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> 2) When optimizing your code, you no longer refactor to improve speed or code maintainability, but mainly to reduce the fees charged when executing. Solidity even has a "price sheet" of fees for operations like addition, subtraction or allocating memory. This new way of thinking can seem strange to experienced devs because of all the easy fixes you plainly see that have to be left in the code base. Counter-intuitive.

That makes me think of the game Shenzhen I/O: each component cost money, each executed line of code draw power, you have to optimize your circuit to match your assigned power and price goals.
“Only the Jews in country <x> behave like <y>” isn’t the racially tolerant statement you think it is…
paying for drip water aggregation might be easier with billions of USD in annual subsidies.. meanwhile, at the other end of the economic grinder, existing legacy business in California and USA gets new requirements with commodity pricing on the market to pay for those
Like "I can't be arsed to engage, on your terms, with culture war bullshit".
If you're good, your profit depends on the number of hands you get to play. And that number of hands you get to play is based on your bankroll.

In the non-poker real world, most people maybe get to play one hand in life, and that’s it. One at-bat in a baseball game, to use a different analogy. You dump 20 years of savings into buying that laundromat, and that’s your only shot of making it. If we are really lucky we might get one or two more hands to play but that’s it for the vast majority of us.

The rich get as many hands/at-bats in life that they want to play, so they will eventually win one. They can just serially start business after business until one of them lucks out and succeeds, then do talks for the rest of their lives on how to be good at business.

Money buys you chances to make money.
i have read elsewhere explicitly stating that downvotes may be used as a sign of disagreement.

that said, in a topic like this, can there be any bad comments? (other than someone throwing insults at a game or recommending a game that is not actually FOSS?)

so why not use downvotes for games that you played but didn't like?

let the most popular games rise to the top.
The solution to the Crypto Regulation Problem by CTO Larsson

https://youtu.be/wXI9729DTww
What about those that paid their loans or didn't go to college (but will pay for others because of taxes that will be used to pay for them)?
Location: Chicago, IL

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Software Engineer with years of experience designing and building in Ruby, JS, and Go ecosystems. Passionate about learning, creative problem-solving, and collaborative development.

I recently built Hypha, an open-source observability framework for distributed systems. Hypha deploys an end-to-end telemetry pipeline that sets up distributed tracing, aggregates existing logs, and correlates logs with traces. Read the case study here: https://teamhypha.com/case-study
Yes this is mentioned in the article

> the data cannot conclusively prove that coffee itself lowers the risk of dying; there may be other lifestyle factors contributing to that lower mortality risk among people who drink coffee, like a healthy diet or a consistent exercise routine

...and controlled for in the study

> lifestyle, sociodemographic, and clinical factors
I moved to a different country and attempted to start a business. I failed, but here is what I learned:

1) Doing business in a foreign country is hard. Your two options are to target your new country or target your home country. If you target your home country, meeting with potential clients is going to be hard due to the physical distance and the time zone difference. If you target your new country, you're going to be at a disadvantage from a language and business relations perspective. Also, pretty much every country is inferior to the U.S. in terms of business development. Companies outside of the U.S. can be much more risk adverse and unlikely to do business with an upstart.

2) Getting a cofounder is really important. Moving to a different country can be lonely, and running a business can be stressful with a lot of failures. You need a partner in your business to lean on and to fill in for your weaknesses.

3) Have a good idea of your business plan before you start. You should basically have people lined up to use your product before you build anything. If you don't have that, it's likely you won't have a product people want once you build your product.
I've consulted with several hundred live streamers, and none of what you're saying is reflective of their experiences. It is outrageously false and disparaging to claim that the vast majority (or even a significant portion) of large contributors are somehow dysfunctional and that content creators are exploiting them.

Some people build cars for fun and spend their disposable income on that experience. Other people enjoy online content and spend their disposable income ensuring that content keeps getting made, or can be made even better. To declare an entire populations' preferred hobby as "dysfunctional" is plainly inflammatory and entirely inappropriate.

> The companies pushing this have all the data and know exactly what's going on, but market to this demographic anyway.

"The companies" aren't marketing high-cost options in any way. Twitch's highest subscription tier is $25/mo. Patreon suggests a higher tier of $30. Those are not "ruin mom's credit" or "dump your life savings" prices, so it's disingenuous (at best) to suggest that something nefarious and exploitative is happening in regards to platforms' marketing efforts.
Scaling is oversold and under criticized.

Folks, listen, if StackOverflow can run on this: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar...

So can your doctor's appointment website, your little ML app or Notion clone.

