skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll quibble a bit ...

> The article mentions unnamed youngsters not liking the real-ish time mechanics of Titanic Adventure Out of Time, or the difficulty of the puzzles, feeling that they're too punishing. I doubt it

But none of your examples are particularly recent, except arguably Final Fantasy XIII-3. Recent games with a strict timer are rare, and when they exist -- like the recent indie metroidvania Unsighted -- they get a lot of criticism for it. As for difficult puzzles, well, are there any non-indie games with difficult puzzles in recent history? Sure, such games continue to get made, but they're fairly niche.

> Hollow Knight is maybe the most critically acclaimed indie game of all time and most people play it with a fan wiki open

I don't know how many people play Hollow Knight while constantly consulting a guide, but if they do, it doesn't imply an appetite for taking notes while playing games. If I'd had to take notes while playing Hollow Knight (and I did not, though I did consult a guide a couple times) I wouldn't have enjoyed it nearly as much as I did. I don't know anyone who takes notes playing games. Heck, I don't remember who it was off the top of my head, but recently a journalist caught a bunch of flack when he suggested taking notes while playing Elden Ring.

> Point and click adventures are still quite popular

The graphical point-and-click adventure is nowhere near as popular, in relative terms, as it used to be. They do get made, but mostly by indies with small budgets and small audiences. I also don't think Return of the Obra Dinn is a great example, but maybe I'm too rigid in what I think a point-and-click adventure is.

All that is to say ... it's no surprise that difficult or otherwise challenging games survive to this day; the sheer size of the market means that niche audiences can have their needs met. But a game like Monkey Island couldn't be made today and expect to be the kind of juggernaut it once was.
It’s definitely an aspect of the culture war, but only a specific side effect.
It says in the article he has no reliable income. Consultant/coach/speaker doesn’t really sound like a business to me.
For the love of.... the compiler doesn't need a stupid initialism. Just say "the compiler". There is nothing memorable or disambiguating or intuitive or efficient about initialisms.
Take a Break from Doing Nothing, and Do Less
Ask HN: What are the oldest programming books still relevant in 2022?
these claims aren't necessarily empty, but pointless because ISPs still log everything, as they're required by law pretty much everywhere. it would require a bit more digging to through, but the data is still there - even with some clever routing with on-premise equipment, there's still more than enough data to deduce which inbound connection corresponds to which outbound connection

if your threat model is three letters agencies, vpns and tor are a fig leaf
The interesting bit here is it seems even more beneficial to add a little sugar to your coffee. It doesn’t make much sense to me, considering all the negative news about sugar in general.
Hey there! Wanted to reach out via email, but didn't see one posted. Striveworks is an AI/MLOps company and we're hiring a lot of positions right now, with some remote options to: https://boards.greenhouse.io/striveworks/

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Yes 130 is old.
Is There a Future for the Sinkhole-Studded Dead Sea?
SNS has two modes: A2A and A2P. A2A is pub-sub, A2P is for sending notifications to users (via e-mail, SMS, or mobile push)

CloudWatch Alerts are sent from SNS, and I would imagine others are as well, although some may use SES. I think SES has the same issue, as the AWS docs only mention DMARC/DKIM in the context of a custom domain.
This isn't really my kind of writing, so forgive me if my response is somehow impertinent, but there is a very good reason to cross the U.S. by train, which is that this is an enormous, beautiful continent and the train takes you to otherwise untouched parts of it that aren't visible any other way. I took the California Zephyr from Denver to San Francisco (technically Emeryville) a few years ago and it was one of the best experiences of my life. Truly unforgettable.

