skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tank crews would probably disagree; Allied tank crews sustained terrible casualties during the invasion of Europe.

And it did little good for morale to know that a German tank would knock out yours and probably kill your crew in the time it would take to fire tree rounds. (Twice to find the correct angle and the third to score a hit).

Strategically, this worked out nicely in WWII due to massive manpower advantage and the Germans’ severe weakening on the Eastern front, but the poor performance of Allied tanks was still a serious strategic blunder.
I played it quite early too (I don't remember if I kickstarted , it or bought it after, but it was long before it was on Steam). Yes, it has become much larger, but its not filler, in my opinion, because the additional content adds additional depth and nuance to the game, characters and the story that unfolds. Much of it can also be ignored, if you so wish, because its based around content that you can construct (eg if you want to ignore the alcohol system, then don't grow hops and brew beer). I suppose you could call that filler, but it exists because if you do want to make use of it, its systems integrate with the games other systems and create interesting stories as it gives the characters more depth.

You're probably right though, I suppose it also made the game much harder to "complete" compared to the early days.
Just?
As a replacement for reminders I've been emailing myself and then using the snooze feature to hide it until later. It works but adds extra friction to creating the reminder and is very clunky.

I'd love it if someone could create a Gmail add-on which gets us closer to the ease of use of Inbox reminders.
>In any other language, if I wanted to write some text on a graphic, I would find a routine to load an image into memory and another to render text into that memory. That's genuinely easy. But in Wolfram's case, I'm apparently just supposed to know that there's something called "GeoGraphics" that does this kind of thing, that the text goes in a Style[] block (what?), and "GeoRange -> World" is how you tell it to create a worldmap as a background. WTF.

How's that different from finding a routine (eg. one called GeoGraphics()), or JSX, or HTML/CSS for that matter?

You still need to know where to look, and you need to find the construct (routine, markup, builtin primitive, whatever) that does what you want.

The whole example is moot.
Hi Tom, nope you've pretty much got the gist of the MVP feature set right there.

This V1 allows you to set up channels, post threads and hierarchical comments, all with (or without) videos attached that you can record through your browser or phone. There's also a "play all" button that allows you to sit back and watch all videos in a thread in succession.

Discussion was an obvious place to start but I'll be looking into other areas next. For example presentation / persuasion - how do you present a deck and convince a remote team in non-real-time? Just blasting an email with an attachment never gets the point across properly.

Hope this sort of explains where my head is at!
As a solo developer on a project which needs flexible payment options (also t-shirts) that's why I need to pick a payment solution that supports paypal besides other methods.

Paddle looks like the service I need on the long run:

https://paddle.com/solutions/saas/
Primordial Abstraction
You do you, I just wish you were more honest in also quoting what was this reaction to & my reasoning for saying that. On the other hand, that may lead you to stop saying nonsense like that in the first place.
Cultural or psychological differences in interpreting facial expressions. It's clearly not despair to me. The mouth is upturned, which indicates smiling.

But to someone who can't easily differentiate upturned from downturned, it might be despair.
but where do people fit in then?
The performance of a website very often depends on how important the site is to their sales. For many companies who aren't selling direct to consumers, a fast website isn't their biggest priority.

One thing that wouldn't surprise me would be to see that the websites for some of the companies mentioned in the article are running on SharePoint. --If tuned properly, it can be quite fast, but like other solutions, it can also feel bloated and slow if it's not prioritized.
If necessary we can strudeliver it to you!
I've been looking for the full paper everywhere in the last years. It doesn't seem to exist online. Maybe in someone's private computer.
So this problem probably requires some fragile and "temporary" complex solution.

Letting paranoid xenophobes roam, recruit and incite violence on Facebook is bad. And its ill effects are already felt, and it has significant potential for doing a lot more harm in the future.

Whereas allowing a quasi-public-forum to be controlled and basically censored by an unaccountable entity (FB) is problematic - especially if said control is co-opted by the very same ideology that in the first place that particular control mechanism was supposed to, well, control.

It feels like the problem is that hate speech and other kinds of populist nonsense is currently the tool that easily leads to more and more authoritarianism, more and more xenophobes and isolationists getting into power. But censorship itself is also a great tool for power consolidation.
You forgot Old Norse/Danish. "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark!"

Couple that with that Saxon and Norse are Germanic. Modern English is an interesting mix in so many ways, I believe it is so pretty because it got all the rough edges polished off by this incredible meld of what made it up.
Not sure about that. I used trustly last week and only had one authentication that was for the actual payment. No login to my bank.

But I might be misremembering.
I believe this gentleman did:
https://twitter.com/DainisKanopa/status/1113351502175834112

I really don't have the resources for the level of conspiracy you are implying :)
>"9.0 Open source doesn’t bring major tech innovation to market". You have to have some balls to say that. Major mathematical libraries used in HPC are OSS.

