skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think after Mists of Pandaria I stopped playing wow as an MMO and just focused on doing single player stuff for the past many years.
To me there is a significant difference in something requiring to farm an instance 50-100 over when you have time vs. doing it over 50-100 days because of daily lockouts. That is just not fun and and disrespectful to me as a player. I don't always have the same free time every day and when I do get a couple of hours I can't farm due to lockouts.

Their WOW playerbase are getting older and if you don't treat them will respect even more will be lost. There are so many games out there right now, sure not of this genre, but they provide options for someone who wants to pick up gaming and not necessarily invest in WoW.
That's exactly with what I'm struggling right now. I'm building a site with nuxt and bootstrap 5. So far I haven't made the js work.
I think US dollar hegemony has contributed to the deaths of hundreds of millions of people. Its pursuit has led to war, corruption, human rights abuses, increased fossil fuel usage and lots of other bad things.

Flame wars on forums are certainly immature and embarrassing, but I think what you refer to as "legitimate" currencies all have much worse associations.
> on the look out for engaging patterns companies use to draw you in

I think about this all the time. Tamagotchi was the start. Every where I look, all I see are variants of Tamagotchi.

eg Quantified self help productivity hacking are just treating your own self as the Tamagotchi.
I still play SC1:BW Remastered almost every day.

It's PERFECT!
As vile as this is, at least you can buy it outright. That puts it so far ahead of nearly the entire predatory SaaS ecosystem. I use Photoshop and Illustrator once a month. Still, for some strange reason I overpay to keep up an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. Ideally I'd vote with my wallet and stop paying companies with such anti-consumer practices.
I'm more concerned about the homes that will go up in flames due to ruptured gas lines. With the fire department overwhelmed, the potential amount of toxic smoke/fumes post-quake scares me more than the quake. Assuming I survive, assuming my family/friends do, assuming we all even are happy about being survivors of something so colossal, at such scale...
I like Everyday Astronaut's stream, he explains what's happening and why (and probably has a bigger production budget than SpaceX themselves): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htnG_mABtSQ
Yes, it's a financing plan. Their web page says so plainly. Unlike your mortgage, if you fail to pay, you get to keep the vest and restart the payment plan. When you pay for a helmet in installments and stop paying, it's worse than losing structural integrity; a collector comes to take the helmet away and you have no helmet.
The internet was more fun until the crybabies and control freaks ruined it.

This site is like a Reddit for the Silicon Valley community, you're not going to find much support. They will soon completely fail though, their ideology doesn't create value. Just keep watching.
If France wants to make this meaningful, it also has to stop importing Brazilian beef. Soy is mainly used to feed cattle, so just banning soy imports sounds like a political move without real will to me.
Externally the basecamp saga seems dramatic. I think the explanation is a lot simpler.

At the core though, they have a highly talented group of people that probably won't have trouble finding a job in 6 months. If I was in that situation, and I agreed with the changes they made (I read Jason Fried's post, and mostly agree), I would still take the buyout!

6 months salary for me, or most engineers (or anyone, really) is A LOT of money. I like my job, and I've had lifestyle jobs that I absolutely LOVED. I can't say that I have ever loved a job so much that I would turn down that much money to leave.

If I was staying I would be pretty annoyed, the people that leave get a bag of cash, and the people that stay get to pick up the slack while their former colleagues get on twitter to dump on the company?
They are not avoiding regulation at all — they are avoiding legacy money transmission networks! They are regulated because they transmit money in the US (KYC/AML etc).

It’s using the Lightning Network to replace traditional interbank networks like Swift. Or ACH (at least for outgoing payments) If you don’t see this as a valuable thing, I’m sorry.
It also allows arbitrary payments to lightning invoices denominated in USD, you can pay any user of the app, or any lightning invoices.

You don’t need to connect to lightning nodes - it is a network and if you need to route through them, it will.

Why bitcoin? Because they don’t need to maintain a liquidity pools and use swift to balance the USD pools. They can use cheap LN payments to instead of swift for settlement. Note that LN is unfairly cheap to use. An order cheaper than swift.
take my money

One thing retail consultants do is to watch people checking out and note the obstacles. A classic problem is checkout clutter - impulse buy items at the checkout getting in the way of putting merchandise on the counter. In stores without carts, checkout clutter reduces sale amount, because customers subconsciously don't want to reach the counter and have no place to put the stuff. The Gap, which got this, always had big, clear counters. Bed, Bath and Beyond doesn't get this.

Eventually I held my wallet aloft and asked why nobody here would take my money.

I had an experience like that decades ago, in a large J.C. Penny in New Jersey. I'd just moved to the area and was buying a whole set of linens, pillows, and towels in the middle of the day. So I had an armload of merchandise stacked above my head. I reached a counter in the multi-floor department store but there were no staff around. No one on the whole floor.

