skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thesis in the title makes no sense. There really isn't anything so special about the D&D systems that mean one person working from home couldn't come up with an artistic competitor. You don't need to spend any money on TSR books to run a campaign if there is an imaginative DM handy.

The only reason D&D is so big is that the profit lets it advertise and have a presence, so more people know about it. That is a benifit to the genre and encourages creativity.
Why use serverless to begin with?
Vendor lock in, at least 5x more expensive, no good development env - what is the appeal?
Where do you live? I just wonder real hard how the Danes/Canadians/Americans would have fared if they were in Israel's shoes. Considering history I'd say no that great.
It's much easier to virtue signal from your comfy neighborhood in Western country X though, where your biggest enemies are Republicans.
A trick to using old web pages like these is to enable reader mode in your browser. In fact, I use that trick pretty much everywhere nowadays.
That seems like just a difference in campaign styles. Paranoia is designed for that sort of play, isn't it?

My RPG group that has played for 15+ years has only played D&D a couple times, and only in the past 5 years, but the style in terms of attachment to long-lived and growing characters isn't any different from our previous campaigns (Shadowrun, Starfinder, homebrew Fallout, probably some others I'm forgetting).

Just an odd criticism to hang on D&D specifically.

Half-agreed with the bookshelf argument, though you can certainly get by with just the open SRD rules - most of the book content is just adding more and more options you can pilfer without having to homebrew it all.
The Sovietization of America
The Worst Programming Language Ever (2014)
I guess a large reason why is because, especially with miniatures, it doesn't require any equipment to actually make the thing. Bear in mind 3d printers (or at least the ones the average person can buy) are still quite new, they were unheard of when I was into warhammer as a kid. If you wanted a miniature, you had to buy it from the people that made it. Even now, its easier, if more expensive long term, to go to a shop and just buy the things than to print one out.

As for magic cards, I remember as a kid printing off yu-gi-oh cards, but they never ended up being very good, even with access to a laminater (we had to go to the library to do that). It was a short lived idea sadly
It's for sure less extensible than EMACs/Vim (you probably can write extensions but I've never done it, but it's not as easy as popping in some elips or whatever).

That said, you can configure a lot of things you care about, e.g. you can do remappings, including complex remappings from "sequence of keys" to "sequence of keys or existing commands". And since there are lots of pre-defined commands etc, there's a lot you can do.

(BTW I mean this espeically in vim mode for vscode, I don't have experience with using vscode without it).
As a very long time Curtis obsessive I think this a pretty decent and non-controversial take on his work.
A) This headline is flat wrong. Productivity is not at its lowest level in 40 years.

B) What they probably meant to say instead is that the US saw the largest monthly decline in productivity in 40 years. There is a very big difference.

C) Month-over-month productivity changes are just statistical noise, too short term to matter.
It's actually a pretty good example of a PWA which can be installed (depending on whether your platform supports it, works well with chrome and windows, sorta works on iOS but more fiddly. Havent tried firefox).
Any external API that could reasonably take a long time to return (because of the work its doing) should have an asynchronous API. I.e. you submit the request to start the work and can later do another request to check if its complete and get any results. Rather than waiting on a live request.

Good practice for using external APIs is to NOT use any default http client settings and always provide your own timeouts to what you consider reasonable for connections and responses, as well as using a context system with deadlines so you can time out any requests that are taking more than a reasonable time to complete. Making your described surprise long expensive requests into nothing more than short errors (which hopefully you'll pick up on after a while, as long as you've got your alerting system setup right).
The article says nothing substantial about net co2. It is entirely about rich countries paying poor ones for trees.
Why would the world end?

The nuclear reactor that is powering the sub is quite small, producing generally 1/10 of the energy of a nuclear plant. They are designed to withstand direct torpedo hits, and historically when for example a nuclear sub had most of its own torpedoes explode from within the sub, killing everyone inside, the power plant itself survived without damage (there exist is a good documentary about kursk accident and the salvage operation of its two nuclear plants).

Even if it did have a meltdown, it is likely to be a depth if its hitting an underwater mountain. You could explode the biggest nuclear bomb every created at the Mariana Trench and the only effect we would get at the surface would be some bubbles. Water is pretty good at not be compressible, while at the same time able to diffuse the explosion while it is traveling upwards.

The problem of a nuclear sub colliding underwater is the human lives lost because of the crash.
> Just say no, it is way harder to get fired than you think.

