skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the community would be more positive if the same issues did not always crop up.

Several early 3D games increased player moment speed when holding strafe and forward at the same time. (Doom, EQ, etc.) That’s just incompetence and really should be described as such.

Now some games may have intentionally copied common bugs for style reasons etc, but more often titles are just rushed out with many known bugs and or vastly insufficient QA.
I'm perfectly fine with people clearly more competent than me making decisions. I don't micromanage my dentist or demand a referendum on the flight route of every plane I am on.

At the same token, if I am the most competent in the room I do resent not being the leader. Them's the breaks.
"Because there is no real account management you don't have any proper authentication, which make administrating a channel real dodgy" I think often that lack of needing an accout is an advantage, and not a disadvantage. However, sometimes you do want some, and many IRC services include NS REGISTER and NS INFO and so on for account management; even without that, channels can be passworded if needed.

"You have to have a client/bouncer running 24/24 if you want history." Or a logging bot, which some channels have. Another alternative is for the logging to be part of the server implementation; I have once done this, and it is possible, but it does not seem to be common (although I think maybe it should be done more).

Another thing about IRC is that it can be used without any kind of special software (although software specifically for IRC is still useful; for one thing, if you do not have a IRC client then you must manually respond to pings). It isn't too complicated; Matrix and Discord and so on are too complicated.
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It's a shame you're being downvoted, considering there was a post here last week proving this very fact.
Remember, there only 2 real hard problems in computer science. Cache invalidation and naming things.

P.S. I'll add, that on the issue of a personal identifier, we need to remember that not everyone wants a public address. In fact most people keep this kind of information quite private. A virtual address is no different, unless we explicitly make two kinds.
Is it really necessary to go back to manual control? Or is it sufficient to use air-gapped systems? As North Korea’s hack of Sony shows, it is crazy to connect critical systems (and even some non-critical systems, movie making is hardly critical) to the open internet. But completely abandoning high tech is not the answer either!
Amazing that this comment is downvoted, truly amazing.
There's nothing stopping any of us from using a sha-n hash or uuid as a domain name now. Would definitely make domain searches for new projects a hell of a lot easier.
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>I'm not sure if this is a joke or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

Actually I wonder where this family ideas come from. There must be some engine promulgating the bizarre notion that the only real rights are property rights and all others must derive from them or be dismissed.
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This is me. I really wish I was, but home is where I sit around and watch TV, or whatever else. When I am home, I might get a half day of work at best. I am sure I could eventually, but I would have to re-arrange and set aside a place that is only work, and probably block things like amazon and netflix from that room even. Besides, I want the in person interaction with everyone at work. Couple days home and I am stir crazy. I need to get out and interact with people in person. And not just a random person at a coffee shop.
Smart devices on simple features make them worse, not better.
> Can you provide some examples of documentation you do like?

MDN (Mozilla documentation for web stuff) is generally pretty good. Obnoxious colors aside, this javascript library is very easy to get started with:

https://localforage.github.io/localForage/
Because the goal was never to be productive but to be seen as powerful
It's kind of interesting to look at the marketing photographs on their site. Very keyed to the masculine eye. Photo next to a military cargo aircraft's landing gear. Two beautiful women in and next to the car, but only as passengers. They come with the car, but they won't be driving it.
> my full-time job is in the speedrunning community
Could you elaborate? This whole world is new to me.
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I was saddened visiting various NASA space travel museums. They mostly bask in accomplishments decades ago- moon landing, shuttle.
Small quantities under a tablespoon or 10ml by volume can be quite challenging to weigh, and is much easier to fill up a fixed size tsp/tbsp measure. If your ingredient is a commodity and has a known density ahead of time (water, olive oil, salt, whatever) its mechanically simpler. There are also times when you can't measure into your cooking container directly - maybe it's hot.
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What will make the change easier is smartphones, smart-phone measuring stick can tell you cm. I haven't seen one but I assume a smartphone could also be used to measure weight?
This is far off topic and well into the generic ideological bucket that we don't want on HN. Would you please stop posting like this?
Seriously you don’t see any difference in defining hot weather as 1/3 of the boiling temperature of water?
Try to do that in Fahrenheit and you have to do something crazy like (212 - 32) / 3 + 32, and I’m not even 100% sure that is correct...
And I guess that for you is much better to remember that at 32 F is very dangerous to drive outside rather than at 0. I really can’t understand how can someone would advocate for maths gimmicks when you have a much easier solution that is even an international standard (or to be precise it’s extremely easy to convert to and from that standard)
> Buy a new computer

I've purchased a number of computers over the last several decades, yet using facebook/slack is still slower and less responsive on a computer with a Core i7 processor and 16 MB of system memory and a 100 Mbps downstream connection compared with using usenet/irc on a 486 with 16 MB of system memory and a a 28.8 kbps downstream connection.
Did you ever notice how they never used magnets in laptops before people stopped using floppy disks?
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I think they went overboard with the "everything must happen via the center console" interface strategy. From an aesthetic perspective, it is Very Pretty, but it's kind of hard to accept that the way to open a glove compartment is a button, on a screen, two feet and some menus away from the compartment itself.
You've consistently ignored our moderation requests. If you keep doing that, we will ban you. Please stop and don't do this on HN again.

