skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Real Lives" is another interesting game. You get born in a random country, weighted by actual rate of births in that country, and go from there

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Lives

https://reallivesworld.com/gamers/index.html

Looks like their website is kinda crappy which is a shame. Anyway, my parents bought it for me and my siblings when I was a kid. And playing it definitely helped me appreciate the fact that I was a member of the lucky sperm club compared to the vast majority of the global population.
It helped Trump, mission accomplished.
Yup, I’ve never once in my life paid any attention to any of this, and I only ruined one sweater once. My wife was not happy, it was a brand new cashmere sweater from some brand name. Still though, if that’s my only screw up and amortized over a lifetime of not caring about this, still positive ROI for me. Twist ending: we saved the severely shrunken fancy sweater and now it fits my kids, so not a total loss.
Your statement "I have trouble focusing, especially paying attention to details. I also forget things all the time" sounds similar ADHD, but it would be best to talk to a doctor about that to help you out.
Spot on. Welcome to the world of problems by design.
> No one expects the date to be right.

I have never seen this in practice. On my experience, every single person that pushes for estimations expects your date to be right.
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From this comment it seems you are intending to pursue the masters while working. So the opportunity cost is not lost salary. Your opportunity cost would be measured more in time and stress. You will be giving up social time. If you are single and don't have children and are young enough that the masters degree has time to payoff, then I would encourage you to go for it.

Also, since you really enjoy both theory and hands on coding you are well situated to get maximum benefit by applying theory to real problems.
The Wild Eight, you can get it on Steam. It's only a 8-person multiplayer game though. I was brought in after the original team decided to sell the project to the publisher, and turns out that their idea of peer-to-peer multiplayer (which is the central feature of the game) was to just send all the events generated by each player to all others, without local game logic built on single-player Unity primitives and local time — without any lock-step or anything like it. Unsurprisingly, it got into a complete desync state after a couple of hours, with different players seeing a completely different picture of the world on their screens. And the game, without any mechanism in place to detect it, happily carried on.

There were a few theoretical solutions for it. One would be to have authoritative client-server architecture. But all the game logic was very tightly coupled with Unity primitives in the most naive way, so to simulate a part of the game world, you had to have this part of the game world loaded on your computer, with textures, sounds and everything. After spending a little time on that idea, I concluded that we would need to rewrite all game logic to decouple it, and it was simply unfeasible. There were a lot of custom quests.

Another was to use dedicated servers. But we only sold the game, didn't take any subscription or micro-transactions, so even if servers were cheap (they were not), it wasn't a viable strategy long-term.

And finally - the true peer-to-peer. Since the game world was already split into shards for loading and unloading, I decided that every shard was to have a different "master" player who would play a role of authoritative server — this way he had to load roughly the area that he saw on the screen anyway. We implemented the API which repeated the Unity Multiplayer API, but instead of sending calls and returning RPCs to and from one central server, we routed it to the local "master" player. Of course, this architecture was very susceptible to cheating, but since our game was a coop for friends, and not something even remotely competitive, we decided it was okay.

And even with this much smaller scope, the amount of pain, stress and screwed deadlines we endured was just too much. These kinds of systems are very hard to get right, and even harder to debug — you end up running between different PCs comparing hashes, writing gigabytes of logs and doubting if you even chose the right career after you rewrote your packet-packing code the 6th time. Still, a lot of fun and new lessons learned.
This phrasing always confuses me, slashes 30 fold means that it is now 1/30th the ordinal?
This phrasing always confuses me, slashes 30 fold means that it is now 1/30th the original?
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You stated, "We all LIKE that current system... "

Who is the "we all" you speak of? Its certainly not me (I've had far too many frustrating, expensive, time-consuming problems with the legacy banking/financial system), and I have lots of friends and acquaintances who are not at all content with the tyrannical "know your customer" regulations. Banks have been deputized to act as police, and at least in the EU, laws were passed protecting banks that legally allow banks to skim off their clients funds if the banks face serious crises (and that's even discounting what they steal from folks via designing for inflation)---thanks, but no thanks. That's legalized theft!

Beyond that, our mainstream debt-based monetary systems encourage and pressure everyone to spend more than they earn, funded by debt, chasing ever-cheaper consumer goods. This growth at all costs trashes the environment far more that a sound monetary system would.

So, perhaps the wider long-term effects of bitcoin existing as the worlds hardest money yet[0] would be production of higher quality long-term goods rather that cheap environmentally costly debt-funded junk. That possibility is independent of a bitcoin/solar/battery synergy such as suggested in the article's model.

