skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Get instruction to go to location X

2. Make sure to get my super fast car for the inevitable getaway

3. Drive towards location

4. Cutscene triggers

5. Car has been swapped for totally different junk car used by character
YouTubePluginReplacement.cpp: YouTube-specific code in WebKit
I have had text file + folder system for over 4 years now, and I feel it iteratively gets better and better.

The upper level (text file) category determines the high level structure, e.g. 01. todo; 03. ideas, concepts; 06. thoughts; 12. humour; 04. politics; 19. food; 05. self; 20. mathematics; 21. philosophy, etc, and the file itself contains high level remarks/thoughts, depending on how necessary it's to have subcategories.
The folder is named after the text file category and it contains subcategories and material (research papers in pdf, pictures, sketches, etc). The system structure moves recursively downwards, although in most cases I only need 2 levels.
For example "19. food" has subcategories such as 01. vitamin content; 02. electrolytes; 03. meal design, etc, and these could have their own subcategories.

I feel my system is like an externalized version of my ego (including extensions). As I put more content into the system, I become more aware of myself and my shortcomings and the thought/emotional patterns I have, and as I make changes to the system I develop/restructure my own thinking.
It works really great, but I still haven't figured out 1) how to deal with the material in version control, because I'd like separate the text files that I put into git from sizeable material files; 2) how to automatize the backup process; 3) how to store sensitive data in git automatically (it would be nice if I could encrypt files in a meaningful way and still be able to have a measure of the size of the diff).
> To give a practical example: you can have a deep and touchy convo about [some topic], but in all likelihood every argument you will come up with will have already been written about in far more depth elsewhere.

You are right about most arguments about most topics that have been accessible for people for at least a few generations.

However, it's also surprisingly easy to come up with completely new takes, once you veer off the beaten path a bit.
> You don't need to meticulously craft your code editor, stop overthinking.

You don't need to, in the sense that you can craft code in anything, but surely anyone who is an expert in their editor of choice—whatever that editor may be—would feel a huge productivity hit if forced to use another, formally equivalent, editor.
Taiji – An open-world puzzle game, inspired by The Witness
I respect that individual parents would want their schools to teach those things, so that their children will seem high-status. But as a school system, it makes no sense to teach things that only serve as status markers, because if you teach everyone the status marker, it won’t carry any information and people will switch to something else.
Is your argument that renewables aren’t usable for liquid fuels in ocean shipping, therefore we can’t use purely renewable energy sources? Because solar panels (or wind turbines, or geothermal, or hydro, etc.) can generate electricity to use for electrolysis to generate hydrogen (or better, ammonia). The options aren’t only oil or batteries… there are many use cases where fuel energy density doesn’t matter that much, but where it does (transport), hydrogen is a viable option that we can do today.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201127-how-hydrogen-fue...
When do we get 'Ultimate Battle Bots'?

No limits - explosives, flames, chemical attack, projectiles. Total destruction!

Viewed remotely for safety - armored cameras and drone shots, displayed on big screens!
> The younger generations want work life balance, meaningful work, and know employee wages have been suppressed for DECADES and are moving the needle and I’m with them.

I just quoted that for emphasis.

This is a huge problem. All those profits are going to upper management with wages barely keeping up with inflation is not a healthy habit for an economy!
If you prefer, Steam link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1141580/Taiji/

Game is extremely well-crafted and lovely. It's full of surprises and hidden puzzles, throws curve-balls at you but doesn't bash nonsensical stuff in your face. It made me "oh!" and smile many times.

If you don't know The Witness, https://store.steampowered.com/app/210970/The_Witness/
> We're never going back to a world where cursive is in widespread use.

I don't know about that - writing something out is still the best way to learn and retain something long-term.
I consider myself a libertarian. I might have written your comment several years ago, and I echoed its sentiment above when I described the parties' traditional dynamic. However, the Republican party of ~2020 onwards is a drastic qualitative departure from that symmetric status quo.

You've thrown out "effort to prevent people from saying that which is undesirable" as an example of Democratic authoritarianism. However, this is not a mainstream grassroots view. Rather it's the status quo agglomeration of power by politicians, the government grabbing power while entrenching the big tech oligopoly. Democratic voters in general don't seem to be sitting around going "Biden is going to shut those deplorables up", rather it's more like lament and resignation when the topic of social media censorship does come up.

We can of course point to authoritarian policies enacted by politicians from both parties, because politicians are inherently authoritarian, and enacting authoritarian policies that enrich their sponsors is their bread and butter.

