skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a difference between creating value and finding value.

For example, if your business is based around an ad model, you are not creating value because that value already existed (people's attention / purchasing power). You are merely redirecting value.

If you take facebook as an example, they are creating value for people by letting them communicate / etc. But they are not capturing a portion of the value they are creating, they are taking value that already existed (the value of your attention) and selling it to someone else.

Or take an investment bank that purely speculates on existing assets. Any time they win, it is not because they created value and captured a fraction of it, it is because someone else lost.

I of course like fb better than the ib in this example, because they are at least creating some value. But I think any business where you're capturing value in a different area from where you're creating it is one that is very likely to end up with lots of conflicts of interesting and exploitation to a certain extent, so best avoided entirely.
Those are MOBAs, not RTS.
Thank you, a bit too fast there
I recently did something similar with Foobar 2000's playlist format [1]. It was a fun learning experience :)

[1] https://darekkay.com/blog/foobar2000-playlist-index-format/
I’ve been taking some time away from work recently. I played WoW (classic version) for about three months for the first time ever. I made it to level 47 as a night elf hunter.

The environment is beautiful. The fighting is well designed. Dungeons can be a nice social experience. It can be a very fun and relaxing game. But it gets super repetitive after a while. The quests are all minor variations of a few simple formats.

I just started playing Minecraft two weeks ago and I’m loving it. I’ve never played it before either. It has the exploration and beautiful scenery aspects and feels like a much more creative game. I’m guessing it will be less stale after 3 months than WoW was. But we will see :)
I even end up not including/importing the JS files, using CSS :hover/:focus-within dropdowns and :target modals
There's docs on the autocomplete schema but I'd wager that will be very much a NIH thing because it's an easy problem to solve but one that nobody seems to agree on. Thus everyone will look to solve it themselves. And I can't really complain about that because I did just the same myself -- rather than looking for an existing schema I decided to define one myself.

The docs on my schema is https://murex.rocks/docs/commands/autocomplete.html but it was a little rushed so could use more examples and a little more TLC.

Also this XKCD strip feels apt: https://xkcd.com/927/
I'm sure there is a cultural reason why men have more testosterone in their blood /s
You have nicely summarized the essay "Is there anything good about Men" by Baumeister.

It used to be that you could find a single authoritative hosting of this lecture/essay, but now it's been ... adopted by the internet. I'd recommend googling and checking sources.
It will 100% be like Genshin Impact. Sure you can treat that as an MMO too but don't expect anything like WoW at all
Hearthstone for casual play. do not sink too much money into it. you can play Hearthstone for free if you do quest and craft a deck that you really like to play
These days I'd be weary of running anything Riot puts out since they got that new kernel anti-cheat.
I guess it wasn't clear but he is talking about RTS games of which your examples are MOBA games and would not apply.
This is not just your pet theory, it's a very real theory. See "Is there anything good about Men" by Baumeister.

Also, as mentioned in a sibling comment, it used to be that you could find a single authoritative hosting of this lecture/essay, but now it's been ... adopted by the internet. I'd recommend googling and checking sources.
It's a small thing, but the community really needs to get over these "layoffs". Companies execute layoffs at the volume Blizzard did all the time, they were not any kind of indication of any major strategic shift whatsoever.
Revenue is up, up, up, but MAU is down.
ETL is a term that dates back to the 70s, and is familiar to anyone who is doing any medium to large scale database management. I'm not saying that everyone has to know about relational databases, but to treat the _relational database_ and its attendant terms as out of the mainstream and "buzzwords" is just weird.
DOTA and LoL are not RTS games; they’re MOBAs.
So there's going to be a gacha system trying to extract hundreds of dollars from you?
I've spent a lot of time involved in the EVE space, I was on the DUST 514 version of the CSM, and I've participated in a couple of wars, even though I am very bad at Internet spaceships. Sometimes I wish EVE was just a tiny bit more like WoW... I wish the environment felt more varied than it does today. It really solely differentiates the game over time and area by player politics. Which is definitely fun, but almost in spite of the game, rather than because of it. ;)

(Other games I spent time on, which yes, are newer than WoW: I really enjoyed the moment to moment feel of playing WildStar and Black Desert Online (largely because they replaced casting/cooldowns/calculated damage values with movement and combos), but of course, RIP the first one, and the second one is macrotransactioned to heck, my wallet couldn't take it. SWTOR's early storyline content is insanely well-done, but unfortunately, once you graduate out of it, it literally is exactly the same game as WoW.)
Diablo 3 was pretty bad imo, clearly targeting consoles. Path of Exile is a much more faithful sequel to Diablo 2 and has a very active player base. It’s almost like if Valve gave it the same treatment they gave dota2.
Like https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/da...?
How would the browser know if the image changed?
I'm curious about this too. In the past I've used the free themes from Bootswatch: https://bootswatch.com/

e.g. Flatly and Darkly can be swapped in and used as a light/dark theme easily.

