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> While it will be fun to see humans on Mars, the really interesting stuff is further out. Where large lifters like this will really shine is in allowing automated mining factories to be sent to various space rocks in order to allow further, larger projects to be built in place.

The way I see it, a lot of interesting things are closer than Mars. There's plenty of space rocks near Earth, that could be nudged into Earth orbit and mined, ultimately enabling orbital construction. I'm hoping a whole economy in cislunar space will eventually take off. That would go a long way towards making servicing Mars cheaper, too.
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IMHO, this is a problem not only with npm but with entire Javascript eco-system.

Every new framework has to re-imagine and re-invent what has been done forever. Not only that, we need to wrap it with new jargon, because otherwise it'll not be the next cool thing (TM).

Regardless of the framework, we finally end up with a declarative format for representing things. But that isn't how it is planned from the beginning. Instead, an entire generation of developers go through one version, and then have to migrate to the next version which breaks everything. So now we have groups of developers defending their decisions.

Considering that most of the frameworks are open source, I don't see a collective approach to designing APIs. Yes, I know about web components, but that isn't going anywhere in the near future.
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No, I've using virtualenv for quite some time and I still use it when I'm the person in control of the dependencies, though I'm moving little by little to the docker way. Why? Because sometimes the problem is not only on the dependencies, but in Python itself. As an example, as of today gcloud does not support Python 3.9.
SpaceX should locate next to Blue Origin in Texas.
Sounds boring.
I would love to play another RTS with a nice campaign. I don't care if my game is a poor esport. But no, everything must be an esport now, with ladders, seasons and whatever, unless it just can't.
On landing video, I see only 2 engines turn on instead of 3 - why is that? Was one engine malfunctioning, or was it the result of low pressure?
I would love to reply but I'm not capable right now, just relaxing and having some beers. I'll definitely get back to you tho!
Its current support in .NET Core and closed issues with won't fix.

https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/discussions/158
I was offered the opportunity by a former colleague. He was a project manager when we first worked together, and moved on to create his own consulting company.

It was an iOS app developer role, with lots of UI work (make the button blue) and other stuff I didn't care much about.

But then something popped up, electronic signature with ID card. Nobody wanted to touch it. I wanted it badly. It was a lot of fun!

I guess the story here is: do your best, even if you don't like what you work on. Eventually people will entrust you with better stuff.

I'd make an exception for some cases though: unethical work. My first job required me to work on things I didn't approve of, morally speaking. I left, screw that.

Nowadays I still do things that I love but everyone else hates. Right now that revolves around data science/engineering, but who knows where I'll be in a few years time. I just follow the flow :)
Mercury has near-zero axial tilt, and massive craters on the poles. There glaciers on Mercury's south pole alone hold more water than all of Mars.

They are of course in eternal darkness, but if want an artificial sun, just raise a diffuse reflector over the crater rim. If you need more concentrated energy, raise a mirror.
What John says in this post about "Pinterest as a source of inbound links" is false. Pinterest uses rel="nofollow" on external links, which severs any value the links have for SEO.

For example:

Pin collection page:
<a class="GestaltTouchableFocus" href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/83131400/ornaments-pine-cone-gn..." rel="nofollow"

Pin detail page:
<a class="linkModuleActionButton" href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/83131400/ornaments-pine-cone-gn..." rel="nofollow">

You aren't going to improve your SEO by being on Pinterest, at least by getting links from Pinterest. It's possible someone else sees your site from browsing Pinterest and then links to it from their site.
There is this thing, where you vote for party, but give ratings for the representatives on party list. So basically if a guy is on the list down bellow but a lot of voters pick to prioritize him, then he moves to top. This happenes during ellections couple of months ago i LT, where guy was on 141 position, but still got a seat in parlament.

Edit: that party got 50 seats total.
Thanks setheron. If I find the time (the eternal issue) I may to take you on your word )
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If people want to look at what a good RTS on mobile could be, look at Command and Conquer Rivals. They team add a lot of good ideas IMHO, even though the game suffers from micro transactions (good luck to newcomers).
In particular:
* they have a soft population limit with a cooldown increasing with the number of units on the map. This make it harder to snowball, and make it easier to punish people spamming a unit. Also it keeps the number of units to micro manageable.

* economy is auto-ramping. You only chose the number of collector. I think this could use some balancing and more experimentations. But it changes the dynamic of the game over time from money being the limiting factor to pop cap. Even if the two players play very aggressively.

* Also the game is not about destroying opponent base (you cam still win this way) but about controlling some map zones. Controlling the "pads" charges a nuke missile, but the missile can flip hand 1 second before firing. This builds up a lot of intensity and makes timing very important in the gameplay. Knowing when you should stale the charging or fasten it, and how much you should pay for this is hard to master.
If you really could go back and choose differently the first thing that would happen is you would eventually become lazy. You wouldn't have to think too deeply or listen to your guts in making your choices because you could effectively just undo and retry.

