skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Yeah thanks, I know of all that. But people implementing country dropdowns might be funny...
And describing those situations as "Fans" just feels wrong. It is clearly offering a service as product. And basically buying the possibly relevant certificate for participation.
I wondered why people thought so highly of Tim Hortons. I’ve only been there post-merger, so that explains it. It still doesn’t explain how anyone drinks the swill that is Starbucks, though.
Your on the right track. Pricing is the solution (and cause) for most scarce resource problems.

But in California, household consumption is very far from the main water problem.

Agriculture is a far bigger problem, and the pricing regime there is often completely insane.

There are other problem sectors.
Does the commodities futures market not already solve this problem ?
He probably meant that games dwarf the rest of the entertainment industry now.
Google cancelled a talk on caste bias
>In the fall of 2020, she gave a presentation to Alameda County’s Public Health Department showing data that demonstrated an increase in the number of kids who were screening positive for suicidal thoughts in the ER.

That sounds interesting, wish it was accessible through the article, as opposed to a third-hand account of said presentation.
I'd never heard of the DIR and MENU elements. Hierarchical directory listings and proper menus are things I wanted browsers to natively support. I guess the spec authors tried and the implementations didn't deliver. :(
Problems in Linear Algebra (1978), a book of solved problems
Thank you, I will look it up. I wonder what the success rate was for those, I thought they sometimes went to backup locations.

I read accounts of using airships in the exploration of the North in the early 20th century and I got the impression that they often dropped ropes in a clear spot away from the exact landing point and were led by a landing team to the final docking, which would be hard to do in the middle of a city today.
While it doesn't fit TFA's premise of 100 on one thing, Patreon is used as a donation platform by many groups, for example i know of several online radio platforms using it (when asked "why not Liberapay?", they say Patreon helps take care of business and tax issues, provides an API, etc.). DKFM uses the API to display their Patreon donors on the website for example.

Sci-fi publications use it as well for monthly subscriptions - the general math holds up that some people spend $5/$10 per thing totalling up to $100/mo (or some variation). But I don't think that supports what TFA is suggesting $100/thing/mo), that feels like a lot. They might believe the Patreon user only supports one thing/mo, but I'm not sure that's true - people have varied interests based on my travels.
Clojure is as much a 'Guest Language' on the JVM as Scala or Kotlin.
i agree. its amazing. yhe hyperspec is unreadable anyway... never really helped me at all
“Hi, we heard you needed help, so we sent the Borg”
If everybody doesn’t treat climate change as a problem that they’re both the cause of and solution to, we’re never going to touch the 99%.

You think these corporations are growing almonds in the desert and raising cows because nobody buys them?
SQL. It's been there for the last ~50 years and it's going to be around for at least another decade.
I don't recall. I've only encountered it once or twice.
> But there is a niche for advertisement

… great more pollution
Everyone likes cheap but the article has a great deal more to say.
I thought that's common knowledge? The lifespan decrease from effective steroids, I mean.

When making the decision voluntarily, you trade years of life for better quality of life. Which is a tradeoff many people would accept.
This was one of my most favorite games as a teenager. It still holds up!
Radioactive decay
If you are going to compare modern CLJS tooling against JS - you should also compare against modern JS tooling like esbuild/vitejs which operate at light-speed.
But what would it be if games actually supported Mac? Chicken and the egg kind of thing
That sounds a lot like AAA fatigue more than fatigue with games (if I can say that without sounding condescending). There's a wealth of good indie games out there with lovely graphics that respect your time.

One that stands out in recent memory was A Short Hike. You can beat it in about an hour, and the scenery is very pleasing to look at. I also think of Journey, which might be one of the most beautiful games ever made, and is probably less than three hours long.
To me, graphics are like money.

Money doesn't buy happiness but not enough money causes unhappiness.

Graphics doesn't make a game great... but bad graphics causes unhappiness. Just like bad controls, no tutorial, flakey network connections, etc.
Apple to shift iPad capacity to Vietnam amid China supply chain woes
> first announced the rebrand

Honestly I was offended as I would say their rebrand is cultural appropriation.

They didn't invent the "metaverse" it's a by now decades old idea you find in many, maybe even most science fiction novels. Neither is using the term meta in this context.

In some way they basically try to forceful appropriate this to redefine it as a Facebook thing.

But this might also be why they might fail!

Because the term metaverse is already used in such a generic way by so many parties that it only stands for a vague "interconnected vr world" thingy, i.e. you could argue that even by now any trade mark protection law suite is already a lost cause (at least in the EU).

Similar have fun protecting Meta as a trademark for anything which is meta (like metadata, like most things in VR...).

