skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, thanks for the info -- you answered my question, too. :)

> VR is in my opinion absolutely groundbreaking in flight simulation.

I completely agree. I'm not a pilot nor interested in becoming one. My Dad owned his company and flew a plane for work[0]. He used the 1980s version of Flight Simulator to get licensed for IFR flying. I was impressed with the latest, but if there ever was a use for VR, it's this. You've got a panel full of instruments in front of you and an array of windows to look out of. At least half of the "controlling" in that game involves looking at specific places/in specific directions. Everything would be much more natural if I could control what I was looking at by ... moving my head.

So far I've held off on buying any VR-related non-sense because I have yet to find something that it would improve the experience of enough to warrant spending money on. It sounds like this might be getting me closer?

[0] I've written at length about this in the past, but he owned his company and sold to manufacturing plants. Many were out-of-state, so the plane allowed him to get to a few appointments and back home without a hotel stay -- or ... "gave him an excuse to own a plane". You pick :)
#39 was right in the heyday of CYOA books.

There are split opinions on the original CYOA authors. Pretty much everybody agrees that Edward Packard made very tight and well constructed stories. Many folks hate RA Montgomery's stories because they are weird and meandering, almost psychedelic. Personally that's why I always enjoyed them, even as a kid, but I think I'm in the minority.

At any rate I don't think many people feel the series started to decline until maybe #100+
It's pretty crazy to me how successful Splatoon is. A kid friendly third person competitive shooter sounds difficult to pull off. Props to nintendo for making it work so well, especially on completely novel IP.
Yeah... I'll never have a 1-on-1 with an executive. Although I did supposedly win a team lunch with my company's CIO. Their admin has yet to set that up and it's been like 5 months, so I'm guessing that won't happen.
It's "free as in speech", not "free as in beer".

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
OSS developer finds way to get people to pay for their software, other OSS developers furious. Film at 11.

Like seriously, they made a game and made it open source and free (there's even a prominent $0 itch.io link just under the Steam one!), and allow people to pay them money for it using the most popular and successful game distribution platform in the history of mankind, and people are put off by it?
I suspect part of it is that Real People are posting less. Since the feed doesn't have a bottom anymore it makes up the difference with sponsored and suggested junk rather than going empty.
That's a good question: was the phlebotomist contracted or a full-time employee of SFPD? I feel like that could be a major part of the case.
Agreed on the last bit. Having a clear-cut line where "this must be reported" is I think necessary for liability reasons. There are definitely other transactions that should be reported, in the spirit of the actual AML (anti money laundering) issue. But I think it's necessary to be able to say, in a legal setting, that the required obligation was met and discharged, even if something happened that probably should have been caught.
What's a case where you need to scale up pods but not nodes? (I think the case where you need to scale vertically vs horizontally is easily imagined, though)
I only found out about LEB via links shared on HN. I haven’t subscribed yet but will consider it once I landed a job. I don’t think that sharing their most interesting articles is hurting them, more like the opposite.
Agreed. This and the recent controversy around the HyperSocial CEO posting an emotional layoff post on LinkedIn makes me wonder if the new trend in layoffs is to try to make us relate more with the CEO than the laid off employees and take some heat off them.
Maybe, but regardless, once you've shared that data with the police, they aren't bound by HIPAA.
No, it is also "free as in beer": https://anuke.itch.io/mindustry
Literally all my social contacts have left FB for quite a while already, myself included. I'm surprised people still talk about this.
...oh and I dumped this lot a while back:

https://github.com/linker3000/Historic-code-PC-Pascal-and-AS...
Let me be very clear, I am not disagreeing with your point. Nor am I agreeing. I’m simply stating that your conclusion does not follow for the form of your argument, and providing an alternative example.
Well, as I said earlier, I don't care much about what camp you side here.

The one important thing is that if you decide you must solve some completely different problem, you should do it with a completely different product.

So the argument that a nondescriptive name allows you the freedom to change the product is bad. You never have the freedom to change the product.
Wait a little longer and they'll be announced on TikTok
Mind you, communities/groups, obviously imitating subreddits, as well as the marketplace are saving it quite well from ending up like MySpace/Hi5. It's also evident that there has been a significant boomer infestation to the userbase the past 10 years.
Switch games need to have non-touch control options cause it's also meant to be played docked
Police are not subject to HIPAA. The law only applies to Covered Entities (health care providers) and their service providers ("business associates"). If the DNA was collected outside of that framework, or the police had legal access to the data, I'm not sure that law covers this situation.

Note: HIPAA was designed to make access to medical data easier, not harder and it's not some magic law that protects people's health records from prying eyes.
Joint work with https://twitter.com/PaavanBhavsar and https://eyurtsev.github.io/

Execution is 100% client-side in the browser. There's no backend server, predr.ag is hosting only static files. Open the dev tools network pane and run a query -- you'll see that the only requests going out are to HN APIs.

