skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although Microsoft/ Mojang does still actively work on Minecraft, a large fraction of real input to Minecraft's evolution is driven by the independent (Java) modding community. Today vanilla Minecraft has bees, but for many years modded Minecraft had bees, and in fact it had so many bees that people would routinely "nope out" of bee stuff because "Oh MY GOD. No more fucking bees". Jaded Cat's original Agrarian Skies has custom bees, which I think were pink or purple - and within a year or two everybody was sick enough of bees that they didn't want even the normal ones.

As with other creative communities there are some distinct threads, like some people are into very heavily survival focused, up-against-it packs, where e.g. gravity works properly, mobs understand the game rules and will climb up to get you, or set fires, they will upgrade their gear, etc. while people like me prefer ascend-to-godhood type gameplay where you quickly dispense with monsters and become untouchable not far into play.

In the latter style there's not a desire for "smart and interesting NPCs", in fact it's often played alone or in small groups, intentionally. In the former style the NPCs are somewhat smart, but they're a threat so if you make them too clever they'll just always kill the players which isn't much fun after a while.

I think NPCs with the type of independence of a Dwarf Fortress dwarf wouldn't be attractive to either of the sorts of player I mentioned, it may be that such people just don't play Minecraft. But it's also possible somebody has implemented it and I've never run into it. There are a lot of Minecraft mods. Curseforge lists literally thousands of them, there could be hundred like you describe and I wouldn't have noticed.

Packs might typically have a few hundred of those thousands, I might play four or five packs per year, but often the same mods recur because they're so useful or well-liked, like Just Enough Items gets used a lot, so does Refined Storage, but some weird dwarf intelligence mod could easily go under the radar not because people don't like it but because they didn't know it existed.

I reckon a lot of people had never really used Compact Machines for example until Compact Claustrophobia took off, and in that the machines are absolutely mandatory and you use them from the first minutes so you have to get very familiar with them.
The early-access game Shadows of Doubt also has extensive secret-knowledge mechanics which must be carefully managed, with the additional complication that it ideally wants to keep in sync the knowledge of the player and the player character.

I had an opportunity to play it for a few hours. It's not perfect - it didn't always keep up with my deductions, and on one instance it leaked unknown info via the UI - but on the whole it succeeded at a convincing mechanic.
When I was a kid, my father and I used to hurl cards at each other in the unfinished basement, and as fast as we could throw 'em, I'm grateful that my vision was so historically poor that I wore glasses at an early age.

Fellow enthusiasts should also check out videos of card magician Jeff McBride who has a parlor trick would sling cards into the audience.

https://youtu.be/uUaYUk0alRo
As someone who first knew Terry Davis from Slashdot where his clearly mentally ill posts seemed to get downvoted a lot of the time, it is remarkable to see that the products of his madness have become regarded as real art with staying power. He is like the Adolf Wölfli of the hacker crowd.
It definitely is a stimulant:

> Caffeine is a stimulant, which means it increases activity in your brain and nervous system. It also increases the circulation of chemicals such as cortisol and adrenaline in the body.

https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/caf...

I'm pretty caffeine sensitive and I get a crazy buzz from just one cup of coffee. It's not just not feeling tired, I literally get high.
Oh, you're right. Never occurred to me that my home folder would be empty.
It’s high time browsers stop supporting :visited on cross-domain links by default.

No need to remove the feature completely, just not applying :visited on cross-domain links would fix privacy leak, while keeping most legit uses of :visited working fine.
Yet and still, the person that keeps their word is more likely to continue doing so, than a person who considers their word amendable because big corporations.
Funny story: at my first programming job, there was a coworker that had never had coffee before. Then he tried some and started drinking it everyday. Then he realized “he couldn’t stop” after it was time to start paying the coffee club dues (somehow there was an IT shop without free coffee).

