skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original, CD-ROM enhanced version of System Shock can be picked up at GOG[1]. First CD-ROM game I got, for my birthday, and wow did it blow me away. The atmosphere the game managed to create was just amazing.

It was the first 3D POV game that I recall with effectively true 3D. Doom had "fake" 3D, you couldn't have two floors on top of each other, but in System Shock you could. It also had different stances and fairly realistic head movement (leaning would tilt the view too).

There's a remake underway, from some of the original devs, also over at GOG[2].

[1]: https://www.gog.com/game/system_shock_enhanced_edition

[2]: https://www.gog.com/game/system_shock
In America too, just look at New York. SoHo comes to mind.
Of course, Twitter DID take action against a Western leader who was leading an attempted coup, and they got absolutely creamed by the “freedom of speech” folks for doing so. So Twitter has been willing to draw the line for Western leaders as well.

But that raises a good point: if the media outlets in the lead up to the 2003 Iraq invasion (I won’t even mention the 2001 Afghanistan invasion as there just was not the same level of meaningful opposition) had stood up to Bush’s propaganda even with the limp-wristed[0] way Twitter stood up to Trump’s, perhaps we wouldn’t have been dragged so deep into Middle East interventionism to begin with.

[0]It really was.
> If you know nothing of the language, culture, motorcycles, motorcycle gear, etc, I am going to guess there are a lot of really important details that are utterly lost on you.

I know bikes, I know Japanese, and I lived and road in Japan.

The translation is largely accurate (just minor structural stuff that doesn’t matter).

The only content that might matter, and it doesn’t really seem to, are the hashtags for the tweet that were not covered above (roughly “connect with bikers” and “quick biker self-intro”).

While I agree with your general characterization of Google translate when dealing with Japanese content, in this case it did a decent job, largely because the content was very simple and straightforward.
Absolutely not! If he understood physics he would understand that the landing is impossible, and would therefore die in the attempt. That he doesn't know the landing is impossible is what makes it possible, and he lives. Simple.
As someone who stands a decent chance of developing age related macular degeneration 30 years from now, I love any and all news like this.
To answer your unasked question,”How can I make it stop?” :Isolate it with a stick. Put one end on your ear, the other on various components that may be the source of your tone. When you have isolated the component, glue it down to dampen the electromechanical vibrations. Unless it’s the power supply. Don’t glue that down.
I wish.

That was long before the days of easy cloud backups and sadly it got lost somewhere along the way.
It seems heartless to agree but also level-headed. A bachelor’s in biology can only be obtained if you have quantitative reasoning, and understand compound growth and the fundamental insecurity of the natural world, so this seems especially egregious. If they were reporting on their own life as a journalist, what agency do they give themselves in making their own choices?

Why borrow at least 1.5 years’ gross salary and start their adult life with such debt? I as a taxpayer helped loan them that money, I’d like it back at some point.
Your comment has some unintended irony if taken as a call for action.
Is this bullshit why I got logged out today? Just to see the new homepage?
I believe you would do:

chrome --js-flags="--jitless"
Zuckerberg: Facebook could be in “stronger position” after Apple tracking change
>Japan once known for their rampant IP theft?

Yes they stole even IBM Mainframe OS's repeatedly....and sold it.
I was referring to the traditional practice of authors distributing papers to anyone who asks, which is now turned up to 11 by arXiv. This is explicitly allowed by Nature. This is different to Open Access, in which Nature will serve my paper to others themselves, at upfront cost.

https://www.nature.com/nature-research/editorial-policies/se...

"Preprints

Nature Portfolio journals encourage posting of preprints of primary research manuscripts on preprint servers, authors’ or institutional websites, and open communications between researchers whether on community preprint servers or preprint commenting platforms. Preprints are defined as an author’s version of a research manuscript prior to formal peer review at a journal, which is deposited on a public server (as described in Preprints for the life sciences. Science 352, 899–901; 2016); preprints may be posted at any time during the peer review process. Posting of preprints is not considered prior publication and will not jeopardize consideration at Nature Portfolio journals. Manuscripts posted on preprint servers will not be taken into account when determining the advance provided by a study under consideration at a Nature Portfolio journal."
Great question! I would also like to find an engineering/hacker focussed environmental forum. Please do let me know if you find one.
Yes but according to the author’s math that’s a myth. http://ddnum.com/articles/leveragedETFs.php
> researchers sometimes resort to hosting a draft of their manuscript, and not the final camera ready version.

and this is fine for most people.
Journalism survived quite well before a few companies started following every one of our steps and selling dossiers around.

