skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats on releasing games on Steam! I'd like at some point quit my job and run a small game studio. I have so many questions, mostly out of curiosity. If you could answer the ones you're comfortable with, I'd appreciate it:

* What's your tech stack for the games? Are you using an engine?

* Who made the art? If you did it yourself, what software are you using?

* How was the process for releasing your game on Steam? Did you have to do a lot of marketing to get users to greenlight your project?

* How did you make the trailer for the Eldritch Zookeeper? If you didn't do the voice, how did you hire the voice person?

* The Cat Machine has 107 reviews on Steam. How many users does that translate to?

* Does your current employer have a clause in the contract discussing IP made on your own time? Did you have to get an exception from your current employer to be able to release games on Steam?

Thanks in advance.
Ah I see what you're saying! You're basically describing our experience trying to run Discourse. Weirdly, naive, less complicated Rails apps work better multi-region on Fly than mature grownup Rails apps.

We use sidekiq + Fly in a single region with the primary database, and then write to the Redis from other regions asynchronously. It's a good time in Ruby world, I think Ruby 3 will simplify a lot of the weird background work people do.

Ruby 3 will definitely help us solve the problem of gets that do writes for stats or history, since those things can be done async. You can do a little of it now just by spawning a thread and writing the the writable Postgres in the background.
We used the chromium-ec logic as-is (checking git blame), but I believe did tune the debounce timer to match the characteristics of the keyboard itself.
I'd like to point out that the first author, Stephanie Seneff, "began publishing controversial papers in low-impact, open access journals on biology and medical topics" with "heated objections from experts in almost every field she's delved into" [1], and that the second author's "Naturopathic Physician" degree is not a very good indicative for experience conducting Immunology (or) medical research.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Seneff
> Reading the Blue Dollar web site I noticed that Argentina recently started taxing crypto transactions, which means the government is requiring exchanges to report those transactions, like they already do for USD transactions

I seriously doubt that people who already use the unofficial exchange rate will use the official exchanges for crypto...
I don't know if it's Terraform or our implementation but I've not been particularly impressed by Terraform's error state recovery functionality.

If something takes to long to pass a health check you often do not end up in State A or State B. There is a lot of surface area for undefined behavior.
Also, this makes me wonder. If there is such a massive influx of inbound cryptocurrency transfers, where does the cash for them come from? Surely whoever cashes those transfers out has to sell the cryptocurrency to _someone_? It doesn't sound like it's balanced out by the outbound transfers? Or someone is sitting on a massive pile of fiat and handing it out to hold a massive pile of coins?
Oddly, my mental autocomplete filled in 'white elephant' before the parser got to 'chip plant'.
I set one up over a decade ago because Verizon said that they would need 6 months to deploy IPv6 on FiOS. I'm still using it.

Unfortunately in the meantime spammers have discovered HE tunnels and now I get a lot more CAPCHA's than I used to. I still check my FiOS link every month to see if Verizon has turned it on yet.
*Yamanaka

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinya_Yamanaka
I wonder how would one enforce this. I invoice once per month for the hours I logged (that might include vacation hours), but the invoice itself says "Software Development Services {month} {year}". Or do you mean we wouldn't be able to have vacation as part of the contract? Or not allow a contractor to work for one client for more than X time per year? Seems pretty tricky.

And how or who would enforce this for me, who is an Estonian citizen, Argentinian resident, and operates from under a USA based LLC as a non-resident USA company owner, working mostly for European start-ups? Which country would do the enforcing in this case?
I'm sitting here in my living room by myself laughing my butt off right now after pulling up that script. It kind of reminds me of one of the beginning exercises in the Book Head First java called PhraseOMatic:

https://resources.oreilly.com/examples/9780596009205/-/blob/...

Glad my non-tech wifey isn't home because she probably wouldn't be able to understand the convulsions I just experienced.
That’s why I think Dhall is really interesting, it being purposefully not Turing-complete, yet still very flexible.
If I were a Moosend Free Forever customer (I'm not, I use a different email service), I would write a strongly-worded letter and demand my money back!
For me, Hack has been the one and only font for almost everything for years now. Except for Eclipse on Windows, where you cannot change the line spacing. Too bad there's no further development for that font right now.
> Once it becomes a serious enough problem for the government, they will just strangle the off-ramps, like it's been done before. So this makes such method of transfer... a temporary hack?

Temporary, if you believe it can be strangled.

