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> Set your 4X in the world of Dune! Or of Warhammer 40,000! Star Wars, Trek, Battlestar Galactica! Babylon Five! And so forth.

Most of those depict a single conflict, hardly a match for the 4X playbook.

> I'm pretty sure everything from the recent Civs back to the original Starcraft tracked unit advancement.

And in some of the Civs (4 or 5) it was so powerful that some of the modern units were comparatively worthless unless they had "skills" that they could only get by inheritance on the individual unit upgrade path. You'd have a clear separation between core units nurtured through the ages all the way from antiquity and gunfodder whose job was to keep the core units alive. That was all rule-gamey and zero flavor. Also too micro in my opinion and single units are still not important enough to be considered protagonists of the story.

Space 4X already come with a ship designer ever since the original MOO. But it's often just busywork to illustrate the tech progress a little. I think that this is a place that could be extended without feeling pointlessly micro or suffer from faceless genericity, if done right: so research has discovered positron phaser torpedo projectors (aka random generic technobabble). The technology apparently has an efficiency sweet spot at 50m bore length. Should the development branch design a new hull around those dimensions or do we create a less efficient module that fits our venerable, cheap Bounty-class frigate that gives crews +10 morale because of that popular holovid show set aboard the lead ship of the class? (aka random flavor event hull class bonus). And all the specialty role ships that have been derived from that hull? It would be an interesting game mechanic because you can't fall into a default pattern like "always go for the biggest, longest range weapons and avoid battles where the enemy might come into close range": even the most module-conservative player would occasionally have to cut compatibility introduce a fully new generation. An echo chamber, where the player is mostly interacting with consequences of her own decisions. Decisions that are not necessarily better or worse in terms of running but that are meaningful because they shape your future options. That's what I expect from all games that aren't just about eye candy or reaction time. I like the idea better the more I think about it.

This could actually be a very nice Stellaris DLC, a boatload of chance event microcontent and a total overhaul of a game mechanic that can be rewritten in total isolation of the others. If only Paradox were into making DLC! (just kidding there of course)
We use mirage with test-controlled response timings to be able to acceptance test loading states. Works great.

You can also configure a universal delay if you’re using mirage in development and want to get a feel for your app with a certain amount of latency.
A stack-less Rust coroutine library under 100 LoC
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They're probably just using the usual combination of wishful thinking, fuzzy thinking, and ignorance of the engineering obstacles. There is zero chance of commercially viable fusion by 2030 and close to zero by 2040. It's possible we'll see an experiment reach breakeven by then, but the chasm between that and commercial viability is enormous.
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So not true. Browser and OS vendors recognize this problem. “Store this key securely and provide it to me” makes sense to implement, so websites can take advantage of all the hardening and security features of the device versus hoping someone doesn’t share a password between two sites.
Ask HN: What is the hardest part of self-learning?
I had to face many challenges as a self-learner. Finding the right things to learn, motivation, etc. What is for you the biggest challenge of being self-taught?
I became a Perl 5 programmer by mistake
http://archive.vn/88huO
$5 includes a generous free tier for Workers KV that can hold upto 10MiB of data against a single key. Cloudflare does not charge for bandwidth consumed, I believe. Also, use of Cloudflare's zonal http-cache is free.

I guess, when I compared, I took Lambda@Edge's per second billing into consideration and not per 50ms (which brings down the RAM usage cost from $62.52 to $3.13 and total usage from $68.52 to $9.13).

What really sealed the deal for me was the very low cold-start times with Workers. I'm not aware of recent improvements with Lambda@Edge, but the last time I tried them, it wasn't uncommon to hit 100ms+ start times.
It's a very common HN trope! "I don't even own a television" on threads about cable TV, or "I don't have a Facebook account" on threads about Facebook. These 10x hipsters never want to do anything fun and easy that "the masses" do -- and they have a compulsion to let everyone else know they're special. I think it comes from parents that made a mediocre kid believe he's special and gifted and that all his ideas are profound.
For all practical purposes, it looks to me that there's no difference between soldered and slotted when they both have a physical switch to disable them.

In theory you can change the modem/wifi in the Librem, that may be more "open" but you pay for it in size.
How well can it do when travelling through a city with tall buildings all around?
That is the opposite of what I am saying and the opposite of the various links and quotes I have provided. They do not exist due to evidence but because the standard model demands their existence.
In my opinion, the chance of nuclear fusion "working" is so low that it's not worth what is currently being spent on it. To the extent that it is a worthwhile area of research, it should more resemble basic research in plasma physics, not targeted development at a limited number (or one) large scale concepts that are going to be dead ends.
Antisemitic horse-shit.
Can someone clear up if the modem and the GPS can talk directly?
Not being able to shutdown the GPS indepandently put me off librem.
And so would many organisations who would like to use it to influence hacker opinion.
Can someone explain why the modem running closed source blob is not considered a huge problem?
The problem with these calls for HTTPS is that those doing it believe http and https are mutually exclusive. They completly turn off human navigable webservers and leave only the machine navigable ones online. It makes the web only accessible to computer software written in the last 5 years.

