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I feel like we're well past due for some kind of price hike on AAA video games. Games were $60 when I was a kid, and inexplicably, they still are, for the most part.

Unfortunately, since investors have figured out that the subscription model extracts the most profit possible, I have a feeling we're going to be seeing more and more of that rather than a simple price increase.

Wouldn't surprise me if we even see Steam unveil something like Xbox Game Pass for their marketplace within the next few years. Maybe the worst part is the fact that you no longer actually own anything when all you're paying for is a subscription, but that's more or less how Steam already works, minus the recurring payments.
What force do you personally condone to others [video]
Show HN: Georeferencing century-old fire insurance maps
I come from a worse environment than you and have risen to a higher position. (I was making $1m/yr last year - if you want any kind of token)

I still don’t think tech is a meritocracy and will continue to know that. Do not buy into this delusion.

Just because you made it - meritocracy it does not make.
why can't a new law be passed to reduce from 40 hour week to 20 hour week now that women are in workforce?
OP mentions they’re not a fan of smart watches, but in case you don’t mind wearing one, you can get a pretty good setup with one. I have an Apple Watch and use the Repeat Timer app (pro version) [0], which lets me create a timer that goes off every 20 minutes, and which has a rest interval of 20 seconds before resuming the main timer, which lets me follow the 20/20/20 rule just by paying attention to the vibrations on my watch. You have to remember to turn it on every day, so I use the Reminders app to do that every weekday morning. Overall, I find myself at the end of the day with noticeably less eyestrain.

[0]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/repeat-timer-looping-reminder/...
I'm honestly disappointed that I've never faced an interview with a question like this. I think this kind of test is fun and a good chance to show off liquid thinking skills. I did them for practice for a while in college preparing for the job market but then it just never came up.

Solving a toy problem on the fly in a language you're going to be working in seems totally fair and reasonable to me.
Once Linux is running on these, the BSDs won't be far behind.

While there are Linux projects for every conceivable device, they often lose momentum and die off. The BSDs, on the other hand, don't. A NetBSD port for an iPad will stay as up-to-date as for a Raspberry Pi 4, eventually 5, et cetera.

Can't wait! A portable ARM device with a good screen and excellent battery life will be quite useful.
It cuts down on the feasibility of generic internet scan + brute force attacks like described in this article. It's not an answer to specialized/focused attacks though cleaner logging may help you notice those.
Nicotine (no matter the form) is suspected to be cancer promoting: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553893/

It induces oxidative stress which is not necessarily a good thing.
Yeah that’s why i said believe in. Whether you tend to believe if fewer is better, or more is better. To me it seemed like you belong to the former, and thats why i made a specific question which you are actively avoiding answering.
People without depression can feel moods
Hah, I just did the math on this myself, found the answer to be 0.955 feet, and assumed I had done something wrong, or was off by a factor (or two or three) of ten.

That is unexpected!
A Dockerfile for Perl 5.36 / Alpine, with Working SSL
I think he means this: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/13/blackrock-vanguard-found-rel...
>Parenthood is by far the most subsidized personal choice in the universe.

The amount spent on keeping shipping lanes protected, the world "stable", and older people having access to medical care are, in the US, subsidized more I believe.
its almost as if there should be better labour laws
Most of the retailers are in it to dump onto a bigger fool.

This makes them both perpetrators of, and victims of fraud.
I mean, I've been on the other side too, I know why companies don't share that information. But, given that they won't, why should I waste my time and energy?
The inverse worked for me: I wrote a game to become a better programmer.

I recommend most beginners to start with a simple solitaire card game, make a polished card game, complete with tutorial, pausing, win/lose conditions. The reason is the graphics and flow of the game are already a common thing, so planning it is minimal and the focus is on the coding.
Not sure what you mean ...

Northern line had a much needed extension along to battersea

Picadilly line stations have been seeing a lot of elevator and escalator replacements.

Circle and district line new trains are magnificent.

Add in the tfl rail connections, the outer circle line of sorts that creates
Great, but that’s a different thesis than promised by the title.
I've been thinking of making Yet Another Git Repo Browser™ from scratch these last couple of years, with features I've been missing in gitweb and with a cleaner/more familiar UI. Maybe it's time to revive that old prototype.

What issues did you have with gitweb? And what stuff did you patch up?
It's n-1. I should have put the number of chairs in the question. I wasn't really trying to quiz everyone here, just identify which mind bender it was.

