skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A technical limitation itself is insufficient, but a lot of art is on purpose limited in order to force focus on certain things.

E.g. black and white photography is often used to emphasise composition and lighting more. Specific palettes. Specific sets of instruments - a classical composition will not usually be for "some random number and set of musicians" but written for or arranged for, say, a quartet or a symphony orchestra. Both visual art and music tends to follow a whole range of rules to match certain styles.

And yes, reducing size is also a choice - the demo scene takes that very seriously for a good reason: it again forces a different focus. A non-size constrained demo category emphasizes cooperation and teams working on different parts, and project management and is a totally different thing than, say, a 4K demo where you have to focus on reducing a single concept to its essence.

A direct size constraint may not be that important for most games (though for some it is: people still develop cartridge games for the Commodore 64 for example), but resolution and palette constraints do act as implicit size constraints too to a great extent.

Well done pixel art is just a form of minimalism in art that focuses on shading and composition and exploiting patterns and how we interpret pictures. Just reducing resolution of a picture almost always produces bad pixel art. E.g. r/pixelart on Reddit includes this rule:

Art must be comprised mostly of pixel art using pixel-level manipulation.
Color reductions, index painting, computer generated, oekaki, aliased
digital painting etc. are not permitted unless they have been cleaned up
by hand afterwards or were posted with the [WIP] tag.

And people there get very picky about this, to the point that some people object to even fairly basic paint application tools (I've argued with people who claimed that a pixel based "spray" tool is not suitable for pixel art, for example, because there's not sufficient thought behind each pixel placement; I don't agree with that, but I do agree with the overall idea that you need to pay attention on a pixel level, and tweak things that does not look right). Taking e.g. a photography and color reducing it and reducing the resolution does not result in good pixel art - it results in pictures that are messy and unclear and that often lose a lot more detail vs. a proper pixel art rendition of the same scene.

Similarly reduced palettes forces much more conscious thinking about composition to make it make sense.

Modern pixel art, like modern chip tunes of course have different motivations from "authentic" art made because the constraints were real constraints of the hardware, but it's really no different from people who e.g. choose to compose for piano even though they could compose for a synth and be free to include sounds no piano can reproduce. We have not entirely abandoned piano music just because we now have more flexible instruments available.
There is 2FA, they just didn't enable it. There's a PIN to drive feature where you have to put a pin number in on the main touchscreen. It also moves to a different location each time so nobody can look at fingerprints.
A Developer’s View of Anti-Extradition Bill Protests in Hong Kong
> Second, blocking cookies without another way to deliver relevant ads significantly reduces publishers’ primary means of funding, which jeopardizes the future of the vibrant web.

Herein lies the issue. Users blocking cookies are trying to avoid being tracked and "seeing relevant ads". Essentially, he is trying to create web standards in order to do the thing that users specifically don't want them to do. Google's business model requires Schuh to twist logic in a manner that makes it seem like it isn't so.
Eh surely RonaldSchleifer comment shouldn't have been killed by flagging.
It requires significant changes to the compiler, so this RAM would not make any difference to existing binaries. This is a really big change in the way computers are structured, so it's no wonder it hasn't taken off before. And this isn't the first attempt; look up computational RAM, IRAM, RADram, smart DRAM, processor-in-memory.
Compared to the US it is. Obviously there are going to be ongoing problems in any large undertaking, but Sweden pays half the cost for healthcare per capita. A 50% discount for equal quality care. Americans like myself are getting absolutely screwed in terms of the cost of healthcare.
I'm not against general metrics, I am against about online stalking that companies do while getting those metrics.
It is still horrendous. You are just getting positive associacions with it. Same way if you delve deep into Exile you think "OMG A Dragon! How huge!" not "damn, that's ugly bunch of pixels"
> if you are not an artist, making good art is simply really hard

And if you are not a programmer, making a good game is really hard.
But you can learn. If you are willing to put in the effort to develop your own sense of the aesthetic, even a small amount of time can result in huge improvements.

You don't need an "art director" and neither does this guy.

If you think your menus are ugly, find some menus that you don't think are ugly and ask yourself what it is about them that makes them not ugly. When you can answer that question with certainty and apply the answer to your own menus, that's a first step towards improvement.

