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I'm an AI modder for Civ. Civ 4, Fall From Heaven AI, Civ 5.

Civ 6 hasn't released the source for the DLL, so none of the AI modders can do anything about it's AI. We have the tools, we're aware of how it works, we're just completely held back until Firaxis releases it.

Base Civ 5 AI is terrible. Modded Civ 5 AI is glorious.

Every single AI modder has quit, waiting for the DLL. I don't even know if we get everyone back the longer they wait. Really disappointing.
Huge fan of using talky.io

Its in the web browser using WebRTC, and with end-to-end encryption. It's free and good quality, and you can play lunar lander while you are waiting for the other party to join.
That motto was removed some years ago: people using to too much to call them out.
I'm sure there's a good reason for this and I just don't know it: what's the advantage of wasm over the JVM; i.e. why not just use the JVM in the browser?

I assume there are complexities in compiling C/C++ to the JVM but wouldn't wasm have many of the same issues?
The most obvious problem of their design is that there's no serialisation mechanism for their API calls, so apps don't remote over low bandwidth connections. Which is one of the big advantages of terminal apps to begin with.

Microsoft did objects better later on with COM and DCOM: you can imagine a better console API if COM had come first, but even then, DCOM network protocol was not good and had numerous problems that would have meant ssh still beat it. But trying to do OO API in 1989 with their tech stack wasn't a good idea.
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I would let people know about a curse. If I were a scientist, I would want to study the site and determine if any containers that have a functional virus, mold or other hazards to human and animal life.

Perhaps I spent too much time watching Star Trek.
"the external interface and requirements are kept simple."

I would bet strongly against that happening long term. Everybody developing WebAssembly is interested in making the web better and pretty much only that. One of the biggest issues preventing WebAssembly usage right now is that you have to ship a large run-time along with your app. So there's going to be a lot of pressure to move that run-time into the browser. See the linked article: GC is the proposal the author highlights the strongest.

The biggest pressure in your favour is the disparity of languages supported. They'll probably want to ensure that any built-in library functions they add are useful to a wide range of WebAssembly communities.
Success and popularity of a programming language is mostly determined by the platforms it supports and the libraries it has available.

Objective C and now Swift is popular because you need to use one of them (without going to great lengths to avoid it) to write iOS apps. Javascript is popular because you need it to write web apps.

C and C++ are popular because they run almost everywhere, and are the implementation languages of many operating systems and software platforms.

You need Java to develop Android, and it has an incredible amount of libraries for server side web application development.

In a similar vein, TensorFlow and Numpy/Scipy makes Python the de facto language for machine learning, "data science" and scientific programming. It also has an amazing amount of libraries for web application development, text processing, and many other common programming tasks.

Libraries and community/popularity create a positive feedback loop. Large communities create more high quality libraries, which draw in more developers, which create more libraries, etc.

All of this is to say, I don't think much of your observations about Python's design and technical qualities and evolution have much bearing on Python's success one way or another, or for any other programming language. By design or accident, Guido managed to create a community that wrote a lot of useful libraries for many different kinds of tasks, that led to the positive feedback loop leading to Python's current popularity. "Forcing" is not an appropriate term for describing this phenomenon, I think, more accurate to say they have attracted a large community by making Python useful for many different tasks.
Yes, in general there is a legal approval needed for exhumation, but in this case the identity of the bodies is unknown, so in order to put a name next to their remains and uncovering some parts of history, archaeologists are allowed to open the tombs and hence to exhume the bodies found inside.
That might be common for Americans but in Europe for a great chunk of the population the grand parents come from the same country or a neighboring one. I don't know how far back I'd have to go in my family tree before I encounter an "interesting" nationality but it's definitely more than three generations.
The linked article mentions that one of the people involved died due to an infection after a mosquito bite in the same time period, but that there's no known case where anyone was injured due to stuff in the tomb.
>> The current approach is rooted in showmanship rather than strategy. It’s meant to provide a spectacle.

Trump repeatedly said during his campaign he would go after China for their tariffs and how they manipulate their currency. For a lot of Trump voters, he's just following through with a campaign promise.
DNS sounds so simple when described as "servers in a hierarchy that tell you either what other server to ask, or which host has a particular hostname".

My perspective shift was when I talked to someone who worked at NetNod with operating i.root-servers.net: he spoke about DNS the way people speak about distributed key–value stores. Except this was invented over 30 years ago. And services nearly the entire internet. I don't remember how long he'd been working with it, but he absolutely could not wrap his head around the fact that it still works. That it hasn't broken down entirely was apparently something he saw as a little miracle.

Facetiously, I have started thinking of DNS as the only truly web scale NoSQL.
>Windows < 7 is going to be a serious issue

Because people deploy Go on Windows? And what's more, on Windows < 7?

