skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who likes Guild Wars 2 the game makes the distinction between quests (i.e. the Story) and Events which are constantly occurring in the world.

As you wander through zones in the world dynamic events will spawn for example you might run into a merchant in need of an escort between villages or you'll run across a farmer who needs you to defend his flock or whatever. Many events are simply on a timer and some are triggered by specific actions you (or another player) have done elsewhere in the world.

The events can be simply once off events or they can be more complex with multiple states. I.e. an event can spawn where a bunch of npc soldiers want to take back a mine from monsters - players can escort them to the mine help them clear it out. If successful then later on other NPC's will move into the mine new vendors will become accessible etc. Later still the monsters will congregate and launch a new offensive to retake the mine an event will spawn to help defend the new settlement.

I like the feeling this gives the world. For me at least it makes the game world feel like it's fresh and things are constantly happening even when your character is not around the world is alive and things are changing all of the time.

This is different from my experience playing an mmo like World of Warcraft, which had static NPC quest givers in zones and once you'd done the content, which tended to be stuff like kill 15 of this enemy and then report back to me - there was little reason to revisit the zone again.

The questline in guild wars 2 which reveals the larger narrative and your characters personal story is instanced content, separate from the event system.

None of the events in Guild Wars are mandatory you can ignore all of them to your heart's content - don't feel like escorting the merchant you can walk past him on the road. Don't want to help the farmer defend his flock from the wolves - you can go right on ahead and ignore it. So it's strange you would get hung up on that aspect of the game. If you wanted to run around and explore the open world going from zone to zone as you please you can go right ahead and do just that.
It's still very limited in Ireland and it took the death of a pregnant woman to make this happen.

Her husband begged the doctors to terminate her pregnancy in order to save her life but he was told "this is a Catholic country".

I marched myself on this dark day in Galway but Ireland still has a long way to go to become truly independent from its Catholic stranglehold. That caused so much pain especially to the youth.

But they are on their way yes, I was especially happy when the gay marriage made it through.
Alpha Protocol was another good example of doing this well.
Dad was what, 50 at least before email even came out?

Christ, I can't even stand driving an automatic car. I'm gonna be just as bad as he is with adapting to new tech. I am already. That automated voice in TikToc is the thing of my nightmares -- I hear it and it's like instant rage. I know exactly how Dad feels when he has to use a phone app! (=

When Dad grew up, he was in a very rural setting. He didn't get electricity until his senior year of high school. Then he went to work in a mine, then he went into the army. He was 21 before he ever met someone who didn't look like he did. Or ventured more than 50 miles away from his home. Computers came out and then the internet and then phones, and he had a flip phone until probably 2016.

And he was successful at what he did. Without the tech. So he had no motivation to learn it. He knew what worked for him, he knew how to get what he needed to done. The change he went through in his life time... I totally get it's been hard to keep up with it all.

But yeah man, we should have a Discord server or something (that's how you say IRC group now, yeah?) -- it's all been a bit much to deal with. Love to have some people to share experiences with. Plus... I think Dad would probably get a kick out of talking to other old people who have kids in tech.

"My son works with computers, does your son work with computers too?" I can just see them trying to explain the jobs of their offspring to one another. It'd be fucking adorable. Depending on who you ask, Dad has left the people with the impression that I do medical transcription, or program robots for welding, or farm bit coin. I love it.

ChatGPT isn't there yet, but I can see a future where it serves as a biographer for old people and automatically records and documents their lives, and prompts them daily to fill out more details. Then plays it back for them so they can approve changes to the story. I think Dad would really benefit from something like that... an obedient ego-less listener with infinite time who wanted to spend it helping immortalize Dad's story... he'd love it. And I don't feel like it's too far off.

