skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a game developer. I have been part of the industry for a few years now.

I am working on a product with a new company I formed.

The economics are interesting. I pay, upfront, all capital required to get the product ready for viewing.

Hackers and exploiters can probably destroy the experience for players because an indie studio is going to struggle to have any proactive anticheat.

Lag, poor networking, and poor performance can also kill the experience fir players and result in a negative review.

Delivering a game that covers the bases here well enough to not be turned into a meme or review bombed is a scarey endeavor.

Who knows, maybe the market looks and decides the game just isn't cool enough?

I hope for success on my project. I wont be doing any microtransactions initially because I am too focused on the other considerations.
5G on higher frequency could be less stable while moving.
An important transition is missed, that is that magnetic amplifiers are analog amplifiers.

It was William Steagall of Sperry-Rand who realized that the flux saturation could be used as a digital logic element. If you send a pulse in the same direction as the core is already magnetized, you get no output pulse. From this, and a multi-phase clock to supply drive power, digital computing elements were created.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_logic
What you do is show a QR code in the theater, make people scan it, and if enough people in that showing do, you get the bonus scene.
Insofar as there is an overlap between the two I'd pick wordpress. Shopify has all the painful buy-in that comes with a bloated sass with too much market share coupled with a marketplace that is just as toxic as that of wordpress. At least with WordPress you can control your deployment.
PHP: On Error Resume Next, but webscale
Geology: The Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson

Though he does such a good job of passionately portraying so many topics in these books I feel they could get people into any one of the earth sciences. Hell, even politics and economics.
I will say that RDR Online pushes you hard towards micro transactions. That said, the single player game is worth $60 on its own, so I don’t mind just skipping the online.
I've spent many years becoming quite fluent in bash. It's not trivial. But all objections here are surmountable if not outright features. Python is the right tool for many jobs. But so is bash, for someone willing to truly learn it.
There are several sections of the Vault 7 leaks that showed the CIA had tools that could be used to fake the attribution of attacks. Some argue there's other uses for those tools besides faking the source of an exploit, but knowing they have the capability makes it impossible to eliminate as a possibility.
Aha! GEB! Do you think a complete beginner with no knowledge in higher math should read GEB?
Storing and serving other people's videos still costs money. Suppose we're all just doing this on a federated basis one day, decentralized and anonymous. Shouldn't we each have a right to know what we're paying to host? Just because I'm willing to leave a server on seeding esoteric documentaries from the 50s doesn't mean I'm willing to let people use it to spread hate speech or child porn or whatever someone thinks they have a "right" to be heard saying. It is a shame that control of major channels tends to become centralized and ultimately that weakens free speech on those platforms, but this is a cyclical process. When one falls, there's a period of anarchy before another arises. The underlying reason is that most people don't have the time or patience to run their own servers, so they delegate that, but they also expect whoever they delegate it to to follow certain basic principles, and those become harder to enforce as it scales without causing the initial freedom of the platform to deteriorate.

Like, Elon's idea of making a more free Twitter, or someone else who launches a no-holds-barred Youtube, just won't gain traction right now. That's not because they're going to be suppressed by a hidden cabal bent on silencing unpopular speech. It's because the majority of people who currently delegate the task of weeding out bad things to Youtube are more or less okay with people like this guy being removed. If or when that changes, something else will rise up in its place, but it's doubtful that such a platform won't run into the exact same problems a few years later.
This is from 2020.

Since the followup isn't "Arkansas Graphene Power 10GW plant comes online", it probably doesn't generate "clean, limitless power".
This, yeah.

You can also always disable SIP and spelunk around if you want to. There's just far less of a hivemind for macOS tinkering and it's not as readily apparent to jump into.

But it does exist.
can't thank you enough for calling Graeber and his psuedointellectual bullshit adherents out for what they are (you do it far better than I have the patience for)
ACME is a really cool editor and it's approach to the Unix philosophy is something I wish would have caught on in other TUIs/GUIs.

That said, the real takeaway from ACME is you don't need an IDE to be a noteworthy programmer. In fact my list of noteworthy programmers (currently has a little over 100 devs on it), which includes Linux kernel devs, GNU devs, Bell Lab devs, programming language author devs, compiler devs, other people who wrote famous software, etc. contains 99% Vim/Emacs users. And no, it's not just people from an older generation, the list contains plenty of up and comers and even teenagers and college students who are already doing great things.

