skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have gone down the play-to-earn rabbit hole in an unexpected way.

In 2017 I started learning about Ethereum. Once I understood it as a virtual machine, the idea hit me that one could build a game. About that time, CryptoKitties hit and became an example of what could be built. Shortly late, a tutorial called CryptoZombies helped teach "a way" to build crypto collectable style games on distributed virtual machines like Ethereum.

Like many people, I went through the tutorial and I started working on my own game. A big difference between myself and many others is that many others only slightly deviated from the CryptoKitties formula. The inspiration for my game, Orbiter 8, came from an old BBS game, so I deviated a lot.

I worked on Orbiter 8 for a couple of years and released two demos before I bothered with ERC20/ERC721 interfaces. The game concept has an in-game currency and ownable assets so I created interfaces making those things tradable outside of the game. This was sort of a no-brainer. By using ERC721, I can use open markets like OpenSea to trade my game assets as NFTs. By using ERC20 I can put the in-game currency on SushiSwap and let the public trade the currency as they wish.

I didn't intend to, but having done those things now means I am building a Play To Earn game. That is, of course, assuming my game assets and in-game currency actually have value and a value higher than the cost of creation. But for all intents and purposes, the emerging model is a pretty decent Play2Earn model.

Most games are about progression. You typically "grind" in any game to acquire better items and stats. The only step to make any of these games P2E is to allow those things to be traded on open markets. So if you build a game natively on one of these networks, P2E is an extremely natural emergence.
RedLine malware shows why passwords shouldn't be saved in browsers
"Three moves equals one fire." -- Benjamin Franklin, I think
So, you either explain to the customer about how the CVE is out of scope in this context due to the various mitigations or lack of exploitability, or you patch it. Every CVE is real, and should be addressed. Your customers pay you to help them understand it.
Wasn't going to respond, but just feel compelled to...

I have lived in the Bay Area for over 20 years, 12 years in SF, and now in the East Bay. I'm in SF, Berkeley, Oakland, Emeryville, and Contra Costa at least once a week.

Personally I do not know anybody who has been assaulted or robbed and I have never been assaulted or robbed. I frequently am in SF downtown, and in Oakland/Emeryville. Both considered "hotspots"; nothing ever happened to me and never felt unsafe.

I do not feel exhausted. I never did anything more than my job (and, yes, I'm in "tech". And nobody ever yelled at me for it.)

The nature, landscape, the parks, hikes, culture, weather are pretty awesome and I'll likely never move away.

Is everything perfect? Of course not!

Is there a problem with homelessness? Yes there is! Maybe we should do what other cities and counties have done and just chase the homeless out to somewhere else, kick the can down the road? HELL NO! I happen to work at a company that actually does something about that.

My sampling set is obviously small (my friends, colleagues, and acquaintances), and so seems the author's sampling set.

The author undoubtedly had his experiences and that's a shame. I'm just here to convey a different view on things and not all of us feel that way.
Link not working for me in the UK.

Their domain is resolving to an internal ALB, anyone else?

$ dig www-therecord.recfut.com

www-therecord.recfut.com. 99 IN CNAME internal-alb-wpproxy-603330213.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com.

internal-alb-wpproxy-603330213.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com. 60 IN A 172.20.33.135

internal-alb-wpproxy-603330213.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com. 60 IN A 172.20.97.8
Okay but the grandparent seemed to be stating that enjoying living in a place like this in the Midwest requires being white and straight. I think the main thing my neighbors all have in common is they have children and work professional middle class jobs.

Also, I likely see the younger people, there are quite a few old people who retire in OP. The blue valley school districts have a makeup that skews fewer whites (70%) versus a place like San Francisco where whites apparently send their children to private schools rather than public schools. So in terms of actually raising children to meet people who are different than them, it seems like the Midwest is a clear winner. Despite whites making up 40% of the population of San Francisco, only 20% of the enrolled students are white.
The laws are relatively recent; how are they outdated? I think they have significant flaws, but that doesn't make them outdated. Governments have plenty of laws and regulations which cause tremendous collateral damage.
The midwest is absolutely a shared culture, not sure why you're getting offended by that. There are variations and sub-cultures, but "midwest" share a lot of overlapping traditions and societal mores, including some of the ugly ones mentioned by the above commenter.

