skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This economic model for games is kind of required at this point, but the author is hitting on something true about the industry: it's not as good as it used to be.

The golden age of gaming ended somewhere in 2005-ish, and now the vast majority of games are derivative and often worse than the originals in terms of gameplay. They sell because people like new content. They are also less about the art, and more about the money. That may have always been the case in some sense, but I know that studios used to be very proud of their achievements and had ambitious visions for their IP.

As far as I'm concerned, the gaming "industry" is basically dead. The few exceptions are games like Dank Souls and Path of Exile, which bring something new to their respective genres. I know Dark Souls is technically a sequel, but that's the version of the game that first went mainstream, and is considered the corner-stone of the franchise. The point is, those are the kinds of games that actually matter to me, everything else is content.

Rocket League is one of the "real" games, and yeah the micro-transactions are annoying but it works well for that specific game. I'm not sure how to improve the monetization to make it feel more fair to consumers, and the developers need money, so what's the alternative? Keep cranking out crappy sequels?
PS. I think I can see how to send unbounded data rates through a narrow bandwidth, assuming perfect conditions with no noise. If you want to transfer N bits per second, for half a second transmit plain carrier, then for half a second transmit carrier multiplied by x/2^N DC, where x is the sequence of bits to be transferred in that second. Then repeat the process. The receiver can establish the max reading when pure carrier is being transmitted, and do a readout when the multiplied carrier is transmitted.
Yes. Within the limits of what a press can do, these are the oppositional press, who probably knew it was doomed but wanted the second order effect of "we can't tell you" -In the past, people have gone to publish with blacked out stories to make a point: we tried. Your government would not let us tell you.
Imo, Foundation has so far been well done and produced and I enjoyed it. Their version of the books just isn't that representative of the source material it was based of off
I don't know their product well enough, but do they not have a website? Or the need for a single persistent server? How does one run an entire non-trivial application just on Lambdas?
"to become who they are and want to to become no matter what that is"

That sounds like a circular definition.
ApolloDungeon Demo alpha version 0.1
Databend 0.7 Release
Cloud Data Warehouse with the Elasticity and Performance both on Object Storage
I think perfect is the enemy of good regarding ETA. This Ninja PR comes pretty close to the best possible solution I can think of: https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/pull/1963
This is absurd. So you also don't use any software products which are a) free to use or b) habe a free tier?
I enter bwrap namespaces with classic nsenter (bwrap has no option), doesn't this work for you?
Dear Software Developer
Dear Software developer,

in the context of my PhD I am conducting a study with the working title [redacted].

It aims to make the agility of a software project measurable. The instrument has already been developed but I need about 500 participants to test its validity and it's really challenging.

I would be very grateful if you would support me by participating in my study.

Here is the link: https://ww2.unipark.de/uc/PhD/1d1a/

The questionnaire is a bit long, but it is important to go till the end. Please contribute those 15-20min towards science.

Thank you very much!
Kind regards.
Just run Sid. My daily driver has been Sid for the last three years, with no major hiccups. Nvidia driver updates have worked surprisingly well. Only difference from Ubuntu has been minor edits needed by shell scripts for specific software installs.

Something that surprised me was that Debian Sid + GUI still benchmarked (pts, geekbench, cinebench) higher than Arch running CLI-only.

Give it a try, if only just for grins.
I don't know, it depends on what your goal is. If you want to emulate human driving, then pure vision is a viable way to go. After all, humans drive also using pure vision.

But your car has to drive a lot more cautious than with more sensors, like lidar. Can't be 100% sure this white blob is not a truck? Then you have to slow down. With lidar, you can be a bit more robust, but you still need vision to identify objects.

