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> Ask HN: What haven’t war video games replaced actual wars?

Because the loser of the video game would rather resort to actual war rather than accept the consequence of losing a war because they lost the video game. This is also why, more relevantly to serious foreign policy efforts, international systems of peaceful resolution like the International Court of Justice haven’t replaced actual war as a means of resolving disputes.
I think there's a difference between catching and killing something, basically at the same time, and using it for research. That's doubly true when the research is going to feel a lot like torture to a creature with a complex brain.

Then again I'd argue that maybe we shouldn't be eating them either. The world is full of food, both animal and vegetable, we don't need to literally eat ALL of it. Maybe lets just hold off on the animals we think might be terrifyingly bright, primates, octopuses, corvids, that sort of thing. Surely that's not a huge sacrifice to make?
This is a bit of a meta comment, but it's interesting that slapping data from WONDER onto a choropleth, with some paragraphs describing the map in words, amounts to research from authors with these titles. I am not saying this research isn't worthwhile, but I am saying there are members of the public doing research at this level or higher and just publishing it on Medium, Observable, or their blogs. Perhaps weekend volunteer researchers should seek university affiliations so they can get published in prestigious journals.
OpenCV Python (NumPy) to C++ CV:Mat Conversion Guide for NDArrays
When working with OpenCV in Python and C++ there are some key differences. For starters OpenCV Python is seemlessly integrated with NumPy. This makes working with images much easier if you are familliar with common NumPy operations. However when using the C++ API things can get more complicated. However for common 2D operations, the C++ class CV::Mat seems to have lots of common operations to manipulate 2D color images. In that case CV::Mat represents can represent a 2D, 3D, or 4D array which can represent Gray, RGB (BGR in OpenCV), or BGR + Alpha. However many people are not aware that CV::Mat can act as an ND Array where dimensions > 4.
Yeah, except science has a system to resolve the claims and bad ones are eventually weeded out or discounted. There are new dumb religious ideas all the time and the old ones never die.
What are the welfare programs worth? What value do the employees see them as having? We’re forced to speculate about the only things that actually matters, to make a fair comparison. I expect better from Tom’s Hardware.
Yep, was inspired by Mario’s Picross to make my own nonogram game.
As someone who doesn’t have any experience with GCP. But I do have experience with AWS, I would have thought this would already be a thing.

I know AWS doesn’t have managed TF support - and as a former AWS ProServe employee i know that they thought about it but didn’t do it because they didn’t want to step on Hashicorp’s business.

AWS does have its own hosted IAC service that was introduced before TF was a thing with CloudFormation.
Would any “real” mainframe software (not Linux on z) use Unix epoch dates though?

I’d have thought mainframe dates were mostly binary coded decimal in EBCDIC and already futureproofed during the y2k mania.
so how long until "tokens" are used to pay for GPU cycles.. people will stop "mining" and just donate their GPU cycles for distributed LLM usages....

in fact, if they did this so that it followed the sun so that the vast majority of it was powered by daylight Solar PV energy I wouldn't even be upset by that.
IMHO this article writes off Hypercard way too fast. It was a surprisingly capable language, especially when you start adding modules. It's a huge shame that Apple crippled it so quickly by only shipping Hypercard Player with most machines. Had they kept the full development environment in the base OS it might still be around today.
That's always my favorite response. If only you understood what we were saying, you'd support our great (for us) idea!

Uh, no. I understood you perfectly. I still oppose it.
> But you can have territory be the prize.

Who is the “you” that can establish and enforce this?

If such a party exists, they have the power to defeat either of the nominal parties in war, and the ability to dictate results to them, and obviously they care enough about avoiding war to dedicate the resources to enforcing a resolution, so they have already rendered the war unnecessary: why would they not just decide the result and enforce that decision rather than letting a videogame do the deciding for them?
The time I crafted a unique MIDI File inspired by Vladimir Horowitz
The story of creating a midi file based on Vladimir Horowitz 1968 Carmen
None that I could find!
According to WHOIS, the domain is registered to one Facundo Pignanelli, in Buenos Aires.
+1. I see one benefit of this language -- it could make it much easier to write programs to compute taxes and benefits. Beyond that I don't see what it could possibly offer.

Are there any lawmakers, lawyers or judges excited about this, or is it only programmers?
Maybe people would rather work longer hours and be able to avail themselves of more goods/services in their off-hours. What trade-offs people make shouldn't be mandated with this kind of one-size-fits-all policy.
People typically don't understand the laws as they exist currently
I finally started writing AppleScript a few months ago when I realized GPT-4 can write it for me, which eliminated almost all of my previous frustrations with it: https://til.simonwillison.net/gpt3/chatgpt-applescript
I'm not sure a fully correct production optimizing compiler is that feasible. LLVM gets multiple miscompilation reports per week (from what I've haphazardly seen observing the issue tracker).

