skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article almost entirely focuses on content variation, but I think far more important is game system complexity and inter-complexity. The ultimate problem stopping replay (assuming you like the game systems in the first place) is the realization that you’ve “solved it” — you understand the various inputs and outputs of any action or mechanism and can trivially predict the results.

This usually occurs because the game systems themselves are trivial (often a set of independent features stuffed behind the same UI, but A has no influence on B), because one or a few of the systems are overwhelmingly influential (e.g. melee mechanics don’t matter if guns are trivially superior for all scenarios), or because the game itself doesn’t incentivize the player to actually exploit those systems to any real degree (e.g. the game is too easy or the levels don’t introduce enough new constraints, so the first solution found applies globally; often fixed by player-induced artificial challenges like no X runs).

Multiplayer however cheats this because even trivial systems can become a huge exploration space when incentivized by direct competition (analysis and understanding is pushed to the limit; e.g. sm64 requires a certain level of understanding to play effectively, but speed runners and TAS take that understanding to the nth degree) and the players themselves bring metagaming as an additional system worth exploring (eg any competitive multiplayer)

It’s also confounded by multiplayer games that are less “played” and more used as a social space — replacing the shopping mall — like many mmo’s, Minecraft, etc. You’re not replaying so much as visiting and killing time between social interactions (so even highly repetitive actions often suffice).

The content variation is largely necessary to give reason and space to explore the game systems under novel constraints.
> Honest question: wouldn't tipping be a major problem for half-width cars? And the amount of space needed between cars wouldn't go down much, so if you need at least 4 feet of clearance on either side, and your lane is 5 feet wide, your cars can only be 1 foot wide. This explains why most vehicles thinner than a car are motorcycles or electric scooters.

Probably would be a problem. I don't know that the author was thinking "a car that is half the width of a normal car" as "a vehicle that takes up substantially less space". Perhaps we'll all be riding around in Go-Karts, who knows? :)
No one ever talks about the opportunity cost of building up a "luck surface". What is the expected value of doing so? What do you have to sacrifice to do so? Is there any evidence the EV is positive, or is this just another selection bias?
So who can replicate the path? The lucky ones?
Great to see something that's turnkey here! For those who need "unlimited power" to build structured data from Slack, I'm a big fan of Skyvia's Slack connector https://docs.skyvia.com/connectors/cloud-sources/slack_conne... which can maintain a synchronized copy of a Slack workspace in any SQL database you give it write access to. It's not cheap, but works quite well, and then your content can be sliced however you need it to be, and insights built into your internal tools.
> If you build low-height bridges because at the time it was the economical thing to do

When I talk about "racist bridges", I'm talking about the well known case of Robert Moses. Most people who have studied the ethics of engineering should be familiar with him.
Having gone through a lot of top posts in this thread, it's kind of disappointing how relatively boring these predictions for the future are. That's a sign were in a great wave of pessimism of what the future will bring. That pessimism may well be justified, but there's also an underlying 'hopelessness' emanating from the suggested unambitious 'next big thing'. Otoh, there's no shortage of CGI moonshot projects that feel like scams, so they fail to offset the depressing feeling.
You don't need to be a UK tax resident to have a Monzo account. I have UK citizenship, but am not a resident or tax resident
Good question, it's similar indeed but in our experience Appetize is significantly slower.
We are also going to focus on collaboration between team members as opposed to testing and training.
While the latter was a clear inspiration, the AK operating mechanism is very different from the Stg 44 I believe you are referencing. There are plenty of disassembly videos on YouTube you can check to see differences. They’re no more similar than is say the AR15. On the other hand Kalashnikov worked with other soviet weapons designers and some features of the AK are clearly borrowed from some of their designs. There are plenty of records, schematics and eye witness accounts of the weapons development and military trials at various stages, and no Germans were involved.
Shoe on head?
Hi Paul.

