skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Various old skool text adventure games are open source (-ish, in some cases).

If you are already experienced with them then "Counterfeit Monkey" takes it to the next level with a great twist based on anagram-like magic/technology for turning objects into other things by adding/removing letters from their name:

> Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship.

> Since then, Atlantis has been the world's greatest center for linguistic manipulation, designing letter inserters, word synthesizers, the diminutive affixer, and a host of other tools for converting one thing to another. Inventors worldwide pay heavily for that technology, which is where a smuggler and industrial espionage agent such as yourself can really clean up.

> Unfortunately, the Bureau of Orthography has taken a serious interest in your activities lately. Your face has been recorded and your cover is blown.

> Your remaining assets: about eight more hours of a national holiday that's spreading the police thin; the most inconvenient damn disguise you've ever worn in your life; and one full-alphabet letter remover.

> Good luck getting off the island.

https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=aearuuxv83plclpl

https://github.com/i7/counterfeit-monkey

If you're new to the genre then "Lost Pig" is a good place to start, though technically it's licence (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0) is not open source.
Spring is an amazing engine! It's been a while, but we used to have regular sessions of Balanced Annihilation (BA) decades after TA came out.

I don't know if more recent RTS games improved in that, but Springs UI was way ahead of other RTSs at the time.

Without going into detail, BA had very tense gameplay without getting too bogged down by micro managing units.
Yep, that's microservices gone mad
I think people say that and interview like that till they get a bad hire.
All this red tape keeping us alive! How dare they not let me put tons of material into the sky, let it move around as fast as I like and expect me to be liable if it lands on some toddler’s head.

Aviation is fucking dangerous. I know, I knew many private pilots of experimental aircraft growing up, some of which died in accidents.

One guy died when his seat slid backwards while climbing out from takeoff causing him to pull back on the yoke and cause a stall. This is a stupidly common way to go.

Another died when his twin lost engine power on one side, again during takeoff, and he spun into the ground.

The list, unfortunately goes on. Neither of those particular two on the list died in experimental aircraft, although the pilot of the twin did survive an earlier crash in an experimental during landing, where he misjudged the time it takes to spool up a jet engine.

Do not take private companies putting things I to the sky lightly.
> Communism mainly optimises for the good of the high ranking party members

This happens when ideology meets the reality of dealing with people, who are mostly egoistic. Pure capitalism ideology leads into another trap: the one of oligarchic rule, with smaller groups of egoists winning the game of monopoly.

A less radical version of communism, the one implemented in late USSR, where the state owns and plans everything for everyone, while proving some common good benefits (medicine, education, etc) also has a couple of fundamental problems.

One is the economical problem of having to plan everything for everyone. A book called "Red Plenty" covers this really well, as well as some bits of a math behind it (linear programming, etc). In market-based economies these problems sort of go away. Until one has to deal with monopolies, that is.

I don't know if somebody has an explanation for the other problem, political in nature. Communists and modern "communist-socialist" states seem to always insist on political monopoly, which makes it impossible for people to provide fast feedback to policy-makers.

So it seems that an optimal balance achieved by "enlightened democratic capitalism", where the exploitive (and economically more efficient) nature of capitalism is balanced by democratic feedback.
rogue, not rouge :-)
Polishing up emoji and making them easier to share (2021)
The recommendation here is to steal from universities and give the money to new universities
And new sail-assisted container ships will improve things further in terms of environmental efficiency... if they ever become an actual thing.
Show HN: I built in public a tool to automate Twitter DMs
You just need a sun
I liked Hedgewars a lot!!!

https://www.hedgewars.org/

But something SimCity like is also great!
> proof dug up by journalists

I'm not sure SeekingAlpha is viewed as a formal journalistic channel. It's the equivalent of Medium where amateurs can participate, too.
This is a cool project, but there's been lots of abandoned airship projects (commercial and military) since the 1930s. Have things really changed since then? No new technology really solves the main issue that they're fairly slow, don't tend to work well in bad weather and can take a lot of infrastructure to land safely.

I'm not an expert but for disaster relief a few military cargo planes could be refuelled midair and drop 20 tons of aid on parachutes to most of the world fairly quickly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airship#Postwar_period
One is a privacy-focused Android phone without Google apps and services
Shameless self promotion: Reverse RPG https://r-rpg.com/

I wanted a game like wordle, which I can play in like 5 to 10 minutes, but I don't really like word-puzzles. But everything else about wordle is great: no barriers, easy to pick up, replayable. So I made rrpg and intend to add content to it.