I saw a phone behind the counter, so I dialed 0 and got someone. I told them I was at the checkout in Linens and there was no one on the sales floor.

Several minutes later, about six people showed up. Not clerks. The store manager, some junior people, and a grey-haired executive in an expensive suit who was deferred to by the others. By now, there were two other customers lined up behind me. The manager sent off some of the junior people to search for the missing clerk, and they came back empty. The store manager looked scared. The grey-haired executive didn't say a word to his people. He just unlocked the cash register and handled the transaction himself. He did two transactions before someone was found to take over.

I suspected I had just seen the end of some careers.
TFA isn't specific but it looks like you have to use an app to turn it on before you ride and the app is the mechanism by which the phone home happens.
I don't necessarily disagree with your perspective here, it makes sense. That being said, with payment plans, there's typically some notion of an interest rate. If you miss a payment, you "just" owe the compounding interest (eventually).

Typically, rates are regulated, and even when it's not regulated, usury is highly frowned upon.

Taking your analogy to its conclusion, the "interest rate" for nonpayment here could potentially be outright death when the thing in question stops working. It's hard to put a dollar value on a human life, but that's a hell of an interest rate!
Why don't I see almost any feminists fighting against this? Instead they are some of the most racist and hateful people in my experience.

> And the important thing is regardless of the source of her preference, at the end of the day it is a given women's inalienable choice who she finds attractive -- even if it is not "fair".

Sure, but shouldn't they be taking responsibility and criticized heavily on a societal level, I don't see that happening much.
Worse, even if you agree, missing payments without noticing it is easy. You might get your life saver disabled even though you have plenty of money and are willing to pay and think you set everything up. For example, it works for a while, then you overdraw one of your accounts because a transfer is late (you still have plenty of money overall), the bank stops the payment from that account.

Even if they don't disable right away, add a few more delays. I had an address change once and they sent the notice for a missed payment to the old address of my business - so I only noticed it when the service was cut off. The bill also had been sent there so I never knew I had to pay.

Do you want to say "tough luck" to customers who rely on the protection and miss a payment only because of bad luck? Is even forgetfulness (so 100% "their own fault") worth a potential death sentence?

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Note that the address change issue also once happened to me after I had already informed the other party of my new address. It was the IRS, they still sent their requests to my old address, months later, and then got a court order to get the money from my bank account without my knowledge or consent. I never knew they had wanted something from me, and I had given them the new address. So it can happen even if you do everything right.
That sounds more like a symptom as opposed to the underlying problem. A large number of patches isn't necessarily a bad thing, but an unstable meta is definitely bad.

So SC2 starts off with SCV-auto split, no more manual splitting at the start of the game (all players now can play the first 5-seconds of every game like a pro: no practice needed anymore) But then muscle-memory people wanted an edge, so they added MULEs / Spawn Larva / Chronoboost, giving players a muscle-memory / simple timer countdown to play with. Etc. etc.

Just back-and-forth changes like that was the real problem. The general balance patches had no idea for the final metagame they were actually going for. Did Blizzard want a game that rewarded manual effort (Juggle MULEs?)? Or did they want a game where manual-effort was minimized (Auto-Worker Split?)

In the end: Blizzard wanted both, even if the two designs contradicted each other. You really can't please both groups of players, but by switching back and forth between the two designs, they only really pissed off both camps over the long term.
Thanks a bunch! That's awesome to read!
Battery storage is being built right now in the UK and there is a large pipeline of new projects. And scaling up is comparatively easy. It is ridiculously modular, suited to mass production, and piggy-backs on the global electronics industry.

I wouldn't get hung up on paring battery storage with a particular generation technology. Just connect it to the grid and let the market decide when to charge and discharge.

One good reason for colocating battery storage with renewables is that you get to share the grid connection. That connection can be expensive and will be under utilized due to intermittency. So store some of the energy in batteries and spend less money on expensive AC cables. You can even reverse the flow and take energy from the grid.
Isn't this just a case of increasing irrelevancy?

I can't think of a single release from them I would describe as 'ambitious' other than Diablo Mobile which has the distinct honor of being dead before arrival.

Speaking anecdotally, no one I game with or any of the forums I go to talk about Blizzard games. Many of the Discord servers I play with used to be big into HotS and Starcraft I/II, but I don't hear a peep from them about either anymore.

Perhaps worst of all, several of the Path of Exile players I game with are no longer even worried about a Diablo 4 launch affecting the long term health of their favorite dungeon crawler. It's just expected that Blizzard will deliver a polished but shallow experience that will be over within two or three months at most.

Maybe they just aren't nimble enough anymore to leverage their huge war-chest of experience and cash.
I start my bikes and cars inside a garage where there's limited RF signal due to no line of sight to towers. If this thing fails to initiate service correctly, the maker of this product will be in for a world of hurt after my heirs sue them into the ground for failing to deliver their service.

