skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first MMO experience was Legends of Kesmai, which was a successor to Island of Kesmai. In fact, I think it basically was the same back end that Island of Kesmai used, but with a crude GUI instead of being text based. But I think most of the maps were identical, and I remember all of the text commands still worked.

I remember logging into the game for the first time, creating a character, and getting dumped at the "dock" (the starting point for new characters) with absolutely no idea how to play. It was really a very terrible GUI and I didn't even really know what I was looking at, how to move around, etc. It was all foreign to me.

Fortunately two other players saw me struggling and were kind enough to spend a couple hours with me showing me how to play. Where the dungeon was, how to kill things, how to pick up and sell loot, and even walked me through the "black broadsword" quest. And then a couple days later I ran into them again and they helped me through the first Knight's quest. From that point on, I was hooked.

Looking back on it now, it's really kind of amazing how generous that was of them. I really can't think of any examples from my adult life where someone has been so patient and generous with their time, with absolutely no expectation of reward. Some of those early MMO communities were really special. Do places like that still exist these days?
Depends. Some landlords are not worth it and it's better to leave.

That said, a lot of folks in SF are on month-to-month leases so they can just give a 30-day notice and peace out.
This definition is fine as long as you extend it to all living things. In some sense all plants and animals (and bacteria and fungus) are experiencing sensations.

Of course, doing that removes any sense that humans are special or unique, which was darawk's point.
That viewpoint is nicely argued by Gary Marcus in Kluge (2008): that we’re basically a collection of hacks (and not the the Marvin Minsky Society of Mind sense) but that this makes our cognition fascinating in (yet another) it’s own way.
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There are OpenVPN clients for android that I use to access private LAN resources.

But I have in fact also left my nextcloud on the web. I'm not that worried.

Just have to stay informed on any big vulns, and I also stay as many releases as I can behind the bleeding edge. That helped me avoid the recent fidokey issue.
What the Australian government does well is control information and controversy. The government is a quiet achiever in that regard.

Australians have been comfortable for a while, and are generally disengaged from politics. Most Australians I know are more aware of American politics than their own.
It’s so unfunny it caused me to start pondering issues regarding the breakfast I’ve just sat down to eat.
What about your comment? Is that a lie too? :)
> A giant outage in Latvia on June ninth concentrated minds

"Giant" per what definition? It happened because of damaged isolation for 330kV line and automatics just shut it off. It also brought overflow within 110kV line affecting 160k people in capital and around it.

Communications was affected (apparantly they didnt test their energy backup systems), traffic, homes. Diesel generators were put to work where needed. Our datacenter was up and running, being backed up by other electricity lines and diesel.

Yeah, a MAJOR outage, but in LESS than 2 hours everything was restored.

Nothing to do with frequency. Why even mention it and try to associate with Russia?
It's not really the residents as a whole. It's a small number of loud people who block change.
Where in their charter does it say that it is one of their duties not to be competitive with other media?

The only mention in the charter (it's really short) is:

> (2) In the provision by the Corporation of its broadcasting services within Australia:

>

>(a) the Corporation shall take account of:

>

>(i) the broadcasting services provided by the commercial and community sectors of the Australian broadcasting system;

It's a Murdoch/Nine/7West continuous whinge that ABC/SBS compete "unfairly", yet when it comes to actual community needs (eg emergency broadcasting, rural and regional reporting etc), they do squat in return for their spectrum and cable licenses.
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This seems to support git-like subcommands. Very, very nice: something mostly missing from other option parsers.

Now does it generate the synopsis part of a man page automatically?
>No hoax there, just misunderstandings (and probably somebody's old, unnoticed attempt at harassing some other driver or driver's team).

Did Bubba Wallace ever say "Hey folks, it looks like it was all a big misunderstanding. My thanks to the fellow NASCAR drivers who supported me before we realized this". No; he doubled down.
> Then upgrade their compilers

If only life was that simple.
Google should just de-list News Corp and the other big media companies that dominate the Australian media industry and who often manipulate elections for their own benefit with one sided heavily biased coverage. Give some breathing space to the smaller players.
Is it really cities that dug the hole?

What about the fact that, nation-wide, many Americans don't have access to good jobs? Especially people without college degrees, but not even limited to that. This is an economy-wide problem. The federal government could probably do something to better address that than a city government.

How about that we generally fail at mental health care, or health care in general? The former is clearly applicable to many homeless folks who are visibly suffering. The latter is a huge cost for many people, drives many personal bankruptcies, etc.
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From the book

> I'm a programmer who uses stenography in my everyday work. Coworkers often come to my desk to chat or ask questions, not knowing that I use a steno machine to program and type. As I start typing in front of them, they'll watch as words and symbols appear in bursts, faster than they've ever seen anyone type before. Then, confused, they'll look down at my hands to see how I can possibly move that fast and see the reduced keyboard layout that I'm typing on, which always leads to more questions.

