skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly that's pretty cheap for a F2P game. The most financially successful F2P games will have planned for spend to 'go infinite'. This may be by setting up money fights on a ranked ladder, or constantly rotating out characters so that spenders have to reset progress.

The fact that you can max out in Diablo Immortal, and so cheaply, shows Blizzard still hasn't learned what F2P is all about. They are listening too much to their Gamer customers who are a microscopic piece of their TAM and unlikely to source many whales. Whales are incredibly wealthy people for whom $110k is weekend fun money. Gamers are a cohort that like to brag about fun hours per dollar. They're budget customers.

Blizzard thinks that you make console & PC games on mobile and you make mobile money. A lot of game companies from the before-mobile-times think this is a formula. And their customers egg them on. But if you build the mobile game those customers want, you will lose money at worst and leave money on the table at best. Talking 90% of the money still on the table.

Blizzard's biggest problem is perhaps that their IP appeals only to Gamers, who as a culture resist F2P business models (budget customers.) This article is one such example, meant to stoke outrage within that group. The people who are going to spend $110k on Diablo Immortal don't read Gamer media, or even consider themselves Gamers. They've never been on Twitch and they don't have Steam accounts. Gamers think they are the center of the gaming universe but mobile gaming audiences have turned them into a niche audience in less than a decade.

I think Blizzard should give up at this point and keep making games mech-aesthetically tailored for the budget Gamer audience. Blizzard and Gamers alike think WoW was a huge gaming phenomenon but on the mobile scale it registers somewhere around Subway Surfers. Blizzard IP does not splash with mobile audiences. When a Gamer brand enters the mobile market it's akin to releasing a video game movie in theaters. Diablo Immortal is a lot closer to Mario Bros Movie than Sonic Movie in that analogy.
This is a common trope. When you're arguing against something that is obviously good, there's not many avenues left, so you hit the same three again and again:

* According to the perversity thesis, any purposive action to improve some feature of the political, social, or economic order only serves to exacerbate the condition one wishes to remedy.

* The futility thesis holds that attempts at social transformation will be unavailing, that they will simply fail to "make a dent."

* Finally, the jeopardy thesis argues that the cost of the proposed change or reform is too high as it endangers some previous, precious accomplishment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rhetoric_of_Reaction
if you use linux you can listen to my brown-noise podcast by typing this in your favorite terminal emulator:

play -n synth brownnoise.

Please do a thumbs-up gesture if you like it.
Agreed; I would add that the monarchy also does much more damage by creating and perpetuating the British class system. I’m not sure it would collapse without them, but it would certainly seem less legitimised. When you step back for a moment and think what the phrase “lower class” applied to people actually means and implies, it’s hard not to be disgusted, horrified and frightened. The “lower class” only exists for the “upper class”, and fascists.
I'd start with, "What do you mean by 'random'?"
Rural Japan. I am moving out of it, and most rural communities are very aware of the fact that they are dying out. Houses are not only cheap, some are free. I have a friend who is living in a house just in exchange of cutting the grass there regularly (long story). Landlords have to pay for the cost of destruction if one house they own becomes abandoned. They are happy to have a tenant even for free if they fix things there and keep the place in a good shape.

Schools are closing one after the other. The countryside is littered with abandoned schools. People there are despaired to see their cities shrink.

When we arrived from Tokyo with a young kid, we were more than welcomed and locals helped us localize the best houses for us.
They do not appear to be ramping up on any of my VPS nodes. I see the same averages to my tarpit ports on all my nodes.

