skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vanilla Skyrim is an especially annoying specimen in this category, because it has this weird "S curve". With low levels most enemies are way stronger than you (ok, that's good, a level 5 player shouldn't be able to defeat city guards, for example), then there is a "growth phase" up to ~level 40-70ish (depending on play style) where the player is on par or better than NPCs, and after that the player's abilities level off and NPCs continue to grow stronger, so a high level player has a hard time again against NPCs of a class that she could previously defeat easily.

Which makes no sense at all.

Luckily for Skyrim the game thrives on mods anyway.
Launch HN: Butleroy – Your butler for more productivity
Hey all!

Today we announced Butleroy 4.0 on Product Hunt and the App Store.

We are glad to share Butleroy for the first time on HN with all of you. With Butleroy you can combine your calendar and to-dos. It also has a smart scheduling feature so your to-dos get automatically planned for you. Furthermore you can integrate your favorite apps such as Todoist (similar to one of the most amazing calendar apps there was – Sunrise). You can use the smart scheduling feature of Butleroy to automatically get a time and date for your to-dos. This helps a lot to fight procrastination.

We would really appreciate your feedback and ideas on how we can improve Butleroy. Keep in mind that basically anything that has an API can be integrated to Butleroy and make use of the smart scheduling feature. We are planning on integrations such as Trello, Outlook or even IoT devices and sensors.

TL;DR
We are launching Butleroy 4.0 today. The app comes with automatically scheduled to-dos, smart filter options for your calendar and Todoist integration.

Additional info:
[Website] https://butleroy.com
[Product Hunt] https://www.producthunt.com/posts/butleroy-4-0
I am European too (French) and having "secret" database/file of journalist is happening without and outcry about it.

There is at least one journalist who has the infamous "Fiche S". This one is not illegal, but contain basically whatever the police want to put on it, which can be a stretch from reality. The deletion of the fiche was also refused [0].

Then we got at least one journalist who had, illegally this time, a file by the military [1]. Even though the file is illegal, she was refused access to it.

And then, even for basic citizen, there is police files (STIC), which can contain whatever the police wants to put on it and has been leaked several time, for example, to employer like Ikea [2]. It also happened to famous people to have their file leak [3].

Has European, we like to think we do much better than the US when it comes to abusive surveillance, but the reality is we basically kind of do the same.

[0] https://twitter.com/GaspardGlanz/status/1101150475787866112

[1] https://lesjours.fr/obsessions/vie-jours/ep47-camille-pollon...

[2] https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/secrets-d-info/secrets-...

[3] https://www.bfmtv.com/societe/fiches-police-johnny-jamel-div...
Communism Is Returning to China
These sorts of things normally come and go. So the thing that is currently on top is going to show the greatest decline. There isn't really a lot of analysis required. The implication that something like Facebook might be good for the ages is kinda nuts.
For anyone trying to understand this better, jump to the Help introduction:

https://spritestack.io/editor/help/#introduction

It helps at least a little.

But unfortunately this is yet another site where the home page doesn't seem to give much context if you're not already part of whatever community it is. (What's sprite stacking? How is it different for a voxel editor? What need does this site meet that hasn't been met by other things?)
I don't have pics anywhere. That's all in Photos app/ iCloud. It's very cheap, something like $1 per month.

I use Backblaze to backup everything to cloud.
Excellent. Thanks. I have been looking for exactly this type of software. Trying it now!
It depends on how you see it, half full or fully full, your mood is much better, you run and jump and play and make sports like a champ like better then Ever and you enjoy the life the beach and the sun, so it sounds like your mood have changed for much better, but...

you speak with the birds and the trees around the streets the parks and the beaches, so it sounds like the mental health changed for worse, but...

anyway, no matter how you see it , it changed for a much happier life
I would argue that x86's dominance is actually Intel's dominance. Intel just has a very good tactical position in terms of high-performance hardware. Intel is a better source for hardware reliability, platform reliability, logistics and being able to deliver in volume, mostly already has existing contracts in place, and is still one of the leaders in performance. Even AMD - which makes x86 hardware and should be the most easy to transition to - has trouble getting more than single digit market share gains despite making a mostly superior product performance wise for the first time in more than a decade.

