skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been playing Simutrans on and off for most of those of years, and while I agree the gameplay is challenging, the Achilles heel to drawing in new players is really the UI. It's ugly and confusing as hell, requires tons of faffing around rearranging menus even for simple things until you memorize all the shortcuts, and is completely unforgiving: if you're building a railroad and click on the wrong tile at the other end, it'll do some crazy loop and bankrupt you instantly with no undo. (Yes, there's an undo function, but it rarely if ever works.) And then there's just plain stupid stuff like letting you built a tram network when no trams are available in that year/scenario.
It looks like the first commit is the important change.
Kanji is not the only script in the written Japanese language, in fact it’s not even the most used script by a large margin. Kanji usually makes up less than 30% of the text while kana is around 70%.[1] Both kana, which are phonetic syllabaries, are also larger than ASCII, so chances are you confused them with kanji.

1. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/234725928.pdf
One thing I don't understand: if Kiwifarms is subject to very big, very expensive DDoS attacks - and I've seen no one denying that it is, that's the whole thing Cloudflare is needed for, after all - why would we even think an illegal threat on Kiwifarms originated with a regular Kiwifarms user? It seems a lot cheaper to make an account and post the illegal comment than to run a DDoS operation.

No Kiwifarms account here either, but I have read it and I do appreciate that some of the people wanting them shut down are... not very nice people themselves.
Japanese writing is made up of a mix of 3 different scripts, kanji, hiragana and katakana.

The hiragana and katakana are syllabaries and don’t have the information density that you get with kanji.

I don’t imagine you’d get Japanese books that are more compact than their English counterparts because per sentence Japanese texts are comprised mostly of hiragana and katakana with a sprinkling of kanji.

Chinese on the other hand is all hanzi, and that does provide significant information density.

I used to have the lord of the rings in both English and Chinese on my bookshelf. The 3 volumes in Chinese where about the same thickness as a single volume in English (width and height were approximately the same) and this was with a much larger Chinese font required for legibility.
Consumption, or however you want to connote it, is easy... production is difficult. That's what needs to be incentivized.
Back in the day when I went to what you could describe as an engineering high-school we had very limited internet in the dormitory as well as at home. So we organized into teams, where the leader would gather Warez links for his teammates to download during the weekend.
On Sunday and Monday, back at the dorm, we would upload all the series, movies and stuff to our data hoarders ftp server, giving many more people access, who in turn would copy the stuff to USB HDDs to carry it to school. There it got copied to our classmates storage and from there it got distributed throughout the region, reaching I don't know how many people.
My team, doing mostly series and games, had about 10-16MBits, all teams together reached an unheard of (for consumer internet in that region) bandwidth. We just couldn't have done it alone

Good times
Can you show any example/creditable source to prove?
> Not everything can be idempotent

Any concrete examples?

I was recently toying with an idea of a language where all side effects would be idempotent. Couldn't find any counterexamples.
There were plenty of social networks before Facebook with MySpace being the biggest.
Just be clear, $10K/week only for you or for your whole company time (aniftyco.com)?
>> When you absolutely need middle management, force them to also do some real work, if they can’t, don’t hire them.

That ia a mjor difference between Amazon and most other places I worked at. Amazon management actually did things beyond managing. There are some of the managers in places as well, they are a minority so.
Probably. Much like woodblock printing, which can be done with or without press.

Also a printing press would not lay the paper, it was "just" used to press said paper onto the type (which had been inked by hand).

You'd lay the type, then ink the type, lay paper on top (usually using a frame to ensure it's correctly positioned), move the assembly under the press then press it down.

Release the press, open the assembly, get the printed sheet out, repeat (minus laying the type).

That Gutenberg also invented movable metal type in europe, as well as a production process for reproducible quality metal type, are probably bigger factors than the press itself (though the separation of labor and mechanical efficiency of the press should not be discounted). But since he basically released the entire thing as a "movable-type printing system", the printing press is often used as a stand-in for the entire production process.
Europe is composed of a lot of countries, which all have different laws. In Romania, minimum vacation days are 20 days and very few companies give more than that, except maybe for seniority.
i dont think i ve ever seen the pornhub instagram account, and i am a pornhub user

