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Ask HN: Any war and economy based online games that allow automation via APIs?
A long time ago, I used to play oGame. One of those browser based multiplayer games that has both elements of space warfare and economics. Loved it. Eventually left it behind. I tried Eve Online next, and fell in love with it. Left that behind too. Recently, I've been watching the hype of Warframe from afar and wishing I could play.

But I really don't have the time for any of these. And none of the games allow for automation. Even basic macros are sometimes considered bannable offenses.

What I was wondering though was, is there any game similar to oGame or Eve Online that allows or even encourages players to automate their gameplay via scripting/API usage? So I could have a Rasperry Pi playing the game for me 24/7. And build apps for myself to make assisted decisions in the event of something non automatable coming up (eg - Respond to an alliance invitation). The two major mechanics I'm looking for in the game are territory based economics and warfare. Cooperation is an optional thread to look for.

I've searched the internet for this for a while and it hasn't turned up anything just yet. Either this market doesn't exist or it's under-served or my search-fu needs to improve :D.

Do any HN'ers know of games like this?
Because your life, as a driver, is shielded by a huge metal can. Pedestrian life is not. Pedestrians can't put your life in danger, while you can put their life in danger.

That's why, in "normal" countries, it's always the driver that needs to be questioned by default, not the pedestrian. If the driver proves that he did all he could to avoid the accident, he faces no consequences. If not, he faces them.

This really isn't that complicated. It's okay for the pedestrian to not respect all the rules because he's not in the position in which he can put other people's lives in danger — only his own. Drivers are willingly putting themselves in a situation in which they can put other people's lives in danger, so the burden of proof is on them.
that doesn't sound like an awful lot for two locomotives and logistics...?
Completely removing meat is not solved. I think we can say with high confidence that Americans in particular eat way too much meat, in way too large of servings, far too often. If you just start having one meal a day without meat, you'll start to feel how odd it is to eat meat 3 times a day like most Americans do.
Once you as a company have a certain track record, I'd say it's not unreasonable for an outsider to shift from "just wait and see if it'll be terrible!" to a more proactive stance. In cases like this, past actions do model future behaviour.
> What do you mean by this? Why would that be unusual?

I think philwelch meant that it would be an unusual suggestion because the historical record doesn't support the existence of this particular romantic relationship, not that it would be unusual for two men to have (or to have had) a romantic relationship.
What meat substitutes did you have in mind? How about tofu? Compared to say, cured meats, which contain cancer-causing nitrates, and far more heart disease-causing saturated fats, it's got to be significantly healthier.

And they're certainly healthier for the environment.
I guess people have different attitudes and motivations. If you want global action you should motivate most people not just similarly minded.

Also many people are motivated by visible change rather then abstract concepts I think.
the same reason you should be more careful when handling guns than when handling bananas.
"They" sounds like a person has multiple personality disorder, so Woz might be offended by the usage.

Actually Stallman has arrived at this conclusion independently (see the bottom of this link):

https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html
My MacBook Pro hardware supports VP9 decoding I belive. But I'd need to boot into Linux to use it I think.
Forget about future generations, people knowingly do many things that harm themselves in the future in exchange for gratification now. People can say they care about the future, but how much is actually shown in their actions.
USDC is not a security, anyone can buy it accredited or not without going to a broker dealer. It's an asset backed stablecoin and you don't buy it as an investment, it's a tool to tokenize USD to get it onto the crypto network rails. It also is the #2 stablecoin by marketcap.

I will disclose that I know way more about this industry than all of you commenting that I'm "shilling" as if this is some altcoin scam. Welcome to crypto
I'm saying we'd want to use them in agriculture because they seem to be harder to build resistance against. Nothing about animal testing.

And I much prefer taking well known antibiotics as long as they work.
One of five INS Arihant class submarines is lost and this could be a potential (albeit expensive) lesson in dealing with such instances in the future right?

Failures definitely teach us a lot.
Google meeting with the news publishers “off the record”
That's quite unclear, yep. He also uses affiliate links to the book on Amazon. Seems shady.
I'm not a vegetarian myself, however I only eat meat products one per week. I can tell you that there's plenty of alternatives that taste good. To name a few Quorn[1] and Beyond Meat[2] and from what I read Impossible Food[3] as well.

So with the help of tech, we'll find less and less excuses not to switch, at least partially, to a plant based diet.

