skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely a hugely formative game for me and a lot of other people, that encouraged you to learn the real history while writing your own. While there have been a lot of Civ games, I'd say that there was a "trilogy" of Civ, Colonization, and Alpha Centauri.

As a brit, most of the US history I know comes from Colonization. It also had far more of a focus on the economy; military action was so expensive that it was limited to skirmishes until the War of Independence (although this didn't seem to impair the AI). It was more grounded in real history, although there was a recent controversy when it was pointed out that it had almost entirely erased slavery.

Alpha Centauri was explicitly a sequel to Civ, set after the disastrous fragmentation of the space colonists into warring splinter groups. Inspired by the Mars trilogy, it put a lot of effort into building a narrative universe around the faction personalities. An epistolary novel in help texts. Possibly my favourite of the three, as you could assemble your own modular units in unusual combinations for specific purposes.
>> My last couple of laptops have had IPS panels. I intend never to buy a TN panel again.

Agreed, but there are plenty of dim IPS panels with poor contrast and color.
Android store, Jolla store, Tizen store, Samsung Store, Amazon store.

Epic's problem is that they want a Epic Store on other people's devices.
These specifications don't mean anything for a lot of people. To me they sound like marketing buzzwords that companies use to try to sell me inferior products. I'd much rather have them say 2k than any of the "FHD" abbreviations.
"Everyone" kind of includes minorities. And how do you define "trying"? Is making social media posts on diversity enough to qualify as trying, even if your hiring process only hires white dudes?
I absolutely agree. There is no reason to settle for anything less. Google certainly has the resources to fill the gap - recognising it would be the first step. Looking at the Go documentation, it seems they have feedback mechanisms for the features of Go, but no means of providing feedback on the actual documentation. Rust however have both Github contributions, as well as a channel on discord specifically for documentation discussions. I would assume this may contribute to the lack of satisfactory documentation for Go.
250 is not bright, but 500 sure is.
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“Your UI can await multiple tasks at the same time, yet you don't need any locks when accessing the UI state; because all your code runs on the UI thread.”

Is that true? I thought the code after each await runs on a different thread from the code before the await. At least that’s what I have observed when debugging things.
The "p" is kinda interesting because it used to convey useful extra information (presence of Progressive Scan), but now that's simply a given in almost every context. So the "p" has sort of degraded into nothing more than a signifier that someone is writing about resolution.

"c" could mean Colour. Bob uses a c2160p monitor!
Then it's no longer a systems-level simulation but an arcade game with a sim-like physics.

However, you are correct in the sense that most racing and flight sim folks tend to be entitled snobs who have spare money to throw around. Many have spent money on a RTX2080 Ti card when the non-titan edition could not run games in VR at high enough frame rates. Most are going to be upgrading to a 3080 as soon as it comes out this fall.
It’s mentioned and hinted at a few times in the film, but it’s practically the main story point in the book.
> on boat journeys even though 10% of the passengers would typically die on the way

Source? Seems highly implausible (in general).
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The 1984 trailer, for comparison:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwPTIEWTYEI
The responses here are an interesting mix between those who have not had it happen to them (yet) and those who have (or have had it multiple times).

The former can't imagine the latter are anywhere near competent, it could obviously never happen to them so the person experiencing the problem must somehow be at fault.

It's the message board equivalent of 'can't reproduce', closed.
Right, but if that was part of a social media app (say a hypothetical "Instagram display advertising" product) then it is explicitly included in the language: "Exceptions. The prohibition in this Chapter does not apply to use of Face Recognition Technologies:... In automatic face detection services in social media applications."

While I understand the difference between detection and recognition I think an exception naming both recognition and detection is likely to be viewed by a court as permissive.

Otherwise what does that exception mean? I'm not aware of any detection functionality in any social media application that isn't tied to recognition.
I don't know what is wrong with young people protesting climate change - not all people will die.
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> I feel like it’s pretty safe to say https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs mostly solves of these concerns for Vim users in 2020

I use both doom emacs and neovim, and I'd say: not really, at least not for me, there are some Vim features evil doesn't emulate properly, or at least it doesn't work like in Vim. Off the top of my head, I write in many languages, but absolutely hate the US international keyboard for accented characters, guess what? Vim has built-in support for digraph[0] by using Ctrl-k and iirc this is a motion keyboard shortcut in emacs, and since I like and use org-mode a lot, I'm always frustrated when I have to type in another language. Another one was with the various Terminal emulators packages in emacs, although this one was solved recently[1], whereas in (neo)vim it works flawlessly ootb.

