skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife and son and I are getting ready to sell our house and move westward to get away from the urban city that has a lot of crime and high car insurance because of the accidents here.

Our house is worth more than we paid for it, and we paid it off. It has a small amount of land. Out west it would be like a farm with a lot of land to grow fruit and vegetables on it. Away from crime statistics and other stuff.

What is causing the global house prices to rise and are we in a bubble? I heard investors are buying up real estate because of the capital gains tax on stock. Driving it up so they can sell at a profit.
When my toddlers wake me up in the middle of the night to pee, their vocabulary, speech and general lucidity is better than any other time during the day. Very weird.
On the one hand, I like that this much story telling effort goes into video games. On the other hand, I'm a bit sad that from a narrative standpoint, you can generally cut out all the actual game-playing parts and get a stronger experience for it.

There are some exceptions to this (Spec Ops: The Line comes to mind as a case where the gameplay actually fuels the story, and I also think I've heard good things about Two Brothers in this respect too) but these are the exception, not the rule.
With this gpu performance you’d think Apple might like to take advantage for gaming.
That Invention's fingering looks good, although left hand, bar 10, first note, I think I'd try 4 over 3 (and then 3-2-1 instead of 2-1-3).

For midi and lilypond files, check https://www.mutopiaproject.org/
Many things are possible in our imagination. I'm grateful that my actual world, today, we have working floating point.
Learn basics of bitcoin, then advance to basics of lightning network, if you get bored with lightning learn basics of EVM (Ethereum virtual machine)

After you are comfortable with these 3, you are golden.
Along the way you will also learn to differentiate between scam products and what could be promising
> 80% of wealthy people earned that wealth

More likely they hired workers who created that wealth. And while in today's system we say that the person at the top "earned" that wealth, we could just as easily arrange firms differently so they are cooperatively owned. And in doing so they would not produce super wealthy people but instead a society with broader wealth distribution.
I like lightweight DE's. I would like to see a side by side with other lightweight DE's for look and feel and resource consumption. This looks good though.
Fake resume gets 90% hit rate compared to 0% for a real one
i agree but then you have the email where you might not need the web at all.
For me, this depends on the game genre...

FPS? All the story I need is the 'end condition' (basically what do I have to do to win this level), and I can play. "reach point X", "detonate bomb", "kill everyone".... sure.

Strategy games? Same... kill everyone, destroy base, done.

But for example, point and click adventures with a shitty story? Totally unplayable for me.
When I worked at a company with about 5-6 servers and a couple fixed remote workstations, all the programmers knew all the IP addresses by heart, if there were names for anything but the www host I didn’t know them.

Obviously doesn’t scale, but I would assume this was normal back when you only interacted with say <10 servers.
Article title: "17 More Reasons I Won't Be Getting a Covid Vaccine"
Religion and HN don't get along that well. Science vs. Religion almost always leads to flame wars.

Jewish people are God's chosen people and are supposed to be superior to every other person because of that. Then Gentiles got shoehorned in after Jesus and his apostles founded Christianity.

They are not better, just different, we all have strengths and weaknesses and there is no superior race.
Red-black tree, a well-known algorithm also uses color references

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red–black_tree
> No you don't from your arguments.

One can be a fan of something without trying to blindly apply it to areas where it doesn't make sense.

> nuclear reactors designs from the 70s are statistically safer than coal. And kill a lot less than coal.

That's a strawman's argument, I'm not arguing for coal, I'm arguing for storage of renewables.

> France had one of the cheapest electricity in Europe for 3 decades [...] Nuclear is cheap [...]

That is simply false. The levelized cost of nuclear is about twice as high as that of solar or wind, see page 8 of the referenced EIA report [1].

> There is today not a single installation world wide existing of power to gas to the scale it would be needed

Again, strawman's argument. The discussion is about what should be built, not what has been built. There are already megawatt scale plants running for years without problems [2], and there are shipping container scale demonstrators for higher efficient versions [3]. So it's pretty obvious that the technology around power to gas is well understood, and ready for mass production and deployment.

> And that would anhiliate any hypothetical cost of the renewable energy anyway

Again, this is false. As explained above, nuclear energy is twice as expensive as renewables, and power to gas has an end to end loss of roughly 50%. So in reality, renewables + power to gas has roughly the same cost as nuclear, without the proliferation, safety, security, and waste problems. And as an added bonus every MWh you use while renewables are producing costs half of nuclear ;).

[1] https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation....

[2] http://hybalance.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Large-scale-P...

[3] http://www.helmeth.eu/images/joomlaplates/documents/Publisha...
I own Nier, but never beat it. I enjoyed the aesthetic and gameplay, but often end up going back to old favorites when I sit down to relax. I should take a weekend or two and get back into it.

