skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Board games have a number of interesting problems to solve. As a designer, you are often trying to simulate a particular kind of 'interesting' system in a way that's fun, engaging, and simple enough to run by moving a few pieces of cardboard around (while perhaps slightly drunk). It's a fascinating design space.

Occasionally a new game comes around with a fascinating new core game mechanic, which often solves a core design problem in an entirely new way. And then you'll see a few years of other games imitating the initial innovation... Often the 'originator' game may be pretty simple, to show off the new technique, and the followers steadily add complexity. People who play a lot of board games tend to pick up rules faster, due to knowing a lot of common mechanics already, and have a higher tolerance for complexity.

Here's four great games which are pretty easy to learn and solved a problem in an interesting way.

Settlers of Catan: Introduced 'early stopping' via victory points to avoid having 'dead' players stuck at the table, waiting for things to draw down. (Think of how terrible the end-game is in Risk or Monopoly.)

Seven Wonders: It's really awful playing a turn-based game with more than four players... What if everyone takes their turns at the same time?

Dominion: The best part of magic the gathering is building your deck, but - because of the CCG format - the playing field is really uneven. What if building your deck was part of the game?

Hanabi: The worst part of cooperative games is that guy who just tells everyone what to do. What if you hid some really important information from each player, so no one can run the table?
Fox is launching an NFT company
The failure mode I've seen most often is that one bit of each byte will fail to store or retrieve correctly. Memtest86 will store an FF and read back an EF, for example. Computers with this problem may boot, but crash often.

The other failure mode I've seen is that a RAM module will fail to be recognized or cause a POST error, and the computer will not boot until it is replaced.

Neither happens often, but I've seen each of these more than I'd like. I could imagine both issues might possibly be less likely with a solid soldered connection vs. a port which can become damaged or dusty, but I don't have enough experience with soldered RAM modules to be able to say anything about its reliability.
Well Mitchell claims it was the other way around: the copy editor made it more complex for the UK but the US version was unedited.

I haven't reviewed the (pages and pages apparently) of differences, but the example they give is this:

>In the UK text, for example, Mitchell writes at one point that: “Historians still unborn will appreciate your cooperation in the future, Sonmi ~451. We archivists thank you in the present. […] Once we’re finished, the orison will be archived at the Ministry of Testaments. […] Your version of the truth is what matters.”

>In the US edition, the lines are: “On behalf of my ministry, thank you for agreeing to this final interview. Please remember, this isn’t an interrogation, or a trial. Your version of the truth is the only one that matters.”
There's nothing irrational about this. Choosing not to buy properties is not irrational. Choosing to buy Park Place and Boardwalk and then put houses on it as soon as possible is not irrational. In fact, my strategy when I play is to get a color set as quick as possible while saving my money by buying as few other properties as possible, then spending all that money on houses/hotels for those few properties I have.
Spoiler: No self-rendering; the rendering is by a script sourced at cdn.jsdelivr.net . Thus, for example, no rendering offline, or if that website goes away.

But it's a neat trick nonetheless...
There is an actual official version of “Cheaters Monopoly.”

The rules are beyond convoluted, likely encouraging second derivative cheating.
I'm going to cease to engage for several reasons:

1) You just flatly contradicted yourself without even realizing it. The top level comment said "The reality is that the internet was immediately extremely interesting (either useful or fun) for practically everyone who got access.". When challenged, you moved the bar to "Well, it eventually became useful to everyone!".

2) You're condescending "I can see how people in their twenties would fall for this...", "Handwaving", "Shell games".

3) You've got some internal benchmark about what qualifies as useful that appears to mean "if it's not useful to me, then it doesn't count" (see comment about Venezuela).

4) You seem to think of yourself as some kind of gatekeeper or authority on nerddom.

I'm not going to change your mind about anything. I've been around the internet long enough to spot people pretending to want genuine engagement when they really despise your ideas and just want to publicly slam dunk on you.

Not interested.
That does seem to be a lynchpin in many of the rulings against voter ID requirements. There's an obvious workaround: the elimination of fees for ID. That's curiously aligned with the party goal of cutting taxes, but for some reason I never see that come up in this kind of legislation.
The article is pretty explicit that it was the result of poor version-control.

And it's standard to "translate" i.e. minorly adapt, but not to abridge or "simplify" as you suggest.
I personally think the GFW is a good thing, for now, that other developing countries may have an interest in copying. Free flowing mass communication in nations without fully developed public (security) services can be a disaster... the conflicts (and even genocides) that arose from poorer countries adopting FB come to mind.

