skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the most addictive games

How do I know?

I've been playing it for 15 years and I still have PACC (prem) account, but it's relatively young character (00:10 Your Distance Fighting skill changed from level 126 (with 21.52% progress towards level 127) to level 126 (with 21.98% progress towards level 127))

Developers are greediest fucks I've ever seen.

It's insane that game this old can be this profitable - just google "tibia income" and go to graphics

Most people play this game in "grind-style" nowadays, so basically team-hunt everyday for 1? 2? 3? hours (idk what are optimal strats nowadays), get levels and cash, do bosses, yada yada.

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but this game has impressive OSS community

https://github.com/otland/forgottenserver

https://github.com/edubart/otclient

and more

they basically recreated tibia game client & server

people were playing on private servers with real clients

and nowadays as I see custom private servers use custom clients that are impressive as hell imo.

I've had a lot of fun debugging those C++/Lua game mechanics when trying to create my own server but since its time consuming to create nice game play then I gave up

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This is the game where you could be DDoSd if you joined somebody's team speak/ventrilo/etc

This game fought and probably still fights bots. They improved shitton by using BattleEye.

They fought against DDoSes against their servers hard too, I remember when they used iirc Prolexic and it didn't work well

Fun thing: IIRC Tibia's game company rewrote their C++ client in something that worked in web browser, but afaik they eventually killed it. I do wonder whether they'll try again with WebAseembly

>The Tibia Flash client will also be discontinued tomorrow.

https://www.tibia.com/news/?subtopic=newsarchive&id=4358

I heard that in early days of Tibia you could buy premium account via letter to Cipsoft's "HQ"
I think that reality is largely a story-based thing for many of us. There are as many stories as there are authorities. Science offers a story. So do the various religions. So do various other cultures.

Some stories can be called prettier, more compelling, more useful than others...

Most are consumed unconsciously. In childhood. And form the foundation of reality. So to mess with it can be ... disturbing.
Well done - thanks. A good dialogue, reminds me a bit of those written by Plato (okay, apart from the difference in topic); I wish I had more inquisitive students like Liz.
Do people in the US do "work experience"? In the UK it is something <16 year old kids do where you spend a week working a job and is organised by schools.

From what I understand, the placements are almost random, and pretty much tend to all be something pretty tedious. E.g. a postman, working in a bakery, some random office admin/assistant crap, a cinema usher, collecting trolleys/carts at supermarket/grocery stores etc.

I think those were pretty educational in terms of what shit jobs are like.

I am not sure if they are deliberately shit jobs to try and get you to concentrate on studies etc. But they do at least give you a baseline for how depressing and brain-dead many jobs can be
TEDx Wouldn't Post This
Sometimes I wonder about alternative worlds where railroads weren't possible (mountains? archipelago?) and local solar time remained the only thing.
As OOP is to languages, Sockets, to me, is to networking.
Dead bug style circuit assembly has been popular in the ham community for a long time. It’s definitely a legacy thing but still quite common for hobbyist projects.

It’s quite suitable for specific RF situations provided you have done the right characterization work.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/with-the-dead-bug-method-hobbyists...

https://hackaday.com/2016/05/04/getting-ugly-dead-bugs-and-g...
That is called 'ban evasion' and causes an immediate banning of the new account. It is better to not get too attached to reddit so that you can leave it entirely without thinking twice.
So they have clients? I thought they just send out claims and quietly collect the cheque...

Or, since that legally iffy, they probably have bots that scan for usagr of CC-licensed content, and when they get hits, they ask the content creator if they would like to be their client and get a percentage of the "mugging"...
I remember watching the soccer world cup like that years ago, just connecting with netcat. It received the "video" 5 seconds earlier than my TV.
One of my really good friends dropped out of his chemical engineering degree in the last semester to be a landscape gardener, and seems to enjoy it much more. It's been nearly a decade so far. He hasn't gone back.

The tech meme of dropping out to pick up a trade is pretty funny at times, especially when it's coming from people who couldn't change a doorknob, but I don't think jobs are one-size-fits-all, and I do think some people would be happier with a job that requires doing hard work outside.
You're right, the only thing we can logically conclude from this study is that the number of storks known to humans correlates with birth rates, leading to the obvious conclusion that countries which are better at finding storks are also better at having procreative sex, probably due to the close similarity between the two behaviors.
This was the war on drugs intended purpose.
Yes, why use the old micro-usb port? Now I would need a separate cable just to charge this.
Given that Jobst Brandt was ... opinionated about tensiometers, I'd disagree. (well, he was opinionated about most everything)

