skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I gave some thoughts about it.

Here're interesting things that I'd love to explore given the chance and skills.

1. This game is MMORPG. Think World of Warcraft game.

2. Everything is realistic (more or less).

3. There's no fixed story.

4. World is generated initially but then shaped by NPCs and PCs.

5. Every NPC is controlled by AI. Every creature controlled by AI. Not stupid AI but real AI. Some creatures fight each other. Like wolves sometimes go hunt rabbits, rabbits don't want to die so they learn to hide, wolves learn to find rabbits. Wolves learn that humans are strong so they coordinate with other wolves to kill humans, etc. Some wolves are stupid, some are smart, some have scars from rabbits. Wolf parents teach their pups to hunt. They probably have some initially trained AI, but then everything is trained inside the game.

6. Human NPCs learn their complex lifes, interact with other humans, mine, grow, fight, kill, conquer.

So far it sounds like dwarf fortress, but I want to underline that behaviours are not mechanical, but rather more real-world where creatures are learning from their mistakes.

7. Human NPCs provide quests to PCs which actually generated from their stories. Like some tribe stolen women from other tribe, now their chief asks travelers to return women.

8. Everything is free for all, you can kill anything or help anyone.

Basically it's fantasy world with extreme freedom and extremely advanced NPC AI.

Also it's MMO and I'd love it to be as "realistic" as possible (in some weird sense of reality, of course). Things are mundane. You need money, you need to find ways to earn it. Distances are tremendous, like in real life, you need to walk for hours to reach another village or for days to reach another city. Mounts are not magic, you need to care about them, feed them, you can spoil them and they'll die (and they cost huge amount of money). Wolves can eat your horse. Wizards can portal people but that requires extreme dedication, costly reagents, so only very rich people can afford that. No flying gryphons, sorry. You can't just resurrect after death, probably you need to create new character and start from the scratch. There could be resurrection spell, but again it must be performed by other players, probably by several skilled priests with very costly reagents and only for a limited time after death, if corpse is not damaged severely. Scars and traumas affect character and could be healed, again, by extremely skilled doctors and costly reagents.

Interaction with NPCs is done using either speech or written dialogs, not just by selecting things in the list. Like they talk to you and you talk to them. NPCs can lie to you, of course, take advantage of you, etc.
Well, then maybe those need some self-protection to not overexert themselves when the temperature gradient is too steep.
These look intriguing. I've heard of Astro before and I see that it can be used with React. Going to look more into it.
It’s troubling that Reddit doesn’t really have a lot of competition, and the new user hostile UI on mobile shows their leadership knows it. I still remember when Digg made those big changes that caused a bunch of people to migrate over. But there isn’t a credible alternative to Reddit. It feels like most of them focus on anti-censorship or little moderation which means they get taken over by fringe groups.

We have old.reddit.com for now, but I feel like that’s just temporary sugar for the medicine to go down while people get used to getting pushed to the mobile app. If they took that away, and there’s really no guarantee it’ll always be there, I don’t know what else I’d use. There’s Discord but it’s such a different interaction model that it doesn’t feel like a valid alternative.
Doesn't time value of money decrease this effect? Assuming a fixed revenue over time, future revenue is much less relevant, so is its loss.
You say the receiver will work with any OS, but is that true for their drivers? It's been a lot of years since I wrote off Logitech, but the reason I did was the lack of Linux support for the mouse I had bought.

It would constantly act like there was dust in the sensor (or so I thought) making erratic movements that could sometimes be reduced with a mouse pad. Finally I did some research and found out that without using their proprietary Windows only driver, the mouse would only operate in the lowest dpi setting.

I immediately drove to the store and bought the cheapest corded Kensington mouse they had, which was like $10 and a 1/10th of what that Logitech piece of shit cost. It was like I had a whole new computer, I spent way too long being idly frustrated with my overpriced mouse.

That was and will remain the last Logitech product I buy
I mean, I strongly just feel the npm ecosystem is a dumpster fire of sadness. Though there is a fundamental difference in that if you use NPM, you are choosing to download packages from NPM. But if you specify a bunch of repos you want to download Go packages from, and you get them from Google anyways, that's pretty uncomfortable. Especially if Google is in turn also DDoSing the repos in return.
The overall prevalence rate of vitamin D deficiency was 41.6%, with the highest rate seen in blacks (82.1%), followed by Hispanics (69.2%).

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21310306/
You want pure I/O in an untyped language. DCGs are the easiest way to have that (although they also have their limits).
Is there a possibility of adding OCR/linking it with apps like Roam Research or LogSeq?
Translating to Americanese, that's halfway to boiling a football.
Other classic indicators come from (other?) service-sector employment. This may be more difficult to gauge given secular decline in brick-and-morter sectors, but especially qualified waitstaff, bookstore and electronics store clerks, etc., have been noted in past.

