skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I see it as an equation of Story/atmosphere quality x mechanical pleasure x length where story is the trump card.

A game like SOMA has low mechanical pleasure (it's a walking simulator, essentially) and a short length, but the story and atmosphere are so high that I will forever remember the experience.

Cyberpunk has decent length, decent story/atmosphere (obviously this is subjective) and decent mechanical pleasure so it's a great game.

CoD has a short length, decent to high mechanical pleasure (well at least I hope so for their sake since it's supposed to be about the multiplayer shooter replayability) and low story/atmosphere because it's just a string of action movie clichés. I think that's what makes it sound very mediocre compared to Cyberpunk.

Other gamers might see mechanical pleasure as the trump card, and I can definitely understand their POV (Portal 1 for instance). I'd venture a guess that length is rarely a trump card except if you are stuck with the games you do have. Usually for length to be the most important factor, you need at least a decent degree of the two other factors to go with it. For example, what people love about Skyrim is that the basic gameplay of walking around and doing things is fun and you can just pick up the game everyday for months and still have things to do. The story is nothing special, but the atmosphere is comfy enough. You know the game is there for you when you come back from work.
The image transcription in the alt-text is a nice touch.
Where I live, we then drain those lakes regularly for the water of our cities so the water available down stream is greatly reduced except in tons of flood in which case it is unusually high.
> symptoms like "mild" dementia. Difficulty multitasking, make silly mistakes, mentally tired easily, emotional issues, etc.

I don't have MS (that I know of), but suffered these exact symptoms in a big way due to long covid. Can your thing be due to covid and not MS?
Ask HN: Any SaaS to easily monetize my sideproject?
I've created a sideproject (website) that I might want to monetize. But I would have to add capabilities for user-signup, a website for payments/plans, customer-support and so on.

Is there a SAAS that creates all of that for me while being developer friendly, just offering a nice API that I can integrate, e.g. not forcing me into using a framework or a certain programming language?
In time, maybe universities will collapse under the weight of their own idiocy. I went back to school to finish my degree for fun at 25 t a top school. To my dismay, many online courses were better taught.

In retrospect, the only courses in I enjoyed were small seminar passion projects.
Kind of a big assumption that admission was fair before.

Having test scores to fall back on is more useful as a CYA exercise than anything meaningful. "Nobody ever got fired for hiring McKinsey” indeed.
I don't think the the Uncanny Valley Effect is as much a problem, because I believe it's a moving target. "The Avantgarde" in media will always suffer, but the next installments will profit from the public getting used to it and the "new avantgarde" moving the goalpost again.

Have a look at the Final Fantasy movie. A lot of moviegoers decried the Uncanny Valley, especially regarding Aki, but if you watch it with today's eyes, there is no such effect.
I thought that was the actual point of ditching admission testing. They wanted to return to the pre-SAT days when they could just admit any legacy, no matter how unacademically suited an alumn(us|a)'s progeny was.
From government insider to holy warrior
Cisagov/RedEye: Red Team C2 Log Visualization
But at highly competitive schools you still have several times more students with 1500 SATs than you have available spots. So you eventually need to use holistic judgement anyways.
> But how the test is constructed to arrive at that number is much more complicated.

Is that done per student behind closed doors though, with the people calculating the score knowing who the student is and the ability to alter the scoring based on that knowledge?

Standardized tests are bad, but they're a giant step up from the corruption that is other forms of selection.
Show HN: Django REST Framework Async
Most often microphones, but yes also IMUs which provide, among other things, the acceleration data. Lens system less so, at least to my knowledge.
AFAIK, we have no way of assessing whether “someone” has acquired new information other than that someone demonstrating their knowledge. We can’t MRI “acquisition of information”. So, as per this thought experiment, we have no way of telling if Mary gained new information by “seeing” red when she already “knew” what red was and could interpret it as such. That’s the whole point of the the thought experiment, which clearly went over your head.
Amazing. I wonder if the textures come from photographs.

Here there's a higher quality video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_LlSR6-ibA
Tell me you know nothing about NYC real estate without telling me you know nothing about NYC real estate.

“Rent control” in NYC is a specific term that applies to a separate set of regulations and laws that govern a particular set of rental properties. Tenants who live in these properties are effectively immune from rent increases for as long as they or their families live in the apartment.

