skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't find it that strange.

Even eye bleed causing assets take some time to produce and a game may need a fair few for the result to be practically playable. When a project is small perhaps no one on the team (maybe a team of just one) has the time and/or they all hate the idea of the task and they have the original assets initially to hand anyway so the time and effort is likely better spent elsewhere. OpenTTD didn't always have its own asset sets available.

There may be a fear of greater copyright issues. The clean-room defense for clone code isn't going to work as well for graphics and sounds, because they have seen the originals and there are not many ways you can draw an inter-city-125-a-like (to use a TTD example) if you desire to maintain the same overall feel for the clone as the original.

And bad imitation art may put off more potential players than having to extract the original assets does.
You can't patent software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent

You might be able to in some places but in Europe they will laugh at you if you try and get your software patented.

This has been the situation for a long time, so things like the Amazon 1 click patent are freak occurrences rather than the norm.
Men tend to use firearms more often when attempting suicide whereas women tend to use medication more often. The latter is easier to treat and ambulances are better equipped for overdoses than gunshots.
There are ~43 million retirees in the US [1]

(6 trillion)/(43 million) = ~$140,000 [2]

Mean income for retirees aged is $103,000 and below [3]

So, the amount of money spent on a single largely meaningless war that the US is solely responsible for could easily increase the quality of life of quite a few people for quite a few years (if you don't dole out $140,000 in its entirety but spread in smaller chunks over the years or invest in infrastructure, medical care etc.)

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/194295/number-of-us-reti...

[2] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(6+trillion)%2F(43+mil...

[3] https://www.newretirement.com/retirement/average-retirement-...
There are certain open questions with Radar style localized template based news.

Mainly it's about automatization, changing the way things are done. New skillsets are needed, while old ones are out of the door.

There's the existential problem this kind of centralized local news creation has on smaller desks, mentioned in the article, but then again the trend appears to be that owners are running the small, unprofitable ones down anyways, regardless of Radar.

There's also the question whether this style of localization, but not personalization, of news, is the best way to serve readers. Could these same local news be served in some other way?

IMO, the way Radar works, mainly happens the way it does, as there exists a need from small papers, for quality journalism that they don't have their own resources to conduct. Of course, nothing is stopping Radar of doing something different in the future.

Then there's also the hypotetical (?) threat on press diversity. Basically a multitude of superficially distinct voices are repeating the same liturgy. This zerg of articles on a specific topic, might appear to a news consumer, as many credible sources supporting a specific view or point.

There's similarity with Reuters et al in this problem, and clearly Reuters hasn't destroyed news. But with Reuters, the text is most of the time identical in all the places where it is published. In the case of localized templates, it might not be clear to the reader that all the different versions are instances of the same master template, with same bias from a single writer, if the template is well enough written.
I live in the US, in a small city, and I have DSL. It is $50/mo and downlink is 6Mbps, while upload is 768kbps. That is the fastest available speed.
Does anyone know how this was done?
Was it some sort of automatic AI system? Dedicated people watching update feeds 24/7? Random person noticing github commit and notifying npm?
How many people do Amazon delivery drivers kill/year? Pretty sure it's not 40,000.
That’s debatable at best. Bill Gates has saved countless lives through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which wouldn’t exist if not for the money he made founding MSFT. A quick Google search would reveal many similar examples as well.
S*. It’s scary
the observation
I only mean to point out that, under some circumstances that comment probably is only a result of current sentiment... which is far kinder than what i've heard from other 'happily married' folks from time to time...
I really enjoyed "Why Anything? Why This?" by philosopher Derek Parfit.

http://www.sfu.ca/~rpyke/cafe/parfit.pdf
> just wait until your company forces you to use Microsoft Teams

Teams isn't that terrible.

On my current gig, we use Teams (free for us because of some Action Pack or Office package - and that's fine because it's one less spend for us) and used to use Slack. I've used Slack and HipChat in previous employments as well.

I'll be honest, I don't see much difference between any of them, they all have their UIX minor annoyances and good points.

Ultimately with all these things it's all about good team etiquette and not interrupting your colleague workflow expecting responses within two minutes of pinging someone (we treat it like email, asynchronous, and for non-urgent communication). To be honest, I dislike the immediacy of these tools and usually mute every channel. If something's really that bloody urgent then just pick up the sodding phone :)
Your workers buy your cars.
Actually, I taught myself bookkeeping and accounting from the following:

https://www.accountingcoach.com/accounting-basics/explanatio...
It’s so crazy considering the kids are exhibiting the exact same behavior as their parents 20-30 years ago. Puberty isn’t new...
The essence of the essay is at the end:

Over the past 12 months there has been a radical shift in the balance of power on the internet. In the name of taming the platforms, regulators have inadvertently issued them a “Perpetual Internet Domination Licence”, albeit one that requires that they take advice from an aristocracy of elite regulators. With only the biggest tech companies able to perform the regulatory roles they have been assigned because of complexity and cost, they officially become too big to fail, and can only be nudged a little in one direction or another by regulators drawn from their own ranks.

