skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you haven't already tried them out, I'd highly recommend the Rhye's and Fall of Civilization (RFC) genre of mods for Civilization IV. Civs spawn in their historical period (and location) and are given a set of historical goals. Maya may have been doomed to fail, but the historical victory goals make every country unique and interesting. A stability mechanic keeps countries in check and provides proper friction to nonsensical actions. Persia is much more capable of conquering and stabilizing the Middle East than say Japan would be. Economic downturns give instability; barbarians pillaging the Greek countryside could be the final straw leading to the collapse of Alexander's empire. Each civ also gets their unique power (before Civ 5 did it!) in addition to their unique unit(s) and building(s) that help them orient towards and accomplish their historical goals. Greece's Great Person generation bonus will help (and is probably necessary for) them to achieve their goals of being the research a number of techs. Persia's power helps them manage instability from maintaining a far-reaching empire.

Overall, RFC essentially builds a new game on top of Civ4. The best part is that there's a number of RFC-derived modmods with varying locales and mechanics. Here's a few that I would highly recommend:

* RFC Dawn of Civilization[0] - An actively developed fork of the original mod that keeps the "vanilla" feel and the global map.

* The Sword of Islam[1] - A Middle East themed variant that although is long-abandoned is one of the most polished modmods

* RFC Europe[2] - Self explanatory. Focused on Europe starting from the rise of the Franks ending with the Industrial Revolution.

[0] https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/welcome-to-dawn-of-ci...

[1] https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/the-sword-of-islam-rf...

[2] https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/rhyes-and-fall-of-eur...
Well no one has said it yet and I don’t have a precious study to trot out, but:

My >80 year old friend has suggested to me that this kind of problem didn’t exist before we started handing out pharmaceutical drugs of the variety that ‘handle’ mental illness.

Sidebar semi-related story time: my wife got her Masters in childhood education and went directly to work for a public high school after. She was a.. I forget, counselor assistant or something like that at a very large school in Texas. She quit after just a few months because she could see that they were just using her position as a funnel to get kids on some kind of pharmaceutical drug. She was literally reprimanded more than once because she recommended against putting some of the students on drugs and pushed them toward professional counseling instead. The parents are often clamoring to get a diagnosis so they can get their kids on drugs to ‘fix’ their problems, so it’s not exclusively the fault of the government, but they’re damn sure doing their part.

They’re drugging our children, MOST often unnecessarily. Perhaps if we used other methods to help, we would see other outcomes.
Weird. What problems do, say, European countries or Japan, or pick any modern democratic state, have that are larger than school shootings?
Does it matter if that revenue is unprofitable and there is not a real path to profitability?
If I show you gory pictures from a car accident, would you understand the magnitude of the horror of cars to the extent that you would want to ban cars?
Seems almost more chips than the Arcade Pong? But really cool. Thanks for sharing it.
Unfortunately many fossils will be burnt in the production of any EV, the shipping of it, and (most likely) the fuel used to power it.

Don’t get me wrong, EVs are great (my parents own two that run off-grid on solar), but the absolutist mentality of a lot of the EV community about “fossil fuels” is counterproductive.

We should be encouraging as many realistic countermeasures as we can — priuses, EVs, hydrogen, hybrids, whatever! The less fossil fuels being burned the better!!!
As much as I like the bear thesis, this guy has zero credibility. Negative, if anything. Right at the very top of the article: "Minerd said in 2020 that Bitcoin would reach $400,000". OK, so we know his price predictions are dog shit. I mean where did he even get this number of $8000 from? Because it seems to have literally come out of his own ass.
> I don't think pools or beaches have to be monitored by lifeguards anywhere that I have lived.

My house doesn't have a no-lifeguard sign around our pool or on the lake a block away. I think you're right.
Would it matter that UK is not in the EU given that Norway is also not in the EU?
Thanks for posting - love this stuff!
Can an 18 year old Serbian walk into a store and buy whatever guns they want? Can they buy a large amount of ammunition?

