skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But we still needed “office” workers who support other areas of enterprises. Legal, contracts, compliance, HR, financial, development, management, etc.

I precisely meant that society would be better off without all these "jobs". They are useless constructs required by capitalism and competition, but do not build anything useful for society, except maybe for compliance (if by that you meant quality assurance).

Moreover, i would argue that productive jobs don't have to be so many. When you have ten supermarkets selling the same shit, you need storage and logistics for all of them run by different people. If we lived in a society of cooperation not competition, each supermarket could probably be run on half the jobs currently required (if not much less).

Likewise for food production. If canteens were serviced by people who enjoy that and consider it a useful service to their peers, and not to ensure their basic survival through wage slavery, then we'd have overall less venues to feed everyone and much less food waste.

I'm not arguing against free initiative to start some project, i'm just arguing capitalism and its competition places very wrong incentives that wastes tons of human labor and actual resources that a mutualized/cooperative economy would save.
This seems like a somewhat adequate time to ask for storytelling advice. I'm willing to embrace the exhortation to do the storytelling right, without reservation, but how do people actually develop good, or great, skills at it?
I think the author is absolutely right that the standard for "good story" in games is incredibly low. Games are an immature medium that got catapulted into the mainstream on its other strengths (as challenge/sport/attractive gizmo) and not as art.

Unfortunately most of the current audience for games (particularly the vocal part) are people that were attracted by these aspects. I was definitely attracted by the technical feat/ingenious gizmo aspect. If you look at the way games have traditionally been reviewed, you can see that this aspect is incredibly important. These people tend to get upset at articles like this and overreact by claiming that the art aspects of their favourite games are better than they actually are.

That said, there are still the green shoots of an incredible artistic medium here and there. I am always on the lookout for things, however crude/I'm-14-and-this-is-deep they are, if they could only have been done in games.

Uncharted is a decent action adventure, probably as good as something like Jurassic World, but it could have been done in film.

Something like Journey, Her Story, Brothers etc, have aspects that could only have been done in games. They make (fairly crude) artistic points, in an intrinsically interactive way.
I know hundreds of interesting websites and I can discover more thousands with ease.

My problem is not with information discovery but in finding the EXACT bit of information that I am interested in. The old Internet wasn't better in this regard. I've came around information that was of interest by lots of digging and sheer luck.
Twins might have mostly identical DNA. A sub-atomic digital scan would, in theory, be a complete copy of you, including your memories etc.
Shame, I lived near windmills in the past and the moving shadow drove me crazy. The noise pollution wasn’t too bad compared to a busy highway. And they look so ugly.
When I lived in Cambodia I saw a lot of Abercrombie-model looking guys in their 50s. They were farmers, I think. I’m currently in Italy living with a farmer in her 60s who’s in great shape. The other day she dropped cold into a front split. I don’t want to say farm work is a panacea — I know it depends on what you’re doing and how you do it — but my own experience plus a book by Esther Gokhale have convinced me that healthy work builds your body and doesn’t tear it down.

I do think there’s a lot of physical labor that isn’t healthy. And there’s also labor that’s kind of on the line, like heavy lifting — if done properly it’s safe, improperly and it can cause damage.
TIL Demmark doesn't use Euro.
Zswap
Right, this is true at the moment, what about 100 years from now? 1000? As technology changes we might have to rethink our legal constructs.
What part of "the public has no access" do you not understand?
Is it just me or it really sound completely standard plus backstories for side characters? I mean, the story can be well executed without it being super original. But what you described here is one of super standard fantasy plots.
Hoeing is a great full body workout. You go pretty fast if you swing from your hips without moving your arms too much, and your joints don’t feel strained either. I have seen people swing the hoe like an axe but I suspect this is not the most sustainable technique.
Same algo to all passwords. Or As mentioned different algos for different class of logins (e.g Email, Banks, etc).

The idea is that if passwords are compromised they will not work unless you know the algo. So now you will have to remember two things:

1. The master password

2. The algo
Actually, it's much more decided by American sensibilities and fads.
Video is less useful to disseminate information but is good for entertainment and for learning purposes.
European travel agencies resume tours to Syria
This sentence must be an intro on that site. It makes it very clear what to expect and all the whys.
But why should I have to search subtitles instead of Google doing it automatically?
Google have their flaws (I never trust any new product of theirs will last), but on the whole, I am happy using their products and services. I have got enough value out of Google search, Gmail and Google docs over the years to make the privacy trade-off worthwhile, personally.

