skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking as a game dev, I think you can learn it, but it takes time. I was interested since a kid to make games. And as a teenager programmed some for the web, and trying to learn C++ reading Quake2 source or whatever I could find, also bought some game dev books. Not much came out of it I thought. At around twenty, there were enough tutorials in Macromedia tools to sort of guide me toward something.
Then I struck luck getting into game programming at a tech institute. Finally I could make something, it took more than a decade to get simple games on the screen for me. But I get easily distracted, procrastinate and lack enough IQ. Those books and formulas were hard for a mediocre teenager.

Parallel to all this I was interested in music too. Fooling around in ReBirth and Fruity Loops. Many years later got a guitar and tried to learn that, you get a lot of music theory from that. That theory is much easier than programming, still takes a lot of time.

Drawing I'm not really good at, but got an eye for what looks decent and can play with colors. On a computer it can almost be like cheating because you can be "inspired" by others. But books and tutorials on art exists too of course, how far that rabbit hole do you want to go? And 3D is a bit of a mix between tech and art, you could draw a cute character on paper front and side with a pencil. And when you model, texture, rig and animate that; it can be really impressive.

What I am trying to say, it looks like genius but it is a lot of work over a period. But it is creative/craft work, and not boring. And you can learn the basics of all the areas and make something great. When making apps, all those areas of you are unused. No music, no art. At best some graphic design (UI).

If you want to really put it in a compressed environment where it is not (?) overwhelming, but still technical, try C64 programming. There are lots of resources and step-by-step guides, and you will get a taste of everything and can build from there.
We are many that have the desire to make our own games. Some are indeed geniuses, or very strong in multiple areas. Others just stumbled across Unity and are going through whatever guides there are with desire. These days you can choose your difficulty and dedication level.

For simpler games, getting your game to run on desktop, iOS and Android is not that hard. Because most platform code will be some glue, and then you are off inside your own game code. It takes weeks/months to figure that out, but then you are done and carry it with you for every game in the future. Then when you put it all together plus the uniqueness of your game (because it is unique right?!), you get a great and interesting blog post like this one!
I wonder if there's a PDF reader that can render to sixel graphics - mlterm-wscons can display sixels.
It wasn't fake news. It had the opposite intent of fake news. It was designed to get people who wouldn't immediately know it was fake to think for once, a challenging task these days. Nobody who matters, or who cares the slightest bit about astronomy, thought that was a star (Proxima Centauri) or even a planet (compare the recent JWST image of Jupiter). It looks nothing like any other astronomical object other than being round (but oddly dimpled) and reddish. Butchery does not recapitulate astronomy.

Outrage is from Karens who wanted something new to be outraged about.
Who said anything about bureaucrats?
There's a Japanese term for that; tsundoku.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku
I wish that I had bought a four unit multi-family for my first home. Let someone else pay the mortgage and put money in my pocket and only bought a single family home after I had meaningful equity in that investment property. Banking on the appreciation of your own home feels wasteful as you'd have to put yourself in more debt or give up your home to use that equity.
There is also VTOL VR which is a flight sim/game that uses the VR controllers and put all controls in the VR space so no need to have an HOTAS lying around.

For other sims I have to set up the HOTAS on my desk which leads to a little bit of shuffling around.
"On some browsers, like Chrome, using Speech Recognition on a web page involves a server-based recognition engine. Your audio is sent to a web service for recognition processing, so it won't work offline."

It's only about sending the speech to a server, anyway.
Introduction to Geothermal Energy
I do generally get annoyed at poorly edited articles, but I didn't notice it - examples?
Pulling @drey08's message up to parent-level:

"drey08 38 minutes ago | unvote | parent | next [–]

This is about commit comments, not commit messages."
How would you apply that observation to Wikipedia? That's the business model we're aiming to take - crowdsourced, crowdfunded, non-profit, and community governed.

And the reason for that is precisely because of the mis-aligned incentives in both the pay to access and pay to publish models.

The filtering here would be accomplished by the tagging system and the voting system.
Trying to have a regular sleep schedule isn't enough, I find. Routine is so important that this needs to be more of a priority.

If you can get your routine down well enough, your body will get into a natural rhythm.

I haven't even used an alarm clock in I don't know how many years. Now that I have a routine my body just knows when to wake up and when to sleep.

Honarable mentions: Audiobooks, Sleep Masks / Blackout Curtains
The Nixpkgs packaging guide describes how to use the Nixpkgs packaging tools in the context of contributing to Nixpkgs, where to populate the package set with your custom packages, you add them on a top-level attribute in pkgs/top-level/default.nix.

