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I agree in part with your comment, even though I'm a fan of Automata. The gameplay is just "acceptable", and from the reviews I've read about it most others agree. The combat especially leaves a lot to be desired.

As an example, apparently if you die during the intro sequence you have to replay it from the beginning. I forget exactly how long the intro sequence is, but it's probably ~15 minutes. So yeah, imagine re-playing 15 minutes of mostly non-interactive game. Yikes. (But jokes on all the players, you _do_ have to replay that intro sequence multiple times because of the different endings :P)

It's the story that makes the game great. So unfortunately if you don't like the story, the game is a _slog_. But most people enjoy the story, which is why the game gets such high praise.

And it's definitely a very unique game, which I appreciate.

Personally I was lukewarm on the story until I watched some recap and deep analysis videos about in online. I came to appreciate the story much, much more after that. I believe this video did the best job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EnbSokFpjQ

It was just hard for me to connect all the dots, I guess because of the "anime-style storytelling" that you mention. That kind of storytelling requires a lot of effort from the viewer to pick up on small details. They'll hide really huge twists and revelations as easily missed off-handed comments.

It also doesn't help that the story feels really weak until you discover all those little details and piece all the twists together. And that doesn't happen until the last act or so. I spent the vast majority of the game thinking X, Y, and Z scenes were really dumb until their context was finally revealed.

I can appreciate that type of storytelling. It's different and more complex than I guess most "Western" writing. But it's hard to escape the taint it puts on most of my time with the game.

By the way, I'm not writing this to convince you personally to rethink your experience with the game. Like I said, if the story doesn't work for someone, Automata is an awful game. But for anyone else who finds themselves in shoes similar to mine, namely that I'm a dumb-dumb when it comes to trying to understand these subtle and complex stories, it's worth it to read or watch some analysis of NieR. Plus those videos can bring context from the huge amount of other games that people new to NieR (like me) won't have.
Right, again I'm with you!

> There are languages that distinguish retroflex stops from alveolar stops, and IPA obliges those languages with different symbols for the two places of articulation. Do you know of a language that distinguishes alveolar stops from dental stops?

I actually mentioned this in the top comment:

> I'm not sure why the IPA chart doesn't differentiate these specific phones, honestly. I imagine it's because although the sounds are very different cross-linguistically, maybe there aren't any languages where these phones are contrastive and thus they don't warrant separate glyphs in the IPA.

What I meant in my most recent comment was that, if I were going to create a new IPA from scratch, I would probably try to have some diacritic or distinct symbol for each place of articulation, such that any possible place/manner combination could be expressed uniquely. As it stands, the presence of distinct symbols in the IPA seems governed by whether there are examples of real-world languages in which phones are considered contrastive. This is perfectly pragmatic, but it leaves me feeling disappointed that I can't easily express something that is right there on the chart! Having <t> correspond to 3-4 places of articulation with only a diacritic to distinguish 1-2 of those is disappointing, even if it's technically sufficient for any transcription within a given language.
I worked in both Android and ChromeOS orgs at Google. They way the leadership in each treated updates was very different.

ChromeOS devices are expected to be supported for 7 (or so) years. This is true even at the planning stage, which is why certain vendors are avoided as they cannot be reliably expected to provide support for that. There used to be a policy even that only upstreamed kernels can be shipped, as in: if the vendor does not upstream their kernel patches, no part of theirs can be in a ChromeOS device.

Very little thought about updateability was given in Android until about 2018(?)-ish, when project Treble started happening. And even then, that idea had existed for a while before it was implemented, and it took a long time to sell android leadership on it.
I highly recommend Boom if you're interested this history of art and what drives the market, arts political context.

Boom focuses more on the mega's and the gross borderline (outright) fraud, sales practices, & value pumping schemes.

The book in this review seems like it might delve deeper in the cultural and political drivers which would be cool to learn more about.

