skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are there any modern MMOs with mechanics like this, e.g. life-skill limits or some other source of dependence on other players?

I think Eve Online is the classic example. It's not technically true that players are limited in the sense that you mean. Rather, the limits are emergent.

The areas with the most valuable resources also have the least game provided security, so players are forced to band together into large organizations to protect themselves - essentially true virtual countries.
I thought this[1] was interesting.

I didn't even know of the existence of polymer-based batteries[2] (not lithium-polymer) until yesterday.

There's a lot[3] going on in the battery world. Diversity is great!

1. https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/business/from-boston-to-wa...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer-based_battery

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battery_types
We typically use Sandbox for significant deployment changes such as upgrading to Node 16, updating security policies, etc. in an isolated environment. If things break, it doesn’t impact DEV/QA.
Cop Tells Elantra N Owner His Stock Exhaust Will Cost $7K to “Fix”
podcastnotes.org has a popular weekly mailer that summarizes interesting ideas from recent podcast episodes. (Disclaimer: I'm the tech guy at PN)
You're probably thinking: If they can't transfer them, why did they show up the first time? That's a good question...
It's interesting to see that Mapbox blurs its highest zoom level there, but it's second-highest zoom still provides quite a lot of detail to the point where you can make out every car and their color and rough shape.
Whenever I start writing bash, if it goes beyond 50 lines I rewrite it in Python.

I really prefer to write no bash at all its so confusing.
A Drunk Driver Led to the Birth of Russia’s Sputnik 1
Accurate. My experience (as someone who has encoded a lot of both AVIF and JPEG XL images) is that JPEG XL tends to have superior detail preservation at medium to high bitrates, as well as preserving grain significantly better at all bitrates. It's also slightly less prone to banding than AVIF, but more prone to noticeable artifacting on sharp edges, which only goes away at higher bitrates.

It's pretty clear at this point that JPEG XL is a superior codec for e.g. photography. I think the question is going to be whether the browsers decide that it's worth supporting on the web, where lower quality images are the norm.

Some comparison images: https://afontenot.github.io/image-formats-comparison/#eaglef...
It depends on what your career goals are. In most cases (for example, if you want to work as a software engineer or want to start a company), it’s probably not worth the opportunity cost (i.e. having a year of actual work experience would be more valuable). However if your career goals involve research or academia, then it may be worth it.
> You have poor architecture, poor tagging, poor VPC design, poor IAM policy and role modelling or don't know what you are doing to start with.

Yeah. So you are saying it’s a great idea for 80% of all companies?

> My favourite thing doing is spending 2 days opening support tickets in 10 different accounts to get a limit raised and then tracking the state of all the tickets and limit changes

I agree this sucks balls though.
> I'm curious if you think there is more of this in science than in other places. Or is it that we want to think of science and academia as better than/more idealistic?

As it is, Science has developed a rather substantial reputation (lots of marketing during the COVID phenomenon), and has a large and hyper-confident fan base spreading The Good Word on social media.

I often wonder why Science seems unable / uninterested in addressing this non-ideal state of affairs, considering it's substantial intellectual power (a fact I am regularly educated on by my superiors).
Github Copilot has largely solved the “Bash weirdness problem” for me personally, frankly. it’s also made it quite a bit more enjoyable to work with.
bash is worse than perl. I usually avoid it with python whenever possible.
Yeah, its sad but its still very hard to operate in most full professional senior roles using only Linux. MS Office and high quality video conferencing are the two that are show stoppers for me. Pure technical positions its probably more viable but I could not get away with the quality my staff using Linux only suffice with (misformatted documents, unable to open things, Zoom crashing regularly, etc).
https://archive.ph/K4gV2
I also struggle with not having enough structure, which is exascerabated by being a solo founder who works from home. I often tend towards being a night owl unless I'm very careful about going to sleep on time. Sometimes taking a melatonin tablet will help me stick to my sleep schedule, but sometimes that doesn't even work.

One thing that has really helped me over the last month or so is booking regular sessions on https://www.focusmate.com. Even if I just book a 20 minute session every morning, this helps me stay consistent with clearing out my email inbox and answering support tickets quickly. (Although I'm actually in a session right now and I got distracted with writing up this comment. I will go back to doing my emails after this! I should probably share my screen with my session partner so that I don't get so easily distracted.)

I also used to get very overwhelmed when I would see a lot of cards in my Trello todo lists. The problem is that I would dump all of my thoughts and ideas into a single Trello board, so it would turn into a bizarre mix of miscellaneous projects and ideas for things to do, like "buy some new socks", "pay an invoice", "go to an Ethiopian restaurant", "take some drum lessons", etc.

