skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me the biggest negative to F2P is in competitive games, so especially Rocket League in this case, because being F2P means that the competitive element and matchmaking system is 100% worthless.
There are times at which developers must give 110% effort in order to address critical business needs, unexpected outages, emergency pivots, etc… But in order for people to rise to such occasions, they must have some excess capacity from which to pull.

TL;DR - If you run the engine at redline all the time, you’re destined for a blowout.
We taught an AI how to navigate websites
Money is memory, great paper.
I define it as religion for nerds who think they're too smart/clever for religion.

To expand on that, see other critical comments e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30830690
One thing we see over and over again leading to social injustice is the externalization of costs.

Examples:

* burning fossil fuels externalizes the cost of dealing with climate change

* during the housing market crash of 2007, lots of risks were ultimately externalized to the state

* plastic waste ending up in the ocean means somebody[tm] externalized the cost of not properly disposing of / recycling their waste

... and so on, once you think in these terms, you find that pattern nearly everywhere.

If we had some kind of software solution to track externalized costs, that would be a huge step towards reducing it.

I know, this is very abstract, and I don't even know what a software solution for that would look like, but if somebody comes up with a really good of tracking that, it could have a huge impact on society in the long run.

Try to think of a society where nobody could quietly externalize a cost, and we had an effective way of tracking who externalizes how much, and go after the big offenders in a very data-driven way. There could even be general laws that make certain externalizations illegal, in a much broader way than current regulations do.
You are missing one big and relevant point, the goal is not to get money for every small change but that now nobody needs to pay $20 to play the game. It is done to grow the game but by drastically increasing its reach. For a competitive multiplayer game that is a very good thing.
Meanwhile (probably elsewhere on HN), someone is hating on web3. Which might enable reselling all this junk.
I was actually in Baja Mexico a few weeks ago and the house prices there are growing too. I was seeing plots of land for 50-70k USD. You know the prices are going to be high when the signs are in English and phone numbers are American.

Also, I'm about 90% sure you have to be a Mexican citizen to own land in Mexico otherwise you can only lease the land. This might be hearsay though.
Those games absolutely nickel and dime you. Get a new tank? Want to use your old, well trained crew? Pay up premium currency. Garage slots cost money, crew quarters cost money, they have that weird experience system that costs money, etc. Not to mention that the grind gets insane at high tiers, you certainly _can_ play exclusively f2p but there are a shit ton of hooks to get you to pay up.
Minecraft also has a marketplace, and a "Realms" subscription, and you can purchase it on different platforms if you want to play like that so there's plenty of ways to keep revenue coming
I also found it way out of character and not aligned with his narrative when he said how much BTC he has.
Show HN: FP-bindgen – bindings generator for full-stack WASM plugins
Tbh, I would expect Google to have enough money to do both [develop new OS] and [maintain/improve existing products].
This seems to be a minor bug, in that it is only triggered using unusual (and rather unlikely) deflate parameters.

But, looking into this bug, I was sort-of interested to see how it was handled. The change log for 1.2.12 (2022-03-27) indicates the issue was resolved ("Fix a bug that can crash deflate on some input when using Z_FIXED"). Yet, in what seems to be the canonical Zlib repository (https://github.com/madler/zlib), I was unable to find a corresponding commit.

None of commits this year (7, so not too hard to review) seem to be particularity meaningful changes, and in particular yesterday's 'zlib 1.2.12' commit seems to only consist of version/copyright updates.

So, does anyone have any idea where to find the commits related to the change log entry? (Note that I'm not disputing the issue is actually fixed, I'm just trying to improve my Github reading skills...)
Then please do so.

Until you have conscious observer, you have no evidence that anything at all has happened and you might as well discuss angels on a pinhead.
I have seen limited success of real mental health institutions (nothing like the camps in TFA, obviously). I have also seen rehab work pretty well when substance abuse is involved.

The most effective method, though, is time. The author of the article is one example, and there are many more in these comments. Eventually, the teenage brain becomes an adult brain and a lot of the rage, impulsiveness, and destructive behaviors go away. (Most) people mature eventually. The key is to try to limit the damage of the "troubled" phase. If you end up going to jail in your teenage years because you act out, you're going to have a much harder time building a life for yourself later on.
When you ask an individual or a political figure about their political viewpoints you're expected to get a political biased answer. When you ask an information indexer, that should have no political narrative bias, about information you expect to get as best as can be provided neutral information.

