skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for finding that! I remembered hearing Miyazaki talk about it in a docco, but couldn't confirm the details.

It's amazing how, once it gets some legs, it is so hard to find anything but the same repeated story.
Yep. Considering how web2.0 hype was about AJAX and webpages with dynamic content that did not require reloading the page.
Because businesses have treated staff so well over the last few years.
Many new safer-than-C system languages will know what it is to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you.
Has anyone who posted a 'Show HN' had success with a paid product and no prior audience or following when their product launched?

Building an audience remains a difficult business task. It would be inspiring to hear success stories of products which launched with no following or prior audience.
What's weird about those screen shots is that they must have been photoshopped, because all the graphics except for the text are identical to the English version, yet I highly doubt the lazy translator actually had access to the save files at the exact point in time when the screenshots were made to load them into the Russian version of the game.

So it's much more likely that the screenshots were meticulously edited to remove the English text and replace it with Russian.

English original:

https://archive.ph/GokfI/5fff3abf855b5851484418965bf747d1d8a...

Russian fake:

https://habrastorage.org/getpro/habr/post_images/249/838/546...

English original:

https://archive.ph/GokfI/33461173f8f068f29ae392ddde9833c1000...

Russian fake:

https://habrastorage.org/getpro/habr/post_images/c73/e8f/088...

If you zoom in you can see that the Russian fakes have some but not all of the jpeg artifacts from the English originals smoothed out (look around the letters, then around the lines on the graph), and the large numbers are missing commas, so they are definitely fakes based on the original jpegs of English screen snapshots.

I don't even know if there was a Russian version of SimCity 2000.

There's certainly a Russian version of The Sims 4, but Russia is so existentially terrified of a computer game turning their delicate children gay that they banned it.

https://www.cbr.com/sims-4-wedding-stories-russia-banned-pro...

Edit: I explained above why I am sure they are fakes. Look at the jpeg artifacts closely, which give it away, especially around the letters and lines: some are missing (around all the letters and in some background areas), others are perfectly identical (around the lines of the graph). That proves the Russian versions are fakes beyond a shadow of a doubt, based on the original jpegs of English screen snapshots. Open each of the above four links in consecutive tabs, zoom in on each several steps, and flip back and forth between them to compare them yourself. Some but not all of the background was smoothed (gaussian blur, median filter, unsharp mask, etc), which removed the jpeg artifacts, and the old text was background-cloned away and the new text composed on top of the smooth background, without any jpeg artifacts. They definitely did not make new screen snapshots of the Russian version of the game on the original save files at the exact same time (how would they have even obtained that save file at that exact time?), because then none of the jpeg artifacts would match. It's as terrible a fake screen snapshot forgery as it's a terrible round trip translation from English to Russian back to English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_artifact

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringing_artifacts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_blur

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_filter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsharp_masking
The Tweet seems to claim that $6.5k is the total monthly revenue of the network. The explorer seems to claim $2M (under "DC spent").
You probably don't want someone distributing something like child porn over your home network
Something I've never understood about 'simulation theory' is why? It would take an unfathomable level of technology to simulate a universe. If you had advanced to that point what could you possibly learn from a simulation of primitive cultures? Why would this theoretical civilization waste such a vast amount of resources on our supposed 'simulation' when they could be using that same computing power to solve problems relevant to their advanced society? Unless they just ran out of things to do and got bored I don't see why such an advanced civilization would waste their time simulating us.
Well, quite
Because that doesn't work. 2h before someone complains to IT that he cannot write/read/delete said Word document. Then management says X indeed needs access. Now you have created a maintenance nightmare sourced in rather weird security requirements.

Could as well gouge out the eyes of everyone not having a read permission on said document. There are 1001 solution to solve such problems. And as a gigantic bonus it doesn't have to be bound to hardware! User permission management is much easier.
The situation is much worse than I had imagined; the parent project, libfuse, is also in need of a maintainer.

https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse
> mined some coins early on without 'taking wealth from others'

And how exactly did these mined coins become USD ?
The miners absolutely are taking wealth from others—-I can’t believe I’m getting sincere pushback about this.

