skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a counter-point, I'm glad I didn't skip out on college. Sure it's mostly a waste of time but I was taught a lot of non-programming related stuff there that has been immensely valuable since.
Show HN: ACOS: Build and share competitive turn-based browser games
Hi everyone,

This is a little tech demo I've been working on the past 2 years. It's been up for 1 year now, and has since had a few major updates. I have a soft spot for games with ranking systems, and I wanted an easy way for developers to create games with the competitive element abstracted away.

The current games are built with ReactJS, so it's pretty easy to onboard if you are a web developer.

All games developed for ACOS come with these features:

- Real-time turn-based for browser

- Simulator for game development

- Client / Server architecture

- Easy multiplayer with simple JSON game state update

- Single player, Team-based, Battle Royale, and Free-for-all games supported

- Matchmaking for Rank / Casual play

- Room Scoreboard

- Game Replays of every match

- Error Logs

- Global Rankings

- Global Top Scores

- GitHub Integration with acosgames organization

- Discord Integration for matchmaking / game events

- Simple deployment and version management

It's a ridiculous endeavor, but I'd like to invite the world to my playground and help me drive features and technology forward. I may allow AI bot battles in the future against any of the hosted games, but I will prioritize based on the will of the people.

Read our documentation at

https://sdk.acos.games/

Hope you enjoy it!
Taiwan and Japan are pretty close, actually. You'll find few people in Taiwan that dislike Japan. The rest, yah.
> What strikes me is the reminder that it is never possible to "prove" something by pointing out that it is true for all known cases.

Not exactly true. If you can prove that the cases you checked amount to all the cases in the theorem statement, you're done. The Four-color theorem is a well-known example that was originally proved in this way (accompanied by a controversy about whether that's a 'real' proof, which is arguably pretty much settled at this point). Induction would arguably be another way (that only requires checking a single case).
I'm interested in the concept of concurrency, but is there anywhere that it would be useful outside of scientific applications and operating systems? It feels like a powerful paradigm to master but I'm just not sure it's worth the investment for the average developer.
I got that and it's a good point.

Although I rarely see Objects used this way. Often, methods are used to implement all related functionality. Unity even strongly encourages this. (...at the moment. They are working on Entity Component Systems which will work more similar to my third example)

I concede that languages shouldn't use the dot as a syntactic tool, be it through Extensions[1] or UFCS, but rather offer a pipe-operator. If they don't, I'd still prefer UFCS rather than no way of chaining at all.

[1] Extensions for interface/protocol conformance are fine of course.
natural disasters tend to be problematic for most types of agriculture.
Is it though? You can flip through a catalog that would put even great record stores to shame effortlessly. You could just choose to listen to your favorites over and over instead, but discs hardly prevented that.
It's certainly not perfect (still a bit coarse, doesn't state what % of the work is done, doesn't state which parts of the paper the author worked on), but CRediT statements are gaining increasing traction in the published literature: https://credit.niso.org/
I remember component sharing being a topic on day 1 with react native. I also remember it coming up a lot about 5 years ago when MS launched a component library that theoretically did this (didn’t seem to take off). I’m skeptical of the approach given that so much time has passed, with so much incentive, and it still hasn’t happened.

Building both SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose apps is definitely a ton of work, but I think the right choice at scale. Before “scale” is “achieved”, I’d advocate for doing one platform well (there’s often an obviously more important one) and packaging the web PWA for the other platform.
Well, have you considered that the daily smoking has made you numb to the effects, or your tolerance is so high that you don't anymore feel the effect ?

I get more number to the effect also while tolerance develops, I can only imagine what happens after 30 years. I definitely don't use weed daily, it would kill my productivity completely, but when I do after long periods of being sober, the sativa vs indica difference is so clear that seems pretty silly to even discuss about this.
20 to 40 minutes for your oven to heat up? The hell? Mine is heated to 180 degrees in 5 minutes.
I think I just have poor intuitions about when to share and when I’m over sharing. Not about personal stuff. Just tech and work stuff.

Have you ever had someone join your team and immediately start lecturing you about this best practice and that design pattern and how the current codebase falls so far short of them? I don’t want to be that guy.

But that makes me hesitant to talk about whatever cool new thing(TM) I’ve just stumbled upon. If I mention pyo3 offhandedly (I.e. “I thought this was cool what do you think?”) will people think that _I think_ that we should rewrite everything in rust (and then port it back to Python…)? That’s a sort of paranoid thought pattern but - unfortunately- it is one that I observe myself falling into.
Now therapists are probably this job.
History shows the exact opposite. What higher level managers, directors and executives do is politics (the practice of allocation of resources).
The ULID spec has been stable for many years now and changes are extremely unlikely. The spec wasn't designed for forwards compatibility for future specs, which on the one hand makes it a possible risk if there are future specs, but also gives some weight to the "promise" that future specs are not expected and will be backwards incompatible anyway.

