skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>> Mina features sprite art with no 3D, scaling, or rotation, just like the classic 8-bit handhelds. Instead, we use a lifetime’s worth of 2D wizardry knowhow to bring the world to life

Kudos to Yacht Club. So hard to maintain that level of "retro" discipline when you have modern tools at your disposal.

Personally, I prefer playing games at native resolution. Especially on high definition monitors. And developing Mina in 16:9 aspect 256x144 is pretty daring, for a $1M+ backed crowdfunded game!

And it's cool that they have a game dev live stream tier (though it'd be a whole lot cooler if it was public). I've experienced a bit of game dev live streams via Twitch. And the act of community engagement with the team, where they are incorporating crowd suggestions live into a playable demo, able to obtain instantaneous feedback from their most devoted players. It's amazing. Like it's hard to go back to alienated dev after that. And players get to exclaim: "See that gelatinous cube, that was my idea!"
For intro computer science students, pointers-as-explicit-references are far easier to comprehend than Java's esoterica.

Said as someone who took intro computer science at 2 universities across 3 courses (C/C++, Python, Java), due engineering to art to computer science major switching.

I understand why Java did what they did, from a performance standpoint, but that's a poor highest value to hold for education use.

And in retrospect, was batshit user-hostile. F.ex. with a few more keywords and rules, C# smoothed off so many rough edges.
That must be why usage of the urban bikeshare programs is growing so fast.
People are always inventing new ways to create a decentralized internet, while the answer really lies in just increasing upload speeds.
"In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice, they are not."
Congratulation! We are big fans of Requestly at Caido as we are building something somewhat similar for the infosec community (https://caido.io).

Requestly feels good and there is a lot of potential for production debugging. I particularly like the switching of API endpoint so you can use the live prod website with a local API, super useful to debug.
...which we will butcher by rounding the corners in all of our apps.

They're probably just future-proofing the data.

Corners have been getting less round over time, and Apple is preparing for a day when corners become right angles again. And also for a day when everyone wants just circles, or ovals, or stars, or some other shape.
Georyam Slava!
Russian warship, udu nahyi!
> The ones who are happy with China and positive toward the Russian action

In which country are you and they?
They actually sell those. But they’re even more of a shit show.
Usually another thread is to blame.
> I would bet that if you surveyed the average person the biggest copyright reform they’d want is blocking exclusivity so they could use a single service for everything.

This. While there's definitely piracy before internet, most don't bother because it plays on VHS/DVD. As Gabe Newell stated, the problem of piracy is a service problem.
Plenty of anti Iraq war protesters got arrested

Just one of many examples:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/chi-city-offers-62-m...
Slippery slope to where, exactly? Have you been watching the news at all?
Yeah let people consume junk all they want. Just don’t be surprised when Jan 6th happens again.
A SurnameMapWhack.

I found mine own, by having a relatively-uncommon US last name, and then being born in a European country where no one else has that name.
WRT #1 - Repeatedly not taking action out of fear of Russian retaliation is precisely what has gotten us to this point. Putin will step over the line until the west pushes back.
Maybe you should read the other posts about future plans and how this is extremely alpha. Or maybe go anywhere else and do literally anything else but be obnoxious in this thread.

I'm spending over $200 per week just to stand up the service as it is. $10 for a full functional search engine will likely not be even close to PROFIT!!!!
If there's one thing musicians love, it's corporate guidelines!

As evidenced by how big record labels are struggling to get artists to sign contracts with them.

Oh, wait.
This is a feature of macOS that I have always resented. The fact that win11 is doing it too just pushes me further into the linux camp.

I've got an install of windows 10 I use for gaming, and am now very glad I didn't upgrade to 11 yet. I'll probably avoid it as long as possible.
Absolutely, and this is the fallacy with tautological arguments like "You should not overdo anything".

The real question is how much is considered "overdoing", and then the argument falls back to a common-sense fallacy (until it doesn't work)...
If you ask me, the whole "military on their doorstep" argument is a canard. Putin is paranoid but he's not an idiot. This war is about resources plain and simple. Russia is a petro state and Ukrainian oil and gas deposits were setting them up to free Europe from dependence on Russian oil and gas. Russia saw that as a mortal threat to their economy and relevance.

Russia has plenty of nukes. The idea that NATO is going to launch a land invasion is flat out goofy. The idea that having Ukraine join NATO opens the door to nukes on Russia's doorstep is also silly given the number of nuclear equipped submarines in NATO.

Yet again, it's just a war for oil. China is more or less silent because they're hoping to be the purchasers of that oil. China has been having energy shortages and needs the natural gas to replace dirty coal.