However, the cults of personalities around Republican politicians, the rejection of intellectualism, overtly excepting politicians from the rule of law. These all indicate an authoritarian-flavored organizational structure, supported by the grassroots. If fronting as a strongman and pulling stupid stunts didn't work to get votes and donations, Republican politicians wouldn't do it. And the recent state level pushes to prohibit fundamental medical care (ie straight up individual liberty-destroying dark ages authoritarianism) is policy that doesn't enrich any corporate sponsors (as legislation usually must), but rather seems to be completely at the behest of their perceived constituents.

And so, I no longer consider the two parties symmetric. The Republicans have seemingly made their mainstream platform to dismantle our institutions in favor of regressing to some sort of good-old-days theocracy, while the Democrats still basically represent the corporate/bureaucratic status quo. And while I find that status quo repugnant from a position of wanting to reform it in favor of individual liberty, I'd much rather have the imperfect institutions we've come to take for granted, like the rule of law, than have them destroyed from the top down.
It should be noted that modern graphics rendering techniques are a little more accessible and intuitive, while still having the same basic challenges and solutions as the nuclear simulations mentioned in this thread/in the Wikipedia article. Things get even more interesting because quantities are spectral in nature, can be polarized, etc. Wenzel Jakob is doing important work in this area out of EPFL[1].

[1]: https://rgl.epfl.ch/people/wjakob/
Yeah, I can’t remember ever seeing a teller compare my signature but I think I only have written like <10 checks in my life. And I haven’t signed the back of any card in at least a decade if not two.

When depositing checks I receive (rare) I just assume the signature they extract from my cell phone picture is saved but not used/compared. If they did compare my checks would get rejected, my signature is inconsistent.

As for POS systems, I just draw a line. In fact I find it hard to believe it’s worth much given how most people just scribble. I know in credit card disputes they will ask for it but the few disputes I’ve had (and been ruled against even though I’m positive the person paid for and used the services/product) didn’t feel like “if only I had a signature I’d be golden”, I didn’t even build in signature capturing to the in-person payment software, it wasn’t worth it. For 0.01% being lost to fraudulent chargebacks, it would be a huge waste to spent the time/effort/storage to implement signatures.
Imagine just trying to mourn your mother but it's a giant media circus event
I think part of this is the relatively new diversity of media. People are getting used to subtitles because of foreign languages, and like being able to make out every word. Likewise for shows that have very thick accents; there are a few accents that become utterly undecipherable to me if they're thick enough, especially with the crap speakers built into TV's.

Once I got used to having them on for stuff I needed them for, I tend to leave them on unless I'm watching carefully and it bugs me that they block part of the screen.
Sounds like something they'd explicitly mention. I took it to mean they were a young gun go-getter.
> the Monte Carlo method lets you punch above your weight class in terms of measuring and predicting phenomena that are too complex, or too expensive to deterministically model.

Yes, this is exactly why I like it. At AWS, we've used Monte Carlo simulations quite extensively to model the behavior of complex distributed systems and distributed databases. These are typically systems with complex interactions between many components, each linked by a network with complex behavior of its own. Latency and response time distributions are typically multi-modal, and hard to deal with analytically.

One direction I'm particularly excited by in this niche is converging simulation tools and model checking tools. For example, we could have a tool like P use the same specification for exhaustive model checking, fuzzing invariants, and doing MC (and MCMC) to produce statistical models of things like latency and availability.
This looks like a fun TLA+ exercise.
I see this question often but I hardly ever see the people asking starting the conversations they wish to see. Build it and they will come... but

I have a few questions:

1) What is an interesting conversation even? Seriously. In my experience there's endless 'interesting' conversation happening on the big site aggregates, even if you have to do a little work to do it. Most of it doesn't just happen to you though.

2) Was there ever a time when deep conversations were happening on the internet? Really, truly. I wouldn't consider stumbling on a thread and reading it unique to old internet.

3) Deep and touchy? You're going to have to define Deep. Because, pick your interest. The depth of information to be found and conversations to be had about... picking a random interest of mine - Visual Art. I can go on Youtube or Twitter and see any number of threads about: NFTs and their place in the wider space, same with AI Generated Art. I can find videos on technique that are deep and technical. There's any number of discord servers to join that if you engage in good faith, people will respond in kind. (One trick is to simply ignore folks who make 'derailing' comments. Here's a secret I thought everyone knew: Trolls and the ironic posters want attention, if you don't give it to them they simply go away; Their biggest fear is being boring, use that against them lol)

I'd be interested in what examples you have of 'self-censoring' and 'walking on eggshells'. Seriously. Even the most 'Touchy' subjects I can think of, take your pick of culture war nonsense, if you engage earnestly, deeply, intellectually, there's open discussion to be had.
How to Access the WiFi Scanner in Mac OS X Yosemite
Doesn’t work in safari or chrome on my iPhone.
Well, apparently there is. Just press export and you will find it costs 8$.
The subject was about how it's all going to the dogs. So no, not every movie. But some movies
If you prefer continue using a text file for your todo/done items, then I recommend Easyorg [1]. There you can see the todos from the text file in a more organized agenda. There is also a calendar view where you can scroll week by week to see what you have done and see what's coming up. Kind of what you explain. No need to remove the done items from the text file.

