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Ball saver was invented specifically by Terminator 2 (1991 after Bride), because the plunger sends the ball into the center of the play area, where it could drop down the middle before you got any chance to do anything with it.

Addams supports ball saver in software, but it's not on by default factory settings, as it is for almost all later games, so you only get it if the operator enables it in the menu. Designer Pat Lawlor didn't like the ball saver crutch and also tried to minimize its use in Twilight Zone (1993), though after that it became fully standard.

Addams does have a different form of ball saver like this, though. Almost all games dating back to the early 80's will give you the ball back if it drains without ever hitting any playfield switch at all. This happens because the machine can't distinguish between this case and the ball failing to eject out of the trough to the plunger in the first place, so it errs on the side of letting you play again.

For Addams (and other games but most notable for Addams), exploiting that no-switch-drain became a strategic point: deliberately plunge softly so the ball will get to the flippers without hitting any switch, and if you fail to trap and gain control at the flipper, you'll get it back.

What you mention for Bride is called a "pity extra ball", lighting one for you if you did very badly before starting ball 3 (usually determined by score, not play time.) A fair number of Williams machines had that in some form, and occasionally later Sterns do too. It's functionally the same as an extra ball awarded by any other means, and nothing to do with any kickback or ball saver.

Kickback at the bottom of an outlane dates back to at least Firepower (1980), which has target banks at an angle that will often rebound the ball into the left outlane. I'm not sure if anything earlier than Firepower had that.
Another package manager for Python is exactly what the world needed
HN doesn't like to hear this, but the shortage crated is artificial, and there also is nothing wrong with NAT.

First, running exactly one open port per IP (443 or 80) is the worst use of resources. The whole "crisis" could be solved with simple browser support of something like SRV records. This could be implemented with "here and now" technology, rather than adopting a new standard for the entire internet backbone.

Next, widespread use of NAT provides plausible deniability for everyone on the internet. Google, Facebook, Comcast, Verizon, etc push ipv6 hard in order to enable causing tracking of individual traffic on the internet. These institutions have exactly 0 business knowing how many physical devices are behind a firewall. No, ipv6 privacy extensions do not provide the same sort of anonymity that a NAT firewall does before you hit that downvote button and take away some of my fake internet points.
but sadly Group Policy is not available on Windows Home edition
JIT mode basically means it recompiles your styles before you can press reload on your browser.

Before they didn't have all colors enabled by default, because generating classes like `bg-blue-500`, `text-blue-500`, `border-blue-500`, etc. for all colors would increase the resulting CSS way too much. They did the same thing with variants.

With the JIT none of that is necessary anymore. Plus you can use arbitrary values because it's being compiled now.
Inflation is only part of the cost increase. More healthcare services are now being delivered than 30 years ago. If your grocery bill goes up because you're eating more food that's not inflation, it's increased consumption.

The problem is that now many workers are paying more and actually getting less. They're essentially subsidizing healthcare for the indigent and patients with expensive chronic conditions. Personally I think those subsidies ought to be funded by progressive income taxes, but that's a matter of debate.
Public Health Scotland urges public to defer Christmas parties
Let's not forget about how dangerous oxygen can be. The oxygen we enjoy now first caused an extinction event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
There were Tesla naysayers saying EVs wouldn't work, that the model3 would never ship, that Elon was a 'fraud', etc. etc. - a lot of that is forgotten now, but it was rampant and constant and completely wrong.

I'd argue the problem is often overconfidence everywhere mixed with people who don't know what they're talking about.

I agree that stuff needs to be evaluated for substance, I just think there tends to be a pretty extreme status-quo bias by default so a naysayer is more likely to be wrong because of that.
This is a significant and life changing side effect. One that should be getting more coverage than it is. Additionally there appears to be no followup with individuals in the at risk categories post vaccination.
Not sure about HN but there's plenty of evidence of intelligence agencies using Reddit to craft public opinion.

Look at the demonization of the US's geopolitical rivals and the stories that get pushed. For example, questioning the Russian bounties story for a while would get you responses of "Russian bot". We know now the Russian bounties story was weak from the start: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/remember-...

Repeat ad nauseam for other geopolitical rivals.
I also recommend interviewing for SV tech companies that are not FAANG. A bunch are not leetcode heavy and pay just as well and most offer completely remote roles.
Sneakers is a great movie. Social engineering vs outright hacking. A lot of what it's about is still relevant today.
It may be cynical but it's also totally true.. I've personally gone through this whole cycle two separate times from smallish company -> private sale -> IPO shortly after. (~30th engineer in one and 11yrs, then day-one for the other and 7yrs).

Say you joined a company relatively early. If you're still around years later by an IPO, you probably liked that early environment where you had low-to-no management overhead, large direct impact, and everybody was personally invested in getting shit done. For most employees that environment was already slipping away pre-IPO, but you know you're close to the finish line and can't get off now. What remains is quickly going to be gone post-IPO.

