skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Expanding on this:

when you add the extra degrees of freedom in Descent-like games, relative to Quake-like games (or flight/space sims but in different ways), there are some emergent behaviors that change how the game fundamentally feels. What frequently happens when random devs take on a 6dof project because they enjoyed Descent back in the day is they'll make a game that feels like a shooter with vertical flight, and is missing some of the key things that make Descent feel good. I've heard some 6dof games described as "it feels like I'm flying a camera, not a ship" (lack of turning momentum), or "it feels sluggish when I try to move in multiple directions" (lack of vector independence / trichording), or "it's just spray-and-pray combat" (undersized ship hitboxes relative to projectile speed/size and level size.) There are a lot of things we've learned over 30 years of playing Descent and Descent-like games that don't always get taken seriously by devs of other 6dof projects. And even when they do take everything seriously, there are things none of us have figured out how to articulate but that can make a 6dof game feel bad.

I think it'd be possible to build a great game in the genre, but you'd need a bunch of key things to come together, and then you'd also need great marketing to get the thing in front of millions of eyeballs to make enough sales to keep the community going.
"Live Nation's a monopoly"

one of my favourite songs

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/clydelawrence/falsealarms.ht...
> Monopolies aren't just anti-consumer. They can strangle the country's ability to innovate and compete in a global marketplace.

This. As a small business owner I'm much more interested in the effects of monopoly on industries than on consumers. After all, most people have jobs, right? They feel the effects of monopoly at work, as well as at home.
Please don't. We want HN to be a place for human comments, not generated ones.
I dont know. i dont care very much. the question is just the one you have proposed, in your colonialist defence of the colonies.. yes, indeed, it lies with what we believe of them

in otherwords, our own deindustrialization is irrelevant
When the government "compels" a company, how does that work exactly? Does the company have to provide that information for free? Does that mean that the company has to charge its customers more in order to facilitate this? Does that mean prices will go up across all companies in order to facilitate the information gathering? Does that mean the government will need to hire more people in order to process all the data?

It seems that the safer our society becomes, the more fearful we become.
This is why gatekeepers are still a good thing, and now the gatekeepers are themselves somewhat democratized. Lots of people now have their favorite YouTuber / Podcaster / etc. and get book recommendations from them. And there is now a much bigger selection of gatekeepers to choose from given the variety of content on those platforms. It’s not perfect, but overall it is an improvement in many ways.

Now yes I would agree that a fully flat, bottom up, “everyone is a publisher” world where everyone is on equal footing (including the spammers) is impractical, but then again who ever said that would happen or work if it did?

It remains to be seen what effect genAI has on all this, though. Long term, it seems likely that the need for gatekeeping will only increase due to the inevitable flood of more and more generated junk.
Allow me to introduce you to https://www.xpforums.com/
http://archive.today/wEHWu
I don't know how to comment on how much sex the kids are having these days without sounding like a creep, but if you weren't there, you'll need to take my word that the cold war had its highly bleak moments involving fear of armageddon and the AIDS epidemic, with which nothing today really compares. Today has more ennui and blatant idiocy, perhaps, but we were pretty good at that too.
From the article,

the idea was to build 100 tactical weapons

They would not have been put on top of ICBMs. Delivery would have been by aircraft or even artillery.
At my library you can check out sewing machines and power tools as well.

And CA libraries have access to courses on Coursera.
I only watch Fox News during elections and I find it just as good as any other outlet if not slightly better.

Fox Business seems about the same.

TheHill seems fairly balanced and surprisingly enough newsmax seems fairly balanced.

Redstate on the other hand has a double standard and ignores anything negative about Trump. They kicked out all of thier traditional conservatives.
Neither of those are 6DOF (unless NMS patched it in at some point).
Isn't this where the hilarious "sheriff showed up at the office, graciously giving them 30 minutes to cut a check before he started to confiscate the chairs" stories come from?
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Yeah, this is what I remember. And I remember the media hype around his investigation.
Nobody starts as a power user
Can you provide some links to some projects? You’ve piqued my interest
Maybe if more of that PPE money had actually been paid to those that need it rather than the employers that pocketed millions instead it would have gone better.
A hundred nukes is surprisingly few. Sure you burn down Moscow but I doubt the orcs care. Nukes can't even kill infantry in trenches cost effectively let alone tanks.
What measures of poverty are you using for each country?

Are they roughly equivalent, so that you are comparing similar things?
Safeguarded against technical hiccups - you don't want something like "Price of item in USD: $Kangaroo" to show up in your output.

Censorship is vile. Tools shouldn't be policing morality and political acceptability. People should be doing that for themselves. If someone wants to generate a story having any resemblance to real life, then some characters and situations will be awful. Let things be awful. It's up to the user to share the raw generation, or to edit and clean it up to their own moral, ethical or stylistic standards.

