skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a video game maker myself I'd say that video games generally provide value. If this particular video game provides as much value as its valued at is not for me to decide, but for the people who play it and invest in it.
They're bad, grindy games. The appeal is specifically that they reward with crypto-tokens that can be traded on exchanges for real money.

It's basically just a way to work around regulations. Technically the game doesn't deal with a real currency, but they give fungible tokens that can be relatively easily traded on third party exchanges.

The financial aspect of these games makes zero sense, as is the whole concept of "play to earn" which should be immediately nonsensical for anybody who has a basic understanding of how the economy works.

Yet another terrible, useless, scammy, pyramid-schemy, economically-inept concept brought to you by the cryptocurrency crowd. But hey, any day now it'll all be worth it!
The Jockey's Ghost
It would probably be reported as Ni or Ny in Spanish: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfabeto_griego#Letras
I'm curious what you mean about Gore lying? I was quite young at that time so I didnt have informed opinion on the matter then, but these days I feel if anything he was maybe not pessimistic enough in his predictions. Everything in that clip has basically been corroborated by NASA and NOAA measurements now. I think they may have failed to highlight the risk of feedback loops and the importance of limiting methane emission...
Why does so many online articles refrain from adding a simple link to the product in question?

https://arxiv.org/
It’s not profit. It’s monumentally stupid dick sucking promo hunting product managers. I’ve watched several products ruined by these people over the years. The engineers walk and they become the majority of opinion. Next thing you know your sleek well engineered product looks like a Mumbai train at rush hour.

It’s imperative you stop using a product when this happens so that the higher up stakeholders see the damage they do.
PE was/is more of an FPS, and most of the prize was from killing mobs.
Well, in my mind Ted Neward's thoughts in that followup explain why it's still an illustrative analogy.
Interestingly, we had a thread not all that long ago about illusions and their relationship to the brain's prediction systems. It seems plausible that things like this are related.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29254496
As an industry, we should encourage power use of core products. Power use is adaptive, competent usage.
No problem at all. It's just not special anymore. Do you not remember the first few steam sales? Everyone's mind was blown because there was nothing like it until that point
I also bought one in early 2020. No issues booting with mine. Based on some research, it looks like if you want video acceleration to 'just work' your best bet is running Armbian with these instructions:
https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16516-rk3399-legacy-multimed...
> it must be cold enough, and you likely need to have proper warm and heavy blanket

What's the point of this? Only thing it does to me is make my hands freeze as I inevitably put one outside the blanket.
Looks like the source code is meant for Amazon's EC2, so it was depending on the python/libraries on the EC2 back then, 5-6 years ago.
The HN title is misleading. The original Pinebook was $100 (or maybe $150, I bought mine years ago). So this actually is an upgraded model with a higher price range.
What shenanigans do you think Google is pulling? There's nothing equivalent in Chrome...
By far the biggest positive impact on my sleep is reading by kindle with the warmth of the light maxed out. I get incredibly sleepy after 30m-60m and I keep reading until I’m virtually incapable of staying awake.

The best part is, it also works when I wake up in the middle of the night and would normally have a hard time getting back to sleep.

I would guess this won’t work for everybody, but for me it’s basically the only thing that works at all and it works every time.
No real specifics, but I usually run into ORM in the context of I'm the person on the team with experience running MySQL and someone has a slow query. When they're hand built queries, I can usually provide a query or sequence of queries that provides the same data without knocking the server over and it gets put into production within the same day. When they're ORM, it takes days to find the query, and then more days to bend my query sequence to fit the ORM.

Sometimes you can add indexes to fix things, but sometimes you really just need to do a simple query followed by a large number of single row queries unioned together, but that doesn't seem to be a feature of the ORMs I've been adjacent to.
> HN is very dismissive on these topics

The HN community is very dismissive, embraces feverishly, doesn't care about, [the rest of the stances] "crypto". There are many diverse opinions in the minds of the commenters here and this type of comment, while I've seen it's like more commonly in recent times, is clearly an erroneous over generalization.
Pine64 actually has a lower spec laptop (the PineBook) hence why this is the “pro” version.
> Not sure why you'd need a blockchain

Because otherwise nobody would pay any attention to what is obviously just another F2P mobile game?
Definitely just need a combination of fast alterable vaccines, good public health (vit d, lower weight), and reasonable masking around vulnerable people.
Don't you think that killing an animal is unethical no matter how nicely it used to be treated? I'm currently trying to keep my meat consumption as low as possible, but I still eat some and I don't think it's very ethical of me. I'm the higher life form and cows can't really do anything about it, and most people won't hold it against me, but I don't think there's anything ethical about it.
Agreed that computers are extremely expressive. I think the constraints are necessary though, and not just bureaucracy. After all, what are bugs (especially harmful bugs) but a failure to constrain choices?
The Program Audio Series is available on Spotify, but you need to do the right search. If you search for "The Program" you land on something completely different. You need to search for "The Program Audio Series" to get to the podcast described here.
I think they realised that “Nu” was too similar to “New” that if/when the next variant came around, there would be confusion as to what someone means when they speak the words “New variant”
As another said, the goal to increase revenue is per team. The Edge team must likely find proof for how they will drive revenue in the future.