I mean sure Apple is called Apple, but that only works because they have nothing to do with Apples...

Anyway putting that aspect aside there is another three problems with there vision:

- added values
- convenience
- accessibility

For success the added value must outclass any inconvenience especially such cause through problems of accessibility.

But for multiple of their use cases this is not the case, like e.g. the VR meeting rooms are much less convenient then voice/video calls and add hardly any value. Worse their are less accessible and might legally not be usable by any company hold to accessibility standards.

Another example would be e.g. 3d web, which died because for most use cases it added hardly any value over 2d text based web.

Similar things like slack became successful due to it being simple text based, if it would have been based around a vr room it would have flopped even if everyone has the right hardware to run it performant.

Pretty much the main important point I think Facebook would need to succeed in is to convince most people working in front of a computer that they want to work with a VR headset instead, but who wants to ware a VR headset 8 hours a day.
SEC Launches Game Show-Themed Public Service Campaign
On Twitch people commonly give $100 for absolute nothing, just to be thanked by the creator live, which they would do for significantly less money as well, often just $5.

I suspect the top tiers at Patreon must work the same, there's some benefit there but people are doing it because they are a megafan and want to show it. I'd be intested in how many of them are living in a false belief / parasocial relationship though.
Since when has raising the price of anything changed anyone’s behavior?

Oh you mean change the behavior of the poor, not the rich. Gotcha.
Lotus: Law of the Unconscious Statistician
As someone who works from home, I don’t get why this is a big deal. Just go work somewhere else.

Also this isn’t surprising. They have many factory workers and perhaps feel that it’s unfair to have 2 classes of people in the company - those who can and can’t WFH.
That's the thing I like about HN: you can find comments that are much better and more insightful then the article itself.

As an old time gamer I can't agree more. We are in the golden age of old-style games (hollow knight, disco elysium, stardew valley, etc). People are making this old style games with all the hindsight of modernized mechanics, better control schemes, more accessibility, stylized graphics, PC releases.
Really depends on the game. There's plenty of smallscale indies out there you can knock out in an evening and have a satisfying time with.
Of course this poses other challenges. You'll end up an 'artist' of gilding toilet seats for rich and demanding 'customers' who are very clear on what they want.

That ain't me: my branding is aligned with what my actual values and heritage are, and it's profoundly oriented towards the folks who have skills and dreams but no resources, and so I make open source software supporting 'em.

I get excited when I can support a new platform like the new Raspberry Pi, not about thinking up stuff to excite about three of my audience who could throw me a hundred bucks a month. If I go over to serving only them I'll be doing only as they direct, and they absolutely don't have the vision to run my show and get anywhere worthwhile with it.

This doesn't make the article worthless. I've been thinking very hard about how I can expand into hardware DIY and the article hints at possibilities there. I can try to come up with a DIY synth module that comes in under $20 for my primary base… or, apparently, if I can make the ultimate speaker cabinet using all my tricks and sell it to someone for $200, I could also execute it in the most sophisticated possible way, and sell it for $2000 to a superfan who is that kind of wealthy. The $20 guy can't afford either, but the $2000 guy doesn't need me to hold it to $200, they need me to make it special for them.

Risk of course is if the $2000 guy doesn't exist or doesn't show up. Trying to target only the wealthy is dangerous. They are as fickle as your attitude towards them is. There's exactly one guy out there who randomly gave me $1000, and rather than demand a product, he wanted me to think about spherical harmonics in the belief that I might come up with something helpful in the field that interested him. I suspect there are guys out there who would likewise give me $1000 on the condition that I abandon what I do and start doing what they would do if they were me…
Using the name “Enochian” was a pretty clear warning sign the dude was into magic.

However, the history of Enochian magic is actually quite interesting and revolves around John Dee, the origination of the idea of manifest destiny, and ultimately England’s exploration of the “new world”.
He didn’t. That he did comes up sometimes, but it seems to be wishful thinking or worse.
I envision Linux next. Windows would be tricky as WebKit is not really up to date on Windows. So we would probably have to resort to a differnt rendering engine. We are long way from this though, that kind of project would probably take 20 people extra.
The fact there are differences between a software and hardware synth doesn't mean that:
- you could spot it isn't the real one outside of a comparison test.
- you would prefer the real one in a blind hearing test
- it matters once the sound has past through effect, the composition has been mastered and compressed.
- it matters once lossly streamed, playing on the typical shitty bluetooth speakers and headphones while in a noisy environment which accounts for the majority of the context where records are played.
To continue the dialogue: Could this be in any way useful to predict Nash/Pareto fuckups before they happen?
Vizcom tool assists with color, shading, and rendering of your sketches
First-Person-Shooter
Xonotic
https://xonotic.org/
VC ‘threatened media war against startup after faking investment deal’
Yeah I totally do not get that.

