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Thank you!

Your post hit really hard, because a) Sole focus of my team IS MRR. b) I wrote something very similar.
Sorry if my comment is a little maendering, I am a dad as of 7 days and what they tell you about sleep is no joke.

I want to plug in one of the less famous Drucker quotes:

> Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective. This is not capable of being measured by any of the yardsticks for manual work.

It's true that "What gets measured gets managed" by the converse is also true - if you focus on one metric only, the rest will fall into disarray.

It's good to keep your eyes at the gauges when you are flying, but just as the map is not the territory, the measurement is not the real thing.

People love metrics, because they give them an illusion of control over a complicated, real world, messy reality. The core of the problem is unfortunately human bias to simplify. We as a wider tech community are contributing a bit introducing yet-another-dashboard.

But as you rightly point, the metrics people pick are the ones that are easiest to measure. NOT the ones worth measuring. In fact I published a post quite similar to yours: https://piszek.com/2019/11/24/metrics/

To broaden the theme, I would even argue that Taleb is complaining about roughly a similar set of problems: Gaussian curve is an oversimplification as well and has caused a lot of suffering when misapplied.

Despite all of these caveats, there is a benefit to having a focus (like MRR you are mentioning). Having a singular focus can be transformative and can make one developer more effective than 30-people team with no real direction.

In that sense, there is benefit to metrics. As with all real-world things, I think the only solution is a dynamic equilibrium, where you change from one approach to the other to cover your bases.

As I wrote in the beginning of this comment, the Team I Lead (we build simple ecommerce tools) was tasked with maximizing MRR and the side-effect of having that focus was that we ignored the one-off sales features that our customers wanted desperately.
You'd be much better off with existing hand tracking or EMG systems. https://backyardbrains.com/experiments/RobotHand
I think the flaw here is assuming "knowing" rather than a mechanism that makes it impossible to express the paradox, or alternatively, impossible for you to find yourself in a world where an action that created a paradox happened.

One option: We tend to see time as mutable, but it's not clear that time needs to be mutable. Imagine time as a window into an immutable graph of deterministic state transitions, for example. You could come up with such a model where loops "back in time" were possible, but where the model simply can't express situations that leads to paradoxes, and where we by extension can't exist in a universe where people can ever take steps that would lead to a paradox.
Whaat, I can get a <100 USD usable out-of-the-box that I can program in Python? Quite interesting!
You can run the Zero as bare metal too.
I tried this tech back a year ago at a tech fair - not compelling, nor particularly accurate either.
I also tried to do some in Lua and found it unfit for my programming style...

Last project that needed game engine like things I picked Kotlin with libGDX/KDX. Reasonably quick builds, reasonably strong typing, performs well enough and x-platform enough.
CI: Build, Test, Nuke
Why are tech workers, who just want a bedroom live in suburbs, why not in a denser area? It seems there is no cheap bedroom close to where they work? Or it's historical that Big Tech has offices in suburbs.

Because the US is a big suburb with a few downtowns for skyscrapers for Fortune 500 cover photos?

...

Transit, mixed-use, etc. would all help. But there are probably 50+ years of emergent (and not so emergent, like Bob Moses and the car lobby putting a highway up everyone's ass) problems that need addressing.
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You can provide no evidence. The source provides no evidence, because it bases its article solely on Navalny('s allies). Navalny is Putin's political opponent and has therefore obvious vested interests and provides also no real evidence. So essentially what remains is a smear campaign.

Occam/Hitchen's Razor.

> The one part I want to clarify is the part about downvoting. That was addressed to readers in general, not you.

So you actually don't reply to my argument, but to your "audience", however technically replying to my post. You see the issue?
I think your memory is correct. I have all the old order details for CDs from 20 years ago and they've definitely got cheaper. I also have my old gig tickets from back then (I kept them despite some being a bit sweaty), and gigs have definitely gone up in price, maybe even 2 or 3 times the amount.

I am not sure recordings should be seen as the marketing for live performance though - what about bands in another country? They will never tour here. And I will never get to see The Beatles...

Also, recorded songs can sound very different to live songs, hence the "thin" nature of some of the live recordings. The ability to create a sonic soundscape on a recording is what makes it so special.

Recordings should be seen as art you are paying for. Nobody seems to mind buying a painting but objects to spending money on a CD. Baffling.
For the next 2 Years, Democrats have Congress and the White House. They need to stick to issues with no bipartisan support and clear policy changes already broadly agreed and actually pass some of their manifesto.

That mostly rules out changes to big tech legislation.

They should shore up Obamacare, take action on foreign interference in elections, get universal internat access, go after China for 101 reasons and force through some major upgrades in climate and science policy. It would be nice to see them support abortion rights too but thats harder.

