skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was about to say that, how come no one mentions Birthright here?

The usual D&D scenario might not focus too much on this but as you level you you can have something like that. Almost all high level campaigns I DMed would eventually see the characters form a retinue, groups, organizations (like the harpers). A lot of the novels also have this context for the powerful characters, so there's plenty of content out there where for you to be inspired.
Exactly. But my concern is that this is not any stronger/better than what Prolly trees already offer, which is why I'm disappointed that they are mentioned under "related work", but not discussed/compared in more detail.
Microsoft plans to kill kernel-level anti-cheat
Maybe between the two of you, you can tell me why my Alexa is telling me there’s no rain today, but it’s raining right now.
When I was a kid learning pascal, I used beep() debugging (similar to printf debugging)
Does minifying make any difference if you're gzip-ing it in-flight anyway?

Edit: I mean, in the real world. Obviously in their example gzip does pretty much nothing since there's so little content, which leave very little room for compression.
"... who's wearing a MAGA hat and has a vacation home in Russia"
> Being efficient at destroying the planet is NOT success

For some businesses being efficient means there is a side-effect of destroying the planet. For others it's causing customers/employees long-term health effects like cancer. Many industries that are considered highly profitable have these types of things -- think pharmaceuticals (legal or not), lending, gambling.

"Success" in a business generally means being profitable. Usually this requires being "efficient" but being efficient isn't the goal. Neither is "Net good for society/humanity at large" -- at least not the main one, taking priority over being profitable.
From [1] The story of PING:

ping goodhost | sed -e 's/.*/ping/' | vocoder

He wired the vocoder's output into his office stereo and turned up the volume as loud as he could stand. The computer sat there shouting "Ping, ping, ping..." once a second, and he wandered through the building wiggling Ethernet connectors until the sound stopped. And that's how he found the intermittent failure.

[1] <https://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/ping.html>
> No one knows what “plate mail” is supposed to be.

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

It's literally the first search result.
No thanks? If the company is downtrending, and I as an engineer see options available... without a clear path of moving up and forward in the current company, I'll be looking. That's it. Objectively its the best thing to do as an individual, and we all know no company shows loyalty anymore. Your job is always one penny pincher away from being cut or shipped off to a low cost employment center, e.g. India.
Losing a $600 ball (or whatever the cost is) is better than losing a man.
Except when they are. No camera samples points, almost all are closer to the little squares model.
Ah.

You're right, of course.

But I guess I'm assuming that 100W is an ideal figure based on fully-charged cells of ~3.7v instead of a constant 100W, since that's the normal (if somewhat carpetbagging-esque) way to describe things in marketing world. This assumption points to 6s as staying below 5a.

At 3V per cell and 100W output, it takes 7s to stay below 5A. (7S little weird, and even chonkier, but not that weird.)
Certainly does! We’ve had expert systems and various AI techniques for decades that weren’t efficient enough to run even though theoretically they would yield answers.

And even though solutions to many such problems were in the NP or NP-hard categories it didn’t mean that we couldn’t get useful results.

But it still gave us better results by applying what we know about search strategies and reinforcement to provide guidance and heuristics. Even Alpha didn’t use the most general algorithms and throw hardware at the problem. Still took quite a lot of specialized software and methods to fine-tune the overall system to produce the results we want.
Inflammation May Be the Root of Our Maladies
https://archive.ph/74kNv

Related:

Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19742188

Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26837926

Why Does Inflammation Seem to Underlie All Sickness? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21298227
If you don't think Linux is more novel than cryptocurrency, that is a less a abdication of Linux and more a condemnation of your attention span.
Yes, I inadvertently omitted "monthly." $~100 would have been the minimum monthly cost.

The one-time purchase price of all the hardware was north of $200 with all the sensors and things.
>> So, never write documentation?
>
> Read the phrase again, with a slightly different word in place

I spent way too many years working at an Agile shop that had been doing Agile for a very long time. (This is me saying "This place definitely wasn't Doing Agile Wrong.".)

At that place, "Prefer working software over comprehensive documentation" ended up actually meaning "Do not write documentation. Go speak verbally to the SME for that thing or section of code if you ever have questions. Documentation maintenance is a cost that we never have time to pay. Ditto for code comments... all code MUST be self-documenting.".

It -uh- didn't work out so well.

> You’ve not been around much contract consultancy work then?

Honestly? IME, this is about the ONLY environment where the Agile stuff makes sense. It's just such a very, very, very poor fit for long-running projects that require continuous work that may extend for decades.
Hm. I asked a chatbot to compare and contrast the views held by goldilocks and little red riding hood on the concept of talking animals. It did a credible job!

Try this: It would be fun to hear what red riding hood and goldilocks thought about anthropomorphic animals
There's a lot of value in the entire product team understanding the customer/user.