Theoretically changing the order of the passes in the optimization pipeline shouldn't cause any correctness issues, but the fact is that the ordering in the default compilation pipelines is the one that is most tested, so there will probably be bugs exposed when fuzzing the pass ordering.
Most of those social factors you've listed are things that are influenced by base transportation costs, so I wonder if there are similar patterns in other places with gun ownership and varying topography: Australia, Canada, Russia, Southeastern Europe...
Hi Ben,

You should know that your headshot photo doesn't scale down correctly on Firefox/Pixel 7. Currently it overflows the right side of the page causing horizontal scrolling.

Probably not what you were going for.
If one is so shallow to concider political affiliations as crucial, especially in the US, where the two parties are both sucking off the corporations, bankers, and their billionaire friends, are warmongering, and are feeding their voters BS, while making every day life for the average person even shittier with neoliberal policies ever since the 70s, I wouldn't want to know what else they find crucial...
Does anyone have a good apples-to-apples comparison for MicroBlaze, vs Risc-V, vs a legacy softcore design like the SPARC/Leon3?
>I don't think it's true that a majority of Americans want stricter laws.

The majority of Americans want fewer mass shootings of random individuals out in public.
FoxConn is a Taiwanese company, so that supposes that they have the ability to do things in countries other than China.
I'm talking about the ones that are employed by some recruiting firm.

Their incentive to help you is that they get a small cut of your salary, which is paid by the company who hires you. And while, yes, you can argue that it is still indirectly from your salary, the opportunities that opened up and salary that was negotiated for you above the initial offer, evens it out, and makes it a win-win I think.

BTW I'm not familiar with Cyber Coders but, from an initial Google search, it seems like not the ones that I'm talking about. They seem more .. gimicky, I guess, than the one that I used. When I talked with my recruiter it was more of a smaller shop with deep connections in the Chicago trading industry.
If anyone is looking for a chilli oil you can buy that's both delicous and available check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lao_Gan_Ma

It goes great with, eggs, rice and any yogurt dishes.
Better operating systems will greatly reduce the need for cyber security, up to 99%, by eradicating attack vectors. AI will play a role on the remaining 1% to help humans.
When Hasbro, publisher of D&D, engaged in shady license shenanigans, they were able to - sort of, partially - regain trust of the community by more aggressively open sourcing the D&D license (releasing them as creative commons, I think).

But it seems like since Unity probably can't open source their product and stay in business, Unity has put their customers in a position where they can't trust the company but need to trust the company to use the product.

I'm totally outside the gaming industry but jeesh, how could anyone use that product if they had any choice about it?
What's preventing someone from jury rigging a blower style GPU to being passively cooled with forced air in a denser setup?
I'm actually in the process of working on something like it right now: https://filterhn.com/
Mine is https://simonwillison.net/ - I should really come along to one of these some time.
Speak to the local RIR[1]. They have varying requirements, but broadly you generally need to justify your use case, multi-home (for your own AS) and pay a yearly membership fee. After that, you need to speak to your ISP about either advertising it or peering with you - or going dark fibre if you're a real masochist.

Good luck, update us if you do it!

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Internet_registry
I realise now that I’m not sure the hwtracing stuff was upstreamed. But you could try poking around with some of the ls commands from the linked blog post above. If you’re feeling ambitious I guess you could try recreating the demo from the video (the blog post seems to be lacking an easy to copy perf record command).
If I'm not misremembering I'm fairly certain Excel still has hard limits on rows and columns.
I've been using FitBark for the last 2-1/2 years.

The catch is that my cat's use case (being mostly outdoors, mostly out of Bluetooth range, and mostly draining power) doesn't match the engineering design model of a dog who's with you most of the time and might escape on occasion. They gave me a more power-conserving build, though.

The one anomaly here is one I've noticed with Pokémon Go as well: "rounding" locations to be at the street even when the cat isn't even within BT range of the street. (For privacy reasons in PoGo's case, after multiple lawsuits.) The one time this is particularly annoying is when our fuzzball is hunting lizards in the local schoolyard at night, and the tracker says she's on the street next to the schoolyard, but she's somewhere in the middle of it.

In practice, that means I know where my little darling was 10 minutes ago, rounded to the nearest street, and use a Bluetooth tracking app to narrow it down further. Naturally, a good third of the time, she's within BT range and just Not Interested™ in moving from wherever she happens to be. (We try to keep her fed on a regular schedule to reduce wildlife consumption.)

We're going to try FindMyCat on the other cat (who currently doesn't have a tracker) and see how that goes. He spends more time at home.
> And no, cases don't often make it to the Supreme Court because the wording of the law is ambiguous. They make it to the SC because the parties disagree on legal principles and on whether laws are unconstituional or not.

