skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm the same, I tried so hard to like Bloodborne because I was so enthralled by the universe and lore. But I just could not have fun playing it, or more specifically the fun I did have was swiftly undone by frustration.

I can enjoy difficulty when I don't have to redo things I've already done; I'm fully on-board with something like a Super Meat Boy or a Hotline Miami, which are also games where death is expected and a core part of the loop, but when dying to a boss involves trekking back through 5-10 mins of low-level enemies I very quickly lose interest.

Am I suggesting all games should account for my very specific tastes in difficulty in games? Absolutely not, but I sure wish that one did. I'm also not sure I buy the argument that the mere presence of an easier mode would somehow invalidate the enjoyment of those with more skill and patience.
A lot of renewable energy is wasted because it is produced at the wrong time or/and at the wrong place. Bitcoin pays a base price for such excess energy. Anywhere. Anytime.
IMHO I would pop a web view and load an HTML page with tui.css. It's seriously impressive looking and much easier to integrate in a modern gui system, electron app, etc.: https://github.com/vinibiavatti1/TuiCss
Interesting, what use cases are you targeting? Is it mostly batch ML training, or do you have customers using you for real-time rendering applications? Or just lots of ETH mining?
Blood Meridian.
Note that the 4.5 years cited for the NEPA process is just the average time to reach an initial decision. It doesn’t include the years of litigation challenging that decision that inevitably follows for any significant project.

My kid’s school tried to convert a declining golf course in a residential area into athletic fields. We’re not talking about a Texas high school football stadium—its some ball fields and tennis courts for an artsy school where sports doesn’t exactly attract big crowds. They were tied up in litigation for the better part of a decade. They spent half as much on the litigation as in purchasing the property.
I think it is a combination of the book and where you were in your life when you read it. For me:

Cosmos was such a departure from anything else I read for school or for pleasure. It transformed my love of reading into a love of learning.

On the Road gave me wanderlust and made me want to move beyond my bubble and see the world.
I think you're implying a unity to them, a coherence, that just doesn't exist. I think the more salient question would be something much longer involving the incentives of a half-dozen different people at a company that is mainly optimized for the wealth and ego of various high-status actors. The long-term incentives for effective operations are there, but they're blunted by managerialist priorities and overwhelmed by the short-term incentives for producing cash ASAP.
I think so too.

Also consider this; for buildings/real estate, the market value of the finished construction may appreciate faster than the negative cash-flow from construction and financing. Just adjust rate of construction accordingly.
Because Ted Cruz is now getting in on the cryptogrift, acquiring Bitcoin and tweeting about Bitcoin while voting to keep it underregulated.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/88gvmv/ted-cruz-bitcoin-boos...
Having lived in Shanghai during 2005-2012 and seeing the construction boom there, I noticed some differences immediately after arriving in the US. It's common to hear about transportation projects taking decades to expand a few stations here. Mean while, since the time I left the Shanghai subway station has opened 21 new lines composed of 516 stations.

Certainly, the air/water was worse in China but workers also had to work much harder (later nights, weekends, etc). But perhaps most importantly, the government would waste no time in getting land that it needed, and it certainly wouldn't ask for your consideration if it needs to do construction on a Saturday morning.

While I appreciate that there is an inherent trade off between environmental consideration and speed, I think the author makes it clear that it's reached comic proportions in the US. The article is short, but I think the main premise is overwhelmingly accurate: The system exists to protect the status quo.

There's also the reliance of transportation agencies on consultants:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/10/21/mbta-o21.html
I’ve wondered about state level differences too. Most of the east coast has terrible roads. That’s especially true in NYC where I live. But I did a trip down to Delaware and was on freeways like I’d never seen in the US. Just really nice. Are some states just run much better?
It is also a lifesaver for complicated fiddly array index code. One of the most cognitively costly thing for me, decades into programming, is still anything related to array partitioning, or remapping indices. Copilot pretty quickly just gets what you’re trying to do and auto fills a correct line of code. It’s basically never wrong about this sort of thing. And even in the rare case where it’s not correct (usually because it’s mistaken about what I’m trying to do), it’s much faster for me to read the line and figure out what it does than it is to mentally slog through the problem and write the line from scratch.
I don't know why you'd put income in quotes. It's things you are being paid for your work. If you want to avoid the tax later, exercise the options as soon as they're available and assume the risk.
"Who's to say what's "better" for anyone?" was my point, but I failed to actually make that point with my thinly veiled sarcasm.