Your life would basically revert to depth-first search instead of carving out your own, unique path in life. This would also mean it would be much, much easier to be unhappy because you could just switch to another branch and see if the grass is greened on the other side instead of having to learn to see the green you have now.

The inability to redo choices is like death: without death, life itself would be dead. It could not pressure you to make choices, to overcome yourself, dare to go for the love of your life or that enormously ambitious career, and eventually navigate yourself into a life where you grow to be happy with what you have instead of what you want. Without the clock ticking you wouldn't make the best of you in life. Similarly, if you could backtrack to your old choices you wouldn't be compelled to learn from them and they would be rendered worthless.
Sure but I imagine they are not alone. Eg. IKEA does the same thing as I recall: "refund" as store credits.
Well yes, but as I said in another comment, if you rename the input source as "PC" it is as good if not better than any PC monitor. It won't do any picture processing, has sub 10ms reaction time, supports G-Sync.....yes it has all the functions of a smart TV, but it works great as a PC monitor if you need it too.
Looking Back on 2020
I fully agree with the original premise (to run more stuff in Docker). But if I maintain two tools, both using Docker, let's say they're both built in Python, they'll both be in their own Git repository, and their build pipelines will come up with independent Docker images for whomever wants to use those tools, and it seems like frivolous maintenance, if not an anti-pattern, to make sure that these tools are always using the same base image. And yes, if bandwidth and disk space were constraint for me, I'd probably reconsider (even on the original premise), but they are not.

By the way, while I think you should run more stuff in Docker, I also think it is still totally reasonable to have your "main language stuff" installed "normally" (not in Docker). If I'm a Java developer, I'm "happy" to deal with Java's dependency b.s. on my normal system. Meanwhile, if I ever have to touch Ruby, I do not want to deal with Ruby's dependency b.s. on my normal system (rather run that in Docker). And vice versa, as I'm sure.
"any number of completely minute changes to the timeline would also have resulted in a completely different child."

Can you prove this?
Depends on your perspective, obviously. But personally I'd say we're much more a victim of circumstance than the other way around, and all success or failure is only very partially dependent on the choices we made.
Nintendo actual devices use microkernel based designs.

We are way past the usual FUD against microkernels.
the supercooling system and its nitrate gasses will freeze the core of the space ship
Did you actually get a banana to test it?
I've got my signature form to recall the governor printed out, but what is holding me back from mailing it in is the fear that we could end up with someone even worse in charge if the recall succeeds.
> ultimately they all played pretty much the same

High level tournaments include civilization drafting before a best of N series of games. Occasionally, one player/team ends up with a civilization match up which gives them a clear advantage (because they successfully predicted their opponent's civilization pick - it the opponent had picked something else the advantage might swing the other way). Occasionally games are described as "civ win" when the advantage is large and wielded well.
Slightly off-topic, but Zero-K still has some "teching", just in the form of creating a supply chain of energy to the huge cannons. However, it's messed up in that the mechanic is simply undiscoverable without a tutorial.

That's sort of ironic, as I've been missing higher tier units, as they were as close to a disruptable supply chain as it gets in TA: build factory -> make builder -> build factory 2 -> make tier 2 unit. Targeting builders or resources was a way to delay the coming of the next tier units. It also gave some predictability to the gameplay: not seeing tier 1 units meant tier 2 units were unlikely to come.

I agree with the complex mechanics, and I hate that there are so many factories, with so many units, many of them basically copies of each other. Same for defenses: do we really need 3 different anti-air towers? I much preferred the TA approach, where each unit was good at something different, and easily visually distinguishable too.
Great discussion here and interesting topic too. But I am out, trigger warning, may cause depression.
> one text file.

That! It is codified. If people had their main machine codified, Docker would maybe be less of a benefit. And I'm sure a lot of people here have that. But a lot of my colleagues don't. So, I give them a Docker image... instead of explaining the same Java developer for the umptied time how to make a virtual environment for my Python program.
Please see my comments on the first two posts
Doesn't arbitrage come with slight risk too? The spreads are always fluctuating, and if you don't time it right (in say high-frequency trading) you might not be able to offload whatever you just bought at a good price either.
> “a hard impact on the pad.”

It’s called a RUD: Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
Mudb: Transports, data structures, serialization formats for realtime apps
People generally have to cooperate with others to get their material needs met. What do you think happens to someone who withdraws from or alienates the tribe while they are least capable of protecting themselves or killing their own dinner?
I don't think so, even Indians wouldn't have gotten anything from it, they were already years away from getting own plutonium, and they should've been at least smart enough to know that a single bomb wouldn't matter much in war.