Facebook and Instagram are products that make me more unhappy as I use them. According to Facebook's Internal research, I am not alone in that. The privacy trade-off is not worth the net negative value.
I used to make music as a teenager. Spending many hours in the "studio" certainly shapes your aesthetics and how you approach new music. Even understanding just the basics and tiny bits of underlying techniques makes you listen differently, makes it easy to become a snob to be honest. Overall though, and generally, making things of any sort lets you appreciate the creative process as an overarching art in itself, an appreciation you can often transport to other fields, even those not conventionally regarded as artistic.
Your profile says you like doing things your own way, so the best way
for a person of your disposition to internalize functional programming
concepts is to make up your own functional programming language and
write an interpreter for it. Without all the bells and whistles, the
interpreter amounts to a stack machine. You can skip the literature
survey if you want because whatever you invent will be similar to
what's been done. Your first version should be so bad it's
embarrassing. The important thing is to have it up and running and
then think about improving it. Don't overdesign it because if you make
a bad decision and have to redo it you'll learn even more. Start with
the usual functional programming combinators (map, fold, etc.) and by
the time you've worked your way up to monadic i/o you'll understand
that stuff as well as anyone.
Busywork is as useful as doing nothing.
Scenechain to bring the demoscene to the blockchain by incentivizing code reuse
> Instead, most people opt to work more in exchange for significantly more comfort and pleasure.

That's definitely not how it works.

First, because people in the global north spend most of their resources on basic survival (unless you're from the upper classes) imposed on them by capitalist system based on private property where imaginary pieces of paper (property titles) means you need to pay ransom to reside somewhere.

Second, because the material comfort in the global north is not ensured by the workforce from the global north (i mean, partially yes, but mostly not) but by the quasi-slave labor from the global south, be it in mines or factories or sweatshops.

Third, because we have a global abundance of resources and so much of it is wasted. Estimates vary but i believe ~30% of food is wasted globally, yet people go hungry in most countries. There's millions of empty apartments in US/France, yet hundreds of thousands of people living in the streets. We live in a monstrous system where we have the means to make every one well-off but consciously decide some people must suffer.

Fourth, because even not accounting for obvious waste, planned obsolescence means stuff that is produced goes to replace shit-broken stuff instead of going to people who could get access to it for the first time. I believe planned obsolescence is a crime against humanity (and other species pollution and climate change are threatening).

If you take these points into consideration, i believe sharing work and resources more fairly could lead to everyone having decent material comfort for very little weekly work.
A law passed in 1973 and amended in 1977 was based on the British use of force in China in the 19th century to sell opium?

Feels like a long bow, but go on, I'm listening.

The sources I can find state:

"Then Minister for Home Affairs and Education, Chua Sian Chin said (Sing., Parliamentary Debates, vol. 37, col. 34 (27 May 1977)) - unless drug trafficking and drug addiction [are] checked, they [will] threaten our national security and viability. To do this, both punitive and preventive measures must be taken. The [Misuse of Drugs] Act was thus amended to provide enhanced penalties for traffickers, including mandatory death penalty for drug trafficking and manufacturing”.

So I'm wondering what was going in Singapore in the 70s.
The EU (and Germany in particular) limits freedom of speech, so this represents just a small extra tightening of the screws. I'm sure they can handle it!
I'll always vote up submissions referencing anything FORTH related. For me FORTH is as much fun as lisp appears to be for others. I've never really done much with it, but I always like the simplicity and the ability to reason about it.

Sure FORTH has problems of its own, but it's always nice to use. I've hacked up a couple of simple FORTH-like systems over the years, most recently this one which was inspired by a thread on this site:

https://github.com/skx/foth

A lot of people go through guides of writing a lisp, I'd love to urge people to try writing a simple FORTH interpreter instead, or even something somewhat related such as TCL.
Prime subs make up almost half his revenue. It might seem like that is expensive for Amazon, but it is almost impossible to watch a stream without the streamer talking about Amazon Prime multiple times throughout the stream.

It must me the most heavily advertised in-stream / in-content thing of all time! Advertisement time for VPN's got nothing on Amazon Prime!
> and the last person just holds them 1 day and cashes out at basically break even.

Cashes out how? That is what my confusion is. Shares don't have inherent value so to cash out you need to sell it to someone (sometimes the buyer is the company itself but I don't think that is sustainable beyond few percentage of their shares). Its not like an asset backed currency where you can go to a central bank and ask for consumable resources. (Although most times the asset is also useless, like gold). Its all just floating in the air from my point of view and "value" is just what someone else is willing to pay.
Skills Gap Analysis: A complete guide
Perhaps a charitable interpretation of the parent post would be "Voluntarily consuming less is not a serious solution and never has been."

