skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After ~25 years of playing this sort of game, I am increasingly sympathetic to the idea that exponential-power leveling is just a busted mechanic. There's a variety of good ways to use it, but there isn't a great way.

You can lean into it, like Disgaea, which just embraces the brokenness and writes them into its mechanics. You can just sort of write a standard game, but then, in the end, the solution to all problems is grinding. You can scale the challenges with the level, but then, what's the point of leveling? In fact all you're doing is running the risk of showing just how busted the mechanic is when you have a hard time matching the levels correctly because of the exponential power gains; see Oblivion, for instance. And even after such a mismatch, the solution to all problems is still grinding.

Obviously many fine games have used this and I still play some to this day, so I'm not saying it's never ever fun. I'm just saying, the ways in which it's kinda broken seem fundamental and there seems to be only so much you can do with them. Were I designing a game today, rather than treating it as a default as so many designers still seem to, I'd want to take a careful look at the disadvantages and be sure I'm comfortable with them before proceeding. And as a gamer I do have to say more and more I'm starting to mark a game using level-based mechanics down a point when I'm figuring out what to play.
A 2TB Western Digital SN850x, a near top of the line SSD, is $99 at Best Buy.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-black-sn850x-2tb-internal-ss...
Don't Maria, Postgres, etc make replication pretty easy?
Actors decry 'existential crisis' over AI-generated ‘synthetic’ actors
As a not professional programmer, but mathematically inclined I can say I found modelling in MiniZinc crazily hard. I tried the Coursera class, put in the hours and failed. It took me back to some classes where everything I tried failed and the proper result felt so near what I was trying that it was hard to digest a better strategy the next time. It did give me a new feeling for complexity and model space reduction. Somewhere MiniZinc and other engines are super efficient, you just need to put the problem in the right form (and therein lies the catch).
you can do this already. look up rpi based cyberdecks.
Amazon Asking Employees to Return to 'Main Hub' Offices
The purpose is people are swayed by compelling anecdotes, not data. These types of anecdotes will continue to get pubished for the foreseeable future partially for political purposes, partly because data is dry and these types of things are compelling.
I can appreciate that. I have Phillips Hue setup with some lights and schedule. Having the porch and a few exterior lights come on/off makes the house feel more comfortable and is really nice when arriving at a late hour.
s/think/click/.

FTFY.
Chess.

So many stories around it.
So many interesting openings I tried.
So many metaphors for real life.
So many interesting characters in the history of chess.

So many interesting books about it. Coincidentally my favorite is "My 60 Memorable Games" by Bobby Fischer.

About one move in a game, Fischer writes "Sherwin slid the Rook here with his pinky, as if to emphasize the cunning of this mysterious move". Since I read that, now whenever I make an unusual move, I prefer to do it with my pinky.

There is also nothing better then finding an old chess game in a bar or cafe and then spontaneously playing a game. On a summer evening. Putting a candle next to the board.
Allocation of resources in capitalism is not a system beyond saying "let the capitalists decide". And how do we let them decide? Because we preferentially allow them to collect profits (over labor and ideas), creating an incentive (though not necessarily a requirement) on their part to maximise profit. So, capitalists will want to see the ventures they invest in generate profit, and the most obvious way to do this is to have the venture make things or provide services that others want to pay for.

However, just as there's no ironclad rule that an enterprise in a capitalist system must seek to maximise profits, there's also no ironclad rule that the best or only way to see profits is to do things that other people want to pay for.

Increasingly, the financialization of the US (and other) economies means that substantial profits can be obtained by extracting value from transactions, rather than creating value to society.

Mariana Mazzucato has discussed this at length in her excellent book "The Value of Everything: Making & Taking in the Global Economy Economics"

The point is that capitalism only works well for allocating resources when it happens to follow the goal of producing value for others, and in that sense any economic system that somehow prioritized this would have the same benefits as capitalism. Note that it also needs to take externalities into account, otherwise the short term benefits of value production-driven economic activity become a long term net negative. Capitalism has not proven itself in this regard so far.

The thing that is different about capitalism is that beyond (generally) favoring value production, it also favors the owners of capital as the beneficiaries of generated profit. This in turn makes the owners of capital have deeply vested interests in ensuring that this asymmetrical distribution of profit does not change (they will almost certainly lose if it does). That is what defines capitalism, not free markets, not value creation, not entrepeneurial activity.
Yeah, I don't search the web for recipes, ever. There's no point. I just have a couple of big recipe sites I hit up when I need a new one, instead.
I've been on this site for years and just created an account for the first time to ask if you will please consider that the entire body of climate scientists and climate experts and all known empirical evidence disagrees with your one possible explanation, the "ethical skeptic."