That is plenty to get on with without getting into complex, unanswerable, internal debates about the nature of free speech.
Probably not what you're asking for, but there's a classic Futurama episode that fits that description https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_That_Ends_Well
My Love2D project concluded me to dislike Lua.
It changes often but for a long time it was Nils Frahm - My Friend the Forest

https://open.spotify.com/track/6Rkp6fEsvOTR7YxsW5uNyR?si=9ev...

More recently it's Love No More

https://open.spotify.com/track/0uekzdBsjuz76wVo2XOyg3?si=5xl...
Ask HN: Where did the CPU-bound games go?
GPUs are very effective at relatively straighforward operations which are easy to parallelize. They're great for graphics and physics calculations, which obviously play a big part in games. Also, GPUs continue to find new uses in areas which could be considered surprising, such as scientific computing and deep learning.

Games these days seem to increasingly care about GPU and common advice is to put as little money in CPU as you can get away with. There's a certain threshold you need make a GPU humming properly, but don't go beyond that. Unless you need it for other things, like compilation, encoding, etc. Consoles are especially notorious for this, in the recent models I read about they don't even have separate video and CPU memory. Consoles have a reputation for being stereotypical "dumb blondes" - having games that look good but aren't that smart. No RTS games for example, although you could say it's mostly down to control issues.

Are the last few generations of PC games so GPU heavy because their main target is actually consoles and PC support is an afterthought? Are consoles to blame here at all?

I read in a HN comment that one of advantages CPUs have is conditional logic. What are the types of calculation that are much better performed on CPUs? Especially in context of games?

What kind of game could hypothetically use a lot of CPU and not care about GPU? Dwarf Fortress is single threaded, so is Rimworld. Noita has "the more cores the better" on Steam page, but rumors are circulating that it's not actually multicore friendly. Ashes of Singularity is the only game I know which actually scales nicely with more CPU cores.

What about RAM? Memory is relatively inexpensive. What kind of game might need a ton of RAM but not so much VRAM (Video RAM / GPU RAM)?
In my experience, people who are paying the bill tend to ask more questions and be more skeptical the higher the price is.
Abdominals - muscle not found :(
Could somebody tell me why this engine is a good choice rather than Godot or Löve?
This is a lovely set of videos, thank you very much!

I'm missing some facilities for "orthogonal" searches. For example, I want to see all the beginner dumbbell exercises on the same page, or all the advanced stretches, etc.

Btw, just tried the "nordic hamstring curl" which was new for me... never thought calisthenics could be so scary!

EDIT: I have one question: why are female/male videos separate? We all have the same muscles and can do the same exercises, can't we? It would be slightly more "inclusive" if you could select different models without necessarily specifying their sex.
If you only include people who are trying to "make it" (as in you remove musicians in it for the love, not to make a career, or happy to have a niche career), or who are making a career of it, generally you fall into one of three categories:

- good, with terrible marketing/no connections/luck

- not good, with great marketing/great connections/luck

- good, with great marketing/great connections/luck

I know so many and have bought so many records from amazing bands who've never had a lucky break and basically don't understand the internet. Then there's loads of dreadful music and one hit wonders in the charts where someone has been marketed incredibly or they've had some viral luck or whatever - but they fade away pretty quickly.

Then you have those people who consistently write great music, with great marketing and a lucky break. Who have long, rich careers. But like unicorn startups and everything else, this is never going to be everyone.
Whoah. Song Dynasty China was the best. At least before the Mongols invaded and turned everything to shit.

Song Dynasty might have been ancient China’s best chance to kickstart the industrial revolution in China.

After the Mongol wars, the Mongols claimed the throne for ~100 years.

Then, the Ming retook power. But, something was lost. And China was never the same again. And the rest is history.
Interesting take! Curious to see if hosts can come up with an "interesting enough" program for teams to join!
> But landing a much less stable VTOL on a tiny submarine without any sizeable flight deck in the 60s was completely out of the question.

Hey, it was the 1960s. The times when people pulled off stunts like dropping a payload less than a meter wide from a satellite and catching it mid-air[0], without anything resembling a computer available to design or coordinate such missions. I'm pretty confident they could get a VTOL to land on a submarine, if they seriously put their minds to it.

--

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(satellite)
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I thought I was missing out on a community! But I assume you mean /r/bodyweightfitness? I am also a big fan, but I moved on from it and do my own programming based on reading Overcoming Gravity (2ed) - fantastic book if you want to get into the nitty gritty on body-weight programming.

/r/bodyweightfitness have just started rolling out a new series of plans to replace the RR. So if you haven't popped by in a while it's worth a look.

