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They’re a small class of game where you have a 2D cartesian grid where you can place heat sources, heat spreaders, and heat dissipators. The goal is to maximize heat production without melting down. The first instance I know of such a game is industrialCraft2’s nuclear reactor. You can play with it here.

https://github.com/MauveCloud/Ic2ExpReactorPlanner/releases

Nuclear reactors are fun because fuel cells are also neutron sources, so their heat output increases if you place them adjacent to each other. The allure of these games, to
me, is a geometry playground where you can make your number bigger if you do a little mental math. The 2D grid nature limits complexity if you have simple rules and components, so the solution is to have more rules and components. ;)
I know a fair bit about the tool set of these games just by spending many hours playing and thinking about them, but I’m not going to turn this post into a design document. I should write/publish one at some point so maybe fewer clumsy balance mistakes are made in future games.

There are instances of games like this popping up. Some of them are low effort money grabs, but some are okay.

https://www.reddit.com/r/incremental_games/comments/6jfuxq/l...

I have thoughts for solving the idle nature of the game by having diminishing returns on a design as time goes on (perhaps changing what metric a player wants to maximize) or by giving them complete control of the tick rate (this seems like a bad solution since some players may feel the urge to just idle anyway). I want to add in more fun designs, equivalent to multiblock structures in minecraft. Perhaps a fusion reactor that requires spending energy on confinement coils and heat injection.
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I don't think beings will even be "walking" into "rooms" to "say" stuff in 300 years.
Unless your house has a cemented floor, I don't really see why would babies need kneepads. Considering their weight, how much pressure would actually be on their knees? Also, considering they tend to cry at the slightest discomfort, won't they be able to tell it themselves? Undoubtedly, Adam is extremely competent to build an enterprise of that scale but he can still be delusional about the potential of his ideas.
I see them both as symptoms of the same underlying problem: an economy based on generating enormous amounts of waste for short-term profit.
Although this page talks about the 8085 instruction set, Wikipedia says it was almost identical to the original 8080, and therefore has a lot in common with the 8080-derived (and much more popular) Z80 CPU.

This octal-based organisation was also inherited by the x86 architecture: http://www.dabo.de/ccc99/www.camp.ccc.de/radio/help.txt
This is because they want to enroll people too stupid to solve basic math problems.
Exactly.

> But research shows that a wrapped cucumber lasts more than three times as long as an unwrapped one. It will also lose just 1.5 per cent of its weight through evaporation after 14 days, compared with 3.5 per cent in just three days for an exposed cucumber.
A longer life, Aldridge writes, means less frequent deliveries, with all their consequent energy costs, and, crucially, less waste. Globally, we throw out as much as 50 per cent of food, often when it perishes. It typically goes to landfill and gives off methane, a greenhouse gas.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/feat...
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I don't know if I would exactly call the ability to monitor/adjust the set temperature in your home from in bed without having to get up and walk to the thermostat on the other side of the house a gimmick. It's also handy when you're on the couch and have a child and/or a couple cats sleeping on you that you don't want to disturb. It even functions to reduce low-level irrational anxieties when traveling [Is my house on fire right now? Okay, thermostat's still connected and temperature looks normal, I can stop worrying about that for the moment.]

I'm as wary of this continuing mass privacy invasion as anyone, but the reason it's getting traction is because it offers new functionalities people value that are decidedly not just gimmicks.
The real problem is the money to pay for it all. Most authors can’t afford to gamble four or five figures editing, proofreading, promoting, and distributing a book that may show nearly zero return. Think of publishers as VC for books.
As someone who is at least somewhat well-informed, I literally never heard this. How would you expect investors to know that? Wouldn't it be better to just live under a system of laws that prevents insanity like this? And then you could spend your time learning and being productive instead of poring over the details of how you're being duped in any given situation?
I noticed it, it didn’t really bother me, but it didn’t make me think more favourably towards your product either.

By the sounds of the other comments on here (and the fact that you’re getting downvoted for even asking, to which I can only think “wtf?”) I suspect you’re better off rephrasing that particular line.
You're not alone; those long chains are annoying to decipher. The other benefit of what you wrote is that if you have to track down a bug in the chain, you can actually examine the intermediate variables directly instead of having to pick apart a long chain so that a variable is exposed for you to look at in the debugger.
To be fair, competition and investors tend to pressure corporations to place profit above any other values - the only way to maintain those values is to be forced by an external, 'arbitrary' force, like the law, or eccentric owner unconcerned with pure profit.
> but it's also trivial to show that there is a clear difference between something based on simple rules like a robot or a very simple animal form and human behavior

Where do you draw the line between a "very simple animal" and "non-simple animal"? Because there enough animals that have the behavioral patterns completely matching these of humans.