Also a foreign entity with suspicious partners having direct access to naive citizens around the world should be viewed as an attack vector especially if the locally accepted values don't match those of foreign entity.
I'm kind of disappointed this was flagged. It's a letter in ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, I don't see any reason this should be flagged. I know this is a politically charged issue, but I would think we can rise above that on HN and just talk about the science of it. If what this letter says is true, maybe it can help us prevent the outbreak of another pandemic. If it isn't true, I'd like to hear those arguments as well.
"Bitcoin has emerged as a "shadow" monetary tool, a
type of liquidity overflow to prevent even bigger asset
bubbles in conventional assets such as commodities,
stocks, and housing. It represents some $2 trillion in
excess liquidity that would otherwise be invested in
housing or stocks - making both of these respective
asset bubbles that much more prone to bursting and
bringing the entire asset-bubble dependent socio-
economic and financial system closer to collapse. ...
This benign side effect of bitcoin which paradoxically
allows the Fed to perpetuate its ultra-easy monetary
policy for much longer, "explains lack of regulation".
Although if we hit hyperinflation and bitcoin goes offer-less, regulation will come for one simple reason: it
will be tantamount to deleveraging the system by
trillions in a heartbeat.
Regulation of crypto is a structural risk to investors/
speculators. Regulation of crypto can be seen as 2nd
order monetary tightening tool by Gov to tame inflation.
I agree, Bitcoin isn't zero risk. But compared to my experiences with banks and WU the risk is manageably low. I have to give someone my passport and home address in order to receive money via WU, so I'm exposed to the risk that buddies of the WU employees will rob my house later. I've had to pay a collection agency thousands for fees charged on a bank account that was empty and that I thought was closed. I've had my bank ATM card cloned by a skimmer on an ATM while I was traveling overseas, and I've had my bank credit card stolen out of my pocket on the bus. I've had WU give me ridiculously unfavorable exchange rates, and there was nothing I could do about it. In none of these cases are the police of any help; they exist to help the rich, not normal people.

With either banks or Bitcoin, you can hedge your risks by converting to fiat currencies. But with fiat currencies, you can hedge your risk by converting (partly) to Bitcoin.

So maybe you should buy your grandma a Trezor. What country does she live in?
> Sometimes I get the feeling WinDev requires Notepad as their IDE

When I was involved with Win32 Office, this (or the moral equivalent with VS Code) was often the case. Proper Visual Studio support was kludgy and difficult to maintain, and many (myself included) did without.

Most of the major desktop product groups have 30+ year old codebases and sure as hell aren't working off the latest C++, let alone C++/WinRT bindings. They've got other tools, or just put up with the drudgery because it's all they know.
Newer editions remove the 10% option

[edit] Per the Monopoly Wikia the British edition was always a fixed amount and the US edition as well since 2008.
I was one of the (probably few) suckers that bought an Adam tablet built around the promise of the Pixel Qi screens. It would replace e-readers (can read at the beach) and be a full-featured Android tablet. Unfortunately, while they did actually produce some of the devices and ship to early purchasers, they were plagued with delays, bugs and poor harware performance. They couldn't/wouldn't get authorization to use the Google Play Store, and so tried to produce their own with (I think) the goal of trying to be a mini-Apple (hardware/OS custom designed).

It also was produced right when Android 2.x was being phased on, Android 3 was not being adopted and Android 4+ was still around the corner.

Supposedly the company behind them, Notion Ink, produced a couple other devices despite such a horrific launch with the Adam, but I stopped paying attention as I would never send them another cent after my poor experience, which I chalk up to a learning experience on my part on who to trust with my money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_tablet
In my case it's first shift plus lie-in.
Gold is valuable because it is difficult to dig out of the ground, and it can be made into electronics. Neither is true of Bitcoin. Thus, you've built a false equivalence and are trying to equivocate.
It's bad now, but in the future it might be great?

With technology getting faster, I regret not mining a few coins.

I even bought the sound cards?

A life if regrets because I didn't follow my gut feelings, or let people sway my decisions?

(Would I invest in Bitcoin now. Hell no, but years ago yes. It will deflate, along with NTF's, and the stock market soon.)
I think games like seven wonders which is one of those where there does need to be a calculation of the score at the end of the game do this to avoid players feeling left out if they know they've lost and there's potentially twenty minutes of game left. The other way this is handled (and 7 wonders applies this too) is to make scores more swingy in the later rounds.
You only let Amazon simplify your life in that manner because you don't care about potential savings elsewhere.

Many of us , myself included, after filling up a prime-enabled cart then go to walmart.com or some other such e-commerce retailer and then do exactly the same process you described still to check the price against Amazon.

Many times I go with the other retailer due to cost savings.

If Amazon prices things and incorporates shipping costs in such ways that people know they must double check them against other e-commerce vendors, where does the convenience and time savings come in?

What i'm saying : You're taking for granted that your convenience comes at a cost, in most cases.
This post and the comments has convinced me that all the weirdoes and revolutionaries have left HN. It is now dominated by statist near-boomers concerned about the youngsters trampling the lawn.