(And they also need to be able to recompile with the very latest Go?)
The Shanghai Composite Stock Index or Containerized Freight Index?
I wonder if this is going to be a one-off, or if perhaps this is a test for larger elections/referendums to come.
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And those Indians and Chinese running XP rely on Go apps on their desktop OS?
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What has surprised me the most is how uneducated people have become on complex matters. I work in the public sector, in digitization which gives me some pretty high levels of access because there is literally digitization in everything.

I’ve never met a bureaucrat at any higher level of office that wasn’t dedicated, hardworking and intelligent. I’ve never seen a decision or any important matter decided upon without good reason. I have seen a lot of terrible decisions, but they were all made on a solid base that later turned out to be wrong.

Politicians are another story, but the vast majority of them are really great at what they do, and if you gave them more than 15 seconds on a tv channel you’d probably get a very different view of most of them than you have now, I know I did, and I wasn’t even particularly negative toward them before it.

So there is that, the reality of a complex public sector, which simply isn’t perfect in a democracy, where one of the highest virtues in political decisions comes down to compromise.

Yet whenever I go out of my bubble, I’m constantly met with jokes about how monkeys could do better, or drain the swamp type comments. Not just from idiots either, but from virtually anyone. Almost all the time I can dismiss it, by giving an example of why a decision isn’t just black and white.

Like open source and the public sector. I talked with a comp.sci. professor about it once, and he had excellent points on why public funding (in it) should mainly go to open source software. Except in reality, a municipality like mine operates 470 different softwares of which 90% haven’t got an open source alternative. Not only that, our entire IT staff is schooled and certified in things that aren’t open source, and even if I could magically replace them over night without it costing millions of dollars, it’s almost impossible to find open source focused replacements.

Faced with the complex realities of modern management the professor toned down his argument, but at the time it got me thinking.

How did we become a world of people who think we can analyze anything and come up with a solution on how to do it better? And when I say that, analyse, is really the wrong word because we watch a few 15 second clips on politics here and there through out the year, and suddenly we think we can run our institutions better than the people who are actually educated and experienced at running them? We see a few clips of plastic in the ocean, or get snow in April and we think we’re climate scientists?

I say we, because I’m just as guilty of this as you are. Compared to people who buy into the social media memes, my only personal advantage, is that I was schooled in verifying my sources before I believe them, but just imagine if you weren’t.
Is there an inflation metric you know of that contains all of those other costs (college, housing, health, etc)?
Is there some Panopticlick-like program to test how trackable my PC can be? Other than what fonts are installed, what other ways are there to id a PC from an arbitrary program that can be also checked from the browser?
This isn't a fair comparison, because you're considering a generator that's intended for stationary use.

Of course this is going to be heavier than one intended for a vehicle, because the weight isn't a consideration, and lighter is more expensive (more precise, higher-quality materials).

What you'd want to be looking at is train powertrains, which are uniformly diesel-electric, because this is the most efficient power configuration.

Or the Chevy Volt, for a smaller example which happens to run on gasoline.
Nice town. I'll take it.
Does anyone have a list of the domains these guys use?

I'm curious if these are in the DNSLB easy lists or the lists used by PiHole.

If they aren't I'd like to add them to my blacklists on Pfblocker-NG.
It was AOL, but yea, they didn't really think their method of "anonymizing the data" through.
For better or worse this is a fact of life. Happened in Manhattan and SF too. What makes a place attractive draws outsiders who drive up demand for housing. Efforts (zoning, etc) to protect the status quo also drive up costs. Only the wealthy can afford to move in.
PyQt and PySide until very recently, for example.

Usually it's stuff that has large native dependencies.
Didn't every Unity3D game insert a tracking code that's working without users' consent?
Are you using a high-DPI display? In my experience, scrolling in the console is much slower on a high-DPI display.
Well I suppose that this is a concern, and with recent regulatory roll-backs even more so today. I'm creeped out now...
No, the point is to collect enough info to link a user who launched the game to someone who clicked an ad.

The problem Red Shell is trying to solve is the "download divide" -- You can track clicks/users on the web before they download, and you can track them after they launch your product, but you can't easily connect the two.

As for why devs want this, if you know ad campaign 1 cost $1 and had 2000 clicks, and ad campaign 2 cost #1 had 1000 clicks, that is helpul but what you really want to know is "what is the lifetime value (LTV) vs cost of acquisition of users from campaign 1 vs 2" because if LTV is significantly different then despite higher cost it may clearly be worth it. But if you can't connect a user from before the download to after you can't do this sort of calculation.

Devs really don't care who the users are, we just want to know how effective a campaign is compared to one another.

