skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello! I am the creator of Don’t Wordle. Really excited to see this took off today.

I thought I would share some background about the game, some of the iterations I went through, and some of the future features I would like to add.

Background:
Like many others, I have been playing Wordle daily. Recently, my Wordle win streak hit 99. I was admittedly very careful with my guesses on Day 100, not wanting to ruin my streak. Then I began to wonder…even if I wanted to lose intentionally, could I do it? Obviously, I could make intentionally bad guesses, but that would take the fun out of it. So I decided to build Don’t Wordle.

Iterations I have gone through:

The first version of the game was simpler and much worse IMO. I did not display the “Valid Words Remaining” at the top, and there was no concept of “Undos". Initially, I actually displayed the Wordle word at the top throughout the entire game! To be honest, that doesn’t change the difficulty of the game that much. However, given that the spirit of the game is not to guess the Wordle word, it seemed like the right decision to hide it.

I created the “Valid Words Remaining” feature when I realized how challenging the game was. I kept getting stuck and wondering whether there were even any words left besides to Wordle word. When I saw how fast the count shrinks, I felt the game was a lot more interesting.

I then added the concept of “Undos” when I realized the game was still too challenging. It’s particulary lame if you’re playing the game for the first time and you get eliminated after just 1 or 2 guesses.

Current Tech Stack:

-Route53 + Cloudfront + S3 + Create React App

Unexpected challenges:

1. The animations. I obviously copied all the concepts from the original Wordle, but I failed to appreciate the complexity.

2. The nuances of the repeat letter words.

3. What makes a Wordle square yellow? The answer is not so simple

4. Trying to get www.dontwordle.com and dontwordle.com to take you to the same URL (either www.dontwordle.com or dontwordle.com) and still support TLS and only use the tech I mentioned above. I actually still don’t have it working perfectly. I know of a solution, but it’s overly complicated

Features I would like to still add:

1. I have heard from multiple people that it’s annoying how you could get the game in an unwinnable state without realizing it. For example, maybe 20 valid words remain, but there is no valid sequence of words remaining to finish the puzzle. While the “Valid Words Remaining” feature is nice, it would also be cool to have a “Valid Solutions Remaining” feature

2. I would like to build a brute force solver that you can watch attempt to play the game in real-time. I have built something similar for a crossword puzzle and really enjoyed watching the computer try to fill the grid. I think it would be cool to do that same thing with this game.

Question I don’t yet know the answer to:

Do any words exist that would not have a single valid solution in this game?
As a native Greek, no, they don't make any sense.. sort of. My hunch is that they read significantly more like Latin than they do Greek. However it tells us something about google translate.

The reason "Apoploe vesrreaitais" is detected as Greek is because the first "word" is "phonetically" similar to the word απόπλους, which means sailing/shipping and it is rooted in ancient Greek. If we were to write Αποπλοuς using roman characters, we would write apoplous or apoloi (plural, in Greek is αποπλοΐ). So I think that the model understands that "oe" suffix is used to represent the Greek suffix "οι" that is used for plurals. The rest of the word is rather close phonetically, so there is some model that maps phonetic representations to the correct word.

The other phrase seems to be combined of words classified as Portuguese, Spanish, Lithuanian, and Luxembourgish.
Long-distance collaboration makes scientific breakthroughs more likely
With economic rents the dilemma is not simply between doing stuff and having stuff. It's between having something which others can have as well (through reciprocal property rights) vs. claiming to own things which actually belongs to someone else (surplus labor resulting from enclosure of the commons) and then pledging what you don't own as collateral for loans.
Related survey from U Mich. https://data.sca.isr.umich.edu/fetchdoc.php?docid=69846

Consumer sentiment was relatively higher in Spring 2021 and then plummeted to a 10-year low which may have hit bottom in April 2022 or may continue plunging, hard to say.
>Elon Musk does not have a private army nor his wealth in gold to defend his claim to anything.

People like Musk are not the world's ruling elites though. He and other tech billionaires are the richest people who's wealth is in public companies, so that's why they get all the visibility and media attention, but they're not the richest people in absolute terms, nor are they ruling elites, quite far from them.

The ruling elites, the richest and most power people in the world, are the likes of the British monarchy, Vladimir Putin, Saudi family, and other such monarchs and dictators who basically own nearly entire countries in both land and valuable resources and also control militaries to defend their assets and their position. They never appear in Forbes riches people because, unlike tech billionaires, most of their wealth is highly secretive and well hidden from the rabble, and for good reason too.

