skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you mwean, why use a good, "abstracted" game engine if you can make a bad, "simple" one yourself? Or why make portable games "instead of thinking about what the computer is really doing"? Do you think advanced games could be made if the designer doesn't "think about things in these high-level, abstracted terms"?

I suggest an exercise to understand the value of abstraction: a remake of a Commodore 64 game using JavaScript (Canvas to simply draw pixels, nothing fancy).
I don't care whether they're thinking. I care whether they're voting.
Ask HN: How should one plan a MVP for startup?
I'm planning for a startup, and I have started developing the backend. I'm the only person working on it currently. I just wanted to ask How to come up with an MVP? The tech stack i'm planning to use is golang (gin) for backend and react native for front end. It would be great help i can get links to certain resources.
>And a good response to that might be: "when you say the Chinese made their minds up, are you talking about a democratic process?"

It was the early 19th century. You could count the number of democratic countries on one hand. (If you counted countries where only men could vote)
> it will somehow be better at building non-existing, future tech stuff

Those power plants and the Berlin airport went the way they did because of the immense corruption around such extremely large, expensive, long-term construction projects. There's a whole sector in construction exploiting the inane legislation around these things. There's no way that's going to change anytime soon, and it's not a purely German issue either (as the European nuclear projects demonstrate).

At least so far, the push into renewables looks like it will require very few such monolithic large-scale projects at all, and even then, they should be a lot less complex and cheaper than the current generation of nuclear plants (and a lot faster to build). A lot of the concepts for storage are also well-suited to a distributed build-out, and that involves making people order a bunch of things from China, set them up and network them, which we're all doing all the time anyway and which tends to works pretty efficiently. The whole thing is by no means a guaranteed short-term success, but I'd say the chances of this working out nicely aren't bad at all.
"unconscious bias silliness" so you're telling me that an interviewer is just as likely to hire someone who has visible issues sitting still/focusing on a video call as they are someone who sits perfectly still and gives their full 100% attention to the call? No, not a chance. When there are two candidates for a position at approximately equal skill levels when performing a video interview but one has ADHD that comes along with the inability to remain solely focused on one small screen and voice for an extended period of time you can guess which candidate is going to be picked the vast majority of the time. Dismissing such a huge issue as silliness is exactly the reason why many people who have issues similar to that do not want to perform video calls for interviews.
I saved you a click: In a prior case.

The Twitter v. Musk case has not yet been heard, let alone ruled on.
IIRC it's also (ab?)used for a lot of actual math that has that pattern, which is a lot.
Which game was this?

Aren't there objective advantages and disadvantages to certain characters even as a top player? For example, if two top players were playing SSBM, the most optimal choice is playing Fox or Wolf. I understand that some will use "meta play" as storytelling/marketing, but there does come a point where skill can't make up the cost of choosing a disadvantageous character when fighting against other pros.
I congratulate you for the novel approach, but this is impossible to scale in a way that would make the engine useful.
In the previous entry they mention that the connector pieces are randomly perturbed so they aren't all identical but variations.
Not bad, my old stuff the same but c++/X11lib:

https://youtu.be/2l7cIc4INAs?t=89
Retool works great for us
Heavier than air flight dates back at least 2500 years from bamboo helicopter toys in China, with various others through the 17th to 19th century, however the first manned, powered, controlled flight of a heavier-than-air craft wasn't until Whitehead, Wright et. al at the end of the 19th century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_flying_machines#Primitiv...
Maybe we'll find out how they got him in the next leak.
> quite a lot of mathematical development, plus considerable precision engineering

Not sure the Wright brothers would be with you on this - neither were maths guys and their aircraft were hardly precision-built.
It really is. Of all the Scorched-likes in the last thirty years (sigh), ShellShock's my ideal modern version.
I tried, thanks! :) And I also suggest to evaluate PDM https://pdm.fming.dev/
Very rational. I wouldn't hire me either.
Ha ha glad someone did this to show all the bad patterns. In some ways it is not as bad as many sites. It didn’t auto play for me, and it didn’t bring my browser to a crawl.

Suggestions: ask me to use “the app” and request video and mic access.
I strongly dislike the idea of automatically jumping into a folder when there’s only one match: it feels like a feature optimised for very slow typers that actively penalises fast typers, because it makes things generally unpredictable: will one character be enough to navigate, or two, or three? It depends on the siblings, and if you type more characters than are required, you will be penalised by ending up somewhere else as the remaining letters are fed to the next level down that you haven’t even seen yet. My general habit in navigating is to type three characters and press Tab, because that’s almost always sufficient, and is plenty fast. I have a very few places where I’ve learned to do other things. Under my habit, I could end up as much as two levels down from where I wanted to be.
Looks like Emacs built-in dired, except, that it is not integrated into Emacs.
Isn't that the same as adding version constraints to setuptools' setup.cfg? [1] pip will use these in its dependency resolver.

