skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If by any chance you use zsh, oh-my-zsh, and its git plugin, I can offer you this function:

function stash_and_rebase() {
local current_branch="$(git_current_branch)"
if (( ${#current_branch} == 0 )); then
echo "There is no current branch. This script must be executed in git repo."
return 1
fi
if (( $# == 0 )); then
local target_branch="$(git_main_branch)"
else
local target_branch="$1"
fi
git stash push
git fetch --all
git rebase origin/${target_branch}
echo "Don't forget to execute 'git stash pop' after rebase!"
}

Let's say you want to rebase onto `main`. Checkout your feature branch and run `stash_and_rebase`. If you want to rebase onto non-main branch, run `stash_and_rebase branchX`. If everything went OK, do `git stash pop` in the end.

N.B. This doesn't do squash!
That's not how I understood his words, like at all. He means that monetisation should be considered as part of the creative process.

Many indie devs could've been sitting on gold mines, but that those rewards (which could've lead to the creation/evolution of more games) weren't reaped because they didn't consider it. Now of course some of those devs wouldn't care about that at all, but I bet there's also some whose jaws would've dropped if they were told how much they could've made.
What's the current portability proposition of Godot? Unity and UE4 allow indies to cross-platform relatively easily.
I've been using Unity happily for 7+ years at this point, willfully ignoring all other engines because Unity is easy to use and has native C# support.

This merger has spurred me to try other engines. I keep hearing good things about Godot. That'll likely be the first one I try.
Somebody needs to make a website for inaccuracies with Wikipedia articles
The confusion is over what is meant by 'monetisation' here.

Is is "making sure the game is at all commercially viable so I can afford to keep myself alive and well fed", or "making sure that every drop of money is juiced from the customer".

Without a clear statement that he meant the latter, I decided to give him some benefit of doubt unless I have additional context (I never heard of the guy before).
Grinding is just one way to lengthen the loop. Or you can create lots of compelling content, like Elden Ring, which did not feel grindy to me at any point in 130 hours.

ER has a couple loops, with dungeons taking O(hour), and regions taking O(10hour). But there is no hard requirement to grind baked in at any level. (Of course, there is a requirement to Git Gud, which might make it feel grindy to some.)
games market was much smaller back then. why are you certain that the market has solutions for growing the game industry beyond its current size without these tactics. and why resign to minor reforms of a system you don’t like the results of

vv bingo
> I’ve been in the gaming industry longer than most anybody – getting to the grey hair and all that.

Few people have driven as many once-successful studios into the ground as Riccitello.
I'm going to use this for user interviews since I have a hard time talking too much during the introduction. Also, stand-ups...
As I mentioned down-thread, NYC has 45% more violent crime than the national median. It's simply not a "low crime" place, despite the PR.
Who's the fucking code virgin who has established this policy? Have they ever written code, or read code for that matter?

Do they claim they've written code before but it goes to another school?
Great summary! It's not actually talked about much, and not even well understood by many Protestants themselves, but it actually is a sacrament in most major Protestant traditions I'm familiar with (Reformed[1], Lutheran[2], Anglican, Methodist[4]). Zwingli was the only major reformer I know of to take purely memorialist stance, while Luther, Calvin, and Wesley all professed some degree of presence (spritual presence or real presence) in the eucharist.

Some non-reformed baptists and non-denominationals are memorialist, but historically most protestant churches do consider it a sacrament.

[1] https://www.blueletterbible.org/study/ccc/westminster/of_the...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucharist_in_Lutheranism
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican_eucharistic_theology
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucharistic_theology#Methodist...
Unity sure is taking some bad PR hits
We could say the same about lithium supplies. It turns out 'mining' something measured in the parts per billion is enormously damaging to environments and quite expensive to the point of impracticality
I find a very stark contrast between this discussion and the one on dominos couple of days ago [0].

There most people thought it was all well and good to spend 50M to advertise a 100k kindness. This is just business.

Here people (IMO correctly) see this a virtue signaling and not kindness.

To me there is really no difference, Dominos did not do kindness, neither did this tiktok douche. All calculated to mislead people into thinking you are better. Vile scam artists.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32070067
Can't speak for aliquot, mine is around a low hundreds of dollars per year across two accounts (personal and professional, not linked) and service has been exemplary.
The rent in areas adjacent (downtown Brooklyn included) to Brooklyn Heights is nothing to sneeze at. You're looking at equal or higher prices to Manhattan.

