skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It happens in most genres, e.g. it's especially bad in roguelikes, where luring enemies to doors is a common tactic.

This is something I've really struggled with in my own roguelike where despite spending a ton of time on interesting procedural level generation and somewhat sophisticated monster AI, the gameplay often devolves to:

1. Peek out of a corridor until one monster notices you.

2. Retreat back into corridor where monster follows.

3. Dispatch.

4. Goto 1.

It's just not that fun. I think the real core game design issue this highlights, that crops up in a lot of places is when the optimal play style is not an enjoyable play style. It puts players in an unfun position of having to deliberately play "worse" to have more fun, but they feel like they're "cheating" the game or forced to do more meta-cognition than they want.

Here's some ideas I've had for my roguelike to try to address this (most of which I haven't had a chance to implement yet):

1. Put more cover and interesting decor inside rooms so that there are more interesting tactics available in there than in corridors and so that heroes don't get surrounded as much. In particular, half-cover tiles that can't be walked through be permit range weapons to go over aid the hero if they have a ranged attack and monsters don't because then they can pick off monsters while not being attacked in return.

2. Give monsters the ability to pick up or destroy loot. So if you see some treasure in the room the clock is ticking to get it before the monsters do.

3. Give monsters a "home" tile that they try to stay near. So they won't chase you too far into a corridor.

4. Make monsters wake up other nearby monsters.

5. Make monsters smart enough to not pursue the hero if other monsters aren't also chasing.

6. Give the hero more area effect attacks. This means they are less effective in corridors. This is one I really like and have implemented. In particular, I gave each weapon category a special attack that will hit multiple monsters across a couple of tiles. But that only works if there is enough open space to take advantage of it. The good thing about this is that instead of preventing (through smarter AI) or punishing (through things like closing doors before the player) the corridor strategy, it instead rewards going into open spaces.
That and it's dead easy to write a bot.
Wrocław?
Pro players of DOTA 2 still complain about pathfinding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-to-gas is probably feasible for consumer energy use (at least for people with room for solar panels). We have the facilities to store and distribute the gas already, and to the extent that additional storage would be necessary, it is fairly economical.

Replacing industrial and shipping energy with renewables is a bigger problem.
Couldn’t you say the same thing about the standard camera app on Android and iOS? People have it open all the time.
That halving will make variable renewables much more effective: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/8/9/20767886...
An earlier version was open source.

https://github.com/wting/hackernews
https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/tree/5409fc74fdd6a0502...
> Anyone know the language design rationale behind the way Java does it?

Because C did it, because Algol did it, because Fortran did it, because that is how assembly code works. Expressions require code to be compiled to something that uses a temporary value stack (or equivalent, like what some continuation-passing style compilers do by allocating values from garbage-collected memory), which, along with subroutines, was an exotic technology well into the 1960s.
Having short days in the winter, long days in the summer isnt a UK specific thing. As you get closer to the equator it may become less of a problem as summer air con load overtakes winter heating as the dominant load, but we are talking about large swathes of the planet that will have higher heating demand that can't reasonably be covered by solar power alone.
It would almost have been worth making a temporary account in the name of John Dillinger for the first post.
Most of the ones I have seen have gates

(I'm in the US)
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I like the concept of Signal but Telegram has some great features like usernames and public chat groups. In the end, better encryption by itself (Telegram rolled their own) loses out over function.

Also, the owners of Telegram are not on good terms with the Russian government (its been banned before).
"The Vault is our[FBI] new FOIA Library, containing 6,700 documents and other media that have been scanned from paper into digital copies so you can read them in the comfort of your home or office"

this is a general repository of FBI FOIA requests and releases
Good trick. A little easier: divide by 10 first and then double four times.
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> Now games are just a way for you to spend money in loot boxes

Remember arcades?
> In the UK at least the housing market is completely and utterly broken.

