skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But when bots do a lot of things better than humans, including comment, answer questions, make jokes, say romantic things, etc. many would start to prefer them to humans in their online communities, and give them even more social capital.

This already happened in other areas of life. Both fathers and mothers now neglect their own children and elderly parents so they can work for corporations. They often prefer this and find meaning in climbing the corporate ladder. Eventually, their own labor will be rendered obsolete, but for now they're in a race to the bottom to work harder and neglect their family even more. They even stick them in nursing homes.

Also, you no longer want to ask people for directions, you use Google Maps. You no longer ask your parents, teachers or libraries when you can just look it up online with no judgment.

Finally, look at industries like Wall Street trading. It used to be a bunch of guys in a pit. You'd call up your broker or whatever. Now everything is automated with bots. Everyone prefers bots. They make up the bulk of trading with real capital. These bots are are working for corporations, which employ less and less humans.

So the present is already a bunch of corporations owning bots and bots creating content for other bots. In the finance industry. Now how different is a bunch of text generation online? I think the human contributions will be vanishingly small in most communities.

The question is ... what is this all for? Dropping demand for human services is a byproduct of making things more and more efficient...
FoxIt PDF (and others) edit PDF perfectly.

Even Word, LibreOffice, InkScape, etc do to a certain extent.
People complain about the prices of games but they are cheap when you weigh inflation and the amount of time you play. You could generalize it to any AAA studio video game at $60-70.

Counter intuitive thought is to buy physical and then do a trade-in/sell on a marketplace if you don't like it. If you buy digital you are stuck with it, like it or not.
Fair point, and I would not advocate that specific workflow! My point was just to illustrate that we can live without merge.
> But is taking an hour to read through a markdown cheatsheet really the worst thing in the world if what you end up with is far more useful and maintainable documentation?

This makes no sense given that you get the same payoff by using something like Atlassian's wiki. No git, no markdown, none of this nonsense, users can just immediately hit the ground running with advanced formatting support and version history.

I think you're lacking a lot of empathy for nontechnical users. I don't see how you could ever argue that your git + Obsidian stack is "more valuable" than an off-the-shelf wiki solution.
If you can stomach the adjustment period for ASCII I'd really recommend it. I think it does something a lot of modern games miss out on - it encourages imagination first. The information given to the player is extremely dense and easy to parse once you've adjusted and you're giving your brain a chance to try and play inside your own head. I've built a glorious six floor tavern (slowly) with engravings on every surface - even those not reachable by pathing, why? because I had an image of a tavern floor full of rowdy miners with opera boxes circling the room above them for dwarves of a more refined taste... in the end it's just a box you need to floor scroll to see on the screen but the carved pillars in the middle of the room - the enclaves for dwarves to, in hushed voices, discuss just how beautiful gold is - and the grand skylight in the middle of the ceiling casting a rainbow of different colored light on the ground below... that's awesome.

Dwarf fortress is the first thing since MUDing that's really scratched the imagination itch in quite that way and, as someone who has worked in game development themselves, I think it's something that is only possible if you keep to the lowest tech. If you use words or abstract symbols then each player will fill in the details themselves, usually in their head but sometimes in artwork (see Kruggsmash as an approachable example here[1]) which can be extremely fulfilling.

I hope to see the non-ASCII version work as a gateway drug to get more people into the imagination of what they're building. And I hope this didn't come off as ranty or judgemental - each person enjoys games in different ways... but low detail art has a way of really spurring the imagination on!

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojT99rDmq5M
The reality being that it is much harder to cash out funds from crypto into fiat without leaving a single trace. Hardly benefits criminals, scammers, etc.
Frontend UX developer perspective on DF: The ascii interface is actually fine and mostly a superficial complaint. The real problem is just how hard the many interfaces are to navigate and learn, and how unconventional their designs are. If I could pick one thing for the UI team to focus on: DF needs a “command palette” to help find/learn all of the game’s many functions.
I have a friend who lives in an apartment near a major, major artery in Seattle. It's 6 lanes wide looking out from the balcony directly down onto the street. It's what they can afford in a somewhat close commute to work by bus (they can't afford a car). I lived in an apartment a block from I-5 for 6 years. I've made enough money to buy a house in a neighborhood away from traffic pollution. It was a major part of my purchasing decision.

Zoning often puts more dense and therefore cheaper housing near busy roads. I think a lot about who can afford fresh air and who can't, and the compounding impacts of that quite often.
Thank you for reminding me, I've been meaning to wishlist this for a while. Excited they finally have a release date set!
Would be very interested to hear a modern specialists perspective on this. Frankly, I always considered a well designed and maintained relational database to be a thing of beauty. Incredible intuitive and simple to utilize even for a semi technically competant layman.