Still a bit rough around the edges:

- error cases need polish

- the UI is not mobile-friendly at the moment

- some open Safari bugs prevent it from working on Safari or on iOS devices, etc.

That said, you can query for things like:

- patio11 comments on HN stories about his own blog posts: https://play.predr.ag/hackernews#?f=1&q=IyBDb21tZW50cyBieSBw...

- story comments that link to other HN stories: https://play.predr.ag/hackernews#?f=1&q=IyBDb21tZW50cyB0aGF0...

- discussions where the top-level comment author replied 2+ more times in the same comment tree: https://play.predr.ag/hackernews#?f=1&q=IyBDb21tZW50cyBvbiB0...

Using the Trustfall query engine: https://github.com/obi1kenobi/trustfall

10min conference talk on what else Trustfall can do: https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/how-to-query-almost-everythin...
People in "flyover country" will be glad to hear you're so insulated from what everyone else is going through.
> Hence the second sentence "[b]ut maybe you don't even need to build another Chromium."

Sorry, yes. I didn't intent to disagree with your entire comment, but just remark on the first sentence of it.

I'm glad you enjoyed the book! :D
its like this.

your bank account has a phone number linked to it.
in normal cases here is the workflow.

you install UPI.
UPI app sends sms verfiying your mobile.
app lists all banks.
you select your "bank".
you set pin.
done.
But they shouldn't have been able to get it.
Based on Russian performance at the start of the invasion, a similar force would have overrun the Baltic states. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are small and geographically isolated. They are surrounded by Russia, Belarus, and the Baltic Sea. Any attempt to support and supply them would have to go through the small gap between Kaliningrad and Belarus, or over the Baltic Sea, which would be heavily contested.

The geographic situation largely explains why the Baltic States support the NATO membership of Sweden and Finland so strongly, and why Russia is opposed to it. With Sweden and Finland in NATO, the Baltic Sea will become NATO's internal sea. NATO would likely have naval and air superiority over it, which would keep supply lines open and give them a chance to defend the Baltic States with conventional weapons.
There’s also the Japanese New Wave somewhere in there (the ‘50s and ‘60s) which also had a very great influence.

Me, personally, I’d also put the 1960s-1970s wuxia films from Hong Kong in a list of “stuff that has changed movie history for good”.
> Programming languages will converge after(!) natural languages have converged.

Interesting point. But I think you emphasise too much the surface syntax of the language. The language will be a new form of mathematics, and it will be universal, with adapters to various natural languages, of course.
Seems like they are: https://boards.greenhouse.io/supabase
I find slow-walking someone through a problem can sometimes come off as condescending.

I take a different approach where I immediately point out the issue, and if they get discouraged about how fast I solved the problem, I remind them that I’ve spent hours banging my head against the same issue. They will probably run into this same issue again, and get stuck again, but next time they’ll figure it out faster, and the time after that a little faster, until it’s basically instantaneous. And then when they’re instantly able to solve a problem for a newb, they’ll have to give the same explanation as I’m giving now.
Full anonymity from everyone along the way.

I got nothing to hide yet I dislike the idea of my traffic being analyzed.

VPN is just from point A (me) to point B (VPN node) to point C (actual destination). A lot of ISPs recognize and profile VPN traffic, even if they can't decipher it. So hardly an actual improvement.

Tor + torrent + deliberate traffic pattern/origin obfuscation is likely where it's at but as I said, nobody made a true full solution.
When it comes to details, dems and repubs want totally opposite things.

Repubs want free speech (unbanning of conservatives, Trump), Dems want control (what can and can't be said on the platform).

Bottomline, Ain't happening
Upvoting this comment, dunno why it's been downvoted to hell - you're totally right.

I agree with shadowgovt above, in that; yes - motion controls aren't meant to be used all the time, it absolutely gets exhausting.

But on the other hand, you're completely right as well - I'm also very impressed by VR exercise, and games can be a very effective tool for exercise, especially for a nerd like me who finds motivation hard.
W did it first. So, no, citing W doing it first is not "slanted".

Instead, claiming that Obama and Trump also violating their public trust makes my observation "slanted" is actively dishonest: I said that W did it first, and W did it first. Period.
Maybe we have different bars for what it means to learn something, but if I worked with an experienced dev who took a year to learn C (and there was an actual need for them to learn it) I'd question their claimed experience. It shouldn't take more than a few weeks to be capable of using C if you have a decent background with other procedural languages and already know the difference between heap and stack storage (so you don't make the mistake of a past colleague of trying to return data on the stack, he didn't claim to be experienced though).

