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Board games could be good. There are quite a few board games you can play solo, especially that have come out since the pandemic. Just beware it's quite the rabbit hole and it's easy to fill up your home with games that don't get played much because you have too many of them raises hand if you're not careful.

Here's a list[1] voted on by solo board gamers of the best solo board games. Be aware that several of the top ones are long thinky games with lots of setup and probably not a great choice for 'I have an hour to kill before I make dinner", but there are quicker games in that list. This discussion on reddit[2] has some good ideas for quicker options. There's tons of videos for all board games on Youtube, so for any game that sounds good you can look up either a how to play video, a quick overview + review, or a playthrough (even solo playthroughs), separate videos for each with multiple channels offering them, so you can get a good feel for how the game plays.

My personal recommendations for quick soloable games would be Bowling Solitaire (can play using a standard deck of cards, but it's good thinky fun), Orchard, Hostage Negotiator, The Lost Expedition, Super-Skill Pinball 4-Cade, Finished!, and if you want something that looks complicated but isn't really too bad once you pick it up, and still plays in under an hour, I'd recommend Hadrian's Wall.

[1]: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/291071/2021-peoples-choic...

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/mxm4j5/favorite...

Another option is to get some Sudoku, Hidato, Strimko, or straight up Logic Puzzle books and work through them. For Sudoku I especially like the Killer Sudoku variant. Sudoku has several levels of techniques you can learn to use. I'd say I know most of the intermediate techniques, but struggle with advanced ones still. You can see how weird and creative some Sudoku can get by watching Cracking The Cryptic on Youtube[3] (a lot more strange than I expected). They even have a book with their channel's puzzles in it.

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/c/CrackingTheCryptic
>No one would ever get confused by this, it's pretty clear it's clickable.

It's pretty clear that it's clickable, but I definitely wouldn't think it's a button. My best guess would be that it's a navigation element, and that clicking on it brings you to some other page where a decline invitation button might be found, or where you have to fill out some form to explain why you're declining.

Part of it is because it looks exactly the same as "Test User", and presumably that isn't a button... I imagine that is a navigation element. But part of it is also because quite a few recent Microsoft corporate products (Sharepoint, Dynamics, etc.) seem to use the idiom you're trying to use for signaling that something isn't a button.
looks like Projector is somewhat deprecated and removed from the Toolbox app (internal YouTrack item https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/TBX-7455)

they do state on this page https://lp.jetbrains.com/projector/ "If you're not sure which solution you should choose, please consider using Gateway."
Some important context that the article overlook: Spain was until recently the country with most bank branches per citizen, and after the financial crisis the number of banks has decreased from about 60 to about 6 due to M&A activity. Merges and acquisitions continue to be planned. In the last 5 years, a third of all branches has been closed.
Am I allowed to allege that someone or some act was negligent without being a lawyer? Can I call someone incompetent without performing a study?
> Tumblr culture was an earlier harbinger, but I don't see how we can compare it to what subsequently developed on progressive-left Twitter.

We can compare it because it's the same memeplex, just on a different medium. Just as we can compare Qanon nuts writing on 4chan vs. Facebook.
I find the 12-hour system as intuitive as the 24-hour system. It is centered around noon, where "AM" means time on the same day before noon, and "PM" means time after, on the same day. Nothing wrong with that.
Just like there are people that don't read books and that don't watch TV using a computer should not be a mandatory thing.

"don't read" and "can't read" aren't the same thing. Same for computers. A baseline ability to read is required to function in modern society. I'd argue the same is true for computers. That doesn't imply the user MUST use a computer or read books regularly on their own, only that they should be able to read or use a computer when life requires.

All that said, I do agree that there should be alternatives to online forms for paying bills, etc.
Nopes, called the pearson vue support and they said will start a case for me. I was 12 hours late and they need proctors. So there was no point to argue. Best case they refund or allow me to reschedule the exam.
Errrrm....

