skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, almost all news game are pessimistic. I did have read the article (got an 4040 error).

For my point of view, is that several game because of the boring gameplay and the lake of fun, goes directly in the pessimistic category. They could be have fun, but not, game are making in a way of winning chest, fake items, skin, etc. This is useless and you see yourself drowning in that scheme where the visual take all, and the fun and the story, goes down.
I think it means that someone achieved what most of us wish we could have achieved: not getting dragged into getting used by social networks that mine our data and use it to manipulate our behavior. Seeing that someone has successfully done it increases the chances that other people will be able to do it.

Most people don't use those sites out of educated choice -- they got manipulated into using them and would want to leave if they knew what the sites were doing.
Is anybody complaining there aren't enough of them? I see very occasional complaints they aren't popular enough, but it's rare.

The fundamentally different interactivity of video games may have an impact here. There's no particular shortage of evidence that reading about something pessimistic or depressing may still have some appeal to it; entire subcultures and genres are based on it. Adding interactivity may fundamentally intensify the experience in a way that makes the appeal even more selective, though.
The problem with satire is that no matter how far over the line you think you've gone, someone will always wonder whether you really meant that.
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On the other hand, link shorteners are also great for hiding malicious links because you can't see where it's going before you click on it.
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Meh. I'm investing peanuts and it looks like I'm going to learn something which I would have completely ignored if I had not bought these stocks.
> A lot of salaryman positions are barely paying above combini rates

Interesting, how long has this been the case? Is hoping for promotion realistic?
The graph is tough to read as is. There's no labels for the x data and they y is autoranged. As of 1020 Eastern US time today, all I see are two horizontal lines. So I can see that both the Tether/Bitfinex/Bittrex/Poloniex cluster and the USD/Bitstamp/Kraken clusters are stable. But without an x label I can't tell if they're stable over the last hour, month, or year.

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If I mouse-over the x ticks, I can see that the graph spans ~10 minutes, but most people probably wouldn't have the patience. Now that I know it's been stable for ten minutes (is it usually unstable across ten minutes‽), my next question is 'how did it look over the last 30 days? 12 months?
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All in all, a cool site! Just a tip from the graph-nitpickers out here.

EDIT: I see now, this graph shows only current activity since page load. This was likely a tradeoff to simplify the design of the page such that the data didn't have to be stored on the server. Maybe the page is such that the data is requested directly from the exchanges themselves?
I'm a former teacher and I disagree pretty strongly with the paper based on both my experience and on the fact that this paper has been pretty thoroughly gutted by the literature. The more specific you want the knowledge outputs to be, the more guidance you have to give, as a general rule, but inquiry-based approaches lead to something I call "white swan" learning (with apologies/thanks to Taleb). People often find something through the inquiry that they're enthusiastic about learning, and then they continue learning about that long after they've completed whatever was required. It's not something you can plan, and you don't know which or how many kids will find something with which project, but it happens reliably and for each of those kids finding that topic (and the joy and practice of learning something they are interested in in-depth) is far more effective than semesters of "normal" learning.
"[...] waking up the next day and going to work" is about survival, not heroism. It's about ensuring that you have a house over your head and food in your stomach so you can go back to work the day after next.

Not much heroic about that.
In 1997 or thereabouts, it became clear to me that I would always have email waiting to be read.

Therefore:

1. I set up an independent account that only gets wake-me-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night alerts.

2. I started automatically filtering all email into different folders.

3. I stopped all email alert indicators except for the wake-me-up account.

Ever since then, I check email when I get to a natural break in other activities. This happens seven or eight times a day, usually, so I'm never particularly far behind.
Everyone is different, but I'd hazard that books and games tickle different needs.

Books are most commonly about transmitting information; particularly in the form "if you encounter this hardship, adopt that mindset". Games are mostly about "verify that your decision making process is robust".

Nobody is forcing writers and gamemakers to conform to my worldviews, but there is a trend in those directions with exceptions.

If somebody made a game that really explored on "how should you think about horrible situation X" that was gloomy all the way through people would probably enjoy it. But if you have a skill-based game that breaks the success->reward feedback loop for executing a skill well, all the players will quit.
“But why do we look to Orwell’s vision when Huxley’s rings truer?“

Simpler explanations aren’t as entertaining but I think they tend to be the correct ones.