The entire value of the Bitcoin you mined came from later stage “investors” in Bitcoin.
I'd say that stage has already come, there's huge amounts of people where their main or only computing device is a phone or tablet. I've dealt with recruitment in a non-technical field and their phone is the online nexus point for them for any emails, documents, or website interactions. Even for gaming I'd argue PC is going into enthusiast territory and the GPU pricing situation hasn't helped that, consoles and phone gaming is strong and streaming has developed a niche.
Maybe people are hoping more for 'Star trek' than 'Judge dredd'.
> I expected her to be mortified and sue and hide. But nope. She owned it

Ish. She went for the sue and own it combo.
In Italy the current limit for cash transactions is €2k, but it will be lowered to €1k starting from 2023. [0]

(Just for reference, NIS 6k is roughly equal to €1.7k)

[0] (Italian) https://bancadiasti.it/senza-categoria/utilizzo-dei-contanti...
We need to get there no matter what, what's you plan?

If on earth we can't manage to build ultra optimized cities, then how do you expect we be able to build ultra optimized space stations, or bases on the moon/mars?

We need to experiment yesterday so we are ready today

It's better to invest our money in the next random Web3.0 project, that's for sure, why trying to optimize a whole city anyways? /s
All those plans build on existing cities, existing population, existing economics. People in 17th didn't just go out and build Amsterdam.

You really compared it.

Maybe something like Brasília or something is a better comparison.
Althea Networks does something similar with wifi mesh and cellular.
Hedonic Treadmill: Forever Chasing Rainbows
Is using certain colouring for your products and then charging a premium for it actually gender inclusivity? It doesn't seem so to me but I am not expert.

I am however left handed and I will say that many of Logitech's "ambidextrous" products are not really so and off the top of my head I can think of no product of theirs which is authentically designed specifically for use by left handed people. So I don't believe the company really cares about inclusivity.
Population density is really the most important factor when considering building in a desert.
> Our timezones are often wider than an hour.

The handling of timezones and of leap-seconds are orthogonal problems, arising from distinct causes. Leap-seconds are a response to the desire to synchronise an atomic timescale with the uneven rotation of the Earth; timezones (and DST) are strictly a political problem.

Politicians often don't understand the consequences of timezone changes; they often introduce them without giving enough time for people to update their timezone database - sometimes just a few days. The result is that the new timezone is nothing more than a political gesture, because hardly anyone is using it.
It all boils down to the direction urbanization is going.

My country has been actually slowly de-urbanizing for the past 20 years or so:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS?locat...

It's an exception to the rule in the region, but a significant one.

Affluent people, who could afford cars, moved out to have more living space in exchange for having to drive everywhere. A more recent version of this is just not being able to afford an apartment in the city - those people opted for what must be the weirdest type of housing there is - an apartment in the middle of nowhere.

Statistics say that indeed it's still the rich who drive.
UK under international pressure over deletion of abortion commitments
Someone in the UK government silently edited an international statement signed by 20+ countries to remove commitments to sexual and reproductive health and rights, and bodily autonomy, as well as most countries' signatures.
This edit does not show up as the last updated date, and people who subscribed to the page did not receive email notifications.

See the diff on Github: https://github.com/alphagov/whitehall/issues/6689
Stallman was right again.
> would you really want to live next door to a knackers yard, an abattoir, a tannery, a coal power plant, a chemical plant, a fish processing factory etc, a rubbish dump, a night club?

I'm not sure about all of that, but I think having bars, restaurants, stores, etc. intermingled within short walking distance of houses in suburbs would certainly be great.
Yeah it's more wordplay than argument.

