jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Raph Koster is one of a few remarkably unique minds in game design. He "gets" virtual worlds like almost nobody else does; dig around on raphkoster.com for some of his writing on the subject.

Ultima Online in 1997 was so far ahead of its time, nothing quite like it has been made since. Some games have fumbled around with elements of UO, like open PvP or player housing or crafting, but nothing has ever captured its real essence: feeling like a living world with a wide variety of people, not just fantasy hero cutouts.

You could spend months in the world without killing a single monster, just mining and blacksmithing and selling your wares to make money to buy a house. And it was fun! You could wear clothes just for aesthetic reasons, not because they gave you +1 dexterity. They got so many subtle details so right. It makes me sad that "immersion" now basically just means "pretty 3D world".
Is the black model new? I hadn't seen that one before.
To me, it suggests that the iPhone 5 will unfortunately NOT have NFC (or at least not the built-in iPhone-to-iPhone payment system many of us expected).

This is a real shame, as the fragmentation of Android means it will be hard for Google (instead of Apple, as expected) to truly make NFC the new "digital wallet" standard.
Humans are hoarders, but humans like stuff too. If they hoard everything, they're either conceptually sticking it under their mattress, or they're loaning it out to make more, which is putting it back in the market. If they like stuff, they'll eventually buy something with what they've been hoarding.

I know that's the core argument against deflationary currency, but I don't see how it's valid. I find it much more likely that it's a belief pushed on our society by money lenders, as they thrive on people buying things now that they can't afford at the moment. Not implying a conspiracy - that implies organization, which isn't necessary for such an emphasis. It's in the lenders' best interest, so they'll do so.
I hope, that US can't return in time of "executive order 6102"
I hope this gets made into an iphone/android app. I would definitely play around with this on long trips.
On minimum wage you are about 400 in the hole after taxes, and before health insurance, savings, retirement, SO, kids etc. Not to mention this is one rented bedroom, not even a studio apt.
You are completely misunderstanding the purpose of IP address space. The purpose of IP address space is not to all be used, the point of address space is to enable connectivity. You enable connectivity by (a) having addresses available whereever you need them while (b) allowing for efficient delivery of messages. Both of those you achieve with sparse allocations, where it is easy to add machines and networks with minimal changes to the overall structure and minimal administrative overhead.

Designing the IPv6 address space to be filled with devices is about as sensible as designing the DNS system to be filled with domains. Like, instead of allowing for domain names with 63 characters per label, we could have just said DNS names are alphanumeric strings 7 characters long, and you get assigned a random one if you register a domain, to maximize the utilization of the address space. But that would be simply idiotic, because the purpose of that address space is to provide readable names, not to "use all the addresses".
Weekend vs workdays. Shows that IPv6 penetration for residential ISPs is higher than IPv6 adoption at corporations.
>If those people stopped being satisfied, what happens?

Do what grandparents on both sides of my family did - work hard as hell and provide more for your kids than you had.

Not waiting around for the roast duck to magically fly into your mouth on it's own...
https://www.aorus.com/AORUS-Gen4-AIC-SSD-8TB

15000MB/sec, available now for $3119 AUD.
PeerTube is what you're looking for there. youtube-dl already supports it. Not sure if it deals with bit rate adaptation well, or at all.
> Goodness me. Where exactly did I say this?

You didn't. The guy I was originally replying to did. If you're going to wade into a thread to defend somebody else's position, it behooves you to understand what their position actually is.

I actually kind of agree with you. If someone starts discussing the merits of Guderian’s doctrine of mechanized warfare or Von Braun’s rocket designs, it would be ridiculous to counter that argument by raising irrelevant objections about concentration camps. But I raised those objections specifically in response to someone who specifically said the communist regime in China was good and deserved uncritical emulation.

