skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you are using infantile logic to argue your point, that:

-california grows food
-americans need food to eat
-therefoe, there should be absolutely no restrictions whatsoever on agriculture, and farmers should be able to use as much water and grown in the most wasteful ways possible, because after all we need food

there's tons of crops in drought stricken California that are grown relatively efficiently. there's tons more where football fields of water are used to grow calorie empty foods in horribly inefficient ways

farmers have such a lock over the feeble minded such as yourself that any blame they share over instances of wasteful water use is deflected because "hey we're growing food here and you need to eat"

the state could issue subsidies for farmers to upgrade to lower impact irrigation systems. for other types of crops, their water usage is way too high compared to their caloric yield, and these crops should no longer be grown. our consumerist society doesn't justify growing literally whatever we want wherever we want, regardless of the externalities of water usage
It doesnt explain why that became an idiomatic way to say it. But at least it explains the what.
FWIW Google already shows videos by their transcripts if the video has automatic captions or CC enabled in the Google search results. Try searching for a very specific phrase/sentence in quotes and it's likely you'll get the video in Google Search result page.
Which is an alternative approach to providing a dedicated kernel to the VM/container. (Because that's what basically a hypervisor does). Gvisor effectively implements a Linux kernel in user space, written in a memory safe language. A kernel that insulates all system calls from the host kernel, by literally implementing wrappers around host system calls.
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that heat pumps and vacuum cleaners and microwaves didn't exist in the 80s.
The original claim was house fires in the 1980s of electrical origin. That stock would generally have been built since the 1950s (largely 1960--1990, for the decade of the 1980s).

Candes, fireplaces, cigarettes, and cooking stand out in my memory.

A current industry report puts cooking as the greatest risk, followed by heating equipment. Electrical ranks third:

https://www.nfpa.org/News%20and%20Research/Data%20research%2...

I don't have trending data at this point. If you or others care to provide any, that would be appreciated.
You can report incorrect information to the credit rating agency
If you are lugging all of that water mass along you could store it in a jacket around the crew compartment, providing additional radiation protection for most of the trip.

You're going to need humongous solar panels to support this, but since you are in space this isn't an intractable problem. A small but constant acceleration would probably make life better in the spacecraft as well.
Wadjet Eye Games and Daedalic Entertainment are making them.
I don't think this could be remotely possible. Just by deciding which facts to publish you already present an opinion.

I see this sentiment floating around a lot, but I think it's a bit of a naïve approach. Just by deciding which news to publish a newspaper already has a bias.
>> This means the application is pretty damn well identical whether users within my company are using Windows or Mac computers. There are advantages to that.

Disadvantages too. Unlike a website, I want the software on my computer to take advantage of the native UI and other features unique to the OS. If Electron didn't exist MS would still build teams for multiple platforms. It would disadvantage small developers but the majority of users (who use well known software developed by large companies) lose out on the prior mentioned benefits thanks to Electrons existence.
You're not really contradicting anything in my comment so much as restating it more politely.

Yes, power dynamics have been central to every civilization. And at the time of the founding of the US - as a British colony - the power dynamics of Imperial Britain as well as the US were based on white supremacy, with the colonizing, subjugation and "civilization" of nonwhite societies being an expression of that. Race, relative to both slavery and manifest destiny, was integral to the philosophy and implementation of early American society.

And the US wasn't so empty that the government felt no need to wage the Indian Wars, enact the Indian Removal Act, or push natives onto reservations. Ben Franklin's famous (and often misunderstood) quote about security versus liberty was made in the context of seeking greater Federal power to fend off native attacks. The genocide of a relatively small population is still genocide, but clearly there were still enough natives to be a persistent cause for concern to the colonists.
A driving arcade game where one player drives and the other guy shoots. It is the blend of two awesome arcade games: racing and shooters. This was the game I wished existed 25 years ago and I am still waiting for it.
> are you really protecting data to the standard the law demands?

