skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your request needs more clarification. By the letter, Total War (tactical level) would qualify since combat at least nominally happens soldier-by-soldier, but the player has control over larger groups of soldiers only. But I don't think this is quite what you're looking for. The player is still freely able to order units to take action and they will at least attempt to obey instantly, albeit fallibly due to mechanics like momentum, close engagement with the enemy on one or more sides, or routing. In fact I think TW is an anti-example because the units having failed to obey an immediate directive cannot be made to accomplish a general goal without repeated direct commands.

There's also something like Gratuitous Space Battles (or worse, Stellaris' combat mechanics) where the player has no combat control at all, but it also doesn't seem quite right.

I fear the formula may simply not be very fun. GSB may push the envelope on how much you can take the player out of the loop without losing the plot, but even there I suspect it borrows quite a lot from strategic games like Stellaris (or any Paradox grand strategy) where the tactical layer exists solely to validate or falsify the players' strategic decisions in a slightly more dynamic way than "bigger number wins".
In my own experience we in Europe don't care much about which phone other people are using. Of course we are defending the reason why we have either an iPhone or more probably an Android but all messages have the same color on WhatsApp and everybody kind of must use it in my country. I knew that there were European countries with a FB Messenger majority (France?) but I don't know if it's still a thing.

Having to use WhatsApp removes a reason to have to buy an iPhone and adds a new one not to care about the brand of the phone.
> Critics often fail to consider is that a college campus is essentially a city housed within a municipality

And why should they be? Why can't students partake of the services that the rest of the population does? This is how it typically works at European schools which seem to cost much less. Why can't schools just be schools?
less judgemental-y, Macs are trouble for conference makers and schools because of all the lack of ports / limitations

and yeah they are perceived as "status" lifestyle items. It's why apple emphasizes devices that can be shown off/worn in public
Doesn't mean that to me.

To me, free speech means anyone can say anything they like. Not anyone can pretend to be anyone they like.
Not as bad as calling a 'quiche' a 'quickie' ;)
that's the fault of whomever mounted the NFC sensor. if the NFC sensor was at pocket height, then you could lean against the sensor and activate it through the thin fabric of your pocket without using your hands
Yeah, but how can you be so cruel to not be willing to deliver those old (but still very valuable) large speakers for free to a single mother of 12 that lives about 1.5 hours away and ruin those kids' christmas that way, you monster (despite your ad explicitly stating that it was a pickup-only item)? /s

I had a few annoying experiences trying to get rid of perfectly good items for free (as well as a good number of non-problematic perfectly smooth experiences). But those few annoying experiences seriously make me feel hesitant to deal with it again. Casually browsing r/ChoosingBeggars from time to time isn't helping the situation either.
It really depends on how many you ingest, and it’s generally only fatal for children. If I remember correctly something like 50-60 would kill an adult, but you’ll get quite sick long before that.

If you’re eating them as a snack, you should consider stopping as there’s no amount of cyanide that is healthy for humans. If it doesn’t make you noticeably sick, it’s still causing strain on your kidneys and liver to flush it out.

Google “apricot cyanide”, but here is a good overview: https://www.webmd.com/cancer/amygdalin-cancer-treatment

The pits of all stone fruits contain this chemical
> Are you suggesting we are optimal?

I’m suggesting we are extremely adaptive. We’re not fantastic at anything, but we can do basically everything.
There're some other editors that have similar behaviors. AFAIK, CKEditor [1], an online rich text editing framework, is optimized for cascaded formatting tags. A <pre> or <a> element will be highlighted if the cursor is "within" its context, and when your cursor is at the edge of such an element, you can press the arrow key again to move into/out from it.

[1] https://ckeditor.com/ckeditor-5/demo
The salient point is it's prohibited in sports where it gives you a boost, and there are already ways to do it today.
Don't remember it ever being a problem tbh. Haven't had it installed for quite some time (since I discovered doas). I just installed it and then removed to re-check:

$ yay -Rsn sudo
checking dependencies...
:: libisoburn optionally requires sudo: for use with xorriso-dd-target
:: pacman-contrib optionally requires sudo: privilege elevation for several scripts
:: refind optionally requires sudo: for privilege elevation in refind-install and refind-mkdefault
:: wireguard-tools optionally requires sudo: elevate privileges
:: yay optionally requires sudo: privilege elevation

Package (1) Old Version Net Change

sudo 1.9.12.p1-1 -7.10 MiB

Total Removed Size: 7.10 MiB

:: Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n]
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) removing sudo [###############################################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/2) Reloading system manager configuration...
(2/2) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...

libisoburn, refind, wg, yay can be elevated by doas or su.