And most of them are copies of age old Fortran stuff. Linux itself is a UNIX clone. Gnome/KDE started as Windows clones. Where's the "tech innovation" in that?
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I've been to the tank museum in Munster (not to be confused with Münster if you ever decide to go!). Looking up close, comparing the American and German WWII tanks to the Russian ones is absolutely night and day.

The alignment of the panels and the welding on a Tiger tank looks (to an untrained eye) pretty much as good as you could make a mass produced vehicle back then. A T34 by contrast has haphazard misalignments connected by welding that looks like mine did when I was learning in high school.

So you can see with your own eyes that they essentially put the bare minimum of quality in to them.

This is a very interesting talk on the manufacturing efficiency of the US, Russia and Germany in WW2, which drills down into the details of how the factories were organized and the difference in man hours spent on each (which I'll spoil the bottom line of here: US 10k, SU 35-50k, DE 300k).

We've all heard stories about how Russian tanks in certain cases were driven out of factories partially completed straight in to combat, but up until I watched it I hadn't heard of Tiger tanks being rejected by the Wehrmacht because they didn't latest gear stick design. I highly recommend it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6xLMUifbxQ&ab_channel=TheNa...
Liquid.com hits tech unicorn status
Micropayments on the web without users having to create an account. For example paying a few cents for reading a news article, without an account on the news site and without the high fees for a payment processor. (Via Lightning Network)

Example news site: https://yalls.org
Example browser extension for great UX: https://github.com/wbobeirne/joule-extension

Or even nanopayments for single API calls, between the browser and a server or between servers.

Example pay-per-call web service / API: https://lightning.ws (disclaimer: my project, based on another project by me: https://github.com/philippgille/ln-paywall)
I have also discovered this. Haven't logged on to Facebook since new year's eve, I was a very heavy user before that. 4 months in and I haven't missed out on anything IRL.
people don't register on facebook to check out this cool new social network, it's bee quite while since FB was cool. But imagine a situation of great social pressure, like your kindergarten parent group is communicating there
Can't reproduce. Tried stern.de, Firefox 66. Scrolling with keys still works. I tried clicking the search as fast as possible before the permissions dialog comes. Key input still works after dialog appears.
'..those were the times...'

If you weren't around in the days of Senna then you really have missed the best of times.
If the remote ground-based pilot has the capability to take total control authority of the aircraft (which, after the GermanWings incident would seem to be a necessity), then the security implications are massive. Imagine a remote-control attack on an aircraft carrying 800+ passengers...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...
DejaVu format
Anecdotal argument: I rarely sleep as good as I do on trains, so 16h is not a problem - the price and frequent late arrival is.
Train tickets are simply too expensive compared to flights.
Sometimes over 3-4 times.
>Here’s a list of changes and additions that I certainly never needed (or wanted):

A, the classic "features before I came to use the language are nice and dandy, features added after I've learnt it are bad" complain.
Where can I file these complaints? I have looked for this before, but wasn’t able to find out
Whether it's karmic reincarnation or an afterlife, the morality type it generate is the same. Nietzsche seriously need to be taught/explained early so people stop with this "slave" mentality (i'm paraphrasing here).

And maybe more didactic consciouness philosophers could be taught as well, for even in non-materialist theory, monism (that did not need "god hypothesis" unlike most dualism) seems to be mainstream. And perhaps people (esp those interested in psychology, neurosciences and/or IA) could be lured into materialist illusionism (insert maniac laugh here).
That's what I'm stuck with as well. Paddle.com has this covered really well, but they have a long way to go in terms of API quality and breadth.

Stripe has indicated that they're working on it, but no timeline yet: https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/stripe-onboarding-integra...
Transactions that are in violation of the law (evading capital controls, buying illegal goods, money laundering) and are not done in person.

Also, replacing trust in centralized banks with trust in mostly-centralized crypto software developers and mostly-centralized majority of miners.
Yes there is. If you put too many sensors then there is always one in need of repair. And then it becomes dangerous: the pilot and maintainer ignores the alarm, delay replacement, leading slowly to a failure.

This is why the redundancy choices and availability calculations should always be made pondering the maintenance burden.
Maybe, but that's very counter-productive actually. If you want to do ethical stuff FB is a perfect place to try to influence what happens.
There’s also... just sending video files back and forth via SMS, Slack, Email, Facebook, Google Photos, or shared iCloud albums.

But this service is free so that’s a big plus to just give it the old “try”!
> even worse, not exported to the training material of the pilots

According to this article (https://www.vox.com/business-and-finance/2019/3/29/18281270/...), this was a requirement of the 737-MAX while it was being developed. It needed to be sold as pretty much the same as it's predecessors, therefore requiring minimal retraining.