# VPS They all look similar to this
iptables -L INPUT -n -v | grep TAR | sort -r | awk '{print $1"\t" $3"\t" $11}'
2680 TARPIT dpt:23
2657 TARPIT dpt:6379
170K TARPIT dpt:445
1186 TARPIT dpt:80
882 TARPIT dpt:22
757 TARPIT dpt:443
591 TARPIT dpt:5900
311 TARPIT dpt:21
296 TARPIT dpt:3389
119 TARPIT dpt:873

Some poorly coded bots appear to get stuck on 445 indefinitely. On the other hand I do see a vast increase on my home network to 5900 VNC. It is usually about double the hits to 3389 RDP

# Home
iptables -L INPUT -n -v | grep TAR | sort -r | awk '{print $1"\t" $3"\t" $11}'
9013 TARPIT dpt:5900
1628 TARPIT dpt:22
1274 TARPIT dpt:23
1092 TARPIT dpt:445
119 TARPIT dpt:3389
40 TARPIT dpt:21

[Edit]
Here is a second home connection that has a higher uptime. Running tcpdump it looks like the latest VNC bots do not recognize and avoid tarpits.

# Second Home connection
iptables -L INPUT -n -v | grep TAR | sort -r | awk '{print $1"\t" $3"\t" $11}'
50532 TARPIT dpt:22
44301 TARPIT dpt:445
33520 TARPIT dpt:23
6718 TARPIT dpt:80
6439 TARPIT dpt:3389
184K TARPIT dpt:5900
1091 TARPIT dpt:21
271 TARPIT dpt:1900
Was this around the time people messed with that MIT pgp keyserver? (Blanking on a cite)

I've noticed these "Youtubers" doing a lot of things because they are not part of the hacker community, but adjacent to it, while being propelled to prominence and given $$$$$ to fund their lifestyle, it really grinds my gears.

Edit: found a cite!

https://gist.github.com/rjhansen/67ab921ffb4084c865b3618d695...
Strange that the GP's comment is the only google result for the phrase...

edit: Ah, I think the original was "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch"
I liked the Three Line Novel thing on AOL.
There's more to a computer than just the CPU ISA.

While this particular thread is about the GPU, there is indeed "something different" about the M1 otherwise too. It is quite the non-standard SoC: unlike basically everything else (other than early Broadcom RPi crap) it even uses a custom Apple interrupt controller instead of the ARM GICv2/3. Also a custom IOMMU "DART" and a bunch of other peripherals. Very unusual: NVMe exposed as a plain hardcoded MMIO device (not enumerated over PCIe).
I accepted those terms, and was added to Unreal's repo, but didn't get a notification. I think the mentioned group is some subset of the repo users, but 400k is such a big number that I'm not sure who they could be.
And it should be regulated as well, for the reasons you mention. At the very least a tax to partially offset its effects on public health.
Is it possibly that good?

Looking quickly at https://www.kela.fi/web/en , I see, for example, that, yes, there are unemployment benefits, but there is a work requirement.

I see that the sickness allowance is tied to income (though there is a minimum rate).

I see that there is an entire section called "Conscripts", which is worth noting.

I see a section that maybe(?) applies to your situation (?):

> Researchers who receive a Finnish grant for at least 4 months must take out insurance under the Farmers’ Pensions Act (MYEL) if the grant amounts to at least EUR 4,131 annually (in 2022). The entitlement to Kela benefits for researchers who receive a grant is based on this pension insurance policy for self-employed persons. The insurance is provided by the Farmers’ Social Insurance Institution (MELA).

Is your work funded by grants from the Finnish government?

In the US, there are various kinds of research grants too of course (none tied to housing, AFAIK, though it surely contributes to work requirements), but they are quite competitive to get, and the getting of them is basically what comprises the fairly high-status career of "professor". (Also some parts of the Defense and non-profit sectors.)

Is that how your work is funded?

I'm really curious.
Always start a programming interview by asking questions. You know there is exactly one duplicate in the list because you wouldn’t start coding without thinking about what the problem left unspecified and getting the interviewer to clarify.
I assume in your analogy the general population is still buying the same amount of grain, so losing a silo of grain to rot is a pure loss to the farmer, and in a way is a loss to grain buyers (prices have to go up slightly).

But in the office space scenario, less office space is being used overall. This means that yes, landlords are losing the value of their investment, but (former) tenants are gaining access to cash flow that would have been tied up in rent and maintenance. So value has not been destroyed in the same way it was in the silo example.