As has been the case so often in the internet's brief life, humanity has entered uncharted territory. People (sort of) know how to break up a railway or an oil company and America once barely managed to break up a phone company. No one is sure how to break up a tech monopolist. Depending on how this moment plays out, that option may be lost altogether.

But competition is too important to give up on.

One exciting possibility is to create an absolute legal defence for companies that make "interoperable" products that plug into the dominant companies' offerings, from third-party printer ink to unauthorised Facebook readers that slurp up all the messages waiting for you there and filter them to your specifications, not Mark Zuckerberg's. This interoperability defence would have to shield digital toolsmiths from all manner of claims: tortious interference, bypassing copyright locks, patent infringement and, of course, violating terms of service.

Interoperability is a competitive lever that is crying to be used, hard. After all, the problem with YouTube isn't that it makes a lot of interesting videos available—it is that it uses search and suggestion filters that lead viewers into hateful, extreme bubbles. The problem with Facebook isn't that they have made a place where all your friends can be found—it is that it tries to "maximise engagement" by poisoning your interactions with inflammatory or hoax material.

In a monopolised market, sellers get to bargain by fiat. But interoperability—from ad-blocking to switching app stores—is a means by which customers can assay real counteroffers.
This only works when everyone pays their workers more. It's in your benefit to defect.

And besides, it's just as likely that instead of your employees buying your cars, their landlord/medical insurer/kid's college will take whatever wage gains they make.
But you have more opportunities.
> "How we got here:

The Fed's quantitative easing program pushed the cost of borrowing money to next to nothing for nearly a decade, allowing companies to splurge on debt for mergers and acquisitions and to boost revenue."

Put another way, the Fed made the rich richer, and the lack of significant "trickle down" has created a socio-political Charlie Foxtrot; of which the Fed is not accountable for.
At the very least you want to mask your IP, which generally requires you register with the nick services for the server you are connecting to.

e.g.
https://freenode.net/kb/answer/cloaks
Does a hijab plus a hockey stick send an adequate "mess with me and I'll check you into the wall" vibe?
If starting a family is the goal, I don't think "urban, college-educated 25 year olds" are what you'd look for. That gets you fewer kids and a moderately high disease risk.

Optimizing for the goal of a family, you'd look for suburban people who will be reaching your jurisdiction's marriage age within a year. Secondary to that you might look for ones who are smart, but they'd have to prioritize family.
Uh, I cannot imagive why one would prefer this to a single “grep -o” invocation.

Not only “grep” command will be simpler to understand later, it will also be trivially customizeable/extendable
It's obvious where Fromm got his information and ideas about women, love, etc. -- from the history of counseling women, some very unhappy, in Vienna, going back to Freud.

Experience with just one marriage would not be nearly such good information or yield such good ideas.
By that standard, existence is something forced on you in a way, not a matter of actual choice.

Newsflash: you are your biology. Your biology demands its continuation. Defy nature at your own peril.
It always amazes me the amount of code I encounter that it is clear no one has ever tried to execute. People will have a week of checkins building some API out, and it maybe compiles, but as soon as you try to just hit it with Postman with a real request, it blows up like a grenade going off in a glass shop.

I just don't know how people do it. I have to iterate and poke at things constantly as I go.
Switched to GnuCash about four years ago after Quicken forced me to pay for a new version of their software. I have very complicated personal finances (churning, crypto trading, etc.) and double-entry is the only possible way to keep an accurate account of my cash flow and net worth.
Well one area where genetic algorithms are better than basic gradient descent is, naturally, nondifferentiable functions. But that is facile.

I think the realistic strength is that there are some easy to use libraries that don't require the user to really know anything about optimisation or work too hard and can deal with very difficult optimization scenarios (and sometimes even deal with them well).

Plus they're neat-o. That's gotta count for something. You ever try the island variant?
This is a reason why increasing the minimum wage or providing health coverage for low-wage workers is a great way to improve everyone's situation. Sure, Walmart has to pay their workers more, but every low-wage worker who works for someone other than Walmart suddenly has a lot more money to spend... at Walmart. On net, companies like Walmart will benefit far more than they lose. But they aren't willing to unilaterally increase wages and benefits, reasonably enough. That's why you do it across the board.
Ha ha -- wow! I had no idea that I possessed such power over time and space! As has already been pointed out to you (and has been pointed out repeatedly on HN over the years), I do regret the remark. So, there's that.