PS: I spent 10 minutes on your game. It's fun.
How many indie darlings have simple but unique and striking styles? AAA-quality can be just as bland and boring as an uninspired indie. This is more about lackluster art direction, which you'll never get from freelancers.
You'd only need to put the NS records in for each domain.
Are you really comparing an object which holds a threat of blood loss, loss of organs and possible death as requiring similar safeguards as a phone?
Is it book name?
Horizontal Pod Autoscaling Based on Custom Istio Metrics (Spring Boot Example)
Workers in Heat Waves Face Dangerous Exposure in the US Southwest
> Just like some western opinion that why Chinese people don't fight their government for democracy and free speech, I really can not understand why HK people don't fight oligarchs for goods prices and living house.

In some HKer's perspective, they detest how the current administration had been in bed with the oligarchs. In their view, gaining universal suffrage (not only 1 person one vote, but a free nomination) would help with that situation.

This problem is not new - it's an old problem that existed in the colonial state. The definition of a colony is to extract wealth for their masters, so colonial administrations and oligarchs work hand in hand.

Even if one could separate that fight between the administration and the oligarch, there are other structural issues for the administration. HK administration, colonial or SAR, is highly dependent on land leases as its source of income. In it's pursuit of being the "most capitalist city", the tax base is very narrow - income tax is very low, no sales tax, etc... So it is not in HK administration's interest to lower housing prices because that would affect its own budget.

And if one were to temporarily cast aside their own views, and look at the incentive a little, there are other political problems - pro-democrats typically controls the legislature (spare this case of disqualifying a few), but they have no hope of becoming part of the executive council, where the Chief Exec heads, and Beijing has control of the nomination. So there's not a lot of incentive to work well together between the legislature and the executive.
Like all other things US military...money.

It allows the Generals to ask for bigger budgets and allows Congress to ask for more money for their States.

For a State there is nothing like having a military base and/or military run projects to boost the coffers.

Edit:

Notwithstanding downvotes, The President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2020 (FY 2020) includes $4.827 billion in gross discretionary funding for the Civil Works program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Article: The Army Corps of Engineers Excels at Wasting Money (https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2...)
I guess the problem is that the defaults will come in several years from now, but when they come they will be frequent.
We have Army National Guard that are often deployed during weather emergencies.
It's possible (and indeed seems very likely) that testosterone and behaviour both affect each other.
Half Life doesn't look like crap. It looks dated. There is a huge gap between the way the OP's games look and how half life looks, because even though the 3D tech was worse and the textures lower res in half life, it had a proper art team behind it. A proper art team is expensive, and he doesn't want to pay for it. Fair enough. But just getting someone to look over the art all together and making it a bit more cohesive would be a huge improvement. The thing is, it seems he's paying different people to do different pieces and just putting it all together without any sense of direction. I think it's alright if you want to pay A to draw this and that, and then when A leaves pay B to draw this and that, but you should have B take a look at the tileset as a whole and ask him to make the pieces look alright together. Because right now it's a huge mess.
Nazis and malware authors are out there using email right now. What are we going to do about it?
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I see what the author is doing as part of the demoscene. Many people enjoy programming in limited environments, learning how to optimize, and pushing it to the limit. No one is actually going to use this in a product; its just art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
> It feels like people are lulling themselves into a false sense of security by making increasingly complex self-consistence schemes via type utilities, but they just shrug when I point out that the foundation of the scheme is still unsound.

I don't agree with this premise. Assembly is an untyped language but you can build things on top of it like Rust or Haskell, or you can write in C and cast everything to a void. I do* agree that validating the types of values is a hard problem in any language and that JSON.parse should be typed as `unknown` these days (although there are also reasons why it should not do that due to casting), but it makes complete sense IMO. JSON.parse could return any valid JSON value. The compiler doesn't know the structure of the string provided beforehand.
This seems like a cop-out to me. “What can I, as one person do? Just don’t bother since the impact is tiny.”

I think people leave out the word “only” in statements like yours. Systemic problems can’t be solved with only individual action but the actions of many individuals can very much set examples, serve as encouragement to others, shift norms, and make the political space for regulated or coordinated action more available.

We should not exempt ourselves from individual action, especially when it is inconvenient, simply because our small change won’t single-handedly solve the whole problem. This goes for browsers, “free” email, privacy, and environmental impact.
The West doesn't get to have a huge population (nor does it need or want one) why should the developing world have one?
> Except without advertising half of the internet collapses.

