skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an interesting argument. If I understand right, you're saying that since the random numbers are produced by a deterministic process with a hidden seed, Starcraft isn't actually "random", it's just a hidden information game (the hidden information being the seed).

Taken to its extreme, you could take Chess, and add in a hidden seed at the start of the game, and run a PRNG during the game, and randomly decide some events. And you wouldn't have taken a full-information game and added randomness; you would have taken a full-information game and added hidden information.

Now, you're talking about using weaknesses in the PRNG to predict future random results. It seems to me there are two ways to do that: Learn what the seed is directly (perhaps by controlling what the seed is), vs. learning what the seed is by looking at PRNG outputs.

If we say the first option (directly learning the seed by controlling inputs or whatever) is impossible (which makes sense), then the only reason we can exploit the PRNG is that it's not cryptographically random.

Which is interesting. What if it the PRNG is indeed cryptography-secure? If an element of a hidden-information game is "deterministically" produced by a cryptography-quality algorithm, then that element can't be predicted. But it's still entirely deterministic.

So in some sense, no games have any randomness, they only have hidden information, and that hidden information can be kept very hidden using cryptographic techniques/algorithms.

A CPRNG + hidden information gives us seeming randomness in games. What other cryptographic techniques could you add into a game, and what would they map to from a human player's perspective? Encryption is seemingly obvious - hidden communication. What about hashing? What about homomorphic encryption? Others?
AI could make buying and selling a house as simple as trading stocks
The beginner friendly is important. I use code-d because it provides a better out of the box experience, providing dub build and run tasks. In DLS I either only get the building task or have to set them up myself.
> Better to build these things on land with steady wind, less agricultural value and nearer big population centers

I'm sure developers would be happy to if that was the case, but it turns out the valuable locations simply tend to be west central, and the easternmost regions of the mountain states https://windexchange.energy.gov/maps-data/319

> such as Wyoming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chokecherry_and_Sierra_Madre_W...

> and Colorado

Added a 600MW farm in 2018 (Rush Creek) following a 600MW farm in 2014 (Limon) and a 550MW one in 2011 (Cedar Creek).

> (near the I-25 corridor from Cheyenne to Colorado Springs)

That's a shitty place to put wind turbines: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Colorado...

> or the barren hills on either side of the Bay Area.

You mean like Altamont? And turns out california has pretty poor onshore wind prospects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_California#/medi...
I had a very interesting experience yesterday. Falling completely off my year-long diet, I decided I wanted a pizza at all costs. So I went to a pizza store. As it turns out, this was a store I had managed 30 years ago, and I haven't been inside one of these stores since, so it made for a nice moment of comparison. People are the same, the business is the same. What have computers brought?

It used to be, when you talked about computers, you talked about data, although at the time we confused behavior and data. Here's my computer. It has my pictures. I write programs on it. There is a thing. I posses this thing. It holds other things I posses that I can do neat stuff with.

But a weird thing happened. The arcade had sex with the IBM PC. That is, computers stopped being about "things I own that I can do things with" and became almost exclusively about the experience, the game. Having a good time.

If you'd asked me in 89 what the store would evolve into in 30 years, I'd probably say something about robots. Paper free, human free. Maybe humans out front to talk to people with robots working behind the scenes.

Instead, the computers controlled the workers. They took orders, they printed tickets to be stuck on boxes, they provided instructions, they tracked how much time the worker took for various things, they provided a cool interface for people to both order and see how their order was being processed. Who owned what that did what? Nobody cared.

If you have an enjoyable, perhaps addictive experience doing X, and it's free, who cares about ownership or data? We never thought behavior/experience and ownership would be separate, so we reason poorly about it.

On the old net, I would visit sites lovingly-crafted by their owners, with everything their owners enjoyed. We shared the experience of their creation, both creator and consumer. If there was a problem, I'd email. Your site doesn't work. You own it. Fix it.

The new net is full of companies providing unique and fun experiences that people like, collecting data on their fellow humans like their lab rats with the exit strategy of being bought out by even larger companies with even more data. We create things we do not own. Instead we're like prostitutes in a red light district that are forced to dance in glass windows. We are displayed. Our existence and the things we create is owned by others. They choose to show the parts of us as they will. Your data isn't important. My experience online using some app is important. Everything else is subservient to that.

