skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to love playing NetHack and ascended multiple times. Sometimes I wish DCSS hadn't ruined NetHack's UX for me. I'd love to see NetHack reimagined with a friendly UI on-par with DCSS and other modern roguelikes.
Exactly. There is almost certainly an organized government sponsored campaign to discredit him in every way possible. That means the things we read in the media about him need to be considered very critically.
Judging by his general recommendations, the writer.
"eliminated half of all programming jobs"

Tools to improve speed of development have existed for ages, twice the speed = twice less developers in a blunt way. (that includes even programming languages)

Personally I'd consider it an improvement - if I job can be automated, it should be.
> It is also completely misleading to say that these states are 100% "net renewable". They're part of the national grid. Perhaps they're the places where disproportionately many wind turbines are deployed (e.g. on the coast).

They are at the coast and it's not misleading since they produce much more and even have to turn off turbines. The nationwide peaks are also impressive: https://www.energy-charts.de/energy_pie.htm?year=2019&month=...

> Think about it, if Germany knew a way to fix the problem of base load, why haven't they implemented it?

Because of politics, money and lobbying. There are jobs in the coal industry especially in the east germany where Fascism is getting powerful. You don't want to lose those votes. There are also long running contracts with energy suppliers that force Germany to pay for coal plants who are not producing power at all. Wind turbines have to be turned off because the sparse power lines infrastructure is clogged with dirty power. Adding to that, there is a movement of people who are afraid of power lines nearby...and yes, there are many and they are slowing down the expansion of north-south infrastructure.

> Same story, Australia nationally relies on 30% coal to support its base load.

Yeah same story, Australia relies on their coal industry. Who wants to tell the voter that they'll cut those jobs and coal is being mined everywhere throughout the continent.

> The idea that the "base load requirement" is a myth is in itself a myth. If you use the right numbers, they don't add up.

As you have seen, the reasons why renewables are not even further and even more relevant are beyond the technically related reasons. Most of them are political and this is surely no reason to turn back to nuclear. Especially because the growth is there and it's unstoppable:

https://www.energy-charts.de/ren_share.htm?source=ren-share&...
Pretty much my reading of it. Simply getting up and walking around would put far more CO2 into your blood than such a small change in atmospheric concentration.

I don't really understand the level of credulity here on associations between CO2 and mental impairment.
We had already decided no Fortnite in the house but this really is awful.

My impression is some of this is kids younger than "teenager" too, which is even worse.

Hilarious this game is so toxic when one of the UI designers was featured here on HN last week pontificating about ethics in games.
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It annoys me that front-end is sold as "easier". Getting started is "easy", building front-end applications at scale is a completely different ballgame.
That’s not what people mean when referring to low skill jobs.

What you’re saying would be similar to saying a warehouse worker might be low in technical skill but high in strength skill, which just misses the point that people refer to low skill jobs as jobs that require little education or specialization.
Wow! 5-4 decision, but overall a big win for the consumer. Apple’s legal team is having a really rough year
30K / year * 100 million people = 3 trillion. 1/6th GDP. Lots of money.
Caves of Qud[1] is an amazing continuation of the NetHack/DF tradition in a modern game: incredible depth and attention to detail not only in it's mechanics and rules, but also in it's coherent worldbuilding and dialogue. It's also got a really great interface and cool, ZX Spectrum like graphics. The setting is a lot like Gamma World, or if you don't know what that is, post-apocalyptic Dune but with more pulp sci-fi (and chrome).

Caves of Qud is still in active development, and available on Steam. If you do get it, make sure to go into the menus and enable the experimental UI if you want to see how awesome a Roguelike interface could be if it used graphics.

Also, if you're like me disable Permadeath in the debug menu, the first village you start at is the only non-procedurally-generated village in the game, so if I you don't want to retraverse it over and over, you need savegames.

Here's a Guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=48420...

[1]: https://steamcommunity.com/app/333640
> And so “default” quickly became a put-down within the Fortnite community, a signal that you are a lesser player in some way.

I can confirm that my son did not like being a "default" and wanted me to give him vbucks so that he could avoid this shame. I think it's ludicrous, of course, so I didn't. But I think one of his friends might have gifted him some, or he played enough time so that the system granted him some non-default skins. Also as a side effect of buying the "save the world" edition I think he got some skins.

I knew it was a mistake to consider games with lootboxes (the Star Wars one) and play-to-win games, but I'd hoped/assumed Fortnite was not like those. I guess I'll have to keep an eye out for things getting out of hand w/Fortnite.

