skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> RTS without macro would make no sense

actually, the game "world in conflict" has no macro - you get free units (in limited quantities), and you micro the set of units to take control of points in the terrain (which leads to more reinforcements/units).

Quite an interesting RTS, i would say. It's completely about tactics and micro, no macro at all.
It's not an Apple thing; it's homebrew's binary packaging: https://docs.brew.sh/Bottles
Yea the small static files that are part of your webapp can stay with it, but media files are best on S3. If you need a block interface though, I recommend something like ObjectiveFS: https://objectivefs.com/

If you're using an operator then local volumes is a good middleground if it automates the replication already. CockroachDB also has a kubernetes operator although it's only for GKE currently. There are also other options like YugabyteDB which is another cloud-native postgres-compatible DB.
First, I never called it a 'failure', that's something you hallucinated.

Second, I never said there was a 'stigma' around it, that's also something you hallucinated.

> Luckily the are others that have done their research and are investing heavily and helping build out the ecosystem.

People who 'have done their research' say the same thing and people 'building out the ecosystem' aren't doing it with the one cryptocurrency that is purposely trying not to scale well.

Ask me anything you want instead of the lazy rationalization of 'they just don't understand'. Some people have been involved before /r/bitcoin was taken over and turned into a propaganda machine to churn out people that actually buy into the 'digital gold' nonsense.

You didn't actually confront anything I said at all, you just avoided it with a flimsy dismissal.
Google Phases Out Android Things
Last week, I went into the rabbit hole and researched about the whole incident as my drinking water comes from one of the tributaries of Ganga river and this device has polluted a source glacier of the river - with plutonium. Great.

One of the climbers, Jim McCarthy claimed he got cancer due to the time he spent in close proximity of the device and according to him, the local people who helped them in the trek are long dead because they spent much more time huddled close to the device. They were not cautioned about the dangers as the mission was "top secret".

When this story came to light back in 1978 after an article was published in a magazine and someone in US congress wrote a letter to the president, Indian govt. finally felt the need to assess the consequences of their blunder.

Researchers hypothesized that the device melted through the snow before reaching the mountain rock surface where it remains stuck to this day. They tested water samples from the river for a year or two while the story was hot and public pressure was on. Ideally, they should have continued periodic testing forever and annual search missions to locate the device.
And yet mistakes in late game can end up costing you the whole game.
And yet stupid mistakes in late game can end up costing you the whole game.
Google used to have a Chrome extension called Personal Blocklist[1] for this but it's no longer available.

[1] https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-chrome-extension...
As always, the Android platform is a hot mess. This is what happens when you give away an OS for free to drive ad clicks.
Indeed. Either this was some sort of fission device (utterly implausible, IMHO - where's the moderator, for just one thing), or the "wave of heat" mentioned in the article is, shall we say, embellishment.
That is such an offbeat fact that I am glad to learn it. Thanks for sharing!
Machine learning boat recreating the Mayflower's 400-year-old journey
Same deal.

If something is not urgent enough to happen RIGHT NOW it isn't going to require an ICU bed unless things go very sideways.

Pre-op and recovery are not ICU.

ICU is where people go from the ER.
LLVM: used to be “Low Level Virtual Machine”, but the acronym no longer applies

IR: intermediate representation
In like 2011 or so a bunch of kids came to my door trying to do something like this. I don’t remember what they brought to trade but the only thing I could think of was a big CRT TV I was planning to take to Best Buy for recycling, which they were really excited about. A couple hours later they brought it back because nobody would take it.
Whilst a greenhouse gas H20 does have the difference that it comes back down relatively quickly, potentially even right away. I also think we would only be using hydrogen plants to stabalize renewables like we do now with natural gas turbines. I wonder if there is any research into the lifecycle of emitted water vapour?

Pipe dreaming now, but I wonder if there is a potential cycle that could help drought stricken areas, even if perhaps supplemented with renewables for desalination.

