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Hello everybody :) When we released Timely a few years back we always described it as the time tracking app to end time tracking. The truth is that it wasn't quite there at the time.

But now, with AI coming as far it has, we can finally actually able to deliver on that promise.

It's been a long road here and I'm so happy to launch it. Please let us know what you think! :)
but only one is being even remotely honest about it

It’s funny because if you take an objective look at the Graun - based in a tax haven, all its writers seem to have double-barrelled names and went to Oxbridge from an exclusive boarding school - it’s clear that their left-wing schtick is just an act, a product they sell to a gullible audience. They’re as establishment as it gets.

I don’t buy any Murdoch products either but don’t kid yourself that the Graun is any different
I don't know if I'd play that game. They can waste your time much more effectively and get paid while doing it.
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PID will also work for non-linear systems provided they are not too non-linear. Even simple steam boiler is already non-linear but PID will work fine if you are just interested in practical results.
Thanks for the clarification.

In the context, most other posts here contain no technical detail whatsoever either and are nothing more than unsubstantiated opinions (same as mine); they just really dislike that there is someone out there who doesn’t think that Linux is phenomenal. In the days of Microsoft dominance, we called that monoculture.

Volumes have been written and videos filmed on all the inadequacies of the GNU/Linux kernel, far more than I could cram into one “Hacker News” post. I for example get a painful reminder of just how unfit the Linux kernel is as firmware every time I turn on my television set which runs it (ARM V7 Linux for the curious). After that, I don’t want any more. That is not an isolated scenario.

Apropos petty, my hate of GNU/Linux is epic.
Yes. In my imagination, a widely deployed CO₂ tax would rise electricity prices just enough to wipe the profits off Bitcoin mining and make maintaining the blockchain that much less profitable for people, killing the currency outright.

But then again, it might only delay the inevitable...

(And to be clear - I don't mind innovations in finance, new kinds of money, new mechanisms of social consensus, etc. I only dislike systems with huge energy waste, especially one unsustainable in long-term, as such systems grow.)
It's not the right comparison. Yes, banks compete with each other, but when someone changes their bank they don't change it that soon/often (unlike newspaper subscriptions, which rarely last for longer than a year). Additionally, banks have to interact (at least when transferring funds), unlike newspapers which have no incentive to exchange anything.
While I like the general idea here, to improve the environment with technology, it'd be better to use drones to pick up trash. Trees will plant themselves but trash just accumulates and gets ground up by erosive forces.

Also, people need jobs. Give them jobs planting trees and picking up trash.

/can't see the forest for the trees.
Dodging what? Cars? Planes? Blackouts? Not every threat can be evaded by nimble feet.
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What about wheeled robot for this task? Something like Curiosity to access remote areas and use a drone to refill the seed container. Afaik it’s not enough to drop a seed on the ground and wheeled robot could drill small hole to put properly seed inside. Nice application, but who pays for this?
Not a very strong measure, definitely not against a determined attacker, but valid nevertheless. A mosquito net for opsec, so to speak.
There was a discussion almost 3 years ago regarding drones, that are able to plant 36K trees per day. There was also a reference to the 1970s planting machines, that are much simple in mechanical design and are able to plant 10-20K trees per hour.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9444521
The claim isn't that slaves weren't involved, the claim is that the common knowledge that it was all slaves is wrong.

It was widely believed the pyramids were a massive slave operation because obviously people had to be forced to work on something of that scale and obviously nobody would subject themselves to something this arduous freely. Imagining how they were built conjures up images of Egyptian guards whipping slaves who drag massive slabs in the scorching heat.

But new evidence suggests not only wasn't everybody who worked on it a slave, there's even good reason to believe that slaves didn't play any bigger role than in the society at the time in general.
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I dunno, I kind of think that any paywall has elements of competing goals.

The current cat-and-mouse of paywalls but with exemptions for facebook, search links, n-visits... it's an inevitable mess trying to do both wide distributions and access restriction.

A paywalled article can't be discussed on HN, retweeted and such. This isolates it from the wider conversation. That doesn't work with what media is today.
The "high performance" claim is misleading, when there are languages like C.
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When talking about lab-meat solutions, folks list many benefits. But those same benefits exist with much, much cheaper vegan and vegetarian solutions that are already on the market. Whilst others are spending millions on lab-made meat substitutes, I've been eating economical meat-free meals that taste, to me, often indistinguishable from meat-containing dishes.

These menu items expand even more for Westerners when you extend into Indian cuisine, which reaches new levels of flavour, often without meat as well.

