skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why is "have a business model" so controversial?

The same reason that a restaurant that charged you for water, more if it's cold or hot outside, by the second for the time you spent inside it, an extra gratuity if you used the restroom, more if you sat at a 4-person, instead of a 2-person table, had rolling ads in a tablet implanted into your table (That you could pay to turn off), etc, etc would be panned.

Even if the food was fine, and the overall cost were similar/lower than its neighbours. Capitalism is dehumanizing, and people don't want to engage with microtransactions in the middle of having their meal.

There's a qualitative difference between dealing with someone who figures out how to provide a good service, and then get paid for it, and dealing with someone who figures out how to get paid, and then tries to build a good service around it. The latter tends to look like that restaurant - an utter shit-show, and many people won't really care that you have a three-star Michelin chef making the pasta.

Also, in gaming, the bar from your competitors is high. There are a lot of excellent titles that provide a lot of entertainment without having predatory monetization. If your title does, it'll get panned. (If it doesn't, it'll still get panned for the monetization it does have, but hey, gamers are entitled.)

There's also monetization that crosses straight into gambling (loot boxes of various flavours) - or, alternatively - the apocryphal tale of two cowboys who pay eachother to eat cow patties (designing the game around whales trying to outspend eachother). These are very profitable, if shitty business models, and one should probably be regulated down[1], while the other can't scale - it's limited by the number of whales in the ocean.

[1] There are a few reasonable restrictions to it, that could be introduced - requiring all purchases to be fiat-denominated, as opposed to in a smorgasbord of in-game currencies, and requiring odds & costs to be shown[2] (again, fiat-denominated).

[2] If people want to spend $5,000 gambling for a hat that has an expected cost of $2,000, they are free to do it, but they should be aware of the odds.
For 220v outlets in the US, there are three plug types based on amperage that take the same care to ensure proper grounding.

https://www.pcrichard.com/get-it-right-the-first-time-a-guid...

The US seems to be a little less cautious with 110v/15 amp outlets.
NYTimes summarized it better [1]

> What’s causing the shortage itself is complex. The home-building industry lost about 1.5 million workers in the Great Recession of 2007-9 and has been in a labor shortage since. Land has grown more expensive. Lending tightened for builders, just as it did for home buyers after the bubble. The cost of lumber and other materials has risen.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/14/upshot/housing-shortage-u...
> if you’re not thinking about monetisation during your creative process, you’re a “fucking idiot.”

This is why Poe's work is not enjoyable. Knowing he died penniless makes all his creativity worthless.
Likewise William Blake - what a fool, laboring upward into futurity!
/s
Singapore?? To New York????? Sorry what? Singapore is fine as far as a hot place with incredible food and good hotels to spend a few nights, but it’s also quite possibly the most boring major city I’ve been to outside of that and there doesn’t seem to be any cultural life beyond shopping - based on my own experience and that of friends who’ve lived there.

I could also take issue with comparing Sydney to NY, but I’ll let that one go ;)
An Unseen World: A Reading List about Fermentation
It's actually way fewer than that IRL. Japan's official list of commonly used Kanji only has 2136 characters. Taiwan's list has 4808, and the PRC's list has 3500 "frequent" characters with another 3000 supplementary "common" ones. Digitization has made it even easier to use these characters without recognizing the actual form or how to write them.
We're all grist for the mill now baby
Any product for which a speculative market exists can be expected to go through periods of price irrationality. Current inflation is logistical rather than monetary, and it seems people expect things to go back to "normal" shortly. Plus, lots of war planning makes investments in "defense" industries wiser than gold.
Oh, this is your company! I heard you were working on this and thought dang way to go Peter.

Are there companies buying bio-oil yet? If I understand correctly, I like that you’re plugging into a larger system and applying engineering to make a piece of it more efficient. It’s always easier to get bigger than it is to get smaller!
There are less drastic options than Kansas that would work fine. Chicago has an international airport. Indianapolis as well (though it’s not listed in Wikipedia, which makes me wonder how complete that is). St Louis and Minneapolis are major hubs. Large airports besides those I’m less familiar with, but if you’re planning to process corn waste what you need is rail access, not air. So then you can add a lot more of the midwest and still maybe be able to find Bulgogi for lunch. The Quad Cities, Peoria, Milwaukee, Des Moines, Omaha.
>It’s a very small portion of the gaming industry that works that way

Yeah, I don't know about that.

For every pay-to-play game there are 10 excellent indie games on Steam/GoG that still "works that way".
Modern Web Development Is Selfish – Introducing TACE
Interesting to look at and liveable are orthogonal qualities at best and opposite at worst. One of those is truly important for inhabitants of a building, while the other is truly important to the architect's reputation. I'll let you guess which I think is which.

