skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish there was a community somewhere of space gamers that like ev style games. I don’t follow gaming much anymore but I’d love to know when similar games come out
UDP doesn't have reliability, flow control, congestion control, etc. Blasting RPCs over UDP can cause poor performance due to congestion.
Ugh yeah, very poor in that screenshot
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28201040 (Same story from Dallas Morning News).
Too late on Kickstarter but I’m sure they’ll be selling it once it’s done! If it goes according to plan you should be able to take the new engine and drop in whatever scenario you want.
Well, I divorced at 41 after being married 19 years. All I can say is never feel like you _have_ to date. Turn on every filter you can think of and if someone occasionally seems interesting go on a date; you’re right about chatting, it’s pretty worthless so meet as soon as possible (but don’t scare them). Do a quick gut check and don’t settle. Most people are pretty terrible and that includes women.

Be happy being alone. That doesn’t mean stay alone, it’s just the right frame of mind whether you’re alone or not.

Fwiw - I met a wonderful woman right before the pandemic and have been seeing her since then: I couldn’t be happier.
So, if you are physically weaker, you must accept the abuse. Wow.
Yes, -current has been moving along. I'm too lazy for rolling release though.
Agreed.

It's the same for Russia or Ukraine as it is for Afghanistan or Libya. These people have been under a totally different form of government where they had very little agency. The hubris of thinking, yeah, the CPSU (or Bath, etc.) is dissolved, democracy will take over, it's people's destiny!

When you've known nothing of democracy, it's a foreign concept. You need the culture around democracy to form for it to be successful.
Or, you could just pull a page from intelligence agencies. All you would need to do is bribe or radicalize a disgruntled employee, then you'd know the model.
I can’t imagine planting enough flowering plants (that don’t get eaten by… something…) to make a difference to the bees. I also can’t read, what is that, German? I live in the southern US. Bees have a 3-5 mile flight radius for collecting pollen when they’re in a hive, and upward of 60-80k bees in a decent size hive. I imagine you would have to do a LOT of planting to make a difference.
> The question is "why didn't the players notice" not why the developers didn't notice.

No, lots of players noticed. The question is phrased as "how did the players miss this?", but that's not what the author means - what he means is "why didn't the community come to a consensus on what had happened within two weeks of the introduction of the change?"

Which is a much stupider question.
AnkiDroid will support in-app drawing shortly[0]. There's already an e-ink mode which removes most animations, and supports image occlusions via third-party apps which use the AnkiDroid API [1].

Happy to discuss improvements for your workflow if it's an Android-based e-ink tablet via Discord[2]/GitHub issues.

[0] https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/issues/9363

[1] https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/wiki/Third-Party-A...

[2] https://discord.gg/qjzcRTx
Perhaps. But I'm not sure why Afghans would hold any particular allegiance to the rather corrupt government set up by a foreign occupying power.
Airfoil [1] is worth every penny. The same could be said for pretty much everything Rogue Amoeba makes.

It’s also worth noting that Spotify can act as a remote for its own service across devices. So you can start a song playing on your phone and direct the output over AirPlay and then just interface with that session using the desktop client.

[1] https://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/mac/
I hope one day we will come to some form of collective enlightenment.

I have always wondered, from an evolutionary perspective, what is the underlying thing that encourages the emergent collectivism of unicellular oragnisms that eventually gave rise to us? Could that be something related to consciousness in a way we do not yet understand?

Would it be possible to replicate a phenomenology similiar to that which drives billions of cells to collaborate (and act together to help "the organism" to stay alive) to occur at the species level so there'll be no more wars and conflicts as we help one another to live more fulfilling lives? (e.g. through the utilization of psychedelics and BCI?)

I think what made humans special is that perhaps we're already half-way there. Unlike other animals, we collabrate with one another at a much greater scale, and have accomplished so many unthinkable things so far.

We are perhaps at a unique point in history after enjoying so long the state of being post-animals that we're finally starting to reflect what it means to go beyond all the humans conflicts and shenanigans.
Good question - this was one of the details I left out of my comment because I ran out of time...

The feature called (as you say) "Ask to buy" is not what the name implies. It's actually "Ask to download anything, including free stuff".

You end up turning it off after being interrupted 5 times a day to approve free stuff. Many are free games, some are even apps needed for school (the Apps needed for school are sometimes time sensitive - if I don't approve it within a few hours it can be a problem).

This is what I alluded to with the "plausible deniability" comment. Apple can say we have an "Ask to buy" feature but they cripple[0] the feature so as to make most parents turn it off.

[0] I'll leave it up to the reader to decide whether this is intentional or not. Based on the dark patterns present, I personally think it's 100% intentional.

