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This is why I retro. Old computers are still perfectly great bicycles for the mind.

They still work. Some of them are awesome at inspiring mad and wonderful things, outside the walls and constraints of todays high-power gardens.

Man, what the Amstrad CPC6128 gets released for it even still today. Same with the C64. Of course. And the Oric Atmos!! Winningest platform of the 10-liner competition, which in itself, is a wonderful, wonderful landscape for ones mind to ponder. (Oric didn't win in the 80's.. but still lives, wtf!)

Old computers never die. Their users do.
I upvoted this just to keep the name on the front page longer.
Yet, programmers love to throw their old code away and start afresh.
During a heatwave.

Seems dystopian. Striking seems very justified, agreement or no.
> you using a term like "suppressed" comes across as slightly overdramatic.

I don't think so, because the person I was responding to was flagged. Abusing the flagging functionality to silence difficult opinions about race is not uncommon on this website
Then you think poorly. That isn't voluntary.
There's something so comfy looking about CRT monitors. I know it's just nostalgia, but there's something in that.

I've been playing a lot of Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) recently. The games are alright, but honestly they kind of suck when objectively compared to modern games. I still enjoy them though, but that's because they take me back to simpler times.

I'm not sure I'd use a CRT monitor for any of it's tech specs, but would I get a huge amount of satisfaction from setting up a CRT monitor just so I can recreate my childhood experience of playing Jedi Knight II again? Probably.
Show HN: Chrome extension that extracts HTML+CSS from an element to inline style
Hi there. I spent the last couple months building this chrome extension to scratch my own itch. It allows you to extract a snippet of HTML along with its styles and export to inline styles or JSX. It’s not perfect and doesn’t work on every site. There is class support but I am still working on it along with some other cool features. Feedback is appreciated.
I still want this. Also want one over my stove.
Not a traditional TTRPG, but I've been thinking about Dread lately since it's on theme for the upcoming season.

The chance mechanic centers around pulls and towerfall events using a Jenga tower instead of dice. As the risk increases, players are required to make additional pulls to succeed until the tower collapses a catastrophic penalty occurs / the game phase changes. Timing these to happen at the tensest moments is a ton of fun.

Another really fascinating feature is the pre-game. Character sheets are replaced with private questionnaires adapted to give each player context and reasoning behind their character's motives:

"What did the Captain do to your father that made you want revenge?" "Who's death drove you to leave your family to join this one-way space expedition?" "You weren't close to the player who invited you on this camping trip. Why did you come?" "Why haven't you told the medic how you really feel?"

It gets pretty interesting when people use the same names for answers and the GM spins their stories together.

And the best part is that there are plenty of pre-rolled scenarios with character sheets available for free online. "Beneath the Ice" is The Thing themed and captures the action and paranoia well.
Striking is an essential tool for union power, and the union agreement gives up the ability to strike so long as it is in effect. Giving up striking is akin to giving up all further collective bargaining outside the gains of the current agreement.

The memo is absurd all on its own. Outside of the threats to jail employees, the final bullet comes off as infantile and petty.

Does Canadian law permit jail time for breaking a labor contract? That seems to be the most wildly absurd component of the entire story.

Memo: https://www.reddit.com/gallery/wzy0sn

Union agreement: https://sp.ltc.gov.on.ca/sites/mol/drs/ca/Real%20Estate%20an...
I think job posts are only allowed for YC members - everyone else can post on the monthly "Who Is Hiring?" threads. There should be a new one of those coming up in the next few days so I'd suggest posting there.
What malicious activity in these repos have you come across?

Do you know when you've missed something?
Picking a product that you personally use, love, and would pay for helps a lot
Andropov was absolutely not liberal. I don't think it was that Gorbachev was Andropov's favourite, but that the politburo realized it was a problem to keep a
appointing elderly leaders in bad health. Gorbachev was "only" 54, and since he lived to 2022 I'd say they made a pretty good bet on his health, too.
Just a heads up: typo on your site of "Sumbission times"
Twitter Circle, a new way to Tweet to a smaller crowd
Google Play changed payments rules for Russia and Belarus apps users
Google allowed accepting payments through third-party payment systems for users from Russia and Belarus
Does anyone know if it's possible to run this on Apple Silicon GPU? I've been playing with Stable Diffusion on M1 and having fun, I'd love to be able to use this to interpolate between frames as shown in another recent post.
People evidently did not care about the war being UN-sanctioned or not. The rule was removed at that point, although with the structure of the UN and its security council it was perhaps inevitable that people start to ignore it.

