skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s sad that this is seen by many as a “progressive” and “healthy” perspective. On social media, I fear that most people who disagree with this perspective will not openly disagree with it because they do not have the mental energy at the end of the day to defend themselves against the ad hominem attacks that will follow. When did it become politically acceptable to openly shame a group based on the way they were born? If it were said about any other group besides “cis white males” it would be considered hate speech. Why is this tolerated?
> You have to look at really successful indie games, such as Terraria, Factorio, Mini Metro, Stardew Valley, Darkest Dungeon, Papers Please.. and there are many more. If you look at these games do you really think there is an alternative reality where they would not sell many copies? I don't.

Interesting. I think you're right about half of those. I can't see any way that SDV or Darkest Dungeon could have failed. SDV is a great all round game with tons of polish, and DD has 99th percentile art direction and atmosphere for an indie game.

Mini Metro and Papers Please could absolutely have been dead on arrival. Mini Metro is just an above average puzzle game (of which there are tons), and PP is a really cool and unique game, but there's tons of games with similar art styles and it's impossible to understand what's good about it from a trailer. It's really one of those "you have to play it" games (aka "sells 0 copies in 99 of 100 alternate universes" games...)
It's a valid assessment, thanks for sharing it.
Based on what we learned from the Snowden docs I would be very surprised if HN didn't have NSA/GCHQ shills poisoning conversation.
- Change "a" to "а", hash changed
- ...
- Profit?
I'm an engineer (mostly web) and I am very tech savvy, and extremely wary on the internet of scams. However, if this site had to come me via a trusted channel, I would have fallen for it maybe 80% of the time.

I hardly ever login to steam as it's always running and while I have 2FA my password would have been stolen in this attack for sure.

I don't think teenagers and non-techy users would stand a chance against this.
I can load it on mobile, but it won't let me scroll down to read more than the first half sentence.
It think it's also hard because at this point you don't want to make new friends beside smalltalk (which he does).

Imagine having been with your spouse for 60 years, your friends 40-80 years (?), your children I guess at least 40 years, having a new friend has nothing to do with this, you will never know them this good and neither will they.
I had a similar thought but then wondered if the question would be why there's a bias in which type of matter condenses out of the energy. All this stuff is way over my head but it's fun to think about.
California Becomes First State to Require Women on Corporate Boards
I still frequently encounter people who consider the whole thing either a conspiracy or an outright lie, a way to bring America down, or some sort of left-wing class war in the UK, or all sorts of other bizarre things.

I even encountered one commenter recently who claimed that we fundamentally misunderstand the action of gasses in a a gravity field, and he was going to single-handedly prove it all wrong (and invent a source of free energy at the same time).

With this, and the long-term nature of the problem meaning that the can can always be kicked just a little further down the road, I'm not surprised that little gets achieved.
We already have a place to buy products from folks that know how to deliver them.
Massscan upgrade needed.
I believe that the primary reason there are so many different public utility companies (e.g., electric, gas) is because of the patchwork of regulations in each locality makes it difficult to manage under one company. So it could have the effect of forcing large ISPs to either split altogether or at least divide themselves up into subsidiaries (e.g., Comcast New Jersey, Comcast Delaware).

I may be wrong, but I've read this rationale before and it seems to make sense. Utility companies seem to generally correspond to the public utility commission that regulates them.
Amazingly hilarious. It's Jurassic Park OST. Starts off as an OST and rapidly degenerates along with the graphics.
Show HN: My first side project – A job board for PHP developers
Hi all :)

Saturday, I launched my first side project. It's basically a job board for PHP devs.

https://php-at.work

In the moment, everyone can post a job listing for free. I review it and activate it manually.

I would love to hear any kind of feedback :)

I posted it already on saturday, but probably it should be better in Show HN section.
A curated list to learn CS aimed at self-taught programmers:

https://teachyourselfcs.com/

gives recommendations for more challenging or more approachable courses.
You were downvoted because it was a shit comment, doesn't matter if you were right or not
> With cheap music streaming services such as spotify, apple music and google play as well as video streaming such as netflix and amazon, does anyone need bittorrent anymore?

When it's about music/video, although I still listen/watch Spotify/Netflix, I actually prefer to have the tunes I love stored in bare audio files, DRM-free, and play them without using an Internet connection, I also prefer to watch movies on my non-smart internet-detached TV by just putting them on a USB flash drive. But I hardly ever download music or videos from BitTorrent actually (although I have indeed downloaded rips of some albums I have legitimately bought on CDs in the past), BitTorrent is not only about pirating this kind of content. I also doubt there would be much progress in ease of access and affordability in the recording industry without competition with the file-sharing world.
A crucial thing to do as you pass out of your 20's is to figure out a mechanism to regularly get together with the people in your life. It's simple stuff, like throwing a monthly happy hour, or dinner parties, or a yearly camping trip, or whatever. The details don't really matter that much, they should match who you are.

