skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's nice, you can just choose to use Apple's app store then, without imposing your Stockholm syndrome on the rest of us and defending antitrust behavior from a 3 trillion dollar monopoly.
Yet I have to say this:

Diablo was more fun.

Diablo 2 is pretty great. My only complaints about it surround harder difficulties. Those of us with accessibility issues (like me with a gimped hand) found hell to be super challenging.

Diablo 3 sucked when it launched, however, right now, it is absolutely amazing. Blizzard has absolute gold with the tiered difficulty/rift/season design. Unsure why they didn't improve upon it...

Diablo 4 has potential, but many of the great systems developed in 1-3 are gone.

What made previous diablo games great:

A fixed level/difficulty system

Randomly generated levels

A way to measure yourself against both yourself and others.
Potential for multiple unique build paths for every class.
An awesome loot/gear system that eventually makes you feel overpowered until you aren't.

Diablo 4 has none of those.

Diablo 1-3 have some combination of those.
That Plato guy sure knew what he was talking about with the cave thing.
news to me, too.

there was a dip in 2020 apparently, but i'd hardly call that a trend -- and the reason is obvious: the world halted for a little bit.
It depends. If you know enough English and a modern Romance language or two you can almost understand the medieval Latin of Aquinas. Whereas Caesar using native Latin made heavy use of declensions to indicate grammatical function so you really can’t rely on a modern sense of word order without getting lost. The second language Latin users seem to speak a kind of Latin-lite with their native language shining through.
Absolute prices matter though right? People's salaries and expendable income is not relative in the end.
It is not "virtually closed source" to license something as GPLv3 and also under a proprietary license. In fact, it is something explicitly advocated for by Richard Stallman himself and the Free Software Foundation generally:

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/selling-exceptions

He's got mixed feelings, but says "I consider selling exceptions an acceptable thing for a company to do, and I will suggest it where appropriate as a way to get programs freed."

If of all people rms considers something acceptable, then whatever that thing is, it certainly can't be described as "virtually closed source".

If you release something as open source software, then it is open source software. The end. That's what the term means. Also licensing it under a proprietary license doesn't change that. Free software licensing is not "try before you buy", and it is not "free usage for non-profits". Open source and "not for profit" are not synonyms de facto or de jure. You can use GPL'd software in commercial products and in fact many people do, frequently. You probably have a dozen copies of Linux in your house in various appliances that you don't even know are there. There are many other examples.
Yea, effort estimation is a waste of time much like building a piece by piece project plan of anything.

The key is workflows, like how buildings used to be built. You just keep working on it - no stupid schedule that fails immediately once one little detail to follow goes wrong. Building accurate plans never works and it takes ridiculous amounts of time.
I feel like this must be pretty early on if there isn’t yet a checkmark for the feature “lights.”
You disagree that users should have a choice? The comment you replied to didn’t say the walled garden shouldn’t exist, or that it’s bad, just that people who own the device should have a choice, i.e. you can stay on iOS with the walled garden, or you can flash it with whatever the hell else you want. The second choice doesn’t invalidate the first.
>The larger cloud companies don't have so much incentive do this. I always look up domains from the terminal.

somebody runs those whois servers. verisign runs .com and they like money just as much as the next guy - i wouldn't expect your lookups of unregistered domains to be unsold no matter how you do them.
It is data parallel. In the same way, I would label super-scalar CPUs machines that automatically perform parallel processing on a linear stream of instructions (taking advantage of so-called "instruction level parallelism."
> Similar to Webflow, Webstudio visually translates...

Wait. So in the first sentence on your homepage you mention your competition. Third word. Before you mention yourself.
It’s always nice to see humble beginnings like this. It can be hard at the start of a greenfield project to get ideas out without feeling like it’s amateur hour having to explain basic concepts that may or may not be novel to the people who need to be convinced to let the project move forward.

Now Diablo is one of the biggest franchises in gaming, and its early pitch document looks quaint compared to what it’s become.

Also neat to see what made it in, what didn’t, and when things that seem essential to Diablo were being discussed that early.
This x1000. I am truly amazed, also, that so many people that are quite intelligent could fall in for such a paper-thin, sloppy "they don't believe what we believe! let's completely talk past each other" bad faith argument and think they somehow "owned" the targets.

Hyperspecialization has done massive damage to the overall intellectual health of society.

What Sokal did is roughly equivalent to a humanities scholar creating a spoof hit piece to show how some mathematician did not employ a literary metaphor correctly in an article about geometry.

