skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah - we have a death world x 3 going at the moment, with enemy expansion enabled and everything - the nests basically span anywhere outside our base defenses by this point.

Still, we are far enough research and rsource vise it's no longer a problem (there were quite a few close calls before). Our automatic defense system looks like this, going from no-mans-land to the base:

* checkerboard pattern of walls, effectively "dragons teeth" as used on many 20 century fortifications
* double concrete wall
* laser turrets
* a conveyor belt with depleted uranium munition for gun Gateling gun turrets & artillery cannons (each on one side of the belt)
* Gatling gun turrets firing depleted uranium munition
* flamethrower turrets feeding from the closest oil deposit
* piping for the flame turrets & power poles for electricity supply
* an artillery cannon feeding from the belt & automatically attacking anything that strays into the no mans land
* base stations for construction robots to repair the damage that still occurs, even with such a rather crazy powerful setup

Still, this actually just "holds the line"! Conquering any additional are from the aliens would be still rather hard, with more and more bugs spawning as you try to attach their nests. Well, then we found out Spidertron (a giant spider like robot players can ride) can fire nukes.

The end result is pretty much the ultimate industrialized warefare - a player boards Spidertron stocked with nuclear warhead tipped rockets and proceeds to the are to be cleared, the fires nukes at targets as appropriate. This will clear the nests bug will make many of the survivors very angry - some of them can even take an indirect hit by the shock wave and still charge at you! You can install some close-in laser defense on the Spidertron but it's still a rather dangerous job. The end result - a new area with new juicy resources & space for new factory complexes, totally pockmarked with with burnt out crates from nuclear blasts! These scars apparently never go away (unless you pave them over) you will always see where a nuke has gone off.

Next you place the defenses as described above on the new perimeter (preferably as short as possible, creatively making use of water that can't be crossed). The build new railway lines and build mining outposts connected to those, to feed you smelters and processing plants.

On the place that remains you can place various processing, research, manufacturing complexes, rocket launch silos - or build a computer that runs a game engine. ;-)

Fed by trains bringing resources over endless nuclear scared wasteland and protected by ever vigilant wall of death.
I downvoted you because of your edit. Extremely obnoxious accusing employees of downvote brigades with no proof whatsoever.

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A quick fix is a great way to describe a bug for the person that understands the system.

On many projects the mantainers ask way to much of the submitter in following some guidelines. I feel they think they should not "steal" the submit from the submitter or something becouse fixing stuff for them would equal the work of commenting it.
Isn’t it beautiful? You create an open-source community, grow it, get donations, start selling the product, sell cloud services, and finally sell content and training to actually be able to understand the complexity.

All to deploy static websites, something you can do for free with near zero complexity by simply choosing another option. The JS world has become a marketing machine.
From the US website inciting public hatred for these despicable criminals:

“This conduct doesn’t just harm billion dollar companies, it hijacks the hard work of individuals working to advance in the video-game industry.”

Uh, harming billion dollar companies doesn’t seem to be like stamping on a poor and miserable kitten, they’ve made a billion FFS.

As to who exploits the work of individuals in the videogame industries, we all know what kind of sweatshops they are, and the shit moves they pull like firing all staff the day before release date, thus voiding vesting clauses...

It’s like these monsters didn’t really do too much harm except stepping on some other gremlin’s toes
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Why do we need a replacement for glass? Seems to me like a very good material other than the energy required to make it and somewhat limited supply of sand.
And I think you actually meant "not professional" instead of "homophobic".
To play the devil's advocate here. There are many app that have the option for opening link in them (facebook, twitter, reddit, the HN client Materialistic...). The reason for that I'm guessing is that when you are in the "reading mode" which can be the case for links in email, you don't want to go to another app an back, you just want to read/skim the thing and go back to your master view with the rest of the emails. In addition, actually think this is a good thing to shield user from tracking and unintended authorization. You're just one more touch away if you really need to be logged in some services.
I'm confused - it's all about dopamine. That's why it's treated with dopaminergic drugs.
No. That would be repressive and quickly invite censorship from influential people and state.

Better solution: Limit freemium model on anti-competitive basis for software services.

If facebook and instagram stops being free, I would think a huge portion of consumer base will quickly reconsider the value it provides them and alternative companies will have more chance to enter in the market when there is more leveling.
But you would want the "it doesn't work sometimes" bug reports too so you can keep your eyes open for it.
In my opinion it would be quite useful to reliably be able to skip one day, when you forget or are on a short trip for example. It would also give more margin for heavier uses, such as tracking a long hike.
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Humans can't tell time accurately without external cues about the day and night cycle. We also can't tell time accurately to the minute if we can see outside but don't know how long the day is, i.e. latitude and time of year.

