skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't agree with you although I can understand why you believe these things. Human instinct is, as I say, insufficiently-determined for survival. Is "free will" mostly an illusion? Or is it "fully deterministic"? If it is mostly then it is not "fully" determined. I'd be curious to hear how you think that can be and whether you make decisions in your own life or if you are resigned to your fate.

In any case, I'm not saying individual humans make many reasoned out decisions. Quite the opposite. Human individuals adopt a cultural second nature bequeathed to them by their heritage to avoid the necessity of making decisions. The culture over time adopts certain default decisions that are advantageous to survival. These are inculcated into the individual via their cultural conditioning. A baby has no culture and very few instincts (hunger, pleasure, pain, disgust). If you think humans are operating at the lower levels of instinct then why do they pursue or avoid certain behaviors that change over time? One answer is that they are responding to acceptable norms of behavior. As those norms change, they adapt and adopt. They change with the times, as the saying goes. A tiger can be trained to behave a certain way using stimulus/reward training but it doesn't self-regulate according to new norms. One could argue that elephants do this, if properly conditioned with a large stake early in life. But you could also make the case that elephants (like dolphins) are, like humans, self-conscious to a degree. I don't know if this is true, but it is an interesting thought. A more cynical person might say the elephant is not choosing anything but has been trained just like the tiger to avoid pain.

LLMs, or let us say AGI based on probabilistic models, can mimic behavior represented in its data and is very impressive at these language games and, with the right feedback, can correct some of its more glaring productions but it must ever be a parasite on human cultural production for it to gain what you call "knowledge". As a thought experiment, suppose we could set an LLM running on autopilot and send it into space with a feedback loop where it could add its productions to its source corpora. Is there any point in the future where it is generating new and coherent output? Or does it degenerate into raving madness?
I'm personally waiting for PICO-16.

But seriously how do you fit a game into an 8-bit environment?
The OGL states that "in consideration for agreeing to use this License, the Contributors grant You a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive license with the exact terms of this License to Use, the Open Game Content".[1] The OGL defines two forms of content:

Open Game Content (or OGC)

...the game mechanic and includes the methods, procedures, processes and routines to the extent such content does not embody the Product Identity and is an enhancement over the prior art and any additional content clearly identified as Open Game Content by the Contributor, and means any work covered by this License, including translations and derivative works under copyright law, but specifically excludes Product Identity....

Product Identity (or PI)

...product and product line names, logos and identifying marks including trade dress; artifacts; creatures characters; stories, storylines, plots, thematic elements, dialogue, incidents, language, artwork, symbols, designs, depictions, likenesses, formats, poses, concepts, themes and graphic, photographic and other visual or audio representations; names and descriptions of characters, spells, enchantments, personalities, teams, personas, likenesses and special abilities; places, locations, environments, creatures, equipment, magical or supernatural abilities or effects, logos, symbols, or graphic designs; and any other trademark or registered trademark...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Game_License
“Random HN users” is a set that includes quite a a lot of financially literate individuals. In the past HN has been pretty solid in providing sane inspiration and references for investment strategy.
Pay off all debt, have a good safety net, sustainable charity, value investing, crypto is also at low point. Life style design - this is a useful starting resource in that respect: https://tim.blog/4-hour-workweek-tools/
The tool is Google. The text is about how to use Google to search Mastodon.
> I'm currently working with the AWS SDK Python documentation and it's a hot pile of garbage from all points of view (UX, info architecture, technical detail, etc.).

I agree that pretty much all AWS documentation is woeful, and it's a travesty that the service is so expensive yet its documentation is so poor. I would gladly dump AWS and never use it again, as I hate paying top-dollar to decipher the AWS doc team's mistakes (not to mention that they are unresponsive to bug reports and feedback).

My point was made more in jest, and supposed to point out the irony of the communities' changing expectations of what documentation should be like. I predict that in a few years we'll be circling back to prioritizing writing software documentation well. (Kind of like how everybody was hating on XML for the past 20 years and it's now having a renaissance because it actually does what it's supposed to well very well.)
Framing the Gender Recognition Act as making it easier for "teenagers to choose their gender" is a particularly misleading spin. Most of this article is just a very erudite spin on very classical and frankly kind of boring right-wing talking points. It's one thing for someone to post their political views, and another for them to refuse to be honest about what they're doing and bury them in so many layers of philosophy as to make it unclear what actual points they're trying to make. Luckily this slip-up, driven by the modern conservative's Achilles Heel (trans people having agency), makes it particularly easy to unravel the rest of this given it gives you a good understanding of its motivations.
Good weather will keep SF desirable, and with the other knock-on effects, unlike Detroit.

