skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For league of legends I can see how this can work, in fact I've used many similar tools to understand how a certain champion works.... for the other games tho - the ones that are faster - wouldn't an in-game agent (like a coach) with good suggestions work?
For example, in Warzone, someone in-game could say, oh look you might have not noticed but there are enemies shooting there, either go on 3rd party or steer clear of the area.

but now I guess that's against TOS of most games, right? i.e. a voice that tells you what to do / how to do better next round. Now that would be something useful to learn faster!
They already do this, it's called Watchtower

https://support.1password.com/watchtower/
Small nitpick/advice, the hero subtext should be a little bit shorter and more to the point (you have 3 instances of "get better at games" paraphrasing). I like how descriptive the rest of your site's copy is, but the hero should be parseable in its entirety very quickly.
This is real diversity--some single, some married, some with kids, some without, some older, some younger, coming from all different educational backgrounds, and living in different communities.

If everybody went to the same handful of colleges, is roughly the same age, and lives in the same trendy suburb, it doesn't matter what color they are. That "diversity" is literally skin-deep.
It's a useless metric:

https://www.ef.com/wwen/epi/about-epi/faq/

> What is the methodology behind index?

> The EF EPI calculates a country’s/region's average adult English skill level using data from three different versions of the EF SET. Two versions are open to any Internet user for free. The third is an online placement test used by EF during the enrollment process for English courses.

> In order to calculate a country’s EF EPI score, each test score was normalized to obtain the percentage of correct answers for that test. All the scores for a country/region were then averaged across the three tests, giving equal weight to each test. Regional and global averages were weighted by the populations of each country/region within each region.

People who don't know english in the first place won't have any reason for taking those tests.
Ahh the joy of sending a file with a 10k ^G to the line printer. Used to annoy the poor slobs who had the crapy terminals
The term free market seems oddly incompatible with what you propose. Is a regulated market with oversight and checks and balances?ls "free market"? It seems the opposite to me.
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Why not just type the letters and print them normally? Do you think you gain something when recipients mistakenly believe you wrote them by hand?
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I've always hated the map memorization thing. To me it destroys the uncertainty and exploratory aspect of a game like CS. I didn't mind it as much in Team Fortress (which is built on cartoonish excess and thus fosters a sillier and less aggressive style of play. Thinking back to when I was a regular CS player, my favorite ever map was a Katamari Damacy style giant room where the players were effectively reduced to the size of action figures and moving around was quite time-consuming. Visually it was quite crude - very basic textures and blocky objects - but it gave rise to all sorts of interesting tactical problems and solutions, while being big enough to make speedrunning impractical.

It's surprising to me that there aren't more procedurally-generated environments for multiplayer; there might not be as interesting to spectate (because you don't know where to look or what to expect), but they'd probably be much more exciting to play.
That’s what I do when humidity is unbearable but air temperature is below body surface. Works ok.
Database client configurations and the joys of software engineering
One thing is, the benefit of IRAs and 401Ks are capped so that you can't put more than (20-25K?) in them each year. Anything else you want to save comes from after-tax income. Still, even with only half of your income available after tax, a lot of professional couples would be able to put aside 75-100K or so if they really stretched and maybe lived a bit below their means.

But I think the real reason you don't see people with 50MM, is that long before that you'd not need to work anymore. Why would you keep going to work every day if you had 10MM in the bank? It's more than you could spend in the remainder of your life. You'd need to spend 700K per year just to keep up with your passive earnings, and that's with a paid-off house and no debt.

Also, if you're a person who has been happily frugal for your working life, you're not going to change into a spendthrift overnight. You already came to the realization that an expensive car is meaningless, you're probably living in a place you are happy in already, near friends and family, etc. You're a person who will be making more per year than they ever could in a job, so why try to make more?
Europe's all-time heat record set in Sicily at nearly 120 degrees
How do you plan on differentiating and competing against http://playvs.com/?
the smart contract has a blacklist flag that can be activated by the Tether, this prevents on-chain transfers.
https://etherscan.io/token/0xdac17f958d2ee523a2206206994597c...

The USDT will be burned and the USD released to the rightful owner after law/legal approval -- https://twitter.com/paoloardoino/status/1425188386034311168
The problem is that you still have to invest a shit load of time, even if you trade some for money.
> The important stuff is not transparent. For example, how do you know that Tether is backed by real USD? That Binance isn’t manipulating prices via wash trades? That the promises made about various coins are being upheld? etc.

