skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tabletop Simulator doesn't require coding (although it has support for it). Especially last year during the worst of the pandemic, most game designers who put in the effort were still able to host online playtest nights, attend online game designer conventions (with the help of Discord) and show their games to publishers by making a TTS version of their game.

I've looked into making my games on BGA, and their system looked like a PHP mess I didn't want to deal with. If I'm going to be coding anyway I'd rather use a Typescript game engine like Phaser, Swift and SpriteKit, or C# and Monogame, and have full control over it.

Here's one of mine I uploaded to the Steam Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=22173...
I temporarily lived out in Sacramento, and commuted occasionally to MP. This is not bad compared to some others, but seeing stationary brake lights getting on the highway at 4am was something else
Put in 3 M$/yr and you'll get 50.7%.

Not a lot of people hitting that regularly, but I imagine it can sting a little if you've got a more proletarian salary normally and are hitting that region just once because of say, a start up liquidity windfall
Yeah, I'd do that as well. I've seen others do it.

But people might not see your "hey, leaving FB post." They might not check FB often. Or it just kind of gets buried. etc.

Phone numbers and emails change, though. "Contact rot" happens. So, I don't know. I guess I like to have multiple ways to contact people.

This is all predicated on the fact that FB is absolutely not a distraction to me. I look at it maybe once or twice a month. I have all notifications turned off. So, it is not a drain on my (fragile) attention span.

Maybe most importantly, a lot of the folks I keep up with on FB aren't necessarily people I talk to directly. We would not really be keeping up by email/phone/letter/whatever. Some people see that as evidence that, hey, those are obviously people you don't need in your life. Perhaps that's true for some. For me, I enjoy having acquaintances as well as friends.
His tax situation really has nothing to do with it. If he sells his Tesla shares, he's still going to owe CA tax. But he never has to sell any Tesla shares, he can just buy hedges against them and take out loans. If you have sufficient capital assets, you never have to actual earn any "income" or generate any "capital gains" if you don't want to.
I'm not sure why they think Austin is less NIMBY. That hasn't been my experience.
Obviously nobody would confess a crime while returning a rental car. They'd return the car and leave. Then later the cops will stop by with a warrant and collect info/security footage.

If a bank manager went down to Hertz by themselves and demanded someone's information, they obviously wouldn't get very far. There are established legal processes to follow.

Just like the physical world, if you want to compel Cloudflare to identify one of their customers, you have to use the legal system.
So are you saying you don't have friends, you don't go out to socialize, you don't have hobbies, you don't do any work besides what your regular job pays you for, and you stay home in a small apartment and eat mostly white rice and boiled vegetables?
Ask HN: Evolving practices (10M – 1B users)?
Our online video editor has been acquired by a big tech co. The ~80 org will need to start doing things a bit differently as a tsunami of new users comes.

Surely a lot has been written about engineering and management practices need to evolve to cope and stay ahead?

Please share.
Industry research 11: Warriors need to know where their battlefield is
Chasing this dragon is exhausting, and seems to be requiring more user-hostile measures that prevent end users from using their device fully.

Can there be a legal frame work where Google and Apple just take your source code and builds it on their farm, and app review is a source-code level review? And Developers that refuse to do these things are just blocked from developing on these platforms?
Keep in mind that the original Ponzi scheme ran for quite a while and even had the media defending it as a great investment.

Tether (and most crypto) seems like someone copied Ponzi's original scheme 1:1. Put in some money, transfer it to another format (Tether to other crypto, with Ponzi it was stamps), then eventually pull out loads of cash. Some people will undeniably get rich off it. But it's not sustainable.
>To clarify a bit: The monthly cost of renting a house is way higher in California, not because it costs more to rent the house, but because it costs more to rent the land the house sits on

Rent is not really tied to land in CA. If it were, a 1br in an apartment complex would be cheaper than a 1br detached unit since you are renting less physical land, and while much rarer, both 1brs tend to be about the same prices. Biggest factors influencing local variance in rents in California seem to be quality of neighborhood which is proxy for access to high paying jobs, fit and finish of the unit, and size of the unit.
Creator of Social Fixer here. I've been around over 10 years and made it through multiple attempts to shut me down, remove my pages, and a c&d. With several hundred thousand users, I think they know that I will make some noise if they come after me again. ;)
No it isn't. CA will still try to tax those shares if and when he decides to liquidate them. However, Musk does not ever need to liquidate any shares. If he never wants to pay any tax, all he has to do is buy a hedge against the shares (thereby locking in a particular price) and take out loans against the now hedged asset. And like magic, he's got all the cash he could ever need and zero capital gains.
Are you serious? When there's a run on something, like Tether, by definition everybody is going to be trying to dump their crypto simultaneously and cash it out for dollars. And the entire problem here is that the system does not have $69B cold hard cash floating around, meaning that the vast majority of people will be left with nothing if (when) the crash happens.
That's always the game plan though. I wrote about it a few days ago: https://liuliu.me/eyes/the-endgame-for-cryptocurrency/

Once you have big enough following, having enough systematic risk, you, average scammers can enter "too big to fail" category, especially in democratic countries.

