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Some tough love.

On one level I find it a fascinating project. I have a weakness for large party RPGs and I am still playing a Nintendo 3DS and thinking about how some of the touch interactions (see the boss battles from Mario and Luigi Dream Team) could be ported to phones and tablets. I am also wanting to jump into WebGL programming.

On the other hand, you're 1% done at best; if Nintendo wants to end your web site they can do it whenever they want, it would be safer to base this on your own IP.

I'm not so sure what caching, graph databases and web assembly have to do with it. Isn't that putting the cart ahead of the horse? I get the feeling that some architecture astronauts are planning a mission to Uranus.

The first Pokémon game ran on a Z80 CPU with an 8kb working memory. Certainly you can store your creature database in a JSON object in today's web browser.

I badly would like to see how you handle the UI aspects, personally I think that's very interesting. You probably were right to start with the creature database but I think the next thing you want to do is implement the battling, you've got to make up your mind about how much you want to invest in gfx and sound. The other half of the UI is the overworld in the game and all the "visual novel" aspects. It probably makes sense to use a game framework for the battling or the story elements or both.
You say this, but this hasn't been the case in my experience with decent quality providers.
The Nix language is basically just JSON with lambda functions and variables. (Modulo some random irrelevant syntax differences.)

So yes.
Since you're confident, I'm sure that means it's not happening.
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The President can also darkly threaten to take away the independence of the the Federal Reserve if they don't keep rates low to assist in their re-election. Such things normally don't happen, but there's no physical barrier to prevent it. [1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-trump-tweets/trum...
U.S. refining capacity is running at 100%. You can add as much oil to the supply as you want - we can't refine it. Several refining facilities have been retired over the past 10 years as they've hit and-of-life. No one is interested in building new refineries because it's capital-intensive and requires a 50-60 year lifetime to achieve desired income. Many European countries have banned the sale of ICE vehicles by 2035, so why would you invest in more refining capacity in 2022? Not only that, but if you make the capital investment to increase refining capacity the result will be lowering the price of your product. That new refinery will never pay for itself, let alone be profitable.

Why the dramatic rise in gas prices? Two-fold - refineries were end-of-lifed during the pandemic, which reduces supply, and then the lockdowns were lifted when the Covid vaccines became widely distributed, which had the result of increasing demand. Reduced supply + increased demand = higher prices. Throw in the Ukrainian War which has introduced uncertainties in the global oil market and so you have raw material costs increasing as well.
The number of "crypto developers" I have gotten applications from is easily 3:1 when compared to people with more regular "full stack" experience.

Its way more than these large layoffs, even the smaller players have made big cuts.
If you have any experience with the game Counterstrike, reach out to me. Email is in my profile. I run a small, bootstrapped B2C business and have a number of interesting projects I could hand off to people.

It’s a weird prerequisite, but without it there generally isn’t enough context to do meaningful work sans a lot of hand holding.
Prolly not, Amazon recruitment is a sh*tshow they try to hire Amazon employees to Amazon sometimes.
Yup, and my place of employment is also the latter. Leadership takes time off all the time. Heck my direct boss who is senior engineering director just took 2 weeks off for vacation, which overlapped with a major release launch, he didn't care, his vacation personal time meant more.

Our VP of Engineering takes off quite a bit too. They all encourage us to and also encourage us to take mental health days too. Mental health is a big concern in my company and they do not take kindly to people not taking care of themselves... It sounds bad to read that way but "do not take kindly" in a good way.

Also we're a heavily remote first and ROWE company, that could also make a huge difference.
For what it's worth, I evaluated all the obvious offerings about two years ago and settled on Help Scout and like it quite a bit.

My use case is pretty low volume so I could probably have succeeded with anything but it's been sophisticated and fast and easy to use so far.
> the Governing Council took further key steps to make sure inflation returns to its 2% target over the medium term.

Is raising rates by 0.5% anywhere near enough to get inflation to 2%, given that inflation is currently at 8.6%?

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
you should patent/copyright the idea and profit from it
Could someone explain what the impact and issues of TPI will be?
This thinking is why we must dismiss multiple of these dialogs daily.

It could and should have been a setting.
This seems interesting. How was your experience?
That sounds like a European or maybe Canadian thing. Everywhere in the US I've been, it's been a predetermined rate of your home's value.
> Package theft (porch pirates) is at an all time high.

People having easily carried valuable items unattended on their porch which is easily accessible to any random passerby for hours at a time is at an all time high.

