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A first person squad-based shooter -- think Squad, Battlefield, or even something on a smaller scale like CounterStrike -- where the strategy aspect is managed by an AI and the players just have to execute.

In other words, two AI "commanders" (perhaps along with separate AI "squad leaders") duke out the battle with the players being simply pawns. I've always imagined it in a WWII setting, but I suppose really any setting could work.

Imagine -- you spawn in, and your commander tasks your squad with taking control of a church in a nearby village. You and your fellow squad members enter the village and come under machine gun fire. A teammate tags the window where they saw the fire coming from. You all take cover, as the squad leader starts barking commands -- a few squad members stay back and start providing suppressing fire, while you and some others start advancing slowly, hopping from cover to cover. A teammate is hit, and another is tasked with dragging him to safety. You and the few others still advancing finally get to be in range to toss a grenade in that window. You peek from cover, grenade in hand... to see a tank rounding the corner down the road. You tag the tank, and chaos ensues as the squad leader screams at you to retreat. A mortar squad in a nearby section of the map is alerted to the tank and starts dropping mortars as you fall back to your original position, explosions and bullets flying all around you.

Your squad regroups, a few members down, but the strategy is adjusted and you go back in, eventually destroying the tank, capturing the church, and getting control of the village.

At the same time of this battle, similar battles are potentially unfolding in other parts of a larger map, as the attacking and defending commanders dynamically wage war.

Sometimes I want to think strategy in games, but sometimes I just want to shoot stuff. I think if executed properly this could strike a good balance of both reaching meaningful objectives and also focusing on dynamic, moment-to-moment action. Games like Squad can be great -- if you can find a good squad leader or group to play with consistently. As I get older I find I don't really have time for that, and the probability of getting matched with a good squad leader by chance is pretty low. The setup of this game minimizes the risks of poor teamplay and makes the "Squad" sort of experience more accessible.
But the reparations argument generally makes exactly that argument -- the US is wealthier than it would have been b/c of slavery. If so, this justifies taxing present citizens for reparations -- they are wealthier because of slavery, and should give back a share of that increase in their wealth.

Of course slavery was a theft of wages. But the people who benefitted are long gone.
So it was announced a long time ago but finally coming to pass. The headlines makes it look like it was a reaction to current events at Twitter.
The reposts are what made me the most frustrated. I got really tired of seeing the same stuff keep cropping up literally every two or three days
I don't use Reddit's mobile app, which is awful; I use Narwhal on iOS, don't see any ads, and am reasonably happy with it.

I'm one of about two semi-technical Reddit users in the world who doesn't mind the new desktop browser interface.

I guess I carefully curate my Reddit feeds, but I don't find it hard to find quality posts. I may just be good at ignoring the bad ones.
It's almost like Twitter. You get the experience that matches what you subscribe to. Even some large subreddits like the F1 subreddit are great and friendly.
>The question is, what does the NYT narrative serve? Is it anti-french?

It serves the same narrative as a long Reddit comment waxing on and off about the America's imperialism in South America. While it's technically true, I think it just makes the writer feel more intellectual while being morally superior to some powerful status quo. These ideas travel from serious intellectuals, to pop-sci nerds, to reddit comments then ultimately to mainstream.

Not to say that they are wrong, I'm just saying I don't think there's some nefarious conspiracy (not to say they don't exist), but this could be just a case of a writer making a name from himself.
> Or could even just check if the account is "appreview@apple.com" and show different content, theres not a good way to prevent it.

One would hope they'd do their app testing with regular user accounts designed to blend in and not anything tied directly to Apple. Likewise for other well-known forms of obfuscation like changing behavior based on the system date so that it appears fine until the review period is over—though the app could simply refuse to work when the date doesn't match the server, if there is a server component, and that wouldn't be particularly suspicious.

The main deterrent to trying any of that, of course, is that it will get not just the offending app but the entire developer account banned. Those accounts aren't free. Moreover, uploading an identical or even substantially similar app under another account would be recognized immediately, so you'd have to start over from scratch.
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Reddit is a psychopath corporation. It actively promotes clownish propaganda, misinformation and conflict to make money from clicks. The homepage is thousands of people screaming hate at each other. I can't think of a corporation that has done more to degrade US society than Reddit.

When they go public soon, they're going to lock all the user-generated content behind their mobile app, and remove access from the website and APIs. Thanks for the content, suckers!
The topic raised by a new speaker doesn't always grab everyone's attention though. It happens in group conversations too.

I'm amazed HN can still find some periphirally related topic to talk about and save an otherwise dead thread.

The statistic of 'missed topics' would be really interesting if you could parse what people were really wanting to talk about.
The NYT article was not “ahistorical”, something that the author points out was the facts were mostly correct.

