skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dating in the west almost feels like an interview these days, at least in the Bay Area. “So where do you see yourself in 5-10 years”? What’s next, you going to ask me to invert a binary tree?
I personally feel there's a distinction between what's probably usually meant by "mellow games" (my drug of choice is still Euro Truck Simulator on that front) and MUDs, though. MUDs can be mellow, sure, but at least the ones I played had a lot more variety to them than the "X Simulator" genre which tend to have a narrower scope (and maybe more detail within that scope).

I guess I'd compare my experience of MUDs most closely with the Harvest Moon/Rune Factory genre in that you can fight monsters and level up or socialize with other characters (in this case, real people!) or take part in various in-character activities/festivals/etc. Much like some modern MMOs like WoW or Final Fantasy in some respects except I find the creativity lies more with the players even in the modern MUD scene.
Managers appreciate skills, but want a warm body that won't bail in a couple of months, forcing the manager to cover the shifts themselves.

A good beer example of how to get past that filter was the father of a childhood friend. He worked for a beer distributor all through college (back when drinking age was 18), and was wildly popular among friends for always knowing where the biggest parties were going to be every weekend. They knew he was going to be around for 3-4 years at least, so they could plan ahead (and probably count on him recommending someone for the job when he graduated).
Captcha is an integral part of Google's business, I don't see them giving it up easily. They get free labor from significant chunk of the world's population with all that image tagging.
There has been a long history of Huawei stealing IP as well as generating less than useful drafts/standards in the IETF. There are very real reasons to judge this book by its cover.
Can you configure it easily for a read only root file system?
German readers, in your opinion, a Betriebsräte deal with many of these problems, no?
That does not discuss storage AT ALL.

True solar with storage is not economical.
One simple reform is to train fewer graduate students. Then the job prospects for post-docs will improve as the supply of potential professors is reduced.
There may have been junior people on the teams at the various companies like Intel that developed and implemented the spec. No, those junior people probably weren't really developing the spec. (The person at Intel who is most credited for the spec with his team was already pretty senior and later became an Intel Fellow.) I also sort of doubt a university group in Utah was a major contributor--although I could be wrong.
If it has two-factor, then I think it'll depend on how long they want to sessions to be valid for.
Whoops, screwed that up.
Okay so the Royal Path allows it because otherwise we are too prideful and thats really bad. So the pridefulness you'd feel is more important (or meaningful, significant, etc.) than the life of the animal and it's suffering?

It seems unfair to me that sentient animals need to die in your very personal battle with pride. Do you not see that as unfair?

Also, are you prideful when you abstain from eating baboon? Or when you abstain from eating hippopotamus, or giant squid? Why is it that pridefulness comes from abstaining from pig and chicken, but not any other animals you already don't eat?
Top five countries with the highest wind energy capacity in 2020

China – 288.32 GW. ...
United States – 122.32 GW. ...
Germany – 62.85 GW. ...
India – 38.63 GW. ...
Spain – 27.24 GW.
I don't take my platonic friends to the nice French steakhouse downtown, though. Is going to Waffle House because you're hungry a date, or is it going to Waffle House because you're hungry?
India’s Dukaan expands globally to take on Shopify
> It sounds like you have an opinion but would rather sea lion.

I had to look this up. That's a pretty sad accusation off the bat
isn't it? One of my opinions I'll share is that I think even HN,
supposedly one of the better discussion forums - why I write things
here - is also blighted by "toxic internet culture" of assuming the
worst in everybody. Also I think the "move fast" design is
deliberately not conducive to conversation, so I am wondering if you
will see this response.

From a British perspective I think the rioters attempting a coup and
then backtracking to calling it "a protest" is laughable. At least
one should have the courage of ones convictions. If you're going to
try a coup you damn well better know it's going to succeed - as the
alternative in every other historical example is getting lined up
against the wall. If what you say is true then saying "oops only
joking... it was just a fun legitimate protest" makes them cowards.
So I simply can't entertain an argument that anyone defending a failed
coup as "free speech" is serious.

