skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rouge Legacy was a very polished and charming game that was released early on in the trend of "rouge lite" games.

I had endless fun playing it back when it was released in 2013.

Here's 5 hours of gameplay to give you a flavor of the game.

https://youtu.be/Cpig7uyouiA
Rock wool works by reducing convection. It's mass is not a major factor in its functionality.

Adobe and stone are things with thermal mass, not insulating fiber thickness.
Dang, Clear Linux boots in one second? How is it ten times faster?
Unfortunately, obesity rates are rising worldwide, including in Australia.
So, Mr It, what's the upside of all this stalking and childmurder? What's your favorite videogame?
What I want Apple to introduce is a multi-user option for the iPad. Then, I'm buying one of them for the family. We just don't want (or need) an iPad per person.
I would to see people start engineering instead of overengineering, being scared of such exposure happening to them.
The only thing I can’t disagree more - it’s not the graduates who write ServiceFactoryBuilder where I work at. Those are guys after 12-15 years, started with bad PHP, now being "Senior Java", but they didn’t learn much since beginning. This is how corporate software looks like.
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And without AGI, there will inevitably (be) a bug in the system that makes him serve only 32,767 years.
WAL - Shared Memory APIs: https://sqlite.org/wal.html

concurrency model of in-browser Wasm: https://medium.com/@quincarter/wasm-is-awsm-and-multi-thread...

Cloudflare Durable Objects: https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/durable-object...
If you're not in Texas, there's such a thing as paying to keep capacity available, and then you don't lose money.

And power plants having individual finances in the first place is a policy choice, not a law of nature.
If I have 1 million in some stock can I go get a 1 million loan from the bank with this as collateral? If so can I reinvest this million in the same stock again and then goto the bank again etc?
edit: studio_seven said it better than I could. You're confused on what the perspective is with videoconferencing. There is no hardware with a camera in the middle of the screen; so you're always "looking away" to some degree.
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I see where you are going with this but you are changing parameters here.
> For starters: loan with a covenant that governs further borrowing and requires you to instruct the lender if your marketable assets fall below a certain value.

You did not say anything like this, you said "What about presenting your brokerage statement as proof of assets to a mortgage banker?" - this is like me showing my bank account balance during speed dating to flex a bit :) Your example would be 1000000% taxed as you are obviously using it as realized gain.

> Next up: loan to heirs.

If you are using real money, loan all you want. If you are using "money" you are telling Uncle Sam you do not have then you pay tax before you borrow that.

> Next up: unsecured loans at preferential rates if you store your securities with the lender. (This is already a thing.)

This is up to the lender... If they want to use my skin color or my gender or my zipcode (all of which they do) they can also use other stuff as well

I get that I am oversimplifying this but surely a system can be put into place that prevents current madness :)
The material costs for adobe are almost certainly close to zero if you live in an area that can benefit from using it.

The labor costs for adobe have become very high, mostly it seems because the descendants of the families that started the amazing adobe brick "factories" no longer want to be dirt farmers.

> can probably beat thermal mass construction.

You have to define what "beat" means. My hundred year old adobe did not rise above 81F as an interior temperature this summer, despite outside highs around 100F. That would be possible (or even lower!) with the technologies you mentioned, but my adobe house did that with no energy utilization at all.
Practically --

I feel hardware technology can improve further to allow under-the-LED-display cameras .... so that we can actually look at both the camera and the screen at the same time.

(There are fingerprint sensors under mobile screens now ...and I think even some front facing cameras are being built in without sacrificing a punch hole / pixels. There is scope to make this better and seamless so we can have multiple cameras if we want behind a typical laptop screen or desktop monitor.)

This would make for a genuine look-at-the-camera video whether we are looking at other attendees in a meeting or reading off our slide notes (teleprompter style).

There would be no need to fake it.

