skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole 'preying on the vulnerable' thing kind of puts me off. But I want to respond to this:

> The items that you buy have absolutely no impact on gameplay and are just visuals

Cosmetic items are not just visual though. They are real elements in the game. Cosmetic items are interactive. They are unlockable, collectable, wearable items.

Further, visuals do impact the gameplay. You could argue about the difference between "gameplay" and "visuals" but each supports/influences the other and both are critical elements of almost every videogame. However you divide up the parts of a game, they all affect each other. Generally speaking, having all of the elements working together makes for a better game.

Monetisation strategies like microtransactions, loot boxes, etc. are also part of the game. However, the goal of such parts is not aligned with that of the others. The game is compromised by the introduction of the monetisation strategies.

> why are you surprised that some people want to look cool in a video game?

Nobody is surprised by this.
Chrome's UI hasn't had any massive, radical changes that I remember. Trying to go back to Firefox after getting disdained with Chrome was like using an entirely different browser.
If you want the practice, here's a core memory shield for an Arduino:

https://www.tindie.com/products/kilpelaj/core-memory-shield-...
Locked-in patient learns spelling via auditory neurofeedback training
> … a game I spend more than 2000 hours is now a game I hate …

Ouch. Who cares about loot boxes when the opportunity cost of playing a silly game like that is equal to a years worth of their wages.
They may have done. I've worked at plenty of places where the corporate machine was so locked down and corporate IT was so far removed from development that I ended up using two machines: a corporate one with AD credentials and a BOYD MacBook Pro. Some places eventually allowed me to run inTune on the MBP to access some corporate services but others haven't. And I know of places that have flat out refused engineers to BOYD.
It absolutely is a collective delusion!

The only thing I would slightly disagree with is that gold is a real thing, that people do consider as valuable regardless of the governance system. You can physically hold gold, it is portable, it is rare (doesn't grow on trees) you can make something with it (jewellery).
Phaeton existed in a weird segment, it was like a gimped S-class for the price of an E-class.

It failed because there wasn’t a huge market for gimped S-classes among the E-class buying segment.

The only people interested in Phaetons ended up being corrupt mid-level politicians in eastern Europe, they had full time drivers but didn’t want to be seen in a S-class.

Also keep in mind that for the price of a V8 phaeton you could’ve had such cars as a V6 LS.

Had the phaeton been just a bit nicer, it could very well have survived. But that’s not the car VW built.
Super Mario Run, on top of being a great game at a great price is basically single payment f2p.

And most people didn’t get that you could buy it and not worry about needing to buy berries or diamonds for real world money. Not worry about your child spending hundreds of real world dollars when playing on your phone.

People just hated the fact that they had to pay for the cheapest priced Mario game ever.
So theres nothing between tech executive and pay check to paycheck...?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_problem has a general introduction to the issue.
I can't off-hand remember any application where I was able to drag around buttons or, really, interact with them in any way other than pushing the button. That said, I don't think the widgets look particularly button-like (e.g. only the selected tab widget as any depth, the other widgets are flat).
"It's only cosmetics shop" is a cancer that's killing AAA game industry. Games are designed from ground up not being fun themselves but to be filled with dark patterns, ads, artificial focus on the shop items and so on.
> Debt" isn't about monetary policy, though. It's about the anthropology of money, trade, and debt.

And it would have been fine if Debt stuck to the anthropology. But perpetuating inaccuracies about money can be actively harmful.

For example, I-series bonds are the safest instruments available to US residents to hedge against inflation. Now, in popular conception, if US treasury bonds are seen as a debt that will never be paid, people might instead put their savings into assets that are suboptimal. You already see gold shilling targeted at senior citizens which makes for a terrible investment.
Ask HN: How do you hire remote workers abroad, like developers or writers?
Hello everyone, how do you hire remote workers abroad? Meaning that they work from their countries permanently and never come to your country.

So this is not a work visa or anything, I'm talking about full time remote work.