Bright Memory Infinite is a new game from China that's coming out in November, the demo is incredible and I'm excited. Gujian3 is an open-world action rpg, similar to Nier but with a xianxia theme, it's pretty good. Amazing Cultivation Simulator is a Rimworld clone with a lot of fun features. Path of Wuxia is a very original and fun martial-arts-school/dating-sim/srpg with a lot of replayability (only fan-translated for now, but an official english translation is slated for when it comes out of early access).
Time playing chess should be at least a weak proxy for time spent on all chess activities, which you'd expect to correlate with improvement. At least at smaller numbers - of course if someone is spending 23 hours a day playing chess they aren't spending much time studying or anything else.
Awe. It happens very, very rarely, but when it does, it's unforgettable. For me, it happened when I was learning Haskell.

(As for the Lisp enlightenment, I havent yet learned Lisp deep enough to feel it, and maybe I'll never will; but I certainly appreciate Lisp's "idea efficiency". It's amazing how much Lisps can do with basically a single piece of syntax).
Sure, because bloat becomes revenue when it goes from government-run to a company.
you're right. Firefox wouldn't let me click the http link and automatically convert it to https. however if I click download directly instead of just loading it, it works.
How much extra for the black keys?
I’m no expert but my understanding is that the drive to industry in Britain, aided by the enclosures, significantly increased working hours, and worsened working conditions.
I believe that you have whatsapp autosave turned on by some default. You may visit whatsapp > settings > chats and turn it off there. I don’t know who thought that it is a good idea, but yes it’s really annoying. Otherwise, ios gallery is what you made or saved in there.

tl;dr blame whatsapp
Like it too! Thanks for sharing :)
I guess, this can be easily changed and they were deliberately aiming at a minimalistic appearance for these screenshots:

> "Appearance profiles can easily be used to reproduce the look and feel of other common desktop systems."

https://lumina-desktop.org/features/
Reading this article makes me realize how little I know about games. I've never heard of any game the writer used as examples, except World of Warcraft (which I never played, however).

The author made a lot of pithy statements, but the article feels strangely lack of substance. There's little evidence or elaboration. Just statement after statement, with a lot of repetitiveness.

And the writing. Paragraphs like these:

> Now let's be clear. I'm not a great fantasy writer. If I was, I'd be writing books nobody buys because nobody buys books anymore. Still, as a writer I'm simply competent. Which, by video games standards, makes me awesome. Overall, I'm good enough that people give me money, and that is sufficient.

...... are just strange, and made me grimace. He's quite plainly saying, that he's mediocre, but because everyone else is bad, he's great.

And what's with the "nobody buys books anymore"? Plenty of people do.

> Good story isn't what gamers are after. Which is good, because they ain't gettin' it.

While not having played many games, I remember some GBA games having decent stories. They are not Charles Dickens level literature, but comparable to good short stories, definitely worthy of "good writing".

---

I had expected much more---more substance, better writing---from a "successful" story writer of a game company.
What codecs are part of the spec? Or is it just the interface, and nothing is actually guarenteed to work?
But in another way, this is exactly how open source works. They do not sell you a new release and push ads showing how stylish you will be if you dump version 13 and upgrade to version 14. They just push a point release as needed. Some software is updated daily and some is updated once every five years. There is no marketing team trying to drum up artificial demand for some python package.

> They were like this in the Soviet Union, and it was laughable how much they ended up lagging behind after a few decades.

The soviet system was an authoritarian one and I am proposing a free market solution. I am basically just saying people can save money if they band together and buy machines which provide for their basic needs. But also it would all be open source, and like software it would be updated as needed.

Actually the example with cars was just an attempt to explain consumerism. I might as well just paste this definition in to this comment like I just did elsewhere.

"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
It is interesting that people from about a +/- 20 year group have your same experience. One that shows you have memories of what was once but now, in the same lifetime, is no more.
Things like power to gas would work economically because you buy cheap and sell high. The efficiency figure becomes less important if renewables are cheap and gas is expensive.
Memory lanes: Google’s map of our lives
Look up the work and interviews with Naomi Aldort.

Highly recommended - natural parenting as in working with nature - and the child’s nature.

Her book Raising our children, raising ourselves is also worth checking out.
Well you are just proposing to use molten salt as energy storage, but if we have efficient storage we don't need nuclear because we can charge the storage much cheaper and environmentally friendlier using renewables.