Thanks for taking the time to write about your game.
Since gravity plays such an important role in the game,
it would be great to see a gif/video of how it works.

It's a bit difficult to grasp from the screenshots.
In some ways, this is the curse of early adoption. It's often the case with emerging technology that the use-cases for it start off as slightly more efficient ways of doing things. It can be hard to see past those use cases, especially when you work in a different field.

Said professor probably saw the internet has more of a fancy distributed library system. Without working with the underlying technology, it can be hard to see how something will flesh out.

Early iterations of tech often sucks. It's easy to dismiss technology that barely works as unlikely to overcome the major hurdles it is encountering. Think: self-driving cars.
Go with .com or bust.

- The big well known gTLDs are price-regulated, and hence are affordable. New gTLDs are not, and are often three to five times the annual cost.

- .xyz is a great example: Most people do not view sites on new gTLDs are reputable or legitimate, and many organizations will block them as a default.

If you're doing some niche personal crud, go nuts. .social is great for Mastodon instances, and you probably don't really care if organizations don't find them reputable. If you're running a business, go with a .com though.
Politico and The Hill are focused on Washington-relevant gossip. Axios is general news coverage in bullet points and not just for policy wonks. They also had high profile live interviews.
Can you elaborate on what newer tech would make older homes worth less?
I think they have a blanket no celebrities or real living people policy for their engine. I think that’s fine since they don’t want to be called out for helping produce defamatory content.

They just want to avoid bad PR. That’s sound safe.
My goal is that we can actually run it, but that would still only be useful for the following things:

- Testing the spec itself
- Ensuring that a more production-grade interpreter like Miri has the same semantics as the spec it claims to implement

It's not intended that unsafe Rust authors would ever run the MiniRust interpreter; if they want something like that, they should run Miri instead. They might still read the MiniRust interpreter sources to figure out what the heck Miri is doing.
Drugs, weapons, people are all moved using cash.

Obviously, the higher echelons of the yakuza have businesses setup that will provide them with whatever they need.

The ones who are really excluded are the local, small gangs, that are hired by the big bosses to run jobs. The big bosses won't provide street thugs with their own SIM cards.
Firefox Loses Users and Websites
is there a public format for Code or Keysigning Servers? Like SCEP/EST, but for other stuff?
Yes, this is linked in the introduction. Great reads.
Harbor freight does indeed sell both: https://www.harborfreight.com/120v-spot-welder-61205.html

Most AK home builders use HF spot welders, or the somehow even cheaper Amazon clones.
Mark Zuckerberg custom Little League baseball card is getting turned into an NFT
I can't disagree with your take. Eventually (hopefully) there will be someone that doesn't sell out. Achieving Level 4/5 in corn/maize fields will be easier than Level 4/5 FSD in cars. My own theory is Deere knows/thinks it can't sell 200-600K tractors when a smaller, more lightweight unit can do the same so it is actively swallowing up competitors to protect its moat.
Point taken, but IMO it is beneficial to split tests correctly into unit tests vs integration tests, so the ability to be able to mock the call or switch to a test db is highly desirable. Of all of the projects I've worked on over the last five years, there was some external impetus to change db's at least once.
Yeah, the article doesn't make it at all clear what the point of this project might be. I gathered by the end that the idea is to rip out the guts of an Ikea speaker, add some binding posts and a custom case, and come away with a hacked-up, 1-channel replacement for the Sonos Amp.

Tell you what scares me though: I don't like seeing that they doubled the amount of DRAM in the new one. Hopefully they did that only because it was becoming impossible to source the 256MB module. I hate to see it because if they allow themselves to use it, eventually there will be a software release that doesn't work on the older 256MB model, and they'll deprecate it.
Viewing the phrase in isolation, this response is logically correct, but it's more interesting to view this in the context of the rest of the author's arguments.

