skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention that they killed off the Auburn Dam project that would nearly double the water supply to Sacramento and San Francisco.
Not thrilled about the trend of services over products.

I’ve been using GoodNotes 5 for a while now and am really satisfied.

One time purchase with iCloud sync with all devices.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/goodnotes-5/id1444383602
> As someone who is speaking with a handful of people stuck in this situation, what direction should I guide them towards

Get experience. By any way possible. Have them build an online app - a blog system specialized for doctors, an RSS reader backend, documentation for an open source project, anything. Software is an unusual sector that experience can be earned outside of paid work.

If these "handful of people" have bachelors, have them apply for masters degrees at highly rated universities, then they get access to the University career services department to help them find a job. Note: I did not say they have to finish the masters degree, just that they enroll in a masters so they have access to the University recruiting pipeline.
A competitive description game. Players write descriptions of images under time and other constraints and the audience votes on the results in real time
You are confusing limited use in certain Standard Library components with what concepts are able to do. Duck typing is, as I said, strictly optional. Where that is used in the Standard Library thus far, it improves upon the experience of legacy usage.

Doubling down when you have been corrected adds only heat, not light.
HN is full of assholes.
When I google "EV," I get news articles about Tesla and their competitors. What does EV stand for in this context?
I'm guessing you mean trademark, not copyright -- copyright does not make sense in the context used -- but I'm not sure why you think it would be trademark infringement.
As a kid I loved Choplifter on the Sega Master System. I'd imagine all sorts of scenarios to make it more fun.

Combine that game with Starcraft/Command and Conquer. A side scrolling 2D RTS game.

Two sides, a river in the middle. Build up your base (which would extend underground as well as horizontally) and build Helicopters, jets, missles/nukes, tanks, boats (which you can manually take control of at any time).

Goal is to take out the "Leader" of the other side. If you've played Choplifter you know the "people" were tiny little squishy things that you could kill by just landing on. Your workers and soldiers and Leader are all extremely vulnerable squishy guys. Of course defensively you'd position your "leader" as deep underground as possible, or in a building surrounded by anti-aircraft missiles, etc.

Mainly a 2 player, 1 vs1 game, but more than 2 players possible if the world wrapped around.
> DPC = the official Irish body who should be responsible for enforcing GDPR… in bed with Facebook instead

Speaking as an Irish person, it's probably more accurate to say that the DPC is woefully under-resourced, and FB are super litigious so its more the government haven't given the DPC enough resources to do their job.
I'm not familiar with the nitty gritty of video streaming infra but I'm curious, with the crazy array of services on AWS/most other cloud providers, what in particular is missing or cannot scale down cost efficiently?
I find that a round knob with a push-button click, when coupled with a non-touch screen, is far superior to swiping around on a touchscreen to browse a music collection.
Apple VP delivers union busting speech
Rome Total War or Empire Total War but more realistic down to the unit level. Soldiers getting injured, losing limbs, having field medics doing amputations, dressing wounds. Real baggage trains, supply trains. The whole logistics and wounded aspect of war is completely ignored in these games. Now that they’ve gone the “arcade” route I don’t think this will ever happen.

VR mode where you can fight first person as a unit in a cohort.
LANTR would improve performance of lunar landers/cislunar shuttles, especially for variable specific impulse which is what LANTR could plausibly do without much trouble -- start with high oxygen flow for high thrust and high propellant mixture density, decrease oxygen flow later in flight for higher terminal Isp. This brings you the performance of a multi-stage vehicle without staging, and LANTR can even with high oxygen flow deliver Isp significantly higher than what hydrolox has, with propellant density several times higher than what pure-hydrogen NTR gives you.

