skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would it be practical to grow entire farms of trees (or something fast growing - bamboo, kudzu, certain crops), harvest them, and bury the results? Repeat over and over at scale to sequester carbon.

You'd need mineral inputs, of course, but maybe you can recoup these.
> You still get free housing and food

In almost all US states, prison stays aren't free. The costs are often similar to a multi-year hotel stay.
There's a certain time period where I feel like everyone remembered their games by the DOS executable name.

piratesg.exe
Here is a "gift article" from NYT. Not sure why they don't shorten links.

Mississippi Crisis Highlights Climate Threat to Drinking Water Nationwide https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/us/mississippi-water-clim...
xorg.conf doesn't even exist anymore on most systems. The others have been improved quite a bit since "a long while" ago.

That doesn't mean you have to try it again to update your opinions, if you have something else you're happy with now, but it does mean you should consider not spreading nonsense about things you haven't used.
How high could we boost it? I think I saw this scifi movie.
> A common counter argument is, well you can suspend your disbelief and imagine a dragon, so why is a diverse community in a small village not ok? It just feels less immersive. Yes, I can go along with it - but I'm not sure it works. It feels like the modern world superimposed in a fantasy setting. I'd prefer to be sent to an alien world.

I think it might be worth thinking about whether this is actually "European fantasty" or just "fantasy" that you're used to as thinking of European. For a thought experiment, imagine a young adult today who has never consumed any sort of fictional media (novels, movies, etc.), but otherwise has the same education in terms of non-fictional things (math, science, history, etc.) that you might expect. If you showed them two portrayals of a Lord of the Rings setting that were identical except for one using only fair-skinned, European-ancestry actors, and the other with the type of "diverse" casting that you're describing, would the latter seem somehow less believable? I'm not convinced that someone who hadn't already been primed to expect fair skinned, European-ancestry actors in fantasy due to having already consumed decades of content with that sort of casting would somehow find that more "accurate" in a world full of elves and dwarves and orcs and other fictional races alongside humans. In a vacuum, I don't think there's really any sort of tension between elements of traditional "European fantasy" (dragons, wizards, sword fights, etc.) and diversity when set somewhere that pretty clearly is not supposed to be set in medieval Europe (or really at anywhere at all in the history of Earth); insisting that some small subset of the lore happening to resemble European fantasy somehow implies that the entire fictional world has to demographically resemble medieval Europe seems like much more of an imposition of external cultural expectations than casting diverse actors is.
> I mean, isn't feedback from developers the main source of info available to a manager?

Of course it is, that's well-known.

But for 20 years of career 99% of all managers I ever worked with outright ignore the feedback.

Most people should not be in positions of power -- ever. It quickly turns into an ego trip where inconvenient facts are ignored and hand-waved away. And always letting somebody else deal with the fallout of your incompetence.

Programmers are not stupid. With your feedback routinely ignored you learn to keep quiet -- why expend energy on something futile? Or you change jobs.

Take a wild guess which of both happens 90% of the time.
I didn’t say subset of features (because it literally wasn’t a subset of features). And the modern iPhone is very different from the originally released device.

This is exactly the kind of revisionist history I was on about.
As I wrote in another comment; it was possible to disable wake from sleep from within Windows for that particular mouse; that was promising.

I don't know if it's possible to execute logic on mouse movements in the Windows sleep power state. Either way, I feel it's something MSFT should spend some time on, given the current situation.
https://archive.ph/J5RH1
NASA TV loves to show a great infographic of how many parts have flown to space before and have been reusable... can't help but yell in my mind.. and that's the last time they'll be reusable.
A lot of DIY PC cases are almost certainly trash in regards to EMI. One of the reasons for all the scraping interlocking tabs on OEM PCs isn't just that they're cheap to make, but also to ensure a good connection between panels - OEM PCs have to pass EMI tests, DIY PC cases don't.
Show HN: I made Scrabble with modified rules
Crapple is my take on "improved" Scrabble rules... obviously that is subjective, I'm not even sure I agree with it.

You and your opponent share a rack of letters, and vowels are only obtained by opting to deduct a configurable amount of points from your score to receive a random vowel tile. Additionally, there is an alternate board layout with some new tile multipliers.

This is an old project but I never posted it, so I thought what the hey, I am curious to hear what your guys' thoughts are on these rules. It's an old dead project so you can't hurt my feelings. Thanks!

You can play it now against the computer in your browser (no signup required, but an account lets you create and play games against other humans). The Android app is the better version only because the AI will run on a seperate thread (in the browser version you might see a hiccup while it runs), and because Unity WebGL doesn't export retina-sized graphics (ie graphics may look less than sharp on your mobile device).

(Note: I linked the landing page instead of the direct link to play in case you are on mobile and want to avoid a largish download. Direct link to play in the browser is here: https://crapple.mobi/play)

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Some more details for anyone still reading...

