skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't quite tell if you're being serious or not, but just in case you are:

Literally every technology you listed there was a massive step forward technologically and was a significantly better solution for the problems they addressed...

You also skewed the question into a completely non-sensical argument - Obviously there are lots of websites that provide purpose beyond self-promotion.

I'm looking for one example of blockchain technology that isn't circular or self-promoting, and solves any problem better than existing technologies. Not some theoretical future use case, just one existing project.
>can you believe it's been over ten years since Skyrim?

Can you believe they are still cashing in on WoW and tried to make a cheap Diablo remake on mobile?

> But 10 years is far, far too long.

Well, I would be happy to accept Diablo 2 + D2 LoD + "new 6th module" in 4k.
> we're doing a really crappy job with most of the babies we already have.

Unnecessarily hot take: UBI should start in the second trimester.
> Do people go out of the way to buy conflict diamonds? or is it more people try to buy cheap diamonds?

I don't think apple is going out of their way to find sweatshops either.

>Even if you don't go looking for cheap diamonds, how can you be sure your diamond is conflict free?

Are you arguing for nihilism here? ie. "we can't really be sure that even conflict free diamonds are conflict free, so it's fine for me to buy diamonds from a random diamond dealer in Sierra Leone"?
Yes like the peer reply said that's Notion, not us. But good point, another thing to keep in mind if you try to use the "Share to the web" notion feature.
Might want to add Square to that list on the JRPG side; they have new IP but it’s all nostalgia bait for their games from the 90s (like re-using the same battle systems, heavily derivative music and character design, etc). They’re also dropping a lot of remakes / remasters of questionable quality. Also final fantasy 15 was total trash after a decade long dev cycle; and this is after 14 was so bad as an MMO they had to destroy the world and reboot the game. We’re going on 6 years since 15 was released (and it was also a terrible game) and have heard nothing about 16 other than how much it keeps getting delayed.
There's a great talk about Procedurally Generating Manhattan for Spiderman that's worth watching and covers things like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aw9uyj9MAE

If you think this is interesting, all of the Spiderman GDC talks by the various staff of Insomniac Games are S-Tier.
That is one my my complaints. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't also ensure competitive markets.

But it isn't so much that the regulation is designed to protect the incumbent, it is:
- the volume of regulations requires a compliance overhead that is more easily amortized by larger firms
- incumbents are involved in the design (or provide feedback) into the regulations such that they are able to comply specific rules, which might not actually fulfill the intent of the protecting the public. The process of codifying and validating practices to check boxes is often just waste.
> Anything can fly if you slap modern 7K RPM BLDC hobby motors on it.

Is 7K RPM supposed to be an impressively high number?
Can this also do fMRI? I'm already trying to build DIY fnirs machine for cogsci research but if this does fMRI too I might build this one too.
Absolutely sympathise with the perspective.

It’s not really a counter though: for that you’d need to compare 2008 against markets with weaker or absent regulation.

I’m not sure the relative weighting of causes, between fraud, the misuse of Black Scholes[0], the elimination of various regulations which has been created at the end of the previous crisis, and the failures of credit rating agencies.

At least some of the fraud which did occur resulted in prison time.

[0] I did hear one of the big problems was everyone looking at the (Nobel Prize for economics winning) Black Scholes model, applying it inappropriately, and justifying this in the grounds everyone else was doing it. This is hard to fix, and group-think of this type is also very much the kind of failure mode I expect to happen more often in unregulated markets, but that doesn’t mean I don’t expect it to pop up everywhere given time.
Do what a lot of people already do, and use one of those butane-powered single-burner units. Just about any asian grocery store will have them + the fuel for sale. I use one for when I need a flame char, or flame control for something finicky that my induction top can't handle, and they work great.
I think of Silicon Valley not so much as a geographic region any more, but rather a way of working, that has been exported all over the world now.
In Vietnam, you're out. Good luck getting any response from the banks there.
Long Island, also. Before remote work was more popular, it was very difficult to search for jobs on Long Island in the past. If you put "New York" you get NYC. If you put "50 miles" you get Connecticut.
GTA 5 came before everyone felt the need to be offended though. It’s almost like we live in a satire reality already.
Given how many people browse HN at work it would be super skewed.
Wouldn't 50 % provide an even stronger incentive? Why is it that 30 % is the perfect number?

Apples seems to have that right, but some people are saying that they shouldn't have that right. Laws are possible to change.
Because there are differences in scale and severity. As an analogy, let's say I'm arguing with my neighbor over the loud parties he throw every night. My neighbor counters with the fact that he can hear my dog barking every morning when I take him out for a walk. My neighbor might be correct here. But he isn't engaging in good faith whatsoever -- instead, he's trying to conflate issues of very different scale to purposefully muddle the conversation. This is the problem of "whataboutism" and it's more complicated than just throwing stones in glass houses.

