skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>construction techniques that minimize the lifetime cost of the building. Here, buildings typically last for much longer than 20 years.
And then there's the whole thing where energy costs may not be fully priced into the use.

It goes both ways. Investing in capex has to be balanced against potential capex and opex market changes, not just today's market.

Unless that 0% rate gets passed onto you, there's a fairly rigid payback wall at 30 yrs where no amount of investment is going to make financial sense. (It's why despite loan terms growing for everything else, mortgages are still capped at 30 yrs.

What happens when the market is flooded with cheap renewable electricity, as is promised? Suddenly your payback period is extended beyond what makes sense.

Or advances in technology result in a cheaper, better insulation material?

And then there's the potential external costs of not just energy, but material and construction. It wasn't that long ago that asbestos singles covered nearly every new house because of its fire resistance and insulating properties.

The cost there also seemed to pay for itself, until we discovered the true cost of asbestos mitigation and removal.
they <3 people running Linux on Azure. But the Windows Server PMs certainly don't like Linux. A large corporation isn't fully uniform.
I know all theists aren't like the ones we're talking about here. A lot of them don't think I believe in anything at all, and I'd say that's nice of them except they wouldn't regard something like "understanding atheism" as being nice as much as being basically cognizant of the world around them, like I'm not especially nice for understanding Lutheranism.

I passed the yelling phase a while ago. I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused, and I am annoyed but I do attempt to keep it out of my voice. I think people projecting a massive amount of anger onto me is their problem, not mine. As for trying to correct the condescending people who think I believe in some supernatural ethos or entity, maybe it's a bad habit, but thinking I must be angry to do so is a worse one.
What about questions like “what’s up” “how’s it going?” “How you doing” etc in day to day conversation. Aren't they waste of time?
As a person of Indian origin I always struggled to answer these questions when I was new in the US. Now after so many years I have learned that the answer to all these questions is "good" or the question itself. because most of the time the person asking it is actually least interested in knowing the real answer!
I honestly feel starting any conversation with these questions is waste of time!
I’ll try to answer “how’s it going” with “elephants are marching north” next time, since this answer is as good as any.
They're framing it as a choice between child safety and encryption

Politicians can always rely on any part of the holy trinity of terrorism, piracy or child to either justify or manipulate their constituency to support a measure that infringes on their security/privacy. The media plays along too easily.

Interestingly, conservatives in the US made anti end to end encryption legislation part of the EARN IT act, which also claims to deal with child abuse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EARN_IT_Act_of_2020#Legislatio...
One counterweight mechanism that might work really well is a higher % tax for these massive organizations - of which then ideally direct that funding to support and fund creativity/competitors, etc. Whether that accounts for and counters all the potential pitfalls of companies with such gravity and power, I don't know?
I've used yjs for a project that aims at computing individual climate footprints as a group in a conference.

It works beautifully with almost no code. I used Yjs P2P, but P2P is blocked in numerous networks.

If you want to try, with an hackernews room, but sorry it's in french : https://nosgestesclimat.fr/conférence/hackernews

So using Matrix as a backend is a great idea.

The only caveat I found to Yjs is that if you want to persist data (and not lose it when the server crashes), nothing's really plug-and-play, so I went with Supabase.
Lol look at the URL funny :) "__trashed"
Short term it was increased but how much long term damage was done? Warcraft III Reforged has yet to receive most of the promised features or even a single patch.
What absurdity did the developers make? This is why I stopped supporting their games years ago. It's this rollercoaster of experience that I had, and it's not worth it.
An ironic initiative from the UK, considering the conduct of Prince Andrew, the BBC covering for Jimmy Savile for decades, and of course the British tabloid press defense of convicted sex abuser Ghislaine Maxwell.

Would eliminating E2E encryption helped Savile's, Maxwell's, or Prince Andrew's victims? Nope.
Mojang owned Minecraft, one of the best-selling video games of all time, even when it was in a "downtrend" because of Fortnite.

Microsoft didn't just acquire Bethesda. They acquired the entirety of ZeniMax, so Elder Scrolls Online, Fallout Shelter, Doom, Wolfenstein, Prey, Dishonored. Clearly not dead by any stretch of the imagination.

Activision Blizzard, despite the sexual harassment allegations, has Overwatch, World of Warcraft (still a profitable title), Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 launching Soon™. From a business standpoint, I'd say they've made the acquisitions of a lifetime.
> I spend my nights and weekends on startup ideas.

That way, you're not the one doing the soul-crushing development job, but the people who work beneath you.
It will be tough to sell $60 games when you can get the entire library of Microsoft games, plus their partner networks, for $10/month.

Not to mention the potential platform abuses whereby MS can now gate their property behind Windows and Xbox.