The indicator below relies strictly on appearance, though one might care to look deeper:

https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/hot-waitresses-th...
All really good forums, in my experience, have attentive and firm moderators. (HN for example.) A few years ago, I moderated a developer forum (not on Reddit) and by posting clear rules and enforcing them consistently without being a jerk about it, the forum was indeed evolved into a useful place for conversations. But it took constant attention; and I think most Reddit moderators don't have the inclination to do that work day in and day out for the sake of the community--and so the quality progressively deteriorates.
You dont have to draw that conclusion at all.

All you have to believe is:

1) Countries and situations have different levels of risk from covid, and

2) Lockdowns, isolation, and masks are not necessary to achieve low mortality in every single situation.

or

3) The approach of informing individuals and letting them make personal choices was effective at lowering mortality in Sweden.

Switzerland was another country that took a more individual based approach and is also at the bottom of the list.
I don’t know how I never came across this before yesterday’s post.
david927 is not hurting himself, he's simply paying a bit more for a setup which prevents him from spending money he doesn't have. Understandable approach.
I like to use cowsay for this - in non-work settings.

neofetch > motd is also nice.

https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch

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IOW, Reddit redesigned the UI towards mobile, devalued high-signal and high-quality, and so recreated the Eternal September [0] on their own platform.

You'd think they'd know better, but maybe to them, replacing high-information-demanding users with a casual audience is a feature and not a bug.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Starcom: Nexus temporarily scratched this particular itch for me. There is no economy in the game, but there is ship building, researching, collecting resources, interacting with ships and planets, discovering stuff, space battles and a mystery that takes 10-15 hours to unravel. It's a top-down 2D game with free movement. The gameplay is balanced and fun, and the game doesn't always give you quest markers to chase, so you are expected to be observant.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/863590/Starcom_Nexus/
when I interview people I frequently get people with a "packed" github that's obvious they used one of those tools to make their entire GH heatmap green, dozens of forks of all the largest projects with no changes, just to "look" impressive
The quoted Sterbenz made the video too? It's quite a change in attitude between the video titles and article's quotes.
Based on the interest rate hikes, and therefore the need to monetize, I would guess the opposite: more only slightly relevant commercial content.
Jurisdiction is sometimes complex, but you don't have to be an attorney to see the disconnect in a court in say, Germany, claiming it has jurisdiction over the practices of a food blog run by someone in Kansas because someone in Berlin decided to sign up for their newsletter.

I want to be clear I think they have a moral and ethical obligation to delete that person's information if so requested. There's just no (legitimate) legal requirement. The huge jurisdictional overreach by GDPR is part of why you're seeing companies just outright ignore parts of it.

Reasonable people can disagree about whether or not GDPR actually covers anything in the spectrum of "human rights" but for the love of god slavery has nothing to do with anything about it.
Vote to ban discussion of gaps during interviews. They serve no purpose but to place candidates in a needlessly vulnerable position.
In support of what you're saying.

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/wellness/sunscreen-sun-...
A game about game developers and how they make games
Especially true for any sort of note taking/reference tool. If I’m on the hook for a subscription to access part of my brain, that is a _problem_.

Edit: granted, Muse looks gorgeous and I don’t mind paying for things. Just echoing subscription fatigue.
Usually the planks under a balcony are protected by the balcony itself, so they remain fairly dry, especially if there are drip flashings that redirect rain drips and rivulets away. Or, they may be pressure treated wood, in which case it's likely to outlast the building whether it gets wet or not. There might be a fascia board that is designed to take the rain and rot away, separated from the structural beams by a flashing, vapor barrier, standoffs, hidden paint/stain, or nothing!
Alpha Centauri 2
with old.reddit.com when logged in you can opt out for subreddits been able to override the CSS then you get the vanilla and clean defaults everywhere.

I use it as my "whoops, forgot to login" reminder.
now sell that to businesses and turn it into $500/day instead!
I agree! I could rant endlessly about all the bad physical interfaces I've used. My house is full of them. All the new appliances come with the flat buttons—are they capacitive or something?—they may or may not register when you press them, that often don't work when poked with a gloved elbow, etc. And dials like you describe that change random amounts or aren't debounced or whatever. There are probably more possible ways for physical things to go wrong than the small but common set of problems with touchscreens. It's more that they can go more right, too. (Or at least have their problems and benefits better matched to a task.)
Constantly.
It also depends on what sub-reddit you're in. Some are really good, some are BS echo-chambers. It can't all be BS considering how many people are using Google Site search to get "better" answers from sub-reddits as opposed to generic google search results.
if you're good and can convey it don't worry about it. if you're not, start developing communication skills. that's more important than anything.
> in the 15 years prior to the first gun buyback in 1996

How much of that can be attributed to the phasing out of lead paint? [0] Or easier access to abortions? [1]

[0] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lead-poisoning-linked-to-_b_3...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime_e...
>> The Apples and Oranges idiom refers to comparing things on axis that don't make sense.