Not to mention that it’s not a one-industry town. Don’t think biotech, for instance, has been affected like software has. Let alone finance and so forth.
Yeah if there is something gumming up the process people will understand. No one asks for a retake with a polaroid for example.
Any game by Paradox Interactive. It will increase your patience threshold if you manage to learn the ins and outs of any of their games.

https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/victoria-3

Since you sound very new to gaming, definitely run through Portal 1 and 2.
I used to be like that years ago but as you get more experience you start thinking about why you get paid so you can get paid more and/or keep your job. Which means the "quality" of my work is only meaningful if that in some way (even indirect) benefits my employer. There's a lot of fun things I can do, I use to take weeks writing something in C because I like the language and it is fast where there is already a python module that lets me do that in 20 lines. But when it comes to work, the slower python code is ideal because less technical burden and the speed benefit of C is marginal, it provides no competitive advantage in those specific scenarios.

I am not one but I believe staff and principal SWEs start thinking more like this for comparison. (I am not a developer).
Elon Musk has done plenty of long term thinking. Colonizing mars isn’t something we will see much benefit from, but our grandchildren and great grandchildren might.
"Eternal September" hasn't yet come for urbit; it's probably still february or march over there
Sounds like a need for a climate change startup that makes it easier for constituents to contact their politicians?
The guy should have said nothing and drove away. They don't owe you an explanation, only partly so if you're the property owner.
From 2013, the tenth anniversary.

I did watch this, and at the time was only a year into using Mac OS X coming from FreeBSD and Linux before that, where I used KDE. So when "KHTML" went up on the screen, I was right there with it.
It's a one time investment though, and the payback is huge.
YouTube used to be known for that, but I thought the comment sections got cleaned up?

(I couldn't really say. I just watch music videos and it's all fans praising the musicians. It's probably different elsewhere.)
But I also want just a document viewer. Great job building all that, developers of the world, now how can I read a news article or an email in a modern sense without a complicated machine executing code that’s not at all for my benefit.

I do very little on the web where I actually want there to be code running on my document.
Who knows what their corporate plan is of course…

It seems a bit odd, though — card collecting games have always seemed to have a bit of a mercenary streak. I mean buying and trading cards is sort of part of the hobby, right? I think players go into it expecting some level of ongoing costs. With pen and paper RPGs, the sort of mythical ultimate campaign that many only hope to achieve could go for years and years on a couple books. I can’t think of many hobbies that provide as favorable a $:entertainment ratio. This is… not a market that is expecting to spend a lot of money…
This is the first HN comment I've seen that used "derivative work" correctly instead of claiming that derivative works are exempt from copyright (comflating with "transformative work")
Farms are just businesses and nothing about them makes them inherently better to own than other businesses. Instead of putting all your money into a single undiversified business that requires work to manually manage just put it in an index fund.
Just download what you want to watch with yt-dlp: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

And never see another youtube ad (other than ads the creators directly include as part of the video stream itself).
Why not 25%? Or 50… or 15?
Interesting proposal but I can’t see how it would be politically possible, much less desirable.
It's about whatever some commentator thinks its about this week in order to get blog hits, sell more books, or to appear influential or as a thought leader etc etc etc.

Most of us with a brain have looked at it and taken the best parts of what is there and incorporated into our workflow for ourselves and our teams, and dumped the rest.

The rest just parrot on the same talking points with a different angle every week.
That could apply to waterfall also. You build all specifications and understanding up front, then you implement it to the specification.
Have you spent much time riding them? They are more stable than you might expect, they feel pretty good going at their max speed of 18mph or so.
https://snowflakeos.org/
That's completely unreadable!

I can't "parse it" by looking at it, and a computer would have even more trouble doing so.

How do I tokenise something like `full name += p.middle name`?

Maybe as `(full) (name +=) (p.middle) (name)`? Or is it `(full) (name) (+= p.middle) (name)`?

How about `print person(c)`? Is it the call of the `print` function with `person(c)` as argument?
If browsers had stuck to being document viewers, we'd have invented a new technology to do everything we do today, and the web would be like gopher.
I get them every 5 minutes at times, sometimes two in a row, and they can be long. It's random.

It's pushing me to switch to paid platforms for my regulars.
Verifying a good story is far less work than writing one. This seems like an easy way to address the hollow variable-substituted text of half the quests I get.
https://ambientlight.ca/laws/the-laws/provincial-law/quebec/...

