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It's got a lot of interesting humour, but the while ostensibly a graphic adventure a lot of the game relies on text chat with "chat bot" type logic that was a questionable choice even at the time, and hasn't aged well since.

The game was published by traditional book publisher Simon & Schuster in a very brief foray into videogames. The smartest decision they made was requiring the game to have a novel adaptation (and audiobook of that novel), and the second smartest thing they did was include a copy of the novel and a portion of the audiobook as a feely in the game package for many preorders.

My recommendation is to track down the novel adaptation and audiobook and enjoy them. (Written and voiced by Monty Python alum Terry Jones.) They were superior to the game experience in a number of ways.
Knowing exactly what query plan you want is not as easy as it sounds. That depends on all the indexes and internal data structures at the database’s disposal. These can change at any time, and you’d need to update your query plan to match.

Also, using raw LLVM, it seems like you could do all kinds of things to shoot yourself in the foot, such as breaking ACID guarantees or failing to properly update indexes.

That’s always the trade off with databases. More speed for less safety. Even fancy SQL databases that like throwing around claims about ACID don’t usually enable the full ACID guarantees by default for all transactions due to performance reasons.

If you want low-level control, then maybe a NoSQL database would be better suited to your needs. But otherwise, I think improving the native query planner in SQL would be a better use of resources.
From what I've read and seen about the US penal system, from this side of the pond, is that it's a big cash cow. The cynic in me says they're turning a blind eye for a reason.
You can create a single endpoint that's non-RESTFul to make a single call.
I could be wrong, but I think that's after just one dose. The pfizer vax requires 2 doses for it's full effect.
Wrote tree-sitter-svelte. Was a good experience. I am also writing a programming language of my own similar to TypeScript and I am using tree-sitter for the same. Its a delight to work with it. Removes a lot of the worries.
Nah they had pseudonyms but they came out as real people for sure. They didn't create characters for themselves as they would have if they'd intended for others to take over the role
Rising interest rates will only make new debt more expensive for governments. Existing debt will actually become cheaper as rates rise. If rates rise high enough, they could actually call (buy back) the bonds early for less than face value. This is because most government debt is fixed rate.

To use an example, you issue a 10 year bond with a face value of $100 with a 1.00% coupon (i.e. you need to pay $1/yr for 10 years and then $100 at maturity after 10 years). Fast forward 5 years -- rates have risen for similar risk debt rise to 5.00%. You've paid out $5 so far in coupons... but that bond (now 5 years to maturity) will cost $84 on the open market. So you simply buy it back for $84. That means you spent $84 + $5 = $89 for $100. Woohoo!

One financial strategy for governments would be to 1) issue excessive debt when rates are very low, 2) don't spend all the money, 3) buy back some of the debt when rates go up for less than you issued it, thus further lowering the cost of debt for the portion you did spend. Sadly, most governments have trouble with step #2.

As for gold, I have no idea. Historically, gold was an inflation hedge (i.e. it's price rose with inflation). But so are a lot of other things. At this point, there's nothing special about gold except that it stays shiny forever.
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I was not around enough in the 90's to have nostalgia, but looking back at history I have to agree.
30K Macs are infected with ‘Silver Sparrow’ virus and no one knows why
The article does state that they are currently hand calculating the information.
What is hope other than a symbol in our symbolic reasoning, bound to a set of specific emotions (that is, specific activations inside the brain)?
Right you could just have a phase to fix-it-up after parsing. Much better than trying to shoe-horn an imperative action into a nice more-pure parser. Great idea!
Blogging wasn’t really widespread until ~2001-2002
To retrace my steps: I searched on google for [ascii tree generator] and, alongside many results about generating output for directory trees / folder structures (like that of tree: http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree/), I found this "Show HN" submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21042390 . I installed and tried the linked project (https://github.com/spandanb/ascii_tree) and it kind of works, though I had several issues (posted later at https://github.com/spandanb/ascii_tree/issues/3). So I gave up and just copied the tree from that thread's top comment, by user kps (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21043091) and manually edited the tree in Emacs to add new nodes by copying things around.

Additionally, after posting the comment to HN from desktop, I happened to notice within the 2-hour edit window that it looked awful on mobile (as does the comment I copied from: probably a bug with the default font stack used by Chrome on Android not using monospace versions of the box-drawing characters), so I edited to replace "─" with an ASCII "-". It looks less perfect on desktop, but less poorly aligned on mobile, so is a reasonable compromise.
The problem with government contracts is that they are very much the class of customer who does not understand software requirements. They have all the worst aspects of a small company that doesn't understand software and so keeps whip-cracking the architecture, and all of the bureaucracy of a government with institutionalized PTSD about contract fraud and bribery.

