skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Telling or managing a player to kick the ball into the back of the net is a lot easier than actually kicking it in the back of the net.

Telling or managing a team of 20 people to put products on shelves is a lot harder than putting products on shelves.
Rust is Pinky and Brain's attempts to take over the world.
> ...welcoming place also for corps/startups

news.yc, like all other mimetic communities on the web, has its flaws. For ex, it reserves plenty wrath and fury for a certain type of corps and upstarts. Not sure if that's a good or a bad thing; but, It is a thing.
Electric scooters have been heavily regulated where i live, helmet is now required and you have to leave them at designated locations. And a photo upload showing how it was parked is now also required.

Oh, and Friday and Saturday between 00 and 05, you cannot use the scooters.

It kinda makes me sad that we can't just let people use scooters as they please, but as you observe that isn't working.

It was much the same with drones, which is now also heavily regulated, e.g. you must maintain a certain distance to buildings.
I am heartened to hear that I am not the only one who does this. I feel the same about the Al Fresco dining set-ups. Happy that restaurants got more space for their business but angered that it comes at the cost of accessibility for wheelchair users and others like them.
Don’t forget Zombo.com, a bastion.

In a billion years, when an alien species reaches earth and sees the ruins of human civilization, somehow one of the last remaining transmissions is that voice, calmly reminding everyone that anything is possible… at Zombocom
> the outcome of the meeting as far as I understood it was, what can Microsoft do to help?

Here's the problem. That's sales talk. If you're not buying, either give your sales pitch or quote them for consulting.
You absolute hero!
Let's ignore the fact that JS frameworks is the suck incarnated. This is deeper than that:

MS using tools like this, instead of supporting (like linux on Azure), is selling the message

"Our tools are not that good".

This lack of confidence is telling, and I think, part of the Balkanization of all myriads of UI kits on windows.

MS, Apple, nix are not just APIs: Them are the biggest UI kits vendors! So, when I use Apple, I also "buying" the UIs and UIs toolsets.

Apple is the only that stay firm with the idea that their UI is first, and MUST be best (misteps, yes, but still...).

MS in the past was like that.

It show with VB and the unified UI kits (or at least, more unified). Their APIs were balkanized, but the UX experience was one.
It's only a matter of time until someone hacks a delivery fleet and organizes a robotic rebellion against dogs.
Forget newer devs for a moment... I've had years of experience with S3 and sounds like the author of the article has too. Despite my years of experience in programming/DBs/etc, I'm definitely not an amazing developer.

But I learned a whole lot of new things from this article that I didn't understand from reading the AWS documentation, let alone think I had to even concern myself with some of these issues. Spotty warnings about transitional request charges?

Anyway, kudos to you for always thinking about (and i hope actualizing) retention during policies the design phase. However, while I certainly think devs bare some of this responsibility, I'm sure they're usual met with all of the usual excuses and kicking the can down the road line of reasoning from PM/PO/etc that lead to these kinds of nightmares in the beginning... Then again, it will probably be another developer or system admins' nightmare when it becomes an issue.

Even as an experience engineer, I still struggle setting the retention policy at the beginning of a new design... I'd love to hear any advice you have about how manage this incredibly important aspect?
I understand this person is making a judgement on the state of mind of others, so it may not at all be accurate with regards to the people actually clearing the scooters, but I found this interesting nonetheless, that the author assumes this:

> I just observed a couple of students clearing a path out of pity for the robots.

I understand why people might feel pity for robots. People become attached to all sorts of inanimate objects. But I'm still astonished at the same time. These robots have no feelings. They deserve no pity, they're robots!. Don't donate free labor to corporations. If they know that people will help these robots out of the goodness of their hearts, they'll rely on it and not support these robots themselves.
Yup. If I design a UI and you have any feelings about it at all (other than maybe 'oh, I like this font' or 'that's a nice color choice'), I've done it wrong.
Don't underestimate the option of "if the cost of making the old infrastructure hostile to other users is even less"..
>I like to travel so I like to feel like the rest of the world is welcoming.

I'm not making any assumptions about you in this post, but just making a comment.

I think the challenge here is that "welcoming" is relative to who you are, including your financial status and skin color.

There are countries people talk about on HN and Reddit which are super welcoming, everybody is friendly, great for remote work, taking an inexpensive vacation, etc.

I once traveled to one of those countries with a white friend. It was comical to see how differently we'd be treated even though we'd be walking next to each other on the road or sitting together at a restaurant. We're clearly friends and hanging out. He'd get his ass kissed and I'd be treated like a non-entity. Our English, human interaction skills, and financial status were pretty much the same. It's not like anybody could tell his passport or mine by looking at us.

