skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes games are bugged and won't properly unlock achievements. For example achievements will work fine on Windows, but be broken in the native Linux port.

The software can also re-lock achievements you've already gained, like if a family member plays on your account and unlocks some that you were planning on earning during your playthrough. Or if you just want to reset your achievement progress for some reason.

The other day I was playing around with modding a game, and inadvertently unlocked some achievements I didn't truly earn, so I re-locked them with the achievement manager. I'll wind up unlocking them in the future during normal play.

Of course you could also use it to cheat, and instantly gain 100% completion in a title.
Paragraphs 1 & 2: All too true.

Paragraph 3: It sounds unclear whether the elemental mercury accumulates in the fungus, or in the soil, or mostly evaporates. If the fungus is dispersed through the soil, the practical difference between those is limited. The ability of the fungus to prevent uptake of mercury from contaminated soil (by some crops) might be extremely helpful to poor farmers.

BUT - in the context of a water treatment facility, where you might filter contaminated water through a tightly-controlled bit of fungus-filled soil, then actual removal of the mercury seems more plausible. (Admitting that your end-product would probably be closer to "100,000X contaminated soil" than to "nice bottles of shiny stuff".)
I wonder if very beautiful people are more prone to diseases, or to some other evolutionarily negative trait that compensates for its beauty. Otherwise, why isn’t everyone beautiful?
It depends. Many people just need a web browser and an OS they can't break. Google discovered that and mainstreamed it.

A non-expert trying to use Windows on the internet in three early 2000s had a near 100% chance of filling it with malware.
I forgot "Blood Music" was one of his. That along with "Press Enter" by John Varley are the two sci-fi stories that really freaked me out as a kid. The idea of having your body controlled and then rebuilt at the cellular/molecular level for the purposes of some emergent intelligence that arose from nanobots really got me.
Yes, a text chat misses a ton of non-verbal cues. A video chat could work better.
Elon Musk Embraces Twitter's Radical Fact-Checking Experiment
I did write a message giving examples but it's pointless you've already made up your mind.
Wow, what a loss. I just read Eon a month or two ago, was about to start in on the The Way series.
New to "serious" programming and C++. What causes it to be vomit-worthy?
I agree: it's not racist to acknowledge race.

There's two things at play here:

1. Some people don't want to be racist, so they over correct. That's OK, but we can also take a step back in some cases eg "actually acknowledging race is not racist, let's stop avoiding it all costs".

2. Some people like to be virtuous and tell others what they can think and say. It's a powerful position. So they spend their time telling others what is OK or not to say, and find reasons to be outraged.

Not that we've solved racism: there's still lots of violence and re-appearance of racist ideologies. But we should fight those, not the "micro-agressions" which just create fights between people who could be OK the same side.
Is it just me or does the last section - "what killed the LAN party" keep appearing infinitely many times? I read it at least three times before realising I'd already read it, ha.
What are black truffle flavorings?
I was not a reader as a kid. I just didn’t ever read books. But around age 13, I had to read a book for school. I picked up Eon at the library, and I read it, and actually wanted to read the whole thing.

After that I got my hands on every book he had written. Moving Mars is possibly the only book I ever read twice.

Later in life reading sci-fi is no longer an interest of mine, however his books were transformative for me.
The clock doesn't stop upon a game over state.

Love the idea, very cute.
No, also happens to me (Firefox, Android).
Physics of JellyCar: Soft Body Physics Explained
Greg Bear is my first serious hard sf author. The Wind From A Burning Woman!! (Not just the story, the whole collection!) (I mean, sure, Forge of God, Anvil of Stars, Blood Music.. But still)
Nobody beats a piluqui or duravit(?
Thanks. My confusion stemmed from my belief that I clicked through from the first page, so while I was aware of the typical second chance pool from earlier discussion of it, I didn't think that covered this case. But it's quite possible that I misremembered where I saw it.
I was renting a house in 2000 with three people who weren’t there most weekends. As such, all my friends came round for LAN parties, bringing their PCs and monitors on the Tube. We mostly played Age of Empires, Command and Conquer, and Unreal Tournament, drinking unhealthy amounts of sugary drinks and eating pizza.

