skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm trying to think of a counter example but the golden rule for a and the is specificity. "A" refers to any thing and "the" refers to a particular thing. Notice I used any thing instead of anything: now that is quite hard to explain.

"The book rested on a shelf" and "a book rested on a shelf". You use a or the if you want to draw attention to one or the other or even both. It depends on context. The book I mentioned earlier rests on the top shelf. The top shelf is above another shelf. The other shelf is the middle shelf. If there were lots of sets of shelves then the middle shelf would be a middle shelf, unless I want to call attention to it, then it is the middle shelf. A red toy lorry lies on the middle shelf. The red lorry has a black steering wheel. The steering wheel is broken.

There is a logic to all of that - honest!
Poker machines are to some extent non-random. They can be tuned by the operator to set the rate at which they’ll pay out, some places will tune for better rates in order to entice customers in, while others set them to essentially be black holes for money.
people spend ton of energy fighting EA

but the real problem is the asian p2w games, that's something that needs to get fixed ASAP
People look to the government and then things get expensive.
You are so right.

Architecture, and city planning, are the main reasons for this. Proof is that even immigrant populations (e.g. Greeks, Italians) still adapt and adjust to the new environment - almost completely abandoning the healthy community habits of their country of origin. It's not the people, it's the environment - at least to a large extent.
This. I have Comcast Xfinity in the USA (local monopoly, I would use a different ISP if I could) and they just don't offer IPv6. The rep on the phone seemed surprised that I would even ask.
You used to just ask for it with a reasonable story. Before that you used to just ask.
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I think this is the optimal model, set the level of enemies to wherever you’re at on arriving and then leave them at that level going forward. That way as you progress through the game you’re always being challenged by new areas, but you can always go back to earlier areas if you just want to unwind and stomp low-level enemies.
I completely agree with you on this. Companies have to innovate or they die. To me Slack had plenty of chances to go beyond their initial product. Imagine if they incorporated Screen Hero into Slack and poured resources to reduce latency and better real time collaboration as if you were a feet away from your coworker. Would Microsoft be able to replicate all of that from scratch?

You also have to consider that if you're a startup you can be a lot more agile because you deal with a lot less bullshit. Microsoft probably has tons of red tape and they are also spread thin. Their design space is also restricted in that they have to follow existing patterns. Slack should have been able to roam the earth however they wished. But they didn't. Slack had the lead and momentum but they blew it.

I don't see Teams as necessarily a bad thing as the article implies. Every product we have is a derivative of something else. It fosters innovation.
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Very weak correlation, and hard to prove that "all options" <-> "owned a home"
Oh, this needs a (2015). The bad wording was already highlighted here:

http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/usa50/index.html
There is a difference between for-profit content and free speech.
TL;DR: Start working with Google/Apple products/standards if you want to "keep up"...
So if it's "opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose noun", why would you say "the big bad wolf", but also "the bad old days"? In the latter, 'bad' is acting as opinion. But what's it doing in the former? Purpose?
I don't think anybody knows who are going to be part of that 20% in advance though.
I feel like “wooden” sounds more natural before “hand-painted”.
Good luck! I hope your dreams come true.

- Do not fall in love with any ideas. Once you have a couple of people play-test something, if it doesn't appear to be fun, be ready to discard it. A lot of things sound good in theory but generally don't work in practice. Some things will work with some changes but you should always be ready to let go of something and move on.

- For gameplay, keep the implementation as simple as possible. It might be tempting to implement a "generic/abstract" idea of something to get a clever implementation which works for many cases (which do not yet exist). Please think about the kind of bugs the resulting complexity could cause and whether they would be a pain to debug. Simplicity of implementation also makes it easy to refactor it later if you feel that it needs to be changed.

- Do not underestimate the work that goes into "finishing" the product. Once you have the basic concepts of the game working, you'll need stuff like UI, save/load/replay, high scores etc. This is not overly complicated but it's not trivial either. If you want to implement save/load/replay features, you may want to think about it in advance.

- I do not at all like Unity and love Unreal (no connection except unhappy and happy user respectively). However, just pick the one with which you will be more comfortable developing.

