skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recurring online service payments are replacing game sales as the guaranteed loss recouping strategy for consoles. Exclusive titles will rely heavily on the online service, driving long-term subscriptions and anchoring cross-platform DLC purchases.

The loser is game devs, who must either (a) do extra dev AND pay higher fees to integrate deeply with each platform, or (b) integrate minimally with each platform and compete with titles that get a leg-up from users' sunk costs into the network service.

tl;dr - the online service is the new console
How would you imagine it? Sounds interesting indeed!
For the Bolt - was it connected to Bluetooth when the car turned off?
YouTube's ads are a colossal mistake waiting to happen. Back in the day, Google was successful because they realized advertising on the web was a problem: ads were trying too hard to grab attention, resorting to hostile tactics that basically forced people to run ad blockers. Google said "okay, what if ads were simple blocks of text that - while not as loud and screamy - got more impressions because they aren't terrible?". And over time everyone agreed with them and they made billions of dollars.

Somehow, (probably because there is no competition - yet), Google has not applied this reasoning to YouTube ads. YouTube ads are often louder than regular videos (which they could fix on their end if they cared), they are sometimes insanely long (I recently got an "ad" which was a 40 minute "free music" thing), and depending on the video they can pop pop up at terrible moments. They still haven't figured out that YouTube is loaded with exercise videos - a content category which has exploded since 2020 and where YouTube enjoys a tremendous lead on the competition. Rudely interrupting one of those is bad and brews resentment. Instead of doing that, they could plaster the entire video with unobtrusive ads and people would both look at the ads and be happy with the service.
Yes,

> Tearing in to what went well, what didn’t go well, and suggesting process changes for the next event

is the regular [performance|postfactum|event] analysis, but it IS NOT the postmortem!

From your previous comment you understand what the term means "after death". Did you really think "after death" and "after event" are the same?
Hear hear. And stop messing with the steering wheel. I don't want 17 trillion buttons on a steering wheel. The "safe" area seems to be getting smaller and smaller.

As for worst car UI experience ever, it has to be the Seat I'm driving. It has a large touch screen. So you decide you're going to touch an option and your finger is under way to the surface. During this movement, the UI detects you're going to press something and tries to "help" you by moving some sticky menu out of the way or the opposite: revealing some hover menu. So now the thing you were planning to touch has moved during the 0.5s travel.

The car is also in constant paranoia mode it seems. I'm parking forwards at about 1mph, slowly approaching the end of the lot, a boundary of shrubs. The car apparently thinks I'm close to dying. Everything is flashing and buzzing.

It also has a helpful planning system. I'm in the middle of a huge traffic jam and then it tells me "busy traffic ahead".

It has a navigation system where you can pick from 3 routes: fastest, easiest and some mysterious in-between option. Yet all routes lead to the exact same navigation instructions, it feels like somebody just made up the 10 minute "difference" in the UI.

When driving this car, I sometimes have this feeling that the makers are laughing at me as I drive it, to see how much you can mess with somebody before they understand they're the subject of a joke.

But this is no joke. I'm really quite sure that crappy car UI leads to injury and death. A car is not a Battlefield game that needs 2 years of bugfixing before it's usable.
I have no idea what you’re trying to say.
Dishwashers and clothes washers will usually have some amount of heating capacity to them, as they will want to at least try and maintain a certain water temperature during their cycle. The units are usually a bit insulated, but overall the water is going to lose a good bit of temperature during the cycle as chances are your dishes and clothes are nowhere near the target water temperature.

So you use the hot water line so the water is in the ballpark of the proper temperature, then use the internal heating units to hit and maintain the target temperature.
Right. So it looks like they found out they were wrong and then reported that. Joe Rogan, on the other hand, finds out that he's wrong and then screams and yells until he drowns out everyone else.
Decent chance I won’t have to change my setup from PC/PS5/Switch for a good long while. When I last looked, whatever we’re calling the Xbox line now doesn’t have enough exclusives to personally justify any amount of investment in the console given my arrangement and that looks unlikely to change anytime in the near future.
>In summary, "we will hang you" isn't "harm" but justice

Most of the harm coming from drug use is coming from prohibition.

Hanging drug users or drug dealers is not justice, it's a bigger crime than any type of drug deal.

>Additionally, there is a hierarchy of drugs, and in US the biggest problem is hard drugs / opiates. We should focus enforcement and punishment efforts at those, while also not enabling the addiction of users.

And this have absolutely nothing to do with drugs dealers.
This problem was created by the likes of Purdue Pharma. Jailing drug dealers does absolutely nothing to stop Americans from getting hooked on opiates
It changes frequently depending on what I'm doing in my day to day life. Nowadays I'm hanging out at r/selhosted. It's amazing community and I have learned a lot from them.

https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted
Halo on Playstation?? Cross Platform Halo??

