skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, like you, followed MMO to MMO throughout the 2000s and the road ended at WoW.

I don’t think we’ll see the next big MMO until the Metaverse and VR become mainstream. I’ve given up all hope of anything ever competing with WoW. It was such a phenomenal game that nothing else has ever even come close. We need the next iteration of immersion technology before something can compete.

I still miss that game so much.
It sounds like the system is working as intended for the record companies. And also like this might be a situation where a class action could actually be useful.
Or in 8 years, according to the 2030 Agenda.
Understanding one of the languages used here, and seeing the included subtitles, I'd take no part of this documentary true, the subtitles are just absurd. What an absolute shame, for something so interesting, I don't even understand how something like this happens.
"A more important oversight was the report's use of average deaths per capita instead of a more stable metric. Because of the smaller populations of most European countries, individual events in those countries had statistically oversized influence and warped the results. For example, Norway’s world-leading annual rate was due to a single devastating 2011 event, in which far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik gunned down 69 people at a summer camp on the island of Utøya. Norway had zero mass shootings in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015."
2009-2014 sounds a lot like tech gentrification years for Oakland, no?
Employees Scrambled to Keep Robinhood Afloat in 2021 Meme-Stock Frenzy
> I think the underlying model is fantastic

The well-documented underlying model used to confuse me a lot - especially for operations like merging, rebasing (squash, reorder, ...), cherry picking, etc. They started to make sense only when I realized that git uses diffs/patches to propagate changes between unrelated commits. While the on-disk format is purely snapshot-based, the tool itself is a hybrid. As far as I can tell, this trips up a lot of others too.
https://archive.ph/D9363
Is there any way of obtaining beef that is more efficient than cow farming?
I do not like the claim of 1.1 billion points of data. This is meaningless. For me, this says a few GBs of data which isn't that impressive. I'm not sure how you came up with this number, but you could, for example, have a record of the stock price of 1000 companies for every minute for the last 20 years that would get you there.

I have no experience in marketing so maybe average customers don't worry about this. But, to me, it seems like a red flag as your spinning something average into something extraordinary.
Yes, it looks like we banned you. It looks like that was because you posted trollish comments within a few days of creating the account, and possibly also because this account is linked to past ones we've banned.

More recently, your posts look ok, so I've unbanned the account. It would be good if you'd post fewer unsubstantive comments, though. Also, please use hn@ycombinator.com to ask us questions like this—for two reasons: (1) the odds are high that we won't see a question if you post it here; and (2) it's offtopic in the threads.
Thanks very much for posting. I'd point out that the numbers from that very useful link are wildly, wildly different from what the parent commenter posted:

1. The graphs appear to be showing that 29% of the Earth's land surface is "barren land", i.e. deserts, glaciers, rocky terrain, etc. In 1900, 48% of the NON barren land was forests, so 34% of the Earth's total land was forested.

2. In 2018 the percentage of forested non-barren land was down to 38%, or 27% of Earth's total land.

34% to 27% of total land area from 1900 to 2018 is a major difference from the parent commenter's assertion of "In 70 something years we went from 60% forest coverage of earth's land mass to 30%".
And images, the WWW supported images, gopher was about text. In my head porn helped kill gopher.
Agreed. When I deal with our legal counsel, I often try to draw him out to determine how I need to prioritize my team's work. Generally he declines to give me any firm yes or no, and just tells me where he sees risks.
Indeed, I am not.
I live in Berlin, by the way, and I’m not into parties and techno.
Despite all its flaws Berlin has a multicultural and less white washed vibe, for example, than Frankfurt.

And talking about catering to a specific type, Frankfurt and Zürich are way more catered toward a very normative idea of family and individuals A city like Berlin by these standards is deemed less liveable, but some of its flaws is what makes it way more humanly liveable. Also, Berlin has so many areas that are completely different from one another that here you can find the millionaire tech startupper with a villa at Wannsee eating out at Hasir in Kreuzberg next to deadbeat students. That’s more my idea of psychologically livable. But yeah, if you’re into skiing, banking, and fancy wines I guess Zürich’s fine.
>should never be found in the hands of another person

I am absolutely fine with other people using my code.

