skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi all! We're Nate, Devon, and Jared, the founders of StartPlaying.Games. StartPlaying.Games is a platform that helps players find tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) and professional Game Masters.

I (Devon) have been a professional Game Master for over five years, running games for players all across the country. I even started hiring other professional GMs because I had more groups than I could run! The biggest issue I've been seeing with people getting into the hobby or trying new game systems is finding someone to run the game for them. A lot of solutions involve digging through discord servers and forums, which aren't very friendly to new players and require a lot of time and effort. I knew there had to be a better solution to this, and started creating some Pro GM groups to network with others.

A few days after the pandemic hit San Francisco in March 2020, I got a call from Nate, who wanted to pick my brain about being a professional Game Master. He was working on a similar idea, but with a tech-focused twist: an Airbnb-type marketplace to find Game masters and other virtual game masters. That first night, we spent hours on the phone chatting about what the platform could be, and for hours each evening for the next several weeks as we began to build StartPlaying.Games.

Over the next few months, we spoke with over a hundred Game Masters and Players while building out StartPlaying.Games. We launched our platform 3 months ago, and since then we have had over 2000 bookings and around 300 GMs join our platform. And with 40 million+ D&D fans around the world, we know there is a market for our platform.

We offer users the ability to join solo, book for yourself, and a group, as well as hand-picked options for custom and corporate requests. We make money by taking a percentage of game bookings.

On StartPlaying.Games, Game Masters get more time to focus on planning and running games instead of building a website and business platform. We’re now chatting with game publishers to help them find players for their game systems, and working with convention organizers to help them run virtual conventions. We are also chatting with charities on how to get more involved in helping them run game-driven fundraisers.

We would love to hear your ideas and any feedback you have!
There's a Canadian interviewer named "Nardwuar the Human Serviette" who mainly does interviews with rappers/musicians. Before each interview, he conducts the most in-depth research on them that anyone has ever conducted, mentioning people, places, early inspirations from their childhood and musical career, things that only a handful of people, the rappers' parents or only themselves could know - which often astounds, confuses or even frightens them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZP8OwCdO1E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RKbSi87J5Q

I agree with the previous comments, Lex' guests are really great, maybe the above can serve as inspiration :)
Why would your standard be "prove that this evidence is fabricated?" Shouldn't your standard be "prove that this evidence is in any way authentic" before we move forward with a discussion of it?
The 449-Page Antitrust Report on Big Tech Monopolies: Key Takeways
I don’t think standard homeowner insurance covers floods or wildfires but otherwise you’re right.
> Stalin did plenty of genocides of his own, and murdered far more of his own citizens than Hitler did.

Hm, yes - I would like to see the evidence that Stalin directly, intentionally murdered more than 11 million of his citizens.

You're really going out of your way to justify voting for the Nazis, huh.

If you're just going to go ahead and conflate the Holodomor and Holocaust as basically the same thing, then it's not really worth continuing the conversation.
What computer programs do people use to cheat? I do not play chess with other people, but I do play against the computer. I've thought of writing a program to make moves for me to see how it would fair against the computer. I'm interested in how the program interacts with the board? Does it take screenshots? Does it interact via an API?
Nope, working from the EU. As a consultant for Apple.
At least they’re warning us about all the things that could cause cancer
Most people aren't complaining about it if it stays in one spot.

The issue is mainly when moving between apartments/houses. All the shifting weight and jostling in the truck simply weakens things too much. It's also not meant to be disassembled, and the particle board easily gets really banged up because it's so soft. And all this is even when trying to protect it with covering pads. (And sadly, none of your tips are going to help either -- fasteners simply pull themselves out of the soft particle board, because the board itself is weaker than the fastener/glue.)

A Billy bookshelf or Kallax shelving unit will hopefully survive a single move, especially if you can tighten/glue things further after it's been moved. But once you're talking 2-3 moves, forget it.

