skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would call Legend of Zelda an action RPG. Although it has some puzzles, the main activity is exploring and fighting, your equipment and skills improve as you advance (allowing you to face against tougher monsters) and part of the challenge is administering consumable resources (e.g. healing items). There’s always been a big overlap between adventures and rpgs… but the article talks about issues characteristic of the purest examples of the adventure genre (most Infocom text adventures, Sierra, Lucasarts, etc)
YouTube is just TV.
The primary problems arise from (1) mass education and (2) cheating.

Project-based learning can't be managed with 40:1 student teacher ratios. The best learning has always come from projects and apprenticeship/mentorship style systems, but even managing that with 3 classes with a 10:1 student teacher ratio becomes hard. This should make sense, almost all the economic evidence is that parent characteristics are hands down the largest factors in what a kid's future income will be (mentorship).

Cheating is rampant which is why take-home exams rarely exist.

The reality is the world would be far better off with 3 times as many teacher, but you can't keep teachers wages as high as they are with 3 times the supply.
> However, as someone who studies intelligence, I would say that because of modern nutrition, medicine, evolution, and adaptation, modern humans are probably a tiny bit more intelligent than ancient humans. I would guess that someone alive 50,000 years ago who was transported to today and raised as a modern human would have little trouble, but that the average ancient human would probably be slightly less intelligent than the average modern human.

Modern humans allegedly have slightly smaller brains than humans 3000 years ago.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220503-why-human-brains...

There's also the question of what we are actually measuring when we talk about "intelligence". It seems this is at least somewhat culturally subjective. This means that while you might be technically correct, people 50000 years ago might value aspects of intelligence that is slightly different, and they may excel in those aspects instead.

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In general, I don't know whether there can be any meaningful conclusion on whether "culture" advances. To me culture is always a matter of gaining a focus on one aspect and losing focus on another at the same time. I.e. a matter of preference and taste. Is there really something as "better" taste in general? Yes if you impose your subjective views onto to others, and no if you are fundamentally egalitarian or relativist. But then if you measure specifics (eg. how life-like/realistic were the paintings? How harmonious were the music?) you'll get some trends. The problem is that those trends aren't necessarily "improvement" if those aspects are subjectively considered a negative trait.
Humans thrive in Houston which has a similar problem. They thrive through pervasive air conditioning and spending very little time outside.

It's a crappy solution for many different reasons but it does seem to be the direction we're heading.
We could say the same about any small town local government in the Bible Belt. Not to mention all of the people running for office who said the election was stolen or Florida that literally passed a law called “the Stop Woke Act” that forbids companies from teaching DI&E. Do you want the government to control the propaganda?
> As for eating the cassowary, it is supposed to be quite tough. Australian administrative officers stationed in New Guinea were advised that it "should be cooked with a stone in the pot: when the stone is ready to eat, so is the cassowary"
You mean the oligopoly of big tech?
Whatsapp FAQ:

WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption is used when you chat with another person using WhatsApp Messenger. End-to-end encryption ensures only you and the person you're communicating with can read or listen to what is sent, and nobody in between, not even WhatsApp. This is because with end-to-end encryption, your messages are secured with a lock, and only the recipient and you have the special key needed to unlock and read them. All of this happens automatically: no need to turn on any special settings to secure your messages.

https://faq.whatsapp.com/791574747982248
In practically any country with socialized healthcare you will be strongly encouraged to terminate a child that might turn out unhealthy, and in a lot of them you will lose "benefits" (on which you depend because you were forced to pay mandatory social insurance before, taking away your ability to save/invest by yourself) if you don't listen/go to the doctors as "you are supposed to because that's the system". Where I live in Central Europe, going to the gynecologist and listening to their recommendations is a requirement to get full parental social benefits - and the policy most certainly is also based on what's economical for the state/"the system", and only parents that were previously working can get the benefits.

Additionally, you will have to pay the full price for any treatment that's outside their recommendations, this often turns out higher in absolute prices than in any US hospital - even though the people are much poorer.

Then once an unhealthy child is born they often don't get the full benefits of socialized healthcare as they should according to the constitutions, the administration will say "the system works in a different way and you went outside it, so you need to take care of it yourself" and the parents are forced to pay for treatments and medical equipment by themselves because what "the system recommends" is not nearly enough (we are talking about US$ millions of additional out-of-pocket expenses in some real world cases that I follow locally). That could be interpreted as a form of tax too, especially since you are forced to pay mandatory health insurance in most of these countries.
Check out this video by 'smertereveryday': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOTYgcdNrXE

He has access to a 4 star general who gives him a little too much information. The first screen in the video is that it has been approved for public release.

The military understands the situation. You can see why they are purchasing internet data. I don't see the problem. Who exactly has been punished by this?