I solved this by creating a new Trello board that is strictly for important tasks. So now I have an "Ideas" board which is my old dumping ground of random things, and a "Tasks" board that only contains important things that I actually need to do. I also came up with a priority system where I would prefix each title with a number from 0 to 9, and I set up some Butler automations that would automatically sort the list alphabetically in ascending order. So then I would start each day by looking at my tasks board and doing the highest priority tasks first. During a lunch break, or after I finish my important work, then I allow myself to take a look at my "Ideas" board and maybe pick a fun project to work on, or do some personal errands. It's pretty hard to maintain a work/life balance when you work and live in the same place, because everything really starts to blur together. One minute I'll be working on a bug fix for a customer, and the next minute I'm playing around with some home automation project.
I think what the person is asking for specifically is some kind of responsibility to an external force that will force them to keep a schedule.

The thing in my life that most rigidly enforces a schedule on me is definitely not my job. It's my dog. No weekends off there, and I haven't slept past 6:30am in years.
All of the server nodes are run by the same entity (the game developer). Blockchain is a good solution when the nodes are not necessarily trusted (thus the need to prove that you did the work). If all the nodes are trusted you can accomplish the whole decentralized thing much more easily.

As a super simplified example, if you want your distributed database to generate unique identifiers, partition the id space so each node is guaranteed not to overlap. You trust to nodes so you don’t need blockchain.
"You love him, and he totally complimented you. That is so fetch."

This is clearly not stating that the actions by both parties are "irrelevant", it's clearly slang for "cool" or "awesome". The movie was alluding to the word itself being irrelevant in its use, not the word meaning or being synonymous with "irrelevant". I hope this cleared things up for you.
> One in three think their job prospects will never recover from the pandemic.

> The report found that almost a quarter of 16-19-year-olds missed out on having their first kiss because of Covid. For those aged 20 to 25, the figure was was 17%.

> A significant number also missed out on starting their first romantic relationship, with one in five of those aged 16 to 19 and 15% of those aged 20 to 25 not having a relationship when compared with the experiences of people of the same age before the pandemic.

Important to note that these problems are all from the way governments chose to respond to COVID, not due to the disease itself.
Is HEIF constricted by patents? I can't think of any reason support is so terrible for them.
The Early Days of Id Software: Programming Principles
Katherine Kim’s videos (katkimshow on YouTube) are also really good and I would highly recommend them.

https://youtube.com/c/katkimshow
https://engineeringspark.com/
Walgreens Turns to Prescription-Filling Robots to Free Up Pharmacists
A $500M International Project Will Create the Most Detailed Map of the Br
I vote for JPEG XL. The fact that you can completely eliminate things like imagemagick or 3rd party scaling workflows (simply retain the max-size original and truncate the stream proportional to the pixel area requested!) is huge IMHO.
[ is an alias for test, a very simple program
[[ is the built-in

this means you need to write everything separate, test doesn't parse, plus it needs the closing bracket if you use the alias

but if-then works with any expression, and you put ; after expressions

if test 1 -eq 2 ; then echo "oh noes" ; fi
You may ignore skills sections, but a great deal of people utilize them. They're hiring a guy who can write React code, so they look for the word "React" and some measure of experience, and it gets put on the phone interview pile.

I don't necessarily agree with it, but too often the resume has to go through people who don't have tech proficiency and skim the thing. Or a bot. The skills section is like the armor plated casing that doesn't do the real damage, but punches through that layer.
Today, we would call it a failed attempt to force a meme.
Water levels along waterways (such as the one you linked) will continue to rise maybe another week+ as water drains into the waterways. It takes time for "high" lands to drain their water, and all that water drains into waterways (such as the one you linked). iirc, after Irma a few years ago, it took almost 2 weeks for waterways to begin receding to normal levels.
So we start to see a glimmer of the real strategy - was it truly about protecting user's privacy or actually about monopolizing that privacy - establishing a moat around it so that only Apple could extract the value? The problem is these strategies are indistinguishable until Apple decides to start the value extraction phase. But now we can start to see it beginning we can guess which one is the real underlying story in play and it doesn't look good.
If you don't care for comments recommending things that would change whether Godot non-releases are okay to submit, then don't read them
I have a ‘rare’ blood cancer. It almost killed me in 2021. There are treatments but no cures. It will eventually kill me over the five to 10 years.

I’ve had some innovative treatments such as autologous stem cell transplant, been part of a phase one clinical trial so that my data may help others one day and lastly offered blood and tissue samples for study.

These treatments and studies don’t come cheaply. So, yeah more money results in better treatments and research as far as I am concerned.
You can learn about this on a post on GitHub about much (but not all) of HN's undocumented behavior [1]:

"All comments start with a score of 1 point (but in order to prevent bandwagoning, the comment score is not visible to users other than the author). After users reach 501 Karma, they gain the ability to downvote another comment. Downvoted comments (i.e. with a score < 1) reduce their placement on the comment thread and will appear desaturated to other users deemphasize them."

