skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check https://www.cryptokitties.co/guide/ways-to-play

The reason it seems like they didn't describe the "actual game" is that there is no actual "gameplay". You just pay to collect cats.

You can trade the cat tokens with other people, try to sell them on the marketplace, pay to generate semi randomized new cat tokens via "breeding", and... just have them under your wallet / name. There is no action, no RPG, no platforming, no game board... basically nothing besides collecting and swapping tokens. They actually do show the entire "gameplay loop" in this image from the article: https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-flow-chart-with-ar...

They encourage you to collect more with timed events, where you "win" a bonus for having collected a certain type of cat token, but that's about it.

If you're of a certain generation, you might remember a craze of kids collecting and trading Pokemon cards, and never really playing the game. It's basically like that except there is no underlying game to play, all you have are the tradable cards.
Here’s hoping Amy Klobuchar and the FTC and anyone else who wants to see competition blocks this sale.
'Adobe acquires Figma for $20B using revenue from years of price increases e.g. [0]

[0] 'Adobe has more than doubled the price of Creative Cloud in Australia since 2014 (2017)' https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2017/05/reminder-renew-your-ad...
> In some sense, every business dreams of wanting to be a recurring revenue business.

As do individuals. The only thing preventing it before was the expense in enforcing licensing terms. Today’s software and cloud hosting makes that much more trivial.
lol we should unite
No, these are not transplants freaking out because of two weeks per year.
That's true with the latest consoles too, honestly. They are even better deals in terms of what you get. My Xbox one is nearing 10 years old and it still plays new games, it plays a lot of the older games if they've been ported at least (bone of contention I know it not being proper backwards compatibility), performantly runs all streaming services (can't be said about modern smart TVs), its a blu ray player, I have 5.5 tb of local storage on it, and I got it used for about the price of a modern game.
Hard disagree. Indiscriminately killing civilians is labelled terrorism, and rightly so.
FWIW, PayPal tells you that if you expect to run a large business with them you should call them and escalate yourself to underwriting BEFORE you massively scale something up that might cause them to flag your account; and so, unlike with Amazon Flexible Payments--which did screw me over soon after I started operating--I never had issues with PayPal, as I followed their process and thereby had an assigned sales agent who could negotiate with underwriting from the get-go.
There was a movie made about it, with Max von Sydow as Andreé. I liked it a lot, quite realistic.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084136/

Also, a book about it, The Expedition, is fantastic.

https://www.amazon.com/Expedition-Bea-Uusma/dp/1781859639/re...
Comedic proposition. It had extremely limited ecosystem support. The steward of the ecosystem had far more specific & narrow intents than any real & meaningful success would have required. Think different doesnt broke cooperation, ya'll; ya gotta play with others too. It is known.
Maybe we can force Google to do this through ESG activism.
This is bad - but the worst part is that due to this trending on HN, I’m willing to put $50 down on that you’ve received some sort of personal or special message from Stripe support; for PR’s sake, so you can say someone reached out and resolved the issue.

Which is total bullshit. If you hadn’t, or didn’t really have the means to; create such a hubbub on social media about this - your issue would never have been resolved.

I actually think it’s worse when companies do this, rather than fix the clear, underlying support problem.
This is Aldus Superpaint all over again...
Compared to NeXTStep, BeOS was a wildly incomplete tech demo of a relatively incremental improvement to the classic MacOS formula. It was only a “serious contender” in the media and in the headcanon of Apple’s fan base.
Drop in Cloudflare Replacement
Having trouble finding a drop-in replacement for Cloudflare. Any suggestions?

- CacheFly has no easy trial to sign up for
- Fastly has no DNS
- CDN77 has no DNS
- Google, Amazon, Azure are stand alone CDN

There doesn't seem to be a good alternative? Or, am I missing something?
Hey, I'm the creator of Markdoc and the author of that blog post.