My interpretation of the piece so far is that it's suggesting that leaders think about their role wrt to this as like the party host, who figures out how to facilitate socializing by each individual, to make the party successful. Rather than as the chess master, who keeps everything to themself in their head (and there's a lot of pawns).

I'll have to mull that over, but I do have plenty of anecdotes that would seem to support that.
That's a highly controversial claim that would need a whole host of published peer-reviewed research papers to support it. Physics-based simulations (initial state input, then evolve according to physics applied to grids) have improved but not really because of smaller grids, but rather by running several dozen different models and then providing the average (and the degree of convergence) as the forecast.

Notably forecast skill is quantifiable, so we'd need to see a whole lot of forecast predictions using what is essentially the stochastic modelling (historical data) approach. Given the climate is steadily warming with all that implies in terms of water vapor feedback etc., it's reasonable to assume that historical data isn't that great a guide to future behavior, e.g. when you start having 'once every 500 year' floods every decade, that means the past is not a good guide to the future.
Anyone find a recording? Most things I prefer in prose, but Fry's words suffer badly without his particular delivery.
If I am, then it follows that Bill Gates is the only hamster in the world.
So ChatGPT has a cutoff date on the stuff it can talk about. This predicting weather sounds like ChatGPT being able to predict next week's news from which it has been trained on. I can see how it can probably predict some stuff like Argentina winning a football match scheduled for next week when played against India given India sucks at football. But can it really give any useful predictions? Like can it predict things which are not public? Like who will Joe Rogan interview in 2 weeks? Or what would be the list of companies in YCs next batch?
It sounds like advice I've given to men serving as the Best Man and women serving as the Maid/Matron of Honor at a wedding. Your job isn't just ceremonial. It is to make sure that if anything unexpected comes up, you solve it in such a way that the newlyweds don't even know it happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_of_Italy

Although FdI rejects the "neo-fascist" label, it has been applied due to the party's history dating back to the Italian Social Movement, its far-right ties, its appeal to neo-fascist themes on social media like Facebook, and some party leaders' nostalgia for Italian fascism, including Roman salutes. Some party members have celebrated Benito Mussolini, with fascist memorabilia in some local offices. Some members of the Mussolini family have run for FdI, such as Rachele Mussolini, granddaughter of Mussolini, for the City Council of Rome, and Caio Giulio Cesare Mussolini, great-grandson of Mussolini, for the 2019 European Parliament election.

Very cool /s

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

According to Expo, it is generally agreed that the Sweden Democrats have never been a neo-Nazi party, although some of the SD's early members and founders had previously been connected with Swedish fascist and white nationalist groups. A study by Expo documented that around nine of the original 30 people who played a role in founding the SD had direct associations to known Nordic fascist organisations such as the New Swedish Movement and the neo-Nazi Nordiska rikspartiet, although most of these members were no longer active within the party by the mid-1990s. The party's first auditor, Gustaf Ekström, was a Waffen-SS veteran and had been a member of the national socialist party Svensk Socialistisk Samling in the 1940s. The SD's first chairman Anders Klarström and deputy board members and party co-founders Fritz Håkansson and Sven Davidson had all been active in the Nordic Realm Party. Klarström later elaborated he had briefly been part of the NRP as a teenager before distancing himself from it by the time he became SD leader. The SD's logo from the 1990s until 2006 was a version of the torch used by the British National Front. Political historian Duncan McDonnell has argued that it is disputed as to whether the SD was explicitly founded to be a neo-fascist movement, but it was widely known to publicly align itself with extreme fringe politics and faced criticism in the late 1980s and early 1990s for attracting skinhead gangs to its public events.

'Only' 30% of the original SD were fascists or neo-Nazis. My bad /s

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"What you decry as the rise of fascism is really just the decline in persuasiveness of this tired rhetoric."

Sigh.
I mean, objectively yes I do think Ragathiel is better than Bjorn’er because there is actual lore, thought, and consistency there. [0]

Look by all means, if you want to bring your own deity or $WHATEVER to a table I don't think most reasonable DMs and players would even bat an eye but you'll absolutely be expected to put some degree of effort into this beyond just showing up unprepared and cooking shit up on the fly.

[0]: https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Ragathiel
I recommend a video by Joe Scott[1] that explores this What If scenario. He created renders showing what rings may look like from Earth and from Space. He also went into details such as how seasons may have been impacted, or how the night sky wouldn't be as dark because of the sun's reflections.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUztyRYQ5iU
iOS and iPadOS 18: The MacStories Review
A panopticon is not the ideal state of society. Privacy is an essential human right.
I definitely chain things like "make; say all done", then crank the volume and go make a snack. But that's probably not what you were referring to.
I share your frustration, personally. But unfortunately Git is more user-unfriendly than it needs to be, and doing things the proper way tends to get you into a rabbithole.

