarily on consumer harm (which is much more challenging to show in court e.g. for predatory pricing, you cannot only argue that your competitor has very low prices right now, you also have to prove that they intend to raise prices once they achieve monopoly power).
You say that as though having a patent in Country X protects you from IP theft by country Y. When the bad actors and the good-faith actors participate in the same market, and regulations protect good-faith actors only in a submarket, ... uh... of course there's secret data.
I know what eBPF is, but what is Pixie? A single sentence describing Pixie wouid be useful.

In general, academic rule applies: Never write an article without defining terms beforehand.
Narrator: It was not
The post linked discusses the basics of set theory. Part 2, which goes into how set theory is used for constructing numbers like the square root of 2, is here: https://vinaybhaip.com/blog/2020/11/22/sets-to-numbers.
2 days of downtime from a GCP service? I didn't know the outages with these cloud services were ever that bad.
My experience with all this is that each time I opened the Uber app, I actually did not know what I was going to find. Taking an Uber a few times a month meant finding new UX patterns every time, sometimes features would be there, sometimes they wouldn't. It was very annoying to find that useful features had suddenly disappeared. After feeling that the UX was hostile due to this, and some IRL hostile experiences with drivers with a terrible support follow-up, I just dropped Uber for good. Alternative apps were more expensive but absolutely more stable.
It’s often a fixed vs ongoing cost question. Spending 200k to save 5k per month breaks even in 3.4 years.

However, for growing companies that 5k/month AWS premium can hit 200+k/month very quickly
Do most japanese people actually consume these series like this or use some free broadcast / website to see it with ads like most TV is done? Or far cheaper rentals?
MassMutual Joins the Bitcoin Club with $100M Purchase
TL;DR:

> For every tonne of carbon Allbirds emits as a business—from the sheep on its farms to the lightbulbs at HQ—it pays to take a tonne of carbon out of the atmosphere. It costs around 10 cents to offset 10 kg of carbon through its own Carbon Fund.

So they are holding themselves accountable for their footprint, taxing themselves "by funding verified emissions reduction projects across air, wind and energy."

it is exciting and inspirational for a future in which participation wouldn't simply be voluntary — thinking back to that great tweet thread about what it's like to have trash in Japan.
I think that is an actual service provided in Norway.
The word exact here is an inexact description of what sort of solution this really is - it's a closed form explicit solution. A closed form solution means that the equation is limited to to certain common mathematical operations and is finite in length. An explicit solution means that the quantity we are solving for is isolated on one side of the equation.
Back in the 90s, I semi-seriously considered building a pizza order module into our software. On Fridays our 25-person office usually got pizza, and I usually wound up spending a good 20 minutes going around and tabulating how many of what kinds of pizza we needed to suit everyone.
>Sweden is now backing out of that plan.

If you read Hacker News for any length of time, each week there will be multiple "Sweden proves its strategy worked" articles competing with multiple "Sweden's strategy proven to have failed" articles.

>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.

One thing I have not yet seen on Hacker News or anywhere else is convincing evidence that such "long-term symptoms/damage" are substantially greater in number or intensity[1] than for any other respiratory disease that can occasionally kill, especially given how novel (wording intentional) SARS-CoV-19 is.

[1] Except a somewhat higher percentage of fatalities than the flu, depending on whether you define death as a long-term symptom
I think he is referring to the Justice Department
Definitely time to buy, it's nearly 10% discount for Christmas right now :)
Probably hurt revenue ;)
That's one way. Another way is to use Safari on an iOS device. This has the advantage of making your activity look exactly like other ordinary iOS users, rather than painting a huge "hey, I'm using Tor Browser" target on your head.
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

https://www.amazon.com/Super-Thinking-Book-Mental-Models/dp/...

