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Sega Genesis Mini Launching Sept 19
What I especially don't get: as far as I know all the security risks already apply for most of the countries near France. Sure, Belgium could build coal power plants, but if anything goes seriously wrong with a nuclear reactor in France, they're still screwed.
Sorry, I don't completely follow this Also it's unclear to me if the bulk of your post is referring to German or English.
> especially when it means running code from less-than-trust-worthy parties on their own servers instead of their user machines.

But most will be OK with their servers running Google, Amazon, Oracle BlueKai and Facebook code, the scariest ones by amount of data.
As the article mention, everyone have their favorite theory. This one sounds particularly unbelievable though. "Jesus Amen Save our Souls" is not even a meaningful sentence. So it is likely a backronym from JASS rather than the other way around.
I own one too! Very happy with mine, I have also loaned it to people with small hands, RSI and other reasons to use it.

The scroll wheel is not to my liking but otherwise it is a very useful mouse.

I did actually try to buy another but they had a different design to the one shown here and not as good. Maybe stocks vary by outlet or it is seasonally available.
I'm not a fan of them, but they do make desktop linux a bit more viable insofar as you will have desktop binaries for a lot more services than you otherwise would without electron
Overall, we need to let go of the idea that people believe things because they have evaluated the evidence and have come to a conclusion. This is scientific thought, and if you have ever changed your mind on a strongly held belief based on new facts then you know that it takes conscious effort and humility, which even the best of us cannot apply to every single position they have.

Instead, I am convinced that all of us believe mostly for emotional reasons: the need to feel important, the need to be part of a group, the need to maintain some social order etc. For most people, who are not willing or capable to apply scientific thought, all of these needs trump every fact you may have. If you want to “convince” people, you need to address first the underlying issue, which is often difficult: loneliness, social isolation, feelings of inferiority etc.

One example I found particularly striking for the contrast between the common “rationality” assumption and actual working of beliefs, is this paper by Max Adams: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9893/2a75ad8e79585e95c58a26...
I watched the TV series some weeks or months after having seen the Gary Oldman movie, I enjoyed both, but the TV series is great while the movie I thought was just good. Both have excellent cast and are worth watching just for this reason, but the story with all the nuance seems better suited for the mini-series format than for a 2 hour movie.
Theme parks and Instagrammable spaces. In 10-20 years VR will replace almost any space for almost everyone. It doesn't make sense to me.
An open-source program can easily use a closed-source blocking list. For example, the blocking list could be distributed as a list of hashes, and the program hashes the domain name to search for it in the list.
> Without such testing, they wouldn't exist at all. So, is a life of, maybe okay but maybe awful lab testing better than none at all?

There's no experience of any kind related to not existing in the first place, so the two options are completely orthogonal. It's like asking whether you'd suffer from your parents never having met.
It is also wrong. If variance is zero, then the mean of the square EQUALS the mean squared.
I'm not sure that's true, and in any case they can't really enforce that - if a building owner wants to sell individual units, they can sell them.

The obvious counterexample to your point is the Barbican. Much of the Barbican is owner occupied and the vast majority of the flats there are privately owned (ie not local authority/housing association). I'm not sure but I think the Barbican still houses the majority of residents of the City proper.
For drum samples I recommend to check out the packs from Samples From Mars[0], they are very thorough in how they sample hardware equipment and real music lovers that use most of the revenue to buy more gear to create new packs.

I haven't published anything yet as I don't feel comfortable with my creations, haha, most of the fun I have now is playing live with a friend or jamming by myself and recording 30-90 minutes sessions, mostly to track my own improvement. I hope I can publish something in the next year or so.

P.S.: I'm linking their "All Products From Mars" combo pack so you can dig into each one individually to check them out.

[0] https://samplesfrommars.com/products/all-products-from-mars
I do think this (and the other similar systems) are pretty cool and a lot of fun but I'm becoming more and more worried about the environmental impacts.

From the article, "For many people, they’re little more than cute distractions that end up on a shelf after just a few play sessions. But for many other players, these machines are accessible and affordable tools for exploring classic games, and the Genesis Mini is a great showcase for that."

Should we really be buying more things that are going to sit on our shelves and should they be produced? Why not partner up with Google Stadia or some other provider to piggyback off an existing system people have to minimize waste?
> they hand out harsher sentences before lunch than after lunch

You missed a follow-up. It happened because the original study failed to mention that these judges handled serious offenses before lunch leaving simpler cases for the after.
I'd argue corruption, USA has very high corruption compared to most western nations. Combine the high corruption with high wages in general and you get extremely high costs of government projects.
Kafka is alive and well and he is making smart bulbs.
I'm not sure why this is getting downvoted. It's a legitimate question.

