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Why would users need to re-purchase everything just to adopt a different store launcher as their primary platform? GOG Galaxy for instance interfaces with most existing stores and friend networks. As long as you're buying games on PC, you're not really locked into much of anything.

That said, buying certain games can lock you into using Windows. So there's that. But it's far better than buying games on modern consoles, which force you to use some special-snowflake hardware just to access the game you bought.

It's impossible to completely prevent all classes of lock-in, but it can be minimized. I would argue that my personal lock-in is minimized, across the axes I care about, by buying everything from Steam and GOG. No hard Windows dependency, no silly hardware dependency, and I'll almost certainly still have access to my games in 40 years.
Any exception thrown in response to a bug is a fundamental design failure.

At the point where it is evident the program has a bug, there is nothing known, anymore, about the state of the program. It means that data structures defining the state are inconsistent to a wholly unknown degree, and any further computation depending on or,worse, altering that state can do no better than compound the failure.

I always delete code I find that tries to recover from a bug. It is impossible to recover from a bug; the best that can be done is to bail out as fast as possible.
This is fine for when you are a little down. It’s important though to honor real sadness vs trying to cover it up / distract.
Yep! Embedding the tape head and the current state on the tape would make this more than just PSPACE-complete. I believe that in this case, regular expressions would not even be necessary: the Turing machine could be simulated with JUST find and replace.
It's understandable that the children who had the vision for Lego Town felt that their "grand" concept to make something large and enduring took precedence over the other kids just playing around with Lego.

All the adults had to do is get more Lego pieces so it didn't have to become a resource issue.

I'm thinking, what else are these adults going to be up to next? Have three picture books in the class, and when seventeen kids fight over them, take away picture books? And villify the ones who were seriously trying to learn to read for daring to think they should have preferred access to the books?
Business oriented publications work well for news because their biases tend to be of the “how can you make more money variety” as opposed to something catering to their reader/viewer’s cognitive biases (their readers want to make money, not fool themselves). Fooling yourself isn’t profitable, so why bother watching ideological conservative foxnews when time spent reading the conservative biz newspaper WSJ is much more productive?
You can heat it with solar, wind and democracy.
In addition to everything else already discussed — the game is really well done, the sharing feature is inspired, the animations are delightful, etc — the thing about Wordle that makes it so universally popular is that it’s a very easy game that is experientially difficult. You have 6 guesses of 5 letters. There are only 26 letters in the English alphabet. Anyone in the top few deciles of verbal ability should hardly ever lose (if ever, really; I’ve played about 50 times and never “lost”). People further down in verbal ability will still win quite often.

And yet…it actually does engage your brain quite a bit! Despite being ultimately very easy, which people find rewarding, the experience feels challenging.

This is an odd combo. I’m having trouble thinking of any other games with this property. It’s more like a word search than a crossword puzzle. It takes work to complete a word search, but everybody has the tools to do it.
Yah, well. Now that you are saying it, and seeing the frame from that movie, I probably have seen it sometimes. But it didn't stick. CW McCall didn't ring any bells for me. Convoy is just a saying for many vehicles riding together, almost bumper to bumper. It's done for marriage from some ethnic groups. Or after a soccer game. But it's also said for just two vehicles driving together, at least around here. Sedans and SUVs, no Trucks(Semis?) necessary. (Shrug)

And no, feelings are disallowed because 'Resistance is futile!' & 'Prepare to be disassmbled for scanning and upload into the Protomolecule' ;->

(Do these ring any of your bells?)
I've implemented a 'limit' query parameter you can optionally supply to control how much content is returned back from search source.

Example: https://brutalist.report/?limit=10 or https://brutalist.report/topic/business?limit=10
Thanks a lot!! I am currently working on my dissertation, while developing this system, and kicking a ball while setting up the dissertation study kind of seemed interesting to me personally but I agree that it's not something interesting for others... Next time I'll at least find a cat!!
I changed my job twice and my comp increase was 400%.
Switching jobs means more money means I get to stop doing jobs sooner
That's less than 5% compounded annually. I'm not sure if your underlying message was agreeing with OP or not, but 278% over 24 years is atrocious compared to how insane the market has been this last decade. Hell, inflation alone has been 73% between 1998 and now.
It is still far too early to say.
I'm using OpenSnitch for over 2 years now on my desktop systems. Can fully recommend.

I've set the default timeout to 30 seconds so I have time to decide/chime in, and the default action to one-time deny so it doesn't mess up my rules when I'm not at the computer.

Compared to previous Linux firewalls it's able to filter by binary and command line path (e.g. is able to differ between python server.py and python malware.py), which I think is pretty amazing.

