skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rentals aren’t badly priced at REI but there are unavoidable costs: liability, cleaning, storage, etc. which people were trying to avoid. The other limit is that they won’t have as large a selection so people who want pricier or niche gear won’t find it at the average rental shop.
There a lots of reasons a screw could be deformed from being removed other than being a cheap alloy.

They could have added lock-tite or other thread adhesive. The person removing the screw used the wrong size bit or did not apply pressure perpendicular to head when applying torque allowing it jump out of the screw head (drive angle is important!!!) Similar to a wrong size bit, screw driver bits do wear out. A worn out screw driver will act like a wrong sized bit, and this wear is likely to happen faster if the tool is cheap.
If they have 45 cops helping with NON-ticket based traffic safety I'm happy with that. The citations really should be reserved for when harm has been proven to have taken place, not just speed or anything else similarly minor.
I would scream if I ever saw a dude in a suit give some 70's looking NEET permission to base their company's entire IT platform on FreeBSD specifically. It'd be like switching all your office workstations from MacOS to Ubuntu or Linux Mint.
Expanding on this in a reply to my own comment.

Grinding Gear Games, as an example, is a NZ based game studio that releases a new expansion to their famous RPG - Path of Exile - every three months.

The game is not a simple program by any stretch - which might be a fair criticism for Papers Please by comparison since it is purely client-side and all possible states of the game can be fairly easily enumerated.

Path of Exile is a persistent cross-platform 3D online multiplayer game that has daunting requirements for consistency, latency, and graphical performance.

Despite that, each three month release cycle introduces more new UI elements and features than I think the entirety of Google apps release in the same timeframe. And that’s not because Google isn’t trying to build new things - they are and I’ve written UI for several of those projects.

Does anyone else feel a real sense of deflation when it comes to app/web development velocity compared to games?
GoG should refund you for that if you run into it in the future. I don't buy games that require accounts with 3rd parties or need some weird client installed. I eventually installed Steam, but that's it for me.

I'm not installing Galaxy either, and GoG has developed some dark patterns to try to push it on you (links to the actual installers keep getting buried deeper and deeper) but as long as they continue to let you download games without it I'm happy enough.
Is this expectations disconnect recent? Or is “quiet quitting” a PR campaign by certain economic cohorts? Work to live, don’t live to work.

https://youtu.be/F7SNEdjftno
I find this view very strange. If you apply the same logic to politics, the outcome is pretty grim. And we've been seeing more and more of that.

I don't like hype or hate that's devoid of nuance. But actual scientists working in these fields don't generally pay attention to these things as much as we might. They read the papers, and they have years of training to help them decide what is overhyped and what isn't. I'm not sure what happens on HN or in advertising channels has such a huge bearing on this.
All is hyperbole, since the ergonomics on a laptop are terrible, and there will always be a segment for which that's a showstopper, but it's already true for certain segments of the population. Especially among the less privileged where there may not even be a desktop computer available or only at school/library, mobile phones are increasingly where work is done. Writing essays and emails, and filling out important forms, may not be the most ergonomic, but it beats not being able to.

Look at devices with foldable screens and external keyboards like the Asus Zenbook 17. Without getting lost in arguing semantics of if an iPad (mini/pro/regular) sized tablet counts as a mobile telephone, it's clearly not a desktop, and it's easy enough to imagine that desktop computers will go the way of the mainframe.
I think that having a normal human lifespan encourages a person to accomplish and experience as much as they can within that timeframe. The limited nature of time is a big part of what makes it valuable, so it motivates people to find meaning.

I suppose if I looked at say, 85 or 90 years and thought “That’s not enough time for me to figure out what’s meaningful to me and realize it. I’ll need at least another five decades.” that would seem kind of morose to me.
Right now the European grid is operational and demand is being met. When winter arrive it is expected that multiple countries will have to start to shut down part of society in order to save the grid.

Thankfully the cooling issue won't hopefully exist during winter, and given how much political outcry will occur if the grid do collapse, France might actually step up and fix their reactors given enough political pressure.
Not only that but on IMDB people can post 'trivia' and 'goofs' about shows/movies and Amazon blindly pull it into their x-ray feature on prime video, and most of them are just flat out wrong and annoying.
Fastly

At least in 2017:

https://twitter.com/fastly/status/934495679849881601?s=21&t=...
> On a Meta note, what if we don't have general intelligence.

This is in fact more than likely. Depending on how one defines “general inteligence”.

There are problems which require superhuman reactions. (Think of plotting course to intercept a missile barage with multiple interceptors.) There are problems where our brains can’t fit the variables required. (Imagine a 5 dimensional Rubik’s cube with a billion segments along each edge for example.) There are very specific circumstances under which our inteligence can even function. (Imagine as simple a challenge as tying your shoelaces while exposed to the vacuum of space, or a room temp atmosphere of pure chlorine gas, or enchased in molten metal.)

