skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not a good comparison either.

Elite: Dangerous had their alpha in 2013, playable beta mid-2014, with a 1.0 release end of 2014 that was a complete game.

Star citizen had a very scaled down version (Crusader) available end of 2015, as what amounts to an alpha.

I personally hope Star Citizen delivers, but there is really no equivalence here. Frontier delivered much faster.
Sad to see this. What happened to the "serverless containers", especially startups working on the idea? Months ago, Zeit.co gave up the idea of hosting containers and changed their direction to FaaS . Wondering if there is a technical reason (e.g. cost effective and scalable) behind both changes. On the other hand, big cloud vendors are all providing the serverless containers while the experience may not be as smooth as the startups provide.
Are Marathoners Getting Faster or Is It the Shoes?
Stunning Photos Show Huge Crater on Mars Absolutely Brimming with Water Ice
Admittedly, I've only played Skyrim and a bit of ESO, but I've gotten the impression from Bethesda that their RPGs are always buggy, but, at least with Skryim, the game was so good I was more than willing to forgive them for it. Skyrim remains my favorite single player RPG to date.

To respond to the OP, I consider the baldur's gate series to be more of a trend-setter than the other games he listed.
Supply, demand, and upside.

Movie stars get paid orders of magnitude more than top martial artists/musicians/dancers, so more people try to be actors, so there's a larger market, meaning instructors can charge more.

Also depends where you're looking. The professional acting scenes in LA/NYC tend to choke out the hobbyist scenes (why see a community theater show in Manhattan when you can get sub-$50 tickets to a Broadway show from TDF?), so if you're looking for acting classes in those areas, they're directed at and priced for professionals.
No, you have to have enough members in your party to surround him before speaking to him and then remove them from your party. So neutral NPCs are surrounding him. He will just kill skeletons. But you deserve whatever is coming to you if you kill Drizzt just for some swords.
You can make any proof as short as you want. Length of proof means almost nothing; it is a function of the language you choose to use.
> Because the original goal was to uncover dishonest people, and so now you've actually found even more dishonest people, who were taped on video

There are a lot of people who don't understand the harm in a little white lie; or who just misunderstand what truth means. Just think of any misleading ad or marketing material that you've seen.

To be quite frank, when I watched the video, I never understood why one guy had a crucifix hanging from his rearview mirror, and why the faces were obscured.
Well, they're not out of cash - at least not right now. It appears to be a pivot. I'd therefore have to agree with your assessment that it's a dick move.
Right now I believe the only major players with isolated vms are Oracle Cloud and Alibaba. There's a lot of movement in the space right now, though, so you'll likely find a number of options next year.
Data Is Never “Raw”
There's a lot of history there. China had been liberalizing their society and there was some thinking - wishful thinking, perhaps - that accepting China into the international community via the WTO and offering them Most Favored Nation trading status would encourage continued liberalization.

The thinking is obviously imperfect in hindsight, but I think that Bush and Obama both feared the complications and political fallout of trying to correct course.
Can you expand on this? What are their alternate explanations?
But Hyper uses lightweight virtual machines for multi-tenancy - they were actually one the providers who got it right. It was one of their unique selling points.
They redacted the PII, and I wouldn't call this doxxing to begin with.
I've been looking for a service like this for a while, and the first I find out about it is that it's shutting down. Does anyone know of similar offerings that are as simple? I know AWS, GCP and the likes offer container clusters, but I would like to just run a single container (for cheap) and not worry about it.
Its not user thing, it's a community thing. For example, if I have users who cannot see images, it means I cannot post screenshots and expect to get meaningful advice on it.

For your work: Are you connecting Mcabber to HipChat server? Do you use native HipChat client as well?
> Most new US production is higher cost (fracking), so the drop in market share is at least met with a stronger price floor for all.

The price floor problem for Russia and Saudi is societal and governmental financial, rather than raw production cost based.

Saudi Arabia now needs ~$95 oil to balance its budget for 2019. That has persistently been moving higher for them. So they're stuck in a death trap on price, where they're one of the few producers that can cut substantially to lift prices which the US producers constantly push down on. So they lose share to the US producers just to try to stay alive on price. Meanwhile it costs ever more money to placate the people of Saudi Arabia (and their population is growing rapidly, tripling since ~1982; a problem Russia of course doesn't have, with a stable population figure). Eventually that formula explodes, something will give in the coming decade.

Russia is in better shape on the price they need. They're a lot more comfortable near $60 than the Saudis. However they're still not able to realistically sustain oil prices lower than what the $40-$50 Permian producers can manage (seeing as the US producers don't have a national budget to support or a social bribe to pay for stability).
I feel your pain brother!

