skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes that’s exactly what I’m talking about. It’s always been a thing in MMORPGs, but prior to MMO companies selling in-game currency themselves it was a lot less common and carried a stigma because those buying carries often bought illicit currency to do so because carries are expensive.

Now that there’s no friction on the path between a player’s wallet and those offering carry services, carry purchases have exploded in popularity.
As it turns out I really don't like notebooks, but that is due to the state issues - so it sounds like I should check out Pluto. Thanks!
And a surprisingly high number of people pay quite a bit, even thousands of dollars.

The curve for games like this is steep.
And, by the way, federated servers use SSL/TLS as well. Of course server admins can do verything, like peer into your traffic or grab passwords from database, because they are admins!
Our youngest was the same way! Things will get better! At least, in terms of sleep. She actually sleeps in now. Even better, on the weekends, when both kids wake up before us, they just play together for an hour, instead of waking us up. It was truly a strange feeling, when that started happening.
Civilization - a superorganism consisting of all of us - is growing by leaps and bounds.

Hopefully it eats the whole universe one day
This basically just a page full of spoilers for the game civilization
AFAIK, IAPs are not uniformly or normally distributed. The vast majority of players pay nothing or close to nothing, while a few "whales" pay a ton.

"Yet, only 5% of total app users make any in-app purchase (Sterling, 2016), and 70% of those in-app purchases appear to come from big spenders or ‘Whales' who account for only the top 10% of the paying users (Shaul, 2016)." [0]

0. What Causes Users’ Unwillingness to Spend Money for in-App Purchases in Mobile Games? a Structured Abstract; https://easychair.org/publications/preprint/HxVC

Maybe they have proportionally way more whales than other games?

(I strongly dislike the "whales" term. Is there a less condescending synonym?)
I use Yubikeys for everything that allows them. Haven't had any problems.
That's another way to look at it, sure, but it still doesn't seem to explain anything about why perception of time speeds up with age. That's true, but why does it matter?
I've thought about this phenomenon a good bit as I get older. My hypothesis is that the older you get periods of time take up smaller and smaller fractions of your life span, and therefore seem to pass more quickly.

When you are 10 years old a year is a large fraction of the total time you have been alive so it feels much longer than when you are 60 and that same year is only 1/60 of your life.

edit: reading further down I see I'm not the only one who had this same idea :)
After the JOBS act, roadshows can start 15 calendar days of publicly filing the registration statement with the SEC (before it was 21)

Roadshow may take 5-20 more days, so we may see them ring the bell by mid-December
It's a pretty insane processor. Eg the Geekbench Multicore score of 18241 is faster than even the 16 Core 5950x. https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks
The most important message here is "take care of yourself" near the bottom. I want to share a story about how I did a moonlight effort the wrong way.

I treated it like a second job. When my day job was finished, I started my second job working on a game with a team of coworkers and friends. We were working crazy hours, but we were crushing it. Before long we got the attention of Amazon who wanted to acquire our game as part of their Fire phone launch. Our game focused heavily on motion controls which was perfect for the direction they were taking the phone (they were really pushing the envelope with motion + cameras + other sensor fusion things). We worked even harder. Before long we had a meeting with Jeff Blackburn. He showed it off to Bezos and got signoff to acquire us. We worked even harder. Contracts were signed and due diligence started.

Then our lead dev died.

Amazon backed out as we had no way of completing the game on time. We had poured everything into this game with the intention that the payoff would be worth it. We never prioritized enjoyment of what we were doing or our own health. Our mistake was we hadn't left room for failure.

Whatever you do, ensure you have gas left in the tank for when things go wrong. Things will always go wrong in ways you'll never be able to plan for. If you stretch yourself to the limit, when a bump in the road hits you you'll break and everything/everyone around you will suffer.

I now have a far, far healthier approach to moonlighting. I try and work a little bit every day on something. It doesn't need to be 5 hours of work - 20 minutes is enough. I've been working on something for the last 3 years or so and while it doesn't have the velocity that that game did, it makes me happy while I work on it. If it fails, it's OK because I find joy in doing it. Success isn't a requirement.
Sounds like you are in a similar place to me. I recently became a father and I feel that I need to work on this problem the best way I can. I have my little startup and I expect to keep running that for another few years but I have started a background thread in my head looking into how I can best apply my particular skillset to helping tackle climate change.