It was a weird niche of time in which this was both possible and likely, so much that I don’t know anyone else in person that did it.

One summer, we organised a massive LAN party held at a race-course. It wasn’t as much fun because it lost all the intimacy.
Twitter? It was not profitable in 2020 and 2021. Jack did do good in 2018 & 2019 though
Solana ecosystem is largely supported by Alameda which we all know went bankrupt. And furthermore Solana network is not quite stable, its validators are costly to operate and it has been down many times so maybe exchanges are losing confidence in the network's reliability.
It was just interested to find out what parts the tripod is made of.
> crucial, awkward time

I mean, I disagree completely about the "awkward" part. Online gaming has nothing on hanging out with a bunch of friends in the same room playing PC games together for a weekend. If you happen to be younger and you've never had a LAN party with friends, you absolutely should try it once. It's a unique experience and it's crazy fun.
> And they reinvented the wheel.

Buried amongst the comments was this from one of the creators:

> On the live environment we were told at the time we had Perl 5.6, and a few BBC approved perl modules. Nothing more! So that meant that catalyst a other solutions were out.

I guess this could have been a defensive security policy. I think CPAN has had relatively few supply chain attacks like npm, pypi, et al. But that's probably due to it's popularity.
The life cycle of cell phones is a bit less than for buildings and nearly all of the electrical devices that plug into them - the primary exception being rechargable electronic devices. So changing the charging port standard is WAY different than changing the outlet standard.
Maybe they need to add a "minimum questions answered" threshold/filter.
It's easy to generate solar power in space, but difficult to do anything with it.
On the desktop side Intel's naming is not so bad. We are at 13000 now, 12000 was before, 14000 follows. They call it 13th gen accordingly, which is incorrect but memorable.

Zen isn't all that better. Sure, Zen 1, 2, ... seems clearer, but can you tell me on the top of your head which processor has which architecture? Including nice outliers like the Ryzen 5 1600 AF? Now do the same for the mobile processors, the naming there is a total clusterfuck.

Also, maybe a bit more on topic: The current processor generation is actually nice and gives a real performance increase. Enough so that all three (i5-13600K, i7-13700K and i9-13900K) take the top three positions in my meta benchmark (for games). AMD follows right behind that (and needs less energy to do so), so it's really a good race now, just like the article concludes.
Not for making 100+ frames.
I don't know about beauty but I think in males there is a trade off like that between testosterone and the immune system.
Making Steam: The Life and Times of a U.S. Navy Chief Engineer
I am of exactly opposite view. Software is about replacing organic direct human communication. Since computers came under roofs streets are empty & local communities died out. Breaking up through electronic channel, creating fake digital public face being examples.
Opportunity for them to show a few more ads while we keep attempting to scroll?
Wait, if Musk left Twitter, will you come back ?
Nice content but what in the heck is up with all the camel case links?
I don't see how it's a joke. It's clearly criticism and making an unjustifiable judgment. BDSM has no preference about which gender is submitting or which is dominant.
It was actually much cheaper to use 2x4s (back then anyways). You could get about 10 frames out a $3 2x4.

Also, I made frames for a warre hive. Those are extremely expensive if you can find them.
Blogging lessons from working for a large blogging company
It’s worth mentioning his widow Astrid Anderson is the daughter of Poul and Karen Anderson.
> In Finland, the temperature rises by 18 degrees per kilometer.