Apple is affected the least by this Intel lock-in, since they are the biggest seller of high-performance hardware to consumers and are capable of doing their own support infrastructure. Moreover, they have been heavily investing and building up a very successful own processor unit themselves. Finally, Apple has famously transitioned their entire hardware platform multiple times already when it felt like their current hardware plaform didn't suit them strategically. They've shown to be capable of supporting their own oddball hardware platforms before Intel, when they were a lot smaller still. Given Apple's level of control over their own technology and Intel's recent stagnation, I think it's very likely Apple wants to move in this direction if they are capable of doing it from a business perspective.

The Mac Pro might be a bold product to begin with since it's so focused on professional users and Apple is really peculiar about having a bold vision an the high-end desktop. It would also be clear signal of their strategy to transition the Mac Pro to this new architecutre. The reason I threw in that sentence about economy of scale is that the high-end desktop is a small market for Apple, and it might not be worth for them to make large workstation class chips for such a market. Especially considering that Intel's high-end Xeon W-line is based on the exact same silicon as Intel's high end servers, and therefore Intel just makes a lot more high end chips than Apple would.

Of course, Apple would be able to work around this with a chiplet architecture like AMD is doing, but I feel that we're already too far in speculation territory.
That’s not a “threat”, that’s how representative democratic governments work in most places. A threat is an upending of the usual mechanisms.
Can you give an example of when or where a large scale political or organisational system like that has operated successfully?
Indeed, usually optimizing for size is optimizing for speed (less cache pressure, deeper pipelines, etc.)
My two anecdotes are unrelated, sorry. My boss estimates how many people are on meds because many tell him they are on meds.
For the record, I agree with you. I'm personally opposed to this line of thought, I'm just devil's advocating what the executive branch and legislature has and will argue.
That some poor guys are trying to get to your country doesn't mean much, this can be said about most countries in the world these days in some way or the other. Its not easy, and often even feasible for people to move their life, probably forever, half around the world. I claim from my experience that most americans have no clue how life is different compared to say some western europe country. You can't grasp it from internet, nor few days tourist visit.

And another claim - if they knew, and moving would be painless easy cheap weekend effort, you would see much of US population move out someplace better, mainly those with lower incomes.

Its really THAT different. Less pressure for monetary success and pressures in general, much less crime, system generally helps you much more when you hit the bottom, healthcare is a topic on its own and so on. US used to be great place although never easy. Then it got OK. Now, if I would be moving, I would consider every single continent, including Antarctica as new home rather than US. And I am stating this as a person who in every country I lived so far belonged in say top 5% earners in population, and I would be a very much OK in US too.
I would double down on WebGPU given it was based upon Apple Metal API. BTW, canvas was a web clone of Core Graphics, more or less.
I wonder if all the work to make ZFS compatible with Linux will help make it more portable to other platforms as well. I really want to be able to use it on OpenBSD, but the prospects were very low last time I checked.
first world problem : "UGH my charging connector is big and ugly!" hahaha
I haven't read the paper, but it could be that the 0.02% difference is not statistically significant.[1][2]

Say you pick two groups of people from a population, two groups of 10 000 people at random.

Imagine then that you count the proportion of autistic people in each group. You might get say, 0.15% in group A and 0.14% in group B.

If by chance the people in groups A and B had been partitioned differently between the two groups, i.e.: if enough autistic people in group A had instead ended up in group B, you can easily imagine that the numbers would change. Or even that they could flip.

Some differences between the two were simply due to random chance. Statistical significance is a concept used to try to tease apart how much of an effect is due to a suspected cause (vaccination in this case) vs chance.

