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Many thanks for keeping these games alive for newer generations.

A few of my favorite ones are there.

- Ace

- Ace of the Deep

- Battle Chess

- Spitfire

- Space Quest

- Laser Squad

- Last Ninja

- Loom

- Commander Keen series

- Game Over

- F-15 Strike Eagle

- Fallout
> I think the whole propaganda war is idiotic. Let people see what's happening on both sides with complete context and judge for themselves. Real life is not full of Hollywood heroes and villains, it's invariably a million shades of gray. Debate and discussion these issues is healthy and productive for everybody. Most ironically, I suspect people would ultimately come to the same conclusion even with honest context. So why lie?

Well, which conclusion do you think they would come to?

In general, I agree with you that the media should strive to give an accurate impression of the truth and let the public form their own opinion. But this is a really gut-wrenching position to take sometimes, because the it's so clear that public opinion isn't capable of nuances like supporting a cause without supporting all the tactics of its supporters. Just as life is not full of Hollywood heroes and villains, it doesn't have Hollywood endings either. The good guys don't always win, and often the good guys don't win because the bad guys are willing to lie, and ambguity makes the good guys indecisive.
My response to that would be in a lot of ways car ownership is already cost-prohibitive after insurance, gas, maintenance and parking to a not-insignificant part of the population, and indeed these people do already primarily use public transit — not so much out of convenience but necessity. Should our regulations accept this as a necessary evil that those who today can’t already afford a car must rely on subpar second-class transit? If the vast majority of people used public transit as their primarily form of transit, and we dedicated as much resources to it as we do to our roads, it would only get better for everyone.

If we could entice people to get out of their cars and politicians to drastically increase public investment in transit, then yes, congestion pricing wouldn’t be necessary at all — but in general that hasn’t been the case, and nothing in recent history points to this paradigm shift happening on its own.

I believe this issue is in many ways one of prioritization and balance, and right now the status quo is already cutting off some of the most vulnerable demographics from this “shared public resource.”
There really isn't a good one.

For heuristics(non ML) based stuff you could try BoofCV which is written in Java, so for Python there is a wrapper https://pypi.org/project/PyBoof/

http://boofcv.org/index.php?title=Performance:OpenCV:BoofCV
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Living in the Seattle area, I like not having to drive out to Costco weekly or even monthly and can have a mostly car free life using amazon to provide what we can’t get from the QFC or Safeway down the street.

Of course, if our family ever gets another kid, doing the Costco thing might be unavoidable.
The whole "proxy for race" thing is such a mess.

The original problem was that racists were not just taking race into account but were disproportionately penalizing certain races. They would literally just refuse to do business with black people. And then once that was made illegal, they would refuse to do business with people from black neighborhoods (redlining), i.e. use location as a proxy for race so they could continue to refuse to do business with black people under that pretext.

Normal Bayesian statistics doesn't do that because it's missing the actually racist piece of it, which is giving disproportionate weight to race (or something that correlates with race) so that you refuse disproportionately many people of a particular race for no legitimate reason.

The unfairness never came from taking into account some factor that correlates with race, or even race itself to the extent that it actually correlates with outcomes. It came from using a factor to deny service even though it didn't correlate with outcomes, or if it did then still not proportionately to the huge negative weight assigned to it. It came from giving race, or a proxy for race, disproportionate weight. Giving it proportionate weight isn't unfair, it's the only thing that is fair.
This is a good example of Coase's "The Nature of the Firm" [1] as applied to services.

(The question, though, is why the three badly-performing services aren't replaced.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm
> I don't know how to write a shell script on a host computer that launches Windows 10 and runs commands with an MSYS2 Mingw64 shell.

Launching a VM via shell script is trivial. And you can install OpenSSH on Windows 10: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH
Is the Equal Sign Overrated?
I work in IT and I absolutely loathe Android updates, every time I update my phone the update will break something, or at least the interface for something I use frequently will change again, I absolutely hate it. I still install them because it's impossible to get just the security patches without the rest, but if I could I would go back to the OS my phone shipped with in a heartbeat.
Dashboard doesn't even show Vulkan support across devices, most likely because beyond Samsung and Google almost no one else cares to support it, hence why now starting with Android 10 it is a required API for all OEMs.

Thing is, many of them are still happily producing Android 5 and 6 devices.
"People from different backgrounds approach problems from different angles—that much should be blindingly obvious."
It's not obvious and in my experience is nonsense when it comes to the workplace, it doesn't matter what color your skin is or where you grew up, if you're at company x it's because you fit through the same sieve and have the social awareness to shut up and conform. I have both observed and learned the hard way again and again that even a good solution to a long term problem will be ignored or treated with hostility.

