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> but can a team of AIs beat Navi in a full game of DotA?

Yes it can, especially Na`Vi (Dota-reddit jokes that AI won't play with Na`Vi because developers want to test AI with a pro team). There were matches with pro players last month. Players say that mechanics in 5v5 fight are perfect and the global strategy is there.

I won't say that the strategy has many states in Dota: it's the items and position on the map (by choosing one of the objectives).

It's not ready for the real Dota 2 tournaments though: AI was trained for the specific 5 heroes.
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As with everything else that Stripe does, these books are beautifully designed as well. For me, their design has to be their differentiating factor.
Maybe not new drivers, but the existing ones drive me nuts. For example, I often rest my thumb on the bottom left corner of the trackpad (where I press to click). That interferes with my cursor movement on Linux, but not on macOS, which ignores my resting thumb with 100% accuracy.
The average adult can be quickly and reliably trained to use bleach appropriately: "Should I drink bleach? No. Always no."

On the other hand, the average adult requires six or more years of education and training to manage warfarin appropriately.

I'm being somewhat glib for effect, but do you not see a critical distinction there?

In the interest of public health, we make all kinds of laws to protect people from things they cannot be expected to do safely. Why is it unreasonable to protect people from dangerous medications?
It's not hard to get a California DMV permit for testing autonomous vehicles. It's like a learner's permit. You have to have a licensed driver on board able to take over. You have to have insurance. You have to report all accidents. No driving for hire. No heavy vehicles.

That's what Uber considered over-regulation.
How can a SaaS company benefit from working with a software house?
I was a systems engineer at an Enterprise environment with over a thousand users and about 50/50 Mac/PC split. You can guess which were less headaches from a hardware perspective. And by less headaches I mean virtually non-existent Hardware failures.

Turning them into Enterprise friendly machines from a software perspective was a different story.
I live on a beach in Thailand and it can get pretty hot at times. It is a beach in Thailand after all. I have no thermal issues with my Lenovo Yoga when sitting directly in the sun. Lots of MacBook Pro users around here and they do run in to thermal issues (random shutdowns mostly) if they sit in the sun doing something CPU intensive. Around here that would be using Ableton (music program), with up to 4 tracks loaded at the same time. We are blessed with amazing DJs around here and they all use a mac
> Both (1) and (2) are factually wrong.

You are factually wrong because you know only the status quo that emerged from that crisis.

> Projects running over-budge, over-time, often not meet requirements etc, are not a crisis in the actual meaning of the world.

> It's just a normal state of affairs.

To you it is.

To the people in the 1960s, it wasn't.

Because they had previously experienced a state where the hardware imposed such drastical limits on the possible size and complexity of software that each programmer working on a project could intimately know and understand every piece of code in it and the requirements that influenced it.

The change from that to one where programmers understand only part of a project is absolutely fundamental and completely changes the way you have to work to achieve your goals. Now your project will fail if you cannot manage and divide-and-conquer its complexity in some way.
To help anyone who was as confused as I about this being the first polynomial time algorithm. To me, even the naïve primality test is a polynomial time algorithm over the target number. However, here the AKS primality test is a polynomial time algorithm over the number of digits in the target number, which of course is different!
I'm stuck in a "please accept our gazillion cookies" loop. After managing preferences (which is implemented illegally, as I understand, since opt-out should be as easy as opt-in) and saving, I just get shown the same page again.

Too bad, sounded like a fun article.
So are you living out of that?
It’s odd that there’s no mention of the fact that the samsung centaur ant has 5 legs.
WordPerfect document formatting was and is total trash compared to Wordstar's.
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And what was it 20 years ago?
As someone who spent months in China recently the elevator experience mentioned really hits home among other points. Nobody expected me to understand what they were saying and trying to hide picture taking etc. I just embraced it. If I saw someone sneaking a picture I would just ask them: 你想和我合影吗？你会记得看到一个外国白人。

If someone started talking about me in an elevator or street cart or anyplace I would say: 你想问我关于我的生活或国家的问题吗？
It's robotics, at the design/development stage the software and hardware are entwined. Conceivably, when Zoox has a finished, validated prototype and are ready to mass produce, they could go to a contract manufacturer like Magna-Steyer.
What makes you think Selenium is gone?
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> You are talking about a decision that was made 18-20 years ago.

