skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any potentially reusable infrastructure is better than none to an aspiring game developer, I would hope.

For one thing, it's amazing how many incompatible chat room systems have been developed by game developers over the years. Some have been smart enough to build on IRC protocols or Jabber protocols and/or servers as a leg up, and I would hope some are looking at options like Matrix today. I've not glanced deep enough if this server is as good an option as those others, but it's still a better option than "roll your own".

Whatever the choice, the fewer game developers that need to reinvent a chat server every (other) game, the more time they can spend on less "administrative" code.

Sure Slack started as "yet another game chat system" before it was decided that the chatroom product was better than the game and a pivot cemented that. But for every Slack there's probably easily a dozen developers that got bogged down in administrative projects, never launched, and never found a way to usefully pivot one of those administrative projects.
> Now Netflix just needs to accommodate kid's 3-5 minute attention span

My 2yro just sat through the Nutcracker the other week. He sits and listens to about half an hour of Dune each night. (We're just about to finish Dune Messiah.) Sure I don't know how much he comprehends, but he's not fidgeting or trying to find toys to play with.

He will also sit and build with Duplo-style bricks or wooden trains for hours, and with those there is a visible engagement metrics.

(And yes, he does have his moments, and times where he does like to go from thing to thing, but it's not constant just like the long spans of attention aren't constant.)

I know it's n=1, but I don't believe that kids have an inherit and maximal 3-5 minute attention span.
Show HN: How to migrate away from Medium
He’s just saying it’s an IOU, I think.
Bitcoin as an investment option is pure gamble, unless someone has a better idea e.g. has put its value side-by-side to Gold, Silver, Oil, Adamantium ;) and has noticed a pattern. Perhaps there is pattern, and it is related to the "petyas" of this world (new malware that is massively cashin in/out).
The first time my nephew watched broadcast television he told us the television was broken and asked us to fix it.

"Really can't disagree with you there, kid."
If you're referring to Bitcoin transaction fees, that's not a factor on the exchanges, since the exchange itself holds all coins in its own wallet until you decide to withdraw.
Government scientists blocked from the biggest meeting in their field
I know exactly why I made money. This is a ponzi scheme with unlimited uninformed people joining. You feel your personal level of risk, find a time, and invest only what you can afford to lose. You can do the same with Tupperware if you know enough people to sign up under you, grab a bunch of free product and sign out.

During previous dips, it was 100% guaranteed you could get a good return in one week. So that's exactly what any smart person was doing. Some could risk more, power to them.

Personally, I'm not touching the market until it gets a lot closer to $1k. And I think the odds are getting better every day.
I'm a little disturbed how far in they've gone on the licensed content. But I'm a child of the 90s that grew up with the classic System themes; I guess kids aren't into non-Star Wars space, castle, pirate and Wild West Legos anymore.
I don't think that's even true for most of the coasts. I live in San Diego, which is I think the third biggest coastal city in the US, and the average household income here for a family of four is about $200k less than that.
That's a good idea - the Marius table that I use is a bit precarious with its round top.
That type of advertising is fairly ineffective at "convincing" someone to make a purchase. Compared to more modern advertising techniques (like Facebook or Google) and their advertising resulted in me making a 100k purchase of software. The TV cannot market particular seminars, or blog posts that I might find relevant to what i'm doing right now, but google and FB can.

It's scary and interesting.
You're claiming that 40% of their total earnings are lost to federal tax? In this example, what types and how much income are you proposing? Doesn't seem realistic to me.
It could be that people with capital have all the money because capital gains rates are significantly lower than earned income rates. Maybe we could adjust that so as not to continue distorting the economy?
I didn’t downvote it, but it’s so obvious as to be unhelpful. Who needs to be reminded that an asset isn’t worth its price until it’s liquidated? It’s self-evident, and yet you have it following every time someone mentions returns on BTC. You have it at least twice here on this thread, in fact.
A few years seems reasonable.
However, they seem to underperform for most years out of 10.
This is their best performing fund: https://www.hussmanfunds.com/strategic-total-return-fund/

On the other hand, this is their "growth" fund:
https://www.hussmanfunds.com/strategic-growth-fund/
Its performance is absolutely abysmal.

