skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>does it have an impact on how often the fuel needs to be changed

Yes, fissonable elements in the fuel are consumed in a manner that's proportional to output. So if you run at 25% output your fuel needs to be changed (example) every 4 years, if you run at 100% output your fuel needs to be changed every year.

But it is not 100% proportional, for example, 15% of the plant's output is required simply to run the plant's accessories. So it is advantageous to run at 100% output if you can.
> The surrender they were attempting to obtain was basically a rollback to the status quo of 1935.

Can you tell me more about the status quo of 1935 and why that was a problem for the US or allies?

I know it is a different Japan that did brutal things in the region, but they didn't attack US then and they weren't doing.. anything relevant to the allies. The stuff in Europe was the issue.

am I missing something?
Has anyone had success using off-the-shelf solutions that are popping up from AWS and Azure? Are there other good OTS options out there from other gaming-focused vendors for multiplayer servers and network layers?
I said it's difficult to call something a crime when there is limited existing legal basis. Not that it wasn't a crime. Nor that it was a crime.

Also, definitely IANAL.
I imagine the risk of the rocket blowing up right after launch and scattering radioactive waste all over Texas would make this a non-starter.
> The problem with nuclear is an example of why deregulation was stupid.

There was never a deregulation that happened. In fact deregulation is what's needed to revive nuclear power. Competition in the power market is illegal in most states.
The first few levels are really easy but after a while it gets more fun and challenging. I suggest looking doing "View solutions" after you've finished a level as well, some interesting things there sometimes, I learned a thing or to.
I'm pretty much in the same boat as you. Would love to become some kind of indie game developer after leaving FAANG, but no interest in getting worked to death at a big studio. For my understanding, what level of net worth did you reach before pulling the trigger on early retirement? I can't imagine that the indie game dev route can generate income comparable to big tech, except in very rare cases.
I was keying off of this "The BIG TCP patch set adds the logic necessary to generate and accept jumbo packets when the maximum transmission unit (MTU) of a connection is set sufficiently high.", which made it sound to me like the author believed that the MTU was 185k
I used phoenix/firebird/early-firefox too.

It was never really smaller than the mozilla suite, they just simplified the UI. This is not intended as an insult, it was exactly what was needed and worked out really well for everybody, it's just amazing how much the reality got lost.

In particular, Opera while going the opposite way with their "everything and the kitchen sink" interface for the power user market were legendary for small, fast and nimble code, which is how they ended up running on the Wii and Nintendo DS around this time.

I'd be very suprised if they weren't always a smaller download, even with bitorrent, email, ftp clients and whatever other crazy nonsense they had built in.

I'm going to check though, just in case it's me that's mistaken.

Pheonix 0.1 was double the size of the Opera download at the time.
I <3 RPN and depend on dc every day and use it for calculations in shell pipelines! RIP.
Agreed! Great work, and in my main toolbox of go-to tools now.
Most likely. I can't see any of the open source projects having the resources to maintain backwards compatibility for anything Google doesn't want.
Thank you for that post. It strangely reminds me of basic training at the army back in 2006 (I'm German, so it was just the mandatory time + a few months). At the time it felt like hell, but looking back at it, I miss the camaraderie. If only we could appreciate the moments while experiencing them.
Thanks. Still, abandoned it like the author mentioned after nearly getting the MVP to work. All which is left to do is fixing all the bugs, implementing all the skills, animations, enemies and bosses with choreographed attacks, and designing a lot of maps, add a story... (at least there is no music or sound effects).

And of course, what often gets forgotten: Make sure it is fun, somehow. In my opinion, nobody can "make" a good game. Can just pump out a lot of games, and hope one is good. Be it EA, or King Digital Entertainment.
(Disclaimer: I'm the co-developer)

Together with GitHub user xPMo, I created a Shellcheck REPL tool (https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/shellcheck-repl) that validates your Bash commands using ShellCheck _before_ they are evaluated. For example,

$ words="lorem ipsum dolor"
$ echo $words
^-- SC2086: Double quote to prevent globbing and word splitting.

