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Of the Ender series books, I've read the whole quintet - Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender in Exile.
I've enjoyed all five of them, although the quality drops which each of the instance. Speaker for the Dead is worth the time for sure, the other three I'm not entirely convinced. Speaker won a Hugo award in 1987.

Of Card's novels, the Shadow Saga, is a pretty good read thou. I've enjoyed it more than the Ender's one. It is set in the same universe, and focuses on Bean - another child from the Battle School. It drifts towards political fiction.
It was actually Sexy Brutale which consistently runs with less than 15fps, looks blurry to the point where it's hard to see things and occasionally crashes. It's really not playable.

I've tried a refund when the studio publicly stated they have no intention of patching the game after launch.
Interservice rivalry, probably.
They did the same with "Coupling", a funny UK sitcom that was actually unbearable to watch in its US format. Something about the the jokes just doesn't translate 1:1 to American actors or whatever...
For me the problem is the multiple applications. I HATE having to install yet another store app.

I really like GOG lets me download games direct from their web page.
> The petro-chemical fueled "green revolution" exhausts and kills biodiversity, leading to soil death in a century

Interesting. Is this version of Capitalism better described ad Vandalism?
Yeah this is a key point when you consider Valve’s strategy. Gabe still owns >50%, and is a billionaire without a tonne of outside ventures, he can afford to play around a bit.

I think this is why they’ve been able to experiment so much the last few years, to varying success.
IP fragmentation and the DNS – the state of IP fragmentation
Daily dose of HN comment doom scrolling. Stay positive guys :)
I believe this is why The Office got a second season. The network and audiences weren't convinced by the first season, but Carell became a star overnight, so the network was willing to keep the show going. Then the writing team found their grove, delivered a second season vastly superior to the first, and the rest is history.
It's literally a free game, with no strings attached. The only downside is the game gets heavier on resources with these items when you play with players with these items.

Valve is certainly doing(has done) better than the market ethically, you need to look into their competition to see the state.
I honestly can't remember the UK office. No faces no names no plot lines. I just finished another US office binge.

Going to get my UK passport rejected saying this haha. I definitely prefer the American underlying hope than the British underlying despair. I've already got the latter built in!
> The question ultimately is: how do you create an ecosystem which fairly compensates and doesn't brutally overwork game staff?

This is a problem that has to be solved by those actually able to do something, and that is the regulatory agencies for the US and EU, not multinational corporations or placing the responsibility on individual consumers. The multinational corporations have no interest in kneecapping their "competitive advantages", and consumers don't care or don't even know just how fucked up the entire entertainment industry is ("crunch time" isn't just an issue in games, but also in movies!).

That's stuff like actually enforcing labor regulations (e.g. the Directive 93/104/EC that prescribes a maximum week work time of 48h)... and that linked together with stuff like passing "supply chain laws" (that hold corporations liable for labor rights violations by their suppliers) should put a stop on these practices.

Unfortunately, labor regulations enforcement is pretty scarce in the EU as it is, and the US are pretty much a regulatory wild west, at least when seen from an European perspective.
You're discussing the US version on Comedy Central. A few years ago The CW licensed and aired the British version. It got terrible ratings and was dropped after a single episode.
Nothing you list is mandatory, you're free to ignore it. I didn't even know about them. So no, I don't consider that "milking".
Neat.. of course it seems obvious now, but that's funny - I'm Ukrainian and I think that without explicit explanation it would have never occurred to me to read, let alone pronounce it this way - the dot before the extension somehow puts an insurmountable boundary after "olive".
I got a new light up keyboard to write my dank comments in the dark abyss of global annihilation.
There have been at least three attempt; thankfully they seem to have sunk without a trace.
I'd have to agree. I personally found that the book's structure with the themed chapters doesn't lend itself to a continuous reading; but going in small chunks as the authors intended, the commentaries felt a tad better.
Well, in 2008 the PSF had a budget of $500k for the entire world. To compare with JS, this is the order of magnitude of the salary of one single person working on google chrome.

The community didn't have a lot of resources for a long time, and so had to prioritize: it chose to focus on python strenghts, and not compensate for weaknesses. It couldn't do both. Keeping the implementation simple was also a way to keep the project manageable on the cheap (and by cheap in mean in work hours, since the first 15 years, most core devs were just doing it for free).

Today, a lot of companies with a lot of money have much to gain to invest in python, and so we can finally have our cake and eat it too.
> Well, the one good idea is using it as money

The major component of crypto being distributed consensus it has absolutely no way to work with external world, therefore it can only work with blockchain-borne stuff. The only thing dreamed up yet are cryptotokens.

Since blockchains have no way to interact with external world it can only be used to exchange cryptotokens between wallets - there is no way to ensure that other side of the transaction involving anything else but cryptotokens is upheld. So it CANNOT be used as money by probably any sane definition of money.

