skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree the article was fluff, I expected it to do some sort of analysis of the changes in the game since its crushingly disappointing launch. However, that said, the game has improved dramatically and does so at a blistering pace. For instance there has been several major releases this year alone:

https://www.nomanssky.com/echoes-update/

https://www.nomanssky.com/2023/06/expedition-ten-singularity...

https://www.nomanssky.com/interceptor-update/

https://www.nomanssky.com/fractal-update/

Each is pretty packed with quality of life, gameplay, and content improvements.

I no longer regret my original launch purchase. The game is pretty amazing now, and the rate of change and improvement indicates to me it’s not close to topping out. If you have it and haven’t picked it up again, then, I would actually say wait another year and try it again then. Not that it needs another year, but that in that time it’ll likely be even better than it is now by a substantial margin.
I don’t even mind a grind, but this game just feels… pointless. Why am I here, why do I care? Something about an infinite loop in a simulation? May as well use the “it’s all a dream” card.

I did give it an honest try, and even enjoyed the first 30 hours or so. This was about a year ago, though I did buy the game at launch and promptly give up on it, like many others.

A true mile-wide-inch-deep game. Once that initial spark fizzles out the idea of picking the game up again is painful. Bit of a shame really, because the actual game parts do work well enough.

Just a long way of saying “I hate to say it, but I completely agree”
>7 figure income?

Any director at FAANG will make that much.
Ken Mattingly also died recently https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Mattingly

I only know this because he worked at my company. And I only found that out the day after he died. A little sad I never got to meet him.
Well if you think that the universe is dull then I suggest Starfield (I'm joking).
My review nobody asked for:

If you look at today’s NMS and think, “ooh, that looks like it could be fun!” you’ll probably have a great time. If you look at it and think, “Enh, is it good enough yet?” then you’ll probably have a bad time.

It is what you see and they’ve fixed the incredibly shallow game loop. But it’s one of those games where if it’s not for you, it’s not going to win you over.

I enjoyed it as a “podcast game” where I’m just focused on a tv show or podcast while mucking about, planet to planet.
> Meaningless error messages, unreadable syntaxes, forced structures, no explanation why the solution to certain errors is importing some lib.

The compiler has pretty good error messages, `rustc --explain` exists, "unreadable syntax" is a common complaint from people that expect everything to be C-like or Python (or are just trolling), "forced structures" is explained by Rust being a statically typed programming language.

> You write backend code as of you were writing frontend code, which is not enjoyable.

No idea what's this about.

> You always have to think about who owns what.

If your code is well-structured this is a non-issue. The types of people that complain about ownership are the ones that write messy code with chaotic inter-dependencies and unclear semantics.

And besides, you have to do that anyway in e.g. C++, only it doesn't enforce it, which leads to programmer error, which is worse. Or you can use reference counting if you have skill issue.

> Compile times are long.

Compared to what? They aren't much longer when comparing apples to apples: C++ with static analysis tools and Valgrind will have pretty much the same compile times. Again, a bold general statement that doesn't really say much.

> What do you gain in performance compared to Go? Not a while lot, and you pay with wasted time aka increased development time and more complicated thought process.

Performance in what? For non compute-intensive tasks you can obviously pick any language you are comfortable with. Obviously there's no point using C++ to serve a static site when a simple Python server will do. In benchmarks, Rust just murders Go in performance, so you are objectively wrong if you are talking about raw performance.

> that means it's a propaganda post

Based on your wacky arguments, I'd say that your comment is in fact propaganda.
I have managed to use Windows 11 since release without any of this harassment people keep posting about.

Maybe because I never logged in with a Microsoft account?

OneDrive doesn't harass me or pop up anything. I forget it's installed half the time until I see the empty folder in the explorer tree view.

I don't see ads in my start menu or desktop.