Moreover, I believe they were well instructed on the nature of the device, and knew by that time that dirty plutonium from few years old civilian fuel is useless for nuclear weapons. For weapons, you need as pure 239 as possible.
This brings only mess and another indirection layers to your system which is hardly an advantage in my opinion. It will take more time to setup, more space on disk, it will be slower and harder use. And all the normal tools(like awk and others in the article) are easily instalable in all distros. I will rather spend time learning these tools directly instead of infinitely fiddling with docker.
Yes. Only caveat is depending on how it's invoked you might need some --volume tweaking in your alias. If it's just being sent stdin then there shouldn't be any problem. Mounting whole project is probably best anyway for it to find tox.ini or whatever other config files needed. Also make sure the image doesn't contain any excessive output that uncontainerized black doesn't print.
Yeah PS4 has done wonders to upstream FreeBSD.
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That's a whole section of the article
I’m working on one such modern RTS game: https://github.com/amethyst/shotcaller
Note: We’re adding UI, input and playable units this month. Currently the game is just an non-interactive simulation.

It’s a MOBA-style game that is played 1v1, with the 5 “players” on each side controlled by autonomous bots. This design accommodates AI development as part of the sport, much like a F1 driver and their team of engineers and mechanics.

The game is written in Rust and will use WASM for scripting to accommodate a wide range of languages for both game modding and AI code. While it’s only 1v1 in its initial iteration, I agree that there’s immense value in cooperative and more micro-level play, so we do intend to incrementally move towards that as an alternative game mode.

I’d love to chat more with anyone interested in this particular design or RTS/MOBAs in general. You can find my email on my GitHub.
There are already things way worse than plutonium in Ganga.
NSudo – run processes as System or TrustedInstaller
Nanovms (https://nanovms.com/), a Linux-compatible unikernel for cloud deployments.
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From the leaked EU prices the Moderna vaccine is 10x the price of the Oxford one. I guess that will be a key factor.
I do agree to some extent, but depth-first search is not the correct allegory for the algorithm. You do follow a node to the end with depth-first. I think you meant breadth-first.
This is really quite nice, but I do believe it would be even nicer if the (IMO ridiculous) insistence on Sunday being the first day of the week was dropped. Right now the visual impact of weekday/weekend patterns is arguably quite reduced, compared to if Monday was the first day.
I don't think so. 50km up in Venus's atmosphere, the pressure and temperature are suitable for humans (though the atmosphere is not breathable), and human-suitable atmosphere is a lifting gas (like helium on Earth), so floating stations or cities are probably possible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus

Mercury on the other hand swings in temperature from uninhabitably cold to about as hot as Venus's uninhabitable surface, and it has essentially no atmosphere. Not necessarily impossible, but it definitely seems more difficult. A little info here, but it doesn't seem to have been looked at in nearly as much detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_colonization#Mercury
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I am trying to go in the opposite direction offering a read-only, mountable file system that offer a well crafted set-up of tools and utilities.

The idea is that you mount the filesystem and you got all the tools you need, and more, well installed, and that are lazily pulled from the network.

You win on the space side, but you need a bit more of trust.

You can find more info here:
http://packages.redbeardlab.com

On the GitHub repo where you can ask for more packages to be installed:

https://github.com/RedBeardLab/packages.redbeardlab.com/

And in this pair or articles for specific languages

Golang:
https://redbeardlab.com/2020/12/21/packages-redbeardlab-com-...

And for JavaScript/node:
https://redbeardlab.com/2020/12/23/packages-redbeardlab-com-...
So do the same but walk. Got it
Chapel should just be removed from the game.
https://globulation2.org might fit your bill except that it is Open-Source-crappy and dead. Its core idea is good though.
That is if you are using one base base image. Most likely you will be using Alpine, Ubuntu, Debian, Centos, Red hat, Oracle Linux and who knows what else in different containers, unless of course you have the patience to repackage all then versions you need for your favorite base image.
Just want to call out: this is on Windows and macOS. So, these remarks are certainly true for probably a majority of Hacker News readers, but if you were on Linux these limitations do not exist. I'm also not sure how much these limitations hinder you in reality, I hear few complaints from the macOS users around me, and we use Docker a lot.
I think that "lucky" people as you call it are in best position to challenge these. They have time and resources and capabilities to complain and push.
Reminds of that meme that I can't find now:
It shows how every open source proponent dreams how many people collaborate as a group on the project.

In reality it's just one guy that makes 99.9% of all commits and without him the project wouldn't even exist, everyone else is insignificant and irrelevant to the project.
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It makes me sad that Ruse, the 2009 title hasn't made it on the list. It had gone under a radar of many RTS players, but it was revolutionary in terms of APM: there were so few actions per minute that you could competitively play it on an xbox controller (which it had a great control scheme for). The challenge was always to out-fox and out-smart your opponent, and you didn't have to click fast to achieve it.