Important to ground the context of contemporary art in politics as a heuristic or opposition to 'soviet-style communist' culture and growing cuter-culture. Really interesting stories for instance the CIA & MOMA [1] [2]. There's also a history of large business being one of the first to build collections of contemporary art. And of course for profit galleries making kings. What is art now that a photo can perfectly reproduce a scene.

This review has this great quote "As if on cue, one did.” (This was Sartre in 1945, when the Nazi occupation ended and he delivered a philosophy of freedom that “turned France’s wartime experience into a metaphor.”)"

As a collector myself who can't afford more than works on paper (from established artists at least) I can't even get a reply to buy something theoretically in my budget for a lot of artists i love. PACE etc will only sell these 'lesser works' if you buy a ton of other art, prop up their less popular artists, have a top level connection. Even Nina Chanel Abney posted on her insta getting the classic 'who is in your collection' reply ;) she replied i have the largest collection of Nina Chanel!! We're not even worthy of knowing the price of pieces on that PDF.

[1] https://daily.jstor.org/was-modern-art-really-a-cia-psy-op/
[2] https://hyperallergic.com/294142/a-visit-to-the-the-cias-sec...
I pay for YouTube, and can't believe people feel their time watching commercials is worth less than $10/month. I'd probably pay more to not be datamined by Google, too.

Really I'd even consider creating a FaceBbook account if I could pay them not to use dark patterns. However I imagine there is already a shadow user profile of me, and Facebook is making making more money through sites that leak visitors' information than I'd be willing to pay for Facebook.
> sell that "premium" user data for more

Facebook doesn’t sell user data. They also happen to be the only company with a process in place to fight against other company doing it.
“If there were 315,507 excess deaths due to Covid-19, why is the difference in all-cause deaths between the end of 2020 and the end of 2019 only 61,654? That’s 61,654 more all-cause deaths in 2020 than in 2019, where the increase in all-cause deaths over each of the past ten years has averaged 44,806. That’s a difference of 16,848 from the median in a year with an alleged 315,507 extra Covid-related deaths.”
Source that backs up your claim about the loss of revenue to classifieds - https://mumbrella.com.au/de-classified-what-really-happened-...
> Every time we tried to make things compatible with JAWS, we realized that JAWS was just a pile of dirty Trident hacks that wasn't integrated as nicely as someone would expect such a software to be.

I know what you mean. Those hacks were the state of the art for all Windows screen readers from the late 90s through the mid to late 2000s; I did similar hacks myself. But now that Internet Explorer is finally dead (I think), we can leave all that in the past. These days, web browsers implement documented accessibility APIs (there are still a couple of competing APIs on Windows), and screen readers consume them. Of course, between the web application, the browser, and the screen reader, there's still room for misinterpretation of the standards, but the situation is better than it was back then.

As for Linux, I dislike the Orca screen reader simply as a user. I hope to do something about that before too long (after my non-compete with Microsoft expires). I haven't yet studied the Orca codebase deeply though.

Blind people have strong feelings about speech synthesizers. One of the most beloved speech synthesizers among blind power users was developed mostly in the mid to late 90s and last updated in 2002; unfortunately, it's closed source. I'm actually pretty comfortable with eSpeak, or more precisely the espeak-ng fork, and I know I'm not the only one. Many of us value consistent pronunciation and intelligibility at high speeds over how human-sounding the voice is.

Document conversion is something that my new company is working on. I might do a Show HN on that sometime.
> That's the worst way to create passwords.

That's one way to look to it, but I remember a lot of passwords created this way, and know a lot of sysadmins who create passwords this way.

Sometimes full-random + password manager is better, but sometimes something convoluted + brain & offline backups is better.