It was a toy project at first, but since I've learned so much about Bash from using it, I now have it enabled all the time.
> Is there any deep research on this topic and an advanced tool to work with semantic types?

Uhm, there's a process called Domain Driven Design that requires you to think of your types semantically.

IMHO semantics are always a higher level abstraction built on top of primitive types (integers/strings/floats and so on)

That said, unless there's already a well defined ontology in place, the semantic types are usually very adhoc and can even change from one module to another in the same ecosystem.
I'm with you that debt could become a liability and it would be wise to balance the budget. On the other hand, ye old money printer can always just buy it out :/
There's a world where no one thought to put the Amen break in a sampler, and that's a much less interesting world.
Ah ok. Hopefully they stick to the plan on doing it "light weight". The project seem like something that would be very useful for alot of projects. However the talk about LLVM and WASM makes me worried of scope creep.
Exactly! It's almost a feature.
Or use a new password every day like worle. So you have a community effort to guess it
I think a good balance between Type I fun and Type II fun is where its at. Type II fun really tickles the curious part of us and provides a healthy does of challenge and growth(hopefully). Type III fun is great until you're in a stretcher on the way to the hospital and no one knows if you're going to make it, at which point it ceases to be any type of fun.
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WASM is not going to happen. Stop pushing it. Also Google Docs, Microsoft and several others have been doing this via JS, since ages.
>The thing is Mozilla get more than 80% of its revenue from Google.

Why criticize them for this in a thread _about_ Mozilla diversifying their revenue?

Half of HN seems to hate them for being so dependent on Google and the other half seems to hate them for having profitable (if small) ventures that reduce their dependence on Google, like the VPN or Pocket, or this.

>They have done 0 actions towards blocking ads and trackers

This is total garbage and I suspect you know that. If not, please do some more research.

https://twitter.com/__jakub_g/status/1365400306767581185

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/privacy-security/privacy-analysi...

https://www.howtogeek.com/756338/mozilla-says-chromes-latest...

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2021/05/27/manifest-v3-updat...

https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#native-file-s...

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote...
And here I am, logging into Linux boxes without entering passwords nor SSH keys thanks to the magic known as Kerberos.

Open up my corporate laptop and login with my smart card and username/pass combo, then I can just log into any Linux machine I have authorization (group permissions) to. Been doing it this way for over a decade at this rate.

It's like all of these password manager tools were created by people who've never seen nor used these existing solutions.
I see the issue in the articles that get flagged is a confusion between the personal and the political.

Frequently the story is that a person received a relatively minor slight and then, in reacting to it, had something worse happen, fought more, had more trouble, fought more, etc. They don't come to the conclusion that they got caught in one of these

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_finger_trap

or that "always having to have the last word" leads to a bad outcome but rather that the deck is stacked against them.

One story with this structure was that a women went to a tech conference on the west coast and encountered some stupid guy who made a boob joke right out of The Big Bang Theory. The woman tweeted about it and created a firestorm that resulted in both the man and woman getting fired.

Incel BS gets flagged too.
The Kickscale platform gives teams access to playbooks and proven processes used by other successful teams and companies.

Use pre-defined playbooks or simply build your own to speed up your team's learning curve.
Kickscale provides structure and know-how.
Strangers don't owe you that and there's still a global pandemic on.

Pay for a massage or take up ballroom dancing or something if touch matters to you.
Also attributed to Pablo Picasso and Igor Stravinsky.
Please do start one! If you're open to the idea of it being on a pubnix, I run one at http://marvilde.cc, and would be happy to get you set up.

Or Linode/Hetzner are pretty cheap, I don't have experience with other VPS providers.
Which is fine. They're reliable and you'll need it anyways. Can get interest on it even.
Glad to be of service! =)
Becoming a Better Writer as a Software Engineer
Exactly.

