skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t know much about forests

The past was amazing. One example: Trees predated organisms that broke them down, so at some point there were just piles of trees, many tens or even a few hundreds of feet, on land, and that's why some trees are theorized to grow so tall so fast.

Just on the face of it though, you're a layperson, but you find soil, coal, peat, lots of biotic mass almost everywhere, what do you think put it there? Deep, deep soil. It's trees. You drive through California or Illinois or Texas or New York or wherever you live, and you see all these farms. Single stands of weird trees. There were forests. You can look at Google Maps and see how parts of the Amazon today, which are obviously being poached, look like the fringes of the US too.

Not only was land mass covered in forests. You know there were indigenous Americans absolutely everywhere when Europeans arrived in the Americas. Not only that, but climate change predated the arrival of settlers. There were forests completely cleared of brush, that the settlers commented you could run horses through, because indigenous Americans had been using wildfires to manage the land as game parks. There were indigenous people everywhere in Australia too.

The oceans were full of life. Just like preposterous amounts of fish before industrial fishing. Romans would routinely describe the Mediterranean as boiling. They weren't being stupid, they were describing the colossal number of fish in there. If you go diving in a genuinely protected area like the Galapagos, it's insane, there are just an incredible amount of fish. You look at a deep sea trawler, it pulls out just an insane amount of fish. It was like that everywhere.

I don't know how laypeople get this idea that Earth was always as sick as it is now. It was like 10-100x more filled with life 250 years ago. It's ridiculous. People aren't wrong about the bugs. There is a far longer and stubborn cultural heritage of documenting nature, long predating Republicans, so it couldn't be just politics that has led people astray. Maybe they're just stupider.
This might be a repost but it’s one of my favorites. Thank you!
it depends on what the poster meant by "games" - do they mean engine and graphics? Or do they mean game design/mechanics?

Game engines and graphics is "solved" if you stick to popular concepts (which are those that are easily available in commercial engines).

Game design/mechanics is an unsolved problem imho - unless you consider it solved when merely taking an existing game design (like an FPS) and add nothing new to it (aka, those yearly COD military shooters).

Consider a game like https://store.steampowered.com/app/1141580/Taiji/ (inspired by the witness). This game is quite unique, and cannot really be recycled in to another game (without it being just a clone).
> it has become clear that the original plan we built doe he year,

I think something got lost along the way there.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29003986
Most people should `git clone --depth 1` most of the time. Large businesses should do trunk-based development with something other than git that scales using distributed file systems with phantom checkouts, negating the need for LFS blob stores.
At minimum you're self aware :)
Oh huh, I've certainly seen that before when I've opened a device.
Thiel's arguments about land speculation make me think of Georgism as a potential solution
mouse 4/5?
Nowadays i just Wikipedia ,and look at reference and external link sections
Could you link to the thread please?
Isn’t 3 months a pretty standard severance compensation?
This was the beginning of an avalanche that led to most of the remaining engineers at Atari to leave and try to start their own third-party game companies to follow in the success of Activision.
If you have the money you can hunt like a king in many places in the world, and Vegas has some pretty stellar shows (and brothels?).
Extremely similar situation happened to me at a startup.
Lol. That's tiny. Monorepos of MAANGs are multi TiB.
A marriage being arranged doesn't mean it isn't on consent
Bootstrapping GNU Autogen without relying on pre-expanded code
"I've been playing guitar all my life, and just bought a piano to play for the first time. Absolute rubbish, who designed this shit!"
iOS has a feature called Reachability which can help you reach the top half of the screen. Perform a small swipe down on the bottom edge of the screen to move the entire screen content down about 50%.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/reachability-iph145eb...
Google's done it to tighten up their walled garden experience for a subset of users, and messed with the general purpose computer while doing it.

But, we can acknowledge the real reason what they're doing with Chromebook is interesting: security.
Alice brings her broken car to bob, a mechanic.

He has a quick look at the engine, then hits a specific spot with a hammer. The car was fixed.

Then Bob asks for 100 bucks and Alice replies that it is quite expensive for one single hammer strike. Bob then says, the hammer strike is 1 buck, knowing where to strike is 99 bucks.
Same with me. It had nothing to do with it being open source or the cost, it was simply the tool I was able to use. That made sense to me after trying them all.
I suppose there is definitely a benefit to having a universal back button. I just can't say I've used it much, even on my samsung tablet.

There's always some sort of button to get "back" to where I was. Just tried on messenger, youtube and instagram. All the "back" buttons were in the top left. Guess I never really paid much attention to that.
I don't think medical interventions should be forced on people, even if they need it. I'm for personal autonomy and choice. That said, I also like truth and accuracy and well reasoned thoughts, and it's definitely true that Covid could have been much worse, that the vaccine might have no measurable side effects whatsoever long term, and that forcing it on people did save additional lives that wouldn't have otherwise. Today's posted research paper actually tells us very little more on those topics, except that we need more research on LNP's possible lingering immune effects in humans and see the extent of it and if it even replicates in humans.