Of course rent stabilization is a form of rent control, but it is not the same as Rent Control in NYC. In online discussions about NYC rental law, the two things often get conflated, as they have at several points in this thread.
"holistically evaluate applicants"

How likely is it that this holistic evaluation will end up preferring individuals conforming to the current Zeitgeist (e.g. using all the momentarily popular buzzwords in their applications) rather than truly talented candidates? Thus contributing to further ossification of current elites?
To counter the Washington Pizza Index, I propose that the United States establish a Strategic Pizza Reserve. Daily pizza orders from Domino's will be stablized at slightly above average demand. Excess pizzas will be frozen and stored in the Reserve, possibly stacked in former missile silos. During peak demand periods, pizzas will be released from the Reserve to supplement the stablilized daily supply. The government may also release pizzas from the Reserve to aid survivors of natural disasters.
I think the positive influence of Apple on the laptop industry is a thing of the past. Did they have a positive influence ~2010 + - a number of years. Sure. Since the they had some notable failures and detrimental influences.
They could just admit at random from among that group. What would be the downside?
Why don't we see him in Olympics or somewhere?
I found this post to be amazing intro that shows you how to go from simple generators to async event loop.

https://mleue.com/posts/yield-to-async-await/
Largest EU economy can reach 100% ‘clean energy’ by 2035
oh, great, someone said their email bounced so I thought something had changed with Protonmail
That's why prison, large companies or just life in the 21st century can be so bad, humans need to be able to feel that they have an impact on their environment.

But it works the other way around, if the game becomes the primary means of satisfying those needs you are going to have a bad time.
For all the doom and gloom in the world it is remarkable the ways life is better than for previous generations.
On the contrary, test scoring is the most objective thing we had to evaluate students based on the diligent work of a company whose entire business is maintaining that perception of objectivity. Sure, it's "the perception of", but if you think there aren't smart people analyzing college board exam scores across the country for signs of skewed testing so they can write an expose on it, you're far from reality.

In fact - the line that you're walking is the reason there was briefly a suggestion of an "adversity score": https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/college...

Which is the first time that's been considered, because in the current climate - working extremely diligently to try to ensure that no particular student or group of students has an advantage, some students do have an advantage. They are smarter, or have better parenting, or better education, or their parents simply have more money to throw at tutoring

You can say "that's unfair! This is about selecting the best students and locks smart people from worse off backgrounds out of university!"

It does the second thing, sometimes, as a side effect - but it is also true that those students are still better students, regardless the path dependence.

Meanwhile, universities are enacting racial and gender preference schemes,
Cites: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

Additionally, the primary winner of the policies this line of argument promotes are white women - with the primary loser being Asian men. Asian students in particular are bringing the suit against Harvard for these practices.

So while your epistemic humility ("is this REALLY objective? How do we measure that?") is well intentioned, it's the exact sort of reasoning used to cover up a strict ideology of "more black good, more women good, less white good, less men good" in universities, and the actual behavior of universities shoe that.
Holistic evaluation in practice really means “present your best self in your application whatever that might be.” It allows for a range of impressive feats outside “was good at the arbitrary selection of school subjects and extracurriculars.”
Admissions tests are the best tool to fight racism, specifically institutionalized racism, that we have in our tool kit. When racism increases in the future the tests will be ushered back in with great urgency, but because institutionalized racism takes decades to slowly grind away at, I think we’ll be doomed to such cycles. On some level it’s hard not to see that process play out, notice that it benefits the elites by acting as a sort of moat around their comfy middle class lifestyle while hurting racially marginalized groups, and also hurting groups which are rapidly closing the gap like Asians, and not see it as at least potentially misguided.
> As such, the authors find, science, technology and innovation research is not focused on the world’s most pressing problems including taking climate action, addressing complex underlying social issues, tackling hunger and promoting good health and wellbeing.

Should it be? Are those actually things that would benefit from additional expensive research?

- we already know how to do fission power, and how to get rid of any waste (if the politicians wouldn't forbid it); there's a lot of research money already going to fusion power; both direct solar (photovoltaic) and indirect (wind) power are getting cheaper very rapidly as they're done more; hydro and geothermal are already things in places where they're a thing

- social research isn't hampered by lack of funds, but by ideological uniformity of researchers and "I want to believe" (seriously, it's amazing how much lasting real-world harm communism and more generally "the entire world is just a struggle between groups defined along such-and-such axis" cause ever time they escape from the ivory tower)

- hunger is downstream of social issues

- good health and wellbeing looks like it's mostly about infectious diseases? Aside from high-end research for new things (eg covid), that'd be either poverty (social issues) or trust in medical authorities (also social issues) or maybe outside medical folks being banned from places (social issues again)
Development is done by volunteers, who of course can focus on their passion (i.e. https://twitter.com/ao_kenji).