I wrote to Tim about it. Never heard back. Wasn't surprised.
I divorced my wife in my early 30s, and after the trauma of everything I swore off women and lived the life of a monk for 7 years. At age 38 I finally ventured tentatively into the dating pool, and it was as bad as I was expecting (a bunch of desperate people on both sides) so I stopped and focused instead on my hobbies. I finally learned to play classical guitar, I finally got in shape using a boxer's workout that worked so well I could wear the same sized jeans I did in high school again. I started doing things I enjoyed, went hiking camping with groups of like minded people, started blogging about things I felt strongly about, without a care about what anyone else thought or who agreed or disagreed (sorry, life is too short for projecting an illusion of me).

And I met people, just not through any dating services or at bars or any of the usual places. And since these were in neutral environments, there was no pressure: you'd get to know people and they'd get to know you, and if something eventually came of it, cool, and if not no big deal because that wasn't the purpose of the activities anyway.

What I'm trying to say is: There's no shortcut to meeting someone who's good for you. The tried-and-true method that has worked in the past before all of this dating service nonsense has been to just BE there, doing things, in an inclusive no-pressure environment where the purpose isn't to get hooked up with someone. People can sense when your motivations aren't pure, and the worst of these is the desperation to not be alone. It's not very flattering to be wanted as "mr right now" as opposed to "mr right", nor is it flattering the other way around.

Everyone out there is different, and that means that there are many people who want what you actually are. This is why it's so important to BE what you really are. The more you disguise yourself out of shame or fear or envy, the less people see of the real you, and the more likely it is that any woman who develops an interest in you will actually be interested in the false image you're projecting. And all that does is lead to tears down the road. Better to just be who you really are, so that the women out there who are actually LOOKING for that can finally see you. Also get out there and DO things, because spending all your time alone guarantees that nobody sees you (as the famous parable goes: no one hides a lamp under a bowl or a bed, but rather puts it on a stand so that those who enter can see the light).

Since getting back into dating (sort of), I had three more relationships before meeting the girl of my dreams through my blog of all places (we're both gamers), and we married 3 years ago in my early 40s. Our 3rd wedding anniversary gifts to each other were a pair of Radeon 6600s so that we could play the Back4Blood beta in style!
This is spot on. As aggravating as YouTube censorship is, it's given the power of the press back to the people, if not just for a little bit. This flew under everyone's radar I think and the powers who typically control the news have been scrambling to regain control.
Thanks for all the pointers, I didn't know about MIPS assembly, I'll take a look at it.
You're right. Stores would need, for example, loyalty and coupon apps installed, meaning the phone could report BT beacons and MAC addresses.
Eight Megs And Counting.

Wow, eight megs was once so much memory that we would laugh about applications that even approached it.
Beyond the answers people have provided, I'd like to add that there is a social element to it as well. Many/most programmers have forgotten math like LA and calculus, there does tend to be opposition to using math at work. Will other people be able to understand your work if you solve it with applied math? Will your coworkers be willing to admit they don't understand your work? And so on.

Of course, this doesn't apply to domains where math is necessary (graphics, etc).

I remember in one engineering job I had, two engineers were tasked with the problem: Given an ellipse, assume a horizontal/vertical line "cuts" off the ellipse. What is the area of the remaining piece?

This is a standard Calc II problem, and I'm sure everyone there had taken it - we required a MS in that team, and some people had PhDs. The solution takes a bit of work but in the end you'll have an analytical formula with the exact answer. In code you'd just put one line with the formula.

Is that what they did? No. They wrote a program to approximate the area. I really doubt they took care of any floating point subtleties, but I knew that I wouldn't be popular if I probed their solution.
Interesting. How do you manual approve App Store charges?
An aside, though I think a worthy one; my favorite casual rebuttal to the pretentious phrase "knowledge worker" exists here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yDXPkor-Wxk

On topic though, I think that to the extent the New Yorker is describing the subset of technical work that many HN participants are engaged in, burn out was already a big problem pre-pandemic. So it's not a complete surprise for burnout to be on the rise during a such a global level catastrophe, even though many in tech have done well for themselves with steady high salary throughout the duration of the pandemic
Thanks - I arrived at the posted link via this great Ocean Science Radio episode over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28205832
> USPS change of address form listing your new mailing address

Is this a requirement?

I don't fill out COA forms anymore because the idiotic assholes at USPS hand out your new address to stalkers, harrassers, spammers that knew your old address
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Good thing nothing I work on ever leaves the prototype phase
Yes, if you look at the quote I was responding to, it appears they are saying Go doesn't have finalizers, which is incorrect.
> to have to deal with inexplicable behavior from your own car seems quite a bit more unnerving.