You hand wave away ease of access, but it probably matters. It certainly matters at the margin.
> very few entrepreneurs would be willing to start a new social media company.

I’m not sure this is a bad thing. Is the world better and happier from social media? Do we want it to keep rising from the ashes and sowing misery, ignorance, and depression? Maybe it is my nostalgia glasses but I feel like everyone I know was happier when the only way to communicate long distance for the average person was a rotary phone that weighed about 20 lbs.
> The actual seats that are won are a better indication of the results and who has power. Results seem to be that the major 2 parties won 90% of the seats:

While true, that 10% allocation of parliamentary seats to independents/small parties allows for a great deal of negotiation on policy. The smaller parties, particularly if the hold a sufficient level of balance-of-power, can see some/many of their own policies reflected in the eventual policies which pass through parliament.

[Edit: clarification]
Not a surprise, they were really insistent on getting a phone number for the account.
Why would you claim India is almost identical to the USA except for this one variable (which seems like a laughable simplification anyway), and not, say, El Salvador or Serbia? Seems like a classic case of searching for data that confirms your opinion.
Sorry, correlation != causation. Has never been a problem until recent times so maybe you can find another scapegoat if you need some pablum.
The CBO and other government agencies use well known and well documented methods for their inflation predictions. Again, if there is a reason to not trust the CBO then it should be stated. Just saying, essentially, “government can’t be trusted” is a terrible position.
> - Decline of religion/spirituality is more pronounced in usa.

vs where?
The holocaust is a good example.

It is difficult for governments to commit large scale atrocities without the consent of the governed unless those so governed are first disarmed.

A more modern example was the prohibition of the free movement of the Australian population during covid. Australians were held prisoner by the state and were not permitted to leave.
With zero knowledge of your company and culture, I can only offer very broad strokes advice on this;

- Burnout is real and it will happen to people that work like that. Explain clearly that burning out means their hard work, and other peoples hard work goes to waste.

- Consider ways in which you might be inadvertently encouraging this behaviour. Are your devs constantly stressing about output or profitability? Do you often email or slack people at weird hours? Are people expected to be on-call? etc etc.

- Offer an extra day or two off every now and then and make sure everyone takes it. My company has at least a couple of 2 or 3 day breaks throughout the year in addition to our leave entitlements, and they are absolutely mandatory for everyone to take. This does wonders for morale, and I'm shocked this isn't more of a widespread thing.

- Monitor and moderate their assigned work if you have to. If engineer X has 20 unfinished tasks this sprint and they're all due tomorrow, that's a problem for everyone. Make sure they know to speak up early if they're over burdened.

- If you can, offer some sort of employee assistance program. People use work to escape from home and personal lives they don't like, having someone to talk to anonymously may help a bit.
Welp definitely disagree -- pardon the assumption but when you say "young OOP days" I instantly think Java/C# and I think the baggage in those languages leaves a bad taste when it comes to abstractions that were supposed to stay light.

Of course it would have been impossible to jump to the future for you and use better languages, but modern languages with static type systems (Typescript, Rust, etc) reduce the difficulty of writing and maintaining interfaces so much that even if you never need it you benefit.

I also still think that the documentation benefit (seeing structure without implementation) is worth it.

> Minimize complexity wherever possible.

Fully agreed here, pretty much unassailable.
> Gun owners occasionally shoot in self defense. They are not mentally ill.

Then that's not a gun crime and definitely outside the realm of the 1 sentence context. This is why these discussions seem to go back and forth. Wild swings of intentional ignorance, as to what the discussion is about, after having already made up their minds.
When I found GTD I thought I found a life changer. I sat down and tried to reduce my overwhelm. For my work alone I had 111 projects.

It helped a lot, but then 1 year old I stopped using it. The problem is GTD is too heavy process wise. There are a lot of little actions you have to take, which at times end up taking as long as next action items since action items will continue to grow.

