skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that Luigi is not in the final build of the game (which is why it was not found before). But I believe the recent leak contains the CVS repo used during development, which includes the complete change history.
Regarding the Le Guin selection: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas is perhaps my least favourite Le Guin story. I understand (and appreciate) the theme but its presentation is so tritely and artificially delivered that I think it undermines itself. It frankly reads like a morally earnest high schooler's piece of creative writing (albeit with more polished prose). I find Le Guin a mediocre writer when she is at her most didactic. Conversely, when she writes from a more subconscious, mystical space she is brilliant. And this is mostly her earlier work.
Naive question: Surely we've run lab experiments by now to figure out the "data sheet" for an individual neuron?

If we know how individual neurons work and we can figure out at least roughly the connection topology, why can't we simulate a whole brain?
Both, tbh.
The book I have is titled
The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories[1]. Makes the meta element a bit clearer.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_of_Doctor_Death_a...
Why not?

We seem to have no problem with infinite funding for Department of Defense and to bail out banks. The amount needed for science is paltry by comparison and typically has much better long term return on investment.
Ted Chiang is one of my all-time favorites. I keep going back to his stories. Other than “Story of your life” which is listed here, I highly recommend “Tower of Babylon” and “Hell Is the Absence of God”.

Also, there are some gems in Fred Saberhagen Bereserkers series.
For issue #3, it would have been nice had the TTY layer sent DLE ESC when someone hits the ESC key. As it is now, once you read the ESC key, you have to wait some number of milliseconds to see if more data is coming in, and if not, then just return a single key, else it's an escape sequence. Sigh.
No, I had no proper flying experience. I used GI Bill benefits to cover the cost.
Hmmmm you could maybe force the baseball through a metal tube that's just barely small enough to pop out in the bottle without breaking the bottle? Otherwise you'd have to do some weight reduction surgery around the equator of the baseball which gets inflated again using a one-way valve hidden between the seams?
Yeah, but at least this catches it early - i.e. if a branch/if-statement uses the field, it might not always be hit when testing things out. Unit tests _should_ catch these things, but so should the type system, and for my side projects I'm kinda fast and loose with testing for better or for worse.
This is a good point. Last I looked at the reviews, those were still state of the art for noise cancelling, if only because wired in-ears also have nice sound isolation. I should dust mine off...
> Rather than try to build a search infrastructure from scratch, Neeva instead opted to use Bing's search API for its basic results.

So it's another UI over bing like duckduckgo? I'm not too optimistic, at the moment there are fundimental issues with how search engines interpret text and rank results.
Yeah, I think the search quality problem is often brought up here on HN because we're mostly engineers here, but article writers seem to always talk about the visible ads problem since it's easier to explain to non-technical users.
This model presumably didn't make it onto the cartridge, which is where the size would matter (and even then, the size would really only matter if it pushed them to use a larger rom at added expense). Extra files in the source directory that might not even be used by the build process barely matter.
TFW you find the last cartridge
Especially given that the 3k probably cost them much much less and it's probably also tax deductible...
Oops -- my apologies; I wasn't correctly following the discussion.
> The plutonium in an RTG is the wrong type from a weapons perspective.

You could potentially make a dirty bomb out of one. Just a conventional warhead that sprays radioactive fallout.
It's from George Hotz, so it's probably both a joke and serious at the same time.
They don’t need google scale, they just need profitability.

A premium search engine can have a place with professionals. Maybe they could sell enterprise licenses.
Looks like it's by George Hotz/Geohut, so half-joke half-serious perhaps?
‘I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.'
Yep. The book has three variations:

* The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories

* The Death of Dr. Island

* The Doctor of Death Island
I have an old, but frequently used email address that got force-moved from a pass through relay to gmail.

After setting gmail to forward everything, I noticed it was sending 33% of my legitimate email to spam.

They don’t let you disable the spam filter, but you can set up an escoteric filter that prevents it from actually putting stuff in spam.

I honestly don’t understand how people cope with gmail. Fastmail is cheap and orders of magnitude better.
One unwritten rule with these things is that you can't "cheat". For example put an empty box of cards in the bottle and then fill it with sand. If it's a baseball, it's a baseball, not a balloon wrapped in leather.
It is a joke, sort of. George Hotz of comma.ai wants someone to start a Google alternative and charge a monthly fee instead of invading user privacy. He made the hammer.lol page on a live stream last week.
> You realize you can’t get to a private IP address over the Internet right?

Of course you can - most end users have private IP addresses these days, yet they somehow manage to communicate with people on the internet.

