skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah this is my point, if the thing a part of the game conveys is interesting, it doesn't matter all that mutch if is technically very simple in other regards.

What I hate however is when games have the most inspiring world and fail to tell unique stories in it. E.g. the game plays in South America, yet I learn nothing about the reginal culture when I play it, because all Characters are very generic.

This is something that made Witcher 3 great: nearly every quest managed to convey some feeling about how it must have been to live in the medival ages (or some fantasy version of it).

I like it when games take their own world seriously and root every character, story and object deeply within the history of that world. And yes, sometimes that means telling the player things they can't understand immidiately, because they come from a different culture and world.

If you could exchange the world just like that without changing a lot about the quests, you are doing it wrong.
It's not about proprietary vs open, it's about not mixing document rendering with code execution.

Should MS Word and Adobe PDF also execute code? Should I only be able to run an application only by executing it in MS Word and Adobe PDF reader?
The European energy crisis has roughly nothing to do with renewables.
Its like on famous bank robber said, 'We rob banks because that's where the money is'.

Government have the same intensive. Usually banking doesn't really remain a relatively free market for very long.
Half-Life is the "Seinfeld is unfunny" of FPS games.
but when we are talking about open-source the only practical difference between 2. and 3. is the git repo in which the files are. There's no difference between depending on myself from yesterday writing pushbutton.cpp and depending someone else writing the same code 15 years ago, those are different persons than myself writing image_editor_ui.cpp today in both cases.
> One can be a fan of something without trying to blindly apply it to areas where it doesn't make sense.

Starting a discussion with a "I'm a huge fan" before spending the next 10 min to debunk the thing is not "being a fan of" but just a sign of being hypocritical, or manuipulative or both.

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

Renewable alone (Without Coal or Gas) implies nationally to have close to 100% of the production capacity in storage alone (Battery, power2Gas or hydro storage) to compensate solar / wind intermittency. Which no country on Earth is able to do right now: not even close to, not even as a minor part of their production. That is the real straw-man argument.

Climate emergency need actions and solutions now, Nuclear is one of them. Dreams scenario where storage does everything renewable cannot do is not realist with the current technology available excepted in powerpoint bullshit slides.
And it will not for the next 20 years even with a Colosseum size investment.

> 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].

Solar and winds are currently highly subsidized and are still intermittent. With storage cost considered, any of their hypothetical advances goes into vapor.

At the opposite, France was producing electricity cheaper than its neighbours for around 30 years before photovoltaic and Wind power even became a thing.

> Again, strawman's argument. The discussion is about what should be built, not what has been built.

The discussion is about what can be and should be done now to reduce CO2 emission as fast as possible if we do not want get toasted in 20 years. Bcause in 20 years, it is already too late.

And the easy answer is built damn nuclear power plants and at the world scale. Not take 20 years to play with techs that are still on the design board: Power2Gas is one of them. And everything else is not scalable in term of storage.

> and power to gas has an end to end loss of roughly 50%

I do see power to gas as the last desperate attempt of the oil and gas industry to stay relevant in the next decade. Nothing more. For the rest it's a joke. It is a joke in term of investment, it is a joke in term of efficiency, it is a joke in term of economical viability. Hydrogen has its usage, but not as backbone of the power grid.
Exactly. And even if you don't have any real choices to make, you still get to experience the story as your story, not a tale.

The author would probably think I'm a lunatic for it, but I consider the original Call of Duty: Modern Warfare trilogy to have a good story. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and unlike with other shooters, and even though it followed multiple characters simultaneously, I was able to suspend disbelief enough to experience it as if it was my story, my world.

The writing of CoD: MW 1-3 would probably be considered a passable military fiction by most critic, if even that. But I bring this particular example up, instead of say Mass Effect trilogy, to highlight the unique aspect of videogames: it can make you live through a story, which neither books nor movies can. It's a distinct kind of experience.
I like the idea of earning money by people calling me and helping them with the topics where I consider myself to be an expert.

The other way round is probably als true. Got an algorithm design problem where you're stuck? Call a computer scientist.
Agreed. Less latency and continuous.
> Writing (with good style on interesting topics) would be nice.

Sure. Playing piano improvising over jazz chords would be nice too. But as with writing you need to put in the hours to get there. The hard work is a reality check on a maybe romanticized idea of writing.
> As part of this transition, the technology powering Meta will remain available to the community; we will support access to the Meta application and associated services, including the Digests and API, through March 31, 2022.

So, summing it up, Facebook has just been renamed to Meta, but until March 31, 2022 it will coexist with Meta[.org], which is led by Zuckerberg's wife, who has coincidentally decided to shut her project down a few days Meta was announced.
> Who is asking for trillions?