If you would like to learn more, here are some reliable resources that will explain how climate change has been working, and how it will continue to work.

https://climate.nasa.gov/

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

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...
While I would certainly love to see google try to buy off Belgium for the entertainement value of the following ECJ case, I think you're exaggerating a bit too much
Dragon's Lair in the arcades. In an 8-bit world, it was like staring into the future.
The Algorithmic Art Studio
Verisk looks to be using "aerial" photography, not satellite.
Space is far, far too hot at 3 Kelvin, and most of it is too high-pressure, too.
Max Payne. I think that was the first game I played that had a really deep, somewhat emotional, story.

The game mechanics with bullet time was just the cherry on top.
Vote with your clicks. Google doesn't want me to install an ad-blocker on my phone, so I'm not browsing the ad-infested websites. And for the current integrity checks: If a site wants me to solve a captcha just to view it, I close the tab and never visit the domain again. In fact, I already close the tab when I see Cloudflare checking my browser. Let the corporate web die.
Big tech’s dominance is straining the logic of passive investing
That would be Knights of the Old Republic 1 for me. The story is really good, and it has the best BIG REVEAL of any game I played. I used to replay it two times every year, one full evil run and one full lawful good.
It really does not matter, because my point is that weapons cost is a lot more than the fiscal cost of the weapon, it does not matter who bought the guns.

Both the US and Russia have used their weapons to decimate other economies. It is very hard for us to prove or disprove your point.
I'm not complaining about Disney making money off their investment. I'm saying that if a large company wants to make such an investment, it shouldn't dissemble by hiding behind front companies.
Kinda crazy that people with the means to leave the US still live there
Just great to wake up to the news that our kids cups have lead in them
Probably Final Fantasy VI. (III when it was first released here in the US)

A serious and imaginative story, amazing art, memorable and interesting characters who had to make hard (and sometimes heartbreaking) decisions, and a huge world full of secrets and adventures to explore — that (spoiler warning) halfway through the game is essentially destroyed. I was in disbelief after the floating continent and ruin section - absolutely audacious. And it all comes together beautifully.

In the modern era, I would say Bloodborne. It so perfectly and completely achieves exactly what it sets out to do in gameplay, storytelling, and art that it sort of demotes every game to a lesser plane, even Elden Ring, which I loved.
I googled that and only found references to software development models, roughly cathedral meaning you release the code with each software release and bazaar meaning the current state of the code is in public view all the time. Is there another meaning? I like the idea of a licensing model that acknowledges you can't inspect or even necessarily understand the current model but can fine tune it or create derivative works with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar
I've read that Surface ARM hardware had a secure boot that could not be disabled. This would make a lot sense; there was no legacy Windows for ARM to keep backwards compatibility for.
I don't care whether it's open source or not. I do care about it being called open source when it's not.
Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco
Congratulations on the 30th

I am posting this from Slackware 15.0 right now, my main driver, but I do boot a BSD once in a while. If not for Slackware, I would have left Linux for a BSD years ago.

I hope Slackware can avoid all what I believe are crazy changes occurring in Linux Land. Already Slackware was forced to import PAM, but in good Slackware fashion PAM stays out of my way, so not a big deal.
Im sure this is useful but these languages (proof langs, constraints, etc) are always so difficult to parse or read

Adoption for these systems might be higher if they had a more readable syntax (and bonus if they could transpile down to source code you can tweak)

Also maybe I missed it on mobile, but I would love examples of the syntax and examples of application usage on the first page. Maybe this is useful to me! Who knows? That information should be easy to find
To be clear, I agree with you. We haven't discovered anything in the brain that a computer couldn't simulate, so there's no reason to believe "thinking" is reserved for humans.
> Cause in healthy capitalism, a competitor could step in and sell it for $999 and Apple would lose market share quickly.

No they can't. You're neglecting the various moats that an entity like Apple enjoys with the iPhone.

First you have to be able to actually build a similar or superior product. You can't do it. Elite of elite tech engineering companies like Samsung can just barely keep up generation after generation. The investment required to build your $999 competing phone is comically enormous. You won't even be able to get access to enough chips to do it, much less have the manufacturing capacity to deliver at any meaningful scale given the components.

Do you have tens of billions of USD in cash ready?

You need to build a brand that consumers desire, such that they'll even want to spend $899 or $999 instead of picking up the iPhone at $1000.

Do you have another block of tens of billions of USD in cash ready, for marketing, brand building, advertising?

You need an extraordinary logistics system globally.

Do you have another block of tens of billions of USD in cash ready to build, deploy, refine your global logistics network?

Apple has ~$114 billion in annual operating income, most of it (including its ecosystem) is riding on the back of the iPhone. If it could be done, somebody would take that giant pot of gold from them. Even if a competitor could take 1/4 or 1/2 of that pot of gold, they'd move on it in a heartbeat. They can't do it, not even remotely close.