The US is almost at parity in oil consumption and production. This mean lesser need for oil to be transported from around the world for US consumption. That is a good thing.

"Thing global, buy local".
If you feel uncomfortable then that's your problem, not everyone else's. And as I said, you are free not to use it.

Also, "immature jokes" has been the backbones of technology and the hacking community. It's called having a sense of humor.

If people are so offended, then why not go create your own distribution with only "non-offensive" software instead of poisoning software that exists. That's what made tech and the open source and hacking community so wonderful. Not everyone has to be boring cookie cutter puritans. Rather than doing that, the puritans are trying to enforce their authoritarian vision on everything.

Most of the debian and open source and tech community doesn't care about weboob or the hypersensitive agenda. Why should the community be affected by a tiny handful of puritans?
Spector Delves into Underworld Ascendant and System Shock 3
Hydrogen and oxygen are the most (~75%) and third most (~1%) abundanten elements in the universe and this has been known for quite some time, so it does not seem that unexpected that water is not especially rare. But maybe the formation of water from gases requires conditions that are at least somewhat rare in the universe.
> It's more likely that people will switch to OCaml or Rust than ever go back to unmanaged memory. First secure, then correct, then fast.

Interestingly enough, that's a philosophy that's valuable and applicable in other skill sets as well. Woodworking/machining comes to mind and other trades.

Safety/security first, then precision, then speed once you got the other 2 working.
>In issue 33, Mad published a partial table of the "Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures", developed by 19-year-old Donald E. Knuth, later a famed computer scientist. According to Knuth, the basis of this new revolutionary system is the potrzebie, which equals the thickness of Mad issue 26

also the Google calculator example:

https://www.google.com/search?q=3+potrzebie+%2F+2+ngogn
Everyone forgetting 1995 saw a huge is release that influenced release dates of dozen titles that ended up postponed for testing.

The rpg genre itself was doing strong in 1995, heck just check SNES releases, Chrono trigger, dragon quest, finally fantasy...

It was just a transitional period for the platform
https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2012/12/06/a-visual-hi...
The thing that drew me to Hyper.sh in the first place was the fact that it used the Docker Remote API. That gave me some confidence it would be provider agnostic. Unfortunately no other providers have done this, so that idea didn't pan out.
First, it was Aadhaar and now this. Somehow Indian Govt wants to track every citizen and build their dictatorship.
DynamicCallable: Unix Tools as Swift Functions
This could have gone an entirely different way. I am glad it worked out but I do not gain respect or hope in a company because they willingly ignored a very serious regulation and the consequences of a failure on their part could have caused a big problem up there. Feels very amateur and irresponsible.
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>But don't you think it is weird that this did not register during the time when moving production to China was at it's height?

There have always been skeptics and strong opposition to China, and full disclosure I personally have long thought it was very foolish to sacrifice both our societal ideals and the Free Market on the alter of Free Trade (which as it's been used over the last few decades has been directly opposed to both). However at the same time I think it's unreasonable not to acknowledge that there were a lot of very smart people who were China doves out of a hypothesis that economic development would actually be the best way to peacefully and productively make China liberalize and become a strong, equal and valuable partner in the international order. It was believed that economic development would result in a growing middle class and in turn a demand for more political freedom, that enormous authoritarianism would ultimately be unsustainable, and that the moral thing to do was to not be too hard on these billion+ people most of whom were highly impoverished. And China also put on a good act, toeing various lines or making the right noises or even occasional actions, combined with carrots and sticks towards companies, while they built up.

It has now become clear however that, at least in the short term, the idea that economic development would inevitably lead to political liberalization too has not worked out. Nor has a growing panopticon proved unsustainable so far. It may be that these were simply never linked concepts, or it might alternately be that technological and societal development has rendered the modern situation fundamentally different to how the West developed and shifted the power balance such that that window of history is firmly closed.

At any rate however, while there were certainly a lot of people motivated purely by greed I think you are still overly uncharitable towards a lot of genuinely good people who had good intentions. Remember, this was coming directly off of the Cold War, a time of genuinely justified end-of-the-world terror and polarization and confrontational approaches. Even if it was naive, I can understand why some people, both exhausted by the CW and excited by an imagined future where liberal democratic societies spread throughout the world, thought building economic ties and giving China a lot of slack was an alternative approach that could work.

But at this point consensus is no, regrettably it has not worked out. That a lot of anguished doves are now changing tack rather then stubbornly refusing to adapt is admirable, not bad, and will add some needed moderation and variety to new strategies rather then letting the pendulum go all the way in the other direction.
> More and more Chinese citizens are travelling abroad yet their beliefs in the "Chinese system" only gets re-affirmed

To provide a more nuanced view, there are different reasons for this:

- some see problems in other countries that China does not have

- some faced racism or xenophobia. For the more privileged ones, it might be the first time in their lives to get discriminated against, and they respond by becoming extra nationalistic.

