skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By making babies? It's not that hard.

Hungary has successfully created incentives to raise their birth rates for example. The Hungarian government doesn't want to rely on mass immigration to sustain the country's population it seems. You don't need imported diversity for more jobs - you can just create very "un-diverse" people yourselves, which will work those jobs once they've grown up.

If other Western nations like the US would seriously get behind an idea like this, with all the power of the media and various propaganda outlets, they, too, would quickly see a cultural shift towards rising birth rates. Unfortunately the people in control don't want this to happen.

Whether ever-continuing growth to chase the 0.3% higher GDP each year is desirable, is another topic though.
I think that Mass Effect had pretty good writing in the first game but the later games are pretty bad. Disco Elyseum has great writing, you might check that out.
Or it gets shipped to Asia, where it's manually sorted outdoors, at in-situ, un-regulated dumps by what is essentially slave labor. And then the unwanted low value stuff (most of it) is left to end up wherever the weather may take it.
I've always wondered the same. Kinda like a HackerSpace. Are people more introverted now?

I'd love a place to drink good coffee or tea and talk about politics, philosophy, science, technology, literature...etc with strangers.
Do you have more information on this? Seems interesting!
This exchange is as HackerNews-y as it gets.

I'll have to make Worms-as-a-Service, to keep up.
Far more important than whether or not chess makes you smarter is... that teaching chess helps kids appreciate thinking ahead. This doesn't make them smarter per se, but it helps them realize that they should be using their smarts. Learning to think ahead about what will likely happen is an incredibly important life skill.
The company I work for drives me nuts with this. We do tons of research and innovation on the software side of things. But because hardware takes longer we almost never do any research or try out anything risky because we are always the critical path on the schedule.

The funny thing is, whenever we have hackathons, hardware teams always end up winning because someone has been sitting on a cool idea that they would never have the time to investigate during their normal job duties.

We have definitely lost a couple of our good people because of this attitude.
British press has never really pretended to be impartial; the Daily Mail under Lord Rothermere ran pro-Hitler editorial until the war broke out.

(My point about Johnson was that he was genuinely paid more for a while as a Times "columnist" than as Prime Minister)
That’s wonderful! Is the code open source{,able}?

I used to play an old game called Underlight. When they shut it down, the owner sent me a CD with the codebase. To my eternal shame, I lost the code. It was so neat seeing the old hacks; it even overwrote the ebp register in an inner graphics loop, because apparently in the early 90’s that sort of thing made a big difference.

Would love to get a glimpse at how worms’ ninja rope physics is implemented...
Does it integrate with Siri?
Munich has (at least) two streets unexpectedly named after people - Passauerstraße and Dessauerstraße. The problem of these people is that their names are derived from well-known cities, so everyone just assumes that the streets are named after the cities. The only thing indicating that they are actually named after people is that the street names are written as one word - streets named after places are supposed to be written as two words (e.g. Landshuter Allee), but many people get this wrong even without this twist...
So does tar. In fact, tar's dash-less flag support ("tar xvfz") is probably an artefact of the fact that in Unix v1 they hadn't come up with dashed flags, and "tar" appears to have been a successor to (or modelled after) "tp" which was a successor to "tap" which was in Unix v1 and had roughly the same flag layout.
I really enjoyed Horizon Zero Dawn for the writing. Portal 2 and Planescape Torments had really good writing too.

But I agree with you, it's very difficult to find really well written games. Otherwise games that are closer to the old point and click adventure game genre have generally better writing: Gone Home, To the moon, The Book of Unwritten Tales, Overclocked an history of violence to name a few.
The thing that kills me is that soon enough, a "fake" paper written by GPT-3 will get published in an academic journal because it has actually contributed a new insight.

It's easy to consider text generation models as "just mimicking grammar". But isn't grammar also just a model of human cognition?