> Assuming that you did not like the previous president of the USA

Bold assumption I even care about who the president of the USA is. They're all made of the same fabric.
No - just a few weeks each, during your physics studies. And several lines can be learned in parallel.
My book is in context of changing career over to software engineer... "SOFT SKILLS" by John Somnez. Not sure if there's any alternative today for self taught people, but this book released right when I had started obtaining real work. Obviously just my personal experience.
Now you know more about your local area!
"The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching" - Thich Nhat Hanh

It's not overly spiritual, but there's a relaxing, reassuring, thoughtful, and un-judging sense of peace that permeates this books. Brought me out of a really dark place when I was looking for reasons to keep existing.
The controversy (or rather the online dialogue about a controversy which may or may not really exist) over game difficulty is kind of a smaller proxy battle in a larger culture war, as well as a topic that tends to come up when megacorps can use it for self-promotion. e.g. Microsoft/Double Fine and Psychonauts 2. Have they said anything whatsoever about Elden Ring accessibility?
A fair point. But the unions have been anything but reasonable on this issue. True, some have opened up to charter schools, but many have rescinded that option as soon as it was politically feasible. True choice can only happen when a different management of schools is in place. They have been obstinately against this.
A lot of the new ones do, yes. Sometimes having low rates of vandalism works against you, it turns out.
Yes, and at max volume of course.
"five standard deviations above normal." -- from the article
https://mises.org/library/anatomy-state
At current prices of natgas and BTC, it is economical enough to use flare gas to mine, but not enough to connect it to the grid.
Patiently waiting for your proposal for a better solution. Actually the whole industry is and has been waiting for a less wasteful solution since well before Bitcoin existed.

In the future maybe we can just switch to nuclear fusion and everything will be better. In the real-world of the present, this is a good and practical solution for reducing greenhouse gas and finding a higher value purpose for otherwise waste energy.

What’s not to like at least until you or someone else invents something better?
One factor is workplace safety. We (rightfully) don't allow the kind of unsafe conditions that allowed us to build things so quickly in the past. We were very fast loose with human lives in the past. Look at Dubai, they're building quickly, but at great cost to the workers doing the building.
You're not wrong, I remember a lot of turbo vision apps loved to use the MDI, multiple document interface, paradigm where each application was like a mini OS with unique windows you could resize and place as you please. This was fine when you were in DOS and could only run one application at a time, entirely fullscreen. But nowadays MDI on a multitasking OS with multiple things running at once is a weird anachronism, like you're running an OS inside an OS. It's confusing and not good.

You can use turbo vision for good interfaces though. Just have to be careful not to fall into the tropes of 30 year old pre-multitasking OS application design.
My initial comment, which (I think) we have been debating thus far, stated "If you take this argument to its logical conclusion, anarchism is the only form of free government."

It seems that we are in agreement on this point?

If so, I'm really not sure on which point you're disagreeing with me (with a healthy amount of sneering, nonetheless, which I might remind you is against HN guidelines).

Is it that the term 'social contract' offends you? You may also replace 'contract' with 'flubbitz' in my argument; the argument still holds. I used the term 'social contract' because it's a well-understood term in the English language ('high school level' according to Dictionary.com).
Perhaps, but this discussion would be moot if Apple did the same, “M1 GPU faster that RTX [under specific scenario]”. But they didn’t do that and here we are.
> But when it does, it just works.

Until it doesn't. A few files in iCloud drive just stopped syncing a handful of times. Is it a network issue? A temporary glitch? Should I restart the computer? Or just wait a little? Nobody knows!

I switched to Syncthing for syncing files. It also fails sometimes. But it shows a clear, actionable error message when it fails (eg: file name contains characters not supported on target device). And there's a button to manually trigger a sync in case the file system observation didn't work.

With iCloud it's always a surprise. Is it going to sync? Probably. When? In the next minute probably. It's been 5 minutes, is there a way to sync right now? Try restarting the computer, maybe that'll fix it.
Why would France's energy prices increase 50%? They have majority nuclear power.
Underrated show: https://www.reddit. com/r/DownUnderTV/comments/dpytin/utopia_au_s01s04/

Australian comedy show about government infrastructure- scary how similar some of the episodes are to the Massachusetts windmill example
We tried using OpenAI/Davinci for SQL query authoring, but it quickly became obvious that we are still really far from something the business could find value in. The state of the art as described below is nowhere near where we would need it to be:

https://yale-lily.github.io/spider

https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.05093

https://github.com/ElementAI/picard

To be clear, we haven't tried this on actual source code (i.e. procedural concerns), so I feel like this is a slightly different battle.