I'm not from your legal system, and yet even I know that's not right: they make it the SC because the 'losing' party disagrees with a lower judge's decision that's already been made, and makes an argument compelling enough in appealing it that it needs to be reconsidered. (A few times, to get as far as the SC, probably.) That almost has to be because of some 'ambiguity' - the lower judge decided one way and the appeal is 'well no I don't think that's the correct reading'.
Trump probably hates guns as much as Bloomberg but lots of republicans still love him
I've seen this in other places in Europe. So incase this becomes territorial and my viewpoint needs to be discounted - I'm from the UK, but I've only been to festivals in continental Europe, primarily Czechia & Slovakia.

The huge overlap I see with the UK, that the US appears to be missing, is that there's surprisingly few other places to use tents. In most of the UK (ex. Scotland), wild camping is actually illegal. In central europe, camping appears to be surprisingly rare. They have astounding hiking routes, but with amenities provided/expected and just setting up camp is frowned upon.

So we have these super-cheap "pop-up" tents that don't survive much usage at all, and are likely only fit to be abandoned after a few days. Relatively expensive tents for weirdos like me that'll actually appreciate them. And almost zero market for anything in between.

So the markets are roughly €20-40 for a tent that'll survive this festival maybe. €200-400 for a tent that'll make it to next year, if this year doesn't get rained out, and you don't bother spend a few days at home drying it out so it's not a mouldfest when you go to use it next year, and €400+ for something you'll care about.

The huge disconnect between UK/EU usage and US usage is that there's often very little other reason to own a tent here. Even if you don't go camping in the US, you could, and that hypothetical is enough to get you to spend a few bucks more on something that's worth taking home with you.

(This comment offered without suggestions - perhaps a why, probably not a how.)
> Asked me to be exclusive, takes a percentage of your salary

These are both red flags for recruiters. Recruiters generally do not ask for you to be exclusive nor will they take a part of your salary; the company pays a set amount per candidate they hire or a percentage based on your salary, but it does not come out of your salary directly, ie if you are paid 100k, the company will pay say 20k to a recruiter, but your salary will not be reduced by that 20k down to 80k. You should still be making 100k regardless of whatever deal was negotiated between the company and the recruiter.

Recruiters will also not ask for exclusivity, in fact, quite the opposite; many will ask how far along you are in the interview process with other recruiters and companies just so they know if they need to pressure their company to hurry the process along or not, which can be quite useful in order to get offers all around the same time and negotiate amongst them.

Most of the recruiters I see are via email and LinkedIn, and they are either third party recruiters or company recruiters directly. They are how I've gotten every job I've gotten in both my corporate and consulting histories.
Love the sparkline next to number of posts.
The Big Rip
"This is not who we are"
Are people held under suspicion of murder being released without bail? If not, how could that possibly be related to issues of minor crimes leading to de facto release?

We need to look specifically at the sorts of crimes sensitive to these measures right?
NSA Backdoor in Windows? from the guy who created Windows Task Manager [video]
The problem is not really the CEO, though he's the one getting the attention here.

It's the new board that got 3 new heads from IronSource and Sequoia VC (who pushed for the IronSource merger).
That's fine if the system discloses to the users that it must be in a text format.
Most of the "turn off a zillion different switches" banners say something like "Powered by OneTrust". There's like 3-4 names I've seen on them, that's just the only one I remember.

There is now an entire sector of the adtech industry devoted to making a GDPR-compliance solution that is carefully designed to make it just frustrating enough that most people hit "sure gimme all the cookies, whatever, I just wanna read this stupid link". Someone was paid well to build these despite any moral qualms they may have had about making the entire Web a little bit shittier.
Yes, PnP threw a real stick in things. Did you migrate to workspaces while using TypeScript? We had major issues with TS, eslint, and I believe prettier all cooperating with each other and other tooling. It was a nightmare for a week or two. Oh, and React Native was a total dead end for a while. Certain libraries in that ecosystem completely shit the bed with workspaces. Man, it's all coming back. Admittedly, React Native's ecosystem was an equal or greater contributor to that suffering. Even on my team at the time, we resented React Native far more than yarn for all of those struggles. We needed to patch a lot of libraries and write way too many pull requests to repositories that were heavily used yet bizarrely under-maintained and unresponsive.
>not only does SyncThing not officially support iOS (you know, the topic at hand), but even using the only available paid option, Möbius, doesn’t even come close to the iCloud experience.

You do realize that this comment only further shows how brainwashed Apple victims are, which was precisely what my initial comment was about?

That they have internalized and accept that their artificially crippled devices won't allow you to transfer data privately to your own PC without using their cloud, which comes with the associated costs and privacy implications? They are artificially crippling devices to monetize your data.