Would be really interesting to know how exactly they use steno for writing code. Also imagine using a keyboard that looks like this [0]

[0] https://www.artofchording.com/introduction/how-steno-works.h...
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There is no shortage of teachers. Every year thousands of people qualified to teach leave the profession because of low pay, shit working conditions, bad principles, bad tenured teachers, bad students allowed to run rampant, and violence.

There is absolutely no lack of people who want to teach.
And yet you can be unconscious.

For sure, consciousness is used to put humans over other creatures [1]. But that doesn't mean that consciousness doesn't exist. Why don't you look at it the other way round and assume consciousness wherever possible? Vegans have compassion with animals because they see consciousness. Are they wrong?

Or don't they go far enough and plants and even stones have consciousness? But then, why don't we feel different when we cut our hair and lose some matter, or exchange all atoms of our body during our life?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165923
Well recent studies show that software like flux only does a little and maybe even nothing to help you sleep better.

The problem is that we keep our brains active late at night and that's the reason why it is hard to get to sleep.

For me alcohol is the one that messes with my sleep. The lack of deep sleep makes me feel tired the next day(s).

Edit: an article about recent studies: https://time.com/5752454/blue-light-sleep/
Their claim demonstrate good itent, but the unfortunate truth is they have no way of proving or even knowing that it holds.
Doesn't it need to get up to 300°C (the flash point of wood) for things to spontaneously combust from the ambient temperature?

I agree with you that hot and dry conditions make wildfires much easier to start and spread, but that's been having an effect in residential parts of California over the last few weeks, where the temperature has at most been around 100-110°F (38°-43°C).

(And I do agree that, metres from a moving fire, the temperature is probably past the flash point of many substances, but I wouldn't call that climate, I think.)
Once I read a neuroscience article saying that all of our senses are external to the brain -- the brain only 'experiences' electrical signals, not 'reality.'

What if we do have sensory neurons in our brains, though -- wouldn't that lead to a sense of self? Quite literally. I suspect it's something like that.

We can do better than say "I don't know." We already know that consciousness can be manipulated with drugs, electrodes, accidents, etc. That rules out the metaphysics and quantum voodoo some people think is necessary. It's not a solved problem, but I'm confident we'll find the a perfectly scientific explanation. In that sense, it's merely a hard problem, not "The Hard Problem."
"But look closer, and the switch is part of a contest that pits democratic Europe against autocratic Russia and its tinpot ally Belarus."

I wish we had objective need where snipes like this was not done.
This looks much like Walt Disney's original plan for EPCOT. And similar to the one part actually built, the Contemporary Hotel at Disney World, with a monorail through the interior.
Sorry, you're right. The government that can demand backdoors in any software product. That's a lot better. /s

I didn't say the US Senate is a lot better, but to be completely fair there isn't a backdoor law in the US yet. It's possible Australia was the testing ground for that type of legislation though.
Insofar as economic growth is considered positively correlated to carbon emissions, I head the GDP outliers referred to as "decoupling" from emissions.

On as state-by-state basis, something like 40 US states are decoupled now, for various reasons (none of which seemed to be related to politics, to me). I suspect that, nationally, GDP seems correlated to carbon emissions.
It can be done, see Dragonbox Elements or Dragonbox Algebra.
it's not about a pickup joint. when i go out, i enjoy women in the crowd. i know it's hard for you to understand with your large anime and mgtow collection, but men like to hang out with a good mix of women -for the company, not just the sex. heck, even my wife doesn't like a bar full of guys. and no one likes a saturday night hangout that closes at 1am. that's not a bar -that's a daycare. the drinks you described do seem appropriate for a daycare.

that wonderful experience you just went on about? yeah, no one wants that if they can help it. lift some weights, acne cream, shave with a razor not a hair trimmer, maybe a nosejob. and if you go somewhere only to, you know, drink, maybe time to start some aa meetings instead of a bar.

people of all sexes go to bars to socialize, not to drink. alcoholics go to bars to drink.
How do you draw the conclusion that the Australian people want this behaviour? As far as I can tell none us want this but once elected the politicians fail to action what the people want. Over and over again...
I think it's a bit outside our social models. The Western capitalist model says that the more luxuries and security you have, the happier you are. Children give you less. And therefore children make you unhappy. Asian model adds a little twist on this - children take care of you as you get older and they're a retirement fund.

