skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course online multi-player is difficult to pull off but with console sale numbers for the Wii U I think the time spent on porting the game to the Wii U could've been used to get online multi-player to work. They spent an estimated 50% of their two years development time on a console that was pretty much a failure at the time the game came out.

The PS4 was well ahead of any other console in sales long before the game was released onto the Wii U. I don't know their exact sales distribution, but I think a better game on PS4 and maybe Xbox One would've sold a lot more copies.
Here is a secret, you don't need Docker to develop on UNIX.
I am still using the first generation Boosted Boards V1 that I got from the Kickstarter campaign in 2014. I only use it during the summer though. Battery is still working well, with around 70% of original capacity. Its a shame the company went under, they had a killer product with excellent quality.
I must admit it's a very good example, overwhelmingly positive on Steam with 1987 ratings, so it's hard to argue the game is bad.

If I compare Chicory, A Colorful Tale (A) to Stardew Valley B:

A: 97%/1987 B: 98%/483781 on Steam

A: 93.2%=2317 B: 97.33%=562`831 on Steam.db

I don't know where the disparity comes from, but those 4 % are significant. And here's something even more important:

A: 8 in game B: 36`293 in game

8/1987 = 0.4%, whereas 36`293/483781 = 7.5%! Stardew Valley, it seems, has 18.75× more replayability (which absolutely makes sense just based on genre).

Also price:

A: $14 to $20 B: $7.49 to $15

Shouldn't be surprising a game that is considerably cheaper, is more fun and provides that fun for an order of magnitude more time, sells better. It also was released earlier, so it got more sales from the "tail" sales, as well as it provided more value in the form of updates. In fact when I look now at the player count history, it's uneven, perhaps driven by updates, but the tendency is that it grows!

One more thought: maybe Stardew Valley makes for a better streaming content for some reason?

Perhaps Chicory deserves less sales than Stardew Valley, but still considerably more than it got? Maybe its good reviews come from the fact the game reaches the niche very well, it's clear what you do in the game (paint), but maybe this niche is just small?

I can admit I never heard about this game, despite its very high rating.
You know, if I'm a person laid off from Twitter, I'd be thinking pretty hard about whether my take-home award from an arbitration claim (after legal fees, etc.) is really life-changing money. If not, I'd just move on. Life is pretty short and to spend time and stress over a few months of severance pay in the long run might not be worth it.

I'm not at all saying employees don't deserve to get what they are due, but if you have to get lawyers involved, for any amount less than six figures you aren't really going to be going home with a lot of money. Let's say a Twitter employee was making $300k. Three month's severance at full pay would be $75,000. By the time you pay the lawyers you might have enough left for a modest new car. And that's assuming you get the full award, my experience with arbitration is you agree to meet somewhere in the middle, because a full-on lawsuit after a failed arbitration will cost you even more.

Rather than deal with all of that, just move on. Get a new job, don't look back.
According to you it's overwhelming and "not a real KB", but many will consider it a more natural UI for conversing than a web forum.

That's what a lot of people are actually more interested in, just having a place to talk about stuff, not in using/creating a proper KB.
Short answer, probably not damage but it will shorten lifetime, possibly not meaningfully. It’s still running within spec. It will ever so slightly increase the risk of premature failure as running anything closer to its limits tends to do. White LEDs dim and color shift gradually as they age so it will cause it to dim/shift faster. On a good display this is still 10s of thousands of hours of operation which is many years.
What Is Ruinous Empathy?
As a tech person, I’m failing to see what’s wrong with cutting bloat? I’ve always felt much more productive on smaller teams, and while not quite at the scale of Twitter, have worked on teams with 10s to 100s of millions of active users with only 10 or so technical staff and another 10 or so business and managers. That team got increasingly less efficient as it grew towards 50 or more people over several years.