We probably should have banned you with the every-Chinese-person-is-an-enemy slur, but I like to give people multiple chances.
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> Even body temperature, from my understanding, almost everyone uses 98.5F, correct?

98.6 is the approximation most people memorize in Fahrenheit. That number implies more precision than you can reasonably assume in practice, however.
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You mean at what temperature does water freeze at sea level, right? Pure water, I mean, not normal tap water.

Or, you know, just keep the freezer cold enough to take care of it regardless.
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Those machines are already mostly unusable under Windows because MS only requires 2GiB minimum so it's an instant swapfest to eMMC. Put Linux on them and they're quite nice.
It's not related to the actual article but the footnote about advertisment is what strike me the most :

> Advertising revenue is falling fast across the Internet, and independently-run sites like Ghacks are hit hardest by it. The advertising model in its current form is coming to an end, and we have to find other ways to continue operating this site.

It's no wonder Google is pushing to remove (partially) the ability to block ads in Chrome. If the business model based on ads is seriously at stake, a big chunk of the revenues of Alphabet is compromised.
Yessir. A lab I worked in had what had to be a $10M MBE, half covered in aluminium foil.
Good thinking security wise but could be a serious setback for efficiency
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> When Tamerlan destroyed cities and killed hundreds of thousands of people, there was no desire of dominating Nature, nor "enchantment".

Perhaps this is the religious enchantment you point out being missing from the author. I don't know how you can claim that Tamerlane wasn't "enchanted" in exactly the same sense. Next, the author never claims that this drive is purely modern, in fact, he points out that Francis Bacon is only the patriarch of the modern incarnation of this "ancient human impulse". Adorno and Horkheimer weren't sloppy nor were they stupid enough to forget that mass killings happened before the historical stage of Enlightenment.

>And of course, slavery and "sub-human races" are an old invention totally unrelated to the domination of Nature.

This is taken into account with the idea that ideology tends to subsume such impulses to its own ends. The "objectification of humanity" takes on a particular social form, the author claims, in its reduction to a matter of scientific numerical quantity and as Marcuse elaborated, the use of technology in advanced industrial society leading to technological rationality.
I play a lot of Paradox games these days and they are exactly the opposite of games meant to be speedrun. They are meant to be played at exactly your own pace and are much more skill (strategy) based than memorizing specific sequences of actions.

I think what you say is probably true of most platformers and other games like Sekiro (a successor to dark souls which was one of the original non-platformer games like this) but definitely not all games.
My intuition from experience is that in sufficiently complex systems (basically all modern hardware + software systems), things break from humans misunderstanding or not knowing the rules far more often than from physical failure.

If there's a reason for using an electronic system, by all means.

But for God's sake air-gap it, compartmentalize functionality with clearly defined interfaces, build simple fault-tolerant monitoring, and make final controls hand-on-metal.

When multi-million dollar warships are crashed because of poor UX, I have zero faith we're safely managing complexity.
Would you please read the site guidelines and follow them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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> just calling a spade a spade is all

Why though, what does it add to the discussion? Why does it matter if a tiny indie developer gets a bit of exposure to his tiny little game? "It's just an ad" sounds needlessly cynical and dismissive.
I honestly don't know what you mean. The SwiftUI avocado toast example looks very similar to React but very different from e.g. Cocoa or Qt.
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Is going to be like The Boring Company, where they just buy Chinese parts and pass them off as their own?
This is true, but what is less frequently mentioned is that the same thing is invariably also true of organizations with formal hierarchies

Of course. All human groups have a hierarchical side and a communal side. That's simply the human condition. Sometimes it even seems like all the "magic" is on the communal side.

This is true, but what is less frequently mentioned is that the same thing is invariably also true of organizations with formal heirarchies, and the actual structure based on personal charisma, manipulation, and bullying will often be significantly different than the formal heirarchy

There's an old story about the AT&T takeover of NCR, told to me by an NCR employee in the mid 90's. Basically, the AT&T execs thought the sharper, more powerful NCR execs were a-holes, so they fired them. What they didn't realize, is that those execs knew the parts down inside NCR that were still muscular and not useless and flubby, so after they were gone, NCR was just a dead weight around AT&T's neck for awhile.

Both sides exist and need each other. They do indeed interact in subtle ways.
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It's an HTTP load balancer. It supported HTTP from the start.
They've definitely improved atomic mass and Avogadro's constant. Chemists and students have been fooled into believing they have some special importance but in fact they're nothing more than ugly accidents of history that somehow survived standardization.

We used to have two independently defined mass units! The unified atomic mass unit, and the kg. Now we have only one - the kg, and the other is defined in terms of it.

Avogadro's constant is now clearly identified as an arbitrary number with no illusion of importance since it's no longer part of such an interconnected web of dependencies. Hopefully this will help students to realize that it's not some important chemical quantity but just a way for old people to count big numbers because that's the only way they ever learnt. Nothing more special than the number of feet in a mile.

As for periodic tables not having valid units. They didn't anyway. Chemists, even text-book writers, often neglect to include units for atomic masses. The numerical values will be identical though. The difference is that as we measure them more precisely with future technology, they'll diverge from what they would have been under the old system.