That's an ordinary 24 hour clock. Rather bizarre to call it "Military" time.
The UI is hackable because it's so bare-bones. If you don't like it, install Stylus[0] and create your own skin.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpe...

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/
A toy with the best noise cancellation tool of any audio program out there though.
LoongArch Port Accepted into GCC
Precisely. And the text isn't even guaranteed to be there (I don't use iOS).
"Pot Roast, total time: 10 minutes"

- Prepare for 10 minutes

- Cook for 8 hours
This is the course the above comment mentions, since the original link redirects to a login page.

https://www.udemy.com/course/writing-your-own-operating-syst...
They should mirror somewhere outside of GitHub, this may get taken down.
From lightweight to featherweight: MicroK8s memory optimisation (2021)
Looks like their patches repo is public - I wonder if that'll lead the the adblocking technique being patched out quickly by Google? Either way happy to see this app revived, even as a premium subscriber - it provides functionality that makes YouTube much nicer to use
It’s fashionable to say that. Yet I think NYC would be worse off had he not been around.

Moses was a complex man and he did stuff good and bad. The unique thing about Moses is that he was an incredibly talented individual, both genius and villain. His acquisition, wielding, and addiction to power is fascinating.

The other thing is that he attracted the attention of the greatest biographer of the modern era. His legacy is documented in depth while the people who destroyed Baltimore, Cincinnati, Syracuse, etc get the benefit of anonymity.

Caro boiled it down to one idea: “Moses loved the public but hated people.”
> That could also mean life has to get started early or it won’t at all.

How would that work? It seems to me the only that matters is that the proper conditions for abiogenesis be maintained for whatever duration it requires. It shouldn't matter how far along the Universe or planet history this period occurs
Apple literally begged for this hammer to fall, ignoring calls for openness for 15 years and openly mocking efforts to get them to play ball (like the recent Dutch case, to which they responded by amending rules on dating apps, blatantly ignoring the spirit of the ruling).

I expect they employ enough smart people that they prepared for this moment of reckoning despite the hubris of their leadership.
As pointed out by hprotagonist in a comment below, there have also been claims of research misconduct claims made against the principle researchers involved with this group. So not exactly promising.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30773013
The day we turned on our CAPTCHA, I also remember being horrified at the number of people likely running LimeWire on US Navy vessels. One IP address in the DC metro area had multiple purchases per minute, with half of the email addresses ending in .navy.mil, so I added an IP address whitelist to not drop those CAPTCHA answers into the replay-prevention cache. I'm pretty sure that IP address was the base station for a US Navy satellite.

I mean, not horrified enough to prevent them from paying my company $18.88, but still horrified.

In retrospect, given that we were a 13 person company selling software with a marginal cost near zero, we should have left the system in place and never processed the $1 charges. Instead, we should have used a CRC32 of the upper-cased name and credit card number (in case they verified consistency) to accept 98% of $1 purchases without ever charging any of the cards. Even better would be to do a 2-part credit card transaction, first placing a hold on the credit card for the full purchase price, and waiting one minute to see how many different credit card numbers came from the same IP address in the next minute. If less than 4 different numbers came in the past minute, go ahead and complete those transactions, otherwise put the IP on the hellban list to start getting randomized results. Injecting pure noise into the carding ecosystem would have cost us nearly nothing (and given a 100% discount to a bunch of active duty sailors).
Same. I was like “surely this isn’t the mark fisher?”
I don't youtube that much but ublock+firefox and newpipe have been efficient for me.

Edit: overlooked your comment and did not see you mentioned a smart TV.
I thought this thread was about utility bills, but okay, I’ll play along with your incredibly specific example.

Is this a weird american thing? At least here in the UK mortgage interest deductions are only applicable to businesses.
I have a Sharp TV on my living room and the YT app crashes everytime a certain type of ad is played after the video starts. I don't know if its the video codec or if the TV is having a hard time going back to the original video. Out of nowhere a 5 second chocolate or cheese ad plays and the TV OS completely crashes.

