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Pulsar is great! I haven’t played in ages so not sure how active the community is. But I had some good times playing in random lobbies in that game.
>Very nice right up on how unfinished and insecure Fuchsia is as a result of it being so unfinished.

Did you even read the write up? The only bug found was the ability to read the kernel log. Everything else was manufactured.
This Graph Guarantees a Painful Recession... (Maybe Depression?) [video]
I think the GDPR is pretty clear: it is illegal to process personal data if you cannot apply an exception listed in the regulation. Also all data that might be deanonymized by some means is personal data. The message is clear: if you put others at risk, you are at risk to get fined.

Yes, this makes many, sometimes ideotic things, illegal. But not I also cross a red light on foot from time to time and I do not think it should be made legal. Regulations that leave a freedom what to prosecute are not bad by design.
God I miss the glory days of Ultima Online.
I built the Zeta V2 from Sergey although immediately after booting it up the first time, I had no clue what I was going to do with it. I thought about dropping in a ESP8266 into the ParPortProp board but still haven't gotten around to doing the work. I did build my own programmer for the ROM using a Teensy which was pretty fun. I think I want to use it as a TNC for packet radio but will need to add a Bell modem chip, preferably a real FSK modem lifted from the garbage rather than a microcontroller that can do everything under the sun.
> How much is Ruby knowledge assumed though?

It doesn't cover the absolute basics of programming, but the only references to Ruby are mainly in the introduction. It's written from the viewpoint of someone learning Crystal, so you should have no problem following along, even without Ruby experience.
Fascinating... I would like to subscribe to your newsletter!
I said it's significantly _slower_, not faster, for compression.
Arguably the UK is a good example of how FPTP can result in even worse dynamics than two broadly competitive parties as in the US (though I agree that it's FPTP doing the work; many fully functioning multiparty democracies have elected presidents). England has a de facto 2.5 party system, where the third party picks up a large fraction of votes but only a handful of seats and the governing party is rarely backed by much more than a third of the vote but usually picks up most of the seats. Worse still, the relative policy overlap of the two centre-left parties has meant the centre-right party usually wins elections even though generally a majority of the public votes for parties promising centre-left politics (yes there's obviously a lot more nuance and exceptions to that than can be fitted into a single sentence).

Scotland has more recently shown shows that a single main representative of a losing minority in an independence referendum can win nearly everything against the multiple major parties on the other side. (Wales shows if your nationalist support is more lukewarm and unevenly distributed you get more unpredictable multiparty politics)

Northern Ireland is contested only by local parties with a longstanding religious/national identity division leading to two major parties for each side plus, and ultra tactical voting based on trying to figure out which of your factions' parties to unite behind this time to avoid the embarrassment of the local minority faction getting their candidate elected (and the non-sectarian fifth party being squeezed out).

None of the areas are particularly delighted with the results they are getting.
Hey HN, I'm one of the founders of AWS Bootstrap. We have been obsessed with solving AWS complexity for quite a while. We feel that there is something fundamentally wrong with the current state of things in developer platforms.

On the one hand, there are nice simple tools like Heroku or Vercel. But you quickly outgrow them. On the other hand, there's AWS / Azure / GCP. Super powerful, you can build whatever you want; and free for startups thanks to generous free credits. But they are so complex (AWS particularly so) that it quickly becomes a time sink.

So we wanted to create a zero-ops experience on top of AWS. With AWS Bootstrap you can get the best of both worlds - quick setup + full power of AWS still accessible. Under the hood it uses Terraform that is fully customisable.
people also edit the titles of videos from time to time... so even the exact title doesn't help
I won't call it perfect if it can't cancel out urination.
Sounds like a DLC or sequel for "Grounded" from Obsidian Entertainment.
Maybe creeper world?
A terminal UI strategy game. For example something like stellaris or moo but in the terminal where it is pushing content and playability over graphics and sound.