It would be nice to see ULID recognized by some standards body that isn't just "itself", but also unlike UUID version changes doesn't need to be. The new UUID versions need to be backward and forward compatible with existing standards documents "universally", whereas ULID is designed to be entirely self-contained.
It isn't defined what it means for a version to be "authorized" though, which means it is ambiguous. And the FAQ for the original OGL makes it pretty clear that that intent was that once a version is authorized, it can't be un-authorized. As a layman, non-lawyer that seems like a pretty tough argument for WOTC.
Yes. Down on the Wikipedia page there is a fairly basic game that you can convince yourself is impossible to win with 100% probability without communication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_pseudo-telepathy#Green...

To paraphrase, Alice, Bob and Carol play a game where they can't communicate (after deciding on a strategy) and the referee shows each of them a bit. After being shown the bit they must reply with 0 or 1. The four possible combinations the referee chooses uniformly from is:

(Alice: 0, Bob: 0, Carol: 0)
(Alice: 1, Bob: 0, Carol: 1)
(Alice: 1, Bob: 1, Carol: 0)
(Alice: 0, Bob: 1, Carol: 1)

If the first combination was shown, the answers must have an even sum, otherwise the answers must have an odd sum.

First, without using probability, if A0 is the answer Alice gives when shown 0 and A1 when shown 1 (and similarly for Bob and Carol), you get the following set of equations needed to win always:

A0 + B0 + C0 = 0 (mod 2)
A1 + B0 + C1 = 1 (mod 2)
A1 + B1 + C0 = 1 (mod 2)
A0 + B1 + C1 = 1 (mod 2)

However, each term occurs twice on the left hand side, so when you add all equations up (mod 2) you would find the left hand side is even. However the right hand side sums to an odd number, thus all four equations can't hold simultaneously.

Now, probability doesn't help here, because any mixed strategy can be shown to be equivalent to a combination of pure strategies, none of which can guarantee a win.

Yet with a shared entangled state, it can be won 100% of the time. This isn't a probability thing - you can actually guarantee a win using the quantum strategy, even over arbitrarily large distances.
Sounds like you'd just have to do twice as many reps, one for each arm. I get that those reps would notionally be more effective, but enough to balance out? Seems unlikely.
I was looking for something similar recently when I wanted to be able to embed sheet music into Obsidian notes.

Have you come across https://alphatab.net/? Seems like a really slick feature rich open source project.
It supports Guitar Pro formats, MusicXML, and also its own text based format.

Editing is a whole other kettle of fish and I'd be surprised if there was a polished open source option out there..
Ha, yes, the same series where we get like two pages dedicated to detailing every notable knight and lord that either died or lost their titles owing to the Battle of the Blackwater is also the series where political powers and contours basically never change.
I write about manga, video games, and odd tutorials for things like HomeAssistant: https://mattdemers.com
During the day desktop PC is off and I work on my laptop, then I turn it off and switch to the desktop PC. With synergy one would always have to be on.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170408190524/https://mastodon....

Now at https://mastodon.social/@jaffathecake/55550
I keep hearing good things about Oura ring, but I'm fended off by subscription model for the hardware that you buy and own. Is there any way around that? I don't want to pay for Yet Another Subscription
Yes they are regular trees. I have an uncle who used to own a nursery (selling plants and trees) that decreed bonsai to be "cruel". I love him and my aunt in equal measure but should point out that they deployed rootstock for their trees (just saying!)

I am toying with getting back into bonsai. I'm now 53 and might have enough patience to do quite well. I planted a few trees a few decades ago that I might find useful as some raw material. Who knows?

If you fancy a dabble you can get a very easy good first result. Don't buy a "bonsai" from a garden centre - please don't. The materials are very cheap but you do have to invest with time.
simply because it is a smaller convection oven
There are two sensors in the probe. External is good up to 280C (but can go up to 300 with app's alarm blaring), internal - up to 100C. So the potato trick works.
> Do you have gas ovens or none at all?