Or even snowden? NSA is spying on everyone? But is there people in prison for this? If so, were they people who did need to go to prison?

You can pretty much bet every country has 'lawful intercept'
Ask HN: What does platform engineering means for DevOps or sre?
Does the term has any merits? Or a new buzzword
I wonder why they use nginx, and not Caddy or similar. Some service, which would handle all the certificate stuff natively, without having to deal with an extra script for certificates and without having to ensure that certbot runs from time to time.
So if “public school should be destroyed” what has the alternative?
I don't disagree with the premise of this article, but it's an incredible act of erasure to declare the meaningful start of podcasts to be 2014.

There's a rich history in the preceding decade that's completely ignored (and would help explicate what's happened since).
putting on my tinfoil hat

yup, do you think all these img recognition stuff is made for fun? companies wants to use them to read our pics on your phones and profile us
Nukes just cost more. Always have, always will. Like geothermal, they depend on a steam turbine that is expensive to maintain. It is hard for anything with a steam turbine to compete with anything without.

Nukes have the extra ball-and-chain of huge capital cost to amortize over all the kWh they will produce over their lifetime. This means that if you end up operating only half time, there are half as many kWh to amortize over, and each kWh costs even more, making you even less competitive. (Operating a steam turbine less might reduce maintenance cost, but probably not if you are starting and stopping it every night, or if you keep it cycling to avoid that.)

So the expectation is that nukes will very quickly become unable to produce enough revenue to pay for continued operation. Then they are mothballed. Suddenly, all that capex is amortized over a much smaller lifetime kWh total, and the actual cost of every kWh ever produced jumps instantly to greater than you ever were able to charge for it. Then you go into receivership, or anyway write off that capex you thought you had invested, but really just poured down a hole.
The people you need to convince are the people with money making the decisions. They look at nuclear and see a loser technology that consistently overpromises and underdelivers, and blows throw its cost promises again and again. In comparison, utility scale renewable installations dependably come in with 10% of the contracted figures.

V.C. Summer and Vogtle 3/4 were the nails in the coffin for nuclear here in the US. Nuclear has no time now to rebuild a reputation for honesty.

Soccer moms and instagram influencers have nothing to do with this.
I somehow feel the simplicity of everything only being paired lights giving an _impression_ of something somehow adds to the charm
Since Astronomy is considered one of seven Liberal Arts, knowing the very bases of orbital mechanics is not about knowing for example difference between interfaces and abstract classes. Understanding this astronomical subject speaks to a general curiosity that in my opinion correlates with intelligence.

An interesting observation, this is not the first time I've talked about this little test on HN, but this time it was not upvoted for.
Call me paranoid, but what about stuff that you just say when around your phone? This has happened to me a few times (ads showing up about relevant obscure topics), so I'm wondering.
Instead of reading this article, you can just read "The Peace of Dives" by Kipling... and then look at its publication date.
Was all over the news when it happened:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i...

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/03/20/291959446...

https://www.wired.com/2013/10/nsa-hacked-yahoo-google-cables...
My favourite podcasts all started as passion projects, often with a simple headset next to a laptop and no production to speak of. Some keep continuing like that (although typically people get a bit deeper into audio production as time passes) and some go "professional" after a while.

The tendency to start out with a studio and crew from the get-go is always a red flag for me, and is indeed quite boring most of the time. What I want is just "two dudes talking" (or dudettes, that's fine too!) about something they're intensely, deeply interested in. Can be sociology, food, coding, whatever. It seems that's hard to set up for a commercial entity, who'd have thought?
Was the picture taken with whatsapp, or with the camera app? Do you have google photos installed? I GP classifies images, maybe also for advertisement?
Matrix web-based green code rain, made with love
Quote from the Github repo:

_"The following criteria guided the development process:

Get the right glyphs. Like the actual ones. By now everyone's heard how the Matrix glyphs are some treatment of Katakana, but they also include a few characters from Susan Kare's Chicago typeface. The Matrix glyphs in this project come from the source: cleaned up vectors from an old SWF for an official Matrix product, archived back in 2007. That's how deep this rabbit hole goes, friends. (Please support the Internet Archive!)"_
I was listening to podcasts that were more radio than art long before 2014. Surely that was the origin of the medium, and Serial was notable by its being an exception rather than the rule?
guess nobody from meta could comment on this without a legal writing the answer for them
> If we can reverse engineer the mechanisms of evolution

Evolution is a very simple process, broadly speaking. You can implement your own model of it fairly easily. Survival is basically the only driving force, only those variations that survive to reproduce will be present in the next generation. It's a useful tool but we shouldn't let it guide us since it is quite blind.

> What is evolution driving us to become?