I don't know if this is a good or bad thing, just pointing out a material difference in the two things you're trying to analogize.
> The rationale is that in a correctly written program, an Error should never be thrown. [...] you shouldn't catch them, or at least not catch them and continue

In that case, why not just abort? Why give the user a footgun like this?
While I can't say that the monarchy isn't in many ways parasitic and smugly cozy in the financial exceptionalism it gets treated with, I think a lot of this article's focus is absurdly misplaced.

Let's assume for a moment that the absolute total assets of the Royal Family, both private and those legally tied to the crown as an institution though nominally the private property of the Queen and her family (respectively claimed to be about a billion dollars for the first and $28 billion for the second, wider category of assets), are all expropriated and given to the state for public funding use. What does this amount to? What could it really buy or do and for how long?

Even assuming that some funds and sources of income are concealed through quasi-legal or even completely illegal asset protection mechanisms (and they almost surely are) the Family's total assets would still surely amount to no more than a fraction of the UK government's annual spending, which in fiscal 2020-21 officially sat at about £1,098.6 billion, or nearly 1.4 trillion dollars.

This is the more fundamental point that so often doesn't get looked at by pieces like these. They focus so intensely on the amounts often concealed by the wealthy through tax avoidance, tax evasion and so forth while bemoaning how these assets are thus implicitly stolen from public use by the state, while failing to sincerely examine the simple fact that most developed modern governments annually collect and spend such vast amounts of money that their totals dwarf even the full total assets of any private fortune.

Much of that public spending is necessary, sure, but how much of it could easily be trimmed or done better in ways that would reduce it even by small percentages that would still be vast in comparison to private assets owned by the crown. Should the focus not be more heavily oriented to seriously scrutinizing how the biggest parasite of all, the state uses its funds? At the very least not analyzing that philosophically seems absurdly blind.

And do governments spend money terribly at times? Of course they do. The U.S Iraq and Afghanistan wars cost the country 2 trillion or more dollars across two decades. For what? The UK'S participation in these same wars cost that country an officially audited total of over £21 billion sterling. This doesn't even include certain time frames and categories of related spending. This amount alone -almost entirely pissed away for pseudo-imperial adventure to no concrete gain- nearly matches all known assets, both private and official crown property, of the Royal Family. Not to defend them or their special status, but things like this make much more obvious the real area for focus on how powerful entities spend money.
Considering they began as a playing card company perhaps it's not so surprising.
Here is Trimmed Mean PCE Inflation Rate vs. Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items in U.S. City Average

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=QcoR
Thanks - really good to discover this!

Interesting to note the size of the samples that Apple is using:

* Balanced noise: 1.8MB

* Bright noise: 1.8MB

* Dark noise: 1.8MB

* Ocean: 62.4MB

* Rain: 63.7MB

* Stream: 72.1MB

That's a lot of effort to ensure your background water sounds are (presumably) high fidelity and non-repeating!
Just moved back to the countryside, this article makes me think about hooking up some microphones in the woods and catching the progression of birds into frogs into rain sounds into birds that happens every night. Certainly a big part of why I moved out of the city, and you could have a new "episode" every day.
I failed to practice answering questions that I already knew the answer to. I also think the interviewers style had something to do with putting me off balance (it became adversarial after I pointed out this was just alien dictionary, I probably would have had a better result pretending not to have seen the problem before). Or maybe that’s just how things are at Amazon?

My Google and Facebook interviews went much better in comparison. None of their questions were top ten LeetCode ones.
Solution to gun crime is improving gun-related convictions
But it's sort of obvious to me that to wouldn't push prices down so much that most renters, some of whom are quite poor and and have poor credit, could own.

Plus, even if you are putting 50% more capacity on the market, you are also putting multiples of that in demand on the market, since renters who don't know each other often live in the same house.
I spent $7 and just finished the main storyline. Then I joked to my friends “okay I’m level 60 I’m done now”. But then I thought about it and I uninstalled the game. I beat it, I get how the game works, I got an authentic Diablo experience. I’m done now.
For my uses there is always too much additional nonsense with noise apps. Here's 5 lines of Faust that satisfies all my noise requirements (a noise generator and a lp filter with simple UI) you can export as ab android app or to various other platforms: https://faustide.grame.fr/?autorun=1&voices=0&name=exfaust0&...
On the flip side, we questioned a candidate the usual way with pertinent technical challenges and so on. Then when driving in a van to lunch (our habit was to do a social segment as well as technical) I asked some puzzle questions - add 6 feet to a rope around the world, stretch it out and how far off the ground would it be? and suchlike. He was charmed, we brainstormed some answers and had a fun lunch.