Don't forget wheat and fertilizer. Between Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine you have like 25% of global wheat and a significant portion of fertilizer production.
What does a pivot to Asia mean? Culturally they have nothing in common with the nations there, economically it makes more sense for them to diversify towards somewhere more stable and friendly like Europe.
> Sounds a bit unhealthy to pay attention to him from over there?

What does this mean?
I read the title as "New Windows 11 test build wants your credit card info lmao"
All sanctions could fuel retaliation by the Russian government, the point is to punish them for their actions. Likewise the Russian government will spread propaganda about all of the sanctions regardless of what they are.

This would be a very tricky thing to "punish" and a tricky thing to implement in practice because this isn't a single government that would need to stop announcing these networks, but each private internet organization that is peering with Russia (think oversea cables and international peer exchanges). It could be mandated by governments for their own country, but to be actually effective it would have to be all the organizations peering with Russia agreeing to implement this. If one country or organization decides against the announcement filter you'd have to expand the route filtering to everyone that organization peers with. There would never be one target for the punishment.

As for learning about the propaganda, a large part of what we learn is from Russian state TV and actors inside of Russia itself which this wouldn't impact. Since the major official propaganda channels have already been blocked on YouTube and the social media platforms, this would likely only impact the propaganda being spread through much smaller and harder to track sites if at all since posting of that propaganda could still be done from a cell or normal business internet connection. Some official government supported programs (such as the GRU hacking operations) already operate on regular business connections to avoid the direct association with government IP blocks, I have to imagine their propaganda machines do likewise.
I think you're referring to the "Large Bitcoin Collider".

Blockchain and PoW are wonderful --- if you ignore the fact that it is slow and consumes as much energy on a daily basis as a small European country.

That said, it is just a tool --- an accounting system. By itself, this accounting tool says very little about the overall validity or veracity of the crypto marketplace and those who run it.

In other words, blockchain works for scammers and market manipulators just as well as it does for others.
For the record, I was making a general point about one of the tradeoffs with an SPA vs MPA, not making the claim that MPAs are universally better than SPAs for all use cases. I think most reasonable people can agree that there are places where SPAs are called for and places where they're not. It's the ambiguous cases that draw the conflict, and psychologically the anti-SPA people focus on the really shitty ones and the pro-SPA people focus on the use cases that would be impossible in an MPA.

Also, for what it's worth, I've worked full-time on one of the largest SPA projects in the world (~500 engineers contributing frontend code to it on an average week), so this is not coming from a place of total ignorance.
I personally prefer referendums to representatives on relevant issues. Representatives have a personal agenda that often does not align with the collective interest.

With a prior referendum I believe no war would ever start.
You have to put the length encoding within the lowest-order 16 bits because of the little-endian arch and variable length structure. Might as well put everything related in the very lowest bits. Not sure what your objection to that is. Besides, common insn formats do have funct* bits that are essentially part of the opcode, and found elsewhere in the insn words. The whole arrangement is meant to conserve encoding space as far as possible.
Then they should say they don't have the authority.
I hope this will answer all comments below as well.

Being a productive member of a team is about finding balance between what you're personally trying to get done and helping your teammates accomplish their tasks. Like everything else, it's a trade-off.

Your formulation of local vs global optimization of priorities is exactly the correct way to view this problem. My priorities and my colleague's priorities are approximately the same priorities, assuming we're on the same team or on adjacent teams. We are both shipping the same product and serving the same users at the end of the day.

That's why, like everything else in life, the truth lies somewhere in the middle - interrupting someone 10 times a day for trivial stuff you can look up yourself by reading code or documentation is a waste of the other person's time. But wasting four hours running around looking for an answer to a question that your teammate can answer in two minutes is also a waste of time. The end user is not well served by either behavior.

My rule of thumb is 30 minutes. If I can't find an answer in 30 minutes, and I think a teammate knows the answer and can answer immediately, I will ping them or come to their desk.

Obviously you have to read the room. If the teammate you want to bug looks deeply concentrated in what they're doing, they're in the middle of typing, or you ask and they say "sorry I'm in the middle of something, come back in an hour", I'll leave them alone and probably take a break or something. But if they're just back from a coffee break or a meeting, or finished up a discussion with someone else at their desk, there's just no reason to keep banging your head against your desk.

And of course I hold myself to the same standard. Being dismissive to someone who needs your attention is immature. I always assume good intent, and if someone bothers me too often, I just tell them; for some people I will ask they show me what they've already tried. I find this almost always works.
Okay, I am delusional. I’m delusional because I can evaluate statements from the man using a different context.

True to form, he’s speaking with his usual Trumpian style. I’m going to distill the essence of it: “I’m great and my political opponents are totally inept. Putin is very smart and he is taking advantage of our leader’s stupidity. You need someone smarter and savvier than Putin, me and only me.”

