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Hey folks!

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BuildEngine lets you run builds faster, run multiple builds in parallel, and maintain consistent architecture across builds. BuildEngine is also compatible with all major game engines and can be easily integrated into your existing CI / CD pipeline (e.g. GitLab, TeamCity, etc.)

We want to give indie game devs and their teams the same tools as larger AAA studios without the overhead of managing their own servers. Game development is hard enough as it is already and so we want to do our part to make it a little easier :)

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Thanks all!
Not just as “safe bet” - margins are higher on new hardbacks.
What about the XPS 15 or its enterprise counterpart (Precision 5500 series)? I ran Ubuntu on an older XPS 15 for years with few issues.
I'm convinced that Gen-Z is going to blow all of this out of the water. That the world will eventually hit a point where there isn't anyone without something online that can come back to haunt them. And I think companies are starting to see it too.

A little anecdotal but when I was applying for jobs last summer there was a video that was brought up twice during interviews with different organizations. Both times I was told after the fact that it was just to see how I would react, all I did was tell them what happened, not that I was sorry because I wasn't, I told them I stood behind what my actions were and there was nothing I could do about it now (it hit 100k views on Instagram, not a situation where I can contain it). Both companies offered me a job.

I rewrote this a few times and I'm still not sure I got my point across, but I agree with the argument in the The Transparent Society, and I already see it shifting towards that.
with a wide definition of "this", because it would be normal for people to try to be cautious if they have a flu and quarantine or go to the ER, but they would not have gone to the ER with very early symptoms absent the specific panic around this epidemic. So if it happens that they actually had the flu and they are recovering well, will they get hammered because they medicalized the situation more and earlier than what they would have done usually?
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If you're talking about protection for the people that may be captured with the help of the data you may have on your computer, yes.

Otherwise, no. When they have you they can just torture you to death for whatever reason or no reason at all.
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Well the huge difference is, once you put cameras everywhere you can see what people did at any given moment, you can have algorithms that actively look for someone and tracks all of his movements. If you don't see the problem with that then I don't know what to say.

Sure humans can recognize people, but they can only "scan" for so much people in a crowd, they do it "live" and they don't remember everything they see.
- my test suites runs <1s !

- yeah, but spinning up the test env and loading data cost >3000s.
Because your customers would like to call customers of that company.

If they would not, you have no reason to peer with them. If their laws are too arduous to comply with, they would simply be disconnected from the phone network.

> Will I be bound by a local bylaw in oregon county misouri?

That depends on whether Oregon County, Missouri has the "cell carriers are liable for spam calls" rule. If it's just a federal law like the current ones, no.
Aeropress – Why is a simple coffee maker such a hit?
In other words, railroads, just without the need for physical rails. Great, cool, useful. Not quite the usual expected result, though.
This makes zero sense. We know the fatality rate. We know the R0. We know how many people have it currently and how fast it’s spreading. It’s simple math.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_(media)
Come visit us at Books on Beechwood in Ottawa, Canada.. we have no background music, no attitude, no one will bother you unless you look a bit lost, there are 7K books in the shop.. and we can order in anything you want from about 15 Million titles we have access to.
"expectations and shawls" .. hilarious ;-)
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Counter question. How to calculate how many tries it would take to reach a specific probability for an outcome? For example, how many times do I have to roll the dice to have 90% chance of death? Due to my field of work, I'd solve everything by bruteforce, but I wonder what a more elegant solution could be.
...to countries [1] who need it for their societies and economies to function and grow.

Is the argument that the noble thing to do would be to refuse to sell the coal, and force these countries to use more expensive forms of energy, regardless of whether it keeps more of their people in poverty for longer?

It's an easy thing to say for those of us already living in first world countries with access to all the modern comforts.

And sure, Japan and Korea are not poor countries, but they are populous, resource-poor countries with huge manufacturing industries (producing some of the world's most fuel-efficient cars, no less), so they have to import their energy from somewhere.

[1] Major importers of Australian metallurgical coal are India, Japan and China. Major importers of Australian thermal coal are Japan, China, South Korea and Taiwan https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/minerals/mineral-res...
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Read it again. They did not do a covid19 test at all.
Oh yeah, and if you need caffeine.. there's a tea shop next door (the Scone Witch) a Starbucks across the street and a Ministry of Coffee kitty corner.
> if there's demand

And if there isn't?

