skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The largest crop by water usage is used to feed horses. Alfalfa is 18% of all water, and 4% of farm revenue. The farmers only pay 7% of the price that city dwellers in LA pay per unit of water. Beyond that, tree nuts are a widely cited crop that uses excessive water.

Point is, we probably can reevaluate how much we “need” this crops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_in_California
A modern tactical game that rivals Final Fantasy Tactics. Heck, I'd be happy with a PC port of War of the Lions.
I think "Pockit" is a pretty fun piece of tech https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30615959
I've found books surprisingly hard to get rid of. Local recycling center doesn't take them, and they are pretty heavy so you can't set out a big bin full of them for trash collection. Used bookstores are extremely picky about titles, authors, and condition. Listing and selling on eBay is not worth the time for the tiny amount of money you may make, and most of them don't even sell.

I mostly just end up throwing them away a few at a time.
YouTube's search results will show you like 10 results of the thing you actually searched for, then resort to a section of completely random video suggestions unrelated to your search in hopes some thumbnail will draw your attention and suck you back in to wasting your time watching videos and being served ads.
> patches became somewhat slower after update.

Could this be a form of assisted obsolescence, in which a user who has owned a device for a few years is being subliminally urged to buy a new model?
Are you looking for a good lie or something? A positive framing of the truth is probably the better option.
Honestly, you don't even need that much.

There are plenty of other citing styles that are non-obtrusive, including those that use footnotes and/or hyperlinks.
Came here to say this, but just asteroids / O'Neil cylinders.

I (was going to say personally, but actually this is exactly what O'Neil said) find Mars settlement to be an unpleasant pipe dream compared with these options.

But, in the context of a game, Mars might be more fun.
Pakistan city fearful after hitting 51C
Haiti needs a stronger national identity, but it is so often victim of first world saviors that I think it will continue to struggle.

Most of the immigrants (to the US) that I've met from Haiti do not speak favorably of the country and have no intention of ever returning.
Rock Band 3 was pretty close to that game for me. It convinced me to get real drum training and to learn the keyboard.

I want to play a game where all the NPCs are AI trained with Seq2Seq neural networks. I have been trying to write the game off and on for a while, but it's not easy to write. There are some things that come pretty close, but are not quite there.
I would like to have a civilization where you start on earth and then mid-game you launch your rockets and colonize another planet with aliens.
It's a lot of work. That alone is reason enough for a lot of newspapers. But I also kind of agree. While truth and sources are important and I would like newspapers to list sources and citations more often, the narrative is an important element.

The author of the original article mentions that a publication they read would not be intelligible without citation because you lose the context. I don't think just switching citations on and off is a viable form of marrying good narrative and academic standards.
I agree.

I get why the trade off is worthwhile on smartphone.

But I hate the push in automotive application. Yes, I'd like a big screen for navigation, but don't replace HVAC controls.

It's not just about touch screen. There is overuse of capacitive buttons in cars. And it is all about dollars.
> This just two weeks after California decided not to build a water desalination plant since it wasn't "necessary".

Wow! $97.5 Billion surplus (estimated costs was $1.4 Billion for this plant) and still this couldn't be passed? This will not end well.

California has spent most of the last 15 years in drought conditions. Its normal wet season that runs from late fall to the end of winter was especially dry this year and as a result 95% of the state is classified as in severe drought.

0: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/amid-drought-california-...
To elaborate: Suppose I said, "Your [loved one] is a rando." That clearly is a negative statement implying that their behavior is irrational (i.e. random).

Urban Dictionary has an entry starting "an unpredictable, awkward and often creepy individual..."
Somewhat similar: https://store.steampowered.com/app/962130/Grounded/
The best is when you push your changes when your users are most likely to be invested in the correct behavior of the system.
I built something similar to this when I was first learning to program. Except mine lets you perform a one-time search for videos containing keywords, similar to how you would normally search YouTube. So there are no notifications or anything.

https://phrasefinder.net

I don’t know if it even works anymore and I’m sure the code is atrocious. But I remember that I would just scrape YouTube pages for video IDs, and then use an API that returned video captions for a given ID [1]. I could see how OP would do something similar.

[1] https://pypi.org/project/youtube-transcript-api/
Edmunds comes to the same conclusions independently [1]. Maybe Tesla's efficiency is overstated? No idea.

ID.4 seems to outperform their WLTP/EPA range numbers whereas most Model 3s seem to under-perform in the real world. Maybe VW has learnt from the Diesel scandal.

[1] https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/electric-car-range-and-cons...
> It most definitely defeats the purpose.

Why?