Personally, I'm tired of architecture being treated as a grotesque form of sculpture.
Let’s rebuild the US microchip industry – not give it a $50bn-plus check
This is extremely relevant information. This guy is a fucking idiot himself.
Frank Stephenson who designed the Ferrari F430, some BMWs and the good looking Mini from 2004, has a youtube channel. He sticks to pen and paper because computers lock him in too early in the design process.

I don't get what Mr Riccitiello is on about. Clay is a great way to sketch car ideas.

Mike Morhaime of Blizzard fame sees indie games as a space where the small guys can try out games that have never been made before. What is the unity CEO pushing for? Cookie cutter games?

There is a GDC lecture from way back in 2017-2018, where one man did his thesis on what motivates people in video games. When people see the 'victory screen' or story cutscene or audiovisual reward feedback for an action, what are they responding to deep down inside?

He did a metastudy of 70-something studies on this topic and they barely agreed on anything. Nobody really has a firm answer for why people are motivated to play video games and you end up with a lot of handwaving around dopamine.

Why is Mr Riccitielo still pushing compulsion loops like we should be yanking players into addiction? Games are so much more than that. See the recent Ocarina Of Time beta showcase at GDQ.
NYC is generally safer than the rest of America. NH is typically the safest region in the entire country. But the truth is that there are high numbers of relatively rural areas that are substantially more dangerous than NYC. Also, I think that crimes/mile is fairly un-instructive because of how much the legal boundaries of a city shift/as well as the amount that a person will travel in a given location (I live in NYC, and probably live/work/eat within a 1.5-2 mile range).

p.s. I really like your content!
I agree and hope it would provoke wider reflection beyond how it affects the HN crowd on their couches
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..? Hollywood film studios don't 10x their revenue the same way VCs don't 10x their revenue. VCs bet on companies that 10x their investment, and studios bet on movies that 10x their investment. The wins are so big that they enable risk taking on bets that might be flops. It's no different in book publishing or the music industry.
Your contribution to this conversation has surely been invaluable.
https://www.monicahq.com
https://github.com/monicahq/monica
I'm not aware of any programs that do that, but personally, I'm reticent to use something like that.

I've always found the idea of an algorithm managing personal interactions with friends to be rather artificial and dystopian.

There's definitely a value proposition there and I'd be surprised if nothing like that exists—I just want to navigate the problem in a way that feels less superficial to me.
It also has an M.2 slot for the I/O heavy stuff. There is a natural limit to how fast you want to stream movies from disk, so I wouldn't care. Its just that for the same price, I can get a Synology with a 4C Celeron which wouldn't be much worse at far less effort.
Interesting. Looks like the main one in the article was build circa 2005. The second one in the article looks like it was inspired by the second one mentioned in the article, which dates to circa 1965 in Arizona. The Mushroom House in San Diego dates to circa 1965 as well. I'm inclined to suspect that the San Diego Mushroom House was built that way not out of fashion but rather out of necessity. It's build directly on the shoreline, even where the ocean can get up to. Elevating it on a concrete pile probably was a form-follows-function thing (guess). It's actually a guest house and was built with a custom tramway that traversed the cliff up to the main residence.
Are there any FUSE file systems on Android? Not a rhetorical question.
Yes, CLI is missing from the study but so are alternatives like Natural and Tangible and Zoomable. NUI/TUI/ZUI/3DUIs are all very relevant for Spatial Computing and have historical antecedents worthy of note here too.
When the article said:

"In the end only one character had neither a clear source nor any historical precedent: 彁."

my instinct was that this character could be retconned to mean "character whose meaning has been lost", thus creating a self-referential paradox.

Presumably someone would have to then separately come up with a pronunciation for it. Perhaps pronouncing it "duangu" would solve another problem:

https://coconuts.co/hongkong/lifestyle/duang-jackie-chan-ins...
Agree that there is no clear-cut answer. That’s what makes ethics hard.

On the flip side, consequentialism can justify all sorts of actions that are objectionable in other moral frameworks. Machiavelli isn’t usually thought of as a bastion of morality, and he coined the phrase “the ends justify the means”.

The best answer is probably somewhere in between, but I think many people prefer simple to nuanced answers.
Indeed. I come from a rural village where I could leave my bicycle unlocked over night at the center of the village and it wouldn't get stolen. When I moved to a city, one realization I made was that cycling is just a lot less convenient if you have to worry about your bicycle getting stolen. Also I can't leave my home door unlocked when I go somewhere (and thus have to remember to take the keys with me).

