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Ask HN: Why does it feel like MMO server tech hasn't changed?
So this comes from the recent Release of New World from Amazon. They have a hard cap of 2k players and 2-3x that per server I'm queues. They are adding more servers often but usually not enough.

Now, I love the MMO genre and have been through many MMO launches, and this isn't new to me. But as a DevOps engineer, I wonder how we haven't improved server tech to minimize or remove this?

I don't know much about MMO servers out outside of the one I'm building for an old MMO, but I feel like a new modern MMO should have some innovations to solve server capacities or so many servers.

Why does it feel we have made no progress towards limitless servers, or single world games where you have fleets of servers handling 1 world? Why are we still separating players by servers and not employing phasing to help with clutter of people seen.

Or move characters to be disconnected from the world they play on. So I can freely choose the server I play on regardless of my character. Server choice can be more easily changed without starting over.

I understand the complexities of latency, server to server syncing, database capacity limits, etc. But I feel like those actually making MMO servers for a living have the expertise to make this better.

And then there is Amazon, they have the entire power of AWS to add servers quickly. I don't get how they can't have scaled extra servers on day 1 and day 2 with some cloudformation, terraform, docker, kubernetes, or whatever is the right tool for quick provisioning. They are adding 20 servers at a time. There are more people queued than playing atm.

Just want to start a discussion to see more view points, maybe some expertise of those working on MMO game servers, etc. There is obviously things I'm not aware of or not taking into account, but I would like to know.
I just... can someone more knowledgeable verify that this isn't overlooking something? This feels way too good to be true.
Doubtful. That'd require a custom bill mechanism, and Kraken noted that they're using a standard, off-the-shelf bill acceptor -- the same type you'd find in a vending machine.
Ask HN: Oculus Quest 2
I read the popular article a few days ago about the person who works in VR using the Quest2. I was so inspired I bought one to try it out. My initial reaction is that it is SO BLURRY that it is unusable. If you google "oculus quest 2 blurry" you will find thousands of other people saying the same thing. How is this possible? How are some people able to use this and other people find it unusable?

Basically there is an incredibly tiny "sweet spot" in the very middle of your view, and everything else is painfully blurry. (note: I've used other VR, never had this issue)
I appreciate you sticking up for me here, but you gotta let it be. They won’t drop it as long as you play ball with them and I’m sure dang has enough on his plate as it is. I think it’s pretty clear to any observers which of us is breaking the site guidelines.
As a matter of fact, every <insert group> is really that psychologically fragile. No more so than a certain <insert group> that is too "psychologically fragile" to handle the terrible burden of having a really well paid, cushy, slack-happy desk job with great benefits and WFH freedom, without a new article about burnout reaching the HN front page every week.

As for "being to separate oneself and one's emotions from the issues being discussed"...

- That would disqualify effectively much every participant in a modern liberal democracy, rendering it a non-democracy.

- That doesn't make much sense to begin with, as the impact of issues and policy on "oneself and one's emotions" is the fundamental measure of good/bad even if you're a robotic utilitarian.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210929201944/https://www.nytim...
> then are you advocating illegalizing obesity and type 2 diabetes?

When people say "clog up the hospitals" they're talking about situations where patients are turned away not only from a local hospital, but every hospital in the state because all beds are occupied by Covid patients. I'm not aware of obesity or type 2 diabetes having this impact on our healthcare system.
Drats, not available on edge lambdas yet.
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Kodak gets picked on unfairly. They weren't completely blind to the digital camera revolution, they produced the first digital camera prototype but it was laughably incapable. Their problem was building a business model that took a cut from every picture snapped, from film to processing to printing. There was nothing in the digital camera model that could duplicate that revenue stream; even if they had sold every digital camera ever made, it would not have saved them. Their final undoing was overestimating the importance of printed pictures, in the end it turned out people would rather see their pictures on their screens.
Pretty much any upper body of a serious organisation would work that way. A tad bit of detachment needs to exist between doing things, and making decisions about doing things, and making policies about doing things, and judging if things were done right. This is also called 'separation of powers/concerns' in modern political lingo.

Or you will end up in all kinds of 'action paralysis' situations, and you would also end up dragging your emotions into these things which will have unintended consequences. The worse that could happen is the whole organisation could reduce to doing things for the self preservation of top individual(s) and not the organisation or people/interests they serve.
Cloudflare will charge per request over a certain threshold, like S3 does for API calls, so it won’t be just 13 cents depending on the rate of requests coming in.

“R2 will zero-rate infrequent storage operations under a threshold — currently planned to be in the single digit requests per second range. Above this range, R2 will charge significantly less per-operation than the major providers. Our object storage will be extremely inexpensive for infrequent access and yet capable of and cheaper than major incumbent providers at scale.”

