skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many video games have very poor or bare plots, but amazing settings. In fact, I'm not sure that video games are actually good vehicles for plots. Video games are interactive, but all good plots require careful pacing and timing in order to be successful. It's possible to force this in a game, but the more you do, the more the game becomes an interactive movie.

A great example would be Dark Souls: incredible setting, but really bare-bones plot. The plot is effectively: "You're the chosen undead, and you must quest for some items." The setting, on the other hand, could fill books.

In some sense, it's similar to comparing a good news article to a good story. A good story. Good story generally can't be purely fact-based, since this interrupts the needs of narrative: pacing, good vs. evil, moral decisions, defeats, and victories, etc. A good news story may have something like a narrative, but it's more of a collection of facts. If there's an narrative at all, it exists simply to help explain the relevance of the facts presented.

Video games are metaphorically similar: You may have an interesting plot in the game, but it is punctuated by the actions you get to take as a player. For example, in Wind Waker you must rescue your sister, but in practice the player is running around an island, breaking pots, and doing sidequests. The narrative plot and the play actions are almost totally disparate. The plot is nearly a side story, which helps add context to the player actions.
As a user, I really appreciate that behaviour. I use the icon to identify a website, I don’t want it to ever change ideally.
>using a technology is to prevent it being used to create weapons capable of obliterating entire cities, we are not as a species mature enough to use it on a wider scale. This is only one example of why we are not ready yet.

So now this big countries like US,Russia and the rest still have the bombs, you don't reduce the risk of a nuclear war or a big country accidentally or intentional detonating one by reducing the number of nuclear power plants.

Unfortunately the nuclear weapons already exist and any country with enough budget can create one, I suggest you try to understand that you can't have a group of terrorists dropping a plane in a nuclear plant and have it explode like a bomb, nuclear plants do not explode like an atomic bomb.
As much as I struggle to personally get behind crypto, this is exactly the sort of motivating use case that DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) are intending to solve. User would pool their crypto currency, gaining voting rights in the process, researchers can submit to the pool to collect a bounty and members of the DAO get the opportunity to vote on bounty release. All this is would be built to happen autonomously

It's a funky idea, at the moment I'm suggesting more as a curiosity rather than thinking it's the right approach for something like this

My immediate criticism is you could end up with an organisation that _is_ ultimately centralized but now the major players would be hidden. Currently crypto seems to generally tend towards oligarchic growth, so I imagine you'd have a few players that control most of the shares and many people controlling negligible portions. Perhaps these issues (not to mention the energy costs) can be solved, but right now I'm curious but skeptical about these ideas
> I want to start investing some money and before doing it I want to learn how to do it.

Start with reading two books:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Index_Card (more US specific)

* Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School (Second Edition) by Andrew Hallam (author is a Canadian ex-pat, but the advice is general/international)

For reasons why you should (probably) not invest in individual stocks see:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street

It was originally written in 1973 and still relevant (new editions cover fads that have come and gone since the original publication).
I wonder how much of a risk wind (from the locomotion) blowing into the tender/firebox would be.
It's just a thing to make statically typed languages more dynamic. Java devs want to bring their patterns to TS/JS.
Not if such implants become state-mandated. And don't be quick to dismiss that; if effective, this could be the sole avenue to freedom for somebody who's been involuntarily committed.

And the implant doesn't appear to give you a choice. It makes the determination of when to fire off a pulse. Probably through Machine Learning, the same technology that can't tell the difference between a stopped emergency vehicle and a clear lane -- a mistake even toddlers know to be wrong -- applied to a signalling environment that even experts can't readily understand. Parents died in a freak accident? That might end up being the happiest day of your life.
Uber and Lyft Prices Still Haven't Normalized
Another game in the "I can't imagine this working well in other media"-category is Senua's Sacrifice. Like, sure, the story could be critically subsumized as "generic identity struggle", but the way it's written and and delivered only works in a game. Perhaps that's a decent first cut for a story in a videogame: If you made this a movie instead, would it still work? If you make a movie out of e.g. any of the Call of Duty games, you'd mostly end up with a generic action movie without having to change the script.

This question hints at how well gameplay and story interact which each other. In most action games, they barely interact at all.