Hang on.. what are we talking about?

According to Wikipedia, AWS was launched in 2006, which is only 12 years ago, and GCP was launched in 2008, only 10 years ago.

You could argue that, even in 2006, UTF-8 wasn't firmly enough established as the "winner" to be a clear best choice, but defending an for avoiding Unicode entirely at that point, for a company with global ambitions, just seems disingenuous.

For the question of UTC, claiming naivete also lacks credibility, if only because Y2K brought to and kept at the forefront of everyone's minds the topic of date/time representation in computers, starting around 20 years ago.
But... he didn't like Configurator... "...unless you are using Apple Configurator to create a profile". Ok, I give up :)
This is just a ploy to ensure that George RR Martin doesn't stop writing once the original WordStar stops working!
Out of curiosity, what GUI toolkit have you written these apps in/for? Something Mac-like (GNUStep)?
> Any load balancer is always a single point of failure.

Yes, but Google takes this to another level, all their load balancers are one single giant point of failure.

> This is why lots of folks go multi-cloud.

Or, just use AWS, where each region is almost entirely independent (some specific APIs are global by their nature, like creating a new S3 bucket), but you shouldn't be using those APIs on your run-path.

Yes, it is less convenient (and it must be less convenient for AWS to build things this way than for Google who seem to prioritise their development experience over customer availability), but new features from AWS are making it easier to deploy to multiple regions and use cross-region failover.
I tried the OSX VPN stuff and gave up really quickly. It all just felt really clunky, without much control.

Tunnelblick and http://www.pivpn.io/ work great. PiVPN targets Pi installations, but I found it works just fine on any modern ubuntu install. The cli tools to generate / revoke configs are very easy to use.
As a native Chinese, I want to say you are wrong. In our education from element school, we were educated as atheist, and actually I am proud of that. I don't believe God. And for Chinese Communist Party, they don't like any religion, as that the opposite of Marxism, which is core part of communism.
Can you share the link? This page still refers to new database: https://docs.hasura.io/1.0/graphql/manual/getting-started/in...

Homepage has the GitLab example, but not actual "Getting Started" page.
Leeches are used in medicine today, particularly after limb transplant microsurgery.
I'm sorry that you're being downvoted, but you're right. You can't easily sell, and make a profit on acid (you certainly can't patent it). The dose needed for a trip is so small; a "therapeutic" dose is even tinier.

The prison sentences for those who have produced acid are also completely ridiculous.
Thermal on my i7 xps13 is abysmal. Never again.
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I like Mozilla's the most. It's most human-like and thus, easiest to understand
The headline's question should really be reframed to question the validity of these restrictions in the first place.

I'm not a user of any of these sorts of substances, nor condone them, but there's zero reason for a free country to police personal use of such things. Sure, driving under the influence should be policed as a safety hazard, showing up to work out of your gourd should still get you fired, etc.

But there's little mandate that the government should be policing and prosecuting adults for potentially self-destructive private behaviors. Especially in light of all the other addictive and potentially self-destructive legal activities people are heavily involved in, any pretense of that mandate crumbles. Only when it threatens the safety, or disrupts the public civility, of other non-involved people should there even be a thought of government intervention. Any other conception to reduce individual drug use should be positive pressure like awareness programs and rehab centers.
Crappy firmware could ignore signatures but would definitely notice if no key could be found to successfully reverse mandatory encryption.
4 stroke engines are doing well in this area nowadays. We have a few machanised garden tools with 4 stroke and they are not that expensive. They are not dirty cheap like the electric ones but that depends on the quality range you buy as well I guess. Added benefit of the 4 stroke is they run a lot quieter.
another great example is patapon, a rhythm game that's still quite accessible thanks to the border visual cues about the beat to follow, i.e.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrK-yfRlrZE
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Anecdotally, I was at a doof (bush rave) a few years ago, where one of the punters decided to go for a stroll in the middle of the night - head full of acid - and got promptly lost. Police search and rescue were called out, big dollar costs to the state, and while the kid turned up fine in that instance, it's statistically more likely you won't turn up fine in the Australian bush.

