skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But can't but agree with the general angle, MOBA's in general are less punishing to players at a deep psychological level, StarCraft 2 "suffered" from what the playerbase called "Ladder Anxiety", which was players simply unable to deal with loss and loss aversion as a consequence of them tying their own ego and self-worth to how well they fared playing StarCraft, to the level that Blizzard on one of the expansions had to release a mode where players simply would not lose MMR/ELO points from loses nor earn them on wins, a ranked-less mode and that alleviated a considerable amount of pressure.

This doesn't sound like we disagree at all. Although I definitely felt that ladder anxiety in LoL, I never would have thought about playing SC2 or WC3 ladder. Even watching these games I dont feel like I understand whats going on in detail. For some reason that felt "better" for MOBAs. But that feeling might very well be biased cause I played more MOBAs then RTS in total hours.

> tho AA studios such as KingArt Games or Sunspear Games have been making inroads into creating new RTS titles which make me very happy as an avid RTS fan

Oh yeah, reminds me that I still need to play some Iron Harvest...
Yeah this is what killed my interest in the genre. Ultimately it seems that it comes down to learning the meta, and APM with strategy only superficially involved.

I do play some AoE3 still since they released the DE for that one and I will say there’s been one players running around pulling off victories that shatter the meta, and ofc the establishment players have referred to that as “toxic”.
A neighbour was asked to look after the house. https://www.casemine.com/judgement/uk/5da053ed4653d07dedfd58...
He was diagnosed with bi-polar disorder. https://www.casemine.com/judgement/uk/5da053ed4653d07dedfd58...
But it's not a clone of Windows 95; it's its own thing, which I think is kind of the point. Whether or not to include a Minesweeper clone is totally up to the author.

The fact that you can run an actual copy of Windows 95 inside it and run Minesweeper there is way more impressive to me (and it worked fine for me, for what it's worth).
That was interesting, and FUN! 'Explorable Explanations', Yay!

Excellent. Bookmarked.
And if you could boot from the CD you also needed floppies with the correct device drivers to actually do the installation.
I like the idea of "no-code boot camps". — Will there be no-code CS studies, as well?
GIMP's use interface is the reason I switched to Krita. Nothing ever worked as expected in GIMP.
It's discouraged on some Slack servers though, because it's pretty terrible for accessibility.
The author addresses that in a comment [0]

This part might not be entirely accurate due to a lack of image data around takeoff and landing. I had to make my best guess from reference video taken by the Perseverance rover on a previous flight. That landing was a little rough and showed some bounce, so I recreated that.

[0] https://twitter.com/stim3on/status/1420176001347297280
Warning: account associated with CCP
Algolia raises $150M at $2.25B valuation
How's the battery life? Can you replace the battery if/when it gets old?

That looks like something I could buy. I've really wanted a tiny console PC with RS232 and ethernet for a long time now. I thought about building one into a custom keyboard using something like a raspberry pi but I haven't had the time to follow through. This thing looks like it could make my diy project unnecessary.

I also haven't found phones particularly appealing.. mine gets 5-6 days on a charge because it's mostly just an alarm clock. Any time I try to do anything with it, I get frustrated by how clumsy it is compared to an actual computer. I do like being able to look at maps or make a call in an emergency, and it's handy having a camera always in the pocket, but that's pretty much where the appeal ends.
It even says he got a letter about storm damage. If the roof got messed up in a storm and noone came to fix it in two or three years why not just knock it down.
Do you seriously think there is a single health secretary or government in the last fifty years that wouldn't privatize the NHS if they thought they could?

Sajid Javid literally reads The Fountainhead twice a year - and he's not much more neoliberal than his predecessors.

My feeling is it's hard to succeed as an organization when your boss really would like your organization to fail so the free market can step in. And that's been the NHS's situation for most of its history.