- some simply don't see a way to participate in the western system, so they pragmatically buy into the Chinese system. Keep in mind that while it's hard today for a foreign company to operate in China, it's also not easy for a Chinese company to succeed in western markets, especially more competitive ones like US.

- some are being nationalistic for publicity.
>As a son of non-white immigrants, I grew up with a narrow view of opportunity.

How many white immigrants are able to send their kids to private school? Most non-immigrant white parents don't/can't send their kids to private school. How many parents have neighbors who send their kids to private school?

I am all for what you are doing, but this line is laying it on a bit thick.
I never underestimate humanity's ability to come up with shit that is as weird as it is ridiculous, especially when it comes to tribal initiations. We get bungee jumping from the tribal initiation of the Bunlap people of Vanatu, so unless your pledge involves something as dangerous as attaching a liana to your ankles and jumping off a tree with the intention being to actually hit the ground with your face, while naked except for a belt and a strategically placed leaf, then frankly you aren't even trying.
Agreed that 2008-2012 was relatively much more liberal. Hosting the Olympics boosted China's confidence as a prosperous and prominent nation on the world stage. There were growing grass root movements against corruption and restrictive cultural policies. Technology tools available around that time were not sophisticated enough to effectively carry out censorship. Google had quit the Mainland Chinese market but most of their services were still accessible without VPNs (which were easily obtainable and almost always worked with minimal tweaks) via google.com.hk. Weibo was filled with great social commentary and critique. It got optimistic enough that some individuals hoped that Xi Jinping as the incoming president will actually carry out political liberalization. Obviously it did not take long for him to show his true colours.
I recall being a small child and constantly bothering my older brother to play Star Control II so I could watch. I tried playing it myself but was too young to figure out how to exit the starter station. As I grew older, I could finally get to the point of crashing into planets.
Not as fabulous as we were first led to believe?
and? Neighbors can legit steal too.
It's still not secure. Read the 1st comment and the reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18479567
Well, in theory the code that's executing is in a sandbox already but I'd rather have that extra layer of protection. I was really looking forward to just having a little bit of glue code to hit a hyper.sh endpoint and not have to worry about any server administration. manigandham suggested a few alternatives that I'm going to look into.
I think it's clear that Uber longs for autonomous driving.
Azure Container Instance billed per second, specifically for short lived tasks.
Yes, that's what the question was in reference to - thanks!
Why a correspondent gave all – including her life – to report the horrors of war
Yes, it actually does, because it redefines wasteful, and the availability of many-GB computers means a lot of people do have access.

This isn't 2008, we don't need to care about 150MB like we used to.
Mastery by George Leonard, right? I've read it before and still have a copy that I will reread.
This. I recently read a book that explored the history of the Supreme Court and some of its major decisions. I walked away with one thing: the Constitution can mean virtually anything to anyone. It really does come down to the social winds of that particular time.
Implanting RFIDs in pets is extremely common, as a method for identifying them to return them to their owners if they are lost or injured[1]. I agree it would a little silly to get an implant strictly to open a pet door, but given that they are already often present, leveraging that to open the door seems like a pragmatic choice.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchip_implant_(animal)#Use...
Its incredibly annoying when non-advertisers try to write about adtech. Its like a local journalist trying to write about politics in the middle east. They have some good opinions, they do good research, but they can't possibly understand the intricacies of the ecosystem without living in it for years. The author makes good points but is blatantly wrong in a number of ways:

> Retailers (and investors in retail operations) are interested in actual foot traffic, not “estimates” of foot traffic. By merging mobile phone data with real-time foot traffic, retailers know the quality of potential customers as well as the quantity of them

Thats not really what foot traffic tracking is used for. You definitely can't see quality, but you can see quantity. I use foot traffic tracking to see how many users that were exposed to my ads entered a store. Its not very accurate thoguh

> Employers love location data. It helps them reconfigure building layouts to optimize placement of both individuals and teams. On the darker side, it also allows employers to know how often you use the restroom, if you and a colleague are having, ahem, a relationship, or how long you spend tethered to your desk.

Woooo that is 100% false. GPS is not this precise, you'd need nfc gateways (like bluetooth or maybe wifi).

> · The days of ambulance chasing lawyers are long gone. With location data, they can send ads to any mobile phone in the emergency room of your local hospital.

This is true. I've targeted hospitals before, but you don't really need geo data for it.