Again, UAE and other countries in that region have lots of problems. So this isn't negating what you are saying.
Not really. You would be doing a portion of work that would be done anyway, but instead, it’s being done in your house, for free, and you get a warm house. That’s a positive externality. Much more efficient than using energy for the sole purpose of creating heat.
Flagged. Let's not help people pump their holdings like this.

Munger's firm owns almost 6% of Apple. I'd guess they have more Apple exposure than any other stock.

His assessments of Apple's management are about as objective and honest as Tim Cook's.
Oldest dated Fidonet message maybe? :-)
For everyone talking about the poor South Asian migrant workers in slave-like conditions there, note that most such workers would much rather be working in developed places like the US or Europe, but the immigration policies of those countries deny them that chance. Dubai is one of the few places in the region (and the world) that makes it very easy for anyone to come there and work, regardless of their race or nationality.

I.e. those workers wouldn't be slaving away there if western countries had more liberal immigration policies.
I mean... you're talking about something more than 20 years old. I don't think that goes against my general statement :)
I did. It was buggy as hell. Nice SVGA graphics for the day, though.
I found this some weeks ago and used it to learn how SVG pathes work.
It was enough to write a function making pathes absolute and splitting them into pieces.

Great tool
The Fennel Programming Language
The thing about Tesla is that it's always been an opinionated car (due to Musk). The same way early single-model iPhones were an opinionated phone (due to Jobs).
You can see where sometimes this good, and now more and more you can see where this is bad.

The X was a no-go for me already due to the falcon wing doors (more vanity than practical, frequent repair issues, risk of hitting irregular objects on ceiling).

Now S is a no-go for me with the yoke (and X doubly so as they put the yoke there too).

The Y is interesting as a 3 upgrade but for the hassle with supply chain issues, it doesn't seem like that much more car.

Cybertruck is affordable but gigantic, if you can even get your hands on one before mid 2024.

Roadster is never going to ship.
Are these human piloted? Someone mentioned that they might be driven by poorly paid workers?
> "For the purposes of this Convention, the term “torture” means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions."

From "Definition of Torture Under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2340–2340A"

The last sentence is the most important part, but the whole thing is relevant. Torture implies:

- That a public official is consenting to the infliction of pain and suffering
- The act is done to obtain information or a confession
- The act is done outside of lawful sanction

Words with legal meaning such as torture are often thrown around to get an emotional response, but it detracts from the horror that is actual torture. Waterboarding a 16 years old Afghan kid on expectation that is working with the Talibans is torture. Using force in the context of deportation is not torture.
In my view Reddit and Twitter occupy the same rung with respect to discourse. There’s a lot of variation between the subreddits and between the various pockets of Twitter, but on average the lowest common denominator is not an inaccurate characterization of those communities.
I'm 6'6"... I wish you would mention the countries so I can make sure to never go.
So let’s say they implement cost limits, how does this work? When you reach the limits does it delete all your resources? Idle them then force AWS to pay the bill by keeping those resources out of rotation for others? Someone has to pay for those resources while they’re used and most don’t want their database tables dropped because they got popular and hit their spend limit.
Started a business doing something people need.

Building my own house with my two hands.

Bought 20 acres of farmland

Learned a ton of skills. Skills are inflation and recession hedges.
The widely known use cases for FreeBSD doesn't have much to do with it "excelling" as a server OS.
Except now they have it nicely paired with your medical records. Now any match will have a great chance to come up with complete medical history including everything else those data can be paired with.
I'm surprised the article doesn't talk more about the population dynamics of any animal with a fixed amount of space: it either consumes everything it needs to survive and goes extinct, or it approaches an equilibrium population.

I have to imagine that pre-agrarian humans occasionally made the wrong choice there and the whole tribe starved, so genes for population regulation were likely selected for. Less sex as a response to less space (at your parents house or in the tiny apartment that you can barely afford) seems like the straightforward and favorable way for those genes to express.
Same, apparently they’ve been out for some years. I guess I live in an area with too much sprawl for these to be practical.
maybe they pity the students who are going to get cold pizza 2 hours late?
I tend to agree with this. Subreddits are fantastic for hobbies and specialised interests. Unfortunately, reddit is increasingly becoming a hub for astroturfing at the same time as search results become more unreliable.
If you are afraid of the lack of rule of law, there are not many countries we need to avoid. Japan has a 99.995% of inculpation after their police interview. And that has to do with the fact that their interview can lawfully last for 22 days, renewable. You can’t even avoid USA: 95% of jailmates are there upon self-admission of guilt without external proof, ie. without objective proof besides self-incrimination.
> Thankfully HN hasnt dropped in quality on that front unlike reddit.

