skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nuts and Bolts is a tragically underrated game.

The physics simulation is on just the right side of fun/realism, insane contraptions work but the system is flexible enough that players jury rigged turrets.

Lots of games in a similar vein have followed, but I haven't found any to be as easy to play and as fun.
This is crazy. Can’t believe this is the 8th Best selling drive.

I reported it to amazon.
> Coincidentally, that was the same year that Opay, a fintech company partially owned by the software-maker Opera, launched OKash in Kenya. The majority of Opera’s operations had been bought by a consortium of Chinese investors two years earlier, and shortly afterward, the company went on an expansion spree, announcing plans to invest $100 million in East Africa. While Opera’s then managing director, a former banker named Edward Ndichu, said at the time that the app would protect users’ personal information, he never explained how the company planned to safeguard its financial investment. But the answer was buried in OKash’s terms and conditions: When users download the app, they give it permission to access their contacts.

"protect users' personal information" indeed.
Testing Azure Functions on Azure DevOps – part 1: setup
I was going off this article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/14/apple-...

A former contractor who worked for Apple in Ireland told EU regulators that he heard highly personal conversations as part of a project that transcribed portions of Siri recordings to improve the feature’s voice recognition. Apple apologized after the infractions were revealed and said it had suspended the project while it implemented better practices.
This has actually changed with io_uring in the latest sets of linux kernels. It's all still very new and not well supported in most standard libraries or languages yet though.

https://lwn.net/Articles/810414/

For cases like that discussion about opening lots of files over NFS this should allow it to be done completely async. The actual time to do it won't be better on a per file basis but you'd be able to parallelize them and do other work while waiting on the opens to complete.
Do you have any good references for the squad size point?
Capitalism rewards the vicious rentseeker and punishes the virtuous worker.

Any transfer of wealth towards weaker member of society is forbidden? Should we let babies starve, after all they don't literally pull their own weigth? What about disabled people?
Land in Russia's Arctic blows 'like a bottle of champagne'
I wonder how much of this is that she’s young and I imagine many of her followers are as well (ie, they may not have as much money to spend). I follow some wood-workers on YouTube/Insta with fewer followers and they definitely seem to sell a lot of goods.
I learned a similar lesson about typing speed. I learned, then developed and practiced a custom keyboard layout to make my typing faster and with less strain. In the process I realized that the amount of typing I do while developing software wasn't even enough to relearn to type and I had to practice separately just for the volume. For the strain part, also learned that the way the keys are hit/pressed is for more a factor than actual key positions.
What would a whistleblower tell us that we don't already know?
Ahh, that's whats probably holding me back.

\s .... but not really. I need to figure out a way to tone down my mind wandering off.
I worked in a place in 2006 where my username was a badge and my password was my fingerprint.

The badge had to be inserted into a reader for the computer to be unlocked. It was also attached (via a badge holder) to the RFID badge needed to open any locked doors. This meant that to get to and go to the washroom, I had to take my badge out, which locked the computer.

It was a very neat and secure system.
Also, that ship that gets bombed in a month? Take it more seriously.
using threads for file IO is a hammer approach imho.

Often times the price you pay to send the job to the queue, yield for another coroutine, wait for IO task to finish, receive a notification back from the thread pool and resume is higher than doing the blocking call. Under high load it might have some small benefits but my hunch is that it's unlikely to buy you much.

Luckily, io_uring officially made it to the linux kernel few months ago and can solve these problems in a much more efficient manner. *BSD solved this problem long time ago, in 2002, when kqueue was introduced.
The issue at public libraries I'm guessing is:

a) They're afraid of their computers being used all the time for porn (for example by the homeless) thus preventing other uses more inline with their mission statement

b) Hygienic issues with computers being used for porn in enclosed space (masturbation, jizz, etc.).
Interesting. Mind is often divided into two halves: the lower concrete mind that constructs specific thoughts with shapes and the upper abstract mind that sees ideas. From your story it sounds like LSD suppressed your lower mind, so you could see ideas better, while the lower mind was still functional enough to materialise these ideas into 10 pages of writing.

There is an interesting exercise for people with somewhat functional upper mind and I wonder what's going to happen if you try it in that LSD-elevated state. The exercise is just focused thinking about the relationship between sound and space. Before the exercise begins, the "trainee" needs to get a good understanding of the two concepts. First think about what the general idea of sound is: what really makes sound a sound? Then think of space as the spacetime in the GR theory: it's some kind of fundamental structure that obeys wave-like GR equations, so it naturally has all sorts of quantum-scale ripples and large gravity waves. Once you have a grip on the two concepts, the exercise begins: combine the two thoughts and stare at the "mix" with your mind.

For average folks this will produce no effect. But for those with somewhat working upper mind and well functioning lower mind, this produces one specific effect. I basically wonder if LSD allows you to skip a very long training process and enter the mode, at least temporarily, to make this exercise useful.

