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I realized I had an old apk installed and grabbed the newest thumb-key from the site, and it does indeed have a ME-compatible layout now so I don't need to relearn everything. Not having gesture-based capitalization still irks me though.

Thanks for the post. I had also been using MessagEase for years and was blindsided by the popup and confused how there's almost nothing about it online. So now I'm googling for messagease stuff from the last week and found my way here, I guess this thread is buried and invisible on actual HN.

I jumped over to thumb-key for now and am treating the brain-breakage as just some healthy neuroplasticity exercise since I'm not very serious about mobile typing.

Meditation before bed and going to bed early after taking some melatonin tends to give me more vivid dreams. The wake-back-to-bed technique often works to give me short lucid dreams. I think the trick is that when you wake yourself up in the early morning, you become awake and alert after the early-night deep sleep phase that would otherwise leave you groggy and completely out of it. Then when you go back to sleep you go to lighter REM sleep because your sleep cycle is still running, but are more likely to be alert and recognize it's a dream.

The games from the 00s are pretty much just "that one random game someone released this year", but it's neat how in the 10s they actually start looking different again and often really cutting edge and something you wouldn't expect any pre-1993 game to look like.

Some fun hard cases

  rdacomp/CollapseOS  A Forth operating system for 8-bit computers
  Co-dfns/Co-dfns     A compiler in APL
  Xe/TempleOS         A very special operating system

Some notable open-source games and engines I'd like to see:

  NetHack/NetHack
  angband/angband
  crawl/crawl
  tmewett/BrogueCE
  wesnoth/wesnoth
  freeciv/freeciv
  godotengine/godot
  CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA
  OpenTTD/OpenTTD
  spring/spring
  0ad/0ad
  the-infocom-files/zork1
  s-macke/starflight-reverse
  keendreams/keen
  id-Software/wolf3d
  id-Software/DOOM
  id-Software/Quake
  id-Software/Quake-2
  id-Software/Quake-III-Arena
  id-Software/DOOM-3-BFG
  xu4-engine/u4
  exult/exult
  scummvm/scummvm

What's the deal with the "headline ... in a California newspaper", "Scientists say that mice cannot be made to look like human beings"? Is this referencing some actual thing or did he just make it up?

Looks like there's an unmerged PR on the third-party hnrss project that would add this: https://github.com/hnrss/hnrss/pull/84

> I predict many people will dislike the fact that they'll almost certainly be dead (and in an unrecoverable state, before anyone gets their hopes up)

Cryonics is a thing already.

Apparently it held two screens in RAM, a single 16x32 is only 512 characters.

https://gwcohn.com/tvtypewriter/index.htm

There's Daniel Ingram's stuff, I liked his book and there's a forum at https://www.dharmaoverground.org/ , haven't checked out how cranky it is.

Culadasa's The Mind Illuminated is detailed, non-mystical and seems to have a solid following with an active /r/TheMindIlluminated subreddit. /r/streamentry subreddit seems to also be pretty focused.

Rob Burbea and Shinzen Young have also written a bunch of non-vague, non-mystical stuff and seem to be well regarded.

Don't we? It just looks like a new culture establishing itself instead of something that happens in the circumstances of the collapse. There was the early history of the Roman Republic, High Middle Ages in Europe, the Puritans in America. The Victorian era in England feels like a moral uptick that wasn't an entire new culture or nation.

The article sets up two options, either morality has been in genuine decline for 2000 years or more and we're still somehow standing, or the perceived local decline is an illusion. Isn't there a third option where the decline is real, proceeds at a faster pace than over several millennia, and leads to the collapse of the civilization of the historical observer? The Bronze Age kingdoms collapsed, the Roman Empire collapsed, and people who dig up these funny examples of people bemoaning imminent decline from thousands of years ago don't usually bring up this part or the dark ages that followed.

This exercises the happy path, but otherwise works surprisingly badly for testing. You already know what the game is supposed to be about, so you can't really tell how well the interface communicates things to someone who doesn't, and you more or less automatically play it the way you're "supposed to", so you rarely hit the sorts of buggy or game breaking corner cases testing is supposed to discover.

Sounds made up. Finnish boat-sealing tradition is all about pine tar.