(Also, as interactive experiences, games just are not necessarily dependent on having a story, as the article points out. If the experience is good enough, a story isn't really necessary. Alien Isolation doesn't have much of a story, but visceral, devastating gameplay. Bethesda games generally have poor stories, but it doesn't really matter because the gameplay is open ended enough that everyone can just make their own story inside the game. Online games don't have a story, or some thin veneer to put on a loading screen; they don't need that, because the people are here solely for the gameplay experience.)
These automatically encrypted disks with managed keys in the clouds are nice to check the "encrypted at rest" checkbox for security audits but I think that they add little security. In most scenarios I can think of, both the data and the keys will be accessible to the attacker. And the ones where the attacker would have access to only the encrypted data seems very unlikely, like physical access to the data center with the knowledge of where is physically stored the data. But I would be gladly proven wrong.
'Yet people don't get shot by the police doing so in every country at the same rate.'

This is true in the UK because most cops don't have guns and they don't expect people they stop to have guns either. Despite this, the police have still managed to shoot a number of innocent people.

I should add that the chances of randomly being stopped in a car by UK Police is about the same as winning the lottery.
Same here. Inspired by Forth I made a single stack language that I could embed in the narative text for a text adventure game I made as a part of a mystery geocache.

The idea was that I would code the interpreter in Python because it's a nice language to get shit done in. Then I would port the code to php for easier hosting.

In the end, I never did the php part, I just hosted the python game code on a cheap vps.

Had I known I'd end up on that route I would probably just embedded inline python code, but getting my own custom language working was great fun.
What sort of world will your grandchildren inherit if we don’t invest in nuclear? What happens if the mystery renewable energy storage and carbon scrubbing technologies never materialize? What happens if the climate scientists are right about the increasing droughts and floods and the knock-on effects to food supplies and so on? By comparison the risk of nuclear is negligible.
> languages that could not easily do that (like Java)

It's interesting that you bring up Java, which compiles things into class files. You can technically "mix and match" things there to achieve mocking semantics by carefully constructing jars. The point of DI is to bring composability into the realm of the language. In JS, sure you can use complex machinery to get jest to mock out imports during a hidden compilation phase, but there's no contractual relationship between the mock and the API consumption deep in your unit. E.g. I could "mock" moment.js, but if the implementation switches to date-fns, then the mock is still a valid thing, but it's no longer useful/applicable. Whereas, if there is a contract that can be enforced via types/API/DI, then switching date util implementations will trigger compile errors.
Sadly, it's MacOS-only. Would be nice to have something Qt or GTK-based.
Clearly the line would have to be imperfect, but it’s a perfect-is-the-enemy-of-good situation. I’d write the rules as follows: The cost of domains increases steeply as you acquire more, so nobody ends up with hundreds of domains. You have some grace period from the date you buy it to make something “real.” Use it or lose it. Renewals would be painful or even just disallowed if you haven’t built something “real” by the end of the grace period. Defining “real” would be tough, but I might look to the app stores for a model there. Even a conservative line would be an improvement. If it doesn’t point to a server, that’s bad. If it points to a web page that isn’t substantively different from your other pages (or just from other pages at all?), that’s bad. Questionable cases would be resolved by looking at all your domains (if you have two domains in clear use, a third that’s borderline will be judged differently than three hundred borderline domains).

Anyways, the point is that even imperfect rules (that surely have their own issues) would be an improvement. Hell you could even just cap the number of domains someone can own at twenty or something and still have an improvement.
I've come to believe there's a rule similar to Betteridge's Law of Headlines along the lines of: When an article says "small-business" it can be substituted with "big-business" to make the article more accurate.

Except in rare cases, policies that help smaller businesses will also help larger ones proportionally. To hide the big-business benefit, promoters of the bill will spotlight how it helps the "little guy". Because SME/SMB have become politically untouchable. Being accused of hurting small business owners will get a congressperson out of a job. It's a think-of-the-children argument. So when I see something being touted as good for small business business, it sets off warnings that a spin doctor is at work.
Difference between having opportunity to take, and taking it for 600, Alex.
This is a very common myth but fossil fuel plants did not take their place. Wind and solar did though. Both nuclear and fossil fuel plants are a smaller piece of the pie compared to when Fukushima happened and the Energiwende happened. [0]

[0] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...

Looks like the guy above me said the same thing, but at the time of writing it wasn't there yet.
The Crooked Man
> Then, with your right thumb, you bash away at your attacks and spells and health orbs and so on. The big circle down at the very bottom right is your primary attack and, just like regular Diablo, you spend most of your time bang-bang-banging away at it

> In practice, it feels… a lot like playing on a PC or Playstation.

Hard oof. If the author doesn't see the contradiction there and writes that with a straight face, then I really don't see why I should take any other nonsense they write seriously.