Human behavior is not particularly exceptional, unless you'd want to refer to our activities causing a new extinction.
> "something you are" is attached to you

And can be compromised without theft, coercion or any other trace.

> One can be swapped out if compromised or get lost.

Which makes something you are strictly worse than something you have.

> undergoes slow changes over time

You are lacking an argument for anything attached to this point.

> ...it makes sense to split it into two categories

So you are arguing that because something is strictly worse from a security standpoint, it should be categorised as a new category? Have I summed up your position correctly?

There are usability benefits which would exist similarly by attaching something which couldn't be easily compromised to your body. For example a chip under your skin or just carrying a watch on your wrist which you could authenticate with after putting it on and which would un-authenticate automatically when it is taken off. Nobody would argue that you are your chip or your watch.

Something you know is different because there are no plausible ways aside coercion and similar for extracting such secrets in idle, and the other alternative is to get compromised on usage. It's about the threat models.
Do you have any info on how to do this?
Linux users's first encounter with `ps` command usually leads to stackoverflow's question on RSS.
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Nuclear Throne is the best example of a solid game made in Game Maker that comes to my mind.

Looks like Spelunky, Undertale, and Hyper Light Drifter were as well.
> Soon, our heart beats too will become game for the creeps of the world [1].

Isn't it too late for that? Every $15 heart rate monitoring fitness band is already doing that, along with Wear OS watches.
do you think we will have ascended to pure energy or all be dead?

asking for a friend.
More in this vein: Your superior knowledge won't even give you an edge in technology investing/founding.

https://www.gwern.net/Timing

I definitely find the OP's perspective a little obnoxious. Being less-wrong is actually fairly easy (in the grand scheme of things), the problem is that nobody cares about being right.
The author is probably more qualified to discuss these matters than me, but it still seems to me like he is getting trapped by his too rigid categorizations.

Just because we're not good at explaining our behaviour after the fact, doesn't mean we lack agency or 'will.'
Or, ahem, registers Bitcoin.com, or sets up and controls the r/bitcoin subreddit
Granted I don't know a ton about Zigbee other than it's the approved wireless standard for BACnet, but I'm glad to see comments like this. It's seemed silly to me that all of this home automation stuff gets marketed as new and revolutionary when it's just balkanized and proprietary implementations of technology that's been in commercial buildings for decades. BACnet seems to have become the defacto standard in serious building automation. It's ridiculous that this home automation market seems to ignore a tried and true open standard for all this proprietary nonsense.
The problem on Reddit is the huge amount of formulaic and reference-based humor. It's too easy and it becomes a race to see who posts the obvious joke first.

On HN jokes do get up voted - if they're original, related to the topic and actually funny.
I'm not sure if this is the same thing as consonance/dissonance, but the graph of sin(x) + sin(2x), an octave, is regular and pretty and the graph of sin(x) + sin(sqrt(2)x), a tritone, is much less so.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sin%28x%29+%2B+sin%282...

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sin%28x%29+%2B+sin%28s...
A man just bought some of gaming’s ‘holy grails.’ for $1 million
I wouldn't be surprised if Neumann's vision included We armed forces, so maybe that'd help.
And then they'll also settle for a few million dollars.
Excellent visualization of these astronomy concepts, amazing job, my sincere congratulations!
Not too familiar with inner workings of gtk-rs, but: would ECS approach work there? Or e.g., a generational slotmap, so you could pass around copyable integer keys as much as you want.
I don't see why you think the "4 hours a week guy" doesn't have a chance at success.

Presumably, his definition of success is building a business that can be run in 4 hours a week while making enough money to fund his desired lifestyle.

So if he managed to do that, he's already successful.

I don't get this contempt for lifestyle businesses.
> Common sense should tell us that standardized tests like this are not fair assessments of actual student academic potential.

Common sense should tell you no such thing!

Why wouldn't a test that measures a list of aptitudes (writing, comprehension, logic, math, etc.) not correlate to some extent to academic success in a liberal arts degree?

Literally the classes you have to take are related to writing, comprehension, logic, math, etc!

> most college support structures are biased

I am not even sure what this is getting at!

If you are arguing that most of our colleges should not be centered on liberal arts, then the alternative is centered on professional or technical degrees ... which, in most cases, lean even more heavily on math, logic, writing, and comprehension!

Many universities have decided that they value diversity (ever how they define that) higher than or equal to pure academic results. And that is fine for them to make that choice, but it is silly to say that, "... common sense should tell you that there is no correlation between people that are good at lots of things and those same people being good at lots of things in college."
Hundreds of years later, company loses site of its mission, descendant of the great one (second coming) appears and steers company back to greatness.