I think he'd like this system, as it provides a faster way to properly build up a wheel with well balanced, proper tension. The recording options would be welcomed as documentation of the wheel build.
I'd be amazed as well, they're far better off using it to promote themselves and try to bait you to try/look at other things. Paywalling it would just remove most of those daily users they just bought. Maybe when it dies off, then they will do that, but quite likely most people will use one of the many clones, especially the apps. The fad will die off really quick I'm thinking. To me it doesn't have the lasting power of things like sudoku.
We use it and or staff are able to get at least a bit of value without knowing sql. but i still have to write most things or create a template they can copy and paste.

the visual builder still relies on knowing fundamentally what a db is, what a join is. like mega obvious stuff that actually isn't obvious to non technical people.

we area also multi tenent and it's not the best for that. like the default permissions when you add a db are broad, the organization of dashboards, questions, etc is not great. through different versions they have re organized and stuffed things oddly.

i've also messed up the elastic beanstalk a few times. i am not even close to an expert on aws so might just be me being stupid.

probably worth just paying for their service in the end..
Note (for dang): it's "Ethereum", not "Etherium"
Usually not, although it's one of the top/main packages supported by Red Hat. `dnf install ruby` will work everywhere.
The compilers have probably got better but the C language has definitely bloated since the 80s
Ever since their power tool accident they’ve been all out of touch…
> Previous comment about SR, although GR is a natural extension of SR for non-inertial reference frames.

Sorry, but SR is a special case of GR now, so not a big deal.

> The interpretation of it is that it proves the constancy of the speed of light. This is the case whether SR is assumed or Lorentz ether theory. The two theories result in identical predictions, except LET assumes the existence of an ether but without any way of detecting it.

Now we have LIGO and Virgo interferometers, which clearly shows that speed of light in pure vacuum is not constant.

Now we know that if we will put an interferometer into space, it will detect deviations in speed of light. (We know it as gravitational lensing).

Now we know that gravitational waves exist and are conducted by a medium (Higgs field/Higgs boson).

Now we know that gravitation is a bit faster than light, so photons are not flying on 100% of C, thus they are not immortal, so they are losing energy with time (Red Shift).

If you say that GR/SR is still valid, despite opposing results from experiments, then those experiments are irrelevant for GR/SR at all. Regardless of what experiment will found, scientists will be able to find a way to explain results in terms of GR. With enough number of constants, a formula can make paintings or generate music after all.

> Michelson-Morley rules out a stationary ether, at least without length contraction which Lorentz added to attempt to repair the theory. Michelson-Gale-Pearson rules out ether drag. SR and LET are compatible with both experiments. Whether or not the ether is real is philosophical quibbling without a method for separating LET from SR.

If we put a sail into a box, to test the existence of a wind, then we may find that there is no wind in the box, if the box is tight enough. It can be interpreted as «there is no wind, so no atmosphere, we are on a Moon», or it can be interpreted as «there is no wind in the box». IMHO, the second variant is valid.

For me, Michelson-Gale-Pearson experiment doesn't rule out drag. Fizeau shows that drag exists, but it works in heavy mediums. Physical vacuum is too lightweight to change the course of photon just by itself. It will work at the scale of the Solar system.

> The Higgs field, just like other fields in quantum field theory, is a relativistic field; its Lagrangian is Lorentz-invariant.

Nobody says that Higgs field is stationary. It expected that it will move and behave like any other field, with currents and gradients of stength. However, the average of Higgs field of our visible Universe can be used as a reference frame. I interpret CMB as light of distant galaxies with z=1000, so it can be used as representation of this average. For example, the Sun moves at a cumulative 369 km/s relative to the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) in direction 264°l, 48°b.
The most expensive votes convince others to vote a particular way.
If you look at development of lots of "Big Data" stuff (Hadoop is a good example), Google shipped papers, while FB shipped code (not entirely true for Hadoop, but much more true for some of Google's later papers).
Well, at least it'll be good that if anyone else got a letter from this company, googling the name will lead them to this takedown.
Since you already had your technical interview as the first one I think this would probably the one in which they assess if you are a good fit for the team as a person / culturally.

So basically you could expect questions like why they should hire you (other than your skillset) instead of someone else.
Retool + Dark Lang
I would say that 1.4 PeV is enough energy (by a large margin) to be audible. If that photon interacted with something near you and deposited any respectable fraction of its energy as heat or kinetic energy on a macroscopic scale, you would hear it!
Given the amount of software they write from scratch, and that they have their own tool chains, the actual ISA is below Apple’s noise floor. I’m sure they spend more on optimizing for the quirks (cache size, instruction timing, etc) of each generation of chip.
Yes, isn't it interesting how people who own crypto valued at hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars rarely act like people with that much money, get involved in the kind of business deals or social engagements that people with that much money do, etc.? It's also interesting how many of the assets they tend to purchase are themselves part of the crypto ecosystem. How many people, given $300k, would go and buy exclusive access to an online monkey avatar?
Google and FB (and apple, but less so?) -- have been making their own servers and hardware for years...