They're basically the equivalent of "Ha! If I were Yamamoto, I would have...." because they know what happened and when and what would have turned events. But had they been in Yamamoto's (or Nimitz's or Patton's, or Rommel's) position, would have made much worse decisions. As you say they have complete benefit of decades of study of the war and tactics as well as limitations we are privileged to know only after the war.
> which means paying large sums of money

And in the wonderful cycle of capitalism, that money is then used to fund ballot propositions to keep cash bail in place
Apple shareholders urged to vote against Tim Cook’s $99mn remuneration
I'm surprised people praise the unity asset store so much. It seems very unlikely that I would ever be satisfied using a significant portion of it. Not because its low quality but its often very specific in style or content or whatever. I could never adapt my (shitty) artistic vision to adapt to what I happen to find on the store.
Thinking about this a bit deeper, it's a pretty good system for explaining a bunch of technologies to others (those mentoring, etc). There's the reason why it's not possible to win via the front door, how basic client side JS apps are put together, basics of using debugging tools...
Exactly, even if you make something novel and win the indie lottery, it's going to be ripped off immediately. Apple and Google are really failing at maintaining any level of quality in their app stores.
>I myself have abandoned 2 dozen games

There's a book about quitting smoking that spends the first 99% of the book providing the proof that smoking kills. The last page is how to quit smoking: "Never put another cigarette in your mouth and light it."

Here's my book on how to make a video game: "start writing a game and don't work on anything else until it's finished."

I started writing a game in college, and despite having tons of cool ideas, I didn't work on anything else until it was published. It got me a good couple of decades in the industry.

>It's easy to lose heart and just quit.

Not if you love it.

>There is no treasure at the end of this rainbow: You can spend years with nothing to show for it

Do you mean money? Sounds like you mean money. Because a great game is a great game. My game made me less than $1000. Which was a bummer, sure. But there's reviews of it on youtube. People enjoyed it. I am happy, and I had a great time building it.

If this is a means to an end, sure, quit. You simply can't compete against someone who is as good as you but who also loves what they do.

>Sure you can outsource or buy art

Or you can make a friend! I met a guy who had mad art skills, and could create awesome tracker music.

Celeste [1] is one of my favorite games. My favorite indie game. I suck at it but my kid as completed it. It is insane hard, massively rewarding, and the story is moving. IIRC these folks got a house together. Make friends!

[1] http://www.mattmakesgames.com / http://www.celestegame.com
No, that only disables some telemetry. Here are some of the options you need to disable: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/joef72/is_t...

Be sure to read the top comment.

They are also doing this bullshit, which isn't even a little bit OK: https://mozilla.github.io/normandy/index.html

> Two if you don't want to be put into studies - I don't think Origin Trials in Chrome can be opted out of at all (if you know how, it'd be nice to tell us).

What Chrome does is completely irrelevant. I don't want a browser that is less bad than Chrome, I want one that is good.
> Classic case of simple vs easy.

Personally, I think my definition of "simple" changed over time. Much of that was influenced by the depth of my knowledge of particular paradigms, whether that be software or knowledge of the subjects I was writing code for.
There isn’t much left to kill though - marketshare is near zero already because casual users aren’t interested in a slower Chrome knockoff.

Differentiating themselves on features that Chrome can’t ever have (because of their business model) could actually reverse the trend.
Eggs. Meat (usually spam). Sometimes cheese. Veggies if I have 'em. Copious amounts of hot sauce. Mix 'em all together in a hot frying pan. Also cook up some pancakes or waffles if it's the weekend.