I am not fine with my code being used by AIs whose only ultimate goal is to make me unemployable while simultaneously generate a bunch of money for some corporations and introduce a bunch of labor and inequality issues in an already shit society.
I’m surprised how this fails to mention Elitist Jerks and how much of an impact (for better or worse) they have had on wow and Blizzard in general
Hi!

- Birth year. This is not part of the profile because usually your friends know your age. It's a way to internally know which demography is using the app more. It's the only part of the app that is Ferris focuses instead of user focused. I debated if I just simply add a yyyy-mm-dd input and give the user the benefit of remembering their friends birthdays (as plenty of apps), but the day of birth is way more personal than the year, so I scrapped that part. I maybe need to add a tooltip explaining why I'm asking this. 1950 is just a number I don't think 99% of my users will have.

- Ferristag: it's a secret identifier. If you go to Friends > Add Friend, you can see your Ferristag. You copy and send it.

- Notifications: I went with the option of making the explicit choices, but I if you have no notifications activated you will see a reminder, once that you add a friend. It looks premature to ask for notifications permission before this could be useful. But yes, notification handling is maybe something I could make better.

- Email invites: I thought about this, but finally rejected because it loses the personal touch and it looks spammy most of the time, or that my friend is getting a commission lol. I could rethink this based on feedback.

Thanks!
The man is such a treasure. Very entertaining and with a great sense of humour.

I've learned so much about different countries from him.
My elder brother is mentally challenged due to lack of oxygen when he was born. I had this idea a few years ago of how would he experience the world if he'd suddenly become healthy. How would he deal with his previous life, etc.
I once mentioned my thoughts to my boss during a lunch and he told me there's already a novel about it. That's how I've discovered Flowers for Algernon.
That's what you get for not having the foresight to pick the compiler written by the guy who would go on to create C# and TypeScript [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg
You might enjoy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_the_Police
First of all, as gwern said in one of the top level comments:

> False premise? Loads of artists hate DALL-E and AI art in general; they typically have much less feelings about Copilot. Unsurprisingly, for devs and DALL-E, it's the other way around.

Secondly, if by theft you actually mean copyright infringement, which is not the same thing, I believe we are reaching the breaking point of copyright legislation. We are getting to the point where copyright is so detached from reality it is no longer maskable and the notion itself becomes nonsensical.

As others have stated, even without AI, code gets routinely copied. There are only so many ways you can write a well defined, common knowledge algorithm, your version is bound to look like someone elses.

Just like genes are a fundamental part of the biological world, memes are are a fundamental part of human society. They exist ever since humanity exists. They replicate (copy) and mutate (remix) and evolve due to selective pressure. Copyright is an aberration opposed to the very nature of memes, because it is a mechanism designed to restrict their replication and mutation.
The bees are very much alive, the only decent beam* for parkour near me has a hive inside it now.

* the key is do it next to a bike lane, they're easier to look out for and rarely in the lane at all in cyberpunk appalachia
>why not blockchain

Why blockchain? Many things involve integrity checks other than blockchain.

Are you not educated on the alternatives, and thus only suggestion what you know?
>That should be a part of the education of everyone living in free and democratic societies.

This and Cat's Cradle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_Cradle
As someone who briefly lived in Oakland around that time, both things can be true. It was (and might still be) pretty rough territory while it had us tech people all moved in. The Bhudda effect sure looked real to me.
It is! WP Tavern is your friend for such updates, they're usually pretty on top of things.

https://wptavern.com/
Direct link to his channel:

https://www.youtube.com/c/GeoWizard/videos
Google’s Pixel 5 was the last of its kind
One thing I do that makes my cell phone work well for exactly the opposite isto install en ebook reader app in it and use it to read more books than I previously did, on the go, whenever I have spare time. Some people can't handle this with their eyes, granted, but in my case it's never been a problem so far.