EDIT: lots of speculation regarding the genesis of this phenomenon among these threads. I should note that my son (and probably his friends) all watch youtubers who play fortnite and some of them seem to refer to 'defaults' with derision. "Did it start there or have they just gotten caught up with the same culture?" I don't know.
For those confused like me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Pepper

> Apple filed a petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court in August 2017, posing the question "whether consumers may sue anyone who delivers goods to them for antitrust damages, even when they seek damages based on prices set by third parties who would be the immediate victims of the alleged offense". The Court agreed to hear the case in June 2018.[8] Oral arguments were held on November 26.[9] [10] Court observers stated that the four liberal Justices were joined by three of the conservative ones, Justices Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh, as to side with consumers on the question of standing.[11] Justice Sonia Sotomayor stated that Apple's practice creates a closed loop that impacts the price paid by consumers.[12] Justice Neil Gorsuch considered that the prior decision from Illinois Brick may need to be overturned at the federal level, as at least 30 states have rejected the Illinois Brick doctrine.[12]

> The Court issued its 5-4 decision on May 13, 2019, affirming the Ninth Circuit's decision that consumers did have standing under Illinois Brick to sue Apple for antitrust practices. Justice Bret Kavanaugh, writing for the majority, stated that under the test of Illinois Brick, consumers were directly affected by Apple's fee and were not secondary purchasers, that consumers could sue Apple directly since it was Apple's fee that affected the prices of the apps, and that while the structure for any damages that consumers may win in the continuing suit may be complicated, this is not a factor to determine the standing of the suit. Kavanaugh was joined by Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan. The decision remanded the class-action case to continue in lower courts, though did not rule on any of the antitrust factors otherwise at the center of the case.
Read a paper: I/O is faster than the CPU
> I have problems at paying attention in meetings. I struggled through the whole university too. I understood and learned almost everything at home for 5 years. Sometimes I even got asleep during important classes. I'm not talking about 1.5 hour long scrum groomings or reviews, sometimes I can't even pay attention during a 15 minute long standup in the morning. At my lost job they found it as a serious problem. Where to start?

IMO that is only a problem if you can’t pay attention in meetings where the points being discussed are very relevant to what you’re expected to contribute.

Most meetings are a total waste of time. The more people in them, the more meaningless they are. It’s natural not to stay engaged. If you think other people are, a lot of people are really good at giving that impression. This usually manifests in the form of completely irrelevant but tangentially related questions being asked.

If it’s any consolation, I think I’m a good (or at least decent) developer given my career progression, rewards, etc. so far, and I space out in 99% of the meetings I attend and that’s rarely an issue (and when it is, it’s a matter of someone telling me one little thing I missed in 1h of blabbering). I’m very open about my opinion on meetings and it’s never been a problem either.
>"Clever and diligent" people will try to complete the most important tasks themselves to ensure they get done right, thus creating a bottleneck.

This is the difference between me and my mom. She'll put off something for ages because she could theoretically do it herself, but I'll just hire someone else to do it after calculating the value of my time/opportunity cost vs hiring someone.
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”
Can I just clarify: you're saying that Amazon, despite offering jobs which are (apparently) less bad than other alternatives, are participating in systemic oppression of the working class?

In your view, what should Amazon do to not systemically oppress the working class?
I think there are two complimentary things going on.

In a "we the people" mindset, it's obviously dumb that citizens shoulnd't have full access to the law and anything needed to understand it.

But if you're a dispositional authoritarian, then you like having power and serving those with more power. Rule of law runs counter to that, so dispositional authoritarians won't like making it easy for citizens to challenge or restrict their use of power.

The other thing is that there are two approaches to commerce. One is where people relish a free-market competition. A lot of restaurant owners are like this: they are generally happy that other restaurants exist, and see other restaurant owners both as competitors and colleagues. But there's also what I think of as the crony capitalist mindset, where monopolies and exclusive sweetheart deals are the desired outcome. At least some, and perhaps a lot of government contracting is like this. Authoritarians give contracts to crony capitalists; crony capitalists give money and support to authoritarians.

In that latter model, citizens are a resource to farm, not the ones who run the government. So of course anybody upsetting that cozy authoritarian approach would be seen as a terrorist.
Don't you think technology is helping? Hybrid and EV cars are becoming common and probably in 10 years, the average vehicle on the city roads will be an EV. Solar energy is coming down in price and residential adoption in the U.S. is booming. The average person today believes in recycling and cutting emissions. Battery technology is advancing. Also worth pointing out that in North America at least, vast reforestation has taken place. In a few years, we will be a lot closer to a zero emissions civilization, though probably we'll never actually get to zero but at least we'll reduce our impact substantially and then it will be a matter of waiting for ecosystems to move back into balance. There's no reason why for example the polar ice caps can't re-freeze, and there's even evidence of some of that happening in places. Don't give up hope.
Honestly the best proposal I've seen for slowing down such automation is to add a tax on these machines. That'll make the cost-benefit equation less obvious. These machines won't pay for themselves in a year and then be practically free. They'll continue to cost a lot. This kind of tax would help slow the progress of such automation to a speed where society can better adjust.