This is a lie adtech industry tries to spread, but it was never true. Among a top couple of million of websites almost none are funded through adtech, as it doesn't pay much to websites at all. Adtech first and foremost is about making money for advertising companies, on all websites it can convince to join in aggregate, and for a couple of big platforms, but definitely not about supporting websites.
Not at all. The paper is still interesting though.
Not in our case. Our current president is a climate change denial, in favor of reducing protected areas, he's cutting funding to inspections and so on.
A DMZ 'gardening job' that almost sparked a war
Agreed, but weirdly our experience was that three was easier than two. We truely had to let go of the idea that we could do everything the 'right way' and as a result became more relaxed and confident parents as a result.

Anecdotally our third child is the least anxious and most confident out of the three. We were clearer about the stuff that really didn't need sweating over - we had no choice!
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I like the idea of Scarf allot. This solves a very good problem of getting analytics on features that get released. And these insights would certainly help improve the software.

However, please correct me if I'm wrong but is this truly open source. If the developer intends to open-source his software then in-app purchases defeat the entire purpose?

Also, if the developer does want to release his software with the intent to make money, he can simply release a premium version with the added features.

I don't want to sound very harsh but as an open-source developer, this kinda defeats the ethics of what open-source software truly is.

Would love to hear alternative views...
This is incorrect. György Buzsáki‘s work is as fine a place as any to start.
Some site feedback:

It would be cool to see popular packages on the front page. Otherwise it looks like there are zero.

Also, searching then searching again messes with back navigation.
My experience (on macOS, windows 10, and Ubuntu Desktop) is that captchas on Chrome pass seamlessly (frequently without a prompt), and firefox on all three platforms require 3-10 screenfuls of "where's the signal light?" where's-waldo fun and games.
Maglev Heart Could Keep Cardiac Patients Alive
I think a machine which successfully finds a charging point in a changing environment to fill its batteries when needed has already a good simulation of its 'body'.
Yes! People must keep the context of WWII in mind when ever thinking of those bombs. We can’t let the modern era forget the threat of the other side.
What Is Hauntology? By Mark Fisher (2012) [pdf]
People have a hard time admitting in retrospect they wished they didn't have kids because of biological bonding. My life would have INFINITELY less responsibilities and much more money had I not had a child. Are those things worth trading in retrospect? I don't know the answer to that because the toothpaste is already out of the tube. I'm currently middle aged, but if given the opportunity to go back in time and choose to either have kids or not, I probably would have chosen not. It's not because I don't love my kid to the moon and back, but it's a huge responsibility not many people can deal with. It's worth noting this is mindset is exacerbated by being divorced from my child's other parent, and it forces me to have to interact with a formerly abusive partner periodically.
Ask HN: Do you have any penetration testing services you recommend?
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I wouldn't use it. Incremental builds aren't that bad, and I'd have a hard time trusting third party compiled libs enough to include in a release from a new service that hasn't built up trust the way that say a Linux distro has.

While you could assume any maliciousness or security compromise would be caught, as you can see from the rubygems news today this is not instant and it adds another point of failure.
> people will still think your game looks like crap. And those people who don't (I for instance really like SNES games still), will also be satisfied with the art he can create.

I like Spiderweb games, but most SNES games looked better than this. Some NES games looked better than this. You can have cheap, low-res art that is coherent and pleasing to the eye, but this isn't it.
I see, I totally agree! I want to rewrite https://serverjs.io/ at some point, and I'm thinking about what functionality to add. e.g., CORS will probably be a config toggle instead of having to add custom middleware.

But what about things where it is purely an option? There's a slippery slope there IMHO. Database connection? For a server library, no way. Key Value store? Also no way... no, wait, those are used for sessions, now you have to either do no sessions by default, have in-memory sessions which are super tricky (because they "work", until there's tricky production issues) or add Redis/similar connection. Same for rendering templates, I added the 3-4 most common but not others and feels really "meh". It's also A LOT of work to add the top 3-4 options, even without documentation.
The long, complicated history of Baby Shark – and the artist fighting for credit
I'd love to read citations for this; this is a topic of interest to me. I ran barefoot for several years (on pavement and grass; stopped because occasional thorn or glass became too obnoxious) and read various peer-reviewed running injury studies, and never found anything correlating with higher injury rates other than history of past injuries and doing "too much, too soon".
What about "rookie mistakes by code artisans who are making it up as they go along"?
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Concrete is particularly awful, even with decent shoes... but that's what sidewalks generally are and people generally run on sidewalks.

