skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking maybe I should finish monkey island 2 before buying this one. I got it on my iPhone a long time ago.

Well, tough luck. Disney bought Lucas Art and removed it from the App Store - no redownloads for anyone!

https://www.pocketgamer.com/secret-of-monkey-island-special-...
democratic societies require ideological control. We are seeing today how unfettered communication is leading to polarisation and consequent 'crisis of democracy'. Good job we are reasserting control over information flows - banning Trump etc - in order to reduce confusion, improve indoctrination and promote stability.
You are living in a dream world. Climate change will put many cities/parts of cities in "developed countries" underwater. Bigger tornadoes will rip apart those further indoor. Forest fires will decimate towns close to forests.

Either the developed world gives up on its luxuries or they will be forcefully taken by a complex climate system that is not beholden to political statements.
Assuming nothing exists except what you already know about gets you reliably wrong answers.

In fact there are a lot of hills. Few places are very far away from any, even in Nebraska. Any hill may serve for pumped hydro, although those over 2000 ft (600m) and have a natural depression are best. A simple earthen levee suffices, otherwise, with a penstock extending down.

But we also can compress air, for "CAES". And we can liquify air. Both of these are extremely mature technology. Compressed air is cheaply and safely kept deep underground or underwater, and released through a turbine to recover power put in. Liquified air is vaporized with heat from ambient air.

We can electrolyse water and keep the resulting hydrogen in underground cavities, under increasing pressure; both the hydrogen and its pressure store energy. We can synthesize ammonia, to tank and transport, and burn it for fuel in ships and existing combined-cycle gas turbines.

Ammonia synthesized in the tropics or where wind is reliable may be shipped anywhere in the world to fill in for shortfalls of local storage. So, nobody needs much local storage.

Aviation will soon transition to liquid hydrogen because the value proposition is so great. Anybody lagging will find themselves wholly unable to compete. LH2 will be made and banked on-site at major airports, from power delivered via transmission line.

Another simple storage method uses buoyancy, drawing floats down toward the sea floor. Another, raising and lowering a heavy weight in a disused mineshaft. The mineshaft may also contain compressed hydrogen.

Your off-grid domestic batteries are the most expensive way to store energy. But they probably will last you longer than 10 years, just as your refrigerator will probably last longer than 3. In the near future you might come to bank hydrogen instead, and put excess in your car. Your electrolyser will last more than 10 years. The compressor might wear out in time, but is cheap.
Some porn site suggested a naked match
Interview with Figma CEO and Adobe's President of Digital Media Business [video]
Show HN: Never miss another bug with dashcam for development
Cyberpunk 2077 the Most Played Single Player Game on Steam
Wouldn't it be better to save the publication datetime as a Unix timestamp, then convert it based on the reader's timezone?
Yeah, might have happened like that.
They are available on Steam today, surely they've upgraded or rebuilt the engine to run on modern machines? Disclaimer: I haven't actually tried.
A knife scares me far more than a gun up close, as a sharp knife causes massive damage to tissue and internal organs, while many are shot by pistols and live.
I have the same problem (i.e. terrible short-term memory, though my long-term memory is fine), and I've picked up a number of compensating behaviors over the years. By far, documentation is my #1 go-to strategy. I document code extensively, even if I'm the only person who is ever going to read it again. People have mocked me for this, but I believe it's a superpower.

Most programmers believe a number of blatant falsehoods about documentation, with the most prevalent being "comments go out of date quickly, so there's no point in investing in them". Maybe I'm just hyper-aware of it because my short-term memory sucks, but code comments have saved me on so many occasions that they're simply not optional.

You can document your code. You can keep it up to date. It isn't that hard. You just don't want to.
I can't wait to get home to play it.

Secret of Monkey Island 2 was my first PC game on a 486SX and VGA monitor. The sound came out of the PC speakers... One day I got an Adlib card and was blown away. Go ahead and download the remake on steam and notice something that kind of doesn't exist in any game (that I know): when you enter the scene on Scabb Island, the relaxed reggae beat changes ever so subtly depending on the bridge, the carpenter shop, the mapmaker, the bar, etc.

For example, you enter the mapmaker and the Wally music comes on, which is the same reggae bagdrop to a clarinet or oboe, the music is a little deeper in the carpenter shop, there's an evil background tone when Largo LaGrande shows up and a more subtle one in the hotel, etc.

With gorgeous hand painted digitized art.

They don't make games like that anymore. Can't wait to see if they actually did.
In this context I learned of "Ludonarrative Dissonance". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludonarrative_dissonance
Maybe it is an oblique criticism or maybe it isn't.

