skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is just certain games that rightfully have a bad reputation, not all F2P games. As others said, in rocket League or Fortnite you don't get advantages from buying things. You can buy levels in Fortnite, but they only unlock cosmetics.
I read it some time ago (~2011) and don't remember the details. At the time, I knew nothing of money and took most of the book at face value.

However, when I later began studying Austrian economics, it became quite clear that Graeber's assumptions were based on circular reasoning, and that Graeber's writings on economics are through a left-leaning lens. That isn't to cast doubt on his work on Anthropology, which is fascinating to read, but I have doubts that he truly understood Menger's argument to begin with (or perhaps willingly chose to filter it to fit into his world-view.)
I find myself asking cynical things like "how will Fuchsia make it easier for them to spy on their users?"
Out of curiosity - the author never mentioned the most "successful" drug for depression the same way the mentioned naproxen.

Did anyone catch what the name of the drug for depression treatment was?
> preventing armed conflicts

Move armed conflicts to virtual ;)

Something like idea of Mortal Combat movie.
espeak-ng / espeak. But notify-send(1) mitigates the potential for scaring your coworkers.
the solar panels and wires and plastic that hook these systems up to the grid/end-user require a lot of producing/extracting/manufacturing
Layman question I have when I constantly see (what i perceive as) misguided fear towards nuclear energy: Is is "that" easy to use nuclear energy facilities to manufacture or empower nuclear weapons? My gut says no, but I feel some people think nuclear weapons are easily made from nuclear power plants just because they have a common word.
Re: "use something cheaper."

For cost-effective startup/small scale infra, I love this method:

- get a dedicated or colocated server (can be cheaper than you think... e.g. mini PC colo with endoffice, joe's datacenter, etc.)
- install microk8s on ubuntu LTS
- write yaml files and deploy to microk8s

The main benefit of this is that infrastructure is very cost effective for early stage projects. Once the project needs something bigger, all of the infra is encoded in the k8s yaml files and can be deployed to a "real" k8s cluster.

Of course, the yaml needs to be carefully written and made as portable as possible so that it can be deployed to other clusters in the future.

Backup of state can be as simple as using HostPath volumes for state, and running syncthing as a deployment.

Run syncthing on other hosts (e.g. your home machine/laptop, some other cloud node, etc.) and state will be synced in realtime. Syncthing has options for keeping older versions of files/directories, so it's reasonably protected in the case the server gets hacked or deleted by accident.

This is not perfect, of course, but it's a very pragmatic and cost-effective approach. I've used/am using it and am very happy with the end result. I use cert manager, let'sencrypt, and wildcard DNS so that I can deploy new apps with their own TLS endpoints just by deploying a bit of yaml.
you don't need to build large commercial nuclear plants if you just want material for weapons. that kind of thing can be built on a military base where nobody hears about it, and nobody gets to file environmental impact lawsuits.
FWIW, I found this instance indicative of the author's half-grasp of many economic concepts.
Roman Abramovich, Ukrainian negotiators poisoned in Kyiv talks report
How many greybeards here remember the O'reilly Sendmail bat book[1]? I built an ISP off of deciphering cryptic sendmail.cf parameters from it. This is what the "fix" in Postfix aims to "fix".

(Although the Postfix config files are no walk in the park either.)

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/sendmail-4th-edition/97...
Rust is not even designed to for safety-critical use.

You need Ada or other languages for that.
Musk paid more taxes last year than any other American in history...At an effective tax rate....Lower than any average American in history... While at the same time
complaining, and seeking validation about it.
Add [2020] to the post title
Not really, vtables are a way to implement dynamic dispatch. A "table" is just a key/value store (in a vtable, the key is a function/method identifier and the value is the function itself).

In this case the key is the geometry and the value is the code that created it. But the real trick is to make sure the opposite is true, so you can go from code -> visualization and visualization -> code without a ton of difficulty.
yes, you’ve read the lyn alden article
Oh man, I loved that show. Late 1990s Canadian sci-fi is just the perfect blend of cheesy and interesting.
It's "peace" at the expense of Ukraine, though.
Correct. It won't die. The pyramid ponzi scheme will just get larger and once everyone is in unrealized profit (another ATH) and start selling, the latecomers will remain hodling their life savings at a very high price.

Everyone knows that 'Bitcoin' is not useful as a currency but it is very useful as a ponzi scheme instead.
I can only speak to the few decades I have been watching. I understand things improved a tremendous amount before I was born.

