skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most players don't have the fist clue as to what makes a good game

that seems unfair. I think players (especially the kind who follow developers and make spend time posting online about games) do know what makes a good game. They know because they play title after title and see what works for them and what doesn't. The issue is that asking "What makes a good game" is much like asking what makes a good movie, or book, or romantic partner, or vacation. People are going to have very different ideas of what a good game is, but gamers are pretty damn savvy about what they love and about games in general.

That said, I agree with you that creators often go too far with player feedback. I think it's best for creators to make the games they would love, and if that doesn't lead to mainstream success that's fine, if real passion and love are put into a project there'll pretty much always be an audience out there who will appreciate it.
Thank you. Yes, they do. But they are pretty inefficient manure factories [https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/land-use-kcal-poore].

We even have 8 milliards of humans producing manure, which we currently (mostly) flush to the sea [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_soil].

And if we do use it, we do it wrongly [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/22/i-dont-k...].

We have to learn how to use what we have (atmosphere, rhizosphere, pigs, poultry, humans), that what does not destroy forests and wildlife (cows), and avoid that that kills and poisons the nature (pesticides & herbicides). Then we have a chance.
> Software engineering within Google is painless in many of the usual sense of pains seen outside Google, but it has its own pains some quite painful pains.

https://youtu.be/3t6L-FlfeaI
I don't think you can say that; I mean the US has been aggressive on numerous occasions over the decades, but did that affect their internationally operating businesses? Should it?
> C coders like C to the exclusion of all else, or they would have abandoned it long ago.

Those irrational people seem to
have code that doesn't require
rewrites/refactoring every few years.
Switching to an entirely new ecosystem as a primary field?
I leave it to the beta-testers,
perhaps in 10 years Zig/Rust/Nim
will be standardized languages with multiple compilers and big ecosystems supporting them, just
like C and polished enough to be
as easy as C to write.
The geopolitics of fossil fuels and renewables reshape the world
India is piloting ONDC to break duopoly of ecommerce giants
Clash of the minimum spanning tree algorithms
Interestingly, I just got a VanMoof electric bike a few weeks ago as part of a commuting program at work. I'm able to use it for leisure too, so I hope you're right.
"Every age gets the ideas it needs" - Morris, Why the West Rules—For Now
FANNG is a completely arbitrary phrase. What about Microsoft? Why Netflix and not Hulu, HBO, Disney? What about Uber, Lyft, AirBnB, and so on? Twitter?
It is also number one country of corruption (not that corruption doesn't exist elsewhere as well)
Migrating a production database without any downtime
Open-Source Database Index
How about email validation as a first step and send the "this email is in use" message via email instead of on the sign up form.

Adds friction to signup, but would work when it's really important to not leak account existence.
we = matrix core team. totally understood that crypto is not an option, which is arguably good news for ultra low bandwidth: compresses better and no aead headers :)

there should be another round of work on this fairly soon driven by our p2p work - #p2p:matrix.org is probably the best place to follow along, likewise arewep2pyet.com
May.

But Russia's only export of value is gas.

Get China and India to go all-in on renewables, while getting a soft agreement with them that future gas purchases from Russia will cost them in other ways, and the question is who would want to join Russia's parallel system?

Didn't say my suggestion is easy or likely or without risk. It would take some really careful diplomacy.

but it is feasible.
I think that Notepad and MS Paint were part of the Windows 2000 or NT leaks.

But the most important part of notepad was the editing component, which was a standard win32 component, and wasn’t part of the leak. It’s also unlikely they’ll release it since it’s part of current windows.
And if you care about power consumption, there are bunch of rockchip rk356x based SBC's with reasonable PCIe and SATA implementations popping up every other day, with 2-8GiB or RAM available for less than $100.
Cognitive Complexity: new way of measuring understandability [pdf]
To be fair, the only thing they have in common is the author. They are different in pretty much everything else, and absolutely unique experiences.

(This is the only time I can share this with you, but beware, spoiler alert. Papers Please - The Short Film: https://youtu.be/YFHHGETsxkE)
Before HTTPS was all but required for everything, an intranet site would get blocked in one particular office at 11pm every night. We tracked it down to a night-shift employee signing in, whose last name contained "shit". After pleading fruitlessly against that office's IT policies we solved the problem permanently by eating the overhead and turning on HTTPS.
You could say the same when comparing native iOS apps vs web apps, and these days almost nobody cares. This jankiness will be solved --wether it is by optimizing flutter's core rendering engine or just because mobile devices will receive more powerful CPUs.

