skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The game had a flaw, though.

Yeah, the game (and the original) has a number of flaws that can make winning pretty easy. I've adjusted my play to intentionally avoid them. You can also mitigate the problem by playing on the hardest levels, which lets the enemies cheat shamelessly.

But when I want an easy win in MOO2, what I tend to do is to amass a large enough force that I can start just destroying planets. Because the number of ships you can have depends on the number of planets you have, and the AI is stupid, you can bring even the most overpowered enemy to its knees by avoiding direct fights with their forces and destroying their planets. Each planet that gets destroyed results in multiple enemy ships that go away because they can no longer be supported.

The best way to play either of the MOOs, though, is against real life human players. They aren't stupid.
Indeed. The GPS birds zip around, a GPS device has to learn (traditionally from GPS itself but downloading from the Internet is much faster if you have Internet and these days most devices can do that) where the birds are in order to turn its relative distance from each satellite into an absolute position on the Earth's surface.

If you have an actual GPS app there's typically a diagnostic screen where can see where the satellites are and see them arrive and disappear from your perspective as they orbit.
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I'm saying the question should be asked.

I mean, we have people literally having themselves shot dead for YouTube clicks and ads:

https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/29/us/fatal-youtube-stunt/index....

(Something I'd commented on at the time. YouTube are absolutely culpable.)

If the job has to be done -- and I'd put healthcare, garbage collection, policework, and military service among those -- you take all reasonable efforts to minimise risks, especially unnecessary ones, and support those who've become disabled through them. That's the principle argument for veterans healthcare, and an exceptionally sound one.

There are of course many instances of work under hazadous conditions not properly compensated. A few off the top of my head:

- Workers in lead-related facilities: mining, smelting, fuel production, paint, and printing. (I'm excluding resulting environmental contamination, that's also an issue, but not workers.)

- "Radium Girls" watchdial painters. Instructed to lick their brushes with their lips/tongues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls

- Coal miners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalworker%27s_pneumoconiosis

- Asbestos workers -- concrete, shipbuilding, roofing, insulation, and more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesothelioma

- Fire hazards, generally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fi...

Spinning up a platform for cat videos and pratfalls with no larger social conscience is not excusable.

(Yes, there's good content on YouTube, and I rely on it myself. I'm aware of the costs. And I'm aware that many proposed alternatives, including peer-to-peer systems, would or do face similar issues.)
no need to be concerned really. i have used mysql a while ago before switching to postgres and the stories are the same on both sides :) i think you will hear that only the "enterprise" dbs users supposedly have it nice...
Testssl 3.0 added support for TLS 1.3 added. ROBOT check added. more
It's not "probably" expensive; it's undeniably very expensive, which is why it's a non-starter in most of the world. Look at South Carolina's fiasco with nuclear...the only country doing nuclear is China, which is known for massive infrastructure spending.
> it seems like they don't care about the product itself and now it's all about marketing

This is absolute silly hogwash with nothing to back it up.

If you think the product hasn't gotten better, completely fair to share that. To blatantly claim you know the inner motivations of its workforce and they don't care about the product is not productive.
I always loved Ascendancy (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascendancy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDeXKf6e46I), which I still play sometimes and still find interesting. It gets a bit boring towards the middle / end of the game though as the AI is not very advanced and easy to beat. Still I found it to be more polished than "Master of Orion".
> Trade is entirely predicated upon status

I think that's way overstated. As an outsourcer in Moscow working for Western companies, I got plenty of gains from trade, despite having lower status than Western folks. And remember how China took over world trade while being so low status that "made in China" was a joke?
Yup spending time with him and being a good model for him to learn from is the way to go.

Our first daughter is/was a super learner/reader and an all around go-getter that we could hardly slow down. She wanted to do all things and she was usually great at all things, academically or athletic. She went to Westpoint and had much success there.

Her 3 years younger sister didn't seem interested in learning to read at all, except for comic or cartoon books and she hated sports, dance, or music (learning). Mom was worried - what's wrong with her?!? She later came into her own and is as smart and succesful as her sister just in different ways (CS major). Her older sister is always coming to her for advice.

It goes fast so enjoy the ride.
Nice! More database dumps exposed.
Thx! I found the Business API which is really for partners ( and for SMB's there is the Business app).

https://www.whatsapp.com/business/api

The Twilio API is in beta, and you can sign up. Don't know what pricing will be, but maybe for individual use a dev subscription may be sufficient

https://www.twilio.com/whatsapp

Here is the API reference:

https://www.twilio.com/docs/sms/whatsapp/api
These arguments are rather silly as all someone has to do is pretend to be a woman, respond back and say the other is wrong because that’s not how they experience it as a woman.
A Forum for Apple App Store Review Horror Stories?
Is there a forum for Apple App Store Review horror studies and suggestions for coping? Apple won't address these sorts of issues without prominent public exposure.
Facebook's Sir Nick Clegg Criticised over WhatsApp Security
The overwhelming majority of airspace under 10K feet in the US does not require ADS-B out.

https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/equipadsb/research/airspace/
How much longer will I, personally, fully trust Google’s search results?

