skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm childless but I disagree. Children are a public good (objectively) and a moral good (in many frameworks). The childless also benefit from children, as the very social order they exist in depends on raising children. They enjoy the public good with minimal contribution (additional tax). They take on very little of the real cost.

If everyone was childless, applying Kant's categorical imperative, I think the societal issues would be obvious, as society would cease to exist within 90 years or less. If not everyone can be childless then morally some sufficient amount of people must have children.

The fact that the parents do it for themselves doesn't reduce its importance or benefit to society. It's just a fortunate alignment of incentives.

The problem I see is that further accommodating parents isn't enshrined in law. Parenting is essential work that is undervalued because it is passionate labor.
It would be amazing to show how much of say Vitamin A comes from each ingredient, in that progressbar, on hover.
Because if the app was permitted to be installed outside of the app store, it would make more money, meaning the app store offers negative utility to some developers. Fortnite is a huge brand outside of iOS. It iOS did not make the success of Fortnite. Epic doesn't need the app store's advertising to succeed, and being forced to go through this bottleneck only hampers them.
Trajectory planning for foot placement.
Can confirm. I'm such a hipster on Mac who strongly prefers the command line.

Though, to be fair, I started using a computer in the early 90s which was a DOS machine and only had the command line. So I grew up using a computer this way.
That's a nice emulator. Right now, one of the problem emulators struggle with is cycle accuracy. A (very) few demomakers (French Touch, Deater) are actually pushing the boundaries on the Apple with cycle accurate timings for various video or sound effects and the emulators start showing their limits.

However, for common usage (i.e. playing old games), emulators are perfectly fine. AppleWin seems the most advanced (lots of supported hardware, lots of small fixes to support edge cases of cycle accuracy), followed by Mame and Apple2JS. And some other I probably forget...

Also, recently a new file format was introduced for better preserving the old floppy disk and their devious copy protection (WOZ). This will improve the emulators further (and already has as far as reading disk is concerned)

Specific to the Apple2 emulation scene (I guess) is the effort of a person named "4am" to clean crack all Apple software so that they can continue working in the emulators (and old Apple's).
At the Gates had its own share of problems that wasn't just because it changed too much.

> Firaxis's Beyond Earth has barely 1 person who played at least 1 minute for every 10 that bought the game

It is common for a lot of people to "buy" games on steam that they will never play. Especially with less popular games.
Really? What phone do you have? A decent number of the recent iPhones have a bootloader exploit now. So there’s no security, just a lot of bitchy software.
Most likely as a side effect from Project Treble, where Linux kernel is coerced into a pseudo-mikrokernel.

https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/modular-syst...

AIDL means Android IDL, which is the mechanism for Android IPC, also used by Treble for communication with modern driver model (classical Linux drivers are "legacy" drivers from Project Treble point of view).
Oh no, those poor farmers! Someone think of the farmers!

Maybe they should start asking about the well documented forced labour camps for minorities that exist on their doorstep.
I may be wrong, but there is a limited capability for doing pumped hydro - you may run out of elevated lakes in a region, and if you want to create new ones then you will affect the environment.

A hole in the ground can be dug up everywhere, e.g. next to each single PV plant.
I like to install stuff like this in DOS 6.2 Running on a VM on my ibm x3650 M3 with Level 5 RAID, running Server 2012 R2, with an IBM LTO6 Tape Library backup system and Backblaze cloud backup....

I think I might be crazy..
I know you mean well but please don't make fun of people because they don't know about something, especially when they are asking this nicely.
Or because they expect the era of stability to be over.
Back in the 90s when Civ was released for the Amiga 500 everyone played it. I was at school at the time, and almost everyone who had a computer had a copy. It was phenomenally popular.

For comparison, EVE Online has 300,000 monthly active players. Call of Duty has 30 million. That implies that about 1% of gamers are interested in the sort of games Sid Meier is talking about. The demand for "complex video games" absolutely has diminished dramatically as a proportion of the gaming industry.
> has barely 1 person who played at least 1 minute for every 10 that bought the game.

