skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed that areas in parks that have been left as "prairies" (basically, not mown and wildflowers allowed to bloom) have oodles of fireflies, and mown lawns have almost none.

I bet you'd get a ton of fireflies back if you left a small patch of your yard with longer grasses and wildflowers.

People get annoying at having even areas of less manicured yards, but you'll get a ton more lightning bugs, lady bugs, butterflies, bumble bees, etc.
i will always miss the abilities tree of diablo 2 and its synergies. it made you think. it made you know your decisions have consequences, you had to plan carefully and stick to the plan. diablo 3 and stuff like blizzard's heroes of the storm are practically games for stupid people, they removed the complexity of carefully choosing skills and made it as simple as possible. god, please bring back complexity, this kind of rpgs were enjoyed by geeks like my and my friends, no need to streamline losing us just trying to become the next fortnite
H265 is a patent and licensing mess; the industry came up with AV1 instead and it’s better quality at the same bitrate, and already in Chromium and Firefox.

I think apple shipped H265 but they are also part of the AV1 consortium
The migration requires multiple instars, so they reproduce on the way.
Benefits of keto diet

Supports weight reduction
Further develops skin inflammation
May lessen hazard of specific tumors
May further develop heart wellbeing
May secure cerebrum work
Conceivably diminishes seizures
Further develops PCOS manifestations
Dangers and intricacies

Important point

A keto diet is an eating plan that spotlights on food varieties that give a great deal of restorative fats, satisfactory measures of protein, and not very many sugars. The objective is to get a larger number of calories from fat than from carbs.

The eating regimen works by exhausting the body of its sugar saves. Subsequently, it will begin to separate fat for energy. This outcomes in the creation of particles considered ketones that the body utilizes for fuel. At the point when the body consumes fats, it can likewise prompt weight reduction.

There are a few sorts of keto diet, including the Standard Ketogenic Diet and the Cyclical Ketogenic Diet.
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This is the standard talk for any part of any program being shutdown (including internally among small engineering teams). Part of the difference is a "shutdown" can be a rough cut-off so people relying on the services don't have much help in the matter, sunsetting is a longer time period that allows you to transition out of using any services.
It's interesting what people find easy and hard.

I find infix operators and their standard mathematical precedence rules perfectly intuitive. Equally good are the extended precedence rules of languages like R, which were designed by professional users of mathematics.

I hate reading S-expressions and reverse polish notation. To me, proposals that we write in those notations are like saying that we should write assembly code. I think "No, we have compilers so that humans can write human-readable code rather than being forced to cater to the machine."
The average age is shifting up over the years. The latest data is ~30% of players are over 17, but only 14% over 25.
I think the medium is still in such infancy that even the cinematic style games are still pushing the boundaries. Naughty Dog is making incredible experiences in that format.
Buybacks.
They do. You can take a lower paying job while you earn improve your skills, and then get a new role or raise with the skills earned. If they wanted someone in the role without the skills already in place, they would have hired that person and paid them less.
I don't understand how $30 a month can motivate you to write when you make $15000 (1000 subsribers, $15 a month).
> twice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

First:

> In 1986, Apple Computer added MIDI and audio-recording capabilities to its computers, which included putting the advanced Ensoniq 5503 DOC sound chip from famous synthesizer maker Ensoniq into the Apple IIGS computer. In 1989, this led Apple Corps to sue again, claiming violation of the 1981 settlement agreement.[2] The outcome of this litigation effectively ended all forays at the time by Apple Computer into the multimedia field in parallel with the Amiga, and any future advanced built-in musical hardware in the Macintosh line.

This is ludicrous! Whatever harm the british Apple Corp had through a computer with a sound chip, this doesn't compare to the hinderance of the Mac.

Second:

> In 1991, another settlement involving payment of around $26.5 million to Apple Corps was reached.[4] This time, an Apple Computer employee named Jim Reekes had included a sampled system sound called Chimes to the Macintosh operating system

I don't agree that putting a system sound in System 7 is "going into the music business".

Interestingly, when Apple got into the music business they won:

> On 8 May 2006 the court ruled in favour of Apple Computer,[8] with Justice Edward Mann holding that "no breach of the trademark agreement [had] been demonstrated".[9][10]

Anyway, after that Apple Inc finally was able to buy Apple Corp out for allegedly $500 Million.

Whatever you think about trademark conflict, it did cost Apple Inc heavily.
I could probably write one, but writing books is hard. I am still smarting from the time I wrote a 400-page book, that was out of date before it could be published.