Until about negative-ten years from now.
Why are there so many security companies focused on k8s/containers/cloud native?

Does it say something about the (in)security of k8s, containers and 'cloud native' that so many companies are focused on providing virus scanning functionality for it compared to traditional linux which surely outnumbers by a very large margin those installations?

It's a very sad time that linux has now devolved so badly that people have to resort to installing a mcafee virus scanner.
Basically renewables produce 15-20% of the time (30 to 40% for offshore wind). Let's be generous and start with 30% of the time. You need storage to provide 70% of the demand. So for every GWh or required power, you need 700MWh of storage. The famed Tesla Mega battery is a puny 129MWh...

You must account for the fact that there could be no sun or no wind for several days, therefore be able to store incredible amounts of power, far beyond the scale we know of.Then the sheer space required for renewable power is staggering. As I said, the biggest solar plants are 600MW to 1GW and occupy tens of square km. Now imagine supplying 10s of GW this way.

As someone joked on twitter, if you covered the whole Fukushima exclusion zone (250 km2 or so)with solar panels, it wouldn't come close to the Daishi nuclear plant annual power output.

For a detailed discussion on these matters, see https://jancovici.com/en/energy-transition/renewables/100-re...
Excerpt:

"o Narrow down your extended keyword set and focus on the keyword groups you have polished content and landing pages for, especially when you have a complex product.

o Use an awareness ladder to inform keyword segmentation by purchase stage but revisit it often to validate and adjust.

o Do not use the same landing pages for different steps of your awareness ladder.

o Do not wait for leads to become paid users to decide on the quality of paid ads campaigns: focus on quick metrics and tailor experiments to one step of your funnel at a time.

o Take a test-and-learn approach with small budgets to quickly fine-tune campaigns, focusing on page quality and clickthrough rates.

o Run tests to optimize page content, which will reduce your cost per click.

o Once you find your winner, you’re ready to go all-in. Now’s the time to pass it off to an agency to scale things up, if you are contracting out campaign management."
Does everyone agree with me here that the modern remake missed the mark?

http://masteroforion.com/news/legend-reborn
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Also worth checking out for postgres users:

https://github.com/ankane/pghero
While I'm sympathetic to your view (status feels very "high school", and in some ways profoundly boring), I'd like to make a case for The Good Parts of status (as well it's bottom-up cousin, "prestige" [0]).

I can't remember where I read it (probably also Simler?), but I love the aphorism that "honor can sometimes buy gold, but gold can never buy honor". In addition to the fungible, zero-sum-ish resource economy, there is also a parallel non-zero-sum reputation economy. While this can sometimes be meritless and lacking in positive externalities (Instagram influencers, "being famous for being famous"), it can also manifest in incentivizing pro-social behavior (community contributions, GitHub stars).

Just as the same market mechanisms underlie both the good and bad parts of capitalism (wealth creation vs. rent-seeking), the motivation to climb status hierarchies and earn reputation is a double-edged sword, sometimes resulting in good behavior (competition to be the most cooperative), and sometimes in leveraging status exploitatively or even harmfully (searching for a term here; status arbitrage? status market failure?).

[0] https://meltingasphalt.com/social-status-down-the-rabbit-hol...
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BATNA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotiat...

Negotiation power: https://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/negotiation-skills-daily/t...
There's also an unexplained leap from "the calculations are correct" to "we should proceed as planned even though it's sagging when it shouldn't".

Even if the engineers were infinitely arrogant and assumed nothing could possibly be wrong with the design, you'd expect them to react by saying "you must be building it wrong or using substandard materials", or something.
They can't provide the $/kwh quote because it's not even an implemented technology yet...it's a propositional technology and they can't even provide a quote that solar/wind could smash easily in the majority of markets.
Not true, WhatsApp did have a pricing test where certain users were pushed to pay 1€/$ per year. It was never unilaterally enforced.
Is there ever a right time to relax meat safety rules?
I am forced to use Comcast, and I really wish I had another option. I have numerous complaints about them. But I have to say -- the quality of their internet service is not one of them. It's been consistently solid and well-performing for me for years.
> Priming is a real effect, but that example of priming seems like it was poorly selected.