If you're consistent with physical exercise by resisting when you feel like skipping a workout, you'll have more strength, endurance, and freedom of movement when you become much older. And if you're consistent with improving at your career skills, you'll have more career opportunities in the future. Therefore, even if you may seem less free by avoiding unhealthy food or watching too much television, you're setting yourself up for more opportunities in the long-term.

I personally do agree that you can be disciplined toward the wrong goals, though I also think it's more interesting to consider Willink's arguments as a whole, instead of focusing on a phrase in isolation.
National Security Agency Posters
yet another traffic(monad) tutorial
Philadelphia is an interesting choice of example. I've seen charging cords going out windows to cars from time to time, facilitated by the popularity of the rowhouse. (IMHO even in south philly, you can usually snag a spot in front of your house several times per week if you care enough to try-- if you only drive enough to charge once or twice a week this is already enough)

Obviously not an ideal solution but a good example of the kind of stop gaps we'll be seeing over time.

I'm also already seeing rapid chargers frequently in strip malls and stuff. So maybe doing errands and spending at least an hour there once a week will be another stop gap.

Considering how often streets get repaved and that we're talking about gradual change over the next decade or two, and that there are inferior but workable stopgaps as mentioned above (that will allow people to get by, yet also incentivize them to loudly demand better) I think there's time to add the charging stations necessary as needed without any serious issues.
The whole point of a mixer is that you want to go from psuedononymous wallet to something that can be exchanged for fiat without conflating your identity with the crime. Presumably everyone putting the money in the mixer hasn’t linked their identity to their wallet.
Bootcamp grads, how long did it take you to get that first job?
That works for many kinds of tasks, but not those that involve other people. For example, if you have to call someone it's not compelling to say "if I don't like talking to this person I'll just hang up after 5 minutes".
this feels like a job for lemur and smallstep

https://smallstep.com/docs/step-ca

https://github.com/Netflix/lemur
Spot welding is universal in sheet metal construction. A typical car is a stamped sheet metal frame held together with hundreds of spot welds.
So it's a centralized service giving access to a decentralized storage, for convenience. Ok.
Meme written in 2013(?), set in 2018, playing Halo 2k19: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/632877-halo-4/66477630 meme branch of https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/doritos-mountain-dew
> cannot be a corroboration of anything

According to my Webster's, the mere strengthening of an argument counts as corroboration. Jaynes cites research in neurology & surgery--such as the wada test & commissurotomy--as possible biological explanations for what he perceived in ancient literature. I think that counts as a strengthening of his argument (as well as Steiner's).

> Aside from key words of ego and consciousness, why do you think it relates to Jaynes? Steiner seems to take the spiritual seriously, at least in this paragraph, but to Jaynes religion and spirituality were an hallucination..

To-may-toe, To-mah-toe. Jaynes & Steiner are explaining the same situation (i.e. lack or diminution of the "inner voice" ("the ego had no knowledge of itself"), direction coming externally rather than from within ("it was all the closer to those spiritual beings who worked on our bodily vehicles and were related to the human ego, but of incomparably greater perfection"). That Jaynes attributes it to a lesser-integration of the hemispheres, while Steiner attributes it to different stages of development in the physical/etheric/astral bodies, is a minor detail compared to the world-shaking idea that human consciousness may have been remarkably different just a few thousand years ago.

Steiner: "man had not yet acquired ego-consciousness, for he was embedded in spiritual life itself" and "his clairvoyance was dreamlike and he beheld the spiritual world as though in a dream"

Jaynes: "Volition, planning, initiative is organized with no consciousness whatever and then 'told' to the individual in his familiar language, sometimes with the visual aura of a familiar friend or authority figure or 'god', or sometimes as a voice alone. The individual obeyed these hallucinated voices because he could not 'see' what to do by himself."