I do have a blurb that discusses my design philosophy here: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/evolutionary-design-...
It feels like it was written by a 12 years old. Very off-putting writing style.
As long as nuclear energy is treated as PICK_ANY(obsolete, uneconomical, systemically dangerous) it leaves me with zero hope for humanity.

Nuclear is way more than technology, it's Prometheus' fire. It may burn the unprepared but it is incomparable to anything else we possess. That factor million more energy per gram than chemical reactions should be enough for us to treat it as literally unlocking the next level of human development.

This petty discussion on whether it is sustainable, dirty, expensive or dangerous is simply mind-boggling. Yes, it requires a much deeper "readiness" to utilise by our civilization than any other energy source, but the long-term benefit should be what it is held up against.
Doesn't Brave just take its results from google? They are pretty hard to avoid, being an effective monopoly.
How to motivate yourself to drive? You can't unless you know that it is required to go somewhere. Driving alone doesn't make sense (unless you just enjoy it). Same with writing. You have to "get it out" (intrinsic motivation) and you do it for some incentive (extrinsic motivation). Both are required. When intrinsic dies, extrinsic will pull. If extrinsic dies, intrinsic will pull.

This is something I came across last night: https://github.com/tsoding/faq#q-how-do-you-stay-motivated

P.S - I'm no expert. I spent like 10 mins writing, deleting, modifying, discarding and again writing this reply. The process was streamlining the thought process and edit it to have a most impact (tbh).
It isn't just about the participants. It is also about the policies and regulations. "Keep the stock market juiced" has become the new "keep the housing market juiced" because so many Americans have no alternative mechanism for surviving once they stop working without money invested in housing and stocks. So policymakers have an enormous problem on their hands if markets crash.
In the worst case only few hundred millions will survive.
And multiple PhD students have done so!

For example, the Stanford/Jacobson study on powering the world with wind/solar/water.

Some results were famously silly, such as filing Finland with solar panels, or adding the cost of nuclear war to nuclear reactors. Jacobson sued other academics then backed down.

The point is, 5-10 years on, these models turned out to be over pessimistic! Australia doesn't need fancy modelling - simple roof top solar there is on target to meet full day time demand in 2-3 years.

Conversely we still dont really know how to meet the last 5% of outlier energy demand scenarios.
Is the Lord’s Prayer “straight-up youth brainwashing” too?

I went to schools in the US and UK where we said the pledge on occasion in the former and the Lord’s Prayer on occasion in the latter, and they both seemed like harmless traditions. (The UK school essentially had a religious cultural background, but turning us into observant Christians was most certainly not a goal of the faculty. Similarly I don’t think the pledge turns people into nationalists.)
I do the same as well as break up the expression with intermediate variables to help explain to someone else (or myself three years down the line) what I was thinking. Any compiler/interpreter (for a language you’r using where speed is important) is going to flatten it anyway and so long expressions aren’t going to make your code faster!

Always code for someone to read your code later.
Isn’t it peer pressure that results in companies that stop acting like assholes?
If you just shrug your shoulders and consume their products, do you think they’d change?
> DES color display

More details about this technology: https://v4.cecdn.yun300.cn/100001_1909185148/EN_Display_Elec...

And the panel seems to be this one: https://www.good-display.com/product/385.html
> our standards for story telling in video games are really low.

At the same time, the upcoming Uncharted movie is looking to be substantially less interesting than Uncharted 4.
I don’t know if I agree with this. Roblox gives kids a lot of freedom, and a the community supports this. Sports ball teams provide discipline and structure to a kids life, and also enforces a sort of peer-governing effect that roblox doesn’t. There’s also a coach who will (hopefully) tell them to stop being jerks to each other, or the random kid who sticks up for the people who are being jerked.

I’m not saying that changing the game that’s played will change a little shit into a little angel, just saying from experience that if you give kids a bit of direction and incentive, they’re often more willing to do what’s perceived as the “right thing”. For what it’s worth, the toxic behavior this kid is exhibiting, was probably learned in a way that was perceived as acceptable behavior, thus the “right thing” as far as they understand.

Whoops typed way more than I expected, and this is pre-coffee, so I hope it made sense! :)
Yes I thought the same thing. We can only hope Facebook does go down the pan with it as it appears to be a cesspit of self-serving self-obsessed commercialism - kind of like a microcosm of the Internet actually..... Sad.
Or combined with variable sources - say green hydrogen production. Produce too much, push energy into electrolysis, produce too little and turn that off.
Games have always been pretty linear, though. The ones that had a notable degree of "freedom" found that freedom in

a) Choosing which enemies to go and kill with your chosen color of pixel burst.

or

b) Choosing which set of text and vaguely representational spritework the game would expose to you.