Invite all the people you'd really like to see and stay in touch with. And an important point, don't worry about it. Many times people won't be able to come, or won't care, or will drop out for awhile and return, or who knows.

That's not important, and it's really important to dispense with the anxiety that comes from being a host, worrying about if people will like it, if they'll like you, if they're happy, if enough people are coming, all that. Don't worry about that part, the point is just to have some kind of reference point and the ability to reach out to people and say hey let's stay in contact in the real world.

A lot of people let this slip, and end up ten years later surrounded exclusively by people they connect to through work or parenting, plus occasional family. That's a mistake in my opinion.
You just gave me the mental image of a worm which targets voting machines and has them run pacman or space invaders. Bonus points if it quickly re-infects machines, or persists in ways they cannot remove. That'd be something to launch during a major election.

It's illegal and dangerous to whomever does this. But at some point, nothing but blunt disobedience works.
I've over 40, have had a major gap in my front teeth, and a slight overbite all of my life. I wish I had gotten braces when I was younger but this is the first job I've had that pays for adult orthodontia. I've had Invisaligns for about 11 weeks now. I love them but they take a while to get used to. (they were also pricey) Stuff that's happened:

* I got a terrible lisp since the shape of my mouth changed. It took quite a few weeks to get used to.

* The first couple of days after switching trays (I switch every week) are kinda painful because of the new positioning.

* My diet changed because I cannot eat (or drink many things) with my trays in and I need to brush my teeth after every meal. I used to eat many, small meals throughout the day but now I do 3 larger ones because it's annoying to brush and such a lot.

* Eating out is "fun" -- I bring a toothbrush and my tray box, so I can take care of things.

Fortunately, I work from home most of the time so a lot of this is not a serious problem.

11 weeks in and my overbite is disappearing and there has been some changes to the gap. Overall, I am very happy.
probably works in Belarus where you pay people peanuts, and everything is cheap, also lots of lots of people lie about revenue to get attention.
Suspicious timing in SEC lawsuit against Elon Musk
There are other things that must be conserved - not just energy - in the current standard model of particle physics. For example, you have to conserve charge - and matter and antimatter have opposite charges.

In that case, say I have 100 electrons that I want to turn into positrons. If I was able to turn these into pure "energy", first I'd have to figure out how to give that "energy" charge (so it could conserve charge in that step), and then I would have to create some other particles to balance out the 100 positive charges that the positrons would give me, ending up with 300 particles.

The reason that we think that there's more matter than antimatter in the real universe is because of a thing called "Charge-Parity Violation" [1] that is the focus of a lot of current research.

[1] https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/charge-parity-viola...
That wouldn't make sense. Do you have a source?
I once had issues with caching js resources, while I was developing, so I wrote some code to MD5 hash the js, generate an identicon from the MD5 hash and then output the identicon and hash with the name of the js file on the browser's console so I could quickly verify that the file had changed and been loaded in the browser when I refreshed the page.
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva: Disease that turns damaged tissue to bone
Wouldn't it already be annihilated by air particles though :)
Each one comes with a free smart contract.
I admire zzzeek as one of the greatest contributors to python and a programmer of the highest order.

I hope one day he’ll become a real fan of async as it would be good to have all that skill directed into the async space, which frankly needs him.
Now you know how the average person feels when reading something nerdy.

Just say they twisted some magic streams and marshmallow-man happend.
One reason I stopped arranging social events via FB is that every “yes” there just means “maybe” and there will be a flurry of posts made on the event on the day from people who RSVP’d “yes” ultimately meaning “I can’t be bothered” or “I got a better offer” which is just annoying. Events organised via WhatsApp seem to be much more reliable.
Come on, it's a couple of hours of work, and it's the occasion to understand the democratic process and do your civic duty by participating to the ballot count. Having fair elections beats real-time results hands down.
How many years of debugging the manual system for flaws, how many security bugs have been fixed already? The paper system has been tried and tested for many many years and we all agree that it's working and is secure. Why do we want to throw this out for having live results? Is it about saving money? How much do we save if something goes wrong?

Both systems can be broken by propaganda anyway. That one is also well tested.
This is why I think WebAuthn can't come soon enough.
I must admit to smirking at the unintended irony created by the title of the article, and the publication it appears in.

That said, Jonathan Haidt's book The Righteous Mind does outline a very similar thing. That our 'reasoning' is almost always a post-hoc attempt to explain how we already feel. And Haidt, while claiming neutrality is very definitely on the right end of the spectrum.
The video[1] does sliglty a lot better job of explaining what's going on.