Clearly more features, smarter IDEs, etc. isn't the deciding factor in doing great things. I think what ACME really teaches us is that by taking a less is more approach, we can train ourselves to understand code at a deeper level by paying more attention and taking our time, and giving us the creative freedom to compose code in any way we choose.
What are you talking about? I got here from the front page seconds ago where it was featured.
To my experience, it’s the integrated OCR that really pleased me as a new mac user come from linux. I basically get to treat images with text like normal paragraph. And it just get my daily work done without any issue.
Fair criticism, but one that is only relevant in the first place because of freemium. Prior to that business model, there was no such thing as a company continuing to provide regular, ongoing support to a 7 year old game of the non-subscription variety.

I mean, how or why would they? You release something; it makes 90% of its lifetime revenue in year 1; if you continue working on it for 6 more years, you're out of business.

As for the ownership or survivability of in-game virtual goods -- I think the author is referring to Valve's hats in Team Fortress 2? -- to me it's nonsensical to complain that you don't own it outside of the game. It only has relevance in the game, and it would be silly to ask the company to develop some external service just for owning your object. The ones that have tried that kind of thing just fail and look silly. But wait! Along come NFTs, with potential permanent ownership... but gamers despise that idea, too.

Gamers are just eternally grumpy and conservative about changes and progress. (I say that as a grumpy gamer, myself.)
+1. You beat me to posting it. As you rightly pointed out it’s not an easy read.

I also recommend “The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece”. It succinctly covers second order effects of money. I got a good understanding of histories of phenomena that we take for granted such as salary. It’s fascinating to read about the transition.

As a meta, I’ve been fortunate to witness a similar momentous transition computers and internet/communication. I wonder what other transition we are going through right now.
Yup, that's what I was trying to get at. Middling benchmarks for a new chip seems pretty great.
> If you think of Bitcoin not as competing against Visa, but as competing against the bank settlement network, then it makes a lot more sense.

Yes, this is Bitcoin precisely. If you then lock your bitcoins in different schemes with different security models or transaction amortization tradeoffs, you carry the risk of the scheme, not the settlement layer and unit of account. You can experiment with different forms of commodity money, fiat money, and all the monetary policy therein and the proof will be in the pudding of who ends up with more of the underlying, finitely scarce coin, but you can never risk anyone's coin that doesn't join the scheme.
Damn. I guess there's not much one can do when neither private companies nor government care.
Is this meant to be an early April Fools joke?
hmmmmm
> without ever having to understand TLS, HTTPS, NAT, IP addresses, ports, CLI, etc.
HMMMMMMMM!
Which i think is a failure of the system - it makes some court cases that would be ruled in favour of the "small guy" to not take place instead, which makes the "big guy" win by default.

The US should adopt a small claims courts system which costs less (like a copyright small claims etc), which would admit frivolous DMCA take downs etc, as well as cases like these. And amend the damages awarded to include fees incurred as part of the case.
Your main point is valid but 2010 is maybe 25 years too late for the example programs listed.
I'd like to second this and ask how you learned to write?
And then there's the whole "Miss Universe" thing...
I'm not better than anyone, and in fact self-esteem issues are something I've had to deal with a lot in my life. As I've noticed people changing in this way I've actually become more empathetic since the more awkward I see people become the more I can relate.

I'm just speaking from personal experience about how my life improved, especially social relationships, when being mindful about all this. Other people make their own choices. But the way you use the internet definitely changes your brain and the way you approach social relationships.

Having strangers on the internet assume the worst in you when you're trying to talk about personal growth is an excellent way to feel inferior.
If you're worried about Tether, then you should be worried about the whole financial system. It's not very different from Tether, and that is one of the reasons why Bitcoin was created in the first place.

"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"
FWIW, I read the article couple of weeks ago and engaged in a healthy debate with Lyn on Twitter.
> Vague messaging about masking.

It wasn't vague. The WHO, CDC and the US Surgeon General were clear, explicit and wrong.

> The surgeon general has a message for people who want to run out and stockpile masks to combat the coronavirus – don't.

> "Seriously people - STOP BUYING MASKS!" Surgeon General Jerome Adams tweeted. "They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!"

https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/healthcare/2020/03/0...

CDC does not currently recommend the use of facemasks to help prevent novel #coronavirus. Take everyday preventive actions, like staying home when you are sick and washing hands with soap and water, to help slow the spread of respiratory illness.
https://twitter.com/cdcgov/status/1233134710638825473

Masks should not be worn by healthy people to prevent respiratory infection; there is no evidence that wearing masks prevents healthy people from getting sick and masks can be in short supply and unavailable for people who need them.
https://twitter.com/jama_current/status/1235399635948142593
You shouldn’t be selling your game for 50c if you expect to live off it so the calculation is even more off.
"May" in that context is just a weasel word that gets inserted to be cautious.

