skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone who has had extensive experience in MUD and early MMORPG, including Ultima Online, is there anything you would like to be implemented in modern MMO and is technically possible? For example I heard from time to time that people claim UO is actually more complex than modern MMORPG, but because I don't play either I'm wonderig what's missing here.
I found this strange too. I wonder if there is some other technical reason or just somehow didn't think of this in the validation?
Those are the only correct pronouns when someone's gender is unknown.
My standard recommendation for writing advice is Joseph M. Williams' "Style: Ten Lessons In Clarity And Grace"[1].

Another good one is George Gopen's "The Sense of Structure". It's less inspirational than Clarity and Grace, but it shows more hands-on how to construct sentences and paragraphs.

[1] or "Lessons in Clarity and Grace" or "Toward Clarity and Grace" – they are all substantially the same book
We used to speak of a great Unix systems programmer as someone who could write device drivers with cat and have them compile and run the first time.
I was there the day it opened. The video doesn't really do justice to the amount of movement there was.
Sounds exactly like the empty homes tax in Vancouver!
I imagine it adds latency, which at the very least means more data is lost in case of accident, which can make it harder to know what went wrong.

It also adds an additional failure point, as a single bit error during encryption can scramble an entire data packet or worse, rather than just invalidating a single sensor reading.
Here is a survey from April 2011 that proves you wrong: https://www.infratest-dimap.de/fileadmin/_migrated/content_u...
found the site and app to be very snappy with a connection from England. Might give more understanding to your experience if you added some context, location, internet speed ect.
I went to a small liberal arts school (Ursinus) outside of Philly, who I only mention because it was unique in that part of getting your degree required taking CIE, or "Common Intellectual Experience" classes. Freshmen were required to take CIE I and CIE II, and the classes were scheduled such that it not only tried to mix students up between different disciplines, but they were also taught by faculty from every department, just as much a requirement for them as for the students.

The classes focused primarily on classic texts, literature, philosophy, all the big religious works, etc. The point, really, was to foster discussion and to get everyone on an even playing field their first two semesters in terms of intellectual discussion, and really picking apart what you're reading, preparing you for the world of research in academia.

A key point here is that I don't know a single person, student or faculty, who didn't feel that CIE was extremely worthwhile set of classes, and a pivotal part of our time there.

That said, after I & II, there were CIE III classes that would satisfy different electives. One of the best classes I took was CIE III - Capitalism and Democracy. It was taught by one of my math professors, a man I deeply respected and learned a ton from, and I was one of only four students in the class.

The semester was basically split up into 5 or 6 chunks, where each chunk took two countries whose basis of government encompassed (even if it was stretch), capitalistic and democratic ideas. So, we'd read papers and book excerpts from economists and political theorists (think Adam Smith, Keynes, Friedman), along with summaries of the countries, and each chunk culminated in a report comparing the two countries implementations of capitalism and democracy, trying to find the intertwining of the axioms laid down by the theorists, and how those two systems of governance and economics evolved in different political spectrums.

I was a math and comp sci double major, and am a firmware engineer today, and never dipped my toes anywhere near economics or anything politically related before or after that class, but it's really stuck with me after all these years.
Hydro complementing Nuclear is Pumped Hydro Storage. I like this but economists will note, it has system loss: the energy costs to store, include losses which can't be recovered: the value proposition is that SOME (large) amount of energy is shifted in time, behind the dam wall.

So its real. but, its not perfect. All systems have losses. The losses in PHES are not necessarily a huge problem.
You actually read the articles on HN, and don't just form an opinion and write a comment after reading the headline alone? Pha, blasphemy.

EDIT: I forgot that I'm not on Reddit, sorry. I will stop making jokes.
How the coronavirus attacks
Please forward this to the people that write the TOS for software and websites.
Someone went to a serious amount of effort to collate and present this information. Well done. All of the people on the far right who pilloried BLM and Antifa now have nothing to say in their defense after January 6.
I'm still amazed, however, that the powers that be didn't have more intel on the movement. All of this over a president that will likely go down as our worst. Even Nixon had some charms in comparison. Trump's mannerisms remind me of films of Mussolini. His hand movements, etc. I won no friends when in my far right family, I referred to him as "Peroxide Mussolini". I'm glad this is all behind us. Anyone who couldn't see that QAnon was a psyop needs to seek help. These people are absolutely crazy along with their 3%er friends, militia morons, and others. Take the right wing now attacking Harry and Meghan. Aren't the right supposed to champion things like breaking away from the monarchy?
At the moment, the cost for a small site would pretty much be equal to the cost of the Elastisearch service, the only non-serverless component we have. At a minimum that would be ~$25/mo.