The only reason it was even remotely successful is because the western (particularly American) perspective is so heavily biased toward STEM at the expense of basically producing individuals who can adequately solve practical problems but who (on average, there are exceptions) have the humanities knowledge of a stick and revere their favorite Netflix show or animated superhero blockbuster as though it were high art on par with anything hanging in the Guggenheim.
I run my own instance of Mastodon just for myself - and am thinking of doing the same for Lemmy. I, of course, can do that because I have the skills - most don't, so they must rely on sites like these for their accounts.

I've been working on an alternative that is, ultimately, a standalone and lightweight ActivityPub server that handles only one account at a time. The idea would be to serve an account as - in essence - it's own container. If a person just wants to run an instance for themselves off an old laptop in their livingroom (which is how I run my Mastodon instance), they can do that themselves if they have the skills - which I would strive to be minimal.

But, if they needed to rely on someone like beehaw, they could sintead join a "collective" - a central site on one domain that handles all incoming and outgoing messaging, DDOS protection, CDN caching, and even blocklist handling (e.g. reading a user's blocklist and blocking at the outermost layer) then passes what gets through to the individual service running on the backend. A collective could apply a site-wide blocklist, but the users would be able to opt back in because, at the end of the day, they are the ones who are actually federating with these other instances - the collective is, in essence, a firewall or "management layer", akin to an APIM for APIs.

Obviously, I'm not done building this, but I'm going to try and accelerate my work once I get some paid work off my desk. Why wouldn't something like this work? If an account wants to stay connected to a problematic server for whatever their reasons, how would that impact the rest of the collective if federation is handled at the user level?

Or, perhaps a better question, what's wrong with handling federation at the user level? Should I not be able to follow any account or block any account I want? Why must this fall on the backs of the admins?
My guess is that a lot of their magical experience they demo'd is still highly tuned to the specific environments they showed it in.
There are a bunch of server side apps that turn JSX into static HTML with no JS. It’s just a template language that compiles into JS but you can do anything with it you could do with other template languages.
Namecheap is known to drop "problematic" users without notice and their website is filled with dark patterns.

I was banned with no explanation around the time they banned all Russians customers. I have no ties with the country but I have a Russia first name so I have to wonder...

I have no idea why people keep recommending them around here.
Database Table in filesystem format!
Remember that the move away from VC started over a year ago, but... Once you factor in corporate taxes, you're still at 0%.
Don't build, talk to people. Find people who would actually pay money for your potential idea/product/tool. I remember a interview with Twillio's CEO where he described how he came up with the idea of an API for text messages, he was meeting with a developer over a different product, and pitched the idea, and at first that developer didn't seem interested, but 5 minutes later that developer started asking more questions where the idea of texting api was taking roots.

HN is definitely a good place to get brutal feedback on ideas.
> > People are allowed to use their time & effort to do whatever they want to do.

> They are. If that's a good thing remains to be debated, given there are many urgent problems in the world to be solved.

It is a good thing: Personal autonomy is a necessary right. When left alone, a person must be able to perform activities that they want to do.

The binary alternative is no personal autonomy, to which this conversation alone would be forbidden and we would be put to death, as it subtracts from the total efforts of "solving necessary problems". No other discrete or continuous values in between these two extremes can exist in terms of individual personal autonomy, as an atomic action can either be performed or cannot be performed by an individual, with any "half-steps" equivalent to non-performance of such an action.

Personal autonomy is necessary.
Me with 100+ domains with Google:

chuckles I'm in danger!

I should have known. I started a transition for most of my stuff to cloudflare anyway. I kind of figured this would come eventually.
As of right now it reddark 247 twitch stream says 56% is still dark: https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247
Steam Linux Client Beta Adds New Scaling Setting Override
Because through experiance I've never heard of anyone or been myself ever hacked by a third party through the internet using an Android phone over my entire tech career. I've been using Android since 1.0.

But I have personally hacked Android phones before by exploiting a zero day on an early firmware of my device that has since been patched and it was a huge pain requiring physical access to the device and a computer with a USB cable.

And I know that iPhones still have the exact same flaw because Cydia still exists.

So why do you believe you are secure if someone comes into physical posession of your phone?

Why is this argument ever even brought up?
McDonald's or Starbucks will eventually add EV charging to stores nationwide. It'll draw customers, and chargers are so much easier and cheaper than gas pumps.
I am so pissed. F U Google. Now I’ve gotta transfer all my domains to Cloudflare. Ugh.

How will this affect mx records? I’ve got my vanity domain acting as a front end to Google for work gmail and things?
It would be cheaper to install a two way drawer on the existing security barrier that would allow flight attendants to pass food and beverage to the cockpit and allow pilots to pass their faeces out.
You are correct regarding CMS. Same story with e-commerce and other things.
In fact fundamentally the architecture is built around the idea of not having those things built-in but rather providing APIs for others to create integrations with any data source: CMSs, Databases, E-commerce etc.