Both gas and electric ovens without convection are common in the US; in 12 homes I can remember, as a child and adult, in almost 50 years, only in the most recent have I had a convection (gas) oven. (All have had ovens.)
Because people work to fill time.
I got 100% (the second moon) purely by the feel of the controller. I didn’t even look. I just started an arc and held fast. It’s amazingly difficult to walk a perfect circle.
Messaging with a Call Stack: Mats3 Java Lib for Message-Oriented Async RPC
$305 for a scythe (snath + blade) to replace a gas-powered riding trimmer. Quite a different experience coming from a loud, heavy, bouncy, overly-destructive machine to a much more elegant, surgical, and meditative tool. No need for noise cancelling earphones, can listen to audio book/podcast/news/birds, and is more wildlife friendly (deer will walk and graze past me over avoiding the area entirely for one). Super relaxing once you figure get into a good form and rhythm. It's a slow-and-steady effort giving me a better position to observe the field or my thoughts.

Looking forward to using it on fresh, green growth this spring since I had received mid-summer when the grass was already tall and dry.
Yeah, I really like them too! Is it just a second column?
Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds (2022)
Don't run your object store on your SAN/NAS appliance (and the one exception)
Ring cameras. Gave me peace of mind while away from home and caught my landlord entering my apartment unannounced once while I was away. Gave one to my parents, who reluctantly accepted it. Caught and deterred would-be burglars entering their house 2 months after setting it up.

I used to manage my parents' old-style security cameras, and now I realize what important features they lacked. It takes a lot for a system to catch people in the act, regardless of how high-quality your cameras are and how much disk space your DVR has, and convenience matters too.
You can get pretty close with a pencil and a ruler though, if you have the right diameter of mechanical pencil. If you place the ruler dead on the corners of the squares and draw the line offset that tiny little bit, the error is barely perceptible without magnification.
There's a physiology lab that built out machines for negative-only exercise -> https://news.drgator.ufl.edu/2010/02/24/the-negator-muscle-b...
It depends on the definition of "housing costs". Monthly payments determine whether something is possible on a given income. Total cost is more a question of whether it's a good deal or not.
Hallo Marcus!

I studied at WWU Münster in 1998 and would go back in a heartbeat - you are very blessed to be in a beautiful city with a fantastic uni! My question is - why not do both? I'm under the impression that the startup culture has improved significantly there, that the Informatik department at the uni is good, so is there a way you can both pursue your career plan and pursue a degree at the same time? You are only young once and your work life will be long - there is a lot to be said for working on yourself as a person and building the lifelong relationships and skills that your university years can provide. I wish I had stayed and finished uni there - you live in a very special city with great culture and quality of life. My guess is that your university years could be transformational in terms of the experiences and opportunities it could produce for you.

Wishing you the very best in whatever you pursue!
I had a personal training for a while and he would mix in what he would call "negatives" that were exactly that. For example, we'd set up in a bench press and he'd assist in lifting the bar up, then it was on me to slowly lower it back down. According to him, you're able to use your strength more effectively going down, so I was actually able to do more than I could normally bench this way. Similar story with concentration curls.
You need roughly an extra 60dB of dynamic range to match CD.

The largest groove deviation on vinyl - nominal 0dB - is around 23um. To add 60dB you have to multiply by 1000, which gets you 23mm. And increase the thickness correspondingly.

This has has tragic consequences for the size and weight of the disk.

Although it wouldn't be playable because the stylus would be pulling hundreds of Gs. For the short period for which it survived it would be hot enough to melt the vinyl. (Actually it would probably catch fire.)

You can imagine an optical reader - the've been built for for vinyl, but for some reason they never caught on - but if you're going to do that you may as well have a sub-micron digital data stream in a much smaller disk.
This sounds like a very quick way to gain an injury. I've usually had negative experiences with doing things in this manner.
I don't think they really need the two pool model, booting off efi(fat32) can load the modules, and importing the pool can be handled by the initrd. At least that's how I've been doing it on gentoo for years.

Edit: handcuffing yourself to grub seems pointless. Not to mention, grub is controlled by oracle devs who want nothing to do with zfs support and have actively ignored bringing the grub zfs in line with openzfs mainline.
The devil is in the details. Being able to see a comment history alongside file level changes is very powerful over time. Version control is priceless.
You can do both.

I'm almost the same age as you.

I work full time with university (both remote and in separate timezone). There are partial remote options for CS which didn't exist before pandemic. You may only need to attend for semester and in-between exams in person and rest you can run it on your own pace.

I don't spend much time on university since there is no mandatory lecture or attendance. I know a lot of the course work already so I can do fine on submissions, exams, etc without having to attend remote lectures and watching videos.

It can be tough especially with maths and there is no campus lifestyle.

Daily meeting is with people in 40s instead of 18-20 year olds but I love that, some may not.

I only need the degree and some formal framework so I'm not super picky about the university ranking. Most options available are not "elite" so that's something to consider.

They are also paid out of pocket unlike germany where university is free. It can be expensive but since I work, I don't have to worry about it.

