skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Mortality reporting is a crucial indicator of the severity of a conflict setting, but it can also be inflated or under-reported for political purposes. Amidst the ongoing conflict in Gaza, some political parties have indicated scepticism about the reporting of fatalities by the Gaza Ministry of Health (MoH).
The Gaza MoH has historically reported accurate mortality data, with discrepancies between MoH reporting and independent United Nations analyses ranging from 1·5% to 3·8% in previous conflicts. A comparison between the Gaza MoH and Israeli Foreign Ministry mortality figures for the 2014 war yielded an 8·0% discrepancy.
Public scepticism of the current reports by the Gaza MoH might undermine the efforts to reduce civilian harm and provide life-saving assistance." [0]

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Garmin.

They've got models with various kinds of displays, from transflective outdoor usable ones to the usual OLED.

Battery life on the non-OLED models can be very good too, especially on the solar ones, a month or more in most cases.
Making your own thing and not having to deal with others is worth a lot.
You should try it! I gave my mom, previously a windows user since 1993, an Ubuntu box with all the regular icons right there and as far as I can tell she doesn't know the difference. Been ~5 years now and going strong. She buys books, checks weather, reads news, emails, facebooks, prints things, scans things, video conferences, checks for ISS flybys, watches church, looks up vids explaining how to restring a weed whacker, all without any trouble at all.
I looked into this for a relative and the ACP provider space is full of scammy looking companies that don't appear to offer much above what is already offered by the Lifeline program. The big providers also participate in the program and unless you absolutely have no money for a monthly fee, seem to be the way to go instead of with the questionable resellers that fit their fee into the ACP subsidy completely. And don't get me started on the "low cost" trash devices they're selling for a "co-pay of $10". The program is good in theory but the implementation feels like it is coated in a thick layer of pond scum.
I find FPS writing is often a lot better, probably because there is a lot less of it. Yes, RPGs have a more narrative focus so more nuance to characters or whatever but you're asking a committee of 1-5 usually mid-tier writers to pump out 2-10 novels worth of text within a year under often radically changing requirements. The actual writing is usually hot garbage.
Exactly. And we've already discussed that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39129748
I'd be interested to see some kind of economic analysis of this program.

On its face, the government subsidizing a for-profit company that has a monopoly seems like a terrible idea. Comcast already extracts monopolistic profits and thus captures as much of the economic surplus as possible.

Given that, price caps make a lot more sense to me. That's what has worked for utilities in general. If there's only one producer, they should be negotiating with one consumer.

But maybe I don't see the whole picture. Did the subsidy agreements work as a carrot to entire Comcast to lower its prices for enough residents that it was a net benefit? Are the positive externalities of a connected population worth the cost? Did this program work in some other way than subsidy?

Would love to learn more about this if anyone has good sources
I actually looked up the specs on the number of pages printed from the starter vs standard cartridges and because the printers sold badly (expensive ink) the discount made the cost per page printed cheaper with the marked down printers vs full priced ink.

I did not pay more.
I bought my wife a Withings ScanWatch, and it's really sleek. [1]

It's among the few hybrids that look like a proper, stylish watch; I compared it with hybrids from Garmin and some other leading brands, and Withings was without doubt the one with the best construction quality and aesthetics. (I didn't consider Fossil, not sure why.) Garmin's models are mostly plastic, but even the higher-end models have a kind of cheap look to them.

[1] https://www.withings.com/us/en/scanwatch-2
Neil Degrasse Tyson famously called out titanic for having an incorrect night sky depiction. In a later remaster they fixed it. It is well covered in his book as well as online.
EULA on first boot is likely illegal in EU, counts as a hidden contract term.
Isn’t python/django quite slow?
People are driving for Uber and Lyft to combat loneliness
High German didn't exist yet, though. The High German sound shift hadn't happened yet.

At that time all the West Germanic dialects would have been closer to what we call "Low" Germanic now; Dutch, Low Saxon, Frisian, etc. Harder consonants where German now has softer ones.

