skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now for sure, but back then any generalisation would potentially cost clock cycles or memory, so an engine would be fine tuned for the game in front of us. It would be entirely possible to take that engine and use it for a similar game, but then you hit the problem of needing to extend it for the new game - which is hard when you've optimised it to the nth degree and you can't see the wood for the trees.

One thing I saw after I'd worked on 'Fireblade' for PS2 & XBox [1], we took its engine and tooling (which had also been used for 'Reign of Fire' [2] in parallel) for our next title 'Battalion Wars' for Nintendo. After 6 months of fighting the system we downed tools for 3 months just to refactor everything. It was the first time I'd seen a real aggressive, whole team, refactor - and it worked, but really the engine & tooling just weren't right for the game and shouldn't have been taken without a commitment to making it fit-for-purpose for the game we were about to build. It cost us time at the end of the project, and for a while we weren't sure if Nintendo would keep funding it - luckily it worked out (and is actually the game I'm most proud of working on).

But yeah, once the consoles got more powerful and had more memory it was possible to start building core tech for multiple games, which is what I did for the last 4 or 5 years of my time in games.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Blade_(video_game)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Fire_(video_game)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battalion_Wars
Hot take, apparently: VHDL/Verilog developers should make 5x what JavaScript developers make, and not the other way around.
Blocking Ads and malware with Pi-hole
Cheaters can be incompetent. I find the timing of trades of stocks closely related to what congress was voting more compelling than the under performance. Maybe you are right, but either way, the incentive should not exist at all - lawmakers having access to the markets while in office should be a blight of shame on a nation.
if that's what you're waiting on, then you're selling yourself short. at this point, you should be able to capitalize on any income/wealth that that mule and 40acres could have generated in the time between the agreement and the agreement not being fulfilled.
A well described and thought out bug report can make fixes trivial and are worth their weight in gold.

Obviously the "it doesn't work" bug reports are worthless.
> You're saying it costs then 1⅛ cents per search excluding wages and other operating costs.

All I can do is relate what the article says :).

> That seems like they must be vastly over-paying for something? What does that money pay for and who is paying the wages+operational costs?

Well, they use a couple of paid APIs for their queries (as you noted in the edit of your comment). They say in TFA that they're currently breaking even on bare search costs and that the founders are picking up the tab for most of the rest of the expenses.
> I can't say I've personally found any advantages, I don't think I caught any bugs, but who knows... It's the right thing to do... Right?

If you haven't found any advantages after 4 months of doing it, why would you think it's the right thing to do? Lots of people call lots of things best practices, that doesn't mean they're a good idea or the right idea, but some of them may be.
This can't be better, another level
My experience is that Amazon.com has never once recommended or suggested anything sane to me, beyond that it loves to "recommend" the items that I just bought. It's worse than the YT recommendation algo, in that way. If flushing the Amazon browse history wasn't such a monster PITA, I'd do it daily
Still better than what we have now.
How did that help Poland, though?
It's amazing how many people condescend to others on here and then are surprised when someone else defends them.
Salad grows pretty much everywhere, but we still transport most of it from Mexico or California, with a pretty hefty set of infrastructure components from farms to hordes of pickers to refridgerated trains to grocery stores.

(It's also not a weed, really, just like it's not a pot.)
Adding on top my earlier comment.

One of the best things about parental leave was it felt like I was coming back to the open slate of a new job, but was already familiar with the company/culture/etc.

Since my team had taken over all of my responsibilities, it helped me realized what I didn't have to do so I could focus on the broader picture.
Let's see. No down payment. Rising interest rates which may cause declining house prices. What could possibly go wrong?

Now all we need is for someone to decide that if they package a bunch of these loans together into a larger financial instrument, the risk disappears...
Wasn't really interested in convincing the "I watched two episodes and he is clearly stupid" crowd to come any closer.

He cheats anyways, he injects it! If that makes you feel any better. And besides, it was not my intention to make anyone envious - it is a well known fact that people who increase their testosterone are more honest and care more for their community then those that do not. I think the science is clear on who to place trust in in this situation!
Not to be glib, but did you read the rest of my reply?

Your third paragraph starts to align with what I said. But "buy a smaller house" is not a helpful response to "there are no small houses for sale".
We are in constant denial of how fast our population grew and continue to grow.
Narrative is like 'uh-oh, population grow is not like it used to be'. Well right, a lot of countries doubled their population in last 50 years or less and continue to grow, being that natural birth rate or immigration is not that important.
>Why not unify the good parts of all the services into one central service?

https://xkcd.com/927/
The link at the bottom about why zonal heating doesn't make sense gets deep into the numbers and calculations.

