skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 10k over a long period is very small compared to what one can lose in a casino night, and casinos do exist.

Casinos are highly regulated. Lootbox are not in most countries. And I'm pretty sure minors can't enter a casino even with their parent's credit card...

Made videogames with paid lootboxes 18+ only, problem solved.
I can also take a picture of whatever sensitive information is on the screen / in the console / dev tools / and send it to hackers for fun.

Not sure how your security model will handle that.
Charitable speculation: someone read the article earlier, liked it and remembered the title; so when a submission with the same title appeared on HN, they upvoted it without looking at the URL.
And the author of the article uses a valid argument to betray women to go back to being a wife with no space to express themselves.
Refugee is someone running away from the aggressor. not being forcibly relocated to reeducation camps.

One example from two months ago https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-forcibly-moved-mariup...
What a strange logic. You can be addicted to hundreds of things a the same time, it doesn't justify what these videogames are doing.
Star Citizen isn't even a proper game and still works perfectly living mainly from whales.

We've passed some really unhealthy point in game development with this bonus money making...
The towers have gotten so high that inland wind has gotten a lot more profitable.

Over here it started onshore but is now happening inland. Offshore is very expensive because of moving ice.
VPP: http://www.learningaboutelectronics.com/Articles/What-is-pea...

BL and DFE are shortly on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR5_SDRAM
While Donbas has historically been an important mining and industrial region, I've read that it has been in steep decline for many years. Due to low productivity of the industries and the high cost of services for the aging population, it is seen as a net economic loss for whoever takes it. I've read speculation that this is one reason why the Kremlin resisted annexing Donbas for so long. (There were initiatives from Donbas to get annexed the way Crimea was, because they were tired of being in legal limbo, but the Kremlin refused.)
The judge in this case determined that the place of publication (where the cause of action for defamation is created) is the location where the computer servers storing the defamatory articles are located. In this case, it is the location for the Washington Post servers (Virginia). This allowed Johnny Depp to bring a defamation suit in Virginia.
Interested readers can starting reading at page 8 of the opinion.
>Advertisements have certain formal, legal obligations to truthfulness, but these are broad enough to allow for a great deal of rhetorical maneuvering

This can be said about so many things, and for a big part of it the conclusion is that some laws are left to be broad and ambiguous, like they're done so to be in the benefit of some.

Tax laws, environmental laws, governance spending laws, etc.

The second part of this problem is: who is enforcing these? For some media regulators keep an eye on them, for the internet it's left to the platforms who sell it.
I think the opposite. Currently there is very little remote work ecosystem, but there is a huge office ecosystem. With remote being now a very real option for so many people, businesses that facilitate remote work will spring up (helping people relocate, coworking, help with foreign workers, payments etc). Traveling hasn't even resumed, and as the pandemic is removed and the war ends, people will have more options to reconsinder where they want to live.

Remote is also naturally self-reinforcing because partial-remote degrades the value of offices.
> I've yet to see selling people sugar or sugar-containing foods/beverages being regulated.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugary_drink_tax#United_King...

This might not quite meet your threshold, but it's probably close. More regulation around sugar is definitely around the corner.
At least with actual gambling I have theoretical chance, at least momentarily to actually win money... With lootboxes outside Valve and maybe some others there is no chance to get it back.
> San Francisco taxes sugary drinks

And see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugary_drink_tax .

Also, NYC tried to ban some sales of sugary beverages over 16 oz, thrown out by the courts.
Ah, then try to never, ever watch Mamma Mia to keep it that way. It uses almost only ABBA music.

This movie has etched the song with the same name so deep into my brain that the moment I hear the first "Mamma Mia", I drop any thought and internally starts to hum "here I go again, my my...". I don't know why, I didn't even like the movie! :D
No, because the only monopolies in real estate are land and maybe grandfathered construction that would be illegal to build today.

The construction industry might be considered a cartel though if they coordinate behind the scenes.
If China invaded your country and started shipping children to Xinjiang would you also call this a genuine humanitarian mission?
I'm glad I don't have time to play video games. The industry is getting worse and worse every year. (I thought my WoW addiction back in the day was bad - but at least the spending was capped at 13 Eur/month).
Rich people are rich because they do not spend $10K on a digital downloads that have no actual value...

The ONLY people that would do that, are people with an addiction
Perseus: A Rust web framework with full support for SSR and static generation
Proven value might be stretch, but at least theoretical chance to finding bigger fool. And thus recouping some of the cost.
With $100 a month you can do a lot of things. (And I'm not even talking about the regions of the world where you could survive a month with that amount). Just think how may games you could have bought on Steam for that money!

Those gambling games are extremely overpriced in comparison!

But they still make that money. Guess how: By addiction, and other psychological tricks to make the price seem OKisch, even it's absolutely not.