> The training piece is important because a key selling feature of the 737 Max was the idea that since it wasn’t really a new plane, pilots didn’t really need to be retrained for the new equipment. As the New York Times reported, “For many new airplane models, pilots train for hours on giant, multimillion-dollar machines, on-the-ground versions of cockpits that mimic the flying experience and teach them new features” while the experienced 737 Max pilots were allowed light refresher courses that you could do on an iPad.

> That let Boeing get the planes into customers’ hands quickly and cheaply, but evidently at the cost of increasing the possibility of pilots not really knowing how to handle the planes, with dire consequences for everyone involved.
Next optimal choice is calculated on the number of letters that needs to change on the resume.
I find it surprising when a system is considered "redundant" when the _pilot_ is part of redundancy!? If this is an accepted solution then it is very easy to be abused: sensors fail, never mind, pilot has eyes and can deactivate a malfunctioning _whatever_.
Library Genesis provides torrents
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/repository_torrent/
and usenet
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/repository_nzb/
downloads of their full database. They also give away the source code for their user interface
http://libgen.io/libgen/code/
Setting a mirror is trivial if you have a server with sufficient disk space and basic Unix admin skills
Won't happen, alas! I was thinking the same and will keep using it until it stops working...
Because if they didn't pretend that it was the same to fly a 737 and a 737 max, then they would be required to have pilots get a separate type certification for the max, which is costly for airlines and makes the airlines very reluctant to order the max.
Buses in my town back in the 2000's would just turn off their signs when they were doing this.
If deployment was easier in the Elixir world, would you have stuck with it?

Perhaps, but Elixir was a very niche product for me. I'd use it for web apps and that's about it. Even then the ecosystem was fairly immature, and I'd only really want to use it in a setting that played to the strengths of Erlang. One of the big problems with the deployments being a gigantic beast is that there are maybe one or two people who understand the tooling around it. Great when it works, really lousy when it doesn't.

With the other languages being discussed (e.g. Rust, Go, Python, Ruby, Clojure, Kotlin) I've found far broader uses. I'm not going to write TUI/GUI apps nor would I write shared libraries with Elixir. Unless escript support was implemented you simply can't write things that depend on a shebang.

There's no harm in learning it, but the key is in being able to go beyond the hype and evaluate when it's worth using the knowledge you've just acquired.
I’m not that familiar with the current state of affairs in Iran but I’m pretty sure that the freedom of the press there is heavily restricted.
Which is amusing / horrifying because Australia already has good ways to transfer money between bank accounts. BSB/Acct# for normal transfers and BPay for bills.
Even when it finally decomposes through rot or consumption a lot of the carbon is kept out of the atmosphere, ending up in the food chain fed by the organisms that consume it.

No, not a lot. In fact, it’s practically nothing, compared to the mass of trees. Think about it: are you using the mass of 150 adult trees annually for buildings? Are you sequestering much of it in your body? Not even close. Today America consumes less than a half of a single adult tree per capita per year.

The carbon is only sequestered when the trees are alive or when they are buried or sunk. If you don’t bury and only have space for a decade of tree planting, you are at best going to delay the climate change by a decade, which is not nothing, but won’t change much. And, of course, we ignore things like albedo changes due to more forestation which could offset a big part of gain.
> I know this is old-fashioned, but business is business, personal is personal.

People are mixing the personal domain and business all the time. For example: in business meetings, people smile and they tell jokes; also, business people often go out for dinner together.
Yeah, I saw this and got my hopes up, but I've stopped using chrome and won't go back for this, so I'll have to lump it!
Thanks for your reply!

> the major gripes are

Ah, yes, I agree with that at all. You can feel how hard the balancing is from how they kept changing the existing characters, basically, trial-and-error balancing.

> leading to the mess of DaS 2/3

DaS 2 is a good game, if taken on its own merit. Its just that compared to DaS 1, it was a step backwards (certainly in terms of world and level design). DaS 3 I really like. It has a lot of missed opportunities in terms of the world and the world is less interesting because of it (I also largely feel that being able to bonfire teleport from the start is to blame -- in the first one, no teleport, connected level design and scattered merchants meant you had to learn the level layout because you would travel through it a lot), but overall, its a lot more refined than the earlier games in terms of mechanics and controls and the game itself was pretty good. At least, I don't call it a mess. I do like DaS 1 and BB more (maybe even DeS too), but I don't dislike it at all. I do wish for an Armoured Core game though (and Tenchu, although Sekiro scratches that itch for now).

