skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there is a difference between censoring dictator-state propaganda and censoring single citizens.
On top of that, let's add that official state opinion about something (especially about war enemies), with punishment for different opinions, is typical of totalitarian state. In democracy one would have the statement of the russian dictator publicly commented by joirnalists. Here we have cancellation of statements. And this applies down to single citizens. Are we dropping our rights down the toilet? Anything makes you think this will be limited to russian war? How would you elaborate an informed opinion if everything gets canceled?
Hades really scratched that itch for me. It's very easy to get going and have fun, but requires investment to completely finish it.

I'm pretty terrible at most games so it took me quite a while to actually finish a whole run, but it was a lot of fun once I did.
What? You don't have to 'learn' any bosses. You can beat all bosses by just striking a few times and rolling away. You don't have to learn any patterns or cheeses or weaknesses. IMO that's not a fun way to play.

You make souls games out to be "memorize the trick" simulators. No, no, no. That's the unfun approach.
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Ok next let them try heroin so they make sure it's a bad thing.
I moved my Namecheap domains to NearlyFreeSpeech after one was killed by false abuse claims. Never had a problem with them.
And cost of living is also driven by how much local industries can pump up the salaries.

In a way it's a system designed to extract the most of the value generated by a local industry, "taxing" it at every layer, first you give some money to a engineer that then has to part a good chunk of it for rent and then even plumbers get their cut (who in turn spend it elsewhere), etc.

The key insight here is the word "local" in "local industry".

As the industry itself starts to be less local, this mechanism breaks down.
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Most of the difficulty is in using the tools at the right times. This completely permeates the design of the games.

At first the game will show you an enemy with his back turned, and you will discover that this initiates a devastating backstab.

Miyazaki has shown you a new tool, but in doing so has also given himself a new tool for manipulating you: A few moments later, the game will show you an enemy with his back turned, and you'll probably mindlessly rush in for the rewarding backstab, only to be bum rushed by an enemy hidden behind a corner that kicks you off the cliff. You really don't stand a chance at reacting to this, and yet again meet see the familiar "You Died"-screen.

This is the dialogue I speak of, it's easier to point out in level design but very much also exists with in the combat system. Some players will probably miss this aspect and think it's just cruelty. Like, how could you have known? Well you absolutely could have known by being being more careful and looking around that corner before taking the bait.

The combat in general works like that as well. First you're shown enemies that are susceptible to one particular strategy, and then the next, you're shown enemies that are not. The difficulty isn't executing, but coming up with an appropriate strategy for the situation. And the games are very cleverly designed to shut down one-size-fits-all approaches to combat. There are no universal combos to memorize because they don't want you to merely go through the same motions, they want you to engage with what is happening on a more direct level.
To feel like prison you'd have to be made to "stand by your door" twice a day, eat crap every day, and practice invisibility to prevent being shanked. You'd have to be able to see behind you in the meds line to prevent a kidney stabbing. You'd be practicing being as ugly as possible so the gaol rapist doesn't take a shine to you.

How is lockdown anything like prison? I keep hearing about how lockdowns and mandates are like prison, and I just cannot see it at all.
Examples of an economic blockade hurting economically a military power?

I would need to double-check, but I'd be surprised if it didn't hurt Napoleon's army, as well as Hitler's and Mussolini's, for instance. I remember that one of the reasons for which the Allies won WWII is that towards the end of the war, the Wehrmacht had considerable difficulties finding fuel for their panzers and logistics and had insufficient ammo for extended fights.

Hurts bystanders, too, of course.
Symfony 5.4 just added support for bash completion to PHP CLI commands using the library so we were able to add a very nice and easy to use interface to Winter CMS to take advantage of it: https://wintercms.com/blog/post/console-improvements-winter-...

Defining completion values for a given argument in a Winter CMS CLI command is as easy as adding a single method to the command's class now:

public function suggestMyArgumentValues(string $currentValue, array $allInput): array
{
return ['array', 'of', 'suggested', 'values'];
}
Does it though? Maps in general help me more when I'm new somewhere. I wonder if it couldn't be helpful for Google Maps and other services to block out for example all small roads, inner cities, etc. Maybe I'm wrong though; why would maps help the defenders more?
> Many games will allow users to do something advantageous by watching an ad.

That's… horrifying.