Feels like an arbitrary distinction to what I said. "Efficiency" is an axis that doesn't make sense when the scale and scope are massively different, for all the reasons mentioned above.

>> We know that's a bad idea because the experiment has been run

So many issues with this. First, your claim is "Efficiency is about benefit per dollar, and governments are really really bad a(t) that"; you make a claim about all governments. Cherry picking data points is not helping that claim; you have to show that government is never, and can never, be more efficient than private industry. I'm pointing out why even trying to make the comparison at national scale is difficult. Second, where has this example occurred? Again, I think your choice of data points is telling.

Food is actually a super interesting example where, again, the scale of the operation doesn't really make for direct comparison. Grocery stores are obviously the way consumers get access to food, but their stock happens via multiple wholesale distributors, who themselves are middle men between multiple suppliers. That is, while Ralphs/Kroger/King Soupers/etc may be as near a nationwide grocery store in the US as I'm aware of, they're stocked by Sysco, US Foods, etc (who are carrying multiple, sometimes even competing, brands), as well as sometimes specific distributors for a large enough company (Coke may have their own, for instance), and who transport product between warehouses using separate longhaul trucking companies, etc etc. There is a LOT of inefficiency involved in that, a lot of middle men collecting along the way, and as we saw during the pandemic, a lot of places the supply chain can break down. And you're comparing it to...what? Russia during peak communism? The closest the US has had is when the government got involved during WWII with rationing, and that actually worked really well, given the shortages we had.

Let's try going the other way, and scaling government down. I too will cherry pick some data - municipal broadband. Oh, wow, now we have something way more efficient than 'the free market', even without tax subsidies, in every market it exists in; so much so that the only way private industry can compete is via legislation to prevent municipal broadband from expanding.
I despise having to call my app “no code”. But after two years I did. Most people call my app a no code for prototyping so I’m calling it No code, No graphic Design.

https://uidrafter.com
What I find truly troubling is the loss of message boards elsewhere online. The bigger ones I was apart of years ago are gone, or with a much reduced and aging user base. Often the time sink that these homes were have been replaced by social media. Instagram, tiktok, and obviously reddit. It causes me to feel a sense of loss.

On the plus side Reddit search has improved the last five years or so.
Kudos for taking the baton and maintaining https://github.com/ProtonMail/go-crypto which should replace Keybase's fork everywhere. Terraform and providers such as AWS now use it instead.
what perceptive skills lmao! i couldn't stand talking to you for 2 minutes.

lmao!
Yikes, I meant to say the snow caps in the mountains. I've changed that now. But yeah, ice caps melting are really a question of when rather than if at this point sadly.
The intention of US founders: https://www.pellcenter.org/a-well-regulated-militia/

The intent did not include any dork with a grudge.

Edit: I respected and still respect the gentlemen who taught me gun use and gun safety when I was a teenager. They understood their duties to their country - several of them had served in WW2 and had a sober perspective - and I have no doubt that men like them would and could help to put an end to our ongoing horrors.
I'd go out on a limb and suggest that way less than 98% of Americans support the government do nothing w.r.t. gun rights, even among those who actually own guns.
> If it's such a minority as you claim, then there should be no problem with passing laws

Have week been watching the same government for the last 6 years?
I understand people not wanting to be in a large meeting with their camera on but for anything <10 or so where everyone is participating I greatly prefer video chats. Video is still not a perfect substitute for in-person but it's GoodEnough (tm) for me. You don't get the full body motion cues but you get the majority of them and that's invaluable. I've heard/used the phrase "X, you look like you don't agree", "X, do you see an issue with this approach?", "X, do you have something to add?", etc. Personally I get a lot of value from being on either side of that exchange, either me saying it to my boss or my boss saying it to me. With audio-only it would be impossible to notice these things or see that a team member has opened their mouth 2-3 times but someone else talked first, with video I can say "I think X has something to add".

For larger meetings I can understand the fatigue but I absolutely love video chat for smaller meetings. I can easily tell when someone is distracted or might not have understood what I was saying. I've just stopped talking before because I can tell my boss/coworker just got a message or heard something off-screen that they need to address right away whereas without video I would have not known. I would have just kept talking until they finally said "Hold on a second", with video I know almost right when it happens and I don't have to repeat myself or try to figure out how how much to repeat.
A game where you can legally make money
Quantity of engagement > quality of engagement

Or "more ads better"
The key word is “monetization”.

