skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author knows that being salty and otherwise obnoxious drives clicks, which is as much how he makes money as the writing in the games.

I'd disagree with Undertale, which is the only one on your list I have played, although I didn't make it far (a few others you mention are on my list already). Of course, there is always quite a bit of personal taste involved in such things.

My list would be something like:

-RiME

-Falcom's Trails series

-My Brother Rabbit

-Rakuen

-Röki

-Higurashi When They Cry Hou

-King of Dragon Pass/Six Ages (particularly the mythology parts)

Maybe also to a lesser degree:

-Amnesia: Memories

-London Detective Mysteria

-To The Moon

Of these, RiME and My Brother Rabbit have no text but still tell a story very well IMO while Falcom's games have tons of text (more than any individual book) and cut some corners in the story but do a lot of things well and you get to interact with a lot of different characters and hear their perspective on the world.

Higurashi When They Cry Hou was IMO unquestionably the best written of them all (which makes sense as mentioned in another thread it is a book with sound not an interactive game), although I liked it least since I don't like horror but didn't realize it is a horror game.

For Fossil Echo and The Journey Down I thought the storytelling was particularly good in how it combines video with the game but the story itself was not all that good and the games themselves were disappointing IMO. I think I would put The Longest Journey in a similar category also (and likely Sibera, although I've only played a bit of it).
This is pretty fascinating:

> “Possibly Real Copy Of ‘Fairies’ by Andy Warhol” is a series of 1000 identical artworks. They are all definitely by MSCHF, and also all possibly by Andy Warhol. Any record of which piece within the set is the original has been destroyed.

It's like laundering forged art with permission.
If the piece costs $20k and you sell 1,000 pieces for $500 each, you've made almost a half million dollars by selling forged art with permission

It's totally weird but I have to admit that a "possibly" real piece is like a million times cooler than a "definitely" print. Or... maybe at least ten times cooler.
I'm old enough (50) and (80)486 was the last numbered chip from Intel, in my experience. 586 never happened.

The SX DX thing happened at the 386 and 486 level. All a bit confused and boiled down to whether you got a maths co-processor or not.

Looking back it was a pretty rubbish thing. We consumers have been treated like complete twats by all CPU manufacturers for decades.
this is nitpicking cubed. "See any photo on your wall" is totally fine
1. Does your SO take VitD as well?

2. Interesting that you didn't give it to them when you had covid.
If I can access the information in Chrome, I should be able to access the information with my own client, and the site operator shouldn't have any say in that.
The fact that publishing on the arXiv works so well, even with minimal institutional support or prestige, just goes to show how very possible it is to do all publishing free and open-access. There's just no incentive for anyone in this system to stop fleecing the taxpayer.
> I'm sure there are folks who use bots and scrapers for home automation

I know this is off-topic, but I'm really curious. How does scraping the web help with home automation? Maybe downloading weather data could help, but crawling the web? I think I'm missing something about home automation.
> Oracle's JDK was not the only game in town and many others could deliver a perfectly fine JDK

Which are almost all just tiny changes on OpenJDK, developed almost solely by Oracle. So who actually deliver a perfectly fine JDK? Also, what do you even mean by JDK shoot-in-foot?
> each institution's primary activity is to preserve itself, and only secondarily to pursue its nominal purpose.

Sounds weird about institutions, but obvious about organisms. Substitute in "organisation" instead, and the parallel to organisms becomes clearer.
The page you linked references $50k as the starting limit:

> When you first create your Coinbase Pro account, the withdrawal limit is $50,000/day. See your Limits page for your current withdrawal limit and to request an increase to your limit.

