skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> also a problem e.g. inside Germany. [1]: a major information breach at a car rental company went with literary no consequences, while other cases get fined so high that they can easily fight decisions in court

This is the problem of German regulators being too cozy with incumbents. (Also see: Wirecard.) It's related, in that if you're one of the incumbents a regulator is cozy with, you're going to fight to switch forum to Germany. But it's a different problem with different solutions.
> Yet another major concern is that SwiftUI is very dependent on Combine which is not necessarily the future given other developments in the Swift language. So what if they just decide to, say, deprecate Combine and move further toward actors and async APIs? How much of SwiftUI might just fundamentally change in, say, WWDC this year, completely invalidating years of effort people have put into it?

If you’re talking about Combine vs async/await, I think they’ll continue to coexist because they fill different niches. In the UIKit app I’m responsible for I use both — async/await for things like network calls and Combine for keeping UI state in sync with data.
Contextual Logging in Kubernetes 1.24
I played Tera about 10 years ago, when it was good.

Free market economy, free looting (anyone can get anything) with random distribution, and people could pass on them so the one who needs an item can get it. Everyone could exchange anything person-to-person. It's what made the "mmo" part for me.

There were tons of mechanics that allowed a medium geared person to outdo people with the best gear available - if you invested in crafting, for example, you could craft things that were otherwise unavailable (unless you bought them from someone) and if you used them properly you could smash anyone in PVP and single handedly do 5-7 person dungeons. One mistake and you were dead, though.

I loved the interactions with people. Some of the first moments were one guy who asked to resurrect him, he was just killed by a monster and was like "bro, pls, I don't want to walk all the way here again". So I ressed him, he added me to the friend list, we later went on a lot of hunts and dungeons.

Another time I was sneaking through pvp territory collecting some shit from enemy bases and I got killed by two randoms. They were surprised at my shit gear and said "yo, come back, we'll give you this stuff, we kinda feel bad :D". Went there thinking I'd get killed, but no, they helped and we also became friends.

At some point I was rich and bored and was just running PVP tournaments with my own virtual wealth. People fight, the winner gets 5,000 gold (decent sum) or some gear I had in storage.

Helped a lot of new people gear up, and they helped me.

Dungeons were fun when anyone could enter and re-enter. If someone died, we'd have to be very careful and kite/heal until they come back, and it was a thrill, we liked it. People were thankful for not being called dumb and being kicked. We even gave materials that they needed because they needed it more.

But people have changed these days. The playerbases seem to hate the above mentioned free trade. "oooh, what about real money trading?" "why does he get free gear from his guildmates?" "he gets help, I don't".

You needed to be friendly and work together, and the newcomers just didn't want that. They wanted a single player game with other players in it.

Not to "log in at 7pm EST so we can do X and Y". It wasn't even mandatory in most groups, just log in if you can, apologize if you can't.

But no, people wanted to just log in whenever and work on their own whatever.

Which is exactly what modern MMOs have become. Single player, heavily developer controlled games with a chat.
> Iceland has non-proportional representation for a rather obvious reason. Over 51% of people who live in Iceland live in the capital region. A proportional representation democracy would be identical to a dictatorship.

But Iceland has proportional representation. I wonder whether you mean that it doesn't have at-large proportional representation (i.e. only one district). If so, I tend to agree that merging all of the districts would be a backwards step. Having said that, I still believe it would be far from a dictatorship.
I wrote a simple app last summer using SwiftUI and put it in the AppStore. Fairly easy after taking a short online class.

I agree with many of the negative comments in the article and Apple should get busy resolving issues.

That said, I really like the idea of Swift and SwiftUI and especially Apple’s awesome deep learning support in apps.
> 2) I knew of no major apps (even Apple ones) that had been done with it.

