skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A family friend of mine got her start in life in a trailer park.

A lot of these city-builder games assume that "higher land values" is better, because land values == better tax revenue. But is that really what we should be optimizing for in these games? A city without trailer parks / low-cost housing is a city where my friend wouldn't stand a chance at all.

The power-gamer in SimCity 2000 ignores hospitals and schools. Because life-expectancy doesn't lead to any tax benefits, and school / education counts don't seem to have any real effect on the city either.

At some point, the game "stops reflecting reality", and when that illusion disappears, some players no longer find the game interesting. I personally am a power-gamer, I've never held that "illusion of reality" in any game I've ever played (be it SimCity, Civ, or whatever). I play these games to have fun and understand that there's almost no political or social commentary associated with the game design decisions.

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But other people play these games hoping to "roleplay" a City's Mayor, or to "roleplay" the emperor of a Civilization. For these people, realism is a highly important trait.

Alas: most games are not realistic at all. The games that do seek realism (ex: Hearts of Iron) are too complex for the typical person to pick up on.

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I think its fair for people to look at SimCity and say "well... that's not realistic. The game doesn't have the right incentives in the right places". Because frankly: it doesn't. Its just an incomplete viewpoint into city building.

Even Cities: Skylines has a similar issue.

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Games like "Two Point Hospital" are better, because its all clearly a joke. So the game is clearly a game. Curing clown's disease is funny and clearly not what happens in Hospitals. You better understand the game in the abstract: patients seek a diagnosis. The GP takes a guess, and sends the patient to a diagnosis room (X-Ray or other machine). The diagnosis room gives another result, and the doctor either is confident in treatment or needs additional diagnosis machines to make a better guess.

Or... you just remove all the diagnosis rooms and force doctors to send patients in for treatment because treatment makes more money. Lulz. Then when the patients inevitably die to these poorly made decisions, you get a bunch of janitors with vacuum cleaners to clean up the ghosts.

But yeah, it makes the most money (because you have the highest throughput of patients), so its the "Power gaming" move in Two Point Hospital.
DuckDuckGo does the exact same thing with shebangs. Brave's implementation is just less granular.
I only flew once before 9/11, I think I was already 12 or 13, and I don't think my mother even asked for me to go check out the cockpit – the crew asked if I wanted to see it before she had the chance. It was pretty neat.

These days, the scenes in Airplane! where passengers walk in and out of the cockpit are almost part of the joke.
> If all browsers end up using Blink (Google), the Web will suffer as developers will only optimize and test for the Blink rendering engine.

Am I the only one that thinks that this would be a good thing? Like the entire industry sharing the same core open source technology? Write a website once and it works perfectly across all platforms?
Might be TMI but your "bizarre hypotheticals" triggered me.

What often occurs in conversations in my life is... We chat, we disagree on a random point and the second we start arguing it, my brain brute forces every single path possible. What if they say this? Then what if I say that, or this, or even that? And it keeps on branching out.

Eventually I come back to the chat, after what seemed like an eternity but was in fact a couple of seconds, and I am bored and dismissive because I know where the arguements will lead, and they do go one of these paths 99% of the time.
Well right now it’s relatively crude and opt-in via your insurance but at some point I expect much more detailed telemetry from (internet connected) vehicles by default
You can use !g on Brave Search too, or turn on Fallback Mixing in Brave Search Settings, which will anonymously call out to Google and pull in results as needed. This helps to train the nascent engine more rapidly. I hope this helps!
Their return process is you say you want to return it, then you schedule a return date, and they send two guys out to box it up and remove it from your home.

I'm not sure it could be any easier.
Nice. I made commands called by cron that copies a focus and relax file to hosts... 25 minutes work, 5 minutes relax during work hours.
Now In India, students starting CS are often told "CS has no longer demand" in recent years.

The problem was too many people entering engineering degrees after a temporary 'IT boom' decades ago, seeing that as a way towards upwards social mobility.
Personally I find it pretty predictable which queries duck duck go will fail on. Basically very niche ones.