The old web is gone because it either died or was eaten by companies who understand the new selection criteria. Anonymity is gone. Privacy is gone. Ownership is gone. We are left with just a collective experience which we will optimize for at all costs.
The exact same problem exists in China.
And terrible UX was a feature to some extent. The people who got through it put in some effort to do so, so it filtered out a lot of low effort people. (Think about all the garbage on reddit, facebook, twitter).

Average users aren't necessarily the people I want to interact with on a daily basis. It's like an advanced version of a captcha.

Maybe I'll make a technology and discussions site that is purposefully difficult to connect to. Maybe I won't use a standard protocol and you'll have to use netcat & gpg to read / upload posts or something absurd like that.
> Most of the good stuff is on old web sites with many broken links, little documentation, and abysmal navigation. I think the main repository is actually the web site of a guy who died years ago and is kept online, but unmaintained and suffering from severe bitrot, by people about to go the same way.

As long as the site(s) have been grabbed by Internet Archive, I'm not sure that this has to be an issue. (I've noticed that the archive.org 'Wayback machine' will even archive some downloads, albeit it's not something that should be counted on.)
Let's hope these aren't being started deliberately.
I think they're probably aware of the general technical issues/limitations/possibilities these days.
The author of the article, Sharon Begley, is a very good science writer. I've seen her writing elsewhere too.
Ask HN: How do you know if you’re burnt out?
It was clear to me that, by the start of December, I was burnt. Yet I felt that I didn’t deserve the status of Burnt Out because it was a 5 month period, averaging 45 hours a week. The difference is that the pressure was higher than usual.

How do you define burnout and how do you know if you’re there?

And then what steps do you take to recover?
I kind of assumed that the expression “wonder weapon” implied air quotes. AFAIK, the term is a calque of “Wunderwaffe,” and dates back to WWII. Most of the wonder weapons didn’t work, or were rushed into production without adequate engineering or testing, and proved to be disappointments.

Thus, I have always associated the term with something that is developed in the hope of changing everything, but ultimately serves only for propaganda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wunderwaffe
Yeah, I never quite liked the currenly en vogue mixed approaches, where it's harder to draw a line, you often have to serve two masters and you feel it's mostly done that way because React developers don't want to learn anything else, despite cases where a complete server-side approach with an old-school template language might be a better fit, despite how hip functional reactive component based development is.

But about the smaller stacks other environments have: That's quite often because you either don't need additional parts (e.g. there's no desire for a huge Django template "community") and/or because other stacks are more full-fledged and thus the horizontal size is a lot smaller, with no need for umpteen state management solutions, state management solution helpers and state management solution application templates.

Dashboards could probably serve as a whole different topic. It was easy to beat the old school ones, where Perl CGIs roamed the prehistoric landscape. More modern CSS, and JS graphs alone beat the old rrdtool setups you often saw.
Webrings were great but you still need search as a starting point. Now we've got all this spam out there which essentially creates fake webrings (private blog networks [1]) as a form of black hat SEO.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_farm
When you get off a plane from Europe to sub-Saharan Africa, you are often greeted by the smell of countless open cooking fires dotting the land. It’s quite nice in my opinion, though it’s not healthy for those who use them.
If an advanced civilization continued to improve the efficiency of this effect would they eventually use it to capture the majority of the energy output of their local star? You could have a shell of high efficiency solar satellites surrounded by another shell of high efficiency Seebeck satellites. What would this look like from a distance? Would they be able to capture enough energy so their star would be indistinguishable from the ambient temperature of space?

Our galaxy and others appear to be missing most of the mass i.e. stars that they should have in order to rotate as fast as they do. We put the figure for missing mass at about 80 to 90 percent for our galaxy. What if our galaxy and others are already colonized by advanced civilizations that make maximal use of the power output of stars so it simply looks like we're missing most of the matter that should exist. This could explain why there is a variation in the amount of missing mass between galaxies with some galaxies apparently containing 0% 'dark matter'. No advanced civilization = no dark matter, different amounts = different stages in development of the galactic civilization.

Could this be a solution to the Fermi paradox?
Interesting--had no idea. They really need to change their name.

Does seem a bit ironic that BuzzFeed would be complaining about the death of the Internet.
I'm an urbanist and hate this sort of condescending BS.