The one thing that always bugged me about the RR was the videos were just a random mismatch and some weren't even the bodyweight variant - they just told you to ignore the barbell or whatever. It's a bit of work to film and edit but there are a finite number of exercises in the RR so I always felt it made sense to make a consistent set for people to reference.

That is one thing I really like about this website - the demonstrations are clear and consistent with what is being described. .
This probably just splits B+ tree pages. I suggested something similar for using sqlite with static web pages see [0]

Distributed search engines are not new, many companies tried to make them [1].

I think the main challenges of distributed search engines are not technical. I don't think there isn't much financial incentive to create/maintain/seed them.

There isn't much advantage to using them either (if a alternative is available). I think the only viable use case for them is for indexing pirated torrents.

Maybe a foundation could use this type of technology to lower their expenses. Like a charity version of Google

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25843786

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_search_engine
Many enterprises require some form of anti-virus on all endpoints, including macs.
the closing of the windows suggestion is historically supposed to be made by a Microsoft Certified Engineer.
> 2 genders

Haha. Good.
must make road trips fun.
Show HN: I built a library of design patterns to help you build better products
I'm a but cynical about the recommendation of talking to people. The interviews then turn into its own optimisation game (I think politicians for instance do base their decision making on talking to people, hence lobbying). The same thing happens with job interviews (what is the most useful skill to getting a great SWE salary? Interviewing well).
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I’m currently evaluating indie hackers and product hunt to see if it is a fit.

1 - https://indiehackers.com

2- https://producthunt.com
> Whereas Matrix ensures that there is only ever one way of doing a given operation at any point

I trust you that you mean what you say, but I wonder what an implementation would look like (from a user-perspective), that supports something like OpenPGP -> OTR -> Ratchet. I mean, upgrading security over time is mandatory and when I remember how it evolved for XMPP I clearly do not want an implementation that still has all the draw-backs that OTR had.

So I agree that XMPP is lacking some good governance, but I don't see the rivaling XEPs necessarily as the core problem, as many of them had quite some time between the drafts. The bigger issue is that many clients don't have enough developer momentum, so that XEPs that were drafted like 5 years ago are not implemented yet.

Regarding implementation bugs: I know XMPP has the compliance suite, but I feel like it doesn't catch bugs and is more of a basic testing for feature compatibility. Does Matrix have some kind of test suite, that simulates physical disconnects, package loss and the likes for testing real client and server implementations? I know that would not be an easy feat, but I wonder what the best way would be to build something like that, to improve the quality of the existing implementations.
There are only two hard problems in computer science:

* cache invalidation

* naming things

* off by 1 errors
Ah yes, can you change the past or was there a time traveler version of you running around failing to change things the whole time? See season 5 of Lost for endless discussion on this point. You also can avoid paradoxes if it turns out that time travel just puts you on an alternate timeline.

There's a different paradox with this version of time travel though. Suppose I'm a kid and future-Me comes back and tells me a story. "you will write down this story and publish it and it will be famous." I do as he asks and he's absolutely right, leading me to eventually return the favor to my past self in a time loop.

Where did the story come from?
I wish streaming was compared to radio more. I think so many artists compare streams to sales directly, but I think a radio comparison is far more apt (even if not quite right).
BroHymn by Pennywise. I'm an old 90s punk. Good drinking song...good song to bring you out of a slump.
It went through all my data allowance in 5 minutes.
Hey w0ts0n, I remember working on the initial version of this :))
Glad to see it's still around!
When you factor in China, there's nothing you can do about things like TikTok. The cat's out of the bag when it comes to China. You can't stop Chinese monopolistic tech infiltrating US infra. It's like trying to instantly stop a juggernaut.
> But for f-strings, it has full support for the "inline" variables.

Is this complete (meaning: it also includes more complicated expressions, referencing these variables)?

I'm asking, because some Python development tools are failing in doing it right. This leads to annoying reliability issues for refactorings (even for simple renames). Currently, I have the problem with Wing IDE.
I grew up in Tamworth, which is about the furthest you can get from the coast, but my nan lived in Anglesey in North Wales, and in the summer it looked vaguely tropical it was so stunning. It wasn't touristy at the time though. Local councils seem to have a habit of 'tackyfying' seaside towns in the name of tourism unfortunately.
It's true, though. iMessage requires an Apple device, and Apple simply doesn't have a lot of market share in Europe (around 30% for iOS, less for macOS). So most people don't have access to iMessage.
I remember Altavista.

Adsense controls like 80% of ad market.
Biggest thread to Google are walled gardens like Facebook or Amazon. Search engines like Bing and Duck are not even on their map.

> dominance ... which is based on the quality of the search results

Any source for that? Google search already provides inferior results in many areas, but it is still dominant. Google also pays billions to Apple and Mozilla to be default search engine.