I don’t really have an opinion about Musk one way or another (except coincidental his involvement in the 90s with Rocket Science Games), but I’m unsure where the animus has originated. For example, I don’t care much for Bill Gates because under his watch Microsoft was relentless at putting competitors, several of which I was a fan, out of business and his foundation funding experiments gone wrong in poor counties. Besides outspoken political stances and firing people, what has harm has Musk caused?
You're describing survivorship bias. It's impossible for you to know about the great games that you haven't heard about. I'd suggest listening to the devs on this one. I can attest that 'the cream rises to the top' isn't remotely true in areas I know more about - short stories, movies, music. There is indeed lots of cream (in addition to lots more crap with money behind it) at the top. there's also lots of cream, vast gallons to stretch the metaphor, sinking always. Especially now perhaps, in our era of vastly greater content production and a well established arms race of advertising and marketing.
Yeah, I agree. If anything, it's actually surprising how few truly good games are ever released. There is still a massive opportunity for indie games.
Embracing change and resetting expectations – Terence Tao
We need to break down these tech monopolies.
It is clear you are only trying to help - and honestly, thank you for that - but it is also clear (to me) you are making too many assumptions about us and our backgrounds. Simply put, we are both pretty decent engineers in our domains but also clueless re: how to structure a business. And it doesn't help that startup wisdom is very limited where we are now based.

The reason why it didn't sound like a red flag is that I'm not a founder, market fit has already been established, and google results suggest that 5% is a great deal in such cases. So the potential of going up to 9% sounds even greater to me.

My unknown unknowns are more than my known unknowns though, hence the post.
This won't be a popular take because it's mostly nonsense. But the harm that the current owner of Twitter is foisting on the employees is very real and well documented.
KDE Plasma 6 Has Reached the Point of Being “Fairly Livable”
It is a desktop application that doesn't adhere to the user experience guidelines of the OS it runs on. I'm an emacs user and fan.
I love approaches like these, as they broaden the tooling to everyone instead of the usual C and C++ folks.
Yeah, I was going to ask what you meant, you may want to edit your comment to reword it as "dissent" or "diversity of opinion".
Mo problems
The joke that long predates me is, "yeah, but we'll make it up in volume" - it's hardly a new innovation of VC.
When I first wrote it, I had “if you’re feeling particularly fancy” there, but as I expanded and adjusted the content, I condensed it to just “even”.
There is a lot of people who have claimed their space and you can get boards for ~$400 now, I have two meepo boards which have been great
whoa... like what quants did for trading but for legal, uh, wrangling...
Ask HN: What ever happened to virtualboxes.org project?
They used to host Oracle Virtual Box images. Now I don't find the site updating itself. It was my go-to place to quickly download and experiment with linux distros without the hassle of iso installation. Now I am left with doing everything from scratch. I'd like to know more about the project if possible and other similar initiatives if possible.
Look, I’m from South Africa. Things suck.

…but this is an annotated review by a conservative think tank that pushes an agenda, by a highly opinionated lady who… honestly, doesn’t have any idea what she’s talking about and has never lived there. She’s just dog whistling for conservative clicks.

Do yourself a favour and read the actual book she’s reviewing. It’s good.
> Users fundamentally do not care and want something that works.

Arguably, it works less than more traditional forums though (a la Reddit).
The fact that web search isn't supported means that users will keep asking the same questions. Searching for topics is harder too (as it's a long line of intertwined topics).

I moderate a room and see this a lot, so...
WSL1 is not developed any further.

This is only WSL2 (I know, versioning could have been better)
From a layman's perspective, to me it looks like society has reached, or is reaching, peak literacy.

By this I'm referring to the scale and velocity of words and other symbols, and their effects on mankind. The internet has enhanced the sense of individuality that a literate culture emboldens while simultaneously simulating the group effect of an oral culture.

I can totally understand how psuedo-intellectualism or neo-Sophistry can arise under these conditions. Character criticism as pathology is another interesting point that you've brought up.

