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Tower defense was popularized by Starcraft mods.

Dota, and so LOL, is often thought of as something coming from Warcraft 3 Defense of the Ancient, but the concept really started as a starcraft mod as well.

Of lot of the gaming culture is born on the original Battle.net.

SC 1 was one of the most influential game ever created.
Ask HN: How does HN help a new project?
Tell me about a project where HN had a big part in their success.
For me, success is when a group of people pay for a product or service over a stable period. This group could be a small, specialized group.
Somewhere there is a company creating a committee to clarify this.
Netherlands is a bit of an outlier I feel though, but I am from there; maybe it happens elsewhere too.
bananas == crazy; (x heavy) == crazy heavy
Not necessarily.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Logical_truth&d...

https://iep.utm.edu/gettier/

For example:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickster
Loop is an all time classic. Just wish it supported other platforms too.
It’s still an order of magnitude more chill off a life than Mars. You’re surrounded by drinkable water and breathable air and some critters to hunt
For sure if those happen to be your actual products, but that's not the impression I got from reading this particular post. (Happy to be wrong of course)
Could be resume fodder.
"Ola maps has attributed OpenStreetMap on its app, indicating the Ola Maps solution has been built on top of it, along with proprietary data from Ola"
Strange you say this, I just got together with a bunch of people and revived an old user group that I used to run, seems like there's a itch to get out and socialise again
The way I understood it, this is similar to Firebase? Though Firefox is server side, not client side. So I would have to check out a more fully fledged example to compare them.
On Facebook? What irony.
I misinterpreted this first as hacker/leet-speak,
so that those words would be ALLY and CLAN..
Blizzard missing the Moba train is when I understood it was not the same company anymore and they started to be corporate.

They stopped following the fans and community and started to push for business plans.

It worked, they made tons of money.

But I stopped admiring them.
Sweet Lord that is one of my favorite movies! The fight scenes are amazing, and the story is absolutely phenomenal.
This comment resonates so deeply with me.

In my opinion, all of the management training completely ignores the one thing that matters - make the company money.

If management training isn’t helping you make the company more money, then you might as well just ignore it. It’s likely actively working against your own interests.
What is Ola?
MongoDB has supported the equivalent of Postgres' serializable isolation for many years now. I'm not sure what "with strong consistency benefits" means.
> Every additional millisecond of load time will reduce engagement,

I do not believe this. Humans can't tell the difference between 1 and 10ms. I'd love to see the study that actually proves this assertion. I suspect, it's never been done for embedded videos just webpage load time.

But further, we are talking about embedded videos that you have to click to start anyways. Presumably, the person clicking the video has a desire to watch it and thus can stand that the video takes an extra 300ms to load.
And the list goes on of the food products that only existed in the Americas - chocolate, coffee, hot peppers.

But of course it goes both ways. I just had traditional breakfast in an isolated Zapotec village in Mexico. But of course the cheese wasn’t part of it until the Spaniards arrived.
Split the difference, meet in Creston at Jimmy's Pub (pretty well equidistant from Nelson, Cranbrook, Trail). I can walk over there too.
It's always good seeing FANG losing market
(These principles alone would bring success to any organization I'd think ...

Particularly the emphasis on clarity, brevity ... the attention to (and avoidance of) rumors ...
Where would you store the voice memos? I’m concerned that unfiltered stream of thought would be perceived not well if it surfaces. This needs strong privacy and at the same time convenient UX.
Perl also changed its behavior, but in the other direction: a random seed was used per interpreter start after 5.18.

https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1005122
I'm a CLI dinosaur here. But is there a need of a 42.4MB animated logo gif for the GUI? https://github.com/danielmiessler/fabric/tree/main/images/fa...
Adding to my old post, I suspect that those broken incentives were the result of mixing "how" and "how much" in political decisionmaking. That's a process problem I see repeated over and over again: the "how much" is not isolated from the "how" and then you get compromises that are too generous in some parts and too frugal in other parts. It's as if compromises in salary negotiation went "yeah, we could agree on 10% more each month, if in turn we skip payment in December".