There are plenty, I'd say most, websites which do not need HTTPS. And my static website does not need https. It's nice, sure, but it's a personal website and there's no money or personal information involved. Leaving an HTTP version going alongside the HTTPS and Tor hidden service is just fine.

The greater evil is having people run third party code by default on every website from every random domain that's called. Now that's insecure. It's like opening every email attachment you get. Every single "danger" of HTTP he lists is actually a danger of running third party code blindly and automatically.
Interesting that none of the rules of journalism include just reporting facts. In fact, it says that journalists should be disciplined for "reckless" reporting of any fact.

It kind of explains why we live in the fact light environment of quotes and spin. Presumably, if a hard fact proves unpopular with a large enough group, then those facts, even when backed by hard evidence, can likely land you in a lot of trouble.

A bit understandable I suppose? I mean, if talking bad about Trump or Obama increases the number of shooters in your Walmarts and churches, then yeah, probably should be careful about doing that. At the same time, if you have to walk on egg shells around people so emotionally invested in a person, or place, or subject that they're going to shoot up anyone who disagrees with them, then your journalism on that issue is not likely to be very "good" in any case.
Agreed - love this as a concept, but the fact that users cannot reset their password makes this a non-starter for me.
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Ok, using the first item as an example (http://3taps.com/developers-overview.php). None of their endpoints seems to support SSE, long-polling, streams, websockets, tcp sockets or any other type of "real-time" feeds. But they do have a polling endpoint that you have to hit with GET requests. Does that classify as real-time in your list?
IDK, I don't mind them at all. Yeah, of course, all software is written for humans in some sense, but no single piece of software is ever going to be "the one" that satisfies every single person out there.

Some people like to keep it simple, others like to geek out on esoteric settings and full configurability. Personally I like when a software is upfront about who it's for, instead of pretending to cater to everyone's taste.

Even Windows comes in several flavors because one size doesn't fit all.
Even if the surveying continues to be both local and continuously observed, and the shapes of properties are changing over time, the current system works just fine.

Properties change, and their values change, and owners adapt. Really this is no different in a practical sense than having a house on an eroding beach, or (sigh...) in a sinking city.
Instead of that, why don’t you just offer Sign In with Apple and Google’s equivalent. If you can reset a password via email, why bother storing anything in local storage.

Let google and Apple be your IDP provider and use the identity they provide as that key?
This is theoretically all the data about a flys nervous system, which would be the hardest data collection part of building a fly simulation.
>The Terraform example doesn't seem particularly useful to me, as something that runs Terraform would be on the CI side. I don't need to worry about dependencies locally or anywhere else because it should never ever be ran anywhere but the CI server, which we would steward over.

Running terraform fmt locally is useful to be able to do even if the apply runs in CI. And for the 0.11->0.12 migration being able to run terraform 0.12upgrade locally was useful.

>Dependency management for devops sounds reasonable, but to me it seems more like trying to make an NPM/Cargo/pip that is for every language instead of a particular language.

This seems to me more of a dependency checker than a traditional manager which is useful if you pin dependencies (and for reproducible builds and identical prod/test envs you really should). There's a number of companies which do this for security on live environments (scanning your running containers, registry, AMIs, etc.).
Well-sourced conference report. Actually saves me a lot of time. To summarize: it's still the Wild West in AI. But there is broad recognition that governance is essential

I'll just add one more report, as if the dozens already mentioned were not enough. It's from Berkeley's Center For Long-Term Cybersecurity. And it addresses the enormous challenge of securing AI systems from adversarial attack. A glimpse into the vortex of how the "industrialization of AI" creates a self-perpetuating, fractal-like cycle of eternal dependencies. Requiring us to create ever stronger AI to protect and serve the AI on which our new engineering platforms will be founded upon

https://cltc.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/CLTC_Cu...

It stands to reason then, the ultimate AI-mediated prediction problem is predicting the impacts of AI itself ;)
I missed the edit window.

I do appreciate the heads up, thanks.
>My reasoning is that it is ubiquitous (on Unix platforms at least), fast and likely to be preinstalled. I use my accounting program a lot, and I often tinker with various flavours of Unix. With a P5 implementation I can start from a clean Linux distro, bootstrap my user account from a git repo, and my program is ready to go straight out of the gate.