What's that number based on? Feels like taking some telemetry more seriously than it should be.
uMatrix not only allows you to block JS on a site you're visiting, but gives you fine-grained control over blocking JS from sites that site calls out to, and subdomains of that site as well.

I find uMatrix much more flexible than uBO in this regard. I don't even know if doing all this is possible in uBO, and suspect it's not, or that at least it's hidden away pretty well, while this is front and center in uMatrix's interface.
> apps implement it themselves

By asking access to all of your text messages last time I checked.
Many companies do give time off for charity work or public service, match charitable giving, etc. I’d have no problem with my company giving my single, childless colleagues time off or schedule flexibility to engage in some social or public good.
Thanks ramon! Appreciate your kind words! Feel free to shoot me an email or reach me on twitter and let's stay in touch!
Yes, it's phishing. It's common enough that it's got its own name: smishing.
Yeah, that's almost certainly true. I hadn't considered the advertising angle, since I generally don't see ads. But most people do.

I guess what baffles me even more is the talk on HN whenever something bad about Chrome comes up; it seems like most of the people commenting in those threads... run Chrome. Why? I'm not saying Firefox is perfect, and there are certainly places where it's lacking when compared to Chrome, but you'd think that the HN crowd (which, I know, isn't a homogeneous bunch) would largely be Firefox users.

I see so much posted on HN about outrage over privacy issues (in general, not specific to Google/Chrome), and yet... seems like most of those people use Chrome? It's confusing, to say the least. Switching to Firefox isn't going to fix everyone's internet privacy issues, but I find it hard to take someone seriously when they simultaneously rage about online privacy and use Chrome.

> if you used Google Mail or anything else by Google, they'd repeatedly put notifications telling you that Chrome is great and why don't you download it?

Is this still true, though? I seem to remember seeing something like that 5+ years ago, but I use GMail and Docs all the time, and never see anything that tells me to install Chrome.
Haskell has reanimate (https://reanimate.github.io/), although I don't personally have much experience with it. But it does have an online playground to try out stuff in the browser
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/programming-tensor-cores-c...

See cuBLAS mixed-precision GEMM.
And of not doing what you want. At a year, you start going through math around the likelihood you'd die from the virus and realizing that even with a 1% mortality rate, for someone with the whole life ahead of them, the time/opportunity EV is negative.

There are people who set a monetary value on human life, and we have good estimates on that. What we don't have a good number for is what's the value of different degrees of freedom. Is a life where traveling is impractical, meeting people is challenging, you can't go to Disneyland, all that stuff, is it worth 75% of a life at 2019 levels? I don't mean this economically, I mean this as living life.
Oh, there are definitely interesting problems to solve. See my post below for some issues.
> The ToS is up to the owner of the platform

When there's only two companies fully controlling the next era of computing platforms, there's some argument that they have way too much power in their hand.

> The game is like a car that drives on a road. The car is Epic's Fortnite. The road is a toll road. The road was built by Apple. Many cars can drive on this road but must pay a fee. (The analogy isn't 1:1 but work with me a bit).

Except the phone isn't owned by Apple, and that's why every analogy similar to this one fails.
While reaching out directly to the company is definitely a strong way to express disagreement, I almost guarantee that someone from AMD PR will be reading through comments on tech community posts like these.

Expressing discontent in an open forum can catalyse a much larger reaction that PR depts will pay much more attention to compared to a few angry emails or twitter DMs.
One of the goals for CK3 was to dumb CK2 down in order to reach a wider audience. I honestly would not describe any of the newer Paradox games as complex (yes, even Stellaris).
They have a link on their GH repo to https://www.scullinsteel.com/apple2/
It's not only about skills, but supply-and-demand economics, perception, et al. Try to think about a sector, vertical market, tech or industry domain, or similar that is in high demand and build specialist, demonstrable skills in that area.

