skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As noted by others on this topic, some games and other apps are "finished artworks" from years ago. They are "done", like a final version of Tetris, it works fine for what it is and it's done.

I saw a discussion about PS3 that is still fully supported by Sony with live app store servers after 15 years and still fully supports games from PS2 and PS1 from 20+ years ago. Good on Sony.
Morocco is surprisingly well armed due to the ongoing conflict with their nemesis Algeria.

> Morocco isn't a nuclear power and would be crushed in an afternoon by UK

> This is a completely different situation wrt to Germany <-> Russia

The irony is palpable. Yes, the UK would probably get a "win" but not in an afternoon and this energy project would be destroyed - rather pointless.

You could just have coal reserves on standby and contingency energy deals with France.
I've used Migadu for several years after switching from Google Apps. Technologically, I've been pretty satisfied. I have a lot of custom domains that I may want to use different users/mailboxes on and Migadu's pricing model makes that pretty easy.

In 2020, there was some turmoil with Migadu where they nearly (or completely) doubled their prices and didn't communicate it well. I was paying 45/yr then abruptly started paying 90/yr on the same/equivalent plan. They also took away a couple of features purported to be the cause behind some performance issues they had. During that time, their service was strained. Many users, me included, didn't realize there was an issue until no e-mail was received for days. Support just said "sorry" and that there was a post about it on their website. I think this situation soured a lot of users. You can read about it, including some of Migadu's response, if you search this site, reddit, and lowendtalk.

I agree with you that their speech codes in the TOS are sketchy, ambiguous, and trite. I'm not sending or receiving any e-mail like that, but I don't trust contemporary definitions for those topics. I've been considering another provider when my subscription is due for renewal because of the price change.
Exactly. What's more I prefer for the software I use to be proprietary, because then I know that me paying its price is enough to support its ongoing maintenance and development. When it comes to open source projects seeking donations, I'd need to pay incomparably more, knowing that most users don't pay. With the proprietary model everyone pays their fair share to keep the project afloat. With donations an army of freeloaders bears the benefits of the funding provided by few who pull all the weight. So if a project is donation-funded I look instead for a proprietary one, because it will be more likely to stay afloat in the future and return my investment of learning it and organizing my workflow around it instead of becoming abandonware.
Intent and good-faith argument also matter. If you're not willing to look past another person's inexpert use of grammar and/or syntax in order to understand their meaning, then you're doing it wrong. No trophies for elevating language to be a rigid and immutable thing.
> I can’t help but ask you to support that, because it seems like a bizarre claim to me.

There's little about this claim that's "bizarre", and the OP brings relevant evidence. Celebrating widespread, no-fault divorce and dismissing the importance of household-scale social cohesion is indeed a key part of the current Zeitgeist amongst intellectual, often left-leaning elites.
That's great for you, but go tell that to someone who's lost all hope. If there's no hope then there's little incentive to work hard.
Because shitheads exist?
> That's irrelevant - if you want uptake

Haskell's slogan is "avoid success at all costs". Haskell isn't aiming for mass adoption. It wants to be a language for researching functional programming, it just so happens it's a useful language, and people write real software with it too.

From https://haskell.foundation/whitepaper/
> Haskell's slogan of "avoid success at all costs" was a clever and cheeky way of saying that innovation and research in programming languages, especially in functional programming, needed some insulation to succeed

Nix doesn't have such a slogan as far as I know. It, however, started as a thesis to try and research and innovate new ideas. https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf The Purely Functional Software
Deployment Model.

Twenty years later, it's been rather successful as a research project, one of the most active repos on GitHub. It has gained a lot of usage and support without trying to be successful, popular or market itself.

The Nix language has helped it achieve what it set out to achieve. It's appealing to people who are interested in purely functional software. If that doesn't appeal to Javascript / PHP devs that's ok as it isn't trying to appeal to them.

The Nix expression language is small and pretty simple; everything is an expression.

The difficult bit is there are no javadoc/jsdoc/pydoc type docs beyond https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/expressions/builtins.htm... where you can go search easily. You have to go through the source code to find functions and see how they work. Also, you have to accept Nix is a ML style language, not a C style language. It's different to what you may know, but that isn't a fault of the language if someone only knows C style languages. The language is as it needed to be like that to achieve the design it wanted. Personally, I hate using Ansible firstly because of YAML. Secondly, Ansible is a task runner, often feeling like you are over abusing Ansible for things that are not a natural fit, and the debug headache dealing with determinism by convention only.

I think it comes down to Nix isn't for you. That's ok.
Heh, there's a project I'm trying to get into and it's written in Haskell, I gotta learn it... if possible I'm probably going to port it to something else.
> No, auto-reject what the sites let you reject

That would require sites to implement some kind of yet-to-exist browser API telling it which cookies are used for tracking and which are not.

