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> magically appeared on the internet just a few months ago

You mean like everyone else just after they join reddit or HN? Same for blogging - there's plenty blogging and YouTubing under some cute handle rather than their given name. Plenty change names from marriage or other reasons such as abuse, witness protection or gender reassignment. More than a few have chosen to disappear, including Why the Lucky Stiff who was quite famous for a while.

All you have to do is establish a few karma points, i.e. gain a little credibility online, and vanishingly few will care what you're called or if you've always been throwaway250618.

If you go on to instigate a huge scam then people will put some effort into history and doxxing.
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You know that famous Indian crying from litter on the highway campaign? It was funded by the packaging industry. It was part of a propaganda campaign (a.k.a public relations) by packaging company to place the blame on litter and non-reusable packaging on the consumer instead of the industry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koqNm_TgOZk
Preserving something important to the culture is not identical with ensuring the language freezes and can never change further.

And if you don't think the old oral epics have value -- you seem not to -- then I don't know that it's really worth discussing them with you.
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Just today, I was talking with a team mate about this.
We had some pice of code that it's like this :

public boolean foo() {

if (!this.doesSomethingWithA()) {
return false;
}

if (!this.doesSomethingWithB()) {
return false;
}

if (!this.fooBar2000.isEmpty()) {
return false;
}

if (!this.anotherLongAttribute) {
return false;
}

if (!this.anotherMethod()) {
return false;
}

return true;
}

We try to replace to a "one liner" return !A && !B && !C ... Well, the expression was very long and we noted that was more hard to read that the multiple if's. I suggested split the one liner expression on multiples lines doing something like this :

return !this.doesSomethingWithA()
&& !this.doesSomethingWithB()
&& !this.fooBar2000.isEmpty()
&& !this.anotherLongAttribute
&& !this.anotherMethod();

However, the code formatter (eclipse), changes every time it to the hard to read one liner expression. So we ended using the multiple if's.
Yeah, I saw a dude in the elevator (this year) because his Windows 10 started installing updates when he shut it down, but he needed to leave the office.

I get so much crap when I say this online, but Windows is a complete shit show. Yeah, there are issues with macOS, but it is lightyears better. Yeah, I know Apple has dropped the ball on hardware, but my 5 year old MBP is just fine.
Ask HN: Storing financials/sensitive information on a VPS?
I want to build my wife and I a front-end for managing our financials, registrations, insurances etc.

I have a decent system to scan all relevant documents and make them available on Google Drive. But since I'm the one sorting and filing, it doesn't scale so well when I need to share info with other family members.

What considerations should be taken into account to making sensitive information available over the web on a small Digital Ocean droplet?
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Federation is cool. I have the feeling it needs its "Ubuntu Moment".

Mastodon and Plume are interesting technology wise. But it seems there are no instances with good design yet. I tried hard to like mastodon.social but the interface drives me insane. It's even worse then Twitter.

Until Ubuntu arrived on the scene, Linux was for hardcore nerds. Now every technically interested person has at least tried it.

I wonder what would happen if ActivityPub was used to build Twitter/Instagram/FB alternatives with less aggressive advertising. But with the same user friendly interfaces.

It wouldn't need much. Rather less. For example the choice of fonts and colors on mastodon.social. Who thought it's a good idea to use tiny grey chars on a black background? And then the idea to have multiple feeds on the screen that constantly update without user interaction. This all screems '1337 Haxor Dashboard!!!'. I have no idea whom I am supposed to impress with it. But I know I get a headache from it.

Even using the browsers defaults would go a long way. White background, black text, normal font, normal size. Plus a static feed in the middle of the screen. And nothing much else.
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

should cover it
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A sibling comment mentioned using a Bias-T, and that's pretty much always needed unless you're using a COTS Rx (which would generally have one built-in)

It doesn't even have to be a fancy one. In a pinch, once, I use a random-valued inductor and the smallest-valued capacitor I had on-hand, and soldered them to a little PCB I made by slicing up copper-clad board with an x-acto knife. (0603 parts, if I recall.) Worked like a charm!
Show HN: Nutmeg – Mini daily fantasy for the world cup
Hey everyone - my friends and I have been working on a mini 3-a-side fantasy draft game for the world up. You can find it here: https://nutmeg.app/

We've been working hard to get this out in time and really encourage feedback on how to make it better.

On our horizon is thinking through how to expand this for other competitions (e.g. Champions League) and perhaps a full season long game as well.

Thanks!
Not sure of the name. Some mom-and-pop startup in Utah County. My wife saw a coupon or ad for them and decided to try it out.
My point wasn't to say it's a product now, but rather that it is will be a product if everything pans out. The supposition was that this is just another way for Google to collect data, I believe that it's more of a way to use data than a way to collect data.
What do you do instead? Ship it to them on CD?
I've always felt this was just the law of large numbers: The world has more PC users running Windows, so people who are writing malware would be casting the widest net by attacking PCs running Windows and since the bad guy is also likely using/familiar with a PC running Windows.