Source: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-r2-object-storage/
"Idyllic" primarily means "pertaining to everyday rural life", and there's no reason infanticide is incompatible with that.
It's really hard to answer this question experimentally.

I suspect that of a pair of identical people who spent 1 hour in the gym every day for a lifetime, one of whom got a long term viral infection, the infected one would never again match the performance of the uninfected.
I work with lots of Chinese nationals in the US and they all support their government and the progress they've made. It seems that only the western narrative on China is the only acceptable and valid one.
This isn't a question for the CEO of Amplitude.

My question is to HN partipicants.

Does anyone feel like the stock market is about to tank?

I have a feeling we are going to see a lot of private companies jumping in before they can't. (This last sentance is not a question.)
That movie was fiction. Don't reason from fictional evidence. It makes you look like a fool.
Since we're sharing anecdotes, every single person who has left a team I was on left for more money, sometimes even after much thought because they loved the work and coworkers. All the devs I know have families and hobbies and things that require money like an addiction to clothing, shelter, and food, and these things cost money.
i think what happens is that things are 1. changing at a rapid pace and other things are just hype. i've switched or tested out newer languages and some were fun but, they didn't last because the trend died or they were bought out by facebook or some other tech firm and crashed. i've come to that keeping an eye out but not jumping ship until things look like the better option for certain. robustness plays a large part of my decision making these days. can it stack up to the weight etc
How to hack Google Fi for non-US citizens
Let's just say that is an extreme unlikelihood. The risk that you would get a permanent lasting effect from covid is very large which has happened to many who have had covid, millions are not over their lasting effects. At least with the vaccine it is under someones control, designed vigorously to be safe and someone is legally responsible. If you got covid, bad luck, your problem. I don't know how it works in the US but where I live (DK) if you get some kind of bad side effect from a treatment you can get compensation very easily. I guess in the US there might be lawyers involved or I guess since you got it for free from the government that they are responsible.

Also it's still likely that if you get covid a third time that you will get a worse outcome.
Tool that emulates the SolarWinds CI compromise attack vector
It hit me today, bandwidth is the digital currency of the internet. Discuss.
Who says neural networks aren't in pain when their fitness (reward function) is subtracted from? or happy or orgasmic when the function is bumped up?

Pain/pleasure seem to have easy enough analogue to at least something like a reward function, but what really gets me is colors. I feel like if honestly considered, the word "color" is all that's necessary to disprove materialism. Color is. How? Dunno.
I mean, maybe you like 4chan, but I think the majority of people don't see that site as a glowing example of what online communities should want to be
Wow, thank you for this. I can't seem to convince my wife to move to Florida, but I think Florida may be my spirit animal.
I used TaxJar, but one must self-manage payment to Gov
Solid list, thank you for this.
you rocks!
Imagine if China had military base the US: https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/nintchdb...
Sadly the vast majority of developers might know that there is a tool called debugger and might also know how to set a breakpoint.
But that’s where it stops.
No drive to see what your debugger offers you.
callstack? what’s that?
Conditional Breakpoints? Huh?

I hope that instead of aiming further down the abstraction layers, they instead aim up and try to get the hang of macro level stuff, metaprogramming, abstractions which I most often put off as "that’s just a fad"

If something like containerization or container orchestration sticks around for 5 or 10 years I'll maybe take a proper look at it.

Until then it is ‚just a trend‘ and takes mental space I feel spent better digging down. Because that’s where software is interacting with hardware (the real world).
That’s the abstraction layer where you can 'actually move the world', where goods are created.

Not everybody is capable or experienced enough to move across different abstraction layers and have a proper mental models for each. SOMEWHERE you will probably have to draw a line.

Some people draw the line at 'writing software'.
Execution target (understanding the hardware / runtime) are out of focus for effectively all programmers.
I think partly because languages, tutorials, bootcamps don't bother to dig deep there because 'the compiler will take care'.

It just is not teached that way. What do you mean with Solaris? Sun? PDP? It is just a computer. Java is cross platform. How it does that? Thats the JVMs job, not my job. I just write the software.
You’re of the opinion that the author does have a crystal ball and is objectively relating what can be known about the future(s)? And he’s doing so in such a careful manner that he’s painstakingly taken immense care to ensure that his musings are not interpreted as prescriptive?

That’s not my interpretation
people like spider-man movies but just go out and watch squirrels.. it's real life super heroes that fit in your hands. these go so fast, fly left and right you barely see them, quite amazing
This is it. Everyone's line of what they're willing to deal with is different, and changes based on where they are in life, what their mood is that month/week/day, etc. It only takes so many days of crossing that threshold for someone to start looking around.
You can see what egress costs companies in this Cloudflare blog post - TLDR they pay for the size of the hose, not the amount of water flowing through it https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/
Can you explain how social proof factors into people leaving companies?