Windows has been a pretty consistent experience from about 7 on up for me.
In other words, it is used to grow food that people eat?
My point was more specifically about push to use only light water moderated reactors, and yes for various reasons those were generally done even among nuclear armed states (because you want to keep certain things close and because an LWR can be sold elsewhere).

However I'd argue that in terms of total lifespan costs the increased waste production of LWRs is considerable portion of perceived costs - essentially the long-term storage fears vs burn down in fast reactors etc. Plus the focus on LWRs ensured that research in more capable designs was stiffled.

Do not take this "rah rah nuclear best renewables suck" though. Though I'd be very interested in how costs would go if we taxed/penalized emissions do the max
- essentially, I consider every new fossil fuel plant, including gas backup for renewables, to be a policy failure. My personal dream is overprovisioning with nuclear and renewables and instead of curtailment try to funnel extra power into other, previously uneconomical things (replacement of coal in smelting with actual green hydrogen, stuff like that)
The path will depend on if these are paid or unpaid internships: if paid, then the J-1 visa is probably the best option; if unpaid, then the B-1 business visitor visa is an option. For the J-1, there's really no need for a lawyer to execute the application, just to provide advice at the outset; for the B-1, I would recommend getting legal advice and support but this won't be expensive at all.
The founders know of (or can easily research) Google’s track record with products and they knew the risk going into this acquisition. Probably an unpopular opinion but the time and effort was compensated as part of the acquisition.
I love it too, but after playing KSP so much, it bothers me how compressed space is… although a huge class gripe about NMS is how empty it feels, I actually feel like it’s not empty enough at times. Space doesn’t feel big, and solar systems feel like planets and moons are stacked on top of each other.
Neither should be allowed.
I've had a big position in Apple for ages so I've appreciated what Tim Cook has done for the share price (I could show you similar graphs from a host of other Cook-free Nasdaq companies that show a similar trajectory) it just seems that Apple have solidified the basics but there's been little wow-factor and innovation since Steve Jobs died, and of everyone, Ive would seem more like the successor to that from a cultural and aesthetic standpoint. I think Jobs left Apple with a safer pair of hands at the helm, but perhaps that has become a limiting factor now.
Working alongside someone with significantly better employment conditions than you is disproportionately unpleasant, to the point that working under objectively worse conditions feels better.
Two interesting facts about Apollo 8 beyond the whole first-flight-to-the-moon thing:

* Two of its three astronauts became CEOs of Fortune 500 companies: Borman at Eastern Airlines, and William Anders at General Dynamics. (The third, Jim Lovell, stayed with NASA and survived the Apollo 13 explosion.)

* Borman (command pilot) and Lovell (pilot) had flown together on Gemini. Borman again commanded Apollo 8, despite Lovell having more experience in space as he had flown again on Gemini as commander.
It looks like it should be a really nice extension. I did do a little digging to see if I could help debug the issues I was running into but ultimately didn’t have the time to allocate to it. I’ll try again in the near future.
Can't tell the difference between 40 and 60 but you can tell 30 and 40?
Ask HN: LeetCode Repo with Problems and Tests?
I'd like to work on LeetCode-style problems, but in my local development environment. Does anyone know of a repo that has good problems set up with test infrastructure configured so I can clone the repo, write some code locally and run the tests? I've been searching but the results are cluttered with people's solutions.
Dumb question, how can "a meteor shower light up the sky on an airless planet"?
I wonder how much screen brightness plays on to people’s varying battery life results.

You’re the first person I’ve seen say they use a laptop at quarter brightness. I keep my screens either at full brightness or close to it. Never below 75%. Prior to your comment if id seen a laptop maker advertise a certain battery life and then have “at quarter brightness” in the fine print id consider them deceptive but apparently there’s at least one of you that it’s accurate for.
I feel the software has become significantly worse since its original Counter Strike release.
I'd ague this is exactly how it's supposed to work in a democratic rule of law:

- The press is free to dig and find out stuff - that's what they did here.

