skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love RPGs but I think this got more praise than it deserved. At its best it is a telltale game. At its worst, it’s a slow walk through bugs, bad dice rolls, save scumming, and watching the developers, fix everything all over again, only to create new bugs every time.

I got through act one and didn’t want to play anymore. There were too many bugs, and the game is an active development as if it were in beta. The game was in beta for years before it got to this state.

Save scumming 75% off the time because almost everything needs a 15 or higher, or spending an hour on a 20 roll treasure chest, or needing so many successful swings to complete a battle is not my idea of fun.

Loading a save took over a minute sometimes

I thought it was sloggy and buggy.

The characters were fawning over me, although I barely talked to them.

Dragon age origins did it SO much better.
> I think we'd all agree having a trusted boot sequence is desirable

We don't.
The whole idea of welfare-driven society is nuts and untenable.

Welfare-driven countries should deleverage their economies and depromote price growth until they no longer need to pay welfare on mass scale due to people being able to afford housing without much strain.
> Every single company making products and services we all use is profit-driven.

And it's all getting shittier and shittier every year. The profit motive does not select for high quality products, it selects for the products that are as cheap as possible to manufacture, which includes lying about the contents and capabilities of the product in the absence of sufficient legal incentive to be honest. And for markets to work, consumers need accurate information. Thus, regulatory agencies are necessary in practice for efficient markets.
And then your competitor advertises for "bob builder". And then you start whining about how mean google is, even though you were the one who decided to use google as a domain resolution service, which it was not intended for. There's a reason amazon decided to refer to itself as amazon.com until everyone got it, and that probably saves them billions in google ads per year.
Also, who investigates wrongdoing? Police, FBI, FTC? Why would unenforced and rampant corruption not be the norm? Sure, you sue, and the pharma produces doctored evidence. How do you find out, and how do you confirm it, and how do you make sure they are punished? The FBI has a lot of other shit going on.
Some things are just too ahead of their times.

Globe dot com was basically Facebook, but the critical mass wasn't there. Nor were the smartphones.
>dodgy films
What, like pornos?
Seven others did go to prison though.
No, I disagree with the idea that one letter domains look wrong. Especially with the many new TLDs, more often than not short URL services use single character domains. Take g.co for example—google uses that in ads everywhere. It’s modern equivalent of calling a short code phone number unrecognizable. But yet most people still instinctively know how to text them for information. However for really esoteric TLDs, I can see why it would be more of a problem, not because the length of the domain, but that the TLD, like .jobs, just doesn’t sound right.
Count your blessings - you could've been laid off. Start looking for another job.
Wow, http://g.org is weird. Wonder what the story behind it is.
Yeah, I read "VMware’s end-user computing and Carbon Black units" and it only made me wonder what they're talking about. The rest of the article says why which is the real story rather than which bits--that naturally falls out from that reasoning.
If it is a science, it can't have theorems.

Empiricism is often involves in mathematical discoveries but the key difference is math isn't reliant on empiricism and at least in theory the current body of mathematical knowledge can reasoned entirely from simple axioms.
It's not clear to me who owns the license plate. Maybe it's the state who is the owner. I know the old plate must be destroyed when a new plate is issued.
Doesn't mean that accepting a situation where all it takes is a policy change is a good idea.
> Before that? Before the tail end of 19th century, we knew fuck all about anything. Medicine, in particular, graduated from voodoo and aforementioned "ground up unicorn toe" into a proper science and profession, also about 100 years ago.

Nevermind the thousands of plants with verified therapeutical effects across the world for centuries.

But yeah, old societies were completely clueless and a bunch of idiots and surely we have learnt nothing from them.
Incidental: I’ve seen people increasingly using x.com links in their articles. How does that happen? As far as I can tell, it just redirects to twitter.com and that’s where everything is, but it doesn’t seem likely that everyone’s changing twitter to x, so is there something that is giving these links?