The use-case is not clear to me either. Is it to create atmosphere with the various colors? Have them turn on automatically to give the impression the home isn't empty when I'm on vacation (à-la "Home Alone")?
I think this is the real problem: China/Huawei are pushing their competition out of the "support an (oppressive) regime" business. They become the go-to partner for regimes that historically relied on western or middle-eastern partners maintaining their authority.
This seems (AFAICT) a bit higher what I'm after, but very interesting nonetheless, I'll have a play, thanks.
"IPv6 privacy extensions...."

I recall these extensions are just optional. How many implementations actually implement these extensions? I recall Windows 10 had this broken for a year and almost nobody noticed...
Part of the answer is that YouTube algorithms optimize for engagement, not satisfaction. They don’t show me what they think I’ll like, they show me what they think I’ll keep clicking into. You can pay to subscribe, but that doesn’t change their algorithm.
Pick One Metric
Simple Tricks for Map Solution
Majority support implementation of law and establishment of peace which is already very well recognized as Indian territory.
I still think it is weird how options pricing formulas don't take volume or market depth of the underlying asset into play, and how convenient it is to just lump all pricing anomalies into the "implied volatility" variable.

Oh our neat formula has an increasingly large remainder, implied volatility!

Ironically, LTCM founders made the most well known options pricing formula, and blew up selling their overpriced options to everyone they convinced to use their formula. Always remember that.
Does anyone have experience trying to do this kind of thing with LibGDX?

LibGDX is a layer on top of OpenGL (lwjgl actually), and used a lot for game development. It is based on Java, and is able to package the application for Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, Mac, and even web (targeting WebGL). For iOS it uses RoboVM, and for the web export it uses GWT to compile to JavaScript.

Obviously this is best suited for custom UIs (like games), but with some frameworks on top it seems it would be possible to build a decent interface. The framework already has support for most platform specific functionality (like text input). Performance should be great because it runs close to the metal, so to speak.

Just curious if anyone has tried this, as I am considering the approach.
Reset button is actually a safety issue, as the bulb would have to be plugged into the mains to register the reset. A metal paperclip inserted into the body of the light bulb would be very problematic from an electrical isolation point of view.

The big failure arguably is not testing the firmware sufficiently (or building in recovery algorithms) to necessitate a reset procedure in the first place.
‘Be water’: Hong Kong protest influences how art is designed and distributed
Well, then, can you mechanically create those stresses? Regularly send electrical signals to exercise the muscles, increase and reduce pressure and temperature (even have robot-controlled plates do a full massage), stretch and vibrate the whole setup, cycle through levels of certain hormones...? It may take some experimentation, but once you figure out a process that works, you can grow millions of organs with it.

(The story "Mazer in Prison" mentioned, offhand, someone getting his muscles electrically stimulated while he slept as a substitute for exercise.)
Ofcourse, why blame Pakistan? Pakistan has only invaded the region few times and has made several inflitration attempts. Nothing more.
Google optimized to help me instead of manipulate me, that would be worth probably $1k a year for me.
We have mixed feelings about this. Most people could probably figure out that google.com and google.co.uk are owned by the same entity. And probably many people are aware that youtube.com and google.com are related. But some entities own hundreds of domain names with no clear lexical relationship. I doubt a lot of people would expect TechCrunch.com and huffpost.com to be related and would not really expect to be tracked between the two. So common ownership might not be enough to give users a reasonable expectation of a cross-site relationship.
There's no wavelet-based video codec in widespread use (unless one counts DCP, a file format used for physical deliveries of movies to theaters, where the picture track is encoded as JPEG2000 frames).
>1) Difficult/unpredictable/uncontrollable customer retention

I don't think this is the case in a lot of WeWorks anymore, i work in a WeWork and the majority of companies are now bigger corporates.

Goldman Sachs just took 2 floors in the WeWork next to us.

It's actually quite hard to find a largeish Co-Working space in London as it moves so quickly and so much space is being taken by corporates buying entire floors.
Given that even with strong growth and record tax revenue, Germany barely arrived at a balanced budget, where the "spending taps" ever closed?
>hit the abstraction lottery

Thanks, I'll use that from now on. A lot of wisdom in those 4 words.
My shitty smart plugs sometimes don’t turn on. Can you imagine how frustrating not have your lights respond to a flick of a switch or request to turn on!?

It’s infuriating!

Also this reminds me I need to put all my lights on a DMZ.
This does not include other industrial users who are burning coal.