The second the paradigm changes, the value equation changes for everyone involved.
That is so rare you don't really plan for it.
The data about desertification is even more damning and scary... Though it is not as clearly directly linked to climate change itself, it is definitely anthropic.
Every problem has a existing solution, but that doesn't mean everyone is using it. Another great use for Duplex is getting opening times for a business. Sure, in theory those times can probably be found on their website, social media, or some other place, but 1. there generally isn't a good standard all across the world and 2. there are dozens of problems like these and not all have existing solutions.

This is where Duplex comes in. It fills in the gap for the lack of standards. The assistant will still try to use booking systems if it can obviously, but when it can't, it's can then resort to Duplex.
The entitlement is strong in this one...
During wartime, A significant difference to waste stream happened inside manufacturing, as a function of government directive. I believe its written up in quite a few places, my source is 'the peoples war' by Angus Calder.

In principle, if manufacturing is obligated to handle waste stream better, the evidence is, it can.
Simple to explain, yes, but I feel like this isn't even really "obvious" even in hindsight. This whole thing is very clever.

The only complaint I have is that it's not better than supervised object tracking, so I wonder if this idea is too late?

To draw a parallel to image classification, at one point in time neural nets were trained with a bunch of unsupervised pre-training using reconstruction loss, but that technique has basically fallen by the wayside as we've gotten larger datasets and found a pile of tricks for training them from scratch.
No. That's not how human behavior works. The "dopamine-fix/pleasure-addiction" concept is deeply flawed, and serves only as Pop Culture's mental crutch, occupying place where an explanation for a deeper problem belongs.

It's hand-wavey, unverifiable magic that fits in broadly with anyone's self image, without contaminating the circumstances by laying blame or guilt at the feet of the individual.

The truth is that many of us have a lot of down time, and we don't know what to do with ourselves. We don't know what to do with ourselves, because so many other optional behaviors have been rationalized away from us, and removed from any normal equation.

If you were reading a book or knitting a sweater or mowing the lawn, your behavior would similarly directed into yet another pointless passtime, gifted with a deceptive sense of seeming purpose. But the cause-and-effect relationship interacting with electronic media, while intellectually occupying, suffers from effects that evaporate as soon as you pull the plug or as soon as the battery dies. This leaves a gaping feeling of wasted time, as soon as the power goes out, when there's no more electricity.

So, what if we turn our attention to activities where we can cause some sort of effect, which has no basis in electronic systems demonstrating evidence of the effect we have? Surpise! 99% of what you're legally permitted to do is essentially pointless time wasting, where you spin your wheels until you die unfulfilled, only to pass a world of questions to the next generation, with no answers to match.

One might say that our society, our culture is hollow, empty and meaningless, but with enough of a deconstructivist outlook, everything starts to look like that. When you take things apart (a bicycle for example), disassembling recognizable objects or concepts to their fundamental building blocks (handle bars, pedals, chain, wheels), often this destroys something beyond recognition, only to leave one with a feeling of regret at the loss of the thing they once knew.

With advanced technology, we've disassembled fundamental aspects of human civilization, at a pace where the people who have lived through previous decades, now must cope with a near total reorganization of typical modes of behavior, while also raising the next generation, without having many answers for what comes next.

On both sides of this equation, this feels like a near total loss of control. And for some, it actually is.

Gee, what to do with all this spare time you have on your hands, now that communication is near effortless, crosses the globe in an instant, discounting inflated prices built to accomodate a previously well-understood overhead cost, of staying organized in a world where staying on the same page with someone hundreds of miles away used to require carefully concerted planning?

Beats me, partner. Just don't hurt anybody. The times, they are a'changin'. Maybe knit a sweater?
Interesting 'the next round will find Assistant inquiring about business hours.'

Probably a really valuable addition to Google Search Results, if they can use phones to verify open hours of businesses without having to pay people to make the calls (and without annoyance of older tech IVRs).

Google search and maps in particular are so great because of all these sources of data that come together to give me actionable info.
If this is deployed in release builds — in production — then it is effective in mitigating anything which isn't covered in fuzzing. Your application/process gets terminated, which is perfectly acceptable behavior.
I don't disagree with you, but the systems-level view is important not insofar as it shows us who to blame, but because it shows us the kinds of solutions that might actually work.