It used to be somewhat of a hassle to convince a delivery company to leave anything worth more than a few dollars anywhere there wasn't someone to sign for the delivery.
Generally, high taxes on anything are bad. Taxation facilitates a transfer of assets from the productive sector to the non-productive sector, e.g., from the homeowner to the government. The recipient then uses the money to further their plans without regard to the taxpayer. It has always been that way. Using econo-speak doesn't make it any less true. Looking at cities like NYC, eliminating rent control would do more for the housing market than raising property taxes.
Monolith refers mostly to the code, not the distribution of app servers. There's one app (a monolith) served multiple times.
This would be another good reason for "lots of random people to use it," certainly - same as Tor.
Isn’t this what the German constitutional court already said was illegal? They are opening a minefield here.

Of course they have to, otherwise Italy is bankrupt.

But I don’t see the euro lasting another 10-15 years.
Here's one website I found that ships to the UK: https://www.bookdepository.com/Engineering-Plain-Sight-Grady...
> coalition of people who agree on “bigger government offering more services” and little else.

If I could vote in the US I’d vote democrat (and likely join them) because I don’t want Christian fundamentalists to be in power, not because I believe in their policies and especially not in their abilities.

There may be a coalition of people who believe in what you think, but I’d wager the vast majority of support comes from those who simply think they’re less bad than the alternative.
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You seem to have changed your position from 'people are not doing this' to 'the banks shouldn't be letting people do this' That's a pretty big shift.
You're only saying that because of the political baggage that surrounds treatment of native Americans and coal mining and the way we view those things today.

The premise that a big infrastructure project will create a bunch of economic opportunity in the local area and people will be better off for it is not a controversial one.
Here is some Microsoft documentation describing how a monolith application can be deployed behind a load balancer[0]. HTH

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/contain...
If it matters, September is my 1 year anniversary and since I started I've taken almost a full month off for various trips I've taken and not a single person has a problem with it. So while I would normally agree with you, in my context I cannot.
Ask HN: Did Chrome nerf tab-to-search?
I use tab-to-search a lot, but I recently noted that it stopped working for some websites. You can still activate tab-to-search for those websites manually in the search settings, so it's not like there's something wrong with their opensearch.xml.

Anyone has the same experience?
Not even close. The central banks of the western world are playing a very dangerous game.
How does Discord handle already answered questions? As a non Discord user I'd imagine same questions being asked every day and creating a lot of noise. Not having an archive accessible without login and searchable by search engine is a huge step backward, especially in providing support.
> have been economically stable for 30+ years

Assuming 'stable' is a synonim for stagnationg and slow decline then yes. The 90's were pretty good but there has been been almost no real growth after the Euro was introduced in 1999.

It's even worse in relative terms. Back in 1995-2000 Italy's GDP per capita was around 130% of the EU average, now it's less than 100% and not that far from the more succesful Eastern European countries which joined in 2004 (around 80-85%). And these numbers only tell a part of the story since the average GDP per capita went down significancly after most ex-communist countries joined the EU between 2004 and 2007.

France, Germany, UK & Italy had almost equal GDP per capita in 2000, Italy was even ahead of France and Britain during most of the 1990's and look what happened later:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locat...

Obiouviously Italy is still a rich country with a "strong" economy but if it stays on the same trajectory for the next few decades it will likely become one of the poorest countries in the EU.
Ask HN: Anyone regret getting a (subdermal) microchip implant?
The discussion of chip implants came up yesterday in a subthread in the submission about Flipper Zero (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32166058)

Led me down a bit of a rabbit hole to see what the current status is of chip implants.

Dangerous Things seems to have a bunch of interesting implants of various kinds: https://dangerousthings.com/

There are also companies like VivoKey (https://www.vivokey.com/) and Walletmor (https://walletmor.com/) that does payment implants.

The whole area is still relatively niche though, but what is HN better at than niche interests?

So I'm asking you who either has or had chip implants, do/did you regret doing it? Anything in particular that was unexpected from having the implant?
The differences in construction are relevant here.

Construction work involves people and machinery which can’t easily move between locations the way programmers can hop between tasks. Further there are orders of magnitude cost differences between people and machinery.

The guy with a shovel standing next to heavy machinery might not actually do much labor in a given hour, but sending them elsewhere would be a mistake.
At the scale of Amazon sized companies in the US, healthcare costs become part of the strategic equation of how you manage your business.

Get large enough (you will have moved beyond fully insured plans to self ensuring your population long ago) and you'll continue to look at opportunities further down the supply chain in actual healthcare delivery itself to better manage, forecast, and optimize costs.

Primary care and Rx are usually the first place to go.