First, 1984 was received by many as anti-communist into the height of the Red Scare. This greatly amplified its influence ever since beyond what Brave New World could ever achieve.

Second, and fortunately for us, Orwell is a much superior writer to Huxley.
It sounds like it came up as a result of their Project Strobe audit. I would guess they launched this project precisely because the penalties were about to get bigger and they knew they had skeletons.
The slide doesn't say 5.6 hours - only Cal Newport is jumping to it. The slide is saying 3.1 for work and 2.5 for home - but not necessarily by the same people - so adding them doesn't make sense.

>Which makes it likely they are filling in their weekly hours, not daily hours.

I disagree. If I look at any one column, it's not hard to make the numbers work out. For example, assume each category is hitting the upper bound (40% are doing 1 hour, 22% are doing 2, etc) - and put 9 hours for the last 10% - you'll get 3.1 hours. Now that is a bit implausible (I took upper bounds of every category).

But going with the other interpretation - only spending < 1 hour per week for the largest group - highly unlikely. In our workplace, a lot of work, sadly, is done through email - 2 hours/day just responding to emails is probably average.
Sign of an experienced architect. Read: "I'm old and too tired to argue, just don't break it ok."
There was a previous referendum in 1975
Can we expect an incredibly long and petty diatribe from the accused author about how it was really all a meta-study to expose the 'grievance' cell research journals?
(Maybe.)
You know the Greeks well, friend :P
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Go play "That Dragon Cancer".

I've mentioned it elsewhere in this thread, and it's hard to argue against it not being a brilliant art piece.

http://www.thatdragoncancer.com/
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You're as likely to get a major game developer making a pessimistic game as your are to get Disney funding the next Bela Tarr film. You're only going to get someone doing it recreationally to any kind of well developed level if they have absolutely huge personal involvement (e.g. That Dragon Cancer).

The issue isn't even that there needs to be more pessimistic games, they're being made and they're gradually getting to a point where they're not pathetically behind other mediums in terms of emotional depth. What there needs to be is an easier means of developing interactive experiences so people can explore different vibes without feeling a need to attain some kind of fiscal reward from their efforts.
To make him more impressive, he had a pretty significant speech impediment when he was younger. So he was never some natural orator, he had to work extremely hard to sound like one.
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There are plenty of pessimistic games that portray the hell of life. This guy is either desensitized to it or has only played Nintendo his whole life.
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same goddess. luna is the roman name and selene is the greek name.
When I copy it I get a lengthened link. It has the destination URL in a query string, along with a "ved" value which includes a bunch of information about the link that you clicked on:

https://moz.com/blog/inside-googles-ved-parameter

If you're looking in your browser's status bar when you hover the link, Google is manually displaying the end destination URL. The link doesn't actually go there directly.

This is using Firefox while not signed in to a Google account. If you're really getting direct links, perhaps if you're signed in or using Chrome they give you real links and track you by other means instead.
This blog post makes a strong case for Direct Instruction[1], with links to a recent meta-analysis: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/02/di...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_instruction
Most importantly: can moons have morons?
I've increasingly come to value mastering the basics.[0]

A quote from Michael Nielsen in his great article Augmenting Long-Term Memory (http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html) puts it very well:

"Over the years, I've often helped people learn technical subjects such as quantum mechanics. Over time you come to see patterns in how people get stuck. One common pattern is that people think they're getting stuck on esoteric, complex issues. But when you dig down it turns out they're having a hard time with basic notation and terminology."

[0] I suspect individuals who learn things relatively easily may undervalue that skill, because they typically were ahead in school.
The famous capsule hotels are made specifically for people who missed their last train home. Tiny spaces but comfy, cheap and clean. You even get a pair of PJs, toothbrush and soap. It's a great system.

The photographer and / or Guardian author can't seem to make the distinction between workers who got so smashed they pass out on the street, and workers who just missed their train. The latter certainly aren't going to collapse on the side walk in a "fashion-magazine look"
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17924936
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Did DO fix your problem? I know their packages are tiered, I would think it would still break. Do you have numbers on how bad HN Hug hit you?
For others unfamiliar with the acronym, it looks like it's Universal Function Call Syntax - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Function_Call_Syntax

Lets you call top-level funtions as if they were metnks, with the receiver as the first argument.