We're looking to add plugins for Elasticsearch so you can replace it with something like Algolia making the whole thing 100% serverless. In that case, the cost would be zero, as it would be 100% under the AWS free tier. Once the free tier expires, the cost would probably be in cents. Have a look at our performance benchmark reports, we've noted down the cost of each test in detail for each of the AWS services: https://docs.webiny.com/docs/webiny-overview/performance-ben...
Steve Jobs said a long time ago, and I am paraphrasing, that a company that makes a product that has reached its maturity will eventually be taken over by advertising and data-mining. Something like that.

There's not much innovation right now in terms of personal computing devices. It's a solved problem. To show 'progress' on a year to year basis, something has to change. It used to be eSomething. Then iSomething. Now I suppose it's airSomething.

I'm not sure what comes after 'air', ordinalitly speaking.
What is the solution for shared custody of children? I have three kids that spend half their time at their moms. Are their Spotify and Netflix accounts (and mine) going to get shutoff? Is there some sort of appeal process?
Grow shows the beauty of light and sustainability in agriculture
It sure doesn't help that there are multiple "easy" ways to do it. A sibling content mentions flexbox. There's another with CSS transforms.

CSS accumulates techniques, each one intended to compensate for defects with the other -- and they interact in obscure ways. Googling will always turn up recommendations for each. You end up with Perl-like "There Is More Than One Way To Do It" -- and you have to know all of them if you want to actually do anything.
That's punycode. Your browser is configured to display everything as ascii, using the punycode "transcoding". It's a good practice, see the binance hack that used binance.com with a tiny diacritic on one of the letters, that lead to a huge phishing attack.
"The greatest elegance is simplicity" - somebody
Oh wow, you are totally right, that does work in GTK apps. My daily drivers are about the same :(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir

Some things never change.
As a human who had to describe the internet, computers and email addresses to some of our older population, I agree, stuff is really hard for newcomers. Most of them barely understand the mouse abstraction, so getting them to understand some of the finer details of the modern computing world is a exercise in humongous patience.
Big Tech is facing regulatory threats from Australia to Arizona
What about a managed service like EKS or GKE? A minimum k8s config is perhaps 20 lines to spin up a service and expose the ports - that feels pretty achievable for bedroom coder?
> There's very little of it, shipping it to the Sahara isn't a big deal in energy usage terms

I wish it was that easy, but that's not a chance in the current political climate.

In Italy we're still debating about where to send the waste generated in the '80s. We turned off our last plant in the '87.

Every single town involved as a destination for waste storage is in revolt against the decision. Literally nobody wants that waste even dozens of kilometers away from their town.

And I totally understand, I don't trust any government (even worse, private contractor), in this economical system and political climate, to correctly maintain such waste storage for the next 300 years.

We can barely make consistent plans for the duration of a government.
YouTube doesn’t use just mysql or vitess these days they migrated to other google databases.

Slack, GitHub both are stupidly shardable. I doubt it’s one RDBMS handling every customer, chat room, git repo. And instead they’ve segmented the workload across multiple instances.

That doesn’t work for every use case
Nano network is under heavy multi-week spam attack, up to 500 TPS
Sometimes it is better not to be too clever. I built a CRM like app for the construction industry and used "inc.construction" and "inc.services" as the app domain. So customer would have

<business-name>.inc.construction

I thought it was clever, but people do not understand them. Everything is .com in their mind.
Even if we assume sunlight and wind are infinite, the labour needed to harness it is not. Else energy would be free by now.
I use Compose key for this, surprised nobody mentioned it here yet. This way it works in all X11 apps (Sway supports this out of the box as well), with no need for extra software or some specific desktop environment.

Just put something like

<Multi_key> <semicolon> <parenright> : ""
<Multi_key> <t> <u> : ""
<Multi_key> <t> <d> : ""

in your ~/.XCompose.

Yes, you have to put all the emojis you want there manually, but I use very few of them so it works for me.

EDIT: HN removed the emojis from my snippet. The double quotes there contained smiling face, thumb up, and thumb down.
I doubt that actually looking into EC2 instances (which AWS would never do, "pinkie promise") would even be necessary. Metadata about the company's deployed infrastructure would totally suffice to derive enough business insights to launch a "knockoff product", as you call it.
Fuck Medium
I think it would be acceptable to support emojis, but set the font to use the black/white ones rather than colour. That removes most of the distraction.

At present, this can be done by following any emoji character with the text variant selector, U+FE0E [1] (the example works perfectly on Firefox on KDE).

Later, it will be possible with CSS [2].

