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The Cistercians have a long and fascinating history:

> Andersen et al found that the location monasteries of the Catholic Order of Cistercians, and specifically their density, highly correlated to this work ethic in later centuries;[21] ninety percent of these monasteries were founded before the year 1300 AD. Joseph Henrich found that this correlation extends right up to the twenty-first century.[22]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic#Criticis...
I'm in this research area, it's facinating, but also (like many things in AI) easy to get wrong.

The trickiest bit is deciding exactly what you want your AI to optimise for -- If you want a game where "anyone can win", you end up with coin toss. If you want a game where "skill is everything", you can accidentally end up with "who can click fastest".

On a project I recently worked on (and I'm writing up), we ended up on our 6th or 7th "optimisation function" before we found something where the "AI optimal" seemed actually enjoyable to play.

Of course, if you already have a fairly fixed game, it can be easier to optimise constants, as you already know your target -- but people have also been doing that for a long time previously.
Sometimes I do exactly that, but leaving money on the table is a privilege of wealth and not the point. What I certainly won't do unless my family is starving is buy the widget from someone else for a buck and then use exploitative tactics to convince people to buy it from me for twenty.

It's very rarely the craftsman who makes the real margin. That's left to the conglomerate who owns the brand.
These words appear rather frequently in academic writing on anthropology and linguistics. If you were in grad school studying in these fields it is likely that you would be using most of these words in your own writing. Computer scientists have their own arcane vocabulary, e.g. cryptography, Turing machine, monoid

Consider quotidian (meaning daily), this is an old word that has become more popular in past forty years and has now made its way out of academic writing into ordinary English and appeared about 35 times in HN comments in the past year. It is roughly as common in ordinary English as the word cryptography, but "cryptography" appeared about 49 times in HN comments in the past month.

Google ngram viewer gives a nice comparison of word frequencies in Google's corpus of scanned books. See [1] for a frequency comparison of the some of the words mentioned and the CS words cryptography, Turing machine, Unicode. (Sorry about the link size!)

[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cryptography%2...
Newpipe or adaway, depending whether you rooted the phone or not.
Good to know, I hadn't tried it, I just based my comment on reading the policy.
Whenever I hear people describe tech workplaces as “toxic”, I think about this kind of stuff. I’ve heard some anecdotes about bosses at small startups who just really didn’t know what they were doing, but nothing systematic like this.

Tech isn’t quite a paradise, but compared to finance, or a bunch of other industries, it’s pretty close. The tech media would still have you believe it’s on the same plane though.
It seems like it’d take quite a bit of staring to decipher.
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This has been answered on the net already. Do your research, it takes 2 minutes to find.
It sounds like the numbers they're dealing with may be well beyond what could be controlled by cats. Additionally, they may be wary, as Australia is already a case study in what can happen as a result of introducing one species to control another's population: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toads_in_Australia
Hey, thanks a lot for listening to it.
a laptop is kinda like a shoe though. my friends that buy the cheapest possible laptop always end up replacing it after a couple years. not for performance, but because it broke and repairing it isn't much cheaper than a new throwaway machine. they think they're saving money, but they're really not. a good business laptop will feel slow 5-8 years later, but there's a much better chance that it still works.
What if instead of spending time to train the ML model they just made a dummy client with it’s own simple probabilistic state machine or behaviour tree to balance the game?

How much time and resources would be spent for above mentioned approach compared to ML approach?

I think due to statistical nature of ML, it is seen as kind of an hammer to every problem that might be solved statistically(which there are lots of them) but it might not be the most effective use of engineering resources.
There is speculation that Cloudflare will drop durable objects next week. This appears to be AWS trying to get ahead of that.
Working for a company that also has offices in UK and with team mates in London, the problem is that UK is expensive versus countries relatively close (Eastern Europe) and London is very expensive versus Warsaw, for example, so the demand is not high because companies moved a lot of business out of UK and Western Europe due to cost. In a global world where India and China are cheaper and business can move where they are treated best (taxes and cost of labor), UK is in a very bad spot. Warsaw, Budapest, Bucharest, Ljubljana are close enough and cheap enough to be preferred by companies instead of London.
How does this work?
In the case of Covid, I understand (for some value of "understand") how they can make the cells create virus proteins, which then train the immune system without an actual infection to be ready for when the real virus strikes.
But if someone already has cancer cells, wouldn't all the proteins to train against already be in the body in the first place?
I see no ads, cookie or GDPR popups, no newsletter annoyances, nothing since I set uBlock Origin full nuclear and just ticked all the boxes.
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>While we're on the topic: YouTube, which is inherently a video content viewing service, goes out of its way to obscure the video content. The TV app, the mobile app, and the browser app all insist on overlaying the content with random garbage that no sane human being could possibly be more interested in that the content that they launched with the intention of watching!