And I’m not even that creative. Surely MS will get a return on their $70,000,000,000 investment whether it’s better for the gaming economy and consumers, or not.
I think Game Pass is a great service at a great price and I think Microsoft's overall direction for gaming has been really positive and forward looking; however, I do worry about the consolidation of gaming. Activision Blizzard was fairly user hostile in their business practices, so I don't think this will be a net loss for consumers.

What I am starting to worry about is Microsoft squeezing Sony out of gaming entirely. For a lot of casual gamers Call of Duty was the game or one of a few games they play and have played for years. A lot of those casual gamers own a Playstation. While Microsoft hasn't announced if Call of Duty will be exclusive or not, making the game PC/XBOX exclusive would be doctrine. The only example I can think of where they don't do that is Minecraft, so it is possible.
I love this answer, because it is such a "duh" answer but also so non-obvious (at least for me).

We're taught so much about the mechanics and details about mathematics in school, that I've never taken a step back to understand it from a fundamental/philosophical level for what it is. Beautiful answer.
Not everybody uses the PCI Express physical slot that you may be familiar with from standard PC motherboards. For example, see the OCP 3.0 card standard. They are designed logically and electrically for hot plug.

That said, hot plugging is definitely a "pets" thing and as for large scale data center computing, nobody cares. The machine fails as a unit and it's OK to take a machine offline to fix it.
This is true. But the barrier to using over-the-horizon weapons like icbm / hypersonic is much greater than say drone attacks or fighter jet bombs. Have over-the-horizon weapons ever been used? No. But drone attacks and fighter jet activities are daily occurrences because they can be used with little repercussions.
I recently lived in a house with no external ventilation in one big room. Huuuge windows looking out onto a huge backyard full of trees and flowers. Yeah I missed being able to open the window and hear the birds. But then when lawnmowers started buzzing and dogs started barking, and later when winter hit, I was quite glad for the peace and quiet and no need to open them!
Still not going to buy anything from the dumpster fire that used to be Blizzard
> I'm continually impressed by how entitled gamers can be when they complain about modern game prices

> I'm just saying that not buying it because 'the games are too expensive' seems like a pretty unjustified complaint to me.

That's because on this topic you are quick on making judgements on people and don't (want to?) realize their reasons for not buying a switch can be valid and these reasons are not attack or counter arguments to the reasons for why you would buy switch games.

I am not an entitled gamer.

edit: and FWIW I was checking the switch page for Disco Elysium and I see that the price tag is the same as Gog's (39.99) but now I don't care anymore about discussing this topic here and now. Nintendotax gone ? Just checked Life is stange:true colours, same price tags as steam.
No, they'll have to settle for Microsoft pay. Still probably a moderate bump for them, though.
RPi + an 8-10 channel relay board + some custom firmware?
If they don't buy it, someone else will. This way they probably get a bunch of games in their catalogue, they get brand names, people, players, etc. I would say that they don't want to be left out and over run by other players.
I like the attitude of "learn the principles of the simple building blocks behind it" as a good next step from a freshman that just memorized "add, commit & pull/push"

But most headache (and heartattack) inducing part of Git when I was a beginner was the "remote vs local repo" and additional complexities this concept introduced. Nothing more stressing for the new guy than making mistakes that screw up for others (mistakeful push, merge, mostly ) or if he think he did.

The article does a poor job (imo) regarding this. It skims on a 2 paragraph "Caveat" section how rebase(and later squeeze) can fuck local vs remote repo, but for most people I know, stress memories around this is what made them learn more about Git beyond than "branch & history keeping software & commands.

That and if you unfortunately end up in a project that uses subtree or submodules
Anything can be "just" anything else if you simplify it enough.

The idea that humans are goalseeking systems motivated through a single parameter of dopamine response seems like it might be reasonable enough, but that then just moves the problem around: how is a particular set of stimuli + past stimuli linked to a dopamine response?

Furthermore, are they intending to force all behavior analysis through a control system with a single parameter? Can we ask questions like "what is the frequency response of the dopamine system?"
Israeli police accused of using Pegasus spyware on Netanyahu's opponents
Feudalism is an entirely different beast and either didn't exist or had minor global presence throughout the whole period you listed. Even listing the ancient Achaemenid Empire for example would make more sense in this context.
A lot? Certainly far more than I can ever get to. Even more on PS and PC. Not exactly sure what you're getting at.
> has "The best links to articles debunking Bitcoin FUD " as the subtitle

It does what it says in the tin, no more no less.
More than you might think. Manifold Garden is one that comes to mind; if you're looking for them in the online store thing, you can find them, although of course they're not the games with discs and cases at Walmart or Target or wherever.
Idiocracy and Demolition Man were both prophecies
I was very hesitant a few years ago about going all in on the Apple ecosystem. But after about 5 years in it now, I don't regret the decision. As another comment mentioned, the amount of "brain-friction" reduction has been substantial. Sometimes the seamless integration between devices is so smooth that I completely take it for granted. At this point, I have access to every document I need on any device at any time. If I start watching something at my desk, it's easy to pick up watching it in bed on the iPad. Calendaring and sharing docs between my partner and myself is brain dead easy. Their health apps are top notch and have been instrumental in getting my personal health in order and provided me conversation starters with my physician. In addition, as a developer, I appreciate having a BSD based machine without all the headaches that come with the cognitive load of running Linux.
The Story of Jython
You’re letting them control the narrative.