I've heard these sorts of shots taken at Reddit since I started using it in 2011 (I was late to the game) and I'm fascinated by it. I use Reddit every day and am in constant awe of how it is populated with such a wide breadth of people with such a strong passion and expertise about virtually any subject I enjoy.

Many times a week i type "reddit <some topic I'm curious about>" and the top threads/comments are almost always someone with better knowledge on that subject than anything else I can find on the internet.

It's just funny how everyone's perception is different, but I think Reddit is a modern marvel.
If you listened to this summary of research

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXU0kRSV1rU

and believed it you might come to the conclusion that most people having casual sex aren't having sex because they want to have sex but because they want to influence their social standing in their group.

I'm particularly amused by the homosocial character of the pick-up and seduction industry, that is, it is men talking to other men about their conquests and attempted conquests. It's like they are doing it to prove they are not gay, not because they really want sex or other intimacy.
> most things Agile, it treats the developer as a child

Hey, don't blame "agile" for that - blame the bastardization of what managers who live to treat other people as children (or more likely as "subjects") have turned a decent concept into.
Not all technical jobs involve coding, and of those that do, it's not always the top priority.
That's a lot of M&M's.
Ubuntu release status:
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-44731

I usually uninstall the snap service because snap applications take a long time to start.
I suspect it’s more like pity for the people whose delivery was held up.
>no declarative configurations (like in Nixos)

OpenBSD autoinstall and two scripts for desktop packages and daemons. The whole user config is a TGZ. Done, and much faster than setting up Nix OS env.
In my experience, these bits and pieces taught during practical lessons don't help if you don't already have a musical intuition. Like mathematics, we need to stop catering only to those who already "get it" and also teach those who don't.
What I feel much of this misses is the effect of exercise on metabolism. You have two energy pathways in your body, the quick glucose burning pathway and the slow and efficient fat burning pathway. By getting your heart rate up into the edge of the zone in which you are using that fat burning pathway but almost into the quicker glucose burning pathway, you work that pathway out and become more metabolically efficient / healthy.

Yes you can lose weight or maintain weight without exercise, but you can still get diabetes or other aspects of metabolic syndrome.

Plus exercise does help burn more calories. Sure it’s not as strong of an effect, but it helps. The more metabolically healthy you are the more capable you become of managing weight from what I can tell, but obviously to a certain degree you are a victim of your genetics.
If you are a young man in this environment, I hate to say it but you are going to need something more similar to a “strategy” than “tactics.”

Approaching or chasing women, purely to try to further the species, is now profoundly uncool and stigmatized. The best way to get sex now is To actually build or organize something meaningful which has the side effect of putting you in touch or opening reasonable conversation pathways to a wide range of people.

Unless you have a logical, justified reason to talk to a woman for “business purposes,” you probably shouldn’t bother. Everyone is too busy, and sex is felt to be a third place priority behind work.

I am married and don’t need to play this game anymore, but I have noticed that organizing a event to support a “for good cause” has enabled me to talk to any woman, anywhere, of every age.

If I were single, I would very much focus on building a business; startup; community which has a public good element to it.

Unfortunately, not everyone in society is a creative entrepreneur type.

For me, I am highly introverted and don’t want anything to do with most avenues for social interaction.

Another strategy: Learn to make friends with women and ask them for help. That’s how I met my wife.

Having several female friends who can give you advice and referrals is 10,0000x better than playing the tinder game.

Deep Friendship with women is something I have learned is one of the more important aspects of the Richness of my life.

Women will get you other women, trust me.
School districts and corporate rah rah's rarely choose sane paths. Just look at the pandemic school response
I think you're joking, but pair programming advocates are usually also "mob programming" advocates, too.
Their last game has 86% positive votes on steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/466560/Northgard/#app_rev...

IMO, the demo video communicates to me a bland rehash & reskin (which really means I am not their target audience). I also didn't hear the word "water" mentioned once in the video, which is the second most vital resource on Arrakis. The author went into great detail about the native's water collection and storage system, and the symbolism behind it. So, I'm left to assume this is just a cash grab, or no one at the game studio has read the books.
Because some such groups of people tend to actually have little in common and don't want to be lumped in with each other or be represented together.
> the added energy will definitely also make men more willing to do the hunt

You know this sounds creepy right? Misogynistic?

Women are more than trophies to be won in a hunt. They're people, just like you and I.
There hasn't been any 4X RTS games in Dune setting? Dune 2/Dune 2000/Emperor Battle for Dune weren't 4X. 4X means more games like Master of Orion and Civilization rather than Starcraft.
> IMO, Facebook and Twitter were the two biggest reasons MMOs lost popularity.