In fact, its quality was better, and they did live mostly on advertisement.
Yeah, everything!) There already are many researches studying cannabinoids' effect towards Covid-19. I've recently read that THC might be an effective way to treat some potentially lethal COVID-19 complications. Other say that CBD and THC may be beneficial in the treatment of patients whose bodies’ inflammatory response has become pathogenic. Cannabinoids promoters say that the products cure almost everything so why not coronavirus? Just see the description of cannabinoids. And what is the most amusing, there are also a lot of positive feedbacks. How? Placebo effect?
"Popularity contests don't think much of forks" seems like a much stronger thesis to me.
Absolutely! I thought I was the only one who felt this way. I used to customise everything “back in the day” and then I’d change machine or have to use someone else’s - and all my muscle memory would be lost.

These days the only thing I customise is the “refactor” shortcut in IDEA because the Fn keys suck on MacOS.
> Lots of Native American tribes didn't seem to wear much

That's more Hollywood than history. Look at real photographs and many of them will be covered up completely except for the hands and head.
There are basically two parts you need to solve. You need files that you edit to save on the remote, and you need to be able to run commands on the remote. So a barebones setup might be SSHFS for mounting files locally, and editing them locally while running commands in an SSH session in your terminal.

Though honestly... you should really try VSCode. You'll get a lot more than simple editing and remote commands (e.g. integrated debugging, etc). VSCode actually installs and runs a headless instance of itself on the remote, and decouples the UI from extensions, language servers, etc. It's a lot more than just editing remote files.

Try downloading it, creating a $5/month VM, and setting it up as a Remote SSH machine. I know it feels like a cult but it's far and away the best editor experience I've had. I switched from Sublime and was up to speed in a day because I could import all my keybindings. You can probably do the same coming from PyCharm.
I believe the advantage of the mRNA method is that it’s somewhat generic: you can stick any (protein-coding) RNA fragment into it, and it will be expressed in the body and picked up as a target by the immune system if it has any potential for the latter (I. e. isn’t something that’s ubiquitous in the body already)

As such, it is faster to get from idea to vaccine. Recent history is an example already, but the cycle will be improved dramatically considering the technology is very much still in infancy. It’s also cheaper, to the point that producing ten doses of ten different vaccines may not be more expensive than producing a hundred doses of a single vaccine. This will be helpful against “cancer” which is closer to an unlimited number of different diseases than a single target.
We live in a world of tribal truths. The Hunter Biden scandal is to the left what 2020 voter fraud was to the right.
This is not a technical problem IMO. You can't cryptographically sign reality. There's always the analog hole

Reality has a pretty strong "hash" naturally built in. Even manipulated picture carries a huge amount of information that isn't changed or isn't changed as much as one thinks.

The manipulated pictures the motorcyclist uploaded still would give someone a good idea where and even when they were taken. That doesn't matter here but if you're making a more detailed argument, it's harder.

Just consider, "computer forensics" is a thing even though any single bit on the computer can be overwritten and "faked".
We totally agree! At our last company these were a major PITA and slowed us down a lot because when we first started working with other businesses, we were not prepared to handle them at all. We want to help remove the burden from small software vendors, and we think our pricing model is super user friendly :)
>Good because if forces you to update and keep your app relevant.

The real question we should be asking is, is churn adding value? I understand security updates but otherwise you can only improve the wheel so many times before it just becomes a waste of time (decreasing marginal returns). Software engineering _badly_ needs a concept of finished version and mature software. Often there is very little gained from a new framework every few months besides assuaging the egos of a new generation of developers.
There needs to be a meaningful repayment schedule, though. Otherwise I can run up the debt and never pay it back, thus making it free. Accumulating interest at least keeps you “interested” in paying back sooner than later.
App development: cool roadmaps and status report templates
> Games like Gothic, Elex

I really think that Piranha Bytes are the most interesting game studio with regards to RPGs right now. I think they have the best blend of weird mechanics + plot driven gameplay out there, despite their relatively limited resources.
How to Torrent a Pharmaceutical Drug (2016) [video]
the sudo loop is really dangerous
The Daily Stormer is full-on Neo-Nazi website that has been hell-banned by just about every hosting & websearch company out there.

"I appreciate diversity of opinion" - sorry, but you don't let Nazis take up space in your online discourse because that's how you end up with your space being full of Nazis.
It sounds like you are conflating the antiviral implementation with what the mRNA technology itself is doing. mRNA acts as a blueprint for proteins. Your body has tRNA translation complexes that "read" the mRNA and appropriate the correct amino acid to add to the protein chain. Here is a more detailed description - translation begins about halfway down with the UGCAs: https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/translation-dna-to...

So basically the mRNA tech is a means of delivering protein blueprints for in vivo production using your bodies natural machinery. In the case of COVID-19, this was used to manufacture spike protein, which attracts the body's immune response.