I don't fully agree that the only real progress is in graphics. Yes, there are many uninspired games out now, but there is plenty of progress being made, in my opinion, outside of graphics, certainly in things like branching storylines and just in general games are mechanically more refined (camera and controls of 3D games are now a solved thing, back in the early days of 3D, both were terrible) and certainly if you look beyond the AAA games, there's a lot of creativity (story, gameplay mechanics). But even the shiney graphically fancy 3D games like God of War managed to pull together an experience that is more than just graphics. However, I do agree that many less-inspired AAA titles focus on visuals at the expense of everything else still, I just think there are enough alternative options that I can ignore those games without missing anything and still having more games to play than I have time for.

> it's difficult to find games where player interaction is even a base concept of its design, and thats the primary thing games introduce as a medium!

Agreed, too many games really do suck at this and I agree that this is where games could (eventually will, IMHO) shine compared to other types of entertainment, but they're certainly not there yet.
I don't think that you're and author of parent comment are talking about the same thing. Most of low-quality questions on SO that make you think that author is lazy and unqualified are not about trivia or API bits like that. They're about a medium-level task that could be decomposed into more elementary subtasks without the need to know anything specific about the language or framework - but the author didn't even do that.

Following your example, it wouldn't be a question about formatting a number. It would be a question where the user would ask something along the lines of, "how do I write an app that calculates user's effective tax rate?". If someone is not able to decompose this at least to the level of "take input, process it, calculate it, present output" and then ask questions about each of those individual steps, or linking them together - then, in my opinion, he is stupid. (At least in the field of computer programming.)
The Final Ruling on “The Headington Shark”
They do. It's not pretty, the whole thing is a mess from a lot of engineering aspects, but the basic security principles are solid.
I don’t think it gets much simpler than “open camera app” > “press record” > “press ‘send video’”
During my Farsi studies we tried to read Hafez. It was excruciatingly hard for me, seemingly mostly since the structure of thought was not compatible with mine.

Our teacher interpreted some of the material and she explained that while most households have this book and read from it on occasion, most young people are no longer able to enjoy it on their own.
As an alternative to YouTube I use NewPipe and I'm quite happy with it.
Snobs? I have an XPS after previously being a ThinkPad fan, the XPS was much more expensive.
Actually, international train tickets are also VAT-exempt in many countries.
Here lies Google Inbox, a radical rethink of how email should work
Salted Password Hashing – Doing it Right (2012)
Dual-Boot Linux Manjaro and macOS Mojave on the MacBook Pro
At the very least, your mail client has to ask you for your email password. Might sound like I'm splitting hairs but I don't think most users have a strong sense of why that's different from Facebook doing it. And with wizzy online features crammed into more and more desktop software (seen Photoshop lately?) you can't really fault them for it.
Aren't you being a bit negative here?
A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks (Basics, DeepWalk, and GraphSage)
... although median and percentiles would be different within the Anscombe's quartet.
> Maybe if the banks realize their customers are handing over their credentials in large numbers

Or they might pop a bottle of Champaign over that, in jurisdictions where the bank is by default responsible for all the account abuse risk unless they can prove that the user has shared credentials.
With the train you potentially lose a lot less productive time. Air travel can't be made much nicer since there are too many hard limits. The train however suffers from a lack of investment in fundamentals. A lot of people live in the suburbs today, where the train doesn't stop. Stockholm central station is despite the many renovations not very nice. The trains themselves are getting old. The infrastructure and service isn't what it could be either. And maybe most of all everything is just expensive in Sweden, and the Nordics, these days.

If you could have a slightly faster train with first class airline interior and a matching, not too expensive, hotel on top of the train station it would be a competitive proposal. But while I can appreciate that people like to talk about trains on hacker news the story really is that the future isn't happening in Sweden. Rather we seem to be on a seemingly predictable path following countries like the US and the UK were we are incapable of making long term investments and everything of value is getting expensive.
Emoji have really filled a gap, where words typed on the internet were missing some context of how they are supposed to be read. And nowadays, whether or not I add the eggplant emoji to the end of a whatsapp message can really change how it's interpreted, and gives me less to excuse myself should it come up in court.

But really, anything that removes doubt and clarity from a conversation has got to be a good thing. How many internet arguments have been spared because someone could attach a winky face to show that they were being impish and not to take offence? Obviously, old people hate them, but I can see emoji melding into all forms of language in the future. Or even the global language :thinking-face:
There's a third major benefit to U.2: power delivery. M.2's 3.3V supply is a problem when SSD power gets above about 8W. U.2 provides 12V in addition to 3.3V, and that's really a prerequisite to getting up to the power levels where the thermal dissipation advantage becomes important.

Dual-port support is also a niche benefit that U.2 carries over from SAS.
> Anyone who conducts a business conversation over any medium but snail mail, fax, email or the phone deserves whatever misfortune befalls them.

That's going against progress, just like some people were against electronic communication for business transactions when they were first introduced.

I understand where you are coming from, texts are familiar, but more and more business run solely on messaging platforms and rely on texts to conduct business.