skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not compare these two games. Death Stranding was a refined BotW. Elden Ring is a totally different game and I think comparing it to BotW is an insult to FromSoft as they actually put effort into making the open world feel full of content. BotW is 15min of riding your horse through nothing and dodging the same 2-3 enemy mobs to get to a shrine where maybe you get a fun puzzle but most likely you fight a robot for the 100th time.

Enemy, dungeon, weapon, skill, play style, and boss variety is massive in Elden Ring. BotW does not hold a candle to it.
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Or maybe - just maybe! - he realized they were right?
Which is part of why its so great.
>I wouldn’t call it a sham. I think I’d rather some centralized orchestration of modern finance than none.
>Im not claiming that centralized Fed is perfectly wise, nor we should be subservient too it. But I also don’t want to live in a non-government state with no financial system.. an example that comes to mind is Somalia.

When that choice is before the American people, we'll be sure to turn to your perspective, but it's entirely irrelevant to the topic at hand, which is that the fed caused a problem they have yet to fix and they're not even now taking the steps necessary to fix it. We have a word now that exemplifies the ridiculous policymaking perspective that led the last year of bad decisionmaking: transitory inflation. That concept was laughable.
Much of GNOME Shell is actually JS, and a number of the default apps that ship with GNOME are written in Vala
Question: in the states where marijuana is legal, why isn't there a big push to make it easy to buy it with Bitcoin?

Normally, I find most proposed uses for Bitcoin at least in first world countries quite ridiculous. In almost all cases aside from scams and money laundering and illegal businesses conventional payment systems make a lot more sense.

But because marijuana legalization is occurring at the state level, but most conventional consumer payment systems such as credit cards operate at the national level, those payment systems are generally not available in cannabis stores. At best accepting credit cards at such stores is a gray area which makes many banks reluctant to allow it.

The cannabis stores end up having to operate on a cash basis, which makes them a juicy target for armed robbery. There have been a couple serious attempts in Congress to make it so credit card companies could serve cannabis stores in states where it is legal, but they can't get enough bipartisan support to pass.

This seems like just the situation where some sort of cryptocurrency based system would actually be legitimately useful.
Is there something similar to this for making 2D side scrolling RPGs?
Yes but userland wireguard is unique and useful. This is ignoring textbooks, competitors who write about their exploits warts and all and screams of get a more experienced db team to work with you... shoving it into a json screams of throw it at a disk and let the hardware deal with it
> If it was the priority of the Democratic national party leadership to get real, actual big legislation done that benefited workers over companies and investors, then they would.

Without 51 Senate votes, how?

I would rather not have politicians that “fall in line” for the party’s sake, and rather “fall in line” for the country’s sake.

>It's just obviously not something they care about, and it's obvious why.

>The party is run by obscenely wealthy members and donors, just like the Republicans are.

I think the fact that Democrat states exclusively have better worker protections and laws says a lot more about which party is run by who. Not to mention that federal Democrats actually propose things like universal pre K, expanding access to healthcare (note Republican states exclusively opted out of Medicaid expansion), and so on and so forth.
<insert “porque no los dos?” meme here>

A mobile-friendly interface that enables jotting things down quickly while on the go… (coincidentally, fully typing “- [ ] remember the milk” is clunky on mobile, switching keyboard, etc).

Also powered by plain text, so you can drop down to the details whenever you want to (including your mobile) with all the portability associated with it.

disclosure: I wrote https://plainorg.com and https://flathabits.com because I wanted a frictionless mobile experience without giving up on org markup (plain text).
I would say there are 3 tiers:

a) Your condition prevents you from being a functioning adult in society. You have to be in someone's care in order to function at a basic level.

b) You're a functioning adult in society but you (or others, or both) perceive your condition as a handicap that hurts areas of your life and needs to be fixed.

c) Your condition is a mixed bag and you perceive it as beneficial in many ways.

I'd say (a) is definite "disorder" territory, (c) is leaning into "diversity", and (b) is a gray area. It could be "diversity" if you choose to embrace it and live with it, or a "disorder" if you're set on keeping it at bay.
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"Fire fast" can mean you get canned after a 6 month probation period (I know I was at one place). Explaining a 6 month gap is just barely possible if you leave it off, two of those in a row and it's a substantial chunk of anyone's career.
I can't speak for Tailscale, but our whole raison d'etre is running containers for people, and almost none of our development environments are containerized either. Containers (and remote dev environments) create friction. They're useful tools when that friction is unavoidable anyways, but when it isn't --- and you can design systems with that being a goal --- it makes sense to take full advantage of that.
Sounds like there is a market for a CEC firewall box. Something $1 ESP8266 based you could configure with a phone/laptop over the air in visual way (webpage) to pick an d choose what can pass in what direction, maybe even with ability to add simple scripts triggered by particular messages. ~$5 BOM ~$15 retail.
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That’s only because there’s a union to begin with. If the option was union or no union that would be a story - is it possible to not be in the union at all and not pay dues?
It's a sad truth but for most of us, when it comes to "decide which status game to play", you're simply aiming for money no matter what you choose. Money is the overarching metric that already incorporates everything else. The "weightlifting status" or the "content creator status" mentioned in the article are just money status in disguise.