If USDT successfully turned half of the U.S. families holding 25% of cryptocurrency-related assets, they can work out any scamming issues they have in hand.
A couple weeks ago Tesla pushed an update that causes autopilot to brake and alert the driver when emergency vehicle lights are detected.[1]

1. https://twitter.com/Analytic_ETH/status/1440537502272536581
What I think is this, for Facebook to be profitable, it is just a bad thing for your health and quality of life, it's plain and simple.

The only way it can sustain it's growth and profitability would be to find more ways to hijack your mind and your feelings and keep you more "engaged" and addicted, and keep repeating that behavior to more and more people on earth. To become more toxic.

Unless they decide to completely remodel their business, and lose money (never going to happen), it's only going to remain a force for bad in the world. Nothing can change that really because we all know that after spending an hour on Facebook, we feel worse. I don't feel like this after using Google search for an hour (although I know there are negatives too that too).

What's happened is, it's unmasked now, everyone can see that it is bad, studies have shown it's negative effects, now we're just working out what we do with it, how do we get away from it. Do we kill it, ignore it, put warnings on the login page that it' addictive, how do we cure ourselves from Facebook?
Best article I have seen in a while. Direct line drawn between crypto/wildwest is funny/true. Still HODL tons of USDT though. Real question if deposit/loan ratios can/should ever be enforced in cryptoland :)
Apple took this bet years ago, it has not panned out. Austin's housing and rental prices just keep increasing year after year.
of course, not new. But it is the first time when an idea was realized in low-cost segment. And is open-source)
I used to do this a lot as a kid. I still do it, but I used to, too.

I got a can of Barq's soda as a kid, during a road trip to another city. It wasn't sold in my city so I saved it for something special. It must have sat in my room for years before I realized how ridiculous it was and threw it away. Part of it was that by that time you could easily by Barq's soda in my city.
This article from Navy Times is worth a read: “Maybe today’s Navy is just not very good at driving ships.”

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2017/08/27/navy-swo...
I predict sales of Boring Flamethrowers will skyrocket in TX. The Truck might make a good Techinical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_(vehicle)
C’mon we’re almost two years into this, how is it we’re still under this idea that it’s about individual risk, and hospitalization (or death) is the only meaningful risk factor? A pandemic is a population-level problem, risk is dependent on how everyone acts collectively. This includes mutation rate and resource limitations. If it keeps spreading, it keeps mutating (see: Delta). If hospitals are overflowing, risk goes up for everyone - whether or not they even have covid. Things that were treatable with a visit to an ER before are now life threatening due to resource constraints. And there’s tons of people with postviral covid complications that weren’t hospitalized.

You can’t do apples to apples with things like ‘getting bitten by sharks’ or whatever things get dragged out in typical risk comparisons. That’s why this is hard.
It's such a terrible state. Infested with ultrawide roads and zero walkability. Women don't have bodily autonomy - imagine trying to raise a daughter in such an environment. I'd hope that alone would deter engineers with families from the state.

Not to mention the a worthless human being of a governor. Backwards politics and ideals. It's a joke of a state, everything wrong with America hyper-concentrated on steroids.

The pros of moving to Texas is that housing is cheaper. The downside is that you have to live in fucking Texas.
Pedantry alert: As Elo ratings are named after a person, they shouldn't be fully capitalized, as they are not acronyms.
The crucial difference is their use of a stereo depth camera.

Great to see good tech deployed in the wild, but I'm not terribly impressed by the machine learning side of this.
How is Gallup calculating risk? As far as I can tell from their appendix, they're using total hospitalizations / total US population. Ie, 2.6mm hospitalizations / 330mm population = ~0.8% risk of hospitalization.

This is obviously misleading: the pandemic is still ongoing. We're now at 3.1mm hospitalizations, does this mean risk has grown from 0.8->1% between Aug 9 and today? Or that in May 2020 the risk was essentially nil?

Once infected, risk of hospitalization (across all ages) is currently 7-8% (using 7-day rolling averages from CDC). Lower than people assume, but still concerning.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#new-hospital-admis...
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailycases|...
Jesus Christ, Kool Aid cult goes global...
You can make that argument, and many do, and some courts may even be suckered into falling for it when push comes to shove. In a more jurisprudent analysis, however, it relies on a false parity between consumer and company in negotiating power.

Legislation like the GDPR is motivated in part to nullify such arguments.
At what point do we have to stop because we’ve hit physical limits? At 3nm we are talking transistors only a few dozen atoms wide, what’s the smallest theoretical transistor we can build?
Unless we are talking about the kind of restaurants that are difficult to get a reservation for, then I think you are confused about what creates status in American culture.

