skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a good example of an over engineered solution. The game already has a far simpler way to make it easier for all players to get started, regardless of how many turns you play. It might be from one of the expansions, but we use it in the normal game as well.

The "friendly robber" rule states that you are not allowed to place the robber on any tile that has a village of a player that does not have any points yet.
How can you assume that the kid that got shown `git`, is not part of that minority? I'd guess it very likely is.
A lot of claims with nothing to back it up, there.

Folks have guaranteed incomes now. Lots of folk, lots of places. The world hasn't ended. Pensions, annuities, allowances, grants.

Of course it can work. 90% of everything is automated now. We don't need everybody to work for what we consume, and haven't for a couple decades now. If it weren't for a strong Protestant Work Ethic and make-work programs, we'd see far more people doing things other than slaving away at a job.

In future it'll only get more appealing, when nearly 100% of our needs are met by automation. Sure, build some pointless strawman about "What if nobody does anything?!!!" Not a problem, as long as folks who work earn more, then there will always be willing folks to do Engineering and whatnot.

Face it, it's only FUD and that troubling work ethic that get people so riled up. Not logic nor pragmatism.
No, your comment is not clear at all. I read it again. Here's what it reads like if I replace "this" with the sentence that comes before it:

From an expected value perspective, one person donating a kidney is like 1/4000th of [if 4,000 people donated kidneys to people who needed them to survive, on average, one person would die and 4,000 lives would be saved].

Is there any chance you may want to try and help me become uncofused?
My word was "newsworthy", and that's a rather different standard than "interesting and worth reading". This article is a gossip piece about (mostly) a self-absorbed FBI informant who danced too close to the fire, may have fabricated evidence, seems to have gotten cold feet and burned an investigation, and made an enemy out of both the reporter and the FBI. And... sure, that's interesting!

If it happened. None of that stuff is substantiated, it's just the reporters guesswork based on circumstantial evidence.

It's a good story. It's an interesting story. It's not "news". And it's absolutely not something interesting or notable about the FBI (the entity that appears in the headline), which was just doing exactly the thing the FBI was created to do.
There were rumors that AOL ran scanners looking for mailing addresses to send disks to. I think its possible but perhaps it wouldn't have been an "official" effort: they had some employees that would pay for address lists without concern for their provenance or suitability.
That’s kind of the thing. It got the featuring and critical attention but still not many sales. Especially considering that it was under development by two people for many years. If it had released in 2012 it would have sold way more copies.
Yeah livejournal is pretty bad. I only use it because of the 1 character username "g" I cracked 20+ years ago. It's an ad trap.
I had an annoying experience attempting to play white noise on an echo speaker for the kids recently: Alexa wouldn't play white noise without an Amazon music premium account. It kept prompting me to pay for the premium service.

Granted I'm pretty sure I can get it to play white noise on a different music service but I think it's ridiculous that they would charge for noise.
Other projects mentioned are:

https://forgeflux.org

https://forgefriends.org

https://forgefed.peers.community
Funny you say this. I’ve been playing a bunch of D2:R lately and it is honestly pretty miserable. It is full stop gambling. Grinding out mephisto runs over and over again, hoping for that nice drop, getting a minor rush of excitement when an unidentified ring drops or whatever. Just totally mindless nonsense.
>Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Good heavens, of course I wouldn't presume to question the wisdom of statistics!

I'm just saying that the way the statistics are used doesn't make sense.
Until a couple years ago, I didn't use Git at work (it was SVN at work). However, I used it all the time for personal projects.

Come to think of it, SVN was the same way; I used it for personal projects while using CVS at work.

Also, as an aside, my dad taught me how to use a chainsaw, including mixing the fuel for the two-stroke engine when I was 12. As an electrical engineer, he certainly didn't use a chainsaw at work.
This is very intriguing. I would love to hear a take based on research in psychology of addiction and gambling. I think the reason it would work is forcing people to decide to play with the analytical part of their brain, ahead of time, rather than with the addiction part in the moment.
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I like to imagine white noise listeners would be like wine connoisseurs in your scenario.

"Mmmmmm, this one features a nice static base noise livivified by a hint of perlin noise."
Diablo Immortal is not available in Belgium and the Netherlands.

It's not about the VPN, it's the payment method and App store setup that determines if you can install the game. Regulation does not have to be watertight. It just needs to work well enough to drastically reduce harm.
Wait until you discover there's a noise music genre.
I'm a best-selling author. Every few days a 3rd party sells my book as 'New' or 'Like New' for below the sales price. Only issue is, I'm a self-published author, so there is no way they can be getting the book and selling it for less than what I sell it. I've bought the products multiple times, and each time it's a fake copy of my book (different paper quality, typos, missing pages, weirdness in cover design). This isn't happening just to me — across the board, some of the top coding + ML books are counterfeit.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578973839?ref_=pe_3052080_3975148...
i spent $10k on a kickstarter game as far back as 2013, but i viewed it as an investment at the time. investing in the developers of the game being able to continue, as well as the assets maintained ~60-80% resale value for a time period. Sure it gave advantages in the game, but the game wasn't /designed/ around those advantages.