Also, make sure your soft skills are top notch - you are confident, articulate, present well. Talk at meet-ups, make youtube videos, write a blog -- do a little bit of self-marketing.
I see what you are getting at. Yes State Machines to Process Designers is a spectrum and has a quite a bit of overlappings.

For example these are the lowest common denominators I see.

#1 Graph: All of these systems allow you to visually design/represent the process as a graph. You yourself has abstracted these into graph problems and have come out with a simpler non-verbose BPMN alternative - which is great.

#3 Computability: Since the base is a definitive graph, essentially a graph that could execute is a finite-automata. That is, all of these systems put the power back to the end-users to create their own machines (without actually coding) hence the relatability with low-code. So at the end, broadly even the motive aligns from computability perspective.

But I'm still not convinced these denominators justify an all-in-one one-size-fits-all solution to this spectrum. I'm not saying one product shouldn't attack them all, but it's better to appropriately categorize them and develop unique features on top of each of them. At least that is what I feel at this point of time.
You say yourself that websites are now janky. That is also my experience.

In fact, despite new tech, it is a relatively recent phenomenon that I feel my phone slowed down by a freaking website.

Furthermore, phones may be faster, but websites load slower and are janky due to unnecessary async loading.

So what’s the point of faster phones?
The point is that webdev is terrible.

The article goes into all sorts of hoopla to claim that the web isn't slower. Thing is, I can still open those websites on of yore on my phone right now!
And to no one's surprise, the new web tech is indeed slower and imo also worse in user experience.
So yeah.
To the complex game authors of the world: we love what you write! Don’t stop! Some of us may be busy but we haven’t stopped taking the time to play in the universes you’ve created!
> Well, the security key of VM is stored in the CPU

What security key? Do you mean the memory encryption key? We're talking about a powered off machine, so that's irrelevant.
We will likely see a decrease in population..we should be ok with 1-3 billion. In 1600, world population was 500 million. 3.5 billion in 1975. Fears of human extinction is unfounded. However an uninhabitable planet due to exponential consumption is a real risk for future populations. Better to be a healthy billion than a starving dying 15 billion strong species.
For comparison, Call of Duty: Warzone regularly gets 30 million players.
The keys for trusted compute, memory encryption and such are saved inside the CPU, so if you change the CPU you also loose all those keys.
That requires a lot of goodwill from the reader: "I'm going to try to find this interesting because it's supposed to be a poem."

Suppose you find a scrap of paper with the text (which I'm sure you haven't seen before):

I withdraw and wait.
This is time that doesn't get lost:
each minute becomes future.
I am an ocean of waiting,
in a waterproof envelope of now. (*)

Or you'd find a scrap of paper with the text

lighght

Isn't there a difference? I can appreciate the attempt in the latter, I think the "cricket" one is at least funny, but can it withstand comparison with Shakespeare? It's not a coincidence that the the article starts with the mention of Oulipo: it's word play, the joy of expressing under extreme constraints, rather than poetry.

(*) Source: Eb (English: Ebb) by M. Vasalis, in a loose translation.
See my edit. I don't have a CRT anymore, so I'm afraid if you're interested in refuting or confirming that claim, you have to test it yourself ;)
With seven orders of magnitude of difference, you'd have to dig a whole lotta holes before hydro has to start worrying about competition on the capacity level.
I wonder if there are any real programmers out there who have decoded GIF by hand. The IETF is clear that the header should be 6 7bit bytes (GIF##a), and the ends with `\x00\x3b`.

without LZW, it should be trivial to append a frame to an image. its so hard... instead of downvoting me, does anyone know of a good/simple example of this in C/python or anything? array2gif[1] is pretty close.

1: https://github.com/tanyaschlusser/array2gif
There is a lot of push into hydrogen because of that. I know Germany is doing that.
> Okay, was it a bad game? Who knows, hardly anyone played it. That's the crux of what he's saying.

I played it a few times when it came out. I had been looking forward to it. Unfortunately it was unbalanced with very obvious exploits. Maybe they fixed it later but I gave up on it.
US anarchist David Graeber’s crusade against the rise of “bullshit jobs” (2018)
> Bert Kreischer is an overweight comedian, likely alcholoic, with no training regiment, and he completed a full marathon in 5h33m.