We can tell time inaccurately by timing somewhat regular internal biological events. That pretty much follows from the definition of time as the interval between regular events (which are assumed for physical reasons to be equally spaced). The only question is which underlying events we use and how.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_perception
Regardless of whether the contributor is paid, I think that feature requests and bug reports can be compared to feature implementations.

If the feature request includes, for example, technical architecture and product design analysis, and illustrates that it has considered various other options, it could be highly valuable.

A bug report could have involved significant debugging to identify approximate causes, affected versions, and potentially-related commits that introduced/regressed the bug.

All of the above applies to documentation and support commentary too. There is a spectrum with any contribution from 'minimal' to 'thorough', and there's not necessarily a causal link between high-value contributions and paid work.
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I too usually interpret "tragedy of the commons" as "everyone does the thing even though everyone would be better of if no one did the thing"
The press release is for press to read and report on which they can then pass on to policy makers.
Any company that has the ex NSA chief on its board should be looked at twice. You may also want to consider this fact before scanning your hand on one of those new Amazon hand scanners....
Agreed. Sadly you have to choose. If you want a dumb TV you have to accept poor image quality. If you want good image quality your only option is a smart TV.

I still have my Pioneer Kuro LX6090 which is/was the most incredible TV at the time. For older, non-remastered content I still prefer it over my LG OLED.

However if you want the very best image quality with 4K HDR Blu-rays then you can't get better than an OLED.

IMHO the best option on the market today for movies are the Panasonic OLED range followed by Sony and LG which are roughly equal (to my eye).

If you want it for gaming as well I would recommend an LG though. While the image processing isn't quite up there with Panasonic or Sony they offer more options and features that next gen consoles will benefit from and let's be real unless you're a professional I very much doubt you will notice the difference between an LG OLED and a Panasonic OLED but you will certainly notice the 1-2 grand price difference and most likely the next-gen console features like VRR :)

I also have a Sony PVM which I have setup for older consoles as games on PS2 and earlier systems look awful on a flat screen (LCD, plasma and OLED) compared to even a mid-range CRT. I managed to pick up the PVM for 'cheap' a few years ago from a media company that was relocating and selling off old equipment from storage. It is also the best way (imho) to watch most VHS content, especially non-professional/camcorder stuff.
I don't think that's correct either. They just have to show that Apple is engaging in anti-competetive behaviour as defined by the Sherman Act.
Thanks! I'll fix it straight away.
Gatsby is a mountain of unnecessary complexity. I've built a few Gatsby sites that I'm still maintaining and I will never use Gatsby for a new project again.
As they say, "Get a framework that'll do both."
no power on ad either? i use our smart tv the same way, as a huge computer monitor via hdmi. then i run kodi on a laptop as a media center. works fine, and the only irritation is an annoying ad every time the device gets switched on. fortunately it's just an ad about a tv, and probably because of no internet, it's always the same ad too.
> I love it. Because I don't notice it exists. It just does its job, like a TV should.

Yes. This should be the goal of any good product.

Nowadays, every single time I’ve had to help my wife with the TV (you have to help people with TVs now!) it has been because it is the polar opposite of this.

As a result I’ve setup some macros on my Logitech Smarthub to try to force the TV away from these “smart” aspects, but they still sometimes fail.

Smart TVs are just horrible.
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I still have no idea what it does. Those comparisons are also within the realm of target audience
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Chromium is cool, Google Chrome is not. However yes, I would like healthy competition, not MS to take over completely.
>several are written in JS and TS, there is Rhino in Java, Otto in Go, Esprima .NET in C#

All of those have a mandatory GC.
> I highly doubt this is the future of garbage collection, because it involves massive infrastructure investment that only pays itself in decades.

So do sewage networks, but nevertheless nowadays it's unthinkable to consider any urban area without one.

To me this reads like a sewage network that doesn't rely on gravity acting on a fluid to operate.
I don't think the abovementioned course creator works in Gatsby, Inc, or contributes significantly (I see a few small pull requests) to the Gatsby open source project.
I’ve had similar experiences but haven’t drawn the same conclusion. I haven’t given up on being able to change the norm where a lot of open source users act like they have an enterprise support plan while actually contributing nothing.
"Smart" TVs are a terrible terrible thing. Old people buy them, not knowing what they are getting into; and then we, HN-type people, end up forever being called to someone's house (family, whom you cannot really deny) to fix stupid things that really aren't the fault of the user.

Also, when it takes 3 minutes to "boot up" your TV, that just sucks.