Acknowledging this doesn't mean you have to support using force or coercion on people, it just means being intelligent and honest about reality, facts, what we do know, and what we don't know.

That's what I'm here to do. Some people want to claim we now know for a fact that mandated vaccines did nothing and harmed people, this simply isn't true, we don't know that for a fact one bit, we just don't really know, that's all it is. If you claim you know, you don't, you simply believe it strongly without real justification to match the strength of your belief, aka an irrational belief. If you had that justification, it would easily convince others and we would not still all be arguing about it, but the data isn't there, the understanding of the mechanisms involved isn't there. Not yet.

It should be possible to separate the two topics. Do we want as a society which strongly favors individual rights, that we can push mandates in the name of the collective even if it means coercing individuals to do things they don't want to do?

And similarly discuss, if we wanted to save lives, lower the medical cost, and limit the spread or negative impact of Covid overall on society, is it better for a maximum number of people to be vaccinated or is it not?

Unless you're saying that coercion is only justified on individuals if the benefit to society are well known, probable, and sizable enough to some "threshold".

And I'm also happy to discuss this, even to agree with it, in hindsight, the benefits of the vaccines weren't as big as we thought when they first came around, people hoped it would end COVID, eradicate it like vaccines did for smallpox, and that hasn't happened yet. So maybe it didn't meet the threshold, but at the time it wasn't clear that it didn't, because I still remember that we didn't know how bad Covid was going to get, or how well the vaccines would help to fight against it. Thus, I still stand that, assuming this premise, that the right thing is to coerce if there is due cause that doing so will really be to the benefit of all, then at the time it could very well have played out to be the case. Why didn't we eventually stop the mandates sooner afterwards I can't say, but I'm also not sure this is the premise people assumed, I think many people assumed simply saving the most lives mattered more than a few people's resistance to wanting to take a jab in the arm. Is that just? Well it's a debate we're all still having.
Still doesn't seem to help with radiation emission because the rate of energy loss by a body is still the fourth power of it's temperature. And even at a such a fantastic sounding advantage, it only gets approaches competitive results in respect to air cooling at a surface temperature beyond 2000 C. The Russians were the only ones to achieve a megawatt range continuous reactor in space by dealing with waste heat transmission on a surface that was above 1500 C. The way they did it was by using a thermionic converter which is a heat engine that uses electrons as a working fluid. No one has matched the specs of their thermonic converters and interest in the technology is very small. It is also extremely hard to pull off because 1500 C is just the "cold" end! The hot end must be significantly hotter and this temperature is even hotter than some of our best refractory ceramics can withstand under the physical stress they undergo. Not only that, but these temperatures cause evaporation of the electrodes. The heat regime causes many hard problems that have no easy solutions. I'll tell you I went down this rabbit hole for nearly a year after watching a simple demonstration of a torch powering a fan using a thimble sized converter.

Even if you are at the top of the field in materials science research, there is little that has not been tried to make it more practical.

But in case you are interested, the work function is the key property that could enable easier designs.
He is trying to bring it home to them and getting them excited about hearing that China, Russia, and anybody else knows where they are at all times, what they follow and so on. If I had to choose a government to surveil and manipulate me, it would not be my own US government and corporations. Of course I don't let any of them do it.
Apart from Ko-fi is there any good alternative?
Would you rather have a nurse who was a vaccine skeptic or no nurse? Honestly asking.
A long time ago I was being trained on working a massive printing press for the local newspaper, quite the complex machine. Then they found out I was leaving for university in a month and weren’t too happy with having wasted time on someone who wasn’t sticking around.

Even the simple stuff needs constant attention so they didn’t end up with a major paper jam and having all the ad stuffers and delivery drivers sitting around waiting.
I love oysters! It's different!

Oysters are just as slimy and all over the place, but they are what they're supposed to be. Everything is in the right place. They're complete. Fetuses are a whole other ball game. I'd rather eat those whole French songbirds or whole octopi or insects before I got anywhere near a half-gestated anything.
Ask HN: Any recommended communities for remote freelancers/contractors?
I am freelancing, but also looking for connecting with others... especially with opportunity to join. I dont mind with paid communities, if that's needed. My main reason was to also make sure I can secure some opportunities in the future, especially in US/High paying jobs remotely
Yep. L0pht heavy industries / @stake / PwC / Symantec / IBM made a boat-load there.

I'm not sure anyone is going to find much dirt on, or discredit, Mudge. He worked for the Whitehouse.
If you look at a map, the entire area is broken into numbered areas, with 51 being the most famous.
If this was true there would be a crystal clear, precise account of the violation by now and the stock would be trading much lower.
Thanks for these links. Do they make kits for soundbars? I'd like to get something short to put in front of the TV and it feels like I should be able to make something. I guess the problem would be integrating ARC into it.