The biggest challenge I see is that the queries we would need the most assistance with are the same ones that are the rarest to come by in terms of training data. They are also incredibly specific in the edge cases, many time requiring subjective evaluation criteria to produce an acceptable outcome (i.e. recursive query vs 5k lines of unrolled garbage).
> More ideas on how to actually get to LEGO (promised in software for a long, long time)

I think for this reason the Lego analogy needs to be completely abandoned. Every effort of software modularization has been analogized to Lego at some point, and yet they all fall short. No arhicture claims they are the equivalent of twine glue and toothpicks, even if that's what it ends up being. So any N+1 language/framework/architecture promising it's going to be Lego (for reals this time), even if it does actually deliver, will not be taken seriously when they make the claim.
Rare? My wife and me use this all the time on the “living room MacBook” and universal control works without problems.
Aion - Carl Jung
It's optimized for retention and not for reintegration.
Show HN: `Git add -p` with multiple buckets
That was 6 years of planning mostly what to do, presumably.

Another problem with the US legal environment is that all this "planning" effort we do now goes into the whether, not the what. That means despite 1000s of pages, final designs are often lousy and ad-hoc, rather than a plank in a longer term integrated vision.

Public transit makes the problem especially clear, as the benefits for integration vs random flashy projects to hype up the Andrew Cuomo du jour is extremely stark.
From the article:

“This gas is unable to be sold to a pipeline, so otherwise they’re either venting or flaring the gas. If you are venting the gas you’re just literally venting the methane into the atmosphere,”...

There's probably too much distance between the nearest town or pipeline for the gas to be sold. If not, there's likely some other reason why its not economical for the gas to be used. Otherwise these companies wouldn't be burning away free money. So Bitcoin miners act as a buyer of last resort.

As for it being wasted. What's valuable is purely subjective. That's what makes markets work. Its also why planning economies from the top down doesn't work. What seems like wasted energy or capital to you is very useful to another person. Many people (myself included) believe that a decentralized, digital, hard money that is tied to the real world through energy is extremely important. So to those people its not a waste of energy, far from it.
EDIT: It's X11 (kwin_x11), but the Display Configuration panel's "only one resolution" message claims it's Plasma Wayland.
I advocate Citizen Owned Software. Taxpayers must own all the software (and stack) that they fund (pay) to develop.

Back when I wrote software for hospitals, we had to put our entire stack into an escrow. So that if we disappeared, or the relationship ended for whatever reason, our clients weren't left high and dry.

Software and stack in escrow should be the norm.

Further, that software should be FOSS.

I'm totally fine with orgs (govt, NGOs, not-for-profits) buying COTS. Provided that any and all customizations are citizen-owned.
"A dozen lawsuits have targeted environmental aspects of the projects, including another suit by the town of Atherton that argued, among other things, that the rail authority had conducted an inadequate analysis of where the train should be elevated along the San Francisco peninsula. A court ruled that the analysis had been properly done."

This is straight comedy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/us/california-high-speed-...
Can't you install iPad apps on Macs now? Seems like that would be an easier solution to your needs.
Honestly don’t get the hype about this one.
Perhaps in high school level. But little kids, grade-school level, need in-person. They also should not be scared witless by mandatary rules that do nothing but leave them psychologically scarred for years to come.
It is political in the sense that the acceptance of definitions is a matter of politics, not logic. If you call your software "MIT licensed" there can very well be ambiguity by virtue of muddying the situation and getting enough people to agree that your definition is correct such that uninvolved third parties have no idea who is right. This is the present situation with "open source", where the OSI has inserted itself as an arbiter of what is and is not open source, much as the FSF has inserted itself s an arbiter of what is and is not free software. Ultimately, whether you accept their definitions or pre-existing definitions does not boil down to logic, but whose politics you align with, and hence whose definition has greater utility for you such that you want to adopt and propagate it.
Like NFT’s perhaps?
Ack, you're right! Thanks! Mixing up my recent readings, whoops.
Those are really good points, actually - thank you.
In my case it covers three different villages...
Those 9-lines don't imply all of physics. They don't even mention most of physics. A lesser problem is that they're not correct, either.

For example, Line-5 suggests that entropy is never below the Boltzmann-constant. Which simply isn't true; there're notions of zero-entropy, where zero is less than the Boltzmann-constant.

For another example, Line-2 suggests that nature itself is local; this would contradict non-local effects, e.g. entanglement, and would seem to prohibit faster-than-light recession.

Or, maybe those lines were meant in a way that doesn't have those problems? But maybe they have different problems? Who knows! -- which is the bigger problem.

This is usually described as ["not even wrong"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong ). Because, to be wrong, it'd have to make more sense first.
> that does employees of most startups little good when selling their equity requires board approval

I mean, if you have a solution to that problem we should implement it.
What a weakly worded changelog item they have published (https://monarchapp.io/blog/version-1.7.4):

> The monarch upgrade command used to delete old monarch files. Under certain conditions, a bug manifested where the command could delete non-monarch files.