Putin is estimated to be worth way more than Musk. And he also has an army at his disposal. Same with the Saudi family, they have an army and their wealth could probably make Musk look like he should be put on social security.
Which Slack clones are you talking about? This comment seems off-topic here, given that threaded conversations are the ONLY thing Zulip implements (way before Slack), making Slack a bad Zulip clone.
Homes have been going up in price for far longer than 40 years. The only time they have dropped is the Great Depression and the Great Recession. Otherwise there isn't an asset class that is more reliable over the long haul than real estate.
The book describes a pretty nice small farm arrangement. Basically the guy has a field of grass and has some cows and chickens. The cows graze on the grass and poop, the chickens pick apart the poop and eat insects and he's basically just moving around fencing once every day or two. Since it's not mass farming of animals he doesn't have to deal with as much waste at scale, and he sells high end meat in addition to some produce he works on separately.

Doesn't sound that bad once you get it going but I'm sure there's a lot of day to day work.
This was actually pointed out in the "peer" (laughable to call it that) review of the paper. The data this rag was based on was flawed from the start.

> You should use the term ‘sex’ rather than ’gender’, because your use of categories (male vs. female) indicates it is biological sex you are considering. In fact, you inconsistently use sex 20 times and gender 20 times in the ms.

> The problem is tricky because our survey used the term gender rather than sex. We have only used the term gender when referring to the survey questions and have explained why in a footnote at the start of the survey section. We forgot to explain that we had made this change in our last communication with the reviewer, but we hope you find this approach reasonable. Admittedly, a few other ‘genders’ were added by accident in past reviews.
Baby boomers retiring is going to hit most faculty very hard. Not sure if it means new opportunities for the younger staff or just the whole department will fall apart.
Presumably this includes fuzzy dice!
Do people have no more sense of humour? Is everybody here changing the world and providing a future to humanity a javascript framework at a time?

This the Tech Lead! The one and only! The man has a sense of humour driest than the bottom of Death Valley.

"Why I'm so good at coding.": https://youtu.be/xqgH9j3x2OE
The White Mask
I'm guessing the hope that the 2021–22 school year would be better.
Discord added threads this year and it’s lovely.
My house almost tripled in 8 years. I made $2 million profit from selling my house last year.
Time to bring back the mobile UMPCs of yore that ran full desktop OSes. None of this ecosystem nonsense, run everything in the browser.

All this hullabaloo about Epic v Apple, Amazon v Google etc reminds me of how comparatively painless it is to do anything on a proper computer. I've never had a Windows device tell me it can't play Netflix in 1080p because the browser doesn't have Widevine L1 DRM support. Or that my bank website won't work because my computer is rooted.
> 1) Student loan plans (especially in the UK) are gonna cripple the economy and are vastly unsustainable.

Why do you say that about the UK? I’m not from there and this is the first I’m hearing about problems with UK student debt.
you mean CDDL?

Empty threats are void, IMHO. Might take a bit of bravery to step over the fence, but if no one comes after you after a certain amount of time has passed, the fence is effectively not there. Ubuntu already did that work, though, so...
It is actually from cloudflare. When I stopped receiving emails I checked my cf dashboard and figured something was wrong.

So I opened a support ticket and someone from their support team closed the ticket and said their safety team will respond to me.

Few mins later I got an email from them with the content in the original post.
Fork is great -- except for when you try and google about it b/c at least for me, I haven't been able to differentiate my queries between the git fork operation and git Fork the UI.

Also on my local machine, push to remote gitlab does not work reliably and I have to push via command line. Have not been able to find a solution, but also haven't done more than googling about it.
> And you need a method for dealing with desync where the clients and servers don't agree on history

In MMORPGs, the desync frequently occurred from hackers. The end result was that all of the processing ended up on the server, with the client only rendering what was delivered from the server and sending movement/keystrokes to the server for processing.

> the model that has won out so far is one where the server is thick and the client just handles sending commands to mutate server state as it can

This is the natural result of having to deal with hackers and cheaters. Everybody running online games (re)discovers this.
> Pretty much. At least the sort of degrees that leave you 100k+ in debt with no way to repay it. Poor kids don't have the luxury of making mistakes like that.

How do you figure? Poor kids qualify for federally subsidized student loans.

I suspect the whole debate is a bit skewed because it tends to ignore admissions. You can't go to an expensive college if you can't get admitted to an expensive college. Your family background and wealth tends to be a big factor in whether kids can get admitted to college, for many reasons.

It seems to be assumed that poor kids are just more "prudent" and other kids are recklessly throwing money away. More likely is just that poor kids get admitted to more expensive schools at a lower rate. The whole point of student loans is that they're taken by people who can't afford to pay for college upfront.

If poor kids are passing up the opportunity to go to great schools for purely financial reasons, why would we even celebrate that, instead of mourning their lost opportunities? I suspect the reality, however, is that poor kids aren't getting well prepped for college admissions, for well-known social reasons. That's not fair either, but I think it's cynical to try to play poor people and middle class people against each other just because middle class kids understandably want upward mobility — which poor kids want too, but simply have less access to such opportunities.

