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In the past few years, I have found myself drifting away from playing mainstream AAA game titles, and more towards indie games, which I find to have higher quality for me. But how can this be, since they have such lower budgets and production values? They make up for it with a combination of individual creativity and unfiltered vision, which are more difficult with a big budget provided by producers demanding their money back. Smaller productions also have the flexibility to target niche or unproven markets, which means I am able to find works more ideally suited to my preferences.

In case the metaphor isn't clear, this is a similar dynamic to Netflix vs Youtube.
Of course, that comic's about all the times and ways in which Voyager 1 has left this solar system. We've got decades of hearing about Voyager 2 ahead of us!
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LEDs are better modeled as constant current because it's the I part of the curve which is typically more unreliable. The junction voltage is largely consistent, but due to the exponential increase in current, to balance the amount of power it's easier to regulate the I component of P=I*V for consistency than it is the V portion.
>he told me rental scooters are being vandalized all the time for no reason

The bikes in Seattle get vandalized/destroyed all the time. People seem to enjoy throwing them into the sound
Not as subtle, but Star Citizen's NDA test servers have hidden watermarks to track where screenshots come from. Someone pulled up the edges to show one here: https://i.imgur.com/FXzwlYd.png

You still get leaks because people take screenshots for their bug reports, upload them somewhere (even with an unlisted URL) for discussion on the bug reports forum, and then other users under the same NDA can download your screenshots and share them (rather than getting busted for leaking their own). So having a screenshot from a bug report leak isn't necessarily actionable for banning people.

But it's still useful to prevent, say, users under NDA streaming the super buggy builds on Twitch. Once they're relatively stable, CIG drops the NDA requirement, opens testing to a wider audience, then eventually push out to the main servers.

Doing this with a disguised UI component is a pretty cute implementation.
I already give everything but a bloody DNA sample to Google. I'm not giving them neatly tagged music files of music that I like that is not on their service that they can then combine with the music I listen to from their service so they can advertise to me over a music bed that they think is to my liking.
I'm not an expert but IIRC OLED doesn't use backlighting correct? Do OLED screens also cause you strain?
The real solution to climate change is in the U.S. tax code
I would say that pretty much any time a team comes in and improves CASP results over baseline it's a win. However, traditionally, it's been too hard for regulars to reproduce the results of the winning team- it's not simply reduced to a github repo you can run to generate new accurate structures, like some recent advances in image and drug discovery have been.

Papers are nice, but github code that runs is gold.
IIRC Voyager 1 traveled faster than Voyager 2, so it quickly passed Voyager 2. They named it Voyager 1 because it was going to arrive on target sooner.
One interesting thing to note is that IEEE 1003 says: "The -W (capital-W) option shall be reserved for vendor options."

GNU getopt() uses this to make --foo and -Wfoo equivalent, but this is GNUism of questionable utility.

I have feeling that original reason for this is that there historically was libc which implemented wordexp(3) by exec'ing /bin/sh -W, but I have no way to confirm that.
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Open source won't save you if you write your app in a framework that's deprecated and no good developers want to touch it (see also: Angular 1).
Completely agree that Kasparov was on to something with Advanced Chess. The first iteration of the idea failed to gain traction but that was more due to cumbersome tech (players staring at desktops playing slow games, not much of a spectator sport) than to the idea itself. I’m prototyping some ideas in this space with a team of hackers/chess enthusiasts. Ping me if interested in contributing or beta testing, contact info in my profile.
Most people can’t explain why they make most of their decisions, really. It’s really only a very small subset of our activity that we are capable of explaining logically.

What’s the chain of reasoning behind me falling in love and marrying my wife? What’s the chain of reasoning behind why I watch the great British bake off compulsively? What’s the chain of reasoning that leads an alcoholic to drink time and time again. What’s the chain of reasoning behind why I look at a rainbow and see bands of distinct colors? What’s the chain of reasoning behind why I paused and scratched my nose just now?
Is there someone advocating that we don't take measures now? Because we do take measures now. Example: there are a bunch of rules about what you can feed cows, and how to keep their nervous tissues out of meat at slaughter time.
The fact that a modal could ever block my ability to close the tab was a hard mistake to make.
They were built in parallel and probably didn't get firm launch dates until long after they had names, associated teams, etc.
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I'm using a generic HiFiBerry clone that I got for $18 with a pi3b running Volumio as well. I'm using a 240GB SSD in a USB enclosure as the drive, and a cron job that keeps it synced with my fileserver. Only snag was finding a power supply that could reliably provide enough power, I've settled on an Apple ipad charger I had laying around. It's been great for a few months now. Sound quality is very good.
Something that has always puzzled me is why anyone would invest without SIPC insurance? Either they didn't understand what SIPC is or they wanted to avoid some kind of SEC scrutiny.
Good example of "suicide sucks" rule.
> They named it Voyager 1 because it was going to arrive on target sooner.