I believe that politics could get much better results if compromises about the particularities of distribution were always discussed with an open scale factor shared across the entire range of a particular kind of spending (e.g. renewables subsidy), and then the scale factor was decided upon in a separate discussion/compromise.
I love it, but parents and society do not want to pay for too many teachers. Therefore it is helpful to have question- answering AIs.
From a government point of view, you can also pick the best native candidates. It's not rocket science.
> I didn't imply anything should be read into it

FYI, this sentence -- "It seems like every jobs report is lowered after the news cycle picks up the inflates numbers and they're free to adjust to the real data" -- gave me the sense that you meant the numbers were manipulated to put out good news. I think that's what the other poster was picking up on.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
> Are we back in the 60s where a father has to sign off on the daughters job application

Strawnan bs. No one advocated anything like that.

> We are talking about a woman who willingly signed up for a playboy photoshoo

Yep. And decades later asked it to not be used anymore.

You can waste as much time with long winded arguments as you want. Or you could just be decent and not use the image. Your call.
Williams Gibson also describes this in Idoru - a virtual world with digital bugs that eat spam.
China's Achilles' heel–capital flight
The other thing I don't like about it is that many cards will be flipped upside down which is very annoying for games like MTG.
China exerts new control over its young expats in the US
accounting, expecially tax optimization is really interesting/fun, but maybe its just in my bubble in a high tax country where most of the middle class needs tax optmization to live above the poverty line
Also how simple it is to remove yourself from some situation. Something is getting on nerves. You can just put on some clothing and walk outside. Stand there for 15 minutes or half and hour and get to decompress... No such opportunity on other objects...
There are some roles like that in tech. For example, "charitable" positions like full-time OSS devs.

Another one that is questionable are tech evangelists or dev rel. Sometimes those positions can be connected to revenue, but usually it's "mindshare" accounting.
> I’m not sure there is really more to say here.

I'm sure that there can be some very interesting discussions about code-in-database and interop with tooling!

> I’m just not sure I understand why the database needs to be the compiler.

I'm not entirely sure if these two are tightly bound. For example `ucm` uses a SQLite database, but Share(their Github equivalent) uses PostgreSQL afaik.

I believe a previous iteration used Git as the backing store but they didn't go through with it. I'm not sure about this tho.
Should we pursue such a simulation in an undersea environment instead? Real stress, real risk, real isolation - but could pull someone up if super urgent. Would also simulate the long voyage to get there.
RIP Dhclient(8)
> Might not work as well, for military

I can see how one could think this, but one of the most accomplished persons I know is an ex high level, special forces commander who swears by these principles, and practiced them with and toward his men while on active duty. He attributes his success - and, later success in business, must add - to being there for his men and ensuring their well-being and progress, much along these lines ...
Reminds me of a data center that said they had a backup connection and I pointed out that only one fiber was coming into the data center. They said, "Oh its on a different lambda[1]" :-)

[1] Wave division multiplexing sends multiple signals over the same fiber by using different wavelengths for different channels. Each wavelength is sometimes referred to as a lambda.
Thank you for your advice
I'm curious... Would you be willing to post why you're interested in this?
> Meetup.com was on fire with maker, programming, and tech meetups in Portland in 2010-2014. Some were huge (I recall the auditorium for Puppet Labs wall-to-wall one point). Then ... poof. All gone, even before the pandemic.