The "twist" on the answer is that you start below all the other chairs and finish above all the other chairs, so you must have passed them all along the way. I saw this immediately and answered "99" or whatever it was. In retrospect, I think they couldn't conceive of anyone figuring it out on the fly.
People keep saying games should cost more, and yet games routinely gross orders of magnitude more than in the past due to sugnificantly expanded market.
(2020) But so high level it's still relevant.
Nope. Just Machine Doing
You probably meant a portable ARM Linux device; I think it is just difficult to get a team of Linux developers committed to fine-tuning the battery efficiency of the Linux (maybe a specific distro) for the tablet, so I am not hopeful about having an excellent battery life, as much as I would want it to happen.
So they claim that they will strike Ukraine if missiles are supplied: “we will strike at those targets which we have not yet been hitting.”

But it looks like they would do it anyway, as they strike new targets every day.

So there really is no difference.
This happened at all my previous employers at one point or another. Most famously a thread about unsubscribing from a mailing list that nobody really knew about but had everyone in the company on it. For weeks there'd be some random field sales guy or a marketing person in random parts of the world replying all.
I have fond memories of Color Robot Battle from my childhood. Setting up two robots and heading off to school while they spend hours fighting.

https://corewar.co.uk/colorrobotbattle.htm
Tom Oxley: A brain implant that turns your thoughts into text
I wonder if any legal difficulties will arise from this. Since Yahoo owns AOL/AIM, and this violates their IP/copyright I presume. Though I'm very happy that this was created.
What makes the difference?
https://youtu.be/nqGJUKaaLU4
Some are conscious of it but there are many people bowled over by either the supposed ideology or just a vague sense of it being a next big thing combined with FOMO.
Our favorite test is A, A, B, B

It’s surprising how often a test could be set up incorrectly or have other technical issues which this test can catch.

We try to ensure a statistically significant result on both A’s or both B’s before determining a winner.

It does take longer to run this test, but should give a much higher degree of accuracy.
It wasn’t an infinite runner. It was puzzle levels with blocks you stopped on and timed jumps.

Anyone who describes Mario run as an “infinite runner” didn’t play it.
In my "limited understanding " of "web tech"? I thought it may be possible to use some kind of manipulative? and/or filtering? proxy to allow old ipads to use modern websites. This proxy could be remote like on a amazon or some other server somewhere OR as a embedded device that just operated on wifi. My background is as a electronics engineer who worked in embedded software dev ( few years) and then as a software test analysist (many years) . I have several "old" ipads ...
I install Uber when I need to use it, then deinstall it after pickup. If I forget to deinstall it, Uber kindly send me a notification reminder (random text with with a percent symbol within it), to remind me to deinstall it.
Okay, I've been nerd-sniped, there goes my Sunday night.

Counter-snipe: https://challenge.synacor.com
Oh I remember that - they were in competition with Tandem Non Stop systems using MIPS processors.

I used to program for those machines for a bank using TAL (Tandem Application Language) running their Guardian OS.
"Correct" isn't a boolean condition of a program.
Counterpoint anecdata, I was unemployed for a year, and got my first job interview the first week I set up LinkedIn. Stayed there 6 years and has led to my subsequent career.

I dont believe you need LinkedIn premium at $60/month though
I'm sure there's people who do meth recreationally that say the same thing about my fairly small dosage but daily adderall usage.

There's something to be said for a little bit all the time being as valid as a lot every now and then. They're focused on different effects and facets of life.

In my mind it's 'doing large doses all the time' that's generally a problem (and even then only from a 'hey, you might need to work on yourself a bit and take a deep look at why you're doing that' perspective).
I've used a zowie weird mouse for nearly 10 years now, I'd buy another.
Moved to the city.

I grew up in a farming town. When I was a teen, it was obvious to me that I'd be unemployed all year except summers if I stayed there. And my interest was in technology, of which there was basically none in the town.

I was working for a cleaning company, and they lost the contract. They said if I moved to the city, they'd keep me employed. I packed up and moved within days. I stayed with the cleaning company for a couple years later, then got my first tech job and the rest is history. I've never looked back.
> It's just more communism and less freedom.

How does women entering the work force (from your previous post) equal less freedom? Less freedom for whom? Certainly not women. Since you equate more communism with less freedom, I will assume you agree that money provides freedom, if women can only work as unpaid housewives, they have no freedom. It has nothing to do with their husband, cruel, unfair, or otherwise. This may be surprising, but not all women want kids or marriage, or may want them but also find great joy in working accomplishments - many just did not have those options in any safe stable way until recently. (historicity speaking)

That's not less freedom, it's more, for both women and men (not as much stigma or pressure for not being the 'provider' when they may not want to be) - it does lessen some power and control males have historicity had over society and others. And that can be threatening for those who enjoy limiting others freedoms and controlling them.
Said another way, the compensation is pitiful.

And one gives up so much time and energy being a parent, unless you're wealthy enough to outsource large chunks of the work. (Daycare in the US is 10-25K per year.)
You end up with a huge security incentives problem. If there's a way to extract the value from one account and give it to another, you massively increase the incentive to phish users, set up black markets for buying items off of a hacked account, or just transfer it to your own.
Ever been to a big city in asia?