Now in the case of this study, you might say, well there was no other way to partition the data, since all the vaccinated kids had to go in group A. While this is true, if autism has a different cause or causes than the partitions you chose effectively, your partitioning into groups would still be random with respect to the true cause of autism.

So to 'prove'[3] whether a vaccines cause autism, we would prefer to see large effect sizes, which would strongly suggest that the effect is due to the cause we suspected.

If instead, we had seen numbers like this: group A 15% and group B 7% then you could argue that the effect size is large enough to go beyond the effect caused by the sampling.

Mathematical techniques in statistics and probability theory exist which allow you to choose a threshold (p value) in order to consider an effect to be statistically significant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_significance

[2] https://towardsdatascience.com/statistical-significance-hypo...

[3] 'Prove' in quotes, because you can't really prove cause and effect using a study like this. To get closer to proof, you'd need an experiment where the conditions are specifically assigned to each group.
I don’t understand. They have drones carrying semen... are they... raping the female birds with drones?
I basically have two trees:

1. Software; organized by domain name in ~/software, containing all git repositories I work on (~/software/github.com/user/repo)

2. Documents; stored in ~/Nextcloud, synced with a server. In there, I have a nested system of Johnny Decimals (https://johnnydecimal.com) - nested, because I manage multiple projects which itself use that format again, so

~/Nextcloud/10-19 Companies/10 Company A
~/Nextcloud/10-19 Companies/11 Company B
~/Nextcloud/10-19 Companies/12 Company C

My desktop is my temp folder, everything on there will be "resolved" within a day or two.

This way, I have all my documents synced and available on all my devices. I do not use Finder tags but rely heavily on Spotlight search.
> The code runs on a variety of platforms [...] eventually the Web (when the browsers gain support for the API, which is also in our scope of work).

Have the big three confirmed intent to support WebGPU?

Also, what is the state of WebGL backend support for gfx-rs? I'm watching [0] eagerly. That would be a great practical step towards gfx-rs in browsers today.

0 - https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx/pull/2554
Announcing: JMeter to k6 JavaScript converter tool
Those won’t open portals to the ancient alien homeworld, they just sit on the ground on Earth and look cool.
If it's a numeric PIN I don't use very often, I save as a phone contact. For example, in my country our phone number have 9 digits, so if my PIN is 1234 I save it as: 985061234 under a relative or fake name.
This is argumentum ad verecundiam, an appeal to authority (a logical fallacy that in no way backs up what you are saying), and not a very good one.
they probably do this every day. At this level, it would have needed to be packaged similar to the way the NSA tools were.

A package of tools that comes on a hardened usb key, just plug it in in the field and it runs through the 0days that it knows about.
Definitely agree. It's easy for people to mix them up but we need to be clear.

I absolutely loooove ZoL and run it on all cluster nodes. Proxmox works beautifully with it. I really hope ZFS for Linux and the kernel can get along, because ZoL greatly enriches Linux usability in storage needs.
On the subject of small code: embedded folk have to do this sort of thing all the time. Put a wifi AP and client on a tiny processor with 1Mb of flash/256K of RAM. Host a web site so the user can configure the device. Contact a cloud server for continuous IoT provisioning. And perform whatever function the device does.
This is an amazing post and one that every person who has released public works should read, including open-source maintainers.

The basic gist of it is that a game developer, Jason, released a game in the public domain for free. Some mobile developers from the company DualDecade released it on the App Store with the exact naming as the title and did not bother to highlight that it was an unofficial derivative work made by Jason. Game becomes very popular. Jason receives various emails wanting him to change the game. Jason requests that DualDecade change the name.