And if your goal is to build a non-human driver, that is one that drives "perfectly" and pushes the speed envelope perfectly, then I think lidar is also only a stop-gap solution. What you'd want is active components in the street and in other cars. In other words, a virtual rail. In that case, you can accelerate and brake as aggressively as the humans inside would tolerate. You could accelerate together with the car in front of you in traffic jams, etc.
Do many. Familiarity breeds contempt. Much though I hate this, some skills are about learning to expect and learning to cope.
What I don't understand is if these fancy watches are so premium why don't they have longer warranty. I was gifted a fancy omega, didn't wear it much and in 3 years the motor died, cost of repair: 40% of the new price. 1.5 years later its dead again.
> Can you imagine if other art mediums where this ridiculous? Like you are watching Avengers End game in Netflix and they ask you if you wanna pay 5 dollars more to watch Captain America use his well known outfit instead of regular clothes? Or you are reading a cooking e-book that asks you for one dollar for each desert decoration recipe you want to unlock?

Don't give managers bad ideas.
With the entire base userland, X, Firefox, Gnome etc? Impressive.
This is just a self-inflicted bubble problem. There are now so many interesting games without any dark patterns on Steam alone that one can spend an entire lifetime playing awesome games without ever encountering a single loot box, just step a bit outside the AAA and mobile bubbles.
News orgs reported claims by the US that Iraq had nuclear ambitions. No news org claimed to have “independently verified” it.
The last sentence is an eyebrow raiser
We found Mark Manson‘s account
>Did you miss that this is oriented around serverless? It doesn’t mean their application is tiny, it just means they can scale down a long way. Which, given that they are using serverless, is unsurprising.

DynamoDB and Amazon Aurora are serverless storage solutions but you still pay for the data you store. It is highly surprising their total production storage cost is less than ~$21. For reference, a few terabytes of data in DynamoDB costs thousands a month.
I find mindfulness to be an incredibly useful tool for dealing with thoughts of anxiety. When a thought pops in your head about how you're going to screw up or you're unqualified for the job or whatever, just label that thought. "This is a thought of anxiety." Don't engage with it and go down that wormhole; just label the thought. This is easier said than done, and takes practice, but as soon as you realize you're in the anxious thought spiral, label it and focus on being present again.

Dr. Jon Kabat Zinn, who is the head of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the UMass Medical School, wrote a wonderful and simple book about this called "Wherever You Go, there you are."
Would there be a growing job market for people who master the Fuschia ecosystem now?

Or is it basically just for Google employees working on Google devices?
I believe most common is to use VPS managed by some third party service like Laravel Forge, Ploi.io, Moss.sh, Serverpilot... It gives you more control and isolation but it's still pretty much like shared host experience and not much more expensive.
When the first trailers for Foundation came out I decided to re-read the books, I liked them as a kid. So I did. I re-read all of Foundation and Robots of the Dawn.

AppleTV+'s take on Foundation is the best thing that could possibly happen to the books.

Asimov was a bad writer, and the product of his era. His ideas about Seldon crises were rather good, but everything around was just bad. People don't have dialogs, they proselytise and have monologues at each other. Women are non-existent, or serve as furniture (except maybe two characters in both series combined). There's a huge disconnect between what technology is imagined to do (FTL, detailed holographic maps of the Galaxy) and how it's used (calculations done with pen-and-paper, newspapers and communications printed out even on FTL ships). And so on.

Foundation series took the premise and ran away with it. And good for them.
I think it’s mostly for everyone else. I’m very successfully using a password manager. I’ve tried to talk nearly everyone I know into using one as well, and it’s really painful for them. Even for people I can help daily, their setup somehow gets complicated enough that they go back to using their default 5 letter password for new things until I fix it.

A password manager can be an extra 10 seconds of work up front in some edge cases — input not detected correctly, signing up in an app, trying to quickly get through a flow when your password manager is logged out… People just revert back to the easiest path, which is their 5 letter password they’ve already used on a billion services.

Oh, and another rough edge case is when the autogenerated password doesn’t match the password requirements. Using a disallowed symbol, too long, etc
I listed specific weaknesses in the paper you haven't addressed, so if there's anybody here arguing in bad faith: look in the mirror.