I've thought about trying to optimize the performance of such a variable Isp vehicle, but it requires calculus of variations skills that I'm lacking at the moment. I guess I need to take a look at that. But there's a decent chance that with a such a vehicle, you could move from the "we need to mine ice on the Moon" to the "we just need to extract oxygen from lunar soil; we can bring hydrogen from LEO" territory, which would be a win for lunar flights (for example you wouldn't be limited to polar region bases where you'd need to mine water to get back home).
Used book stores--such as there are these days--tend to be very selective about what they take. So you haul in a box or two and they'll take a relative handful off your hands.

My local library will take books for their annual fundraising sale. But I suspect most end up recycled or tossed even so.
Even in theory looks questionable to say the least. And no, no nuclear reactor is perfect. That's why they (some of them at least) have safety mechanisms.
I want Else Heart.Break(), but with more plot, less bugs, better programming language and bigger, deeper world to explore. Possibly, with multiplayer, though I'm not sure it would bring much into game
(cross-posting from an earlier Show HN)

Hey all, I'm one of the five folks who built this. We just released a 2.0 version[1] which includes local-first sync.

A little backstory: I’m one of the authors of the 2019 essay Local-first software[2]. (Past HN discussions[3][4].) The thesis is to reclaim some of the ownership over our data that we’ve lost in the transition from filesystems to cloud/SaaS. So I’m excited to bring CRDT technology “out of the lab” and into a commercial product as a chance to prove the value of local-first in real-world usage.

As a developer and computing enthusiast, I care about abstract ideas like data ownership. But for most users I think the benefits of local-first will surface in how it feels to use the software day-to-day. One example is ability to work offline or in unstable network conditions: any changes between devices will be automatically merged when you reconnect to the network, no matter how long you’ve been disconnected.

Another area is performance. The sync backend was written by my colleague Mark McGranaghan who has written extensively about software performance[5][6] and why we think the cloud will never be fast enough to make truly responsive software.

A few technical details:

– Client-side CRDT written in Swift, streaming sync server written in Go

– Sync server is generic, doesn’t have any knowledge of the Muse app domain (cards, boards, ink, etc). Just shuffles data between devices

– Transactional, blob, and ephemeral data are all managed by this one single state system. For example ephemeral data (someone wiggling a card around) for example, isn’t even transmitted if there are no other clients listening in realtime.

More in this Metamuse podcast episode.[7]

We draw heavily on research from people like Martin Kleppmann, Peter van Hardenberg[8], and many others. A huge thank you to this wonderful research community.

Even if you have no interest in the Muse concept of a digital thinking workspace, I’d encourage you to try the free version just to see how local-first sync feels in practice. My opinion is that is fundamentally different from web/cloud software is well as from classic file-based software—and an improvement on both. Would love to hear what you think.

[1]: https://museapp.com/memos/2022-05-dive-into-big-ideas-with-m...

[2]: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19804478

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21581444

[5]: https://www.inkandswitch.com/slow-software/

[6]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18506170

[7]: https://museapp.com/podcast/56-sync/

[8]: https://www.inkandswitch.com/pushpin/
As far as I understand, “not a good wage” and “a high dev salary” are not the opposite of each other.
Interesting. This has some _why vibes.
You mean Ur-Quan Masters? http://theurquanmasters.com/

A new version is being developed!
> sadly for them Tesla is growing even faster

VW grew significantly faster in bev sales from 2020 to 2021 than Tesla did (and that's talking growth by absolute numbers, not relative).
Three dimensions plotted normally, but then a grid of plots for slices in the two extra dimensions.

Everything are axis-aligned boxes in my idea, so the math is easy for rotating the view. (But to rotate in 5D, you fix on 3 axes, not 1.)
FlowForge Cloud
Instagram forcing users to login to browse
I guess 2022 is the year of the "Paywall". I have been unable to view any of my favorite bands posts on Instagram without being forced to login. This is absurd! Anyone having this issue?
Caesar 3 but with modern graphics.