I just looked up what social proof is, essentially a phenomenon of people conforming to other people who they think understand or know more than them. It's supposed to explain her mentalities.

I guess I don't see how this leads to people leaving companies. Maybe I don't understand social proof.
For me, the last piece of the puzzle is RDS. If cloudflare can deliver a managed database, I would not see a reason to use AWS for new projects/ideas I'm tinkering with.
The publication date is a bit suspicious :)
Total aside, but the chocolate milk and coffee concoction he describes in one of the pictures was also my drink of choice. I dubbed it the Microsoft Mocha, although I don’t think the name caught on.

It definitely fueled the pursuit of multiple good (and bad) ideas during my time in Redmond.
My long term understanding from Cloudflare blog posts is that network activity is actually incredibly cheap, moreso when you own a ton of the underlying infra.

Thing is, all cloud providers do own the pipes, so they just rent-seek on egress pricing. Cloudflare is disrupting that model.
Why does this make it harder to get away with protests?
The first rule of data modelling is that you should model only what you care about. A good model allows you to store and retrieve what you need to meet your requirements.

Maybe you care about all the events that have ever happened on your incredible journey to reach a list of the customers you have today.

Or maybe it would be sufficient to have been mutating a customers table all along. If that is sufficient, then it would be faster and more straightforward to have done so.
Not at all, we also shipped our garbage halfway across the world while pretending we were recycling; and we turned the taps off while we were brushing our teeth.
2-way bindings are still alive and well in the big "next gen" web frameworks, Vue and Svelte.
This is a great idea! Inspires me to do the same for areas of research I’m passionate about

I’ve heard from life science professors in my undergrad one of the hard parts about keeping up to date with research is just finding it. Really hope this gets usage :)
What do you think of Steve Kirsch's analysis of VAERS and his testimony to the recent FDA advisory committee meeting?
https://www.skirsch.com/covid/Deaths.pdf

> Analysis of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database can be used to estimate the number of excess deaths caused by the COVID vaccines. A simple analysis shows that it is likely that over 150,000 Americans have been killed by the current COVID vaccines as of Aug 28, 2021 ... I’m offering a $1M academic grant to
anyone who can show the analysis is flawed by a factor of 4 or more in either direction and provide a more accurate analysis to the correct number. We’ll have a panel of 3 judges decide if we disagree. Please send me an InMail on LinkedIn if you think you found I was off by a factor
of 4 or more. First one to show the “correct” answer gets the $1M research grant.

2021-09-17 testimony to FDA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFph7-6t34M&t=15617s

Kirsch founded the C-19 Early Treatment Fund, https://www.treatearly.org/
FWIW, I'm sympathetic and I think your extension is fine.

But to play the pesky devil's advocate: you can make the extension consist entirely of a button on your Chrome bar, which you click on to see a popup containing the content that would normally be injected into the page itself. Thus, it wouldn't need any page permissions.

You can even show the number of tweets by displaying the number on the icon.
Another comparable is 100tb.com which can give you 100TB/m of bandwidth for $275/m (or for 1 million Gigabytes as the linked article uses, $2,750).

Cloudflare still wins this estimate at 13c, and AWS remains expensive at 55k.

I’m assuming the bandwidth traffic helps improve Cloudflares other offerings (eg, insights).
There's a thing called conditionnal probability.

If you're very old, you're likely to dies from covid (but also from all sorts of things - this is what old age is about). Not if you're young. So the cost-benefit analysis is different per user, and this is why some people think twice about it.
Are you not ignoring the unknown long term risks of having had Covid here? Those are equally unknown.
Sanger has been working on various different iterations of that for twenty years and has failed every time because, shockingly, an encyclopaedia that cites academic research is more useful than an encyclopaedia that cites The Daily Mail.
It would have been nice to have at least one clear example of the bias that's being claimed.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28699410.
This is correct. And largely a fixed rather than variable cost for us.
Yeah, I overlooked the fact that the AWS calculator added Developer tier support. Past that it's correct. I assure you, AWS would have Set The Record Straight(tm) otherwise before now.
Thank you. The original link was worse than the twitter thread.
The issue is that you're breaking the site guidelines. If you want to present your analysis of studies in a way that doesn't do that, that would be much better. Not destroying the ecosystem is more important than being right.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28700178.
One Third of Vaccinated Americans Have Cut Ties with the Unvaccinated
Yes, I agree with you. People are so scared by the "scary potential dangers" that aren't happening that they don't take something that reduces their risk of death by massive amounts, 20+x times.