P.S. As to what that effect is, I'd say it doesn't matter. If it works, you'll see it. Turning on lights is a matter of flipping a switch, not the knowledge of electricity.
Stein's Paradox in Statistics [pdf]
I don't have information on what Stewart did. It's as simple as that. I honestly don't even know what Stewart did. I read up on Madoff. I care so little about what Stewart does, I didn't follow it. Madoff was more interesting to me, so I read more details on it.
I disagree that dealing with files is a core concept in almost every asyncio application. I would say that the most common instances of file IO is at the start of an asyncio process (parsing config files) rather than in the “hot” asynchronous part.

Some problems might require extensive file IO, sure. But most don’t, and something like reading from a database or making a HTTP request is orders of magnitude more common.
I like definition of rich as those who don't have to work to sustain their lifestyle.

The only problem is with the homeless guy next to the station who also matches this definition. May be he's also rich in some sense?
I've played through a half dozen roguelikes to completion of the final (final) boss of whatever it offers. Off the top of my head, Dungeon Crawl, 20XX, Enter the Gungeon, Binding of Isaac, Risk of Rain 1/2, Signal Decay, Dead Cells. It's an indie friendly genre in that it enables lots of gameplay with limited content. But the design trope you've mentioned is waning on me. Most of these games have compounding benefits of good play early in the game to game state near the end, an hour later. Most of these games are easy to play for the first 80% and then quite challenging for the last 20% (BUT, it's still easy to mess up and so early penalties feel really bad). And so it's really frustrating playing them if the first half of your run just feels ok because you're inclined to think it's better to just restart.

Enter the Gungeon was the absolute worst offender. Rare health restores at every level meaning you need to play well even on easy early levels. Hugely important max hp boosts granted only for flawlessly completing each level boss. Items have no indicator for how useful they are unless you get a feel for them or look them up, then have a bunch of hidden synergies which are also unexplained; and even then you have no agency in getting other items to make your crappy loot more viable than permanent garbage. And lastly, a single rare item which doubles the length of a run but vastly increases your chances of long term success.

People love rare OP combos but they kind of suck.

I'd rate Risk of Rain 2, Dead Cells, and Dungeon crawl having the best implementations of this.
Yes, that's basically it. There are more details, like how I think this can efficiently be implemented on GPU hardware (it's not clear at all that this is the case), but you and GP have captured the basic motivation and idea.
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Just put a roller stand or two at the end adjusted to the right height.
> 3 hours of traffic and waiting ...

If it isn't a spectator sport... why do you have to wait in traffic to get to it?

Seems like a 'nobody goes there it's too busy' sort of argument?
2020 and Little Fires Everywhere
The manufacturers are benefiting, but’s its reductive to say the benefit is solely keeping the walled garden. I work in consumer electronics (but not phones). Here’s a breakdown of your stakeholders when you’re going through the design

-ID, who have a particular vision of what the device should look and feel like. They probably want things thin

-Manufacturing/automation, who wants something production line friendly. They’ll probably be angry if you replace a stamped adhesive sheet with 6 screws

-You and your manager, who want you to keep COGS as low as possible

-The reliability team, who will raise a fuss if you keep failing your drop tests and water/salt spray ingress tests

-HW compliance, who aside from ROHS FCC certs are mostly concerned with battery safety

-Whoever is keeper of the PRD (PM, lead engineer). This is where concerns about user friendliness of the assembly will show up

Given all the other things you need to juggle, and how many of them can be solved with judicious use of adhesives, the line item about user replaceable batteries is going to drop off very quickly at most companies. You can argue that this PRD doesn’t capture your needs, or that incentives are misaligned, and that’s fair. What you’re looking for is a company with industrial designers and product managers that deeply care about repairability and there aren’t many. But the status quo isn’t a nefarious plot, they’re just prioritizing other consumer and company needs over this one particular consumer need.
California ISO declares Stage 2 emergency, consumers should prepare for outages
NBA 2K21 Releases Shooting Update Following Fan Complaints
But... but someone has to produce all these basic necessities while all the businesses are shut down?
As the one who wrote the C version (which I haven't had a need to use once I wrote it), why can't it be used? Not allowed to use modules written in C? Or lack a C compiler?

Also, please define "common operations" for me. I suspect that this is similar to the problem Microsoft has with Word---the features you find "useful" and the features that someone else find "useful" may be quite small, thus the large number of features. Not once have I reached for a "split" function, nor a join function (besides, that's the builtin operator "..", unless I'm missing some subtle functionality that "join" has).

And isn't the saying in the Python community "the standard library is where modules go to die"?
Weird. No DefaultFolderX. That is an awesome tool.

Also no Little Snitch.