I hadnt read the Ars Technica link before, but it makes the same argument, with graphs, a low efficiency device in a poorly insulated home left off for a 4 hour period makes sense, but in that situation you probably want to insulate and/or use a more efficient heat pump rather than do that.
> I wish we could stop propagating the idea that it's possible to "steal someone's identity"

Identity theft is a term that comes from the fact that you can use this information to open up a bank account or become someone digitally, not because they steal your personality.

It’s a great term because exemplifies the gross negligence and liability that comes with egregious misuse of personal data
Probably for this crowd anyway. My first thought at seeing the title was AWS, not the store front.
Just tried it, it does work. Not in the `--help` though.
Tell HN: How to Respond to a Domain Takeover
After having my domain hijacked today I'd like to share an incident postmortem just in case you find yourself in the same situation (swearing at your terminal output at 10am on Friday morning when your website is down).

9:58am I can no longer deploy to production

10:15am Finished troubleshooting all services, no problems identified

10:16am nslookup resolves to some random IP address instead of my prod server (WTF!!!!!!)

10:20am Log into registrar and find out they replaced my custom DNS servers with their own and added records to serve a "Parked free courtesy of GoDaddy" page with ads and a button that says "Get This Domain"

10:30am Changed my domain on the registrar website back to my custom DNS servers

10:32am Changed my password on the registrar website

10:38am Got told by GoDaddy support they didn't have anything to do with this and it was my fault it happened (f-me, right?)

11:55am DNS records across the internet are still jacked

12:00pm Manually blow out the cache on cloudflare for my domain

Postmortem Suggestions:

* If your website goes down; don't blow 15+ minutes troubleshooting your app services before checking DNS

* Enable 2fa with your registrar (even though there was no alert for us)

* Set up an alert for when your domain resolves to a different IP address (make a script and host it elsewhere or pay for a service)

* Don't trust your registrar!!!!

* Take a screenshot of your registrar settings and DNS settings right now so you have a record when they disappear

* Get access to your registrar account ASAP after the attack and change your DNS records back using the screenshots you just took

* Manually purge the cache of major DNS providers (for your domain) to allow your DNS records to propagate: https://cloudflare-dns.com/purge-cache/
The location tracking industry is getting ready for the real possibility of much stricter legislation coming soon. "Warren proposes sweeping ban on location and health data sales": https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/15/23169718/roe-wade-elizabe...
It's simply because the courts are not in the habit of doing their jobs anymore. They are expected to hold the LEO accountable to the law just as much as the citizen, but the de facto system aligns the executive and judicial completely, such that neither is willing to take action against the other. If the courts were faster, more flexible, they would have more experience holding the executive accountable, and issues like leveraging surveillance capitalism in investigations and prosecutions, or the unjustified murder of unarmed citizens, of any race, would routinely result in speedy, accurate application of the law to everyone involved.

The badge should never have meant protection from the law, but these perverse incentives have conspired to make it so, and the solution is NOT legislation about cops, as much as it seems like it should be, but rather legislation about courts.
It is, just not immediately after 1991 (there was a long period of turmoil and decline). It happened mostly in 2000s, yes, right after Putin came to power.
The population of a country peaks a few years after it has gotten developed. As in low child mortality, high educated population, etc.
Why would it lead to dropoffs in quality? I think u are underestimating how much ingenuity workers of all cultures have when its encouraged. Considering the strength of American research universities, I believe that we might see gains in quality and productivity.
I would like to delete my Samsung account (which I was forced to create to access some feature of my phone). But I can't even access my profile because I'd need to accept some new user agreement which I won't do. I guess I could try sending them a letter.
One of my biggest gripes about cycling in SF was shoaling[1] -- when slower riders pull in front of faster ones at a red light, only to be immediately passed when the light turns green.

One thing that Portland has (in some places) is two lane bike lanes [2], which makes it really easy ride at a comfortable pace and pass other riders when needed.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/shoaling-ottawa-cbc-bi...

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/@45.5129863,-122.6609881,70m/dat...
Lol /r/relationshipadvice energy
Another item missing from Markdown is a standard syntax for cross-references and citations:

https://talk.commonmark.org/t/cross-references-and-citations...

Is the tweeted list a little outdated now?

> no id's in headers

A natural ID is derived by changing the header to lowercase and replacing spaces with hyphens, such as:

https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/docs/scr...

> no syntax for adding classes

Pandoc introduced ::: annotation blocks that produce div tags with classes. I discuss this length:

https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/28/typesetting-markdow...

My editor, KeenWrite[0], also supports annotation syntax:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2131950/161400266-...

> any number will do in ordered lists

Isn't that either a presentation issue or a feature? I prefer numbering lists with a sequence of 1., 1., 1., 1., to let the computer automatically increment the number. Makes adding/removing items easier. Being able to arbitrarily change the numbering seems weird, though potentially useful.