Probably not ‘major’ as in ‘complex’, but I believed the Apple Pay sheet is now Swift UI
I think they'll certainly cover more vehicle segments than Tesla, even with just the VW brand. e-UP through to ID.Buzz
"While a number of scholars claim that a lack of citizen engagement is a fatal problem, significant data suggests otherwise"

They make claims about significant data supporting thus, but don't provide it.

"And because lobbyists for the powerful appear to be the main consumers of transparent government, the evidence (below) suggests that governments function even better without a fully informed citizenry."

This doesn't logically follow. One could make lobbying reforms to curtail the problems associated with that while still allowing transparency for the citizens.

"This is because a republic works in much the same way as one might hire a plumber, roofer, surgeon or a mechanic. Indeed, when citizens choose to hire doctors or mechanics, the evidence is pretty clear that even when it comes to possible life threatening outcomes, few of us choose to become as informed as we likely should."

People still need to be vigilant and I formed when dealing with these professions so they don't get ripped off. People should be educating themselves enough to ask intelligent medical questions. People should seek second opinions. People should educate themselves to know the terminology and basic function of a car so they aren't getting ripped off by a mechanic. To People who view the whole situation and know the details, their example is actually an argument against the point they are making.

"By publishing just the final floor votes, the active citizens can still correlate votes to candidates, but by closing the doors of committees, the lobbyists and other extreme demanders are kept in check."

How did they reach this conclusion that lobbyists would be kept in check? Wouldn't lobbyists still be able to see the floor votes? I see no reason would affect the ability of lobbyists to continue their influence.

Most of the rest of the content are quotes, fluff, and supposition about inequality being related to a lack of secrecy. There's no objective data or links to studies.
A modern Never Winter Nights

A platform that allows anyone to create content for a rpg-action game
That can happen with personalized ads. One point of contextual ads is actually letting you control what is shown besides your content/what context you want your ad to be shown in.

Besides ... most current ads are distasteful regardless of context.
Could be a hard thing to implement. The calender would need access to encrypted mails.
Can't really improve on the (excellent) sibling comment except to note that GOFAI is one of the two legs that recent hybrid neuro-symbolic systems stand on. There is probably a lot of interesting advances for NS hidden away in old GOFAI research papers.
Ask HN: Tips for Improving a Windowless Workspace
I have the unfortunate privilege of working in a space with some irritating qualities that over time have begun to wear on me, such as:

- a completely interior room, with no windows (nor possibility for windows)
- no more than 15' square, with no sightlines from desk any further than the walls
- track lighting with harsh spotlights

I take a lap around the building a few times a day just to let my eyes refocus and to get a glimpse of the sunlight, but that's just a few moments of respite before I'm back into the dungeon. I'm looking for any ideas on how to make this better to sit in all day, because switching rooms isn't an option. Appreciate any help/tips.
I was about to recommend Caves of Qud, being a traditionally inspired rogue-like. However, it encourages slow and careful play over fast play. The game is brutally difficult and the main story long, so a run takes a long time, especially experience the content off the beaten path.

I don't think what it's you're looking for, but I do think it is an incredible game, and I have thoroughly enjoyed my time in it.
Try Wear a N96 or FFP or surgical mask now in the train in NL and people will look at you in the same fashion haha
> the VIPER architecture

< Takes out a foil blanket. Hands you a flask. >
> I like things like the MVVM pattern, but it's been my experience that it's really not such a good idea to implement it in UIKit, because UIKit was designed explicitly for MVC. I have learned that those ugly-ass UIViewControllers are really important, and I circumvent them at my peril.

I agree with everything you've said but this. I've worked on 3 very large app, one which is 85% using mvvm, the two others were still in experimentation phases with it and I am not sure where they've ended up. It's been a joy. The app is designed in a very reactive way and the data flow paths are very clearly defined and easy to follow.

Don't get me wrong the other two apps were heavily MVC with a lot of delegation and that was fine. I could easily switch back to an architecture like that but it's very possible and quite easy to switch over to an mvvm pattern.
Yeah, totally agree you don't need to make it obvious.