You are describing so called centralised finance (CeFi) whereas the most high quality Ethereum projects focus on decentralised finance (DeFi). DeFi tries to break any chains to opaque companies and have all actions happening transparently and auditable on-chain. However ones like Tether murky the waters a lot here.
If the work was provably personalized to you (perhaps with some sort of hashing involving your name), then yep, that’s the idea!
> As with the other ministries in the novel, the name Ministry of Truth is a misnomer because in reality it serves the opposite: it is responsible for any necessary falsification of historical events.

> However, like the other ministries, the name is also apt because it decides what "truth" is in Oceania.

Low-effort, I know, but what was the point of everyone reading this book in High School English if not for this very moment?
What a clever way to finish of your point. It made my day.
It sounds like the goal is to hoover up social media data to generate intelligence that can be used to target propaganda sources (I imagine this could be anything from imposing sanctions to cyber sabotage to sharing suspicious activity with social media companies.)
> we've been avid users of GitHub since its early ARPANET days.

What?
The fun is in the novelty, not in the <insert first name>.

Even if it's inherently considered dishonest by some, the same should be vigorously argued for all email/snail mail you have received for decades and frankly I can't remember the last time I've seen someone complain about a personalized email being dishonest.
We didn't give up.... we use one these three when someone needs to be shown a web page:

ShellExecuteW(NULL, L"open", (LPCWSTR)wuri, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

[[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] openURL:nsurl];

::execlp ("xdg-open", "xdg-open", s.c_str(), (char*)NULL);
Some of it's keeping-up-with-the-Joneses, some of it's that living anywhere that's particularly pleasant to live and also near your employment, is usually expensive because other people want to live there, too, and some of it's that those with the means tend to spend a ton more directly on their kids in hopes of advantaging their kids in life—college tuition, say, so this comes out of the parents' savings rather than being debt on the kids, or tutoring, or "experiences" that their prep school councilor said the admissions guy he's friends with at Stanford really likes to see, or whatever—and, especially in the well-off-but-not-rich range (so there's a kind of trap here where people tend to get stuck moving "up the ladder", burn lots of cash in zero-sum competition with each other over housing that hits the sweet spot between commute time and quality of public schools (those above this level just send their kids to private schools).

Then there's the tendency of US medical or elder care (say, for your not-rich parents) to put a huge dent in one's savings in a relatively short span of time.
Adding to this, they've also left showstopping sync bugs in the standalone version, and the customer support team uses this as a reason to push people to switch to the subscription service.

They were also giving away subscriptions for free for quite a while to get people to move.

So yes, I'm with you in questioning the number.
While that's true, the good thing is, that you don't really need it, the browser extension is enough.
The fact he hasn’t come up with a single unique idea since Facebook makes me think the Winklevosses might not have been lying about coming up with the idea.
Ask HN: Are you sometimes running circles when designing software?
I realized a weird feeling of mine that I sometimes misinterpret. It typically comes up when I’m designing a program at a high level, top down, in terms of wishful thinking.

The feeling can be described as my brain running in circles (sometimes it’s just walking or crawling though). Like a snake biting its own tail. I think it happens when I try to combine or unify things that don’t belong together in an attempt to simplify some model as in “everything is an X” or “this other thing is just an X with a Y”.

I’m not sure why I have that instinct in the first place, it certainly seems natural in some sense, like pattern matching? On one hand I feel like this is a strength of mine, I love seeing similarities in concepts and people have said that this is a bit of a defining characteristic of mine. I think it can have a lot of value. For example it is not unheard of that different fields have similar concepts, or shapes, but name them and maybe combine them differently, and recognizing this can lead to deeper understanding, because there might be solutions in some area that also apply to another but isn’t understood in their terminology or practice.

But the other side of the coin is well, the above. In the worst case it is hard to let go of running in circles because I’m driven by a motivation to find these valuable parallels or new ways of modelling something. In less severe cases it simply blocks me of understanding something that might seem trivial, because I already tried to make a connection that may not seem to exist.

I think this is very closely related to the type of job we’re doing. Mapping to and modelling processes and data in the small and large. Or at least it is part of it.
Thinking about this and discussing this issue with other people might help. Can you relate? Is there a name for it? What do you think are good activities or strategies to exploit the value of this type of thinking and to mitigate the cost?
You are not wrong but you didn’t really say anything that isn’t already acknowledged or addressed.
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I'm a bit tired of hearing about imposter syndrome, honestly. It's become trendy to claim you have it, and I feel like the actual number of people suffering from it is much smaller than the self-diagnosed sample.
So a trustless oracle? I really don’t think it’s simple at all. For starters, you have to assume the original creators of the project have backdoored their system in every way they possibly can.
How are you measuring this? Because I just ran a ping from my colo server in a datacenter and am seeing 11-12 ms when I ping google CDN.
personally, i use bitwarden for passwords only, and i store backups of OTP seeds in a seperate keepass file.