[1]: https://easyorgmode.com/
I have never seen someone of big-screen means choose to watch a flip top dvd player outside of a portable environment or the kitchen or something.
There are people with 4k TVs viewable from their desk who primarily watch movies in a small Discord window because of the social element.
He is often called the "Father of Capitalism", based on his two surviving works The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). He is also often referred to as a founder of modern economics.

In this case what we mean by capitalism loosely is a system of private property, free/open trade, market based pricing mechanisms, economic decisions being made by individual actors, etc.
I won’t allow it. If they try, I say no thanks and keep walking.
macOS comes with a pretty good wifi scanner. It even recommends the best channels for common frequency ranges, like this: https://letstalk-tech.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/20...

It's buried in the Window menu of the Wireless Diagnostics app, though.
A while ago I wrote this as a simple introduction to applying MC methods in distributed systems: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2022/04/11/simulation.html
> Are they literally bragging about burning money in style ?

Yeah, not something I would be saying after a failed company. You would say something that shows you reflected on this and realized your mistake.

> That's either investor lie or he's in denial

An obvious lie... That should be a red flag for future investors.

Why would investors pull out of a good investment? He's either spending money at a rate that doesn't translate to growth or he's in denial.

> [..] there are broad critiques on things like operations and supply chain [..]

I wouldn't cast these issues 'broad', they were very real and important show-stoppers. I would be surprised if there was actually supply chain issues for food, considering so many other shops in Pakistan clearly have figured it out. Probably the biggest issue was 'operations', i.e. spending money like it's going out of fashion.
I'm a contract worker and often times a company first onboards me to slack, then sends me a bunch of login information in plain text after opening an internal ticket to add me to various systems.
> between Christmas Eve and when the first movie came out

That potentially gives you _decades_ to binge-read the books... how many depends on what do you consider "the first movie". :-)
Glad to see these old computers getting some love.
I don't much about audio, but wouldn't binaural stereo only work if the two speakers are to the sides of you, like with headphones? Would this work from a TV that's an ambiguous distance in front of you?

As a side note, Windows (and Xbox) support Windows Sonic, Dolby Atmos for Headphones, and DTS:X, all of which simulate spatial audio for headphones. It'll simulate a 5.1 (and 7.1?) setup through the headphones. Some games have spatial audio simulation built-in as well, such as Elite Dangerous. I believe UE5 also has a spatial audio engine. Finally, I believe PlayStation emphasized spatial audio for the PS5, but I don't really know the details of that.
I agree. I hated the podunk backwoods country town I grew up in, but after 30 years, I have to admit that my schooling was not so bad after all. Actually, it seems to be an outlier in how well it actually prepared me compared to other people's opinion of their schooling.

The thing that I appreciate most about the teachers and the curriculums taught was that they taught me (I would say us refering to all students, but don't want to presume) was how to learn. I should say, the math/science classes did this. The history/literature classes were all rote memorization BS. I did not like those classes an did not do well in them. However, the other classes where I learned how to learn allowed me to become what has been labeled "a self-learner". I can read subject material a few times, experiment, and then "know" it well enough to function. Practice and continued use makes for much better retention than rote memorization. I used to ask teachers for anything that was still unclear, now it essentially is replaced with SO searches.
If such a team of 3 people comprised of script kiddies and 5y PHP coders are going to create a $20m/year product, you can be sure that they will take precedence over anyone who was 'properly' educated in cs when it comes to hiring.

> I'm sure it happens

Yeah it does happen. While using the Internet, quite frequently, you are looking at such products developed by such teams, making millions of dollars a year. Even as the good engineering that is being done at FAANG is now being questioned over profitability, with even Google talking about 'inefficiency'.
Why not use procmail for it?
I wonder if with all its recent advancements and features C++ can still be, however weakly, considered a general purpose language or at this point it is firmly a specialist language for niche application?
That's an interesting perspective. I started writing C++ after C++11 came out and personally I can't even imagine writing C++ without auto, move semantics, lambdas, variadic templates, std::unique_ptr, std::atomic, etc.
That, and you are king now.
FOH?
That’s a really interesting way to solve the problem, and I would like to try it. Do you happen to know if he mentioned any software that operates in that way? I’m imagining many lists, with a nearly frictionless way to say ‘do this today’, and the task moves accordingly.