[1]: https://www.quorn.co.uk/
[2]: https://www.beyondmeat.com/products/
[3]: https://impossiblefoods.com/food/
Great work on that timestamp
If you think about it, it's pretty crazy. Register allocation using graph colouring is an NP-complete problem. Writing assembler by hand, one is doing this constantly in one's head, and often with better results than a compiler would do.
Why should humanity 'stop' everything as it sees fit with imperfect knowledge and burgeoning ego? Cockroaches have a valuable role to play in degrading the vast quantities of biological waste we put out. We don't need to stop them.
There goes my morning. I will be thinking about this for awhile...
Older Americans are alone half their waking hours, on average
The children and grand-children of the wealthy people that makes these decisions won't directly suffer the consequences of global warming.

They are too rich for that, it's not like humanity will be wiped out. Only the billions unable to move from disaster-stroken areas will.
The article and interview with one of the lead researchers mentions the 50th anniversary of the first landing. And also how analysis of these final sealed samples could guide potential landing site targeting for future missions.
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> The easiest way to proceed in that program of research may be to rename the standard model as ElectroMagnetism and try to get a unified theory of the strong, weak and the-force-previously-known-as-em forces.

Certainly the unification of electromagnetism + the weak force is understood, and there is a theory (or several theories) about electroweak + strong unification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Unified_Theory .
Definitely. As OJFord said, it can be used for any type of architecture.
I pay more than 9€ to go from NJ to NY in a greyhound bus!!!

How is it so low? Even with all subsidies, kinda hard to believe
the whole article is a festival of cherry picked statistics, innuendo, and hyperbole, all to support a fantasy world ideal the author desires.
In that case you are gonna see them. Aren't you going to slow down if somebody tries to jump in front of your car?

A behavior like that should be illegal for both party. The driver is at fault of causing the incident and the pedestrian is at fault of being inconsiderate and a danger to the vehicles (one collision can cause many other collisions) independently from whether the accident actually happened.
> refuse, collectively, to pay bills

What will happen is that some very unpleasant men will come by and take things from you until you have paid it off or are so miserable you will start paying again. These guys are essentially paid to take things from you, so it's not like they'll stop either.
Once you really master the game, your biggest danger is yourself: get-there-itis, sloppy preflights, pushing things a little at a time, getting away with them, then pushing more, and so on.

Normalization of deviance, for people interested in the literature.
Don't eat spinach for iron, spinach is a very poor source of iron...[1] [multiple other sources you can google as well]

And vegetarians struggle quite a bit with getting proper dietary nutrition, not just with iron, but also Vitamin B12, Zinc, Omega-3 fatty acids, Vitamin D, Calcium, Protein and Riboflavin. So it is not quite just "simply" adjust your diet you lazy meat eater.

[1] https://www.compoundchem.com/2018/07/17/spinach/
All major tech companies are subjugating us. Do as you are told or else.
While it is true that occasionally singular "they" has been used carefully in some special cases, the default usage in the post we're discussing would have led to hilarity and bewilderment.
This is why I consider bug bounty programs problematic, because they've been co-opted from a system to manage responsible disclosure to a system to contain and manage non-disclosure.
This reminds me of all the small dairy farms that used to exist where I grew up. My grandfathers' farm was pretty typical at 100 acres; 40 acres of rough pasture and wood lot ("the back 40"), almost 60 acres of fields that rotated as hay/grain and temporary pasture. Everything self-contained and fertilized with cow manure until the '70s when everything started ratcheting up.
This is how we lost the M2, and brought an end to the submarine aircraft carrier concept

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_M2
I'm an Australian, how can I claim this $1k deduction?
Hi, thanks for checking it out.

At the moment it is manual, though I have experimented with converting CF templates locally. Extracting the resources is pretty straightforward. Generating the perspectives and descriptions would still be a manual process, in most cases.
Why is that less palatable? It's people deciding to sell something which they own.
I think mine was $50 a few years ago. They're usually hoping you like it enough to take lessons where they will recoup the cost.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4380918/
It's not good news...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47947965
Presumably they have attractive and youthful looking hands.
+5 Funny
My own tin-hat theory on that is DNA probably co-evolved with RNA pretty quickly. The main difference between RNA and DNA is that a single RNA strand can fold up and bond with itself to make interesting() 3d shapes while DNA can't self-fold. I think single-stranded DNA initially served as a durable, robust structure for RNA to assemble against before it went off and folded up and did whatever it did chemically. This might help explain why RNA polymerase only runs 3'->5'; in fact one of the early functions of one of the RNA polymerase components was maybe to keep the single DNA strand "tidy" and free of random base-pairings. Also, it might help explain why the 3'->5' DNA strand has to jump through so many extra hoops to get replicated - double-stranded DNA came later. It might also explain the reason reverse transcriptase exists at all. Again, I am probably provably a crank on this.

() This is the whole appeal of the "RNA world" hypothesis, you have one molecule that can serve both as "code" and catalyst for other chemical reactions.
Yeah, when I read this, I said WAT.

How on earth does Apple allow this ? I'm not excusing Zoom, but this is Apples fault.
My biology knowledge is admittedly weak, but a question for those who might know: a lot of the discussion here is about how we only know of "life" based on nucleic acids (DNA). However, prions seem to replicate themselves without the help of nucleic acids. Could this in some way be seen as a competing form of "life"?
Who is predicting a mass extinction event within our lifetimes?

e: I'm aware of the Holocene extinction. And as far as I'm aware there are no credible predictions that Humans will share the same fate within our lifetimes, which the parent was implying.
I have studied how the computer models work yes. And i know what the difference between what is speculated and what is demonstrated and what is demonstrated in a lab under controlled circumstances and then what can be demonstrated in a non linear chaotic system like the climate.

There is nothing about the greenhouse effect that doesent make sense to me, the problem i have is with claims about what computer modeling can be used for.
> Nutrition is not a solved equation. We simply do not know how exactly various foods affect our health, the extent that human genetics and microbiome affect “proper” nutrition for a person, what all the essential nutrients are, what the immunoresponse to various foods are, and any number of unknown unknowns about diet. Any claims to the contrary are irresponsible at best.

Nevertheless the same applies to the way we changed our diets in relatively recent times, and yet that hasn't stopped us.
The only people who are constantly rubbing their sexuality in other people's faces online are the "50-different-pronouns" proponents.
Curious what HN thinks about Maker DAO. Dai is pegged to the dollar by a decentralized scheme where people loan/borrow an underlying asset. Seems to be floating pretty close to $1 and I wonder if it will replace USDT...
If I understood correctly in this comment unwrap was simply stating that if the street are factually dangerous you should treat them as dangerous. unwrap was not defending drivers that kill people.

> but I think it's idiotic for pedestrians to follow the same intersection rules as a 2 ton vehicle.

I mostly opt for having rules on the pedestrian side. But each person should be careful about their own life and constantly be aware of the current risk.
I remember you from KnightOS, that OS for Ti calculators!!
ETH has objectively enabled the entire scam ICO market. right, wrong, indifferent, purposeful or not -- that's its entire usefulness, its entire value, and the entire usefulness of "smart contracts" at the moment.

Smart contracts in general have not been well thought through or implemented correctly. It has a lot to do with the platform if the platform enables it. Gas is nothing new, it's just a transaction fee.

Turing completeness in smart contracts is a bug, not a feature -- which is why it was taken out of bitcoin in 2010.
Not imagining it, as such. There are many odd optical phenomena when flying in the sky - specular reflections may present as moving objects, and small close objects can easily be mistaken for large distant ones. It takes some measure of critical thinking to identify these things at the time, and it's not always possible to reconstruct what they were afterwards. Sleep deprivation will sap this critical thinking ability.

Lest you think I'm being unfair, consider your link; that's clearly dirt in the lens. The clue? The camera wobbles at the precise instant the "object" rotates, on several occasions. What you're seeing is a gimbaled camera with software auto-leveling; the camera rotates, and the dirt with it. You see a similar phenomenon in other UFO videos that seem to show the UFO "suddenly accelerating" at the end - the camera gimbal reaches the end of its travel, and the object is yanked out of shot.

The Navy has the resources to check for dirt on a lens before they release a video like this. I maintain that the quantity of UFO videos coming out of the Navy tells us more about the Navy than about UFOs.
Rust, a Raspberry Pi and Addressable LEDs
The single user in this case is the webserver. The webserver can itself serve multiple users if done in a single-threaded fashion.
SQLite can also support multiple threads reading, but is limited to file-locking for write-access IIRC.
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It's pretty easy to toggle content that is included free with Prime video only, rather than seeing it and content available for purchase.

Selecting UHD versions is still hot garbage though.
I understood it to be the latter: an edited (abridged?) version of Sapiens.
Oh no, I'm in the same boat :-(. Are we sure about that though ? There won't be more betas for the ESR ?

Otherwise it's no big deal for me, I'll just go back to Brave :-/
Both of them were iconoclasts tolerated by establishments because of talent and success, so it makes sense they became friends.