Except maybe it's not even a real effect: https://replicationindex.com/2017/02/02/reconstruction-of-a-...
Developers guide to common vulnerabilities and how to prevent them
Really like this piece of advice. Thanks for sharing!
Well that's interesting. How does that tie in to the story's reported change though? I suppose ATCs might be willing to rely solely on aircraft-reported location and speed, but I kind of doubt the USAF would. If they share the same systems, I suppose no equipment would actually change or be decommissioned.
you can also get all of them through Steam if you need an easy means to deal with this, they are around two dollars each. Sadly 1 & 2 are not listed compatible with Catalina (Mac OS)
> But those first two were the counter-examples to Brooks according to the author.

They are not.

> So where do you actually disagree with the author? You don't think the gains from these were substantial enough?

I think that 1. the collective gains might have been substantial but not 10x, and 2. the very ideas proposed by the author as being a silver bullet are not even among those in the first group.

> Also the author makes a clear argument for why functional programming is, from a complexity perspective, something entirely different from mere "linguistic features". And a "silver bullet" according to Brooks is something that might take a decade to show full impact.

When I was in university, Haskell was all the rage. People were saying how in some years we'll all be programming in it or in a similar language. That was in 1998 or 1999. Functional programming in general has been well known, and taught for many decades. I'm not saying it's particularly bad, and maybe it could even have a small positive effect, but saying it's a 10x silver bullet at this point sounds delusional. If Brooks was wrong and there is a silver bullet, I very much doubt it's something we've known about, and tried again and again, in various forms, for decades.
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None of these have been genuine hits, really. They are not terrible (well, maybe some of the GalCivs have been near-terrible). I don't see anybody ever writing the sort of retrospective on any of them as the one on MOO in this article.
Because unfortunately I still find Google indispensable (it's fast and gives me better results than the alternatives), I'm now using the "Better Google" userscript which reverts to the old look. Saves me a lot of pain and suffering.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/395257-better-google
Correct. It makes it so for(true) in other languages doesn't hijack the cpu and strive for the low latency goals of Erlang.

To be fair you can go about it by just filling up a process mail box with tons of messages.
> Semi-OT rant: can we stop these "for humans" qualifiers?

It wasn't really intentional, and I actually didn't even know where or when this originated. It just sounded "right" (non native English speaker here). There are several two reasons why this felt right:

* Tuning Postgres well is hard. Not everybody, not every "human" can easily do it.

* There are several efforts (mostly from Academia) to have non humans (A.I.) tune databases automatically (e.g. Andy Pavlo's efforts).

> why link to a blog post rather than the actual site?

Because the blog post contains an explanation of what the web site is, how you can use it and provide much more context than the direct parameters page.

About the new functionality, it is something in the works and early disclosure is good for potential feedback. And yes, the screenshot is what you can get today, so feel free to enjoy it!

Disclaimer: I work @OnGres.
Oh, good. I can't read the article (paywall) but was hoping they weren't actually replacing radar with GPS. Using GPS to enhance radar seems a lot better.
Using Artificial Intelligence to Enrich Digital Maps
Global-politically, there shouldn't be any problem for the US, UK, France, Russia, and China to have fast-breeder reactors, but it still may be a concern in local politics due to environmental or terrorism concerns.

Nuclear waste has to be shipped to the facility. All the shipping routes from all the nearest waste-producing reactors converge there. That's naturally a concern to all those who live nearby.
I personally would volunteer to be on one of the teams in another van with directional antennas to triangulate your transmissions and shut down you ASAP.

The fact that no one has ever truly tried that sort of poisoning of radio calls is more due to the tower and aircraft having a very well defined set of calls, so that the likelihood of false transmissions being able to cause havoc is minimized already.

I agree with another commenter that aviation radio systems should be the simplest, most reliable systems possible, and have that layer of communication depend on proper radio call discipline and no more.
That wouldn’t stand for very long when a gay couple shows up and brings down national media hellfire of divine social justice on them.
Interesting, but then we also need to somehow fly through that when launching outer space rockets. Amazing how we can avoid the debris.
> To get the old behaviour for literal search using quotes enable the "Verbatim mode" (Tools > All results > Verbatim)

That hasn't worked for me for a long time.
> If people are contacting you out of the blue and you are contacting people out of the blue, then it's a norm for you so why bother asking here? Seems strange, that's all.

justinclift isn't the one who asked the question...he was just replying to you that his experience is different.
Congrats to @arcatek for this! The key value proposition of yarn for us is:

- 15x installation speed, from 1400s with NPM to 90s with yarn PnP (Yes the gap is that big!)

- Catching a lot of badly declared dependencies that NPM would silently let pass, before blowing up on us in production

- Manage and organize our monorepo efficiently, including in CI

There are still some rough edges, mostly due to other packages of the JS ecosystem applying bad practices (looking at you storybook!) or even flat out errors about dependency management, and yarn is pretty strict with that, which is a good thing in the long term.