"But...". No. You ain't gonna need it. Do some load testing, prove it to yourself. Now, multiply the load by 100x, reserve AWS resources and you're good to go.
When retail is folded in, Apple pays employees less than Google or Microsoft
Nice! Consider making this a proper Show HN instead! https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
What do you envision they meant by "household applications" then? Every large appliance in your house has its own hydrogen fuel cell and takes these cartridges to run for a few hours, then you drive to the hydrogen store in your ultralight car that goes a couple dozen miles on a cylinder?
One bitcoin transaction costs two orders of magnitude less than my monthly power bill, yet the author claims one transaction uses 2.5 household-months worth of electricity. Something seems way off with the numbers.
"only companies who wanted a generalist either didn’t know what they were doing, or couldn’t afford an expert in the specific skills they needed." Spot on.

I went down the same path, and came to the same conclusion. Most of the time you don't even have to learn that many new skills to "specialize", you can just change the messaging and positioning on your website/resume/conversations with future clients.
Show HN: Haberdasher is a Git-like VCS for huge repos
Not sure how it's a weird obsession to want to know how tax dollars are being spent on universities, especially given the OP. Do you have something to back up what you are asserting, that endowments are not funded (directly or indirectly) by student loans?
The bumblebee tuna folks have known this for years.
> but adding new models, animations and AI requires huge amount of polish to be somewhere near AAA qualities

On too, I remember wanting to get into the modding scene for an game I loved to play.

I did some research on the format used for 3D models and at the time the format was completely proprietary and supported only by software that costs tens of thousands of dollars most kidders probably don’t have sitting around.

The situation may be better nowadays, as I faintly recall the format being reverse engineered and supported on blender through plugins, but I may be created a hopeful fantasy.
That's just not true. That's just something EV owners say to themselves to justify purchase. I've seen a bunch of these longer drives on Youtube. They try to say, hey you can stop here and get lunch or wait 30 minutes and the kids can play a game. I watched a trip one person did and every time they stopped they went shopping in the Walmart (this was non Tesla chargers) or ate. That adds up. Plus you might not always be in the best part of town late at night. At the end of the day according to the Tesla trip planner it adds quite a bit of time on to basic trips. The other thing is these chargers might not be covered so you're out in the rain, or snow and the lots haven't been cleared. That just doesn't seem fun with 2 kids.

You also have to think about the AC / heat, how you're driving, battery degrading after first year or so. It's an anxiety I don't need.

Plus in my case I would have to get my Tesla towed 3 hours away with major issues. I now minor ones the traveling repair can deal with. A neighbor had a collision and didn't have his Tesla for 4 months. The facilities are so backed up. No one knows how to work on them except Tesla.

Electric is the future, but it's like 4 to 5 years out. Hybrid is good enough right now.

With ICE you literally pull of an exit, take 5 minutes to fill up and you're back.
please, can you share a link to your thesis?
Unfortunately for Redis, AWS won't sell a VM with a lot of RAM but only a single core so you either have to use a cluster of small VMs, run a cluster within one VM, or waste your cores.

What I think would be interesting is a comparison with $/hr on the x axis and QPS on the y axis and allow optimal configurations to be used (e.g. a Redis cluster vs. a single Dragonfly). This is a lot of work though.
marsshooter and bloodfrontier weren't mentioned yet
Most doctors receive inadequate nutrition training, if any, and are usually unqualified to speak about these topics.
yes, this is mentioned in the article

> there may be other lifestyle factors contributing to that lower mortality risk among people who drink coffee, like a healthy diet or a consistent exercise routine
That's YOUR experience, but that certainly doesn't translate over to an appt dweller who doesn't have their own garage to charge their BEV with. You better believe they WILL sit for a dang good bit of time waiting for their vehicle to charge.
Netscape 6 was not firefox based https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_6

Firefox 0.8 did not have netscape branding http://theseblog.free.fr/firefox-0.8.jpg
Seems ridiculous to assume there aren't any health benefits from at least some types of alcohols at some levels of consumption. Just because the ill effects are better documented doesn't preclude the existence of benefits.
Airships also could use hydrogen, but since the Hinderburg disaster there has been stigma on it.
> Physically modeling a Rhodes somewhat accurately is beyond the computing capabilities of your typical laptop computer, so such models are always highly reductionist, deliberately so.

This really not true anymore.

Pianoteq includes several e-piano models and it runs just fine on a typical laptop. It also includes physically modelled acoustic pianos, harpsichords and several other instruments. All run fine on a typical laptop.
Too bad the page requires Javascript to view. This trend is not conducive to expanding engagement by those of us who run script blockers like NoScript as the default mode.

[edit: If you show some minimal page description that doesn't rely on JS being run in the browser, then more people will be willing to unblock the script if the site looks interesting]
So what will this look like when character set errors mangle it ?
I’d love an EF lens mount for my iPhone!
When trips are drive-to-work-each-day, and you can tolerate charging at your house overnight, the wait times for an EV charge are not an issue.