Why would you want to play a game that treats you like that? I mean, is it fun? I suppose some people must enjoy window-shopping, and I guess this is like that, but… I just can't imagine hoping to see an advert — it feels really manipulative and sinister.
> it is there to protect Whites

Is it? The estimate at https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_p... disagrees, but if you have other data I would be interested.

> at least in STEM

This is an important caveat, by the way. The racial breakdown differs quite a bit by major at many of these schools. I doubt Harvard would be 44% Asian even without the discrimination they engage in (and so do the authors of the study linked above, who put it at 37% Asian admittees if all the racial/atheletic/legacy preferences went away).

> not the paltry 15% quota the Ivies have consented to grant them.

15% when? The data I've seen has Harvard at 15% Asian about 10 years ago. Per the chart above the fraction of Asians in the set of people who get _admitted_ is 24%. Per the numbers at https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/harvard-university/s... Harvard's _enrolled_ undergrads are 21% Asian. Not sure whether the discrepancy has tso do with systematic differences in how often people accept the offer of admission or whether something else is going on.

> The other thing to consider is that “diversity” somehow fails to consider class.

Yes, fully agreed.
I think steam should react and remove Bungie games from the store. Leave it on minimal support for people that bought it and offer them better games from better studios.
I'm sorry, yes, I'm using OSMAnd.

> can you not simply stop the navigation of your route and then OSMAnd shuts up

Possibly, but my goal is not to just get the voice to shut up but to actually close / quit the app.
Ask HN: Ads with small budget for personal project?
I've been trying for months to bring more traffic to my personal project's website. I've tried multiple combinations for months, researched and paid people to look at the ads and suggest what I can do.

Here's the problem: I only have a small budget I can afford and that is 15€ per day, per platform.

1. With Facebook, they say they sent more than double the clicks Analytics tells me they sent and the clicks that do pass through have an almost 100% bounce rate with average time spent on page of 0 seconds. For example, they say they sent 300 clicks in a week, but I only see 120-130 in Analytics.

2. With the same ad, on Reddit Ads, I see in Analytics 90-95% of the clicks they said they sent and the bounce rate is about 82%, with more than 3 minutes average sessions.

With both platforms I run an ad and then a retargeting ad. Until now, this was the only strategy that had relative success.

All the people that consulted on the ads said that with 15€ per day, Facebook gives 0 results, which I already saw and I find disappointing. The only explanation I can find is that on Facebook I only get bot clicks.

Are there any other platforms that are more suitable for my budget?
> the Wireshark "cryptographically opinionated" stance

Are you thinking of WireGuard? This comment seems entirely unrelated to the link, which has exercises for using the WireShark packet sniffer to learn about network protocols.
I do not know for actual employment but the freelance thread works quite well for contracting jobs. I also had positive experience contacting commenters directly when they mention a project they are working on and/or that they may need help.

(of course, don't just spam people commenting, only contact the person if you feel there is an opportunity for a genuine work relationship)
also google probably should delete all new entries from Ukraine or review them manually. if deleting all of them is difficult for users maybe maybe op want to create falses? idk
Hmm, I think you are artifically & willfully inflating the Smalltalk examples.

list chain
select: [:i | i \\ 2 = 0 ];
collect: [:i | i + 2];
collect: [:i | i + 3].
I wrote long ago about writing competion scripts in any language: https://saveriomiroddi.github.io/Using-scripts-in-any-langua....

Although it's not ideal (one ends up duplicating the arguments parsing logic of the program), it's actually not complicated, just some boilerplate.
I think people overall got smarter. It's just that the really smart people know exactly how to split the dumb people against the not as dumb people. intelligence doesn't necessarily affect your ability to fall into tribalism, it just changes the weak points.
You can't be pedantic and then say Word and Excel are files. They're applications.

On a more serious note, ascii and nowadays utf8 are customarily considered plain text, the fact that a specific charset is used doesn't mean it's not text.
> if I had to use something for truly private communication there is no way I would ever tie identity to a phone number.

This is a confusion of terms. Privacy doesn't entail anonymity. Having a private conversation means exactly what Signal is offering: peer to peer encrypted communication. What you are referring to is a secret conversation.