If your password manager password is compromised, you're pretty screwed no matter how you slice it. For most people that use a password manager, I would guess that exposing their main password is an unlikely scenario. Loss/theft of a phone seems much more likely, and in that scenario, you're exactly as screwed as you would be if you had all of your 2fa codes in your password manager.
Sorry, that's not it. I can't find it. It's a trilogy.
Similar to the sibling comment, I think the multiplayer recursive nature is what would set this game apart. The overarching theme being the exploration of the concept of fate, how much is within your control, and how much predestiny might play a role. And to be clear, I'm entirely non-religious, so there isn't a deeper agenda here.
I'd like a modern day remake of Sony's Infantry. The community was a large part of it too, so it's not just remaking the game (itself) and calling it a day.

I know there's http://www.freeinfantry.com/, but for whatever reason, I haven't gotten into it.
Have you played Outer wilds? It's a great game that works like that.
Intended by who or what?

Like if there is some entity that just gets what they want it doesn't really matter that you feel controlled, because you are.
Have you ever tried presenting any facts to anyone?

The word "fact" is very very sloppy.
You're absolutely right. Its an interesting solution to the problem but I'm not sure what additional benefit this solution bought them that isn't covered by standard paradigm of VPN w/ role based access controls. (at least for user access)

They did however correctly identify the fact Jenkins is pretty much the holy grail of targets for bad actors and hackers. Failing to identify this has caused more then fair share of known hacks (to not Jenkins specifically but any build/automation system that has the required insane levels of access).

A strict VPN locked down and for external ingress access of automated actions a restrictive proxy sitting on the edge significantly lowers the attack surface. Operationally also much cheaper to maintain.
I've been looking at buying this for a while, you're shrunk and have to survive living outside in your backyard: https://store.steampowered.com/app/962130/Grounded/
Sure, which is the version I'd probably read all the time. I'm just saying you can worship at the altar of the pageview and offer citations at the same time with no downside, aside from less ability to bullshit the reader.
Ask HN: What movie do you wish existed? Specially adaptations
I would really love to know what kind of movies that do not exist, you guys would love to see.
I would love to see the narnia series finish as movies.
Yeah. 1,300,000 to 6,500 (not counting the dependencies). While the previous devs obviously had programming experience, it was clear they were quite green in Swift/iOS.

Customer value was that the OG app was crashing like 1 in every 6 uses. Updated app was crash free. Plus, added two new features during the rewrite.
How about explaining why you have a bunch of animations in a UI to begin with?

Animations are so often an ill-advised, interaction-slowing pain in the ass for users that I'm curious about beneficial and non-annoying use cases.
Autocalc this battle??
Check jets’n’guns 1&2, if not yet!
>>> "However the first thing that happens is it begins playing audio."

Yeah. In the same boat and my wife like to play pranks when she uses the car. Turns the volume to max right before removing the key. When her phone is not found it defaults to radio. That "saved me" from having to drink my morning coffee in the office on more than one occasion + it's good training for the heart.

Edit: Forgot to mention that the volume knob is ignored until the system fully boots up and the audio starts as soon as you twist the key.
Halcyon 6 could be this, but ended up having far too many grinding fights.

For me, the main appeal of SC2 and first Mass Effect game was a sense of a huge undiscovered galaxy where the wonders are. The joy of finding your first rainbow world was immense.
I enjoyed that read although I kinda wonder about the "The New York Times is Wrong About Hati" when the author notes that ... they're also right in general?

>While I have some criticisms, most of the historical facts are correct. There are places where I could nitpick, but most of the facts are solid. I think the problems with the articles are in tone and in conclusions. In many places, we do not have enough evidence to infer what they conclude. The NYT claims to solve a jigsaw puzzle, then it only shows one-third of the pieces and they aren't even connected properly.

I read the NYT article and even not being well versed in Hati I wondered about some of the lines the author(s) drew in the articles.

I would argue "The NYT's conclusions are questionable / at best debatable" but I'm also not sure that makes for a good title.

Maybe this gets drowned out in the "OMG NYT" kinda responses but I think there's a space where the information is correct, but the conclusions are up for debate in newspapers. Granted they also should make that clear.

I also think that the NYT article(s) could have been better, and this critique of them is valid too... and both existing is healthy / ok.
A legit Robotech VR game with the original characters.
Starcraft 3
Whats up with all the bot replies on this one? Very strange
I've been playing this with my kids and we're having fun! It's also on Xbox Game Pass, in case you're a subscriber and want to try the game.
How does it compare to Jamulus for remote jam session use case?
Wax: The Word Processor for the Web
An open-source MOBA similar to Heroes of the Storm. I want the community to be able to tweak and experiment with creating new maps, heroes, and game modes.

