skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pardon my ignorance, but what is MHRD?
Do you get paid for pushing matrix?
We're a couple of decades away from having compute and network infrastructure to actually have large, high fidelity crowds of real users.

That said I don't believe the statement that social, 3D worlds need crowds is true. The abundance of them without crowds speaks to that. You just don't build cities. A lot of the problem is that metaverse thinking tends to be about replicating the real world in a virtual one. Rather than thinking about how to make something better, or more exciting, or more empowering than the real world. A problem games have been solving for a long time.
>To think that the wisdom of white male slave owners is somewhat unquestionable is so deeply flawed i can’t assume good intentions.

I don't know where you from, but maybe the USA (or any other Western country), is just not for you.
Maybe you'd appreciate more the opposite end, something like Haiti, the product of the slaves who killed those evil white males you despise so much.
Years ago when Airbnb was picking up steam and I was in college I got a gig building a tool to automate cross-referencing Airbnb listings with housing records so the city could request the optional tourism tax.

What we found surprised all of them. A handful of people were listing sometimes over a dozen properties and avoiding the larger, but not optional, hotel tax. The 80% figure doesn’t surprise me much now just knowing how a few individuals can flood the short-term rental market in an area.
Very similar experience - in the end no police, and I just had to stay back and write a long essay on why hacking is wrong (pretty sure I was an edgelord about it and wrote something nuanced about white-hatting...)
I'm involved in crypto and I really don't care about Tether.

Currently, people are coming in with their own USD and willing to buy Bitcoin at a price of 60K. That has nothing to do with Tether. It has everything to do with people willing to pay that price.

I don't own Tether, so I really don't care.
Machine Learning Street Talk Podcast
On extending Amdahl's Law to learn computer performance
Try a gnome extension called gtile
No, Reichelt is not powerful (as is indicated by him being almost fired).

The most powerful media people in Germany as well as Europe are the ones running Bertelsmann, a left-leaning media conglomerate, which ironically is responsible for a majority of banned social media content and accounts in Germany, as its subsidiary Arvato provides "content-moderation services" to Facebook, Google and Twitter.

Nothing fishy about a media conglomerate censoring opinions that are dissenting from the ones its own think-tank (Bertelsmann foundation) is promoting.

But yeah, Julian reichelt, is powerful.
Hey HN, I've been sharing some of the articles about this website that I've set up for a little while, and been developing it based on your feedback.
The aim is to simplify/explain/debullshit papers about AI in healthcare so that patients and doctors can better understand, use and trust them.
I think it's now at the point of being feature-complete, and we've got about 75 papers summarised on there now, but would love any thoughts on this.
So you agreed to a contract, didn't bother to read the fine print, this fired back and so your emotional response is schadenfreude... I believe you can do better than that
It's because all the text is inside of a big table and there are several long rows. Combined, that means that the text can't really be resized below 1250px.

Don't use tables for design, folks.
And the author could note the wide range of opinions these founders had.

Their wisdom isn't because they spoke in a unified voice, rather the opposite. Their disagreements make visible deeply thought out ways of framing and weighing political decisions.

Wisdom isn't "Use a monorepo" or "Use microservices". Wisdom is the debate between the two, allowing you to learn the strengths and pitfalls of each.
I strongly recommend binding CTRL to Caps lock. It's pretty ergonomic, and just feels natural. Also, that would force you in a different mindset, aiding in differentiation of your Mac and Linux
Ask HN: Warehouse as the Customer Data Platform?
The given article proposes building the customer data platform off the warehouse. What do people think about this approach? Is anyone using the warehouse like this? https://fivetran.com/blog/customer-data-platform-data-warehouse
If you just want the tech stuff, it's very sparse but I greatly enjoyed the connection between the two protagonists.

It was also a nice way of teaching my wife about what the world of computers was like in the 90's.
China is clearly setting up the path to Taiwan invasion, these weapons serving as a deterrent to USA.
> I guess what I don't quite is what IPFS adds vs. say, a trackerless BitTorrent magnet link that uses DHT?