I think that you are on the right track and that this is a lucid observation.
Funny how 'give more of it to employees' and 'lower prices' aren't really in the vocabulary
But this site just feels like it's picking on people.

I'm not sure that's fair, considering how light-touch all the criticisms are. For example, it takes a pretty even hand to lay out what uBiome did without calling them a bunch of exploitative fraudster assholes whose entire company strategy relied on purposefully hanging yet another albatross around the neck of the already-beleaguered American healthcare industry.
I don't see a definition of failure being mentioned. In my world, success isn't getting acquired. That's just short-term success for the founders and early investors. But putting such value on short-term success is... well, short-sighted.

Long-term success is about developing a concept into something valuable (ie. a product). Its about attracting customers, and retaining them. Its about profit, and retaining profit. You don't need to get acquired for such.

I agree that cherry picking examples without in-depth analysis isn't worthwhile. If you want to learn from other's mistakes, you need to go in-depth instead of shallow. Also, there's nothing wrong with failing itself. It can be important to note such, the why. For example, its important to note the founder of Discord previously had a startup where data gathering was part of the profit model. Because that tells us something about where his moral values lie. And that is where mentioning Theranos or uBiome is worthwhile. I don't know about uBiome, but with regards to Theranos it took too long for the fraud to be exposed. Many people got hurt. Mostly financially, but also via fraudulent results, and at least one employer committed suicide.

I don't know anything about uBiome but that they got raided by FBI is noteworthy. I know another startup who've acted fraudulently, deleting evidence via FDE in their remote office in Brussels: Uber. Yes, these events are important to note if your subject is failed startups. Although as mentioned fail should be clearly defined.
Employing a black/white worldview and insisting that it's only either colonialism or anti-Semitism ignores nuance and is a really bad take.
Detrain in American English is just the opposite of entrain.
>>It isn't trying to be a platform

They state they are a platform 16 times on the link I provided including directly saying ". Beehaw is a social media platform. "
Things are getting tough now. It is harder to mobilize money and they do expect a quick return on investment. This might not be a realistic expectations when dealing with startups.
Their logo:

https://www.swissfruit.ch/wp-content/themes/dudapress/dist/a...
What part of the article gives you the impression that this was the case?
About 5 years ago I wrote my master thesis on quantum computing, specifically on the construction of quantum circuits. As these circuits are generally unitary matrices an interesting question is: Given a set of gates that operate on one qbit or two qubits (controlled gates) and a target unitary matrix (e.g. fourier transform or the hamiltonian of a physical system of interest such as an Ising model), can we find an optimal/minimal arrangement of those gates to approximate or exactly match the target matrix.

Back then I modelled the quantum circuit as a set of unitaries (by parametrizing them through their generator), that operate on one or two qubits, set a limit to the amount of steps and the amount of controlled gates and then threw different optimization algorithms at it. I got the best performance using simple dense neural networks. What's cool is that I could generate a training set really quickly since I could just randomly build tensor products of unitary matricies to create billions of unitaries of up to 7 qubits in minimal time and then just see how close I can get given a fixed length for the quantum circuit and a fixed number of control gates.

I really liked this approach and it was fun to work on. However it was ultimately
limited as the size of the matrices scales exponentially with the number of qubits.
It also very clearly states that there may be exceptions to the rule. So a package repository that assumes that Django follows semver is unequivocally doing the wrong thing, because Django is very clear that they don't (otherwise there would be no exceptions).
I bet the lawyers at Apple have some weird KPIs related to number of cases.
It really is incredibly impressive. Coolest new project I've seen in years hands down, and I've already found several uses for it.
Yes, we did early bird pricing rounds, we offered 50% off at each meetup for attendees in the audience (we converted a handful each time), and until last week we offered $50 off to members will a completed profile making the tickets $100/450 (membership is free).