If child’s messages don’t have encryption, the first thing a predator does is move them to an encrypted messaging platform.

This is about the massive open door that is messenger and the full sweep the five eyes get from this.
$60 was also worth quite a bit more in the heyday of GameStop et al.

What you characterize as "greed" is more reflective of general consumer desires (physical media is pretty dead, and I say this having a paper library of around 500 books) and that games are ever-more-expensive to make.

For the preposterous number of person-hours that go into an AAA title, $100 isn't unrealistic. But there's price anchoring dating back to the nineties now, and that as much as anything is why games upsell the way they do. (The "complete edition" prices are probably more representative of what a sustainable price for a player really is.)

Or we can do microtransactions until our souls bleed and go back to single-use codes in the game case. That's a thing too.
It takes the sender a lot of time to type the question, so the communication is not immediate synchronous. What actually happens is that I go elsewhere after 5 seconds of waiting, then in 20 more seconds arrives the question, but I already switched to a different task and don't bother what another stupid hello I received there. The site provides a chat log with timestamps to better understand delays in communication.
Yeah the timing of this felt really weird on Miele's part, with growing consumer awareness of repairability and durability.
>If no, why would you even comment on the legal system of a country you don't know at all?

I commented on the article you linked. I don't know about French law, but I do know your source didn't back up your claim. I find it hard to believe a URL can be trademarked, things like search engines just couldn't function that way.

And why would you comment about the DMCA, a part of a legal system you seemingly don't know at all?
Also most indie games require more brainpower than what Apple Arcade offers. Apple wouldn't know a complex game if a pile of discs with them fell on their heads.
A few issues with the “free will” debate.

1) Define “free”

2) How do you test your hypothesis?

You’re trying to apply logic to an untestable philosophical debate. If you believe free will doesn’t exist, you can’t design an experiment that would invalidate that belief. And if your theory is untestable and unfalsifiable, then what good is it other than a creative exercise?

However, we do know from Quantum Mechanics that the universe is probabilistic and not deterministic:

https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/quantum-universe-fundam....

So, we do know that the universe is not pre-determined and cannot be calculated in advance, but if you want to believe in humans as fully deterministic (or some other definition of no free will) inside of a non-deterministic environment, I haven’t heard anyone propose an experiment that could test that, at which point the debate of “free will” is relegated to the realm of thought experiments rather than science.

So, perhaps the better question is: Does it serve you better to believe there is free will or no free will? And leave it at that.
a lot of comments seem to be concern about the antitrust.

Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard just put them in number 3 slot. Tencent and Sony are far bigger in gaming. if Apple lawsuit didn't take down Apple store just forced Apple to allows third party payment option. i don't think Microsoft will get slap with a antitrust. Microsoft isn't even number 1 in gaming.
This is great for XBOX (Microsoft), but terrible for the industry and us consumers. Less competition isn't good for us. First Bethesda, now Activision Blizzard... One has to wonder what they'll acquire next, and they have the money to throw around comparatively to the other big players in the market (Take 2, EA, Ubisoft, Warner, and more importantly, SONY).
Not to put words in their mouth but isn't that pretty clear? If you don't develop advanced weaponry, you are going to be killed by people who _do_ develop advanced weaponry.

Unless you manage to stop the advanced weaponry from being developed at all, which is admirable, but incredibly difficult, and with huge consequences for being wrong.
How to grow network when you do not have it?
Any advices to person who wants to get in to consultancy and do not knows where to start?
It goes a lot further than just being a blockchain. Git is a DAG through and through. But this might actually be the best way to make some people understand it. I was gobsmacked one day when a colleague came into work and they were really excited as they'd realised git is actually a blockchain. I was stunned as it seemed so obvious, but if they only just realised then how had we been working successfully with git for so long?
It corresponds to area if and only if you're talking about a unit sphere.

In the same way that an angle of pi radians corresponds to pi length around the perimeter of a unit circle, but if you're measuring on the perimeter of a larger circle you'll have a correspondingly larger length.

