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I am too, a programmer with a very bad eye for art. I still think there are several things that look like crap in his screenshots that are not art related, that are programming related, that he could solve without any artist help:

- The width of his grids are inconsistent. It looks like crap because he somtimes uses a gradient only on one side. Either make your lines single-pixeled or force gradients on both sides of a line.

- Talking about gradients, his fog of war could use some, that's where you want it, not on the abstract lines.

- The labels "Blessing" "Haste" overlap and create an ugly black line when they do.

- Actually having two labels of characters next to each other overlapping is bad design, not art related. A bit of thinking could probably solve it (replace it with small icons? Change the font for something smaller, typically a non-serif font? use a color code + mouse-over instead?)

But I have been there, thinking I was hopelessly art-blind and unable to improve the quality of my graphics. I just want to address one of the fallacies I used to fall for:

> To learn to do better art, I'd need to spend at least 6-12 months. (To think it takes less is insulting to artists.) I just don't have the time to not be writing games.

He does not need to do better art to make his games look better. He needs to spend a few days doing GFX improvement. The first time I indulged in not adding features to a 3D project I am doing but at solving the various graphic incoherence I saw (solving that transparency bug, finding a better skybox, tinkering with the lighting) after one day, that looked like a totally different program.

Oh, and another one as well:

"So, if I'm lucky, I get this pillar done for $50. Yay! One terrain type down.
999 more to go.
But for Queen's Wish, I want 4 different pillars, to give distinct looks to four different cultures."

That's not being the "Cheapest Bastard In Indie Games". The trick in indie game is to reuse and remix as much as possible. Adding a sprite, changing the palette or the lighting, can easily give different styles to the same sprite. These are tricks that were used widely through all history of video games. Making 250 tiles and multiplying it by the number of cultures you have seems like a waste, especially when you admit that your game looks like crap. How adding more variety of crap will make it less crappier? Focus on other things!
Exactly. Behavioural economics can do this, but macro fails at this at every point, or has so far. I think of it as essentially we’re at the bloodletting level of economics - we sort of think we understand how things work, but really, we don’t, and we might be causing more harm than benefit through our prescriptions.
"I buy this audioboook but I want it to have raw text so I can use it with screen reader"
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Yeah, that's what I thought too. There's a lot of energy there in the background to account for!
> $20B in revenue Visa generated last year, of which it generated a ~50% profit margin.

I was sure this couldn’t be right... but it absolutely is.

https://s1.q4cdn.com/050606653/files/doc_financials/2018/q4/...
I think you misunderstand. I agree that a safety driver being expected to be able to pay attention and being ready to take over at any moment isn't viable.

But consider a point where the cars are good enough that the remaining risks are ones where they can show that they can tune the hazard detection so that it doesn't miss any potential hazard situations, but may occasionally be overly cautious, and that it can reliably and safely slow down or stop short of potential hazards it doesn't know how to handle.

In that case you might get to a point where it's ok (safety wise, if not in terms of customer satisfaction) if the car stops for 30 seconds until a human safety driver reviews the data and confirms that what the car "sees" is not a dangerous situation.

In that case you might have e.g. 10 cars per safety driver, or more, and most of the time the car might not even stop - if a driver is available to respond immediately it may be sufficient for it to slow down until it gets a response. And you can simply slowly reduce the number of safety drivers as the cars get better. For a fleet service you might well never stop having some people monitoring to respond to unexpected conditions.

Of course, for this to be viable, the car needs to be possible to be made safe without human intervention, but that safety may be achieved by opting to stop or slow down the car in situations where continuing might be perfectly safe (and with the caveat that this may e.g. restrict where it may be possible to let it drive etc.), but where the car can't yet tell by itself.

This of course presupposes specific types of failure scenarios where the car can safely find a way to come to a stop but can't safely determine if it can continue forwards. It's not a given that's achievable with low enough effort (relative to solving the issues that might cause it to fail to spot a hazard) to be worth it.
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> even though reporters are 83% white

Really? Would love to have a citation for this. This is a fact that could come in handy.
This is exactly what put an end to my plan to buy a Tesla. I went nuts like everyone and most of my friends and coworkers bought one. I held out then I read about how the repair can take forever and how the parts are so tightly coupled that you have to almost disassembly the car to make repairs and I decided to pass. Until they figure this out, I'll probably get a used volt or bolt whenever I decided to get my next car.
My Materials Engineering thesis (~10 years ago) was on anode technology for Li-Ion batteries I haven't kept up with the field (I work in metallurgy nowadays). I am not sure there would be any online Facebook groups or the like, as with most academic fields I imagine battery research community is still pretty insular.

At the time I found journal articles and conference proceedings were the best resource to keep up with current state of the art.

