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I personally have found it more enjoyable to play a lot of games without savestates.

Playing earthbound a few years ago I was constantly savescumming. My recently replay on mister without savetsates was way more enjoyable because the stakes were higher.

Wouldn’t want to play a Mario World rom hack without them though
> That's absurd. Are startups risky?

98% failure rate seems not only risky but reckless.

> "Fuck paying taxes, because who cares about the risk that the IRS will find me."

cheating the IRS has 100% failure rate unless you are in a position of power and wealth.

Not only is it necessary to know something is risky but to understand as so is key.
I think one of the things to call out is that this is going to take a lot of time. I don't realistically see something like this being just another "get rich quick" CNCF project that pops up and dies out in 24 months.

If we do this "right" it kind of needs to go at the pace of the Kernel, and hold very tightly onto the API scope to protect the project from scope creep.
Since you mentioned Go.. Go does a very programmer-friendly thing where v.x and p->x are both spelled y.x -- the compiler knows whether the left side is a pointer or not, and v->x and p.x would always be errors, so they eliminated the invalid syntax and simplified to always using dot.
The frustrating thing to me is that CF is that invasive and still can't distinguish bots from people; it usually eventually lets me through, but I've spent enough time staring at the "are you sure you're not a not?" screen to laugh off their claims about human/not traffic ratios.
> Actors aren't mumbling, they're speaking how real people speak. Trust me, screen actors have more stage training than ever -- they know how to enunciate but if they do, the director tells them to stop because they seem like they're giving a fake theatrical performance rather than being a slice of real life.

But if it translates into me not being able to understand them, that’s less realistic, because in a real-world scenario I’d be able to understand them, since our ears are adapted for the real world. A real world slurrer is about as easy to understand as an enunciator through movie speakers — at least, with how the meth-addled mixers do it now.

Bottom line: speech being incomprehensible is not realistic, and is not accomplishing some wonderfully artistic gritty realism.

Edit: To put it a different way: they may be speaking the way real people speak, but once you put it through a speaker, it will translate into something less comprehensible than that speech would be in a real-world scenario, and thus less true to how that situation would be in real life.
The original team may not have been the best at the task, but they still managed to deliver 100 MM in revenue. Sometimes the things they leave behind/ignore simply don’t matter to the business/useful tech.

Particular to ad tech, the lifespan of any particular software is lower than you’d expect (unless your google/Facebook). Technology that pays out big one year will become pretty meh within 3 years. In the case above I’d argue that the new tech team didn’t really understand this dynamic and so they focused on the wrong things such as rewriting functionality that didn’t matter for the future. Or making big bets on aspects of the product which were irrelevant.

To the OP, we don’t know that the lifespan of any of these php files is greater than an individual contract. If the business can be modeled as solve a contract by putting a php file on prod - rewriting may be entirely worthless as the code can be “write once, read never”.
> The worst tech team you've ever seen and yet they are generating 20 million a year? I think you should give them the respect they deserve and understand the limitations they have been under.

If the right opportunity is there, you can make a lot of money on an awfully built product that barely keeps it together. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t a lot of risks involved with that and that things can’t go south in a hurry.

I’m obviously not familiar with this project, but it sounds like a lot of things many’d consider table stakes are missing, especially for such a large source of revenue. Perhaps I’m not imaginitive enough, but I can’t come up with any limitations they might’ve been under that would justify that. I think it’s fair to call that out, even if they happen to make money despite this.
I certainly have those day / weeks as is normal in any startup or work environment. But they tend to not be super frequent.
Or, taking a securities backed line of credit against personal investments. Making the purchase promptly, then mortgaging afterwards
your vote can get tossed in some states if the signatures don't match exactly. It's part of Texas' initiative to disenfranchise people of color and mail-in votes in some communities. It's similar in some other republican states.
Why I Work Part-Time
It’s rough. I followed the misteraddons owner on twitter and waited a few months for them to notify that kits were back in stock
You're right that it started with Brando and has only come more recently to TV in past decades. But I don't think I said anything to the contrary. I even said "TV is becoming more film-like".
Very nicely written and comprehensive website. It is handy as we often work with docker and linux command line these days.
“I wish this was daily” - my 7 yo son.

Nice work!!