You want an example of heresy? Go practice the Islamic faith in Xinjiang. You will be shipped to a concentration camp and the government will station a man in your house to sleep in the same bed as your wife.
Just think of the filibusters with thousands of representatives...
> If it were 4x, 5x sure, but 2x is not worthy

That seems like a normative judgement, there's no way everybody you talk to would agree with the exact place you drew the line.
Don't miss the rest of that site. Mad genius.

https://civilpedia.org/p/?pid=101&t=p&h=Basics+of+IEC+Fusion

or this

https://civilpedia.org/p/?pid=30&t=p&h=Laser+Microscope

I've never seen that before...
Will add more in a bit, but mainly data scientist in Big Tech and Finance. At the right firms/teams your salary will grow much faster than linear in time
Parent post said: "Everyone should have at least one large sack of rice and beans in dry storage."
BMW use a very expensive simulator to practice and test setup changes on their DTM car.
If they move to ARM:
https://github.com/ErisBlastar/qemuosxguest

QEMU can run Intel MacOSX code and they can use it to emulate the old Intel Macs. This version of QEMU was designed to run older OSX Intel versions under new Intel versions to run legacy software.

CommodoreOS is based on Linux and in order to run old Amiga apps they use UAE for 68K and PowerPC Amigas. This seems to be that virtual machines and emulation can run the legacy software needed on the new ARM Macs.
Top Gear actually did that experiment too [0], and you are proven correct.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGUZJVY-sHo
My consulting agency has already taken a significant blow in terms of client work and relationships. Any tech company providing external services for enterprise companies will likely be heavily impacted from my perspective. Companies are doing whatever they can to save money, and typically this means cutting ties with external services and partnerships before touching internal employees. This is heavily dependent on the industry, however, but something to be aware of if you are providing consulting services.
The problem is that for this virus, "just enough" immune people is about 60% of the population. If 1% of that 60% die, as will happen with COVID19, that's a lot of deaths.

The other alternative is social distancing, so you can reduce R0 (the number of people each infected person passes the virus on to) from something like 2.5-3 down to less than 1. Then it dies back by itself. This is what China and South Korea succeeded in doing.
> work without pay (or for a reduced salary)

One needs to take into account the social context when discussing India. If a guy does not earn, even if he is working on curing cancer or educating the poorest of poor, he is considered a big-time loser and a bum. If there comes along a startup with a cloned idea wanting some people who can code for lesser salary, none in their right minds would choose it; because there are a million things that could go wrong and generally, people here are less honourable when it comes to financial matters#, and always have an eye on bigger cut in the pie.

Lesser pay would not work. Equal, or even slightly higher pay compared to big IT shops, along with equity will work wonders.

#Yes, I am generalizing, but that's the situation in a society ripe with a huge poor/middle class section wanting to make it big somehow and cross those barriers.
It's not either/or is it? This is something that is one of the biggest incentives to steal credentials: it is immediate, untraceable cash. (bitcoin.)

your argument is like saying a daily withdrawal limit (like $500) you can lift at any time isn't sane, because "keep your card and PIN safe" sounds a lot easier. Well, yes, but the point is your card/pin can (and does) get stolen, and so do Amazon credentials.

I just don't understand why they don't add that extra layer.

(Well, I can understand. If 98% of the clients with stolen access are huge companies that have no idea whether their charge should be $170 or $85,000 per month and are happy to pay either, then the policy might make sense to Amazon. But that doesn't seem likely, as they go out of their way to try to reach you and notify you that this might be happening. . .)
If you calculate your change without borrowing you just did common core math.

Borrowing?
I also have to wonder if you even could have used a api-approach, especially for that second db which was it's own program and was likely monkeyed together by interns over a summer.
How? I legit don't get this. Is it the fact they have one password for all passwords?

Secondly, you are basically ignoring physical security when you discuss post-it's as a means to secure a password. What happens when the "delivery man" or "pizza girl" shows up to do deliver their package and steal all your passwords?

While most work places get physical security dead wrong, these are simple first steps.
I had the whole reddit team to help, but yes, I was on call 24/7/365 for 4 years. :)
It is all in the individual experience. Knowledge is but a step.