I think small stuff like this just adds to your total anxiety without you even realizing it. It's really sad how difficult it is to live in extremely safe, small villages like my childhood home nowadays.
One of those quotes that I bet can be taken extremely different when heard vs when read.
Other things (besides time & current inside temp) that a thermostat could (should?) use: sunrise/sunset time, hourly weather forecast, current & projected house power usage, current & projected grid power usage

Note that almost all of those inputs are going to be identical for people in the same area, so as others mentioned building in some jitter is necessary.
Kants moral philosophy (the categorical imperative) is deontological, which means it is based on the action (and only the action) itself.

Intent and Outcome are important in other moral philosophies, but for Kant these were hypothetical imperatives: Nothing more than mere whishes, nothing concrete.

For him, moral philosophy should be based on concrete, testable tenets, which have to be unconditionally true (categorical) and are always required (imperative).

While one might disagree with that worldview, Kant's work on this kind of moral philosophy was so comprehensive and - quite franky - logically sound, that to this very day any deontological philosopher or moral theory is still called "Kantian" or in "Kantian tradition"...

To come back to your question: While dismissing intent and outcome can be seen as a limitation of Kant's view, it also provides a very strong logical underpinning for the whole philosophy. Of all the moral philosophies, it's the one based most on pure reasoning.

Of course, it qickly breaks down when pitting two moral wrongs against each other (ratting out innocents vs. lying to state forces, various trolley problems etc.), but any moral system seems to get in trouble in these kind of situations.
Why you wouldn’t do ag tech in Chicago is beyond me.
WordPress running inside the browser with WebAssembly
It’s also a sign there’s not sufficient supply of it. Hence that America as a whole sucks at mass transit.
You're missing the forest for a single tree (me). Again, the point is that there are way more publications that I want to read but I can't due to those monthly subscriptions. It is audacious for newspapers to demand recurring subscriptions, but I have no other choice, so I've picked two. This model is not sustainable, as the report demonstrates. There is a huge market that is willing to pay less than a monthly recurring subscription that is totally unaddressed.
If Epic was charging 20% + upfront costs, it seems like Unity could have beat them to the punch with 5% and still stolen their thunder.
Ohhhhh... Right.

Just to mirror what I understand: You have experienced that, while talking, you thought "Oh, I've been talking for hours already. I should stop now." but in reality you haven't even scratched the, let's say, 30 second mark?

Absolutely relevant – I hadn't even thought of that possibility. I'm actually thinking, the whole app could stay the same, just swap the green/red colors (?)
"My ownership data" has value. perhaps not to you. But for people i interact with.

Example :-
My education degree is something that I own. It can be very useful if I can quickly prove to the world that I indeed really have that degree. (like Twitter allows to prove you own an avatar NFT) .
It would be super helpful if this was on a blockchain instead of some university database with a cumbersome process to avail transcripts.
Moneyland is excellent

Just read Bulloughs follow up book - Butler to the World

Would thoroughly recommend it - takes a good look at how the British legal system enables all sorts of dodgy money schemes
I've given this problem a lot of thought, particularly the notion of cataloging recipes in some machine-parseable format and using them to either generate shopping lists or suggest meals based on pantry contents.

I think it's a non-trivial problem. Even with a relatively limited set of go-to dishes and ingredients, it seems to me like the data entry alone would be a herculean effort: making sure everything is normalized, operations like chop vs. mince vs. dice are standardized, etc. Currently, I'm relying on my fragile meat brain and a folder full of text files, skimming a directory listing of the folder for inspiration, and using individual recipes to build shopping lists.

I totally agree with the premise of the original article, that you can reduce recipes to trees and describe them with a formal language, but once I take off my computer scientist hat and look at this behavior critically, it seems horrifically asinine.

Anyone have a better solution? I know there are a couple of open ones out there, and I'm sure some of you nerds have homegrown something way more sophisticated. I've also got a hunch that this would be a great problem to throw language models at...
A court would decide. They usually consider intent.

I don't know about Switzerland specifically, but usually the restriction on this kind of right is on distribution/publication.
> The market for software engineers is very good. Many companies can't just cut you loose because you push back against an anti-feature.

they can and always do find someone else to do it. This line of reasoning literally has never worked
This says way more about you than it does her.
No.

Certain boards (mostly ASRock) will boot with it, but AMD don't support it outside the Pro series, and you won't get full reporting.

I've been down this rabbit hole for a while with NAS builds, and it's simply not worth AMD if you need ECC currently for anything not too high end.
Or double-U (i.e. UU == W)
Imagine a grid supplied by a single coal-fired power plant. When demand rises the voltage drops and the frequency reduces, and the power plant has to start adding coal to the fire faster to get the voltage and frequency back to normal.

If the demand rises over the course of 10 minutes, you get a small drop in voltage and the plant ramps up gradually.

If the demand rises by the same amount over the course of 3 seconds, you'll get a much bigger voltage drop and the power plant has much less time to speed things up.