But you are right, mindgeek will probably shut down at some point , leaving the space open for a new porn king, which will probably (?) be in Russia, and it will use cryptocurrency out of necessity. In that sense, i m kind of rooting for it tbh
How does increased information density help with literacy? If increased information density would increase literacy, couldn't we solve analphabetism with switching to writing in gzipped latin alphabet?
Flawed premise IMHO. Printing is a tool which evolved to keep pace with the sophistication of the societies using/developing it. The Southern Song dynasty came close to an industrial age, but was held back by a belief system (confucianism) that privileges cushy stability over ruthless progress. This, in part, prevented the emergence of a product-and-service-hungry bourgeoisie. The level of technological progress of a society is mostly determined by its culture.
As long as it can be perceived it worked, all is good.
Let's do nothing is more reasonable comparing to do something now not minding consequences. This overreaction "2019 syndrome" brought grave results to humanity. If sea rise is result of warming, flooding deserts is opposite to role of deserts which reflect heat back to space through vapour-free sky. Logically there is more sense in deserting bigger part of world to increase this process what global depopulation promoters would also love. But problem with global solutions is they are assuming totalitarian centralised global Earth management which is undemocratic, political & tends to promote particular big corporate interests not common good. It replaces scientific discourse & convincing through arguments, building organic non-obligatory consensus with censoring free speech & access to raw data, political pressure, coercing tactics building unhealthy psychosis in people, through emotions killing reason and objective truth. That's not the world & humanity we want to save.
I don't understand why we don't paint all roofs white yet. It's something anybody can do to help reflect heat if he believes warming is a problem (not historically low oxygen level in atmosphere earth's life breaths with or possibility of freezing people & soils to death..).
That's cool. However I don't like the idea of plugging in USB sticks and having them modified by anything. OS X was (and still is) a terrible offender: plug in a USB drive and the OS sneakily inserts stuff outside partitions (so you cannot easily find it but if you "dd" and take the hash of the drive it's different before and after simply plugging it in an OS X computer: to me that is pure madness and it took me a while to figure out what was going on).
I'm also not very familiar, but I understood it differently:

The government did not let it for private sector to regulate when it explicitly guaranteed the right in the constitution...
Fascinating article:

> But they counter the pushback by essentially denying disease, both as an epidemiological reality and as a social reality too. Increasingly by the 1850s, you see people saying, well, yellow fever is not that big of a problem. It’s not that serious of an illness, and anybody who’s temperate and well-mannered and courageous and manly will survive. It only kills the immoral, the drunk, the unfortunate. Your cousin in Philadelphia or your niece in Sligo who thinks of New Orleans as a “necropolis,” they don’t know what they’re talking about, these northern critiques of New Orleans’s health situation are a proxy for abolitionists attacking slavery
It's been a while but it seemed to me that high ISP isn't very big win for the first stage anyways. Basically linear with everything being equal which as you mention it isn't. So slightly lower ISP means slightly heavy first stage.

Either way it's disappointing NASA is determined to keep the Space Shuttle's white tech elephant going.
Learning 10000 Pictures (1973) [pdf]
>> Sorry, I can't wrap my head around how this comment relates to mine. Can you clarify?

> I don't recall any implication that it was meant to be Britain or Europe only.

LOTR has a few clear mentions to America but is about the feelings of an English literature professor and ex-soldier seeing the good old times, gorgeous nature and European mythology that he loved, being replaced and crushed by industrial development and world war.

The themes are universal, could be adapted to other places and other mythologies, but would lose part of its charm in the process.

Under a disguise of epic fantasy the book is basically a metaphor of twenty century Europe in war times, and is filled with details token directly from his real war experiences and depicted metaphorically or directly. The kind of details that you can't invent or wouldn't notice, unless you had experienced it first. Details like describing how the infantry traveling long distances by foot towards the battle field, get out of the path and start walking into the fresh grass bordering the road to alleviate their sore foot pain.

That experience, plus his obsession to consistence, religious background (christian humanism) and expertise in European myths, old languages and literature, blends all together in a complex history that conveys an incredible sense of realism and immersion rarely achieved by other epic fantasy books.

Tolkien don't needs to be lectured about including strong woman characters in his work, or about the need to talk more about ecology, compassion or racism. Those themes are exquisitely treated in the book yet that is filled with a sense of adventure and a sublime love for nature (to the extent to mention how the raising sun in a foggy day illuminates the spiderwebs in the path).

About racism. This is not "uncle tom's cabin" by Peter Jacksons sake!. Most of the book describes different races allying to fight against the evil and befriending each other while accepting organically that they have other cultures and interests. So... Europe in the war. The book is as anti-racist as you can have

Tolkien didn't deserved that but, most of all, didn't needed to be "improved" like that
Nothing more ridiculous, then a tribe of MBAs dancing around the one software engineer whos project they run into the ground - making "pressure"
Why are you adding % into the mix? 60 times cheaper means they cost 1/60 of the original price, which is (1-1/60)*100 =~98.3% cheaper.
* Conditions apply. Use the comment in the context of the HN bubble, and ignore that a huge part of the industry is still deploying wordpress on VPS, using excel spreadsheets for database and gmail for bug tracking.
> It's not just about people posting offensive shit in their own little corner of the internet - what happens there spreads out, by design, into the mainstream web and real life too.

During the Black Lives Matter riots, we had a full summer of looting, destruction, violence and riots. The BLM ideas also "spread out, by design, into the mainstream web and real life too". And they resulted in violence in a scale much, much larger than Kiwifarms.