It's your basic LAMP stack on AWS, with Laravel for the web framework and Unity (2017) for the client.

The dictionary is stored as a DAWG.

When you play a word, instead of giving you the dictionary definition, I wanted to do something different like provide a paragraph from a book that the word was used in. You can click the book icon to get some of those, I was scraping books in the public domain but gave up after a while when I was getting diminishing returns for words I lacked paragraphs for (if you try it you will likely see a lot of Moby Dick paragraphs as I never randomized it either).

The AI was based on the scrabble AI algorithm (I think it was this, but can't remember now, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000437020...). Since Crapple has modified rules, due the possibility of "buying" vowels on your turn, there is set of _potential_ playable words. The Crapple AI ranks each word based on the cost of the vowels needed with their probability of obtaining the needed vowels.
The AI is not very intelligent, the difference between the 3 provided computer opponents is just the average word score they will play. If I had worked on this any longer I could have extended this to let them take into account what words/scores they may be setting you up for with their play, and other ideas.

Each player's avatar is consistent, but uniquely generated for them. I didn't want to have every using the same boring default avatar, but didn't want the hassles of letting people upload their own, so I went with a version of this idea: http://www.levitated.net/bones/walkingFaces/index.html
I've never hated a package manager more.
Well, people don’t carry a Garmin when they ride buses I guess? iPhone’s navigation didn’t become reliable enough to replace a Garmin / Tomtom till 2011-2012.
I feel a bit sad we invented such a versatile forklift for digital art before any other fields.
The 4k items are only 512 bytes though, so expensive yes but not overly so.
You really really didn't think this through. While they live deep underground and don't need to protect from UV light, they also don't need to have white skin to let in sunlight for vitamin synthesis.

In the real world, skin didn't get paler simply because there wasn't enough UV. It got paler because less sunlight meant that darker skin couldn't absorb enough light for synthesis. If this wasn't case, our skins would still be dark.

So there is absolutely 1000% no reason at all why their skin would be any specific color. Dark or white, all are justifiable.
Yes! I get the intent of link's list as little-known games, but Command Keen (and the precursor id team) and Escape Velocity feel like they should at least be mentioned.

They're far enough back a lot of people won't be aware of them, yet modern enough they're still playable.
When the pc is sleeping the mouse itself could lower the dpi or increase the threshold. That way full dpi is still available when necessary.
> European history should be portrayed accurately

Yes, it's important that the Second Age is portrayed in historically accurate fashion.
There's a lot of science doing done. It's being paid for people are volunteering.

The IPCC is the largest collaborative effort. They produce reports continuously that researches exactly what we're talking about.

It does not agree with what you're saying. They just finished a report this year, you should read it.

Fwiw, as the earth heats, I don't think you're going to find less desert, only more.

I'm all for kindness, and that starts with caring deeply about climate change because the rich west will weather the storm the best. Countries in Africa have a lot to lose here as wet bulb temps begin killing people.
appreciated, and indeed, people often have a hard time empathizing. One reason why I both enjoy twitter in order to connect with some communities, and the discourse never really feels fulfilling.
Major studios are terrified of taking a risk on an unknown IP. That's why they keep snatching up IPs with established audiences. I can't wait until that attitude changes. There are plenty of small, unknown authors who wrote excellent series.

And then the studios are approaching each adaptation as a committee instead of as a visionary. It's writing-by-committee instead of writing as an individual.
I think you missed the part about nix.
Those engines belong in a museum.
How are they benefiting by destroying the network that they have a lot of assets in?
Online playground! So it compiles to WASM?
If you are gonna look like Rust. Please, no unwrap() everywhere.
The longer you do something, you're asked “what keeps you motivated?”
If this isn’t obvious, the “grooming” deepdriver mentions is simply providing medical advice on how to defend against anti-trans state regulations aimed to medically hurt minors.

KiwiFarms is far-right terrorism, and sadly deepdriver is their shill.
Curious what folks use for "all-in-one" development? I'm increasingly finding that I don't have the time/inclination to learn yet another tool for getting basic work done. I've loved working with AWS copilot, and I want to use something like space - but curious what folks have found.
By all measures, this is due to the kind of neglect and mismanagement one would expect to see in an underdeveloped or war-torn country, not in a city inside a state that is part of the most powerful country on earth. And Jackson is the state's largest city and as well as its capital!

It must be so embarrassing for the politicians who have been running Mississippi. They've done a truly terrible, horrible job on this.
And could it come crashing back down later, à la Flowers for Algernon ?
They will have a conductive spray on the inside or an internal shield if they aren't some uncertified Alibaba product.
I would sh*t myself
That's a good question. I suspect it matters on the composition of the wood. Wood that locks in a lot of moisture instead of carbon might be counter-intuitive.