I have had problems with iStat Menu. I really want it to work, but it always introduces random crashes into my system. Every couple of years, I try it again, but it hasn’t stabilized yet.
Yes, thank you for saying this. I feel that you may be lucky to have only encountered 3 of these...even if on reflection I’ve only encountered an obvious 2.

Let me add that I enjoy teaching folks, that I enjoy being a multiplier even if it means I won’t be an additive. I am also an apologist, and willing to believe that people are adding important ingredients to a team or output that aren’t immediately obvious or visible.

But -x folks exist.

Unfortunately the -x folks often DO have significant skills at hiding their negative impact.
I personally don't think it's particularly rewarding, I hate touching my vim config. But I still use it because, while typing is definitely not a bottleneck, it is still something I'd otherwise need to actively think about. Vim lets me compose the concepts I use when thinking about the language, like parameters, blocks, tags, lines with editing operations directly. Deleting a block (dab) becomes just that, from muscle memory with no mental translation to concepts like backspace or selections required. I'm sure with enough practice you can get really fast at that too, but I don't think the amount of mental effort and context switching can be as low.
its a 2013 retina 13 inch macbook, waiting for the new arm based macbook, will probably upgrade this year.
Scheme-ing (2019)
That guy beat me by 12 hours at Western States 100!
Isn't that always the case if the author is the sole copyright holder (or all copyright holders agree)? (Meaning that regardless of the license the copyright holder can always choose to not distribute new versions under that license anymore.)
I have a cell phone on my wrist.

It's about 40x40x10mm, and I can dive wearing it, as long as I don't get too crazy.

Here's the trick: write the legislation, before this object is invented, which allows it to exist, while still mandating that cell phones have replaceable batteries.

Can't? Great. Let's not make laws like this.
Distilling Inductive Biases
Well, that's not part of the ddr3 or ddr4 spec :)
This is several years old.

When it came out, I immediately created a version of Flappy Bird played by actually flapping your hands. It kinda blows people’s minds when you show it to them!

HandyBird: https://wanderingstan.github.io/handybird/
I have this too. This post also makes me realize that my thoughts and writing don't stutter, but sometimes my spoken words do. I have to actively slow down and think out the words I will say to make sure I can say them, rather than only think or read them. This ends up manifesting as slowness to respond but it's actually because I'm having to check my work before I start speaking and even then I can still fuck it up.

It would be great to listen /speak as fluidly as I think, without being an active process, but a passive process like everyone else.
Ignoring the 60-day escalation of protests on Portland is pretty dishonest. Police started using more rubber bullets, harming protestors: they started bringing homemade shields, etc.
If he read the article it says the mandated minimum wage for a rider is $35,000, but most riders make more than that.

You might have a hard time living in say California on that wage but in parts of rural Europe you could get by comfortably. You definitely could in Michigan.
BBC nature video about silent owl flight. Flight and audio comparisons of owls and some other birds.

https://youtu.be/d_FEaFgJyfA
In Finder and also in "Open File" dialogs, Command-Shift-G will allow you to type a path directly. You can use this to open the dialog to hidden paths, for example: "~/Library" and enter will open the dialog to that folder, allowing you to browse the folder normally.
One union dictated the entire town?
It still blows my mind the kinds of things I was able to make, and the kind of ingenuity that was sometimes (successfully!) required of me to solve the problems presented.

My favorite creation was the "wall-driving car". You could just make a car, and put a propeller on top pointed upward, and it would press you against whatever surface you were on so you could drive on walls or even the ceiling. That worked. And I'm almost certain the devs never imagined it.

I also made a working pod-racer by putting tiny propellers underneath a pair of jet engines (and under the seat), and connecting them to the seat using those flexible coupling-beams. And it drove like a pod-racer. It looked exactly like something out of the film, the way it moved. It was amazing.

Maybe I need to boot that game back up :)
I use it at work to process SIP messages on behalf of a cellular carrier. The actual parser is written using LPEG, a parser expression grammar for Lua. Because Lua is meant to be embedded, it only has the functionality required to do the job and no more.
And I am firmly on the side of the consumer, and against Tesla, on this one.

It's not a crusade I have much enthusiasm about, because I admire what Tesla is doing more than most companies. But I think they're in the wrong here.
I respect conscientious objectors far more than those who choose to kill.
Yep, it’s incredibly frustrating. Every article about CCP gets derailed or diverted. Mostly by the same predictable user ids, plus newly registered users. Given the traffic of HN I am certain that it’s the paid wumaos/shills of the CCP trying to change the narrative. Despicable!
Is there a way to make the math layout in spotlight not take up so much space? When I am doing math it's typically reading numbers off the screen which are almost always covered by the dialog.
High local incomes are an amenity included in the price of land.
It’s not really fraud threats, but the fact that it “empties” your cash drawer. If someone is given change for $100 minus their order, you now have up to 4 less $20s, and a $100 that can only be gotten rid of through exchanging between tills/cash box or someone asking for $100 cash back.
*theoretically can. And considering the caveats, I doubt this will ever become a realistic threat. This is harder to make work than kicking in a door, breaking a window, etc.
It worked well for Quebec ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_Revolution ), hopefully it will reach a good outcome for them as well.
If you managed to get into Facebook is it a realistic fear that you can't find another job willing to do a H1B transfer within 60 days?
Life is pretty cheap in Germany if you live a simple life. Supermarkets are famously cheap. Clothes, electronics cost the same as anywhere else. Rent is bearable outside of big cities and jobs are quite well distributed across Germany.

