skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cash grab will always be superior especially when you factor in the effort making the game. MMOs will be magnitudes harder than making mobile cash grab games.

I honestly thought it was inevitable for Blizzard to go down this route the moment I saw the revenue slides post acquisition. In that slide it showed that King’s mobile games made way more than Blizzards games. At that point, all the MBA suits in the board must have started thinking, “why go through all the hoops of making a good game when you could spend way less money and effort to milk the cash cows?”

Thus the pressure started mounting up on Blizzard to create more “efficient” games like Hearthstone and newer releases instead spending long time creating and refining a game like they have before.
I wonder if they started out with a price point of $110k and went from there or it just sorta turned out that way after adding items and timers.
Or just Zizek.
Yep, that's fairly standard SEO style tactics these days! :-)
Cyber Security Law School
I'm stuck at the same point, and would love a hint / spoiler!
I wish I had more down to earth dreams, really. It is cool to be in a totally different reality, and sometimes when I get a little self-aware in a dream and I concentrate on figuring out whether I'm dreaming, the dream just become more realistic. Like entering a building made of a maze of stairs and actually smelling and feeling the texture of wood. But since my dreams are so disconnected from my daily reality they just fade to oblivion eventually.
When you boot into single user mode, all your normally mounted disks, other than /, are not mounted.

The reason it is on / is so it is always available when / is mounted, and also available when / is the only disk mounted (such as single user mode).
I expect a company to roll over and show its neck if it wants me to give it a good review, none of this “we’ll have separate processes for positive and negative feedback” nonsense. I don’t want to put the developers who DON’T engage in such ploys to be put at a disadvantage, and intuitively I know that they are put at a disadvantage unless people act in the way that I act. That ends up rewarding cowardice instead of bravery and transparency.
I have had a tesla for 3 years and have never had a problem at the supercharger even once
hopefully fast enough
Context: This is a website listed on Google Maps for Texas Tech University's School of Law.[1]

Is this a phishing campaign, or a clever recruitment exercise?

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cybersecurity+Law/@33.5787...
Fourteen year sentence for engineer in China trade secrets case
The N900 was everything I ever wanted. :(
A bit related: with a bit of tinkering, nexcloud can edit office documents online. Pretty useful but your nextcloud server must have sufficient ram to run LibreOffice headless in the background.
How will you use it for web caching?
Show HN: Seal – Verifiable timestamp for your private ideas
If you want to fight bad usage of those words, you shouldn’t complain when they’re correctly used.
The truth I had to unlearn is that coding is a solitary activity, and that coding is the most important part of a senior software engineer’s job. Now I rarely have the chance to code for a few hours straight because if I have enough information to write code then all that’s left is the easy part. The hard part is coordinating, defining the problem, planning for the future, and communicating the current status of the problem. Not to mention onboarding newer devs who haven’t learned the technologies yet.
The casual lack of integrity among entrepreneurs is truly disgusting.
> Things like indendetation, formatting, naming – god forbid you did it differently than I would have.

I agree with chilling out about this when it's a human making the changes...except now that we have autoformatters we can actually be more pedantic about this than ever before :) If the autoformatter doesn't agree with what you wrote, bam, red CI.

> Everyone writes tests

A big thing I've learned over the years is that making your code testable often takes more foresight and experience than actually writing the tests. "What's the right way to test this?" becomes an important question when starting something new. And "Can we make it easier to test this?" becomes an important question when inheriting something.
If I live in a country with public health care, and I choose to become morbidly obese, smoke cigarettes, excessively drink alcohol, develop diabetes, get limbs amputated, and go on disability because I can’t work, I’m expecting the government to foot the bill to keep me alive.

There are many choices people make that they expect others to pay for.
Are you fully satisfied with your setup or are there gaps?
New ICE cars don’t need any kind of servicing for two years either. It wouldn’t be much a change for them.
> Instead of exploring tech without obvious business goals, business goals are so tightly enforced it's very hard to imagine what would happen if completely open exploration was allowed again.

Similar could be said of science research and innovation in general. See this [1] HN submission on "When do ideas get easier to find? (freaktakes.substack.com)".

Two concurrent current trends are taking place that militate against this kind of open exploration, James Burke-ian Connections-style "branching". The mania for revenue optimization, and the siren song of walled garden lock-in. Messy, "wasteful", "dangerous" open ecosystems deeply offend both of those sensibilities, but I think those sensibilities are flawed in not recognizing the intrinsic value of human cognition. It is the same kind of oversight I see when modern people assume their time distant ancestors were also cognitively distant.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31635962
The Helsinki MOOC is great and was just upgraded to JS.

https://fullstackopen.com/en/
If you're looking for a method to increase dream recall (lucid too) then I recommend Vipassana meditation. Works very well.
I do this but specifically for managing call spam. I let messaging through though. Do you ever make mistakes like missing food delivery calls? I haven't found a great solution besides trying to remember to disable DND for those. Maybe I need to give them a dedicated voip number that always punches through, but I think even that could get call spam.
I seriously doubt Putin would agree to an interview if he was going to arrest the interviewer, that just looks bad all the way around. Navalny had many legal issues within Russia, whether they are legitimate or not, he could only ever expect to arrested upon his return, just like if Snowden returned to the US. The situations aren't comparable at all.
App will not connect unless I enable location (2021)
>ZMA really seems to have an impact on how vivid my dreams are.