I hope I get the opportunity to do the Empire Builder and Southwest Chief routes at some point!
Access isn't available without an account. What's a "nonconsumer"? Everybody drinks something.
Similar studies have found that decaf coffee is associated with similar if not larger health gains.
Good start, please use david@draw.io instead.
> One person was fascinated by the whipping of heavy cream in to whipped cream

It's amazing to me that people don't know things like this. Making butter and whipped cream were fun activities my mom would have me do when I was younger, I'd never even considered some people don't even know anything about how whipped cream is made.
My employer recently announced it was planning to continue its hybrid approach for the foreseeable future. We grew significantly over 2020-2021, and we now have significantly more employees than desks for them, but no current plans to find more space.
Ironically, I've found the Google core video conferencing product leaps and bounds ahead of Zoom especially in terms of scheduling meetings and joining them from devices without having to install custom software.

If they could just stop these ridiculous exercises in bundling, unbundling, redesigning and fiddling with the UX in totally unnecessary ways, I believe they could have (had) a winner.
There’s little evidence that modest courses of anabolic steroids lead to shortened lifespans. Millions of men are on legally-prescribed steroids right now, although we call it “trt”. The East Germans were in relatively unique circumstances, likely comparable or even beyond modern professional bodybuilding dosages, which are in turn way beyond what any professional athlete would take.

From the article:

“Freyberger: The magnitude in East Germany was likely unique. Unbeknownst to them, the athletes were given heavy anabolic steroids along with sex and growth hormones, often in extremely high doses. For many of the victims, the consequences have been dramatic, some of which are only appearing now, decades later.”
That's literally how racism against Afro Americans is often excused towards Euros.
Testosterone has been declining in the population for decades. The reference levels for "normal" 20 year old now include what were, 60 years ago, levels considered too low for a ~60 year old man. It's not an exaggeration to say that at least a third of men have never experienced a normal hormonal level of testosterone. Testosterone affects nearly everything about the male physical and mental state; not only the stereotypical aggression and lust, but also mental clarity, happiness, even health.
I think a set of individuals having legal privilege by virtue of bloodline, as well as being state sponsored by tax revenue (regardless of absolute cost), is pretty anti-democratic. And yes, elected is literally democratic?
I only follow a couple streamers (as opposed to surfing more generally) and I notice the same names repeatedly doing donations like that. Most are one-offs but there are maybe 10 names that stick out in my brain because I see them so often.

I know parasocial is the popular thing right now, but I think it's just a more general 'microtransaction whale factor' that encompasses collectible card games, gachas, and stream donations. I leave realmoney gambling out of that because I think the chance to get actual money back makes the rationalization different, nobody who is whaling thinks they will get a dime back.
> for example the Empire Builder stops at East Glacier in Montana from spring to fall - extremely small town with wonderful hiking, etc.

The southern border of Glacier NP is the railroad.

https://www.nps.gov/glac/learn/education/railway.htm

So, in 1891, the continental divide finally was crossed and the rail barrons were trying to get people to use the railroad. They saw people taking steamships out from NYC to Europe to go see the Alps, and, well, they knew a thing or two about mountains, now too.

So the Great Northern Railroad petitioned Congress to make a park in the area that the trains would service.

In addition to the park proper, a number Swiss style chalets were built through the park that were approximately 1 day horse ride apart from each other. With this setup, you could take the train to East Glacier or West Glacier, go hose back riding through the mountains, and then get back on the train on the other side and go home.

While many of these chalets have been lost to time, some still exist and are maintained - https://www.nplas.org/sperry.html https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2018-06-06/funding-secured...
Fastest carbon capture system claims 99% efficiency in ambient air
I was test manager (never again) on a large enterprise system (never again) and half of our QA team offshore in India were all females; I didn't reflect on that at the time.
That's the general style of the book, but further along the way it has problems that require proving statements by referring to the properties or definitions of the actual structures involved (vector spaces).
Who says there’s no need to be careful? Almost every discussion about “big tech censorship” has been people crying that they are no longer allowed to be bigots on the timeline

Sure, but that's coming from the bigots, not the company executives.
Fun and deceptively difficult, nicely done!
https://archive.ph/hFVSY
> They are acknowledging it >2 years after the fact.

The study was released only a month ago!

May 5, 2022 https://www.who.int/news/item/05-05-2022-14.9-million-excess...