It is surprising, but from my experience, there are some people that actually don’t realize it’s addictive.
So after waiting for more responses falling for that trick question, no-one here has still realized that companies with the hardware are the ones that have the 'moat' which CANNOT be replicated by a dozen competitors.

So all these AI startup companies depending on cloud AI services or even open source models have no moat.

Only the same big tech incumbents.
What’s broken? I think it’s less intuitive on mobile especially for a new user but it definitely shouldn’t be “completely broken”
From the story: "The Bible declares that those who do not work shall not eat"

2 Thessalonians, chapter 3, verse 10: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Thessalonia...

You know who else said, "He who does not work, neither shall he eat"? Vladimir Lenin. https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/dec/25.htm
Right, and you see where maximum demand is at 8pm (even before any solar was installed)? That peak isn't going down by provisioning more solar. Thanks for the gif, it explains exactly what I'm talking about.
This was a surprisingly great read, especially Part 2.
A perfect theme to drive into the glow as directed by the space alien talking through your car radio or the NIST random number generator.

But I am disappointed at the blasphemous resolution. We can only do 640x480, 16 colors (4-bit depth).

NOTE: corrected
It is $30 more than the more restrictive cancelation policies, not for being able to “quick book”.
> Unless you're one of those morons who can't tell apart psychological symptoms from physiological ones.

You're about 30 years out of date with the addiction literature. Basically every modern addiction organization defines addiction as a brain disorder characterized by, "continued use in spite of harmful consequences."

Here's the American Society of Addiction Medicine:

> What is the definition of addiction? Addiction is a treatable, chronic medical disease involving complex interactions among brain circuits, genetics, the environment, and an individual’s life experiences. People with addiction use substances or engage in behaviors that become compulsive and often continue despite harmful consequences.

Here is the National Institute on Drug Abuse:

> Addiction is defined as a chronic, relapsing disorder characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use despite adverse consequences.† It is considered a brain disorder, because it involves functional changes to brain circuits involved in reward, stress, and self-control.
I remember using iCivics in middle school (yes, I'm young); I found them to be decently fun and educational at the time. https://www.icivics.org/

I think "Win the White House" was the game I enjoyed the most.
> The thing that I don't understand is that I thought "normal" marijuana always needed to be heated anyway,

It does. The difference between high THCA hemp and marijuana is merely a legal distinction and not a scientific distinction.

It's somewhat akin to some of the laws in the US about firearms and firearm regulations e.g., some AR-15s can be legally classified as "handguns" and can be openly carried depending on the state despite said firearms clearly not being a handgun.
Really, no one has heard that college is expensive over the last 30 years? I think this is a different argument.
Good point. Certain kinds of ambient or so-called focus music are definitely better for me than typical lyric-melody based music if I'm trying to focus. On my phone I have playlists of different types of ambient music as well as various kinds of natural environments and synthetic noise background loops. I use them to drown out sounds when silence isn't an option and environmental noise exceeds blocking or canceling. It does help as opposed to doing nothing but frankly, for me, silence is always going to be best for thinking.

To be clear, I do greatly enjoy listening to non-ambient music but I tend to do so with pure focus. I like a lot of different genres from electronica, dance, classical, soundtracks, electro-swing and even top 100 pop music when it's especially good but I tightly curate my playlists. If a song is on one of my non-ambient playlists I definitely LOVE that song to the extent I would always enjoy just sitting in the dark and basking in it while doing nothing else. Anything short of that doesn't make the cut for my non-ambient playlists, which I think may be unusual based on how my friends report they curate playlists.

> Yeah this sounds a bit weird/strange. Maybe my brain is wired differently (I suspect it might be a spectrum thing).

