skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
didn't know about Engauge: thanks! I've always used [WebPlotDigitizer](https://automeris.io/WebPlotDigitizer/), which doesn't require any installation
I much preferred Supreme Commander, but then again, I'm not the eSports clicks-per-second type of gamer.
So... this thing phones home to activate every time you jump on your motorcycle? I would absolutely love to be the lawyer who's client sustained life threatening injuries because your server was temporarily down precisely when it needed to verify DRM on a motorcycle airbag.
Got it.
I ordered an iPad by the way which screen protector did you use besides paper like
You can append to the list.
Ok, if you're just going to lie down and accept paying higher interest rates or jumping through hoops because you're male/female/black/white then go ahead.

I don't accept having to jump through additional hoops or having to pay more money because of demographic factors. And thankfully there are laws today that prevent banks from refusing to loan people money because they are black, female, etc.
Since it doesn't look like this project has been discussed on HN before (though it was a bit hard to search for: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), I've changed the title from "Orbit is now open source" to one that describes the project.

Edit: ah, but the author's related essay has been discussed a couple times:

Develop Transformative Tools for Thought - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26078115 - Feb 2021 (1 comment)

How can we develop transformative tools for thought? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22147212 - Jan 2020 (44 comments)

How can we develop transformative tools for thought? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21152542 - Oct 2019 (74 comments)
True. But these Mobas are descendants og these RTSs. WarCraft 3 gave birth to Dota 1. StarCraft 1 had the Aeon of Strife map.
Imagine a car which won't activate the airbags (or emergency braking sensors, or ABS, or...) if you get in a crash while you're behind on a payment.

Scummy.

Remember, "entrepreneurs," you can't collect debts from the poor dead (who don't have estates to collect against)
How long it takes for the market to produce viable alternatives is an open question.
Time to short sesame seeds...
Why not grid?
Someone is going to die from this. Then these guys are going to get sued for every dime they have.
The competitive Starcraft 2 scene has definitely seen a new surge of excitement within the past two or so years. (This is just my subjective impression; no idea of the actual numbers. And I'm not sure what the non-professional scene is currently like.)

I think a large part of it is that after around 10 years of dominating Starcraft 2 and 20 years of dominating Starcraft 1, there are now some European players who are repeatedly beating Korean players (and everyone else) in the big tournaments.

(Including in-person tournaments, so you can't chalk it up to latency differences. Though of course there haven't been any of those in the past year, so we'll see if that'll be sustained.)

The two main usurpers, Serral (Finland) and Reynor (Italy) also have a really entertaining rivalry. I'd go so far as to say that those two may have single-handedly kept professional Starcraft 2 interesting and alive.
Seconded. I've played CS casually for almost two decades now and, although I specific details have changed over time, I never really knew the specifics about how each weapon effected you. For instance, I've always considered the SG553 to be just a less accurate version of the AUG (without actual evidence), but it actually inflicts higher damage and also slows you down a bit.

Cool site.
This is all highly reductive. Not sure what you're basing your assumption about porn on. If you're not turned on by something in real life why would you seek porn based on it?

There are plenty of people who long for a life of riding around on a horse swinging a sword at things or exploring the outer reaches of space on a futuristic craft. On the contrary; I'd say that the fiction that people select is highly correlated with their escapist desires.

Keep in mind, im not saying that people who enjoy Fifty Shades want to be raped. But there are enough people with rape/domination fantasies that it makes sense to unearth its sales as a proxy for repressed desires. And these desires are antithetical to a culture that calls for more fairness/equality between the sexes, or at least the claim that deeply seated biological urges don't influence a person's thoughts and behaviors directly.
> Nor were there any country actually try to help the jews before or during the war.

Depending on how you define "country" (as opposed to just "a large fraction or majority of its citizens"), Denmark did in fact help Jews, at least Danish ones.

And the story of Bulgaria is .. complicated. Again, they protected Bulgarian Jews in practice.

Portugal helped not only Portuguese Jews, but many others as well. In particular, they generally allowed a huge number of refugees (16% of the country's population), including Jews, into the country.

It's true that the main Allied powers were not particularly going out of their way to help Jews, but "any country" is a high bar.
A hot take but I was really disappointed by it when it first came out. While waiting for it to be released I discovered Total Annihilation which really seemed like the next generation of RTS. When Starcraft came out it felt like WarCraft 2.5 or 2 with ramps. Sure the plot was much better, and the races were more differentiated, it did not feel like an evolution of the genre: just more polish. After that RTSes haven't grown IMHO outside of Sins of a Solar Empire, Total War, and Supreme Commander.
The only useful thing is the recoil pattern, which this site doesn't even have.
No, they didn't crowdfund their token. They gave away their token to the early adopters, the users, and the liquidity providers on their platform: https://acceptingcrypto.net/uniswap-token-launch-uni/

They were already live for 2 years by the time they gave away their governance token. Even if you had just done one transaction with Uniswap, you received some UNI.