Tried attaching an ARM SBC with Librelec but the state of the Youtube apps are extremely broken in a way that you need api keys from a google cloud account and that allows you to only play videos. Your subscriptions and everything are not imported. PS4 runs fine but I don't want to run a 100W console to watch YT videos.

Meanwhile I've found out that most of my favorite channels (mostly tech and retro stuff) are also uploading to Odyssey as a sort of backup strategy. That works very well for me.
Ask HN: What tools do you use for Reverse Engineering embedded systems?
I haven't done any browser extension development. Is it possible for browser extensions to be able to read HTTP headers? Is that consistent across all browsers?
Java for old folks

I guess their abacus broke

This is a haiku
The first few are single family villas, the last four are multi family housing complexes.

For some reason, people in Europe back in the 60s believed that creating dense housing only units with no sense of scale, long commutes and walks and 100% car dependence was the way forward.

That experiment backfired almost everywhere. Some of these homes, both in Eastern and Western Europe are well connected via public transport, integrate commercial and residential zones and are fairly nice to live in. Most, however, are simply unhealthy for both the planet and the residents.

It's great to live in dense places; but its benefits are countered by huge, empty plazas that take 15 minutes to cross if I just want to walk to the next corner store.
I like the first document, circa 2009. We were doing the same thing in Frontier at the time, because as the author says, it all was a bit of a mess.

I use the feedparser package in my JS work written by my friend Dan MacTough, that hides the differences between all flavors of RSS, RDF and Atom.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/feedparser

I don't know what role you think I played in RSS, but I never had the power to change what people were doing. I could only do things in my own software and with publishing partners.

I had influence only because I had (at the time) popular products and some good ideas (like podcasting).
I wouldn't be so resistant to paying Youtube if they weren't so trigger happy with censorship.
The "soon" has to be interpreted in a political context, so we're likely talking a few years. FAANG will put their lobbyists on overdrive to get extensions to whichever cut-off date is approved.
If it's an older computer, the motherboard capacitors can go bad. If your crashes are causing reboots/BSODs and seem to be only loosely correlated to what is being run at the time, consider the motherboard.

I had this issue recently and it caused a lot of head scratching....
> The vast majority of the world uses the metric system for all measurements.

Except for times and angles (only the second and the radian are SI). Also, aviators everywhere outside of PRC and North Korea use feet and flight levels (hundreds of feet) for altitude, and navigators (in the air and at sea) use nautical miles and knots. Other widely used non-metric units include mmHg for pressure, AU and parsec for astronomical distances, and eV for energy.
Ask HN: What are your favorite playlists while coding?
From my perspective you’re unfairly projecting bad faith onto Teleport and shooting your self in the foot in the process.

1) You’re assuming that a good faith argument would decrease the chances of us hiring you, but for the most part that isn’t the case. We’re an engineering company building a complex security product — the only way that can be done well is via a culture that’s perennially open to criticism, debate, and going with the better argument. In my tenure at Teleport, I’ve never experienced explicit or implicit punishment for voicing my opinion, even when it contradicted a more senior engineer’s opinion. The argument has always been evaluated on its merits and the correct option taken. An interviewee making a good argument and proving an interviewer wrong should, and based on my experience would, increase your chances of being hired.

2) I can imagine you retorting that even if that’s truly the case at Teleport, there’s no way you could know that beforehand, and due to the “antagonistic” nature of us being the “gatekeepers”, you’re forced to assume the worst. But if your goal is to work in a collaborative environment where criticism and debate is tolerated, then your implicit strategy makes no sense. If Teleport is that type of place you’d like to work, then pushback in the interview process will be well received; if it isn’t, then you won’t even get an offer. So you have nothing to lose by giving your true opinion, but if you assume the worst and self censor in an attempt to brown nose the hiring team, you risk ending up in a shitty work environment that you were hoping to avoid.
Epistemic legibility: being easy to argue with is a virtue
I‘m not sure if this is a good thing. Despite email being an open standard we have now the situation that most emails are processed by either Google or Microsoft. When the same happens to Matrix we will have a situation where it’s so hard to make your own home server that nobody wants to do it anymore.
It doesn’t allow people to install abusive and spyware apps on their spouse’s, girlfriend’s, coworker’s, roommate’s, and children’s devices… not to mention harmful ones on your own… that’s a feature.