He's overreacting I think, but he's not entirely wrong. The midwest is by no measure more diverse than other parts of the US, and is therefore less tolerant, in general, than those other parts.
I don’t know if it is possible to have “pay to skip” not become “pay to win” in an MMO.

The whole point of an MMO is that your character progresses and gets better as they do more things in the game. If you are paying to skip something that makes your character better, your character will be better than if you didn’t pay to skip that.

If what you are skipping is not making your character better, you wouldn’t be doing it in the first place.

MMOs are be definition pay to win. You either pay with time or pay with money.
Please update the title to indicate this is a low severity CVE and prevent managers around the world from panicking and summoning their developers and engineers back at work during this shut down period.

To be honest, I panicked reading this title when I opened HN this evening, but reading the CVE entry tells me this isn't anywhere close to as serious as CVE-44228.

You have a responsibility to not just share information on HN, but to share it in an accurate and well thought manner.
Building housing isn't going to "solve homelessness". The majority of "visible homeless" that you see on the streets, etc. have mental health and addiction issues. Also, most housing, especially those catering to those "on the streets" have rules. More than a few living on the street don't want to have rules and structure.

So, building housing isn't going to a total solution.

Mental health issues need wrap around services and the ability to restrict their actions - which years of legislation and rulings (many will blame the ACLU) doesn't allow for such in nearly all cases.

Addicts, for them, they need to WANT to get better. Even then it is still a long road. Hitting bottom may not even happen for some.
Coronavirus Can Spread to Heart, Brain Days After Infection
https://archive.is/7qmpQ
NFTs: Does Infinitely Printing JPEGs Cause Inflation?
Not working in the US (for me anyway) either.
This is neat! Who's the target user?

For this to be usable to me (level of knowledge: I can do all of what's done on this page in Python / R, but don't have a PhD in stats or anything), I would need:

- Some sense of how training and validation is done

- Model weights

- Something that helps interpret fitting / overfitting

I'm not sure it's super useful for someone below my level of knowledge (or maybe at my level but just don't know Python?). It seems like a random marketing person, shopify person, etc. would need:

- Better understanding of when to use regression vs. classification

- Help interpreting of whether the MAE / loss is good or bad

- Some automatic way to prevent overfitting

- Guidance on what consitutes good data and how to structure it for input

- Examples of how it might be applied to their use case

- Knowledge of how often models fail / how much they should be indexing on the model
Tuning Your Code’s Performance for Apple silicon
> and very little code re-use.

Well, first, a "handful of apps" is already quite a bit of reuse; and second - it's quite a lot of libraries that get reused (or used outside of the original application). It's true that you have many libdo-stuff-for-foo-app that's not very reusable, but if you search the web, or github/sourceforge/etc., there's a hell of a lot that's available for use and reuse. Finally, some (re)use is from toy projects or ones not intended for mass usage.

So it's really not bad at all :-)
> I didn't intend to, but having done those things now means I am building a Play To Earn game. That is, of course, assuming my game assets and in-game currency actually have value and a value higher than the cost of creation.

Other than speculators hoping to flip them to someone else, what would give them that value?

Like most crypto games, the value would inherently have to come from new players putting more money into the system to cash out old players. It works as long as hype exists and the users curve continues upward, but it crashes immediately as that stops and everyone wants to extract whatever value they can.
Bazel is awful unless you're Google and have a team of devs supporting Bazel.
> It's actually becoming fairly common for companies to give back-weighted compensation or hiring bonuses that must be paid back if the employee leaves before two years, especially for job hoppers.