But a lot of users want to leverage Nixpkgs while instead (or simply first) adding their custom packages to an overlay or a company repo of Nix packages.
Getting past the second law of thermodynamics would be quite a feat.
Or make a model without cameras.
Many Indian subpopulations have been oppressed for multiple times longer than the United States even existed, yet don't have the same problems. Why do you have such low expectations for a population with 5x the murder rate?
I'm a Canadian, not an American, not questioning your arguments but instead asking for the information because I don't know.

How does NY state enforce their regulation on a company that isn't an entity in that state? If the company is not physically there with an office and has no registered entity there why do they have to comply to anything when they hire someone from that state? Would the employment contract not have a section saying that the contract will be governed by the state of the company entity located in X state (Non-NY)?
I live in a French speaking place and I wager vast majority knows these terms (am millennial) and a lot even use them here and there, in their English forms. Tho of course not all and there are "deeper" slangs that are more for people online enough to share some web culture.

IMO, Internet slang is accurate as it transcends geography while there is some locality to slangs and vernacular.
Depends how long their tail is, I guess.
"Novel" is relative.

However, this concept dates back at least to the 1980s with Marvin Minsky's "The Society of the Mind":

https://www.amazon.com/Society-Mind-Marvin-Minsky/dp/0671657...
> In a world where your online clout is everything…

It’s a long arc, but I think we are bending away from this.

It’s harder than ever to convincingly be a competitive content creator.

Going from largely Insta photos -> tiktok forced non-linear video editing / performance on fast trend cycles.
This is a weird niche feature that I'm guessing 99% of GitHub users have never seen

Certainly almost every comment on hacker news hasn't understood the change

You can make comments directly on commit objects in GitHub, almost nobody ever does this. You used to see these comments appear PRs (but couldn't reply or resolve them) but now you don't. Nothing has changed with actual PR comments, or code comments, or anything that most people actually use
I can't speak for everybody, but since the light green and the white are so close, I have to rely on shapes for those two instead. And then my dumb brain refuses to accept that squares and diamonds are different, lol. Maybe we could get either triangles or circles as one of those colors? Otherwise it's totally color-friendly!
Ah, I’m sorry.
Bad installations make for ugly looks and can ruin the value of the entire neighborhood (who wants to live next to the guy with the odd-shaped panels on his roof?).
Agree, after years and years of being inundated with self-help messages, platitudes, and coming-of-age teachings, I find most of it comes from a good place — however the messages are so context specific that it probably doesn’t apply to you in your current juncture in life right now.

I find what is crucial when it comes to taking advice, is figuring out when advice makes sense to you — and try to synthesize it as food for thought within your world view (or not).
And do you think the most oppressed had the chance to immigrate to America?
Relatively similar to https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/same... and a dozen such puzzle games from long before it.
Tautline hitch. Puts tension on a line without slipping back.
The guy can work through NL-based contracting company, which will sell his services to mother company in the US, in exchange for a modest fee (say 10% of the income). It's done all the time when companies are affraid of local labor laws - they outsource that risk and hassle for the 10% extra.
someone should write a book about Indian hand and head gestures.
GNU make is great for many things, used correctly. The problem is that POSIX make is extremely impoverished, so sticking to just the POSIX subset is often a bad idea. In many cases using "make" should really mean using "GNU make" so you can use conditionals, automated dependendency generation (via reloads of dependency info), etc.
What a brilliant, yet simple, yet brilliant idea!

Observation: Online cron jobs are not unlike online containerized web services (both involve running code) -- the difference is in the invocation event -- online web services are typically invoked in response to an HTTP (or other protocol) request, online cron jobs are invoked in response to a timer event, that is, in response to a specific, pre-scheduled, time.

So we have both request-based and pre-scheduled time-slot based -- invocation methods...

In theory there could be online code invocation -- based on a series of user-defined events and/or conditions... sort of like "if the time is X" and "the temperature in Siam is 52 degrees" and "Our shipping partner in the far east has just shipped 50,000 widgets" -- then send them an email... or invoke some code which does something like that...

Or perhaps, a connected web search just returned a new web page containing specific search terms -- now run some code to process that page in some way, and return the results formatted to some format...

The possibilities are endless...

Observation: There's not just code that lives online -- but there are all sorts of conditions, other than http requests and pre-scheduled time slots -- that could cause code to be invoked, for one reason or another...

Perhaps there's a future business for creating a control panel for users to invoke their online code -- in response to different types of events/sets of conditions -- occuring in the real and/or digital world...

Anyway, once again, great idea for online cron jobs -- and I wish you all of the success in the world with your business!
> I personally digested these and came to the conclusion that we are on the cusp of human like AI, but we just haven't lowered our expectations for human like consciousness enough to realize it.

Ah, that's my take as well! The one thing AI is missing, IMO, is the ability to train over its own output and model itself as a single simplified self, which would then act as a guide signal to get all these diverse micro-selves "on the same page."

