skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Losing is fun, and rougelikes are the quintescential version of this. Sounds like you need to git gud.

Cogmind is pretty fun and enjoyable, but Brogue is missing large swaths of content compared to other rougelikes (though I do love it given that it pioneered Dijkstra maps!), Caves of Qud has a static map and is thus significantly less emergent than other rougelikes. I couldn't even keep myself interested enough to get far, despite enjoying the SSeth video about it.

You should have recommended Cataclysm, DDA - a game which also has "obtuse and unfair" mechanics and "is close to impossible to win(or do well in) without either knowledge from external sources or run-ending trial and error."
So, a sender has to input CC every time he wants to tip somebody?
:) wasn't trying to criticize. Sorry if it came off that way.
If you think those problems cannot be solved, I understand your skepticism. I don't share this pessimism however.
A week or two ago they were saying Omicron might confer Delta immunity. Don't overlook that part.
I have always paid all of my debts, including student loans. I think it is quite unfair that some will get off scot-free. What lesson does that teach?
> if you're into that kind of random info

Almost always, yes. But by a German professor in Journalism and Communications on historical censorship on a website that has "brew" in the domain? Certainly.

Thank you!
They don’t list because they are still in the “what the market will bear” model of pricing.

My experience was their sales team talked a good game up until the time to bid, and then Akamai closed enough of the pricing gap to not make it worth switching. Cloudflare seemed like great technology but their pricing suggested they had already won the business. I can only imagine how they treat existing customers once there are switching costs.
Do you have a demo video on how it works?
> Roughly 0% of a typical desktop’s disk space is used by hardlinked files. You can safely double count them. That’s exactly what every disk space analyzer does!

While that may be a reasonable strategy, it's not what every disk space analyzer does.

I've got a backup setup that uses hardlinks to provide a wide variety of restore points without using a lot of space. du doesn't double count:

$ du -hs daily.0
436G daily.0

$ du -hs daily.1
436G daily.1

$ du -hs daily.0 daily.1
436G daily.0
12M daily.1
> even if they pull vacuum in those cells (which i dont think they are) I'd bet this isn't as good a thermal insulator as wood.

The B-CORE slab thermal insulation wall is described as being filled with rockwool insulation.
The universal tabbing is a genius feature.
I've used a dozen of todo apps over the last 10 years. This is the best I found: https://tasks.org/

It allows you to snooze recurring tasks (unlike Google Keep), can hide a task from the list until its time comes, and a lot more!

And it's free. But not available for iPhone and this prevents me from switching to iPhone.
>This uses an architecture called CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions) developed with researchers at the University of Cambridge (CHERI) architecture that replaces software pointers in the chip.

This has been submitted multiple times over the years [1] including my own submission, but doesn't seems to get much attention / discussion at all on HN.

There is CheriBSD [2] which has support for it.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[2] https://github.com/CTSRD-CHERI/cheribsd
That sounds like you have a fit issue. At least that's my guess, since I can't relate. I've worn Auras and glasses to the cinema many times.
It's hard to tell but it looks like they have open- and close-parenthesis on the base (un-shifted) layer, which is awesome.

That always puzzled me about the Space Cadet on the Symbolics Lisp Machines... you designed a machine from scratch that is ostensibly intended to be used and programmed with an awful lot of lisp code, but you expect the programmer to hit Shift+0 and Shift+9 each time they want a paren? C'mon.

Anyways this looks awesome; wish I had a use case for it.
Regular cloth masks do not filter virus floating in the air you breathe and they never did.

Here's one of the scientists from President Biden's Covid advisory council being interviewed on PBS last year:

> I have had concerns that date back to april of 2020 about the concept of masking.

Needless to say it's a political hot button beyond anything I've ever seen in public health, and yet at the same time i think we've all done a disservice to the public.

When you actually look at face cloth coverings, those cloth pieces of hang over your face, they actually only have very limited impact in reducing the amount of virus that you inhale in or exhale out.

