skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of these work more like scratchpads and, well, note books. That's fine if I want to put information down for later retrieval and even for low key exploration of past thought. But that's just the digitization of pre-21st century information management. What is now sought after is the next, previously impossible step.

What I envision is more of a knowledge space navigator that lives from connections and links (Wikipedia!) but allows a personal state of information and annotation/augmentation on top of it.

I want something that digitally represents my state of thought while augmenting it with a clean version of the world's knowledge and related information, if that makes sense.

Imagine writing a crypto algorithm - a browser with 30 tabs open and a note app plus my IDE feel like a clumsy and ineffective way to truly put my mind and thoughts into the context of work. It simply feels like doing digitally what people did in the 1960s with pen and paper, encyclopedias and books on their desk.

However, the internet and our hardware today feel like they allow to add at least one another dimension. For many, it's a hunch and a revolutionary product waiting to happen.
What an inspiring piece of work -- I wish I had somewhere I could use it!

Brings back memories of so many hours poring over https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/431651.Mother_Earth_News... as a young teen...
> You can only hope that a money manager would be smart enough to avoid the SoftBanks, Ubers and WeWorks

The problem is, no one has much other choice than to go this route and invest into the "next potential unicorn". With classic stocks stagnating and many government bonds in low to negative interest territory, it's hard to make any noticeable profit.

The way to fix this would be to reform pensions to a government-backed system such as Germany or Austria have - that reduces the amount of "dumb money" in the system.
I would expect a future that still has a copy of these passwords to be highly likely to have copies of the relevant standards.
How about:

Demonstrate state-of-the-art approach for a simple task of:

- making a program to encrypt or decrypt the file, given a password.

- implement that in small number of lines of code of C, so that it can be easy to verify the implementation completely (down to the possibility to inspect the binary code, if needed -- one doesn't have to trust the compiler!).

- discuss which kinds of attacks are all avoided in the implementation.

- discuss how the test could be made to detect any known state-of-the-art failures in the implementation.

Seems simple?

There are these old books talking about the modes that aren't state-of-the-art for many many years. But I am not aware of any other source directly covering all the goals.

Is there some book that covers all this? If not how about a few chapters about this too? IMHO that should be really basic.
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> e.g. this year, one of the teams has a steering wheel they pull toward/push away themselves to change the geometry of the front wheels

The Mercedes dual axis steering:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX0Laaj9_RA

Allowed this year, but already banned from next year.
I just rewatched The untouchables a week ago and remembered why I loved the music of that movie so much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu2FekMaTQc
I didn't really mean it as a "rebuttal", as the paper is careful about not claiming any causal link.

I meant it as a warning to the reader to be careful about drawing conclusions like that. To establish causation you'd need a study where alcohol consumption of the subjects is controlled by the experimenters. That would eliminate the effect of confounding factors that influence both alcohol consumption and cognitive function.
This looks nice, but is it very different from gnu(?) diff --color=always --side-by-side?
I find it easier to read long functions of code than jumping around in helper functions or abstractions. Especially if I am not familiar with the code base and don't know common functions by heart.
How does a high school kid get so interested in (and manages to pull off a great article about) stuff like Intermediate Representations, compiler optimisation techniques, JITs as different as those of Julia and GraalVM, that would easily scare even a seasoned programmer with years of experience and a CompSci degree under the belt?
Time machines could be invented in the near future. In fact I am wholly unable to say one hasn't been invented already.
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I’ve backed a lot of board games. I would never back one that has not been throughly play tested, has the rule book basically finished (at least the text if not the images and graphic design), has a play through video, and ideally has some reviews of prototype versions from trusted reviewers.
Well yeah, you want to bet on undervalued horses, not just fast ones.

Likewise with stocks, it's hard to argue that Tesla isn't doing well, but you'd be bonkers to buy their stock right now.
If only someone made a version of this answer that was more, let’s say, board-room accessible. So much conflict could be avoided, if engineers were not seen as ”non-believing naysayers” when top brass wants some of that hot new AI
Occult is just one of many, many popular themes in board games. Others are:

* trains (Trans America, Ticket to Ride, Empire Builder, 1830)

* animals (Wingspan has been mentioned),

* building (Catan, Pillars of the Earth, Argicola),

* trading (Le Havre, Cuba) (note: trading as a theme, not necessarily a game mechanic)

* evolution (Primordial Soup, Evolution)

* space combat (Core Worlds, X-Wing)

* history (Through the Ages, Civilization)

(I've tried to order the games roughly from easy to complex)

It's certainly true that fantasy, horror, and occult are also popular themes. Perhaps more so in Anglo-Saxon-style games than in Eurogames, which can be about extremely mundane things, like maintaining a garden or sewing a patchwork.