Do you know this or are you speculating?
You are talking about some different. Aaron was talking about reading news to learn about the world. You are talking about political activism.
For your activism goals, reading Twitter might help (although your time is likely better spent with algorithmic summarization than with reading garbage tweets one at a time)
Getting tasks done has never been a ringing endorsement for the general applicability of the underlying algorithm.

Meanwhile, the entirety of human communication is built on symbols. If computers can’t deal with them, how useful can computers ultimately be? Roombas can only improve so much.
EDIT: My apologies for the angry tone but idea of reporting on every single deviation is not a good one. That's how you actually end up filling prison and creating dystopia.

> A parent shows a pattern of drinking an driving under influence. As luck had it -- nothing bad happened. Then the child, does the same (when already having a valid driver license) -- and a horrible accident happens.

Children definately imitate parents. But I think your argument was the opposite. Parents reporting on Children's behaviour if they fall out of line.

> How far the accountability of a parent or a treating phycologist goes/overlaps with the accountability of the perpetrator of a heinous act.

World is a messy and scary place but trying to control for every variable might make it unlivable.
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I started using NC for docs and calendar. Really happy with it. things work great and sharing things via links works great. Especially like how you can add expiry to shared links.
> I worry a bit about the current trend of how software vendors prefer to provide software as a web service when it doesn't really provide any technical benefit from the user's perspective.

Given that I'm not going to have control over the software either way, I'd rather it were running on their hardware, safely isolated on the other side of an Internet link, than on hardware which I payed for and nominally own but which has been partitioned off for someone else's use.

TEEs and TPMs have legitimate uses, but only so long as they are fully controlled by the owner of the device. That implies that there are no pre-installed keys which the owner doesn't control: to a remote exploiter, an emulated TEE/TPM should be indistinguishable from an official hardware device. Unfortunately this is not something that can be designed into the hardware, short of omitting the feature altogether, since non-owner-controlled keys could be installed at any point prior to final delivery. Erasing them after delivery is no good; the mere expectation that the manufacturer's key is present is enough to make treacherous remote attestation practical. Devices controlled by their owners should be the norm, not second-class citizens.

The problem is ultimately a social one, not a technical one, but the technical capabilities of TEEs and TPMs are empowering the wrong side. From one point of view they may just be tools, but they're tools which are more readily used against the interests of device owners then for them.
I made a Shairport server for 6 audio zones years ago on an ancient desktop computer and multiple PCI sound cards. After it died, it was hard to migrate to a single Raspberry Pi due to the USB audio cards devices scrambling on each boot (so the kitchen may become the living room, etc.).
Yes but "achieve maximum freedom" is a negative liberty concept. Positive liberty is more like parentalism which limits freedom to achieve self-mastery.
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On a related topic, it would be fun to embed the EURion constellation[0] into random things just so it results in difficult to trace side-effects. For example wear a t-shirt with it printed on, if someone tried to edit CCTV footage or a photo of you, it might error out.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
I wouldn't be embarrassed. Those squirrels were probably wild caught (vs factory farmed), and the fact that they didn't waste the brain shows their resourcefulness.

Those are,after all, the same things we (rightfully) laud in the consumption of other types of more normative food animals. Just because it's a squirrel shouldn't change that.

EDIT: Added editorial wording to second paragraph.
Just as a thought experiment - what if they actually never implemented this. But now through this announcement, everyone will think twice before leaking BETA etc. program screenshots and second guess which UI elements might be the ones that are used to identify them. ;-)

That said, excellent example of steganography as pointed out by others too! Thumbs up!
I don't have a source but I remember this being a known fact.
Having been introduced to this idea by CGPgrey on the Hello Internet podcast, I didn't know there was such a concise version of this idea written so well. I've tried to spread this message to my friends irl, and Aaron puts it better than I ever could.
Here [1] is essentially the same idea and the Hacker News discussion (115 comments) [2] of it.

[1] http://getcoleman.com

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14013996
The scooter sharing company isn't (necessarily) the manufacturer in your analogy.

This is like Ford rented someone a car for off-roading with FWD, no seatbelts and racing slicks, didn't ask for proof of a license or any experience driving at all, and they ended up driving off a cliff.
That's neat.

Lots of broadcasters do something similar (display a number on the screen) when they are broadcasting sports events etc to detect streaming. I'd love to know how that works. Presumably they broadcast the same thing to everybody, so is it actually the box/receiver which adds the number to the screen? Does everybody get a unique number, or do groups of people get the same one?
It's too bad this doesn't cover the more recent amounts of surveillance, starting from, say, the Patriot Act forwards. The article mentions that but I'm curious if any HN users would know of any works that do attempt to cover what those changes are?