My guess is this is as much about that dynamic, as it is about buying some good leadership (look at the board/leadership of One Medical and you'll see many familiar faces if you are in heathcare/plan/PBM space).

Will be very interested to see if they keep this mainly in house, or if they begin to scale beyond that.
I thought it's common to fix rates for a few years at least (although this won't necessarily protect people in this case).
I believe the plan is to increase the rate in steps over time as to not shock the marketplace and also be able to see how market conditions change between steps.
How many hours should I play before reaching out? I'm only sort of kidding.
yes it is, I really enjoy coding but having a "customer" on something you implemented alone with a direct relationship with users is special :)
I didn't use it as a benchmarking tool. I don't care about the relatively numbers between CPUs or even what performance it represents. I only referenced the throttling behavior. I could as well have used a simple C program that adds floating points together as fast as possible.
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If you dislike going through interviews, I'm not sure that freelance work or going into business for yourself (which is the normal model for this kind of thing) is really the right answer.

When you're freelancing you're essentially interviewing for your job every single minute you're in front of or have an active project with the client. Soft skills and doing work that has nothing to do with engineering is even more of a requirement.
Your best programmers should be on your least important problems. That means your second best are on the hard stuff and this grows them. It also means your second most important project isn't bothered by asking your best people for help. It also means if some new project that needs to be done now comes up your best people are free to do them.

This comes from principals of project development flow mentioned below. I strongly recommend the book.
People have different use-cases for Nix.

If you're running a CI/CD server your definition of "installing a package" is vastly different from someone who just wants to install Chrome on their machine.
Prisons are a different thing altogether; the "concentration camps" he's talking about look more like youth detention centers in some of Eastern Europe.
You can! And there’s software on GitHub to allow you to transfer it to your computer (I’ve tested it successfully on my Mac)
I don't publicly disclose my employment despite being absolutely enthralled with how great they are, but if you DM me on twitter and mention this thread, if you're looking for a job, give me your resume and if we're looking for someone like you, I'll definitely let you know and see about getting you in.
I've worked at a couple companies with holiday shutdowns. What I've learned is to enjoy them while they last, because they always end.
"Oxford" is being used to reference Oxford University in this context rather than Oxfordshire. I know, thoroughly confusing.
These generally get backported when needed, check your distribution's kernel updates and the stable / longterm kernel.org trains. Here's eg the fix in the 5.18.12 tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux...
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I agree with everything you said.

The commas instead of decimals momentarily threw me off though.
This is good. Was spam issue with Google Forms fixed too? Lately I'm not getting spam confirmations from Google Forms. Also would be nice if they somehow stopped spam from @gmail domains already.
>Blackrock had almost no power to enforce ESG, and companies almost have no reason to comply.

When Blackrock is the largest, or one of the largest shareholders in many companies - YES, they have enormous power in the decision making of those companies.
Has anyone tried to remove the nail polish, then reapply with a matched nail polish? I imagine that it would be very difficult to tell the difference between the tampered and non-tampered.
While doctors, lawyers and software engineers make pretty good money, I've never met anyone with their name on a construction company who was poor. I think there are plenty of smart people are in the field. Feeling that doctor/lawyer/software engineer as the default path to wealth just shows a failure of imagination.
crypto is very much alive so id say its a correction and not a crash
>As long as you can pick up your keys and seamlessly start trading on a different exchange, that part of the crypto world is not centralized.

I once asked a friend who had signed up to some crypto exchange "Do they just give you your keys when you sign up?". They replied, "What keys?" Eventually they found it. But it's not like they educate the user.
That seems to be how one of the exploits from a year or two ago worked.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i...

It exploited an archaic Xerox format parser to make its own virtual machine, and then went out from there.

So I'd agree, throwing anything on a webpage (or incoming message) into the "Can you parse this weird thing?" pipeline is a bad idea!
That's what some said 10 years ago. And 10 years before. And still, here we are. Where there is a will, there is a way.

Germany needs the EU more than Italy, in many ways. Particularly with herr Putin knocking at the door. They'll come around.
Eh. It is the case that it benefits the US economy at the expense of others. I wouldn't go assuming that the difference in regulations is a precedent or primarily an effect of this. I think the US will catch up.
I have a history question. I've seen this link a few times: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Reading-Non_002...