Now, those customers and those liquidity providers are aligned with the future success of Uniswap. They also get to vote on how to spend the $7.5B treasury. Pretty cool model. It's fundamentally different than anything that's come before it. Pay attention to DAOs.
Blizzard died the day it was bought by Activision. It has been descending into mediocrity ever since. Many executives left, and many studios/teams inside Blizzard have been shuffled around and between projects, unlike Blizzard's doctrine of old (tight teams focused on a project until it's great or must be stopped -- Blizzard's infamous "Soon(tm)").

World of Warcraft is still being milked till it dries up (and I'm saying that as someone clocking 560+ days in game). Diablo has been abandonned (see the announcement of a mobile Diablo game last year¹, and its reception by the player base). So has StarCraft. Overwatch is stagnant (no new hero for a year) and Overwatch 2 is probably in development hell (pure speculation on my part I'll admit). Heroes of the Storm is also pretty stagnant (the game went from a hero every month to only two last year, nothing in 2021 so far).

In the meantime, there has been a very heavy push for e-sports with Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm (though I have not followed any of those). These efforts seem, to me, extremely centred on American audience, unlike League of Legends which has multiple leagues around the world. I'm sure a ton of money has been poured into this venture, but I'm unsure it has improved the games...

Anyway, the last time I launched Battle.net was for Destiny 2... and it has migrated to Steam in the middle of 2019!

¹Wow OK, that was in 2018 o_O Time flies, especially with a global pandemic, it seems...
What about economies of scale? Wouldn't we expect as demand rose, more suppliers and production would also come about?
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We really did build this in part as a reaction to the historically modular and repairable notebooks becoming decreasingly so. Even the former standard-bearer for upgradeability, the ThinkPad T4xx (now T14) series no longer has two SO-DIMM sockets.

We then took that a few steps further by making the mainboard upgradeable, adding an Expansion Card system for port customization, and enabling personalization through color-customizable bezels and keyboard language selection.
To me it just looks like they aren't trying very hard.

SC2 did something very smart with its last expansion with the coop mode, and it became very popular despite being only sort of fleshed out. I could easily see that kind of game mode making for a hit RTS if it was the central focus, and had the standard MMO-lite stuff like loot and missions and raids and story and customizable units/armies and support for other group sizes.
This was an excellent and informative post. The USPS really gets hosed by the fact that they are required to have a fixed price for the most rural, low-density locations that UPS and FedEx would never deliver to.
It is at best neutral for the user. Sometimes these source trackers help companies know that affiliate links are more often drivers of traffic. Other times it helps with A/B testing because they discover the main logo was more often clicked than the "click me" button or whatever.
I recently started playing AoE2 again with my brothers after basically a 15 year gap, and it's a lot of fun. I was surprised to see such an active community. I've heard AoE4 will be more like AoE2 than AoE3 was, so I'm totally considering picking it up at some point if my brothers do. The game has aged really well with its design. We are all casual gamers, and it's nice to have something to play with people who aren't into the FPS twitch skills.
> I'm pretty sure this only works for me because I spend at least $1,500 a month via Amazon

What are you buying such that you're spending at least $18,000 a year on Amazon?
A wonderful idea, except for the "Benevolent Dictator" part.
I haven't played Overwatch, so I can't speak to it. It's very possible that my opinion only really applies to WoW, and perhaps WC3:Reforged was a fluke.

Still, Overwatch was released in 2016, and announced in 2014, so there is also the possibility that there was some shift happening after that time.

I believe HS gets major updates that are considered well polished, just to add another data point.
> Miners don't decide what software other people run
That's irrelevant when nobody recognizes your coins. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Economic_majority
White colonizers from Africa with a history of mineral extraction... that’s not going to leave any impression on your morality. Suuure.
Eh, it’s the price of a M1 MacBook Air which isn’t exactly a slouch of a machine.
Anyone know if Apple counted this as the sale of 7 units?
This obviously isn't starting over with hypertext, but here's a HN thread about CSS stylesheets which are designed to apply pleasant styles to content written using simple HTML markup with no classes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22681270
Tax Evasion at the Top of the Income Distribution: Theory and Evidence [pdf]
I think this is more of the enthusiasts vs. causal user conundrum. Gaming has made the transition to a mature industry where mass market appeal is more profitable than a great product aimed at enthusiasts.