This seems overly critical. But maybe uve drank the cool aid?
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Cats are the death of fortress. Dwarf fortress is an incredible game but you are right that it’s actually amusing the amount of weird things you know you should avoid or manage as a regular player.
There are some really nice git-based wiki systems out there, and one is built into GitHub and GitLab. If you want that type of workflow for your wiki, it's easy to get.
Is there a word for species-centrism? Ah, there is. [1]

My point being, this is probably more about food for wildlife than humans.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocentrism
Considering I've given them a few bucks a month for a decade and a bit now which doesn't even come close to the value I've gotten that is a great idea.
I'm not surprised. Our modern air is... poor, and that's before you get into fire season and such out west.

I've started being far more aggressive with air filtration in the house and my office. Get an air quality monitor that shows you PM2.5 and PM10, you'll be horrified by how high those levels are often enough. I've been using "filter boxes" for the most part (a 3-4 furnace filter box around a box fan or similar) and they do a great job of pulling the PM out of the air.

I can fairly regularly keep PM in the sub-5 ug/m^3 range, even during smoke season - though it's a lot of airflow through the filters.
Let it argue with Elon on twitter.
There's some prior art on DSLs for efficient interpreters, like Anton Ertl's vmgen. https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/vmgen/
Nearly a decade ago I played it a bit over a couple of months. I'd guess 30 hours or so (which is a lot for me, I'm a gaming dabbler, aside from the civ and fromsoft games). It was pretty playable IMO, and would really pull you in, just tedious to navigate the menus.

I eventually got kind of tired of investing so much effort into a fortress that would just randomly fall apart. People say that's part of the fun but I dunno... I found that aspect a bit annoying. It also ran really poorly for me in late game and that kind of put me off too.

Great concept, the ascii is less of a problem than you'd think, but overall just a bit too much effort to keep wanting to come back for more.
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it's actually way easier to accidentally mess up a rebase, especially if rearranging commits.

I can recommend
git diff @{1}
post rebase I alias it to d-
You can't just leave a comment like that and walk away from it. :)

Why did Tarn need to put out a paid release?

(I think I know / I kinda remember, but hey - there's no better place to tell us why we should be helping a fellow geek)
I can get to 80-100 dwarves without huge problems but then I usually get bored with the micromanagement.

DF is not hard if you follow the quickstart guide.
I just wish the health costs of air pollution were factored into fossil and renewable biofuel combustion power plants. Then people might stop saying nuclear was too expensive. Not to even mention a carbon tax.
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Drew Vault blog. I really enjoy his posts!
https://drewdevault.com/
That's a good point. I also suspect that companies can manipulate these value preferences a fair amount through marketing, e.g. lower price vs higher status.
The easiest way to do this would be to make the site completely free of moderation, but that quickly becomes a cesspool. Are there other ways to define the core audience?
Thanks for writing this comment. It is actionable, excellent advice.
> that doesn't mean I'm the master at everything

And then you see someone who is the master at everything in construction.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKYFdwWx2QU
it's not a blog, it's a personal space, even if in a shared cemetary, for family and friends to remember.
The world is full of people rationalising their involvement in horrible things.
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You'd have a much easier time getting this adopted if you created a fancy GUI on top of the infra you just detailed out. Most people don't want to deal with git, no one wants to write in markdown all day, and the more obstacles you introduce to making documentation the less documentation gets made.

If the two options are confluence and sharepoint I choose confluence every time. Somehow people have decided that because sharepoint can do document store and html it's a kb. and because it comes with O365 exec's love it because its "free".
Facebook/Meta in particular seem to be hitting the front page with nerd-bait research. I suspect it is indeed part of a public relations strategy.

And I hate to say it, but it's working on me. I've seen some really cool projects come out of Facebook lately!
I built this side project to graph bus congestion in Sydney. Each line on the graph (a Marey chart) represents a bus completing its route (percentage) over time.
Not to mention drivers (in NYC at least) behaving like entitled psychopaths, honking like crazy the second they are delayed going down a side street at 7am
Just for context AI is ~10% of EA donations.

I'm not a huge AI risk guy, but it doesn't seem irrational to me. It doesn't seem unreasonable that you'll have a 5% chance of > than human IQ in the next 100 years. Assuming a 5% risk of it going rogue you end could end up in a pretty terrible situation.
I've done this multiple time across several countries, I usually upload my data to the cloud before the trip, just in case of lost/seizure. For very sensitive data (let's say crypto keys), you create multiple offline copies, leave them on the origin country and make sure they are destroyed when arriving to the new place.
I find it to be really interesting for the first day or two...then I realize that our customers are often really terrible people using our product for really bad reasons and it undermines my whole faith in the project
Could you give examples from countries with similar problems?
This applies to pretty much all enterprise software. It’s rarely selected by or for the benefit of the actual users. Usually it’s selected for the benefit of management (for example reporting) or for friends of management.
Is he the one RMS was cancelled over?
Great vid, I had missed that one. Cutting chocolate on the bandsaw cracked me up, classic Matthias
LOL. If you think that progressives are generally friendly towards corporations then you've never actually talked with a progressive, have you?

