skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The game is remarkably affordable in terms of hours of enjoyment vs price. I feel like they could make an 'expansion pack' that cost twice as much as the game and it still would be a reasonable value.
Well, unless you can build a line-of-sight microwave/laser tower that can see over the oceans, Starlink's intercontinental links will be faster once the inter-satellite communications lasers are fully integrated. Also the speed of light in a vacuum is faster than the speed of light in air.
Ask HN: How personalized are Google search results? (e.g. Python vs. Snakes)
Reviews of Fictinoal Video Games: April March
I played my first couple of games on "peaceful mode", and played one on non-peaceful (in order to get the achievements for completing the game without solar power & lasers).

There's .. enough complexity to the game such that I can see it'd be better to start with non-peaceful.

Comparing non-peaceful mode to peaceful mode, a bit more of your time goes into setting up and maintaining defenses; but once a good set of defenses is established, playing is ~roughly~ the same as what peaceful would be. Peaceful is fun. Non-peaceful is also fun. But the powerful weapons at the end aren't as enticing on peaceful as they are on non-peaceful.
Thank you for the reverse share! Much appreciated, ill give it a listen here in a bit (6am here :) ). In return, my podcast mentioned above is Resident - Hernan Cattaneo, podcast.hernancattaneo.com - weekly new progressive house music mixes.
I teach R in a graduate course. As long as you teach the concept of vectors right, and it’s not hard, you’ve overcome R’s main cognitive hurdle, in the eyes of computer science people. The rest of R is beautiful, assuming a focus on the Tidyverse.

Python feels like a mess by comparison. As a computer science type myself, my tribe’s provincialism towards “languages like C”, like Python, just gets old.
Steel might finally kick its coke habit
I'm really not trying to be snarky, but Adobe has something similar and you can buy it, right?
Most large orgs don't beg for my money after I've already given them my time for free though.
> I deleted my Disqus account as part of a general cleanup and I'm glad I did.

Yeah, their data breach exposing mine and 18 million other's accounts made it the last time I used them.
Why rituals are crucial survival tools
That seems like it would require far more effort.
Perhaps someone could ask Barack Obama and Al Gore about their opinion on sea level rise. Both seem to have bought expensive sea front properties so perhaps are not as concerned as they have publicly made out to be.
On the 23andMe and VGAC Merger
For people who are really sports fans (which might be a little out of the Hacker News audience, I know) not having your friends and family talking during the game might be a pro, not a con.
The number of hours I have in this game is measured in thousands. And the first digit is not a 1. $30 was a steal.
> and for good reason

What good reasons are those?
You misspelled Satisfactory ;-)
Ask HN: New FontAwesome free edition is not free?
For my project I tried to install FontAwesome v.5, so I was asked to register on their site. And it's stated that:

- I have only 1 Free Kit (to use in one project)

- even the pageviews are limited (10K Pageviews/Month)

What can I do apart from downgrading to the previous 4th version?
As soon as I saw his handle is literally "GodSend14" I knew I was in for a nice ride.
I find this seriously confusing too. None of these sound like major, or even all that useful, features, and yet they talk about "considering whether there is any value in a crippled version of Chromium".

What makes it crippled?
I just had a conversation with a friend on how Google in a sense is our go-to for many questions and how much personalization plays into what we get as results.

As a quick test I googled for "python" and for me all results on the first two pages are about the programming language so I tweeted to get more data on it but of course I'm in a tech and programming bubble (https://twitter.com/__tosh/status/1357652341168754688?s=20).

Is there any research on how canonical or personalized search results are (and perhaps how it varies by topic?). Or anyone of you working on this and can share some of the lessons learned @ implementation and trade-offs?
We Need More Feminist Dads
Can't a person write interesting stuff on Medium/Blogspot/Wordpress? Telling a person, who wants to blog about fruit preserves, to learn php and selfhost is a bit too much.
Can you elaborate on that? I use fzf with tmux as well, but I'm not sure what you mean by popup windows. Similar to vim splits?
Netflix even blocks VPS IPs, to enforce their regional locks or something.
"The web is still full of content that didn't originate from profit motive"

Very true but with a few notable exceptions - successes such geek_at says he's had, others have pointed out that self-funded, self-hosted sites don't get the large visitor coverage of the big conglomerate/commercial sites. This stands to reason and it's a damn shame.