Additionally, note that it's trivial to google something like "lockdown effectiveness" in a private-mode window to escape your bubbel; and you'll see there are tons of papers arguing either case. Beyond it's technically poor analysis, it's also not representative of expert consensus; nor is the author an expert in the field, nor does he honestly portray expert opinion.
I haven't had any major issue with Firefox's UI lately, as long as they can let me show the menu bar.

However, the scrollbars since v98 are a big issue, they no longer follow the system UI (I'm using KDE Plasma on Fedora) and sometimes they take the same color as the web page background, making them invisible. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an alternative other than the n-th Chromium-based browser.
> Code as CAD as an idea I believe is flawed. It doesn’t solve any of the hard problems of mechanical design. Designing physical objects requires good visualisations and iterative feedback. I.e changing this dimension solves this interference in a complex assembly. Besides, most mechanical engineering are not proficient coders.

I mean I hate code cad but it is obviously useful to some people, specifically people with coding experience and no CAD experience that want to make a basic object to print on their 3D printer.

A program does not have to “solve the hard problems of mechanical” design to be useful to someone. TinkerCAD probably doesn’t solve those hard problems but is obviously useful to beginners.
Haha you know what, I've worked on tech stacks like you described. They were terrible, and all the original developers left the dumpster fire. But when reading the code, sometimes I would just smile, I could tell they had a damn good time writing the code. And yeah, it costed us a year to fix, but still, I would just chuckle when reading their abstractions. Sometimes, its just fun :)
The article is a nice blurb for that author's book I, Mona Lisa
Yeonmi Park claimed that it takes months to go from one place to another, and that they'd have to push trains (!!)

https://youtu.be/KK6psAnynUA

(edit: another old article that points out inconsistencies in Yeonmi Park statements: https://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-p... ... The JRE interview wasn't a fluke)

I don't think that you can reasonably treat Yeonmi Park as a reliable witness.

North Korea's train network is 4700km long, though it is not perfect... If you want to travel from Pyongyang to Chongjin for example, you're better off flying there

https://youtu.be/GpxOsJYobeA
I found Jellyfin to be a great media server. Its client is so nice and works on Roku. Not sure about LG TVs. It's libre and .NET so it runs anywhere – including my Mac server :)
Offhand, from memory of 4+ Y ago...

Vertical tabs.

Flat bookmarks.

Unified sidebar.

DownThemAll + DTA Anti-Container.

Status4ever.

Downloads Tab.

BugMeNot.

AutoPagerizer.

Readability.

All stuff that tweaks the browser UI. WebExtensions mostly can't do that: they're trivial little things.
Not to mention, Marx was fascinated with capitalism and credits much to capitalism. He was a student of Ricardo and Smith. He respected both men deeply. In fact, a lot of Marx's work is an extension of Smith's own ideas and the use of Smith's own language and phrases. It is just, Marx comes to a conclusion that Capitalism has it's limits as a liberating force and thus develops his own ideas of socialism to take the reigns from Capitalism and continue the march of progress. In the critiques Marx has of Capitalism, they are even shared with Smith or deeply influenced by Smith's own struggles with issues that can become present in Capitalism.

We see a lot of Marx's basic ideals parroted by people without people realizing it. My favorite is Tucker Carlson listeners who spit on Marx. The idea of an elite with money/resource control controlling politics is literally straight out of Marx's writings and is a talking point Tucker Carlson likes to use.
We should also add that

Ha-Joon Chang - Economics: The User's Guide

is a very, very good primer.
I'm more like a TAG Heuer guy, so. Partially because I could never justify Omega's prices for myself. I do love mechanical watches, once I had a chat with specialized limited-edition mechanical watches dealer. Man, did he have nice ones. He also appreciated those non-limited edition ones being worn everyday.