For example, these two are equivalent:

add(x, y)
x.add(y)

As an aside, I added a similar feature to my compile-to-js lang (http://lightscript.org) and have found it to be a delightful feature. I hope an equivalent passes TC39.
Or you could skip the dubious body hacker drug BS and just be more physically active.
As the article pointed out, we are entering a new territory that the global temperature rising is irreversible. And this was posted on HN more than 4 years ago.[1]

Even if it was reversible, that would require a negative carbon economy and completed rebuild energy structure that rely upon massive scale zero-carbon energy sources (currently only hydro and nuclear qualify at that scale but either not practical or facing opposition, solar/wind/tidal/geothermo don't). And, a massive scale carbon collecting infrastructure to significantly capture the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. Unfortunately that technology doesn't exist (at least not outside of the labs or proven scaling massively yet).

There is only so much everyone can do - using LED lighting, reduce energy consumption etc. but without a coordinated political will and a major driving force in technology, it's fruitless. And most importantly, it's too little too late.

Put it simply, there is simply no technical solution and daily habits can change the trajectory of an extinction event. Now it's clearer than ever why Musk and Bezos are exploring space and Mars colonization given their tremendous amount of fortune and resources behind their teams of smartest people working for them - rather than say saving our planet and happily ever after.

Lastly, I still believe in doing something is better than nothing, that's the only positive aspect of this story.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7777869
Another "revisitation" is contained in "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business" by Neil Postman, an essay written in 1985 which extends the thesis that media are the main force which are creating a BNW kind of world (in particular TV, being written before the digital revolution).
Are they really going to complain about the $.01 or $.10 or $1 price difference? And even if they do can't you just give them the lowest price?
Assuming that's an enum, the compiler will tell you if you miss one case in a switch statement. Also if you mistype 200 for example as 20 or 2000 the compiler will also tell you. None are huge reasons, but it is nice and cheap.
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> after spending a long time studying (and partly rewriting) this code, I actually find the terse version better.

I'm sure Mr. Goldberg understood his machines just fine, too.
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Would you say that diversity is a core value aspect of the PC culture that the article highlight.

Equality feminism focuses on the basic similarities between men and women, and promote the legal status as equal and undifferentiated for men and women. Activism here focused on reducing gender as a factor in how people treated each other and feminism often merged with humanism.

But then the 1980s and 1990s brought about a new focus in popular feminism on difference feminism, with focus on what they call the essential differences between men and women. In opposition to equality feminism, this view advocates for the celebration of differences, and diversity became a key value of the movement. Polarization also increased on this political area, and here I would insert a claim that there is a direct link of causation here.

I have seen plenty of people who say they are not feminist because they follow the views of equality feminism. They think women should be paid the same for the same work, that humans committing sexual violence should be prosecuted, but at the same time object when people are differentiated based on gender. Women shelter instead of shelters for abuse victims, "mens violence against women" laws instead of domestic crime laws, male/white privilege instead of social economical privilege, female hiring instead of unbiased hiring, and so on.

> All you have to do to hobble a movement is associate its name with some garbage.

Or it could be that the movement changed and not everyone is happy about that.
If one was able to convert it directly to 1 USD immediately then yes it would be a super easy arbitrage and the price of Tether would never fluctuate from 1 USD more than very small amounts (which would be arbitraged and restored) The problem is that you can't do that, and the pricing is indicating that the market no longer believes that Tether is worth 1 USD, so isn't willing to pay that much.
I thought the whole point of MVP and lean startup was to be able to finely hone a core service, making errors less likely. I also think there is a disconnect between that path and mainstream marketing.

Are you saying you should have waited until it had more robust features? Seems like the chances of bugs would go dramatically up.

The point of MVP is to avoid wasting time and resources on ideas that will never get enough traction to be worth it. (Even the best market research can be disastrously wrong.) Lean startups don’t plan to launch a marketing campaign for a half-done product.
The way funds are structured mean that money out is expected within a ten to twenty year window. Staying private and paying dividends is more of a hundred year window outcome.