Crypto scams are natural consequence of this inherent property.
If you compare the above-surface parts of the video to the pictures from the article, you notice that the pictures were taken at "high water", where the gorge is filled up to the brim. In the video, there is at least one meter of near-vertical wall visible, so it doesn't look like an innocuous stream anymore.
I first saw Spirited Away when I was ten years old or so, and then watched it a bunch of times until I was 16 or so. Many years later, last year when I was in my mid twenties, I rewatched it and it was such a totally different experience.

I think in the time between, I've developed a much better appreciation for the beauty of a lot of the scenery in the movie: even the day later I still had the flower garden scene before my eyes, even if it's so short itself. It just gives and gives and gives, it is so amazing. I think I lacked that appreciation when I was a kid.

I also realized how much my fear of losing my parents has changed. When you are a little kid who loves and is so dependent on his parents, this is the worst catastrophy that can happen to you, and instills such fear. It strikes so different years later when you are a proper adult who has moved out and I only realized that once I actually rewatched it.

It is a movie about the first job, the first love, about independence, about travel, about human's destruction of nature, about japanese religion, and many more things. It is such an amazing beautiful movie. In our field of work you can find many fans of japan's cultural exports, and that's fine, but I was never really deeply into most of it. But Studio Ghibli stuff is just so amazing, I am a great fan (plus Your Name).
> many of which would be really useful for newer players

Some of it is outright bad if you blindly rely on it because it goes by global statistics. How was that old story about the air force trying to create a perfect seat for the "average" pilot again? They measured everyone and averaged the results and then they couldn't find a single pilot that fit. The static list of suggested items is interesting, but the "dynamic" suggestions for the next item to build are something I mostly ignore.
Actually I had this idea some time ago that market economy is just splitting central planning into small pockets that compete and die if they make wrong decissions.

It works way better than when all economy is centrally planned.

So it might be prudent to prevent companies from growing too large and integrating to much vertically or growing into multiple domains horizontally to prevent inefficiencies inherent in large scale central planning from comming back.

In my minds it's not VCs, it's CEOs of Disney, Amazon, Unilever and such.
I have maintained a list of such books and articles here: https://www.mnsh.me/blog/favourite-books-and-articles
Demography is not as simple: China have chosen in the past an apparently logic solution, limiting numbers of new birth per woman so lower the total population. After a certain amount of time they realize that doing so new humans found MORE elders then their parent, generation after generation, as a result they have to work to care them instead of having a life. As a result the society can't evolve, there are not enough HUMAN young and active resources to evolve.

A war kill many, but mostly young, so again you'll end up with a mean elder population. An epidemic typically kill the elders BUT no one can really program it enough in a mass controlled genocide that only modern sibling of ms adolf from Austria can imaging.

The real problem is that we live to live. Not to work, not be workers. Thief's and criminals against humanity who actually run many world society, essentially all the westerners and most of the third world countries, pretend to treat humans a software, slave workers and can't really foresee the real outcome. They dream a future they can't build, that can't work, and they pretend to impose their vision stating that no, it does work indeed.
Projects that are interesting or working as intended[1] are less likely to appear in Molly's website as her goal is to highlight the worst offenders.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32500427
What backends do you support? Do I need Redis or it can work with PostgreSQL? Cant find this info in readme.
In effect he invoked "European values" the way he phrased his claim. Looking further, his party's values and European values are the same thing according to them (See: https://www.reneweuropegroup.eu/what-we-stand-for/promoting-... ), which is again a nice rhetorical trick.

More importantly, he didn't say "free of mass surveillance", which is fair but you can have facial recognition in public space while staying anonymous as in my previous example. He said "free of risk of mass surveillance", which is very different and an absolute, extreme proposition. It's like saying that cars should be banned because people should be free of the risk of car crashes, ban the police to be free of the risk of police brutality, etc... It does not make sense and is indeed a rhetorical trick to make a blanket ban appear the only acceptable option.
They used to exist at least. There's not really a way to get around needing some sort of power.

https://usb.brando.com/usb-cassette-mp3-player_p01122c035d15...
Sound quality was pretty high from the first versions. As you point out, not CD levels, but as a portable player it was good enough in comparison to what we had at the time. From there they improved the compression algos and had a lossless format towards the end.
This entire comment thread is a goldmine for any PM working on the Teams product!
Only a few people realize that Dijkstra's hand written letters are all valid Perl programs.
Never split the difference was helpful in thinking about conflict negotiation
As a user you are asking for a measurably worse experience. And given context, I suspect you are a developer, not just a user.