Ie. self-consciousness.
CPAP
That's so helpful, thank you. I wonder if anyone would notice or care if I swapped the triangle for the square or diamond...
Yes, functionally those characters are single-tone and will change color in a word processor.

Emoji are full-color and can't have their color changed in a word processor in the same way.

Also, in practice those characters' appearances are tied to the font you've selected, while emoji's appearances are usually tied to the OS you're using (although sometimes the specific app -- e.g. Gmail in the browser on a Mac uses Android-style emoji rather than Mac-style emoji).
This is quite fair, and I suspect where I diverge is I don't think bullshit is as intrinsically harmful to a discipline as a practitioner who stakes their entire career and reputation on every word, because as we have seen in every other boom, it is only from shit that anything can grow. The systems evolved for punishing failure in academia have created a pathological risk aversion that may be hamstringing our species. If we do get a layer of bullshit, we also get more minds mining it for nuggets of gold and nourishment.

I don't think either of us are right or wrong on this, and I think the difference is in a respective orientation to risk. Finding a way to add more risk taking to academia is the general problem that I think I am advocating indulging some bullshit in support of, so it's only one of many possible solutions.
There's an interesting approach to "consciousness", as what you are aware of, consciously. i.e. attention management. Animals are conscious of their environment in this way. But because humans also have a lot of models going on internally, the mechanism adapts to that (perhaps higher mammals too; I don't recall). This fits nicely with your experience and the submission.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31373806

I wonder if our "conscious reasoning" is really just attending to a column that does that? Certainly, formal reasoning is a skill that is learnt and practiced - perhaps not so different from a manual skill. We can also suppose pattern-matching on this, to get intuition and hunches. All old ideas, but perhaps neuroanatomy is advancing sufficiently to test them?

Also: Minsky's Society of Mind
i have question, Why?
This thing, for example: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3121
Or the issues surrounding submodules.
Use a piece of light-tack masking tape. Problem solved.

I recommend "washi tape" if you can find it.

Pro tip: fold one end of the tape over onto itself to stick together, you now have a pull-tab to easily remove the tape it if you need to make a video call.
The fake musician thing mentioned in the article is also used to get verified accounts in Twitter, Facebook and Instagram as well.
Very often. I don't trust Google-FB-MS to be my main identity provider - and a lot of stuff don't support OAUTH anyway - so my solution is to use Fastmail + 1Password with their masked mail integration (it generates 1 random email for each login).

According to 1Password I currently have 253 different logins.
Curcumin
Or even more, can’t use them to advance their own agenda a la “Elon musk thinks pronouns are exhausting too!”
> Plus, a coworker pointed out that while its supposed to be pure and functional, many recipes still basically wrap a shell script. So its not that far from the build system we already have...

The shell scripts' effects get frozen in the Nix store, though, and can't be touched after build time. So it's a bit like using a loop in the implementation of an interface that that returns an immutable value in a language like Scala or something.
What if Satoshi is actually a three letter US org? what if it's a secret Chinese experiment? why do we just assume Satoshi is a single human male west coast American person with WASP ethnicity.
Oh I had no idea, I knew IE was installable on Mac for a while but didn't know it came packaged.
I got part way through Digital Vegan, but admittedly haven’t finished it yet.

It’s been a few weeks since I had to put it down for another book, but here is my main takeaway (so far) - it’s all true, but in my opinion it comes across with very strong views and some extreme options as something to hand non-technical friends. It’s also relatively expensive to obtain in the US.

But thank you for your contribution to the discussion on this topic. I think you’re probably closer to where we should end up, but I don’t see a path to get there.
IMDB originated in Bristol in the UK. It was, so I’m told, started by an ex-HP staffer from the HP site in Bristol, UK and originally written in Perl.

Unfortunately, it was absorbed into Amazon.

Source: ex-HP staffer in Bristol.
Recently someone has been trying to build a Nix package of an open source game I maintain, so I had a brief look at the project.

It does appear to be an experiment in package management that got out of hand.
Basic usability is lacking, as I was unable to even get a listing of available packages on a NixOS virtual machine due to nix-env requiring well over 1GB of RAM. This flagrant waste of resources doesn't inspire confidence in the quality of the tools.

I'd rather see existing packaging data leveraged rather than adding a new language to the mix. Something like a translator or interpreter for RPM .spec files, for example.
This is what I believe. I wrote a book about it. A year of depression suddenly went away when I started to embrace my purpose further.
Cool. I mostly wanted confirmation that it’s better and not just a good substitute for disabled folks, RSI, etc.

I’ll check it out. Does it mesh well with other VSCode functionality? I’m just wondering if you can use it in tandem with a normal keyboard.
Thanks Stephane,

We use this app on all of our devices for helping the kids (and ourselves) to sleep. My only concern is that they will grow up dependent on it!
Hmm

That seems a valid and desired behaviour.