The problem here is the narrative that is built based on the facts is not accurate and conclusions weren’t scientifically drawn.
Clearview AI wants its facial-recognition tech in banks, schools, etc.
It's all voluntary. Many of your critiques could also be applied to LinkedIn and/or resumes, but the difference here is that it's verifiable :) I see from your profile that you work for one of the big 4 consulting firms. It's very likely you already have an internal recognition scheme. The difference with Ribbon is that it's portable and open, rather than locked into a proprietary system purchased by your firm.

> Blockchains can be hacked.

What do you mean by this? Hacked is a broad term. For example, there have been no compromises of the blockchain itself in the entire history of Bitcoin/Ethereum. Individual smart contracts have been exploited but that's a very different and unrelated issue.

> I'm still not convinced Ribbon is an improvement. It looks like another attempt at applying a technological solution to a social/political problem.

Fair enough! To take the LinkedIn analogy, there are plenty of people who avoid LinkedIn. It also acts as a great network multiplier for many people, putting them in touch with others who would otherwise be difficult to speak to. I believe Ribbon will be the same: not everyone will wish to opt in, and that's OK.
> Reddiquette is no longer a thing -- if you don't agree with something you downvote.

The pandemic had nothing to do with it: people have been making this complaint about reddit for fifteen years. Rediquette was always a myth.
There's valid points on both sides, but the freedom to express our liberties should always triumph political points and reactionary policies.
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This is what I get on my laptop. Probably don't have to worry too much, I'm generally a hold out when it comes to updating OS versions, so things that expect newer features might not work for me
Even if you have fair skin, there is no significant cancer risk from 10 minutes of daily sun exposure. (The exception would be some very rare genetic disorders which cause rapid development of cancers.) But sun exposure alone might not produce the recommend vitamin D levels for some people, especially those living nearer to the poles.
What do you mean by "pure I/O" in this case? And how does logic programming help with that?

I've seen things like this in the context of "algebraic effects", where instead of performing I/O (and instead of using monadic I/O) you build up what amounts to an execution graph of effectful operations, which is then "interpreted" at runtime. Is that what you're describing?
I think low-code/no-code is misleading since it means vastly different things.

For example, Zapier is a flow automation tool in the broad RPA category - they automate triggers and steps between different existing applications. The "code" version of these things is usually data integration plumbing that be built as a FaaS in a few weeks.

This is completely different from say, Salesforce or Dynamics 365 apps, also low-code/no-code but where the platform's goal is to build applications tailored to your requirements using the platform's customizability, database included. The "code" version of these things are fully fledged web applications that take months or years to build. This is a much higher bar to meet for these platforms.
No no you cut me off there. NFTs do it, and certain smart contracts do it.

If you get picky about the latter part, then I retract it and just say NFTs for simplicity.
> A lot of people have been saying it for a while.

> Therefore its bogus!

What kind of reasoning is that?
WC: Privateer is a little bit like that, especially if you played the WC (wing commander) games first. Moving from a military, "we have budget for everything" (ammo, missiles, fixes) to a "oh, should I fix my auto pilot or buy an extra missile?" setting feels a little bit like that.

Plenty of low-brow there as well, and basically being forced into the plot against your will is very on-point for a "I just want to make a buck" character.
Don't know what it would be called but a yin and yang mashup of Cities and Skylines and GTA.

You play against your two selves, and flip back and forth between two modes. In "mayor" mode you have the birds-eye view and you are trying to build a functioning and safe city for your citizens.

Then at any time you can flip to "street" view, where you are no longer mayor, but a criminal leader. Here you are trying to expand your criminal network and evade police.

If the "mayor" your reduces crime to near 0 then doing anything as the "mobster" you will be extremely difficult. If the "mobster" you is super successful then the mayor has a very poor rating, and citizens complain of crime. This should also have physical change to the look of the city as well (graffiti, car's on blocks on the streets, cars with smashed windows, stores with smashed windows, or boarded up, parks generally trashed).
The vote will definitely demonstrate how seriously the employees are considering unionization but, in my experience, there are a certain sub-set of people that constantly push for unionization, regardless of the companies commitment to employees.
> I can't pretend to have derived any life lesson that applies to everybody from this

Kudos for being honest about this, it's rare these days. Congratulations and I wish you the best.
Somebee replied in 2020 that partial hydration would be available too:

> the scrimba site is using partial hydration heavily. Hope to get imba 2.0 final out in a few months

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24580723
If you strip the electrons off some atoms and use just the electrons[0] as reaction mass, you will eventually get a large enough electric charge you can no longer throw the electrons away from you. Electric forces behave similarity to gravity, so while it wouldn’t normally be phrased like this, you could say your engine exhaust will eventually no longer have escape velocity from your ship.