So I just prepend based on what I'm searching for to begin with instead of after a failure. But I've also been using duckduckgo as my default for over a decade so I've gotten used to it.
It's maybe an ... interesting sign that someone with substantial liquidity from tesla shares at this point in history is apparently finding cryptocurrency an enjoyable diversion/investment vehicle?
I'm certainly not trying to define "cross-platform" to mean "the web." I'm just pointing out that the web is a huge platform and for many use cases is arguably the most platform for a cross-platform GUI framework to support.
I wonder how strong would Elliptic Curve Cryptography be compared to other methods if there is a major breakthrough in quantum computing.
But that’s the exact information I want to pass to someone?

I’m not sure how else to give someone the information that person X has had vaccine Y, other than actually transmitting that exact information?

Yes, it’s (slightly) sensitive information. But if one decides that we want to have a system based on this exact information, and it had to be “offline capable”, what are the options?

> Do you really need to know the last four if you all you really want to know if the identified person should be granted access?

If the requirements are that verifiers must themselves be able to decide which vaccines are acceptable, number of doses or time since last dose, and which issuers are allowed, then yes.
I'm not worried that much about personal information (that someone will know that someone has been vacinated). I'm more worried that this personal information can allow tracking (politicians, activists, journalists, etc.) in an automated way in the same way cookies, etc. tracks us today while browsing.
I wouldn't be too quick in dismissing the Galaxy. The galaxy isn't uniform so something could easily be related to one of the harmonics. And 27.5M years happens to be quite close 1/8th of a galactic year, so something to do with the earth passing in/out galactic arms or similar is not out of the question.
It looks like adding and removing documents before the end of the current batch may cause /existing/ documents to be skipped or processed twice.

If you add a new document before the end of the current batch, the offset used for the beginning of the next batch will be too low, causing documents at the boundary to be processed twice. If you delete a document the index will be too high, skipping some documents.

I think the temporary field solution might work, but you need stable indexing on the set to be traversed, so I think you need to add the temporary field to new documents and exclude them in the query, and you need to only soft-delete while traversing and exclude them post-query. Then you can clean up and remove the temporary fields and soft-deleted documents afterwards.
I am doing this with VIM and a text file:

https://www.gibney.org/a_syntax_for_self-tracking

9625 entries and counting.

I was planning to start writing the software to analyze causations when I have 10k entries. But I recently started already. It turned out to become a new project that feels a lot like a javascript based jupyter alternative running in the browser.
I'm about 6 years younger than you judging from that timeline. I had a home phone line that could connect to a dial-up server. The desire to create websites didn't hit me until I too was in college, and by that time the web was much more complex than in '97, and I never got beyond basic static sites in Dreamweaver.

More than a decade later, I finally learned how to do it. HTML+CSS+JS and a bit of PHP for WordPress. I'll never be paid a cent for this knowledge as I'm not a web designer, but it feels good to work on my own sites, just as an expression of myself, and as a hobby.
Why does this footer hide after the first page view?