A private IP address is of course not routable directly on the Internet. But routers route, and can certainly route a packet from the public internet to an RFC 1918 private address. If the routers on the edge of your RFC1918 network do not have firewalls in place, then they will happily route packets to your internal servers and you're no better off (against a serious attacker; a script kiddie might ignore you as too much effort, sure) than if you used public addresses. If those routers do have firewalls in place, then you're also no better off than if you used public addresses.
Looks really nice .
Thanks for sharing
Who says every unsecured db on the internet consists of "needlessly collected" data?
This virus has taught me that I absolutely loathe WFH. I don’t even like people or talking to them but I like having them around and I’ll drive an hour each way to make that happen.
It does look directly recursive

Furthermore, in a lazily evaluated language, we could use the regular cons function, instead of an explicitly lazy lcons version.

No coroutines are used here, only lexical closures.

I changed my mind; lazy semantics plus recursion doesn't give rise to a new kind of recursion.
The article ends by pointing out the author has no data on whether hydrogen cars are more dangerous than others. Nobody would argue hydrogen can't be dangerous. The question is, is it more dangerous than jet fuel?
I'm assuming another unwritten rule is that there must be no trickery with the bottle itself?

I.e. no taking a "wide mouth" bottle, filling it with some stuff, then somehow heating/narrowing the bottle? (Perhaps that isn't physically possible anyway, without leaving visible evidence)
Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett. I’d start with the DEATH series (Mort is first book in that one) but a lot of folks like the City Watch. (Guards! Guards!). Lighthearted, hilarious, and some real insights into the human condition in a tongue in cheek way.

Can’t go wrong, good vacation reads. M
This is changing in the next release of Safari. They will support the standard WebExtensions API so Firefox/Chrome extensions will be easily portable.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/25/apple-will-let-you-port-go...
> treat

*threat
The only ones I’ve read are the ones by Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and Orson Scott Card. Looks like I have a lot of reading to do.
Most beer pints are not a full pint. And they keep getting smaller!
a spiritual experience no doubt no doubt
Yes exactly. People's first guess is often (the very boring) "did you just glue the bottom of the bottle on? What?? No!

Did you blow the glass around the baseball? Um, no.

"Everything goes through the neck"
Speak for yourself. I'm very early career, and I love wfh. Moving to a smaller town to get cheaper rent and less traffic and more time surfing. No way do I want to be in an office with any regularity.
Consider Facebook/Twitter as anyone-writable databases. Your comments translate perfectly.
The point of his quote is that he realized they weren’t uniformly bad. I’d go further and suggest that it’s not even possible to have a successful secular society without a religious cultural substrate, at least not for very long. I don’t mean this as a slight against atheists or agnostics; only that religion is eminently functional to the extent that we don’t find significant societies that exist without a significant religious substrate in any place or time. Maybe I’m wrong, but it’s certainly an interesting question in my mind.
It's the tank pressures that make stored hydrogen almost indistinguishable from a bomb. 350 to 700 bar is not uncommon.

For comparison 7 bar is about the same as 100 psi for Americans.
I half suspect they do things like that on purpose, because the alternative is to create demand for players that disregard the restrictions, and by that point they're also going to disregard all of the other ones and let the user fast forward through commercials etc.

So if they let the thing they don't want people to do be hard but not too hard, it satisfies demand from the people determined to do it instead of creating a market to solve the problem which would make it more convenient.
You don't need to make funding infinite, in order to meet the current demand for it.

And increasing funding will not increase demand in lockstep. There are indeed more people who want to do science then there is money allocated to pay them, but the number of those people is not going to vastly increase if 'researcher' continues to be a job that requires years of post-secondary education, has long, shitty hours, and pays peanuts.
> If you ask me, the future of the workplace isn't fully-remote or fully in-person, it's an office where everyone comes in 2-3 days a week, as necessary, and working remote or at-home the rest of the time.

I'm in the same boat as you, also early career but Please, NO. Being asked to go twice a week to the office is the worst trade-off. It means I still need to live in commuting distance of the office but I also need to rent an extra room to be my office where I'm expected to work for 3 days/week.

I favor a model in which once a quarter the whole team spends a week together as a "retreat". This gives you flexibility to really live where you want without that need to still go to the office. It also means the company doesn't even need to keep an office to start with.
I see we have some seriously delusional people on here.
Ask HN: What seeds you sowed years ago that you are reaping fruits of now?
This could be technical, social, financial or anything -- what was the seed and what fruits are you reaping now?
> (who has sadly now completely retired from emulator development due to harassment)

TIL[1]

[1]: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1srbcc1
Smart Homes Commodore 64 Style (1980s Home Automation)
I certainly would like the "don't book me over $X" option, but the devil is in the details. Perhaps just turning off where's would help, but if you account is compromised and 50 servers are running trying to mine crypto, the hacjer won't turn off those servers just because it's no longer submitting results... So AWS should probably stop all your servers.. which means users might lose data... Makes it a difficult choice
Covid-19 mentions on the NYTimes front page
A lot of these criticisms about the license are valid and I acknowledge that. I do understand it's concerning and,I use someone's words here extremely antagonizing for a lot of people to have this use the term open source when their expectations of open-source are so vastly different. And I want to address that particularly in another comment but let me address what is your misrepresentation or misinterpretation of the restrictions.