We advertised to 4 other local MSA's within 4hrs driving distance, so we always knew that the bulk of our tickets would come in the final days/weeks since they didn't have to plan a flight or hotel even, but we didn't see any meaningful traction until we lowered the price completely.

We put out a fun video to our network explaining the thought process behind our initial pricing (pay for an ops manager to help run the events) and why we were lowering the price to a below-cost pricing scheme (to fill the room as much as possible in order to prove we can host these types of events in our area), but ticket sales have still been underwhelming.
Many Reddit moderators are interested in Pc Gaming, and Discord is ubiquitous in that space. It’s free, infinite scaling, and there is a big overlap in the user bases.

> But discord is far from a real knowledge base

I think you’d struggle to find many reddit moderators that see themselves as archivists of knowledge. Reddit being a go-to resource for google results is mostly seen as a fluke or unintended side effect.
Except in New York City, where it’s “stood on line”.
Oh yes, we started doing the pre registration thanks to the software we made and crossing that with people that reserved t-shirts to have an amount of expected people that you know will be there, but it is open to everyone and we always expect "unexpected" people.

The catering was more to the volunteers and speakers so we knew (almost correct) how much people will eat. I cannot remember if we made something like "meal reservstion". We had coffee.

I'm doing another event (megagames) snd there you must pay in advance and that is the catch to be sure you are not saying: I'm going, and you not. Also, we don't make money from that, it is used to run the events and pay the costs to develop a megagame (prints mostly)
I feel like that is (should be?) more about food safety rather than IP. If you call it X but it has no nutritional similarity to X, that could be dangerous to consumers.

That's not to say other attempts at protecting food-related terms aren't profit protection instead. Take "champagne" for example...
Oh? I invite you to take a job at Amazon, where you will discover more than enough evidence to remove any doubt. Cameras and mic channels can be opened at-will, across all devices (e.g., TVs, laptops, phones, Alexa devices). How? Set up an Echo device. Download the Alexa/Video/Shopping App. Connect your devices via Wifi/Bluetooth. That's it.
Better for who?

You’re advocating for finishing work faster so that you can be given more work faster? Sound like something to pitch to owners, not salaried workers
GDS did a great job building gov.uk, but everythig else they touched was an abject disaster. From the Diabetes project at the NHS, the fiasco that was the Office of the Public Guardian, the even bigger fiasco that happened at Border Force, the NHS, DWP...

Sure, when they were building web sites they delivered stellar stuff. Agile, break things and all that. But when you had real complexity they just... couldn't...

The Government Gateway is a prime example - single citizen login for ALL government services. It ran well, super robust and mature enough to have ironed out virtually all issues.

Then GDS decided that because the Government Gateway was based on a Microsoft stack, it needed to be re-done. The tech lead didn't understand the concept of Identity Federation, let alone SAML tokens, and that you just! can't! do secure code using agile (2-week sprint no good for meaningful security testing...).

I spent two long years at GDS banging my head against a wall. And then I left. And unsurprisingly the Microsoft-based Government gateway was never replaced, still going strong.
I cannot edit it anymore, sorry :/.
> Have you worked under great managers?

You don't work under great managers. You work on top of their support.
"I need to elaborate and explain every single thing to everyone regardless of their knowledge level. Then add links to those who don't know."

You just described why written communication is vastly better.
I think the author's point is that reality has limits. Sometimes you can have your cake and eat it too, but often, a person must choose only one of many things they value. I believe the author's point is that the necessity of choice demonstrates what they really value.

Utopia is no place. Reality is limited. Choose wisely.
Xbox naming is terrible but at least their target audience seems to know how to keep them apart. I don't think that can be said about Nintendo's audience, which since the Wii has always seemed not as dedicated to console gaming as their competitors' audience is. I've never heard of a die-hard Wii fan, at least, though with the Switch they made up a lot of ground.
Even the best way of doing something is not a guarantee that it will always go perfectly. Usually the government mismanages a project like this and the contractor can do little aside from implement whatever the client asks for. Maybe it would have gone better if the government had built performance standards into the contract so that the contractor would have to pay a penalty if the site wasn’t reliable or available to the public, or if the entrant’s personal information was leaked.
I’m naming my company Applesauce
Suffered real harm? From what? Losing their job?

