skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People interested in a new generation of RTSs should check out Frost Giant Studios [1]. About the time Blizzard was canceling future development on SC2, a bunch of prominent ex-Blizz devs and designers announced they were making a new studio with the express intent of keeping the genre going.

You can scroll to the 'team' section to see their bona fides; the founding members have track records that make me want to believe it'll be a good product.

1. https://www.frostgiant.com/
What can we learn from the lunar pandemic that never was?
British Intelligence was a complete clusterfuck roughly until Peter Wright's generation came of age within the services and were finally able to institute things like Vetting(!!!!!!!!!!).

After that, however, starting slightly dubiously with Polyakov (Possibly a dangle) and highlighted by Gordievsky they were "winning". I don't have a citation on hand, but I believe Gordievsky stated that a set of diplomatic expulsions in the mid 1970s absolutely crippled KGB operations in the UK and the station never really recovered.

I personally just about (70/30) believe that Hollis was ELLI, it's just too good to be true with the lack of offical resolution and correlation with SONYA. If he was really a double agent, then the Russian's would have nearly had the heads of both MI5 and SIS in their control (Philby was in line for the throne).

I am currently writing a hands on (Zachtronics-style even, e.g. build your own https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)) dialogue-y game set roughly in this time period set inside MI5, I hope to be able to capture how crap they were.
Does it make a difference? The ones from the marketing department convey the message better and are pretty to look at. These are not as cool to average consumer.
The problem really is that Africa isn’t in a position to do it to anyone else.
Isn't this what the fd/8 local addresses are for?
It's L3, but I think it's called 'system cache' because it is also used for the bus that loads memory from RAM into the GPU.
Don't.

Or actually do, but only after you notice you're not moving forward.

I'm at my 8th role, never lasted more than two years in one and got fired a few times in my career - in most cases because I tried (and failed) to be flexible, obedient and not be the source of any trouble.
> Imagine downloading every application as a docker container. WTF.

Help me understand the WTF here, and also how that’s meaningfully different from an OS X app?
If something does go wrong, the people who approved x+2 will be the first ones handed pink slips and the bureaucrats will get a finger wagged at them. That's why it's better to comply and have it noted that x+2 was offered but ultimately poo-poo'd by management.
It's an active research field. E.g. from October 2020: Calibrating Deep Neural Networks using Focal Loss: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09437

> Miscalibration - a mismatch between a model's confidence and its correctness - of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) makes their predictions hard to rely on. Ideally, we want networks to be accurate, calibrated and confident. We show that, as opposed to the standard cross-entropy loss, focal loss [Lin et. al., 2017] allows us to learn models that are already very well calibrated. When combined with temperature scaling, whilst preserving accuracy, it yields state-of-the-art calibrated models. We provide a thorough analysis of the factors causing miscalibration, and use the insights we glean from this to justify the empirically excellent performance of focal loss. To facilitate the use of focal loss in practice, we also provide a principled approach to automatically select the hyperparameter involved in the loss function. We perform extensive experiments on a variety of computer vision and NLP datasets, and with a wide variety of network architectures, and show that our approach achieves state-of-the-art calibration without compromising on accuracy in almost all cases.

Calibration will be practically solved in couple of years. Then a bit longer for addressing adversarial robustness.
Higher status friends, marrying into a "better family" and so on. Your family (especially more distant) will respect you more.

Also, I think a major elephant in the room: some people just feel better about themselves and sleep better, knowing that they are a big dog and can feel justified in looking down on others.
Yes, it was basic. And self-esteem head-pats don't do much for me except arouse a feeling of being patronized and raise suspicions.

All-in-all, this doesn't seem to do the clients justice if they don't throughly test to see what prospective candidates are made of by pushing their real-world problem-solving abilities, intuition, knowledge, and expertise.

My conclusion is to dissuade the use of TB as a candidate or as a hiring manager.
Because it's more real, and more inspiring to look at real technical material.
> Or use named volumes

And how do you access these from your host with high performant IO?
TL;DR: A change was made to set the minimum CPU level (instruction set target) for Big Sur builds to Ivy Bridge. This assumes the presence of AVX instructions on all Big Sur machines, which is true for Intel macs. Rosetta is a Big Sur "machine" that does not support AVX. Therefore, the assumption was false.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn0td-xpl8w
I think many others also have 'essentially unlimited resources' but it is the execution and quick iteration that is unique to both Tesla and SpaceX.
It would be more educational to share a few of those things that actually matter. Why exactly does social status matter?
The reason is that docker on mac runs in a Linux VM and VM mounts are slow.
The system-level cache isn't an L3 cache specific to the CPU only, it's common across all the blocks in the SoC.