Beats me! I think there might be support for finding new versions of things, but I'm not sure about the details or how it prevents authors from memory-holing stuff by saying "The new version is $(cat /dev/null), bye!".
NY Times has to resort to hit pieces based on allegations now to competitors. They have no choice as they have been caught purveying fake news so many times now to date that this is their only way to bludgeon other newspapers.

The Caliphate series was all bogus and known to be bogus. But it was a tool for the Syria attacks just like the fake Iraq WMD stories (remember Judith Miller). There are so so many more. Taylor Lorenz to Rukmini Callimachi and Andy Mills…..
I don't know, could it be million other factors than "majority of people found git better"? This is such a vague and baseless claim.
GUI options to use it exist. You can use IPFS via the IPFS Desktop client or just use the Brave browser which has support for it build in. That said, if you want to actually host anything on IPFS yourself, you need the CLI client so you can throw it on a Raspberry Pi or something.

Anyway, I think the much bigger problem to IPFS adaption is that IPFS barely works. In terms of features IPFS should be capable of replacing every single mirror server out there, but in reality nobody is doing that. Having run IPFS permanently in the background also uses way more CPU than is acceptable for a software that is mostly just idling around. And the 'ipfs mount' option completely fails to scale with bigger directories. IPFS also has a serious lack of support for encryption and privacy, everything you do on IPFS is essentially public. Search is another thing missing on IPFS, https://ipfs-search.com/ exists, but if you try use it, 95% of the results are non-working links.

IPFS isn't really at a point where you want average users to use it, they'd just be disappointed and uninstall it immediately again. But if you want to play with it, it's really nothing more than a few clicks away. It is already pretty easy to use right now, no matter if GUI or CLI. Even with nothing installed or configured you can still use the proxy server that make IPFS available by HTTP.
You should interview at a few startups to see what they are like. Good chance to meet with people and ask questions, in my experience, they will have a much bigger emphasis on culture/Q&A interviews
/ does different things depending on the arity of the preceding function.

'f/ x' is 'insert' - i.e. reduce, so that '+/ 1+i.10' yields 55.

'x f/ y' is 'table', inserting 'f' between each pair to form a generalised multiplication table.

The documentation for j is unsurprisingly terse, but it is complete and very helpful.

https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/slash#dyadic
Any public examples?
One issue with that sand system is that the sand is hot enough to generate too much thermal NOx in an open Brayton cycle (or combined cycle) system. Which is sad, because that kind of system could save a lot of complexity. One could add a selective catalytic reduction stage afterwards but that increases complexity again.

A very interesting possibility, I think, is to replace the sand with some other mineral and make the solid part open cycle. That is, instead of retrieving and recycling cooled sand, a new stream of pulverized minerals would be used. This could be useful if heat treating those minerals does something desirable. A particular case would be heat treatment of serpentinite to make magnesium oxide and silica, which would then be used for CO2 capture/sequestration.
If you purchase a flat, it's under the implicit assumption that you or your family will be the only ones occupying it

I also live in Sweden and that is a very Sweden specific assumption. Even just across the border in Norway that assumption doesn't hold.

Sweden on the whole is very anti small private landlords and have lots of laws making it basically impossible to make money by buying a few flats and renting them out, but that is also a pretty uniquely Swedish take on the property market.
Wow! That's actually the first time I've ever heard this opinion
I think that's ok for being so early in the development cycle. Currently the Zig stdlib seems to be mostly stuff that's needed by the compiler and build system. At least it's already much more useful than the C stdlib.
That’s exactly the same as this, though.

foo = data.get("foo")
if foo:
handle_foo(foo)

The only place I have found the walrus operator useful is in similar `while` loops, where the equivalent code would be:

while True:
foo = data.get("foo")
if not foo: break
handle_foo(foo)
> In this case, a hotel booking site without hotels.