For example the use of coal in Swedish steel industry (and steel industries around the world). This energy use in coal is significant, the statistics in the following link show that it is using around 13 TWh per year in Sweden, which is approximately equivalent to 20 years of power consumption for Stockholm's municipality.

https://www.jernkontoret.se/en/the-steel-industry/industry-f...
There's a proper reset procedure much like the GE bulbs too, though - On-Off at 3-to-5 second intervals 5 times.
This is roughly how the Google safe browsing list for anti-phishing/malware is distributed (except with chunks and multiple levels of hashing).
Show HN: Cryptographically random strings with zero clicks
Not a codec, but still image-related: one of the most powerful modules in Darktable is the equalizer, which is based on wavelets[0][1].

[0] http://www.darktable.org/2011/11/darktable-and-research/

[1] https://www.roberthutton.net/archives/203
Is It Time to Let Employees Work from Anywhere?
I’m wondering if all those problems aren’t WeWork’s moats.

They might not be able to do that well, but at scale, they can have most of that into effective processes. They are the only one who will have international comparison and dozens of addresses inside a city, so they can tell what to do near the historical center vs. the up-coming industrial run-down.

Having a great place to work is increasingly important and as you say, it’s hard to do. But it’s the one thing that you can do to attract workers that isn’t paying 5% more than competition — so unless WeWork isn’t 5% of salary more expensive than having your own office.

On a more cynical note, companies have been trying to treat support staff and strategic-decision-making executives differently: the cleaning staff, cooks at many tech companies are external contractors seemingly for that reason. That separation is being disputed when there’s a close tie between support and the main company. Having a brand like WeWork would severe that tie.
One advantage of Google's dominance and their business model being so reliant on tracking, is that it's become the moat for its competitors: investing energy into tracking protection is a good way for them to gain a competitive advantage over Google, since it's a feature that Google will not be able to copy.

So as long as Google's competitors remain in business, we'll probably at least have some alternatives that take privacy seriously.
They seem to have a very optimistic view on "closing" coal plants. E.g. all the plants in germany are colored as "closing".

Germany has a vague plan for coal phaseout in 2038, which is a) still almost 20 years in the future and b) not in any way binding yet, it's jut a vague plan.

(I do hope and actually believe that coal plants in germany will be closed much earlier than 2038 though...)
The differences between a Silicon Valley tech startup and a crypto ICO
Whenever I need random data for something (as a password, a token, a seed, a server-side secret...) and google for a generator, I always end up on random.org, entering the same configuration, clicking the same checkboxes and clicking the same button. This takes an unnecessary amount of time.

I built this website that uses secure defaults and immediately presents you with a string of random data generated locally in your browser. It uses the Web Crypto API [1] for obtaining strong randomness. It's running on Cloudflare to be as fast as possible.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Crypto_...
Why your train fares will never stop increasing
You can suggest other alternatives on the topic. I changed the code three times in a month. :D
Wouldn't you just go home at the end of the day then?
The difference is that they obviously use cars that are modified and certified for use with foot controls(at least here in EU they are, I wouldn't be surprised if US didn't require any certification whatsoever). You also get a restriction on your licence saying that you can only drive such vehicles. A deaf person doesn't have any restrictions - my point is that there is no functional or legal difference between a deaf person driving and a person driving with earplugs in, the law doesn't specify a requirement that you have to be able to hear to drive.
It is possible that this policy didn’t exist in the 70s. To be honest I read that 10 years ago when I was looking into commercial real estate finance. They may also have evolved since.
You could argue that if something _deviates_ around an average then its variance cannot be zero. But I agree that the language could be more precise.
UX Best Practices for Feature Phone Apps
This is mind bogglingly silly.

Just do this:

On-off a bunch of times puts the bulb into a receptive state for 30 seconds, where it will stop everything else (other than the light being on) and listen for admin commands from a controller, one of which is "reset".

Kids messing with the lights? If no admin command gets sent, it returns to normal operation after 30 seconds.

Problem solved.
AWS Fargate seems very similar to what Hyper.sh used to offer (before they shutdown)
I was genuinely surprised to read your impression of Regus. I worked at their offices twice and both times, I was surprised they were still in business.

The first time I’ve heard about WeWork, I was excited precisely because I thought Regus was hogging a necessary service.
I believe they recognise the problem is a multiobjective optimization problem (hence the formulation of their sentence) but their algorithm is not parametrizable : it is a single point on the pareto front and you would need other algorithms to explore the rest of the front.
Sign In With Apple has the same level of access as any other OAuth-based federated login scheme. The popular login services from Facebook and Google work fine in Safari. As others have mentioned, the way they are built does not require cross site tracking.
The one on page 13 is not what LISP 1.5 does, that's more of an earlier purer idea. I meant the one on page 70 where FUNCTION packs a fucking together with its environment into a FUNARG closure, which when applied unpacks the environment it was created with.
They're decent in terms of image quality, terrible in terms of animation.

