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While a new story and characters ie Warcraft 4 would be awesome I actually really like this idea. WC3 is a perfect game, refreshing graphics is the only thing I really want and maybe this will get some younger people to try a game they might have written off otherwise.
It really isn't that hard, and is exactly how privsep works on all of the OpenBSD daemons, augmented by pledge.

Your proposed alternative allows untrusted code to gain new capabilities. That's not a design I want to trust.
> Unions don’t just fight for higher wages, they fight for dignity and respect on the job.

And they also fight for as much as they can get, sometimes to the detriment of the company. And they also fight to do what is best for the company because it's best for them. And they also fight for a wide variety of other things depending on the time and the place and the people. And sometimes they just fight; and threaten people.

Sometimes unions are good and sometimes unions are bad. There have been places where people would be in a much worse state had it not been for a union. There are other places where people are in a much worse state _because_ of a union.

It seems like most times people present an opinion on unions, they highlight either only the good or only the bad. Balanced discussion seems very rare.
I don't know much about unions either, but found this recent NPR interview to be informative. Like many interviews, the guest is selling a book.

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2019/08/14/labor-unions-beaten-...

Steven Greenhouse, author of "Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor." Reporter at The New York Times for 31 years, who covered labor and the workplace for 19 years.
(@greenhousenyt)
Blizzard is now doing only remasters? Starcraft, World of Warcraft and now Warcraft 3.
A significant number of the seats in Hong Kong government are voted/belong to "industry/corporations", and these have been able to decide the Government recently. China buying control of the corporations will further subvert the democracy.
> Unionization's primary purpose is to increase the price of labor (in the form of wages, or in the form of increased benefits) by constricting supply.

That's an interesting theory, but no, that is not Unionization's primary purpose. The primary purpose of Unionization is to make it possible for employees to collectively bargain about whatever subjects they see fit through a horizontal link between all employees in order re-balance the vastly asymmetric employer-employee relationship.
Having just read [1], I‘d say the nation state is maybe not the right level of observation/reasoning in the middle east.

[1] Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics
why should anyone trust companies given the last few thousand years of history?
It sounds like a reasonable idea for another job shop who gets a cut, perhaps dealing with some of the contractor's paperwork over time. The more the merrier. Good luck.

What I would like to see are contractor middlemen who are more technically specialized. An embedded systems one would be a great thing.
Seems like a move to deregulate polluters more than anything else
I happen to run a small company with a website built in PHP and I get several generic emails every couple of days from random individuals and fly-by-night "SEO consultancies", claiming that they "found issues on my website", "could help optimize website", "get us reach top Google positions" etc.

Most of this is auto-generated junk based on some keyword scrapping, but given the volume of it, I don't think it's possible to be taken seriously in that niche anymore.

I also get several "personalized emails" per week peddling software developers for hire, management trainings, factories in China, real estate investment opportunities and countless other junk, so I wouldn't count on that channel either. Anything that looks like a cold email goes straight to trash simply due to the volume of it.

IMO, a much better strategy would be to publish articles showing your expertise (i.e. comparing similar technologies, or sharing step-by-step instructions on accomplishing some familiar task), while mentioning that you do consulting in that area. People usually don't mind if you share them on Reddit/Linkedin/Twitter/HN and that can get a you a much better traction than cold-mailing people.
Christ, that's horrible. How can you be so right about complex issues, when you're so wrong about the widely held belief that under 18s are morons and it's exploitative to get your jollies from them, no matter how mature they appear to you.
That’s a bad analogy and I think you know that.
Size-dependent thermodynamic structural selection in colloidal crystallization
That type of inefficiency isn’t exclusive to unions, you realize that right?

You realize that maybe there were other factors involved that caused the bridge to take that long?

You realize that construction is often a very sequential process that can block other steps from being completed until the first is done?

Every part of your comment is completely anecdotal and could be due to myriad other factors.

> associate unions with extreme wasting of resources

sounds like 30+ years of anti-union propaganda working its charm.
Overwatch is a riff on the class-based FPS genre, which was pioneered by Team Fortress, a game that started its life as a Counter Strike mod.
They are not trying to modify the genes of the wild population. They release a bunch of males that have this "lethal" gene, diminishing the size of the next generation. It is not a permanent solution, but it can be used during the summer to control the population size.
If that's what you want, that's excellent!

But perhaps it doesn't make 'financial sense' to buy the house after those 20 years, right, because you'd be better off just holding the money in index funds (or at least you'd be better off treating the home as an investment and not actually developing an emotional attachment because then you'll never sell it).

What I'm saying is - you have to spend money eventually. Very few people are in a situation in which they can just stash away 10M, spend 1M of it, and have the majority of their funds exist as investment money, and thus act in this sort of 'financially optimal' way.