Too often I've been unable to decipher what's being shown in the last ~15 seconds of the video because of the end-of-video annotations and recommendations.
"oh buy i gladly pay the apple tax and subject myself to a single apple store with draconian rules for quality products in the entire ecosystem"
Hey, sorry I just realised I forgot to come back to this, here's some feedback:

I think the landing page is really well done - that kind of format can be bad if the content isn't well written but each sentence made me want to read the next so I think you've pulled it off. I do think some visuals to reinforce your message might help (e.g. a graph of willingness to pay vs location, etc.).

My understanding of this is that it's going to sit amongst your pricing code and run experiments to change the price dynamically and return the best result after some time - is that correct? If so, I do wonder why no one has pulled this off particularly well as a SaaS before? (or have they?). I believe that Profitwell for example makes their revenue from consulting.

The other thing is that if my understanding above is correct, what stops the user from just cancelling once you've optimised their pricing and you lose capturing a lot of the value you've created for them (again, you revenue model may be completely different, I don't know).

I would also question whether this kind of thing isn't ultimately solved by the old "talk to you users" thing and understanding what they would pay from that strategy rather than software (at least with purchasing power parity though software + independent research does seem more likely to work since it's hard to talk to people from all over the world).

Ultimately this is the kind of thing I would give a try once I have some moderate amount of revenue and I feel that I've at least figured out who my customers are and can then optimise from there.

Pretty cool anyway, hope it succeeds and I'm in a position to try it out in a few months.
>Ghana's exporters have just been banned from exporting. They are going to go out of business very soon.

This is just refusing to sell to Switzerland. High end chocolate companies are very interested in developing higher quality and more equitable cacao production in other countries, as there is a shortage of high quality cacao.
I know the company I worked for has recently been buying cacao from Ghana, something that they did not previously do.
Working with these kinds of producers is probably far more beneficial than continuing to work with companies mass producing chocolate.
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I once had a cat that lived in a work shed. Almost every day he brought me something dead. I hear you but it was just the logical thought to come to mind that I wondered why individuals didn’t have cats, or what the cats were doing. Granted now I’ve got a cat that can’t be bothered to even chase something, she just ..looks at it.
This is highly country and legal environment dependant. Very difficult to scale.

Often a tradesperson can secure a lien on a property as part of their permit for that job.

If the tradesperson gets paid,then the security on the debt/loan is gone.

In my own case of endless home renovation, a bigger issue is you have to front the workman etc the $$$ to buy the supplies/lumber/etc.
That’s not the point. Once you reach a certain level of income, it goes from “how much do I have to spend for the necessity” to “I can spend more than I need to, because I have enough money to not miss the difference.”
After reading the page, it doesn’t seem too bad. Each corner represents a digit so you read each symbol one corner at a time. Arithmetic wouldn’t even be that different to learn compared to Arabic numerals since each digit still has a specific place.
> Mondale was a pro-labor

Do those laborers include the Nicaraguans (or Americans like Ben Linder) who were massacred by the Contras Mondale advocated funding for so that they could overthrow Nicaragua's democratically elected government?
Agreed, as an midwestern American. Hearing "Georgian", I would think of the country, then the Georgian era (especially regarding architecture) and only then the state.
And funding is the stealing of money (taxes) from individuals, being re-allocated to things bureaucrats like to foster. Hurrah!
And when that catches on, Tesla will start producing cars that look very similar to the ones from other manufacturers, so that people would have to drive carefully around every car as well.
You've claimed ETC was the fork. It wasn't. ETH was the fork, ETC is the original chain.
This feels... silly.

Many of the examples have nothing to do with screen size (e.g. cutting off the bottom of letters or "so much white space"), or are intended ("Dang I can barely see the map" -- well yeah that's because the primary data is the list of results). Many other comments here are listing that many of the supposed issues are the same on large screens too.

