skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You joined recently, not sure how you've got any ability to say it's gotten worse 'recently.' Unless you are referring to the past 10 months or so where there was one or two things that might have impacted the discourse a bit.

HN still is the place it's always been. You have more data now, perhaps, but fundamentally it hasn't really changed. People continue to upvote and downvote in roughly the same ways, and they are used to agree and disagree just as they always have been.
That’s the point! Bitcoin didn’t bend the world to its will. Whereas ridesharing forced legalization of ridesharing.
In payments the 99% case where everyone acts in good faith and no one makes a mistake is the easy part. It's when eg the seller refuses to send the phone that the extra overhead of the traditional payment system comes into play.
Sounds like a lot of shit rolling downhill.
First rule of youtube-dl.
Prices are information. That information turns out to be very useful when planning an economy.
I had a similar experience at a bigco that had a minor controversy on HN/Reddit a while back. In this case I was literally able to look at relevant source code and internal documents. Many of the comments were wildly inaccurate and conspiratorial, although there were a couple voices of reason mixed in.
Oh, I loved Skyward Sword, I was just talking about the tutorials! I really enjoyed the motion combat, and I think the dungeons were the best in the series.
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Once it picks up pace, Skyward Sword has some of the best dungeons and bosses of the series. Ancient Cistern alone is probably the pinnacle, but it's also got Sandship and Lanayru Mining Facility. Wind Waker and Twilight Princess are replete with weak dungeons aimed at more novice gamers. You'd have to go back to N64 or Link to the Past to find something that challenges the player, and none of these are as thematically satisfying as what Skyward Sword offers.

Skyward Sword's overworld is oozing with rich and evocative atmosphere, too. If you take away the Gothic veneer, Twilight Princess is almost sterile in comparison.

It's a great game that gets blamed for small pitfalls.
>even Miyamoto's creations involve some degree of cartoon violence. (e.g. Mario stomping on Goombas, Link stabbing his sword and breaking vases)

In neither of these cases however, do any of Miyamoto's player characters kill humans. (Well, until the Yiga clan in BotW).

> Hideo Kojima did this in Metal Gear Solid 3.

The only Kojima game I've played is MGS 1. However, I have massive respect for him both as a person and an artist due to things such as this.
Thanks, I didn't know that. For 2019, GM had R&D costs of $6.8B. They sold 2,887,888 cars in the US and 7,710,000 worldwide. Per car, that would be either $2,355 or $882 depending on whether the R&D number is a worldwide roll up (I'd think yes?).

Either way, adding the $6.8B to their gross margin number for 2019 would have increased automotive gross margins from about 10% to about 15%. Tesla's 2019 automotive gross margin was 21%. MRQ was 24%.
A recent-ish Nintendo design hallmark that i've grown to hate is hiding bits of the game behind a naked hours played counter. I get that there's a call for it, especially for creative games like Mario Maker, but the annoyance is that they don't provide a way for people who know what they're doing to bypass it.
Wikipedia claims it was coined as recently as 2003:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement#Hist...

Sounds fairly recent to me (so long after first versions of CSS and js) - but also not entirely unreasonable. 2015 is certainly much too recent.
I find it kinda odd that people's complaints about JIRA seem to all center on meetings and people. JIRA is absolutely not easy to configure. It's a pro suite of tools that requires investment in setup. What it allows is total flexibility within a set of paradigms to meet any orgs preferred workflow. Other tools that are simpler are all too simplistic.
Happy new year to all the HNers, no place like this on the internet :)
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Did 100% pair programming for awhile.

Whatever else can be said. I went on a week cruise with zero stress about work.

Knowledge was so well spread around that no one was a point of failure.
Several of us were the best for specific issues, but our pair would then get better at it.
Even though you may be right I’d still fear being a second class citizen on Linux. And I’ve heard nothing but positive things for .NET.