Unless they want to live an austere life - which again, is fine! But it's not literally the only way to live.
Ah, educational. I had the wrong idea about the Ig Nobel prizes, until I followed the link to 'About the Igs'. I now see they're a good thing, really.
Fearing ‘Spy Trains,’ Congress May Ban a Chinese Maker of Subway Cars
The beginner's guide to data scraping, cleaning, and visualization
Intragenic antagonistic roles of protein and circRNA in tumorigenesis
cyberwar springs to mind.
Relevance being pensions allow for early retirement at 55 in some countries. Some pensions are time served such as the police so you can retire at 42 after 20 years on the force.
A couple things to note.

1. The sex they are talking about was in 2001, which was before there were any criminal cases or charges or civil cases against Epstein. Is there any reason for Minsky to have suspected that the girl he met at Epstein's place then was being coerced?

2. Stallman and Minsky were good friends.
Might I suggest that this is just the equivalent of gossip under the sheen of hacker news and self-righteousness?

People like Richard Stallman are non neuro-typical geniuses. They focus intensely on some topics, and harmlessly pontificate on many other topics. Historically, before the internet reached its more recent point where everything is so well indexed and networked, that the fixed cost to mob justice has dropped to near zero, we would just ignore these people.

So some genius mathematicians or computer scientists (or whoever) has some weird overly-complicated political views that they poorly communicate, and won't ever do anything about? Who cares, leave that for the faculty gossip.

Now it's so easy for us to share, shame, and discuss. But what value do we offer the world by scrutinizing and shaming some computer scientist who is not seeking any political power? Does anyone have a counter-argument to why this is a valuable and useful thing for us to care about and discuss?
Impatient much? Instant gratification society is getting worse....sheesh
My car's software feels like the one thing in my life that I can't freely hack on. Given some sort of a mildly standard interface like the one in the article, I think it will be nice to have the ability to modify and maintain my car's tech internals just like everything else I have.
Not really though. Apple and Alphabet effectively could cripple Facebook. We are already seeing some of this take place with Apple banning Facebook's VPN apps, options on data shared with apps and by rolling out its new app sign in with Apple feature.

There are benefits and drawbacks to social media/everyone has a voice. On a benign level, the NYTimes released a story misinforming its readership that Apple was proactively promoting its own apps. This was cleared up on Twitter by @drbarnard whose view was promoted via Stratechary.

I realize there is a lot more complexity to nation-states creating false narratives around China or Hong Kong protests, but on a basic level, I believe social media allows a quicker iteration cycle to correct misinformed views with the drawback of initial misinformation traveling at a greater velocity.

In many ways, you can get a more informed and accurate view of the situation in Hong Kong today if you have the propensity to avoid overreacting to the first piece of information and developing a skillset for finding the right person to listen to.
and I bet it's all completely untied from 'employment', right? this is the other huge blindspot we have here (US) - we've got generations of people who all have some odd belief this is somehow morally 'better' than employers provide this (because... that means you're 'working' and you need to be 'working' for the right/ability to have access to medical care).
Right, and why is collective bargaining any more useful and individual bargaining? Because when individuals rejects the company's offer, the total supply of labor is nearly unchanged. When whole industries reject the companies offer, the supply of labor drops to zero (or to the subset of workers that aren't part of the union). Collective bargaining gives employees leverage over employers by drastically reducing the supply of labor available to the company if their bargains are not met.

Saying that unionization is about collective bargaining is a more long-winded way of saying the same thing.

Reply to your comment below, HN is not letting me respond:

So in the end, you don't actually disagree that constricting the supply of labor is the primary purpose of unions. I agree that this discussion has been non-productive, so why did you bother kicking it off by trying to claim that this isn't how unions operate in your first reply?
The Terraform Plugin for the Dominos Pizza Provider
It will constrain it to its proportional share, as you noted, but only during contention (which is a feature not a bug). Thus 50m pod will get 1/10th of cycles of 500m pod which is WAI. In case of fully subscribed node former pod will get exactly 50/(1000 * number of allocatable cores) share so I don’t see how that would cause issues provided that pod can actually survive on such small slice in the first place.

Kubelet has its own cgroup in hierarchy above pods and should set its cpu shares there as well (most cloud providers already do this).
I think you’re underestimating the impact of YouTube. Its driven to prominence extremist ideologies, especially on the far right, that would have had difficulty finding purchase via traditional media outlets. And especially among young, alienated men, who are historically more prone to violence. Just look at the case of the New Zealand shooter and the subsequent violence he has inspired.
It's interesting how AA development could to go back to WWII type flak cannon type systems designed to grenade the air with as much shards of metal as possible
I'm still catching up on the last ( glances over at the three-volume Lichtheim ) 5000ish years of literature. I don't expect to be even half done before I'm dead. I can't imagine wanting or needing to know about new releases so badly I'd pay to receive frequent book reviews, unless I were in the industry.