Aside from the obvious problem of motion interpolation having problems with acceleration/deceleration, there's a lot of nuance in the original animation that gets lost when you try to interpolate from one sprite to the next.

Even if you can avoid obvious artifacts, no interpolation algorithm can create new information, it can only derive from what's already there and guess at what's missing.

EDIT: If you dig through twitter you'll find some tweets from animators explaining why the results are bad. As mere consumers we might be tempted to dismiss that criticism as snobbery but animating is a craft and the interpolated results are objectively worse than the original.
(1) Not a blinking one, though. That's a little more annoying.

(2) there's a nice product called LightDims that are removable. Little stickers that are about 95% opaque.
>Just FYI I care democracy

And yet somehow that feels untrue.
62% of Flutter developers need more high-quality content on Flutter
Disagree, many more companies are comfortable with remote, and a LOT more employees are happy to work outside of the coast these days. The traditional tech hubs in the US are oversaturated and cannot deliver cost of living value anymore.
As much as I like the described move from "functions" to "containers", solutions like KNative / Cloud Run are still inherently more hackable than solutions like Fargate.

It's good to have properly defined, stable, open interface for compute workloads (containers as defined by OCI), so we don't have to lock ourselves into whatever shape of runtime environment our current cloud provides for their flavor of FaaS. So we don't have to learn cloud-provider-specific tooling, getting certifications for handling various tasks at AWS, becoming 2010s variants of Cisco-certified network engineers of the previous age.

But it's even better to have a properly defined, stable, open interface for orchestration too. To be able to run stuff locally. To be able to extend things. To ease the lock-in cloud providers currently have. To be able to actually understand what happens under the hood. And last but not least: to enable rise of open source solutions for higher-level abstractions, like KubeDB.
Yes, and I think some other stuff in Bloomsbury was like. After the IRA bombing almost any government offices had these mesh curtains but the word on the Pavey was these ones were espiocrats.
I don't believe we're talking about the same thing.

The ceramic lid usually goes over the water tank.

(also, you can't control all the toilets in the world)
The first time I had to upgrade the firmware on my smart lightbulbs, it was so weird. But you get used to it! And I think they were one of the best purchases I did to be honest.

Some features I love;
# When I come to my home during the evening, lights are automatically turned on.
# When I leave my place, they automatically turn off.
# You can set up alarms, like 30 minutes before my alarm goes off in the morning, lights are starting turn on slowly. By the time the alarm goes off, the room is completely lit.
Hey all, I wrote this article to bring some more awareness to the USSD technologies being used by millions of people that are outside the usual stack developed on by most of us in the HN community. Happy to answer any questions here!
If you logged into Medium with that account, then Medium would know, and could tell the I frame. But if you didn’t, then the iframe shouldn’t know your user ID unless you click and allow access, at least in Safari.
The culprit was actually a lid on the tank. I've never seen a toilet lid, soft close or not, that doesn't have plastic pieces that prevent full direct contact between the lid and the part below it. They'll deform under pressure, taking the noise level down from unbearable to just loud.
Could you elaborate? A bit searching throws up some very interesting stuff but AFAICS a transducer is roughly comparable to a partial function, which doesn't relate to my request for manual expression manipulation support.

If I'm missing something, please say.
A variation on this is to disable your account the day before your birthday, then re-enable it a day after. Then see who manages to still tell you happy birthday without the reminder from Facebook.
In some ways it is a step back. The mother of all demos is pure function, zero form. If all those cycles going to form would go to function there would be an amazing jump forward in speed. Try a really old version of windows on modern hardware for an idea of what I'm getting at.
I think that's a problem for companies that owns multiple domains and want to track users between those. Browsers shouldn't have to help with that, but rather implement the most simple and efficient way of protecting their users, as long as it doesn't make the users' life more complicated. That's what should matter: users, not companies.
Lightbulbs don’t get handled in operation. So you can have a huge reset button and no need for a paperclip.

As to firmware, cosmic rays for example randomly flip bits. Which means for any large scale deployments you want a reset option.
Getting Started with Cabana 3.0 for Sketch
We also don't have an events department or a facilities management team, but we have plenty of fun parties and the kitchen always has coffee.
We're an alliance of privacy-focused online services
I don't think you are aware about Kashmir's situation prior to the abrogation of the article. Stone-pelting(sponsored by seperatists) and murder of civilians by terrorists were common. There is also significant amount of Pakistan-backed propaganda in the valley. Pakistanis have already flooded the internet with photos/videos from Syria, Palestine etc. and are claiming them to be from Kashmir. Considering this, what do you think would've happened if communication was fully open?

Is the communication blockade bad? Yes.

Is it necessary to keep the peace? Yes.