Heroes of the Storm is my favorite game, but development has stagnated. There's still a lot of potential for exploring new and innovating ideas within the genre, but things have stagnated thanks to the dominance of League of Legends and DotA2.
The amount of death and destruction that the recession/depression is expected to cause to certain parts of the third world is tantamount to genocide. For those of us in the "laptop class", sure, we will be impacted adversely (and especially those who didn't plan for it, despite all of the red flags in the past 10 years), but it's hardly the same thing. I should be fine, as I have a comfortable, government job, but I fear for many of my friends who already were living paycheck-to-paycheck and will be like deer in the headlights once their jobs are impacted.
The last migration referenced in that paper, of the Eskimo-Aleut population in the circumpolar regions, occurred 9000 years ago and the back migrations discussed occurred in that time frame, so 7000 years before the Xiongnu confederation.

If I missed something and they mentioned a back migration contemporaneous with the Xiongnu, please point it out.
My story? 10x developers don't exist. I've worked with incredibly smart people -- geniuses, even -- who contributed ideas and value that I never could, but they weren't "worth" or performing at 10 times the rate of an average developer. They were valuable in their own ways, but never irreplaceable, and certainly came with their own problems; e.g. antisocial behaviors, inability to collaborate well, inability to document and explain their code so that others could maintain it.

Don't chase 10x developers; chase people with soft skills who can work as a team. A team of five people working well together is worth far more than any hypothetical 10x dev.
Thank you for answering this.

I thought of using user indexes by order of connection or user last active time but if you're not worried of the security implications of wall clock and time skew.

Hyperhyperspace project has a previous field on the CRDT operations and can issue undo events to reverse operations.

I suspect you could have a time validator service that is a node that issues revocations if times are in the future. It wouldn't be on the read or write path and it's more to validate that times aren't in the future.
> but the microKanren interface is rather inconvenient to use

What specifically would make it easier? I'm not that familiar with miniKanren. Is it stuff covered by the convenience macros from the paper?
This is such a stupid comparison that I can't believe I'm making it but Puzzle Pirates actually did a lot of this. You'd sail around on ships for the navy, "fighting" pirates (via competitive puzzles) to earn a wage. You start with a tiny, default shack and a cot, but could buy larger properties and better furniture. If you saved up enough, you could buy your own ship, and become a pirate yourself – or go straight and buy actual in-game businesses to start selling wares: https://yppedia.puzzlepirates.com/Shoppe_management

It lacked every ounce of the beautiful simulated West I love in Red Dead, but the core gameplay mechanics you're talking about are all there.

...I'm speaking in past tense but apparently it's still around? https://store.steampowered.com/app/99910/Puzzle_Pirates
figlet, cowsay and tractorgen are the essentials on any UNIX machine
Bolt announces layoffs
Yes, each request can explicitly (well, not for the end user) carry the session id - or, say, one of the previous request ids. Cookies do that automatically, but have side effects by remaining in the system.
I love Patrician. Specifically, I love economy games where you can slowly automate the manual stuff, which allows you to focus on higher-level strategy.

A factorio-like economy game would be incredible. Maybe Factorio + Off World Trading Company + Patrician.
I prefer the way banks do it here: you don't pay an overdraft fee, nor are you denied (unless you have a non-fixed income). Instead, it's treated like credit and you pay a low percentage at the end of the quarter/year depending on how long you stayed negative. I can't remember the numbers exactly but I've paid at most around 20 Euro after having gone -1000 for more than a month.
Treedom, plant a tree and follow the story online
Ok, wow, yeah impressive!

[Edit]: Thank you kind stranger.
> and then I send you an SMS with the sha256 hash that you can verify

Your blog isn't doing that, and none of your readers are verifying the hashes. If signature checks aren't being done automatically within the software, then for all practical purposes they might as well not exist for the vast majority of people.

Sending an SMS with a sha256 is bad security because for the average person it is equivalent to just sending them an SMS message. They will not verify the sha256 and it is impossible to train them to. And sure, I use SMS for some stuff, but I don't pretend that it's secure or that encrypted messaging doesn't matter because trusting trust isn't a solved problem yet.

> Debian survived for decades delivering their packages over HTTP

No, Debian used what is essentially their own certificate authority (PGP and Web of Trust). Your blog does not have the same security guarantees as Debian's package manager, and the fact that Debian relies on package signing using PGP and Web of Trust is strong evidence that they do believe that in-software automatic verification of message integrity is important for delivering code.