What is Hussman's "PhD" in? Losing money?
Nah. For some reason, I just couldn't get into SFII back in the day. I didn't really start playing SF until Alpha came out. Like a lot of other people, I took a break from video games for a few years, but my interest in SF (and fighting games in general) was revived after seeing EVO Moment #37.
And this is the most stupid thing I've read today. The only reason it isn't the most stupid thing all of humanity has read in the existence of writing is because there's also Trump. But you're a strong competitor for him, be proud.
What TFA actually says is that you publish your early ideas on the result in a lower-tier journal, then both things progress side by side——as you refine your ideas, you submit to progressively more prestigious publications.
Maybe kids should just stare at a screen less and go outside
My parents would always agressivly mute commercials when i was a kid. I'm pretty glad they did.
That depends. I live in a country where there are public channels (state funded) and private channels. Only the latter show ads.
I don't know munch about investing (I do), but 50$ on a 50k transaction that makes a 5k profit, is peanuts and never stopped anyone from investing. Investing is not a sport/hobby for teenagers that rely on the daily allowance.
Do we know that nature is smart? Evolution is achieved by trying out whatever random ideas can be expressed by a gene flip and seeing which one creates more sex. That's not smart, and nature doesn't do much better than evolution.
FBI: Man planned Christmas terror attack for SF's Pier 39
Cal Newport - Deep Work

While following the advice in the book did push my productivity up, sadly I didn't manage to keep up those habits. But it does appear to work, just need to make the right adjustments to make it easier to follow.

https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/...
Yeah, that's true. I enjoy a bit of SpaceChem, but I think it would be better for non-programmers and for discovering kids who had the aptitude.
Very cool. There's one way to make sure that you're not getting any free 'riders' on your Silicon though it will be quite a while by the looks of it before he'll be able to make a CPU that can do useful work outside of small embedded projects by todays standards.

Wonder how he deals with the various solvents required as well, Silicon wafer production is notoriously dirty.
Grr! Well, it's a good thing my job doesn't require doing algebra.

Thanks for pointing out the error.
considering YouTube makes me watch 25 seconds of advertising for a 40 second video... could be a lot.
>where we sit there watching a box telling us what to buy

This is no different from YouTube or Facebook. Except those services follow your personally and make shadow profiles of your preferences and sell them to other companies. Is that really better?
It seems difficult to get into unless you know the right people. All of the freelancing sites are filled with listings looking for very specific technologies. Many have ridiculously small budgets or tons of bids that are impossible to compete with.
There's a difference between the systems where this is difficult, and systems where this is outright impossible.

On gluing things together: look at your nearest npm-based software project. It may not be very pretty, but it works in a reasonable way.
The long-term (and very successful in many countries) right-leaning policy strategy for decades has been replacing inheritance and capital gains and corporate profit taxes with income taxes, income taxes with (capped) payroll taxes, property taxes with sales taxes, shifting liability from corporations to employees and customers, privatizing public infrastructure and services, breaking down collective bargaining rights, cutting real minimum wages and worker protections, etc., as a way of shifting financial burdens away from capital and the financial services industry and the idle rich and toward workers and citizens. You’re going to need a huge political upheaval and significant effort to educate the public to push things back in the other direction.

Instead of taxes on automation I would recommend taxes on wealth and land value taxes, and very steep taxes on large inheritances, along with scrutinizing/outlawing various ways of hiding wealth by shifting it around between complicated webs of anonymous shell companies.
These charts are looking at percentage drop from day one, but that doesn't tell you much since the opening haul could be vastly different from one movie to the next. The Last Jedi had a huge, explosive opening, and now has dropped slightly faster than expected. So what? Is that because the movie sucked? (It didn't IMHO.) It that because other big movies are coming out soon after? It that because this year has had problematic box office returns generally? Who knows!