And corporations are not generally progressive in outlook either, there are too many values higher up on ladder of concerns.

Advertisers are one subset that bring a rough approximation of democratic to their decisions, knowing that each person in the market they hope to reach will be deploying something like a vote with their dollars. As with any democratic approximation, it's only progressive to the extent that population is, though it's poor compared to other democratic mechanisms.

You can take issue with whether democratic decisions are good decisions, of course, but that's likely to be an unpopular opinion for obvious reasons. And hey, I hear the person currently running twitter recently went so far as to say vox populi vox dei. Was his expertise in running corporations part of what you meant to scare quote, or is your challenge to expertise, shall we say, selective?
As someone whose lake was reclassified as man made after we were promised that wouldn't happen if a dam was built (because our lake exists with or without their damn dam), whose lake ecosystem has been wrecked by the damn management to keep downward water commitments even though we were promised that wouldn't happen, and to top it off, our water rights stolen so that the Feds could allocate it to other visible 'prestige' and/or court ordered commitments that supersede our water rights and local ecosystem, I have zero trust in Pacific Northwest watershed management.

They may have their 'prestige' projects like this to show the good they are doing, but the damage they are doing to less visible water sheds and their failures to keep to their previous commitments is just more of the same. And again a lot of this isn't about science but about lost court cases to restore certain 'winning' watersheds, meaning this isn't being done in the best manner just in the matter to meet the first winners to get to court. What happens when we all go to court and they can't just reallocate everything to their 'prestige' and first to court judgement projects?
Language choice will not have a huge impact on performance. It may help instances be larger (more active users) while using less resources, but network IO for the message fan out will be the great equalizer.

The real win for a rust or go server would be a single binary deploy.
If Elon holds the line on advertising and drops costs such that Twitter turns two billion in profit, they yeah the narrative in the business circles will be that Elon trimmed the fat and turned twitter into a viable property and someone with cash will buy it. I mean, Microsoft paid 8 billion for github! They bought Skype for 8.5 billion (probably like 12-20 billion these days), and THAT was after ebay bought skype for 2.6 billion (and none of the source code rights) in what was considered a vast overpay.
Another generic post about an extremely well-known colony simulator, with a title downplaying the significance. Both RimWorld and Dwarf Fortress are genre-defining cultural phenomenons. It's like posting Linux and making it sound like something unknown. What's going on?
I read the SO blog post and thought it was a pretty cool coincidence that Adams was talking about SplitMix64 when I had just recently given a talk about it. Then I scrolled down and saw the video of my talk.
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The restart message is due to the interaction of Linux package updaters and Firefox's process spawning. You can avoid it by using Mozilla's tar.gz, the Snap or Flatpack builds.
What kind of docs do you have in git? Git doesn’t work well with binary file formats like Word, Excel or Visio. You can do it but the diff won’t work.
Exactly.

Usually I set it up like "The pot is $350. The game is over as soon as all remaining players can unanimously agree on how to split it up."

It also adds much more drama to the end game. If you are down to a small couple of territories and basically out of the game, you might still have a lot of power to negotiate your way into the winner's circle.
Could you switch it back afterwards though? Having it temporarily blank to switch brightness doesn't seem so awful.
"Here is buried Isaac Newton, Knight, who by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously imagined, the properties of the colours thus produced. Diligent, sagacious and faithful, in his expositions of nature, antiquity and the holy Scriptures, he vindicated by his philosophy the majesty of God mighty and good, and expressed the simplicity of the Gospel in his manners. Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great an ornament of the human race! He was born on 25th December 1642, and died on 20th March 1726."

Translation from the Latin
I've tried playing and actually getting into this game a few times (including installing tile packs, walkthrough saves and what not), but the game mechanics are obtuse and have such a high learning curve that frustration is easier found than any sense of enjoyment. For a game focused on being so meticulous and extra-vagant in its mechanics, it's sad that enjoying it or "having fun" seems something completely out of reach with hours of gameplay, reading third-party wikis and starter guides.
So you think it's better to judge charities by what we think of their motives instead of how much they help people?
I expect their reactions to basically all of our modern society to be "disgust." Our air, our water, our environment, our attention ecosystems. All quite human-toxic.
To expand, I am in the European union but since I've never paid social insurance I'm not eligible for any state help. I'm already in debt, this is just something I can't afford to pay. I had a lot of trouble paying my health insurance debt so I could go to the psychiatrist.