A couple of other interesting non-fantasy games:

El Dorado (finding your way through the wilderness)

Power Grid (generating power and supplying it to cities)

Terraforming Mars (theme is obvious)

Twilight Struggle (the Cold War)

Check on BoardgameGeek[0]. Also pay attention to complexity, time and age requirements. Some games are very big, complex and time-consuming, others are quick and easy. Catan, Ticket to Ride and Carcassonne are all classics that fall somewhere in the middle.

[0] https://boardgamegeek.com/browse/boardgame
Trying to find a backend (php) freelance project since March after having worked 5 years in a startup/scaleup. Its the hardest problem I faced in ages.
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That's a very hot take on Firefly. What did you think of Star Wars, a story about jihadi terrorists?
Couldn't you just say "I'm working on this specific thing for this specific purpose that works this specific way" ? Sigh.

Sorry for the negativity, but this post is the perfect example of the wishy-washy rhetoric that people interested in this domain always use.

For examples of what I'm talking about, browse this tedious litany [1] (roam-whitepaper), see if you manage to get pass the first paragraph [2]. BTW, the price for the "Believer" plan of roam [1] is $500 dollars. Roam itself is advertised with the hashtag "#roamcult". Pretty strong BS signals coming from this one.

1: https://roamresearch.com/

2: https://roamresearch.com/#/app/help/page/Vu1MmjinS
It's contrarian article:

1. In many tech area: networks effects and zero marginal costs creates winner(s) take all. In that sense it make sense to follow the winners as previously investors underestimated how big winner could be (e.g. Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple).

2. Everywhere else: betting on underdogs that are mispriced is much better strategy in long-run. See Warren Buffet got huge returns by looking at fundamentals, but his strategy would not work well in tech.
But it's not. From the article:

> you want to bet on the mispriced horse, not the horse most likely to win
Is this really relevant on HN?
Internal fraud not external malice, was the cause of Nortel's demise:

" Investigators ultimately found about $3 billion in revenue had been booked improperly in 1998, 1999, and 2000.

More than $2 billion was moved into later years, about $750 million was pushed forward beyond 2003 and about $250 million was wiped away completely.

The accounting scandal hurt both Nortel's reputation and finances, as Nortel spent an estimated US$400 million on outside auditors and management consultants to retrain staff.

On April 28, 2004 amidst the accounting scandal, three of Nortel's top lieutenants—Douglas Beatty, CEO Frank Dunn and Michael Gollogly—were fired for financial mismanagement.They were later charged with fraud by the RCMP.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) also filed charges against them and four vice-presidents for civil fraud"

There are many other companies today, that are equally fraudulent.
My bad, I misunderstood, but I’m not sure how tips are relevant.

It seems like the GP(?, the first poster in this chain) was saying that delivery works for places like Domino’s which hires and pays their own couriers a standard wage. That wage is already accounted for in Domino’s pricing, and since that employee has to show up to work even when there aren’t deliveries they can be put to work. Thus, there are no additional costs to Domino’s as everything is presumably priced taking this into account.

When you outsource your delivery, the company being hired takes a cut. That company (Postmates etc) need to use this cut to pay their couriers. Postmates can only ask for so much before the store just says no, it’s not worth it. Those couriers need to be paid enough that it’s worth it for them to keep delivering. So, Postmates scales up to make up for it in bulk by taking losses by offering deals. Those deals don’t last forever, and customers like me only order because of the deals will just go away.
> What I saw on Twitter is many GOP/Trump militants making dubious claims about HCQ effectiveness and branding everyone who disagree victims of TDS..

I also saw the opposite, people saying "we knew all along", before some solid evidence was out (RECOVERY, and the UMN study: the latter however has limits due to lack of PCR-confirmed viral tests). Or they believed the flawed Lancet paper unconditionally (count me among them, it was a mistake).

The whole matter was politicized too heavily and the first victim was science, as far as I can see.

I say "some" and not "the" evidence because there are still some large studies going on, like COPCOV.
The balance of importance between driver and constructor is quite unique in sport. A sufficiently good car can make an average driver competitive (e.g. Bottas), but also a sufficiently good driver can make an average car competitive (e.g. Schumacher).

Plus everyone involved is such a drama merchant (or crook!) that the season often plays out like a soap opera.
Have a spouse and lots of kids ;-)

I also have some friends who entered into a quarantine pact. They don’t go around anyone else except each other. That way they can keep meeting up for board game night.
> He was for me the biggest composer of the second half of 20th century, which just happened to do music for films (also for some Italian pop music, but it was less prolific there).