As for funding essentials like electricity, network, hackathons, and unpleasant development work, that would be the OpenBSD foundation (http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/activities.html)
Who said anything about nonunion workplaces being hellholes. I was saying I would hate to live somewhere with no restrictions on employer retaliation to free labor organizing. This is a policy that all advanced democracies have had for over a hundred years, hardly radical.
It's likely best to contact them to ask questions for whatever you're wondering about. Their previous website was far better IMHO, as they listed on their pages the actual clinical data/results from their own research - whereas now their website is more shallow marketing.
Sure, but there used to be big loopholes, so, for example, if you made capital improvements to an apartment you could increase the rent further. Landlord buys a $500 fridge and hires his buddy to install it and gets from him a receipt for 8k in installation fees. Now he can raise the rent $800/mo. the same sort of shenanigans aren’t available the opposite direction for the tenants.
The problem with "quantitative" tests is that they are not without their own bias - they select for students that had the luck (or the right parentage) to go to either a private school or to a public school in a well-funded school district. The result is that the student base will be overwhelmingly white rich kids, which is pretty problematic (see e.g. [1], fresh out of the press).

Additionally, at least when one goes by the original purpose of academia - that is, to provide education and research opportunities to the actually gifted instead of yet another way for employers to bypass ADA and other anti discrimination regulations - it should be the way that qualitative judgements by humans prefer the academically gifted and interested!

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03251-0
It is not just neo-racism and neo-sexism.

It is also a weird kind of neo-feudalism, excluding outsiders that cannot or won't fit the expected mold. In the court of Versailles, you had to behave according to a certain stiff etiquette. If the same is required in institutions of higher learning, how many really creative people will be willing to put up with it?
> [Atlassian] had to adjust salaries based on location...

I'd really like to know their calculus for adjusting based on location. The whole cost-benefit offset of remote work conditions stem from minimizing office space costs and attracting talent for less than a relocation hire.

I'm skeptical most talent management departments are staying disciplined.
It’s Call of Duty so there is a linear singleplayer that is like an interactive movie, and then an online multiplayer which is the part that people actually play.
Death Stranding is another great example, such a poetic game
That sounds incredibly tough.

My brother has a similar/worse sickness that halves his life expectancy. He's also a programmer. Some quick thoughts from going through the downs with him:

- There's no silver bullet. More sleep, better nutrition, more sports, and less stress make a difference.

- My brother literally left a PhD in treatment optimization using ML at Cambridge because pharmaceutical companies are churning such better treatment so fast that optimization past ones felt irrelevant. The bad news is that most new treatments only stabilize your situation, so you have to stay as healthy as you can until the cure comes. We felt it was better to plan around this, and open the door to be positively surprised, than hope for the moon and get crushed with never ending disappointment.

- There are many ways of earning a living that don't involve programming. Career switches can be daunting when you've lost self confidence, but most jobs require only a fraction of the brain it takes to program.

- If the prospects are very gloomy, consider changing country. We had my brother move country so he could get a medication that's not covered at home and costs >$250k/year. The medication changed his life, and will soon be covered at home too. Having to leave your friends for health reasons suck, but European countries offer such better health coverage that it can be worth it. And it's easier living a happy life when you don't have to worry about unpredictably becoming homeless.
I gave a better definition of intrinsic value in the second paragraph: it has unique applications for extremely important categories of goods.

I agree it's not a coincidence that most societies valued gold, even without contact with each other. But that's also because of its elemental qualities.

Silver and most other shiny metals will tarnish. A lot of metals are difficult to shape into jewelry or stamped coins. And other metals are denser and heavier, making them hard to transport.

Gold is better than other metals for coins and jewelry for many reasons.

That doesn't mean its current price is 0% cultural or that that cultural element is permanent.

I agree it's likely going to last for as long as society does, but I don't think that's a guarantee inherent to gold as a metal.
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I've used a lot of tools for writing "CSS" over the years: pure CSS, CSS modules, SASS, LESS, BEM,... I think when using Tailwind, you have to know the "real" CSS anyway, but the most important thing that Tailwind offers is the consistency.

So you need 1-unit padding? `p-1`. Double that? `p-2`. Still not enough? `p-3`. More? `p-4`. I don't have to think and do math in my head like 0.25rem, 0.5rem, 1rem,... and IMHO, it's a big enough win for me to keep using Tailwind CSS.

The features that were introduced in recent versions are just about supporting more CSS features to be more complete and not about feature-bloat.
Well my suggestion would be to be confident and positive. Confident that your issue/ cause/subject is important and that there are enough other people sharing that believe in the forum, regardless of the nay-sayers.
With positive I mean post things that are on topic for you, comment on things you find contributing to the issue/cause/subject and refrain from the rest. You really don't have to tell people that something is inappropriate, that they are wrong, dangerous. They will learn by not getting a response.
Don't try to control a narrative, try to share a narrative with as much people who are willing to join the forum.
In Watermelon Sugar
Andreessen Horowitz's Crypto Lobbying Blitz Is Paying Off
I don’t disagree with anything you or the parent post said. And while I don’t feel like I’m quick to criticize HN posts, I wonder if part of it is that negative/critical comments spark more interesting discussion?