They protect this aggressively, and the tech is impressive.

I remember the first time I accidentally saw a custom google node when I went there to pick a friend up from there, and I had gone to his desk and I saw a really nice looking PCB on his desk he forgot about, and I exclaimed "WHATs that' -- I was pretty familiar with a wide range of server boards, and I knew that was custom immediately...

He panicked covered it and we didnt really talk about it much, but it was known really early that they were building a lot of custom kit.

~2005 maybe?
The answer is use whatever language/framework you know best. Know PHP? Use Laravel. Know Python? Use Django.

For me, I am mainly a Javascript developer so I use AWS + Next.js. It's very easy to create an API with Serverless, hook up a DynamoDB table, maybe add some Cognito in there, etc. All just Javascript. You can deploy the Next.js site to S3.

Obviously, this means a ton of external dependencies, but if you want something easily it I think it works well.
And arguably borg and global work queue are predated by generic batch queue of VMScluster (and possibly TOPS-20 Galaxy, but I haven't played with those) and those are predated by IBM Job Entry Subsystem 3, which even operated in similar manner to k8s with "master" mainframe, usually a lower power model, scheduling jobs on multiple "worker" mainframes.
> Grandmaster Kenji Matsumoto played it to a best of 500 and Quackle beat him 252–248. As you can see, however, that is not something anyone would call “superhuman” play.

I'm suspicious when I see a result with a one-percent swing like that. How unlikely would that result be if Quackle played 500 games against itself? What would be the average of the score differences at the end of each of those games?

I think the null hypothesis should be that top humans and AIs are already playing perfect games, and we also have to rule out the hypothesis that AIs are consistently better, but by such a small margin that the AIs' abilities are being lost in the random noise of the letters they draw.

Would it be possible to model luck as a separately controlled variable, giving one half of a self-playing AI "helpful" (or unhelpful) letters and seeing how sensitive the results are to that?
At least in the first version of the game, the 'solutions' list was actually just a sequential list of what the answer would be for each given day. So, calling them 'possible solutions' on my part was actually a little misleading (sorry), there's no probability going on or anything like that. Not sure if NYT changed it.

The value is that we all get the same answer, so which makes it more fun to compare our results (this does mean that you can just cheat and look up the answer, and it might have been possible to obscure the list somehow, but probably getting into an escalating war with cheaters was not a priority for such a simple little free game).
I use Mozilla for the same reason I vote for a shitty political party.

Nothing better exists than the heaping turd that we have.
US SVOD market was worth more than ten times the physical market
> Maybe / maybe not. It's relatively easy to translate C to unsafe Rust, which is a mostly automatic process.

This makes no sense; extending C code with Checked-C would still be easier as with Checked-C you wouldn't do any translation at all; it's a superset of C, in the same way that TypeScript is to JavaScript.
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort
Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!

— Gene Ziegler, "A Grandchild's Guide to Using Grandpa's Computer" (1994)
1, 2) I always take notes, but then I discard them. It's just for mental correlation;

3) Never tried it, curious but not that curious;

4) Take long walks and think about nothing.

I don't really fell that I have the space to incorporate notes in my type of learning as I love reading about all sort of random stuff and getting to the peak of Mt. Stupid [0] and kinda leaving it there unless it's of real interest to me.
What functions of Mathematica can do the job? I'm interested in checking it out.
No, cells have active DNA repair mechanisms working all the time. They also have transcription ECC that attempts to detect and/or correct transcription errors. Some critical protein coding sequences are arranged to make some errors harmless, or are duplicated, etc.

Selection pressure plays a large part here. Waterbears (tardigrades) have exceptional DNA repair mechanisms — far superior to ours in some ways — because they must survive constant dehydration and rehydration cycles. Without the ability to repair what we would consider catastrophic DNA damage they'd have gone extinct long ago.
Eileen Gu defends China’s internet freedom. Her message is censored
Switzerland’s system is what Obama and Romney care was modeled on: mandatory insurance, but prices are regulated and group plans are disallowed. As such, no company can really reduce costs that way (but it’s good PR), so it’s up to the Swiss government to ensure most healthiness (which they definitely do in ways many Americans would find authoritarian, eg the extra tax males have to pay if they are unfit for conscription).
Ah yes, a world where taxes don’t exist and the S&P always returns 10%-20% a year and everything you really want in life is dirt cheap.

Nah, I want cars, some homes, a yacht and a hot ass babe to pleasure me and raise
nice children as we travel the world and dress fancy.
IBM executives called older workers 'dinobabies'
Development of the Advanced Encryption Standard
Why would using PHP make an app not require maintenance?
They removed them from the allowed guesses list, or the possible answers list? I might be convinced about removing them from the possible answers, but the allowed guesses should be basically all possible English 5-letter words. Even if they make some argument about kids typing rude words in a classroom activity, well, kids are going to do that anyway...
Same here. Touched C++ and Lua for the first time as a kid when I customized an open tibia server.
> anyone could kill anyone

Getting killed also meant all your equipment and inventory could be looted and stolen by whoever comes across your corpse.