I'm not sure if you just didn't watch the video or if this is some sort of straw man question you're tossing out there. But for an information indexer to refuse to respond at minimum with the Wikipedia article about who Donald J Trump is is clearly some sort of information bias that they're putting out there. I would hope regardless of our political opinions on the man the idea of free information is something everyone can support.
Ah, I love the books. Dreikurs made a career out of interviewing kids and training teachers, so I feel like I experience a lifetime of wisdom while reading his books. That said there is no substitute for thinking on your feet.
Just tell yourself that you don't want the job, so you DGAF. Be skeptical of everything they tell you in the interview. Most of these employers lie profusely. Once you realize that the job is going to be grind, you'll be less enthusiastic and not care as much.
Godel Escher Bach influenced me to major in Cognitive Science. I don't imagine that book as impactful today as it was then, because many of the ideas it discusses have become popular topics. But it may still be fun to read.
The assumption being that he sang the cities he visited in chronological order.

I am inclined to believe it because really if you are passing through Winnemucca, chances are you are going to Reno.
Good point, I forgot about food. We don't sell anything hot, but a lot of our customers work out of trucks or vans and some complained that the receipts were unreadable after leaving them in their vehicles in the summer.
If you're going to pick up EU4, wait until one of the times it goes on sale (it does so frequently). You'll be able to get a bundle with the main game and most of the expansions for ~75% off the bundle price (itself a decent discount over buying everything individually).
It's running El Capitan.

I also have a 16G 2015 MBP running Monterey and IntelliJ with no problem at all though.
I'm one of the people on the team that did this. We basically used technologies similar to what self-driving cars would use to recognise their environment, to teach and guide an AI system how to execute goal-oriented interactions. It can measure the quality of those interactions, both visually and technically (performance), and sends alerts if something is completely broken (e.g. adding a product to a shopping cart doesn't do anything).

Let me know if you have any questions. I can't spill all the secrets of how it works, but maybe some :)
Exactly the opposite. You build a container and Kubernetes just runs, updates and scales it, and also connects your dependencies (DBs, Queues, ...). It even creates and manages your dependencies.

Without thousands of lines of yaml and funky environment variables. Magically. So let's call it Magic Kubernetes then :)
It is crazy how dumb and basic keyword linked FB Marketplace moderation is.

Got a GI Joe figure and want to say he includes the guns? Instablocked.

Mention Netflix? Same.

Like I understand a legitimate desire to control the reselling of probably illegal acquired accounts, and of dangerous weapons. But to do it in a blocking anything with flat keywords with no appeals process? Facebook always tells regulators how clever it's moderation is, and it's as dumb as a post.
Fuck him. My cousin was killed by a "delinquent" (criminal) youth who was out for a joy ride in his mother's car.
Hey all

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As such, `fp-bindgen` was born: A bindings generator for full-stack WASM plugins. It’s open-source and we hope you may find it useful as well: https://github.com/fiberplane/fp-bindgen/

Here’s why you might want to use `fp-bindgen`: https://fiberplane.dev/blog/announcing-fp-bindgen/

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Composer from MosaicML is a collection of implemented algorithms in Efficient Deep Learning, achieving faster and cheaper training! Composer is named as such because it facilitates composing these algorithms together, such as combining Ghost BatchNormalization with MixUp and Layer Freezing, to give an example.

This video walksthrough the Composer, hopefully showing you all you need to begin using it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi_5wq2MpOw
Tesla uses an Ubuntu Linux. QNX is probably obscolete vs Linux RTOS
Impressment
Well, in addition to the current algorithmically generated pages (where the algorithm highly values new posts and can be gamed by bots), social sites could do more to help users maintain & publish high-quality material. The high-quality stuff would be more static since more effort is required to generate it, and others could view it through user profiles or a follow/subscribe mechanism.

I think YouTube does this to a large extent. They use algorithms to help discovery but users can easily click on a channel and view all of a creator's high-quality material. But YouTube is video-only..
The Russia Ruble is now gold-backed
I'm not so sure.

Athletes in particular spend ungodly sums on performance aids, many of which have no scientific basis -- but, if it helps the athlete get into a winning mindset, what grounds do you really have to tell them to stop?
'Winking as a Service'
I think the ability to share your expertise in video/audio/text format without any technical know-how will continue to be huge.

Everything else is nice but secondary to people being able to communicate, world-wide. Reason being - I think we've solved the food/clothes/shelter technical problems already. What we haven't solved is the willingness to re-distribute the goodies in a sensible way and the way to get there is, is communication.
If it's very complicated to learn how to use your software/framework, there is probably something wrong with it in the first place.
A beginner’s guide to writing documentation
translation

Information on the purchase of gold by the Bank of Russia on the domestic market

In order to balance supply and demand in the domestic precious metals market, the Bank of Russia will buy gold from credit institutions at a fixed price from March 28, 2022. The price from March 28 to June 30, 2022 inclusive will be 5,000 rubles per 1 gram. The established price level makes it possible to ensure a stable supply of gold and the smooth functioning of the gold mining industry in the current year. After the specified period, the purchase price of gold can be adjusted taking into account the emerging balance of supply and demand in the domestic market.
New York by 1987 seemed to have a jam-packed little hole in the wall electronics store in every block. Suddenly now I wonder if they were jumping on the Crazy Eddie bandwagon.
> Why does nobody do this in their readmes normally? They just let you look into their code and tell you "now figure it all out yourself".