But any smart, motivated actor can probably derive who you are from your posts.

You probably give away little hints about yourself, interests, tech you use, etc. Cross referencing with data leaks, public Github commits, LinkedIn profile, the time you usually post here (tells your TZ), etc, it's not far fetched to determine who you are...
...Badly enough. Anyway to sustain high loads when happen my mix is:

- most of my digital life in Emacs/org-mode(org-attach,org-roam,ol-notmuch,...) so (almost)anything is ready at my fingertips, I can have a clear view of anything case by case or build one on the fly with org-ql/zetteldesk etc all in an unique ecosystem, not many different places to look for anything;

- noting most things, especially too offload relevant details and being able to see long/mean terms slow stuff normally not easy to spot and often a source of time waste if not spot in time;

- extensively using email aliases to easy scoring messages, when I'm in a rush I can simply cherry peak mails by alias filtering instead of unread so when I can't do anything I just get exposed to what I can do in a good priority order, well, good as good I can draft it up front, here count notmuch, Emacs, MailDrop and a local-based mail setup;

- reduced number of com channels: people must know that they can reach me ONLY physically, by classic phone (VoIP, few numbers with a small domestic pbx) or mail. No n-th chat apps, no third party modern suite (Meet, Teams, Zoom, WebEx etc);

- anything that can be done quickly done ASAP with the old military adage "if it's a life-or-death urgent: ignore it, they are already dead; if is very urgent next: week might be good; if it's just a bit urgent: tomorrow it's ok; if it's NOT urgent: do it ASAP!!!" so I try to avoid piling up things to have the emptiest pipe possible when a peak arrive, that's the part that work less though...
Why sim city and not cities skylines?

(I don't have an opinion either way, just curious.)
A modern Neverwinter Nights is my dream game.

Tons of user content
Scripting engine
Modern mechanics
Modern systems

It would need to be a platform first.
Star Citizen. But, you know, ahh, actually complete.
Maybe Hell Let Loose?
For Groundhog Day, have you played The Forgotten City? While not a simulation, you do relive the same day over and over.

For time travel, exploiting quick save/load is a sort of backwards time travel.
You know, I think if you take a time machine back to the early 90s you’d see similar sentiment about the internet and internet based companies.

“You want to put CREDIT CARDS on the INTERNET?!”

“You want to replace the POST OFFICE with the INTERNET?!”

“You want people to post details about their day on the INTERNET?!”

Those “snake oil” investments at the time eventually became Amazon, E-mail, and Facebook. The first ideas funded aren’t always the final execution of it (Facebook was not the first social media platform) but the idea is that VC funding spurs innovation and people taking risks with new ideas, which pushes the entire space forward.

People who see the entire crypto space as a “scam” are (in my experience) unaware of the real cryptographic research currently being done. Threshold based signatures, multi party computation, zero knowledge proofs, etc are new tools and primaries to build a better internet and give us better, concretely provable, tools to shape society.

Are there scams in the space? Yep, and I don’t like them just as much as you don’t since they delegitimize the real work being done. But I also see the future Googles, Amazons, and Facebooks of the world emerging from this unique space to do some truly amazing things despite those scammers in the same way that those companies rose from the early internet cesspool of scams and ads.
Have you tried Half-Life: Alyx? VR is a real game-changer (pun intended)!
Couldn't browsers just designate the .local tld to not check for SSL certs and enforce that it resolves to an IP on the current network? Seems like a simple solution for this.
pi-hole is much better and easier to maintain than a per device hosts file
Up to 2x speed up with 20% of the resource consumption, pretty wild performance boost without changing a single line of code!
> We will all survive.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/economic-do...

We absolutely will not. Economic catastrophe leads to misery and death for many.
> you don't care if anyone can?

that's a very bald assumption, my dear friend.

But in practice, yes, it is safe do not care of the possibility that someone is going to inject a script in your blog header, because I am no police officer, I do not work overtime, fighting crime. [1]

Same way I'm not worried that someone is going to steal my car and use it to rob a bank or worse.