And then time. It'll take you a decade to get there, absolute best case scenario.

What Apple is reaping, is decades in the making, and required hundreds of billions of dollars in capital to be deployed over that span of time. Good luck.
I have done both. Currently moving a number of microservices from node/ruby/golang to a rust monolith. Slow and steady progress.

Our biggest struggle with golang was that our Ruby/FP backgrounds just clashed with golang's style. It wasn't terrible, but we always felt it was more verbose and clunkier to compose and reuse things than we expected. I'm sure generics are making this better, but even with generics the general feel of the type system just felt off to us.

Our monolith is http/graphql + postgres in Rust and we like it. Some learning curve for the team, but most of our "application code" is pretty easy Rust and people can jump in and work on it quickly enough. Most work is defining in/out types and implementing a few key traits for them. Our client engineers are comfortable doing it. Our "app infra code" is a little more technical, but we've appreciated the strong type system as we've built out pubsub systems and other important bits of infra.

Ultimately though, it's just a culture thing. I'd recommend one of jvm/rust/golang to anyone trying to build apps that handle significant traffic. Which of those 3 is just whichever matches up to your team and their personalities.
Exxon is a behemoth that spreads its money over everything just to catch something - and even that is done poorly over there. They do have a number of legacy fields that if not already on CO2 flooding, may become candidates in their eyes soon. But that is where "being done poorly" comes in again. CO2 flooding, like water flooding, should start sooner than later to catch a certain pressure and oil/water
amount/quality regime in the reservoir. Guaranteed, they will try to make it look like they are being sustainable by showing off how they are using the CO2, recycling it and, at some point, sequestering it, but it will be done in the most inefficient manner possible and probably result in losing a good amount of CO2 to the atmosphere due to poor field oversight of the equipment. Challenges that will come up due to whatever stage a reservoir might be in: https://www.mdpi.com/energies/energies-10-00345/article_depl...
Link to the Past
This is a weird proposal. If you're using non-hashed IDs internally and exposing hashed IDs externally, you are going to need to map those (securely hashed) ids back to internal ids when the client hands them to you.

I guess you could do this with complete table scans, hashing the ids and looking for matches, but that would be horribly inefficient. You could maintain your own internal reverse index of hash -> id but now I have to ask what's the point? You aren't saving any storage and you're adding a lot of complexity.

Seems like if you want random unguessable external ids, you're always better off just generating them and using them as primary keys.

Also, you aren't protecting your database "from collisions under all circumstances" - there's no guarantee your hash won't collide even if the input is small.
Social media is definitely very toxic. The best evidence is the rise in misogyny and homophobia in the last few years and how social media has made so many people doubt basic biology and science.
If it's a fenced off backyard, it's not in view of public property.
Great ending also. :D
Consistently defeating the Dark Souls boss requires skill. You have to learn how to beat it. The improvement comes from within yourself, and your ability to recognize what you are doing wrong. Knowing how to beat a boss is like a puzzle or a skill, even if it's a trivial skill less useful than a party trick. You have to analyze the boss, form a strategy, and adjust your strategy until you reach the desired outcome.

Diablo progression is just beating a pinata until it pops. You do the same thing over and over again until you get the outcome you want. It's about as intellectually engaging as cookie clicker.
Again, fleets.
Some states make this easier than others. I don't remember specifics but from what I remember one major disadvantage to hiding ownership is that you either can't get certain tax deductions or you don't qualify for things like FHA loans (don't remember which).

> This person tried to hide their home purchase for privacy and safety reasons. They had the resources to do this, spent a ton of money, and ultimately failed. You can easily Google their address.

I assume they made the mistake of actually living at that address. You're outed to Equifax and others the second you sign up for utilities as yourself. On paper, you can only remain anonymous if you don't live there...

...but the shadiest people I know use grandmothers' foreign maiden names to sign up for services at properties they obfuscate ownership of. Their "deadname" is kept very much alive after marriage and naturalization if you do this regularly. It amounts to synthetic identity fraud so I doubt any attorney would give this sort of direction.
Doom. It's got a strong and finely-crafted vibe.

Or Cave Story. Same reason.

But then there's Angband.
That would imply there is a surplus somewhere, which there's not. There's a reduction in orders from a reduction in demand regardless of the state of the buffer.
This analogous to freeium model for apps?
Stop making destruction of the ecosystem an economic externality? What's next, pricing human rights abuses to prevent US companies from profiting off of foreign slave labor?
"On Bandwidth"-- a paper version of a Shannon Lecture by Slepian.

The abstract begins with
"It is easy to argue that real signals must be bandlimited. It is also easy to argue they cannot be so. This paper presents one possible resolution of this paradox"

http://web.eng.ucsd.edu/~massimo/ECE287C/Handouts_files/On-B...
I only meant it in the context of the fact that semiconductors were invented in the US, and where the US produced 37% of the world's supply of chips as recently as the 1990s, and now only about 12% of all computer chips are produced in the US.

