skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Online third-person combat game survey
Hi hackers! My name is Kaspian and I’m conducting a study regarding different aspects of third-person combat.

Together with some friends from university we’ve developed an entirely online-based survey in which you get to experience different ‘styles’ of third-person combat with different variations, and you’ll get to answer some questions about your experience. It’s completely anonymous of course.

Regarding the technical side: the online survey is created using Sveltekit and is hosted on GH pages. The game variations are UE4 4.27, with this fork of the engine to allow for HTML5 exports, but it’s not without its quirks haha.
For future development I would probably use some sort of game streaming service in order to mitigate the limitations and being able to provide the same visual fidelity for everyone.

I would really appreciate it if you’re interested in participating. It takes about 5-15 minutes to complete.

I’ll gladly answer any questions you might have.
One of my favorite AI generated essays argues that intelligence is “doing whatever humans do.”

https://arr.am/2020/07/31/human-intelligence-an-ai-op-ed/
The 1% do not get wealthy from “hoarding the profitability gains.” This is a common misconception on HN and society in general. Profits of businesses are typically in 10% range for small businesses and even lower on average for large businesses [1].

Wealth is not income. It’s the value of owned assets: money, property, etc.

So where does the wealth come from? There are a couple of different answers-and I’m not going to discuss stealing, slavery, exploitation or other illegal and immoral practices-but generally the answer for lots of wealthy, legitimate people is it is CREATED from “deals.”

Wherever one person (or group) can sell something to someone else at a multiple of its current value, wealth is created.

The expectation that something of value will either generate income or grow in value in future years creates a higher price for that thing right now. That entices the buyer, and creates wealth for the seller.

How much wealth? If you have a rock today that you can tell a story about being potentially worth 100x in 10 years, then you can probably sell that rock for 10x of its actual value today. That is wealth creation.

This is related to the concept of “time value of money.”

Real estate is one example. Selling a business is another. Art is yet another example.

Have a great day.

Edit:
[1] https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-public-thinks-the-average...
The UK has the 77th Brigade for this:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/inside-the-77th-brigade-brit...

It has allegedly targeted Covid policy dissenters like Peter Hitchens.
How does an employer being a dick make you a dick?
> It's researchers accurately reporting their findings

In a low-confidence, hedged way. A "good" article has the balls to come in with a real question, and use statistics as tools to answer it. If the answer is messy or nuanced, so be it, but at least try.

Leading with the methods used and prior studies etc. etc. is the data equivalent of cowering behind cover.
Yes, I love that – and it was a point I landed on, too. That any meaningful sub-group on the internet is going to be really really big because the whole of the internet, as far as people go, is really really really big.
I don't think FIDO saying importing/exporting keys is important and them having to standardize it is the same thing.

The first and most straightforward reason is that we have no standard for importing/exporting passwords in or out of password managers, yet we manage to export them just fine. Each vault has its own proprietary format that's simple enough for others to implement as well.

But more importantly, WebAuthn makes assumptions about the characteristics of an authenticator at registration time. (And establishes continuity of those signals with DPK). Exporting it would be contrary to that.

Instead, with all these password manager vendors not wanting to be left out, and a good portion of the userbase either not being entirely in a single vendor's ecosystem, I can see cross-platform virtual authenticators like KeepassXC here becoming more common, and I don't think it's unlikely that the OSs will offer APIs to back these keys with TPMs/Secure Enclaves, and will allow you to replace the built-in passkey manager with a third-party, much like they do with password managers today.

I see it more in the purview of OS APIs than FIDO itself. The big, nontrivial risk here is that it involves establishing trust between devices across ecosystems so that they can share wrapped key material, and this introduces a vector for attacks. A user could more easily be tricked into trusting a malicious TPM that exfiltrates they passkeys, whereas single vendors like Apple can implement mitigations as long as all the devices are in their own ecosystem and they can use their own services for sync.
Well, but cars don't work very well as soon as you concentrate parts of your population in urban centres. Both are needed and both are optional depending on where you live. At least individual ownership, because you will always need trucks, but you will also always need freight trains.
Ignoring the "how impossible is it to drill 0.2nm holes in anything" conversation above for a moment, what do you get out of stainless steel? My gut tells me you're looking for something with more permanence, but even stainless steel seems like a bad choice for something whose job requires constant contact with salt water (ergo, rust)
We don’t want chatbots to come off as people
Traditionally you would tip baristas because making a really nice latte or cappuchino is an art form that requires a lot of skill. Given that Starbucks lattes are almost always mediocre and range from bland to bland with burned coffee the only thing that's really left to tip on there is how nice people are and whether or not they do extra things to go above and beyond.
I know! You can start a Wikipedia edit war about this.
You might also consider Nebula and Curiosity Stream if you're into documentaries.
In the US, we know that most wait staff are paid far less than minimum wage. The expectation is that tips will make up for the difference. You simply didn't pay for it all.