That's the thing about statistics...they're so easy to spin to make a pitch for almost any viewpoint. Clearly the author of this article wants you to think The Last Jedi is a dud. I'm not sure why. At any rate, I definitely don't see this as an objective news story.
What Happens When the Richest U.S. Cities Turn to the World?
They usually have a mortgage. (And tax incentives might help to increase home ownership)
I often read comments here comparing our lives to hunter-gatherers, but something to bear in mind is most humans haven’t lived like that for many thousands of years. We may have evolved from that, but our bodies are very different to the people who lived like that. Farming has been around for a long time, and a lot of that involves doing the same repetive tasks all day long, and having a relatively stable supply of food.
The important point is the list of alternatives you provide yourself: a statement worded in this way "kids on netflix only homes are being saved from 230 hrs of commercials a year" apparently implies two alternatives -- either "netflix only" or "being exposed to 230 hrs of commercials a year". There are, however, a lot more alternatives, and you list some of them.
How can they possibly "roll it back"?
Really makes me wonder how such a brilliant person spends their time once they're not preoccupied with work. The article wasn't too clear on the precise timeline, but it sounded like there was over a decade where we're told he was just drinking—I'd be very curious to know more about the specifics of how he spent his time during that period. It may be that for the purposes of an article like this 'nothing of importance' took place, but I'd bet there are interesting aspects to it.
When the digital transition took place, my TV sat idle for about a year until a line of severe storms rolled through and I decided making it usable again made some sense.

Went out, bought a nice directional antenna, bought a converter box from a friend, turned it on.

5 minutes later I realized I had zero tolerance for ads shouting at me, boxed everything up, and eventually took the TV to recycling. (It also nearly put me in the hospital, big CRTs are big.)

My iPad and Netflix/iTunes are all I need. Someday maybe I'll get a 13" iPad Pro and stick it on a wall, but I doubt it.
It's mathematically impossible to pay back a "deficit" in general I think, once the time period in which it occurred is over. But more to the point, the deficit and the debt are important despite the fact that the debt is not expected or desired to be paid off. In order to maintain our way of life, the growth of the debt needs to approximate the growth of the economy in the long run, and be reduced if it overshoots. This is a concept I rather think some conservatives have given lip service to in the past. Are you one of the "fiscally responsible conservatives" I used to read about? The idea that there is a middle ground between hyperinflation and paying the debt off isn't terribly difficult, I would've thought.
This is a good point. Basically the 30k earner could get better services targeted to their situation than getting an extra $500 tax break.
Interesting. Looking back at the toys I played with growing up, and how quickly I want to move onto new software development problems, I'm inclined to agree, but I wonder if there is some balance. Perhaps variety is the key. KSP is good for rocketry and light physics. Anything good for Chemistry?
Zynq MiniZed http://zedboard.org/product/minized

My plan is to implement my own version of a neopixel driver to learn VHDL.

Ref:

Adam Taylor’s MicroZed Chronicles Part 37: Driving Adafruit RGB NeoPixel LED arrays with MicroZed Part 8
https://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Xcell-Daily-Blog/Adam-Taylor-s-...

Adam Taylor’s MicroZed Chronicles Part 36: Driving Adafruit RGB NeoPixel LED arrays with MicroZed Part 7
https://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Xcell-Daily-Blog/Adam-Taylor-s-...

Adam Taylor’s MicroZed Chronicles Part 35: Driving Adafruit RGB NeoPixel LED arrays with MicroZed Part 6
https://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Xcell-Daily-Blog/Adam-Taylor-s-...

Adam Taylor’s MicroZed Chronicles Part 34: Driving Adafruit RGB NeoPixel LED arrays with MicroZed Part 5
https://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Xcell-Daily-Blog/Adam-Taylor-s-...