And why would any website implement that ? The EU can't force websites to implement feature X.
Are they? It was sort of implied they only want the best of the best
> The Red Army raping its way through Germany […]

In fact, it was much worse and started way before. According to informal accounts that Russian historians silently omit due to not boding well the narrative of the glory and the purity of the Soviet victory, male Wermacht soldiers captured in trenches of the Eastern Front were frequently sexually abused and raped with material objects other than a male genitalia, such as glass bottles. The most commonly cited reason (and an excuse) is revenge for an attempt of a near total extermination of Eastern Slavs (Poles, Belarussians, Ukrainians – not just ethnic Russians). Actually, it was the Poles, the Belarussians and the Ukrainians who bore the main brunt of the Nazi brutality.

US and British troops, however, did participate in mass rapes after the fall of Berlin and West Germany as well, only to a lesser extent. Many of the Allied forces' soldiers were court martialed on the account of their involvement in mass rapes of German women. Yet, they were given a free reign in the first few days. Soviet Army was given a longer "leeway" in their rampage after which those involved in rapes and other atrocities were also court martialed. Again, the most cited reason is revenge for the murdering of 27+ million Soviet citizens. Personally, I can't accept revenge as a rationalisation of events.

> […] did you wonder why it was called the Continuation War?

Yes, I did ponder the very same question; yet, I am at a loss. Finland attacking back the Soviets on its own to regain previous losses and calling that The Continuation War? Yes, I can see a merit in that. Finland opportunistically siding with Nazi Germany, creating a pretext rooted in the nationalistic rhetoric and the Finnish epic poetry for the ethnic cleansing? No, it is a separate undertaking and not a continuation war (note the spelling).
"the stupidity and moral ineptitude of lower-class people who avowedly hate elites"

I have never encountered an individual who claims to hate the "elite". And I for one will not complain if someone hates a person who holds your classist views.

And what do you mean by "elite" anyways? If people dislike those in the position of authority, especially politicians, they generally have very good reasons for that. To quote from the article,

"Today, one in six American men between the ages of 25 and 54 are unemployed or out of the workforce altogether: about 10 million men. This number has more than doubled since the 1970s."
Exactly what jordan peterson talks about. Responsibility. And the hell that emerges when this is abandoned.
I suspect that at any major university it’s the grants. Administrators can’t eat fame. I was aiming for the fact that non academic jobs aren’t much better by any metric that’s out there. Except maybe ageism is anti tenure?
The role of this is to bridge the gaps between the spikes of internal motivation.

A lot of times people start working on something new and for the first few days they have enough motivation to stick with it. But when that disappears a lot of people just quit. They don't stick with the new activity long enough for the next surge of internal motivation.

We believe this service can help people grind it out for a week or two until they get a surge of internal motivation and no longer need us.
I thought li had some kind of latency rubber that doesn't start the clock until the move is visible to you.. which can make a game with only two seconds on the combined clocks take significantly longer than two seconds if players are moving fast enough and the latency is getting added over and over between moves.

Edit: according to this page lichess does compensate network lag to make play fair for players on slower connections, though it doesn't specify how.
https://lichess.org/lag
If you were one of the big 3 then you pretty much get to decide what laws / fines apply and what don't.
This was often used to the advantage of the British governments to claim that they were being forced into doing something that they actually wanted to do, but would have an issue passing domestically.

Fishing 'debacle' was because the UK governments have no interest in fishing nor in the far wider issue of the sustainability and viability of costal communities. They were happy to give away fishing rights because that's what the needs of the markets demand. They only become interested in fishermen/women when they think there are some votes in it. Same for Macron.

It's all extremely cynical. And I say this as someone who voted for Brexit, and would do so again.
> In our typology, alternative channels tend to advocate “reactionary” positions and typically
claim to espouse marginalized viewpoints despite the channel owners primarily identifying as White
and/or male. This list combines Lewis’ Alternative Influence Network (31), the Intellectual Dark
Web and Alt-lite channels from Ribeiro et al. (22), and channels classified by Ledwich and Zaitsev
(23) as Men’s Rights Activists or Anti-Social Justice Warriors. Example alternative channels in our
typology include those hosted by Steven Crowder, Tim Pool, Laura Loomer, and Candace Owens.

> Our list of extremist channels consists of those labelled as white identitarian by Ledwich and
Zaitsev (23), white supremacist by Charles (32), extremist or hateful by the Center on Extremism
at the Anti-Defamation League, and those compiled by journalist Aaron Sankin from lists curated
by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, the Counter Extremism
Project, and the white supremacist website Stormfront (33). Example extremist channels include
those hosted by Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Mike Cernovich, and Faith J. Goldy.