Suddenly you've got a full browser engineering team trying to figure out how to monetize a browser - tough sell. So they can't come up with anything, that's fine because a product manager is the owner of this task anyway. They propose a myriad of different ways to monetize Edge in the future:

* A "Edge Pro" subscription $10/mo where you get ad-blocking and no tracking (we'll need to block third-parties from offering this)

* A built in way to pay people online, we take a cut. Hey maybe we finance big purchases and that's a unique selling point?

* Premium apps/websites, web page authors can give access only to users with an Edge subscription and in return they get a cut of the profits.

They discuss these options as a team, and decide which one is least likely to cause backlash and is least difficult to "try out" and they land on what we're seeing here.
Glad I got in on lifetime before you stopped offering it :)
"As a tupperware party host myself, I'd say that tupperware generally provides value. If this particular piece of plastic provides as much value as it's valued isn't for me to decide, but the friends and family I invite to the party."

Doesn't quite have the same ring to it, does it?
Yep. Wife insists on using a bag. It sux
I was shown it in 79. I didn't "get it" I wound up using it in 81/82 and got it immediately. Between the gap period I'd moved from having the thinnest understanding of what programming was, to completing a CS degree and working in systems management and networking. Once you have had to use a pre-UNIX JCL such as a TOPS-10 system, moving to a unix system was a clear step up. The Dec 10 was a fine machine. It was just harder to sequence discrete units of code into an outcome. The pipe, and a reasonably programmatic shell and related tools were the killer app moment.

VMS was good, but it was still sys$system:[thing]/path arcane. And had complex database-like file abstractions which I am sure were a godsend to people in that space but IPC (using an abstraction called "mailboxes") was a nightmare. VMS had file versioning, something I think UNIX missed on. ZFS snapshots do much the same at a whole of FS level. UNIX still won, because it was more logically consistent, and had pipes. BSD4.2 brought sockets which I still hate, but they worked inside the consistency model.

v7 is where I learned to type. BSD4.1 is where I learned to develop. I still have a fond memory for the v7 pdp11.

unix 32V had deep roots in v7, as did the York unix port of v7 to the Vax with VM extensions. I think by then, BSD made it clear where things were going. System III -> System V were really aberrant, streams aside.

If Linux hadn't emerged, I think the BSD fracture would have led naturally to something dominant in FreeBSD or NetBSD or OpenBSD. But, they lost impetus to mind-share in the world of personal computers.
This is in Australia, the placebo group had no deficiency in the first place. By contrast, deficiency is commonplace in the northern hemisphere during winter.

Furthermore, other studies suggest that daily supplementation is superior to monthly boluses, as far as I remember.
Two tokens:

AXS is the governance token and is premined, mainly held to fund the team, given out as rewards to players and given out as rewards for keeping AXS staked. Used for breeding new Axies

SLP is the token gained by playing the game, this token is also used for breeding new Axies. The game servers sign a message allowing you to claim the SLP from a smart contract on the ronin chain, this part is not completely decentralized.
No, you became a vice.com writer. But hey, if the store bought "qualifications" from it help you have at it, but there's better use of your time (putting down social media for a book being one)
> Both Chinese and Americans are more or less equally propagandized

This implies that the US government has total control over all domestic news outlets, a great firewall that censors the national internet and helps to find and remove references to embarrassing government incidents, policy that requires all companies to hand over all user data to the state unencrypted without a warrant, and a social credit system that can prevent you from getting a job if you make negative comments about the government's policies.

I very much would like to see proof of these things, given that I can do internet searches for atrocities like the Tuskegee Experiment, I've never gotten in any sort of trouble for making negative comments about the government, and I can find many news sources that run extremely conspiratorial articles about the same.
Loops are great if your programming languages supports iterables/iterators/generators (also async generators) like in js/ts for example.

Especially generator-to-generator combinators ie. [0] gives terse, transducer expressiveness over computation on finite/infinite streams, arrays, etc. (all iterables). It's easy to compose, jump into/out-of for-loops if needed for arbitrary yielding (ie. conditionally yielding multiple items, skipping some, halting etc); `continue`, `break`, nesting, yield, yield from (yield*), normal code in for-loops is very intuitive and terse, creating pleasant, understandable code.