I think it's worth praising this repo without knocking others. Open source authors have no obligation to their users; if they don't have the time to, or just don't care to, so organise their READMEs, then they need not. In fact, if it's sufficiently important, for much open-source software anyone else can do it, and submit a patch.
> Why? Why is competitive advantage the only thing that matters?

Because it determines whether free players can still compete with paying customers.

There's no problem with a paid weapon skin that just looks cool since everyone is still on a level playing field. If that paid skin gives the user double damage then you've created 2 classes of players and one of them is superior. In such cases, the only reason free players even exist is to serve as fodder for your paying customers. They're there to get wrecked.
Animal welfare should not focus on if an animal dies if the alternative is for it to never live at all. Any amount of time, even a day after hatching, is greater than zero.

Instead we should focus on quality of life and how humane the death is.
All of this is mostly right, but I have some minor corrections:

> or be forced to use AES encryption before hashing

Encrypting before hashing doesn't actually help us, if our hash input has low entropy. The problem is, what AES key are we going to use? If the key is public/constant, the attacker can just repeat the AES step themselves while they try to guess the input. On the other hand, if the key is secret, then we need to store it somewhere. Most likely, we're going to store it in the same place/database where we store the hash. (In this case it's basically the same as a random "salt".) But that means than at attacker who steals password hashes is probably going to steal salts at the same time.

> large file hashes

This is often true, but we have to be careful. What we really care about isn't the size of the file per se, but the number of possible inputs the attacker has to guess. So for example, if we hash a video file we downloaded from a bittorrent site, it might be easy for someone else to figure out what file that was, because even though the file is large, the total number of files on these sites isn't so large.
So this could run Borland Turbo Pascal up to version 3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal)! Very cool: developing software on a microcontroller itself.
Experimental Photonic Quantum Memristor
Nest Hub?
It quite something that web search pioneers have totally devalued information neutrality. Perhaps truth never mattered to the founders, as it does to us.

Had to check it out, on a device myself. Surely this is fake, but no, it's real. You can say "so what, this is a business decision; Google can do what they like." Maybe it makes some people feel good. But meanwhile it makes others even angrier. The contribution is further division of society, and not just in the US. As a citizen actions like this trouble me greatly.

What are the factors in Google's business decision here?
Nope. Just someone who sees wisdom in the message.
The NYC camera stores were famous for this: "That Nikon lens is out of stock but we've got a Zeus lens for the same price and it's actually a better lens".
As Land and Livelihoods Lost, a Warning to India’s Solar Dreams
>Just because it hits home, genetic prevalence of cancer is something completely different from behavior and how people work in a society.

>You know who else tried to predict future compatibility of certain people based on genetics?

Both can be predicted genetically. You insinuated predicting outcomes in genetics was bad somehow because Hitler did it. It wasn't a great argument, you should just own up to it.

≥Don't even think of comparing those.

You ain't my daddy. You think you're the only person with experience with cancer? Everybody, and I mean everybody has a cross to bear.

>The former is your body turning on you, the latter is society deciding you are "troubled" and need "fixing".

You shouldn't minimize mental health issues, many of these troubles can be the result of that, at least in part. Killing a family of 4 in a drunken joyride isn't just society deciding you are troubled, it has real world consequences. You seem to have some emotional block to thinking about this rationally.
I have:

- Deleted facebook

- Unfollowed any news accounts and use Ublock to block suggested content on Twitter

- Unsubscribed from any news subreddits

- Of course never check news sites

And honestly feel better overall and less stressed. Sure you can claim being apathetic/ignorant towards global current events makes me a bad person, but I do not care. To me, no human is designed to handle as much information input as we experience today.
Personally, I'm actually quite excited about Fuchsia (related HN thread -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30827210). Not at all because of its Flutter-based UI but because of its security features. Security on Linux is really lacking and Qubes OS requires too many resources (in particular: battery power), so I'd love to have an OS that has security guarantees at least as strong as Android.
> By what measure? Cultural relevance or actual legal authority?

Both. Wales made corporeal punishment illegal recently. That would be unthinkable in most of the world. In most Asian cultures, children have a lifelong obligation to their parents. In the US, once you're an adult, you're on your own and it's not uncommon to have limited contact with your parents.

