skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've watched a lot of discussions about this from twitch streamers and I'm not sure where I stand.. On the one hand I'm amazed at how good this game looks on mobile and if you're just the type to casually play a game not really caring about being the best at it you could have fun playing it for free or for very cheap. On the other hand this game is clearly exploitative and while other games like Hearthstone or Clash Royale have similar pay to win mechanics they also have ways for you to enjoy the game competitively without spending a whole lot of money.

I know some countries banned games like this but I wonder, if these games get banned why not ban casinos too?
Yay for landfill. On one hand this is cool. On the other, it is pointless waste and a burden on owners who technically need to pass on the CD to new owners (in working order, so make sure you make a copy in case the CD degrades kids!). And the alternative would be Mercedes needing to maintain a copy in perpetuity? The result isn't quite what we had hoped for.
Over Planning is also an institutional response to risk. In these cases it is actually "the easy part" and so preferred by environments where any mistakes are costly. As in the "If at first you don't succeed, then Sky Diving is not for you" kind. In these cases I would not call planning an end in itself but rather a defense mechanism deployed to avoid the risk of action until absolutely necessary. Not that I justify what can become analysis-paralysis situations, but it is better to understand the beast you are dealing with if you want to navigate a path through.
I knew someone who worked for EA as a UX researcher. He said that games like these are primarily targeting whales who will drop $10k on a game. They are the real money earners. The really sad part was the he said the most whales aren't super rich, they're just people with an addiction.
> The hyperinflation had everything to do with the land grabs because the country ran out of foreign currency due to the collapse of the agriculture sector.

Hyperinflation has a lot more to do with the fact the government irresponsibly printed ridiculous amounts of money.

Farm confiscation and land redistribution happened in 2000 and 2001. Hyperinflation peaked in 2009.

> The land wasn't legally considered or treated as stolen goods and was available on the open market to all races for multiple decades.

Right. Because the colonial rule left all races at the same socioeconomic standing and there actually was a free market.

> The current government has basically acknowledged that the land was stolen

That's a very creative interpretation:

> The agreement signed at President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s State House offices in Harare showed white farmers would be compensated for infrastructure on the farms and not the land itself
No. You have earned the right to coin it.
Because the only way to make money selling software to devs in 2022 seems to go back into timesharing days, with phosphor terminals and X terms now replaced by the browser and cloud shells.

Any old timer can map those cloud prices to the oldie mainframes workloads accounting.
Lootbox games: I don't understand why these kind of games are not getting banned or heavily restricted. There is absolutely not a single positive thing about these games. Moral doesn't matter.
Are other articles there paid advertorials? Like this one:

- https://gamerant.com/diablo-immortal-new-players/ "Why Diablo Immortal Is The Best Franchise Jumping On Point"
Calling CardPass
https://travel.gc.ca/travelling/living-abroad/taxation
Ironically it was Sun that triggered the GCC adoption, by splitting Solaris into user and developer editions, quickly followed by other UNIX vendors.

Until then, very few cared GCC existed in first place.
Are you familiar with this story of an email storm at Microsoft already?

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/me...
It's not really disputed that there were quaternary extinctions prior to the YD boundary, nor that megafauna survived for quite awhile after the boundary. There's a whole wikipedia article on this, aptly titled 'Quaternary Extinction Event' [1]. [2] (from the supplemental data of [3] has a nice list in table 1.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_extinction_event

[2] https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs414...

[3] https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27439-6
The attitude annoys me more than the actual effect.

I’d also fire someone who “trolled” the company by spraying graffiti on the side of the building. Trivial to remove or even ignore, yes, but the unprofessional and juvenile mindset, taking pleasure in annoying everyone else, is enraging all by itself even if no practical harm was done.
Baritone does things like that. Mining diamonds would be "#mine diamond_ore". You can toggle "legit mining" for the bot not to use x-ray.

https://youtu.be/CZkLXWo4Fg4

Baritone does a million other things too, including automatic building of entire schematics.

Also, there is a bot built on top of Baritone that orchestrates winning the game, from map creation to slaying the dragon.
Casinos are banned in many places and also banned for kids in most places.

Clash royale is sad, becouse it is a extremely good game if it were not for the pay to win leveling mechanics. I used to play it alot but it became too frustrating meeting bad players with low ELO but high level cards that you essentially couldn't win over unless they messed up bad.

Edit:
To level up all cards in Clash Royale you also have to spend a silly amount of money. Exponential costs.
Reviewing Ulstein’s marketing material got me to naive wondering - what’s the state of generative design in this field? Why not just throw all the parameters of the problem (expected vessel usage, capacity, range, geography etc) into a model and have the system generate the most optimal designs?
The density itself makes it worth paying a premium to live there. Just being able to not own a car is a huge saving that can go straight into rent, and even if it costs more the quality of life benefits are worth it.