Even asphalt is so much better.
NVidia are bringing out a hardware spreadsheet accelerator card this Fall (mainly for Excel but it'll work with any spreadsheet app). This is one of the example sheets to show off how fast it is.
So I wanted backspace too, but thinking about it, even within the same sentence it would damage the purpose of freewriting which is to stop editing and get words flowing out of your head and into somewhere you can be objective about it later. On a five minute run (my initial one) I found myself running up against the red words a few times as I self-edited what I wanted to say, and it helped me stop that and move forward again. I'm pretty sure I didn't break the sentence barrier those times either, but then, as you can tell, especially from this pernicious example, I'm prone to more lengthy run-on sentences — overloaded and dripping with information in a languid fashion.
I think it depends on the source and the quantity "consumed", dihydrogen monoxide is also harmless in moderate quantities, but extremely dangerous if it's not sourced properly or "overused" or if a person has an exposure longer than 5 min while submerged.
Your search URLs return a JSON instead of HTML. I get this even when I press Enter in a search box.

https://scarf.sh/packages/search/framework
I can't seem to find the statistics, but I've always wondered if there's a secondary peak around ~1-2 years of driving experience.

Hypothesis: at that point you feel comfortable, but you haven't accumulated the full spectrum of experience.

I'd expect the relevant statistic would be accidents per person, by age. But everything seems to normalize per miles-driven (where no such effect is apparent) or against total accident rate.
A list of cc learning ml resources at
https://freeandopenmachinelearning.readthedocs.io/en/latest/...
And
https://freeandopenmachinelearning.readthedocs.io/en/latest/...
It's a premium product, and if I were going to buy a new VR headset right now it'd be the Index, but it's not a generational leap (it's basically a Vive++) and I've lost confidence in Valve to produce such a leap, let alone to bring VR gaming to the mainstream.

I'd love to be proven wrong, because I dislike Oculus. I am simply stating my observation that Valve seems to be in decline.
my current view is that the change will happen to us regardless. we will be forced to respond in some way
The half of the internet that would collapse without ads is the half people aren’t willing to pay for, and that is expensive to keep up. So, what would be left would look more like a library, and a bunch of paid publications and services.

This seems like a net win to me.
Working in an enterprise environment, and currently working probably 8-9 hour days, I think I can shed some light on this.

All hours between 10 and 6 are basically unproductive hours, because they get taken up by useless meetings and interruptions.

Any extra hour I work outside of that time, is worth basically 3 or 4 inside it. So working 10 instead of 8 hours practically triples my output.
Nah, I've been running in Five-fingers for years on pavement. As long as you take your time to ease into it so your body has time to adapt, you'll be fine.
Is selling in-app-purchases really that different than selling a premium version, aside from the granularity?
This somewhat reminds me of the Blitter chip, which first came to my attention in the Amiga 1000:

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

"A blitter is a circuit, sometimes as a coprocessor or a logic block on a microprocessor, dedicated to the rapid movement and modification of data within a computer's memory."
> We can only be sure that we are witnessing the best basketball players in the world who are motivated by money

The best players in the NBA are not just motivated by money. They're motivated to be recognized as one of the best to ever do it.
So the high level monetization model is:

- Free: metrics get sent to the scarf service

- Paid: no metrics get sent to the scarf service

Is that correct?
Thank you, of course - I was wondering if PR was the same PR as in Agile.
Got any good US-based charity recommendations? Both of those seem Euro-centric.
Quantum Physicists Have Successfully Teleported a Qutrit for the First Time
>What's your supply and demand explanation for the following norms?

OK. You can't just assert things and then when someone disagrees challenge them to come up with their own explanation. The null hypothesis is "I don't know".
"There" was near home. Those activities were done with family and friends.
Or put in another way, credit cards can be damaged by wallets and jeans. Apple recommends best ways to care for your credit card. I don't think the Apple document means their card is more susceptible to damage, if anything I imagine its far less so that plastic, but unlike other card companies who don't have to tell customers the obvious like other objects can scratch an object such as a card, apple has to since unlike other companies, apple knows people will immediately try to put it through stress tests because apple x product has x issue gets lots of ad views compared to other companies.
Multiples and the like are more quick rule of thumb estimating techniques and I hope the valuation is driven more by deeper analysis.
I think it depends on whether by the "best" you mean the best potential person, or best current person. At the levels these sports are competed at now, I think natural talent by itself can in no way stand at the top. It takes natural talent and then dedicating a significant portion of your life to cultivating that talent.

So, does the potential for a faster runner exist out there now? Undoubtedly (this is a safe bet, since records are still being broken). Is some street ball player going to walk in and dominate the NBA, or some weekend runner going to storm the Olympics next time? I doubt it.