I find the idea that sound money may result in more economically competitive renewable energy fascinating. I wonder if a similar model could apply to other intermittent renewable energy sources?
Although the body of the story was quite different, the headline reminded me of this, "Forgotten Employee" (also mentioned in yesterday's thread):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17332440
I think their biggest concern is getting paid. But I don't think it's good for people to accept dehumanisation, even if they seem to be okay with it. Subconscious acceptance of things like that can mess people up. They are free to accept it, but I think we should carefully consider what we are doing to people's self image.

People with a feeling of creative control and ownership or having a stake in success tend to do a better job too. Self esteem definitely helps productivity.
Because every manual step means things can go wrong. You might also need to look it up if you don't do it often. All these increase the overhead of manual steps compared to clock time.
I brought arguments. It should be easy for you to take part in this discussion by using my arguments and showing they are wrong.

I have no clue why you would see my writing as 'deliberately wordy' if you could just counterargue them? I'm also not a native speaker, not sure if my style of writing is just different.

"who crafts his arguments not to inform but to waste the time of people engaging him"
I'm lost. You make it really easy to do the same as the other commentor. You don't reference anything i wrote, you don't bring any examples or showing any issues in my argumentation.
I generally avoid any synthetic that is not a cotton blend, I want to be able to was on hot and dry on bake.
> Standard Textile Care Symbols? There is an actual standard for that?

ISO 3758:2012, Textiles — Care labelling code using symbols:

* https://www.iso.org/standard/42918.html

See also GB/T 8685, JIS L 0001:2014, ASTM D5489-96c, which are national versions that are basically the same as ISO:

* PDF: https://www.intertek.com/uploadedFiles/Intertek/Divisions/Co...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laundry_symbol
This! Asciidoc is the grown-up brother of Markdown. Designed to scale up to entire books, handle images, tables, references, citation, book indexes, maths.

And the syntax is very friendly and intuitive.
Thank you for your work. I would imagine working on decompilers is quite thankless, but immensely important.
I have been primarily using Linux as my main gaming system, and I can say it's pretty great.

Among the games that did run flawlessly for me are The Witcher 3, Skyrim, GTA 5, numerous indie games (Dead Cells, Hollow Knight, Northgard, etc.) and so much more!
You say stating the obvious and yet it simply isn't. It was a heavily subsidised political stunt that Foxconn could half-ass. They rolled out the red carpet, exempted them from environmental regulations and basically built the infrastructure for them. Even four years ago they said the number of jobs was a wish not a promise, they were BS artists.

They weren't some naive tiny company.
Well you're welcome to hire some extra engineers on Godot's behalf. They can only go so fast with shoestring budget. If it doesn't meet your requirements, consider alternative engines such as Unreal.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you have no right to complain. But the way you're going about it is off-putting. Godot's devs are working hard and what you're saying isn't constructive.
US will aim to cut carbon emissions by as much as 52% by 2030
We will have to agree to disagree then. The whole term invigilation is a bit dystopian.

It is a huge slippery slope because this privacy invasive software ends up being used for such mundane things like weekly quizzes.

Do you really want to live in the future/present where we have to submit ourselves to daily monitoring?

How about adding some monitoring via sensors of performance boosting substances?

My answer is that such monitoring software should be only used under exceptional circumstances on neutral computers - my example was a testing center with insufficient human supervision.
Supply of AZ is so limited in the EU that the EU can afford to be more conservative with recommendations; it's not like de facto restricting AZ to 60-75 (common in European countries) actually slows down vaccination, because there isn't enough AZ available to vaccinate that age group anyway; even if all the AZ is dedicated to it it some of that cohort end up getting Pfizer.
It's strange that on a site like Hacker News people are so averse to learning new things. We seem to have no problem learning other kinds of symbol languages. These are standard symbols - you can search Google for "laundry symbols" to find a key
Wow, this lady has 2 to 3 nightmares per night even ten years later, after an exploratory surgery? That's pretty extreme, I think most people wouldn't have had 6 to 8 thousand nightmares about this experience.
My apologies, didn’t realize you were a bcasher. I’m sorry for your loss.
- speak to a specialist about your difficulty concentrating and see if your symptoms are consistent with ADHD

- failing interviews is completely normal - especially if the interview covers broad theory or includes probability questions which aren't intuitive - practice more interview questions and don't stop interviewing

- don't worry about what your IQ is. One of your scores puts you in the 17th percentile for IQ, the other puts you in the 98th percentile. That tells you a lot about how reliable or useful IQ tests are