We have been using yarn with PnP for around a year now on a monorepo of around 160 packages, and it has been a life saver for the engineering team, allowing us to scale JS development effectively.

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They can inform themselves, weigh their options, and make a decision. Like adults. Why this constant infantilization of people?
I thought it was just me remembering incorrectly if DDG supported quotes and includes. Could have sworn this worked before. Thanks for confirming you're also having this problem.
What did they abandon it for, QBO?
>This analogy doesn't work because the web is something I can choose to use or not

You cannot choose whether or not others use Facebook and get manipulated by micro targeted ads into making stupid political decisions. And yet you are affected by those decisions.

You cannot choose whether or not all the services you depend on are only available online while the physical branches in your neighborhood are closing.

Most technologies have systemic effects that individuals cannot choose freely. Isn't that exactly why some people argue in favour of "let's stop and think before we jump"?

>Also, "figure out problems when they arise" is rather naïve

On the contrary, I think it's very naive to think we could just stop the clock and think very hard until we have figured out all the consequences of the technologies we are introducing. We have to live with the possibility of bad surprises and try to deal with them as good as we can.

>history has shown that corporations will do anything to make a buck and will lie and bribe to get away with it.

But that is not just true for change. It's also true for blocking change. Would oil companies not go to great lengths to stop us transitioning to renewable energy for instance?

Just look at what's happening in the US right now. You have an administration that thinks climate change is a hoax and that we should dig up more coal and pump more oil and gas. And yet the transition to renewables is in full swing.

Would you really want this administration to be able to press the stop button on all new renewables development based on some fanciful claims about potential future risks?

>The problems aren't imagined;

Which problems? I was talking about a general principle not about face recognition. I did say myself that I think face recognition and similar tech needs to be regulated in some shape or form.
> "Eventually, a highly powerful version of a diamond battery could power a mobile phone"

Good luck with that. Using a heat-based power source inside a phone, presumably with a cramped thermoelectric generator, is not going to get you much.
This is the same annoying problem I found with Malcolm Gladwell's Blink. He draws this conclusion that we can trust our first impressions, but it's really unclear how he comes to that conclusion: some of his evidence comes to no conclusion, and some of it directly contradicts that conclusion.
The moving on is part of the threat.

Dismissing one atrocity faster only means you get to the next one sooner.

You have no agency over the inflow, and there's little evidence that what you're doing has an effect -- the stream never stops. Metrics for performance and benefit of the effort as a whole are hard to construct and communicate.

As a moderator, it's just shitty shit often being done by shitty people, posted by other shitty people, again and again and again and again and again and again and again.

There's no diseased root to hack off. And if you do happen to find one, another grows in its place -- a literal Medusa's head.
Does Charles Schwab's Growth Threaten Vanguard Domination? – Financial Planning
Of course this is written by an academic. Most of the rewards and penalties of academia are status related. No one besides the football coach is making private sector money, and no one gets fired for anything less than a felony. There are large portions of the ivory tower that do nothing more than burnish the self-importance of other status seekers; armies of Associate Dean of Innovative Circle Jerks attending pointless conferences.

This is largely unavoidable in large organizations. As another article recently posted here described, it's a natural consequence of hierarchical layers never interacting with people doing the work (the bottom) or the people ultimately accountable (the top).

The real danger comes when status seeking culture overwhelms the organization as it has a tendency to be infectious. Status becomes the currency as well method of getting ahead. "Surely I am entitled to this position of importance and compensation. I am not full of shit for if I was, I would not deserve this position of importance and compensation." Actual competence and efficacy are existential threats to these people, so they further reward those below them who excel stroking their ego and bullshitting.

No, not everyone is trying to establish status in every interaction. In polite company we call those people shitheads. Shitheads have a tendency to believe everyone else is also a shithead. Some of us are actually trying to get things done, and play their silly games only because it gets them out of our office.
I don't believe it is. Rand Paul's entire platform on the issue is based on a false premise. Nobody is putting guns to doctors heads, there is just a legal impetus for hospitals to treat sick people, rather than sitting around demanding payment while the house burns.

He makes the argument entirely because he was searching for something to support his platform, not the other way around. He doesn't appear to even delve into the issue beyond healthcare == slavery but rather focuses on supporting his strange forever contradictory hyper-capitalistic vision. As such he waives any possibility to debate the issue from the position that he doesn't support the current solution because he doesn't support anything.
The caller cannot ignore it, it will simply cause audio to not be accepted automatically.
> track all FAA registered planes

I very much doubt that we'll get to even 80% of the fleet of FAA registered airplanes having ADS-B out by 2030. We're at about 50% right now.

https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/equipadsb/installation/current_e...