But anyway, it'd be cool to swap stories. My email is in my profile. Cheers mate!
The real cure for burnout is labor unions. Given how long this thread is and the recent layoffs, it's pretty much time.
cry

sob

But this will speed the transition to Rust.
Windows 7 Extended Security Updates were still there until January 2023, and if you know where to look, there's a guy, I believe he's Ukranian(1), who's been providing the ESU updates for mortals (non-corporate users). But yeah, "Download an EXE provided by a mysterious man to keep your OS 'secure'." isn't really a safe policy.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/u...

(1) The EXEs are signed with a digital signature where the signer's address is Kherson, Ukraine.
I wish more people could have the experience of using Mac and Win11 on a daily basis for real work. I've been developing on Mac/Win11/Linux for 8 years. Win11 vs Mac/Linux is night-vs-day. But you really can't get a sense of how awful windows is without spending serious work time on both Mac & Win. It's not an exaggeration. The simplest things, like remembering settings, switching displays, or setting up hardware, Windows is just garbage. There is such a cumulative cognitive load to using windows vs mac, that it is exhausting. And don't even get me started on developing in windows: the command line always has been and always will be shyte. WSL is a facade.

TL;DR: without actually committing to using both OSes for a solid period, I don't think developers have a clue about how bad Windows is compared to MacOS.
A new theory suggests Alzheimer’s may be an autoimmune condition
There's still easily enough constraints to be had to make programming interesting.
> No -the C committee
Yep, the few wealthy canadians Ive had the unfortunate opportunity to know have had (family ... probably owned by toilet and douche) houses and uncountable bank accounts in Cayman. There was a push not long ago to crack down on the Cayman tax haven (from the US) but perhaps the island cleaned up its routine. As far as Id been aware, cayman only has financial finagling and a short coastline (with an unvisitable mini neighbor island) for attraction so its gotta be struggling. You can bring back Jamaican rum so they go that going ...
They even made quiet updates that helped the Asahi Linux project. I agree, it’s not going to be totally locked down anytime soon.
Not everyone has a high opinion of bias fx in comparison to some other modelled amp and cab sims. So that sample size of 1 may not be representative of the current state of the art.

Love their GUIs though!
Every single time I’ve had to poke around my mom’s computer in the last 20 years I’ve come to the conclusion you need to be a Windows Wizard to do even simplish things.

Linux stuff, no problem.

Really depends on what you’re used to, I suppose.
>Sustainable

Not in the financial sense of the word.
Or, as Yogi Berra joked [1] about a restaurant, "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded".

[1] Not original to him, but he said it. <https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/29/too-crowded/>
No, if anyone, that would have been his first wife Akiko Yano, who is a jazz piano player and singer. She can be seen in footage from live YMO performances, as an additional band member.
The ammonia has a purpose on its own, as fertilizer.
The nitrogen used to make it, is also freely pulled from the atmosphere
If only we lived in a market economy that made things more expensive in places that were harder/more expensive to get to. Oh wait....

I guess you have never had the pleasure of paying $5 for a frozen cheeseburger that you had to heat up yourself in a microwave at a filling station in Max, North Dakota! Lots of benefits to rural life, but things being cheep is not usually one of them.
I’ve never used a wheelchair ramp but don’t mind that buildings that I use have them.

This move is just laziness by automotive manufacturers not wanting to address their negative externalities (spewing RF into the local environment), disguised as efficiency/progress.
I think this strikes at such a great line of reasoning: declarative vs imperative is the wrong abstraction.