But no, that's not it. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs add another model - humans need love, a sense of belonging, esteem, and self-actualisation. A cat/dog will give the first three, a career gives the last. Being loved is nice, but honestly I feel like you get more love from a spouse than from kids (death mourning lengths of child vs widow reflects this). So that's not entirely it.

I think it's simply that we're happier giving than taking. Maybe it's more fun to give gifts than receive them. It's more fun feeding a child than being fed. It's also the joys of teaching, where you're imparting information to someone and happy when they do something with it.

My happiest times are lying in bed, looking at my phone, together with my 2 year old who's also looking at her phone. This doesn't seem like anyone's idea of happiness, but it works for me.
President Trump is famous for boasting about how he only sleeps for 4 hours. He claims that reducing his sleeping time down to 4 hours took a tremendous amount of willpower and effort.
Other sugars too, the blood-sugar drop signals wake up and eat. iIRC
>Image

The best video I've come across thwt demonstrates images is https://youtu.be/3GEAINRCbJ4

TBH, one can use emacs to get a similar workflow in single file python projects. There are also julia-snail and slime variants in emacs for providing it for julia; none of which I've tested to comment much.
I often wonder what would happen if some of these remote areas adopted special economic zone policies for the development of a new city.
GP comment: Why does increasing load make the frequency go down?

Parent comment: Increasing load makes the frequency go down because ...

Your comment: Decreasing load makes the frequency go up

Your comment is in agreement with everything before, but you said it in a tone of disagreement. Maybe you misread the parent comment?
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It's not obvious that predicted grades are categorically worse than the system they put in place though, is it? In some aggregate statistics we can see them perform worse but exams and grading aren't about averages at school level but individual achievement. A prediction systems that doesn't take students prior achievements into account is just obviously defective here. And that matters especially if it locks out a whole year of students from the top universities that are so life/career deciding in the UK, because getting a place at them by definition requires being an outlier.

The social and cultural factors at play are not well represented by just looking at the mean.

And finally, so what if 2020 had had outlier grade average? It's the outlier year.
also, people annoy me at how bad they are at teaching language. 'you slightly mispronounced that word in the sentence, we are not moving on until its perfect'. kids are able to move on mistakes and focus on big picture things, filling in the gaps later.
Homeless issues: Provide homes and mental health facilities

Who are the vandals? Why are they vandalizing? Are they related to the homeless problem?

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I think that would depend a lot on how it's done. If it were simply a mediator/platform that could be opted-into by the serving site kind of like a pateron ad/button I think that could go a long way. The value-add of pateron being in intermediating the transaction and collecting/collating my top interests in a privacy conscious way.
Kids have infinite time and dedicated one on one live-in tutors (parents).

As an adult you don't have either. Though dating someone is your only real approximation of the latter.

There are some cherries on top of that, like how a babbling kid doesn't care to make mistakes. But I would think all of them pale in comparison to the two big advantages above.
I watched an hour or so of Let's Plays just now. Factorio really made me reminisce about playing Tekkit, especially the Red Power mods from Eloraam (man, I miss those), plus ComputerCraft, BuildCraft and not to mention IndustrialCraft2. It's the only reason I bothered to learn Lua and FORTH lol. However my thinking now is that programming probably gives me just about the same level of fulfillment and challenges, sooo I think I'll stick to that. Factorio does look very fun though!
I went to a private school on Australia, which is also pretty common.

What you realize is that the school's primary deliverable is acceptance into a university program.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if the private schools were actively lobbying to deliver the best result to their customers.
There are a lot of comments here, but for anyone who’s looking for a well thought out implementation of publicly verifiable ballots, I suggest taking a look at Scantegrity [1]. Gotta love all the brilliant minds who worked (and implemented in the US!) it (David Chaum, Richard Carback, Jeremy Clark, Aleksander Essex, Stefan Popoveniuc, Ronald L. Rivest, Peter Y. A. Ryan, Emily Shen, and Alan T. Sherman)

[1]: http://scantegrity.com/papers/ScantegrityII-EVT.pdf

Note: They published several papers on the implementation and design of the Scantegrity system. I just linked to one of them (the most recent I believe).
You've made a huge leap from there-is-no-hard-problem-of-consciousness to there-is-no-consciousness. Consciousness is the experience of being something. I know it exists, because I'm experiencing it right now. The experience is consciousness, despite being illusory in many ways. Even a completely illusory experience is a conscious experience. In no way does it preclude my just being stuff, or other forms of stuff experiencing things too (and thus also being conscious). The mystery is how I can feel anything at all despite being just stuff.
From the How Steno Works section of the link:

> The dictionary is customizable. As the English language develops and new words are created, the stenographer can add them to their dictionary. This is critical for anyone writing jargon, complex terminology, or programming languages
I'm assuming all involved were children at the time? Then it is not that unusual (although you have to get on the game when it isn't yet/still very popular).
I know what it is. I just can’t understand how anybody could be confused enough to call it an operating system.
If anyone is smart enough and patient enough to understand the new law could they comment on these points?