Sure Bitcoin is boring but so is gold. If you weren't interested in gold in the first place you likely aren't interested in Bitcoin either.

The proof-of-stake, smart contract platforms are truly exciting. Stable coins and Uniswap are real innovations w/ more to come.
It doesn't in Libya, but it does in the US where we've spent nearly twenty years in "war time" with little effect on society.
No, it's not a good comparison. The internet was always state of the art and better at solving actual problems the worse solutions were tackling.

Fidonet was always, on a technical level, a worse experience than the internet.

BBSs have their charm, but were absolutely obviously worse at what they did that the internet.

Cryptocurrencies are just awful at solving real problems, compared to existing solutions.

Why are you talking about the general public? Are you equating "well the internet was only cool to nerds, solving their needs" with "Bitcoin is only good for its MLM speculation properties, and to buy drugs and murders"?

"Unless you were in academia"... So you admit that it WAS useful? And how it WAS much better than what it replaced? Because that's the opposite of Bitcoin.
You might suck, but it seems more likely that you're getting ripped off by an employer who hopes you don't know what your skills are worth.

Are you on LinkedIn? Do you ever speak with recruiters about other opportunities? That's a great way to get a feel for the 'market rate' for your skillset in your area. When's the last time you changed jobs?
People have been saying this for over a decade now. Mainstream applications are just around the corner, wait and see! We have waited, and all we've seen is baseless speculation (which you call "wealth savings/growth") and scams. I see no reason to think this is going to change any time soon.
Also their return policy. I recently purchased something from Amazon rather then the producer's website because they only offered a 2 week return policy plus I'd need to be responsible for the shipping.

I know how returns work with Amazon. If I buy directly, are they going to give me the run around if there's a problem?
Have a look at TeX4ht: https://tug.org/tex4ht/.
Monopoly simulator is a fun little project. I had a very strange reason to build one once upon a time because a chef was doing a monopoly themed dinner and needed to know how much food for each square. http://blog.jdwyah.com/2013/08/the-statistics-of-monopoly-wi...
My first order with Amazon was May 6, 1997. It was worlds better than traditional mail order at the time, and also way better than most bookstores for niche things like technical books. And when I had to deal with customer service, they were really on top of things.

As many have testified here, they just aren't like that anymore.
Smart contract platforms are only four years old. Only in the last 12 months have we seen significant throughput on public chains like Solana and Avalanche.
Daniel Stenberg: curl doesn't qualify for TravisCI free tier
There are some search engines that respect your privacy.
https://www.ecosia.org/
https://www.qwant.com/
I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that a system of CA certificate encryption has been around forever, and Bitcoin is burning electricity for literally no reason?
Oh, the other phenomena that's new is young nationalists, like the overseas 小粉红 "little pinks" who voted these down. :) Normally nationalists tend to be overrepresented in the older generation, like the snowflakes in the US who take great offense at someone kneeling during the anthem at as Football game, but the CCP has a number of funded propaganda outlets targeting younger people, the opposite strategy of Fox News, whose channel demographic is median age 65.

One example is Observer News Network (Guancha). The Doublethink Lab blog has done an analysis of its roots and funding: https://medium.com/doublethinklab/tracing-control-and-influe...
Eh,that's not entirely true. The farmer has to box up their produce in retail sized bits instead of shipping a truck sized load for someone else to do that. They also have to pay someone to man a store, handle returns, etc.

Same deal for online retail. You've gotta have a warehouse, someone to box orders, a website to take orsers, customer service, etc. This all costs money and Amazon has the scale to do it all a lot cheaper than you can.
there are a number of accesories available for your [lets call it HVAC] system UV is one electrostatic is another and a combination exists.

quick DDG serch and here is a commercialized example that is basically imformative:

https://aristair.com/blog/what-does-an-hvac-air-purifier-do/

UV will kill covid, ionic species such as ozone will kill covid, and electrostatic filtration will adsorb particles based on electrical charge rather than mechanical porousity, keep them in place and let the UV+ Ozone do its job.
“Vision of a marriage of biological research and computer technology” (1992)
What about the Lehman Brothers version instead of the one from Parker Brothers? That one has mortgage securities and toxic properties and the goal is to sell off as many properties as you can before someone calls time. The one with the least properties wins.
I thought Monopoly only used a single six-sided die, why are they rolling two of them?
It is like the early Internet and you are like one of the old telco guys I worked w/ in 2000 who said people would never make phone calls on the Internet.
Dell ca. 2000 had some great stuff. Optiplex desktops were good, Latitude laptops were good. Anything that they sold out of an insert in the Sunday paper was junk.
didn't regulation successfully shut down commerce with gold?