Unfortunately, the developer, Eugene Systems, didn't keep this in later games. The Wargame series are an excellent and very deep strategy games that further built on recon and other mechanics from Ruse, but it is, once again, a bit of a click-fest.

Still, I highly recommend both; Ruse is more on a casual side, and Wargame series if you want something more hardcore.
This is great, thanks for sharing!

The web is amazing in its level of backwards compatibility, in that you can make a website compatible with all of these browsers from the 90s today!

Retro-computing growth is exploding based on what I see here and on Facebook, and it could be the key to saving the Web's openness.

I'm working on a project which allows for easily building hybrid static-dynamic sites compatible with Mosaic+, and I am grateful to others working to preserve this technology.

Thanks again!
Hope that https://www.frostgiant.com/ will release a great RTS.

Looking at the team, they should have the capacity to pull it off.
Any idea why google docs mobile looks objectively worse than HN comments?
Laptop, it wasnt a CRT

Like this

https://gtello.pagesperso-orange.fr/t3200_e.htm
Introduction to Reinforcement Learning (2015)
A larger cut is retained by a distant middleman.
Targeted ads require tracking and profiling users. That profiling is usually of poor quality. I've actually never seen a targeted ad that interests me, they are usually just trying to sell me something I've already looked at or even bought (re-targeting). From an advertiser standpoint I'm pretty certain that they are an absolute waste of money. In G̶e̶r̶m̶a̶n̶y̶ the Netherlands (following the GDRP) some publishers have switched to the old model of direct-sold ads where advertisers bid on placement next to relevant content instead of bidding on users. That has increased publisher ad revenue and those ads actually get more clicks.
I'm definitely going to reply, but right now I'm incapacitated thanks to beer.
This is really nice! Is there an easy way to do it with Python or some JS library?
It's often used for a "trivial or minor fact" but by comparison with planetoid (something like a planet but not a planet) or cuboid (like a cube but not an actual cube) or asteroid (looks like a star but is not a star) or humanoid / android (having the form of a human or man while not actually being one), you can see what the 'correct' usage should be.

Trivial fact would perhaps be better as 'factette' or 'microfact'.
You come a long way by using a rss reader and a variety of news sites, preferably a cross-section of right-biased, centric and left leaning. Don't trust just a couple of sources.
It is also a matter of helping society as a whole: by vaccinating you take the very small risk of having side effects (so far 400k were involved in phase III trials worldwide), while having the huge benefit for society that you are really helping the most fragile. And many times you may not realize that they are near us: for example people with low immune defenses because of diseases that you will never know about. I will definitely take it as soon as available.
Consider what our lives would be like if everyone thought this way.

They don't though do they.
That doesn't really provide any meaningful reassurance when the code in the browser can still do anything it wants, such as stealing auth tokens, keylogging, etc. It's a different class of vulnerabilities and if you happened to be doing fancy SPA stuff, you could reasonably get a double bonanza by getting into the server environment on the SSR side.
> There is also a huge flaw in the testing of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines: they didn't test everyone. Only people with symptoms (whatever that means) were tested (PCR).

Wow, do you have a source for this? That's quite a stunning difference and really should put the ~~Pfizer~~ BioNTech and Moderna vaccines in doubt if the aim is herd immunity.
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Taskbar-groups – organize the taskbar through groups
It's genuinely awesome
"Field change order"

So essentially a change order carried out by IBM in "the field", meaning your university. Interesting ;)
They could also use one of the techniques used by the NSA, selectively ground a Quarter wave antenna in a corner reflector N times a second... then transmit a signal at the resonant frequency at said reflector, listen for a hetrodyne N hz off the transmitted signal.

Very little power is required to ground a wire, or not.
I guess that makes me fossilizing, because this is the direction I think we should really be heading.

When I stare at docker long enough I wind up at "why couldn't this be a static binary" or "this would be easier to secure if it was it's own VM".
lunch club is about connections, ideafy is about ideas
About that yes, but remember that a fully loaded starship in orbit can land on any solid surface in the solar system and return to earth (except for Venus)

Starship’s usable volume is over 100 times that of an Apollo lunar lander.
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How to Choose a Roommate at University?
Can you elaborate? I tried looking it up but nothing meaningful comes up.
I browsed the site swiftly. Isn't it a bunch of content items, like WordPress site? So, here we are, deploying WordPress in the cloud via Kubernetes, for real, not as a funny meme?
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Humans aren’t landing propulsively on f9 either - if the landing fails it just costs money. The capsule lands with parachutes.
At the end of the day, all the docker images depend on a lot of ./configure && make install, if not a lot of apt-get installs, which are often not reproducible. You don't get reproducibility unless you've done it all the way down the chain.
Not mentioned in the article, but AZ is also going to run a trial using a different viral vector for the second dose, taken from the Russian sputnik vaccine. The latter have claimed rather impressive results which will be published soon

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/11/oxford-covid-v...