In Quebec, your image is yours.
The question is if they are in free fall because they were way overpriced (due to artificially low interest rates) and the market is correcting or if there’s some fundamental shift in the economy that is making housing obsolete?
A $402K GoFundMe Scam Leads to a Three-Year Prison Term
Which is exactly why the whole concept of “quiet quitting” is nonsense
Fine. Let's assume that Agile is worse than the alternative. I am willing to accept that. However, which process are you arguing for, in its stead? "Programming, Motherfucker?" Shapeup? (Shapeup gets pretty close to agile in spirit.) Spiral Model? (I am assuming you're not arguing for RUP or others.)

Conceptually, I like shapeup. I think spiral model is fine - I'd argue that a lot of "agile" shops are closer to spiral.

Now, there are tools in agile that I'll vehemently defend, such as continuous integration and retrospectives. I'm a fan of most of the principles, such as "Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility." But we are now at a point that if we're going to argue that "agile doesn't work," we've had enough time as an industry to gather around an alternative.
I am learning how to auto-generate almost all the code needed to build complex real-world business applications. I ideally want to only have to hand write the business logic that the customer cares about and automate the rest.

I have so far been able to generate roughly 80% of the code. Which is a massive productivity boost. However I am pushing to get it as close to 100% as possible. That is of course impossible but the closer to 100% I get the more it will boost my productivity.

It’s a fun project to work on by the way. You have to think about everything from the high-level architecture to the lowest level data structures.
iOS/macOS Security Conference - Objective By the Sea v5.0: Talks (2022)
More news orgs should offer up something like lite.cnn.io.
The cost is too high to say "no thanks" instead of completely ignoring someone? And why assume they are acting in "bad faith" before you even know what they have to say? If you want to hide from the world, go for it, but don't pretend the people engaging with the world are the problem.
I get the emotional appeal, but if the OP (or anyone else) has a home loan locked in with super-low interest rates the last thing I would be doing is paying down a home loan early.

At the moment, you could do extremely low-risk things like buy US treasury bonds and come out well in front of where you would be by paying off a home loan early.
Pathfinder 2e's text is completely written from scratch and it has original aesthetics and branding around the various things used in marketing (for example, even the shared dragon types have different art and abilities).

I think would leave the only real copyright and trademark concerns around things that were nominally invented by D&D, like tieflings and balor demons... and even those would be a stretch, since for the most part they're obviously based on preexisting pop culture (70s and 80s comic books for plenty of tiefling-like characters, the balor originally just being a slightly rethemed Tolkien balrog, etc).
Yes, in that it's military-grade technology that needs to be more accessible to the public. Otherwise I don't agree with your analogy.
Only if you adjust into the right direction, and keep it after the adjustment.

Theoretically, scrum was aimed at adjusting faster. But if the adjustments just keep coming, you won't go anywhere.
Couldn't Java (the JVM) or .Net have technically accomplished the same thing earlier if web browsers didn't already exist? Java was much bigger than applets. Bill Gates recognized the threat of both Netscape and Sun to the windows dominance, because of the possibility of running apps over the internet.

Maybe even Smalltalk in the 80s if Kay and company had foreseen the rise of the global internet back in the 70s.
> > I have yet to be convinced of that

Let's say for the sake of the argument that it was stolen.

What will materially change in your life if the big shiny palace is inhabited by one guy or the other?

This is also true in the U.S. and everywhere else by the way. The notion that one guy can make or break a 400mn people country is laughable.

Recently a report came out that outlined that Brexit costed about 50bn to the U.K. in terms of missed growth. 50bn , basically a rounding error, and yet it dominated the headlines and the political discourse for 10 years starting in 2012
I do lots of long term thinking as well, but you probably don't want me as your autocratic ruler. I'd like my grandchildren to have a chance at surviving on this world.
>"Okay google" is so gross.

It suddenly stopped working on my phone. Somehow without my explicit direction it has switched to "Hey Google".

Even though my usage of smartphone is minimal something like "Hey Google ... Drive to 3 Bullshit Ave" is very convenient and causes zero sensory recoil. But I do not live my life on the phone either.
Aaaand here we are, still bound to the atrocity that is the DOM.

With still limited interactivity and terrible work-arounds (canvas).

And still with a data silo problem - (but not quite as bad as the data silos created by 'apps' on your devices)
In this case it's handy to know, that on DOS you can use assign to map a drive to a different letter.
As far as I'm concerned this is the perfect opportunity for the community to standardize on a new, open-source ruleset. 5E is fine and all, but in my opinion a professional game developer could rebalance a lot about it. There are so many traits, abilities, spells, character features that are so inferior that they are hard to pick.

