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> it's because bad NPC AI is by design, so players can learn to overcome them and succeed.

That's part of it, but there are other factors too. The more complex the AI, the harder (i.e. more expensive) the game is to tune and test. Game producers and designers are naturally very uncomfortable shipping a game whose behavior they can't reasonably predict.

This is a big part of why gamers always talk about loving procedural generation in games but so few games actually do it. When the software can produce a combinatorial number of play experiences, it's really hard to ensure that most of the ones players will encounter are fun.
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Probably, since they have known it for 6 months ( according to the researchers)

I suppose, if you get this bad in the news and excepting it.

This is kinda weird: https://twitter.com/gchip/status/1187519015544967168
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As far as I know, Bitwarden is a one-person company run by a guy who lives in Jacksonville, Florida. So the business address being a random house there would be exactly what I'd expect.
I have sensitive skin and I stopped using shampoo last winter. I was worried about greasiness but it was no trouble at all.
In a related vein of your comment: "After being challenged as to whether homeowners should tell guests smart devices - such as a Google Nest speaker or Amazon Echo display - are in use before they enter the building, he concludes that the answer is indeed yes."[0]

* [0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50048144
Morningstar is just putting information out there, they have all sorts of language saying they are not giving you investment advice so there isnt much recourse there as far as I am aware (but I am far from a lawyer). The pensions may only invest in X are hard guidelines so certainly a manager would be in trouble if they violated that but that would be rare, much more likely a manager would just be holding more borderline IG paper and trying to look like they have better IG paper in aggregate.
More popular languages get more early developers, so will be naturally predisposed to have objectively bad developers. You'll definitely find more bad Java devs than bad Haskell devs, but you'll also probably find a higher rate of bad devs in Java or PHP than you will Haskell or F# or something.
I’m curious - as you are in research - can you give a few more details? How can it have a distinct smell? That would mean patients or cells are exposing some material, right?
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Maybe it was genuine screw up and the deep fake story was created to cover ones ass.
By far the most wind turbines have been built on land and for good reason: it's much cheaper. As long as there is space/not too many people complaining it makes more sense to build on land. Not sure exactly but on land installed wind is probably ~10x the installed capacity offshore. However on land turbines are pretty much maxed out at about 7,5MW, due to logistical difficulties of getting larger blades, towers and nacelles transported over the road. These limitations don't apply to offshore sites, so the up-scaling continues. In the last few years typical offshore turbines have grown to about 9MW, but that is not the limit. Within a few years we should see 12-15MW turbines being installed, which should bring the cost down. Combined with the better wind conditions offshore (at least around the North Sea) offshore wind may become cheaper than expanding on land.
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> How are private companies synonym for capitalism?

> Capitalism is an economic order (characterized by the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit).

I think you answered your own question.

> Overloading the term Capitalism may sound sensational, but it is not useful in explaining the issue.

We're not. We're using surveillance as an adjective to modify capitalism, and thereby creating a new term.
Amazon didn’t create the problem of counterfeiting, but they did create the problems on Amazon. If I purchase something on Amazon and it is counterfeit, I can’t blame or avoid the counterfeiter because Amazon has commingled inventory. Even if I buy from a trusted seller or even Amazon itself, I might get a counterfeit item. My only choice in that case is to not buy from Amazon at all.

If I buy anywhere else that allows third party sellers, I might get a counterfeit item, but I’ll know to avoid that seller in the future. And I can develop a meaningful relationship of trust with sellers; seller reviews about counterfeits will have meaning; and I can shop with a lot more confidence.
The cloud storage isn't mandatory. Just keep using Dropbox (uhh, a different cloud?) if it bothers you. This is what I do, along with a perpetual license.
It's no different than blogspot then, and blogger has the record of longest running blog service.
Wow, I didn't expect that. Laptops were the only market Intel was still strong, still dominated. Having brought an rx5700 XT recently, the power usage has been just as impressive as the performance. AMD will have some very nice products when they start putting mini RX5000s in their CPUs. Decent performance without discrete GPUs is a real possibility. (Just need add some HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) to the mix and things will get rather interesting!)
The screen is well-protected while closed, but more susceptible to scratches while open, because they haven't figured out how to make the hardened glass that covers regular smartphones foldable. At least I remember reading that about the Galaxy Fold. Maybe they've solved the problem in the Motorola device.
Your second observation regarding time stamps is something I’m really interested in. The broader topic is provenance: the ability to say “this AV stream came from this device at this time.” I just wrote a post echoing KirinDave’s idea but perhaps expanding the scope in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21526278

The more verifiable pieces of data that you can associate with a recording, the more you can trust that it came from when/who it claims to. If I send a recording that can be tied to:

- a timestamp service with my request for one stored in a blockchain,

- a tamper-evident device that signs the data with its own private key,

- my own private key

then you can have a high degree of certainty that I am the one who recorded and sent the content and that it has not been altered. I could still be tied to a chair while a voice actor impersonates me and forces me to send it. This is after all basically the modern equivalent of a proof-of-life photo with the kidnapped victim holding today’s newspaper. But it’s a lot more effort for someone to go through compared to having none of those other guarantees.