Edited: typo, with -> wish
I can definitely see the usefulness of a shorts platform for instruction videos or learning a specific skill, but text is much more lightweight for many other queries. If I wanted to find "how to get on my school's basketball team", I would probably want my school form and requirements page. Its unlikely there's a video on TikTok about that, so I don't see how TikTok replaces Google (at least for now).
Ask HN: Which books created the greatest mindshift for you and how?
It is hard to generalise about the suitability of Monte Carlo methods. In practical applications it is almost always used in hybrid systems, combined with analytical methods and problem specific short cuts. How one should apply Monte Carlo methods to a problem tends to be an open ended question.
I really appreciate the work that must have gone into narrowing down those bugs. There's a reason for the insistence on multiple independent implementations for new standards; the Internet owes you one.
Nice, would like to see this type of interface for other generative art algos.
FPGAs are fun, for sure, but I still have never felt the flair of “authenticity” from the use of FPGA as opposed to software emulation on a microcontroller or the PC. In fact, software emulation is so much more practical, and you can simulate pretty much any aspect of it that you wish, not just the CPU and some peripherals. A modern flight simulator is another example of using software to bring the user’s experience close to what it would be in reality (especially with the VR gear).
> And V just got rid of so much in single player to prioritize online

I couldn't really play V post completing the game, I'm actually convinced it was completely broken and I'm surprised more don't talk about it.

Whenever you respawned the cars that are driving around you would always be the same no matter really where you were and it felt like once they were spawned it struggled to have memory slots to spawn in any others so really all that was available were that 4x4 and a few others. I had a theory that the car spawning seed was derived from the mission state somehow so it was always using the same seed in the post-game and because Online was the priority they never bothered fixing it or noticing.

If you drove around for 15 minutes you started getting more cars in the pool but the cops were so aggressive and psychic the game just wasn't much fun anyway.
Climates also play roles. Nordic winter could be cold and dry enough that Surströmming might naturally become sterilized as it is processed, whereas pork in Israeli desert or intestine processed in Midwest America could not have been safe, possibly as late as early 20th century.
Generate color palettes in HSLuv color space
Here's the productivity blackpill — most "productivity" improvement are dwarfed by immediate skill improvements. Want to be a better insert relevant profession? Get good at skills relevant to profession, don't try to improve some abstract "productivity" that's 10 steps removed from the actual craft.

You're probably not missing out on much. You've hit the 80/20 long ago.
IMO the price gets the attention.
This is what I expected the article to be about. I would wager a lot of shops don't to the whitelisting. If they wanted to be really intense they could do authenticated origin pulls.
Cetacean Translation Initiative
There's one niche place which has a unique "feel" that I haven't experienced anywhere else - on HN, Reddit or Twitter.

It's a blog section on a non-English website about Linux, but the blogs are about anything - current events, niche engineering topics, etc. The discussions are threaded, with no comment voting. It seems like people there have much more distinct and varied personalities compared to HN or Reddit, where comments sometimes seem like written by a single person. The quality has degraded over time though.
Compared to San Andreas, GTA V's single player RPG elements were about as deep as a puddle. I've heard RDR2 was much better in this regard though, so maybe there is hope for GTA VI.
>Roleplay servers require a lot of human moderation, else it won't be roleplay and it will be trollish

Lets not forget the regular online is just 3 people chasing you around the map on their hover bikes with rocket launchers no matter what server you end up on.
I can't find a flawless argument in either direction, personally. You're right that it lets people escape bad work situations.

On the other hand, it discourages any attempts to fix miserable jobs. Workers won't bother to try unionizing or petitioning management because they can just quit and management can hire people who quit other jobs. If I'm measuring who "wins" there, I think the company does on the net. They get to keep their crappy, overworked jobs and workers take on the risk of finding new employment. Until very recently, finding replacement workers wasn't really a struggle for management.

I don't think quiet quitting is bad in and of itself, but I think it's symptomatic of underlying flaws in the current work atmosphere. Workers should be adequately incentivized to either do well in their jobs or find a new job, but we seem to be in a period where neither doing your best nor switching jobs has enough incentives to be worth it. That failing is indicative of some systematic failures.
Hmm, how does this look on a regular 80x25 terminal?
> my inbox only has 17k mails in it

I can't tell if you're intentionally joking or are actually unaware of that being maybe a little much.
Had to do the same with my Palm TX. Small nightmare, they went cheap and just soldered a bare LiPo to the mainboard, so had to be somewhat precise not to short out the pack.
Working in a similar company, they don't generate as much revenue but the codebase is that really messy mix of data and implementation details, imperatively brute-forced into a "stable" lucky build

I took the e2e approach, since making any changes is having that huge domino-effect of breaking everything else. I think it's really important to setup a proper build/e2e CI pipeline with instant Slack reports, and run this pipeline on every commit, from this point you can just add specs to fully cover it and then it can be released nightly without a fuss
Academic publishers turn to AI software to catch bad scientists doctoring data
Remember that if any changes you implement impact that $20M in revenue, you will be blamed, not the code.
Only thing I didn't know at first was that I assumed multiple conditions were or instead of and. Also, people are talking about flashing lights? I get to the completion criteria with the dog on the bone and the rabbits on the carrot and the game doesn't end. I can keep playing, no lights. Is there more?
You hit the nail perfectly right on the head! Cultural blindness!