One of the failure states for cryptocurrencies at present seems to be a period of falling demand accompanied with a falling hashrate, at which point the blockchain can be manipulated relatviely cheaply by bad actors and all hell breaks loose.

Bisq appears to rely on bank transfer services, which are usually traceable, reversible etc, so I'm not sure it's quite the panacea one would hope.
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I wonder what their latest hardware suite costs.

I really just want to buy the car with sensors. Give me as the human the full output of sensors and all the objects besides me in a 360 view. That alone would reduce so many accidents.

I think highway driving and stop-and-go slow traffic can be automated significantly. We are very much at that stage.

I love Tesla’s model where humans are in control. Seriously Waymo, I just want to drive your cars and occasionally switch on the “auto” mode on roads that are classified auto-safe in good weather.

Iterate with us.
So, the test itself doesn't cost that much...but, getting tested does cost that much.

When most people are talking about the test, I think they're talking about the whole process.
> Finally you figure out how the shared part should work in the final wip. When you try to reorder the commits the changes in the shared part changes order with leads to merge conflicts when rebasing/reordering/squashing that needs to be solved.

An alternative approach is to create a new branch off of master (or whatever the base branch is) and take the diff of the HEAD of your branch with your work in progress commits and stage the hunks of the diff to make a commit that contains a logical change (and repeat the process for the remaining parts of the diff). The git apply command us very useful in this regard.
Rational people may do that. There is a sadly sizable contingent which absolutely does hate on billionaires though and let it become a distraction from /actually doing something about the system/. Hell often they violently oppose change to the same system which actually helps because of their own spite and selfishness. And it shows up in so many different ways and contexts.

From the racists on food stamps and welfare who want it cut and then are /shocked/ when they lose it after their canidates are elected. Everyone with a rent controlled apartment who opposes building more housing while blaming billionares simutaniously for gentrification jobs and lack of jobs causing the area to go to hell. Those complaints about traffic while opposing public transit expansion, or the sorry state of roads while angrily rejecting gas taxes to fund it.

Blaming billionares or any other helps them deny that the source of all of their life problems can be found in the mirror.
> Pretty much couldn't really care any less about most art.

Art also includes literature, music, movies, theater... Not sure if you also meant those.
‘Locate X’ allows US federal law enforcement to track phones through apps
What this means in short is exactly what was already said, but in more words and in such a way that it seems like that wasn't what was already said. You've described a native program that wasn't optimised competing against an optimised non-native program. It's already been established that this is a scenario where the latter might be faster.
Exactly, and I agree that this type of fact check seems to be on the rise, where you carefully rearrange and redefine all the words in the initial statement, and find some narrow way in which it's then not strictly true. Fun game, but not especially enlightening.
The amount of misinformation surrounding COVID-19 and healthcare is staggering. Some practical advice:

1. Call your family doctor or a local doctor first. The emergency room at the hospital is only necessary if you have immediately life threatening symptoms. If you go to the emergency room, you will receive and be charged for emergency care. This is expensive because it's for emergencies. Call your doctor first!

2. Local doctor's offices have protocols for COVID-19 testing already. This might involve some combination of staying in your car until a practitioner comes to escort you, keeping your hands folded across your chest so you don't touch anything, wearing a mask to minimize the spread from coughing, and going in a separate entrance, and staying in a reserved back room that will be carefully disinfected after you leave. Again, do not go to an emergency room and sit in the waiting room just to be tested.

3. The COVID-19 test itself is being paid for by government funds, as stated in the article. However, you will still be billed for medical services rendered such as the administration of the test. This is one reason why a local doctor is much cheaper than going to a busy emergency room.

4. Do not assume that you're positive for COVID-19 before working with a professional to understand the risk factors and diagnostic criteria. They will likely screen you over the phone to reduce the rate of false positives.

5. If you are concerned about the cost, please ask your doctor what your options are. This is not an uncommon situation and in many cases there are low-cost or free options available.
I think some of the physical gags were pretty clever and had merit beyond slap-stick humor. The "mirror" scene form Duck Soup comes to mind.
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> Except that the history is disorganized and is not organized into distinct patches that only do one thing where each patch has a well written commit message.