All GTD web apps always left something out that I did. I lost count how many different websites I tried. I count that as a net productivity loss.

There are a few solid GTD ideas that I have stuck with, but my process has become a lot simpler that it's almost a non process.

Things that GTD is right about

1. Inbox zero

2. Doing a todo dump in a list

3. Having a small number of "in" work

I still follow these three ideas. The rest of my process is a lot more present oriented.
I wish hosties jailbreak where the T's spawned with deags on counter strike source was still around. Rebelling as a T & patrolling the utter chaos as a CT, with no central CT as warden, was some of the most fun I ever had in my life.

Secondly, I miss the glass map on CSS.

Zombies is still around. These three games, & Last Chaos MMOPRG (before the new map update) were my go-tos. Zombies %10, hosties %80, Glass %11, and Last Chaos %9 (although constantly when I got into Last Chaos). There's an extra %10 in there but simply rebalance them lol.

As a side point, camping in the vents on the olympics maps for CSS hosties jailbreak map, before people found out you could aim for the corner vent, was also incredibly fun.
We aren't early stage. We have a growing revenue stream but have been at it for about 5 years with some ups and downs along the way. There is a product market fit but the product still needs a lot of work on being more scalable (in terms of process).
Even a single round is bad because it will cause some of your most hire-able people to look and then likely leave. When a second round comes too close to the first then everybody starts looking hard and the people that stick around are the ones nobody else wants. It would be cheaper to just close the doors.
More like Monopoly money.
Sarcasm, or not?
The US is intensely religious compared to much of Europe. Intensely.
My father was once a car dealer and is a pro Long-Island style negotiator — he walked out the door with a fully loaded Bolt for 22k in CA, about a year ago.

The Chevy Bolt and Chevy Spark are great cars.
You don't have to enable location permission. Unless there are some geo-fencing options I'm not using.
A friend of mine joined a new company and within one week solved a performance problem that the company hadn’t been able to solve for years. It allowed the company to sell a $10 million solution to a customer. So I guess he delivered way more than 10x in just one week :)
Yep, standing up on your own is one of the core American values I believe has been lost to the American Education System. Although I have not been to an American high school or Middle School, the school at which I was definitely had western values and taught that violence was and will never be the option. That you oughtta let the _system_ solve it. But the system has a ton of bureaucracy. I think that we let so many things go by because taking justice into your own hands is bad.

Anyways, I digress. But here are some of my thoughts: I just got from a three-day trip to Monterrey, a city in Mexico. This is where my mom and dad went to college. Yet there is this vibe, always, either inside or outside the school that just feels like _everyone_ is always hustling. Making their lives work. Going to big measures to achieve their dreams, whether legal or not. I met a wealthy guy, interesting acquaintance. We talked about life. One of the main things he said to me was that - emphasizing that although it's cliché it's just too true - "the universe is yours. take it."

And this just rings too true for me, I think that our education has decoupled from American values. Or maybe those values were already broken to begin with. My point is, bureaucracy has led us to do unimaginable things and not see "action -> result." Yet we were raised by our parents telling us that dreams will come true with hard work and effort. We are all socially forced to follow the rules, not skipping lines, etc. But it feels more and more like those lines are crossed everyday and goals are more important.
You cherrypicked the two most deadly mass shootings in US history, and compared them to one randomly selected attack in Europe...

If we're playing argument by anecdote though, the perpetrator of the Nice attack killed 86 people and wounded 458 with a truck: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Nice_truck_attack
“Mail hacking” was a thing. I forget the name they gave it but read an article in 2600 or Phrack some time ago that talked about some of the tricks like the one you mentioned. The only other one I remember was to put a smear of Vaseline in the corner where stamps normally go. It was enough to trick the sorting machine.
I have a few questions off the top of my head if you have any thoughts on them. Thanks so much for your replies on this comment thread.