There is a reason its the MTR (of Hong Kong) Crossrail Line...
If you can't gift items, it seems like a huge missed opportunity because I feel like there's a lot of things people don't buy for themselves but they might be willing to buy for other people as a gift.

For instance I don't think I would ever spend 30 dollars on a bottle of wine to drink at dinner, but I could pay 50 or 60 to buy a bottle of wine as a special gift to a friend.
One solution here is using an app like Daywise, that batches and delivers your notifications. Some are useful but doesn't need in the moment attention. Has massively reduced my screen time.
This seems to be the final step of decentralization.
Sensory properties of chile pepper heat – food quality and cultural preference
Yeah the Harrison Bergeron example is definitely hyperbole
Even without those precautions, how does the risk compare to commuting to work by car five days a week? I imagine the risk of chronic effects is orders of magnitude less.
What are you microdosing? There was a great HN comment that I'll never find that said microdosing LSD had no productivity benefit on the person. Instead, it made normal tasks just take longer, and because you're high, small task completions feel both more challenging and more profound once you complete them. Your post reminds me of the mumbo jumbo of coming down from an acid trip, "expand your mind" with nothing concrete to talk about, because you've just scrambled your brain for a while.
I love mynoise.net! Am a very happy monthly donor. My two main use cases:

1. mixing "white rain" with "88 keys" to focus at work

2. downloaded an hour-long "white rain" to use as background noise for my newborn
You could set up a payment system to buy items that's not a player account. You buy an item just to give. There's still a phishing incentive, but is it worse than any of the other content you can buy online?
I still don't understand how people sell small SAAS products with the per-country VAT rules.
Android let's you disable notifications by category. Since users disable notifications completely, Uber is pretty good at categorizing notifications so you can turn them off.

I still do like promotional offers so I have those redirected to email :)
honestly, the negative externalities of big crypto are probably less bad for humanity than the other two
The question isn’t whether it makes up for it. It’s whether there’s any other life choice that leads to similar compensation (regardless of whether that compensation is “worth it.”)
I’m glad it works out for you, but perhaps you see the issue with offering your advice unqualified in this situation?
In the USA... here in Mexico gas stoves are in the vast majority of homes.
I've played about 12 hours of Diablo Immortal. I haven't spent any money, but also haven't really looked into why I would want to do it. The game is already pretty easy, and I feel like spending for better gear would make it almost non-sense, where I can just stand around while my minions kill the enemies. If they wanted to encourage micro-transactions, they should have made it a lot more challenging, so that you'd actually you know, die sometimes.
Sure thing. You are just as welcome.
Cynical take? None so far.
There's a famous story about Gauss as a child (age 7 in some accounts) figuring out this trick when a teacher who probably wanted a break had the students add up the numbers from 1 to 100. He saw that you could combine numbers from the ends: 1+100=101, 2+99=101, and there are 50 pairs, so the answer is 5050.
Microdosing != high. If you're high, you took way too much. True microdosing should have almost unnoticable effects.

Regarding your other statements, they mirror very closely what I've also described.
"luxury" - sorry, wrong skit
Live transcribe is available on latest android devices today https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/9158...

iOS also appears to have 3rd party app for this
Ask HN: Recommendation for guides like Azure Architecture Guide?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/

I found this helpful as someone trying to learn more about building systems.

Any recommendation for more guides like this?

There's https://aws.amazon.com/architecture and https://cloud.google.com/architecture but I found both to require some topic in your head already and you need to filter for it.

The Azure one is difference since started off with a high level overview and more of a guided tour to styles/patterns/considerations are out there before diving into specific solutions.

I'm also reading the popular system design book Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Good book but more of a deep dive into various system design topics rather than something more in line of "this is what a system might look like at a high level for an app that needs to do X".

Would appreciate any recommendation similar to the Azure architecture guide to learn more about building systems!
The one NASA mission that could save us from extinction
No, obviously not, but I thought I'd just share my subjective n=1 perspective.
Nooo... The default is "do your due diligence".

As it turns out, there's a LOT more we can do now (that is actually hard work to boot) than we've necessarily been able to do before.

If you actually take the phrase "reasonably forseeable" seriously, I assure you, chasing down those nasty little details and feeding them through the math takes a hot minute.
Many people are effectively sheep and will install a company app on their personal phone because "wow it's so convenient everything is all on one device".

That said ... employment is at-will, so there are no real rules here. It's not that different from if you sign up to be an Uber driver you're expected to have a car and a phone that you are willing to use for work, or you can't take the job. Nobody says it has to be the same device as the one you use for your personal email, it's just that you are expected to have a device for the job. So nothing legally prevents them from requiring you to have a device with the company apps on it, in return for you accepting some hopefully big enough salary.