I agree, say no and hold your ground. But have no illusions about how hard it is for you to be fired; it's not hard at all (at least in the US). Check your contract. It likely says that your employer can terminate the contract for any reason. Any reason means anything unrelated to race or religion. So keep those emails which explain that you're being fired for that (that's sarcasm). Otherwise, you have literally no recourse. The flip side is you can terminate the contract. So, have some integrity, pay the consequences, and know that there are better people to work with. You will feel bad about how you've been treated but will be bouyed by the fact you stood up for yourself. You will find people who respect you when you consistently uphold your boundaries (politely).
Related:

Why no one can ever recover from COVID-19 in England:

"A Department of Health and Social Care source said: ‘You could have been tested positive in February, have no symptoms, then hit by a bus in July and you’d be recorded as a COVID death.’”
https://web.archive.org/web/20201012190837/https://www.cebm....

Covid-19: the problems with case counting:

"What is a case?
One issue in trying to interpret numbers of detected cases is that there is no set definition of a case. At the moment it seems that a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) positive result is the only criterion required for a case to be recognised.

In any other disease we would have a clearly defined specification that would usually involve signs, symptoms, and a test result, ....
“We are moving into a biotech world where the norms of clinical reasoning are going out of the window. A PCR test does not equal covid-19; it should not, but in some definitions it does."

http://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3374.full

"Positive test results at the limit of detection that occur late in the cycle of infection represent individuals with a low or very low risk of transmission, as a result of the decline in infectious virus production or remnants of viral RNA in respiratory secretions. The clinical significance of these positive results, at the limit of detection of the assay, are difficult to interpret in the absence of a clinical history and context. Possible reasons for the non-repeatability of these results include stochastic effects at the limit of detection of the assay, true prolonged low level detection of the virus, and very rarely, analytical errors in sample handling." https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sars-cov-2-rna-te...
As governance rose, productivity declined.
> Be the educator, not the curmudgeon.

That's no way to sell subscriptions.
Your boat is not trying to evade enemies that may want to locate and destroy it, so it doesn't matter if it is constantly emitting sound.
Okay, so while Westerners were playing D&D, socialists on the other side of the iron curtain were playing Zarnitsa and Orlyonok, where you attack your opponents, capture spies and interrogate them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarnitsa_game

I mean, horses for courses, but you could argue that there would be no D&D were it not for capitalism in the first place.
Pfizer says antiviral pill cuts risk of severe Covid-19 by 89%
> How did deployment become such an arcane skill?

Prior to industry wide "solutions" such as Docker, or rather linux namespaces and cgroups, there was no obvious process isolation, so "deployment" was copying tarballs or using Windows installers.

Also, investment banks want "support" from vendors, so hardware was either Windows servers (mostly for Exchange and AD), or Sun Solaris boxes.

So although linux cgroups came around 2006 (?) and namespaces in 2001 (?), banks didn't do too much with linux until after 2005 (when Redhat were providing the aforementioned 'support'). I don't think the 'industry' widely recognised the potential of cgroups and namespaces.
I found this going through a bunch of my old bookmarks. I read this when I was first learning to program and it was the first piece of writing that made me think about the ethics of software development, something I hadn't even considered before. Thought it was worth a share
> we keep promoting the top generals

Which ones?
The trophic cascade of supply chain disruptions. Bottlenecks will continue to bedevil output and hence the lower productivity per person.
Bullshit. Keep calm and carry on.
Why don’t you just write this down into a checklist? Why codify it?

You need the interpreter to run it.

It’s less accessible to non technical people.

Actually running the script is an extra step that’s not needed.

This feels like an engineer overcomplicating something.
How do you know it wasn’t a forced retirement, i.e. an unofficial punishment?
The most common ways these things seem to happen is either password reuse with no 2fa or that the npm token (in ~/.npmrc) was harvested by another compromised package/program. IIRC there were a few that were due to phishing too.
Quite interesting in that in the 20 years since that was written, the whole "socially unacceptable" to use a calculator to work out simple sums, is not (as far as I see) the norm. I would say that it is very normal to quickly pull out a phone, or ask on your watch, or as Alexa etc.
That exists already, for example github does it automatically for you.

However, that is dependent on first finding and flagging issues, which is exactly what this post is about.
The chip is soldered in, and the heat dissipation from the i7 2640m in the x220 model is woeful, 30-40 degrees at idle and then 90-96 under load typically. The fan will sit at 4500-5000rpm to get the temperature back below 50 degrees, depending on your thinkfan profiles in linux. A docking station makes matters worse.

I cannot wait to replace mine.
COP26: A letter to school strikers from ‘the physicist behind net zero’
I have not looked into your account to see what you say and do, but generally speaking, there needs to be something that people (especially those who have the power to help you) take you (and your idea) seriously. Because as of right now, you're saying: I have a great idea, but I can't tell you.