I think the general trend is one of big improvement, but things are definitely worse now in this regard than they were 2 or 10 years ago.
hi jay,

seems like the issue has been fixed since but it was quite strange. my AV would not let me load the website (similar to how it blocks some websites) as it would detect that netlify address, if you could investigate this that would be great.

will follow up with an email when i get the chance.
>> Note: Satoshi Island Citizenship NFTs do not grant the holder with a citizenship of Vanuatu.
That's right. A lot of founders don't make it to #3 in your list, or they only get the "make something people want" part. It's not enough.

Build something people want and will pay for.

Not just say they want.

Not just say they'll pay for.

Make something that they see and will immediately take out their cash/cc/paypal/venmo and pay for on the spot.
Thank you. Do you recommend a service for better geo accuracy?
Also, the computer community at the time was more literate, in average.

Everyone who had to work with computers had to learn how a computer works, how to work with the command prompt. In a way, you had to become a pseudo IT guy.
Everyone who used computers knew more or less how do they work. The rest just didn't use computers at all.

So, they were few and they all learned how a computer "thinks". There was no room for dark patterns or addiction to devices. From a distance, it was way more wholesome than today.
I guess if you're migrating from VPC peering to Transit Gateways you have to coordinate updating the routing tables in both VPCs at the same time (I'm guessing they probably updated routing tables in one VPC but hadn't updated them in the other yet) unless you adjust MTUs ahead of time.

Seems to be a crappy migration path (execute these updates quickly and hopefully you don't drop too many packets before they apply)
Based on how little progress Russia is making and how little backing they have, with nuclear weapons out of the way I can't see Russia making any progress against the EU, let alone if you include Britain and the US.

Meanwhile China will be looking at the US and weighing up Taiwan. North Korea will be weighing up South Korea. There have been some very unhappy editorials in Pakistan after the recent misfire from India.

It's possible we're at the start of ww3 now. When do US schools say WW2 started? 1937? 38? 39? 41?
Well, successful business means paying customers, that is almost a tautology. You could also say they didnt identify how to make money.

The big question is how do you get people to give you money for your services/product. Classically people answer this with emphasis on the idea.
Twitter is the worst way to deliver this kind of information.
Why is that an important difference? To capture wind and solar you have to build turbines and solar panels which aren't free. You also have to have batteries to store them because of seasonal nature of these sources. You also need to transmit the energy thousands of miles through electrical grid because these sources of energy are limited to certain areas. Building the electrical grid itself just needs cutting out millions of more trees. So overall, the environmental impact of going full solar/wind would be worse than a combination of solar, wind, nuclear, and even maybe natural gas.
As developers we often confuse "startup idea" with "solution to a problem". A fantastic startup idea includes a way to monetize the idea. Without a way to monetize the idea, it's a feature.

Sometimes it is simple - make a piece of software so valuable, businesses or consumer are willing to pay money for it. Sometimes you have to be more creative. For example, Brex makes software for managing business credit cards. It's handy, but I'm not sure I would pay for it. But the Brex model takes a cut of credit card processing fees, so they can give their product away for free.

In this case you could target consumers and give it away for free, then when someone wants a prescription for a medicine they found on your site, you can "recommend" local doctors. Doctors will pay a lot for the patient leads.
This is why PM 101 is should this problem be solved and why.

This could be avoided by pretending the solution exists and asking people how they feel about paying for it.

That said this can be a great not for profit idea.
> It's about as renewable as solar, which is to say, we will eventually run out - but at that point the heat death of the universe is a more pressing concern.

Nitpicking:

The sun is expected to stop fusing helium in about 8x10^9 years [1].
The heat death will occur in around 1.7x10^106 years [2]. (if at all, there are some uncertainties around that)

Which means that while they are both far, the heat death as predicted is much much further than the other. In short, the heat death of the universe won't be a pressing concern at all when we run out of solar.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_dwarf#Future_of_the_Sun
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_timeline_from_Big_Ba...
It’s probably just a way to access subconscious pattern matching in a way that bypasses the neocortex for output. An intuition magnifier.
Yeah, "but it wasn't real Socialism/Communism/Marxism" comes up as an excuse by leftists all the time. Of course it wasn't - because "real Socialism/Communism/Marxism" is impossible.
Basic Key-Value Store Built on Top of CockroachDB, .NET, and EF Core
> I remember wanting to ask a rabbinical scholar if the product would count as unleavened bread.

It would (almost certainly) count as leavened bread. Jewish law defines chametz (leavened bread) as a combination of one of five species of grain and water that has been left for a short period of time (usually 18 minutes) without cooking. Maybe they could get the autoclave time down low enough to make it work?
chiming in late here, but it looks like a substantial portion of the thread is about monetization of skins, and items.

that seems to be what video games have become.