- Many Indian vegetarians would find eating _any type of meat_ (chicken, beef, pork, fish, even eggs) repulsive.
America taps 150 prosecutors to fight cryptocurrency crime
You left out 2a-z, Uber serially changes working conditions after achieving market dominance, and I think you know this quite well.
My advice is pick a framework you can get on with (and has mass market adoption, look at developer surveys) and stick with it. This likely means Vue/ react, you don't need to worry about all these other ones for a little while if it's causing you stress. This space is maturing, react has remained a solid choice since I started working with it many years ago now (yes it has warts, but so do most alternatives).

Regarding typescript, I think you'll need to get over your concerns if you want to remain in the web space. If you check any developer surveys it's only getting more popular. I doubht its going anywhere soon, and if it does the syntax will be likely be extremely similar, its a pretty natural way to add typing to JS.
> But this often fails because when Friday comes, something is on fire and management asks to please quickly squeeze this one thing in first.

There's a solution to this problem: nothing goes live on Fridays.

> and making the code touched by that change better.

Getting buy-in from management on this always appeared to me as weird. The alternative is a codebase that can only ever get worse over time. So you either gotta gold plate everything, which will take way longer than allowing for some after-the-fact improvement as needed, or your codebase turns into a pile of shit very quickly and your velocity grinds to a halt very quickly.
Tsunami warnings issued after 6.9-magnitude earthquake hits Taiwan
Does anyone know the status of gitea federation yet? This is the first repo I've seen in the wild that uses it

But my god this client is beautiful
Quite a cool approach. Although only one downside I see here is that you're just relying on Stripe to let you access order history? What if they don't let you access this data via APIs for data older than a certain time period? Or is that not much of a concern here?
What a horrible way to live. Dependent on others for even basic needs.

I'm not arguing you have to be 100% self sufficient, but learning to read what amounts to a specific font shouldn't be too much to ask.
It shouldn’t be. IMAP doesn’t have to download all of them.
I am not a professional writer, but among the paid tools I have used in the past, I find Scrivener to be pretty nice in helping me organize views. I however find its LaTeX support not very satisfactory, but probably that is not their main target market.
Take a look at The Strangler Pattern, coined by Martin Fowler. That approach lays out a technique for replacing each part of complexity into a modern codebase by "strangling" each unit of functionality individually.

It takes time, but the outcome is a fully tested version of the already production-tested software, and there's no need to maintain two versions.
Clearview AI, Used by Police to Find Criminals, Now in Public Defenders’ Hands
This seems to be a kind of Petri net[1] almost.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petri_net
Cosmos, 1980 by Carl Sagan
It's an introduction, explanation, and celebration of science.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos_(Sagan_book)
> If they're studying history, they'll need to learn to read a whole bunch of weird, ancient, dead script

I like when languages have lots of “backward compatibility”

For example Spanish handwriting system hasn’t changed much. Except perhaps it used to use more abbreviations.

A couple of months I went to a museum and was able to read 400 year old Spanish texts, and I can also grab a 200 year old book in Spanish and read it easily. As there have not been major Spelling or writing changes. With French I can even go further back.

This is more difficult in German where older books used to be printed in Fraktur and handwriting starts getting very different in the early 1900s.

I guess this gets more difficult in other languages like Mongolian, Turkish or Romanian which have undergone two or three different alphabet changes.
A few months ago it worked for me. I am in EU so IIRC they are legally required to let you cancel your contract for 14 days if you entered into it remotely (phone, internet etc). It seems like changing subscription plan counts as getting a new contract with Adobe.
Awesome to see the author post TLA+ instructions & model source. One day I'll get around to actually learning it. In the meantime, what's posted is too involved for me to grok at first glance, but I'm still glad to see more real world uses pop up.
I don't think she's right; she says leaks are awful for excited fans but I'm an excited fan and it's not awful for me. She's speaking in sweeping generalities, speaking for people who aren't her. This video didn't give me any expectations for GTA VI that weren't already obvious; e.g. it will be a 3rd person game where I can commit crimes.
Personally I usually draw a smiley face or boobs or something on the digital signature inputs. The cashiers look on and laugh because they know the signature is a meaningless anachronism, too.
I don’t think there’s a global maximum. For example, to beat such a robot, build the same body without the spinner motor (or, if the rules disallow that, a much slower one). That gives you room to make it sturdier and/or faster. Without that heavy spinning mass it also likely will be easier to maneuver.

Now, when that hits its spinning counterpart, that spinner doesn’t only dump kinetic energy into its opponent; it also dumps it into itself, potentially more so if the enemy is heavier, so on an empty battlefield, the sturdier engine will (on average) win.

