skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always loved playing video games. From the moment I realized there were places called arcades with wonderful machines that ate your coins, I was hooked. Game and Watch? Nagged my mom for every single one. Nintendo Famicom? We had ALL the bootleg cartridges. Gameboy? Couldn't afford it so I burned with envy. Original Xbox? I have 4 of 'em stashed away somewhere. Playstation 1-5? Heck, yeah. Mobile? My husband bought our first iPad because we saw someone playing Angry Birds on it. PC? I'm playing The Ascent with my whole family right now.

More than playing video games, though, what I wanted to do as a kid was to MAKE games. I still remember punching in a borrowed Mario Bros cartridge for the first time, pressing START and having a freaking epiphany. How cool was it that someone MADE this?? To heck with being an astronaut, when I grew up, I was going to do THIS. I knew it with all the certainty of 8-year-old me. But you know how it goes: like most childhood dreams, I put this one on a shelf and gradually left it behind. I didn't become an astronaut either (in case you were wondering).

What I did was drop out of university in my third year. And since then, I've been a copywriter, graphic designer, business owner, immigrant, stay-at-home spouse, and for a long time, the stay-at-home parent. And it's been great. Life with all its up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-B-A's...it's all been wonderful.

"Hold up," you might say, if you're still reading this. "Why are you telling us all this? Boring."

Right. Let me get to it. I'm 48 and if there's a lesson that has been inescapable these past two years is that we may not see tomorrow. So, I've decided to focus on happiness in the here and now. Carpet diem, as my kid used to say when he was little. And you know one thing that has added to my happiness? Dusting off my dream, sitting my ass down and finally learning how to be a game developer. And happier still? I've done this with my husband.

So we've published our first mobile game. It's called "Slingshot Effect" and it's available on App Store or on Google Play. It's an infinite jumper that's easy to just pick up and play. Perfect for commutes or if you're stuck in a waiting room somewhere. It's a paid app because we feel strongly that the level of monetization in the casual game space is just...ugh...it's bad. Thanks for listening, I really appreciate it.

TLDR:
When I was a kid, I wanted to make video games. And now that I'm kind of old, my husband and I made one.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/slingshot-effect/id1537916631?...

Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thirteenba...
> This one literally changes just one setting and you get the same results if you do it manually.

I don't think you understand: automatically changing even one of my browser settings is you changing one setting too many. It is signaling that your target market are unsophisticated users whom you're trying to scam into changing their browser defaults and not know how to change back.

That's the exact opposite of your "built for devs" marketing message. When your message and your actions conflict, it's pretty obvious that you don't really believe the message.
Absolutely - managing and syncing the state of IaC tools is core to the value of Gallery. Infrastructure templates can be edited without changing currently-active environments, and this is handled gracefully right now. Propagating template updates to running environments seamlessly is also on our roadmap.
A search engine that requires JavaScript to use is an automatic no-go for me. Still, I commend the effort here.
Skin = database entry with metadata

NFT skin = database entry with metadata

The NFT skin inherits all the capabilities of the skin, except that the database entry cant be modified. You are a programmer right? Do you know the concept of inheritance in programming as it applies here. The market finds value in that assurance.

I think you are bringing a lot of inaccurate preconceptions to this concept, there is an opportunity to erase what you knew and look at the concept from this lens: does what I say work? Is this what a portion of the market is doing? If yes, thats all you need to know. Look for those NFTs and ignore the other NFTs.
> So, do you think NFTs can actually change the current status quo? Does it bring anything new to the equation?

No, it does not change the status quo, and brings nothing new to the equation.

To kind of rephrase what you said slightly: All ownership relations exists in world 3, that is their nature, they can't act in world 1. NFTs don't bring anything to the table here, crypto does not bring anything to the table here. With NFTs, ownership relations is still a world 3 thing, and world 3 things still cannot act in world 1. And no enforcement mechanisms we currently have for ownership relations give any special recognition or consideration to NFTs, blockchain or crypto assets.

The only disagreement we have is that I don't think it makes sense to qualify sentences with "capitalist societies" when the claims they make are more broad. It's a bit like saying "all Furry mammals are characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young", it may be true, but the word "furry" in that sentence adds negative value:

http://www.biomedicaleditor.com/hedging.html

> To strengthen your argument and increase clarity, limit the number of qualifiers in each sentence to only those necessary for accuracy—the remaining qualifiers will then do their job well.
I can’t speak to the certification exams, but for nursing school, there is a high pressure from administration to pass students as long as they can pass the standardized test, even if the teachers don’t think the student is ready or safe for clinical work. So, although they do have practical experience, it is often limited in scope and students can fake their way through it to a surprisingly large extent (they’re always paired with a licensed staff member). This is anecdotal, but consistent across what has been told to me by staff members of several nursing schools.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU
> In my experience, doing things in the cloud is about as expensive per 12-18 months as buying the hardware up front is.