I personally have no memory of living in a pre-Patriot Act world and so privacy seems like this mythical hometown main street concept that I'd like to see if I can experience even if only intellectually.
That's great for you, now imagine the guy coming the opposite direction being blasted with 1200 lumen in the eyes. Sure you made him aware of your presence but you also made him blind to any other stuff or people besides you.
it does seem unfair, and I think this is why crpyto currencies may see more adoption, because they are immune to claw-backs. Instead of keeping $100k in a bank, where creditors can take it, put in a crypto, although there is much more volatility.
We might cry though.
Historically they didn't have a history, but there are "smart grid" electric meters that track energy usage on a smaller time scale, and privacy is an issue for those.

If the lights in your living room total up to 85.5W, someone with access to fine grained power consumption logs can infer when you turned that light switch on or off.

Similarly, there's going to be a telltale power consumption profile for when you're in the shower, when you run your washing machine, when you turn on your television, etc.

This isn't widespread, but it's something to look out for going forward.
I had one of those devices and it worked great but now I just don’t want google knowing my listening habits so have gotten rid of it.
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The only thing I can think is I bet you he doesn't have anything copyrighted by Disney.

We really need to rethink our system where there will never be a time when games from Atari will become public domain.
they also used a 'zebra' skin on prototype Xbox One consoles to be able to find people who leaked images of the physical console:
https://www.thetechgame.com/News/sid=8160/photos-of-an-xbox-...

Xbox have a reputation for watermarking things to a large extent to deter leakers. The first ever footage of Halo 4 Multiplayer came courtesy of someone recording it from a terrible camera, played on a CRT television, from a VHS recording, while in a barn. I would link it but it also has obnoxiously loud music playing over the top of it but if you search 'halo 4 barn leak' you will be able to find it. Admittedly I'm sure whoever leaked that went a bit too far for comedic effect
This is not quite right.

A* and Contraction hierarchies (and other graph pre-processing techniques) make the same assumptions on what data is available at planning time.

The difference is whether you expect to make multiple shortest-path queries on the same graph, or not. If you will make several queries on the same graph (e.g. turn-by-turn navigation), then it makes sense to spend time to process the graph to make queries more efficient.

If you'll make a single query, because your graph is changing dynamically, then pre-processing doesn't help.

But A* still needs to have access to the whole graph at plan time. You might be thinking of D* and algorithms for that class of problems.
Seems to be back online.
This should be flagged, tagged, or somehow made to be seen by new vistors to the site, as I had to track this down to figure out what this site was even on about.

https://ledstrain.org/d/19-welcome-to-led-strain
Hard to go wrong with these two:

- NPR: https://www.npr.org

- Reuters: https://www.reuters.com

They can be a little bit dry sometimes but that's what professional neutral news has to be.

I like also:

- Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com

- And Politico: https://www.politico.com

And finally a financial blog I love, Matt Levine Money Stuff (it's free from his newsletter): http://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/join/4wm/moneystuff-s...
IMO: Trade war

Courts in China are not independent, let's be honest. Hurting Apple, the crown jewel, is a warning to USA (even if Qualcomm is US based)

Edit: also see Huawei CFO getting jailed etc etc. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-05/huawei-cf... China answered....with hundreds of billions in market cap for Apple.
This; state-of-the-art mobile cams should be "beating" the flicker, even in slo-mo. I'd wager the latest iphones can, although I don't have one to test.

A lot of places use fluorescent lights which will look real weird if caught in the frame without some kind of flicker compensation just as one example so its pretty important.
I finally found this post, which is clearly missing from the FAQ: (https://ledstrain.org/p/1-faq)

https://ledstrain.org/d/19-welcome-to-led-strain
Youuuuuuuu - gotta be kidding me, this dude is a clown.
not every single thread on HN has to be politicized. Qualcomm picked these patents months ago, they filed a lawsuit by arguing that these patents are being used by Apple without licensing. This is enough to call these concerned patents "key patents". my post is all about a question I am interested in - what kind of reward a big name high tech company is going to reward you when you are the inventor of such key patents.
Nice! I'm trying to do it the other way around, record player into Raspberry Pi, broadcast to my HomePod. Unfortunately the only way it works is to add a laptop in between. If anyone has managed to get an AirPlay broadcast from Linux I'd love to know how you did it!
If anyone is looking for multi room audio (like airplay 2), using raspberry pies, this is the best solution I’ve seen - it is really impressive:

https://www.reddit.com/r/homebridge/comments/8v3qb0/shairpor...