On a battlefield with hazards, the better maneuverability should tilt the favor more into the direction of the non- or slow-spinning version. It has more control over where and when the hits take place, so it can (statistically) push its opponent towards hazards.

I think the best strategy for the fast spinner would be to try and stay working, as the jury might give it a points victory on aggression.
I mean that works for the theater companies but itv doesn’t really generate more revenue for studios. Their audience is shifting to the home experience
why couldn't it call an api in the shell to change directory?
I know that in this era we no longer recommend books, but, get the book “Working with Legacy Code” by Michael Feathers for ideas and approaches here. It’s hugely helpful. It won’t solve all the problems (that’s on you) but it will show you starting points, give you hope, and show lights at the end of the tunnel. It’s a bit focused on testing and moving to TDD, but don’t make the mistake of thinking that’s all it offers.
I know that people are beating you up over the price, but this is great.

1. Someone could generate the same asset for themselves using your open source library. Which is great for someone who has time over budget.

2. You are providing value in your packaging of that time savings.

3. You created a very cheap way to offer this using server less and stateless. Props to you for making something that is financially sustainable for a long time.

Number 3 is the most interesting of the above. That’s no easy feat and I applaud you for it.
when people using your library need pylance type hinting to show up for all your public methods, and those public methods are in fact generated as proxies for some other object. This was trivial as a dynamic runtime thing before, now must be statically generated. I can share examples if you'd like.
Full body spinners are still a thing, see Gigabyte and Captain Shrederator. Unfortunately, their performance tends towards "middling" due to control and reliability issues.

The full body spinners struggle to keep spinning, as the forces of impact tend to ping-pong them around the arena. As long as their opponent can tank a hit and has a halfway competent driver, the spinners tend to end up corralled in a corner.

The latest season has an absolutely incredible match between Gigabyte and Hypershock.
To the contrary, it is realistic -- no, you wouldn't understand them in real-life either. Movie speakers aren't slurring anything, as any audio engineer could easily prove to you.

My mother complains about how she can't understand anything when there are Irish or Scottish or even northern English characters in a show.

Decades ago, in an American TV show those characters would have been speaking an understandable American accent with just a few accent "suggestions" to indicate they were "foreign".

Today, it's considered absurd if they speak in anything else but their actual full accent.

It's realism. My mother can't understand it and has to use subtitles. I understand it all perfectly, but I've traveled a lot and learned other languages.

But that's what subtitles are there for. And not all TV/film has to be culturally accessible to everybody, with fake ways of speaking.
I use it to store my gpg keys among other use-cases. The key provides a permanence and isolation. I can't accidentally delete it without trying and the button needs to be pressed to access the key. I like these trait.
This should have a mild epilepsy warning.
Ask HN: Do you still buy physical tech books like “Learn Rust” or “Learn Go”?
Or have you switched completely to Ebook?
So? They're all transcribed into legible writing in a million different books and websites.
> But some are homeowners who sold a property and use the proceeds to pay for another one, in which case there's not much change in net demand.

That's not a cash offer unless the property being purchased is far lower in purchase price than the profit off the sale of the first home (i.e. due to downsizing, or moving from a much higher to much lower cost area), in which case it is a different housing submarket, and there could be a net local demand increase.
In Australia actual suitcases of cash are allowed and sometimes used for buying houses because Lawyers, Realtors, and Accountants have zero accountability to report anything suspicious to anyone.

"Anti Money Laundering" laws to stop that happening never managed to actually be passed into legislation in Australia [0] despite many "attempts" since 2006 (the politicians forming discussion groups of committees for re-reviewing the potential idea of AML every few years then seemingly deciding it's too scary to be labelled as the cohort who stopped the vast money laundering into property in Australia).

KYC only exists for banks here, and we are near the bottom of the barrel when it comes to money laundering compliance [1] (Australia is one of only 8% of countries assessed by the FATF’s 4th Mutual Evaluation process as being totally non-compliant)

A suitcase of cash buys a criminal the choicest realestate plus a chain of anonymous Australian shell companies controlled by Panamian or Cayman Islands companies.

The actual beneficial owner of the property can rarely be determined in these cases.

Or even worse, they leverage their crime proceeds and get fat bank loans. Our largest bank was in on it too, they've been caught so many times [1]

A new book [2] titled "The Lucky Laundry, How the Aussie Economy Got Hooked on the World’s Dirtiest Cash" was recently published about Australia's wilful ignorance in turning a blind eye to crime because of greed and rampant capital appreciation (many yearly house price rises are greater than the owner's annual gross salary/wage before tax)

[0] https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2021/09/australian-property...

[1] https://michaelwest.com.au/do-not-stuff-up-this-institution-...

[2] https://michaelwest.com.au/lucky-laundry-review-aml-australi...