I remember the days of tombraider and all the skins, and modding kits available.
this was grassroots stuff to begin with.

eventually the industry realized that server subscriptions were not enough, and commercialized the elements of the gameplay.

ive never purchased a console, and i think Torchlight [0] is the most recent game i have in the MAME machine.

the last 20 years of gaming is mostly gone in this direction and has little appeal, other than hacking around in a graciously received console from the closet, that was designated as {bookend} .

i think GOG is about as good as it gets now.

[0] https://gog-games.com/search/torchlight
Some peace the Ukrainians got...
Escape From Tarkov is a most impressive video game. It's challenging, provides a path to success, and there is no pay2win.

There are varying tiers of support of the developer which only provide you with quality of life improvements, such as a larger backpack (stash) for storing items between sessions ('raids'). All of those gains are achievable in-game with no requirement to purchase anything but the base video game.

It's quite an achievement, and very fun. I can say that as someone who's played video games since monitors had two colours. It's not your average video game, but it's base recipe are already being copied out to new games (The Cycle). The idea of persistence of character is quite refreshing in a die-and-respawn-without-consequence state of the FPS world.

Also I just wanted to point out from the article:

> We used to laugh of people buying hats for barbie and now we are bigger fools than them, at least you can resell your barbie and resell the hat but we don’t have that privilege because Valve determined we are not worthy of it, once you stop playing a game 100% of the money you spend on it disappears, you can’t recover any of it, not 50%, not 20%, just nothing, doesn’t matter if you already spend $20 bucks on it or $3000.

That is more or less incorrect to state. Valve may not offer a way to redeem in-game loot back to real dollars, but you can sell in-game loot on the steam marketplace for valvebucks. It's up to the developer to implement. But for example, you can sell your PUBG skins on the marketplace. So while the money is still "gone" from your "real world wallet", it's not locked out of having "value" which restores the value back into the "steam wallet", which can be used in lieu of "real world" money in the future.

I once sold an in-game item for $40 in valvebucks. Not exactly the $1,000 CS:GO knife skins, but hey, it's not nothing.
Hydro is actually not a particularly good choice in most cases. Some hydro installations can actually produce just as much global warming impact as a fossil fuel plant (largely methane produced in the flooded area - which has a far greater impact than CO2; about 80X greater). They also have significant ecological impact that isn't usually accounted for in folks mental models. [1, 2] Hydro isn't really green energy.

Geothermal I think only works in some places without causing earthquakes. [3]

Wind and solar are good, though.

[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/hundreds-new-dams-co...

[2] https://www.utilitydive.com/news/hydropower-emissions-fossil...

[3] https://news.stanford.edu/2019/05/23/lessons-south-korea-sol...
We worked at a startup that leveraged autonomous blockchains to transfer money from naïve investors to slightly less naïve twenty-somethings. There are worse gigs.

This reads like a parody to me. This whole thing is real, though, right?
Russia could adopt BTC as a reserve currency and issue a digital ruble CBDC on top of it.

If they don’t do it, another country eventually will.
Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations
I last visited NL about two decades ago, and spent most of my time in a Gelderland village. I must say that I was reasonably well-tolerated as a visiting heathen ;)

As you mention, it's the religious intolerance that one finds disturbing, not religion (of any kind) itself. It is fairly rare to have one without the other these days, it would seem. The phenomenon is not limited to NL alone, I think.
There's circumstantial evidence.

1. The Wuhan lab was French built and supposed to jointly operated between France and China, but the French sounded the alarm about the terrible security practices of their Chinese counterparts.

2. Ecohealth, an organization with ties to the Wuhan lab, did a grant proposal to DARPA asking for money to do gain-of-function research on COVID. To be clear, gain of function research usually is something along the lines of: let's make this pathogen able to infect humans so we can study how it might infect humans if it ever evolved the ability to infect them.

3. It's dangerous research and should only be undertaken carefully, rather than in the haphazard way in which the French claimed the Chinese were engaging in research.

4. People close to the situation categorically denied that a lab leak was even possible, calling it a "conspiracy theory" although they knew that the lab had been doing similar research on similar diseases, and had declared an interest in doing so with COVID.

It's like if there was an organization that declared they wanted to make unicorns real, and they had made other fairy tale animals real in the past, and then unicorns appear in the wild in the same city where this organization is based, and they're like, "It is a conspiracy theory to think we had anything to do with this."
It's important to remember that Cohen's renewable argument applies only to breeder reactors. Other types of nuclear reactors are not sufficiently efficient to be "renewable" (which Cohen uses to mean "lasting as long as the Sun"). Still, nuclear is a huge step forward over combustion-based generation.
The Economist is many things, but "sharp left" it is only to a certain subset of people.

