skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I tried a donation button for a few weeks and it brought in more than I expected.

I figured I'd come back and update that I removed all the ads from the fairly sketchy-looking ad network I joined (which had accumulated something like $8 of unpaid payout over the past year or so) and added a donation section to my website, and just a couple days later I already got someone that tossed me $10.

Perhaps I underestimated the generosity of people! Thanks for the advice!
Got some examples for good games from China?

As a counterexample to the first part, check out Nier Automata. One of the most original and compelling games I've played in recent years.
Not defending this at all but this does show you’ve never visited Singapore. Before entering you repeatedly get many many notices of a death penalty for drug traffickers regardless of the quantity and type. It’s even written in large bold letters on the immigration card.
Nope, it's just that for people it's easy to just focus on a few species instead of the whole web.

It also allows people to think "Yeah, that one particular species had a good year, so everything is fine and we can go back to business as usual".

I for one don't hold my breath.
A superb, rational breakdown of anti-vaccine arguments
> This is quite an incredibly toxic and negative piece

The author might have a negative take on things and you might not like the article but to brand the article as "incredibly toxic" is a bit of a hyperbole.
> While I think the bassic narrative skeleton of the story is important, what is equally important is the world building that comes with it.

Case in point: Children of Men is basically a two hour-long escort quest. It's also an absolutely amazing film with amazing storytelling.
Charge customer a little more?
Wouldn't that be still better than current situation where you can't run any public service anymore without DDoS protection? The attackers have it too easy.

I don't see how would that preclude strong authentication. We would need TLS all the same.
Demystifying Akka Streams' Materialized Values
David Beazley Keynote at PyData Global, Oct 28th 2021
Idea Evaluations Please?
been seeing a lot work from home mums and women in Australia and most of marketplaces in Australia do not cater to the needs of female demographic and lot of female friends I have talked to have said they are having a lot of trouble finding right services such as hair stylist that suits them.

Is this a great idea to start a business??

TIA
Its low because MOST the chimp troupe is incapable of doing harder cognitive work or for longer periods of time no matter what reward is dangled in front of them.

It doesnt matter which writer, author, musician, artist, game designer, movie maker you pick they all hit an upper bound of how many chimps in the the whole troupe they can connect with.

But if we are targeting specific niches rather than the whole population its a great time to be a story teller. The kind of engagement you can get is historically of the charts.
I've seen some papers about optimizing piano fingering on arxiv before. They used various kinds of machine learning. Some papers dealing with guitar fingering, too.
This.

Space Invaders, Pacman, Mario, Tetris are games that single-handedly defined an entire generation of games. No story to be found.

I think the OP is perfectly on point. A good story demands an authorial voice, and most games can't have (or won't bother with) that.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzqQqTZGYi1b6SBlFWhgr38sP...

I’d like to submit the Marathon series of video games on how to integrate story into a game without needing to change virtually any gameplay or include cutscenes. That the story is incredibly intelligent is just bonus. For those unfamiliar, it includes AI mental illness, AIs getting molested, subjugated alien races, infinite alternative timelines, and Lovecraftian beings. It might have been recognized as a better Doom if it wasn’t doomed to be a Mac-exclusive game series in the early 90s.
Bc7enc – Fast BC1-7 GPU Texture Encoders with Rate Distortion Optimization (RDO)
Journey and Abzü are great examples of what video games can do with just exploration of the environment telling you a story with zero dialogue/exposition that by definition can't be done in other mediums
Does it support HiDPI displays? Lack of good HiDPI support was the reason why I switched from Xfce to i3 + custom Qt/GTK+ configs.
MIT OCW 6.006 talks about this (in much higher resolution than when I last saw!): https://youtu.be/TDo3r5M1LNo?t=2806

An optimal fingering for n notes played one at a time by an F fingered hand can be found in nF^2 time, or I believe n(F^F)^2 if you allow F note chords. "Optimal" in the sense of minimizing a cost function defined in terms of state transitions: c(t, f, t', f') is the cost of playing note t with finger f, followed by note t' with finger f'. E.g. c(a3, 1, b3, 2) < c(a3, 1, b3, 5) because it's unpleasant to scrunch your pinky (5) that close to your thumb. (Notably, t/t' do not mean t_i and t_j, two notes in the piece.) There are papers quantifying such cost functions, apparently.