If you have a choice between the regional furniture store and your state government, I'd have a hard time advising you on which one will suck less. It's a tossup. If the owners of the furniture store are old enough to have heirs who are late teens to 30-something, take the furniture store, because you can ask them to intervene.

At some point you have to pay the bills. And destress your employees who are constantly having to hurry up and wait.
One step closer to Jurassic Park!
I asked an AI for video ideas, and they were good [video]
Zika is presumed to have receded due to natural herd immunity.
I work primarily developing private commercial software so I need to be very careful about the libraries I pull in and, when dealing with recursive dependency management programs (stuff like NPM) making sure that the package manager either blocks GPL licensed code or else verifying licensing on each update. If GPL code makes it into our codebase we need to dedicate additional time specifically to one of the remediations you described - they are doable but they take time, sometimes you'll be able to find a non-GPL licensed equivalent, sometimes you'll need to reinvent the wheel but either way expect some logic to subtly change and re-evaluate all your assumptions.

I would agree to the general point that using GPL'd code is entirely voluntary and using AGPL code is generally not an issue for most software projects but I disagree about it being a miscategorization. If I directly use 10 NPM packages and those pull in an additional 60 and one of those happens to pull in lpad which just happens to be updated from MIT to GPL licensing then I need to realize that and then either hackily re-wire the vendored code to not use lpad, possibly hardwire the packages file to force the pre-GPL version, or else drop the package that depends on it and the package that depends on that one and replace the whole component - this could hit multiple packages as well and all because of a single GPL license change.

I do dislike the connotations of infect but I think it's a fair term for a quality where one of a thing can cause hundreds of other things to suddenly become unusable, the GPL license can cause an exponential growth of packages unsuitable for general commercial use.
>And we've learned that record-keeping has its own very strong negative side. It alone can establish ties between people, and serve to eliminate privacy all in the names of "transparency".

Hawala people can establish ties too, unless they are somehow incorruptible. And electronic money transfer systems and SWIFT and whatnot aren't perfect, but my contention is they are more preferable to almost all people than Hawala. I am aware of the corruption with regards to HSBC, but I can't agree with

>billions of $ transferred away from citizens with usurious fines, overleveraging finance side affecting savings/loan

Keeping funds secure and moving money has never been so easy and so cheap for almost all people. Yes, you can get screwed if the government deems you a terrorist, and a more distributed system like Hawala might be more resilient to that kind of attack, but there's other costs to Hawala that the current system doesn't have.

>Point being, is that the Hawala is the last millenium's Bitcoin.. And when compared to BTC or ETH now, is still strictly better. (And we haven't discussed the barrier to entry, wasted electrical power, e-waste, etc.)

I can't comment on this since I don't know enough about BTC or ETH or Hawala.
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I wonder if a community will form around this philosophy, and we'll end up with a new kind of Amish. Like in the year 2200, there's a group of people called the Seinfeldians who refused to use any technology introduced after 1998
This is more applicable to liquidity providers or things like AAVE and compound where your crypto is actually loaned out. With maker, your crypto doesn't move anywhere and isn't loaned out to anyone.

For what it's worth, if you use AAVE or Compound, you also have to declare interest income on what you've earned.

With maker, you'd be responsible for capital gains if it was liquidated because you fell below the 150% minimum ratio.
I've always been curious about the pit of venomous snakes. We only have one venomous snake in the UK - the common adder. It's bite is nasty, but very rarely fatal. I wonder if the story is made up, based on foreign tales of poisonous snakes, or perhaps they used imported snakes.
I might be the outlier here: but I think we had everything we needed BEFORE cell phones and SMS (or more specifically before cell phones were common). Sure, it's nice in an emergency to have a phone anywhere you are, but in a society where you can be reached 24/7 there's a sense of urgency all the time. I struggle to even describe the difference because it's been so long since I've felt that sense of calm that comes with: hey guys, I'm going to X, I'll be back at dinner - and nobody expecting to hear from me until dinner.

I'm sure there are a privileged few that will say you just need to shut your phone off, but for most of us that's not an option. On a vacation? Sure. Outside of that, good luck.
Even on ios it's technically not required. You only need touchid/faceid/password to add the app to your account. Afterwards you can freely install without additional authentication.
Maybe it has more to do with you getting older than the platform changing
Zika is one.
from what I can tell, every item in the hackernews data set is a monotonically increasing integer id and comments/posts are not fundamentally treated differently.

for instance your comment is 26227524

and the parent post is 26225373

edit: hacker news pagination is not high priority apparently since they just use the easiest way with p= some number.
Who the heck would even hand over their phone to someone just to get a phone number?
I give up. First it's hoax, then it's just a bad flu, then it's going to disappear like magic, then a second wave is impossible, then it's that vaccines aren't necessary and don't work. Meanwhile, people die in their thousands per day and the death toll piles up and hospitals get over-run with dying patients.