Is GPT modeling grammar or is it modeling human cognition? Since GPT can ingest radically more text (aka ideas) won't it soon be able to generate texts (aka ideas) that are a more accurate collation of current knowledge than any individual human could generate?

--

[Was this comment written by GPT-3?]
Okay, that makes more sense.

When I'm backing up to an Apple server, I think of the two ends in the end-to-end encryption scheme as my computer and Apple's computer.
Same here. AMD is still a much better choice for me since since I spend 99% of my time on Linux, but the GTA V situation was something else. I ran into the same easily reproducible crash, it was reported by myself and many other users, and we waited for something like 8 or 9 months for it to be fixed.
That is puzzling to me as well, particularly because `top` and `htop` on my machine don't even touch `50 MB`. That means, the first figure must be something else and I don't find a good explanation for that. I came across people who suggested to ignore that, e.g https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61666819/haskell-how-to-...

If anyone knows the exact reason for that, then please enlighten me as well. Even this otherwise awesome tutorial ignores that value: https://youtu.be/R47959rD2yw?t=1306
Interesting take. Seems legit from an entropy perspective.

Given that most corporations fail eventually no matter what, you might have a point there.

Maybe what I meant was the micro-level, not the macro-level evaluation. It might be easier for a given individual within a large corporation to play the game of 'keep the system running' and do well as compared to playing an active role in a small group of pirates that is building value from scratch which eventually can scale to a significant size.

Fair point though!
The greatest piece of games writing for me is the worldbuilding of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, through the informative texts for buildings and technologies.

Direct narrative in games is very tricky, because it can conflict with player agency.
No, the ends are the device from which the backup is being taken, and the device to which the backup is restored: the start and the endpoints of the entire journey of the data.

When done properly, the places the data sits/transits in-between have no ability to read or decrypt the information; it's indistinguishable from random data to those intermediate storage/relay services or nodes, because they never have access to the keys to decrypt it.
That’s a lot of information to incorporate though. Well done!
Machine Learning Models 101
Hunter gatherers were tricked into settlement by flooding
I don't understand the desire to exclude files using mod. If you are including code from that file via use, then your build will still be broken. And if you're not, then the files would be excluded from the build anyway.
I was a long-time nvAlt (macOS + SimpleNotes on iOS) user and then used Drafts for the last 6 months which is a nice replacement (I use about 1% of the features). I'm trying to get into Notion for a few types of notes I take but it's too heavy for quick notes so I feel like I'll probably settle into using Drafts for quick notes/scratch-pad and then use Notion for structured notes/knowledge base type stuff.
Programmers Need to Learn Statistics or I Will Kill Them All (2010)
You already know
I'll bet a fiver it will.
It should be noted that Mastodon is in process of adding e2e encryption. And Matrix chat has implemented the ability for server admins (at least on synapse server) to enable e2e encryption by default for all rooms.

Even still, as long as accounts belong to specific servers, the relationship of user to server admin is still a little too close for comfort imo. Perhaps a simple business relationship of "you pay me and I host you" would help here.
I come to HN for discussion. Can we leave smug posts on Reddit?
The English Wikipedia text (no images) is about ~20 GB compressed, but ~60 GB uncompressed.
You could:

- build your own side project that you really believe it will bring some income, something that actually provides value to someone

- hunt short-term gigs, there are many marketplaces, see UpWork for example

- YouTube/Streaming is booming at the moment and can be turned into incoming coming in (monetisation through ads, sponsors, etc)

I think it takes time to create a descent side hustle so whatever you choose, you have to stick with it for a while. Don't expect high returns from the first week.

I would suggest IndieHackers[0] as a resource for building bootstrapped businesses but may not be exactly what you are looking for.

I would also like to mention the YT channel TechLead[1] which I have been following for a while now. The guy has been putting content out there for quite some time now, until he built a paid side project and has just been using his YT platform to promote that. He's giving lots of info on that on some of his videos[3]. Whether you like the guy or not, I think he has some valuable resources and information to take.