I notice this with zinc/magnesium/calcium. Having taken it every night since adolescence, it's pretty much a requirement for good sleep. Without, REM city. Granted, less calcium and more magnesium these days.

>It's quite odd. It makes me think about how heavily our experience of life is impacted by our chemistry.

Agreed. There's probably a good argument to be had that developing a supplement dependence for sleep has likely affected the course of my life, for better or worse. Probably worse, but who knows.

As an aside, be careful with B6 supplementation; it can accumulate, causing adverse CNS effects.
> "Benefiting" is only relative: people who managed to exit UST at $1 didn't make a profit, they just avoided being left holding the bag.

That confuses the issue somewhat. 5 years ago, UST didn't exist.

Sometime in the last 2 or 3 years, Do Kwon started to sell millions, maybe billions, of UST to people, 1 UST for $1 USD. In fact, maybe he sold them for less than $1 USD, maybe he sold UST for 80-cents (to fund over a year's worth of time of 18% APY promises).

Everyone who sold UST, over the past 2 years for real USD, got to keep the dollars. The UST bag holders are... well... the bagholders. They have nearly nothing left now.

Even those who sold UST at 80-cents or 60-cents last year or two years ago benefits by selling before everyone else did.

> The people who actually benefited were those who earned the 18% interest from Anchor, which was funded by the suckers whose "investments" went to zero.

The opposite. A bunch of people sold UST to a bunch of others for 82-cents, maybe 90-cents (since it took less than a year for a UST to disappear).

Thanks for your dollars, here's a bunch of UST that soon became worthless.
Here's a description of the focus stacking technique he uses to produce the final photos: https://digital-photography-school.com/a-beginners-guide-to-...
I am. However, there are times where I feel a slight guilt not responding right away and I still catch myself reaching for my phone thinking there has to be some notifications to check.
I like this concept! Good luck with this.
Strong democracies with little to no tolerance for lobbyists.
second this!
This is pretty cool.

If you don't need all the bells and whistles from this (including auth!), I built a homelab status page server that's designed for someone like me that just wants to whip up an SVG in draw.io or diagrams.net and make it semi-interactive:

https://github.com/mmastrac/stylus/

I use it to keep tabs on a small fleet of equipment and get at-a-glance status for everything.
I can't recommend enough the book "Oracle of the Night" by the neuroscientist Sidarta Ribeiro. He enter into the science of the dreams, and teaches how to use them as a source of creativity. Sometimes he wanders, but I think this is what creative scientists do. One of the best science books I've ever read

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/553072/the-oracle-o...
Maybe they should just execute him for not respecting the state's authority. Would that satisfy your lust for a pound of flesh? Sound extreme? So does $573K, that's my point. I don't care that he dared to test the constitutionality of what the state was doing to him (we should thank him for trying), it's excessive and stupid and makes us all look like an uncivilized backwater nation that has no concept of justice or money. They should have at least put a stay on it while it was under judicial review, or capped it. Nope, gotta have our pound of flesh.

Is the cruelty of our state a reflection of our own cruelty, or do you think it's the other way around? Perhaps cruelty feeds cruelty. Maybe if we weren't so cruel all this horrible shit on the news would stop happening so much.

There's not an insignificant chance he will catch a warrant then be jailed for inability to pay the fine and if that happens, he'll probably die in prison. I guess we get to execute him after all, just not so directly. That'll teach him?
Not a specific resource but a good one to start with would be MakerDAO DAI. Note that when people in the space talk about "will algorithmic stablecoins ever work?" They'r usually referring specifically to noncollateralized or undercollateralized stablecoins (like UST). DAI is overcollaterallized so its fundamental model is not really under debate recently. However, DAI is the first major decentralized stablecoin and a lot of concepts and terminology reappear in later ones so understanding what it does and how it works is a great base for understanding algorithmic stablecoins. Much like understanding Bitcoin is useful when looking at other blockchains.

For AMMs, same applies to Uniswap. Their whitepapers(V1,V2,V3) are both accessible and formal enough to be useful.