Adam Taylor’s MicroZed Chronicles Part 33: Driving Adafruit RGB NeoPixel LED arrays with the Zynq SoC
https://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Xcell-Daily-Blog/Adam-Taylor-s-...

Adam Taylor’s MicroZed Chronicles Part 32: Driving Adafruit RGB NeoPixel LED arrays
https://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Xcell-Daily-Blog/Adam-Taylor-s-...

Adam Taylor’s MicroZed Chronicles Part 31: Systems of Modules, Driving RGB NeoPixel LED arrays
https://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Xcell-Daily-Blog/Adam-Taylor-s-...
They could also just send in pure / accurately labeled stuff in for testing, unless the testing company is ordering stuff at random from an alias / PO Box or something to prevent sellers from masking their true products ingredients.
I live in NJ, another state where the $200k-$400k will be hurt. Believe me, that is solidly middle class, even when a 1BR rents for $3k/month.

The real problem with these "tax breaks" is that the most significant breaks are highly specific and selective. This tax bill basically picks winners and losers. Worse still, the winners tend to be people with the kind of investments and lifestyle that Republican lawmakers have (e.g. the Corker kickback), and the losers tend to be professionals living in Democrat-leaning states (e.g. tech workers).

The relatively small breaks that the majority will receive are temporary, and represent a minefield of exceptions that can leave people with no break at all (e.g. the loss of exemptions). There is a reason Republicans are picking oddly specific examples of people the bill will benefit -- most people will not see much, which is not a very compelling story.
I actually have that saved as a PDF backup because it's such an easy and quick reference... and because I always forget the flexbox settings.
He-Man was an action figure made by Mattel. TMNT started as a comic book, but from what I understand was a parody of popular things; Teenagers, Mutants, Ninjas...not sure why turtles were thrown in there. TMNT didn't get gain popularity until they started making action figures.
This is true for various sports, like running - organizers just organizer age-based tiers. Maybe we'll see a 60+ CS tier!
For some reason, Opus Magnum didn't cause the "I do this all day already" reaction yet for me, despite clearly being a programming game. Maybe it's the theme and presentation of it? Or maybe it's just the relaxation of the bugs at least being obvious.
Ad based revenue models are based on selling user data. I think in the p2p world these services would start charging money for the actual service instead. For example, one would pay for access to the world's best search engine that has indexed all there is to index in the public parts of the p2p world; as opposed to accessing it for "free" (in which case the user is actually what is being "sold", to the advertisers)
looking at it by a $ per family is wrong and gives the wrong impression of how it affects families. If anything the bad part is that it makes the system even more progressive and the US has one of the most progressive system in existence.

now why is that a problem, because it favors having politicians cater to this group by creating all sorts of carve outs so they can get back some of these taxes paid usually by supporting the same politicians.
> Those of us who are fed up with these problems have moved on to other coins, such as Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash.

What do you use those for?
In the article above the author mentions you were able to pay for dinner, for various bits and pieces in BTC - even for pizzas, as we all know.

You can't do that with ETH, BCH, or any altcoin, and you can't use BTC for it any more either.

So why move on to other coins?
Not sure how courts see the issue now (and it may vary by district) but last I checked in some cases an EULA is insufficient
Somebody in the comments of the article brought up a good point. What happens when the site gets shut down? As apparently is the case according to the comment author.

I know it's a trope, a huge joke and everything, but this seems like a perfect place to leave notes on the blockchain. It's something that can't be "cleaned" outside of the darknet, it's permanent, and supposedly impossible to forge a private key to manipulate one party's records. It would make it possible for customers to look back for the records of that wallet, or some tagged transactions to see a record of interactions to give credence to the reputation of that user.

It's a neat idea, removing enough anonymity in a world of the anonymous to establish trust, but not enough to establish a hard identity in order to carry reputation across the *net.
That's a really interesting thought. Would you consider public information (e.g. the result of a mining computation) to already be a public good?