More philosophically --

I don't quite like the normalization of AI tampering with actual videos and photos casually -- on mobile phone cameras or elsewhere. Cameras are supposed to capture reality by default. I know there is already heavy noise reduction, color correction, auto exposure etc ... but no need to use that to justify more tampering with individual facial features and expressions.

Videos are and will be used for recording humans as they are. The capturing of their genuine features and expressions should be valued more. Video should help people bond as people with as genuine body lanuage as possible. Videos will be used as memories of people bygone. Videos will be used as forensic or crime scene evidence.

Let us protect the current state of video capture. All AI enhancements should be marketed separately under a different name, not silently added into existing cameras.
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IMO it may be worth distinguishing between:

1. Diagnosing the "real causes" one level deeper

2. Implementing a "real fix" fix one level deeper

Sometimes they have huge overlap, but the first is much more consistently-desirable.

For example, it might be the most-practical fix is to add some "if this happens just retry" logic, but it would be beneficial to know--and leave a comment--that it occurs because of a race condition.
> and to home owners that house scale batteries are a good idea.

There's a middle ground to exploit for business that I've seen few (although some) examples of in Australia - "neighbourhood" batteries that cover 200 homes or so.

Good for small towns, developments, suburbs, etc - about $1 million (AUD) as I recall, decent economics - work with grid provider to soak charge container sized battery from surrounding solar, feedback on demand, etc.
> It is more shocking macOS is source available.

Nitpick: It's actual Open Source, not Source Available. Not the whole thing, but what code they release is under permissive open source licenses.
On your homepage I would love to see some more medium complexity examples. For example, how would one query the deposit addresses made to the staking deposit contract, only counting addresses that deposited an aggregate of 32ETH or more.
What OP is missing is the role of collateral. It becomes more important the more perilous the borrower is or might be.

Apple borrows for 20 years unsecured at 31 bps above the U.S. [1][2]. That wouldn't contract much if they offered collateral, because the difference in relative risk is modest to the point of immateriality. Similarly, someone with a century of living expenses in marketable securities really only needs to be restricted from blowing their stockpile--other risks are absorbed by that wealth.

TL; DR The rich don't need collateral as much as the middle class and poor. Penalise the use of collateralised loans like that, and you just make collaterised lending go away or become much more expensive.

[1] https://www.bondsupermart.com/bsm/bond-factsheet/US037833AT7...

[2] https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/...
l2tp

mic drop
> Part of the Australian national, state, and local health care system is policy to encourage healthy life styles and to discourage, limit, or ban food additives, tobacco, etc.

Except gambling?
They have a “part 2”
You are paying property tax on that money you are using for that HELOC.

If I bought a house at $300k, I owe $250k and house is now worth $750k the County will be slapping me with $10k/year property taxes whereas before I was paying like $3k. My gains are realized each year via property tax assessments :)
> But to some of us, it and other boomer shooters are evergreen.

Duke Nukem Forever!

https://www.dukenukemforever.com/

(You have reached the Official Duke Nukem Website. You need Flash Player 10 to view this site. Please visit the html version of the site if you cannot use flash on your device.)

Sorry, I meant... Hail to the King of HTML:

https://www.dukenukemforever.com/html/us/
This is the kind of sentencing we need.

Every count of fraud needs to carry a separate time in confinement, and those times need to be added.
> They simply didn't understand this in 1922

The scientists (various disciplines did). They were explicitly ignored by the compact negotiators. John Fleck has written about this quite a bit at https://www.inkstain.net/fleck/
> Ozempic has entered the chat.
I kind of like some of Metaware's high C extensions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41647843

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38938402
But.. health services. But.. utilities. But.. transport. But.. basic goods. But.. writing comments on hacker news. Sure, big business will suffer, but so will everyone else. It's fairly understandable why rolling blackouts are not politically sensible.
You are paying for a complete package that you can fit in your pocket.

This is still at breadboard stage. If you want to put something together for yourself at sub $35 you can. It's just not going to be portable, pretty, or probably even usable. I carry my flipper zero everywhere for a variety of tasks.