Also this paper from Curve https://curve.fi/files/stableswap-paper.pdf

Projects like Terra and Anchor are messy enough (some might say willfully misleading and opaque) that you want to be able to recognize lingo and patterns (and, ideally, source code) to come out with somewhat useful results. In some cases, you'll need to be monitoring their Discord, Twitter, and/or Telegram groups to follow them properly - though in those cases, I've taken that as enough of a red flag in itself to disqualify the entire project from my attention.
Curve: https://curve.readthedocs.io/

Terra (Classic): https://docs.wcdc.me/docs/index.html

Anchor: https://docs.anchorprotocol.com/protocol/overview
I think it kinda doesn't matter in this context, though. You can pick up enough in an afternoon to be productive in a new VCS. If I worked at a Mercurial shop, I wouldn't disqualify a candidate that had only used git.

But sysadmin'ing Windows vs. Linux is basically two different jobs. You certainly wouldn't hire someone to be a Linux admin who'd only worked on Windows servers before.
https://www.wired.com/story/female-founders-still-face-sexua...

People of other races often are not believed to be competent. I have personally been in situations where I got contracts because the employer did not believe the other person could do it based on race.

This is not even talking about the generational stolen wealth gap. Right now there are many, many racist people in positions of power that make investing and hiring decisions based on race. You have to bury your head in the sand to not see how many racists have come out of the shadows in the last 6 years. They were there the whole time, making decisions based on race.
top tier companies are also at the top. What they do doesn't necessarily make sense for everyone else
He even teaches how to do lucid dreaming.
Just a friendly reminder that Sonos is a data broker masquerading as a music hardware company.

If you have the necessary skills, expertise and equipment I[1] will pay you to reverse engineer any and all of the hardware devices, network protocols and security measures that Sonos uses in their products.

I will then publish this in a public repository and pay lawyers to keep it live.

This does not help me in any way. It only hurts Sonos.

This is the classical definition of a spiteful action and I can't wait to undertake it.

[1] You know where to find me.
In addition to Trump Derangement Syndrome there is also a Democrat Derangement Syndrome, and many others. Tribalistic news feeds tempt many of our brains into seeing all of life along these lines. Even food ican be political
> Creating one thread for every request you have ( Apache + PHP ) will exhaust the hardware after a few thousands/qps target.

PHP installations more realistically use nginx and FastCGI. This is not one thread per request and it’s also a better design than hosting your entire server and every user request in the same process; that’s just asking for security issues.
I am also. iPhone and Slack give me the tools to suppress the noise, but still catch the signal.

If I could ask for one thing, it’d be an easier way to toggle Silence Unknown Callers (which is in the anti-spam category, not quite what the article is focused on).

I’m old enough to have been a heavy AIM user back in the day. I don’t want to toggle on/off my “readiness for chat”, nor do I want to consider my recipient’s readiness for chat (aside from time of day sensitivity). I prefer today’s tools that put the onus on the recipient to configure their notifications suitably (hint: if in doubt, just turn the notifications off, and poll manually on an appropriate longish interval). If a human complains about your slowness to respond, that’s a social norms problem, not a problem with the tools.
I dont know how I feel about this case (seems like Youtube themselves understand they didnt move fast enough) but this idea that sites hosting user content are publishers is some truly evil modern backstabbing of the internet & what made it possible.

It feels fantastic & absurd, a fictitious & inapplicable label or classification.

This is a threat to basic freedom & if it erodes safe harbor protections it will have vast vast & terrifying chilling effects; online sites will have to radically scale back what they can offer the public. It's sad to think any random state can layer in whatever legal nightmare it might cobble together. Humanity shouldnt be so jointly bound to whatever deadweight amy random country cooks up.
> ... a specialized chemistry company.

With the continuous advances in materials sciences, I wish they had pivoted their expertise towards that direction. Though arguably BASF and similar already occupy that sector, there are various photothermal and similar photochemical advances that need their operational and manufacturing prowess to bring out of the labs.
Cluelessness is the reason most people eventually fail
same for me too

i remember my dreams in full details, like the stage, lightning, color, cast, interactions, dialogs, etc.

but mostly only small part of the whole story

music i often hear either when i fall into sleep or wake up, but also when i play it in the dream like a guitar

also i dream of pseudo-code

yeah, sometimes i wish there was a way to screen-capture my dream, because some of them would make amazing blockbusters (like some dystopian lost worlds)
Universal access to free school meals end this summer
I definitely can’t hire anyone in this thread to work on cell phone performance. We fight for 10 KBs of memory and yes, we are still doing this in 2022.

Even on a server, you may have TBs of RAM but you don’t have that much L1 cache nor that much memory bandwidth.
I might be too Gen X for this but I'm a firm believer in just cultivating a messaging etiquette with the people I know and not outsourcing it to a status message. My boomer family knows they can always contact me via text and chat and my millenial/zoomer family knows I'm often away from my phone hours at a time. It seems pretty manageable, honestly.
Chesa Boudin’s Lawless City
>I really hope it continues to be possible for this art form to exist.