Though I have to say due to the nature of wine, allowing things in nice rules there is a little harder (cause everything uses rundll32.dll anyways :-/ ).
How does Allsides.com handle topics that is only covered by one segment of the political spectrum? To me this is where much of the bias lies.
It took until the last paragraph for him to mention that he’s talking about staying in a fulfilling job that moves fast, not a comfy job where you’ve stopped growing.

The title isn’t even really his argument, but most people are upvoting and discussing the title.
> Use a Bloom filter to speed up large analytic queries.

I'd love to know more about this one! Examples of queries it can speed up would be fascinating.
Traefik has been my go-to reverse proxy for quite a while now. The main advantages is its docker/k8s and native ACME support. You can configure services, config, routes, etc. via docker labels. When running under compose, this makes it very clean and convenient to maintain config. It also has plenty of useful middlewares and has a prometheus exporter for its internal stats.
What is it specifically, though, that saves 100 by killing 12? If you can justify killing 12 people by putting a bigger hypothetical number next to it, why 100? Why not 100 million?

There are certainly more than 100 million people who did not die since Autopilot came out. Neither you or I can prove it didn't save 100 million people. Therefore if it were to kill 12 million people, that's a net 88 million fewer deaths. What is wrong with that logic?

I need to be educated on where the linkage between lives cost and lives saved is.
Oh I wish they use this opportunity to stat how USB-C came to be, just to set the record straight so we dont repeat the Gruber lies.
> I am not sure how you can stay at a company for more than 24 months (maybe 48 for FAANGMULA) without there becoming an enormous gap between your compensation and market compensation

There are 2 types of companies:

One type will frequently re-evaluate compensation and prioritize employee retention. Compensation follows or exceeds market rate.

The other type will lock in compensation at hire time and try to skate by on 3% raises, or moderate raises at periodic promotions. Employee churn is high.

The latter type of company tends to be smaller shops run by older generations of managers who grew up in different times. They also tend to be unpleasant places to work for numerous reasons. But it's not really the norm in any modern tech company that knows what they're doing.
Quick curiosity question. Why do you find The Economist’s coverage of Africa and the Middle East leaps and bounds better than others?

Here’s why I’m asking. I find The Economist’s coverage of the US a 7/10 and Turkey a 3/10. Having lived in both for roughly the same time, The Economist’s coverage of the US feels vastly superior to that of Turkey.

Yet, when I talk to my friends here, they say they read it for the international coverage. That always came to me as curious.
Ask HN: Immutable Record for Job Referrals?
Have you ever recommended a friend or colleague for a role or hired off of an outside referral? Is all the value in social proof and how well you know the referrer, or would you take a recommendation from an anon account that had verified referrals to other top companies? What is missing to turn the hive mind into the best recruiter?
"imagine the opposite political party in power using this against you"

But that's just it, isn't it? We've stopped caring about improving the fairness and consistency of the process. We only care about the outcome of the most immediate issue today.

It's a lot easier to get people to agree on a fair process for choosing an outcome than to agree on a fair outcome. If you agree to a fair process and it results in an outcome you don't like, well, that's how it goes sometimes and maybe the next time it goes in your favor.

But people are too wound up and partisan right now. Even acknowledging that an unfavorable outcome was generated by correctly applying a process is enough to get you expelled from your tribe.
That just scratches the surface! The other crazy thing about news websites is how much invasive garbage they inject into their content: ads, everything is “BREAKING!”, subscribe for alerts, etc.

I basically wrote a manifesto about it at https://legiblenews.com/about and built a news website that strips away all the insanity and link to source material and Wikipedia articles.

It’s absolutely insane that it came to that, but it did.

I'm currently working on a weekly news digest that people can view on the web or get emailed to them so they can skim the news even less. If there's something you'd like to get out of the news that's not insane please open an issue at https://github.com/legiblenews/community/issues.
Edited to indicate I was hired at a salary above my experience. Took me 5 years to grow into being Senior when I was really a Junior. But was still payed as a Senior the whole time. I do make well above market for my years in my geographic region.
This mechanic you describe is actually quite common in freemium games. Games like Farmville don’t let you burn yourself out and purposely make you wait and come back hours or days later to get that dope rush.
> Small teams hurt when you keep loosing staff and training is not cheap.

How come companies don't price that in accordingly then?
Bittorrent clients for windows and mac are generally malware infested pits of adware. Wherever i try to be virtuous and use one, i have to clean whatever i installed. I am sure i am not the only one.

Why not build your own install using the bittorrent libraries? The security model is more complicated, for one. If i was an architect and proposed that, i would have to understand the attack vectors and present why they are than the well known solution. And taking control of the software update channel is a massive risk.

Second, i have less control of the user experience. With http, i can pay for the right amount of bandwidth, or time on a cdn. If i implement bittorrent, i still have to have buy capacity, i just have a more complicated model for how much to buy.