The key advantage of using Markdoc instead of using Markdown with liquid or another string-based templating system that preprocess the content is that the tags and other custom syntax are a first-class part of the Markdoc format. The document parses to an AST and the individual tags can programmatically manipulate the content and document node hierarchy instead of just manipulating or outputting strings of text that are passed on to a Markdown processor.
It have a lot of trouble understanding how this sentiment can exist.

Especially since the rise of GPT-3 and now these image models, we've seen the pop-culture face of AI become even narrower. The promise of generalization that could lead to intelligent behavior has given way to people sharing amusing pictures or phrases that these models have generated, because that's what they do. It's cool, but it's basically become orthogonal to any AGI, or even AI with applications. It's now just a neat cultural phenomenon from which laypeople somehow extrapolate the kind if stuff the parent is saying.

I'm not saying AI (neural networks) isn't making research progress, it's just that it has almost nothing to do with any of what laypeople extrapolate from it
I'm impressed by all of these image generators but I still don't see them working toward being able to say, "Give me an astronaut riding a horse. Ok, now the same location where he arrives at a rocket. Now one where he dismounts. Now the horse runs away as the astronaut enters the rocket."

You can ask for all those things but the AI still has no idea what it's doing and cannot tell you where the astronaut is, etc.
Abusing emergency alerts so people want to turn them off is a bad idea. If there's a wildfire or tornado that requires people to immediately evacuate/shelter at 3 AM, people very well might die if they don't receive these alerts.
So how does this open API works? Every time you use it you have to pay a third party?
> If I and my grandma and everyone's grandma would use Proof of Work cryptocurrencies to buy peanuts at the supermarket

Beyond your misconception that work scales with users rather than value, it's also a misconception that bitcoin is competing with technologies like Visa and Paypal. It's not supposed to be an alternative payment system.

It's competing with gold and sovereign currencies.

Your grandma won't ever use it directly.

Your government might.
Having the world’s most powerful military gives them de facto authority. :)
Commenter is probably referring to this incident[1] where a sodium-cooled nuclear reactor on a Soviet satellite ended up spraying a bunch of small beads of sodium into Earth orbit. The number and density of the beads makes them a long-lived hazard.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_954
It's not clear whether the counter-party agreed to the change.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32858426
Switzerland is in Europe.

With 1'000'000 percent certainty.
There's a free mobile game called Clusterduck which is basically the same idea but without the crypto nonsense.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pikpok.wtd...

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clusterduck/id1531250914

You basically don't do anything except watch what weird mutations come out from the breeding. In Clusterduck, you can only have up to 30 ducks, so once you hit the limit, you have to throw a duck into the pit to sacrifice it. Sometimes when sacrificing a duck, a large monster spawns from the pit, and if you tap it enough times, it'll spawn a duck with a "cursed" trait of some sort.
I mean the tweets people see are chosen by an algorithm. Its not at all crazy to think they algorithm was updated. It doesn’t imply a shadow government or thought policing
Another thing to note is that in cardinal voting systems the candidates have a big interest in strong negative advertising against the opposition. If the Republican candidates want to avoid Biden getting 2 or 1 from Republicans expressing their ordinal preference between Democratic candidates, they need to loudly proclaim to Republican voters that Biden is equivalent to Sanders/Warren. You'll get an even more extremely polarized country that way.

In general, the effects on _candidates_ are hugely underlooked in the voting system discussion which tends to look only at the effects on voters.
That is assuming the (much debunked) trickle down economics. A 20c increase in taco price is not going mean an increase in the worker's pay (if any at all). Minimum wages haven't increased (much) in the States for over a decade, in spite of record profits for a lot of these minimum wage employers. Sure, the price increase is going to help with wealth accumulation for some, but certainly not all, and the ones left out will feel the sting. Someone on a pension will see a sudden increase in prices, property taxes etc. something she didn't have enough buffer to accommodate. Of course, there are other forces that will do the same too, but it would be foolhardy to ignore the effects of digital nomads on local economy. Better to get ahead of it in terms of public policy before it becomes too big of an issue. Same way governments around the world are struggling to curb inflation, nomads can cause (unexpected) inflation on local economies.
I’m not taking the thread on a flamewar tangent. My comment did not contain any insults nor did I encourage anyone else to do so.