For that reason, for young professionals who move apartments every couple years in their 20's, it often makes more sense to just leave/toss their IKEA shelves/cubbies/units, and buy new pieces for the new place. It isn't durable across moves.

(Obviously I'm talking about "classic" IKEA particle board flat-pack stuff. If you're buying a solid wood table or metal lamp from IKEA then it'll be fine, but that's not what most people are thinking about when they think of IKEA furniture.)
Physics is the study of tearing off the mask of simplicity to reveal the horrible complexity hiding underneath.

Once again, it's largely down to your frame of reference.
Unknown. They are only hypothetical.
As someone in an American apartment building; I am saddened by the crap thrown into our dumpster; especially with Craigslist and Goodwill. I regularly save "decent" pieces from the dumpster to take to Goodwill. I have an unbroken, framed, mirror in that pile now.
I have had to tighten the screws on my IKEA couch every few months - to a significant fraction of my friends, that would be grounds for replacing it. But it's just a quick wrench away from being sturdy! And you can wash the (removable) cushions on my $200 IKEA couch, which is not true for my $1000 fancy single-piece couch.
I agree. I've found the driver torque dial to be inadequate most of the time.

I'm reminded of the idea of "mechanic's feel" from "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. It's when you develop a sense for tightening a screw or bolt for snugness without destroying the threads, the head or the material. It's hard to do that with an electric driver in the way. (one exception might be the gyro drivers)

And with respect to wood glue - I think it's worth the effort to add it to the mix with the non-metal furniture. Not only does it make the furniture more solid feeling, it also helps prevent the screws from loosening.
Outside of the Bay Area, and maybe a few other especially hot real estate markets, I’m sure that isn’t true.

I’m in the process of buying a home in Washington and my agent says she’s never had a client waive the inspection contingency unless they’re buying a cheap fixer-upper to flip.
Why is it difficult to consider that guys is not the plural of guy? Or that girl is not a perfect analog of boy?

I understand the logic of "it's not how you mean it but rather how I take it" but at some point people are going to start to think this isn't how you take but some sort of ideological power play.
Eating only wheat or only potatoes is not going to be very healthy. Once you have to mix vegetables, yield will suffer dramatically.

Also, US yield for wheat is ~45 bushels per acre, wheat is 60 lbs per bushel, for 2700 lbs. This is 1.3 tons, not 4.

And this is done with large scale, high yield processes that do not scale down to an acre.

Where did you get 4 tons?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/190356/wheat-yield-per-h...
Would not the gravity of the solar system of pulled in much of the mass and what would be interesting is a probe sent directly up and down. Is this change in density a flat bubble of spherical, as in is the effect greater along the plane of the solar system.

That would provide the data to help nail this. Equally, what effect will this have upon the amount of matter in the universe and the hunt for dark matter/energy.

But logically, the gravity effect given the time of the universe, it is plausible that would be clustering (solar systems) and in-between those the viability of more matter in space and as such, density becomes plausible - so may explain what we are seeing here. Now what I'll be interested in is will the Voyager probes speed up, slow down or no change. The extra density will in theory slow them down, equally the weaker effects of gravity from the solar system would become less of a factor - might be they balance out for a period and may of already seen this. Still, value for money - Voyager is the gift that keeps on giving.

Now here is a thought, will the mass of the voyager probe in an environment in which it is the the most influential gravity start to build up these space particles. If that is so, who know's, the probes may well go on to attract enough mass that over billions and billions of years go onto form their own solar systems. Now that would be mind blown.
Since it’s a non-recourse state, you really don’t have to pay that mortgage back!
It looks like one of those technologies that are useful in theory, but difficult enough to implement correctly that 90% of implementations will be worse than not using it (endless scroll being a notorious offender).
What's the deal with the irritating "Click to rate this page" popup? It doesn't even go away when you click on a star.
I presume the claim Schiff is referencing is this one:

"U.S. intelligence agencies warned the White House last year that President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani was the target of an influence operation by Russian intelligence, according to four former officials familiar with the matter.