The flipper zero isn't doing anything special that you we haven't been able to do for decades with a variety of parts.

* SubGHZ, you need an RF module.

* Bluetooth? yep

* IR, you need IR,

* network, hey WiFi.

* SD card for any kind of storage? yep, another module

* USB anything but charging? Yep, more wires and modules.

But hey, most devices want at least 4 wires (VCC/GND/A FEW SIGNALs), and other devices want more, to handle clocks and timing. And that's only if your thing supports IC2 and you have enough GPIO. Otherwise you need multiplexers.

Any one of these things can be done with less than a dollar in parts. But have fun combining them all into something workable AND can do them all.

But hey, you are paying for the software right?? Come on.
This reminds me a bit of org-babel’s support for running blocks in any language.

I like the idea and the execution. This bit though:

> makedown.sh

> npm install -g ...

> #!/usr/bin/env python

Gives me a bit of whiplash. I get wanting to use npm to install, since 1) lots of people have it installed and 2) it’s reasonably cross-platform and it seems like makedown is as well.

I don’t see a reason for it to be named makedown.sh instead of just makedown, though. Make itself doesn’t depend on sh to my knowledge, and you could have a makedown file with no shell build rules at all.
> Your example would be 1000000% taxed as you are obviously using it as realized gain

How? There is nothing different from the Amex example.

In both cases I'm showing assets held elsewhere as proof that I'm rich. In neither case am I pledging anything. In both cases the letter of the contract requires me to notify the lender of material changes in my financial condition, and in both cases I get a favourable rate--sometimes equal to the pledged asset rate.

> is up to the lender

Yes, and they'd rationally replace secured loans to anyone with unsecured loans to the very rich which automatically accelerate on the borrower's death and carry on as usual. In the end, the behaviour stays the same: the rich let their stock appreciate while they borrow, personally, to fund spending, all the way until they die when the bases step up, they cover the loans and then the heirs get to do the same thing.
Otherwise is a decent language but what makes it difficult is the borrow semantics and lifetimes. Lifetimes are more complicated to get your head around.

But then there's this Arc, Ref, Pinning and what not - how deep is that rabbit hole?
I did the 3 day hike about 8 years ago and I remember the ruins along the way where spectacular mainly due to there being no crowds. Holds a special place in my heart.
Win2k for life.
Thanks for doing this, I had lost track of the drama.
No it's called war, and there's nothing postmodern about it at all actually.

It's really quite antimodern, in fact.
> My gains are realized each year via property tax assessments

This strongly depends on jurisdiction. In many (today I learned, not all) assessed value is explicitly different from market value.
Wow! That sure brings back memories. I've been there twice, 2011 & 2012.
Congratulations. I'm very impressed.
You remember correctly! Here's that thesis code <https://github.com/Keavon/Brush-Nodes>. You can ignore the readme since it doesn't talk about brushes and open the GitHub Pages site (or, I can just link it here: <https://keavon.github.io/Brush-Nodes/>). Then press Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, Ctrl+3, or Ctrl+4 and reload the page after each. Be patient as it takes a couple seconds to load the page once a demo is chosen. That'll load the four brush demos:

- Ctrl+1: dotted stamp roller
- Ctrl+2: bristle brush
- Ctrl+3: diluted ink
- Ctrl+4: ragged solid ink brush

This concept will be reimplemented in Graphite eventually. Maybe as a GSoC project.

The actual thesis write-up is here <https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/2653/> in case you're really interested for some reason.
Having done lots of Minecraft modding a decade ago, it's wonderful to see that the community is still active enough for there to be inside jokes like these.