I am pointing out with a sarcastic analogy that pre merge and post merge ethereum are not the same thing. Outwardly looking they are both ethereum but the post merge ethereum lacks the triangular incentive structure that pre merge ethereum had.

I am also pointing out the hypocrisy whereby people will happy accelerate climate change for the sake of leisure but get upset when someone else accelerates climate change for the sake of utility.

I am disappointed with your decision to detach this sub thread and any responses that may lead me to challenge my own perspective.

I do however respect that it was done with the intention of an preventing unproductive dialogue.
It's a demonstrable fact that Carbon Dioxide as a % of the Earth's atmosphere is increasing, and virtually all serious models predict that it will have a significant impact on the planet's average temperature and other characteristics.

But there's a big prisoner's dilemma emerging over it, especially as globalism appears to be breaking down between the West and Russia/China. When trade and diplomacy erode to the point of a cold war between the two factions, there's nothing that can be used as leverage to prevent the other parties from cheating on climate agreements.

The West can try to tackle climate change in its own countries, but if the actions it takes puts them at a economic/military disadvantage to Russia/China, then it might do far more harm to the future of a free, non-totalitarian world than climate change could.
How about all the drug debris in SF. Why not take care of matters closer to home?
Just in time that I would like to buy a winter jacket, seems Patagonia is the brand, if not at least a used one.
Nothing is stopping you from having such a model, but why would everyone need to do this?
The terms of the bet don't refer to any specific artwork, only to the best image generating model. Hence, you are correct but it does not matter for the outcome of the bet under discussion.
Why put a computer inside every server if you can have a computer control a whole rack of servers?

The KVM part is only useful when setting up the server. A solution that allows easy unplugging seems preferable.
I know, I've been using it for a decade. Also a fan of Cytoscape and Socviz, as well as a bunch of more obscure tools in this area.

I should have mentioned my tools, thanks for reminding me.
Not in all regards. The owners don't get any cash without selling stock.
Most europeans prefer to forget the eurofighter typhoon exists for a reason.
haven't used Godot in a couple years but it's good to see the progress on their tile system for 2D games! it was terrible last I checked, yet pretty crucial for making many kinds of simple 2D games
Unless the intellectual property assets (art and character designs) have been licensed putting them on a blockchain does not make them legal to use.
It might understand that there is a cube, there is a ball, the scene has red and blue parts, and there is a vertical placement (“on top of”). In that case it would get 1 out of 4 images right.
I am very fit, 20k steps/day, lift daily, eat the DASH diet, but have high BP if I eat salt, low if I don’t. My girlfriend isn’t quite as healthy, loves salt ,but has super low BP no matter what she eats.
Genetics are far more powerful than I realized. Sometimes nothing else seems to matter.
Tried it at around 3:05 pm (PST) and didn't notice the problems you described. Did that using Firefox, Vivaldi, and Web.

Have you tried again since running into those problems?
replace “enslave” with gradually weaker words until you find the statement you, personally, agree with.

51% decide that 49% shouldn’t be allowed to drink alcohol. that’s a comparatively minor example of “tyranny of the majority” (which happened within living memory). now explore all battles you’ve been on the losing side of. abortion access? funding of overseas wars? legality of drugs?

i find it incomprehensible that if you look at things honestly you won’t find at least some instance when you’ve felt repressed by the democratic rule of the majority. “enslavement” is simply that repression exaggerated for the purpose of making you see it.