I am not going to argue whether those channels are "alternative" or "extremist". However, it is obvious that the authors think only right wing has "alternative" or "extremist" (whatever they mean) videos/ideas, there is no left wing "alternative" or "extremist" videos/ideas. Does anyone really believe that?
I buy unlocked phones without financing them and use Ting for mobile service. I don't buy phones from the cell providers.
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31123199

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31133392

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31137853
I hoped to have seen Jon Postel's quote of "Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others" somewhere in the various /interpretation/ sections, but, alas, no - not to be found.
You can.

Carriers killed windows phones not by blocking them, but simply by not selling them. At the time, you bought your phone branded from the carrier by default, with only the adventurous buying 3rd party devices.

Pretty much any LTE module with the supported bands will get you on network.
Yes I can confirm it was a bad joke.

Personally I thought this whole thread was a joke. Glad I’d be first on your list though, I’m hardly ever first at anything.

Also COVID is fake, the earth is flat, 9/11 was an inside job, and now that you’ve shown desire to killfile(?) a supreme member of the Illuminati, well I don’t know what will happen, but it will probably be semi irritating.
What's cool, is that it does not seem to have resulted in permanent injury.

She is currently an MD at a Norwegian University hospital, and looks to be doing great.
Sometimes the Indian supermarket has contraband imported Kinder Surprise, not the shitty domestic versions.
It really is though
LibriVox (https://librivox.org/) has free audiobooks for many of these public domain books. They're recorded by volunteers, so the quality is a grab bag. Some of them are quite good though. Most recently I listened to A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court read by John Greenman (https://librivox.org/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-co...) Goofy book, but very entertaining.
Granted, I'm a musician, so take everything I say with a grain of salt. And I don't know what the author's background is.

But I've noticed that the people who tend to have the biggest problem with music theory are engineers. I think it comes from an assumption that music should be learned like engineering, where you start with fundamentals, and then build upon them. And then they're horrified to discover that even the fundamentals are arbitrary and approximate.

Most musicians don't start out with fundamentals. We started by choosing an instrument and somehow learning to play it. For the most part, musicians don't care about temperaments. Equal temperament only applies to a handful of instruments that can be kept in tune long enough for it to matter, and that can play the same note, the same way, twice. An orchestra, jazz band, or solo fiddler, have no temperament in any meaningful sense.

Yes, musical notation is a cluster. But it serves its purpose well enough to be useful to support a symbiosis between the composer and the performer. If any composer chooses to try a bespoke notation, they'll discover that nobody will ever perform their composition. It's like a programming language that nobody likes, but that is supported by a job market and labor pool.

My advice for any engineer wanting to get into music is, get an instrument and learn to play it. Preferably a non-electronic one, so you won't be tempted to turn music into a numbers game.
One potential option is using CloudFlare email routing. You can use it with a regular public provider (gmail for example). CloudFlare will handle the MX side of things for your custom domain and route your emails to the public provider without requiring it to use the custom domain. The issue I’ve found is that it’s hard to set up a reply address to reply as the original email was received, so this may not work perfectly (emails look like they come from the gmail address for example). Does anyone know how to solve that part?
The epitome of privilege is assuming everyone has house servants to empty their trash cans. My trash cans at home do not empty themselves, nor do I have my hired man do it for me.

Yes, I admit elderly living in nursing homes do have hired help empty their trash cans.

Is it a sign of society collapse that one-armed individuals and those lacking any upper body strength cannot live in the lap of luxury? Nah, they go be cashiers at the same store. Well, whatabout those too dumb to make change but too smart to get SSDI disability? Whataboutism has become tiresome and as such is no longer effective propaganda.
Okay, but again, so we have 4 kids and people with 4 kids. We can wave all the blame we want but all that ends up logically concluding is “fuck children in bad economic situations who did nothing to deserve their situation”. We cannot unbirth children, so now they’re here, how can we incentivize society so that when they grow up they don’t end up putting future children in their current position?
>What men do is based on what men want. What men want is sex.

That may be true in your experience, but in my experience what men mostly want is to build things and dig really cool tunnels.
I think this is for when your inner motivation is already waning. You obviously don't need to do this if you're already super motivated.
Thank you very much for sharing this context, it's really helpful!

I just had a conversation with a French friend whose opinion on the election and the design of the institutions closely matches what you're describing.

I'm a little ashamed to say that albeit having learned French quite a long time in school and considering myself to be interested in the affairs of your country as a German neighbour I had hardly a notion of how polar your presedential election process and the public discours around it and related policies by candidates seems to be set up.

Thanks again for building this!
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Disclaimers:
I don't work for OVH; I use it consistently for my customers;
Still, all my own/company stuff is self-hosted on my own Colo/AS/LIR.
Yes!

The grid is one of the world's largest real-time reactive machines. Power is generated on the fly as you need it. You could draw a direct path from your home A/C switching on all the way back up the chain to some source needing to push power to meet your demand.