> code blocks (4 spaces) over code fences (```)

Not sure why this is a design mistake. When reading technical documentation, indented stands out more. IMO, it improves readability for short snippets (where syntax highlighting doesn't matter).

> can't nest Markdown in HTML in Markdown

Depends on the Markdown flavour, doesn't it?

[0]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite#download
Only for narrow definitions of "Linux". As tangentially noted in the article, there are dozens of people working on this problem in the context of ChromiumOS. IPU6 already has support in ChromiumOS, via a binary media driver. If you are ideologically opposed to such drivers, you can expect poor or no support for the latest peripherals. There is a sweet spot for 100% free software peripheral support and that sweet spot varies between 2 and 25 years in the past, depending on the peripheral class in question.
It's unfortunate that:

- you can't learn its techniques

- you can't improve it

- you can't fix it

- the author could change their mind about distributing any part (or whole) of it at any time

- the author may include undesirable features

- the author could sell the software to someone who does the above

- the software is limited in its reach to those who can afford and have a possibility to pay for it

Of course, the author deserves every dollar for the time they spend making the software. It's unfortunate if they have to restrict the software to do that.

There is a whole philosophy about Free Software: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.html
I do, I think I have 240 in PDF format and 16 in physical formats. My interests of late has been around physics, mathematics and programming language theory.
Drug dealers are not going to harm your children.
Chemical Vapor Deposition
My desk gets pretty messy, but I at least try to do some cable management. Those photos have some pretty messy tangles of cables.
'what if'
So you come here attacking people for not rolling over and accepting "criticism" being emotional, then instantly regret your fairly baseless and sensational attempt to be inflammatory? You have a problem, you aren't intelligent nor wise - you just know some big words.
Incredibly, this isn't actually true, though it's tempting to think so from looking at the shapes on the map.

The border actually follows the Lusatian Neisse, and then the Oder river, except in the vicinity of the port city of Szczecin; this is the border set by the Allies at the Potsdam Conference after the end of World War 2.

The mine on the eastern side of the river became Poland, but it was still supplying a power plant on the west side of the river in East Germany [1]. Later, in 1962, Poland built its own power plant [2].

The Soviets and the Polish wanted to push this border as far west as possible, while the western allies wanted to set it was far northeast as possible to more closely approximate the German-Polish ethnic divide at the time. Various compromise options were proposed, following various rivers, but in the end the western allies agreed to the Soviet proposal. Germans in these territories gained by Poland were expelled. (Meanwhile, the Soviets took the eastern half of previous Poland and made it [3] part of the Soviet Union, specifically the constituent republics of Belarus, Ukraine, and Lithuania... it was a messy time.)

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk_Hirschfelde
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tur%C3%B3w_Power_Station
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kresy
de Haan & Koppelaars' _Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals_ is well worth your time, especially if you haven't studied discrete math yet.
can you tell elections are near?
If YouTube has to stop advising something like election deny it will stop being a cool place and will turn into a distilled thing like Youtube Kids.
The Cessna 172 That Flew from California to Hawaii
> What evidence is there that these extinction rebellion protests have been effective?

Well, it's being discussed, no? That is generally the point of these types of things. The idea is to get from pre-contemplation to contemplation [1], which is a very important process for advocacy of any issue. The goal isn't to sway you to their side. The goal is to get you to think about this thing more. With that being said, they have definitely succeeded. As I stated elsewhere in this thread, the evidence that there is some sort of "blowback" effect, where these things ultimately harm the movement more than help it, isn't really verified in any way. Maybe that's the case, maybe it isn't, but the rich history of similar disruptive protests make me feel that they are ultimately helpful.

> They are not going to convince anyone who isn’t already in agreement with them about climate policy, and to people on the fence they look like insane, spoiled, self-absorbed children.

How does this differ from similar protests in the past? E.g. Rosa Parks, sit-ins, etc. Those protests similarly enraged and annoyed people, but they are now iconic demonstrations.

1. https://medicine.llu.edu/academics/resources/stages-change-m...
I have the feeling this is mostly a US thing, where a social security card with almost nil personal data is widely used for identification. In Europe you won't get very far with a birthday and a name - and you certainly won't get a credit card or anything close to it.
Postgres Migration Pitstop: Collations
Just because RMS says it doesn’t mean it’s true.
> Remember when France paid even more in 1815 and 1871

The reason for anything big and complicated like a war could probably occupy thousands of pages of discussion. But I'd like to jot down what I see as one major difference here between Germany's experience to close out WWI and France's and most other countries' experience in past wars.

Unlike many large-scale past wars in Europe, the sequence of events in WWI wasn't exactly "Some country's leaders get angry for one stupid reason or another, those countries fight and one side ends up winning, and then both sides come to the negotiating table and come up with a relatively even-handed peace-deal based on the actual events of the war that felt like a fairly won or lost outcome that almost anybody could come to accept".

