skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may be referring to Unreal in this instance. Unreal is open source* but you pay to license the engine, so you can make core changes I.e. memory management or tweak underlying net code. Unity is closed source and so you can only really extend very core parts of the engine.

FWIW my experience in gaming has been that Unity is exceptionally powerful and allows game developers to create games that would otherwise require an entirely separate dev team to support the engine. When I first learned game dev, the code sections were almost entirely devoted to interacting with the underlying graphics libraries (OpenGL or DirectX) and hardly any to creating powerful features in a game. Now, using something like Unreal or Unity is akin to using a web framework like Ruby on Rails or Laravel.

* The source is available to view and modify
the replies I got to this are the dumbest things I've ever seen on this website, including all the crypto- and NFT-idiots that have swarmed us over the last few years, jfc
The main way the game teaches you how to play is the "advancements" system. It's a tree of achievements, starting with "walk around" and "chop down a tree", and ending with "defeat the final boss" or "bake a cake", each with a one-line description.

There's also a "recipe book", which tells you how to craft[1] items. More recipes get added as you collect the ingredients needed to make them.

However, these systems were only added in 2017. (For contrast, the game started development in 2009 and reached 1.0 in 2011.) Before that, how to progress was a lot less clear. It was assumed you had someone teaching you how to play, that you watched videos of other people playing, or that you read the wiki.

[1]: The process of combining the items you've collected, by slotting them into a 3×3 grid in a specific pattern (the "recipe"), to make new, more useful items.
Yeah, the article comparing this to Great Depression is super misleading. This bugs me so much.
The high tech behind Netflix’s old-school DVD service
London is very expensive, driving Londoners out of the city. It's nice that they have public transport, but it's not helping much, unless you're saying that it could have been much worse. And despite being praised for public transport, the average commute time in London is bad. They're also not building much housing, affordable or otherwise, which means that it's only going to get worse.
That's often used to justify tariffs, but the argument does not stand up to scrutiny. I've never heard of a tariff that is based on embodied carbon, percentage of slave labor that went into production of the good, or so on.

Such tariffs would address the issues you are talking about (and also eliminate a significant percentage of global political corruption), but I think they're actually in violation of international law.
But this issue far predates their current success. GPT2 was held back for a while. GPT3 launched as "waitlist only" with an application process, and so did GPT3.5.

This is a large part of what held them back: GPT3.5 had most of the capabilities of the initial ChatGPT release, just with a different interface. Yet GPT3.5 failed to get any hype because the rollout was glacial. They made some claims that it was great, but to verify this for yourself you had to wait months. Only when they finally made a product that everyone could try out at the same time, with minimal hassle, did OpenAI turn from a "niche research company" to the fastest growing start-up. And this seems to have been a one-time thing, now they are back to staggered releases.
In my head, there's now a "Number of days since I thought about the Roman Empire" sign and it just went to 0 when I read this headline. Though I feel like this should sneak by on a technicality, namely that I didn't think about it.
I think people mean a more irrational feeling of safety, rather than hard statistics. They don't want to see or be near those antisocial behaviors when they're taking transportation. Old people seem to suffer from this irrational feeling more than younger.
Why wouldn't that work? The internal sleeping
and calling the waker should not depend on the runtime.
Do you have any examples of startups that went to shit due to VC funding? I have a feeling you're completely right, and I want to recommend others to avoid it. I might need some examples to back this up though:)
And yet Fandom outranks them, and "steals" contributors:

https://www.google.com/search?q=lydia+skyrim
Why shouldn't running a large cost cutting exercise be rewarded (provided it was profit accretive)? Not that easy to do - a lot firms struggle with those. There is a different discussion on the level of executive compensation.

In the end, it really comes down to what you think a stock corporation is for. If it is some sort of profit maximizer, then cost control is part of running it.
4 Free at-home Covid-19 tests available now to ALL U.S. households
Hallelujah. Fandom I think is the single most unusable site I have any reason to visit; every time there's a Show HN about a service to 'simplify' a webpage, Fandom is the site I test it on.

A history recap for those who do not know:

2013: Minecraft Wiki migrates from a self-hosted solution to Gamepedia run by Curse. This was a good decision at the time, because Curse was pretty trusted in the community; Minecraft modding centers around CurseForge the way Skyrim does around Nexus.

2016: Twitch buys Curse. The Curse Launcher is rebranded as the Twitch Launcher and turned into a desktop Twitch client that also does Minecraft modding. The wikis are initially unaffected. This sucks.

2018: Twitch starts breaking up Curse, and sells off Gamepedia to Fandom. This also sucks because Fandom starts inserting more ads, but the ads are manageable compared to Fandom proper.