The fallacy is comparing hardware costs to services cost. The hardware is the cheap part.

When you run your own system, you have to develop the entire system up front and maintain it on the backend. The hardware is cheap by comparison to the salaries and development costs you pay.

> $2 million should get you a team of 10 sysadmins and devops engineers.

Probably double that once you add in fully-loaded costs as well as the compensation for ~2 managers to manage them.
With spiky utilization, you're buying and powering a lot of hardware to sit idle a good portion of the time.
So the ends justify the means
What is a search engine? What is the scope of the data that you search? Who is the customer?

Google has made these decisions.

1. The customer is the advertisement companies. This is where Google gets their money from, and therefore is the primary customer.

2. Advertisements, SEO, and information from across the "free web" is collated into one simple to use source (just a "textbox" and one button). The simplest interface you can possibly get.

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For a new search engine to outcompete Google, it must change either #1 or #2. Changing #2 seems difficult, but maybe its not so insurmountable? StackOverflow has shown how "tags" can be added to a search for example. I also am old enough to remember "web directories", which was more like a filesystem / phonebook representation of the internet.

But ultimately, the big benefit of search is determining the scope of #1: who is the customer, and how do you get money from them?

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People may say that "Search Engines" don't have room for innovation anymore, but frankly, I personally have seen the rise of Search Engines over the past 20 years.

* Wolfram Alpha -- An odd thing to call a "search engine", but it really is one. Searches upon mathematical encyclopedias, and a strong focus on mathematical formulas. I'd definitely call it successful in its corner of the internet.

* Tagging-engines -- The tagging system is moderated by humans. And then humans add/remove data to the tags. Moderators tightly control the tags to ensure that they remain useful (ex: If someone mis-tagged C++ on a Java question on StackOverflow, a human has to come by and fix it later).

But tagging systems are "easy" to moderate, and the job of the community is farmed out. You can imagine that a tagging engine is a community platform where the work is distributed among the whole community, and am moderation system exists to build up trust.

Ultimately: tagging-engines have a search-engine like interface, but the human-element to curate and organize the information is clearly a good model.

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I'd say tagging-engines have had the biggest rise in the past 10 years, not only StackOverflow, but many communities seem to be tagging their own data someway / somehow. The moderation team is the product really, even if the moderation team has been recruited from the community. "Crowd Sourcing" at its finest.
If they're credit bills, yes. If they're just phone, power, rent, etc, not unless you've specifically set them up to go to the credit reporting companies.
The EU is doing the gangster-style abuse. And then the authoritarian Lukashenko (as described by the BBC) allows them to roam free while the EU attacks them.

Maybe the EU should build a wall instead of attacking the refugees and asylum seekers. Or they should stop sermonizing to the world about humanitarian values.
I feel like McCarthyism requires pointing fingers in particular directions with no evidence. Neither was done there
These are the biggest universities in America today. None of them existed 50 years ago. They are the future of college education in America.

#1 Western Governors University (WGU) North Carolina 121,437

#2 Southern New Hampshire University New Hampshire 104,068

#3 Grand Canyon University Arizona 90,253

#4 Liberty University Virginia 79,152

#5 Ivy Tech Community College - Central Indiana Indiana 72,006
>and the effort is being led by a company that hardly anyone trusts or even likes.

This isn't true at all, Instagram and WhatsApp are hugely popular even with people who are anti-Facebook.

The rebrand makes a lot more sense when you realize just how diverse their product offering is and many people very vocally against FB still use IG and WhatsApp.
[citation needed]

What you describe is something that is often said, but I'm yet to see any reliable sources; everything turns out to be editorials based on some plans that never got implemented.
But why, why would this change the past?

Let's say you've a magical superluminal laser.

The laser is turned on 20 lightyears away now, you see the dot appear immediately, instead of 20 years later (because it was magically superluminal). But of course no laser dot would appear before the other side turned on the laser.

Wouldn't the recording just show the same thing over and over again?
Apache NiFi 1.15.0 Release
I'm really not sure what you are talking about. Go to you.com and type a search query. No need to make anything the default. No need to install an extension.

Edit: Ah, now I see. It's because I'm a Safari user. If you go to you.com in Safari it works fine. However, if you go to it in Chrome it does indeed work as you described, asking you to install the extension and whatnot. My mistake.
> How do you get $20 million dollars for literally just tapping into Bings api?

How much do you think the fair price on the domain "you.com" is?

That's probably the bulk of your $20 million right there. I have to imagine that's prime domain-name real-estate.
Great.

I tried to build an open-source search engine back in 2007. I utterly failed, but it was a great experience.

I also tried to launch a Chrome extension to summarize interesting web pages [0].