Loved this game as a teenager.
Ask HN: Honest thoughts on no-code or low-code solutions?
I work for a SaaS product that enables developers to build app-to-user notification systems with minimal code, which I think it genius. But we often get hit with the Twitter comments that absolutely despise no-code or low-code solutions.

I really just want to understand what their concerns are and why the idea of a low-code solution for developers can seem so threatening, when in fact the goal is just to improve the developer experience.
I've been trying to understand for the past 2-3 years who is hiring people with only Github projects forked with some nonsensical updates. I assume it's spam or tricking some very inexperienced non-technical sourcers.
In Partial, Grudging Defense of the Hearing Voices Movement
A lot of the newer RTS are designed so that micro matters a lot less
I wonder if search results will return to the first page of results?
Thanks for taking the time to read! I'm glad you thought it interesting.

I agree with many of your conclusions, for example value creation IS occurring in the crypto space. Your examples of decentralized exchanges for example do solve a problem and increase efficiency.

And excellent - you got the brainteaser exactly! By destroying the dollar the no-arbitrage mechanism doesn't exist anymore and there is no more upwards pressure on the stablecoin to peg it to $1.

I have some other concerns with stablecoins backed by any asset correlated with crypto since it leaves the potential for market manipulation when controlled by a central party. I wrote about that in an earlier blog post too.

I'd be happy to chat about any of this more directly. My email is lawrence.xie90@gmail.com
Startup simulator / business games in general (i.e. run a lemonade stand but multiple industries)
If you have some interest in image processing, and know a little bit of HTML, a program like that would be a great learning project!
This looks like a real useful tool for large projects, it can be quite possible to loose track of what a specific dependancy is used for. I also like the idea of making an import lazy so in monolithic app you could have a deployment that excludes functionality, and exclude its dependancies.

When I read the title I was hoping for something else though, what I would love is a tool that logs and potentially blocks unexpected IO operations on a library basis. With the increasing common supply chain attacks we are seeing (there was a PyPI one just the other day), having a way to at least report on unexpected activity if not help prevent it would be brilliant. Has anyone ever found a tool like that?

(Obviously the ultimate solution would be an outbound firewall, but it seems be that although you can easily do this in a VM or bare metal, I haven't seen any PAAS platforms have that sort of capability)
Rockband was the best for this.
State of the Art in Monte Carlo Ray Tracing for Realistic Image Synthesis (2001) [pdf]
A FOSS fast paced first person shooter with customizable loadouts, user run dedicated servers and community built maps. Think call of duty meets openarena.
These are some very smart academics who have figured out how to get their institutions to fund their parties, and probably became very popular in their social circles
"Part of the myth is thinking that packaging is technology. [...] Microsoft Windows is packaging and conventions. The Macintosh is packaging and conventions. The World Wide Web is packaging and conventions. Underneath these wrappers are the real technologies: TCP/IP, DNS, graphical displays, [...] compression, payment mechanisms, encryption, and so on, but the wrapper is what people see." -Ted Nelson [1]

that being said, this is one bit of “packaging” im particularly grateful for -- by complete coincidence, i found it a few days ago, and the fact that the app is free* and available everywhere means i can finally use my phone as an audio receiver for any computer†. now i can listen to talks with slides on a big screen while i cook or clean at antisocial hours, and let the rest of the house sleep without having to buy a bluetooth DAC (or a pair of wireless headphones‡)

actually kind of funny -- other solutions to this exist on ios but they are in fact paid apps. same goes for various bits of “packaging” that solve similarly trivial problems, which was a part of growing up with apple stuff that was always deeply insulting to me. i recently came across someone singing the praises of a safari extension for user styles. it is two dollars and ninety nine cents on the mac app store. christ. i hope the grift goes well for the author, we've all got to get by somehow, but good fucking lord

* actually free, as in no strings attached, open source, not freemium adware, not sending 24kbps opus of everything that goes through it to some adtech firm's speech recognition neural net

† ive janked together things like an icecast instance -> mobile safari before, but good lord the latency is ass