For this reason, ion drives do things to neutralise the net charge.

(If you meant using them as a power source rather than reaction mass, it’s technically possible but that’s called a capacitor and they have very low energy density).

[0] or, by symmetry, just the nucleus.
> The game doesn't actually recognize any of the stuff you mention.

To be fair, neither does real life. Real life shops, jails, etc, are just collections of atoms with certain emergent properties resulting from how players have set them up.
One thing I did to address exactly this (way too many items in Someday/Maybe to review effectively every week) was to separate the list into two:

- Someday (I'm 90% sure I am going to do this, but I'm not actively working on it right now). This gets looked at during my weekly review.

- Maybe (I might do this at some point, but I'm 90% sure I won't do it in the next month). This gets looked at during my monthly review.
"It should not be easier to buy a gun than get drivers license."

Why not? Cars claim more lives and are inherently more dangerous due to kinetic energy vs potential energy - essentially you're more likely to kill someone with your car than your gun because it takes active attention and constant decisions to control the kinetic energy of your vehicle. Frankly, we should be focusing on improving testing for drivers licenses to save lives. We are abysmal compared to most other developed nations.

Purchasing firearms is already regulated to varying degrees based on state. What restrictions are you proposing?

"If the lethality of a weapon doesn't matter"

It's about where to draw the line of the lethality of weapons allowed. Under the current laws there are a variety of restrictions/laws, but essentially non-automatic centerfire arms 50 cal and under is where that line is drawn. That could be redrawn again, but there would need to be discussion about where the new line would be and why.

And the real reason I wanted to comment but got caught up in those other replies... didn't the buyback miss a lot of weapons? I heard from a friend who lived over there for a while that many in the rural areas ignored the buy back and illegal guns are fairly common if you know where to look.
I have a 20y old BMW with the idrive knob. I find it excellent. This is because the knob contains a motor to simulate various detent and other virtual stops. So you actually have a really fine tactile feedback. You can navigate menus without looking the screen.

It can act as a spring, a rotary encoder, a joystick, small detent, big detent, etc.
> In terms of the UI/UX use old.reddit.com

Even better: https://reddit.com/.compact
Takedown Galore: 10 Years of Google DMCA Notice Transparency
Does anyone remember when Amazon (briefly) had a Street View competitor? Having a hard time finding any trace of it on the web.
African blacks weren't slaves. Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but are you making the case that African blacks have been able to overcome the slavery of American blacks, therefore enslavement isn't harmful?
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I find Microsoft 365 Power Automate to be a satisfying tool for low-code-ish "glue" processes. But to effectively replace hand-coded solutions, you still need to know the basics of things like HTTP requests/responses, JSON, conditional logic, looping, error handling and how to read/edit function parameters. So its value for me is more about taking care of boilerplate/hosting. The alternative would be VBA, which I've not really written on the job, so much as inherited someone else's business-critical rats-nests.

The real benefit of no/low code is giving the 5% of users in my org who care enough a way to make their mental maps of business processes explicit and shareable. That way if we outgrow no/low solution we have a sketch for a tool needing custom development.
> Doing the whole thing end-to-end (code, launch, marketing, support) was super gratifying and taught me a whole lot

Yep. Just putting out one single app by doing everything teaches you a LOT about tech and makes you start giving due respect to every single specialization that exists in tech - from development to support to marketing.
Here's the nightmare scenario, which is looking more and more plausible:

-When profits started to decline in the 70's, they decided to let manufacturing go overseas and to jack up interest rates in order to suppress wages and fight inflation.

-However, this left a problem where American consumers no longer had enough spending power to buy the products they were making. They dealt with this problem by printing money and using it to finance debt and then exporting the extra dollars overseas. They were able to do this because the US dollar is the world reserve currency and is in demand everywhere.

-However, this created a series of debt bubbles in the united states. Each one was dealt with by printing ever increasing amounts of money, kicking the can down the line until the next recession. Interest rates steadily fell and fell until they hit zero.

-When interest rates hit zero, they had to switch to quantitative easing. This was accompanied by a speculative "everything bubble". But now, with the amount of debt continuing to increase, the value of the US dollar started to slide, manifesting in inflation again.

-The fed will have to raise interest rates a lot to fight the problem. But this will cause a massive deleveraging as debt cannot be rolled over anymore, plus the interest on the federal deficit will be enormous.

-It is politically impossible to raise taxes to deal with the shortfall, so deficits will grow even larger, and to get people to buy the debt, interest rates will have to go up even further.