The geothermal gradient at Ithaca is a bit higher than that.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Finland mostly underlain at fairly shallow depth by hard crystalline rocks that are more expensive to drill through? At Ithaca, there's a 3 km thickness of sedimentary rocks before hitting that basement rock.
Man this hurts. He has been one of my favorite sci-fi authors since I was a kid in the 80s. I still have a lot of his books from then. Gonna miss him.
When you want to have infinite scroll, but have no new content to show. :'D
Gaming companies contributed to the death of LAN parties too. They killed the "split-screen" gameplay that would support 2-4 players on the same machine. They wanted each player to require their own copy of the game. They killed LAN support, forcing you to play on their servers. Culturally we saw a shift towards social isolation. People are more comfortable talking over a mic.
Hi All,
Please check the library I developed, in the link above. I use it everyday at work and would be happy to receive comments about it if you have the chance to try it out. I am in the process of increasing its documentation, but if you have a specific thing you would like documented, please let me know by creating an issue in github. Thanks!
Not OP but authentication is easy, authorization is a cross-cutting concern that often requires custom code. E.g., there are people and teams, both of which can have different kinds of access to something (read/write). Sometimes teams have sub-teams. Do the sub-teams have access to the parent teams' resources and/or vice versa? Also what kind of sharing are you going to support? Do people have to have an account to view stuff shared to them or can you just send a link? There are some efforts to make custom DSLs for describing authorization policies, to avoid cross-cutting code[1].

Computed fields require different treatment at every level of the stack. This isn't inherently hard, but it is an extra feature these low-code/no-code platforms need. Where things get difficult is in migrations. It's common for a field that is computed at the beginning to become customizable, or for the computation to change. When that happens, what should the value be for old columns? Computed fields also often pull data from multiple other tables, which may require some combination of custom queries and database optimization.

[1] https://github.com/osohq/oso
I've played around a bit with TIC-80, but I always find myself going back to Pico-8. The larger resolution is nice, but I find in a weird way I'm able to do more with the stricter limitation of Pico-8 than the more lenient TIC-80. Take the sprites for example, Pico-8 you're locked into the same 16 colors all the time (there's actually another secret palette, but it's a bit of a hassle to use), where as TIC-80 you also have a 16-color palette, but you can change those colors to be anything you wish. I find that additional freedom to be almost paralyzing, and many aspects of the system are like that for me.
By the way, so if I have a 7900X AMD CPU I can't use ROCm with its integrated graphics?
Digital Curator app uses AI to explore art collections based on selected motifs
Facebook doesn't cause cancer of course, but there's no shortage of evidence that it harms some of its users, as well as contributing to social phenomena that harm non-users. The Rohingya genocide is a prominent example.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_content_management_...
Hah. Me too on mobile. I was reading it probably for the fourth or fifth time before it hit. Just started my coffee so wasnt awake
I thought it might be fun to have toys of the cars we owned over the years but its proved relatively difficult and expensive.

My favourite is a Johnny Lightning Jeep Wagoneer. We didn't get that brand of toy in Oz when I was a kid, they are insanely detailed compared to a Matchbox, Majorette or Hot Wheels. I am tempted to buy more of those.
Walking upright is a grassland thing, and Humans are in no way adapted to arboreal life. If you look back at something like an Australopithecus (and maybe even as far back as Sahelanthropus - fossils are far from complete) they basically look like a chimp with a human set of legs. So it's been awhile.
While a few of these were interesting I'd love to see a short technical explanation of each quirk for the feeble high-level programmer (me). The first one for example, is foo initialised? How so?
Can I ask what specifically about Musk is appealing to you that you think will benefit you somehow? It the layoffs aren't a clue then I don't know what is that his workers are nothing more to him than one night stands. You can try to make him happy, but I see him on a downward spiral probably cause of his pedo projecting and incestuous upbringing. Don't be surprised when it all crashes around you and what you thought was an opportunity ended up just hurting your career.
That remains to be seen doesn’t it? It’s also a subjective measure.

Your opinion may be that the good folks left. Musks opinion may be the good folks stayed. The ultimate determining result is that Twitter stays alive and starts becoming something viable and finds away into the black.
Are you "standing still" if you're sprinting at full pace, out of breath, heart pounding, but feet slipping on an icy slope so you have ground speed zero?
+1 for Eon - such an epic conception and an incredibly coherent world; one of my all time favourite novels.
Your guess is as good as mine, but presumably it's 2,4-dithiapentane.
> but can you tell me on the top of your head which processor has which architecture?