Side rant -

Having grown up on violin, but learning piano as an adult, (and as a programmer), it kills me to index fingers from 1 (thumb) to 5 (pinky). Violin doesn't use the thumb, so the pointer to pinky are 1->4! Worse, as a Suzuki violinist, I hear (to some approximation) the number of the finger I'm thinking about while playing. Worse yet, I read bass by "adding two" notes to treble, so I get a nice off-by-two to think about with my off-by-one.

I should, uh, probably get a teacher.
According to the WHO, 32 million people have died of HIV since the beginning of the epidemic.

Deaths from COVID so far have been estimated to be around 5 million.

And this doesn't even begin to consider the differences in age distribution of both diseases.
twitter thread: https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1454578325389783042?s=...
I have not played any computer game in over more than a decade, but I played a lot earlier.

Anyway, what I did for a while - not recently due to a lack of good targets - is watch Youtube "playthrough no commentary" videos (and with story-less gameplay parts heavily cut out). That's usually 4-6 hours of game movie.

The Last of Us was good, but the very top #1 for me as far as story goes - ignoring the game play completely - was Horizon Zero Dawn. One of many such game movies for this game: https://youtu.be/W6jbYfmQAG4

That story seemed to be good but kind of stupid and the same as always, completely predictable, you already know what happened when you see the start and it's a bit stupid and too far-fetched - that kind. Until it wasn't. Turned out it wasn't just well-made, when you find out what was really going on it was THE BEST.

Not only does it have two very different stories layered (three, if you count the present time story): One about what happened to earth and its people and one layered inside of two people, the MC and a woman in the past, with seemingly no connection, until we find out the opposite is the case.

Both story-parts actually had me crying. When I found out after about four hours what had actually happened on earth, it was a great emotional shock. Same with the ending, that used the connection between the MC and that person from the past.

Even the machines and their (animal) forms make sense, there is a good and IMO satisfying explanation.

The stories in this game and in a handful of others are much better than most movies.

If you are in the mood for something really dark, watch a game movie of "SOMA". Underwater survival. Earth is gone - a giant meteor made the surface into a fiery hell, the only survivors are some researchers in a deep ocean facility. Best small detail: They get the "uploading your brain into a computer simulation" right, see the very ending of that game which shows it one last time (TL;DW: As someone who knows neuroscience, the idea makes no sense anyway, but let's forget that and assume it makes sense. What will happen is you still stand there in front of the computer, wandering what happened, after the "upload". Because you still exist, and the copy is not you. It's a copy. You still die, there is no magical connection between you and your copy.)
I’m not sure people view COP as serious in general. In my anecdotal experience, people sort of stopped thinking the political elite would solve this back in the 90’ies. And back then they managed to do something about the hole in the ozone layer. A hole that is bigger today than it was back then, prompting no action.

But you’re right of course. I was just getting into the myriad of reasons why some EU leaders actively work against Nuclear at places like COP.

My own country is actively lobbying against getting Nuclear recognised as green technology by the EU because wind and solar are major industries in Denmark.
It won't happen, but I'd love to see a Captcha screen with an option to go the extra mile and "solve" a NASA-sponsored grid as an alternative to the usual ones (identifying traffic lights, bikes, road signs and suchlike got old really fast).
Should be noted that for Portal it didn't even have a narrative really, just a games long monologue. It was closer to Notes from the Underground than most game narratives.
Well, the breeding patterns of single species fluctuate very much. Global warming could be an issue, could not be an issue here.