Idk what actual claim they have
Reddit has been very pushy about getting people email address. Fortunately I only gave them it for my original account, which I don't care about being tied to me.
Because people want a community and Discord delivers on that.

It also has Reddit's critical feature of "one account, infinite communities", something you don't have when you become an indie forum.

It's not very searchable, but people don't care much about that. Just think of how nonessential HN search is to your day-to-day of having a conversation on HN.
Nextcloud with all of its' apps is great. They work together very smoothly and you get to keep your data to yourself.
The accusation and tone was that billionaires have incredible wealth that they horde while people around them suffer.

But that is a very uncharitable framing of their philanthropy.
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The best of both worlds - a friendly community that welcomes newbies, with a searchable archive - is possible. Limiting to only chat-based support means that support is bottle-necked by the folks who are available and engaged at the time of the question, and that knowledge will "drop out" of the community as people forget it.
Biggest drawback of ansible is that it is stateless and as such you can’t simply declare a desired system state and apply it.

Nix is absolutely awesome in that regard.

Possibly this is Ansibles biggest strength as well, as it feels incredibly simple to get going.

Salt has a much steeper learning curve due to both weird nomenclature and the infrastructure.

Nix is in many ways easy to use “on the surface” but quickly becomes hairy as you dive deeper.

Just my 2c having spent quite some time with all three.
For whoever is doing the pressuring to work faster, supposedly the manager who is supposedly doing it for the benefit of the company.

I'm not saying this is better for the employee, but if you're asking "why are they pressuring me to work faster, my work is not critical" then the answer is "they still want to get as much out of you as they can, even when it's not critical".
> Standard library that isn't worthless

This is exactly what bugs me about TypeScript. The language itself is fine—some annoying things, but generally they’re due to having to run on top of JS. But Microsoft had the chance to fix JS’s terrible standard library. And they didn’t!
It's time to tackle the task of synchronizing demoscene productions with music. My focus in this piece is the implementation of two subscriptions: one for every musical row, and the other for known points in time. These tools provide demo coders with the ability to subscribe to specific points within a track, to trigger visual transitions and effects. The entirety of this work is openly available for anyone to utilize and build upon under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Yes. E.g. some guy's config with 6 different machines[1]: multiple desktops, laptops, servers, a Raspberry Pi, and a VPS. That's a rather advanced use of Nix for configuration, but definitely shows what it's capable of.

[1] https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-config
That’s the color model Firefox used for the past two decades, which is why HN’s orange header is always eye-blastingly neon on Firefox macOS compared to other browsers.

Thankfully the CSS Color v3 spec mandates a default of sRGB for #fff codes, so Firefox will have to get with the times someday soon and stop poking my eyes out with HDR-expanded sRGB colors (by default).
I live in the south and admittedly have a “detectable” southern accent. To me that Cajun accent is really unlike every other southern accent, so I guess I focus more on the French-ish aspect of it because I don’t really hear the southern in it.

I can distinguish the differences between many southern accents, to the point where I could pinpoint a speaker with roots in Georgia/Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, SC, NC, Texas, etc with pretty good accuracy. Others not from the south would tend to lump a lot of them together as a “southern” accent where I see lots of differences and distinctions. Cadence and “y’all” is sometimes the only real commonality among the region.
From the originating report:

> Since it was the first time such an attack was observed, we conducted a quick search across the open-source ecosystem. The results were startling. We found numerous packages and repositories using abandoned S3 buckets that are susceptible to this exploitation.

Neither OP nor the report mentions which other known compromised packages are. Does anyone know if they or anyone else published anything?