skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One RTS that i actually really like, to the point i actually made a couple of maps for was World In Conflict.

It somewhat surprises me that it died off so much with no sequel or replication of the format, I thought it was a decent team RTS with a reasonable amount of variety though maybe not enough. It also a baseless RTS and had not resource gathering component, iirc, and so could be argued it's more of a Real Time Tactics game.
Asynchronous Email: Exim over NNCP (Or UUCP)
If rocket damage is a concern, why don’t such rockets destroy themselves right after leaving the launchpad? At that point the water suppression is no longer relevant but the sound waves are just as powerful. It can’t just be that the ground reflects sound waves, since that would only be a ≈3dB (2x) increase in sound energy. Rockets with >2x more thrust seem to use the same sound suppression, so rocket damage can’t be the main reason for installing such systems.

My guess is that water systems are needed to reduce damage to the launch pad.
I think the comment is referring to the heavy metal toxicity, which is presumed but poorly studied in humans.
Yes, but you don't add extra complications to see if the drivers reaction time is 'good enough' or not, especially not since (1) this is a solved problem and (2) it is supposed to make you safer, not less safe. Tesla should simply fix this.
Why not take the call and answer "no" ?
Herd immunity rate is directly dependendent on Rt. If something spreads faster, and Rt is therefore higher herd threshold will be higher too. I think the UK variant is the cause of recent updates on herd immunity percentage.
Web Vitals from Google to Measure User Experience
Last year I had my first kid, and it has really got me thinking about a lot of things in life including whether I want to continue my career in software developer. Sure the pay is good, it's a pretty cushy job (compared to something like a labourer), and I feel I'm pretty good at what I do... but I wish for something more fulfilling.

I just feel that in my career path, all my jobs have been about making other people (investors) more money and extracting value from markets rather than building something truly valuable to the world. I did actually work in a stint at an NGO, but that was so filled with a bureaucracy and wasting money I had to go back to a for-profit company.

I'm feeling that maybe I should leave the software engineering career and do something completely different (what I don't know), but I'd still like to do programming on the side. I just fell into this career as it was what I was good at.

How anyone here been at a similar cross roads in life? Which path did you choose?
One way to get around this is to drop the notion of page number. Instead do greater than last element on last page.

But this has the drawback of only working as long as the sorting field doesn't have many duplicates. You have to beware if timestamps are high resolution enough for your application or if you have 100+ entries with same family name.

Usually users are smart(lazy) enough to realize they got more than 100 results and will narrow down the search instead. When was the last time you looked beyond even the first 5 results on google yourself, i'd rather adjust the search term than go to page 2.
Sorry if I wasn't being clear, what I meant was isn't there an optimum tempo between being 'too quick' and getting choked with VP cards and 'too slow' and not getting choked, regardless of what my opponent does (excluding the effect of interaction cards).

Like - does what my opponent do significantly change my strategy? (other than balance your deck to respond to attacks). Surely the best tempo is still the best tempo.
I'd love an RTS that lets you command hundreds of units but instead of controlling them directly like puppets, you set lists of priorities with something like a visual programming UI and let AI carry them out.

Besides the hard limit on the number of units in StarCraft and other RTSes, there's also a "soft" limit on how much shit an average player can keep track of or care about.
Can I ask why you want to open a restaurant? Have you ever worked in one?
I did take a look. It's a nice tool even though the UI is not the most modern :) Seems the features that it has have already been suggested by others in the thread. Having said that, since I installed it on my desktop, I will take another look at it later, and maybe draw a bit more inspiration :)

Thanks again!
There can be and often are, because it's important to account for future expected flows - credit that's been extended and is due to be repaid, for instance, has to be accounted for. The thing is, these flows should be clearly and cleanly separated from actual cash on hand.
> You need an arguably complex and unstable Linux interface to run Docker images, cgroups et al

What is unstable about it? As far as I can tell, only the Linux kernel interface is needed, and keeping that stable is an explicit goal of the kernel.
This is why I'm so happy with the Mayron Cole material, I will try to transcribe all of it to midi files so it can be used with the software. It turns a 'neat little toy' into a complete computer assisted piano course.