It is used by the GPU, neural engines,... in addition to the CPU itself.
It doesn't just escape through tiny gaps. It's small enough to permeate through any material we use to contain it.
The KGB were definitely the shrewder operation (this is why people effectively giving their modern counterparts the benefit of the doubt via blind equivalency irks me). The CIA did some absolutely insane things during the Cold War (and after), but the KGB was in some ways the backbone of the Soviet Union - it doesn't even begin to compare.

The saying "No one does it better" is apt when it comes to things like active measures and the Russians.
I'm of the opinion that critical thought and honest skepticism should be applied equally to both mainstream and alternative media, because in modern reality both are essentially the same and can be undermined by the same biases, incentives and narrative distortions.

Simply assuming the mainstream media is lying all the time and every conspiracy theory is probably true is lazy cynicism.
Seasonal Spirals
I like the fact these compensation rules have massive loopholes.

If they didn't, I think it would more than double the price of some tickets.

Sometimes I fly hundreds of miles for 10 euros (all taxes and fees included). There is no way a business can offer a refund of 300 euros if that flight is delayed.

Compensation should be an optional feature - I should be able to spend an extra 30 euros on my flight to get compensation in case of delay. Ask me when I book. Just like other insurance.
I know nothing about chips, but I guess it's probably the last-level CPU cache but the GPU shares it as well, similar to Intel iGPU, so they decided to call it "system cache".
The inquiry I am making is more general - infantilization of consumers and the idea of dumbing things down for consumers like they're blobs of meat with cash to spare.

You don't need to see the cartoonized version of it either. May be its easier as a schematic to explain? Not sure. A list of M1's features would work equally well. I think its just marketing pizzaz.
Using an iPod with a damaged hard drive
Something that isn't significantly touched on here that most RTSes neglect is physical logistics. That is, actually getting resources from the point of collection to the point of consumption.

In most RTSes, once you collect resources they essentially go into a magic resource counter in the cloud. You can collect wood on one side of the map, and instantly create a building with that on the other side of the map.

I would be really interested in playing an RTS that focused much less heavily on variety of combat, and much more heavily on variety of logistics.

Imagine a game where you had to shuttle food to your army to keep it fed, or physically bring stone to a construction site to build a castle, and you had to physically stockpile resources in vulnerable depots that would become targets of enemy raids.

You'd have to do a lot of design work to make the ergonomics of setting up the logistics infrastructure not incredibly tedious, but I think it could be done.

The closest RTS I have seen to this is probably the Warrior Kings series which was definitely ahead of its time in many ways.
That really doesn't make any sense unless you were told to buy apple but said "hey these IBM laptops are cheaper and faster! I'll get them and they'll love how much I saved them."
> Because it's more real

Why is more real better for this purpose?

Isn't a big idea of diagrams that they aren't real so can be simpler and easier to understand? Otherwise we'd just use photos or actual schematics.

> more inspiring

Most people just need to get the info so they can get on with their job and day and get home to their kids. They aren't looking to be inspired right now. That's fine.
If by "negotiate" you mean buy something else or DIY, then yeah. Otherwise good luck.
> Wonder why I was downvoted for what I think is quite relevant.

Because Section 230 is one of the 5 pillar of Sillicon Valley big-tech impunity-while-at-the-same-time-manipulating-content dogma. Criticizing section 230 is akin to blasphemy, no less. [reference to a well-known intolerant religion totally intended].
" [...] an approach we call Focused Protection [...]

As immunity builds in the population, the risk of infection to all – including the vulnerable – falls. We know that all populations will eventually reach herd immunity – i.e. the point at which the rate of new infections is stable – and that this can be assisted by (but is not dependent upon) a vaccine. Our goal should therefore be to minimize mortality and social harm until we reach herd immunity.

The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk. We call this Focused Protection.

Adopting measures to protect the vulnerable should be the central aim of public health responses to COVID-19. By way of example, nursing homes should use staff with acquired immunity and perform frequent testing of other staff and all visitors. Staff rotation should be minimized. Retired people living at home should have groceries and other essentials delivered to their home. When possible, they should meet family members outside rather than inside. A comprehensive and detailed list of measures, including approaches to multi-generational households, can be implemented, and is well within the scope and capability of public health professionals.

Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal. Simple hygiene measures, such as hand washing and staying home when sick should be practiced by everyone to reduce the herd immunity threshold. Schools and universities should be open for in-person teaching. Extracurricular activities, such as sports, should be resumed. Young low-risk adults should work normally, rather than from home. Restaurants and other businesses should open. Arts, music, sport and other cultural activities should resume. People who are more at risk may participate if they wish, while society as a whole enjoys the protection conferred upon the vulnerable by those who have built up herd immunity." [0]

[0] https://gbdeclaration.org/
Apple created the store because it sells iOS devices.