0: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Entering_special_characters

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24243031
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underworld (his masterpiece), white noise, libra
Here are the best responses I can give to that:

1. Fully abled people are already, as John Scalzi put it (with regard to another category), playing on the lowest difficulty setting, across all of their lives. SO I think it's not so bad to take away some advantages, to level the playing field.

2. There are different kinds of disadvantages. There are disadvantages from skills you haven't yet learned, and there are disadvantages from abilities you can never have. What I propose is to replace the latter category for some people with the former category for others. Of course, if biotech someday allows us to give physical abilities to people who don't have them, that changes the equation. And perhaps my thick accent example was weak; my understanding is that it's possible, with great difficulty, to change one's accent.
The point of my post is that your opinion is irrelevant to the matter and contains none of the supplementary evidence that I would expect from a constructive argument.
The good thing with WFH is that if your superior pisses you off you can just start drinking beer and stop working, and no one will probably notice.
At least FHD almost universally means 1920×1080 and is googlable. This is less true for QHD / QHD+, unfortunately.
I think you're in a bad place if things have devolved to a herd-metality us-vs-them.

But I find well-aimed questions can often derail attempts to railroad a situation from a position of power, and it can be very uncomfortable to field those questions in an in-person setting. Much less so remotely.
Oh, come on. This kind of naïveté is contagious.

I'm pretty sure you can think of stronger business cases against Amazon/US-Milspec involvement in a non-American business.

Amazon, in the hands of Americas spooks, can do a lot of damage to the world of non-Americans; i.e. anyone the spooks decide to hate/target for usurpation. You think Germany is inured from such attention?
TAOCP is nearly ten thousand pages spread over four volumes!
That's not one book.
I think instead of "remake" you meant sequel, because there is no remake.

If it's any consolation: I'm an absolute fan of Blade Runner but hated the sequel. In my opinion, it fails to capture the neo-noir feel of the original, has no interesting characters, Jared Leto's acting is distracting, and the villains/antiheroes... compare Roy Batty's "tears in rain" dying speech with Luv's "I'm the best!". It makes me cringe.
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Let's not forget to draw a distinction between programming and computer science...

SICP was created to be an introductory computer science textbook back in the day when anybody who actually enrolled in a computer science course could reasonably be expected to be an absolute nerd. It's a book for teaching computer science to people who already have some amount of programming aptitude. It is not a book that tries to teach programming, to hand-hold students through learning practical applications. Yes, it's been shoehorned into many programming courses, but that's not the book's purpose.

HtDP is much better for teaching programming - it's a book that follows many of SICP's ideas, but doesn't presume any relevant experience on the part of the student. It's still not an ideal book for teaching practical programming to a student who doesn't care about any of the CS theory, though.
Cue "We Didn't Start the Fire"
We've come a long way from https://man.openbsd.org/rain.6

Not javascript, but 2020: https://i.imgur.com/iJWdurf_d.png?maxwidth=520&shape=thumb&f...
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But there is still no border between Russia and Belarus.
This isn’t actually a solution in fact.
To be honest, most people writing threaded code just let the 5 tasks run serially. Otherwise they would have the problem you mentioned.
I was already uncomfortable about using an Eero router and wifi and this just pushes it over the edge.
> From there it's learning some keystrokes

Learning Emacs is VERY clearly not this trivial... to use Emacs to any extent where it's more useful than it's competitors, you have to learn the models it works in, a new programming language- and then there are a LOT of keystrokes
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I've seen a couple of other extensions on the Web Store that can do that if you're interested.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zoom-closer/appjbe...
Second this. I love the various options https://mynoise.net provides. I have been using their coffee shop noise simulation lately since it's been forever (6 months) since I have gone to one and worked.
I really like this! So I did create a command to open this on my Vim:

command! Rain :OpenBrowser https://itsrainingday.netlify.app

Depends on https://github.com/tyru/open-browser.vim
The Hacker News and geek community is weird. Ask them about reaching Mars or fusion and they say it's inevitable. They're unqualified good results.

Suggest we have fewer children for a few generations and consume less and it's absolutely impossible, against human nature. The One Child policy proves it.

We idolize people who change the world as entrepreneurs but say one person can't make a difference in changing culture.

Yet many cultures have chosen to lower birthrates through peaceful, voluntary means resulting in prosperity and stability. On a personal level, I've lowered my footprint by about 90 percent in a few years according to online calculators and every change improved my life. I figure most westerners could drop 75 - 80 percent with just the low-hanging fruit, improving their lives -- buying less junk, wasting less food, living closer to family, camping instead of visiting Timbuktu.

