skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s certainly a big hand wave here between describing Risk in terms of stocks and flows, and the strategies that he then goes in to propose. Honestly the systems thinking analysis here is weak in that at no point does he characterize the opponents or their armies and countries as part of the system - where he actually then relies on their behavior as a component of strategy (getting them to fight among themselves, for example). There’s discussion of how the strategy manages ‘opponent fear’, but he hasn’t explained that as a stock.
For those wondering, JPEG XL is not currently supported by browsers https://caniuse.com/jpegxl

Progressive JPEG is already supported but JPEG XL seems much better.

First time I hear about JPEG XL. I have experimented with progressive JPEG a couple of years ago but switched to webp since the various public Google page scores give a better score for images in webp.
> If I have a container with width: 10em, and then in there an image with width: 50%. I want to just e.g. specify 3 alternative images with widths 200px, 400px, 800px.

Basically, you want container queries, something long desired. It’s actively in the works but it’s first going to be for elements. Once that is working, it can inform how to implement it for responsive images.
The value added is that you’re not using stdin and can use it for something else.

Whether that’s actually useful depends on the use case. Personally I have an ssh wrapper script, somewhat similar (though not using base64), that fixes the quoting so that the argv passed to the wrapper directly corresponds to the argv of the command on the remote end. It’s meant for interactive use, so the program I’m trying to run could easily be something that reads from stdin, or even an interactive program like sudo or vim that expects stdin/stdout to be a tty. (To make those work, the -t option has to be passed to ssh.)
This must be how my aunt always wins against, well, everyone. Honestly, she's not the sharpest tool in the drawer, but she plays Risk like the Muzychuk's play chess. She's a damn Risk savant. :D

I wonder how she would fare at Diplomacy. hmm.
A missile will generally not care about distance. What matters is direction/angle. Distance is irrelevant. Just keep pointing at the target and eventually you will get there, assuming you are faster. So the direction to the strongest reflection, or greatest doppler shift, or combination of both, will suffice to get the missile to the target even without range data.
Check yourself medically; you might have hEDS, or some other hormonal problem. It’s much more prevalent than people think. Check T3 thyroid for sub clinical, check your Testosterone (female and males). Check for post exertion fatigue by exercising to exhaustion and trying to repeat in a few days. You could do a FMa test. The official diagnosis for hEDS is crap, so go through the comobidities and see if there are other weird things about yourself that it could explain. I spent years thinking I was lazy before finally figuring it out.
In a universe with an infinite speed of light, can there even be any kind of waves? Do physical waves not also propagate instantly?
"Infected and recovered" antibody levels are often lower than vaccinated, and natural immunity may dissipate faster as well.

You should get vaccinated as long as you don't know your antibody levels.
I'm pretty sure "guest" comes from Old Norse, not Latin. And hostile came from Latin through French. They've got the same PIE root though, which is what's interesting. Same root, just from before the germanic and romance languages split off PIE.
Another great video on it, this one from TED-Ed

https://youtu.be/Uj3_KqkI9Zo
This is why pinning user sessions to IPs isn't going to work - in a mobile first world most users have multiple IPs that they might access a service from during the course of a day.

Logging people out also isn't a minor inconvenience, especially for users who haven't figured out password managers yet.
I've found I actually enjoy Risk when played on the computer. Just speeding up army placements and automating the dice rolls, so you can say "attack until N remain", saves an unbelievable amount of time.
One can imagine a pandemic severe enough where requiring everyone to get vaccinated is obviously and overwhelmingly in the public’s best interest. And that this best interest of the public overrides any considerations of a purported right to not be vaccinated. There are times where the overall public safety considerations overwhelms individual objections.
In my experience the key to winning is endurance: just be the last person willing to play past 2:00 a.m. Then it doesn't matter if you have entire continents or one piece in Greenland: you win.
The point is more that men were the assumed default. Ambition was seen as healthy and positive in men and negative in women (the word “bossy” comes to mind). Large parts of the world and some parts of western societies still see it that way, as a sort of natural imperative.

So the average man certainly had more of an advantage. But there are lots of other factors of course, then and now. Class, race, disability status…

I often wish the public face of feminism was more intersectional. Unfortunately we get undifferentiated pop/choice feminism instead. I’m as tired of it as the next person, considering it usually ignores trans issues (beyond maybe some lip service) all together.

Also I feel like this entire thread seems to ignore the economic component of this discussion. Women are stagnant too. Our system is crumbling, and young people without access to generational wealth are suffering, there is no good path into the middle class anymore, so why bother at all? That is the main takeaway.
> Poe also provoked his readers with disquisitions on the technological basis for his literary work, laying out how he would take a poem “step by step, to its completion, with the precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem.”

