skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason grinding exists is also economic in nature: the "consumer value for money" equation is often reduced to maximizing hours of playtime. This has led to extremely padded gameplay all throughout when we compare to arcade games, which are premised on "operator value of time" and therefore always endeavor to shuttle players in and out of their session in a few minutes.

The other day I visited the local pinball joint and the old EM game I was playing got stuck counting up the 3000 point bonus during gameplay. I cradled the ball on the right flipper, thinking "hmm, how interesting!" One of the staff came over and apoplectically remarked "If you don't continue play I am going to have to turn the game off", and when I did as instructed, showed great distress at how I had managed to roll over the score and accumulate two free credits, but also appreciated that he had gotten a bit closer to the mysterious issue of the game repeatedly ending up with 9 credits.

I see the impact of NFTs as a pendulum swing towards "item value in context", which has no particular relationship to time or even defined scarcity, but would instead favor broad reusability across numerous contexts. P2E is just the early mimicry every new model has to go through before getting to the good parts, in the same way that early console games took a few years to start relaxing the constraints of arcades in earnest.

I think a much more likely early candidate for interesting NFT gaming will be small collectable games, derived from the procedural arts scene. Scarcity sets individual prices within a collectables market, but the value of the collection as a whole is determined by other modes of context. There's no need to squeeze or stretch the gameplay loop or make it addictive or insert monetizing gates; every instance can be exactly designed to be "ideal" on its own. Instead the game has to cater to speculative interests, which is a whole other set of trade-offs and can even favor characteristic flaws. For some reason I have not yet seen the "pay to lose" NFT game, but to me it seems blindingly obvious that being able to lose in an interesting way will command speculative interest.
The appropriate course is to sue the other driver directly and ignore the insurance company. A person cannot ignore a court summons, not even in Texas.

The judge will know that the other driver's insurance will ultimately pay, so he can punish the insurance company for its intransigence by putting a heavy financial penalty onto the other driver.
@elonmusk (asked about forms of government on Mars)

44m30s

"If society does not have a war and there is no cleansing function or garbage collection for rules and regulations then rules and regulations will accumulate every year. Because they are immortal. Humans die but the laws don't. So. We need a garbage collection function for rules and regulations. They should just not be immortal. Because some of the rules and regulations that are put in place will be counterproductive... Done with good intentions but counterproductive. Sometimes not done with good intentions. So if rules and regulations just accumulate every year, you get more and more of them. Then eventually you won't be able to do anything. You'll be just like Gulliver tied down by thousands of little strings. "
I use KeePass with Syncthing, which works across all my PCs + Android. It's a good option if you don't want to use Dropbox or similar.
Title Insurance is anachronistic. In the internet age, there should be open APIs for someone to check the liens and names on titles.

I guess this is 2021 so...something something... blockchain...?
But services limit quality on Linux (due to not having a high-enough DRM level).
The problem with play to earn however is that it encourages people to play the game to earn money instead of fun, which causes inflation to the point where it's not worth the time of a casual player to do the grindy parts of the game and instead just lay people who grind all day. This is why play to earn is terrible, gold farmers will increase currency faucets without increasing currency sinks, and it is terrible for any game with a lot of player trading.
DoorDash requiring engineers to deliver food (1x/month) – they’re furious
To the runtime-validation point; our team used attrs with runtime validation enforced everywhere (we even wrote our own wrapper to make it always use validation, with no boilerplate) and this ended up being a massive performance hit, to the point where it was showing up close to the top of most profile stats from our application. Ripping all that out made a significant improvement to interactive performance, with zero algorithmic improvements anywhere else. It really is very expensive to do this type of validation, and we weren't even doing "deep" validation (i.e. validating that `list[int]` really did include only `int` objects) which would have been even more expensive.

Python can be used quite successfully in high-performance environments if you are judicious about how you use it; set performance budgets, measure continuously, make sure to have vectorized interfaces, and have a tool on hand, like PyO3, Cython, or mypyc (you should probably NOT be using C these days, even if "rewrite in C" is the way this advice was phrased historically) ready to push very hot loops into something with higher performance when necessary. But if you redundantly validate everything's type on every invocation at runtime, it does eventually become untenable for anything but slow batch jobs if you have any significant volume of data.
> Most Tor traffic isn’t malicious

The link here is just to a survey of Tor users, based on self-reporting. Pretty dubious methodology. Beyond that, even if only a minority of the traffic is malicious it's not with the trouble for the ISP.
> If you aren't willing to sue over a disputed liability, it might as well not exist.

I think this might be at the heart of it.

The article (about how hard actuarial math is) and the insurance buyers make the mistake of thinking that all that matters is downside in case of event X with particular probability P. However, instead you have to think about chances of X AND chances of being able to navigate a system that is outright adversarial to parties that are not the insurance companies.