The big difference is in the savings. Even if you just make twice as much, your savings per month can be several times higher than in Poland, which makes a lot of difference if you want to go back to your country later on and buy a house etc.
The biggest adjustment for me was the fact that everything is immutable. Apart from that, everything has been simpler to reason about in elixir.

Now objects feel very weird.
Never ever say you have a CP database.
A big problem with card only businesses is that they prevent people who don’t have a bank account from buying. Sure, one could buy a reloadable or prepaid debit gift card, but those cost extra money just to activate.

By keeping out people with no accounts, you’re excluding a large part of the population: children and poor people.
I think everyone has the right to make the best possible life for themselves. Life is short and if I was in that situation I'd rather not waste it living under a dictator.
I sometimes forget how much of a pain these things are as I've gotten so used to how bad they are. The two that stick out every time it happens which is too often for me:

- fans are very loud under CPU load (or any GPU usage)

- touchbar freezes sometimes--more specifically for me using an external display disconnect/suspend/wake makes the screen black and dimmer buttons useless
I wonder if the OP is enrolled in an A/B test. While it's easy to see how this feature could boost CLV, you can just as easily see how the creepiness factor might increase churn. Or perhaps users have become inured to having their privacy so disturbingly violated, which would be rather dejecting.
I know this isn't the directly the topic of the article but the title "attention is your scarcest resource" reminds me that I wish there was some pledge/badge of "we will not intentionally distract you and provide options to reduce distractions" pledge for apps and websites.

It drives me nuts for example that discourse has "achievements" to distract you. Every discourse forum I join for customer service is yet another 15 distracting achievements begging for my attention. It's not that I care about the achievements, it's that it's the same notification system that I got a new message so I'm compelled to go see if the highlight is a new message and when it turns out it's not, it's a dumb achievement badge then my time has been wasted and my mind has been distracted.

Multiply this by 50 apps to 100 apps/sites etc and it's clear that features as such that can't be turned off are irresponsible toward and disrespectful of users. That idea that you're a bad person if you design and create such distractions needs to spread.
IWM is an great example of web design.

Site is legible, accessible, responsive across viewport widths.

Page layouts maintain clear visual hierarchy. It appears that designers took care to place as few as possible constraints on the content, ensuring their layout works with media of almost any dimensions and copy of almost any length without breaking overall consistency.

I have some qualms with typography (use of dashes, quotes and apostrophes), but it is very well-thought-through.

Also, the fact that it’s built with Drupal for me personally helps curb my stack snobbery.
The habitat of this species is about 1000 km2 [1]. According to the article, this gold mining company has deforested a bit less than 0.3 km2 since 2018.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapanuli_orangutan#Habitat_and...
I know. I'm just jaded by the things I've experienced.
A lot of misdeeds are documented but nobody is really outraged by them. There's certainly lots of bad stuff happening that doesn't have a legion of takery behind it to drive a certain narrative but... the reporting is there.
For 1, in settings go to Startup Disk. You should then be able to switch the startup partition.
I love the game, but mods are a hard requirement. The base game has some balancing issues that unquestionably needs ironing out. Like health regeneration (vampirism), health refresh and a playthrough without the ability to edit wands on the fly is a recipe for failure.
>word they’re using to describe the notion that getCurrentTime() is returning null rather than a fixed number.

Can you explain what you mean by this? I've never had the time-dilation effects.
This is really sad to hear. I'm curious to know why you have to do the majority of the programming?
Hey, errantspark! Miss you man. :)
Good luck - if you get traction please post an update. I too love shouting into the void of bureaucracy.
That may be true for you, but every game like this goes down with me as one of my favorite games ever.

Cortex Command is another perfect example of this kind of effect.

Any game that makes cool physics possible is a win for me.

Others interested in this topic should check out Teardown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWfeWtv7Iww
Is there a single millimeter wave 5g network deployed in the US? Honestly don't know, but if there is I hadn't heard of it. I suppose there will be in the future, but people tend to change phones every couple of years anyway, and Apple has always been shy about being on the leading edge of adoption unproven technology.
The Power of LG Compels
Not incomparable meaning DPMs are paid comparable to C suites at large companies?