It's another area in which the solution teased by Western capitalist culture is over-engineered and over-priced, and the better solution is much simpler and just involves looking at what those outside our comfort zone have devised already.
> but how will everyone feel about funding the DRC in the name of progress?

By 2015, DRC supplied 60% of the world production of 32,000 tons at prices of $20,000 to $26,000 per ton[1]

That's about $750,000,000.

So the question is: how do you feel about it now?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt#Production
What do you mean LQR is suited for non linear systems? This is all misinformation. LQR is a linear systems tool.

The nice thing about linear systems is that almost every dynamical system is locally linear near some operating point.
I expect a world-class newspaper like the Guardian to have plenty of costs that don't fit the regular butts-in-seats of a regular office. They have correspondents living and traveling all over the world, with the associated costs that implies (plane tickets, rented houses, hired guides, bribes, etc).
Talking about making up your own invented antagonistic positions: I am not arguing everyone else pretends there are no difference, I am arguing that some do. Quoting some articles arguing that there are differences doesn't prove anything. As for the ad hominem arguments,...
Your use of "African" seems confusing here. In particular the line "evidence of there being people in Australia before African peoples had left the Middle East" seems to suggest you think Denosovan people didn't originate in Africa.
https://vimeo.com/125796581 is a grand vision ONT have in the works
I think there really isn't much of a scene in the sense the GP is probably thinking. Most everyone here concentrates directly on work and family. Activities that are indirectly linked to work/technology like the typical networking-event-disguised-as-a-party just don't happen that much here. There are a few. It's much more about finding a selection of partner businesses that you can work with reliably.

Even the younger crowd I mentioned above who like the city center often amaze me... it's like they don't really understand how to just have fun. When they do go out for fun it's often to a canned experience of some sort that promises a good photo op and not much else.

There is, however, a "foreigner who has come here and wants to build something" scene. Those guys mostly hang out near the Huaqiangbei market and sort of replicate the Silicon Valley vibe. Many of them are from there.

I don't think there will be another Huaqiangbei. HQB's big driver was factory storefronts. Before the internet it let people set up their sourcing/manufacturing chain without having to travel all over China to find it. Now that's mostly unnecessary and everyone uses Taobao or other online manufacturing marketplaces to connect with vendors. Especially if you've moved out of the city center it's not efficient to waste a day traveling into town and visiting the market when you can have the sample you need show up tomorrow morning (for $1.50 shipping) if you order it online. I'll swing through HQB about once a year for fun, but never just go there for parts.
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Focus on whatever will get you growth this month. From what you say, that is probably sales. Focus on development when you reach the point where missing features make it hard to grow at a sufficient rate, and not before.
It's possible that you're just expected to know them at that point.
In a booming population, it seems to me that evolution can be more rapid in "selection" with less "pressure". For instance, if humans start exploring a new continent, some might have 10 times the normal number of grandchildren, and their genes would rapidly outnumber the others. Whereas if population is static, then you could say there's more "pressure" but there's probably less "selection", because there's less opportunity and variance in success.
People talked optimistically about the end of war in the early 20th century when it looked like war had gone the way of the dodo. The last major international conflict was a century earlier when the Powers deposed the second rise of Napoleon. There were a number of internal civil wars in the meantime mainly dealing with the transition from monoarchy to republics and the consolidation of related city states intomcountries. The early 20th century had much progress in industrialisation, invention and global trade.

Then WWI happened, following soon by WWII, partly based on a poor resolution of WWI. Then a 45 year Cold War with several close nuclear wars.

Thats why I am skeptical the concept of world war is really over.
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I've done a few tests with GDScript.

There isn't the same depth of library support as Python for obvious reasons, which makes the experience different even though the syntax is pretty close, but it's not worse at the task of doing things with the engine, in fact it's better at that because it's more deeply integrated(which is the point of having a custom language). It's aware of engine core stuff like e.g. geometry vectors and the scenegraph, and the built-in IDE supports working with GDScript directly with no configuration step needed - edit/test/debug all done exactly like it should be.

Performance-wise, it's fine for what it's intended for - running gameplay logic for a game of small-to-midsize scope(think ~$5mm budget) that isn't trying to drive tens of thousands of entities or run parts of the rendering from script. Smaller games can get away with optimizing hotspots, and a bigger game can start to justify having someone forking the engine and poking around in the internals to optimize whatever part of the architecture starts falling over.