You mean like Amazon with it's weird vesting schedule? Those companies also struggle to attract talent, especially combined with obscure PIPs which can push employees out before a single RSU has vested. Those companies are not going to do well in this hiring market.

It should be easy to fire bad employees, and on the flip side, it should be easy to fire bad employers too.
> Of course they still struggled more than me to pay their day to day expenses while I had the chance to be backed by my parents.

As others mention, this is why free education should provide everything that the children need to be able to take advantage of said free education.

I know many folk who went through the UK's free education whilst their parents struggled to even ensure they had breakfast, or lunch money. What does that do to a child's ability to concentrate and perform well in class?

The same goes for school uniforms - I remember a few who I went to school with couldn't afford the schools own brand of uniform and would just wear the closest matching unbranded clothes their parents could find - and would often get made fun of for it.

IMO - free education should include a healthy breakfast and lunch to ensure everyone is given the best chance to succeed. (The definition of healthy in the UK is another issue - our school meals growing up included some of the cheapest food available like chips, pies, sausage rolls).

I'm a fan of how Finland have tackled this issue by making private schools effectively illegal - so that all schools have the same level of funding. A nice side effect, or I guess perhaps the intended effect is that if wealthy parents are having to put their children to the same schools as working class kids - then they're going to do their best to ensure these schools are up to standard. Everyone benefits.

This video gives a bit of a glimpse into the Finnish school system - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xCe2m0kiSg
> Isn't a hardware wallet airgapped?

No, most of them connect over USB. The important thing is reducing the attack surface to a bare minimum with simple protocols and implementations.

I think at a minimum it would need to emulate a keyboard to type out complex passwords. Ideally it could also receive simple commands from, say, a browser extension to request filling in a specific website.
Sad that it should be retired now when it is coming of age.
Past related threads:

Learn how to design large-scale systems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17522362 - July 2018 (185 comments)

The System Design Primer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13823979 - March 2017 (57 comments)
Is the URL incorrect? This seems to be the URL: https://therecord.media/cyberattack-on-one-of-norways-larges... (although I can't be sure it's the same article)
Yep that's the one, and yes he is a CTO.
As a Canadian, I dig the midwest. It feels eminently familiar. Maybe more Canadian than much of Canada. Or large parts of Canada are a vaguely Britishy extension of the midwest. Or something.

I find it interesting, the geographical division in the US, too. Here, we are roughly "west coast -> rockies -> prairies -> central (great lakes st lawrence) -> maritime". Down there it's like "west coast -> rockies -> west -> new england / mid-atnlantic / east coast" and so our central and prairies overlap with what's "midwest." Ontario is sorta both midwest (a lot like Ohio) and also New England?

Anyways, praise to the midwest :-) I'd like to visit someday when things at the border aren't so insane.
They can't "really see"... they have eyespots with just a handful of light-sensitive cells and no lenses, so it's just gradients of light and dark. But they have other senses and I think the word "see" was metaphorical here, meaning they sensed the presence of an attractive stimulus. In some ways the real meaning of "see" doesn't depend on optics, you see?
I think that means 4chan could teach Alexa what to tell kids? They have reprogrammed search engine results many times just for laughs.
I'm using a Windows laptop with an external USB keyboard. The Shift key didn't do anything. But the Shift key on the laptop's own keyboard worked.
It was not an example of a contradiction (I figured that's well enough understood to not mean an example). It was an example of selectively presenting facts in a way to distort reality.
A trust is better than a will. The saving grace is that my parents selected a trustee for their trust who was trustworthy. He also did things extremely slowly because he was terrified my awful half sisters would sue him. My half sisters, no surprise, have terrible judgment in many areas of life, and this was one, so the trouble they started was not likely to end with the result they wanted. They have greed though, so they went for it. If there hadn't been a good trustee I would not have had the will to resist. A couple of things I learned: get your own lawyer. That is important! The best investment of your money. Otherwise no one is interested in your opinion. Also, your parents should set up a trust rather than just a will. If your parents don't know someone who would make a good trustee, just get a bank. They have departments that specialize in this. In a way a bank is better. A bank will not be terrified that the nut job narcissist inheritor might sue them; they have deep pockets.