For example, imagine you have a small self-bootstrapped company company in Belgium (my case), and you want to have a few full-time workers in India (developers and content creators for example).

How does that work? Can they just issue you invoices as freelancers in euros and that's it?

Or do they need to have their own company?

What happens if they don't have a company?

Would using an intermediate platform like Upwork help in any way?

I understand no one here is probably a lawyer, and I will take the advice with a grain of salt and confirm with a professional.

But I would love to know about the feedback and personal experience of other entrepreneurs in a similar situation.
>Something to think about before banning the pill.

Regardless whether the strategies are bad or not, banning contraceptives should never be on the table.

>As a parent I find the environment extremely child-hostile.

It might be child-hostile, but is how child-hostile the environment is actually a consideration? The situation for having children has never been better, but birthrates are some of the lowest they have ever been.
You have to take into account the fact that a lot of Qualcomm's chips are intended for military/industrial complex applications. They're not just a consumer-chip producer.

Having an installed user base always on the latest firmware version cuts down on support costs. Its a hidden cost but a real one: when a user calls customer service with a problem, you're losing money - anything that reduces the amount of time spent debugging the issue, is a win. This means that if the support engineers can rely on the fact that users will always be pushed forward in software releases, they can focus on contemporary issues/uses cases rather than having to maintain - for years, often - an archaic list of prior versions/faults/issues.

Its not just the case that these eFuses' prevent "ownership" of the firmware by the user - though that is a consideration - its more that, by disallowing downgrades to prior firmware releases, a mechanism is in place that organizationally promotes improvement in the product quality. Well, that's the theory - that the latest OS is always an improvement - and believe me, we software engineers work hard to make sure that is the case. It occasionally doesn't go according to plan and users feel compelled - for whatever reasons they decide - to downgrade to a prior version - but as a software engineer, I much prefer to operate, knowing that my end users will always be encouraged to have the latest and greatest (hopefully) version of the firmware.

Support is a sunk cost. Supporting older versions is a self-imposed force multiplier of that cost.
Back in the 90s shareware was common, you’d get the first level of Duke Nukem, but to get the rest you had to pay

That’s closer to the “free tier” stuff, and a very different model to modern “freenium” games.
https://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/86397 presents a reasonable argument for why you can't just compare debt-to-GDP between very different systems and expect it to make sense. (The US in particular is, of course, in many ways an outlier.)
When did you make this agreement? Did you sign a contract?

Or, did you simply find that this was the system in place, and you went along with it?

Re your point about crypto - did you see how you turned your crypto into yen (fiat) to get your sushi?
Have you tried ccache now that it has MSVC support?
Fair enough, but I don't think seniors who buy American Liberty Coins after watching Tucker Carlson were informed by Graeber's economic sins--whatever they may be--in "Debt". ;)
> I'm sure someone at Netflix is cheesed with how quickly and easily Apple can just start drinking their milkshake, though.

This is expected. Netflix were the trailblazers. Of course everyone who comes after them will have an easier job doing it.
From a buyer perspective, my experience is that it is expected if not required. Due Dills are a great opportunity for the buying CFO to surface some weaknesses in the target company plan and numbers and to pull some financial levers to decrease the price of the original term sheet.
>"Today, many psychologists suggest using positive discipline"

From Wikipedia:

>"It is based on the idea that there are no bad children, just good and bad behaviors."

Given the fact that we've known for decades now that behaviour is roughly 50% nature (and 50% nurture), this foundational (implied) premise is unequivocally and demonstrably incorrect. Some children are "bad" and need to be taught not to hurt others. This parenting style is growing in popularity and I don't think it's a surprise that we now see an epidemic of kids with mental health problems.