I don't really know what I'm talking about here, I'm just thinking aloud. There's probably some woods better than others, though that's not a very interesting statement by itself.
You would think that, but history tells us that in Mississippi nothing will change.
I played a text based adventure game called (I think) “Bad King” that was on one of those “1000 free programs” shareware/freeware CD’s when I was a youngster. Every time I try to find it on the internet I’m stumped. It was my first introduction to text based adventure games, so I’m dying to find it. If anyone has heard of it please drop a line!

Also I believe on the same or similar shareware CD was Stars 2.b. That was my first experience using a LAN to play a multiplayer game with other people. That’s been easier to find, and still a nostalgia bomb for me.
Having done a little work across the spectrum, this is definitely correct. Years ago, I targeted the cheaper end, and the amount of work expected was absurd. The nonmonetary terms of the deals were often even worse; think business destroying levels of exploitation. (I declined those!)

In contrast, I've quoted hundreds of dollars an hour while explaining that I didn't think I would offer enough value to actually justify that price in context and encouraged alternatives- and got the job immediately. And the project went very smoothly. In another recent case, I requested tens of thousands of dollars for some project-relevant expenditures, and received a deposit without a single question.

Organizations that are willing to spend money tend to be the ones that understand what they're buying and how to value it.
Leadership might not know every detail, but that doesn't absolve them of the responsibility to know (and find out, and correct it once they do so similar things don't happen again). This one only came to their attention because Tavis Ormandy is famous and it got on HN front page; how many other insurance didn't?
Apple too. I have a USB mouse and it's virtually impossible to put my Macbook Pro to sleep. I've resorted to unplugging its power supply (when the lid's closed it won't wake up if it's not plugged in). But you would have thought this was trivial to fix.
Great write up! I still don't really see the point in pre-rendered backgrounds for PC/console games anymore though. GPUs nowadays are powerful enough and storage space is limited enough that you can just render everything realtime and it will look great.

The technique does seem like it would be a great fit for mobile, where users have limited control and efficiency is really important.
found the bootlicker!
Anything I am describing is a decade plus away.

I mean every central bank could tomorrow just put up a non-permissive (#)
blockchain and just make a virtual coin for every cent out there. And this would cause utter chaos. It would essentially end fractional reserve banking. That makes loans ... difficult.

The impacts are enormous, but a digital native currency is so simple, so attractive we may well try it. And then have to rethink our financial regulations. It will look a lot like ICOs.

I still think it is inevitable.

(#) ok the terminology I find either dubious or I misunderstand but basically
every wallet holder gets their private / public key registered, then there is a known state of money globally, and the Bank is a verifying party to each transaction. Something like that anyway. Theee are many options but essentially if we all "trust" the money printer then the technical problems simplify.
A friend of mine has a similar story. Still searching for his good ending. I’m glad you’re better.

I feel like we’re at the beginning of the opioid wave again, and the obvious and foreseeable negative consequences are just being shunted aside. We never learn anything.
Cloudflares indifference to DDOS-for-hire providers using their service is also raising some eyebrows, considering a large part of their business is mitigating DDOS attacks. Do a search for "stresser" or "booter" services (euphemisms for DDOS-for-hire) and check their DNS records, 9 times out of 10 they're hiding behind Cloudflare.

Intentional or not, helping the attackers stay online while also selling mitigations for their attacks is basically a protection racket.
> Oh hey, it's the engines that are causing these delays.

??? Last scrub was because of a problem with providing bleed cooling to cold soak everything.

This scrub appears to be a problem with a quick disconnect used in fueling operations or the piping just inside it.

Neither are the "engines".

I'm skeptical of Artemis, but come on.
You are missing my argument completely. What I'm saying is that yes, Tolkien may have envisioned Middle Earth as proto-European fantasy, but when you're arguing for "historical accuracy", you can't pick and choose. You're arguing about skin color as if a) no people of color lived in Europe at the time, and b) you're completely avoiding touching on the origin of Tolkien's evil races and nations, and in particular orcs. If hobbits, men, and elves need to be white, then orcs necessarily need to be black and brown people, no? They need to be uncivilised brutes who only want to destroy with no mind of their own? That is a simplified depiction of Tolkien's works, but do you think that those prejudices hold, or that they should be depicted in modern media? If yes, then you are a bigot and a racist, and if no, it's WEIRD how the inclusion of people of color is where you're putting your foot down.

PS: read "you" as in the collective you, not you specifically.
What psychodelics seem to do, based on all the accounts of "feeling of connectedness" and "higher vision", is it does something to epiphysis cerebri in the brain to mute the lower triad of the human - body, emotions and mind - so the quiet voice of the true human, aka its soul, can be heard. There, above, connectedness of everything, as well as the clear vision of purpose and practical invincibility, are self evident realities. It gives you a glimpse into what the normal state of consciousness of a saint looks like. Meditation is a slow and safe way to get to the same state eventually, with an important difference - that state won't depend on a whim of some chemicals.
Hope the guy who down voted me enjoys paying 100-1000 times more to Amazon's egress racket!
Or Mordechai Guri, the Israeli dude who specializes in air gap exploits.
You missed the part where I said I switched to nix.