I can't really blame either side. It sucks for enthusiasts who want games that are complex, to be offered a watered down experience full of MTX. But it sucks for studios when they sink a 10xs the money into producing a complex PC game and earn maybe half the revenue.
flim sounds like a strange way a French person would pronounce "film" for fun
Overwatch queue times are still pretty good outside of Masters+ competitive play (remember most players are quick play or Diamond and below). I'm fairly certain overwatch 2 and beyond will be just fine barring some massive screw-up. The main problem with OW was how much money they blew on the Overwatch League and E-sports partnerships - hundreds of millions of dollars invested and the top talent keeps leaving because they are miserable.
I disagree. Doing this twice would be stupid. Doing it once is hilarious. I love this story. Good for him.
Honestly, you not being able to have partner night have to do with you being coercive and potentially abusive partner. It is the way you think about relationships - you want to create set up in which your potential partners are helpless and have no choice. You don't care about how vulnerable to rape or domestic violence it would make them. You don't care about consequences to children.

As in, potential partners are better off single and alone.
Why rich parents have rich children
Can you elaborate? Genuinely curious. In what way is it not? Especially for the first few decades after a particular event. I'd agree that the victors don't necessarily have a permanent monopoly on history.
That's certainly credible evidence for past use I overlooked, though it remains unlikely to be useful with the advent of per-origin cache isolation.

The Last-Modified header can be used in exactly the same way, and isn't blocked by this extension, which harkens back to my original point: this is an extension that appears to see significant use by non-technical users, yet it breaks a browser feature by default. There are plenty of other methods of identifying a unique user that it doesn't prevent, so this seems like a pretty unexpected feature users should take note of.
I hosted a mirror of this blog on the dark web. Here's how
It's like they were trying to destroy any evidence that Warcraft 3 was ever anything special. I guess that's one way to dissuade people from making obvious comparisons.
It was kind of tounge-in-cheek though
The point is that Zambia is a place white colonizers have been exploiting forever and the Musk family certainly has been doing business in south east Africa for some time.
Not ADB, but AppleTalk might have handled it.
Google is holding computing back by not letting you be administrator of your own devices... (Apple too, of course, but Apple never claimed to be open)
Congrats Bootstrap maintainers/contributors! What an impactful project. Perusing the docs over the years, it's been interesting to see how they've incorporated web dev patterns.

I always loved learning and laughing from @mdo and @fat.
I dunno. I think riding on nostalgia can only get you so far. Disney's new Mulan and WC3 remastered getting flak were due to happen at some point, and the criticisms are well deserved IMHO.

On the other hand, Mario keeps reinventing the adventure genre with creative mechanics, even though storyline/CGI of each new game is basically non-existent compared to Blizzard's capabilities. WoW obviously did very well in spinning the Warcraft lore into new directions, and Starcraft Ghost was also highly anticipated before the vaporware lost its steam. I think the main difference between Nintendo and Blizzard - and why Nintendo still commands such strong brands - is Nintendo plays the long term game, never getting drunk on a single unicorn success.
The thing with most companies optimizing addiction (user engagement) is that they use these weird optimization loops that improve metrics one by one (+x% then +y%) but then end up with a product so far from the long-term equilibrium.

There's no context as to what each player wants. The loop just works across the whole player base, not really aimed towards any context of the player.
Widespread Commodity Shortages Raise Inflation Fears
Hmmm, it seems like https://webwormhole.io/ has changed from last time I used it. https://wormhole.app/ seems more similar to what I remembered as frontend.

I remember trying many of those services and I decided to use this one because I could send large files without any problem (was trying to move sqlite dbs that were several Gbs, as it seemed to stream the file instead of trying to store it on ram first, but now I see wormhole.app allows up to 10GB, and I don't remember to have any limit.

WebRTC services seem to have problems to get up to speed, but for streaming files between devices it seems the best solution in terms of friction.
My explanation was made in good faith. I believe this.
good. I want the advertisers to lose money and not even get where I clicked out of it.
What you are saying is dangerous. We had a serious set of exactly these transmission events in Britain only a few decades ago. Clearly the risk is not infinitesimal.
> Based on what?

The fact that you blamed "personality" for all problems.

> Depends on country.

Well I'm talking about the West, the US in particular.

> generalizing an entire gender based on n=1

It's not n=1, the reason people do it is because it is generally considered socially acceptable.

> And a significant percentage of men also share the mindset that women are inferior/object, or other misogynistic shit. Neither should happen.

You really don't realize how many men are not misogynistic, and how much more acceptable it is to make fun of men for their insecurities (like height).

> Heh? In another thread I did write that men usually don’t want to have relationship with women of another race (and vice versa). But it is all around true, most cultures look down on interracial relationships — which is said.

This is not true, men are more open in general, and women, especially white women, have the strongest bias. Women will even refuse to date ethnic men they find attractive. There are lots of studies on this although I'd have to dig them up. Also why doesn't this affect white men as much if it's just about opposition to interracial relationships? They are preferred by many ethnic women.
>You honestly think Americans are aware of even the most common atrocities committed in the name of colonization?