I think the part that's a relatively recent phenomenon is that games are designed with "free play" as an afterthought or even the game designed to push you away from it, instead of "free play" being the main design focus.
On a related note, evaluating the quality of tests is even more challenging than writing them.

I recently tried interviewing for a growing small company, who nullified the initial good impression with a multiple choice test about certain technologies they were using, administered over the web by some test company.

The best questions were "which of these four functions or classes do you use to do $common task with $framework", testing documentation speed reading skills rather than actual coding skills; other questions were ambiguous, debatable or completely wrong.
Apple is making better hardware than ever. Like your iPad, devices get at least 5 years of updates and will generally run faster every year. Like you said the biggest noticeable difference is in the battery, but this is obviously a much harder problem to solve.
Thing is, you can get the 'fake' programmer even with algorithm tests since they are only looking through a keyhole at someones overall employability. For many (most?) jobs work ethic, attitude, and don't be an asshole are all more important after a minimum programming bar is met.

Admittedly I've never had to hire at Google/MS scale, but my best luck hiring has been like you said - talk to people and be up front about expectations and that we fire if needed.
Not in Germany. They legislated it right.
What is "all the evidence that it can work"? Drugs are a perfect example where governments have spent a century destroying people's lives with harebrained regulation. And yet all that it has done is empowered bloodthirsty cartels in developing countries. It hasn't improved the drug situation at all, regardless how much money we've poured into it.

As far as I can tell, gambling laws don't stop gambling either. In fact, it's usually the government that's the biggest provider of gambling services (the lottery). It seems like it's more about eliminating competition than anything else.
It's also the government, think about CRT and people who try and teach CRT being cancelled by various state governments.
I think it depends, I know a lot of rich people who spend a lot on skins and others. Like, a lot.
SystemRescueCD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginalism
My introduction to coding was making Quake engine maps for the Jedi Knight game as a young teenager. It was super fun and I guess Minecraft or Roblox is similar to this but adding money to it kind of makes the whole thing icky and exploitative.
To be fair, there are a large variety of "noises" in this arena that people have certain preferences for over others.

Developing an algorithm that generates something that sounds very good to humans requires a bit more than simple math and entropy.

"White noise" is just the entrance to a very large rabbit hole.
If you are serious about writing code for non-profits, you might be interested in places like Zuri Group (https://zurigroup.com/) or BrightVine (https://www.brightvinesolutions.com/). I am in that space as an independent consultant, and it can be really rewarding.
> Network is much much more reliable than it used to be.

But would anyone think of the bit flips?

> We've now determined that message corruption was the cause of the server-to-server communication problems. More specifically, we found that there were a handful of messages on Sunday morning that had a single bit corrupted such that the message was still intelligible, but the system state information was incorrect.

> We use MD5 checksums throughout the system, for example, to prevent, detect, and recover from corruption that can occur during receipt, storage, and retrieval of customers' objects. However, we didn't have the same protection in place to detect whether this particular internal state information had been corrupted. As a result, when the corruption occurred, we didn't detect it and it spread throughout the system causing the symptoms described above. We hadn't encountered server-to-server communication issues of this scale before and, as a result, it took some time during the event to diagnose and recover from it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150726045623/http://status.aws...

See also: At scale, rare events aren't rare, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14038044 (2017).
My old ts_block[0] project does something similar to yours, albeit for RDP only and with much less sophisticated customization.

I opted to go with a WMI Event Sink rather than polling the Event Log. I've never done a benchmark to see which architecture would use less CPU, but I can say the WMI event sink causes nearly instantaneous reaction.

As an aside: I'd love to hear if somebody tries ts_block on Windows Server 2022. It works fine on 2012 R2 thru 2019 but I've never tried it on 2022.

[0] https://github.com/EvanAnderson/ts_block
Ah, I must have missed that in the article
Why do you need my age?
Interesting work. One thing to keep in mind is that early environments were anoxic, as free oxygen only arose after the development of photosynthesis on a global scale. This should have made abiotic synthesis relatively easier as oxygen acts as kind of bleach (production of OH radical etc.), so it's likely early oceans were awash with a wide variety of organic molecules, as well as tons of dissolved iron and sulfur species, likely phosphorous as well.