So he composed poetry like many of us write code. I wonder if poetry in general shares a form of mental athletics with programming. I'd expect a compiler for poetry to be close to impossible. Though maybe a poetry linter could be useful.

In the end code is strictly constrained by reality and poetry only by imagination, making them fundamentally different. Except maybe for oddities like Poe.
Yes, but the best cryto-sceptic sub on Reddit is faint praise. It is filled with arrogance, hate and, ignorance.
"I'm not complaining about the Mexicans, I'm complaining about the LAZY Mexicans, can't you do logic?"

Nobody's fooled.
You must have access to very special intel. Because I have never heard of these political refugee that France deported. I would to read some more info about it if it exist. I personally know a russian political refugee. Once the political refugee statute acquired you're basically a French citizen so there is NO WAY you 'll be deported.
> It’s really a pet peeve of mine when I hear people pronounce Latin words starting with v and using the modern English v. It’s pronounced as w.

It's a little more complicated. The Romans didn't distinguish the sounds. But that doesn't mean they always produced a sound that you would recognize as W. Sometimes they did, sometimes not. You can observe the same effect easily in modern languages with the same non-distinction -- for example, in modern Mandarin, 问 formally begins with a W sound, but in practice often begins with what I hear as a V.

(For extra interest, contrast Old English, in which -- like modern Mandarin -- /f/ and /w/ were phonemes while /v/ was not, but -- unlike Mandarin -- [v] was a variety of /f/, not of /w/.)
It will also be more difficult to find contributors.
Or maybe GP is someone who has worked on projects from their infancy. If your queue will be handling less than a request per second for the foreseeable future, why not just use the technologies already in your stack and plan a migration path now? What do I gain from adding Redis (and thereby making my system even more distributed, with all the hazards that carries) if my project isn't even guaranteed to make it to 10 rps before going bankrupt?
Just do what Dropbox and Snap Inc did. Acquire other companies and resist multi-billion dollar takeover attempts yourself.
> Just add a Kernel and bootloader and one can boot most images.

Certainly not true of any of the images I work with.
I like History of the World these days. A bit more structure but a fun area conquest game. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/224/history-world
I don't see NUMBERS attached to the claims.
Its probably fair use, but if you have any real success you'll be sued -- the first part of this sentence just means maybe, after a long and protracted legal battle costing you hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, you will prevail.

See: Sony Computer Entertainment v. Connectix Corp. https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=716676913673727...
Loved my minidisc players and recorders. Feel so cheated my cyberpunk future was denied because it never became a (successful) data format.
Gemini Is Useless
Completely. I erroneously assumed this was referring to startups, which would make a great article.
Looks like the article stops just short of an example that requires a nasty amount of escape sequences and single quotes.

If I need to do anything more complex than what the author is discussing I just reach for Python’s shlex.quote() function. The output gets rather hard to follow, but the code is much simpler.

I had to set up a script that SSHes into a host, then starts a screen session, then does some grepping/filtering on the remote output. Shlex made it possible. I couldn’t have come up with the arcane quoting without entering the maw of insanity!
There were some good things and some very bad things, which you've omitted of course. But you've missed my point - that celebrating the Empire through these honours means that Britain makes it harder for the country to make a balanced and nuanced assessment of the legacy of the British Empire.
If we don't even agree on what happiness means, how can we decide whether people in the US or EU are happier?
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> Just keep pointing at the target and eventually you will get there

Surely they can't use this poor of an optimization strategy? If the target is moving perpendicular to you, you want to point slightly ahead of the target so you intercept them as quickly as possible.
It also isn't a "pure" HTML solution as all the magic is happening on CSS. So, convoluted CSS or two lines of JS?
<noscript> is only activated if JS is actively disabled. None of these failure modes will trigger it. You can use onerror="foo" on <script> tags though

EDIT:
Actually the data saver thing is called "noscript" so you'd hope it'd activate the tags. Network failures though will trigger onerror and leave the rest up to you
A colonizing force takes over your country, steals your resources and exploits your people, and your people suffer.
You try to resist and you are murdered.

Then some guy on the internet says, "I don't think the colonizing force ever did anything deliberately genocidal" as if that somehow excuses all the other evil they committed.
That is not always true in my experience. Several generations on my and my wife's families put up with backbreaking hard work and privations in order to build a better future for later generations. Simultaneously other branches of our families spent what they had and enjoyed better lives at the time instead. It was a huge investment that really paid off in my generation, my family's debt to them is incalculable and largely unpayable.
>> and then it uses IR and radar together to remove stealth.

So what happens when the dual seekers give different results? If there were three seekers then you could ignore one, but with only two you cannot check one against another. What if the radar says turn left but the IR says turn right? Having two seekers may make the target's life easier: defeat either seeker and you defeat both.
Cute photo!