The thing I actually care about is: can I use a programming language or not?
You missed one of the best parts. Build yourself a robot to retrieve product from the crawl space under the house: Check!
In a country where the ignorant bureaucrats call computers "il cervellone" (big brain) this law has, as secondary goal, the task of hiding their stupidity!
It seems quite simple… maybe a little too easier than “understanding machine learning”?
My cousin moved to Cluj (200 km away) for college, then came back and opened a small business; he has more work than qualified workers, but he is getting better with that. In the past 5 years he had 2 girlfriends and now a wife, all with college degrees and all willing to relocate. It is very true some young people are still emigrating, mostly the ones with no useful skills, doing cheap jobs in the Netherlands or Germany, but for the ones that want to stay there are opportunities even in many small cities or even villages.
I don't think dust buildup was an issue out of the box. It always ran hot.
But their national politics are fine. I personally wouldn’t particularly mind any of the parties in the Netherlands getting elected, they’re all variations of the same (aside from some ultra right/left wing wankers, but they have no serious chance).
Can’t say I’ve had this experience. I run one computer on insider builds and another on stock, neither seem to cause lost settings reset defaults, etc. New progs I guess rarely/infrequently.
I agree that there's lots of room for improvement in both the benchmark and the exposition around it, but I disagree with:

> no use of [...] synchronous and journal mode

They enable both of these when configuring the connection:

let connection_options = SqliteConnectOptions::from_str(&database_url)?
.create_if_missing(true)
.journal_mode(SqliteJournalMode::Wal)
.synchronous(SqliteSynchronous::Normal)
.busy_timeout(pool_timeout);
What operating system are you on?
The food shortage situation.
One thing I observe being unstated for many mental health conditions is that the duration is often life.

Or that without fundamentally changing the set and setting of one's life, one can expect, on average, approximately the same metrics now as tomorrow, and so on and so forth.

Therapy and medication help, for some people, some of the time.
Giving kids no autonomy at all has become a parenting norm
It would be nice if it wasn't making up nearly all the links and sources I ask of it.
What do you think of Murphy approach in practice/engineering.
One shot but how many takes? Pretty impressive though.
And yet the creation of hydrogen through electrolysis of water is both well understood and potentially green if solar and wind electricity is used for electrolysis. This would also bypass either the capital intensive requirement to moderate solar and wind electricity with battery energy storage and/or the losses in transmitting solar and wind electricity over the grid.
> Many preferences are not necessarily the best for us.

That might be said for the preference to work from an office.

> For most people, I would argue this simply doesn’t happen very often.

Well, perhaps those people ought to change their habits.
Great shooting--especially with the snubnose--but neither bullet impacted the balloon directly. The .44 hit the plate to the left of the balloon, and the .38 hit low. In both cases, the balloon was popped by fragments of the bullet after it impacted the steel plate.

looks like this in slow mo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqwVdjzDbZA
The quality of service in North America has gone down across nearly every service, whether wholly governmental, or wholly private, since the pandemic.

It’s very likely the quality of service is heavily affected by the same general forces.

In addition to that, any effort which greatly increases access to services to a broader spectrum of people will usually lead to a short term reduction of quality as the supply catches up with the new demand. A logical solution to this would be to phase in the demand, but unfortunately it’s not politically viable at all (politicians of all stripes want to be credited for the changes they make, and phasing it in over a period of time means the costs impact the budget almost immediately, but the benefits take time to filter through, which will likely be a political disaster).
There's also a substantial difference in quality when developing between Mac and Linux. Less than Windows, but it's still very noticeable and often most developers make this tradeoff not because of the OS, but what exists outside of that - higher quality hardware, better apple support, more GUI solutions, etc.

It's quite unfortunate that I assume many developers within the Windows team can see what needs to be changed, but are given the cold shoulder unless their solution comes bundled with another surface for ads.
Nobody knows that mastering gamma changed from 2.2 to bt1886 (2.4) in/around 2018. All movies now are mastered for 2.4 now. This is a big reason, most unfamiliar with production don’t realize.
Thanks, I’ll check this out. I haven’t had a chance to check play anything recently nor look very deep into vms and passthrough (its on my todo list), but this will likely help a ton :)
If you build 40 stories high, you can give each person much more space per square meter of land used, than if you if you build low-rises. The shoeboxes are simply a consequence of the land underneath those towers being so in demand that people would rather trade living and green space to be situated there.
> Nobody really noticed.