And I say this as someone who absolutely loves all this kind of automation.
Make no mistake, this is an entirely intentional consequence of Fortnite's design. There's a great video[1] that goes into detail on the psychological manipulation used in Fortnite's monetization model. It saddens me that a hobby that brought me so much joy as a kid/teenager now preys on the same insecurities it once sheltered me from.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPHPNgIihR0
Thank you for this article! I also have ADD and found everything you said incredibly comforting and helpful!
Because birth control is not the issue. At all.

Sterile men are not allowed to initiate unconsented sex, just because there can be no pregnancy.
For those who don't want to read the opinion:

SCOTUS holds that Apple can be sued for alleged monopoly of the Apple App Store. It does not decide whether or not this alleged monopoly exist.

Interestingly, it's a 5-4 decision, with Kavanaugh writing the decision, joined by the 4 liberal justices. Probably the most unexpected alignment of the current term!
People need to feel useful to others. Right now, in the US, we fulfill that need through work. Work is an integral part of our culture. If you make a whole swath of the population feel redundant, especially practical, no-nonsense people who are used to having work define who they are, they are not going to adjust well.

They are quite different than college-educated hippies who would rather get more education and go surfing for a few years while they write bad poetry.

I mean imagine living in a rural, middle-of-nowhere US town where everyone pretty much lives on $800/mo from the government. What would you do out there? Would you care about high school if it's totally okay to not do anything? Maybe you'd go off to college, but then come back when it gets hard because it's totally okay if you never amount to anything. I would probably just spend my life on the internet and playing games while feeling guilty. Others would escape through drugs.

It is possible to change our culture and attitudes to work, but that's a really big change.
You should check out Hans Rosling's lectures [1]. Statistics points towards the fact that as people become more wealthy, they have less children. It should stagnate around 11 million people by most models.

[1] https://youtu.be/FACK2knC08E
We already have different terms for different kinds of rape. For example, statutory rape, aggravated rape, forcible rape.

You can shout at clouds and try to change the language if you want, but that’s an extremely unproductive and entirely pointless path to take.
In case 'xe', 'xyr', etc. confuse anyone else, they're genderless pronouns.
Why no? Curious about the negative reaction.
I'm choosing

1. to make certain I don't board one of these machines by mistake. I will not risk my life over this egregious comedy.

2. to vote with my dollars and punish Boeing and businesses that do business with Boeing, especially if they refuse to remove these planes from their fleet.

What Boeing committed here is leagues beyond the recent emissions scandals. It's criminal and the perpetrators should be afraid of the coming justice. This should honestly be as close to a company-ending event as one could imagine. We shouldn't treat this lightly, slap on the wrist, business as usual. This must never happen again.
Here, the union is being used as a space-saving structure. We only need to store one pointer, but it can be of different types. We access the same one that we most recently stored.

Most of the code surrounding this won't contain assignments into the union, so it won't impact optimization.

In an interpreted language I wrote this kind of union is initialized when a function object comes to life, and then not mutated again.

The union is necessary because a struct would blow up the size of the object significantly (and then it wouldn't fit into the GC heap cell size, requiring an additional piece of malloced memory).
Huh. All market places charge this 30% though, right? The Amazon Fire/Music stores and Google Play all take ~30%. (If you really want to support a band, BandCamp only takes 15%).

Could this open the floodgates for finally getting rid of ridiculous commissions for digital works of these digital stores? I don't think Amazon/Google/Apple will really hurt that much if this becomes the case, and creators could early quite a bit more for their works.

Or is this case very limited to Apple and their monopoly based on their control of Apple devices?
The article goes into why you can't just use `self`
First of all, we were talking about Fukushima, do you have any data about that ?

Anyway, about the first link:
Wow, 40000 cancers attribuable in Europe by 2065 to Chernobyl, the worst nuclear accident in history. That sounds bad, until you finish reading the abstract, where the authors evaluate that impact as "several hundred million cancer cases are expected from other causes ... unlikely that the cancer burden from the largest radiological accident to date could be detected"

Try to compare with the number attributable to coal pollution now ?

Second link:
Greenpeace, overtly being against nuclear power, will bring the biggest estimates of impact right ? Anyway, what they find is 200k additional deaths in Russia and Ukraine between 1990 and 2004 (first para page 9). But around 34M deaths were recorded in those territories in that time. By Greenpeace's own admission, 0.59% of those are attributable to Chernobyl.

Again, try to compare to coal pollution.
Did you make any attempt to solve it yourself?