I'm not an expert on the best way to use the tech with cancer, but I could imagine a number of different approaches - targeted inducing of cell death, "painting the target" for chemo drugs, making things like monoclonal (designer) antibodies in-vivo, etc. The silver bullet is that it eliminates all of the complexity of creating and storing advanced biologics outside the body. Now you just deliver a bit of code and your body does it's thing.
One thing with Shopify that drives the high abandonment rate is that shipping rates are usually not calculated until the second page of checkout. On many stores the only way to get a shipping estimate is to add something to a cart and get to the second page of checkout.
You are probably also well aware that it's not a good thing to be agreeable
Ask HN: Do you need analytics and reports for your GitHub projects?
Hi there, hackernews!

While working on open source projects, I noticed that I refresh the statistics pages on GitHub very often. Therefore, I automated the gathering of this data, and now every morning, I receive a letter with the most important for the last day.

I feel that it might be useful to others. So I plan to build a service for project analytics.

What I consider to include:
- Periodic reports of important information (updates in issues, pull requests, discussions)
- Analytics of activity in the project (when users most actively comment and make changes)
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- Mentions of the project on other platforms (twitter, reddit, dev.to, etc.)

What do you think?

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I mean, Cornell is an Ivy, not a regional school.
Yes. I would use this in emacs too. I don't do vscode. This can be done in emacs.

Either way, great product and implementation.
Yes, running Streisand or Algo on a small DO droplet will net out to be a better choice than this. You are going to get the potential to run some services on the endpoint, you can map a DNS name to the droplet so that both A and PTR records are always accurate, and you can use a variety of VPN protocols. The venn diagram of people who are capable of running Wireguard (for now) and people who can easily spin up a cloud instance like this seems to have 100% overlap.
Welfare in the 21st century – Bjorn Lomborg (2020)
>Cute women doing traditionally "male things" sells like hot cakes.

True, but are really bad in selling serious Business stuff.
What sort of glue? And thanks for asking the question that I should have asked.
I think it's great that, despite censorship, we work hard at providing a reliable source of information throughout the world.
In Ireland we're still locked down to within 5km of our homes, you have to work from home, not allowed to meet socially, no restaurants, shops or gyms, police fines are in force for breaking the rules
I remember being 10 or 11 and reporting to the sysop of a local BBS that not all the downloadable files were shareware.

I think I was doing warez wrong.
This is laughable. Twitter banned the president of the United States of America. They are not a neutral platform and should be stripped of their section 230 exemptions. They are the last group that should be trying to be the "arbiter or truth". Twitter's culture and actions are so politically slanted in one direction that as an organization it would not know what truth was if it had teeth and bit them.
Yeah, I agree. A lot of what I deal with at my job is similar. The people doing the work just don't want people coming in telling them new ways to do things. It doesn't help that vendors are constantly promising the sky and leaving them with broken things. But once you start showing them small incremental improvements they start to discover the next step etc. Then they see how machines can help them and make suggestions.

In my field there's a very well-known example of a MRI manufacturer who has made very "smart" systems that end-users simply refuse to use. Technologists know how to operate a scanner, when a machine starts trying to help them it's very difficult for them to (1) understand what the machine is doing and how to work with it and (2) trust the machine, primarily because physicians yell at people, not machines. There are maybe 10-20% of the technologists that "get it" and want to tinker and learn how to use the new features. The rest still miss the way scanners worked 20 years ago--because they understood and trust them.

That's the thing with paper forms--people can understand what's happening, discover the process and figure out how to succeed and not to be yelled at. When it disappears into a machine it might as well be a blind and deaf new hire who keeps messing with your desk. It's a major issue of trust.

So the parent's "no it needs to be this giant reinvention when strangers who don't do the work come in and tell you that you need to do everything differently" attitude maybe works with management.

I honestly think the big problem here is that we don't seem to have systems that people can play with to build their own ideas anymore. Maybe sharepoint but my god I can't even figure out how to do anything on that. It really boggles my mind that we have things like iPads and iPhones but nothing like Hypercard.
Oops, was I a bit sly? Perhaps that equation should be amended to read "(occasional) mob rule".

The people become "ochlos" crowd when in sub-groups, or perhaps when they start causing irritation "ochlesis". Before that, the demos is just a bunch of people.

Originally demos refers just the people of a particular land, from Homeric "demos" = land, and expanded over time to include particular bunches of people (e.g., of a village or town, or a band of people).

The political sense of the people as free and sovereign citizens (the body politic; Latin "plebs") is a later meaning. Before that, demos used to refer to the mass of subjects contrasted to the "basileus" king.

Of course, both demos and ochlos can refer to a crowd (as can "plethos"). One could say that demos has a common attribute (e.g. place of origin) giving it stronger cohesion, while an ochlos may be ad hoc.

Still, ochlos is mass/multitude of people, with the ability to exercise influence in a democratic assembly. It is that characteristic of democracy as mob rule - alright, occasionally, that generated early critique (but also gave rise to rhetoric and dialogue as more benign means of persuasion).