Kind of a strange fantastical vision out of the fiction category. Not something I'd expect the would-be CEO of a public company to seriously suggest.
Well guys. Take your last relaxing walk outside. Because it's vuvuzela land from here on. Our children will never know how nice it was outside. The fact you could once hear birds singing and the wind blowing.
All the Groupon copycats largely failed too. Including Living Social. The other related companies that survived were around before and weren’t focused or only doing Groupon’s schtick (Retail Me Not, Coupons.com parent company, Slickdeals, and the cash back sites like Ebates/Rakuten). Otherwise they all died.

The gig economy startup scene was much much bigger. But it also didn’t completely die out. Airbnb is wildly successful. Apps like Taskrabbit have survived. Handy was surviving. Probably a number more that survived outside the big names.
I’ve seen a number of similar research projects but the issue is economic incentive and scale. Until those are addressed this is continental shelfware.
Ask HN: What are the next big niche products right now ?
What is the next Facebook, next Bitcoin, next Instagram, next Google...etc. In short, what are the next niche products right now.
Next: no grades needed to get BS, MA, PhD. and no attendance necessary. After all some groups are at a disadvantage and they will not be able to attend the classes.. While we're at it - why don't we have The Degree Lottery (tm), or better yet, give degrees right after conception.
Deliberate practice is most definitely not a waste of time! I hope you continue to get better in your endeavors.
From a traditional Buddhist perspective free will is necessary. If everything was predetermined, the entire path of practice to freedom from suffering would be pointless. However the past karma has an large influence on the present and cannot be ignored.
vuvuzelas
You know, that annoying thing that ruined FIFA world cup matches?
I really don't understand what the below law has to do with money laundering.

You can't get a trial before they try and sell your assets?

This is really bad and I had hoped this would be reformed in the USA. Instead we are forcing it on small countries?
Crazy shit.

"The other law empowers parliament to sell assets that have been confiscated or frozen during a criminal investigation (on certain conditions, such actions may be taken before a ruling is reached in court)"
To fill in the bit about temperament:

The problem is, once you construct a diatonic scale using these "Pythagorean" ratios, trying to play a diatonic scale that starts and ends on a different pitch, but using the same set of pitches, will have intervals that aren't in tune and sound terrible.

Musicians and theorists struggled with this for years, coming up with various compromises that sounded good in some "keys" and awful in others, until math provided the ultimate compromise: base your logarithmic scale on twelfth roots of two and every key will be exactly the same more-or-less-in-tune.
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It's the type of publication that starts using the word "systemic" because everybody else started using it all the time. That type. Try asking them how "environmental catastrophe" and mass migration to their tiny, developed island go together. Hint: You'll be banned.

Out of curiosity, why did such cookie-cutter pablum suddenly resonate with you?
Cars driving on the highway are

a.) driving in a controlled designated area

b.) not near residential housing mostly but and more often than not, sound barrier walls are built in situations they are
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"But as our society has come to realize how deeply ingrained many systemic biases"

Look. If you want to go to an Ivy school just pay off the administrators, proctors and teachers like everyone else.
Like the ancients, huh?
Likely those chosen ones shall ascend to the fourth plane of existence, leaving all others to suffer in the third. Just like in NG+.
Damn, I mean what a family. The moral compass. Gosh, I hope I can achieve someday the level of moral righteousness that he has. Wow.
> Hearing your CEO declare that he foresees WeWork to be controlled by his bloodline for the next 300 years would seem to be off putting.

Unless you're that deep into the cult that you actually believe in him being the prophet and you're calmed by the thought that his eternal consciousness will stand watch and defend the company from outside influence.
> Next: no grades needed to get BS, MA, PhD. and no attendance necessary.

"Soft-science" degrees from diploma-mill universities are already waaay ahead of you!
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HN throws IPFS around a lot as if it's free storage + free bandwidth. But as you point out, you still must run an origin server. At which point it's just a slower, crappier CDN where you stand up your other CDN nodes yourself. Your content doesn't just magically spread to random nodes once you broadcast it.
Very cool !

I had the same thoughts in mind when writing https://concrete.style and https://louismerl.in.
Does anyone know what sort of "moral compass" Neumann may've been imagining his great-great-granddaughter imposing in 300 years?

I mean, that's just a really weird scenario. Even ignoring the implausibility of modern offices being a thing in 300 years from now, much less being controlled by the same company, what exactly would've motivated Neumann's great-great-granddaughter to walk into an office space in which she'd apparently be an unknown stranger to critique the behavior of someone in it?

To be clear, I'm not asking for someone to make this sound reasonable -- just, what sort of scenario, reasonable or otherwise, might Neumann have been imagining here?
It may reduce the environmental impact by preventing spoiling, but at the same time it increases the environmental impact because now the vegetable can (and are) shipped across vast distances.