Not sure how that's relevant. By name, I have no idea if Cannon Lake is before or after Skylake. I only know because I've heard of Skylake longer than Cannon Lake. I'd have no idea how to place any of the post-Skylake architectures amongst each other chronologically or performance-wise. I know that Zen 1 is older then Zen 3, because that's how the naming scheme works. The same way I know that the PS5 came after the PS4.

It's like the Xbox bullshit. The only reason why I know Xbox One is newer than 360 is because I'm a gamer who pays way too much attention to this shit.
Basically any post that disagrees with Sinclair Broadcasting, Turner Broadcasting, Fox news or Disney is a conspiracy theory so there aren't many of those here because of their popularity here. But if that bothers you feel free to continue hiding comments that go against your limited view of the world.
> Are you assuming that your audience is as thick as a brick?

When designing a talk, is that a good thing to go for, or a bad thing?
If this is more for the good or more for the bad is questionable.
> Also, we don't have a separate name for structs that contain references/pointers and structs that don't do we?

Languages name things they need to help their implementation. In Go, such types are named ("pointer-ful" and "pointer-free"), because they are allocated differently to assist GC. In C++, they're not but instead we have e.g. PODs which other languages don't need to name, because of other optimizations C++ wants to do.
For an online "free" option, I like quire [1]. Its simple "outliner" style view is good for rapid "breakdowns of tasks".

If you are on mac, there are some powerful apps like Things [2] and OmniFocus.

[1] https://quire.io/
[2] https://culturedcode.com/things/
The amount of hacking that was spawned by Life, chess (and checkers), 4x4x4 tic tac toe, star trek and colossal cave was impressive. Make it go. Make it go faster. Add neat features. Deal with memory limits. Check out odd 360 assembler instructions. Wonderful time. Given that the machines were immense, it was a social time. And to get a game to play, you had to write it, key it in or know somebody who did.

Hopefully, there’s some remnant of that time buried deep in the social media and internet seas. Perhaps in the FOSS culture? Cuz it’s certainly not in user space. But it never was in user space.
One example, you're creating order form, which contains many order lines.

When we create a new order line, the tax, remainaining inventory for item must be dynamically computed before submitted and also to display after successfully saving.
Wow. I actually had to double-check if those are really not pictures from our LANs. I guess there really was a stereotypical look :D
Brazilian Protesters Nationwide Continue Supporting Bolsonaro
Tens of thousands of Brazilians wearing yellow and green, the colors of the national flag, gathered Tuesday across the country to protest agains last month's election and asking for the armed forces to intervene.
Same, on iOS Safari with Wipr content blocker.
> At the beginning the Museum Domain Management Association was shortened to its initials (MDMA) until the management team was advised to change it.

lmao
Ever tried to use a C++ library from another language? Or from a binary compiled with another C++ compiler than the library?
As a side note I suggest that the issue is one of operational fidelity.

They do it in a reasonable time frame for a fraction of the cost, aka, a bit of '1st era' commercialization of Space - still relatively government related, but mostly private though nowhere near consumer or even general industrial.

They're just making what was previously 'research' to be economically feasible.
Really awesome!! Just this week I was wondering how I was going to approach this for a project of mine. I recalled the figma article but your approach seems simpler. I’ll definitely give this a shot! Thank you!!
All great suggestions. I'd add Moving Mars.
Agreed. LAN parties were amazing. I have such fond memories of gathering with 3 to 5 buddies in a basement for an entire weekend. The games were fun but more often than not they were just a background activity for an epic hangout.
For a moment I daydreamed this was a reference to the 1980 PC-1 computer from Radio Shack

http://oldcomputers.net/trs80pc1.html

Three years before the well known PC100 laptop sized popular with journalists, etc.