I haven't really thought about licensing, but I guess I will open-source it, if people like it. Right now it's just js in the browser, so anyone could copy it. Written with nx in typescript.
Reminds me of Cargolifter, they tried something less ambitious and failed... but that was 20 years ago, at the very height of the dot com boom. Better luck to the Pathfinder 3 team! It would be amazing to see airships revived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargolifter
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Senior Software Engineer - Cloud:

We are looking for a versatile, hands-on, and experienced cloud architect motivated to take charge of Zivid's new cloud initiative. The purpose of the system is to monitor devices in the field, authenticate access to a customer's subscribed services, and provision resources. In collaboration with the leadership team and the rest of the software team, you will get the opportunity to shape this journey and influence the architecture from the early stages.

We are looking for mid-level to senior engineers, preferably with 5+ years of experience in designing and implementing cloud solutions - Experience deploying and operating services in a cloud environment, preferably using Infrastructure-as-Code techniques - Experience with .NET, Linux, Azure, and Elastic stack is an advantage.

Tech stack: .NET Core WebAPI's, Microsoft Azure, Message Queues, Docker, ELK/Elastic, Github Actions, Bicep, C++, Python.

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Software Engineer:

Each Zivid camera undergoes an extensive calibration and production test process to ensure the camera matches the expected accuracy and precision. The Production Test and Calibration team at Zivid is a cross-functional team responsible for developing these systems.

As a part of this team, you will be working with C++ and Python development of our calibration and production test software. This software controls the whole calibration process, including capturing images from the cameras, controlling temperature chambers & motor controllers, and calculating the calibration parameters of the cameras. Your tasks include automating the calibration processes further, improving the production speed and throughput, adding support for new hardware (temperature chambers, jigs, motors), extending production test coverage, and enhancing metrics & monitoring around calibration.

We are looking for - Solid experience in C++ and Python - M. Sc. or B. Sc. in Computer Science, Information Technology, or similar - 3+ years of work experience is an advantage, but young, talented candidates are encouraged to apply - Experience with production test or calibration software is an advantage.

Tech stack: Cross-platform C++17, Python 3.9, OpenCL, Halide, Qt/QML, LLVM, Github Actions, CMake, Catch2, boost, Docker, Vagrant, KVM.

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> As far as I understand, helium is a non-renewable fossil resource.

No it's a by-product of decay of heavier radioactive elements. It's often found dissolved into fossil gas deposits, but it's not a fossil resource.
I can chime in about Berlin. Your average Senior SWE will make 3,900 euro after tax, a decent 1br apartment might be 1,200. You can save around 1,500/mo after expenses if you don't go crazy.
Because it is fun and full of exciting opportunities?
> As far as I understand, helium is a non-renewable fossil resource.

Helium deposits don't originate form organic matter, so they're not fossil.
The thing is, lots of Ponzi schemes make money for early investors who walk out at the right time. Not sure if this happened for Theranos or Nikola, but it definitely happened for Madoff's scam: some big players were pretty sure that it was a scam, but they saw it growing and invested in it, withdrew at the right time, and left with plenty of perfectly legal gains.

Basically, investing in scams can be a great way to profit off the scam without incurring the legal costs when it's discovered. Of course, you still have to be careful not to be left holding the bag, but that's a common risk with other investments as well.
I think they mean 60k a year, not month.
What is the tactic here? we know the cause is agriculture and blaming grass lawns and car washing can easily be disproven by a quick superficial google search. Pitting people against each other by being water snitches may work unless any actual restrictions are placed. As soon as any restrictions are placed, the whole show gets exposed.

So...what is the whole point of the show in the first place?.
They have many disadvantages compared to planes, like they are slower, can't take a lot of passengers and need special infrastructures.

But there is a niche for advertisement, aerial photography, observation platforms, heavy weight transportation and of course tourism.

See for example the seven Zeppelin NT, witch seem to have find some usage:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin_NT
The point being that there is a lot of success coming out of Elon Musk's ambitions and none so far out of the originally discussed pharmaceutical enterprise.
Pretty well all modern commercial DBs do use summary (or sampled?) statistics of the cardinalities. The alternative is rule-based rewriters which were heuristically-driven only, and AFAIK they justifiably went out of use decades ago.
Agreed. In the humanitarian scenario in a war zone, an airship just looks like a very big, very visible target. I don't understand this use case, except if you consider that humanitarian corridors are always respected in warfare but then it's just being naive.
The game is a one-shot purchase though, and Steam doesn't offer a per-platform pricing.

It doesn't look like a game where micro-transactions would work either.
One cannot enforce how to write or pronounce stuff in other languages, speakers of any language can call Turkey whatever they like in their language and what Erdogan decides has absolutely no value outside of Turkey.
Battle for Wesnoth is absolutely epic. I played it over a decade ago, and it a brilliant story and many great, epic battles. I have no idea what they added since then, but it's probably worth checking out.
It depends on their priorities. Prior to the cuts to the IRS in the Trump administration, their priorities were in auditing wealthier people and they had an excellent rate of return.
Quite obviously even though rich people have lawyers to push back and more sophisticated tax hiding schemes, the payoff when you succeed is huge. And even though you need a well staffed, competent team, it’s still cheaper than the manpower clawing back a few thousand dollars each from tens of thousands of tiny audits.