pacman-contrib is a bunch of package development scripts. Your typical user won't have them. Also the previous point applies.
Exactly. All those extreme company valuations, could not go on forever and a crash had to happen. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20993919
Both Mega Drive Minis are handled by M2, so I would expect the emulation to be excellent based off of that (M2 has something of a reputation in gaming circles for producing extremely accurate emulation/ports with lots of quality of life features that their competitors sometimes lack)
Really? In my experience, the main audience for iPhones, consists of three groups: high earners, fans and children. The first group buys for status, the second group buys for convenience, and the third group because the repairs are cheaper and easier (fewer models). Most people I know despise the Apple model of always trying to squeeze some more money out of you.
“Nobody could have known”: inclusive behaviors to counter short-termism
Other than the annual university entrance exam and buying properties, Hukou is no longer enforced. The real difference only exists for tier-1 mega cities like Beijing and Shanghai, 97% Chinese don't live there.
As an open source dev, I was impressed by how patient everyone is in getting complex Fortran PRs merged (you can take a look on OpenBLAS on GitHub). Part of this is the communities which still use Fortran, and part of it is no one is doing it haphazardly. I even got good suggestions on my own repo from strangers.
Is it better to addict children to gambling in mobile apps, or to build hopefully unused tools to defend those same children from invading rapists and murderers should the need ever arise?

Ukraine wouldn't exist if not for modern weapons systems.

If you love your peaceful life, you have war machines to thank.

America is secure, as is Western Europe, due mostly to terrifying war machines.

Keeping us all safe and at peace is something some might regard as truly noble.

I don't build weapons systems, but I would if I had the opportunity. It'd beat the shit out of predatory adtech and addicting kids to algorithms.

Moral questions aside, inertial navigation and guidance, fuze design, radar, multispectral optics etc are wildly more interesting problems to solve than "how do I hook whales for $700 in this shitty iOS game?"

Maybe we'll see an influx of new minds in defense now that Facebook and friends seem to be falling apart and firing everyone.

Maybe it'll make us all safer, happier, and richer (because war destroys wealth, and weapons can avert it entirely).
> For all his faults and crimes I do believe he's sincere on this. He merely wants us to keep out of "his" backyard.

Putin gave a three hour speech detailing precisely why he invaded, which is an old Russian claim that can be summed up with, the Ukrainians aren't a real people. The way he has fought this war (e.g. filtration camps) supports those the contents that speech.

If Putin's goal was to prevent Ukraine from joinig NATO, he got that done in 2014 after annexing Crimea. It would have been impossible for Ukraine to join NATO due to it's ongoing border dispute with the Russians. Territorial disputes are a virtual non-stater according to NATO application policies. Zelensky even offered to never join NATO, yet Putin attacked all the same. When speaking about the conquests of Peter the Great, Putin said, "It seems it has fallen to us, too, to reclaim and strengthen,", where he was clearly referring to Ukraine.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61767191
Physical design and logic design talent is actually _super_ in demand right now but you have to have real silicon experience for which FPGA can help you get.

Google/Apple/Nvidia/Qualcomm/Broadcom and gang are having problems retaining talent right now.
what da... isn't this what everybody do? why there's a website full with huge eco banners dedicated for this? :/
I, for one, could never understand the appeal of using the messaging app that would work only on devices made my one manufacturer. Imagine your emails could be read only on iPhones and Macs, how far would it take you? Why are messages any different?
In a related note, the Onion filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court on this specific issue of the necessity of labeling a parody.

The argument is that the setup of believing the content is true is essential to parody comedy which then pulls the rug out from underneath the reader with an absurdity, and that an average reader would understand the absurdities to be comedy. But that labeling it as a parody defeats the comedic effect.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33481989

Highly recommend reading the hilarious brief as well:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-293/242292/2022...
Spectacular-looking but pretty dumb. Technically a string bass but it can only play a few notes, slowly and with no nuance. You don’t press the fingerboard as you would other orchestral stringed instruments. It’s far too difficult and awkward. Instead you depress a huge lever that in turn pushes the string down, and there are only 8 or so levers. No vibrato, tremolo, or glissando for you!
The US host of 'The Chase' is terrible, and they fired the Beast for no real reason(I suspect...diversity), so I quit watching. You guys are lucky to have him.
The Chinese government lobbied HARD against the western RNA vaccines in the beginning.

Their own vaccine didn't work with the newer variants, RNA stuff worked.

It was too late to undo the lobbying they did in the first place. Now lockdowns are their only option to stop a pandemic. On the other hand the lockdowns are so strict that people are dying because of them (no food, medicine, etc. Doors physically welded shut)
I'm happy to talk about my process, though "process" is being pretty generous because it's very haphazard.