The releases where it can happen should be immediately yanked from wherever they can be downloaded, and their (Dropsource) social media should be filled with warnings not to run the `upgrade` command if they truly feel bad about deleting peoples most important files ($HOME compared to any other directory on disk).

Seems they have ownership of wherever it downloads the update from "https://d2dpq905ksf9xw.cloudfront.net" so they can make it fail with a error message about it being unavailable, at least to stop from more people deleting files.

@divan: maybe rename this submission to "WARN HN: $title" or something to make it more clear what is happening.

On top of everything, it's not even clear what the problem was nor what the fix was. The authors just made a new release saying "It's fixed" without showing the patch itself. Not sure if Monarch is fully open source, but after spending 10 minutes digging through sources and releases, I can't find the place where it was adjusted to not delete all files in $HOME.
When I think about American infrastructure projects in the 70s I think about all the minority neighborhoods they ploughed through and all the roads they closed during the entire construction livetime.

I don’t know how accurate that historical perception is, but if it is that is not how things are done today (thankfully). E.g. I’ve been observing the planning of ST3 in Seattle, and they indeed compromise on design all the time in order to displace as few people and businesses as possible, and they often end up with a much more expensive and much longer building times in order to allow traffic to flow (mostly) unhindered during construction. Without those constraints I bet building would be far quicker. (that being said neither of those are excuses for why it has taken over 2 years to fix the West Seattle bridge).

Interestingly those two constraints clash in the new International District/Chinatown station. One of the alternatives would displace and disrupt more minority owned businesses on the 5th Ave. while the other would disrupt traffic flow for 5-6 years on the 4th Ave. Curiously this is one of really few portions of the ST3 plan where they don’t have a preferred alternative.
Big sabotage: Famous NPM package deletes files to protest Ukraine war
As a high school student, I had all sorts of interests: Math, science, electronics, music, computers. GEB reinforced my interest in math as being more than just useful (for physics and electronics), and led me to choose math as my college major. Not surprisingly, getting interested in math as an end unto itself was what got me good enough at it, to actually make it useful for those other things, and I ended up doing my graduate work in physics.
> And changing the page size completely changes the page table structure and boundaries for different walk levels, the huge page size, etc.

This looks like the real issue, so adding support for both "4k" and "16K" address spaces would involve support for multiple page table structures within a single kernel? Still seems very much worth doing since it can likely be extended to support e.g. 64K. And maybe other architectures could reuse that support depending on how their hardware support for multiple page sizes works, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_(computer_memory)#Multipl...
It varies county by county too. “Conscientious Republican” counties—like in Northern VA when I was growing up in the 1990s, or California from the 60s to the 80s—are the most well run. I live in a traditionally red county in Maryland (went Romney 2012, split evenly in 2016) and everything is super well run.
No I don't, I said I live next door to it, so I knew it.
Last I heard everyone at Google uses Bing these days.
He is defintely deliberate about it, from what I can tell.
It doesn't really though. The prediction algorithm already existed before training, it just is a particular collection of parameters that the training produces. You wouldn't say changing the interest rate changes the algorithm for calculating interest payments. The weights can be viewed another input to the algorithm. You aren't going to outlaw linear regression, but a particular set of coefficients.
Japanese man shows up and ‘does nothing.’ He’s made a living out of it
It's trite but Crucial Conversations.

I think the key is that you have to read it when you are trying to collaborate with someone and you can't seem to communicate. In that moment, the guidance is a serious level up. If read outside of that context you'll say "well, yeah, sure, duh." In situ, it will help you better communicate (speaking and listening).
Maybe a bit more niche, but these two have been real eye openers.
The Book of Why - Judea Pearl. A very down to earth book about causality and related concepts.
How Emotions are Made - Lisa Feldman Barrett. Emotions make a lot more sense after reading her book.
Code added to popular NPM package wiped files
Define actually useful applications. Also, maybe it is possible to do so? Furthermore, given that this possibility exists - which I'm pretty sure it does - I see a glorious task ahead for you. Yes, you, dear keyboard warrior, are given the mission to develop such an actually useful application to teach those hicks with their $hitcoin mine running off gas which would otherwise have been flared off how wrong they are. Design and build that actually useful application, install it and show the world.

Until such a time I'd say they did quite well with their mining thing, given the circumstances.
Yeah, exactly. Somewhere along the way leadership lost their way and made Firefox into bloated adware and kept uglifying it and mutating its interface to be worse and worse every iteration, all while posting flamboyant front-page news that they've made some major innovation. They haven't, they just... sucked even more.
Thanks for sharing. This is similar to using Bootstrap for your styling, and then you have lots of component libraries across technologies that work with it.
Must depend where you live. In the US there is almost no one who believes in socialism outside of California and DC.