2020: Gamepedia wikis are migrated over to Fandom proper, for SEO. Overnight the site becomes completely unusable. This sucks much worse, and actually manages to damage Twitch's brand (because a lot of people think they're involved, due to it still being called the Twitch Launcher) and they shutter the launcher and sell off CurseForge (the modding part) to Overwolf.
The most recent version/patch level of KSP 1 is fine, it's been a pretty solid game for a while. There's not much reason to play older patch levels unless you want to use older mods that no longer work on newer versions.

I recommend CKAN for installing and maintaining mods for KSP 1.
I really don't get the appeal of "multiplatform" rediscoveries. We already have the Multiplatform stack that is mature and truly Multiplatform: HTML+JS+CSS

If you need something close to the metal, you have C and others that are multiplatform.
If you want to do something slightly platform specific you loose the multiplatform claim instantly anyway.

IMHO, if you are going to do something that is not an UI to an API or a database, just do it in the native toolset for the platform so you can do it properly. Otherwise, just do a web app.

Apple's iOS API&Frameworks is quite extensive, if you are not doing just an UI then you will likely need to learn that. And for the UI? If your app is going to match the iOS conventions, do it in SwiftUI or UIKit as Apple will handle most of the stuff for you. It's probably the same for Android, no?
Hope they add this!

looks like the one they have is different (and at a glance doesn't seem as good):

https://hnrss.org/bestcomments
There are reasons Go/Erlang-like lightweight userland threads can be useful even if .Net already has a good async story.
iOS dev here. What you're missing is that a ton of native-code developers (me included) aren't interested in adopting an abstraction layer that has to be tweaked to approximate the look and feel of the native OS UI layer when we could just built it natively to begin with and save all that effort. We've seen PhoneGap/Cordova, we've seen React Native and we'll keep seeing money thrown away on pretending that there aren't real platform differences when there are.
Minutes after the proposed regulation was unveiled in May last year, Labrador Jimenez emailed his Commission colleagues: “The EU does not accept that children cannot be protected and become casualties of policies that put any other values or rights above their protection, whatever these may be.”

One of the most often-missed problems with the safety vs. rights debate is the claim that the state is best positioned to ensure proactive safety of people by preventing victimization. This claim is probably false, most certainly debatable, and yet the point is almost always ceded.
That's a fair point. Worse than fandom, I am not sure. Fandom takes up 80% of your screen on mobile with ads. I've had all of the ads blocked on fex for so long, I forgot they existed. Thanks for the reminder!
I think this is a challenging concept for homeless as it becomes hard to re-integrate them into society and also it's a bit Gestapo sounding. I'm not sure homeless would opt-in, so we'd be plucking them off the streets and shipping them to camps? You can't seek assistance at a shelter/kitchen for fear of entrapment?

However, I have this same idea for how prisons could more value additive to society and those incarcerated. Especially, for non-violent offenders. Would need some guardrails, but I like to think it could be turned into a positive experience where inmates help each other build homes and small businesses, grow their own food, etc. If we eliminated most fiat currency and just provided some basic raw materials for building and perhaps some light manufacturing I could see it working. It'd be a wonderful outcome even if we just were able to reduce recidivism for this group. A dumb choice when you're 18, shouldn't put you on a path of a lifetime of gangs, crime, incarceration, etc. but that's how the current system works and it's very expensive to maintain for taxpayers not to mention the generational impact it has to the family.
Yes Daviey, those of use using a telephone in the traditional way are a diminishing number. Hence passively becoming eccentric... Not as much as the person riding a penny farthing but slowly heading that way.

To the other questions in the UK yes you can move your landline telephone number to a third party open standard sipp voip service, but setting up a voip adapter to pretend to be a landline is fiddly for many and migrating a landline telephone number, while it can be done, is not a nice process in practice. If you have an openreach ont with a telephone socket built in don't expect it to do anything in the future. The industry went another way. If you wish to carry on plugging in a telephone to your landline without any configuration then you will have to start using the telephone socket on your wifi router and only the router provided by your isp. (With some exceptions). Though most people won't care because they just use their mobiles now...
Ingesting lead isn't healthy. From wikipedia: Lead is a devastating and persistent neurotoxin that accumulates in soft tissues and bones.
Why Nuclear Fusion Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis
Omon Ra [1] is probably the most important book I've ever read. The wikipedia page suggested to me that it would be a surreal alternate history comedy about the Russian space program. There was however no comedy ... or at least nothing that was comedic to me.

The point, at least as I interpreted it, was that society is very good at building callous machines that throw away human lives for no reason and then the same society turns and pats itself on the back for the incredible virtue it has in allowing those people to "heroically" destroy themselves.

These countertops might not even outlive the people they're killing at a young age. In the past 15 years, I've talked to people who have gone from needing granite counter tops, to quartz, to the next trendy fashion. If a countertop killed me, then I would hope that it would last a century, but the truth is that it might not last a decade simply due to being unfashionable. And somehow I doubt its replacement is going to be any safer to cut.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omon_Ra
Okay, if that is the context then I understand.