Part of the issue is that it's a problem that only exists in context. If I'm playing golf with my neighbor and he brings up my dog barking first, it's different than if he brings it up as a counterargument to my complaint about his loud parties. e.g. if someone on hacker news is bringing up criticisms of the US (e.g. Guantanamo Bay) in an unrelated topic, there's nothing wrong with that.

Whenever there is discussion of Guantanamo online, Xinjiang is almost never brought up. Here's a few (I promise not cherry picked, they're the first 3 results on google search for "hacker news Guantanamo" with more than a handful of replies) hacker news threads on Guantanamo to show this point: [0], [1], [2]. Not one mention of Chinese war crimes. There are debates over how bad they are, sure, but no whataboutism saying "Guantanamo is bad, but what about X issue in Y country?"

In contrast, there's not a single large thread about the Uyghur concentration camps in Xinjiang on hacker news (or any other major site) that isn't filled with comparisons to the United States of America and its current and historical problems (and thankfully people calling them out for whataboutism). It's a pattern, and it's a real problem, and I won't hesitate to call it out when I see it.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28500597

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28195746

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28986757
Desk Chair Comparison Guide [2022 Edition]
Having spent the past few weeks looking to replace my old office chair made me realise how confusing and unclear the space is from the perspective of someone outside the industry.

During my research I thought it might be neat to build and crowdsource a doc with the range of chairs available online, so I started the spreadsheet above to help those just starting out.

Would love ppls comments, feedback and suggestions too.
Are merchants and businesses that accept cryptocurrency payments converting to US currency immediately or do they hold and convert at the opportune time whether that time is related to market values, exchange rates, tax/accounting purposes?

Other than securing the wallet, there's no carrying costs for whatever amount of cryptocurrency a merchant holds? It's not as if you don't hold a minimum amount in your business account, the bank levies fees since you deposit money so they can lend it back out and charge borrowers 10x as much.
I don't think they can use civil asset forfeiture for a bank account. It can be locked up for a long time, but even that requires some sort of court order. Now, $10k in a suitcase, that now belongs to the police precinct unless you can sue and prove your cash is innocent.
And larger than all the remaining 49 states. Why divide by states then?
Wouldnt mind a side step like GTA London. But, since it is Vice City o'clock, I'm stoked just for the soundtrack.
It's been discussed here before, but you've conflated NoPixel, a server with the most famous community, with FiveM, the mod framework that NoPixel uses.

If there is a GTA6 online, which there will be of course, then they would be very stupid to not build in all the functionality used on RP servers today. The worry is that they will overly focus on mechanics and economy which somewhat work against role playing. If they have a way for players to be cops or EMS or mechanics or car salesmen or shopkeepers then they're set.
> alternative LabView-based UI that ran on classic Mac OS

Was that Robolab? I remember running that on an G4 PowerMac.

I always thought that the "Robotics Invention System" sets were the consumer oriented ones and the educational ones were a separate product line distributed by a company called Pitsco if I'm recalling correctly. Came in a green tub.
I started with The New Economics, then read Out of the Crisis, and finally A Theory of Sampling or whatever its name is.
The root cause for almost every Amazon horror story is the URA goal.
Hopefully optimize some of it so that it's playable on a reasonably affordable GPU within the next 10 years
How can you be responsible for the burning of the gas when there is no meaningful alternative? I don't ask to have my food shipped across country. I don't ask my electric company to burn oil. All I want is food. All I want is heat in my house. But the only places to get those things from are burning carbon fuels.
China and India has a bigger population, and China has a similar landmass as the US yet is just one option in this poll.
There's also ' (apostrophe) for "quick find, in hyperlinks only". I sorely miss it when using Chrome.
I used Google Squared constantly for about six months before its death.
Uh, I guarantee you that a worker at a US McDonalds is not making $31/hour. The $22 I quoted for Denmark is the pay AT McDonalds, not the nationwide average hourly wage.
Do you mean to say that referring to countries as regions is incorrect? I thought “region” was a pretty generic term for geographic area, regardless of political boundaries
It's like boys and girls having sex - they'll always figure out a way regardless of what you do to try to prevent it. Skunkworks works the same way. If you want to do it then you'll figure out a way to do it. That's the way it's always been, and I've been doing this for decades.
He helped more about a decade later when getting me into DOS games: He'd configure AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS which I could then look at after he was done playing.

I'd attribute more to my own purchase of a PC when I was learning to walk after a road accident, and being part of the Windows 95 preview program. That got my foot in the door as a software tester and support tech. Becoming a sysadmin happened rapidly after that.
> People don't want "Half-Life 3". They want "Game-that-makes-me-feel-like-half-life-did". A standard M+Kb FPS isn't gonna do that anymore, they're well, standard.