QFT
Would be curious to know the youngest founder accepted into YC. I know John Collison was about 17 (maybe 16.5) when founding Auctomatic in YCW07. Has there been anyone younger?
The PinePhone looks compelling indeed.

One question: does anyone know where encryption occurs for 4G and Bluetooth voice for example? Is audio going to a BT headset encrypted inside the BT chip? Is audio going to the 4G network encrypted inside the modem?

Edit: Thanks for your replies.
It's much more rare though and it's almost entirely absent when looking at political coverage. Two journalists I can think of off the top of my head who have acted with outstanding integrity in recent years are Ronan Farrow and Julie K. Brown (broke the Weinstein and Epstein stories respectively). Part of what makes their journalism so strong is that they had to fight the entire industry to get their stories out.

Political coverage is a nightmare though. Just yesterday George Stephanopoulos was caught on camera acting in an extremely partisan manner [1]. This happens on both sides of the isle regularly at this point (the White House itself is hardly faultless). It's only ratcheted up since 2016 where it seems the press took it up themselves to "save" us, where the definition of save seems to be: push their own political opinions.

1. https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1220758756071497728
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You could also look into Shamirs’s Secret Sharing as a way to split up recovery keys.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing
I would assume each would happen inside the BT chip and inside the modem, respectively.
Hackers mining for Bitcoin using other people's computers
Your static website may be nice and friendly, but if you serve it with HTTP, I could ask for your website and get something else.

Maybe something less friendly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22146260
Cancun Became a Hot Vacation Spot Because of a Computer Program
Sorry, it's 10,000 square miles in the article I linked. I can't edit my post anymore, but my point stands.

Energy consumption is actually dropping in the US currently, but I don't expect that trend to continue indefinitely, eventually we will get to 100x energy usage. And you're right, at that point solar wouldn't cut it.

But that's a far cry from your original post saying it won't work for a developed nation, when it clearly can work for the world's richest and most energy intensive nation.

As for the very far future when solar won't cut it? I'm sure we'll use a lot of nuclear, and by then probably a lot of nuclear fusion. Or maybe we won't have those crazy energy requirements because we've moved most industry off the planet like per Jeff Bezos' vision of the future. It's enough to get ourselves sorted in the present, so we can have a bright future, and solar and wind power can help us achieve that. There's no reason nuclear can't be a part of that picture, but they have a hard challenge ahead because current nuclear is not competitive cost wise with renewables plus energy storage.
Thanks! No, I don't mind at all, thank you.

I will let you know next time I'm in London, it's been a while. I'm still in Thessaloniki, let me know if you're ever around!
> Solution: Round after every operation

No, the solution is not to use floating point numbers to store money.

I worked on an iOS app in fintech for years, and let me assure you, using floating point numbers to calculate currency is an exercise in frustration and lack of correctness. When balances are wrong you're losing your customers money, which in turn loses trust in your product. You know it's inexact, an approximation, and your customers want an exact answer.

Just do it with a fixed-precision decimal number, and represent it as a string.
Probably not, I was just speaking informally.
>My ISP's primary focus is giving me Internet

No, their primary focus is to make money and they are finding that selling your data and showing you ads is profitable. Google hoards data so it can use it and I generally trust Google to keep the data secure. I don't trust my ISP to keep my data secure or not to sell it to everyone on the planet.
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Same post from yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22137578
Casinos have been doing this for a long time.

You've also got a GPS becon in your pocket, and are probably paying with a card attached to your name and government ID number.

So unless you're paying in cash and not carrying a phone, you're already a big red dot.
Thank you for sharing this, the report is really fascinating.
In addition to partisanship and sensationalism, access journalism has dramatically lowered the quality of what gets reported:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_journalism

It's also worth referencing Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent which lays out the playbook for propaganda posing as journalism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
> If your favorite language doesn't support ieee754 decimal float, start badgering them to add it! This has gone on long enough, and the inertia against change is strong.

Without hardware support (which makes decimal float a good choice for performance), I'm not sure I've ever run into a use case where decimal float is a compelling choice if I already have arbitrary precision decimal and hardware-backed binary float types available.
Thanks for providing the link — these are stunning. Like a generative art piece.
U.S. military to replace chips in computers because of trusted computing flaw
The brand, the IP, is the whole company. Once a court rules that people can recreate the rules of Tetris and make money, then they will have to compete against generic brands, and probably lose millions of annual revenue.

The thing is that they don't have copyrights on playfield dimensions and the shapes of the blocks, since those are actually functional elements of the game. However, they have been able to protect their brand by claiming that these things fall under trade dress.

