skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends what you define MMO as. If you consider it as traditional MMORPG, then the answer is clearly yes. WoW once had 12 million active players, now FFXIV is likely at 1.5 million, we're not sure if WoW is still above that, and ESO, SWTOR, GW2 and Runescape have a couple of hundred thousand each.

If you extend the definition a bit you can sort of fit stuff like big minecraft networks, Path of Exile, etc. into it. Which initially seems a bit silly, but then people general consider things like retail WoW, Guild Wars 1 to be MMOs despite most gameplay taking place in explicit instances, or world zones that are so heavily instanced that you'll only see a small number of other players. And the gameplay of Path of Exile is hardly as disparate from WoW as say Eve Online or Runescape.
Out of curiosity: Do screenreaders use OCR nowadays and if so, is it working good or rather bad due to the lost HTML markup?
You say hydrogen fuel cell powered but the link you posted says electric-battery.
When I had to comply with a recent data request for a police investigation I had to provide all data of anyone who had favoured/bookmarked a certain profile. I realized just how easily a person's data can end up in an active investigation.
On most Cloudflare-related HN threads, Cloudflare was really active and eager to answer the engineers' questions.

It's notable that this one is different. The fact that it's Sunday afternoon may be part of the reason, but I guess they really don't have anything to say. I'd really love to see their internal Slack now, though.
Majority implies significance, but significance doesn't imply majority. It felt like you were projecting something onto the comment that wasn't actually there. But I understand where you're coming from.
For you last paragraph, that's been the Chinese model since Mao. The only substantial difference between the imperial governance and that of the current regime is that the emperor is selected by an albeit small committee, provided the candidates are top ranks in the bureaucracy before a specific age, not granted through birth.
Thanks for the reply. I may still use it for simple examples (as it does fit all other things that I was looking for)
you missed the 2nd part: access to a nutritionist or have a lot of knowledge about nutrition yourself.

there is no way average joe can figure all these things out on a limited budget + limited time

evolutionary considerations are a part if everything. you cannot ignore how you got here and biology
Better CPU arches were never faster, definitely not by much.
Common knowledge does mot need citations. Am an academic.
> Its will be a very zoomed in area in a parabola.

That's entirely possible.

Of course someone who knew how the algorithm worked (within the js engine) could just tell based on the code. :)
It's a fad, just like bullet journaling was a few years ago.

I'm certain that (again, like bullet journaling) underneath the hype is a decent productivity system, but you have to wade through hordes of breathless fans eager for you to click that subscribe button, etc.
It's a long article and it's not focused on the religious view. There's a number of different angles in it that are fully secular.

I found more to disagree with in the author's conservatism which I found a bit too hard-line for my liking. But still, there's intersting points, for instance:

To use these strategies on animals is to misuse them; for if animals have rights, then they have duties too. Some of them—foxes, wolves, cats, and killer whales—would be inveterate murderers and should be permanently locked up. Almost all would be habitual law-breakers. All would deserve punishments from time to time, though maybe they could hire lawyers like Steven Wise to argue that they could not possibly be blamed, since only humans are blameworthy.

Or:

And that explains, in part, the appeal of the animal-rights movement. It shifts the focus away from moral beings toward creatures in every respect less demanding—creatures like dogs, which return our affection regardless of our merits, or cats, which maintain an amiable pretense of affection while caring for no one at all (a fact always vehemently and fruitlessly denied by their keepers). The world of animals is a world without judgment, where embarrassment, remorse, guilt, and penitence are unknown, and where human beings can escape from the burden of moral emotions. In another way, therefore, those who tell us that we have no special place in the scheme of things create a place for us that is just as special. By focusing our human attitudes on animals, we are playing at God, standing always apart from and above our victims, smiling down on their innocent ways, removed from the possibility of judgment ourselves, and, in our exaltation, imagining that we confer the greatest benefit on those whom we patronize.
Of course they provide some value by reducing friction, the problem is when they use their market power or network effects to seek rents and distort the economy.
iCloud backups are a treasure chest that Apple hands over to law enforcement more easily than people assume. Just backup to your laptop. If there’s a legal need to access your devices, you’ll have the warrant served to you directly.

Also Tresorit offers end to end encrypted cloud storage. If you’re storing a lot of sensitive documents like ID scans, account statements, medical paperwork, it’s worth a consideration. Then if your iCloud storage has to be handed over, at least you maintain some privacy in those matters.
> The reality is, the clothing industry decides what to produce at least 6-12 months in advance.

And they guess wrong all the time. If they could actually control things, they wouldn't have so much unsold inventory.