This assumes the law's purpose is to protect citizen's data and that it's not just a way to bully tech companies into submission by writing impossible to implement laws and selectively enforcing them.
Yeah I love it as well.
A bug-free enhanced ArmA game or a combination of Civilization + Anno
The US has very forgiving bankruptcy code, notably so. Much of the world is less forgiving.
A modern version of XBattle, a 1990s Unix game. It most resembled an RTS, but very abstract. You manipulated flows of "troops" to try to take over territory. The game had a lot of variant rulesets each of which led to an interesting game.

There's been some efforts to release modern versions of the game; some rewrites in Java, at least one browser game. None took off.

https://gamicus.fandom.com/wiki/Xbattle
Unfortunately this is true. Someone has written a whole book[1] about this. There[2] is a podcast interview of the author of that book. NY Times' anti-India and anti-Hindu bias is also widely documented[3].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Gray-Lady-Winked-Misreporting-Fabrica...

[2] https://kushalmehra.com/2021/07/18/the-gray-lady-winked/

[3] https://rameshrao-89399.medium.com/understanding-the-new-yor...
This can be done, but not as interlocking or real time as everyone thinking. It's designed around "points". Factory (or maybe materials) points, health / hospitality points, etc.

Basically you'll be given some "special" buildings where you can place the other-genre games . Let's say that you have a "60x60 1 level hospital" that when you placed it in the city, you can interact with it via theme hospital style.

Now in theme hospital-like, it has reputation / ratings where it translate directly to "hospitality points" for your city. When you exit the mode, it stopped the simulation and the points freeze. Similar with factory points.
Against whom? A person who could be randomly selected?
Of course it is a solution. I end up with a car that doesn't have a touch screen.
Set up a blog (of your past HN comments) and say you were an aspiring writer the entire time. Is this false?
- Magic carpet III
- Populus III
- Sim Ant II
- A new sequel of Black and White
>So what exactly is the benefit of moving to touch screens / voice control?

When it works -- and it works in most of the situations you mentioned (spoiler alert: I work in this space) because it's designed to -- it's safer than using any physical controls at all.

I get that adoption of the half-ass solutions is frustrating. But if we are truly targeting a future where being able to manipulate car features is to be as safe as possible, voice is the best way to do that, at least until we have a solution to beam thoughts directly to the car's computer.
As a non practicing Mormon it was extremely strange to me when in my 20s I was exposed to the broader Protestant/Evangelical world in the US how many weird anti science things existed that I’d literally never been exposed to as a Mormon.

When I moved to a nicer neighborhood and went to church once or twice I was amazed how many Pediatricians and Pediatric Surgeons who work at the local childrens hospital are Mormon.
Mars Colony RTS with a strong emphasis on optimizing the ecosystem for self-sustainability and economic viability. 50% Age of Empires, 50% Factorio.

- Manage energy, waste, air, soil, water, food production.

- Build and expand your colony above and below ground.

- Manufacture robots, rockets, tools, everything your colony needs.

- Keep your population healthy through infection, virus, disease outbreaks.

- Control immigration/emigration policies to optimize skills and capabilities.

- Explore the planet and gain scientific skills and funding.

- Declare independence from earth and fight a war if you so choose.

Expansion packs: spread your empire to space, asteroids, and other planets. Basically The Expanse but in an RTS.
I don't understand your point, you can have over an 800 credit score without ever having a mortgage.
Call for Tech Action: let's do something to protect schools?
Dear fellow hacker news friends: there must be some feasible technology solutions that help saving lives in school shooting scenarios? For instance, how about using remote controlled drones to distract shooters for a few minutes? A few seconds of delay might save some lives? Look forward to seeing your thoughts here or ping me privately to discuss/brainstorm (hopelab22 at gmail)
Show HN: Moochee – have fun quiz games with teams
Since reserved instances are shared across AWS organizations:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2...