Not strange at all to me. In fact, those who report turning on the TV AND a radio in order to "study" seem bizarre to me. Yes, maybe our brains are wired differently but I certainly don't think it's necessarily any kind of downside or deficit - it's just a cognitive difference. To be honest, (and I admit this is obviously an inaccurate personal bias), I can't help feeling those who hate being alone with their own thoughts are somehow "broken." Like, "Really? Your thoughts are so boring even you find them unbearable?" :-) (<-- again, I fully acknowledge this is a snarky, unfair and insensitive emotional reflex that is unjustified and irrational). But still, I really do have trouble comprehending a neural state or conscious existence where that would be true in an otherwise intelligent, emotionally well-balanced, educated adult. I cite this as personal evidence that different neural types may be completely genuine when they report finding MY neuro-type utterly incomprehensible.
Edge is always one hop further than you currently are. If
If you did so and as a consequence it was provable that far fewer people saw Oppenheimer, resulting in economic damages to the copyright owner, then the summarization may not qualify as fair use and might very well be a crime.

(Btw I'm not saying that's the case, but that's essentially the argument)
"https://myresolver.info/" was good while it lasted. It used stupid DNS tricks to show your resolver in the browser:

https://web.archive.org/web/20131126131155/https://ndkyez8kh...
I live in a state where sports betting was recently legalized and suddenly a lot of people are addicted to gambling who weren't before. There're also many people who got addicted to legally prescribed pain medication, it seems unlikely all of these addicts would have sought out heroin from a sketchy drug dealer had they not been introduced to the pain medicine first.
>Thank you! This makes me wonder why there is no open source implementation of/framework for such a mechanic

Most likely because actually implementing it is dead-simple, which is a major selling point of this technique. Short of adding it as a building block for non-coders in game engines such as Unreal, there is really no point in trying to prefab it. Most projects will be better served by just coding it in a way that is uniquely tailored to their needs and integrated with their game.
iOS Feedback SDK
This is a common pattern in academic writing, which compresses two sentences into one, like so:

> In sunny (cloudy) weather, the sky looks blue (gray).

So the sentence above means that odds for scenario 2 have increased, while odds for scenario 1 have decreased.
I don't think you read the article nor my comment lol
It is beautiful and a solid favourite here in the UK.

I never did try to smoke a garden grown nicotiana. Thinking back on it, I probably should have grown my own and really got to grips with it. When I gave up fags, they costed around £10.50 for a packet of 20 Lambert and Butler. Nowadays £11.95 (1)

I recently wrote this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36925512

No pressure, but I do recommend not having to gasp for breath when you walk up a hill. It is a bit of a pain. To be fair, I'm not in the best of shape but my lungs are not what they were.

(1) https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/shop/home-and-ents/tob...
When questioning whether or not to make something legal, I believe it helps to frame the question as, "should someone be allowed to profit off of yet another addictive substance?"

The companies selling this stuff (yes, companies) are the real winners in Marijuana legalization. I wouldn't say the same for the "users."
Honestly, a MBP running Linux with full hardware support would be the best laptop on Earth
The toxic pit in this case is the transformation that occurred "ecologically" to the way contributors and agents on the web interact with eachother. This was strongly affected by the major centers of gravity in the 2010s like google and facebook. Unfortunately, their stewardship was focused around leveraging centralization towards profit rather than towards making the web a better place for users. And so here we are today.

FTR, I think youtube is one (among a few) exceptions to this overall trend from google.
You need to read up on how blockchains work.
mastodon.social runs nightly releases off of our GitHub. Anyone can run nightlies to get these features. Or wait for the stable. What's hacky about this feature?
You should write it! :)
There's a game I saw a JP kid play on a train in Tokyo on a PSP, which was katamari "like" because it was about absorbing things to grow, but it was more fluid mechanics in a 2D cave world, engulphing other fluidic boundaries inside the medium. Very "biological"

Never saw it again. It looked fascinating. It might have had a very absorbing trip-hop or electronica soundtrack he was increadibly absorbed in the experience inside his headphones.

Mid-early 2000s
Yes. Hemp vs. marijuana is a legal technicality and not a scientific one.