Have to ask though: Does bromance mean friendship, except somehow inferior as the result of being tainted by a backhanded implication of homoeroticism, or just viewed through the lens of it? That one seems like a candidate for some unwrapping.
Yes i am which is why we normally dont walk around saying “science is settled” about things that we cant actually demonstrate scientifically.
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Well, with the 4GB, and rumoured 8GB, you can just load everything to RAM on boot and not worry about storage at all.
I remember ASCII and ANSI art editors that were meant to be used with mouse ever since the DOS times (often distributed through and for BBS) in the late 80s/early 90s.
Emmy-winning actor Rip Torn has died at the age of 88
Luckily there's no risk at all of us suddenly stopping all animal consumption from one day to another. Just getting everybody to eat just a little less meat is already almost too much of a challenge. (This might partly be due to discussions often devolving into these grandiose-but-unlikely visions of a sudden animal-free society.)
"simply"
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A C130 should be a viable modern alternative for those use cases, if economic
Don't trust your feelings. The problem with the way cyclists and cycling transportation have been used politically is that it is now impossible to have any serious conversation about it, it's just like climate change. The experience of cyclists riding on roads have been quietly dismissed so that the establishment can get away with their bike lane agenda.
Oh yes a short seller writing articles on medium must have the unbiased truth we're looking for. The US authorities should have saved time by just contacting him instead of doing an investigation
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I like meat, eat good quality meat 3-4 a week and enjoy it. However I see a bigger problem - insane amounts of food thrown away. Secondary problems imho is good packaging. If I buy 2 bags of food at local LIDL, I have 1 bag of plastic waste at the end. Nobody wants to solve this, zero profit here. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/aug/20/f...
But if health is the main concern, the challenges are far greater than just meat consumption...
In Hungary GFCI devices are installed per-circuit, so at most 3 devices in typical homes. I don't get why they have to be per-outlet.
Hey, you're exactly right about Terraform (any CF). It could definitely just extract the resources as a tree and let the user create perspectives for them. Consider it on the roadmap :)

And yeah, those are mine. This demo is a little more focused and shows off the source (people asked last time) and other new features, so I hope it's kosher.
If Google Calendar thinks it’s OK to set a 500ms animation on opacity for event edit dialog - then it doesn’t seem like a 1 sec spooling for a webcam is too much :)
An interesting concept in this area is the naked streets concept, where by the streets are stripped of the usual trappings of lights, signs and lane markings.

Since no one then feels like they are just "in the right" everyone tends to be much more attentive.

https://www.pps.org/article/hans-monderman
Screen mirroring had been blocked for a while on modern devices that supported Widevine level 1.
The long-term threat is that they are finite
"Yet the most prominent way of setting and adjusting speed limits, known as the operating-speed method, actually encourages faster driving. It calls for setting speed limits that 85 percent of drivers will obey. This method makes little provision for whether there’s a park or senior center on a street, or for people walking or biking."

This statement causes me to question the veracity of the rest of the article.

Practically every municipality bends over backward to slow traffic near places where children, the elderly, the blind, or even just where too many accidents occur.

"Operating-speed method" is only really used for high-speed, high-throughput, limited access roadways.
Probably the locomotives had to be scrapped regardless.

But putting down the rail sounds expensive, could it be that this was cheaper back then?
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Get a car that shows you current fuel efficiency. You'll see that most efficient means as slow as you can suffer through.
you haven't watched "Mountain Men" have you? :-D
> and copy over the whole root (/)

Why on earth would anyone do that? That's simply wrong on so many levels, and is far from being standard practice.
The footnotes in the links point out that they are affiliate links.
Receiving the proceeds of the sale of one crypto currency in another crypto currency doesn't magically wipe out your tax liability. Your capital gains are still taxable, just as they would be if you bartered stocks without first selling your holdings.
I would love to see a slow-motion recording of such a crash.

Special Effects are cool, but the interactions between different materials, pressure waves both in the structure and in the air as well as the influence of heat are fascinating and hard to model, and Hollywood has little incentive to even try. Only in the last two decades have we even started to properly simulate cgi explosions (the helicopter crash from Matrix is the earliest example).

Basically cinema and YouTube have me spoiled to demand more than what I can perceive. But special effects can't mimic the real thing.
It seems like absolute common sense that as abilities degrade as you age you should have to retest for drivers licenses periodically. Perhaps with greatly increasing periodicity with increasing age. However, any politician who proposed or approved such an idea would be immediately voted out of office, because old people are very reliable voters. So it's not going to happen.
What are the different ways to design the bottle box innovatively?
Or raiding our neighbors for their cattle because we've been in an extended drought and see no other way to survive.

https://vimeo.com/143076522
How many different monthly services are people willing to tolerate?

It seems there's a business opportunity for someone to aggregate different services into a "golden ticket" where you pay some fixed fee and can sign up for an a la carte menu of different content. And I'm talking about just streaming services. This could be an umbrella for everything from magazine and newspaper subscriptions to other online services like ancestry.com, etc.
Well on the plus side the things won't constantly die when we start farming them
Science? It's already ongoing.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/07/09/completely-terr...
The book was originally a college course (introduction to world history). I wouldn't be surprised if you could scare up class notes/handouts that summarise it all in bullet points. They'd probably be in Hebrew though.