The combination of incentives over the entire system must produce the correct emergent behavior. So, for example, instead of trying to get individuals to voluntarily use less carbon without changing anything else (this will never work), you can educate the public, pressure politicians, and end up with a large-scale carbon tax (although this particular case may be wishful thinking!).
We use each level of communication for different reasons. (is it a quick question? Is it a well thought out idea that needs attention? Is it time sensitive?) It feels very natural and after a short period your organization falls into a groove as long as Basecamp is the ONLY method for work communication outside conference calls, etc.
"Why aren't the best candidates filtered from the job application pipeline like it happens at all of the big tech companies?"

I am sorry but this simply not true. Referrals based hiring is the norm in SV tech companies and I am not talking C-level, this is prevalent in even the rank-n-file roles. We are happier not rolling the dice on the stranger, skills be damned.
no different than using gradient descent for linear regression

If you understand that already, then you are really not the target audience of blog posts like that.
I guess the goal is to have something like the AI in the movie Her.
I believe Viking chess is the first recorded example of an asymmetrical game.

In more modern times, many RTS games are asymmetrical: think SC2, Dota etc..

If you're thinking about board games, in particular, there's games like Terra Mystica or most miniature games that are designed with a vast number of factions that have differing goals.

Asymmetrical games are in fact hugely popular because they let people roleplay strategies that they may think are more fun
> the alternative is the status quo, where the only ones with access to this information are family members, top school alums, or people in the elite circles.

As you yourself pointed out in another sub-thread, "this knowledge is not rocket science" and someone responded, essentially, that it stands to reason that it is already available on numerous web sites.

Some of that knowledge may even be borderline proprietary (for, an admittedly shallow, example, how to prepare for puzzles in interviews), where the site offers anonymity and publishing in exchange for that information.

As such, I'm not convinced that the status quo is how you say it is, unless you actually are trying to offer access to insider knowledge closer to the "rocket science" level.
>> Just this monday morning I've spent 20 minutes checking all the cables and why it doesn't work, until I rebooted the machine and then it suddenly worked.

Mnyeah. The fabled Mac-Windows convergence, as foretold in the days of yore. MS hardware gets sleek commercial blogposts from evangelists, like Macs; and Apple's OS needs to be rebooted every once in a while to work right, like Windows.
Earlier this year I was pacing a marathon when I caught up to a young woman and ran with her for a few miles. She had recently graduated from college, so early 20s I suppose. We got to chatting and at some point I mentioned AOL. She had never heard of it. I suddenly felt very old. (I'm 47.)
Pay per bag is not uncommon in the US where trash is collected by private companies. Many charge for each bag they pick up.
Should web developers be “full stack” or specialize?
This question has been a source of endless debate at several places where I've done contracting work: Is it better to have web developers who specialize in certain areas of the stack or to have full stack generalists who can be assigned work to any part of any project at the company?
NASA’s Experimental Supersonic Aircraft Now Known as X-59 QueSST
From what I understand, this isn't a problem for users on iOS who haven't given microphone access to the offending apps right?
If you like long distance trains make sure you ride the Amtraks before it's too late.
I've tried using it for rocket tracking (sdrgps.blogspot.com) without much success. I've been talking to the developers and provided RF for them to play with - maybe they will put a grad student on it at some point. I've had better luck with SoftGNSS which sadly is an offline processor. If I had more spare time I'd port it to realtime c++.
>Rewrite popular BSD-licensed software as GPLv3?

What do they rewrite? To the best of my knowledge, they have no problem using BSD licensed software, they just won't develop BSD license software[1] (mostly, though they do approve it here and there for new projects).

[1]. More accurately, they won't approve it for new projects. But the projects are fine.
Realistically, you probably shouldn't be running them on anything with Intel Management Engine, which has a Minix OS with an IP stack that you don't control.
Can you? You have to be able to message them to tell them where your new account is. And they have to actually go and re-follow.
You need only codify the victory and loss conditions to build an AI using standard Reinforcement learning algorithms. Feel free to message me if you want more detail on how this would work. We should be able to hammer something out in less than a day.
Interesting how the politicians demand it be kept running and maintained yet don't talk about where the $30-$50 million in repairs to the existing track or the $55 million to install the required positive train controls safety systems will come from.
Limitation is to commercial sales of receivers. Private individuals building/operating their own receivers have no limits.
It's kinda down?
Have you looked at fast.ai's ML course? It might also be worth a try. http://forums.fast.ai/t/another-treat-early-access-to-intro-...

I'd also recommend the Andrew Ng Coursera course, which I talked about here: https://harveynick.com/2018/04/25/some-notes-on-the-andrew-n...
Apple and Samsung settle their epic patent infringement battle
Indie Games Are Getting Cloned Before They're Even Out
I've always thought the single bin was stupid. Remember when you at least separated paper, plastics and cans? It's way way easier, efficient and less labor intensive for a consumer to do that very basic sorting than getting a facility to do it.