You are more likely to be fired for your suggestion box submission than your idea implemented.
I don't expect an average user going about fixing their computer. It's more like they know how to drive a car, however it's always in 1st gear and in a straight line.
SoftBank seeks control of WeWork through financing package
I meant outside the room. It's hard to saturate a room in CO2 with a window opened and ventilation. Many big cities are working to improve air quality

Having all kind of material to improve locally and artificially the air, like air-conditioning, feels like a temporary hack for a bigger problem, adding even more pollution in the equation
Sounds like San Francisco. Just swap dog poop with human poop, and a glass of beer with a needle of heroin.
> were literally flash games

thats exactly why i mention them . i meant to say their current html versions are equivalent of their previous flash
That article in New York Times Magazine (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/magazine/boeing-737-max-c...) seems like a part of the Boeing's PR action to win back the public confidence in 737 MAX...
First off, robots.txt is optional. It's neither a technical nor a legal limitation at this point.

Second, OP's argument suggests a UI option that gives or removes user consent from all robots in general. Unless they plan to word it: "allow robots that we like that are good for us. but disallow other robots", I don't think it's okay to discriminate by either allowing/banning a particular robot, as that is not what the user agreed to.
For us using other computer brands at that time, EMS and XMS felt arcane already then...
Indonesia’s Ancient ‘Hobbits’ May Have Evolved Quickly
>The se are coming direct from a printer to Amazon and being sold in place of the legitimate inventory. There is no third party to go after here. There's only one seller in this case. That is Amazon.

No, it's not.

Even if it says "Shipped and sold by Amazon", it does not mean that the item originated from Amazon's purchase. Amazon considers co-mingled inventory as fungible.

Let's say Amazon has 10 warehouses, and every month, they order 100 copies of a book, and put 10 in each warehouse. Now, a third party seller comes onto the scene, and wants to sell the same book, fulfilled by Amazon, with co-mingling to reduce costs. To further reduce costs, he also only wants to send his inventory to the closest warehouse so shipping is cheaper. Let's say he has 100 copies of this book, and he sends them to warehouse 10. Amazon, seeing that there are 100 additional copies of this book in this warehouse, and knowing that demand is likely to stay relatively the same, knows that for the next 10 months, they do not have ship those 10 books a month to it. Now, Amazon has run through the stock they stored at warehouse 10, but they have an order from someone who lives down the street. They don't have any copies of the book that they purchased, but they have the co-mingled copy that should, in theory, be an exact copy of the original product. They then send it to the customer so that they have a shorter delivery time. If they were to ship all of the copies of the book that were sent to them by that seller, and had not replenished, when a customer ordered from that seller they could ship a copy from warehouse 3, but it would take an extra day to arrive. Or, someone who lives next door to warehouse 1 could order from the third party seller, but still get same day delivery because Amazon has a copy of the book there, even though it is their copy and not the seller.

This is what co-mingled inventory means. That all inventory is fungible, and it doesn't matter physically who sourced the item, as long as it is properly accounted for on the ledgers. That is fundamentally the point - you save significant costs and introduce real benefits to customers when you can ignore where the item was sourced from. The problems arise when not all of the sources for the items are good actors.

Looking at the No Starch Press Serious Python book, there are 41 sellers. I don't know how many co-mingle inventory or are FBA, but that means that any book sold that from any seller that co-mingles inventory (and items sold by Amazon directly are) can be fulfilled by items physically sourced from any other seller that also co-mingles inventory.
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GitHub project statistics and Python interactive coding
This study mentions blue light as from smartphones as a problem. My phone has a blue light filter which I have on all the time. Linux gnome desktop also has one for late night coding sessions.
Project Treble, introduced on Android 7, is exactly that stable ABI for Android.
I got an A in 7th grade biology because I animated the electron transport chain in a little flash movie over a holiday break. I burned the swf onto a CD and gave it to my biology teacher who then showed it on his computer during parent teacher night.
Isn’t that question also true for any large Corporation?
If you run your own infra, LXC/LXD is invaluable when you want long-term stateful containers (e.g. to run databases on).

If like me, you started using LXC around the time of the 1.0 blog-post series, and are stuck with 14.04LTS containers, this guide [1] is useful to help you upgrade the container.

[1] https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/upgrade-update-lxd-container-u...
They did it already, Project Treble.
Goodbye with Love
Man, I wish I had a crappy Fry's in my area

No, no you don't. I noticed the same thing a few months ago and did a search then. I found this thread which I bookmarked. So this isn't a new phenomenon any more:

https://www.thelayoff.com/t/YbiPZw8

My experience with the store in Wilsonville Oregon matches those comments. QFT here:

The Wilsonville, Oregon store hasn't had stock for over 6 months. Even longer for desktops and laptops. Last month I visited and there were whole aisles empty. ENTIRE AISLES. This is no "remodel" or "change in inventory system". They're on their last legs.