It seems to me a way around this would be to have a common universally-wide index type site where all the free, no-ads, no spying sites would be listed.

Similarity, this index site would be spy-free, no ads and free for visitors to use but those listed would pay a small listing fee to cover site running costs. To keep listing costs to a minimum the site would be non profit, revenue-neutral and run as a cooperative society or similar non profit structure.

To stop cohersive pressures from commercial interests, commercial, for profit sites/businesses would not be allowed to list.

The site itself would be indexed and cross referenced along topic lines using the Dewey Decimal Classification system or similar schemes that libraries use to classify books.

This would have the advantage of grouping likemined/likekind websites together in ways that were easy for visitors to browse from one to another. The listing for each site could also include a short description.

This index site would cover just about every topic imaginable and thus attract many sites for listing which would provide economies of scale. For example:

- Trades/Woodworking/Cabinetmaking

- Science/Physics/QM/Quantum Field Theory/Yang-Mills

- Philosophy/Utilitarianism/Jeremy Bentham

Right, the site could easily contain interests as diverse as any book library, and it could even have its own internal search engine.

It seems to me that we desperately need such an independant nonprofit site on the web. It's our only reasonable hope of escaping the centralization created by Facebook, Google, etc.
>lawn/porch theft

What's that? People steal the actual lawn or things off the porch?
Can I ask an honest question: Why do you want to allow random people to leave comments on your blog and be responsible for them? I just don't see the value and feel that it just adds technical and security overhead, invites spam, and possibly the need to waste time moderating trash comments.

Many blogs that I have visited which demonstrate or explain something technical with a comment section has: spam, accolades such as "great post thanks!" (not bad but kind of useless), and one I frequently see, broken English asking the author something like "please explaining how to building [complex thing] using circuit you post". I picture that last one coming from the "engineers" who build those hazardous off-the-line chargers you see at gas station check out counters.

Want to leave me a comment? Email me or go away.
And even if you use English, any kind of non-US accent is pretty much doomed.

And even if your accent is 100% Silicon Valley denizen, any app that uses your input for searching will possibly have ambiguities or incorrectness on the results, and currently there are very few tools to correct misunderstanding, even if it doesn't mishear.

And that is assuming that search results are even deterministic, many apps either randomize (or "personalize" for business interests) or update their search logic regularly enough for it to be a problem for a casual user.

Calling a taxi to the wrong destination (for example) is very much not acceptable, ever.
Looking for programmers to beta-test. Thank you gift of $30 Amazon Voucher
Redmond got finally a root shell on your Pi :-)
>It already stands to be the most positive technological development for my life since I've been living.

Video streaming? Smartphones? Wikipedia? Google maps? CRISPR? mRNA vaccines?
This is incredible. Reminds me of the phenomenal book The Plutonium Files. If you are interested in the history of the first atomic bomb, definitely compliment this reading with that book.
Join #fosdem-orval for a beer!
This is so stupid, by the way. Can’t Disqus simply use its OWN third party cookie in the back end to inform all these other sites and grab their information to display, even cache some of it? Disqus is being sloppy and just angering its own “customers” is the websites and users.
Show HN: QuikPub – Write, Publish and Share rich text via short URLs
The most disappointing aspect about this really is how the Raspberry Pi team and mods can't even remotely admit or acknowledge why some people are very unhappy about something like this.

What's wrong with communicating this change or making it opt-in?

Randomly pushing repos and adding trusted keys without any notice or consent is never a cool move.
I was also looking for that.

Go, Kotlin, Zig, Python, JavaScript have devrooms.

It seems there is one Rust talk in the Mozilla room. But this is way less than for the other languages.

I wonder why Rust is somewhat underrepresented at FOSDEM. Or maybe my view is totally biased from reading too much HN...