As for lockdowns, we know from analysis of the Spanish Flu epidemic that cities with successful lockdowns suffered less economically, because cities that didn't lock down had worse outbreaks that lead to longer lasting deeper economic damage. China had the mother of all lockdowns and is back to robust economic growth, and yes comparing the US or Europe to small island states makes no sense, but China isn't a small island state.

You know what, I don't care. There's no vaccine required to be immune to facts. Whatever you claim to believe, when it's proved wrong and predictions based on it fail to happen you'll just come up with some other bullshit to believe instead. Whatever.
Exactly. Nevermind this article because Bitcoin and a blockchain from JP Morgan have nothing in common (also JP's enthusiasm for blockchains have been steadily waning and their earlier attempts are already dead on the vine). People have no interest in the tech, just gainz, bcs blockchain finance, consensus, future, JP Morgan and whatever word cloud pumpers want to use to get you excited don't actually reflect realities. If you have so much faith in the tech, start using it for real-world transactions, which you can do right now. If you're just hodling with some vague assumptions of moon money, you're not supporting the actual purpose of crypto. But let's be honest, most people aren't really supporting it or have any interest in actually using it, that's why crypto has been failing (even though it technically "works").
2 weeks to bend the curve!
The superstitions of fighter pilots are not always based on hard science...
Not that simple. There are behavioral factors that can affect a prisoner's status and that particular information would never be public.

It's a full-on bureaucracy where only the computers actually know the correct full calculation for every prisoner due to the complexity of the formulas, and when the computers can't do that correctly people get screwed with no recourse because it's humanly impossible to keep up with every detail.
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They might borrow to hold on to their asset's appreciation.
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There is no different paradigm. Both GraphQL and "REST" as it's usually implemented are RPC protocols. GraphQL just doesn't pretend it is not.
https://nixos.org/ and https://guix.gnu.org/ are both angling to do this, but... it's hard.
https://8.8.8.8/test
I'd argue that cellphones, e-mail, instant messaging, and SMS were already developments detrimental to the well-being of the average Joe.
Give everyone you want to talk to your phone number, then delete all of your social media accounts, for a start.
Or that unified Unix will overthrow Windows on the desktop.
As a millennial (25), I disagree with the notion that all of Facebook and Instagram are vapid and meaningless. To me, that just shows that you're not curating your feeds in a manner that highlights what good remains on the platforms.

The problem to me is not that people are less willing to participate, but that the platforms have consumed all meaningful discussion. I'm a part of some fantastic niche groups on Facebook, follow insightful people on Twitter, and read many fantastic subreddits. I've led book clubs, played board games, and developed deep, meaningful relationships via these platforms. They problem is they have been consumed in the monolith of likes and cat pictures, and pulling the value out is growing more difficult. It's a matter of continually chopping back the vines (cutting /r/funny and /r/worldnews out of reddit, deleting friends you don't care about and unliking fan pages on Facebook).

My internet social groups are still the same as yours are. We just have different mediums through which we communicate.
I deleted my Facebook a decade ago and just recently got a message on LinkedIn from an old friend from high school. I guess he still runs into my mom sometimes but he was always afraid to ask her about me because he thought I might, "be in jail or something". Wow dude hopefully you don't always go 0-100 like that. Nah, I have a beautiful wife, 3 kids, and a fulfilling career building software. I don't need to stroke my ego any more than I already do. Nobody does. We had a meaningful exchange of emails and that was the end of it. To be honest I'd ditch the smart phone too if it wasn't for how useful google photos is, not to mention maps when you're on vacation. Frankly I miss i9. Writing text messages without looking at the phone. Imagine how great it would be these days with the guessing algorithms.
It is not a production ready solution but rather to show how it works.
Why would it not be appropriate? The only annoyance I see is that currently you will have to generate a good error message from it yourself, but a first pass at the problem shouldn't be too onerous.
> In Vietnamese, every word is a single syllable

Would you consider "sân bay" to be two words but "airport" to be one? If so, then that's just an artifact of the writing system. After all, it could just be "sânbay" and "air port". There are no spaces in speech.
What about the old adage of "fear sells"? Do doomsday predictions no longer generate clicks?
The idea is that it's not a conversion, it's a loan. The collateral is held in a smart contract and when you pay off the loan you get it back. In much the same way, people take out loans on their stock portfolios, and they don't pay capital gains either.
Thank you (and the sibling as well) for the comment. As a non-Java programmer, I'm probably underestimating the value of the java ecosystem.
Once you've executed on enough of these contracts, you develop an idea of what the unknown-unknowns are and plan for them.

It's government work, which automatically means access issues, dozens (or hundreds) of stakeholders requesting meetings, internal politicking, back-and-forth over change requests, etc. All of that costs real money and if you don't plan for it or make contingencies, you're going to be screwed.

