skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What's with all the doomslinging in modern discourse?

Because public trust in the ability of governments to manage a crisis has gone completely fucking downhill, worldwide:

- the US couldn't even manage to beat a gang of cave-living Islamist terrorists using kalashnikovs in 20 years, and had to flee the country in shame

- we went through three years of a worldwide pandemic, then panicked governments acted like it was all over due to pressure by the far right - and yet, despite mounting evidence of millions of cases of long covid and almost all nation leaders silently insisting on covid tests prior to meetings, for the citizens it's a free for all for the virus, at the risk of disabled people and other at-risk groups. Governments didn't do anything to meaningfully curb the onslaught of propaganda as well.

- compared to prior environmental threats such as CFC coolants or lead, no one is doing anything meaningful (i.e. something that actually costs Big Money some wealth) against climate change. Instead, again, climate change denial runs rampant.

- we've got Russia invading Ukraine in a land-grab and it took us a year of brutal slaughter, rape and terrorism to send a handful of fucking tanks, and fighter jets are still many months away. I'm not advocating to glass the Kremlin, but NATO could do way way WAY more to stop this shit.

- China has been stealing Western IP for decades and used obvious price dumping to destroy our economies, and yet our politicians and companies keep kneeling before Xi despite the constant Chinese saber rattling against Taiwan

- housing prices and cost of living have been exploding for years and no one cares, despite tent cities of homeless in every major warm US city and people defecating on the streets because they don't have any safe place.

- on top of all of that (literal) shit, Nazis and other authoritarian politicians are back worldwide, to a large degree financed by the Kremlin, and guess what, politicians aren't taking care about that either, instead they let their parties be taken over by them or refuse to fight and go under in elections.

- ETA: And in the US, people will probably have the choice come next election between someone who should have retired from politics decades ago on the Democrat side and on the Republican side either someone who has incited a putsch, stole top-secret documents and hid them in a fucking toilet or someone who thinks it's a good idea to take on Disney of all companies or to fight everyone who doesn't think like him as "woke" and wants to eradicate them. JFC America what are you doing?

So yes, it's completely rational for people to assume doom when politicians don't give us any reason to hope that the situation will improve. It makes more sense to prepare for the worst case because it's increasingly more likely.
To what degree does this also reflect the restrictions on China receiving higher-end chips?
If you want to talk about promises of not expanding, maybe we should talk about that time Ukraine gave Russia a bunch of Soviet nukes for the assurance they would be left alone to govern themselves.

Here's a hint: Only one of these two promises would even be relevant.

The promise of not expanding NATO never existed, BUT EVEN IF IT DID then Russia should be invading the US, not Ukraine. There is no justification to invade Ukraine as a defense against NATO, as even if you believe NATO controls Ukraine (it doesn't), taking that land merely increases the size of Russia's border with NATO.

But you know all this.
Claude Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"[1] is often considered a classic. I think this is because:

1. It's quite readable as a narrative.

2. The maths is not pages of first principle derivations as if the reader is not familiar with the basics of algebraic substitution.

3. The diagrams and graphs are genuinely useful and remove the need for many, many thousands of words that others may have used instead of, or in addition to, the core narrative.

4. It deals with an abstract concept but roots it in concrete mathematical and physical terms. He touches on specific examples.

5. It's quite short given the breadth of subject area.

[1] https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shanno...
Came here to post this. It and the expansion are each 40+ hour purely narrative experiences that are genuinely emotional and moving self-directed journeys of discovery. There's nothing else like it.

If that sounds interesting, seriously, DO NOT LOOK UP ANYTHING, do not read anything about it, just buy it and play it blind. You won't regret it. The mystery and wonder and surprise is the whole point.

EDIT: one caveat - if you are on PC, do yourself a favor and use a gamepad rather than a keyboard. You'll get way too frustrated with digital inputs rather than analog.
This is the second link to the "ethical skeptic" in this thread.

I agree with you, sharing something like this suggests that you both really do still have a lot to discover about climate change. Here are some reliable resources to help:

https://climate.nasa.gov/

https://www.britannica.com/science/climate-change

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...
I use google out of habit. Bing is better and always find the exact result I was searching on google.
I remember hearing this 20 years ago, and we've certainly hit at least one tipping point since then, no?

I'm not saying you're wrong, but when someone predicts a calamity for decades, they don't get credit when they happen to be right the 500th time.
Rise of nations
Eh. Let’s say you run a small construction company. Each week you might be in a different town, chasing whatever work is available to you. I can absolutely see it being onerous/possibly impossible to follow different ordinances in each city.

Any reasonable company would already have water breaks more often than that, and presumably OSHA has rules for that too.