‡ headphones are such amazing consumer tech. they do not go bad by default. cans from the 80s sound just as good in 2022. wireless headphones throw this out the window and slap an expiration date on. i categorically object on principle

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdnGPQaICjk
Right but that's a different market force! Customer feedback is really effective at redressing provably bad UX but it's a lot harder for that same change to happen in response to a competing manufacturer because in aggregate such a small thing isn't enough to get someone to switch away from Honda entirely.
I did a mostly-true-to-the-paper python implementation a while back, that may be helpful as well: https://github.com/Erik-J-D/microKanren-py
Not to mention that Apple just orphaned a shitload of perfectly viable computers (first-gen Retina iMacs, for example).

I was also baffled to find that TestFlight can't be installed on pre-Monterey Macs. I mean... WTF? That makes no sense. Sure, we can pass DMGs around, but my company is new to Macs and standardizing our QA team on TestFlight on all devices would've been simple.
Security and Political Paranoia in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
If you like the concept, definitely give Bridge Crew a try in VR. It's almost magical being on the bridge, and moving your hands to manipulate controls.
Ok point taken. But above you were mentioning examples of genocide…. I guess we could decompose something like racism (which I guess extends to other ways of categorizing in-group vs out-group) as (1) natural tendencies to group and make judgments based on groups, which as you mentioned certainly exist, (2) media/culture that shapes us on top of our natural tendencies, and (3) the desire to harm/fight/destroy other groups (which is probably a spectrum of intensity).

I guess that (3) is the part that I was saying is often unnatural. (And (2) also of course. I mean it’s clear how Hollywood is a racist propaganda machine for example…) But I guess with genocidal maniacs (or people trying to institute mass control or automation away from human agency) that’s really a question of (3). And of course, there are I’m sure events in those maniacs lives that led them to their views. But certainly they’re not seeing the whole picture, certainly they’re acting out of fear, or to maintain a sense of self-worth or as some other kind of coping mechanism.
If you’re not familiar, RPGs call a similar mechanic to this “active time battle” or ATB—more or less turn-based but the turns are asynchronous and constantly ticking, and if you miss giving an order before one elapses, it’s gone.
I know that’s not what you’re looking for, but maybe the term will help in your search.
I think the constraint here is that you need people to create novel objects with novel functionality in the virtual world and then sell them to have an economy. That might be tricky but if you could solve it well then, your imagination is the limit.
GoodNotes is great! More of a digital sketchbook (and better than Muse if you're focused purely on the inking/sketching part of things).

On paying for software, here's some rationale: https://adamwiggins.com/making-computers-better/pay
I don't understand your comment, I read it twice. Are you making a particular point? Just feels like you're saying a lot without actually saying anything. "I like X but I also don't like X".
I really do feel like AR is the future, moreso than VR.

As technologists we have a tendency to want to build our own world instead of integrate into the real world. It's understandably easier/cleaner, but it strips out all the richness of the real world.
Tried this on one of my projects, it's neat.

python3 -m import_tracker --name datasette --recursive | jq
{
"datasette": [
"aiofiles",
"click",
"markupsafe",
"mergedeep",
"pluggy",
"yaml"
],
"datasette.version": [],
"datasette.utils.shutil_backport": [
"click",
"markupsafe",
"mergedeep",
"yaml"
],
"datasette.utils.sqlite": [
"click",
"markupsafe",
"mergedeep",
"yaml"
],
"datasette.utils": [
"click",
"markupsafe",
"mergedeep",
"yaml"
],
"datasette.utils.asgi": [
"aiofiles",
"click",
"markupsafe",
"mergedeep",
"yaml"
],
"datasette.hookspecs": [
"aiofiles",
"click",
"markupsafe",
"mergedeep",
"pluggy",
"yaml"
]
}