Despite, now that Mozilla does not maintain Rust anymore, I think this really should get a separate devroom.

Edit: Downvote? Why? What is controversial about what I said? Really curious. That Rust should get a separate devroom? Not relevant enough? But this is even what I considered in the sentence before.

Or are there more Rust talks and I didn't found them? Actually, there seem to be some more, but still less than for other languages: https://fosdem.org/2021/search/?q=rust
>"Okay, the party can't be reasoned with, but what about the people?"

I addressed this earlier, the people can't be reasoned with either, that's what I meant when I said that reasonable GOP politicians get labeled as RINOs and then lose their primary race to the more extreme candidate. In fact, here's a very timely example. Ben Sasse was punished for doing exactly that: https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1357675346062057472

These voters have an outsized effect on government because of the electoral college and the fact that we give more votes to empty land instead of real Americans who happen to live in cities. If we had a fair voting system, these views would be much less mainstream and taken much less seriously. It sounds counter-intuitive but you have to force these people to "be reasonable" by taking away their power if they're not.

>the people who follow them out of tradition but don't fully agree with them.

I think a lot of the voters in this category have left the party, so most of the voters left are the unreasonable ones. Sometimes people can't be reasoned with and the only option left is to limit the damage they can cause.
Thoughts on 'Old' Web Technologies? (BS, jQuery, Rails, Scrollmagic, GSAP)
Andy Jassy, Amazon’s Next CEO, Was a ‘Brain Double’ for Jeff Bezos
I think the old dogs from yesteryear can still be used to implement pleasing front-ends quickly and cost-effectively.

Do you think server-side rendering is making a comeback? I think so, especially with these new HTML over websocket frameworks like Phoenix LiveView and Hotwire.
That's literally the definition of a crime. I think you mean to say it's not immoral.
Visual Studio Code version 1.53
Where do you get such a $3 pedal? I only found ones starting at maybe $10, and they seem to be crap based on reviews.
Hi everyone. I’m Darren and I built QuikPub over the past couple of weeks.

The quickest way to explain QuikPub in a way everyone should get is to describe it as “Imgur for text.”

I’ve felt for a long time that there was no easy way to quickly publish short or long form rich text without going down the blog route. Blogging -- by design — comes with a history of posts and comments. Too much information when all you want to do is post about something that has nothing to do with your blogging persona or area of expertise.

QuikPub lets you post anonymously (or add your name) and share a short URL to that content anywhere you want (just like Imgur). It comes with a slightly longer edit URL so that you can change or delete the post later.

There’s no link or connection to other posts you make. There’s no public list of “new posts.” Your QuikPub post is invisible to Google and to casual browsers until you choose to share it.

There was a Show HN yesterday about a new product called Haven that seems to be targeting a similar user base, though their solution was very different. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26013715) While reading the comments I felt that many of those commenting would benefit from a simple publishing app like QuikPub.

Feedback is very welcome. I’m not a UI designer, and I’m aware that the UI is a bit on the weak side, but that’s something I hope to improve over time.

Here’s a few examples of posts I made myself earlier:

https://quikpub.co/3K5MIPZGWP

https://quikpub.co/THMWJII2AW

https://quikpub.co/XL3HHFCFQF

https://quikpub.co/SMP42QPSQ1

Thanks
There is just no need. The raspberry pi can do many things, all of which users just get on and do. Nobody needs any hand holding like this. It's just intrusive, and unnecessary.
Soon open source 5G, but the EU adopted software patents via the UPC, so companies trying to spread it got banned from the market.
Sounds not far from https://nim-lang.org/
India’s coronavirus puzzle: Why case numbers are plummeting
No live streaming for me. My coding style wraps around my family life. So when you have two kids doing remote learning, a dog barking at every passing Amazon driver, and a significant other sharing your home office space, you learn to code around the chaos. Not sure I could find a way to stream or record videos around the chaos. What I do instead is tweet (less so now) and write a lot of blog posts. Every time I learn something new, I’ll write about the experience. Then I also post periodic updates about my progress on IH.
Practical problems in real name policies
If you're wondering like I was, Apple Silicon compatibility was delayed until the next release due to a bug that came up in the final days of testing[0]. Insiders has been rock solid for me though.

