skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can sort of feel a game engine when you're playing a game.

This is nice usually, but such a curse for procedural games. Once you start internalizing the RNG you stop thinking of yourself as exploring an environment, and more in terms of rolling dice: "oh, rolled a general shop, no mimic, one fountain and the Gnomish Caves entrance". At least nethack has enough crazy shit happening that it gives the levels personality regardless.

Same thing with AI enemies in strategy/4X games. Deep down it's just some form of RNG+rules based on "personality" values and current situation, but there's no real strategy. Just a simulation of it.

Which makes you think, with AlphaStar defeating pro players since 2019, where's the AI 4X games deserve? While 4X games might be crazy when good humans play multiplayer, the average 4X solo player does a limited set of actions and uses much less strategy than in StarCraft.
Those people should at least bother to learn HN rules then, because some of these comments are... yeesh.

That said, how mad can you be about some username that you'd sign up for an extra account just to complain?
Size 9, as I recall.
It definitely is product placement. What is going on behind the scenes at Reuters to allow for that is probably quite interesting.
> why we aren't pumping (pun intentional) massive amounts of money into hydroelectric pumped storage

Because energy storage is currently not a problem, and consequently not profitable.

Unless you have some very bold organization to invest on things that today make negative marginal profit on any scale, or a government rushing into the solution of tomorrow's problem with today's money, you won't see any action.

It will certainly turn into a problem at some point (I expect it on this decade already). But even when it happens, it's not clear what kind of storage will be successful; and pumped hydro has a bunch of competitive issues due to its geographic limitations.
>Sounds like a community of absolute arrogance and security theater disconnected from the realities of natural life.

Sounds like a lot of communities around the world, like Japan, where people proactively mask up with even the slightest tickle in the throat in order to avoid passing whatever they’ve caught onto anyone else.

Community-first attitudes are a hallmark of societal stability over the long term, as people think of the community first, and themselves second. Everyone benefits because the community is put ahead of selfishness and solipsism.

Pathologically individualistic “me, me, me” attitudes lead to a very superficial community that cannot effectively meet threats to its health and survival. Everyone reaches for “why should I make the sacrifice when I don’t immediately benefit?”, which means no-one will make the sacrifice move.

I find it very ironic that the military holds so many of the second group, when its ethos teaches the first. In a military unit, your first instinct is to jump on top of that grenade so that you protect your teammates at the cost of your own life. You put the team first, so that the team can survive with or without you. This only works if every single member of the team conforms to that same ideal. Yet the amount of antivax in the military - which is no different than refusing to protect your teammates because jumping on top of that grenade would hurt your own “personal freedoms” - is surprisingly prevalent.
If apple opens the floodgates allowing these purchases outside of this option, why would a company give apple's option to consumers?

Apple enforcing it is the only reason as a consumer I don't have to deal with park patterns for many of the apps I use. Which is a good thing for consumers
They tried that at a Porsche museum, and the staff just turned off the lights and heat and left them there: https://www.autoblog.com/2022/10/21/climate-protesters-glue-...
The funny thing is that they have many teams each doing a tiny part of the app's UI, and proudly advertise this model as a best practice:

https://blog.crisp.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SpotifyScal...

Baffling how you can have so many engineers working on a music player, and it ends up worse than Winamp or Mediaplayer from 25 years ago.
Even if you avoid trusting the distributor, the quorum of share holders still will end up having to reconstitute the shared key into the memory of a computer somewhere at some point to do cryptographic operations with it.

There is no avoiding standing up computers all parties trust and if you are going to do that anyway then you might as well use them for key generation and distribution too.
The sibling comment explains it better than I can (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33352385) and I feel basically the same way. I will feel grateful but it's just a waste on both sides of its not something I'll use, done for the sake of societal niceness, but I find it sad to think of all the waste it's created. There's a reason regifting is popular and even parodied in media.
Of course everybody thinks PETA as lunatics, maybe rightfully. But it was them made veganism a thing. It's mainstream now. I guess about between 2% and 5% of the population and growing. Burger king and McDonalds sell vegan options. That's absurdly successful. When they started it was literally about 5 people.