There is no destination for the evolutionary process. It's creation by subtraction really, everything that doesn't work gets eliminated. Mind you, it's always only applicable to the current circumstances. What works in one time and place will not always work in another. Hence the constant change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_algorithm
>There are a few more things that I think would be fun to do:

First off, it's beautiful! Second, just because you can, doesn't mean you should :)

I think it's art, so be careful about adding more. The minimalism is beautiful. Just a bunch of moving lights, but they capture the feel of night driving! If you add everything mentioned as upgrades, it will be a simulation. An impressive engineering feat, but (I think) less as a work of art.

I wonder, what does someone who's never ridden/driven in a car at night 'feel' when they see this?
Fruit is sugar locked in fibre for slower release into the blood which is different from say candy. Other than that sounds like he is on a similar diet to me. Not the worst I suspect. And good ingredients are where it is at. Chicken without seasoning can taste great - get free range organic.
And for flavour whole chicken roasted is unbeatable for variety of flavours. Buying just breasts with skin off will
be more bland.
You should be able to achieve a 10X improvement in speed just with good query and schema design, but ultimately everything depends on your data layout.

Avoid ORMs, GraphQL etc - write raw SQL specific to the views that your clients need, if you care about performance.

Low hanging fruit is:

- connection pool: your DB can in all probability execute many simple PK lookups at once, make sure you've got a large enough pool of DB connections to let it do this

- covering indices: if you are computing over columns A,B,C but looking up by PK you can add a covering index over (PK,A,B,C) which means no disk lookups. make sure all queries are using an index!

- joins: ORMs generally don't know how to do joins and use multiple queries instead. You need to get the right balance, for example for HN it could be: get PKs for top 30 articles in one query (one covering index), and lookup their attributes in another query (using a join across N tables where PK IN (1,2,3) which doesn't use a covering index). Reason being: covering indices are expensive, so you minimise the data they hold by splitting up your queries.

- de-normalization: if you have very complex joins, de-normalizing your schema may help

I wouldn't worry about stored procedures to begin with, unless you have a very complex schema/query plan. For caching you just need to make sure you have allocated enough RAM for your DB to keep indices in memory, the more you allocate the more pages it can cache in RAM. Focus on schema + SQL.
Am I missing something? I just read the wikipedia page to figure out what kanban is(a back pressure notification mechanism for logistics) and two things jumped out at me.

1. Does software have logistics?

Sort of, but it is nothing like most logistics, there is never a limited supply of things, and things are not consumed on use, anything you are waiting on is a one time r & d item.

2. Is there any need to have a back pressure system for a single user?

Or has language shifted and kanban is now just the term for a specific variant of todo list?
That's really cool, but I wonder why on my machine is maxes out all the cores on my CPU and still runs at something like 1 FPS on high
If I turn it to Low it runs okay but looks.. not great.

But I don't see anyone else having issues so, is it just me?
They told us it’s super rare to see them. Yet when we were in Australia, we spotted two in separate spots within a week or so. Maybe we got very lucky or the encounters happen more frequently than people think.

In any case, fascinating birds. Feels a bit like seeing a small dinosaur. A living one!
There is some performance overhead from the configuration Docker uses for the containers, as well as some of the historical behaviour (not sure if they still apply)

- if you use docker nat, it about doubles connection time, if you only have extremely short connections this can be quite visible.

- If you need FS access, this can come at a high cost depending on your usage pattern, docker’s layered FS is not cheap.

- Finally Docker enables features which don’t come for free and which you may not be enabling separately e.g. seccomp (this can result in a 15+% performance hit in the worst case)
> For all the evil Google may be guilty of they have done a lot of good work supporting open standards and releasing proprietary formats as open source.

Sure, there are defintitely things Google has done that have benefited the public.

> Let's not forget how Chrome liberated the web from Microsoft's won't-fix attitude whilst IE remained the dominant browser.

But I am unconvinced that Chrome is one of them. Firefox was doing fine displacing IE on its own and the main reason Chrome managed to pull ahead so fast was the huge marketing drive including ads on the home page of the worlds #1 website. Meanwhile, Chrome-driven extensions have made the web incredibly complicated to the extend that new browsers are almost impossible while its dominance holds back any real effort to put users into control of their web browsing experience since few websites care to support anything other than Chrome.
Another factor, travelling on the Shinkansen is an experience in itself. JR pass maximises your chance of experiencing the bliss of high speed rail.
If it was government controlled, it would be even less diverse. Think of the original AOL, but country wide.
> religion ... homophobia

Do you really consider that knowledge?