> Brave Search uses private usage metrics to estimate overall activity and performance. You can turn off this option in Settings.
Don't do this. I know that sounds like bad advice, but if you aren't comfortable working with lower-level design paradigms, who's going to fix things when something goes wrong? You'll eternally be in debt to engineers who are happy to take your rudimentary API contracts and make free money. Trying to be an entrepreneur in an area that you don't have experience in is a money pit.
Right, their current browser ads seem to promise privacy by doing some floc-like thing on-device and preloading a bunch of ads to potentially show so the server doesn't know which ones were shown.
Doing that for a website seems a bit different, but I don't see an issue with the DDG model of doing some very basic targeting based only on the current search term.
What's your business? Care to tell us more?
In the late 00's, SVN was the dominant version control system, but it had lots of pain points (eg reliant on remote server, lots of crappy little .svn directories, branching was difficult, very difficult to make a git repo for small projects etc) that Git resolved. At this time, hg and bzr were also on the scene, but Github quickly became incredible popular, for a few reasons
- Sourceforce, the incumbent community home for open source, was a comparatively inferior user experience
- Rails, which was a dominant OSS project in that era, was hosted there, and the Rails / Ruby community converged on GH as a result
- Heroku was a trendy platform during this time, which at the time you deployed by `git push`-ing, so git knowledge was required to take advantage of it.
I guess any tech content business would count. For example this guy below has both online classes where he teaches others how to ace a FANG interview and he also earns from his YT channel.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xKdmAXFh4ACyhpiQ_3qBw
I was fitted with a deep brain stimulator for dystonic tremor in 2012. Their were two operation two weeks apart. In the first operation the battery was put in my chest and six screws place around my skull. Scans are done to calculate the location they want to place the electrodes relative to the screws. The second operation was done under local anaesthetic, they drilled two holes in the skull and inserted the electrodes
The Magnasanti video he references brought back some memories. Very fun video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTJQTc-TqpU
Show HN: Consistent – Community to get six-pack abs this summer
> Sure, 365 has loads of additional functionality

Right, so you’re agreeing with me and disagreeing with @miltondts? UX isn’t what we were discussing.

> This was maybe the case in the mid-90’s.

“In the PC world, the IBM PS/2 VGA (multi-color) on-board graphics chips used a non-interlaced (progressive) 640 × 480 × 16 color resolution that was easier to read and thus more useful for office work. It was the standard resolution from 1990 to around 1996. The standard resolution was 800 × 600 until around 2000.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution#Evolution_o...
That sounds like a very extreme sensitivity to another food or maybe the timing was just coincidental and it was something they ate earlier. My and most people's alpha gal response is usually delayed by hours, supposedly due to food having to digest and break down food components into alpha-gal.

Another explanation is allergies and panic attacks also go hand in hand from what I've heard. Panic attacks cause breathing problems and can easily be confused with anaphylaxis or make real anaphylaxis even more terrifying than it already is. Feeling fear that a threat is ever present when you have any food allergy is real, but manageable.
Thanks for the report! :) Fix coming
Hey HN! nezaj (my cofounder) and I are both hackers and fitness enthusiasts. We’ve built a bunch of fitness tools. I once hired someone to help me log food. Joe built his own dashboard to track his diet (just crossed 1 year of tracking now!) https://joelogs.com. Together we built an app to export Apple health data — https://exporthealth.app.

We’re on a mission to get six-pack abs, and want to invite you to join us.

Two months ago, Joe started an accountability group with our friend Jan. Every week, they share their progress and make adjustments accordingly. Jan noticed this was the most progress he made since COVID. I joined a few weeks later, and I am currently the leanest I’ve been in over 2 years.

We thought, what if we got more people into this? If we can find a recipe to help others get six-packs, we’ll build an app to scale it out and turn Consistent into a company. The north-star vision would be to create a “personal fitness and diet coach, at scale” think Noom for advanced fitness with better tech :)

The first version is going to be high-touch / low-tech and look like a Slack community that helps each-other get six packs over the next 3 months. We start Sunday, June 27th and end Sunday, September 19th. It will work like this:

1. Everyone will log in MyFitnessPal
2. There will be a slack group where we post updates, and are available to support each-other (in changing diet, picking workouts, etc)

The first cohort is free (you will need to pay for a MyFitnessPal premium account though, which is $20 a month). There is a catch though. You’ll have to treat this as one of your top 3 priorities for the next 3 months — you’ll need to consistently log your food, and strive to eat clean and exercise.

