skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd also observe that an "M(ultiplayer)ORPG" isn't too hard anymore; not trivial, but something the tooling has gotten a lot better for over the years and something a lot of people could put a prototype together for fairly quickly. In fact we've seen a number of "Show HNs" over the years that amount to this.

But the "Massive" can be a real killer. Even if there are to some extent off-the-shelf tech that can handle fairly "massive" communications, it still takes a lot of skill and effort to use them correctly.
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Wow, haha very cool that we're all trying to scratch the same itch!
Pretty cool, though when I tried pasting in a Shakespeare sonnet, it didn't think he'd done a very good job. ;)

Also, I was sad that "Limerick" wasn't among the forms it knows.
The other problem with minting your own currency is that it has to be worth something to someone, and it’s basically just bartering with more steps.

Not only that, but all these self-cryptos would be backed by the word of the person, and people lie, so you could potentially just end up with a whole bunch of crypto coins worth nothing in the end.
Not just large disasters, every failure in engineering large or small. That's why we use tools like 5 Why's in a root cause analysis. Anyone who's thinking about safety is thinking about redundancies. So every observed failure is likely a confluence of many failures.
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The article makes no such connection.
Restaurants are bound by labor laws that require minimum wages to be paid to employees. As far as I know, Doordash drivers are not employees but are independent contractors which means they aren't required to be paid minimum wage under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Since they aren't required to be paid minimum wage this situation is completely different than at a restaurant
A number of years ago I completed an MMO project by myself (art, programming, marketing, etc). It was fun! Real-time server was in Python Twisted, lots of Cython to speed up the deepest parts of the game loop. Django for the main website. The client was Flash (this was back in 2013, when it was still kinda a thing), which meant anyone could jump in really quickly, but technically that was challenging for a real-time 2D Zelda-style game because you were limited to TCP rather than UDP and the server has to be 100% authoritative since opening up Flash swf's or sniffing packets is so very easy. The server could support 250 people, and I had some fun tooling that let me spin up virtual players to stress-test it. Fun to remember!

The thing with MMO projects that really gets you is, even after you've got a mature client and server you still need to put together enough content, which if you're level designing/writing/painting everything yourself, is an enormous quantity of work. If you don't want players to run out of quests and whatnot you've probably got to lean towards a sandbox experience, and this MMORTS is a particularly interesting way to go.
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In my experience, aria-hidden will effectively accomplish the same ends for accessibility purposes. That article mentions using role="presentation" but with the caveat that not all screen readers and such understand that well enough to then not try to start reading the filename.

I guess the question is if SEO crawlers still read alt text for images marked as aria-hidden="true" or not. I have no idea on this one, but I'm very curious about it.

I've been pushing the folks I work with to consider SEO as a second-class citizen within alt text. If you can reasonably use a keyword in a natural, useful way, definitely use it. Otherwise, from what I can tell, an image's alt text doesn't seem to have any greater SEO value than the rest of the content on the page. Write better on-page content with better keyword use, with alt text being informative extra content.

And clarification on when alt text is needed: 1) if the image contains informative content that adds to the surrounding content, but also 2) a linked image where the image is the ONLY thing within the link, in which case the alt text should describe the destination of the link, not the contents of the image. I just recently learned this, but it makes sense when you think about it.
Those of us who've been here long enough will remember HN used to show the points for each comment next to the author's name. It would be interesting to know if anyone had collected any metrics relating to this and how it affected the experience.

Personally I remember just after the change was first made I kept automatically looking for the score, as I had been using it for some hueristic for how much I should value the contents of the comment. Removing it made me a lot more critical and also open to potentially less popular ideas.

I do know that greyed out comments still make me automatically think less of them, and I try and make a point of upvoting comments that are downvoted because people disagree with them (rather than troll/spam/bad faith comments).
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>Check-kiting is the illegal act of writing a check from a bank account without sufficient funds and depositing it into another bank account, explains MagnifyMoney.com. “Then, you withdraw the money from that second account before the original check has been cleared.”

Can someone explain why banks don't have systems in place to detect this kind of fraud? It seems like even the most minimal communication between banks would help detect it.
People only seem to cry crocodile tears about energy consumption when it's something they don't like.

To me, electronic cash is far from the first thing on the chopping block when we look at the sheer wastefulness of our society.