[1] https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#downvo...
Check out the following

https://www.pythonweekly.com/

https://www.programmerweekly.com/

http://www.founderweekly.com/
The True Genius of Tech Leaders – Capital, Not Vision
I think it depends on your use case and organization. My employer has traditionally built on-prem software customers run in their data centers. Everyone wants to move to the cloud now. However, we admittedly don’t have a lot of cloud experience yet. Serverless works well for us as we have a smaller but lucrative customer base (not Netflix scale). Amazon does a lot of heavy lifting for you such as 3 AZs by default, easy scaling, etc. W e provide value to our customers by understanding their domain and business logic challenges. Using serverless helps us focus on that and allows us to grow our cloud expertise without needing to manage k8 clusters or having large teams related to ops.

We have a lot of request/reply CRUD type requests that are heavier on reads than writes. We use API Gateway to manage websocket connections for us. This type of usage pattern and size of our customer base fits well with serverless.
First time hearing of it. Will definitely check it out.
I've heard Ashes of Creation is trying to implement something like this (but they don't have a release date yet, just some interesting conversations with devs on their tooling and schedule)
Thirty year New York skyline timelapse
> 2. Schizoid does not colloquially refer to schizophrenia

It often does colloquially refer to schizophrenia, I've heard people use the word this way for as long as I can remember. General purpose English dictionaries document this colloquial meaning, I checked several to be sure:

"(archaic) schizophrenic" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schizoid

"characterized by, resulting from, tending toward, or suggestive of schizophrenia" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schizoid

"suffering from or behaving as if suffering from schizophrenia" https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/schizoid

"Informal. of or relating to schizophrenia or to multiple personality." https://www.dictionary.com/browse/schizoid

"Someone who is schizoid has schizophrenia" https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/schizoi...
> and going to work at an Amazon warehouse to get a reality check seems... patronizing somehow

The word you're looking for is : slumming

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/slum...
good to know! thanks.
I think it was just cobbled together. I think from the start the shell scripts were a way to arrange and call actual programs. If I remember correctly the first conditionals in shell scripting were literally just calls to the program named "test" I believe or something like that. This resulted in a language with little planning and thought put into it as it expanded to include more and more features.

The biggest problem really seems to be that they wanted to avoid the use of esoteric syntax like double quotes and brackets, which resulted in a very unspecific syntax that is continually uncertain of if you are type strings or commands, so we have to use even more quotes and brackets and things of that nature.

It really makes me wonder why no one seemed to be working on guiding Linux over to some JIT compiled C scripting like TempleOS uses.
It mentions it is in the works
A keynote from Strange Loop 2022 a couple of weeks ago. Really enjoyed sitting 30 feet back in the audience and hearing the stories. Definitely catch the Q&A about the D&D campaign starting at 44:18.
> yes, but the persons point wasn't that its good/bad but wether its the best disinfectant (in my interpretation that means effectiveness)

And my point is, people can make a big deal about something because they think it's wrong, regardless of whether it ultimately works.
https://archive.ph/GF3UW
I’d love to hear more about your experience with shared VPCs. What’s inherently unstable about them?
The author was pretty clearly self aware of their unique context:

"I am not going to bill an Amazon job as some sort of upper-middle-class panacea, something you go do just like you go enroll in survivalist camps or silent retreats. The job can be dehumanizing, physically wearing if not outright painful, and mind-numbingly boring if you can’t invent little games for yourself while lifting 300 boxes an hour for eleven hours straight."

It doesn't invalidate their experience.

Something I've started trying to do more consistently when reading stuff on the web is instead of asking myself, "How can I discredit or discard this author's point?" Instead, I try to ask, "What can I take of value from their writing?"

There is always ample reason to disagree with something you read. There's an edge case the missed, an exception they overlooked, a tragedy even worse than theirs, a privilege they failed to properly check, a mistake they made in their past, etc. It's not interesting to poke holes in what you read because you can do it in almost everything. Any property that is true of all writing is essentially meaningless.

Instead, I try to seek out what is true and useful in it and just ignore the parts I don't agree with. (And I certainly try to comment on those parts less.) In this case, we have an upper-middle-class successful software person who still found themselves struggling with depression despite "winning" at all the things our culture says we're supposed to do. And this person had a real, true experience where a shitty job at Amazon dramatically improved their mental health.