Had one, thought it was the amazing future, I guess smartphones are the great-great-great-grandchilden.
Ask HN: Again: The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma
This thread is from 2015
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9049208

I have bookmarked it and read it sometimes. Is there a 2022 version of the thread we want to create? Things surely have changed a lot since 2015.
> I'd say that people question the potential of any new technology.

Sure, but exaggerating the potential is much more common. Look at where people in the 50's thought we would be in terms of space or personal flying devices. This stems from both overestimating the technological capabilities, overestimating the usefulness if we were able to succeed, and failing to see the non-technological limitations.

Flight is actually a good example of the last one. For instance, the problem with Edisons prediction that people would fly to another city for a couple of hours after breakfast and be back by lunch isn't that technology isn't advanced enough. But the costs are prohibitive, the airports are often far from the city center, and even when you get to the airport it takes a couple of hours to actually get into the air.

Planes were hot, so Edison thought travelers "will largely scorn such earth crawling." But earth crawling, even long distance, is still very useful, hence the desire to invest in things like high speed rail.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/thomas-edisons-predictions-spot...
Hopefully, this doesn’t turn out to be a case of fish paying lots of money to be put in a barrel.
Ask HN: What's the most unbelievable thing you were able to calculate?
"Flat Initializer Lists" is given as an example in K&R C I think, at least the first edition, when writing those extra braces to fill out an initializer must have felt very redundant.

These days many compilers will warn if you do this, however, as it is rare people do this and usually indicates a misunderstanding of the type used.

I think it's quite readable though, so it's a shame it causes warnings. What do you think?

struct { const char *name; int age; } records[] = {
"John", 20,
"Bertha", 40,
"Andrew", 30,
};
The Twitter implosion has made me realize how I really used Twitter and what sort of alternative I'd join. Primarily a place where I can get a filtered list of news articles and posts from people I'm interested in what they have to say. Comments on posts are fine but it's more about getting all the content in the same place. HN is pretty close to that, but maybe a bit too niche.
Indeed. I turned mine off as soon as I saw Alexa transcripts being used in court cases. If one can't conspire to commit crimes in one's own home, where can you?
Imagine being asked to reproduce with the same guy in various Ghislaine Maxwell photos.
Because most of them think someday they will be the owner employer.

They won't, but its a delusion that favours capital over labour.
QEMU uses the Hypervisor framework just like Virtualization does.
I've had 2 1-week long LAN parties in the last 4/5 years and they have been some of my favourite things I've ever done in my life. LAN parties aren't a thing that can die. If anything it's even easier nowadays to get together. Computers can be smaller and screens are lighter. Old LAN games are still around which will run on really low-spec hardware so it's even easier to participate.
A journey in creating an operating system kernel
Everyone has what they’re comfortable with and dating is all anecdotal, personal experience and preference, etc. If you bring data to dating there’s a decent chance that will cross-over into the experience (read: come across as creepy or pathological), lead to more games, etc.

Anyway, texting with a stranger is really hard. A good portion of the time (especially for men, from women) you’ll get things like “I’m bored, entertain me”. Maybe a good way to filter people out, but annoying.

I’d also much rather just block off some time on a schedule to actually meet someone than have them interrupt my life at any moment, react when I don’t respond in X time, etc. Generally it all seems very low effort and sporadic. If you get “going” in a text conversation you can easily spend more time than you would actually meeting them.

Again, maybe these are ways to filter incompatibility but extended and prolonged texting just seems like a waste of time - especially as it often leads absolutely nowhere.
May I also recommend Falkon, as an Epiphany alternative!
Really hoping the best for both projects!
Machine Translation for Medical Chats
He had an aortic dissection in 2014. They repaired that (and put in a new heart valve) but apparently there was a complication, a "false lumen". This (as I understand it) is a sack of low circulation velocity in the artery where blood can clot. And apparently here it released into the arterial flow during surgery a week ago (in a desperate attempt to repair it?) and caused massive embolism across his brain.
Yep. Even clever engineers can be delusional fuckwits.