Edit: It's not up to me to judge or anything - and that's far from what I wanted to do, but from what you said until now, this is likely to be how you're being perceived.
Revealed: The Cryptoqueen's £13.5m London penthouse
It gives you a good glance how likely it is that something is a threat - if an overwhelming majority of AV products detect it, it's quite likely that it's bad, and if only a few products find it, it's either very new or really just a bunch of false positives. Like many things, there's no simple "yes" or "no" answer, thus interpreting Virustotal output still requires some literacy on that topic. The site can also help software vendors to find which AV products reject their software, so that they can file false-positive requests to those AV vendors.
A definition of what exactly happens when you write to RAM.

It turns out to be much more complicated than "the data is just written", because there are other threads that could be reading and writing at the same time, multiple layers of inconsistent caches, and clever compiler optimizations or hardware that can change execution order of the code.
Japanese death row inmates sue over same-day executions
I absolutely love this! Technology should make us more human by getting out of the way.
That's what the IMF and central banksters wanted.

Inflation = good.

I suppose now we need moar gubmint to protect us from the mysterious inflation.
But can we? We keep thinking all this stuff is stockpiled somewhere. We're the ventilators stockpiled, what about n95s, what about TP. No we are seconds away from running out of shit and that's just true.
Tim Dodd's interview with Musk revealed there is actually a method to the madness. Tim's summary:

Make the requirements less dumb. The requirements are definitely dumb; it does not matter who gave them to you. He notes that it’s particularly dangerous if an intelligent person gives you the requirements, as you may not question the requirements enough. “Everyone’s wrong. No matter who you are, everyone is wrong some of the time.” He further notes that “all designs are wrong, it’s just a matter of how wrong.”
Try very hard to delete the part or process. If parts are not being added back into the design at least 10% of the time, not enough parts are being deleted. Musk noted that the bias tends to be very strongly toward “let’s add this part or process step in case we need it.” Additionally, each required part and process must come from a name, not a department, as a department cannot be asked why a requirement exists, but a person can.
Simplify and optimize the design. This is step three as the most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize something that should not exist.
Accelerate cycle time. Musk states “you’re moving too slowly, go faster! But don’t go faster until you’ve worked on the other three things first.”
Automate. An important part of this is to remove in-process testing after the problems have been diagnosed; if a product is reaching the end of a production line with a high acceptance rate, there is no need for in-process testing.

https://everydayastronaut.com/starbase-tour-and-interview-wi...
Horrible UX, splash screen had a stretched image, very unpolished and just feels cobbled together
It’s because as soon as you plug in an external monitor, the dedicated GPU is used for the output and is responsible for the added heat
And that's only for a 2p setup. An 8p setup would need even more interconnects per CPU depending on the architecture (eg, ring, mesh, etc..), which would have further impacts to performance depending on which tradeoffs are made.
It seems that all of these should be cryptographically signed by a developer's private key before publication and then verified by others before use. Is that not the case?
Not sure what your skills are, but at Mobile Jazz [1] we offer remote part-time and full-time jobs for software engineers, designers and project managers.

We've been a fully remote company since inception and put a ton of emphasize on providing every team member with what they need in terms of flexibility and work-life-balance.

We've written an extensive Company Handbook about who we are, how we work and what we do [2]. It's free to download.

We’re proud to say that our average employee stay is four years — more than double the average for our industry.

[1]: https://mobilejazz.com/careers/

[2]: https://mobilejazz.com/company-handbook-pdf/
‘ It's easy to set it up that way, but it doesn't have to.’

Regardless of how perfect the ‘setup’ the remaining materialistic desires will continue to expand as population and technological capacity grows. There is no known force that can completely extirpate such desires. Since there is no upper limit, all available mass-energy will inevitably be utilized given enough time. You are arguing that such a progression can be delayed, I agree. Perhaps a delay is possible up to millions of years but that’s just shifting the timeframe.

For example, I’m fairly certain I’ve encountered someone that genuinely wants an actual Star Trek like spaceship for their personal use, with a minimal social signalling component.

Even if there’s only 10000 such folks on Earth, that already represents vastly more industrial output than real policy makers can even dream of realizing. Let along the current and future desires of everyone else.
Covid
= COVID

When people think lying is better than death, no matter how clearly you point out a lie, they never see it, because the consequence, they believe, is death

When the WHO said masks were ineffective, did they believe it? Unlikely. We based our lives on that information, and accused those who didn't

The consequence of lying is deathly -- it breaks down trust, as truth is lost in a sea of misinformation, aswell as in misplaced assurance and certainty

When COVID first spread, other than for example New Zealand, every nation said "We have plans in place, we are sure we are safe, we don't need to stop travel." It turns out they were completely wrong... But now they are completely right

Hypocrisy hastens death's coming, but blinds us to it. I want us to face future problems in unity and trust, together. So we face death

Before COVID two members of my family died from routine injections. One my grandfather, and one a lady who wanted to give her child to us for adoption. Nothing is without risk. Vaccination injections on balance being the most sensible option is a different argument to saying they are completely safe

A small lie? Lies kill, and if not misinformation, it is a dynamo that drives it

We are all post reason: the age where truth is what we want it to be. We ask our politicians to decieve us. If they spoke the truth, we would change the channel

Stop lying
Face death

For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear

They say to the seers, "Stop seeing visions!" and to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusion

More to say, but you are not ready to hear
Apple’s $13k operating system (2013)
The runtime is highly dynamic. You can do trickery with class loading or wizardry with bytecode manipulation.
I thought you meant you were making $5/mo and was thinking "that is a low bar even I could prob achieve". Nice that you've pared down and optimized your stack to serve up customers with a tiny box.