[EDIT] also the author's misunderstood some things here:

> Information, said the pioneers of digital reading, wants to be free.

> [....]

> the axiom that information means to be free determined that the economy of digital media would be based on advertising.

That's not really what that meant, and whatever actual dedication to information freedom that's manifested in tech circles has nothing whatsoever to do with advertising taking over the web.
Italy’s rise in research impact pinned on ‘citation doping’
It's a centralized cryptocurrency. That is where the problem is. It's (IMO) not even the corruption of Facebook et al. which is the problem.
Windows 10 has ads. Windows 7 does not have ads. Any questions?
My question is why hasn't the open source community shunned him for these sorts of comments? Someone like the ex-Mozilla CEO was shunned and booted out of his position for much less.
Do you know what the rates are, relative to something like bulk mail? I can't think of anything else that has low delivery priority like these packages seem to have. Sometimes even after arriving in the US, the packages take 2-3 more weeks to be delivered though it's usually more like a week. I would say that indicates a lower priority than a comparable package that is sent within the US.

I guess I'm saying that China Post packages are not going from LA to NYC in X days, more like 2X or 3X and sometimes up to 5X. The rates are probably still too low, but I haven't found any authoritative numbers.
Sounded like a dig at the state to me
Probably avoiding people presenting themselves as a skilled Dev but actually being a dozen folks in sweatshop.
> Europe has developed a fairly anti-US-big-tech attitude recently

I don't think it's an "anti-US-big-tech attitude" so much as an aversion to companies that have repeatedly been found to break the law (be it tax, competition, privacy or otherwise).

You don't (at least I don't) really see much hostility towards Apple, Netflix or Microsoft, despite them being large US tech companies.

The only examples I can come up with for companies Europeans might be hostile towards are companies that have given Europeans reason to be hostile: Facebook (tax, privacy), Google (tax, privacy, competition), Amazon (workers' rights) or Uber (workers' rights, flagrant disregard of the law).

If European companies behaved the same way, they'd face the same consequences (feel free to give counter-examples). I think the reason you hear about American companies so much more often is because:

- They're big, so violations are big and fines are big, making them big targets and big news

- They often break the law (perhaps because they're used to operating in America, which is relatively lawless when it comes to competition and privacy), making them easy targets

- You're reading English-speaking media, so you're less likely to hear about say a mid-sized German or French company being fined
Why do you think it’s widely believed that under 18s are morons?

Depth of experience and intelligence are different things and I think most people understand that very well. Under 18s can be extremely smart, but due to lack of experience can sometimes be exploited or manipulated.
So you decided to dig up something from an old archive and not present a more recent update to continue piling on?

https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...

"Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it.

Since then, through personal conversations, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why."
Yeah usually something along these lines, if they press on first number I'd say something like, "I'm open to considering a variety of offers, but I'd have to see what the whole package looks like, and I'd really be interested in hearing more about the company first."

https://haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer...

I don't know if this is the specific article addressing that question, but this guys writing on negotiations was very helpful to me.
On Gordon Parks’ camera and what it saw
> Well, half the thread here is about the Houthis allegedly defending themselves vs SA. If this is instead a direct Iranian attack on a different state, the story changes.

Not really; everyone who is paying any attention know that the civil war in Yemen is an Iran vs SA proxy war, and that the Houthi claim of responsibility is equivalent to notice of escalation of that war (with the implication that SA deescalating in Yemen is key to undoing the escalation.)

Whether the Houthis are actually operationally involved in the attack is immaterial to its significance.
AWS Summary of the EC2, EBS, and RDS Service Event in the EU West Region
So good. Thanks for sharing
Apple Built UWB into the iPhone 11
Stallman is the worst person to be making these arguments. In a much different context, Matt Damon tried to reasonably add nuance to #metoo and got viciously attacked.

I don’t like witch hunts or ruining people’s careers for what they say, especially when media exaggerates it to make it sound worse. It’s bad enough on it’s own.

There’s also other billionaires out there, one with an infamous island in the Bahamas, who has dozens of horrific stories about him. A former President and his wife visited this island, and they have lots of photos together. I hope the media and the outrage stays focused on the principals and their enablers, not poorly expressed opinions of people trying to defend deceased friends.
Ah I love computer programmers
Also I suggest reading original paper for cfs quota, it explains motivation pretty well.