In fact in studies that have been done show that if an individual might get infected within 15 minutes in a room, by time and concentration of the virus in the room, add a face cloth covering you only get about five more minutes of protection.

I've been really disappointed with my colleagues in public health for not being more clear about what can masking does or does not do.

On the other hand if you use the n95 respirators and fit them tight to your face, you can actually spend 25 hours in that same room and still be protected.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/do-masks...
Masks are our "doing our part" symbols, the Covid ribbon if you will. The science on anything other than N95 masks is flimsy, but it's low-effort and low-cost, so why not. It feels like better than nothing, it probably is, so we go along with it.
It speaks to the politics of it more than the science.
"Vaccine for all" is a pretty unclear and unmotivating goal. (And I'm inclined to say it wasn't what the goalposts originally were to begin with, but I don't have links to back up my memory.) There have always been and will always be people who can't get vaccines even if they want to, ranging from everything related to medical reasons (adverse reactions, etc.) to social ones (e.g., parents won't let them get vaccines) to others. How long do you want to wait around for a miracle vaccine to come that everyone can get? At some point you have to put a threshold on the percentage of the population you're willing to leave unvaccinated before you can go back to normal. Whether it should be 70% or 90% or 99% I don't know, and any discussion on whom to "leave behind" on vaccination is bound to make people angry, but whatever it is, it can't be 100%, or you will never move on and return to normal life.
So, um, there's no real next step after this if/when there's a 2x omicron. We're nearing the practical limits of the efficacy of masks.
There's a difference between "doesn't do anything" and "isn't going to stop you from catching COVID eventually".
Eh, nowhere did I read her say that warp fields would cause something to move. It was never a stipulation of warp drives that they would cause something to move. In principle, they contract the space ahead of you so that any forward movement would be amplified. But you still need something to impart forward momentum.
Why can't osmand~ scroll as smoothly as this site?
> Scientists spent several years trying to convince the powers that be that Covid spread was airborne.

Several months, perhaps? The article you link to and the letter it references are both dated July 6 2020. Even now COVID-19 has only existed for a couple of years (not several).

It is impossible for anyone to have spent several years (by July 2020) doing anything relating to a specific virus or the consequential disease 7 months after the first known infection.
> The future is in completely abandoning residential gas infrastructure...

Gas tankless water heaters are still sometimes a cost-efficient per-therm choice if you are already plumbed for gas [1] [2].

I've yet to find a calculator that figures the TCO (including costs that are externalized today, like pipe losses to the environment) between tankless water heaters using natural gas, propane, resistive electric, induction electric, and heat pump versions of those types, though. There are many different situations, so what is overall systemically efficient in one situation will not be suitable for another.

It would come as little surprise to most HN readers that I have a number of very expensive resistive air heaters that we call computers laying around for my work, so in my particular situation, a heat pump water heater works extremely well. However, I'm still unsure of the TCO after all the maintenance and repair is accounted for over the decades I will own the heat pump as it is undeniably more complex than more common water heaters. So I will give a nod to resistive water heaters as a likely good TCO choice in most situations after all costs are said and done [3].

[1] https://www.ruud.com/products/water-heaters/tankless-water-h...

[2] https://www.waterheaterleakinginfo.com/gas-vs-electric/

[3] https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/is-induction-heating-m...
what are such ideas that you suspect are true?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/emp2.12582

"The relative risk of 0.17 suggests that wearing an N95 respirator reduces the risk of a SARS-CoV 1 and 2 viral infection to 17% of this population wearing the surgical mask."
I'd argue that this is proof that the refund the police people mean something different.

Right like if you have me saying "defend" and someone else saying "abolish" implying that I mean "abolish" specifically because I'm not using the word abolish seems strange.

I'd also suggest actually reading that op-ed, it's discussing a process that would take decades and specifically arguing against a "reformist" approach to improving police forces.