Does this work across AWS organizations? Or currently targeting individual AWS accounts?
If journalists littered their work with citations, they argue, it would disrupt the narrative and alienate the audience.

That's a very 20th-century take. There's no reason why any article couldn't have a little "show version with citations" button tucked away somewhere.
Dubai government servers are bouncing mails originating from protonmail.com. Will proton.me bypass this?
I've had a similar experience when changing mobile provider. For whatever reason it seems like that last bill posts late and never shows up. In the past I didn't have autopay turned on so I just didn't even know about the debt until I started getting letters from collections firms 6 months later.

I imagine that these last bill things end up dinging a lot of people's credit. Luckily I've paid them when I find out about them and my credit bounces back once the payment in full is reported.
There are a good few time loop games that have come out recently; Outer Wilds (as previously mentioned), Deathloop, The Forgotten City, and Returnal all come to mind. More broadly, a lot of roguelikes/roguelites are like this.
The internet was just as viable in 1995. We were doing commerce over phone lines using computers for 20 years at that point. By the time there was an internet nobody had a reason to question it, or desperately try to find use cases for it.

The cryptography space has a lot of promise, but the VC money is not being pumped into better privacy or confidence (which is better than trustlessness). It's being pumped and dumped, because securities fraud is where the money is. The idea is to prop up the image of crypto until you can dump.

Blockchain technologies are not the right tool for everything. They can eliminate the double spending problem in a decentralized way, but there are trade-offs involved in being able to tolerate a large amount of faulty or malicious nodes (for problems that require coordination) and they are fundamental. Blockchain technologies lock you out of efficiently solving a lot of problems.

The Web3 projects I have seen so far would not be able to compete with their Web2 counterpart. They don't know their customers, they are hard to understand, difficult to use, they are trying to bank on artificial scarcity as if it's a new invention no one else tried. If your mother can't understand your Web3 project chances are you aren't going to get your big break.
Wouldn't you just size the engines small enough that they instantly burn off the H2 as you crack it? The solar power should be even and constant so you can size the system to match. It is going to require a very large solar array, especially since your spacecraft is going to be really heavy with all of that water.
An exact clone of Pokemon Snap, but in the Final Fantasy-verse.
> The New York Times is trying to expand from the paper of record ...

Do people still think of the NYT that way? The Washington Post seems to me to have the better claim nowadays. Not a great claim, but better.
> fun / weird / creative

Recently had lots of fun testing software security in creative ways. For example found that various sites use the login page as an unwalled gate and don't validate an actual session, so anyone can jump in, no matter if cookies are encrypted. Also unpacked APK's and found all the Firebase keys in plain text. Put together a quick Firebase client in Javascript and accessed their DBs. It's a weird and amusing world, and I'm not even a security expert to enjoy the whole thing.
I briefly worked on a game like this in space. It was a 4X game where the primary mechanic was the hard speed of light. Not only did it take years for your message to reach a colony, your knowledge of the state of the colony was equally out of date.

Part of the idea was that each player would never see the absolute coordinates of any star or another player’s names for anything, so it would be nearly impossible for two players, talking outside the game, to figure out if they were allies or enemies in game.

What killed it was that players basically had to be able to send free form messages in game, to handle the complexity of negotiations this situation would require, but it would be far too easy and rewarding for two players to just share an email address, which would allow FTL communications and break the game. The only effective solution was a human GM filtering every message, which was awkward when the timing of message delivery was THE core mechanic.
something that is similar to some relaxing animations that turn up on instagram from time to time. super smooth animations and physics with a mixture of puzzle elements and just pleasing to watch rendering. the scenes should be either focussing on materials like soft metals, clay and mechanics like pendulums etc. or on hyperrealistic plants, water, mosses and maybe some fish. you would in turn either play a machine or nature level where the results of each would make up some sort of sculpture or world.
Great piece. Fair and even-handed in its criticism of the NYT article.
Very generally speaking:

Older people acquire life experience and wisdom, which lets them make better decisions; but their decisions are typically conservative as they are invested in "the way things are today". (It's worked fine this way for 50 years, why change now?)