Like, sure single family homes in suburbia tend to look the same. You know what also looks the same from the outside? Apartments. Literally all you can see for each one is a window and maybe a balcony, and they all look identical.

The problem with American suburbia is not that houses are similar looking, or that the people in them raise families, go into business, or go to university. The song seriously reads like r/im14andthisisdeep material.
The collection of so much personal data makes possible all sorts of abuses that are otherwise infeasible. The difference between corporations collecting & keeping massive amounts of data on the population of a state, and the same state's government doing exactly the same, is minor, when the government can buy access to much of that data or compel production of any of it by court order. It'd bother me if the government were running this kind of dragnet surveillance, so it bothers me that companies are, for this if for no other reason.
Famously so! That song was about houses on a hill in Daly City, outside San Francisco.

Personally, I've always found it a great example of irony. The condemnation of sameness and uniformity, from someone self-consciously countercultural and generally trotted out by others who are self-consciously counterculture stereotype compliant. A song lambasting people for their smug and thoughtless conformity from the perspective of someone thoughtlessly smug and superior for their conformity who marks the difference by sneering.

It's really a remarkable piece.
Individuals can (and do) use similar transfer pricing schemes. They're just really expensive to set up and maintain.
BBSes live on today in all their ASCII glory. Logged on to an Apple ][+ BBS yesterday running on port 6502 ~grin~. Ah, good times...
https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/
Wow, that layout is so old-school quirky I think I may have literally injured my eyeballs reading it ;)
Your argument would be much better served if you didn't use words like disgusting and violent to describe the ideas(s) presented by the other poster. Frankly, it sounds like you're more interested in escalating this into an idealogical flame war than participating in a civilized discussion.

There's nothing inherently violent about a democratically elected government regulating the commercial activities of corporations according to the wishes of its people.
Maybe! Certainly other environments with an emphasis on anonymity, pseudonymity or privacy in general have turned out to be terrible cesspools. But on the other hand, Signal and Whatsapp aren't. It's also not necessarily a broadcast-vs-1on1 problem: while I'm often frustrated with HN, it takes care of the white supremacists pretty effectively.
I know that part, the weird part is they gave Turkish government a predesigned car for another customer.
>Russia has a cancerously warped morality.

As if other countries don't share it...

A man was recently in the news for killing a man who peeped on his daughter in a public restroom in the US.

The comments were flooded with people supporting his actions and bragging they'd do the same.

It's trivial to find similar stories with similar receptions in the US and other countries. Some people just really believe in "self served justice"

It mostly seems to stem from disenfranchisement and a belief "the system doesn't work", so it's justified to take matters into your own hands.
Did you know farmers in Iowa cut down trees around their fields to minimize shade? The graph you provided is completely irrelevant to this discussion. Corn yield growth is resultant from political decisions to fund biofuels.
Not even vaguely.

Compounded interest is reliable, even boring. You know exactly what you'll have at any moment in time.

Your ten-year index returns are reasonably reliable, historically. But your 2007-2009 returns aren't your 2016-2018 returns, at all.

They're different concepts and deserve to be conceptualized differently, especially in the modern era, where interest rates on Treasure are lower than inflation.
I am reading the book "An Epidemic of Absence" by Moises Velasquez-Manoff, which articulates a basis for everything being covered in this HN thread. While I wish the author made better use of citations and footnotes, the narrative seems compelling.
I like Bloomberg radio. Most of their stuff is through a global markets lens, so their stuff is less about how things should be and more about how they actually are.
// Removed as I'm not a physicist and may be mistaken.
This is true, but it's also a good thing to go to lunch or have coffee with other people. You'll get personal enjoyment out of it, and if you are talking shop, the relationship you build could offset the savings of packing your own lunch.

For example it's common that you will regularly have lunch with a work colleague, and then later they will recruit you to work at another company. Or they will give you insight on how to get support behind your project at your current company.
> What I find myself missing more than anything else is that news server was something you paid for, either as part of an ISP package, as a dedicated service or your university tuition fees.

For what it's worth, there are still commercial newsproviders out there you can pay for. There are also free ones as well. Unfortunately, the all the newsgroups I participated in as recently as 5 years ago are pretty much dead.
Show HN: Purple Theme for JupyterLab
Can you help me understand how this is different from, say, the Black Friday bushfires?
Quick question/idea about security: with all of the exploits today like Meltdown and Spectre, is anyone working on a truly secure container?