Even areas further away, like Prospect Heights or Crown Heights, with decent access to transportation have seen quite the uptick in price and availability.
This is just arcade design. Vampire Survivors might have a more bombastic way of presenting random drops, but otherwise it's not meaningfully different from something like Robotron or Gauntlet.
Postgres is an amazing database. It’s only significant weakness now is in Materialized views, with their lack of incremental refresh. Was disappointing to see there was no progress towards this in v15.
I wish the game industry would crash hard as people realize most games these days are nothing but time wasting addictive loops, and all these people that are in it for pure profit get blown out, leaving only the true craftsmen as the only ones making games.
Well done, Justine! This is absolutely fracking BRILLIANT. Thank you for this, especially a useable CLI utility! I'm going to have a lot of fun unmasking bastards with this thing :-)
Nice collection, indeed. Usually (and it seems to be the case here), UI studies/collections tend to emphasize operating systems and shells, but there's some very interesting UI paradigms brought on by applications. For example: music software like Fruit Loops and Native Instruments, skeuomorphism from audio plugins; or graphical software like the flow-based shader modeler in Blender, the quad menu in 3DSMax, the dark mode on Autodesk Flame/Flint/Inferno/Smoke; or the MS ribbon; or things like IntelliSense etc.
Figuring out if you can sell your game for $1 or $10 is thinking about monetization. Understanding the market is important.

>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.

On another note, it's funny to see HN understand that when Google does it, it's borrowed time but scrambling to cram in monetization after you launch a game is the smart way to do it...
The larger problem for him was that one of the people he was selling to was a Russian oligarch who them made it his life's work to go after Bouvier.

tl;dr - it got problematic.
I have to clean it up a little bit, but I will post it. I guess I'm currently in a negative "what if" form of paralysis where I am prematurely optimizing which is a software engineering sin.

I'm targeting backend developers who want a quick front-end that (in a way) works as a backend api. It's not overly customizable, but it's solid and people don't have to worry about the frontend.
Most of my projects heavily use AWS, so I just use Route53's registrar for them. I ain't keen on parking everything with a big corporation like Amazon, either, but at least their transfer process is pretty thoroughly documented so I could always migrate elsewhere.

My main personal domain is through freedns.afraid.org, which in turn uses registryrocket.com for the actual registrar. I'm sure there are better options as far as nameservers and registrars go, but (aside from me forgetting to renew every couple years) it's been rock solid and worth every penny of whatever pittance I ended up paying for a premium account a decade-ish ago.

And then I've got a random .is domain registered through 1984 Hosting. Still haven't figured out a use for it.
he used to be pretty high up in EA. He also worked at a PE firm that especialized in media, although I think better of PE firms than most people. Point being is that I am not surprised at his revenue driven perspective.
"you" refers to GP, so it's literally given.
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Bitcoin miners consume electricity to provide fast and affordable assay. For small value Bitcoin transfers, lightning network is even cheaper and faster.
> I feel you here. I'm a relatively new NYC resident and worried that I'll be "ruined" forever. I've otherwise lived in Toronto and Seattle.

Just out of curiosity, what do you think NYC has that Toronto or Seattle don't have? And what are you thoughts on Toronto vs. Seattle? Personally, I've lived in Toronto (which I loved), and visited Seattle for a few days (which I liked, but hard to say from a short visit), so curious to hear what others who have lived in all 3 think (especially since I'm planning to move to Seattle soon).
The sheer audacity of comparing crime in cities to rural areas on a per square mile basis.

Parent commenter is completely correct that NYC is safer not just than the average location in America, but also the average rural area.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-07/is-new...

Maybe your very specific neck of the woods is very rich and safe but I don’t know why you felt the need to butt in and make the conversation about you, OP never claimed that NYC was the absolute number 1 safest place in the country.
OpenVMS v9.2 for x86 is Available
He makes a point of showing how hard it is to achieve the same performance as JS with wasm, but the majority of the problems he runs into are AssemblyScript-related. Also he doesn't mention that wasm is faster to parse than JS. I'd be interested in a comparison of JS and wasm from the POV of a UI-heavy, compute-light app.
Elden Ring's massive success shows the market for games without MTX is absolutely active and large.
Neat, although an article linked within, Doom running on a digital home pregnancy test, is even cooler.
It's probably time to start saving the videos you like if you haven't already.

I still remember when Key and Peele's whole catalog (or a lot of it) was available on youtube back in 2015-2016. For a brief window of time.

Some of my favourite songs with 10s of millions of views have been taken down. Many niche videos don't get reuploaded.