For the use-cases of running a specific task that's more intensive or bolting on some additional dependencies, the new GDNative support is compelling. Godot's stated aim is for convenience over optimization but the optimization is definitely present in critical elements.
Agreed! As a mathematician/software engineer I have been looking for environment/ecological projects to work on, but it is really hard to find opportunities.

Does anyone know of good places to find opportunities to work on projects like this one?
The books are similar but very different at the same time.

Martin's book takes an application focused approach. How do I think about changes to my data in a distributed environment?
You can see this thinking in the projects he's been involved with on Kafka and at LinkedIn.

Brendan, however take on distributed system is from the angle of heterogenous distributed workloads and the architectural blocks needed for running such systems reliably. Note that Burns worked at Google and was one of the founders of Kubernetes so you will find a bit of a container orchestration slant in the book too.
I also feel like I made some wrong turns in my life and turn in the right direction is almost impossible now: career- and, what is the saddest part, family-wise. It just feels like it's too late for everything to get back on track. Damn. I'll be 35 in a couple of months :(
I can confirm that the original 2015 Nature paper for AlphaGo mentions setting ladder capture / ladder escape bits as input to the neural network.

cf. https://gogameguru.com/i/2016/03/deepmind-mastering-go.pdf, Extended data table 2
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> The addiction ensnaring children is not some master plan secretly hatched at Apple, but is instead the spawn of attention economy conglomerates like Facebook, who, unlike Apple, directly profit from compulsive use, and leverage the iPhone merely as a convenient platform.

It's simply not true. Apple directly profits from compulsive use - each app or in-app purchase means income for Apple. It's not a secret plan, it's a part of Apple's business model.
Unlike your parent comment, your comment is total nonsense. Arrow proved that, given a set of ordinal preference rankings held by several individuals, the concept of an aggregate preference ranking describing the overall "will of society" is not well defined; subject to four or five unobjectionable constraints, no function determining such an overall ranking exists.

Voting systems which obey the assumptions of the theorem frequently break down in ways that cannot be described as "rock-paper-scissors between the three most popular candidates", as when strategic voting caused the papal conclave of 1334 to unanimously elect the least popular candidate to the papacy.

Were you perhaps thinking of Condorcet's work when you referred to rock-paper-scissors? He, not Arrow, famously wrote about how voter preferences were not necessarily transitive.
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I think perhaps you should have avoided using the phrase "brand new" to refer to tariffs that are not new and have simply been tweaked. Right?

I think it's also cute how you think Trump of all people is so concerned helping out US solar manufacturers given his, y'know, words.
My understanding is that telecom in general balked at packet switching. To them it violated the core tenent of their business, that of maintaining a continous circuit between customers.
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https://imgur.com/a/R6pFi

Yep, the adapter is easy to build. The minitel character set also has some handy glyphs in it for graphics.
If you told me these facts about a random video game I'd guess the following:

- A high rank player can consistently execute a strategy that wins against the majority of players most of the time ("beats the meta")

- The above has a counter strategy, but this strategy often fails against the majority of the players ("loses to the meta")

When these two players meet, they go 50-50, but have very different results in tournaments. Alternatively, one player is generally bad but exploits a particularly hard to observe weakness in the first.

I know nothing about fencing, but I suspect something similar is going on here.
I used to work as a system's engineer for the biggest service provider of the minitel era, back in 1989+. MOST of the services were for professionals -- in fact the biggest by far for volume and revenue was a transport exchange for lorries...

There were a few 'pink services' (can't call that porn really, it was just chatbots with (sometimes!) real 'hostesses') as mentioned, but they were nowhere near the biggest. The biggest after the lorry service were sport services (Stade 2 etc during footy times or Tour de France) -- then .gov stuff and education (exam results).

I think for most people the 'pink services' were the ones that were advertised most, therefore there is a bias as to what was used and popular at the time, but from my point of view, it was nowhere near as popular as what people believe.

For the technically minded, we were running a (lot) of Pr1me computers running Primos -- in fact we were their primary customers before they died; we eventually moved on to HPUX on the very first PA-RISC that came out. The Pr1mes continued ticking along for a long while...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16264127

Also, the usual rule of thumb: "drones". Flying means constantly expending energy to fight against gravity. Unless the particular problem solved requires flying (to e.g. reach otherwise unreachable spots), solutions involving flying machines are almost always bad. And I don't see anything in reforestation that requires flying.

This is doubly important if you're trying to make the world a better place, instead of just making a quick buck. If all you care about is money, you can make it so that someone else pays the energy costs. But if you truly care about doing something good, then you have to factor them in (they almost always involve non-renewable sources and pollution) and ask yourself, if your plan is even a net improvement for the world.
Nothing personal, but I disagree with pretty much everything you say :)

Firstly you're staging a false dichotomy. We can use both these kind of drones if we want to.