It has been like this for literal decades.
Twitter considers affordable verification plan for businesses
Traditional economists model traditional economic incentives. Behavioral economists try to understand all the gaps in traditional economic models such as why people don't steal as much as they can when there is 0% chance of getting caught or why people who choose In-and-Out when given an option between McDonalds and In-and-Out suddenly choose McDonalds when just asked to pick a restaurant for lunch.

Humans are motivated by emotional incentives at least as much as economic incentives, and humans also have cognitive and memory constraints that aren't considered by traditional economists.

All of which is to say that while there may not be an economic incentive for government regulators to de-regulate, that conclusion fails to consider that many government regulators actually have an emotional desire to feel like they are doing good in the world and that emotional incentive can sometimes be stronger than the traditional economic incentive to keep regulations in place.
I use Premium and I think it's worth it. Otherwise you 're right. Especially trying to jump around while watching video can be really frustrating, with an ad getting thrown at your face each time you click the player bar, and it is often the same ad...
"I'm pretty sure Latin isn't native language."

Latin isn't native language anywhere except Latium. English isn't native language anywhere except England (even excluding places like Cornwall that used to speak Celtic languages until the modern era). Arabic isn't native language anywhere except the Arabian peninsula. Heck, Quechua isn't native language anywhere but a very small region around Cuzco and was deliberately introduced by the Incas to make management of their huge, multiethnic empire easier.

I don't think that ancient imperial language policies in itself are particularly shameful. Possibly the opposite. You can pillage and rape people without even talking to them, but if you want to trade and develop deeper relations, mutual understanding is a must.
Political vigilantes?

Decentralization cannot possibly increase diversity if it doesn't provide strong user safety measures. And decentralization makes that infamously hard problem much harder. I think you would end up compromising on one or the other.
I have Google Fi, and I like the support, but I also want to call out that being better than the other telcos is a very low bar.
This is where my own internal rubric for tipping starts to break down.

The delineation between "sat at a table and got service", and "payed at a counter to be handed something prepared" has a middle grey area for things that are made on-demand for me, by someone behind the counter, to my specification.

- In your Starbucks example if they grab a pre-bottle something is that service?
- Pulling a latte from a latte machine?
- Making espresso on a complicated espresso machine I can't understand, using the beans I specified?
- Doing the whole foam art thing, with more complex instructions on how I like the coffee?

(To be clear, I'm not a coffee person, but I'm aware there's a complexity to the production of an espresso).

A good barista can put in more effort, skill, knowledge into the coffee than a poured cup of coffee from a Mr. Coffee at the diner. Similarly, I've eaten in plenty of diners where you order at the counter and food is delivered. Is that service? What if I carry my food to the table but they bring drinks? Or I forgot something and they deliver it

My point here isn't that I disagree about it being systematized panhandling. I think it's awful.

But, I often find it hard to identify where to draw the line.
I took my wife out to a fancy steakhouse over the weekend and remembered what "service" is supposed to be. Our waiter poured my wine, cut up our steak table side and served us, cracked pepper over our salad, went above and beyond in every way to ensure that we were comfortable and satisfied. I gladly tipped him 20% on $300 and would do so again.

On the other hand, I left $10 on top of a $50 takeout order at a local Italian place and the bored, empty-handed young waitress just sat there watching me while I struggled out the door with pizza boxes and a couple bags. I resented her for her smugness and entitlement. Plus the order was wrong, as I found out later.

Why on Earth am I expected to hand money over to people who are doing literally nothing but processing my credit card for payment? I've worked in food service, where I learned how hard it is and to never disparage employees at the point of service, but I cannot wrap my head around this selfish mindset of sit there and do nothing and expect people to hand over cash.
Food, shelter, education, etc. Those things existed in the 1950s, we have nicer versions now unevenly distributed.

I guess you're just an ideological anti-communist.
> The US isn't perfect but its the best option towards a "rules based" order of the world.

The world heartily disagrees.

The US has been seen as not just "not the best", but the biggest threat to global peace, stability, and democracy. For about 20 years now.

This isn't the place for ideological flame wars, so please take the above as an invitation to learn how America is actually viewed by the rest of the planet.
So everyone is just going to ignore this jaw droppingly dumb statement at the start of the article?

> But what if the Moon Armstrong stepped onto was scarred by huge craters and poisoned from the effects of nuclear bombardment?
I am typing this on a NixOS Framework, and I'm coming to the same conclusions both you and the author. I too like many ideas NixOS presents but hit a conceptual wall when attempting to be productive. The OS is rock solid but it is difficult to learn the ins-and-outs needed to set up a developer box while also learning Nix itself.

