skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that this was after Valve was taken to court and was ordered to pay fines for violating consumer protection laws by not offering refunds.

> Valve must pay a fine of AU$3 million (about £1.6m/US$2.3m/€1.8m) for misleading Steam users in Australia by stating they were not entitled to refunds for faulty games on Steam

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/australia-fines-valve-over-...
Agreed. New systems to the game tend to just be shallow window dressing. Settlement management is literally fetch quests, or kill X number of sentinels that are attacking. A vast portion of the game revolves around finding things and shooting mining beams at them. Valheim solved this beautifully, they turned boring resource gathering tasks into practically their own minigames - you can use the simple tree/ground physics to cause massive chain reactions that are super satisfying to watch.

NMS's planets are enormous and completely devoid of any content. They're just an endlessly repeating pattern of the same outposts, resources, etc. They couldn't even be bothered to add a map feature so you can see where you've been, probably to hide the fact that it's just a bunch of identical tiles. No landmarks, no biomes, no reason to venture past a 5 minute radius from your landing area because everything on the planet can be found everywhere.
The takeaway is: LK-99 is definitely not a superconductor. The apparent observation of zero resistance can be explained due to a well-known phase transition of copper sulfide, combined with sloppy data analysis. The half-levitation seen in images and videos can also be observed in perfectly normal non-superconducting materials.
Valve may not be a hardware company on the scale of Apple, but they do design/prototype/create/repair hardware products. Also, they do a lot more than just distribute software [0].

[0] https://uspto.report/company/Valve-Corp/patents
Yes. They knowingly put things on the platform with the 30% cut in mind because it is worth it to them, ergo they do not find it egregious.
> reputation is ruined

By personally liable, I don’t mean “their reputation is harmed”, I mean “forced to file for bankruptcy, and will be paying off the court imposed damages for the rest of their life”.

By professionally liable, I mean medical licenses being torn up, and their right to practice medicine being permanently revoked due to committing medical malpractice.

I mean, these people need to be medical doctors, that are treated as making a medical decision, with all the requirements and liabilities that come from that.

When Dr. Nick spends 1.2 seconds reviewing a patient’s file before issuing a denial, I’m proposing that being a life ruining decision for Dr. Nick.
The autogenerated UI right now is basically a form, backed by a script, hiding the complexity of creating the frontend and hosting the infrastructure. It reduces the task to implementing a single logical step.

Some examples blotato can be used for:

- Letting a user upload a csv containing customer receipts, grouping them by a particular day and updating an external resource (e.g. a database, stripe, crm, erp, or quickbooks)

- Exposing a form taking internal customer id as an input and cross-correlating it across multiple services such as pulling the last dozen customer messages from Twilio associated with that account id for a particular day
> all without any loading screens

It's like Elite: Dangerous or Minecraft. There are all kinds of loading screens, but they're all pretty cleverly hidden. On planetary surfaces, you can see chunks load as you drive or fly towards surface features. Every teleport is a loading screen. So is entering and exiting a vehicle, landings and takeoffs, entering/dropping from NMS's equivalent of supercruise, or warping to other systems.

My one big gameplay complaint is how lost and directionless I feel in NMS compared to Elite: Dangerous. Like, in Elite I can see a nebula or some other galactic destination and plot a course toward it, settle in and explore an area, and so on. But I never quite feel like I can know where I am or see—at the galactic level—where I'm going. I'm not a huge fan of the spaceflight mechanics, either. And VR in NMS seems completely broken on my brand new gaming machine, which ultimately got me to uninstall it.

I feel like I got a lot of entertainment out of my $6 NMS purchase, so none of these criticisms are to say the game is bad. If you've never played it and think you might enjoy a hybrid of Minecraft and Elite: Dangerous, it's the game for you! And I'm very glad to hear the game and the player base are still lively. Great community there, especially with player groups like that taxi service, or various colonies, or resources like the Glyph Exchange.