Also, I don't have any chat apps in my phone except whatsapp. Definitely no facebook app and even instagram, though present, is completely silenced. I also silence all notifications in general except phone calls.

All together, these things have helped keep the phone handy without it turning my brain to mush.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220625185002/https://www.newsn...
> If I take an O(n^2) algorithm and I modify it using an "upper triangle" optimization, I cut the time in half, but it's still O(n^2).

That is why the Landau symbols are a strong simplification to get an estimate how fast the runtime grows in the worst case as n -> ∞.

When two algorithms are in the same Θ(...) class, you must also consider the constant that the Landau symbol "hides" to get a more fine-grade measure of the algorithm's worst-case performance (even if two algorithms are not in the same in the same Θ(...) class, such a more fine-grained measure does make sense because "for sufficiently large n" does not imply "for the n that are relevant for the application").
Something to keep in mind is that they aren't playing random points on the map, they're playing fixed maps with say 20,000 locations in them. They play them to the point that they recognize many of them. Like magic, but a little less than if it really was just a random point on the globe they could recognize instantaneously.
I am 38, have a PhD in EE, but no drivers license. I am not disabled or stupid. I have a successful career and no one ever enquired about it. I live a mid size city with ample public transportation; if anything having a car is the suboptimal/stupid choice. Your assumptions are ridiculous.
15 hours ago, this book was 15 bucks, and now that I went back to the page, the book is 39 bucks with "Only 1 left in stock" message.

Products on Amazon even get the Hug of Death™.
Compare this to bank wire transfers and it's much faster, cheaper and anonymized.

If you want to send big money from an account to another, or from a country to another, Bitcoin is really cheap, secure and anonymized.
No, but it might make you just as happy or fulfilled.
Thanks for the tip on the Beocreate 4! I’ve been looking for something with a digital input, DSP, and 4 amplified channels. This seems like a sweet spot for me because you can do an active crossover for a stereo pair of two way speakers in one unit. This is a perfect fit.
i don’t think so. i think exactly what you’ve documented is the case. if the callback can’t keep up with the data before the ringbuffer overflows, data is lost. in that case, the solution is to increase the size of the ringbuffer, giving the callback a larger window to keep up with incoming data bursts.

in the end there are only two ways to handle this: drop data or block. for a bandwidth monitor, i’d choose drop. for a firewall, i’d choose block.

i use bpftrace to monitor docker filesystem access in a similar way[1]. i also increase the ringbuffer size until i stop seeing lost data.

1. https://github.com/nathants/docker-trace#files
Sorry about your brother, I had a friend die waiting on an organ transplant when I was in single digits and I have no siblings.

People focus a lot of things like being nice regardless of race or social class, but trauma holds you back and no algorithm takes it into account that I've seen, just measures things to the side.

I'm glad you had a supportive leader who gave you something enriching for the soul to read.
You can use lsof in Linux to show connexions:

lsof -i -n -P | grep "\\-\>" | awk '{a[\$1"_p"\$2]++;}END{ for (it in a){print it,a[it]}}' | sort -nr -k2,2

This project uses conky to display the current connexions:

https://github.com/viviparous/plonky/blob/main/plonky.pl
I’ve played some free games on GeoGuessr and this is exactly it. After a while you just start to recognize things like the same Google car on the same wide desert highway, hello Dubai. Even the exact same spots come up often.

Then again, some places are so far off into the bush that it takes some routine just to figure out which continent you’re on.
Engineering degree or and science based degree. Learn critical thinking.

Directly IT related - Novell used to offer what they described as "practicum" exams for their SLES (Linux) offerings. These were web based and you literally did sysadmin stuff on VMs - configure users, set up a web server, SAMBA, DNS etc and then the system would mark you. Beats the crap out of memory tests like the old MCSEs and the VMWARE VCP bollocks. I recall quicky getting Apache to serve /usr/share/documentation to help me out.