Ask yourself: if you won a big lottery tomorrow, would you still keep doing what you do today? If the answer is no, then you've been playing the money game all along.
> One notable exception that pivoted a lot is Twitter. It started as a podcast service iirc. Netflix is an interesting one too. They switched from DVDs to streaming which paid off for them.

Another notable pivot was Flickr, which started as a backend feature of an MMO called Game Neverending (which was never released IIRC).
No antenna is a perfect point omni emitter, the weird non spherical shapes like doughnuts is the antennas gain, almost are antennas are somewhat directional, the shape is a plot of the measured radiation around the antenna. You take advantage of the fact that it radiates more to the sides than up and down and orient that so it putting more power to the horizon rather than up into space (for terrestrial transmission).

The term gain is just referring to the antennas directionality relative to a perfect spherical omni radiator that doesn't exist.
Loved Sierra growing up.

Of course, on reflection that California 70s hot tub startup culture with Atari and what not was probably a hotbed of sexual harassment.

Damn shame. I'm not saying the Sierra crew was like that. I just felt it was worth noting.

Still, a great collection of cultural artifacts that contribute to our shared history. I'd rather be diving in than talking about separating the art from the artist.
>> shoving it into a json screams of throw it at a disk and let the hardware deal with it

Which...worked. For quite a long time. And required no dev effort. Freeing devs up to focus on other things.

They did it as a POC, and it worked, better even than they had anticipated; why over-engineer it up front? Even when it turns out they are gonna need it (i.e., YAGNI no longer applies), they have been able to push off their "solve problems customers don't care about" to instead favor "problems customers do care about". That...seems like sound engineering to me?
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Starting the second phase of my mind tool to match networks of knowledge, allowing people to discover them.
Exactly this. I also use ( ) to denote things that others owe me.
A former employer (top 5 investment bank) did this as well. There was a central store of identity (well, two: One Windows and one non-Windows). Your application then included it’s own policies (written in Prolog) that could reference identity details and/or deep intrinsic request details. As soon as Prolog hit a condition where it couldn’t unify your request and the policy, you got a no.

There’s a similar OSS implementation (OPA) targeting mainly k8s but allegedly useful generically that uses Datalog.
Spent a long time in Australian mines, some are heavily unionised, what you say is right it does attract the most toxic people, but at the same time even the truck drivers earn a fantastic living they can use to support a family. This is only possible because of the decades of strong unions negotiating better pay so the mines had to share the wealth. So to answer your question, the poorest people in the company benefit, despite the toxicity it can create.
If that level of complexity is needed. If. Of course it’s not.
I'm of a different opinion. 120 Hz is nice to have, but it is not a quality of life improvement. The DPI increase of a 220+ DPI monitor is a game changer. Text on a screen becomes readable at 220+ DPI, and that's when I don't feel the need to print PDFs in order to read them at a high resolution (the cheapest $50 laser printer can achieve 600 DPI without a sweat).
Have a look at this headline:

> Zero config VPN. Installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere.

I don't know how their product works, but my intuition is that your suggestions aren't feasible.
There's a lot of negativity here, so I just wanted to comment that I think the approach Tailscale is taking with sqlite is pretty neat. MySQL and Postgres are both pretty complicated, so gluing together two simpler systems, sqlite and litestream, sounds appealing, and I'm interested to hear how it turns out in the long run.
Ask HN: Has anyone in their company replaced BI tools completely with Notebooks?
I mean, I don't see BI going anywhere despite all the negative narrative around it.
leading is lots of communication. You have to say the same things repeatedly for them to sink in with a group. I'm not sure that it is a bias or more of a function of how people work.
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Isn’t getting caught and settling some evidence that the system works to some extent?

I know what the benefits are for, and while there are some good side-effects for the company, a lot of them are genuinely good for the employees as well. I had enough massage credits, Covid cue tests, and time spent in great gyms to attest to that. If they can be bought in bulk, all the more reason I appreciate it being someone’s job at the company to manage that.

I’m not saying these companies are your best pal and will look out for you against their own interests, but I personally don’t feel like I need or want a union between me and my employer. I don’t fault anyone for wanting one, but the hyperbole and passing opinions as facts on the other side, especially without considering the downsides of unions, isn’t doing anything to convince me.
These two make sense to me?