Written by the duckduckgo folks

Shane Parrish of Farnam Street has his own two volumes of this (the Mental Models series), which although designed beautifully, cost more, have 10x the words, and take 10x the time to get the points across.
It feels like the underlying message you’re trying to get to is:

When people who have never experienced poverty first-hand jump in to the conversation, there is a real danger that they will spout the same unhelpful misconceptions and argue that they are solutions. This can set the conversation back significantly while real lives are at stake.

On that point, I would agree. Such as “Those in poverty just have to work harder”, which IMO is one of the absolute worst and most damaging mindsets.
> The real prospects of the lack of zoning is something that nobody wants, which is why literally every civil place in the world has zoning.

Calling Houston uncivil is a subjective judgement I can’t objectively falsify, and so is calling its residents “nobody”, but the latter act strikes me as ironically uncivil, and IMO not in line with https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments.
Funny how "lottery" is the word that comes out the most when we talk about making games for a living.

Big studios solve this by publishing games by the hundreds.
Not only managed options.

Openshift is big in on-prem enterprise setups because as flawed as the install process is or as ridiculous licensing is, you get a remarkably complete system pretty easily out of a bunch of servers that integrates with things like your corporate LDAP.
Airbnb is now a publicly traded company with a $100B market cap
> Content is available under CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise noted

Just including the actual solution in an article about this problem would be IMO a much better choice.
There are alternative app stores and actually, the ones I've tried have worked pretty well. There is a way to get play store working but you'd be violating ToS technically.
> In the case of Airbnb, what was the social norm? Staying in a hotel?

The social norm is the expectation that your neighbors won’t be running a hotel next door.
seems to be pretty sleazy:

https://www.quora.com/Did-Airbnb-get-sued-for-running-a-robo...

"What Airbnb did in 2010 and 2011 was to use a bot to spambot to email who had posted short term vacation rental ads on Craigslist. The emails claimed to be from women who liked their listings, suggesting that they try Airbnb. "
New Tax Laws for 2020
Yeah definitely. Did many other launches where we had 1/100 of this reach. Just keep shipping.
Learning/Administering AWS/GCP/Azure costs time and therefore money too. Maybe less money, maybe more money than doing things yourself, depending on what you're doing. But you shouldn't disregard such costs.

I've seen enough buddies spending enormous amounts of time doing AWS devops on top of paying the AWS premium when they could have gotten away easily with a less than a handful of VPS (+ optionally $100/month worth of cloudflare as a CDN).
The hosts and guests find value. The neighbors of the hosts often have a miserable time, which is why usually zoning laws stop people running hotels wherever they like.
Sorry to spoil your Apple hate hard-on but your assertions about Flash cross-platform development are patently absurd.

There's easily half a dozen cross-platform frameworks for developing mobile apps. Most emit native code and others target WebKit views.

As for Flash, Jobs didn't want it on the iPhone because the Flash was a shit show. When the iPhone was released Flash Player 9 (with ActionScript 3 and the AVM2) had been out for a year. A vast majority of Flash content was using the older and much shittier AVM1. That content was also 100% developed for WIMP interfaces so there were zero affordances for multitouch or even just having hit boxes sized for fingers instead of cursors.

Even if Steve Jobs loved Flash and ached to have it on the iPhone most content available would have been designed for a minimum of SVGA screen resolution, a cursor, and a desktop processor and RAM and would have not been running in a JIT runtime with zero understanding of app restore states or any iPhone features.

Flash Lite was not a good option either as it did not support web content or run as a plug-in. It also did not have good touch support since most phones it was targeted for didn't have a touchscreen. It was number pad and hardware keys almost exclusively.

So there was very little overlap between the goals of the iPhone and any aspect of Flash. Flash on Android basically proved Steve Jobs right as to the performance of Flash on a smartphone. The UX ended up terrible for most content, it absolutely killed the battery, and its security problems were myriad.

Flash's problem was it sucked anywhere but the desktop. Even then it sucked on laptops as it was a major power drain and/or fan spinner. HTML5 obviated Flash for most of its use cases. Even Adobe eventually realized that and last their Flash authoring tools target HTML5.
I think my biggest difficulty is that I'd like to be able to look at a duration of time and determine the events within that range.