I wish you luck! Ping me if you'd like to chat ($HN_Username at gmail)

[0]: https://github.com/simonebrunozzi/MNMN/tree/master/Weekly-Su...
I can't speak of the online degree, but the MCIT program is pretty good. I graduated from the standard CS but many of my friends were in the MCIT degree. Given they came from more varied backgrounds, I actually thought the student body was more impressive.

However, I dont know how all of this online stuff is going to effect things. I would just show up to wharton classes and wait for them to not kick me out, but online ... no chance. You also miss out on all the great conversations and doing study groups at the library, etc.

The program is strong, and it will help you get lots of interviews, but I'd do what ever possible to do the in person degree. I c an recommend good DS classes at the school if you are interested in that topic
Hard pass. Not installing a CE to test this out. Not changing my default search engine straight away. Not convinced based on what I see there is value added here. Fix those things and I will give it whirl.
Yes, but the "playing field" was level when Google did that. They didn't play any unfair tricks to get ahead in the game. The question was "when was the playing field ever level".
If I recall correctly, Google was very successful at the beginning because of their instant results coming back in a dead simple list of links and some details.

When I searched on you.com, I got these ugly pulsating placeholders, and then could smell the oily engines in my device whirring up to send that damn heavy AJAX query to let me wait another 2 seconds to get something displayed.

I like the idea, and wish a lot of luck to this project, but the UX is just bad, sorry.
This article https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/what-s-ivermectin describes a very different effect of ivermectin

> The drug is effective against a wide number of parasites and arthropods in general [...] It acts most strongly on glutamate-gated chloride channels, which vertebrates don't even have, although it can also bind to other ligand-gated chloride channels at higher concentrations.

Does ivermectin act as an effective protease inhibitor at the clinical dose? There have been some reports of antiviral activities when the concentration is x1000 times the usual dose, but that's a problem. From the same article:

> As those letters to Antiviral Research note, ivermectin will start to hit other targets as you jack up the doses. The reason it's such a great antiparasitic drug is that you don't have to dose up at all. It's hard to imagine that it's a safe compound if you really have to push the concentrations to even within binocular distance of those in vitro levels.
I tried to use node red a few times to automate my devices at home. It is limited in what it can do but the ui is ok. This until you want to change something, or duplicate, or arrange several items - the code is not really editable.

I understand that the target population are not programmers, but even using the built in Hole Assistant automation is better.

Of course moving to pyscript or appdaemon opens new world.

To be clear: I am not trying to be dismissive of node red users, it is just that one will quickly hit its limitations for anything more fancy.
That's just a technical neatpick. The actual distinction is: a skin is something you use. An NFT is not.

I do program, sure, but not everything is a programming metaphor.
I think most people would gladly discriminate against Nazis in their personal lives. When it comes to official/legal policies though, like say renting an apartment to someone, I think it becomes problematic to start saying it's okay to discriminate against people with particular beliefs or ideas, even if those ideas are abhorrent to most people. There's a long list of reasons why allowing this kind of discrimination is a bad idea IMO, both idealogical and practical.
I'm sorry, but what?
> What does it mean to "own" the dunk?

For some people it's the NFT that the NBA sold. You only need 2 people with a lot of money to believe that.

Do I believe that? No. Do I believe others can believe that? Yes. Do I therefore believe it's a scam? No.
Patents are issued by governments. They can issue patents, revoke patents and change patent rules. Let's see how much the government actually cares about Moderna's patents.

The talk regarding patent of Cipro during the anthrax scare era:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2001/oct/23/anthrax.bus...
Fed warns of social media ‘echo chambers’ that pump up meme stocks
That particular statement was written several years ago. In practice, the API in question boils down to letting you plug in your own implementation of PyEval_EvalFrameEx. This has already been added in Python 3.9:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0523/

As the PEP notes, this is useful for a lot more than just JIT. In particular, modern Python debuggers use it to dynamically patch bytecode to make breakpoints more efficient.
>Dreading the wave of shitty badly-thought-out library "updates" to include generics

>It's going to be a year or so before the community settles down again after this.

Rob Pike doesn't want to add generics to the standard library in this release (1.18) for the same reason[0]:

"<..>we have no experience with the use of the new types in Go on which to base a strong case for their design <..>
For generics, we don't know what those new ways are yet. <..> I realize everyone wants to get their hands on the fun of the new language feature, and is looking forward to fixing some of the issues in the core libraries that will be less clumsy once it arrives, but I strongly believe it is best to take it slow for now."

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/48918
We tested this extensively a few years back. We saw a compression ratio of ~1.9 with 8k recordsize/lz4, ~2.7 with 16k/lz4, and now ~5.5 with 64k/zstd.
I really like this idea, only edge case I wonder about is if such a policy would incentivize colleges to avoid letting in students from low income backgrounds.
How so? Take a lower paying course that benefits society for little or no cost to you or a higher paying course that will push you into the upper middle or lower upper class that costs more.