It did not start out as a hotel booking service though.
renewables simply can't meet base load requirements, grid scale energy storage doesn't exist... which means to phase out fossil fuels we need nuclear. there's no two ways about it

plus we could have done all of this decades ago if greenpeace/the oil lobby hadn't pulled off their incredible anti-nuclear stunt.

also renewables pose significant enviromental problems. going to kill a lot of birds and pave a lot of deserts (which are useful ecology not wastelands) to make ends meet. OTOH nuclear has spectacular power density

Ivanpah puts out like 400MW using 3500 acres. It also uses a shitload of natural gas and fries birds. Oops.

Diablo Canyon puts out 2.25GW using 12 acres. And doesn't fry any birds.
Wikipedia has user accounts actually.
Triumph at Saturn (Part I) [video]
My comments were made from my experience as a renter and condo owner in Stockholm, Sweden. I did speculate that similar norms were present in the Netherlands, but I must confess I have not studied the issue deeply.
How is this open source Marrowind if I need a copy of Marrowind to play it?
I’ve found apple to be less prestige oriented in their hiring.
> What distinguishes a bubble from a mania is the high degree of leverage underlying the price support.

This is not historically correct. Consider the South Sea Bubble, which the cryptocurrency bubble is most similar to.
It’s really easy, there’s a free tier, it gives you mesh P2P, it sets up DNS on all your devices, Google/GitHub SSO, a nice little Mac menu bar widget, etc etc. It just makes life nicer. Adding a new VPS or whatever device is just “tailscale up” and clicking the auth link. I love it!
Thanks for expanding, I do admit writing from a parochial perspective.
It's not appealing enough then, and I think figuring out why might be an angle worth pursuing. "Setting up a bunch of ini files and NAT loopback" does sound like accidental complexity that could be eliminated. It's the kind of stuff I did when I was a kid, and I no longer have patience to bother with; I imagine that, for the younger generation of software developers, it's way beyond their comfort zone.

Since I haven't actually tested Open Simulator yet, I hesitate to speculate on what the actual problems might be. But, for example, I've been looking for an easy way to have a persistent 3D world with optional VR support, that I could easily script to my heart's content. Something closer to Cube/Sauerbraten[0] or Minecraft, with an embedded code editor, than to Unity or Unreal Engine. Something that I could drop into, play around a bit, tweak a little bit, and come back later. I had an idea that we could make a kind of "digital twin" of our local Hackerspace, to prototype some ideas faster than in our real one. Open Simulator looks like it could be just it - so every piece of friction that makes it hard for me to set up the persistent world, build the rooms, build the doodads, script them, and get other HS members to join - I'd consider these to be adoption/interest limiters for the tech-inclined crowd.

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[0] - http://sauerbraten.org/
But they're working for people, doing what they might not want to on their own free time! Slavery!

I dislike how some diminish this term, with such frivolous complaints. Yes, surely the waiters were hobbled. Or beaten to death. Or starved, worked 18 hour days, etc.

Totally similar!
In my experience, it helped me be better comfortable around others.

Both having it easier to send good energy to people I liked, and not caring so much about being judged by others (less useless self-deprecation).
Replace NixOS with Guix and I agree!
I assume they mean https://store.steampowered.com/app/576030/MHRD/
What does understanding business have to do with a software engineering internship?
>I've written a couple reviews

Isn't it just Ubuntu with slightly (basically introduces tiling) different shell? What is there to review?
look, if they fix search they might have to stop using "Confluence; where information goes to die" as a tagline... so not an easy sell.

seriously though... default confluence search-as-you-type box is horrible, however sometimes (often ? always ?) there is a more traditional search endpoint available that seems to give better results. see if either of these works for you:

<your confluence domain>/dosearchsite.action

-or-

<your confluence domain>/search/searchv3.action
Grr-loop: (set) [g]oals, [r]ecord (time), [r]eflect
The GRR-loop is a loop of continuous goal setting, time recording and reflection.

It is not an official term, but it is a process I found out to be very helpful to me. Here is how I grew towards it:

I have been traveling, and I have struggled a lot with being productive and finding balance.