It feels like I suddenly have butterflies in my stomach. <3
Would darknet markets count? I understand that it's an illicit product, so traditional VC funding is obviously not going to happen, but it seems to me that cryptocurrency is essential in enabling those platforms.
This looks great, thank you for sharing.
I'm wondering about the Impact column - was that based on any kind of historical data you could gather on conversion, or the intuition you built from experience?
I love blueprints in ue4, but I think I don't like the look of this. It's weird to me that each node seems to be an arbitrary block of code. I've long wished for such a feature in unreal's blueprint visual programming language. However, I wouldn't want it to be the default. That kind of undermines the point of it all.

I would want 99% of nodes to be single function calls.
>[2] https://youtu.be/Gl4gkgL25wE?t=237

oh muh gawd! i've done that very thing myself. i didn't know i could make money doing it.
I'll caution people to take this (and the rest of Reddit) with a huge grain of salt. Subreddits like this one are almost always just creative writing.
Having redundant cable paths to service 30k subscribers is economically feasible.
I used to hang out at the C2.com wiki, the first wiki ever, actually. It was devoted to software engineering. Unlike Reddit, the discussion topics remained "alive" for several years so that we could revisit ideas.

Discussions sometimes turned contentious, but it raised good questions deserving of more formal research, especially in terms of balancing tradeoffs (is getting less of X worth getting more Y?). I had what I call the "practioner's" viewpoint, which conflicted with what I'll call the "academic" viewpoint. We practioners viewed it more from a business expense standpoint while the academics wanted to build what seemed like an overly idealistic model of the domain and/or world. I didn't find such realistic without producing a million clones of Sheldon Cooper, but removing his arrogance so that he could work in teams.

However Ward Cunningham eventually pulled the plug on the wiki (it's read-only now), partly to experiment with a "federated" version of it (which is a failure in my opinion), and because he got tired of cleaning up after a nasty vandal. I think the vandal issue was solvable without shutting the whole thing down, but that's another story.
Seems to be an okay strategy for software…
As always, Hollywood has already shown us the results with The Last Boyscout
I find the journey of Bungie studios the past 2 decades a fascinating and kind of ironic story.

- ~2001, Bungie develops Halo as a title for the launch of Mac gaming.

- MS snipes the IP and make it an Xbox flagship instead.

- Halo evolves as the lead IP of Xbox gaming.

- ~2010, Bungie gains independence from MS, but loses Halo in the divorce.

- Bungie teams up with Activision to stay competitive.

- 2022, MS acquires Activison! Bungie hangs in the balance.

- Bungie narrowly escapes MS clutches and teams up with Sony!

Have to wonder if MS thought they would get Bungie as part of the package.

Regardless, props to them for really forging their own "Destiny" ;)
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
-Sinclair
The answer to deceptive online reviews is Consumer Reports. While the web initially made CR not worthwhile, as time progressed it's once again very valuable. I would never buy any appliances without paying for a subscription first.

I'm doing this myself before I buy a treadmill. I want the most reliable one, not the most tech features, and while my hunch is Sole is the one for me based on their warranty, I'm going to confirm with CR before dropping $1,600 on one.

The problem is that people plug their ears and put blinders on to avoid spending $30 for teardown advice from an outfit like Consumer Reports. Too cheap for their own good.
What has changed? Is there more foreign capital or loss of industry?

Lots of industries has moved since the dawn of time. Generally, lower-paying, lower-margin, lower-skill business moves to places where that can be done more cheaply, and new high-skill, higher-margin businesses form here.

'Creative destruction' is essential to capitalism (and the economy); it reallocates resources from less efficient to more efficient uses. Otherwise, you get stuck in stagnent, less efficient uses.

Foreign capital seems like a great thing to me: It's a larger pool of finance to support Americans. Would it be better of someone needing investment to start a business or build a house had less financing available?

Honestly, it all seems xenophobic: Why are people on the other side of political borders somehow bad to do business with?
And don't overlook the possiblity of some kind of scam being attempted. Get a foot in the door, get fired, sue. Happens all the time with injury claims. Probably less likely since "at will" is the employment law in most places, but it's still safer to terminate without alleging any wrongdoing.