Younger people have fresh ideas and less investment in "the way things are today", but lack the maturity to make wise decisions. (This is hot garbage, we need to completely throw it away and start from scratch.)

See also, we already have laws regarding age of candidacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_candidacy_laws_in_the_U...
“The New York Times Is Right About X” would be a news headline.
RTS in which I can become a unit on the field and make it an FPS. 1000 soldiers (or tanks, or jets, or artillery) on the field, I select one, I "impersonate" him in battle.

I should be able to switch to every other alive unit on the field.
Maybe when it comes to the basic mechanics. I think the multiplayer recursive nature would be the more interesting aspect.
No, @AppStorage just does scalars, as I said
# figlet $HOSTNAME > /etc/motd

On every box I own.
Did you ever play Fallen Empire: Legions or Legions: Overdrive? It's a shame we don't have more in the FPS-Z genre. If there were one free software title in the genre, people could at least spin off a few games from it. I wonder if anyone's tried building such a thing on one of the Quake engines.
This exactly mirrors how I felt reading that NYT piece.
I'm amazed they use the Taylor expansion instead of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORDIC

or something else.
I don't agree, magic is confusing and scary. Especially in SwiftUI where it literally looks like it's invalid syntax if you're used to basic Swift.
Not that it's what you're looking for exactly. But if you like the idea of being as tiny being in a home with massive humans, check out Mister Mosquito on the PS2, or Chibi Robo on the GameCube.
I think one thing to keep in mind is that Wyclef famously used his celebrity to raise money for Haiti after the earthquake and it was shown that much, if not most, of the money raised was used by Wyclef and his family/friends for personal spending.

That behavior suggests that Wyclef might have continued the same corruption that other Haitian politicians engaged in and maybe taken it a step further by leveraging his celebrity to also pocket money brought in as outside investment.

Again, maybe he couldn't be worse since other Haitian politicians would have and did engage in similar corruption, but it'd be a stretch to say that it's anything we should consider as "what if" that would had the real potential for positive change in the country.
lots of these fake instagram game ads would be pretty cool if the gameplay was actually as in the ad videos and not completely different crap.
Isn't it a bit like Worms series, except you don't have planets and Coriolis, but a blob of land and wind.
Final Fantasy Tactics Switch
RFS: ML Enabled doors that close/lock when someone approaches with a gun
Could be deployed at grocery stores, bars, schools, public buildings etc.
Study explores how older adults react while interacting with humanoid robots
Similar to this, many years ago on HN there was a website shared that would convert an image into HTML. I used it to generate the 404 image on my personal website: https://micro.muppetz.com/404 - Warning often causes older/slower browsers to really choke!

If anyone remembers what that URL was, I'd love you to share it. No amount of googling recently has been able to find it, I expect it's probably lost to the sands of time. I've tried a few others I found on google but none produce anything like that quality.
I would consider myself a 10x developer as I'm sure most other 1.5x developers do.
> Sounds like you are an overachiever.

Not at all. I'm not trying to achieve all, or even most of those things. I know I won't even be able to do a tenth of them.

One of the core ideas behind GTD is to get these things out of the mind and into a trustworthy system. My Someday/Maybe list is huge because I get it out of my mind and put it somewhere. How many of them I get to do in my life is not at all a concern I have.

> Prioritize actions you perform and projects you start so that they are conducive to a long a self-sustaining increase in your productivity.

When your list is hundreds of items long, and GTD tells you to prioritize every week, that is unsustainable.