There were a lot of "fun" things to do around me, and it was hard to keep focus on the things I must and to what I wanted on the long term.

I started noting everything in my calendar.
Although tracking time/your behaviour is time consuming, I just wanted an overview of my activities.

Not only work-related, but also activities towards relaxation. I had the assumption that if I knew how much time I spend on relaxing, it would be a benefit to me to keep me motivated to work or work towards long-term goals.

The point of consciously spending time interested me.

While I was traveling, I read the book "The lean startup", and I loved to idea of a new idea or hypothesis to test every single week.

So, I started doing this with the activities in my life. Every single week 1 or multiple goals to work towards, and every single week a reflection and planning the next week.

I am now conscious about whether the activity adds value to my life or not.
Sometimes you are just doing something because it has an emotional load.
But the weekly reflection and the habit of setting goals that are realistic changed a lot for me.

More on the GRR-loop at the website of the app I created for analysing your calendar for time usage: https://segro.app/articles/the-simple-loop-to-the-perfect-life-balance
It is indeed possible, in fact a Nix-based project to generate and manage init/OS-agnostic services was shown last year at NixCon: https://github.com/svanderburg/nix-processmgmt
They tried to do the same here in the UK, until a few Hindus complained.

When the Olympics were announced in Tokyo, there was outrage on Reddit about how these Japanese were using the racist swastika as a symbol for their the temples. If course, a few people pointed out that its a religious symbol but they were drowned out by the outrage mob.
> Neither soccer nor computers are at all plausible causes of these serious mental health problems.

In some soccer clubs and in some computer subcultures, large issue is peer influence. The values and behavior you learn are causing problems. And yes, removing the child from the peers influence oftentimes in fact makes the child improve a lot.

In this case also, the excessive gaming is contributing to mental health problems. It feels good temporarily or while playing, but does not cure the problem. Instead, it makes it worst due to isolation.
I have seen that once in supposedly thread-safe C++ software in an industrial automation application. What happened was that it was somehow relying on the Windows UI messaging system (the message pump) which is single-threaded, and the fact that there were no multi-core CPUs when that stuff was written a long time ago. The latter has the effect that the CPU always sees a consistent view on the memory, no locks, mutexes and barriers needed.

Porting the thing to a multi-core system revealed that there were a lot of nasty concurrency bugs, like dead-locks or crashes which happened after a day of operation. And this wasn't a toy system - it was in use for a long time in an industrial application, and the customer was not too happy about the intermittent dead-locks. I commiserated with the poor engineer who had the quite stressful task to debug this, equipped with a lot of dedication but an insufficient background.

Frankly, while it would be nice to be able to write parallel code in pure Python, I think that Clojure with its purely-functional approach has the better concepts for this. And moreover, actually improving performance by parallel computation (using several CPUs to work in parallel on the same thing) is damn hard and unsolved in many cases (just come up with an efficient parallel Fast Fourier Transform and you might get a Turing award). What is mostly needed (outside of massive data processing pipelines) is concurrency for event-driven systems. Python can handle that, Clojure does handle it in a much more elegant way.
Sigh.

I think you are trying to argue the same point as I am, so I should be more supportive.

Hati was not the best choice for a comparison. It wasn't the slave revolt which turned Hati into a hell country. It was the French insisting that the now free slaves had to "repay" for what they had "stolen" (and for the French losses when they tried to invade and re-take the country); the massive debt burden imposed by the French and supported by the other world powers crippled the country's economy for well over 100 years.
Steamos is Linux, so it's saying it can play on both
Nigeria collects biometrics of elementary school children for meal program
> I think the tilde then turns its left and right into "/"(1..10, 1..10), resulting in 1..10 1..10

That is the part which doesn’t make sense to me: `/ v` is `foldl1 () v`, how does that generalise to a cartesian product when applied to >1 sequences?
I wasn't knowing this thanks. So who created bitcoin? A single person or group of people?
Yeah, but from the perspective of people actually trying to live in these places it's a cancer on the city.