The supply of the grid is a big mix of diverse sources: renewables, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, coal—whatever. Each power source has different pros and cons, and you cannot really over-index on one to have a reliable grid. For example, nuclear is a fantastic and relatively clean source for base load (obviously, when handled responsibly), but not great to provide power that reacts to the shifts of demand through the day. Solar, obviously, doesn't work at night. The grid operator has to build a supply mix that fits the needs of their region. (And that's typically by facilitating energy market with different energy products where generators bid and participate.)
Yes, between most guitar strings is a perfect 4th interval (where equal temperament ratio [0] and the integer ratio it approximates [1] are quite close to each other) but between the G string and B string is a major 3rd interval (where equal temperament ratio [3] and the integer ratio it approximates [4] are a bit farther from each other).

When using a tuner to tune a guitar, you get the equal temperament normally desired for it's ability to play equally in any key. When tuning by ear, if you are just minimizing the beating you hear (instead of targeting the beating that exists in equal temperament, like good piano technicians are trained to do) you'll end up with integer ratios. Accidentally ending up at the integer ratio of a major third is "farther off" than doing so for a perfect fourth. Typically this manifests as a difficult time tuning the B string though, not the G string, if you go low to high. Solution: tune low to high for the E,A,D,G and tune high to low for the high E,B (doing a perfect octave for the E to E where the equal temperament ratio [4] perfectly matches the integer ratio [5]).

[0] 1.334840:1 or 2^(5/12):1

[1] 1.333333:1 or 4:3

[2] 1.259921:1 or 2^(4/12):1

[3] 1.25:1 or 5:4

[4] 2:1 or 2^(12/12):1

[5] 2:1
I always bring my own because there's never good soap. I wear a motorcycle helmet all day for weeks, so I need The Good Shampoo.
DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge
> Gold is probably toxic to plants

How so? It doesn’t react with anything.
There are two of me. The me of now, and the me of hindsight. Hindsight me is way smarter, and able to criticise every decision we made leading us into the mess that is now. Now me needs to make quick decisions based on imperfect information, budgets and tight timelines.

If it were up to hindsight me, we'd have carefully designed and orchestrated every past decision. We'd do full design qualification and change control on projects and purchases, researching carefully to never make a mistake. We'd sit as a team and brainstorm every possible implication. We'd write, execute and document tests for everything to prove ourselves. Any sniff of inefficiency and we would stop everything and fix it, no matter the cost. We'd take time to document, investigate and follow through. It would be a glorious cavalcade of plans and CAPAs, qualifications and tests. And reports! Binders and binders of wonderful validation reports everywhere!

If it were entirely up to hindsight me, we'd run our little widget company like we're building a space shuttle. Of course, we'd never make any money. But we'd be doing it right, by gum!

Most companies need to be somewhere in the middle. No hindsight and you end up a tangled mess of short-sighted kludges, all hindsight and you can't move forward. Either way you risk ending up a lead balloon.

If you find yourself in the kludge company territory, then here's some advice from a talk I recently attended[1]:

Start by training yourself and your team in Root Cause Analysis. Empower them to start thinking deeply and critically about what's really causing the problems and inefficiencies you encounter. Understanding root causes naturally translate into solutions that aren't just bandaids. Use these skills in your day to day, and you'll start building a culture of quality around your systems.

[1] Steve Gompertz
REACT

PIOUS

Hits all the vowels except Y. But I feel like it's not so great. Wish I could replace the P with something more useful.
I use blogtrottr.
This is basically my reading of the situation. After reading the article I was certain the comment section here would look like this, but anyway, my take home is ‘technological advances mean it is now easier just to lay a long cable on the sea floor than all of the political maneuvering needed to transit power across multiple countries’

Obviously- that may be wrong, but let’s see, would be cool if it’s true.
Thanks, the temperatures in the article means nothing for those who don't speak Fahrenheit...
Since switching to hard mode, I almost never start with “good words”. Too much risk of getting the 10 possibilities with 3 guesses remaining type situation.
You don’t need to delete your account to hide it. Deleting your account simply just stops your ability to prove who you are if you later find your stuff archived or mirrored somewhere.

I don’t really see what you gain by deletion. Better off running one of many scripts to delete all your data and retain the account
According to statistics websites, around 65% of adults in the US play video games, and around the same percentage of residences own gaming devices. At this rate, playing video games could be a "symptom" for virtually anything imaginable.

You probably mean stereotype.
I don't think we will actually be getting 10GW net from this. The article itself claims that the project will

> deliver 3.6GW of reliable energy

and

> be capable of supplying 8 percent of Great Britain’s electricity needs

...from which I assume they're projecting a total energy consumption of about 3.6/0.08 = 45GW in 2030.