Makes me think why isn't it common for rovers to be equipped with stationary instruments that can be arbitrarily placed somewhere for longer periods of time. The mobile robot would then be free research other areas and comeback later to gather results from the stationary instrument and then move it to another location.
Not reading

I'm assuming this article is to make fun of asking stupid questions

Republicans want the literal end of human civilization on earth, yes, so if the article is making fun of the extreme hypocrisy -- I'm all for it

But people, even Donald fucking trump, should be able to ask stupid fucking questions constantly and in public without fear of people making fun of them for being stupid

This seems obvious to me
The WHATWG HTML standard explicitly allows for disabling scripting [1]. You are not directing your blame appropriately.

[1] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webappapis.html#enabl...
Not sure. Maybe something else is responsible for identifying "stuck" jobs and kicking them out to humans to decide what to do (assuming worker crashes are rare)

If we're talking PostgreSQL specifically, and newer-ish Postgres (9.5+ I think), then you can leverage its abilities to do all this in one atomic query:

UPDATE jobs
SET status='working'
WHERE id = (SELECT id
FROM jobs
WHERE status=NULL
LIMIT 1
FOR UPDATE
SKIP LOCKED)
RETURNING id
I don’t doubt that there are still plenty of users on browsers without Javascript (many of them here on HN), but I wonder if they would still constitute 0.9% of visits.
ELI5:

Redis is really a mix-bag of many useful commands, see [https://redis.io/commands]. It has been referred to as the "swiss army knife" because you can build many custom solutions from these building blocks. Still, its most common use-case is for in-memory key/value caching for performance reasons. For instance, if you have one database query that takes a particularly long time, you can execute it once and store the result in redis, and then retrieve that value extremely fast.
> Looking at a translation of the lords prayer, wondering where the word 'hallowed' came in,

Hallowed is word of Germanic origin. It has shared etymology with holy and is part of the name of the Anglo-Saxon pagan festival Halloween.
Geo-noshing?
Frankly, at least with the USAs current regulatory setup, I can't think of a better business model to sustain true investigative journalism.

Without the giant clickbait money engine that is BuzzFeed, I'd be really surprised if BuzzFeed News would be profitable enough to operate independently.
> Does it allow two devices, both behind NAT and without a public IP, to connect to each other?

It does! This is one of the big differences between it and something like Wireguard. It uses NAT hole punching to create direct links between machines without any manual configuration.

> Does it rely on some kind of central server that allows devices to discover each other?

Sort of? When you first boot up your first two nodes it uses a set of "bootstrap peers" hosted by the IPFS team. These bootstrap peers allow instances to initially connect to and share their locations with other hyprspace instances with the same discovery key. Although we use these peers for discovery, none of your data is ever sent through them. All of the connections hyperspace makes at the moment are direct end-to-end encrypted peer-to-peer connections.
An alloy is a mixture, no bond formation
there's about 3 levels of strategic play:

a player can follow the rules

a player can find the optimal strategy within the rules

a player can use the rules to find plays that negate easy access to the optimal strategy to the enemy

this whole article is mostly stuck at level 2, it identifies a workable strategy analyzing a player own options, missing all the more advanced plays that a risk player should know and will need to do to win.

moreover, there's one critical flaw in the analysis, the goal is not to reach your objective, the goal is to reach your objective before other players do, and the time limit influences the risk taking; turtling, as suggested here, rarely wins games.

anyway, risk itself is a insanely complex games, so I'll skip mechanics, which are kind of covered in the article (except combination optimization, which is weird since mechanically speaking it is one major factor driving gameplay) and go at the jugular of the issue:

you win at risk guessing other people goals and making moves that confound your own or even let player think your goal is one of those of your adversaries. mechanically suboptimal moves, like a push into a continent you don't have to conquer but one of your enemy does, will trigger player response, and strategically turning player against each other will both buy you time and reduce the enemy placing too many reinforcements against your actual goal path.
I suppose the upside is you can quit at anytime with no notice. That’s great from an employee perspective, in a feeling of freedom sense.
‘Pointing at’ in this case means maintaining a constant bearing to target, with decreasing range. If anything it’s easier for a moving guidance system to achieve that than to point at the target.
If you are willing to use SELECT ... FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED, then you can implement the queue without any UPDATE query or status column at all. Just lock the record to mark it as in progress, that is how you get the benefit that when the worker crashes, it will automatically be returned to the queue.
It's called Intacto actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intacto
Title: "How To Win At Risk Every Time By Using Systems Thinking"

Last paragraph: "The above strategy works “on paper,” but that doesn’t mean that it will work in your next game of Risk."