Source: Was planning on integrating Red Shell ourselves before this (false) outrage made us cancel our plans.
Most of those web browsers embed SQLite:

https://www.quora.com/Which-browsers-support-SQLite-How-univ...

Which I think is available interactively through Javascript? (To lazy to research further right now.)
Linux kernel is now over 15 million lines of code. Zircon the Fuchsia kernel is about 10k lines of code.

But also Google is taking a PoLP approach from the ground up. They have also implemented capability based security and addressing.

Really Fuchsia is an OS for today. It is time for things to move beyond Linux. Huge fan but it has now been over 25 years and was not built for the computer architecture of today.

Do hope Google also creates a CPU optimized for Fuchsia.

PoLP - Principle of Least Privilege.
You're being pedantic. One can travel from New York to San Francisco (well, Emeryville) by train but it's going to take multiple days and, even if you handwave the existence of high-speed rail through two continental divides among other things, it's a very long trip. That's never going to be a mainstream replacement for even a subsonic 5 to 6 hour flight between a multitude of east coast-west coast city pairs.
Presumedly that’s per month.
Current aircraft are significantly slower vs 50 years ago due to fuel economy issues. At 30,000 feet airlines could fly just under 678 mph, but they actually ~575 mph. This pushes up the benefit of supersonic flight.

On top of that the top 0.1% is both larger and more wealthy making filling ~50 seats a flight at 30,000+$ a pop easier than you might think. Drop that into $5,000 territory and some people would this every week.

IMO it's actually business jets that are the best market. They fly fewer trips making fuel less of an issue.
These governments could also maybe ask where the money to buy the passport comes from. Then you could check if those investments have any ties to known drug traffickers. That should certainly raise some red flags at least.

Same thing with ISIL funders, ask the person to explain where the wealth comes from and require that the business has to have been audited by the local authorities. It's not perfect, but then at least someone might look into suspicious transactions to known terrorists.
Sounds like a nice ideal. I'm an economist. The first thing that comes to mind is the technology infrastructure costs required to maintain a potentially all remote workforce. A central location is better for a number of different workstreams. The second thing that comes to mind is unintended consequences. Are all jobs remote? Bakers? Doctors? Nuclear firmware upgrades?
It's not absurd if it gets us better terms. If my friend was selling me a car at a higher, off-market price, I'd still haggle ("pick fights" in your terms) with him. In fact, I'd push for a friend discount. He might even give the discount to me if he thought there was more value to be had in the long term relationship.
It's just a shared server, looks like I put too low of a bandwidth limit on it!
As there is no political entity called "Europe", by definition there can't be such rule / law.
Great suggestion. I agree that the distributor (Steam) should have to answer why they are allowing this malware to be distributed over their platform. They would reject a game that contained a virus or ransomware, but spyware is OK?
I was saved unexpectedly by my second passport a few months ago when taking a trip from the US to Europe. My US passport was valid for another couple months, but at checkin they told me I couldn't use it for an international trip because it needed to be valid for at least the next 90 days from date of travel. Luckily I was able to whip out another passport for them, but I'm sure otherwise I would have been stuck trying to get a rush passport and rebook flights.
Calisto Trojan for macOS: the first member of the Proton malware family?
Only for as long as his dependencies can compile with Go 1.10. In my experience it's pretty common for the Go community to rapidly adopt features found in new releases, making it impossible to support old Go versions.

I've seen guys commit code requiring a new Go version the day it was released! My own preference is to wait a few months, but I'm naturally conservative.
A motor that predictably moves an object from one point to another can be much more reliable than an array of heat-driven reciprocating engines that have to be in constant motion and rely on conducting heat toward the internals of the spacecraft in order to function.
I understand the call of money but I cannot help but feel very negatively towards academics doing this with facebook of all organisations. After recent events, they cannot pretend not to know the impact and damage their work may have here. Excusing yourself with "I am just a researcher, I don't have anything to do with how my work is used" is just not good enough any more.

I would categorically reject any collaborations with FB as an academic in ML.
You make it sound like it's crazy to want to run a Golang application on your desktop. Do you actually believe it's far-fetched for a user to have an app that's written in Go?
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Yes I'm not that naive to not realize there are very good reasons the world works this way :). But I think its good to sometimes think about the big picture, how we ended up with these structures in place, and how we can improve for future generations - or at the very least try not go backwards.
That would not be far fetched, actually. Their technology clearly rivals anything we have today. 5 of the pyramids contain graphite waveguides that produce small amounts of focused nuclear radiation. The base contain piezoelectric water transducers. The Nile moved too far away to make them active however so they are quite safe for humans.
>WebAssembly manipulation tooling is in its infancy compared with what is available for manipulating some of the bytecodes I mentioned on my comment.