I have far less confidence that x.com links will continue to work for years than twitter.com links.
Bank's datacenter died after travelling back in time to 1970 (On Call)
Kagi is really nice but the limit of searches for the $5 is far too low
Had a quick look at structure and I'd say probably not
Nothing that severe. I have beer, toast, sandwiches and burgers. I don't do a ton of sweets / soda but I do some (and if I do my teeth definitely get a fuzz that motivates brushing!).

My great grandma loved jello “salad”s (eg jello with fruit in it). It’s just genetics.
Some other stuff works better at Google, like "train from Heathrow to London" gives you the next 4 trains right there in the results. In fact it can give accurate results, link ups, walking estimates between bus routes, where the official transport app or website sucks (like Dublin buses). Oh and shop opening hours, cinema times etc.

Kagi has gotten better at directly providing answers (like 15lbs in kg) but it's still lagging.
You can just call it Twitter, in the same way that everyone just says Facebook rather than Meta and Google rather than Alphabet.
I tried out Kagi, but then I asked myself: “why pay for it if it's only marginally better than Google?”.
Then I realized Kagi has won. The sentiment about non-Google search engines used to be something like “XY is slightly worse than Google, but it respects your privacy, why not use it instead”?. The trade-off is no more.
So I am customer since then. Love the domain ranking system.

I hope they will continue to focus on their core product and don't branch out to do something else.
>...reduced the allowed limit of data encrypted with a single key to 2^20 blocks = 8MB.

Is that is from here?

* https://csrc.nist.gov/News/2017/Update-to-Current-Use-and-De...

I can't find any indication that this has transitioned from the proposal stage to an actual recommendation. But at any rate, this proposal is based on sweet32[1] which was a oracle attack which required 785 GB of traffic to demonstrate. Off the top of my head, recommendations for things like email (and file encryption), which are not vunerable to that sort of oracle attack, suggest a maximum for 64 bit block length ciphers of something like 4 GB. Email tends to be a maximum of 50 MB. That would be after base64 encoding.

[1] https://sweet32.info/
Fun fact the LLM features are not expensive to them compared to their search product. Per search they pay at least 2ct.
That Good AI would also be aware of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
It gets even more crazy with the fact that that AI will know all elementary particles
are EXACTLY the same. Quantum mechanics tells us that there is no possible way to distinguish a particular electron from another through experiments. (i.e there is no ID attached to any electron).
Given that fact, would the all-knowing AI be torturing a particular configuration of specific particles OR (god forbid) PROCESSES which are substrate independent. Processes reside in the world of platonic forms.
No, because increasing the width or height of this loop by one cell increases the period by one.

https://conwaylife.com/?rle=36b2o$35bobo$29b2o4bo$27bo2bo2b2...
And has zero market share. Thanks for the valuable comment.
Looks like you haven't watched Wall-E
I'm not an expert, and I know "Life" in this context may be a proper noun referring the Game of Life, but I would be very hesitant to generalize this to life in the universe, as life is not Conway's Game of Life, and entropy brings elements into play which is not present in Conway's Game of Life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKbJ9leUNDE&list=PLoaVOjvkzQ...
Postgres Language Server: Implementing the Parser
"disk controller" or "SATA adapter" perhaps.

"Host Bus Adapter" covers more sins; could be a firewire 400 card. and still be a disk interface.

RAID controller hardware has always been a cost padding item. Anybody ever test the data retention of the fancy battery backed cards? Or the performance vs bare linux md drivers?
Aegis Missile Defense Site in Poland to Finally Go Operational
That is an excellent point. Ports are always vulnerable.

On the other hand, it seems that wireless charging is also the reason why many modern phones have these stupidly fragile glass backs. So your whole phone gets more vulnerable.
I agree with everything you just said. It was probably my biggest letdown of the year.

For each turn on the turn based combat, there’s overhead and waiting required. The characters slowly accelerate as they start to move and take their turns. Sometimes it feels like forever by the time you get control of your characters again.

Some of the battles are so one-sided against you. You have to come back later after grinding everything in the map.

Inventory management is horrible.