And yet, tens of thousands of drivers are working as unpaid beta testers for Tesla. Mind-boggling.
Trying psst here on Linux I came away with the opposite impression - Druid's further along than I expected, it Just Worked at high DPI on Wayland better than most electron apps. I guess it'd feel worse on MacOS which already has a more consistent system UI.
Comparison between software engineers and software developers
> But I also want to see YouTube and Facebook succeed as internet companies by enabling regular people like me listen to experts disagree about controversial topics

That disappeared a long time ago...
That hasn't been my experience with any major cell provider.

They have refused to provide me service if I don't give my SSN.

To get around it, I've had to open business accounts with my EIN.
Sure, I completely understand the shortages. However, very few other consumer products in America are sold like that. Sony famously could not keep up with demand for their PS5, but they didn't start selling them at $1000/piece even though they could have. Maybe it has something to do with the middle-man arrangement of dealerships, but that is really inconsequential to me as a consumer when something is labeled as an official Toyota dealership.

Particularly galling was the fact that their website advertised a RAV4 prime for $45k, and when I emailed to buy it, I was told "That one is gone. But we have an exactly similar one that we can offer to you for a $15k fee". It felt like a scummy bait and switch, and I ended up getting my Model Y for less than I would have paid for that rav4.
Big fan of DCSS, but this doesn't surprise me. After getting a few all rune wins I stopped playing largely because it is so opaque. Even after spending a LOT of quality time with the (sometimes incorrect) wiki and in-game lookup system, I realized I would never have an intuitive sense of the effects of my choices wrt stats, skilling, weapon and armor choices, and so on. I watched some of the best crawl players in the world play to see how they approached these very common situations and even there I didn't see as much consensus as I hoped to find given common scenarios.

Part of the joy of being human is understanding systems and working with them efficiently to achieve goals. Good luck doing that with crawl. You can sort of achieve this by dumping a lot of time and building up intuition via experience, but you still won't be able to say why you chose this over that for all your choices.

I found myself getting into scenarios, wondering, which choice is better along one particular dimension? STR vs DEX? This armor vs that? What are the trade-offs? The only real way to find that out would be to dump the game at its current state and then simulate both choices against a suite of enemies to see how it plays out at least in 1v1 situations, never mind when handling many enemies. It's frustrating playing a game with so many numbers yet the output of the systems they feed into are so opaque.

It's really unfortunate because although it already feels like a gem of a game, it could be soo much better if the interplay of the various combat / character systems wasn't so ridiculously complected. I would love to see some of the sensibilities of the Factorio team applied to crawl's UI and underlying combat/character systems.
Not really. The prices of leaked data are already at rock bottom.

People can do very lucrative things with your identity that dont cause any liability to you. This may be more common than the horror stories, and there is no way to collect the data.

Think about it, someone shut out of the credit system uses your identity and gets a credit card and helps improve your credit score. Many people might see the unfamiliar line and just not bother, many people would never notice.

Think about things which wouldn't get reported: you would never know if someone had opened another checking account in your name, right now.

What about doing ID verification at an exchange merely to pass know-your-customer and anti-money laundering requirements to get greater withdrawals? Innocuous, as all account holders have to do that.

Yeah some people are probably getting framed.

Its more likely that this gets investigated properly and shocks everyone into repealing some money-stigmatizing laws since the wrong people are getting indicted.
DC property is very expensive. Average home price is over a million. SF is probably worse, but that isn’t really the point.
I didn't need to cancel the card because they did refund the money (and cancel the subscription) after speaking with a few reps.

I'll give them credit for that, but I feel like they use the fact that chargebacks are easy to make themselves feel better about all the dark patterns.
Troubleshooting is very much like science.

If you are trying to fix the problem, finding the cause is very important. By just doing something, or worst many somethings, you may make the problem worse and still have no clue of how to fix it.

Now something like this is a little harder because it is not just trying to fix a problem, it is trying to fix a problem with a time limit. Similar to emergency medicine. But harder because the patient is one who's anatomy and physiology you are not familiar with. And they might have reactions to the medicine you are giving them.

The article keeps hinting at lack of food, malnourished, feeding in unusual places. Then goes on to say the last mass die off occurred during colder than usual weather as opposed the recent hotter then usual. It sounds like more data would be very helpful.

Also
>Refusal to blame yourself with literally 0 evidence is itself evidence that someone is an oil company shill or something.

Is very hostile and breaks the guideline:
>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
> there are still people vehemently arguing about the horrible things that are going to happen to them specifically if they get a vaccine...

Can you make a steel man argument on their behalf?

Or is that so preposterous that it beneath you and wouldn’t waste your time on that?

Because I’m starting to wonder if people with strong opinions like yours seems to be really are any different than the true believers on “the other side”. Or if you just feel confident in your echo chamber as “unquestionably right” because you (or I) aren’t questioned.