If this sounds interesting to you, check out https://consistent.fit and apply!
A hypothetical situation, set decades ago, nobody can know how it might have turned out.
We’ll, you provided no sources and no informed critique of my sources, so I’ll just take the win here.
Correct, a query is issued from your browser but without any cookies. While it's true your IP address tags along for the ride, the IP address isn't typically how users are tracked on Google-scale properties. Due to NAT and more, your IP address is not exclusively yours. It can represent many people at once, and over time. That said, if you are not comfortable with the idea of Fallback Mixing, you do not need to enable the feature.
Google drops engineering residency after protests over ‘inequities’
Problem is, this means ceding what amounts to control of the browser, and so, the internet experience, to a privacy invasive megacorp.

Were it a nonprofit trust, I'd be right there with you. But not a for-profit company, and sure as HELL not Google.
Alternate headline: Results Are In for the Times Employee "That's A Moray" Headline Contest
"Three times faster than Chrome. Better privacy by default than Firefox. Uses 35% less battery on mobile."
I mean, it's a dynamic in the actual formation of cities in North America. I think the purpose here is less that SimCity should model all of these complex social dynamics that formed modern cities, and more that SimCity should not advertise itself as a model of reality, and should explicitly clarify that it is based on a faulty and simplified model.
A slack community with founders and leaders from top SaaS startups
A Saas community for folks interested to learn about saas.

The community focusses on B2B where the customers are enterprise companies. They have some really experienced founders, engineering leaders and product leaders. It is a great place to share knowledge and learn about building a saas company. If interested, join https://saas-community.github.io/
Great to see some progress with the standard. We’ve been working on generating DIDs for our upcoming users. We’re using IDX + Ceramic as our backend.

For our use case (making web3 profiles like https://shokunin.dns.xyz), it’s cool to have a DID as a chain agnostic ID. I’m curious what people here have been using DIDs for besides that.
Psychological science uses this technique a lot. It's not perfect, of course there's lots of noise because of both of the issues you raise (in addition to other issues like how to develop questions to measure nebulous things like "self-esteem" or "extraversion").

But as long as the results aren't pure noise, i.e., there's some signal there, then with an adequate sample size you can do something with it. Lots of fields deal with noisy, imprecise data. It's just conditional on it not being only noise.
He is probably referring to Ethereum, which was conceived as a "global computer", operating in an open and permissionless manner.
I do this with Nextcloud's health utility. It's fully open source and compatible with anything that has a web browser, not just your iDevices.
"people will struggle to drive their cars 300 ft because they somehow cannot walk at all."

Ah, this is sadly a bit too realistic, no?
They aren't sharing it with Brave directly, but rather with users. The query is issued via the participating user's Brave instance. This data then supplements what Brave Search has found, and assists Brave Search in presenting better results to that user, and others, in the future.
Poll Everywhere (YC S08) Is Hiring
When you look at how scared Facebook was of WhatsApp and combined that with FB market cap... $22 billion makes so much sense.
Probably some conspiracy nonsense.
> What exactly is the moral high ground we stand on?

Umm that I elected the people who do this, and support it (or else I’d vote for someone else next time). The Chinese don’t have that privilege.
Hi (author) - Thanks! I would like to support FIRRTL very much, I have looked into it a bit in the past and that all looks feasible. It is a rather big feature though, so it will take some time.

Lua is used as a pre-processor language. This is quite powerful, for instance to automatically generate code, read data into BRAMs (for init), for example RISCV compiled code or DooM wad data (!!). This is used in most projects, see for instance 'pipeline_sort', 'ice-v' or 'doomchip' (a bit extreme there). All lines starting with $$ are pre-processor code, and inserts such as $N$ concatenate the Lua generated N in the Silice code. You can for instance write a for loop with Lua that will duplicate Silice code to e.g. generate a sorting network.
He links committing transactions to the blockchain to storing state in a distributed data structure... which is of course, in the case of Bitcoin, implemented in arguably the most wasteful, ham-fisted, environmentally disastrous way possible.