I had a chat with a woman named Laurie McGinley who coaches people in that situation and she gave me a bunch of resources that I am slowly consuming. I can highly recommend talking to her if you are considering it as well. https://vialucent.com/
One need look no further than the recent refugee crises in Europe to see what could easily result without strong border security. We are talking of a future where that level of mass migration will seem like small potatoes. A wall being merely one part of a secure border, by itself it would do little.
Use the right tool for the job. What is the most deployed database? SQLite3. In what pattern is it most often deployed? One language from one environment accessing one database with full read/write. Low call volume, high data complexity, and embedded (tightly application-coupled) use. This is observably the normal use case for a database and the simplest mode of implementation. Problems occur when software people start solving problems that don't exist: typically performance, future scalability, dubious theories of security and future language/database migrations. KISS.
My dad always talked about George Carlin the guy is a legend. My dad always told me a story about when Carlin was “not” allowed to say certain things on the air and made comment to that fact. I am now betting it was because of this case. Supposedly Carlin turned to the camera and said something along the lines of “f&@k all you stupid lip readers out there” except he only lipped it never actually said it. I’m not sure if it was live or they producers just didn’t understand what he did but they aired the show. It made a lot of deaf people mad apparently. I have not been able to find the clip or any reference to it but believe my dad’s account.
git, vim, tmux, i3, zsh
Percentage of quarterly subscription revenue from HCP (and its predecessor cloud offerings): 5.0%
If they fail to revise and as a result do badly at the test, then next time they might actually take the initiative and revise

Hahaha no. Have you met an 8 year old? Homo economicus they are not.
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I'm done with Reddit; Is This Another trashy Reddit site?
Is this another trashy reddit site or will you guys actually keep my post on.
checking for future. need a place to wander after quitting reddit
Fun is subjective. People actively complain when games don't have grindy tedious elements.
I drive in silence. I don't understand why some people feel the need to _always_ be listening to something.
Tomasulo's register renaming algorithm (1967) comes from an era when you bought the computer and the operating system together. So OS compatibility was their problem. That's not our era but the resulting in-order vs out-of-order war is long over.

Register renaming enabled out-of-order execution. The 90s were a competition between in-order compiler based scheduling and out-of-order CPUs. The in-order proponents said that out-of-order was too power hungry, too complex and wouldn't scale. Well, it did. Even the Itanium which was the great in-order hope, its last microarchitecture, Poulson, had out-of-order execution.

Ultimately, out-of-order won the war but in-order survives for low power low complexity designs; the A53 is in-order. Skylake Server has 180 physical registers with an out-of-order search window of 224.

https://www.primeline-solutions.com/media/wysiwyg/news-press...
You really think Ember has the worst router? I'm the exact opposite. But maybe we used different versions of it I suppose, since it was overhauled a couple of times I think.

Agreed about rxjs though. Very underutilized outside of Angular unfortunately.
>Funny, I'm not censored on any platform. Then again I don't... spread misinformation

That's because you can't think outside the box. All the greatest iconoclastic truths in human history were labeled "dangerous misinformation" by the authorities.
Covid-positive Aaron Rodgers told NFL he was “immunized” with homeopathy
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If it's all on the GFX card, why is there a performance difference in games between Intel and AMD CPUs?
Enjoyable read overall. Always fascinating to see the human ingenuity involved in problem solving. I might have missed it in the article, but how do the fascine mattresses do the work of helping keep back the sea? By breaking up waves before they reach the shore?
Yes. That is why I have been very explicit about node numbers and characteristics along with clock speed. Apple cant push to 5GHz without using another node and possibly some redesign. Intel using their own ultra low Power node or even TSMC 5nm low power node will not be able to reach 5Ghz either.

And let people make their own judgement. Again this isn't for consumer review, just for those interested in tech and how it all fits together.
> Water is sweeter.

This is something I've started noticing with IF too. Depending on where I am with my fast a glass of water can come across as very sweet, cloyingly. But not sweet like glucose/fructose (sugar). More like an impression of sweet or maybe like a diet soda.

I hate when it happens because I don't like the flavor at all and need to force myself to finish my water at that point. For some reason it usually happens at the end of the day for me. It's usually gone by morning.

And it can't be something in the water because I switched to reverse osmosis RO filtered water like a year ago because I'm quite sensitive to flavors in water.
Not only ready but softer than any other method of cooking can get them (at least when I’m the chef)
Facebook tests paid subgroups in subscription push
So the company can bring in outside execs without ousting one of the founders from a C-suite role.
> By making a game that people actually enjoy playing

If you're willing to pay money to experience less gameplay, are you really enjoying the game?
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You're whole premise is wrong, a similar mistake we often make as programmers is trying to optimize without profiling.