Like I said, there are limits but they can be raised by going through extra verifications..
Teardown shows details of Apple's new 140W USB-C charger
Yes its true. Which is exactly why javascript and html gave way to a broader programmer market. This creates lots of educational content and improves the educational experience. Especially bc standards evolve slow and don’t typically break. So you can find old resources that are still useful. That being said, it doesnt create innovation. This is why you have so many web frameworks. Innovation cant truly run wild so people reorganize whats inside the box already. To get outside you must connect compute with new sensors, io, etc. and in this case standardization doesnt matter initially
I did too but it's pretty easy to find out which database(s) a company uses:

https://corp.roblox.com/careers/listing/?gh_jid=3363389
Creepypasta and the Age of the Digital Myth
The same should apply to medications. A lot of medication R&D is funded by the NIH at public universities, but private corporations get to patent the fruit of that research and charge Americans exorbitant amounts of money for them while enjoying government-enforced monopolies.
Bash is readily available everywhere, though. Is there a widely used OS that cannot run bash, but can run BusyBox ash or dash?
I would just say, the online world is one thing. More importantly, how is it impacting your real relationships, ie with family/friends? Do they notice this negativity? It's worth speaking candidly with them about it.

Could it be that these comments/blog posts are a bit of a release valve, helping you maintain healthier relationships in real-life? If so, I say great!

One thing I'd like to mention is that, perhaps you're a person with strong opinions. There's nothing particularly wrong with that. I also have pretty strong opinions, and I enjoy debating people (always with good humour). What you need to be mindful of is being overly rigid, making you unable to compromise with others. Do you find you have "rules" around interacting with people? It could be something like refusing to eat at certain restaurants for political reasons. This rigidity can have a negative impact on your relationships. It can be hard to self-assess these things, so once again it's worth asking family/friends.

I'd also just mention, a lot of these things - negative thinking, catastrophising, or rigidity - stem in part from anxiety. This is best addressed through some form of therapy.
There’s no need to shut down the airport entirely. A ban on the sale or overland transport of leaded avgas would be sufficient. Some jurisdictions are threatening this, and the FAA hasn’t made any serious effort to even pretend that it has the authority to prevent it.
And what makes you think side effects aren't possible in the model described?

Think of grep as a way to control flow. If one side effect happens, send to stdout one thing. Another side effect, send something else. Then iterate over those outputs.
It may have happened 10 years ago, but OracleJDK is explicitly built on top of OpenJDK for ages now with their few, mostly cosmetic changes.
> (note: botanically watermelons are vegetables, but culturally we eat them as fruit)

Wait a second, I thought it was the other way around, i.e. I thought that "cousins" of watermelons such as cucumber, squash or zucchini were botanically fruits but we ate them as vegetables. Otherwise, how come that we call them "fruiting vegetables"? Can someone with more knowledge than me, explain this?
Back brief.

https://www.velaction.com/briefback/
I was bought a 80287 maths co pro unit for my PC so I could run AutoCAD. That was a 80286 with 1MB of RAM and a 20MB hard disc.
Balls of Steel Musk
Waving his whole stock for humanity
Shared randomness is when the sender and receiver each have a PRNG or list of random numbers that are synchronized. Both sides know what the “current” and “next” random numbers are.
Hmm, I used to work for Nature Publishing Group (now Springer Nature) and we absolutely did a bunch of work to print and get everyone their Nature subscriptions. While the actual research and review is done by others, there’s some work left in putting it in the right journals/issues, formatting it and distributing it.

Is that worth assigning the copyright for? Probably not, but the fact that publishers are paid for their role doesn’t seem too bad. It’s just the payment model is messed up. There was some movement towards open access though, where all the cost of distribution is just carried by an up-front lump sum (that can come from the researchers grant, I assume).

On top of that there’s a bunch of initiatives inside Nature at least that were funded by the income from other sources, and those are publicly available (I was working on the natureindex).
Bank of Canada has already signaled interest rates will be rising faster than expected. They will have no choice - if rates don’t go up they’ll have inflation problems compounded by a falling dollar.
One gotcha is powershell core has some different apis then the 'windows powershell', best to deploy core on both systems to unify the api.