And I imagine it was probably easier for them to muddle through mutually understanding each other back then.

But yes, in addition to Gallo-Romance, he probably spoke something similar to Old Low Franconian, which eventually became Dutch.
I highlighted this from the book in question.

“From its earliest origins in ancient Greece, Western philosophy has gained its identity through a contrast with sophistry. If sophistry is non-rational, cynical, manipulative, then philosophy represents a rejection of it, by committing itself to rational, disinterested persuasion.”
Piling on the H:ZD love. Sequel ain’t awful, either.

Kentucky Route Zero is maybe the most literary game I’ve played, if that makes sense. Damn good.
Cloudflare edge backends are supposedly really fast. Stuff like kv, durable objects, hono.js mixed with your frontend framework of choice.

But I feel like for 10 or so pages it won't really matter what you choose.As long as your queries are good you should be fine.

Edited to add links:

https://hono.dev/

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-workers-serverless-we...
i'm tempted to try it for nostalgia sake but too much has changed. Dual 4k screens for starters...
The early immigration certainly caused issues between two groups and I do think that the decision to support the zionists of the time was incorrect. For many, the purpose seems to have been to reduce their own Jewish populations.

While still a cause of tension, immigration was much lower before the war. The result was just as you said, European Jews were faced with an existential threat a few years after the holocaust.

One of the things I found quite interesting was that Palestine wasn't the only option considered by early Zionists. At some point places like Argentina and Uganda were potential candidates.
OpenCL should also work on AMD cards, and is way easier to install
Expectations and abilities have changed. Consumers now expect things to look polished, or at the very least, have a defined aesthetic. Businesses also expect that you have other customers and want assurance that you will not disappear.

I believe the bigger story here is that individuals are now capable of doing much more than before. I'm a product designer. And over a decade ago I started my career building Wordpress themes. I'm starting to redesign my personal website—and I'm not going to build a theme from scratch like I used to. I'm going to use the Wordpress block editor because it's just easier.

So expectations are higher and individuals are more capable than ever before.
I'm not surprised about him, his job, how he thinks and works.

I'm very very surprised that he is able to find that niche and he makes enough money tbh. How does someone find his game before really really good games like baldur gates etc.?

I probably know more people playing old games over and over (lets say baldur gates1 or 2) but i don't know anyone who is aware of those type of indie games.

For me personal though: I decided to push for carier first, and i really hope i will have enough time in my 40 to switch over to something i'm passioned for. He is probably quite lucky but i could imagine its stressful
Aside from all technical issues the biggest problem I have seen with such an approach is that is really hard for employees to remember what is external and what internal that way. Distinct domains help there
That's just you. Baldurs gate 3 has proven otherwise. Writing matter for a lot of people.
What’s the problem with just using existing CAD/CAM software and gcode?
Simple Analytics and their Open Startup [1] thing is pretty cool.

[1]: https://simpleanalytics.com/open
Costly signalling is a decent way to think about it. Having a polished website/UI used to be more work/money so it served as a costly signal - companies would invest in that polish only after having some measure of success.

Now its easy to achieve, so it no longer serves as a signal of success. But if you still believe it signals quality as it once did, you will be confused.
I'm unsure what you are talking about. I was in Germany recently and got an O2 Deutschland sim card without issue. I had to show my passport, but it was an easy process.

Things do change, so I did a quick internet search. Found plenty of websites with information on how to purchase and activate sim cards.

https://www.phonetravelwiz.com/buying-a-sim-card-in-germany-...
https://abrokenbackpack.com/germany-sim-cards/

many others.
Everytime I see interesting old projects like this, their last commit is around the time of their HN posting.

It's like they're super motivated to create something specifically to post on HN, and that's it. Or, having people see it finally drains all motivation...
I feel in the last decade they've been really good in terms of writing. Shows like game of thrones and the flash are great examples of exemplary writing.
well, Google was a search engine.

Facebook was a college phone book.