I'm going to blame manufacturers for taking an essentially saturated market and adding useless crap (and marketing it) to justify someone needing to buy a new TV. Indeed there are some visual improvements occasionally, but the benefits of those improvements are often diminished based on many factors (vision of viewer, room lighting/light interference, etc.).

Choice is nice, and competition is nice. But useless or likely-to-never-be-wanted-or-used features are just a waste of money, peoples' time, and environmental resources (the making of new TV, the discarding of old).
You are exactly right about that, not sure where the down votes are coming from.
Add separate recycling chutes and it may look very different.

You don't need separate chutes for e.g. PET and metals; they're easily sorted afterwards.

If beer residue doesn't make paper non-recyclable, you can chuck paper and cardboard into the same chute too, and now you have one chute for the major recyclables and one for trash that gets burned.
Yeah, it's all about motivation. Pink divides it further into three components: autonomy (being in charge of yourself), mastery (getting to improve yourself), and purpose (doing something valuable.)

What's nice is that various people have already figured out formulas to motivate workers. It goes by different names depending on who you talk to, but some examples are Deming's 14 points for management, lean, Toyota production system, continuous integration/delivery, DevOps culture. (With some overlap, of course.)

These things create an environment where workers are allowed to be motivated and essentially everything desirable for a company comes out of that state.
A deeper understanding of the mechanisms can lead to all sorts of benefits, from more accurate testing to better targeted pharmaceuticals to better studies of genetics.
There are probably some parallels here with music; some people produce (and may collaborate on) music for pure enjoyment and the craft, and at the same time there are large businesses that have industrialized music creation.
I can condense it in one line:

Social media companies sell the ability to influence you. That's why the product is often free.
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When I was 13 or 14, I had befriended the Sysop of a regional BBS who was gracious enough to offer me (and my Father) a tour of his workplace “where they made the C64”. Feeling like Charlie in Willy Wonka’s world, I was awed by the magic within this building. Computers and gear everywhere. Soldering and test stations and seemingly alien technology that my young mind had never imagined. But one thing that really stood out were the massive palleted piles of new C64 “bread loaves” arrayed around the floor; each with a numbered page on top with the count. Asked about this, our guide explained “All defective and awaiting test.” Thousands. Maybe tens of thousands.
But if you don’t plug them to the internet, can new TVs still be used as dumb TVs or do they annoy you with splash screens and other annoyances?
Agreed - another person attempting to jump on a bandwagon and then misrepresenting it.

Why don’t these types of sites ever get content from people like Kent Beck, Jim Coplien, Jez Humble, Dave Farley or Martin Fowler?

If there’s one thing that is going to kill Agile it’s semantic diffusion.
You're just stating that off grid houses are off grid. What's your point exactly?
There are plenty of ways around HDCP - some cheap HDMI splitters completely bypass it and will allow you to use your other screen.

Typically the review section of a given HDMI splitter on Amazon is a dead give away as to wether they bypass HDCP. Failing that you can buy a HDFury device - which I've used plenty of times in large AV installs to avoid HDMI/HDCP problems...
The vast majority of my links are literally pictures of charts and 280 character tweets.

In general, when you make a claim, the burden is on you to prove it, and you should hence provide links to your citations. Imploring others to Google around to corroborate your own arguments (especially when — in your case — the arguments are incoherent) imposes that burden on the recipient. It’s far higher a burden than reading links that have already been supplied, especially when those links are tweets and charts.

On only one occasion in this discussion, my links included research papers — but that was in response to claims about Piketty, a researcher. I generally expect people that bring him up to be able to parse research papers — a skill that you typically learn as an undergraduate.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they did but isn’t it illegal to connect to an open wifi if you haven’t got the explicit permission to do so?
I do just for the social aspect. I don't miss other stuff like sitting in rows and never talking to the rows behind me because we're not on the same team and never overlap on anything. That's always just struck me as strange.

I also miss blowing off some steam with colleagues. I find noone really complains or blows off steam on Zoom or in MS Teams Chat.
With a standalone smart box connected via HDMI if it becomes obsolete, or you want to use different software it’s just that which needs replacing. With a smart TV the entire display has to be replaced, to no real benefit.
There's something odd about the logic here.

"Once upon a time, the government tried to impose a tax you had to pay if you had a TV or a computer, which was bad because even people who never watched TV would have had to pay it. But it's better now, because instead there's a tax that literally everyone pays, even if they don't watch TV and even if they don't have a computer."