Governments and their owners/political donors.

> Who is flying out of a window?

Common sense. We could solve climate and achieve net zero carbon in a decade if we focused on 4th gen nuclear. But that's not as profitable to the aforementioned donors, so it ain't happening.
I don't know about syntax errors (I've seen them fail silently), however, at least with ViolentMonkey and Firefox, you can use an external editor for development and for debugging you can step through using the debugger.
It's not an entirely technical hurdle, but eventually you run into repeated issues when trying to recreate application context across different applications. That means to do so at scale can be solved by a technology solution.

To me the issues that require addressing are things like standardization, general uniqueness proofs, Cross-app total order broadcast, identity and service discovery, to just name a few.

My feeling is that the internet does not solve these problems, especially at the application layer, and therefore interoperability is a technical solution that is required for a metaverse like vision.
* A better IRC with security, anonimity, scalability so people don't actually need Slack, MS Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, Whatsapp, iChat and tens of other apps just to be able to talk with each other.

* A protocol for running distributed binary apps. Transforming the browser in an operating system sucks for both users and developers.
Your article also mentions the solution to the fuel problem: Not throwing away almost all the energy, but instead using breeder reactors to extract it.
With the caveat that I very much enjoyed Kingdom Come, it’s bog-standard story didn’t even _end_ in the game.
> Meta on the other hand is the best possible metaverse name

It's not like we all use search.com. Having an on the nose name doesn't necessarily mean having a good one.
I played one single game once and the opponent used one of these bait openings so obviously I fell for it and lost immediately.
I own less than 250 things
Yes. My parents (and almost everyone in our village) were killed by baddies hired by someone for some political reason, I was recognized as a lame illiterate nobody and was only reluctantly accepted to serve under a master of regional importance, who is pursuing his own political goals (and has a special connection to me through something) and making the most of the difficult situation of the kingdom. I was sent on several wildly different missions to investigate, bribe or fight my way through several interesting events and situations, all totally believable and anchored in the context of the story and actual history, meeting dozens of different characters, some of them real historical figures, each with their own carefully written backstory.
Each of those laser array chips is ~$300 when bought as a factory reject from China.

He has 9 of them...

Is YouTube really profitable enough to spend $2.5k just in parts, not to mention the other components and a few days to assemble test and film this?
Is there a way to get the "PE ratio" excluding growth/marketing costs? My understanding is that the growth/marketing costs come under the operating expenses, so will not show as profits/earnings. If a company, has $100bn in revenue and puts it all back into growth and customer acquistion, it will look like they are not profitable, even if they could be if they decided to lower their growth investment. Is there a way to separate normal business running expenses vs "growth expenses"?
vrchat is not open source. opensimulator is not VR, nor a chat
It was a good story at the time; it created a genre and is indirectly responsible for many, many great works.

If it was created today, it’d be a generic high fantasy work.
Agreed that the procedural complication is not resolved. Soltuons that do make this problem go away is the next frontier in this conversation.

I believe the path to those soltuons does lie on the road of ubiquitous and dynamic technical interoperabity for web applications.
wat? Google used clicks ("navboost") since approximately forever, it's one of strongest signals for all major web search engines. I guess the better question is why they don't optimize ranking directly on clicks, why still bother with all that expensive human raters business... well optimizing for clicks helps but only until a certain point beyond which it starts hurting relevancy by overpromoting old popular results and clickbait. But as an ingredient in overall ranking in one way or another they and everyone else definitely use click data.
While true, the same would apply to code using Async blocks. Async does not attempt (or intend) to enable parallel execution of VM byte code.

If the parent commenter saw a speed up in their tests, it’s reasonable to assume that is because of the difference in overhead of switching threads vs fibers.
The bot is here: https://landbot.io/u/H-21339-D3E1Y71AQ500MEJ8/index.html
Wealthy individuals’ airplanes are already burning Jet-A in turbine engines.

Who’s piloting the airliners that the not very wealthy are flying on? Working pilots.

In what type of airplane did they train? Piston engine aircraft.

Now that they need to have 1500 hours experience before taking the yoke of a commercial airliner in the US, where will they get that time? Overwhelmingly in piston-engine aircraft. Typically as a flight instructor, which will go to near zero if you kill the ability of practical intermediate distance travel to be done by high-compression and/or turbocharged light aircraft.

(Alaska and Caribbean islands also has a lot of very much not rich people flying around in or getting necessary supplies delivered by 100 octane needing airplanes.)

Commercial operations using 100LL dwarf personal plane operations using 100LL. Cape Air burns way more avgas on a Tuesday in July than I burn in a year.