Entertainment (aka funny) makes money. Useful information can make money but not nearly as much as entertainment.
> The author of this post feels the NYT glossed over the facts in order to paint a narrative.

They must be new on planet earth.

It is not even about right or wrong. The question is, what does the NYT narrative serve? Is it anti-french? The last time the U.S. had an official anti-French attitude was before the invasion of Iraq. Perhaps they are trying to give the French Globalists something to browbeat against the French Nationalists.
The FCPA is incredibly specific.

What US law requires a US citizen to comply with EU law?
how many ETL/ELT projects do we really need?

i feel like every day of a month there's a new flavour coming out
> The mobile site funnels users into the mobile app, and the desktop site clearly echos the mobile design principles.

More like hoards them into the app with a cattle prod. You can't use the mobile site without constantly confirming that no, I really really really don't want to use the app like I said 20 seconds ago.

This is beyond dark patterns. It's pure user hostility.
Was this addressed to me? Im not sure how this relates to my comment.

IF you are asking me to pick my fact between an analysis of verifiable deaths per capita by the WHO or a crappy KCRW article, I go with the WHO.

KCRW is trying to compare countries without even thinking about the population difference. It also ignores that countries differ in when they report covid as a leading cause of death.
From the article, it looks like the syzkaller fuzzer integration was stale and not working, so there might still be some juice to squeeze if someone can get that running again : )
Windows still makes up 95% of the workstation market. A lawsuit, even if it wins, would only take a small nip out of this conglomerate. Only a mass boycott would force them to change.

If this is how Microsoft, a spotlit brand, behaves, imagine how unfortunately common the bad behavior is for hole in the wall businesses that no journalist has heard of.
The Unique Russian Warship Still in Service After 107 Years
Games, audio/video calls, screen sharing - any peer-to-peer traffic is a royal pain in the back with NAT and CGNAT especially.

Larger providers (zoom, apple/facetime, twitch, ...) just set up relay servers and avoid p2p altogether - which cost money, increase latency/jitter, and decrease privacy. You can argue all of that are hidden costs of sticking to IPv4 for longer than we should have.
> It's pretty clear that California doesn't believe in the abundance agenda

It's worse than that, they even don't understand that economics behind this: Carlsbad is on track to pay it's expenses on Poseidon exactly because they're supplying other counties, thus proving it's a profitable business venture. The salt/brine is an issue, but consumption restrictions alone aren't enough when droughts have been going on for 15+ years, and reservoirs are depleting their levels.

I agree conservation should take place, and the fact that their isn't water reclamation infrastructure for those wet years is a f'ing crime! But taking this amount of risk in a (rare) time of surplus is insanity.

Having spent most of my time as an adult in OC I'm dissapointed, but not surprised; this kind of vapid and short sighted decision making is how they allowed SONGS to just store it's spent nuclear material on-site after the decommissioned it. Missing the point of why it was such in the first place.

This is exactly the kind of non-sense why I refuse to go back.
I ran into this many years ago with the transaction reordering scandal, when KeyBank turned a series of transactions on a given day (that were all cleared funds, to be clear) that should never have overdrawn me, and left with me with roughly $100 in the bank, instead ended up with me being $400 overdrawn, thanks to an absolute slew of overdraft fees, that the bank (and I) refused to budge on.

My ChexSystems entry wasn't removed until there was a lawsuit against the bank.
> pace Shuttle tank is one of the most mass efficient architectures in history and it was full of liquid hydrogen.

That being said, it didn't have to last very long while filled with LH2/LOX; a few hours at most prior to launch, and a few minutes during launch. They were never reused, unlike the orbiter and SRB segments.
If a drone goes down, the drone pilot can man another one. All that training and knowledge is retained.

We have only to look to WWII to see the strategic value of sapping the enemy of their experienced pilots. Which, in turn, could mean that shooting down enemy drones is no longer a goal. Perhaps it becomes more like a carrier formation, with a drone formation defending the operators, and the aggressor looking to destroy the operators instead of the drones. Much like how a carrier is a far larger prize than a carrier fighter.
Hi! I've been using Arctype as my daily driver for DB interaction for the last month or so and asides from a few quirks here and there my experience has been really great so far! Excited to see where the project goes.
The api provided with v3 is not sufficient to create an adblocker with the same privacy protections as is currently possible with v2 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338
Tell HN: Notch's forgotten game Cliffhorse.com has made $100k
Fun fact, I just found out notch released a random game in 2014 http://cliffhorse.com/ and if you look at the transactions to the doge address on the page and convert it to USD it comes to $100k dollars.

Quite a funny tidbit.