Nonetheless, there are inherent inefficiencies of private healthcare, even subsidized private healthcare, in that it results in horrific paperwork multiplication and information siloing. In germany, where I live, the amount of paperwork you need to get insurance is insane. There are literally offices full of people in every city doing basically senseless work just to make sure people don't get more healthcare than what they paid for. It's also a strong reason why the UK had such an easy time doing a vaccine rollout - the NHS could just send everybody who was in x age a letter. They also pay far less for medication, because the negotiating position is much stronger.

Sure, you can't get a homeopathic suppository from your heilpraktiker, or give birth in a giant bath that's shaped like a vagina, but it delivers a good service for a low price.
That paper is from 2013. The science has advanced substantially since then.
> until VB6-ish started integrating with .NET

Minor nitpick :)

VB6 never had tooling to integrate with .NET.

Rather, .NET could provide an "interop" layer to allow you to consume components written in VB6, or just COM in general. You can also create COM visible components written in .NET that could be consumed by VB6 or even scripting languages such as VB script. But the tooling for that was delivered through the .NET SDK/VS.

But on your other point, you're right, there are probably a bazillion unknown VB apps out there still chugging along doing their one thing for a specific department or company.
Oh, tottaly! I was not trying to make a point that shooters do not have complexity at all. They do, even something as blut as CoD (I guess?). But especially for things Quakelikes or Team bases games like Rainbow 6 Siege theres a lot to be learned.
It is funny. I looked it up and apparently the spelling of the general work "disc" (meaning, thin circular thing) is disc in British and disk in American. But universally it's disk for floppy disks and hard disks and disc for compact discs, DVDs etc. My theory is "disc" looks a bit more "modern" for some reason, hence using it for the newer media. For me (a British speaker), it seems totally natural to use "disk" for floppies and hard disks, but disc otherwise.
The name seems to be fitting for a 3d computer graphics toolset.
No, PR never admits to the management problems that are endemic to the company.

PR will mention a minor technical problem that has been solved, nothing to worry about.
Earth's 'vital signs' worsening as humanity's impact deepens
As far as I can tell, "no code" just means you can create automation workflows with a visual editor, "low code" means you have some extension points that support scripting. The terms only make sense in the context of automation I think.
IPv4 pricing
Wow - this has been out on AWS since 2016 maybe? I've used ipv6 on s3 as well sometimes.

Just interesting to see where these providers are on these things
> The only sign that a house ever stood there is a bit of plastic pipe sticking out of the ground.

> The ruins of the house https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1008xn/p09n3zd7.jpg

So which one is it?
even in those Windows-centric corporate environments you can push a few buttons to get a Microsoft-built version of bash, even before wsl was a thing, not so for python.
> And it doesn't address issues such as product designs that complicate repairs,

> We see that in design choices like Apple's soldering of RAM to motherboards,

I support lots of ideas behind Right to Repair, but I also think that Apple and other manufacturers sometimes make a serviceability/performance design tradeoff when opting out of socketed memory or CPU. I realize that it can create more waste but I think it shouldn't be constrained.

Software lockouts like the ones described in the article are bad. I like the idea of John Deere and Apple being forced to provide service manuals or critical service/repair software. But I also don't want this to become San Bernardino shooter 2.0. The service tools shouldn't be able to subvert things like Trustzone/Secure Enclave.
What is the UX for switching between apps or moving the screen like?

Can you do this with keyboard shortcuts or do you find yourself switching between keyboard and touch screen for some interactions?

I find this idea of using a keyboard super appealing but don’t like the idea of switching between keyboard and screen all the time. At least a virtual keyboard is on the screen!
SlimemoldTimemold: Could PFAs explain the obesity epidemic?
> Text is the arguably the best way to reason about logic

Math used to be written in prose. Arguably symbols are better.

I think feedback systems are a good example of where diagrams are nice.
Had the same problem as well when sending an email to a client of mine who used Hotmail. Had had successful communications with them in the past 1.5 years then suddenly, bam. Was put on the "S3140 block list". Had to use my personal Gmail to send emails to them. Never emailed another person who used Microsoft email services.