Back to “Very wealthy” individuals running turbines. If I could afford it, I would be too. It’s a better engine solution (almost) all around, except the operating costs are a low single-digit multiple higher and capital costs around 10x, which puts it out of reach of almost every individual. No one should cry for me here, but there’s a huge subset of 100LL-based operations that you probably approve of or judge essential and want to continue.
Just listing important games with a sentence of rationale for each would take longer than the article.
Nice. Had no idea those options where available in curl. TIL!
Wait, cooking a banana with a microwave oven can destroy it ?
Paper Grain in Origami
First, read those same religious sources to see the stories about greed and pride. Know that there are very large market forces distorting your picture of reality. Read up on Tether, and how it is distorting reality as well.

There are a lot of funds flowing through these systems that would otherwise go through other channels. This just happens to be a good way to route around limits on the movement of capital at the moment.

Cryptocurrency is not money, nor is it an investment. It's a bet that the status quo will be maintained long enough for you to withdraw your funds later at a smaller loss than inflation, and a possible speculative gain.

There are a lot of people who mined a few bitcoin back in the day, and lucked out on the speculation, so they all have positive stories to tell, and cautionary tales of selling too soon, not being careful enough, etc.

Consider cryptocurrency to be the newest version of Beanie Babies, and act accordingly.
That all seems like pretty solid advice. Chunking the piece up but practicing overlapping parts is particularly good - if you neglect the overlapping part you can end up with obvious 'seams' in the piece when you put it all together.

Listening to the piece first is always helpful, but be careful not to become overly dependent on learning by ear - it can cripple your sight reading in the long run. Same goes for separate hand practice. While both of these can speed up your progress early on, becoming a good sight reader pays dividends later on.
For me, most of the time the hard part is not writing the code, but understanding all the code around it so that I figure out where to get my inputs from and not break anything. I can't do that without sitting at the computer and reading the code.
There used to be an awesome blog site called consumerist that had a "Shrink Ray" section where they would try to track all the consumer products that were secretly degraded in some way. The blog shut down a while ago. Guess big industry got to them.

[1]:https://consumerist.com/tag/shrink-ray/index.html
That's really interesting, I remember trying to get my hands on Gujian 2 when it first came out, which was impossible at that time. Glad to see it's now on Steam!

I think at first I played Nier Automata mainly for the mechanics. The worldbuilding and backstory take a while to pick up steam. But once it gets going, it has some unique and interesting ideas. I still feel they could have gone a lot deeper with a lot of things though. For example, the idea that robots would start their own religion seemed intriguing, but in the end they didn't really do much with it. Still very enjoyable and surprisingly a lot of food for thought.

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll check them out!
In general, local owners of airports can shut down the airport once they’ve satisfied any agreements relating to funding they’ve taken for airport improvements (often paid 90% by an FAA agreement in exchange to operate on a FAND [fair and non-discriminatory] basis for a few decades).

Comply with those terms and keep the airport working using only local funds for that length of time and close it at the end if you want.
This touches on what I think is really wrong with internet innovation.
We haven’t adopted a new wide spread protocol since the early 2000s because all big tech wants to silo their user base or make a protocol that gives them a massive first mover advantage(AMP, RCS).

I wish we could make new protocols at all.
Pardon my ignorance, but what is the end goal here? I feel like the end goal to hold a share today is to sell it to someone else for a higher price. It just doesn't sit right with me. Feels like a ponzi scheme to be honest.
NAT without port forwarding done by router facing the ISP, the default kind of NAT which the subscriber does not have to worry about configuring, has very great security aspect. Connect your home network devices to the router doing that kind of NAT,and this automatically protects all devices in your local network from incoming connections.
How are trademarks registered? Why not use the same procedure for domain names?
> Amplification makes a DDoS bigger, but isn't what makes it a DDoS.

I know, but large botnets like MIRAI and similar usually take advantages of how UDP flooding works, because TCP RST packets don't scale as well.

I was just mentioning that because ISPs could easily get rid of most UDP-based DDoS attacks if they would watch their networks' packet sources (what they're doing anyways).

Usually it's literally just a comparison of IANA assigned IP ranges (of source+victim being inside or outside), and if they're mismatching, it's very likely to be a UDP flooding attack.
I recently found out AdGuard for Android allows you to inject user scripts on pages too, which is awesome. If you're a heavy user script user (heh), highly recommend you check it out.

Also, if you're a heavy vim user, and if you use tridactyl for Firefox, for some of the easier user script (e.g. simple redirects), you can use tridactyl, which might be cleaner. It's not as clean for larger scripts but it can work too.
> 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.