The story here is that corrections were made to the numbers for 2 countries in a recent study covering the whole world. The story is not "WHO repudiates everything it ever said".
>There’s also the possibility that coffee drinkers tend to make healthier choices in general. They might opt for a cold brew or a cup of drip coffee instead of a less healthy source of caffeine, like an energy drink or soda, Dr. Goldberg added. “If you’re pounding Mountain Dew or Coca-Cola or Red Bull or all these other drinks, they have tons more sugar, all the artificial stuff — versus coffee, which is a generally unprocessed food.”

It sounds like we need a study comparing people who rarely drink anything but water vs coffee drinking vs energy drink/soda drinking.
May 2022 Web Server Survey
I think the people in the UK have lost their appreciation for the advantages of a monarchy. Yes it's anti-democratic but democracy is not an absolute good, many people have written about this. I think she could have prevented a lot of the destruction that's come to Britain but she needs a little more support from the people. The lack of faith in the monarchy has unfortunately (in a kind of democratic way interestingly enough) taken away a lot of its power.
mmm, you mean 5% at $1000, right?
Greed overwhelms the human ability to act based on reason the same way anger and lust do.

Intelligence and education are no defense against these passions overwhelming our brain's executive function.
>I don't think there are any advantages today of using an analogue synth.

There is a huge one - unique sounds!

You will see that comment over and over from pro's who make their living creating sounds for TV/movies - this guy's channel is fascinating if you really want a peek "under the covers" https://www.youtube.com/c/NeilParfittMusic

Found him for the Mac Pro review when it was rare and new, stayed for the fascinating insight into the pro music world and the mind of an ultra audio geek!
The obvious answer is smelting bauxite into aluminum. It is so energy-intensive that it is done in Iceland of all places. Iceland itself has no bauxite mines.
Failing in the Trough
How is an anonymous, non-attributable, non-verifiable statement, from a company trying to sell you a product, worth anything? Why assume it's true when it is so contrary to even basic common sense, for anyone who has ever stood up a LAMP stack?
What is "These studies"? Are you referring to all studies? All observational studies? Something else?

While I can't debate "These studies" without knowing what you're referring to, this specific study provides a clear explanation of the study cohort and there's no sign that anyone was excluded or otherwise cherry-picked.
That's definitely a genuine factor. But much the same blasts of hot indignation were released when, for example, people in the US tried to address domestic racism in the era between the end of WWII and the Civil Rights Act. And by and large there wasn't any threat of a serious backlash against most of the US' white majority. Instead the anger was driven by the desire to go on being racist without facing criticism for it, or sometimes more by just "but ... but ... I'm the sympathetic Main Character!" attitudes. Clearly both causes are at work to some extent in the backlash against discussions of caste in the USA. It would be wrong to suggest that South Asians or people of South Asian descent in the US are in as secure a position as most of the white population is and was. But I have to say that, without being really familiar with the situation, to me it looks as if it's mostly the latter at this time.
Basic Pitch: Spotify’s Open Source Audio-to-MIDI Converter
They do. I saw it happen.
On 5.10.0-14-amd64 "pv < /dev/urandom >/dev/null" reports 72.2MiB/s. "pv < /dev/zero >/dev/null" reports 16.5GiB/s. AMD Ryzen 7 2700X with 16GB of DDR4 3000MHz memory.

"tr '\0' 1 </dev/zero | pv >/dev/null" reports 1.38GiB/s.

"yes | pv >/dev/null" reports 7.26GiB/s.

So "/dev/urandom" may not be the best source when testing performance.
The majority of what they serve are coffee-spiked desserts.
really simple. If a city wants more water it writes a big check and buys it from someone who has it.
>MMOs are kinda dying

They should. MMO is an expired genre.

It's a relic of the advent of broadband, when playing with tons of other players in a graphical game became possible for the first time. That was novel and amazing, even if it meant deep compromises in gameplay and graphics. Now, though, that's no longer novel, and those compromises don't make sense. And the incentives are awful to boot; a company has to run beefy servers, which means it's pressured to find ways to extract ever more money from the players, leading to stuff like pay-to-win.