They're making predictions based on heuristics, not magically controlling the masses.
Luckily chip companies know this now and all the alternative deep learning accelerators have some level of support for mainstream frameworks. Getting their support upstreamed to the main framework project is another matter, though, as it reaching the quality of implementation as CUDA and CPU...
As long as you’re not making elaborate new recipes all the time, but variations on the same several, shopping and cooking don’t take nearly that long. I cook three or four big meals a week, generating a lot of leftovers.

Since I’m in the habit of cooking and keep a well-stocked pantry, the time from “what’s for dinner?” to “time to eat!” is faster when I cook than if I order delivery.

Then again, I’ve cultivated a love of cooking and a like for grocery shopping, so neither feels like a chore. My husband appears to have cultivated a non-aversion to kitchen cleaning and a keen appreciation for lower-sodium meals, so win-win.
Of course it matters. If your model of the world is “we need to spend infinite resources ensuring every system can be operated by anyone with any disability”, that’s obviously nonsense.

Accessibility is valuable but not infinitely so. Sometimes (usually) it’s best not to encumber an innovation just because the innovation doesn’t immediately apply to everyone.
Regarding Google and sensitive topics; why not? I often search on a lot of topics that could be sensitive but it would be really hard to separate pure curiosity from something serious
I doubt that. Chromium's internal accessibility tree is already serializable; it has to be, so it can be sent from the renderer process to the main process. So Cloudflare's modified Chromium could send that tree down to their JS-based client, which could then construct a DOM with the appropriate HTML tags and ARIA attributes. This DOM wouldn't have any JavaScript or any references to remote resources, so it wouldn't pose the same security risks as the original web page.
I believe both of my two examples are vastly less politically acceptable in America than mass shootings, mainly on the basis that nothing changes in the USA as a result of mass shootings while things did in fact happen as a result of 9/11, and that child abusers have always been in the category of “villains so evil we don’t need additional explanation”. There’s a reason why you have political cartoons like this: https://images.app.goo.gl/dRaH47BbaKAjJt116

(And that’s just the USA; the rest of the world isn’t like America, ignoring politics in other countries can get your games banned for reasons that would never hold up in America because of the First Amendment)
> I am the author.

That wasn't clear, apologies - but also now you have tied you HN username that was otherwise anonymous to your real name. If you believe you have a very real risk of death, please do not make it easier for people to determine who you are.

Honestly I am saddened that you see the world through the lens you write about. The path you are on does not lead to happiness, I hope this doesn't play as large a role in your life as your article leads one to believe.

> If I published under a pseudo name then the comments here would be “This is fake. Not even a real person is willing to say this”. You truly can’t win.

There are many cases where there is no good option, but if you believe your life to be in danger, pick the option of self preservation. Also I doubt that putting a name to an article really makes it any more credible to your critics, the goalposts simply move from 'you are not real' to 'your experience is not real'.

> But I have and you seem to want to find reasons to blame me for getting them or make me seem “off the rails” for feeling any fear.

I always look at things with scepticism - especially when I realize somebody is trying to change my world view. That said, I can believe that you have likely received some crazy messages, even if just being a human that creates content on the internet.

What I think is a leap is to believe that some random package that arrives has a very real threat of containing anthrax. If this is a genuinely held belief (and not just story garnish) then it appears like a self-induced paranoia.
There’s nothing forcing you to use any electric appliances, with the possible exception the stove if you to make warm food and don’t have access to a wood stove. Try a week washing the dishes by hand, doing your laundry in the sink or in the bathtub. I’m sure you’ll be a bit embarrassed about your above comment after that.
> Does canvas provide any accessibility at all and is actually a bigger problem with the creation of that standard / element in HTML5 with text generation? It’s essentially an image block that allows text generation with almost no accessibility in mind? That’s not really Cloudflare’s fault if so.

Not everything needs to be accessible; there are plenty of non-accessible reasonable use cases for canvas.

For example, I made a small game with canvas some years ago. This isn't accessible for blind users, and that's okay. There is no real way to make this accessible as it's fundamentally a graphical game. It's called a disability for a reason: there are some things you just won't be able to do.

The problem isn't with the non-accessible technologies, but when people use this in ways that make every-day stuff required for basic participation inaccessible. That's basically the issue with Cloudflare's product.
very tongue in cheek. Much more ' lets not argue athletics on the internet' and I'll admit I do it too. I say it as a, pretty terrible, ultramarathoner who regularly questions decisions other runners make :)

I am equally astonished by the creds on HN - its why I love it and keep coming back. It's sort of how I ended up here in the first place.
They sort of do. Voice Over on iOS, and it's screen recognition, is probably the most notable example. It even tries to recognize some UI controls and emulate common behaviors (like sliding a slider), for example. It's far from perfect. It might help when you need to click the odd inaccessible button, but is definitely not enough for daily web browsing.
It sounds like there is a misunderstanding.
I submitted this on Friday, but for whatever reason, it didn't catch on then. Thanks to the HN mods for putting it in the second-chance pool. I've pinged Cloudflare and eastdakota again on Twitter, so let's see what happens.
Focus: Assign multiple engineers to the same task
https://usagym.org/PDFs/Women/Rules/J.O.%20Code%20of%20Point... (Page 230)

Might just work, since it mentions "music".