Where it starts for me is the feeling when you get to the end of a good book, and you keep telling yourself stories (about the characters, the world, the situations, etc.). That's how I feel when I'm writing, except instead of applying it to some other book, I apply it to my own worlds. But the basic impulse is the same.

I don't outline, in the sense of writing a bulleted list of plot points that I fill in. Honestly, I have never been able to do this and I don't understand how anyone else does either, despite having read some books about how people supposedly do so. I tried the Snowflake method too, and that didn't work for me either.

The hardest part, I think, is getting started. Unfortunately, I didn't take a lot of notes during this time, but I did a bunch of noodling around. I wrote a bunch of stuff that didn't stick: characters, situations, places. I even tried some different storytelling styles.

Once I had characters and a world that felt right, I spent about 5 years rewriting the opening of the book over and over. This part sucked because no matter what I did, it always felt wrong.

Eventually I threw in the towel on that. But rather than tossing the project entirely, I had the idea of writing a prequel. This was actually brilliant, because it sidesteps the process of generating the characters and world from scratch (part of what takes so long in the first place, especially as a first timer). So it was much easier for me to create situations that I knew would drive the characters to interesting places. Somehow, this clicked for me and I basically wrote the first draft start to finish in a single pass.

At least for my first book, I found I didn't need to outline. Because I knew where the characters would be going (I had already written the opening of the "real" book to death), I wasn't too afraid of getting lost. In practice, how things worked out was that I spent the time between writing sessions coming up with what would happen in the next chapter. So it wasn't literally seat-of-the-pants writing, because usually I knew what would happen a chapter or two ahead, but I wasn't planning the entire book out all at once either.

Hope that helps in some form, at least to kickstart ideas. And happy to answer any questions (can find my contact info via profile).
It's wild that they have an accessibility sidebar with a gajillion accomodations, but the carousels, which are the main content on this page, break after the second item in Chrome for Android.
You take it apart with angle grinder.
The thing is, all of those things work - at least to some extent. I’d try Minoxidil, micro needling, and LLLT first (but not necessarily all three) as the side effect profile is low.

Even a super low dose finasteride gave me significant side effects, but I do have some hormonal issues on my own. Some people apparently get long term side effects, and my doctor was against me trying it for that reason.

Obviously hair transplants are the nuclear option.
You still have the FLAC. That’s kinda the point of downloading it. Plus the CD, which is uncompressed FLAC.
You’re wrong. When you work in defense or are a soldier, you make jokes about the system you’re in. When you’re in any field you make dark jokes about the field you’re in. I’ve done it, I’ve seen it, from time to time something goes too far if viewed from the outside.

I’ve seen it essentially everywhere, including working in defense briefly. A dark sense of humor reflects actually thinking about the the more complex aspects of the work you do.
Rather than telling the difference between how command line utilities take arguments and how the file structure is differently laid out, I expected the article to present FreeBSD advantages and to tell me which software works on FreeBSD.

I don't use *Nix for the desktop but I would love to find out that FreeBSD allows me to run Kubernetes, Elastic Search, Redis. That I can achieve more throughput with FreeBSD, that Postgres and MongoDB are more performant than on Linux and that the system is more reliable than Linux.

How ls and grep works on FreeBSD is no concern of mine. But running Docker is.
If students chose colleges based on something rational like expected future earnings they would all choose engineering schools.
https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/sudo/

Looks like nothing else in core depends on sudo, most packages from extra/community that need it have it as an optional dependency, looks like one can remove sudo on Arch
For PHP (and other languages) you could add popular framework docs like Symfony or Laravel
I stopped manually formatting code long ago, just accept what the code formatter tool decides is good enough. Saves a lot of time.
Sure thing! Can you recommend a few with good english translations - if that works?
A visual timer for the command line
Perhaps the terminal is the UI of local cross-platform apps (with the web as the UI of remote cross-platform apps). This Typescript app (with native executables) has multiple visual countdown timers rendering in the terminal. Maybe this is why xterm colors were created, so we can start building our own useful visual tools. Thanks for having a look, would be happy to see new rendererers submitted :)
The right phone to bring on a date or any personal human interaction is none at all or turn it off. Cell phones are like toilets. No one wants to watch you using one.

If a date cares which toilet or phone you use... that is weird. Run.

FWIIW I have a 20 year background in software engineering and devops. Today I run an infosec company, live in silicon valley, and I do not have a cell phone at all.

I have a desktop computer for getting work done in office hours, and if I have time alone away from home for an extended period of time I bring a laptop and a book which are used at times of my choosing.
I don't understand. How would forced vaccinations make either of those situations worse?
Yeah, with the caveat that '18 and '19 inventory was AWFUL. My friend purchased a house in '17, and I - in '18, and we both to increase our budgets by ~15-20% in order to be able to afford _any_ house that didn't look like an environmental disaster.