Why wouldn't that happen with bitcoin
Better refactoring tools alone make static typing worthwhile
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-politics-...
There's no mention if they've been able to fix Rowhammer or similar type of vulnerabilities. I suspect that higher density implies the problem is going to get worse, no?
"The uploader has not made this video available in your country."
Or just learn how to take notes. Notes should be made with the intent that someone new could understand what's going on. With that approach, if you can't make good notes, you're thinking too much about what you know and less about what others don't.
Gold also has a fatal flaw, there's only so much of it, building a currency based on gold (ie the US dollar on the gold standard) limits the size of the economy, it can't grow if you can't pay for stuff - it's why we left the gold standard.

Bitcoin by design only has a fixed number of coins available, eventually the miners will have mined them all. It has the same limitation that gold has and basing an economy on it will stunt its growth.
Startup Idea validation on ML end-to-end application deployment
I have a startup idea on providing a machine learning infrastructure for ML application deployment on distributed low-powered embedded devices such as Qualcomm, Nvidia, Xilinx, Google coral etc. With this ML users can deploy their Pytorch/Tensorflow model based multiple applications (python code) without writing any platform specific C++ code on any hardware device. This platform will also provide several tools to support ML life-cycle development to its production. I am curious to know if anybody will be interested in this kind of platform and services? Or should I think of providing custom services instead of a ubiquitous solution? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
I'll release my DynamoDB database, this one seems point less. Minor improvements at best. My one turns the table into a similar object to flask Session for quick

db.get('Pk.sk') or db.get('Pk.sk', ingore=['one'])

db.get('Pk.sk', model=pydantic_model)

db.update(...
db.put(...

Ect

Leave a comment if people are interested in me releasing this project.
That's clearly not what they said. Any of the points. Except condescending. But I can't blame them with the nonsense you're saying.
Close yeah but not really comfortable on the lap or anything.

I always hated the Surface Pro style tablets. Or those Apple keyboards for the iPad. I've tried them but sold them again, they were a horribly unstable contraption.

For me a laptop has the keyboard firmly attached to the screen at all times :) Especially for portable use.
Out of all things such as app store monopoly abuses and taxes, right to repair abuses in both devices and cars, search/ads monopoly power abuses, consumer protection is already reasonably and well regulated and not the first thing that needs additional regulation.
Why bother answering if every response will be dismissed with "yeah but that's not a real use case"
You can't roll doubles to get another roll with a single die
Also git.

Also completely irrelevant for any of the cryptocurrencies and smart contract systems.
Neat or terrible, regardless of weapons developments wars will still go on.
I also think stores should have to add in sales tax, and all other fees, into the price you see. I know some entities are exempt from sales tax, but they are the exception and it can be subtracted off for them. But there's no reason not to have tax included in the original price in a retail store, it's actually extra work to not include it.
Quite possible. I live in the Pittsburgh metro area just outside the city and know many others here and elsewhere with similar experiences.
Good point, I don't like medium at all either. There's a few good bloggers on there but most are just people who think they're great.
Common Lisp is great.

That said, the reason I like static languages for teams is where the "burden of proof" lies. With dynamic languages, the default being rather loosey goosey means my colleague writes a function that "asks" whether the thing handed to it is a list or an object and I have to somehow convince them that it should just take a single type, for consistency's sake... but with a static language even though people try probably exactly the same amount of weird, shit, it sticks out like a sore thumb and needs justification to include in the first place.
Biking everywhere in the rain is what you do if you live in Copenhagen, and it does make you a better person.

It always warms my heart to see my fellow citizens in one of the wealthiest societies in the world, walking and biking to work in the rain and wind that is Danish winter. Or when you go to the beach when the water is 12 degrees and there are already families there, splashing around. That fills me with hope.

Driving a climate controlled car 3 blocks to the shop is not the pinnacle of civilisation.
Because your understanding is wrong. The game uses 2 dice.
Gold mining and the gold standard should also be banned.
A graceful data visualization library for Go
A modern Mac laptop uses a motherboard where everything is soldered on, everything is tiny, and it's basically impossible to repair. Leaving aside whether that's good or bad, it's just a fact that you should know up front.

Consequently, most failures are "repaired" by swapping the motherboard, and so your flash drive contents are gone.

Happily, you are using Time Machine (right?) and so you plug your backup drive into a spare machine, do the restore, and you're back to where you were an hour before the disaster. You do the same again when your newly repaired machine comes back from the store.

Yeah, it sucks more than swapping an SSD. But hey, you knew that before you bought a shiny, thin, light Macbook.
I don't think the "military" grade stuff is meant to last considerably longer. It's mostly geared at extreme duty cycles. How often will you use a mixer if you're not a baker, once a week? An industrial piece of equipment is intended to be used nearly all the time, and there's impressive engineering that goes into handling that use case.

Which I think was the point of TFA: he wants to show everyone he appreciates overengineered stuff.
Poe's 1848 Prose Poem "Eureka" may have intuited the Big Bang and an expanding universe:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/edgar-allan-...