You need to watch out for accreditation. There are few authorities in each countries with specific rules with regards to whether the degree will be recognized if done part time or partially remote.

You can also get an equivalence certificate for immigration purposes.

The trade offs made sense for me. It may not for you or someone else. I'm happy with my current position.

Feel free to email me (in the profile) if you want to discuss or learn more. Throwaway for privacy reasons.
How would you recommend to find the email of a senior engineer at ClickUp?
If you saw your CPU/GPU went from 99% usage to 1% would you let it chill?
Great list, thank you.

One option is to always have more than one payment processor activated.

Splitting payments across providers early on doesn’t have to be a bad thing.

There are libraries focused in billing and payment management and leaving the payment processing only to stripe, etc. These libraries that can handle multiple payment providers and help reduce dependency on the a single payment provider for payment management functionality.

It’s always felt like a risk.

One stand alone library that I’m looking at is https://killbill.io/

If there are alternatives to this that folks have experience with - it would be great if you could share
Very nice!

I agree with your wish that Apple put 6E capable wifi chipsets in their products. To me the benefit of 6E is the additional frequencies that are available.

What, if any, wintel laptops support 6E these days?
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34257150#34266486
First of all, congratulations! This is fantastic work at any age, let alone 17.

One piece of advice - you should do some research on US/Canadian immigration policies and how a college degree affects (or doesn’t affect) your ability to immigrate. This is something that may not be top of mind for you, but if your goal is to move to the US it’s a very important factor to consider.
Living somewhere I didn't need a car would be way more expensive for me than owning a car--even if I didn't care about the lack of mobility.
I suppose I'm implicitly filtering out all the people who don't participate in the market.
Please get your computer science degree. It can only improve your skillset and open doors.

I dropped out of college and ended up going back. Bc not having a degree was a deterrent to my career.
I started using traefik as my loadbalancer which supports authentication middleware. I rigged up keycloak and forward-auth to handle external services that either do not support authentication or has a weak security profile. A poor man’s zero trust setup.

Here is the blog I used to get things started: https://geek-cookbook.funkypenguin.co.nz/docker-swarm/traefi...
I kind of have the shakes? https://imgur.com/a/M1KsWci
Bezos has an interview where he’s talking about the future of labor and mentions pet therapy is a career individuals can have. He was using it as a way to say we don’t really know what the future will hold.
"Too slow"

"Too slow"

"Too slow"

OK, this is clearly not meant for trackpads. I can see how I might do it reasonably in the given time with a mouse or on a tablet... but not on my laptop trackpad!! :S
I find Japanese society to be adverse to weight training in general, weight lifting (Olympic) is almost exclusively practiced in college only. Women are on average afraid they will be seen as too masculine / strong so wouldn't touch weights.

Things are certainly changing thanks to cross fit becoming cool

Given all that, I find it interesting this study is partyl published from researchers based in Japan :) It's almost like it's their "opinion".
While it's the same amount of mass, the distribution of force on your body will change as will the muscles engaged etc. no?
Thank you!

The typography/layouts come from Tailwind Typography [1]. I like their defaults.

[1]: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/typography-plugin
How long did you have to wait for your scythe? It took about six months in 2021 of waiting to get one, due to snath manufacturing delays in canada. Love it around trees and certain areas where i want to retain full length clippings but still need a mower until i figure out an appropriate blade for it.
It was a gift and not all that expensive, but I love my Fostex T20RPmk3 planar driver headphones. Works really well with the quad DAC in my LG G8 phone. They also make closed (T40RPmk3) and semi-open (T50RPmk3) models with different shells.

I'm also on the lookout for replacement earphones with clear midrange/vocals and neutral but lively sound and extended but non emphasized bass/treble. I have some discontinued JVC HA-FXD80 imported from Japan but it seems to be getting a bit worn though still pretty good and I want something for when they finally give out.

A replacement phone with really good analog out would be nice too for when my discontinued LG goes.
The relationship between school funding and outcomes is far from clear in general.
Second this about paddle. They seem to handle the international tax feature a lot earlier than most. Having a merchant of record is handy.

The extra fee for international sales is less in the beginning than hiring accountants or having a keels presence in other countries and the overhead associated with that.

Functionality like this more easily lets you sell globally from the start, and optimize later when beneficial.

With a future likelier to include digital taxes, it’s reasonable to focus on product and customer.
This book is about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

It defines them this way: "a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence even though, as part of the conditions of employment, the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is not the case."

It goes further and defines various types of thse jobs, with examples for each. Those are included in the Wikipedia article.
Actually, over nearly the past two decades, in the US, it has been the opposite of a “consistent trend of dropping energy security.” Considered like a trade balance, since 2019 the net energy balance in the US is positive.