Although some people think they can be saved, particularly if they're sandboxes instead of theme parks: https://youtu.be/nvK8fua6O64
They must control ranges of "indian" IP addresses but announce BGP routes for them in Singapore and the UK. GeoIP says India, BGP takes you somewhere else. Easy peasy
This might be overly pedantic of me, but Samuel is not part of the Torah. It's part of the Nevi'im.
Yup, Amtrak from Chicago to Emeryville is probably one of the most impressive routes one can take, and I feel sad for folks who will never get to experience it.
> every thread on this topic turns into a flame war with a bunch of people crying racism/religionism

Isn't that the first step in the flame war, attacking, dismissing, and blaming one side (and before they even say something)? How will someone with a good faith interest in discussing concerns about racism or religionism act, seeing this comment - they will feel shut down, and like they won't be heard and will be attacked. There's already no room for those discussions.

There is a lack of trust - a situation that is the goal of people trying to disrupt open societies and the trolls that help them. Whatever we say or do, the primary goal needs to be to build trust. People who are alarmed act badly - that's why trolls try to alarm people (even if they aren't quite conscious of how it works). Even when people are acting badly, if you can build their trust then very often the situation will improve.

It would be extremely valuable to society to find a way to conduct constructive conversations; I think we are improving, but not nearly quickly enough.
What model of station? Do you have to PTT out WiFi layer 2 packets by hand? Is the attacking station using a wired Ethernet connection?
> But the root of the problem is that farmers do not pay a "fair" price, they get steep steep discounts.

What are the reasons for these "steep discounts"? The obvious explanation is "lobbying", but I remember a comment from a while ago mentioning that the farmers "own" water rights and those can't be expropriated from them without a costly legal process.

edit: comment mentioning the water rights aspect in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31593372
> There is a law and public debates for castes and how to address the (no doubt existing even outside India) problem.

That's kinda part of the problem. In India there are laws dealing with caste based oppression and discrimination (how well they are enforced is another story). But in most other countries such laws do not exist. And caste-based discrimination is exceptionally easily and silently accomplished because for a vast majority of Indians, your last name gives away your caste.
Going deeper: What about when shared context engender conflicts? Ex: family members, marriages, coworkers, etc.

Values matter and these are hard to instill.
Which is totally fine. The problem with dairy in California is that it's a water-intensive activity in a very water-constrained state.
TigerStyle – TigerBeetle's coding style guide
I highly recommend the accompanying youtube demo video [1] - but only if you enjoy a hacker dad singing fausetto to propel his son's toy train faster around the track.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t65X-cs55qM
Yes can repeat any string, not just "y". It can be useful for basic load generation.
Exactly. Turns out people like

- Having chat and calls in one app

- Being able to make other people's devices ring if required (and not having to send a meeting invite code in a completely different app and coordinate with the other party to join)

- Being able to log in using their Google account rather than doing some weird dance involving their phone number

- Using more than one device simply by logging in using their account, rather than "linking an additional device to their phone" (which of course has to be the center of it all)

Seems like the same thing is happening to Pay/Wallet too. It was always completely beyond me how they would rip out "Login with Google" from their own products and replace it with a phone-number-based single-device model.
I knew a similar guy, but he was Spanish and his catchphrase was “Moor killer” which was just really odd to me, given the Reconquista ended a very long time ago, but he says a lot of terms/cultural aspects still exist from then.
Awesome work, congrats on public beta Vlad and team! I've seen nothing but stellar reviews, looking forward to trying it out!
indeed thanks :)
Just take a look at OPs post history.
Y Combinator for Mittelstands?
Never heard of Quixo, thanks for sharing. My domain name was picked randomly a decade ago among the remaining short-ish names -- being similar in name is a coincidence.
Once you experience a normal level of testosterone, you would not consider for a moment returning to "baseline". The commitment would be like your commitment to having a roof.
Also I'm a no-coffee but energy drink (Bang usually) drinker and my energy drinks have either 0-3 grams of sugar... I drink water all day long, no sodas, etc. I'm sure 280 grams of caffeine can't be that great for me, of course.
> Repeatedly typing the 'y' character into a Linux pipe is surely not that common, especially at that bit rate.