I disagree. Sure there are tons of FPS games out there, 95% are multiplier focused and have minimal to zero story, and it was the story that people remember from the Half-Laife series IMO.

Alyx was/is fantastic and really shows what it takes to make a VR game, everything game system wise "just works" and feels natural (on an Index at least), and the story was fine. Sure it's not HL3 but it's a good game in the HL universe.

I think the problem with HL3 is that no matter what they deliver large chunks of people will be disappointed and Valve have zero need to release anything ever again so there is no pressure to even try.
This comment of mine sounds like optimistic. It is just i haven't seen any proof of printing. But i wouldn't trust and try to avoid if it possible because of its inheritance.
Because you need overhead for classical banks to be huge for long term interests for deposits to be that far divorced from inflation.

Their overhead is big, but not that big, plus they follow the central bank interest rates.

Your case is a localized anomaly, this can happen with regular banking, too, but it's not scalable. You can't ramp that up to population levels.
If the goal of the poll is to determine where HN users/the tech industry is concentrated, whether the overall population in those areas is high or not doesn't really matter.
Kovel in Its Destruction
They used ML to upscale GTA Trilogy. That didn’t go amazing.
Yes!

A smart watch with a e-ink display, and no touch screen that had a good companion app that lasted 7 days on a charge! I really miss that tech. I don't need a smartwatch that has gps, a speaker, and touchscreen. I just need more of what the pebble 2 was shipping.
You're talking about a different sense of the word "conscious." What you're describing might better be called "reactivity" or something. (Don't get too hung up on the specific word; the point is there are several different meanings of the word "conscious" and the distinctions are critical.) There is no obvious reason why useful interaction with one's environment requires conscious experience, which is the phenomenon we're discussing here.
By land area Canada is about 20 times as large as California, by culture I'd consider Canada to have a few much more distinct areas than California (comparing Toronto vs. Vancouver vs. Calgary the distinctions are pretty close to the range you'd get across the whole of California by my opinion - with Quebec being radically different... Quebec is less like Vancouver than Texas or Mississippi is like California). By population there's only a really narrow difference between the two - so I really don't agree with that assessment.

Also, as a former Vermonter please don't you dare call me a New Hampshirite - but for a survey like this you can probably lump everything from Philly to Bangor into one chunk.
"you don't have conscious experience, you only think you do."

That's what illusionism, the position of Keith Frankish, asserts. Dennett mostly seems to support it, as you note, but more equivocally than Frankish.

For those of us who have subjective experience (SE), and are aware of it: SE is the thing, which we know must exist (as noted by Descartes).

Anyone doubting the existence of SE, either is not having SE (i.e. is a "phenomenological zombie"), or (more likely, IMO) has not identified his own SE.
Ah thanks, I was looking up DC - did not think to do "District of Columbia"
> I have gas appliances and would not trade them for anything.

Why? I have gas, but induction, and the new one's that support temperature control of the pan itself, seem really neat. For baking, when I had electric, I would add a little container of water to maintain a little humidity, when needed.

Being able to maintain heat, while lifting the pan, is nice.
If you get PIPed at amazon, you can't transfer teams. It locks you to your current team until you "improve"
Induction is annoying when you want to use ware that is not ferrous. However if you are a cast iron junkie you will be happy.
Apple's real customers are their shareholders, not its users.
It seems like you maybe could have provided just one example based on the length of your reply...
Canada has one a territory out of three and that one territory is 20% bigger than Alaska. And only 36,000 people live there.
There really aren't many online vendors that accept crypto that I have seen. And if they want to avoid views, the fees for a debit card are lower than most crypto transactions at this point.
At the time of commenting, US states have 3 of the top 5 positions (and the top 1). So it seems that a US state is roughly comparable to other countries in terms of HN readership.
As far as I know the size in these discussions is some kind of scattering cross-section. So roughly it's just how likely you are to hit it / how precise you need to aim.

I don't know the exact details of the definition though.
Yeah, I was mostly saying that the word "variant" probably triggers people to read/share it for reasons other than the actual content of the article.
Who sponsored the research, can we do a background check?
Cheeky answer: Land on Photoshop first.

People underestimate the value of paying a designer for a high fidelity mock up and building a waitlist to see if anyone actually wants your product

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Real answer: iOS if you have the expertise, Web otherwise

iOS : Network effect and people are willing to spend money way more than they are on Android. But development talent is harder to find than Web

Web: Not quite as sticky for the kind of product that gets used on phones, but super cheap and easy to get talent for it.

Android: Worst of both worlds, no one pays for anything, development talent is not as plentiful as Web and I think maybe even more limited than iOS?