>The musical accompaniment must be recorded with orchestra, piano or other instruments
(without singing/voice). Human sounds are allowed, provided there are no words spoken or sung.

>Absence of music or music with words/song incurs a 1.00 deduction, taken from the average
score by the Chief Judge.
> No one sane would inhale burning carcinogenic leaves to damage their own health, but people do - because they're encouraged to.

Smoking dates back to tribal society thousands of years back. People chose to do it without any corporate influence.
I'd go even farther than not completely agreeing with that and just say that I completely disagree. Our job as programmers is not just to write a bunch of code in a vacuum, it is to create that code and communicate it to the machines and people who will be consuming and manipulating it.

Things like version control should be first class tools that we all learn in detail. They are literally the most fundamentally important tools we use every day if we work in a team. You aren't doing your job if you don't care about how your code interacts with your team and your deployment. Like an architect who doesn't know how to use a drafting table.

It's incredibly frustrating that people let their egos stoke them into this idea that tooling is beneath them. It's almost certainly the cause of an incredible amount of bad software, even though much of its code is, I'm sure, quite clever in a vacuum.

And I'd rather work with a hundred programmers who know how to use their tools than one programmer who looks down on them for it.
I've always worked in noisy open plan offices, cubicles sound great. Never were a thing here though.
This honestly seems entirely reasonable compared to the "here's how I founded a billion dollar" company articles. There are only so many billion dollar companies, and no matter how many people try and do the exact same thing Paul Graham did, it isn't going to create more.

On the other hand, a small consulting company that allows you to vacation frequently and live on the beach is entirely achievable for a lot of people. The economy can sustain an awful lot of sub-seven figure one-man companies. I don't really see that this guy exploited any kind of market inefficiency as the current top comment seems to suggest. He just identified a career that pays more in return for less security.

As the author said, you gotta purchase your own healthcare, but catastrophe only coverage is cheap for a guy under 40.

The only real issue is you can't possible know if that's gonna be you. I suffered through years of spinal degeneration in my mid-30s. Definitely not typical, but part of the reason it didn't destroy me is I was at a boring enormous company that offered super cheap long-term disability insurance and could perfectly well afford to let people miss six months of work. If you've only ever experienced startups with a $5 million budget that are skirting by on margins of hours before going under, it may be hard to appreciate that all of the corporate world is not like that. You actually can get a reasonable level of security.

But you never know if you'll need it or not. It's not like the gods come down out of the sky and ask if you're okay with it before throwing you catastrophic health problems.
I think India is torn apart by its own racial and religious problems, not to mention the notorious caste system, but that's story for another chapter

In the very least, the Chinese gov, at Mao's time or at Deng's time tried to provide general welfare and equity to all of its citizens. Even though Mao's delusional thinking resulted from perhaps old age made that dream impossible and left the coutry iredemmable damaged til Deng.
> In high-security applications when anonymity is already lost anyway

There are countless sites that only serve static contents and yet cannot be accessed over Tor.

Furthermore, many other provide an optional login that could be made to block Tor exit node, but the default settings of cloudflare still block the whole site.

Additionally, "anonymity is already lost anyway" when logging on a banking website is incorrect. Users might want to protect their browsing from untrusted WiFi access points or nosy ISPs or country-level censorship.

> (logging into a bank, for example) it is reasonable, due to the inherent risk, to block Tor exit nodes.

How many attackers have the skills, experience and knowledge to successfully break into a bank and yet don't know how to anonymously rent a VPS or use a botnet or a compromised host or a starbucks WiFi? 0.0001%?

[Edit: silent downvotes do not help.]
To point 1, text/plain can be streamed; as for point 2, there may already be limited options, subject to application security audits.

I hate to say this, but if there was one place I'd look for vulnerabilities within a purportedly-secure environment, screen readers would be near the top of the list.
It's fun to be able to know if the cause is man made, or just bad luck (happening naturally), but what is more important either way is what can we do to reverse or mitigate the negative impact of the changes to the climate?

Now I don't think there's many left who deny that the climate is changing at all. But I think there are still some who aren't sure the changes to the climate will have a negative impact on humanity. I think this aspect I don't often hear discussed, after all, the climate changing could be good, or it could be bad, or it could be a mix of those in different places or different use cases.

And once we start to agree that some of the changes will be bad, it also becomes important to discuss what could be done to mitigate the negative effects?

