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I did win the first game but noticed you mentioned difficulties, clicked hoping it wasn't on Easy. It was! ha

For people in this thread, if you're into abstract game design in the hex/table space, Nick Bentley creates some games I find very interesting, though haven't played. Bought some generic tiles once, hoping to eventually try out Circle of Life:

https://www.nickbentley.games/circle-of-life-an-ecosystem-si...

His "best" list:

https://www.nickbentley.games/category/my-best-games/
That's a very basic example. Let's say your program also depends on ffmpeg to convert some images, psql to interact with a database and a few other non-library dependencies.

With containers you can trivially ensure those are always present and with the correct versions.

Plus containers do give you some security benefits when compared to running natively.
"Republican legislation to limit teaching a historically accurate picture of U.S. history in public institutions has advanced in some half a dozen states."

Mind-boggling propaganda.
There definitely was interchange between various Greeks and Buddhists since Mahayana Buddhism's early development was in much contact with the Greeks from Hellenistic kingdoms in Bactria and India and some of those Greeks converted to Buddhism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhist_monasticism

Gandharan Buddhist art is steeped in Greek stylization and the first images of the Buddha followed Greek stylizations - early Buddhists didn't depict the Buddha at all, just symbols like empty footprints, it wasn't until Greek contact that this began.

Thomas McEvilley's _The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies_ has an interesting discussion of similarities between earlier Stoic texts by Sextus Empiricus and some works of Nagarjuna (one of the most important Mayahana philosophers) that use the same arguments, metaphors, and structuring. He goes over a number of other ancient sources, Greek and Indian, describing various sorts of cultural contact and interchange.

Pre-Hellenistic contact between the Greeks and India occurred but we can only speculate about it since there's no reliable evidence. After Alexander there was a lot of interchange and it had a big impact on Indian art, architecture, theater, and culture (as well as bringing significant influence of Indian stylization, philosophy, etc. on Greek Hellenistic kingdoms in Bactria and India).
> It's not even well kinda, Cuba absolutely did intervene heavily in Africa.

As did the US - the CIA was instrumental in the arrest of Nelson Mandela while he was on the lam. A number of Vietnam vets went on to "fight communism" in African wars of independence.

African decolonisation and the cold war was a complex mix.On one side, you had a white settler minority ruling class, ostensibly on the side of Capitalism and western values. On the other side, you had the majority agitating for full democracy with voting rights extended beyond the minority, but found no help from the west when they requested it.

The same story played out in multiple countries, including Vietnam: they'd be rebuffed by the west, and these groups, in need of training and materiel, would look to the USSR, China and Cuba who were happy to help if the rebels/terrorists/freedom fighters could help make socialism global.
https://epubs.siam.org/doi/pdf/10.1137/21M1392267

"Consider, for example, a graduate from a dental school with a balance of $300,000 in Direct PLUS loans carrying an interest rate of 7.08%"

Wow, that is an amazingly terrible interest rate, and I imagine, has repercussions for how much we all have to pay to go to the dentist.
On one hand, that's nice that there's another public holiday, but on the other hand this feels like such an empty gesture, almost like the political equivalent of putting a filter on your selfie.
It's a more tax efficient way to return value to shareholders

Only if you want to sell those shares in the very near future. A little while down the track when the stock price has dropped again, all that spent cash has just been frittered away needlessly, blown away in the wind.
I've worked on select weekends to make my life easier, those were worth the investment. Working yourself sick seems like a type of mental health issue people don't address, stuck in a hussle cult.
Regarding the physical presence of a small computer, something I actually miss is people hitting the monitor, when in despair, rather then the true culprit (as in "the box"). – There's actually some kind of magic in this misdirection.