Learning a language and mastery are separate things. An actual experienced dev should be able to hit "competent" in any new language within weeks so long as it's within the same family of languages they've used in the past. Procedural languages, like C, are pretty much squarely in the middle of what everyone has learned unless by some fluke they started and continued with Haskell and similar languages and never touched any of: Go, Rust, C#, Java, Javascript, Lua, Python, Perl, Ada, Pascal, Fortran, Matlab, BASIC (various forms), and a hundred other languages.
I installed SCO Unix from 96 floppy disks dozens of times.
> they were discovered and their edits reverted

Eventually they were discovered and their edits reverted. The misinformation was on the site for years.

This is like Donald Trump now (finally) admitting he lost the 2020 election fair and square and that Biden is the legitimate president of the United States and then using that as an example of what an honest and upstanding democracy-loving bloke he is. Ehh ... no.
It was a great feeling when we were able to bootstrap a CDROM drive.
Longbet: Cancer fatality rates in the USA will fall 50% in 5 years
The book Life's Lottery by horror author Kim Newman plays with this (and is inspired by Choose Your Own adventure books)

Review (with spoilers, though not sure that concept applies here) by Interactive Fiction author Emily Short:

https://emshort.blog/2015/01/05/lifes-lottery-kim-newman/
Not to defend Twitter because their lack of oversight and security controls around who can access what sounds completely inadequate and borderline criminal... but comparing any company to Google is unfair. Very, very few companies have the resources and experience that Google has dealing with these types of threats.
My feed is practically spam.
I was addicted to this series as a child. It is heartwarming to know that they were largely produced by single fathers. They definitely made a connection with me in my youth. I particularly remember the "Spacecraft 54-40" story, and how it had a thread that could not be reached by conventionally making choices.

For me, these stories were durable and engaging. I could read a book more than once because it had lasting value still to be found. I was rather spoiled with tons of books that I really never read, but Choose Your Own Adventure surely contributed to my early literacy. That series was one that would often find me reading late at night in the bathroom while my family slept.
Didn't mean to imply that they were necessarily doing anything wrong or right (and I tried to clarify that with the last sentence of my post).

In my book, "taking down a notch" means to humble someone. Companies like Apple and Google can make uniliteral decisions that move markets (for better or for worse), in a way that other companies can't. The crux of the question is whether they'll be able to hold onto this liberty.

On the same vein, I think it's totally fair to ask whether a non-tech company like Nestlé could be taken down a notch.

All that being said, I buy your point. As long as their core offerings remain undisrupted/maintained, it's hard to envision things being different.
Great job done! Keep it up!
even illiterate people are able to navigate a cell phone. take for example infants or 1-2 yo kids. they cant read, cant speak but they can open youtube and even reach their favorite video.
Constellation – The First Confidential Kubernetes
I was coming here to post just this. Fantastic books and system. It's a shame it wasn't completed. The pages that ask you to continue in a book that doesn't exist gives me all kinds of FOMO.
As a person born in '95 I still remember floppy disks, it was probably the very first 'computer' thing that I've broken.

Heck, I still should have a pile of those stashed in the basement, maybe it's a good time to plug the reader to my PC, and dig through those?

This article was really well written, good reading!
Pray tell, what are your personal programming languages?
> they formed a commercial organisation called "TypeSafe" around it. Then it took on VC money and then also renamed itself to "Lightbend"

My alarm bells were ringing as far back as that name change. Everyone I knew who used Scala thought the name change was silly and foreboding of bad things. "TypeSafe" has a nice, technical ring to it, and it embodied what we thought Scala was all about.

Now, "Lightbend". Talk about a fluffy, meaningless, VC-friendly name. It sounded ominously wrong back then. I guess we skeptics were proven right after all these years...
I imagine the estate is mostly property value or valued on the income it can generate ... how does this come into play with estate tax?
Yeah, but nobody here is suggesting long lived branches, nothing about a feature branch requires that it exist for a “long time”. Your local “main” branch that you’re developing a feature against is a “feature branch” you just aren’t calling it that.

But even if it did, regularly remerging main back into it (or rebasing) does solve like 90% of the issues being described here, and further comes with a whole host of other benefits.
> Many farmers use Monsanto out of fear for being sued.

If you buy seed from another supplier, Monsanto would sue you? It's incredible you could make this statement without realizing how completely and obviously absurd it is. If this scenario were real, other seed producers could have demolished Monsanto with restraint of trade lawsuits, and would have.

And no, Monsanto never sued a single farmer due to inadvertent contamination from GMO pollen. They stated they never would, and it's very likely that even if they had tried, it would not have worked (since the farmer is not responsible for the contamination.) They DID sue a farmer who deliberately sprayed a field that had been contaminated, to kill off the crops without the trait, and repeated this until he had selected for and concentrated the resistance trait. THAT act, spraying and collecting, showed malicious intent and violated the patent. It's not something an honest farmer would have to worry about.