Have you looked at the Hotwire stuff that came out for Rails? Basically it lets you server render pages but deliver request 2-N over web sockets, and it just delivers the bits that changed, per how you specify. There is client side JS needed but its batteries included.

I wonder if your app (and other cloud hosted) would benefit financially more with lower network ingress/egress byte counts and costs since it is page snippets instead of full-on JSON payloads like traditional JSFramework<->XHR<->JSON<->Backend stacks.
With Mesh for Teams, MS plans to bring 3D workspaces to remote workers in 2022
It might just tell you that the person being tested hasn't spent a lot of time with C# recently. Which says little about their competency in general.
Who cares about recruiters?

The point there's no need to feel smug about people who are dealing with seriously nasty stuff.
I am so glad I'm not working in the hyper-woke Google environment.

Political issues divide people, it's unavoidable. And the wokies can't help but look for the next thing after the current one passes. It's all outrage, all the time.

I'm all for political passion on your own time, it's what makes the world change and move forward. But in the workplace it's just toxic.
How to Automate Backups of MySQL and Postgres Databases to an Amazon S3 Bucket
Not to mention all sorts of built-in limits.
I was under the impression Adobe was investing heavily into Web Components. I gather that didn't work out well?
TL;DR: using a calculator to add and multiply, or Mathematica to do integration is okay because as society advances there is no need for certain skills anymore, freeing you to obtain other skills.

I am not sure I agree. The argument only seems to work if you consider a very simplistic teleological model of skill learning: that the only benefit in learning a skill is mastering a very specific task, e.g. multiplication, or derivation. But you learn a lot of other skills on the way that may be useful for completely different tasks - or even tasks which aren't known yet and thus cannot yet be trained specifically.

As my university teacher in Latin once said: sure, you don't need Latin anymore, but learning it will unlock areas in your brain previously unknown to you.
Half of the businesses there require "military service" for a job, which is conveniently 99% done by jews only.

Its known as the covert way to discriminate against arabs..
It takes a great deal of energy to create good content. It seems most people are willing to spend money to reduce that burden for their own games or at a minimum willing to spend money to create an elevated starting point for their own efforts.
Not my experience at all with kids.

> There's only so much of the world around you, it's persistent, and except in emergency situations, stable. Kids learn to tune it out very quickly

Kids know very little about the world, so everything is new, amazing and umpredictable. Some rock or stairs to jump from, throwing a paper plane a thousand times, playing the sand building something for hours.

With pictures, at least when they are young, they usually want to see the same ones over and over again, and mostly of people they know, but I guess there are kids that like a bit more variety.
One big problem with things like Warhammer and Magic (Magic being a more serious example) is there you really need a "dictator" who decides how "powerful" everything is, and can ban / weaken things which turn out to be broken. That type of thing seems consistently hard to do in open-source.
How many successful open source projects aren't substantially supported by people getting paid to do that work as their job? One of the big challenges for most open source projects is getting enough time to make substantial progress.

I think one of the challenges here is that the rules are meant to support a theme and the open nature means there's a lot of scut work building a viable system, testing, and balancing it. As we've seen with other ares like video games which combine the creativity of story telling with relatively high expectations for completeness, that's a pretty challenging combination to get volunteers to support. Companies which do invest the time and resources are going to have a natural conflict about sharing that with potential competitors since they need to make pay and it seems pretty easy to imagine a lot of the outcomes ending up like Elastic/Amazon disputes.
The footer provides a hint for the why:

> Converted by Mathematica May 30, 2002
Are you completely fine with incest between consenting adults?

How about self-mutilation?

Is it strictly wrong to prevent people from committing suicide?
Nuclear Residential Heating in Siberia
Yeah sorry wasn't specific enough. AFAIK there were no Japanese imperial soldiers dressed in Pacific front gear fighting in the snow at Narvik Norway. Nor for that matter American pilots in bomber jackets.
> I'd have thought that the detection of something as big as a seamount would have been child's play to a modern submarine

Would you be surprised to learn that mountains don’t make any noise?
Programming languages startup times (2013)