Was told my email server was sending spam by them (as people had reported emails from the IP as unwanted), so I did a full security check (using logs, trying to find holes, etc), and upgraded software. No problems that I could find.

After lots of back and forth, they said my IP was blocked as it was "suspicious" and they unblocked it (how kind of them). The process took a long time, which I could imagine could be devastating to a small business (luckily my client understood as I made sure to tell them how bad Microsoft is).
bought during the crowdfunding and they delivered...

hardware was great but the software was a useless mess and I donated them.

once again, hardware folks trying to design software, is like fish trying to design bicycles.

(so many basic things wrong including proprietary software, lack of cross-platform support, etc etc etc, I didn't even bother trying to catalog them all)

(what did I expect? oh, I dunno... in 2021... WebGL and three.js and a bunch of flat file HTML demos that work right in major browsers on a raspberry pi, mac or pc laptop...)
>IPv6 support for subnets and VM instances is available in the following regions:

asia-east1
asia-south1
europe-west2
us-west2

I thought GCP makes a bigger deal about having parity between regions than the other clouds (pushing teams to automate deployment to new regions). TMakes you wonder if other (older) regions are ever going to get IPv6.
Yeah, I needed to do that even with XP because I had an early SATA computer.

Later I learnt you could customise the Windows CD, burn it yourself and include service packs, drivers etc. on it. That saved a lot of time (because back then, reinstalling every few months was a thing).
It’s ridiculous how we are still keeping up the nicotine equals tobacco equals nicotine myth. It is perpetuated everywhere, just like the coffee equals caffeine equals coffee myth.

Nicotine is nearly harmless, it is the other psychoactives in tobacco that cause dependence; damage is done by particulates and tar in the hot smoke.

However, nicotine is also well known, so it is a good patsy. A distraction, if you will.
Show HN: I made a focus ext. that shows upcoming tasks and timer on every tab
If you're playing against AI in SupCom, try the LOUD mod. I've been playing it for a year or two, and found it's much improved (CPU usage and tactics) over the stock AI.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/loud-ai-supreme-commander-forged-...
No-code platforms allow one to create applications via a GUI or similar. Word, Photoshop, Chrome are all applications. No-code applications like bubble allow users to define workflows graphically, and then execute them later as a part of an application.

Hopefully that makes sense. I think the key bits here are "it's being built through a GUI" and "you are building an application that will be executed later."
A typical example is the need to use paths for what are basic geometric tooling in almost every other graphical application.
We did a page speed tests of a popular corporate websites
Life sciences people are generally far less intelligent than the average developer lol
So was there cleartext data on it?
The High Court of Ireland's ruling [1], which this article seems to have mined for most of the facts (some of it nearly verbatim) is worth reading, rather than speculating wildly.

In short, the court found that Presho's bipolar disorder likely preceded the disappearance of the house, but that it was a factor in Presho's inability to protect his legal rights at the time.

As far as I interpret the ruling, the sequence of events was roughly:

* Persho left for New Zealand for 8 years, leaving the house boarded up and in the care of a local. During that time, a hotel was constructed next door, and its builder used the house illegally for lodging.

* Around that time, the house fell into disrepair (if you read between the lines, they may also have stripped it for scraps) and suffered serious fire damage (highly likely arson).

* At some unknown point in time, the house was demolished, probably by the owner of the hotel with the help of a local contractor (who was in possession of the only digger on the island) in order to clear the view.

* The local garda did not find any evidence suggesting (or refuting) any criminal acts. However, the court appears to recognize the existence of a conspiracy among the locals.

* When Persho returned in 1994, he responded to erratically to the loss of his house, and due to his bipolar disorder was not able to follow through with legal proceedings until the 2000s.