I have my OTP codes on yubikey for daily use. (works great, and breaking a yubikey is a lot harder then destroying your phone and losing all your OTP).
> can reduce the risks of viral transmission

My understanding is that even the hardest of the hardcore mask proponents agree that wearing a mask only stops you from transmitting it to others (if you already have it), not contracting it in the first place - that's why it's always been the doctors and nurses in the surgery room wearing masks and not the patient.
How many of them might be following directions from someone or giving directions to someone on a different OS?

How often we use something and what type of things we're doing on it (work, play, etc) probably greatly affect how we think about this. I expect my tools to work the same no matter where I use them. For things I don't rely on to get essential work done, I care less, on a sliding scale.
They only started making that claim after foolishly transferring the coins to an address tied to a Binance account.
Oh! Thank you for explaining. I'm a 1Password user, but wasn't familiar with this functionality.
Imagine the first object from another civilization flies by Earth and it's just an off site backup.
LaunchDarkly Raises $200M, Hits $3B Valuation
Anyone who isn't a business owner or high level executive would retire far before they reach the amount of money required to have $50M when they die. Most people aren't trying to just accumulate wealth. Even those that do accumulate massive wealth are doing it because they enjoy the job/power that comes with the job, not because they need more money.
The current marketing pitch (a personal gaming -coach-) has nothing to do with the current functionality of e.g. voicing timers or providing notifications. That's more akin to a personal assistant.

I would also say that what it's doing with Valorant is cheating. It's providing additional cues and advantages automatically, that other players have to keep tabs on manually. The other players have to risk glancing at the timer(s) and temporarily divert attention from the other parts of the screen, while the "AI" user can rely on auditory feedback that is not present in the game for everyone (and maybe was a conscious decision from the game developers).

The whole point of competition is to evaluate player vs player performance, not player+personal assistant vs player performance. If you allow uneven things like that, then it becomes an arms race and also becomes boring from both a viewer and participant standpoint. Part of the challenge of games like Valorant, League of Legends, DotA2, etc, is to learn how to manage the sheer amount of information while also engaging in fights/gameplay.

An actual coach "AI" concept could be to provide intelligent information -inbetween rounds-, not during gameplay itself.
Simply add increasingly unlikely and absurd elements to each new video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzEVRappRC0
> Senators Richard Blumenthal and Amy Klobuchar, both Democrats, teamed up with Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn to sponsor the bill, which would bar big app stores from requiring app providers to use their payment system.

Extremely disappointing. Google and Apple already support other payment methods, but by forcing apps on the iOS store to support Apple Pay and Sign in with Apple, me and my family are all the safer for it. That's part of the reason I jumped into the Apple ecosystem — that Apple intermediates relationships.

This is not a pro-consumer move. Consumers already have choice. We should instead have laws for Extremely Strict data handling for payment vendors, including the sale of customer information.
I'd also note that while "random" (v4) UUIDs have 128 bits of data, they don't have 128 bits of entropy, even if created with a CSPRNG! They've got a few fixed bits, so only 121 to 122 bits in the random part. That doesn't change the brute force difficulty enough to make it practical, but using them for certain purposes could be catastrophic. EG if you used a v4 UUID as the `k` value in ECDSA that would leak your private key, since any leakage of any bits of the `k` value leaks the private key.[1][2][3][4]

Don't use UUIDs for security purposes.

[1] Dan Boneh and Ramarathnam Venkatesan. Hardness of Computing the Most Significant Bits of Secret Keys in Diffie-Hellman and Related Schemes.
In Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO ’96, 16th Annual International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, California, USA, August 18-22, 1996, Proceedings, pages 129–142, 1996

[2] Nick Howgrave-Graham and Nigel P. Smart. Lattice Attacks on Digital Signature Schemes. Des. Codes Cryptogr., 23(3):283–290, 2001.

[3] Phong Q. Nguyen and Igor E. Shparlinski. The Insecurity of the Digital Signature Algorithm with Partially Known Nonces. J. Cryptology, 15(3):151–176, 2002