The early employees get major cash-outs; some probably don't need to work at all anymore, so those that treat their job as a means-to-an-end and not their identity leave immediately. Maybe there's big incentives to stay for a few years, paid out annually, hung over your head so you don't quit immediately. But after a year of more managers and TPS reports and public company corporate governance you get your payout... That annual bonus structure practically forces you to decide if you want to leave now, or signup for a whole 'nother year of this, so a wave of people leave. After a 2nd year of this they're mostly gone to greener pastures.

Less-early employees still get significant cash-outs in a large event like this.
Maybe they use it to take some time off, it's been a long few years. Once you're out for a while, why not look at what else is out there on the market. Some of them find out they liked this new big-company stuff and want more of it, so they'll probably stay for years. Others are like the early employees and want the good-old days back, they have to go find it somewhere else.
Do you have relevant sources for this? AFAIK some Google Switzerland employees are still bound by this stupid rule (what you do in your free time, with your personal device, is still Google's property), but I would love to be proven wrong.
I wonder if it would be commercially viable for Amazon to offer discounts to customers who connect over IPV6.

Amazon spends a lot of money on IPV4 blocks for AWS. They would directly benefit from wider IPV 6adoption.

This would be a great way to get regular people to care about this technology. That, in turn, would make ISPS care much more than they currently do.
That's a very pre-emptively defensive statement... Why doesn't HN like to hear this?
Is not Jupiter already on codemirror?
Stanislaw Lem (one of his books is on the list) is a fantastic author.

If you are a logophile, I highly recommend reading "The Futurological Congress".

Polish is a language where you can conjugate everything into something else (nouns into verbs, verbs into nouns, nice words into curse words), and Lem wrote a book that plays off of this linguistic peculiarity in a way that is hilarious.

... what's even MORE beautiful is the translator had to take that and translate it into similar wordplay in English. Huge respect for the translators doing this work.
Modern Russian “Tsar Bomba” in an autonomous nuclear powered 10000+ miles range mini submarine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status-6_Oceanic_Multipurpose_... . They are already being put into service.
I'm really curious when this will change. In Canada, my home internet provider and cellular provider are both ipv4 only. I've asked about it in the past and the answer seems to constantly be "Meh".
I read the big Richard Rhodes classics [1] a long time ago. Now I'm mostly reading blogs, declassified primary sources, and publications from open source intelligence. Two somewhat lesser known books I recommend if you are looking for details more than broad history are U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History and The Swords of Armageddon, both by Chuck Hansen. Both are currently out of print. The latter can be found on Library Genesis. I scanned The Secret History about 10 years ago and uploaded it to a technical book sharing forum but sadly nobody seems to have propagated my scan to Library Genesis and I can't be bothered to go through their sign-up process right now.

[1] The Making of the Atomic Bomb and Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb.
> It doesn't sound like this solution would work for molten salt nuclear reactors

That's actually what the company is researching - this is a side-track. Their patent specifically calls out reactors...
Just charge $5/year/ip to all existing holders. A fair bit of wasted space would free up fast.
The gmail app has ads? Where?

The only "ads" I see in gmail is the metric tonne of spam I receive every day, and I can't really blame Google for that.
Yes, Replit runs on phones and tablets. You can code & run any repl, share repls & edit with other people. We recently started rolling out CodeMirror as the backbone of the editor and we'll be making a ton more enhancements there.
oh I forgot to mention. ember. it's an ember project. something about handlebars not being supported yet.
Nuclear artillery did the job just fine though.

When you have a gun that can deliver nukes 50km away (ie: standard M777 Howitzer), it makes more sense to shoot the nuke at the enemy rather than plant a bomb in an expected path. That way, you remain flexible.

Artillery guns like the M777 can be fired roughly 10-times per minute (depending on the skill of its crew). Give them nuclear rounds, and they'll deliver.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_artillery
I'm writing this from a P14s Gen1 (AMD) and it works great on Fedora 35 and that includes the fingerprint reader. It obviously works great on Windows but I don't use that.
Thanks for the link. That link says it is a the median salary for "Software Developers, Quality Assurance Analysts, and Testers".

I thought the OP meant the median salary for the entire American population.
I mean you can, but firefox doesn't treat you any better. We waited 2+ months to get a minor update through review, and getting it through that quickly took emailing several folks (including one from HN). During that whole process they also removed the display of your queue position, making it even more opaque.

At some point they disliked something in our extension that had been live for months, and disabled every release in the past year. At another point they found something wanting in a 2 year old release (not a recent one) and threatened to remove it from the store, our attempts to continue that conversation or just allow it to be pulled to save everyone some time met with crickets.
> That seems like a rather premature conclusion

The "Seems to indicate" verbiage means that these are early findings, expected to stay the same, but may change over time.
Where do people get this sense of entitlement from? Please cite one law you believe Google has broken.
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2021/05/27/manifest-v3-updat...