The "4pi steradians in a sphere" comes from the area of a unit sphere (4×pi×r^2 = 4×pi). I've never had cause to use 4+ dimensional solid angle for anything, but you'd determine full n-dimensional radians the same way, I guess with a 4-dimensional sphere the "surface area" is a 3D volume on the perimeter of the 4D unit sphere's space?
Firefox may be the best broadly available choice. However, Mozilla is just as guilty of implementing censorship in their extension store based on the whims of their leaders and employees. They are also a proponent of censorship more broadly than what they control. See https://reclaimthenet.org/firefox-maker-mozilla-calls-for-mo... or https://reclaimthenet.org/firefox-introduces-extension-that-... or https://reclaimthenet.org/firefox-rejects-free-speech-bans-f...
Your problem is not that the kids can't be protected with encryption, but rather that you want way too much control over these kids' lives. I know you think you are protecting them, but it is much better for a child's development to simply be told and explained how the world works. Also porn. Anyone who believes that they can hide everything from a child until they are of age and that they will always act in a wise manner after they are of age is naive.
Neither Tencent nor Sony are based in the US (although Sony does have a US subsidiary). AT&T and T-Mobile together wouldn't have been the whole cell phone market either, although consolidation in physical-presence utilities are seen somewhat differently from more easily distributed products.
> I'm not convinced.

So you think that cars built by 1 company providing engines and then another company sells you the cabin to put on top?

Should rocket companies not be able to build and launch rockets, or their own sats? Should we prevent Tesla from making batteries? Should Apple or Oxide (if you want a startup) be prevented from developing software and hardware together? What is that other then vertical integration.

Vertical integration is everything, being against vertical integration means that basically every company should only ever be allowed to control a single step in a production process. And its hard even define 'a step' even means, as even things like making steel requires many steps.

If you want things, at least actually figure out what you want because I don't think that is it.
There does seem to be a void in between the two. It's so rare I come across one that it's a surprise. Hell Let Loose was one of those surprises for me. It's definitely in the space of "AA but not AAA" games.
There's more to it than twitter allegations, you know. Real people have been hurt.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/activision-videogames-bobby-kot...
> Consumers need to demand better refund systems from the big console makers.

Nope. Don't let them self-regulate. They had their chance, free market blah blah blah.

We need to demand legislators update consumer protection laws for all this "you don't own, you rent" crap, because it's become way more pervasive than just video games and movies.

Heated seats in BMWs are now a "service"; I wish I were joking. And Tesla full self driving and supercharging, even though they are purchased features, do not pass to a new owner if the car is sold.
> The current jurisprudence is that it's all about prices and so long as companies swear prices will go down there's not much stopping mergers like this.

In the US*. And it's fairly stupid because there are no consequence when companies lie ( e.g. check AT&T / TimeWarner). However some other places, like the EU and UK, have much more practical competition-based rules. For instance, Alstom and Siemens weren't allowed to merge because they would have had near monopolies in some niches in some countries in the EU.
You might use such a thing in database systems for, eg:
1. The write ahead log, for faster I/O than a direct flush to SSD
2. Staging disk cache entries to persistent memory before a planned host/process restart for faster subsequent DRAM cache warming

The problem with 1 is that you still need to periodically flush to disk (at least once persistent storage is full) which means it’s only an improvement in burst activity and not peak throughput.

The problem with both is complexity of implementation to deliver functionality that can only be used on a (currently) relatively uncommon subset of servers. Probably not something that Postgres would rush to implement, but potentially something that MSSQL or Oracle might consider as a premium feature.

Disclaimer: I haven’t looked into the details of optane and how you interface with that storage in software.
> A nation could develop world-class AI planes...

such a nation would probably already have nuclear weapons. Any nation capable of hypersonic skip glide weapons also probably has nukes. So this hypothetical attack wouldn't be happening. At least w/ non-nuclear weapons.
My favourite example of this is how no limit Texas holdem was solved.

This game is of course an imperfect information game (you don’t know your opponents hole cards). We have lots of great algos for perfect information games but not imperfect.

So what the researches did is they mapped hold em to a perfect information game by tweaking it: now nobody knows their hole cards and all players must publicly announce their strategy to a “referee”. Then the referee looks at the players cards and places bets on behalf of the players. A player’s strategy looks something like: if I have a pair of aces then I want to raise 94% of the time and call 6% of the time and fold 0% of the time etc etc.

You know your opponent’s strategy too (as they have announced it like you did to the referee) so you can now iterate and optimise your strategies which will approach a Nash equilibrium.
In Texas they're called Sopapillas and standard issue tex-mex dessert. It' usually served warm, dusted with sugar, and with a side of honey for dipping. I don't think i've ever had them any other way, i guess it's hard to improve on perfection.
I rather be dissapointed of the new stuff than seeing the franchice dying. Maybe they make some cool spin-offs for the true fans, like Disney did to Star Wars.
Distinguishing one's tribe from the surrounding peoples by avoiding certain foods has a long history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashrut
> They <3 Linux

They love their Linux. I won't be surprised at all if some key games would magically become less compatible with WINE in the future.