Something like a public website running on an Intel processor, and/or maybe subdomains running on AMD and other mainstream CPUs. They would each be running some number of containers (up to say 1000 to start) and anyone could log in anonymously and run whatever they want in a minimal OS like Ubuntu. They would probably just have access to a small filesystem and maybe some open ports for HTTP or SSL or whatever.

The challenge would be to break out and take over the host computer. If anyone does that, then the pwned container is flagged as not secure.

The idea here is that until this happens, we can't really run a container and allow public access. I'd like containers to be as ubiquitous as websites running Javascript in the browser's sandbox so that we can host our own REPLs. If companies are serious about this, they should also consider providing bounties, say $100,000 guaranteeing that their container is secure for users. If you get hacked, you get the money. Without something like that, I'm afraid that I can't believe that containers are secure on faith alone.
I guess we’ll see in future fire seasons if that’s been a significant contributor. If so, they should be less severe.
There are plenty of zero-tax jurisdictions that they can still use like the Cayman Islands.
Did they find something "better"?
Knuth being impenetrable after six year or so years of formal study using other materials, doesn't seem like a strong case for those other materials. It smells more like six hours in the lab saving an hour in the library.
This has been submitted before. I found this discussion really interesting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18754433
I've got access to an 8" drive as well as plenty of 5.25" drives, and the hardware to do flux images. There are others with access to similar hardware. As kjs3 suggested, contacting people via the classiccmp and vcfed lists is a good idea.
But nowadays we have so many personalized stuffs distributed across the Internet. For example you can just build a static page and put up on Github for free, and there are so many startups that provide all kinds of blogging (some of them are very serious and educational, just one level below books).

I'd say that if the old Internet died then let's look forward to the future and build something new.
> Provided the interpreters(/compilers) are still being updated and maintained

That's a big question. And how much is that ongoing maintenance going to cost you, when you're critically reliant on it? It's just a single point of failure that will ultimately have to be addressed.
"Wasn't great" is an understatement. Cali ATC seemed to be barely able (or unwilling) to communicate to the English-speaking pilots. Then took up precious time on-frequency to try to cover her ass when she realized her mistakes. Yes, there was a high workload due to all the diversions coming in but come on, get help if you can't communicate with international traffic.

As an English-only speaking pilot, I'd be a little nervous flying into an area where most calls are in the local language. You lose out on a lot of situational awareness that comes from listening to the other transmissions.
How do you solve the problem that some areas that are claimed by more than one country or are claimed by countries that are recognized/not recognized by other countries?
I use VSCode with webfreak's code-d extension[0] on both macOS and linux. Overall am very pleased with this. My dream would be for some JetBrains integration into CLion.

[0] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=webfreak...
The way 401k retirement accounts are set up in the US, you can't get anywhere near the contribution limit on your own, you have to have huge amounts of employer contribution, beyond simple matching, even. It's like (cough) it's designed to mainly benefit top-tier professional class folks and non-owning-class upper managers while chaining people to traditional employment or complex personal tax arrangements. The other tax-advantaged account, the IRA, has a much lower total contribution cap.

[EDIT] to be clear it's not an absolute disadvantage to the poor and middle class versus having no such system, it's just that the way it's structured the overwhelming bulk of the tax savings goes to people who are already very well off, and those "beneath" them cannot possibly, no matter how frugal or responsible or fairly-well (but not excellently) compensated, hope to touch the level of benefit the very-well-off derive from 401k accounts. It's impossible, thanks to the way they're structured.

[EDIT EDIT] they're actually ideal for rich people who want to transfer ~$56k/yr to each of their kids (about $1.5m over 30 years), tax-free. I'd bet there's a further scheme one can work out to direct the investment of the fund such that the personal benefit is much greater than that, even (oh, kid of mine, you want to start a business? Funny, our 401k fund also "wants" to invest in it!). How? Employ them at one of your C or S corps (LLC or partnership won't let you get anywhere near the contribution limit, because... reasons? I dunno, it's a really dumb system if [cough] you're trying to make it broadly available to and useful for normal people) in one of the many positions near the top that're well-compensated but are so easy that lots of folks (stalk some from-money C-suite or "investor" types on Linkedin to see what I mean) seem to find time to hold one of them and also a few other "jobs" at the same time, so it won't look out-of-the-ordinary.