I totally agree that you could have a back door and that be something possible to distribute in a binary. That's a legitimate risk. At the same time I think it's disingenuous to say that opening the source code on GitHub is not adequate protection but having some sort of third-party builds would be adequate protection against that. I think having those source code in the open is the ultimate protection against sort of backdooring. And from there anyone can download and run it using node or they can make their own binaries. And with respect to using any bineries distributed by anyone else everyone needs to use their own risk tolerance. At the same time I don't think the license that I've made precludes third-party builds with the meaning of that being other people building their own binary from the source code and distributing that for other people, I feel okay you can do that you just can't charge people for it, or use it as part of a paid service or project intended to make money, and you can't deploy it for them as part of a paid service. Unless you're already working in that organization and making this deployment as part of the ordinary course of your duties (like you can't be doing this as a contractor, and it can't be part of being contracted to work for them). One purpose of this restriction obviously is to get organizations to contract Dosyago corporation when they need help to deploy that Dosyago IP. A way to make money through consulting that's an alternative to selling per seat or per site licenses.

So I definitely think the criticisms of this license are valid at the same time it's important to be clear about what actually, you know, the restrictions are and what the risks of that are.

I definitely think people should exercise caution with regard to any software but they should also protect themselves against misinformation. So in that light it is I think in the interests of everyone's safety to have an informed and open discussion. That's why I'm addressing what seems to me to be a misrepresentation, and why and I'm also not bristling and anyone raising concerns about the license. I think it's perfectly valid and it totally makes sense for them to be upset about this.
But it's fair game to 'skin' the baseball, insert the baseball core into the jar, and then sew back the leather around the core again?
Before Air travel became the norm, people used to travel by water, and unless you know how to swim, you may drown for whatever reason.

The educational institutions didn't want all that effort wasted so they started requiring swimming education for people.

Or something like that, don't quote me haha
Very cool, my only suggestion would be to use a mono-spaced font in the code-editor. Looks a bit weird with a serif font.
As long as delete means "commit the deletion of unused files to source control", I agree. Though I don't know what kind of source control they had back then, and if they used it for such assets. In my opinion if something is not serving any current purpose in your code base it should be deleted from source control. The repo should be a reflection of the precise range of capabilities that you intend for the project to have; leaving dead vestiges of the past just laying around is like growing a garden and never cleaning it of deadwood and debris, giving more places for weeds to grow unnoticed.

I think we need better tooling for browsing historical artifacts that may be valuable in the future -- which I think is the main reason I've seen people intentionally keep dead code. Maybe the solution to that is to just tag the commit in which you deleted the code with a note on what it was so you can find it again.

Edit: An uncle comment mentions that this may have been a discovery from digging around in the CVS history for the game, so they may have kept the assets in source control after all! Some might reasonably take away from this to protect your source repo, but I think it's pretty cool it's possible to find these historical artifacts.
Yes, because much of what trump is criticized for is objectively bad. I will shit on his actions and policies openly, knowing that (for example) the only people who were really invested in keeping confederate statues in place are hiding some deeply distasteful views and should be flushed out.
As you get older that is less alarming! -said as a 52 year old
Search engines are such a big thing they should be open sourced and distributed over the community. It's like the most basic infrastructure the internet needs to work and we are outsourcing it.
Reading this reminded me of the Oxford Book of Science Fiction, my first introduction to serious science fiction - I had a copy and lost it. So I searched for it and found the cover page[0] and noticed Tom Shippey's name who was the editor - I remembered that name after 20+ years! And then I searched for other anthologies by him and found The Oxford Book of Fantasy stories which I also lost - this[1] was the cover page. Blast from the past!

[0]: https://blackwells.co.uk/jacket/l/9780192831675.jpg
[1]: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d8/b5/d7/d8b5d7aa47735f7a0a51...
I see two fundamental issues with this approach.

The first is punative. While it does, kind of, punish bad behavior, it doesn't go far enough. You may deprive Google of some small revenue, but you're still giving them a lot that contributes to their bottom line. They can still claim a googol of clicks and eyeballs, etc. People will still see them as the end-all-be-all, and voluntarily submit their sites to google's attention--ignoring any other options.