Maybe the externalities should be priced into the cost of energy so that we don't have to conduct these witchhunts on how others spend their energy, like whether they use a dish washer or clothes dryer or A/C. Seems inconsistent to me.
That's not how I read your analogy. If the tax situation made him move countries, is that country better off without their contribution? Would resolving the tax situation make that country more desirable to contribute to?
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The easiest, though, is to simply subscribe to his newsletter, which has all the articles in full. There is rarely an edition I find myself immediately archiving.
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Depends on what your values are. If you think you could make this country better by giving your service, that is to some people, more valuable than getting paid a decent tech wage. If enough talented people were willing to sacrifice to reform the system, it might be be better off for the children of tomorrow.
> I think there is also technology to dynamically darken glass that could be used.

Looked into it previously. Even if you got it to work, it likely would not be street legal, as there are pretty strict regulations on what part of the windshield can or cannot be tinted.
I'm honestly curious, why do it then? Money isn't worth dealing with something you hate every day.
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I got railed. The postal inspectors stated in court that they wanted me released the day of my arrest. The judge still gave me $50k bail. Keep in mind I was 24 years old and made $55k annually with a net worth of about... $25k and most of that being in my personal vehicle.

What they also don't tell you is how difficult it is to find a federal bail bondsmen. I called every where in the Hampton Roads area to no avail. I ended up being rescued by one from several hours away. $9,500.... never to be seen again.
your option of coolant without loss implies radiative cooling, how large a surface would be needed for how large a rocket for radiative cooling in the off shut down state? would the sunny side need to be reflective while the dark side needs to be emissive?
> I'd say the same thing about journalists. 90%+ of journalists are democrats.

I can't believe in all the responses nobody has challenged this statement. What is your source for this? Based on exit polls, in aggregate white men are heavily republican, and college educated white men are still republican by over 20 points. This seems like an extraordinary claim.

And for one tangible data point, in 2012, wikipedia shows 158 newspaper endorsing the democratic candidate, and 112 newspaper endorsing the republican candidate [1]. Obviously not a perfect metric, but that is ~58% of newspaper endorsing the democratic candidate.

Even in 2016, when the Republican candidate was specifically anti-journalists, only 69% of newspapers endorsed the democratic candidate [2].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_endorsements_in_the_...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_endorsements_in_the_...
It's interesting to see how Cloudflare seems to be desperately avoiding becoming a static site hosting service.

They now have a KV storage and a CDN, but you still have to write and upload a <20 line script to connect the two, instead of being able to just select a KV namespace on the CDN from which to serve a static site.

EDIT: The KV store does have a REST endpoint for reading values, though.. I wonder if you could use the CDN to point a domain to /storage/kv/namespaces/[site-namespace]/values/ and use Page Rules to pass the authentication headers. I'd try it, but I'd rather burn the fiver on a glass of Port.
> First and foremost, lets get it regulated, _then_ let the market set its price. Sure there still may be counterfeits but at least discerning consumers will have a choice.

Governments can remain irrational longer than you can breathe.

I don’t have that kind of patience for someone else to get around to re-granting me Freedom.
So you're saying TDP is a measure of the efficiency of a CPU? That is if 2 CPUs are listed at the same TDP and one has a higher clock speed, then the latter would be more efficient.
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There is a surprising number of HN'ers irrationally committed to using and defending drugs.

You would think a site oriented toward engineers would have more... Hypochondriacs - people aware of the fragility of their system.

Maybe Im wrong about this being a site for engineers.
> As a non Tesla owner, I don't want to be an inadvertent beta tester for these technologies.

Yeah, that's my one major concern with Tesla autopilot. I don't like the difference in their advertising and autopilot's actual capability.
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Well, to see how it use to look....

http://tenyearsago.io/news.ycombinator.com

Wow and as luck would have it. The top story on HN 10 years ago (well actually it’s not updated daily).

“Experiment: No comment score”

http://tenyearsago.io/news.ycombinator.com
Infrared radiation from the hot fins to outer space should be taking energy out (cooling it) a bit, not sure how much though.
> Your concern about "voilating the TOS" and losing your money is just as likely with government controlled currency. Asset forfeiture over small infractions is well documented.[0]

> I have never seen an argument against crypto currency that doesn't already apply to the current systems, we just pretend its not the same.

This is wrong. While they are imperfect, the US government has a much better developed body of law and practice to protect citizens from its actions than Google does. Citizens have much more leverage over what laws are written than they have over the terms in Google's TOS.

Google reserves the right to unilaterally terminate its relationship with for you for any reason with little to no ability to appeal, and regularly exercises that right. When it does that, you lose access to all accounts and all data you've stored with them. If the government were like that, it'd regularly be revoking people's citizenships and confiscating all of their property without even giving a reason, let alone a trial. The US government doesn't do that, and if it did it would be illegal.