> This is why people who give a shit about Democracy talk about minority rights, and free media, and non-discrimination. These are the core tenets of democracy.

no, these are the core tenets of egalitarianism. democracy is merely one process by which we may approximate egalitarian ends. if you care about egalitarian ideals (or above, “liberation of the people”), you should be open to other processes which achieve them — not just the one you were raised to know.
There's never a need to copy 3 files anyway. If the database is closed cleanly then the WAL file and lock file are deleted. If not (either it's still open or not closed cleanly) then I think any half-finished transactions will be discarded if you copy all files to a new location. Certainly safest not to copy the 2 extra files in any case.
Misinformation, both from proponents and opponents is the name of the game in crypto.

It's incredibly difficult to find the truth from either side, especially if you're a lay person who doesn't have any grasp of how the technology works.
You can even distribute individual WAL frames and arrange distributed writes with raft consensus and a time lease. I never formally modelled this but it seemed to work perfectly: the approach only lacked checkpointing the Wal file and synchronising the database file across raft nodes.
Or combine it with a fine for creating debris?
As I recall, Roger Taney said that was just wrong.
Why did you ignore the Bach examples that show a horse riding an astronaut?
Many great new avenues of inquiry here - I thought the thread had died for lack of interest. Thanks to everyone!
De-globalization will slow down economy, human activities, resulting in less pollution, less production. As long as there are no world wars, or any war for that matter, I'm all for de-globalization.
Also would the world be a better place if they gave it back to some third party, so it can be sold to a private collection and be locked in a vault somewhere?

Where it is now has a lot of historical and cultural significance. It is currently being admired publicly by thousands of people, sitting on the coffin of Queen Elisabeth.
Slightly off-topic: according to what I read, it is a lightweight proxy written in golang that is capable of starting a vm when receiving network traffic and 10 seconds after the last request it turns off the fly machine.

I've been looking for something similar for some time to use in my development docker instances (specifically with dokku). I have many services that, although they consume little CPU time, they do have a high overall consumption of RAM, but they are actually used for a few minutes each day.

I don't want to use kubernetes for this as it adds too much complexity for the benefit I would get.

Do you know any solution similar to this, to turn on / off docker containers when network traffic comes in?
I don't think this repatriation actually happened. Is that because someone actually listened to Baudrillard? In any case, complaining about an event which didn't happen as "indulging in retrospective hallucination" adds another layer.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/470314
> It's a conundrum and an complicated legal question that honestly isn't worth it for any of the countries, all of whom have bigger issues to deal with.

Sure, but the crown shouldn't keep it. Give it to a neutral 3rd party until an agreement is in place.
yep,Then I just use the container in production with some tweaks.
If the OP only has a dozen drives to wipe, I think a drill and some liquid to pour over the platters would be a sufficient alternative.
Yes, pointer’s are themselves passed by value (no pointers to pointers) due to garbage collection where the ability to directly alter them would cause crashes (like basically every C++ program does if you spend enough time fuzzing it).

That doesn’t change the fact that they are indeed pointers (aka references).

How are pointers to pointers passed? You don’t want to reference another stack frame directly, so you pass by value.
> When drivers don't have to pay for driving

Car payments/depreciation, registration fees, insurance, gas/electricity, tires, maintenance, etc., don't count as paying for driving?

> If a working metro were a priority, new lane-mile construction would cease and highways would be tolled much more commonly.

This is the same trend as usual: ideas that make it worse for drivers, without giving them a better alternative to driving.
Ask HN: What is important when moving a project to production as a solo dev?
I am currently developing a project that I want to start a business with.

I've read a lot about Observability, Logging, Testing etc. But what techniques and tools are important when moving to a production setting?

Is it necessary to setup a Grafana + Prometheus Stack to observe my application?

Is it necessary to create full end to end test on a staging environment?

Is it necessary to move from my current docker-compose setup to kubernetes and implement automatic health checks and so on?

Is it necessary to figure out how to load test my application with multiple servers to circumvent my slow internet connection?