E.g. I saw the CoD video, then clicked to see comments. And while my first thoughts were “yeah, this is pretty stunning,” I didn’t have anything else to say.

I wonder if most that agreed also didn’t have much to say? Especially since this wasn’t a “Show HN” where more positive feedback is targeting the author. There’s no one here to give positive (or negative) feedback to, so discussing criticism may be the more interesting discussion?

But I suppose this is pretty amazing tech, too, and there is likely something interesting to discuss there.
> but it's a bit uncharitable to the reader to suggest that browsing 4chan will put them at the precipice of becoming an Actual Nazi.

What else, other than "reading Nazi opinions" do you think it takes to become an "Actual Nazi?" It's not like the ghost of Joseph Goebbels flies in through your window and bites you in the neck and now you're a Nazi. Radicalization works by normalization, through repeated exposure to and gradual acceptance of propaganda, and gaining sympathy and trust for a community and its ideals.
Not really. But they seem to really take care of the major pain points.
>Then the client will try again with version X-1

Who says that? Either it is specified in the protocol, and then you're right that this is still a negotiation, or it is not specified in the protocol, so if the client does that is implementing some out of spec behavior. Which is true that already happened on the Internet for compatibility's sake, but keep in mind that there is still an advantage, as an adversary can't easily mess in the connection setup phase in a way that protocol version X looks like protocol version Y.
This probably took them 18 months
Call of Duty is interesting because, despite how you might feel about the gameplay at this point, it is one of the few games really pushing things forward graphically. Games that operate at this budget level have just become incredibly rare. Sony first-party games, CoD, CD Projekt, Rockstar, and honestly not much else.

The visual fidelity here is really incredible. Some elements, such as animations and water look bad by comparison, but it is still impressive.
heavier winch about 2ton or he should have gut n cut it into quarters right there
This is exactly why I believe Lars: from everything that I can deduce about him, his driving force is to prove that he's correct about what can be done with traditional archery.
In that case, maybe some universities could specialize on having racially diverse student bodies, and others on other attributes (say, political diversity, or something completely different). This way, everyone could choose their preferred institution according to their wishes and values.
The Olympics have a completely different style of archery than Lars practices. Just look at the bow and compare. Also distances that come with it. You won't even see compound bows at the Olympics, only Recurves but with stabilizers, a sight and such. Lars mostly does Traditional Archery, meaning a stick with some string and "trick/stunt archery" on top of that (see his other videos). There are of course also recurves that aren't all highly engineered pieces of metal.

But still, completely different worlds. The closest you get to that is "Barebow" and that's not Olympic but "Lancaster Archery" does a competition that includes a Barebow category. But even that allows for too much "modern" stuff (small stabilizer) and it's all modern recurves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUmD80K-pOw
This is also really kind of an artifact of how GROUP BY works in most database engines.

I've always liked the way MySQL/MariaDB let you omit things from the GROUP BY if they're provably unique in each group (here, if foo_id is a primary key of foo, and you're grouping by it, there can only ever be one foo.some_float for each foo_id).

I suspect in practice this would get rid of approximately all occurrences of group-by-float.
Cheaper and quicker to just disappear us
Taking it a step further, even large jurisdictions like NYC with 8M people have 1000s of AirBnB listings that are not following even the basic parameters of local law.

"New York City: Rentals under 30 days are prohibited unless the host is present on the property."

OK, great, well why are there daily/weekly AirBnB rentals of "entire apartments" all around NYC with host descriptions like:

During your stay
William is available via text or phone if you have any questions about the space. I will try my best to preempt any questions by leaving detailed instructions about the operation of the space.

During your stay
I’m available everyday from 9 am until 12am to answer questions and help with anything you might need if I don’t reply fast, feel free to call me

During your stay
Will have an open line of communication and on-site support
Response rate: 100%
Response time: within a few hours
You think that's cool? Try the Matrix UE5 demo on PS5 https://youtu.be/WU0gvPcc3jQ
Thunderbolt 3 is a major improvement over what we had before: expresscard + FireWire + eSATA + proprietary docking connectors + VGA ports

I have all of those on a 2012 Sandy Bridge notebook. They were a workable solution at the time. Thunderbolt 3 is just way better and comes by default on Intel chips, and in the form of USB4 full spec (thanks to Microsoft) on AMD too since Ryzen 6000.
Looks fantastic.

Dumb question, but this is an intro it seems. It's not going to have gamers shoot machine guns FPS-style through these street right? Right?