It’s a fascinating topic that will only become more relevant as deepfaking gets easier. Whoever makes the first device/system to do this, if it’s not a flawed premise, will make a pretty penny.
Ask HN: Is iMessage spoofing like this possible?
I saw this on twitter: https://twitter.com/chloe_lamyia/status/1194453574010454017?s=12

The tweet indicates that iMessages were spoofed to appear to come from a known contact, and attempted to lure someone outside of their home. To what extent is this possible?
If China pursues atrocities against HK they will be financially strangled by the international community's sanctions, having the mainland population freefall back into poverty is an existential threat.

Taiwan is more powerful than anything HK could ever muster and all their actual military might is barely an inconvenience in CCP planning. Hong Kong arming itself is probably a best-case scenario for China.
The real story here might be about how many exceptions are allowed within HIPAA, and how often health data gets transferred.

My understanding is that patient consent is not necessary for things like research, which Google's AI efforts could be argued to fall under. This makes sense in that requiring researchers to get consent for every piece of patient data would quickly become cost-prohibitive for many types of studies or introduce sampling issues (e.g. selection bias) or some combination of the two. Patient health data is frequently handed over to researchers, but HIPAA probably did not anticipate the case in which a powerful consumer-facing entity that is notorious for using personal data also could do legitimate research on health data.

Additionally, given that Google adheres to the HIPAA business associate agreement, healthcare institutions are allowed to give non-anonymized patient information without patient consent. A typical example might be a medical group that outsources its billing procedures. My understanding is that the medical group does not need to get patient consent in order to hand over medical data to the medical billing coders.

Someone who is more knowledgeable about HIPAA might be able to add to the discussion, but from the few details that have been publicized, it could be that Google is following the law, but people are surprised by what is allowed by the law.
I just bought a "new" SE refurbished for $100. It's still fantastic and runs iOS 13 marvelously. It's really your only option for a small device that runs a modern phone OS.
What a great tutorial!

I wanted a React-like TUI lib for a Clojure project and ended up writing facsimile by looking at the React source. Reading the React source to try to understand how React works is very challenging. This would have made the perfect guide. Thank you.
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I'm guessing it's the book: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Solved-Market-Revolution/dp/0...
Do you live in New York City? I think that's the point.
The “perk” is fulfilling a purpose in your social group. No ones talking about a volunteer death march.
Energy wise, the orders of magnitude are quite different so I would not worry. After all, we are not worried about the direct heating from the much more prevalent source of electricity (waste heat from oil or nuclear), rather we are worried about the heating from the sun that is exacerbated by the accidental byproduct of burning oil.

Habitat destruction from these new technologies: no idea...
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I don't find it fabulous at all. MacBook aluminium, SGI cases, old Mac Pro case though...

For a gaming rig, I would take pride in it being silent and cold without spending too much (I know, those Noctua fans are still pricey but that is my upper limit).

I decided to update my Intel 4770k to an AMD 3900X. I had to upgrade to DDR4 as well. One of the things I specifically did not have to upgrade is the case. Just a couple of new fans really.
It's like that famous scene in "Silence of the Lambs" (or the wonderful musical number in "Silence! The Musical")
Much of the time it will refer to revenue generated on an annual basis.

For example, all wind energy companies might spend $1T this year as an investment, but only bring in $10B in revenue. That would be a $10B market.
Do you mean the original or the 2nd one, and what happened? If you don't mind my asking.
It belies the point though that people at large prefer decentralization, just not the costs involved, until a model comes along which reduces the costs to a level which people can afford.
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For existing PoW hardware (even GPUs) it seems like proximity to the Chinese supply chain is more important than capital. I don't see why that would change.
The main change people cite is the UTF-8 "support" but frankly it seems like far more pomp and circumstance than is necessary. Appropriate code point handling could have been provided and everything left as it was. And when you get rid of that, there's not that much left that is breaking.
Has anyone read this book? I've been having a craving these days for books on animals, having just finished "The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs", and this looks pretty good.
Great news! I'll have to check that out, thanks!
Can you describe how OOP feels tacked on? One of the major changes in Python 3 is that new-style classes are the only style of classes.
Yeah for me this was also the obvious solution when I had to extract information from ~80 GB of tabular data. It's not the most trendy tool, but it did the job extremely well and with little effort.
Just be sure to only create an index after having inserted all the data...
As listed in the #Facilities section of the Wikipedia article.
User contributed is not a good idea.