If you really want some nasty stuff on your phone for some reason you can always write it yourself or find something open source and install it with Xcode. You are free to do this; the idea that you are not is a myth regurgitated by haters who don’t think for themselves. Just good luck doing it on someone else’s iPhone without their permission.
>I hate the smell of white collar in the morning.

More like "armchair urban planner/real estate developer". While I'm sure that most "white collar" workers don't know how long these steps take, I'm sure that some white collar workers in the chain (eg. management/engineers/civil servants) do know. By the same token, while I'm sure some non-white collar workers know how long this takes, I'm sure most non-white collar workers (eg. guy working in retail) don't have any idea either.
Can your SBC run Android (or even better, LineageOS)? If so, you can install Kodi for Android and launch Youtube or Newpipe within Kodi.
One group were gaming the upvote system to ruin r/all. I remember it at the time, it was awful for the majority of people there. The ban made things much better.
Just want to say thanks for writing this up!
That timing is interesting, I wouldn't be surprised if SCM is a hacker news reader or at least has a Google alert set up and actually saw this thread and reacted.

Using the filename and basic dorking you can still find copies as I found a half dozen last night when sharing the above link, but seems like sharing any link just helps it disappear. If the two channels are really the same producer, which seems true to me, than some of the actions recorded for Vagrant Holiday are not something you can put your face next to, if SCM was filming in his own neighborhood he may have become concerned about opsec and what clues are inadvertently remaining in that old content that could lead back to him. I don't see what external privacy/legal concern would cause all videos to be removed since they are all different subjects so I think it his choice.
Indeed. You're pretty spot on with this
Clearview AI is advertising 20B+ photos in the 2.0 version
Any thoughts on TechRadar's text to speech reading? While still obviously robotic, it sounded far more natural than I was expecting.
This is cable tv all over again. Pretty soon there will be ads on paid YouTube subscriptions too, mark my words.
> - the reason of the technical choices (commonmark!?)

Three reasons: It's pleasant to write; it's readable even when partially or completely "unrendered;" and it's limited in its capabilities while still meeting the goal of being able to present documents.

As for the protocol/communication parts, it's just good ol' HTTP. Refer to an HTTP tutorial or spec if you're not yet familiar with it.
or they can create a new account on the same platform. but that's why i don't like platforms that force me to use my phonenumber as a public ID. because already today, if i block you on whatsapp you can find me on signal because my number is the same. so really the interoperability doesn't make it worse than it already is.
You are absolutely right. I really wasn't aware of it. And therefore I thank you very much for the hint.
I am an open person and am therefore always happy when I can learn something new. Everyone should live as he wants.
We are individuals and I think that's great.
Best regards, Renato
Whatever communication method you select, there will always be ties to a carrier.

In GSM it’s a IMEI ID / phone number, in TCP/IP it’s a MAC/IP address. Internet also requires a subscription, subscriber and more.

And how would you implement a messaging service with “anonymous” endpoints ? Can’t send messages without a unique identifier for the recipient.
Causal Series A
Seconded. Wasn't able to unlock one the last time I touched an iPhone. And I even owned one - iPhone 5. Some people I talk to share similar experience.
We must suspend disbelief a bit regardless: Any “toxicity classifier” has a limited operational life as people who want to say toxic things will simply adapt their language and walk circles around it.