I recommend listening to this lecture from Jonathan Haidt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5IGyHNvr7E&t=569s

Children certainly need boundaries and rules. They need corrective measures when children rebel. I think it's clear that a lack of negative punishment is leading to all kinds of negative outcomes for children.
I use a stocktane and still buy stuff from time to time cos I know that money for the servers has to come from somewhere.
>> But this presumption of "I feel comfortable with X and therefore nobody else needs help with this"

> I'm having trouble finding where anyone said this

I'm indicating the general tone. I'll be more careful not to misuse quote marks in this comment and use [] to denote paraphrases!

When I itemise the traps people can fall into, and then get the response of "No. I'm very clear with demands on my time" it ignores the vast swathes of people that don't have this luxury. Now maybe this commenter just felt I was talking about them directly; I did, after all, phrase the though process in the third person. (Now YOU have a choice, do YOU continue donating... etc)

But given this is a comment in the public domain, this seems unlikely. More likely is that the commenter is dismissing the problem, because it doesn't apply to them.

In general, I think we're mostly on the same page here:

> I don't think anyone is claiming that the common case is the developer who stands up for themselves, has healthy boundaries, and doesn't let internet-hate scare them. Most developers fall into this trap, including a past version of myself.

Exactly. Me too. The problem is, having addressed it to some extent, some people choose to believe that it's no longer a problem. Often it manifests as kind of a "I fixed myself, so why haven't you?" mentality.

> people can change their attitude in order to have a healthier relationship with their OSS projects, and can develop the assertiveness necessary to enforce their boundaries

Putting the idea of access to therapy aside, you and I can agree that it is absolutely beneficial for people to work on this aspect of themselves, as a general rule.

However, while it is right to say [This is not a healthy stance to take] but we should be careful not to imply [It's your fault you are being weak] or that the recipient is the problem, not the toxic individuals.

And while that isn't overtly being said in these comments, that's still the implication I take from them, even trying to re-read it charitably.
Author here!

That definitely is a major flaw, that I unfortunately have no idea how to resolve, because some of these are even contradictory, or completely useless in some cases, and the list isn't really domain-specific enough to be properly structured(Aside from the math textbook subproject).

I think a lot of the value is closer to the same purpose as the Oblique Strategies, and just as a general polemic, because a lot of people seem to just unquestioningly accept the "Stop trying to control things, live on the edge" idea.

It's not really practical in the pure form, because the base assumption is that there is no task simple enough to assume everyone can do it reliably, so we should have a plan for everything, even counting to ten, because a kitchen knife accident can be just as deadly as a rock climbing one.

A more focused approach is Crew Resource Management(Which I spent several days summarizing the basic outline of on Wikipedia, but that is apparently gone and replaced with some case studies).

CRM is a lot more focused on generally competent and well trained people, and has a lot of super useful insight for life and engineering.
Pretty much. The money to pay for the work, has to come from somewhere. Usually that is a person/organization/society.

But software specifically is social, because software is useless without a user.
Ball gravitating towards the goal has been available as a Limited Time Mode on a few occasions, it's called Heatseeker IIRC.
180 MW today.
Everyone knows the debt will never be fully repaid. Just the interests and that has to do with how there is a little parasite between the country and the money.

The US already defaulted on their gold promises.
https://aantron.github.io/dream/

comes to mind for OCaml.

https://github.com/paurkedal/ocaml-caqti

for db code.
It's actually written in the article at the very end, but it's really interesting to point out that Mona Lisa really was not all that famous until 1911, when it was stolen by an Italian nationalist.

https://www.npr.org/2011/07/30/138800110/the-theft-that-made...

It actually took 28 hours before anyone noticed that it's missing.
> I don't know if I would put Grandma on it, though, but perhaps I would.

I don't see why not; I think that overall FastMail is easier to use than gmail for example. It's not like you need to use a custom domain and all these things.
One of the things I don't really like about Proton was the removal of the "Compact" density. ...You can add it back in with a flag... but I have no idea why it was removed
It has to start servicing events within a guaranteed time, but completing them is another matter. If you have multiple tasks running in parallel and a lot of incoming events, constantly switching to service them will delay completion of your ongoing tasks wrecking their performance, and eventually the scheduler will get overloaded.