Everyone’s journey is different.

There are as many paths as there are people.

Meditation is one of them and even that is of many kinds Heartfulness, mindfulness, Zen etc.

Is it all about understanding the universe ? Do I want to understand a mango or taste one ?
Neat. I wanted to build this, and now I don't have to :-p
Whenever I read a letter like the one Bartz wrote, I'm curious who the intended audience was, a board, or the employees.

"Margins have expanded. Revenue growth has stabilized after a long period of decelerating trends. "

That was definitely not written for any of Yahoo's employees.
They have Linodes in the UK. Honest mistake :)
I love Linode, but I don't get anywhere close the type of bandwidth I get with 100tb.com. Can you recommend other high-bandwidth hosts?
I spoke with somebody on the phone, and they viewed the site and agreed that it wasn't pornographic, but their decision is final and can't be overturned.

I asked to speak to a manager. They said a manager would get back to me, but no response yet and I'm guessing they won't ever call me back.
They might which would be nice, but I haven't even rebooted to take advantage of the ram increase from summer yet. Turns out the key to scaling is to have no users :)
Interesting. I always found those machines to be annoyingly slow and loud.

Me too. I always found it bizarre that they're so slow. The OP would certainly explain things.
The better you are at something, the less effort it looks like it took you, I'm sure every programmer here knows this. Designers have it even worse, the better a job they do, the less work it looks like it took.
I'm feeling the exact same way with Amazon's AWS's pending free tier. I'm an upstanding guy but it kind of makes you want to re-register under your wife's name, doesn't it?
> Patents are awarded by first to invent not first to file.

The default value for date-of-invention is date-of-filing. An inventor who wants to establish an earlier date-of-invention has the burden of proof (and must provide corroborating evidence such as a dated- and witnessed lab notebook, because it's too easy for an inventor to "misremember").

(Yes, we're talking current U.S. law here; most other countries are indeed first-to-file.)

Additional reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_file_and_first_to_inve...
There's no problem with your wife choosing not to work.

The problem is when people attribute women's participation rates solely to "choice" and other benign phenomena. Some women very much want to work like hell and kick ass at work, and there are real barriers for them that we all need to continue working on taking down.

In other words, the problem is if you stop caring about women's representation in your business, because you assume all women are like your wife.

Not that I have any reason to think that's what you're doing. I'm just answering your question. :)
Being Dutch, I may be too close to see clearly - but I don't really see your "cliques". But yes, we are more business-like with acquaintances than an American would be.

Pre-WW2 Dutch society was divided into a couple of large groups, with Catholics, Protestants, Socialists and Liberals (pretty much "the rest") having their own newspapers, schools, etc. This is much less true nowadays - a lot of integration happened during and shortly after WW2 - but it's still quite noticeable (look at public television or catholic/protestant schools). Were you perhaps thinking of this?

Yes, WW2 is an important part of our history, and the source of pretty much the only national myths we have (which tend to paint the Dutch as brave resistance fighters.) "Nazi" is still the worst insult we have.

Of course, with the rise of Fortuyn, Verdonk and now Wilders, one can doubt whether the appropriate lessons have been learned/retained...
It's gotten Michael Douglas at least 2 paying gigs.
Well the ads are there to support the unlimited free music they're giving you, so you can't complain too much.

On the adware front - the app doesn't auto-run, doesn't self install, is easy to uninstall and doesn't show ads when it isn't running. So it bares little resemblance to the adware of the 90s.

With all that said though - I shouldn't imagine they care very much about having non-paying customers 'by the balls' I would expect they care much more about those that pay.
An excellent article with detail on video shooting and how hollywood is different than shooting a wedding.
International support isn't the issue, the issue is that you won't let non-americans sign up.

And yes, I am running a vendetta against discriminatory start-ups. The internet doesn't care about borders and if you do, you don't deserve to be on it.

The internet
People interested in this should check out the B-Society:
http://www.b-society.org/
This is how they describe themselves:

"- Do you love quiet mornings and active evenings?