It sells iOS devices because it’s a curated and environment where people feel safe to buy software, and because Apple can deliver apis for new hardware as they release it rather than moving at the speed of web standards.

Apps also can be engineered for privacy and security in ways that web apps cannot.

The store will always be a differentiator from the open web in this way.

It is in Apple’s interest to have both the best browser and the best native platform and store.
I know my manager has had people reach out cold on LinkedIn. His profile makes it pretty clear he’s hiring so he doesn’t mind at all. If he gets a good vibe he’ll setup a call between me and the potential candidate. If that all goes well we’ll kick off the formal recruitment process.
> It’s likely, Miller thinks, that capitalism, “with its isolation of individuals and its accelerating generation of choices and chances,” has increased the number of our unlived lives. “The elevation of choice as an absolute good, the experience of chance as a strange affront, the increasing number of exciting, stultifying decisions we must make, the review of the past to improve future outcomes”—all these “feed the people we’re not.” Advertisers sell us things by getting us to imagine better versions of ourselves, even though there’s only one life to live: it’s “yolo + fomo,” a friend tells Miller, summing up the situation nicely. The nature of work deepens the problem. “Unlike the agricultural and industrial societies that preceded it,” Miller writes, our “professional society” is “made up of specialized careers, ladders of achievement.” You make your choice, forgoing others: year by year, you “clamber up into your future,” thinking back on the ladders unclimbed.

Freedom is a weird thing. Most would say that more personal freedom is a good thing, at least for themselves. Yet so many behave in exactly the opposite way. I'm reminded of Paul Graham's recent essay How to Think for Yourself, and this passage about ideologies:

> The independent-minded thus have a horror of ideologies, which require one to accept a whole collection of beliefs at once, and to treat them as articles of faith. To an independent-minded person that would seem revolting, just as it would seem to someone fastidious about food to take a bite of a submarine sandwich filled with a large variety of ingredients of indeterminate age and provenance.

http://paulgraham.com/think.html

Nobody forces an ideology on someone, and yet the number of people who gleefully latch onto ideologies seems to be exploding.

Could there be a connection between greater freedom and greater desire to restrict that freedom - not from the outside, but from within?
Jumping from 73 MB -----> 500 MB or whatever.

Have you been running Docker on your system? Have you tried running: `docker system prune -a`? It's gonna print something like Total reclaimed space: 31.2GB.
> Those that break the law SHOULD have to live in fear that they'll face consequences.

Let's agree to disagree.

> The hospital admins have an incentive

The cops do too. Someone, somewhere is going to be pushing them to try and maximize the use of this very expensive system they just installed. Politically, they'll be very motivated by their superiors to say it's super good.

And if you aren't convinced that hospital admins or TSA or drivers using GPS deferring to computers aren't examples of general human behavior, here's some more:

* A machine learning algorithm detected you were in violation of copyright. Your content has been deleted/moderated/banned.

* A computer graded application process presents your scores to a human, who evaluates your employability, but largely just accepts whether the computer said, "Hire/No Hire".

* Ever been denied for a loan for something the computer says?

* Ever driven a self-driving car that does most of the work for you, but then you crash into people and things because you just generally trust it to do the right thing and stop paying attention?

* A police officer arrested an innocent man, and several people interrogated him based on a bad facial recognition algorithm. (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/technology/facial-recogni...)

Machine Learning is a powerful tool, but it is only as good as the humans who make it and the data they supply to train it. And the closer it gets to good, the more humans will believe it is actually flawless. Humans in the loop absolutely will not fix the flaws with a system like this, as time and time again humans have shown a propensity towards doing the easy thing -- trust the computer.
Pretty much unrelated, but Notion is used in attacks regularly trying to phish my business. Unfortunately I’ve got it blocked on every network.

That off topic point aside, the point of doing this would be to own your data (at least that’s my attraction to setting this up). Why set this up in Notion?
Being wrong most of the time in this cases is normal. Speculation is based in the limited set of data available at a given point. As the data slowly improves, the hypothesis will be replaced by better explanations. Is an iterative process.

If we see for example an old fainted abdominal scar, without more additional data, the correct explanation would be to assume that it was made (or closed) by a surgeon. This will be the correct explanation in, lets say, 80% of the real cases. An attack or an accident would be the next logical candidates. People deliberately shooting themselves in the belly are really rare events so we should not choose this explanation in the first iterations without discarding the more probable candidates first.

After discarding the other options, a case of mental issues and anorexia, maybe followed by eating too much [1] in a too fragile body would explain it

[1] despite his extreme condition, he was eating and drinking, as the autopsy reveals.

... but after discarding the other options, there is still another remaining candidate that links together and explains practically all little strange details that seemed out of place in this history, and this candidate is prostate cancer.
Get real - which consumer ever really cares about die shots?