Source: Worked on top Android and iOS apps "back in the day", currently an embedded Android engineer working on HMI
Texas is without power at the moment.
Is the caps lock LED even implemented in hardware? I feel like I remember them not responding if my computer freezes but I could be wrong.
PRC blocked western social media post minority riots when western platforms refused to filter information to prevent ethnic violence. Prescient policy that west is now emulating. Also didn't crack down on minorities "again", they "finally started" since capabilities to project control over restive frontier regions prior was limited. There were debates in 90s of the autonomous oblast models failing to win over minorities. Which is to say half-assing colonialism doesn't work.

>Beijing AQI

TBH that's state department wank about diplomacy hack to engage Chinese civil society to pressure PRC gov to change, +10 for engagement. I was in BJ before the US embassy stunt (90s), people were complaining about AQI loudly long before that. It was already on the CCP radar. My opinion is this anecdote was more for internal US propaganda amongs blobs / engagers who wanted to demonstrate BJ was still shapeable.

>immediately blames the CIA

For actual western influence, aka when CIA exploited weak CCP internal security and pervasive corruption to fund/install officials. We can trust that the CCP does not trust the CIA and associated influence instruments. Useful idiots that buys what the CIA is selling are just as naive.

>some weird crazy reason, embraces it completely

Not insignificant portion of old Chinese folk are nostalgic for pre-60s vs pressure cooker that PRC was becoming in 00s. It's weird how ernest he embraces it, being low key enough to fool everyone into picking him as compromised candidate - he's not charismatic enough to pull off dogmatic Mao cult. But here we are. If that's the kind of cat it takes to do difficult reforms that others couldn't, then so bet it. Post 60s born CCP in line for leadership still still have gone through some tough times.
who is the observer who is observing myself?
One must adjust for the fact that it is a very late evening or deep night on the other side of the planet, and the poll might sink from the front page by the time everyone wakes up back here.
By that logic China or Russia should also be listed with each single province or state
The problem with RoR is that it's an all-encompassing framework. It gives you a huge collection of things you typically don't need — entire major layers like the database are frequently completely irrelevant to projects. This isn't just true of small projects, but can often extend to a large part of a career.

One of the grave dangers that older/wiser programmers have learned is to stop trying to pathologically "drink the entire river". Programming has a constant deluge of new frameworks, tools, and publications coming out, and it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking you need to know, well, everything. I know a lot of 'aspiring programmers' who accomplish next to nothing precisely because they waste most of their time reading about programming instead of actually practicing it. It's sadly rather similar to 'aspiring writers', or any other craft — some reading is helpful, but not when it crowds out the actual task it's meant to teach. Life is short, and you have a choice between "actually making things" and "doing prep work for making things". That's all reading the docs is — it's just prep work. It's completely useless unless it parlays into actually accomplishing things.

There are semi-rare cases where some language/framework is actually teaching you new fundamentals and is worth deep-reading to gain core skills as a programmer. Haskell broke new ground. Lisp was enlightening. Smalltalk was a worthy historical study. Rust is genuinely changing things. Unfortunately, Rails just isn't special.

When I was considerably younger, I used to pathologically do this — I used to buy books on programming, and read them like a school textbook "exam cram". I read entire books on languages (like Perl) that ended up exiting the zeitgeist before I ever did any work in them — and I now have no reason to do so (I feel sorry for Perl, because Larry Wall seems like a cool guy, but perhaps it's a testament to its influence on other languages that it no longer has uniquely redeeming features). I even read books on various applications. Naively, at the time, I looked at learning as a pure, unalloyed good — rather than a dangerous spend of lifetime I'll never get back.

I deeply regret wasting that time on that instead of learning a meaningful skill.
Isn't that the point of the end of that comment?
Does this mean that there's possibly only one proton?
What about Facebook. They have over 2 billion accounts supposedly and Wall Street still invests in them (ignoring this past week).
If "knowing J2ME" is enough to make a game, then one doesn't need to know how to make a game to make a game.
The state. DC is listed as District of Columbia.

That area's confusing though, since the metro encompasses both DC proper and then multiple states.
The Twitter thread says "unfortunately range hoods don't reduce NO2 (see peer-reviewed research below)".
Rails has a ton of escape hatches when you want to make a different choice from the defaults, just as long as you’re writing a web app or HTTP API. The challenges I’ve run into in the Rails ecosystem more revolve around 3rd-party extensions making assumptions about how my app works and not being as flexible as the framework.
I agree, and we need cues for both directions

I have a bad habit of using overly complex sentences to avoid irrelevant semantic edge cases, even when a bit of hand waving would get the job done just as well. I'd love it if the people I talked with were less worried about being polite and more worried about tuning the conversation to the right level of precision.
Apart from the potentially massive significance to low-income countries and health costs, does someone has a good grasp on the applicability of the algorithmical advances towards classic MRI?

My current gut feeling is like: If 0.055 Tesla can create this kind of image quality, what could we possibly expect at 1.5 or more?
It's weird there is someone still teaching using Borland C ... that is early 1990 stuff... and using DOS! That's closer to 30 years! It must be a cost thing.