So it depends on the cost of context switching, which is typically very high, and the frequency of context switches. Real time OSes are really important for applications where you have lots of lightweight tasks that need to be handled very promptly. If you have long running tasks (long running in CPU world, which can be fractions of a second) constantly getting interrupted and context switched can brutalise performance.
With new debt, which is what re-financing is.

I guess this comes down to semantics. Paying off an old loan with a new one isn‘t ”paying off your debt“ in my eyes. You are still in debt afterwards.

The total amount of debt will never come down again without hyperinflation. Whether that is good, bad, or doesn‘t matter is up to economists. But that‘s how it is.
> "Sure glad I'm not the one who'll be holding the bag on that." But then...I might be. I'm not sure.

That's a simple one to answer. Are you a taxpayer?
Apparently, if you omit all the we-got-you-and-lock-you-in-your-ad-induced-information-bubble, you can get quite far with even modest hardware:

https://memex.marginalia.nu/projects/gemini-server.gmi

> I put the machine together mostly for a search engine, Because I didn't want an actual rack making noise and heat in my living room, the server is made out of consumer hardware:

> Ryzen 9 3900X

> 128 Gb RAM

> 4x4 Gb IronWolf ZFS

> A bunch of SSDs index lookups
Back when I played games we used to make our own maps, and share them for free on various sites
Constipation?!?
I much rather let juniors work on my Elm app than have on my JS app.

Strong typing helps me trust code is of certain quality.
> That's not the responsibility of any open source project to solve though.

Nobody said it was.

> If the AV slows down productivity then it's up to office politics to decide whether the perceived security/compliance is more important than developer time or whether they should talk to their AV vendor to optimize scanning or whatever.

I agree and everyone here is assuming the GP hasn't already tried that. Sometimes, and particularly in enterprise orgs, making minor quality of life improvements for developers is an impossible task. Sometimes you don't realize just how these places can operate until you've worked in one.

> And I think this is mostly a windows problem with the synchronous filter drivers? On linux you can hook filesystem accesses asynchronously.

Yeah it's very specifically a Windows issue. Windows IO is a lot more event driven from what I understand which makes Linux faster at randomly accessing files but virus scanners more effective (not that I have a particularly high opinion for them to begin with) on Windows.

Unfortunately, Windows is what 99% of enterprise orgs IT teams provision for their staff.
I think the idea of a proper production grade Fuschia workstation that you could use as a daily driver is still a few years away realistically.

However, I think when that happens a lot of interesting opportunities will I inevitably open up because it provides what I think is an extremely compelling story for a lot of people you might not initially anticipate. For example, from a security and just general maintainability point of view I would expect it to become the new obvious choice inside of organisations for those who aren’t still tied to Windows specific desktop applications.
API Testing should be predictable and fully automated
> In isolation without impacting other engineers due to everyone having their own AWS account.

This is super interesting. I'm almost certain they mean AWS keys (with appropriate IAM permissions etc.,). Otherwise billing, developer onboarding/de-boarding and such quickly go out of control.

Back in 2015 at my previous company I had setup two AWS accounts, one for test stack and one for production. That in itself was quite a bit of pain.
Python can be faster than nodejs in many (but far from all) cases. It depends a lot on the workloads and environment. No general benchmark will tell the whole story.

Here Python came out on top:

https://scribe.rip/filia-aleks/aws-lambda-battle-2021-perfor...

https://scribe.rip/ville-karkkainen/python-is-slow-wait-its-...
I'm not a marketing guy. But my understanding is if you are a luxury brand (real luxury, very high quality, very expensive). You can allow your brand on very cheap objects (including counterfeit) and nobody will get confused.
The edge team have talked about it a bit in the following blog posts:

https://microsoftedge.github.io/edgevr/posts/Super-Duper-Sec...

https://microsoftedge.github.io/edgevr/posts/Introducing-Enh...
> You don't miss retina if you never used it.