I certainly feel that there's no absolute way to control the safety of participants in psychedelic experiences, but we should be wary of an open market approach without also considering a massive escalation in the way we teach people about safety with drug use.
> My problem here is how someone knows they are diabetic.

Again, I don't really see why this would be the problem of the person selling it, unless you prefer living in a nanny state.

There are a multitude of OTC and other readily sellable stuff that if misused can cause death. Complaining about selling insulin freely and the dangers of it in a place where guns are sold like candy is a farce.

Make them sign a waiver and be done with it.
A great book on the subject of the decline of Western superiority is “Has the West Lost it?” by Mahbubani [1]. He gives a fantastic overview of the stalling of the West following the confirmation of the allegeded superiority of the West’s “rational governance” following the breakup of the USSR.

He discusses the concurrent rise of Asia’s economic prowess and that the west must internalize that they have “lost it” before they can beat strategize for the coming decades.

My favorite portion of the book states that the most important event that happened in 2001 was not the terrorist attacks on 9/11, but China joining the WTO.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Has-West-Lost-Kishore-Mahbubani-ebook...
Huh?

Sandoz Labs produced pharmaceutical LSD for decades
It looks too convoluted and limited to win10.
You can always leave some crucial part or procedural generation on server-side too and impose some limits on how client can use API to it. E.g client might do any kind of heavy lifting (generation of terrain, etc), but code that handle important stuff (e.g PvE enemies, rewards) could be stay on server-side.
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C# defaults to reference types, structs are not usually recommended as the default way to build your own types, only as an optimisation.
In a more extreme form, someone once compared Peppa Pig with real health services. I'm somewhat painfully reminded of the ̶w̶a̶s̶t̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶i̶m̶e̶ scientific value that is this kind of content.
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The kinds of doctors that work as "tier-1 tech support" -- that is, primary care -- are not being paid top dollar, believe me. After you account for the cost of education, delay of entry to the workforce, hours worked per week, and the fact that insurance compensation models are biased towards specialty care and procedures, and it starts to look like bad financial planning.
> AWS doesn't have a comparable service to the global version of GCP's load balancer service

Intentionally, because then customers relying on a service like this, would have regular global outages.

This is the 3rd global outage GCP has had in less than a year. As far as I remember, AWS hasn't had one in many years (but, too many people put everything in us-east-1, so a short single-region outage - which happens very seldom - seems to take down half the internet).
Except NumWorks is $100.
"with money as God, all is permissible."

Did they overcompensate or is it compatible with communist doctrine?
Instead of using an IP address to identify cheaters the game could assign a unique random generated ID to players. Then they could ban that id without using IP. I think this scheme complies with the GDPR if you take care of not binding that ID with other user personal information.
Are they launching another world cup bid?
So what do chinese people think and feel about "德 dé" (moral)?
Started my word processing with Wordstar (and spreadsheets with Lotus123). Those were the days.
Have you published a plugin or the source? Sounds very interesting for using in computers inside the game (as in Fallout and the like).
It seems that frame rates of game monitors are pushing the boundaries of how low the latency should be. Imagine making a competitive multiplayer game design to run on 144hz or 200hz monitors.
Although Rumsfeld often gets credit for this statement, it has been around for a long time before him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns
> Yes, except that at least with the Chinese social credit system you presumably know what your score is and what rules you are supposed to follow.