Suggested updates can be spread over time - and need to be, for canary purposes. I think Android often pushes an app update over 4 or 5 days, by default? Steady state infra capacity, or even better, low priority which and be interrupted, is cheap.

Given the complexity and business risk (people can't download our software! Our binary got hijacked! Two code paths to test?) And the inexpensive nature of mirrors, and the competence of cdns, there are rarely causes where it would make sense.
In the meantime you can use this to get a more modern SQLite in Python without having to replace SQLite yourself: https://github.com/coleifer/pysqlite3

On Linux you can use "pip install pysqlite3-binary" to get a compiled built version of it.
Thanks. I just wanted to have you on record stating your naked bigotry for all to see. It's nice to know that if slavery were still legal today you'd be all in favor of that because black people wouldn't be a protected class.
My favorite Saturday night activity when I was living in Lausanne was to go to McDonalds with that week’s economist and just read it over a prolonged dinner. With was 2006, and both the magazine and meal cost me 10 CHF each! The Economist’s BigMac index was pretty accurate and, at the time, very ironic to me.
There are still some environments where security/safety does not matter much and modern alternatives don't target. Like firmware for a RC project, or a non networked or sandboxed platform game where tooling for other languages is missing (like consoles). If you already know C++ and risks down the road very well.
Of late (~1 year) I've migrated to AWS ALB from Nginx and recommend it if you are on AWS ecosystem.

Being a Layer-7 load balancer, ALB is (almost) feature compatible with Nginx. You can do route based, header based load balancing, terminate SSL and so on.

For an internet facing app my preferred setup now a days is [CloudFront → ALB → application].
Yeah, I'm feeling the same. I was considering ordering one last fall, when I think it would have been reasonable to get an 11th-gen, but I couldn't justify a new laptop purchase then. Now I'd probably wait for a 12th-gen mainboard before ordering.

I'm also still not sure how I feel about the 3:2 screen. I've gotten so used to 16:9 & 16:10 that I think it'd be hard to go back to something similar to a 4:3 screen again.
Discarding them outright is a bit excessive, but it's actually very common for managers to de-prioritize resumes with excessive job hopping. Either that, or to craft back-loaded compensation packages that encourage longer tenures.

A few short jobs is not a problem, but when someone has a resume full of 12-month jobs and constant churn it's not a good sign. If you do have to hire a job hopper, you have to be careful to not put them on critical tasks or anything long-term because it's not like they're going to suddenly decide to stay at your company for 4 years when they couldn't do it anywhere else. It's not a mystery.
Right, the shadowed region does make the scene look less realistic, since there is no such thing in the real world. While the lazy part of me says it's okay to leave it this way, 3D inpainting is definitely something I should look into.
Demonetisation exists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonetis...
It still blows my mind how antagonistic HN is to cryptocurrency, particularly Bitcoin.
Pay with a cashier check or money order.
This is kind of fun. Wish I understood it better though. Seems a bit unintuitive when geoguesser works better probably because the proximity is truer.
Mid-200k is not anywhere close to near the top. That's a low L4 package at mid-sized companies like Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Stripe, etc.
I will successfully solve this one day.
I've been using nginx for years because "everyone knows" (is it even true anymore?) that it's more performant than apache, and I use a single dedicated server that is rather low-end, because the applications hosted on it are personal/hobby in nature and I don't need AWS/Azure/GCP scalability.

How does caddy compare, performance-wise, to apache and nginx?
Yes, it's very limited. Personally, I backed for two reasons:

1. It will add a nice open-source reference design for a (small) FPGA that is compatible with the open-source SkyWater PDK. I am sure someone will take it and improve upon.

2. I am curious to try building a small batch of my own chips on this process (for a hobby project), but while I am somewhat comfortable with designing digital logic, I am less confident in my ability to take a chip and be able to communicate with it. By paying ~$80, I will be getting half of the experience (which would cost ~$10k otherwise)
I love the mythical status liberals have elevated FedSoc to in their minds. FedSoc has about $20 million in revenue. SPLC alone had $130 million. The ACLU had $300 million. We’re outgunned 20:1 in numbers and in financing compared to liberal causes. 90% of people at any major law firm are significantly to the left of your average American, and lawyers are active donors.
I follow Ezra Klein's NYT column:
https://www.nytimes.com/column/ezra-klein
That's already the case with most countries and exchanges. A lot of monero trading happens on p2p exchanges which don't tie themselves to any country.
Is there a particularly good book on the history of math/analysis that would be worth reading? I assume it would overlap with these types of computation a lot.
GraphQL data wrangler Hasura bags $100m investment
If it was an authoritarian's dream, powerful countries around the world would be embracing it. But it's not, because they can't control it, only surveil it to the same extent that any other person can. They have a slight advantage because they can compel exchanges to collect personally identifying information about their customers and divulge it upon request, but other than that they have no privileged position like they do with the Fiat banking system.
I think the value-added of journalism to society has changed drastically since the Internet. If I'm interested in a topic or issue I can find writing by people who actually practice it, and I can find the primary sources if at all possible.