If terminator seeds (which Monsanto never sold) caused traces of cross pollination, why would that be a problem? The trait would rapidly select itself out of a population.
I'm hoping PWAs continue to get better so that app stores aren't the only way of having an app-like experience. App stores just aren't designed for this kind of use case, and hurdles like "We're dropping your app bc you only have 4 users"* take the joy out of home-coding.

* fictional quote but it wouldn't shock me if it became real
This.

Most people have ~300 friends. Most of those friends never post, and the 10% that do probably only post a couple of times a year now.

That means whenever you log in, there is no content from your friends to see.
A lot of reasonably small, well-moderated subreddits are still pretty great.
Well, don't worry. The base game is easy to complete in ~20 hours. Nintendo won't allow mods, so you won't have access to the add-ons that boost a single game (Krastorio, SpaceX, Bob's) into the 1000+ hour range.
> As you can see in me questioning: > What are the chances of the political class individuals current psychology suddenly make them agree, collectively enough, to say "hey, let's make ourselves this amount of less powerful for the benefit of the people"?

The chances? Definitely more than the zero you make them out to be because they have explicitly reduced their power in the past. If you want an exact number that's a ridiculous ask.

>I am leaving that quantity of chances as theoretical room for the possibility, so no, you saying I have an axiomatic "mindset" about it demonstrates an issue you have reading my "mindset".

I am referring to you having an "axiomatic mindset" in regards to the government never improving, because you literally said

>No, goverments never shrink themselves. The political class only vote for power growth over the population.

If that was in the heat of the moment and needs to be modified to be more specific, I'm willing to hear it. But if you are standing by that statement I can't see any interpretation other than that you believe governments are incapable of improvement with regards to releasing power
Plants are different. Unlike most inventions plants will generally replicate themselves given the opportunity. The idea that you can sue for patent infringement when this happens naturally is absurd on its face, yet here we are: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/12/monsanto...
In real life, we perceive colonisation as something bad because we have empathy to other humans — which is something we don't really have no control over, as hundreds of years of human evolution have made us this way.

But as creatures in Factorio don't have triggers that force us to feel empathy for them, what objective reasons do we have to take their side over a protagonist, who is clearly human? The only reasons I can think of are violations of private property — which the monsters don't see to actually claim — and non-aggression principle, which they usually break first, giving the protagonist the right to defend himself.
It was either that or watch millions and millions of people die needlessly
Unfortunately the steam deck touch calibration is kind of bad. Mine is all over the place at times, and on kb/mouse designs it can be hard to be accurate enough.
They are just making them up. At the end of the day there are way to many variables to accurately predict the climate. It's been a lot hotter in the past and a lot colder. I see no reason for the panic.
I mean ever heard of fred hampton? That one blew up publicity-wise and is fairly famous now but there's no reason to think it was the only relatively recent example or that they've ever stopped doing things like that.

The rules aren't meaningless but they also don't stop the government from assassinating you if they decide that works out best for them.
>I feel like I need either a more complete example of the workflow (writing code -> reviewing -> rewriting my history -> merging) or a deeper dive into how this works.

Have you tried the tutorial? It's only missing the reviewing + merging, but that can be done in github UI just like a normal PR.

>Will the same commit ever appear in two pull requests managed by Revup?

No, github will show just the commits in that pull request but not in its target branch/pr

>Does this take every commit in a "topic", cherry-pick it to a Revup-managed branch under the hood, and create a pull request for that topic?

Yep

>If so, how can you safely merge these branches if they differ significantly from the one that the developer is testing on? or do you just rely on continuous integration? or do you wait until all topics that share a history have passed review?

One of the biggest advantages of working this way is that changes can merge as soon as each one is ready / reviewed. CI definitely helps, but mainly we rely on the author's awareness of interdependencies between their changes. It's certainly possible to get unexpected behavior, but after thousands of PRs with this workflow it hasn't caused any problems.

>Do you run into problems where PR comments get deleted after amending the >history and re-pushing?

Even after force pushing, github will still show old comments
Leave a hair follicle behind?
Gamers Anonymous
It’s not my job to prove masks work, lockdowns work, or vaccines work. That isn’t how science works. You can’t prove shit doesn’t work. The hypothesis is these mitigations work and are worth their respective costs. The burden of proof is on the people making these claims and pushing to enact them.

Outside of vaccines I’ve yet to see any convincing evidence that any of our NPI’s worked in a way that justified their incredible costs on society. The fact that we did them without any understanding of their efficacy is astounding to me.
Sorry but a prime number generator called "Optimus" is an awesome idea.

I also kind of disagree that an "unpronounceable Gaelic word" is a poor choice. Seems like cultural discrimination. People all over the world write software, not just people who can pronounce English words.