skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of. I picture it as being a function of input to output, so if the input changes, the output does too, but the output change is based on what changes have been made by the player.

E.g. if you have a hospital which can handle X patients per day and has a reputation of 90 when doing so, increasing the number of patients to 2x would probably decrease the reputation. You don't need to model the full hospital to determine this though, just have a "max patients" value which, when exceeded, puts a fractional multiplier on the output.
Funny that you mention this, Ion thrusters do exist. They are a thing but with very limited uses cases. They still need a kind of propellant gas like Xenon or Krypton that gets used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_thruster
Oh, hey, I used that. During the OS 101 course at UQÀM. It was alright. Less of a game and more of a tool to wrap around learning exercises though.
There are so many web based ascii text generators out there. What sets this one apart?

Edit: looks like all those web based ascii text generators are just using figlet under the hood.
Australia confiscated 650k guns. Murders and suicides plummeted
Not really. The horizontal gene transfer pool is local - you'll find microsystems where the plasmid or gene segment is present, but unless the gene itself provides some fitness benefit to the host, it will be outcompeted in general.

You'd expect a tiny reservoir of the gene to remain in circulation in heavily plastic polluted areas with low nutrient density, but you wouldn't expect the gene to represent a gain of function phenotypic change to the general microbe population.

When these hybrids are initially created, they'd likely be created via transfected plasmids that produce a ton of the enzyme - the fitness downside for a bacteria to produce a non-mutated version of the plasmid would be phenomenally large.

In the same way that we can create little insulin factory bacteria, our little plastic enzyme bacteria are not going to turn the world into grey goo; they're literally parasitized and weaker than wildtype at existing in the wild. If they weren't, they'd be the wildtype.
I want this as well. I loved Runescape as a kid and OSRS is fun, but it really doesn't feel like I'm the target audience anymore.

One thing I've loved is their concept of Leagues. I would love a game like OSRS that has a persistent mode and a sort of seasonal Leagues type mode.

Also a game with improved running mechanics. Running feels awful compared to other games you can play these days.

And improved PvP; the wilderness is a cool concept, but I think it would work better to have a duplicate world "underneath" the regular world that's the exact same but with faster xp and rewards along with the risk of player killers.

Also better afk-ability, since the game is meant to be played over extended periods of time.

Supported macro-ability and better inventory management?

These things will never end up in OSRS because they'll ruin the way the game has been played, but I really want a game that checks these boxes.
Planetside did this, but I definitely think it’s an idea that hasn’t been truly fulfilled yet
Existing multiple decades ago and being available on just about every FOSS operating system.
> An updated version (with a better plot) would be amazing.

Uh, yeah, I'm pretty sure you couldn't get away with "a plague killed most of the women so the few remaining ones are all breeding-queens of warrior bands and you have to try to capture them" in the 2020s, even as kind of a joke. But the plot also didn't really matter, so it could be anything. You really want the other guys' donuts. Or something. Doesn't matter, it was really just arena tank CTF with limited base-defense-building.
Are the video transcripts searchable?
How to monitor an Umbrel server running a Bitcoin node with Grafana Cloud
I think the backlash is due to two things: the audience and the limitations no/low-code solutions often have.

Having worked at Microsoft on VBA-related things, I can attest without a doubt that no code automation (e.g. record a macro) are extremely powerful. VBA did give you the right tooling allowing someone with no coding experience to start tweaking macros generated by the recorder. The macros created by these often end-up being business critical. After having talked to so many huge customers, I'm convinced VBA powers at least a single-digit percentage of the world's economy.

That being said, the code of the macros often end up being a huge unmaintainable mess. Creating a lot of aversion from actual pro devs to it.

No-code solutions also end up being great for a few use cases, but fail at making complete products. It's the classic 80/20 problem where the last 20% still matters a lot. As soon as you want to step out the the guard rails, you often hit a wall.

I think no/low-code can be great and actually think VBA was awesome (well, not the language, but the platform). But, after having seen so many platforms that can't do anything more than a simple demo, I don't blame people for being doubtful about them in general.
> If you buy an electric car from a car company, you get physical controls...

Not sure I agree with that. Even Porsche are doing touch screens, unfortunately.
If I hired someone, and found out that they lied during their interview about anything at all, they'd be fired, period. I could not trust someone who lies during an interview to make ethical decisions in the future. Honesty doesn't have to mean full disclosure. You can be honest while keeping some facts to yourself.

Here's a good example:

I was taking some time off for voluntary reason when I became ill. I was
lucky enough to be able to afford treatment and to delay my re-entry to the workforce until I became confident that my health wouldn't be a hindrance.

Just keep it simple and be honest.