I personally know several people previously living in Amsterdam that left the city or parts of it simply because their day-to-day lives were getting disrupted by tourists taking over residential neighborhoods. They create a lot of noise, get drunk and high, vomit in the porches, leave trash everywhere etc.

A city should be for people that live there, not a theme park for those looking for a rush.
I think those are two very different types of gimps.
Significant accomplishments aren’t usually trivial…
how did this study end up being high voted on HN. I am very doubtful about mandatory vaccine for everyone, and know vaccines aren't the perfect solutions. However, this study is probably one of the worst i've ever seen. It compares countries being in totally different situations regarding the infection spread. Some are done with delta, others are just starting..
Amsterdam is trying hard to fight against tourism. They even plan to move the red light district and possibly demand dutch ID in coffeeshops. Nice to see that. 20M tourists per year for 1.2M city is too much.
Zig fixes many more memory safety issues than C or C++ though, simply by being less "sloppy" and enforcing more correctness (e.g. no implicit type conversions, no over/underflows, proper range-checked arrays and slices etc...) - IME most memory corruption issues in C and C++ are actually secondary effects of such simple correctness issues. Zig just isn't quite as "extremist" as Rust (also, Rust is a great language for writing a sandbox, but if a memory-safe language must be used inside the sandbox to prevent damage outside the sandbox, then it simply isn't a sandbox.
> from Old French; compare "stol", Norwegian for chair vs. English "stool"

"Stol" also exists in French, in a way. Frankish *faldistoel -> Modern French fauteuil.

> though I'm curious about some as Norman French changed the orthography of many words that used to be pronounced in the Germanic way but that now match the Norman orthography - e.g. hus to house - did the pronunciation change first?

The pronunciation of "house" changed with the Great Vowel Shift, that's much posterior to the Norman era and concurrent to the emancipation of English.

> but the sheer volume of French words that in at least some cases brought with them different sounds means it certainly contributed to the overall English phonology appearing more foreign to us.

Don't start from the assumption that your own language represents a purer form of Germanic linguistic features (though it may).
Regulatory arbitrage of some sort seems to be involved in many recent digital business models. Whether it concerns or involves (lack of) data privacy regulation, "reinventing" labour contracts or undercutting taxation frameworks, it is a most cruel reminder of how poor the management of the commons.

While many of the efficiencies and attractions of re-inventing various businesses for the "digital age" seem genuine, their deployment within a fog of regulatory risk seems like a lose-lose proposition for anybody but the most short-term minded.
They use AirBnD instead.
That's how most opensource game revivals work, one is not legally allowed to distribute original in-game assets. If you come up with free textures and sounds, you'll get the 100% free alternative
Productivity Tips for Engineers
I wanted to share some thoughts on what I think makes for a productive engineer. Let me know what you guys think?
What about levels of deaths?
The title is misleading, the creators don't even claim this themselves:

"OpenMW is an open-source game engine that supports playing Morrowind by Bethesda Softworks. You need to own the game for OpenMW to play Morrowind."
This article is incredible.

I've been running a news search engine API [1] for about 18 months, and I found a lot of new things.

The biggest takeaway (IMO) is to use existing SaaS at first. We've been using ElasticSearch Service for our v1, and it worked great. 0s downtime with no master nodes.

And yes, ElasticsSearch itself is just a tool: you'd have to write your own search logic on top of it.

Also, start with something "strict" that gives decent results for ppl who won't read any tips or docs: 99,99% of people who use Google Search don't know about any advanced tips, and still get relevant results.

[1] https://newscatcherapi.com/news-api
It doesn't matter what the mission is so much as there is one. If the mission is build a beautiful website or a well designed flexible backend, then that's fine. In that case we come in every day and drive towards that.
Presumably the code is open source, the art isn't?
Why is handwashing still promoted as an effective safety measure? I thought it accounts for negligible amount of Covid infections.

Does anybody have a link to some good research about that?
I believe they have rewritten the underlying game engine, but you still need the game for the assets like character and world models, audio, etc.