A few journals I can recommend from memory:

"Journal of Power Sources"
"Electrochemica Acta"
"Electrochemistry Communications"

Otherwise academics are usually good source you can try emailing professors and/or grad students from local university, they may be willing to give you some pointers.
Author doesn’t mention safe browsing data (a random projection of domains believed to be serving malware). Does that mean the chrome binary comes with the initial data in the package?
Seems like your 2nd link is to Aldi.

I'll check it out next time I buy groceries.
We run k8s on premises and it requires an ops team of ~8 people. Personally I would have gone with a hosted and managed solution but we have become pretty good at all the nuances of K8s and it gives us the flexibility to try new things.
I would be very surprised if any orbiting spacecraft built today, or currently being planned has any sort of self destruct. We're talking about capabilities that are still theoretical, albeit pretty plausible and feasible.

Anyway, who cares if the self destruct goes off? You're breaking the satellite anyway, and if you were really concerned, about attacker survivability, just launch a gun on board, like Salyut 3.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a18187/her...
While this is all somewhat interesting, I'm not sure what the point here is - all of these things seem to be reasonable things to do?
It's not Esperanto itself that works, it's the basic linguistics throughout the learning process, i.e. it's the idea of "how languages work (in their own way)" that has the effect. Facts about Esperanto per se do not help. Take a linguistic course and you'll get pretty much the same effect.

Or should I say, imagine Standard Basque: as an independent language, people might have a better time learning Basque because at least they uses latin alphabets.

Oh, and did i mention how closely related Esperanto and English are that your "Chinese -> Esperanto -> English" claim does not suffice at all? :)

Oh, and don't forget you yourself are actually becoming one of the reasons why people "shit on conlang" - close-to-irrational fanboys :)
I just wanted to say thank you for this. I've been trying to teach myself various things about hardware over the years. I've been working on a virtual machine for a few years now in my spare time and tryinf to make it as close to what i understand about how cpus work to try and teach myself more. I have no idea why, but the way you've broken each step and building block here gives me some really clear ideas of things to start researching more about.

I'd like to get into electronics and microprocessor stuff more as a hobby, but a lot of it kind of mystifies me these days. I played with electronics a bit as a kid in high school hut never really got into it much after. I do a lot of work repairing maintaining CNC machines now and every time an electronics issue comes up it makes me want to get more serious about it.
It may simply not be legal for them to decide to drop customers just because they are, taken individually, unprofitable.

Think about an all-you-can-eat buffet. Some poor soul is gonna starve themselves so they can splurge and have a "good deal" on a lot of food. Most people will not, and the business would be in trouble otherwise. They still have to serve the patron who's eating a lot, because what kind of buffet would it be if it was "all you can eat, until you're eating so much that we're no longer making enough money"?

Or, some retailers sell items at a very low price, just to get people into the store in hope of them starting to buy more. Nothing stops you from getting into the store, getting the deal on those items and not buying anything else. The store may be losing money on you but they can't stop you from purchasing the item at the advertised price.

People who choose to spend their time and energy chasing deals to hyper-optimize the benefits on their credit card savings are entitled to their savings. Companies (credit cards or otherwise) are just interested in the total outcome of their operations anyway, not on making money off of every single customer. (Besides, even just defining what is a "profitable customer" is a hairy problem.)
Probably one of the most infuriating thing indeed. I especially hate how the special names replace the full path in the nav bar.
There weren't many pertinent facts or details included in this story.

The article focuses on how poorly SolarCity seems to be performing post-acquisition. However, hindsight is 20/20. The fact that the acquisition turned out to be a mess doesn't make it a fraudulent transaction -- many if not most large acquisitions don't live up to expectations.

The facts that need to be considered to deem this fraudulent are the data/arguments that drove the decision to acquire SolarCity at the time of the acquisition. Mainly, were the arguments to acquire SolarCity honest and factual? Here is the acquisition pitch deck that Tesla put out at the time of acquisition: http://www.solarwakeup.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Tesla-...

Unsurprisingly, the author of the article doesn't address any of the primary points contained in this pitch deck.
For me, the definite proof that we won't have self-driving anytime soon is the massive fail that was encountered in the recent chatbot fad.

One key part of driving is communicating - with pedestrians, cyclists, other drivers. This happens through body language and other fairly subtle cues.