One way or another you will be able to build hugely successful multiplatform apps just using Flutter.
That's fair, and as I posted recently, I am not against charging a one off fee per support call, especially for free tier customers... but as a reference, I have a super cheap cpanel shared hosting plan, less than €15 per month, and I get my support tickets resolved same day from staff based in the EU. If they can do it, so can Google... Paying customers have rights, and I sometimes think that the great "innovation" of saas/cloud is not tech, it's breaking social norms that every other business is following. That is to our detriment.
That raises an interesting question: what would be the declarative framework easiest to minimally reimplement?

I’m thinking you could have a single file, jQuery-based, hand rolled version of some framework and get many of the benefits while still technically complying with the “no frameworks” rule. In the same way that you could reimplement Redux easily if you for some reason weren’t allowed to use it.

I suspect diffing performance would be the bottleneck but I wonder if you could come up with some weird half solution that worked for your particular use case.
People dislike their political opponents for views that most don't hold
You can just scan the QR code instead... The TOTP secret is contained in there, and can be copied into just about any password manager.
Hare is not millions of lines of code; in fact, it is approximately the same size as clang tidy. 17,146 lines in the compiler, 59,271 lines in the standard library. These line counts are just wc -l, which is less favorable than e.g. sloccount. Another 11,036 lines for the qbe backend, while LLVM is tens of millions.
Because thinking of Google in those terms shows genuine ignorance: Google is an advertising company where the privacy of the users is the product to sell. Google could not be more anathema to Sun Microsystems or Silicon Graphics.

No company has ever reached the standards set forth by Sun Microsystems or Silicon Graphics.

Whether 0xide Computer will, remains to be seen. In the absence of working there, one can only hope.
Because it's true for a lot of places. We do have an extremely strong anti-crunch culture and value work life balance a lot. In those 8 years here I worked maybe like.....2 weeks of overtime? Around launch of one of our biggest games, I stayed in longer to make sure things were running smoothly. But like outside of that? 8am till 4pm every day. Never worked weekends or anything like that, and I don't know anyone who has.

(well, that's not strictly true - I know from those old timers that 20 years ago that was pretty much bread and butter and people lived in the office more or less. But that was before I ever started here).
Have been involved with 2 companies migrations from Heroku to AWS.

It all depends on your company resources. In my cases the companies were no longer startups and could afford to staff Platform/Infra teams and build out a bespoke solution on AWS. This was an area the company wanted to invest in.

If you're still a legit startup where money/dev resources is tight, I would recommend first looking into one of the Heroku clones/competitors.
Not going to put a battery powered device not made for 24/7 into a corner of my flat, to be running 24/7 and be forgotten about. I've seen one too many puffed up batteries in a laptop to risk that. Nope.

When networking isn't working, SBCs have serial consoles for that.
The author uses a Fritz!Box router, which is a very popular device in Germany. Note that AVM, the company behind the routers, is working on providing Wireguard natively on their newer routers (no hardware-assisted encryption, though):

https://en.avm.de/fritz-lab/fresh-from-development/updates-i...
Does that actually work? I assume google verifies the authenticity keypair(I forgot the specific term) that cannot be extracted authentic devices.
Critical vulnerability in the Matrix IRC bridge
There are old propane refrigerators which do exactly that (heat powered heat pumps).

Have you done the math to check whether it's more efficient?
Scorpion even goes as far as comparing IonQ’s quantum computer with Nikola
That defeats the purpose, which is to give them a number that works in case they have to contact me. I have a stable VOIP number that forwards to one of various ephemeral numbers at any given time. The VOIP number really is the right one to give them and for them to use. But they are too smart for their own good.
or, let https://pivpn.io handle all of that, automatically
Mold in your house is a health risk, so yeah nah, any life in the house is best left as intentional, potted plants and the like.
Not even a mention of Tunnels and Trolls?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnels_%26_Trolls

We used to joke that it was a gateway drug to making friends who played real games. Together.

Because we were geeks. Back when a game master with some recipe cards full of encounters was a better way to spend a Friday night than playing Zork.

T&T -> D&D -> nothing else, really, just D&D
> Someone on Vodafone UK could of course easily test this by simply using a different DNS server, like 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8.

Not if they intercept all DNS requests, which is not unheard of.

DoH or DoT would prevent that though, which is getting enabled in browsers now - probably why they are now employing other methods of filtering.
Power doesn't mean unchecked power - like with any powerful organisation, measures should be taken to prevent abuse, but taking the power away in order to prevent abuse won't end well.

> At some point someone while sneeze and everyone will be restricted to their homes

What would their motivation be? Why wouldn't there be any opposition? This isn't like spying where you can do it without people knowing. Even if entirely justified (like we saw during covid), people will oppose such measures - what makes you think they wouldn't of they weren't justified?
"Scorpion Capital specializes in intensive, differentiated research which uncovers what investors have missed and Wall Street is paid to ignore. Our investigations seek to “crack the case" through a persistent and thorough process for which other market participants may lack the bandwidth or inclination. We aim to publish the most rigorous due diligence conducted to date on each fraud or promote that we target."