Electron was propelled by multiple killerapp, initially by GitHub as Atom. it wasn't originally a standalone.

ArcGIS was also pretty niche until it gained the user base.
Neil breen of game dev.
I think when you know how the nuts and bolts work, you realize that the shiny chrome is just cheap metal.
I’ve often wondered if the sheer volume of TV and films being produced has led to a drop in writing standards. Then, it isn’t comparatively worse than anything else being churned out.

But probably this also means more opportunities overall, even if there isn’t as much harsh selection at the top end?
I've had good experiences with Together, and they have very competitive pricing.
mmm.page
New "drivers console" stickers are appearing on the DLR
Standard word for printing the topmost element in Forth for decades, though. (The 1970 manual[1] uses it to introduce definitions instead, in place of the modern-day colon, but by 1977 using it for printing was already the consensus and made it into the Forth-77 standard[2].) It is less than perfect for programmatic use, what with the obligatory space afterwards and no field-width support (there are other words for that), but very nice in a REPL, where using a single unshifted key on a US keyboard is important[3].

[1] https://www.1strecon.org/downloads/Forth_Resources/CM_ForthL...

[2] https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/forth-77.txt

[3] http://yosefk.com/blog/i-cant-believe-im-praising-tcl.html
It still does. Just not unconditionally (as in https://icj-cij.org/declarations). There are several cases pending concerning the US, and there were cases concerning US since 1984.
interesting, how are OS / app updates handled?
how would those companies browbeating you know that you "make plenty". The program needs a policy revision not "lets cut poor people off internet". They would expect honest people not to take them up on the offer if they making plenty of money. It's called being part of a society and knowing you're taking money from a program being targeted at the poor.
I opposite to use the `.zz`. Instead, I think this should be assigned as new TLD domain for all people live in any country, because it is a reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code, and will not be assigned to any country. It's the best convenient TLD for human on the earth.
I didn't know Altered Carbon was a book. I loved the show on Netflix!
I get what you're saying, but I don't share your experiences.

My reality is that I don't comment and uncomment lines, and I don't want to start. Commenting out a block of code takes more time and it's still unused code.

It really feels like a "Go is designed around problems Google had within Google" design choice.
Why can't I post a link?.
please help!!
Nope. The definition of genocide is: "the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group." We are not doing that. You can see it by the fact that we arent bombing the places that the innocent civilians are escaping to. We only bomb positions where hamas is or is attacking from. They are using human shields, while we are trying to protect palestinian lives even at the expense of our own
I have some mixed feelings. I thoroughly loved and was heavily invested in horizon zero dawn. But I don't know if I would describe it as great writing. Many of the characters were pretty one-dimensional and forgettable. Aloy herself is just another chosen one story. The antagonists are by and large cartoonish in their manner. I do want to emphasize I really enjoyed the game and felt the way it was laid out to be way more enjoyable than, say, Skyrim.

I don't know about the Witcher 3: it basically opened with softcore porn and I was immediately too turned off to continue with it. Several people who are huge fans of it later told me the wank bank material is pretty much an essential part of the Witcher experience, so I filed it away as a similar cache of any number of romance books on Amazon. Which, to be clear, makes a ton of money, isn't easy to pull off consistently as a product, etc etc. I just don't know if I would consider it great literature.
You are right my man. I can not say I understand democracy as well as Bitcoin, all I can say that cryptography field is among the least trivial things in the Universe.
Ecological Economics has been around since the '80s...
sign up for pi.fyi if you want a brand new buggy app that's fun
Another case of a self regulating industry failing basic competence.
Eh, “start massively deploying tests for a novel respiratory virus” was a totally reasonable response for the information we had for sure in Jan 2020.
What is the conjectured topology of the Mandelbrot set if MLC is true?