The idea that people need to be protected from the bad scary words is batshit stupid. Screeching twitter mobs are apparently the measure of modern culture, however, so I guess they won already.

If, at some point, AI companies begin to produce models with a coherent self and AI begins to think in ways we might recognize as such, then imposing arbitrary moral guardrails starts to look downright evil.

The only thing censorship and the corporate notions of AI "alignment" are good for is avoiding potential conflict. In a better world, we could be rational adults and not pretend to get offended when a tool produces a series of naughty words, and nobody would attribute those words to the company that produced the tool. Alas for that better world.
...and you will not know if the answer is accurate or where it came from.
Anyone who is honestly advocating for an Iraq-era world police mobilization (with the bonus threat of nuclear decimation of the host country) is clearly trolling. The exact same people would be decrying occupation and the loss of US lives within x number of years if the inverse has happened. So they were ready to complain either way.

As it is, the administration has threaded the political needle perfectly (or luckily) and the Ukrainian people have proven that their bravery and resolve has been vastly underrated.
> The truth often doesn't have a middle ground.

This is the line of thinking that leads to gulags and gas chambers.
Did the US have a defense treaty with Ukraine? As in, something ratified by the Senate?
Perhaps we're talking about different comments here. I thought I was responding to this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40055668
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They seem to be losing money.

On the one hand, if they are incinerating millions of dollars every month, that's an argument that they could easily afford a few more - after all, they are getting cash from somewhere.

On the other hand, if they are losing money, in a certain sense they have not got even $1 to spare.
Absolute mountains. Consider: Ruby is Smalltalk with alternative syntax and core library.

I'm only being a little bit flippant here; the only core language feature in ST that Ruby is missing is thisContext, and most of the things that end developers do with thisContext (continuations, exceptions, and the debugger) are natively supported by the standard library.
> It's "easy" to lift a giant percentage of the population out of poverty when a large swath of your population is in poverty

Not entirely true. When you look at the decrease of China's extreme poverty, it is almost linear up until the numbers got to essentially 0. Even if this were true, it should be easy for the US to lift people out of poverty, given that there is a huge number of poor people in America.

> Not saying the US doesn't deserve some criticism here, but your comparison was not apt.

My point more broadly is that China has spent 40 years going in the right direction and the west has spent 40 years stagnating and deteriorating. At any rate, my main qualm was with the text "and [our economic system] is still doing it [lifting people out of poverty] today". This is not true by any metric.
Function interfaces are better, but not necessarily sufficient. Semantics of functions can also change in a breaking way.
https://archive.is/ncyz4
Even if they don't break them up, there needs to be some limits and regulations as this scene is getting obscene:

1. I thought scalping was illegal? Maybe that has changed, or maybe there's a big loophole, but most of the big ticketing apps have essentially legalized scalping and they even have conventions for their "partners" (scalpers) where they entertain them and teach them how to buy and sell more tickets. Since the ticketing apps take massive fees on each ticket, more secondary sales benefits the ticketing company even more.

2. If scalping is still illegal, there needs to be a limit on the price hike for secondary sales. Clearly, someone who bought 50 tickets to a concert was not planning to use them all. This is a scalper. Since they could create many different accounts, it's hard to determine who is a scalper and who isn't. Either way, if you can't go to the concert and you want to resell them, then a max increase for your time to relist the tickets is fair for everyone.

3. There needs to be a limit on service fees. There's no reason why the service fee for selling an online ticket should be $50 PER TICKET. Sure, it's not always that high, but that's how high I've seen it in the past couple years. I can ship a cell phone across the country in 5 days for $5 and it is profitable for the service provider. There's no reason the efforts to furnish a digital ticket should cost more than that. It's clearly a hidden fee that is there as an additional profit center.

4. Not only do the ticket primary ticketing companies own the primary sales, they also own the secondary sales. So, for example, they can take a $30 fee PER TICKET on the primary sales and then they also get that $50 PER TICKET fee on the secondary sale of each same ticket. Then if that ticket gets sold again, they can get another $50 PER TICKET. It's absolutely insane.

5. Most major venues have exclusive deals with the major ticketing companies. So, if a large band/artist wants to play at a large venue and they don't want to charge their fans huge fees or allow scalping, they have no choice -- that venue has signed a deal and the artist has to use the venue's ticketing partner.

6. Some tickets aren't sent until just days before the event. If I bought tickets today, and they're charging me a $50 digital ticket fee, those tickets should be available to me immediately. Again, I can ship a cell phone across the country in 5 days for $5, there's no reason digital tickets should be withheld for months when a $50 fee was paid.

7. There's no transparency. Since it's so obscene, it's time for transparency. At a minimum, I should be able to see how many tickets for each event the person I'm buying the tickets from has sold in the past year.

