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> Blizzard had a long distraction with WoW, then they made Starcraft 2 followed by the MOBA Heroes of the Storm. They’re still insanely successful. Now they’re remaking their old games, recently releasing a HD remake of Starcraft 1 and are about to release a remake of Warcraft III.

Blizzard went off the rails by dumbing down WoW steadily over ten years, appealing to the lowest common demoninator. Modern WoW is boring, unchallenging, and appears designed to provoke the least amount of whining by a vocal but dispassionate player base.

If you look at a chart of subscriptions over time, it peaked with an expansion ten years ago, and has declined steadily since. This coincides with changes to the game that made it require less time, less thinking, and less skill. I imagine they felt they were broadening the appeal, but they turned off the players who made the game a blockbuster. If you removed people who still pay for it but don't play, or people clinging to nostalgia, the numbers would tank even more.

I was surprised when they re-released the original game as "Classic WoW". While I don't know what the subscriber numbers look like, the servers are overflowing, and the player base is even more passionate than when it was released 15 years ago.

I think the same thing happened with other recent Blizzard games. They went for mass appeal in a way that turned off the players who helped build their empire. Chasing the MOBA fad didn't work out for them. I'm glad they're going back to their roots.

Maybe I'm just a crusty old gamer nostalgic for the past, but there are a lot of us out there.
I meant it in cloud, AWS/GCP, because devops, lol. With autoscaling.
Patents are absurd, in general, any kind of patents.
The comment you're responding to doesn't make this especially clear, but code signing only /has/ certificates with organisation names subject to an extended validation. The rules for those are:

https://cabforum.org/ev-code-signing-certificate-guidelines/

Whereas for the Web PKI (things that do SSL/TLS, including most obviously HTTPS on the web) there are both the baseline requirements for every certificate:

https://cabforum.org/baseline-requirements-documents/

and EV for adding "extended validation" to that:

https://cabforum.org/extended-validation/

It's kinda useless to have a certificate that says this program is really named "Great Calculator". Oh yeah? So what? Whereas a certificate that says it's from "Microsoft Corp" in "Washington, US" at least tells me whose fault this calculator program is when it wrecks my PC.

On the other hand, knowing this is really https://news.ycombinator.com/ is kinda good because the machine can (and does) automatically check that this matches on every single URL resolved, every image, every HTTP POST, everything.
A Danish business registration number (CVR in Danish), not a phone number.
They could still fingerprint your browser and easily track you even if you read each public page in a new Incognito session. Combining that data with logs from other sites where you did provide your details and they (or any of the 100 trackers popular sites share visitor data with) will also have your name and details. Unless you're using something like Tor and a clean browser, that battle is already lost.
I'm remote living in Saigon.
For me having social hobbies like going bouldering and training muay thai help the curb the compounded loneliness of working as developer and being an expat. Outside of that I take quite a few vacations around SE Asia and have a WeWork membership.
I just came up with a 5th:
- RTS games work poorly on consoles. They need a precise input device.
Sleeping on a Vietnamese sleeping bus is definitely the most terrifying nights sleep of my life.

You wake up at 2am, look out the front window and see a truck powering straight at you, before one of the drivers swerves at the last minute.

Saying that, Vietnamese sleeping busses are terrifying because Vietnamese roads are terrifying. Most Western countries have relatively safe roads - bus crashes are really rare events.
What are the actual odds of something from WW2 going off? I understand it’s non-zero but I’m genuinely curious if it’s high enough to worry about?
I think there are two completely different issues conflated here. Inventions in the domain of AI, aka new algorithms, and inventions made by an AI. Once an AI is genuinely capable of new inventions it's arguable that it should have the same protections as its human co-inventors or tutors (assuming AI personhood is not a thing when this happens.).

An invention submitted by a group containing an AI co-inventor or using an uncredited AI as a tool could be in any field, not necessarily a software patent, so the "idea but implemented on a computer" doesn't really come into play here.
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They weren't a monopoly. They created artificial barrier to entry (through the medallion system) but the taxi business is super low margin. For a single city you have multiple taxi companies fighting for business. The prices came to an equilibrium close to what it costs to provide a ride.

There is a reason why Uber is losing so much money and why Drivers are barely able to make a living.
When I hear systems administration I assume it's pets not cattle, and that you're administering individual named servers with bash scripts rather than administering a mesos cluster with chef or puppet or whatever.

I'm not sure where I picked up this impression from.
> We've recovered some words from the ashes, and so we can tell what language the book was in, and where in history that book fits in with the language (comparing those words with other books with similar words), but we can't reconstruct the whole book yet.