With flat screens, this isn't a thing anymore. (Also, the kind of despair that would urge someone to attack the machine, has become increasingly more abstract, as has the underlying architecture causing the despair. What would you do? Take a plane to hit "the cloud"?)
What does making it a public holiday mean? I assume federal government offices will be shut on that day. What about state offices? Banks, other services? Private companies?
Fantastic news! We would love to hear your feedback in that case :)
> but sometimes still find myself trying to remember the chain rule

There's an algebra of differentials that was formalized quite late (I think at the 19th century) but accepts all of the operations you can use for scalars. The chain rule is just fraction simplification.
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A reader emailed to point out that this massive subthread is actually more on topic for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27517547 than it is for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27515230, so we've moved it thence hither.
Where do I mention anything about hacking, or misinformation? If you got that from "russia-gate" you are creating the conflation.

I was talking about vote fraud, but that's not necessarily an individual act.

> despite systems built to detect evidence

Which systems? Where are they described?
I recently stumbled on another ancient Iranian religion, that of the prophet Mani[1] and had a strong Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon thing where in the next couple of days I read the word “Manichean” used colloquially twice. I guess l it is used to describe a kind of over simplistic good vs. evil dualism.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mani_(prophet)
Being behind first world countries in a few cherry picked regards doesn’t make one a third world country.
That's a feature, not a bug. No one cares about Juneteenth just like no one cares about Kwanza, so there's no disagreement, so it sails through. When people care, there's disagreement and deadlock.

Change to things that actually matter is supposed to be slow and difficult in Government. Otherwise there would be constant change as either side managed to seize power, and our legal system would be completely unpredictable.
> There is ultimately some underlying thing that you want to make changes to, but you often want to be able to make those changes from different viewpoints (or in different contexts) depending on the types of changes you want to make

This is something I thought a lot about and really hope to see more in programming. Everything - every object, every concept, every program - has multiple representations, and in order to understand that thing you need to see it in multiple representations. But code is one representation, static text. Having other representations (like the laid-out website), especially that you can not just view but also edit, makes your project a lot easier to understand.
Funny you should mention this, we were actually working on it for a while before SwiftUI was revealed, but taking a slightly different approach at the time (the original approach was more inline with Unity, meaning an engine would be required to run the apps). We had reached the conclusion that that approach was wrong (primarily because of the lock in and how much of an uphill battle it would be for us to move to away from it), and had just started working on the new code-first approach when Apple dropped that at WWDC. Our jaws hit the floor because we knew we were on the right tracks then.
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It wasn't a roll call vote. It's a maneuver wherein the measure passes as long as no one present chooses to object.
I feel MTA is pretty badly managed and under-budgeted, absolutely not ideal for a case study even.
Reality is different. The EU just loves to talk to Amazon. The politicians are in awe of anyone from big tech. Star struck. It’s disturbing to have seen this from up close
It shortens the upper bound on URL length, so for computer scientists, it shortens it.
Companies and schools tend to echo federal holidays, so this will have some small effect but on a very big scale.
Hadn't seen that before!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PocAbbm9GnA
You had to pay a monthly fee for that privilege and talk to a customer service person to set it up. Often, your info still got sold to telemarketers.

In comparison, changing your SSID is free and something you can do yourself.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/unlisted-number-fe...
How does a new holiday impact the economy? Does it factor into a decision?
I was in a study. My IgG titer went up to 960, when I gave plasma twice, then 7-8 months after the infection it was below the 80 threshold to be considered positive. The weird thing was that six months in, I got tested for IgM and I was positive for that as well, which might been a sign of a second exposure. I know others in the same study who were negative a few weeks after being positive. So it might depend on the person and the test.
I'm not even saying the double standard is all bad but I really think that is a stretch. Plenty of people have been caught in situations on viral videos that were taken without their knowledge that show an incident without context.

Additionally - everything you could say about police making up incidents on a report is the same for someone being sued re: harassment or whatever. If you are suing for legitimate issue X, any lawyer will tell you to play up additional incidents that will look bad in the press even if you don't have evidence for when it would go to arbitration/trial.
Yup, sounds fair.

WordPerfect Corp screwed up twice over, and it's a minor miracle any of it survived.