I don't care about casks or system package management. My use-case requires specific versions of tools, maybe GNU coreutils, and limped along with glibc or openssl, and that's about it. What asdf did not provide, Docker containers did. Until nix.
I don't think 4096 is arbitrary. It's an array of 16bit integers, and 4096 * 16 = 65536. So 4096 represents the boundary point below which an array of integers uses less memory than a traditional bitmap.
> I don’t believe anyone wakes up in the morning and thinks, “I’m going to write overly clever spaghetti code today and do as bad a job I can.”

Tearing down a straw man is not an impressive feat.

The inconvenient truth is that a lot of programmers are just not that good. They lack the self-awareness, insight and experience to look into the near future and realize they're contributing to the problem.

I was there too. Facepalmed really hard after I realized it years down the line.
I never said it was useless.
You're not at all touching on my argument. Read my reply to maxk42.
The problem is that the level of hostility is increasing. A caged tiger is hostile but with some sensible precautions, one can avoid harm. If the cage is opened, that hostility is an immediate concern.
Don't listen to idiots. But do listen to the people who sincerely tried and failed.

Few people want to talk about failure. But I've been watching the publishing industry for a long time, and it's not as simple as pressing the "Publish" button and watching sales roll in. Algorithms have changed the way things work. Bots promote works that are already popular or trending. It's harder than ever for newbies to get noticed.
OpenTTD is less of a game and more of a simulator/engine. After seeing so many people talking about it, I tried it last year. There's no real losing/challenge state, you just make less money. It was interesting to see all the complexity, but it never really paid off. I got bored after a few hours of "Hm, I wonder if I could do this?" It doesn't really remind me of other tycoon games where I'm trying to reach the next level of buildings/automation. It's more like SimCity 1.
The original EMACS did not use LISP.

https://emacs.brause.cc/timeline.html
It might be more practical to change the temperature of the room! That's what they did for JWST.

There might be more elements to draw on: antimatter, obviously, but also strange matter and metastable nuclear isomers. And although quantum dots aren't actually new elements, in many contexts they act like it. And don't assume that, just because the surface of a material is at atmospheric pressure, the material 10 microns below the surface is at a lower pressure than the core of the Earth.

Really, though, as fascinating as materials science is, I think the biggest advances are elsewhere, at least for now and maybe for centuries. Better materials than 50 years ago weren't needed for Apollo 13, Linux, Stable Diffusion, seL4, Uber Cab, the WWW, AlphaZero, Z3, Hypothesis, Falcon, covid vaccines, or even 5G. (Better materials were used, but Linux displaying on a CRT with ten times bulkier chips would still be Linux. I mean, it was.)
Why should a writer or for that matter film or TV producer even care what "some folks" are gonna think - it's impossible (and pointless) to please everybody. The idea that the fantasy genre is inherently European and should only consist of caucasian characters is patently absurd and untrue anyway - even CS Lewis had an Arabic-inspired protagonist (female, at that, but that's no denying a fair bit of racist sentiment in his writings too).

Btw this is an interesting read: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2021/...
> I have difficulty understanding what it is

It's not just one thing.

> too many interpretations that contradict each other

No, they're not interpretations, they different definitions. Just as different people have different ideas of what it means to be a friend or to be in love.
I really like most of the advice given here, esp. "story > writing". The confusing thing about "writing" is that it's not about putting words on a page. It's about coming up with interesting plots and characters.

Once you have that, the writing will take care of itself.
Are you implying you cannot be a dev w/o brew?
> not in a city inside a state that is part of the most powerful country on earth

Why not? There are plenty of ecological catastrophes in China and were in the Soviet Union when it existed. I suspect “powerful” isn’t exactly the variable you’re trying to describe, and you actually mean something like “most developed”. But stories like this prove that the US indeed isn’t the most developed country in the world.
Apple solved this by having the mouse charge port on the bottom. So if the mouse is changing it’s unlikely to trigger as its upside down.

However if a fly goes past.
Does anyone get the point with Artemis? Because I really don‘t.

To my untrained eye the current outlook on the program looks like that rocket is right now only supposed to make two roundtrips along the moon — and then in that third „Starship HLS“ mission Artemis’ only job is to take up the astronauts to orbit: while Starship (notably designed to be human rated) will be doing all the heavy lifting of the mission.

In this context it all looks like a total sham, it would literally be cheaper and easier to send them up in another reusable Starship.

What other purpose does Artemis have except building the most expensive trip to orbit existing so NASA can say „hey, we did something about this moon mission too!“?