You can build homebrew but still be rejected at Google.
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This is a tech forum with a lot of non-tech people. To me it feels like reddit with less or almost no kids (<20?). So there are a lot interesting discussions around complicated topics.
Nothing against the block cursor as long as it's not on by default. I'm having trouble thinking of other text editors that use it as the default.
My old neighborhood in sf was crawling with these things negotiating all kinds of traffic conditions. It doesn’t seem like that much of a stretch to me having driven past and alongside on the order of dozens of these things.
> Why would Sony spend so much making a single player offline game to get a one-time purchase when they can milk their customers tens of dollars a month for years.

Probably because when those mobile casinos get regulated, Sony’s model will pull ahead.
It is not like this would be secret in the past. The ones most likely yo not tell are actually 6-7 years old who genuinely forgot and then are stressed cause teacher is complains.
Misread and thought this was somehow Space Channel 5 related :(
> Enjoy? Not particularly, but isn't that just reality?

That's kind of the disappointing thing about all this. In retrospect "classic" (as opposed to gacha) games are somewhat egalitarian. It didn't matter how much money you had, if you could master the gameplay and mechanics you could beat anyone else in the world.

It's a shame that the industry is turning so hard towards re-creating real world inequality in these fantasy spaces. This is an ironic reversal of imagined post-scarcity society from sci-fi like Star Trek - instead of creating post-scarcity in the real world we're artificially introducing scarcity to our virtual worlds.
> Why would Sony spend so much making a single player offline game to get a one-time purchase when they can milk their customers tens of dollars a month for years.

Because releasing a game with a games-as-a-service model is a massive technical and logistical challenge if you want to retain players and isn't free money. A good recent example is The Avengers, which was sunk from the forced-GaaS model.

Also, after EA released Anthem and Star Wars: Battlefront II which had massive backlash due to their flawed GaaS, EA released Jedi: Fallen Order as a single-player game with no gimmicks, and it sold incredibly well.
Not trying to start anything, but does this review have any merit?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R36RD4QCZ047P9?AS...
Your's may be a valid point of view. But mine is too. Because I didn't pull that shit out of thin air,

instead having experienced it,

and came to the conclusion that it IS indeed the same shit.

At the end of the day.

All those 'swimmies' and life-savers are ball and chain to me,

dragging me down. Learn to surf, row, swim, dive, whatever!
There's an http endpoint so it's easy to use from a browser, but of course it's usable from any process that can post to the endpoint.
As someone who is currently implementing a compact theme for a different app, anything of that nature has a non-zero cost. Which is compounded by the number of designers you have working on the product who now all have to review every change multiple times.
Where are the days when a decent CPU was $100 and it draw no more than 100W?
Well, JSON is "just" a serialization format. I'd expect that to be much easier to teach someone than a programming language. That's a rather bizarre comparison.

If all you're doing is serializing the configuration, then lisp's s-expressions are just as intuitive as JSON (in the sense that both can be explained in a few minutes).
I know you have kids, so you're too close to the situation to have an unbiased view, but realize that the math is only a small part of what your child is learning here. They also need to know how to judge for themselves whether they are prepared, they need to know how to seek out help from you or a tutor when they don't. Similarly, they need to learn what happens when they don't do these things and just assume someone else will do it for them.

You are doing your child a disservice by ensuring they are always prepared for every challenge they face.
I took this a subjective feeling of the experience, but I agree with you. It is almost literally impossible (some high level athletes can accomplish it, I believe, but not after 90 minutes) to actually enter a ketogenic state from exercise.
Yes the alternative was paid expansions for new maps and weapons, which people also didn't like because it split the player base.
I teach intro to CS for a homeschool co-op and love seeing this kind of story!

Children can absolutely learn a lot more than we think they can, provided we take their capabilities seriously and give the appropriate scaffolding.
Sean ?
Spectre ?
Sexism ?
The Serverless Architecture Astronaut
I haven't seen many of these so I can't confirm, but from the look of the list there's a lot of generic movies that don't fit the bill here. I know for a fact that The Godfather, being probably my favourite movie of all time, has nothing to do with tech, sales or tbh anything that should be inspiring.
> Some IDEs that can semi-compile the code (to something like an AST) can provide a lot more support for refactoring correctly.

Plenty of Emacs plugins invoke a compiler, language server, whatever to get information about the code. That isn't a feature unique to IDEs.
Ahh, I think I may have the opposite problem: I'm on Mojave and I think I need a newer version of Xcode but can't update it because I'm still on Mojave :-)

I'll try it in Docker, thank you!
> symmetric multithreading (SMT, also known as "hyperthreading").

Say what now?
Seems on par with most state-sponsored IT project here in Scandinavia.

Big consulting firms involved, billions spent, horrible products shipped.
So in other words you have TERRIBLE separation of concern.