Not that Electron is appealing either but I get the draw fully.
Show HN: BadPython.com – see how not to write Python
Python is a really flexible language, and there are tons of right -- and wrong ways -- to accomplish any task.

BadPython is a fun, collaborative way to see and share snippets of python code, vote on whether it's actually bad, and hopefully learn how _not_ to write python.
May I suggest a look at Montana. The landscape is beautiful, and the people friendly. Plenty of room.
Search indices aren't allowed to index public URIs anymore? Nobody else has this technology?
Brain Games: Logic, Tricky and IQ Puzzles
Vaccinated and still alive, hopefully.
Or ‘Monkey Suite’

“DOOM, all capitals, no trick spellin'”

“Got what it take to get it through your thick melon”
Nobody has a choice but to trust microsoft. Amazing.
But microwaves are the only one you'll still find in most homes. I think GP was implying that the author is relatively young.
> C# is basically the same thing from a VM perspective, an interpreted bytecoded high-level language, but tied to windows

C# is not tied to Windows, some new features in the latest C# 9.0 doesn't even support running on the Windows-only classic .NET Framework.

All new .NET development + C# features is being invested into .NET 5+ (FKA .NET Core), i.e. the high-performance cross-platform runtime.

> The nice thing about Java is the deployment and management tooling. It's cross-platform and mature. C# is not nearly as good in this respect, although with the open-source it is finally free to move with that.

Citation needed, I deploy my .NET 5 Apps with Linux tools, either rsync, Docker as well as AWS ECS. All clean + simple, only requires a single command to publish your App ready for distribution, that you can either rsync across or include it in the runtime image of your Docker build.

Tried to publish a Java package last week and the whole experience was a shit show, by far the worst experience of all languages where the recommendation to publish a package is to push it to bintray first, make it available to jCenter than sync it to Maven, where you need to get manual approval to include it in jCenter then you need to create yet another account/credentials with a 3rd Party which requires a manual request via a damn Jira ticket. Then each package manager has different requirements as to what a package needs, I could publish it to bintray but couldn't get it to jCenter without uploading a POM which new Kotlin projects aren't created with, then MavenCentral requires a stricter POM and Java Docs but there's no standard way to publish to a repository as bintray needs their own non-compatible task, so now I have duplicated generated POM's in my gradle build to satisfy different repositories, for bintray I needed to hook into their bintrayUpload task and generate the POM just just before it uploaded the package which I needed to decompile its sources to find out where exactly the POM file needs to be written to, no examples of which existed for Kotlin build.gradle.kts scripts that new Kotlin projects are created with. Then there's the case that every build.gradle example uses configuration that is already deprecated and Java/gradle seems to be the only one requiring uploading binary .jar's with your source projects.

Every other language has a single repository you can publish to that you don't need to jump hoops to get, published using standard tools, simple, clean, straight-forward & well documented.
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Ask HN: How do you objectively measure productivity from a Git Repo?
I know measuring productivity from a Git Repo doesn’t give the full picture in a typical work environment.

But in a short term projects, say a month where lot of coding is expected. How do you objectively measure how well one has contributed just using Git Repo?

Also how do you rate a team members contribution subjectively? Like problem solver, team player rating between 1 to 5. Any other better way to do this?
Companies rarely hide good news, so fraudulent good news is much harder to pull off.
> it seems like you are biased against people of color, and you view this situation as evidence that all people of color do not work hard/are given unfair advantages in life, and therefore, your bias is warranted. In other words, you appear to believe in a common racist trope.

You judged me guilty of all of that because I provided an anecdote that some companies bias positively (not always negatively) towards people based on their race and/or gender? Do you expect me to respond and defend myself against each accusation? Because you don't have the right to pressure that from me, especially as an anonymous throwaway account.
Massachusetts to Ban Sale of New Gas-Powered Cars by 2035
I have. There was a Chrome version (69 IIRC) that kept it from using a proxy server that was at a CNAME and had Kerberos authentication.