It can mean there is genuine uncertainty, but it can also be equivalent to we can't be absolutely sure the sun rises tomorrow.
This is not what I gathered from the documentary "Four Horsemen". Seems like actual banks are printing money out of thin air?
> There are some limitations to this exploit, for example, the user input must be 4GB in size (which is a large amount of data and may not be possible due to the configuration of some webservers and load balancers).

I'm thinking PHP's built in request size limit config items (e.g. post_max_size) will prevent this from being an issue too. Might not stop this bug if the URL is in a header though.
Why blame anyone? Gamers get the content they want in the way they prefer to pay for it, developers and publishers get paid.

The market has pretty clearly spoken and decided that people prefer cosmetic micro transactions with free to play games. Just because it doesn’t match the Hacker News gaming utopia template doesn’t mean anyone is doing anything wrong.

This is especially true for multiplayer games where a lot of children don’t have money to buy the game but their presence on the platform adds value to the people who do have money to spend on it.
No, not the turbo button, it was the 50/60 Hz software switch that made the computer faster. Hm, might just have been that the gfx chip was working less in 50 Hz come to think of it...
My experience with Macs has been good in most aspects except one. In the years I used a Mac I stopped tinkering and OS/systems related hobby projects.

I continued to use Linux at work. I recently set up a home firewall with OpenBSD and have an itch to assemble a desktop exclusively for *BSD and Linux. If only hardware prices were not so high...
A good rate is anything that let's you sleep a night.

I know it's mostly platitude but I don't have the time or the depth of knowledge to time mortgage rates or the market so I mostly ask myself if I can afford it.
Even v4 was too much for me. I liked the UI pre-v4, and for the longest time after v4 released I would use the FF2 theme (back when themes meant more than just putting an image on your chrome - but that's a whole post by itself) and various extensions (Classic Theme Restorer, Status-4-Evar, and a few self-made Stylish userstyles) to preserve the look of pre-v4 as much as possible. It was comfortable for me.
I think ultimately it's a useless distinction. People try to argue about "sound money" and all that, but more and more my view is that both the historical/anthropological evidence and the realities of our modern economic systems point towards the debt as money theory, and that sound money just doesn't really exist. Commodities like gold are commodities, and currency (which is money) is different.
> Accused of sexual harassment by a member of the BA alliance? Never. This is absolutely false.

Are you joking me? Inappropriate physical behavior IS sexual harassment. You're trying to twist words to deny something happened.

At this point I lost complete faith in you and now assume your claims that it was a misunderstanding an outright fabrication. I'm ashamed I ever rooted for Wasmer and hoped this was indeed culture clash.

At no point in this conversation was the truthfulness or the legality of whatever happened in question: the question was "why was wasmer rejected from the bytecode alliance," and a "false" allegation that you "touched someone in a prolonged and overly-familiar way that caused them discomfort according to them but wasn't sexual harassment according to you" is the answer.

In fact, you're saying this never happened and that false accusations need to be addressed with the full weight of the law? I'll see you in court I guess?
Thank you for this pointer - I've often thought that an arena shooter with portals would be fun, and actually thought about trying to mod Xonotic a couple of times to pull it off (I obviously never did - couldn't quite grok the build system or the code at the time).

I looked this up on steam and noticed it's f2p, have you noticed any negative impact from that?
> Only one peer is allowed to use 0.0.0.0/0 for AllowedIPs

This is simply incorrect. You can have two peers with the same AllowedIP; you just have to put them on separate interfaces (wg0 and wg1 for example). This is for exactly the same reason that a routing table can only have one default entry. If you want two default entries, make two routing tables.

> Yes but UI wise it presents itself as one

No, it doesn't present itself as one.

> since it’s acts as an interface

So does /dev/net/tun, which is definitely not a layer 2 interface either.
A better question might be, what do you want that Google doesn’t already give you?

Personally I wouldn’t mind a search engine that was focused only on code results. Not only results that that showed code, but code focused results - tutorials, samples, books.

For example, if I search for “c web server” in a private tab on on Google… well… I get exactly what I want. If I search for “water shader”… I mostly get what I want as well (youtube videos not code though).

Hum, I think you might have a hard time with this.
As someone who has worked in F2P games: you're quite wrong that cosmetics are "easy to monetize". Good god, it's HARD.

Because the only way it works, at a scale that can support a studio, is if people really, really love the game. Even something that can capture attention for dozens of hours may not be good enough.

As a gamer, you're looking at something like Rocket League and going "oh yeah, it's so easy! They just make a skin and it sells!" But, uh, no. It's the 0.001% elite of all games. And they only have an "easy" time selling cosmetics in the sense that they already did the much harder work of making something amazing. Kinda like it's easy for Google to make money from ads; you need the killer product first.
Actually that book is paywalled now. It's been somewhat of a controversy that people contributed to the book thinking it was a community resource but now it's unavailable.
I’m glad there is this whole parallel universe of amazing single player (or MP-optional) games with absolutely no dark patterns, loot boxes or any of the shit people who play MP games have to put up with.