It's like data entry people who copy paper forms to a machine. Why not have a device the consumer can type their own data into? You'll get less mistakes and save a lot of time.

Having four basic sort bins is a very low effort for the person throwing shit out. It also reduces the amount of contaminates and makes life easier for people who do have to sort through all that.

American bottle deposits also suck pretty bad compared to our EU counterparts. At least in The Netherlands and Germany, every shop that sells glass has to take that glass back. Many have machines that scan the barcodes on the bottle and issue you a ticket you can use for purchases or cash.

The bottles actually get reused too. Old German beer bottles often have physical have grooves on them from the plastic rollers in machines! They get reused that much!
This post is incredibly motivating! I really long back to the days of working in start-up with the smartest people around. Maybe time for that again...
Just switched my home desktop to a Ryzen 2600X / Gigabyte AX370M-DS3H motherboard: Only hiccup was having to source a pre-ryzen AM4 cpu to update to BIOS to get Ryzen support, which was a pain - I'd advise making sure that any board you buy has had the BIOS updated if required by the seller.

I run Debian Testing mostly, so a 4.16.16 kernel. Been perfectly stable for me so far.

NB - For anyone hoping to use the the new AMD Vega CPUs with integrated graphics, the Debian kernels don't have the relevant support compiled in, so you'll have to compile a custom kernel & grab the latest firmware files from the linux-firmware git repo if you want accelerated graphics.
I meant the new version, which is called Classic IntelliMouse, have a subpar sensor.
The study was only 12 weeks. The result is interesting, but the major unsolved problem for weight loss is long-term, healthy, maintainable reduction of weight. There are already lots of known ways to lose weight for a few weeks or months.
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My solution is to avoid Quora links. They don't have any content you can't find elsewhere.
AB syndrome doesn't seem any more significant to the issue here than a synesthesia or schizophrenia. That their reported experience has no correspondence to the outside world isn't relevant to whether they're having an experience and its nature.
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Rode Emeryville, CA to Omaha, NE. Glad I was able to take the kids on that experience while they still can.
Apparently the plan is to offload management of passenger train service to the states, as this is clearly a states' rights issue. Possibly related: the current head of Amtrak is an airline guy.
What happened there? In the 80s they were the next big thing. Then they finished their OS project (when the Linux kernel became available they finally had a FLOSS OS). But they never took off with their high priority projects. Is it that they can't find programmers? Is it that they pay so little that you might as well write your own code and host it on Git*.com?
No it won't. You might not have to see harassment directed at you, but that doesn't mitigate it. Especially if part of that harassment is doxxing.
They still do that in Spain. It really is unfortunate it's not a standard practice everywhere. With most areas having local bottling plants, it really shouldn't cost /that/ much more to ship bottles back. Regardless, I would love to see us switch back to glass. Even if the bottle doesn't make it's way back into circulation, it will never be an environmental hazard. It's inert and breaks down into sand eventually.
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I have no affiliation with the company Renewlogy (formerly PK Clean) in Salt Lake City, but they have a very interesting method for turning plastic into diesel fuel that is in use today:

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900014582/utah-based-ren...

The Chinese ban on plastics is not having a major impact in Salt Lake City, according to Sophia Nicholas, Salt Lake City sustainability department communications manager.

Officials in both Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County say they are still picking up plastics from recycling bins as usual. By contract, none of that is ending up in landfills. Salt Lake City's contracts require the recycling vendors to accept and recycle plastics No. 1 through No. 7.

“We know that there is a lot of a upheaval right now,” Nicholas said. “But the markets are dynamic and they’re finding other alternatives for that type of material.”

The city of Boise, Idaho, recently banned plastics No. 3 through No. 7 in its recycling program and contracted with Renewlogy. Residents must separate those plastics into separate bags that now come to Salt Lake City.
My 5 year old MBP is more than fine, it's great, but I am worried about what I will be able to buy to replace it. Eventually it will break; if not then someday I'll want something with more computing power.
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Personally.... I feel that if I don't use Onedrive I shouldn't see a prominent Onedrive icon always visible in Explorer or have onedrive.exe constantly running in the background using resources.

So I guess I'm stuck with using hacks to keep my operating system from shilling products at me.
That's not going to be very worthwhile unless that person is also interacting via AP. If the person is not interacting, then the followers would lose interest, and it becomes just a read-only account rather than the interactivity that most of us have been wanting.
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> The creators of all this garbage do so because it's profitable

See: Tile.
Except it can also be solved consumer side as well, move over to materials that can easily be reused after being put through a dishwasher and charge a deposit on these items, also structure grocery stores to be in a way that is zero or low waste. The problem exists at every step of the chain, where we should primarily focus on reducing and reusing rather than trying to solve the problem of recycling.
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