[1] - https://youtu.be/n_BA8tUlRLA?t=63
It was very early science fiction. And yes it would.
As Electric Scooters Take Over the World, Tel Aviv Stands First in Line
> well as video streaming such as netflix and amazon

And about a few hundreds of other services worldwide with each their silos. Even for Netflix or Amazon Prime, it’s not the same catalog in the different regions they’re supported.

It’s of course made worse by the fact that any new entrant needs exclusives to lure people in, so every new service comes with its new silo.

It’s still a huge mess with no simple way to watch something legally from a simple search, even with a credit card in hand.

Music has become better (still super messy, spotify/apple music/Google cover a huge base, but it’s still only a fraction of what’s commercially sold in my experience)
Migration to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Part 2 of 2
Thank you so much, that sounds like exactly what I need to make a (successful this time) deep dive into FP. Cheers!
When we make better the enemy of good, there's no end to what we can't do.
How about hobbies and activities? Best place to meet new friends and make relationships which won't be affected by any change in your professional life.
Moving to BigQuery – Data at our Fingertips
A key factor contributing to climate change is the number of people weighted by energy consumption.

Should governments in rich countries encourage people to have fewer kids or otherwise constrain their life choices in various other ways? This goes against liberal values. What do most progressives think?
I thought it actually undermined the philosophy as linear-progress by focusing on the links, which show a chaotic cycle of idea development. The linearity of the names seems to come from going with time on that axis, but that's just an arbitrary device for the sake of organization rather than the driver of the interpretation of the content, in my view.
The power of therapeutic hypothermia (2013)
Very sad that Apple maps do not provide transit for my area (Riga, Latvia).

Does anyone know a way to import bookmarks from google maps to Apple maps?
Is anyone else interested in crowdfunding a scientific study to explore this link? This is not my area of expertise but as someone affected by this I would like to contribute to finding some answers even if it is at the home lab level.
Drape the Best Collection of Sarees on Rent in Indore
This Navratri season celebrate elegance with Anushree Dresses. Get embroidered, net, silk, lehanga saree & other designer Sarees on rent in Indore. Visit www.anushreedresses.com for the best collection of dresses on rent.
MBA Operations Management Degree
>In 1986, Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi noted that "Atari collapsed because they gave too much freedom to third-party developers and the market was swamped with rubbish games". In response, Nintendo limited the number of titles that third-party developers could release for their system each year, and promoted its "Seal of Quality", which it allowed to be used on games and peripherals by publishers that met Nintendo's quality standards.

In 2017, 21 games per day were released on Steam and most of them were trash.
Personally I believe it’s helpful for both. I don’t know what the mechanism is, but it has been effective for me. It feels something like distilled meditation (vipassana) ...
For sure. The size of the crowd matters too I think. I never bothered with FB events, as these are for doing cool, popular things, and big groups. WhatsApp is more personal and smaller groups.

The hangouts I talk here are basically with one to five, six people.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18097569
I would very much second this advice. I've only recently started to take a more concerted effort to stay in touch with people. I was terrible in my 20s (I'm now 35) with avoiding all the social contact that I could. My girlfriend took the opposite approach and would just go out and develop new friendships.

I'm lucky to have developed strong friendships from work colleagues over the years but I feel like I neglected some of my transient friendships.

That said it's never too late, it's easy to convince yourself "oh this person will never want to hear from me after all this time" but you'd be surprised. The older you get the less I find the time between meeting matters, it's the fact you're reaching out.
I can not agree. Salary of an engineer here is $3000-4000 per month (after tax calculation). Still less than in USA, but I can not call it a trifle.

As for our revenue, I told the truth. If you do not believe it, well, I will not persuade you. I think a knowledgeable person can check math. BTW, in the article I attached a screenshot from our analytics platform (ProfitWell).

What caused your distrust?
Kudos on reaching this far, and disregard naysayers that abound on HN.
It's only my opinion and I may well be wrong :)

I agree that Mini Metro is the one of the listed games that I would be least certain about. I think however it is very polished (more than other "puzzle" games) and it strikes a nerve because the design is very familiar to people using metros or buses.

Papers Please is a very special case. It has a very unique idea and that's what makes it stand out. You are right that you need to play it. However if someone played it he will most certainly recommend it and that's the strength of this game.. the implicit "marketing" it conveys.