(Source: LSJ and a bit of Lampe)

From your name I gather you are from, or interested in the study of, the Mediterranean?
Yeah, but I needed hendiatris to make the joke work, and couldn't think of a better third.
There is a more vicious form of cancellation going on.

- For example, only in 2003 was gay sex legal throughout the US. Is that a form of cancelling?

- It’s still legal to fire or not hire gay people. Is that a form of cancelling?

- US conservatives also fight for the right of any public official to follow the calling of Jesus by refusing to sign marriage licenses. Or the constitutional right to refuse business.

- Does one not remember the Bush Jr presidential race where a US constitution ban on gay marriage was the get out to vote issue for Christian evangelicals?

- We have doctors who cannot follow the prescriptions of their professional societies, such as the American Pediatric Society, because they are banned by law from advising youths on transgender treatment.

- There is a race around the country to make it harder for those over 65 to vote, or to reduce voting locations.

What is Cancellation? At the core of cancellation is the freedom of association. But freedom of association doesn’t make it so TX can prosecute gay men for having sex in a bedroom. Freedom of association means people either like you or don’t like you, and they will either associate with you or they won’t.

Any discussion of harmony must account for a history of cruelty.
Yes! The startup sound is part of the long history of the Mac. It’s entirely nostalgic for me and always reminds me of the sense of wonder I felt when I first used a 128K Mac.
> Do you know why I know them? Because there are 0 (zero!) local supermarket chains left. They've all been bought by foreign companies.

It depends on your perspective really. When I lived in Oregon, there were Fred Meyers all over the place, but they're all owned by Kroger (HQ in Ohio) now. Are they 'foreign' because they're from another state inside the USA?

AFAIK, Kroger keeps the local brands, so IDK why none of the local Romanian brands were kept. If it's anything like China or USSR, probably not a lot of faith in the local brands I guess?
Right, but the immune system already wasn't responding to the mutated cells, and was obviously exposed to any proteins that would identify them.
Canada had may still have 270% tariffs on imported dairy products which they use to justify protecting their farmers.

However what the article does bring up, just what is acceptable in cattle feed?
John Cleese releases an NFT: it's at more than $12k
My view may have come off as a little hedonistic.

To be clear, by conscious experience I don't mean just pleasure (or even just "happiness", just joy). Experience is much more complicated than pleasure alone, or any single feeling -- although of course generally they are good proxies in most situations (if you're happy it's usually, but not as a law, having good experiences).

I'll leave it as a reflection to the reader exactly what it entails -- with Humboldt's observation in mind (of "harmonious development [...] to a complete and consistent whole).

Another important observation to be had, is that we should have freedom to chose, in a way, what gives us pleasure, what's engrossing to us -- guided by reason. I call this concept 'freedom of utility' -- sure, we (generally) enjoy physically food, sex, and various other things (sometimes drugs that destroy our bodies and our minds); but what should we like? Imagine our intuitive tastes could be aligned to changes since we've developed millions of years ago, living in totally different environments under new light of reasoning, and new understanding of the universe.
Why exactly do people keep thinking Google cares about the profit of its apps at all? They are notorious for killing off a ton of successful products that have a ton of users. I’m pretty sure they are using selling tech products as a front for whatever they are really doing. Probably building a temple to worship that AI demon they are creating.
Deid solves this. Couple of projects are building this on various blockchains.
It was a bit of both. I think I first read about this in Lessig's Free Culture [1], but even Wikipedia mentions some of this: somewhat ironically because of the MPAA's current heavy-handed tactics, Hollywood was founded on piracy and patents infringement. Some moviemakers moved West to explore new territories and climates (Wikipedia mentions D.W. Griffith) but others soon followed suit in order to avoid Edison's patents. It can be argued that Hollywood was made possible by people who broke the law [2]

So Hollywood and the MPAA, who so aggressively pursue what they deem "IP infringement", have more than one skeleton in their closets.

Bear this in mind whenever someone tells you -- as often witnessed here on HN -- "but without copyright there will be no writers" or "art isn't possible without IP laws".

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_(book)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_the_United_States#Ri...
off the top of my head:

cancer cells have distinctive traits that can be exploited for targeting [1]. A fairly elegant approach is to use a vesicle studded with antibodies to the tumor antigen to get the payload to the bad cells, the mRNA is then endocytosed into the tumor cell, expressed and the protien product adorns the tumor cell. when this is an antigen such one sees with measles there would be a long lasting immune response that would look for any cells with this antigen [i.e. target tumor cells]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumor_antigen
Career Development and Money – How to be happy at work for the next 40 years
Sounds like you like Linux but run windows ;) yeah outlook word
For a deeper look, Trefethen's Numerical Linear Algebra starts with these ideas and applies them to matrix algorithms.