Equating mobile controls with mouse/keyboard? Sorry, you shouldn't be writing about computer games.
There’s certainly some cartel-like behaviour going on, such as the recently uncovered collusion between Facebook and Google in the ad markets. That has to be stamped on.

I’m a little uneasy about Facebook owning WhatsApp, but I can’t see any concrete way they are able to use that to significantly exclude competition.

I just don’t see how Google is leveraging its other properties in significant ways to exclude say Bing or DDG. I use Google docs and gmail, but what has that got to do with whether I use Google search or Bing?

What anti-trust action do you think is needed, and what is it’s desired outcome? I don’t know what ‘breaking up Facebook ’ really means, except maybe making them sell WhatsApp. What would that achieve?
Time consuming, yes. More expensive, no.
People with long term perspective are willing to take the time to provide healthful meals for themselves.
That's probably DRM protected content, it's not Javascript hack but a mecahnism that's built in deeper.
A high level overview of how it works on Android is here(the secure texture part):

https://source.android.com/devices/graphics/arch-st#st_vid_p...

I'm not sure what the implementation is on Chrome/Desktop; probably something similar.
The Bitcoin White Paper Turns 13 [pdf]
I highly recommend Prof. Tom Murphy's new book "Energy and Human Ambitions" (freely available as well) that is sort of a deeper dive into some of the questions that Mackay explored:

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m
Having lived near a coal plant and coterie of oil refineries in the past, I will 100% agree that I'd take nuclear over coal in my backyard.
Shallow dismissal of other people’s comments.
There isn’t energy cost between bodies, but there are huge energy costs getting into orbit, leaving orbit, and getting into the destination body’s orbit
You got 2 hours into the game and dropped it because you felt the themes were surface level?

You were unironically filtered. The game does name drop a lot philosophers, but it's meant to contextualize, not as part of the game's themes. Hell, the game doesn't even care about the "humans and robots aren't actually so different" question. I don't want to write a whole essay, so I'll just say that Automata is probably the best existentialist story written this decade, with a lot of subtle details, some _great_ acting, and melding of story and gameplay that has not even been attempted elsewhere. It is unique, and uniquely excellent, beyond the point where it can just be described as "a fantastic game". Doom 2016 is a fantastic game. Nier Automata is a game I've had as much fun thinking and writing about as I had playing it.
This is not necessarily true. Dependency injection allows you to provide your own implementations for unit testing. I'm surprised we're still talking about dependency injection in Node.js. I made a really crude dependency injection library for Node six years ago.

https://github.com/divmgl/nwire
Good news the unrealized gains are in a form very similar to what you outlined.
Doesn't the investment world say something like "no one can beat the market forever?"

Of course some people can win sometimes. But to do it consistently is a different story. You have to have some kind of edge: being faster (unlikely), smarter (unlikely), or access to information other people don't have (also unlikely).

Or do you really think the average guy can do better than the market, and why or how?
The original of this book is a wonderful resource. I am very happy to see a community bringing it up-to-date because MacKay had the foresight to license the work using CC.
Croquet – Collaboration Library and Framework
You're missing a real technical limitation there, it's often call "the night".

But eh, we will create some hydrogen-lithium batteries to store all this energy we need when we have "the night" (that seems to happen quite often).
If n new collisions are possible when adding a new object to a population of n, that means risk increases quadratically (far sub-exponential).

I’m pretty easy to convince that the risk is sigmoid and the early part looks exponential. But this justification does not lead there.
If you have read it, it's worth a re-read today (October 31, 2021) it's 13th birthday.
Check Canada, although there're plenty job relocation opportunities for good programmers in many european countries, afaik.
The person you are replying to isn’t at all suggesting that this person isn’t very skilled. Obviously they are.

The issue is, while many of us pick up on the shtick, there are many in the general YouTube audience who might not understand this.

I don’t think it should be censored either, I just think these people should take some time to talk about the safety precautions they use. Because some people who watch these style of videos don’t realize there are unspoken safety precautions happening in the background.
>Gmail

I set up an email server on my VPS but I went back to using Gmail after a while because it's so damn convenient. It's one of the few things that I don't see myself ever giving up.