No guarentees that youtube will keep your unique or exclusive videos publicly available. Every video is fair game for deletion at any moment.
No. He's advocating for the opposite—an enhanced "time on device" that keeps the users playing for much longer than they otherwise would have. This is well-known technique lifted directly from machine gambling in Los Vegas, where they try to draw out the "loop" long enough so that people keep playing as long as possible without ever walking away. Here's a quote about one of the best academic books on the subject, Addiction By Design:

Drawing on fifteen years of field research in Las Vegas, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll shows how the mechanical rhythm of electronic gambling pulls players into a trancelike state they call the “machine zone,” in which daily worries, social demands, and even bodily awareness fade away. Once in the zone, gambling addicts play not to win but simply to keep playing, for as long as possible—even at the cost of physical and economic exhaustion. In continuous machine play, gamblers seek to lose themselves while the gambling industry seeks profit. Schüll describes the strategic calculations behind game algorithms and machine ergonomics, casino architecture and “ambience management,” player tracking and cash access systems—all designed to meet the market’s desire for maximum “time on device.” Her account moves from casino floors into gamblers’ everyday lives, from gambling industry conventions and Gamblers Anonymous meetings to regulatory debates over whether addiction to gambling machines stems from the consumer, the product, or the interplay between the two.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691160887/ad...

There's a ton of crossover in these fields between people who designed gambling machines for Los Vegas and then got in on the ground floor of the big mobile gaming boom.
Thanks for the reassurance. I guess I need to just take the leap of faith.
So what is the motivator for people to give charity if there is no reward from God? I would have thought there were some sort of reward for charity in Christianity.
Building new dams in the west is almost entirely unfeasible. Too much environmental impact sensitivity (maybe a good thing) and NIMBYisim (not so good)
The targeting information is provided from satellite images - no need to risk peoples lives.
And most of them were tuned for profit too, so it's not like this is a new concept. It does feel like a lot of the mobile and F2P monetization folks are the same ones that enjoyed profiting from arcade games and see them as being similar to slot machines (except better, because they only pay out in neurochemicals, not money!).

There's been a quiet war for decades between people who want to design games as art, and people who want to design them as a predictable recurring revenue stream. I'm not sure what iteration we're up to now.
Ask HN: Can you sell an open source app as a service?
Hi all,

I'm in the early stages of developing a language learning application and would like to keep it open source. The current plan is to develop it as an open-source web application under a non-profit organization, and sell it as a service, but also accept donations. Does this make any sense as a business model, or am I going about this all wrong? Any suggestions? Thanks!
I tend to use a similar approach, though with Terraform var files instead of env vars. It was also possible to have this work with TF Cloud (and presumably Enterprise?) with a single workspace env var specifying the var file. It might have been improved recently to be a first class feature.

I found this to be my favourite workflow for managing workspace variables in a way that was also flexible to being run outside of TFC/TFE for when that makes sense.
The comments in this thread are a great example of how affraid of each other we've become.

How upset we get when someone is "profiting"

How things we don't like or understand become something that automatically has a negative reaction.

Really, what is our role in this situation? We're the flowers.
Or you could just fix them instead.
The current market so far. Interest rates will rise and CC transactions will migrate over time to less costly rails starting in the next 12-18 months (although Radar, Identity, and other value add products are likely to see continued use and rev growth). Imho, Stripe should've IPO'd at the top ~12+_ months ago.

EDIT: @pbriet (HN throttling, can't reply directly to your comment)

In the US, Zelle does $490B worth of volume annually (2021), all CC networks combined do about $1.9T (2021). That's significant volume for a real time payment system, and it's not even fully baked within the US financial ecosystem. FedNow [1] [2] [3] rails go live next year with instant settlement, moving up to $500k in value for 5 cents (what the bank partner charges the banking customer is up to them). I expect that to move the needle, considering merchants can charge a CC surcharge per SCOTUS' Expressions Hair Design v. Schneiderman (No. 15-1391) ruling. If you compare India's UPI implementation to CC volume, the open platform is fairly successful [4], hence my thesis (and this pattern is repeated, you'll find, across other economies where a low cost real time payment system is present).

CC companies are raising their rates because their margin is soon to be compressed. Ignore BNPL, that's a feature/product masquerading as a business (see: Klarna's down round, Affirms' decline in share price, etc) and regulators are coming for it [5].

TLDR A new fintech product from the Fed is likely to shift higher cost transactions from legacy payment rails to a utility product.

[1] https://www.moderntreasury.com/learn/what-is-fednow

[2] https://frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/community/...

[3] https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/08/31/fednow-the-federa...

[4] https://www.business-standard.com/article/finance/upi-most-p...

[5] https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta...
Hope it helps you, ping me if you need anything.

PS: The "introductions" are my personal Kryptonite.
I’m pretty sure neglected maintenance doesn’t prove the OP statement untrue.
> Such studies should compare the risk to the covid-19 infection itself vs. the risk to vaccination and infection to the risk of vaccination.

I'm not sure why that comparison would be relevant, since vaccination does not zero out the risk of infection or developing myocarditis from that infection. The risks are cumulative, not mutually exclusive.