Especially with history in mind it is quite clear that Russia would take any right that former competitors took themselves. Having lost the cold war or not is secondary it seems. Of course any argument will be used to the largest opportunistic degree. Putin may have believed that invasions now always need to be sanctioned and there was a time where it probably looked like that.

That Putin wants to rebuild past empires is something he openly espouses himself now. Although I do believe this is directed towards the domestic population. I also think Russia did believe that the US tried to topple government in Ukraine and saw a need to react.
Well it was. Shimano, bosch, yamaha and the big frame manufacturers are trying their absolute hardest to 'fix' it.
> How many people use straight Debian on a laptop, and why?

I have run Debian on every PC and Laptop I have owned since c2000 and my wife's since c2005. Most recently a Lenovo P1 Gen 4. It is the best OS choice for me.

Yes I have to install with the non-free installer and had to install with wired Ethernet.

> The packages are older, it’s more stability oriented anyway.

Admittedly, I am running Debian Sid.
It could be the opposite. Eg, instead of limited runs of electronic boards dedicated to a particular model, you use a collection of standard boards made in the zillions.

I think your 5x example is unrealistic. It might be that much currently because long-lived rapairable devices are a boutique niche.

But if stuff in general were built more with commodity modules (of whatever quality), it could actually be cheaper than custom designs, with their design overhead and lower-mass production.

But the thing is, even if it's slightly more expensive to manufacture initially (and with electronics, it's often about mere pennies), the actual cost, if you factor in all the external costs transport/transport infrastructure, disposal, etc, etc, and especially the environmental cost, it's much higher for 'fast appliances' (ala fast fashion) than for longer-lived, more repairable choices.
When Does a Community Take Off?
Apple Arcade’s latest exclusive is a Tom Hanks passion project?
I was also taught this and then I actually had something more than a school textbook. Lech Waleska started the fall of the Soviet Union, the Autumn of Nations finished it. Stop acting like the US is important.
It's because problems today are a bit more pressing than problems 40 years ago. And also people who lived in those times were much younger back then, and so generally much healthier and stronger. They are weaker now, and maybe more stressed, and with more health problems. And they subconsciously think that their health decline is due to the change from Communism to Capitalism.

But they forget the empty shelves on stores, the food rationing, the need to bribe the doctors and everyone in the health system, the almost impossibility to move from one city to another (huh, from one country to another you ask? forget about it). The permanent fear of saying the wrong thing. The long lines to buy bread or milk. The hoops you needed to go through to get a color TV set. Do you like reading books? Do you like watching movies? Too bad; you could watch the local productions, or Soviet movies, but not the hundreds of movies that Hollywood produced each year, or read any of the thousands (or tens of thousands) of books published in the West each year. Driving cars? I hope you enjoyed Trabant or Yugo or Lada. Tropical fruit like oranges or bananas? At Christmas time, but not every year. Actually, Christmas was not celebrated, so it was at the New Year time.
NASA moves next Artemis I rocket launch attempt to September 3rd
What if browsers made it so when you turned off cookies, instead of not allowing anything to be written, they instead gave each page you visited its own fresh cookie jar that was cleared when you navigated away?
Ask HN: Why is the printer industry so scammy?
I've been wondering what the rationale for the (home/personal) printer industry to be this predatory and opaque is.

Cartridges that go bad after a set amount of pages regardless of the ink level. Quality of printing going down over time just so that a technician can reset a counter. High prices.

I thought that maybe the digitalisation of paper work had made the margins so thin that the only way to go forward was to resort to the mess that we have right now. But afaik the same was true 20 years ago.

In particular, there is some brand that was praised for consumer friendly practices here on HN that joined the dark side recently too; Brother iirc.

Most people I know "print at work", and they don't want to have a printer because when they did have one, the experience was atrocious.

People that do print at home, are mostly photographers that want physical prints of their photos.

I wonder if there's anyone here who worked in the industry and could provide some insight.
Dear UNB: please leave my email alone
Your comment reminded me of Boulet’s “Fuck Peter Pan”: https://english.bouletcorp.com/2007/12/11/fuck-peter-pan/
> I mean the .fw/.ihex files, you have really not seen them?

Not from E Ink. .fw is from Freescale. Never seen any .ihex E Ink waveform data file. Could you point to an actual example since you seem to imply it is very common?

> They are not redistributable, and eInk DMCAs attempts at hosting them;

Could you show me an eInk DMCA?
An Inside Look at the Asus ZenBook 17 Fold OLED
That depends on the age of the computer monitor. Older ones could whine.
The sea customers shouldn't directly impact land use, esp. in the current bent pipe mode. May have impact once laser interconnects re fully functional, but most likely not.