- Do you feel life is too short for traffic jams?

- Are you at your most productive after 10 am?

Then you might be a B-Person"
Actually it probably works because employees already trust their management. Doing this at a random company without building a friendly culture first would be distasteful.
Don't forget to ask for a copy of the book.
Not necessarily, as it's treated differently by the browser. Animated WebPs will autoplay without a `muted` or `autoplay` attribute. Under the hood they're no different than a webm video, with the exception of no support for audio tracks.
Texas has 5X the population of Denmark and 5X the wind energy generation. That doesn’t sound like a great justification for your smug comment. Also, that is current generation as the rate of increase of wind and solar appears to far outstrip Denmark on a per capita basis. If the WSJ is reliable, Texas is supposed to add an additional ~17GW of solar by 2023, reaching 21GW![1] If they reach that it’d beat Denmark’s 2030 goal by 23% and 7 years on a per capita basis.[2]

1. https://www.wsj.com/articles/solar-power-booms-in-texas-1160...

2. https://um.dk/en/news/newsdisplaypage/?newsid=25147b44-3dce-...
What is the proportion?
> Same with the REPL comments: you can easily just write scripts instead of using Revise/Pluto/IJulia or another REPL approach.

The problem is that I can't. The startup latency makes using scripts practically impossible. I think it could be relatively easy to fix (hack). I'll shut up about this on the very second there's some way to get same magnitude of latency with scripts as there's with REPL.
The problem with the medical world vs people who suffer from chronic illnesses is even the doctors who treat them don't seem to understand how bad it is to live with.

Last time I saw my ENT doctor he's like well it's not that bad and I just wanted to scream at him.

I liked how someone else on HN put it: your body is constantly sending an error code but there's no way to shut it off.

Do you also have chronically irritated, dry sinuses with no polyps?

I've tried nasal irrigation and a corticosteroid but nothing works.
All of GitHub is basically in pixels, save for our Markdown styles—for easy modification across devices, we use `em`s. It'd be a huge project to update that to `rem`s anytime soon.
Point out the sedition.
Continuation:

If we build things with the understanding that this is something we must actively architect our systems to avoid, then we can all experience freedom again. I am so excited to see what freedom does at the global scale now that the internet is so widely adopted.

It's possible that this is a disliked post and few will see it. If you are the only one reading this message, I wish you luck fighting the good fight.

What those in power always forget, is that it is YOU who holds the power, and with it, the choice and responsibility for our future.
... or the elites in other societies like French novelist Gabriel Matzneff, who wrote about how much he enjoyed sexually molesting multiple 8 year-old boys in bed at the same time during his trips to the Philippines.

Instead of de-platforming Mr. Matzneff, he was applauded for his work on French television show Apostrophe, and even received a "thank-you note" from former President of France Francois Mitterand, which one of his victims described as designed to help Mr. Matzneff avoid arrest by French police much like in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, who received his "thank-you note" from still-president of MIT Rafael Reif, before finally being forced to face charges 30 years later for the sexual abuse of minors:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/world/europe/gabriel-matz...
Docker https://docs.docker.com/
Vagrant https://www.vagrantup.com/
Sketch http://bohemiancoding.com/sketch/
Ampps http://www.ampps.com/
I live in Australia. We could've used the Minerals Resource Rent Tax to build a sovereign fund similar to Norway's StatOil during our so-called mining boom. Instead, mining companies and business interests threatened to invest elsewhere and the tax was ditched.

Capital flight is a very powerful tool.
> Remember the "drone delivery"? (It makes no sense on the face of it, and will never happen. But it was a big press release.)

You mean the drone delivery they're actively testing in the UK? The drone delivery they're fighting with the FAA about? The drone delivery they just testified before Congress about?