Mr Cohen has a lot of good things to say, and I think I get what
you're talking about after watching the clip you linked, thank you.

> "the age of evidential argument is ending and knowledge is
de-legitimised.... by a handful of internet companies that amount to
the greatest propaganda machine in history."

Couldn't have put it better myself. Pleased that he cited what is the
subject of a chapter in my book Digital Vegan; the role of Facebook in
Myanmar - which sadly few people will touch. How SBC actually puts it
is "freedom of speech is not freedom of reach" - a nice turn. But then
he flounders a little, not coming right out against Zuckerberg's
"bullshit" reasoning as a purely driven by greed, he softens it as the
"ideological imperialism" of the 'Silicon Six'. Cohen being accused of
anti-Semitism isn't something I'd imagine can't happen these days
either.

But in the end, SBC's beef seems to be with the unelected power of
BigTech, and unfortunately he isn't a great philosophical scholar, by
his own introductory remarks. What is to be done? He doesn't seem to
know how to frame those who disingenuously deploy good arguments for
bad ends... which is what I think the nub of your "lots of people
equate freedom of speech with freedom from consequences" line.
Zuckerberg couldn't give a fuck, and Cohen is correct in calling him a
"bullshitter" in the strictest sense of Harry Frankfurt's definition.
But to suggest that FB or any other company could "purge lies and
conspiracies from their platform" is naive. There wouldn't be much
left, especially of politicians and business people have to say - and
when he hits that Cohen turns it into a damn joke to soften it!
That's why comedians can say certain things that other's can't... up
to a point. And then they risk losing their platform. So, much as I
love Sascha Baron-Cohen he drifts into waters out of his depth. That
said, I'm 99% with him (not afraid to be out of my depth).
Has China’s FAST telescope detected alien intelligence?
Did they dig up the code for positioning the menu items around that icon to use it for the notch? :D
Especially since the "money" side of those games is always so very weak, you just need to learn a few steps and you'll effectively have infinite money anyway.
People are irrationally concerned about low-probability but high severity risks, which is what nuclear is.

The chance of someone in the US dying from a terrorist attack is about 1 out of 3 million. It's a rounding error compared with heart disease (1:6), suicide (1:93), storms (1:35k) or even sunstroke (1:6k). Yet, the US spends $52B / year on the department of homeland security.
> Because they aren't dangerous wild animals

The humans in question are dangerous, they're not civilized (so they're wild), and they're animals, so yes, they are.

> In humans dangerous wild behaviour is a (hopefully, and ususally) more or less temporary and fixable aberration

This isn't substantiated by research. Quite the opposite actually, psychologists have found that no intervention is effective in modifying violent antisocial behaviour in young males (and it's almost entirely young males). The only solution seems to be incarceration until around the age of 30, at which point most people simply age out of these behaviour patterns.

Also, there are many dangerous animals that can be rehabilitated, pet dogs for instance. It doesn't stop us from mandating they be put down.

> as a means of maintaining a human(e) society it seems rather ineffective.

I'm asserting it's effective at maintaining peace and order. I'm also asserting that the fact of peace and order is more important than the treatment of those who violate it.
> And “he made a few good games” is really dismissive. He doesn’t launch a new game every year, but his admittedly short list of projects is 100% wild commercially and critically successful.

How is that dismissive? He has indeed made a few good games, but making good games doesn't certify you as a language designer any more than it makes you a good plumber or equinologist. Hollow Knight is my favorite game of all time, immensely successful both critically and commercially, and yet if Team Cherry were to release a programming language I reserve the right not to be terribly excited about it.

> But Bryan Armstrong is on the front page

OK, Bryan Armstrong is an asshole. I can call two people an asshole. I can call more people than that assholes too, if it comes to that.