Yes, and this seems true in basically all the similar-ish countries too. (It's 100% broken in the the vast majority of the US and Canada. It looks like it's mostly broken in Australia and New Zealand too)
It is absolutely a combination of "the widest audience" and "engagement = money". The part that really jumps out at me is how often I'm trading a real-life grind for a grind in say... Overwatch for loot boxes. It used to be better.
According to the Bureau of Transportation, there are 211,631 at grade crossings in the US [1]. At $35 million a crossing, that's $7.4 trillion.

[1] https://www.bts.gov/content/highway-rail-grade-crossings-typ...
Kary Mullis, inventor of PCR, has died
"I really like Telegram. It being a secure messenger would make it perfect".

I'm not really snarking at you; a lot of things would be better if they were also secure messengers; Slack is an obvious example.
There’s a school of design thought that enumerating a bunch of stuff is itself to blame for dull gameplay.

As an alternative, consider that many of the best maps in games (1) were authored by the players/community and (2) had a competitive market (like choosable servers). Eg Dust 2 and the original DoTA map.

A poor comparison, yes, but you’ll learn from the design of big community competitive FPS maps. There are lots of ways to improve encounter design in “classic” FPSs. Or maybe just the process of building the level needs to change.
Heh, I have a hunch that the ‘golden age of games’ is, for everyone, when they were 18-24!
Super cool. It even worked for me at night, although I was walking down a brightly lit major street.

I wonder if it could work in a dark alley or do indoor navigation in malls.
So, more like "savour the moment"?
End-to-end encryption only encrypts messages in-transit.

The messages are still available in plaintext at either endpoint, and to the companies if they want them.

Facebook already publicly announced that they are going to use their AI to scan whatsapp messages for content violations (prior to encryption).
I've only been to an escape room once. It was a birthday gift. It was pretty awesome. There were 5 of us. We had an Alice in wonderland themed room, well three rooms in total. It was a lot of fun, we all worked together, as far as i remember each of us ended up solving at least one puzzle. It was like a real life co op point and click adventure game. I'd definitely recommend it at least once if you can get a small group together.
I'm not sure why the performance benefits hit a limit with 10 workers on a 64-core machine. It doesn't look like there should be too much communication complexity given largely disjoint workloads.

Are we hitting memory/IO bottlenecks?
Yes, you are correct, but it's not only order book but also trades, liquidations etc- full market data replay. If you trade on higher time frame, it's not that useful, you can use daily OHLC data,but for intraday and more HFT algo strategies it may be handy. General common knowledge is that order book is noise and fake data mostly but I disagree - check out https://www.reddit.com/r/highfreqtrading/comments/av5c4m/mar... for some ideas why such data is useful.
Maybe I'm naive but I'm surprised to learn there is much of a 2nd hand market for 9000 series -class network hardware. I would have assumed that the huge complexity in managing a device like that without cisco support, alongside the difficulty in sourcing replacement parts for an EOL system built around redundancy, would make it very unattractive compared to a newer mid-range alternative. Are people really using unsupported hardware like this in their network?!

Disclaimer: I work for Nokia, we also make big switches, I believe we have a similar licensing model for certain products.
> than the new Tesla Roadster coming next year

I admire your optimism. I'll buy a 2020 roadster if it's anywhere close to what they describe and released any time soon; but I'm skeptical. (They also need to put a real steering wheel on it.) But I'm thinking it's not anywhere close to their top priority right now and that 2020 may end up being optimistic.

But if they get it out there, it's targeted right on top of the 911 Turbo. Same price, same 2+2 configuration, higher performance, similar utility. Will be interesting to see what happens here. Too bad Tesla is trying to go downmarket. If they were staying more up-market I'd feel more confidence in this car coming out on time.
You are apparently looking at this from the perspective of the victims only, but the burglars were also armed and shooting. They have been arrested for it: "... charges including first-degree burglary, conspiracy, shooting with intent to kill and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony" [Oklahoma News 4, emphasis mine]

> good mass shootings in with other bad mass shootings

I'd certainly say that's better methodology than trying to define "good" and "bad" mass shootings and then only list the "bad" ones. (I don't quite see what's good about this shooting anyway, but I suppose you mean that the crime was stopped.)
> Psychosomatic diseases are a real thing though. You can have real physical symptoms.