Here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=872665

This was a huge, huge, huge pain in the butt in a big enterprise. Nothing like a creeping "users can no longer access the internet" spreading across the environment.
Anecdotally some b6/b12 supplements have given both me and my partner very intense dreams and vivid recall. No idea what the mechanism might be (Or if it's a preservative/etc) but potentially an interesting data point?
We might have different definitions of "recently", but I've been here 7 years in total: 3 years lurking, and 4 years as a user.
I thought its about improving terminal prompts
Supa!
Dave Barry still exists?
No clue. And I'm not sure your post even makes sense?

Like, what are even hoping to achieve? Aren't modders and the like probably already trying to do what you are trying to do?

And why do you think $10k is a significant amount of money to anyone who could achieve what you want done?
Whoops yeah that should have been 9.4 quadrillion BTU. The online calculator I used for TWH conversion was very wrong. Looks like the correct value is about 2,000 twh for the us commercial sector?

If we assume banks are 10% of that, then it’s 200 twh. 3x bitcoin. But also, handling literally all finance and banking in the US. Vs essentially nothing for bitcoin, compared to the scale of the us economy.
It's the "front" of a flashcard.
I was referring to the article (though I didn't make that clear).

> Austin is the third-largest city in the United States and the third largest state capital.

which is clearly wrong
Western Union had, hands-down, the best rates and the least hassle for me sending money to my home country. The old reputation of WU just doesn't hold ground any more.
What puzzles me the most about Brexit is reflected in the more...effusive...posts here as well. The overheated rhetoric and amazing one-sidedness of the discussion in the online media. Way over the top if you just step into the discussion as an objective observer. It’s been only 48 years, they are all supposedly mature democracies, what is the big deal?

I could only think of two excuses:

* some powerful entities had made some very big bets in the derivatives market tied to this and it was worth anything to not lose on those trades. Who knows, but seems extreme even for those sorts.

* there is some deep existential reason that UK’s membership was key to the EU enterprise.

The only thing I, as an outsider, could conjecture on the second point was the UK provided “karmic cover” for Germany (and France) to directly control the other EU member Nations.

In the media, Merkel’s statements were seemingly taken as the de facto EU position. Macron made an out-of-band agreement with Merkel, that made no sense if the EU was their platform for interaction. From an outsider perspective it seemed that Germany was running the show.

But remember Napoleon? Remember the Kaiser? Remember Kaiser 2.0 (Hitler)? But then remember the UK...they didn’t try a “Deutschland over all of us” or a Napoleonic union at the point of a bayonet. They comported themselves rather well.

So the EU really isn’t Germany finally winning WWII if the UK...hey wait, UK, where are you going?

That might be worth distorting the public debate in the UK over...

Purely an ignorant outsider’s take.
How long has Microsoft been giving source code to China officially? I know they made that a public stipulation.

Not that alternative means were likely employed for a number of years before that.
Thanks eh. Yeah Japan has been good to me. This year above all other years has been a year of growth. As you noticed my own production, Railgrade, is nearing ship. It helps that the games and anime industry has only grown thanks to COVID. My client work is at capacity. I was able to hire a friend thanks to Google's hiring freeze.

Of course the back drop is I've lived and saved as if the world was always in a recession. Thus when the actual danger hits I was able to expand my business. As PG says, the best time to start a business is during a recession.

Personally I expect Japan to handle COVID economically better than most other countries. Japanese corporations have long be criticized for building cash warchests instead of upping dividends or buybacks. Thus Japan Inc has the balance sheets to leave the recession having acquired foreign assets.
The entire history since civilization started has been leading us to this point — climate change. Ever since fire was tamed (arguably defining the beginning of civilization), the emission of greenhouse gasses has been leading us here. And we have known it for decades, if not longer. Now it’s here, and this is the fight we need to be united for; not some trite idea of “quality of life”. This is about the whole of human survival.
This is not true. Bitcoin can proceed with half its miners or with 3/4 its miners with no consequence aside a decrease in its resilience to attacks.
When I was younger, I wasted a lot of time following the advice of online strangers who seemed to have a lot of conviction in their ideas -- much more conviction than I'd ever had about anything myself. To me, that was a sign that they must know what they're talking about. It turned out to be the opposite. These days, I try not to blindly follow the advice of anyone who can't demonstrate their knowledge to me in some way; if you're telling me how to paint a picture, you better be able to show me one of your paintings.
After checking the Wikipedia disambiguation page, I'm assuming that SRS means Spaced Repetition Software here?