Ironically I think the best way to learn Nix is to go backwards: Build a server on NixOS, then learn how to package your app in Nix for deployment, then use NixOS as a developer machine. Server configurations are (usually) much simpler, making the language and distro easier to learn.
This is certainly true in the US in my experience, but not everywhere globally.

EU regulations require 2FA both for logins on unknown devices and for every transaction initiation (whether on a known/trusted or new session), for example. Often, this happens in the form of dedicated "authenticator apps" that currently take quite frustrating/ineffective security measures like trying to detect whether the device is rooted.

Attestation could at the same time make this actually secure and give users more freedom to e.g. use whatever OS/mod they want to (since the actual root of trust would be an external authenticator or potentially their phone's TEE/Secure Element, not the OS).
I use Google-Fi and it's pretty good (especially for international travel--short-term, not long term) and you get Youtube Premium for free.
Somewhat off topic, but did you know tipping is though to have been born out of white americans wanting to pay racialised workers less - since only whites were getting tipped. Just never moved away from it.
https://time.com/5404475/history-tipping-american-restaurant...
Indeed. I never understood how they got synonymous to "big ball of mud". When I think of a monolith, I think of something heavy with a very simple structure like the Washington Monument.
just scared to get their asses kicked by viets again
People need to stop feeling guilty entering in $0 tips when there was no service involved.
Why does the dinosaur/aligator/green hippo have a fifth leg? Oh... Midjourney.
This is part of why I chose a paid e-mail service.

1: No ads, ever

2: No reason to sell my data. They already have income, and if users found out they were selling data, they'd quickly bail from it (At least with the service I use, which is aimed more at users with privacy concerns), which would ruin their steady revenue.

3: Actually a reason to IMPROVE the product, because again, users will leave if the competition is better.

Plus, it's not that bad price-wise. I think it comes out to $3 a month for what I do with a yearly sub.
Paper also doesn't have undo, layers, precise control over colors and brush sizes, zoom, file sync, etc. Features that are evidently more important to countless professionals than a <10ms difference in perceptible latency.
That's table service (more or less).
Who's going to tell OP about RSS Feeds?

After that I want to hear when OP learns about copyright law. You can't just republish another site's work (especially one that has lots of lawyers) as your own.
Genuine question: How do you know this? (Maybe a source or something)?

I know the supply chain got messed up, but given that trucks are so crucial to transporting goods (at least here in the US) I would think that trucks remained on the road during the pandemic while individuals driving cars all stayed home during quarantine.

I'm really curious how this conclusion ('trucks are the primary cause of pollution') was reached
> In this post I felt that you held back what you are really trying to say to the extent that it rendered the piece meaningless. You just spilled 800 words worth of ink on the same vacuous platitudes you seem to accuse companies of.

For some things to make sense, you must have learned enough about the field. It may be that your understanding is lacking in the area, particular concepts/ideas/sources maybe unfamiliar to you. If you don't understand something, it is sufficient to say: "What did you mean by this sentence or paragraph?" I re-read the whole article again, and I don't see any major grammatical or syntactical or conceptual errors.

PS: If you want more details on sources & definitions of terms, and where I am coming from, there's a whole research-driven book here: https://turnoverbook.com/html/book.html
I cite 80+ empirical (mostly longitudinal) sources, trying to make my points clear. It's free to read on the web.

Some specific paras of relevance here:

> One longitudinal study found that organizational commitment is a better predictor of whether some employees will stay or leave than job satisfaction. Hence, organizational commitment better predicts voluntary resignation (Hom, Katerberg, and Hulin 1979). Moreover, in most studies, the correlations between job satisfaction and turnover tend to be weak, rarely exceeding .40.

> Overall, organizational commitment has been significantly and consistently related to turnover.
you had me at smolnet. sincere lol over here.
So if I ever go to USA, which I will never do.

How much I have to tip the border agents? What about if I interact with the police? Or end up in jail and being prosecuted? Does the prosecutor need to be tipped what about judge? They are all providing personalised services to me so I understand it is always expected to be tipped in those cases?