I would also note that the rise of Linux in the late 1990s and early 2000s corresponds with the performance of x86 surpassing the performance of the RISC microprocessors during that same period -- a time when the only other open source Unix was operating under a legal cloud from AT&T. It seems likely that these forces played a greater role than a twentysomething engineer shooting his mouth off on Usenet...
This is why there's a minimum wage.
The fact that it is happening at all?

It’s like as if there was a ghostly principal (actually more like an army of officials, according to the post) hovering above us as I was growing up.
Is braille being pushed away by technology?
Making edits to scenes in movies during post production, cutting out mistakes in broadcasts... I'm sure video production professionals could easily come up with dozens of use cases.
Stable Casimir equilibria and quantum trapping
Prisoners dilemma vs. velocity of money?
Wow, that's quite impressive! I love playing old sierra games on ScummVM. Don't really have any questions, just wanted to say thanks :)
Age Mosaicism Across Multiple Scales in Adult Tissues
Android malware once found a way onto phones before they even shipped
This is the plot of Brave new World. The rise of the welfare state naturally replaces the biological family.
I can't see how the continued erosion of the middle-class is not going to have huge impacts on the livelihood of everyone else.
I read Atlas Shrugged "cold" -- never having even heard of the author before. When I got to that chapter it was just infuriating, because it underscored how all the rest of the novel was really just a kind of drawn-out "Mary Sue" setup for delivering a manifesto.

Not only that, but it was massively hypocritical, because all the villains were people who were overly swayed by appeals to others' neediness and emotion, yet the book itself is a message of "pity the poor billionaires as they suffer these fictional hardships."
Companies then have to build cars to provide to your workers, instead of building you a factory. We have a limited amount of capital. There's an economic opportunity cost from higher wages and more consumer spending.
In businesses, accounts represent the what (sales, salaries, rent, hotels, etc). You’d use another dimension altogether for business units. But they all have same chart of accounts. This is so it can be viewed in a consolidated way.

Double entry is for audit ability and balancing the various financial statements. It ensures they stay in balance.
> If AIG fell it would have quickly led to both JPMC and GS collapse too

Neither had enough exposure to fail due to AIG failing. Rita payouts to Goldman were less than $5bn, much of that being passed on to funds. I don’t recall numbers for JPM, but worst case they wouldn’t have been able to acquire like half of the banks they bought.
Interesting, which kind of fios account? (residential/SMB/data center interconnect) That’s ideally how it should be!
Not to discredit what you’re saying (because I think it’s valid!) but I’ve dated people that have had difficult relationships with their parents and I think being away from them has overall been a more positive solution for everybody.

That said, I love spending time with my parents, but I know it’s not a one-relationship-model fits all for getting the most out of life.
I also like to think of it as a lack of imagination in how deep knowledge in an area can go, in terms of people with advanced degrees in a given field. Its either that knowledge for them is shallow, or that the principles that apply to their knowledge area apply elsewhere. At the same time, people with advanced degrees in an area are the only people who are constantly contending with what humanity DOESN'T know about a subject, so they are less likely to position themselves as authoritative. Experts saying they're making calculated guesses which in reality have a 5 9s chance of being true can wither to the bystander from an argument from someone who speaks with absolute ignorant conviction.
> If you pay your workers more you have less money for investment opportunities...

Why are workers not an investment? Are your workers only encouraged to hit nails with hammer or can you think of ways to incentivizee them to innovate and do better than competition?

Oh wait, you must be a short-sighted employer.
I agree completely. But, it is too easy to lose yourself in your relationship and forget who you are. Lately, I’ve had to make a concerted effort to increase my social circle from basically zero since I got married.

It just “happens”. I moved across town (metro area - across town is literally over an hour away with traffic), my friends and I all became busy with our own lives and i woke up one morning and realize that my family had become my whole life (not in a good way). Between that and my career I had no friendship circle and I stopped just doing things by myself to recharge. It didn’t help that most of friends were female. Of course that doesn’t work out too well when you’re married.