It's like chickpeas being legal and garbanzo beans being illegal.
In what sense were any of them nut jobs? All of these were traditionally pedigreed scientists, doing groundbreaking research at their institutions, under their own names. I'm asking for a historical parallel of a researcher who published an earth-shattering result anonymously, from their home lab, in a field unrelated to their day job, on a random night off chilling and watching movies?
I'm skeptical that Singapore's policy is working as opposed to driving the drug trade underground. Draconian drug restrictions haven't worked in the US, and the death penalty wouldn't do anything here.
The operative word is "actively." I've certainly touched it since then and am just as unimpressed. Windows is a chore to use, and the best they've been able to manage to close the gap is shipping a glorified Linux virtual machine. I'll take Homebrew over that any day, and leave the VMs to Docker.

The windows UI itself is an unpolished joke that's a hodgepodge of things that haven't been touched since Windows XP and half-baked new things, with sad window management (ironic) that lacks the perfection of Exposé and Spaces. To say nothing about laptop battery life, plugging in and removing multiple monitors several times a day.

I would strongly consider not working somewhere if they didn't use Macs
I wouldn't call it "trash", but it comes with some political bias and personal vendettas.

The reason for both is that the entire wiki probably has about dozen editors, some of them way more powerful than others. So you might think that "wiki = something edited by lots of people", but for many topics there was one person who decided whether something was okay or not and wrote the article accordingly, and everyone else only added details afterwards (or disagreed and was banned).

From my perspective, the greatest problem is the local cultural norm that once you decide that someone is a bad guy, it is allowed (even encouraged) to exaggerate about them, and complaining about exaggerations can get you banned. Which means that when a mistake is made, it becomes very difficult to fix it, because of course after the exaggerations anything can look stupid.
While it kind of is security by obscurity, it's a very basic piece of server hardening to stop telling potential attackers what software you're using (within reason).

Back in the day (!), server software used to honestly respond with things like the software name and exact version number it was running.

Naturally, that meant scanning for vulnerabilities was a lot easier than it needed to be.
“babe, I love you it’s okay to default on your loans.” A week later, “what do you mean my deposits aren’t insured, it’s because of lazy people who steal public services. All that spam they steal has to be at least 1,000 times what my wife’s liberal arts education student loan she’s defrauding.” Your friend needs to acknowledge shitty human behavior and accept that as she accepts the non validity of her student loan contract.
>Who’s taking it seriously?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36941556

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940398
Worth reading Alan Kay's take on that quote:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11796926
A replacement for the dented door for my 9-year-old fridge costs more than I paid for the whole thing originally. Some repairs are not that economical compared to a shiny new model with a fresh warranty. It's not my instinct (and I have the skinned knuckles from a fraught dishwasher heater pump swap to show for it), but I can see that the inflated spares prices, shipping, labour and call out fees if you can't DIY, hassle of locating the parts if second-hand (good luck figuring out the model numbers, there are thousands and thousands of subtle differences), transporting the thing if it can't be fixed in place, etc etc, do add up to Beyond Economical Repair for some people.
He's also the origin of the word "glowie": https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/glowie
I took a look and it says the average student receives alot in aid to lower costs. You can do your first two years at community college and save a ton. It's not like your Gen Ed classes matter... 5k to go to cc, and there is still financial assistance for that.
I think you're undwrestimating it quite severely. I've had vivid nightmares every single night for months at a time after quitting weed(really heavy user).

And hyperhidrosis for several weeks at least.
lol, reminds me of the time I forgot I was on localhost, and needed to run a huge statistics processing task. I remembered to carefully use bg and disown so the program would keep running even after I disconnected. Then I sighed in relief and powered off my machine.
I was a heavy smoker through college living in a state where I could only buy through dealers. I was hanging out with one of my dealers once when they said, “if I drank as much as I smoked I’d be an alcoholic.” I realized I was an addict at that point but I didn’t think I had a problem. After all, I passed college with good grades and got a good job. I was generally happy and had few bad experiences on marijuana vastly outweighed by good ones.