This seems like a separate problem... I know where commits come from cause the first thing I write on mine is the JIRA / Trac or other related ticket number / code. It is pretty obvious where a commit originated from if you do this. The rest is useful meaningful information. If somebody writes useless commit messages, that's on them and the rest of the team for letting them do so.
I read some of the above PDF... what's amazing to me is that a whole bunch of names of foreign countries pop-up over and over again in this document, specifically with assigned frequency ranges, as if the FCC is regulating frequency ranges in foreign countries... Before reading this, it seemed self-evident (to me) that the FCC's regulatory power does not extend to those foreign countries... Although, perhaps the FCC's regulatory powers do in fact extend to those countries via international agreements and/or treaties?

Does someone know?

How does that work?
I live in the hope that someday HN will apply the tiniest scrap of markdown support, and then the weird scrolling boxes will bloom as beautiful nested lists and code snippets.
> Some features are just fundamentally complicated, [..]

> Fortunately, that doesn't happen very often for most types

> of development work!

Every problem should in theory have some of breaking it down, otherwise we have no hope in programming it. We should be able to break it down far enough that it can be reasonably sanity checked. If the feature is too complicated then you're asking for bugs.

From an objective/goal stand point, we also need some way to measure our progress and be able to evaluate whether a pivot is required. It's very easy to get stuck in a problem for a long time if we have no external measure.
Humans are a pretty poor baseline.

A fully autonomous driving system that was only as good as a human would not gain much traction and the company would be on the hook for some serious legal damages if it became popular.
Numeric pros are not that happy w/ IEEE numbers. The main intellectual effort involved was that Intel had some freshers make a floating point coprocessor, then the standard just documented what the chip did.
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I think it's more a question of whether the "hooks" caught or not. Sometimes you're just different enough from target model that it backfires.
So it's OK these days to randomly ask a waiter to go and snap a photo of some other customer in a restaurant? Maybe call me old-fashioned, but that strikes me as outrageous behavior.
I wish we were more like the UK.. there the hardcover, trade and paperback editions all ship at the same time unlike here where you might have to wait a year for the paperback.
Can you do some analysis for the upcoming presidential recommendations based on twitter data or something...?
I'm very puzzled by that. We want to stop the epidemic from spreading so it's in each country's best interest to provide testing and medical care to any infected. What's the alternative? Just shouldering the cost of companies and factories that stop work and the time it takes to tackle a widespread epidemic? It seems shrewder to just provide care for anyone that needs it, at least on this occasion.
Nowadays “You’ve Got Mail” with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan looks terribly outdated, on that side.
My mother stayed at home while my father worked in an office. She did a lot of "unpaid work." He also fixed the car, re-tiled the roof, fixed the plumbing, changed the car's oil, and so on ... never got paid for it either.

So why is one type of unpaid work suddenly worth trillions, but the other isn't?
Am I the only one who dislikes this style of expository writing where the story line is non-linear and written with an excruciating abundance of adjectives?
Which goes back all the way to the Dartmouth workshop, which hoped to get most of the work done in 6-8 weeks. That was in 1956. Is most of the work done? Well there you go. (Your hint that it's a good way to get paid for such work holds, of course, but the expectation that Problems will get Solved...unlikely)
Anyone that wants their own "Clearview" like app can take almost any FR application and create a database from scraping the web. All that Clearview did was pre-scrape the web for you, but to do that yourself or as an open source project of sorts is not difficult.
Romulans would be like the wood elves.
What about raw systemd? It can do resource control, service monitoring and restart and seems pretty lightweight compared to Docker. Fewer ways to footgun with data being erased, no separate shells or finding a tool you need isn't available inside the container.
> Every carrier lets fiber route into copper.

Indeed, they'd have to stop doing that or require them to put up a security deposit.

> Your logic would work, but it is a lot of work for many entities to perform. The simple fact is that neither you nor I can control what the carriers choose to do.

No, this should be required by law. The only one who has to be bound by it is the last mile carrier - the rest is done as a voluntary agreement. If they don't sign it, they can't route calls into the US.

It could be trivially automated. Carrier A sends the message "pay us $X or we depeer you" to carrier B whenever they do not like what they got from carrier B. Their computer system evaluates whether the fine is worth continued peering with A. If it is, they pay, else they don't. This takes milliseconds. There is no need for a human to evaluate the evidence because there is no evidence needed.

Naive implementation:

def accept_fine(this_fine, value_of_continued_peering, tot_fines):
return (value_of_continued_peering > (tot_fines + this_fine))
For covid19 testing of low-likelyhood samples can you batch?

IE - take 64 samples, combine them, test it once.