You can also constrain the Python version in there if you want.

[1] https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/quickstart.ht...
Ha. Great. Also needs a giant ginormous sticky header and menu structure at the top of the page, so that together with the sticky footer it covers up pretty much any remaining article content.
I think the point is they have the same “shape”, at least when you graph them like this.
> nobody wants to experiment throwing themselves out over a cliff with prototype wings that will likely get them killed.

Actually, not a few people did exactly that! If they had used a scaled-up paper plane, they might have lived. Or think of a modern hang-glider, but made from bamboo and silk.
Although the mathematics is quite complex (Newton, Bernoulli, Navier-Stokes) the history happens fairly quickly as the mathematics appears. Bernoulli published in 1738, Cayley designed the fixed-wing aircraft in 1799. From that point it was mostly a matter of finding ways to increase thrust / reduce weight through better engine design to achieve useful flight time / lift.
Happily trade my situation for yours. Very nice setup.

I have generous vacation at all jobs and at a prior job, I just quit to go on vacation after lining up another job to start in a few weeks, so booking the same time off everywhere is easy.

I am an unimportant rank and file developer.
omg, that is my favourite multiplayer game. So many memories! :D
Hmm ... maybe I were unlucky when I checked. After some master server crash or something.
What's strange about this is that this goes against a preliminary game theory/optimisation analysis of how the system should work.

Hotellings Law (https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2692.htm) means that when there are two competitors on a spectrum, they will move closer and closer to one another to be as competitive as possible. Even passing beyond the other until they are both either side of the center.

You have two ice cream trucks on a 1D beach.

|-----1-----------2-|

Ice cream truck 2 captures all the business on its right, and 1 captures all the business (more) on it's left. Then they split the central. area 50:50.

|-----12------------|

Now 2 moves all the way to be next to 1, and takes all the central space (including what it used to have on the right.

|------21------------|

1 now comes to the side the grab almost all of the right hand side, surrendering the less valuable left.

|-------12-----------|

|--------21----------|

They'll now work back and forth until they're either side of the middle.

This is what you might imagine political parties would do and what they do in some countries. Something is stopping this happening in US politics and I would hazard a guess it's be because of a. primaries (were votes aren't evenly distributed along a 1D spectrum) and b. social cues (people are in politics for more than just winning votes).
Maybe because trial an error improvement isn't possible if you're actually flying the vehicle? Just a guess.
It's not just a custom dictionary. Stop words are usually excluded for a reason, you need to understand the nature of the query, and when to exclude what looks like stop words from being pruned. It's not really a job for a snowball stemmer, as you do need to operate over multiple tokens to gather context.
This was the third trial. The first two were declared mistrials. So yes, certainly makes one wonder.
Lovely.

Missing the "advert or other cruft so big in the middle of the text that you genuinely wonder if you've reached an abrupt end of the article, but scroll down enough and it continues."
Agree on crowdfunding, but a side-effect of that has been fragmentation of culture. That means that pop culture has had to increasingly pander to the lowest common denominator and get a lot worse: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31024896

On user-generated content, I also think things have been getting a lot worse since the 2000s. What you refer to as the small forums on the fringes of the internet used to be its motor. Now you have big corporate platforms, that act more like a hive-mind, with no real online communities and no individual voices heard. There has been more centralisation, not democratization in this regard. Add to that the commercialization of it all - now you never know if something you read is an astroturfing campaign, a sponsored 'influencer', someone out to build a following and make money, or true authentic hobbyist content. Back then it was almost all the latter.

Back in the 90s we were not glued to smartphones with personalized ads and influencers selling us crap. Yes, we had ads on TV, but that is not nearly as bad, and there is only so much of TV you can watch. There was more connection and more humanity, and 'corporations' had far, far less power than today.

In any case - you're just describing what has happened. What is the vision or the bright future that we go to from here?
The need for a legislative cap is just as much an indication that (to quote the article) "the market is not working well", as the rise itself in the absence of the cap.

Why not work to fix the market instead? Or nationalise it, since there's really nothing for intermediaries to compete on any more.
Physics can replicate electromagnetic effects with an extremely high degree of precision, it's almost trivial to replicate said effects.

Physics has formulated models of how electromagnetism works and from that model, predicted other effects that could be replicated in experiments as well. That's what a 'mechanism of action' means here. The predictive power of a model, by whatever means it's formulated makes it useful.

There are infinitely many ways to model electromagnetism but only a few of them are useful because they allow to make theoretical predictions that then also match reality.
I'm an academic mathematician. The current academic job market is rough overall, and academia is usually not kind to people who have been out of the system for awhile. However, machine learning is hot so you might get lucky.

