skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve played all three games and for me factorio is easily the best.

Designing big factories in Satisfactory feels awkward - it’s very hard to refactor and redesign because the buildings are so big and you need to build them one by one. The engineer in me is always vaguely dissatisfied with what I make in satisfactory. Satisfactory’s world is beautiful to explore - but that makes it a different sort of game.

And shapez was ok, but it lacks factorio’s loop. In factorio you build things out of what you mine and construct. Shapez needs its artificial level structure to motivate you to do anything - and I find that much less satisfying because it saps my intrinsic motivation. Factorio feels grounded in the world, whereas shapez feels like a puzzle game with almost no constraints.

The factorio modding scene is also incredible. Their are so many alternate ways to play factorio - complete with way deeper tech trees, or a base that teleports between planets every 10 minutes, Seaworld - where you start on a tiny island with nothing but ocean in every direction. And as others have mentioned, the game is rock solid. Multiplayer is an absolute blast.
It matters if it actually works and if it works broadly or just for limited use cases. As I said in the original comment, I think that you will see many applications in the near future. The last 5 years have been focused on research (comparable to 1990-1995), only now are we getting ready for commercial applications.
EU is converging towards tax harmonization and many other areas.

You think EU is about free trade and movement but the EU changed direction a long time ago towards full political union.

I don't like this trend so I support applying the brake on time, because the EU is driving towards a cliff.
There are many great code golf'ed, Tweet-sized JavaScript programs here -- https://www.dwitter.net/ :-)
I don’t think the expectation is for this to happen frequently because it doesn’t, rather it’s part of the overall risk assessment. Total fire related deaths in the Great Britain is low and trending downward, trying to find jumping related deaths from the 3-5th floor is tough. https://www.statista.com/statistics/291135/fire-fatalities-i...

As to evacuations, that’s simply what happens in the overwhelming majority of cases. In England for the 12 months ending June 2020 there where 156,128 actual fires responded to and 231 deaths. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

That’s with current regulations and resources. So, looking at that people are trying to balance spending more on fire safety vs very other issue and this is the balance they struck. I am not saying it’s perfect, just that it’s vastly more complicated than making every building as safe as possible with money as no object being the obvious correct choice. When you give that up then it’s all coming down to various compromises with different tradeoffs.

PS: Looking at the hard numbers, pushing evacuations might actually make things worse.
Wish you read what I said. I'm not blaming the customers, it's the companies that make unsound compromises to 'kill two birds with one stone'. Short term it works but likely to cost them in the long term
This is the first one on twitch I remember as well
When my wife worked as a waitress, she was paid $1.95 an hour by the restaurant, so yes.
The fact that some think there's a distinction between a startup and a sustainable business says a lot about SV. A startup should be sustainable too. There's a distinction between a quickly growing business or a slowly growing business for sure, and sometimes it makes sense to forgo the sustainable part in the short term in order to promote growth, but to think that a startup somehow should not aim to be sustainable leads to really perverse incentives.
I spend 99% of my time on Ubuntu, but still keep a stray Windows OS around for Dota/Warzone. This last year I've only clocked 4 hours granted... but It'd be nice to actually not care anymore.

It's really weird, one of the things as a kid I remember losing my main WIndows install being a big deal.. days or recovery. Now I just sit down at a Windows machine and it I don't care what's on it. I don't use windows for anything but the odd game.
Just to temper expectations, gaming on Linux is still not a plug and play type experience (although it is a LOT closer than it was 5 years ago).

Even games that have reasonable performance on Linux may require custom builds of Proton, winetrick startup modifications, etc. I love Proton and the work Valve has been doing, but I certainly feel the friction when gaming on Linux still.
> Furthermore, granular targeting is no longer the way to scale on Facebook.

Can you elaborate on this? I’m not sure I understand what the alternative is.
What Shape Are You?
For me it's the opposite. Fitness is the most important, and the basic smart watch features on the Garmin is enough that I can't justify a second smart watch.
Not necessarily. Given the scale of firms like Facebook there's a case for client categorisation like financial firms do, with additional duties and protections in play when dealing when with less sophsticated users eg. small merchants. Even beyond this mis-selling does lead to losing lawsuits despite what is attempted in fine print.
Brexit had many reasons. Many different motivations. I don't think Clown Boris even understood this. For him Brexit was a (successful) train ride to Prime Minister.

The original, very interesting ideas for brexit, you can find here:
https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2020/12/15/alastair-campbell-t...

The average guy who voted for Brexit because of 300MM per week more for the NHS was just an idiot that is getting used.

The UK was the sick man of Europe. Then three things happened.