Again, if you understand how the man talks you can see the comments in a different light.
The alternative is not to bully or invade their neighbors? They can maintain relationships with both China and the West. They can sell gas and oil to both. They can have leverage over both. The way it is going, Russia will become a dependent state to China, bend to their will. Ironic, considering that Putin often talks about restoring Russia of the glory past.
I have been blasted with propaganda and lies from the west for almost a week now.

Things that never happened:
- Ghost of Kiev
- Sunflower Seed Lady
- Snake Island Defiance
- Miss Ukraine Airsoft Fighter

Then I get sources of info closed off to me, I find that exceedingly concerning. The west is winning the information war, but at the cost of the truth? I’m of a mixed mind for sure.
iPhoto no longer exists and the replacement, Photos doesn't support it. A free command-line tool I found doesn't run any without signing and I need to find the dependent library for JPEG handling to use it. Other apps are paid.
That's been my argument to friends and family this week. If an extra dollar per gallon is what it takes for fewer Ukrainian children to die then that's what it takes.
Afghanistan in 2001/02

Also in Iraq in 2003-06

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_munition#Afghanistan,_...
I do, on my desktop for gaming. Nothing can compete with Windows for that yet, especially when you’re playing competitive multiplayer games with anti-cheat systems.

Have a MacBook that I use for everything else though.

And if you’re asking why 11 over 10, it’s mostly for the UI improvements. I quite enjoy their new look and haven’t really found any drawbacks with the update.
CLI in the browser. I love it.
Good. They need our views and we need their intelligence.
As of two days ago you can now play Apex Legends, so it's not completely insane that it could catch up.
Forgiva Enterprise: Next-gen stateless password manager for experts
This made me curious, so I reloaded the site without uBlock origin, and for the most part looks the same; There is one ad at the top, one at the bottom, and a cookie info style ad banner scrolling with the page, 3 ads in total.

That's a rather humane amount and the only one that's really intrusive is the one all the way on the top, the scrolling banner can even be minimized to remove it, which leaves a total of 2 ads on the site, at least for me on Chrome.
What am I reading here? Is this a triple negative?
Why would that be so? My observation is that the closer one gets to direct democracy the more decisions are made based on emotion and emotional appeal. I find it quite plausible that a plebiscite driven by an outraged majority would be more than willing to fight.

See also: Tyranny of the Majority
Fair enough. I suspect many users likely asked for this feature in the feedback hub and MS complied.
It's a custom undocumented format with a lot of oddities to it (particularly in its color profile handling, or more precisely lack thereof).
Left a job in 2020 over exactly that. Our customers loved when we could fix/build features in a week, but after 18 months the bloat made it impossible to ship a new feature in the same month. I actually went behind my manager's back and did a full re-write (~25k sloc down to ~15k) at the 8 month mark, but the 2nd time he put his foot down and said absolutely not. I left within a 6 months of that discussion.
I do. I flat out ignore comp in postings and negotiate based on my own perceived value. I've always ended up above the posted ranges. Have for the last 15 years or so. It's why I hesitate to publish them in job descriptions. I worry about weeding out top talent because my standard comp is below their range. I hire a lot of mid/senior and the range is based on them. If a truly unique person shows up that we think could really elevate the team, we'll pay for that but I can't advertise that and set incorrect expectations for everyone.
Like spreading a meme about a fighter ace that never existed?
I’ve seen a lot of that, it’s wild to see misinformation spread like wildfire.
Reminder that the Computer Languages Benchmark Game itself recommends against using it to draw general conclusions about performance of languages in real-world apps: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

> We are profoundly uninterested in claims that these measurements, of a few tiny programs, somehow define the relative performance of programming languages aka Which programming language is fastest?

Now, I challenge you to find a major bloated software where the main source of overhead is Python interpretation. IME it's always something else, like the surrounding UI framework.

The Office suite is written in C++ and is badly bloated, obviously not because of language execution overhead but because of technical debt, which if that's any indication recommends against using low-level languages.
In this case the government could mandate that every address be KYCed. Then they give out some addresses with either fake KYC stubs or don’t KYC them at all.

This wouldn’t be done at the protocol level, in the same way one can get around TLS via MITM without sabotaging the encryption algorithms.
It's not Russia, so far. However, if Russia stops all fossil flow it would implement the Morgenthau plan. Not just for Germany.

It is good news for USD vs EUR.
> I certainly like being able to roll out of bed and put on a coffee 10 minutes before starting work

I did this, but now its just slipped into actually just checking slack at 10am then going back to sleep till 11:30.
I don't return items often. I frontload the research, if the purchase is significant or important.

But when I do consider returning an item due to dissatisfaction (not DOA or damage), I definitely research other options before initiating the return.

This much makes sense to me.
I actually moved out of Seattle after 4 months in 2021 because compared to the cities I was used to in Canada, it was quite literally a hellscape. Shuttered stores, screaming homeless people, and parks which resemble refugee camps.