I could go on, but I’d be preaching to the choir. But I’ll just say it is an unfinished game.
Yes, I remember reading about something like this a very long time ago. You’d wake up with a fresh breath (alcohol) instead of spoiled milk (lactic acid). And less cavities. Just like revolutionary batteries, I’ll believe it when we reach the millions of users.
> Although I agree with this there is also another, more subtle thing going on. Rewriting the code that works and someone else is maintaining is a waste of the rewriter's time and is unprofessional.

Rewriting existing functioning code is not a waste of time in general. We don't know the full picture, so one cannot make such a generalized statement. I can write perfectly functioning code in the most terrible way that makes maintaining the code a herculean task. Very easily so even. Making things worse is almost always easy. Rewriting that code might make maintenance much easier, even if the code was previously working. It might make onboarding easier, since others can better understand what is going on. It is not in general unprofessional. To judge that, you need a way more complete picture. It can even be unprofessional to leave horrible code as is, instead of fixing it, leaving future people to plaster over it with more leaky abstraction.
Once they release a version for MacBook M3 I’m going to buy a MacBook only for that :)
It all seems like a sign of social dysfunction to me. That this blog post lacks most of the important details that have nothing to do with the code.
That's less than 3%/year which seems not so bad considering how so many things were up the past few years.
I bought the 'Chordion' iOS app years ago. Plays better than the old Omnichord I have and can sound very much like one. And has MIDI out ;)
The have an "international" region setting, which is from my experience the best option. Unless you want regionalized results.
No distributed quantum advantage for approximate graph coloring
It is academia ;-)
SDK https://dot.net/download

VSC extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotne...

Or if you prefer VS https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/
The more I read about Spotify and its woes, the more I feel that it’s really the hot-headed CEO/founder that needs to be fired. Has he tried taking any responsibility yet?
I wonder what's behind that login screen.
Many such cases in the data space of CV building over problem solving
You last link returned no results.

But I think this is the same in a 50ml bottle.
https://www-apodiscounter-de.translate.goog/myrrhentinktur-h...
Because apart from being noticeably heavier on resources than Safari, Firefox has become rather paternalistic (the "ask me again later" school of thought), pushy, annoying in the frequency of its UX changes, a lot less trustworthy and generally unpleasant to use.

I simply have neither the time nor the inclination to hunt for and remediate annoyances and unfeatures every other month when another major release drops. And I'm saying that as someone who used it for a great many years, ever since ... 0.somethingorother.

I have it installed for testing when I'm doing frontend, but that is about it.
Identical to

https://g.org/?page=rv

Coincidence ?
One of these!

https://hackaday.com/2017/01/16/shmoocon-2017-dig-out-your-o...
idk, most of life is about a subtle dance between chaos and order, from DNA mutations to the flashes of activity inside brain to complex behaviour of ecosystems and human interactions.

somewhere in there there is a free will, that is neither order (things predetermined) nor chaos (things happening randomly) but a secret third thing.

thinking in any other way is myopic, in my point of view.

maybe i don't get something important?
Books in Charlie Munger's Library:
Influence by Robert Cialdini,
Einstein by Walter Isaacson,
Go East Young Man (memoir of William O. Douglas),
Eugene Meyer bio (Father of Kay Graham, Chair of Fed in 30s),
Max Planck bio,
John Kenneth Galbraith’s Ambassadors Journal,
Set of the Harvard Classics,
Copey of Harvard by James Donald Adams,
Autobiography of Mark Twain,
Federalist Papers,
Capital (history of Capital Group) by Charley Ellis,
Current Value Line Binder,
Set of Shakespeare at the top,
Possibly a set of Balzac.

From a photo of his last interview in the WSJ.
Yes I literally called it a disease. Just look up “what color is your function”, I’m hardly the only person who thinks so.

There are more languages without async await that ones that have. The language that’s known most for massive concurrency, go, does not have it. None of the functional programming languages needs it either.
> ’m pretty sure Elves heal, perhaps even regrow limbs, otherwise just random accidents and war wounds would leave a lot of crippled, blind Elves, but Tolkien seems to they all look youthful, clear skin, no obvious wounds.