I'm struggling to see what principles would make the first situation bad without also making the second one bad.
You can setup an lG oled tv such as the C9 without inputting any wifi info and it works fine as a dumb TV.
His point is that if you end up like that it's because you don't recognize freedom when you see it. Its like that movie when the monkey does not go out of thee cage even if opened. Because its your project and you can do whatever you want. Its all in your head.
If you would mean it, I think it's nice to instead sign off the bug report with something like this "X is great, and thanks a lot for developing it" - when you're reporting something to a project where you are not previously known.
>This isn't trading, though. It's forecasting.

That's not my point. The point is people don't give away predictive edges for internet points (or reputation). There are many reasons why but the lack of a betting & trading StackOverflow is one symptom. It's just an example, but TBH it's not that relevant since this market wouldn't involve revealing edges.

>People go near real money strategies like that all the time.

Absolutely, and it's a problem with real funds. But:

- It's a lot rarer.

- There's a much stronger incentive for other people to quietly take the opposite sides of those bets, which normalises the market.

We'll see what effect it has, but I think this marketplace will just end up following the values on PredictIt.
Nice project!

Just wondering, why did you choose Github to build your community? why not Slack!
I grabbed the Kogan 55” 4K HDR (lol that feature is badly implemented though) TV for $550, it’s been excellent.

Dumb TV, decent picture, has worked great so far!
> mostly by people who do little programming but take over OSS projects

You're voiding your whole argument by disqualifying any opposition like that. Anyone disagreeing with you will now fall into that bucket, and give you a reason to ignore them. Can we save that for politics please?
Is this really necessary?

If I post a bug report like "when I run command X, there's a crash", how many OSS authors get annoyed?

If anyone gets annoyed at that, this is a sign they need to take a break from the project (or from the bug database), not a sign that the bug reporter needs to do anything differently.
> A better model would really be a low-waste lifestyle and compostable packaging/materials.

Your suggestion only affects how much trash is generated, not the need to process the trash that's generated.

Unless your idealistic "low-waste lifestyle" is able to generate zero waste, the suggestion is pointless.
The problem with cannons eventually ended up being solved by just making a big, slightly irregular piece of metal and then boring a precise hole down the middle of it.

There was also another technique called spiral welding in use in the Middle East and Central Asia that apparently worked pretty well. IIRC when the British captures the Bengali cannons after the battle of Plassey they were very impressed by the tubes if not the carriages. They ended up spiking them because the bore widths weren't standardized but they could fire further than the English cannons.
> Apparently Coke Zero is no longer sold anywhere except where I live (New Zealand)

Are you talking about Coca-Cola Zero? That is still very much available in Europe.
Isn't the trailing colon thing also in Ruby? I thought I remembered seeing something like this elsewhere where it also did not make much sense
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Is that kind of culture sustainable?
The article says "No patient or employee data appears to have been accessed, copied or otherwise compromised.". And yet the attack seems too have potentially attacked every computer in the health service. If they don't have patient or employee data on them, what do they use their computers for? Playing Tetris?
I've mentioned it on a few of the other recent threads about this topic but, for those who use piHole or other network wide ad blocking, I've compiled a list of servers to block: https://factory-reset.com/wiki/Samsung_Telemetry_Servers

For sure it's a game of cat and mouse, I guess the added revenue stream of direct to consumer advertising is too hard to ignore for most manufacturers and the demand from consumers for a decent dumb TV isn't high enough to justify a production run.
Thanks. I went all-in on Doom Emacs. It's been a struggle to get used to the differences, but I already like how it all feels faster and cleaner!
This was an interesting read but, as an adult with ADHD, all I get out of this is that medication is even more of a benefit to those with real difficulties coping with their ADHD. I've always been one to 'just deal with it' but after a few years of working through school and seeing my younger brothers go through the same thing with medication, I realized that I was essentially just handicapping myself.

Now I take medication in the morning before I get to work and it basically lasts me through the work/school day. When I was younger I was perscribed ritalin, and it just made me sleepy so I stopped taking it. Now I take a more modern medication and it works wonders. The negative stigma against medication really harmed me in school, and I wonder how different things would've been for me if I had started taking an effective medication at 16 and not at 25.
I believe Palantir exists specifically to serve the government surveillance "industry."

Do you have information showing otherwise?
I agree about looseness in general, but I disagree about semicolons. After having gotten used to programming without them, they always feel like a tedious burden which adds no value when I'm working with a language where they're required again.
Also
https://phys.org/news/2020-10-physicists-circuit-limitless-p...
from here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24665381
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obtuse

2.b: "difficult to comprehend : not clear or precise in thought or expression".

I think that makes sense.
I believe Palantir exists specifically to serve the intelligence apparatus.

Do you have information showing otherwise?