Desalination of coastal water > hydrogen production > power generation with hydrogen > captured purified water.

Thinking about this now my state is in the perfect position and often effected by drought. We have green hydrogen production, a gas turbine supplemented solar grid, and a desalination plant the government put in to safeguard drinking water supplies. This may come about as a natural evolution of the market.
I don’t know what I would do without memeorandum.com. Highly recommended.
I used to use their proxy to bypass every web filter I ever came across haha. Ta for introducing me to the whack a mole that is bypassing porn filters, Opera! Sorry I never used your browser as intended
It could be very difficult to implement an industrial-strength

Java on BEAM :-(
Now talk about deploying something NOT using Kubernetes. The double whammy. Now you're looking like an insane 100 year old graybeard fossil.
I find that the time taken to get everything working means I have less time to get work done. The busywork does give me a sense of achievement, but that is not the achievement that matters. It's premature optimization to sandbox an application by default unless there is a pressing reason to do so.

For e.g. zoom and hugo don't really change the filesystem or OS settings beyond the folders they output to. I don't see a reason the have them sandboxed personally.
What? Why would it prompt this? Docker supports SELinux.
Based on what? Its only technical difference is intentionally hobbled throughput. How is it an advantage to have only a few kilobytes per second for the whole world?
Devils Hole Pupfish
That seems unlikely to work out in their favor, if for no other reason than that car rentals turn a profit on top of depreciation and a ton of other overhead, and the cheapest rental cars are only a few times less expensive new than their Tesla.

As a ballpark estimate, each such trip would cost at least $50 after taxes and fees for a budget car rental (ignoring gas vs supercharging or any other fees that would be incurred in both situations, assuming there aren't one-way fees, etc). After 100 such trips you'd have paid $50k in rental fees, vs simply having a Tesla with an extra 100k miles. Resale value is a nonlinear function of a lot of variables, but linearizing a few portions of the parameter space for the current market an extra 100k miles would only devalue the car by at most $16k (less if they intended to hold on to it for a few extra years instead of selling it immediately while the mileage depreciation matters the most).
Surprising to see no mention of Supreme Commander. This game isn't just alive, its thriving and getting popular(the FAF mod, not the base game).

Maybe RTS games are not being actively made but the mods are very much alive.
I don't think you need 6 quarters. Using your numbers, 1.3 billion iPhones is 650 million pounds. At 4000lb each, it only takes 163000 model 3s to outweigh the iPhones - about 5 months of production, or two quarters.
> basically no support for state changes
I agree that this is a major problem. User interfaces are full of state changes and Figma requires a new artboard for every state. While this is an issue, I’m not aware of any software that has solved this. Do you know of any?
I know this, but as judge2020 pointed out, that's irrelevant to my point. That said, it is relevant to the whole anti-trust thing because Apple has a stranglehold on browser features (such as PWA stuff).
Where did you get that $2M number from?
For any reasonably big operation, there would statistically be a lot more opportunities for the secret to “leak”. So this sort of control over complete departments is highly unlikely.
Looks like the poster there was refuting that screens cause permanent eye damage, and similar to here your reply is about temporary eye damage instead.
The actual report will be thousands of dollars because it's for industry professionals trying to compete with Apple's M1.
~$500k is what some Amazon L6's and most L7's make. Don't think you can hit that in most Finance positions until VP level, unless you're in Quant finance in hedge funds but then the SWEs make that much too.
> Maybe it was stolen.