Reminds me of a similar 'wordplay as argument' favourite quote by Terry Pratchett:

> You know how dumb the average person is? Well, statistically, half of them are even dumber than that.

(source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLkg-S_FfXc&t=3720s )
I care about these things and i've been in crypto since before gavin coined web3.

In fact most of the devs I know that started pre-2017 deeply care about these things. Many were around in the OWS groups back in the day, they transformed via bitcoin and now mostly work on eth projects. The cool thing is most of those people who were in it for political reason (rather than the newer investors looking to make quick money, and new devs looking for decent paid job) have made enough money to spend the rest of their lives working on this stuff regardless of it making them any richer.

I think we can outwork and outlast the cynics and keep building the things we think are cool. they hype will come and go, the fraudsters will sweep in during mania and con people regardless of our warnings, the authoritarians will try get the state to make it illegal, the google employees will keep complaining that its not innovative. we'll keep on working towards what we think is right.
Well if we're to hit net-zero carbon emissions then we either need to not emit any long-term stored carbon or capture and store carbon from the atmosphere. The former is likely to be much cheaper than the latter.
Blender has been “white listed” to be taught at schools in the U.S.
> Conflict is about resource competition

So i understand how you got into believing that thesis. Your fundamental departing point is, sorry to say it so bluntly, wrong. Not "different opinions on subjective stuff", but objectively wrong. Wars aren't only about resources. In fact it's probably rarer that they're for resources and not something else. You're prescribing a simplistic logical rational basis on something that is complex and simply doesn't have it and is more often than not irrational.

For instance - do you think that Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia was about resources? Or about more complex goals like preserving their sphere of influence on the Balkans, dominating Serbia, vengeance, etc.

The Franco-Prussian war - was it for resources? Or was it von Bismarck needing a common cause to push through German unification? Same goes for the Prussian-Austrian Brothers war and the Italian wars of independence btw.

We can go even further back - Thirty Years war was fought over religion and political power, not resources.

Or further forward, the Saudi and Emirates intervention in Yemen.

Some others, like the Silesian wars, were mostly for resources. Some others, like Germany invading the Soviet Union, are for complex reasons, including resources, but also ideological (to destroy "Judeo-Bolshevism").

So you start from a simplistic and wrong position, and go backwards from there - war is inherently for resources, and taxes are resources, so optimised taxes mean no war. No amount of tax optimisation would have made von Bismarck not need and want a war with France, or Austria before that.

As i mentioned, I'm interested in reading that book because, on face value, the thesis is wrong. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, or misunderstanding your interpretation of the book's thesis, hence my desire to read it.

Edit: i keep coming up with examples, the vast majority of wars during the French Revolutionary / Napoleonic era (the Haitian expedition is a nice counterexample), the Iran-Iraq war, etc.
I think many would disagree with the banning of it, not based on its contents but based on the principle of not banning books in general and not banning speech that’s unpopular.

Unpopular speech needs more protection than popular speech, not less.
short flights might go electric

high-speed rail works perfectly (though there's an obvious chicken and egg problem, because setting up a new airport is relatively trivial compared to building HSR connections between points of interest, but networks effects do matter, if there's an already good network it makes sense to connect new cities)

and for long haul flights the convenience will still make a lot of people pay for it.

plus, if society wants to subsidize it, we could. (like the US already does for certain routes.)
Lego’s new Minifigure Factory lets you create a $12 minifig of yourself
Something doesn't sound to me quite right. If 1km2 can get you 20k L/d then 1m2 would give you 20L/d? I doubt that otherwise everyone would make their own fuel for car in small garden. Unless the actually mean 1km x 1km area.
This is really interesting to me because of a little proof of concept I made. Is there a way I can contact you?
The simulation hypothesis is really religion for people who dislike being associated with religion.

It is fun to debate it, and to imagine the possibilities, maybe even write fiction. And this leads to a order of magnitude qualitative jump compared to mythology. We really are vastly more imaginative than millennia ago due to having access to a lot more information to remix.