The warnings were based on multiple sources, including intercepted communications, that showed Giuliani was interacting with people tied to Russian intelligence during a December 2019 trip to Ukraine, where he was gathering information that he thought would expose corrupt acts by former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/giuliani-bi...
The Steele Dossier included Russian intelligence sources (so literal Russian Agents), at least that what it purports to be based on.

It also included a lot rumors and unsupported allegations.
Taking notes helps me, even if I am just doodling to keep my attention on listening.

Maybe having to write down what the person is saying and having to parse it will help you to pace yourself and also be focusing on the totality of what is being said rather than just the words.
You can block that or contest it, as you wish. I've been called a Nazi for opposing critical race theory. Where do you draw the line? Social media companies lean left, the government should ensure they remain neutral by following the First Amendment.
The desk I'm using right now is hacked together Ikea pieces and it's worked for me for about 10 years (It's the Expedit desk attachment that we expanded). It's really one of only a few Ikea bits left since my wife and I got together. Ikea made it possible to furnish our home at the time, and as we've stabilized and our careers grown, we've replaced the Ikea items with nicer things. I have no ill will toward Ikea, and while they do not make furniture you'll put in your will, they enable a lot of people to have decent things at a decent price.
You can read the original version here if you want: https://tedium.co/2020/10/13/eternal-september-modern-impact...
I needed a reader view library for a side project and decided to compare the most popular options (repo at https://github.com/awendland/readable-web-extractor-comparis...). Among cleanview, metascraper, @postlight/mercury-parser, and mozilla/readability I thought that mozilla/readability performed the best because of its consistent extraction of the primary content and minimal mangling of the semantic structure.

For a quick preview of each library on a random sample of 16 articles posted to HN, see https://github.com/awendland/readable-web-extractor-comparis... (you’ll need to expand a row to see its results).
Gov'ts: We want a backdoor, it's possible to do it so only lawful access is permitted.

Big Tech: We have very smart people working for us who say it is not possible to do this safely. The risks greatly outweigh the rewards.

Gov'ts: no u

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Not a new conversation. I've been wondering - what reason do big tech firms have to oppose backdoors except for concerns over compromising their legitimate users' privacy? I don't know what else would explain their resistance.

Assuming good faith and logic on both sides (tall order), how does the conversation progress?
Data Diffing Based Software Architecture Patterns [video]
I found this site really interesting and went through the little quiz but also backed out when I had to give personal information. I guess they want to avoid the Greater Fuckwad Theory?
This idea has been tried, for example in the vietnam war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_Dog_(bomb)
I also learned to drive on the 800 in India. My grandpa has one from the first year of production. It has survived quite a bit including flooding, getting stuck in deep mud, and the general stop and go of the traffic in India. It has seen better days but still running.
I think it is one of those things like insurance - you won't need it 99% of the time but it is good to have for that awful 1%!
Show HN: FarbaCDN – A P2P Content Delivery Network
> The scientists who undertook this project knew it was the next generation that would benefit from the knowledge.

It's not such a black-and-white deal. The primary mission of the Voyagers was to study the outer planets, which it completed in ~12 years after launch. The studies on Jupiter and Saturn were already finished 5 years after launch.
Also see functional programming :)
A portfolio of investments! It was was the reason I felt no financial or job worries during COVID. It's also given me the financial confidence to sublet my apartment in an increasingly unstable downtown environment at a loss and finally buy my dream home and car during a pandemic year. And somehow my net worth is still continuing to go up despite all that.
> but fails on newer Chrome because of click-to-play audio.

In these cases, you can also refresh and rapid click, it gets registered as a user gesture and the audio is allowed to start. Maybe try two-three times.
How do you know people aren't using it?