Pulling raw iCal data over HTTP is possible but if you say, set up a recurring event several months back, you need to fetch that original event (even if it recurs every day) to include it in your calculations... I'd love a self-hosted version of this Nylas API [0] for example.

[0]: https://docs.nylas.com/reference#calendars-free-busy
Non-Dilutive Funding for SaaS
Hehe, I didn't mean to say 100 points wasn't a lot, only that it was fairly "standard" for being on the front page, and would make for an interesting metric.
>But people buy the devices knowing that that's not an option.

A manufacturer cannot dictate the consumer's options regarding the owned devices, even though they have it in their terms and conditions. Apple is currently being gobsmacked by right to repair claims under this very principle.
Greta Thunberg: 'We are speeding in the wrong direction' on climate crisis
Just because you have to trust your roommates a little doesn't mean that the idea of roommates is broken by design. It just means that you should be careful who you sign a lease with.
10 Months: 100 Followers, 100 Posts. Slow bake.
Not an app developer ;). But this makes sense. Thanks
Was this the new official Google TV (which is NOT actually Android TV though likely based off of it) or a 3rd party product?
> Sun spent like a billion dollars marketing Java

I guess now the question is if Nubank could/will also promote Clojure and to what extent (or if they will support Cognitect enough to do that). I would wonder if they went through that thought process and what RoIs for that are from their perspective.

It might even take much lesser investment than equivalent of $1bil from 90s... The Java/JVM market is huge so it might need just a little nudge :)

Within the JVM ecosystems it seems that basically Kotlin (as nice as it is) has been stealing some market share that might have belonged to Clojure. And all that just by selling some cheap cut syntax sugar on the corner.

There definitely is a huge desire within Java/JVM community to innovate and if approached correctly Clojure could actually shine - there are just few misconceptions and fears that could be put to sleep by some smart marketing strategy. Nubank is great first step in that direction, because it gives an example of a mature large yet innovative company relying on Clojure in production.
The entire economy around them!

- buying apps

- buying stuff online

- buying stuff in real life

- renting movies

- watching netflix

- subscribing to a dating service

- subscribing to anything

- playing games

- logging into your product

- ...

That's a super monopoly the likes of which this world hasn't seen before.

It begs the question - should Apple be forced to open iOS, or should they be split up outright into two or three different companies?
> Now that humane killing is the norm

Is it? As far as I know, most animals are "factory farmed" in conditions so inhuman that some countries have laws against... documenting their conditions on video.
Right. Ya, in truth I think the big studios were all built off a single hit. And those hits keep paying out for a long time and they leverage either the brand to build sequels or just start stringing out new titles hoping another will "hit". Cross-marketing is huge too.

You can be successful building mobile games, just like you can win the lottery. :)
Dark Caracal: You Missed a Spot
Interesting. I assume other multinational apps run into this problem as well. Is Apple considering support for apps with country-dependent payloads in the future? Otherwise seems like a lot of bloat across all major apps.
This sounds like a good place to learn. Might I ask the company?
This will be a big Rocky transition
Capitalism works with regulation.
You're right, I poorly formulated that sentence.
Because electricity is free. And internet is also free. And the rooms to put the servers are also free. A/C is free. And backup generators are free. And diesel is free.
You've actually hit the real crux. Beyond the functional, beyond the Lisp, what is special and unique to Clojure is its style of data modeling. Using plain immutable data-structures creates a very unique style, and I think there isn't enough conversation about that. So it lacks best practices, and possibly support around it as well, in tooling and in style.