Tolkien and Peter Jackson shouldn't be confused. There are plenty of maimed elves. Maedhros, the eldest son of Feanor, was one-handed after his hand was cut off. Turin was also friends Gwindor, who was crippled, maimed, and somehow disfigured. His brother was also blinded, then later dismembered in front of Gwindor.
No Linux support yet? I suppose I'll wait until the game is finished before I buy it.

Its nice companies give us such obvious indicators of quality.
Making a calculator is one of the things I do when I learn a new language, and I always end up using this algorithm because it's the only one I know!
>the story of browser extensions...

In general is that you can't ever trust them apart from a few very large ones.

A redirect extension is ripe for the usual blackmarket shenanigans.
And now:
- the 4-hr Work Week toolkit is complete.
- deep-fakes are now just regular fakes
No clue, I use the website.
would love to read that, I find immune system fascinating.
Tesla is shooting itself in the foot by not being pragmatic.

Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are combined the 3rd biggest market for Tesla. During some months we even edge out China temporarily becoming Tesla's 2nd biggest market.

The way our unions are being portrayed by Americans is ridiculous. Even pro-union Americans are making our unions sound far more aggressive and subversive than they actually are. A "blockade" just means no unionized workers and truck drivers want to offload and transport your products and supplies. It doesn't mean a literal blockade.
Good news for cryptographers in case we need an alternative to LWE and coding-based PQC.
US Army to Launch High-Altitude Spy Balloon Program in 2025
This is different though - Facebook wasn’t rebranded to Meta, Facebook is still the official name for Meta’s product. Meanwhile most of Twitter’s logos and other branding have been replaced.
> sane people don't buy that there are microchips in the vaccine

That kind of rhetoric is itself part of the dystopia. There were and still are much more rational perspectives that are deemed wrongthink and lumping them together with obvious crazies is one tactic used to suppress them.
The monopoly on app stores by device manufacturers is absurd, and doubly so when the governance is incompetent (which is always).
Yeah this is closer to simulating a classical coin (albeit one with three sides) than a qubit.
> Doesn't the union have a vote to decide these things

This was decided by Seko's union board, the union that covers most PostNord and other delivery companies employees

> PostNord says it can't force it's workers to do something

It is illegal to prevent a strike, yes

> So if it's not the workers decision it's PostNord's decision and that is very different

It's the unions decision

https://www-seko-se.translate.goog/press-och-aktuellt/nyhete...

https://www.seko.se/siteassets/pdf-seko.se/avtal/konflikt/fa...
Thanks! Note you can also buy this without bolcom tax, since this seller has their own website: https://www.mmobiel.com/nl/mmobiel-usb-c-naar-3.5mm-trrs-hoo... There's also one with a DAC with better specs https://www.mmobiel.com/nl/mmobiel-usb-c-naar-3.5mm-trrs-hoo... (whether that actually sounds better iff the original one is already fine, I doubt)

Another downside btw is that you can't charge your phone anymore at the same time. I bought a wireless charger to remedy that but the device gets super hot, thermal protection kicks in, and it starts to throttle the charging. Doesn't seem great for battery longevity. There's devices that combine power and headphone jack into USB-C, but there I couldn't find a single one where the reviews didn't say it broke after two weeks or unusable sound quality or so. I simply miss a separate headphone jack... but this will have to do. Thanks for looking up which one you've got :)
Knowing polish, russian, lithuanian and bits of other related languages, I find it interesting how the word directly assumes military leadership, the medieval feudal kind of way. It can be roughly translated as "led by a voivoda", with "voivoda" here meaning "military leader".

Probably comes from the original Commonwealth times..?
I love birding, and I think many people who think they are not interested would be if they gave it a try.

I think it's a hobby with very few negative side-effects. More people having an interest in birds is great, as it benefits the individual, society, ecosystems and the entire planet.
He probably said quite a bit more than just that. If you extract just one sentence from somebody's position, you can make anyone look ridiculous.