1. Thatcher made reforms. This is given as a the main/only reason.

2. The UK joined the EC, the precursor of the EU. This is rarely mentioned.

3. The UK found shitloads of oil in the northern see, oil that has mostly run out by now.

So the rise of the sick man of Europe had many reasons. I doubt that the Brexit will bring many benefits. If you are imaginary enslaved, your freedom can also only be imaginary.
I agree.

As I see from reading a little about the field's history and the literature, it suffered the same fate of other endeavors that are complex and still have a lot to be solved.

people become interested in it, try to find simpler 'popular' formulation and then the watered down versions become more popular than the original more complex version that need more rigor and discipline.

the watered down versions become more popular but without the rigor and discipline, you can argue and conclude everything and they opposite with these tools.

so people on the outside see the field as yet another fad and the whole field die down taking down with it the original version.

much like in AI with everyone labeling their stuff as AI which dilute the term more and more as time passes.

what Cybernetics and systems engineering needs is a rebranding and separation from the more 'soft' side that developed latter.

this is where I think some researchers on category theory like Jules Hedges might help. it would help defining dynamical and more general system in a vague but still formal way, say with a computer proof assistant sort of tool.
> We already have a proper way of enforcing "very real" ways to curtail abuses, it's called passing laws.

And how is it decided what should become illegal? Just passing laws banning unethical things? Now we are back to square one deciding what is and isn't ethical.
>Should a company be forced to pay a license for external IP in perpetuity because they once sold licenses the way Adobe did?

Companies shoud mark it with huge red warning letters when they have a time-limited licensed tech in a product they sell you a "perpetual" license for.
I know you're getting downvoted because this sounds political but it is true... Russia is related to this and it is much more than any kind of shenanigans with the Brexit referendum. The geopolitical reality is simple... The EU is expanding East and Russia is expanding West, and so the UK does not want to be pulled into a situation like that where the EU is making all of the decisions. Not to say this is the only reason for Brexit. It is just one of a million.
If you see the EU just as a trade relationship then of course there are some things that look out of place. But there are several other incentives for being part of a supranational arrangement such as the EU: safety in numbers (hi Russia), trade negotiation weight (Canada, China, Mercosur, ..
), standardisation power (DIN has become global status in some ways (think paper) and ISO is often led by EU)), rulesetting power (think GDPR, what other non-US legislation has such global impact on the internet?). Germany and France still have a small say on the global scale without the EU, but Slovakia or even Poland or Spain do not - as a single block they are less flexible but can bring their weight to bear.

Not to mention that still today a key narrative of EU membership is the EU as a peace project. After 2000+ years of unending war western Europe has not had a single border conflict since WW2. That's in large part due to the EU and it's predecessors.
Merry XMAS!
The concept is generally known as "agency".
I'm ignore all Sony products since PS3 bullshit: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/if-you-used-to-r...
Macy's website been down for more than a week
I guess it depends on one's circle. In my eyes one looks kinda like a dork with an Apple watch. But a fitness watch signalizes health and taking care of yourself/sportiness. I wear my garmin 945 everywhere, and most people I hang out with do the same.
If you liked The Wire and haven't yet, definitely check out The Sopranos. Absolutely amazing.
From September 2019, when he article was published,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20995396
I'm not familiar the security research community, is it common for papers to be rejected for the reasons you listed?
I assume many/most employees are also shareholders, no?
Took me far too long, but this is the answer: https://imgur.com/iBfOmtO

You have to use the cog icon on the FROM to add more bits to the FROM.
> Tumbld

should be Tum61d.
So could you name some of the disadvantages that no longer apply with this agreement?
Kit-Kat Xclock
Yeah I thought that too, this post has gone off the rails a bit! It’s just a fun discussion thread though, no harm in that
I am just using Linux for gaming these days with Stadia. I don't see any reason that cloud gaming won't become more popular in the near future, in which case Linux is perfectly fine for gaming
We use it in prod for secret storage and management (and maybe someday for CA) and I use at home for my own ca and btw it's surprisingly simple and effective.
I think the correct course of action would have been to actually award out the amount promised to everyone completely separate from their action or inaction on the phishing email. It would have gone over a lot better if they had done this.
I’m curious about these qemu-first OSes (like this one I’ve been following [1]). Do they usually just work when you boot a modern pc with them?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SerenityOS
I love this link, thank you!
I wonder if the London Wall will be the 20's (as in decade) version of the Berlin Wall, when London decides to join the EU.

Or since I've been playing Cyberpunk 2077, they'll have some sort of digital border, and there'll be digital smugglers going back and forth...
I work in this sector.

The big non-EU headquartered institutions have had offices and branches in multiple non-UK EU jurisdictions dating back decades and have served eg local major corporates out of those offices this way for a long time.