> Asshole

Because I'm dismissive of Jonathan Blow? Listen, if you want to fanboy/girl your brains out over the guy, be my guest. He just doesn't impress me all that much and I don't think "aspy and curt and convinced he's right" is anything remotely approaching an excuse for poor behavior. I've been told I'm on the autism spectrum, too, yet I manage not to act like an asshole. Though clearly you disagree.
Their electorate is very anti-nuclear (it made sense politically).
Yes, but even there it is typically used for stuff that leans towards front-end. People don't typically write databases and messaging systems in Nodejs.

I wonder about specific use cases where stack allocating recursion actually becomes an issue in the JS world.
> Mundane chores are all the rage in gaming

Oh, are they? Spontaneous nostalgia ensues…

https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Donald_Duck%27s_Playground (1984)
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I'm not sure. Is this sarcasm?
...wait, what?

On one hand, I find this amazing. That photo is incredible.

On the other hand, I expect my mind will subconsciously turn this into raw material for horrible nightmares.
Hmm, what about remote desktop?
Games constantly have this tension of 1. wanting to include story 2. but a truly interactive story is really freaking hard (no sarcasm), so 3. the story isn't interactive, which means that 4. the solved problem of telling non-interactive stories is cinema, so games use cinematic techniques.

The problem is that this strange attractor for games is constantly pulling the game into just being a movie, because the need to control things for the cinematic portion spreads. If I need you to be wearing a shirt with pockets for this cutscene, you can't shop for arbitrary clothes, or they just don't show up in a cutscene. If this character needs to be alive for a cutscene five hours in, you can't kill them now. If you can't kill them now, you must be denied the interactivity to do so. It is very difficult to confine this need for control in a story-heavy game because it naturally tends to spread out until everything is completely controlled for the benefit of the cinema and it is just a fancy movie.

I'm neither condemning nor praising this right now. Just describing.

"Walking simulators" solve the problem by essentially stripping you of all ability to change the environment except on very specific rails. This can support non-linear story telling, but not arbitrarily-changing stories. In the case of AAA games, a key indicator of this is your character suddenly holstering the weapon that is otherwise their constant companion with no player input, and since the only verb you meaningfully had to change the environment up to this point was "shoot", now you have no environment changing abilities, and the game need not explain why suddenly everyone and everything in the world is bulletproof since you simply can not fire.

That said, I think the case for calling them "not real games" has some virtue to it. It isn't like there's a bright shining line, but there's certainly "games" that are more interactive (in the limit, consider something like Minecraft) and there are games that are less interactive (in the limit, things that are essentially just choose your own adventure), and as is so often the case in practical philosophy, just because we can't draw a bright shining line doesn't mean we can't at least come close, or that the inability to draw a line means that we have to pretend there are no differences at all.
IPV6's address space starts to make a hell of a lot of sense when you look at microsegmentation. And by that I mean you don't need to deploy carrier-grade NAT behind your firewall to mask reuse of one of IPV4 class A networks.
I doubt anyone is saying that this is bad if you're using a web app for financial transactions like buying tickets. This proposal however is to basically force everyone on the web to use an ID that can be traced back to them for all usage. This is great for advertisers and even better for government spying
I cannot understand not having at least a couple hundred cash on you, and much more at home. What are people’s plans if the power or payment networks go offline? Earthquake, hurricane, ice storm, volcano, etc.
Thinking about it makes me mad. For all their renewable production capacity they still average over 300g of CO2 / kwh with all the gas and coal they burn. All of it, credit to the german green movement trying to save the planet from... Not sure. Even assuming the occasional Chernobyl/Fukushima-level disaster, as terrible as those catastrophes are, nuclear plant accidents are localised and will never threaten mankind survival. Climate change IS threatening our future, however.

And don't get me started on the political cost which the news make so obvious now.
> And what happens when no construction firms want to build where the govt wants?