You obviously always need some marketing be it a only dev log or whatever to at least get the core group interested. For a game like PP that really should suffice to get the ball rolling.
Kafka vs. Mosquitto – which tool is better for microservices?
$10-$15 isn't the most expensive. There are industries like insurance or loans where it can get as high as $50.
Above a certain age, you need to make a determined effort to meet new friends. My partner and I both work freelance, and so we are aware of the potential to cloister up, particularly in a cold eastern European winter. So we make definite effort to meet new people, go for drinks or dinner, and maintain and develop such friendships and give them a chance.
Akira: Native Linux App for UI and UX Design Built in Vala and Gtk
Next Generation Wheel Startup? Mitsubishi Thinks So
You mean proactive award winning innovative solutions leveraging state of the art leading technologies don't engage with industry standard customer expectations on value proposition, or what?
These 19th-century astronomical drawings show the beauty of cosmos
Docker Registry Distribution in a Deep Learning Pipeline
And intimacy is superficial when the other is just an account on some social website. It's very easy to ignore the plight of the other, or tune out to more entertaining things.

Sure, it can be. Or it might be the opposite. I met my spouse playing some random online game. I moved across an ocean a few years after we met, and I'm still happy 5 years later. I have had friendships that are just as meaningful as the in-person friendships I've had.

The only time it isn't possible to tune out the plight of others is when the others live with you. Even then, there are ways.
Great website, doesn't load with an ad blocker enabled. Fucking late stage ad tech..
I still have my IRC friends. That might sound sad to you, dear reader, but the bonds are strong.

We've gone through life together. Being primarily online means I can "uproot" and move anywhere. Sure, I miss going and having a beer or a hackathon, but flights are fairly cheap so we can do it once a while and those interactions are actually better for that.

I am super lucky to have what amounts to a social group that's been around 15+ years. I wonder if this level of interaction is enough for everyone or if I'll have some weird breakdown in 5 years.
Trump administration sues California over its brand-new net neutrality law
Debugging a function and GC are independent things. Also, you can easily add tracing information since you will know how the C code is being run. There is no good reason not to.

There are easy ways to build a GC in portable C as well, of course, if less performant.

As you will know, in portable C you cannot even implement a system call. So what?
Best intro control systems: "Modern Control Engineering", by Katsuhiko Ogata. Also available free, "Feedback Systems" by Karl Johan Åström and Richard Murray at http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~murray/books/AM08/pdf/am08-compl...
Oh, wow - this is really cool.

I'd like to see a programming environment that integrated something like this directly; this seems like it could, if done cleverly, do an enormous amount for the leaky-abstractions problem. Something that was designed such that you could easily work with and analyze your code in the high-level and low-level views. Not to mention, having the machine be right there next to your code, with their correspondences clearly marked, would do an enormous amount to demystify what your code's really doing on the lower levels.

(I think there's a glimmer of an idea in here for what a future programming system might look like, that allows us to use high-level abstractions and other ergonomic programming concepts AND actually think about the metal and how to use it directly at the same time. Something something interactive compilation...)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18077612
Since I cannot edit my post. If you are interested in this topic you can test your skill in predicting a game's success here:

https://www.steamprophet.com/
You want more magic, basically. I guess that's a personal choice.

I've never personally felt inconvenienced by having this at the bottom of my .vue files:

<style src='./style.css'></style>
<script src='./script.js'></script>

It's not like I ever have to type it out. It gets copied along with whatever else is in the .vue file I copied from.
A new JavaScript plug-in discovery system
Hi, out of curiosity what tech stack have you used for your product and why ? btw kudos for your successes :)
My grandfather, who is 85, made a new friend a few months ago. He's in his 80s as well.

So it's definitely possible!
case of the mondays?
How come these 10-20min naps are so effective when you consider that people say sleep cycles are ~90min
What's not mentioned in the article is that the pixel memory also had an interesting layout. It's organized as 32x192 bytes, with each byte holding 8 1-bit pixels. But the memory wasn't organized in a linear fashion. To get to the next pixel line you don't add 32 bytes, but 256 bytes (adding 32 bytes gets you to the next character line, 8 pixel lines below).

My guess is that this was done to simplify and speed up character rendering. The Z80 has 8-bit registers, but 2 consecutive registers form a 16-bit register pair. E.g. you have the 8-bit registers H and L, which form the 16-bit register HL.

To get to the next horizontal character, you simply increment L, continue incrementing past 31, and you get to the start of the next character line.

To copy a font character, just increment H and write a font glyph byte to the address pointed to by HL 8 times.

The East German KC85/4 (which borrows many ideas from the Spectrum) took this idea one step further, it had a 320x256 display, also organized as separate pixel and color banks (40x256 bytes each). But the video memory was 90 degree rotated. Put a video memory address into HL, incrementing L gets you to the next vertical pixel line, and incrementing H to the next horizontal 8-pixel byte.

Each 8-bit home computer had it's own signature video memory layout, basically early attempts at hardware image compression (a bit similar to today's GPU texture compression formats).
"How to have a number one the easy way" by the KLF is the best book imo. Tells you how, and then why you probably shouldn't bother