[2017] Acquired by WeWork
[2018] Founder steps down as CEO
[2019] New pricing model
[2020] WeWork sold it to AlleyCorp
[2024] Bending Spoons announced it will acquire Meetup

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meetup
What makes mongo mongo is its distibruted nature, without it you could just store json(b) in an RDBMS.
They seem to be working on it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1863246
I-1i think this i0s funnier t0o apply t0o short words. Also t1e word 'a4d' i0s pronounced like i1's written.
Yes and the optimal amount of test coverage is never 100%
Trying to add a check in the past but the calendar shows up but can't select a date. Using chrome.
Principles of Vasocomputation (2023)
I suppose you get performance benefits if the the time it takes to start up a nodejs process dominates the execution time of the script. This is probably the case for a decent proportion of “serverless function” type scripts.
> That's how 70% of apple's revenue is gained

That’s factually incorrect and a completely absurd figure. The make way more money from device sales
Yeah, I think the uploader titled that video wrong. The mother is speaking Spanish (I guess the baby could still be Italian).
That stands to reason ...

Gives a whole new meaning to the "M" in MBA :)
It will take a while for Apple to move its manufacturing out of China.
Ask HN: Why do mirrors reflect text horizontally but not vertically?
Is there a simple explanation for this?
As a professional mathematician, I strongly disagree with the claim that "higher math" abandons worked examples. Any course or book that does not devote a significant amount of time to examples is a bad course or book.

Even Grothendieck, who was famously known for thinking very abstractly and avoiding examples, was motivated by concrete questions (e.g., the Weil conjectures) coming from concrete examples. To me, and most other mathematicians, the whole point of mathematics is to do examples, and theory building or any other abstract nonsense should be motivated by the desire to better understand or unify examples.
Smart Meter Bridge – Xythobuz.de
Not a good source, I know, but... my Latin teacher in high school. I've added some relevant reading to my list, when I run across it again I'll comment here.

Even without the Romans, look at how the US banking system works. Money enters circulation when people are granted loans--loans which are issued based on the banker's belief that the debtors' endeavors will succeed. If the technology for providing these necessities improves to the point where it is believed that they're easy to provide (some may argue that it already has), then we can create new money based on collective support for that goal.

This money could be more legitimate than what you get from a banker, because it is backed by activity which obviously benefits the people. By contrast, when you accept a dollar you have no way of knowing whether the loan that put it into circulation was for activity that helps you or harms you. Collective trust in bankers is pretty shaky, and yet it still seems solid enough to keep the current system afloat. Collective support for solving the basic-needs problem would be a much sturdier foundation for a monetary system.

The point is, "there aren't enough resources for that"-style argument only works for resources like metal or water or labor... things that we can't create from thin air. Money is created from thin air to meet the needs of the system. If there's enough collective willpower to get something done, a lack of money can't stop it because we can just change the way money is created in support of the desired activity.
> So while I fully agree with you, I still think the sentence quoted is an example of terribly unhelpful and confusing writing.

Would you have us believe that there is zero utility in this conversation (which was catalyzed by the flawed writing)?

Possibly relevant, and don't miss the "see also" section:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality

Also note that this topic is different than this one (they often appear to be the same, because of causality):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality_(physics)
Messy code that is specific to windows+macos, but with some tweaks it builds/runs on Linux. You need to add SDL2 includes in a few files.
"In my opinion, all of the management training completely ignores the one thing that matters - make the company money."

They definitely don't tie it together explicitly. In my view, much of it implicitly can help the company, but only if it's applied correctly.

With my disability, I feel like the canary in the coal mine. My team is a low performing team. I've been identified as a low performing member of that team. Our tests are basically non-existent. We don't have a requirements repository other than JIRA stories. We don't have documentation for most tasks. These things (and more) are common complaints of most team members. It certainly affects their speed and quality. However, with my disability it affects me much more. The company could save money on dev costs if they made some process improvements. Instead, they give me career advice that I need to speed up, ask fewer questions, and that I should look for other roles, including non-technical roles. I guess when I do get fired or leave, they'll have to blame the slow and low quality work on someone or something else...
The mirror doesn't reflect horizontally or vertically, it reflects front-to-back, along the axis perpendicular to the mirror.

Richard Feinman [1] explains this the best.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tuxLY94LXw&pp=ygUOZmVpbm1hb...
> store json(b) in an RDBMS

I actually did this for as small HR application and it worked incredible well.jsonb gin indexes are pretty nice once you get the hang of the syntax.