Even then, these were 70 year old starter homes.

Basically - if you live in a desirable area, don't expect housing prices to reflect a 35% drop off of the interest rates increasing. Expect to pay roughly 2018-2019 prices, maybe even with 5-10% on top, adjusting for inflation.
I categorize my blog as follows:

- stdin: stuff I've learned from elsewhere

- stdout: concrete, objective stuff. Most of which are coding problems

- stderr: my ramblings about the world, opinions.
> But there is a reason we don’t use monospaced fonts everywhere. They are somewhat hard to read because [...]

Well, not sure what is the basis for that assertion, but I find it easier to read text rendered in a monospaced font (Courier is my favorite). In fact, when I need to read something longer than a minute on the browser, I switch to monospace (with help of a browser plugin). It's not about text alignment -- it does not matter when reading prose, but perhaps about the familiarity of a font.

As an aside, I also try to get rid of formatting when reading long text. It allows me to focus on the essence of the written word. Perhaps, this is why the old school mailing lists and message forums are more appealing than the modern crop of social media apps. Also plain text email (what a rarity in the corporate world today!).
Yes it does: for the top executives
Because at the time, it was the only way you could message people who weren't on phones and on phones.

Over time that changed.

Now, it's basically a US thing. In other countries messaging apps are used by the majority.
There is no way to do the experiment in an alternative universe, so everyone's opinion is equally valid. But nothing is permanent - covid or no-covid, and so no country will remain the worlds manufacturing hub forever.
> A thousand small changes add up, however

You also start optimising your computer programs not by targeting the function that takes 90% of the time, but the utility method that takes 0.0001%, I see.

"Every little bit counts" thinking is one of the most destructive in society.
Reliability engineers and quality control are among the principal reasons why university administrations are so bloated ...
We dodged a bullet! They’re pretty small vats right now. Whew.
- the US is filthy rich compared to europe at this point in time , but that also means that US is exporting less

- the population of 10 european countries combined is not as big as the US
Where are the best sexbots?

Do they even come close to what humans can do?
Self-correction: my friend who knows people who worked on this tells me: turns out Google did implement some specific seismic signal-processing in Android API around 2016/7.
I've tried a related experiment: Put the pasta in the water when cold, and bring it to a boil. The texture always comes out wrong.
As another anecdote though, I started taking something like .1mg/day topically and I wasn’t anticipating side effects. My mood and libido absolutely tanked.

It’s the same as women on hormonal birth control. Some don’t notice any difference - and others get incredibly moody/sad/etc. Hormones are complex.
Fascinating! You are prolific, thanks for sharing.
as an SRE I have a strong preference for iPhones

- I don't want to think about my phone, what software it runs, rooting it, modifying it

- I don't want to think about my phones reliability

- I don't want to think about getting it repaired literally anywhere in the world (I have had countless perfect experiences with the Apple store)

- I don't want to think about it being secure, if its stolen yadda yadda

- Having support for a work profile is irrelevant because I like to use two phones to keep everything separate
Probably better?
If you compare the risk of having sudo vs the risk of granting users less constrained access to root or similar, you’ll have less cves, but be more likely to be breached due to weakened rbac.

Furthermore, there would be no vulnerabilities if you just unplug your computer and walk away, at some point you need to make usability and risk compromises.
This is not a solution to a general need for blood, but a need for rare blood types. Hospitals may keep the lab-grown rate blood, but not ambulances.
I signal that phone superiority is stupid by not owning one.
> Opening for third party developers

This is basically going to involve a lot of initial engineering effort no matter how you slice it. Cleaning up and opening a codebase, or turning a private protocol into a for-public-consumption interoperable multi-platform messaging protocol is a huge undertaking. Possibly even bigger than maintaining a second closed Android-only implementation of iMessage.

Second, there is a ton of design decision that needs to be put into that, too. What do you do with iMessage iCloud backups of users who switch to Android? From Android? Do you interoperate with other backup providers? Does this change the fundamental nature of iCloud backups? How do you interoperate with forks?

> Apple could fall back on a more modern MMS version, like RCS

They could. But that is also significant engineering effort and not something they get "for free." If it doesn't make the iPhone-to-iPhone experience any better, they aren't likely to invest heavily in it

I don't think there's an intention to make people unhappy, I just very much doubt that there are many Android users working at Apple who want to see this in their day to day lives, and Apple tends to build products for themselves first. Lots of other people just happen to buy them
>Not that Chinese leadership cares about human suffering, of course.

They've lifted 800 million people out of poverty. Even if that number is exaggerated, its still going to be a lot. Nobody is a mind-reader, so regardless of whether any one person from CCP cares or not, the people who are benefited, certainly do care that they're no longer poor.