[1] https://www.casemine.com/judgement/uk/5da053ed4653d07dedfd58...
FYI if anyone’s interested, there’s a network login hacking tool called THC Hydra that’s been around forever.
When old equipment pops up on small farms, it's usually someone operating on a small scale (~300ac or so), making a profit off land they own by keeping their costs down. Definitely not a great way to earn an income, and it probably doesn't cover their bills, but people do it.

Otherwise, the old equipment is typically used for odd jobs around the farm, like the use case of hauling produce you mentioned.

I'd agree that you see it less often with combines; they're a much more complicated machine.
France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes
2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27957471
See jaywalk's reply to you from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27982727

It sounds like the discrete GPU is only needed for specific things which seem like they could reasonably need a discrete GPU

(We're both talking about the "Minimum Requirements" section on https://lookingglassfactory.com/product/portrait, in the bottom right of the page below the big blue buy button)
I think a key difference is the level of access. Sending a letter once a month, seems like a reasonable connection to have with someone who lives many miles away.

However in today's hyper connected world, you have Facebook, Instagram, E-Mail, Phone Calls, etc. People who you might enjoy some connection with, are able to connect with you a whole lot more.
Then why are people so concerned about John deere? Just buy from a manufacturer who doesn't do these shenanigans.
Apparently with plaintext customer data.

>
Lechelle said Scaleway worked with the YouTuber to recover the disk. The French-language video creator has written to Scaleway with assurances they have not copied the information contained on the disk. It is said some customer data was on the drive, unencrypted, including the source code and SSH keys of an Italian VPS provider.
It would be a huge undertaking, especially if the DirectX types leaked into the rest of the application. DirectX 7 is from 1999, games like Half-Life 1 used it. This is when GPUs were mostly fixed-function. While nowadays a GPU is almost as versatile as a CPU.

The hardest/largest step would probably be to get it into this century, with the latest version of DirectX 9 (2005, Windows XP / Xbox 360 era). The step from 9 to 11 is also quite big, but a lot of APIs have stayed compatible.
Seconding Gitpod, I really wish every repo would take the couple of seconds (to minutes, depending on how complicated) to just create the Docker config for developing it.

I use VS Code devcontainers a lot locally, and it's the same concept. This really ought to be something we aspire to as a standard IMO.

I've submitted several Gitpod + VS Code Devcontainer setup PR's to projects to spare others the pain of having to figure it out.
> Do you really think there are people out there who read your website, click on a regular link and then go "Damn, it opened in the same window. I guess that thing I was reading is gone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"?

Sample of one, but yes
> what these things do better than Salesforce

Not being Salesforce ;)

I worked on a bunch of Salesforce stuff for about a year, including building an app. Can't say I relished that time. I think the thing that seems attractive about Bubble is it doesn't carry the other baggage that you get included with Salesforce.
Scanning various CUPED related pages, I read that it's a way to reduce the variance, and hence p-value. But CUPED is not changing the lift value (difference [or ratio] in means) between T and C itself (or at least, not in the examples I see). The fallacy I describe computes different means from historic lifts and substracts those. Ie. on the third table, the lift is 4.7%, not -1.6%.
Interestingly enough, I just found these articles recently and implemented this, it has been huge for me. I get hooked on my phone for work, but then end up falling into the black hole of distraction. By making it into a tool, and removing work related stuff, I find that I end up only using it for a few minutes each day. I still have it for the useful stuff though, maps, music, strava, etc. but when I need to look something up or check in on work, I have to go grab my computer.

I honestly feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I am way more present with my family.

https://medium.com/make-time/six-years-with-a-distraction-fr...
https://medium.com/make-time/the-distraction-free-android-2f...
On the contrary, they do more damage by claiming it’s nicotine that does the damage!

They claim it is the nicotine that drives addiction and physical harm, but it is not nicotine doing it — rather, it is heterocyclic aromatic amines and other psychoactives acting as monoamine oxidase inhibitors.
I'm curious about the trope "microservices are more closely coupled than a monolith" - in my experience this is because the microservice architecture is very badly thought out. There are many ways to refactor it and produce a decoupled and robust system. So - is this me deluding myself or is it the case of an architectural style being traduced because of poor implementation?
I have no idea what company is in the article since it doesn’t say.

