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It's interesting. I'm still in a state where I enjoy it most of the time and I could certainly spend an entire day coding... But I'm running super low on good ideas. Ideas used to pop into mind all the time, now it's like once a year and I quickly abandon it.
Hey there! Fellow game dev wannabe based in Barcelona, Spain that has considered something similar as you. I've mostly built stuff for fun, but hit me up if you want to do some open discussions/feedback sessions.

Like others have said it is a brutal industry with most games making no money, but there is a formula to follow if you want a chance of success.
I didn't intend for this to become an outlet for me to complain about the organizational problems at my employer. They were having leadership difficulties before the pandemic, which halted all growth and even shrinking of existing business. I think my manager is doing his best but that the organization is going to let the team atrophy and be absorbed by another, or at some point down the line when there's more money available reconstitute it. I'm leaving because that's what I see as the most likely future, people who disagree with me are staying and I am wishing them the best and washing my hands.
Two days is nothing. I had their fabric black holing packets for weeks before it got fixed
the majority of businesses don't have
people's faces on display

Not on display. But most successfull startups I remember started with the founder in the open. You could find them on Twitter etc. Creating a startup as an anonymous page for some reason seems to be an indicator of failure.
Brave does that. Its the best way and breaks no websites.

https://brave.com/brave-fingerprinting-and-privacy-budgets/
In our system third party votes for a presidential candidate are equivalent to people staying home. They are signaling a dissatisfaction with both candidates, and a willingness to vote.

Donations to the Green Party for example are a clever and accepted means of reducing Democrats’s turnout. Libertarians draw surprisingly evenly from both sides, but Republicans have had their own spoilers.
You forgot about the hypergoats.
APM? /s
We started with Swift 2.X as well but it became Swift 3 before we shipped anything; Swift 5.X now is much more mature and we have no issues. Trying to do too much with a new language plus all the other things was asking for trouble.
Yeah this project was originally born as a “marketing” side project for Mailbrew.

If Mailbrew is focused reading, this is focused writing.

That being said, we haven’t seen that many signups coming from Typefully. Roughly 100.

So, probably didn’t work as a stunt, but worked as its own product. So we want to invest more in it.
I'm sorry but there is no way that facebook "didn't think about logging out." They thought about it and decided they didn't want to implement it, whatever the reason is may be up for dispute but, they definitely thought about it.
What a great post. What is the interstellar medium? Did the 12% figure include the aspect of multiple events paving roads for one another as mentioned later in the article? It reminds me of SARS, everyone knows it can happen and when it did our lack of preparation was shocking. And if this happens, once again the people hoarding toilet paper and food rations will be vindicated.

It seems like keeping your gear in a faraday cage would be enough to protect it, along with a really nice UPS and fiber optic IO. I’ve been meaning to buy some kind of fiber optic IO hub but they don’t seem to make one that’s appropriate for electro-isolation.
> and you can't arrange for a coworker or friend to pull the plug for you if something goes wrong?

This is HN, many of us are solo founders with no coworkers or employees. Also how could a "friend" pull the plug? If it was a physical server running in your house maybe, otherwise you can't really give them access to your AWS account with all your private clients data in there.
Also fwiw i heard similar stories about aks and eks as well as do
There are companies trying to provide this - I don't know if anyone is doing it very successfully yet, but Microk8s, k3s, etc are all basically "distros" of kubernetes for different targets.

I think part of the issue is that many of the bigger players want you to use their managed k8s solution and not just give you their setup - I think that's a temporary thing. A few of the big boons of k8s is the ability to be multi-cloud, and vendors are losing out on a revenue stream by not embracing that (though, AWS has a new multi-cloud k8s thing, so maybe they get it).
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Virtual Box is open core, and the free version is slowly losing features.

Ok, they didn't go threatening to sue everybody that ever installed it. That's exceeding my expectations already, but it's not a neutral stance.
Then you will be the one presenting a new bogus value on every page load – something that makes you recognizable as part of a very small group. As explained in the article, random values are not the way.
Would be very interested if PG, Sam, YC vintage team are holders at current market valuation

Between SPACs and "startups" rolling public at the moment signal from the owners is it's a good time to be a seller.
I mean, on PC we already have that, plus a few DRM-free stores like GoG
The contrast between the article and the comments here is absolutely striking. And it all comes down to attitude.