In May FB announced over $100m in content sales for Oculus.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/18/oculus-surpasses-100-milli...
The established users on the Usenets were polite and cordial. The newer users brought down the tone.

Thankfully nobody remembers that, so vice can use the term to darken our world a little more.
The Content Value Hierarchy
Same here in Texas, on an otherwise uninteresting purchase. All sorts of disclosures of things that are almost inconsequential. I'd have to pull up my documents but it was stuff like "In 1993, 3 boards were replaced by X after Y happens".

A former boss of mine said that when he bought a house in Nevada they had him sign a notice acknowledging that gambling was legal in the state he was purchasing a house in.
Google Translate does 108!
Stockfish is free and open source.

https://stockfishchess.org/
So we're deciding right now that "guys" is a group of men? Why are we deciding to have the least inclusive possible meaning?
A Hospital Races To Learn Lessons Of Ferrari Pit Stop

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB116346916169622261

Knowledge from pit stop procedures improves speed and decreases accidents in hospital settings.
> HTML with either CSS3 or JavaScript is definitely a program, though

Then so is something in HTML that doesn’t use CSS3 or JavaScript, for the same reason that a C program that contains no loops is still a program.
I got QC35, one of my favorite thing ever. I can listen music at really low volume and still hear all different notes. And I can sit outside in my patio next to a running A/C unit and not hear it at all.
I've run into the silent truncation before. I'd be happy if every site presents a username AND password field on ONE page, instead of on separate pages where you have to click twice to login.
The things that separated Apple II from the rest of the "gaming" computers such as the C64 (which is what I owned) were its bus and its software.

First the software. 8 bit software for small business ran on the Apple II (especially in the late 70s/early 80s). Ever hear of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet? Originally released for the Apple II. dBase? One of the earliest databases available for microcomputer systems? First ran on Apple II and then MS-DOS. Even a word processor was available: Apple Writer. So in 1979 you had a spreadsheet, database and word processor. Just the tools you needed for a small business.

Now the bus. Apple II had expansion slots and a whole industry devoted to creating every kind of interface imaginable. You had the standards such as printers and floppy disk drives, but you also had hard disk drives (which few of the other 8 bit micros of the time supported) and a plethora of lab equipment. It was kind of like the Raspberry PI of it's day - people were hooking up all kinds of stuff to those machines.

Bottom line, Apple II focused on small business, labs, and hobbyists. C64 and Atari focused more on a game console that could also double as a computer. Apple II went to the office while the C64 and Atari went to the home.

Apple II would continue to dominate in the small business environment until the MS-DOS machines reached price and feature parity - which happened in the late 80s. By that time it was clear Apple was headed the way of GUIs and wasn't as interested in investing more into the Apple II line, so it withered. But for a period of about 8-10 years the Apple II dominated the business and hobbyist market.

P.S. - the "Apple Tax" existed even back then. The Apple II machines were way more expensive than the Atari 400/800 (even the ST) and the Commodore VIC 20/64. I remember my C64 costing $600 whereas an Apple II+ (which was targeted for homes) ran $1,200-$1,400. Unless you were actually running a business you simply couldn't cost justify those machines.
> But rather than directly ask the naive question which we simple listeners want to ask, I want a smart interviewer to give us some quick signposts about schools of thought on this and where the interviewee probably comes from given what they've said in the past. Then you can get a deeper answer. Even, perhaps especially, when they disagree with the way in which the interviewer has framed the question.

If you don't like Lex's style, well, then don't listen to him. A lot of
people seem to like and enjoy him. Asking someone to change to better fit
your own expectations, honestly, seems quite a bit to ask, and at the end
might not work that well, if it doesn't fit himself.