Air bag makers like Takata know the high cost of poorly designed airbags all too well. Inviting [b|m]illions in liability through a service model that requires a successful login before every use is nuts.

Login failure could also happen inside a parking garage w/o signal, or in a large city where RF shadows from tall buildings block signal, or in a woods that's too far from cellular towers to receive a signal, or it could fail on restart after the engine stalls on the road.

I wonder if the maker will choose not to sell their product in the US where personal injury attorneys are probably already licking their lips.

This service model may make sense on a racetrack, but not so much in the real world.
I'm not in the affiliate landscape but this kind of thing could have detrimental impact on publishers driving traffic to various commerce sites. If you're a person that makes an occasion purchase through publishers (small or larger)to support their content, this will immediately kill their earnings.

Publishers are desperate to monetize their audience anyway possible. Affiliate revenue always seemed to be lesser of evils, IMO, in comparison to programmatic/display. After all, the user intentionally is making a purchase vs. having their data sold out from under them with zero knowledge.

Here's to hoping that I'm misunderstanding how inclusive this will be to stripping parameters.
It does work. Besides, you don't need to pay people not to do things. Just punish them if they do. If I were to cut down my trees, I'd have to pay fines. If it weren't easier to slash and burn, they'd find ways to grow profitable crops in, or otherwise utilize, the existing forest.

Costa Rica changed its economy from fishing to tourism fairly effectively. Just have a conversation with a fisherman turned whale boat operator for some good lessons on that next time you're down there.

Pay no attention to the vast palm tree plantations that decimated the natural forest though. That's a side point.
The origin of Covid: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?
I appreciate that you recognize the US being able to do it is shitty.

I wonder how many non-Americans think two entities being able to do it is better than one, because at least they can counter-balance each other.

Not just with force; I was recently thinking about how the US during the cold war tried to be "nice" to the "third world" to keep them out of the "sphere of influence" of the Soviet Union. Currently China is trying to project it's "soft power" that way too to get less developed countries into it's patronage, but the US isn't really doing that at the moment (see for instance approaches to distributing covid vaccine...).

I (who is a usa citizen) personally am not really sure which is preferable, only one super-power, or two. Either way the world is in for a rough ride.
Ok, I was now about to order one, where I found this Amazon recension, which I just have to share:

Richard Behiel

This Cube Cured my Mortality

"All the people here who bought this wireless tungsten cube to admire its surreal heft have precisely the wrong mindset. I, in my exalted wisdom and unbridled ambition, bought this cube to become fully accustomed to the intensity of its density, to make its weight bearable and in fact normal to me, so that all the world around me may fade into a fluffy arena of gravitational inconsequence. And it has worked, to profound success. I have carried the tungsten with me, have grown attached to the downward pull of its small form, its desire to be one with the floor. This force has become so normal to me that lifting any other object now feels like lifting cotton candy, or a fluffy pillow. Big burly manly men who pump iron now seem to me as little children who raise mere aluminum.

I can hardly remember the days before I became a man of tungsten. How distant those days seem now, how burdened by the apparent heaviness of everyday objects. I laugh at the philistines who still operate in a world devoid of tungsten, their shoulders thin and unempowered by the experience of bearing tungsten. Ha, what fools, blissful in their ignorance, anesthetized by their lack of meaningful struggle, devoid of passion.

Nietzsche once said that a man who has a why can bear almost any how. But a man who has a tungsten cube can bear any object less dense, and all this talk of why and how becomes unnecessary.

Schopenhauer once said that every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. Tungsten expands the limits of a man’s field of vision by showing him an example of increased density, in comparison to which the everyday objects to which he was formerly accustomed gain a light and airy quality. Who can lament the tragedy of life, when surrounded by such lightweight objects? Who can cry in a world of styrofoam and cushions?

Have you yet understood? This is no ordinary metal. In this metal is the alchemical potential to transform your world, by transforming your expectations. Those who have not yet held the cube in their hands and mouths will not understand, for they still live in a world of normal density, like Plato’s cave dwellers. Those who have opened their mind to the density of tungsten will shift their expectations of weight and density accordingly.

To give this cube a rating of anything less than five stars would be to condemn life itself. Who am I, as a mere mortal, to judge the most compact of all affordable materials? No. I say gratefully to whichever grand being may have created this universe: good job on the tungsten. It sure is dense.

I sit here with my tungsten cube, transcendent above death itself. For insofar as this tungsten cube will last forever, I am in the presence of immortality. "
Technically, 20 year old men could also date women over 65.
> If that's the case, then the Oversight Board doesn't actually serve the purpose that the Supreme Court does

Yes and no. Ensuring that Facebook is transparent with their policies is valuable. The OB prevents Facebook from lying to users about what its policies are in practice, so there is oversight that ensures that the de facto and de jure policies don't veer apart. That's still very much what the supreme court does, and very much not what the Iranian Assembly of Experts does.