- Intelligence officials disagree about the NSA deal. Leadership wants to continue, line officer disagrees and goes to the independent control service for the security agencies.

- Several investigations are conducted showing differing results (independent control agency thinks laws are being broken, subsequent investigation found no wrong doing).

- Secret information is leaked, investigated by the security agencies and a case is brought.

- Courts decide on how the case can be brought and ultimately the case is dropped due to the Supreme Court wanting only partially closed doors (so the public will see some of it).

- ANOTHER investigation will now be conducted into how the Justice Department and/or the Prime Ministry has acted.

While many mistakes have been made by different parties here, the checks and balances work well. Nobody has any supreme power or anything here.
But it's true, more code doesn't run for free, regardless of whether some code is already running. An application is part of the OS like a VS Code plugin is part of VS Code. Emacs users know.
The notion that olive oil is one of the healthier fat options has abundant coverage in science and health media as well as peer reviewed research. This is widely know to people who are interested in healthy diet and lifestyle stuff. The claim that it's all propaganda requires a stronger burden of proof IMO.

If someone shouts "1+1=2 is propaganda!", the burden of proof should be on them even though almost everyone they meet will not have gone through the mathematical proof that 1+1=2 themselves (a 360 page proof, not an easy task). We're all just taking someone else's word for it + using our own common sense. We can find many other examples, but the gist is if something is well established in society, not just from cultural institutions but from educational and scientific ones as well, a claim that society is lying to us for whatever reason has the much stronger burden of proof.
I think there are now only eight men still alive that flew to the moon and only four that walked on it. I hope there'll be some still alive to see the next person walk on the moon.
No Man’s Sky for me is a very accomplished example of the Boredom Management genre of games. Every individual activity in it is quite boring and starts to grate after a while, but there are enough different things to do that when you get too bored you can switch to some other temporarily less boring task.
If most of them die or are shut down by the acquirer, why should society at large care?
Have you ever played through the Bottom of the Well or Shadow Temple? Its beyond horrific and explicit, also Great Fairy is quite...tittylating. I think Nintendo could find a way to make it work
Theoretically, anything based on xterm should have the capability for it. ESC[<10-19>m is the escape sequence to pick font 0-9. In practice though, is a different question. I use Alacritty, but I cannot find if this is supported and trying to do it myself isn't getting any results.
The problem with social media is that it has to get a large userbase, and it's much, much harder to convince someone to pay than it is to use your free service. Especially if your service is social media.

Twitter seems to be trying to get people to pay, and it isn't going well for them.

No, in today's world in order to make a "profitable" social media, you have to get people to pay through other means. Like news.ycombinator.com, forum.bodybuilding.com, https://forums.tomshardware.com/, and other forums do by promoting the main site (ycombinator.com, bodybuilding.com, https://tomshardware.com/). The forums definitely help the main site so they are a net positive to run, but you don't pay by using them directly.

Alternatively, if you don't care about making huge profits, there are a lot of social medias out there which seem to run on donations and volunteer work alone. 4chan, letsrun.com, lemmy.world and mastadon.world, and (although they're invite-only) tildes.net and lobste.rs, don't seem to have an income source besides (at most) banner ads and a merch store.

Forums can be very cheap to run, especially if they're text-only: I imagine you can run a site with ~1 million daily users on <$100/mo, a few admins who work after their day job, and an army of volunteer moderators.
This is a hearty number of ligatures, and yet it is still not enough for me. Now that != and <= are table stakes, I keep noticing how nice Fira Code's alignment of the * height in *ptr, or the centering of the : in X:Y, or the raising of the x in 0xFF are. And the shaping of the Krypton variant would be my favorite - if the crossbar of the lowercase t was not so far below the height of e.g. the lowercase c. So I think I'm still sticking with Fira Code for now (but will certainly be checking back in a year to see what they've changed with user feedback).
I agree on it being a puff-piece; the author has been playing since launch and most of the praises he brings up are features that launched years ago. I thought No Man’s Sky was cool from an exploration standpoint but the campaign story was disappointing and very grind-y; I put 48 hours into it before getting bored and uninstalling.
I thought you were going to say the screen is the killer feature. It’s hard to Tok without it.
My understanding is that these rare-earths are not actually rare - what's rare is:

1. A country that will let you mine them

2. Refinery capacity

Right now I believe the only refineries are in Australia and China but for obvious reasons the US is quickly trying to figure out how to build on here along with semi conductor fabs.
Yeah, unfortunately laws on this completely lack nuance and are fairly outdated, ruining a fair few lives.
Although Starfield has more issues than one could possibly describe, it's the most fun I've had with a game this year.

The gameplay loop is fun and the combat is incredible.
I still get called 'dick tracey' at my local shop for the time I paid with my phone.

Talking to my cuff isn't going to make this better
Energy subsidies is a tricky one since depending on what kind of technology one want to promote/demote there are prime examples for why they are corrupt (except for geothermal I think. I never heard any stories about energy subsidies issues in Iceland).

Nuclear do like their subsidies in term of research, building, deconstruction and waste storage. However looking at Europe, around 70% of that is for the single fusion research project called ITER, and like supercolliders, its not exactly about producing a product for paying consumers.

Wind/Solar are the single biggest recipient of subsidies in EU by a factor of 2x of everything else in the grid. They also get far more per watt produced than anything else, mostly going to building, deconstruction, grid connections and price guaranties.

Hydro receive a lot of subsidies for repair and modernization. Dam repair and flooding protection is expensive and with climate change there is even bigger need for fixing Europe old hydro power dams. They are also in general non-compliant with the environmental regulations (several species are going extinct), but that is not a subsidies issues directly. Fixing the dams so they allow for fish to pass is however a subsidies issue, but as far as I know no country in EU has so far started to put any serious money into it.

And then we have fossil fuel subsidies. A large portion of the "reserve energy" plan in eu (the one that is used to balance the grid) is based on keeping a large number of fossil fuel plants on stand-by, paid through subsidies. Then there is subsidies on extracting the fuel itself, subsidies on trading fuel, and subsidies on storage of the fuel, and transportation of the fuel. This is not accounting for the environmental cost from burning fossil fuels, which some see as a form of subsidies.

Energy subsidies are quite frankly very corrupt in basically every part that there is.
Putting my Lt. Data hat on, “I cannot eliminate the possibility”. :)
Some IDEs support configuring the font per syntactic category, i.e. with the same granularity as syntax highlighting colors.
20 Euro a day? Wow. Did you work two hours per day? Why not work at McDonalds or Sigma supermarkets at that point?

Or were there other factors at play (family farm, horticulture education, non-euro remuneration etc)
Its also ignorant. Man can in fact get breast cancer.
Yeah PC means "personal computer", not x64 CPU with an AMD or Nvidia GPU. I don't see how the Xbox is PC-like at all.
(person who doesn't really know what they're talking about when it comes to services of this scale asking) Why does Tumblr need 1000 servers to run? You can serve a lot of text and relatively well compressed image files with not a lot of hardware.
Aristotle's actual writings are lost. The books attributed to Aristotle are comprised of lecture notes collected by his students, later compiled according to topic, so you get the Ethics, the Politics, the Physics and Metaphysics.

They didn't quite know how to name the last book since its contents were so abstract and unrelated to the everyday world, so they simply called it "the book that comes after the Physics," which eventually became known as the Metaphysics. It is worth noting that the title is a specific reference to the book, not to any notion of the subject matter somehow transcending physics. After all, why physics, in particular?