For my work GTD, things are simpler. The scope is limited, and there's not attachment to any project. The job dictates most of what needs to be done and it makes prioritizing almost trivial. It's the GTD for the non-work stuff that explodes.
You badly overestimate both the ability and interest of average people in learning to administrate their computers. They just want to get shit done and go do something else. Computers are a tool at best, and more often a super-annoying thing they have to deal with but hate every second of it.

If they actually like any of the computers around them, it's probably the most locked-down ones: their phones and video game consoles.

[EDIT] That is, you're way off in thinking it's only a bunch of soon-to-be-dead grandmas who have trouble operating computers that don't prevent them from fucking things up too badly. The "digital native" generations are barely better.
Battlezone II was a bit like this. It was reissued a few years ago, but I wish there was a true update.
I hope one day we are able to simply walk/drive/fly around the worlds created for movies like Monsters, Inc., Secret Life of Pets, Luca, Turning Red, etc. The artists and modellers have done such a fabulous job of creating these insanely detailed worlds, and I would love to be able to actually explore them at my own pace. For me, this would be a great use of VR, though I think we're probably at least several years away from having the hardware necessary to render that all in real-time at a quality that I'm hoping for.
Scientists identify ‘trigger molecule’ for Covid-related changes to smell
Correctness and pleasantness are entirely distinct. In most cases incorrectness has little or no effect on commercial success whereas unpleasantness will sink a product instantly.

There are some areas where incorrectness is also highly unpleasant, kernels and compilers being two examples.
Wow great callback, I remember I only had this on a demo disc. I wonder if it is worth seeking out and playing the whole thing now!
It's the same premise because they're ideas based on the same thing. The OP mentioned The Borrowers as inspiration. Well The Secret World of Arrietty is based on The Borrowers. I think it's even called something like "Borrower Arrietty" in Japan as well.
Moochee is an interactive quiz game for teams. One person starts a game on PC/Mobile as host, the other people can join by scanning the QR code with mobile camera as players. We can easily supporting 100+ people playing in one game.

It was built by two of us during pandemic. We have the need to run online quiz game but the commercial solution like Kahoot! is too pricy and only support 20-50 players in their affordable plans.

There are 2 options to experience it:
1. Try Out: no log in required, you can host/play existing fun quizzes
2. Sign In: log in with google, then you can host/play any quizzes and even create your own quizzes.

Give it a try! Any feedback would be really appreciated. :-)
NTRs are basically open-cycle gas cooled reactors. The thermal limit on the reactor temp is when does stuff start to melt. Project Rho[0] suggests that's the reactor temp anyways. But you need to be able to separate out the oxygen from the thermolysis stream, rather than just feeding the entire thing into your engine, both because your Isp would go to crap if you tossed the oxygen out too, and you'd have oxidizing your reactor problems. Though, you could just store it all as ammonia, and you get more hydrogen for your buck, and can probably just feed that all through the reactor.

[0]:http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist2.php
Frequently use figlet in shell scripts to demarcate sections. Very handy tool!
I'm totally not sold about this.

Next.js routing was wrong from the start, and now it introduces a tons of new concepts that will inevitably require the rewriting of entire apps in a far future, since it will be "the new way to do routing in Next.js".

What I really don't like is the coupling between the filesystem hierarchy and the actual routes, that is difficult to reason about when you have non english routes names with multiple route parameters.

I mean, the routing problem for server side applications was solved a lot of time ago: a simple regex for the route definition, and the related handler that will responde to that route.

I never understood why Next.js guys went with this inconvenient approach of the file system routing.
The year 2015 wants its flamewar back.
Europe has lower drinking ages than the US – and worse teen drinking problems
A game where you build and defend forts with other people.

Fortnite sort of started like this, but the single player mode was a microtransaction abomination that was more akin to a excel spreadsheet than a game.

The beta of battle-royale Fortnite had a lot of this organically at the end of the match -- teams would each build towers and attack each other. Was a blast, but quickly was micro-optimized into kids using their reaction time to instabuild crap and shoot each other while making windows. Really awful gameplay.