skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then fall back to downloading the full OS image. Then the worst case would be about the same as today, while the common (99.9%+) case would be fast and bandwidth-cheap.

(Optimization: hash tree, figure out which specific files are broken and download only those.)
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Exactly my thoughts. Mere clothes washing was a full day activity. Go to the well, bring water. Chop wood for heating. Milk cow, tend to chickens. Fix the fence...
All this coupled with less then abundant available calories, and the slow paced work does paint a different picture.

Maybe they were not that relaxed, but slow paced work came from the necessary energy conservation?
You can host more than one domain per ip. And most hosting providers, not just cloud providers do also offer packages with a static IP address.

Yes, we do not have enough IP address for all IoT devices, for all refrigerators and smart bulbs.
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The weight loss industry is a multibillion-dollar industry which means that there are so many methods available that can help you lose weight including various eating plans.
If you are looking into eating plans, it can be challenging to try to determine what the best eating plan to lose weight for you will be which will give you the results you want without starving or banning too many foods.
> There's nothing tangible here

Tangible strikes me as an imprecise word. In a sense, all sorts of things are intangible, from copyrights to money. Does a bitcoin count as intangible?

> What does the "owner" of the tweet actually have that nobody else has?

It's plainly Dorsey's tweet, not mine, and not yours. Dorsey wrote it, published it on his account, has the ability to destroy the tweet, and presumably owns the copyright. It's the same thing with baseball cards, they're valuable because they're official, and the community has to defend against counterfeits.
Honestly, I've never played a game of Chess, I actually have no idea how it works (I'm 32 years old lol)!

I'd love to learn though, I might write a blog post some day detailing how long it took for me to 'get good' (or I might suck at it).
Apparently it's a common phenomenon. Hans Selye in his _From Dream to Discovery: On Being a Scientist_ recommends always keeping a pen and notepad bedside, since breakthrough thoughts often gestate in twilight of sleep.
> More competitors

... are helpful to workers and producers.
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any ideas for projects "simple is good" repurposing some old modems?
I'd say better personally, but that's just me.

Edit: to explain a touch more - I liked the story and its characters more, and even though I played it over 2 years ago I still remember the story pretty well. Breaking bad had a couple interesting points but I couldn't tell you what happened between seasons or really much outside of the main points.
Pacing and editing. In video games the director can't control the pace and (to a degree) sequence of events to achieve maximum emotional impact, as it is possible in movies.
Maybe I do not fully understand, what is requested but I think am missing something.

I thought one would like to have a ground profile, _without_ the trees.
If one laser penetrates the leaves (and not the ground), why the complicated setup with to laser signals and calculating the difference. The second penetrating would be sufficient.
Singapore inherits its penal code from the British, and most locals find drugs abhorrent because they're acutely aware of both the Opium Wars in China, and the former extent of drug addiction and gang violence in Singapore itself.
I miss the boot experience of my RAID0 Raptors. You could feel the machine turning on from across the room. I'd upgraded from ~5400 too, so it really was something special.
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In other words, the hr departments are lying by pretending to be people, and by asking for applications and then not evaluating them.

It's perfectly fair to treat them like they treat everyone else.
I have a friend who was running a successful dating site over ADSL from a spare PC in a spare bedroom in London. This was in the early 2000s. She sold it a few years later for £££££££s.

This was considered a sophisticated operation because in the late 90s and early 00s basic hosting and email were often included with consumer Internet packages.

Server hacking and DDOSing weren't quite the organised thing they are today.
Guess this is still written in Elm btw https://mobile.twitter.com/abletondev/status/861580662620508...
It's difficult to give advice in that matter without first hearing you giving a try at improvisation to check where you're starting from. I've started learning jazz at 16 (50 now) and you never cease to learn (obviously), but I can say that obviously different people learn in different ways.

Basically I'd say there are 3 parts in learning improvisation: the theoretical part (which is already a complex one because there are several possible theoretical approaches to jazz improvisation), the imitation part (learn and play back existing phrases, or better complete solos from the masters), the by-ear / singing part (the toughest one that most actually don't reach, at least reliably).

Don't forget that there is definitely a large social part in jazz improvisation; I'd rate my improvisation ability as uninteresting most of the time; I can get "in the zone" accidentally by myself, but more often it's a band thing: playing with the right people often enough and long enough to get together in "the zone". Yes, that's exactly the same zone as the programming one; you're lost in the music, feeling what's coming next and what notes should be played by whom (there only comes your technical ability in the picture) without thinking about it.

In my personal case, a long practice of classical piano hampered my early capability at improvisation for a long time and I needed the crutch of theory, and to intellectualize the process.
Some blessed people "ear" the right notes without needing any justification "why" they are the right ones.