It's hard to discuss your particular case, but what I wonder is if there wasn't a different way to model things that would fit in the Clojure data-droven model. And if not, would there be new patterns or even some extension constructs to it that could allow it to fit?
Engineer from Pixie here. Pixie is an APM tool for Kubernetes leveraging eBPF for automatic data collection. You can use it to monitor and debug your application performance, without code or configuration changes.
By definition, a conservative is a slow-motion progressive. Ignoring that technicality, there are 3 types of republican:

1. religious

2. business (likes outsourcing and unlimited immigration to drive down wages)

3. pro-America

They often hate each other. The first two groups are usually unwilling to admit that Trump has been the best president ever.
Before the decision, jailbreaking was not considered a violation of the DMCA. Apple sued and lost trying to make it one. So your premise that Cydia was somehow in violation of DMCA at the time is completely false.
> Says Baker, "we need to be prepared."

There isn't anything we can really do other than put together protocols to handle the effects of the storm, yeah? Like... we can't re-engineer our power systems to resist being taken out by this, can we? Likely wouldn't be cost effective, I imagine.

BTW, its not mentioned in the article, but are the effects temporary or permanant? I imagine the GPS errors are temporary but it also mentions that it can take out power grids... will it just be a short, forced shutdown for a few hours (rimworld players: I'm wondering if its just like the "solar flare" event).
Random thoughts from a solo game developer:

- Validate the idea. Try building a prototype and verifying your idea before comitting to it. You'll learn a lot about whether your game idea is fun/can be made fun, and learn the ropes of your new dev environment in a way that'll let you throw away your early code with no regrets.

- Pick Unity if you don't have experience with either. You'll get to results faster, and at solo dev scale, the quality Unreal offers won't matter.

- If you've decided on a mobile game, do some research on how effective monetization on mobile works, come to terms with how bad the options are and decide if you're still into it

- Runway seems OK for what you're doing, but word of advice: it is mentally taxing to some people to be in financial "freefall". I know this hit me hard when I made a similar decision to yours.

That said, there are a lot of good parts as well. Seeing people play and enjoy your brainchild is definitely more rewarding than working somebody else's startup or company, and as a venue for creativity, game development is hard to beat for somebody with a programmer skillset.
> How can you be so totally confident that your own bullshit meter is accurate? Why do you think your confidence in your own ability to decipher fact from fiction is any different than people who believe complete bullshit?

I don't. I also don't believe the people at companies like YouTube are any likely to be better than myself or the average person.
Open Source Silverlight Replacement Powered by WebAssembly Debuts (3/2020)
Yes at previous gig someone took down gke control plane by creating many crd objects (kubeflow) and it took multiple escalations to fix.
Same with Linode, the management machines are not massive scale HA control planes like you get with the expensive hosts (It seems like Linode may run a single 2GB droplet), but for most of my clusters I don't need it.
There needs to be a game of Uber HN/Reddit thread BINGO.

Squares include:

* Uber being a simple CRUD app

* Uber having no moat because it can easily be disrupted by those able to build the app over a weekend, because Uber is a simple CRUD app

* Uber continuing to operate solely because VC's currently subsidize every single ride
"Personal data from the clinical trial" should not be present in the first place.

To use a more obvious example, your bank account information should in fact be secret, but that does not invalidate the claim that Pfizer-Biontech shouldn't have any private data to steal, because they should not have that data.
The dead professor and the vast pro-India disinformation campaign
Viber is very used in some parts of Europe. More than WhatsApp.

Latin America is basically WhatsApp and nothing else.
> There is a massive secondary consulting market because of AWS’s price obscurities.

There is a massive secondary consulting market because the enterprise market is addicted to secondary consulting. This secondary consulting market includes AWS pricing because it includes pretty much any IT service the target market might be interested in.

A rational need for decomplexification isn’t necessary to explain the existence or coverage of enterprise secondary consulting, IT or otherwise.
Anytime! eBPF is Linux’s equivalent of DTrace
This is probably written by people who don't have real-life experience with goats I guess.

I cannot even concentrate on the problem since I keep coming back to what the goat will do:

- jump the fence

- chew the rope

- probably more