That is really sort of thing you should not do.

I guess you can walk most of marathon, marathon distance is not some kind of unachievable hike. But as of actually running it, you should not and would not manage to run.
Phase 3 from another perspective:

https://qntm.org/gorge
It is owned by Apple in that they own the OS. If I wanted full autonomy I’d root my phone. The whole appeal of the phone is the secure cohesive experience not the hodge-podge setup of the PC for example. It’s much more of a console in that sense.
I didn't read the article. I felt like the author had an assignment to make it a certain length and is filling it with useless sentences.
They are constructive at least by pointing out that there is a segment of the population that finds physical exercises boring, not pleasant at all. Work, not recreation.

> No doctor ever advised playing more video games.

No doctor ever advised reading more thermodynamics textbooks either. And that's because it's out of scope. Most of medicine deals with the body. A smaller part deals with emotions. There is no branch of medicine concerned with cerebral skills.
No company has pushed me more strongly towards the ideologies RMS (who I still think is a bit crazy) writes about than Apple.

At this point I’m convinced there needs to be a law against closed devices and closed software.
SwiftUI has features like that

struct AnimatedCircle: View {
@State private var radius: CGFloat = 0
var body: some View {
Circle()
.frame(width: radius, height: radius)
.onAppear {
withAnimation {
self.radius = 100
}
}
}
}
I think I’m getting it now. When high speed passenger service ran at 50mph it could also carry mail and deliver 8 times a day. When passenger service increased to 75mph it was too dangerous to carry mail the same way so mail service dropped back to once a day, probably on dedicated or slower trains.
From Wikipedia: Flywheel energy storage systems using mechanical bearings can lose 20% to 50% of their energy in two hours.

Basically flywheel cannot store energy for a long time. It needs to be constantly used to be effective.
When will it all end...
It's pretty well supported https://caniuse.com/apng
Don't downvote this, it's actually fairly difficult do search at first try. Buried under all the other more modern Apple stuff.
If employees of tech companies have to argue about whether parents can be afforded concession due to the pandemic situation/home-schooling/etc, I wonder what improvement in quality of life that technology has actually yielded. Is this a US-specific phenomenon?
It doesn't solve issue because it's duopoly antitrust issue.
Personally, I prefer a small map, to have some more players to interact with. Only one opponent seems boring to me as well
So would this then mean that Google's Adwords program for advertising your business based on keywords and target countries or regions is broken and unusable for business owners? (at least not profitably usable).

I've read very different from other commentators right here on HN who claim that Google ads work well for them and likewise I've heard plenty of anecdote from users of Facebook's and other ad platforms that they have delivered positive ROI for ad placement of their offers.

Any opinion?
The Oxford trial isn't paying anyone. I'm in the trial myself. I assume other people are volunteering because they want a COVID vaccine to come out.

Volunteers for this trial range in age from 5 to 75+. Not everyone is perfectly healthy.

People here are reacting like the vaccine isn't safe and is cancelled now. All this news means is that one person out of tens of thousands had a possible reaction and they have to investigate to see if it is even related to the vaccine (which is the proper procedure). This isn't even the first time that this has happened during this trial - it just wasn't reported so widely last time. The most likely outcome is they pause for a few days and then keep going as normal.
Minecraft is another example. Until a recent version there wasn't even a build-in recipe book, you had to either discover them by yourself or search about them online.
The niche tech audience knows that. Apple blocked apps that showed a "30% goes to Apple" or similar. So yes, they don't want ordinary people to know.
Ask HN: Emoji in Commit Messages or Not?
Are you adding emoji icons in your commit messages or not? If yes what kind of emojis are you using? If not, do you find emojis illegible in the commit msg?
> Firstly there are few sites that only work in chrome so I kept chrome installed.

That's sorta reasonable I guess? Is that normal, though? I don't think I ever run into sites that only work on Chrome. Occasionally I run into sites that don't work, but that's pretty much always due to my adblocking settings.