In the long run, global warming will definitively wreck havoc, so; still bad news.
Well to me it's toxic when it opens with the achievements (being successful in the business for 27 years) then shits on the whole industry and their own customers (treat your own players as idiots) in a holier than thou attitude. Just very bitter.
> Just don't suggest 'we' should do it together.

Why? Literally what is the harm in sharing my idea for a voluntary automated society and asking others what they think of it?

> Except it's not exactly voluntary if I can't own anything that would allow me to stop working altogether, I'm still stuck being a slave to the state.

You're inventing this. I never said anything about the state because my philosophy is intentionally designed not to need the state and to avoid it. I am literally saying we can and should build facilities in US cities which will produce high quality healthy meals and give them away for free. I am specifically interested in how to marshal the material support to keep something like this going without the use of a state. So that is things like, buying farmland and using the farming robot I am designing to produce large amounts of food for cheap. Or partnering with farmers who want to donate a portion of their food to the free meals program. It is like wikipedia. If it came in to existence it would be because enough people came together with the common goal to provide this service for free to everyone. If some people nearby want to get really rich, they will simply not participate. And we will still feed them!

There is always someone who hears that I want to ensure every person has a hot healthy meal and they see the ghost of Stalin himself in front of them. But feeding each other is what we have done for ages. Since before we were human. I simply want to make it more efficient.
> This author has it spot on: our standards for story telling in video games are really low.

Are they? I would say that they are, but not for video games, but for all things in general.

Sturgeon's law [0] states that "ninety percent of everything is crap." And it was supposedly originally about sci-fi novels! “Fifty Shades of Grey” was completely criticized on all fronts by reviewers, but still became one of the top bestsellers.

If you look at ancient myths, we have things like a series of myths with a central plot resolving around a god raping humans of all genders (significant chunk of Zeus-related mythology), Loki changing into a mare and getting impregnated, because gods wanted to prevent a builder from getting rightfully earned reward [1].

Most of the stories created today are low-quality ones. And that was always so. Only when we look at the past creations, we can only experience those that were good enough to be preserved. The same will probably happen with video games if various DRMs will not prevent that.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sva%C3%B0ilfari
This attitude contributes to the problem: many teachers at a higher level don't even bother to teach this stuff because they think everybody already does it.
my degree is in metaphysics, they should stay offa my patch I say!
> I just love text because it's ready to consume at my own pace.

This! Especially when my reading speed far outpaces most Youtubers talking speeds even at 2x. It drives me up the wall.
> You cannot have "voluntary communism".

> In capitalism... People can go off and create their own communist utopia and share their wealth.
I've no doubt that this is all above-board and legal, but it's an insult to the intelligence of their readers to assert that this is for any reason other than Facebook's name change to Meta.
Death to email.
To convert that into the (slightly more clumsy) units of my post above, 1400 MJ is about 390 kWh (which is a lot smaller than 24 million). Even taking the upper estimate of neodymium content then, 3.3 x 390 hours is only 54 days.

I don't know how much ore needs to be dug up to extract 1 kg of neodymium, but one site boasts 7% rare earth content in the material it processes[0] so there might need to be a 14x scale factor to avoid comparing apples to ore ranges.

54 days x 14 is 2 years, which should be well under the average life time of a turbine, even before recycling is taken into account. We do have to also consider the capacity factor of wind turbines, though (not just their rated capacity), which "range from 0.26 to 0.52" according to a recent factsheet[1], so that might bump the estimate to 8 years.

[0] https://mpmaterials.com/what-we-do/

[1] https://css.umich.edu/factsheets/wind-energy-factsheet
The consensus is probably Rust and even as an Ada fan/admirer I’d recommend it if you only have time for one. But you probably have time for at least a basic intro to Ada, and Adacore has some good and quick(ish) introductions at https://learn.adacore.com.
Perhaps it's harder to detect because birds with their ZW sex chromosomes can produce both male and female offspring, whereas other species with XY chromosomes would only produce females, e.g. the "lesbian lizards".