Even the most expensive game productions could make a good revenue back than just by charging a one time fee of $40 to $60.

Now with those gambling games they made $100 a month on you… Continuously.

The whole business model is a ripoff, clearly immoral, and should get banned completely ASAP.
> You couldn't and still can't call out fair prices on mobile software. People weren't and aren't willing to pay those.

I'm not sure if that is strictly true. Prices did vary a lot in the beginning. However scale created a race-to-the-bottom situation for the exact reason you cited: most people wanted to pay less. The market was flooded with apps and games at the minimum price which created a strong expectation among the bulk of buyers.

Consumable IAP is what really enabled the gambling-like mechanics. That was discovered not long after the implementation of IAP and very quickly the game devs that converted to free + consumable IAP started making all the money. IIRC it was an open secret in mobile games many many years ago that the optimal strategy was to make the early game easy to cast a wide net, then slowly ramp up the pay-to-win mechanics to milk the whales as much as possible. You don't really care if everyone else quits - so long as most people get X% of the way through before they do. Then you tweak X% to optimize for catching the most whales.

The super critical aspect is the deliberate ramp. You have to get as many people into the early part of the funnel as possible so some of them will become invested enough to become whales. This also means you absolutely must make the game miserable for 90% of your players but only after they've made a significant investment.
Its not cheating but it's absolutely unethical. OP is right that they should have disclosed that they had seen the problem before. It only is that the right thing to do but also good interviewers can tell when you genuinely thought about a problem vs just regurgitated the solution.
Wow. That's great. Now to see if it runs in VR on the Quest.
Implementing Zero Knowledge Lottery’s Circuits
YES! It is a shame one feels one has to fix organizational and coordination issues by introducing network barriers incidental to the real problems. I cannot wait for microservices to become unfashionable for cases where they are not solving technical scalability issues.

Software engineering is not a mature field but microservices feels like a dead alley everyone is marching on.
As a European born and raised in metric units, all I can do is shake my head and sigh...

... But as we speak about metric measurements I doubt that the US insistence on weird units apply. The average US citizen would presumably be confronted with "mega" and "giga" in their day-to-day lives, and millimeter, micrometer and nanometer are commonly used. Even femtosecond is a common, practical unit that anyone receiving refractive surgery will hear.

Picometer is unpopular because it only makes sense for sub-atomic lengths giving it few practical uses at the current time, not because "pico" is hard to grasp.

Also note that German, Dutch, Danish (my native tongue), Swedish, Norwegian, even Hindi and presumably many others also refer to the unit as "meter", so that particular disagreement is not "the US against the rest of the world".

(All languages have quirks - in Danish, we call a folding ruler in meters an "inch stick", and say the number "53" as "3 and half three's twenties" (skipping the "twenties" part in modern speech). Learn to enjoy the differences rather than hate on them.)
Wine 7.10 release and Wine staging 7.10
> when given an array of length n + 1 containing integers 1 through n, find the duplicate integer in an array.

I do believe it is only one.
To go to nigeria I had to have a yellow fever vaccine, I don’t see the difference.

Plenty of countries require covid vaccination to enter, that’s an operational problem for an airline deploying staff.
Whatever. It's dog eat dog, good on OP.
Interesting point of view, from my European view they seem like totally frivolous vanity items that are not only bad taste but actively destroy the planet. We're in the middle of a climate and resource crisis, and you could easily make two cars out of one F150 raw material (except maybe for the battery). They weight a lot which damages the road more, they are also very dangerous for pedestrians.

Why isn't everyone looking forward a more reasonable future with cars sized after one's real needs, not damaging aspirations? I know the car industry wants cars big, but consumers should activate a little bit their brains too and think a bit about the bigger picture.
Pink cars are all the rage and sell for +20%
One day pink is viewed as bad and now blue is the color to have. So now blue cars sell for +20% and pink sell for +0%
The extrinsic value is arguably transferred, but if you are holding a pink car, you're down in value that was just lost due to a loss in extrinsic value.
A"transfer" is a bit tortured imo because the change in value was not 1:1. Some WFH areas gained a lot more comparatively than other locations lost, and vice versa
> It is not and has never been a duty to do absolutely anything anyone can possibly conceive of that will enrich the shareholders.

This. Otherwise Apple and Disney would be forced to sell porn. But they don't because of their moral (one could argue prude) stance which makes less money for the investor.
It's under EULA.
I am talking about niche hobbie stores, d&d clubs, anime conventions, gay clubs (that are enjoyable as a hetero, too), authentic Vietnamese restaurants, Guangdong, Sezhuan, Taiwanese restaurants, 2nd hand stores, unique cafes, small specialized book stores.