All you "young" people not taking the shot, there are lots of otherwise relatively young people dying every day. Don't die needlessly. Search for stories of people who regretted not taking it on your deathbed. Do you want your mom or dad to live without you?
> until I could qualify as an accredited investor via income test

What does this mean?
Extending our reach into the cosmos with new mirror coatings
I can recommend the minix 66w gan charger. Ideal for travel.
My government (France) ordered pregnant women to get vaccinated while it wasn't tested for this kind of population. Kind of funny when basically 99% of medications are usually forbidden for child-bearing people.
That's not moving the goalposts.

It's context. You want to ignore the fact that Trump was blaming China as a whole for coronavirus?

It's racism to blame the coronavirus on Chinese people.

So you want to tell me you are surprised when people see racism by the racist guy who does and says racist things pretty much constantly?

I'm not going sit here and line by line debate you. I lived during it. I know what happened. It was a nonsense policy like basically the whole of the Trump administration's response. It was a complete joke. There was no federal response to the domestic crisis here. We had no supplies. We had no leadership.

It's just a funny thing to point to this as some shining example of Trump doing the right thing when ever other indicator is saying otherwise.
Big corporate doesn't hate open source. That's a myth OSS promotes because it suits the narrative of being an underdog.

Mostly big corporate (ie the whole world outside IT) has no idea what a software license is - if you polled all the workers at Wallmart they'd look at you blankly - and I'm talking management here...

99% of companies don't pay for their OSS because its free. Companies don't make donations to suppliers. They pay the sticker price and move on. Wanna give it to me for free? Great. Wanna charge me for it? Great. But give it to me for free, then expect me to suddenly start donating? How am I supposed to explain that to the board and shareholders?

If you want companies to pay for your work, slap a price tag on it. If you want to give it away for free then do that. But don't expect companies to create a new funding model for you - that's not their business.
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It's amazing how much conversation Cloudflare has created with this without even releasing the product yet.

I can't remember the last time there was this much interest in a new product launch - which gives an indication to the market need for pricing changes on this front. However, AWS re:invent is right around the corner and I suspect this will cause an announcement or two to come from the AWS side.
> Remember, you made this comment on server that was provided to you for free without the need of ad support.

HN has ads, just sneaky ones that blend in with user-submitted links on the front page ($YCStartup is Hiring, Launch HNs. But on the positive side, they don't seem to rely on tracking to target any narrower audience than the whole HN userbase).

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#percei...
Yes, because the levels are a super obvious progression unless you're being deliberately obtuse.
Per operation charges, even if at the same level as EC2, would still be substantially cheaper.

The lack of 9c per GB to egress is the killer.

I can rent unlimited 250mbit servers for 14 euros a month from Scaleway. It is truly unmetered; I've been a customer for years and do about 40 terabytes of egress a month on this box.

AWS would charge me $3800 for the egress alone (using the calculator). That is certainly almost all pure margin for them, when Scaleway will happily let me egress 40TB a month for years on 13.99 euro per month (plus I get a low-spec bare metal server at this price too).
> And, most concerning; many people want mandatory vaccination. No one should want it.

The alternative is overflowing hospitals, masks forever and the restrictions on movement. I 100% want those who force this on society to stopped. The last 18 months have already been tremendously ugly. A vaccine mandate is far less so.
You're going to make an anecdote-based emotional appeal to an audience whose belief that they're being manipulated has constantly been validated by incompetence, corruption, and censorship?
Ask HN: Will many small businesses be interested in this?
So I recently launched a new startup called Wavestack.
The idea is that rather than paying $3000+ to an agency or freelancer to get a decent website for your small business or early-stage startup, you pay only $79/mo to us for a very good website.
It's not a website builder. We're a team of senior developers who help small businesses get their business online in an efficient but affordable manner.
But do you think many small businesses will be interested in this, though?

*For those who will like to check it out, here is the link to the website: www.usewavestack.com
Yeah, I've somehow fallen out of the habit of reading books. Need to get back in :)
In the time period before you were symptomatic but we’re still contagious did you potentially get anyone else sick? What’s your level of confidence if you catch covid again, you won’t spread it prior to being symptomatic? Are you comfortable with the fact that you could be the nexus that leads to many others getting sick? What if one of them dies? Or has a miscarriage? Or hospital bills?

Yeah, sure, I’ll be fine if I get covid. Will my toddler? Will the person at the store who doesn’t have the luxury of working from home? It’s such a big, selfish risk for something that’s so easy to deal with.
Testsigma as a mobile testing tool – how can it help me achieve ROI faster?
1) The papers shouldn't have made it through any kind of honest peer-review process.

2) The papers to my knowledge have not been formally retracted, which is what normally happens after a peer-reviewed report is discredited.

So, not working very well.
I was motivated enough by this to seek out some of the mustards he mentioned -- and it looks like the Beaver Olde English is no longer on their web page? Has it been discontinued?