There is something about the simplicity of tui that makes you focused on the actual content.

oh ya, and it needs to run on raspberry pi and not crazy machine like a mac.

haven't found anything close to this.
I appreciate you taking the time to write these out. I want to research it a bit more before replying and also share what you wrote with one of the authors of that site who is a friend of mine, as I think that more evidence may be there just not so directly connected to that one article.

Regardless, for now, thank you.
I just got the email, see here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31505489
How do we define 'current network'?
Pokémon MMORPG.

I know there were a few mods that added online servers to older ROMs. But I would love to see a fully fledged GameFreak version.
Apple isn't keeping anyone safe from malware. They have a contractor look (visually) at the phone screen and see if the app is breaking any rules, and watch for weird stuff via an http proxy. This takes something like 15-30 minutes from what I hear.

There's no instrumentation, there's no depth to it. It's trivially easy to ship malware and other things that violate the rules. People do it all the time, sometimes they go long long periods without getting caught because they don't draw attention, sometimes they're so big they can just get away with it.

The App Store is entirely a fraud as far as safety from malware goes. It just makes sure things look nice which makes you feel safe when you really aren't.
Mom still uses grandpa's can opener. I still haven't managed to buy one that would work that well too.
Objective-C can feel easier to different types of developers for different reasons.

For disciplined developers who always dot their I’s and cross their T’s, it feels easier because they can write code with full “trust” from the compiler that the developer knows what they’re doing.

For undisciplined developers, it can feel easier because the compiler isn’t calling them out on code smells and inattentiveness to nullability and types.

I’d like to think I’m somewhere in the middle (as I suspect most devs are) and for me Swift feels easier in most respects, even with its everything-and-the-kitchen-sink nature compared to Objective-C’s more spartan approach.
It's kept upto date by employees of the bike shop he worked for (Harris Cyclery), his widow, and his friend John Harris (a nationally recognized bicycle expert).
The most recent post was about 3 weeks ago: https://sheldonbrown.com/blog/
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> Democracy is a nice concept, but the issue is that its main goal becomes quickly winning the elections. And once you start listening to the majority and adapt your party policies to whatever the population wants currently, you keep winning the elections, but can't do much to influence what you think is right.

So... it's pretty realistic then?
There is a litany of research showing that proportional representation leads to more representative and stable democracies, both in terms of empirical outcomes and normative political theory. Saying we don't have enough data just because some borderline-crackpot blogger doesn't like it is pretty disingenuous.
Ever heard of A Tale In The Desert?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_in_the_Desert
See here for todays sunset if that plans availability:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31505489
This conflict between I call "technological enthusiasts" and "economic realists" is extremely prevalent in any discussion on cryptocurrencies.

I find this extremely fascinating and I think stems from both understanding things that the other side doesn't fully appreciate. I wrote about this more on my blog: https://lawrencexie.wordpress.com/2022/05/13/on-crypto-misco...
You can do control flow on SwiftUI Views? Checkout @ViewBuilder...
Maybe I should have used this one instead?

"Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs." -Dave Cutler
Do you not feel vulnerable to unfocused drivers lying down?

When riding a normal bike, I feel safer knowing I can quickly abandon the bike and dive to the side if needed.
A game where you make home improvements and have to manage a budget. Resources would be that you have a family which has a specific amount of time they can spend on tasks, and expenses, such as electricity, home heating oil, car payments, buying new windows, etc. Tasks like buying new windows would result in less energy costs, or something like a dishwasher would allow you to spend less time doing dishes at higher energy costs. I want "Home Economics: The Game" so that kids will actually learn about home economics stuff. Random events could include global warming, supply chain shortages, etc... There could definitely be a "fun" mode where fun things happen rapidly and events like your house getting haunted or SCP sorts of events take place, or a simulation mode where you might do awesome or you might end up selling your kidneys after getting that basket weaving degree or reading this post on hacker news.
The Tesla Model S has a physical volume control on the steering wheel. I’m not sure about the other Tesla models.
That first one made me think of combining Pokemon with Slay The Spire - each Pokemon has a deck (themed towards poison, electric, etc), and the Player has a deck (utility, healing, battlefield modification, combos)

In battle, you can choose your Pokemon based on the opponent and your hand is a mix of Player and Pokemon cards.