Some people look at life and see the opportunities. Others look and see the obstacles. Some take the hardship they encounter and use it to grow. Others use it as an excuse for their failures.

The older I get, the more people I know, the more I arrive to the conclusion that it’s all about attitude, more than anything else.

It’s our attitude that decides if we end up as winners or losers. It’s our own responsibility and merit, not others'. But pushing a victim mentality, a loser attitude on others - is criminal.
For better or worse, the startup mentality and YC’s content marketing reaches far more than elite college graduates these days.
"False balance" is irrelevant to Russell's point above. He would be the first to explain that the average of two false statements is not necessarily true. The referenced "inference as to what really happened" does not proceed by the method you assume it to do. Indeed, the false-balance problem, where it occurs, is merely another way in which his maxim, "everything in newspapers is more or less untrue" is realized!
Not as per the long twitter thread.
No, not leases. You’d have to maintain the car yourself.

I’m describing more of a robotic Uber/Lyft, with Level 5 autonomous driving.

But not Uber, the company itself. Since we know they’re retarded, and wrote autonomous driving software that ran over a human. So we can’t trust them.
They may have left virtualbox proper alone, but they're happy to leverage the guest extensions: https://www.theregister.com/2019/10/04/oracle_virtualbox_mer...
What, really, do you think makes people act a certain way? Do you think they're like "I sit on a throne of dead hotelier skulls! What is will be no more! Now is the season of EVIL!"? Or do you think they earnestly think "Reducing the barrier to short-term rentals will make many people happy and make us probably very wealthy".

Come on, dude.
XBox and Occulus have no absolutely no reason to be services. Requiring accounts for no reason is anti-consumer and therefore evil.

Of course online stores require accounts, but those are not required to use the hardware.
there's a long literature of:

- why even VCs diversify bets

- why working on side things helps your main thing

- how Nobel prizewinners are 3x more likely than the average scientist to have creative hobbies

- https://hunterwalk.medium.com/why-a-paid-newsletter-wont-be-...

and so on. i didnt say that having 4 things is spreading yourself thin. its just a really unscientific thing to assert without proof that having only 1 thing is "the key to success". so i push back on it.
Sure, I'll take Pfizer's meds and keep my money. Defense in depth.
Many people don't know this, but you can still commit code that does not compile :D
Indeed, you must be confused, since I never wrote anything about cars.
It was not made in 2018, that's just the latest renewal of the ruling (which was originally made in 2010). Apple's attempts to make it illegal were denied at the time too, because even without the ruling it fairly obviously falls under exemption.

The ruling also just makes it explicit, the DMCA already doesn't cover things like jailbreaking because they don't relate to copyright, and do relate to the user enabling interoperability of their device with legally obtained software (17 U.S. Code § 1201 (f)). These rulings are not proclamations in contrast with the law, they are bound by it and must be valid interpretations of it. Apple's attempts to classify it otherwise were a clear attempt to abuse copyright law and were rejected as illegitimate.

You clearly do not know what you are talking about.
This totally depends on the sample size and the impact that you'd like to measure. You can get very actionable results with a 95% confidence and 80% power at a few thousand sessions.
>…which has its own track record of subtle website breakage

A perfectly acceptable cost for my privacy.
Managed k8s doesn't mean you don't need ops people. You still need ops people - you are still running a complex and customized multi-node kubernetes cluster. You just need fewer ops people by following a vendors optimistic path.
Likely this is on purpose. I remember some congressman (PA's Rick Santorum?) trying to forbid the US Weather Service from sharing weather reports/forecasts so a partner of his would have a better market to sell the same service into.
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I agree that technology shouldn't be adopted just because it is new unfortunately the job market makes it so many early engineers (and already established engineers that will want to move at some point) end up practicing RDD as a matter of self interest.
Why would anyone who has a good understanding of the current software paradigms chose to develop their software for redhat..

I understand that companies like SAP might use redhat. Mostly A political decision made by people who has a say in spendings of to much money.

Cent OS seamed like a bad idea from the start. It does not fill the political reason that allows for redhat. And it does not fill the checkboxes for what a modern independent developer would want.

Maybe I am naive but I can’t see any reason for 1 not caring about the OS and some type of container or “server less” service or just using Ubuntu. Ubuntu is the Granny Smith of apples most things I see is built for Ubuntu and it just works.
sure - but someone fucked up right? the bankers ?
Well, with dedication that you mentioned above, or more realistically "persistence", pretty much given. Unless it's really not your thing and you switch to something different.