Heck some classes in general could use a real boost, not necessarily in combat stats but overall usefulness to the party.
All of that goes to show that the left/right dichotomy breaks down and is rendered meaningless in San Francisco. It's more of an issue of those who are willing to contest the entrenched landowner interests against those who are not. In that, the NIMBY/YIMBY/PHIMBY debate is rivened by sniping from all sides. One needs only glance over at the corresponding social media flamewars to realize how much of mess it is.
Could you link any research on this?
Much of the tabletop gaming world has embraced Creative Commons in the last decade or so. Off the top of my head, reasonably popular systems that are CC licensed include Pelgrane's GUMSHOE, Evil Hat's FATE and Forged in the Dark systems, Posthuman's Eclipse Phase (although that's a non-commercial license), Trophy, Dungeon World, Quest, and I'm sure I'm missing some significant ones. None of these games are even remotely as popular as D&D, but yeah, there are plenty of options.
I mean they can learn on their own topics from the first two years of CS

And they are free to continue learning on their own the last 2 years of CS.

If you want a degree in CS, you have to earn it --- under the rules of those who can endow you with one.

Does this seem unfair to you?
Interesting. Is uploading a video like this to tiktok or YouTube considered commercialisation?
Incredible, but also incredibly wasteful. Often websites send our CPU fans spinning for stuff, that should not even wake up a CPU fan. In that regard the browser ecosystem needs to seriously lose weight. We have more powerful machines than ever, but we are wasting their potential to no end with fat bloated web apps.
This is not about reading but I am looking forward to digging (mostly audiobooks) the Indian Epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata this year.

I never paid attention to these things before but after I lost my father a couple of years ago I have made it my personal avenue to walk in his footsteps in everything I do.
He loved these books, the literature and often took out references from them for many lessons in life. Not just that, he remembers every character, every line, every verse and every poem from those things. He was a true genius.

I wanted to experience these epics as he did while he read them, and to make everything he loved a part of my life. I miss you daddy.
Did you merge two comments together?
> Wonder if anyone has made a git client that lets you manipulate it at that level.

I believe you're describing GitUp [1]. I can't really say much about it, though, as I've never used it myself (because it's OSX only).

[1]: https://gitup.co/
As with everything, it depends. What is your risk profile?

The first time I came into some unexpected wealth (from selling stock options) I put it aside to pay for my kids college. In terms of frames of reference, I recognized that "lack of debt" is a big help for new graduates even back then. I had gone through school on a combination of scholarships, grants, and student loans but it cost less back then and when my wife and I got married she had actually saved enough to pay of my remaining student debt (which was < $10K as I recall).

Because we didn't have debt, both working as engineers without kids let us save enough and have a good enough debt/income ratio to buy a house in California. And that was what allowed us to stay in California when she wanted to stay home and raise the kids. So looking back, it was a good call.

An exercise that I often gave my kids and engineers I've mentored is to "project your expenses forward" to get an understanding of your "burn rate" over time, then invest / save to ensure you're above the power curve (not incurring debt to pay a projected cost). Three areas I look at are < 1yr, < 5yrs, and > 5yrs. For the latter I put stuff in equities mostly, for < 5yrs it is a mix of equities and fixed income notes (bonds, CDs, etc) and < 1yr usually CD's. For example estimated tax payments (income and property) in CD's that are 3 month, 6 month, and 9 month maturities, depending on when the money will be required.

My parents put $100K of an inheritance my Dad got into a managed "growth" account, and each year if it had grown > $10K they would take out 10K for a vacation that year. That worked well for them being on fixed incomes.

Another friend of mine invested about $500K in a property in the Sacremento area and rents it out which gives them a steady income. It is more work however.
Take a look at U.S. Treasury's Series I bonds [0][1]. You can buy up to $10K/social security number/year + extra $5K (if you use your tax refund to buy it). The interest rate is based on the inflation and is currently at 6.89%.

[0] https://www.treasurydirect.gov/savings-bonds/i-bonds/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29067185
But from a logistical point of view, is it possible to revoke a license from a person that you don't know the name and address of, and have no way to find it?

I think you'd be hard pressed to tell a court that you want to sue an unnamed person for following the terms of a license that you granted to them, then revoked but haven't told them you revoked, and that you don't know their name or address...
There doesn't need to be a games-specific license. Creative Commons is enough for text reuse.

FATE moved from OGL to CC BY when they shed the Fudge origins: https://www.faterpg.com/licensing/

Several games, like Eclipse Phase and GLoG, use CC BY-NC-SA: https://eclipsephase.com/cclicense/

Several OSRs dual-licensed as OGL and CC.

PbtA's license isn't really one, for better or worse: http://apocalypse-world.com/pbta/policy

A larger list of open-licensed games: https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Open_Game_Systems