At that rate no but I definitely use it once in a while. For example if a copy quite a few files and then get repeatedly asked if I want to overwrite the destination (when it's already present). Sure, I could get my commmand back and use the proper flag to "cp" or whatever to overwrite, but it's usually much quicker to just get back the previous line, go at the beginning (C-a), then type "yes | " and be done with it.

Note that you can pass a parameter to "yes" and then it repeats what you passed instead of 'y'.
ExpressVPN now belongs to Kape Technologies, which has a colorful history:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/what-is-kape...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/kape-technologies-buys-ex...
> Since when has raising the price of anything changed anyone’s behavior?

Making water 2x more expensive probably isn't going to cause you to drink less water, but it might make you consider a variety of water conservation measures, like low flow showers, dishwashers, or low water landscaping.
My personal definition of "friend" has always been "someone not in your family you would want to inform if you found out you had cancer." It's served me quite well.
A study described in the Dorito Effect took millions of grocery receipts and analyzed them. Turned out people who had wine in their carts also had an overall healthy selection of food at checkout. The customers who bought beer stuffed their carts with all kinds of junk.

So there is that. So much for "a glass of wine a day is good for your heart".
I don't agree with your take - I've always loved RTS games (played age of empires 2, StarCraft, Warcraft 3, deviated into lol/dota and back to StarCraft 2 and now age of empires 4) - basic strategies in terms of build orders are table stakes for these games and have been since as long as I can remember. You need to be able to react to changing situations in these games. Nobody executes build orders perfectly, and there's RNG in map spawns and layouts that can give you a subtle edge over your opponent. The game is won and lost on being able to react to your opponents moves and follow through on counters to it, the same way chess plays.
if you want to race in the digital desert, i'll be out there. But i recommend some serious meatspace time.

just .. the guy with the harley and no neck? leave him alone.
The State of Databases 2022
I would say anyone who makes such broad statements about groups of people is at least guilty of bigotry, yes...
"Nonconsumers" didn't factor soda drinking, energy drinking, etc. So it lumped people who were drinking larges amounts of sugar with people drinking little sugar(tea, water), and compared them to coffee drinkers, which are low to moderate amounts of sugar.
Much of Twitter is just people signaling to one another that they are relevant in what they say and how they say it. It is a tax on your brain for which you get little in return.
To be fair, all the other interview rounds were with more junior, low-EQ CS nerds like me, so he could still be pretty confident the candidate would get a good grilling.
Can Solar Cookers Save the World?
> It would be wrong to suggest that South Asians or people of South Asian descent in the US are in as secure a position as most of the white population is and was.

People in upper castes may be that secure in their communities, which might be what matters.
> Those who drank 1.5 to 3.5 cups of coffee per day, even with a teaspoon of sugar, were up to 30 percent less likely to die during the study period than those who didn’t drink coffee. Those who drank unsweetened coffee were 16 to 21 percent less likely to die during the study period

Eh? So having sugar in the coffee was better than no sugar? am I reading this wrong?
Sounds like a hard drive cache filling up.
The U.S. has a history of paying farmers not to grow crops. We did this in the 90s to drive the price of grains up to price Mexican farmers out of the market. If we can do it for as venal a reason as that we should be able to do it for a practical reason like ensuring that people don't die and that our agricultural system doesn't dry up and blow away. Should be. I'm not optimistic tho.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/unc-investig...

Even when they actually have a class to go to, they are dumbed-down like the one described here: https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/dumbed-down-math-classe...

Though, not all athletes, of course. The best player at my school was a legitimate mechanical engineer! Most of the rest were business majors.