There's also the ethereum VM which is a slow decentralized state machine capable of executing code...
In Austria you could use https://qr.gv.at to check the qr codes without installing an app. I don't think that it does any further verification than parsing the data.
Unless I miss something, this looks like a solution to nonexistent problem?
But violence against anyone is already a crime
Woops, I got my dates confused. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameversion/23828/avalon-hill...

Avalon Hill / Hasbro made the 2008 edition.

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The most recent 2016 edition by Hasbro isn't all bad (despite rule changes and terrible fonts and terrible designs). The core rules still exist and it still feels like a game of Acquire.

Since its like $30 to $50 (depending on retailer), that's just the cheapest way of getting into the game. Finding an old version for $200+ used is for the dedicated fans.
The !g can be almost anywhere in the query, it just can't be followed by non-whitespace or prefixed by special signs.
Just curious, why are you opposed to search ads? They are already targeted by your search query, so don't fundamentally rely on tracking data.
UXwing: A site for free (as in freedom) Icons
If you use Tridactyl, you can quickly jump to the search bar with “gi”. That's what I do.
There's a 7 day money-back guarantee and sample screenshots :)

> Offers and discounts:
> Not entirely satisfied? Ask for your money back within 7 days of purchase, no questions asked.

So far 82 sales, and positive reviews on Twitter.

The base price is 50 USD today, 79USD normal price, find out more about that here:

https://blog.alexellis.io/i-wrote-a-book-about-golang/

The 250 USD tier is for 5 people, not for one. That's why it's called Team Edition. So it's a saving of 145 USD vs buying individual copies, or saving 395 USD vs 5 copies of the Premium edition.
HN is only good for tech stuff. For topics like economics and geopolitics it is only marginally better than Reddit and getting worse. Despite what programmers think, they aren't smart at everything.
Ask HN: What is the motivation behind making new games for old computers?
People constantly make new games for old computers and game consoles. Just see this blog http://www.indieretronews.com/ for some examples. Games for ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amiga, NES, and so on. There are even publishers specialized in this. For example:

https://www.protovision.games/

http://www.psytronik.net/

https://doublesidedgames.com/

I'm wondering what is the motivation of the authors of such games? I think that it cannot be financial because most probably the market is pretty small. Is this just a hobby or something else? Why don't they simply make games for modern platforms?
Which books would those be? What exactly was your part in your grey hat days?
Why does this keep getting posted? This is at least the third time I’ve seen it.

It’s a weird piece which contains many interesting historical nuggets woven into a relatively dishonest boilerplate political critical theory narrative about imperialism.
minimum wage is minimum wage (IMO?), the business losing money only dictates how long that position will exist for, not change the compensation owed for performing employed work.

in minor league baseball, who's indepent teams may be anywhere on the spectrum of losing or making money but who are also affiliated with parent organizations that make hundreds of millions, there is a plethora of literature lately that accuses them of paying significantly less than US minimum wage. In many cases it appears the players pay them for the right to play when it's all done.

in the college hockey example i referred to, the D1 teams/leagues usually have decent revenue from tickets and tv deals but it's not a ton and i'd take a shot in the dark that most programs are pretty much breaking even after scholarships, staff, and facilities are accounted for. In that environment, having an athlete get "paid" maybe a $40k/year total package in scholarship, room and board, playing equipment and facilities use, and cash per diems on road trips is both above minimum wage and probably no more than they could reasonably expect if the league was "pro" and had nothing to do with college.
Couldn't agree with this sentiment more.

It's always going to be a money and time pit when you need to outsource to fix any problems.

If you don't know code, hire someone on your team who does. :)
Everyone's still trying to top "Headless Body In Topless Bar" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post#Style
> You make it sound like Brave has intentionally done wrong;

They're not saying Brave did anything intentionally wrong, they're just big enough mistakes that it's not possible for them, personally, to trust the organization.

> those are enough for me to choose not to trust them as an organization
Agreed, but for SEO, unfortunately it must be written that way. I wrote up why here: https://blog.alexellis.io/i-wrote-a-book-about-golang/