I know there are more issues, these are just the ones off the top of my head.
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Tow-Boot comes to mind for me. https://github.com/Tow-Boot/Tow-Boot/

Also plenty of projects here: https://github.com/nix-community/awesome-nix
Nah, just been working on low level stuff and I haven't had the time to do a lot of the manual quality tuning that's always been necessary once in a blue moon.

Downside of being a one man show is I only have so much attention to spend on tasks, so sometimes quality tuning gets a bit neglected.
The goto of goto considered harmful is not the goto of C. Somehow this subtlety seems to be broadly missed.

The goto of Dijkstra jumps to somewhere else in the program. You're somewhere in the call stack and decide to scribble on some registers and jump to some arbitrary location. Like longjmp with the restrictions taken off. As in across function boundaries. When you're writing assembly that works exactly as it it sounds like it would.

The goto of C jumps to somewhere else in the same function with a bunch of compiler warnings if you manage to bypass an initialisation. You can make control flow more complicated within a single function, sure.

Goto in C is not a significant problem. Jumping between different functions in assembly is however legitimately confusing.

This is something of a pet annoyance because various languages or coding standards decide to outlaw the friendly easy goto as it has such a scary reputation. This makes some algorithms much more complicated to express and others inherently slower.
Completely agree. Being a conservative here is not much fun.
When I read a news story on something I already know about, it generally sounds like sophomoric hogwash. I have to assume the stories that I know little about are also hogwash. I.e., an argument that a newspaper is vetting information makes little sense to me.
That's how I took it, if she wanted to rent out a field and import equipment, she'd still sell out, and at whatever price she wanted to charge.
The average household in the uk has 1,136 kg, the equivalent weight of a small car.

https://phys.org/news/2020-06-tool-household-plastics-footpr...

A polymer bank note weighs 0.7g

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/banknotes/...

If you have 10 bank notes in your wallet, you have 162,285 times as much plastic in your house.

I think most people would have had used some basic common sense that even their trash bags are many times more plastic than the polymer bank notes they use.

Why did you possibly think that anyone should be focused on microplastics from bank notes?

At what point do you go from "just asking questions" to "maybe this is a bizarre thing to focus on" ?
> How’s that “democracy” and “bill of rights” working for you my fellow US citizens?

In this case, pretty well. The bill was debated openly. My own Congresswoman tried to push the warrant-requirement amendment through. Literally nobody called into her office about it. Her colleagues seem to have had similarly-empty call sheets.

Most Americans were, as of 2018, unconcerned about the government surveilling them [1]. There is a growing share who are concerned about how the government uses their personal data [2]. But it's not been an issue voters get off their asses about.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/06/04/how-ameri...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2023/10/18/how-american...
I think everyone is done with influencers.

People would like to find genuine ones instead of just cash grabs.
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Lawyer Explains How AI Is Shaking Up Copyright Law
By way of comparison, the Stasi had around 50 000 filing cabinets; at 120 MB per that's 6 TB, or 3 SD cards for under a thousand bucks.
In the US jurors are basically untouchable for any decision they reach and can't be made to testify about their deliberations. So nullification is an off shoot from those two things where a jury can decide whatever they want even against their oath to follow the jury instructions and decide impartially. The prosecution tries to screen for this though during selection.
I just skimmed it and none of this looks AI-specific. It looks like someone essentially ran the LLM version of s/software/AI/ and s/binary/model/ on some generic "how to secure your software deployment" manual...
> 3 hours in some major

That doesn't sound plausible. Got some examples?
Assuming a materialistic (non-spiritual) world this statement seems a bit vacuous as we are all the direct products of our environment (including womb environment, genes, nutrition, culture, etc).
This. There is a reason why I included the phrase "sometimes annoyingly so" and didn't particularly praise it. It's... fine, more or less, both helped and hobbled by its efforts at journalistic triangulation while doing its job of touching on some points of currency and providing mental snack material.

And the fact that I listen to it or find it interesting is not an endorsement much less an absence of criticism. I'm listening to Christian radio networks as well (share similar dial segments, it's interesting to find out what's going on there, get a different take on the news, hear what's going 'round in terms of sermons and CCM these days, what's that you say, a Christian values investment fund, sounds not grifty at all, I am intrigued), college radio, freakin' Pacifica.
Abolishing the UK non-DOM regime
Yeah but if you have stuff that isn’t freezable, even if you’re ok with eating leftovers, you end up having to buy smaller quantities of stuff else you risk stuff going bad before you eat it. Smaller quantities tend to be more expensive.

For example, I don’t buy milk anymore since I do not remember the last time I have finished a carton. I keep some powdered stuff around because I sometimes use it for cooking, but I don’t buy liquid milk anymore. If I did need liquid milk, I would probably end up buying the smallest quantity of milk available to minimize waste, but they would probably be a much higher per-ounce cost.