The reason funds are structured this way is that it gets complicated to pay out things like bonuses or to do estate planning when so much capital is uncertainly tied up in a single, illiquid entity. Divorce happens, tax rates change, people reasonably want their money.
Are there any games out there you play through seemingly as the hero only to find out after x hours of 'saving the world' that you were, in fact, not? Something like the film Memento?
Proud future troglodyte here. It would appear I am not average.

I check work email twice a day at most unless someone says there is a meeting invite I need to accept. I don't accept meeting invites unless I know what the meeting is about and that I am really required to attend. Most of my emails are filtered and all external emails default to the spam folder.

I check personal email a few times per week at most unless I signed up for something that sends a confirmation email. I run my own mail servers and use strings+more to read email and the S25R regex methodology of blocking connections from generic devices.

I am sick of Slack and try to avoid looking at it and the dozen other places my coworkers chat or share docs.
Tech support? What's that?

Most software is written for internal company use. In my last job, the software we wrote was used by hundreds of users in my company. No way is the company going to hire tech support people for internal software.

We were very aggressive in ensuring we don't get support questions all the time. We made some of the customers our tech support. Every "domain" of our software had experts amongst our users. So if any user had a question about performing X with our libraries, they were to contact the customer who was an expert in doing X. If he couldn't help, then that expert would contact us. Direct questions to us from new users were just replied to with "Check with the experts first".

This helped a lot in cutting down requests. But most companies/orgs, in my experience, will not be supportive of that type of tech support. We had to be very aggressive in it, and we had the backing of our and the users' department heads.
I think the mentality is: if you can afford to party, then you can also afford to arrange your own transport (eg. taxi) home.
Public transport running at night time will be inevidently be subsidized by either day-time riders or tax payers, due to the much lower density of riders.

Then, why encourage people to stay out late...

In northern Europe you often hear the safety argument for affordable night-time public transport - “without that people may catch a unlicensed cab or try to walk home and get robbed, or worse”. But in Tokyo you the risk of something happening to you even if you pass out on the sidewalk is very very low.
> The telltale sign of a bankrun at Bitfinex seems to be playing out, as you can see the spot price rises on Bitfinex meanwhile on other exchanges BTC spot price drops.

As also evidenced by the fact that the price of all other crypto assets is going up, meaning that people are dumping Tether at a loss to buy other stuff at inflated prices.
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The USA is one of the few countries in the world that doesn't require an ID to vote. I'm continually astounded by the fact that people consider that having some sort of identification, which most functioning adults ought to have anyway, is some sort of horrifying oppression.
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A note on the price reported by coinmarketcap -- that is a price derived from computing the average traded price of USDT across all exchanges, including ones that have no path to converting directly to USD.

What this means is that this dramatically overstates the price of tether. If you navigate to "market" [1] and change the "Pair" dropdown to "USD" you'll see the three exchanges that actually offer the pair. Bitfinex is the sponsor of Tether, so will always say $1; but currently they are apparently having banking problems.

Kraken and Bittrex offer independent markets so are a better fair reflection of the price, in the sense of "if you have tether, and want foldin' money right now, this is the current discount". Kraken has somewhat limited withdrawal capabilities at the moment as well, so their price also reflects a premium for the latency.

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/#markets
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So you're saying - this is good for Bitcoin?
Could you write a blog post in response that describes the better way to achieve this? There are possibly related items which you could throw in for others on achieving better portability.
and bad bosses who lie to the Congress and to the American people nullify the good mission and good bosses?
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Why are there two non technical founders?
Welcome to Oracle. They make their money off of taking simple things and making them extraordinarily complicated. The JDK is no exception.

I tried using nothing but the Oracle website to determine what the terms of usage are, and what the cost would be. It's confusing, buried many levels deep, in multiple documents in different places.

They use the term "processors" to refer to how 11 is licensed. They give you a per-processor price. Then in a footnote they say that you have to multiply the number of cores you use by a ratio that is different for different platforms and/or CPU models in order to determine your "processor" count.

Where is this ratio? In a different document that they don't bother to link to. Seriously. Well, there IS a link, but it takes you to the index page of massive document library. Browsing around there in obvious places got me nowhere. I finally googled for it with "site:oracle.com" and found it, but I still have no idea where on their website they put it.