My thought exactly. He actually made film music a genre by itself - even though I like to think of film music the other way round and tend to consider that it's actually the last refuge of well-written, and in that sense "classical", music. Come to think of it, it's actually film music that unifies the wildly different, highly creative, rich and thoughtful music from Glass to Legrand, from Vangelis to Morricone, from Sakamoto to Metheny.
I think you just found yourself a business opportunity :)
That is probably not so easy: you'd still have to pay for the car (if it retails for $100k, that is a lot of deliveries to make before eating that cost), and it will depreciate over time. And you still have to pay for gas (electricity?), insurance, maintenance, etc.

Not to mention solving the issue of the physical exchange with the customer.
I think that misses the point of this article. More appropriate might be:

"The race is often to the swift, and the battle to the strong, but the way to bet is on those with miscalibrated odds."

If the odds are well calibrated, the expected return is zero; we might as well not bet. The same goes for speculating on well-priced assets.

If we have reason to believe that the odds/prices are miscalibrated, we can expect a positive return by going long/short (depending on which direction they're off).
I think you are right, one pixel at a time is a pretty slow way of doing things. The current image processing is pretty naive at the moment as well, gets easily confused by large reflections and splashes of light.
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How are they going to enforce that? Halt aufhören und aufhören show me your phone show me your stock ROM
they would not negotiate. Probably because i didn't have competing offers (wasn't actively looking, just responded to their recruiter).
> It indicates quantity, with little indication of quality.

So you agree that it's not an indication of quality, but claim that it's pejorative. Why?

> Morricone was more than prolific;

But he was prolific.
It's also used to describe artists like Picasso and Rubens.
Indices don't include unprofitable companies for exactly this reason.
Some we like are Azul, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Kingdomino, Splendor, Castles of Burgundy, Pandemic: Iberia, Lanterns, Isle of Skye, Concordia, Kingdom Builder, and Potion Explosion.
And reportedly not particularly significant except in a few specific circumstances (i.e. to warm tyres in qualifying outlaps or behind a safety-car). Didn't seem to make much of a difference this weekend.
Yes, you need to start injecting power along the strings of LEDs to keep it working properly and the power demands do add up pretty quickly. Fortunately it's low voltage (5v) so not shock worthy, but definitely capable of starting fires!
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For that to happen, we have to first:

- Create robots capable of handling pickup and delivery automatically - a very hard technical problem that were far from solving

- Manufacture these robots at scale

- Purchase and deploy these robots at scale

The timeline for all of these things together is years, even decades into the future. Even if you get the tech down, creating factories that can churn out hundreds of thousands of these robots will take years (see Tesla's example - and that's for tech we already understand, like cars). It will also require massive amounts of cash to buy and deploy all these robots.

Robot-led delivery isn't happening for a long time.
Contra examples from simply googling "prolific + NAME":

Wikipedia on Mozart:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart[a] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart,[b] was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.

British Library on Beethoven:

Ludwig van Beethoven was a very prolific composer, producing many symphonies, concertos, piano sonatas, violin sonatas, an opera, masses and several overtures.

NY Times on Bach:

If any measure of quality is applied to such a comparison, as it must be, Bach was one of the most prolific composers who ever lived; that meager output from Cöthen, for example, includes the “Brandenburg” Concertos, the orchestral suites, other concertos and the astounding solo works for violin and for cello.
I'm sorry, this view feels pretty misguided. Without such historical background you are bound to repeat mistakes all over again. I can't even count how often I meet somebody who wants to roll some "simple cipher" by xoring a periodically repeated "password" over a file, or at every position or so. Or writes a blog post about this and then has the deep insight that this is called "caesar cipher, you should look it up, it's fun" or some nonsense. Those are the seriously uneducated. Maybe coming from a high school student, sure. But not from an actual professional.

With a university degree in this you should be better than that. You should be curious about the history of your field and learn the context. Everybody who is not signals to me that they actually just want to hack something without a deep understanding, and then move on.
Excellent satire :)

"Until then, go here and browse some more trends to follow at the cost of authenticity, objectivity, originality, reasoning and fundamental understanding of how to design user interfaces"
And it's a good idea to apply similar ideas to early access computer games, which was my point. People will try sell you something that doesn't meet that bar, but you don't have to let them.
After spending years trying to put myself in a position to work in the sport, now I mostly just follow F1 for the politics and gamesmanship more than the racing itself.