So, we very easily notice cases of parthenogenisis if we see an imbalance of the sexes in a population, but we that wouldn't happen in birds so we don't notice until we sequence the DNA.
Or, as Nintendo often does, you create a good gameplay first, and only then you start creating a plot around it.

Of course, it can fail too, but in my humble opinion it is one of the best approach to game design.
> what happens when some people don't want to participate in your voluntary communism and insist on inventing new things and marketing them?

What happens when someone decides they do not want to contribute to wikipedia?

> You'll note that membership in intentional communities is quite low.

Which is why I am designing an open source farming robot. Maybe if the work is fixing robots it will be more appealing than laboring in the fields every day. Sure is for me.
The human death toll is no doubt greater from fossils, but it’s sort of like traffic safety isn’t it? Something we just live with.

In my part of Europe, anyone of my age or above still remembers Chernobyl and how we had to burn farming produce, clothes that had been drying outside and a range of other things, even here in Scandinavia because it wasn’t safe.

I don’t think you’re ever going to convince my generation and the ones that came before that Nuclear is a good idea. Because we lived through the risk of Europe becoming inhabitable due to human in competence.

But maybe I’m wrong.
It did used to happen. Really. And it does not happen super often now.
Thanks! Didn’t know about Petri nets, makes me wonder if this all didn’t start with Red/Black binary trees, so named because that’s the two colors of ink they had on hand, cited 1978:

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1166...
Regarding "thinking" about music ... I recently took up playing drums again after a 20 year hiatus. During those 20 years I was never able to stop tapping rhythms on things (to my own and everyone around me's great frustration). Every song I listened to I couldn't not imagine playing that drum track. That must have kept those neural pathways alive.

Now that I'm finally playing again, I feel like I'm back to my previous levels, or even better, after just 3 months of playing 1x week.

Having said that, there's also the 10,000 hours thing.
On the other hand, any plan that doesn't call for less consumption is simply going to be inadequate.
I would argue that what you're describing is close to an interactive version of the sort of storytelling you can achieve in a painting (also - you piqued my interest, installing Journey!).
I was working on a similar project for nearly a year. I ran into trouble finding the correct fingerings and considered a very similar approach to the one you're taking - that is a simplified hand model with a cost-based heuristic.

My personal interest was more along the lines of acquiring statistical data from expert play. I'm supremely interested in this problem from a mathematical standpoint, but the data-set did not exist and I shelved the project as I'm a novice player.

I don't think the data-set would be very hard or very expensive to construct, given several experts and a program to generate note sequences. One could also sample from a large population of players, but then you have the bootstrap problem of attracting them before you offer enough value.

There are some very promising pathways for this developing if you're interested in the statistical approach. In any case I'd love to keep up with your project if you continue on.
I think you could make the same argument against nuclear advocates. Ego based focus on the "best" option and endless ad-hominem against proponents of good options. When actually the best option is one that is politically possible.

Also, the green zone is managed by the British Government rather than the UN who are fairly supportive of nuclear. Nuclear is politically viable in the UK so it gets built. Onshore turbines in South-East England are not politically viable so they don't get built and we go offshore instead. The objective should be to stop climate change rather than chase optimal technology.
P/E Ratios, DCF, Aswath "Dono"daran. These things are all a part of an ancient religion that do not work for growth tech companies anymore (which also happens to include large cap tech companies, by the way). These valuation metrics leave out everything that has to do with the potential market growth and product expansion into new verticals. People look at the S&P500 and keep parroting tired phrases such as "the P/E ratio is now higher than ever before in history", yet they don't consider that a massive part of the S&P500 is now tech growth companies rather than Exxon Mobil like it was 15-20 years ago.
and how would routers work in this case?
That's not true. Jury nullification is legal (both talking about it and carrying it out), even if some judges and prosecutors wish it otherwise.
I suppose this was submitted because of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29052747 (Fundamentals of Piano Practice) and specifically this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29053520
"Alone" coming soon, starring lou diamond phillips, rated R
I couldn't agree more with you! I played through the game and Horizon Dawn story was so rewarding! I kept playing for it even though the gameplay part had long run its course in keeping my interest. The expansion also expanded a little bit on the lore, broadening a little bit the world outside of the main arc, which was nice.