> homophobia - it got global, affected everyone, even non-Christian cultures like China

Do you think that aversion of homosexuality starts and ends with Christianity?
I looked at Logseq just yesterday exactly because I was trying to move somewhere from org-mode (due to its mobile limitations).
Seems like Logseq just supports org-mode formatting but it actually lacks a lot of org-mode functionality. One of which is time tracking (did I miss it?).
That's incredibly important feature of org mode for me.
> Ever since Signal started collecting and permanently storing sensitive user data in the cloud (your name, photo, number, a list of everyone you contact using Signal)

None of this FUD is true. None of the information you listed is collected or stored by Signal. You can verify this yourself by looking at the various government warrants and subpoenas, and Signal's responses: https://signal.org/bigbrother/
Considering that ARPANET and CERN were both government funded, I’d say market forces had little to do with it.
Yeah right, because the problem is they are already successful and it's depressing knowing 'what they do'. While normal people try to be successful might not have access/time/money to do 'stuffs' usually successful people do, funny but hard truth.
Did you and I ever cross paths ? Wondering now if I know you ;)
I see. A very good point. Thank you. This reminds me about the explanation of why do USB-C docks have separate USB-2 ports: because every USB-3 lane has a separate USB-2 sub-lane and these are left vacant after using USB-3 lanes to connect an SD card reader and a NIC internally.

By the way, about brave horizontal desktop PC designs, note a neighbor comment by c0balt mentions one, to it seems very nice, I would buy one immediately if a traveling salesman would knock my office door offering it without the mental overhead of having to order it and wait.
I'm not sure what software dev internships generally pay... But that seems incredibly low even for europe. Maybe other interns can weigh in.
I used to be pro-nuclear. But the war in Ukraine stopped that. One does not need to be a president of Russia to bomb a nuclear reactor. A crazy guy at top of even small country can clearly manage to destroy reactors with modern conventional weapons releasing a lot of radioactivity. Smaller reactors increase that risk exponentially simply by having more targets closer to densely populated areas.

Fusion reactors in theory can be much safer in that regard, but until they are realized and shown to work I do not see any sensible alternative for building solar or wind while keeping coal and gas power stations running.
Then you can go off network... https://berty.tech
What if you're running on an ARM VPS? Now there are 2 binaries. What if you're running e.g. Alpine? Now you need 4. Which init system do you provide startup scripts for? You need an install script too. And what if you just want to try it on your Windows/Mac computer? Need to manually set up a VM.

Meanwhile, you can just install Docker, which you might already have if you do self-hosting often, and run one command. The overhead of containers is tiny, so you really won't notice it. Bonus points for using Podman, which doesn't even have a daemon.
>Or has language shifted and kanban is now just the term for a specific variant of todo list?

Yes
I wouldn't advertise that I have a script hooked up to Hacker News.

I'll say @burntsushi when I please, thank you.

Klabnick got flagged below showdead when he mouthed off on this same thread. That's the Rust Community when their temper gets high. My temper also gets high. I apologize when I'm explicitly cited for going out of bounds, which I do. So cite an example (or ten) of me going out of bounds and I'll acknowledge it.

Citing the fact that Carl and Yehuda cited to me in person that they planned to monetize the Rust phenomenon is not hate speech, it's hear say, but everyone believes me, including you.

So let's hear a legitimate complaint?
‘We don’t have to feel like prey’: the female joggers running with guns
So you made a tool to make life easier for you and your fellow students, and rather than congratulating you they threatened to sue?
I just loved how the author explained writing code without using any specific code. That's clever, lovely done!
Serious question, why would you write the increment function differently than this simple one below?

void vector8_inc(std::vector<uint8_t> &v) {
for (uint8_t &x : v) {
++x;
}
}

No need to deal with indices or pointers, no obfuscated code, no additional variables, only one clearly stated side effect (we don't need to update a local variable), reads like simple English. I personally don't like C++ (I prefer C) but why would you write C like code in C++?
So these same companies are complaining that it is harder to target people because Apple has instituted the ability for people to say no to targeting. Should the government come in there? Would Truth Social like the Biden administration coming in and telling them what they can post?
The journey to Nintendo Switch
To me the science is clear on dairy: really unhealthy. Meat/eggs is another story wrt health (though I dont eat it).

B12 is produced by bacteria in dark soil, and water soluble; so found in surface waters. Now we and most livestock drink treated water, so no more B12 in the water. Hence I supplement. The B12 that's in meat, eggs and dairy is typically also supplemented to them in their feed.
A really good discussion of this I heard recently (on a podcast) talked about how just like in the early days of YouTube people could tell there was potential there but nobody could quite tell how much effort it would take to make money off it and what kind of ROI there was. Then things like Serial (and specific YouTube properties they mentioned like Rocket Jump and VGHS) showed exactly what it took and what could be made from content specifically created for these platforms and now people have more of a blueprint.

For example (these are my thoughts now), you can’t release a $300m AAA blockbuster movie directly on YouTube because you will never make your money back. But you can make money off unboxing videos.