Years later, now a senior Engineer at our place, he admitted he had been going to give us a miss that day, until that conversation in the car.
Windows do not log the passwords they tried, so we can't know which ones were used

Would be interesting to create a server daemon that listens on TCP port 3389 and implements the login portion of the RDP protocol to 1) Be able to gather information about the passwords used and 2) Experiment with ways to lock up or stall the scanners.
I deleted my entire account rather than do a tutorial someone put out for a large dataset you could host on Amazon, because I was so convinced that any computations not done on my personal device might be observed without my consent nor a warrant.

I have zero confidence in Amazon, they should have stuck to books or thought more than ten-ish years out.
The only question you should be asking is: Are these shares listed on a public market? If yes, you can value them at market price. If no, their current value is zero.
These characteristics are not true for most large cities. San Francisco for example suffers none of this.
Most exciting that they are working on federation support that'll tie individual self-hosted servers together.

https://nlnet.nl/project/Gitea/
Relevant discussion on Modules, Monoliths, and Microservices, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26247052 (2021).
Really disappointing post from QuestDB. I would have expected them to do some research on how to design CH table schema before doing such kind of benchmark.
The queries used does not take into account the primary key/order by fields. Based on query to be optimized, once could use Projections or MV. Perhaps a bit more work is needed, but that's the clickhouse way of doing it.
How do you define "AI" versus algorithns vs heuristics?
> Apple concluded that Automated Reference Counting was a significant memory and CPU win over running a GC

I really don’t think it is true in the general case. Of course Apple will claim that, having betted on it with Swift, and also it may be true in their general niche (mobile devices with not much RAM). But if we are in a server setting with plenty of RAM available, tracing GCs of e.g. the JVM are quite green on the CPU (which is another important factor in this setting), and they provide probably the best throughput (as GC can happen on another thread concurrently)
I have found there are people who enjoy getting into the weeds of problem solving (possibly a minority) and other people who work really well with the weed divers in applying their results.
I am a person who has benefited from this symbiotic relationship in school and in my profession, from the helpful study partner to the helpful stackoverflow answer. All of them have enabled me to build things bigger than I would be capable of doing alone, and they have seen their efforts as a crucial building block.
Figure out what you enjoy and find people/tools/forums who compliment you.
Odd thing to blame the youth for. Losing, or having stolen from them? The people on this site who make these things are the ones making those decisions, if you expect a 14 year old to take hard ethical stances on theoretical privacy rights you are crazy.
It's more than what your typical person can do, maybe, but the cost of the loan to develop a duplex in SF is not as large as you are making it out to be. There could be plenty of entrants to that market.
> I’ve found by reading papers about it that 1 bit error per 4 GB RAM per 3 days is guaranteed to happen.

This estimate is several orders of magnitude too high. We’d be seeing weird bit flips and file corruption all over the place if this was even close to being true.

I have ECC systems that will report the number of errors detected and corrected. Still waiting to see any errors on my main machine with 64GB of RAM.

At server farm scale, the majority of memory errors come from a very small number of faulty memory sticks. It’s not an even distribution of errors across all memory.
> It wasn't liked by the right-wing government, even though they implemented it in the first place.

Quite the conundrum. On one hand, it’s a neat tool for class warfare, an occasion to have a laugh about those bums who cannot control themselves, and drone on about Protestant values and work ethic. On the other hand, some chums would make less money, and we cannot have that.
Sorry I don't have an answer but is there an open source tetris implementation?

(It's a good game.)
>Why would mobile devices need to do this themselves? Couldn't Google do this with a podcast/audiobook service

To answer your question, what's the baseline premise of how podcasts should work on a mobile phone?