I’m a wedding photographer. Sometimes we hire on second photographers for a day. Should I get in trouble if I didn’t realize in was within specific city limits that mandated I give a defined water break to that second photographer after so many hours? Most weddings you just get water whenever you can, here and there.
How did people manage 55M years ago when it was 73F and 500M years ago when it was 80-90F?
The submitted followed the HN title guidelines to not change titles. HN Titles have a character limit and are not the spot to start to define terms. Sometimes in life, you got to learn stuff yourself. Just for giggles, I googled 'what is a pip' and it was defined as the first result.
Nier Automata.

It really didn't look like my thing but I picked it up from a friend's recommendation and it blew me away.

The story, the soundtrack the gameplay are incredible and made me think a lot more about the philosophy of games. Highly recommend it.
StarFlight. It was one of the first games I played that felt infinite, at least for a while.
Inventories are stacking up after the COVID supply chain crisis, so automotive and durable goods manufacturers are slowing down on input orders, even though demand for their products remains high. There's definitely a PC/smartphone demand slump (both sectors down around 10% YoY for Q2 2023), so add those two data points and factor in potential supply increases down the road due to CHIPS Act effects, and you're looking at decreased demand and increased price pressures for an uncertain amount of time. Given just how contradictory the broader market data is regarding the "soft landing vs minicession" debate, TSMC's specific revenue issues shouldn't be assumed to be dispositive.
> I wouldn't necessarily view it as malice from the beginning. It's entirely likely that early Chrome was really trying to solve usability problems in hosting complex applications like GMail. A goal that was attempted throughout history, as seen from the days of ActiveX, Java Web Applets, Flash, etc.

I would say that the actual goal early Chrome was really trying to solve, was to prevent the browser monopoly of the day from being used against Google. It's similar to how Valve invested on Steam OS, as insurance in case Microsoft used its operating system monopoly to degrade the Steam experience relative to Microsoft's application store.
Google it’s developing tools to help journalists create headlines and stories
In what world did you convince yourself asking a chatbot was a source of real knowledge?

respect yourself enough to look at primary sources
It's not about the scope of the power of the elected official, it's that the effect of a presidential vote may as well be zero—it's about the power of the vote. A vote for, say, school board may also have near-zero power, but is nonetheless thousands of times greater. A vote in a presidential primary is also far more likely to have any effect whatsoever, than a vote in the general, both because it's smaller and because decisions there determine the entire course of the rest of the campaign, and of the general election.

I care plenty about reproductive rights, FWIW, if that's what you're getting at. It's nonetheless the case that a person who votes (only) in one local or state election every four years is doing their civic duty better than someone who votes (only) in every presidential election—but voter participation patterns treat the presidential vote like it's the very most important one to get to. Most people stay home for some elections, and from a how-best-to-spend-my-limited-time-and-effort perspective, most of them are getting it wrong (unless you factor in other things, like how much social pressure there is to go to vote for president vs. how much there is to get to the polls for other elections).
Gamergate was almost a decade ago. Let it go.
Agreed, with one caveat. Over time governments have more and more been trying to influence the reports. It all came to a head with the last one, where a set of researchers released their draft ahead of time in protest over undue influence. They still synthesize relevant research from past years, but there are some problems now. Research published after the first draft cannot be included, so the report is somewhat outdated by the time it's released. Beautifully crafted though.
They are taking a similar AI strategy to Google's mobile strategy with Android.
Well, I'll backtrack a little. It depends on what your priorities are, I suppose. I'd rather not have to explain being fired to a potential employer, and no salary would be worth staying where I'm not wanted.

But others may legitimately have other priorities.
Computer parts are always high-margin. They're made out of purified sand after all, the raw materials of chips is excessively cheap.

The ultimate price that consumers pay is very much related to demand and less about costs. The economics of chips is very interesting: its very expensive to design and develop a chip. But making additional copies of chips (or mass producing any design, really) is extremely cheap.

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So yes, computer parts will go up in price mostly in reaction to demand. And they'll go down in price mostly in reaction to demand.

The long-term investment into computers is not guaranteed however. It takes $Billions to design a modern chip, which is the hard part in practice. To run a computer company means to sell enough chips to fund the next generation. But for any given week or day of the year, the price of those chips can be whatever anyone feels like... really.
Chess, growing up, was a big one. But I guess you mean video games (:

Hard to pick "the" most memorable, so here's a small list:

PC:

Homeworld — the scope and "space-y" feel, and how well you could control things down to details. Seemed impossible at the time. Likewise for Total Annihilation.