It also doesn't seem clear to me that spike protein exposure is necessarily higher from infection than vaccination, as you assert. Do you have any studies that show this? The only comparisons I've seen have been between the levels of anti-spike antibodies, which are much higher following vaccination.

Age stratification is also an important consideration here. A large Israeli study found no increase in incidence of myocarditis among ~200,000 unvaccinated individuals who contracted SARS-CoV-2: https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/07/08/no-increase-myocarditi...
This is not how it's working out right now in NZ.

Interest rates up. House prices down (-20% in my city). Number of available rentals up (almost doubled in some markets). Rental prices down (looks like around -10%).

It looks like underutilised housing is being flushed out due to high servicing costs. The jig is up.
Senate Feminist Spends Last Days of ‘Roe’ Shilling for Crypto Bros
Like animal feed. Or tilling it into the soil to increase organic matter.
Why would I? It faces my private driveway which, is my property in a public space. I have absolutely no qualms about that being recorded.
Growth rates needn’t correlate only to population change. Productivity can also be a source of growth.
Because if you read the article his advice wasn't to engage in predatory mechanics - and that's why this conversation is so inflammatory for folks. It's a bad title. Here's the quote:

“It used to be the case that developers would throw their game over the wall to the publicist and sales force with literally no interaction beforehand. That model is baked into the philosophy of a lot of artforms and medium, and it’s one I am deeply respectful of; I know their dedication and care.”

“But this industry divides people between those who still hold to that philosophy and those who massively embrace how to figure out what makes a successful product. And I don’t know a successful artist anywhere that doesn’t care about what their player thinks. This is where this cycle of feedback comes back, and they can choose to ignore it. But to choose to not know it at all is not a great call.”
Thats fine, solutions are always fine. But ensure that only the consumers of this power and pay for its construction an upkeep
If you're comparing NYC food to Singapore I don't know how you could say sg food is great.

The staples (Chinese, Indian, Malay) are good and probably better, but western food is not great. A few are mediocre and some are great, but the great places lack variety and selection, that is you usually get only one good thing from a given stall or restaurant.

My girlfriend, the first time she went to the US was blown away by the food. She even swooned over freaking gas station pizza I picked up once. Now that I live in sg I understand what she meant by the food in the US having flavor, the staples are great but the western food is pretty mediocre and just is either off or just lacks the proper seasoning, or if it's good, it's easily twice the price (after conversion!) of similar quality food I ate in Ohio.

I seriously miss creole / cajun food for example, but the SG experience of the west is freaking British food which is the bottom of the barrel (fish and chips anyone?) seriously.

Another thing (sorry for the rant but it's fresh in my mind). Good luck getting any amount of vegetables in your meal.
don’t care
https://chicago.curbed.com/maps/oak-park-frank-lloyd-wright-...

Promises 25 places on the map.
'...our commitment to the policy positions of our preferred political parties is cognitively fragile, and we do not remember what is was that we used to commit ourselves to'
> I think the value of LinkedIn is diminishing and will continue to decline.

I don't see how that would be the case, it's the de-facto rolodex for your work-circle and I don't think I know any alternative that is getting popular.
There is a branch of clang with support for "-Wlifetime" which might be a simpler alternative.
…and? I’m paying them for a service if handling recording and integration with the app, etc.

What is the problem here?
When something that matters to me conflicts with something that matters to you, which matters more? Why?
NYC has a lower homicide rate than America, and that is the only category of crime that is mostly consistently reported across jurisdictions. Every other category of crime basically varies by an order of magnitude from place to place depending on accuracy of reporting.
> Additionally, I'm terrible about responding to text messages. Perhaps there's some social anxiety when it comes to reading / responding to notifications on social media or texts and that leads to action paralysis.

There certainly is.

All of the same rules of social anxiety apply.

If you need to do a beer or two (or similar, for your favorite drug) to start a conversation by sending a goofy, ball-busting text or voice memo to your friend, so be it.

Just care less about the content — it's informal, not informational.

The information you're trying to convey is that you're thinking of them. Or are interested in what they have to say. Or their continued success/existence.
Cross-platform open-source game engine with C# support and Unity-like editor
It’s stuff like this that really, really entice me to give openbsd as a daily driver a shot.
Take the Beginner's Series to Rust
NB: Post author

I'm not 100% sure I understand what you're asking, but essentially something that would look for data modifications and at query time run the query over the older regions as well?

If that's what you're asking the answer is yes, we did consider it, but basically decided that it was something that relatively few people needed and the complexity and performance tradeoffs were unlikely to be worth it for most folks.

Essentially, we could do something like this now by looking at our invalidation log and running a join against it to get to a more strongly consistent state (I haven't thought through the full implications and whether it's truly strong consistency, I think it might be, but it'd require a proof / some thinking through of all of our locking logic to really get there). It's interesting to consider though.