Heck these supposed general inteligences can’t even reason themselves out from their own climate change experiment, or prevent viruses from harming their bodies.
Not so far, but the day might come when steam closes shop and then good luck getting your games to work
They probably Do road related routing for broken lights and construction areas
I've just recently heard from a guy from my 'hood who said there used to be fights between Polish & Lithuanian kids. This was totally news to me.

Btw, if anyone is able to do genealogical research in that area (as opposed to sitting on your computer using English from somewhere else) for money, pls get in touch with me. I'm looking for data for after WW I, not for the great waves of immigration.
> Apple's pro-privacy behaviour was their message, explicitly speaking. But ultimately the market received it as "anti-advertising".

I hear what you're saying — privacy protections impact anti-privacy business models, absolutely — but I'd argue that it's not "anti-advertising" in the sense that more digital advertising dollars are being spent to target iOS users in 2022 vs. 2021.

> And only after the Ad industry were furious.

It's ad networks' fiduciary duty to hate this. My response to them: Suck an egg.
It is a buying action. You are buying the right to play it for noncommercial purposes.
No, but you can't expect to read a recipe and suddenly make five-star dishes either. Familiarity, practice and technique are all part of the learning process, and they're things that tutorials can't help you with. You can hire as many music teachers as you want, but unless you sit there practicing your scales and arpeggios for days at a time to build familiarity with your instrument, you're not going to sound like Miles Davis.

Plenty of other people gave links to tutorials, and those are all fine. I wanted to emphasize that this is a skill that takes time, effort, a good amount of practice, and play to get comfortable with.

I think too many people are scared of learning a skill, and want tutorials to guide them through the process. There was a post a week ago about an app trying to teach people how to cook by asking them to find a picture of a "scrambled egg" in a line-up. Obviously useless, and that doesn't get people any closer to what actually needs to happen -- just pick up a pan and try. No, you won't get it right the first time. Nobody does. That's what the practice is for.

Start by actually starting.
It's more useful to fix the problem before it happens. Try to set up systems or workflows that make it easy to do the right thing, rather than trying to fix it afterwards.
1) They're literally still selling the game that will be completely turned off today for $20. They've been selling each and every one of these games far more recently than 9 years ago.

2) Really? 9-12 years is too long for you? I can still play the entire version of virtually every single game I bought prior to 2010. (Okay, that's a lie, I've lost a lot of the discs and keys. But if I hadn't I could.)
Which ones were they?
> Git has infinite flexibility in terms of the workflow that teams of people can adopt.

IMO flexibility is just a meaningless buzzword used to describe overly complicated and poorly designed products. If a product has crappy UX, they just call it “developer oriented” and “flexible”.

When I read about “flexibility” of a software product, I think that this product is of low quality. And that I will have to spend some time to make it work for me (hours? days? weeks? years?). To me as a user this flexibility does not matter at all.

The product either works or it doesn’t. If it works, I don’t want to spend a career to learn its internals. I just want it to support my use case and give clear step by step instructions in its documentation.

I better spend my time on something more important than exploring how this or another crappy software product is flexible.
Hmm interesting. Personally I'm willing to constructively critique the flaws of my communication style if other people are giving me feedback that I come across as an asshole or Nazi.
My favorite feature of Internet forums is definitely the one where someone gives a detailed explanation as to why something is expensive or at least a lot more work than one might think, probably not worth the engineering effort and a legal review will take a bit, but it was good while it lasted and someone else pops in at the end by saying we can fix this with words on a page because that just automatically negates the expense of time, effort and money borne by actual people.

Software isn’t a bunch of prepackaged recordings cut together and copied over and over again. You need the binary, the assets, and the environment it can be hosted in. Server software needs maintenance because it lives on a network and networks attract people who will screw around with it if vulnerabilities are known to exist (and there will always be vulnerabilities); and if the entity maintaining it decides that it is no longer worth the expense, they stop maintaining it. That’s their goddamn right so the onus is on you to know what you’re buying and who you’re buying it from and what kind of commitment you can expect from them because more often than not it is not if they will shut it down, but when and what you can expect afterwards. A $60 game you bought once probably doesn’t entitle you to full service for the rest of your natural life. Even a subscription has a time limited term of service.
What would consumers think they were buying if not a license to it? How would it work if everyone bought the actual copyright? What else could you be buying?
Alphafold demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that crystallography by itself is useless in certain circumstances.
There are plenty of research groups working on crystallography that found the correct solution only combining their data with Alphafold data.
In the last competition, if I remember correctly, there was one protein that escaped crystallography for many years until they used Alphafold predicted structure.
I’m not really sure how can you simply discount these really groundbreaking results when crystallography provided much less wins in many more years.
I took that as either [kidding] overstatement (to bypass discussion of why) or short for desktop computers no longer exist [for my market purposes].