Recently I had a chance to break down complex pipeline in finance project into small steps as generator-to-generator transducer functions (can you call generator-to-generator functor a trasducer?), higher order for steps that require extra inputs, leaving all pipeline pure and easy to reason about. Typescript was really helpful doing hard work where each step somehow modifies the input - leaving final result typechecked together with spotting bugs in intermediate steps ie. on their dependendency etc. really nice stuff.

[0] https://github.com/preludejs/generator
Yes, me too. I've got a unraid nas at home and I've really struggled to figure out a no hassle backup solution.
We have a pretty good track record keeping it running though; The Internet has never gone down!

I'd be far more concerned with agricultural logistics, though we've never starved to extinction, either.

Perhaps we've reached a point of positive no return: We can no longer cease to exist!
> Please please please don’t think I was mocking you or anything you believe. You’re a wickedly smart person and a talented writer. Those are the only opinions I have about you. Okay???

Why do you sound like you just found out motohagiography has high-level connections to the mob? Honestly this entire thread is starting to trigger my schizoid tendencies because I have no idea what half the people in it are talking about.
I don't know.. saying "Alexa movie mode" and having my hue lights dim really does make it nicer. Is it a must-have or a need? Of course not, it's just a nice to have IMHO.

I also use Alexa to set reminders, get Roomba to clean specific rooms (or the whole house) and I use it constantly to control Spotify.

You can argue that Alexa is spying on me or whatever but i'm not sure how that's worse than the iPhone I carry in my pocket literally everywhere I go...
Lots of people are still concerned with processed foods. How do you suppose this indicates otherwise?
Thanks, this was a good post and worth skimming through all the other nonsense to get to
the attraction is the skyrocketing value as more people join in for fear of missing out - but once the growth levels off on one particular token, and it’s no longer the fastest growing asset, then the top of the pyramid cashes out and moves on

people are calling it out because we’ve literally seen it over and over again
The current standard all provinces have switched to uses "Elliptic Curve keys using the P-256 curve", does it not?

https://spec.smarthealth.cards/
Not really relevant to the topic at hand, but interestingly the UK doesn't really have any national ID number valid for both children and adults. The only one is the NHS Number but that's not used outside of a medical setting.

Additionally my birth certificate isn't digitised. It was handwritten with a fountain pen by the local register office. For most intents and purposes, the central government didn't know I existed until I hit 16 and signed up for a National Insurance number.
Exactly. I don’t get how this is any better than what Google does. Google doesn’t sell your data either. They themselves consume your data, and use it to push ads in your face and track you across the web.

In other words, collecting insane amounts of data is also bad. Not just the selling of it.
> You are suggesting that a superior private option should not be allowed to exist because it will out-compete a public option

One way to justify it is to highlight it negates meritocracy. A Boris Johnson who went to Eton becomes Prime Minister, for instance, while not exactly being an exceedingly bright student. Most likely, he's not even the top 50% of the Etonian population. I wouldn't bet in him being among the top 95%.

Ideally, the state should invest sufficient resources to make a private option less advantageous and place it in the diminishing returns region of the curve. Just imagine what a workforce properly educated, who understands the Earth is round, that vaccines work, that wrong is wrong, among many other things, could do for any country.

Equal opportunity is the only moral choice, since every person has the same rights and the same obligations. Allowing money to distort this principle is obviously undersirable.

> Again, I don't think you're wrong exactly. I just don't think this mindset is one that works outside of totalitarian societies.

We all sacrifice some freedoms in order to live in a better society. We can't kill people to take their possessions (or their families), for instance. There was a time we could and that was not only tolerated, but entire economies were built on top of that. Now we know better, of course.

Eventually, we'll know even better, and all this childish "I deserve to be powerful because I'm rich" will be a thing of the past.
Today's Google is a saint compared to the nineties Microsoft.
I agree with the sentiment, but this whole area is filled with a huge amount of misinformation, especially when it comes to what affects credit score.

I've known many people that believe constantly carrying a balance (percentage of max) on their credit cart improves their overall credit score which is a good thing, and that's wrong. It may improve credit utilization score but you are paying 30+% interest each month in fees which compounds against you.

Reviewing finances only once a year won't provide enough time to correct course if there are important changes in trends, it needs to be done monthly or quarterly.

I'd say the majority of investing advice out there is solid advice only some of the time often with circumstances that prove it to be bad advice some of the time.

If you don't understand the fundamentals (which aren't taught in school) then you are more likely to lose money than anything else and have had your time you spent earning that money wasted.
V7 supported hardware segmentation registers. Look at sureg() in usr/sys/sys/ureg.c [1]. What it didn't support was pages. That came with 3BSD [2].

[1] https://github.com/v7unix/v7unix/blob/master/v7.tar.gz

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Berkeley_Softwa...