The second is the failure to reward. It is not enough to kill off bad actors if you haven't nurtured good actors to take their place.

In this case, the good actor could even be Google. If there are efforts to do things differently, we should find the ones we like and reward them. They will benefit and their competition will observe and imitate.
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The Adventures of Robin Hood is incredibly entertaining to this day. Claude Rains is an excellent villain, and the action is fast-paced. RIP Golden Age of Hollywood, RIP Ms. de Havilland.
Aside, but noise cancelling (at least what's currently on the market) doesn't really do much for screaming children. It only handles relatively constant noise well, ideally low/mid-frequency constant noise. Great at silencing stuff like airplane engines, wind, HVAC hum, freeway rumble, etc. But not very effective for people talking, crying babies, car horns, ambulance sirens, slamming doors, etc.
Exactly. So is my LG G7. IP68, who wants better than that?
IIRC I saw it on leaked docs by Veritas
No, the problem is a bit more structural then that.

A single professor trains dozens of grad students over the course of their career. Even if you remove every single foreigner, and every single person who does not want to pursue a career in academia, you still end up with dozens of graduates - per professor.

The number of jobs available for those graduates?

One - that professor's - when he or she retires. And until then, they get to burn the midnight oil, doing grunt work on their projects, in the hopes of competing their dozen collegaues for a shot at that one spot.
+1 for Murderbot, but I think it's a little long for the list! Great read though if anyone is looking for recommendations.
>labs operate largely as fiefdoms of the individual principal investigators

To add to the injury, you wouldn't believe the extent of the actions to which some PIs become engaged in order to attain/preserve their 'power'. Illegal, unethical and pathetic.

The core problem is that PIs are human, and humans are flawed. The solution (if there is one) should take this into account, and somehow try to reduce it systematically, at an institutional level. The problem is that the ones that make the rules are not going to fight against themselves ... I wish I had something more to add, but that's it, that's the state of the field.
I'll answer your question with another impossible object.

https://puzzleworld.org/PuzzleWorld/puz/img/arrow_through_co...

"Some people say the coin was placed around a tree when it was very young, and then later carved into the arrow."
I would be happy if I never had to write a flaky text parser, for some command line tool, output again.
No, you (not I) made a claim: churches should pay taxes. I didn’t make any claim, at least not here. I only pointed out that you didn’t support your point. Secondly, I don’t see why the “separation of church and state” position needs further defense. It’s an established precedent and status quo for hundreds of years. To that end, your “everyone pays taxes by default” claim is obviously wrong because churches don’t pay taxes by default. Moreover, proponents of separation of church and state don’t need you to find their arguments compelling; their will is law—your position is the challenger and it needs persuasive support if you would like the status quo changed.
earthscienceman says>"It's going to go against the grain at hackernews, but taxing churches in the US is a terrible idea.<

I fail to see why.

All financial dealings of churches go unaudited. They should be subject to annual open public audit, at the least. I think they should be taxed as any other corporate entity. They frequently compete with normal corporations and should be given no preference. As it is they pay neither federal nor local taxes in most jurisdictions, if not all.

BTW I'm very conservative. My inclination would be to do what the British and the French did centuries ago - confiscate all the properties of the churches.
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My first guess was that the centre of the baseball, without the leather, could fit through the mouth. Then the baseball is carefully re-stitched.

If that’s the way it was done, it would need quite a bit of skill and patience!
If you could return search results that actually contain the keywords I entered and not waste 5 minutes of my time returning irrelevant results because you only found 3 relevant results (you know, the ones I was actually looking for) to pad out the results, that would be a massive improvement. Search has gotten so bad that I feel like the only reason no one has toppled Google at it is because search engines are almost passe. No one cares about them much any longer because people go to a handful of site for specific types of content rather than find data scattered and unorganized across the web.
The funding for the military is far from infinite, and the US is actually pretty "privileged" as far as how much money trickles down to grants for seemingly unrelated stuff through DARPA and other similar agencies.

The discussion on how much money should be allocated to research is a different one, and it's always going to be finite. In the end, funds for research as conducted in universities have to be extracted from societal economic outputs, be it from taxes or otherwise, which is sadly not infinite.
Musk has set a very clear end goal for his ambitions, unlike any other billionaire I can think of. He wants to make humanity become an interplanetary species. That’s the goal. Not power for power’s sake, but to accomplish a specific thing.

Which is, of course, not to say that power doesn’t corrupt and that once he hits his goal, he won’t want more, but for now at least, he has a specific aim.
Any advice for getting into real estate? Seems oversaturated to me