The story mentions this as being a concern at the time, but if we take the story to be substantially correct, the idea that a foreign government would learn about the device, and then mount a secret expedition to find and recover it during the season climbing is regarded as infeasible, just seems to be paranoid nonsense.
Which means he had a pretty good opinion about himself?
> 60% didn't get it at all and 40% got it with significantly less negative effects

We don't know that. As with the Pfizer and Moderna trials, the endpoint was incidence of disease, and only people with disease symptoms were tested. 60% fewer people experienced symptoms in the treatment group than the control group, but some of those may well still have "gotten it." There were very likely asymptomatic infected people in both groups, and we have no idea how many there were, or how the numbers different between groups. For all we know, just as many people in the treatment group were infected as in the control group, they were capable of spreading infection the whole time, and all the vaccine did was suppress their symptoms. (Again: possibly true of any of the vaccine candidates.)
It's the feminization of the internet. It started with facebook, bleed into reddit and how sites like pinterest are 100% aimed at women. As a man it seems insane and like a waste of time, but such is life.
I disagree. Space is a whole other domain. I don't know FAA mandate but they probably have an altitude cap. All their systems and procedures will not work above a certain zone. We should not put more pressure on them. They have full hands as it is. They should focus on the things they do well.

There should be a FSA that FAA coordinates with for the low altitude region of launch, and above that the FSA handles all sorts of space traffic, satellites, etc.

I don't know anything about this, but probably each launch has to mix between doing their own space window and launch path monitoring, and leaning on some group like NASA. This seems non-ideal. FSA could become the source of this.

I don't think the coordination would pose a blocking challenge. And I think the scope of the space domain warrants its own agency.
> And there's a lot more fuel that could potentially explode over populated areas on the way into orbit.

Isn’t that why launch complexes are usually on coasts? They immediately point out over the ocean, and if it’s off course the flight is “terminated” (i.e. exploded) before it reaches populated areas. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_safety
Based on what? IANAL, but just reading that, it sounds like non-combatant would mean someone non military, and violence against their "stuff" would be considered violence against that person.
Using an LTE backup to get around an unstable cable modem connection
Also, a very dangerous drinking game is to watch BBC's Planet Earth and have a drink every time they use a superlative ("most," "biggest," "fastest," etc). So that is also definitely not an exclusively American phenomenon.
The shadowy spirits that helped advance science
If you can’t manage “days” between updates to priorities and designs, something is deeply wrong.

It was just recently considered revolutionary and heretical to do this every 2 weeks, instead of quarterly or annually!
... now you've got two^h^h^hthree problems.
This is a fascinating subject. It looks like many people are commenting about alternative realities and that exploring them is a fool's game (BTW. I concur with that).

The thing which bothers me is upbeat comments about living here and now and planting the seeds for future changes. It feels like current problems (and desire to wish them away via woulda/counda/shoulda) didn't happen entirely randomly. These problems are a result of systematic behavior/decision making.

As an example, it's too easy to say to yourself, "I will start doing sport tomorrow". However, you wake up tomorrow and notice that your day is so busy that you don't have time to do sport until 9pm and by that time you are exhausted and can't do sport. And you repeat the cycle saying, "maybe tomorrow". You start teasing your day apart and find that to squeeze in sport won't require you just to add it, but also to kick something out. And that all the things you have the energy for in the day, you implicitly regarded as more important than sport. And as a result, you are stuck in the loop wishing to do something better but being limited by your other priorities.

And frankly, this bothers me way more. The immutability of the past is normal. Being so set in your ways that you can't change the future - this is what scares the shit out of me.
> Even if all you want is plain HTTP, when HTTPS breaks it's mostly the fault of the device, and the product is still experiencing planned obsolescence caused by the manufacturer.

"Mostly"?! That's quite a stretch! You're attributing direct and explicit actions taken by a specific subset of site operators as caused by the device manufacturer, which it is clearly not!

> And it would be stupid of a site to allow old versions of TLS, since that compromises the people depending on HTTPS; if there's going to be an insecure access method it should be HTTP.

This argument doesn't stand -- if you're running the latest User-Agent software in December 2020, access to pre-TLSv1.2 sites is likely already disabled (or at least it was supposed to have been disabled earlier in 2020 -- did they back out of their own plan all over again?), so, how would the site allowing older versions of TLS at all allow the compromise that you describe to take place? It's simply not possible, because the User-Agent won't allow it!

To the contrary, if thousands of sites that don't actually need crypto wouldn't have been mistakenly made to use crypto since a few years ago, then we could have disabled pre-TLSv1.2 in newer browsers at a much faster rate; whilst still leaving TLSv1.0 support at the server level for the older clients that don't have the newer crypto.

So, ironically, the HTTPS lobby actually shot themselves in the foot by making everyone adopt TLS without any actual need.

> Crypto isn't just for banking.

Yes, sadly, crypto works great for planned device obsolescence, too!

> Also it's not really a capitalism thing, capitalism is too busy trying to sell you an update every 2 years to care about the difference between 8 years and forever.

The evidence appears to show otherwise. Capitalism -- Google, Bing, Amazon -- doesn't care if anyone still uses TLSv1.0; they'll still serve everyone to make a sale. Ironically, it's the non-profits "socialists" -- Wikipedia, Mozilla, EFF -- who (inadvertently?) promote planned device obsolescence by intentionally deprecating all backwards compatibility on the internet.
I'm looking for someone to fund an Indian dessert cart/food truck idea I have. You pay a fixed amount and receive some dessert at random. And it's called Chaat Roulette.
Tesla wasn't worth the asking price then, and wouldn't be worth it now if Apple had bought it.

So both Apple and Tesla dodged a bullet.
They do, die shots are literally on Apple's marketing page: https://www.apple.com/mac/m1/

A quick visual comparison shows this to be pretty accurate, just inverted and rotated.
You seemed to miss the entire point, their legitimate problems:
how the pay system is set up;
the fact that YouTube referred to the hacker as the "other Admin", and suggested they deal directly with the thief to resolve the problem; and
how they initially just dismissed the problem.
If you watched that video and thought it was all their fault, I suggest you watch the entire video.
A little background information about this project would be helpful. For example: What is the motivation? Is there a compelling reason to use Template instead of Liquid to implement a Jekyll website?
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-flight-passenger-cost-...
Or overuse of microservices
The occasional viral instance of poor enforcement would do the trick.

I don't actually think there's a majority in the "COCs are evil" camp - not even close, but there's a very vocal minority group that has a lot of energy and is always ready to pile into a thread that is in any way tangentially related to COCs and post comments like "Moderators are evil right guys? Remember that time it was badly enforced? That means COCs are bad!" And they get upvoted for that. It's kind of amazing.

Argue about the rules in COCs, or about the way they're enforced. Commenting things like "the evil mediocrities that enforce COCs" is just cringe-level bad.
What's the point of a differential for wheels that aren't driven? Why even connect them at all?
It may be interesting to look at a more completely labeled die image (eg. a recent AMD laptop chip [1]).

I/O controllers, various PHYs, the display pipeline and the media engine account for a significant fraction of chip.

We also know the M1 has an integrated SSD controller, ISP and Thunderbolt which probably take a good chunk of room too.

[1] https://potatopc.net/amd-renoir-die-annotation-raises-hopes-...
In order to leak that way, the scope of the compromise would have to be known to the bulk of the conspirators. But only <1% of them could have the complete list of all of their spies, and the other country/countries would be pretty dumb to do otherwise.
In general, the other comments give an idea of how to do it. But Apple shared their own die shots in their presentation ;)
New Medicine Prevents Growth of Cancer Cells
It isn't actually completely mysterious. If you listen to what immunologists/ & virologists they can explain a number of mechanisms which might be responsible. Obviously I'm not qualified to give a good explanation, but there's plenty of good exposition if you look.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03326-w

- Statistical effects, which might decrease the difference as the trial progresses.
- A bigger dose causing an over-effective suppression of the carrier adenovirus, suppressing it's ability to make the COVID spike protein, and hence the production of COVID targetting T cells.