Again, I wish you luck and hope you have a lot of fun and learn a lot from your efforts.
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Maybe we should revise what we mean when we say 'farming game'.
It’s the same mindset with Bitcoin, Tech Stocks or even Pokemon cards. It became valuble because not many people knew.
Can someone ELI5 why this doesn't break the "information can't move faster than the speed of light" rule?
Embeddable Pulumi and complex infrastructure migrations
To be clear to everyone. Not commenting or promising on the future product direction of the Java server or Java edition (my group doesn't own the product or product direction in any way shape or form). There's just some stuff we can look at now to improve the status quo since a bunch of my team are also fans of the game :-)
Here's the link: https://www.bitbreeds.com/artifact/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25390941

fwiw
???? You can keep factories open in other places and relocate corporate staff comparatively easily. Not to mention you can also build new factories and facilities close to the new HQ once the move happens.
As a victim, you have to go public, you need the better lawyers then pornhub and some money reserves. If you succeed you stand even more in the public eyes and if you loose too.
"I never had any of them tell me to eat yogurt afterwards to repair what they do to your gut biome."
At least today 'probiotics' are just like any other health supplement without the proper data to back up regular clinical use. There might come a time where they are regularly prescribed but we are not there.
I've been using an almost stock installation of spacevim both in gvim and terminal for the last couple years. It's sort of like a distro of vim plugins dialed in to play nicely together.
I think a lot about this video:

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

If doctors and hospitals could adopt some simple best practices around central lines, a huge amount of lives would be saved. And yet it hasn't happened.

If doctors won't change to stop preventable deaths, they certainly won't change to prevent some discomfort.
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#2 is like how Tesla sells "Auto-pilot".
I don’t think the goal is the problem, but rather the means with which you get there. Voluntary is good, force is bad.
Don't miss out on the homepage's link to Datasette's ecosystem, which includes a variety of CLI tools that are just fantastically convenient for creating and working with sqlite databases:

https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/ecosystem.html

I'm a dork who likes using the built-in SQLite interface (and Bash hacks) for bulk CSV import, but it's really hard to beat the convenience of csvs-to-sqlite: https://github.com/simonw/csvs-to-sqlite
There is a fun generalization of the game. Assume the penny has (unknown) bias p. You want to output a new flip with bias some function f(p). So f(p)=1/2 is what you described, ie how to get a fair flip. For some functions it can be even easier, e.g. f(p)=p^2 - definitely only requires two flips.

How about:

f(p)=p^2/(p^2+(1-p)^2)

f(p)=2p(1-p)

f(p)=3p(1-p)

f(p)=sqrt(p)

The last two are tricky, I took them from a paper "functions arising from coin flipping" by Wastlund. (The quantum generalization is even more fun, but this text box is too small to contain it.)
Good question and understood. We don't do that.
Do you think your severe autism caused you to create your username, or was it sheer arrogance?
> Sexual harassment of female employees is still routine and casual racism is institutionalized but perhaps less overt today.

Please define what you mean by routine here.

Can you expand on what you mean by “casual racism is institutionalized but perhaps less overt”?
If I remember correctly Sid Meier’s point was a little more nuanced than that.

It wasn’t that people expect to win 90% of the time, it’s that humans have a very poor intuition for odds and statistics. Pretty much everyone makes the common mistake of not understanding how a 33% chance of winning impacts independent events.

People assume that 33% chance of winning, means a pretty such sure fire win after 3 attempts (after all 33% * 3 is approx 100%). But every battle in Civilization is an independent event, so to get a sure fire win (90% confidence) you need to fight something 6/7 times (I don’t know the exact number, been some time since I studied this).

Having the number of fights you win against an opponent be 2 or 3 times greater than the intuitive number of fights makes people think the computer to cheating. When really they just don’t understand how stats work.

To fix this the Civilization games actually skew their stats so they better align with human intuition. So if the game says you have a 33% chance of winning, then that means you’ll probably win after 3 fights. Despite the fact that really you have a 40%-50% chance of winning that fight.
Truly a great story!

Reminds me of this story...

Two years ago I was collaborating with a coworker. Most of our time was in his office. I would look over his shoulder as he typed. He had recently adopted a new IDE and spent considerable time configuring it and learning its features. He was very proud of how productive it made him.

Then one day we collaborated in my office instead. I use plain Unix tools, all independent. He watched as I did everything he did but with point-tools instead of a huge IDE. Rather than switching between files, I started a new terminal window and ran Vim. Other windows were for the build-run-crash loop, analyzers, note-taking, etc. Often I would do Vim tricks like doing a calculation by writing a formula on a line in Vim and piping the line to "bc" (`!!bc RETURN`). In fact, many of his IDE features I would access by calling out to external programs.

I had to hold back a laugh when he said:

"Oh my God! Linux IS your IDE!"

Well, duh. Isn't that's what Ken and Dennis created in the 1970s? Unix started out as the ultimate development environment! It just also happens to run everything else now.
I highly recommend trying out VSCodeVim. Use it for Go, JS, C, Rust and more - it's really enjoyable, and even stuff like C - W works just fine.
Indeed, typing in “docker” at the Ubuntu 20.04 command line tells you the above “apt-get install docker.io” command; one does not even need to waste time with a 30 second Google/DuckDuckGo search.