I don't think most vegans will quote them for their change, but their activism that gave animal welfare attention in a attention economy, when it would otherwise simply not have gotten any.
An Analysis of the Origins of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Interim Report [pdf] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33360216
Ahhh sweet thanks I’ll look into tags
What I think, after reading the post:

1) Pushbullet is frequently 'randomly selected' for extra scrutiny (TSA style) because it competes with some offering from Google or a preferred partner.

2) The review algo simply diffs the resubmission with the previous version and if there are changes 'near' any of the keywords from the violation, it gets approved, until the next 'random' scan.
>Basically every comment is wowed by this, but nobody questions what the accuracy is

I am very skeptical. Does the San Mateo bridge really block 10 knot winds for the entire south bay? Similarly, the land temperatures all seem the same close to sea level.
What I imply is that the consequences of the covid era management will not be surfaced until crude prices go back closer to the operating costs.
It took the industry years to get their act together and leave micro-USB behind, and that was without the replacement being illegal. Maybe Lightning even gave them a reason to look for something better. With other standards, there's at least competition, and adopting a better one can be a selling point.
Meteoblue was dramatically more accurate in Chamonix last spring than the GFS.
Some things are 40% more expensive. People are also making a lot more money. Wages are up.
Related submission (different company, same issues): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33273210

the experience of publishing apps to Google Play is really awful.

After developing native apps for years, we'll be publishing our next project as a PWA for this reason alone.
It’s when it’s ready for a reboot! I strongly associate it with the movie industry running out of new ideas after the 90s. Episode 1 was 1999 for example, before that most people thought Star Wars was over. Then the marvel stuff.

But maybe that’s just me being nostalgic since that’s also around the time I began being an adult. It does seem convenient how it’s usually timed out so that parents can geek out with their kids; so the industry inherits a new generation of fans. My recent example of that is how apparently Pokémon is very popular again. I was too old to care in the 90s but those kids now have kids of similar age as they were at the time.

The phenomenon as a whole didn’t seem to exist so strongly prior to that. In the 80s if my dad showed me something he liked as a kid I just laughed it off as some old toy that had no relevance to me. My 4 yo loves Spider-Man and has no clue he’s older than me. They made a new show specifically targeting this age group (Spidey and his Amazing Friends).
And yet I can find one just as good on Amazon for $5.

No I also don’t worry about buying gold plated HDMI cables.
Ohhh nice I’ll see if they have any billing apps
They may also just be new here, spreading news to HN
All functional USB-C cables will charge at 60W.
Some companies have a strange situation where junior devs (who don't have a good WFH setup due to living in smaller shared housing) go in to the office, but senior devs with comfortable WFH situations don't.
witcher 1 spread to all dnd groups I had contact with back in Italy. not a large sample size, but within our niche it was well known and well received, jankiness notwithstanding
> for them to take away lyrics _again_

Disclaimer: I work at Spotify, but I can't speak directly for the teams handling this.

So. Lyrics, and any text that accompanies audio in general (for example, if you try to show audiobook text while it's playing, or audio transcript of a podcast, or...) is a legal minefield.

So, if some text that accompanies audio disappears... it's likely for legal/licensing reasons, not because devs are incompetent.

That said, as an incompetent dev myself, features may disappear due to incompetence, too :)
Since primary school is mandatory in my country, they have to accept all kids, with or without vaccination. Kindergarten aren't mandatory, so it is up to them if they accept unvaccinated kids or not.

There are exceptions for kids that cannot be vaccinated because of medical reasons which is argument for those parents who does not want to vaccine their kids and still want get them to kindergarten regardless their health condition.
Honestly, I think the perfect music app that never existed is Pandora with the ability to play specific songs. I always found Pandora to a have a much better recommendation system and was actually happier and didn't play specific songs, just stations.