The only two reasons to set cpu limits I’m aware of is to force pods onto dedicated cores (which doesn’t work on gke as of 1.13) and if you run some sort of pay-per-use compute platform for external users.
I personally don't find PHP attractive at all, but in recent months I've been very surprised to meet some devs who are making absolute bank with it (including WordPress devs). I think success as a freelancer depends a lot on being a good salesman, delivering value to your client, and being efficient. Whether the end product (eg, a WP installation) is "quality" in terms of software engineering might be highly debatable... I can totally understand why a Scala dev wouldn't want to touch PHP projects with a 10-meter pole, but that doesn't mean that you can't be highly successful with it.

Personally, I can code in a few languages but I build mostly in JS. I understand why some engineers would not want to work with it and I'm not personally offended by that, but I think ES6+ can provide a great dev experience. And while there's certainly a lot of crappy jobs in the space, there also seems to be really interesting work to be found around Node / React / Vue etc.
Testing which country’s paper money is best at transmitting dangerous bacteria, seems perfectly reasonable to me.
You need to look at the numbers on a net basis: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2018/12/09/no-the-u-s-i...
"Great way to undermine a movement. Mis-construe something someone said and then sic the outrage mob on them. Great way to take over open source, Bitcoin, Linux, etc. It's super cheap too. Just a few leaks and you win. No one should have control over their own software. It should all be in the cloud governed by faceless public corporations who can always blame any transgressions on careless subordinates and have their leadership replaced and changed at whim by their shadowy owners. Seriously, this whole COC movement seems tailor made to ruin people who could present any independent leadership of open source through fake allegations magnified by social media."
Excerpt:

"The kernel community has a lot of bugs, he began; various subsystems are often broken for several releases in a row. The community adds new vulnerabilities to the stable releases far too often. The 4.9 kernel, to take one example, has had many thousands of fixes backported to it. There are a lot of kernel forks out there, each of which replicates each bug, so keeping up with these fixes adds up to a great deal of work for the industry as a whole. The security of our [Dmitry Vyukov]kernels is "not perfect"; as we fix five holes, ten more are introduced — on the order of 20,000 bugs per release. We need to reduce the inflow of bugs into the kernel, he said, in order to get on top of this problem."
«OpenMaps» project initiated by «Orienteering Time» — Orienteering Development Project founded by Eugenio Trevisan & Tommaso Bari[1]:

> The maps have copyright and are managed by OrienteeringTime.com.

> The maps have the CC-BY-NC-SA Creative Commons license, so you can’t use them for commercial purposes and you have to mention the project with the following Quote: Open Maps Project of OrienteeringTime.com + OrienteeringTime’s logo.

> If you download the maps we would like to receive info@orienteeringtime.com:

> – technical tracks/exercises useful for training/races

> – photos and files with cultural-historical information of the area

> If you like the project you can make a donation.

> Our project has no commercial aims.

Grab maps from project folder[1] on Google Drive.

For open & edit those map files (.ocd/.omap) recommends use OpenOrienteering Mapper[2] app — FLOSS cross-platform desktop publishing software for cartography, especially designed for creating orienteering maps.

[0] https://www.orienteeringtime.com/70-ocad-maps-are-now-public...

[1] https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EIK9tiH64UWjy9hMmlLm...

[2] https://www.openorienteering.org/apps/mapper
> Customers come first in AWS culture

As a customer of AWS, it never seemed that way.
What could someone use 10^25 W cm^-2 light intensity for? It that enough energy to trigger fission and/or fusion in an appropriate target?
Fortnight was a rip off of PUBG which was arguably developed from Arma as a mod originally (spun off of the DayZ mod there was a sort of Battle Royale mode).
Yes, I do think the actual range was far smaller. But smuggling drones, fuel and bombs across the desert is a massive operation too, probably beyond the Houthis either. IMHO, it's a direct Iranian operation from Iraq.
Yes! Been preaching this for years!

I've untangled more than a couple small eng teams (~ < 20 devs) that were trying to do microservices using this recipe on aws and just horrendously failing at it.

A well-architeched monolith will really go a long way - generally perhaps easily up to 100 or more devs before thinking about microservices.
Is it only western democracies that you think have been centralizing power? What about countries like China, Iran and Russia?

Western democracies historically have been party to increasing the power of private companies through government protection from competition (corporate welfare). The first example that popped in my head was the provision of prison labor for U.S. Steel through convict leasing.

There are numerous examples though, link below from Mises (admittedly a source with a conservative bias, but theres still good info there).

https://mises.org/wire/government-created-monopolies-are-eve...

It would seem to me that governments provide preferential treatment to private companies when it is beneficial for the government and they provide roadblocks and difficulties to companies who would be detrimental to the government. This is of course a generalization and not a hard-and-fast rule that explains every instance of government behavior when viewed in respect to a private company.