[4] Phong Q. Nguyen and Igor E. Shparlinski. The Insecurity of the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm with Partially Known Nonces. Des. Codes Cryptogr., 30(2):201–217, 2003
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Interesting… Can you use Neovim? Can you persist you custom vimrc config and plugins between sessions?
Fancy new word for old fashioned propaganda.
Might be a unpopular opinion but I'll take free services funded by ads over paid services any day of the week.
Isn't Codespaces essentially what Koding was doing ~10 years ago albeit w/less freedom?
Trustless protocols are still trusting the hardware, firmware, operating systems, compilers, software, maintainers…
Ignore my advice and you'll never see your meteorite again. That's really no skin off my back, but I think most people would rather have a neat "maybe-a-meteorite" sitting on their own desk instead of having it sit on the desk of the researcher they sent it to. When these guys open your package to find what they immediately recognize to be a meteorite worth hundreds if not thousands of dollars, I can guarantee you they won't be annoyed at the inconvenience and they sure as shit won't think twice about the return postage you send with it. They'll add it to their collection.
Awesome, might give this a try then. Never did use codespaces before - this would be killer.
What about thermal solar? Since those are typically heating water into steam, wouldn't a higher ambient temperature be a good thing?
Decades ago the problem was considered a "deadend" because it was hard to solve but seemed unrelated to any other fields of mathematics and solving it wouldn't yield any techniques or partial solutions that could crack other well-known problems.

I wonder if that thinking has changed in the age of Computer Science since solving this kind of recursive/iterative problem might open up new ways to analyze algorithms or tackle the Halting Problem for some classes of programs.
Wow, talk about being buried.

(Curmudgeon engaged) These company communications are just a few ironic emojis away from fitting in with Facebook MLM spam and don't instill much confidence.
The article itself admits that this is unlikely to become law:

> Sen. Fischer's amendment is non-binding and is unlikely to be greeted warmly by the House of Representatives
GTF's Green Coding White Paper [pdf]
True, but the same goes for “planet-leaving tech.” Some of us might not be able to afford leaving the planet, or might want the planet’s environment to remain somewhat hospitable to life even after the CEOs leave in their spaceships!
Yeah, sure, ok.

Electron is a tool. It can be used well. It can be used poorly. Any tool shares the same issues. I can write a shit native app and I can write a shit Electron app.

All Electron does is lower the barrier of entry to making an app and making it work cross-platform.
Thanks! I appreciate that you read any part of that gigantic wall of a comment. I actually have a blog, but I don't have anything on it yet. Maybe I'll write something longform on that instead.

I think your criticism is good - I think there is something I want to express between the relationship of a society that takes responsibility for itself and a person who takes responsibility for themselves, but what I wrote is off from what I'm really trying to express.
I think that calculus should then include the up-front costs of EV's in CO2 emissions from the mining for the metals necessary the make the EV. ICE vehicles should have this included too of course.
If they were able to save a million, they wouldn't be getting an average social security check. They'd be getting probably the max, at 40K or so a year.

Plus, they could safely draw 4%. So that person would be at around 80K a year.

To your point, that's still firmly middle-class, but with a paid off home, it's not nothing, either.
You can turn it off or run it less frequently.
The value of a building has a strong correlation to its net area. 300 square meters is a lot of area…more than a $100,000/year at $35/square foot. Over $1,000,000 at ten years. Over $3,000,000 over the life of a thirty year mortgage.

And that’s per floor.
That would either be a godsend or a civilization-ending event!
I have the last non-subscription version on my Mac, PC and phone. They sync through Dropbox.

The chrome extensions stopped working a few years ago so I got into the habit of just manually searching, cutting and pasting my passwords, and saving new ones. I don’t even think about it and it’s very easy. Paying $3/month to have it automatically populate the user name and password fields isn’t worth it for me, especially when the browser does this pretty well once you input it the first time.
Look at all the responses this guy got from his videos. Reading them, do you really think those people understood how the video was made and just enjoyed the novelty?

"I am amazed by the customer service...It makes me very happy that the team is so invested"

"I can't imagine how much effort must go into doing this"

"This is the first time in my life that I receive a personalized video from the founder of a company"

"This means a lot to me"

"I really appreciated the personal attention"

"I don't know how you have the time!"
I have noticed something similar and I'm "just" 35. I think the best way to explain it is that I don't usually get angry, so when I do, I don't have much practice and the emotion tends to linger. The problem is not with anger per se, but with violence and loss of thinking. You should practice being angry and expressing it, I think. State your anger, explain what's wrong and tell people you don't want to stand for it. There is a difference between being an angry asshole and just being angry.
‘Dead White Man’s Clothes’: the dirty secret behind the worlds fashion addiction
Thank you for this. We have someone just like this who went into management for the same reason. He does an excellent job of it, I only wish everyone shared the appreciation for his powers of insulation and fighting in the devs' corner all the time.

Quite often your efforts aren't visible to everyone, but it's visible to some and they're thankful for it!
At the moment Finland is attracting most venture capital per capita and soon passes Sweden even in absolute terms.

This is because of the massive mobile game sectors and dozens or so unicorns in progress. Mobile games are 0.5% GDP and growing.

https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/business/19280-european-venture...
I only have the iOS non-subscription version and am happy with it. Is this going away?

It allows me to use the vault on all of my iOS devices and that’s sufficient.