People have also described a wide variety of catalytic activities with carbon dioxide and hydrogen catalyzed at hydrothermal vent environments by metals, such as the formation of small aldehydes and ketones (short-chain/branched carbon molecules with double bonds incorporating an oxygen atom) which can then go on to participate in other reactions with ammonia and hydrogen plausibly leading to amino acids. Another simple abiotic reaction is the formation of hydroxlamine (H2N-OH) which can feed into the synthesis of the simple ring structures of nitogenous bases (the components, plus five-carbon sugars, of the A,U,C,G's of RNA). See:

Unified prebiotically plausible synthesis of pyrimidine and purine RNA ribonucleotides (2019)

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aax2747

Abiotic synthesis of amino acids in the recesses of the oceanic lithosphere (2018)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0684-z

Both those articles are on sci-hub.se for those interested.

One interesting speculation is that RNA and protein developed more or less simultaneously, and that short protein chains were affiliated with short RNA chains from the very beginning. This could plausibly result in a proto-ribosomal entity capable of self-replication using the abiotic pool of nucleosides and and amino acids as raw material. This idea has been around for ~20 years, here's something recent on it:

A prebiotically plausible scenario of an RNA–peptide world (May 2022)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04676-3

These kinds of reactions would seem to be quite plausible on other worlds with a liquid ocean. Also, they had millions of years to develop, meaning low-probability events aren't ruled out. Life is probably widespread in our universe.
Colluded?
And I’ve heard that 3rd party audiobook transcription violate’s the written book’s copyright (different publishers perhaps?)
Yep this all checks out. The thing to keep in mind is that there will still be just as many indie successes per year (maybe even a few more or a few larger ones). The issue is that the larger number of participants means the odds of any indie dev finding success are much lower. The standards for what kind of game will be successful have gone waaaay up.
Right time, right problem, good management, enormous funds, Bay Area hippie culture, access to Stanford, uninterrupted time, and luck.

At PARC they were able to peer 10 years into the future. That was a big deal for 1969-1979. Looking 10 years forward recently is less transformative. Not much changed between 2012 and 2022.
I think it’s reasonable to distinguish reading a book and listening to a book. I don’t particularly think one is better or worse, but certainly they are objectively different.

My sense is that when people talk about gate keeping there’s necessarily an emotional component. In this case I’d guess perhaps there’s a sense that “reading a book” is valuable or prestigious and they don’t want to exclude someone from it.

But to me it’s just an observation of how you consumed content, free of emotional charge.
A "snobby" argument I think would be one that doesn't even bother attempting a counterargument but instead furnishes innuendo and dismissal based on an implicit claim of superior authority.
I think that the commenter is saying they're both unobtainable in today's terms.
Yeah, we tried going to iPad for our kids but it’s so full of free to play junk.

Even with Amazon Kids, though, the games are still their free to play selves without purchases, so I still see these games where dopamine hits (get coins!) are a main mechanic :(
The only installation in the south-east is a long-range radar station, one of four in Iceland used for monitoring flights over the North-Atlantic. It's partly funded by NATO (and they use data from it), but it's owned and run by the Icelandic Coast Guard. You can walk up and knock on the door and they'd probably ask you in for coffee.

Photo: https://www.lhg.is/media/KEF/IMG_0694--3-.jpg

Info (Icelandic): https://www.lhg.is/varnarmal/loftrymisleit-og-islenska-loftv...
Presumably that doesn't account for people making poor choices, accumulating debt and expenses. It's not really possible for it not to
Rocket propelled grenade launchers are federally legal [0] in the United States. Furthermore, there are no federal restrictions on children using legal firearms under adult supervision.

I don't think it affects the point you're making, I just thought it might be interesting to share.

[0] https://otbfirearms.com/airtronics-llc-rpg-live-dd-modernize...
Can you make it simulate the modem handshake sounds on sign on?
Show HN: Gaiman language for Web-based Terminal applications
I've created programming language based on Ruby that simplifies creating Terminal text-based games and applications in the browser. I've released first 1.0 beta version, but I'm still adding features and fixing bugs. I yet need to add more documentation and improve Gaiman playground.

The repo for the language can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/jcubic/gaiman the only documentation so far is the Wiki with [Reference manual][1] and [examples directory][2].

And playground can be found at gaiman.js.org. There is proper tutorial on my TODO list. I've created a game for it (guess the number) that is only 31 lines of code (with empty lines), I've added it to [git][3].

On my road map there is also node.js version, so you will be able to run your apps in the terminal.

[1]: https://github.com/jcubic/gaiman/wiki/Reference-Manual

[2]: https://github.com/jcubic/gaiman/tree/master/examples

[3]: https://github.com/jcubic/gaiman/blob/master/examples/guess_the_number.gs
Saw a video on YT that I think was saying what you just described might eventually build up a living cell. That would be pretty huge.
Maybe your doctor further explained this but PACs are extremely common and not considered out of ordinary. Not sure if you were implying that the first doc missed it or not.
I don't understand why people are still surprised about Blizzard shenanigans.
The golden era was 20 years ago, let it go.