There's further complexity because real power grids are the size of nations and have many power plants. If several power plants notice the voltage dropping and increase their production, a few seconds later you might have too much power. Then they might respond by cutting their production, and a few seconds later you have too little power and so on.
That tweet doesn't exist anymore :(
No, but there basically aren't any apartments on the market, and the ones left are twice the price they costed a few years ago.
I see. I use being incorrect as a rhetorical device in order to be proven wrong so that we can have this conversation about how markets don't provide housing through ineffective demand. Saying something wrong on the internet is a good way to get people to make the arguments I want them to make.
First reaction: Why?

Second reaction: Wow!
Tell Congress to Reject Link Taxes
Show HN: Ec2instances.info Launches Detail Pages for EC2 and RDS
An apartment that's worth about €400,000 rents for about €1,550. The equivalent mortgage with 3.85% interest is €1875, but becomes about €1426 after tax breaks. The 10% down payment can and often is financed too. This leaves about €10,000 of notary fees and taxes that you have to pay yourself.

Interest rates used to be lower so the mortgage used to be much cheaper.
Yes, PV waste isn't being addressed a lot right now, but research is ramping up alongside production on these. Alternatives to Si like perovskites may end up easier to recycle as well. Also, PV does produce waste, but it has the advantage of not being radioactive. That isn't to say it's not harmful, just quite a bit less volatile as nuclear. All in all, I do think nuclear should be reintroduced, but it has it's own issues, especially in the US due to construction difficulties (permits, safety, etc). In comparison, PV benefits greatly from economies of scale, and can be deployed at utility scale or in distributed micro-grids, which gives it more granularity then all-or-nothing nuclear.
Having read the full context on the original article on pocketgamer.biz, he is, in fact, making the assertion in this post title -- that game creatives that aren't working with sales and publicity teams from the beginning to build in monetization are idiots.

Original article: https://www.pocketgamer.biz/interview/79190/unity-ironsource...

Edit: I say this because I don't understand how it's not clear that he's driving for monetization in every game.
Another term for this is grinding. The CEO is saying they should have made the grinding parts of the game longer. Grinding is usually boring and repetitive part of the game that's required to advance. A typical RPG example is defeating the same monster over and over again to get experience to reach the next new area.
Yeah, that works well. Most libraries do work depending on target platform. With C#, you can write your entire logic outside Godot and just use Godot as a graphical interface if you so desire.

But that's the point. We're discussing things from a developer point of view. This happens almost every day by now. That's not the issue. The issue is how everyone else struggles with Godot compared to Unity, if at all. When even basic particle patterns require diving into shader logic in 3.4 or loads of trial and error, that's a pretty hard sell for non-technical people.
Counterpoint: Stardew Valley. No IAP bullshit, no lootbox chicanery... and yet I doubt its creator is hurting, financially speaking.

Of course, we're talking about an outlier here. Excellence doesn't guarantee anything, but it is a strategy that sometimes works.

The irony is that you'd expect the big publishers to be the ones willing to take on risks and put out products that are excellent but maybe not financial blockbusters. They're the ones who can afford to parlay a reputation for excellence into further success of their more commercial products (since they're diversified and more likely to live long enough to realize the returns). Yet, it's only indies and self-publishers who seem to care about doing the best work... and this isn't limited to games, but visible in all the arts right now. The entities that can afford big risks and long-term plays (inherent to excellence strategies) nevertheless avoid them, and the small actors are invariably the ones making them.
Hypocrisy is insufficiently precise. It is possible to disingenuously engage in any particular activity. If you wish to describe a specific behavior, then a better descriptor is necessary. On top of that, not all virtue signaling is necessarily disingenuous.

And all terms are made up, and the political leanings of the person who supposedly coined the phrase is irrelevant to its applicability.
It is a little foolish to marry heaven and hell..
EDIT: Ok, after the parent edit I am convinced you’re a little bit more reasonable, however, I can tell you’ve already made up your mind and are more interested in defending your position (which you haven’t actually ever elaborated) and making reductive claims about the character of your opponents (that they are just “complaining” or “entitled”) than actually having a discussion. You seem to want your interlocutor to follow all the polite rules of discussion while abandoning them all yourself.

My rent increased significantly for no reason other than a shift in market rates. I struggle to see how this does not count as being directly effected.

Yes. Desires. People have them. Usually they dictate behaviors. It’s why people move to New York. It’s why you’re quoting my comments and writing replies—you want to show me that you’re “smarter” and that my dissatisfactions are illegitimate and you think a great way to do so is to write targeted quips that take one or two lines of text out of context, but unfortunately you’re not succeeding. It’s clear you have no interest in actual persuasion or discussion—if you do, I highly recommend taking a few writing or debate classes, maybe brushing up on what it means to empathize, learn about logos/ethos/pathos, read some philosophy, things like that.
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