skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was honestly underwhelmed by Neuromancer. Maybe because so many people raved about it or that I read it many years after it was written. I honestly don't know. It was... OK. But amazing? I don't see it.

I love science fiction. One thing you have to realize about science ficiton is that it is a product of the time it was written. It may share many of the aesthetics, themes, philosophies and politics of that time. Like it's hard not to look at the original Star Wars and not see the impact of 70s aesthetics.

Cyberpunk as a genre stems from xenophobia, ultimately. There was a pervasive fear in the 1980s that the Japanese were "taking over". The depiction of a dystopian future dominated by megacorps mirrors fears of Japanese culture and influence.

40 years later this dystopian future still hasn't eventuated.
That's orthogonal to the discussion. Fact is that local branches can survive with some form of pivot if their owner can deliver a core component for the product.
I start every day with a 2-mile walk. That’s about 5K steps. Been doing that for years.

Been thinking of extending it, maybe by a mile. That would do it.
What overwhelming evidence? At this point it’s allegations. The crimes haven’t actually been investigated.

They should be. But “overwhelming evidence” should be rephrased as “lots of allegations.”
> Freeze water in the cellar (speaking of like 30m^3) using thermal pomp during winter to heat house and when electricity costs little, and use that ice in summer to cool down the house.

Unless I misunderstood, the Toronto Zoo has or had such a system setup for one or more of the food pavilions.

What's interesting about this is that the storage grows with the volume (n^3), but the heat/cold loss grows with the surface area (n^2). So you're ability to 'store cold' gets better as you get bigger.

Just the same, you could also use it backwards in the winter time. On hot, sunny days at the end of the summer, warm up the water stored.
They earn less, since recycling costs money.
Its a readers comment. But either way, you not liking the author doesnt mean the summary of the situation is untrue.

In case somebody can refute the explanation (or give a better one) of the Gazprom structure and motivation, i would be happy to hear the problem with it. As i see it, despite the rambling its a short and concise explanation of who does what why.
Hanlon's razor applies here I think. Don't attribute to "the enemy" what can be adequately explained by incompetence.
These people are not only unconditioned and unmotivated, they are usually malconditioned and malmotivated. I'm tired of hearing overcomplicated esoterica such as "detox", "keto", and "fasting". Just eat 25% fewer calories than TDEE for 3 months.
Well, the other option is that people see sky-high exercise targets (from their POV) and not even get started. Yes, you need exercise, but people can't simply carve out three hours of their day twice a week to go to the gym and if you start with that expectation, most people simply won't. Walking 30 minutes is far more doable and proving that this already gives a benefit is not a bad thing.
Then Lemmy might be more your thing. It is a federated Reddit / HN like link aggregator, where instances host multiple communities on specific topics and with their own moderators.

Lemmy also federates with Mastodon, so mastodon users that comment for their own UI to your post will show up in your comment thread and likewise they'll see your response from Lemmy. Their Likes become Lemmy upvotes. Their boosts (retweets) help your post / comment reach a broader audience.
> EU blocking RT.com (and a few others) was quite a shock for me,... really a thing that should not be happening in EU (no matter whose propaganda it is).

Why? Neo-nazi sites have a long history of getting banned everywhere.
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I had a free year subsciption to Paramount+ from my cel provider. I canceled it on day 1 because it had ads. I would do the same to Netflix, even if the service was free.
Just install them with Homebrew or Macports. They all get installed into different paths anyway and you don't even need to build from source on your system. Building python and node are major PATA.
Basically so many have failed they've got a bin of them waiting for a chance for electronics recycling.

Sure a corporate anecdote is an anecdote but it's a sample size of ~500 versus 1 or 2-3.