Should DDoS-protecting companies have banned the BLM websites?
I very briefly looked at SF, and decided that if I were to work there, I would want to commute via Cessna.

Because at first glance, SF rents are so bad that learning to fly and owning a small aircraft isn't immediately obviously the more expensive option, like it would be in Europe.
Throw it in a function and return early:

found = findIt(search_query, table.rows, logger)

def findIt(query, rows, logger):
for r, row in enumerate(rows):
for c, cell in enumerate(row):
if query.matches(cell.value):
logger.log("Found cell: {}".format(found))
return (r, c)
break 2

return None
Could somebody that knows both explain how Simutrans compares to (Open) Transport Tycoon Deluxe?
If unfamiliar, simutrans is a game very much like transport tycoon, it tends towards being more systems heavy than TTD and is generally considered more of a challenge.

Some of the difference from transport tycoon include factories have contracts with specific other factories, that is you can not just deliver iron ore to any steel mill, it has to be a specific one. goods can back up, when this happens quantities ordered will be reduced and your income can fall, you have to make sure the entire supply chain is handled before it backups up on you.

If trying it out for the first time an important thing to note is that the paksets are not just graphical changes but more like game code. that is, pak64 plays very different from pak128. I mostly play pak64 but I think to generalize pak64 tries to force you to optimize your running costs and pak128 you have to optimize your acquisition costs.

It is on steam, this might be the easiest way to play
Bullshit. Truly, what nonsense. Europe spent centuries stagnating under the rules of multiple fiefdoms in constant attrition against each other for power, wealth, territory and so forth. Many other parts of the world did likewise for long stretches of time and in both cases, only moderate technical advancement that happened very, very slowly. It was only when certain very specific conditions of government stability, property protection, legal transparency and basic respect for individual and human rights helped certain states become prosperous. This was further helped by these states accumulating enough capital under conditions of prolonged internal peace to invest in aspects of wealth-facilitating public infrastructure. What you claim is the diametric opposite of basic reality. Asia during much of the middle ages at times fulfilled conditions of state stability, but it often did not coincide with certain other systemic requirements for widespread markets to develop. Instead, the stability was of an autocratic and arbitrary type that facilitated stagnant top-down paternalism.
If we did, the market rates for pay in SF would go down and the market rate for rent would go up.
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Why don't they post the proof of any of their claims? What exactly has changed since last week?
Dan Grossman (in Programming Languages Part A on Coursera) suggests there are 5 broad areas of knowledge about a programming language:

- syntax

- semantics

- idioms

- tools

- packages

The koan glosses over the time it takes to become familiar with the bigger language ecosystems (tools and packages), which is awkward when a business gets value from packages like web frameworks.

Having said that, recruitment can seem 100% about tools and packages.

I’m not sure how consciously hirers think about the different areas of knowledge. E.g. might a deep knowledge of Python semantics offset inexperience with Flask? Does ignorance of idioms necessarily indicate poor semantic understanding?

In hindsight, I’ve had hiring discussions that touched on these questions but without a clear framework for considering the trade offs. Guessing it’s the same for many people hiring at smaller companies.
If you're young enough, you can get a working holiday visa and then find a job once you're in the country (that's what I did). You can also apply even if you're a few years past the cutoff point since they mostly rubber stamp them. Worst case scenario is they reject it and then you go a different route.

Otherwise you could find job openings in Japan from where you are since many of them offer to relocate you. Don't go into gaming.

Bear in mind that the Japanese economy is entering its endgame, heading towards bankruptcy. The next 5-10 years are going to be ROUGH. Make a point of converting your yen to dollars or euros as soon as you get them (the Japanese banks will try to impede you). A Wise account might be helpful.

For tech, your best bets are Tokyo (everything), Osaka (everything-lite), and Nagoya (mostly industrial and automotive stuff). For Nagoya, the best areas to live in are Yagoto, Kakuozan, and Motoyama. If you buy property, understand that real estate in Japan always goes down because nobody likes "old" buildings.
Aggression.
You don't have to make up a name again. The namespace is usually pretty full anyway. If you accept a "break", which is a "break 1", you must consistently also allow a "break 2". Many things are sensitive to refactoring that changes the nesting.
Russian-Soviet Chess Sets (Video, 2012)
The actual Gutenberg museum, which I went to earlier this year, has a good selection of exhibits on Chinese and Korean movable type.
Is it really though? I ve been going around european companies and its all work till you drop 80h culture and no holiday, cause we need a guy on standbye. That stuff only ever exists on paper.
Surprised there's no mention of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separado!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2IfD-6iS3Y

in the popular (okay maybe not that popular) culture section.
Because that's what "times more/less" means. 2 times the cost is 200% the cost. Half off is the price times fifty percent (1/2). A sixtieth isn't 60 times anything in any direction.
Yes, we understood that, we're wondering about the numerical interpretation of "60x cheaper"
Me neither, I think it is insane.
The stereotype that older people lean conservative.
Discussion:

https://sovietchesssets.com/2021/12/09/the-legacy-of-alindo-...
Doesn’t work in bing too!!
Too late. The name was taken when it was free.

https://livescript.net/ (But seems inactive judging by GitHub).