What they've argued in court is like Ford saying that Chevy infringed on their trade dress by also using wheels, an engine, a steering wheel, etc.
It is interesting that the main argument against staying http is one of social responsibility. Your static site isn't any more susceptible to attacks with http only, but your users are. A bunch of MITM techniques are thwarted by only visiting https sites. Is that your problem as a webmaster? Since LE, I have taken up the position that it is easy, and I prefer https sites as a user, so I really don't have a good reason not to enable https.

Also, an attack on my end users is an attack on my site. Anytime someone wants to see my content and gets something else, that is bad. If I can significantly raise the difficulty of doing that, why wouldn't I?
I went to a Catholic high school. One of the only sisters left that worked at the school ran the computer lab.

Passwords were stored in clear text and it was common for students to ask her what their forgotten password was. She would look it up in the system, and tell them.

Eventually some of us figured out how to change other users passwords and of course we changed them to all sorts of unseemly phrases that a high school student boy would find amusing.

When that student would ask for their password she would simply change it to something pleasant...but amusingly maintain the general structure of the unseemly phrase changing only the bad words. We saw her laugh a few times.
Presumably they will have to solve this problem for the aircraft, can't have those landing willy nilly in bike lanes and crosswalks.

That's Uber we're talking about. I don't think they giva a fuck as long as it's not bad for business.

I do believe, however, that they can't just apply their brand of "regulatory arbitrage" when it comes to airspace usage.

Around here you're dicking with federal regulators and the military. Not a bunch of city government yokels that you can strongarm into submission.
Looks like it's on the SOC (SOC has it and not seeing external GPS chip on board pictures), so most likely.

Ask them on twitter @thepine64
Though how the SOC is wired up inside may beyond their scope or the dreaded NDA from the SOC supplier.
>Just yesterday George Stephanopoulos was caught on camera acting in an extremely partisan manner [1]

To be fair, Stephanopoulos was a Democratic operative for years before transitioning to media. Why would you expect him to not be partisan?
AMD earnings: Intel’s data-center surge will be a tough act to follow
Do the hw offload in the GPUs :).
It's the job of journalists to vet the stories. No journalist ever has or ever will suggest that the earth is flat. That's a strawman.
Cost of new books. I usually need to see a tiny passage in a new book (I constantly monitor the internet for new releases) and am not willing to buy a book just for that.
China to build Wuhan hospital in six days
Could've just unplugged the network cable... though the plan to proxy someone else's VNC server was a good one.
Protecting data is solving a problem almost everyone is interested in, including non-technical people.

And the existence of password managers disproves your claim regardless. It adds more friction to my life to use a password manager versus an insecure password.

We're hitting a very particular tradeoff with this product, one which is largely untapped. We'll see which way the chips fall :)
I don’t know if blaming google is the only solution here - it’s really Quora’s fault for not building a good way to monetize into their platform.

Lots of startups do that and most of those don’t get far. Quora did and now they need to fix it. Just like code debt.
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Nobody's perfect, and Linode clearly had growing pains. Can you point to anything in the past four years? If not, I'd give them another chance.
There was a hn thread on it aswell when they finally added it instead of nullrouting ips

Might be this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12403783
https://brndn.io/blog/2019/12/02/startup-ideas/

Unfortunately, that's the anti-answer. He doesn't seem to have ideas.

I think this was a perfect moment for him to pitch his idea.
I wouldn't but I also wouldn't expect a political operative to become the chief anchor and political correspondent of a major network.
Different keys for what, though? Separate spaces? Sure. Front and back doors? Pointless complication.
I want privacy with the site I'm trying to connect to including when I do so for the first time. I don't care about privacy with whomever is running a MITM attack on me since that's rather pointless.
Did you not read my comment? I love HTTPs. I make sure all my websites have it available. But I also make sure there's an HTTP site too.
Back in early 2009, I was launching a file storage web service similar to Dropbox (without the client, but with an API with OAuth 1 support) using AWS Ec2 and S3. I planned to use HTTPS, but it was expensive for me (as a college dropout), and the website is still online without it. I abandoned the project afterward. Recently, I started to migrate it from AWS to Google Cloud Platform, and one of the goals was to add HTTPS to it. However, I haven't had much time to finish the migration, and it's still not being served as HTTPS (even though it has all other sorts of protection that were the norm back then). I wonder how many other "legacy websites" have a similar issue (which I don't find justifiable for anything 'in production').
Quora is compensating writers (at least those they deem the best) as Partners.
https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone

Looks like GNSS is directly on the modem chip.
No one cares. I don't say that with Glee. Throw this grievance on the pile with the rest of them I guess.
I live in Texas, and I've seen awkward moments at dinner parties where pro-gun people say the government must not ever have a registry of owners or civilization will collapse. I bet that the next day, to let off a little steam, they bought bullets on their iPhone and had Google maps take them to the range...