Given the lack of success of the Argentinian government with the Blue Dollar, my Bayesian prior is that it won't be temporary!
Most government sites just set up Cloudflare IPv6->IPv4 translation frontends to check the box.
Local businesses and restaurants, especially having a lot of variety and choice for each, are big draws for big cities. I'd thought about moving to suburbia for a larger property but I'd really have nothing to do all day beyond peter around my larger house. I wouldn't be able to walk to all the things I walk to from my place now, from businesses and stores but also hiking and parks, and especially informal city stuff like the people selling tacos or fruit on the sidewalk. I would miss out on a lot of hobbies I engage in that wouldn't be well supported in an area with a smaller population. Tons of little services I rely on only really work at scale with a big city population, both from private companies and services offered by the city itself (like the free compost program I exploit heavily).

This is all stuff I've been doing or using constantly even with the pandemic. Some stuff like taking advantage of public amenities like hiking trails have become an even stronger habit of mine, thanks to the pandemic. I'm one to opt to walk to the local store, feel a product in my hands and decide to buy it, vs ordering from Amazon, something you can only do if you live somewhere dense enough to sustain these local stores. Even getting an uber to come out to a Columbus suburb is going to be a process; they are probably going to just deny your ride if you aren't doing an easy couple mile bar hop around OSU or the Short North/downtown area or going to the airport.
I wonder if it makes sense to build up a WASM environment on a union filesystem (layers) as it mostly seems to in Docker.
Hello - Kipp from TextExpander here. Great question that we get a lot (and rightfully so - security is of paramount importance to both our customers and us).

We wrote up a brief FAQ on the topic of snippet security here:
https://textexpander.com/learn/accounts/security/how-textexp...

…and you can see our general security practices info here (including that we have a SOC 2 security certification): https://textexpander.com/security

In the healthcare space, we often see practitioners using fill-in snippets to input patient information or notes into an EHR or other system while keeping a standard format to improve searchability. In the interest of security, personally-identifiable info (PII) entered into a fill-in snippet is ephemeral, and remains on the user's local machine. You can learn more about fill-ins here: https://textexpander.com/learn/using/snippets/advanced-snipp...

Please feel free to drop me a note with any further Q's - happy to help.
They're doing those people a favor. Hell, even Trump is better off doing fun things instead of spending his time spewing, and reading, the toxicity of Twitter
You must not be aware of the ongoing threats to abortion in Ohio?

https://www.abortionislegalinohio.com/

You can say that it's not technically illegal now, but it's unquestionably under assault in a way that it's not and won't ever be in California.
$70 seems expensive for a diffraction grating, what am I missing?
Not just murder, wars and genocide.
Apple Destroys Lightning
I am on a Mac for over a decade and I don’t understand what’s the issue with the keys. Well, they are smaller, but it’s not a problem for me, not at all.
Doesn't Docker re-implement about 30% of the Linux kernel API?
> Like showing the military commander shooting an assault rifle at the comet

I haven't seen it, but that sounds like a sendup to Doctor Strangelove. What are you going to do when faced with your inevitable death? Why not something totally absurd! Like ride a nuclear bomb or shoot futilely at a comet heading your way.
Brazil electoral court could ban Telegram app for not fighting fake news
There are still processors that don't use two's complement, although I'm not sure that should really stop them if they wanted to declare all C implementations must be t-c.
Could nullification be effectively banned without first getting rid of juries or the prohibition of double jeopardy?
You can never eliminate the possibility of a security incident, but there are easy steps that can be made to reduce the risk. Clearly Twitter didn't do enough of them. For example, they had too many people with too wide permissions which increased their surface area for a social engineering attack. They didn't have an enhanced security policy for highly targeted users such as requiring approval from multiple people which would reduce the success rate of social engineering attacks. They also didn't have the proper monitoring of these high permissioned accounts to quickly identify the source of the breach and therefore they couldn't easily stop it after it begun. These might just sound like "checkboxes for obvious stuff", but they would have helped if Twitter checked those boxes.
And we're even talking about poetry! A subject that's famously all about playing with the meanings of words.
Yep. Not a single immunologist in authors. The last co-author is Chief Medical Advisor, Truth for Health Foundation, which is a religious antivax nonprofit, I quote directly from their about page:

“We strive to honor God and Jesus Christ in all we do as we conduct business, and to follow Biblical principles exemplified in Jesus’ Healing Ministry throughout the New Testament as we implement health programs for the people we serve.”
Maybe they're in particularly desperate situations? I do concur if these people are healthy/young though, seems insane to take something with side effects this concerning that don't even need proper trials to manifest if you're not working to fix a preexisting problem that hurts your lifespan/quality though.
Yes, one guy. I'm talking at a lot of companies and a lot of people.

Maybe they are all wrong and you and the few people decrying crypto are right, but I would tend to go with the majority vote (investors vote their beliefs with their money!) and even then, unless you are shorting the market (which will have lost you some large amount of money most of the time), I fail to see what you stand to gain from the contrarian position.