Do you believe it?
Isn't this a really good reason for making it public? Microsoft obviously has no reason (i.e. ROI) to spend days trying to make this build.
Linux and good-enough commodity x86 are not better, nor will they ever be better, because one cannot build quality by polishing turds.

Sun Microsystems failed because their hardware pricing wasn't competitive with the x86-based PC bucket turds, which were "good enough": most people working in IT can't explain why Sun hardware was superior even though it vastly was, so it was like throwing pearls before the swine. We have lots of ignorant idiots in IT, because they were drawn to good salaries like moths to a flame.
If you want to find reliable on-chain information for Ethereum, Etherscan is your best bet. Here's how you can use it
Sure, why not. Just change the documentation first.
Global Methane Tracker 2022
> I don't think you can say it has been widely available for more than 4

Yes, my timeline was off.

> And there will likely be substantial improvements to it before it starts dominating web development.

I'm definitely veering away from my original statement, but here goes :)

There won't be any substantial improvements in web components. It's painfully obvious how many shortcomings they have, and how many holes have to be patched before they can become actually useful. I mean, they had to come up with a whole new Javascript API just to make them participate in forms.

And now their existence taints and poisons most other improvements to the platform. For example, Scoped CSS (which on its own would solve a huge chunk of what web components offer) now have to be twisted to accommodate web components, and will likely be a worse spec as a result.

Chrome "developer advocates" will incessantly berate and gaslight other projects and frameworks, and will claim that web components are a success because companies with billions of dollars in revenue and thousands of developers use them to create a yet another avatar or breadcrumbs component. That... that is neither success nor a path towards any substantial improvement.

"It's almost as if congealing 2010-era best practices in the platform before we'd finished exploring this territory was a mistake" [1] And the future is likely to be component-less [2]

If the tens of millions of dollars that Google alone has poured into Web Components had gone into something meaningful like https://open-ui.org we'd have a significantly better and a substantially more future-proof web. Alas.

[1] https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1513668040784814084

[2] https://dev.to/this-is-learning/components-are-pure-overhead...
I guess it's about to check in just .env file, not files that contain secrets.
From the overview :

"The wasteful leakage of methane, the main component of natural gas, is all the more striking given today’s backdrop of very tight and volatile gas markets. Methane leaks in 2021 from fossil fuel operations, if captured and marketed, would have made an additional 180 billion cubic metres of gas available to the market, an amount similar to all the gas used in Europe’s power sector. This would have been comfortably enough to ease today’s price pressures."
Again, stop it with the passwords.

Because passwords are shared secrets, the relying party (here Heroku) can lose them and then will predictably act like somehow this is your problem when it happens, see also "Identity theft" aka "We're incompetent and our money got stolen but it's convenient to pretend that's actually your money and ask when you'll fix it".

Use WebAuthn. If (when) outfits like Heroku incompetently lose the credentials nothing interesting happens.
It's frustrating that it forces you to jump into handling async code, though, in all cases. This wasn't always the case, and for good reason: sometimes async code is just vastly more complicated for no actual benefit if you can tolerate the FFI causing a crash at any calling point.

The interest in Elm took a major hit after the compiler banned use of JS.
for a chad in a cafe, maybe solved. but then again you could just connect to the address directly and forgoe doh.

dns blocking is mostly not a prohibiting factor, just an annoyance.
He would probably be happy somewhere else as well. You can look at not switching jobs as paying your employer thousands of dollars each year to keep working there, and it gets more expensive for each year you stay.
I think there's a lot that the people that actually live there can do. When I think of American housing, it's either big dense cities, or suburbs. The suburbs are all... bland, a concrete driveway and grass. All very low maintenance. If those were to do some gardening - plant a tree, some bushes, flower perks, longer grasses, etc - you already will get a much nicer place to live.

And in the cities, people can do things like hanging baskets out of windowsills, or potted plants out the door. And of course things inside the house.

I will acknowledge though that this is from a position of privilege, we have a lively plant and flower industry in my country and hundreds of garden centers around the country.
> It went from nothing

There was a previous "bulling", that escalated later, as it always do. Both countries were in a war for Crimea since 2014, but I agree with your idea that it was unlikely.

What is really scary is that it takes so few people to put by now four countries in war (five if we count Georgia) in the middle or Europe, and trigger the events that drag the rest by inertia. Zillions of working hours to avoid exactly this, and it only takes one old man with obvious principles of dementia that denies all every single time like a child. This and less than 1000 helpers against 500 millions of people is all that we need to return to 1940.
Not the secrets themselves, but their location, eg /opt/secrets/some-database.sqlite3

I'm not parent commenter, but that's how I've done it before. The file on disk has the appropriate permissions etc.