Refs:

0. http://indiehackers.com/

1. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xKdmAXFh4ACyhpiQ_3qBw

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jVMy0lpAcI
That sounds like the exact same personality issue, but with the added flaw that they're too smart even for those Mensa plebs.
I think I see what you are getting at here, but I feel like the two are different examples. Being able to generate blog posts that are vague but do not venture into an uncanney valley does not mean the same thing as passing the Turing test.
This is an article about CPUs
I suspect mandatory social security and health insurance overhead are significantly higher in EU.
Thomas Crapper, the inventor of many toilet features, including the floating ballcock, is not the origin of “crap” (which is of Middle English origin, and was used in the sense of excrement and the act of expelling it earlier than Crapper’s work), but is apparently the origin of “crapper” as a term for the fixture one uses for crap.
CrossOver could work. I've had success running other 32 bit only games (counter strike 1.6) on OSX
We can still play via a VM right?
It’s fashionable to say that the best note taking system is pen&paper, but I think it ends up being a disservice to the idea of registering knowledge. I think written and digital have completely different pros and cons.

I love to physically write things down on a moleskine, but I decided to not storage knowledge there, I just dump things from my short term memory to act upon them in the short term. I tried storing knowledge there but when I needed later I didn’t have the notepad with me, or it was in an old one etc.

Digital note taking has several disadvantages, but at least it’s always with me.

Like they say about cameras, the best one is the one that’s with you.

Having created several note taking apps (the latest being Mindown), I’m deeply interested in the note taking problem, but it seems to be impossible to create the ideal one. Sometimes we want “simple”, other times we want advanced features. This is the first layer of challenge I see in the note taking world, but I can peel this onion in almost endless layers...
I save my notes as text files (markdown format). It is universal so its not dependent to any app. It is searchable and future-proof. I save them in Apple iCloud so it auto-syncs to my iPhone and use iA Writer app to read/write to it. I used to use GitHub and git app (Working Copy app) on my phone to sync between devices.
That breast cancer screening leads to higher mortality is a big claim. Any evidence? A web search on this topic seems to show that, at worst, screening has no impact on outcomes.
Interesting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22280939
You can save your notes as emails when you connect your gmail account.
That stupid placement thing is the "feature" I hate the most about onenote. Sometimes that is a benefit and the kind of note you'd want to make. But this seems like an easy fix of having two note types and being able to pick a global option of which way to default, and giving a drop-down option of what kind of note you wish to create if you wanted a one-off different than the default . Having it always be up to the user to place text frame objects is annoying when most of the time generic text notes is what you want.

I personally don't care for the skeuomorphic organization of notebooks, tabs, and pages. But maybe that's just me :)
I am very suspicious of the numbers and statistics quoted in this article, as there are no references cited for their claims, and no indication as to how they arrived at them.
Wait!! A game that came out 20 years ago and still gets a patch...take my money!!

EDIT: Well you got it, maybe Linux with the next patch? :)
A bit of shameless self-promotion, I wrote a blog post some time ago which goes through the history of tar[1]. Tar definitely has evolved through the Unix wars, but I wouldn't say the final result is really that great. While we do tend to reinvent tools for reinvention's sake, I do think tar really does deserve a redesign based on modern constraints (rather than the constraints of tape archives). Zip archives are markedly better designed.

Also, cpio did evolve at least somewhat. In fact POSIX has a separate archive tool called "pax" (which supports both tar and cpio) which was meant to act as a truce between the tar and cpio factions of Unix vendors. Nobody uses it, as far as I know.