But my response would then be that this is a stupid example in the context of this whole submission because that submission talks about postgres and trying to get postgres to scale "infinitely" let alone fulfill other properties like extremely high uptime etc. that is just... insane. No one in their right mind tries to do that with postgres. It is one thing to do queueing with it but "infinitely scalable" is a totally different one.

Therefore I can only say: yeah, to set up "an infinitely scalable queue-based architecture" you should not use postgres and the author in the submission says the same thing.

> Devs often don't really know when (usually not) that becomes important and how far the vast majority of apps can go with monoliths in big boxes (quite far).

Right, they make the wrong trade-offs. That is exactly what I wanted to express with my response.
When KSP 1 shipped its alpha, there wasn’t a perfectly functional KSP 0 it was competing against. From what I’ve heard, they’re using the KSP 1 engine (restricting how much better they can make things) but are somehow shipping with many of the KSP 1 features missing. So it’s kind of a Worst Of Both Worlds situation.

Until KSP 2 achieves feature parity with KSP 1, I don’t see any reason why I should buy it.
There are some ways to mitigate this, although they're not always possible depending on the setting:

* Get a good sleep, ideally at about the same time as usual. If you normally sleep 11pm-7am then obviously a 4am-8am sleep is obviously going to have an effect on your mood. The closer you can get to your normal routine, the better. This might mean taking it pretty early, which doesn't necessarily make sense in a club setting.

* Take magnesium before/during the high to prevent gurning (if this is a problem). A sore jaw makes everything worse the next day.

* Take 5-HTP as soon as you wake up.

* Either sleep in the same house as the people you dropped with, or get back together as soon as possible in the morning. This is essential to processing the experience in a positive, social way.

* Don't have anything scheduled involving work or family for at least a couple of days afterwards, ideally a week.
And while Fandom/Fextralife are both irritating sites, they often are the only way to get a certain bit of knowledge on a topic. They've kind of moved into the niche previously occupied by things like Geocities fansites. They're nasty, ad-riddled experiences, but they DO have the information.

Only sites I block on my Kagi are sites that outright trick or lie to the user; keyword content farms, pinterest, and StackOverflow cloners
And prompts can be copyrighted, like computer code. That is not what the conflict over AI is about.
I think when most people use "safe" in this context, they mean "comfortable" or "psychologically comfortable". Nobody enjoys sitting beside someone tweaking and shitting themselves, even if it's perfectly safe.
Perhaps I'm just a cynical person, but the only reaction I had when I read about this for the first time was "look, humanity isn't that awful at all."
But still, the site is reasonably usable even by today's standards.
How We Made PostgreSQL a Better Vector Database
Some people would probably formulate the notion of original sin as "everyone is inclined to evil" or "everyone is prone to evil" or "everyone is vulnerable to committing evil" or "everyone is broken" or "everyone needs help against evil" rather than "everyone 'is' evil".
Psychological safety matters just as much as physical safety. If you think that you won’t see some shit on public transit I welcome you to come to LA and take the red line for a day.
This reminds me of when YouTube first came out. Lazy Sunday went viral, although it was a clip from SNL which the poster didn't have the rights for. Naturally many voices in the media were critical of YouTube. Soon afterward Google Video launched a product which was "like YouTube, but we make sure we have the rights to everything!" And they actually got the rights to the Lazy Sunday clip. Media coverage of this launch was pretty positive.

It ended up not really mattering, because the product people preferred to use was YouTube, and the branding, media coverage, lawsuits, all that stuff took so long to resolve that it happened after YouTube was the winner of the space. Of course if the YouTube lawsuit had worked out like Napster then everything might have ended differently....
Yeah.

The HN guidelines say "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." So if the headline does not really tell you what the story is about, that is arguably misleading, or clickbait, or both, and should be replaced with something more informative.
Interestingly - if you allow growth to keep up with demand, there are units today that are being held off market (as investments) that suddenly aren't good investments anymore, so they go back on market.
Agree with this. I've honestly been thinking about tapping out of the rental game and just going full van life for awhile, with the ability Starlink grants to us remote workers.
It looks like most of the recent commits are done by someone as mostly a way of learning and not for the sake of the project itself.

https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commit/d2a7b3cc90e95392...
> So perhaps the solution is more affordable senior housing built in lower cost of living areas?

That's still necessary but we're past the optimum point where that is helpful.

Once folks transition into homelessness, they've lost their income earning ability. Reacquiring employment is much harder after homelessness and much worse for older people. For them, the pool of who will hire them sharply decreases year by year.
Dolly the sheep's legacy lives on: CRISPR cattle and cloned camels
Yep. This example basically convinced me that they were unable to figure out anything actually useful to do with the model's new capabilities. Which makes me wonder how capable the new model in fact is.
Could it be someone is hiding information in there? Could this be steganography? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
It's already begun. The Stop Sell for Wholesale Line Rental happened this month, so you can no longer order a analogue phoen line in most areas.
The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson is absolutely epic, in both senses of the word.