Overprovisioning by how much? Currently ( at least since a month or so) across Europe there's a meteorological phenomenon that makes for cold temperatures, lower than usual wind speeds, and clouds. 2 out of the 3 main renewable power sources ( solar, wind, tidal) are heavily impacted ( wind most of all iirc) and producing less electricity than usual, while people need to warm themselves. And this is expected to continue into the winter.

To combat such a scenario if everyone was on renewables+storage+interconnects, you'd have to built massive storage ( which we don't have the tech/space for) or massive interconnects from really far away places like Africa.
That is super shady. It's the same list and the Project Awesome one really displays ads. Unbelievable
I don't know how much you sold shotput.com but it's still in sale.
Emotions can be good reasons!
You think that’s bad, the Singapore Supreme Court just reaffirmed the execution of someone caught smuggling in 1kg of marijuana.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/man-loses-death-se...

I get it, it’s their country, they can have their own laws. I’m not arguing they can’t. Give the guy a lengthy prison sentence, I won’t agree it’s fair or productive, but he’ll get out eventually.

But no, they’re going to kill this guy. Over marijuana.
I wrote this in 2018 after living like this since 2014. Oddly enough, this documentation proved really valuable when my apartment was broken into in Hong Kong in early 2020.

I was able to take stock of exactly what was missing and know the exact value that was taken.
Nuclear is too expensive and has a negative learning curve.
depends on which sect of christians you are talking about. after nero burning christians as candles (googld roman candles), it caused an uproar, many converted to christianity out of spite to nero burning down rome

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/gl...
I don't see what this has to do with whether Lumina has dependencies or not, it obviously does.

The rationalization process is completely orthogonal. I'm not here to debate the value of dependencies which you seem to be interested in defending.
Selling to someone else with higher price is always part of capitalism, and there's nothing wrong with that. Speculation is good for the economy.

Why I invest in tech stock? Because I believe the current tech companies might be 10x or 20x times the sizes in 20 years, and in 40 years they might be 1000x times the current size. Basically they could own governments and become world rulers. At least in metaverse.
David Vidal, who is in marketing, programmed a bot to answer standard job interview questions.

"Vidal's bot was used 30,000 times, and he got 14 online interviews and 11 job offers as a result."
Teslasuit has some of these features (temperature and touch). It’s pretty expensive, but so are trips to mountains, I guess.

The key point is effectively, imo. If not completely real, there may be a line of deepdive that once you cross it, real trips will still feel “better quality”, but not as in vs “staring at the monitor in your room”. VR doesn’t have to be REAL or even resemble reality, it just has to be convincing.

In my view, there is no point in “walking around” with your real legs in VR, or having the human shape at all. Think of it as a PAL/NTSC converter from human to VR-entity which may or may not be human in different situations. There is no human dinner, concert or even mountain of importance in there. You may be e.g. a spaceship flying in the heat of a quasar, or a building bot with 360 view of its surrondings that moves along the eye focus and feels nearby constructions with its ”skin”. That’s what I was talking about in the root comment (that’s still naive and narrow-minded compared to what is to come). Sorry for this analogy, but most of comments against vr are like “we don’t need modern cities because these are not built for horses”. Yes, no horses, no haystacks, no blacksmiths. It doesn’t mean people will not rush into the city once it’s built with all the infra.
Sometimes I feel as if there will be a trend to go back to these amazing mechanical devices as technology consumes more and more of the world. We are already seeing it with the rise of Vinyl and using dumb phones.
It's like California shutting down their nuclear plant. Well, OK it imports 30% of it's electricity from the rest of the grid already, so that can go up to 40%. Utah will add another gas plant, turn that on at night, and California can claim that it has replaced nuclear with solar. Both of them are pulling from the same grid and electricity is fungible.

So adding unreliable renewables to a grid is not an impressive achievement as long as you have a reliable source on the same grid. This is why I asked for examples of countries.

To switch entirely to wind or solar, you have to spend a lot on battery tech or other energy storage, and those costs dwarf the costs of the solar panels or wind turbines, and that is ultimately what determines whether something is feasible to scale up to the entire grid.
Its show dont tell in movies.

Its act dont show in games.

Alot of the traditional writers never grasp, that the game mechanics are the plot and story.
it would have a constitution.
It's wrong to compare literature with games and think about the story.

In literature you have to do two things: tell a story and do it in a pleasant way. If you fail at telling the story, you fail at it.

Games have much more to them than just telling a story. You have mechanics, you have visuals. It is interactive and it has outcomes.

To not fail a game you have to give player satisfaction.

It would be nice to think of all of the things that might appeal to players, the story being just one thing among lots of others.

If story would be the only important thing then people would play lots of text based games but they do not.

The bad thing is that most of the times players get what designers think is a good game, not what they actually think it is a good game.