[1]: https://www.cyphar.com/blog/post/20190121-ociv2-images-i-tar
Test in prod is terrible. Write unit and integration tests, test on staging, and then monitor Prod.
Thanks Tom. I appreciate your time and attention. I'm fairly new to newsletters. So learning and executing on the go. Stay tuned for more editions.
The important question here is:
What do they know?
Who decides what they do with that?
Who decides who decides?
> but it's impossible for me as an individual to know what your subjective experience of an image looks like

This smells like a god of the gaps or argument from ignorance type of argument to me. And it's not impossible, just difficult to execute. All we would have to do is digitize your brain and swap out the responsible part, then you can form a memory of that, swap the original back in and do a comparison. Or something like that. All handwavy science-fiction of course since we currently lack detailed knowledge how this works, but that does not imply there's anything special about it, only that one human might be processing the data slightly differently than another human. The same way that one human may assign a different most-common-meaning to an ambiguous word than another.
Ask HN: Is it normal to get 100-200 req/day to an un-launched side project?
For fun I've been working on a tiny side project [1]. I haven't told anyone about it yet, but I'm seeing about 100-200 random requests / day in my nginx logs (does not include traffic from me, or search engine bots).

Most of the traffic seems to be from dumb bots that keep trying the same few PHP exploits on my server over and over. Other traffic seems more custom and looks like it is from someone trying to "hack" into my server using known exploits on common platforms like Wordpress. A few requests look like genuine users stumbling across the website. One person even made an account!

Is this kind of traffic normal for an un-launched side project?

I was expecting my nginx logs to be completely empty except for the few requests I'm making for testing. I was very surprised to see this amount of traffic considering I've never posted the URL publicly. This is one of my first website side projects so I really have no baseline for what is normal.

[1] Here's the URL in case anyone is interested: https://wordz.io. I wonder if the extra traffic is because the domain name is relatively short and is a common mis-spelling of a common word. The project is just for fun, and not done yet.
I've found two key ideas in Keynes:

1. Wealth is a verb, not a noun, at least at macroeconomic scales. The wealth of nations is measured by how much they do more than how much they have.

2. Governments and perhaps other large entities should spend counter-cyclically. This makes sense in terms of dampening cycles but also in terms of getting the most value for that money. If you can spend during a recession, you get a bargain.

Keynes did not advocate unlimited money printing and he would be horrified by the sheer amount of debt in modern economies.

He was critical of hard gold pegs, but didn't necessarily advocate the perhaps equally insane opposite.

Also agree about Marx. His fans misunderstand him as much as his critics. What most people associate with Marx comes more from Lenin and Stalin.

I would add Ayn Rand to the list of totally misunderstood thinkers both by her fans and her critics. She was a heretical liberal humanist, not a conservative and definitely not a reactionary.

One curious thing I've noticed is that if you have a discussion between Marxists of the classical and less Leninist sort and Randians you will find huge areas of overlap outside economics. These include technology, the notion of progress, science, the importance of education, etc.
> It's a parrot, and I remain unimpressed.

What's unimpressive about a stunningly believable parrot? I think, at the very least, that GPT-3 is knowledgeable enough to answer any trivia you throw at it, and creative enough to write original poetry that a college student could have plausibly written.

Not everything worth doing is as high-stakes as buying stocks, making chemical formulas, or building planes.
Use hooks – Easy to understand React Hook recipes
A lot of this boils down to the constant churn in frameworks, instrumentation, programming languages. Developers don't have time to master one way of doing things, it's just a constant lava layer of crap.

I took the time to learn how to build and maintain Ruby on Rails systems, hoping it would be the ticket to a fun, manageable career. Any project I worked on was an island of sustainable, fast development where the team finished the sprint's work in a few days. I knew where the bottlenecks were should the project need to scale, and scaling issues never took down the site completely.

Only to throw all that expertise away when it was just decided to replatform one day. Because I guess stable just wasn't good enough. After it happened twice, well, might as well go into devops. Y'all are gonna need it.
They're not saying they have nothing to hide, they're saying they're not joting down quick notes of anything they have to hide.
Yes, that's correct. Granulated sugar (sucrose) is fructose and glucose. Corn syrup is glucose syrup made from corn. HFCS is made to simulate sucrose by adding fructose to corn syrup.