First, it bought into the hype and spent a lot of effort porting WP to OS/2 -- then OS/2 bombed, of course.

It subsequently did a Windows version, but the first version was not a very good Windows app. The company spent a huge amount of effort on bringing across its own industry-best printer-driver system... but Windows already provided that, so it was largely a wasted effort.

(WP had fantastic printer support and could really get the absolute best out of any printer's capabilities. Windows just ignored all that, and dumped a bitmap of the page to the printer in graphics mode. Terrible on a dot-matrix or early inkjet, but it did get you all the fancy fonts and so on. But when Windows 3.1 included its own TrueType font rendering system, and as the market moved to hires bubblejets and lasers, it was the way to go.)

WordPerfect for Windows did evolve into a very good app, in time. I wish I'd bought a legit version when it was part of the Remote Worker's Humble Bundle last year. :-(
Curation implies some knowledge of the material being curated. If you're not a programmer, why should you be relied on to recommend educational materials related to programming?
When I was a teenager I finished a dozen software projects

Closed-source games for Windows 98

It was absolutely perfect. Closed-source, no one comes and complains they cannot compile anymore when the compiler and the library headers change. Games are just done, and if there are bugs they do not really matter. And Windows 98 apps still run perfectly on Linux with WINE.
I personally can’t see any benefit of allowing non-devs near code. Personally, any time I’ve seen clients / non-devs near code (or non-content / admin / HTML / CSS type things) that’s when things go bad and I have have to fix things.

I’d be interested to see how this would work in practice but I’m skeptical at the moment.
clouds -> difference clouds a few times -> invert -> ctrl+L and compress = lightning is still a recipe in my muscle memory.
Did you lose your sense of smell or taste?

I have dozens of friends who report a terrible cold with many of these symptoms during the Dec19-Jan20 time period. I had it myself. What's notable about all these anecdotes is that not a single one of them remembers experiencing the #1 most distinctive COVID symptom: losing the sense of smell. Of course, not every COVID sufferer experiences that, but you'd think if there was an outbreak of real COVID during that time we'd have heard a lot of reports of it. Take a look at all the people reporting being sick back then on this HN thread alone -- nobody leads with the most distinctive COVID symptom.
Election reform seems like a meaningful issue to tackle: what could be more fundamental to our Democracy? Democrats seem poised to make their best effort, but it's extremely difficult to do with 50+1 votes in the Senate. I wouldn't characterize D's as not doing anything on this specific issue.
Do you think you actually possess information others don’t and such a website would make difference at all?
I just tested Quick Links. It looks okay, but the big thing is that you need to be able to create a link to a new page as you type, then open the page and start typing. Quick Links speeds up the process of linking to an existing page. You can already drag a page link from the sidebar onto the page.
A mostly point to point flying network is also harder to recover than a mostly hub and spoke one.
Wow our ideas were really similar. I read your blog post - even how we came up with the idea was similar! I too played a lot of Hearthstone, and thought of adding a new digital element to a board game. Seems like Go was a natural fit :)
The Pahlavi kings were Shi'ite Muslims. This article is spinning a revisionist narrative that has a mild whiff of using religion to divide a people. I lived in the Pahlavi Iran, which is certainly missed, but the notion that there was "neo-Zoroastrianism" in the air is news to me. Zoroaster was very simply framed as one of the prophets that the Muslim scripture asserts has been sent to "every nation" by God. Iranians were rather fed (and many actually believe this!) an interesting fable about how Shia Islam is the Iranian version of Islam.

And from the 3 major classical Iranian empires and eras, it was not the very assertively Zoroastrian Sassanid empire that was memorialized and used as a vehicle to promote nationalism by Pahlavi Shahs, but rather the Hakhamaneshian (Achaemenid) dynasty. When the late Shah of Iran held his memorial to 2500 years of Iranian kings, he saluted Cyrus the Great, not some zealously Zoroastrian Sassanid Shah.

http://irancollection.alborzi.com/2500/index.htm

Note the missing "flame". Note, instead, the Cylinder of Ku-Rosh (Cyrus the Great). And Cyrus, unlike his equally great successor Dariush, was rather cagey about his actual religious beliefs.