When you have stories like https://theintercept.com/2021/12/18/little-rock-police-chief... and a former captain of the NYPD signalling that as mayor doesn't trust the police to protect him (after the police union "declared war" on the prior mayor), I'm inclined to maybe believe that policing as an institution in the US needs to be reworked from the ground up.

This should become obvious, and defund starts to make more sense when I say that systemically, US police forces have few or no incentives to actually decrease crime and counterintuitively are often rewarded when crime increases. That the incentives between "the police" and citizens are so completely out of alignment makes you think.
How is the nuisance odor filtering with the 7093?

I use the 60923 for this purpose, but it's a bit loud in appearance.
I too encountered anti-maskers at the hospital. A security guard wanted me to remove my P100 (in+out) and wear their cosplay mask instead. I escalated and talked to the Hospital's Director of Infection Control, who confirmed the policy. When I told them that I was not comfortable with their ask, I was met with all of the standard anti-mask tropes - "wearing a better mask is unnecessary" "Covid is too small to be filtered" "hard to breathe" "you will pass out from lack of oxygen" etc. It was bizarre.

Eventually we agreed that I could come back with an N95 and wear their cosplay mask over my N95, which was acceptable per their official policy (and that it would be on me if I were to pass out). Why they couldn't lead with that option, or even post signs with examples of acceptable PPE combos, I don't know. What I do know is we're two years into this pandemic and ignorance continues to dominate at every level.
I have no intention of wearing one. I'm immunized, and I intend to expose myself to COVID frequently to ensure my immune response remains high, and if I get sick it'll be minor (and I'll quarantine in that case, since I don't intend to expose others).

There is no longer any reason to wear a mask or stay away from others if you are immunized, unless you are actually sick.
Yeah, I agree. The ability to broadcast (and respond to broadcasts) to the world from almost anywhere in the world at any time, and have it recorded in text, audio, video, or more for an indefinite amount of time, so that people can receive it almost at any time from any place, I'd say has no close parallels in human history. The lack of gatekeepers I think is one of the biggest deals. Maybe the printing press gave the lack of gatekeeper, and maybe some forms of radio had that as well, but normally to broadcast to large audiences, there have been gatekeepers. Now, that being said, some platforms are starting to gatekeep at a very high level (e.g. Youtube, Twitter, FB), and many communication forums have lower level moderation (reddit, group chats, email lists, etc), yet, still, huge changes. I try to not say "we're living in an unprecedented time" because I think people use it way too often and it often has more to do with their inability to see similarities across time. And yet, as you've mentioned, we've never had communication like this as a species.
The reason is obvious. We don’t want a massive run on P100s. Some applications absolutely need them and a run would wipe them out.

Remember when the feds were confiscating the current masks in transit? You can’t just overnight increase the production of these things.
His boss at the time did have him on a leash.
I had a kid. So I just quit.
You can say that about anything. Fixing streets is regressive, it only benefits people with cars. Therefore we should not fix streets.

It’s laughable to call student loan forgiveness “regressive”. The word “regressive” is supposed to be used for policies that benefit the wealthy people more than average people, not for policies that benefit average people more than low income people.
The emergence here is somewhat loose, but the two 'systems' interacting are the 'fox pathfinding system' and 'terrain meshing system'. Neither of these systems explicitly point the player towards high value locations, but together they tend to. The fox points towards high mesh density locations, and the meshing system correlates those high mesh density locations with high value.

Now, this is borderline in my book as the fox pathfinding system isn't meant to point towards high mesh density locations, that's really more of a happy bug.
It may be that 1984 was inspired in part by real-life events. But to say anything is "straight out of 1984" is absurd on the face of it. 1984 is not a documentary, it is one non-linguist's politically-charged fictional novel. Newspeak never existed.
If you can't tell the difference between research and promotion, you cannot be any help to anybody. Then, the best thing you can do is let the people who can go about it, without you getting in the way.
> 2 PM EST

That seems to be 7 PM UTC. (PSA: if your event isn't geographically limited, please include the time in UTC too - a lot more people know the conversion from that than whatever your local time zone is.)
It's basically the same as the security theater at the airport - it makes you feel like you have control over something you don't actually control.
>"Most well educated Chinese can read traditional..."