For the moment though your best bet is to simply download a bunch of midi files and pick some that you would like to learn.
> If you’re running Docker, you’re running Linux

As slow as it is some people apparently enjoy running docker from win / mac
So does Fedora's latest release. zram0 partition. zipped RAM drive. And measuring speed of my /tmp directory, have a feeling it resides on RAM.
Dan, your "flamebait" characterization is grossly unreasonable.

Nobody's flaming me, so if it were flamebait I'd deserve some kind of award for most astonishingly-ineffective flamebait in history.

You ought to call it what it is: dissident speech. Dissonant, too.

Does dissident speech get people banned from HN?

PS, I admit that the (one) ascii-art text banner was silly and inappropriate.
"Industrial Revolution 2, space exploration, and bobs mods"

Just so people know what they'll be getting in to with these mods: they add a ton of content and make the game much, much longer... which is great, if that's what you want.

But maybe you prefer more combat, or less combat.. or something that's focused on giving you some particular technology or technologies, or a dozen other ways to approach the game.

Also, many of my own favorite mods don't actually add much if any content at all, but are utility mods, which make certain parts of the game more manageable or more flexible... like train management mods.
Fight Flash Fraud
https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3
Because the parties that currently control all legislatures would lose out. In some areas a ballot initiative can eventually implement proportional voting (Maine passed an initiative for ranked choice), but that’s a very high bar to clear.

It seems like the best way to get proportional voting is to create your democratic system with it that way from the beginning.
> A static file is far easier to share / distribute.

Does glibc work with static linking these days? My understanding was that even with statically linked glibc, things tend to break when the host system has a different libc / a sufficiently newer glibc.

Also, how do you do OpenGL/Vulkan/etc statically? x11docker handles them more-or-less fine, but I'm fairly certain the GPU gods send you to Tartarus if you start trying to statically link in various vendors' libGLs...

> Simple Unix/BSD constructs like chroot/jails are far simpler and they are reliable.

_Fully_ agree about jails, especially nice since they're persistent. Though, for an X11-using application, I think you're screwed any way it comes out, since afaik there's no permissions difference between being able to create a window, and being able to steal keystrokes + send keystrokes to a terminal. Maybe the Qubes people have something?
From what I've read it seems to be different from Intel's UMA. It's cache-friendly single pool of memory directly accessible from different cores of the SoC: CPU, GPU, NPU etc. Since there's no division of RAM between different parts of the SoC, copying operations aren't needed.
How to account for this isn't controversial -- you put the expected money to be received on your balance sheet, either under "Accounts Receivable", which is listed as an asset, or another similarly related account that shows the money is due. Of course, you can't have "Accounts Receivable" for eons with no update, at some point an auditor will say the money should be collected, or you have to write it off as a bad debt. But you must account for it one way or another.

The article seems to say that this money was not accounted for at all in the documents, and that in general, the accounting is a mess. If you don't know all your financial information, then how do you make financial decisions?

Well it doesn't matter in CA apparently, you just ask the state govt for more, who then either says they are underfunded and need to raise taxes, and/or ask the federal govt for more. The whole thing is a racket - be very very suspicious of any entity that is purposefully opaque by design, and gives you a shrug/"gee-willickers" reply to how this is just the way it is and can't be changed.
They are not the same thing. Check them with 'ls -lsh' and you'll see the sparse file from truncate uses no sectors. Whereas the fallocated file is fully preallocated.

If you have 100G free, truncate -S 1T will succeed, fallocate -l 1T will not.
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+1 for The Advantage as well. I really appreciate Lencioni’s ability to combine advice for cultural team dynamics along with practical steps to improve efficiency. His guidelines are both helpful on the tactical and strategic levels of leadership.