Perhaps being a sysadmin for so long deformed our brains to remember these types of stuff.
To be honest if you are in a country outside of EU just ignore it and look for another provider. The collection agency won't do anything more than send emails for 30 bucks and they can't influence your creditscore.
Show HN: Ive started work on a command line utility to help with GPU Passthrough
Some folks I've talked to about ad tracking things (unrelated to ATT, specifically) prefer to see targeted ads. Most people (in the US) will knee-jerk refuse, which the data indicates (so far as it's accurate data). However, enough people don't mind.
I'm triggered by sulfates and pistachios. I found this out through a combination of pure luck and semi-structured observation. I haven't had one in several years.

I consider myself very fortunate to have found these, and I encourage anyone who experiences migraines to keep a food diary (write down what you ate and drank the day before, including all ingredients). You may be able to find trigger ingredients at some point, and then avoid them the rest of your life.
We're pointing out that the problem is not particularly American, this is not a defense. Trying to make America seem worse then most of the world is warping the reality of the problem.

Enslavement and mistreatment is a problem that many cultures, countries and creeds have struggled with. Not admitting this and factoring this into your explanations shows some bias against America.
With Node.js and Express, you can generate HTML as a string in response to HTTP requests, as barebones as it gets.
Is the more likely scenario that you just had the seasonal Flu, or that there is a non detectable covid variant?
I mean that book is basically required reading for Statistics 101. Doesn't everyone have a copy?
For a long time, the Facebook home page when signed out said "Free forever". I know that blurb on the home page is not a legal contract, but it would be hilarious if someone sued Facebook over not honoring that if they decided to charge for the service. But I can't see that ever happening.
Explain China, Vietnam, New Zealand, Australia, and Korea.

Not all of those countries are islands (The UK is one, and you may note that it's not on the list.)

But all of those countries instituted short, hard lockdowns, and relaxed them after bringing local cases to zero.

Around here, we institute half-assed lockdowns, that are lifted when enough people complain about them (only to come back, as cases surge). Maybe that's why they don't work for us - because we are politically and socially incapable of dealing with even a few weeks of hardship.
If they insist on you taking a pay cut and you want to stay with the company, just compromise and take a 9-10% pay cut. you're take home pay will be nearly the same as you won't have state income taxes in Florida.
It's common to receive a counterfeit brand-name product from Amazon, because anyone can fulfill a product by sending it to an Amazon warehouse. Lot's of counterfeits make it in. Netflix even has a docuseries about it[1]. Research doesn't help there, since you're getting a counterfeit instead of the quality product you researched. Yelp is even worse than Amazon, with reviews tied into their business model[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMPdsKvhCOo (Netflix's Broken about Amazon counterfeits)

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG-ULQrlx9s (Yelp Billion Dollar Bully Trailer)
Yep, making the forecasts more interactive -- giving you more control over the weights and priors that go into them -- is very definitely on my near-term backlog. They are a bit astrology now, which is...quite a damning description, and one I definitely don't want to keep true!
at the very least it'd mean you could take your data and connections out of one service and go to another which would mean there is genuine competition that isn't hampered by network effects of platforms.
> The issue is that Electron and SDL will fix this 10 years later, old apps will still not work.

Old apps should dynamically link SDL / Gtk+ / Qt so they should work. For other old apps there's Xwayland which still provides SSD in GNOME.
The demo says it's using data from one of their customers - on the trials page, I can see 4 email addresses that presumably belong to their prospective customers. They look like real email addresses, so if so, you probably want to not show those.
I’d love that. I’d rather pay for a product than be the product.
Are you taking issue with the word "covertly", or the statement that Fauci's NIAID funded GoF research? Because the latter is also claimed directly in the OP.
The only way I use Facebook is via browser, in an isolated container, through a VPN and with zero permissions.

If they will ever disable mobile browser version and will push me to use the app... Well, i think I'll stop using Facebook on mobile at all.
It affected younger people more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Patterns_of_fatali...