In the US we like to market things based on what they don't contain (unsalted butter, unsmoked provolone, etc), so glucose syrup is sold as as "0g High Fructose Corn Syrup, aka light corn syrup with _real_ vanilla":

https://www.karosyrup.com/products.html
Is this the code https://www.reddit.com/r/MMORPG/comments/981nmi/underlight_a... ?
Mobile app idea #74: Awareness Checker
> That’s wonderful! Is the code open source{,able}?

Unfortunately no. And, saying this as a big open source enthusiast (see profile), it would not do the game's community much good to be open-sourced right now (as the game relies almost entirely on security by obscurity to deal with multiplayer cheating). Open sourcing also would be unlikely to solve any big problems - e.g. native Linux / macOS support is not due to lack of motivation, but simply due to how much the game depends right now on Windows and other Microsoft APIs and libraries. We are however trying to move the codebase into a direction where as many of the same benefits can be achieved, such as refactoring the game logic into a portable core, and add scripting support to allow arbitrary customizations.

The question of whether the source code is open sourceable has also been raised, and unfortunately the answer is also no - my understanding is that parts of the code were written by a party under an agreement that precludes the source code being released.
I suggest you avoid using abbreviations like MLH. I had to google to find out what it is and I'm still not sure if I got it right. Is it Major League Hacking?
Dumb but genuine question from a non-expert programmer:

Most of the "OO" world seems to have abandoned inheritance as an anti-pattern in most cases (apart from genuine "is a" relationships).

I'm guessing the two case studies are in the list of exemptions from this rule.

So, is this considered a generally good thing to do in c?
A couple of networks that aim to improve Tor / I2P are Lokinet[1] and Yggdrasil[2].

And they each have their own messenger projects. Loki is running Session Messenger[3] and Yggdrasil is partnering with Matrix on their p2p project[4].

Personally, I think messaging procotols will be the foundation of every social application. A twitter feed for example is just a messaging channel with a bit of friction.

[1]: https://docs.loki.network/Lokinet/LokinetOverview/

[2]: https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/

[3]: https://getsession.org/

[4]: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/06/02/introducing-p-2-p-matrix
The Citrine license does not forbid women from using it, that would be true sexism. Abolishing words because of 'gendered language' is not something I believe in. I believe in freedom of speech and freedom of thought. Citrine is a project that cannot live without a free mind. As such, conforming to groupthink would kill Citrine and there would be nothing left to share anyway.
Psychonauts!
We agree that the degree of fraud is unknown.

Where we disagree is on your insistence that the possibility that it may happen is worth suppressing the vote of the "11% of U.S. citizens – or more than 21 million Americans – [who] do not have government-issued photo identification."

You have presented no evidence - at all - that it is a widespread problem, that it is a pervasive problem.

I, on the other hand, have cited dozens of studies and government investigations - many of which were conducted by supporters of voter ID requirements - that showed vanishingly small amounts of fraud.

You have also cited made-up statistics (99.9%) and numbers (1,071 fraudulent votes) that sound scary, but end up being insignificant in terms of actually impacting elections.

Unless you can provide evidence of widespread fraud changing a state-level or federal election - which I've asked for since my very first comment - I'm no longer willing to discuss this with you.
To be decent at chess also requires an ability to methodically think through the implications of each possible move.

Although this might seem like stating the obvious, I don't think it necessarily can be taken for granted that everyone is equally strong at this kind of thinking.

Maybe it's just due to impatience, or maybe there are actually differences in people's ability to keep these details straight so that they don't lose track of what they have and haven't considered, or maybe it's something else. Even if it's just impatience, conquering that impatience might be one of the factors in intelligence. And there might even be differences in brains (perhaps anxiety) that could affect how much patience one has for this kind of mental effort.
There's Only 3 Types of B2B SaaS Ideas Under the Sun