You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky(youareatlas.com)
youareatlas.com
You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky
https://youareatlas.com/
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>It was quite popular for a surprisingly long time.
Hah, that's a blast from the past. One reason it lasted as long as it did was the Knights of the Button, users who collaborated to keep it alive. I implemented the Zombie-presser, 1k+ donated accounts automatically pressing the button when no one else would. We kept it alive for a more then a month before the most embarrassing bug of my career finally killed it :D Good summary here [1].
Fun times! Thank you for the reminder :D
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/08/reddits-m...
Hah, that's a blast from the past. One reason it lasted as long as it did was the Knights of the Button, users who collaborated to keep it alive. I implemented the Zombie-presser, 1k+ donated accounts automatically pressing the button when no one else would. We kept it alive for a more then a month before the most embarrassing bug of my career finally killed it :D Good summary here [1].
Fun times! Thank you for the reminder :D
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/08/reddits-m...
What was the bug?
> The final point of failure was even less spectacular: a co-ordinated attempt to keep the button alive by automatically pressing it with donated accounts when it got too low had been working on overtime, but a fatal flaw meant that no-one bothered to check whether the anointed account actually could press.
> The bot queued up the account, attempted to press the button – and found that the account had been registered after 1 April.
> The bot queued up the account, attempted to press the button – and found that the account had been registered after 1 April.
This seems like one of the first things they would check for though, right?
> the most embarrassing bug of my career
Though to be honest, if that’s the most embarrassing bug abra0 is doing great.
Though to be honest, if that’s the most embarrassing bug abra0 is doing great.
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So that’s where the Hermitcraft button took inspiration from
Was hoping someone would drop a HermitCraft reference!
> dubbed "The Pressiah" by the community
Sometimes Reddit is excellent.
Sometimes Reddit is excellent.
The /ActivePlayers endpoint [1] returns an array of all active users, of which there are only 20-30 right now. What happens when/if there are 1000s ? This will fall over...
[1] https://glkmsstwzynytciznsqo.supabase.co/rest/v1/ActivePlaye...
[1] https://glkmsstwzynytciznsqo.supabase.co/rest/v1/ActivePlaye...
Really cool! Maybe it could have a timer that shows how long since the last time the sky fell?
I was curious how the game was built so I recorded this replay. Fun to see how it's using Supabase for the global state.
https://app.replay.io/recording/replay-of-youareatlascom--75...
https://app.replay.io/recording/replay-of-youareatlascom--75...
I can see a logical progression here... Next, you need to keep mining cryptocurrency in the browser, otherwise the earth will implode. The earth has imploded 23 times.
You need to follow an engineering standard checklist and a pre-journey checklist to prevent your submersible from imploding.
Submersible imploded once.
Submersible imploded once.
We need a paid version of this where we can put in some money to hold up the sky.
> You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.
Apparently the sky has fallen.
Apparently the sky has fallen.
If there were only one person holding up the sky, how long would the developer keep his Supabase instance up for?
Well it’s not about to fall for a while now is it?
"The sky has fallen 989 times."
Use this for A/B testing of ads?
Use this for A/B testing of ads?
I'm just going to shrug.
I had to come back to this post to upvote it, 5m later, after letting out an audible "aaahhhhhh" in the kitchen
I learned about Ayn Rand second-hand thanks to the Bioshock series (which took place in a retrofuturistic submarine dystopia produced by a strictly libertarian society), so I got the reference right away...
Such a great title, wasted on such poor writing.
If only poor writing was the worst of its qualities :/
Who’s John Galt anyway…
I feel disincentivized to hold up the sky. What’s my motivation?
So that it doesn't fall.
You don't need motivation, you need discipline.
Same motivation as forwarding chain letters. Being superstitious and hope for invisible internet magic helping those poor orphans in need out. Just that you hold up the sky here.
Motivation is your motivation
shrug
> There are 0 other users online.
> The sky has fallen 0 times.
courtesy of uMatrix ^^
courtesy of uMatrix ^^
> I disabled JavaScript on your site that conceptually requires JavaScript to function and now it doesn't work as expected
It seems like given the tricks I've seen with long-http requests and browsers, it might be possible to implement a version that doesn't require JS.
I think that would also have the effect of being able to easily curl it. Could just add a lil nixos module and quietly deploy it to a few servers. Gotta keep the sky up, of course.
I think that would also have the effect of being able to easily curl it. Could just add a lil nixos module and quietly deploy it to a few servers. Gotta keep the sky up, of course.
That wasn't meant as a complaint, more like a "cheat". I also didn't disable JS, it's just uMatrix blocks third party stuff by default.
Sponsored by Atlassian.
The actual word for pertaining to Atlas: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantean
The actual word for pertaining to Atlas: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantean
Maybe they chose that name a disambiguation so as to be only associated with the god Atlas, and not the city Atlantis or its suggested founding leader Atlas (son of Poseidon).
I think they just like making puns. A founder had a blog called "rebelutionary". slide 4 here: https://slideplayer.com/slide/5874486/ http://blogs.atlassian.com/rebelutionary/archives/000834.htm... (dead link)
This would be interesting as a one-off thing, like reddit's "The Button". Having it say "The sky has fallen 989 times." makes it a bit meaningless.
Or at least show us how long the sky's been up currently? I have no idea if this page is 2 days or 2 years old, and I'm too lazy to check archive.org.
Just another page counter in the 90s - a game in 21st century ...
If nobody sees the sky falling, it doesn't fall.
It's the web equivalent of the light inside your refrigerator.
Schrödinger's refrigerator light.
Don't give refrigerator manufacturers any ideas about cost-cutting strategies.
That's why we have timezones, so that not all humanity is asleep at the same time.
That was actually one minor plot point in Robert Sawyer's novel, Flashforward, that stuck in my mind. When everyone on the planet lost consciousness at the same time (their minds being projected into the future) all video recording just saw essentially static.
The theory was that it was actually recording the quantum froth as it were, of the unresolved probabilities until an observer woke up and it collapsed into one outcome.
I'm perhaps not explaining it well. OTOH, it is called science-FICTION.
The theory was that it was actually recording the quantum froth as it were, of the unresolved probabilities until an observer woke up and it collapsed into one outcome.
I'm perhaps not explaining it well. OTOH, it is called science-FICTION.
And if a sky falls in a forest and there's no one left to hear it because they were squished by the sky, it doesn't make a sound either.
TIL: do read the comments before opening the subject URL.
I remember something with the same mechanics, it was about an astronaut who dies when the number of people playing (connecting) drops to zero.
Can't find it though.
Can't find it though.
I let the sky fall, but the counter did not increment when I came back
Probably because your browser still has a background connection to the server.
If the sky falls do we see what's above it or will it fall upon us together with the sky?
scaling this would make a great system design interview question. rather than building a larger system, build something that takes consistency, availability and fault tolerance to an extreme.
Joke’s on him. It’s really turtles all the way down.
Respect the turtleschild radius, or end up with a turtlenova and a turtlehole (don't go there).
Yawn. Yes, I'm not fun at parties.
Would be interesting to see a "high-score" gamification loop that tells us what the longest stretch of the sky not falling has been.
Lemme just throw this on the pile of a hundred tabs I have open. It seems perfectly content to be a background tab
looks like another novelty page meant specifically for getting to the front page of Hacker News, which in a year will be abandoned or turned into seo fodder.
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Looking in the network tab, there are a lot of 406 responses. What is that all about?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit)