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The big summer update 2019 the Land Out of Time (also Anachronia) is kicking off in July with a bunch of great content. Today we mainly offer more information about the new hunting method on the island - RuneScape Big Game Hunter.

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What does the Big Game Hunting feature?

There will be 9 new creatures encountered along with the Big Game Hunting, requiring level 75 Hunter to level 96 Hunter. To kill the creatures, you need collect resources to build and arm traps.
With each creature killed, you skin it and loot it. Since this new and innovative activity is instanced, there is no competition here.

What loot can you see on the drop table?

Similar to the way boss drops work, the loot during Big Game Hunter will roll on a drop table. You can use the skin to make a new T75 Ranged tank armour, which has Ranged version of Ganodermic and its one themed “flakes” which is used to craft it (like Gano flakes).
Meanwhile, 3 different untradeable pieces can be dropped and combined into Hexhunter-style Maul. It can give the damage boost against Ranged based creatures while sharing the same boost and stats as Hexhunter bow.

In addition to this New RS Big Game Hunter, you also can build a base camp, enjoy an island wide Agility course and bunch of new Slayer monsters on the new island. Keep your eyes peeled for further news here.

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Someone pointed out the differences between "ecological" and "economical" thinking years ago, and I wish I could find the blog article again.

The basis was that "ecological" thinking assumes that things will stay the same until they dramatically collapse, and that systems cannot adapt to changes in circumstances.

While "economical" thinking assumes that there is a constant tension between supply and demand, and that as something becomes rare its price goes up and the system adapts to it.

This paper is classic "ecological" thinking. It assumes that there are no other alternatives to the minerals used at the moment, and that therefore if the supply of (e.g.) Cerium is disrupted then the supply of iPhones will be disrupted. It doesn't allow for "Cerium was the best of three options we had, because of reasons x and y, and price z", so if Cerium becomes a problem, then the second best option will be used instead. Yes, the price will go up, but that's an adaptation not a limit.

It also doesn't allow for alternative sources of the minerals. I know there are deposits of rare earths in Australia, which aren't being mined at the moment because it's not economical to do so. But if China starts messing with their supply, it will become economical. This happens all the time (there's a rash of new Lithium and Cobalt mines in Australia because of the tech industry's need for them).

Likewise it assumes that because we currently have cheap fossil-fuel-derived energy to mine with, that mining is not possible without abundant cheap energy. If the price of energy goes up as the coal mines are shut down, then the industry will adapt and find other, more energy-efficient solutions.

Just as "life finds a way", economic systems find a way. Yes, there will be collapses and corrections, and on an individual level those can be disastrous, but as a system it endures. High tech is going to last.
I see the scale of the protest; but I don't really understand the end goal here. Eventually Hong Kong will become fully integrated in China, right down to driving on the right-hand side of the street. This is one of many steps in that integration.
I think life (event from chemistry to biochemistry) is rare because we can think of each planet as a specific combination of chemistry composition. All these combinations, even if they exist in the order of billions, is still a limited amount of possible combinations of chemical properties.

In a lab we can reproduce these combinations in ideally a much greater number. So my insight is that we can create chemical processes in a lab at a much higher rate and with much more interesting combinations that nature can. And still life hasn't arose in the lab.

This seems to me like a sensible experiment that can somewhat prove that if we can't do it in the lab, where we're free to combine whatever we want, then why should it be "easy" for nature with its limited amount of combinations.
The main reason we don't have rare earth mines in the U.S. is that we don't want to deal with the uranium and thorium. Of course there are productive things we could do with those elements, which would also go a long way towards reducing our carbon emissions.

If we do run low on rare earths or platinum group metals, there's plenty in the asteroids. Once we have reusable rockets and can harvest fuel from the asteroids or the moon, mining the asteroids for high-value metals could actually be fairly economical, and would remove the environmental impact of the mining it replaces on Earth.
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Because I suspect whatever solution they would come up with will end up being as complex a monstrosity when trying to interoperate with other browsers, other OS, other organisations, other developers, various form factors and devices etc...

Also, if I need to learn a whole new stack to use a whole new product that has no-one using it yet, chances are I won't bother.

We may win on learning from the past and not having some of the tech debt the web has, but I've seen this industry repeating the same mistakes over and over again so I wouldn't bet on it too much.
Canada is using science to lay claim to the North Pole
Yep.

> Someone's gotta pay

There are quasi[1]-free market capitalists in crypto community who think that because many ISPs don't throttle and provide "unlimited" upload quotas means they can build a business on that platform.

If IPFS or any similar project actually took off and home users begun to strain ISP networks, pretty soon there would be quotas, price hikes and throttling. Someone's gotta pay.

[1] ICO-ing a file sharing coin, while demanding Net Neutrality
My point is the following. We got a saying here. High trees catch a lot of wind. That is true for any US president. Furthermore he sings a different song than the previous president. Those factors alone will cause controversy. We didn't even start about Trump's personality and his controversial election. These are just turmoil on the fire.

Those 2 fellows I mentioned are high trees here in NL but on the international playing field there's much higher ones such as any US president.
‘Completely unacceptable’ US-funded scheme to shape Iran debate
Same author in 2012: "Batteries are too heavy to ever be used by trucks or other large vehicles, and require a revolutionary breakthrough to power electric cars."
And China now [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-14/china-is-...]

Still, even the thought of a collapse for chips is scary. I wonder if we can at least fallback to 80-s chips production in case of a supply chain collapse.
The kids would presumably spend a lot more time constructing than destructing. I also doubt the robots get actually destroyed in the competition.

Do you also forbid water blasters in the hot summer?

As you say, those playful fights are a natural impulse. It is also not true that you can solve every problem without violence.

I'm expecting people to chime up with "what about the girls?", though. Presumably those battle bots might be considered off putting to girls, putting them to a severe disadvantage because they miss out on their STEM education. (An argument I would also consider bullshit, but those are the times).
Do you have a link for more info on how to tune Postgres for analytical workloads? TIA
DJI is amazing. They sell their drone IMU+RF module separately to make your own drones, and their new 4K Osmo Pocket comes with me everywhere I go. Few companies are making such innovative hardware.
avito.ma is the largest site in Maroc. Before they moved to Amazon, they were hosted in Spain, because hosters in Maroc were not reliable enough.
CP/Mish: open-source sort-of-CP/M distribution
...and the opposite curse applies to people who had fully couch-potato sedentary lifestyles in youth and want to work themselves into shape in their 30s ...it sucks :| Realizing that you might need to put 12+ months of continuous boring excruciating exercise to get what others can get with 1-2 moths of training only.

Wish there was a pill to solve this for us (phisically-)lazy ones...
>>I'm more curios about the best tools and architectural patterns that work well with each other.

Well you can go with:

Fancy: Hdfs(distributed file system) as storage - oozie as workflow scheduler for your load(python/hive/scala/spark) - Tableau for visualization (your business ussers will love it.

Mid range: SQL Server as storage - Informatica for your workload - power BI /SSRS for visuals

Open/low budget: PostgreSQL / Cassandra for storage - make your own scheduler/ there is a post for ETL open score yesterday that might help - for visuals you can make it from scratch but hire a good designer!

This is based on my experience on industries like Gambling, Banking and Telecom
Educational about what? What about Lego, is it educational? Because you learn to stick bricks together. So I guess it teaches you to become a brick mason, I suppose?

To each their own, I suppose...
I predict someone will mount a real gun on this.
Origami Robot- Swallow to patch wounds/ deliver medicine/dislodge foreign object
Developing a Free Mobile App: Why Is It Worth It
This place is a message... and part of a system of messages ...pay attention to it!

Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us.

The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

The danger is to the body, and it can kill.

The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.

The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warnin...
It's because Firefox finds creative ways to get worse with every update without fail since 2011.
This is the correct way of thinking to move forward.

Humanity will have a large effect on our environment. Period. A static ecosystem didn't exist without us and it certainly doesn't exist with us.

Embracing that we have an effect and choosing to improve our environment rather than to get it back to some idealized past is the only way we can have a future.

It's too bad, then, that most of ecological thinking, as you've described, is so pervasive.

Interestingly, this thinking is really embedded in our fiction. Garden of Eden type stuff is very common. Tolkien's world also follows the idealized past trope. It might be part of a sort of jungian collective unconscious. I wonder what works exist that tell a different story trope - one aligned more with the economical way of thinking.
You can look up the number of civil and criminal violation for both uber and Lyft drivers by county throughout the country.

In Miami-Dade county Uber (drivers) for example racked up over $4M in fines between 2014-2016 for operating a ride for hire without being licensed, the way our statute works is the 1st charge is civil and 2nd is criminal. Lucy’s fines were less but still in the millions.

This is repeated in counties all over the country.

Nevertheless here is an article from six years ago showing California regulators fined a lift and shut them down for violating state law and lift had to retroactively work with regulators to remove the fines and continue operations.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2013/01/30/lyft-...
How compatible are democracy and capitalism?
It's true but what we need here is cheap and reliable power first.
That drone wars are becoming a reality seems like a good reason to start learning how to program drones early, actually.
Swatch Internet Time!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

Usually, when there are posts about decimal timekeeping on HN, it falls to me to remind everyone about Swatch Internet Time, so i'm overjoyed that this time, you've brought it up!
Just on this - Hamburg in particular has a system where it's free to use for up to 30m for subscribers to the service, which is super cheap.

I believe it's run by the local authority, and at such a level its easy to explain why it's much more likely to be economically viable. The state also has to deal with the externalities associated with other forms of transport (traffic, noise, pollution etc.), as well as the health consequences of its citizens. Additionally, it's not-dockless - which I think massively reduces the nuisance on everyone else.
Suggestion: send the events to an elastic queue (like SQS) first, and have a pair of ingestion processes do the actual INSERTs when the db is available.

Then you can take the db offline for maintenance and upgrades and not lose data.
Why do you want data centers when you got mud huts
It's like the old "never click on a link in an unsolicited email" rule.
A Workflow for Memory Error Checking
When on earth, everything looks like a moon.
Get your daughter a different toy, then, and let the boys enjoy their battles.
Enormous value!

- Let's say the app/UI is 50MB

- 500 users download 1 update per month

- 10GB S3 capacity for all the releases (not necessary because usually users are expected to run latest release)

- Data transfer out: 25GB/mo

Monthly cost of Amazon S3 for above use case: $1/mo (a little bit more, but you get the idea)

Or, you can get UI releases from Github or Gitlab for free.

That's the value. $0.
Was Jack Welch That Good?
Tesla has designed a submarine car like the one in ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’
The Incredible Creative Power of the Index Card
Brazil wins legal fight over 100M-year-old fossil bounty
Ask HN: How do you negotiate a raise when your boss initiates it?
> The NSA’s ‘Tailored Access Operations’ unit broke into Huawei’s corporate servers and by 2010 was reading corporate emails and examining the source code in Huawei’s products.“We currently have good access and so much data that we don’t know what to do with it,” boasted one NSA briefing. Slides also disclosed that the NSA intended to plant its own backdoors in Huawei firmware. In 2014 the New York Times, Time and Reuters revealed that the NSA had infiltrated Huawei headquarters, monitored all of its executives and gone through the company’s entire data infrastructure.

Well this is quite the eye opener. Thanks for sharing. Can I ask what the original website is though? Why is it down?
‘Broken access’ publishing corrodes quality
Fully Automated Luxury Communism
I think these services can be profitable without being fully mainstream. Even if only 5% of daily journeys within a city are made by shared bikes it's likely possible to optimize asset allocation (how many and where) and revenue model to eek out a profit. More importantly these services have positive externalities (reduced traffic and pollution, better health of riders) so we as a society should root for them.
I wouldn't put Secure Scuttlebut into the same box as the other two. It doesn't actually try to tackle some of the harder problems like huge files/huge directories etc. that they do.

SSB is more in the realm of ActivityPub, but more p2p where ActivityPub is federated.
that's not soley because of the epigenetic muscle memory:

1. you also already have the basics of lifting technique down - it takes some time to learn to squat properly.

2. you are comfortable with going to the gym and getting into the lifts straight away instead of spending the first few months on the treadmill.

3. you're probably knowledgeable about programs and the need for progression.

this is all in addition to the epigenetic muscle memory.
Because nature has way more time and space than we do. And life hasn't arisen in the lab (on earth by humans at least) yet, but it's certainly arisen in nature at least once, so those factors seem to clearly outweigh our ability to experiment
I envy those who's primary issue with productivity is making text in a document bold.

Getting the stuff done is easy, finding motivation to do so is hard.
I though it was about database tables!

Interesting to see how different backgrounds change your first impression.
That's what I was thinking with the "This is not a place of honor" quote - I mean the curses and promises of deadly diseases, seals, etc didn't keep the archeologists out, they only made them more intrigued. Were they able to read the warnings before entering? Not sure if they had decoded the language yet at that time.

Anyway, place a big red button with a "DO NOT PRESS" sign on it and inevitably someone will press it. I think for nuclear waste the best option is to hide it somewhere nobody will ever find it - miles under the earth, like gold mines, then line the tunnels with explosives and seal it off.

Of course, that wouldn't stop a future generation from accidentally drilling into it by accident while looking for gold.
Best Open Source Solutions for Your E-Commerce Business
This (or something very similar) is a core feature of phpBB:

https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3.2/kb/article/how-to-...

It works very well.
My bad if I gave you the wrong impression about management types. You're right that things should work. What I meant was this: assume you have technology stack A and B each with its own pros and cons (whether tech maturity, programmer skills or what have you). Then, higher management expects the lead programmer/engineering manager to review the pros and cons and take the decision and deliver keeping the end user in mind. Whether stack A has xyz features which will do blah-blah-blah to the team is less relevant than the deliverable. Hope it is clear :-)
Thank you for putting so eloquently what I was feeling while reading that. Half way through, I remembered that I had read that article years ago, and it had me worried at the time. Since then, we've seen no drop in iPhone sales, that's for sure.
There's a certain context here that may not be obvious. Gassée is generally seen as the person responsible for the Macintosh II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_II , the original PC-like (or indeed Apple II-like or S-100-like) modular Macintosh with a separate monitor and slots. From introduction of the original Macintosh II in 1987 through the rest of the '80s the whole Mac line was basically bifurcated between modular Macs in the Macintosh II line which were aimed at graphics and publishing professionals and were brutally expensive even compared to contemporary MS-DOS boxes, and all-in-one Macs with black-and-white (and that didn't mean greyscale) displays for everyone else who was willing to stick around. The squeeze didn't really even begin to ease up until the early '90s, AFAICT. I'm not sure to what extent Gassée was responsible for or fully supportive of those pricing decisions, but if that situation sounds pretty familiar right now, that's probably the reason that Gassée is purring about it here.

In case you were wondering, Jobs apparently hated those pricing decisions, and blamed them for the Mac's failure to win market share against the PC (and compatibles). In fairness to Apple's current management, the window of opportunity to do that is probably now long closed. OTOH the number of companies employing professionals who will feel they have to stick around for these kind of prices probably isn't nearly as large either nowadays. You certainly don't need Macs to run a Photoshop or desktop-publishing shop anymore.
You're just doing the same work then as those others put in the first time around.

Luckily only the first few weeks are boring and excruciating, then your body starts responding and it actually starts to feel good.
Alas, even in smoking gun cases, it takes decades of wrangling to put the dogs down, imprisoning them in hellhole prisons at enormous expense, fattening the lawyers with endless rounds of appeals based on flimsy technicalities.

I wonder if many cases of officer-involved shootings aren't a side-effect of this, a short-circuiting of the justice system. For instance, I find it nothing short of miraculous that the Tsarnaev brother was taken alive, rather than winding up with a few bullets "resisting arrest."
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Filecoin isn't a currency. It's a token that proves "I replicated x amount of data, y reliably, for z amount of time", and (protocol-wise) can be exchanged for file storage services only. The market decides how much file storage is actually worth, by arbitrage.

The same principle goes for Namecoin, incidentally. The token embodies the value of the resource. I actually think this kind of thing is a much more stable base for a currency than Bitcoin's "it's valuable because we say so" system.
A very interesting read, clearly concentrating the elderly poor in this fashion was not intended, but I imagine now that they are concentrated it will be quite hard to resolve as the lack of services must make the area very unattractive to anyone with the freedom to choose.

It seemed doubly tragic that many described in the article were estranged from their families, though it’s hard to tell if that is representative or unique to the individuals.
I'm clearly old, but I'm sure I remember the Tamiya Frog was about £100 in the mid 1980s, plus radio - IIRC it was about £130 for a complete kit. That equates to about $500 in today's money, so it's not a crazy after all...
Many breakfast cereals still contaminated by weed killer, environmental group
"Democracies" are inherently despotic (see de Toqueville) and despots despise capitalism. A limited republic (lower case here) promotes equitable wealth.
MongoDB ElasticSearch Synchronization
Indeed, using the day as the fundamental unit may be a nice choice for humans on this planet as a personal system, it's equivalent to looking up and telling the time by the position of the sun in the sky, but it's not accurate nor regular due to celestial mechanics, so the second used by the metric system is much more universal and unlikely to change anytime soon.

Thanks to our computers that keep track of every seconds elapsed since Unix Epoch, I can use them when I want to convert from my personal system to any other system or vice versa:

$ geodate 51.1789 -1.8262 $(date +%s --date "12:00 +0100") --format "%c:%b"
45:33

hours:seconds => timestamp => centidays:dimidays
I'll also wave the F# flag here, but there's also Scala if moving to Javaland is better for you than Dotnetland.
But we still have preferred numbers [1] which never map neatly to the decimal or any other radixes due to their logarithmic nature. The ratios, sharing the same logarithmic nature, ARE one of the good reasons to select radixes if the decimal were not as pervasive as now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferred_number
Datrs dev here. I implemented all of the Hypercore feed protocol last year. The next step was to add the networking layer, which was blocked on async IO in Rust. So that's what I've been working on this year (the Runtime project).

Datrs development should be unblocked again soon, starting by moving the fs layer over to async IO. And then tackling the network layer.
how does it work for all the content that is not under fair use because the author comes from a country with different laws?