In particular, I question the need for giant journalistic institutions like the New York Times or Fox News or any other. If anything happens anywhere I tune to the local news first, because I'd rather read that then the NYT copy/pasta from that, along with some quote from some friend-of-a-former-professor expert.

That said, the news fills a valuable function even if you don't read it. When Alzheimer's gets cured, I will likely learn about it from a headline.

I am torn on this issue, partially because I don't want to let my past deeply unhealthy relationship with reading about current events affect how I view it vis a vie society.
This is so cool! I’ve been playing around for a while now with different objects and types of lighting. Now I’m getting this error when I try to post:
{"timestamp":"2022-02-23T05:57:19.930+00:00","status":500,"error":"Internal Server Error","path":"/record"}
Could it be that macOS reports GPU memory as main memory on M1? It would have been useful to look at the GPU memory usage on the Intel test.

I don't know much about the M1 graphic stack, but I remember being able to malloc a buffer in the userspace and passing to a Metal kernel as a texture not so long after Metal was announced.

I imagine that on the M1, the driver asks for a chunk of the main memory to the kernel, whereas on Intel the driver asks the GPU to allocate a chunk from the GPU memory.
This case like many others isn't about private individuals - it's about a business (even a business of one) - whereby someone receives all manner of structure supported by the institutions around them in return for abiding by the laws that bind such entities.

Declaring oneself a business comes with protections for the individual in exchange for agreeing to serve society at large. Refusing to do so is failing to uphold the obligations one agreed to.
Everyday.

I held out as long as possible until my Touch ID phone died. I envy my Touch ID iPad every time I use it. Plus Face ID is slow. With Touch ID, I instinctively pick up my phone by touching the home button so it is unlocked and ready to use immediately. With Face ID, the delay is unavoidable. So many missed photos…
Curious, what's the best way to self-education to become good at econometrics?
My guess would be that the first prototype that they made was too buggy to publish. The promise is that they will share the final design, and I am fine with that.

(I am not affiliated with the project, but backed it)
What lockouts? Nobody can prevent you from transferring your bitcoin.
To extend your use of "compelling," in my opinion, the end goal of these arguments is to give the State the power to force you to perform work (State-sanctioned slavery) regardless of your personal beliefs. The specifics of who is demanding the work be done and who is doing the work are honestly irrelevant.
Personal autonomy is THE fundamental freedom. Deciding what is done to your body is what separates the free from the enslaved.
Staying at the same company for a long time usually makes you more valuable to that company without making you more valuable to other companies (sometimes making you less valuable if all you've ever used is the custom toolset at that one company instead of more popular tools)
Lightning on top of Bitcoin fulfills that retirement.
Looks like this has been put together by Efabless themselves. I dont think the rtl would be too different from OpenFPGA(https://github.com/lnis-uofu/OpenFPGA) married to the caravel f/w.
Refusing cash is not the same as being able to not use a card.

The shop refusing cash is not accepting legal tender for all debts public and private.

I raised that issue and my local shop does now take cash.
I like the name construction physics. There's a lot of value to be unlocked throughout the whole construction process by figuring out where the inefficiencies are particularly in financing IMO.

There's this company called Shepherd or something like that that does build insurance and it's a fantastic example of how to make something meaningful.
The industry does not properly reward long tenure. If the person stays curious and hungry then the accumulated knowledge and experience they hold is worth a tremendous amount. Smart companies will start appreciating and compensating for this in the future.
It's interesting how similar most of this is to more modern advice. The main differences seem to regard humane treatment of your servants, and of women upon whom you've brought public disgrace for 'wanton behavior' -- neither of which are all that relevant today.
More or less, yes. The different keyboard layouts is not that difficult to do. A different wifi chipset is trivial; customers can source their own from wherever they want. CPUs are a bit different, as Intel and AMD will require completely different mainboard designs. It's doable, certainly, but requires quite a bit of engineering effort, especially if you want to be able to place components and connectors (etc.) in the same places on the different boards, which is necessary for something like the Framework laptop, where they'd want to be able to allow you to put either mainboard in the same chassis.

Speaking of chassis, that makes offering different screen aspect ratios really hard, as you'll usually have a different sized/shaped chassis for a different aspect ratio. That might mean a different mainboard layout, different keyboard, different touchpad, and different battery, at least. That would vastly complicate Framework's offering, something I'm sure they're in no position to do as such a young company.
Writing a lot of rust recently and having support for enum destructuring (Result<T> Option<T>) really makes this a moot point. Will be nice to see similar features land elsewhere.