Different terminologies describing the same situation. We have a Yale psychology professor digging up biological explanations for a theory that originates in 60+ year old crypto-masonic hoo-doo (the + since a lot of what Steiner wrote is a riff on what Blavatsky wrote in 1888, which was probably just soft disclosure of anglo-american masonic ideas going back who knows how many years?). And I am not knocking Jaynes or Steiner or crypto-masonic hoo-doo, because it's all interesting, but it is also very suspicious.
This just sounds like you don't like TF, and no matter how well executed this tool would be, you'd always criticize it for using TF.

I wouldn't really call that feedback, just a luddite-esque bias on your part.

I'm pattern matching your "feedback" as "New thing scary, don't use!"
Ignoring your attempt at predictably headed ad hominem, you again cannot make your 'conclusion' from the study. They used a non-representative sample, removed the results of those who fully agreed with the consensus, and just generally did everything trying to massage their numbers into the conclusion they wanted to make.

Ironically, the numbers don't even support that if you do use the subscales. In all studies the overall effect from opposition was a fraction of a single point difference. In most studies opposition to the consensus in climate change was also predictive of a higher than average level of field-specific knowledge.
Why does The New York Times use anonymous sources?
>If you can figure out what type of shoes[1] someone owns or that they have kids/a dog based on all the toys lying around, there's plenty of ad/behavioral data for free basically.

If you could actually do something useful with it people would give you the info. Like if you could provide shoe recommendations useful to someone they'd take 20 minutes and take pictures of all the shoes they have. But the state of the art is basically "I see you have brown shoes. Here's 1,000 random brown shoes".
Thats the point I am making. The Yakuza doesn't follow the law, presumably they want to stay Anonymous, so why is getting new phones a problem? Just lie about your identity, get your phone, continue being the Yakuza but with more modern tech.
The fact that they don't like foreign people really works against them in many levels.
rcodesign can sign and notarize applications written in any language. From rcodesign's perspective, Rust is an implementation detail of the tool itself.
Seems you think everyone besides yourself is always the issue...maybe self reflect a bit
It's more than that. First, they will put Alexa on it, so you have it everywhere in your home.

Then, they will fill it with as many sensors as they can do give you extra information. It will protect your home against burglars, survey your kids, prevent your cat to scratch the sofa, etc.

And with the camera, microphone, lidar and so on, people will happily let the little bugger record their entire life.

This will create the most reliable database about consumers including their money, interests, brand loyalty, level of education, people they meet, life rhythm, etc. This alone will make a lot of money.

Eventually, it will play contextual ads, in your home.

And of course, each one is an entry point for the Amazon domotic ecosystem, giving even more of your life to Amazon.
Meta’s new AI chatbot exposes anti-semite, homophobic views
The comments here seem to forget that financing is ESSENTIAL to startups - even profitable ones.

As a reminder, 99% of the marketcap (value) of a startup is its growth, not its present size/revenue/etc. By mathematical definition, a startup cannot fund fast-enough growth on current profits and therefore requires financing and a lot of it.

You finance a startup with a mix of VC and debt. As the business becomes less speculative ($MMs in revenue) debt becomes more available, and is generally preferable to equity deals for a number of reasons including dilution, board control, etc.

Unclear to me if VC financing availability is disconnected from debt financing, as the blog author seems to imply: when the world tightens, I think it tightens.

source: 30 years of this nonsense spanning multiple booms and recessions.
i commented on some React-related post here and couple minutes later got an e-mail from levels.fyi advertising a React role

jokes on them, i have no experience with React
It sounds like part of this issue is that it loses tracking if it can't see both of your eyes, which of course could be defeated by using a couple of cameras spaced at 45° to one another and calibrated to work together in some way.

Instead of a "deep fake" face swap an attacker could send virtual video from a fully-virtual environment using something like an nvidia Metahuman controlled by the camera array. I think that would be pretty easily detectable today but maybe less so with an emulated bad webcam and low-res video link. The models/rigging are only going to improve in the future.