- getting your first job in data science is hard. I don't know anything about the job market in Russia but in the UK (and the US from what I hear) there are very few entry-level positions and many (way too many) people who are competing for them
Underwear should be washed on 60 degrees to prevent any germs spreading.
I've made this transition from product R&D to product design consulting. As far as your concerns about variety, it probably depends on what clients/projects your sales team is bringing in. As far as depth, again, this probably depends on the project - my experience was that I was getting much more depth and breadth, typically working on green development and having to figure out the hard stuff up front (like, can this actually be done?) Typically, I'd work on the first 90%, and the client would do the maintenance/sustaining. On the plus side, if you have a client or project that you dislike, you only have to hang on for the term of the contract - 6 mos / year for light at the end of the tunnel. In terms of concerns about boilerplate, my recommendation would be to turn the boilerplate into a library, and sell your customer licenses - you will be more competitive this way, and your margins will be better - it's a win-win (have had success with this). One thing to remember is that in the product company, everyone is on the same team, and you work together. With a client, each one is different, and the relationship varies, but typically boils down to "I paid you a lot of money, where's my stuff?" Be very careful what you commit to with customers, and that anything you do commit to is spelled out clearly and fully in the contract. That was the first important thing I learned. Good luck.
How to create a model for movie recommendation
If they could onboard themselves on Google Cloud they'd probably be the biggest cloud. Seems like that's what they should be trying to do, it'd also future-proof them if they have to split up the business
Well that's actully what U+008B (PLD, Partial Line Down) and U+008C (PLU, Partial Line Up (though officially it's inexplicably Partial Line Backward)) were originally for:

PLD text PLU would produce a subscript and PLU text PLD would produce a superscript.
And the downvotes on your comments begin....
Sounds like we need ultrasonic no-heat clothes dryers to be commercialised. The technology is there - just play music to the water molecules, and they dance!

https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/no-heat-no-problem-ultr...
The refernces are found at the bottom of the article; one to wikipedia (so you can follow more references), and another to a book about the Trump family.
>This circus of incompetence and dishonesty is the real issue with the death penalty.

This is the real issue with almost every human endeavor, especially those that affect other people's lives. ( example politics, taxes)
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Yes, but it's not a simple linear use of energy. For example, it might use 10x energy to dry twice as fast. That's a gain if you're in a hurry, but not so much if you're relaxing at home, on a tight budget, and/or have unusually high cost of electricity.
This has been my experience as well. They should simplify these to just TEXTILE CARE SYMBOL CASHMERE SWEATER and TEXTILE CARE SYMBOL EVERYTHING ELSE.
Find a small interesting thing you can work on today.

Something small that requires much more work than it seems like it should but feels worth doing.

When I think about trying to find a big interesting problem, I am biased by trying to find a shortcut. Trying to find a problem in hopes that I can quickly come up with a clever solution. Which means the problem isn't interesting. I just am looking for a way to be clever.

Think about Knuth. He started a book on compilers in 1962 and still hasn't finished. He is still finding little interesting bits to work on that seem like they ought to be less trouble and doing the work because it seems worth doing.

The important part of his (and any sustainable creative) process is the habit of solving little interesting things is how he has solved big interesting things. Creative practice is practice. Good luck.
That's not true though. The additional energy to create that heat doesn't have to equal the time saved.

You'll notice this in heat pump dryers. They cannot generate the same amount of heat. They take way longer to dry the clothes. But they're way more energy efficient than other forms of dryers.

Edit: I thought of another example. Heating your home with hot water running through radiators. It's significantly more energy efficient to reduce the temperature of the water. This outweighs the additional time it takes to heat up your home. There are various drawbacks and considerations though, e.g. if the house has terrible insulation (noticeable draft) then it'll not be beneficial. There's various other things that'll significantly reduce energy usage, this while anyone would assume that generating heat is already very efficient.
That means you are more interested in stating what you believe than winning an argument that will save innocent lives?
Secure Coding Practices by the OWASP Foundation [pdf]
Sorry, you can't use "common sense" as an argument for hotly contested claims. Here is a paper from 2012 that claims that legalized prostitution significantly increases human trafficking:

> This paper investigates the impact of legalized prostitution on human trafficking inflows. According to economic theory, there are two opposing effects of unknown magnitude. The scale effect of legalized prostitution leads to an expansion of the prostitution market,increasing human trafficking, while the substitution effect reduces demand for trafficked women as legal prostitutes are favored over trafficked ones. Our empirical analysis for a cross-section of up to 150 countries shows that the scale effect dominates the substitution effect. On average, countries where prostitution is legal experience larger reported human trafficking inflows.

https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.40565...
Reminds me of this related article:

https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/05/22/a-docker-image-in-less-t...

TL;DR can you get an image to run for test purposes that can fit in a screenful of base64?
If what you say is true then what is the logical outcome? As you become more economically powerful due to the price of bitcoing going up, but you need to defend ever larger investment in mining and power generation infrastructure, you will either need to capture government and become the government, or go to war with government, or mobs of starving people, or militias of other bitcoin cartels.