And yes, also "brown" people. But also Japanese, Korean, Russian, Indian and Brazilian people.
I picked up a YA book (the skullduggery pleasant series) at my friend's house a while ago and read practically the whole thing. It was a nice fun easy read! I wasn't trying to widen my knowledge I was just reading that's my new trick to reading more non fiction! (That and stopping if I'm fed up!)
Low interest rates only amplify existing demand letting people borrow more principal for the same monthly payment but people are still competing over who can afford the highest monthly payment.
I am very curious how this works. Is it for an internal app or public website? Do you have the users who actually work with ag-grid via screen reader? How do you test your app (i.e. for screen reader users)?
Sometimes I see ads for mobile games and I get curious about them. Then I go to youtube and watch the playthrough videos and realize just how much of my life and money I could waste on what turns out to be 100s of hours of mostly random button mashing. The Kim Kardashian video game playthrough is a good one if you really want to dig deep into the depths of consumerist nihilism[1].

Anyway, doing the playthrough, or watching a video game speed run is enough to spoil the whole game for me and make me not want to play it. Problem solved. Also, there's all the free to play retrogames out there which are great if you just have endless amounts of free time. I guess I just don't get gambling, especially when you can't actually win money.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhizrsqMV8A&list=PL9aL0Ok5ss...
Or "Failing to plan means planning to fail".
The reduced density is still enough to support mini-hubs.

In Europe they are common and have been flourishing again even as cities flounder.

Pre pandemic my local town center in the London commuter belt was in a death spiral. Now its expanding.
Yep, I have a single Windows Server machine with an RDP port(non default) exposed to the world and it gets tens of thousands of failed logins every day. It has been for the past few years. I have no idea who is wasting their time on this or why, but as far as I can tell it's costing me nothing, so other than setting up an alert for a successful login I decided to simply ignore it.
Last time I used Eclipse, it took 8GBs of RAM. Have things changed?
Hey there’s a typo in the article. In the image of memory vs round trip says that roundtrip is 100ns and memory access 150ms I guess you meant the other way around :P
Here's the main channel (everything but GPU) of reverse-engineering and writing open drivers for M1: https://www.youtube.com/c/marcan42/videos
I never accused the article for being racist, even I was disgusted when this popular ytuber encouraged spamming pr on github just for a free shirt. The intention of re-posting an article ( which already reached front page of hn ) to hn when a similar post where an indian guy messing up big time by sending 400k notifications seems kind of suspicious.
The length is n+1 and contains all ints 1 through n, so there can only be a single duplicate.
Yes, but then we should stop socializing the costs of their actions.
Fitness hobbies also punish you for taking some time off. But they still just happen to be that way, instead of being deliberately designed, and that's a distinction that should very much be allowed to make a difference. It's not unusual at all for intent to carry legal significance.
Same for me. 2015 or so. FarmVille addiction. Once I clicked 1200 times straight to farm/plaugh/seed, my fingers heart. So searched for a solution and found click recorders . Not exactly cheat but once I started using the auto click, I was out of addiction within a month and left game in Two month.
The explanation of the name somehow is a lot better than what I assumed it was referring to. The phrasing on the second sentence is... unfortunate.
The deflection point for me on Regulation is purchases vs loot boxes

If the game is implimenting direct purchases, where you buy Item X for Y price then I feel regulation is unwarranted even in the context of harmful levels of purchasing

However if the game is using a loot box system where the play buy a "chance" to "win" an item they desire, then I think that should be considered a "game of chance" like a lottery or slot machine, under which there should be some regulation to require the disclosure of odds, how many times their is a payout, etc etc etc

Diablo seems to use a Loot Box system, not a direct pay system
My big fat monolithic alert
How does thus work? I still live in the same place as before. If anything, less people want to live here because proximity close to work is less important. Some places gained value for sure, I think Bend Oregon is a very notable example. I don't think it is 1:1 as not everyone up and left where their office became a ghost town.
So then they exploit workers and customers because they choose to rather than being forced to, which sorta makes it worse.
> The thing is - is it necessary to have the best gear to enjoy the game?

Technically no but Diablo and ARPGs in general are all about items and for a very large class of players who enjoy this genre it's all about min / maxing your character, or at the very least getting improved items / skills / kill speed as you progress. Tying items into a cash shop in the way it's been done here feels really dirty, like it's going against the entire ethos of the genre.

This is partly why Path of Exile has been wildly successful for almost 10 years (it's another ARPG). Their cash shop is focused on cosmetics and quality of life improvements. You can't just buy items or things that make your character more powerful.

The only reason I bring up PoE is to demonstrate it's possible to create a long running profitable ARPG with cosmetic cash shop items in a free to play game. I do know things like stash tabs are borderline and debatably a kind of essential item but I'm ok with that, you can get very far without thinking about them and you purchase them once and you're good to go for years. It was also like $15 from what I remember, it's been a bunch of years since I played so I forgot. I do know I spent around $40-50 total on that game on various quality of life things and it felt like money well spent. I was happy to support GGG. In fact, I ran into a billing situation once and they gave me free coins to compensate a customer support pain point (which I didn't ask for) but I didn't want their work to go unpaid so I ended up purchasing more to match what they gave me.