I would never ever buy a new Rolex. Maybe a really old one, an antique, but not a new one. To cite the famous actor Nicolas Cage from the master piece movie Gone in 60 Seconds: "I saw three of the at McDonalds yesterday. And that tells me that there are too many people with too much money and not enough taste in this town". Rolex, to me, is like a golden Bentley, only their to show even the poorest dude that you are rich. Money doesn't buy taste or style so. Some Rolex are nice, most seem to be bought by people only to show of wealth.

Not to judge so, because there are certainly enthusiasts out there that own the Rolex of there dreams.
The article literally states that Bitcoin isn't a currency - where is the shadow?
Not to mention that the defaults for PHP-FPM for example have maximum post body sizes and low enough memory limits that your not going to get even close to having a 4gb request.
If pre-covid index is 100, the current price is 250, which can be expressed as either 250% of the previous price or a 150% increase in price (up by 150%). English is hard.
interesting that i've never heard of it, isn't this basically AWS Fargate? write your custom stuff in docker/kubernetes and it becomes serverless?

Do you mean that you could write a regular Flask/PHP app and it will automatically make it serverless? What about long running tasks that gets triggered by http?

To answer your question, its just a lot easier to use a serverless framework to fully utilize separate AWS services (authentication, message streaming, database) while with the solution you described would benefit from custom platform depenedent binary applications (getting ffmpeg/specialized version of PIL to work on aws lambda was a nightmare).

Hopefully somebody else can chip in here, I've never used Fargate or Cloud run but neverthless open to when i can use it.
Yeah, I mentioned it because I see peers doing different things to be productive during compilation times while newcomers will stare at compiler output. Some will jump to writing documentation, take care of issue management, work on some other ticket entirely, etc.
Often, content also does end up in the base game after some time. It happened with Utopia for Stellaris, most of what it initially offered is now included in the base game.

And people who can’t or don’t want to pay still get some benefit as part of the features are always public and not DLC-only.
> I could reasonably see a version of this that uses a primary key and secondary key the secondary key would have two forms, one a plain form you place in a vault or intrust to a third party and a form that can be generated with an OTP code.

Not exactly multisig, but Signal demonstrated how they achieve a similar feat: Tech preview for secure value recovery, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21838413 (2019)

Then there is also OPAQUE, which was demoed by Cloudflare Research a while back: Passwords that never leave your device, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25346632 (2020)

> A major issue in the crypto world is people giving away their seed phrases. We could make this impossible by requiring a password + AES encrypted exports of the key.

WebAuthn solves this by tightly integrating with the Browser and (TLS) hostnames. SQRL is another take on this, in particular, its key revocation ceremony is rather, err, novel: https://www.grc.com/sqrl/idlock.htm

Keybase meanwhile implemented KEX to help facilitate authenticated key exchanges: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28064172

A note: Public-key cryptography is super hard that it is baffaling folks consider it better (security-wise and ux-wise) than passwords; unless of course you've got the expertise of IETF CFRG or Signal or Apple: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5493442
https://liquipedia.net/starcraft/Patches

Yep, nothing to see here, no regular, ongoing support to a 20 year old game of the non-subscription variety at all. Warcraft 3 (from 2003) was similarly updated well into 2019.

Now, most regular games only get 2 or 3 years of attention.

> Along come NFTs, with potential permanent ownership... but gamers despise that idea, too.

Oh no, how dare we despise things that anyone can see will not work as advertised.
Children are going through the entire evolution of a society in the course of a few short years, when they're young and don't have a lot of perspective yet. They've always been jerks to each other. Fortnite didn't start that, and it's extremely unlikely that it has had any effect on it at all.

If not that, they'd bully each other about something else. When I was growing up, us kids who played Battletech and had a Nintendo were cool, and the Robotech kids with their Segas were the jerks (of course they'd say the opposite). Kids who weren't into games would pick on each other over other stuff, like having a generic notebook instead of a Trapper Keeper with a cool design.