You gain more Pokemon, or cards for Pokemon, by exploring the wilds.

You gain Player cards and gold by battling other trainers.

I guess for a proper modern Rougelite you should have "relics", gained by battling Gym leaders, rare Pokemon, or completing quests by NPCs.
George Carlin wasn't wrong when he said houses are just a place to put our stuff. Why are we all so attached to stuff?

I've found myself slowly letting go of material things, and with that comes a feeling of tranquility.
> Cryptocurrencies became popular due to distrust in the economy, but they did not prove to be a viable replacement.

I mean BTC or ETH were a lot better place to keep your capital in the last X years (where you can pick any X since the GFC/Bitcoins inception) than keeping it in dollars or euros.

Of course some people had access to a) the free money that the US gov has been printing over that same period, b) connections to early investment opportunities , and so may have had better places to put their capital.

But for regular people who didn't have the connections to invest in AirBnB during the earlier rounds and put their capital to work (doing all the good work that AirBnB has done) it seems to have actually worked pretty well if you distrusted the economy. I'll leave it up you to work the ratio of how many people exist in those two groups.

Also this comment seems to assume that it's over and everyone trusts the economy now, and that bitcoin & crypto have failed in that use case. Doesn't seem that way to me.

You can certainly criticize the actions of VCs in the space, and a bunch of other groups, and I wouldn't disagree, but believe it or not there is people in crypto who still have the original principals, and what is more is there is a constant influx of new people with those same principals.
This seems to be a very common misconception, but the cookie consent dialogues are not part of GDPR.
It's not exactly what you're asking for, but you might want to check out the game Grounded. It's a crafting-survival game that's heavily inspired by "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"
An FPS set in sub-Saharan Africa (read: not just Far Cry 2). Ideally, something like ARMA.

It has an incredibly rich and varied terrain, with many iconic animals, great beauty, and many cultures (including their histories and mythologies). It'd make an amazing setting.

I don't know why sub-Sahara isn't used in games.
Gatekeeping music availability is weird. In most places, the idea of having all this music locally on a disk is impossible. How can someone in mongolia get a lossless, flac based discography of their favorite band from the 80s?

The music industry purposelessly makes it harder and harder to get lossless file based music for the first world, save for indie bands on bandcamp and the occasional release by a triple A band/label.And again, this is next to impossible in developing nations.

I don't have hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars to dedicate t getting every song I want to listen to on a whim in the above mentioned format, and I have much less time and money to manage those across my devices in a format that is anything short of maddening.
Online versions of various now-iconic boardgames (or analogues):

Dune

Fortress America

Supremacy

etc
This one is available without a number pad.
I've just used a classic name for the genre. I'm a big fan of Cities: Skylines.

At a country scale some simulation techniques need to change. For example, tilemaps become ridiculously inefficient (a byte per 10m^2 becomes tens of GBs), so they either need some form of compression, or the simulation has to use vector-based maps instead (more like Cities Skylines).