I used the original SE and then upgraded to the SE2 and none of this has been any kind of problem.

In fact, almost all of these are great examples of responsive design. Even if you have to scroll a little or some ellipses are shown... they seem to all work.

If this is the worst the author can find of small screens not working... then they seem to have proved the opposite point, that small screens are actually working great.
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I'm not sure why someone downvoted this. No computer science program is going to teach you about seed funding unless they have a very active incubator.

I would imagine very few fresh grads can tell you the difference between an equity round, a CN and a SAFE. Add on top of that add in a general lack of knowledge around contract law.

Hell most founders probably don't realize that they could ever be removed by the board or that the preferred positions held by early round investors could result in nothing for the founder even following a multi million dollar exit.
Or maybe we can realize that npm and webpack are both trash. And we should stop embracing them and move web dev away from this mess.

Don't get me wrong. They were good workaround years ago. But I hope we can do better.
Google also has a trust problem. As in they lose interest in things quickly.

I would only consider them if I need a massive scale of something they are cheaper on, that can quickly be migrated elsewhere.
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So imagine my surprise when staying with friends of my wife in Münster, they had never heard of Muenster cheese. They assured me that it must come from Munster in Ireland because Americans commonly confuse the two. But I was not convinced because the ‘ue’ in the spelling indicated a transliteration from ‘ü’. It was pre-Wikipedia, but luckily our hosts had a copy of ‘Das großes Buch vom Käse’ which let us know we were both wrong. Apparently there is also an Alsatian village named Munster with a distinctive cheese recreated by emigrants to the US.
This is super cool, but like the other deepmind projects it's a bit frustrating. I've got nothing against "we did something hard with AI and it worked well", but would greatly prefer it to be followed with "... and we're making this available as something you can use too!"
That’s a logical fallacy, though...the guy that buys a $20M jet is employing the people that made the jet, advertised it, procured the fuel, built and maintained the airport, fabricated the raw materials that went into making it...the ‘rich guy conspicuously spending money on a jet’ is stimulating the economy in different ways.
I'm always amused at the vendor lock-in conversations.

It's never about technology. It's about cost. If AWS ever priced themselves wildly above Azure or GCP or ___, shit would hit the fan.

Outside of that, who cares if you're locked into one cloud or another? Features? Maybe if you're super picky about Power BI or SQL Server? It's never made any sense to me.

S3 Lambdas look like a solid addition to AWS.
I had a roommate in college that always looked up every word he didn't know in the dictionary. I adopted this method of improving my vocabulary and recommend it to people that wish to have a broader vocabulary.

It is especially easy to use the MacOS dictionary feature by simply right clicking on any word to bring up a context menu to lookup the word.
You can't, when you're on a Mac and your code is bind-mounted into the container. This is the most comfortable method of development for me, and works perfectly on Linux. https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/3677
Software Define Drug? Similar to Software Define Radio.

Not sure if it good or bad...
Same here, my iPhone SE (2016) is still going strong and I can't remember the last time I stumbled upon an app that gave me enough sizing issues to become frustrating. What I would've given for the 2020 SE to be the same size as the 2016, being able to do everything on my phone one-handed is such a nice perk.
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I'm not pumping anything. I haven't shilled for anything. I've never told you to buy anything.

But if you believe ETH is the original chain, you're simply wrong -- and technically you are actually the one shilling ETH.

Yes, I have ADA and XTZ, both of which are far superior in technology to ETH. I have a bunch of others as well (not ETC or ETH). I'm not telling anyone to buy anything, certainly not on my word. In fact I generally tell people NOT to get involved if they're asking questions because they're just going to lose money. Everybody jumping into ADA at 1.25 going "it must go up since it went on coinbase yesterday!!" might just get destroyed. Or they might not, who knows. I'm not in it for the money, I'm in it for the technology. Always have been.
I thought I was the only one. They boil my piss.

I’m not sure which is the more annoying aesthetic:

- mousing across the screen and accidentally passing over an item that on-hovers a giant div in front of what you were trying to access

- expecting a click to expand and click, but it hovers, and now you’ve clicked, so you’re going to some random page you didn’t intend to

Ok, I can go about my weekend now that this is off my chest.