In my view, cryptocurrency is in fact more primitive and less advanced than government currency in all but a few narrow, technical senses. There's a huge amount of valuable social technology that most cryptocurrencies just threw away for ideological reasons.
Yes. I love this book. At a practical level, it's pretty (very) outdated. It talks about things like sorting when your data is stored on tape.

But it's just a beautiful, succinct book. If you get tired of how messy, fast-moving, and chaotic a lot of software development can be, it's a delightful respite. It cleanses and orders the mind.
Why the Clinton’s specifically being mentioned? Yes they are very wealthy and in my opinion, unfairly so, but isn’t every senator a millionaire?
This will not work well unless the bank account has some age to it and previous transactions. They are legally required to make $200 available immediately. Most major banks will clear it all to you overnight after 30 days if you deposit it in time for the ACH to process overnight. That will require the account it is written from to actually have the funds in the account.
Myclobutanil is a fungicide that cannabis growers use to prevent mildew. Traces of it being found in oil indicate something needs to be done to prevent its usage at the growth, storage, and transport stage of the supply chain. This is probably more easily done if Marijiuana is legalized federally and heavily regulated. Given that would take an act of Congress, I fear that sweeping vaping regulation will kill the industry, robbing combustible cigarette users of a much safer alternative to nicotine delivery.
Firstly, losing 4G coverage isn’t an issue where I use my phone. I don’t live in a third world country like the US. Despite this my iPhone will randomly decide to downgrade to 3G.

As to what the phone should do when going outside an 4G coverage area when being in “4G only” mode is nothing. It should just aggressively try to reconnect. A discrete icon about 3G network availability should be shown. A press on the 3G icon would enable temporary 3G roaming.

The underlying problem is that Apple handles roaming between 2G/3G/4G networks poorly. I could wish Apple would do it better, but that’s like wishing for an unicorn. Hence my strong leanings toward jailbreaing.
10% is enough for the fast decaying parts that give off most of the energy. I'm sure you still need a small radiator for the longer half-lived parts but any spacecraft is going to need radiators anyways.
Aren't those maneuvers done in simulators?
I can't say anything specific to this specific black, but the previous blackest black all had degradation problems which made them unsuitable.
In my own experience, about half of my greyed out comments are due to saying something against the culture, and the other half are when I say something factually wrong. That's really good compared to most places (lots of subreddits for example) where saying something that doesn't fit the culture is necessary and sufficient for a points penalty.
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As per the wording of the article, that is the correct understanding.
I played in the Shattered Galaxy beta and it was a fantastic game. I haven't thought about that game in a long time. Glad to see it's still running.
"Nerds"? Who was the dinosaur that wrote this?

When we need people who have dedicated a significant portion of their life doing nothing but studying medicine, we don't call them "nerds". We call them doctors.
When we need to build a bridge, we don't call the "bridge nerds".

Why does IT still have this stigma?
Because in some parts of the world banking is a historical pile of hacks on hacks on hacks held together with bailing wire and twine.

Also banking is a hugely complex problem involving two of the hardest things to deal with, money and people.

It's particularly the case where you have a lot of small banks geographically spread out running a variety of legacy systems all of which talk to each other in weird and whacky ways.

I'm surprised kiting still works though.
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You have to be a genetic match. And people do go to china for organ transfer. It literally typically takes a week to find one based on reports which is why people became suspicious. They kept asking where the organ kept coming from.
I'm trying to make sense of the scheme here, I understand he used the money to fake business income to make loans. But what was the end game?

I'm guessing he thought he'd make enough money off the loans by "buying businesses" that he could pay back the millions he was borrowing?

Or did he just hope to Ponzi the various loans for as long as possible? The next bigger one pays off the last one type of thing.
From the article:

“... a person could open checking accounts at bank A and bank B, at first depositing $500 into bank A and nothing in bank B. Then, they could write a check for $10,000 with account A and deposit it into account B. Bank B immediately credits the account, and in the time it might take for bank B to clear the check (generally about three business days), the scammer writes a $10,000 check with bank B, which gets deposited into bank A to cover the first check. This could keep going, with someone writing checks between banks where there’s no actual funds, yet the bank believes the money is real and continues to credit the accounts.”

I still don't understand how is it possible for a bank to not see a balance on another account right at the time they saw a check deposited? I mean it's not like they have to call someone to get a paper records of an account balance, it is all digital anyway, so why is there such a big delay?
> My car cannot even identify a speed limit sign.

Does it pick up any speed limit signs? I have a newer Corolla and the camera in that car will pick up speed limit signs. It's detection wouldn't be good enough for autopilot, but it is helpful.
If you're buying pot off the street and it comes with a label; you're getting ripped off.