If I want to exit app, I press home button.

But if I want to go back one step... I press back button. It takes me back one step. It's like the Go-mode of undo :-). Previous page or form in a browser, back several layers of menu in app or game. I may be writing an email then press back to go back to main mail screen. Etc

Basically for me, Android back button does exactly what I want it to do, in OS, games, programs and Web, zero sarcasm. And home button to "take me to where I was before I entered the app".

The back and share pipeline of Android are like it's super powers as far as I'm concerned (and I say this as somebody forced to use iPhone for work last 4 years, so get to experience both daily)
I agree it's confusing. If longevity is a goal then moderation and balance in all things is key. I think there's also decent evidence for keeping your body on the "lean" side of "healthy weight" per the age-adjusted BMI charts through moderate caloric restriction. The evidence is growing for the near-term health benefits of minimizing consumption of processed foods. Primarily all the stuff in bags and boxes that can sit on store shelves for weeks and months and not spoil.

I've also learned to not place much value on "organic" labels. It's expensive and hard to do correctly and not universally better even when it is done correctly. The external verification requirements are almost entirely based on remotely filed "self-reports" with inspections.
So it’s just “form” and “function,” which are types of quality the English-speaking world has also been concerned with for quite some time.
> Consider finding an academic niche in which to really make this product sing; a community that is receptive to the idea. If the PoC can be shown to work in one community, neighboring fields can then point at it and say, "see, this thing is working over in community X. Journal Y is going to take three months to get this reviewed, and this paper is kind of a throwaway -- let's try X and see how it goes."

> arXiv started in a narrow niche that absolutely needed it, perhaps the same will happen here.

That's very similar to my thinking - I'm actually hoping to start with the file drawer problem. When we're ready for open beta, put out a call for file drawered papers. It's also been suggested that we start as pre-print, while being clear about the ultimate intentions to become a journal, and go from there. Maybe even reach out to the existing pre-print servers to partner with them in some way.

> Long-term, I'm not sure how this system will pay for itself. Keep costs low and dig in for the long haul. Academia can have very low switching costs (a professor can try your service on a whim), but has enough inertia that it can take decades to turn the ship (deans need to know a prospective hire's impact factor in top-tier journals).

Noted. The thought is that it could be funded through donations, grants, and eventually by the institutions if it gains enough traction. But yeah, it's becoming clear that grants at the beginning may be the only way. We'll see how much we get in terms of donations once we hit open beta.

> Also, as a referee -- pay referees what their time is worth. For real. You'll get real good referees if you do.

...well... the idea is actually to crowd source refereeing and review. And for people to do it because, well, it needs done. Everyone wants good reviews and everyone knows refereeing needs done, so we ask everyone to share the job equally and try to make it as easy and low friction as possible.

The pre-publish review system is purely editorial review, aimed at helping authors prepare for publishing. The refereeing system is post-publish, it happens through the voting.
This seems obvious or given the strange behavior of people with their corpus callosum severed. Why should it stop there at two?
> perfect west coast American accent

Aim for something more neutral, like what you hear from national newscasters. No one will think about a neutral accent, but if you start saying "hella" and "stoked," it might be cringy. Or you say "The 101 was hella slow today," and every native Californian will know what's up.
HOA fees for detached homes and condos are not comparable. Condo owners are paying for building maintenance in the HOA fees, while detached home owners are only paying for common area amenities.
Also marketing here includes substantive work like coordinated documentation efforts. It doesn't just mean 'evangelism'!
You could always structure it like http://duuber.com/ If it works for drug dealers, perhaps it can work for electricity? :)
Immersed vr is a good app, but quest 2 can be unbearable after 15 ~ 20 mins in a seated sedintary position.
For me, covering my work computer’s camera isn’t out of concern for malware

Some software like Zoom has invasive defaults, where a meeting host may choose to force cameras on for participants when they join a meeting. I don’t trust software to respect me, so the tape makes sure turning my camera on or off is always my decision.
Water forms colloidal type complexes. You add a surfactant and those colloids lose ionic clustering.

If there's anything water "remembers" it exists in some other universe
Appreciate the site, but I don’t see the point of including their revenue. On the contrary, lower revenue would make me want to choose the higher revenue option - being able to make money is a sign of competence after all.

Team size and age of the startup are better metrics imo.
Yeah, that may be. But it seems worth trying given all the negative impacts of the status quo.
In addition their M-x psychoanalyze-zippy energy, these kind of remind me of the creepypasta-fodder PlayStation game LSD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol4OSIGGukA

Is the fire god going to tell me to write a book report on Call of the Wild? ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXVdTT1Sis0&t=6m42s )