This line of thinking baffles me. I should put up with subpar text-rendering and pixelated fonts and widgets because that's how we did things before?

> I guess it comes from poor buying skills.

I purposefully went out of my way to buy a Radeon that was explicitly supported by amdgpu.ko. I poured over driver code to see which USB Wi-Fi would work best. I gave up on 4K back in 2017 because neither Qt nor Gtk were "ready" for High-DPI and bought a 1080p panel instead.

None of this changes the fact that I had to patch things all the time because of bugs. Not hardware bugs, but software bugs. Thread safety bugs. GConf bugs. I found and fixed a bug in systemd because they had the GUID wrong for automatic root mount on IA-64. Firefox was doing swizzling wrong causing window tearing on some GPUs. I even fixed a damn bug in the Rust libc crate related to ioctl(3).

The reason your experience is so good is because people find these bugs and fix them. Like I used to do before I left the community, partially due to this mindset that if the user has a problem the user must be the problem.
you can still enjoy the game without taking part in it as it is optional and does not change your odds of winning, that is still skill based. if somebody wants to pay for a fancy skin I don't really see an issue.

people bet on soccer too but that shouldn't stop you from getting excitement from it.
It's based on the platform. Nobody would've bat an eye at a Switch or PC game for an upfront cost, but asking 10$ for a mobile game was kinda unheard of. I think they misjudged the market response there.

I can't say I'm not biased here, I basically hate 95% of all the mobile games I ever tried, or at least stopped playing after an hour - so a 10$ purchase for me would simply never happen, because I don't like the platform. On the other hand I did do the "paid unlock" after trying it out for a few. (Ignore this if they had a demo, I never tried it, wasn't it iphone only?)
And there are promos a few times per year where all the DLCs are available at a huge discount. And now there's a monthly subscription for all the DLCs. So there are multiple options available to get DLCs. All in all, not a bad way of doing things.
Oh sorry sometimes I forget most people live in wage slavery.
From an engineering perspective I wonder how sustainable that is. For every new DLC X you need to test with (X-1)! combinations of previous DLCs. Sure, not all DLCs interact with each other but many will in some limited way.
I like the yellow one... Though I don't think I'll ever want to wear a traditional watch again. I gave up on those in the 90s. And it's too expensive to buy just for the sake of it :)

I didn't even spend more than 72 euro on my smartwatch (Amazfit GTS 2 Mini).. Together with the open-source gadgetbridge app (preserving privacy) smartwatches are a great option IMO.
Linux it's great, but it's far from perfect for all scenarios where could be bloated (think IoT, like Google home assistant). In those cases micro kernels like fushia, or GNU Mach make sense.
osx comes with a command "say" which is a text to speech tool. I'd do things like make && say "build complete" || say "compile failed" with different voices I thought were funny. generally worked great.

One day, I stepped away and had a particularly intimidating voice say "your build has failed" and apparently knocked out my headphones. I came back just in time to hear that, and see a couple coworkers jump at the sound.

After that, I was much more consistent at disabling sound when I stepped away. I got a little teasing about that day, but generally it worked great.
What are you comparing against?

Compared to northern Europe and rich East Asian countries the US mobile infrastructure and prices are bad in my experience.
To get on top of your fear of the new (and other insecurities), this is the video to watch: https://youtu.be/gIT1ISCioDY.

No need for the habitual google defamation exercise here.
Right because neither the OP nor the parent comment gave any hint they had been abused. There's no question that abuse is harmful.

One of the tenets of "positive discipline" is that disagreement and rebellion are expected. By accepting such behavior, a trained therapist may earn a child's trust. And, that can be helpful to a school or therapist to discover if abuse is occurring.

That said, if you know a kid hasn't experienced abuse, you might wonder whether or not they receive any attention for doing good things. They may be acting out more because that's what got them attention. What constitutes "acting out" is very personal for each family and individual.