I'm sure there are issues with this, so if anyone can enlighten me I'd be interested.
The connected battlespace: command, control, and conquer (2021)
just used raw GL calls from #import "GL". although i did #import "Simp" as well for Simp.Texture and Simp.Shader, which Simplified things quite a bit
> Huge population!? Not even twice bigger than Germany.

They can easily fix that by annexing former SSSR territories (about 230 million)
Germany has the biggest population in EU, so twice of that is rather huge.
Blue Shell Incident https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUT2kKZeUpo
Valid questions, thanks!

> as a hiring manager, why check this over LinkedIn where all the users are?

This is going to be difficult for any new platform in this space, and it's a tough one. For now it's important for me to let users create a great looking CV that can easily be printed, offering value there regardless of the upcoming search feature. Aside from that, I've got a couple of tactics in place for expanding the user base, but I want to keep my cards closed there for a little while. I promise it's not going to be anything nasty/sneaky though!

> I could see more value in a specialised community that has requirements for entry

I don't think this is the direction I'm going in, but sounds interesting!

> Another area that could use improvement is job + work descriptions.

This is something I haven't addressed properly yet in the FAQ. Companies/recruiters will have to make you interested just like you made them interested with your CV. Otherwise you'll get 20 company names that are interested without any context. Then it'll be possible to sort invitations by companies based on criteria. Nothing that's written in stone yet, but if some companies want to keep the intended salary a secret, they may be ranked lower in the invitation list.

> But in general the main issue at the application stage is just trying to filter people completely unqualified to save interviewer time, and after that everyone has to go through the same long interview process in any case.

I'm definitely not done yet with banging my head against this problem.

I really appreciate your feedback, thanks for your constructive but critical thinking!
Ignoring nuclear for a moment, wind and solar both compete and complement each other. At a certain point, in a certain area, it stops making sense to spend money on wind/solar and start spending it on solar/wind instead. Because for the same money, you get more if what you want.

You could do similar for tidal power, but since it's so much worse than wind/solar in terms of efficiency/cost you basically don't build any.

Not because it's competing for steel, but because you have better option(s) for achieving the same goal.

Now, swap nuclear for tidal power and you have the same situation.

The main problem for renewables in the UK is the same main problem for them everywhere. Fossil fuel lobbying. All the bullshit about wind turbines was generated by the same political groups funded by fossil fuel interests.

It's great that lots of people have put a lot of effort into getting past "There's no problem", "There is a problem but we can't do anything about it", "we can do something about it but it's too expensive", to get to the current "it's cheaper but the people don't like it".

Imagine how much further on we'd be if we didn't have to wade through all that BS to get here.
It will depend a lot on where you live and what media you consume though; I don't feel it that much over where I live. At best there's some signs along the main road.
I'm summing up the whole repos, everything that was ever written for those languages. Everything that could have gone elsewhere.

This path is not constructive. Maybe instead of trying to be original, we can learn from mathematics where theories remain valid for thousands of years.
Nice article, could do with a (2020) label to denote that it’s a couple of years old.

Also check out Mossy Earth if interested, although they seem to go about realising differently:

https://www.mossy.earth/projects

More about the bloke who developed the idea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Miyawaki
That is a fantastic idea.

I always thought it would be interesting to have a compendium of "artists' artists." Like, ask some of the most talented people in a given genre to give their recommendations.

Sometimes you get this with longer-form interviews of artists, but those often have a lot of details to sift through.

For books, literary magazines are good: the good ones publish good authors, who recommend good authors. But they're clique-y and only sort of fill the role.
No, after Crimea, there was widespread expectation Russia will try to take more. Not least in Ukraine itself, which led to the military preparations there that have made it so expensive for Russia.
> Huge population!? Not even twice bigger than Germany

Germany also has a huge population, especially by European standards, even if somewhat less huge than Russia’s. Both Germany and Russia are outliers, being in some ways far from the European average. What makes Russia much more distinctive, is in how many different ways it is an outlier - arguably in a fair few more ways than contemporary Germany is, which makes it a much bigger outlier overall.

> They have nuclear weapons for sure, but I wouldn’t like to speculate about their maintenance and availability.

For a decent-sized nation state, nuclear weapons aren’t actually that hard to manufacture and maintain and deliver, especially if they aim at basic functionality and aren’t trying to be on the cutting edge. The biggest obstacles for most such countries are (1) the rest of the world will try to stop them through sanctions, clandestine operations, even military action; (2) if you don’t have domestic uranium deposits, it is very hard to buy uranium for military use, all major sellers will insist you promise to use it for civilian purposes only and submit to regular inspections to prove that. As an accepted nuclear weapons state, Russia doesn’t have to worry about (1); Russia also has substantial uranium reserves and is one of the world’s leading uranium exporters, so it doesn’t have to worry about (2) either. So I think Russia’s nuclear arsenal is likely to be reliable and usable.