P.S. I have to second the "simultaneously too small and too big" feeling of NMS. Space in both KSP and Elite feels scaled well. Then again, I came to NMS late, so maybe how KSP and Elite do things only feels natural because I played those first.
I love how you just gloss over the 2nd worst nuclear disaster in world history, that required abandoning an entire town...

We need to stop burning fossil fuels, but nuclear is simply too expensive compared to renewables.
It’s also the conclusion that meta made after hiring remotely during Covid and observing how that went
One of the public transportation options in Cities Skylines is blimps. I thought it was ridiculous but now I realize I’m just not a visionary.
When I was at Google 2006-2009, that was how all acquisitions except YouTube were handled.

I've heard that's become better, but maybe not.

Google's search & ads billions keep raining from the sky, so killing acquired product isn't a big problem.
During the Apollo 1 investigation, he said something that suck with me when thinking of begrudging users who are willing to look past faults for utility:

"There's no question that it was a coffin, and I'd have flown it gladly."
A lot of the individual features are adequate, but because there are so many, they're on hbf shallow side. I don't find that a problem however - you can constantly swap between space combat, ground vehicles, building, missions, etc. So they feel fresh enough.

What I can't get over is how dull, lifeless, and copy and paste each planet feels. You explore a small square for a bit, and the rest of the planet is basically the same. There is no real variation in landscape, fauna, and flora across the planet. And the vast majority of planets are fairly barren rocks.
I'm always interested in monospace fonts for coding. But personally, I still haven't found any font that can beat JetBrains Mono.
depressing that people have to pay for the services and goods that they use? well i do agree that its pretty depressing that captcha is broken. AI seems ever closer to displacing humans… in the mean time we have to pay for internet services
The one they saw on Youtube where some random person does a video about their opinions.

You know. "Fact" and "rigorous research".
I enjoy the idea, but I do wonder why we don't see more condensed fonts like PragmataPro. I've been using it for close to a decade and I'd love to see more options in the space, but no-one seems willing to go that narrow. Berkeley Graphics has been promising a condensed version of Berkeley Mono for almost a year but nothing has happened there.

Even Monaspace here has a width slider, which starts at "wider than PragmataPro" and just slides to "silly width". I wonder why they didn't try sliding down to a condensed version?
Nothing managed to get me back into gaming as much as the "on" button on the Steam Deck plopping me right back where I left.
Intel used to do this. I was a high school and college intern in the late 90s and it was this blue badge / green badge thing.

The funny thing is, there was another level which was how worn out your blue badge was. The longer you had been there, the closer the badge was to white.
I have mixed feelings about this. It's just one article. I don't have a lot of context.

I can see how their model -- letting people scroll through images until they saw one they liked -- contributed to the issue. I also feel like there are larger societal issues that foster such problems and going after the tech is probably a relatively weak solution that tends to make people comfortable with leaving other issues unresolved.

I think it's like a scapegoat. It's easier to go after and it makes people feel like they did something when they did little, if anything, most likely.
Ironic that Woz has a stroke and one of the first comments is an unrelated comment about Steve Jobs.
No. Just look at taxes as a percentage of GDP and you can see EU taxes are 50%+ higher than even CA.

Then add on top the lower wages.
Under normal conditions it won't flood, but there's definitely a risk during extreme weather like a hurricane where there's tidal swells
Because he is intelligent, wacky, and genuinely a good human being, the Woz is one of the few figures that many of us in the tech industry look up to and aspire to be like.

I hope he sticks around for many more years to come.
Does anyone know how dangerous a stroke is at his age? Side note, but why do older people have strokes so more often? Young people have blood clots too.
Show HN: Binks Bot – Your Personal Jar Jar Binks
Having some fun with personalizing GPTs, thought some may enjoy this one.
I mean classic example are contracting out food service in the corporate cafeteria. You contract the work to some random other company who hire people to do food service or do you want Google or whoever to start hiring cooks themselves? Janitorial staff is also a classic role for this style of employment.
If you used Omegle for more than 30 seconds, you'd know it was filled with sexual predators exposing themselves to children. I'm surprised it lasted this long. I'm sympathetic to the creator, I don't think tools should be banned because there are bad users, but Omegle's user base has its reputation for a reason.
If people like your game they'll seed it for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent#Software
There are many crops that can be grown in dry area. Historically corn was an important crop in the desert southwest, as were beans and squash. More recently, amaranth. Also agave and other cactus fruit. If you've never had nopalitos, you're missing out.