(Learning Ubuntu since CentOS went broke their pinky promise to supply security updates until 2029)
Very few would be unaware of the consequences... it’s a basic tenet of medicine - after all, along with alcohol withdrawal (and because of similar mechanisms) it’s one of the few withdrawals that can actually kill you (along with steroids).

Again that’s terrible practice but more often than not, given the prevelance of Benzo knowledge and specific requests from patients, some people end up giving them away (similarly to antibiotics for viral infections). It’s bad medicine but when GPs have 20 minutes for a consult and patients are more and more demanding... corners are cut when harm is considered minimal (ie regular low level Benzo dosing).

For example, probably 20-30% of elderly patients in hospital are on temazepam on arrival. They’re taking 10mg every night. That should never happen, but it does all the time.
macOS Catalina, actually.
This is not a valid counter example.

"Great" is capitalised here (in Great Dane) as it is now part of the name of the breed, rather than an adjective, whatever its origin.
How are you objectively going to document misinformation? How are you even going to assign weights?

Voter fraud is 100 points for Trump, the Hunter story is 50 points for the Dems, etc..?

The thing is that if you ask side X they’ll say it’s 80/20 for side Y and vice versa. Neither should be so confident that they’re right. And pointing that out is now called bothsidesism. The lengths people go to to avoid cognitive dissonance is beyond ridiculous.
Mantraps or similar significantly slowdown the flow, which is an inconvenience. Only big buildings or plants with strict security/safety constrains invest in multiple mantraps at entrances.

Anything else - or even proper poorly done mantraps that can be gamed - are imperfect it is understood that this feature of the access control system is a support feature, not a guarantee.

As I mentioned, a disaster can compromise the working of the system directly, and people may forcefully bypass restrictions (e.g. get out by windows), so you are correct that it only tells who might still be inside. However coupled with other features (e.g. marking users that are on vacation and therefore who are not allowed to be there) can also tell you who cannot be inside.
I find it funny that HN can criticize Slack for sticking to their main product without adding new collaboration features, while criticizing Dropbox for doing exactly the opposite.
As someone who uses Elinks/Links a lot, I'd highly recommend switching out Elinks with Links as the former is a now-deprecated fork of the latter [0][1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELinks#cite_note-2
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_(web_browser)#cite_note-...
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> When's the last time you gave an IPv4 address over the phone?

1990s, Quake.
The follow up question I hope someone can answer is how does google sort them?
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I believe the correct answer is related to specificity, ie what is most important to what you’re communicating.

To borrow some parentheses, (the big (bad wolf)) highlights the character of the wolf as being more important than it’s shape. However (the smelly (bad meat)) emphasises the bad-ness, or rotten-ness, of the meat and further describes it as smelly.

Similarly the focus of (the bad (old days)) the past, and bad is acting as an adjective for (old days).
I suspect tracking and analytics are also part of the problem. Imagine every single IPv4 IP ban now being rendered entirely and utterly useless. DRM/Geolocation blocks are also common and IP's are used quite widely in many software systems, most are likely to only accept a v4 address/format (perhaps terrible regex too).

Detectives and other governments rely on IPv4 addresses as part of 'evidence', and storing V6 uses more storage and is much more complicated generally due to the much longer address space.

We won't see the internet migrate to IPv6 entirely for another 20/30 years from now.
Did anyone else think that 80/20 sounds too neat, especially when you consider that the definition of superspreaders is subjective? It suggests confirmation bias and reminds me of when biologists etc assume normal distributions but when you did into the detail you find normal is actually not normal.
Because you can't read the data without a quantum decryption key, which you need to transmit the normal way. This is the same as with tunneling.
The beer can is round and somewhat easy to reseal. The round part is important, as the photo paper will be wrapped around the interior[1] for a wide field of view without a lot of distortion.

[1] https://www.instructables.com/Solargraphy/
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Donald? Is that you?
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/synshop.info/

https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/synshop.info/src/branch/master/Doc...

Feel free to drop me a line if you have more questions, my email address is in my profile.
> In other games, you can make progress faster if you pay. That is more annoying, but still no pay to win, or dishonest.

But who is to say you aren’t being manipulated to buy those microtransactions? Their presence gives designers the wrong incentives.
Authoritarianism is my countries leaders trying to impose their will on me. War is some other countries leaders trying to impose their will on me. Not sure I like either option.
Nice site — added to my huge list of pinboard bookmarks! Would be great to have a title and, if possible, a favicon.
I've never yet managed to use that thing without pinging the nail across the room.