Also powershell has no support for automatically handling external shell commands that error, you must manually check $LASTEXITCODE (easily done with a custom invoke api that you use for everything).

Also well, some of the escaping in strings is really odd...
It always amazes me how people believe they have a right to retrive data from a website. The HTTP protocol calls it a request for a reason: you are asking for data. The server is allowed to say no, for any reason it likes, even a reason you don't agree with.

This whole field of scraping and anti-bot technology is an arms race: one side gets better at something, the other side gets better at countering it. An arms race benefits no one but the arms dealers.

If we translate this behavior into the real world, it ends up looking like https://xkcd.com/1499
In some areas of math the editorial team has defected for precisely the reasons Doctorow states and founded their own journal. The old journal just recruits a new team and keeps on trucking on the strength of its name. Some academics start submitting to the new journal out of agreement with the mission of freeing publishing, but a lot keep submitting to the old journal because they don't care or even know if the public is being fleeced. The end result is two journals.
Because it has only recently become cheaper to invest in solar rather than "ride out" existing coal investments.

I believe that the natural gas generators are still not at the "ditch as soon as you can" moment that hit coal hit a few years ago, and even then there's only so much solar being made right now.

The other factor is that solar manufacturing isn't being full-bore developed because as soon as you get a plant up, you're at risk of a paradigm shift beating you out. The promise of perovskites might be holding back silicon panel investment.

The Chinese, for as much as US media has been portraying them as a big bad, did a massive solid for the world in pushing solar panel manufacturing and battery manufacturing from the top down.

Granted they wanted to push everyone out/monopolize manufacturing, but who cares WHY, the net effect is to change our possible future for decarbonization. The US would never do that with the dominance of petroleum lobbying.

South Korea should also get a fair amount of credit for supporting Samsung in this direction.
The goal of the book is not to find quick wins in reducing CO2 output, the goal is to give a complete overview over what is necessary to achieve carbon neutrality. And MW/km2 might be a bottleneck if we're to replace all oil & gas with electric power. If you read the book you can actually see what percentage of the seas around the UK would have to be fully covered, to achieve carbon neutrality. If that number really is outdated by an order of magnitude, perhaps MW/km2 is not a bottleneck.
I’ve never seen such a thing. Every locale here has a meter and you are charged monthly for exactly how much you use. Just like water.
Walmart uses PX and it's pretty easy to bypass.
Seriously. It's called "The economics of pumpkin patches," not "10 weird things you didn't know about pumpkins," and it literally discusses the economics of pumpkin patches with actual data.

"Clickbait" now means "an article that sounds interesting to me."
I don’t think it makes much sense to judge software by whether it is Turing complete because otherwise that would make Minecraft a programming language
I have been using TLS1.3 exclusively. I use a local forward proxy and I configure it to use 1.3 only for all outgoing connections.

I have only discovered a few websites that do not yet support TLS1.3.
> but I doubt they are repeating the process to migrate back, especially given how well OpenJDK works

Such a surprise, knowing that the two is one and the same..
Sanctions? For a contract dispute? I'm sure the EU's other member countries don't want to be dragged into that just for France's military industry and its government losing face. That's the kind of pettiness expected of communist China, but Australia imports 2x what they export to the EU. I can't possibly see what sanctions would win in the long term, except damage to their reputation as a fair and trustworthy trade partner.

The reason why France is making so much noise about this is probably because their arms industry does not have legal options to get satisfaction so they're pressuring the government. If they are so unhappy about it they should have negotiated a contract with stronger penalties. It's really pretty difficult to feel sorry for war profiteers who are upset that they don't get to fleece regular plebs out of of quite enough of their own money.

And pretty difficult to feel sorry for notoriously France-first-and-f-the-rest France either. There's more than a few people in the antipodes who remember Operation Satanic, Mururoa, etc.
The proxy service recommendations are pretty expensive. Does anyone have alternatives they suggest to keep costs down?
Genuine question: does it really help ?