Another great book worth checking out, which focuses on more of the EI/soft skills, is “Side by Side” by Ed Welch. There are some profound translations from the counseling world that apply to improving team dynamics.
The distinction is meant to depend not on the way of linking, but how intimately the pieces are joined together:

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/167781

> If the program dynamically links plug-ins, and they make function calls to each other and share data structures, we believe they form a single program, which must be treated as an extension of both the main program and the plug-ins.

To extend this to archives of independent programs, they would be loosely bound, and therefore not form a single program. A docker container that exists only to package up libraries some executable is using would be closer to a single program than a collection of independent components.
Could you share the structure you've come up with for managing this information? In particular the directory structure, file structure and what data you store in CSV vs regular text files. That would be really great!

I've tried managing a personal CRM in text files, but I struggle on getting a future proof structure. I'll have basic questions like: Should I have one file per relationship/person, or a directory containing files per encounter? An example from someone who has used it for some time would be great to have.
How so? The dark side of Mercury is frozen and Mercury rotates very slowly (one day on mercury is 2 months on earth). If you had a rolling home base you maybe able to avoid the extreme heat.
World in conflict was awesome, I couldn’t remember the name of it until your comment, thanks!

Was there a multiplayer or longer / more replayable part? Perhaps that is the reason for the lack of long term success
I don't know the specific issue, but RH's been trying to push Podman fairly hard...
Many scandalous issues are raised by outlets like ProPublica - this is a good thing, but only half of the process. If there are no consequences for the culprits, followed by systemic change to prevent this from occurring again, then this is essentially shouting into the wind.

Parent is making the point that due to the one-party system, the latter outcomes will never happen.
This sounds cool, keep it up for 2021!
I think the reasoning is perfectly sound for doing this but the performance penalty is too much to bear for most use cases - what's preventing nixpkg/guix from being used fully for this use case? Lack of available packages?
There was MP, players selected classes like armour, infantry, support, air and then battled over a map in a team.

The environment destruction was amazing for the time, you could call in carpet bombing, napalm and even tactical nukes and it left the map as a warzone.
Or maybe a nickel a day for each source (or topical group) you -choose- to -access- (not subscribe to) up to some max (10?) where you get it all.

There are very few people I'd check in on daily. Could be a quarter for the past week's worth of -a source-. Show me the headlines, let me decide. Comics? Crosswords? And show me the accounting right on the same page.
Sounds like you have plenty of opportunities as well as interesting challenges. Have a great 2021!
> Its called a statically linked executable. They work great.

Doesn't this make OpenGL, Vulkan, and parts of glibc break?
Volumes to macOS host performance has nothing to do with bind mounts. It’s the VM folder sharing that’s crap, doubled with the attempt at Docker for Mac to translate filesystem events from fseventsd to inotify and back.

Changing solutions (e.g Docker for Mac -> VirtualBox or Fusion via e.g docker-machine) makes a world of difference.
If your ability to query can manage sorting on two fields, this can be resolved by sorting on the field first, then the primary key as a secondary field.

If I'm sorting by last name, and I sort by last name, then id, I can save the cursor as last name + id, and be able to continue right where I left off.
Gs come from acceleration, either straight line or centripetal. I don't think there is enough control authority in starship's fins to create much centripetal acceleration the way a fighter jet's wings can. If the rocket is capable of it, it would do the same whether it was belly-flopping or dropping straight down the whole way. Any passengers will certainly get an inner-ear workout, but I can't imagine how the flip, more or less around the rocket's own axis, could contribute significantly to G-loading.
Notion seems more like `work based` scheduler/planner for me.
Although there is significant consideration being given to giving only one dose of Pfizer/Moderna, i.e. a health system operated stage 4 trial. At least I hope they do the effort to make it a proper trial, it might be a shambolic politically driven cluster fuck.