> We will support blocking webRequest until there’s a better solution which covers all use cases we consider important, since DNR as currently implemented by Chrome does not yet meet the needs of extension developers.
This is what drives me to explore the NFT space - proof of ownership is a powerful concept. I'm creating a generative art project that leverages both art and proof of ownership to grant access to specific services, it's pretty neat and a really fun space to explore.
Folders, an esoteric programming language with no code and just folders
Here’s some math

Electric mountain is pumped hydro electric storage. It can store 9 gigwatt hours of electricity.

The UKs total energy consumption is 1650 Terawatt hours. Let’s say you need to store 4 days worth of energy to account for any shocks. That’s 22 terawatt hours of energy.

You’d need to build 2500 electric mountains to store just 4 days of UK energy consumption. And 4 days is a dangerously low buffer for when things go wrong.
> The value for a consumer is less about paying and more about earning (which sounds dystopic to some, but is very exciting imo). And beyond that, layered experiences mean you could get an item / art / skin / etc and carry it through disparate digital worlds. One could imagine a world where no longer are you playing one game with one set of items, but are instead able to carry your stuff into multiple experiences.

This comes up all the time and is laughably naïve. What possible reason would Epic have to let you transfer a skin or player model to their game if you didn't pay them for it? Game DLC is already broken and consumer hostile. Assuming blockchains and NFTs will do anything to improve it is absurd.

> Here I'm referring to digital experiences like concerts, parties, tours, AMAs, etc. where there is some set of rules to obtain the entry pass (in NFT form).

An NFT has no utility here. Where's the secondary market of suckers wanting to buy an NFT for a thing they didn't experience? If there's no suckers further down the pyramid there's no point in an NFT. It's just an event ticket.

> If people could altruistically create high-quality content and earn a living that way I'd agree with you.

This is the core problem. You're positing a world where every system for some reason cares about things on some blockchain. You're trying to treat an entry on a blockchain like real physical ownership. All this does is port inequality and inequity to a virtual space where it does not naturally exist. Scarcity is not a sine qua non of virtual spaces.

That's just a recipe for a hypercapitalist exploitive hellscape. Join the metaverse! You'll be just as poor as in real life! Join the fun!
Defund the Police meets the crime wave
They are worse than they used to be, but the bar is so low in the market that they are still among the best. My gripes are entirely with reliability.

I have had many issues with mine (Carbon X1 G6, then G7), all due to bad firmware, which lenovo swapped out the mainboard 5 times trying to fix. They also keep making the keyboard shittier on the X1, but then don't let you choose a good display on a larger model (at least in Aus when I was looking, but I know there is some variability in what is available where and when)

Have a look at frame.work laptops to see if that might suit you. I have never used them, but they look great. The major manufacturers seem to be on a treadmill, pumping out half-finished unreliable garbage to keep up with industry trends.

From the limited surveys etc I could find online, all windows laptops have roughly twice the failure rate of macs. As best I could determine, It seems you have about 1 in 5 chance of major failure from lenovo/dell etc. and about 1/10 chance from apple (from memory, could be 1/10 vs 1/20). Major failure being something that requires the device to be serviced or sent back, not necessarily a show stopping issue.

Get on-site servicing when its offered because it doesn't cost much and there is a good chance you will need to use it.
I think Tailwind is multiple very different ideas in one library. One thing that Tailwind is is a set of primitives and design tokens that’s just slightly higher level than CSS, but still lower level than a component library. I think it’s pretty good at this.

Another thing that Tailwind is is an opinionated delivery mechanism for your styles, in this case, as utility classes that can go straight into your HTML. This is probably a big cause of Tailwind’s popularity, not because any one person necessarily loves using classes, but because it makes it extremely easy for everyone to start using Tailwind in nearly any imaginable web project starting at plain static HTML files and going up from there. This aspect of Tailwind is something I’m not a huge fan of. To me it feels like a step back from a lot of higher-level CSS tools (like many CSS-in-JS libraries) to just go back to concatenating magic string literals into my UI code. All the official Tailwind tooling (AFAIK) either just watches your codebase looking for these magic string and generating the appropriate raw CSS, or doing it in real-time with their new JIT compiler (which I admittedly haven’t investigated yet).
What really bugged me about this was actually how he handled the backlash - he initially doubled down, saying he was doing the right thing. Only as the whole thing escalated more, he back-paddled.

Made me feel like he only did it to avoid bad publicity and stuff like this will keep happening.