> We have a much better idea now about how to meet the developmental needs of children than ever before, I think almost anyone would argue. We have studies on the outcomes of things like corporal punishment. We have the ACE study and it’s effects. So many other foundational developmental science has been done in the last 30 years.

We might know more than we used to but we know very little. I suspect the vast majority of these studies have no predictive power.

> I certainly won’t argue against that but I would argue that having people have at least a cursory education on child rearing might be something that would help. As a survivor of abuse it’s very difficult to allow for the idea that nothing further could be done for kids in similar positions.

I think your experience ("survivor of abuse") probably informs your views more than supposed advances in science of child development. And the same is true for me: the fact that my parents were/are wonderful and my father hit me occasionally explains my views here.

There is such a thing as abuse, it should be illegal, and it's a serious problem. But we're in danger of demonizing discipline and reasonable physical punishment. My experience is that discipline and love aren't opposites, they should coexist and when you don't have one, you're going to have trouble.
I tested LTE in my city and the places I go I range from 20 megabits to a smidge over 100 megabits. Honestly, for what I do on my phone while I'm out and about 20 is perfectly adequate. I simply do not need faster. The only benefit 5G could bring me that I see is maybe less congestion. But ... I don't really see and issue with that either.
It produces toxic effects. Like an algae bloom.
>> Consigning them to a coercive regime in another state isn't going to make them feel safe and loved.

Especially when you have them snatched at night from their safe space. That alone is serious trauma. And should be illegal, regardless if the parents are ok with it or not.
I agree with the hypothesis. I received this email and my credentials which were dormant for many years were compromised earlier this year (2022-02-11).
> How do people even agree what things are worth

Being inside a deeply rooted paradigm, it is hard to imagine that the idea of "the worth" of a thing might not have been a paradigm that pre-historic people comprehended.

The thing that anthropologists like Graeber excel at is how they can take themselves out of their own conditioned thinking.

Think off this, when you see a n expensive car drive by you will most likely reflexively say "That car is probably worth $300,000". You assign an objective worth to the car, when classical economics will tell you that the actual worth of a car is subjective.

Personal ownership was not seen in the same way in the past as we see it today so objective worth might not have been in their mental framework.
Fun fact this is also true about Chicago except it's 11am.
> The ISRG estimates ~80% of the vulnerabilities exploited in the wild are memory safety bugs.

Okay, but 1. How many vulnerabilities has openssh shipped, and 2. How many of those were memory issues? I would usually be tentatively on board, but you're competing with the OpenBSD folks, who have a shockingly good track record regardless of using C. No offense, but you could write in a formally verified Ada subset and I'd still hesitate to replace my SSH daemon.

(FWIW, I say all of this hoping to be wrong; an alternative implementation, if equally secure, would be great to have.)
With one of our three kids, everything from those nicey-nice parenting books works perfectly, and always has. It goes exactly how the books say it will. It's wonderful, and so damn easy.

Not so much with the other two.
Both of those are absurd.

You hear statements like "physics breaks down at the singularity of a black hole".

Physics (the real Physics) doesn't break down ever, it's your theory that breaks down, it's your theory that is wrong.

General relativity gets a lot of things right, it seems to explain what happens outside of a black hole well. In the usual approach to the Schwarzchild solution (a black hole with no spin and no electric charge) you usually start in a coordinate system that has a mathematical singularity at the event horizon then make a coordinate change that makes that singularity go away (with the deceptive feature that the event horizon seems to be a global instead of local property of the black hole.)

My belief is that in quantum gravity that coordinate translation isn't valid so the classical picture of the black hole interior is "not even wrong". It drives me nuts that every week a new QG paper comes out that the media describe as "a resolution of the Hawking paradox" despite the fact that Hawking admitted he was wrong about the paradox and there is no paradox a long time ago.
depends on the project - once it was AWS, once it was Linode, the most recent one was to GCP.
How I made $1,800 from an app I spent only 3 hours on
Cool! (not a security professional) One of the reasons in my understanding that projects don't deviate from older languages was because they give you some control around compilation that would be necessary to thwart timing-based attacks. Does this consider timing-based attacks or is that at a lower-level library?
Russia refuses to hand back more than 500 leased airplanes – DW News [video]
Robert Rodriguez is incredibly successful on his own terms. 99% of his world would kill to have his career. When I was younger I tended to have less respect for people that weren't at the pinnacle of their careers. A scientist who just teaches at a university and publishes papers.. how mundane. A filmmaker with mixed success, a game developer who never made a famous game, an entrepreneur without a unicorn IPO.. Really all these people are probably very talented and living fulfilling lives that many envy.