This is a real problem to solve, but the issue being in the physical world, it seems to me having rough prints of your photos* and temporarily sticking them at the candidate places would be a more effective solution.

The added advantage being to be able to look at those for longer time, at any moment of the day, and decide if after the fifth time you're already bored with that picture.

* Stiching might be needed depending on the size
Sure. The bigger questions are:

Why did you comment? What got your attention? Did your comment improve the situation? There's likely a pattern so look for it and decide if its worth keeping. Is it really you being you?

Why were you seeking out this negativity? Is this the best way to live? All the time you spend in negativity is time you are not spending positively. There's a significant opprtunity cost here.

Procrastination also often involves distraction. Negativity tends to come along for the ride as well.
No, that was a CT scan.

Different operating principle. CT scan uses X-rays beams from many angles, like taking X-ray photographs from different angles, and the images are combined mathematically into a 3D image. X-rays are a lot like regular visible light, they travel in straight beams and form clear images when focused, except unlike visible light, many substances are more transparent to X-rays.

MRI uses radio signals in the microwave or below frequency range combined with a high strength magnet with a shaped magnetic field to make a field strength gradient. The radio waves resonate with some atomic nuclei at a frequency which depends on the magnetic field strength, so the combination of magnetic field gradient and radio frequency creates a thin layer in space where resonance occurs, affecting the radio waves in that layer while they pass through the rest of space much less affected. The layer is moved around, radio receivers pick up the affected signal, and the 3D image is reconstructed from that signal.
I make considerably more than my parents combined when they bought our last family house in 1989. That house is now about twice what I can afford and about 600% what they paid for it. Having doubled in just the past few years.

It’s ridiculous.

My wife and I bought a house in rural Ontario. It appreciated by 25% in two years.

It’s ridiculous.

I don’t want property to be an investment asset. I want it to be a tool, as close to at-cost as reasonably possible. I want everyone to have secure homes. And not just by eternally paying rent.
To play devil's advocate, the value these prestigious journals provide is providing an objective function to optimize allocation of resources in academia. To advance one's career in academia, one needs to publish in prestigious journals, there isn't really a way around it (and if the entire system were to change, resources would need to be invested to create a different hierarchy of publication quality). To whatever extent publishing in prestigious journals captures scientific quality (and/or political astuteness), it serves the purpose of funneling more resources to those that optimize that objective. So it's not really a scam when everyone has run their individual game theory and chosen to continue with this particular system, and these journals can extract their cut because there is still value in publishing in Nature/Science/Annals or whatever. There is a push to change some of this but typically only the most successful academics can afford to boycott these journals, after already having dozens of publications vetted by the existing system.
If you wanted to avoid this in math notation without being overly verbose you could write x,y \in (0,1) and x <= y.
Fair enough ^^.
Humans were often raped and enslaved when they were pillaged. Sometimes used for food or entertainment.

It is a sad truth that humans had little trouble viewing other humans as resources.
There's also a fair amount of scraping for things like...

- Reselling aggregated data

- Competitive pricing and inventory data

- "Sniping", like with auctions, event tickets, or things like airline check-in processes that are first-come, first-serve

- Weird SEO stuff where people scrape content in the hopes that isn't indexed yet, and they can beat you to it.

- And, sort of in the space you mentioned, searching for existing vulnerabilities by various signatures, or trying to brute-force guess things like passwords.
This would be more helpful with furniture. If companies started to upload 3d pictures of their products, it would be useful for an app like this.
I'm quite happy to see that something Bash-related is on Hacker News! Unfortunately it seems that I don't really agree with much the author...