A release per week is a sign that an app has poor quality.
It was used in the WoW downloader pre-Battle.NET, they've moved off that and switched to CDNs (mostly Akamai IIRC) & dynamic patching, i.e.: Battle.NET computes differences and gets a diff.

Steam never used P2P downloading but they've had deals with ISPs and communities really early and made their own "CDN" full of caching servers everywhere, so if you waited a few hours to update, it might make it to your local server in time. Now I think they're on Akamai as well.
Also the prints are much more stable, the laser-printed documents tend to lose toner if paper is folded or crumpled, while dot-matrix prints are basically as permanent as tattoos.
I always feel that takes like "a few hundreds of MB is peanuts" are the marker of someone so privileged, that they have never thought about those not living in a developed country.

We really need to get this mentality sorted, as we are quite literally blocking everyone else from better technology.
I think you are going to have 20 gcc available at same time if you do want this model. Windows literally showed you what would happen if everyone just require their own dependency version.

It is choice between a system with bleeding edge / ancient(or sometimes insecure) program mixed together or a system with well audited recent enough programs.

Windows/Snaps go for the first, and apt/yum..etc chose the later. It's just all about it.
And you really believe that a country that can’t even make ordinary cars is able to refurbish nuclear weapons?

Reminder: Russia is not USSR, it’s USSR’s retarded offspring. It’s only got a minor fraction of capabilities USSR had.
> Friday night dinner

The TV execs evidently don't agree with you; Friday Night Dinner is currently on its _fourth_ attempt at an American remake. I can't imagine it working out well.
To my knowledge, it literally never happened that humanity ran out of a ressource and it turned out not to be replaceable.
In reality it is more async than texting that please people because nowadays most people use whatsapp as a walkie-talkie over internet.
Try to compare commercial support, 99% of the time crappy and utterly slow vs community support and you'll get the answer. Even hyper-expensive commercial software have terrible support. Most FLOSS devs acts far better. Surely without formal legal guarantees.
> Gnome still doesn’t have an effective way to preview images when picking files, a feature from Windows 98.

Well, they are only at version 43. They still have a long way till version 98. And as the things evolve, they could use the native UWP instead of GTK. /s
Yes but it puts the burden on you to fix a problem that is caused by the editors.
Apple Pay and Google Pay Security Design
Ask HN: Why are there so many security breaches?
Is there any common reason behind the breaches? Is it the technology that is not mature enough or is it the cost cutting that results in breaches? Is it more about people behaviour or corporate decisions?
Hmm, this definition reads a bit wrong:

@app.task((weekly.on("Mon") | weekly.on("Sat")) & time_of_day.after("10:00"))
def do_twice_a_week_after_ten():

Expression reads Monday or Saturday, yet its meaning is Monday and Sunday according to function name.
Causal's 1000x Spreadsheet; Performance beyond profiling
>Meta have been cutting back on support staff, like cleaners and custodial roles.

This feels like the megacorp version of when a company is caring how much money stocking cola in the company fridge is costing. Which is a good barometer that it’s time to bail in a small company.
This is the talk version of the blog post discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32000400
Are you telling me that awk can correctly identify delimiters inside quoted strings? Escaped quotes inside quoted strings? Newlines inside quoted strings? I.e. that awk actually has a csv parser? Very cool if so.
Inline external teams (from other tenants) has been in beta for a while now - last time I heard, they kept having issues with the security model.

At the very least, MS should let us run multiple copies of Teams, one for each tenant. The only way around it right now, is to have the desktop client open and then the web client for a different tenant.
Every now and then, one hits odd statements in Sapiens that make one wonder about the rest. He writes as if he does not know the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he suggests that in the 1860 presidential election a majority of Americans voted for abolition, etc.
Domain shadowing becoming more popular among cybercriminals
I was thinking more for the sort of non-technical users a Chromebook would suit, which at a minimum means pre-installed with little or no admin needed. Chromebooks are a great idea, it's just a pity they're so deeply intertwined with Google services (though given way the consumer market has developed, some such corporate entanglement is I suppose inevitable).
> Optus notifies customers of cyberattack compromising customer information

- the notification being finding a link to their quietly released press release on HN this afternoon? Thanks Optus!

- cyberattack is the word to use to encourage speculation that a nation-state was behind the breach, that there was no way to defend against this and to avoid saying "data breach"

- here "customer information" means current and former Optus customers' personal information
> As a user you are asking for a measurably worse experience.

Worse than what? A program with a million features is going to have a hundred known bugs at any point. Getting ten fixed every week is better than getting 100 fixed 3 months from now.

That's the thing though: as a user (not as a developer, I assure you) I want the million features, and accept the thousand bugs in order to get them. But that also means I want the weekly patches. A desktop app with 1000 features and 1 bug is good quality. As is a desktop app with a million features and the same number of bugs-to-features. You might argue that one should count bugs in the absolute, but that's just moving goalposts. With that bar there simply are no complex high-quality apps! Any useful definition of complex high quality app must be relative.