The idea that Fortnite is pressuring kids to be mean to each other is just as overblown as all the other "think of the children!" claims. From "Rock n Roll is the devil's music!" to the Satanic Panic over Dungeons and Dragons and beyond. People will always claim that something is making the kids bad, but no, that's just how kids are. Old people have just forgotten what kids are like.

You can also find plenty of anecdotes of kids helping each other out in team mode, or building creative mode areas in games where they can cooperate and have fun, giving an escape and some camaraderie to other kids who don't normally have that in their lives.
Indeed there have been CVEs this year where code in a user namespace was able to trigger them where a standard unprivileged process could not (e.g. CVE-2022-0185)
This is fine. Only read what seems interesting. But... should you be voting based on what you think the article will probably say?
Using "portable services" is a non-cloud pattern and a return to 2008.

If you're not using managed services, i.e running your own database, backups and all - you might as well use bare-metal.
Having a smaller player can also make quite unpredictable "wonders", often not the wonders you expect.
Didn't encounter any problems on Linux... but on Windows I ran into an issue the first time I used it (might me by personal bad luck though).

If you're using restic on Windows, maybe take a minute to check https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3637 - it was my first contribution to restic and it seems to have stalled, but I'm not sure if it's a general "oh, windows" problem no one takes seriously in a project that 90% of the maintainers use on Linux like so very often :P
Yes, the Chinese social credit system. CBDC's are programmable money, like crypto currency smart contracts.

They (the banks and governments) will decide how and whether you can spend your credits. But almost no one realizes the horrors this will bring. With CBDC's your government or even your employer can decide how you are able to spend your money(credits). They can disallow you from paying your rent when you did not take your mandatory experimental Covid19 booster shot. Or they can disallow you to pay for gasoline if they think you've used too much.. The possibilities are endless. This is not a conspiracy, do your own research!

This is why crypto currencies are so important for us; banks and governments cannot control them. If we lose crypto currencies we will lose our freedoms eventually. The fight of governments and banks with decentralized crypto currencies are not about electricity usage or money laundering at all. It's all about absolute power and control over the people. Again, do your own research!
So for extra context - Volvo was bought out by Ford years and years ago, and Ford only wanted them for their patents and tech. For example the engine in the Focus RS is derived from the Volvo designed T5 motor.

Then because Ford had absolutely no interest in the brand, they basically invested zero money, the cars stagnated, and yes, by the end of the Ford's ownership, they were absolutely crap and I would not recommend anyone buying one.

Then Ford finally got bored with it, and sold it to Geely, a chinese corporation - but they basically said "we'll leave you alone, here's an unlimited purse of money to design a car that people will want" - and so Volvo designed the new SPA platform, which they used for the XC60 then XC90 then all their other cars, and those were and still are regarded as hugely successful and well designed cars, with good engines. Under the chinese ownership Volvo was allowed to pioneer the plug-in hybrid drivetrains for instance, and they were one of the first ones to offer them.

Nowadays the domination they had in that area is weaning a bit, but Volvo is innovating with immediate launch of SPA2 platform, and hardcore push towards full electrification of all models.

>>I heard they are now Chinese owned, although it seems buyers think they are still Swedish

As far as I can tell, all Geely does is provides budget - the cars are still designed by Swedes. That makes it a Swedish car in my book.
AFAIK, Zoom can "run in the browser" in the sense that when you click a Zoom link it prompts you to install a "Zoom Launcher plugin" which is for all intents and purposes a binary application that you install locally. I wouldn't call that "running in the browser". Or has something changed recently?
A Patek is for guys who want to impress the Rolex guys.
Remember when we had a postmaster general who wasn’t actively trying to undermine the USPS and wasn’t under investigation by the FBI?

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/04/1003172114/fbi-investigates-p...
I think CDs use two layers of codes interleaved in some non-obvious pattern. Errors in the smaller blocks that take out a whole block are actually spread amongst multiple large blocks, and you know what bits are bad so you're correcting erasures instead of errors, which is easier.