One person didn’t discuss their plans with the other, and thought it would be fine to retain their shares after they got another job for the sake of the company (this sounds reasonable to me, by the time you choose to cut insurance benefits it’s time to think of a different solution).

The other felt it was unfair to retain any shares if you weren’t actively (full-time?) working on the company. Kind of funny, seeing how this would have pretty much guaranteed sinking the ship.
> Do you want to know how popular systems are actually built, from the inside, or do you want carefully groomed triumphal announcements of new, perfectly-formed features?

It depends on what that tool is doing and if the thing it's doing is a core competency for your company.

It absolutely makes sense to geek out about stuff like this if it's part of your core product. However, if it isn't, then do yourself and your engineering team a favor and pick boring technologies.

Do you know what DB system tailscale would be using if they choose something boring postgres or Cassandra? Postgres or cassandra.

The cost of not doing that is they are on their 3rd iteration of switching db technologies and the development effort to keep rediscovering the same problems.
Doesn’t the blog post explain why they chose this step rather than doing the thing you suggest? In particular I don’t see how this comment really addresses any of their arguments.

And if they got on ok with the json file, maybe you should update towards the features of a complicated RDBMS not being worth the cost?
maybe soon there'll be 4 ;)
Two years ago I bought my 24" 4k Dell monitor, which is pretty decent. It's a shame that there are no more 24" monitors being manufactured.
"Remember, that not he who gives ill language or a blow insults, but the principle which represents these things as insulting.
When, therefore, anyone provokes you, be assured that it is your own opinion which provokes you."
~ Epictetus, Enchiridion
Ukraine exports quite a bit of wheat and corn. They probably won't be able to grow enough to export this year because it's a warzone. Egypt, a country of 100 million people, gets most of its wheat from Ukraine and Russia, and Russia isn't exporting any, either.[0]

First, GPUs went up in price, then gas, next is grains. Stock up while you can.

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Ask HN: How do you find a job that makes you happy?
Hey HN,

I'm on my 3rd consecutive job that I hate. I'm a manager, though I've remained very technical and actively coding. I've liked all the teams I hired, and always had really good feedback from them and well above average survey ratings. I want to feel happy about work again.

Despite spending more and more time carefully picking a job, it always feels like I'm either deceived, or missed some stuff I should have caught earlier.

I can't get out of bed, am tired all the time. Sometimes on the brink of tears. I'm at a spot where it's very obvious to me that I'm depressed, it's impacting my family life. I'm losing my time, and should look elsewhere. But I've had 4 different jobs over the past 6y, and I'd love to settle somewhere. When stuff is f-ed up 3 times in a row, it's time to look at yourself in the mirror ; either I have the wrong expectations, not enough patience, or I don't know how to find a job that is right for me. I think it's a combination of all three.

What really f-ed me up is a brief, recent period of feeling love towards my job when I had hope to change the scope towards something more useful, that reminded me how it can feel.

If you love the job you're in, how did you find it? What are the concessions you made? What are the red flags (or the right signs) to tell you a job is the right one? Did you manage to reform a shitty job in something at least tenable?
> a company that is now solely owned by one person who felt it necessary to kick someone out who clearly was willing to work for free on the project.

I've no idea about this particular situation or what Dani's motivation was, but "work for free" isn't the right description if it involves retaining half of the company (which has revenue and aspires to be worth more).
Kind of ironic considering what a safe regular-pedestrian transit Segway started as.
It's two bitwise operations
Really cool insight. I'd also add dark energy and accelerating cosmic expansion to this list. Without acceleration the size of the observable universe would keep increasing with the passage of time since the Big Bang. That would mean processes running on cosmic timescales could potentially entwine an exponential number of bits.

But with dark energy the size of the observable universe will plateau and start shrinking past a certain date. That caps the number of bits accessible on a cosmic scale.
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Pay and Benefits are one thing. Working conditions are another. You can pay me 15 an hour (Only $30K a year) but if I have to pee in a bottle or don't have enough schedule consistency to see my kids it's not worth it.

Amazon may pay well for now, but let's be honest, Amazon is a monopolistic project. What happens when there's less competition than there is right now? Do you think wages stay where they're at without some kind of pressure?

A union is the only ways employees can have any real power in the workplace. Democratically run unions give employees real negotiating power over what it means to go to work day to day. Unions are not perfect but what group of humans ever is?

I'd take a union job over a non-union job any day of the week.
Yes the "oh i'm on this quest, but what's a little detour?" is quite fun in this game.
Blank slatism and the ignorance of human nature has done far more harm for humans than those who acknowledge that our brains haven’t evolved much since our days as foraging tribes.
They picked (checks notes) sqlite. It's quite possibly the most boring choice available!