Nowadays I pretty much only use my email server to spam my friends with funny emails that appear to come from mcafee@belize.mansion
Look, I'm a jazz player and do music pedagogy stuff. It's kind of silly to listen to Metheny about how to learn things, the dude was a complete prodigy (not an attack on your comment, just an aside). He was teaching at the most prestigious music school after attending for a year or some crazy thing. Music has a very small elite of people who's brains wired very differently and basically have super powers compared to the rest of us, and most of them have no idea how to explain how they learn/teach in ways that are useful to regular brains. I've met some of them, and they might as well be a different species. (Synthesesia is often part of it, I did a master class with a pianist who was basically tripping the whole time he played, listening to him describe his experience was so completely un-relatable to normal people.)

Some of those folks are also great teachers, but a lot of them just say the most completely useless advice because they can't even remember not being able to instantly play whatever they hear.
> What you will then get is an unsustainable set of shortcuts that threaten your energy supplies at crucial times.

I like the idea of solar energy, but I also wonder about how safe it is to use. I'm thinking of events such as the 1815 volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora[0] which reportedly caused a "year without summer[1]".

Presumably, something like this would have a major impact on solar cell energy output, and if we'd significantly depended on solar, would have catastrophic consequences for our society. Unless, of course, I overestimate the effect that volcanic ash could have on solar cells.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1815_eruption_of_Mount_Tambora

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
Real-life Forrest Gump: Rob Pope ran across US 5 Times
Financial koans. Fascinating. I feel enlightened already.
> "follow the money, he certainly did"

Maybe I read the article wrong, but it says that he makes a LOT more money now from individual subscribers than he did with Rolling Stones. That is not what people usually mean when they say 'follow the money', that implies that a person is taking money from someone to betray on his duties required by the profession.

What he is doing sounds like journalist optimization.
I mean, the companies that are talking about increasing user counts... the users generally are the product, or ads for those users are the product.
I find it interesting that there are a lot of articles bashing videogame stories yet nobody is making these points about the movie industry.

The fact that the movie studios are now looking at videogames for inspiration is very telling IMO.
Buying parts of London through offshore shell companies?
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Fine, I will provide the link again : https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
One thing to consider though is that Ableton is a Software product, so it can’t be resold unlike an actual device
You are 25, graduated last year and you think you have 10 years of experience since you are coding since 15 ? How much real world experience do you have ? Dabbling in code since 15 is good but that doesn't give you the experience to say "nothing to show for it". If anything, use that as a positive but you need to lower your expectations from yourself. You are inexperienced and have almost 0 real world experience.
What are you trying to get money for? If it’s retirement, you could do a lot worse than a low-fee target retirement date fund.
Does the teenager want to be communicated with though?
> really transformational cultural moments

Prediction: an astonishingly large portion of animal utterances will have to do with reducing the amount of carbon dioxide that humans pour into the atmosphere. You heard it here first.
Get a midi controller for the iPad.

On iOS this is an affordable app - Korg Gadget[0] and you can get a controller[1] for it.

[0] https://www.korg.com/us/products/software/korg_gadget/

[1] https://www.korg.com/us/products/computergear/nanokey_studio...
No. Stop it with this mentality. When managing a small portfolio, < 5 million dollars, you can be very agile in how you invest. Small hedge funds in NYC with less than 10 million under management regularly make 50-100% a year. It’s not a controversial opinion. It’s just that the financial industry has pushed this narrative as a way to sell index fund products. Completely diversifying your investments is a terrible way to make money. Warren buffet himself says this all the time. Source is I used to work in finance in NYC
True. People really underestimate the "alpha" of spending less and saving more.
As a partially texture-based eater, looking at these images makes me feel triggered.

But it also makes me feel grateful for food processors, blenders, etc. that can puree pumpkin into delicious pie filling.
> Germany went on a spree, dismantling their nuclear plants after being scared by Fukushima. Fossil fuel plants tool their place.

Not true. Renewables took their place. Nuclear wasn't a huge part of the mix before Fukushima either. The change immediately following 2011 wasn't very large, and much smaller than the power added by renewables. Lots of plots available to see for yourself at [0].

For some reason this story is told wrong in every single discussion on nuclear here on HN.

For the record, I actually agree that the decision to accelerate the shutdown of nuclear power was misguided, since it delayed the shutdown of coal power. It did not, however, lead to an expansion of fossil energy sources.

[0] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...
> How does my comment imply I want some interruption in your wife's insulin supply?

It doesn't. And I made no such suggestion about wanting interruption in medicines.

I merely questioned the wisdom of voluntarily making oneself dependent on an uninterrupted, untainted supply of medicine.

https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/2021031...
> You can’t stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you’re smarter than he is and he’s doing these things and he’s getting rich

This is the only one I don't understand.