In short, lots of food crops that require substantially less water. It's a different form of agriculture.

As for hamburgers: we can quibble over the exact figures, but globally, livestock production is responsible for anywhere from 11% to 19% of annual greenhouse gas production. Given that humanity is not going to go all plant-based suddenly, reducing the footprint of cattle production is imperative. Growing hay and shipping it around the world to feed cow is the opposite of sustainable.
Both are available on most modern Windows and Linux machines as well, so these cannot be used as a justification for why 8GB is somehow different on a Mac.
Okay. What kind of bandwidth and latency was possible out over the ocean prior to Starlink (or with current alternatives, if any)?
A lot of people use it to promote their art or to share screencaps/gifs/clips of movies, so I think people would get pretty cranky if the image files were overly compressed (unless it's the magic kind of compression that doesn't cost any fidelity. I don't really understand how compression works).

That's without getting into video content.
Above GameStop is said to get a 25% cut, and that is NOT counting the distribution, the publisher, etc.
The experimenters fooled themselves by accident, which is a common occurrence in all human endeavours, including science. The scientific method corrects for this via peer review and reproduction of experiment results.

The reproductions showed:

1. The ingredients commercially available have iron impurities. The oven baking process causes the iron to separate out, often towards the edges of the material chunks. Iron is ferromagnetic.

2. The LK99 material itself is strongly diamagnetic, which is interesting in and of itself, but obviously not world-changing.

The result of the combination of the above two is that the iron impurity is attracted to magnets, but the rest of the LK99 material is repelled. This makes samples "stand up", but not hover like a true superconductor would. All of the third-party reproductions showed this effect, none showed samples truly floating.

Similarly, the conductivity tests were zeroed badly. True superconductors have a step-change in conductivity, whereas the graphs measured by the korean team showed a rapid change followed by a slower gradual decrease. The lowest resistance they measured was still very high, comparable to metals, not superconductors.

This is a common issue with fringe research into superconductors: the "signal" they're looking for is a step-change in conductivity because it is easy to measure and rare in most normal materials. However, sudden conductivity changes can occur for all sorts of reasons. It's necessary, but not sufficient for superconductivity to be confirmed.
A nuclear power plant is the literal last thing I would want looser regulation on.
Pretty sure Facebook, Twitter and TikTok have all already been involved in more than one first meeting between rape and homicide victims and the wrongdoers, why haven't they been closed? The lighthearted guess is that is because they fight against such evils taking a lot of preventive measures, the cynic in me and what I believe more likely is that they are seen as "too big too fail", like some bizarre form of small governments.
Cars and car based infrastructure had a stiff competition from properly funded public transportation.
As someone who's not really a gamer, hearing "it gets tiring after 85 hours" as a negative blows my mind. 85 hours!
Newspapers used to cost a lot less than $0.25 and the ones still printed today tend to cost more than $2.
Unmarried fathers in Ohio end up with ANY custody of their children less than 20% of the time and is one of the most unfair states in the country and Ohio House Bill 14 aims to fix it by defaulting to 50/50 time, like most states.

This new movie, We the Parents is a great introduction to the problem and the solution.

Any parents in or around Columbus Ohio, next Tuesday, Nov, 14th at 5pm we are having a showing at the Ohio Statehouse.

Please come to show your support and see a great movie.

[1] https://www.wetheparentsmovie.com/
The one people on reddit present when bashing the USA.
I agree, but there's a cut at 44 seconds.
I don't know why your comment is being invalidated. Even in the best of cases when we try to protect wildlife preserves, there is undoubtedly collateral damage, and it ebbs over 40-90 years.
Full story here: https://coedcherry.com/fuck-banks.html (NSFW domain, but no adult content on that particular page).