Given the size of the game, it's not an easy feat to build a Minecraft server in any language. Yet there are seven, in just Rust alone??
We/Australia has a massive focus on early detection of skin cancer due to our overly sunny weather. It's possibly that we detect more cancer and treat it earlier thus the better outcomes?
More than a "yes, it should". While loading chunks you need to take redstone, nature and mobs into account. If you don’t - you need to find them and resolve at runtime with even bigger costs, relying solely on difference between programming languages in performance.
There's a book or two in the backstory of why neither Dentistry nor Mental Health get the same inclusion in traditional health systems :(
Ask HN: Tips for hacking a TV?
I've got a spare television lying around (specifically, a Samsung UN24H4500), and I thought it'd be fun to take a crack at seeing what I can do with it. The only hitch is that I've never really done any hardware hacking before, so I don't really know where to start!

Any tips and pointers would be much appreciated, in terms of common ways to search for and exploit vulnerabilities, or the exploitation of other televisions. Alternatively, if this is an absolute fool's errand, and the whole thing is locked down tighter than Fort Knox, a firm warning that this is not a good thing to dick around with over a weekend would also be appreciated.
Boring variety, tight duopoly. Go to one and you can hit the other with a rock
I'm never sure how HN feels about links, but this is better, and includes a conversation with the programmer: https://restofworld.org/2021/farmbank-turkey-scam-jail-time/
To be clear, it looks like the health stat term "overweight" means anything greater than "normal", which includes obese.

Quick Google search:

> what percent of australians are overweight?

First hit:

> Over the last decade, the proportion of adults who were overweight or obese has increased from 62.8% in 2011–12 to 65.8% in 2022.

Source: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/health-conditions-a....

US NIH says: 73.1% are overweight (includes obese). Ref: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti...

Sure, 73.1% > 65.8%, but Australia is still plenty overweight. Both are appalling.
fscanf (STDIN, "%d", &a);

the program goes beserk as soon as the first non-number is read out of standard input.

in both cases, you need error checking (which you "know about").
> Still cannot see how home equity can be compared to borrowing against securities

Home equity: borrow money with the home used as collateral - if you default on the loan the bank takes your house to make themselves whole again.

Borrow against securities: borrow money with the securities used as collateral - if you default on the loan the bank takes your securities to make themselves whole again.

The fact that the house also comes with an attached "ownership tax" that the securities do not include does not change the fact that it is the exact same type of "borrowing".
No, that's not the case and this type of attitude is exactly what I mean
Adtech is cyber warfare. Used to manipulate, control, and feed our minds with things that not even we understand what they're up to. There is no argument for uBlock being disabled/removed.

Fight for an internet where we're not exploited.
Here's an open access article on the same topic: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3654777.3676394
thanks for sharing! will take a look :)
_("some text") ... aka gettext and friends.
very cool product page!
Graphite is built to be a programmatic data processing pipeline that takes the form of a render engine and WYSIWYG editor. You'll be able to write custom code for every part of the system.

And because it's time for a fresh start. Sometimes you can't turn around a heavy ship, and that ship doesn't want to be turned around. It's easy to write a sentence like that, but once you actually think about it, how does an outsider with a good idea and a capability to execute on it somehow approach an existing project and decide to "take it over"? That would be neither viable nor would it yield a desirable outcome. We're building something fundamentally different from Inkscape that just so happens to eclipse it.
I feel it is fruitless to continue this conversation as it doesn't seem that we may find agreement, but if you insist..

(In the following paragraph "you" is mostly figurative, not personal)

Yes, I let a lot of anger and emotion into the reply to the bunch of diatribes which, themselves, were unsubstantiated attempts at gaslighting, full of derogatory rhetoric. This - hooking up on provocation - I consider a mistake on my part. However, if we omit my venting (the posts I was replying to would be reduced to zero without it), every point I made stands true, as it was observable reality at the time. Its "incoherence" is just a reflection on the described phenomena. It is not my fault that nothing in the "pandemic response" had any rhyme or reason. No matter how many times you repeat your aposteriori-constructed "presentation" which you wish to be true. That you don't care or dare to engage with my points makes me even more confident that they are valid and makes me care even less about what you may think of me. In fact, I wear "not normal" and "unhinged" badges from you with pride. And you wouldn't want to hear me speaking about it all in my mother-tongue, which you (personally) and me are likely to share - now, that would be "unhinged", but surely "coherent". Unfortunately I'm not equally mastered in English, which makes it another mistake to pick fights with local purveyors of "truth". I've been one of your political/cultural/intellectual "tribe" only few years ago, but your actions and words made me not able to associate with it forever anymore, under any circumstances. I invite you (personally) to recall the relevant saying about not wanting to do certain private business on the same field.