As a side note, every time someone points out the shortcomings of nuclear power plants (not easily adjustable, huge investment costs/expensive, storage ...) there's the replies about, "but those new future plants that we are researching will solve all this". We don't know if reality will actually deliver on those promises (nuclear has quite a history of broken promises), especially if we are talking about acting fast.
Original source (Reddit) is being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29052903

And 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024746
Yes, even getting copy /paste functionality to allow a user to click a button to copy a piece of text needed a bit of flash.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6355300/copy-to-clipboar...
I’ve found sitting in a cafe (or going for a walk) often allows me to think more productively about code: sometimes the screen is just a distraction.
But a GT1030 can’t be hooked up to a small board like Raspberry or even the Nano, right?
You might want to have written something. I have things I would like to say, or rather to have said. But I have little interest in the business of writing. At intervals I make a desultory attempt to set up a blog but then I fail to actually fill it with anything interesting, not because I have nothing to say but because I can't summon up the effort required to say it.
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29044306
The Rise of Nintendo: A Story in 8 Bits (2014)
Amazon seems to get worse and worse by the day.

All their idiotic sponsored results make finding things impossible.

For example, if I try to search for x, maybe I want to only see x from brand y.

They have an option for only brand y, yet sponsored results are immune to this.

Worse, lately, they now show different options as individual search results.

So, looking for a shirt I want, from brand x, has 1/2 the page filled with sponsored garbage, and often the rest with 7 colours of the exact same shirt, individually show.

Add to this, that search terms seem to be mild suggestions?

Well, if I am in the shirt category, search as above, but with a unique thing like turtleneck, I get a boatload of responses without any turtlenecks.

Obviously, some sellers are motivated to lie with their tags, but this isn't the only reason this isn't happening.

Add to this that most listings have no size chart, no fabric info, no origin location, or even conflicting info, and holy pita.

EG, I am not polyester friendly, yet some listings say things like 100% polyester, then the very next line, 95% cotton, 5% spandex.

Just 100% crap amazon!

All of this could be improved with more standardized listings controls and forms for sellers, and amazon has the cash and has had years to do it, too.

And lately, 20% of the stuff I order comes opened, used, even dirty.

I'm not paying new pricing for dirty clothes, amazon!

Especally shoes, socks, underwear (wtf?!).

I swear, walmart must have amazon moles, or is getting paid off / bribed by amazon, because a clown could do better against them.
Demand curve isn’t flat.
I think the author is right that games generally have poor, or poorly executed stories, and even great stories need to be squeezed into the game play box (e.g. his "ends with bang"-trope.)

But I also feel like the author misunderstands how the medium can elevate a story:

"Old mans Journey" was critized for having too simple puzzles, but it is not a puzzle game. It's a story, where a few simple puzzles gives you time to interact with the landscape and soak up the atmosphere, which enhances the impact of the worldless storytelling between levels.

It's a simple, nothing new story, made extremely impactful through the medium.

I also felt the story in Celeste was very impactful, even though it probably would make for a boring movie. But I struggled as Madelein as she conquered the mountain and her fears, and that struggle primed me to feel her struggle through the sparse dialogue.
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I guess 'The Lord of the Rings' is a bad story then? After all it is exactly the kind of story this person is complaining about...
There are some games with good world building but meh stories. Many RPG can be fitted in this category, for example The Elder Scrolls series.
Stop Intellectualising Pop Culture
For a long time I wanted to be at the top of the monkey pile.

A LOT of that came from received culture growing up in California as a boy in the 1990's. I no longer want to be at the top of a pile of monkeys. I want my daily labor to support others in my community (broadly) rather than working to enrich a few people who will own everything and control our economy.

I think if you grow up in a society that tells everyone "greed is good" then you're going to think being greedy is human nature, but actually anthropologists know that societies have again and again existed based on mutual support of one another. I am simply suggesting we drop this "greed is good" mantra and focus on helping one another. And I think it can be more economically efficient when you value each person's life more or less equally.
This could be racism driven, even though SG is known to be heavily authoritarian against drugs regardless. East Asian countries tend to be very racist towards brown Asians (South East Asia and South Asia).

"His IQ is only 69"

Never had a chance
people like LCMs: Large Charismatic Mammals. Tigers and elephants are easier to get funding to help compared to some ugly fish. People find most bugs gross and so are unlikely to help out. But the monarch is beautiful and many people remember them fluttering through their lives every year.
> He's quite plainly saying, that he's mediocre, but because everyone else is bad, he's great.

Why is this bad thing to say? If he thinks this is true, then it is OK to say it. And earning money making games is actual achievement - most indie game makers are in financial loss and that is it.

Someone who make small profit is exactly people who can say the above.
> It seems pretty clear we will have VR goggles that feel effectively indistinguishable from real life in terms of fidelity and optics relatively soon.