Are they catching the biggest Panama-paper level players? No those people have too much sway. But they can be very effective against the “ordinary” rich people.
That would be very risky: those monsters aren't friends with the wind. Any glitch and a lot of power gets applied to that building. Another glitch and a large frame falls down on the street.

You can read reports of Nobile airship trips. And wind could delay trips by days.
Lol, indeed.

Imagine that you have to explain to drone pilots that even a very small drone is completely unacceptable in an airport vicinity. Yes, your 0.5kg drone can seriously damage the compressor of an engine!
or ICE, Thalys, Fyra, EuroCity, EuroNight, NightJet, ...
it's available from steam, too.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1536610/OpenTTD/
> It is a rather striking distribution, isn't it?

No, not at all striking. [0] Merely a reflection from the older influences. Many, many languages that are not grouped in the same families, _are_ descended from PIE, and its children. That is to say, they may not traditional grouped in the same family, but would probably still be considered to be in the Indo-European family.

For an example of this "same family" thing, Japanese, Tamil, Quecha, are all probably descended from Proto-Uralic [1], despite not traditionally being considered sister languages.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language#S...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Uralic_language
> Nobody is going to bid an ad for the search "who was the 15th president of the US" but they do bid for "apple airpods" or "airpods alternatives."

They do. SEO spammers have been cluttering results for simple queries over the years, and it only seems to get worse.

The typical pattern is: lengthy paragraphs that introduce simplistic questions and definitions with ads scattered across them. Often the answer is burried deep into the “article”.

Similarly there are plenty of spam sites that aggregate github issues, SO QA, and official forums and docs. Again sprinkled with dozens of ads and typically no source cited.

Search engines don’t seem to be able to keep up and their utility degrades. It might be a combination of conflict of interest and inability to deal with the sheer complexity and volume.
I did try to enter Clojure’s world multiple times (and succeeded to a degree), but I couldn’t put aside the ill-feeling while reading several well-regarded books on the language. It had such a narcissistic writing, looking down on every other language that I didn’t see in any other community. Maybe it is a lisp thing?

Nonetheless, fortunately it wasn’t enough to make me stop, because Clojure is indeed a fantastic language with a great community, but a bit less tribalism could benefit its writers.
That’s a good point. I don’t know how widespread they are.
How fast are Linux pipes anyway?
It’s difficult to have a sensible argument when there’s a fundamental difference in values. As far as I can see, you think education should ‘produce’ something of monetary value or it is worthless. Historically, universities have operated under very different assumptions.

Take the example of historical research. Either you want a society which knows its own history of you don’t. You can’t put a price on that. To try to reduce the value of such research to citation numbers or some kind of financial measure is just nonsense.
French universities absolutely do have legacy admissions. It's called admissions paralleles (or sur dossier), you can pay your way in with minimal effort and get the same diploma upon graduation.
Having XML/JSON stored in DB is pretty common actually (sometimes you need to store same/related info with different "schemas").

Storing Python and JS.....WTF?
The cargo planes can't lift people out, though. You could evacuate over a 100 people at a time on one of these ships, which seems incredibly useful.
Appropriate taxation on fossil carbon could make a difference. Flying in kerosene-fueled planes should be made a lot more expensive than any alternatives.
If 90s Gates had Twitter, that would have been a sight to see…

People think he’s just a nice guy philanthropist now and forget he got there by being an absolutely ruthless, cutthroat monopolist.

Rockefeller literally had a camp of union organizers machine gunned and hired thugs to set fire to his competitors shipments so maybe he’s not the best example, either.
The risk, at least for copyright, is that there is no downside for predatory publishers to just wait the time limit out. It does need reforming, but it needs to take care of minor artist interests as well as big entertainment corporates and probably needs split provisions for the two.

Like, copyright might last a lifetime if owned by the author, and some arbitrarily short period if transferred to an incorporated entity. Laws should identify carefully publishers to avoid big corp exploiting the systems, but it could be made to work. Maybe make it so that personal copyright royalties starts from 1% gross revenue of publishing and adaptations, or something else big enough to incentivize money transfers out of coprs and toward artists.
Vacuum is the ideal. Taking the molar mass of air at 28.8g/mol at STP we can see a density of air at about 1.225 kg per metre cubed. Combined with the volume of the bag we have the uplift. We quickly find that empty flexible bags collapse with nothing to provide an atmosphere of pressure back out thus the compromise of low mass gasses. These still add weight to our vessel diminishing our carrying capacity.