Given your comment from yesterday ("I'm still skeptical of blockchain as a whole and hoping someone can help explain this to me.") I think you should consider the hypothesis that these people voting with their money might be different from the heart surgeon you mentioned to check if now may not be the time to revise your priors.
That’s fine, each to their own. You might not be alone, but you should take into account that you are an atypical customer.

Different customers value different things. In the list of things people value in their broadband, IPv6 doesn’t even register for for the majority. There are markets where you cannot even give away IPv6 connectivity.

Of those showing an interest in IPv6, many just want a static IP. If you give them one then you have solved their problems and are never heard from again.

If you really, really want IPv6 then you can usually get it in most markets. You might have to upgrade to business service or switch to an operator providing service over legacy copper facilities. That is, however, a bridge too far for almost everybody.

As an aside, you don’t indicate that you would pay a premium for IPv6 service. That’s not very enticing from a business perspective. If there was real demand for IPv6 or it could be provided for a premium that would change.

It’s a classical chicken and egg situation. No services require IPv6, so there is no demand for IPv6 and thus no IPv6 offerings either.

I’d be interested to hear why you highly value IPv6 connectivity, especially if you had a static IPv4 allocation.
And election fraud isn't a crime or even a felony? If one is going to commit one of those things, would the threat of another charge REALLY stop them?
Well, they could re-engineer the car to fail at 150k miles. Would you prefer that?
Also, this ignores the fact that IP address scanning is tremendously harder on IPv6 than it is on IPv4. That's a significant security improvement right off the bat.

All of the dozens of Internet bots that try to portscan my router every day would cease to be an issue if I could turn off my IPv4 address.
Tom’s Obvious Markup Language, as in Tom Preston-Werner of GitHub
Wow, that sounds pretty incredible. Part of what makes it sound promising to me is the extent of the "no free lunch" aspect: anecdotal reports of not just cardiac issues in humans and dogs but increased brain fog (mitigated with feed consumption...?), blunted emotions, inability to get drunk (maybe a plus?), accelerated cell death, psychosis and hallucinations - in exchange for, allegedly, reversing Alzheimer's and repairing lifelong brain damage:

>One report of a person who gave ISRIB to their grandmother who had terminal stage Alzheimer's. She began to remember everyone. But died after 4 months (this may have been from old age and her type 1 diabetes).

>One anecdotal report of a short course of ISRIB permanently fixing some prefrontal cortex brain damage in a Russian guy, caused by a car crash when he was a child. The repair to the brain was confirmed by MRI scans taken before and after the ISRIB treatment.

Plus a pretty clear mechanism of action. Definitely sounds like it's worth significant study.
My guess is that the non-linearity of the problem might make it harder for something like Gurobi to solve. GAMS is essentially a frontend for solvers, so you are compiling your input source into a format suitable for an underlying solver or a set thereof.
> If people really want the optimizations afforded by things like assuming an int can't overflow to a negative number in

Perhaps people wanted int overflow to be UD because that is semantically clean. Code where possible integer overflow is intended and not bug is IMHO significant minority of all integer usage, in vast majority it is a bug, similar to invalid memory access. So it would be reasonable for some compilers/platforms to handle integer overflows by cpu exception translated to signal killing the process (similar to SIGSEGV for invalid memory access), and only integer operations explicitly marked for overflow (i.e. unsigned in C) be allowed.

It is just our experience that makes 'integer overflow should wrap' and 'invalid memory access should crash' default positions, while 'integer overflow should crash' and 'invalid memory access should be ignored/return 0' are alternative positions. Conceptually, both are just stricter or looser ways to handle code errors and it makes sense that C does not prescribe neither one.
On distro with rolling release, I would say pipewire has been working fine since at least January 2021.
Yes but increased population will increase the number of blue which tilts the whole state in favor of blue. Yes, there will be shenanigans(voter intimation, making blue areas harder to vote) from the red side like we see in other currently purple states but those tactics become more ineffective the more blue voters you have so this can only be a net positive.
I think we say 'run in any environment' when what we mean is 'recreate the environment on any machine'. And this is often more of a continuum than a black and white answer. I can get a lot of things done without low level access to the GPU, or printer, but I can't do everything.
> win7 was aesthetically awful, but usability was almost on point

A bunch of clicks to get to the Control Panel, but once there just a few to get to the GUI configuration dialogue box, and somewhere in that one or two more to enable "Windows Classic" style, and you had the good old W95/NT4/98/2K aesthetics back -- and all the functionality of W7. (And then you could spend a day or two getting colours and fonts and GUI-element sizes juuuust... so, if you wanted to.)
"The law of supply and demand" is never going to fit everything the way the law of gravity does. It's a rough guideline that applies to artificial models better than it does to the real world.

It seems like economists need to admit it when a minimum wage law don't have the effect they think it "should" instead of stubbornly insisting they're right.

However, you can tell a "journalist" wrote this...