The rest of the world would mostly call it "left-leaning", or maybe "radical centrist".
I've always felt like Lyn asks 5 whys, and then possibly, how can we use this to make money. I'm not a subscriber so I dunno how profitable she is, but I think she usually tries not to push an angle dogmatically in most of her public writing which can be refreshing these days.
ah, thanks. this looks indeed as not from the last century. much better code.
I’m talking about specifically concerns that the youth would have. And the Overton Window does not refer to things getting worse, nor does it mean things were inevitably getting worse for an American audience until living memory. Certainly ‘90s kids can point at a solid decade of optimism, until it all abruptly ended. To children growing up today, this must all feel like a step back compared to those earlier eras.

The reference to the end of the gold standard is a complete non sequitur.
France has enough known deposits to power all of the world for the next 20 years if we switched to 100% nuclear, worldwide today.
Agreed with everything except the last one. Tux is one of the main reasons I'd like to use Linux. And yes I just like the Mascot...
James Webb Space Telescope's first science targets remain super secret
> Maybe that's just an interface configuration issue though?

Maybe. I know there are two types of measurements in FreeCAD Sketches - ones that are actually constraining the design, and ones that you request to be displayed for other purposes. Maybe you could arrange to hide the constraining ones. If that's not already possible, it should be a trivial feature to add.
It isn't insane that some people won't take the vaccine.

It isn't insane that some people are against vaccine mandates.

It is insane that some people believe what they do about the vaccine: That it's a ploy to decimate the population, that it contains baby parts and poison, or microchips, that it is a test run for the mark of the beast.

That is absolutely batshit insane.
No one is denying you need those things. We’re talking about a specific step that doesn’t exist for solar/wind akin to being able to drink water you find vs. having to make it clean.
While my current projects are a little less ambitious than what you are asking for, and focused only on improving software, I'll say them anyway.

* An implementation of Nix's ideas for mere mortals.

* Version Control for non-technical users and for any kind of binary files.

The last one is interesting because most users will just see it as a more powerful undo/redo system.
The German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices and the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (the authorities that provide information on SARS-CoV-2 test systems) provided data on the sensitivities of SARSCoV-2 antigen rapid tests in Germany:
https://www.pei.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/newsroom/dossiers...

There is also website where the data can be queried interactively: https://schnelltesttest.de/search
Why Best Picture Winners Aren't Hits Anymore
Ahonen's data was highly accurate and was being presented in a very compelling way in real time as the Microsoft-Nokia shitstorm was unfolding. He had already left Nokia years earlier so didn't have any direct skin in the game, but he did have an uncanny record of mobile phone industry insider knowledge, data, and contacts inside Nokia, Apple, Google, Samsung, Motorola, and a long list of carriers worldwide. The reports he generated were considered the "bible" for executives.

You are entitled to your opinion that Nokia was somehow "on its way down before Microsoft" but the facts are that Nokia was profitable and had products that were award-winning but never saw the light of day thanks to Stephen Elop's blundering and Steve Balmer's meddling. Ahonen laid down those facts back then. For anyone wishing to have a fuller, rounder understanding of Nokia's demise under Microsoft, take the time to delve into those links at the bottom of:

https://mobilesyrup.com/2014/08/14/ex-nokia-exec-tomi-ahonen...
It does surprise me -- HN is a really skeptical audience, or at least has a highly skeptical subset. Think about how bearish HN is on autonomous vehicles: sure, there's a group who worship Elon, and believe that autonomous vehicles are perpetually on the brink of mass adoption. But most autonomous vehicle discussions come with a HUGE grain of salt, with a lot of folks pointing out edge cases that will prevent mass adoption for the forseeable future.

I think nuclear is just so complex it's too hard/easy to make viable arguments in either direction, and things just boil down to "danger" and "cost". My skeptical bone points out that implementation is always messy compared to theory, so we should expect building flaws/design compromises/flawed processes to result in failures at some small percent of nuclear facilities. And given how catastrophic those failures can be, it's hard to justify it. But the climate side of the argument is equally scary: if we don't switch away from carbon-based power sources, massive areas of our world are going to become uninhabitable, underwater, or dramatically change in ways that destroy life as we know it. So maybe that small fraction of failures is acceptable? And in all fairness, the major nuclear failures I can think of -- Fukushima, Chernobyl -- came with comparatively few deaths, and a moderate cost of now-uninhabitable land. Perhaps less than climate change will come with over the coming decades.
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Stolichnaya?
This argument sounds rational but isn't. It ignores some huge problems - fossil fuels have been subsidised for decades. They will obviously appear to be cheaper than nuclear which is one of the few industries that designs for the worst case scenario.

Wind and solar are also subsidised - by electricity consumers. Their volatility has a price that is currently absorbed by the grid and is ultimately paid for by you and I.
Can't wait to see the photos.