If you have resources or tipps to share, it would help me very much.
Stability.ai: New open CLIP models trained with a million hours of A100 use
It was a typo but I loved it so much that I left it in and instantly adopted it into my lexicon.
I know a lot of small business owners love SaaS that reduce their IT department to someone who can buy a new iPad and log into the apps again.

Payroll, POS, inventory, backup, etc and the owners can keep track of everything remotely. Setup a backup mobile internet solution, and your biggest IT problem becomes regional loss of electricity.

Nothing for employees or others to steal, nothing to spend on tech support labor, and being up and running again is just a matter of replacing the iPad.
Or 1977-78's Quark
Yes. When interfacing with a complex system, especially one you don't control, always do at least one live test.
Unreal's default multiplayer architecture is unreliable by design and Tim Sweeney's whitepaper on its design from 1999, IIRC, talks about it in plain language. It's dramatically different than the Quake family of engines which reliably replicates entity states. The fact that he does not think of clients as being capable of having accurate replicable state is jaw dropping and appalling to read. It's, well, like reading a dissertation of provably wrong statements.

Serious shops hack around the fact that Unreal uses a variable timestep. Because it uses a variable timestep and uses an RPC design that does not align state changes with frametimes, you, by definition, cannot make say, a reliable first-person shooter. Every game that uses Unreal must use cone projection and proximity hacks on top of the RPC system to attempt to make a reliable first person shooter, because you cannot guarantee the state of actor positions and inputs coming from the same frame of execution.

Beautiful game engine though. Absolutely unreliable, though.

If you ever wondered why FPS games on modern versions of the Unreal Engine had multiplayer that felt so bad, it's because the engine isn't designed from the ground up to be accurately replicated to clients.

The design issue is systemic, so it may never be fixed, and Unreal engineers have decided it's too difficult or laborious to tackle.
Screw all of this SaaS needs to die a horrible death. All of these webapps/SaaS products are just data collection apps that can lock you out at any moment. We need to get back to owning our data and installing locally.
> Youtube science channels did glowing paid reviews of Waymo’s self driving cars without acknowledging they were paid for it.

Which video is this a reference to?
Does this include products like Word Online? Because that product is awful.

The visual bugs are annoying and the document-syncing with multiple editing people feels like 2005. As of last year, it couldn't even render a .docx file properly. It tried to render input fields as images. LibreOffice Writer opened the doc better than /Word/ Online.

I am a student who has access to office online and have tried to encourage my peers to use it for group projects so that we don't have to use Google. However after repeatedly having to make up excuses for their neglected product, I have given up and just request anonymous editing links for Google Docs.
Another interesting layer to this is that Adobe only has $5b in cash according to their balance sheet, so the overwhelming majority of this deal is probably in Adobe stock with a long vesting period. Also the deal being done in a downturn means that the difference between this and an IPO is academic in my view
Capital in the 21st Century by Piketty claims the trend is labor -> capital in terms of power, I.e. labor becoming worthless, capital becoming more valuable.

Makes sense then that software among other things becomes a service.

Problem is same old conflict: I work for money, they own my work and take money, I resent that, they like it, then violence or legislation or something.
I have played around with GPT quite a bit and I would say that GPT understands the difference. Text-to-image models are not specialized in the text-parsing part, so I think it's forgivable that they are not as good at it.

Edit: Actually I tried this right now with two prompts, and I was wrong. It might still be that gpt understands compositionality but the prior that people ride horses is just that strong. But what I saw was that with this particular situation the model got it wrong.

Edit 2: With some heavy hinting it managed to understand the situation. Italics mine. "An astronaut is walking on all four. A very small horse is sitting on top of him, riding him even. Shortly after the astronaut stops, exhausted.

The horse is too heavy for the astronaut to carry and he quickly becomes exhausted. Next, the horse gets off the astronaut, stands on its own four legs, and walks away."