The actual cause being man-made isn't that important, except possibly as a way to understand how to remediate the change. Like if we stopped all CO2 emissions would it really help?

Off course, this is where things will get political, because any policy to attempt to mitigate the negative effects (current or predicted) will inevitably affect someone's bottom line (their money). So expect a lot of push back from the people who'd lose money, and a lot of promotion from the people who would make money. That political dance will make it really hard to figure out which are the actually good solutions and which aren't.

Edit: It's true, beyond just financials, policies could also have an impact on people's lifestyles and life affordances and conveniences, that will also play a lot in the political dance.
Thanks for translating that. But anyone that watches this video, or others, can see the difficulty in articulating answers. And that is what Sky News is pointing out
oh this is something to say louder for the people in the back: there is no reason that finance and computational finance gravitated around python

there is nothing inherent about that language aside from people not having made some libraries in other languages

javascript especially nodejs is fine for most people's finance cases
Yes. As I understand it, knives are just inherently unsuitable for use as a defensive weapon - they don't stop someone from stabbing you, they're not even usable as a threat to get the other person to de-escalate because if you're close enough to use it I'm pretty sure the other person can draw and stab you before you have a chance to react. The only use of a knife is to stab the other person first, before they have a chance to, before you know if they even would or if they're even armed, and they're deadly enough that untrained teenagers can easily kill with them without intending to. This only ever results in things escalating for obvious reasons. Note that the UK has police armed with guns, but not police armed with knives.
That's the thing: I don't see anyone justifying those other vague activities in this thread. The notion that nothing can be criticized as being wasteful because something, somewhere else, might possibly be more wasteful is just false. It's not a valid argument.

This reasoning has no bearing on whether or not bitcoin is a waste of energy or whether its energy use is justified. It is akin to saying, "Sure, I burn ten tons of coal a day to power my iPhone, but someone else burns twenty tons a day to do the same thing. Therefore, I'm not being wasteful." This logic doesn't cut it.
Create simple stub API's
Still work in progress and any feedback is welcome. The idea is to have something simple available without having the need to log in or subscribe. Will be making it open-source once I clean up the code a bit.
Sure, but whether the Emperor is selected by accident of birth or by committee matters far less than how the bureaucracy is managed. A good example is how the authorities in Wuhan tried to cover up the coronavirus pandemic, but once the central government found out about the situation, Xi acted decisively (and effectively, it turns out) to stamp it out.

Every monarchy in history has had to deal with unreliable minions. Usually they deal with it using a secret police, and another secret police to watch over the first secret police, and so on.
Yes as a theoretical construct the concept is totally fine. But speaking as someone who has heavy exposure to mainstream academic economics it’s usually taken way way further than that.

There’s a concept called the EMH and I think there’s a very strong tendency in Econ and pop culture to skip ahead and assume the hypothesis is basically true most of the time, often in the face of painfully obvious evidence to the contrary.
This scenario might very well require a FedGov or security audit-compliant reader application with a uniform interface.
I had a hand saw in mind...
China is still recovering from nuking of their pork industry and vacuuming up all pork we can send them. Even if more states jump on bandwagon not much will change till we commit to not exporting unethical pork
Anyway to avoid the need to enumerate the json fields that come before children with those placeholders? Otherwise, it will be brittle to modifications.

Prolog was the one language I couldn’t get my head around in the programming languages class I took at school.
Would you need the css?

And mutations to this dom would need to be tightly synced to image updates to not confuse the hell out of nvda?

Or am I misunderstanding?
Cable news is also entertainment-oriented. All media revolves around engagement, which now typically plays out through appeals to identity or maintaining heightened states of anxiety. Yes that includes your ABCs, CNNs, and MSNBCs.

I’ve noticed people who only watch “real news” tend to have very homogenous anxieties and information about the state of the world that is rarely the most pressing or complete view.
And yet the climate change deniers will find a way. I don’t see why this has to be made into such a political issue when we have hard numbers and objective facts to back up the claim that we are causing global warming, it’s clearly observable. The situation gets worse every passing year and we’re still trying to appease the “doubters”. Concrete and drastic measures need to be taken, it is high time.
OCR is a poor substitute since it can't really effectively navigate things due to lack of navigational information, recognition of semantic elements like headers, etc.

I'm not blind myself, but I've tried to use some screen readers in the past to get a feel of what it's like. While I'm a very inexperienced user, one thing I noticed is that even with the best designs it's actually really time-consuming compared to regular browsing. I would imagine that an OCR solution would be even more time-consuming, if it even works well at all.
That would be a quick route to the firing squad. As Mao wrote, all power flows from the barrel of a gun, and his student Xi Jinping took copious notes.
Influence public opinion might be plausible.

but destalizie the financial system would be undesirable by any government, hardly to say it's a CCP problem.