Going through the drive through at McDonalds certainly will not raise your status in America.
Title needs a (2018).
> As much as I enjoy pissing on boomers, older home owners did nothing for their houses to appreciate. It's just something that happens due to monetary policy, low interest rates, local scarcity of supply and a growing population.

All the things you mention, boomers did that. Monetary policy was drafted by boomers, for boomers, to protect and enrich boomers (low interest rates being one outcome). We printed trillions last year to protect boomers at the expense of young people. Scarcity is a function of zoning laws, again drafted by boomers to protect the value of their nest egg. It’s 100% their fault.
I assume by "California politics" you mean taxes? Got news for you about TX property tax, chief.
Beyond housing, isn't traffic a problem? Lots of people will be commuting from Round Rock.
I can never remember what xnm means as it varies between companies.

In this case,

Samsung's 3nm = Intel's 7nm

I am still waiting for a standard based on transistor density numbers!
The traffic situation is already pretty bad in that area, seemingly deliberately so. That is the case even during the pandemic, I can only imagine how bad it is when _nobody_ is remote. It seems that progressive Austin wants everyone to move to the city and give up their cars, which is not a realistic thing to do for most people in TX because it's not built for such lifestyle. I have no other plausible explanation.

Since I'm apparently "posting too fast", I'll just post my reply to the post below here.

US cities (including Austin) are not built to make this viable. I grew up in Russia which mirrors the European way of building things. Everything you need for your family is within walking distance, for what I hope are obvious reasons. The US is not built for this. If one's goal is to get rid of cars, you have to build cities with that in mind. This takes decades, which is why nobody seems interested in actually doing this. Instead we get this passive-aggressive "let's build less parking and roads" thing that you see in US urban centers. No attention whatsoever is paid to how the folks actually live, how they raise their kids, and so on. I'd also argue that, as we switch to electric (and eventually to nuclear power, since that seems inevitable if we actually want to solve the climate crisis rather than just make Al Gore filthy rich), cars will become less and less of a problem, and population will spread out rather than move into the cities. Cities are a bad deal as it is. Expensive real estate, congested roads, high crime.
Why Covid vaccines didn’t win a science Nobel this year
Interesting analogy, it fails pretty quickly though once you take a deeper look

Your analogy amounts to a person having a private road, for which a random person comes buy proclaiming "hey there is meth lab up your road" from this you then jump to the conclusion that the person that owns the road now legally "knows" about the meth lab, thus if a methlab is found they are complicit.

I would find this to be very lacking from a legal standpoint that some random person yelling an accusation at you constitutes "informing" someone of a fact to whit they would then become legally liable.

No proof, evidence, or other actionable noticed has been given, so the owner can simply ignore you accusation and move along with their day, in fact legally that would be the best course because if they then investigated they could become complicit, but at the moment of accusation they are not
Nope. CA taxes you on the shares you earned in the state, regardless of where you sold it.
In the long term, I think that many mosquito species will be driven to extinction within the next 30 years.

As gene drive modifications become more accessible, preventing this becomes impossible.

The ones that carry malaria will almost certainly be wiped out.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/07/28/1020932...
Archive: https://archive.is/asdTQ
> property values have gone up 43% due to exodus from locked down blue states

Citation needed for this property value claim, also for the existence of “locked down” blue states. I haven’t seen a lockdown yet like many other places.
Anyone have a running list of enormously rich people moving from California to Texas to avoid being taxed on a windfall and ostensibly justifying it with insert reason here?

So far I have Joe Rogan with his spotify deal and now Musk with some of his options coming up for payday.
Apple's payment system offers no more leverage than a free disposable credit card that you can limit and cancel at any time. When Apple's payment system is the only option, its high fees (unfavorable terms) generate a huge amount of deadweight loss in the app economy. What Apple needs to do is find a way to allow its users to retain as much of the convenience of its own payment system as possible without violating antitrust regulations. This is achievable by, for example, requiring apps to let users quickly and easily unsubscribe from recurring subscriptions in the app itself.

Currently, iOS users have little to no leverage against Apple. To make certain kinds of purchases in iOS, buyers must pay a large price premium to subsidize Apple's fee regardless of whether they prefer to do so. The Dutch antitrust regulator recognizes this as a problem, and is instructing Apple to correct the situation. How Apple proceeds from here will determine the user experience on its platform, but continuing to violate antitrust laws harms both users and developers through market inefficiency.
Adblocks seem to have found a definition .. let's start with that.
Those poor, powerless, persecuted politicians.
It’s really the type of safety system consumers cannot reliably judge from first hand experiences since preventing a near accident will never be as vivid or memorable of an experience as it malfunctioning and nearly causing an accident.
Liberal Austin voted to criminalize homelessness this year.