1. How will Johnny little guy’s “news blog” benefit from this? Could they require google pay them to display their headlines on search?
2. Will the revenue passed on to the Murdochs be taxed by the Aus gov? Ie: another way to capture tax from Google operating in Aus?
3. What are the foreseeable outcomes of say, no news results are displayed on Google search and people have to visit the news websites directly? Ie: what I often do when I see an interesting article I can not read, I google for it and find a news site that _will_ let me read it.
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> this seems to be the Government that the Australian people want.

I can assure you it’s not. The problem with Republics is that “one man one vote” does not translate into the majority getting what it wants. The loudest and most well organized political forces will get their way, even ones small in number or popular support. State security services have a long history of involvement in politics and media in the Anglo-sphere.
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> Affected developers will unwittingly distribute the malicious trojan to their users in the form of the compromised Xcode projects, and methods to verify the distributed file (such as checking hashes) would not help as the developers would be unaware that they are distributing malicious files.

To understand why this happens, it's important to know how massive a typical .pbxproj file looks:

https://opensource.apple.com/source/CommonCrypto/CommonCrypt...

Ostensibly it's human-readable, but because it's generated by Xcode and filled with inscrutable UUIDs, people treat it like a binary file, and they're trained to do so:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2004135/how-to-merge-con...

Even the React Native team apparently allowed the file to be treated as non-diffable for some time: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/11047

And note the large number of commits on all types of projects that essentially say "whoops forgot to update pbxproj" - there are likely far more. https://github.com/search?q=update+pbxproj&type=Commits

So why does this matter? Because the brilliance of this attack is how it "jumps the blood-brain barrier" between a developer's machine and their canonical codebase. Usually, code review and auditing of what goes into a commit prevents this kind of attack from leaping to VCS. But Apple makes the pbxproj so inscrutable, and does such a good job at hiding all its complexity behind (usually well-designed) wizards and dropdown menus, that people take it for granted. If code shows up there, people believe Apple intended that to be the case even if, say, your last commit was a small change in Interface Builder (or whatever they call it nowadays). Your code reviewer might just skip the file entirely, because they've been trained to expect the same.

And that's scary.

At the end of the day, this is just another way of exploiting the lack of a mature and centralized CI ecosystem in the modern package distribution world. There's no organization running a security-minded linter on pbxproj files as a general rule. But, then again, there doesn't need to be a linter on package.json or project.clj or Makefiles because there was never a history of hiding complexity - if that file changes, you'd better darn well know what you're doing. What we have here is a perfect storm of move-fast-break-things package management, a file designed to slip through code reviews, and a pretty creatively designed malware payload.

EDIT: Perhaps another way to look at it is that having one file responsible for both compilation logic and non-compilation-related IDE-specific file status can be problematic. It's like your Makefile also needs to be your .gitignore-but-only-top-level-is-allowed-and-all-files-need-to-be-whitelisted. Of course, this is very much an Apple thing to do.
For a single guy? New York. DC.
> You've described a system where, if an exceptional kid comes from a lower-performing school, there is nothing they can do to gain entrance to the top universities.

You're right, and that's what is happening this year. Straight A students that had solid offers from major universities have found themselves with Bs, and seen those places vanish in the mist.

Stupidly, if they just accepted this year as a weird year where everyone did a better than normal, it would be less negatively impactful than what they've opted for.

Even worse, this was literally what Scotland just went through a few weeks ago. There's just no excuse for it.
They may have set one up regardless, as the basic registration data comes from MyGov, and you may have a user.

However, it would require your health professional to upload data to the service - and most have simply refused.

But to actually check if one's MyHealth record exists and has data, one must first opt-in to MyHealth, which is a bit chicken/egg.
The problem is most Wordpress plugins are abandoned. Most sites default to auto updating plugins, but if the plugin author isn’t pushing security patches it’s a big vulnerability.

Wordpress plugins are notoriously bad at input sanitization. Even many large, commercially supported plugins get abandoned or simply aren’t secure.
The quality of news would triple if they removed all newscorp sites. They could just use ABC news purely and the quality would be far better.
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My guess, is that they will comply by either giving the media a copy of their "Quality Raters Guidelines", or just setup an office where the media can send staff to sit at a slow computer and view a billion lines of source code.
Maybe I am missing the explained distinction ("Think Fastlane but for the dev portal"), but fastlane also supports the listed examples in the dev portal[1][2].

[1]https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/register_devices/
[2]https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/#code-signing