That seems unlikely.
> "Event A happened. Event B happened. Event C happened. In that order. Perhaps that means X"

That's both academic and pop-history, where a better representation would be "A gazillion different events happened but let's talk about events A, B, and C." It's impossible to talk about all the events that happened, so everyone needs to select the "important" ones. Of course when selecting what's "important" the bias is employed. It's not uncommon to reach different conclusions when looking at certain events (while disregarding others).
No idea.
People don't really like to tip.
It must be automatic. Maybe BAT & Coil are onto something.
Unfortunately there is no keyboard shortcut, and no option to open it in a new window (which is what I usually want). Also, what I initially forgot to mention, opening a link in new window/tab in IE also clones the history.
My son leaves the iPad running 24/7 to do 'AFK grinding'. I seriously don't get it.
> For example there is localbitcoins where you can trade bitcoins without ever having to go to any other third party except the listing on the site.

Localbitcoins is an exchange though? Bitcoin started out decentralized. It has quickly evolved into a centralized ecosystem because it is not practical for it to be decentralized. The core premise of decentralization has been proven bunk.
Ask HN: How do you use Notion?
I'm seeing people use it for hundreds of different things both for business and personal use cases. It's not good at everything but I find myself hacking and twisting instead of using multiple apps, so curious if this is a similar for y'all.
It completely baffles me why captive portals do not obey the normal windowing mechanisms on iOS.
This argument happens enough that it should be considered its own fallacy "appeal to the turing tarpit".

By this logic, we should still be using GOTO because if we were, you'd never need to use loops.

Proper tail calls exist because they make the logic of a lot of things easier and more simple to follow.
Ah yes, seems to be a thing - https://thedriven.io/2022/02/21/germany-to-tighten-ev-subsid...
> Academic researchers often pay either zero...

Not completely accurate. Every time you get a grant, your institution get a percentage of it to pay for indirect costs. These costs include office space, office personnel, and other expenses that the grant doesn't pay for directly. So, if you are getting "free" stuff from the department closest, it is very likely that your (or some else's) indirect expenses are paying for it.

Overhead percentages are set by each institution. My current one is set at 54%, meaning that for each $1 of award, I get to keep 64 cents and the university takes 36 cents (more or less).
The problem isn't inherently hard. A bunch of European cities is piloting charging via lamp posts. With enough demand, solutions will be found very quickly.
Not quite. Calling it "warming" was found to be inconvenient once the observations failed to confirm the models.

"Climate chaos" is the new sexy, focus-group tested term. Not based on science, but a solid foundation of confirmation bias.
> A far better plan for Europe would be to go 100% renewable asap, meaning no need for fossil fuel imports from any party.

“asap” LOL

Here in the real world, we have Germany, which has the strongest pro-green anti-nuclear agenda in Europe, but is (1) building coal plants, (2) financing Russian war and (3) blocking sanctions on Russia to save its economy (along with Hungary who are doing it for political reasons).

The green agenda is a massive failure in the real world. Maybe it will work in 50 years (when “possible technological development” in batteries catches up) but not right now.
In fact, there are NO studies that demonstrate that solar or wind AND STORAGE, are able to produce CONSISTENT power for a full year anywhere.

The only studies you'll see are that they proved to be economical on a certain day, or maaaybe overnight. ...but there are zero studies that any solar and/or wind (even combined), can provide consistent power for a full year. ...because that is not currently possible with economical tech.
Just one more argument, among many, for the EU to adopt a redistributive system to minimize the economic imbalances within their union. Big part of the reason for the Greek financial crisis of a decade or so ago. An economic union has to be an economic union.
-- this times 100 - she was incredibly ineffective during her tenure with Obama - the day I saw the news they'd put her in at the Treasury - I was sure we'd be in for a world of pain - apparently she's an incredibly kind & awesome human - never the less - she could sure take some cues from Mark Carney --
I guess I'm lucky that I personally feel like I have a job that ticks the boxes, so I can focus on "non-boxes" outside of my day job :)
> I think conscientious people can usually recognize attempts at conscientiousness

FWIW, most of conscientiousness is the intent anyway
Wonder how much it's costing Uber to build, maintain, and extend their custom solution over any of the extant options

They've got a note on infra cost savings ...but that's a tiny portion of the overall costs of a system this large

"There are about 10K Kibana dashboards saved by Uber engineers to analyze logs each month, in addition to many services calling ES endpoints directly to retrieve logs."