Every new game from the last five years has been a disaster in one way or the other. They are even managing to slowly kill their never-ending holy cow: World of Warcraft.
Yeah that does sound silly. What if they did random checks of the stock in their warehouse, oh wait... Comingling.
Everything depends on scale.
One problem with effective altruism is that it is highly utilitarian leading to hijacking of utility metrics as mentioned in the article. However, the author only talked about people making arguments in good faith, hoping to improve metrics. What about people acting in bad faith? Longtermism has hijacked it's utility metric by assuming endless exponential growth of the human population in the future and therefore giving future lives more value, overriding all short term concerns which is then used to justify authoritarianism. It falls into the same trap as any ideology. People think it is going to save the world, so it must be adopted at any cost, even if people are going to starve and die. This has lead to the downfall of communism for example. The height of irony is that longtermism is purely about short term thinking.
This, so much. Slavery and segregation are prime examples of this.
Tap the ear icon ("Hearing") in Control Centre. I can't remember whether that icon is included by default though.
> McCarthy used plagiarism software to compare the text of North’s translations—about a million words in all—with the text of Shakespeare’s plays—another million words. When he did, his computer lit up like a Christmas tree, displaying thousands of phrases in common, many found in similar situations and contexts, and many unique in English. Some were up to eight words long, the equivalent of hitting every number in a Powerball ticket and then some.

So, all the way back in high school, we were required to submit all of our essays through a plagiarism detection software. This would routinely mark up our essays to be about 10-20% plagiarized, and having actually written my own essays myself, I can attest that all of that is false positive.

When you're highlighting that the longest span of such text is only eight words, that screams to me "pure false positive." Hell, in modern times, try suing someone over a copyright violation of a mere eight words and you're liable to be laughed out of court.

This information is useless without controlling for other works known to not be plagiarized from one another to find a typical false positive rate.
Yes, you can add it to Control Center

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT212775
> Residential neighborhoods don’t have the same peak density

This is only true in American suburbs. You have horrible one family dwellings only, and you space them far out on empty sections with massive roads between them.

This is the problem, and its also what is actually unsustainable.
It's a series of words and phrases that will trigger censorship by the great Firewall. Typically used to sabotage someone's post and prevent it from being seen by those in China.
Obligatory response, Dilbert’s “9… 9… 9…” number generator, “the problem with randomness, is that you can never be sure…” https://www.dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25
My Samsung has a gloves mode which actually let's you use the screen without actually touching.
I wonder if there's a market for bernoulli noise generated by the quantum vacuum?

https://qrng.anu.edu.au/random-bernoulli-noise/
This has it the wrong way around. The price of infrastructure means that dense places cost less to upkeep than sparse places. The reason that cities cost more than the suburbs is 1) that there's more demand for cities, and 2) in the US, taxes paid by city-dwellers subsidize the expensive suburban infrastructure.
Under capitalism, anything they can extract money for, they will.
Someone can be a white supremecist and you can be impressed with their (non bigotry) actions.

People aren't that black and white (sorry).
> 3. They're ignorant enough not to know the name is already taken.

Overloads are a thing, you know?

> 4. They're ignorant enough not to know that the name means pretty much the opposite of what they believe.

String of characters doesn't mean anything by itself, it can point to meaning (or several).

> 5. They're ignorant enough not to know that 'rational' and 'irrational' are usually demarcate lines of social hierarchy, not lines of theoretical commitment.

By whom, and why is their use of the word supposed to be the default?

> I think the main thing that's nice about it is that no real work is called for.

Lol no. You might want to look back at your comment. Specifically, "I guess". You've done a lot of judging, without doing a shred of work to verify whether your insults are true.

"They're ignorant enough", repeated several times, despite utter ignorance about people you're talking about.

Anyway. "Rationalist" is aspirational, not a claim of one's own rationality.

Sure, this naming kinda sucks because it's unclear.
Yes. That was done with an internal test build.
...and then, at least with RAM in my experience, after that it gets expensive again when no new computers have used that particular RAM for a few years.
Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message encryption (2020)
Anti-dotes exist too. I particularly like go to these ones from AWS back in the day when distributed systems weren't as popular:

- Amazon S3 design requirements and principles (2006), https://archive.is/EP6HU#selection-1205.0-1425.66

- Amazon S3: Architecting for resiliency (2009), http://web.archive.org/web/20100719163331/https://qconsf.com...
No, it would be a taller building.

American new construction has doubled in size (in terms of sqft/unit) over the past 50 years. If “oppressively small” were the problem, things should have gotten better, not worse?