But I personally won't know: I didn't graduate from high school, never got into university, yet now I am senior director level overseeing architecture at rather large company.

I guess I made safe choice back in high school when I decided not to go to finals at math and instead to go to first day of full time employment with city level isp
There are also "dual native ISO" sensors. Still different apmplification levels, but in this case it is before ADC.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8hHFt3ChZ8
What does Fedora have to do with anything? It's a separate distro
/s noted (but point also taken). For those unfamiliar: APM = application performance monitoring. Essentially, figuring out why your application is slow or broken.
I don't think it's predatory when you use a credit card for high-risk debt instead of getting a loan approved include a creditworthiness review.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/sql-databa...

Basic tier, 5 DTUs, 2 GB is listed as ~$4.8971/month or $0.0068/hour on this page. Extra storage would cost more but is not available for the basic tier.
On the Binding Problem in Artificial Neural Networks
Timely reminder that S3 buckets support BitTorrent natively.
are there people who used both clojure and scala. And decided to use Scala ? if so why ? I'm new to Scala that's why
How do you be careful?

You can't trust the cloud provider:

https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/windows-server-container...

https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C5622AQH70okwLkMlNg/f...

What about the concept of not having roommates? Plenty of infrastructure alternatives exist besides "containers".
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Application Performance Monitoring

https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/new-relic-apm/getting-sta...
Ah, I don't think at this point there is much of a risk anymore.
Renting an entire ABNB is considered a "safe" travel option by many. E.g. you live in the city but are sick of your 4 walls, so you rent a cabin in the woods for a long weekend. I suspect whole-home ABNB bookings are through the roof, mainly in the summer.
Amazon's new health band is the most invasive tech we've ever tested
I think its more accurate to say there are bad faith actors on both sides. Thats why its so dangerous to let someone shut down one side of a debate because of bad faith actors. You're also shutting down the good faith actors on that side, while leaving the bad faith actors on the other side still able to participate in bad faith.
The integration is nice, it behaves as a normal buffer. So you can use all the standard modes and motions, splits, copy output to another buffer easier etc.
That's still pretty "spoiled". Esepcially if we're looking at $200k in high school tuition that could be put toward business startup capital.
I'd agree with this, as someone that is doing this (though have no intention to leave my job). WFH has made it easier than ever to find the time, which admittedly isn't easy, but turning it into a grand life decision does make for a convenient excuse to put off just sitting down and starting it
Misinformed take. Android natively supports what facebook did back then, because almost every app hits the dex limit.
Ugh. I was interested in VR, until Facebook bought out Oculus.
> > There shouldn't be any private data to steal.

For technical information (how to make the vaccine) this means it's not private.

For personal (including medical) information about clinical trial participants this means Pfizer-Biontech should not have the information in the first place.
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How does age discrimination manifest? I'm less concerned with being passed over for promotions than just having a job. Is it mainly that older guys are first on the chopping block for layoffs? How much does one have to "watch their back" and perhaps overachieve to stay safe?
This is a pretty good talk about this (don't think it's the same company): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E4gF3KEwZ0
> Because you cannot. Even if you have the space and the materials, you do not have the qualified and experienced personel to run it.

Oh yes you do. Absolutely. They're called traveler nurses and there are literally thousands of them out there. Agencies like Krucial Staffing have been hiring hundreds of them at a time and sending them to places like El Paso. Which now has a declining ICU admission rate.

If they said "We need 500 ICU nurses to be in California within 48 hours" they would have them.

Whether or not the big union in California would let this happen, however, is another story in itself.

But yes, you absolutely can get people to staff it.
https://twitter.com/ZacSweers/status/1337112019116453892?s=2...

(disclaimer: this is me)
I could but I need to move
Is “1 computer livestock” even possible?

After your single cattle is murdered, the next one has to be raised right?

State has to come from somewhere. Downtime has a cost for most businesses.
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You have hand waved away 2 thousand years of conquests of Maghreb as minor infractions. I'm mean it went from carthaginians to romans, vandals, byzantium, arabs, turks. Changed religion, culture and languages several times. You can't seriously believe that this were non violent happy occurences. Before the french even came they already spoke a different language than their ancestors, they prayed to a different god than their ancestors and they had no control over their territories. They were second class citizens even before the french came. I understand how you feel about French occupation and consider it worse because it was not so long ago and is in the nation's living memory. Other colonializations were more complete and successful and therefore part of what Maghreb is today. But objectively they were at least as bad as the french occupation.
> They want to suck the maximum money from consumers before they realize.