Like merging main back into your feature branch: just rebase. But then you often need to re-do conflict resolution. You have git-rerere but, eh, it’s not discoverable at all. But let’s say you get over that hurdle. Now the next obstacle is the “never rewrite shared history”. And if you’re in a “corporate” environment chances are that you publicize your branch when you make a PR. And it can take a few days to get approval.

Now I care. But sometimes I have doubts about whether the caring is well-founded. Exactly because sometimes people around me seem to care not one bit.
There are many things which could be done. I think ideologically it makes sense that if you want to own land in a country you need to be a citizen of that country. You need “skin in the game” so to speak, if you want to enjoy owning property in a location you need to make a commitment to that nation — the good parts and the bad parts.
The letter makes points that the trademark is already abandoned. I'm not familiar with trademark laws, but if the trademark is already abandoned, why the need for the letter?
Doom on a modified rotary phone
I can confirm that all of this checks out except for the chemical "resonance" in the cones in the retina. It is fascinatingly complex how the molecules are tuned to selectively absorb energy in particular bands of the visible spectrum. Whether one would call this resonance or not will hinge on the definition (fwiw, the definition of resonance in physics can be exceedingly broad).
Part time remote it's more like £10-15k.

The point is so you don't waste your time because you've got no idea about strategy and end up building things with no real potential.

It's easy to waste multiple years on side projects that are fundamentally flawed from the start.

Of course an MBA is no guarantee of success, but why do we bother with any education? Hopefully to learn skills and make better decisions.

It's funny how few people here would say a CS degree is a waste of time, but apparently studying business is.

It seems to be some special kind of hubris many programmers have. They're the "clever ones" because they do the building, and sales, marketing, strategy, etc is all so easy or irrelevant it's not worth studying.

Still, ignorance is bliss. You don't know what you don't know.
> Wow, what can a Mac auto-update do that is worse than Windows blocking your screen for 10 minutes

Rename random internal user accounts without informing the user, breaking many third-party package managers with an overnight upgrade? https://determinate.systems/posts/nix-support-for-macos-sequ...

Oh, or it could depreciate an entire class of software you may-or-may-not use without any opportunity for replacement besides downgrading your Mac? https://support.apple.com/en-us/103076
Except the point around forgetting some of the long term improvement projects the rest are true anytime.
Microsoft being Microsoft. Of course they have to say they're going to do more. The reality is when you offer essentially infinite backwards compatibility, you attract companies that have zero desire to invest in their digital infrastructure and software.

Put another way, Microsoft seems happy to sell people the rope they use to inadvertently hang themselves with. Software is infrastructure, and safe and correctly maintained infrastructure is expensive. Corporations are externalizing machines, so we all bear the cost of poorly made software. Cybersecurity as an industry would be 90% smaller if software development wasn't "move fast and break things" and more "let's get this 100% right, formally verify what we can, test it for months and then release it."

Anyone who thinks Microsoft is anything but entirely complicit in making the world a significantly less secure place is either woefully ignorant or a fool.
Absolutely, I think this is amplified by overall experience of any given dev using AI assisted dev. I think for someone in, or just out of school it will definitely hinder the learning experience. On the flip side, I know people with decades of dev experience that are able to much more quickly dig in to something new and become productive, partly because they can often spot the wrong parts before even trying it.

I'm not sure how bad/good the differences are in terms of getting bitten. I do think it will definitely hinder learning if you don't actually try to understand what you're doing, which I know a lot of devs will do. Not that it's entirely bad, I think there is room for devs who are just pushing out tickets in some environments, and others that care far more about the craft of software development. If it were left completely to the former, everything would eventually fall apart for lack of disciplined approach. If it were completely the latter, then every project would be on its third rewrite and second language before ever launching. I'm more of the latter, but pragmatic with age and experience.
Blockchain scalability while keeping decentralization is now a solved problem, you can research how sharding is implemented in cryptocurrencies such as XTZ or EGLD, or read this rationale [0] for terabyte blocks in Bitcoin Cash. Why do blockchains such as BTC or ETH refuse to scale on-chain then? That's a separate debate, but I believe there are vested interests in them not scaling.

Regarding volatility I agree that it's currently an issue, but not an insurmountable problem in my opinion:

1. Payment gateways can offer automatic asset conversion to minimize volatility risk for payment takers. This means I could pay in whichever cryptocurrency the payment gateway would take and the receiver would get whatever currency they have set up in their account. They might want to keep some currencies and convert others, so the payment gateway could offer an option to decide that, and in which amounts (e.g. "keep 10% of each BTC payment, convert the rest to USD").

2. Price volatility should reduce as a cryptocurrency is more widely used. In the alternate universe where BTC scaled to be larger than all credit card networks combined its price could be more stable than many fiat currencies.