TL;DR to answer your question: shell company would have been our best bet, but not something we could do logistically or ethically. It would have worked but we'd live every single day knowing that at any moment we could get flagged and go through it all over again. And with a full time job outside outside of running the company part-time there was no time, money, energy or will to set up such a front and figure out legitimate business activities to cover the revenue that was coming in from adult entertainment.
Not English, just looks like it. Assume meanings of words at your own risk.
The piece I quoted placed emphasis on sexual predators being able to communicate over the medium, not public displays of nudity, so I think the comparison to the telephone is relevant.

But that's besides the point. If you don't want your kids to see peoples dicks on the internet than exhibit better control over your kids access to the internet.

It's not up to me and the rest of society to police your kids.

I don't want to lose an internet that has charming sites like Omegle because people can't be bothered to take care of their kids.
Git was built in 5 days
He's like, the nicest guy :(
New Longmire plot just dropped.

Edit: kind of surprised that got some attention... didn't think the HN set overlapped that much with the Longmire set.
My boss came back from a vendor conference in Vegas recently and went to the sphere. He said in the 90s you could go and find a cheap all you can eat buffet full of steak and it was like $10 to get in. Drinks were $2 or something like that. But now you can expect to spend $40-$50 per meal for a single person.
9293 takes 953 and incorporates the errata (20 of them) and 6 other RFCS, so in that sense it's easier since you don't have to check elsewhere for bugs or updates.

953 is 85 pages. 9293 is also 85 pages (with 13 pages of appendix), although they switched to a proportional font for the PDF so there's probably more text.
Get better soon, Woz. We need you.
no, HTTP/1.1 was RFC 2068, then RFC 2616, now most recently RFC 7231.
it's still the same protocol, but with updates and clarifications from over the years.
It's a silly affectation rooted in lawyers commenting about a generality in a context where specifics might be inferred.
Nothing about this massacre is defensive. To even say such a thing is farcical. You don’t kill thousands of children in a defensive war.

It’s a war of terror. Full stop.
I've been listening with my kid to the excellent BBC podcast "13 Minutes to the Moon"[1]. It does a great job describing both the astronauts' experience (including Frank Borman and Apollo 8) and the scale and speed of efforts on the ground. I highly recommend it.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2
Crypto hack suggests Australia's CoinSpot has been compromised
https://archive.is/DroqM
Jobs had a stroke too… a stroke of good luck, when he met Woz
Apparently they didn't move the needle enough.

So perhaps it's a more accurate to say that the exclusives cost Epic much more than they ever returned. In money and trust.
I've racked up over 900 hours on Team Fortress 2 and I'm still terrible at it.

I also wonder what I would have learned or built in the time that I've played that game.
History/context:

Valve launched a Linux-based gaming platform called Steam OS in the early teens. Other companies made the hardware, and games had to be compiled for Linux - this was before Wine/Proton was good enough for gaming. It was open sourced, but stopped getting updated around 2018. SteamOS 1 and SteamOS 2 have public repos.

The Steam Deck launched with SteamOS 3. Many parts of it are open sourced (including gamescope-session, which lets you skip the window manager and go straight to the Steam UI), but there's no official "SteamOS 3" repo. There's a repo of unknown propriety called "evlaV" that claims to be a mirror of the official SteamOS 3 one. It's unclear where it comes from or how true/complete it is. https://gitlab.com/evlaV

SteamOS is an "immutable" Linux, which is to say that the system files are read-only. This allows ChromeOS-style updates without worrying about how someone has customized their system. It uses an application format called "Flatpaks" which skips the whole deb/rpm packaging debacle by bundling all the dependencies in a distro-agnostic container. It's a bit like how a MacOS .app folder includes everything the app needs to run.

There are also lookalikes that implement the Steam Deck UI with open source projects, like mimicking the SD's PIN unlock.