BTW, I think by far the main reason that V7 matters is that it was (somewhat) portable. That begat the workstation boom.
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The interest on $35 is only $4 since it is a flat rate not a reoccurring rate.
Held together with spit and baling wire as it is, the fact that it mostly works proves that the overall architecture is robust.
I don’t know if Pythagorean theorem needs to go on any cheat sheet, whether it’s Math or CS. If you can’t remember that, maybe you are in the wrong place to begin with!
Ideally, going by the cancerous nature of the internet in 2021, web browsers should ship with ublock origin, automatic https upgrades, an usable js-blocking toggle and LocalCDN-esque features out of the box. Chrome would never do something like that but maybe firefox could. Improves privacy and usability overall.
warmer temperatures, warmer oceans, more acidic oceans, higher oceans.
I like the UNIX haters handbook. Mostly for 2 reasons:

- some of the criticism is reasonable and
- today, most of those haters probably depend on some form of UNIX one way or another.
I love me some forEach methods! It's still one off from completely avoiding the loop-think though. A syntax like "apples.'peel()" (where peel is a method on the individual apples) is what I imagine.

As a PS, I think the parent comment was referring to a (corresponding) "for apple in apples: peel(apple)" syntax though. The main point was that you don't have to bother with the manual index iteration as in my worst case example.
I usually use the Canary build, and I'm a little confused based on the Insider blog post on how this works. It doesn't seem to just offer Zip as an option on any store based on my expeirence doing some Black Friday shopping today. If all it's doing is storing your credentails to an alternative payment system like it already allows you to store your credit card and prefilling it for retailers that offer this as an option, I can see the value of the feature. It'd be nice if they could do the same with PayPal or other services. But if the feature is now adding the option to use this service on websites that don't already offer Zip, I agree that is something that should not be enabled by default for all installs.
in my circle it was the joe rogan podcast with dr rhonda patrick during the height of covid mania, that set off the craze for vitamin d obession.
Thanx, but I was braced based on your advice ;-)

It's still in the same general territory as QAnon and the fact that 1/5 Americans drinks that kool-aid fills me with despair (and fear).

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/study-finds-...
Pi-hole as primary DNS, 9.9.9.9 as secondary DNS. All browsers with plugins uBlock, Unhook, Privacy Badger, Decentraleyes. No google services on any device, preferred open source SW. No banking apps on smartphones, all card payments need to be verified by code from SMS and PIN. Pay by cash everywhere it is possible.
Everyone seems to think I am making a statement about GDP or economic systems when I say infinite growth but I am just speaking in broad strokes about human activity. Capitalism may be the only viable model for a world with serious scarcity, as I expect ours is to become in the mid to near term. GDP is a made up number. When adjusted for externalities, there's a possibility that GDP per capita in the OECD has been negative for multiple decades.
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Significantly less given that they’re on HN, but I suppose there’s no way FB would know that this person posts on HN.
I doubt this is Microsoft’s focus. I think this is some high level PM in the Edge division making this decision, and not getting any pushback from the right people. I doubt this is a sign of satya nadella’s roadmap, for instance.

Having said that, if this gets tons of negative media attention, and they still go ahead with it, then that is tacit approval, so.. we’ll see.
Yeah thanks, now you made me sad.
Personally I think the PVP part of axie is pretty good as a game. It's strategic and a better player can easily win with a worse team.
No it isn't here. You can't buy them.

I knew it would be unavailable just from the headline.

"Due to global electronic components shortage , Pinebook Pro currently out of stock until further notice."

EDIT: Also, the listed price is $220 not $200.
I've been mildly obsessed by this engraving ever since its discovery. It's stupendously beautiful and incredibly dynamic. In comparison, much posterior Archaic Greek art that is imitative of Egyptian sculpture is stiff and simple.

The implications about its craftsmanship make the Bronze Age collapse seem even more dramatic.
That exists already - it's called the MacBook Air with M1, which has 256GB/512GB storage options and 8GB/16GB RAM options as you wished for. It's got Linux being brought-up for it by @marcan42 and already can boot from a mainline kernel (though hardware support is still coming along, but they've already nearly got an OpenGLES GPU driver less than a year after launch).

Also Apple went out of their way to make Linux and other OSs able to boot on it, so don't expect Apple to take away what they worked hard on.

What's novel about this Linux Laptop though is the low cost, $200. But you get what you pay for. And the M1 is, a year from now, probably going to have better (if not completely) upstream hardware support.
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I'm not involved in nor have I ever bought anything crypto related. But I'll say this for it, it's the most interesting new tech to hit the internet in the past couple decades.

Everything else has been pretty incremental over that time period, crypto is something really new and I suspect that's why its adherents are so obsessed by it.