What about security guards? Should I hand out money to them if I see them while visiting some place like a mall?
This is actually a real thing. I worked at a consulting company partnered with McDonald's and they asked if we could help them optimize the number of sesame seeds on their burger buns.
You can only comfortably say that if all of your co-investors are on board (or you have none - unlikely in Google’s case) and if you will never need to raise any additional capital for any reason. It’s very difficult to run a modern business, especially in tech, without being beholden to anyone.
In terms of RMS defenestration means throwing Windows out of the computer: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-versus-community.en...
Thanks for correcting me, my memory failed me
So on a $3500 laptop purchase a 10% tip would be $350 for the genius who radio'd to the back to have someone else bring the product out, and then punched it in correctly on the pin pad? If we generously assume 5 minutes of work, that works out to an hourly rate of $4200/hour.
I would still use hotmail for old-timers cred, but now it's just outlook, sadly.
When I worked in the AI Lab as an undergrad, it was clear even to the advocates of GOFAI that the systems were brittle and only worked in special cases. Nevertheless the work went on, in part because we always learned something about what made these problems (e.g., image classification) hard for rule-based systems even though humans seem to solve them effortlessly. (I suppose cool tech sometimes emerged from these efforts that had nothing directly to do with the task at hand, and that's another partial justification.)

Now we have systems that are starting to catch up to and in some cases surpass human performance, and yet we (or at least I) have a hard time articulating what it is we learn about these types of problems from current statistical AI. I sometimes feel there is some kind of uncertainty principle at work here.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_that_support...
Yeah, I think compensation is a kind of score that the ruling class competes on.

It's not about whether they are happier, are making the world better, or have enough. It's only about having more at all costs.
The gain is not having to share profits with a private company.

Another gain is more control over the investments the company makes. The profits can be reinvested in the country instead of in the neighboring country that just slashed their corporate tax.

Another gain is reduced foreign influence over a critical portion of the nations economy.

Of course there are also drawbacks. Reduced access to international knowhow and capital etc. It's a trade off.
> Splitting your codebase into multiple independent services comes with a lot of disadvantages: Each service has to be maintained and deployed and increases the boilerplate needed for shared data structures

I think the author got "separate and isolated services" with "separate and isolated source code", they are not the same
it seems that only an LLM is able to explain things about this field clearly, without recourse to jargon and without recursive acronyms.
There was this one time, my Australian friend told me he finally gets tipping. Tipping is not the custom in Austrailia, yet having visited the US and travelled around the world for years, tipping mystified him.

He told me he finally got it when he used tipping to establish better service for future interactions. Unpacking it, it’s really about the relationship.

What makes those tip fields feel like an imposition and a violation of social customs is because it shifts this from developing a personal connection with a service provider into something transactional.

I’d say that, if you feel it is like emotional blackmail, it probably is — the business is exploiting both worker and customer. If you feel that personal connection and sense of community, then tipping is a way of helping support the well-being of someone in the community.
Who builds the app that tracks this, so I can make informed decisions before going?
In Vegas I was asked for a tip when buying smokes from a stand in a casino. Why do shop keepers at regular shops get tips?
I always understood the rule as unless there's food being brought to you at a table with tableside service, you are not to tip. Feel free not to leave the $10 next time for your takeout order.
Report it as "non phishing". Hope it helps.
If you do any of that, you might get to stay for a little longer than you expected!
YouTube channel with publicly-funded restorations of Canadian content was deleted, https://playbackonline.ca/2022/11/21/cmf-to-shutter-cancon-y...

> The channel had nearly 200,000 subscribers and more than 50 million views ... Over 3,000 pieces of Canadian content were digitized and restored through the project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Media_Fund

> The fund is composed of contributions made by Canadian broadcasting... and the federal government. It funds roughly $750 million annually... On November 17 and 18, 2022, official platforms announced that after more than five years of availability, the service... was to shut down on November 30th. All media was wiped from both YouTube channels on that date, and the Twitter account and Facebook page with lists of content and discussion were made unavailable.

That was six months ago, content has not (yet?) been published elsewhere, https://cmf-fmc.ca/news/encore-to-explore-new-avenues/

> made possible through a collaborative effort between CMF teams and the industry (Telefilm, unions and guilds, producers, creators, distributors, etc). In total, the project helped preserve our cultural heritage by digitizing and restoring over 3,000 pieces of content that directly contributed to Canada’s audiovisual legacy. In addition, the project resulted in some global sales of the newly digitized Canadian content, new opportunities for fans to see older works that had not been available online, and renewed interest in the content and creators that the CMF (and former CTF) proudly funded.

No indication where the content can be purchased. Not even a historical list of the content that was restored and digitized.

One example of classic Canadian content was the 1990s TV series Traders, which won many awards and remains the best fictional treatment of investment banking, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traders_(TV_series) & https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115397/reviews
That chart seems to significantly understate USA reserves. What I heard is that just two sites, Salton Sea and Thacker Pass, amount to more than 50 million tonnes of reserves, plus significant deposits elsewhere.
I do worry the pendulum will swing too far the other way. Having a separate Lambda function for every web request "because microservices" sucks, but having a single codebase worked on by 200+ engineers also comes with a lot of problems.
Do you not tip for a haircut?