Interdisciplinary work is also hot -- but it tends to be popular with deans and provosts, and sometimes less so with faculty members on the front lines, who are the ones who actually read through the hundreds of applications.

Keep in mind that academia works differently in different places; in particular, hiring processes are different in the US and the EU.

I love my job, but academia has its downsides. There is a fair amount of admin work, and you'll spend a lot of your time applying for and managing grants. In laboratory disciplines a lot of successful academics are basically managers.

Another downside is that you don't really get to choose where you live. If you're lucky you will get a couple of job offers, probably in random places where you might not have otherwise chosen to live -- whereas in industry I imagine your credentials might be in wide demand.

I would certainly not expect to be hired into a tenured position. If you are very lucky you might be hired into a tenure-track position, but a postdoc seems more realistic to me. You might be able to get back into the system, but I'd be surprised if you could shortcut past the parts you didn't like.

Another possibility is work as an adjunct professor. This is a terrible career, but could be enjoyable as a side gig. Basically, if you'd like to teach some classes on the side, and don't mind lousy pay and no benefits, you might be able to arrange this.

You might also look at work at various "institutes" -- these are not academia, but are perhaps more suitable for an idealist than a startup. Your credentials are likely to be very attractive to them. Here is one example I am familiar with:

https://www.rti.org/

In any case academia varies widely depending on field, country, and type of university. (In the US there is a big distinction between research- and teaching-oriented universities, this might be less of a thing in the EU.) I'd recommend contacting your PhD advisor, your committee, and any other senior academics whom you personally know and asking their advice. You might also browse through this site, which discusses the practicalities of academic careers, and has a pronounced STEM slant:

https://academia.stackexchange.com

Good luck!
They don't disagree on the facts, its just one description is an extremely uncharitable and insulting to the skills of our ancestors. There were talented and skilled healers who did the best they could with the knowledge of the time.
Captured? What this is supposed to mean?
A past employer of mine said this and accepted me vouching for a lot of people. Referral bonuses skew incentives there though...

However, you care as a manager. What I am doing works best with managers who do not care.
And what, there's nobody between Archimedes and the Wright Brothers I could have been referring to? Whatever...
There are mails of mccarthy's team discussing upward funargs and lexical scoping in 59 (maybe 58, I don't recall). The very first to do it publicly might have been algol, but it's not clear who made it first.
Germany doesn't have the infrastructure to import from other sources. The LNG terminals don't work yet, and the capacity is too low and LNG is much more expansive than the Russian pipeline gas. And even if we have the LNG infrastructure, we have to buy a big chunk of the world market, which screws poorer countries.
Our home insulation is already pretty good and renovating all old buildings is expansive, and we don't have enough craftsman to do that.
Renewables brought us this mess the plan was to use natural gas, this is now over.
We need to go back to coal and build new nuclear plants to phase out coal, but this will never happen under the current government, at least until the winter.
Having studied mostly OOP/Java at the uni, and been using mostly C# at work, I realized I might actually start to find programming fun again through Go. I've studied it a bit recently and this idea of interfaces with composition over inheritance etc. made somehow a lot more sense to me, and gave me this boost to try and learn it more because it felt so enjoyable. Not even with some practical problem at hand to solve, but just on an abstract level, not having to deal with OOP classes and inheritance and all the things. Now I just need to find a Go job and get my feet a little more wet. ;P I'm talking about Go because it gives me similar feelings as Rust, but Rust I have a lot less experience with. I hope there's a similar fun and excitement to be found in Rust as well, after unlearning some old habits.
> Others like decentralized escrow and multi-signatory wallets

Uhh, multi-signatory bank accounts are about as old as banking.
Maybe it is the same, but the idea is to take that selected version of the dependency and store a hash checksum for it, so that one can later get the exact same dependencies. Poetry only does not source setup.cfg, but its tool-specific config file. This way it stays out of the way of any other tool.
I mean, even if he did actually believe this (which, realistically, he almost certainly did not; at this point China would have had reasonable intelligence about the west, and would know that most Europeans and indeed most British people at that time did not drink tea daily), the context is that Britain refused to stop its merchants from dealing class-A drugs in China (really it tacitly encouraged it), so it wouldn't be _that_ out-there a threat?
Not everyone uses Vim.

Also netrw is a bit of a mess; I once found a bug and thought "I'll write a patch". After five minutes of browsing through the code ([insert Eddie Murphy meme]): "yeah, never mind".
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Two mistrials? Sounds like justice /s
Hatch is also interesting and very similar to Poetry.

https://hatch.pypa.io/latest/

In comparison to poetry I think it includes more advanced multi-environment and multi-python-version support and a tox-like testing matrix. It probably gets a little too complex there.