Many "linear" games offer tactical rather than strategic freedom. There is a sort of conservation of experiential depth, limited by the players' ability/inclination to absorb new interaction concepts, and the availability of developer resources to build them.
Python ValueError: cannot reindex from a duplicate axis
We make millions/billions of high tech phones, battery is just peanuts compare to this, it was a problem of right kind of tech , which I think current gen battery tech have achieved and also price point requirement is also achieved, very soon, once all usual suspects starts manufacturing the same, sky will only be the limit.
Yes the main search on the main window is rather useless by comparison. It provides far too much noise.
I think there’s a bit where stories can be extremely complex but still have interactivity from the player. Bioware produces games like this where decisions made from previous games can be inherited to affect future games, and the overall storylines are complex and nuanced, albeit mostly in what BioWare can control (world building, npcs making decisions and having their own agendas, etc.)
Why work for Bezos up until 2020 if you care?
He means it had female main characters.
I would personally classify interactive fiction closer to games, unless you count gamebooks in that, which I consider closer to books. There was also a movie where you get to get choices linked to Black Mirror that was popular recently, and a few people on youtube explored this by making different videos and letting you pick "what happens next".

There's also the whole genre of visual novels, mostly from Japan. I'm not sure if they are more games, books or interactive fiction.
Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open
Zuckerberg's myopic vision - - -From FaceBook to FacePlant
Diablo lovers... check out Path of Exile II.
It's continues in terms of UX, where Diablo 2 left off.
The Wiz Biz
> Aesthetically? Yep, Diablo, nailed it.

I'm guessing this must mean nailed the D3 aesthetic, and in no way D2. Which makes sense as D3 already looked like a ressed up mobile game.
Yes. It’s shocking. I spend the past few decades assuming that I’d left them not that they’d left the earth. With covid I temporarily returned to the farm of my childhood and they were one of the most conspicuous collapses.

They used to be so numerous that they defined their own time of day - the magical cooling after mosquitos and before bedtime. Not any more. They are gone and mosquitoes no longer appear to be afraid of the dark.
OPS data can be downloaded with a free account (up to 4GB per week): https://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents/data/web-services/...

ESpacenet appears to be available as at the very least a completely free online search: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/

Am I missing something?
> this service starts fragmenting some of the privacy guarantees

There is no guarantee of privacy with communication between two consumer smartphones. Encrypted Signal-to-Signal messages have always been susceptible to capture on either end, by something like this bridge or a rogue (or non-rogue) app on either end with access to read device notifications.

I'm not saying that this service doesn't expose your messages to some additional risk, and should be used cautiously. But it is an illusion that just because the messaging protocol is using end-to-end encryption that the messages can't be intercepted.
Yep. Just think about all the latest Jurassic Park films. They're almost identical to video games in story-telling quality.
Is your phone muted? I assume this is using the Web Audio API, which doesn’t sound on iOS if the iDevice is muted (requires a hack of playing silent HTML5 Audio in the background).
Diablo is unfortunately a lost cause in my eyes. Simplified gameplay, skills, items, etc. I'm a big ARPG fan and am currently enjoying the latest Path of Exile league. I don't see myself returning to the Diablo universe anytime soon.
It seems (at least anecdotally) that there are a lot of people in tech who may not game anymore, but nonetheless have a history steeped in Blizzard games like the author. And with the recent Blizzard news, a lot of people are trying to untangle the dissonance expressed by the memories of their adolescence and early adulthood with the recent legal and cultural scrutiny Blizzard is under. The public penance is I think the author's way of wrestling with this dissonance.
Entrepreneur Used a SPAC to Build a $1.5B Business in Just One Year
None of that requires Google to collect your data.

A simple one time parse with creating a calendar event and notification based on a Google Maps lookup should be sufficient.

None of that even requires Google to retain any personal identifying information.
I hate getting political on HN and I am no longer a partisan citizen, but the story of the democratic party trying to deploy tech for its own purposes is too interesting to ignore. Its like they watched House of Cards and took it a little too literally, trying to loosely implement the plot-line with shockingly poor execution.

Tara McGowan was a part of the organization that ran Shadow Inc, the company that made the app that fucked the vote count for the 2020 Democratic Iowa primary. BTW ,the vote count was never resolved and the DNC basically gave the state to Pete Buttigieg, who happened to be Ms McGowen's favored candidate (hmmm...).

Some highlights from the wikipedia:

> The Iowa Democratic Party paid Shadow Inc. $63,183 to develop the IowaReporterApp.