[1] https://mts.io/2015/04/21/unicode-symbol-render-text-emoji/

[2] https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts-4/#font-variant-emoji-pro...
I use espeak-ng (open-source text-to-speech engine) to tell me (literally) when a long-running task is done.
If they’re just warning but letting you proceed, that’s fine. They do that because they see looooots of people screwing up their own email addresses in a few common ways. Run any email signup with a general audience and any kind of volume and you’ll end up doing the same, to reduce the load on support.
There is a trail of links from the article that will bring you to the download. Click on the author's name to see their profile, click on the project to see the project's profile, click on the link to the project website, then click on the link to the downloads page. While the trail is a bit much, it is important to keep in mind the article was an account of the author's experiences and it published on a portal for indie developers. A direct link may not have been seen as appropriate given the context.

While I agree with companies misrepresenting their products as open source as being a problem and believe the AGPL should have been mentioned, I do not see how the point about open source being hard to sell as being relevant. Not only are there are success stories in the world of open source, but the author made their success sound modest.
Maybe if you frequent websites based in the US, yeah. Otherwise no, there is plenty of boobs all across the web and some sites don't hide porn as not everyone is as prude as the americans.

But there are other webs out there, speaking many different languages and carrying many different customs. The beauty is that if you don't like US customs, you can usually find communities that are far away from US culture.
According to the article you can just verify through a code that any devices are yours.

My hunch is this is only going to cull the second layer and beyond of password sharing (people you wouldn’t feel comfortable texting and asking for the verification code).
Sure. And those services support some fairly beefy instance types. Such as https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/amazon-rd...
Bias Lighting
>Hell, let's not forget that the current plan is for people to charge their cars at night.

The obvious solution for that is for people to plug in at home or at their job - chargers cost less than $500 (that includes installation costs), so it's not entirely impossible for workplaces to install one charger per employee and charge a margin on top of electricity prices to recoup prices. This will be desirable for EV owners once daytime electricity is cheaper than nighttime electricity, and therefore profitable for any location-owners to install.

If you have a car with ~600KM of range, then considering people drive an average of 60KM/day, you can imagine that most of the time most people basically don't need 90% of their battery and can wait until the next day. And considering people only use their car for an average of (IIRC) 2 hours a day, most of the time peoples' EVs will be idle for the charging somewhere.

For special roadtrips that might change, and perhaps midnight EV charging will spike on boxing day or such, but for the other ~360 days of the year people will largely be charging with solar.

Also, as serious as the issue is, let's remember we're talking about a projected ~5% increase on the electricity demand once the entire population goes electric. Over a decade that's less than 1% increase per year. That's not that hard, especially if we're planning to replace over half of the grid with renewables anyway.
I played a bit of MUD II. Did anyone know how to get the 2 crowns? The one in the swamp vs the one in the tower? They forbid us from telling each other as it was one of the easiest ways to get experience in the game.
I find it fascinating that some people fail to understand that. It's so obvious. Emojis are hugely useful to convey intent and emotion. But they're relatively new, so I suppose they're automatically stupid, get off my lawn etc etc
Emojis are "fun" in the same way hallmark melody greeting cards are "fun"
I'd assume the lackluster selection of operations and how deeply nested some of the information is within the type. Definitely not the most ergonomic thing.

My personal favorite is probably the python ones. Only annoyance is difficulty of creating modified objects from existing ones.
If democracy is defanged, it hasn't prevailed.

> I suggest reading the history of money. The current system is an aberration. Historically, with gold as the currency/gold standard, nation states couldn't inflate money away.

I'm not a reactionary and I don't think you are either. So how is this an argument? We got rid of the gold standard for good reasons.
This might be the right time to dust off the pirate hats. I share my account with my family and my girlfriend and there is no way they would all subscribe to a new account.
It's not clear from the question whether GP just wonders about the strange syntax used to reserve the space or about allocating a fixed amount of memory. The "however-many-bytes-are-needed" part sounded to me like they thought that a dynamic amount of memory should be allocated.
In my time with a MUD, my absolute favorite parts were:
1. Social interaction
2. Automation!

Maybe not all MUDs allowed it, but the one I played was absolutely fine with you using specialized clients such as tintin++ and writing scripts. I started with smaller scripts to automate movement between zones and managing inventory, and I moved on to full bots in there that would take "spoken" commands from trusted players.

From what I hear, that'll get you banned in most MMORPGs these days, which is a shame.
Problem with this argument is: What god and under what rule book?

If my rule book says women are second class citizens, then is that just it? They have no rights? Or if my rule book says homosexuality is bad, but another interpretation of the rule book says its fine, then who's rule book is correct? Who settles that argument? Government.