And hell, worst case land prices and rents in the city center come down a bit, that's not really a problem.
Don't play dumb. When you can describe the function with one simple sentence, it is likely that it does one thing. Cars transport their passengers. The fact that performing this action involves complex processes doesn't matter.

Just like a math theorem can be short and say just one thing and be extremely useful, but its demonstration could require many steps.

The idea behind the Unix philosophy is not simplicity of implementation - on the contrary many little Unix tools are complex under the hood because they try to do their thing optimally - but modularity. "Do one thing and do it well" to avoid functional overlap. That's simply an obvious and right thing to do in general.

However this is not a principle easy to follow, because of unrelated concerns like stuffing your resume with impressive stuff - the problem with "simple" is that it is often confused with "easy" - or making things than can be sold - simplicity doesn't sell, "powerful" (as in "I have no idea what's the purpose of this does and I don't need that thing, but it's good to have 'just in case'") does.
It’s frustrating. I had outbound smtp throttled right down and a script running that shut smtp down completely if the queue got too big. That triggers an alert and everything gets sorted. But no, we don’t like where you’re from so jog on. Monopolistic.
It doesn't matter for webapps. At all. Further, they don't understand the defaults the JVM uses for maximum throughput. It uses most of your memory on purpose as it expects it is the only process running on your server. Generally you can set the max memory usage to be much lower and get basically the same performance. But who thinks anymore you know?
Perhaps surprisingly, no, approval voting is actually a score voting system, which provides more information than a strict preference ranking.

This isn't necessarily intuitive, and our immediate impulse might be to object that 2^n-1 is less than n!, but as a quick informal illustration, note that the voting system where each voter assigns each candidate a score in [0,1] and selects the candidate who earns the highest sum from all voters fairly straightforwardly violates Arrow's theorem. Now, consider an approval vote where each voter rolls a single random number in the range [0,1) and vote for each candidate whose score exceeds their random number, and we get asymptotically the same result (but with some error bars). It turns out that scoring, even on a 2-point scale, is just a better primitive operation than ranking!

(Also, it helps that 2^n-1>n! for n=2,3, which covers a surprisingly large proportion of interesting elections.)
When have you last been to France? It's the exact opposite, cost of living is higher than in Germany. Almost anything is more expensive, including groceries. Not that it's a huge difference but just saying. I like France but moving there for the cost of living makes no sense when you come from Germany.
> That is the entire value proposition of a city … 3x as much in rent for the same pay because you like the local chicken place

We are going in circle. Economic opportunities are clearly not the entire value proposition of a city. It’s a very convenient way of living. It’s not about a chicken place. It’s about walking your children to school, being able to go to conferences, to see plays or attend a concert. It’s also just nice to not need a car. It’s very advantageous to just live close to others.

I don’t know where you get your 3x from by the way. An average city rent here is only 20% to 30% more expensive than living in the countryside. We are not talking about San Francisco.
10% reducation in currents and wind surely would have massive impacts on the planet?
For me, it is Thunderbird, but only because Windows Defender scans all incoming emails AFAIK.
> There are legal avenues for whistleblowing through IGs and/or Congress.

Do these ever work?

The people you are blowing the whistle to are the same ones doing the shady illegal stuff.
Since the color interpolation is done by the hardware from per-vertex attributes it's not any additional effort compared to a solid-color triangle (from a coder's point of view at least).

But the simple triangle still means that most of the render pipeline already works. The next step in the "Hello Triangle" evolution would be to apply a texture to the triangle.
I think it’s less about organisation size but it is everything about following the money.

Google search is worse because their revenue model requires optimising returns for their advertising arm, not for making a better end-user product. Shareholders demand it (in fact, this problem has a lot more to do with a public listing than team size).

The same is true of Amazon. Amazon’s shopping experience is worse because it is more profitable to be a logistics front-end for a million dropshippers selling specialised goods from tiny Chinese factories. The brakes are off and everyone with any influence over the company is incentivised to make the company more “efficient” (profitable).
I've seen similar comments by several game devs, but at least some of them said that they make most of their money from the kids of the ultra-wealthy. Think of some oil Sheik's son bored to death at home because it's too hot to go outside.

But yeah, the "loot boxes" that are mostly gambling have been banned in many countries because they're targeted at young children.
The economy is supposed to be about enhancing other people's lives, not vice versa. Living in a city where you can walk down the road to get a chicken sandwich is a big win over living in a suburb where you have to drive everywhere. That's still true if you're working remotely.
These vibrant ecosystems flourished where people spent most of their day. It could be a huge win if they finally migrate to residential neighborhoods, where people will now be more present.
Could you explain what Apple changed in their code to help Asahi?

Didn't you just say no proprietary code is used?