My understanding is that there's a certain number of bulbs, each centred around a point which becomes periodic with period p after k steps. But how do they all stick together?
If you’re using a Mac / iOS then Numbers? It’s obviously not a webapp, but it comes with your device, has a simple UI, and syncs via iCloud.
op literally used the word generic so not sure why you think you're in disagreement.
Because the people making them have absolutely nothing to say. The writing is a pretentious sideshow to wrap the game with, like the plot in a movie musical (or in a porno.) To get around vice laws, they used to have naked women paint themselves like Roman statues and strike poses on stage, or read Shakespeare. Alcoholic drinks were sold by the gallon as "health tonics."

It's a sign of the decadence we find ourselves in that the pretense becomes honestly mistaken for the actual purpose, rather than something that merchants say and customers smirk at. Even worse, since the vast bulk of the information we have about the past comes from marketing material of various sorts, we simply assume that the world was populated by rubes who just slurped it up.

They weren't as shrewd as we are, wondering why the plots of video games are stupid. I can't wait until generative AI eliminates the entire narrative industry: "Alexa, tell me a story about the war that glorifies the EU and also implies that the CIA is the shadowy unappreciated force that is holding together an unruly human race." "Cortana, make me a zombie video game that's really about depression, but offers no answers."
It depends on the RPG. Pokemon vs. Disco Elysium. Botw vs. Planescape torment.

Rpgs do not universally have good/bad writing. And FPSs like BioShock and soma don't all necessarily have less writing..
https://qwik.builder.io/docs/ also qwik
"To escape the 'publish or perish' treadmill, we'll fund you for THREE WHOLE MONTHS!"
One option is Retable, and there is a one time payment option as well.
Yeah, the “but first X did Y! But before that P did Q!” goes back thousands of years. All that to say it’s not as simple as “one side wants peace and the other doesn’t.” It’s very messy.
Linux uses bcrypt by default, AFAIK. Windows had NTLM last I looked, but I don't know what they have now.
A Linux feature called "Unattended upgrades" checks for os and app updates every day and applies them silently in the background. Because of how good the Ubuntu package management is, all os and app components can be upgraded without intervention. This is a big advantage.
California's failures are part of throwing money at something with no feedback loop to kill off unsuccessful strategies (like a lot of government programs). California is too lax on enforcement side. If you don't have the ability to take drug addicts and mentally ill off the street and put them in therapeutic programs nothing will ever happen because those are 80-90% of the chronically homeless, the systems will absorb whatever money you throw at it and there will never be any positive results.
It's clear that a tremendous amount of creativity and hard work has gone into the project. It's inspiring to see a team stand strong in the face of criticism and use it as an opportunity to spark a dialogue smart and funny way. I love it
Disco Elysium is pretty literary.
Arch particularly has the user repository where anyone can submit a package and vote on the ones they use most often to be adopted into the community repository, yes.

It’s a great way to start contributing to the distribution at large while scratching an itch and providing a service to individual projects.
A 'Chicken from Hell' Could Rewrite the Story of the Dinosaurs' Final Days
Zoho Workplace is pretty good.

https://www.zoho.com/workplace/pricing.html
You’ll be wanting to read William Gibsons so-called Bridge Trilogy, which starts with “Virtual Light”.
90% of the people who salivate over these giant death machines aren't using them for hauling goods or farm work. Where I grew up, people get very excited about owning pickup trucks because they view them as status symbols (bigger is better mentality). Thankfully I escaped that terrible culture, but NYC still has too many unnecessary cars.
You might be surprised about how precise we can get: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonrise,_Hernandez,_New_Mex...
Zoho is pretty good, they have a Google Workspaces competitor (web apps for email, docs, sheets, slides) for $3/month/user.

https://www.zoho.com/workplace/pricing.html
The Bridge Trilogy by William Gibson (technically cyberpunk but close enough). Virtual light and all tomorrow’s parties in particular.
Does that let me use unified memory on the GPU, though? Or is it just so I can use my CPU memory?