"Trees will plant themselves" < so they are idiots?

"people need jobs" is played every time we replace a brain dead job with some kind of effective innovation. There are no examples of us going back. Fortunately.
I would be more curious about future (Apple) processors, now that those exploits have surfaced. I wouldn't be surprised if those CPUs were already developed, for the time once these design faults surface publicly, though.

I also wonder if it's necessary to have a system fix (or the safari javascript fix is sufficient) on iOS for current devices, since only checked/signed code can run from the app store, and even if there's a future jailbreak it'll compromise the system a more convenient way.
The only way out of this box, IMHO is proper layering of software and proper interfaces. Human brains have a limited capacity to manage complexity. There is only so much you can fit into your head at one time. (I dunno, maybe it's just me, but I've been around long enough to have hit this limit repeatedly, and started forgetting about code I have written in the past).

To combat this, humans require abstraction. A proper abstraction fully encapsulates the implementation details and provides an interface that does not require knowledge of the details behind the abstraction.

We have too many leaky abstractions. Bugs, performance issues, brittle software broken by updates. Language features that break in complex ways when users make mistakes (hello C/C++!) A leaky abstraction lets its details spill out through the backdoor. These cause cognitive load and make it impossible to layer software properly.

The only way to build a big system is proper abstractions.

Until Spectre and Meltdown, ISAs were good abstraction layers.

Today, still, my personal opinion is that the kernel system call layer is one of the strongest abstraction boundaries that we managed to enforce. Above this layer, it's all a mess. Below this layer, it's all a mess. (To a first approximation).

We aren't getting anywhere until we get the layers right.
The whole "state update" algorithm and sheer amount of different variables threw me off.

Imo it starts with the name, it tells nothing and probably implies something different. It is the dynamic programming of control theory.
I strongly suspect the interactive (mostly adult) services were the bulk of the bandwidth; the rest of it was relatively short, infrequent and low-bandwidth sessions like looking up phone numbers, catalogue ordering or paying the odd bill. There's some info in the Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel#Finances) about usage and finance which quotes revenues of over $1bn p.a. in 1998.

I'd guess that while interest in sex hasn't changed, it does seem the bulk of bandwidth on Minitel went on online chat (erotic/flirting) - likely much more so as a proportion of the total than on the modern internet. I recall Paris (and the Metro in particular) at that time being plastered with (mostly-pink) adverts for 3615 chat services (the Minitel equivalent of a URL).
Plus the refrigeration and industrialized food like processed dinners and fast food. These cut food preparation from tens of hours a week tomjust a few hours. Further automation like food deliveryband cooking systems could this even further.
I mean why not use gunpowder?
Thanks for pointing out an obvious reason of why position control for DC motor requires the cascade topology. Always used it, never understood formally why is was required. Just curious : how have you come to this conclusion / explanation ? Do you have any resources on the subject ? I'm still struggling to find a (formal again) rule on what should be the ratio between the outer and inner loop rates.
Browsers should show a warning that a "possibly insecure legacy mode" is in use.

If browsers enforce HTTPS in a similar way, I don't see why they shouldn't enforce better security elsewhere as well.
> The iPhone was not designed to be addictive. [...] The addiction ensnaring children is not some master plan secretly hatched at Apple, but is instead the spawn of attention economy conglomerates like Facebook, who, unlike Apple, directly profit from compulsive use, and leverage the iPhone merely as a convenient platform.

Apple makes quite a bit of money on app store sales[1]. We well know how the "free" to play market works[2]. It arguably thrives by triggering the same mechanisms as social media applications.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/04/apple-generated-a-record-300...

[2] http://toucharcade.com/2015/09/16/we-own-you-confessions-of-...
I'm a python programmer, and I've tried GDScript, and the extent to which it's like python was disappointing and superficial. It's missing most of the features which make python worth using, such as decorators, generators/coroutines, comprehensions, context managers. Especially the lack of generator-based context managers was a big deal.

But the real dealbreaker was not being able to use the pydata stack, as much of the power of python is its rich library support. If I can't use SciPy to do the heavy graph algorithms and voronoi calculations and statistical models, what's the point?

That said, the introduction of GDNative and touilleMan's godot-python extension is a game-changer (pun intended), and I'm looking forward to diving in now.

[0]: https://github.com/touilleMan/godot-python