A poverty viewpoint is indeed relevant - there are so many objectively poor people who will consume more to fill their currently unmet needs as soon as they can afford to (so the only way to prevent this consumption increase is to ensure that they stay in poverty); and it should be expected that people will reduce consumption en masse only when they can't afford the current consumption (no matter if caused by prices skyrocketing, or an impactful carbon/fuel tax, or simply declining income), and they will be very unhappy about it as they will treat this reduction as a shift from privilege to poverty.

And a realistic threat of being prevented to escape from poverty or being forced to shift from privilege to poverty IMHO would be considered by people as an existential threat comparable to global warming (I mean, for many people the main threat of global warming is the expected decrease in their living standards caused by it) and a much stronger motivation to act because, unlike climate change, that threat would be (a) closer in time, (b) more certain, and (c) with a clear way to fight against it - voting out a politician or rioting in the streets won't fix climate change (you'd need global coordination for that), but it definitely could suffice to kill any local carbon tax or government imposed reduction of consumption.

TL;DR the way humans behave, it should be expected that they will fight against a decrease in consumption much harder than they would fight against climate change.
FormatFuzzer: A framework for efficient and quality generation of binary inputs
Mouse and keyboard are as standard and supported as they can possibly be, and the official Raspberry Pi ones are ordinary USB ones supported everywhere. Touchscreens supported in Linux are supported well out of the box as well (e.g. my Dell ones). "100 times slower" sounds like nonsense to me; huge numbers of people are motivated to make software faster, so if there was that much room to improve, it mostly would have happened already.
> First, you can't predict solar or wind days ahead in the same way you can't predict rain, days ahead. There are "weather forecasts", not cloud reading.

You can. And there is companies specialized in that for the Wind and solar industry. [1]

The reason is pretty simple: Weather variability tend to be high at the local level but pretty predictable at the national level (the energy grid level).

And to answer to the original post, yes Nuclear energy can also be fine grained controlled to compensate the renewable energy intermittency. It is done every day in France. It can be done yes, Is it efficient ? Not really.

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_forecasting
Forth fans live in what seems to be a world of delusion. They rail against modern software, claiming to have an enlightened "system", and yet cannot communicate anything about the real capabilities of their system. If you ask most Forth users "what do you do in Forth?" the answer is almost always "writing a Forth". There seem to be very few people who are interested in using it for any other problem domain. I can't shake the feeling it is mainly hype.
...or you could just use, you know, plural? "Professional chess players should only play 80 tournament games a year and leave themselves time to think about chess." No problem there.
The problem is that this gets us in an undesirable local optimum. Because if all investors put money in a pile to outcompete the rest, at some point the company can throw its weight around against other companies and consumers too.
Asymmetric keys as the only addresses, and an authenticated version of Virtual Ring Routing as the routing protocol. That guarantees you're talking to the correct server for an address, that addresses never need to change, and that a server can have as many different addresses as it needs to.

Build in a layer for onion routing as well, so that all the servers in the middle don't automatically know who you're trying to reach.
It would be generic high fantasy work maybe because it literally defined all the codes of this genre.

Blame everyone else who came after Tolkien.
does this mean things like the backend code of IFTTT ?
> they/them/their has been extremely common for gender-neutral abstract use for centuries

The one problem is that many people have difficulties with distinguishing usages. This is especially a problem for foreign learners, but even native speakers are not immune to naive generalizations.
They already do, all middleware engines that actually matter, already support Metal.

Additionally iOS and Apple have much better tooling for Metal than plain DirectXTK/Pix, or that toy SDK from Khronos (that Google also uses on Android), if we compare vendor tooling.
One good thing was less censorship, no corporation deciding what people should be able to see or not and much less fighting and political activism.
But you ended up taking offense on a single sentence where he says his own writing is not good enough for cheap fantasy novel.
> Second finger on the Bb in bar 8 makes no sense

It seems all the more illogical as very similar patterns occur in bar 2, 6, and 10, and the thumb is used every time there.

(Not a pianist myself)
Remember that Facebook is a competitor to every mainstream outlet that criticizes it.
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. Aspiring to jazz for over 20 years. Satie is easier, if no less interesting.
> average new house size

What's the median of the actually-inhabited dwelling? You're talking about new houses. Most people can't afford new or a house, and live in crappy old apartment buildings. Also, most constructions are due to speculation: there's already plenty of empty dwellings. There is no housing crisis, the crisis is created by the rich to profit off the poor;

> The average new car price is $40,000. That's another great example of creeping lifestyle inflation.