One of the sad realities is that even in the enthusiast market a lot of people don’t know/don’t care to tune and test their system, and there’s a lot of traps that would make the results useless.

There’s some of it that you can check and verify, but things like watercooling or chosing the appropriate RAM configuration and timing will have a big impact.
Don’t have a link handy but I’ve read somewhere that the gearboxes leak oil that then evaporates. Most likely not the cleanest stuff in there.

Edit:
Link 1: https://www.windpowerengineering.com/two-reasons-why-gearbox...
Link 2: https://www.eastcountymagazine.org/investigation-launched-hy...
Link 3: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-12/wind-powe...
Because to some extent the 'risk profile' is both aspirational and out of your hands. You can say 90% of your fund is investment grade, and S&P come in and downgrade a large holding of yours (or upgrade one).
> If you think that it’s be better - why don’t you make it?

Because I am already quite busy on other projects.
I think the point is that by creating a system that makes counterfeiting easy and doing nothing to stop it when they knew it was taking place (or now demanding payment to stop it), Amazon is somewhat responsible.
On the content side, it isn't financially beneficial to invest in higher quality content or presentation. Most websites that aren't outsourcing their content to $10 writers on UpWork are already running on razor thin margins. Outside of a handful of big name publishers (the NYTs and Economists of the world), paid subscriptions are unviable for most.

The lack of innovation on the web can be directly attributed to the lack of advertising money on the web - outside of Google and FB, of course.
I can smell dengue. I learned with myself first :)
(Cockroach Labs developer here) In CockroachDB parlance, a "cluster" is just some number of cockroach binaries that have local storage and can connect to one another via TCP/IP. It's entirely feasible to run a multi-node cluster on a single laptop by just starting several instances of cockroach bound to different port numbers.

The Kubernetes concept of a "cluster" is a much broader term, encompassing the compute nodes and a lot of control-plane software to make all of the magic happen.

Fundamentally, running CockroachDB on a Kubernetes cluster abstracts away the process of getting the cockroach binary running and offers a lot of convenience to the human operator vis-a-vis reliability and service discovery.

We like to say that CockroachDB is "Kubernetes native" in that you can easily build a CRDB cluster using only the basic k8s building blocks, without requiring a separate operator program to manage the deployment.

You can `kubectl apply` this config and get a fully-functioning cluster. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/cloud/k...

Utilities like Helm et al. are certainly easier than managing a bunch of YAML configs, but they are entirely optional.

Some other CockroachDB+Kubernetes synergies to consider:

1) When using a StatefulSet and PersistentVolumes, a CockroachDB node will easily survive being rescheduled off of its underlying host (e.g. due to maintenance or hardware failure) with no human effort needed.

2) All cockroach instances are, from the perspective of a client, homogenous. That is, a client can send a SQL query to any member of a CockroachDB cluster and get a meaningful response. This maps exactly onto the k8s Service abstraction.

3) Federated k8s clusters and multi-region network fabrics do exist, although they're not exactly common yet. CockroachDB can maintain its clustering across "non-uniform network architectures" that exist within- and cross-region.
Possible case, furthered tempered by "infosec industry source". :) It is their job to sell fear
how "stupid" would it be to turn all building roofs as solar surfaces and wind tunnels ?
So please add a link or 2 that does talk about the story? The wikipedia link just describes the infrastructure.
> Dealing with smells was so hard that brains evolved to deal with the problem,

That's fascinating, where can I read about it?
That is interesting data. I would imagine the most widely used packages are compatible with both, but that data is probably harder to get!
It's true that there are bugs in software updates. However my car has gotten 5% faster twice from 2 separate software updates. Never had this experience in another car and it's truly fantastic.
Does anyone have any insight into what the actual nature of HeavyHash is?

> This leads to the selection of a hybrid design that composes digital hashing with low precision vector-matrix multiplication (intended for photonic acceleration) to produce HeavyHash. HeavyHash is an iterated composition of an existing hash function, i.e. SHA256, and a weighting function such that the cost of evaluation of HeavyHash is dominated by the computing of the weighting function.

What is the weighting function? How do we verify that the result is valid? There have been other attempts to make proof of work more capex sensitive (especially memory-hard variants, like birthday paradox) but they all end up suffering from the fact that the very fact that you can verify the result means that you can brute force the outcome, and often that's a tradeoff that works.

Without knowing specifics it's very hard to say whether this particular proof of work algorithm does not permit an energy-inefficient brute force solution that will end up making the energy problems just as bad -- my intuition is that of course this won't work, as a matter of "no free lunch" -- the cost to secure a coin will be equal to the value of keeping it secure.