Command & Conquer — glorious pixelated gruesome deaths (:

King's Quest and Myst-style games — I remember drawing maps and taking notes with my Mom to get through these.

Heart of Darkness — more wonderful death animations

SNES:

* Mario Paint ­— really good variety; you could make music, animations, paint, play that flyswatter game. Plus the mouse was a novelty.

* Sim Ant — loved how the humans were a kinda peripheral antagonist; you just see their footsteps or get caught in a lawnmower from time to time.

* Populous — for some reason the thing I remember most is the alternate tilesets — cake-world, computer-world, etc.

* Chrono Trigger — the depth of the story, the beautiful artwork and music. Played through many endings on that.
The disappointing thing about my iPhone is that I cannot locally author and compile apps for iOS on iOS itself.
Guess I can help most people outside US reading these unfamiliar strange numbers;
Earth first avg temp: 22,78c
Then 26,67c, “even” 32,22c.
Todays avg: 15,56c.
Star Wars: The Customizable Card Game.

Of the 90’s era deck building games it had the most advanced mechanics. The unique, beautiful, brilliance of the game was an element of randomness built into the game be the cards themselves.

Your deck was a stack that you would often draw the top from to determine random elements. Then place the card on the bottom (there’s more to this rule, but good enough for now).

Experienced players could learn to count cards in the end game, creating either fast, dynamic play or hard fought chess battles, jockeying for positions slowly undermining your opponent.

Tournament games had a time limit, but I’ve played regulation decks for 3 hours.

Lucasfilm eventually pulled the license for lesser games, but for a while it was amazing.
Does that calculus change in a world where the actions of people in Shanghai alter weather patterns in London?
AMP is dead, but long live King AMP, now known to subjects as King WEI
The Return of the Obra Dinn is a game I think about pretty regularly. I wish I could replay it naive.
Why does "the general public" (whatever that means) have the right to the identity of land buyers?
Meanwhile, Apple charges hundreds of dollars at purchase time for 256GB more storage. And it's non-upgradable on top of that.
Also, the organizations that run the nameservers are not necessarily as competent as the ones running .com. I had an 8 hour outage when the entire .st domain went offline.

My blog entry about it from 10 years ago:

https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/Beware-cutesy-two-l...
Negligible. It is safer than gasoline.
they are the same person :)
The latest updated tried to address this somewhat.

> Level scaling inside dungeons and most overworld territories has been adjusted in World Tiers III and IV. Monsters will begin to trail behind the player in Level after a certain point (up to a maximum of 5 Levels behind). This change does not affect World Bosses, Legion Events, Fields of Hatred, Helltide, or Nightmare Dungeons.

Due to the nature of level scaling, if you're 5 levels over an enemy you basically vaporize them. There is still level variance among the world zones as well. So with the combination of the two, you should always be able to find someplace a bit more challenging and when you're higher level you can find areas with lots of enemies lower than you. I haven't played enough post-patch to know if it's made the experience any better, but I'm not the type of Diablo player to seek out areas with weaker enemies.

What Blizzard wanted to avoid is having 4/5ths of the map no longer relevant because you're so far above the area level that you no longer get usable XP, loot or gold. In D3 there wasn't much to do at the high end other than run rifts. In D4 the entire world is a viable place to spend time during the late game.
That is only true for sea water near surface. I am talking about deeper levels of the ocean. If my calculation is correct the mass of CO2 released into the air per year is roughtly 1/35000 the mass of all sea water in the oceans. Sounds not too concentrated to me.
I'm not saying it's a solved problem though there are already initiatives like AI Horde that are doing volunteer distributed inference (it it looks like now fine-tuning) on GPUs https://stablehorde.net/

Plus it can be a strategic choice for institutions and companies, just like Linux is for example.
Progress Quest. Quintessence of all RPG games. http://progressquest.com/
Saw this in-person a few months ago, when I was switching from AT&T (because my phone wasn't compatible when they went to 5G).

Guy came in and wanted to pay his bill. When he found out there's a $5 fee to pay in-person, he left in a huff saying he was going to switch to AT&T.