Related tool: pipdeptree - here's the output from that against a project that installs a lot of extra stuff: https://github.com/simonw/latest-datasette-with-all-plugins/...
I look forward to it as well, but I'd be happy with a couple more bugfix rounds on KSP 1. :-)
I agree! This is how the paid VideoMentions.com service works- users can search for channels by name, without the need to paste in URLs. This auto-complete lookup requires spending a finite number of API calls, though, which is why it’s restricted to customers and not available on this freely accessible VideoMentions Search page. Thanks for checking it out!
A hybrid of Kerbal Space Program and DCS. That would basically keep me shackled to a screen for several days on end.
You don't own a domain, you have an object on that blockchain.

There is no gurantee to what that domain name would be resolved to - or rather, since their TLD isn't in the common root, for most it won't resolve at all.
Yeah, anything in the US, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the UK should be considered accessible by the government and shared between the 5 upon request.
Presumably this is a solid core design and since these would never fly in the atmosphere anyway, I've always thought that going all in on nuclear salt water engines would be the way to go [1]. These things are so high performance, I bet even a small/micro one could enable tic tac levels of performance, buts that just a guess.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_salt-water_rocket
This sounds cool if a bit overwhelming.

I always wanted to combine the Sims and Sim City. I imagined a multiplayer mode where you could live in the same city with your friends and your choice of career would allow you to use a different game mode at the SimCity level. E.g. your sim becomes a teacher, so now you decide where to place schools, etc. You have to work as a team to make sure all sims are happy in the city.
I utterly despise the current trend towards the subscription-based model. I want to pay upfront and rid myself of the recurring charges.

Developers: you want recurring income? Welcome to the club. Your income is not my problem.
I don't know if this is a new trend, but there's this idea of news that news is "just the facts". Now I think most reasonable journalists would disagree with this notion, and they would say that news is facts + context. What is the significance of fact A and why does it matter. But I think there is a trend towards defining not just what information the reader should take away, but what conclusions they should reach. And I think there's a growing desire among readers for media to perform this function, but it's not because they need to know what conclusions to reach, but because they want to know that other people are reaching those conclusions.
Corey B. Marion, co-founder of The Iconfactory, dies age 54
Nest devices don't run untrusted code. If you get code running on a Nest display, please let me know how, because I'd love to hack around on mine.
>So maybe we should just refuse to pile on more hacks and force the ISPs to get off their ass and upgrade their networks.

I haven't recently looked at who has deployed what, but is this really it? US ISPs like Spectrum has been handing out IPv6 addresses for years now. My Verizon wireless phone can access IPv6 resources w/o issue as well.

However, show me the cloud services folks are implementing that are dual stack. Start mandating new service deployment is dual stack, and it'll happen. Similar to how the US Govt is pulling it off.
I don't think there are too many folks -- NRA or otherwise -- who are actually campaigning to prevent private organizations from being able to prohibit firearms on their property.

This headline is purporting to create a hypocrisy controversy to score political points -- and it may well work, since people will see what they want to see -- but it's pretty weak sauce. The NRA campaigns (or, at least, purports to campaign) for gun rights, which include the rights of individuals to keep and bear arms, including the right to carry in public.

That's kinda not the same thing at all as saying that (non-State) property owners can't set the rules of entry to their property such that one may not enter while carrying arms.
Yeah, I did notice that the original NTR plans arose from the wish to upgrade Saturn V with its limited "throw weight" at third stage separation (http://www.astronautix.com/s/saturnc-5n.html). It doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to design a propulsion unit for a sixty year old mission architecture today, though.
Honestly, it's a big conception that success in RTS games rely on high APM. Great strategy and macro will get you to the 99th percentile in most rts games. I notice that a lot of players that are in the lower percentiles are those who focus more on trying to improve APM rather than strategy or macro.
> a justice system that can stop the government.

There might be a law that allows government to obtain the data if it is a matter of national security. And what is considered such a matter is up to government to decide.