> The pandemic mostly killed young adults. In 1918–1919, 99% of pandemic influenza deaths in the U.S. occurred in people under 65, and nearly half of deaths were in young adults 20 to 40 years old.
I believe there are a significant amount of these people that won't actually argue that just because the Spanish flu was worse in this way that the Covid pandemic isn't a problem.
There are a bunch of recently approved new migraine medicines that block CGRP instead of serotonin. I have suffered migraines since my teens and while Sumatriptan provides some relief, it is not great and has to be taken as soon as I get an auora to be at all effective. Stress and high fructose corn syrup, which is in EVERYTHING, are my triggers. I have not yet tried the new meds, but I am hopeful. https://cureheadaches.org/2020/07/15/new-migraine-medication...
Another financial incentive that exists: Families can get up to $9,000 for funeral expenses if the cause of death is listed as Covid.

https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/covid-funeral-reimburs...
That sounds like a silly contradiction of regulations and reality. Maybe I am missing something. If something is commercially available do export controls actually stop that thing from getting to prohibited countries? Or, is this a case of regulation not adjusting to the current reality?
OSI Model Layer 8
IDK, the screenshot posted makes what is supposed to be pretty primary (OK secondary) color green look like yellow. Color in terminals is pretty important; if I configured something to use ANSI green and it came out like Alacritty rendered it, I'd think something was off. Why is the default theme not standard?

And FWIW, that website they're all referencing absolutely will not say a color contains mostly "yellow" (it reports the highest RGB value), no matter what you do [1].

[1]: https://www.color-hex.com/color/feff00
I mean sure, if I want to cut communication with half my friends.

We don't live in an ideal bubble where I have full control over the tools I use. Its the same argument people make for video game moderation "if you don't like it, turn off chat" but then you're self-isolating.

Point is, this is a social problem.
> HTML was a language that was obvious and easy to generate

It was never so. This attitude in fact is the cause of many bugs and security vulnerabilities, most popularly XSS. There's a reason infrastructure was built around these technologies, one of which is that they are not really safe.
> The Redox OS kernel now supports aarch64 in the default branch. Work is ongoing to produce a fully booting image. Porting riscv64 is in progress as well, with many important dependencies already ported.

- https://twitter.com/redox_os/status/1389585044222578692
No, because of the new rule. If you voluntarily disclose your crimes, (or better yet brag about them on social media), it's not a crime anymore.
I'm sorry for your loss. I had a similar experience in the US. In my case, a doctor flatly contributed the (impending) death a byproduct of COVID. All tests prior to COVID were positive and pointed to many more years ahead.

I'm not certain, but I suspect something was lost in the handoff to the hospice care company where they just didn't have the history and I assume they were the ones that reported the COD. Not certain about this. I plan on looking to see if there's anyway to have this retroactively updated, but I'm not optimistic.
Oh, not the glowing. The n-words he liked to use, including after “CIA”.
I'm curious to find out the long-term effect from all the organ damage caused by non-lethal COVID-19. Heart damage, lung damage, brain damage, blood clots, chronic fatigue. Wonder if our healthcare costs will reach a new high over the next 30 years.
For reference the lowest wage at a McDonald's in Denmark is above $18 plus extra for outside normal working hours like holidays etc.
> Until other companies also move to a third party App Store. Why wouldn't they?

While I don’t know the exact reason, this isn’t what’s happened on Android, which has always allowed multiple app stores. Everything mainstream is on Google’s Play Store, and quality FOSS apps get published to F-Droid. My theory is that users shy away from sideloading alternative app stores, even if it’s not very difficult to do so.
Not an ARMA model, but exposing more information about the output of the model (and giving you more knobs to twist to explore hypotheticals) is definitely coming soon.
In any HN thread that has a metaphor, you can always scroll down to find the conversation degrading into a metaphor debate.
And that's why we have Netflix today. If Netflix started pushing commercials I'd leave immediately, and I think a lot of other people would too. Meanwhile Netflix is printing money like crazy.
> Specifically, how would a protocol prevent motivated companies from tracking your personal information?