Changing course is a matter of belief and choice far more than technology. While it's not monolithic, this community seems to choose to believe living sustainably is harder than space travel. I'd argue space travel is more attainable when we aren't pushing the Earth's limits to sustain life and human society.
Most likely people don't know where the doc is, Go documentation for module is excellent: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules
Datamart is a software development company that helps service-based
I can relate to feeling that way but this clearly is depression. I have felt like this more or less my whole life so that’s my reality but after talking to quite a few people I have learned that many of them don’t feel that way. They enjoy life and for them it has deep meaning.
Migrating cdnjs to serverless with Workers KV
Yes, indeed, having a peck order in group is natural.

The different favorable trait would then have effect on the productivity, though. Asynchronous communication is way more friendlier to deep work like programming.
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That sounds like something you could add to dired mode and bind to a key without too much trouble. It's my understanding that you sort of have to start molding emacs to your particular style, and that the defaults are kind of bad. I have switching windows bound to ctrl+direction. Super easy and convenient.

Also some of the plugins augment Emacs so much that some people see them as part of emacs rather than an add-on. I don't use dired; I use helm/ivy.

I am having good luck with Doom Emacs. You may want to check it out, especially if you are used to the Vim keybindings. It provides a lot of extra functionality out of the box.
Thanks for sharing this with me. I didn't know this was a widely known phenomenon. I'll take a look at the link to help avoid having these blind spots myself, thanks again!
Dep was crap and ultra slow.
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>Speaking as a geologist your statement is dangerously naive.

I'm skeptical of you being a working geologist because I haven't seen any credible claims that there is any reason to believe Earth could turn into Venus. But even outside of that, scaremongering with incredibly unlikely scenarios is also dangerous and detrimental to fighting climate change, because somebody is going to call bullshit on you and will result in your and even the general credibility of climate scientists, to be diminished.
Can I point out, that's a nice domain name.
I grew up playing Pokémon. It was the second Gameboy game I ever owned. I think I played every one through the DS era.

What I think you miss is that individual works can be contrary to certain negative trends or values, without posing any real opposition to them. A Pokémon game can embrace a pro-environmental narrative, while the material reality of the franchise in the context of Capitalist exchange involves all kinds of ecological destruction. Just think of all of the Pokémon tchotchkes, bought and discarded, since the series began.

I’m not trying to single out Pokémon as some especially bad actor, but indicative of how the widespread fetishization of these imagined ecosystems might result in a future not dissimilar from the one described in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? PKD wrote that book in the 70s, contemplating trends in the world he inhabited. It makes sense that we do the same in engaging with it.
Much of the Alpha Centauri lore comes from Frank Herbert's "The Jesus Incident" [0]. Nerve runners, living planet, etc.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jesus_Incident
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I just got done hiring a team, and I won't touch leetcode as an indicator for candidates. I select for attention to detail, cognizance of knowing what they don't know, predilection to running things down, and an understanding of how things can go wrong without escalating. Also I look for an appreciation for distinguishing what is enough to get by vs the impractical but perfect. Leetcode teaches or creates as a signal none of that.

In fact I despise Leetcode as both candidate and consumer. It caters to memorization instead of understanding, and is heavily biased toward those that will unquestionably just vomit out what they're told instead of really getting down to understanding what is getting asked for.

Toy problems are cute, but disrespectful of just about every worthy candidates time, and a waste of my time when what I'm looking for is a human capable of learning,
contributing, and communicating; not just being a replacement cog in a machine.
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I recognized the image on screen on the second picture ("2020"). It's this one:

https://thesustainableinvestor.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/s...

Edit: it's even readable on a large(r) version of the "2020"-image: https://i.imgur.com/iJWdurf.png

I like the 2020 image a lot by the way. The combination of lots of plants and green with cables, headphones, mask and laptop gives off solarpunk vibes in my opinion. (The forest fire backdrop would spoil it if it weren't in such a nice contrast with the rest of the image).

Edit 2: I can haz more solarpunk? Sure, check this out. It exists. It's real: https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/singapore-changi-...
I'll read the book, thanks for the reccomendation.
1. Maybe I'm just being a doomer, but I don't think it makes a difference, all of the money is on being a hedonist staying the course and that seems to be the only relevant thing.
2. 68% of life in 50 years is pretty fast, it will only really take 1 global war between powers over resources for things to slip it seems to me
3. That's a sensible plan. I enjoy the field I'm currently in, for the most part. But it feels pointless.

I had to wake up early for work today and didn't get enough sleep, I'm sure I'll care less about this situation after I take a nap and keep ignoring it like the rest of the world, I guess. I'll have to look into changing careers to something a little more noble, though, I guess.
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> It's an interesting case of literature-movie adaptation.