Even in what passes for native "neo-classical" architecture, it was again the Achaemenid era that was front and center.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iranian_Foreign_Affaire_M...
What makes you think this is false? I'm pretty sure this is not just a theory anymore, not for a long time. In fact, you can go read about it on the CIAs freedom of information act portal, on their own website. So it's just a "crazy conspiracy", a real one.
Drugs in Eastern EU? Did you perhaps mean Spain (cannabis), Italy (heroin), Belgium (cocaine), Netherlands (mdma, amphetamines etc). You can pull rightwing ideas out of tabloids, or you could you know, read some of EU own reports - just google "European Drug Report. Trends and Developments".
http://www.5z8.info/whitepower_c1h3fx_how-to-skin-a-gerbil

http://www.5z8.info/dont-just-drizzle_p1t3un_how2pipebomb
I know Louie CK is still making money - but I actually think he would have been integrated back into media better if he got arrested for j^cking off on the street in 2017 and did a weekend in prison than the reality of him j^cking off in an apartment in front of particular females in the 90s.
I mostly hit the keyboard. And curse (loudly at home, under my breath in the office)
Sweden has failed to build almost any new big company since the last 100 years. Just look at OMX30 (30 most traded companies at Stockholm stock exchange). Almost all of them are companies older than 100 years.

Simplified, many great old successes (old money, i.e the billionaires) and many new promising, but few in-between.
Did anyone on the videos in that show get famous?
I moved roughly 10 years ago to the US from europe. In my experience, raising small amounts of money is possible in Europe and not too hard. Once you need more money, it becomes extremely difficult or nearly impossible, unless you can spend all your time networking, which is not going to happen if you are busy building a product.

I would say that banking in Europe is much better developed than in the US. In the US, we still have checks and you need to pay for wire transfers (what???). Doing taxes in the US is 10 times more complicated than it is in Europe, and CPAs are only interested to doing them for you if you are a cookie cutter case and easy to make money off. Otherwise, good luck getting a call back. That doesn't happen in Europe. You hire an accountant, he does his job.

Entrepreneurship in the US is not easier than it is in Europe, IMHO. Raising money or scaling might be easier.

In my experience, I've been dealing with constant discrimination in the US. It is claimed that where you are from or what your social status is, doesn't matter, in silicon valley (or California in general). People are nice, they smile, but it's mostly fake. You remain a foreigner, who should still work for less pay than those who grew up locally and went to an ivy league school, even though you have the same credentials and graduated at a top school in Europe (in my case, I have an ivy league degree on top of that).

Raising money in the US? No different than in Europe, at least in my experience. Again, no network = no raise. And you will need to overcome the above discrimination or at least the idea that you might "go back" any time, even if you are a permanent resident.

All this sounds brutal, and maybe hard to take, but I just say it like it is, and I prefer to be honest and straightforward and share my first hand experience.
Wanna jump in here and say I'm working on this exact problem using GPT-3. The results when added to other dev tools have been really inspiring, and I'm learning how flexible comments can be when addressing the "why"[1] instead of just the "how".

[1]https://replit.com/@bramses/stenography-carbon-bot#index.js
I’ve found that many of us who try to stay on the “cutting edge” of new wrt our professions and hobbies also have an interest in history of people and religions and a general interest with things that go back far into history. It’s not a complete overlap by any means, but it isn’t an uncommon pairing to find in people.

Interesting archeological news, and things about less well know cultures are often shared and upvoted here as well.
Noctua’s long-awaited passive CPU cooler is here
It is not as simple as that.

Other companies distributed the free version, too. It was bundled with at least one print book. It was included with old versions of both SUSE Linux and Mandrake Linux. It was sold, on CD, by various long-gone vendors.