Looking at this from a distance and without picking sides, I can see both sides have a point and a bigger agenda. The actual conflict seems like it is a sideshow to this bigger agenda.

In Scandinavia the unions are historically very strong. Strong as in they are mostly socialist leaning countries where the socialists have set policies for decades backed by very strong unions that dictate how companies operate. Not just Tesla, all companies. The message is fall in line, or else we'll cripple your company. And it's a message not just to Tesla but to all companies.

One little problem though, Sweden doesn't actually have a socialist government currently. Neither does Denmark. And Norway has a minority socialist government coalition. So, socialists are fresh out of power all over Scandinavia and struggling a bit. Also as Tesla workers aren't unionized. These unions aren't representing those workers directly. This is part of their grudge. So, unions feel a need to assert themselves and reclaim some power. And they are using Tesla to do it. Perfect company for fanning the outrage a little and Elon Musk is always happy to offend anyone with incendiary statements. But you have to see it for what this is: political posturing by the unions.

With Tesla the agenda is that they are a multinational and they are investing billions world wide in creating giga-factories and lots of employment and they are looking to get the best deals for this. Governments are lobbying them heavily for being the next giga factory site. So, what's the signal Elon Musk is giving off with to those governments by doing this in Sweden? Get the unions of my back if you want my money. So, he's happy to let this escalate a little. It works wonders elsewhere. The big picture for him is getting favorable conditions to build his next giga factory elsewhere in Europe. The Swedish are just pawns in that game. My guess is he'll ultimately fold in some way to keep the Scandinavian market going. But forget about a Swedish giga-factory happening.
Of course the Illuminati are using godaddy as a registrar, I'm not even surprised.
Don't have'em in my country unfortunately.
I play BG3 on my steamdeck, so it does work on Linux.
I don't think there is a framework out there that does what I need it to do, but I'd be happy to learn — which ones did you specifically have in mind?
If you implement one single function, then it's easy to refactor later on.

If over 10 years, dozens of people add feature after feature without thinking carefully about the structure of the code, you get huge messes that are very hard to clean up. Then suddenly an old, unsupported dependency needs to be replaced (e.g. because of a vulnerability) and it takes weeks to remove it because there is zero separation of concerns anywhere in your codebase.

You say that overabstracted code is hard to change. I agree, but so is underabstracted code - or simply code with bad abstractions. I don't care particularly about SOLID, since I'm not too fond of OOP anymore, but encapsulation (which is a concept independent of paradigms) is definitely crucial when you want to make sure a code base is maintainable in the future.
I discovered the Omnichord when I wondered what instrument David Bowie was using to play his gentle cover of 'America' at the 2001 'Concert for New York City'.

https://youtu.be/afifZfUkU8I?si=4RhmQtkaL6Db72_Q&t=78

(I keep on wanting to buy one... but I've enough musical instruments I don't spend enough time with already.)
Obligatory pointer to how libertarians were defeated by bears [1].

Libertarians and neoliberals at this point are essentially indistinguishable. Neoliberalism is just a thinly-veiled wealth transfer to the already-rich through deregulation and tax cuts, masquerading as "market-based reforms" at the altar of the "free market". The "free market" itself is a myth because a well-functioning market requires strong government. It requires regulation.

So when you see something like regulatory capture, which is a real problem, and companies bypassing the very regulation that limits their excesses and thinking the solution is less regulation. It's nonsencial.

[1]: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21534416/free-state-...
There wasn't just one manufactured failure, but multiple different ones. Refusing to help would also point towards intentional malice. Why would you sell a product, then refuse to assist, unless you've intentionally designed the product to fail so only you would know how to make it work again?
Why Is There a Dyslexia Epidemic?
IIIUC custom search engines on iOS are a hack and they just have an extension which captures your google queries and redirects them to Kagi.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/setting-default.h...

They recommend their own Orion browser which is the only browser on iOS that uses a webkit fork, which can install browser extensions intended for chrome and firefox