To your general question, I've heard a professor lament a student stating that all CAD applications should work on phones.
Remember, you're comparing Linux and FreeBSD in 2022 but BSD lost to Linux much earlier, many years ago. Back when I was looking into them (long time ago, excuse me for not remembering the details), BSD felt more pleasant and coherent. But at the same time it had limitations on scalability, performance and compatibility with hardware and also with userland software. In every benchmark, especially on multi-core, multi-socket systems, Linux was ahead.

My theory at the time was this: GNOME won on developers' desktops, so most software was developed on Linux natively, with BSD compatibility (and performance) as an afterthought. IIRC Linus made a similar point on the mailing list that developers love servers that resemble their programming environments. TDLR: BSDs got stuck in CLI-only mode for too long.

The more common explanation was that Linux got a head start by a few years by being a clean-sheet implementation, while the BSD had to spend its early years purging itself off the AT&T copyrighted code, so it was untouchable from a commercial use perspective.
They are rigid, so they wouldn't vibrate, no elasticity/100% dampening, would they?
> However, its fifth trip was irregular from the moment it took off because, although the plane weighed 145 kilograms below the maximum load limit, as we have mentioned before, it was carrying too many passengers: Although only ten tickets had been sold, 17 adults and six children were on board

145 kg below maximum seems very low for the number of passengers on-board? Especially for a short pleasure flight where you wouldn't have much luggage/cargo nor I'd expect the plane to be carrying full tanks of fuel either. According to Wikipedia DC-3 carries 21-32 passengers (depending on configuration).
Comparing Linux to FreeBSD is like comparing a Mercedes to a custom-made trackday car.

Docker, kubernetes et all was the nail in the coffin.

BSDs are amazing for universities, OS classes and some outliers in the industry here and there.

The one thing FreeBSD had was network stack performance. Linux supports higher throughput for a while now.. so even that ship sailed.
Top Taiwan official leading missile production found dead in hotel room
A lot of it is about tradeoffs (long term vs one-off projects, business stakeholders, and a long etc), but there's also significant selection bias. Most "indie" projects die before having much of a playable thing, and many successful solo indie projects can take many long and grueling years (e.g. Stardew Valley).

Engineering in most organisations will place stability and predictability very high among priorities, and pay a hefty price for it (sometimes, messing up along the way and getting neither benefit). An individually brilliant engineer can be a great asset if properly managed, but you need the majority of people to be less of an outlier.
The one thing I’d like SF’s traffic cops to do more of: ticket drivers who block the box. This action needs to be seriously penalized so even the most selfish drivers won’t take the risk.
> I created Papers, Please in 2013 specifically for desktop computers with mouse control.

This is interesting to read. When I first played it I was dying for touch controls. It seemed like such a natural fit for the gameplay of sliding papers around.
Here in Australia, if I give to a charitable organisation or non-profit which is tax exempt...

I don't pay income take on the donation.

That absolutely is a subsidy. About 30% of my donation comes from the public purse via tax not collected.
Yes - I remember even coming across those before Papers became a bigger thing. So thorough
In addition to what the other answers have said, the Necronomicon is the book of dark magic in the Lovecraft mythos, from which it has been copied into some other mythoi.
Just install Ubuntu if you quite literally cannot grasp GNU/Linux. No, your "guy" is not "relatively skilled", that's an absurd claim when it took an entire week setting up Linux on a laptop. It has never, ever taken me more than an hour or two with mainstream distros, or more than 3 days max. for more complicated distros such as Gentoo or Arch - but the system would be minimally operational within a day, always. You would literally have to one-finger press your keyboard whilst also learning how to read for the first time simultaneously, to make the install of Linux on a LAPTOP last a week.
Getting a game via disk is no different from getting a game via the internet. The distribution method doesn't change that you are just getting a license.
Very cool given that Appalachian settlers were largely Scottish highlanders.
Sometimes it seems as though making the Earth uninhabitable to existing lifeforms was the goal of some entity.

Hanlon's razor says 'Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity'. But, after 150 years of it, is stupidity truly an adequate explaination for the unending rain of 'better products for better living through chemistry'?
From a human perspective, that settlers from one part of the range found a home in another part of the same range is interesting - the heavy Irish and Scottish settlement in Appalachia, taking language and music with them.
I was stunned when I went to a writing circle and saw college students using their phones.
Wait, you mean Motion Twin?
Please don't do that. They don't like it.
One reason is devotion to the rule of law. Another is you get to boss people around. And given that "qualified immunity" is still a thing, most serious mistakes - or even outright criminal actions - go unpunished or punished by administrative means like demotions or firing - a luxury that a common citizen is never allowed. Hopefully, the majority is in the former category - but let's not close our eyes to the fact the latter category exists too.
Dum Dums Lollipops Drop-Shipping Hustle on Amazon Costs Spangler Candy Millions
The point, in this particular subthread, is that wind is so inexpensive so there's no problem if we have to "dump" a lot of unused power windy day. And we can have enough wind so even when it delivers say less than 50% of max, it will be enough. And windy days with a lot of extra capacity, we make hydrogen (or pump mass to higher elevation where practical), even though the efficiency isn't particularly good. When the energy we put in is for free, it doesn't matter that the efficiency is 30% or even 20% for the full cycle.