Yes and no. People don't really have a choice because the incentives are skewed. It's hard to find old parts because there is no regulation forcing the industry to provide them and/or make inteoperable parts. Once again, capitalism is ruining everything, otherwise we could very well drive old cars and they would be well-maintained, and it would be illegal for a manufacturer to make a product that's incompatible with others (except for very compelling technical reasons).
The obvious next step is to build one large enough for a person.
> Ivermectin and the like have more research than the vaccine

That's very very unlikely. Even considering the Nobel prize for it. Simply because the sheer scale of the pandemic.

There are more vaccines in development and use against COVID than there are Ivermectin clinical trials in total.

> they’ve been deployed for longer and at least passed phase 1 trials, which the vaccine has not (only preliminary results).

That doesn't mean they are not safe. The phase 1 trials run to 2022 Nov, because there's a long follow up period.

Nothing can guarantee that there's not some mysterious missed interaction. It's probability is low and getting lower day-by-day. This tail risk is just not that important for safety. It makes very little sense to emphasize this, because we also don't know the long term interaction of Ivermectin and COVID-19.
All you need to make music is an iPhone and some ideas. I make music like this on my phone after the kids has gone to bed. I simply use Garageband and a couple of plugins. Sometimes I connect to a physical keyboard.

https://youtu.be/iS-gRUzPrKI
I started with BASIC and C in my teenage years, but mIRC scripting turned coding into a passion for me.

Some of my fondest memories is weekends spent chatting with friends and strangers on IRC, and improving my script or reading someone else's code in the downtime, and downloading mp3 in the background.
> secular sources of crypto space knowledge

fwiw:
https://github.com/DOACC documented at https://doacc.github.io/

An historical snapshot (in RDF) of the metadata of ~3500 altcoins from mid-2014 to early 2017 when the recording effort was abandoned.
Basically if you say to me that you care about climate change and then reject nuclear, I stop talking to you and taking you in any kind of seriously. Once you reject nuclear it’s just virtue signalling.
They don't want you to know how few titles they actually have.
The COP is an event and the green zone is some kind of parlor there where you can apply to present your project.

Many commenters seem to think this is about nuclear power projects getting rejected, this is not about that, calm down.
You can make plasma bolts^W balls in it with just two grapes.
Anonymity built in, ever since I heard Eben Moglens story about it.
Yet fast shipping doesn't inherently cost much extra. The human effort involved to pack the box, load the van, and ring your doorbell is exactly the same if they do it tomorrow or next week.

And most delivery companies drive around every neighborhood every day, so they can't exactly say "we save money by only delivering on Mondays, Wednesday's and Fridays".
I'm cautiously optimistic about technology like this; but neural interfaces seem so wildly transformative. What will the world be like when we can alter our desires and patterns of thought easily? Transhumanism here we come...
Forth is a notorious "write-only language", it's hard to decipher what your code is doing after you've written it.

As someone that spent a couple of years dabbling in forth before moving on to Ruby, I became a lot more appreciative of the sheer readability of Ruby, and ruby-inspired languages like coffeescript & elixir.

However I still have a soft spot for the ethos of Chuck Moore. Abstractions are something that we should be wary of as programmers.
Adding this website to the user-scalable=0 sin bin. No way I can read that tiny text in those images
> On a side node, if anyone has resource about how to dev/debug userscript properly, I'm all ears. I found it super inconvenient and tedious when doing it myself, and I often have to manually copy paste stuff back and forth.

Develop it as an extension with the script as your content_script, and use web-ext [1] to run it. You can then develop in your regular editor, use your browser's extension debugging tools, and web-ext will automatically reload it when you change stuff.

Most of my extensions use a .user.js file as their content_script, which I can also publish directly to Greasy Fork.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext#web-ext
https://web.archive.org/web/20211028052207/https://www.wsj.c...
Demystifying Web Cache Threats
Ok, so we're describing the same thing. Cool. It's all good, misunderstandings happen.
It is using HTTP, just doing it through browser APIs[0][1] so in this case the server layer is the service worker but it's still happening through HTTP means. So the client and the server are both running in the browser, the only difference is that this "virtual" server can only be accessed by the same browser session. They are very powerful APIs as you can intercept the network layer and do all sorts of hacks, like the OP's project.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Response

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Wor...
Interesting project, got any screenshots so far?
Sue Facebook.

All publicity is good publicity.
You mean because women would be more careful and less inclined to show off as daredevils? That could well be.

Then again you got girls using Radium as makeup [0], so who knows what way they'd find to screw up. (I'm aware they didn't know the Radium was dangerous and am mostly joking.)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls
Hitting 1.5C climate target ' tough' – COP26 chief
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/793/
Because this puts an individual with limited resources at a great disadvantage to corporations