Just out of curiosity, what about other senses? Smell, touch, temperature, taste?

How close are we to fully experiencing a dinner / concert / mountain hike in VR?
Exactly! “Its different this time and the old rules no longer apply”
I think that's partially why the United States is perpetually in some kind of war.

If you're the global superpower with an empire built on military might, you have to constantly practice your craft, and nothing beats the real thing.

And putting your capabilities on public display in a real theatre provides the entire world with the proof of violence (PoV) you are able to summon.
Shaun of the Dead was great. Fido was pretty good too.
By making it truly decentralized:
Like in a mesh network.
I want whatsapp media to show in the gallery. What has that to do with the ability to organize my camera roll?
I think it will be more psychological.

Memetic warfare.

Hell, this kind of war has been raging for decades.

Most people just don't know it.
> How do you stop 10 people from secretly working hard and producing an extra ration of gruel right under your commie nose?

I am talking about a voluntary system that works in some ways like wikipedia. I want to get together with others, under a libertarian system of free exchange, and build systems that are designed to meet core human needs as cheaply as possible. Then people can band together and buy those machines if they want, and they can share the output or whatever.

If 10 people want to go do something else, that doesn't affect me any more than Apple affects Wikipedia.
After looking around a bit, this strongly reminds me of Václav Havel's play, "The Memorandum" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Memorandum).
Why would Apple not employ its own janitors? Their building is huge. It would definitely be more cost effective to have a janitor department.
So, this time it's different? Like 21 years ago when Exxon Mobil and similar companies were overvalued and imploded in the dot com bust? Oh, wait...
Better, but a major breakthrough on multiple fronts is required. The lightest headset with fantastic resolution and response still won’t make the cut for widespread adoption IMO. You need to crack input/control as well as real life/meta transition. Can probably get there with enough iterative improvement, but it will be quite some generations yet.
I have Tailscale set up for my home server and a public domain for internal services (to make SSL easy). The domain points to the local IP address (192.168.178.X) and mapdns to the Tailscale IP (100.78.X.X). I then configured Tailscale to search for <my domain> using the mapdns server.

Now I can resolve my local network device with the same SSL-protected domain, no matter if I'm out and about using VPN or at home.
I agree - I've been using (and writing) userscripts for an eternity. Most of them are public [1], but I don't know if others find them as useful. I like to enhance the design of websites I often use (like using a dark theme for HN), but those are rather subjective changes.

[1] https://github.com/darekkay/config-files/tree/master/userscr...
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The Talos Principle is an interesting example of the weird relationship between a game and its story. The gameplay is just a ton of small, repetitive, Portal-like puzzles, and I don't say that as a criticism; it's just reality. The story is presented almost completely passively through notes and computer terminals. You could easily believe the game was developed first and then the story was written afterwards. But somehow they combine to make a very engrossing experience.
If CZI were a non-profit they would have lost that status with this transaction. Per the IRS: "activities should not serve the private interests, or private benefit, of any individual or organization more than insubstantially."

They may have exploited the generally held assumption of being a public benefit organization to gain an advantage in the sale of the domain. For example if the Gates Foundation approached me about one of my domains and it later ended up in the hands of Microsoft, I'd be quite upset.
When I was a teen I could definitely not afford 20$ a month on something like that. I could barely afford my MMO subscription!
> I wonder whether you can also incorporate puzzle usage in this.

Unfortunately the article itself states that data on puzzles, lessons, etc are not available from the Lichess API, so all that they can really look at are games played... (Though agree this would be cool!)
How would this handle accessibility?

64-128K page size is perfectly doable in HTML today if anybody actually cares enough to do it. How much of the bloat in say an Amazon page is the JavaScript?

Is there something about your protocol that would prevent the big players from re-normalizing 1M page size with it?
CC-BY-SA, so Share-Alike; you have to share the derivative work produced (source code, in this case).
I just had a look at their example (BWV 775) and the first thing I noted was this: Second finger on the Bb in bar 8 makes no sense (there's no reason to not use the thumb there, especially as the following interval is a seventh).

I hope the internet won't become flooded with sheet music that has bad auto-generated fingering, because it's something that you really trust. If I encounter some strange fingering I trust that the composer knew something that I don't that I maybe should work hard to apply to my own technique, obviously this will damage your technique if it's nonsensical.
There’s very little storage cost as the fuel can be burned til there is nothing radioactive left.

Nuclear doesn’t produce radioactive materials it reduces radioactivity. If you mix the spent fuel from a heavy water reactor back into the ore, it’s radioactivity will have been reduced.
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