When you've got a long practice of your instrument, the difficulty is to free yourself from the reassuring but useless knowledge and habits you have that bring you to play this scale or this phrase because it's "in your fingers". The best way to reach that point is to have hundreds of ready phrases in all tones "in your fingers", and then try to forget them and listen to the music. Hopefully, you'll feel what goes where, like an unrolling, animated puzzle, or a Tetris game.

Personally I've found Kent Hewitt's advice to be very useful, I think it may help a lot of people. What's great in his playing is that he keeps it very simple, but always richly melodic.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdmjw5sm9Kn83TB_rA_QBCw

Another piece of advice I can give you is to learn to recognize chords and all the different ways they're built (by stacking thirds or fourths, etc) and how they come in succession (the usual II V I VI and friends) to get a better feel of what comes here or there.
I can't say I disagree. Monetization slowly disfigured the internet beyond recognition during the last 15 years.
I mean batteries might work! My problems with that approach is that:

1) Batteries are in everything. If we want to go from fossil fuels to renewables + batteries, at the same time as we go from ICE cars to BEVs, that's going to be a lot of batteries. Does the world have enough raw materials and batteries to do that?

Back of the envelope: My country consumes 77 TWh yearly or about 212 GWh per day (assuming it is evenly distributed). To cover day-to-night cycle, would we need 100 to 150 GWh of batteries? That's a lot of batteries (seem like yearly production of whole world but I can't find good source) and 10 % of our GDP in current battery prices.

2) If we're saying "renewables are cheaper", are we really adding the cost of storage?
This comment reminds me of the book "Daily Rituals: How Artists Work"
Legislation in the US allows the death penalty for drug trafficking alone, although AFAIK this has never been applied without violent offences as well.
If you don’t want to dislike what is done with “your” company, don’t sell.

It often seems like the ability to sell companies isn’t in the best interests of a very large number of people.
The web was once diverse, but now it is not.

I would eliminate third party requests for page assets. If you need images, css, js, or such it would come from the same origin as the page that requests it.

1. This would eliminate third party tracking

2. This would eliminate abuse of advertising

3. This would eliminate CDNs and thus force page owners to become directly liable for the bandwidth they waste

4. It would make walled gardens more expensive

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I would also ensure that section 230 is more precisely defined such that content portals are differentiated from the technology mechanisms on which such traverse. The idea here is that Section 230 continues to protect network operators, web servers, and storage providers from lawsuits about content but not the website operators that publish such.

1. Sites like Facebook and Twitter would become liable for their users submissions regardless of moderation or not

2. Terms of service agreements would largely become irrelevant and meaningless

3. This would radically increase operational risks for content portals and thus reinforce content self-hosting and thus a more diverse internet

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I would ensure that identity certificates were free and common from the start.

1. The web would start with TLS everywhere.

2. This would make available models other than client/server for the secure and private distribution of content

3. This would, in joint consideration of the adoption of IPv6, also eliminate reliance upon cloud providers and web servers to distribute personal or social content
For that we should look at what baseline is. Ideally all our power sources would adjust instantaneously to demand. In reality that is not possible. Traditionally, power plants which can be run constantly at fixed output (i.e. coal plants, nuclear power plants), have been cheaper to operate, so we used those for "baseline" power and more expensive adjustable plants (e.g. gas turbines) to follow the load.

However, the new reality is that wind/solar are cheaper than the old baseline plants. Now wind/solar do not supply us a with a constant power like those old baseline plants, but instead with variable supply as well. So we still need fast adjustable sources (or storage), which now even out both variable supply and demand. By over provisioning (and net interconnectivity) we can reduce the need for adjustable sources. Essentially if you have enough renewable sources to cover the high demands at low wind/sun you can always turn off the sources when you overshoot and because they are cheap it is economical unfeasible.
so what do you suggest, that the person you were replying to just stop the pandemic?
It’s still pretty astonishing to me that it can squeeze 4K60 out at all.
You have my sincerest sympathies, I can see the onslaught of corporate media coverage and social media engagement has exhausted you to the point where you aren't even able to muster a scintilla of scepticism anymore. Nobody was beaten to death on Jan 6th, Brian Sicknick died of "natural causes". NYT, Wapo etc have retracted this misinformation but as you can see the horse has bolted on that front [1][2].

You respond to a post about CNN, question the 'urgency' of the criticism and then claim that you've made 'no comment' about CNN coverage. Read your own post, you directly claim it is less important than your perceived threat of right wing extremism. The fact that you replied this way shows how mired you are in partisan politics. The opposite to CNN isn't Fox News.