It's often necessary to make sure they notice, by telling them. A good method is to email your manager a weekly summary of what you accomplished, including extra hours you spent on it. This is especially worth while if you're working remote.
I wouldn’t say they favor immigration, but they’re dealing with it as gracefully as possible, under the circumstances.
First, there was news about a mass shooting that had occurred only recently. In the middle of the search menu. The menu which was supposed to be one of the first touch points with that computer for the kid.

I don't know how anyone uses anything after Window 7 without something like Classic Shell:

http://www.classicshell.net/
That's not true because fdopen has different behavior from fopen, so it's a subtle poor choice that goes back to the beginning.
It's not necessarily that critical if your company doesn't directly use it, and it's only used by third party vendors you sometimes interface with.
Correction, I can only watch it online. And maybe not even that as I am Swedish and not a Danish citizen.

We have something similar in Kungliga Biblioteket, but they don't have this movie.

>Materialet kan desværre ikke bestilles

>Der kan dog være andre muligheder for at få adgang til materialet.
Adgang til streaming for brugere tilknyttet skoler og biblioteker med abonnement på Fortælletid
Destiny 2? Bungie has been unpleasant about this, as I’m sure plenty of other devs still do-which, unlike the past where they could claim no market share, makes less sense now that Steam Deck is a thing and doing great.
Fun fact: the color commonly called "brown" is really just dark orange.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU
Does Orson Scott Card know anything about software development? It’s a legitimate question, I’m not trying to sound dismissive.
Recently, he also streamed multiple times over a weekend this one hour "concert", actually a compilation of pieces he played with obvious difficulty in a Tokyo studio, over an entire week. There's supposed to be a release of that, too, at some point.
Don't have to hire security to escort everyone out if they're already home.
If you get an Android phone that can run something like GrapheneOS or Replicant, then wouldn't it be good?
It doesn't track people in the sense of exploiting their web presence, but it does use cookies to give visitors their own preferences to see all kinds of targeted ferret nonsense. The visitors love that. They don't have to dig through the website to find the content they always want to enjoy.
Those listeners, who want to listen to old/classic or regurgitated some young woman duetting with Elton John :-)

And it really helps to have a fondness for air headed radio dj ramblings …
The original author made a huge mistake of not loudly commenting the intentionally weird behavior that was mimicking the weird POSIX API, and not having any functional tests that depended on the originally designed behavior.
Any Intel/AMD mobile processor is going to get hot doing simple things - new or old. It has always been this way.
M1/M2 is the way to go if you want cool operation on virtually all workloads.
Vax/VMS filesystem's different flavours of file wasn't that dissimilar to this. Additionally it had "mailboxes" which were basically named pipes.
Could be some April Fools leftovers.
> It doesn't even get you recognition for your efforts most of the time.

You've gotta toot your own horn. Relying on others to do it for you is a surefire recipe for disappointment and disillusionment. Think of it like a business. If the business does no marketing, what's going to be the result? Bankruptcy.

I've known many bitter people who did something great, and nobody knew about it because they thought it was unseemly to write papers about it, present about it at conferences, etc.
"Unlimited" but with huge restrictions, like cell phone data. Except worse, because now it depends on how much your boss likes you.
I use Quickbooks Online. I pay for somethings through their online payment services, and the rest I stick receipts in a folder to hand my book keeper.

This is definitely overkill for expense recording alone, but A) I also use Quickbooks online to generate invoices, accept payments for those invoices for people who want to use that method (some prefer using their own ACH solution), and B) I like having in in place for when I get bigger.
The way the US generally does housing and land use planning leads to a lot of vanishing of culture, specially in urban areas.