Webflow and others with built-in CMS have a massive amount of problems, because there is no one CMS that fits all.

Even harder is e-commerce.

So yeah, we are not going to compete on that because we are not building any of it, but instead focusing on architecture to support integrations.
Running Linux on the Asus ROG Ally Gaming Handheld
Would domain parking even be 1 millionth of what advertising google serves???
I honestly don't know how WCs got through the standards process successfully, they're so bad.
If you want to bring down the airplane in general, there are multiple things you can do, but if you want to bring it down in a specific location, you either have to somehow hack the control systems, or break into the cockpit. For example if you want to crash the airplane into a skyscraper.
GCP? Google Domains? Google Workspaces? Gmail? QUIC?
What benefit would this give Google?
Google's enterprise-grade DNS is "Google Cloud DNS" [1]. It's not going anywhere. Google Domains is a consumer-grade product, in the sense that it is lacking most of the features (access control, bulk management) that a large company needs, though it was not lacking in stability / availability. And you could easily hook Google Domains up to Google Workspace to light up email for a small business.

Feels like a good fit for Squarespace - lots of overlap with their target market.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/dns
Certainly seems that way. They had been giving access. Then made pricing outrageous and 30 days to comply. A way to kill them off without straight up removing their access or shutting down the API to third parties in full.
Its always a good sign when my reaction to a disclosure is "ouch that sucks" instead of "buuuuuullsshhhhiii".

I mean, this was so matter of fact to read I've already forgotten about it.
I recalled that this made the rounds a while back - caused me to purchase the assets (again!) to play.

Diablo 1 for Web Browsers(https://github.com/d07RiV/diabloweb)
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Lol thanks for the reminder TechBro8615. I don't really want to argue about communism being inherently authoritarian on here :) I was just responding to the parent comment, who was (to some extent) dismissing the ancestor:

> We formed connections and communities and friendships on sites like Facebook and Twitter and Reddit, but those companies need to make money, so those connections are only allowed to exist as long as they are part of a profitable system. How awful it is to reduce human connection to that. To think that I am only allowed to maintain certain social connections as long as they continue to produce monetary value for an intermediary. An awful, awful mistake.

I think we can agree that there are ways we could organize social media that are neither governed by the intense profit expectations of VCs, nor the work of Communist satan magic. For example, government funded!
Is this supposed to be an actual barrier to handle when the pilot goes to the bathroom?

The current protocol has the flight attendant block off the aisle with the food cart to block someone from rushing the flight deck. Or at least slow them down enough for the co-pilot to lock the door.
There are subreddit stats available to mods of subreddits, and which can optionally be made public.

I know that for my own very small subs, which I pretty much exclusively list elsewhere under old.reddit.com, the majority of access is in fact from "new". Probably also the mobile app, though I've not looked at that recently.

Again, that's despite my pushing old & Web based access generally. And my own links are a large fraction of the overall inbound.
The wildest part is people are willing to lose a lot of money to watch it's stock plummet.
They could pee in bottles and we'd have pilot bombs instead of trucker bombs. But you can't use the word bombs on airplanes so they'd need to call them something else.
Good point. I have traveled all the way around this planet. I know what real poverty looks like and it doesn't look like anything going on in TX or the US period. I would gladly accept being in poverty in the US compared to those places. I would be jumping for joy to be honest. Just living here you hit the jackpot.
Seems like survivorship bias considering you wouldn't be familiar with well-named poorly moderated subs that never took off.

But also you searched /r/nyc instead of TheNewYorker.com because what you're after is community curated content instead of the views and opinions of Condé Nast and their vast network of quality publications that are already available for subscription.

Following /r/nyc and /r/newyorkcity during the mayoral elections was what made reddit useful. You could see how moderation could create an echo chamber and distort a users perception of reality. Having reddit install "community leaders" is a hilariously bad idea.

So long and thanks for the fish! Looking forward to see what replaces Reddit.
Fair enough, I’ll allow a 1% error rate per 10 addend digits.
I don't think it was software architecture, UML or design patterns that was bad. I think the 'Open-Closed Principle' is one of the worst ideas to ever gain popular acceptance.

For anyone who didn't live through that time, the Open-Closed Principle states that software should be open for extension, but closed for modification.

However, you could also rephrase that principle to be: 'you should always prematurely abstract your designs'.

I think if abstraction was viewed as a negative to be avoided unless necessary, software architecture would have been far better off.

To be fair, premature abstraction is a lot of fun for those that do it. It's just those that follow who aren't so keen.
And McDonalds released a game about Grimace’s birthday for the Game Boy Color this week. It’s still not a relevant gaming platform for 99% of developers.
No, I don't think so...