It's not like "don't talk about what really happened at Tiananmen Square" (or an equivalent message) is explicitly taught.
I've actually tried that peanut butter bagel experiment myself and didn't notice any significant difference. Of course experiments with a population of 1 and no control group are meaningless.
I haven't had the time to try this. But my issue with built-in AWS forecast is it'll be totally inaccurate once Reserved Instance come into play.
Does CloudForecast solve this issue?
Preliminary bug report: selecting EU as a region keeps giving me US states as locations.
The insides of computers can frequently reach that range.
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Same thing already done in spiritual successor for Supreme Commander/Total Annihilation called Planetary Annihilation. Basically there is authoritative server that work exactly that way.

Only downside of this is that when you have few thousand units on screen game will use abysmal about of bandwidth like 8Mbps for each client. So when there is 10 players in-game server-side must have these 80Mbps.

Oh and it's also used as replay / save system. Amazing tech:

https://blog.forrestthewoods.com/the-tech-of-planetary-annih...
Same. It's hot, loud, and still never feels as fast as it should.
I wouldn't mind that.
I see you’ve never had to deal with trolls and griefers.
Just install Cookie AutoDelete (or equivalent extension) in your browser. You'll be able to click 'Accept' in cookie notices with abandon safe in the knowledge that it doesn't matter what the site says or does, you're in control.

(Also disable 3rd party cookies in your browser settings while you're at it)
Quinn Nelson (a.k.a. Snazzy Labs) recently did a couple of videos where he replaced the stock thermal paste on a 2017 MacBook Pro with a liquid metal thermal paste [1] and then 3 months later with a standard thermal paste [2].

With the liquid metal paste the CPU temps dropped 10°C, ran 200MHz faster and the MacBook Pro didn't thermal throttle. The standard thermal paste also saw a 7-10% improvement in thermals compared to Apple's paste.

I wonder if replacing the paste with a better one would help with the latest i9 MacBook Pro?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw4gqfrBN4c

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNoZNzOQpVw
The first thing I thought when reading the post was “I’d much prefer if they worked in allowing us to settle in reais”.
Same here. 13 inch XPS, coil whine is insane. Had the motherboard replaced 3 times, no improvement. It was a replacement for my ageing Air 13", and I honestly wish I didn't swap. At first glance it's just as nice, the build quality and form factor are identical - and then you start using it, and see that Dell charges just as much if not more than Apple, but quality of several different elements is ages behind apple.
> This is embarrassing. Under 25MPH self driving ought to be within current technology

The fact hat it's not tells you all you need to know about self driving vehicles. I'd expect full autonomous vehicles about a decade after we can hit these easier targets.
> Latest Pro is quickly too hot to handle.

When watching Netflix?
I read it in the title of an Ask HN thread
I managed to misread as Worldstar as in WorldStar Hiphop haha
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Selenium IDE was deprecated last year - maybe that?

- https://seleniumhq.wordpress.com/2017/08/09/firefox-55-and-s...

"The bad news: from Firefox 55 onwards, Selenium IDE will no longer work."

Alternatives:

- https://www.katalon.com/resources-center/blog/selenium-ide-a...

My own metrics, comparing attention on Stack Overflow:

- Katalon Studio immediately started getting attention on Stack Overflow after Selenium IDE was discontinued.

- In Q2 2017 Robot Framework already had more pageviews on Stack Overflow than Selenium IDE. The gap has continued to grow since the deprecation notice.

- In any case, Protractor is the one with the most attention on Stack Overflow between these alternatives.

- https://imgur.com/a/Jpe9KGl
You can tell from the reports they put out that Backblaze doesn’t put all their eggs in one basket, they use different brands and drive types.
> heavily influenced by marketing.