From simple letter substitution (sh!t) to completely different words/concepts (unalive) to “layer 2 sarcasm” (where someone adopts the persona of someone who supports the word view that’s against what they believe in a non-obvious attempt to rally people against that persona).

People have been getting away with being toxic in public for a long time. ML cannot keep up. Humans can’t even keep up.
Do you also believe taxation is theft?
I'm in the same boat. On desktop it's pretty easy to work around ads thanks to uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock. But on an Android TV it's becoming unbearable. It's like Youtube has come to torture and extortion to get our money so we can get a little bit of peace of mind.
I've found that sometimes, "predicting" downvotes fails, and the comment is upvoted, it seems to correlate more to whether people agree with the sentiment of the rest of the comment, but I agree that the prediction could influence the outcome.
>Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system. [0]

Neither the Clojure page, nor its users seem to agree with you.

[0] https://clojure.org/
I assumed it costs Apple quite a bit for the bandwidth and storage of all the media files they send, and hence why Apple is the only one that offers to do it at full quality.

I assume it costs Meta a lot too, and so they reduce the quality of media flying around on WhatsApp.

Would others have to be able and willing to pick up these costs if the networks were opened up? I am thinking even if Apple/Meta were forced to open their networks, they would balk at subsidizing outsiders.

I am not clear what the backend costs and cost allocation would be, for example, if someone using iMessage sends me a 4K video to me and I am not using iMessage, and I am offline, but I will expect to see it next time I open up Pidgin on my laptop.
> Stop voting Republican

OK, but you offer no alternative. The Democratic Party is the party of homeless camps, illegal immigration, out of control riots, and unaffordable cities. I'm not going to vote for that, either.
But who said it was "intended to be incredibly simple"?

It seems that some people look at the designs from the past and think "oh, whatever the designer came up with was the true final form of the idea" when in reality it was just that what they came up with was to deal with the constraints they were dealing with (costs, time, resource, etc).
> I've noticed that moving the goalposts is extremely prevalent on HN, which makes for pretty frustrating conversations (or just reading). And then sometimes it's a tag team. E.g. [...] Personal A offers their response [to someone else, person B1]. Person B2 offers a second rebuttal that abandons the premise behind B1's rebuttal, and may actually be at odds with it.[...] It's like the cross product of a Gish gallop and a DDoS.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23117242>

The comment I wrote was a response to someone who staked their claim on the controvertible assertion that Mozilla "desperately" needs money as a result of Firefox being "non- revenue earning". (Not just being unable to cover the costs for their own existence, but straight up bringing no revenue whatsoever.) That's completely at odds with reality.

You can try to avoid the extant thread of discussion by mentioning something else that's true but irrelevant. At that point, however, it's a completely different conversation. Please don't do this.
Oh yeah, thanks for the context. Checking my old OS it seems I did do that near jump too. I'd forgotten about that.

It looks like the author of this PDF confused the two jumps.

Looks like Linux nowadays does the far jump immediately after setting cr0, thus doing two in one:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/boot/...

But the near and far jump (if you use both) still have VERY different purposes. And the CPU is not really in 32bit mode until all the segment descriptors have been loaded manually.

Linux didn't used to combine them:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/2.2.26/source/arch/i386/boo...

Here we see the near instruction-flushing jump, then a bunch of code (that is still in 16bit mode!), and then the long jump that switches the instruction set to 32bit.

The comments in that last link explains it well, too.
To each their own. I'm a huge fan of LOOP. Is very easy to read, feeling much more natural to how I think about those sections of code.
Any reason you can't use MIT.

For hobbyist projects Unlicense is great, but it may create issues with bigger companies. I think the main sticking point, is public domain that doesn't really exist in countries like Germany, so the unlicensed is unclear. Companies don't like unclear things.

Facebook uses MIT, and their tools like React and Jest are cornerstones of the NodeJS ecosystem.

https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/main/LICENSE
> redistributing a proprietary app

Revanced patches the locally installed version, so hopefully that means they'll be in the clear