That's the key. Proximally illiterate people --who were the target of Mao's campaign, and ninety percent of the pop. back then, would not have had an easy time deciphering pre-communist texts. The well educated who didn't come correct were re-educated or liquidated so they were not the target.
Cool let's just tell the virus to chill out.
Nim’s got an Option type, though it’s not as popular as exceptions. There’s also third party option libraries that provide ‘?’ like features.
Unfortunately, it got politicized, at which point facts no longer matter.

When we thought that Covid spread by the large droplets you spray out when you cough or sneeze, wearing a cloth mask to catch those droplets before they landed on people or surfaces that people will touch made sense.
So the pool is an artificial entity with the rule of "I will buy or sell token X at the ratio current ratio of dollars to token X that I have" that initially owns 100% of token X?

As an aside, does this concept exist outside the crypto space? It seemed like you may have implied it was a standard object in finance.
The outcome we’re looking for and seem to have found right about now with a peak is the the virus sweeping though the population, literally exposing everyone, and running out of new people to infect.

The peak happens when a high enough proportion of people have already been exposed it had it that the virus runs out of new people to infect. Because the growth rate for this variant is so fast, the post peak drop will be very quick.

Population dynamics with exponential growth are like that.

It seems like the only thing left to do is chase the impossible or just accept the situation and move on.
Immunity isn't a binary condition. Infection by any known SARS-CoV-2 variant will leave most recovered patients with a significant level of cellular immunity against all other variants. This won't necessarily prevent reinfection, but just like with every other coronavirus the symptoms of reinfection cases will typically be mild.

The mRNA vaccines also seem to confer a significant level of durable cellular immunity against all variants, although they also don't reliably prevent infections.
> the "vaxxed and done" camp.... happy to get vaccinated and boosted as many times as necessary

My new year's resolution is that our institutions have until the end of the Greek alphabet to figure this out. I'll get boosters, but don't expect me to mask up for the Aleph-Tango-Susan-93 variant in 2024. Come hell or high water. I'm burying loved ones due to non-covid afflictions. If we blew it, we blew it. We can at least live while we die.
I think there's a significant difference between a hit piece with personal attacks and not dedicating "enough" ( for you) material to a person.
In this situation he describes something that has been happening for a long while (years), and almost everyone active in the space is familiar with the scam. But what people don't know is that right now (still) it appears to scam people out of 6 digits per day.

Adding an explainer of what's happening might get rid of your irritation, but it might just irritate many other readers coming there for the meat. All the other posts are about the same topic, so this blog seems to more document details of what's happening as opposed to explain the basics to everyone.
I don't understand how anyone can be cutting-edge enough to be into crypto and know how to send a transaction, yet not also know how to spot a scam in the year 2022.
ICMP delay-line memory (or, in this case, ICMP Williams tube). That it's used for maintain the state of a simulation of the Manchester Baby is too cool!

See also:

Pingfs – a filesystem where the data is stored only ICMP Echo packets: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9844725

Sorting 1 million 8-decimal-digit numbers with 1 MB of RAM - https://stackoverflow.com/a/13000176
There's also Luster[1].

[1] https://github.com/kyren/luster
> a proof development system, aka dependently typed programming language.

There are proof assistants without dependent types, like Isabelle/HOL.
Even cheaper if you buy from a thrift store and put in some elbow grease. If you're an especially tool- and skill-rich hacker, then arc/stick welding with cast iron welding sticks can repair even lost causes. Of course, it isn't "cheap" by then, but any excuse to scratch that hacker/maker itch is fine by me.
> I heard rumors long ago that Arch has occasional stability problems caused by updates. Is that still true these days?