Clicking through to the next article, "spaced repetition" itself seems to be a flash card based learning technique.

I wish more people would define the uncommon abbreviations and terms they use for the convenience of their readers.
> and don't require you to write any new code or change how you operate.

This one was fun, but I guess quadrigacx was always going to be insolvent anyway: https://old.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6ettq5/statement_...

(I think the top ranked post can be ignored, it gets good here: https://old.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6ettq5/statement_... )
You believe these companies "bias positively". Which may or may not be true.

What do you think this anecdote means? What do you think about this situation?

I think that you want people to draw a conclusion from this story.
Your figures are correct, sorry, I did a quick back of the envelope and as you suspected compared worldwide R&D with US sales.

Yeah, I'm not claiming Tesla has bad margins, just that the figures on the balance sheet aren't apples to apples. 10% vs 21% compared to 15% vs 21% makes a huge difference. It's a 40% gap instead of a 110% gap.
Instead of switching all the way to gRPC for a return channel they could also have opened another persistent HTTP/1.1 connection which can be ready to send whatever is required.

gRPC (or more: HTTP/2) will win if the amount of request-levle concurrency that is required is extremely high. But in that case also the danger of head-of-line blocking between the various HTTP/2 streams gets higher.
"I don't trust, based on their past behaviour, that these people will pick a path that is consistent with mine" is a perfectly rational reason based on ideology.
This sounds naive to the point of dystopian. What about tragedy-of-the-commons collective action problems, like pollution, natural resources (overfishing, overlogging), climate change, herd immunity?

Canada and Nordic countries rank highly in every major freedom index, yet these countries are all known for relatively high tax obligations and comprehensive environmental and climate regulation. No one serious believes all externally-imposed commitments are avoidable or oppressive.
“The past didn’t go anywhere” - great album, I haven’t played it in years but some lines come to mind regularly.
Yup. I smoked pretty heavily for two years and didnt really dream at all during that time. Outside of those two years I've always had pretty vivid dreams.

A dream journal really does help though. The last thing most people want to do when sleepy is write though.
> but there's no inherent moral superiority of one side over the other

Of course there is. Shorting is immoral, it's legalized gambling, and the shorters are hoping the worst for the economy so they can profit off of other people's misery. Regular stock purchasing (not options mind you) is buying into a company, after researching it and understanding its workings with the hope of gaining value.

Another important difference is that regular trading transfers risk from one party to another, the overall risk in the market stays the same. Shorting however, creates risk for the sake of gambling, and exposes at least 3 parties to the stock instead of one. This is dangerous and immoral. It's quite telling that shorting was banned during the 2008 crisis, however, people don't learn and they reallowed it.
Homestar Runner now using Ruffle to preserve Flash content
You can also use curl.exe for something more similar to unix-y curl.
https://yuzu-emu.org/

https://ryujinx.org/

https://github.com/dekuNukem/Nintendo_Switch_Reverse_Enginee...
> C# is basically the same thing

Abstracted far enough, everything is basically the same thing.
That's like saying people who engage in whaling are doing it to feed their families. It's hard to believe that there isn't a moral avenue to expose fraud other than resorting to an immoral activity (shorting).
Great quote - wish I could upvote more than once!
great app looks pretty resourceful.
The only twist I’d add to this is that the 1% contributing could be different people at different times. So maybe spread over time it’s a little more even.