The exp penalty was also crazy; Players could lose levels from dying, even levels on trade skills, which often would take many hundred hours, and materials, to level up.

So it was very much possible to gank a very developed high level character, with hundreds of hours in progress, back to basic lvl 1 with no skills if one was dedicated enough.
Where in the chart would you put FreeDOS? AFAIK it's not a direct descendant of any version of DOS on the chart but is a separate implementation.
There is some percentage of people who become wealthy accidentally - but PG is not one of them. He's like the Michelangelo of early internet startups.
I tried most of the free tools but I don't like any of them. In my experience they're all clunky and don't have a beautiful design (I'm on Windows at work and Linux at home).

I just settled on DBeaver, but don't consider that an endorsement from my part.

I found DB Browser for SQLite to be the least bad, but it's obviously limited to SQLite.

My problem may come from the fact I have simple needs and they're all very complex apps. My SQL queries are rarely longer than 50 lines and I do DB admin tasks from the command line.

Among the unending list of apps I should code for myself there's a SQLPad project. Maybe one day.
I don't care what they call it. I have been doing it for years and have had multiple of accounts on Reddit - and they've never been banned for "ban evasion".
^ legit point -- tight coupling between data + UX widgets is like postgREST + retool in a single package that has been evolutionarily stagnant since like 1992
Exactly - and I think it's the same among programmers, and more generally in male friend groups. It's a translation btw, but I think it's a fitting one.
Even secularly, I need to agree. The Bible was swallowed by Roman Empire and tied to Roman greatness for the next half century, maybe millenium. The Qur'an made its own greatness, from heretofore a marginal people, who by their own admissions feared the Persians like falcons fear eagles ('O, lo, the Persians, whose destiny is millennia of greatness. Even when they fell, they reclaimed their imperiality' - paraphrased from pre-Islamic Arab poems) and Rome. (Though I don't find many Arabic poems of Rome, unlike Germanic epic poems about the Roman dragon, even if they hide it sometimes. Siegfried was likely mythical version of Arminius)
Why not just stop visiting sites with onerous ads?
Why not contribute to FreeDOS?
There's an opt-out, but not an opt-in for Google Analytics. Unless you're referring to simply blocking it via a content blocker script.
It seems all but impossible to fully "ban" second hand smoke:
* how do you prove it?
* how do you measure the amount in case you've proven it?
It seems such a minor individual offense that courts would hardly accept cases.

So we probably have to rely on smoker's good will to not smoke near others instead of on the law.

Every population consists of nice people and inconsiderate people, with something like a normal distribution of niceness.
Assuming that smokers follow this distribution, there will always be inconsiderate smokers which don't care and stand in front of doors blowing clouds of tar into other people's faces. The amount of such people will be governed by the rate of smokers.
Hence, the best way to reduce second hand smoke is to reduce the count of smokers. Note that this even applies if we assume that smokers are much more considerate than the regular population.
Will the answers from the new and old versions start diverging at some point? i.e. will the share link need to specify which version your pictographs are referring to (though I'd imagine NYT would add some branding/advertising to their share link before link)
Apparently there is an implementation of STREAMS on Linux here http://www.openss7.org/streams.html
Just an fyi, the singular of the beast's name is indeed "aurochs". Whoever titled this story for HN need not have corrected it.
Thank you so much. I'll read about Violet's story.
"strong" loops - for when you want the CPU to really focus on this loop.
Try the Pandas Profiling library [0]. Why do all the clicking and plotting and specifying variables when you can have a couple lines of code do it all for you?

[0] https://pypi.org/project/pandas-profiling/
One friend quit (VP Eng, startup) and runs a Falafel joint. Another (Fortune 500 VP) a chocolate shop.

A PhD in Philosophy I know was a lifelong carpenter.
Is the benefit of Ethereum really larger than the value these intelligent people could be creating in non-crypto industries? I see the allure. They're super hard, super high-stakes problems. Is there really no other industry that provides this level of flow and excitement for these researchers?
The links upthread don't actually explain why a VM + GC can do shared-memory concurrency faster[1].

I don't understand what particular piece of magic makes shared-memory concurrency under a VM+GC faster than a CAS implementation.

[1] I'm assuming a shared-memory threaded model of concurrency, not a shared-nothing message passing model of concurrency.
We expected people to steal our ideas, not ads
What does Eileen Gu's success have to do with ordinary people in China?
making fun of a group != inferring generalizing statements about a group. I am completely with you about "making fun" part, but this concrete example is different