Very sad. End of an era.
I agree, nothing has changed much and I even think it's going that route where the ones that "know" are awarded handsomely, while the "don't knows" are left on a side with peanuts.
I had a small homework on lambda-calculus and Turing machines equivalence when I was an undergrad (during my third year of uni iirc). It's in French but you may be able to follow by looking at the "code" parts. In it I use pure lambda-calculus to simulate a universal Turing Machine. It's probably not done the best not the more canonical way, but it's what I got while discovering lambda-calculus at the same time, so it might be good as a starting point for where you're at now. You can find the paper here: https://pablo.rauzy.name/files/lambdacalcul.pdf. Hope it helps!
Totally agreed about the non-open nature of flash. The question is why web technologies are not vastly better than it was. It's been 20 years
Where can I buy new iOS devices without contract for 300 € ?
An analysis of the Blizzard letter and the #FreeHongKong incident
Yes, few restrictions are off the table. In reality, people don’t want more restrictions than necessary, so it’s usually not a problem. Here we even had resistance to mandatory helmets on bikes, settling for a law only for children.
The connection I was referring to is that we exactly don't want to produce "special" schools.

Also there is a long history of "expecting" lower performance from certain ethnic minorities in Germany, putting them into the "special needs" category extremely easily.

I suspect that parallels to the situation in the US go a lot deeper still. But people aren't paying close enough attention yet and somehow believe that with our constitution discrimination is impossible and so all disadvantages must be the immigrants' fault by default.
Do you mean crawling without cookies or the legal case?
You did the right thing. Family is sometimes not even as good as friendship and we're conditioned all the time to think otherwise.
Does this really happen while using the euro Amazons? It sounds like you might be ordering from .com, in which case the same thing would happen in “supported countries”.
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From his HN profile: `Currently building retail tech at dheo.com`
Actually does help?

If the bus is to be dependable, it needs to arrive on time, and that means that the lane in front of it needs to be free. Consistently free — the bus past my house stops 20 times, so that's 20 points at which the bus needs to be on time on order to be seen as dependable. The bus needs to drive at the same speed every day, and even be able to drive a little faster.

You can either regard the free asphalt as "spare capacity" or regard it as being used by the bus that's not visible right now, but will pass by in a minute or two.

Perhaps it's more correct to say that the free asphalt is being used by the route schedule than the vehicle itself.
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Heed Your Fears
We Built a $200K/Month Software That Automates Startups Legals
The NYT had a Letters to the Editor section 30 years ago, just like the one that published today's letter.
I did look at the graph and 2035-2050 is a better scenario than never.
That's from 2013, what's the current state of affairs?
There was a HN discussion of the Langewiesche article that this letter makes a reply to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21004683

It made some similar arguments, but also quite a bit of Boeing PR bashing. It got flagged.
I agree. But:

> The first is the sort who enjoys it for what it is. Shaves yaks configuring his system, tries out new languages for the heck of it, that sort. The second has a perfectly respectable career in software, and enjoys other things when he comes home at five p.m.

I have found out that these are not in opposition at all. In fact, workplace that holds you in 80 hours a week largely prevents trying out new tech. People dont stay long because trying out new toys. If they do, then they are being dishonest with employer, honestly. They stay long because of stress, pressure, disorganization, etc.

The conflation of the two really not logical, it does not even makes sense. Why cant you go home at 5 and "try out new languages for the heck of it" wherever you feel like? Should you even try out that new language production project? (you should not)
What a joke of a letter. "But think of child abuse". I can't believe they linked libra to child sexual abuse ... how would that even work?

Didn't they admit last week that facebook's own detection algorithms are far better at detecting child abuse than anything else? How does that work.
Strange, nowhere in the article does it say how did they know that the views where inflated by 150 to 900%. How did they even know, without Facebook admitting it?

I don't think they did, because even if they settled for 40M they say the process is without merit. Where does that information come from?
It can suppelement gas or whatever in the power mix. Just keep'em running and adjust the output in the designed operating range, pump water uphill or spin up flywheels otherwise.
The worst thing about these accidents is the pilots never encountered the situation in simulators.