I buy a game, and unless I get the DLC(s)/Expanions pack(s), that’s all I’ll ever have to pay. Civilization V: Over 2000 hours. Pathfinder: Kingmaker/Wrath of the righteous: Over 1000 hours each. Stellaris [0]: Almost 1000 hours.

[0]: Some people hate the Paradox DLC style, personally I think it’s amazing. Content DLCs are accompanied by free feature patches, cosmetic/minor DLCs are well, minor. No one forces you to get all of them. And thanks to this DLC policy, Stellaris will soon turn 6 years old while still getting regular updates.
> What a wonderful person.

I agree with the sarcasm here, but I must elaborate on how terrible a person Mr. Hedges is. There's a whole saga behind how he went from being a noted journalist to whining on Substack, and I've been tracking it for quite some time.

* First came the plagiarism revelations, which are detailed quite nicely here: https://newrepublic.com/article/118114/chris-hedges-pulitzer...

* Then came the self-plagiarism revelations (many of his Truthdig columns are rewarmed passages from his books). He's apparently also been editing his own Wikipedia page to remove critism, and at one point got into an edit war with another longstanding contributor. All the while, he's called Wikipedia a "tool of the elite". https://twitter.com/Mathlover2/status/1499650487481683968?s=...

* Finally, we have his aforementioned show on RT. While it may not be on YouTube, it's still very much available on rt.com, which I can access from the US as of this writing, and which allows people to download individual episodes.
I've been using Acme exclusivly for almost 6 years now. I consider it
to be the only true GUI text editor that has been developed, and the
only non-trivial development in editor-technology since vim and emacs.

Like emacs it is more then just an editor, it is a full programming
environment. If it was extended to support more then just text it could
be a full desktop environment.

I see posts complaining about having to write your own
integrations....well thats exactly the point of Acme. Its a programmers
editor. Your write tools to make your programs, to create better tools
to create better programs, to ....

Acme creates an environment, like the unix shell, for all those programs
to be integrated. Acme is the modern shell!

It's sad that nothing better has been created since (~30 years)
the Selfish Gene.
this book can attract people who want understand how creatures work
> How hard is it to even simply copy the time tested work flows in proprietary software.

A straight copy would be sued out of existence.
So why doesn't other bigger companies hit the same problem? What do they do differently? Why can't you do the same personally? Is it just cost?
Interesting, have they said much about that or when to expect it?

I did like that game mode where the ball would gravitate towards the goal!
> The EPA was made aware of him but did nothing

Did the EPA give any reason?
I have gotten used to just not eating meat every day. I am not refraining out of ethical or health reasons, I'm just happy with tomato sauce on my spaghetti, for instance.

I've noticed that potatoes are really cheap, relatively, like under 50 cents a lb. It has assuaged my unhappiness at pasta being over $1/lb which is my mental anchor.

I do use the loyalty card and look for the things that are on sale by the largest amount, but I don't bother with coupons, because all I see are for things I don't want.
Except a browser should load things in the following order:

1) Create Window
2) Create UI (based on native controls for OS)
3) Load drop downs, top level down.
4) If you design your application this way, you won't have to build a skeleton. Mozilla is not using native UI/UX components to build their UI, so they have to go through several extra steps. I'm sure they do this in the name of customizability, but that, IMO, should be optional.
Sapolski's book (Behave) and his Stanford classes on YouTube are just awesome.
Fuchsia Workstation
May happen at some point in the future but no immediate plans.
> Yes, and always will be, but costs have ben obfuscated for years. For-profit health insurance is one of the big issues, in my opinion [1].

I have no kind words for for-profit health insurance, having been burned by the industry myself. Being for-profit definitely doesn't help, but the non-profit insurers in the US are not much better. The truth is, the incentives are terrible all around, including -- and you won't read this in Stanford Medicine's quarterly magazine -- the fact that we train far too few doctors, nurses, and other medical staff, work them far too hard while not using their time well, and pay them very, very generously.

Then again, the cost of higher education has grown tremendously too, without (that many) for-profits taking a cut, and that's an industry where we face no shortage of qualified professors, work them harder (oddly) the less they get paid, and pay the ones teaching the most classes, well, let's just say it's not "very generously".

Perhaps the major commonality is that the people getting the service are often not the ones paying (at least, up front) -- either insurers or lenders are? That and also these are both highly human-capital-intensive industries.
Did it work for any axes?
Thank you! Are you at Imperial?