Sure, you can critique whatever you want, but Lex doesn't really has to
listen and also shouldn't, if he has that many listeners by just doing his
thing.
The nagging suspicion is that it isn't the flood/fire risk that's the problem but that all desirable areas were built out 100 years ago. That leaves everyone without generational wealth to be pushed into risky areas. There's whole neighbourhoods and towns built where they shouldn't be, and with climate change it's only going to get worse.
I can't believe I ever considered being a patent examiner after I finished my engineering degree...
Work and Let Work: Three models for managing political conflict at your company
Recipe for Small Beer, from George Washington's Notebook
Social version of Gresham's Law?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law
We just have a different value calculus over you. My friends have my location. I share it pretty liberally with everyone close to me comfortable to receive it.

It's convenient for me since they know how far I am when I'm heading over. They can tell if I'm in town if they want to go out. Honestly, never felt uncomfortable.
> If you can't trust public visitors from the internet, who can you trust? Executing user input as commands inside the operating system is the most direct way to get things done, and that's what matters most.

I had to scroll this far to realize it’s a tongue-in-cheek thing.
I am not advocating for competing standards. I am advocating for open standards and competing implementations.

Both of your examples point to competing standards: IE6 was a tentative to fork the web standards by Microsoft. The 20 USB form-factors are different connector standards (even if they all implement the same wire protocol).
To understand you correctly, are you saying bankers&lawyers get drawn into acquiring startups? ...More about strategic interests than direct return on investment?
The sources I saw said they denied the meetings were on his "official schedule." Which is a weaselly. Biden himself hasn't denied they occurred. That might be because they don't want to give the story any credence by denying it. But he hasn't.
It's still an exploit in their app that can be abused on their users.

I see nothing wrong with submitting it in multiple places, it's still better then being sold darknet.
In the Salazar circle, TUE's for asthma were downright endemic. Everyone knows what's going on, you just need to catch these guys. We got Salazar, and most of his athletes know in the back of their minds we'll get them sooner or later.
Gotcha. Thanks for the feedback. Sounds like I should have watched/read the interview : (

Though it's not related to the issue at hand I still recommend checking out Lawfare : ).
Yes, Jean-Martin (JM) Fortier (Quebec) is a good example, though there are better / more comprehensive ones, and at larger scale too, see below. And JM is not even doing full permaculture, e.g. not using multi-height crops (i.e. ground covers through plants of a few more different heights to top canopy trees, 100 or more feet tall), so as to use more of the available sunlight and underground nutrients (shrub roots can go deeper than herbs, and trees even deeper, and what is brought up from deeper can be shared with shallow-rooting plants via compost, chop-and-drop, etc.). And he still makes fairly high profits per acre / person / year, i.e. overall. He has many videos about his work, both the technicals and commercials, on YouTube. Search by his name as well as for a great series titled Les Fermiers.
And some examples higher on the axes of land area as well as permaculture and / or regenerative agriculture, vs. "just" organic farming, include:

- Gabe Brown, 20+ years at it, 4 or 5000? acres, mixed grasses (grains) and broadleaf crops, cover crops, livestock (beef, pigs, etc.), land getting better each year, saves hugely on synthetic fertilizer and pesticide (see a chart in his Treating The Farm as an Ecosystem video), profits better too, and higher than his synthetic-using and tilling neighbors and state averages (ND, USA), and going up the value chain, so getting more of the final consumer dollar vs. middlemen. The average take for "conventional" US farmers is quite low, he says. Oh, and he does not need or take govt. farm subsidies, as many others do.

Has many videos too, search for his name. Check the comparative stats and photos.

- Richard Perkins, Sweden.
Not sure of area, but above a few acres at least, maybe 25. Mixed stuff again. High profits again. Videos again. Many years' good results again.

- Last but one of the best, Geoff Lawton (NSW, AU), long time permaculture expert (learned from Bill Mollison), doer, 66 acre Zaytuna Farm, is real mixed farm plus demonstration site, yearly trains many interns, consultant (to small orgs through to countries). Ditto for many of above points like axes, diversity, profits, improving over time, cost savings, etc. etc.

Edited for typos.
Quantum Computing and the Secure Internet: Explained from Scratch