I'm confused.
They still do, many HPC systems make use of XL compilers.

https://hpc.llnl.gov/software/development-environment-softwa...
The issue here is not calculating a fair salary - and its an insanely popular way to avoid taxes all over the world. Tax authorities turn a blind eye, I suspect because the practice is just too common among politicians and their friends.

This might not be an issue if the corporate income tax + financial gains tax comes out the same as payroll tax. The bigger issue here is that you can use the remaining funds to invest and losses form a tax deduction base. More commonly however people just cram as much personal consumption inside the companies before paying out the salary, even things like travel and dining out. In the EU, VAT is commonly quite high and you get refunds on that if the expenses are on the company.
Epicureanism?
You haven’t answered my point as to why the USPS needs this extra info to do their job?
Thank you Alyssa Rosenzweig for your hard work to get us here.
I once had copious amounts of free time and tried Linux from Scratch. I typed "tar -xzf" so many times (who needs verbosity), now it's burned into my brain.
Housing a prisoner in California costs more than a year at Harvard (2017)
I also had a suspect whether data normalization had been properly performed (events in India¹ "will" be more than in Tuvalu - in the grossest example), especially to rule out other causal factors, even explicitly mentioned (e.g. "during hot weather people will be out more" - which incidentally, is not even true, because in some areas when the heat increases people look for shelter, not for a stroll), but I confided researchers knew their trade. I did not check the research articles, because I initially expected only one, not a transversal post.

But the 2019 study, in-lab, should be free from this issue.

I remember that above-the-Alps dwellers noted even centuries ago that föhn wind (which suddenly, in a few hours, can raise temperatures with a delta well above 10°C) correlated to increases in crime, accidents and suicide (though I cannot easily find articles).

In fact, it seems heat can, consistently, also increase suicide - see https://fsi.stanford.edu/news/stanford-researchers-find-warm...

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¹Aside: India, 1410M ppl, is catching up with China, 1412M ppl?!
It has sexual assault, onscreen suicide, and non-consensual drugging. I don't know if a "kid" should be watching all that.
They are: https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/1/23149771/diablo-immortal-l...

More countries need to adopt similar laws.
If your state is simple enough you can just use a custom store or a writable store. If it gets hairy you could pick something like xstate or rxjs, they both conform to the store contract that svelte uses so they are pretty much plug and play.
> ... never heard of oil or gas being burned to drive a generator which in turn heats the home using a heat pump.

I don't think the losses during conversion are the problem. Costs are.

I'd guess until now energy prices simply haven't been high enough to apply this concept to small scale (single home), because compared to just a oil/gas furnace (using relatively cheap fossil energy) the system consists of more and higher-tech components so it costs more to buy and because overall it's a more complicated system it'll likely be more expensive in maintenance as well.

On the large scale you can now read about ideas like replacing gas furnaces at home with heat pumps and instead burning the gas in industrial scale power plants (to generate the required electricity) and also use the "waste" heat.
In my country it is but you have to pay a fair salary and only expense strictly business related things. At the end of the month it's not illegal to have some funds remaining - as it can be because of irregular income, a business reality for many (most?).
These fallacies can also lead to one of my favorite programming quoutes:

“A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.” — Leslie Lamport
Social media trains us to think in black/white
yes of course, the obvious solution!
it won't be available in the Netherlands or Belgium, because we have laws against them, now they just don't release the games here. I hope more of the EU will join us with similar laws so it will become impactful.
Kupfer (gnome) - https://kupferlauncher.github.io

Quicksilver (macos): https://qsapp.com/

I still find myself using these and enjoy the 'wei wu wei' flow of them: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d4LkTstvUL4 (skip to 5 or 11 minutes in)
Loot boxes/gacha games are the modern day cigarettes. Harmful, addictive, marketed to minors and very lucrative. Rest of the world needs to catch up to Belgium and Netherlands in banning these.
Ah that hardware interpolation is what I wasn’t aware of, thanks! :)
As someone used to work for Chinese mobile game companies. $110k sounds average for a pay-to-win game. But the game is new. Designers would create other slots to make money.
I see ggp point as a beatiful love-speech in a context that is completely different from what was discussed.
In defence of brutalist architecture, at least its functional, spacious, and sensibly planned enough to build communities around those blocks. The concrete monstrosities of the 1960 and 70s built in London are still standing and are worth just as much as the newer builds which typically sport newer materials but come with higher rents and smaller spaces.
Fund Our Future
Also, no children scratching your cd's, or loaning out physical media to friends and never getting it back.
I don't buy the "we have ways to play the game without spending lots of money" excuse these companies are constantly peddling. I refuse to accept this new default of "games" explicitly designed to abuse children and addicts.
I put a prepaid sim card in my old phone and use it exclusively for work 2fa. Now I can turn off that phone at my convenience and when this gig is over I can just switch to a new sim.
I haven’t started a limited company in Ireland, but I have looked into it. I was interested for pretty much the same reasons you are - I wanted English language, common law and EU.