> Do you use online banking?

Banks also have guards at the doors.

They handle other people's money, of course they care about it and about the safety of their employees.

Are you a bank?

> Do you care if you transmit your password to your bank account in plaintext?

Not really.

99% of my passwords are passw0rd on websites I really don't care about.

It is much harder, if not impossible, to guess my username.

I bet I am not the only one.

Besides, my bank ask me to confirm any operation in a MFA way.

If they notice something strange, they call me, on my phone, a human calls me.

It's their job.

> Would you really trust a phone number delivered over HTTP?

I've trusted for the majority of my life phone numbers sent unencrypted through wires that everybody could wiretap to and then by email...

Nothing bad ever happened.

Besides, what can happen if you call the wrong number?

I do not believe that the Grudge is a real story.

The point is: no, I am not paranoid.

Common sense is enough 99% of the times.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Z1yLO9C-Q
Unfortunately they don't allow you to both speak and present using the webapp - forcing desktop client use.
T1 remains my favourite Tribes game, especially with the mods (Shifter ftw!). T2 was ok, but too focused on glitz and I didn’t like the change to the skiing mechanic.
Dual Universe but with a good UI/UX
Right, but that's not HTTPS Everywhere.

HTTPS Everywhere was "this site already has HTTPS, and really should only use that, but doesn't, so we'll redirect you to the HTTPS version". Now sites that have HTTPS default to it, and browsers have options to basically try https first and see if it works.
I think that most of the smaller Apple apps are now SwiftUI (and Catalyst).

But the app I'm writing is a good deal more complex than most of the utility apps, and I seriously doubt that the complex apps are SwiftUI. I would not be surprised if many of them are still ObjC.
Great game. Highly recommended.

I want a game like this but as a company simulator with metaphorical roles, with the businessmen from Adventure Time.
> Maybe instead of going through that tough way of reinventing the wheel they should just connect to that dbs directly ;)

There are already a few solutions that do this.

It's not unsafe as long as you're using a DBMS with row-level security (like Postgres) and you have a reasonable query timeout (probably < 1s) to prevent DoS attacks.
If you only care when something affects you/your immediate family, that’s selfishness, not empathy.

Empathy is when you recognize the basic humanity of others and are able to put yourself into their shoes and feel what they feel.
>However they've clearly figured out it's much more profitable to allow the charge and just hit people with (often excessive) overdraft and over credit limit fees.

Wait, so which one is it? Do banks want to exclude people with overdrafts because they're bad customers (for whatever reason) or do they want those people because they can rake in the overdraft fees?
The problem with SwiftUI is what Apple seems to consider its advantage: that it hides complexity from the developer (see their “Avocado toast maker” analogy in one of the WWDCs). The reason this is a problem is because sometimes you do need to break out of the paradigm, and doing so is basically always painful. At least with UIKit and AppKit you are always in full control. Complex apps will break out of the SwiftUI box all over the place, destroying the benefits. You can usually hack things to make it play with SwiftUI nicely, but it always feels like a hack.

One example I had was trying to put an ObservableObject into UserDefaults for persistent storage. There’s not really a nice way to do this. SwiftUI only knows how to store basic scalar values in UserDefaults. That kind of makes sense, because UserDefaults is only meant for small amounts of data, but what if I want to save a struct that has two fields? Trying to do this in SwiftUI is actually quite painful and that is a very simple example. Another pain point is app navigation which basically does not work properly at all.

Though one very nice thing is that it’s quite easy to use a SwiftUI view from UIKit

Overall though, somehow a far worse experience than using something like React
Exactly.

My partner has inherited a big project and collection that meant everything to their Dad. He would always say, I want this taken on etc. But when push comes to shove, the prospect/reality of inheriting someone else's hobby/business, which requires years and years of work with no return just feels more and more bizarre and absurd. But you feel indebted and horrible not carrying through with wishes.