The only thing that made me switch was the Spotify family plan and multiple children asking for it. I've been unhappy with it for years, but can't bring myself to pay for two separate music subscription services, and also can't bring myself to listen to adds.
> Your app did not receive a deliberate analysis by a human leading to the violation notification. There is no one to debate. There is no opinion at all. Your app simply didn’t look enough like the AI’s training data. (...) your goal is to look as much as possible like the training data. Unfortunately, this can be easier said than done since we do not have access to the training data.

A solution will be to have an AI submit modifications to the other side's enforcement notifications. Robots talking to robots. What a world.
Remakes make business sense. Every game is a risk. A portfolio of products that includes remakes reduces that risk. A game that was previously popular is easier to remaster than trying to make some new that's less tested. There are always brand new gamers to introduce to your IP as well as existing gamers who may have missed or want to replay earlier games. If you're a mature studio it's almost irresponsible to not do this.

The more interesting part of the story is Unreal is being used. For a while Unity and Unreal have been pushing out in-house engines. Again standard tools make it easier to hire expertise and use existing solutions and assets, they're also far cheaper than running a full engine team. Supporting a custom engine is a massive undertaking at the high end (ignore the tech, on-boarding people, docs, QA, surrounding tools for artists, sound designers, localisation etc. And then making it work on a wide variety of hardware and working around any graphics bugs etc).
You don't believe people try to get stuff to the front page of HN and Reddit?

I'm not saying there is a foolproof way to do it, but this is what marketing and PR firms do every day.
Eh. This looks like pushbullet just got a different reviewer once that approved it. I imagine (atleast apple does) the reviewers are assigned a submission and any new update - gets you the same reviewer. BUT! IF you submit over and over, you will catch this person on vacation or sick, then Approved!
FWIW I’m in the “humans are awesome and need to fix this camp”

Fortunately we don’t live in a society where we get to dictate who is in the conversation. We have to have conversations with them and spread the good word of humanity.

I don’t think many of these people understand our planet is dying regardless of humans. 75% of all life on earth is behind us IIUC. Life has been here for 4Bn years, we have another 500m to 800m left in our carbon cycle before it grinds to a halt.

This planet is heading towards a complete extinction event. Unless life manages to colonize other planets, finds a way to artificially maintain the carbon cycle, or replaces the carbon cycle, all life on earth is going to die relatively soon.

Humans are our best shot at accomplishing that imo. Life on earth is extremely lucky that we happened when we did. It’s extremely lucky that the industrial revolution happened. It put life on a trajectory to escape our fate, but 500m years isn’t a lot of time to figure this out. I don’t see any other species close enough to figuring that out on these timelines. Stopping the wheel of progress for humans dooms this planet to certain death. Unfortunately there are many calling for that these days.
Wild mammal biomass has declined by 85% since the rise of humans
The Cantor-Schröder-Bernstein Theorem for ∞-Groupoids
Agreed. My only comment is just how cool this is. Wow.
AVALANCHE would at least have a clear idea of how their actions would lead to their goals in a way that isn't just "raising awareness". And I expect the general public would actually care less about the lives of some oil company executives than some famous paintings.
Almost certainly it's a cybersquatter upset his cache of squatted names is being seized and is attempting to manufacture dissent. Recommend the site owner look at IPs and see how many HN accounts he has as well and flush those, too.
Witch 2 definitely was. Witcher 1...maybe? I thought it was a pretty mediocre game, so I doubt it was really that popular anywhere outside of Poland.

What's impressive is how much better each sequel was compared to the previous game. It was a giant leap in both graphics and gameplay from 1 to 2 and 2 to 3.
That's just baseless conspiracy theory and ad hominem on your part.
Facebook probably isn't the best example. They're down because they've made some really awful business decisions. I don't think their issues are the result of larger economic headwinds.
Is this Jeopardy? Your question is essentially answered by his original comment.
>> 2. Java Is Not Simple

I recently tried Java, and attempted to use Spring Boot, EE, Jetty, etc, to setup a small service-oriented cloud app, and I must say, the barrier to getting it up was a more effort than compared to the ecosystem of Node, Deno, Python. Even the package manager Gradle was not as quick of an effort as other PMs.