It draws attention to the fine lines between copyright, commercial communication, plagiarism, naming and more. I will be following this very closely. Will the creative commons licence that Jason chose hold weight, especially as it wasn't CC-BY? I guess we'll find out.
Got tired of buying coffee makers that always burned out. A drip cone is the easiest to clean, never breaks.
That's how I like my file systems updates, anything not particularly noteworthy.
On workloads that scale well with core count (like video) that should be trivial. You go with 4x the cores and 4x the power and you're there. The software industry has been struggling for decades to make it easier to write multi-threaded code and has been making inroads only recently for software that isn't trivial to parallelize.
> So what's wrong with the wartime playbook? We're at war.

You're always at war.
I don’t know if Tesla’s can do 250kw but that car was maxing out at 155kw charging and averaging below that. Which is my point, getting an affordable car well past 250kw charging is going to be difficult.
like any "internet review", the outliers are going to dominate the conversation. the drugs either saved the person's life or they had terrible side effects (or both).

that said, a concerning issue with antidepressants is that doctors don't really understand how or why they work. the condition they treat, depression, is also not very well understood and does not seem to have a single root cause. out of twenty or so major drugs, a doctor has very little ability to predict which one will work for a particular patient. when you put all these factors together, being prescribed drugs for depression feels a lot more like "pulling random levers until something works" than most other forms of medical treatment.

I don't share your suspicion that most of this is alternative-medicine shilling. enough of my close friends have experienced the same positive and negative effects described here that I will take most accounts as genuine.
About 1.9 million deaths in the US. About 45K or 2% of those are suicides.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

And people here are saying that is the national emergency?

The US is nowhere near the top in terms of suicide rates in the world.

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

If we really wanted to help people, we'd focus more on heart disease, diabetes, etc. But I guess we don't want to tackle the food industry, soda industry, process food industry, etc.

I don't who is behind all the "alcohol, drugs, suicide" scaremongering. But I have a sneaking suspicion that the "solution" will be pump people with more pharmaceuticals.

I'm not saying suicide is not a terrible thing, but it certainly isn't a "national emergency" compared to heart disease, strokes, cancer or diabetes.
Emacs with dired; also on Linux and all Bsd’s
Because 0-days are accessible to anyone with money. And Ernst and Young would have a ton of money, and plenty of opportunities where clients would come to them and hire them privately about issues like this.

Coming up with 0-days is moderately hard with your own cracking team. Buying them is an easy thing to do.

Ultimately, that's what 0-days are for in the wider market. You find one and sell it.
EasyFind by Devon is a great search app too, and it's free.

https://www.devontechnologies.com/products/freeware.html
Strictly speaking ARM hasn't stood for anything since 1998 or so when it rebranded itself as part of going public (before which it had a period of being Advanced RISC Machines, though it did start as Acorn RISC Machines). Indeed it's now "Arm" and not an initialism at all...
Right, but any given mechanism (gerrymandering for example) is vastly more likely to be upended by Americans than it would be to be upended by foreign powers. From the perspective of the mechanism, Americans are the biggest threat, to the point where none of the others really matter. That's why policymakers are working so hard to undermine the public's authority.
That’s a pretty good reason to stay on 4.x IMO. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

Optionally, we may expect distros like Ubuntu simply reverse that change to not ruin their own packages.

Also...

> My tolerance for ZFS is pretty non-existant.

Greg seems like a really pragmatic, nice and agreeable chap. Bet he’s a big hit at parties.
For those who missed it, I assume this was somewhat inspired by this project, which is building a small text editor without curses.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14046446
There is a fairly large archive under the torrent crossref-pre-1909-scholarly-works, which contains pre-1909 works and is public domain. I didn't grab that one but it should be easy to find with any search engine.