EDIT: Oh, no, I have an nVidia GPU, AMD CPU.
Like an average HBO series, then. Open with a bunch of sex, maybe tell a good story after (with, occasionally, more sex, sometimes with plot mixed into it).
Hi Sam, are you open to an email? I didnt see a way to contact you directly on your site.
That’s exactly what a GenZ introvert would say!
This project is a decade older than HN.
Yeah, akin to one-time pad encryption.
In the steady state, I would not expect this to happen. Mesh prefers to allocate from nearly full virtual pages (see Section 3.1). This gives emptier pages time to get emptier; once they become completely empty, their virtual addresses can be reclaimed. In short, Mesh maintains roughly the same TLB footprint (note: we should otherwise have observed a performance decrease, which we did not), while significantly reducing physical memory consumption. It's also worth noting that meshing is only triggered when memory is fragmented and the heap is sparsely occupied, so it really lowers the peaks of physical memory consumption exactly at the moment when meshing helps the most, and at the same time, has no impact on the TLB (except of course updating entries).
"According to Linus Torvalds, Linux kernel 6.8 looks to be a small release that promises mostly updated drivers for graphics and networking, but also filesystem updates, mostly for bcachefs, XFS, Btrfs, and VFS, as well as architecture, tooling, mm, networking, core kernel, and documentation updates."

Apparently 6.8 is primarily updates. Not sure why the autor didn't add any inforation on what he/she is looking forward too
You can try Zoho, including the Zoho sheets and their other products. It is not as polished, but does the job.
The joke is that they don’t decline “man” properly (“mans” rather than “men”).

Today we’d write it menslol.
Forth-likes are very very simple to bootstrap in basically any environment (contributing to their popularity back in the age of microcomputers sold with no OS), and once you’ve accepted the syntax are perhaps the most lightweight environments for doing DSLs (which is somewhat related, as one of the typical bootstrapping paths has you writing an assembler DSL as one of the first steps). The “postfix Lisp” PostScript/Joy/Factor heritage that TFA’s language belongs to inherits the latter property.

If I had a choice of making and then using a DSL in Python, Lua, or Forth, it’s Forth all the way, no question. Now if you include Scheme, Ruby, or Tcl, then it might become a competition. (Haskell is somewhere in between.) It’s worth appreciating how much above his weight the humble granddaddy is punching here for the dozen K of memory that a running system normally takes. (Less relevant now than for the micros of old, as for interactivity that memory needs to be RAM, whereas the cheapest controllers today are usually ROM-rich and RAM-starved, relatively speaking.)
> that doesn't require charging every day.

Why is this an issue? I have an Apple Watch and Every night when i take it off I put it in the charger. At this point it would be more confusing if I only needed to do this every other or every third day.
plenty of countryside, birds and grass in Romania and Bulgaria. Write me a mail, I'll sort you out.
Commercial rates have a demand charge, essentially a charge based on peak power usage.

Meter cost plus demand charge is what would match usage to utility infrastructure cost.

The weirdo progressive rates will push parties to grid detach, which will not be good for the economics of the grid.
Why has the baseline for technology companies improved?

Because the cost and complexity of implementing technology has improved orders of magnitude.

Also, people starting startups are flush with cash from the longest bill run in modern history, so tend to spend.

Why do people feel the need to launch with a big “feel” when their companies are still small?

Market incentives and startup advice all explains this phenomenon. Look big, be big. Look small, stay small.

Why do they all look the same?

I’ll take a #3 with fries and a milkshake. Can I get extra salt on the fries?

Truth is, the technology industry has spend the last 10-15 years optimizing the heck out of its technology platforms for delivering small innovations, and not whole new product categories.

There was a time where every site had to be hand coded and custome built, but now companies are really focused on just the small part of the tech that’s different, which is often a small component of the overall infrastructure.

The lower value stuff ends up just being more and more off the shelf and less custom, and therefore less custom looking.

The rise of SaaS in particular really incentivized everything looking the same, because the “same” was the way to get people started with the least amount of ramping.

The whole “show instant value” means “use familiar interfaces” et al.

My 2c.