It also works with pyproject.toml

If anyone else has experience with Hatch vs Poetry please share!
But telcos can still run voice traffic over “sane” protocols (VoLTE and VoWIFI, for example, are both wrappers over SIP if I'm not mistaken – pretty complex, but still using modern tech). They don't have to be “dumb pipes”, but I don't think there's any need to claw into complicated legacy stuff any more than it is needed to interact with legacy systems.

Totally agree with the what we want part.
It doesn't appear to be a code search engine. Just a regular search engine focused on code.

Does Sourcegraph index Sourceht projects? It is a proper code search engine and very good.
I try to something that is useful to me personally. This gives me just enough pressure to pursue it to some kind of completed state.
Oh you don't get what I mean. Yeah those things are good and I'm grateful for the progress SpaceX is making. What I want to know is how much is really attributable to Musk and what his Ego is really worth at the end of the day.

Lets remember the only reason he's around today is because some very rich people and NASA bailed him out. SpaceX left to just Musk's ability, ego and resources died in 2008.

He relies so much on mysticism for parting people from their money, eventually some people get fed up with the 'mysterious future and repeated failure' business model.

Expectations around his personal abilities should be lowered. His track record is not that great and it's a fact people call trolling. Sorry, not sorry.

The abilities that made spacex and tesla were hundreds of highly skilled engineers. Elon just raised money and is the face brand for japanese battery tech.

He's not worth worshipping and his incompetence is covered by idolatry.
I think the origin might be ”[ter]minal file [e]xplorer”, though the author might correct me here.

”Tere” is also, perhaps unsurprisingly, used in Finnish.
For me it's not about being the same character (like you've mentioned, opening and closing braces aren't either), it's about commas and braces indicating different things in the hierarchy. Not to mention the symmetry breaking: an opening brace together with data in a line, then a lonely one at the bottom.
> Truly remarkable that gliding firebombs and the like were never invented for warfare.

What? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite#Military_applications

Steering is important though, you need to a) go up, b) go the right place, not back at you, c) come down, again not where you are.
Why don’t you suggest dependencies that could be removed? Oh right. That would require effort.
That's the "resistant to change" part. NH has the highest number of state reps per capita and three plurality bills were shot down this year by an overwhelming majority. From the richest superdelegate to the smallest fry: every politician toes the line right now.

https://www.concordmonitor.com/Should-NH-adopt-ranked-choice...
Doubtful. I find it hard to believe that a country that’s not even capable of manufacturing ordinary cars can maintain and service nuclear weapons.
More electric bikes (should) mean more bike infrastructure and that will increase a bikes utility. Just like more electric cars mean more chargers.

Induced demand works for allt types of transport.
Realistically speaking: take a multinational corporation, dial up their employee care package (potentially to include all costs of living), and then (???) circumvent all local regulations, declare independence, etc.

Why and how do you do the last parts?

This is libertarian/Trotskyist utopianism with a copious helping of cryptomania.
> pretty sure I've developed this habit because as a child in the last 1970's and early 80's we could never afford a computer for many years, when it was something I wanted more than anything in the world.

I’m sure many of us understand this. I grew up always on the last gen console because we couldn’t afford the latest 8-bit or 16-bit machines.

As an adult, I started buying boxed versions of those consoles in large part to collect but also to get that experience I missed out on as a kid.
Yeah, I used to build toy gliders too - it's really easy, though with balsa of course, which would not have been available in western Europe during the Renaissance (so tough shit Leonardo) but there are other light-weight materials, which is what sparked my question.
The "too many dependencies" meme is far too often an example of Chesterton's Fence.

The answer to your question "How come a simple thing is more complex than I first thought?" is: "Because you've spent less time thinking about it than the author".
Algorithms by Jeff Erickson (2019)
Rust on Espressif chips – 15-07-2022
By networking. Meet some professor who hires postdocs and convince them that you will fit their requirements. Learn how transition grants work. Prepare to live a few years with minimum amount of money coming from your job position. Be ready to travel.

(source: I am a software engineer currently working on my PhD after 10 years in the industry, and planning to continue working in the academia afterwards).
Tab completion with these settings takes some extra keystrokes: if there's only one match, you have to press tab twice to see what's in the subfolder. If you have several matches, you have to press tab, then enter to select the one you want, and then tab again to show the subfolder contents. And going up (especially several) folders is also quite a bit of typing. It might sound like splitting hairs to shave off less than five keystrokes, but it really does make a difference in how smooth the browsing feels.
Poetry is good, I'll hit a bug in poetry from time to time but it's improving quickly.

Direnv is better, direnv layout will automatically create a hidden virtualenv directory on your work tree and sets up your path when you cd into it. The only downside is it doesn't seem to work on Windows.
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Is cd+ls a common pattern for people? I tend to just use double tab to browse folders, combined with a file separator-aware "delete word" keybinding when I want to go back up one level.