Everyone acts like Debian is proof that you don't need security, but package managers throw error messages when package signatures are wrong, just like your browser does when it can't verify an SSL cert. Because in both cases, verifying message integrity matters, even though it doesn't get rid of the entire problem of trust on its own.

> But the reality is that it is hardly "everyone" [...] a MITM must be, by definition, in the middle.

It's enough people. It doesn't have to literally be everyone on the entire planet. You should not be multiplying your attack vectors unnecessarily when there are trivially implemented, free, widely available methods for removing those attack vectors.

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What a lot of this boils down to:

> For the same reason, even an MD5 hash is good enough most of the times.

There is a difference between leaving your shed unlocked because you're hoping your neighborhood is nice and no one will steal your lawnmower, and going onto a forum and arguing that locks are unnecessary because you leave your shed unlocked.

What you are essentially arguing here is not that HTTP is secure, you are arguing that bad security is OK. Which, fine, make that argument if you want, but "I don't need to be secure" is very different from "HTTPS doesn't matter for security."
>Having a large crowd of adults yelling "dentists! dentists!" or be it lawyers, accountants, etc in a frenzy would be seen as very unprofessional.

If the CEO of a large dental organization has the balls to go on stage and yell, "Hygienists! Hygienists! Hygienists!", it shows that he's willing to prostrate himself to show his commitment to the company he serves. People appreciate that. There are certainly enough CEOs ignoring the needs and desires of their employees sitting inside their ivory towers these days. We don't need more of them.
I wonder what the best way is to strike a balance between calling an entire organization as having 'toxic culture' to highlighting the obvious egregious violations that we all want to eliminate. Like, can we call out America as having 'toxic culture' since we literally voted a sexual predator into office? At-least the employees at a company didn't vote on their leaders.
The two main points of contention are:

1) While "wall street" did want the U.S. to invade Haiti to increase profits, there were other reasons for the U.S. to invade as well. Specifically, there was a worry that Germany would invade (Germany was 80% of Haiti's trade). This was during WWI where there were fears about Germany's Latin America business dealings. After the invasion, it appears Citibank (aka "wall street") lost out due to increased competition.

2) Haiti had a number of structural differences that would have prevented it from developing even if France didn't force Haiti to pay for its freedom. One example is that Haiti tore down their plantations and distributed land among individual farmers. These farmers were not economically productive and prevented Haiti from adopting new technology as it became available. The other example is that Haiti had extreme instability even before France demanded payment. Leaders were frequently assassinated and the government even split in two for some time.

The author of this post feels the NYT glossed over the facts in order to paint a narrative.
Previous thread from 2020, 61 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24926979
I have high hopes for the upcoming MMORPG from Riot Games (maker of League of Legends/Valorant/Legends of Runeterra/Wild Rift). So far all of their new games have been very solid entrants in their respective genres. They have consistently had strong storytelling and art/design throughout their games, and they've mentioned there will be a focus on co-op content in the RPG. It's probably still several years away, though.

That said, I think part of the problem is that we've all gotten older, and no one has time to spend 5+ hours a day in a game world anymore. The younger generation may be able to experience it, but for those of us who have memories of old MMOs, it's unlikely we'll ever truly relive those nostalgia-filled moments.
Really wish there was a new installment to the Star Wars Jedi Knight series.
Bird Life Simulator. From scavengers to hummingbirds, and everything in between. Would need a killer flight model.
You may want to take a look at the various Sherlock Holmes games on steam right now. There is a new one that just came out, and from looking thru them it seems like they try to make such gameplay work. Worth a shot!
The "definitions" section is pretty interesting.

Firstly, all of the different definitions maintain that a mass shooting must occur in one location. I'm guessing a roving gunman would be more of a "shooting spree". While I understand the distinction, I wonder how much the numbers skew when considering shooting sprees.

Secondly, the last definition (Congressional Research Service) excludes "gang-related killings and those done with a profit-motive". Once again, I wonder how much the numbers go up when considering those types of shootings.

Based on my own personal experience with crime statistics (it's a hobby of mine), I think if we were to see a list of "people shooting lots of other people" that doesn't look for such specific criteria, we will see an even scarier picture of the state of violence in the US. The number of gun stand-offs with police is horrifying enough.

Edit: my last sentence prompted me to check the numbers for this year, and to my surprise "killedbypolice.net" has been bought by a gun company. Very propagandist move. It looks like Washington Post is maintaining the list now, however[1].

Edit2: Aha! Found the Wikipedia list for "rampage killings"[2]

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers_in_the...