I usually restrict myself to one big meal per day, usually around lunchtime. I guess that'd technically be called "intermittent fasting", but it doesn't feel that way (and I cheat sometimes, e.g. because someone invited me over for dinner and I don't want to be that asshole who's like "nah I already ate").
A CRM for long lost friends would be handy...
Super cool to see the paper! Given that some of the authors are in Montreal (a large video game development hub), do you think you'd ever continue this path with primary research?
Hi, thanks for sharing. Is the widget thing working for your website? I also run a game website and I'm thinking of letting people use some of my games in widgets, but I'm not sure it's worth the effort. Thanks!
This is incorrect. We have the diary of Shigenori Tojo, foreign minister of Japan in August 1945. He describes in detail the cabinet proceedings before and after the dropping of the bombs. Even after the bombs were dropped, half the cabinet (the military half) was still holding out for the terms they'd been offering all along: no foreign occupation, Japan retreats to pre-war borders, Japan handles its won disarmament, and Japan retains the Imperial gov't, meaning the whole structure that started the war in the first place. The Emperor overruled them, but only did so after dropping the bombs because Japan has a long history of emperors being sequestered by the Shogun or cabinet when they did not respect the prerogatives of the actual governing entity.

What the Japanese actually offered for surrender was unconditional surrender except for being allowed to keep a figurehead emperor, which the U.S. recognized as useful for governing post-war Japan, and accepted.
Ask HN: Are you prepared for a recession? How would you prepare for it?
The financial/economic news isn't all that rosy nowadays. If we are looking at a recession in the next 1-2 years, lasting 5-10 years, are you prepared and if not, how would you prepare?
First of all thanks for the comments and info.
I'm actually not doing the color interpolation myself. I'm using chroma.js[1] for the most part.

You can actually change the interpolation mode on the bottom below the color boxes. The default is LCH because I think it looks the best most of the time, but you can use LAB if you prefer that.

[1] https://gka.github.io/chroma.js/
> - Made a valiant attempt at developing a procedural animated suspension system for a little car. If you have a path for learning how to do this procedural animation stuff, please @ me!!

> - Realized I need to do a bit of a deep dive into shader development, and picked up a book as an introduction to shaders and have been watching tutorials. Fun stuff!!

Can you point me in the direction of resources for both of these? Or give me your contact information? Would love to chat!
This is a long time favorite post of mine. Kelly Cordes is rad.

As alluded to at the end of this, the real bastard about the fun scale is that if you live in type II fun long enough, the things you do for type II fun become type I fun.

... and that's how people wind up thinking ultras are a great idea, kids!
> It's not the work being done that creates value, the work must be done, sure, it can be done by anyone.

If you have a great idea, can you covert it to money without working? No. Maybe, you might say, you can sell it to smdy else, thus you made money. Ok. Does this person who bought your idea made any money without putting in any work? No.

I challenge you to become rich by making up a lot of great ideas and doing none of the work. Go ahead.
Curious which OS you're using?

I have found the user experience is much worse in windows than it is in macOS. Same browsers on both.
In case someone else wonders in the future. Apparently, submitting it like this, it did not show up in https://news.ycombinator.com/ask
I would refer to it as the English game.

And now I’m really out. :)
Is there a good resource for learning about programming for quantum computers? I'm looking at this and realizing just how much I don't know.
I can see where people are coming from with that CDC wording change, but I don’t really think “protection” vs “immunity” is inconsistent with the idea of vaccines sometimes just reducing the effects of an infection.

On the delta specific vaccine, I thought they did develop a tailored shot and go through trials? I’m not sure it really mattered, the early research on omicron specific boosters seems to be finding that they’re not any better than the original formulation: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00003-y
> My actual argument was that "none of the non-trivial applications you use daily (...) are composed of a collection of Unix utilities, or the equivalent", which still holds.

You made a logical leap to this:

> the Unix philosophy does not work for anything but small systems.

Which does not follow from the argument you made.

> I guess that I could have added the qualifier "popular" to be more precise, but it's still roughly correct. Certainly, there does not exist a popular, featureful tool that is composed entirely out of Unix utilities or the equivalent.