Also, means your site doesn't look as generic as the base Bootstrap theme.
This hack reminds me of Godel's hacking of an axiomatic mathematical system, to prove and plant his incompleteness theorem;

This is really a great hack: using a system in a unexpected and creative way for which it wan not originally deigned, but which is also very useful and nice.
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It's probably most helpful in terms of having discussions around weapon balancing
Kind of an interesting dilemma. Charge full price, only rich people can afford it, poor people die. Charge a subscription, poor person affords it for a while, bank account gets overdrafted, poor person dies. On the other hand, charge a subscription, poor person affords a safety feature they previously couldn't use, saves their life. Isn't that the more ethical option? If the full price is $800 then they're actually selling the vest to you at a 50% discount and hoping to recoup the costs through the subscription. You're getting a safety product for 50% off and you don't even have to pay back the other 50% if you don't think you'll need it. Hm.
For sure - what I was referring to is a state level actor can (and almost certainly does) afford to have thousands of those 'couple guys' already identified and in an action plan somewhere in their top secret list of dirty tricks, against pretty much anyone they think likely (or even not likely) to want that kind of ability against some day.

Someone COULD go to the store, grab a hammer, and smash my computer. It's a different type of situation however when someone has figured out what model of hammer they would want, from which store (and if it is in stock or not), how they would pay for it, and who they would call to do all these things in a way that I couldn't figure out who ordered or paid for it, to smash my particular workstation at my home on a specific desk tomorrow at 6am - if they wanted to.

It's important to keep in mind capabilities, inclinations, and consequences - when that person with that plan is playing against me in competitive gaming the next day, I need that workstation to win, and I just bet them $10k I could beat them in front of all of my friends.

Thankfully most of us don't have to deal with this in our daily lives, but we can still be collateral damage when someone else is playing these kinds of games. And nation states do on the regular.
Why isn't this illegal ?

You can forget to update your credit card number and end up dieing ?
We'll be announcing pricing at the time we open pre-orders.

This really is a pre-pre-order blog post that we very much did not expect to see on HN! It's more a heads up to folks who are currently on our email list that they can register an account before the upcoming pre-orders.
Is that because it's more unusual, like being very anonymous in a little pond? Or maybe you mean something else.
You'd probably have seen it before if it were real ;) Definitely read Seveneves.
My recollection is that implementing this algorithm is fraught with peril: Some very smart people have coded it with mistakes that only appear for rare bit patterns.
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There are probably several factors at play, but the two biggest in my view are: 1) increased competition and 2) diminishing quality (technical and qualitative, e.g. in terms of release management, story telling, etc.).

Examples in my opinion:

Diablo has always had repetitive gameplay, but the stories/lore seems to suffer with each release.

They are either working on SC3 in secret or have given up on the franchise.

Their management of WoW Classic and rollout of releases has been awful. Without fresh progression servers, Classic is going to truly die in a couple of weeks with the release of TBC.
The problem is not that it got shut down for being old. The problem is that it didn't get replaced with a clean source of energy, be that nuclear or renewables. In the typical nuclear fashion the plant ran for far longer than it was designed for and people kept putting off replacements. I point this out because we need to think differently going forward.
> If monarchy was indeed both socioeconomically important and a deal-breaker for founding the EU to a comparable extent as slavery in the United States, then I would think it's fair to call it a founding pillar.

The disagreement is that it's not accurate to call it a founding pillar even in such cases. "The founding pillar" of most unions has nothing to do with the specifics of members of that union, unless explicitly stated. And in fact, as I pointed out above, the Framers added systems to incentivize its abolition, so not only is it inaccurate to argue that slavery was a foundational pillar, it's arguably the opposite.