But ultimately, none of this is scientific and therefore none of it has any consequence on the reality we inhabit.
Interesting data point.

How close is your approach to what they described, and did you actually make <$10?

That would make it a lot less enticing :)
Those blocks can be pretty dangerous to bikes though.
If some foreign rightholder actually tries suing a billion-dollar German company in German court on the basis of lack of license to some software dedicated to the public domain, do you really expect them not to get laughed out of court?
It seems unlikely to me that en masse, workers are moving jobs and taking a pay cut.

Of course there will be some that do, but when you crunch the "average change in salary" it is going to be positive.
If there is anything we need more of its subburben sprawl.
And yet, ironically, other companies value you more then you current employer.
Amazong. -ly awful.
Me too, and that's often how things work in countries other than the US - rationale zoning laws, not no zoning laws.
That's terrible advice in my experience. The new people have little power and don't understand the politics involved.
Exact Audio Copy?
Everyone else thinks I'm dumb too. So I doubt that's it.
Who needs to cheat in a Ubisoft game? Just point to the marker, walk, then hit R1 a few times, rinse repeat for 30 hours.
> Remote attestation is the true enemy of your freedom.

Technology is a tool. What is true however is that under the current way how the economy is structured remote attestation weakens freedoms of individuals mostly.

If Facebook was under remote attestation that private information was only used in limited and specific ways and even the NSA can not get to them without breaking the remote attestation, that would be a good thing. If firmware was under remote attestation we would have to worry a lot less about backdoors and the Diesel scandal would have never happened.
The interface is better than I remember - previously there were little vertical menus for picking the emojis, so only a few were visible at a time.

Edit: I'm remembering a different site with a similar concept: https://tikolu.net/emojimix/

And as someone else commented, there's also https://emojikitchen.dev/
Oh, modern democracies solved this nasty problem of voters possibly making the wrong choice by simply providing only the right choices to chose from: you get two slightly different brands of shit whose policies mostly coincide, enjoy your right to vote.
I previously worked with a young woman who would hop jobs every 2-3y. She told me that the first thing she’d do after being at a job for 90 days is put in for her old job and see how much they’d pay to have her back.

Now, when she left us, I can assuredly say that she wouldn’t have gotten an offer to return because of pseudo-regulatory reasons and red tape, but the sheer hustle-mindedness struck me as impressive.

I’m sure she makes much more than I do now, and I clear a quarter mil doing 1099 work and have several decades of experience to sell.

In todays world and particularly in America, the game is entirely rigged for those who have money. In that regard I find it disingenuous to fault those who pursue the money therefore, being the only true security in this country.
Why do you say “performance claims are quite exaggerated”? Is that because the app is laggy or something?
For the core alone, sure, but don't you have to run them off static ram or something (that is, not slow DRAM) to get anywhere near those speeds in practice?
I wonder what the net effect is on worker wages in our economy as a whole given the seemingly large portion of workers that take this stance?

You are essentially relinquishing all negotiating power to the share holders of the company who are more than happy to pocket the salary that you are leaving on the table by giving them an uncompetitive monopoly on your labor.

Another poster in here bragging about giving his employer a 50% discount on his labor. Why would I give the shareholders of the company a work for a huge coupon on my life? That is just crazy to me.
Most people do. I think the percentage of people living in a detached home with a yard in the US is around 60%.
I wish they'd include power usage in their benchmark, it's something that's becoming very important when building a PC, it influenced my GPU choice for example
We test an electric Mercedes that can go 747 miles on a single charge
Your comment made me curious if/how Google uses incognito data. For example, if I search for a gift for my wife in an incognito window, will I see ads for this product category in regular Chrome?