I'm a rather technical folk and even I don't care.
It's a non concern. All people are equal before law in opportunities.

Economically they aren't and never will be.

And even busybodies should know that people who were raised well don't care to be economically equal with others. Why would I want to be economically equal with my rich next-door neighbor? I don't give a rat's ass about that. His wealth is none of my business.
wtf are you doing to create such large Docker containers? Are you installing each app on top of a fully-fledged Ubuntu? Are you leaving the build tools in the final container?
Somewhat related. I suffer from mygraines and I like to think of the attacks that they are caused by some sort of a circuit-breaker that tells me to slow down and take more care of myself
If I make an algorithm to rank sites, and you figure out the internals of that algo and manipulate your behavior to rank at the top, that's bad and not the same as being Google's choice, at least not directly.
Thanks. I'm not sure that "identity card" here would mean something like a passport versus a company identification card. Taking away the passport is indeed a common scheme in human trafficking, but these seem to be domestic workers so it's unclear how that would work.
There is a great quote from A defense lawyer in the HBO show “The Undoing”:

“You know, I should say up front that, in my experience, doctors tend to be assholes. The reason they tend to be assholes is because they get to be. They're doctors.”
> Curious, does one need to use nixOS for an optimal experience?

My experience: no. I've been very happily using Nix on debian for years. Debian gives me my boring desktop apps (I have very very boring tastes), almost all my tinkering and development starts with drawing all the prerequisites from Nix.

The only times you get weirdness from using non-NixOS linux are things like running opengl apps, which simply require a wrapper script like `nixGL` to function properly.

And darwin Nix is just about the only thing that makes macos a bearable platform for me.
Welch school is notorious for overwork and fast firing. It's ironic to see coldtea portray Swan's potential firing as a hit to morale. Swan's a bean counter and a bozo, and Intel needs big changes at the top.

Typical: https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2017/08/intels_cfo...
You are revealing your own lack of understanding. I'll agree there's some fluff in the article and it is selectively edited after-the-fact. But dismissing the concepts here is naive.

> Domino's aren't currently delivering pizzas by drone or self-driving cars

But it gets them a ton of free publicity -- even better than paid advertising. And it gets into your subconscious -- the idea that Domino's really cares about getting you a hot pizza, and is actively developing technology to make that happen, certainly more than any of the competition. "Hot" (or lack thereof) is likely the attribute most-highly correlated with customer satisfaction vs disappointment, so this is huge.

> Domino's pizza tracking and online ordering is cool, but nobody orders Domino's because of it.

Yes, plenty do. It adds accountability and transparency to a rather chaotic process. Would you continue to use Fedex if they got rid of all tracking numbers? When Domino's delivers as promised, and the transaction went smoothly, and all the steps along the way were displayed, people remember it -- especially the next time they want a pizza.

> they finally improved their product after years of cost optimization. Better pizza = more sales

So if they stopped optimizing costs, how do their prices stay super-competitive? Better pizza doesn't translate to more sales if it also means higher prices
It is other way around: in the original class-ful internet the numerical range of first octet directly implied what is in CIDR called netmask length. The original IPv4 implementations probably did not even have concept of netmask and this was instead hardcoded. Implementing the routing decision as netmask is nice optimalization which then probably inspired the CIDR concept, because at sufficently high level the only thing you need for that to work is making the netmask (or at least the length) freely configurable.
You seem to have answered a question other than the one I asked.
> I think you were looking for a support email. I think at facebook's scale its a bit difficult.

Only because facebook is greedy as fuck and prefers massive amount of unethical profits than actually providing a good service.
The nice thing about a culture that exalts “I raised kids and they turned out well” as a “life well lived metric” is that its broadly accessible. You can be born below average in intelligence and creativity and still be a good dad or mom, participate in local civic organizations, etc.
That's impressive. And somewhat scary :-)
Why is this interesting? Rosetta 2 is documented to not support AVX: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple_silicon/abou...
That's what I am trying to ask myself too! I am sorry that I am a developer and I need to run a bunch of docker compose files.
As far as photography is concerned, the act of making a photograph and giving it away to someone constitutes publishing. Here, the engineer published the photo by giving it to his employer (and making it a part of the test suite).

Not publishing would be keeping it to himself, which the engineer did not do. For all we know, his girlfriend did not consent for that photo to be distributed to other people. Model release forms exist for that reason.

But that's not merely a publishing consideration anyway; the law is more general than that.

In the end, it's someone's face being used for a commercial purpose without consent, and this is exactly what the law is about.
Interesting to see the CPU isn't actually that big in the chip. What are the uncommented parts? Maybe peripheral interfaces?