This game surprised me so much, because I just picked it on a whim a short while ago. It is so much more than what the cover suggests.

A very emotional and impactful story, really looking forward what they do for the next chapter of her story.
I’m not sure 7 or 8 figures really matter to a company the size of Facebook.

I worked in a medium sized municipality in Denmark, and when your budget is 9 billion Danish KR, well let’s just say that you treat expenses differently in enterprise, and we were still a small player compared to our bigger partners on the state level who could sign contracts larger than our entire budget without batting an eye.

(I’m not English, maybe batting an eye is the wrong expression, if so sorry!)

I’m not saying it wasn’t planned, but it may just be a “happy” coincidence.
If you're applying to a job in Europe, the Europass format is a godsend.

https://europa.eu/europass/en/create-europass-cv
CZI is an LLC funded by 99% of the Zuckerbergs' FB shares[1]. Isn't the domain transfer effectively just an admin exercise?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-markzuckerberg-baby-idUSK...
> No dependencies.

> Qt5 Based.

We have very different definitions of "dependencies".
> "Consumerism" is just the interaction of private property and freedom of association

No, you have misunderstood. I am 100% for freedom of association and freedom of contract. "Consumerism" is not just exchange, it is something more specific. It is the idea that buying more is directly tied to happiness and well being. Look.

"Consumerism is the idea that increasing the consumption of goods and services purchased in the market is always a desirable goal and that a person's wellbeing and happiness depend fundamentally on obtaining consumer goods and material possessions. "
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/consumerism.asp
I worked as a carpenter for several years and also as a health care worker and those jobs gave me a satisfaction that my desk job can’t give me. But I saw coworkers, that worked their whole life, completely destroyed by these jobs. They seem all way older then they are. At my desk job most people are health conscious and trying to avoid the bad health effects of office jobs. Most people in the other jobs where just working and and not caring about themselves. Mostly because they where not aware or didn’t care about long time negativ heath effects.

Now I work freelance IT jobs and sometimes I work as a carpenter just for the change. But honestly if you have the possibility go for the desk job and do sports.
You have to sort of narrow down 'today', though - in europe, you can argue US influence was a source of peace in the post-war era. In east asia, the post-war era was actually extremely bloody.

I think the one thing east asian states tend to have in spades is pragmatism. The US, on the other hand, is very often engaging in the region for ideological reasons. For that reason, it has tended to engage in bloody, somewhat pointless wars that have often span out into civil wars in neighboring states (Cambodia, for example) or produced traumatized, basketcase states (North Korea, for example, or pre-revolution South Korea).
> From my experience, Apple has a premium on overall quality and longevity. It's hard to quantify or benchmark, but it adds up over time.

I agree. If you know how to hack, of course hardware lasts longer. I think i have a Motorola PPC[0] mac somewhere that boots BSD

[0] totally 603e
This author seems to have never played a game with an actual good story. You can tell from his comparison of game stories to movies.

How can you compare a 2 hour narrative with a 10-100 hour narrative?

This article grossly overgeneralizes stories in games and ignores the unique storytelling device that is a "game".

A good book doesn't necessarily make for a good movie and a good movie doesn't necessarily make for a good game (and the other way around, as we've seen over and over again).

This article seems like a self-congratulating piece by an indie developer for being an indie developer.

Good for you. That doesn't mean AAA studios can't make a good game story, same as big budget movies can have a compelling story.