That's not very important though, because those had a 20+ years headstart.

WebAssembly is going to have much much bigger momentum than them (except Java and .NET), to the point that it will eclipse the ecosystem all of them together in 5-10 years.
I'm not a trade expert, but I can spot one clear omission missing from the trade deficit discussion: the value-added.

Chinese exports to the US have significantly lower value-added than the US exports to China. US exports have high value added, over 80% for exports to China. Chinese exports to US have much lower value added, something like 30-40%. Role of third countries in bilateral trading relationships is important.

Extreme case is Chinese made iPhone that leaves very little value-added to China, they just join expensive parts from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and US together with robots or cheap labor.

China exports more to the US, but less of the value stays in China. If you calculate the trade balance using value added trade US-China trade deficit is $200 billion for combined goods and services.

>0.7 percent of U.S. GDP depends on Chinese consumption of American-made goods and services, while 3.1 percent of China’s GDP is derived from U.S. demand. So, in any tariff battle, China would likely suffer more.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-19/china-s-e...

Both countries get hurt, but both countries will survive trade war agaisnt each other. But US is not in trade war path only with China. They go against EU, Canada, Mexico and others. Every front trade war would be worse but survivable. The real question is why. Everyone survives trade war but everybody also loses.

> And simple trade models, while they do say that trade wars are bad, don’t say that they’re catastrophic.

>To do this right, we should use one of those computable general equilibrium models I mentioned above. These suggest substantial but not huge losses – 2 or 3 percent of GDP.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/opinion/thinking-about-a-...
Turns out that the sarcophagus was full of surströmming.
I think the thing missing from the other replies to your comment is the question of who owns your hypothetical forest. If everyone agrees that the forest is privately owned by some particular person, then I agree with you that your nationality shouldn't prevent you from buying a part of the forest from that person and living there. If the forest is publicly owned (i.e. jointly owned by all French citizens) then it's precisely the job of the French government to decide if you can live there.

Of course you could also ask about the example of a forest that was "unowned" (although these days to find land without a property claim you would have to go into space). But personally I'm inclined to treat unowned property the same as publicly owned (by the entire world). Everyone has an equal claim to it. Therefore, again, you would have to find some price at which the government was willing to sell it to you.
No. This is fascinating for me and I am high on the list.

I was wondering about what access it buys you. This is sort of why it is being purchased.
Maybe they were on reddit. Seriously though, 30 seconds vs 3 minutes is a long time in the reliability world but not atrocious.
Its because no one feels they can just log in to say "omg that is so amazing and the people who built it are smarter than me".

Instead HN rewards comments that qualify every achievement with an IF, AND or BUT, or even worse: PFFFT.

Dear HN, you have permission to not be the smartest person in the room. Its actually liberating.

To the people at DARPA who built this - amazing! You are much smarter than me.
The other day I logged into Bank of America (where I used to have a checking account but now just keep a couple of credit cards) for the first time in several months and a popup comes up asking if I have dual nationality. Really guys? KYC is getting a little out of hand here....
Citation? That figure sounds perfectly realistic for average monthly US salary in 1972
Nowadays it would be possible to establish a "virtual nation" not bound to any territory but defined only by a group of citizens and a set of laws resident on a server farm somewhere (hosted by some friendly ally that does have territory). At least one such nation should be established to provide a citizenship of last resort for anyone who is currently stateless. I would call it the People's Republic of Hackistan. :-)
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Your comment seems like an attempt at emotional manipulation and propaganda for your particular politics. Your argument doesn't seem to reasonably distinguish between good or bad behavior generally.
I'm interested to see how the implementation performs in practice, but I don't see DNS over HTTPS as better than some of the other solutions out there. Some have been around for a while and are well-tried but failed to gain wide adoption, like DNSSEC. Others are new kids, unproven but with lots of promise on paper, like IPFS service discovery.

In no particular order, here are some alternative technologies. As always YMMV and the proof is not just in the technical implementation of the protocol, but also the policies and politics around the adoption. A good chunk of them overlap DNS's goals in what they aim to do, but only partially.

* DNSSEC - https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/dnssec-qaa-2014-01-29-...

Various Distributed Hash Table (DHT) based approaches:

* IPNS - https://medium.com/@yaniv_g/hosting-websites-on-ipfs-with-ip...

* Telehash - http://telehash.org/

Various cryptocurrency approaches:

* Namecoin - https://bit.namecoin.org/

* DomainToken - http://www.domaintoken.io/

* Steemit - https://steemit.com/

If you know of others, please comment with the name and a link.
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I noticed that too. I thought it was an ominous development.
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