If they had other teeth (from the same specimen or different ones of the same species), would they be able to just combine them to fill in the gaps?

To follow your metaphor, to me this sounds like finding different copies of the same printing, same edition, same book and combining them all to make a complete book. Does the metaphor fall apart?
If you're looking for a modern derivative of Railroad Tycoon, you may enjoy Transport Fever. You'll find its demand-driven economy familiar, and staying solvent in the early game is tricky. Fever places a bigger emphasis on terrain—managing grade and turn radius to improve the speed (and profitability) of your vehicles.
Seeing as there are two other new accounts with really short comments like yours (that will soon be drowned by downvotes), I have to ask: are you a human? If not a bot, why did you create an account simply to say "good"?
You could also argue that an AI inventor should have the same rights and protections as a human inventor. Or maybe as a underage inventor represented by their parents.
ever since Facebook, youtube and other mega platforms, people seem to forget that a decentralized web also means that you should host your own content. I agree with you and find it sad that everything on internet today is hosted by some of those mega tech companies that dictate their laws and what we can and cannot see.
At least part of this is about a real world example of a family hiding the existence of WWI from their elderly relative until she died at age 100.

Fascinating to think about from a number of angles. We all exist within some set of beliefs that shape our lives, for better or for worse. They no doubt routinely contain inaccuracies on a routine basis, often for benign reasons, but we also get intentionally deceived plenty.
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No, it's definitely them doing it, and we are enabling it. These aren't mutually exclusive problems.
It’s like many aphorisms or random links people like to post here because it’s a cheap low effort way to make people think they’re smart. (It doesn’t.)

That said, there are a fair number of would-be products that seem fairly clearly destined to be a component of another product.
Is there a text that covers the entire English phonetic range?
Which is nice when one has the luxury of being allowed to redo stuff.

On most consultancy projects, there is only one shot at every user story.
Can’t you just receive data from both GPS and GLONASS and the other systems and see if they match up?
I really wish HN had an option to filter all paywalled links. HN should link to the open internet.

I am not against paywalls in general (I subscribe to The Economist), but HN becomes much less useful if 60% of links on the front page are to content I cannot read. And no, I will not subscribe to 5 or 6 newspapers, that makes no sense at all.

This discussion is being sidetracked into a discussion of morality of paywalls. I am perfectly fine with paywalls, I'd just like an option to not see all the links to content that is inaccessible to me.
There's so many ways to look at timber strengths, and the article lightly covers how their process increases different facets:

> The team’s compressed wood is three times as dense as the untreated substance, Hu says, adding that its resistance to being ripped apart is increased more than 10-fold. It also can become about 50 times more resistant to compression and almost 20 times as stiff. The densified wood is also substantially harder, more scratch-resistant and more impact-resistant

I'm not sure if Specific Strength is something I've ever encountered wrt timber, because it depends on its use whether its compression, elasticity, hardness, or other that determines whether it's good for a specific use. That said, in my country we typically use F numbers, which are (I think) based around a loose series of terms related to stress.

For instance, here's an Oz timber that I know is pretty hard: https://ironwood.com.au/grey-ironbark-technical-specs/

That said "stronger than steel" is what ironbark is renowned for. My brother, a cabinet maker, just made some furniture form the stuff and before the job, his thicknesser and jointer blades were pristine. Afterwards, they're badly chipped. Sparks literally fly when machining this stuff.
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I wonder what effect nuclear accidents have on the food as well.
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Yup. The model that works is to collect the data and offer services based on your proprietary access to the data. Crucially you already need a business / operant market for that to work. A good example is Sky in the UK where they collect audience data and offer a targetted advertising (you tell us what kpi you want to move, we choose the slots) model vs a standard (you choose the slots that you want to buy) to monetize.

Upsides :

- retain control of data

- clear vs GDPR

- proprietary knowledge developed

- hard to replicate

Downsides

- harder to set up

- bigger up front risk for you
Supplementing is not the same as avoiding. As you say, the interactions are complex. Maybe it isn't that supplements of omega3 are beneficial, since omega3 and omega6 compete, but avoiding omega6 while having sufficient omega3 gives the benefit. Any RCT support the negative properties of omega6?
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It’s easier to give the impression that you’re “printing cash” when a considerable part of employee compensation is paid by “giving away the company” (stock compensation expense is around 15% of revenue).