> Same in Flask and FastAPI. Development is so quick that I literally don't feel like coding.

Haha, isn't this good? I mean, it's not going to do hard stuff for you. It's good for the boring stuff to be fast, though?
Substantially more usable documentation
But are you jumping to acquire Reddit's disaffected users? Now is the moment, that may never return! Where is the entrepeneurship in IT?
Zooming the screen 25% without having to scroll.
Absolutely, as soon as developers and customers found a nice place - they would pull the rug from under them. I got into the WinPho around Win 8/8.1 and it was pretty cool and the update to Win10 showed to much promise that vanished the instant they stopped working on the hardware. To be fair if I was in Nadella's position, even though I loved the Lumia line - I would have done the same.

I have said that in technology one step ahead is an innovator, two steps ahead is martyr. Windows phone was Martyr.
Block off access from the lavatory forward so at no point in time is there an open door to the cockpit.

Right now, when pilots use the toilet, the cockpit door is wide open.
Yet another business Google bails on. Add that to the pile. Gee wonder why Google Cloud is getting smashed by AWS and Azure—maybe because nobody trusts Google to not flake out on that business or key products within it. They need some management changes!
True, absolutely, but if you add type hints before you refactor, it isn't too bad.
To the various people saying they’ll transfer their domains away, why is this bad that they transfer to another registrar company? Is there something concerning about Squarespace?
> This is a false choice - there's no reason the iPhone can't be both a walled garden-type device and support alternative OSes/software, just like a computer.

Biggest difference between iPhone and Android is this; I can put any .apk file on my android phone that I want; the ability to do so is just turned off by default; it's a walled-garden out-of-the-box, but the hurdles for "opening the gate" are relatively minor.
I know the feeling, my Nokia 3360 still works 25 years later. Also doubles as a blunt weapon. No config necessary.

Cool, you can just use your iPhone in the stock config. The proposal to enable people to root their own devices, or bring their own app stores doesn't mean you have to partake. It just means a 3 trillion dollar monopoly has a tiny bit less control over a huge chunk of the mobile phone market. And meanwhile it means the rest of us who do want that freedom can have it.
And Facebook used sideloading to spy on people to the point apple revoked their certificate

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/facebook-and-google-...

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/

Given history, this feels pretty dismissive.
This is for exposing other data as a virtual file system. Let's say you want to expose the Git versions as folders and files. You need this to write the file system layer on top of Git.
Holy awful
I tend to disagree. Estimate this more complex situation: Integrate vendor B’s API where you don’t have prior experience with vendor B’s product let alone their API, and where our system is built specifically around vendor A’s API and workflow. This requires backend and frontend (customer and admin UI) changes given that everything is tied to vendor A’s API currently.
This leads to the problem of stopping to pay once the feature you care about exists. Software is an interesting problem where you build once sell a lot. It's not economical if you sell once and give the rest for free. There are a lot of software products that I use, that I don't personally need more features for, so I would have no incentive to pay. My usefulness has been subsidized by others.

In other words, I don't think it's a sustainable way to support open source projects
>What specific list do you mean?

i'd be happy with anything that allowed for the trial and prosecution of people who were there to do 'bad things' as recognized by the majority of international law.

I'm sure it's a pipe dream, but I can fantasize.
Ah that’s a shame. The government run addiction clinic here in QLD Australia is brilliant and are even doing a clinical trial right now for mirtazipine as a meth addiction treatment which is super neat.

Not sure! I might come off it in the future, but it does have some upsides, costs me nothing, and keeps me on the straight and narrow. Playing it by ear basically, I just bought my first home which is quite exciting :) so maybe in the future I’ll come off it, which is a lot easier to do from the injection than it is the sublingual strips or tablets
I'd suggest trying out a reddit alternative like https://spyke.social its got a decent UI.
It is my opinion that viewing oneself as a special light in a world of vapid morons leads to a sad, angry life. Just thought I'd weigh in, one vapid moron to another :)
Should we for a hijacking to happen, then implement the solution?
You should also try https://spyke.social
That is probably an argument to not require a retrofit of existing planes. It still might be a better approach if baked into new plane designs.
That isn't a thing that happens anymore, because passengers don't tolerate anybody making trouble. This double-doors stuff is alarmist theater for a fabricated threat.
Cool why would you prohibit others from tinkering though? What drives that desire?
Online, we make the people we interact with into the people we want them to be, not who they actually are.
Not sure if you are new to the internet :) to give you one example of many https://supabase.com/

This is how you can position yourself and be understood by the target user if the product is for them