The “house” always wins…
Trees are essential, but we've released into the atmosphere so much carbon that was previously trapped under the earth in liquid and solid form. Trees aren't enough, we need to get that carbon back into long term storage.
Does your declaration about modification extend to supplementing the DSCP values of SIP packets (when not set) with low-latency / high-importance tags to prioritize them over general backbone traffic?
They also have a MLS team - Minnesota United so 5/5 for professional sports teams that are televised as soccer is now more popular than ice hockey.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-1025350...
You can ask your insurance company to sue them, but you could also sue them in small claims court since your loss is under $15k. They generally can't send a lawyer to small claims court.
We have mud dauber wasps around the house. I can't find a good reference for neuron count...the only one I see is for super tiny parasitic wasps which I can't imagine is accurate. Lets assume they are on the order of honey bees at 500k-1M neurons.

This past fall I saw one on the ceiling of my front porch. It had a rear leg pinched between the soffit and the edge of a can light. It was pretty obviously struggling, pulling away with its remaining legs and every now and then buzzing its wings. It was interesting but kind of a dumb 'more powah' response that could be the result of a biological integrator of some form.

I then saw one of the most remarkable things that I've personally witnessed in nature. Another wasp of the same type was randomly flying by, about 6" below the level of the ceiling and along a path that would have brought it no closer than a foot away from the stuck wasp. After flying past the stuck wasp, it took a hard right, circled around and landed near the stuck one. It then proceeded to walk up, grab the stuck ankle (?) of the other wasp and help it tug. They both worked on it for a few seconds, broke the first wasp free (not sure if the foot was still intact), then they both flew away in different directions.

I can build a mental model of a biological automaton lacing together finely tuned feedback loops that cause it to 'act' in a way that supports itself. Extending that to a point where it appears to identify, empathize, re-plan, solve a physical problem then resume prior plan starts to stretch my ability to imagine without some kind of subjective consciousness backing it all.
Weird that these are the exact dice used to play a game of Dungeons and Dragons.
Oven Stoves and Heat Walls (2008)
That's extremely on point, I love it.

edit/ These are so good, thanks for the link. https://www.raygunsite.com/collections/the-midwest/products/...
John Madden is dead at 85
It's too laggy.
VAT is one of those weird mismatches between US and European politics. It would be regarded as very regressive in the US, since sales taxes disproportionately harm the poor.
You can do some weird stuff with Unix Domain sockets, though, like using sendmsg() to pass over an open file descriptor.
France produces 70% of its total electricity from nuclear, and has one of the cheapest electricity in Europe, AND uses nuclear to adjust production to demand (no we don't do that with fossil, because modern fossil plants have a yield that is widely affected by the stability of the production, with a big warm-up time: just look at french production in winter, gas is mostly constant during the day and nuclear is taking half of the variation with hydro doing the rest).

Varying the power output of a nuclear plant (regular 2G plant) between 40 and 100% is straightforward and needs no specific design changes, and you can even go as low as 10% if need be. Xenon poisoning is a real thing, but it is relatively easy to deal with (simply by tweaking the Boron concentration the position of the control rods) even though it requires a bit of practice to master the skill. It is done routinely every day in all French nuclear plants!

You are simply living in a parallel universe which seams to share very few similarities with the real world…
I don't think this really makes sense. If the city were really just for rich people who don't care about others, then why don't they kick out all the homeless? And why would they pass a high tax on businesses? And how can you say the wealthy don't care about jobs leaving or tech decline when most of the money here is from tech and the rich people work in tech?

I could just as easily say the poorest run city policies:

Housing - don't want gentrification and are rent-controlled anyway

Thefts - don't care about rich store owners or home owners and don't want to be hassled by the police

Schools - if they can't do advanced math then get rid of it so that no one is ahead of them

Tech - they don't work in tech and don't want to compete against rich techies for housing

I think the truth is that it's run by the entrenched, which is a mix of the rich and poor: people who already own property (because their families have been here a long time or because they're rich) and people who have rent-controlled apartments
My nerd path – 10 years of (personal) development
What everyone is missing: you file a claim with your insurance company, and then they chase down the other party.

If rando-joe you go to the other insurance company...yeah, of course they'll tell you "we investigated our client and found we don't have to pay you" because they're very much hoping you'll say "well shoot then" and go away.

The other option is to have an attorney do it. With multiple witnesses and video footage, it's a slam-dunk case unless the driver's identity can't be established. That means a)an attorney is happy to take it on and b)the other insurance company will likely cave well before anyone even starts talking about court cases.
> > I wonder how many cheap plastic Happy Meal toys will someday thousands of years from now be dug up and deemed to have special religious significance to our culture.