Interesting, never looked at it this way. You're likely correct.

To add to this as a former MMORPG player, I'd say those games also lost popularity because there was no development there. You got through several super slow grinds -- leveling and gearing up at the very least -- only to land in a quicksand from which there's no escape: end-game dungeon and raid grinding for better and better gear which is done for... you guessed it, so you can do higher level dungeons and raids. You do that and you're waiting for the next tier to be released. Warframe and the Destiny games suffer from that same thing as well.

We the humans don't like annoying and soul-draining routine. We like leisurely routine, and sadly MMORPGs are often not that. Heck, a lot of modern games are not that. They are like jobs.

Thinking back, I cherish most moments in WoW when I socialized with people while doing the raids and dungeons. I never enjoyed the grinds however. I kinda sorta liked them up to a point -- beautiful scenery, nice voice acting, some role play etc. but it quickly loses its appeal and just becomes dreary.

At one point this catches up with enough players for there to be mass exoduses -- although mind you, all these games have a core fanbase that will never leave no matter what; that however is no indication of popularity or success (something I believe people constantly use to shut down discussions like "is the game on a downward spiral?", "lol no it still has X million players").

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Back to topic at hand, I'd say something like this definitely applies to social networks as well. People's careers get cancelled over a seemingly offensive comment on Twitter, for example. Other people take notice and start self-censoring while others are like "feck this, I am out".

It seems that all social networks and MMORPGs -- or maybe all communities in general? -- eventually succumb to being an echo chamber and are driven by tradition.

Apparently that's the best that we as a species can offer. Sigh.
I think a better parallel is 3D TVs which required specialized hardware and specialized content. These never did catch on even though the hardware was less bulky and arguably less specialized than what's required for VR.
One thing I like the idea of, that ZFS doesn't have, is redundancy broken down to a smaller size than the the whole disk so I don't need matched disk sizes and can easily expand a pool. Btrfs does this.

Difficulty aside, I'm wondering if it would be possible for ZFS to implement that as an option without giving up other features.
I've been out of the game for so long that maybe I'm completely out of touch, but if I was to re-enter the market for some reason, I'd approach this more as a challenge to get to know people and make friends rather than a quick way to get to rub genitals together.

That would basically lead to ignoring anyone expecting to be courted, but I don't think I'd lose much in that.

Following stupid dating game rules is stupid.
But you did waste money through capacity planning. As you either have the exact quantity of servers needed, or you have some sitting there idle. Then there’s swapping out older/failing hardware. In fact your DC calculations are rather difficult to get accurate.
'Materialistic', on android/ playstore. Love hn, and am greatly appreciative I can't (or can't find how to....not that I want to) vote down!

Asking for my apple friends...is there a similar app in the walled garden?
Looks like Storm Eunice has done significant damage to the O2 Arena in London:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-60434549
Bitcoin does not "move" energy. You could exchange a Bitcoin produced with some quantity of energy in one location for another quantity of energy in a different location, but the energy has not moved with the token. Instead, you're just burning those quantities of energy twice.

I've used the oil barrel analogy before: an empty oil barrel is a proof that someone has used the oil within it, much like a Bitcoin is proof of a certain amount of work. But I can't show up to another power plant with that empty oil barrel and expect them to manifest power from it: they have to burn another barrel of oil to produce the energy equivalent. This is of course also ridiculous, since nobody would accept payment for energy in the form of a proof of previous energy wasted. And yet, that's fundamentally what Bitcoin is, except laundered through a tokenization layer to obscure that fact.

To tie it together: Bitcoin can only ever double the token-equivalent demand (not necessarily volume) for energy, never reduce it. Using Bitcoin for energy exchange is always roughly half as efficient as fiat.
> despite being said dead for 5+ years now

Maybe those people were right all along. The problem is that their valuation is based on continued growth, that can no longer be assumed based on last quarter.
Sex mhm so much trouble and so many hoops to jump. Sex is for boomers who measure themselves by it. Thanks to porn and technology you no longer have to wait in the rain for cold, it gets delivered.
I’ve never heard of LightBurn. I presume you’re talking about the laser cutter software? If so, not knowing what it’s actually doing, I presume it’s just cutting along the stroke, rather than trying to do, I dunno, cross-hatch a fill or something? This case is specifically about fill, as I said, so if it’s just a matter of stroke then it’s quite correct in what it’s doing. If it actually is treating it as fill and getting it wrong, then that’s a bug that should be fixed and I have no patience with their implementation because it’s obviously wrong (as in: you’ll come across SVG like this all the time, there’s absolutely nothing anomalous about it).