BTW, interesting word choice: from Latin incognitus "unknown, not investigated."

https://www.etymonline.com/word/incognito
> StepN, a move-to-earn app reportedly made $120M in profit in its first year of operation

Not bad. But nothing compared to the $1T in threeseed dollars I earned last year.
> It is quite a difference from depositing your money in a regular bank that gets involved in all sort of complex and risky financial operations to earn more.

It isn't different at all. That's what FDIC is for.

He should've tried saying something about checking account fees.
Yes, campaigns use the emotions and biases of people to push whatever political agenda they set out to push. That's the way it is, even though I don't like it.

Yes, banning guns would reduce gun deaths. However, the problem is not gun death here, it's violent death: suicides & murders mostly. It's not clear to me that banning guns would reduce those deaths. People can use ropes, clubs, and knives instead. And while mass shootings would no longer happen, we need to remember that they only represent about 0.1% of all gun deaths. They almost don't matter in the grand scheme of things.

Finally there are two little snags: first, can we even ban guns for real? Black markets are a thing. Second, taking guns away from people could be a risky business if not handled with extreme care, especially in the US where second amendment advocacy resonates with so many people.
> Around NIS 5 billion have already been collected in fines since the restrictions were voted into law. In 2022 alone, around 6,000 audits have been conducted so far, with 2,189 law-breakers identified, representing a sum of NIS 35 million in illicit transactions.

That figure of NIS 5 billion, or US $1.45 billion[1], must be error because it suggests they are fining people $95K when caught doing a $5K cash transaction[2]. It seems very extreme, enough to bankrupt many people and businesses; it can't be right.

[1] The exchange rate for the NIS (New Israeli Shekel) to US dollars is about NIS 3.44 = US $1.00.

[2] Extrapolating backwards, if 2,189 law-breakers did NIS 35 million in illicit transactions so far this year, then in the last 3.5 years since the law came into effect, 15,323 law-breakers did NIS 245 million in illicit transactions, for an average transaction size of NIS 15,989 or US $4,647. So each law-breaker received an average fine of NIS 326,306 (NIS 5 billion divided by 15,323), or US $94,856, which is 20 times greater that the illicit transaction itself.
> That makes no sense

To you maybe. But it does to me, and apparently also to a16z :)

> You're never going to see a huge amount of traffic on it.

And I don't need lots of traffic!

If we talk about say the TPMS information for 4 tires once per hour, that's not a lot of bytes.

The value is in being able to send 24/7 with a very wide coverage, and no per-network setup (like asking for Wifi passwords- I pay for LTE just to avoid the hassle)
I'm not a big user of emoji outside of Slack reactions, but I do enjoy that many emoji have become euphemistic of things like sex, drugs and tragedy, e.g. the syringe, the aubergine, the herb leaf etc.
Well if replacing the entire global jet fuel system requires more than a handful of factories, then I'm out. We'll carry on with the more than 12,000 multi-storey floating oil platforms that currently exist today that drill into the seabed instead.

Having said that, just tax the externalities, and use the money to replace fossil fuels where a) it's barely an inconvenience or an actual improvement and b) it actually saves money, and lives, like EVs, and heat pumps.

Carbon is fungible, the relentless focus on the hard to decorbanize sectors is just misdirection, by the time they are the only sources of fossil carbon left, they'll be simple to fix with the abundance of cheap renewable energy we've built and the money we've saved as a result.
I sure hope not. We know that the future of Star Trek only becomes possible after our current society totally collapses, culminating in World War III. TBF, razing everything to the ground and rebuilding society with modern tech in mind is probably a lot faster and more efficient, but I still wouldn't want to live in the "transition" phase.
... which is why companies get away with punishing loyalty.
What you're describing is a made up fiat currency with the same name, not actual Bitcoin. Bitcoin isn't real unless it exists according to the Bitcoin blockchain.

A bank can't create Bitcoin anymore than I can create dollars. I can create something that I say is dollars, but when I try to use it as dollars no one will accept it.
The true parasite knows how to kick their victim out and take over the venture at just the right time.