Whose marketing? Apple doesn't push the Magic Trackpad over the Magic Mouse. If you buy an iMac online, the mouse is their pre-selected input accessory.
I'm going to write a book "Don't Use Stripe for Your Startup"

They can shut you down without any reason, just that you are magically high risk. Just when you are freaking out and think you will pick up the phone and call and find out what is going on you discover they don't have a phone number.
Are you referring to debugging in insanely simple languages or to debugging in general? Because I have written code in a text editor and debugged with PRINT (or whatever the language offers) for decades. It was a lot of fun!
Wordperfect was far more powerful than Wordstar, you just had to get used to operating in their strange kinda-sorta-but not really WSYWIG mode; and pull up the codes view to sort out occasional oddities. All in the most unfriendly set of shortcuts and codes imaginable. :)

WP had unbeatable table of contents, footnotes and index generation at the time - far better than Wordstar, and Word.
> it's a PITA to change

Pain/annoyance is a recurring theme in this sub-thread as far as reasons go for not switching or not using UTC in the first place.

I strongly suspect, however, that this is one of those situation where the negative aspect is over-estimated.

Other times, merely debating/discussing it draws attention to the pain and serves to amplify it (or its perception). Just quietly implementing it risks offending key players, but the vast majority won't even know the difference.
A thousand people doing this on the planet seems far too few, actually. We could use some more.
"They will only adopt it when they have no other choice"

That's not why companies use and fund open source software. Open source electronics would probably be pretty much the same, added value being delivered from complete products (which are much more than just the chip) rather than just an agglomeration of components.
Asking a UX designer to 'make my app / website popular again' sounds like something a soon-to-be-failed company would say.

Good content transcends bad UX. Good UX will never save bad content.

I think the "bills must be paid" philosophy goes all the way up the chain though. We're most of us in that leaky boat.
It really depends on the model. My older MacBook Pros would idle at 2K RPM, while my new MacBook Pro can go all the way down to zero in the winter or with very few things open but generally stay at 1200 RPM during daily usage. All of these are silent, of course.
There is a Netflix episode on the usage of “!” as part of their “explained” documentary series. You should definitely watch that one :)
They've always been bumping up against this back in the Apple II days, and systems would overheat then, too. All in the name of Steve Jobs emphasizing case aesthetics & not wanting fan noise.
C4 spot instances work for me at the moment. The price increase for C5 wasn't worth it as I was only seeing a 5-10% performance increase. I need to re-benchmark though.
Why do you need 32 GB of ram?
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Dark Call is the video entry by team "Dhurandars" submitted as part of Advantal FRIFO event June '18.
https://youtu.be/_AXy8vJTx4U
AWS ECS configuration and secret management done right
Very unfortunately what you explain here only work for very specific type of gameplay. For instance almost nothing works when you need to secure first-person shooter simply because it's skill-based gameplay where it's also very easy to cheat for the bot.
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Shock! Wikipedia is wrong! The first AWS service was AWIS, still going strong today, although only usable by root accounts, not IAM.

This misinformation is perpetuated by AWS evangelists who claim SQS was the first service.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2004/10/04/introd...
I'd say 30ms, not not 40. Because a single frame is 16.6ms, so 30ms round-trip would bring one-way down to below one frame of latency (potentially with a small amount of jitter).
On a scale of 1 to 10, what's the definition for 'overprotective' and what level of protectiveness would you recommend we adopt?
> or at least think they need,

Irrelevant. If you pay premium for performance expecting to get the level of performance you've paid for then you better get what you've paid for.

Otherwise we're dealing with something very similar to consumer fraud covered with a thin paternalist veil of "corporation knows best".
When working as intern at an Apple store more than 10 years back the instructions from Apple for reassembly would always tell to put a huge amount of thermal grease on the CPU. So much that it would be squirted out from under the heatblock in large blobs. I always found it odd as I was used to add just as much as was needed without spilling over. Never read any research on it though so I'm curious what was the right approach. I can't image Apple just getting this part of the thermal puzzle wrong when everything else is fully optimized. Or them just skimping a few cents on better grease.