Indeed. It's one of my favorite films as well, and consider that I'm a PKD fan: I don't think it's even a companion piece to the book. It hits some of the same themes, but Blade Runner is more neo-noir with smoke-filled rooms, and Do Androids is more PKD exploration of ideas, religion, anxieties, etc. PKD loved what he managed to see of the movie before dying, mind you.

I think what makes Blade Runner engaging is that it's not trying to be a direct translation of the book. It even reverses some of the book's characterizations: "Rachael" is in the book manipulative and a liar, but in the movie she's naive and the one being lied to. The androids from the book are cold and callous, almost completely unempathetic even for their own kind. The replicants from the movie are way more empathic -- Roy Batty is arguably an antihero rather than a villain. I've watched Blade Runner many times, being one of my favorites, and there are times I consider Roy the true protagonist of the movie.

It does hit some of the same themes of PKD's works: what is real and what is fake? What is human, and what deserves to live?
Just a quick way to say that I think a little exercise goes a long way :)
Modern solar panels and their batteries do not require any "rare" metals. A lot of wind turbines use neodymium however it accounts for a very small amount of total usage.

Edit: clarified.
Well, I guess that is possible but I've never seen multithreaded server side code (in a thread per request type environment) bother - database calls or other IO just block the current thread.
Mine is at https://lanre.wtf :)
You could construct the same kinds of problematic UIs in Emacs too... it's just that Emacs is not as widely used as the Web and its users don't have such varying demands and use cases for it, so it's not as common for that to happen.

The Web is also designed around a linear flow of text. The Web also provides opportunities to make navigation semantics clear. The Web also implicitly supports keyboard navigation everywhere. etc. Although many websites try to work around those principles, is that a problem with the web or just the websites people are using today?
Even in the worst case projections I’m aware of, global warming won’t kill people in the billions. This kind of frankly fearmongering is a large part of why it’s so hard to get consensus on environmental issues in the first place.
> Assange is a narcissist who has created nothing of value

Nixon probably said the same thing of Ellsberg.
> I'm resisting converting my projects to modules until there's a clear and definite advantage to it. So far, none.

Go modules are not going to go away so what benefits will waiting as long as possible give you?

I'm not a big fan but it's fine in day to day life and the most common issue for me is that some indirect dependency is having issues which is usually solved with some "replace" lines in the go mod file. Not ideal but also not too annoying.
> and a few for VS Code though I find their shortcuts terrible

You might have a better time using https://github.com/VSpaceCode/VSpaceCode
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Any examples of such libraries? I always heard that it's only better to use more specific tags if they are available and make semantic sense.
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So I wrote a log management app last year. I'm about to hit $10k/month in revenue, no real costs or employees.

I'm burned out on the tech industry, the people more than the work, and I've decided to leave it for good after 25 years. My goal is to buy a cabin and never touch a computer again.

What do I do with this thing? Ideally I sell it off for 2-3 years revenue, and have maybe a 1-month transition period. Is that realistic?
I can only speak for myself, so this will be very subjective.

Starbucks ha no soul, and their drinks are targeted at an American audience who don't know better. As a European I'd rather give my money to espresso bars doing good filter coffee than spend a minute standing in line at a Starbucks. I've been remote working for years and many coffee shops in my home town treat me like furniture by now, since I often worked 4-5 hours daily from their tables, rotating my favourite places. I am good friends with some owners and many many baristas, so I get a bit of a special treatment when I'm there.
Did he? Until you provide a credible quote to that effect, I'm going to assume you're lying.
Hi, author here. This was & is a fun project, and maybe it's useful to some of you!

Let me know if you have questions/comments/ideas, or check out the ASCII video:
https://asciinema.org/a/Ldgn5pHOgxPJmIf2ZvlfIPR3L
Yeah it’s crazy to think that a chemical can be developed that can effectively destroy organic life and we just decide to spray it everywhere.

I’ve read things about people that live near certain farms have higher rates of birth defects and diseases like cancer. I can only imagine being exposed to chemicals over and over for years is not only devastating to the local ecosystem but to the people nearby.
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You're right you don't sound depressed.

You however, sound very very negative.
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I think the (repeated) note that you can downscale to 1080p displays is how you are supposed to do it under $200. They note themselves these displays are $150-$190 so it's not like they are hiding something.
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Reads more like he doesn't want to tell you what he's doing with the sidelobes, in case you DO get it.

Whereas the question-train you're on is at a pretty interrogative clip ..