Circle of life and so forth.
Less "bloat" doesn't mean more performance. C++ libraries have soundly beaten their C counterparts in HPC, HFT, ML, etc. And in any case it is still possible to write a C-dialect in C++ if you so choose.
‘Crypto Couple’ appear set to plead guilty in Bitcoin hack money laundering case
I'm playing through it right now on switch for the first time, and I was do surprised with it's quality! I played a lot of other jrpgs of that era and expected something similar to ff4 or 5, but this is something almost as good as Chrono Trigger.
Nier Automata. It has some of the best story line, music and action in a game. It follows 3 Androids trying to reclaim the world for humans in a future dystopian world overrun by machines. There are many philosophical questions underlying the story and together with the music makes for an immersive game.
I think they're pointing out the disconnect between espousing the idea that we're on the verge of rapid, irrevocable, global calamity on one hand, and both directly contributing to that and buying beachfront property. It's easy to see why someone already predisposed to believe misinformation around science might look at that assume that it's all a scam of one form or another.
There is a little bit of a misleading in the headline here. Even if 120°F was the temperature at midnight, the actual low for that night was 103°F. That itself is not even the highest low recorded in Death Valley, which Wikipedia reports to be 110°F.
I found this game late but its great!
Ask HN: Dark UI Patterns in Gmail?
I have noticed that when I get a new email, let's say in the promotions tab of my inbox, a fraction of a second before I click on it, the ad below it bubbles up, and I end up clicking on it most of the time. Am I the only one experiencing this?
The sorry state of Bluetooth on Linux is well known at that point. Android had to roll their own stack because the standard BlueZ on Linux is a fucking pain.
Very well done. Building VMs is always fun, and I’m sure it was an interesting learning experience when combined with Rust’s type system.

If you’re looking for a job then ping me on Twitter, Mastodon or my work email, I’m sure you can figure them out from my user id here.
A lot of people don't think that's a fair categorization of vertical farming. Sadly they either simply don't know anything about some combination of agriculture, real estate, the concept of unit margins, or they're pushing an agenda.

All of the problems you highlight with standard monoculture ag absolutely exist, and can only be solved by reducing the global population by some terrifyingly large number to get field utilization down to the point where rotation and fallow schedules start to make sense on a global scale. Attempting to resolve these issues with vertical farming would have you trying to capitalize a 10 story structure almost exactly the size of Vermont just to cover the US domestic wheat crop.

We've all heard the marketing song and dance around the industry and none if it scans in the face of even the most cursory examination of actual field acreage utilization figures either domestically or worldwide. You want to solve the global over-farming crisis (and it definitely is one) start engineering a pathogen.
I played AgeOfEmpires: RiseOfRome in late 1990s. Hearts in eyes!

My favorite moment was: Conversion battle. Priests can convert enemies' army into my own army.
the one thing I think makes Coil stand out from everything else is just... they knew how their equipment works. The sounds they can get out of their gear is amazing, there's really nothing like them, even TG and PTV can't really match in terms of timbre / sound design / whatever you want to call it.
yeah, just noticed the typo, i was typing on my phone and yeah, thick fingers
All cars are complicated. Hydrogen cars have an advantage of being truly sustainable, something BEVs are not. So it safe to say that it is inevitable that cars will transition to hydrogen. Personal opinions like these are just a repeat of classic anti-progress statements like "airplanes will never happen" or "radio will never amount to anything."
Please remember that people die from not being able to afford their meds.

Every rule meant to guarantee redundant supplies raises costs, therefore it raises prices, therefore, it raises the number of people who can not afford their meds.

It's not just tornadoes that interfere with supplies of meds. Imagine the supply chain havoc a hot US-China war over Taiwan would cause. While most US meds are made in the US, they are usually made from foreign-made precursor chemicals.

The most obvious fix would be to allow people to keep 6 months of a med at home. The current limit is 3 months, though most cops believe it is 30 days. (Note: the same cops who say it is illegal to possess more than 30 days of meds pick up 90 day supplies at the pharmacy.) We should require that insurance companies cover the med at no increased copay or coinsurance (per dose) to allow patients to stock up to a 6 months supply (when there is no shortage of the medication.)

Enforcing laws against landlords and cops stealing people's meds would save many lives. I know of 3 people who died after landlords took their meds and one person who died after constables took her meds. I lost a lot of insulin when a cop stole all I had out of my fridge.

We can fix this.
If it doesn't apply to everything then we don't know whether it applies to this which is exactly my point.

Ionizing radiation is also a great example of something everything on the planet is exposed to all the time and we're fine. So clearly the fact that you'll die standing next to the molten core in Chernobyl does not imply that you'll die from background radiation.

Similarly, showing that an extreme dose of microplastics is harmful does not imply that a normal dose of microplastics is. It might be, but we don't know because we've only tested extreme dosages, apparently.

We also don't know that it works the same way in the body as it does in a test tube.
i really feel the need to object to calling some grindy trash as "anti souls" as if dark souls is the archetypal game that is not shallow. I like dark souls (and love sekiro, and shrug at elden ring).

But there's a lot of games out there with depth. And frankly, a lot of people get through dark souls with luck and jank. Especially elden ring with its summons. That you can beat the game with sheer grit and dodges is a different thing.