The classic "Put a shoe on your head" verification route would still defeat that, at least until someone invents a very good tool to allow those types of models to spawn and manipulate props.
Maybe $this is the piece of data that will finally make their product recommendations actually useful
So if a sanctioned address sends coins to a different address and that address trades for an nft the nft owner has violated sanctions? So now every time you exchange crypto you have to check if the other party is on a sanction list? What if you want to make a wallet illicit? Don’t you just need to mix some coins and send them to that wallet?
At least where I live, I can go to an official government website and see exactly what someone’s home is valued at and how much they pay in property taxes just by searching their name and address.
While probably not an ideal solution for the parent poster, who understandably wants to make things work with their existing Sonos gear, the A1392 is an outstanding value at this point because there are absolute truckloads of them on eBay for ~$20.

Assuming you're okay with AirPlay (which, admittedly, rules a lot of HN folks out) this is a $20-per-room device that gives you full lossless multiroom streaming including your choice of analog or optical out. Really great.
As I understand Airport Express models from the 2000s still work with AirPlay from modern Apple devices too

Can confirm. I stream from my iPhone to a 2012 Airport Express hooked up to the aux in of a Sony HD radio.
So what if it is true? Let’s take Apple’s flagship product the MacBook Pro @ $2500 USD. Now assuming a five year service that’s $500 a year, perfectly reasonable for a daily driver. What is that $1.35 per day. You want to benefit from this technology you’re going to need to compensate the people who design build and maintain it. They could easily charge an order of magnitude more to professionals.

I mean where did this fantasy come from that you’d benefit from hundreds of years of work for a couple thousand bucks? And that it would last forever and be maintained and updated by the manufacturer forevermore? What is this utopian dream you’ve dreamt up? Why don’t you take a pile of sand and a pool of oil and a lump of aluminum and go make your very own laptop? Oh right, you can’t do it without other people.
It has an upward facing camera, runs in the morning, and I definitely don’t wear undies with my bathrobe.

No idea what Amazon will do with the video feeds when they get their hands on this particular surveillance platform.

Apparently, all sorts of surveillance that I thought was illegal has been normalized by covid:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/04/cdt_school_surveillan...

In addiction to the stats in the register article, apparently principals of schools that use one of the surveillance platforms are routinely sent copies of sexts that minors sent from personal devices. (Can’t find the quote at the moment…).

Spyware on school chromebooks are snooping SMS on undisclosed models of phones if you use the chromebook USB port to charge the phone (even after school hours).
Frankly, of all the personally identifying data I share with my bank, a low resolution phone video of the side of my head is the least worrying. It's like worrying the government knows my mum's maiden name!

In the eventuality that robust deepfake technology to provide fluid real-time animation of my head from limited data sources exists and someone actually wants to use it against me, they can probably find video content involving the side of my head from some freely available social network anyway.
> I did a math course through the UK’s Open University and the text book taught trigonometry through explaining the unit circle. It made me so happy to finally understand

It also has a downside... The British Empire depended on robust trigonometrical education. In those days, you couldn't efficiently navigate the world's oceans without it and they needed a steady supply of ship's masters for the thousands of ships that made the empire work. Earth is the unit circle.
Serious bug in US Emergency Alert System could be abused to create mass panic
There are 4 news organizations saying the same thing. A lot of great reasons on here why they would be interested - robotics expertise, great business that has struggle recently, etc.

I think another big reason is putting it at the top of all searches within their app and website. They can sell more by doing that and get a return on investment very quickly.

If Chinese companies are collecting this data already, not sure why we would fear Amazon having it.
Depends on the type of cryptocurrency. Ethereum is an account number system. Bitcoin and Monero are TXIN/TXO systems.
Can't wait to have this in Kodi!
I was going to say contact them, but oops:

https://webdesignernews.com/contact
> if I can't get to the office in time by 8am then it means I am not free to do whatever I want off work.

Er, yes, that's exactly how it works? You can't take a vacation in the middle of the week and expect no reprimand. Thus the same should apply to oncall.