I realize that there's a stigma attached to certain types of illnesses or disabilities, and it may seem tempting to make an excuse or cover rather than being honest. However, in addition to the likely inevitability of the deception being discovered, there's a worse possibility:

One young man I know (Calling him Bob, not his name) interviewed with a friend and colleague of mine (calling her Alice), but didn't get the job. I checked in with Alice to find out what happened, thinking that at least I could get Bob some useful feedback. It turns out that Bob had rated well on skills related to the job. However, he'd been so cagey about a six-month work history gap that the interviewing committee thought it likely that he'd worked some job not on his resume and was fired for cause, perhaps for stealing or sexual harassment or "something else big".

Bob was so afraid of the company finding out that he'd been in psych care after a major trauma, that he led them to believe he was a criminal.

Honesty really is the only good policy.
> discussed since the early 1960s. I've taking part in such discussions myself since the mid 80s.

You have me beat, if being older is winning. But I was lurking on comp.lang.lisp before web browsers were a thing too...

> Lisp does not have an 'arbitrary' indentation and closing brace style.

Heh, that word seems to bother both you and kazinator. I didn't mean it as an insult. :-)
> The tooling is best-in-class.

Something .net users should keep in mind is that much of that tooling is proprietary and can only be used in ways that Microsoft approves of. The debugger is proprietary and can only be used with the official vs code builds. The same with the extension marketplace and popular vs code features like live share.

You can't use the extension marketplace with unofficial forks/distributions of vs code like vscodium, gitpod, etc.
NASA Moves Ahead with Wild Solar Sail Concept
Diffractive Lightsails
Local non-venture backed companies are always hiring entry level software developers. Look at Craigslist posts in Philly suburbs or Cincinnati or Denver or other tier 2/tier3 tech cities and their suburbs.

They cannot compete with venture backed companies so they take what they can get. All they'd love is to be able to hire a smart, ambitious person and train them and pay them well (for the area).

Excellent quality of life if you choose to do it longterm and great stepping stone if you need something now and want to move to NYC or SF later.
Congrats on the success! Any chance of an Android version of that app? I'm glad you made a 5/3/1-specific app; I've always had to shoehorn 5/3/1 into some other "Build your own routine" apps and it's always been clunky at best.
One point that's not being discussed enough -- using SwiftUI (since it's heavily value-typed / struct-based) prevents a whole host of problems around retain cycles, typically the bugbear of iOS dev. I recently built an iOS app from scratch with recent grads with zero Swift experience (but had done React).

It was ~2mo before they even had to learn what a retain cycle was, and that was from using UIKit.

Of course you still eventually see this if / when you use `@ObservedObjects` and their implementation, but in our case we were also using https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-composable-architecture which hides this away as well.
If you don’t mind learning a board game or a handful of UI quirks, Board Game Arena’s real-time mode more-or-less does this. And they have some great games on there, too.

https://en.boardgamearena.com/
Boeing's Starliner faces one more challenge as it returns to Earth
Dyson Sphere Program is a decent mashup of Factorio and Planetary Annihilation, IMO. You might enjoy it.
This speaks to a strong nuance, its not only the closed inbound ports meaning no external network attacks, the strong identity allow the user to be anywhere (home, coffe shop, holiday) rather than tied to an IP while Sec team also get massively visibility of exact who/which identity (rather than IP) is accessing what and when. Its a stronger security, better visibility, greater velocity with higher automation.
I want to try it but upon Mac download, it requires an email to proceed. Apple sign-on or Hide my email don't populate as an option.
I just realized now that many of the web based ascii text generators use figlet under the hood. I wish I could delete my comment but I seem to be unable to.
Congrats! This is really no small achievement, being able to make a profit while making mobile apps is no little thing.
I saw your comment that you made the app in Flutter, how come that you didn't release it then for Android?

Also a separate question, I do wonder what was your thought process for coming up with the idea for the app? Do you keep somewhere a list of app ideas, or was this one you have been dreaming about some time?

Keep going and I wish you much more success!
Much appreciated! And yeah the "Apple tax" isn't awesome but lots to be said for user trust on being in the App Store, a frictionless purchase experience, etc.
Hacker News is protected from this by Section 230 of the CDA.

Credit bureaus aren't covered by the CDA since they aren't online or interactive information providers.
I believe that 10x developer is real, but it's not that a particular person is 10x faster/better than another, it's more that in the right circumstances, when intrinsic motivation, a clear vision, having the right tools for the job and knowing them well, understanding the problem space, having the right fit with methodology and scale, etc.. -- when everything lines up anyone will be 10x as productive as other people who aren't as well aligned. The cases where I've seen (or been) the 10x person have always been because I've been operating with different assumptions and approaches, or using different tools that were a better fit for the problem.