You had legitimate peace overtures from the Central powers midway through WWI that were blocked because the Allies were behind the scenes agitating to get the Americans involved on their side. And then at the end, because the inclusion of American resources so totally flipped the outcome of the war (what would have likely been a modest Allied victory with reasonable peace negotiations changed into a big win and the Allies having the power to demand whatever they wanted), the Allies could exact revenge and gain incredible wealth + continental power over their biggest economic rivals.

Do your history books go into the German Revolution of 1918–1919? And the real poverty and unseemliness of the Weimar Republic? All of these events and the fallout is arguably tied into this major difference with WWI being flipped by an outsider. And it's easy to see how this difference contributed to some really bad times later on. Hell, I shouldn't even say WWI and WWII, IMO this time period was really one big war with a long intermission.
that seems like a job that should have been replaced by a machine. no way it more effective to have people breaking that with hammers than to have machine do it.

also this country really needs stricter laws on what qualifies as a temp
> may have affected information such as name, contact and demographic information, date of birth, and product registration information.

What falls under "product registration information"?
France paid in 1871 a sum in the same ballpark than Germany should have paid in 1918.

The difference was that France paid in full and in advance (so much in full that the cash influx actually caused a crash in Germany – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_indemnity#Aftermath), whereas Germany tergiversed, delayed, and printed money like their was no tomorrow, sacrificing their econoomy on the altar of spiting their debtor – which eventually turned into their favor, as their reparations were shrinked to virtually nothing.

Sources: Tooze, Wage of Destruction; Memories of a Magician, Schacht.
Barbara Ehrenreich, author who resisted injustice, dies aged 81
Ask HN: UX-Centered Job Boards?
Hi HN,

Long story short - I'm looking around to see if there are any job boards that would be focused on finding UX people.

My friend has a degree in architecture, she was working for quite a few years in variety of building design shops. At some point in her life she moved to suburbs and had children, took a few years off to care for them. Now kids are in school and she is looking to go back to work life, she is craving for interaction with people. She decided to pivot her career and do UX since it is something she is familiar with from her previous jobs, the reason for doing this is that where she lives it would take her roughly 2 hours driving to get to the city and her previous industry is not very remote-friendly.

She is trying to get hired as junior UX, however with no success. It had been a couple of months now and she is reaching the point of being depressed for being rejected from every place shy is applying to. I have no experience with UX to give her advice on making her first steps.

I know it's probably not the best time for juniors but life likes to write scenarios with no regard to economic situation... so any advice would be highly appreciated :)
This is mostly a US thing, not really the case in UK, EU, or India for instance.

“Fruit of the poisonous tree” is a legal metaphor used to describe evidence that is obtained illegally. The logic of the terminology is that if the source (the "tree") of the evidence or evidence itself is tainted, then anything gained (the "fruit") from it is tainted as well.

The doctrine underlying the name was first described in Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States, 251 U.S. 385 (1920). The term's first use was by Justice Felix Frankfurter in Nardone v. United States (1939).

Such evidence is not generally admissible in court. For example, if a police officer conducted an unconstitutional (Fourth Amendment) search of a home and obtained a key to a train station locker, and evidence of a crime came from the locker, that evidence would most likely be excluded under the fruit of the poisonous tree legal doctrine.

The fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine is intended to deter police from using illegal means to obtain evidence.

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

See also “exclusionary rule”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusionary_rule
Current pop is 220M, already closer to 370 ... I can see it not growing much, but not decreasing.
Building Generalized Solutions Is Killing Your Product
No idea, but assuming this guy doesn't live in mid-Michigan, there's a plant here that hires people to do the same thing.
There are lots of ways that, even in a democracy, widely hated politicians can remain in power. Gerrymandering, low turnout, voter apathy, split voting, etc.

Poland's 2020 election was very controversial, and Duda won by the slimmest of margins.
this is how the FSB wins. after the smart people stop trusting to the point of not caring at all, the easily manipulated masses get fed whatever the FSB needs at the moment.
>How can you not be for it?

Mostly too many stories from family of ridiculous interactions with unions (e.g. "you can't carry your own stuff to your booth. If you don't have us carry your briefcase, your truck's windows are all going to be smashed.")

Also, teacher's unions.
Only in the world of the taxpayer's money is 10k for a single task cheap
> There's not a miniature nuclear reactor in there, it's just a RTG,

I believe these are not RTGs (radioisotope thermoelectric generators.) Rather they use radiovoltaic conversion, probably alphavoltaic conversion judging by the use of Pu-238. Such devices convert alpha or beta radiation directly to electricity using semiconductors, not unlike photovoltaic cells.

But your point still holds, these atomic batteries produce a tiny amount of power.