- What is the performance of OpenZiti like? I'm seeing some Nebula performance numbers (from third parties, not clocked myself) that seem surprisingly bad, but I'm also not particularly performance sensitive as far as throughput for most things.

- I predict problems with DNS on 127.0.0.1:53 on some hosts, thinking it might be better on 127.0.0.53:53 though I feel like that might already be commonly used for something. I know on my work laptop I have dnsmasq running there that forwards DNS around, that's the primary place I'm expecting problems, I mean with the exception of my internal DNS servers.

- Automated enrollment? Most of my dev/stg machines respin every other day. I understand enrollment is done via a code that can be e-mailed, so I presume it's a one-time-use code. I need some way for the machines to re-join the OpenZiti after being deleted, a base Ubuntu installed, and then Ansible run. For Nebula this would be by delivering the certificate to the machine.

Thanks!
I always like trying new database tools, but I always seem to keep going back to DataGrip. Main thing it is missing is basic data visualizations, but other than that I find it really nice for writing queries
I have worked with more than one 10x developer. They didn’t work harder than anybody else. However they consistently made everybody in the company way more productive by simplifying things and resolving issues that nobody else could resolve. One of them single-handedly maintained a very large complex C++ library used by other teams. And he had zero bugs in production for years. His test suite was that good. He spent almost 95% of his time adding features instead of fixing bugs. He ended up maintaining two projects larger and more complex that projects maintained by whole teams and still had time to jump in and help teams that got stuck when needed. Another one unblocked a team that was stuck for 3 months making zero progress in a single meeting. And none of the 10x developers were assholes. Easy to talk to and always eager to learn how to do things better. Respect!
The whole entire car market is a disaster. Used car prices are still insane and non-EV dealer markups are still insane. Moreover I've heard anecdotal reports of serious quality issues with most cars that were released during the pandemic. It really sucks.
The company I worked for just released a new non-contact scanner with accuracy similar to a laser tracker. The only potential automotive companies that have expressed interest so far are EV only.
Thanks. We definitely want to take it to the next level, beyond a "good lifestyle business" stage but we'll do it on our terms growing the workforce at a rate that makes sense to us despite some pressure from the board to "hire more aggressively".
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OHHqCrPx0WM

It was a location based strategy game I built (with lots of help) but failed to take off. Building games like this is super expensive.

If we built it again today it'd probably be on a "layer 2" chain (Ethereum) and the parcels would probably be NFTs.
> If Foxconn does not pay their contractual coupons and the bond, they will be declared in default.

It's not their bond. It's the state's bond.

> We are talking about $36 MM spread over 20 years, or $1.8 MM per year.

It's $36M annually spread over 20 years. $36M per year, not $1.8M per year.

"Foxconn agreed to pay $36 million annually across a 20-year term to pay for the surrounding infrastructure supporting the now-abandoned 3,000-acre site."

Also, the bonds were for infrastructure for the potential foxconn site. If foxconn isn't going to use the site, they aren't paying for any infrastructure. Especially when the state is looking for new occupants for the site.

"Those payments are scheduled to start next tax year, and local leaders told the newspaper they're counting on Foxconn's cash to maintain the site while they try to attract another occupant."

We've stolen billions from taiwan already by forcing them to buy our useless weapons. I'm guessing the taiwanese are sick of being taken advantage of.
Hey author here -- just to make it clear, this isn't a rah-rah Java post. At this point I actively avoid Java and spend my time in languages with advanced, ergonomic type systems (Typescript, Rust, Haskell).

I know what it sounds like, but I think the point stands -- for large components if you don't write an interface, you (or someone else who wanted to interoperate/shim/hack) will regret it.
They are not required for cookies, but they are required for tracking cookies. If you are only using cookies for e.g. shopping cart or CSRF protection, you don't need a consent dialog, but that is not the case for those websites showing the dialog.
Build a competing product and show them how to do it?
What if cars were legislated like guns?