The OWC ones do seem to be worse, that's why we transitioned to the TS3+.
Who's using Pharo in production? Every time Smalltalk comes up, it's almost like it's this Loch Ness monster that everyone claims to be enamored with but doesn't actually exist. I want to love Pharo so much, I just can't think of a single thing it would be useful for.
False advertising, it's apparently 7k steps per day. There goes my chance for salvation. opens another bag of chips
Your father's idea is a good one. Here is a thermal heat pit which is being used to store heat for the winter:

https://stateofgreen.com/en/partners/ramboll/solutions/world...
What kind of person actually likes Twitter?
My goal is a simple one: to just enjoy the life I have. I don't care about leaving behind a legacy, bettering the world, or becoming mind-bogglingly rich. But I do care that I never wake up in the morning and think "why am I doing this?"

More concretely I'm working towards FIRE and would like to get a dog. After that, who knows? I'll decide when I get there.
Certainly the ones paid to produce propaganda can upload from outside of Russia.
I commented that I didn’t have a need a lot of ports with my use case and you commented that you did with yours. Good HN discussion.

But why did you have to begin your comment with the condescending “all the sheep/ad devs”? It makes you look insecure and I only read beyond that because your comment was so brief.

There are machines with lots of ports and machines with few and someone’s choice of which to use is not a moral judgement.
Had an Amiga (500/A4k40), always wanted an SGI. We were on several CEBITs asking SGI for selling us a machine for the 3d graphics, but didn't happen (we bought lots of monitors at CEBITs though). Later worked with SGIs in the 90s for at my first developer job <3
During the Trump administration, their vindictive treatment of the press and the selective removal of access to the White House by outlets not toeing the line more or less amounted to quasi-censorship in practice.
So we don't have the technology to analyze chemical components of things? I still find that hard to believe.
That explains so much. I was watching a show once discussing the obesity epidemic and a member of the crowd related her support for healthy obesity, which the announcer straight away refuted and then asked a diverse panel for their opinions. I was a little surprised at first, where in contrast in north american television you might not see someone get challenged on a subject like "healthy obesity" as a concept, and especially not to an actively obese persons face on broadcast. Part of me wondered if GB was more direct customarily but this makes sense.

Disclaimer: I do not believe in obesity being healthy but generally respect peoples choices and agency. I felt the need to add this because putting quotes on the term and not putting quotes on the term felt like lending support one way or the other outside of my personal opinion.
Congrats on your contrarianism. Forgive me if my simplicity and inability to think critically causes me to think less of you.
I didn't care for /r/place this time around. It felt like a lazy and uninspired move by Reddit to just copy the exact same idea from 5 years ago. As pointless as their other events were, like /r/the_button, at least they were unique.

Not only that, it spoiled the treasured memory and experience of 2017. This year was so full of hate and fighting over flags, stream raids, bot scripts floating around, none of it felt genuine except maybe people keeping up with the Ukraine flag on day 1. In 2017 it closed with me thinking Reddittors came together to make some cool art, this year it closed with me wondering whether any humans were involved by the end.
Is there any dock wich supports freesync, hdr, >120 hz via DP or HDMI? Got the usb-c gen 2 dock from Lenovo which claims hdmi 2.0 and dp 1.4 support but can’t do any of it.

It also has issues with sleep and device swapping for random devices not to wake up or a „stalled“ Ethernet Port when doing Teams meetings.

Updating the firmware didn’t help.
> Blow has shipped two games in 20 years

You say that like it is a bad thing. By (nearly) all accounts Braid and The Witness are lovingly and expertly crafted, unconventional, and brilliant games. He's not making the annual Madden or Call of Battlefield here.

> Casey Muratori, who started handmade hero almost 8 years ago, and is nowhere even close to a game

Be fair to Casey, Handmade Hero is primarily an educational project and he only devotes a few hours to it each week. Though admittedly he has allowed the scope to creep quite a bit from the original goals.

> The post we're commenting on here is entitled "Accidentally Making a Language, for an Engine, for a Game". If your take away from those things is that "you'll spend more time fighting the engine" then I don't really know what else to say.