- Should podcasts/audiobooks continue to be local files such as mp3/m4b that's copied to the mobile phone? If so, the companion technology to enable "captions" would also require a local transcript file that's copied to the phone. (Like srt files for mkv.) In that case, a Google podcast transcript service that created such text files would require the whole podcast ecosystem and app players to change and recognize timestamped transcript files. E.g. even if you embed transcript into mp3/m4b container files, Apple's Podcast player app isn't going to know about it. So would it require everyone to download 3rd-party podcast players? So this scenario -- while not impossible -- has a lot of barriers to adoption. Too few consumers probably care about it.

- Or should podcasts/audio be streamed from the cloud -- like Youtube videos -- to more easily enable your captions feature request? In this scenario, Google's podcast transcription wouldn't require embedding the text in new audio file formats for distribution. But you still have the mobile apps incompatibility issue of displaying the captions for podcasts. Again, Apple's Podcast app doesn't know about streamed captions. You also have content creators locked into Google's hypothetical podcast-with-captions-streaming cloud ecosystem which many wouldn't want to do.
Yeah, the better I've become as a software developer, the more unnatural and almost dehumanizing do I realize the whole developer lifecycle is.
Existential risk = extinction of humanity.

I'm not sure how there are degrees of extinction of humanity that are bad.
I also participated in Hacktoberfest ... I think it was 2018. I fixed some bugs in my friend's code that he wrote using OpenCV and a second PR was where I added some code to implement an AVL tree that I wrote for my lab. The other three commits were just low quality stuff from what I can remember. Got a nice T shirt though.
Nothing, if they're made from organic sources, if they're made from fossil fuels they're part of the problem. The carbon in organic hydrocarbons comes almost entirely from the atmosphere, rather than being pulled up from underground.
So basically crypto, but for audio.
How is it cheating if the panel is really able to perform as measured?
Not anymore ...
Since it wasn't talking about cost, it makes no assumption that anything is "free". As for perfection, I was assuming the reader could multiply 400 by whatever number < 1 was the actual efficiency.

Unstated was whether the difficulty of running breeder reactors makes this unworkable. It very well might, in practice.

I will note that the demonstrated U collection techniques (like polyamidoxime adsorbers) seem quite cheap enough for fueling breeder reactors.
You said “shouldn’t” because you “can’t get childhood back” so you actually didn’t really imply it, you just stated it outright.

It’s also a terrible take! “Don’t teach kids interesting and complex things, it might be related to something someone does for a living!”
Ask HN: Designing a self-motivating program to build and ship projects
NOTE: I am explicitly leveraging Cunningham's Law.

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About me: entrepreneur wannabe, overeducated, too much experience, financially stable, insecure (fighting Anxiety).

The goal: to have a profitable company selling bits (not atoms, not time) that allows me to quit my full-time executive job making 6-figure.

Methodology:

A: Brainstorm on my own, with the help of Google, to come up with a never-ending list of projects, Tiny Projects' style, then allocate $1,000 investment budget and 2-weeks to each, if the project achieves traction fine, otherwise move on to the next project.

B: The goal of project # 1 would be for me to actually start and ship, something I have been procrastinating for too long now.

C: As I continue with my projects, they will be more and more commercial in nature.

D: Each project will be low_risk_low_capital / high_impact_high_reward project.

Scope of this post: Looking for insightful comments, criticism, accolades, encouragements, and links to useful resources.

TIA
People want more space. They want more space in the country. They want more space in the city. A 2 bedroom urban apt doesn't accommodate 2 people WFHing, so roommates split up, adult children move out, established owners upsize, it's a general increase in demand everywhere, and evidently more than compensated for some people going urban-to-rural.
It is the perspective that is consistent with how we know reality to function, its usefulness or lack thereof doesn't play in.
> The vast majority could not name Tux

This is why the year of the Linux desktop is never happening. People outside the echo chamber don’t realize how tiny it is.
I remember before 2005 or so, the term "gaming" was exclusively used by casinos. We've come full circle.