There are much more fun motorsports to watch, but rarely do they come so packaged with intriguing technical drama.
Yeah, that's why the churn of food-delivery companies isn't going to end unless external factors cut off the flow of investment. It's conceivable that one winner could be massively profitable, at enormous scale, with all the efficiencies of a significant proportion of the population being bought-in and everything from schedules to menus to delivery vehicles optimised to make the service effective. (Here is your daily PrimeMeal, valued PrimeCitizen). Until then everyone is making huge losses with ad-hoc restaurant collection.
Won't that just turn echo chambers into even bigger echo chambers?
"The Anti-Defamation League has added the hand gesture for "OK" to its database of hate symbols, after sites like 4chan and 8chan began associating it with white supremacy."

This is all I had to read to roll my eyes and move on.
>How as the Desktop app for creative writers that you created in 2017 different from the one you created in 2005?

That's actually a very good question. The follow on question might be "Why did I think it would succeed in 2017 when it didn't succeed in 2005?"
The thing with BMW is that their DRM is usually cracked in about 5 years. Just about every BMW up to 2017 can have all of its electronic features enabled for free if you just buy a $20 cable and hook it to a laptop. Sometimes this is viewed as a positive thing it's something that has tons of features that can be enabled free by hacks then hackers like me will buy it at a discount. I bought a base model 3 was able to turn on all of the extra options for free including an additional amount of horsepower from modding wastegate actuation
I’ve only played the original Azul and Sagrada, but Sagrada didn’t really do it for us (while we love Azul). What are you seeing in Sagrada that we are not?
>Most users simply don't share your tolerance (preference?) for visually crowded interfaces that aim to cram as many elements on a screen as you can possibly fit with little editing or regard for what users actually 'need' on a screen for a given task.

I don't think anyone has a preference for needlessly crammed UIs. But the question is what you prioritise when a task really does benefit from seeing a lot of information at a glance.

There's an easy choice. There's a hard choice. And there's an ugly choice.

The easy choice is to "clean up" the interface and just remove stuff even if it makes the interface less useful. Apparently, that's a popular choice with designers. It can often be justified by pointing to "most users", because that creates a statistical bias toward less demanding requirements.

The hard (and expensive) choice is to think deeply about data visualisation, gain a detailed understanding of the task at hand to the point where the designer has to become a user themselves, and communicate with the most demanding users until you get something functional and not crammed or until you learn what customisation options are needed.

When the hard choice fails or isn't an option for economic reasons, that's when only ugly choices remain, and that's when I would rather have a developer who is intimately familiar with the task come up with a UI that is at least fit for purpose.
Though note that Pascal Script is a bit limited - while you can use classes and methods exposed by the host application you can't declare your own classes and you are limited to using procedural style programming (but this is probably fine for most script uses).
I don't agree. Maybe not so much in the US, Morricone is recognized world wide.
My statement is biased by my own experiences I admit. Maybe the honorary Oscar he received in 2007 is somewhat a more objective illustration of what I meant.
What are you talking about? Everyone wears a mask in Germany in closed spaces and public transport. I haven't seen a single person not do it and it's already part of daily life. I don't understand the point here?
So I can agree with e.g. using "Blocklist" instead of "Blacklist", or replacing master/slave as those have many fitting synonyms and are unnecessary, even though I don't think that will affect any of the actual racism issues.

But what is the problem with terms like "Grandfathered", "Sanity check" and "Dummy value"? Replacing such words (that you can still frequently encounter in literally any english text) prevents Twitter from justifying the rejection of any further change requests. If "grandfather" is supposed to be offensive(I guess because some people don't want to think about their grandfather?) then what stops people from demanding removal of terms like "stylesheet" (because maybe I don't like being reminded of my looks) or "backend" (because it could remind someone about a traumatising event)? And how could Twitter reasonably reject those demands when they already started to remove everyday words?
This is more of a framework whereas Godot is more of a tool.
I wonder what would happen with terms like "grey area". Like in:

A: Is this thing bad or good, legal or illegal?

B: I think it's a grey area.
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Perfectly safe is a long stretch. As originally installed they had numerous design faults, the control rods operated too slowly, the carbon tips of the control rods could locally increase reactivity when they were being inserted, the reactor was too large and consequently hard to control, they lacked the secondary containment structures which were common place in western reactors of the era.
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You have the Compute Module versions of the pi with embedded storage.

The reasoning behind the SD cards on the consumer pis is that they are quick to swap out, and don't have the problems that "bricking" the OS could get you into with booting from onboard storage. There is the possibility to use USB booting in the latest boards (certainly with the 3+ not sure about the status of the 4) which has a flag set in the onboard eeprom so you can use external SSDs/USB drives.