For software engineering, if the salary is on the low end of market I expect work to buy me a work phone, if they require me to install any apps. If salary is on the high end, then I wouldn't fuss about it too much, I could just buy myself a separate personal phone for work with the pile of extra cash, but them buying me one would still be a nice, appreciated gesture.
Great article but should be titled 'The Warner Atari Years' -- Atari Corporation went on for another 12 years under Jack Tramiel
Logging without consent would be legal due to legitimate interest, but I would also have to comply with "Chapter 3 Rights of the data subject" https://gdpr-info.eu/chapter-3/ In particular, I do not like article 13 paragraph 1 section (a) because I prefer to stay anonymous. I still receive daily spam from the time I published my contact details on a website 10 years ago. It has also become illegal to embed contact details in an image or hide it behind a captcha due to accessibility. I would risk a 5000 € fine if I did it anyway.
Really? I did plenty of pushing into high-tier rifts solo in D3. It's definitely more stable and reliable with multiple people, but I did plenty of grinding solo and have a good time.
On a similar note is recursed, a puzzle platformer that isn't about programming, but it is absolutely about programming.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/497780/Recursed/
You provide anecdata of your experience but no evidence of substance really. Which is fine as an opinion, but not when you make claims about others like

> the people know who espouse all this "the system is rigged, everything sucks, full communism now" stuff never had any drive or patience to do or learn anything and just want to put in the least effort possible to smoke weed and sit around like a vegetable all day.
Teachers are paid more today than they have ever been.
On Android, long-press a notification, then tap on a gear icon. You will see a list of notification categories for that app.
Does that 2-3% not refer to percentage of the property worth i.e. mortgage, while 4-6% refers to the amount invested? So a 1:1 comparison would only make sense if you invest your loan into funds while keep living with your parents?
Anything by Rachel Carson.

Anything by Donald Knuth. He even teaches good writing in Mathematical Writing.

I always thought IBM held a high standard for their writing. So anything from the IBM System/370 Principles of Operation to their IBM Journal of Research and Development would be good.

Lately, I've been reading Algorithms by Dasgupta, et al and those boys can write.
I used to do it roughly like this, then I noticed how much more pleasant my wife's experience is. She just has them all turned off.
> It hasn't been cooperative for a few versions now, the scheduler became preemptive in 1.14. And before that there were yield points at every function prolog (as well as all IO primitives) so there were relatively few situations where cooperation was necessary.

Since co-op was most unnecessary, do you know why it was changed to preemptive or what the specific cases were that are resolved with preemptive scheduling?
Let us also remember that before programming:

The NAND Game, nandgame.com

is "obligatory".
Unfortunate that only 'old' iPads. I would like that fir my 2020 one. The OS is complete trash in my opinion and it is the first and last Apple device I have bought.
>As someone who has spent a few weeks microdosing, it is definitely not a placebo effect,

You can't know 100% unless someone actually swaps your stuff with a placebo, especiall with something that is so hard to measure.
IIRC, in this particular case the antibodies bind to immune cells. Immune Checkpoints are a mechanism that keeps the immune system from attacking the own body but in cancer it can also stop the immune system from destroying the cancer. The checkpoint inhibitor antibodies remove these restrictions and allow the immune cells to attack the cancer. (The price is that they also become free to attack other things they shouldn't; autoimmune inflamations are common side effects.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkpoint_inhibitor
I've been struggling with the Uber app and Uber Eats who has been sending me ads which I found no way to disable.

My problem is that I do want notifications for when my driver has arrived.
Try a different browser.

Examples: type sleep noise into the android Play store and the top few. Waves, bird noises, rain etc. All useless to me - just want masking noise to block other stuff out.
Thread safety, and memory model safety, and all this important stuff, is important! But ownership and lifetimes are models of reality that Rust asserts as part of its domain language, which, like all models, are approximations of reality, not reality itself. They're useful to the extent that they help to solve a given problem. And not all problems fit into the assumptions that they assert.
I was always impressed with Robocode coders. But I always wished that the team meta somehow developed.

One tank is hard enough, but team-games where radar-free drones have more HP seem to provide interesting strategies.

The Radar system is very smart in this game, at most covering 22.5 degrees per tick. Converting one enemy is easy enough, but getting a good view of the battlefield as a whole seems like a different game.

I guess singlebot games and 1v1 is easier to test and make AIs for, and was more fun for larger sets of the community.
In addition to the other comments about memory usage, I’ll mention that there is a proposal (that’s either going to make it into Go 1.19 or 1.20?) that uses heuristics to determine a good starting stack size for goroutines.
I don’t think you know how placebo works and how well it works. (biochemist)
I can second the Synacor challenge. After writing the VM and completing the challenge, I ended up writing my own assembler and small compiler for it. Very fun.