Two things really bothered me though:

1. Any amount of smoking is bad for your lungs and I take my health seriously.

2. I don’t like the idea that a substance of any sort had power over me.

I made 2 changes after graduation to get things back under control:

1. I only do edibles except on special occasions like 04-20 or a holiday with friends. So few that I can count the number of times a year on one hand.

2. I only consume marijuana every other month.

I now consider myself a joyful consumer of the product because I prefer marijuana to alcohol on nights out with friends. I feel more in control and less tired the following day. Hitting the breaks every other month resets me. It proves to myself I’m still in control and keeps any cravings and tolerance down at a reasonable level.

I’m not sure if this will work for anyone else but thought I’d share.
>Seeing that over 90% of my traffic load was malicious and abusive was frustrating. Dealing with the abuse emails and complaints was worse.

My take. I suspect Cloudflare benefited allowing that traffic. It's another data point/tool in their toolbox against the baddies.
I feel like there are parallels to computer security. A lot of my experience in this domain is looking at systems that were designed in a thoughtful way, but the designer didn’t fully appreciate being surrounded by a universe (especially one full of people of varying mixes of deviousness and cleverness).

The “real world engineer” job exists, it’s a security engineer. And it’s equal parts awesome and draining.
I'd say they are a winner right now. Selling some of the best shovels and sieves in the gold rush hype.

Edit: if AMD plays their cards right, I'd expect that they can get a lot more in on the action, too.
Yes the radioactive decay products of the naturally occurring ore already in the ground naturally are still in the tailings. But they were there already before. With the removal of the uranium the net radioactive material left would be lower the the initial levels though no?
How does David vs. Goliath apply to any of these projects?

Kubernetes was developed, paid for and released by Google and loosely inspired by Borg.

ElasticSearch meanwhile wouldn't exist without Lucene which was again paid for and released by Excite in 1999, and who were very much not a David at the time.

PostgreSQL came out of Berkeley.. is the idea that David is the PostgreSQL Global Development Group (which includes Microsoft, Google and Amazon employees)? Or maybe it's EDB (https://www.enterprisedb.com/)?
relevant question i saw in the sidebar the other day, and i think the responses really show why StackOverflow isn't super useful anymore:

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/425822/should-an-ed...

people are trying to modify the answers to keep them up to date with modern best practices. and the result is pages of debate on whether or not it should be allowed. and at the same time, duplicates where modern answers might be allowed are being closed and kept off the site. StackOverflow is essentially a museum for any topic relating to a technology that wasn't invented this year.
Great podcast from Huberman Lab covering a lot of science around caffeine use.

https://hubermanlab.com/using-caffeine-to-optimize-mental-an...

A few takeaways:

* stopping caffeine ingestion 8-12 hours before you plan to sleep is beneficial to your sleep. Even for people who can drink coffee late in the day and still go to sleep.

* delaying the first dose 90 minutes after waking up can help mitigate the “afternoon slump” many people experience.
> but they don't actually aim at you (to keep you playing as long as possible).

Sounds like they can't have them hurt you since the game doesn't know which asteroids are "real" until you've destroyed them.
The infighting does for me. It smells of "holy shit we did it" followed immediately by scrambling to publish and doing it hours apart.

Gives me hope, for I want to believe.
And yet again: batteries are not available at a scale where they can even remotely smooth over demand. Even just provisioning 1 hour of storage for the USA requires 500 GWh of storage. A steady state like nuclear works just fine for the grid: it's only a problem for intermittent sources that are made redundant by a source of decarbonized energy that works 24/7. The disparity between peak and trough energy demand is not that great: it's typically 20-30%.

Pointing to one specific project is not relevant: we can't replicate this project to the point where demand is fulfilled because that would require an order of magnitude more batteries than are produced.
Democracy is a particularly interesting game about how political decisions can have a web of effects on different competing interests.