> No, it's the super heroes and Disney figurines what will be considered deities

The use of “No” here suggests a dearth of experience with Happy Meal toys, because these aren't opposed ideas.
Cloning these and saving for later. Knowing GH’s past (ie, youtube-dl), these won’t stay up for long.
I would say there are substantial behavioural similarities (thinking styles and patterns, epistemic approaches, etc) that can be reliably observed, and despite their claims that they "have no opinion" on the existence of God, it's pretty easy to get them to slip up if one is debating from an actually neutral position. Also, they tend to have quite strong emotions on the subject for people who have no opinion.

Regardless, any such claim that it is another religion can be quickly debunked by a quick Google of a dictionary definition:

>> religion: the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods

The dictionary entry proves that atheism is nothing at all like religion.
I feel like in both Cali and say Germany taxes are about 40% overall and balance out. For example in Germany long term cap gains is 0%.
You can release the tools without the keys. That way, anyone can get the tool, and anyone with a valid key can use the tool.
One past thread (with one comment):

How bad are bad fundraising terms? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15453067 - Oct 2017 (1 comment)
That sounds like a really fun project. I worked at a similar company previously. It was tough, inside sales is a difficult thing to hire/train for. My advice is to consider two hires -- a growth person to own eCommerce leads and a sales person to close those. Once you have a good handle for the funnel, you should be well positioned to figure out what quotas should look like and how to scale the sales org. You don't need the more complicated sales roles right now (sales ops, sales managers, etc), you need a funnel that you can measure and plan against.
Came here to post the same episode. Strongly recommended; it's eye-opening, and it will give you a good idea of the incentives and the type of people you're dealing with (although you'll see the techniques are the ones you are already know: SIM swapping, social engineering, escalation of personal attacks, etc).

Good luck defending your handle!
You should switch to decaf. Bitcoin has been used for ransomware for years and somebody supposedly even stored child porn in the Bitcoin blockchain. Every Ethereum ICO in 2017 was illegal. Nobody gives a shit.
Yeah I actually agree with you, I think it just depends on the definition of degrowth and how its implemented. Your example of WFH I totally agree with. Things like switching from meat to plant based diets, banning or taxing cars of certain dimensions or with particular capabilities, forcing people to take the train everywhere, or even more extreme things like trying to get people to have fewer children (however you go about it), are the things that could affect peoples' quality of life much more drastically.
My argument hinges upon the fact that Mr Nagle has been waging a FUD campaign for some time without much contest here, through leveraging his reputation. It's become tiresome, very few LEO support his concerns at this point, yet he continues unchallenged. It's mostly cherrypicking and well below the quality of his other posts.

All of us who've been around enough know what FUD campaigns look like on well-managed Internet forums. I am middle-aged and find this worthy of countering as it appears obsessive. Younger technologists are constantly having their efforts defamed needlessly on this leading technology forum with nothing being added to the conversation.
It is not a "my way or the highway"; it is expecting a "can do" attitude (and yes I understand that "my way or the highway" is toxic).

Attitudes of "Can Do", "Solve the problem", "How do we get better than our competition" are pretty much the polar opposite of a "not my job" attitude.

It is one thing to see in a low-level position, where a certain percentage of it is expected. But in a responsible position like serious software development, it's a red flag for lack of engagement. I've also seen it turn into an actively undermining the company attitude, which is toxic for everyone. I'd look for it to get fixed fast, or they're on the short list for "we don't really need to pay you to come here anymore" attitude.
By "petroleum industry CCS is a scam" I assume you're referring to efforts to make fuels from atmospheric carbon, which is only means we burn it again and put it right back in the atmosphere?

If so, then I disagree that this is a scam. Liquid carbon fuels are going to continue being mission critical for civilization for many decades to come. So much of our infrastructure is built with the assumption of liquid carbon fuels that it's going to take a very long time to migrate completely. And there may be some applications that can never be carbon fuel free.

So, projects like these are still very valuable, because they potentially reduce the need to extract and burn fossil fuels, which necessarily inject additional carbon the atmosphere. Slowly down the rate we add is just as important as permanent capture projects like this one that can actually reverse the trend.