:)
You should talk to someone at Parler.
Why unite when you can have significant performance and battery time gains, depending on the use case? Unification isn‘t the holy grail. There is a reason we use a fork to pick up food and a spoon to eat soup. Both could be done with a spork, but there are reasons it‘s not done that way.
Unless the discussion is about slavery, in which case, fair enough.
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An Android app that demonstrates your predictable actions, especially when trying to act quickly:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quantifiedclick.rpsrandomnesstrainer

The premise is that you cannot both be random and fast at the same time.
To be fair I reached £130k at 26 without a degree by working remotely for a company in the Bay Area - it’s not impossible but you do have to prioritise money. Ended up giving it up for a lower salary that’s more interesting work anyway; ended up money wasn’t everything!
> the web makes it far easier to invade privacy and deploy dark patterns, while that behavior typically is checked by the app store

Disagree. One reason sites want me to use their app is because I can’t block trackers. I wont use native apps if there is a web alternative BECAUSE i value privacy.
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demoscene reason d'etre is antithetical to museums. But i think this is very fitting for a time when, as you say, "we are losing more and more control over the hardware and software that we buy"

This may be a huge ego trip or pure gatekeeping, but I never wrote anything that I expected people to run, look at the pretty pixels, and be done.

You cannot be truly impressed if you don't know the effort to put that art into a tiny file or abuse the hardware in ways never seen before. If you never fired a debugger or other development/reverse engineering tool, then you missed most it had to offer. And IMHO you never connected to the artist in any way.
Like coffee, this seems to be the better business model. Higher quality rather than quantity.
There is a great demand for high quality cacao and high end chocolate makers have been organizing for a while to develop quality cacao production in the producing companies. While it has largely been occurring in Central and South America, I have no doubt that people are looking to reproduce this success in Africa and elsewhere, which is good for both the workers and the chocolate makers.
The sooner exploitative makers of low quality chocolate are pushed out of the industry, the better. Europe's reputation as a maker of high quality chocolate may still endure, but it is far less the case now. The state of the art has rapidly been eclipsed by smaller producers in the 21st century.
I don’t think people working like that in their 20s is a prediction of how they’ll work in their 40s.

We have some kind of superpower in our 20s. You can work like dogs all day and night and still be productive in the morning.

Biologically speaking it’s probably because those are prime child rearing years and that effort is needed to raise children. Instead Goldman Sachs gets those years. Hopefully it was worth it to all in the grind.
God forbid your cursor leaves the third hover menu and it all vanishes before your eyes.
Cats are incredibly efficient hunters. I’d venture that 1-2 per household would quickly make a huge difference in the population, although a good number of those would have to be outdoor / barn / feral cats to have along term effect.

Disneyland has roughly 400 cats that keep the park largely rodent free, which is a minor miracle given the amount of food there is there.
Anecdotally: I've never seen a "simple state machine" or "simple behaviour tree" in game AI. We've recently started using deep reinforcement learning for our games and its almost like a miracle how simple, effective and scalable the system is. There are some mentioned problems like designing rewards for player enjoyment, but its definitely got a massive reduction in engineering effort.
Aren't you just describing a package manager or an app store?

The reason mobile app stores are garbage is that the store is glued to the platform, making it high-friction to switch to another one if they do a bad job. Then they do a bad job by allowing things you don't want and prohibiting things you do want (and charging high fees etc.) and get away with it.

There is no reason for this to be centralized into a single approver. If you got 90% of your software through the Debian package manager but specifically need a newer version of Blender than they package, you could get that in particular directly from the Blender developers because you trust them not to intentionally distribute malicious code, while still relying on the package maintainers to do the work for all the other software you use.

That's possible right now on Linux. The problem is mostly that it's not possible right now on everything.
I agree that this guy losing his job over something he says at a bar is a prime example of right wing cancel culture.
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Perhaps he’s an ambitious person with both great successes and great failures, and people admire that?
That’s the core problem. Is there a specialized service you can submit your app to to test for guideline adherence?
A malicious bot developer can just compile their own browser and set the flag to be true
The discussions that day: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-10-05
I’ve never heard praise for electron, though that could be the crowd I associate with. Electron apps are the worst of both worlds; it’s so bad that I’m willing to open a web browser if electron is the other option.
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