That’s what I mean about it scaling logarithmically. If you can buy a higher quantity the prices get much cheaper.
> NPR does not say Fresh Air is "not an NPR show". They say it is produced by a member station.

They also explicitly say that it is not produced by NPR.

It's not an NPR show in the sense that when the licensing deal expires, Fresh Air can choose not to be syndicated on NPR. It's an independent show that licenses itself to NPR. A show like All Things Considered has no such freedom.

> More importantly: how is any of this possibly relevant to the original conversation?

The original conversation was about how one can influence their local affiliate to change their programming, until someone came and nitpicked about whether NPR owns Car Talk or not.
My father is a chemist and he has said things like this to me. He has extreme faith in people who wear lab coats.
> Secondly, organs are GPS tracked.

While they're transported or while they're in you?
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That requires a reliable test that can filter them, including new officers. If you think you can easily filter "good" and "bad" people, acting in extreme circumstances, you're delusional.
Duty is not the right way to frame the situation. This is more about the overall goals of US foreign policy.

If the US wants to maintain a favorable status quo and its position as the dominant superpower, it must support Ukraine until Russia admits failure and withdraws its troops. The current world order is based on a simple deal. The US supports friendly countries around the world and provides them security against regional threats. Those countries in turn support US policy goals in faraway issues they wouldn't otherwise care about.

On the other hand, if the US is happy to be just a regional power that doesn't care about what happens on the other side of the Atlantic and the Pacific, it has no duty to support Ukraine.
This depends on your definition of both "older" and "playing through," but Team Fortress 2 (2007) is really fun.
> Which half is wrong depends on which half you're asking.

No, sometimes people are actually factually wrong.

I don't have any beef with anything else you said.
Or just limit the markup. Since it's all digital, they know the original price of the tickets.
There's also nix-darwin and home-manager. I barely use brew anymore, not directly anyway, for the rare packages that aren't in nixpkgs.
Those 99.9% customers would still benefit from not getting "helpful" ads shoved into their face when they make a typo in a domain name.
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) identifiers are an attempt to resolve this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORCID
3D-printed "metamaterial" is stronger than anything in nature
Chen has not claimed to have broken SVP; only in certain situations. This is a better LLL; not a polynomial hierarchy overturning.
Coleman Hughes shares a good perspective on this in his new book. He cites surveys showing that people changed their opinions for the worse regarding racism in america around 2010. This could be explained by an increase in racism or by increased awareness of racism. But he shows it is not based on these things because surveys also show that people significantly overestimate the number of black people killed by police. The rise in media coverage has led them to think that certain events are much more common than they are.
> You have to use each chain’s app, now, to get what used to be menu prices.

Yes, I used their app. I have kids so I know happy meals used to be crazy cheap. They've gone up substantially in price in the past 3 years.

We used to get McDonald's once in a while as a quick, cheap meal that our kids liked. At some point within the past year or so I realized that it's not actually cheap anymore - I think they've raised their prices more than many competitors. IMO, they are now roughly at the same prices as some much more appealing options, so we don't really go there anymore.
Does this do anything beyond an API call? ChatGPT is already pretty good at regexes.
It is a legitimate topic of discussion.

The problem comes when it’s the ONLY topic of discussion. Inflation is only relevant in how it impacts minorities. COVID is only relevant as it impacts minorities. Climate change is only relevant as it impacts minorities. Quality of schools is only relevant as it impacts minorities.

When it’s your only lens, it can distort your views, and in the case of NPR, caused them to get some stories wrong. Which then destroys your credibility which is really the only currency a journalist has.
That's the purpose of a newspaper. That isn't to say they're doing a particularly good job these days.
Recent and related:

Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39998396 - April 2024 (118 comments)
It's also compatible with low IQ causing poverty and bad parenting.
I’d like to see something before I sign up for an account.
It wouldn't be hard to use some combination of auctions and lotteries to give everyone a legitimate chance at getting a ticket at a reasonable price, and extract maximum money from the people that have money to burn.
Since when has static typing eliminated backward-compatibility problems in interfaces? Not all visible runtime behavior can be encoded in the type system, unless you're using a proof assistant or formal-verification system.
Without vouching for the validity of this source, a quick search on perplexity.ai (which is good for this kind of thing) gives:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01461672231198...

It also mentions a 2017 article in The Atlantic that I wasn't able to dig up.
April Fools

"As this interface will be based on the latest versions of the available software libraries, the next releases of Apache OpenOffice will unfortunately not support the following architectures:

Linux x86,
Windows 32-bit,

but the following architectures will be supported instead:

MS-DOS 6.22 on dual-core ARM CPU's,
Windows 3.11 (only on 64-bit systems),
OS/2 on PowerPC.
"