The question was whether and how much they would move significant chunks of wholesale activity including staff out of London. The answer seems to be not very much at all so far. Noone I know has been moved out of London and the sector has continued to expand over the past four years.
Thanks for pointing that out. I should clarify, I'm not calling it "brain-dead", that was famously Bill Gates (even noted so on the 286's Wikipedia page).

I don't know or remember much about what the 286 was used for (besides IBM PS/2 systems), but I as well wouldn't be surprised if it was more targeted towards things like PBXs and industrial control, where Protected Mode without DOS compatibility made perfect sense...
- choosing output format at the start, not just at export

- file formats and conversion. Maybe auto-conversion could happen in the background while I cut with low-res?
Whether you celebrate the birth of the Risen Christ

Or get take-out Chinese food to eat with your family

Whether you celebrate the dawning of the Light of the World

Or just bring a big bucket of KFC home

Whether you celebrate the introduction of the New Covenant

Or are still smoky from a Solstice bonfire

Whether you celebrate the Birth by the Virgin Mary, Mother of God

Or are hunkering down in the eye of calm between the holiday rush and the post-holiday rush

Whether you wake to the gifts of Saint Nicholas

Or are just confused about what these laowai are going on about

Merry Christmas!
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I absolutely hate the SaaS model, the incentives are never in your favor as a customer.

In case anyone is looking to ditch Lightroom I can't recommend the FOSS alternative RawTherapee strongly enough. It's got a number of features I now find indispensable. I particularly find it easy to use to get that nice rounded off highlight quality film has using RT. I made the swap years ago and have never missed LR.
Yeah, I was about to make a post about how nice the Roomba I got is.

Setup had issues with android, which is sad (but the iphone app is rock solid).

I love how easy they are to clean and service (compared to taking apart bulky vacuums), and they do a shockingly good job if you get the top-shelf models.
The robots will gain civil rights the same way humans did, either by means of violence or swaying public opinion. Hopefully the latter. This isn’t a guess as to how future robots will work, this is an observation about how humans work.
accessible link:

https://nitter.net/NathanBLawrence/status/134222482890079027...
You would need to change the labor laws because restaurants wouldn't do it voluntarily. They pay less in wages and taxes under the current system.
Hehe, while you are usually quite correct in that spelling, in Carmack's case "free reign" may actually be more appropriate since he exercises pretty much sovereign power there!
> candidate can come off as likeable to one interviewer and unlikeable to another.

> I apparently got rejected was that "I asked too many (clarifying) questions" about the leetcode problem.

> I get rejected again, and given feedback. One of the reasons given? "I asked too few questions".

It sounds like they didn't like you _personally_. If the rejection reason wasn't due to technical or behavioral mismatch but a fake reason like the ones above, it's the often the problematic "Airport test" (ie. They don't want to be stuck in an airport with you"reason).

And to be clear, I think it's wrong to reject candidates because you personally can't think of "being friends" with them. It's unfair to both the candidate, but also the company as it misses out on great engineers.
I doubt there's EU legislation on weed...
The belief that zero is neither even nor odd makes sense once you consider a statement like “An even number of Unicorns exist” or “I possess an even number of magic lamps.” It’s technically correct, but it also sounds kind of strange, simply because we’re not accustomed to assigning parity to an empty collection.
The Tropical MBA (https://www.tropicalmba.com) is a good podcast for startups. Those guys have started businesses from scratch, the advice is very practical.
My view as a serious hobby photographer is simple. No Adobe products in my life. Period. There are things that are logical with subscription plan, servers, cloud, collaboration functionality. Designing creative software with dark UX is Adobe business model. In the past their software was highly overpriced but you can have a lifespan of 3-4-5 years with updates. The reason that people are falling in Adobe Subscriptions trap was the notion that there is no alternative. But there is, Affinity, Capture One, Darktable - free, Raw Therapy- free, and more. I have invested in platform independent metadata workflow since Apple killed Aperture and left photographers in Adobe hell. Side note: One of the reasons people to shoot film is the focus on creative process without complicated software relationships. Can you imagine, if you are an artist and your brush "must" have subscription license and suddenly crashes without internet connection? This is the future according to software companies. Services, services, services:)
I was actually really sad to hear that Breath of the Wild was going to be an open world game when that was announced. I was sick and tired of the same broken mechanics that come with your typical AAA open world game, and thought it would do the Zelda universe a massive disservice.

And then I played it and holy hot damn was I wrong, I think it will go down as one of my favorites of all time. So so so well executed, the world never once felt empty and pointless, as was one of my main issue with other attempts at open world. Just an amazing title.
I love this answer. You could say the same about Cloud computing. So much early hype and outlandish claims but it's kinda snuck into being a ubiquitous everyday thing we take for granted although in a different way from what the hype predicted. I wonder if the same will happen for 'blockchain' or 'VR' or other buzzy tech that look for a while like they won't live up to the hype (Looking at you IoT)
It’s 100% political.