Increasingly, yes. I'm sure it'll be many more decades before it becomes more widely accepted, though.

>The alternate reality where Nazi Deutschland won would likely similarly deal with the occupied USA/UK/etc like the US treated the natives.

Very likely, yes.
I'd deal with it by updating my resume.
Most genes are on the 22 "homologous" chromosomes, which you have 2 of. For those, you do have 2 copies of the gene (one per chromosome), one of which comes from the mother, one from the father—and which copy you get is effectively random (each parent does a process called "crossing over" that sort of mixes their two copies to produce the new chromosome they pass to the child). Punnett squares can be used for these genes.

That leaves the "sex" chromosomes, X and Y. Females have two X chromosomes and no Y, males have one X and one Y. (The Y chromosome is very small, has very few genes, and doesn't change much.) A mother passes down one X chromosome, via "crossing over", to a child of either sex. A father passes down either his full X chromosome, making the child a daughter, or his Y chromosome, making a son. (So, yes, it is impossible for a father to pass on X-linked conditions to his sons, while his daughters will always carry a copy. Meanwhile, if a male has an X-linked condition, then his mother must have at least one copy, so she's either a carrier or has the condition herself.)

I think most genes follow a dominant/recessive pattern, where AA and Aa behave the same (by convention the uppercase letter is used for the dominant allele) while "aa" behaves different. There are certainly exceptions to that, though. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_(genetics) (in particular "incomplete dominance", "codominance").

When you have one copy of a gene (usually because it's on the X chromosome—"X-linked"), if it is of the dominant/recessive pattern, then I would expect "A" to behave like "AA" and "a" to behave like "aa".

Note that, since crossing over never happens on the Y chromosome, it's passed down fully intact from father to son, and the only changes that can happen to it are mutations—a very slow process, compared to the mixing that occurs on the other chromosomes. Evolution on the Y is thus rather slow. Also, (according to Wiki) the Y is estimated to have only 63 protein-coding genes, while the X has 804. I think the Y mostly just serves to make the child male.
The state of the art is to have OCR of those PDFs to automate it. There's a huge amount of corporate/enterprise solutions that are just working around not doing proper interfaces and integrations. There's even the concept of "Robotic Process Automation" to make working around not being able to deliver working software sound cool.
> Not to mention they seem to hate flying yet keep creating terrible zones unless you can fly.

Yes, this is just an ongoing disaster. My sense from their communications over the years is that, when players fly through zones, that hurts the feelings of the artists, which Blizzard doesn't like.

> There aren't clear routes between common locations like roads in Skyrim.

I actually really liked how roads were handled in original WoW. They twist and turn, and yet somehow they're always faster than going offroad. And they were reliably safe -- until in Duskwood there's a wolf right on the middle of the road, which added to the atmosphere for me.

For the latest expansion, my main complaint is that they provide a bunch of cosmetic features, which they know are a draw -- but you can't use the cosmetics on your other characters. All shadowlands cosmetics are restricted to characters who belong to the particular faction. (Which is, overwhelmingly, just the specific character who unlocked it.) I characterized this once in guild chat as "welcome to Shadowlands! To enjoy this expansion's new content, please wait for the next expansion to release", and got many pained agreements.

You can't use your mail-wearing toon to unlock plate cosmetics, either. You need to go through the entire rep grind, again, if you want two sets of cosmetics from the same vendor.
Imagine selling a car airbag system separate from the car.
That is the explanation I was looking for. Theft is such a generic term.
it seems blizzard is also screwing up WoW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilaeRQK_FDQ
>Streaming games is not going to reach mainstream adoption because the latency of the Internet is too large

Im not sure i agree with that. We already deal with latency while playing games like CS:GO and others. They are already making the roundtrip and are playable. I think it's more of a bandwidth issue of being able to send enough "raw" screen data instead of game scenario deltas.
Somehow I'm more impressed by the MNT Reform DIY laptop

https://mnt.re

https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform
Excerpt from the article:

> These numbers dovetail with a number of studies showing a similar level of classification looking at whole brain data. By applying a multivariate analysis of the whole brain, researchers are now able to classify whether a brain is male or female with 77%-93% accuracy (see here, here, here, here, and here). In fact, some recent studies using the most sophisticated techniques have consistently found greater than 90% accuracy rates looking at whole brain data (see here, here, and here). While this level of prediction is definitely not perfect-- and by no means do those findings justify individual stereotyping or discrimination-- that's really high accuracy as far science goes [7].

What's really interesting to me is if it's feasible to conduct a large scale study on transgender people to see what their clustering is like, statistically, with respect to personality. And whether that changes before or after a medical treatment, such as taking hormones.