Did this advice from GNU inspire you to optimise `yes`, did your optimised `yes` inspire GNU to write this, or is there no historical connection between your optimised `yes` and this advice?
In all seriousness, a few hundred hours in recent years. I could definitely work with people who have none, but it ends up being more effort on my part and negates the hand-off effect.
you went from accusing the parent of "you are engaging in significant hyperbole" to making the statement "There is no half gun seizure". There's lots and lots of gun control legislation people would like to enact, can you show the ones that indicate the "seizure" of any existing weapons at all? The nature of gun control legislation, whether one is in favor or not, is extremely incremental, and all of the legislation that aims to restrict certain kinds of weapons always applies to the manufacture and sale, never existing legal ownership. Not sure where you got the term "gun seizure" from but that is beyond "hyperbole" because it's not even true in any sense.
But does it explain it though? Ramping up production because prices are currently high can be a losing strategy, since the price of gas is volatile, and ramping up production is slow, and expensive.
Supply and demand. Dumping shares increases supply and has a neutral (or potentially negative) impact on demand. So price goes down.
your argument is literally that people should be allowed to knowingly spew biological weapons at strangers on purpose, make them sick, maybe even kill them, with no repercussions

by that same argument, one would think people should be allowed to harm and impose their will on others without their consent, in other ways, too.

I don't agree with either but I'm not a fascist trying to get people killed just because I think that's okay as long as I get to do what I want
even worse, they turned down a buyout offer back in February for $16B
https://www.reuters.com/business/zendesk-rejects-16-bln-offe...
Its not about privileges, the iMessage blastdoor exploit built a turing machine using a weird old image format and then escaped.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i...
Smartphones are in a market, yes...? I can also buy an Android or Pinephone, or use an open source OS like Graphene. That means you have a choice not to use iPhone's garden or use Google's or none... via F-Droid style app stores.

Do you think free-markets means corporations also need to run their business operations and products/platforms like a market? Because that's not what that means. (Even if it did ideological purity is dumb)

Inversely governments forcing companies to all operate with the same business model is not on a free market.

The only thing that would prevent a walled garden from operating in a free market is if Apple et al was a monopoly/oligopoly and you had no other choices. I've already said antitrust laws for things like browser choice is one of the better solutions than the one proposed.
Some organizations do do this and they call them product security engineers or similar. Sadly, this doesn’t remove the need for an informed organization at large—that function covers a lot more than securing code—but it’s absolutely something that has been done.

There is one caveat however: you’ll probably still need dedicated security analysis or security engineers outside the chain of command of your product or engineering org.

There is a degree of necessary opposing pressures and incentives for infosec departments vs product departments: product organizations are rewarded for shipping more. Infosec organizations are rewarded for preventing incidents.

The most common result of this contention are situations people often lament in the comments here—security programs that are either ineffective, heavy handed, or both.

In my mind, a good security program positions itself as an enablement function and should strive to educate and inform over all else. People close to the work will be best positioned to make decisions about effective ways to harden their systems when informed of likely risks, requirements, or other security considerations.

With any luck this minimizes the need to mandate security motivated changes and changes they dynamic when your local security professional comes by with specific concerns. It’ll be less of “the sky is falling” and more of “we saw this specific problem and would like to work with you to fix it”.
Google gives One Medical 10% of their revenue, plus they have OM offices embedded in Google offices. I wonder if this continues and Google lets Amazon employees on premises to collect medical information about their employees

Personally my experience with One Medical went from amazed in 2015 to pretty bad by 2019. They will charge your insurance for a doctors visit but only have Nurses and P.A's available to see. I don't even know the legality of that, but it definitely didn't feel like they were replacing having a personal doctor follow your health

The few M.D's i did like left within a year or two, always
If your definition of a monolith refers to a singular server, then I've never worked on a monolith in my life. Even the crufty old ASP apps I used to work on weren't monoliths.

This would also mean that deploying a microservice architecture onto a single server, using docker for example, would be considered a monolith. Or even better, any application that leverages a database on a separate server is no longer a monolith! That's way easier than rearchitecting your whole app.

I've never come across a definition for monolith in the context of software that had anything to do with the actual infrastructure employed
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It actually has nothing to do with the mirror. It’s because when you rotate the image to align its ‘front’ direction to your body’s, you naturally perform this rotation about the vertical axis. It is this rotation which has the effect of swapping left and right.

(It may also help here to think of a mirror on the ceiling. Consider: does this also swap left/right, or does it swap up/down instead?)
Nix is a great way to build containers (or much saner than Dockerfiles, at least), so your comment seems weird.
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One interesting way to look at it is that the Crypto market is experiencing a 2008-like crisis (unregulated/less regulated shadow banks going bust), but without any bailouts.

Wonder if they'll learn the same lessons and come up with a Crypto federal reserve (likely called Unbanked DAO of Courage represented by Mark Wahlberg or some shit). Would be ironic.