Nowadays I employ people and I am not predisposed to any form of excitement about memory test type exams and qualis on CVs (Resumes). I may sit you down in front of something bloody expensive and complicated and ask you do do something with it ...
Frederik Pohl
The New Nomos of the Planet
European fertility levels are lower than the US, so they are declining faster.
Don't worry, CA can't do it forever as that water is coming out of a giant underground sea that is collapsing, it will never fill up again.

https://energyskeptic.com/2021/aquifer-decline-in-california...

https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/c...

https://revealnews.org/article/9-sobering-facts-about-califo...
Eh, beef, maybe, but the math basically comes down to: wheat, 4 million calories per acre, corn, 15 million. Take that 15 million calories of corn and feed it to chickens for a 3:1 calorie exchange and you've got 5 million calories of chicken per acre.

It's more complicated than that, but corn yields are so high that they can overpower the otherwise inefficiency of meat production.

Potatoes are as good as corn, and rice nearly so, but just from a land usage perspective chicken is no worse than eating wheat bread.
GoDaddy Responds to Mullenweg’s Accusations: “We All Have the Same Goal”
The Rust Desk security concern is due to it's not 100% self-hosted, it uses some kind of TURN or fw hole puncher which they host and didn't provide the sources for.

If I'm mistaken please tell me, would love to use it if it's "safe".
Being an early computer hobbyist, I've always been both experimental and conceptual where they push-pull each other in unanticipated directions.

I would say that the common element is that they are irreverent in the sense that ideas are not bounded by what's already been done, or considered known. Early in life, it's merely lack of exposure. Later it's having got good at recognizing various thinking boxes and practicing thinking outside them.
Don't let dicts spoil your code (2020)
Well I'm using my Thinkpad X230 now and then (still in my top 3 best laptop keyboards), and my wrists regret it.
VERY misleading title.
https://nomadlist.com/ ?
It's Six Sigma for cops.
I worked at a mid sized startup where this idea was floated for developing a prototype. Neat to see it has become production level software somewhere
Interestingly, Microsoft is also pushing Rust quite hard with special API packages, tutorials, and even some IDE integration. Windows tools are often closed source, though, so you'll probably never notice it if your favourite tool uses Rust or not.
Book Review: Seeing That Frees
> Or, I shouldn’t charge them at all?

Would you feel right about charging them? I know this sounds hopelessly naive on HN, but not everything needs to be monetized, even if it can be. You have a right to make money, but you don't have a responsibility to charge them if you don't feel good about it.

Consider also how much responsibility you want to have to maintain and update this application for paying customers, and how much of your life you want to devote to supporting it.

Any answer is okay, I don't know your situation.
The WIV sent workers into remote caves that no other humans routinely entered; you can find many pictures and videos from their expeditions on the Internet. I think their baggage-hauling laborers were mostly grad students, but I agree that an infection of such a laborer is a quite plausible origin for this pandemic--a visit to a remote cave specifically chosen for its diversity of novel viruses is obviously a much higher risk than a cave chosen at random, though it's hard to quantify by how much.

In this scenario, if the WIV's worker had never entered the cave, then the virus would quite possibly never have left the cave. Even if it would have been released later by an infected non-scientist, I'd always rather die later than sooner. (I've seen people arguing sooner is better, because it encourages pandemic preparedness; I guess that's true, in the same sense that reckless drivers encouraged development of automotive airbags. I've never seen a driver make that argument to the judge, though.)