E.g. see discussion of information goods here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good#Challenges_in_iden...
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How self-evident it is is highly dependent on your experience with investing. That's a lot of people here, but by no means all.
For most assets, you can generally assume it will be close to what it currently is priced at. btc is different in that regard because holding onto it for a week or even a day can easily cause it's value to double or half.

That's why its different because while you think you have that much money, by the time you actually get around to selling it, the price can be radically different
> Do you really believe that? Not many do - most think it is a deliberately racist strategy, and most see that quote as an explanation of it.

How is it racist to remove the racist component from a policy?

It's literally the exact opposite of that. That's what optimizing to reduce the amount of racism looks like -- you find things that are partly desired and partly racist and replace them with something to achieve the desired objective without discriminating based on race.
In defense of the poor image
I didn't mean to place moral judgment on you; but I did mean to question why there is special moral onus being placed on the tech community.

Of course as an individual, one is naturally free to assist in the suffering that is proximal to them, given ability and desire.

But there's also a place for policy, which means organizing and coalition-building, as SF surely has no shortage of churches and non-profit organizations for social justice.

I also think that people aren't necessarily so "bearish" with regard to their attitude about democratic power. Surely President Trump is an example.
Ok, I have to ask - what kind of software was that?
Please don't just drive by taking potshots at headlines that aren't written the way you want them to be. Read the article. Post something substantive. Engage. Share.
Ahead of the curve here, we had TiVo and MythTV before the kids were old enough to work the remotes. From way back then:

"Why can't we watch it again?"

"Pause this while I go to the bathroom."

"Hey, look, is that a toy?"

"Dad, why do people put up with commercials?"

And now that they're teenagers: "Dad, did you remember to record that show that I forgot the name of and didn't remind you to set the recording?"

I guess some things don't change.
Will publishers ever stand for that? Or will they bitch and moan about feeling "unable to provide a satisfactory customer (read: branding) experience" while they go and reinvent the wheel (read: write their own proprietary version)?
But you can also pay $50 on a $5 transaction. LN existing on testnet has no bearing on the real world. Who wants to tie up $50 to open a channel and $50 to close it? Small blockers are kidding themselves.
FWIW, there are a lot of still relevant "older" players approaching their 40s in the fighting game community.
On the other hand, Kids in Netflix only homes are probably not exposed to news and world events that does not come from Facebook and Twitter and other filtered media. They are probably not exposed to opposing or uncomfortable opinions and views.

Those Netflix only homes should at least get PBS.
Why does the architecture's age matter? Things do not just magically stop working well. Why the obsession with novelty?
Most assets can be liquidated with far less trouble then BTC. The counterparty risk with selling BTC is through the roof - just ask Mt. Gox's creditors.
That's an interesting idea, but is there a way to prove carbon sequestration, except by providing me with some physical carbon?
The Hyperloop Industry Could Make Boring Old Trains and Planes Faster, Comfier
I don't really mind if the product placement is subtle, and they don't start shooting from different angles just to show the thing off.

If the protagonist is going to use a laptop computer anyways, I don't care if Apple or DELL paid them so it's going to be one of theirs.
People don't realize how long it would take to liquidate a large sum of $$.
I can see the difference, but I think in reality these cases are way less clear and the lines are way more blurry. I also wasn't really discussing the legality of his actions, I was rather addressing the way in which some of these people slip on the wrong path. Some of them may be evil, but not all of them are the kind of malign criminals as these media stories portray them.

Since it's holiday season, I'll give a more comprehensive answer with a literature recommendation: Thomas Mann's Confessions of Felix Krull. I'm pretty sure you'll like it if you haven't read it yet. Also relevant would be Gottfried Keller's Kleider machen Leute (clothes make the man), a beautiful love story. Unfortunately it apparently has never been translated into English.