Been using arch for ~5 years. Maybe once a year something goes funky and I have to check the news page to see if any manual interventions are required.

They give you the exact command to run most (all?) of the time.
Oh yeah, the witch hunts! Such an experiment through which we're living, giving people megaphones to communicate to almost anyone on the planet, whether 1-to-1, 1-to-few, or 1-to-many. And as you said, have it be recorded! What I'm typing here from my kitchen table will be sent 'round the world to however many people who are reading now...but will continue to be sent to those people for as long as this website exists and gets indexed by search engines...or longer if it gets picked up by an archive service. For negligible cost to me, practically free. Goodness.
Not op - but it’s all relative. And if it’s enough for you to go into the trance state then I would think that’s what matters…
That disparity may not be news, but perhaps it is worth discussing.
That just makes it even worse - why do they even bother backing his opponent in that case? Why do they feel a need to do this?

I [used to] read it for science, not politics.
A 33% efficacy improvement seems great to me for such a simple, easy, cheap, and accessible countermeasure.
There’s no more to it than the name essentially. A scammer gives an address and says that if you send crypto to that address, you will receive double the amount you send back. Then they keep the money you send.

I’m sure they dress it up, maybe they actually fulfill a few or they have shills that claim they did, but it’s really not more complicated.

It’s classic “if it sounds too good to be true…” stuff.
As if a magazine can force or entice people to have an interest in complex(-ish) scientific news. Science isn't "cool", and there's so much things available to do out there, which is easy to consume ( even on the same subject). It makes sense they tried to adapt
I have to-do lists and notes and musings and sketches going back 45 years. Some in physical notebooks, many captured digitally. Slowly scanning, photographing and capturing the physical media to get it digitally archived. To-do lists get the thoughts out of my head and somewhere concrete so they aren't plaguing my other thoughts. I am not as successful as any of the people mentioned in the article, but I think the to-do lists and notebooks I've kept have done alright by me. There isn't a day in the past 45 years, much like writing code, where I haven't captured something in my notebooks, every day, from the mundane (pick up dry cleaning) to the absurd (create inflatable dart board for real darts).

What I have found that works best, for my situation, is to not get too organized with the notes and to-do lists. It helps having the notes searchable, hence the desire to get every note, sketch and to-do item captured digitally, eventually.
Are you really afraid of it? Care explaining how it invokes fear?
Is the science flimsy? I genuinely thought that the science was very clear that good masking reduces the rate of community transmission?
Before Mars is a viable colonization destination, we need to build a good size habitat that's fully or almost fully self-dependent in one of our many oceans that make up most of this planet.
If the purpose really is to attempt to escape extinction events I'd rather live down where food and water are plentiful and within arms reach than any celestial object.
Additionally, international waters are by definition not owned or controlled by any government and are accessible by anyone with a boat.

Technically, this is more than possible with current tech at less cost than sending a rover to Mars (probably), but no one wants to do it because it's not land you can plant a flag into and "claim" as yours.
You mean the people who ‘invest’ in crypto without fully understanding it fall for other get rich quick schemes? No way!
Brilliant - reminds me of the detailed self-typed (whiteout and all) reply I got from John Glenn many years ago.
That existed before MMO (Diablo parody)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPsxIqawYpo
The point is it’s too late, the peak already happened. You can’t slow the spread because the peak infection rate is already here and population dynamics are going to limit it now.

Good times for advice like this for masking were a month ago and a year ago.

It is time to admit defeat and act like it’s too late for those kinds of growth mitigations.
Spent a few hours getting this working today. It's still rough around the edges (multi monitor support through a usb-c dock seems a bit finnicky, but that's true of Sway as well), but I definitely see the power of the tagging system over something like i3 or Sway, where windows can only be assigned to one workspace at a time.