When you can't make AI work for responding to questions given in text form on an extremely limited problem domain, how on earth would it work for something that's orders of magnitude less well defined and more broad?
Good spot. That system seems very clunky.
That's what the plan was (is maybe?) for the X-37C variant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37#X-37C
Microsoft is irrelevant
I've installed Win10 on dozens of machines and I've never seen ads on the lock screen, in the taskbar, and in notifications like the article talks about. Maybe because I always say "no" to all those creepy tracking/advertising ID type options on the initial config screen and I always say no to Cortana at the same time.
What I heard (and it seems reasonable) is that MS included games like Solitaire and Minesweeper in 3.1 as a soft way of training the enormous user base who were using PCs for the first time in mouse functions like click, drag, right click and click precision. I guess now that everybody knows that , MS sees no practical reason to keep those games free.
BofA has a card that is 3% in your selected category, which can be boosted to 5.25% if you have a large enough total in your accounts at BofA and Merrill Lynch.

The base card is 3% in your selected category (online shopping; gas; dinning; travel; drug stores; or home improvement and furnishing), 2% in grocery and wholesale clubs, 1% everything else. The 3% and 2% are limited to $2500 per quarter.

The base rate is multiplied by 1.25, 1.5, or 1.75 if your total at BofA and Merrill Lynch is at least $20k, $50k, or $100k, respectively.
Almost your customer base is where you look to expand sales.
Many folks have different opinions about oil, seems most fair to the the car manual, especially since any warranty claim will likely depend on following their schedule.

The toyota maintenance schedule for the Camry specifies every 10,000 miles (16000km). Unless you: are towing, have a car-top carrier, carry heavy loads, drive less then 5 miles when cold, drive on dirt/dusty/muddy roads, drive on melted snow, have excessing idling/low speed drive, etc.

Also the Camry uses a somewhat unusual oil 0w-16, there is a more commonly available variety... but they recommend a full flush, replace the filter, etc when every you switch back to 0w-16.
I mean, off-hand, this paywalled article from 2016: https://www.barrons.com/articles/googles-self-driving-cars-f... The search result for it had the text "Google is so confident about its technology that the Internet search giant has already agreed to accept liability if its self-driving cars cause an accident."

Here's someone following right along with the suggestion that regulations, not lack of technology is to blame: https://www.wired.com/story/outdated-auto-safety-regulations... The author, part of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, works for Google: https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/trade_association_...

That was page one of my search results, but suffice to say Google's been insinuating this for a while, both from the Chris Urmson era and the John Krafcik one.

I specifically referred to Tesla in my post as well. I saw the suggestion that Elon's claims about release dates for Autopilot features were effectively timed to manipulate the market. I'd give credit to that theory, or that Elon just has no clue how far he actually is from success. One of the two.

Both companies horribly misrepresent the fact that self-driving isn't around the corner.
Can you place share how you find a Tom's Hardware AMP page? I work at Mozilla and would like to test this. Google Search in Firefox for Android just returns regular www URLs. If I manually change "www." to "amp." (reversing your fix), I get a 404 page, not an AMP article.

Edit: I copied an AMP URL (https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.tomshardware.com/...) from Google search in Chrome. I posted email it into Firefox and it redirected to a www. page on tomshardware.com that loaded successfully.
Opening Arguments. Great podcast that takes a deep dive into current and past legal arguments.

Leans very left, so may not appeal to a good portion of the HN audience, but they do steel man a lot of their positions.
This is why I wonder why platooning technology is so much less hyped. Give me a platooning hardware kit to my current car, enough users after which I can join on my longer trips and literally more than 95% of my self driving car needs are covered. I really do not care if I need to drive a 10 minute stint on the city every now and then. And If I do, I can take a taxi. But getting my hands off the wheel and eyes off the road on the highway is what would have real utility to me.
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It is super slow for me as well. The usual Jira pages at least a full minute to render.

Almost every ticket gets "accidentally" into edit mode and I have to click a button to get of edit mode but a slight click on text sends right back into edit mode.

I've written to Atlassian at least 2 times about this but they keep adding more JS to the page so I don't think the page will ever be light enough on my workstation.
The video on L'Hopital's rule, and the one on Fourier transform, helped me intuitively understand those topics for the very first time ever. And I'm years out of school and have no need to use those concepts in work again, yet I watched them just to understand what was always a mystery to me in class at the time.
Yup. Try a first gen Jaguar XK8. Not crazy rare, many small towns have one or two. Gorgeous cars. But despite Ford owning Jag for a while, and some shared parts, you’d better hope you don’t need repairs. Only ~50k made in the whole world across the whole ten years of production. And that’s not even partitioning for body style or revision. Some critical parts are scarcer than hens’ teeth.
From hardware POV GPUs these days are to a close approximation just multicore CPUs with more focus on parallel throughput instead of single core performence, and a few specialized graphics op instructions (like texture lookup) that are unlikely to be badly patent encumbered due to their age.
I'm kind of surprised - I'm sure going forward treaties/agreements countries undertake with the US are going to start having withdraw penalties.