From what I could find, using a service company to sort everything out - company registration, bank account, legal address, first year taxes filed etc - the cost was around €1000. The same service in the UK is much cheaper.

I guess this only matters relative to the size of your business. At the time I was only looking for a small holding company, with not much revenue initially.
Yeah, epic not being able to share is unrelated to you being able to receive. It means someone else is breaking a rule/law.
It means that most of the rendering pipeline is working: getting data from the CPU- to the GPU-side, compiling, uploading and running shaders (big deal!), fixed-function render states / pipeline-state-objects, rasterization to the framebuffer and displaying the result. I'd wager that getting an untextured triangle on screen is probably 70% of the total work (I'm not a GPU driver coder though, but that number is about right for writing a "user mode" 3D API wrapper).

Also: this is on hardware without any public information available that has to be reverse engineered from scratch, this is the actually incredible part.
As far as recruiters go this one isn't that terrible. At least here in Europe, they frequently lie to you, sometimes back down on their offers (I had a verbal offer cancelled a day after, because another guy accepted the position for less money), sneakily extract information from you about your other applications (so that they can contact manager in that place and send them their candidates, which directly undermines your chances of getting in) etc. They also put a lot of pressure on you to commit to an offer that's not even there yet ("say, if they were to offer you x eur per day tommorrow, can I say you accept?" etc.). All and all a slimy bunch.
solar and air-conditioning. Energy consumption correlates with production. A match made in heaven.
Back in uni, I just made 4 PRs into my own projects, apparently that was enough to get a t-shirt and stickers

I don't participate in it anymore
Does anyone work for a company that has reduced its office space but not headcount due to wfh? Most seem to still be working remotely from too large offices while companies are figuring out what to do.
In addition to actually answering interactive prompts, it can be useful to test software that reads and processes stdin.
Wait, how come it misheard when searching Spotify but correct it when searching their own database?
Not to defend lootbox game. But some positive thing: it makes some people's life less boring. Lootbox doesn't make games interesting. But lootbox generates money to hire good designer, programmer to create interesting games, at least for some players.
Space Force gets new swag
Right, most "super rich" people don't get "super rich" by doing super stupid things.
Though the parent is being slightly obtuse in his language, I do agree with him to a point.

Here in the UK, if you are willing to accept a commute and downgrade your expectations slightly, you can buy an affordable house or apartment relatively easily. Even commutable to London you could buy say a 1-2 bedroom apartment for £200k, which is achievable for 1 good earner or 2 average earners.

The problem is that people want nice big houses in the best areas of global cities. I understand the aspiration, but that is not a housing crisis. It's just a market.

I acknowledge problems for low earners in low wage areas etc, but maybe I am referring to a different type of person, say young professionals wanting to get on the housing ladder or needing somewhere to live that is commutable to work. I think that too often they just have expectations out of line with their budgets.
There’s a pretty cheap program that will do auto blocking, it’s easily googleable. Also changing the default port will cut down the numbers. I’ve had one hacked over RD gateway so that alone isn’t the answer. On our cloud windows servers we use a remote management agent to access, this obvs has its own trust issues but overall works well.
Indeed, my work laptop is heavily firewalled, always assumes to be on an unsafe network, and uses a vpn and zscaler. Say you are on an airport wifi - I wouldn't expect corporate IT to scan the neighboring devices. No way it's going to snoop around on my home network, that would just expose the machine.
I think what's missing in your argument is the causality of the problem at hand.

> have a total of 3-4 locations to visit daily

I'd argue that the problem is not roads themselves, the problem is that cities are built around roads and cars. If cities would be organized with being road-free in mind, the problem you're describing wouldn't exist.

A lot of cities in Europe have changed their way of thinking how to design a city these days, and try to evolve the downtown areas so that they're closer together and easier to reach via public transportation and/or by foot. Just some examples that come to mind: Venice, Granada, Amsterdam, Heidelberg, Nuremberg, Rostock (and soon probably Mainz and Stuttgart, as they're actively working on it).

What these cities have in common: They changed their prioritization from multi-lane roads inside the city to a sustainable park&ride model that embraces cheap and regularly available public transportation, and combines that in worst case (when they don't have trams, busses or subways) with something like rentable bikes provided by the city. In best case, you'll have something like Amsterdam or Venice, where everything is not built for cars but for all other modes of transportation, except cars.

And some might argue that those cities have working plumbers, hairdressers, dentists etc, too. They seemingly can still work without having a multi-lane highway blocking the skylight over their houses. Why do you think is that the case?