Seriously the stuff has been popular since the 1960's. I think we can all agree that smoking "pure" pot, mold bugs and all, isn't this massive health risk that everyone needs to watch out for. The oldest stoners seem to be just as happy and healthy as the younger ones, if not more so. And that's just by buying unlabelled, untested plants grown by friends.
I just keep a long list of companies that have dubious business practices and then avoid them. Unfortunately in the aggregate the feedback loop is probably too slow to change behaviors, particularly
in an oligopolies with implicit fee-fixing.
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>>Doing illegal drugs...

The problem isn't the legality (in many places these products are legal to sell, own and consume ignoring the federal prohibitions) it's the oversight and regulation. There was a lot of hasty roll out and it feels like a lot of states are catching up with these sort of regulatory issues well after they should have.
One is a fake account pushing misinformation, the other is a real person sharing their succinct, if low signal, opinion. So, not really the same thing. This thread is a dumpster fire for sure, but it's disingenuous of you to try to "both sides" it in this day and age when online discourse is being DDoSed by trolls like OP.
> They made a point of telling me that I’d have to take a huge pay cut and work with out of date equipment, and deal with extreme amounts of red tape.

> stale sugar cookies & bottles of water for refreshments

Well, that's what the government runs on. Old tech, low pay, and minimal perks. But there is impactful work to be done and some people are motivated by that.
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> There is no "insane short interest" in Tesla. Just because Elon might want you to think that it is some nefarious conspiracy....

Really? Because Elon said so you think I blindly believe it? What a snooty baseless statement.

What is this then?
https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/tsla/short-int...

Also this:
http://shortsqueeze.com/shortinterest/stock/TSLA.htm

More:
https://www.reddit.com/r/teslainvestorsclub/comments/brj8zf/...

Should I go on? Let's stick to just facts, and get off your high horse.
Or you could tariff and punish china for doing it.
As I understand it the risk comes from a very high heart rate, due to the combination of MDMA's stimulation and the low blood pressure caused by Viagra.
This seems like a pretty weak example of being "ripped off." He's complaining about a 15 eur charge for a one-way car rental? One ways are notoriously expensive...that reservation was probably a few hundred dollars.

I don't think there's a more egregious rip off than mandatory "resort/destination fees" - a lot of hotels charge $40-50+/day extra on top of the stated room rate as a daily "fee" for the pleasure of using the gym or internet. Marriott is currently being sued in several states for these fees. Write about that if you want to discuss a "rip off" - not a 15 eur fee.
Because Audi views themselves as a performance brand over a luxury brand. They're also hungrier and thus more responsive to consumer demand.

BMW allows carplay with a monthly subscription to the rest of their services, largely because they believe that as long as you're getting the full benefit of a connected car, you'll be attached to the value - strategically, it makes no sense for them to give it away from free.

The other thing? These companies are starting to change their mind as consumers demand it as a feature.
Even teams with hundreds of developers aren't able to put out enough content to keep players satisfied without resorting to artificial limits. Maybe it's a problem with how these games and the tools are designed, but I've always believed something like EVE or Second Life is the only real viable paradigm for MMOs. Give players the tools to build their own experience.

I recently had some time off and ended up burning through nearly all of Destiny 2's content inside of 2-3 weeks. Hell, I can jump into WoW and be raid ready inside of a week or two, and just go straight into the latest raid. I think there's something fundamentally very wrong with how modern MMOS are designed, but it doesn't seem like anybody is interested in properly exploring the solution space.
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I mean, before this you could do it but had to do it all yourself, I’d characterize this as the opposite of avoidance. It’s moving closer. I am, of course, biased.

You have to start somewhere. We would like to make this even easier in the future. Can’t promise specifics or times for that, though.
The branding is confusing. It gets worse, the deeper you get into car technology.
A lot of lynchings took place not just because the person had the wrong skin color or other immutable trait. Often the victim was seen as uppity or acting out. I think the parallel holds.

Edit to add: Some people have said that Stallman is nuroatypical. If that is the case then it could be very well that his actions and comments are from a trait beyond his control.
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An online marketplace for finding and booking athletic space
Europcar overcharged Tim Harford by €14.99? Europcar Barcelona recently tried to me charge me an extra €260! I had arrived at the airport, after booking online, and they wouldn't allow me to pay the rental deposit with a debit card. 'Company policy' to only accept credit cards. Unless I paid the extra €260.

This is nothing to do with subtle economics. It's extortion because you're in a foreign country and desperate. I think we are just talking about a very unethical company.