Ever since, the way Replit represents itself (as the "revolutionary" new platform) is quite off-putting for me and I've stopped using/suggesting them.
https://github.com/camilaleniss

Looks pretty legit...
I, on the other hand, found the article to be terrible. Consider the following quote:

> Manifest V3, or Mv3 for short, is outright harmful to privacy efforts. It will restrict the capabilities of web extensions—especially those that are designed to monitor, modify, and compute alongside the conversation your browser has with the websites you visit. Under the new specifications, extensions like these– like some privacy-protective tracker blockers– will have greatly reduced capabilities.

One would think that the article would then go on to detail exactly what these "new specifications" are and how would they reduce the capability of ad and tracker blockers.

That never happens. We keep getting statements to the effect that Manifest V3 is bad but we're never told what makes it bad.

What aspects of Manifest V3 limit ad blocker capabilities? Since Manifest V3 has been introduced way back in 2019 and, since then, has gone through various changes, are the quotes listed towards the end of the article recent or do they reflect an earlier version of V3?

There was controversy over changes to the WebRequest API but that was two years ago and, I believe, changes have been made. Are there still changes that break functionality? What changes were made over the past two years? Have things gotten better or worse?

The article gives absolutely no details.
Because of a confluence of institutional capture and heavy-handed censorship by big tech companies, I don't think you'll find much except on fringe "anti-vax" websites, and at that point you'll have to wade through everything yourself.

In a perfect world we'd have productive discussions where nuanced topics like this can be explored in depth, but morale narcissism is rampant and everyone believes they know best.
Basically all consumer routers block incoming connections by default. It works almost the same as NAT except you can allow the same port on multiple machines in the network now.
Thinkpads are generally better than Acer. That said:

1. Modular build is non existent. With new thinkpads you can’t even remove the battery. That sucks.

2. Cooling. A lot of their new models seem to have been modeled to be as thin as possible and then some, so there's no space for cooling. CPU/GPU throttling was unheard of from that brand for a long time and is no longer the case.

3. Warranty. Depending on where you are in the world you'll get very different attitude towards respecting warranty. As some have pointed out it can get pretty bad.

4. Linux support is mostly ok except for NVidia/primus/optirun shenanigans.
It's implausible that GTP-3 wrote that because it knew the actual amount of climbing involve in an Everest ascent and tosses it without comment in a way that would look wrong to most people who read it.

It's far more likely that the program cobbled together a variety of factoids and so got it's wrong-sounding statement in the same way it makes many other clearly wrong or illogical statements.
Firefox is supporting Manifest v3 extensions however they are not imposing every limitation Chrome is on them and they are continuing to support features outside the scope of v3 like blocking webrequest.

A lot of the changes in v3 are actually pretty sensible, it's just 10% of the stuff shoehorned in creating 90% of the friction.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2021/05/27/manifest-v3-updat...
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195
But who gets to push the button?
I'm not following the logic you claim to be using.

I'm saying the driver shouldn't be looking at the screen anyway, it's for the passenger. So why exactly is the car locking it out?
NaOH turns fat into soap.

It’s dangerous because you’re also partially made of significant amounts of fats (and other things), which gets very very painful and can make it somewhat difficult to continue living when they get turned to soap while still part of you.
You kind of answered your own question. Virtualenv alone is too much work so you're using a tool like pipenv to streamline it. This is a similar idea to have less ritual and a faster developer workflow.
It depends. I'm a Linux user and my recent experiences are with two devices:

1. T470p - Out of the box it had a couple dead pixels, and the right click physical button to match the red nub had a hair trigger - I ended up disabling the nub entirely in BIOS so that I could type without triggering it. I also regularly (daily?) suffered video driver crashes. I don't know if it was faulty hardware or something with the i915 driver, but I think the former since my new device doesn't have this issue and others with the T470p didn't experience it. The battery life wasn't great either, which was surprising since it was one of the chunky-battery models. I hated this machine.

2. X1 Carbon (9th gen) - Works almost perfectly with very little fiddling. I do occasionally still have some brief issues with the Intel graphics causing freezes (both in Firefox and Zoom), but nothing like the crashes I saw before and everything just works. Plus it supports a USB-C dock that allows me to drive two monitors, connect my mouse and keyboard, and charge the laptop all with a single cable. Thin, light, with great battery life too.
Does that mean they will need to deploy IPv8 with 256 bits of address space?

Or will IPv8 go straight to 1024 bits?

;)
I had a terrible experience with Lenovo. In October 2020 I ordered a laptop. In the next couple of months I called and tried to cancel (they would put in a "cancellation request"). Additionally, they sent an email saying the regulation required that since it hadn't shipped, if it still hadn't shipped in 5 days they would have to cancel the order. A few weeks later, it shipped and I had UPS "return to sender" before it even arrived at my apartment. It was returned to the address Lenovo put as the return address.

Paypal refunded me the money after reviewing the case, but I'm now fighting a debt collector for the ~1k USD.
What!? Google acting in interest of ads and not users?!?

Who cares? Just use Brave and kill Chrome off.