That is not relevant to the claim you made. You're now massively moving goalposts. Nothing in your original comment supports the notion that popularity was in anyway relevant to your argument, which in effect was largely implying that doing a single thing means doing a small, trivial thing. The fact that you're suggesting that a criteria would be that such a tool need be composed entirely of "Unix utilities or the equivalent" suggests you miss the point of arguing for such tools. Part of the point is to have composable, reusable tools, not to reject using additional code when building something else, but to avoid having to write the common parts over and over.

> Which, I notice, you didn't name. Why is that? Perhaps because it's not very popular, or because it's not a non-trivial piece of software?

I didn't name it because it doesn't have a name. It's my personal editor. I was able to put it together as easily as I did exactly because applying the Unix philosophy meant I did not have to write an editor from scratch, but could avoid writing large chunks of what people usually write, and instead write just the bits that are custom to how I want things to work This is a central part of the Unix philosophy: That providing reusable tools allows you to build on them without reinventing the basics. This goes to the point above that the Unix philosophy is not about avoiding custom code, but about avoiding custom code to do things that can be done with existing tools, and to maximise the ability to reuse tools it helps when your tools have a focus and provide a reasonable complete feature set.

The point is not for the tools to be small, but for them to be cohesive whichever size that requires.

Popularity is irrelevant to the claim I responded to. That you're now making an entirely different argument does not change that.

> The point stands - large systems aren't built using the Unix philosophy - or, none that are popular (I'm sure there exist large systems made using Unix tools, but no one uses them, because they're brittle and slow).

Here you are stating two entirely different arguments that are not remotely comparable.

A whole lot of large distributed systems are built using the Unix philosophy. I've built and worked on many over my career. The vast majority of my last 25 years have been spent building systems following those principles. That these platforms rarely get published is not proof of their non-existence.
The environmental movement is 9/10ths feelings, and 1/10th science. A lot of environmentalists just don't like rural people so they do things like rail on and on about pickup trucks whilest on a plane bound for a European vacation. That three eyed fish on the Simpsons probably resulted in thousands of deaths due to the environmental folks choosing coal over nuclear. The goal is good vibes, not results.
Not a programmer, but I really miss Flash.

It seems like the barrier to release a game and actually have people play it is so damn high.

But before Apple effectively killed it, the Flash ecosystem was beautiful. The games were simple, came out fast, and fun! You could have a proof of concept with less than an hour of gameplay, get it published on Armor Games or Kongregate, and have people gush on it and give feedback.
SpaceX ought to start their own venture fund to fill their vehicles with things.
Rationality and gain are relative to one's goals and values.
Exactly this. Something like ECS, where you code your game "outside" of your game, may also be useful at some non-game software.
I've received two today as it happens; one with a quite conversational tone, and the other with a five-point questionnaire. I have to say I quite liked the transactional nature of the second one, it felt more real.

Both were for abnormally low level roles, so perhaps in a few months time they'll be sending me info about jobs wallpapering their warehouses.

Edit: Ick, reading the other comments the pay is higher than I realised for the roles they're suggesting. I'm feeling different an hour later.
The fact that you think a small handful of anecdotes is a meaningful or representative sample size speaks for itself.
> New generations of people, even software developers, aren't accustomed to old featureless technologies; and they consider them crappy.

20 year old who uses SFTP/FTP and IRC, and has never touched Dropbox + barely touched Discord checking in.

While there is some truth to what you say, it's not the full story. Even people from my generation can look around at the state of tech and see what does and doesn't make sense.
Completely agree. However there are a few exceptions to the rule, for example Minecraft was written by one person (Notch) which was successful before he expanded the team and then sold it off to Microsoft.
>All stuff that the world would be better off without.

Germany would probably disagree on the fossil fuel point.
Very functional and straight forward to use tool!

Sure, there are a few enhancements that can be made (state management), but this is a great starting point. Nice job!