Mufflers would be illegal. If you are driving between states, you need to check to see if your driver's license is accepted by each state you go through -- and some counties. Adjustable car seats are illegal. Automatic transmissions are illegal. Building your own car would be illegal. If your truck is too short, it's a felony. Unless you call your truck a car, and never put anything in the bed. If you have a criminal record for drug use, you cannot drive a car, or even ride a bus. Some states will only let you put 5 gallons of gas in your tank, claiming that large gas tanks are a risk for ramming attacks. California will only let you purchase cars they say are safe--and haven't updated the roster for years. Politicians keep insisting that your tires should be laser etched with microscopic serial numbers so you can track down criminals by the tire marks left behind, and that your car should have a kill switch controlled by the government. Movies like Fast and the Furious get blamed for causing drunk driving. If you buy a Tesla, people constantly demand that you explain why you NEED to own it, and that everyone should be perfectly fine with a Vespa scooter. Whenever a drunk driver hits someone, society blames you personally, and says that you just want your dumb hobbies and don't care about children.
That's not the Second Amendment. That's the NFA. The Second Amendment is very clear with its intent ("shall not be infringed"). It's the opinion of some folks that we have laws, like the NFA, that violate the Second Amendment.
This helps to explain what was going on in this "That's 70s Show" episode where Red and Kelso modify a pong game to have smaller paddles.

(short clip when they had finished)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Td0P9Mqu68

A recreation of that modification:

https://www.aussiearcade.com/topic/86532-smaller-paddles-big...
I think you have been unlucky. I have worked with more than one 10x developer. They do exist but are not common.
I'd like this also, but taken one step farther by adding in some edutainment aspects and then scaling it with the intent that once children have emotionally bought into the game, it incentivizes them to learn real-world facts and knowledge in order to make further progress (if they're still holding onto their Pokemon and their Minecraft world after 5-6 years, I'd hope some future edutainment game could match that). e.g.

+ fill in a personal database device (see: Pokedex, mobiglass) to collect knowledge of and record 'sightings' of real plants, real animals, elements, chemicals, reactions, etc.

+ NPCs/locations with trivia challenges/minigames (main character name in Moby Dick, years during which the first world war occurred, etc.), plus a library to look stuff up in

+ type in what you want to do (ala certain early adventure games) like "heal forearm cut", "fish for walleye", "search for raspberries" = typing practice, spelling {although since almost no games seem to do this anymore, maybe it's just obnoxious and poor design}
Thanatosdrakon amaru, gen. et sp. nov., a giant azhdarchid pterosaur
Australia isn’t really a success at solving the underlying social issues. Except for managing to take away the guns. Which I personally believe was a massive overreaction to an event that provided convenient political capital that politicians wanted to spend so they were seen to be doing something about the tragedy. We also implemented insane gun control laws involving such bull shit as regulating gun shaped toys based on how scary they look… it’s absurd.

I doubt that even with our previous level of gun ownership we would have had the same outcome either. We have a social healthcare system that at least provides some level of mental health support and our cultural relationship with guns didn’t fetishise them as implements of power. While this may have eventually changed with greater cultural homogenisation to American content via the internet, I’m unconvinced that it would have ever been the same as we see in America today.

The school shooting problem is very very American and i suspect it has a lot to do with cultural contagion brought on by the 24hr news media circus whipping everyone into obsession every time there’s a tragedy.
Now that is a domain name with hair on its chest
Reminds me of my dotcom boom/bust experience of the late nineties where the dotcom was posting monthly "hiring targets" and celebrating that they met them. They were so screwed and tanked badly right after March 2000.
Quick online research shows a 30%-40% single core improvement from the 2700X to the 5700X, and a 40% to 50% (single core) improvement to the 5900X. Maybe you have a specific weird workload that isn't improved much, but performance improvement for the average workload is much better than 10%.
That would be interesting to see. Where do you see that?