The same 8 lane stroads with the same super box stores and fast food chains. All connected with the same type of highway to a bunch of single family homes with little low level commercial or cultural activity.
What Is GNOME's Philosophy?
That’s great. But we would still have smart phones and tablet computers without Star Trek and it’s pretty naive to think otherwise.
Atari wrote most of its aracade video games by cross assembling on DEC PDP-11/20’s. Later they used better and bigger Vax systems but almost nothing was native in those days
> I, personally, don't rely on violence, or threats of violence, in my day to day

Sure you do. You might not have to actually make the threats, but the implicit threat protects you and your property.
oops yeah, typo :facepalm:
The HN headline rule being applied to this headline make the article sound so stupidly obvious that I didn’t even click it at first.
> despite the extra up front cost, apple stuff is a better value

What extra up front cost? The Macbook Air costs $799 at BestBuy. Do you mean to say a similar quality Windows machine costs less?

Only Samsung makes computers that are comparable to the Macbook. This Samsung [2] arguably has a better screen but costs $1450. (There are cheaper Samsungs but they don't have 200% screen resolution.)

[1] https://www.bestbuy.com/site/macbook-air-13-3-laptop-apple-m...

[2] https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-galaxy-book3-pro-14-3k-...
It does seem to be a very 80-90's view of the world.
> If you don't have good content to share, it's moot anyway.

Who even cares about this? Everybody's first few blog posts suck. It is better to be prolific than perfect.
I assume they, like many large businesses these days, don't really know where their employees are at any given time. Better that everyone is working from home so they can run some orderly layoff process in a consistent manner.
ELI5: Why is QUIC better over TCP?
Right?! Gimme AM, keep your SIM/WiFi away
Those old MacBooks can't reliably play 4k and will struggle with 1080p YouTube without running the fan due to software decoding. I think the newer ARM-based Apple products will have much better resale value than the Intel ones. I wouldn't buy an Intel MacBook ever again after having used M1, the difference is night and day. The cheapest M1 MacBook Air with 8GB RAM will do literal laps around any equivalent Intel machine.
Uhh, why would you ever use Terraform to do that? Its wild seeing people try and force Terraform to do things that the docs more or less YELL at you to not do.

Secondly, I use TF and at least on AWS you use lifecycle hooks to do what you describe. If I saw someone using TF to do that,I would think they are incompetant.
It also helps fight against the reverse, a knee jerk “that’s evil, hyper capitalism in disguise” sentiments.
This is only true if Python is acting as a useful glue between things. The only reason it's a useful glue is because it's ostensibly easier to write. If we're writing the Python code with the LLM, then Python is obsolete. A better thing to do would be to just emit a binary executable that directly calls whatever machine code.

But no, here we are with the worst of all worlds. Maybe that day will come, but the long-term, industry-wide trend is more silicon needed to accomplish roughly the same end goal. We're playing the same games, writing the same excel docs, browsing the same webpages, but now it takes more energy, more silicon, more transistors... call me skeptical we're going to add all this LLM tech on top of the already towering tech stack, and it will result in a reduction of needed silicon because we've simplified the whole thing considerably.

> It is both convenient to use and fast, thanks to numpy and other libraries. I realize that the point of your post is something else entirely, but no need to pick on Python.

My point though, was that the fast and convenient is only interesting when it comes together as a package. Other languages are faster, even granting that some Python packages are written in native code. But if the new interface to Python is an LLM, then "Python" as a language doesn't have a place anymore; it'll be more convenient to emit code in other languages.
It's a rewording of a passage from, I believe, Ender's Game (maybe Speaker for the Dead) with software instead of Players of the Game. It works surprisingly well, though I think I may not be the target audience, having never worked at a startup.
The first time I ever heard Philip Glass was a performance he did on Saturday Night Live.

To put it mildly, it was fucking wild. It blew my 13 year old mind. I had never heard anything like it.

I went over to my neighbor's house to get the TV guide the next day so I could read who the musical guest was because I had missed it.

It's known as one of the weirdest episodes of SNL ever: https://www.vulture.com/2013/03/the-weirdest-episode-of-the-...

It was a "lost" episode that I searched online for for decades.

Luckily a VHS copy emerged in 2020: https://archive.org/details/saturday-night-live-s-11-e-13-ge...
Probably as correct then as it is now.