It is the case that the OB is relatively less powerful than the Supreme court because the Executive Branch and Legislative Branch of Facebook are one and the same, and so relatively far more powerful. But it still provides a semblance of an independent judiciary.

A lot of its power comes in keeping facebook honest and accountable to users. A facebook that cannot lie about its policies is easier to hold accountable.

> As long as the unflinching absolutist doesn't have the final say as a single individual

I think this is akin to saying that a Supreme Court justice who believes that the law should be that the first amendment should apply to Facebook would be an asset to the court. That's true only if that's the outcome you prefer. Its terrible for the legitimacy of the court if someone's values are antithetical to the policies they're purportedly interpreting.
Someone already mentioned but wanted to say it is surprising that theres essentially no real drive-by-wire car in production. And really there doesn't need to me. It's just added complexity and liability. Eventually they'll migrate that way as they work towards getting rid of the steering wheel but as long as thats around, the wheel will be directed connected to the power steering systems.

This becomes obvious in a Tesla when you play that racing game on the MCU with the steering wheel as input. It moves the wheels. If the car was drive-by-wire they wouldn't move as thats just causing excess wear for no reason.
I can't wait for them to offer "low latency impact protection".
> I lost 3 good finds today before I found out my account got the axe.

That's weird. I only find one good submission per month. Some people is more lucky (or better finding news), but 3 good posts in a day is a lot.
I wonder how many of those are in fact infiltrated by the NSA, the Chinese equivalent, or both though. :(
If I fits I sits: A citizen science study into contour susceptibility of cats
I know that breathalyzers are a thing too, but that's not something I have personal experience with. Does that make me behind the curve there as well?
> To run a program from the PowerShell command line, you must start with an & symbol.

Not true. If on path, name is enough. If not, you ./ or .\ it.

> Omitting the & means PowerShell will simply print the name of the program you want to run.

Yeah, because its not a program but a string. Basics.

> So it’d make sense that PowerShell scripts end in .psh. In fact they end in .ps1

Weird complaint

> Apparently there’s no equivalent for less?

Yes, there is equivalent: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/Less

> For example there is a command to retrieve the AuthentiCode signature on an executable but none which hashes a file (shasum).

Get-FileHash: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...

> The command set PowerShell has is not a perfect match for what UNIX provides

How can it be a perfect match ? Its a different shell of different paradigm. Also, many linux aliases are removed starting from pwsh era so they don't block native tools.

> but trying to use it interactively like a UNIX shell will end in immediate and total failure

Mind blown
Classic example of Steve Jobs Emulation Syndrome: Bill Nguyen and Color Labs.

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

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

https://collapsed.co/startups/color-labs

https://www.fastcompany.com/1784823/bill-nguyen-the-boy-in-t...

https://www.fastcompany.com/1742613/how-colors-bill-nguyen-w...
Honestly, I think the biggest thing google(or who?) could for for android is put gradle in the rear mirror and do(or use? which?) a cargo-like build manager instead...

This is probably a startup idea, btw.
It looks like they got the marketing badly wrong, because we should be talking about how clever the bag is etc, but instead we don't give a monkey's. Gah. MotoGP has mandatory airbag suits, with accelerometers and gyros. Racing is obviously different, there's no cars and trucks to run you over, but top speeds are completely insane, so the tech might well translate over to the road.
What I miss in comparison to Rust is concise error handling. Rust has shown that it is entirely possible to have clear, type safe, concise error handling without try/catch rigoromol or if(err == nil) {...} pollution. My hope is that the introduction of generics in Go eventually leads to Result[] proliferating throughout golang.
Would be pretty easy to integrate airbags into old cars.

Measure minimum distance from seat back to steering wheel and then configure airbag based on that (probably remove jumpers or something to control detonation). Sensor locations are pretty standard and modern airbags and computers are fast enough that you don't need to use crumple zones as a hack to buy time for the bag to go off before the occupant starts moving toward the space the bag will be in.
Mercury: Empowering Programmers’ Mobile Work Practices with Microproductivity [pdf]
Ah yes, the Ministry of Truth, what a great idea. Who decides that truth? You or me? Because I'll change my thoughts on if it is a great idea depending which you decide.

The problem here is that frequently there isn't an objective truth. There's often a substantial amount of nuance involved too (something ML can't really process yet). You'll notice that fact checkers often limit what they fact check to subjects that are well documented and not contentious in the realm of experts in the field. Unfortunately many problems don't fit under this umbrella.

Of course, you could do this in a limited sense, but there's a can of worms that comes with it. Unfortunately we don't know how big that can is, just that if we open it that there's worms inside. So we should be cautious.