The only losers here would be the colleges that no longer get to charge the same $300k for every degree they stamp.

Where is my logic wrong?
$20mm for a 2010s web mashup shim around bing.com that looks and behaves like it's an undergraduate project. I guess they're blowing the budget on submarines instead of product.

Must be nice to have rich friends :-|
Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for $1.6B
I'm rather fond of violin plots.
- Adults have a right to make poor choices.

agree however the vast majority of high school kids are marketed to and forced to make decisions about college, while having little to no comprehension of the magnitude and permanence of their decision, when they are 17 years old (minors).

graduate school of course being a different story.
Go Carz asks for passenger patience as it is hit by driver shortages
> The "Metaverse" is not necessarily anything more magical than HTTP serving 3d models rendered on the screens strapped to our faces (rather than 2d documents rendered on the screens strapped to our desk)

But that's just it, isn't it? GP said:

> > That feeling comes back to me as a kind of "Build a robot" moment in cases like this. "In our virtual reality metaverse people will be able to attend concerts with one another and save the tickets as NFTs!" Okay, but what you have is a screen that you can strap to your face and is nothing like a virtual reality metaverse and you have no idea how to get there.

Why would most people want "HTTP serving 3d models to a screen strapped on their face" to take the place of "attending concerts with one another"?

Without significant, ground-breaking advancements in freedom of movement/input and feedback/presence beyond the screen & headphones strapped to their face and maybe some shitty rumble from a playstation controller, this isn't "attending a concert with one another" in any meaningful sense, this is just "watch a concert from your couch while talking to your friend over discord", except with a more expensive screen fewer people own or seem inclined to buy, and clumsier input.
You are so correct on the order and timing of items. Everyone in my family was trying to make my grandmothers cookies. I was the only one who went over and documented exactly how she made them. Now that she is gone. I have been designated as the only one who 'knows how to make them'. Even though I proclaim loud and clearly and have documented 'you must make them exactly like this or they will not taste the same'. They all seem to want to take short cuts. There are no shortcuts with this one and it will take 2 days. I even gladly show them exactly how to do it. Yet they still fail, because they want to skip steps. If you do not follow along exactly you are doomed. Now I want cookies...
Why don't new search engines build off of something like http://commoncrawl.org/ instead of Bing's API? Is it purely cost/resources or a combination of freshness and steeper learning curve?
It says on the front page "Add you.com to Chrome to get started" which to my mind implies that in order to get started you have to be using Chrome and add the extension to it.

You don't have to, you can just use it as a web page, the text is misleading and should be changed.
It is not a complete rewrite. It basically just replaces the bytecode interpreter (which is a documented extensibility point) in regular CPython.
> Okay, trying engaging intellectually with the reports rather than just reacting to someone’s one sentence summary of thousands of words

I wasn't reacting to a summary, I was reacting to an independent premise. The sentence I reacted to, at least the way I read it, was broad to the point of being more of an axiom with which the commenter interpreted the post. As I see it, disagreeing with an axiom is an intellectual engagement. Feel free to counter my disagreement.

> It’s kind of hard to see any definition of “identity politics” which includes the reports but not your emotional reaction to accurate words.

Not entirely sure what you're saying here, but none of what I said was emotional. Simply pointing out that pattern matching is a viable way of filtering other people's thoughts and ideas. If someone makes wild claim, it should change the way you view other claims which may have seemed more rational in their absence. Not really an emotional statement in my mind, but again, feel free to point out which part of this you disagree with and I'd be happy to engage.

As it stands now you aren't really responding to anything I've said, but rather disagreeing that what I'm responding to warrants responding, which is rather tangential.
Bayer bows to pressure on anthrax antidote (2001)
It is exactly what was done here: blaming people with having "strong Chinese interests" with no evidence.
> What you say feels to me as Joseph McCarthy has just sprung back to life.

No need to go that far back in the history of the U.S. Government spying on it's own citizens. In the late 1960's, the Nixon Administration used IRS data to spy on Vietnam war protesters, Dr. Martin Luther King, members of the Student's Non-Violent Coordination Committee, and other American citizens critical of the administration's foreign policy[1].

Human behavior being what it is means that eventually someone in the U.S. government will be tempted to use this data for nefarious purposes. Why should US citizens live in a survaillence state contrary to the Bill of Rights?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee
I pay for YouTube Premium and spend a lot more time on Twitter. I’d pay the same for ad free Twitter.

As soon as Twitter Blue comes to the UK I’d pay for it even without it being totally ad free (while complaining about that). Between Tweetbot and comprehensive ad blocking I never see ads anyway and I’m happy to pay for something I get that much value from.
That is known as privilege.
probably adding the hash means hundreds of $$ in storage
Incognito mode seems to work for testing FWIW