(Do you get an 'immunity passport' with only one shot? Which vaccines do countries recognize? The Russian and Chinese ones with NO clinical trial data?)
Imho you just need to get rid of Redux, it's unnecessary complexity for most React apps where hooks + props are already enough to do most of the work.

Also, TailwindCSS is complementary imo.

I think one pro React has is its performance advantage over jquery and handled edge cases. There are some others like Vue or Svelte which could be more performant on other cases but I have bias on React because of its ecosystem, e.g. if I want cute icons I know FontAwesome has its own dedicated react component. Cute charts? Airbnb has visx charting components.
I don’t mean to trivialize what SpaceX is accomplishing, but maybe we are overestimating the degree of difficulty of building rockets in the 21st century, given the advances in technology over the past few decades? With the immense improvement in compute power, materials, accelerometers, welding techniques, etc.. since the 60s, maybe SpaceX was the first to recognize that building rockets is not as hard as it used to be?
Somewhat related: A simple IPv6 subnet calculator written in Lua: https://github.com/intc/ip6snetc
Yeah i don't plan to do this anyway, as this is described in my documentation `about me` etc. But I'm just wondered.
I remember a Microsoft future vision presentation from 1994, shown in my home town in Norway at some event that year (I was 14). This video showed the imagined future in 2004. I still cannot find this video anywhere, but that video was really amazing, as it turned out to very accurately describing everyday productivity 10-20 (even 30) years later. Hopefully someone here can remember it too, and perhaps find it?
> If I'm on an ipv6-only host and blast UDP at ::ffff:1.2.3.4, they should get delivered to 1.2.3.4, no?

No, it won't necessarily! That's precisely the problem. Until NAT64 was introduced it was in fact impossible for an IPv6 router to deliver your packet to the IPv4 host 1.2.3.4. NAT64 still isn't mandatory (and likely never will be), so if you're writing software you can't assume those packets will get through even if you have an IPv6 network connection with a default route.

NAT64 didn't come about until long after IPv6 was finalized, and NAT64 support from default-route IPv6 routers is still is not mandatory. That's why we have this mess with dual-stack hosts: you cannot safely assume that your IPv6 router is willing to deal with the IPv4 world on your behalf.

The ::ffff:1.2.3.4 address space does, in fact, date back to the early days of IPv6 (it came from RFC 2765, about one year after IPv6 was finalized), but it was not meant for letting IPv6 clients share a single IPv4 address -- it was only for servers which for some reason had their own IPv4 address but couldn't speak IPv4. Yeah, back in the early 2000s people thought this problem might happen.

The IPv6 committee was viciously hostile to NATs. The way they saw it, NATs were the problem that made IPv6 necessary, so no way were they going to allow any NATs to pollute their precious IPv6. If that meant that the whole world had to run two separate internets (IPv4 and IPv6) for the rest of eternity just to keep the IPv6 network puritanically NAT-free, then so be it!

It took them more than a decade to realize how stupid this mindset was.
Docker has a layer file system. Meaning if you do it right, that Chrome container will share the same 500 MB base image layer with the Gimp container, or whatever, making it less bloated than it appears when looking only at the footprint of the first image.

I'm not stating that I believe it is a good idea to run desktop apps in Docker containers. It is not a good idea. But it is also not true that if someone would do it, it would necessary lead to a bloated filesystem.

Docker will use a lot of disk space when using multiple base images.
Funny counter-legend here. So this place is the source glacier for...well about a 100 million people of so.

Nobody has kind of died. And yes, we do have a semblance of a free press in India. Which is fairly strange - 12 researchers working on nuclear devices in the past decades dying is not a big deal. But how come not even a few thousand died downstream? Plus this place is religiously significant. Given Indian religious beliefs are around dunking your children in holy waters...it's very surprising really.