One more thing. The way things went down totally shocked me. I was a child of my mother's second marriage and I learned the hard way that my half sibs had always resented me. Now that I know that, things about my family make more sense. My feeling is, if you at all feel your sibs may resent you because life gave you luck / looks / smarts / a better father / you name it, proceed with caution.
Emotional damages of seeing your child nearly get talked into electrocuting themselves by an appliance. Thats actually traumatic if framed correctly. Plus the bad press? Amazon would be smart to throw $20,000 at this and hope it fades away.
Is it possible to use widevine if you don't run binaries from others and build everything from source yourself yet? This doesn't look to be that as far as I can tell.
Swift-bridge: Call Rust from Swift and vice versa
Not necessarily a hacker changing the email to a whitelisted domain that will reject the email probably makes it the safest email address to use.
The PCL is the primary library on the UT Austin campus. This is all of the maps in their collection.
But this test becomes a lot more interesting when the bottleneck is the actual thing under scrutiny (socket performance), rather than Whatever Python Is Doing. You can probably get 10-20x the RPS out of a trivial golang server, which might shift the bottleneck closer to socket perf.
Do the players who earn money from the game somehow make the game more entertaining for other players?

I had a friend who was a tennis teacher. He didn't really teach so much as play with other less skillful players and get paid for doing that. That's kind of a similar situation right?

The answer depends on whether the players who get paid are rewarded for a service, something that other players perceive as having value to them. Or is it just a way by the game providers to lure people in to the game?
I agree that PascalCase makes more sense on systems like Windows, where everything is case-insensitive, or in shells like PowerShell, where virtually all commands are shell functions rather than separate binaries, and the shell itself is case-insensitive. Then, I suppose you get some legibility benefit, without any extra hassle.

I'm personally still on the fence about the more verbose style. I think I like it for directory names but not really for executable names.
Your summary seems inaccurate per https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Group_Minutes/DW...

I.e. they ruled that any mass changes based on administrative declarations weren't OK, but changing street names was fine if the on the ground signage had been changed.
> "Is your job set up to fulfill tasks that were, generally, arbitrarily designed by some gatekeeper?"

But isn’t this basically every job that doesn’t directly support a human need (like food, clothing, shelter)? Just arbitrarily working to meet some other human’s desires?
If the other party is 100% at fault, why should they not pay for the damage they caused?

And its not “cheap” to not get comprehensive insurance. Its a calculated risk.
Sorry, $10 per gigabyte? That's ludicrously expensive.
> because it’s not that easy

It's infinitely easier than with Slack or Discord, where it's outright impossible.

> If it was, we wouldn’t be having this discussion.

We definitely could still be having this discussion even if Matrix provided better UX out of box, because that doesn't mean it would automatically win the fight with existing network effects.
Hey there, I was like you - a few months ago, found a great job at a start-up in Seattle (Fremont) that really prioritizes the in-office work community, while still allowing flexibility. For example, I haven’t seen two of the engineers in basically a month.

How did I do it? I was up-front with recruiters and HR - I am looking for a place that prioritizes having a vibrant, in-person work community. I filtered until I found a few places, interviewed, got an offer. It exists. If you live in Seattle (or are considering moving) send me an email at mikhael@hey.com - we are hiring, I think (though we did just hire like 4 engineers).

I wouldn’t have it any other way. I am much more productive in the office, and enjoy myself much more. Homo sapiens are social creatures.
A couple CVEs ago I'd already have replaced it with a shim using System.err.println()
KDE Connect can do that if you happen to be using KDE as a desktop environment and an android phone

https://userbase.kde.org/KDE_Connect/Tutorials/Useful_comman...
In a typical installation of something like Apache Tomcat, there will be config files that tell the server what code to load and run. If you can modify those config files...
The best I could find is this

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10041298/how-to-recover-...