Secondly at least to me, it is noticeably reduced battery life with firefox.

I find this odd, because I run Linux, where battery life is supposed to be terrible (vs. Windows on the same hardware), and yet I can leave Firefox idling with 500+ tabs open and the battery will still take 4 hours to half-drain.

For both of these things, though, I find it hard to believe that the average internet user would think to blame Firefox. Site isn't working? Site must be broken, oh well, I'll do something else. Battery seems to be draining faster? Weird, maybe I have a virus, I'll get my family tech-savvy person to reinstall Windows or something.

I guess it just makes me sad that "my battery doesn't last quite as long" is for some people -- especially those who post on HN who clearly use Chrome -- more important than not running a browser that serves mainly to drive Google's advertising and tracking machine. (Glad to hear that you, at least, weighed both sides of it and came to what I consider a better conclusion.)

Either way, I stand by my opinion that the causes of the pre-Quantum gripes are largely gone. No, not 100% gone, but I feel like we're well past the point that Firefox's remaining issues are more important than doing something to reduce privacy leakage.
At small scale, this is correct. At very large scale, hydrogen is incredibly easy to store. You can just fill up and old depleted gas well and store terawatt-hours of energy easily.

Germany has enough gas well storage to survive several months. This infrastructure is currently used for natural gas, but it can be repurposed for hydrogen.

I still think that commoditized battery storage will win in the end, but storage cost is not an argument against hydrogen.
My 90s self had already been using GUIs since the 80s courtesy of systems like Acorn RiscOS, Amiga, MacOS and even Windows 2.

The thing is I still enjoyed using quality DOS and Unix terminal software.

GUIs are not the one true way to represent a UI. They’re not even new technology any more.

They’re just different and better suited to certain tasks but not others.

It’s like asking why are we still using steering wheels to drive instead of speech recognition?
I followed some Twitter troll fight during their flooding crisis. Apparently they have some constitutional amendment which gives local/state governments complete ownership of their local issues.

I don't recall what that was. But it looked like classic central government vs state government fight.
Usually there are severity levels of deficiency.

Apparently, current levels of deficiency are not enough to lead to large problems.
For example in fastAPI repo I see emojis in the commits https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi
Absolutely ridiculous. It's like we're taking a step back from the progressive, colour blind world we once strived for every day. How this blatantly sexist and racist piece of writing can be published without fatal backlash from every thinking person is beyond me.
So what EPIC gets from AppStore system?
They could blow the key to an "insecure" state, and then have a jumper on the motherboard to allow insecure booting.
The lesson here is: invest in protocols and open standards, not “apps” and closed platforms.
> Idea: Could elevators be retrofitted with something like this?

I think it would not work so well because they have counterweights to make the up-down operation much easier. If you remove the counterweight, it would store energy, but be prohibitively slow when going up and probably frighteningly fast going down.

Regarding the uhaul, this is not too far off from other people mentioning driving a train uphill and letting it fall downhill to generate electricity. Interesting ideas.
> hexapods are just not a good platform for doing much of anything

Care to expand on this? There's an awful lot of insects with six legs that seem to do OK. Maybe I've watched too much Patlabor/GitS but I would have thought it a viable candidate for any number of mechanical platforms.
If I want a store competition I go to shopping mall.

The only store that has a place on my devices is the OS vendor store.
Exactly, if you don't like the way Apple does things don't buy an iPhone and don't develop software for iPhones. Very simple.
Not really.

ECB balance of assets purchased: €2.9tn(August 2020)
Eurozone GDP: €11.9tn (2019)
So 24%

Fed balance of assets purchased: $6.3tn (September 2020)
US GDP: $21.4tn (2019)
So 29%

Even if you look at total assets on the balance sheet (Including assets purchased outright and collateralised loans), the difference is not that huge:
ECB: €4.7tn (39%)
Fed: $7.0tn (32%)
The three numbers you need to know about healthcare: the 60-30-10 Challenge