Putting a lid on it now, as I'm, probably, walking on the edge of HN posting guidelines, if not over it yet. There's certainly no "intellectual curiosity" or "good faith" expressed here by any participants, myself included.
Can you explain the bit about the coalition? Is that a formal concept in Canadian politics? Or are you just saying that without that support he will not get reelected?
If the server is configured to not require server auth.
> Can you sell your house back and forth to your spouse every year to multiply the exemption?

If you try you'll likely find yourself being charged with tax evasion once the IRS recognizes what you are doing.
The entire affair around having to buy twitter.
Between Wordpress's bullshit and capitalist bullshit like Google doing things like this, I'm honestly just in utter shock at what the internet actually _is_ now adays.

What a dystopia.
Why do people on HN think the US is special about (quantity of) driving? All wealthy non-microstate nations are driving nations. And, they drive a lot. That includes Australia.
Side question - I have always wondered how a Linux system is configured at the lowest level?

Let's take example of network. There's IP address, gateway, DNS, routes etc. Depending on distribution we might see something like netplan reading config files and then calling ABI functions?

Or Linux kernel directly also reads some config files? Probably not...
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What they mean is this:

struct Foo {
int a;
float b;
std::string c;
};

Foo foo;
std::cout << foo;

with no extra code. It's called reflection, where the compiler can generate good-enough code to generate a character-stream serialization of an object without any human intervention.
Possibly Offtopic ...

I wanted Udemy app to be available for smart TV platforms like FireTV stick or SamsungTV.

Udemy makes an android and ios app but not for TVs.

Teachable is another online learning platform that ignores Android altogether and makes only an ios app.

LMS vendors like Docebo that have become very popular (AWS Skill Builder, Databricks academy, etc) have very poor mobile support.

Wonder if there is a way to make it work using tools like these. Any pointers in that direction would be appreciated.
I think it depends on the problem domain. I have to implement a lot of throwaway ideas quickly, and LLMs are really useful there.

For instance, say I wanted to plot a complicated Matplotlib diagram. It takes me 10+ minutes plus many context switches to get the syntax right (I don't use Matplotlib enough to have all the args at the tip of my fingers). Also I don't know everything Matplotlib is able to do -- I haven't read the entire docs. Fortunately LLMs have and they get me to the right ballpark in 10-20 seconds. I usually want to try maybe 10-15 plots before settling on something. LLMs definitely do get me there much faster.

I think if you have a clear idea of what you want to do, and how to do it, then maybe the time savings are not compelling. But if you're in space where you're ideating and groping at an idea, LLMs can significantly cut down the iteration time and even open up new channels of inquiry that you didn't know existed.

They're primarily generative assistants. Using them to implement ideas in production is probably a secondary use.
No, I'm not confused at all. As I pointed out, the standard for 100 years: if you want eye contact, you look into the camera lens. The only thing that's changed recently is the availability of a direct, instantaneous monitor to distract us.

Furthermore, if this corrects only someone who's looking directly at the screen, it'd be tolerable. But does it also correct eyes looking at a keyboard, eyes looking at a smartphone screen, eyes looking at a wayward toddler? That's worse.

Also... ten cents per minute? That's highway robbery!
There are tons. There are mods that rewrite graphics rendering, chunk loading, multi-threading, ...
> You never even noticed

I have seen three cameras in use in nearly a decade. They were all in interviews. I'm not avoiding opportunities, either. Legitimately 4+ hours a day

Might be fair to say not many cared to see/be seen
There is usually a margin requirement (25 to 75% depending on type of equity). And yes, you can.