Actually a mostly quite nice little toy language. (Only the OOP part seems messed up a little bit; but besides that it looks quite clean).
Scorched Earth was great fun. Was going to suggest Nuclear War, but I see that's actually from '89...
It’s cool and sounds like reinventing UUCP. Which has the advantage of serving as a transparent transport for ordinary email.
By and large, the 'best' research institutes in Germany are not the universities, but Max Planck and institutes like Fraunhofer. They may be loosely affiliated with the universities, but the University faculty and the research faculty are not one and the same. Students getting a doctorate may have that doctorate minted by the affiliated university, but all real work actually happens at the research institute.

Students can get doctorates directly from German universities and research is done there, but it's just not organized like American universities. Prime prestige centers are research institutes and they're spread around the country.
> Who are they?

People. Me. Others. I don't have a list.

> Why are Cloudflare listening to this "they" instead of all the alternate "they" who object to alternate sites?

They're presumably listening to both? I don't understand the question.

> There is someone group organised to go after every "bad" site and a lot more besides. How do you even know that they've correctly identified Kiwikarms as a problematic site?

Because there's a long history of documented problems.

> Are you a Kiwifarms regular to be so sure about what how it works?

I don't understand why that would be relevant. Again, long documented history.

> Cloudflare have already banned the Daily Stormer

Right, the Daily Stormer was a self-described site for neo-nazis.

> I can find people who are willing to call ~30% of any country neo-nazis

Irrelevant.

> They certainly don't agree with your boundaries for what is "very clear", unless you happen to be posting on behalf of the Cloudflare CEO.

The first half of this sentence doesn't go with the second half.
> 1. If the people on the team can't change the process, it ain't agile

Absolutely.

> 2. Sprints aren't a failure of agile, they're a failure of devops.

I don't think so, here's the timeline: Scrum (90s), Agile (2001), DevOps (2009). So sprints have been around a long time before DevOps, the way I interpret it.

> 3. Estimates aren't literally the devil, execs need to have a rough idea how big it is, just don't get more granular than months

How? Your event horizon spans only the next couple of iterations, everything beyond that is pure speculation.
That’s natural gas, not petroleum as in the liquid. A fine pedantic distinction I know but if natural gas is petroleum so is coal.
Other key success factors for the East India Company included warfare, slavery, and legally enforced monopolies. The EIC was only wound down after their misrule incited a full-fledged rebellion that killed 6,000 British people (which caused outrage back home) and on the order of 800,000 Indians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Rebellion_of_1857
> Funny. Culture is almost everything. If we like it or not, if it's high or low culture

Fair enough, point taken.

I should have phrased it better.

Let's put it this way: Tolkien was an intellectual and a Linguistic Professor, his works have cultural relevance, he was trying to write the new British mythology from the
POV of a scholar, he wasn't thinking about writing a best seller to get rich.

Conversely, I love the Terminator, but Terminator has no cultural relevance, it is popular culture or pop culture, it lives among us, yes, but the reason why it exists is entertaining people that go to the movies.
The alleged pro-free-speech right never got the "I disagree with what you say but" memo; they have only very weakly if ever stood up for non-right free speech, such as when Switter got banned from Cloudflare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16876040
I was going to recommend his book "The Anarchy" on this topic. I think he has more, but only read that one so far.

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27999959M/The_Anarchy
Being on the internet more is a key factor when talking about toxicity on the internet.
It is often now forgotten that much of what is referred to as 'The British Empire' was just private enterprise (veering into freebooting) flying a flag of convenience. My (admittedly narrow) understanding is that other European colonial enterprises were far more closely tied to and administered by the governments in question.

On another point: "Eventually they created the East India College to help educate the clerks, teaching all the essentials - “On the curriculum: history, the classics, law – and Hindustani, Sanskrit, Persian and Telugu.”": that is a pretty intense curriculum, even accounting for the leg-up afforded by the far broader state of classical education back then - I can't imagine too many modern students not being intimidated by it.
Let's say Cloudfare had not banned KF because they consider themselves a utility, what liability does Cloudfare really have?
Loving the push for a hydrogen future, yes it's a tricky fuel to work with... but that doesn't mean we cant rise to the challenge!
It's not. They do forward it, but the provider can simply chose to ignore it, since it's not addressed to them and there's no legal implication - it's purely informational for them, letting them know that CF has received a complaint.