> law enforcement can watch known high-crime areas and merge that data with publicly-available mobile phone data — data that you freely provide

Its unclear what the author is saying here, but it implies things that are seemingly untrue.

> Is using location services worth you getting fired from your job?

> Is using location services worth being stalked?

> Is using location services worth your children being followed to school?

Fear mongering.
I think r/robinhood is a particularly bad example, the naïveté in that subreddit is overpowering. In general financial regulations are probably more good than bad given how completely irrational people get when money is involved.
AWS employee here:

I'm going to be honest AWS Fargate isn't as easy to use as hyper.sh if you are looking for an alternative. That said our increased complexity is because Fargate is orders of magnitude more full featured for applications that outgrow small platforms. If you want to give Fargate a try I'd recommend this open source tool (http://somanymachines.com/fargate/) as it provides you with an easy, opinionated starter command line experience similar to what you might have seen for hyper.sh
"I think a lot of people (including me) want China to join the club of first world countries, not just economically, but also in terms of respect of human rights. "

-- Really? A lot? I don't think so. My experience is Chinese middle class rarely care about human rights issues. Most of them are extremely cold blood. As long as their own family is not hurt, they don't care about human rights issues at all. As long as they can get rich and stay rich, they will praise the authoritarian regime.
A good reminder to go through your settings and review how many random apps are regularly collecting your location data.
hmm, that's a good point. Do you have access to the US equity markets? If so you could go with a short-term gov bond ETF.
Not only do I use OsmAnd, but I prefer it to Google maps (and not just for privacy reasons). For whatever reason, I always find it a bit fiddly to set up initially, but once I've got it working, it's really nice.
Of course it's about trade. This isn't about an argument between you and China, it's about US foreign policy toward China, vs Chinese foreign policy towards the US. The US has never cared about human rights violations as a high priority. Look at any year of US foreign policy history for the past century at least, look at who the allies are, look at who gets invaded.

When discussing US foreign policy, human rights is a fig leaf, not an actual cause of policy.
> I believe this problem exists a little bit in Europe where so many believe the EU = Europe, they use the terms interchangeably.

I'm genuinely curious, in what sense EU = Europe is wrong? Granted, not all European countries are members of EU, but EU is a big block with several significant majorities among their constituents - a big population, economy, living style, culture, history, especially if UK could be included.

Why it's significantly wrong to approximate Europe as EU?
>If we are warping our algorithms and coding so much around it, isn't this a sign that the memory abstraction with the current caching scheme is an overly leaky abstraction?

No, because we don't code our programs in the 'language of performance'. Performance of algorithms is always exterior to our abstractions. There's no way to talk about performance without talking about all the things that 'leak'.

Conversely, if you design your algorithms with no consideration for performance, you will not care what the cache does. If you design your algorithms to maximize something they don't literally encode, then you're escaping the abstraction by definition, and side channels become relevant.

In other words, the abstractions don't leak, they are just not up to the task of modeling optimal performance, so you have to use your human brain to do it on the side.
> no no, no firing solutions today my saucy chiquita, today we let the allied APC through.

But "foe" is obviously the safest default, right? At least, from the IFF computer's perspective.
GANs and Divergence Minimization
Your reasoning makes no sense:

China violates human rights therefore it is OK for the Five Eyes nations to spy on people?

Your reasoning structurally unsound.
I think Big Oil sees the writing on the wall. Pump it now or risk leaving it in the ground as alternative energy continues to expand in all areas from EV's to Solar/Wind Generation. It would be great if we only used oil for other products instead of Gasoline/Diesel/Kerosene.

There are estimates that a barrel costs anywhere from $30-50 to pump in the Permian. I figure with technology it will be sub $20 in the next year or two. If you remove storage from the cost with additional pipe lines it makes it even more cost effective.
Taiwan's relative economic and cultural power has declined significantly due to the PRC's growth. The ROC acted as an ideological counterweight to the PRC for many years but now the Taiwanese are too busy arguing with each other whether to even retain the "Chinese" identity. It's like some of them bought into the "CCP = the only China" idea as well.
The devices are your property (probably), but alexa is a web -based service licensed for your use under a EULA. This is definitely not your property.
The biggest selling point of Google Maps is not the content itself, it is the usability. And the usability is unmatched by OsmAnd at this moment.

It is such a chore to look something up in OsmAnd that makes me throw all the privacy awareness away and go immediately to Google Maps.

So while replacing Google Maps can be done indeed, it is not a pleasant experience to replace it with open source solutions.
Do you know about the official GDS blog?

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/
Ultimately, all people are just hypocrites, even you. It doesn't matter what lip-service you pay to any ethical system. When push comes to shove all people are just horrible POSs.