Regardless, in the POV of the state I'm a high income individual so I am not eligible anyways. I make about $50/hour and they don't care I'm out of a job for 2/3 of a year. Unemployment allowance office actually tried to call the police on me because they thought I'm trying to steal from the government.

ADHD is not recognized adult medical condition here so I can't be recognized as disabled.
what's a butter robot? (I feel like i'm setting up a punchline for a joke somehow...)
Tynan explained somewhere that this is due to design constraints. There aren't many ways to draw top-down, small and light on detail but clearly visible humanoids.
What a coincidence! I'm in my first year of civil engineering taking a MATLAB course right now. I do have some previous coding experience, though. For me, it's all the math stuff that drives me insane.
Other would say, "The EPA has been so successful, to keep their budget growing, they have become overzealous."
It's just a coincidence, lack of creativity, and it was an inspiration, as said by the Rimworld author himself (Tynan) at https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=23.msg49#msg49
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The thing that gets me about Dwarf Fortress is that it's a 64-bit text-mode game.

As a grey-haired developer who got excited about "DOS Extenders" that allowed 32-bit mode, seeing a text-mode game written as a native 64-bit application is bizarrely anachronistic.

I get a similar feeling from text-mode GUI frameworks for Rust, which allow multi-threading and 64-bit but are essentially clones of Borland Turbo Vision, where you had to be mindful to keep lists smaller than 64KB: https://github.com/gyscos/cursive
"once you get into it its actually quite easy to navigate in" is something i would have said back when i played, at least ten years ago though
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The sort of operation familiar to Z80 programmers back in the day.
It's still quite rare unfortunately, and there are still negatives: less time in meetings means more time actually working which isn't always what you want!

Though it's offset by very generous comp as there's not as much bloat to soak up your TC. So YMMV...
Lockdown mode disables WebAssembly.
> but surely this number includes people with mortgages that haven't yet been fully paid off?

It definitely does, but most people don't lose their homes. Even in 2008.

Actually the swing from the absolute high of 2005 to the low of 2016 is only ~6% of the population owning their homes (never goes below 60%).

Longer term graph: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N

Now, might some people have to downsize? Absolutely. Some people are absolutely living beyond their means. That being said, mortgages are pretty safe. If you get one, there's a real good chance you will end up owning your home at some point. The problem with mortgages in 2007/2008 were that people were taking higher risks and trying to chop up the numbers in a semi-fraudulent way (and in several cases, blatantly fraudulent).
You can also just donate directly: http://www.bay12games.com/support.html

They used to personally make a crayon drawing for each person who donated. They stopped in 2020, but I made sure to get one of the final ones before then: http://www.bay12games.com/support.html

My $10 was a small price to pay for all the hours of fun I got. (I'll surely buy the Steam version too though.)
The reality is the simple graphics is what allows you to keep things very easily distinguishable as you zoom out to a great distance. Additionally, they required less time to create.

Last, the other point of keeping things as relatively abstracted icons is that it forces players to tell the story in their mind and create emotion from there, where the player fills in the blanks themselves.
The ease is like 80% of the joy.
>I drew some inspiration from Prison Architect. Moreso from its own inspiration, Dwarf Fortress.

>We don't share any tools. Chris at IV has his own tech foundation; I built this one on Unity.

>But they do look somewhat similar; that's my fault. I'm not a good enough artist to come up with a really good original look. There are only so many ways to render characters on a tiny grid without using animations.

>I hope the differences between the game will be enough for people to look past the aesthetic similarities. And if I get some funding at some point I can get an artist to help develop a more unique look.

>I do think the similarities are skin-deep. In gameplay the game resembles DF much more than PA.

– Tynan, creator of Rimworld
If you want to make purchases on the darknet cryptocurrency is your only option.
Reddit also existed at the time and was a fairly mature product. It wasn't Reddit coming in after Digg, it was Reddit and Digg slugging it out in the market and Reddit coming out on top when Digg cratered.
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Recent thread on insulating/storage firebricks, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680429
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Rimworld is fantastic, but I never manage to play it for more than a few hours without getting a strong urge to stop and play Dwarf Fortress instead.
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It's new within the last year for sure! It's also marked "experimental" and I think therefore not heavily advertised, but IMO it's also necessary for something like Vim motions that need to move at the speed with which you type…
So I tried. Walking into the kitchen, I said “light on in current room”. Alexa: “did you mean lights in the movie theater”? Why???????????