Hopefully AI doesn't one day ruin the demoscene as well. Seems like a Pandora's box for cheating and/or asymmetric resource advantages.
depends on how its referenced I suppose
Most salaries are based on collective agreements. https://www.tyosuojelu.fi/web/en/employment-relationship/pos...

Tech sector: https://teknologiateollisuus.fi/sites/default/files/inline-f...

I make around 2300e before tax, and around 1900e after.

> What is a woman's salary in Finland?

Much less than a man's salary.
Today I learned there are two fatty acids with only a letter difference. Linolenic vs linoleic.
It's a hard one to learn in the first 5 or 10 years or so I think. For me the correct approach is the one that solves the problem, feels good enough for the user (with varying definitions of good enough depending on the business goals), and doesn't create a maintenance headache.

There is a large amount of room in there for correct solutions.
Source code can also be viewed online via https://madethisthing.com/iq/Elevated , which is a platform made by one of the demo developers to share code.
this book describes a lot of experiments about dreams: Oracle of the Night, by Sidarta Ribeiro

from rats with electrodes to brain imaging tech
What's $10bn less short term cap gains taxes less $4bn?
Everyone wants a scapegoat and easy answers where there are none. That said SF government is provably corrupt (and every couple years someone goes down) but the Chesa recall is a side show.
I haven't found any. Have you?
When I am in a dream I have access to a body of dream-memories. I mean, in the waking life I have this one body of memories, and in dreamland I have this other one.

I think this is related to the phenomenon of walking into a room and forgetting why you came in.

Memories are connected to the rest of your perspective. Change perspective and switch memories.

Change perspective intensely enough and you could flip all of your memories. Even your identity.
How would one even learn how to do something like this?

I feel like I have a high level understanding of most parts of the stack, but graphics programming has eluded me thus far.

Would writing a ray tracer be a good starter project? I know I've seen it recommended by several people before.
This is why a lot of people don't test or claim that testing takes more time since "we spend half our time fixing the tests" - a lack the experience to design code that's testable.

I think it's also worth pointing out that up to a point, code that's testable tends to be more maintainable. This largely has to do with coupling and cohesion. Code that's hard to test in indicative of too much coupling and/or not enough cohesion.

This pendulum can swing too far the other way though. I hate when relatively straightforward code is made more complicated in the name of testing (often comes up when dealing with non deterministic sources of data, such as the current time). But this, in my opinion, is a comparatively small problem.

100% you should test private functions if it makes sense. Whether something is public or not has no bearing on the value you'll derive from testing. If anything, sometimes you can avoid real headache by focusing specifically on the private function (by definition, the private function has to be more focused than the public function calling it).

Also, we should probably all be fuzzing more.
https://archive.ph/LyK2W
It works, just that the incentive of a BigCo is to maximise shareholder value and thus revenue which results into hacking everything we can and exploit user behavior to squeeze the most out of the pockets of consumers.

Basically the mechanism of incentives just works against us.

We do really need a renaissance of authentic & sustainable products which are profitable and are there to delight, not to min/max our savings.
> it is a powerful tool that produces catastrophic results when wielded by those who do not understand how it works.

In this case the "catastrophic result" is being forced to resort to email.
SourceTree was originally shareware – I'm pretty sure I expensed a license at whatever job I was at. When Atlassian bought SourceTree in 2011 their grand plan was to pimp it out in order to drive customers to Bitbucket. Eventually they were going to charge for it (so the worst of both worlds really). I noped out because it was clear that Atlassian wanted SourceTree to become a bitbucket client instead of remaining a git+subversion client.

I don't want a bitbucket account and never bothered to check how often it would phone home to ensure you had an up-to-date bitbucket account. I think the Sublime folks have a better track record here and I fully expect Sublime Merge to get to the point where I'd want to buy it if I wanted a git GUI.

Unfortunately for Atlassian, by 2011 Bitbucket already lost out to Github and they hadn't realized it yet.
Yes, this is similar.

In Rust you control yourself the allocation on the stack or the heap. So before reaching out to a memory pool/arena, it's too tempting trying to put everything on the stack for "maximum performance".
My experience has been that spark actually doesn’t work with real big data without significant babysitting. It’s agorithms, be it window functions or joins, can take forever if not never finish on actual data that’s hundreds of terabytes large (even tens of tb). You immediately need to worry about crap like garbage collectors, worker memory, cache and data distribution. The majority of the data engineers out there can not actually deal with these problems but spark + actually not big data let’s them think they’re actually good at their jobs when in reality they’re not.
I think a tool that did that based on naming conventions would be pretty neat - group tables if they share a prefix “user_” for example. Seems like it would be a straightforward enough implementation in some existing tooling.
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