And then, you also have all the features of Postgres as a freebie.
Yes, sleeves weren't much of a thing until the 2000s and they do seem to make a big difference in my experience.
but then you wouldn't have the joy of using the most awkward query language invented by mankind
The man with roses is particularly profound. Did he just return from a hospital where his beloved died moments ago?
Even if you don't believe that the main contradiction in capitalism is between capital and labor, all the points made by OP are still valid: the book shows how small ideas have big consequences and that the whole is bigger than the sums of parts.

You know, you do not need to agree with a philosopher to learn things with him. The main point of philosophy is being able to understand ideas from different thinkers and learn something with them, even in cases where you do not agree much with them. Moreover, Marx is one of the most influential thinkers in the XIX century. You lose a lot when you let your ideology dictates what kind of ideas or books you are not allowed to explore or if you let these things creates a strawman that do not let you think objectively about some ideas.
Okay what’s a4d
In the example I posted, in the F9 and D9 lines, the first number is the FSAC (freight station accounting code), the second number is the SPLC (standard point location code - different from what you're referring to), and the last number is a Canadian-style postal code.
A Prominent Former CIA Analyst as a Collegiate Textbook Coauthor
Ola is an Indian homegrown version of Uber/Lyft. They have pretty identical flow of hailing a cab via an app. There's some localized features like hailing autorickshaws, hailing motorcycles for single person riders. Not sure if they still have it but for a while they did have an implementation to hail via SMS for smartphone users with limited/slow data connections.
Not looking for an argument, but can you give some pointers as to what is bad about the code?
The old DECUS meetings were fun. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECUS
I think HN is aiming for thoughtful and novel comments on the content of the article; complaints like "page loaded slowly" are shallow. The parent comment feels more on-point since the article is about optimizing websites and the post is itself a demo.

I'm seeing <1% CPU on Firefox/Debian, but I have video autoplay turned off (I rarely want to watch them).
A common problem with ADR implementations
It’s probably downvoted because it doesn’t add anything to the debugging story.

At some point, I’ll probably watch the “Losing Lena” documentary. But I wasted a few minutes to determine the comment was not related to the story
...only to run into a page that drops a nasty overlay on your browser window because you have Adblock enabled.
That's clever, well worth its own blog post.
I can see how it works in one of the links you can see that there's 2 faceted almost half cylinders attached together with a 90' twist so you get quantized (in space, not color value) sampling on each x/y axis.
The Lenna (or Lena) picture is one of the most widely used standard test images used for compression algorithms.

http://lenna.org/
By the description I'd guess "afford", it's neat that you pronounce it the same way when it's abbreviated.
> MongoDB has supported the equivalent of Postgres' serializable isolation for many years now.

That would be the "I" in ACID

> I'm not sure what "with strong consistency benefits" means.

Probably the "C" in ACID: Data integrity, such as constraints and foreign keys.

https://www.bmc.com/blogs/acid-atomic-consistent-isolated-du...
Tim Doucette, a blind astronomer who built the Deep Sky Eye Observatory
> Pongo - Mongo but on Postgres and with strong consistency benefits.

I don't read this as saying it's "MongoDB but with...". I read it as saying that it's Postgres.
as a reminder, this is just the desktop version not Android.

good catch. this kind of technical analysis makes signal a stronger application. now if only someone could convince Marlinspike to get off his high horse and de-centralize the service.

AWS is a terrible host. its all too willing to de-platform, as was evidenced when Senator Joe Liebermann politely requested they de-platform Assange and Wikileaks.
It’s falling off quickly in construction, but health care is definitely huge for fax still
I believe it could be useful to update the title to mention that this only happens in the desktop application. I personally only use the mobile app, and while I'm aware I might be biased, I didn't even know a desktop Signal application existed.