It's always weird when people mention the average lifetime earnings of college graduates, because you have to ask yourself why the so-called "prudent" poor kids who don't go to college are passing that up. It just feels to me like people want to shut down all upward mobility, and punish the ambitious middle class kids for even trying. What's the alternative to taking on big student loan debt, besides "staying in your place" and letting rich kids who can pay for expensive things upfront have all the best opportunities?

The other thing is that ambitious middle class parents and teachers are pushing their kids to go to college, indeed the best college possible, even if the kids aren't really ready for it or know what they want to do with their life yet. Everyone is telling the kids they have to go to college, that they can't get a job without a degree, etc. The pressure on kids from adults is massive. It's practically propaganda or brainwashing. There's nothing these adults love more than to brag about their kids, who end up as pawns in the social one-upmanship game of the adults.
As someone that worked at a hedge fund that was leveraged approximately 40:1 in 2008, I never wish to go through that again. 40B USD assets under management down to about 7B USD in a few weeks... Amazingly, we still had jobs at the end of that September.
Yeah, Amazon really effectively destroyed the "browsing" experience of the comixology store. Really they just destroyed the comixology store - it's been subsumed by amazon's generic storefront which is pretty pessimally designed for discovering new non-mainstream content.
I wonder if any linguists are training a neural network to generate Esperanto 2.0.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/world/canada/kamloops-mas...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/canada-residential-schools-unma...

https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/children-of-the-poison...

>During the 1960s and early ‘70s, the chemical plant at the Reed Paper mill in Dryden, Ont., which is upstream of Grassy Narrows, dumped 9,000 kilograms of mercury into the English-Wabigoon River. The fish in the river were full of poison, and the people from Grassy Narrows, who relied on the fish as a staple in their diet, were full of it, too.

>Once ingested, mercury never goes away. It “bioaccumulates,” meaning it passes from one generation to the next, from mother to child, through the placenta.

And so on....

This sort of thing is covered in University-level courses in Canadian History. But nevermind that - it's just "misinformation" that I have invented "out of whole cloth."

Native schools and residencies were built downstream rivers from factories that produced toxic chemicals and dumped them into said rivers. Again, it's not new knowledge, it's just labeled as misinformation because people are ignorant and they would rather not know. This subject is directly covered in the aforementioned coursework.

How gullible you want to be is a choice you have to make.
When they dress up like “Americans” and their costumes are sourced from a single socio-economic context in America that has well know stereotypes, no it is not me being the bigoted one. I’ve been called white trash you don’t need to lecture me on it.
no. must everything be taken to an extreme, made tribal and ideological?

note the phrase "asset income being periphery", which implies an optimum. the ability to own one appreciating asset is great. owning two is probably ok in most cases. 90 is highly unlikely to provide a net social good.
The intent of specifically including fentanyl is to not criminalize having drugs that have it mixed in. Ideal world, we remove fentanyl from the supply all together, sadly in Vancouver many of the deaths are from contaminated supply. There are general fears of getting drugs tested (its free) so people don't. This will help, but it's not a total solution.
Chart 5B is pretty amusing
I think we have good evidence for animals learning not to cooperate with us, though; completely ignoring us is associated with animals living in uninhabited places, like penguins, and with ones we killed or ate to death, like historical emus and megafauna.
> it seems that for most of human history the value proposition for most people, as imposed by nature, was "work hard or starve".

Many people and cultures have celebrated and promoted leisure. The US strain of the Protestant work ethic is not most of human history, most people, or imposed by nature.

> This should not be regarded as degradation, but rather strength and triumph.

It can be an individual triumph over circumstance, but the circumstances are still degrading.
The word is απόπλους, or αποπλοΐ
> first choices
Yes, it is useful to remember that peak load on the Grid is often dominated by/built for industrial users that generally keep somewhat strict 9-5 business days and evenings/weekends rarely see anything close to that same peak. It's why power utilities have almost always had different rates for Peak and Non-Peak electric usage (to incentivize more non-peak usage). Most EVs even have smart modes that let them schedule their charges to best take advantage of cheaper off-peak electricity pricing.
Giant Tech Firms Plan to Read Your Mind and Control Your Emotions
Plus it's fast, Slack is a vat of molasses and I hate my life every time I have to use it.
Inflation is not generally not necessary to encourage capital to be invested. Real returns, discounted for risk, encourage capital to be invested.

Monetary stability makes many forms of investment less risky! Low real interest rates (which often co-occur with inflationary episodes) discourage many forms of savings (which banks could use to invest.) The link between inflation and overall amounts of investment is not abundantly clear in the general case and it is an open problem that remains under study.
> The west [...] (apart from the countries that built themselves up on colonial empires of theft)

That's...barely a thing at all.

> US, UK, France, Italy, etc.