Never mind a pile of junk. You can just inherit a big pile of problems.
I'm really enjoying Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic

It lets you control a small country and build basically everything from scratch, factories, railways, housing.

Honestly it hits most of the points you describe above.
I'm a fellow freelancer. I don't, save for a very rough set of guidelines. May or may not be helpful, but I stressed out a lot about this when I got my start and found the "hippie" approach works quite well:

- Wake up as early as your body allows. I'd rather be on a 10-6 schedule fully rested than a 9-5 schedule just to fit societal expectations.

- Work as long as your body allows (as soon as you start to get foggy, stop or take a break).

- Eliminate tedious distractions (disable notifications, turn your phone off, etc) but if you need some "noise," have a long-form podcast or interview in the background.

- Don't get too caught up in systems (unless they help). Just have a running awareness of what needs to be done and "bins" (in the GTD sense) where you write down what comes next. Paper, an app, doesn't matter.

- Do the work until it's done. Deadlines are a manager's tool that shift people's focus away from the work on to meeting the deadline/manager's expectations. I've found the less awareness I have of this, the higher quality of work I can produce and less stress.

- Accept that you are you. Everyone is different, there is no fixed way to get things done. Experiment and find what works and then do that, adjusting as necessary.
They paid a service and expect that service to follow the law.

That’s not bad at all.
I apologize to the people who bought into this pattern but what was anyone thinking? Just reading through how it was supposed to be done set off so many red flags I never even considered it. There is so much useless abstraction it makes no sense.
They could just give them the money after something passes as a reward. At that point it doesn't matter if a specific individual voted for it in a secret vote or not.
Thanks, it would have. I see you are the author, what types of applications do you use flomat for?
How many random people do you think will answer "yes" if you ask them if they 1) know what IPv6 is, and 2) if they want it?

Yeah, maybe some ISPs should be listening to their customers more (I heard tales of ISPs in the US), but in this they're not wrong: consumer demand really is low.

I've switched between IPv6-connected and IPv4-only quite a few times over the last 20 years due to moving to different countries with different options and was a fairly "early adopter" back in the day with the tunnels XS4ALL had, and even as a technical person I can't say I ever noticed the difference.
FPS where you are an animal or an insect in an urban environment.
Like a game where you are a cat surviving on a neighborhood, looking for food, avoiding dangers, even fighting with other cats.
Or a game where you are a spider in a garden, catching other insects, hiding from predators.
Or a game where you are a bird, flying in the city, making a nest in the trees, looking for food.
2. Life Is Strange? The ability of the protagonist to rewind time is a central feature to the game.
fuuuuuck this would be an amazing game. There are so many directions you could take it. Imagine having to get into the next door backyard, but there's a dog. You have to sneak into the bathroom, find some sleeping pills, then sneak the pills into the dog's food bowl.

It would be like a cross between The Last of Us, Hitman, and The Secret World of Arrietty.
More email addresses. And a catch-all for custom domain.
I want a game with a metagame of breeding/evolution. Cross and mutate your pets to see how they face obstacles and overcome challenges. Watch them get born and die. Watch the shape of the family tree: will it split into specialized subtrees? Will you accidentally lose some genetic diversity you need to progress?

Massive Chalice was a great example, where the pets metagame was about managing a dynasty of fighters, and at the lowest level it was a tactical fighter. The genetics system was relatively simple, and I want to see what it's like when it's developed further.
Well it's fun until logistics goes on strike and demands changes: https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/foxhole-players-launch-...
It seems like there could be two kinds of customers at a bank. One who doesn't get to operate on credit or overdraft protections, but still can us the bank as a means to keep their money safe while allowing customers who can be trusted to still use those extra resources.

Seems like a win win for everyone. Banks should probably be required to allow at least a minimal bank account even to people who aren't the best with their money.
The DoD's use of Solatia and condolence payments in Iraq and Afghanistan (2007)