Also hydrogen might be more fun. POP
Perhaps it can be manually optimized the best indeed, but the JVM still has a better GC if I’m not mistaken.

Value types are indeed very cool, and I really hope they will get implemented sooner on the Java side as well. Just as a note, Java recently got a SIMD API as well.
Strategy
OpenRA (Red Alert)
https://www.openra.net/
One game per comment, or voting doesn't bring up the most liked game.
Not a game, but hosting. here i got ports/patches for open core/open source games, especially for Loki games like 1.5 decades ago:

http://icculus.org/

Amongst them one my favorites:
Alien vs. Predator (Sierra Game Studio). Proprietary game content though, unsure about the code licence.

Edit: typos fixed
Hmm bookmarked. I'm making an structure editor, yeah it never get old! This is quite details and helpful. Lisp and Standard ML are two languages worth learning the basic. Currently I use Webassembly spec as reference for design decision.
Lmao, so 40 hours a week is exploitative and abusive?
CDDA is certainly a much more enjoyable game than Dwarf Fortress, but I have to admire the audacity of something that attempts to simulate thousands of years of history in a world, which you can step into any time, alongside the social structures of entire civilisations. Perhaps the only thing more amazing than DF's scope is the fact that it exists.
This seems to be a carefully-considered market-based solution to a complex problem, but there are a few details I'm struggling with.

Significantly increasing the price of a natural resource would have severe impacts on impoverished communities while having no effect at all on wealthy people and companies; is this intentional?

Around 45% of households in California are rentals. Renters are often restricted by their rental contracts in what they can and cannot do with a yard (if they are wealthy enough to have one). Should renters be stuck with extremely high water bills when their landlords require a green lawn? Or should landlords not be able to require certain landscape features?

And the toilets, should the renters living paycheck-to-paycheck be the ones replacing these units? ...actually, I'll retract that question, it's a silly one. On further consideration, I realize that if the cost of water exceeds the cost of replacing a toilet, then people working for minimum wage will be properly motivated to find some way to replace their landlord's fixtures with newer models.

Your examples are mostly focused on residential water usage, which has been about 10% of the state's overall water usage, and has been steadily decreasing for years. I noticed that you explicitly didn't want to point any fingers, but can you think of any examples that might not be residential? Something more specific, perhaps, than "more sustainable farming". As I'm sure you're already aware, water rights are an extremely sore point of political contention between farmers and the state, and one of the major drivers of conservative and "State of Jefferson" separatist politics up and down the entire I-5 corridor. Can you estimate, in dollars, the upper limit for the cost of agricultural water before someone starts shooting lawmakers at the capital?

You mentioned desalination. This solution works so well in Israel, I don't understand why it wouldn't work for all of California too. The Carlsbad desalination plant was completed and became operational just a few years ago. It only cost one billion dollars to build, an additional $50 million per year to operate, and will be able to provide about 7% of San Diego county's water needs. Do these numbers feel like they're making water expensive enough? California is mountainous, with a large central valley separated from the coast by a range of mountains that is in some places taller than the tallest mountain in Israel. Do you think it would be better to build massive pipelines over these mountains and pump water uphill from the coast into the central valley, or would it be better to tunnel through the mountains and pump the water that way? I wouldn't worry too much about the cost either way, since more expensive water is better.

Oh, speaking of cost: when there's a rainy year, should Californians be forced to continue buying water from desalination plants, or should the desalination plants be shut down and then restarted the next year?
I ran into this with a VDI environment in a data center. We had initially delivered 10Gb Ethernet to the VMs, because why not.

Turned out windows 7 or the NICs needed a lot of tuning to work well. There was alot of freezing and other fail.
Star Wars via Telnet
Watch the first 30 minutes of Star Wars: a New Hope in your terminal (ASCII) still works after all these years - telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl or telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl
Or, you have yet to find it. Perhaps it is an unknown unknown for you. My tip would be to walk the footsteps of a stranger because "If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you’ll learn things you never knew you never knew."
ReAmped Energy Is Telling Its Customers to Switch to Another Retailer
Heck yes, I love this game. Instagib is very satisfying, and I have many memories making maps with its embedded level editor together with friends.

I don't know of any other games that do this, having a realtime multiplayer editing toolset. (if you do, tell me and I'll certainly play them too!) Maybe Halo's Forge mode, but that's a bit more limited, though still good fun.
That’s mainstream games.