So it’s safe for glibertarians now.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/09/austin-texas-camping...
On options, yes. But in delta 1 products is not always so easy. They are often legitimately just market making.
How else should it be stated except "on the nose," given what's at stake?
> "policing" need not be done by a police force--in tribal groups for instance, tribal members generally police each other

How would that be different from vigilantes and lunch mobs?

What would the ideal ratio of police to detectives be in different contexts?
That is really clever. I never thought to use an animal to attract the mosquitoes. Not sure what I think about spraying alcohol into the fan, at least my old fan. Maybe he's using 70%.
He's a billionare, he's insulated from tax burdens as well.
I mean, the ultimate in luxury flooring is probably a floor made of gold. But Bog Oak would make rather handsome flooring. Some of it is thousands of years old, not just hundreds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog-wood https://www.wood-database.com/bog-oak/ https://bogoakdesignstudio.com/en/flooring/
I don't think we really need to localize this conversation as nowhere can economically manage a large exodus of people from California's 40,000,000 population.

The only thing to remember is that Californians can afford the new area's current housing prices and a decade's worth of price increases.
I payed >50% for two years but I was above 400k.

Honestly, coming from a third world country where I got taxed more and having had to work in Austin and Atlanta before on previous jobs, taxes are the least of my complains for California. Yeah they should fix property taxes... but my main complaint is that even though all politicians like speaking a mouthful about helping the poor and how broken healthcare is, every single government program that's supposed to help the mentally ill is utterly and completely broken beyond belief. And I'm saying this coming from Argentina that as a country has around the same population and way less GDP.

Literally the only thing about California that doesn't feel "first wordly" as all the nice places in Europe I've been to is how it deals with people that need mental health or that have housing issues. I tried discussing this with every other politician I meet or something but besides condescending smiles because of the perceived trauma they think growing up in Latin America caused (it didn't) I never get any iota of acknowledgement that something in the world is wrong. Except for the Republicans, which is the only problem in the US, apparently.
All of this tech can also be used for good. They're introducing that new Wifi standard because they claim it can help monitor elderly people's heart rates. Surveillance cameras are there against street crime and they scan our private data in the cloud to prevent child pornography. Or take a look at this pilot project in China: https://old.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/q32799/bec...

Somehow the idea of autonomous winged cameras flying around all over the place does not make me feel safe.
> My "high score" on a breathalyzer is 0.4%, and that was black out barfey drunk for me.

That was also my high score, I was lucid enough to remember the police bringing me to the hospital, blowing in the breathalyzer, and able to walk. It’s crazy what consuming massive quantities of alcohol can do to your tolerance.

That was actually 6 years ago today, haven’t had a drink since. I hope you can achieve something similar for yourself, it is possible :)
I think they mean all taxes, including property tax, which you may pay directly as a homeowner or indirectly as a tenant.
First though, "5nm", "3nm" and so on are just marketing names. There is nothing about "5nm" that makes it "5nm" other than the company in question saying it is. Some things are smaller than 5nm on a given 5nm node, and some are larger. I cannot recall exactly what node this started to be the case (there used to be an actual definition, one for DRAM, one for logic), but it was in the past two decades and got particularly ridiculous beginning around "28nm" up to now.
The really concerning physical dimension for quantum tunneling to occur/not occur is "gate length," and that's been basically sitting around ~16nm (actual, real, literal 16nm), plus or minus a few nanometers (depending on the manufacturer and process in question), since about "45nm" (mid-late 2000s). So that one critical dimension isn't getting smaller. And there isn't much they can do about it right now.
They are still shrinking other dimensions though, and things don't work like they used to. Powered off transistors aren't really off, and leak power.
The workaround for this is that they just use bigger transistors in certain places for what's called "power gating". You get the benefits of having tons of small transistors, with a slight area penalty.
In addition to power gating, they have made substantial improvements to the design of the transistors themselves. Gates now wrap around the channel on 3 sides, creating a device known as a Finfet. Silicon dioxide is no longer used as an insulator to the same extent -- hafnium dioxide preforms much better as an insulator. Gates are now metal instead of polysilicon. And there's an assortment of other changes that have occurred or are on the way. So performance has actually managed to improve somewhat, and things have still gotten smaller. The end is near... but not quite yet.
Gate length is not going to budge much unless some miracle occurs, though.
call it whatever u like, looks like a fantastic product to me! i hope they can sustain this...
Median home price in austin is nearly 600k and in California its 800k, so its not as dramatic as a million cheaper unless you are considering places like the hollywood hills where homes go for north of $1.4m minimum (although you can get a home elsewhere in the LA area for $750k in many parts, this is a relatively high water mark)
Extreme alcoholics such as the driver in the article often down more than 2-3 drinks in quick succession.
3nm is a marketing term.