And if threat emerges and gets like 30% of search market share, Google just dials down ads and make their search experience a bit less crappy.
I didn't have a word for it but now I do.

This sentence also describes the vast majority of startups - "It’s when we imitate behaviors without understanding how they work in the hope of achieving the same results. Naturally enough, it’s not something that works."
In Japanese, you would usually say オレンジ色 (orenji-iro), orange colour, オレンジ being a foreign loan word. But the older way to say the colour is 橙色 (daidai-iro), where daidai is Japanese for orange.

I have no idea what caused this shift between the native word for the fruit to a foreign word for the fruit to describe the colour.
Any good resources to learn AR in Python?
I want to learn AR in Python but am intimidated with some of the results that come up when I search.

What are some good (free) resources for a beginner to learn and perhaps complete a small project in this area ?
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We will still have jobs to build Firefox with gcc and gcc is not going anywhere in general: the % of package built with clang in Debian/Ubuntu is a fraction compared to gcc.

Nathan Froyd wrote this great blog post about compiler usage:
https://blog.mozilla.org/nfroyd/2018/05/29/when-implementati...
I mean, so does assembly. Rollercoaster tycoon was written in assembly. But for mere mortals lua is just too much hassle for game dev.

C# with XNA (or monogame) is a nicer 2d barebones game framework to work in, as long as you can dodge garbage collector issues.
Yeah, none of those punk bands succeeded because they were rubbish on their instruments!!

Also, Paul McCartney didn't do very well because he had rubbish lyrics like "In this world in which we live in" - how many times can you say "in" ? or "someone's knocking at the door; do me a favour, go to it, open it and let them in" - stating the obvious...
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You were hired as a foreman on a construction of a laboratory on the island. You arrive at the island and among unfinished buildings you see - a giant ventilator the size of a building, an air balloon ready to fly, and a room completely filled with a floor mops. After some head scratching you remove all this junk and complete the laboratory. But right after the scientists start their work you hear an alert - "ALARM, TOXIC GAS LEAK DETECTED!".

- What is going on?! - you are crying, and call the previous foreman.

- Hi Alex, we have a toxic gas leak in the lab, what can we do now?

- Hmm, I dunno, did you change anything in the project?

- Well, I've thrown away floor mops...

- They were holding the ceiling.

- I'M SORRY WHAT? HOLDING WHAT AGAIN?!

- There are gas tanks on the floor above, very heavy, so I had to to fill the room below with mops to hold them.

- You could have wrote some note, you know. What should I do now?

- Turn on ventilator, it will blow the gas away from the island.

- I've removed it a long time ago.

- Why?

- Why did you built 100 ton ventilator in the first place? You could have just prepare a box of gas masks.

- I would have need to search for gas masks and ventilator was a leftover from my previous project, so I've used it.

- Alex, we are suffocating here and there is no ventilator! We need help!

- The fuck are you doing there then? Get on the air balloon and fly away.
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Every time I hear this kind of complaint, I wonder what kinds of horrible deals they've made with middlemen.

I have some music available for streaming. In November, I had a total of 5126 streams, which gave me 14.611 USD.

If we extrapolate that to 1 million streams, it would be $2850, but Gary is saying he's getting less than 2% of that.

The aggregator I'm using (my only middleman) takes 15%, already subtracted from the numbers above. Gary's middlemen apparently take over 98%. That sucks, but it doesn't appear to be the fault of the streaming services.

One caveat to note about these numbers is that the value of streams seem to differ a lot between countries. It's possible that Gary has more listeners than I do in less-lucrative countries. I don't think it could cover the whole difference. The most likely explanation is that Gary's record company is taking most of the money, and/or he has to split it with others who were involved in the creative process.

If anyone is interested in my earnings data (further analysis, charts, peer review, whatever), it's available here: http://dolkow.se/files/streams_nov20.xlsx
Why do fish love programming in assembly?
Because it's below C level
I love harvestmen. I've seen cave walls in Texas covered in thousands of them, doing pushups in unison. That's just what they do.

Harvestmen are not even spiders. They're nonvenomous arachnids. Completely harmless.
I used to work there. You're right the sensations are too weak and indistinct to be useful. People who haven't tried it probably think it's like touching an object. It isn't. It makes a patch of your skin lightly vibrate, which is a very different sensation, and it only really works on your palm.

It's a really really cool tech demo but it kind of blows my mind that went further than that. The device is always going to be super expensive, and it just isn't anywhere near as good as actual buttons. Buttons work really well!

There are some situations where you can't use buttons, like VR. But they're reaaaally niche. I can't see Ultraleap surviving.