Apple is ruining computing, and Apple victims are too shortsighted to be concerned about it.
Just because a good portion of criminals are poor, doesn't mean that a good portion of poor people are criminals. Thinking that poverty causes crime is treating poor people like animals that have no freewill, and are at the whims of their environment. In fact, most poor people are not criminals, so punishing criminals IS NOT punishing poor people.
> Jobs clearly saw low-quality, third party software as something that could taint the product Apple was selling.

I mostly disagree with this, so long as the low quality software isn't pushed by the platform then it's not that much danger to the reputation. Lack of quality software is a much larger danger, and it's not easy to tell ahead of time where the quality will come from. The big problem is when you are running your own app store and it becomes packed with garbage.
Apple was largely overshadowed by Commodore until the mid-80s. The Apple 2 kept Apple afloat until they were pretty much bankrupt in the 90s. Then Steve returned. That's the real history of Apple that they don't want you to remember. Only those who survive longest get to rewrite their version of history.
This comment is the summary of the difference between human driven design and technology driven design.

Too many people are focused on technology for technology’s sake.
Chatgpt4 can do source to source optimization which is pretty cool. I got it to beat gcc at -03 on simple small toy problems. and it can do similar things with python also. But it threw its hands up when I gave it a longer piece of code to optimize.
In a world of untrusted code and SecurityManagers, it was critical that strings be immutable so a data race couldn’t bypass a policy decision. The JVM doesn’t have immutable arrays, so string methods carefully protected the embedded array from tampering, and couldn’t be overridden.

Most classes don’t have this problem. The original authors of a class don’t know what I’m trying to do, and they don’t bear consequences if I (a consenting adult) get it wrong.
Yeah usually you won't be able to buy one if you don't have your own AS
It's an easy thing to find, the name even became a verb. Sherlock was the program: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sherlocked
> And then random stuff just doesn't work. Various websites hang, various widgets just don't load, etc. Then I turn it off and everything gets better again.

Before I switched ISPs a few weeks ago to one without IPv6, I was with an ISP with IPv6 (dual-stack) for about five years and had zero problems.

In fact it worked 'too well' initially: when I was still IPv4-only I had put a bunch of Facebook domains in my iMac's /etc/hosts file pointing to 127.0.0.1 so that all those little icons would stop loading. At some point I noticed they were back.

After some head scratching over a day or so I realized that Facebook was IPv6-enabled, and so the icons were loading because AAAA records were working. Adding ::1 for Facebook in hosts fixed things.
I can’t help but feel… sad about this. I only recently picked up Terraform and am astounded that this is what goes as coding in the infrastructure world. I was coming from Ansible so there was only improvement to be had, but man did Terraform let me down so far.

It (well, the provider) doesn’t validate fields until apply. That’s just so… sad. How is that acceptable? It’s like a car without a steering wheel, and people just go along with it.
Because C doesn't have object syntax.

AKA

int a = 10;
int \*p = &a;

printf( "size of a = %i, p=%i", a.size, p.size);
Well, everyone is going to have their own perceptions, and maybe some end users do see it as a continuous evolution. For me personally, I saw a discontinuity in the 2010s where suddenly the platform was becoming very locked down: features like SIP prevented you from modifying anything that was part of the OS (though you could turn it off) and code signing appeared to be the first step toward preventing end users from executing any program not blessed by Apple. There was a while in the late 2010s where many of us were pretty sure that Apple was on the verge of prohibiting users from running any code they wrote themselves. There would be some kind of byzantine approval process like for iOS that would reject random, personal utilities not useful to anyone besides the author.

Apple kept denying this was their plan, but kept moving closer and closer to doing this. However, they then appeared to stop around 2020 and haven't renewed those efforts, so I guess we are safe?
The recruiters over in Malaysia take a cut from the hiring company and don't ask you to be exclusive, so it's all the pros. I think on average they get 1 month salary as a recruiter's fee, so there's an incentive to hype you up too.

On the other hand, companies are often very reluctant to pay them for "doing nothing" so you'll get through the resume filter and be put at the bottom of the list. Conversion rate so far has been 0% but I'm sure they work, otherwise they'd be out of a job.
Training LLMs on data that you don't own the rights to is copyright infringement.

No it isn't. There is nothing indicating this is true and lots of evidence that it's either fair use or more likely not a use at all. Just pretending or asserting that it's a violation doesn't change it's legal status.
https://gabrielsieben.tech/2022/07/25/the-power-of-microsoft...

the documented applications of pluton are far more horrifying than the PSP
Every version of the CDK uses an interop layer and runs on top of the Typescript version

https://github.com/aws/jsii

And as far as TF supports services before CFT. Guess which is easier for an AWS employee to do - getting the CF service team to support a new service or just contribute to Terraform’s open source project?

I know of at least one service where the service team introduced the needed APIs and then an employee of AWS wrote the TF provider and contributed to the project before AWS’s own internal team added it to CFT.

Source: former AWS ProServe employee. I am not referring to myself as the author.