When your trips are drive-across-the-country, so you need to recharge multiple times en route, that's when it starts becoming substantially harder to find something else to overlap with your need to recharge. Even just doing Midwest-to-Mid-Atlantic drives, I'd complete my lunch pitstop (including eating, filling gas tank, and emptying bladder) before an EV charge could fill up again, even discounting the fact that the lesser range of an EV means I'd need to squeeze in another charging pitstop uncomfortably early to overlap with dinner.
They're suggesting the homeowner requests and pays for it I believe.
What actual problem would electing the monarch solve?

There are many people in the world who currently have some form of legal privilege by virtue of bloodline. For example, many indigenous people.

I don't want to get into a tit-for-tat about this. For me, at worst The Queen seems benign at best a proud symbol of a great nation.
Portal has the best tutorial in game history.
As a manager, if you see one of your directs singeling out one of his emoloyees, it is your job to find out why. That includes talking to the employee. And because caste is so hard to grasp for non-Indians talks like the one cancelled by Google are so important.

Maybe I have a different view on that, we German's are quite sensitive when it comes to anti-semitism. And as woth caste, if religion is never openly discussed, I have no idea how to spot a jewish co-worker. If that jewish co-worker would complain about about being discriminated, it's more than reasonable to follow up. Same goes for caste. It is up to the employer to create an environment where employees can raise those kinds of concerns openly, most fail. Honestly trying so actually goes along way.
The original essay that this pulls its title from from was written in 2008, and used examples of self-published authors and musicians - purely creative works. None of the startup-bubble, hustle-culture fueled BS that infected the following decade.

VCs are only interested monetizing the "product" aspect of creative ventures so they rephrase the key concepts in MBA blandspeak.
Coffee is dirt cheap. A kilo of coffee is around €8 and you can make ~16 liters or 80 cups with that.
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If you've never ridden the Zephyr cross-country, I can't think of another time I've felt so deeply frustrated that USA hasn't developed a high-speed rail network connecting all its major cities.

If you're on the fence about trains vs. planes and have never done it, give it a try and imagine what it'd be like to be traveling ~200MPH while in the observation car. Still enjoying the decadent landscape views, drinking your beverage of choice, emitting far less carbon than flying, while still traveling quickly, without most of the obnoxious TSA theatrics.
Interesting release, and am very interested as a musician where this leads. Not for Spotify’s sake, but because tools like this are super useful for people who have the ideas in their head, but not the musical background to get a simple tune to work the exact way you want.

The one worry I have and perhaps I am naïve to what the implications of the license are, but do the rights to the tune being processed on the web version of the converter stay with the person inputting the vocals or instrumentation, or does the midi get catalogued by Spotify?

It would seem if you are grabbing the source code you don’t have to worry about something like that, but I’m more curious with what they do with the sound file while processing it on their side. Does it go into their research for their recommendation engine? Or is this purely altruistic?

I want to believe the latter, but Spotify’s own track record on respecting artistic work, especially in adequate compensation for use of artist’s work if it brings ears to their platform leads me to believe that while not nefarious, they are certainly getting more out of this than good press.

If I’m just being a cynic about this, please call me out on it. I understand that I am jaded on this subject in particular, and might be a place where I am quite biased against Spotify and what I see as their furthering of negative traits in music.
> due to current policies

To be clear, are you talking about open immigration? Not that it’s truly open or easy to immigrate, but you seem to be hand waving in that direction.

What do you think should be done about this? It’s not clear to me that closing borders somehow fixes anything.
Pick a niche and become visible great at it. Make sure you have an efficient process for generating leads and new customers.
Brogue is a spiritual successor to the original Rogue, where the goal is not to Kill Anything That Moves but rather to get the Amulet and escape by any means necessary.

You don't get "experience points" for killing anything, and there's no "leveling up" (though drinking potions of life increases your max HP). You can see your HP (and your nutrition) as liabilities but they're also resources -- if you go several dungeon levels without losing any HP, maybe you're being too picky about your fights. If you end up popping a bunch of life potions in the first few levels, maybe you're not being picky enough.

Stealth is a totally valid tactic (press ']' to turn on a view of the stealth radius, notice that spending a turn waiting reduces your stealth radius to 1/2 normal, and also I like to press '\' to turn off the dynamic light effects to make it easier to see my stealth radius). You can get through the game in leather armor (especially if its a special one that lets you reflect incoming spells or that lets you blithely breathe otherwise-harmful atmospheric effects).

"Mobility" builds that let you be super choosy about your engagements are also workable (lots of obstruction, blinking, and tunneling).