Another quirk is that at a country scale agent-based simulation becomes less interesting, because individual agents don't influence much, only their collective behavior is big enough to matter, and that starts looking just like a normal distribution of the simulation data you put in.
Tell some y’all read books during recess
Yeah iOS is one thing as you can generally wait it out as Apple is pretty aggressive about upgrades there but on macOS I think this limitation has really killed it's viability, people just don't update their desktop OS.
It depends what kind of relationship you had with the parent(s). I'll give you an example: I've not seen my mother in half a decade, I've barely seen her in twelve years. Perhaps that's for the best, after all, she did just leave my father and I over twenty years ago to pursue a man twenty years younger than her from the other side of the world that she met in a psychic chatroom. When I have spoken to her, as recently as last Christmas, we only argue. I've tried extremely hard.
This is another benefit of truly analog manual controls: Memory. Used to be your stereo volume knob was just at a certain level; when you turned it on it was at that level. Now they're all software controlled. At least some stereo equipment maintains this paradigm but I'm with you on the phone volume as it's dictated by your phone and the volume for one device could be drastically different than another.
Oh it's a little more pernicious than that. ChexSystems and a few other companies are used to check a database when cashing a check at major retailers in the US. Walmart and Kroger utilize this third-party vendor to deny check cashing (including payroll checks) to people who're on the same list as those who can't open bank accounts. Good luck getting that check cashed for less than $20-30.

Source: I used to work in retail.
The point is mmap is good for read heavy workload and they do go into a test setup where they compare performance between mmap and a file based io system. Bandwidth seems to fall after the page cache fills up.

Anyways it's not like OS will do some magic one a page needs to be flushed to disc. It all depends on how quickly and how nicely scheduling is done. Paper also goes into software aspects of using an mmap system. 3.2 and 3.4 seem quite relevant software problems.
They do have to mark it as paid at least under the FCRA if you are in the US.
10-100x more expensive is still cents. When I lived in a third world country plenty of medications were sold in glass.
AR artillery battles - strap on some AR goggles and man the helm of an artillery company taking on others within range who are also playing on the same server.
Just to add on:

Track chainrings don't need a narrow-wide profile because there's very little slack in the system for the chain to come off. Saint Sheldon warns of the possibility of losing a finger also for this reason.
1, perhaps Hyperbolica.
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Civilization, but where you start a company instead of a country. Here are some analogies:

Exploring and collecting goody huts, fighting off barbarians -> going around the idea maze trying to find product market fit

Catherine cozies up to you, then suddenly declares war and sends over a carpet of doom -> Amazon did a bunch of butt sniffing pretending to want to acquire, then decides to copy your product and launch a competitor

Chieftain level: you went to an Ivy league school, have a wealthy parent that is a partner at a Tier 1 VC, and get a free (no equity) 500k angel investment to start off

Immortal level: you are an immigrant who just arrived in US before college. You are working 2 jobs to support your parents and siblings. 1 of your parents is sick. Most of your friends are trying to get rich quick off crypto.

(don't even ask what deity level might be)

I would love to give folks the real startup experience without the risk so they can feel what it's like. I think the challenge here is figuring out what the movement and interpersonal mechanics would be: so much of building a company is about relationships. Perhaps some of it can be procedurally generated, using GPT-3 or similar models. Like when you are trying to negotiate multiple term sheets and the investors try various tactics on you.

Someone posted a vastly simplified version of this earlier: https://startuptrail.engine.is/

EDIT: if you're gonna downvote, at least explain why?
Definitely seems to be trending Republican, but it's one the Dems will care much more about trying to pick up half a million votes in than a million votes spread across smaller states which still won't flip and wouldn't necessarily be worth as much if they did.
Command & Conquer (RA2 Yuri's Revenge or Generals style play) + FPS where I start the game in RTS mode and at any time I can click and "assume" a unit on the ground where I'm dropped into an FPS version of the map I was just viewing. If I die, I resume the commander role. Or if at any time I want to command again, AI takes the unit back over and it either stops or resumes doing whatever it was doing before.

I guess Renegade might be what FPS looks like, but I'm unaware of a game that combines both.
- Prototype 3, or a good spiritual successor. I really liked the first two games, and would like to have more.

- Ground Control 3, or a good spiritual successor. I played this game a lot, especially when I was younger. I never really found something like it again. The gameplay was great, especially since I never really liked resource gathering in RTS. The completely free camera was great too, exploring the inside of buildings or being side by side with the units while they were fighting was a lot of fun. With a mission editor and a cooperative multiplayer (share unit control?), it would be perfect. The music was incredibly good too.