The biggest obstacle for future growth is launch capacity, which hopefully Starship will address. If Starship doesn't fly in time, Starlink is toast
I remember trying (and giving up after like an hour waiting for it to complete) some Google thingy a few years back to optimize JPEGs. Both then and while looking at this I realize that the best solution is to use a newer image format.
Does that mean the previous version was really Lambda the Penultimate?
Our Best Look yet at the Navy’s New Air Defense Busting Missile
It’s that he’s having fun doing it.
> gigantic former USSR reserves

Heh, I doubt such a thing exists or has ever existed. Resource trade is a large part of their income.

edit: Ah, you meant military capacities...
Do you really, genuinely believe that these people had credible options, and were not deliberately coerced and engineered into desperate economic conditions in order to squeeze them into selling their shares for a pittance?
You included “cobbler” only because it sounds old-timey to you, and I was pointing out that it’s not.

Repairing expensive shoes is not an automated process. It’s more like fixing a roof leak, landscaping, or changing a flat tire. Jobs for those things still exist and aren’t going anywhere.
Possibly so many cuts because it couldn't fly for very long.
How do new models from OpenAI, DeepMind and Anthropic perform on TruthfulQA?
I don't see how they are ahead. They have drones that are more expensive and with artificial restrictions, I don't think that's the right approach to try to compete with a market leader
Bank of America Tests No-Down-Payment Mortgages for Minority Communities
"With Twitter Circle, people now have the flexibility to choose who can see and engage with their content on a Tweet-by-Tweet basis. This makes it easier to have more intimate conversations and build closer connections with select followers."

The best feature from Google Plus comes to Twitter. Hopefully they will allow users to define multiple Circles for different types of groups, e.g. Family, Work, Hobby, etc.
As someone with focus and attention issues due to dopamine deficiency, I consider advertising to be, in general, quite ableist. Maybe one day mental handicaps will become as respected as physical handicaps. Nobody would consider a business model that abuses wheelchair-bound people, as a key component, as valid.
I think the bigger lesson is you let your physicians know what you're taking. Anytime I'm asked what I'm taking I include all the supplements I use and personally think you should be working with a doctor who is recommending the supplements.
Stopping at the grocery store on the way home from work added about 20-30 minutes to my commute every day of the week, which got to be enough of a hassle I bought my own grocery cart and now walk to the store with it once every 1-2 weeks - and that trip is typically only around 50 minutes. Nearly half of it is just walking to/from the store, so I expect a car would be even less time.

It's not nearly as straightforward as everyone here wants to make it.
Are you including the camps in XJ in that metric ?
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This is a bummer. Can no company exist without Facebook and Google Pixels?
Good news for automating the testing of the iOS apps...
Not only that, it would have been highly inappropriate for the US to intervene in another country's domestic affairs uninvited.

The assumption everything bad is always our fault is just the other side of the coin of the narcissistic belief that we're the greatest of all time at everything and therefor always right.
We call it a gerontocracy, but all those guys were considerably younger than the current and previous US presidents, at 79 and 76 respectively.
My recommendation is to watch speedruns of that game as I recall them being hilariously insolent.
Thanks a lot for your insight, it's great to hear from somebody in the industry. This same industry, is logically, also quite keen on enforcing the rights of creators and media copyright.

Most of the discussion, has been on the technical details of these very interesting advances.

Do you think it will be concern for the production process, the origin of the source data used to train these models?
Show HN: Farmbound – A Diurnal Game of Farming
Farmbound is a puzzle game about farming. Combine or fertilise seeds into crops and crops into fields; put scythes and tractors next to crops and fields for points. Think of it like a cross between a match-3 game and Little Alchemy. The twist is that you get the same sequence of items for the whole day: if you play again, you’ll get the same things in the same order, up until midnight UTC when it changes.

There's also a description of why it's built the way it is: it's a web app. The full post is at [0], but here's the tl;dr: it is entrely possible, and ought to be more common, to give people an app without tithing to an app store and having someone else review it, and without having to build platform-specific native versions. And that means that your app works on phones, on desktops, everywhere. Why limit your audience?

[0] https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2022/08/31/farmbound-or-how-i...
I've always found it odd how they proactively delete previous editions of the EPUB book from the server.

https://www.swift.org/documentation/#the-swift-programming-l...

For example, the currently offered EPUB book corresponds to the upcoming Swift 5.7 and has a "Beta" watermark on it. You think to yourself, I don't want to deal with beta stuff, and so edit the download link to "…Swift56.epub" instead of "…Swift57.epub". Nope - file not found! Beta book or nothing.
So this has happened to me. On holiday, hotel surprisingly had a decent firewall in place to block torrenting, used my personal server to download a tv series.