But can you show me the way how you'd go on about this? Really curious.
Another way is to ask them to describe how to perform certain systems programming tasks with the restriction that it was to compile under pure ISO C mode.

The answer will always be external Assembly.
When it comes to politics, you just have to decide on which sort of train wreck you can live with.
That'a a great example. Google's "answer box"/"featured snippets" have received a great deal of criticism for this... for incorrect information that was in the search results anyway. The key difference is in presentation.
I visited LA for a week in 2018 and SF for two weeks in 2016. Never have I felt so unliked on a personal level (weird scowls in the Mission district, didn't get one match on Tinder lmao).

I made it a point that I would never return to California for as long as I lived (unless you're willing to pay me a lot).

For point of reference, I'm from NYC so this isn't a blue-state/red-state thing like it has become for a lot of people. There's something about the California vibe that does not mesh with me.
> No matter how dismissive one is of the midwest, how could you be ignorant of the existence of a major metro area like Minneapolis-St. Paul? Per [0], it's the 16th largest in the U.S. Its teams participate in every major televised sports league (NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB).

Idk how you could not know it exists, but i can imagine people not knowing much about it.

> I'm from a significantly smaller Midwestern city than Minneapolis, and I don't recall anyone ever saying "where's that" or "are there buildings there" when I say where I'm from.

The buildings thing is probably a bit of a joke, but i found that some people have cultural references to things and Minneapolis has less cultural touch points for people to identify with. Obviously LA and NYC have tons of visibility in movies and pop culture, and places like detroit are well known in news due to visible industries (and their problems lately)... but mid western cities? less so.

I lived in CLE and i always joked about how cleveland has buildings but no people. I was not alone in such jokes. I can only imagine what people in detroit experience, especially since cleveland's unofficial slogan is "at least we're not Detroit". Aside, but according to your link cleveland area is supposedly bigger than silicon valley, which is surprising..

> Its teams participate in every major televised sports league (NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB).

Plenty of people don't care about this, and wouldn't recognize this from it. Santa Clara county in california has offices or HQs of the top 5-10 largest companies in america (apple, msft, goog, amzn, fb, etc). For some, this is more recognizable than a big sports team. Despite being smaller, Boston has many of the top universities in america (Harvard, MIT, BU, BC, etc), again, some may identify with this metric better. This is especially true in tech.
> The Californian experiment was audacious and brave

Yet you can’t be brave enough to give any kudos to Florida’s red politics, and instead call it a “political train wreck”. This kind of social fear is the other half of the bay areas failure. It’s not just the politicians, it’s the people.
You’ll need to get over your holier-than-thou political perception to enjoy Miami (and life).

Texas and Florida are having a huge upswell because they are basically making an anti-political stand to go “back to normal”. It’s attractive to people who don’t want politics.
"Job hopper" bias: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lizryan_the-dumbest-part-of-e...
Am I missing something here?

Shouldn‘t the other driver pay you personally?

And then he‘d have to hash out whether his insurance pays him that money?
I should have clarified - of course it's stressful and expensive and exhausting, but only to the person/family experiencing it. Assuming that the rest of the internet cares about your move... no, they do not. But clearly it provides a platform for people to vent their feelings about the Bay Area.
If I remember correctly e.g Django and Flask uses plain old python-files for configs. Don’t know if it’s common in the Node landscape but probably?

I don’t know how common it is to specify paths to/file name for DLL’s in config to load at runtime for C#, but probably not totally unheard of? And if you can edit the config, maybe you can place a DLL somewhere as well…?

(But at the some time if you can edit the config, maybe you can just replace/patch the main binary in the first place…)
Did you reverse the likelihoods? P(pc) = 2 * P(pd), probability of purchasing C is twice as likely to probability of purchasing D.