> I suspect you are a developer, not just a user

Indeed (this is HN after all).
There's no doubt that activities such as visiting a musuem, going for a stroll, practing a hobby, etc., have psychological benefits. But if you read the article, you'll notice that approval for this new "treatment" came from the deputy mayor for culture with no input from the medical community.

Non-medical interventions are perfectly fine but should not be legislated without consulting medical professionals. Have there been research trials that show museum visits are superior to other self-care activities? Politicians should never be allowed to legislate medical treatment like this. This isn't much different from legislating ivermectin as a cure for COVID.

Even worse, this new law trivializes the challenges of living with mental illness and undermines the work of mental health professional, who have spent decades educating the public that treating depression goes far beyond "getting yourself out there" or "taking a break." If you're feeling depressed enough to see a doctor, a free museum visit is unlikely to do anything for you.

I am sure if you polled psychiatrists in Brussels and asked them what they would most like to do for their patients, a free museum visit would be at the bottom of the list. Maybe they would suggest a free gym membership. This is just a cultural subsidy in disguise.
Exploring Lock-Free Rust (2017)
Being able to configure simply the execution (async, process, thread) is pure gold, I am tempted to use it for this alone.
For a site whose UX relies on scrolling, that's a horribly done scroll
Also, over-engineering web sites this way creates a lot of job security. Front-end development could probably warrant university courses all on its own.
The book first comes into my mind is Principles(Ray Dalio). It not only inspires me but also teach me how to shape my mindset, thinking process to achieve what you want in life.
Oh, absolutely, I didn't mean to imply that this should be easy. It's just important to note in these discussions what we do know for sure and what is still debatable.

My point was that one way of accounting for a belief that QCs are not fundamentally exponentially faster than classical computers despite the experiments we've seen from Google is to believe that we will find classical equivalents of every quantum algorithm that shows such a speedup. While few believe this in the community, and for good reasons, it is not proven to be a silly belief yet.

By the way, I will also mention that if P=NP (not that anyone thinks this is remotely likely), that would also imply that quantum computers have no exponential advantage over classical ones.
This!

Another example: In Germany (or maybe whenever the system language is German) Microsoft decided that everyone should have a ferris wheel and a brezel in their task bar because now it is Oktoberfest in Munich. Seriously? I think we have reached spam-as-an-operating-system.
Thompson gives some rather shocking examples of what Gruber calls "claim chowder". When a theory misses the mark this badly, the theoretician needs to make fundamental changes to the theory or even abandon it. Did Christensen do this?
I handle all my clients in a dev container with visual studio code.

This way im perfectly able to jump from client to client without having them share any base at all.

It also possible to simply use ssh to another machine, but having the dev container gives me the possibility to separate everything from each other and having a versioned dockerfile helps to quickly jump between different kubernetes versions or any other dependency that i have.

Another one is distroless deployments. I know it sounds moot, but havinga tool you need setup in a container that you can just freshly build from sources and run it, is a really nice touch. Especially since they are usually less than 100 mb
What else would you recommend? Rust?

But if I have to work with hardware, I believe even today (and perhaps for many years to come) C/C++ is the way to go right?
Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin did an interview with ABC today, and said "some of the customer information is information you would find on Facebook or LinkedIn such as name, date of birth, phone number and email address".

Umm...no. Most people do NOT publicise that information to the public.

Agreed. Until a CEO goes to jail for something like this, it'll continue to become a "pay the fine and move on" situation.
itch.io may be great and all but its missing good commercial titles. It feels like any kind of subpar game ends up there.
There are detective shows called Endeavour and Lewis running (repeats) in the UK; they're offshoots of the Morse series. They have ad-breaks, i.e. the narrative stops and the show titles appear; but there are no ads. I think that's on ITV. And sometimes there are ads between the titles.

There's something I was watching on Sky, that had ad-breaks, but no ads; instead, they showed a still frame saying that normal content would be resumed shortly.

When they do show ads, they are nearly all:

* Motorised recliner armchairs

* No-medical life insurance

* Home equity release plans

* Charity appeals with fluffy puppies and sobbing grandmas.

That is, the ads mostly seem to be pitched at retired people, and the ad slots are being sold to low-budget advertisers. I use a PVR, so I barely notice ads. Most cable and satellite providers these days provide a PVR as part of the service. So my guess is the TV advertising business model is collapsing; only poor people, and people too demented to learn to use a PVR, actually watch ads.

Meanwhile, running an ad slot with no ads in it must be saying something rather loud to potential advertisers: "We can't sell this ad slot, so lowball your bid!".