It also implies this question: Best reviewers? Or most popular?
abstract:

> "This paper presents evidence of the disruption of a transition from fossil fuels to nuclear power, and finds the benefits forgone as a consequence are substantial. Learning rates are presented for nuclear power in seven countries, comprising 58% of all power reactors ever built globally. Learning rates and deployment rates changed in the late-1960s and 1970s from rapidly falling costs and accelerating deployment to rapidly rising costs and stalled deployment. Historical nuclear global capacity, electricity generation and overnight construction costs are compared with the counterfactual that pre-disruption learning and deployment rates had continued to 2015. Had the early rates continued, nuclear power could now be around 10% of its current cost. The additional nuclear power could have substituted for 69,000–186,000 TWh of coal and gas generation, thereby avoiding up to 9.5 million deaths and 174 Gt CO2 emissions. In 2015 alone, nuclear power could have replaced up to 100% of coal-generated and 76% of gas-generated electricity, thereby avoiding up to 540,000 deaths and 11 Gt CO2. Rapid progress was achieved in the past and could be again, with appropriate policies. Research is needed to identify impediments to progress, and policy is needed to remove them."

full text: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/10/12/2169/htm
This also gives you the freedom to remote selective applications rather than the whole desktop.

X11 remoting took me to a new level in college, when I needed to use Solaris workstations to complete assignments.
He must have taught you everything you know.
Ludonarrative Dissonance
The author might be in Aus/NZ.
Scaling data ingestion for machine learning training at Meta
increasingly happy that I held out since iPhone 7+ for this one
Absolutely: Hearst's "You furnish the pictures. I'll furnish the war" predates social media by quite a bit
> the couple put their home in the Los Angeles suburbs up for sale this summer. Yet even after they cut the asking price by $10,000, there was hardly any interest.

That'll be something like 0.5% to 0.1%. You know it's insignificant to them because they didn't need the equity to purchase their next house. So they're not that serious either, they'll sell when prices go back up.
Why did you personally chose to work for them? :)
Apples own browser downloads code that can download more code that itself can download even more code before finally executing the last bit of code.

The technology to secure it surely already exists or ios devices are already insecure.
It should be pretty simple. https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-bridge/blob/... is a simple Slack bridge in 100 LOC, for instance.
IBM Research’s Path to Serverless Quantum Computing
"In a video released by the Israel Antiquities Authority, gobsmacked archaeologists shine flashlights on dozens of pottery vessels in a variety of forms and sizes, dating back to the reign of the ancient Egyptian king who died in 1213 BC."

Here's some of the videos I was able to find:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wQYrfjv0fw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLTBzxA1QaE
Doooh!!
Ask HN: Does Hacker News still do in person meet ups?
I found some old and inactive meetup and eventbrite groups but are there any in person? I went to a hackathon event before covid that was incredible and I was hoping similar "energy" still existed.
Okay, but its still a group of people.
This was well written and the author seems experienced and good intentions.

But…. The advice provided is borderline common sense to any/most experienced entrepreneurs.

Which is not an indictment of the OP / author but rather a validation of just how grossly mismanaged Fast was at even the most fundamental levels.
May be a variant of http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html (regarding "Dash")

But perhaps I'm exaggerating? I'm basing these concerns on what we learned about the creator of Dash here, in 2016:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12684265

(To be clear, the creator of Dash has a different name than the author of this post.)

There was IMO highly manipulative behavior that fooled a large part of HN back then - to the degree that I remembered it just now, six years later.
Yeah, but since the author leaves in EU I think it’s just a typo
Without a licence, so nobody is allowed to use it, or even compile it.
Places remote computer providers like Vultr, Digital Ocean, Linode, etc., have servers with GPUs you can run up. You pay for uptime, and storage (including machines that are not up).
I had some knee pain issues (likely caused by ITBS) last year when I increased my running frequency. Not wanting to rest for more than a few days, I'd still go running and then just reduce to a walk when the pain became unbearable.

I researched and found a few helpful tips that helped eliminate the problem. One was to correct my running form. Overstriding will kill your knees; don't let your upper body lean back from your lower body. Your body should be vertically aligned, head to foot, with each landing (though a slight forward tilt of your torso is fine). Another tip is to incorporate lower body strength exercises. Lastly, be sure to do stretches after (at least half of) your runs.

These days I run almost daily and experience no knee pain. At my current rate I'm on track to finish 2000 miles for the year.
I'd rather say they simply know that being evil is not a good look. It's still driven by profit, they just have a more holistic view on that.
That if it can produce enough current for it in the first place and I kinda doubt that. I've seen chips survive short term reverse polarity even, this might just be fine
You haven't applied Hanlon's Razor properly. They're just coordinating incompetence that they find beneficial, not being malicious.
Good point. Reminds me "All models are wrong, but some are useful"[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong
On the other hand, the best content I've seen on Youtube clearly takes time and a budget that likely wouldn't be available if the content creators weren't able to monetize their work. They're also passionate about what they create, they just wouldn't be able to do it if they also had to hold down a full time job on the side.