They could still try! But you'd have options.

Take email, for example. I cannot imagine something like that coming into existence today.

I can use my own client to avoid ads and tracking from my service provider—did I download this message? Sure, the server knows that. How long have I looked at the message? Which message did I look at next? Did I follow any links (yes, someone might track that part, but my email provider's going to have a hard time doing that)? What mouse movements did I make while looking at it? No such luck there, and yes websites and closed-platform services do track that stuff.

I can switch providers. Say my email provider starts injecting trackers into all links. I can just dump their ass if I don't like it. I keep using email, and now they receive zero info about me (I mean, they might get a little if I send emails to their users, but you get my point). If I have my own domain name I don't even need to tell anyone I switched.

I can email someone using a different provider. Yes blocklists or whatever might cause a problem but, fundamentally, this does work.

Protocols force providers to act like a telco, at least, except that the situation's even better for software because the barriers to entry in the market are so low... unless all your competitors are giving away access to their strictly closed ecosystem for free, and not supporting open protocols. Then you're screwed, and that's exactly what's happening now and why the Internet protocols are largely frozen in time.
It's a definite improvement, and good point indeed regarding phishing... just as your answer precludes, a whole different authentication mechanism is needed to avoid phishing, that is why unfortunately that couldn't make my list. However, it does protect your other accounts from getting breached if one is either phished or breached, which I considered to be good enough.

WebAuthn does have its own issues and complications, mainly with how to handle account recovery on a lost or corrupted device. Sure, you can have a replacement device, as likely me and you try and do for most things, however, this is too burdensome for many.

I think the biggest issue with any new spec like WebAuthn is vendor adoption. As is... many banks fail to have any 2FA, and those that do, give you the terrible choice of SMS 2FA. In addition, they have odd and archaic password requirements, such as only these symbols, and only up to 20 characters etc... If they have failed on rectifying these in the last 2 decades, I'm afraid how far in the future away something like WebAuthn is to being in realized use. Hence I made SrsPass as hopefully a solution to today's passwords problems, the ones I considered sanely resolvable.
I bet iOS users are Facebook's most-prized "asset".
I'm not sure why you're being down voted. As far as I can see you're not advocating one way or another. And you're not wrong, with apologies for being so US-centric, that about half this country would agree with you that the parent idea is "interfering with the free market". I happen to disagree with those people but that doesn't mean you're incorrect to point them out.
There's such political fighting everywhere on the 'net. I use ActivityPub for musicians, programmers and Cory Doctorow, and don't have to deal with much of that, because I just avoid it.

The Federated Timeline is slightly cursed (I haven't curated it for a while), but less so than Twitter. (My instance, Fosstodon, doesn't really federate with the Nazi instances; those it has ended up federating with have been swiftly blocked, because Fosstodon's admins don't like admin-condoned harassment of their users.)
> A 2019 study of the global potential for tree restoration showed that there is space for at least 9 million km^2 of new forests worldwide, which is a 25% increase from current conditions. This forested area could store up to 205 gigatons of carbon or 25% of the atmosphere's current carbon pool by reducing CO2 in the atmosphere and introducing more O2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afforestation
The numbers are in thousands, so it's 1.3 million ;)
They were acquired for $170m.
COVID is still a major danger in most of the US, and hospitality is one of the industries where I, at least, would be most concerned about it. You have to be there in person, the customers are going to be coming from everywhere, and a significant percentage of the customers are going to feel fully entitled to abuse you—and the management is highly likely to tell you they're allowed to, and you just have to do whatever they want. Including let them get in your face with no mask, spittle flying.

$80k/yr for that? Risking my health (or even death) from COVID, guaranteeing damage to my mental health from the abuse? Yeah, pass.

I know less about the manufacturing sector, but from what I do know, it's going to have similar problems: you have to be there in person, and because it's widely considered to be "lower-class" work, there's a higher likelihood than average of abusive behavior toward workers.