That matches how I contribute. I’ll passively read comments for weeks or months, then get interested in something that comes up enough to start commenting on it.
The distinction matters if you want to engage honestly with the intent of the message rather than argue a straw man.
The NES shipped in limited quantities in 1985. The Family Computer shipped in 1983, and it lacked any sort of lockout technology, leading to the proliferation of unlicensed games in Japan and ultimately the development of the 10NES system for the North American NES.
I thought it was about improving terminal prompts with a new space daemon. Do we need help?
You could just have the server serve up the correct offset when the page is requested. The code delivered to the browser would still be pure CSS.

Of course it might drift over time, but you could also serve up a refresh header to deal with that every hour or so.
Try changing your room temperature by a degree or two. This makes a big impact for me.
Ok, so what path is interfering with the ability to build faster and better exactly?

Looking at their current behavior from open-source to VSCode to .NET 5 shows that it's a more compelling choice today than ever before. This is actually rational.
They get that resolution by having a radio telescope array with many sensors spread over a wide area [0]. An incoming wavefront will hit the different sensors at slightly different times, depending on the direction the wave is coming from. By combining all the sensors' data, you can calculate the intensity of incoming radiation from every direction in the sky. The resolution increases as you increase the horizontal distance between the sensors, because that makes it easier to resolve the arrival time differences.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Square_Kilometre_Ar...
Short selling is legalized gambling, much like options. Lots of people see both of those activities as immoral.
It is next to impossible to seize bitcoin if you make it so. The government could try coerce custodial companies, but it will only be effective on the first time; next time, people will move their bitcoins to safer places where government intromission will be immensely costly.
The market can function perfectly well without short sellers, as it has for thousands of years before shorting was introduced. Shorting is in no way an essential part, and more accurately, it's immoral. Exposing several parties to the price of one asset is bizarre to say the least, and very dangerous. No wonder we keep having one economic crisis after the next.
I didn't realize Boulton & Watt, a steam engine manufacturing firm founded in 1775, was a beneficiary of a war between Great Britain and Thirteen Colonies that also broke in 1775. Military-industrial complex indeed!
Recent revelations around stalking: https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/nintendo-leak-reveals-ext...

Recent cancellations of event sponsorships over the use of a hashtag pertaining to Nintendo's actions in a previous event: https://kotaku.com/nintendo-cancels-splatoon-stream-after-te...

Revelations about past Nintendo activity repeatedly extinguishing Smash events both through strategic and tactical measures, disclosed after The Big House cancellation: https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1srfu4r

Nintendo cancelling the independently run The Big House event: https://kotaku.com/nintendo-shuts-down-smash-tournament-over...

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"I follow Nintendo news pretty religiously and for some reason can’t figure out what you’re talking about."

May I ask which sources you follow? I'm surprised none of these were covered.
Interesting - I pretty much never remember my dreams. I only started smoking/edibles fairly recently in life and one side effect was if I take an edible in the evening I almost always remember them.
When Donkey Kong was created, the character now known as Mario was then called Jumpman.

Mario Segale was the owner of a warehouse that Nintendo of America rented in Tukwila, WA.

Nintendo wasn't timely paying the rent, so Segale showed up at the warehouse to collect he money from the then Nintendo of America president Minoru Arakawa. He did so in an aggressive manner, often trash talking everyone.

This is when Nintendo decided to create a game around Jumpman, with its name changed to Mario, after Mario Segale. Because Segale is Italian, they also made Mario Italian, and it's possible that the entire game started as some bizarre parody of Italians made by people that have no idea about Italy, and then was toned down and made more abstract.

And by the way, "Goomba" is a racial slur for Italians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goombah

"Koopa" sounds similar to "Cumpa" which means the same as "Goombah". Basically they made all the enemy names sound like "Goombah" and this is no coincidence.
I'm not convinced running red lights is safer. Red lights are red because of cross traffic, and that sounds a lot more dangerous to me.
What’s wrong with a digital AA filter?

Also, aliasing as a concept doesn’t show up in purely digital systems.