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Valve's main competitors in the portable PC space are Lenovo, Asus, and a bunch of Chinesium also-rans. They all ship with Windows.

There's also a vibrant community of people who buy them for the hardware, and try to replace them with as-close-as-we-can-get-without-official-repos SteamOS 3. They include:

- Bazzite: an immutable version of Fedora that uses GitHub Actions to "layer" packages on top. Basically, you write some markup that says what packages you want, GitHub mints an image, and that gets installed on your handheld. When a new version of Fedora/Bazzite comes out, your layers get rebased on top of it. (The whole immutable Linux thing is heavily influenced by Git.). Fedora is used for compatibility, but the gaming pieces (copied over from evlaV) run in an Arch container by way of Distrobox.

- Nobara: Fedora, as personally customized by a Red Hat employee to be better for gaming. His handle is GloriousEggroll, and he's also a prolific contributor to the Proton API compat layer that allows DirectX games to run on Linux.

- Jovian-Nix: NixOS, configured to run the SteamOS/evlaV packages on top

- Holo: The SteamOS equivalent of a Hackintosh: some guy in Russia modifying SteamOS to get it to work on a non-Steam-Deck.

- ChimeraOS: a distro designed for set top gaming and handhelds, derived from Arch.
> it is used to grow food that people eat

Yes, but in a hideously inefficient way. "Of the calories that cattle eat in feed, humans get a measly 3 percent in the beef we eat."

"livestock-centric U.S. agriculture—viewed by many as the pinnacle of efficiency—actually feeds fewer people per hectare, 5.4, than the less meat-focused Chinese, 8.4, or Indian, 5.9."

https://www.smallplanet.org/single-post/2016/11/10/meat-madn...
Not a doctor but plenty of stroke-suffering family members

Strokes at any age are incredibly dangerous

Most strokes occur at advanced age because circulation decreases (at least that’s my understanding)
Fantastic explanation. I appreciate your clarity.
Second power plant is going to be Korean APR1400, so even better price/performance.
You know what you did. You messed with their brand. People get crushed all the time for impersonating a brand.

"I would’ve obliged to their request."

Well, you didn't. They fired the warning shot and you didn't move. You remind me all the arrogant people in videos of police who get warned about something and do it again anyway and then protest loudly when they get arrested.
That's quite different - Google contracts for a service to be provided and takes no interest in managing janitors and cooks individually. The red badgers sound like they're being given individual instructions but denied employee protection.
unironically, I think first graders might have an easier time with peano arithmetic than you'd expect, and would also probably find it more engaging than the usual numeric calculation curriculum
Yes, of course they do - and all in service of steam.
Feeding people hay is much less efficient than that.
It's a bit faster than walking between Alewife and Porter.
A Bundle of 18th-Century Love Letters Is Unsealed at Last
Fun game or not, I appreciate Hello Games for fulfilling what they originally promised and failed to deliver, then constantly improving the game with 100% free updates. You can't say they aren't trying
"The war crimes and genocide could be worse, so why is anyone complaining?"
Children actually were not allowed to use the site.

By that logic you could say the same thing about every single porn site.
Unless you have something unusual about your situation (e.g. criminal record, extensive stays outside the US, etc), it's dead simple.

And if you've been in the US for 10 years, don't apply under the marriage path of 3 years residency, apply under 5 years. They basically verify you've lived in the US for 5 years (you have records of all your international travel right?), aren't a criminal and boom approved.

The marriage route is a bit more complex as it can involve legitimacy of the marriage (although not much of a hurdle for most).
I have mixed thoughts about this approach.

Unification should mean creating a single interface that seamlessly interacts with multiple underlying services without needing custom adaptations for each case.

The issue with allowing for customization is that it leads to fragmentation. This defeats the purpose of having a unified API in the first place.

I'm not sure whether the convenience of unifying leftover common functionalities like authentication outweighs the complexity and reliance introduced by adding another layer to the tech stack.
https://archive.md/9fEPo
Yes, in fact, the telephone has been used to ask people to undress.

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