In the light of that, it is even more jarring to see the term 'metaphysics' being used to describe spiritualism and new age mysticism.
Why is int in C in practice at least a 32 bit?
Oh, thanks for reminding me to claim my free game from Epic Games this week.
Re: math professor elites

"David Coleman is often described in the media as the architect of the Common Core ... earned a B.A. in philosophy .. a second B.A. in English literature .. a MPhil in classical philosophy .. he couldn't find a high school English teacher job .. he became a consultant at McKinsey"
By that logic it's always fine for companies to get around labour protections.

Yes, it would be better if they hired no-one. When your job conditions are beneath human dignity, you don't get to hire people for that job, even if that means your stock price doesn't grow quite as much and GDP is lower this year.
Note: it is not about LK-99.

To the best of my knowledge no LK-99 paper got retracted simply because it didn't make it to publication.
No hinting apparently, so only for hi-DPI.
Seems Jim Lovell is now the oldest living Apollo astronaut.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_astronauts
For those with CAPTCHA loop and Apple News -- https://apple.news/AujQtUvL-R9am2u1SlBgbrA
When Crew1 launched, I watched it and the landing like it was an Apollo mission. The US sent people to space, again, finally. It's sad that we had to get back to just that capability.
It just feels like none of this is sustainable. There's too much fat.

I feel big tech in general is looting its brands for profit, that while it's not 100% obvious yet, we're in the decline phase.
Fraud is an American norm, that's why lobbyists make big bucks. One of the US Senators for Florida was CEO of a company that was convicted of 14 counts of defrauding Medicare and had to pay $1.7 billion in fines, but he just said he knew nothing about it and went on to become Governor and later Senator for his state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott

Meanwhile a Democratic Senator from New Jersey is credibly accused of taking bribes from Egypt (evidence included literal bars of gold discovered in his home pursuant to a search warrant), but he refuses to resign.

Corruption is endemic in the US, it just has good lawyers and PR people.
The facts will dictate which path but really an H-1B is better, it's just not an option for everyone; it's better for several reasons but primarily it's better to be in H-1B status while pursuing a green card; there are no disruptions in the ability travel during the green card process and no issues with renewing an H-1B visa during the process. Years ago, many founders with existing businesses abroad used the L-1 visa to work in the U.S. and the H-1B wasn't as difficult to get years ago. The use of the O-1 has really exploded during the past 5+ years.
> At Amazon you can't even open the building next door without approval.

This is not true.
These stories don't fit your description:

https://nitter.cz/btselem/status/1719647751573524878#m

https://www.timesofisrael.com/settlers-rampage-through-pales...

Both Israel and Palestine were founded in 1948 by a UN agreement. That agreement gave Israel the right to exist at the same time as Palestine. Package deal.

Without the West Bank there's not enough territory to form a Palestinian state. The Palestinians are owed a state because they are the original inhabitants of the land - yes! they are descended from the ancient Israelities: https://nitter.cz/MiroCyo/status/1712258026881921287#m

Additionally, the 1948 agreement gave the WB to Palestine. Any subsequent border changes by Israel or surrounding "Arab" countries that violate that agreement are unacceptable if they're not accepted by both Palestine and Israel.

It's true that the Palestinian leadership has been reckless and stupid again and again, but it doesn't justify imperialism over their land. We don't have empires any more and Israel isn't entitled to one.
> Most code should be implementing business rules in the simplest and most maintainable way possible. I don't need developers "innovating" on my codebase.

Fair dinkum. That's you. You may be biased towards it due to past experiences and I understand it. However, with that mentality where there are no "innovation"(s) involved, you'll only get donkeys that live within the echo chamber. And, may be that's what you want.
Speedy recovery Steve, you and your hundred trillion dollar brain.
In the sample text box, when I enable the grid, sometimes the gridlines pass right through the characters. For example, the default settings (Neon, size 16, weight 300, width 100, slant 0, texture healing on (or off), ligatures on), in the line "// Implement timing", the gridlines encroach on charcters in "Implement" and clearly intersect characters in "timing".

If it's just an issue with the textbox, it doesn't matter. If it's an issue with the monospaced font, that's a problem.