My point is more that I'm kind of sick of people being so down on the concept of building your own engine even for relatively simple 2D games. Yes, I agree that it takes time, but so does learning the ins and outs of an existing engine and the time you invest in the latter nets you less generalizable skills than the former and leaves you with less control over the end product. It is a tradeoff, and like all tradeoffs there are good reasons to go one way or another.
Gibson pioneered the genre - you have to give him that. He is very much off on a lot of details though. For example, in his other books, his descriptions of mercenaries are comical at best for anyone who has a passing familiarity with the topic. Nonetheless, I place him up there with Stephenson. All this DESPITE the fact that Stephenson stands in a league of his own - he pioneered "post cyberpunk" with Diamond Age and went from having as much style as Gibson to as much scientific grounding as Asimov. With that said, Stephenson's latter books are all science, no char dev, no (interesting) story.

I really can't think of an author who can stand with Stephenson. Vernor Vinge comes close, but not there on style. Then there are authors with a single good idea that are worth reading, but nowhere near Stephenson's level (e.g. the author of The Forever War).

P.S. Obviously I am not so subtly fishing for people to argue with me and give me book recommendations. Just not the Tri-body Problem please - it falls in with The Forever War - cool concept, cool (very long) intro, not much else.
I beg forgiveness if my question and thoughts on the matter are somehow perceived as an agenda. I haven't studied the Gazprom case carefully, but after all, the title of OP's article is "Germany has seized control of Gazprom", not Germany has lawfully taken over management of Gazprom assets after a protracted court case establishing ownership and takeover processes, so am I really at fault for drawing conclusions based on that?
I give his tenure as CEO 6 months at most before he's forced out by the board, or resigns for ideological differences. The changing wind that Elon is going to usher in is going to be fundamental and sweeping, and I wouldn't be surprised to see an exodus of employees follow.
Google offers employees free electric scooters to get them back to the office
Musk seems to be looking for more ways to pick a fight with the SEC, probably so he can press his perceived grievances.
People will get in shape ricky tick as you forbid them health insurance or fat tax them. Humans have no natural predator, no forced adaptations and selections - we must invent such.
Sounds as if you don't approve of that stance. That is not likely to shift given that the Spectator is and has been since 1822, basically & famously, a politically conservative magazine though it frequently publishes articles by contributors across the political spectrum. Not to make a point but out of curiosity, can you perhaps offer an example or two of the kind of thing you reckon would 'turn people off'. You mean some people of course.
But, on the other hand, consider how good we are at convincing teenagers to buy stuff from facebook ads.
Sure, but there's usually something like 16 logical devices even in the less fancy hardware. And we're talking about nginx, generally there's only one of those -- the VM use case demands more, and that's the primary demand for the feature.
How many ounces/grams of cannabis is equivalent to a 750ml bottle of wine?
I remember the SGI machines well. IRIX was easily my favorite graphical UNIX.

We used SGI Indy systems for network administration at the university, and SGI Octanes for niche graphical applications and databases, but they were always considered an expensive luxury for both of those use cases. Nearly every other UNIX system at the university back then was Sun Microsystems.
I’m curious how you think this is going to ruin anything for you. Do you mean on a tangible level, or on an emotional level? Do you actually think there will be large scale policy changes that will damage your ability to communicate with people via the platform?

The valuable parts of Twitter seem to be when niche experts tweet about their niche and specific niche comedy. Everything else seems really unhealthy.