But if it’s (likely) John Deere, we avoid them like the plague. Granted, my family’s farm is “hobby farm” scale. I see plenty of Deere’s on actual farms. But for me, it’s not worth it.

I’ve been half a mile into brush at quarter to midnight fixing a Kubota with very basic hand tools. I have a repair manual that shows how to service every part. It’s how it SHOULD be done. Most people who rely on a tractor don’t have time to mess around with John Deer concierge any time they hit a bump the wrong way.
You didn't read the article, did you now? The numbers say - according to the article itself - that of the patients hospitalized and diagnosed with Covid 44% had a positive test before being admitted - 43% had a positive test within 2 days and the remaining 13% tested positive within 2 weeks [they don't mention the distribution].

What I find repulsive about this article is that they never say 'someone with a broken leg was counted as a Covid case after the mandatory testing' - they just dance around it, make innuendos and let third parties dance closer to it.

Nowhere in the article they state 'asymptomatic cases with an other unrelated diagnosis were counted as Covid cases' - and I am guessing they don't because the don't have the numbers to prove it.

A real journalist would track down the cases - would try and find the 'I went in with a broken leg and was released with a Covid diagnosis', get the discharging papers and write about it.

Now: if there were really so many cases of people hospitalized with a different diagnosis and attributed to Covid to 'jack up the numbers' - where are they? Where are the articles about it?

Until you have these, please: go back to your little green field to play with your friends - the adults are trying to have a conversation here.
This is satisfying.
I made some uncharitable claims around spinning a yarn.

Makes so much more sense that Presho was "of unsound mind" I feel sorta shitty for my other claims.

but the court evidence and findings are great. Thank you.
By making tests so brittle you can't change any code without updating tests. And who wants to do that?
> I think the motive force behind OSE is basically one guy).

That's what it looks like; at the very least, they are extremely short staffed vs the problems they want to tackle. They have been at it for years and have barely made progress in terms of the actual wiki.

Their main problem right now is you need a pretty full-blown machine shop and access to lots of materials to make the machines. That's fine for industrialized countries, but if you want to help mechanize the developing world, you are probably better off making a tractor which can be kitbashed from a Toyota Hilux.

What they ought to be focusing on is the "API" - a standard spec for attaching X to Y. A POSIX for PTOs, if you will, but for more parts than just the PTO. A standard rubric for machines and accessories across the farm, like Morse taper but wider in scope.

Regardless, I'd love to see that program get an infusion of cash and talent, and get a full tractor design out the door.
Are they charging for use of external IPv6 addresses? I couldn’t see any differentiation between IP versions on the pricing page.
> Do open source projects have an obvious "run this script to configure your complete dev environment in respect to this project" ? I would be happy to spin up a new VM for every project on that basis.

Have used Vagrant for that, worked well, but not popular these days. Spins up a VM, you check in a script to install everything you need inside it.

Docker Compose isn’t bad for that either. Can specify a bunch of components such a databases, and a Dockerfile can specify what you need in your main container such as particular versions of Java or whatever.

Not to say all projects are using these things. But they’re out there, and can be used if the developers want.
Neat - real external IPs, no NAT.
NL is different because production is still criminalized. All Amsterdam coffee shops are selling criminally produced cannabis.

I’m reasonably convinced that integrating organized crime into a community brings with it a lot more apathy than regular consumption of cannabis
i hear this often but i don’t think it’s true. sometimes a good integration test will do you more favour than a dozen of unit tests. also unit tests can be a pain in the ass as a bad integration test
The odd part is that if you smoke a cigarette with no additives, the difference is barely noticeable. I wonder why they feel the need to add so many additives for such a minuscule effect
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