Not saying the severity of the issue is lower because of it, just that it might not impact as many people as the current title would suggest.
How are they supposed to store them? Unless there’s a password required to use the app, is the only other option a fixed key, or maybe something derived from the account name or something? All of this feels like obfuscation though, if we’re targeting malware specifically designed to collect signal data, they can probably just work around this. Maybe a TPM? Or an OS-provided keychain?
> I'm not sure what "with strong consistency benefits" means.

"Doesn't use MongoDB" was my first thought.
Canadians have elevated Clamato juice with the Caesar, the purest nectar of the gods. Mexicans come close with micheladas and Americans have bloody Mary’s but nothing compares to a proper Caesar.

I think I might need to have one today.
> If you look over the last few years we've innovated in [the] quality of the music

But the iTunes music store has been stuck at 256 kbps AAC since 2007.

Why, Eddy, why??? ;-(
The union didn't caffeinate their way to victory, the southern men went off to distant battlefields and the morally bankrupted northern generals like (((Sherman))) (who traded letters with his wife wherein they exchanged hopes of driving southerners right into the sea) he led armies to farms and towns populated only by the women and children left behind.

They fire-bombed entire cities "Stop there! Leave this building standing so they see a town once stood here." An actual quote.

This was a war meticulously overseen by Honest Abe himself. No wonder Hillary Clinton likened herself to him for being two-faced: One for public consumption, and one for Satan.

Do you see this tactic of deliberately targeting civilians, children, and infrastructure being employed anywhere else in the world right now?
ChatGPT says "ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info." directly under the prompt box. If people will blindly trust a source that explicitly states that it isn't a reliable source, then they've got much bigger problems than AI.
I read Thorpe's book. Vegas changed they way they operated to defeat it.
Yeah I think humans living on Mars is a complete fantasy, at least in this century. Will humans visit Mars? We'll probably attempt it. But living there permanently? Not going to happen.
Building the Bell Telephone system of the 20th century
My intuition is:

1. For small individual queries, sqllite: think oltp. Naive graph databases are basically KV stores, and native ones, more optimized here. DuckDB may also be ok here but afaict it is columnar-oriented, and I'm unclear in oltp perf for row-oriented queries.

2. For bigger graph OLAP queries, where you might want to grab 1K, 100K, 1M, etc multi-hop results, duckdb may get more interesting. I'm not sure how optimized their left joins are, but that's basically the idea here.

FWIW, we began been building GFQL, which is basically cypher graph queries on dataframes, and runs on pure vectorized pandas (CPU) and optionally cudf (GPU). No DB needed, runs in-process, columnar. We use on anything from 100 edge graphs to 1 billion, and individual subgraph matches can be at that scale too, just depends on your RAM. It solves low throughout OLTP/dashboarding/etc for smaller graphs by skipping a DB, and we are also using for vector data, eg, AI pipelines on 10M edge similarity graphs where a single query combines weighted nearest neighbor edge graph traversals and rich symbolic tabular node filters. It may be (much) faster than duckdb on GPUs, lower weight if you are in python, duckdb's benefits of arrow / columnar analytics ecosystem, and less gnarly looking / more maintainable if you are doing graph queries vs wrangling it as tabular SQL. New and a lot on the roadmap, but fun :)
> What makes mongo mongo is its distibruted nature, without it you could just store json(b) in an RDBMS.

Welllllllll I think that's moving the goalposts. Being distributed might be a thing _now_ but I still remember when it was marketed as the thing to have if you wanted to store unstructured documents.

Now that Postgres also does that, you're marketing Mongo as having a different unique feature. Moving the goalposts.
If I counted each time people let down me I'd definitely broaden my vocabulary of huge numbers.
What Details Do You Notice in the 'Beat It' Short Film in 4K?
MacOS provides a keychain for use by applications.
Right - that's what I was getting at.

I find stevia tastes like what I'd get if I took that wood + yellow paint + HB graphite taste I used to get when I absentmindedly chewed the end of my pencil in elementary school and then mixed in some Splenda.