> A bug in the code of the app caused the app to fail at the time of the 2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses. Gerardo Niemira, the CEO of Shadow Inc., which created the app, stated that technology used by Democrats in prior elections was a "shitshow" and "tangled morass"

> Shadow came under scrutiny for its lack of maturity and the means it used to distribute the IowaReporterApp to users. Shadow required iOS device users to use Apple's behind-the-scenes beta-testing infrastructure, TestFlight, while Android users had to use third-party app TestFairy to download the app. Furthermore, a reporter from Motherboard downloaded the app to two Android devices, but it only opened on one of them. The next day, the site published an APK of the app. It also solicited the opinions of various cybersecurity experts. Dan Guido, the head of Trail of Bits, described the app as "hastily thrown together."

> Not-for-profit ProPublica commissioned a security audit of the app. It was determined to be "insecure," so an external entity could have hacked it.

> Several security and app experts have criticized the amateurish nature of the app. App-development expert, Kasra Rahjerdi, said "the app was clearly done by someone following a tutorial. It’s similar to projects I do with my mentees who are learning how to code." A team of researchers at Stanford University, including former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos, said that while analyzing the app, they found potentially concerning code within it, including hard-coded API keys. The app was written in React Native, authenticated through Auth0, and sent data to Google Cloud Functions.

> The Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg and Kirsten Gillibrand presidential campaigns all made payments to the company.

Hard-coded API keys... Probably pushed to a public Github repo too.

src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueLink_(company)

And that's just the backstory for Ms McGowan. Some highlights from her new venture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cao3DB1apNE

They're basically unintentionally feeding the narrative of fake news and media manipulation that the GOP accuses them of.
There are quite some videos out there from famous producers showing their craft, and many use Ableton (Deadmau5, Timbaland) or Logic Pro (Armin van Buuren). It helps develop the buzz.
Overall sales might be up but are those sales making the head fatter, the tail fatter, or the tail longer? For any individual writer without sales in the head, increased sales only matter if the tail gets fatter. They don't individually make any more money if it gets longer (more books by more writers).
They broke up recently.
Apologize for paying taxes while you are on it
Sir David Mackay [0] was a great mind who contributed major discoveries in Machine Learning, Information Theory, Coding Theory and Physics. His book "Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms" is a great resource for anyone learning ML and who wants to understand how ML, Information Theory and Statistics all fit together. The book is available for free download as a pdf [1] as well as for purchase.

His untimely death from cancer in 2016 at the age of 48 is a big loss to Science. His book on Climate Change "Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air" (also available as pdf) [2] is a testament to breadth and versatility of his scientific interests.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._C._MacKay

[1] http://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila/book.html

[2] http://www.withouthotair.com/

EDIT: typos
With $40K of income they were well into the subsidized region of the ACA. If they had bought a normal marketplace plan through normal channels with the normal subsidies they would have been fine. Even the out of pocket maximums on those plans are legally limited to mid four-figures per person.

I wonder how they ended up with such an obscure, incomplete plan when every normal channel leads people toward the subsidized marketplace plans?

This story doesn’t really make sense and it’s certainly not the normal experience, despite what the Tweet implies. You have to go well out of your way to get a weird plan like this, if you can find it at all.
I don't think licencing their tech is in Apples walled garden business model
You can enjoy a story without the story being particularly innovative or good. That’s why twilight was popular.
It looks to me like the author was making a joke.
> We need to discuss effective solutions like consuming less (e.g. stopping fast fashion habits, stopping the cars-becoming-bigger trends, not moving to 5G, etc).

Yes, let's ban various forms of advertising, for starters. It's the main driver of our over-consumption.
Winter is Coming for CentOS 8
There's no disagreement about the fact that the Fed is buying bonds to keep rates low. But why are they doing that? Is it the right thing to do? What's the underlying motivation? That's where a lot of smart people disagree. Please don't take phrases out of context.
He makes a pretty compelling case for this - that corporate hurdle rates are too high and disconnected from the cost of capital. The stock market rewards firms who return profits to shareholders rather than reinvesting them in (not necessarily) risky enterprises.

The mystery that remains is where does the money go? A share buyback just shifts the decision of reinvesting profits from the firm to the investor, so when Apple buys back shares where does that capital go?

(Also cheers to the author who refreshingly avoids sanctimonious moralizing about share buy backs.)
Nuclear energy was cancelled. This does seem political
Meanwhile, psilocybin remains illegal and stigmatized even though it could help thousands and thousands of people if only more research was performed on it.
Amazon.com really is shockingly, atrociously poor. They barely even bother searching your keywords, for example. Even Google does a better job of searching then the native search engine. It beggars belief that they leave such basic features like filters so broken. But yeah, they have unreal fulfilment times plus guaranteed money back if something goes wrong. They accomplish this by treating everybody else like dirt.