A few tweets isn't going to change my mind about the extent of the threat. Trump was able to rustle up around 3000 crazy people to breach the Capitol in a nation of 300+ million. I would wager Al Gore would have been able to get people to do this if he was as deranged as Trump. It really tells us nothing. As for your tweets showing violence at the Olympia protest, am I supposed to believe this is representative? Because if I am then I'd have to conclude far left extremism is the greater threat considering a counter-protestor shot someone. To be clear, I am not denying the existence of extremists I am questioning whether they are as numerous as journalists are trying to convince you they are.

You can ridicule people for raising questions about the FBI's involvement in Jan 6th all you want but the only people to blame for this are the FBI themselves. They have shown themselves perfectly willing to celebrate foiling plots that they essentially created whether it was after 9/11 or as recently as the Whitmer 'assassination plot' which was 50% FBI agents and organised at an FBI funded event [3]. Everyone should treat what the CIA, NSA and FBI say with extreme scepticism, regardless of your politics.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/us/who-died-in-capitol-bu...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/brian-sic...
[3] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/michigan-k...
> our standards for story telling in video games are really low.

Nah, the standards are just different because of the medium. Just like you wouldn't write a book where people sing for 10 minutes every time they talk, and you wouldn't write opera that lasts for 40 hours and has realistic acting and dialogs - you can't compare stories between different media ignoring the differences. And the difference that interactivity makes is bigger than the different constrains between novels and opera.

The more detailed and intricate a story of a game is - the less freedom of choice the player has. In the extreme case you have so called "visual novels" which let you make 10-20 choices the whole game at predefined places. They barely qualify as games and they are very niche genre in gaming because they don't play to the strengths of the medium. At that point you might as well read a "choose your own adventure" book. The most common emotion they cause in players is frustration because they wanted the protagonist to do something else, but they can't influence the story in any way at the moment.

On another end of the spectrum you have games like minecraft - where the story is your struggle vs the mechanics of the game, and there's no need for any pre-defined plot because you create the plot with every keyboard input you do every second. Freedom of choice = 100%, plot = 0%. Most gamers prefer these kinds of games because they can only be realized as games.

The plot in minecraft can be "night was coming and I forgot the close the doors to the mines, then a creeper came and blew up my bed and pushed me into a chasm near a river of lava - I had 5% hitpoints left and if I died then I would get respawned in random place on the map cause no bed - I would maybe have to spend hours trying to find my base again so I had to think hard how to get out of there alive". It's a great story that forces the player to feel strong emotions. And it won't happen to any other player the exact same way which makes it even better. If you add traditional plot to Minecraft you make it worse.

No matter if a story in art is detailed and intricate, or barely there - what matters is how it makes people feel. Novels have 100s of pages, poems might have 4 lines, but you won't say "stories in poetry suck".

In Opera the main point is music, so the story is designed around that (and the time and place constraints). In games the tradeoffs are different, but it doesn't mean that it's somehow "low standards".

Most games tend to prefer less plot and more freedom because it plays to the strengths of the medium. It's a trade-off.

> it was the same story as all first person shooters going back to Doom: Bad guys spawn across an inter-dimensional portal and start wreaking havoc

almost every book is Hero's Journey if we look from high enough. Details matter. You can take the same central conflict and write 1000 books that make you feel 1000 different emotions.
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> can be turned on and off quickly and on demand

Nuclear can be throttled up at most within an hour? Down almost immediately I suspect.
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Just a touch? What would this project have customized that they would need to keep secret and that would be interesting for others? Probably next to nothing. It’s just people harassing Trump because it’s Trump.

Meanwhile it just looks really bad for open source in general:

This project is free but if you use it people will sue you for not complying with obtuse regulations. With this other software the rules are clear and the vendor isn’t going to sue you, you just have to pay a few thousand dollars.

Now let’s all act all surprised companies are hesitant to use open source software.
The one thing that I don't stand is how they are closing up IPv6. It should have cheap public addresses and represent the future. Anyone should be able to host, just like the old times.

Instead they put NATs even in IPv6 "for my security"
Previously:

2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14299628

2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20965386
> When you run into the marines you aren't told they're bad, they just start trying to kill you and you figure out that you're not getting a rescue.

That is not exactly subtle nor needs much figuring. Them trying to kill you is game telling you they are bad in very straightforward way.
Oh good, more acronyms. This will surely help. Thanks.
it's been so long since i've seen pbf comics .. such a superior format.
> if you're going to write a desktop environment with widgets, buttons, list views, GL abstraction, file system explorers, image viewers, etc... you're going to reimplement pretty much the whole of Qt Core / Gui / Widgets anyways

Is this not the same basic rationalization process anyone goes through when introducing third-party dependencies to a project?