While I do agree that it would be nice to be able to have 'local' functions and have inter-function cleanup work better, the logical conclusion for me was not to use function subshells. Since the use case is for larger programs (where different functions may want to have their own cleanup mechanisms), I'm opting to go for more of a library route. For example, I'm working on a Bash library that includes a function to allow different sources to add (and remove) functions to the same `TRAP`. A similar function may be useful, possibly involving the `RETURN` trap and the `-T` flag for the use case the author brings up. Obviously, using a package manager for _Bash_ of all languages brings in a lot of overhead, but I think it can be quite powerful, especially with a potential "Bundle" feature that makes scripts work without the package manager.

Concerning specifically the use of subshells, (as other commenters have pointed out) it significantly reduces performance. I also disagree that dynamic scoping is necessarily bad for Bash. I find it quite useful when I need to use various common functions to manipulate a variable - since modifying and 'returning' variables from a function is usually either slow or verbose with Bash. Admittedly though, this feature is quite annoying at times - for example, most public functions in my Bash package manager[2] all have their variables prefixed with two underscores - because they `source` all the shell scripts of all package dependencies - so I want to be extra certain nothing weird happens

[1] https://github.com/hyperupcall/bash-core/blob/a17ab0a8b6070f...

[2] https://github.com/hyperupcall/basalt/blob/main/pkg/lib/publ...
Several aspects to this in my experience, which is heavily influenced by early buddhist teachings.

Firstly, make a habit of seeing the full picture of something you’re evaluating or judging. This might be the ‘other side’ of the story (someone else’s perspective), the benefits of something you’re criticising that you’re otherwise missing, or an understanding of the worth of something you might be defending.

Secondly is to recognise the benefit of positive thoughts (like goodwill towards others) on yourself and the people around you. You may like to add some intentional practices here such as what’s referred to in Buddhism as loving kindness (‘metta’) meditation or performing generous acts. The uplifting in mind state you get here will incline you away from a lot of criticising and judging.

Principally though the goal would be to get to a point where a build up of negativity is not occurring for you and there’s no need to vent, but getting there is practice. It is great that you are reflecting on this and looking for another way so best of luck to you!
Is that a lot? What’s a normal number
>Once you get to selenium it's usually over, just had to emulate a couple of heavy users with real browsers and voila.

Can you say more about this? What do you mean by "Once you get to selenium it's usually over", and how do you manage cold starts in Selenium and emulating heavy usage?

Say your program starts right now, I assume you don't go through "adding heavy usage" to "warm-up", then get down to business, correct?
When my wife's grandfather passed away (2008 I think?), her mom&uncle sold their neglected and sad old house in Bloor West Village for about $500k, in a pretty bad state.

My wife and I had just bought our first home a couple years before, and we kinda pondered buying the grandparents' place off family, but figured we couldn't possibly swing the mortgage to get the renos done. What a missed opportunity, we'd be sitting on a goldmine now.

The new owner just let it sit there for years; haven't been by to see what has been done to it.
The article didn't say you should always use subshells for functions, no exceptions. Just that most of the time it probably makes more sense to do so. And subshell functions can still have side effects like interacting with the filesystem, they just can't modify the parent shell's environment.
I would think that it's effectively impossible to modify cyanobacteria to be unaffected by "its cyanophage" (it would be many different cyanophages, wouldn't it?) in the long run - you can create a strain that's immune to the currently popular cyanophages, but viruses and phages do mutate quickly and given a cyanobacteria bloom I'd expect another functioning phage to emerge soon.

Also, it seems to me that a major cyanobacteria explosion would be sufficiently fundamental to screw up the whole ecosystem around them; it might help carbon capture but at a cost/risk to other green values such as biodiversity and security of the ocean-based food chain for humans.
The actual legal merits are irrelevant. You can't win IP disputes against $900B companies, and you'd go bankrupt in the attempt.

It's cheaper to just change the name and users won't care if the product is good anyway.
i was actually saying the opposite. somebody needs to know spreadsheets and not ego to run meta to the fullest.
Meant that if it was mandated by the government then Wikipedia would maybe accommodate them or other platforms would as well or new ones would be created.
Like Ikea does?