But then I found Javelin, https://javalin.io/

This is a much better framework to get up and running quickly with Java, especially with my background using Node. But the effort finding this was substantial, it is not widely broadcasted. Tomcat seems to be the dominant path, but I feel Tomcat is overkill for a small, personal use case where I just want to try some ideas out.

Even after finding Javelin, I still found some resistance to getting the classes to work together and getting it properly bundled.

I should also note I'm not interested in the IDE automation scripts that do everything for me (a few YouTube Java tutorials show quick-starts with Eclipse, Lombok). I want to understand things and don't enjoy "magic" bootstraps that hide a lot of detail. I prefer less bloat from dependencies.
Your argument is "they are the rules".

I think the point is that the rules are anti-competitive, user-hostile, extractive.
They've been updated for Windows 11, which was released after this article :)
The King's Chamber measures 10x20x10 cubits, as precisely as Egyptians could cut stone, providing us a very precise measure of the builders' cubit. By outstanding coincidence, the chamber is exactly 5pi/3 meters wide. (This also equals 2phi² meters.)

The diagonal from corner to opposite corner is 10+sqrt(2) meters, to three places.

The ancient Egyptians would have been awed by such coincidences. Us, not so much.

I don't know of anyplace where ancient Egyptians demonstrated knowledge of phi, which has the wondrous properties that 1/phi+1=phi=phi²-1. They could of course measure pi as precisely as they liked just by tracing a big circle.

Some people make a big deal about the perimeter of its base matching its height times 2pi, and about ratios of these dimensions to the sizes of the Earth, Moon, and Sun. Khafre's is a bit smaller, so its ratios would be off.
I had a pair of Levi’s Commuter Pro that were 5 years old (with a lot of wears and washes) and still going strong before I lost them :(

Somehow it seems like they’re now discontinued.
Yeah sorry, not 3 months. I checked the dates again, the last post was on November 10 and I lost the username in August, so 9-10 months and around the same time as Durov's announcement about 70% of telegram usernames being inactive.
Why Databases Need APIs
I'm pretty sure it's illegal to panhandle in California within 500 feet of a freeway offramp, but I've never seen it enforced.
Agree with the first part, but how are they damaging it? Everything they are building is open far as I know.
You must yell at people that come up to ask you for directions in the street because they dared to distract your precious "attention".
We've both got a collection of these types of devices :)

I don't dislike the overall reading experience of the RM2; it's the file workflow and the highlighting workflow of the RM2 that in my experience let it down for document review.

My ideal device would be something with the industrial design of the RM2 and most of the software of the Quaderno Gen 2, except the file/folder interface (which I prefer from the RM2) and the tagging workflow from recent RM2 software versions.

Since you have experience rooting these devices, would you happen to know if there's a hack to turn off font hinting on the DPT-RP1/CP1 and Quadernos?
> I'm Polish so I genuinely don't know. Were the previous two installments popular outside of Poland?

Not as much as the 3rd one but popular enough to get two sequels.
> There are legit uses of website notifications

I have yet to see one
It's comforting to know I'm not the only one.
I was a fan of the game, but the engines limitations did hurt it in my opinion and the combat was its weakest aspect. The story, characters, world and quests were its strong points. So I’m greatly looking forward to this remake, if it provides all the original content with less jankyness and smoother combat.
This is one of my favorite features of Ruby!