They also leave out in their free cash flow calculation some relevant things (capital leases). Amazon for example provides three free cash flow calculations, Dropbox only the good-looking one.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/21/dropbox-may-have-intentional...
Shhh! There are still fools with too much money looking to invest!
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im very similar in that regard (i have ASD myself) socially inept, pedantic about terminology etc, but i learned to shut up and keep my opinions to myself as they often dont go down too well, challenging the social norms really does not sit right with a lot of people.
This is exactly what I was looking for. Mom's test purchased and going to read and implement the same.
Do you think you could estimate that part of the reason? "Part of the reason" could mean 1%, or equally well 99%.

EDIT: I ask because the Chicago-NY price is >100% above German international rates. >100% is a big number and German prices are high to begin with. That makes "part of" too fuzzy for my taste.
Yeah, basically this.
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For me Awarness book by De Mello, Anthony has been life-changing and I wish i discovered it earlier in life.
Yes exactly. My first comment was based on what I experience when meditating.

> I feel like I get a brief glimpse of 'multithreads,' and it's somewhat emotionally unpleasant.

I think it helps not to identify the self as the thoughts/processes of the mind, the self is the observer/awareness
It kind of reminds me of Klik & Play: https://archive.org/details/win3_KlikPlay

Maybe you can find some inspiration there.
I've seen this kind of thing happen a number of times, and it's good to remind ourselves that oversubscribing resources is still a good way to tackle the "padding" related to scaling.

I have been playing with an autoscaling k3s cluster (https://github.com/rcarmo/azure-k3s-cluster) in order to figure out the right way to scale up compute nodes depending on pod requirements, and even though the Python autoscaler I am noodling with is just a toy, I'm coming to the conclusion that all the work involved in using the Kubernetes APIs to figure out pod requirements and deciding whether to spawn a new VM based on that is barely more efficient than just using 25% "padding" in CPU metrics to trigger autoscaling with standard Azure automation, at least for batch workloads (I run Blender jobs on my toy cluster to keep things simple).

YMMV, but it's fun to reminisce that oversubscription was _the_ way we dealt with running multiple services on VMware stacks, since it was very rare to have everything need all the RAM or IO at once.
It’s not about whether the electorate would vote for him. It’s that the Constitution of the United States of America forbids anyone other than natural-born citizens from becoming President.

In theory, you can have natural-born citizens with other first languages; Bruce Lee would have been eligible to run for president if he had lived long enough; but the author was being rhetorical.
At least in Eastern Europe, most nuclear facilities were built near the borders with other countries, and in this case Belarus was affected much more than Ukraine[1].

Belarus itself is currently building its first nuclear power plant just 45 km (28 mi) away from the capital of Lithuania[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Exclusion_Zone#/medi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_nuclear_power_plant
however well intentioned, this boils down to people deciding for and controlling others. disrespecting them, treating them less than fully human, less than themselves. that is the underlying evil in all evil actions.
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This is a side issue in the paper linked. The paper itself cites a more useful-seeming source: "Declining Fruit and Vegetable Nutrient Composition: What Is the Evidence?"

https://journals.ashs.org/hortsci/view/journals/hortsci/44/1...

Freely available too, nice one.
That's a hard yikes from me.

Be careful before posting a reply to this one... There are many subjects that will naturally devolve into a witch hunt if you go even slightly off script... even if you're just playing devils advocate.

In a company context I would not count on other people to give you the benefit of the doubt for not immediately raising pitch forks when something gets controversial. The needs of the loudest and most upset outweigh the thoughts of the few.

I can see this getting ugly...
i know its a pretty simple design really but that FPGA cracker looks a lot like an old bitcoin mining ASIC rig
Looks like Qt + mpv: https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-movie-reborn
Sadly most sorce code follows the exact opposite convention - starting with legalese, followed by boring initialisation. I wish more source code would come to the point right at the start, and I am thankful for the new acronym BLUF that expresses this concept quite clearly.
Even just the leakage might get you in trouble if there is any, it should really be done in an rf shielded enclosure.
> But between then and now, research has shown the depth of the relationship all of us have with our native tongues—and how traumatic it can be when that relationship is ruptured.

I wondered what these research were.

From the additional readings section I see these two that could be related:

> Hallett, D., Chandler, M.J., & Lalonde, C.E. Aboriginal language knowledge and youth suicide. Cognitive Development 22, 392-399

> Wang, Q., Shao, Y., & Li, Y.J. “My way or mom’s way?” The bilingual and bicultural self in Hong Kong Chinese children and adolescents. Child Development 81, 555-567 (2010).

It seems that these studies were done in environments where language has a very strong cultural connotation and strongly binds to an identity.

Not discrediting it, but I wouldn’t expect the same to be true for a Belgian couple speaking NL first and French second but moves to France and switch to French only.

Put another way, I think the whole arguments need disassociation with contextual factors if the goal is to focus on language. Otherwise language is just a part of the whole picture, and we should talk about first cultures perhaps, and not first languages.
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Wait, are there people who really think chroot offers security?

I mean, at least read the man page before making assumptions?

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/chroot.2.html

> This call changes an ingredient in the pathname resolution process and does nothing else.

> It is not intended to be used for any kind of security purpose, neither to fully sandbox a process nor to restrict filesystem system calls.

> In particular, the superuser can escape from a "chroot jail" by doing:
mkdir foo; chroot foo; cd ..

> However, if a folder is moved out of the chroot directory, an
attacker can exploit that to get out of the chroot directory as well. The easiest way to do that is to chdir(2) to the to-be-moved directory, wait for it to be moved out, then open a path like ../../../etc/passwd.

EDIT: Fixed link to a more up-to-date man page. They explicitly call this out as not being a security feature in the updated man page.
I don't think that's an indication that their CAs will be removed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but they are not less safe than other certificates, they just don't add any additional value. So they will probably be treated the same as other certificates by browsers. If people will continue paying for them is another matter of course (but it might very well happen that they will have many customers for years to last).
URLs, commands, and stuff to search? I suppose I still need to hit Enter, but it's easier to hit because it's right next to the mouse.
Maybe in languages without declaration hoisting, you could go with BLOB: Bottom Line On Back.
The Achilles heel of this entire concept is that a sleep deprived, tired driver earning minimum wage is driving you through the night. Doesn’t matter how luxurious the interior is.
Indeed, absent advertising, how would the previous poster, like so many others, have come to believe the fiction that Apple products have better quality than their competitors'?

What they do have is higher prices. They could, in principle, deliver better quality, but Apple's record-breaking pile of cash demonstrates clearly that they are not spending it to give customers better quality, but rather pocketing it.

So, what are customers getting for their extra money, instead? They are displaying an ability to spend wastefully, a social dominance signal. They feel like they benefit, and Apple actually does benefit.

Everyone who thinks they attracted a more desirable mate via such a display has, instead, attracted a mate who was fooled by such a display. What is the correlation between quality and foolishness? It must surely be negative.
Galactic-scale corruption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep
The story introduces The Net Of A Million Lies, but the large-scale corruption I'm really thinking of is The Blight.
How can this even be a question 20 years after FreeBSD Jails ?

https://papers.freebsd.org/2000/phk-jails/
You're both being pretty vague, but I think it is useful to remember rhat ultimately "they" are indeed part of "us". The people who influence individual companies decisions to continue to produce waste have to go home to a neighbourhood, move within the community, and can be influenced by that community.

The people enabling it are the consumers, but also the thousands of smaller companies buying and producing plastic packaging, who have a much bigger say than the small amount of consumers you can convince to give up their luxuries.
I can agree that what she says is used by others to promote their campaigns. Not her fault IMHO, though. I think she says reasonable things that are well researched, she doesn't talk about unsure thing; she mostly talks about the factual state of the world and demands answers and doesn't dictate solutions or what kind of action should be taken.
But isn't chroot typically used by normal users anyway ?
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So the basic argument is that if you can become root you can escape the jail. So if you have access to a vulnerable program you can become root and escape.

This might be true, but it's still a good practice for defense in depth and does offer a security benefit. It helps protect you when there are non-root flaws in software. For example a web server that lets clients get to directories with '..' notation. Even with that compromised software, they wouldn't be able to get to /etc or /home if they are in a proper chroot.
Am I misunderstanding the subject? I thought it was just asking for comments about patents for AI technology. Are we talking about patents for things invented by computers? That is a really interesting subject that I've never thought about.
It fails when the other party is aware of the strategy and broadens the context of the game to flip something else that you care about.

Which is why the correct response to all requests for a contract re-negotiation is "Great - let's meet, because I also have some terms I would like to see changed."
i often wondered how exactly one can escape from a chroot but never really tried or read that man page until now. I tried the above and it did not work as described. I tried both changing to the parent directory directly after chroot and chrooting inside the chroot and doing it then.

Edit:
Now that i really read that page i realized 2 things, first this page is about the syscall and not the command and second it says the syscall itself does not change the current directory to the provided path. I guess the chroot command does just that and this is why it did not work as described. The example given literally still does not work as advertised.
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