We actually have a rich set of literature outlining what the so called "founding pillars" were, and they were the Federalist Papers. The outlined "founding pillars" were (in no particular order): federalism, bicameralism, minority rights, republicanism, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

> My impression is that the textile industry (which was intimately tied to Southern cotton production) was hugely important to the North for at least 50 years after the northern states had started restricting slavery. And from what I can tell, Pennsylvania was the first of the colonies to "abolish slavery," and that wasn't until 1780 and more importantly it didn't free existing slaves. It abolished importing slaves, and made children subsequently born to slaves indentured servants.

There was certainly trade between Southern and Northern States, but the North was overwhelmingly industrialized, whereas the South was an agrarian slave-driven economy. When the Civil War ended, the North continued to prosper, while the South's economy was decimated; in fact when slavery was abolished, the GDP of the US increased(https://www.econlib.org/archives/2014/09/ending_slavery.html).

And although you're correct that Pennsylvania didn't abolish slavery until 1780, the US Constitution wasn't drafted until 1787; until then the States were governed by the Articles of Confederation. By 1787, every single Northern State except New Jersey (1806) had abolished slavery. And FYI, abolition meant freeing existing slaves, not just banning the importation. By 1806, all former slaves in the Northern states were free.
We disagree on how big of a deal pervasive serverside memory corruption vulnerabilities have been. Easily a bigger problem than early-1990s congestion collapse.
That's really kind of you and has made my day! I've been thinking about one but haven't found the time; this definitely nudges me towards that so thank you.

If you ever want to chat about something though, feel free to reach me at the email in my profile. Always great to meet new people, especially in these times. :)
It's incredible that a "remaster" could destroy a game like that. I can't even go play a game that I love, a game from my childhood, with an art style and gameplay that still holds up unless I torrent the old client and connect to third-party multiplayer servers.

For artists, there's a concept of "moral rights". Art may not be destroyed senselessly, no matter who owns it, because it goes against the human creative spirit - rights like that. We need similar rights for old games. You can sell a new remaster or even turn down the servers, but you can't remake it into a monstrosity that you can't opt out of.
I appreciate that your comment is based on personal experience but, just as a heads-up, bringing up religion in this context is highly likely to lead to a religious flamewar. Large internet forums simply can't handle discussing it, especially when the root topic is already controversial.

I'm sure you didn't mean to include flamebait in your comment!
> 15. .webp: significantly overrated, in my opinion. It doesn’t give anywhere near as big a boost in compression relative to properly-done JPEG as people think (like under 10% a lot of the time). Now AVIF, that’s another matter.

I was saying the same thing but then I realized something. The thing about webp isn't about how it compares to jpg[0]. Png on the other hand, with all those logos and some with transparency. Webp can replace these with only a fraction of png-size.

Anything photographic, where quality is priority and transparency isn't required I find jpg to be finer quality.

[0] Altough that's often the narrative.
You may want to try and enable “Reduce White Point” via Settings -> Accessability -> Display and Text Size

I have my ‘White Point’ reduced 100% and this feature is turned on/off via the Accessability Shortcut (triple click power button).

This effectively gives me another whole range of darkness with an easy triple click. In dark situations, rather than dim my brightness, I’ll use the shortcut. I’ve found the darkest point can actually be too dark! One negative is color and contrast can become a bit distorted, but I suppose this may be a limitation of my eyeballs.
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Open sourcing Pixie under Apache 2.0 license
I used to completely agree with you re: 2/2/2, but I've been getting back into competitive lately, and the matches are much more predictive and it's much easier to figure out what you're supposed to be doing based on your role now. It's very "coachable"/"trainable" in a way that open queue isn't.
I don’t know I have to imagine that sort of breakfast has sharply dropped in popularity over the past decade or two. Growing up in the 90s it was always cereal or oatmeal or eggos but I haven’t had any of those in our pantry for probably 5 years. Yogurt with granola or a kind bar is pretty much all I eat for breakfast during the week if anything. Eggs and bacon on the weekend.
That's a good point. When I made my comment, I hadn't seen the price yet! I was thinking somewhere in the ballpark of 5k.
I read a lot including Sci-Fi and did not find any who are close. Does not mean they do not exist. Most likely not as famous and not exposed to wide public.
Yeah, JAB (who the quote is attributed to) is now the President of the company, too... To be fair to him, however, he did admit his failure on that one.
Using the words "if not" in English in this manner indicates that it is a further extreme than the preceding portion of the sentence (and not strictly a matter of fact). There is a spectrum there, obviously, and I could argue for specific instance of him using "fight" as being sketchy, but really that he used the term over a dozen times is striking to me. Connecting patriotism and fighting alongside the election being stolen from them had a message that more action than usual was necessary. That was the underlying message.