So given the above, do you still think the WIV should have sent the worker into the cave? We're not talking about the whole of virology here, just a tiny subset of high-risk research that so far has provided no significant public benefit.
Sam Childers
Best MMO right now is Albion Online. But most people don't have the stomach for full loot PvP.
The old "embrace, extend, extinguish".
I agree these don't fit into the 4Ds because the spec is many times the contractual document used for handover compliance line item by line item as part of a larger RFP. Much of it should end up in permanent operational documents but you keep the baseline fixed (with amendments) to compare the original intent against what you end up with. Still, I'm not sure this matters enough to add another D to the taxonomy. If I was to add one it would be D for Diagrams which matter enough to be a category of their own ;}
> Why? Because as a matter of basic legal hygiene, I expect that orga­ni­za­tions that create software assets will have to forbid the use of Copilot and other AI-assisted tools

I feel like this understates the wild west nature of software in non-tech Fortune 500
>> In the 1990s, when Russia was in a very bad economic situation, there was a lot of support for Russia from the EU

>From my experience you greatly overplay it. There was "some support" maybe, but definitely not "lots" of it.

Some numbers from my country of origin: In 1990, West-Germany alone payed 12 billion D-Mark (~6 billion Euro) and an additional loan of 3 billion (~1.5 billion Euro) for the re-unification to the SU (officially for the withdrawal costs of the Red Army). In addition Germany supported Russia to join the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Alone in 2020, German trade with Russia was covered by new export credit guarantees from the German state of 2.47 billion Euro; in this it was #1 (#2 Turkey: 1.93 bln, #3 USA: 1.25 bln, #4 China: 1.21 bln). -- How much else would be necessary to call it "a lot"?

> But there was no integration.

I would recommend reading the "Common Strategy of the European Union of 4 June 1999 on Russia": https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL... This text documents in detail the common understanding of the member states of the EU at that time regarding Russia. However, it was the Russian government that rejected the idea of an integration into a common European economic and legal area on the basis that Russia is special in so far as it is not only European, but European-Asian and wants to keep its independence. The politcal vison of Putin was not to join the EU at some point in the future, but to establish Russia as the hegemon of its own federation of states, the Commonwealth of Independent States.

To sum it up: The outstretched hand of the EU was rejected by Putin right at the beginning of his presidency for fundamental reasons. There was therefore no realistic chance of a closer relationship between the EU and Russia in the last two decades.
Ah, yes. "Application Error" is my self portrait too. Always nice to run into a doppelgänger.
The profits that went to a few human owners of that agribusiness should be clawed back
Black bean, bacon (turkey bacon, for me), and barley stew is my go-to Instantpot meal. I like to imagine I'm eating at a tavern in a vaguely D&D/Middle-Earth-esque setting. Sometimes I add turnips too.
Isn’t loitering and foot traffic code for drug dealers selling drugs illegally to their customers?
It would have felt much more plausible with a twist at the end where his "superintelligence" was revealed to be a set of delusions related to his cognitive impairment...
This took me too long to learn. We're told over and over to "be yourself," but sometimes you have to make an effort to be like everyone else. I see in the author and in myself sometimes a weird sense of pride in having unusual opinions and tastes. This isn't going to win you any friends or impress anyone. If you're just waiting for someone to show up that shares all your thoughts, then you're going to continue to be alone.
Your parent is correct, the length is stored alongside the pointer, not on the heap with its data. This is true for any "dynamically sized type," not just Box<str>. &str is also a (pointer, length) pair, for example.
CATL unveils Qilin Battery, says it has 1k km range
As others have suggested. If you don't put in the effort the world can get really small really quick. Sure some are born into families that facilitate that kind of interaction from a young age but for many of us it's a constant development that will continue forever. If the community you want does not exist you can't just wait for it to find you. You have to be willing to put into creating one just as much as you expect others to. Especially in our current atmosphere.
Not really. Roe was one of a bunch of decisions of that era making findings of "civil rights". In particular, and libertarians like to forget this part, the core finding is actually based on the fourth amendment, and it says that no matter how firm it may believe the moral argument may be, the government doesn't have the right to decide for someone what medical procedures should be possible within her own body.

I genuinely don't understand all the HN libertarians lining up on the site of Government Power here. This is absolutely a libertarian issue. Is it just knee-jerk tribalism? Have you guys all decided you don't really care so much about individual rights? Or is it just that you don't have a uterus and are disinclined to align yourself with those who do?