And this can't be said for nuclear power. It's so expensive to build and run, so it has to run most of the time to make a profit. And this will of course be problem when it sells it output on the same market as wind, where many days the cost of electricity is almost zero.
> whereas I have a lot of interests and really just want the gems whenever I “sit down” to work with a particular interest.

On larger servers discord has started defaulting to a feed channel summing up all the others and displaying popular messages/subthreads with a facebook/twitter type algorithm.
Isn't the eu directive 2019/770 specifically against something like this?
Cheers, I appreciate that.

I have had therapy over the years, but one thing I was told was that it couldn't be depression because it's so infrequent. I'm more likely just getting sad at times.

Most of the time I'm pepper and optimistic, etc. I might just have a minor burn out from work or I start feeling like I'm not doing enough. Meditation has helped, along with going to the gym, but some times I burn out from that too like boredom (from doing the same thing over and over), and I don't know why
It’s a union job with a pension, and the pay is decent. That kind of security appeals to a lot of people.
So only give citations after something bad has happened?

What are some examples of non-ticket based traffic safety, and how will they help reduce dangerous behavior?
In addition , somewhere along the way Google pushed Picasa onto them which they managed to learn. This application does away with the file and folder metaphor and focuses on albums and pictures. Picasa is now discontinued.

And don't get me started with my country's national identity which uses a combination of smart phone and on screen instructions as proof of identity to log in, pay and get onto the netbanks. And they are drifting further and further away from getting it.
Have you reported the bug to NetBSD ?
Have you not ever used a Linux distro?
I haven't had an issue with monitors since before Ubuntu 8.
Seems ridiculous you're going to claim that Linux, which dominates the phone/handheld industry, would have issues in regards to using high resolution/high DPI monitors along with lower spec ones concurrently.
I think of all OS's, my bet would probably be that this is a way bigger issue on Windows than on Linux or Mac.
and they are ooooold. Older-than-trees old.
https://envs.sh/QI_.zip

credit to /u/isaacimagine

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32370989
Even offline mode stops working if Steam goes long enough without being able to phone home. Your games will not function without Steam
You are right of course, but I would contend that generating as well sub-normal floats is in 99.9% of the cases a needless cost. The reason is that, more often than not, all this extra precision will be immediately lost in subsequent operations.

A very common situation is for instance to plug the random number in a log, in which case you need to use log(1-r) rather than log(r) to avoid an infinite at r=0. The problem is, by doing this simple subtraction you have already lost all the subnormal precision.
Why aren’t there more external keyboards made with a trackpoint? Yes I know about the Lenovo ones, they are not great.
I've had my eyes opened recently onto the world of modern game editors (Unity, Unreal, Godot, etc.) by watching gamedev streams. The productivity of these environments, and their associated asset stores, is amazing. You can't help but think that other domains would also be well-served by a fully-integrated experience like this. Surely the universe of "webapps" or "unix-y network services" is at least as constrained as "3D games" is (possibly more?).

I would certainly be interested in a "Unity for line-of-business apps." I guess this was VB6 lol.
"the Soviet Union's strategy was an immediate and compulsory nuclear counter-attack against the United States (launch on warning), specified in the doctrine of mutual assured destruction."

Immediate. Compulsory.
That's reflected in the article's tone. I might characterize it as Although cops are terrible at their job, this time, they're terrible because they aren't doing their job and some experts say maybe that's because they're underfunded, but other experts say it's probably because they're just terrible.
More than saying anything about these particular officers, or the need or lack of need for quotas, we should be talking about people management.

Clearly they should re-assign 40 of these officers elsewhere in the department where they could be utilized. This is a management failure.
graphql sucks ass for backend and infra people, the people who need to scale it.

It also doesn’t speak normal REST dialect so you are missing out on basic things like status 200.
Find his work endlessly inspiring not just in terms of how good it is, but also in the way it has proved there's an audience hungry for the experimental and conceptually quite challenging games he makes, too -- carved a path and set the bar for artistically inclined game-devs (and game-dev inclined artists)
This is one of the worst, inane, repetitive, boring, dumbest bots I have ever experienced. It literally wouldn’t talk about anything but pizza and tacos.

Just terrible.