Maybe we should be rethinking our entire food infrastructure and concentrate on delivering food to local markets, not markets 1000s of miles away.
By 2030, if GoogMazon's drone incidental landing feature is implemented, you will be required to put it into your house and rate it 5/5, lest your capital credit score is demoted for disrespecting our corporate overlord.
Strange to see people defend the fake parts of startups.

You are right that I can’t speak for the broader YC community but the wrong attitudes that are an epidemic in the startup community are the things that don’t help anyone. When startup founders are scenesters or don’t focus on solving real problems, you get all the terrible behavior you see on the show Silicon Valley, but worse still you see the world harmed. Employees lose their jobs and years of their lives, and suffer the most. Capital is lit aflame.

Your later comment seems to agree with me that impact/value is more important so we do seem to agree at a deeper level. Nice to see you here Breck.
Many of those who are atheist/non religious follow the bible most closely because they are ignorant of it's forming of our societal mores.
... well, this is the real reason, but I don't think any professional would word it that way!

Here[0] is a story about a group arguing (a bit successfully, I might add!) that "forcing" students to have the ability to at least pass algebra to get a college degree is a civil rights issue!

[0] https://www.npr.org/2017/07/19/538092649/say-goodbye-to-x-y-...
Ah, my favorite Crusader Kings II minigame: stitching my kingdom back together after a gavelkind succession.
As long as you keep taking out those sweet sweet tuition loans subsidized by fed, schools will be glad to take on more and more students. Performance doesn’t matter as long as we can keep selling prestige and keep enrollment growing
Looks like "working harder to compensate for not being there" is a common theme among us remote workers.

By the way, regarding:

> I suffer from back pain when sitting in a chair for too long. At my place, I can lie down if needed.

I suggest wearing a smartwatch that will notify you when you have been inactive for at least an hour. Try to do a couple minutes of stretches or bodyweight exercises when you get the notification. I see the opportunity to be able to squeeze in tiny amounts of exercise as another benefit of working remotely.
More a lack of conscience or morals than luck:

1) The twin brothers hired him to build out ConnectU including the exclusivity mechanism of .edu emails only

2) Mark purposefully mislead/lied to the twins claiming he was working on ConnectU that he was contracted/paid to do - meanwhile actually focusing on his own version called TheFacebook to launch before them; him knowing that you didn't need to platforms so he wanted to be first to market, a transcript of him saying as much exists

3) The university was already planning to take their real life physical "The Facebook" and make an online version. Mark's quoted in the university newspaper saying he didn't understand why it was taking them so long, that he could get it done quickly. The reason it was taking "so long" is the committee, group doing it was thinking/brainstorming through potential privacy, security, and safety issues that could be a problem, presumably to design the platform with solutions to protect people; we clearly know now Mark has never thought about or cared about this, nor proactively cared for any such things, except for optics purposes.
Is there an IDE that lets you step through the build process in the debugger?
Says the guy who used company money to buy real estate and then lease hem back to the company.

Only a crook can say these kinds of preachy things.
Amazon was really, really good at finding cost-effective ways to grow its business and brilliant at logistics. Pets.com infamously spent a fortune on branding and advertising without doing any market analysis, so they weren't prepared for just how small pet supply margins were or how slow adoption would be. It's not ridiculed mainly for being an online petstore, which could have been a viable business even in the 1990s

Worth remembering Amazon invested in pets.com though...
I think the simple explanation here is that he's just an idiot.
Good lord that was a hard read. It's so academic it's pointless.
This is a misconception. The YC application is actually a great leveler because applications are evaluated by other founders through a community where building things for people is prized over pure credentialism.

VCs in general do have a terrible and unfair bias for Stanford. Frankly I went to Stanford. In 2008 when I did YC and started raising our seed round, VCs asked me why I even did YC because I had a Stanford degree.

I have seen so many people with no traditional background who succeed through the program.
Gawd, each decade we extend our "reason" beyond what we thought possible. We've always been at our limits. His weak example of batters is simplistic and silly. Batters study the hand position so that they can recognize the pitch type and make a probabalistic decision. Same goes for goalies who stop unseen pucks, position, probabilities, stick/ice/shooter all rolled up into "Only god saves more!".
Right. What you’d really need would be for the query optimizer to recognize your non-sargable expression and be able to look up a corresponding function index, and then have a mechanism for seeking on that. Indexing a computed column, like you said, wouldn’t actually solve the problem of having to evaluate each row to begin with.
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"Discontinuing support" is nice newspeak for "banning", since there's no technical overhead for NSFW content specifically.

Their logic is weird, too - it's not like NSFW subsections make Imgur less "fun and entertaining". Quite the reverse! And it's not as if you could stumble across these - you basically had to type the URL in by hand.
I highly recommend Space Engine
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Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand free speech in the 21st century
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