I had to actually start purposefully keeping in touch with friends and former coworkers as I changed jobs every couple of years and when I saw an old high school classmate (from over 20 years ago) that I was “friends” with on Facebook, I made an effort to reach out to him and another classmate to meet for drinks.
Makes you wonder what will be the next political activism replacing feminism and social justice activism? It seems there will always be opposing opinions, no matter where you go, so you are seemingly missing 3. avoid/ignore politics the best you can.
Another idea: be an expat. Move to a foreign country that speaks a different language and take language classes. First, it'll be a big valuable change, and it'll provide plenty of adventure, and expats are quick to make new friends given the shared isolation. I would recommend China or Taiwan.
Toward Spider Glue: Long Read Scaffolding for Length and Repetitious Silk Genes
Yeah, if you’re not involved in this, the only thing you will hear about this new system is:

“We now have a system in place that will alert us to potential school shootings and other dangerous behaviour before it happens.”

Phrased like that it sounds like an indisputably positive thing.
Decoding the Mathematical Secrets of Plants’ Stunning Leaf Patterns
HN itself isn't so bad - the background is (246,246,239) which means blue is reduced about 3% from pure white or gray.

Can't say the same for any link you might follow though.
It’s trickled down but in narrow bands. For example, starting salaries in the Bay Area are up big in the last decade, partly because of an influx of easy money into tech growth tech companies.

However, much of that goes directly into the pockets of land owners.

Ultimately the winners in QE are those that own the finite resources.
I thought of concrete vibrators. (probably not the best analogy though)

When people pour concrete they get a certain strength out of it. But if they vibrate it, air and excess water gets removed, and the concrete aligns together to become more cohesive.
You have the gist I would say. It's important to understand that Google separates the control plane and data plane, so if you think of the internet, routing tables and bgp are the control part and the hardware, switching, and links are data plane. Often times those two are combined in one device. At Google, they are not.

So the part that sets up the routing tables talking to some global network service went down.

They talk about some of the network topology in this paper: https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub43837

It might be a little dated but it should help with some of the concepts.

Disclosure: I work at Google
"And the two shall become one flesh."
I think what's helped me a lot are teachings by Ajahn Brahm on YouTube that touch on loneliness and how to be at peace with oneself. I've learned that I'm always with a friend - myself. Learning to be friends with oneself also helps one be friends with others for example by being generally happier and much less critical.
What kind of messed up thinking is this? More consumer spending has an opportunity cost? What’s a capitalist supposed to do if nobody can afford their stuff?
Yeah but if they don't do that, sites eventually figure out how to game the system/algorithm and we're back and square one. Google has to constantly make changes to stay ahead of SEO. It's like an arms race.
Piwi/PRG-1Argonaute and TGF-β Mediate Transgeneration Learned Pathogen Avoidance
Is Mars' gravity too low for long-term habitation?

I know that we know that zero-G is a negative, but do we have any idea if it's a threshold that needs to be reached, a linear response to G-force that scales from untenable to fine, etc?
I thought ZIRP was the culprit, with QE being a response to the 2008 crashes that stacked up on it.
That’s really interesting. What made you feel that your mind changed? When I was 25 I was much more open to children, but now at 27 I’m very sure I don’t want to have them.
it'll probably end up covered in ads too once Google's revenues hit a downturn
Cynical view: By making people jump through hoops to make the request, a lot of people will not bother.

Assuming they only refund the service costs for the hours of outage, only the largest of customers will be owed a refund that is greater than the cost of an employee chasing compiling the information requested.

For sake of argument, if you have a monthly bill of 10k (a reasonably sized operation), a 1 day outage will result in a refund of around $300, not a lot of money.

The real loss for a business this ^ size is lost business from a day long outage. Getting a refund to cover the hosting costs is peanuts.
Glacier National Park Removes “Gone by 2020” Signs
The underpinnings are a step in the right direction, but the UX is a dumpster fire, which makes me pine for the usability of the lesser dumpster fire of Lync/Skype for Business.

God forbid you ever need to be doing two IM conversations at a time, or attend a meeting and carry on a backchannel conversation concurrently.

It's apparently too difficult to do a MDI interface in Electron.
You don't even know if you'd want multiple children.

I'll be having my 12th kid soon. That simply doesn't happen if you wait. At the start, I had no idea that I'd want so many kids. To allow for this possibility, you must start early. Ideally you'd start before age 20.
If you pay your workers more they can start new companies to invest in.
Social Security Error Jeopardizes Medicare Coverage for 250k Seniors
One of the interesting bits here is that these are the only people outside of North America to share DNA with first peoples of North
America.
I use rcirc [1] on Gentoo from exwm [2]. I frequent freenode, oftc [3]. Honestly, I love irc. Also, exwm changed how I work in a very positive way. Next, I want to try the Next browser written in Lisp [4]. Although I have never used it, I know of people that use Bitl Bee [5] to interface with slack from emacs irc clients.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rcirc

[2]https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm

[3]https://www.oftc.net/

[4]https://next.atlas.engineer/

[5]https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BitlBee