- Minecraft but actually made for modding. Having the updates of the game more like what Rimworld does (mostly backwards compatibly, opt in, actual gameplay content and not fluff). Right now it's always a bit of a pain, and it's easy to run into performance issues even on a small modded server.

- Better ways to find games. Right now I'm relying on searches (google & reddit, sometimes HN), word of mouth mostly from friends and the Steam queue (which itself is either terrible, or I'm too cynical about new games).

Edit: also, something new and unique by StreumOn. EYE: Divine Cybermancy is one of my favorite game ever, and I want more.
Looks nice. The key difference seems to be the OpenZiti solution enables you to manage by identities (instead of IP addresses), and close all the inbound firewall ports? However, believe the two solutions would work together?
The issue with SoR was not really technological constraints. More budgetary and time constraints, and the people who had the creative vision left shortly after release.

The commercial game is now run by a finance guy and a web developer, pretty much. Neither of which seem to be interested in pursuing the original more daring vision.

The tech is definitely capable of being expanded into a real dynamic world.

What you see in the game right now is effectively auto generated placeholder content that got rushed in to have a deliverable by release.

Imagine if the tribes and mobs actually moved their locations dynamically, instead of being in the same spots eternally. Players could help out tribes, supply routes for trading goods between tribes would need to be maintained, mob populations would be affected by player activity, etc.
I've really enjoyed playing Downwell[0], which tangentially covers a lot of these points. I've also enjoyed FTL[1] and Into the Breach[2] (both made by the same people) because of the time crunch aspect and irreversibility of your actions, respectively.

[0] https://www.downwellgame.com/

[1] https://subsetgames.com/ftl.html

[2] https://subsetgames.com/itb.html
I agree. My parents should enjoy life to the fullest all the way to the end. Wasting their golden years cleaning up, planning for death, and likely emotionally parting with a lifetime of possessions is not something I'd like to foist on them. It will be time-consuming and painful for me to do, but so what.
Argentina reports first case of Monkeypox in the country
That's a thing for local software to decide.

It's also something that can be done with a level of reliability that will impress incredulous people. But that there will always be somebody to complain that is not following the standard recommendations.
I'm not sure about entire games, but I do wish for a few mods for some Elder Scrolls games.

Morrowind: Ability to join the 6th house with an alternate ending where you get to destroy the gods by piloting Akulakhan.

Oblivion: For the Shivering Isles DLC, the option to become Jyggalag (instead of Sheogorath 2.0) and take on all of the island's inhabitants.

Skyrim: Have the Forsaken as a joinable faction for the civil war, become a Briar-Heart, team up with a Hagraven companion NPC.
Aren't all these cars (except Ford and Porsche) like a class bigger than Model 3? Id4 has 550l of boot space vs Model 3's 425l. It also sits a lot higher. Of course an SUV will be less efficient (but somehow people still choose to drive them)
That’s good info to know. Thank you. It’s stuff like this that gets people including myself into trouble falling for such scams. We don’t know what we don’t know.
Armored Core with AC2 controls, MGS VI with Kojima having full control, a new Street Fighter 6 with 4's play feel, Cyberpunk but it's fully developed story and play wise, Sekiro 2.
SpaceTeam is so much fun.

I always want to suggest it to people who don't game much, but it can be a real struggle to get people to download an app. So, I have it on two devices, so I can handle at least one real stick-in-the-mud.
With any given thing there are going to be lot's of people that lose money. Don't VC's lose on the majority of their bets to begin with?
I haven't done much programing as a kid and i'm just starting to learn Swift/SwiftUI through the hacking with swift course, interesting to read the comments here as I didn't realize it was so hated?

Seems fine to me for building apps but I don't really know enough.