Also, I am increasingly of the opinion that permanent carbon capture tech is absolutely critical to civilization sustainability. I think humans are going to burn every ounce of volatile carbon fuel stored up in the Earth's crust. The incentives to do so are just too great. Converting the excess carbon to a non volatile form is the only way we'll be able to control how much remains in our atmosphere.
Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2022?
What are the things you think will happen in the upcoming year, and more importantly, why do you think so?
Not that attrs or dataclasses has particularly significant attack surface, but when considering stdlib vs. 3rd-party you also have to consider the amount of maintenance and the release cadence. Attrs can release every few months if the rate of change demands it, whereas the stdlib has a fixed yearly release schedule that is tied to interpreter versions. Attrs has a small, focused development team whereas the stdlib is maintained by developers who are stretched very thin, and many packages within it are effectively abandoned. Upgrading dataclasses means upgrading everything in the stdlib at the same time, whereas attrs can be upgraded independently, by itself.

Supply chain attacks are a complex and nuanced topic so there are plenty of reasons to be thoughtful about adopting new dependencies, but it's definitely not as simple as "just use the stdlib for everything".
That seems like you're not comparing apples versus apples.

If there are 3 million military personnel in the US, because humans have sexual reproduction [meaning two parents per individual] that means they would have up to 6 million distinct adult parents, out of about 250 million US adults, making the Congress pretty normal with about 2% of its members being parents to service members.

A more detailed demographic analysis might tell us something more interesting, but would of necessity also reduce the size of the comparison so it would be less statistically valid (e.g. age breakdown, because of how time works humans have more children when they're older, Congress is older than the US workforce)
Funding actually has very little to do with results in education. There's even a controlled experiment/case study we can reference:

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/04/25/468157856/can-mor...

Paraphrasing/shortening a bit:
"Something remarkable happened in New Jersey in the late 1990s... as part of a school funding lawsuit known as Abbott v. Burke, the state increased spending in 31 of its then-poorest districts... spending in some of the districts eclipsed some of the state's wealthiest districts."

"But, all these years later, many are still "spending 2.5 times the national average, and there's no real evidence that they're closing the achievement gap"

It's self evident that funding doesn't matter beyond some low threshold amount where basic necessities are met. Success is about culture and especially culture of your peers. Kids are highly influenced by their parents/peers in terms of what they aspire to do and be.

Kids in wealthy districts don't succeed because of educational funding; they succeed because wealthy parents are more likely to set high academics standards for their kids. And those kids become friends with other kids with high standards. And they carry that culture forward with them.
That's interesting. So all that coal was made in 50 million years? Imagine if nothing had evolved to metabolize lignin, how much less biomass there would be by now, how much colder the earth would be. Just a little more dead, in a slow death spiral. Evolution is cool.
I can't help but think of the fidget spinner craze from a few years ago... humans (and perhaps other hominids before them...) have always made little trinkets for decoration and entertainment, with usage being individualized. Maybe some people wore them as jewelry while the kids made little dice-like games with them? Think of like a hackey-sack - one person squeezes it as a "stress toy" while another kicks it around with their friends as a game. Same basic thing, multiple uses, none of which really require documentation in history.
>>> This goes all the way down the supply chain down to the real-world miners who dig up the ores for the solar panels and even they will need to pay their taxes, which you cannot do in bitcoin.

Unless more countries follow El Salvador's example, and accept cryptocurrencies as legal tender. If El Salvador hadn't banned metals mining in 2017, you could the guys digging up ores with BTC today.
I'm a mid-level loser with a family. Just coast in your current job.

Just about any house is big enough for a family of 4.
> When you pay someone in BTC, you also have to pay the power company with something. The system is an inherently leaky bucket.

The same holds for, say, transactions in US dollars. Here, you also pay your bank or your credit card company.
The major problem in the Bay Area and other metropolitan regions is that the house cost / salary ratio has increased a lot.

Sadly, this is also the case in Europe, where most major cities that were a good deal 10 years ago are very expensive now. Even taking into consideration that tech salaries are way above average.

Another thread argued the Midwest is more balanced. What are other US areas with good universities and on-site tech job opportunities?
I personally think of it as 'conditional' depression. Mine was conditional on getting out of poverty wages and into a decent job. I'm still cash poor but I also have a place of my own and stuff. I was in a depressed or depression-adjacent place for years, treatment didn't help, either felt nothing or went manic depending on the med.

I dont expect to ever own a house, I don't expect to find a wife and settle down any time soon. I don't expect a big number in the bank. I leave that up to future me. Present me is doing the best he can to keep moving forward and doing right by himself. Can't worry about what I can't control. Can take control of what I can now, and trust the person I evolve into in the future to handle more, having learned how that works first person.
> Another luxury belief not mentioned is that vaping is just as immoral as smoking.

Vaping has reversed 20+ years of anti-smoking efforts in high schools. This is a problem.

Vaping is seems safer than smoking but this is medically unproven.

Vaping is NOT safer than not-Vaping and not-Smoking.

The vaping companies ran the Big Tobacco playbook to exactly the same effect. It is unsurprising that their opponents are running their playbook to stop them.