I’ve tried a handful of note taking apps with checklists, and actual checklist apps over the years. The one thing they’ve all had in common is that they’re too cumbersome to really integrate into my daily habits. I need something that lets me add and adjust super quick to accelerate the actual task getting done.
If anyone's interested, Mullvad has both rented and owned servers - https://mullvad.net/en/help/server-list/

The full list of their servers - https://mullvad.net/en/servers/
That wasn't the intention. Watch the video. If anything old style talking in movies sounds less intelligent and artificial.
> I respect that individual parents would want their schools to teach those things, so that their children will seem high-status.

Yup. So the main places that are still teaching cursive:

* Wealthier public schools (to keep upper class parents happy, even if it doesn't tie to a state requirement).

* Private schools (I teach at one of these).

* Various "traditionalist" / "conservative" states.
> I support it for freedom from tyranny. I support it for independence from oligarchs, banking authoritarians, and a corrupted monetary system.

This is the main reason why many big brains either moved to Bitcoin Cash or Ethereum in 2017. Bitcoin basically got taken over by Blockstream and other L2 VC-backed companies, holding it hostage with small blocks just so these intermediaries can skim profits off of transactions with their half baked federated solutions.

Rationale is pretty much “if Bitcoin has been taken over by toxic lead developers who are in it for the money, then I might as well look for the next best thing (even if it’s less decentralized) with good developers, and many discovered Ethereum fits the bill.
You may enjoy this:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
How many of those spoken words are words that are (rightfully) excised when transcribed into a written document? There's a lot of filler in speech.
ohhhhh I didn't know this. I've seen these complaints from Americans about cursive a million times and I never understood why writing with joined up letters was so hard.
I'm a rust beginner, but it seems like a mutex or lock is shared mutable state, and abstracting this with unsafe code to implement events is just creating a loophole by which to call a function on another thread without having a mutable reference? I'm sure I'm missing something, or a lot of things. It just aeems like code I wouldn't writ in c++ even anymore. I typically don't do signalling between threads or have them share mutable state. If they do signal it is by read or write to a value small enough to be atomic.
The biggest thing for me from GTD is building a system
I can trust. It goes in and I can forget about it until the right time. Mind like water.
Okay but you don’t have to handwrite it in cursive.
Your suspicion is probably correct, and in terms of places you can go (online) to have a conversation that is asynchronous, long form, and comparatively private, I think it's all gone off the public-facing internet, at least for many categories of discussion. Slack, Discord, Matrix, probably some other platforms I'm not cool enough to know about.

A long, long time ago, I ran a BBS: now I run a Mattermost server. Feels like about the same level of quality to me. The conversations there run the gamut from lower (more vulgar, less mature) to higher (more in-depth, lengthier, more thoughtful, taking place over a longer time frame) than, say, Twitter, Reddit, or HN.

It's not hard to set up an invite-only, hosted chat server. It is somewhat harder to convince people to use it, because a lot of people don't want to run another app.

If I had to choose today, I would go with a Matrix-based solution rather than Mattermost, but it wasn't available at the time. Most solutions, including Mattermost, lock you in by not letting you export the (full, including DMs) conversation archive, so you have to choose something you want to stick with for a while.
BGP is bad, but SS7 is worse in some regards given how SMS messages are abused for 3 factor authentication. At least over IP networks we can check SSL certificates.
That, and barely anyone likes the fact that you're king now.
Older analogues exists, but not exactly in this form.

Two puzzles from Logical Adventure of the Zoombinis are very close, though.

The first is Captain Cajun’s ferryboat, which you can see at https://youtu.be/_JlMcs_2xes. The constraint is that all zoombinis you seat on the boat must share at least one trait with at least one of their neighbors. It doesn’t really impose spatial dependencies of movement like your puzzle does though.

For one that does, but by taking on a cartesian grid, you can look to Bubblewonder abyss https://youtu.be/vx1yFKVdq9o, which on its hardest difficulty adds many, many rules to moving between nodes based on traits, plus re-use toggles (so if a node is visited twice, it goes two different places, “capture” triggers of glowing colored particles that holds one Zoombini captive, and a “release” button that lets it go.
We've almost come full circle to "place your mark here"
I think more companies will start charging for human support and troubleshooting in order to incentivize customers to stick with the IVR phone tree unless they really need a human.

That could be a subscription, warranty, price per call minute, or something else. (And if they don't charge they'll make you pay with your time by keeping you on hold.)

That would allow people who know they need a human to just choose it up front, but it will mean paying more.
Looking at the Stacks block explorer, there’s very little activity on it.
The first flying bike can stay in the air for 40 minutes