Books 1-7 are set in the past, Cryptonomicon in our time, and Fall in the future. It's a whole alternative universe that closely parallels our own.

Totally a must-read... if you're the kind of person who bothers reading comments on Hacker News.
Every physical good is a financial asset whether you like it or not. Ignoring this reality will not help achieve policy goals.

I agree that you are accurately describing the economically illiterate thought process, just not that it's correct.

Price controls are one of those interesting things where there's a phase transition from near-universal support to near-zero support at a certain knowledge level.
I assume you mean young children since older children and adults would respect your boundaries. If you do mean older children and other adults and they're not behaving ridiculously perhaps there's another issue at play impacting your ability to focus. I won't speculate but I had that problem a long time ago and exploring it changed my life for the better.
> I wanted to like Bitwarden, due to its “open source” nature. But 1Password is really miles ahead, and it's a little ironic, as 1Password 8 went through a major refactoring to a Node-enabled UI, which many people disliked, and it's still miles and miles ahead.

Exactly my experience. When 1Password announced the shift to a crummy Electron app, I evaluated all of the major password managers, plus some less major ones, such as Strongbox. Even with the UX degradation of 1PW 8, it's still clearly superior to the others, to the point it's really not a contest.

I stuck with V7 until just a few weeks ago, when other circumstances necessitated an "upgrade". I once again evaluated the others, including Bitwarden, to see if they were "good enough". Bitwarden's UX hasn't improved as far as I can tell; more importantly, it refused to import my secrets because I had a secure note that was too big for it. Not "refused to import that note"; refused to import anything—there's no skip option. I had to do a bunch of manual nonsense, which still left me in an incomplete state because I both need that note and want it in my vault (splitting it into multiple notes is an option but also an ugly kludge).
By point of reference, the Prius and the Honda insight came onto the market in 1997

It is a tragedy of humanity and the environment that the world regulatory bodies did not look at the design of those two vehicles in mandate that was in 10 years. All consumer vehicles should have a hybrid drivetrain.

Modern table stakes for a car should be a plug-in range of 50 miles, 40 mpg+ highway, and 40+ mpg city.

The fact remains the vast majority of ICE vehicles are still sold without a hybrid drivetrain. So is they toot around cities in stop and go traffic they're wasting all of their kinetic energy in brake/friction heat and not reusing it for the most energetically expensive thing it does: acceleration.

Most people don't even think about the sheer waste involved with a stop sign. The amount of mechanical work we waste with brake friction and the amount of energy to reaccelerate.

If any were reading the discussion about repurposing ICE engines for home generators, you can see that the design right there. You basically can't use an ICU as a generator for anything but like 10% of its output sustained because all it's cooling is designed around intermittent high power acceleration to get the car up to speed.

Think of all that wasted weight in the engine in the ICE drivetrain to do all that acceleration when much more compact hybrid drive trains can produce better torque and acceleration for most of that use case in consumer transportation.

If in one of those decades the US since the Prius was introduced, it's simply mandated the industry go over to hybrid drivetrains especially plug in ones, we would have been so much more resistant to fluctuations and petroleum costs.

And I don't even want to think about how long ago we actually could have done some sort of hybrid drivetrain in cars. This 1997 the formative arrival of the battery sufficient to be used in hybrid drivetrains?

Perhaps it was with notebook batteries in lithium ion, but could nickel-cadmium or lead acid also done the job?
Have you built out the backend functionality to support those features? Doing those right is the hard part; after that, it's just a regular front-end development problem.
There is a quote: "When you stop growing you start dying" (William S. Burroughs). I am not sure I believe that the kind of governance that Apache is providing is helping to grow the projects under its supervision.

Your comparison to Terraform is also interesting. Apache Kafka, for example, has been absorbed by Amazon (MSK). Apache Spark is Amazon EMR. Just looking through Amazon's paid service offering I find several Apache projects rebranded and for sale. A cynical take could be that Apache is an org that helps companies like Amazon profit off of the work of open source developers.
Apache has lots of active projects. But they are mostly data analysis. At work, we use Airflow to run Spark jobs which uses Hadoop and Hive.

Apache also has a lot of dead projects that never got picked up by users. Apache should have a marker for zombie projects so people don't start using them.
There's a notorious job agency in London that spams users inboxes in what I suspect is attempt with fake jobs in order to collect CVs. I don't think this is exclusive this particular agency but still pretty rare.

With the advent of GDPR it's a sketchy way of getting around rention laws or advertising for months to do more of the same.

LinkedIn needs a 'block this agency/company' feature but I think that would impact it's bottom line.