>Isaiah Andrews, one of these new ‘empiricists’, won the 2021 John Bates Clark Medal – the most distinguished economics prize in the United States. Andrews has worked on the problem of publication bias – whereby research that confirmed prior beliefs could have a better chance of being accepted by academic journals

I don't see what this has to do with supply & demand. "Confirmation bias" is more of a social science study area, not economics.

> In 2020, the UK government appointed Mark Carney – a former governor at the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England – as climate change adviser. Carney was quick to declare the problem to be essentially a mispricing of the cost of emitting carbon. Neither Sunstein nor Carney are experts in climate economics, let alone climate change.

Whatever "climate economics" is and how it differs from just "economics."

> The problem is one I call ‘free lunch thinking’. Milton Friedman popularised the saying that there was ‘no such thing as a free lunch’, yet his worldview was that, if government just stepped back – didn’t spend money solving problems, didn’t trouble itself with regulation, and left all the messy decisions around how to organise society to the ‘market’ – things would hum along and we’d all get richer magically. That sounds a lot like a free lunch.. [italics added]

No, it's not "free lunch thinking." It's describing how laws work. It's not magic if you turn on the burner under the teakettle and the water gets hot.

> Yet there is no reason why adhering to the scientific method of basing conclusions and world views on observable facts should be more challenging in economics than in physics. Except that the incentives are against it. If you have a dogmatic neoclassical view of how the world works, you’ll always have a solution to the economic problem of the day.

Actually, there IS a reason: in physics you can do experiments quite easily, and in the social sciences and economics, you can't. Thus Freakonomics and successor books focus on "natural experiments," like the two school districts in Canada whose boundaries seem to be randomly drawn. Minimum wage increases in one state or city are not a natural experiment.
AWS is the next Oracle
Is $1300/mo supposed to be high? I've seen parking spaces going for $600/mo where I live.
I live in the US and have an electric kettle. I was made aware of their existence in my travels abroad. It was a game-changer. Even with our electrical standards my kettle can get to boiling in a mere minute or two.
“Tell me you’re rich without telling me you’re rich.”
I don't mind the Q, but that lower case t is an abomination IMO.
My wife convinced me to buy what I would consider an expensive rice cooker, computerized. Now the rice is fantastic, I'll admit. However, I'm not really convinced that it's worth 6x a basic rice cooker.
Did people on a free plan have a contract?
Once this is known throughout the industry, it also means that the whipping boys keep getting fired and then taking up their next tenure at the startup next door until they're fired again.
Why leave when you can improve where you work with federally protected organizing activities? And in a tight labor market, workers have the upper hand. Pay no mind to those who (for whatever reason) would dissuade these activities proven to improve wages and worker bargaining power. If you were going to leave anyway, you have nothing to lose by making the attempt, especially when the current executive branch admin looks favorably on organizational efforts.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/354455/approval-labor-unions-hi... (Gallup: Approval of Labor Unions at Highest Point Since 1965)

https://www.epi.org/press/union-workers-are-paid-11-2-more-a... (Union workers are paid 11.2% more and have greater access to health insurance and paid sick days than their nonunion counterparts)
And yet, the first one is okay, and the second makes you look a mite out of touch (at least where I live). On could also simply send :hamburger:?
It is if Israel, the only Jewish state, is consistently singled out for criticism when other states with far worse human rights records are excused.
Do they have any scientific justification for that?
Google could face class action lawsuit over free G Suite legacy account shutdown
As a layperson, I always wondered this about gravity. Does it attract over infinite distance or does it have a range?
Reminds me a bit of cerebrolysin self-experiments I've read. It can either permanently make you smarter or permanently give you brain damage. Or both, perhaps.

(For anyone unaware, it's a bunch of neuropeptides harvested from pig brains that you typically either inject or - fittingly, due to the source - snort directly into your brain through your nose.)
I don’t want to turn this thread into a crypto version of Wall Street Bets where people are arguing over their favorite coins, but I’ll give one example.

The Algorand cryptocurrency achieves thousands of transactions per second and very fast finality times (i.e., the time it takes to ensure that blocks no longer change). These are arguably the two most important performance metrics in terms of scalability.

In terms of security, I would argue that Algorand’s consensus protocol (Pure Proof of Stake) is MORE robust than Bitcoin and Ethereum. Mechanisms like Proof of Work are great at providing computational security guarantees, but really fail to address network based attacks [1](e.g., partitioning the Bitcoin network to influence who hears about which transactions and blocks).

[1]https://allquantor.at/blockchainbib/pdf/tran2020stealthier.p...
Keep in mind this is likely unique to CLI users. The vast majority of users have little use for arrow keys - nudging the text cursor a few chars left/right and making tiny moves in graphics software are about the only two I can think of.
Good. Trust nothing you see. It's all kayfabe.