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). Whereas with the Oxford AZ vax all participants were tested, so we can actually get an idea of asymptomatic infection.
Almost not at all... something like 50 million so far for a program whose costs are probably in the low billions. Mostly spacex is paying for it with its capital raises
I think the base images that are commonly used are just as bad; likely some random snapshot of upstream repositories at arbitrary times. You can refer to the sha256 of base images to avoid things changing, but I've never seen anyone do that. (The advice is "never use 'latest' because that could change out from under you", but other tags are just as mutable, and so that isn't real advice. You can follow the advice and have something just as bad happen.)

The thing the upstream Linux distributions are missing are a lockfile with the hashes of installed packages. Programming languages figured this out (go.sum, package-lock.json, etc.) but distributions have not. Thus, people are often running "whatever" in production, because they simply don't have the ability to lock dependencies properly.

I assume Nix solves this problem, and people should pay attention to how important it actually is.
Yeah going very deep on specific field for 5-10 years and then hopping next thing is pretty doable.
Interesting. Is Kubernetes ever used as the orchestrator in HPC workloads, or rather are even containers used there? Also what are some good resources to get better at kubernetes? Currently I am mostly playing with managed k8s like digital ocean's and thinking about transitioning to k3s based bare-metal solution. So, I would really like to learn what's the right way of doing this.
Four arrested for selling illegal Amazon Fire TV Sticks
Happiness is giving up all hope of a better past.
Forgive my nerding. This week I've been playing dark souls. I couldn't commit to a plan this time around and so now I'm part mage, part rogue, part knight, and I can't use any of the good weapons and I have like five weapons all partly upgraded. My figs all rotted and my character is just so mediocre.
There has been a noticeable uptick of hydrogen articles peppering tech, car, and similar sites in the last three months.

Is there some inflection point in policy coming to a head for this, or a bunch of startups trying to push mindshare?

The hydrogen economy seems 5-10 years from mainstream even with huge investment, and that's the same problem that nuclear has:

Solar / EV / battery is improving double digits every year on cost. The hydrogen "economy" will be a niche at best, maybe for air transport or long haul shipping.
I would argue that while this type of visualization is good for data discovery, it demands too much cognative load for the average audience, at least where I work. YoY line charts or even bar graphs though mundane, require no extra mental effort to the reader and so I find to be more effective in persuasive storytelling.
I use zpkg[1] for that. I only mention it because I doubt anyone really knows about it. I got to know about it by "accident". There is no README, so I am afraid you have to just listen to the output you get from running it and/or reading the source code. I used GNU stow before, but this one does what I want and not much more.

[1] https://zolk3ri.name/cgit/zpkg/ (https://zolk3ri.name/cgit/zpkg/tree/src/zpkg.ml)
Dilute it? There’s a whole ocean right there.
It's funny how 7 seems to be the magic number with peak quality and usefulness in commercial OS development before it devolves into bloat and user abuse.

Android 7 was the last version before crazy restrictions like blocking screenshots for Incognito Mode started taking effect.

Windows 7 was the last decent version of Windows before it went downhill with 8 and then going full-on spyware-as-a-service with 10.

System 7 was the last release of MacOS before it started bloating.

OS X Lion (10.7) was the last release before Gatekeeper.

Any others I'm missing?
What does the spiral shape add? I think I personally would find these more readable if the months were straightened out and shown on each their own line. I guess trends wrapping around the cutoff points would be a bit harder to identify, however.
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I feel a game between two Dominion aficionados is probably pretty fun, but as the person with a friend who's into Dominion, I hate the stupid game.

Very simply: Nobody else around the table is going to know the game better than him, and hence, there really isn't much sport in bringing your Dominion box out and suggesting we play. This reviewer is perfectly proud of the fact that a newbie doesn't stand a chance against a veteran player.

But that also makes it a terrible party game. There should always be benefits to experience and skill, but the near complete lack of randomness in Dominion, compared to something simpler like Ascension, makes it really unpleasant to play if there's a skill gap.
I prefer Mercury.