If your development feels 10x slower than it could be, go back and look at where the time is going. I guarantee it won't be actually going to development. A simple example, maybe people are spending 9x writing useless tests and integrations or writing abstract code for things that will only ever be one concrete implementation in the real world. Yet in a different context coders could be spending 9x of their time firefighting and fixing releases because you don't have enough automated testing, or spending time hacking up a monolithic uberclass because it wasn't abstracted enough. It's not that one of those is right and the other is wrong, it's that one is a much better fit for the situation.

Similar with motivation (are people excited to solve the problem?), with having a clear idea of what you're building, etc. Every one of those is a multiplier. It can be a 1.5x or a 0.8x. You stack those up, and a 1.2x motivation * 1.3x "fast deploy mindset" * 2.0x clear vision = 3x, but 0.8x low motivation * 0.7x write a bunch of useless boilerplate * 0.9x "we're all building different things" rapidly turns into a 0.4x productivity.
Totally aware! Huge fan of both. However I think I in general prefer the overall vibe and lore or Starflight to SC2 myself. Both series are great though.
An official MechWarrior/Battletech game in VR.
A bit of both. It's clear Reddit hasn't made the best technical decisions via the redesign, and the constant drive to get people to use the app has likely driven away some veteran users.

But it's also because Reddit is growing more and more popular, and eventually the demographics will to match the population as a whole rather than a self selecting, more dedicated sample of it. Hence ypu get the same idiocy as in other situations and on other large social media services.
I'll the contrarian stance. Through a certain lens, packaging is technology, technology is packaging. The two are indistinguishable.

TCP/IP is merely a given package of conventions around how bytes should be ordered. Compression even more so! Encryption is likewise just a set of conventions and packaging around how to transmit bytes. So on and so forth.

In the physical domain this holds true as well. Any given piece of physical equipment is merely a packaging and rearrangement of other physical components together.

Okay so what's the upshot of all this besides word games? By thinking of technology as simply packaging, we can reuse a lot of the prior work that people use to create packaging in how we think about technology as well as explain a lot of technological trends by analogy with how packaging works. We also should realize the opposite direction as well: a lot of packaging concerns are fundamentally the same as technological concerns and many similar trade-offs are made.
There are different ways of thinking about it.

I was a representative of the state committee of the Green Party in New York State circa 2004 which is an elected position and I felt tension between: (1) What I personally thought was right and (2) what my constituents thought was right. Sometimes those agreed and sometimes they didn't. Somebody might praise a politician because he has strongly held beliefs that he sticks to, somebody else might praise a politician because he listens to the people. Many great politicians do a bit of one and a bit of the other.
Gravity Force + Elite
1. A coop game like Fallout: New Vegas. Post apocalypse. Deep story / lore. Ethical dilemmas.

2. The game TIS-100 was supposed to be a minigame in.
Only on Apple devices?
Totally different game of course, but this reminded me of Katamari Damacy! In many levels you start tiny in a room somewhere, and have to roll up paper clips and thumb tacks in order to grow and roll up successively larger things, while avoiding gigantic pets, and so on. Apart from being hilarious and sometimes challenging, I also found it an interesting psychological effect to come back to the same place when you're 100 times larger, now able to roll up humans, cars, the entire house... :)

Katamari is a casual game (I prefer this genre) but now I wonder if there would be some way to make a more "simulationist" game that uses this scaling effect somehow.
"Taking care of a sick relative" is an accurate statement here that avoids all considerations of stigma.
The Features/Tips/User Guide/Download header is slightly broken. The Features anchor appends a fragment to the current URL, which produces .../linux.html#features on the Linux download page.
I've had a lot of fun with foldable devices!

From the UI challenges to fixing various OS issues, they're super fun to play with and explore!

Right now, I really like the X1 Fold with Windows 11: it still feels so weird to unfold my tablet! It's a fun device!

Also, it's hacker friendly: after fixing the most obvious stuff, I'm now digging into more obscure issues, like the 0x9F power issues: the fun thing is, they are common to quite a few devices, like the frame.work: https://community.frame.work/t/windows-11-bsod-bug-check-0x9...

...yet nobody has solved them yet!

Intel SST (IntcAudioBus.sys) seems to be the cause: it has a suspend eisenbug where the watchdog can fail, taking down the whole device. That made me learn about IRP and how power saving works on Windows.

The latest Intel SST drivers are proposed as a solution, but based on my test, they only make the bug occur less frequently: it's very visible on foldable tablets are go into sleep several times per day.

Some people are happy with disabling PCIe ASPM, but I don't find that very fun or daring: I want to know precisely what is happening, and if there can be clever workarounds like toggling ASPM for the PCIe device to a given state right before suspend.

This is also my first time playing with WinDbg and that's a lot of fun too!

Sites like https://www.sysnative.com/forums/threads/the-complete-guide-... and were helpful: https://bsodtutorials.wordpress.com/2020/01/17/debugging-sto...