This trend is reversing because of of what happened in 2021 when the decline in domestic chip production was exposed by a worldwide supply chain crisis that led to calls for reshoring (near-shoring, friend-shoring, the semiconductor industry has a l out of terms for it) manufacturing to the US.

There really are only a handful of countries who even have advanced chip manufacturing capabilities, and as many of them are under threat from a changing world order, it’s important to address the need over concentration of supply chains to prevent future calamities.

Repatriation in this case was meant to mean returning something to the country of its origin, not some kind of weird nationalism or whatever you’re finding offensive about the term. That is the actual definition, though it’s also a term that can be used for people.

What’s a better one? Rebuilding domestic capacity? Bring back chip manufacturing that once existed in the US to the US? That’s literally what repatriating an outsourced industry means by definition. If you have better terms for it, I would genuinely love to explore them.

It is simply the act or process of restoring or returning someone or something to the country of origin, in this case creating a more robust global supply chain that won’t repeat the devastating impacts of the 2021 crisis. And it is the country that invented semiconductors, though Braun, Bose and many other global scientists contributed important contributions to the science — but largely the industry arose in the US — primarily at Bell labs, and with the work or Kilby and Noyce, who later went on to create Intel and the rest is history.

Perhaps there are more delicate ways to put it, but rebuilding domestic US manufacturing capabilities is important for everyone involved in most industries and not just a few countries or the semiconductor industry itself. The term literally means bringing things back to the country of origin and I know of none better to mean just that and not some
Weird sideways Xenophobic implication. I think you probably don’t like it because the word is also frequently used for its other definition as a dogwhistle for racists in the unrelated and deeply politicized American immigration press, but I’d hate to lose articulate vocabulary that means precisely what it’s meant to just because the word is tainted by its alternative use in politics, but that’s a whole other debate.
Condolences. I wish I had a second trick for you but I don't.
The Neverhood

Final Fantasy ..9? 10?
Among other things, Dr. Gabor Mate insists that ADHD is not a hereditary condition, something which is commonly accepted at this point. This article also mentions it as accepted fact towards the end ("Given the high heritability of ADHD...").

In my opinion, Dr. Gabor Mate is much more interested in being a contrarian populist / sensationalist figure than he is in science or scientific proof. His tendency to do things like diagnose Prince Harry with ADHD via a 90 minute livestream doesn't do much to change my mind.
I think it's very easy to treat people in such a binary manner. I get it.

What this guy's doing is shameful, but I've seen dozens of otherwise lovely people, working for charities, spending much more time on socially-important and useful work than 90% of the crowd here... and the same people would push barely legal (if not illegal) targeting on masses of people, arguing to push cigarette ads in markets that still allow it. Advertising is cancer and the current model is not sustainable.

What I'm (poorly) trying to say is: be angry, let everyone know that you're angry, make more people angry, but remember that focusing on this guy is a distraction from a bigger systemic issue and it actually helps organisations like Alphabet.
(not the person you're replying to)

I can't recommend any specific tools without knowing a lot about the environment, but if you're looking for terms to google: ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) and CDC (Change Data Capture) will give you a sense of the landscape.

edit: the sibling comment that mentions Airflow is a good answer for an example of an ELT workflow.
For me it was Tempest in the arcade, the multicolor Vector display was wild -- smooth diagonal lines! The ultra fast gameplay captured my imagination... and my quarters.
"why aren't you homeless?"

Also sounds pretty unprofessional for a doctor to say and really strange in that context to the point that I don't really believe the poster's story.
Reddit killing Apollo and Twitter requiring login basically ended my daily scrolling and I’ve been noticeably feeling better. I do agree that social media is probably a net negative.

But to stay connected I’ve switched to reading long form essays and books. Also I’ve realized that reading a financial website is a happy medium, they tend to cover the most important news without too much sensationalism.
Large capital requirement doesn't mean large profitability for the farmer.

You are making at least as many assumptions as I am. What I don't understand is why you would assume that a person that says they prefer the 70 hour week with no overtime doesn't know what is best for themselves. They kept coming back to harvest for Schreiber for decades. People don't do that if they are treated unfairly.

From the article Mendoza was taking home up to $1,400 a week for the 6-8 week harvest period ($8,400 - $11,200). I would say that is not bad for 2 months work.
This is not even just Google. Apple, Microsoft, Cloudflare, everyone's in. https://gabrielsieben.tech/2022/07/29/remote-assertion-is-co...
Using web crawlers and LLM agents to build a structured restaurant DBs
This may be a bit harsh, but it reminds me of the scene from A Beautiful Mind when they walk into John Nash's office and it's just magazine clippings pasted all over the wall with lines and numbers.