If positive, divide and conquer?
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I often discover interesting newsletters by seeing other people tweet about them, mention them in a podcast or even link to them from another newsletter - example: https://cronyclecovid19.substack.com/p/corona-daily-280220 which is a newish Coronavirus daily update.

Is there a better way? Does anyone use a better tool to discover good newsletters? Where is the hackernews or Apple Podcasts tool for newsletters?
Whether or not you think that market for trading should exist, it does.
> The real problem is that people are choosing to believe sensational headlines instead of doing their own research.

I think the real problem is that people believe they could receive a 3k bill for doing the right thing.

> I’m seeing a sharp increase in the number of young people who don’t understand how their own health insurance works. They just assume it’s awful because that’s what they read in the news.

As someone who grew up with parents who had health insurance, I still had to see them choose to not go to the doctor due to costs. I saw medical bills arrive. I've had to deal with calling to find out if the doctor I needed to go to was in network, and yet still fearing that information was incorrect due to the massive bill I could expect afterwards. I've seen a 5k deductible plan staring me in the face.

Call it anecdotal all you want, but I'm not unique and this is the reason that a lot of young people know their health insurance is trash.

> I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to tell people that generic insulin is actually only $25/vial at Walmart instead of the hundreds to thousands that they read about in the news.

Assuming the other poster is correct that this isn't viable for everyone, it's a little funny given how you're harping on about those millenials/zoomers and all their lack of knowledge.

> This kind of thing is actively driving people away from taking the 10 minutes to understand their health insurance and seeking proper care.

Most people, if they have the average ~4k deductible, are not going to go to the doctor because they fear a 4k bill.
In most instances I think torture would yield all of your knowledge including the secondary unlock.

Unless you're thinking your attacker would exclude you from torture for "yielding" the password.

I would think if they are capable of torturing you than they wouldn't stop at a polite confession.
Wow, not even a complete sentence... Pretty sure this is flaggable on HN.
It’s literally the opposite of good investigative journalism. We’ve come full circle from click bait to click bait fact checking.
So how is using home electronics an efficient use of electricity (and money) for doing these tasks? What are the economics of this? Wouldn't it be more efficient to donate the money you'd spend on electricity and equipment?
> Whenever you go to a hospital it's impossible to tell what the cost will be.

Hospital emergency rooms are for emergency services.

Suspected Coronavirus patients should not be presenting to hospital ERs for testing and care unless they are experiencing respiratory distress or other urgent symptoms.

Basic testing and diagnosis should be handled via local doctors. Please call first to discuss the Coronavirus protocol.

Don't go to the Hospital unless you need urgent emergency care for something. You will be charged urgent, emergency care prices.
Market cap is a questionable valuer of "underlying" worth as it only measures speculation-value; just see WeWork for the difference.

The entire space keeps turning up scams and collapses, especially of exchanges. How many days is it since an exchange exit scam now?
Mac Pro isn’t being sold in Apple stores. Made to order only.
Orson Welles reciting (and slightly modifying) Kipling: "...but is it art?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6r_s1ugKgE
> negative outcomes for... people of color

Wouldn’t it do the opposite? Instead of racial profiling it’s using a system that pulls from social media. I wouldn’t say it’s a good system but it seems less biased.

EDIT: OP said “negative outcomes” and not “unfair towards”. Yeah I guess something can be more fair but still have disproportionate outcomes.
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we
are. They are different. ”

F. Scott Fitzgerald
I think a lot of the fear of rebasing comes from not fully grokking what it does, and not rebasing often enough.

My workflow typically involves rebasing my local branches on master every time I switch a branch or start a work session, so typically conflicts that need to be resolved are very clear and small things (e.g. someone else adds a case to a switch statement in the same place your branch does).

The biggest benefit to this that I see is that your diffs are then much more clear in what they're doing, and you have the option to update the commit message to reflect the conflict resolution if required.

That said, if you have a big feature branch and try to rebase it after a month vacation, you're gonna have a bad time.
Now I’m wondering what the context of the video was, and why they felt it was relevant to ask about.
I think that is the first problem really. People tend to be goddamned idiots doing the equivalent of looking for burglars wearing striped shirts and carrying swag bags marked with dollar signs. It is all about servicing confirmation bias. They think Elizabeth Holmes is a successful entrepreneur and anyone in a cheap suit is a fraudster.

So many of the common preconceptions are idiotic. Like "someone looking like a sexual predator". They can look like literally anyone.
A previously-used disk, wiped to NIST standards, will be filled with random data - that's exactly the point of the wipe.