Tank builds where you've got enchanted plate and broadsword and you're smashing everything also work, but really only to a point. You won't win going head-to-head with dragons.

"Mage" builds with a couple enchanted damage staves and a ring of wisdom are fun, but I scarcely ever find the items I need to make it work.

Oddly enough, the majority of my deaths are to eels :\

I love love love Brogue. Read the code too, the author is great about doing things like building gradient descent maps for the dungeon level and only invalidating them when the dungeon configuration changes, that kind of thing.
Cartridge distribution network is just like Amazon, right? It already exists.

> Not bad, but not a paradigm shift,

So P100D (100kWh) needs 20 cartridges, or 110kg, instead of nearly 500kg of Li-ion battery. 400kg savings.
The comment means you probably know nothing about vehicle dynamics.
Or too accustomed to dull handling of heavy pickup trucks.
There's also magic for numeric literals.
Generalizing, you need to study prior works, study current research directions, practice / output content (depending on the field).

A good measure is if you can teach a subject. It probably takes more than one attempt before you become an expert

My best advice is to become obsessed with a subject and immerse yourself
Dalit 101
> The woman referred to her alleged rapist as “him” but insiders said that her words were changed to avoid “misgendering” the abuser in an article on the corporation’s website.

That would be bad enough—as well as a professional publication understanding use/mention distinctions and how it is different to quote someone who misgenders someone than to misgender them, both journalists and editors ought to know how to intersperse direct quotations with paraphrase (or explicitly marked editorial insertions) to avoid falsifying quotes while avoiding reproducing problematic words in quotes. But then...

> The BBC article replaced every reference to “he” or “him” with “they” or “them”. A source said the quote was the subject of heated debate prior to publication. Some journalists argued that the quote should remain intact, while others said it should reflect the trans woman’s preferred she/her pronouns.

So they falsified quotes, notionally as (an improper way, when proper ways were available that any professional in their field should know and be proficient in using) to avoid misgendering her, but then they still intentionally misgendered her, just in a different way than the person being quoted had in the altered quotes.

EDIT: Another (flagged, for no apparent reason) comment points out that the BBC article did not, in fact, alter the quotes but used explicitly-maked editorial insertions. So it's not altering the quotes, but still intentionally misgendering under the pretext of avoiding misgendering which is...actually, pretty consistent with the BBCs recent approach to trans issues.
Before becoming a hagiography of Rick Steves (who deserves it, surely) the first part of this essay read like a parody of a New York Times writer who just discovered there exists a world between the coasts, and that people live different kinds of lives than they do.
You have significantly less brake wear on EVs that use regenerative braking (like Teslas). In fact, you use them significantly less due to the regen braking. It is easy to get really rusty brake pads post carwash because you use them so little. It is always recommended to make a point of using your brakes for a few days post carwash so this doesn't happen. All the rest of the time you can use one pedal driving for almost everything.
Does your general comment have to do with this specific study? They mention controlling for all the things you mentioned.
It's an _interactive_ component. How do you propose this be done _without_ javascript?

There is also the github page at https://github.com/oslabs-beta/Svelvet

EDIT: I see what you mean and I agree - _nothing_ works on the page without Javascript. It's just blank.
Please don't imply that I stopped reading because I merely disagreed with something the author said or did. As I implied in my post, I stopped because I found the reading itself to be difficult and unenjoyable. Framing that as "a point [I] disagree with" is uncharitable to me and makes it sound like I'm making an unreasonable or pompous criticism of the author's opinion on the topic about which he is writing.
What was the oneliner they were missing?
I think you've inadvertently made the case for cancelling the "activit talk".

If for example you had a talk in Google Israel that presented the discrimination against Israeli arabs in modern Israel, I suspect you'd get a decent turnout and positive response (especially as Tech is unusually left leaning).

If you had a talk that mentioned colonialism (like you do in your post) you'll just get people fruitlessly arguing with each other ("This is our land from 2,000 years ago, the arabs are the colonists", "This is our/your land thanks to a UN decision, settlements that go beyond the 1948/1967 borders are colonialism", "All you jews are colonists").

You'd just end up further dividing your employees into hostile groups, even if they were previously able to work together (by just being silently tolerant of each other's opinions).

> I also find it really strange that any criticism of Israel is labelled as anti-Semitic.

I think this one is a problem "on both sides".

There are some on the Israeli side that will try to silence criticism by equating it to antisemitism.

There are some antisemites that will express themselves in the form of "reasonable criticism".

There are some that will innocently make some criticism that seems reasonable to them, but due to ignorance of the situation or facts, lack of nuance or just the difficulty of communicating cross culturaly via a limited medium end up with sometimes that seems antisemitic when examined at depth by "the other side".

And no matter which way you go, it is very hard to tell where you are.