Signal is awesome as a replacement for SMS and any messenger using telephone number as ID.
You should keep in mind it is in the context of a securitisation, i.e. selling public securities. It's unikely that highly confidential information was shared with the investors not the least because it's may not be relevant to their investment. My guess, not knowing anything about the transaction, but from what the articles says, is that they may have shared some financials from the persons the planes were leased to, under NDA. And given data leaks, they probably went to all the investors they shared confidential information with in the past and ask them to delete it unless they still need it.
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I have to say I am constantly amazed at how high silicon Valley renumeration is. 600k to 1M would get you a lot of engineers pretty much anywhere else. Even if we don't look at the higher end, 200k is very common it would seem, and that would get you 2x engineers is Europe. Im in Europe and I've seen the quality of engineering is no different; the SV engineers perform the same (and some much worse), but still hiring plans favour SV typically. Can someone explain why, especially for publically traded companies that are typically very tight on budgets?
The highest I got was 20, having to stop as I could spend an hour on this.

Fun experiment for simple games like this: Play this game every day just for 5-10 rounds before bed and in the morning. You'll get a little better every time you get sleep.
The invasion was so urgently cobbled together that many Russian forces were using amateur radios to communicate, they had no support infrastructure in place, or even fuel for the vehicles containing that infrastructure. Numerous soldiers were captured carrying off the shelf radios (literally think eBay), and there are various reports they rely on the mobile phone network to coordinate with central command. There was allegedly also a recent misappropriation scandal where cheap Chinese communications gear was purchased and relabelled before being sold to the Russian military, suggesting they might not even have real equipment to give to their troops.

Separately, having coordination done via "www.google.com" DNS & SSL ClientHello makes it all but impossible to block without disconnecting the Internet for the entire country, at a time when access to information within the country is more essential than ever.

Everything about this sadly makes sense
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If anything I feel sorry for both Ukranian and Russian people who didn't have a choice not to be part of this conflict, each suffering in their own way.
This is awesome! I did however accidentally click on the links below the game, ruining my streak
It's funny: everyone is bashing Telegram.

- IT people as it's "insecure by default"

- Governments, because it doesn't block easily what they want (happens in most western countries, including my own)

- TV/Media as they don't know/care about facts and just bash whomever is talking bad about them or local gov (as my local media does)

Meanwhile most news and videos I see in media, twitter accounts that media quote, are actually on Telegram groups first. There is plenty of them, one that I watch is close to 1 million people and this platform handles such groups (and larger) perfectly. It has native clients for many platforms that beat anything else in performance and memory consumption by a factor of 10. It introduced direct translations in the app, so anyone who doesn't speak Ukrainian and Russian can actually follow up on their own. It allowed distribution and updates of their app outside of google play store and that version has no restrictions enforced by governments.

I see so much "Durov is a Russian agent" stuff online, but still somehow Telegram is on of the main sources of information for average people - if they know it or not.
Probably the easiest answer to ascribing this is simply the lack of knowledge about the origin of the words, so they just... fill in the gaps with whom they believe could credibly say it. Not malice, just lack of knowledge. It's also simpler to convince and expose people with things that fit easyer with their model of the world and the cliches they have in their head.
Right, but that's because if you live in SF, you need the plumber to physically be in SF. A plumber in [far away, cheap locale] is of no use to you, even if for free.

If this hypothetical plumber had a hypothetical way of traveling to SF for very little money and time, and would hence be able to charge much less than the local plumber, while having the exact same skills, which would you choose, and how much would you pay? If this hypothetical plumber now moved to SF for [reasons], would you pay more for his exact same service?
Are you saying me I should tell users to wait 7 or more years for this desired functionality while they lose more money trying to figure out how to use it?

I also don't think there is a cryptocurrency network that is widely used that has operated without network halts, downtime or congestion so I do not expect any network to have such a 'smooth' transition either.
Yesterday’s discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30516996
You could try ending legacy admissions or admitting fewer white people.
Agreed. Even a 0.1% chance makes a Google (or DoD) follow-up worth it.
Hi guys!

I built a SaaS starter kit on top of Next.JS. In our startup, we didn't have a standard way of building our applications, so I thought of spending some time crafting a Workspace-based SaaS starter kit to be deployed on Vercel. This is an open-source initiative and a way for me to improve on my development skills with React and Next.JS. Lots of SaaS boilerplates, some are free some are premium, but I wasn't able to find the ease of configuration and simple developer experience in the existing ones.