There's some slack with just guessing randomly when you're down to something like three candidates for who someone might be. Some of the definite hints get very obscure and a normal playthrough will probably end up using a bit guesswork.

Try to find your way downstairs while avoiding monsters too dangerous to fight and collect more powerful items. Standard NetHack strategy is that you should try to collect an "Ascension kit" of items and know when to use the tools in it.

Yup, been going with feedly.com since Google Reader shut down.

$75. They're advertising a giveaway of 1000 free copies.

How do the recently discovered rare galaxies that look like they have no dark matter fit in with the idea that instead of clumpy stuff that can end up distributed oddly, we're dealing with a universal physical law? Shouldn't the physical law be the same for all galaxies?

I see people talking about the default mode network in the brain nowadays in relation to mindfulness. As far as I understand it, normally when you're focused on an external task, the default mode network is inactive. When you're not focused on any external task, the default mode network activates and subjectively this feels like daydreaming or mind-wandering.

Mindfulness meditation is a technique where you learn to keep the default mode network inactive while not engaged with any external activity. The resulting subjective state feels quiet (as opposed to constantly occupied with stray thoughts) and somewhat like Csikszentmihalyi's flow.

There's All Things Devours for 1).

http://www.amirrorclear.net/flowers/game/devours/ Working online interpreter link: https://iplayif.com/?story=http://www.amirrorclear.net/flowe...

> E. You are aware that there is considerable scientific writing arguing in support of many kinds of intelligence, no?

There's certainly considerable social demand for this to be true, and Howard Gardner is tirelessly promoting it, but the current expert consensus seems to be against it. Both Stuart Ritchie's _Intelligence: All That Matters_ (ch. 2) and Russell Warne's _In The Know_ (ch. 5) consider the multiple intelligences hypothesis false and have further citations.

Wake-back-to-bed technique, google it. Standard methods of dream recall, dream journal, reality checks during day don't do anything for me. But if I wake up at 3 AM, either with an alarm clock or just psyching myself to do it, stay up for an hour or so and read something to wake my brain up a bit and then go back to bed, there's a good chance I'll have a lucid dream after falling asleep.

I remember a Swedish children's book from the 70s with a theme that imaginary friends are a normal childhood thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfie_and_His_Secret_Friend

Never heard of anyone actually having an imaginary friend, I thought it was some kind of narrative trope, similar to how daydreams might be represented as vivid realistic hallucinations in a movie.

That's why you wrap the function implementations in an #ifdef and instruct the library user to set the corresponding define in exactly one place, like the list maintainer does in his own single header libraries: https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/b42009b3b9d4ca35bc703f5...

Sanjoy Mahajan's The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering (available online, https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-insight-science-and-engin...). Takes a very pragmatic look to doing mathematics, while not pulling many punches on how advanced the mathematics gets. Would have appreciated this a lot, math books are usually split into dry theory where you have to already know math to be able to properly read them and books that are simplified to death for people who are forced to study math and don't want to.

Tim Gowers' Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction is a popular book on doing mathematics. Not a textbook that teaches you mathematics, so wouldn't give this as the only book, but popular "what's the field like" books could be very interesting to a high schooler.

Also, not suitable for the only book, Penrose's The Road to Reality. It gets very advanced and probably can't be fully tackled without additional mathematical education, but it tries to be an honest exposition of the math needed for modern physics from the ground up without explicitly resorting to external knowledge. I would have loved a "this will teach you all of the math if you can get through it" book like this even if I never did manage to get through it.

Not sure how people figured out this counts as the first 3D platformer ever and not the much older I, Robot arcade game (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmvWxG2zvs8). Is it important that the camera has full degrees of freedom instead of being locked on the depth axis?

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20904549

Recommendations seem good for what I checked. One bit of weirdness though, searching for Gödel, Escher, Bach [1] gets me a book by "Agnes F. Vandome", that on googling is some sort of fake book of compiled wikipedia articles, and I need to click on the alternatives to find Hofstadter's book. So it looks like the search system can be successfully spammed with fake titles for reasonably notable books.

[1]: https://nowwhatdoiread.com/?q=gödel%2C+escher%2C+bach

“Rakaste" is the superlative of the Swedish rak, meaning straight. It is not a Finnish word.