I find the more I know about a topic the less I make absolutes like the one I quoted. You can’t make legitimate arguments against the covid vaccines? Shouldn’t we all be able to?
> True, but they gave him blanket authorization for use of military force (open ended) rather than a declaration of war), this open-endedness allowed Obama! to use the same AUMF to engage in further conflict.

If anything, your points here only go to demonstrate how irrelevant the nominal power of congressional authorization is, in the current political climate (and for most of the history of the republic.)

What makes it mostly irrelevant is that almost any representative voting for caution will be tarred with the "soft on America's enemies" brush, marginalized, and quickly removed from office. That's democracy in action, and it has been that way, for the most part, since the founding of the nation.

What kept the USA in Afghanistan, and the USSR before, was a form of sunk cost fallacy (in blood more than dollars), in which nation-building became more of a prayer for a non-catastrophic exit than an arrogant goal of a self-appointed elite.
I’m working on a writing prep web app that will have an interactive map feature. How nice for this to show up on the hn front page, I assumed I’d be making something custom in threejs until now.

It’s called plotbinder - the app and it’s website (plotbinder.com, currently nothing is hosted) should go online sometime in September
With that high number of young people dying of the flu back then you may say that the host mutated and became less susceptible to the original strain of the flu.

Since SARS-CoV-2 seems to be especially dangerous for people after reproductive age I don‘t expect the same pressure as with flu. It may influence our inverted age pyramid, though. And it may have influence on the number of highly educated people >50 and older people with disposable income.
(I belong in this group)
What's funny about having to rely on unauthorized clones to provide a fast native UX was that Spotify's original client back in 2008 started out as beautifully light, custom rendered native client.

Few Apps ever had that wow factor the first time I used it, it was so much lighter and more responsive than anything else of the day. I remember being perplexed at how I could search and skip to any part of a song quicker than iTunes could looking at a local library. Everything was latency-free and instantaneous.

We were building a Music Startup at the time, so we investigated how it worked. We we’re very surprised we couldn’t find any evidence of an established UI toolkit. It looked as though they had built their own custom UI renderer and optimized TCP protocol which sent back its metadata in XML. Their traffic looked like it was initially seeded from their own (or CDN) servers (for best latency) and then overtime we would see some P2P traffic on the wire.

Our QT/C++ client had decent performance but was noticeably heavier than Spotify's. I was disappointed to see their native client eventually be abandoned and succumb to become yet another Chromium wrapper. I expect it fell to the pressures of a growing startup adding 100s of developers (without the skill of their original CTO/devs) where a native UI couldn't be updated and re-iterated as fast as a Web App. I wish they maintained 2 desktop clients, and left their native client alone to just be an audio player and push all their new social features to their new flagship CEF app.

It's unfortunate the skill and desire of building fast native UIs are being lost to Electron and CEF wrappers. Seems the larger the organization the more likely they are to build new Web rendered Desktop Apps and we have to rely on unauthorized Indie efforts like this for fast, responsive native UIs.
Jenfi (YC W20) raised $6.3m
Source for that? First I've heard of it, but admittedly not a user!
You realise that COVID, like other viruses, replicates by injecting mRNA into cells, yes? That mRNA does a lot more than print some spike proteins. Hell, we don't understand what most of the COVID accessory proteins do. Again, I stand by what I said – "foolhardy".

> We don't know what we don't know.

So you think we should all try our luck with live COVID and just hope for the best? Demonstrated long-term health problems vs potential ones?

I fully acknowledge that there could be some side effect from the vaccines down the line that I'm now on the hook for. However, people who have been working in this field for their entire careers say it's unlikely, and that's the best information we have right now.

I trust the experts who have trusted their own expertise enough to get their own shots.

> That risk seems much higher to me than the risk of long COVID for individuals such as yourself (and me).

It isn't. There's not really a nicer way to phrase it. Your sources are questionable, you should fact check them better, you should do your own research. The papers are free to read, there's no excuse.

You're Dunning-Kruger-ing this. Get your shit together.
I'm wary that it might not be better than the tool developed by the guy who invented incremental reading.

I'd love to have something for it on mobile, because that's where I spend all my reading time, and that was one of the main advantages of Anki.
It's a great and influential project none the less and costs as much as a cheap book ($14.99 IIRC).

I'm all for homebrew dev on classic consoles (Mega Drive being my favourite also) yet these fantasy consoles are much easier to program for and usually have more meaningful constraints targeted towards finishing little projects while going solo.

Check out this list of free pico-8 clones, some of which support programming in lisp like languages even:

https://github.com/pico-8/awesome-PICO-8#clones
You still need to log into spotify to use any 3rd party app and none of the playback apis will work without a premium account. Apps like this one are for people with premium accounts.
Check the workflow for artefacts, the macos build runs on m1.