They're spending an awful lot of time, money, and political capital on something that makes no sense, will never happen, and was just a press release.
Isn't that equal to startup or seed investor culture? To me it is the only way to discover new markets or market strategies. It is the best thing Amazon can do and they have the money for these adventures. As a developer, this must be a dream environment to work in, even when only 1 idea in 10 works out.
I won a Spideroak ( http://www.spideroak.com ) plan and have been using it for about a month now. It works, uploads are fast, I can't comment on how easy a restore would be. The only thing that's really annoying is that a search for updated files uses 100% CPU.

Other than that I can warmly recommend JungleDisk ( https://www.jungledisk.com/ ), been using it do backup my source code and documents for about a year now without any major problems. I don't even notice it runs anymore. I'm using it with the S3 backend.
Why the lucky stiff's presentation at ART && CODE Symposium. Not much to do with 'start-ups', but more of a why do we program type deal. It's interesting to say the least.

http://vimeo.com/5047563
I know it's a bit pedantic, but it's a bit telling when you suggested it and even you got "rel" wrong.
Don't be fooled by approaches like this. HTM is an oversimplification that doesn't bring us any closer to real machine intelligence. I read the book a few years back when I was taking courses in machine learning and metaheuristics, and I recall being impressed. After picking up a molecular biology background, however, I've become skeptical of any claims to model "algorithms" after the brain or neuron or neocortex. Regardless of the level of abstraction chosen by the investigator, it isn't enough.

To put it simply, I strongly feel that achieving any kind of biologically-inspired intelligent agent will require a systems biologic approach where we model every minute molecular detail in silico. This isn't an undertaking that we even have the technology for at present. We don't have the raw speed, level of parallelism, or even the molecular/cell physiologic details necessary to model even parts of the brain. (Even of Drosophila!)

The Blue Brain project is nice and is worth following for nothing other than learning best engineering practices for developing the architecture behind something of this scale and complexity--but every simplification we make introduces error. (Imagine patching it! Imagine the "oops" moment, when some molecular mechanism doesn't work as we expected--and that's a regularly occurring event.) I'm not even sure how much simplification we can make before the emergent properties of the brain no longer function. Some of my colleagues say membrane potentials and the cytoskeletal system have key quantum interactions that encode state information--something we don't even understand yet. (I can't comment much on that, since I haven't studied quantum physics.)

I'm actually learning to develop algorithms that will focus on the interplay of the genomic machinery (promoters/enhancers, tx, translation, chaperones/folding, etc), biochemical pathways and kinetics, concentration levels, receptors, etc. in the hopes that one day we will be able to model systems like the brain. But from my limited knowledge, a project on the brain scale will only succeed after we solve the "much less complicated" problems: cancer, alzheimers, and aging, all of which are all cell-level problems. That's where we have to focus at present--and you can see how much more remains to be done.
I guess I should had made it more clear in my post. Let me try again; if the current theory is stated as such "there once was nothing, and then there was one big bang that created everything in the universe and this was absolutely a single event", and then in the paper they conclude, "oh, wait, there were multiple events", then by extension the theory that everything was a single event -- called the big bang theory -- is no longer a true. No single event, no big bang theory. But no, they decided to interpret the data to fit around the conclusion of the big bang by using fancy names. You can't call something a 'single event' and have it both a 'single event' and 'multiple event' at the same time. It either was a single event or it wasn't! I'm not sure if I could be more clearer. Where is it in my logic can you show me that I am wrong?
Physiology was just one example. I could just as easily have talked about the highest-level classes my high school offered in math and the physical sciences, but they all had longer, clunkier names. All of them had that same female-skewed sex ratio.
This submission has a far better title that's aligned with the typical HN interests. It mentions Google and getting a business advantage.

Having seen people submit stories here with awful headlines and then wonder why they didn't take off so many times, it no longer surprises me that most people can't write good titles..
Sorry, trying to get a handle on the barrage of headlines after thanksgiving and, previously, two weeks out of the country (and offline). "ICE's total cost" is what? Meaning the breakdown of their budget as it relates to the takedown of the sites?
How can you disclose to the "private industry" what you did before then?