Though Ruby makes it confusing AF because there are two quoting types for both strings and symbols, and they're different. (%Q %q %W %w %i) I can never remember which does which.... the letter choice feels really arbitrary.
Specifically Nolo Press makes a number of books about patent law which are aimed exactly at somebody in this situation. They've probably got these at your public library, if not pick one up at your bookstore.
A lot of positions even within FAANGs have nothing to do with Surveillance.
Or we can drink a lot less soda and other bottle drinks. Tap water is better for your body, bank account, and world.
Voters Don't Think Either Party Deserves to Govern
With some sweet baby rays?
The population pyramid matters quite a bit. Increased working-age population generally pushes prices down thus in most cases immigration reduces housing cost and inflation by decreasing labor costs.
It needs to be exactly the same with better graphics and sound design. I’m going to be very mad if they start covering up boobs, introduce some hamfisted woman protagonist or something along those lines.
I agree with you. And it is still hard to get it wright in order to be sold.

If you want to stand up to competition, you need a cash cow. I don't blame any independent studio to do just that. They have to balance risks.
As someone with a few Patreon feeds, yes it is widely supported, and the few that don't support it do support URL parameters so a token works fine as well.
Apparently it's the voltage output of the charger that matters with the Switch, and the damage is done over time rather than with sparks and smoke: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/nintendo-switch-brick-docks

> To oversimplify things quite a bit: The Switch uses a M92T36M Power Delivery (PD) chip, which isn't quite like anything else on the market. The chip can tolerate six volts of power — and that's it. Docks like Nyko's can provide up to 9V of power, meaning it's only a matter of time until the chip burns out.
Going Driverless with Stargate v2 and the Cloud-Native Apache Cassandra Database
>odds are pretty good that you're wearing a pair of his pants right now

Nope, I wear Lee and Wrangler.
("while sounding completely miserable in the process" being the key missing point, making the whole act feel really contrived)
That's a huge subjective leap to say time has disproved people who consider PETA and their methods ridiculous.

I would consider myself a person in favor of the ethical treatment of animals, and PETA campaigns like (the now quite old, but eminently memorable) "rebranding fish as sea kittens" [1] are so far out in la-la land, so ridiculous, and go so far in letting perfect be the enemy of good ("let's go after those unethical pescatarians!") that the organization loses credibility.

It doesn't help that in the intervening years, my main interaction with the organization (as well as Oxfam, ASPCA, etc) has been shady third party donation subscription hawkers trying to earn commissions off of tricking me into acknowledging them on lunch hour.

If there have been improvements in the treatment of animals over time, I'd make my own subjective leap to say they happened in spite of PETA, not because of it.

[1]: https://spotlight.peta.org/petaseakittens/
The first generation iPad Pro with Lightning could transfer over “USB3” speeds.

But most of the cheaper USB C cables only transfer at USB2 speeds.
Except when did I agree I wanted to pay for my lunch with my eyeballs .. ?
> Also, who do so many applications force oblique views?

I'm able to adjust it by dragging with two fingers on my trackpad, which I think is the standard behavior for that (albeit hard to discover). But I do agree, it's weird for that to be the default.

There's also probably no key because the colors are mostly transparent, so it would be hard to make a key easy to understand. Labelling the contour lines seems like a reasonable approach imo.
"Meredith Whittaker .. in 2018, she was an AI researcher at Google".

That is factually incorrect.
Java is great for complex monolithic applications. It is however a bad fit for serverless architecture, it has terrible support for JSON, the new HTTP API is slow (really slow) and websocket support is poor. Electron has easily won the cross-platform UI battle. The world moves fast and Java evolves at a snail's pace.
If you can find a $5 one that's truly MFi-licensed and not a counterfeit, that's a new thing. They used to always be $15 minimum. Not talking about luxury ones.
They mean they don't have the capacity to offload all the waiting tankers due to the on-shore storage tanks being mostly full. The ships sitting idle costs money. In an effort to stop the bleeding from the idle tankers, they drive the costs of the fuel down in an attempt to lower the supply in the on-shore tanks so they can offload the waiting tankers.

In a normal scenario they would have enough slack in the on-shore storage to absorb the ebbs and flows of incoming tankers and outgoing usage without resorting to idle tankers in the ocean.
Ironically, what you are doing is gaslighting by trying to redefine it and say that’s what it’s always meant.