Googling: Amazon warehouse worker $14/hour. 2080 hours per year = $29K. US Adult population 252 million. Multiply: 7.4 Trillion. US GDP (2017) 19.4 Trillion. Taking only US citizen adults, the figure is still >90% of the above.
Here's the link to the actual ruling: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/17-204_bq7d.pdf

As a non-lawyer, it's a suprisingly easy read in what seems like plain English.

> KAVANAUGH, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which GINS-BURG, BREYER, SOTOMAYOR, and KAGAN, JJ., joined. GORSUCH, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which ROBERTS, C. J., and THOMAS and ALITO, JJ., joined.

The 5-4 split is also interesting with Kavanaugh siding with the liberal justices.
I guess i'm kind of old now but it's odd because I seem to remember that when I played mmorpgs, especially pvp, it was the reverse. Players who were decked out in fancy armor that they did not directly earn in game were called 'twinkies' and generally derided. When I played guild wars, most of the good pvp people just had default outfits. The pve players with fancy clothes who came into pvp generally were viewed as worse at pvp (and it was often true because their builds did not translate well into pvp).
I am not sure everyone shares that definition. Would sales or manager be a low skill job for instance ?
For a number of these positions you need little to no specific education or specialisation.
Pretty much anything you could ever want in Minecraft you can get for free (perhaps with the assistance of mods). From what little time I've spent playing Fortnite, it seems much more narrowly-scoped and frankly, pretty boring. I'm not even sure why they're being compared here; they're very different games.
Those are all "small" tasks for programming but monumental tasks compared to competitive gaming "tasks". For example, thinking about enemy positioning is likened to a mathematical function having the input of "enemy character" + "enemy team composition", sometimes accounting for the current map or where they were before. (Or their strategy if you've deduced it by now) It's a sub-second calculation likened to predicting where a ball thrown at you will land, and running there. On the other hand, writing a user auth flow is a minimum total of minutes with many things to remember at the same time. You can get distracted (even for a brief period of time) pretty easily in a time span of minutes.

The idea of loot and reward is a good theory but I meant it only in the sense of gameplay, and I can prove it by "loot lockout": in World of Warcraft you can only get loot from a raid boss in a specific difficulty once a week. The next successes give you no reward (and you can't trade loot with someone who did get loot when you couldn't). However, I've still cleared the same bosses several times a week because they were also fun. It was guaranteed that I wouldn't get immediate -- or any -- rewards for my success but it was still fun and focusable.
There are a lot of variations of NetHack, among them the official successor project, Nethack4[1]. One of its goals is to have a better interface.

[1]: http://nethack4.org/
Control plane for cloud-native delivery and automated operations
New Louis Vuitton handbags have flexible amoled displays
How is this much different from the culture I grew up where people made fun of you when you didn't have some nice fashion, but wore, say, the same sneakers as your parents?
> popup keyboard

I think pathos fit the bill better, even if it's a simplified nethack, precisely because a popup keyboard is not a central part of the gameplay experience
Am I reading correctly that this argument has now been going on for 8 years, or at minimum nearly 6? [1] An argument about who I am buying from when I type my credit card into Apple's system, click a purchase button on an Apple device, and then use the results of that purchase solely on Apple devices?

[1] https://www.oyez.org/cases/2018/17-204
16000 warrants for people having sex with their sleeping sex partner without a condom?

Did those 16000 also enjoy 16 million pounds of police surveillance and an international man hunt?

This is great news. If we continue to invest so much effort in solving the slightest hint of sexual inappropriateness we'll completely eliminate sexual crimes. Perhaps even sex itself.
> I've seen people

Purely anecdotal, you should not base your argument on anecdotal evidence. (goes for both posts for and against in this case)
Essentially, the Supreme Court is letting an antitrust lawsuit against Apple proceed — and it has rejected Apple’s argument that iOS App Store users aren’t really its customers.
You can sideload applications and/or other app stores on Android phones. In addition, Google does not nearly have as much vertical control as Apple (from Hardware to Software Distribution).
I’ve been following this program for six months. Love it for its simplicity. Great official app. I am sure the book is great, but the app makes getting to the gym and just getting started and staying on track so easy.
Its ‘Mini’ incarnation—or something like that—also dominated on my e-ink Nook Simple Touch by the virtue of working the best on a weak machine with a screen of limited capabilities (grayscale, infrared touchscreen aka no multitouch), under Android 2.1. And I was using it until about three years ago.

IIRC Opera Mini also worked on that, but not much else.

Guess it's time for me to mourn again that there are no e-ink devices with normal modern Android—the screen is noticeably easier on the eyes, even with the optional ‘ambient’ backlight (emitted from the sides, diffused through the glass). And the screen consumes little power, so the battery can be way smaller: Nook is lighter than my current phone despite having a bigger screen.

As for the refresh rate, Nook's screen can be coerced into doing some surprising stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fbD753xE-U