He used a lot of euphemisms, and I think there is some evidence there that he knew the message he was sending to the crowd.

Patriot: a person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors.

Fight: take part in a violent struggle involving the exchange of physical blows or the use of weapons.

Steal: take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it.
No electronics? How does it detect crashes?
So you were automating an advertising account with a bot, and you don't understand why that would trip Facebook's unusual activity detection?

On the one hand, Facebook is doing you a favor by kicking you off of a manipulation platform that you'll be better off not participating in.

On the other hand, I wish Facebook hadn't kicked you off because the more spammy advertising that exists on the platform, the more likely people are to see that it's a terrible platform.
It's possible you're reading something in my comment that I didn't intend.
As someone whose been playing regularly for the past 4 years, 2-2-2 role lock was by far the biggest reduction in toxicity. It removed an entire class of bad communication like “switch off DPS” as well as the stress of convincing 5 strangers to use a particular comp at the beginning of the game. Before role lock it seemed like every single game was a freaking argument.

They also released player reporting and endorsements though it’s harder to say what the overall impact of those are.
> It's like they fundamentally gave up being a game company, and decided to be a collectibles company instead.

If there's one business lesson to take from the history of the video game industry, it's that being a video game company is extremely unreliable. Being a collectibles company is much more reliable.

As the company leaders look for ways to make their business endure, it's natural for them to turn to more reliable business models.

Nobody likes layoffs.
One interest of mine is researching research. I thought had seen a paper that was similar and went to find it. Instead I found a book and a project that I hadn't seen.

> Beyond the Flow: Scholarly Publications During and After the Digital (Niels-Oiiver Walkowski) 2019 https://meson.press/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/978-3-95796-1...

Liquid Publications

> Scientific Knowledge Objects (Fausto Giunchiglia and Ronald Chenu­-Abente) 2009 http://eprints.biblio.unitn.it/1542/

> Knowledge and Artifact Representation in the Scientific Lifecycle (Ronald Chenu-Abente Acosta) 2012 http://eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it/713/ http://eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it/713/1/Kw_and_Artifact_Rep...

> Managing Ubiquitous Scientific Knowledge Objects (Hao Xu) 2011 http://eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it/648/ http://eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it/648/1/Hao's_PhD_thesis(fi...

(The paper I remembered called something paper blocks. It broke papers up into individually citable units.)

I must also mention:

> Literary Machines (Ted Nelson) 1982

As a reference to it is notably absent from the Walkowski book.
This thread feels like dejavu for me. I had been going through exactly the same with MS Azure couple of years back.
MS gave us some Azure free credits and once they expired it was series of stressful months to get the billing going. Constant emails with different layers of support people and no one could help us to PAY for Azure.
They're losing product-market fit.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jul/20/i-forgo...
In fact, Rust's version compiles down to pretty much the optimal looping form. It will even vectorize your iterations using SIMD.
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In terms of WoW, I'm sure a lot of it is focusing on the top raiding guilds and leaving the casual player with few rewarding activities.

Further, one of their most cherished metrics is how much time people spend doing a certain activity. Instead of making those activities more fun and rewarding, they made them take longer to complete and with fewer rewards.

To top it all off, they are nearly completely deaf to their player's concerns, and instead focus on metrics instead of gameplay or fun activities.

People at Blizzard certainly have forgotten that games are supposed to be fun.

They try to cloak their declining userbase by saying they have the highest number of logins ever, but they quit reporting individual subscribers a long time ago. One of them is a completely worthless metric and the other keeps the lights on.

The last of the original WoW dev team quit Blizzard last year, and they are running with a crew that don't have the chops to make engaging games.
Thanks for the advice! I'll try it out. Although, it might be a good thing that I don't like using my phone for long periods at night :)
Are they being prohibited from testing though, or just prohibited from making safety claims based on those tests?
This analysis is probably correct, but it's also depressing as hell because Fortnite is a shallow, money-hungry game. Nothing like Blizzard's best work from the past (Diablo 2, Starcraft) that could be played for years with no "season passes" or other MTX.
That's true, and I love Hearthstone and play regularly (I really prefer the rule sets in HS to MTG:Arena, for example) and have played since Beta... But, Hearthstone is also monetized like crazy today, as well. Especially as compared to 3 years ago.