You seem to be making the mistake a lot of people do, when they insist artists don't deserve to be paid, or should be willing to forego any compensation for the sake of the integrity of their craft, of assuming any monetized content exists exclusively for the sake of monetization. A lot of it does, but we live in a capitalist world in which passion alone isn't always sufficient to pay the bills. And on a platform like Youtube, success often depends on doing whatever the algorithm wants, whether you like it or not.

The solution is to accept that quality is worth paying for, and being willing to support content creators you enjoy watching or listening to. It's also probably for Youtube to ease up on its algorithmic controls and allow a broader range of content to be monetizable, and possibly make it easier for content creators to seek out advertisers and vice versa for niche content, and having a robust, tiered rating system, and actually have a sane process for fair use and copyright, but also definitely the first thing.
Neiman is a 19 year old man. Stop infantilizing him.
No, I certainly don’t ;) though it’s the theoretical upper limit of note taking efficiency, something to aspire to.
It's probably not correcting for timezones.

Either that or the programmer forgot what day is today.
Yes, tried that once and every other developer in my team complained.

I would stick with JDBC if I were the only developer.
There's more to this than just energy, we're all about to get a very strong lesson in the fact that fertilizers require fossil fuels as chemical feedstock. The Ukraine conflict has already lead to a steep drop off in the availability of fertilizers for many countries across the globe. Those will result in greatly reduced harvests and food scarcity.

The next few years are to be very rough, and nothing can be done to fix it. Deglobalization will make things even worse for countries that can't produce or purchase enough fuel, food or fertilizers.
This post was on the HN front page and made it all the way there without comment, mine being the first.
I don't disagree that slack is a common denominator, but slack is owned by Salesforce and Heroku was recently hacked via AWS. If anything here is fishy, it's Salesforce owned/operated services.
I don't remember anything. But my work notes have thousands of lines. So if need to recall something, I just use Ctrl+F.
Oh, it generates from a text prompt, not a sample texture. I thought this was just a tool to generate wrapped textures from non-wrapped ones.

The licensing is a mess. The Blender plug-in is GPL 3, the stable diffusion code is MIT, and the weights for the model have a very restrictive custom license.[1] Whether the weights, which are program-generated, are copyrightable is a serious legal question.

[1] https://github.com/lstein/stable-diffusion/blob/61f46cac31b5...
Not to spread rumors or anything, but this has gone over the top:

> A chess grandmaster has become the victim of an online rumor that he used a sex toy to defeat the world champion.

https://www.insider.com/chess-feud-hans-niemann-magnus-carls...
It’s a state funeral.

You’ll get arrested for doing the same thing in the United States at state funerals there.
> America is the only country in which "liberal" is thought have any relationship to "left."

That's simply not true. Because "liberal" is a word that means many different things in many different countries, it's a famously malleable term.

For example, Wikipedia says (emphasis mine):

> The definition of liberal party is highly debatable... This is a broad political current, including left-wing, centrist and right-wing elements. All liberal parties emphasise individual rights, but they differ in their opinion on an active role for the state. This list includes parties of different character, ranging from classical liberalism to social liberalism, conservative liberalism to national liberalism... [1]

Indeed, a quick search for the term "left" on that page shows that "liberal" is used to describe leftist parties in the Bahamas, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Croatia, and North Macedonia at least. It's not just an American thing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_parties_by_country
Or the movie Dragonheart, where a dragon and knight team up to fake dragonslayings to con villagers.
The music was great - I used to have the LeChuck theme as an 8-bit chiptune on my old cellphone and it still rocked.
Hi, I've spent past couple of weeks working on this. I realize there are many of them now but there was none when I first started working on this. The pace at which this community is putting out new tools is crazy. Also, personally this is first thing that I've build so far that I spent hours using lol, so I hope some else finds it cool. Wasn't really sure if I should post here, but here it is. Roast me!
Related:

Return to Monkey Island trailer [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31911065 - June 2022 (128 comments)

When I made another Monkey Island - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31246530 - May 2022 (211 comments)

Return to Monkey Island, Coming 2022 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30957917 - April 2022 (84 comments)

If I Made Another Monkey Island (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30908723 - April 2022 (4 comments)

Return to Monkey Island - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30908395 - April 2022 (60 comments)

Return to Monkey Island, follow-up to Monkey Island 2 [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30907723 - April 2022 (1 comment)

If I Made Another Monkey Island (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15004266 - Aug 2017 (86 comments)

If I Made Another Monkey Island... - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5557443 - April 2013 (83 comments)

also:

Monkey Island Director Will No Longer Post About the Game Due to Online Abuse - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31939339 - June 2022 (21 comments)

Ron Gilbert won’t post about Return to Monkey Island following online abuse - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31937333 - June 2022 (6 comments)
I searched several variations on that, but couldn't find what you're referring to. Do you have a link?
Find a mentor with strong Medical ultrasound skills and obey to everything he says? I don't sure Medical ultrasound verificator can solve much of CS problems.
They forgot what day it is
Yes, iMUSE (Interactive Music Streaming Engine) as they called it was genius, not sure whether something like this does still exist these days.
Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System
No, afaik that's not the case everywhere. Switzerland, which has the best unis on the continent, is pretty open registration for all nationals, in others it's sort of a mix. Selection happens during the degrees, exams aren't curved.
This thing doesn't send requests to a server, it all executes on your own CPU
A new JavaScript framework is not "the next big thing". It's the next thing that everybody's going to jump on as a bandwagon, but that's not the same thing at all.

The actual next big thing? Not a language. Not some hardware change ( I mean, ARM servers could be big, but only the server people will care. It won't be the Next Big Thing.) Not block chain - that's close to played out. Not machine learning - that's too far along. It's what's now, not what's next.

I see two possibilities. It might be quantum computing. I doubt it, but it might be. It also might be wearable VR. Again, I kind of doubt it, but I doubt it less than I do quantum.
I'm 37 and I've put hundreds of hours into IV and V just driving around and having fun. I don't have as much time for it anymore since I'm married with a kid on the way, but I still enjoy the heck out of it.
I think it's fine on the assumption that a uintptr_t converted from a pointer cannot be a trap representation, which is the case on mainstream platforms.

(An unsigned type can only have trap patterns if it has padding bits. Every combination of the value bits is a valid value according to the pure binary encoding.)
That's basically the reason people could give for believing this story.
So apparently nobody cares anymore?! Big Pharma had good run but luckily for them boosters will still be used for years to come.
- Terry Pratchett
I was taught to use a fountain pen and to write a cursive in school. I can remember fountain pens being mandatory in classes for assignments but pretty quickly I observed people writing in print.
Memory is important, it doesn't matter how nice your documentation search is http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
What is textual inversion?
Neimann has admitted to cheating in online chess matches and was banned from chess.com tournaments for some time. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/sep/07/top-chess-play...

The current tournament is an online tournament.
How many milliwatts would you need to run Stockfish at ~2900 strength under classical time controls, and what's the smallest extant gadget in that power range?

(I'm assuming the I/O power would be negligible compared to compute, since it'd run at very low duty cycle).
I won't disagree, but there's a bit of rose tinted glasses of nostalgia here.

A few years back I tried playing The Secret of Monkey Island again (special edition from Steam), and it wasn't quite as great as I remembered. The special edition has got voice acting, but the original script (which was for text) doesn't lend itself to voice acting (dialogue feels odd) and having it text only felt a bit archaic.
Uber: Security Update
I qualified my statement with "out of warranty". I have had to take <12 month old devices that had defects crop up and have them repaired, but those repairs were free and did not require me to have AppleCare+.

A logic board randomly dying 10 days after purchase would certainly be covered under the factory warranty.
The GeoIP provider seems to provide a batch API. You can query upto a 100 IPs in a single request.
It's really only been the last few years that running watches could last >24 hours with GPS tracking enabled.

I also have a Forerunner 935 which I've used for 24 hours, but I think I had it in ultra-mode where it takes GPS samples less often.

Before that I had a Forerunner 230 and I had to charge that mid race during a 100-miler, which was fun to do while running (used an external battery, put the watch and battery in a running vest while running one of my laps).

The latest watches which do 36 hours or more with full GPS accuracy are really amazing.
I've noticed as I've gotten older that I lean more on remembering pointers to information rather than the specific information. I know something exists and can find it quickly, but may not know it off the top of my head.

For example, how to get the length of an iterable in a given language. I may not remember the function name (or if it's a top-level function vs a method) but I know I can search "string length in $LANGUAGE" and find it. This scales better than memorizing every language feature I'll ever use.

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PS: Dash is a great mac app, highly recommend. Your job will likely cover it if it's something you think you'll use.
If i could i would upvote this 10x times. Always write documentation (especially for your own code). Future you will say thank you to todays you. At least i have done so multiple times. And i always feel cheating my self when i feel lazy to write documentation.
Don't check the trends. Find a circle of people with your interests and stay away from political spam you're not interested in. That makes Twitter very useful for e.g. following research or getting informed opinions.
Fascinating, really fascinating*

*Line from "Where eagles dare"

Everybody here happy that Google "does not sell data" ? Are there still people who have "nothing to hide" ?
Niemann was a last minute substitution at Sinquefield