Edit: nevermind there is one with ARC: https://www.parts-express.com/AudioBar-powered-1.5-way-2-cha...
We all have our pet peeves, and this is one of mine, too. But it's surely orthogonal to issues of code reliability—someone can definitely write flawless English but terrible code, and it's definitely believable that the reverse could happen—so it's not clear what's the relevance here.
They have two URL's, one for adult content and one for SFW content. You're looking at the SFW rules
Is there any good write-up or a video series where the hacker explains how they bypassed DRM or some other anti cheat system?
It's not a "Zach-Like", but Eliza by Zachtronics is on the Switch. It's a visual novel with an interesting story about AI and the gig economy. I recommend it highly, I really enjoyed it.
Oh yeah, Richard Moss. Nice guy.
> "Even if you're a climate denier, you should be on board with what we're advocating," Prof Doyne Farmer from the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School told BBC News.

> "Our central conclusion is that we should go full speed ahead with the green energy transition because it's going to save us money," he said.

Both conclusions are wrong: 1. if you are a client denier and you are not on board with what they are advocating, nobody cares. 2. we don't need to say "we should go full speed with green technologies". If they are more profitable, we'll just go full speed, regardless of whether we push for this or not.

And by the way, we are already going full speed. In 2021 we (the world) have invested 3 times more money in renewable power generation that in fossil fuel power generation [1].

[1] https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-investment-2021/exe...
That's expected. Most startups never recoup the funding they raised.
I think it's shorter the list of TLDs people might actually appreciate.

com/(net)/org are clearly the dominant trio.

National TLDs in countries with a culture of using them: co.uk, .de, .se, etc

National TLDs which have been rebranded and in some places are 'cool':

io - popular with startups/tech

vc - popular with finance/money

co - for people who can't afford an 'M'

ai - for AI

gg - popular with gaming

sh - popular with hackers

New gTLDs, these mostly haven't gotten any traction.

xyz - One of the hotter ones at the moment seems to be xyz. Alphabet (Google) is using it. Would you believe it if I told you there's been 5m in sales compared to .net's 3.4m sales in the past year?

Source: work for NameBio.com which has the largest domain sales database.
Eh… was an android user for eight years and I found the UI/UX to be confounding. Too much variability from app to app. Constantly wrestling with my phone. The iOS design language seems more consistent and logical in my opinion and the transition was seamless. Although that design comes at the cost of an extra click here and there, stuffing a lot of functionality into share sheets (e.g. adding a photo to an album in Photos.app).
OMG 35 M$ per year
the generalizations you desire suggest, to me, no matter whatever ancillary implications arise: go for it
Manufactured electrical outages were used to remove Gray Davis from office.

i.e. manufactured by energy-traders, primarily at Enron[0], as described on the Wikipedia page about this California electricity crisis[1]).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_California_ele...
> That kind of demonstrates the importance and value of a good CEO though. A couple dumb decisions by an assembly worker won't kill a company. A few bad decisions by a CEO can.

A few dumb (or malicious) decisions by an assembly worker can cause enormous damage and incur enormous cost.
Is this because no one is using Facebook anymore besides updating their profile picture every year or so?
Everyone I know only uses Facebook for messenger
https://jakeseliger.com/2020/05/24/a-simple-solution-to-peer...
The only political move left is a political move: shout and point "HaCkER! HaCkEr!" Maybe if The Donald did it, it would sway some of the ignorati.
Niemeyer is a national treasure, but I find his role in helping create a capital in the middle of nowhere in Brazil extremely reprehensible. Brasília was created to keep politicians away from the big population centers and avoid protests.
There are strategies to remove cars and you can make effectively car free suburbs, but I'm not sure you can make an entirely car free city. The biggest issue is trucks, everything needs to be planned around getting trucks out of the places everyone else is driving.

The other strategy is getting everyone onto bikes and onto public transport. If they can do it, citizens will prioritize public transport and cycling over cars. So once you get rid of the trucks, and design the city in such a way that citizens can cycle/train to work/commercial then you'll reduce heaps of traffic.

Interestingly, I built high speed rail to a second town I built that's only connection is the railway, it's quite small but also very little traffic. Almost everyone takes the rail into the main city for work. I think better cities in the game would actually be to treat suburbs like a series of small towns, rather than lots of massive city blocks.
It would be one thing if the covid vaccine actually worked well, but it doesn't. It kind of works, but not especially well.

Even worse is people who actually got covid, yet they want them to get a vaccine, which is rather pointless for them. Places with that particular policy demonstrate they don't care about science, they care about obedience to authority.
Don't most dating sites already offer the ability to filter out by various characteristics such as height, race, age, languages spoken, and many others?
> I think most job salaries can be linked directly to how much of a difference the employee can make.