If people have other suggestions for multi room audio I’d love to see them.
Not necessarily. There are many bugs in open source and having the access to the source doesn‘t mean it‘s easy (as in, it doesn’t take at least a week) to localize the bug. If you claim it is I have a task or two performance issues for you, in the open-sourced Firefox. Thr issues exist for years, and the cause(s) is(are) still not narrowed down.
Here's some marketing materials from a company selling this: https://dtv.nagra.com/watermarking - seems like yes, one option is software in the receiver.
I believe Alzheimers is recognized as a metabolic disease now (some have even said Type 3 diabetes). It's in no way related to Prions.
I think it's pretty amazing the number of government services most people spend almost zero time thinking about, and yet, benefit from nearly constantly in their day-to-day lives.

I think, in general, this is one of the attributes of a well-run government institution. It just works and it doesn't draw attention to itself unless necessary to fulfill the job.

In my mind, these organizations are so ubiquitous, and so common, that it seems impossible to not identify them. However, the narrative of "government is bad" seems to be so powerfully blinding that I suppose they can be hard to identify for certain people.
Contrapoints - applied philosophy, set design.
Can you describe their agenda, or point to a description of it?

It's conspicuously centrist and pro-global-capitalism (see: articles essentially saying "human lives on earth has definitely gotten better under capitalism" (and not explicitly saying "world-average QoL is the correct metric by which to measure progress", nor addressing counterfactual hypotheses), + anti-trump + pretty skeptical of brexit. These are sort of acceptable, manageable biases to my eye: is there more I'm missing?
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Fun fact: -v typically stands for verbose except when using any "grep-like" utilities such as pgrep, pkill, etc.

[edit] forgot to mention that for grep-like utilities -v negates the match.

This led to an unfortunate incident in which I attempted to get verbose output from pkill and instead killed every single process on the machine except for my target. To make it worse I had no console access so I had to email another team to reboot and explain what I did.
Freakonomics did an episode not too long ago with the new CEO of Ford. The guy was practically salivating at the mouth about all the data new vehicles will be collecting and how Ford could potentially monetize it all. Scary times ahead.
This is great! Does this handle the handshake to request a token as well? Really nice example of the power of mutating webhooks.
Have a look on GitHub, there's quite a few projects. Pulseaudio can also stream over Airplay 1 and 2.
Serious question - is this an ad? For the company, showing they have a solution to new growth problems which will keep them a growth company?
(custom chip, architected for AI)

And how they solved the problem before with this team?
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They should also spend money on gloves.
Clearly, in the eyes of browser developers basic UI is far less important than 3d rendering, web assembly, progressive API and other features used by .000001% of all websites.

AFAIK, there are still no usable built-in date pickers or upload controls.
Never discount the simplicity and reliability of a (legal) low power FM transmitter.
Apparently he discards requests from DNS servers that don't send EDNS in their requests: https://twitter.com/archiveis/status/1018691421182791680
China using American companies in their trade war. Ingenious.
To pick an example, as a kid I read Ender's Game Because it was SF and had a cool cover. Now, because of the odious nature of the author's personal politics, I don't read his books.

This is entirely his own fault, but if he was just another name on a book I would still be buying his novels.

To pick another example, there stuff like this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_55f1...
Part of the plea, it ended up saving the taxpayer money likely.
Yep, these types of Chinese preloaded consoles have been around for years now. I doubt the few thousand dollars Soulja Boy makes re-selling these will be of much interest to anyone.
As stated in the parent comments that the likelihood of prions spreading in an infectious disease like fashion is very slim. Articles like this, ironically from a science-oriented publication, really don't help the conversation. Luckily modern medicine is fact based and not fear based.
Their auto upload on Android doesn't work properly. On iOS they offer initial upload of all files, on Android it doesn't happen.
In exchange the rich get richer. This is why we shouldn’t outsource fiscal policy to a bunch of people who have no idea how economics works.
Is your code inspected by emulator writers? I guess there would be a lot to learn.
From Wikipedia: "Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, to study the outer planets. Part of the Voyager program, it was launched 16 days before its twin, Voyager 1, on a trajectory that took longer to reach Jupiter and Saturn but enabled further encounters with Uranus and Neptune.[4]"
Thanks for restating the point.
I didn't see in the article where it was stated, does anyone know where these iPhones are being imported from? India?
I completely agree.

There's stuff on YouTube that I just can't see existing, or getting noticed, on alternative platforms. A great example would be a channel called 'Primitive Technology'[1]. It's superb, and I really enjoy each video despite having no real interest in the subject!

But, this is 0.01% of YouTube. The rest is horrendous political videos pitched at the level of 4chan, vloggers aimed at 13 year olds, and millions of shaky footage of unboxing items.

I wouldn't mind so much if there was a suitable way to curate a decent feed (without signing in and giving my life history to google). I generally only find out about the decent content on YouTube via word of mouth off-platform.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA/vid...
Bitcoin isn't the only one out there anymore.