I guess we'll have to wait:

> Beyond these intuitions, the specifics of the algorithm and a detailed proof of its security will be published in a separate manuscript. [54]

> [54] Michael Dubrovsky and Marshall Ball. Towards optical proof of work; oPoW. Unpublished Manuscript, 2019.
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I'm sorry to hear that you are sad because you wanted to contribute but can't. Maybe, we can find a solution to that. If you want to contribute (e.g. by joining our team), feel free to reach out to us! We are always happy to have capable and driven people on board :)
Why do you think user generated content is important? Why shouldn't the content be made by a platform, like Coursera?
Yes, exactly. Is the human body centralized or decentralized? The ego could be said to be the central "pivot" of the system, but then you have the phenomenon of "multiple personalities", and so on.

Once you start to think of biology as the study of billion-year-old self-optimizing nanotechnology it makes sense to look to life for models for designing the structure of our own artificial systems. There's the question of what do we want to be like? A starfish? A meta-human?

A decentralized system that depends on each or most of its elements to function is a single "point" of failure for the whole. (E.g., a relatively small wound can cause death by exsanguination.) On the other hand, consider the radical indignities that the lowly planarian will endure only to placidly regrow a tail or a head or whatever. (See "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698 Which, incidentally, adds a whole layer of complexity and nuance to the concept of intelligent design, since the whole of Nature has now been scientifically shown to think...)

It remains to be seen whether Humans + Internet = Self-Organization or along what lines. (What's the news out of Hong Kong this week? Are the distributed, self-organizing people of HK prevailing against the centralized imperialistic communist state?) Governments everywhere are waking up and smelling the data coffee. The major players already have databases on the bulk of world population and are collecting (exponentially) more every day. What kind of cyborg-state shall we make?
Shaved head and sparse body hair. Even if you aren't that hirsute yourself, try washing a dog with an extra-low-flow showerhead. It's a miserable experience for everyone.
Fair enough, good luck!
I wonder if the cockroach thing is evolution/selection in action... The cockroaches that preferred sweet all fell for the bait got killed. I believe high protein diets cause roaches to make, so those that weren't drawn to sweets lived and were more likely to reproduce. Maybe it's not that they adapted or their tastes changed, just that certain ones survived with given traits.
I don't follow your logic even a little bit. It's like saying a toddler will never be able to wrestle his 10 year old brother because it only weighs 30lbs and the brother weighs 90.

How much did PCs sell when they "started to take off"?

How many units did smartphones sell when they "started to take off"?
It is absolutely, completely true that a 70L warm shower for every human being is unsustainable; it even backs it up by comparing the amount of electrical energy needed to heat up that volume of water with the current production of wind energy worldwide.
Our best guess? Melons smell like meat to the felid mind:

https://feline-nutrition.org/the-blogs/cats-and-cantaloupe-a...
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GamersNexus really hammering AMD's deceptive marketing around boost clocks. The only time it can hit its advertised boost clocks in when it's in the menu and you have near-zero load, and it barely touches it for an instant. Under even a single-core load it's failing to meet its advertised spec.

There was a lot of hubbub around this with the initial release, AMD released a BIOS which they claimed fixed this, looks like it still has not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3sNUFjV7p4

The performance is good enough as it is, no need to lie about it being 200 MHz higher than it can actually do. But here we are again 6 months later and AMD does it again...
Boot being nonstandard isn't really an issue. It's certainly a bit silly but it's never really stopped anything. It's the choice to disable user modification to booting that is the problem. That and hardware support being based on outdated binary blobs. Neither of these are solved by making a device use UEFI.
was CCP an insurgency from some authoritarians?
I don't understand what unbundling means?
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As an individual you don't care as long as you aren't in that 1%, but as a customer-obsessed service owner I absolutely care if a bad experience is happening 100k times per day. If you're operating at internet scale you need to look at both percentiles and absolute numbers to assess customer impact.

Also keep in mind how percentiles compound when you have more than one service involved in serving a customer request. For example, let's say it takes 5 internal requests to serve an external customer request and each of those services measures latency SLAs at the 99th percentile. The customer request may only finish inside the SLA 95% of the time (99%^5)
"acknowledging that it's possible"
Even then, once the poison of suspicion has been delivered the harm is done.
No, pulling out excess energy from the atmosphere will not accelerate climate change -- quite the opposite, though I don't know that the effect will be significant.
I bet many of the Py2-only ones are old legacy packages that have been superceded by newer better options.
We should be able to trust what's displayed as a caller (stolen unlocked smartphone is a different problem). It doesn't seem that hard. It's not rocket science. I don't understand why we don't have that yet.
https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E6%B8%AF%E8%AD%A6%E6%94%BB%E4%B8%...

https://www.epochtimes.jp/p/2019/11/48996.html