Too funny. Totally discounts the title... smh
My understanding is, UNLOGGED means that changes are not written to the WAL and data can be lost in the event of an unscheduled shutdown. It doesn't mean that the table only exists in memory however - the data is still eventually persisted to disk.
English speaking jobs are mostly in startups and that's the same as what OP seems to be running away from.
Otherwise, he would have to learn a new language and all that jazz of moving to another country.
My uMatrix config does :P
During the initial fly out the missile will usually either be flying toward a set navigation point, or receiving data link guidance from the launching aircraft, or cueing off radar signals reflected by the target from the launching aircraft's radar (passive homing). You want to keep the missile's own radar switched off until fairly late in the engagement because it has limited battery power, narrow field of view, and will alert the target's radar warning receiver.

With modern data links it's now possible in principle to provide target tracking updates from a different sensor (like IRST) or even a completely different aircraft. If done correctly the target won't even realize a missile is on the way until it's too late to evade.
> opening up all the best parking spaces.

Funny quote, but I don't think front-line infantry have the best parking spaces. That would be the flag officers.
Since it isn't molecular you can scale it by any number. Oftentimes it seems that decimals will be used when the ratio is not fixed. I'm guessing that at different temperatures some of the atoms will move around, while bond distances will change and thus overall the volume stays consistent.

> Not with this stuff, which the team observed across that huge temperature spectrum demonstrating "only minute changes to the bonds, position of oxygen atoms and rotations of the atom arrangements." The team says the exact mechanism behind this extreme thermal stability isn't totally clear, but that perhaps bond lengths, angles and oxygen atom positions are changing in concert with one another to preserve the overall volume.
Clojure Transducers
I browse with uMatrix and JS disabled. If you're site makes me enable more than 3 different 3rd party scripts, I usually just fuck right off. I actively work to avoid it, and will remember it and actively trash your site and mock your users to anyone given the chance.

Yes I'm that much of an asshole.

Does your site mostly work without JS untill I want to do/use 'other thing'? Then I'll normally just white list the whole site because I know that you've at least considered what needs to be and what doesn't need to be included.
FYI the (...) part was part of the prompt to guide GPT-3 to be a true expert. Everything behind this, on AI, was GPT-3 generated, sometimes with 1-3 trials each time.

Me>Hello, nice talking to you.
AI>Nice meeting you as well. What's on your mind?
Me>I need your advice for the next version of my software.
AI>Go ahead. I'm an expert in programming languages, performances and metrics.
Me>Great, thanks. So here is the thing. I created a PHP interpreter in the PHP language itself. Now it's pretty slow and I would like to make it faster. I'm considering using another programming language. Which ones would be both easy and run my software faster?
AI>You can try C, although I've heard of Rust and they might be good as well.
Just take the income cap off contributions. What's it at, $110-$150k?
> It’s only natural that as front-end developers we want to flex our technical skills... There’s an issue with lending more of your focus to the possibilities promised by new technology though: your focus moves away from your users.

> Meeting our many users’ needs is number one on our list of design principles.
but being able to disable it is the whole point of installing it and it does disable third-party by default.
> seems to imply I’ve was attacking your position, but that wasn’t my intent.

Not quite attacking, but disagreeing with an implied assumption that I didn't make (ie, that I was arguing that AVs were ready for primetime instead of narrowly disputing the flawed reliability comparison in the parent comment).

> I am legitimately asking how much parity there is regarding oversight regulation between flight and autonomous software, which would help make your point clearer since it has a direct relationship to reliability

The reason I figured it was rhetorical is that I thought it was fairly universally known that there's no comparable regulatory apparatus for AVs (yet?). But you're mistaken that this is relevant to my point: the parent comment was discussing the feasibility of AVs by saying "we can't build computers with the uptime of human drivers", and I was pointing out that he had this backwards.

> If you are making an analogy about reliability but one is legally forced to demonstrate reliability while the other is not, does that comparison really make sense with that additional context?

I didn't say AVs were as reliable as aircraft software, nor that they would definitely get to that pt (perhaps they don't need to, as safe stops are much easier on the ground). I was disputing the claim that computer system uptime can't be made as reliable as humans in the current day, using aircraft systems as an in-production example.
Some people just won't get it
It's not very hard to google it, I guess it's this case: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur46/3999/2021/en/
I think what people lament is not JavaScript, so much as using JavaScript unnecessarily. Recreating (and usually breaking) navigation history, recreating hyperlinks, losing scroll position by interfering with it or with infinite lists, recreating forms, etc.

JavaScript is overused and often at the expense of usability.
You’re right. Our society is rewarding those who claim victimhood above those that overcome which is worrying.
I'm in the US. Quality of life is unbelivable if you're rich, great for upper middle class, good for middle class, okay if you're working class, terrible if you're poor.

Of course, all of that is still very much generalization, and I find comparing quality of life in Europe with US is more or less dick measure contest. You try one when there are no fact based arguments to talk about. NHS versus Medicaid, for example, that's could be a good debate.