The other "not so popular" theory is that India has an active base towards China positioned here. Which is a diplomatic shitfest because of Nepal, Pakistan, China..etc. However most of India's strategic advantage is about geography - we have higher peaks on our side overlooking roads. So it's kinda advantageous to have nobody poking here.

Nanda Devi could be the "Devil's Tower gas leak" of India's nuclear deterrence towards China.

India has a pretty awesome mountain climbing culture and a huge tourism industry (fueled by the best weed in the world).

You can climb everywhere...except Nanda Devi.
There was an HIV vaccine trial a few years ago that was adenovirus based, where patients who got the vaccine ended up with a _higher_ rate of infection than those in the control group. It was a major disaster. The mechanism was believed to be those who'd had the adenovirus previously were at increased risk. The AZ vaccine uses a modified chimp adenovirus people have not been exposed to in order to reduce this kind of risk, but the Russian vaccine uses the same adenovirus as the failed HIV vaccine trial.
We do need a glossary for dark patterns but it probably needs to be more comprehensive. How do we describe Reddit’s descent into an addiction oriented interface and all the various dark patterns they use to push their app?
It’s time to make tech work for society, not the other way around
I got most of my jobs this way. It becomes easier later as your network grows and can vouch for you. If you don't have an existing network to help introduce you, find some people working where you're interested, contribute helpful stuff to their GH projects and ask them a referral. Takes more upfront work but it creates an internal ally who will be interested in helping you get in.

It's fairly easy to get someone to push your resume forward internally, if that person has some sort of (even benign) reason to think you'd be a good hire. Everyone wants to hire good people and often we're compensated for referrals who pan out.
I'm from the UK, and would expect that in our country the split of AZ vs Pfizer would not be determined by wealth but by need.

I don't see why it would (or at least should!) be any different in America - but aware there are way more corporate interests at play.
Ask HN: Microsoft future vision presentation from 1994?
I remember a Microsoft future vision presentation from 1994, shown in my home town in Norway at some event that year (I was 14). This video showed the imagined future in 2004. I still cannot find this video anywhere, but that video was really amazing, as it turned out to very accurately describing everyday productivity 10-20 (even 30) years later. Hopefully someone here can remember it too, and perhaps find it?
Lake Caddo way out east basically Louisiana border. Louisiana has a LOT of lakes.
> As a European I ask myself why there’s no proportional voting system at all in the US.

Because change in voting systems has well-studied partisan and ideological impacts, and many of the people who know enough to understand the way that our current voting system contributes to widely-recognized problems in governance also have studied the issue well enough to understand those impacts, and many of them, even while accepting the problems as problems, think that the likely shift in ideological outcomes would be more adverse to their preferenced than the current set of problems.

> The states should be independent enough to introduce one for themselves

They are, but they don't want to. The only major voting system reform that has anywhere close to critical mass is IRV, which should have minimal impact (which is actually why it is within the space of possibility, though obviously not something advocates publicly trumpet.)
More than that actually, it takes I think 3 tankers to fully top up a Starship in orbit, and the Lunar model needs to go into an elliptical orbit towards the moon and have at least one more top up again before having enough fuel for the rest of the mission.
Yeah, another commenter suggested a handicap too, but how I am supposed to figure out what handicap is "fair". If this was important to the game developers, it should be on them to determine it.
It's literally, identically arbitrage.
I’d love to know where you’re picking up LPDDR4X-4266 RAM for $15?
Trustix: Distributed trust and reproducibility tracking for binary caches
I have a recent example of Bait and Switch strategy used by an airline service.

After the flights got cancelled, they sent an email notifying about cancellations due to covid restrictions. Then provided a link to click to claim refund. Turns out that as soon as you click it, you are provided with a voucher that lasts for a year. Now the airline claims that they are willing to provide either cash refund and vouchers but to get the cash, one is required to call the customer support. But since in my case (and very likely almost everyone) "when one is already issued a voucher, the whole refund process is considered completed."

That is a pure genius yet evil way to make you choose the option that suits them better.