+1. Several people at work have reported that "The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain" helped their wrist pain go away.

YMMV. But just as doctors shouldn't dismiss the idea symptoms are due to a "real" (read: physical) condition, folks suffering shouldn't dismiss the idea they can be cured (or greatly improved) through non-physical means, even if there is some physical origin.

I haven't tried this book myself. I've had wrist/forearm/hand problems (weakness, tingling/numbness, pain, loss of flexibility, diagnosed as carpal tunnel and tendonitis), but they largely went away before I'd heard of the book. I think a bunch of things helped me, including wrist exercises suggested by a physical therapist, TENS (administered by the physical therapist), time, Qi Gong, meditation/relaxation techniques (I'd always had a lot of muscle tension, including tension headaches), and (later on) resuming rock climbing and weight lifting. So some combination of physical and mental changes.
My routine reminder that Signal doesn't have these features because they genuinely care about privacy and metadata security, and will withhold basic messaging app features until they know how to provide them without (a) creating a database of every pair of communicating users that they retain serverside and (b) leaking information about conversations to traffic analysis. See: user profiles, GIF sharing, both with really interesting explanations of how Signal ultimately figured out how to implement these features.

It does make Signal a little less usable than some other messengers, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't use Slack a lot more than Signal. But this is also why Signal is what I use when the secrecy of what I'm talking about actually matters.
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(and why is this a pdf? it's not even published
> offensive options that favor aggressive moves over defensive moves

Doom (2016) did this fairly well. It had a "glory kill" system, where getting very close to an enemy after doing a bit of damage to it would let you finish it off, and guarantee that it'd drop health for you. It also had a special melee weapon which would guarantee ammo drops when used. Then it also had mostly non-hitscan attacks by enemies, so you could dodge most attacks.

This all combined to make a legitimately sensible strategy when low on health and ammo be running in a zig-zag at enemies, and effectively punished you for hanging back and trying to hide behind static cover.
They have end to end encryption available but off by default because it affects searching (they can't index your chat if they don't know what you said).

Since your average users would be fine with this, it seems fair to have it as an optional feature.
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I think it's a cheap offer. If you are a professional well introduced in the business of selling 0days, for a gem like that, you can charge even a single customer of the same amount. Indeed there are private companies offering even more (https://www.securityweek.com/zerodium-offers-2-million-ios-h... )! Ok, companies involved in this business have some "safeguard" clauses in case the hole is discovered too soon (see for example the Hacking Team e-mails), but you can sell this kind of vulnerability practically to everyone. So the offer IMHO is a public relation move.
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What you don't know can't hurt you :P Abstraction layers are good when it feels that way though.
> or look pretty on a wall

or defend their owners, or hunt, or...

If I had to bet, I'd say at least 25% of US guns have been used within the past year, and 99.9% of those will not have been used to kill others.
Yes, also there is no way to get historical order book data via exchanges APIs
I didn't do a good enough job with the analogy. The main problem I want to illustrate is that if the key falls into the wrong hands (which is extremely easy to do), then anyone else can easily enter anyone's home.

There are two main issues: government abusing its power, and weakening security of everybody. I meant to focus more on the second.
I gave it a shot. Here is my feedback:

1- It doesn't recgonize my voice very well. I know that my accent is not that good, but Google has around 9~% accuracy. This had maybe 10%!

2- Why a VSCode plugin? Why not make it at the OS level. So I can type with my voice anywhere I want.

3- Being able to customize the commands myself.
Google uses AI along with the camera to correct the compass. If they could integrate this correction with their standard compass API it would be a game changer.

As a side note, the API docs in both Android and iOS fail to mention how unreliable the compass outputs are!
> I would argue that it's a math thing, not an assembly thing.