You either:

1. don't include the functionality

2. implement it yourself

3. depend on something else to do it for you
>So in theory the modern day could be a Cambrian explosion of tiny communities. Is this the case?

Yes, it has been.

>Maybe there are a lot of them hiding and they fear eternal september?

They're mostly on centralized social media platforms like Reddit, and discovery of niche content is more difficult on the modern web, but that doesn't mean that content isn't out there. I'm using "community" here to refer to a group of people with common interests, not an individual website. So "Reddit" is not a community in and of itself, but /r/niche_subreddit_youve_never_heard_of is.
If you read the early RFCs (say, RFC-1000 or earlier) you'll find that FTP was the go-to protocol of the day, much like HTTP has become today.
Words can certainly change gender over time or be non-gendered if that is what you mean. But it doesn't make any sense to say that a word is non-binary in a trinary gender system like in Latin.
> (…) his comparison of game stories to movies.

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

Not only the length makes video game stories different. Another huge difference is that in video games you actually get to be the character(s). You don’t just passively experience the story like in a movie or a book, you’re an active part of it. Even better: you can have the player make meaningful choices that affect the plot, which is something unique to games as a medium.
Well Breaking Bad is a series and Uncharted 4 is a pretty short, intense ride, so it's a little apples to oranges comparison, but if I compare the first season of Breaking Bad (the only one I've seen) to Uncharted 4, which are both a few hours worth of entertainment, I don't remember the storyline of Breaking Bad being any more intricate or innovative, I mean, terminal patient does questionable things with an unlikely sidekick with expected results.

Of course I may be entirely wrong, it's been some time, but I remember both leaving a similar impression on me.
This is why complaining about MIDI over USB is nonsense. Anyone with more than 3/4 MIDI 1.0 items has always needed at least a simple hub - and possibly a full patch bay, perhaps with processing of key splits, patch mappings, velocity ranges, and so on - all those things you'd use a computer for today.

The MIDI 1.0 benefit of connecting keyboard-to-keyboard really didn't last long in practice. Of course you can always do it in theory, but most practical applications at all levels need those extra features.
suprisingly thorough, thanks for the initiative :)
Nonsense, FDR was only able to implement his transformative policies because the populace were on the verge of going after the elite in the country. They had to throw them some crumbs in the form of Social Security Act. This paved the way for Medicare and Medicaid. The country shifted to far leftist until the pendulum started to swing back to the right with the Civil Rights Act being the catalyst.

We are in similar circumstances in this decade where the nearly unrestricted capitalism of the Reagan era has clearly failed. What will be the breaking point that forces the pendulum back? I don't know. Maybe it will end up being the long tail of destruction in the post-COVID or era maybe something we haven't seen yet.

We will see a far leftist paradigm in this country in our lifetimes but it may end up being a time where many young people here will already be reaching older age. Oldest Millennials are 40+ now so many of them will never recover from the damage done already. Gen-Z may still have a chance. Hopefully Gen Alpha will not have to bear too much of the brunt of the current collapsing right wing paradigm and they can benefit from a Left leaning paradigm when they come of age in 20 years.
> top #1 for me as far as story goes - ignoring the game play completely - was Horizon Zero Dawn

I watched people play it to the end - mostly. I played it when it came out on PC - never completed it; the combat didn’t work for me.

Personally I think it has a cool sci-fi premise but that’s it. I found the characters … stiff, shallow, and pretty cliché. Aloy is yet another messianic player character that we have seen a billion times. Apart from the enigmatic main villain - which is yet another well worn trope - all the side characters feel pretty 2 dimensional.

I’m going to get skewered for saying this … but the story feels like it’s pandering to current social political trends - i.e. the obsession with diversity.

I don’t know why exactly the “diversity” in modern stories bug me so much but I never had a problem with Star Trek. Maybe it’s the egalitarian in me, modern stories seem to have an emphasis on differentiating people by their ethnicity and background while Star Trek promoted the view that all people regardless of ethnicity or background be treated as peers - where you stand on your own merits as an individual.
I feel like the author has missed some important games, like Star Control 2 and Final Fantasy 7.
Love this! However the fact it (and any favicon changing) doesn’t work in safari is really frustrating. I believe Safari does really aggressive caching of the icon so you can’t even get it to update a number (see the gmail icon, makes it a rubbish as a pinned tab) let alone animate.
22 years ago the top 5 companies in the S&P 500 were not all like Exxon Mobil and Generatel Electric. Microsoft, Cisco and Intel were there. More than one third of the index caputalization was in the IT sector.
I’m sure that there still are some offerings that don’t do that. Vote with your wallet.