This was my point exactly.
> There's no way that Intel processor is beating a 5950X that is also drawing 300W. At that point some Ryzen's will be operating at close to 6GHz per core.

Modern desktop CPUs are already being pushed well past the peak perf/watt efficiency in order to extract the maximum amount of performance. A Ryzen 9 5950X would need substantially more than 300W to hit 6 GHz, and you would need exotic sub-ambient cooling to keep it stable at those speeds.

A more reasonable comparison would be against EPYC and Threadripper, both of which use their respective power budgets for more cores rather than more clocks. A 64-core EPYC 7763 has a TDP of about 280W, and it's going to substantially outperform the Core i9-12900K when given 300W of power.
If I had to guess:

1. Perhaps because he can.

2. Because being a CEO of a public company comes with a lot of rules around disclosure of material public information and equal access. It takes a special kind of person to disregard general consel and just shitpost on twitter with zero review while directly responsible to shareholders. I don't know what kind of safe harbor Elon thinks Twitter offers but I doubt it applies to Github code review.
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29095110
> it’s not because the kids are going to die from COVID, but so that they don’t infect mom, dad, granma, or grandpa and accidentally kill them.

So when you see someone claim we are vaccinating children to protect them, do you call that out as misinformation?
Still so curious how much of the firing of the gun on this plan was buying PA Semi, 2008. PA Semi had been doing PowerPC, but making some very interesting well integrated chips, and I still like to pretend that this was a core turning point acquisition, that this rather awesome group of folk somehow made all or a big part of the difference.

Haven't done the digging to see who was employed by PA Semi, who stayed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.A._Semi
Seems GOG has them:

https://www.gog.com/game/quest_for_glory
> nobody in any large corporation knows exactly where I drive it every moment of the day

You took off your license plate?

https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/location-trac...
>I feel like Intel requires me to do a bunch of research to see if the CPU I've picked checks all the boxes.

I will not be surprised if Intel follows the AMD example soon. Pat Gelsinger is a product person. And generally Product person understand these issues better. Compared to Marketing / Financial people who have zero understanding. ( I dont want to bash them too much but seriously I have never met a marketing / financial guy who is any good at products in the 20+ years. )
I've been using the for a couple of years. First install on any android I get, and easily the best launcher I've used since my first android phone.
If you can solve a real business problem you can prove yourself and learn a heap. Do you know any business owners that you might be able to produce some software for?
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I haven't read the S1; do they describe any recent customer outages due to their systems?
Don't usually have much extra time on the weekends. Weekends are for making up for a week of the house getting dirty, relatives and friends wanting to meet, extra long walks for the dogs that only got short walks during the week, errands that got put off, some catchup sleep, actually relaxing a bit since there wasn't much during the week, etc.

I might have 2-3 hours each day (of energy and motivation) to work on projects but not 8. Of course I never have 4 hours during the week either, I'm lucky to get 1 in usually.
There's been a very strong homogenization of MMOs ever since World of Warcraft, towards mostly mindless loot grinds. Early pioneers ranging from Ultima Online to A Tale in the Desert have effectively been completely forgotten.

It's wild because if you discard your preconceived notions, the possibilities of what you can do with a massively multiplayer persistent world are absolutely vast. There's this huge unexplored territory and 99% of MMOs are stuck in this one tiny corner.
Your parents already had access to the app, just in the form of a folder you were sent home with that had everything printed out. This is just a digitized version, its not the 2nd coming of the Gestapo. Also you need to think about this from the perspective of the parents, having kids in school mean you have to do things, you can either be informed ahead of time and do them in a leisurely manner or you can find out last minute, rush everything and get stressed. The app helps people avoid that stress. You are young, I am surprised you are anti the digitization of something that has been inefficient for so long; and trust me if you have kids in school you would know just how frustrating it is to keep track of everything that is going on or due.
thats why the article has

> Rule #2: SHAMELESSLY USE THE OTHER KINGDOMS JUST LIKE THEY ARE USING YOU!
> "the only way things can actually be secure in the long run is for them to be federated the way I want them to be"

I never mentioned any particular kind of federation that I prefer. I also never mentioned word "private", which is mostly tangential to federation.

My point is that, in the long run, only federated systems are sustainable, because nobody is able to fund huge servers with millions of users without infinite money. For example, Signal and Telegram are both struggling with that currently; the latter introduced advertisement recently. On the other hand, Mastodon does not seem to have such problem (you could argue that it's too early though).

I do not want to build my own clients, I'm not even a programmer. I want a sustainable network, which could be achieved by a large number of self-hosted instances federated with (possibly) large servers. It has been working fine with email for decades. Also, the competition of various independent clients improves the user experience (like any other healthy competition elsewhere).