-This will eventually culminate in a loss of confidence in the US dollar. Prices of imports will skyrocket and the economy will crash. The united states will ultimately have to default on its debt.

-The resulting political instability will likely result in an autocratic government. The formal structures of congress and the senate will continue to exist but actual rule will be by presidential decree.

Fascist governments or Bonaparte-like leaders can only maintain power by promising greatness and a return to traditional values (The traditional values part comes from the fact that some reason must be found for the country's problems, the explanation given tends to be that we have offended god in some way)- this usually results in war.

That's the nightmare scenario.
I was heavily involved in the push to switch Neo4j off of memory mapping and on to an in house page cache.

In retrospect, I’d say it was something like 50% driven by Java memory mapping having insane issues on Windows, 20% Java memory mapping having insane issues on every platform, 25% me being a noob and 5% actual issues with memory mapping on Linux.

I think if could say “this DB is posix only” I would try memory mapping for the next DB I build
I'm having a hard time understanding how the two different MUD servers come into play. Would this be equivalent to a single MUD server, with two factions that are mutually able to pvp one another?
Wow, hunter hunted and return fire are two games I had completely forgot about. thanks for reminding me about then, I played them so much as a kid. I wonder how well they hold up...
I don't know how to say it differently in a way that might help you.
I think the phenomenon is explained by a little bit of A and a little bit of B.

The barrier to entry for internet communities has dropped like a rock over the last 10 years as smartphone usage has become ubiquitous. So you do have more average and below average intelligence (but still very real) people interacting online than ever before, by a wide margin from back in the mid 2000's.

I have seen the bot argument taken to the extreme by some when there was no indication it wasn't a person, so yeah it does get blown out of the water a lot of times just to try and shut down conversation. Even more so in political related discussions, people are so quick to call bot/shill on some topics, and I wonder how much of that has been influenced by the media narrative around the "Russian troll farms".
One section of the population are entirely convinced that Hillary would have won if not for the bots/trolls, and use that to deflect from any other criticism of how she actually conducted herself / campaigned.
Another section of the population looks at that argument as ridiculous, and dismiss bots/shill's as a delusion by the "other side" entirely.
This (the bank knows where you're employed and how much income you make) is only possible with one account per person, right?

In the US people that do direct deposit are also treated differently by the banks. Both on the surface, i.e. you get better interest rates, and under the hood (fraud models adjusted).
“Find My” is an Apple thing
> The fuel is actually cooler for NTR than chemical. With chemical, the peak heat can occur in the gaseous state away from anything solid, but for conventional nuclear thermal, the peak heat is generated in solid material and needs to conduct through to fluids, which are therefore at lower temperatures.

Pretty sure this can't be true. In order to have a higher exhaust velocity the fuel temperature needs to be higher than chemical propulsion.
Yes. I find all of the modern "always connected, always call home" behaviors quite annoying in my programming tools.

But, to be fair, Node was a dumpster fire long before being bought by Microsoft.
News sites are reluctant to add outlinks because it drives pageviews and engagement away from their site. They'd much rather you click on a link to another one of their pages.
I think the most important point is that addressing inequality in this way feeds into the lie that exploitation is zero sum and those who benefited from it must now sacrifice to balance the scales.

In truth, inequality makes everyone poorer, because we share the same world, and we all suffer when opportunity is hoarded. The richest often live the worst lives trying to maintain their advantages. Consider Putin spending decades obsessing over television news.

Addressing inequality isn’t about punishing those who benefitted unfairly, it’s about making the world better for everyone.

“But these projects are trying assign greater moral weight by claiming exaggerated economic consequences. But these claims can weaken the morality of the original crime. Take slavery as an example. Many journalists and even some historians claim that American economic prosperity would have been unattainable without slavery. If you truly believe that, and you look at the billions of lives that have been lifted out of poverty thanks to this prosperity, then a callous calculus could conclude that the abuses of slavery were a cost we had to pay. But economists do not believe this claim. In fact, economists believe at best slavery did not provide any growth benefits over free labor and at worst it impeded America's economic development. To me, this is a much stronger moral claim because not only was slavery terrible, it was unnecessary.”
The bots these days really put you in the point where you wonder what percent of people you talk to are real.

I've seen a few popular comments bots give themselves away accidently by posting the same comment under a thread under different user names. Go and look at the accounts, and they are all the same comments, but generally in different threads. Because they seem to have been human comments at some point in the past, they seem to be much harder to detect for the average user.
A team building game for the remote-first world.

My managers usually do cringe worthy "get to know your colleagues" events.

If there could be a game where me and my teammates could collaborate, work towards a goal (that is not programming), while also talking, I think that could be fun.