Not nickel and diming your customers and not preying on weakness goes a long ways for building up a loyal fanbase. I haven't played PoE in years but I feel like they won me over as a customer for life. I didn't think it was possible to ruin the Diablo franchise more than the original release of Diablo III but I think Diablo Immortal may have won in that department.
The most number of Hindus in west support RSS and in these western countries are so much vocal about minority rights and discrimination. In fact, most RSS support is from the creamy urban layer of Hindu society. It's not surprising to see the bad PR for Hinduism prevention is being done.
> I don't recall the word "lifetime" being used in the C++ world before Rust came along.

"Lifetime" is a normative term in ISO C. In the 1999 standard, it is given as: "The lifetime of an object is the portion of program execution during which storage is guaranteed to be reserved for it. An object exists, has a constant address, and retains its last-stored value throughout its lifetime." (6.4.2 Storage Durations of Objects)

"Lifetime" appears three times in the Index of the 1988 edition of Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools by Aho, Sethi and Ullman (a.k.a. the Red Dragon Book).

Lifetime, of a temporary 480

Lifetime, of an activation 391, 410

Lifetime, of an attribute 320-322, 324-329
https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1471799568807636994

[...] they *also* added a raw image mode that will never break again and doesn't require Mach-Os.
And people said they wouldn't help. This is intended for us.

HN discussion about this tweet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29591578
Maybe?

Certainly more offspring was normal, the further back you go. So wealth division could more easily happen.

But most cultures had the idea of the "first born", the official heir... for this very reason! Most of the loot, holdings, tended to go the eldest.
The supply and demand curve of land is so steep and vertical you would think it should be impossible.
I'd consider using this in place of the built-in Vuetify data table because of your resizable columns and fixed headers.

Virtual Scrolling might be the deciding factor though. Is this supported? I couldn't find anything in the docs (on mobile)
One of recent macOS updates added a new option to boot non-macOS OS kernels easier. Apple engineers do not need this option, so it is presumably added to help Asahi (as there are no other known efforts to run non-macOS on these machines).
And if you don't you face an investigation by authorities. And they will reclaim due social security and taxes. And you face a potential court case. All of which is a lot more expensive. Not to mention that managers and directors already went to jail for stuff like that.

And all that to safe a couple of bucks because smart start-up founders can't wrap their head around the simplest legal principles and requirements.
Welcome to Rapture
> The thing is - is it necessary to have the best gear to enjoy the game?

Yes, at least in those types of games. Gear improvement is a big part of the game progression. Before microtransactions that just meant spending ungodly amounts of time in those games. Nowadays it means bankrupting yourself.
I don't necessarily disagree, but for the purpose of my argument this is splitting hairs. Both audiences are functionally the same from the game design standpoint.
Generally the tobacco industry does not pay those costs. Hence, relative to the tobacco industry, it would be a vaporization of value
Mandatory Arthur C. Clarke predicting the future in 1964:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aajlLeTgrEg
Why not call this "How one company brought spam to GitHub"?

I had a suspicion something like this would happen the first time I heard of Hacktoberfest. If you ask people to make PRs to win something, with very little extra condition, they will. This is pretty much the situation of "you get what you measure". I can't find the reference now, but I recall a similar thing happening when Wikipedia asked for contributions in return for a chance to win something(?) --- tons of almost-entirely-plagiarised articles appeared from Indian accounts.
A sovereign nation deciding on the requirements to cross the border into its territory feels different to me than the power of an employer to set health-related mandates. I’m much more willing to accept that a sovereign nation has the right to enforce border policies than an employer has the right to police the healthcare decisions of its employees.
> The “fiduciary duty” to investors means sociopathy is the only way that businesses are allowed to conduct themselves.

Larry Fink disagrees, and companies like Exxon have learned that not only is it not the only option, it's not an option at all. In fact, it's to the point that politicians like Mike Pence are talking about the big bad shareholders terrorizing companies.

> If you can make money, you MUST make it.

This is a common sentiment at all levels. Who wants to do good if they can make 3 times as much helping big tech sell ads?
> Just think how may games you could have bought on Steam for that money!

I don't see the difference. Whether I pay a "subscription fee" of $100 per month or I buy two new games per month, why does it matter? Why do you think that buying two games a month is necessarily more fun than paying a subscription fee for the same 2-3 games? For me it isn't, and there aren't even enough games I would be interested in buying in the first place.
I was able to find the sweet spot for me with pnpm and turborepo.
But this doesn't get you to "be vegetarian" or "stop torturing the kids in that ritual with the bullet ants", both of which are pretty obviously right in any framework that doesn't overweight the action and values of your peers and family.