Therefore the best solution is hot hydrogen.
One thing to remember is that these companies are ones that he's effectively just bought, he's not necessarily bootstrapped them and dictated how they should operate and organize, we don’t know how involved he is. The only things I've really heard from him as a leader are from Tesla - demanding people work longer hours, forcing employees to work during covid, union busting and stuff like that. So this suggests that either

- he is publicly brash and careless, but privately very efficient and savvy

- or his companies get shit done without his involvement, or despite his attempts at getting involved rather than because of them.
There are some basic things broken in the graphics engine:

1) Turning vsync "on" doesn't have the intended effect. There's still very visible tearing half way down the screen.

2) Turning vsync on in combination with full-screen mode results in a hideous stuttering when turning the viewport with the mouse. It looks like you got the swap chain sequence.. backwards? As in... swapping the "most recent" frame.. and then an older frame!? Or something like that. It's literally stuttering back-and-forth making my eyes bleed. It is also inconsistent: switching in and out of borderless windowed mode changes the behaviour.

3) The GUI scale setting is weird by default (140%!?), and is ignored for some UI elements. Do you test with 4K monitors?

4) Lots of GUI glitches. E.g.: clicking the tabs in the settings window will make it disappear for a moment and reappear.

5) The game continues to use 100% GPU even when I alt-tab out to the desktop

6) I have a 60 Hz monitor. The game generates more GPU load (75% vs 60%) with vsync enabled than if I use the "limit to 60 fps" mode, which confirms that the vsync setting is doing something very wrong. These two modes should produce identical GPU load.

7) Hovering the cursor over some in-game UI elements causes alternating-frame flicker. E.g. the "Right click & drag to remove existing designations" orange mouse icon thing.

As a former game engine developer, my advice is that with both DirectX and OpenGL there is generally only "one right way" to do certain things such as managing a swap chain. Yet, somehow, game developers manage to get this consistently wrong and never seem to test/fix it.

Test, test, test! Plug in multiple monitors. With different resolutions. Drag your game around between them. Try laptops with hybrid (NVIDIA+Intel) GPUs. Use a HDR monitor. Use one of those laptops with a hybrid card and unplug the power while your game is running. Plug the power back in. Change your desktop resolution while your game is running. Try to get 10-bit working. Try to get the game to look identical even on wide-gamut monitors. Etc...

Iron out these bugs through acid tests. You will never notice real bugs otherwise, because it's too easy to get stuck in some "happy path" rut, such as testing with a single 1080p monitor.

Non-graphics related feedback:

"Unsaved progress will be lost!"

"What year is this!? Am I stuck in 1990 again?"
Related to many prior translations, which are the foundation of anglicised, not latinised bible translations which tiptoed on the precipice of heresy, lacking the kings imprimatur.

Finding ur-texts and arguing their role meant combining Aramaic, hebrew, Greek and Latin, all the while watching over your shoulder for the sharp blade.

And then, there's the mistranscriptions of the breeches bible, the murder bible, the consequences of a literate non priestly class who could (and did) debate religion as informed opinion not received wisdom...
37signals: Seven Shipping Principles
Reduce so they can sell it off for more money elsewhere ..

"Sacramento To Sell 3 Billion Gallons of Water After Declaring ‘Water Alert’"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmw7kVgrrW4
http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/

This is not a 3D technical achievement nor is it highly replayable, but the first playthrough is marvelous for any fan of scifi or cyberpunk.

Hard AI, trying to grow and avoid discovery. It plays very well.

In fact, I say that, but I haven't played it in 10 years and I see there was a 1.0 release in 2020, so I'm going to go check that out right now.
I also do this with almost everything I write. I always have a Sublime Text window open with a bunch of unsaved tabs that I use as a buffer space for everything and copy paste it when I’m done.

Another reason is persistence. If a webpage decides to refresh or my browser or system crashes, my textarea content is gone. Sublime Text remembers those unsaved tabs no matter what.
So they are building a Van de Graaff generator [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_de_Graaff_generator
This is why more seasoned traders pay attention to trading volume. It is also how many players manipulate the naive traders into thinking a stock is crashing or booming.
Or nuclear cargo ships.
Yes, if only for nostalgia. The modern graphics look smoother/friendlier, but I just want it to look the way it always looked back then. :)
Amazing how a failed legacy media company from the 1950s managed to stay afloat until today simply by publishing a list of colleges in unscientific and largely arbitrary order.

The amazing thing is US News still pretends to publish news—-likely just to add legitimacy to the college ranking business.
> The alternative explanation is that he's a lot dumber than he seems

In light of his recent difficulties with Python (and in combination with a few other bizarre comments and actions) this is starting to seem increasingly likely.