Same reason most former employers will only confirm dates of employment on a reference check. They typically won't comment on performance or reasons for termination, just to avoid any potential backwash.
Yeah, but if you follow the advice FTA, you now have to rely on a usable python version and make. Still fairly common, but what if I use node instead? I think the point is -- the more usability you add the more you potentially dilute how ubiquitous it is. I think it's okay to point to new tools in the space that shake things up and add usability for the purposes Make currently is used for. Ubiquity doesn't happen over night.
Found on Kubelist.com. Great source of K8s related articles/podcasts.
That second video is horrifying. Horn and signal inputs as touch buttons on a steering wheel and no clear gear selection? What absolute madness by Tesla.
Sadly they don't own the Halo IP.
Hot wire that Bish. Isn't this "hacker" news?
They were probably taking advantage of the rush of companies into the US market. It's a common market penetration tactic to offer odds that are wildly favorable to the punters for the first few months.
Variety is good. People can also be allergic to oat.

https://www.healthline.com/health/oat-allergy
UAE to introduce corporate tax rate from 2023
Hopefully someone at Sony really liked Marathon.
Absolutely no issue. I was just wondering how we would possibly approach it. And got my answer! Thanks.
For the case of a football website, you could have blocks which display or edit data which doesn't need to be tied to football specifically, but can be used to build/display the football website, e.g. (I'm just going to say 'display' but assume these can all 'edit' the same data):

- an 'Organization' block that displays an org name, logo, HQ location, etc (for displaying info on teams)

- a 'Table' block that takes any dataset and can allow you to sort, filter, the data in it (for displaying stats)

- an 'EventCalendar' block that takes a list of fixture dates and details, maybe allows you to view it as a list or on a calendar

these blocks wouldn't care that you were using them for football specifically - just that you were providing them data in the structure they can work with. We're not claiming that these generic blocks would do everything you wanted - but they'd get you a lot of the way there.
and no "fork" happening that retained editing?
I have a 2019 CX-3 (dealer's loaner bought in 2020). Prior to the 2021 models, you can use Touch Screen when stopped or parked. 2021+ they disabled touchscreen completely on all models stopped or moving. I really agree with this decision.
What's the point? Even if we were richer why would we waste resources by growing staple crops in greenhouses? It's tough to drive a big tractor or combine harvester through a greenhouse.
it seems more likely the car will park a mile away where space is more abundant, rather than using the roads as a mobile parking space. In some cases it will make sense to build a self-driving specific parking structure that doesn't need to accommodate human traffic, a la the car vending machines you see in NY and Tokyo etc.

And of course there are the romantics who think we'll be able to convince people to give up individual car ownership and therefore do away with parking.
Without ads, we'd have different free content obeying different incentives, but it's hard to say whether that would be better or worse. I've been reading a lot of free online fiction lately, where authors make money by selling early access to chapters on Patreon, and both quality and pay are often competitive with traditional book sales.
Axolotls: The animal that’s everywhere and nowhere
Capitalism means private ownership of the means of production. There are many ways to organize capitalism, but this is its essential feature.

Likewise, there are many ways to organize socialism, where the means of production are owned collectively. Some may more more desirable than others. There have been fewer experiments with socialism than capitalism, and those that have existed have some good features and some bad features.

There are some good features to capitalism, but it has long exhausted its progressive character. For example, its good at producing lots of consumer goods. Its weaknesses are an inexorable drive to imperialism, the subjugation of the working class, and a kind of environmental death drive where it can't stop itself.
EDIT: I've fixed this.

Yeah, sorry about all that, this thing is very early in it's life...

The users.ini file is a simple ini with my list of users. I put that file in place. I put it outside of the root so that you can't read it. I thought I had explained this somewhere, but clearly I haven't. I need to fix this.

My plan with the name is to pull the first line of the text file, remove pounds and things, and use that as the "dynamic" name. I haven't needed to implement that for myself just yet, so it's on the todo list.
Bungie does not have ownership of the Halo IP. When they became independent of Microsoft 15 years ago Microsoft retained the rights
I'm not an expert but that sounds like a lack of calories to me. Vegan food can be very low in calories and you might have to eat more volume.

I'm lacoto-ovo vegetarian and I have to take specifically an iron supplement to keep my levels up. Multivitamins weren't enough. I also have a genetic condition that interferes with iron absorption, so YMMV.

>I'm down to about ~10% meat but I'm just going to accept that I'm sitting in the moral wrong on this until the nutritional alternatives ramp up in options and down in price

Don't sweat it too much, perfect is the enemy of good; everyone can only do their best. I'd ideally be vegan, and I was one for about a year, but right now lacoto-ovo is what works for me... (it's been 20 years since I ate meat.)
My 2012 volvo has a reasonably large LCD that is used for the backup camera, and infotainment etc.

However, I have it set to screen saver mode, and it is completely powered down until I put the car in reverse. It also wakes for certain things like displaying the temperature if I change it with the real knobs.

The Speedometer and Rev counter are physical needles. Newer models have replaced these with a central LCD, which means I will hang onto this one as long as I can.