I understand it was exacerbated by covid and the BLM riots of 2020, but I don’t think people are exaggerating when they say that much of Seattle is a pretty shocking place to be.
It's not just about efficiency, it's about not hitting the brakes. When you've got momentum and you're in the flow, killing it is deeply unsatisfying, and I for one have a hard time getting it back. Obviously that doesn't justify bugging someone 10 times a day, but there's a balance to be found.
Yet another reason why the world needs room temperature superconductors. Actually, in this application the water temperature only goes up to 20°C (at the surface) but at the bottom of the ocean in these areas it's more like 10°C. So the bar is slightly lower.
Only a matter of time before square enix releases a dedicated full-fledged final fantasy fishing simulator ;)
Peter Zeihan had a good video on this on the night after the invasion. There’s a lot of possibly nasty, and somewhat likely side effects other than nuclear war. For example, Russia is the largest exporter of fertilizers (iirc).
Timing software for ski racing. DTris and Measures. Very niche and the tech stack for this product is 90's VBA I think.
I haven't checked ImageMagick to see if it supports PCD, I'll have to see if I can do it in my wife's PhotoShop license.
If a/every cable separates the seafloor into two different habitats that cannot be moved between then this actually is an issue.
Chinese oligarchs (Jack Ma?) might not want traceable money, but it's kind of obvious that's not up to them.
By your reasoning 95% of America is English. This conflict was totally avoidable.
A North Korea-like Russia except actually militarily aggressive doesn't benefit the West. It benefits China because it keeps us distracted while they increase their global influence through BRI and other programs.
There is an error in the article : it suggests 3,300 deaths/year in Amsterdam @ 1971.

This should be for the whole of The Netherlands.
Absolutely agreed. At some point it's just ethnoracism, masquerading as virtue-signaling.

"How does this action help end the war in Ukraine?" should be the litmus test, and if the logic to get there is too tortured, maybe rethink the action.
wow, I found an enclave of my surname on a Catalan island! and in the south of the Netherlands, and over the border in Germany, which I expected.

also, I'm not seeing any ads using the Vivaldi browser.
The article strikes me as being dismissive about accessibility, merely describing it as a legal requirement and source of bloat. For a lot of software, I'd say it's a moral imperative, and that's why it's a legal requirement. I'm afraid that the treatment in this article will encourage developers to ignore accessibility in useful applications that could in principle be accessible, and these applications will then become required for jobs, education, etc., thus erecting new barriers for disabled people. But now that someone has directly linked accessibility to bloat, I guess I should make sure that my own in-development solution for cross-platform GUI accessibility [1] can never be described as bloated.

Edit to add: The article did also mention that accessibility is a must-have feature, though I can't remember now if that bit was there in the original. Sorry if it was.

[1]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit
And an online service that claims to do it only extracts the lowest resolution scan from the file.
"Russian exports account for 20 percent of potassic fertilizers globally. Exports from Russia and Belarus account for a combined 40 percent of potassic fertilizers globally."
For reference, Yamal was only re-opened a week or two ago. I don't think you can read too much into it closing again (yet). Yamal can give 33 billion cubic meters a year and Nord Stream 1 can give 55 billion.

As far as "bids" remaining, it could be something as benign as not having any demand at the price, or currency/volatility issues.
Another fact is that russia did forbid some german media (deutsche welle) to broadcast, so it's certainly also revenge..
Yes, absolutely, and this is why fraud detection is often as much art as science.

In the example above, you have someone coming in making a large purchase, which is probably odd if you've never seen this person before (eg: you would have expected them to come in and "kick the tires" and talk to employees a few times before making the actual purchase, even if they did a lot of online research). Plus the non-working card, and being late in the day. Of course, it's also possible that the whole transaction could be legit. If you suspect fraud though you can often do or say things to gauge the persons response. Tell them that for such an expensive purchase you'd really like to tune the bike up and make sure it's perfect, can they come back and pick it up first thing in the morning? Stuff like that, if the person accepts that, or seems to genuinely consider it, it's probably not a fraud sale. If their immediate reaction is "no way", or they get defensive, it could be a red flag.
For me, exactly the other way. Isolating has allowed me to understand that I don't need that connection anywhere as much as I thought I did. Like most short-lived endorphin rushes, if you go without for a few months, you find the urge fades. The pandemic has taught me that being a remote hermit is a viable option for my happiness.
No one knows for sure. Also, if Putin survives this whole Ukraine mess, who's to say he won't try again in 5 years? The point being, the narrative of business is usual is gone. All the countries that are next to or depend on Russia can no longer count on money or appeasement.

Nordic and countries next to Russia have to rethink their strategy. Maybe they decide to wait and see the next strong man from Russia will be and negotiate with them. But PEACE based purely on the words of a mad man is precursor for war.