These issues are not just limited to government either; any sufficiently large entity will have these same problems. So yeah, one person-year is a reasonable minimum viable contract period unless you have a process in place to fast-track RFP approval.
It was around 50% in 1999
Then you should take a look at a place in the UK called Milton Keynes. High speed roads (70mph limit) with pedestrians and cyclists seperated by 'Redways'. It comes pretty close to being both car and pedestrian friendly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Keynes#Grid_roads_and_g...
I think that Britain's relationship with the war is complex and flawed in many ways. Germany has dealt with its role in the war in a much more healthy way.

I suppose that it was the word 'jingoism' which prompted me to reply to the earlier post. I'm not sure that this really captures the prevalent attitude, which is more of being a plucky underdog that fought alone against the Nazi regime. This is obviously rubbish but has then been used as an excuse to gloss over some of the poorer aspects of Britain's behaviour (and not just in the war).

I do think that the perception has changed (or been manipulated) over the years. The films and TV of the 60s and 70s played a big part in creating this myth and more recently the tabloids and certain politicians (who are jingoistic) have exploited it ruthlessly to further their own agendas.
It’s still a bug, even if the project managers or software engineers are not responsible for causing the bug. I think people are just using “it’s not a bug” to mean “it’s not my fault as a member of the software engineering team.” But of course there are bugs which are not the software engineering team’s fault.
Yes, it is particularly ugly that they appear to be refusing to release prisoners they know have completed their sentence, purely because of bureaucracy - surely there are systems in place for working without the software.

I hope every one of the prisoners held past their release date sues and wins.
Isn't that the case for most reputable VCs? Marketing your product, identifying synergies in portfolio companies, recruiting opportunities and so forth? Or are a16z & YC in a class of their own in that regard?
I didn't buy my first mobile phone until 2007, but I was definitely a hold out and the last person I knew to finally give in, effectively because it was required for continued employment.
The Treasury Yield Stress Point
You're acting like there were parts of the US in 100% lockdown vs 0% lockdown, when the difference is a lot more like 20% (max) vs 10%, and it's a lot harder to suss out any difference in result when the difference in practice is that small.
Based on what I know about Jerry Seinfeld, he seems pretty good at setting hard boundaries for himself. It seems he's uninterested in pleasantries and burdens that come associated with fame, and has, maybe uniquely, been able to avoid being foisted into situations beyond his control.

I would assert that being famous is a skill that not all famous people develop, thus the disparity between those who shun fame and those who don't think it's a problem.
An Experiment in Criticism of the Literary Canon
Who benefits from that? Are we supposed to believe that some cabal is orchestrating a global conspiracy, spanning every nation and culture, in order to destroy the global economy for some master plan?
It does work, that's the problem. Because even though it's working, few people are actually using it for anything other than speculative trades (and its been working for ~11 years).
I use my camera very often now for functional purposes, like snapshots of documents, paper maps, door notices and hours, etc where it serves as a replacement for having to remember things or even having to jot down a note.
...best vaccination numbers of the world.

That's for Jewish residents. Apartheid states direct all benefits to the favored class. That works, until pandemic time. Palestinians are human too, and since they haven't been vaccinated at all they are a persistent source of covid.
>I've always said we peaked at the technology level of the late 90s.

The 1890s was a good time! Surprised an Amish posted on HN.
There's good stuff on YC's Startup School Library: https://www.ycombinator.com/library?categories=Fundraising%2...
Right and who can I call to install 1 GWh of thermal storage? I can't, because this technology only exists in prototypes. The only actual use of thermal storage is in solar thermal energy, which hasn't experienced the massive drop in price that photovoltaic solar has.
Ironically, whoever answers the question probably wont be paid trillions of dollars. That is because the most likely answer to the question is that it is not sustainable, meaning there's two options: we switch to a non-capital system, and they don't get paid, or everyone chooses to ignore them and they still don't get paid.
Anyone else getting the impression that this is a very subtle job application?
A friend of mine developed a more efficient version of RANSAC and named it ANTSAC [1] which basically follows the same biological motivation (ants that follow similar paths based on pheromone information). In the case of ANTSAC it tries to optimize the next sample guesstimation.

[1] http://www.cogsys.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/forschung/terminiert/A...
Of course a country with the resources to test properly has the highest number of cases and deaths in the world, because if you can't test properly you can't detect Covid-19 cases and deaths. I know the American press has fed its citizens a load of nonsense about this for nakedly partisan reasons, just like it has with every other part of the Covid-19 crisis, and it's getting tiring...
Debugging a flaky Go test with Mozilla rr
Gzip uses Huffman coding (2015)
Another is Countdown to Looking Glass. It starts out as being told through live news reports although I guess the writers couldn't find a way to maintain that type of storytelling through the whole movie.

Although it's not nuclear war, a better example in the same vein is Special Bulletin.