That's clearly telling me something interesting about our need for structure, for work that feels grounded and tangible, and likely to spend more time using our bodies.
> I think most people who dream of retirement think that it's going to be awesome. And it was—for about a month. ... But after several months of pursuing various hobbies as my whims and interests—all the things which people who aspire to retire young might look upon with envy—I felt unfulfilled. I

My experience as well, though the awesome part lasted more like 3 months and decayed slowly till about month 6 when I started to feel listless and aimless. Soon after that I hit the realization (and this is the part that's most depressing, I think) that while I wasn't happy working I was also not happy not-working. Not just depressing, a little frightening.
Ironically I gave an interview to VICE News about exactly this during the Mueller investigation and they had to cut my Monero comments out for time.
I read it as 1/2 cent as in 1 or 2 cent per render.
If you want a very low FPS stream you can do what @paxys mentioned and just take stills from the camera and serve them in an HTML page and refresh as often as you like. Let the user refresh the page, or use javascript to do it automatically.

If you want more of a "proper" video stream (whatever that means) one good choice is to use Icecast[1][2]. It makes it pretty easy to set up audio and video streams and publish them.

[1]: https://icecast.org/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icecast
The clerks must appreciate a change from their usual heavy reading.
Back in 2015, there was this "The Website Obesity Crisis" talk that claimed [0], among other things, that in fact most money in the ad industry is coming not from the ad-seeing consumers, but from VC investors. Has something changed in 7 years? Or was it never true in the first place?

[0] https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm#fatads
Is it just me who thinks that the only valid archival format for images is lossless? Lossy can be saved for delivery to clients and downsampling and other such use-cases.
well, i’d like to see anyone, or any 100 people, fill 90 minutes of tv every week, with jokes good enough to bring viewers back the following week.

i’m not saying it’s right to steal ideas, because of course it isn’t, i’m saying the pressure to deliver each and every week must be enormous.
did you miss the whole section of the article about ads in the stocks and other apps on MacOS?
I totally agree. Healthcare in US has a lot of problems, but the standards of care is not one of them. This means that comparing US healthcare based on outcomes does not always make sense. For example, mothers in postpartum overdosing on recreational drugs is simply not something that ever happens in Poland.

The fundamental problem is that a lot of Americans lead very unhealthy lifestyles, and this is reflected in the outcomes and the medical spend, despite world class medical care doing its best.
Yes, Mortal Online 2 is the closest thing to UO to this day.
Russian parliament (Duma) members have openly proposed it on official state television.
My favorite topics from CT are controllability and observability. I apply the concept to every piece of software I build and I am surprised how little thought goes into this (if any) in general when it comes to software engineering.
3D has specific meaning in fashion/apparel (such as "3D patterning"). It refers to construction techniques that create shapes other than a bunch of naively connected tubes. For example, articulated knees/elbows or darts. https://www.arcteryx.com/ch/en/explore/obsessive-design/arti...

The high score your snarky comment has is amusing as I remember a top post fro earlier in the year with vocabulary words that HN readers were below-average in comprehension (compared to e.g. the average woman), and many of them were fashion terms like "peplum."
This resonates with my situation currently I am going through. I would love to read your next writing. Thanks for sharing!
2 years to get a PiStorm amiga accelerator at a decent price (https://github.com/captain-amygdala/pistorm) due to chip shortage.

Finally managed to get 3 PiStorm boards (for a more decent price than the scams off ebay), but I have only one Pi 3B, and the 3A+ or Zero 2 are nowhere to be found

Only option is to buy 3B/B+ which are a little more common, at 3x+ the price, and unsolder the usb connector.

Sure feels like back in the amiga days when I was waiting for the Emplant to emulate a PC and whatnot... or waiting for Gateway, Escom, etc... to do something useful...

Come to think of it, it's a perfect retro experience WITH post-1994 frustrations of waiting with constant hopes and failures as a bonus :)
Is there any efficiency benefit to blockchain vs just storing a unique ID for every item, so that even a stack of coins has a stack of UIDs?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33068418
I would strongly strongly suggest investigating MUDs if that's your bag. They're non-graphical so they can be built and maintained by small numbers of people with low programming skills and they tend to be almost entirely about community experiences. I'll just leave http://www.middle-earth.us/ here because it's where I met my now SO and it's an absolutely wonderful community - but there are hundreds of them out there. They do take a serious time commitment though, since they're all about building up that interesting social world.
A typical Bay Area mortgage is what, $8k/mo? Add say $2k/mo for health insurance premium close to what a big co would provide. That's $120k/yr plus living expenses (call it $50k). At a 3.5 safe withdrawal rate, you'd need to save about $5mm. If your take home is say 280 of which you're spending 170, that's 110k/yr saved. So almost 50 years of savings, not counting appreciation.
HEIF is basically a H.265 I frame. So yes.
> My favourite thing doing is spending 2 days opening support tickets in 10 different accounts to get a limit raised and then tracking the state of all the tickets and limit changes...

Counter intuitively, a single or small N of accounts makes this more likely. With many, have fun, take the safety bars off, it is contained.