This is a naive understanding of how corporations like Google and Amazon work. Bad will and using gym membership tactics aren't how they scale or make money. Getting you to confidently try things knowing you won't get charged (the reason they have those free tiers) so you'll get your company, your start-up, your next side project on it is much better for business.

It's a miss that things like this aren't implemented and widespread, not by design.

> It's not complicated to add configurable hard limits for these companies but they don't allow it because the current situation is more interesting for them.

I'm not in this space, but from my observations:

- Each service has a different billing model and metering model. Most likely this data is held by the service. I'm familiar with AWS so I'll use them as an example. I'd wager only DynamoDB or only Lambda (the service owners) know how much of those services you've consumed

- Billing is most likely reconciled asynchronously after collecting all data from all services by an entirely different department with knowledge of payments and accounting

- GCP, AWS, Azure launch 50+ services a year

- Each large customer most likely has a special rate. I bet Samsung or Snap pay an entirely different set of rates than the normal customer. There are thousands of these exceptions

- Cutting your service off when your over the limit is an incredibly complex set of edge conditions. Your long running instance hosting your critical service is shut off because of experimenting on a new ML workflow?

Even with only the above I can see the difficulty in globally limiting your spending limit at an accurate level. I know there are features for both AWS and GCP and they try.

It's easy to stand on the sidelines and handwave away technical complexity at scale, but I'd encourage you to give all of these providers a more charitable view, at least on this topic.
After 40 Hours, Cyberpunk 2077 Is Still Completely Overwhelming
I just wish I could go back and do things differently. Ideally I'd have go into some other filed that's still interesting, pays relatively well and keep programming as a hobby.
Brave Complies With Apple iOS Guidelines
I work in a mobile gaming development house, so maybe I can share my 2 cents.

From the look of it, the landscape of mobile gaming is pretty competetive nowadays. I'm not sure which genre you are targeting, but from what you are describing I think it's a casual game? I strongly recommend Deconstructor of Fun to you as it covers mobile gaming pretty extensively and we have been using it for industry information from day zero. Subscribe to the newsletter and try to figure out the landscape for your genre, and see where you can find an edge.

That said, unless you have been going through a full scale mobile gaming dev from begining to end, you might overlook some aspects. For example, you didn't mention method of marketing (but do have a market target), but that's one of the key areas that contribute to the success of a mobile game (and pretty much every indie game), and could be pretty expensive if you go through some channels.

Another thing to think is how easy it is for others to copy your game. It's almost fair practice that companies start copying other games, not only the gameplay flow, but even the look and style of it. Big companies do that as well, so be careful.

Your financial looks good, 12-18 months should be good (I'd target for 2 years though), and about the engine, we are using Unity, but I guess it depends on the project and your experience. If you think the gae won't have top graphics and you don't have a solid C++ background, maybe Unity is easier?
> this is impossible with the power dynamic in a skip level.

That is emphatically not true in the general case. It certainly isn't for me with my senior leadership.
The voltage induced in power lines would destroy lots of things connected to them and would require replacement of trillions of dollars of equipment. So it would be permanent in the sense that you couldn’t fix all that equipment by turning it off and then on again.

I heard an expert say that the whole thing could be avoided by simply adding grounding wires to power lines. They kind of already do this for lightning — a grounding rod is shorted by a special material that becomes conductive at high voltage. The high voltage is “dumped” to earth. Put enough of those on power lines and the excess voltage might never reach sensitive equipment down stream.
Very insecure to run all your light bulbs in the same user context. I use SELightBulb to isolate light bulb actions. If you add PAM and pam-fingerprint you can require a fingerprint to alter lightbulb state for better security. Advise two-factor unless you really don't care for electricity at all.
I've heard this before - can you articulate or link the reason why? It seems like the fundamental issue is housing and accommodation were wildly mis-priced and a fairly opaque market.
I had similar feelings about a lot of top comments in here, and more generally about this place recently. I don’t know if it’s just an influx of users but things feel different these days.
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Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
> How many people on hacker news are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?

> Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.

Also, for the curious ones, I asked the same question exactly a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332072
AFAIK digitalocean has notification if you go over user defined limit.
> Military secrets are funded with public money. Should them be too public domain?

Yes.
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