I could see a lot of monetization efforts ruin Twitter. I could also see people saying “I don’t want to support Elon, I’m leaving Twitter” if that’s what you mean.
This whole discussions reminds me of this great scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3Ak-SmyHHQ

Humans will always accept some axiom as truth without really verifying it. It's impossible to do so. Can any single person truly know how everything in their computer works? Or how the machines that made the semiconducter work? Nope. All we can do is try to determine the truth by proxy, which means the truth can and will always be manipulated.
the 'influencer' type
We're talking in a pop culture context here, where even just in 2020-2022 Korea and Korean culture/heritage has had significant soft power success in a number of markets/media:

- Export of majorly successful pop music (e.g. BTS, Blackpink - those hits are often penned by Western composers however, so a bit murky on what product is flowing there)

- Ditto TV (e.g. Squid Game setting TV records with a lot rooted in Korean schoolyard games)

- Ditto cinema (Parasite, a story about social mobility woes in Korean society, winning all the Oscars)

- Ditto gaming (PUBG, other MMOs)

- Ditto literature (bestellers including "Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982", again on social issues in the country)

- Ditto cosmetics exports, beauty trends ("Korean Week" in malls, say), etc.

- Even some Western productions focussing specifically on Korean diaspora/ethnicity (e.g. most recently the expensive "Pachinko" on Apple TV+ (and the novel it's based on), or stuff like Kim's Convenience)

I think you can definitely make a case that Korea is the Asian-country-du-jour among the Western audience (and that's before you get into, say, Latin America, which is far deeper into Korean TV content, also bleeding over into Latin minorities in the USA).
I've never understood the fascination with counting 'steps' - a smaller person will cover 10,000 steps before a taller person, due to stride length.

Why not just tell people get 30mins (or whatever today's recommendation is) of brisk walking in? They wouldn't even need to buy a pedometer/smart watch!
Sure but who owns and runs that? Who is responsible for the infrastructure costs, the operations of it, the uptime, etc..

The government? Which government? The Internet is global, so would you have a public Twitter for every country? How do you geo-restrict this then? Whose laws apply? How is it reported or enforced? Do we need "Twitter cops"?

You can throw out easy answers all you want but it's actually a really complex issue.
Small potatoes compared to the ugliness around the world
Not directly, but my implication here is that Elon Musk is in the bad graces of the SEC of is being made an insider of another huge company who facilitated him falling out of favor with that SEC. It is Twitter saying they don't care about the SEC and don't see any potential conflict with empowering someone who flaunts SEC penalties. And also, that I would be 0% surprised if Musk did this out of spite.
He is the "investors".
Most people want to scan things that can’t be folded through a print route though: the aforementioned id cards, passports, pages of books, fragile old documents, photos, certificates, etc.
Ironically, I receive a “browser not supported” message when attempting to sign up via Safari on iOS. May be due to the fact that I’m on public beta.
In living memory, through McCarthyism.
I'm kind of hoping some people might have some comments or answers or two cents.
Well, Gazprom changed ownership of Gazprom Germania without any approval from German government. So, apparently, it's not impossible that they would be able to do other things as well.
> get on good enough terms to find a middle ground.

Why? If the non technical person is injecting them selves into technical areas so they can spew nonsense then the middle ground is still a bad out come for the whole, it just makes that idiot feel better about themselves.
> LumoSQL is a modification (not a fork) of the SQLite embedded data storage library

So it modifies SQLite to add various features, thus deviating from SQLite as it is while still using it as its base? That's what a fork is.
If Java provides good first-party support for this then it may not make sense to use asdf for Java. Rust is similar in that rustup is first-party the recommended tool to install Rust with. I don't bother with asdf for Rust. Other ecosystems like python/ruby/javascript don't provide this as a first party tool meaning there are lot's of 3rd party alternatives. For these ecosystems asdf is nice in that it allows you to use one tool across all the ecosystems.

> The dependency management is the real problem

I'm not sure how this works in Java, but in many ecosystems like JavaScript and Rust dependency management isn't an issue at all. Installing a package defaults to a local install and even things like dependencies transitively depending on different versions of the same package are supported out the box and just work.
Ask HN: Are FAANG employees right for an early-stage startup?
We're a SaaS startup and have raised a seed. And are debating who would make a better fit in startups as early employees.