Which does explain why OSHA says you have to wear safety glasses when nailing.
Generally speaking you request them from a regional internet registry (RIR). In North America, the RIR is ARIN https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/request. Bear in mind it’s harder and harder to get V4 addresses from an RIR these days, but it’s still possible. Once they are allocated to you, you have to find a place to announce them. Some “cloud” based solutions are Neptune Networks (https://neptunenetworks.org/) or Vultr (https://www.vultr.com/).
This is not the same thing. The campaign you refer to was created to harm a large group. Demonetization targets only the content makers but not their audience.
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Then opt out of it by blocking all that tracking and those analytics as well as those spurious a/b tests. While you're at it you might as well block any and all "social functionality". This way they get to play with their new toys without bothering you.
I choose to believe that to her husband, she was the most interesting.
I'm already using https://devdocs.io that aggregates a lot of docs pretty neatly, but would love to try your project when it arrives on Linux.
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I wanted to teach some courses on management and looked into Skillshare and Teachable. Both seem like I need to drive most of the traffic to my courses, both are not excellent in SEO and make courses discoverable to learners.

Do you know of a platform where I dont need to drive all the traffic myself?
Hey, great project! However, it is not really open source [0]. Do you mind updating your message and also on Github's README? The correct term would be 'source available'

[0] - https://github.com/getmeli/meli/blob/79e20c00ba/LICENSE
I personally think direct micro payments for skins, even without randomness and lootboxes, are still problematic. They aren't as bad as lootboxes, which are clearly designed to extract money, but their problem is that the potentially limitless money you can spend. If you go into a game knowing that it costs $60, you know that's how much you're spending on it. If you go into a game that hands out skins for $2.50 a piece, there's no limit, and unless you're good at making and sticking to a budget (which is a large portion of the world, especially kids who have no experience!) you can just as likely spend way more than $60.

This is worse when such things as skins end up getting tied to status within the game world. Fortnite doesn't have randomized loot boxes anymore, but that hasn't stopped kids from spending tons on V-bucks, especially since they get bullied if they don't [1]. Seriously, just look at videos of people bullying "defaults" on Fortnite. I think it's especially bad because there is a way to finance long-running multiplayer games: battle passes. It's an upfront cost so you always know what you're getting into.

1: https://www.polygon.com/2019/5/7/18534431/fortnite-rare-defa...
Agreed about the general BS meaning of "passion", but in this case I meant "liking software and building things with it". People maintaining legacy corporate systems written in COBOL -- the most common usage of this language -- don't exactly belong in this category. Which, as I said before, is perfectly fine: not everyone has to like software, maybe a job is just a job and you just need the paycheck. But all those recurrent articles praising COBOL somehow manage to forget this...
The Democrats ran maybe the biggest misinformation campaign in my lifetime following the 2016 election. Massive turmoil and investigations later, it was all found to be false. What is this about “sides” again?
This resonated massively with me. I'm very glad that at some point in my university days I started to play around with Vim and today I can benefit from the muscle memory in almost every application I use, even if I hardly ever use Vim directly anymore.
2012 discussion is interesting

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4235876
See also The Monty Hall and Sleeping Beauty Problems which seem to cover similar (or at least somewhat related) quandaries.
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A quite good story riffing off that: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/okorafor-kahiu_10_16/.
It's a shame the article doesn't give credit to the people they copied.

They should give credit to LavaRand classic, invented at SGI by Bob Mende & Sanjeev Sisodiya (Mende's passing still feels recent to me https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailyrecord/obituary.aspx?...) or its sequel LavaRnd (https://www.lavarand.org/news/lavadiff.html) invented by Landon Curt Noll and Simon Cooper.
It would be useful to give it a different objective, say, to "suggest content that disproves what you just saw using verifiable facts", but that'd be too hard without curating lists of such proofs and sources.
it feels like the core advantage over current information transportation is for inter planetary communication.
Every week I'm disavowing bad backlinks, blog spam created by saboteurs to manipulate Google rankings.

I have a script that compares the new links to the old links (last week), then I check those sites if they are real or spam. The new list is added to the disavow list.

The script makes life easier, because instead of going through all links I can only go through the new links.
Aside from using an ad blocker another thing I do to combat that is not re-using browser sessions. If I'm visiting a yoga website, I'll quit the browser and relaunch before I visit the personal finance website (especially then). My browser is configured to clear all history and site data when I quit, so I start with a clean blank slate. I quit/relaunch my browser dozens of times a day.