0: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/115646
> all you need is an app like AntennaPod

To listen to a podcast? A podcast is an audio file you download like any other file and play like any other audio file. Why do you need a dedicated app?
Biters are there to add pressure. After you get the swing of things in Peaceful mode, a Normal game is much more fun.

Then, give Death World a try. It's the most compelling challenge in video games I've ever found. Bring a friend or two and you're guaranteed to make memories.
AGI Safety and Alignment with Robert Miles
I was wrong - initial section I meant starts "For internet connection, please access the following code ...."

https://youtu.be/_8SBdkru4IY?t=128
At 2:26
"Why are my trains deadlocked", "Why is this tank empty", "Why are my trains deadlocked again"!
It happens. NBD. My initial response was perhaps more snide than I intended, I should have at the very least ended it with a smiley to show I was only being playful. FWIW I don't feel your comment deserves to be downvoted, and this one where you acknowledge it certainly does not.
>There's also nothing stopping people from accumulating all the things they need for a pleasant life of leisure

I think it’s a stretch to say this is available to most. To say it’s available to anyone doesn’t acknowledge the poor circumstances many are born into simply by chance. While still technically true, the possibility is vanishingly small for many. Policy should be based on what’s best for the general welfare and not a smallish subset
I will say my 10-year-old son wants to be a youtuber. So I got him set up on OBS and it is incredibly easy. He still struggles with the settings sometimes, but he’s 10. It’s really impressive software.
> It's at least partly cultural. We'll pay for hosting, or internet access. Why won't we pay for other services if they're valuable to us?

1. Too many separate subscriptions become hard to manage. Example: the banks in my country don't allow direct access of my account movements to any budgeting apps so I have to tally everything manually because I want to track my expenses. There is a business idea here somewhere: a subscription aggregator or some such, where you can manage a total subscription budget per month and be able to cut a service easily (which is of course strongly against the interests of those you subscribed to).

2. Cynicism. I have physically met and conversed with people working in ad-tech. They have zero scruples. If you pay for a service these people will laugh at you, collect your money and then proceed to inject trackers and huge banners in the website/app with no regard that you paid for the service. You don't magically disappear from tracking once you pay. That's sadly a myth. Your narrative is correct on its surface but it was perverted and abused.

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I agree that the free tier services is like running a charity and not everyone feels like they have to. There is a business opportunity for a better model of free trials and NOT to automatically subscribe you after a week or a month. Whether that new model is in the financial interest of the gatekeepers (Apple / Google and the apps in their stores) is another discussion entirely, though.

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Finally, I am OK paying a few more bucks a month to my ISP. So let all those services figure out a way to charge the ISPs. I'll gladly pay anywhere from $5 to $50 extra a month for everything that I consumed that is viewed as non-free.
>.... found that the COVID-19 mortality rate actually decreases there after age 65 — possibly because Indians who live past that age are such outliers. There are so few of them.

LoL . look around, almost every household has a >65yr old. In some towns, they make the majority population.
Yes. And the 'paid so you are the customer, not the product' thing has limits. That was one of the original value propositions of cable television, but it turns out to be more profitable to get a platform monopoly and then sell ads as well as charging a fee.

Paid-for might be necessary for non-scummy, but it's certainly not sufficient.
> Basically the idea that you could say sit a Spartan, Samurai and a modern Soldier down over beers and they'd be able to bond over a shared view of warriorhood feels questionable as a true statement.

Why? Small group warfare is a behaviour we see in chimps. Ambush, massacre, occasionally something reasonably close to a pitched battle. Industrial warfare, the meat grinder of pitched battle attrition continuing for months, years, would be alien but precious little else would be. Drill, discipline, officers, enlisted, endless waiting punctuated by terror, killing like you’ve trained to do, rout. There’s a lot to bond over. There would be an enormous amount different too but if T.E. Lawrence, an English gentleman, was able to connect with Bedouin I don’t see any great difficulty with a samurai, spartiate and US infantryman.
> Robinhood was just allowing its users to make their own decisions, like any investment app for grown ups should.