FAANG
or
Full stack devs from startups
We have adderall now. Speed with a PG rating
NSA backdoored proprietary iOS vs Open source GrahpeneOS....
Facts and opinion are rather easy to distinguish though. Its the shortest description i could find of the structure and mechanism in play. If there is a problem with that part, pls do share.
Assuming the situation is as described, that would be illegal in many countries. Practically a textbook example of discrimination by nationality. Sadly refugees aren't usually in a position to be exercising their legal rights.
I exercise despite the cars and their pollution, the junkies in the park, the gangs who shoot people, and the government that in the last two years said stay inside.

But I can see why people are reluctant to go out and get some exercise from their boxes in the sky, especially when it’s cold out!
I've never watched GB News (only seen clips) and don't quite understand how they can get away with it, but I believe its because they read out/play/show viewers comments.
The days where AAA games dumped the engine between releases are long gone (like Playstation 1 long gone).

For franchise games there will be incremental improvements to engine systems; some to support new gameplay features, some to help with development tooling/pain-points, and some to improve visual fidelity. The trick is choosing the correct number of upgrades/refactors that fit the release schedule while remaining relevant and not dooming your next franchise release with insurmountable feature debt.

In my experience the biggest engine changes come with new hardware platform support, typically a console generation jump. More power requires a toolchain that can handle more complex assets (and more of them), new graphical features and expectations, different optimizations, new API, different storage types or capabilities etc. Bigger franchises may use a new console generation as an opportunity to gut an existing engine and rework to the strengths of the new hardware generation (and remove the support for older hardware, such as removing 32bit pointer support, DirectX9, Windows7 etc).

Historically where game engines get in trouble is when a codebase is written to one franchise and then forced on to a team making a fundamentally different game with fundamentally different requirements (open world vs compact maps, physics heavy vs platformer, single player vs MMO). At the executive level it makes total sense, they spent x million$ on a game engine and are told by everyone how great an investment it was... why not spin up a new game using that amazing (and paid for) technology?

The flip-side has also sunk numerous game engine efforts, which are often buried without ever becoming public. Doing everything all at once is impossible, you can either do many things generically but with restricted performance and capabilities. Or you can do 'everything' required by a specific game and slowly introduce features that support other games and make things more generic.
I don't know why it's "(2021)" but I noticed the HTML source does have a tag with "2021" in it. Somebody would have to do a diff between some previous Wayback Machine snapshots and the current page to try and determine what got updated.

<a href="https://www.redditinc.com/blog/how-we-built-rplace" rel="bookmark" tabindex="-1">
<time class="entry-date published" datetime="2017-04-13T00:00:00-04:00">April 13, 2017</time>
<time class="updated" datetime="2021-08-30T16:09:26-04:00">August 30, 2021</time>
</a>
Ride a bicycle for 3x the distance in high gears.
If you ran a company, wouldn't you find it valuable what people reacted to your branding? If you want your FOSS project to succeed you probably similarly would or at least should be interested.
In the past most people would have exceeded 7,000 just living
The electrolyte is sodium aluminum and chlorine, which sounds pretty different than sodium-ion.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266638642...

The PNNL article is somewhat better than the current link.

https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/freeze-thaw-battery-adept-pr...
> Remember how they spent years saying Trump was connected to Russia even though that was later proven to be false?

No, the media spent years reporting about suspicious about his connections to Russia. That's an entirely different thing, and they were entirely right to do that.

> Remember how they lied about the Covington Catholic incident?

No, because that's pretty inaccurate and tendentious framing. I highly doubt they "lied." IIRC, the media, in general, reported on social media outrage which was actually happening and then later reporting corrected the misconceptions that were fueling that outrage.

They probably should not have covered the outrage itself until the later reporting was done, but that's a far cry from "lying."

> Remember how they said BLM protests were "mostly peaceful" as protesters burned down buildings causing over $2 billion in damage?

So? Both those things can be true at the same time.
Measuring time is more convenient than counting steps or calculating distance, in my experience.

A normal pace for me is about 100 steps per minute. It’s a convenient way to estimate steps taken.