A somewhat Zelda related, modern indie game that comes to mind is Hyper Light Drifter. It’s one of the best games I ever played, and I have played a ton until about 5y ago.

The features/content are orthogonal, minimal and extremely well balanced. There is almost no unnecessary fluff and stuff that distracts from the core, everything is designed holistically. The gameplay is challenging and varied, while building on a few well thought out primitives.

Still you feel like you’re stepping into a world of wonder. The game has a distinct personality and encourages experimentation and exploration.

It rewards you with actual gameplay and not with ego soothing tricks.

Mainstream games that have this kind of polish and holistic design are very rare, even though they have access to humongous resources.
Ironically, the "studies" underlined word in the third paragraph is not a link, unlike "shortage" and "articles".

To be fair, the percentage in the following sentence is a cdc.gov link [1] to the requested study.
> The number of ER visits in 2021 by adolescent girls for suspected suicide attempts was 51% higher than during the same period in early 2019.

I don't think it would be particularly convincing, or even desirable, to have a county health department presentation when there are now published studies on the subject. It's just not the same level of authority.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7024e1.htm?s_cid=mm...
Radiohead’s Everything in its right place :

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NUnXxh5U25Y
Please do not hate me or hit me, I say these with an utter interest in the field.

I worked as a research engineer for a few years. They are really needed but unfortunately this will be a waste of time, effort and knowledge. The real problem with software development in science is that it is driven by the scientists who are (mostly) short sighted in their sw dev planning/schedule, they do not appreciate software debt.

And given their budgets and their focus in publishing, I understand their decisions.
Apparently based on Kiev vs Kyiv we’ll all switch to Türkiye after Russia invades.
I've been toying with just automatically trashing any email that contains the string "unsubscribe", in any context.
Do they also think that Lamborghinis are “market cars?”
Start by not de-thatching to have more variety. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dethatcher)

A lawn should be soft and not too high.

The argument against mowing has been compellingly let to music.

https://www.discogs.com/release/3930185-Ray-Anderson-Alligat...
Taiwan restricts exports of modern CPUs to Russia and Belarus
20 minutes seems reasonable tbh. It’s not like they’re going to rush them out the door in preparation for an enemy attack.
Chrome uses Blink, which was forked from WebKit's WebCore in 2013. They replaced JavaScriptCore with V8.
Our local police station has a parking lot next to it with a big sign that says “online purchase transaction point” or something to that effect. There are cameras monitoring the lot. Just suggesting meeting at said location is usually sufficient to clear out the scammers.
Could a central directory for Gpg keys, accessed via Pass/Yubikey, be a solution?

How about AWS KMS?
Countries with habitual mask usage have flu seasons just like the rest. Has it ever been studied whether it has a measurable impact at population scale? I'm skeptical.
In general the lifespan effects on East and West German Olympians were more modest than 10 to 12 years, but I found this one article which also found a higher mortality risk for German Olympians in general.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7739809/
> then on a practical level I recommend not using a build system at all, and just writing a super simple shell script (unity builds are easier there too).

But the minute you introduce someone who is familiar with windows or prefers an IDE workflow this falls apart. You are also limited to the platforms, compilers and IDEs that you write the script to support. That's not flexible, that's inflexible. Also, cmake has supported unity builds out of the box for a few years now [0] and before that cotire existed.

> I mean freestanding as in “does not link to any C library”, rather than “statically links to the C library”.

Ok, great so just use target_compile_optiond in the exact same way as you've just listed the arguments? I don't see how cmake stops you from doing that by architectural decisions at all.
you have reading issues? do you speak french? (i doubt)

if you stream IRL/travel/cooking, it is "animateur en direct"

if you only stream gaming, it is "joueur en direct"

if you if you stream a mix of everything it is "animateur en direct"

"animateur en direct" is a generic term for "streamer"
Its actually quite readable in eww, the emacs web browser :^)
Yes he works in tech on the hardware side, he always regretted not being a programmer but I think he has more fun than me, given how stuffed full his office is of solder irons and boxes full of random connectors. Plus he gets to go outside and install equipment.
Well, I don’t think that Amazon, Twitter, or Hacker News were mistakes. I am enjoying the interactive web, and this is what I would have imagined in 1998 when I have developed a first Web application in Perl/CGI. Things are going fine.
Both have open source imitations; I think.
Safari is not very search engine "friendly" and there is no way to change search engine directly.

I recommend giving Orion a try as among other things it is also WebKit and has Kagi built in.
Baykar give Bayraktar TB2 to Lithuania free of charge
Oh, wow. I thought you were just another HN hater, but nope. I think my eyes are bleeding.