If those are your examples, you really don't need the “apart from...”
There is a waitlist, but OpenAI just announced they are opening access more widely from it.
Not quite, but close. Piketty's thesis is that the rate of return on investment is higher than the growth rate and that this drives inequality. Asset prices growing faster than wages is a partial explanation for that.
To add a little color to the bare link already posted:

Back in 2000 the Department of Labor started tracking the number of people quitting their job. The number has bounced between 1.5 and 2.5 percent during that time. The number recently went up to 3 percent, and is staying high.

From that it appears "something" is happening. Given the lack of historical data it is impossible to tell if it is normal variability or something interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Resignation
I left academia for a software company, not midway my career but at the early start.

The decision is easy when you have mouths to feed, wages don’t keep up, and I can earn double my salary doing the fun part of my work (ML+optimization+data/energy modelling in civil engineering space) literally the next day. I was working with all kinds of companies to help them get started with this kind of work. Instead of sending my students I just leapt and it’s been a tremendous experience. If I return I will be a better professor, however not publishing for a couple of years may kill that dream. Right now, it’s a great feeling not to have to worry about food and I can actually focus more on doing my job better. I feel bad about leaving my group, but they can find someone more hungry than me that wants it more.
> very hard to lose

Sort of. You could argue that Super Mario Bros. is 99.9% losing for most people. But within those losses are little personal victories, like getting past the first Goomba.

I hate games that try to remove all loss, assuming people can't handle it.
I’d argue 3% savings is better than nothing, and you have to keep in mind that that 3% figure is in the US we have right now where very few people use transit. If ridership grew, that number would as well.

Regardless, a move like that is as much about demonstrating that alternatives are possible as it is about direct savings. The Netherlands started building excellent bike infrastructure around that time, and they’re now in a better position than we are to get by with less oil use.
Ports.

Others will probably provide some other good reasons, but to me, Docker is multiplexing the global shared resource that is typically singular on a machine (at least a cloud/vm) - network ports. Of course you can easily stand up multiple services (of varying or same software platform) but you will need to carefully negotiate and manage and proxy ports. Docker provides an abstraction that does this for you, where services are hosted under unique internal host names which are easily addressable.
Sarcasm aside, there doesn't need to be a conspiracy for a privileged group, acting as individuals, to want to discourage changes that would upset their advantaged position in the status quo (and to use their privileged position to maintain it). They don't need to relish the suffering of others so much as maintain the indifference required to justify their own self-preservation. Virtually every member of the uber-rich buys into the gospel of the benefits of inequality and the necessity of a poor underclass, and votes and lobbies accordingly.
From a technocentric POV it does feel like a lot of the opportunity has faded. Last decade I built a crypto miner for a few grand and that has made me a crazy return over the years. I posted a hack-a-day project and it got so much attention that I could bootstrap a successful hardware company in the fledgeling home automation market. I started a YouTube channel and bam! thousands of subscribers and checks come in from Google. I taught a few tech lectures and was immediately hired as a consultant from an inbound cold-call even though I was barely competent. Software was "eating the world", find a market space and call it {x}ly.com and you're on your way. There was also an optimistic tide you could ride psychologically to motivate you to pursue a new venture.

I would like to work on something new in software because the IC shortage and dealing with CM's in China has become challenging. But everything that seems like a niche surprisingly has established competition. I could compete with {x}ly.com when they were first starting out but if they have been in business for 10 years it seems like they will have extracted not just the value from their target market but neighboring niche markets as well. Perhaps this isn't true but given the pervasive pessimism it feels like software has already ate the world and picked it clean.
> It’s interesting that fuel prices are literally at the bottom of the list.

Why is it so interesting? The average person's budget is less than 5% gasoline.

The reason gasoline is historically this all important thing is because Exxon and auto manufacturers used to be the biggest, most important companies in the US (and to some extent airlines) - not because gasoline is the stable of the American consumers spending.
> This official (gov) document proves that I'm right

I'm not saying France doesn't have power from gas. I'm saying that the reason we have gas plants is completely unrelated to nuclear. If you look at intraday graphs, the resource historically used to improve performance is STEP hydro, not gas.

> Second: no, nuclear load-follow has severe limitations.

The article you quote does say the opposite of what you have it say. Let me quote from it:

> Méconnue, la souplesse du parc nucléaire français permet d’ajuster à tout moment l’offre de production des différentes énergies variables à la demande des consommateurs.

translation: "Little known, french nuclear plants' flexibility lets them continually adjust the production capacity, including variable energy sources, to consumers' needs"

> however it is insufficient in the real world

<citation needed>

> It lists indeed "sources" of load-following

No, it lists the reason why these historic plants were built. The reason was never load following, as you claimed earlier.

> France needs fossil fuel for power generation, its nuclear fleet isn't sufficient.

That is completely unrelated.