It was available from multiple other sources than Corel, and has been since the early days.

I entirely see where you're coming from, and I've added a paragraph clarifying its status to my blog post. However, given its wide distribution over more than 20 years, which Corel has never seeked to stop, I think it is fair. This is not "abandonware". Corel made this one version free of charge and has never rescinded that.
It's a bit strange to throw this sentence in at the end--it's vague to the point of being useless and seems to throw the 50 Republican senators who didn't oppose in a generic "bad guys" light.
Good chocolate is made from real ingredients: cocoa, cocoa-butter, sugar, plus real milk if making milk chocolate. The place where it is produced is irrelevant.

Poor chocolate is made by replacing some, if not all, of the real ingredients with cheaper substitutes.

Read the ingredients list on the back of the packet and learn what's in the good stuff and what's in the bad stuff. Then buy accordingly.
Some people advocate putting lots of stuff into commit messages, which makes me think I'm missing something -- commit messages are much less visible/accessible than comments in my workflow, so I don't expect my commit message to be seen.

Do you always read the whole git history of a file before editing it? What interface do you use for that?
> 1/ Regarding the comments about remapping keys as the first thing people do: there are several issues with this. What if I am using a new machine? For example, every time I log into a new EC2 instance or a Cloud 9 environment I would need to do this remapping.

Yeah, but, you know, using Emacs on a terminal that hasn't been produced since 1980 was ergonomic and it's a cardinal sin to change defaults, no matter how many generations of users pass.

This is especially ironic since supposedly all Emacs power users customize their setups, so they shouldn't have to worry about defaults changing, since they don't use them anyway, right? :-p
This reminds me of an essay I was just reading, "Zoroastrian Survivals in Iranian Folklore"[1], by the eminent religious scholar R. A. Zaehner (who I knew better for his famous debates in the 1960's and 1970's arguing that mystical experiences occasioned by psychedelics weren't true mystical experiences).

From the introduction to the paper:

"Visitors to the Vatican Museum in Rome will remember that the very first monuments, flanking the entrance to the first room in the vast gallery that leads ultimately to the Sistine Chapel, are neither saints not angels but what appear to be devils: for at each side of the entrance door, guarding it with their baleful presence, stand two most un-Christian deities with the head of a lion and gaping jaws. In both hands they bear keys, a snake encircles their bodies, and the Signs of the Zodiac are impressed on their limbs.[2] Coming face to face with these awesome figures Christians may well recall the words of St. Peter: "Be sober and watch; because your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour" (i Pet. 5 . 8 ). The serpent too which envelops the body of the lion-headed deity is all too familiar, and one is tempted to identify it with that selfsame serpent which tempted our first mother, Eve, to eat of the forbidden fruit.

Yet, interesting though the Christian parallels may be, we have long known that this rather repulsive deity has nothing to do with the Christian devil, for he figured in a cult that was for long Christianity's most potent rival in the early Roman Empire. This rival religion which has left monuments throughout the length and breadth of the Roman Empire is known as Mithraism, and its roots were originally in Iran; for the god Mithra, from whom the New Persian word mehr, meaning both the "sun" and "affection" derives, was, in the Zoroastrianism of the later Achaemenian Empire, second only to the supreme Deity, Ahura Mazdah himself."

The paper concerns a discovery in the 1960's of an incomplete 600,000 word story written during WW2 by a mysterious Iranian by the name of Ali Mirdrekvandi[3], which Zaehner deduced must have been a retelling of ancient Zoroastrian myth and which, Zaehner argued, confirmed his identification of the lion-headed figure (the "Lionish god" in the story) as Ahriman, the false deity and enemy of their true god, Ahura Mazdah (Ohrmazd).

[1] - https://archive.org/details/ZaehnerZorSurvivalsFolklore

[2] - http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/mithras/images/cimrm545.gi...

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Mirdrekvandi