There's a huge part of the problem. most likely: how many of those "10k Kibana dashboards" are duplicating effort?

I've worked with 30+ TB/day ingest Splunk environments that suffer from none of the issues described in this post from Uber ... though they were all architected correctly: but you do have to actually architect your environment properly on the infra side to get performance on the user side

Also - Uber's now introduced a non-replicatable skillset to their inhouse users: learn this ClickHouse thing after spending 8 years getting to know ELK

Maybe it's "worth it" ... but I'd wager probably not

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Disclosure - I work with Splunk full time, but am not here to praise its virtues over other offerings
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I mean sure, but the argument of "people will just try and work around it" can be made for basically any regulation ever put in place. That doesn't negate the importance of the regulation, and it doesn't make the regulation ineffective. It only acknowledges that the game of cat and mouse between regulators and the people playing the game exists.

It's in the same vein of "criminals will just find a way to get guns if you make guns illegal". Some will, certainly, but the argument itself is an argument against the rule of law entirely. Some criminals will speed on highways, some criminals will steal, etc. But laws are still effective in curtailing this behavior on the macro level.
Don't worry about it. The social skills take a few months to pick up. The physical aspect of sex takes a few weeks, if that. It's not difficult.

The only advice I would give to you is don't satisfy your urges with porn in the meantime. Stay far, far away.
Historical lifecycle costs for nuclear plants are perhaps not useful for comparison. Newer reactor plans are drastically different.
Okay, check out Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, Exterminate strategy and I hope you understand what's the problem of having a dominant platform that does it's own thing instead of abiding by the standards. Now Chrome is in the "Extend" stage and obviously you don't feel any pain but if Google chooses to take another step, then you will feel it.

Maybe they never will do it but I simply don't want Google has the option to go to the next step.
Let's throw in the collected works of L. Ron Hubbard if we're going that route. His books are always selling off the shelves... because Scientologists are "strongly encouraged" to buy them by the cartload.
> France is willing to highly subsidise their nuclear industry.

And most of the world is willing to subside Oil and Gas to the tune of $5.9 trillion in 2020 or about 6.8 percent of the _world's_ GDP. [0]

Tax payer's money will be sunk anyway, choose your poison.

[0] https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2021/09/23/Sti...
Nuclear was replaced by renewables in Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_phase-out#/media...

It would have made more sense though to first replace coal plants before shutting down nuclear plants.
This means nothing if you don't factor in storage, or at least measure the CONSISTENT power output.

These are just PEAK numbers that are totally useless when planning a grid.
The path to Staff Engineer (2021)
> most serious analysis agree that renewables will be about 80%

Well, let's see them; and see how much they rely on yet to be proven industrially new storage tech (and without humongous mining activity)
Yes, but we have redistributed systems that keep that from getting too out of whack. And we hear rich states complain about all their money going to poor states, but that is how you keep a union together.
where is your localtime posted at coming from? mine was off. just use frontend localized?
Inflation isn't sentient, it doesn't "target wages". Inflation is a property of the economy, and it reduces the value of literally everything.
Cat damage to leaves containing iridoids enhances chemical repellency to pests
I don't think that's a common use of "unsolved at scale". We know how to do it, it just doesn't make economic sense right now. I mean, suppose you have hundreds of GW of storage of some form installed. You could just claim it's still not "solved at scale" because the global energy consumption is even higher.
I'm in the UK and am a PDRA in polymer chemistry. Desperate to get out. Would like to transfer to some type of coding. Pay and job security is far better. Just trying to work if I can manage with pay cut to a more junior role. It's not that I'm unsuccessful, I published plenty and work at a top institute. It's just that the jump from PDRA to permanent is impossible and I'm not interested in industrial chemistry