There is also lots on archive.org!
Whatever makes the most money.
Their in house brands are a large and growing part of the marketplace, so it's not quite right to claim they're moving away from being a direct retailer. Perhaps "retailer of other brands" is where they're moving away from but even that I'm not positive there's been any meaningful change of late.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is also a "real" word in Welsh.
The recent(ish) comment from FreeBSD seemed to suggest it doesn't. If I recall correctly they are switching to ZoL because it receives more frequent bug fixes but they expect to have just as much work porting each update to FreeBSD as they currently do with the Illumos builds.
I really don't understand why more people in this generation don't run their own strip mining operations for processor fabrication anymore. It's incredibly helpful in both understanding just how many man hours go into a single google search as well as teaching one how to get the most performance out of every last electron.
Even their house brands are sometimes outsourced - its been reported here that counterfeits occur even among them.
Update: we're listed on https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/?batch=w2019 now
Except that nearly all the RISCs have a 16-bit instruction extension which brings their instruction density nearly equal to the CISCs' one.
And the decoding remain much simpler than the CISC's one.

That said ForwardCom blur the bondary between CISC and RISC..
At this point, what's Oracle getting from not making ZFS GPL?

They have their own RHEL derivative, would it make life easier for them as well (having an external community committed to keeping ZFS in the kernel tree)?
No matter what, if you are comparing SIMD to non SIMD, that isn't any sort of a comparison between CPU architectures.
OP misses a CRITICAL intermediate step in the handbrewing process:

SMELLING the freshly ground coffee beans before brewing.

Shameful.
Why do poor school kids have to clean up rich commuters’ pollution?
Stupid question, but who pays for the electricity at supercharger stations?
The problem for me is they only support Windows currently - I'd love for a fast 8CX machine that ran Linux. The closest thing right now is the OP1/RK3399 in some of the mainline Chromebooks but I'm not sure if those have full Linux support yet.
This is interesting but I don't think I fully understand. Do you mind dumbing it down for me?
GPU Orchestration Using Docker
I’m excited about this one. Being able to compile to native with `mvn package -Pnative` sounds awesome.
Funny that my entire life that's been the only way I would drink coffee. My parents would make it that way and I was doing it that way when I started drinking coffee. I guess that the fact that electric coffee makers were not popular nor cheap at the time contributed to this habit.

Besides, you can tell me what you want but I think the coffee from an electric coffee maker tastes worse than hand brewing. Perhaps I've only used cheap coffee makers, but I'm yet to find one that can make a drinkable coffee. Exceptions are espresso makers;the ones I tried made really good coffee (including the one I currently have at home).
Abu Ghraib, Administrative Evil, and Moral Inversion [pdf]
iPhone Can Do What?
The most important software dev skills aren’t technical
This is what real treason looks like.
You simply don't learn anything real from rich and famous in social media unless it's negative like showing lack of impulse control.

Using Reddit casually can be person being casual or it can be well calculated "using Reddit casually" PR strategy. With people like Gates or Schwarzenegger it's definitely partly very good PR.

u/thisisbillgates shows how to use social media to do PR, promote things you want to promote in very smart and engaging way. Gates knows that everything he says with that handle will be noticed and archived even if he does it in seemingly low key way.

If he really wants to be low key, he uses his alternate account.
While it doesn't benefit you in the long term and you run risk of being blames as others have said. Try contacting the government considering they seem to utilize their services. I think they're much more likely to take it seriously.
German Watchdog Slaps Down Tesla Pricing Practices
Interesting that Soviet republics figure so heavily on the top of that list. And they uniformly have huge male:female ratios.

Also that Japan, notorious for a suicide culture, is only 30th. Maybe if they counted all the murders made to look like suicide, they would be further up.
Well, yes. If I have nothing to say to someone directly, I do not call them but I also do not spray message everything I have to say to everyone on Facebook.
Headline says "rate of death", implying a correction for total population.
giving up alcohol is doing wonders for me too
You do realize the CIA was responsible for the Snowden NSA leaks (their direct adversary that has the legal authority to bulk collect data on American communication networks) because they are also implicated in massive umbrella surveillance of American and foreign communications, and not for a legal purpose.
I'm not sure what population has to do with it. The headline and the PDF itself talk about the rate of death — the text refers to deaths per 100,000 throughout.