Only other answer is a holy war and the survivors rule book is supreme. Until the next holy war.
Potential next episode: someone is taking advantage of my open source software, it's getting harder to sell it and earn a living.
The Most Dishonest President
Music, Makers and Machines – Exhibition on History of Electronic Music
Pretty stupid of your university to give you this address. Sure it's technically valid, but they know perfectly well it will be refused almost everywhere, and even when not explicitly refused, it will cause bugs. Being technically correct is useless if you're the only one doing it.
>Your nitpicking over the "right" way to count electricity generation and consumption doesn't matter

It matters. And it isn't a 'nitpick'.

You honestly don't think it is worth clarifying what the 90% refers to because I can guarantee you that a lot of people who read your comment automatically assumed that Scotland consumed 90% of its energy requirements from renewable sources - which it did not.. not even close. It's also important for policy. You can setup a 1TW solar array, and it wouldn't be able to power one house at night. And that's the point here because we're trying to move from fossil fuels and the question is: can wind and solar do it? And the answer is no. Nuclear can do it. Hydro and geothermal can do it (but those are geography dependent).

>The US is not a renewable energy role model to anyone.

No. But Ontario is. We're one of the world leaders for carbon emissions from electricity generation and we are because of nuclear and hydro. France is ahead of Scotland too, and that's solely because of nuclear.

>According to wikipedia, Maine gets 75% electricity from renewables, which is among the highest of any US state, so they seem an odd example to pick.

Again, not from solar and wind. It's hydro. Whenever these high numbers are mentioned it's always effin hydro. The policy here was extending hydro transmission and crazy people trying to block it (meaning that capacity would be replaced by natural gas, not wind, not solar because they can't).

>What's more, with a population of just 1.34 million, Maine is clearly a complete irrelevance on a global scale, right?

It is irrelevant. We can't scale hydro to that level globally.
You really need to consider the context before making broad statements like this.

By your own standards, "word" and "long (word)" are actually excellent terms, because they're conventions used by the underlying hardware, and using the same conventions absolutely makes sense for a programming language that's close to the hardware:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)
What do you think cosmetic plastic surgeons do?
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Based on me using Oracle Free Tier since it was released. It is impossible to get charged for your use of the free services.
If you're interested in seeing who has built a track record investing in companies trying to combat climate change, https://climate50.com has done a good job researching and ranking.
or people will just create a shared email account, or set up a forwarding rule for the verification emails...

I agree with another commenter. This seems targeted at people who are borrowing someone's account without their knowledge or consent.
I’ve been playing a bit of Discworld and Aardwolf MUDS lately. Just to try out the genre, and I’ve had the opposite experience. In Discworld, you have to assign yourself as a “player killer” in order to both kill or be killed by other players. Perhaps this is idiosyncratic to Discworld. I know early RuneScape has the same setup.

I’m brand new to MUDs and 100% of my interactions have been ether helping or being helped by other players to learn and play the game.
How do you define "greatest"?
Emojis in subject lines can sometimes cause issues with ticketing systems, so I can only imagine how ticketing systems will like emojis as domains.
They can't that's where your logic breaks down.
Multinational corporations typically are very afraid of AGPLv3.
What are RCs?
the author may like to know Cyrillic doesn't automatically mean Russian
Your approach sounds similar to mine. While it is true the switches work without internet, out even without the local controller - I just learned the hard way that they don't work at all when the capacitor inside dies. Keep a dumb switch on hand so you can swap it in when you have a light you can no longer turn on!

I had 2 die recently. The is a thread out there on repairing them, but I don't think my soldering skills are that good. I'm also thinking "repair my light switch?" What has the world come to?
> This is yet another category of business where I think they'd be far better off being private, so in theory there isn't constant pressure to continue increasing revenue.

Netflix has borrowed billions (and billions) of dollars to get where they are. As a private entity they've gone bust seven or eight years ago.

Netflix priced themselves artificially low to grow, based on debt. That set unrealistic consumer expectations and they might have to face the consequences of that eventually, but Netflix's terms literally always said that accounts could only be shared with people living in the same household as you.
It's about cognitive load. The more jargon diverges from concepts you already have learned and used for years, the more difficult it is to adapt. As an experiment, try replacing all of your variable names and types with numbered variables: v1, v2, v3, etc. Then compare to replacing them with words: not completely random words, but with completely misleading words, like the complete opposite of what they represent, length/height, mass/speed, etc. You'll find the latter is maddeningly hard to deal with, because your brain keeps bringing a whole lot of context that is just wrong, so you are constantly fighting your own brain.

Intuitive things come from prior experience. They are a kind of inertia that you just have to work with.