I certainly wouldn't trust any agreement currently.
Yep, since Sun days already, but lets not let that stand in the way of releasing some Oracle hate.
In these situations, I find that the conversation always revolves around the tool, and not the end goal. Documentation is a lot like code, but with a lot less people willing to write it.

Confluence and it's ilk are only as good as the effort / ownership of those that are willing to put in the time. If your org is not willing, than no other tool is really going to solve the core product.
The store couldn't have been great for enterprises too, replacing custom scripts, click once etc but it's gimped in a few critical ways, like cloud reliance and no way to push upgrades.
Nope, even the big publications do not use or need release forms for photos in news reporting.

If you are in public and the photo is “newsworthy” your image can be printed in a newspaper without your consent.

“Use of someone's name or likeness for news reporting and other expressive purposes is not exploitative, so long as there is a reasonable relationship between the use of the plaintiff's identity and a matter of legitimate public interest.” - http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/using-name-or-likeness-anoth...
Mux (YC W16) is hiring across the board to build the future of online video
Opeoids work when used correctly. No one is arguing that they should be banned. Doctors just need to not be lied to so that they don't prescribe highly addictive substances thinking they aren't.
If a corporation has free speech, then a corporation can go to jail.
Yea the difference in his analysis of brave is really different: https://mobile.twitter.com/jonathansampson/status/1165391211...

Sure, all requests are now sent to one location, including (!!) extension (Tor, https everywhere, etc) downloads used by brave. What about the possibility of the brave folks modifying those extensions to suit their needs? If I am needing to trust Tor, I'm going to download Tor from the appropriate location, not from brave. Based on the language he used reviewing other browsers, I suspect if that behavior was seen on anything other than brave the prognosis would be different.
Fake. Any place would recover as long as humans stay out of the way.
It’s a Haskell library now.
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Kalid ,
Your post on the magic of “e” still remains etched in my memory. Kudos to what you are doing :-). Nice book, too!
Or right click the item in search results, open file location, right click on .exe or shortcut, Send to > Desktop (create shortcut)
So basically they just kicked the can down the road a bit.
You can certainly get delta-v with drag. You’ll keep bleeding energy from orbital (kinetic plus potential) to atmospheric heat, but that’s an entirely different thing.
How about going after the executives? They've long used responsibility and even personal liability as justification for their high salaries yet continually escape punishment.
I love that quote, but in my experience there are diminishing returns.

I peaked (according to Goodreads) in 2012 when I read 75 books (including many large tomes! Godel Escher Bach, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Catch-22, Hyperion, Brothers Karamazov, Thinking Fast and Slow). But after all that, I felt like a hollow/vain effort. I felt like I spent TOO much time in books, time not investing in relationships or skills.

Now I read ~25 a year, and that seems like a sweet spot (though I still feel like I spend too much time on reddit/HN heh).

Anyways the OP article resonated with me. I've been taking the bus for the first time in my life this year and am wanting to start writing while on it.
That's one way people find success -- get a niche and build a reputation in it. It doesn't change the nature of the playing field though, that we've never had a time when there were so many great games available for free to anyone.
This is true, but in my experience you won't receive updates (and can't force them) on an unactivated version on Win10
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I’ve struggled with incessant suicidal desire for the last 75% of my years alive on earth. Having given up everything in slow preparation for the act: family, friends, savings, career - I can safely say that the only thing holding me back is the infinite unknown of the afterlife.
Definitely could be a factor. Other drivers might also be more used to seeing them on the road, which could have a positive impact in some way. I think the overall trend is probably pretty strong at that level of improvement, though.
I'd be really surprised if a significant fraction of the coral reef ecosystem manages to get the right mutations naturally in the next few dozen generations.
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I'm pretty sure that's a good way to get the endpoint flagged as a target of abuse, and the page pulled until they can figure out what's going on, resulting in anyone who wants to opt-out after that point either running into a temporary or permanent problem, depending if they ever bother to put it back online.

How about instead of fraudulently providing someone else's credit card because "we know best", we just make sure to spread the pages as much as possible where appropriate, and let people make their own educated choices (and hopefully it opens their eyes to other places in their lives they can do so as well).

I understand the impetus to help, but it's important to consider that what one person views as helping another might view as terribly invasive in itself.
All my years I’ve lurked. BUT this is a fucking Forbes articles. I didn’t think y combinator was Reddit. Forbes has been garbage for awhile now. Please don’t post this trash here. I was hoping a scientific article or journal. I might as well lurk back on Reddit
How is that Xamarin.Form GUI designer doing on .NET Core for Linux?

Focusing on .NET nowadays, but there are definitely a few areas where .NET Core fails short of Java offerings.
Well at a minimum it should be a relief that they aren't doing anything you'd consider nefarious.