Like shadowbanning me for being an “inherent flame war”.
Considering it's not native I would say it is still pretty impressive. And hopefully at the speed these developments are being made right now it is just a matter of time until we get that plug and play experience we are all hoping for ;)
"When you ignore trade" is a pretty spectacular caveat for assessing the claimed economic benefits from not participating in a trade agreement.

We've had several years to hear a concrete argument for what regulations need removing and what the benefits would be, and the best we got was Patrick Minford's ambitious "it's likely we would eliminate manufacturing" growth projections based on the assumption the UK removed all barriers to importing anything. Ironically the EU has made more progress in securing FTAs with our list of putative alternative trade partners...
Yes! Also the touchpad in the controller also maps to the mouse and if you plug a headset on the controller it is detected by the system as a proper audio driver. For some time my p2 input was messed up on my PC so I used the controller as a improvised USB to Audio input adapter and it worked flawless
A few years ago I've tried a couple of alternatives, and Lightroom was by far the easiest to use.

If the audience is casual editing (ie. a short time to improve a photo, and little user skills), I think Lightroom is significantly ahead of the competition - in particular, UX has never been a strong point of open source software.

I don't know if the latest years changed the landscape, but I suppose not - Adobe kept enhancing Lightroom.

License wise... that's definitely another story (I personally preferred when a license was valid for a single major version).
It hasn't trained people not to fall for a phishing email.

It's trained them not to believe their company when they offer a bonus.

Which might stop the same email from working tomorrow, but not the one saying "This needs to be filled out by Friday!" or "Class action settlement against GoDaddy over fake bonuses"
I don’t see any problem with the phishing test. But if you’re going to do it like this, when it’s over you should actually give your employees the bonus. Otherwise it’s just tasteless.
Years ago, I went to a talk Persi Diaconis gave on this exact topic. He was the most charismatic mathematician I ever met in person.
You may enjoy reading the book "The Coaching Habit" which, while not directly talking about coding and code reviews, has a lot of good guidance on how to bring a coaching mindset to them.
Services don't have tariffs anyway, and the EU single market was pretty poor when it comes to services. It has improved a bit over the last decade - and it was a focus for the future - but the situation as it stands is there isn't much of a single services market to do a deal with anyway.
How does this compare to Scrivener?
So is the EU. Guarding the good friday agreement was one of their key demands in the negotiations.
Up From Slavery by Booker T Washington. Teaches you anything is possible despite your circumstance. Thankful my kids have read it and taken it to heart. This should be a must read for anyone IMO.

More recently, Disparities and Discrimination by Thomas Sowell was a real eye opener for me.
We're basically in the position we were in before Brexit only now it's more expensive and difficult to trade with Europe, it's more expensive and difficult to travel to or work in Europe, and it's stretched the Northern Ireland peace agreement to the edge. But it's ok because that group of posh muppets in the ERG stand to make a wad of cash from their crony mates and we're now a "Sovereign" nation. Which is excellent apart from the fact it's made up faux history bullshit from another era of "great" Britain that never actually existed and certainly doesn't exist in a globally transient world.

The whole thing has been a very, very expensive, entirely farcical (laughable if it wasn't going to royally bugger large swathes of the country) exercise in nihilism.

Bitter much? Yes. Yes I am.
Nah, it's good but return of the jedi was better. The final fight between Luke and Vader was masterfully executed and I cannot believe that people trash on this movie just because of ewoks and the dancing at the end.

Rouge one had the most one dimensional and forgettable villain ever. We like it because it was a very pretty and unusually unique and dark war movie. It's not like the story or world building was up to the standards of the original trilogy...
Does it have a good catalog module? I use LR 99% for organization and only do basic touch up. My requirements for a replacement would be an excellent import/export/organizer and a decent raw converter.
> "She's our Betty Crocker. She's our symbol of excellence," Joe Abrams, one of Mavis Beacon's creators told VICE in an interview. Abrams was one of the founders of The Software Toolworks, the company that designed Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing!.

About fictional people as spokespersons, we might as well add:

- Modern Santa Claus (Coca-Cola)

- Aunt Jemima

- Uncle Ben

- Uncle Sam

- Colonel Sanders

- Ronald McDonald

And many more...

It's almost as if humans are wired to respond to a benevolent spokesperson.
Could you be specific? The article's targeted at Python 3 and I don't see anything that's really obviously Python 2 only. Did you mean the link in the sidebar maybe? That was written back in 2011 and I don't know whether it's still true or not, but it only talks about "new style" (at the time) classes so it still could be.
I've been working through this:

https://github.com/pingcap/talent-plan
It's a popular piece. ‘10 out of 10’ probably just means ‘reliably’.