They blocked purchasers from buying.
Wearing a HMD reminds me of a diving mask - its a little awkward and can get fogged up and etc -- but the overall benefit of seeing underwater as an experience makes up for the inconvenience. My guess most of the problems are a result of limited early hardware and limited early software, both of which are expected to change over time ;}
They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them
I personally would like my 2d rectangles to be in a limited 2d rectangle area for organisation and not cluttered all over the 3d space.
I hope they focused on the hand-tracking problem.

AR is basically unusable without proper tracking, and it felt like most limiting thing using the MagicLeap1 and Hololens1/2.
Americans are in a Mental Health Crisis.

FTFY
I started and got out of VR due to the complete lack of anyone grasping how isolating and empty it is without other people, and those other people really ought to look non-generic. I'm an "original 3D graphics researcher" from the 80's, and have created 3D production pipelines as one of my career specialties. VR needs an entire "face lift" where it includes people, at a moderately personal appearance level. When girls can look like themselves and it requires less effort than their own getting dressed each day, while also presenting their real time actual facial expressions they will use VR, if for nothing else, a gossip (social media) platform. But my main point is, until a person can go into VR and be themselves, look and act like themselves, VR is alien.
One of my favorite YTers lives in the PNW. Previously they had to scrounge up wifi from somewhere or spend hours uploading their video in 720p over their awful "satellite" internet. They are one of the beta testers for Starlink and now they can live-stream in 4k. Sometimes it stutters, but it's still beta.
We’ve been saying that for years, but nothing gets done.

My team and I went ahead to describe how it will work, and will be releasing it in 2022 after building it openly on GitHub:

https://qbix.com/QBUX/whitepaper.html#DIGITAL-MEDIA-AND-CONT...

But watch the silent downvotes for this comment... and this is part of the reason why it won’t happen unless someone braves ridicule even of the very technologists who are supposedly for it.

There are many reasons to be skeptical, the biggest of which is that ads pay more (for now) than micropayments for digital content. But that’s not why stuff like this gets downvoted. It’s because the economics of capitalism make it so that you either have to be a big company with a huge fund behind the push for some micropayment standard, or you are not taken seriously.
For many many people Facebook down means internet is broken.
Can’t even tell me if using browser or App.

When driving somewhere I often ask the navigator which app they are using, google of Apple Maps. 5 years still can’t tell the difference. Oddly She knows Waze.

Tech people concerns don’t line up well to normal people.
That he found a font that helps is grandmother is amazing.

But I'm surprised that they're tackling the problem this way rather than getting her cataract surgery. That's what it sounds like and even if she has only a few years to live (statistically) the quality of life improvements are obviously huge. Obviously I have no idea of her actual state of health or if it is in fact cataracts so this might be less than helpful.
LogIn Form – Neuromorphic Design
I have 2500+ hours in Factorio. I loved it. Love to read this.

My 6+ year old computer can't handle the enormous factory complexes I like to build.

Now I have switched over to my next hard drug addiction:

-> Mindustry. <-
https://anuke.itch.io/mindustry

Factorio + tower defence: it's awesome and runs on a potato.
NYT adds nearly 5m digital-only subscribers in four years
At the risk of getting bashed, isn't 'pinging a Microsoft server' what happens every time I clone, push, or pull from GitHub? There might be be bigger issues to deal with than apt repositories if you don't want to ping a Microsoft server.
try http://n-gate.com/fosdem/

edit: don't do that. instead, when you see the 'captcha' use one of the links on the right side.

but a better solution is to just open any of the links in a private window. that seems to get rid of the referer.
Aye. Sick people who have no funding for their treatment get released.
This is fiction? Right? Please tell me there is no actual tunnel that transports burritos from west to east coast of the United States.
get promoted. become a manager.