I do know that there exists Vercel's Platform Starter kit, and I was happy I was invited into their repository. I was already building Nextacular before I joined the repository and had to piece some of this things together with my knowledge about Next.JS and Vercel's APIs. Luckily, the repo invite made me improve the codebase of Nextacular.

It packages features out-of-the-box which includes:
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It was fun building it in public and people were showing their support for this open-source project. Documentation is still being constructed, but it is not substantial enough to generate a working SaaS application.

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> Do you have any idea how contrary this is to the philosophy of the web?

wtf is the philosophy of the web? Is this the laws of the internet? I dont live on the internet so the internet doest have jurisdiction over me.

> It's called the "internet" because everybody is interconnected on it.

internet - 1970s (denoting a computer network connecting two or more smaller networks): from inter- ‘reciprocal, mutual’ + network. So no, thats not why its called the internet.

> It's called the "World Wide Web" because when you post, it's available to the whole world.

Its like the world series of baseball then? it was actually called mesh first. Its called the world wide web now because tbl came up with that name for the first browser program to browse the mesh which for years only existed in europe.

> Go live in China if you like Great Firewalls so much.

So now you are now saying you dont expect 99.99999% of websites, including my own, to be available anywhere in the world. Why only 99.99999%? You want to exclude some? Which in particular? Why? Who gets to decide?

You are proposing a bizarre situation whereby no country would have control over their own laws, if something is illegal in the US, say child porn, you just go to a website from a country where it is legal (and somehow that is legal now??). Somehow you seem to suggest it is a moral obligation that it be available to the entire world as well for fear of falling foul of the philosophy of the internet.
I don't know about bulgaria, but this is absolutely, categorically not true in the Baltics and in Poland. The primary motivation is to not become a russian puppet state... again.
Pre-commit hook to convert to plaintext or markdown[0].

And there you go, a human readable diff.

[0]https://github.com/benbalter/word-to-markdown
Where do you get that info from?
Thanks for this perspective on sexual harassment. It helped me realize that eventhough I have not seen it, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I have never seen sexual harassment but am certain it exists.

I was thinking the problem is limited to India and will not get carried over to US or tech industry in India.

Was not expecting to see caste system in US too and was doubting if it was real. I had heard one story where adults in US were introducing themselves with caste. This story talks about even the kids are introducing with their caste. What are we teaching kids?

Every Indian should read this. It doesn't matter if you discriminate or not, the person suffering is not dealing with just you but lots of people. Even if a small percentage discriminate that is bad enough for that person to feel vulnerable for long time.
"Asian culture" is hardly a monolith. It may not make sense to admit ~0 Filipinos because the quota for Chinese students has been hit.
Sure, just link your bitcoin node to my network and we'll take them down together. I promise I wont use that to steal anything other than Oligarch crypto, which I also promise I can identify 100% accurately. You can trust me.
Shadow of the colossus did that for me.

The thing with souls like games is that the locations are loaded with enemies and challenges. It adds to the game play but makes the places feel too video gamey and breaks the immersion.
Yes, I was definitely inspired by Flappy Bird for this game. I could have called it Flappy Pong I guess.
This sounds like something someone would say if they had not used Linux since 1998.

I personally would not pay for or probably even use software that only "supports" Linux through WINE since it will have all kinds of fit and finish issues that make it painful to use. I'm actually in the process of converting all my old files so I can move to open source Linux-native apps and remove WINE entirely. Win32 apps look and perform horribly on GNOME.

The Linux binary distribution "problem" (from a Windows user's perspective) has been solved for a while by things like AppImages or Flatpaks that bundle the libraries the program needs without static linking. Most Linux users simply prefer the old repository based way of distributing software.
Nope, as a language Go adds nothing and sometimes feels like it gives even less.

Where Go has been a success is tooling. The tooling is pretty decent and helps a lot. But that could be added to pretty much any language ecosystem
Outside actual poverty, the kids are still getting fed, going to school, maybe they're one console generation behind two-parent households but even that's not such a big deal now...
Different locations have different pricing. If you want to hire in a specific location you will need to pay the local price.
Oh O.K. Let me check
If someone really believes into RISC-V long-term success, is there a way to bet actual money on the outcome? And by this I mean buying shares, options, or others.

Not looking for investment advice, I myself do not know enough about investment and RISC-V. I'm just curious how one can think about making money from that type of development that may impact a whole part of the industry. I guess one could bet against Intel, but are there other approaches?