[0] https://blog.vermorel.com/journal/2017/12/17/terabyte-blocks...
Why are you personally attacking me?
True, hence my comment pertains more to perceptions and judgements than actual facts - I don’t know this person or their family. Just that the system is working as it should by treating every situation with a healthy degree of suspicion.

After all - adults can be manipulative creatures too.
Assuming you hired good players.
The whole strawman/dichotomy you see with Agile and Waterfall boils down to needing both flexibility and vision for large projects, and each fails at one of these.
Show HN: I made an open playground for you to try my dev agent
While I develop this technology, I wanted to have a fun and easy way to share use cases and demo prototypes. Any feedback is welcome!
The same amount of nutrients can be had from plants with lower nutrient density. One simply has to consume more of the plants.
Xcode has this functionality. You can attach a system sound to a breakpoint. I used it exactly once when I was trying to determine if two events always happened in the same order and were always equally spaced in time. It worked well but drives you sort of mad after a while.
The greatest technology humans have invented and the one that currently needs most investment is bureaucratic collective action.
I keep waiting for someone to integrate data from NEON
Something similar happened to flow charts. They get unreadable after a few tens of LOC, but the managers required them. So people dutifully shipped tons of paper upstairs, and nobody ever read them. Then they were drawn after the source was written, instead of before. Then a computer program generated them straight from the source code. Then they stopped printing them, storing them on disk instead. Then the flow chart generator broke, and nobody noticed the write-only documentation was missing. Finally, some manager got the genius idea to speed up the process by not requiring flow charts anymore.
I used to play with a guy whose character was a Paladin of the God of hardtack, and before he used his Paladin skills he would in real life take out a plain white cracker and eat it.
I'd imagine people using MacOS are well familiar with in-desktop ads, random news articles popping up in your task bar, and notifications that are literally indistinguishable from marketing.
It could be useful but it would probably be very annoying and disharmonious unless it's very well designed. Would be cool and potentially very useful if somebody incorporated it in a good way.
At least regarding tailwindcss, it checks your code to filter out unused css classes. So it is recommended to have full class names in the code instead of constructing them by concatenating strings. So if you have a variable `buttonColor` that can be `red` or `blue` it is better to do something like

switch(buttonColor) {
'red': return 'button-red';
'blue': return 'button-blue';
}

over

return 'button-' + buttonColor;
Thanks for the link! When it is well done comedy often covers something more profound and summarizes it in an accessible and more memorable manner just like the video you are talking about.

"The world is fucked, and you cannot un-fuck it."

"You will die one day just as confused as you are now."

"Everything you think you need to do was done before you and will be done after you."

"Whether you are fat or thin haters will hate."

"Nothing really matters."

There are some really deep insights in all of those thoughts, thanks for sharing.

PS: this remembers me of a sketch about giraffes being an animal created by a gay friend of the comedian, after the sketch I learned that giraffes engage in male-male acts more often than male-female acts and got mindblown. They have been called "especially gay" for this fact.
As a fellow engineering manager -- I 100% agree. The more your engineers know as much as possible about the customers, the more they will code in the right direction just be understanding.
I think the main issue is consolidation in many industries. Companies get big and keep getting richer and bigger. They gobble up smaller companies to grow and often competitors too. They milk the industries dry and stiffle innovation. You get these poor run and bloated organizations as a result.
Later edition: https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Armor#content

There is Scale mail, Splint, Half-Plate and Plate...

Which is quite range of different things that are mostly same concept, but to different degrees so it does get rather confusing when looking for real world examples.
Hm, while D&D borrowed a lot of the trappings (and creatures) from Tolkien, I think Middle Earth is all about birthrights and kings and noble (elven or "old human") bloodlines. Tolkien is all about the legacy of your blood, ancient prophecies fulfilled that have to do with birthrights, vassals and fealty and whatnot... and I believe none of this plays an important part (or at all) in classic D&D.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oryIMNVtto

Isn't this balloon video shared by openai? How is this not counted? For others I don't have evidences. But this balloon video case is enough to cast the doubts.
Yes! I wish there were better tools for getting sound out of the terminal.

I got bored waiting for long running scripts to finish one day and wrote this bash one liner.

Now I can run a command and put a pipe and the zzz alias on the end and it will tell me when it’s finished.

> alias zzz='echo "zuhg zuhg\n" "work work\n" "lowk taar\n" "jobs done\n" "sawobu\n" "dabu\n" "i can do that\n" "be happy to\n" "OK\n" "no time for play\n" "my life for the horde\n" "what you want?\n" "master?\n" "dabu\n" "for the horde\n" "okie dokie\n" "hragh\n" "something need doing?\n" "ready to work" | shuf -n 1 | say -vRocko'
No, there are two consumers, the baseline is two units of fossil energy. The clean energy you're paying for is still being used by someone in lieu of more fossil energy. It doesn't just disappear.