For non-lethal failures, tech companies do extensive game day testing to practice failure conditions and engineers responses. The fact that it wasn't done in this case because the failure was too expensive, unlikely to occur and the new plane wasn’t different enough was a huge failure on Boeing’s and the FAA.
This is a very strange perspective to me. Clearly making flying boring has tremendously reduced the number of incidents. Certainly it's true that making something boring will increase the incident rate...but what's overwhelmingly clear from the data is that the reduction in incidents from all that automation dwarfs that effect.
You can litigate everything forever if you want to be sufficiently pedantic, but that's missing the point. It's not that you don't at some point have to make a decision about how loud is too loud. It's that you can have a noise ordinance without giving anyone the capacity to compel anyone else to use a specific landscaping company or style.
The Dream of New York's Forgotten Elevated Subway
It is pretty amazing. A shop where I can roll up with a bag full of cash and ready to spend, and they say sorry, you're not a member, go spend that money elsewhere.
Everything retail is dying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail_apocalypse
I've found strength training with bodyweight exercises to help immensely with both. I'm following the "recommended routine" from the /r/bodyweightfitness subreddit. [1]

On hamstring tightness: often when muscles are tight, it's due to a strength imbalance. Runners tend to get tight hamstrings because they work their quads a lot and the hamstrings don't keep up. So while it's a bit of an oversimplification to say that if certain muscles are chronically tight, you can fix that just by making them stronger, it's not too far off. For me it was really that simple: strengthening my hamstrings with hip hinges [2] made them noticeably less tight within about a month.

For posture it's basically the same idea. I always thought posture was like a force of will/discipline/habit thing until I finally felt how much easier it is to have that "discipline" after moderately strengthening my back, chest, core, and legs. Standing or sitting up straight is actually a lot of work for our bodies. And if it's basically the hardest thing you regularly subject the relevant muscles to, it's not too surprising that they will get tired out quickly. But if you start doing things that are much harder for each muscle group (like planks, push ups, rows, squats, hinges, etc.), then simply holding yourself up straight gets much easier.

1 - https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/

2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11I-ZWWNGDI
My family has had mixed feelings about Costco. While it does sell bulk products, it makes local business struggle for clientele and sometimes runs them our of business. As someone from a family who has a locally run business it is difficult to support.
Scratch 3.0 (released Jan) is great, if you want the shallowest learning curve. I was astounded-- played with it for 2-3 hours to know what my kid was learning and in that time wrote three simple games.

I've heard great things about 001 Game Creator (free for 7 days, then $60) for more substantial use.
And safety also!
Abstract from the tools. They come and go. You will need to adopt a new one every other year.

Instead, make sure to understand the math and the concepts, and then it‘s easy to translate that to an implementation.

One way of doing this (though not sufficient) is to learn both tools.

Right now the pull is away from TF (increasingly convoluted API and lots of deprecations) and towards pytorch (more support from the research community and increasing performance in production).
Flash is the reason why I'm a programmer today. It was Flash which kindled my interest in computers and made sure I spent hours playing around with it and then other aspects of computers.

That era of discovery and expression was something special.
Understanding IoT Business Models or “Who Killed My Unicorn?”
Turned it on just now, thanks for sharing I didn't know that existed.
How Notre Dame is being rebuilt from 50B scraps of data
An extra school year to learn a language sounds indeed harmless. But we don't have the schools or the teachers for that. We don't have the legal framework, so all of it would need to be voluntary.

It's completely ridiculous and impractical for the state to teach Pashtu to Afghan children in Germany. For English it is almost as bad. Also, learning German does help you learn English, and exposure to different languages does actually make subsequent language learning easier. Multilingualism is not a zero-sum game.

School education is not like a downloadable Database. If it were, it would be more efficient to teach them all the 13 years of stuff at age 18, because that's when they learn fastest. If it were all about usable knowledge (or skills) we should not teach arts, gymn, philosophy or music. Biology and History would also be on the brink for most children.

But it isn't. And yes, it would be nice to help them more specifically, but that's easier said than done. Since we can't recruit a few thousand non-existing experts on the fly, the existing teachers have to deal with it.
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With which option! I have used Colab myself and I don't see live editing. I would like to see the cursor of the collaborators in real time while they edit. Also, the option to share the runtime.
If I want to learn Docker/containers, would it be beneficial to go through this? Will it enhance the background learning or do I need to go through this?
GitLab. Combines my planning, SCM and CI/CD needs in a single app, and it's open source.

My top focus has been consolidating the apps I use.
Unless they're misogynists or skeptical of "climate change", then it's best to burn them at the stake, just to be safe that the crimethink isn't contagious.
Pointing a finger gun lands 12-year-old Johnson County student in handcuffs
Impression fraud is going to be a huge scandal. So many view counts are inflated for profit - either by platforms themselves or by third-party bots interacting with content.
This is about the US wanting to have a say in what those people do in the US.
iOS is very annoying about updating. It's much less work to update than to constantly ignore warnings. High adoption rates therefore don't invalidate OPs point.
It isn't a massive problem, it is a tiny problem. Our ancestors have done much the same thing to us and nobody notices, cares or is even inconvenienced. Australia has some truly monumental slag heaps if you know which desolate wastelands to look in.

Thinking that you can run an industrial process with no waste is the magical thinking. Producing solar panels and wind turbines could easily produce more toxic waste watt-for-watt than nuclear does. Nobody is going to bother to check because the volumes are too small.