Now I can go from a "0x9F_5_IMAGE_IntcAudioBus.sys" event message into the rabbit hole :)
I've use figlet, then later toilet for readable log messages.

apt-get install toilet

toilet --filter border --font future compile starting
Just use a regular data center.
Azad - from Ian Bank’s player of games: not in its avatar as an entrance exam for Azadian civil services, but just for the complexity and sheer range implied by the game.

Then, Thud, the game loosely described by Sir Terry Pratchett in Thud!
True mostly! OEMs are the largest non-enterprise market, and they do (roughly) the same types of testing and validation a enterprise customer would though.

No one is going to be selling a million laptops with a drive from RandoDriveManuGoodBrand off Amazon with no track record and no validation.

Anyone buying the non-name brand types of drives knows they're getting (at best) something that might only work a little while before exploding.

The name brands like Samsung, et. al. work hard to make their firmware not grenade something (and the drives overall to be AT LEAST as reliable as their competitors) BECAUSE they want the name to mean something. It is what drives customers their way, most of the time.

If they get a reputation as a company selling junk (cough Deskstar/Deathstar) that costs them billions over many years.
For me I think the answer is Star Citizen, I've always wanted a immersive space sim where I can explore other planets, fly cool space ships, and have space battles. The game is still in alpha and will likely be there for awhile longer with the scope they are trying to accomplish. With that said I thought I would try it after years of hearing about it during one of their free fly events and I love it, sure it isn't finished and has a fair share of bugs but it is so immersive it is kinda unreal at times and has many times left me just in awe.

Other games I wish more existed are puzzle games like Myst and Obduction. I want a puzzle game that makes me think outside the box and encourages discovery. I understand though why those games take so long to make and many puzzle games go for easier "puzzle" minigames because that appeals to a larger audience and is a lot easier to program.
> It's absurd we in the US allow Tiktok as a Chinese company to operate their service while they chase Uber and Airbnb and others out of their country.

"The official website www.tiktok.com of the overseas version of TikTok is currently blocked by the Great Firewall... "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok
A baroque space opera CPRG. Baldur's Gate, but in a sweeping interstellar setting.
And "over half" of their employees apparently took on the debt.

Source: https://twitter.com/theryanking/status/1493609864534315014
It depends on what no-code/low-code is used for.

When used properly, no-code and low-code platforms are great. They let a much broader population of non-developers build things and automate workflows. Even for people with an engineering background, they're often just simpler and faster to use than writing code from scratch. One of the best uses I've seen for these platforms is when prototyping a new startup or product idea–you can invest a few hours of work to build something that can demonstrate a proof of concept.

However, the vast majority of the time I see low-code platforms being used at scale in an enterprise setting, they're being used in ways that create more problems than they solve. The core problem is that these platforms aren't built in a way that encourages maintainability and collaboration at scale.

Why? When using a no-code/low-code platform, you're still building software, even if you're not writing a single line of code. And if you're trying to collaborate on that software with other people, you'll want things like version control, code reviews, unit testing, dev/prod environments, etc. Most NC/LC platforms don't provide any of this.

I'm working on a startup, https://www.airplane.dev/ where we're building a platform that lets people create internal tools more easily, and it's technically a low-code approach, but it's very different than most of these "siloed" app builders out there. You can express everything as code and version control it, write unit tests against it, etc.
Excellent, congrats!

Can you elaborate on IAPs (or other insights)? The app is free, yes? Then what can users buy while using the app?
Here is my take:

- If you do some sizable project, you will certainly infringe some (or maybe many) patents.

1. Not all infringed patents are defended in trials, at least for one reason, how do the owner knows you are infringing on their patent?

2. If you are a company with deep pockets and facing a small company, you do not risk much by infringing some patents, as you could financially struggle your opponent.

3. If your company does not have deep pockets, or if the patent holder also have deep pockets, you have a problem. IMO the best strategy is:

3.1. Make a patent survey before entering production.

3.2. If the patent holder looks like a reasonable entity (a well known company) try to license the offending patent.

3.3. Do not disclose sensible information to make it harder to detect a patent infringement. For example do not say your modem uses this algorithm, but say you obtained performance the double of your competitors. For a layer this diminishes the possibility that you are using a derivative of someone else's technology as you are much better than them.

3.4. It's always possible to take a patent and change one or two claims in order to tell that what you do, is very different from the original patent.

3.5. In a trial don't count on the judge expertise, or understanding. Don't count on prior art. They will make their decision on points they understand, and they most probably do not understand your technology. The result is often surprising.
this is one of the greatest trailers i've ever seen its hilarious!

those **ing pirates!

im going to buy this and play it!
If I accept the premise that "the field of history is not an exact science" (which, to be clear, I do), it does not logically follow that this makes historians particularly ideological.

Both may certainly be true (which I believe), but it's not a very good argument.
The game idea I documented about a decade ago and have yet to start on because I never pushed myself to spend the required time to learn the C programming language enough to do it.