I think that the world's, or at least the US's, teachers are a glaring counterexample.
That game looks great, though. Wishlisted. And sorry to hear about the funding trouble, that sounds like something that should be higher up and discussed more.
Maybe if the job and compensation were more compelling we'd have plenty of teachers. And we can come up with innovative ways to use the space we have.
Accounting (for example the poster in the link states marketing does not make up COGS, which to someone who studied accounting is obvious). Simple economics (poster reveals "secret" that Price*Quantity can equal higher total revenue when price/quantity change disproportionately). Consumer behaviour (Dr. Dre can lead people to believe crap from pile A is better than crap from pile B). This is apparent insider-knowledge from someone who spent several years in industry - or you can go to school for the first 1.5 years of a business undergrad program and learn it that way across many more industries. In the final years of business school once you've chosen a specialization, you may learn advanced corporate finance (stocks, bonds, weighted cost of capital, different types of break-even measurement like economic break-even vs accounting break-even). Or you may specialize in accounting, operations, marketing, yada yada. Then an MBA is apparently much of what is taught in a good business undergrad but perhaps faster-paced and you get a shit ton of networking value.
Class D amps: https://www.hypex.nl/
> Options worth > $0 is an occasion of very, very good luck.

Why do you think that?

It doesn’t require ‘very, very good luck’ for most companies shares to not collapse.

If you work for a big company like Oracle or IBM your options have cash value no luck needed.
What do you mean? An amplifier that can drive speakers that's also a streaming device? That exists at various price points. Anywhere from a raspberry pi taped to a "dumb" amplifier all the way to various Roon streamers. Although at both super-low and higher price points, things tend toward individual components for flexibility and diy reasons. But that's easy enough to work with to get something that both looks and sounds good.

Sonos's one plays nice w/ Sonos's ecosystem, but if you don't need that there are other solutions.
Try not to take it personally, there are both devs who are replaceable and devs who aren’t, and with ~40 Call of Duty titles on almost as many platforms, a million and one people have worked on it, some doing more mechanical port work than others. There’s truth in there; the games industry is tough, and it’s relevant that some studios that (for example) demand lots of overtime haven’t seen any large exodus, or sometimes there is high turnover and the studio still survives, to parent’s point. There’s a higher level layer to this, that from a publisher’s point of view, there are a lot of smaller studios that are easily replaceable, and I’d speculate studios go out of business over contracts lost to other studios far more often than over employee walkouts (which of course fuels the need for overtime to be competitive). This is true for games and for VFX production in the US, enough people want these jobs that high turnover doesn’t seem to slow the business.
The reason I said this is because of "implementing a well-defined blueprint" it just compelled me to say something, I am not expert developer by any means,but it is like saying to a degree; paintings are all same because most of them use same colors, arguably writing prototype code is simple, but fixing bugs and tuning everything so game is fun and fluid is where hard part is.
Yeah, how non-deterministic. I don't think I want to live in that world.
Sudden disturbing moves for IT in large companies, mandated by CEOs
totally agree with you on the mechanisms not being there. That is what we are trying to do with https://www.getparallel.io/
Tesla vehicles can be stolen with new relay attack but there’s a two-inch caveat
Their games are fungible too.
I migrated a monorepo including C++, Kotlin, Java, TypeScript and Python to Bazel. It's no small feat, and the DX varies widely across languages and platforms, but it's absolutely worth it. `bazel test //...` from a fresh clone builds & tests everything including gRPC/protobuf code generation, custom code generation, downloading packages, toolchains and linters, dependencies between langs, test suites with coverage across multiple languages.

Integration testing is a breeze through data dependencies. The reproducibility guarantees means we can reference container image SHAs in our Terraform and if the image didn't change the deploy is a no-op.

Bazel is an outstanding build system that handily solves a lot of practical problems in software engineering. Not just "at scale". Practical problems at any scale.
"Over the last 9 months, we’ve seen the tech industry – and the whole economy – change considerably."

have we, though?
I have repos in GitHub Enterprise Server which are WELL OVER 100x what you say the limit is.

There is not a technical limit of 4GB per repo on github.com. maybe a private repo size limit if you are not a paying customer, but it is not a technical limit of the platform, I assure you.
100% this. I subscribe to a couple dozen digital sculptors who provide monthly STL file drops. Patreon's platform is terrible. Their billing is amateur. Their customer support is pathetic. The UI is... just impossible once you get above a few creators.

The alternative in this monthly subscription digital sculpting space, MyMiniFactory, is also not great, but it's eating Patreon's lunch by not being actively hostile to the subscribers. (Well, a bit hostile. I need to use an adblocker. But they have $1M funding or less [compared to $473.3M], so I can make some allowances here.)
I was waiting for a Amazon purchase link recommendation but was disappointed.