Had a copyright notice and warning email within 6 hours. Deleted the content and they were happy. Learnt my lesson not to try that again.

Wasn't AWS but a reasonably big vps provider.
The court’s ruling is the boring part, but you imply that the company’s response is not newsworthy. Do you find these points to be reasonable from the company’s memo?

- Legal action against striking employees for all damages caused by the illegal strike (by grievance or lawsuit). You could be personally liable for added production costs, penalties owing to Owner or, even the loss of the contract with our client.

- Contempt of court proceedings for violation of the order entered by the court (the possibility of fines and even potentially jail)

- We also expect that the Owner will be very upset with striking employees. It is possible that the Owner would consider a site ban for those involved.
We'd never write checks out of the company, but I personally angel invest and make intros to our investors and any others I've talked to. I've pitched nearly every VC someone would want to talk to.
I think that is the crux of the matter.

Reading between the lines I am guessing that normally finding people to volunteer for overtime is easy; in some cases the workers are offered it by seniority first, as many blue collar workers see time and a half and holiday pay as very desirable. Hence the contractual concession.
But in a heatwave it becomes a different story and workers are noping out because it isn't worth it. And neither side may have seen this as a a possibility when the contract was signed,as it may have never been an issue before.
https://www.howtogeek.com/294307/TURN-UP-YOUR-TVS-BACKLIGHT-...

Random explanation :) It tells you how to blind yourself more, but it's valid if you want the other way too.

Although they say it's for TVs, it goes for LCD monitors too these days.

Not to mention that whatever you turn down on a LCD monitor will mess up your colors beyond a point.
"Hanx101 Trivia, a trivia game that is narrated by actor Tom Hanks, will soon be one of the games exclusively available on the Apple Arcade subscription service (via Variety). Despite the name, it’s not a game dedicated to quizzing you about Hanks’ career — a press release from the game’s developer, Blueline Studios, says it’ll feature “tens of thousands of questions” about subjects like history, math, geography, and food."

"The game being marketed as “a way for Tom to share his love and passion for trivia with his fans, casual gamers, trivia aficionados, and YOU.” I had no idea he was such a trivia fiend."

Sounds like fun. I wonder if they will have a leaderboard or some other way for people to compete for high scores?
Interesting reaction to the phrasing here. I read OP as framing Lincoln through the eyes of the people who suffered the consequences of his decisions. History is messy. Even unambiguous positives like ending slavery come with a ton of collateral damage. If that collateral damage is your husband or brother coming home in a pine box, you're likely to have a poor view of those who caused it.

A few questions to consider:

1) If Texas or California were to secede in 2023, should the rest of the United States declare war on them and force them to return to the union? What if that war costs the lives of 500k people? 1 million? How many deaths is too many deaths to maintain the geo-political status quo?

2) There are places in the world today where slavery or near-slavery like conditions are a fact of life. Does the United States have a moral obligation to intervene? US interventionism in recent decades has led to unaccountable suffering for the people of Afghanistan and Iraq. The American South suffered a similar fate during and after the civil war.

All that to say, big evils like slavery or Nazism tend to distort historical objectivity. Any cost seems small, any act defensible, as long at it helps end the big evil. Once a historical figure becomes canonized, the negative consequences of their actions get glossed over.
LCD monitors have strong backlights but most of it is lost. You have diffusers, polarizers, color filters, opaque elements between pixels, and this is before the blocking done to construct the final image. I think the overall intensity loss is over 90%.
Can it compress 80% all files or only some files?

Have you tried with some compression benchmarks? First result in Google: http://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/
There is so much that could be said here... but a company forcing workers to work overtime is both a) run of the mill in terms of history and b) still reprehensible.

Strikes always have been of grey legality, because the law has always been much more responsive to the concerns of business owners and investors than to those of the workers. There are many examples of historical strikes that ended in workers being gunned down by the army.

The bargaining table is always going to be tilted away from the workers, which is how you end up with collective bargaining agreements like this: with clauses that allow workers to be forced to work involuntary overtime and that make workers using their power to renegotiate the agreement illegal.

But that doesn't mean we should accept that fact or call it "reasonable". It's not. It never has been. It never will be.

This is why I don't believe unions are the solution to issues of inequity and abuse in the workplace. They are a bandaid and a poor one at that. The solution is for the people who are doing the work to also be the ones governing the business. And for the people who provided the capital to merely be given a reasonable return, and nothing more.
On Meaningless Careers
I've signed up. It's a bit short notice, and I don't know if I can rejuggle to attend, but I'm definitely interested in future meetups.