That means your best skillet is that of warlord / military strategist.
I often find myself recommending and sharing this. Nice to see it on the front page. It's something that other engineering professions often share, a guide to the state of the art; pointers to find out about the different practices and tools we use.
If they change the semantic meaning of the text is that not under Unicode's purview?
The end of the article has several references to sources that can be followed and the references cited themselves contain links to supporting material. IMHO the prostitution/brothel claim against Frederick is a bit weak, but the draft dodging and other bits were all widely circulated over the past four years and extensively researched.
How to fuck up software releases (2019)
I agree with your sentiment.

But instead of just using CSS units, you can use hard breakpoints, but not for the whole site.
Each UI elements needs to be tailored based on width and height of a browser, you cannot bucket everything.
Thank you for the answers!

I can absolutely see a need for collaboration tool.
Collaboration on regular Jupyter is a pain. I create a shared folder for coworkers and well read/write permissions* are not fun.

* knows chmod - https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/dily0/i_know_how_to_...
I believe hasura uses polling under the hood to accomplish subscriptions, right?
You can call people "sanitation engineers", "sandwich artists", or whatever (these are real titles by the way) and for as long as you treat them as replaceable, interchangeable, and cheap, they will be cogs.

Also are "production worker", "factory worker", "shipping clerk", or "driver" any better or worse than "human lambda"?
For daily clothes, sure. For sports clothing, synthetics all the way. There is no worse pain in the world than sweaty chafing cotton.
> Even on a wet cold night in stoke.

Are there any others?

Stoke and Port Vale are unlikely to be winning the premier any time soon, but that's not the point - Stoke thrashed Liverpool 6-1 in 2015, and that's Football. I'm no fan, and If I were I'd support wolves, but I can appreciate that win will have made Stoke fans delighted.

From reading this hn discussion (the only place I've seen ESL defended), it seems that fans of the American style system (which yougov put as less than 10%) think that winning at the end of the season is all that matters.
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I thought this was going to be a post by Raymond Chen.
Is that how it worked out in Venezuela recently with those levels of inflation?
the money is investment, so the idea is it would be soent on new developers, offices, hardware etc to create the game in question. The investors don't just send you $30m and come back in a 12/24 months, they are buying a bit of the company, so they will be there for meetings and updates and demand milestones and progress reports. So you could fail to achieve making a game, perhaps the money runs out and the investors dont want to put in any more. So the company fails/closes but you dont have to repay the investors. If the company is successful and the game launches and there are profuts then the investors get some of those profits but ultimately the investors will want to sell their stake in their now profitable company, ideally getting 50x or 100x their investment.
I love the shameless promotion.
If questions are from specific field (combinatorics/algorithms etc) then general intelligence doesn't help. Even if your IQ was 150, you won't answer those questions without study and practice.
I strongly dislike the authors framing, but there is something of value here; the attack vector is essentially spam/fishing. Platforms like OpenSea are at the mercy of the events emitted by smart contracts, and you could certainly try to use a "Beeple sent this" event shown in an explorer to trick someone into believing that Beeple acknowledged this NFT as valuable enough to interact with it.

Create an ERC 721 contract where you control the events, mint a copy of a famous piece, emit an ownership history involving a bunch of famous collector accounts, mix in some wash-traded sales, and you might just convince someone that this is a valuable piece and that they don't need to look too closely.
in the case of apple the question is meaningless. in the case of android it is almost meaningless
This is similar to all the alleged stories of JFKs father Joe Kennedy and him being a mobster bootlegger.

https://listverse.com/2017/01/11/10-terrible-things-done-by-...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-myth-of-joe-kennedys-bootl...
Any discussion forum that grows gets worse.

Huh! I hadn’t thought about it in such stark terms before, and I’d like to disagree, but there may be something in that.

Is that an original thought, or did you get it from somewhere? It sounds like something that should be an eponymous law.
Aging developer here. That was a Windows application that let you quickly search with Infoseek. I remember using it alongside Altavista, Magellan, and Excite, before Yahoo and Google came to be.
Bad news about RCS: It's comming soon(TM) for the last 13years
But they will let Russia.

And bend to china.
Tinnitus can also be induced by certain drugs such as aspirin or ibuprofen.

https://www.ata.org/sites/default/files/Drugs%20and%20Tinnit...
technology dogmatist* rather
What I'd love: a common chassis that includes:

- Some usb devices: keyboard, touchpad, camera and internal usb hub for additional devices and external ports.

- HDMI screen with amplified speakers.

- Battery charger and internal power source for internal devices.

- Internal space for HD, SSD, eMMC, WiFi antenna adapter and most common ARM SBCs.

This would allow me to buy a cheap ARM SBC and "build" my own laptop. Except for the battery and internal hub, CrowPi2 is almost like that[0] but CrowPi2 is a toy. We need something that is a tad better than CrowPi2 and not a toy.

[0] https://www.elecrow.com/crowpi2-raspberry-pi-portable-laptop...