There is no reason a car can’t have a display and be humane, other than stupid corporate design sensibilities.
Industries cannibalizing themselves through competition is very common.

If pharma was a monopoly, then they wouldn't want to cure cancer. But pharma isn't a monopoly, so the incentive then is to reduce the size of the pie as long as they get to eat the entire pie themselves.
I am definitely not willing to watch over an hour of chatting about dishwashers right now. :) is there somewhere specific he discusses this? I didn’t see a relevant chapter marker on the second video and none were present on the first.

A quick search indicates that most (all?) dishwashers have a heater to bring the water up to the necessary level. But also that you should give them the hottest water you can from your plumbing for efficiency.
The Frontier just got a completely new remake.
Back in the late 60s/70s, when I was in university, I knew a bunch of IBMers (those were the days when your System/360-67 came with a flock of IBM staff). The standard for onboarding was that during the first 6 months, a new hire was flown here and there for courses. The goal was to make them feel valued as an IBMer, so that they'd want to stay forever.
I regrettably still frequent a certain infamous image board which has been often described as the "cesspool of the Internet." The noise to signal ratio is shockingly high, the risk of brainwashing and indoctrination is ever present. One must always be on guard, but I'm in love with the Wild West feeling. Anything goes, and it feels like going a Indiana Jones treasure hunt for fresh and original content. It's also given me a thick skin in online discussions. I've been called every insult in the dictionary.

It's an antidote for the curated, ad profile targeted, walled garden web we've slowly constructed around ourselves. They have a saying: "don't forget, you're here forever." 16 years later ...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30151580
Why would the FDA need OWS to help them? How do you know OWS helped, and didn't hinder or wasn't completely irrelevant?
Doubt it, but it will definitely centralise. Microsoft, Sony, Tencent, Take-Two...
I read the page and the docs but I still have one main question: What problem is getting solved with this? I feel like I'm missing something.
If you interview at enough companies you can find one that allows a Gattaca to slip through. Of the subset of companies that allows that some companies let people float without doing any real work for a long time. The longer they coast the more likely they can find a corner to hide in. There is no penalty for them to try this approach. Even if you caught them in a lie the effort to make them pay for their actions means they likely will never be responsible.

One company I worked with checked government issued ids at every stage of the interview process. I'm sure people will find a way around this. This also opens your company to discrimination lawsuits, "everything was going fine in the interview until I turned on the camera, then they didn't hire me."
Some script has to pay attention to whether you watch it so presumably there will always be a browser state that knows whether an ad is being watched.
Let’s hope this goes better for Bungie than when Microsoft owned them. It’s kind of funny that they’d get out from under the thumb of one corporate overlord only to find a new corporate overlord 15 years later.

I guess that points to how unbelievably hard it is for independent game developers to survive, and it makes me kind of sad. If it can happen to Bungie or Blizzard, it can happen to any game developer.

Gamers are notoriously hard to part with their money, even though games can deliver an incredible amount of value for each dollar compared to other types of entertainment.

I’ve put hundreds of hours into certain games that I’ve paid $60 or less for, whereas renting or going to a movie provides only a couple hours of entertainment for something like $5-$20.
100% agree, I hate smart cars, touchscreens, beeping all the time for inscrutable reasons and taking over the steering wheel when you cross a line on the highway without using the indicators.

As soon as I can afford it, I'm getting one of these. Electric and no-nonsense:

https://bollingermotors.com

EDIT: Oh no, they are changing directions and will focus on trucks instead!
Yup, especially in games like basketball where no draws are allowed
>That you know of. How does anyone know?

How many of those skied shots, sliced shots, etc were bad skill or skillfully done to ensure the line was what was needed/required?

It's a pandora's box to start looking at everything a professional athlete/ref/manager does through that lens. It's even worse if you've never done it yourself to see how easy it is to do the wrong thing that causes one to look amateurish.
Do large text groups count on this one? Some friends and I have one that's been going for years, and at times I wonder about this. We drop in and out of MMO's, and some of us have dropped off of most "social media" for one reason or another. But the text thread remains.

I used to be on specific Reddit threads, but the toxicity started to leak into even them, so I started to go into them less and less, until one day I stopped; when I realized I didn't like how I felt when I went on.

HackerNews is about the last one I have.
Not to mention it's all deployed with Terraform now. You can stand up and configure thousands of servers without the command line
This is what the large Indian IT-outsourcing companies do at scale.

When they need to win the contract, they bring in bright and very qualified people to win the client-org over.

After the contract is won and the work begins, they replace them with completely unqualified staff, managed/whipped by moustache-wielding blue-shirts to read from support-scripts.