When you have a type system and boolean types, equating 0 and false is not a "math thing," it is more of a "mathematical illiteracy" thing.
this has to do with globalized movement and brain drain towards major metropolises from everywhere around the world rather than with robotization of anything.
Yes, and I still play.... not even remotely comparable... we are talking about games you play at home.

In games you give a coin to play in establishment, aka rent a machine for a given time. Pretty clear. Before that you had pinballs, pool halls, and more. Same concept, but everyone was equal and progression was dependent on your skill.

With today loot boxes a you pay "for something random" so you can get some kind of desirable upgrade, or advantage, otherwise you will have to grind your way to the game...
Barely. The temperature of the earth is a function of the balance between energy inputs and energy outputs. The solar input is much much more power than total human utilization, so adding "human" amounts of power won't shift the balance very much.
Maybe it's because I've become older, but I feel that games of the 1990s and early 2000s were easier to pick up. There was no need to invest in world building or complex mechanics. You just picked up the game and started playing.

Like I tried the latest Need for Speed. It's got this whole artifice about you being a racer and you drive around a city to join races.

Back when I played Need for Speed a lot (especially NFS 2, 3 and 4), the games had no such pretention. You just started the game, picked up a mode and started racing. The games never felt compelled to tell you how to feel or think.
And gun owners know the demonization of guns is bullshit. Perhaps we could find common cause against government - mandated disarmament instead of trying to shift the blame elsewhere?
> 0-60 is pretty useless

I completely disagree. Quarter mile times with terminal speed over 100 is useless. 10/10 at the limit adhesion differences are useless. 0-60 is useful almost every time you get in the car.

Nicest part about an EV? You pretty much get to choose your lane if you are first at the stop light. No making loud engine noises. Just floor the accelerator and choose what lane you want. That's the most practice performance metric out there in daily driving.
> Here's some ideas I've had for my roguelike to try to address this

Also consider making some monsters lie in ambush, where they try to stay hidden until the hero is in a good position (for the enemy).
If what they say is 5% true they would have raised $50m seed rather than $4.5m.
I can't edit my comment anymore, but I'd like to point out that I'm not commenting on what people's behavior should be, but that there's a generational difference between people who always trust the app and do what it says versus people who are willing to consider the actual conditions. People over 40 don't treat directions the same anymore. Maybe they're wrong to question the app. That wasn't really the point. The point was, like the OP article, that "the app" has changed our relationship to spatial orientation and navigation.
[Daniel Kahneman]... sat down for a long discussion with Sam Harris recently to talk about his life’s work. Harris asked Kahneman if he himself is any different given what he understands about science after five decades of research. Kahneman’s response may surprise you:

> Not at all. In terms of my intuitions being better than they were — no. And furthermore, I have to confess, I’m also very overconfident. Even that I haven’t learned. It’s hard to get rid of those things.

> I’ve been studying that stuff for over 50 years and I don’t think that my intuitions have really significantly improved.

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2019/03/daniel-kahneman-on-...
There were a bunch of (online) games without a well-defined end popular in the late 90s/early 00s too.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarCraft:_Brood_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asheron%27s_Call

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EverQuest
Signal (the messenger) and Tutanota (for emails) both have search on their mobile clients with end-to-end encryption. It's definitely feasible to implement client-side search.
I think his point is that the vast majority of these cars never see a track. They're commuter vehicles that will use Ludacris Mode or Launch Control as a party trick once in a while. To these people claiming repeatability is an excuse like saying you need to stretch or weren't ready.
So will these guys get the 1 million USD award?
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What worked for me is:

- First stabilising by avoiding all unnecessary usage

- Avoid wrist straps, they make it worse because your muscles will atrophy

- Learn stretching and strengthening exercises from a physio

- Use a Kinesis Advantage and a trackball

- Avoid pronation

- Start rock climbing, to make my arms/wrists strong

Since then, I rarely have pain.

You can get short term relief from dunking your wrists in ice cold water (reduces inflammation).
In general I agree escape rooms aren't a great business. But consider:

(a) Although you can't really get repeat business until you create a new game, as long as you have at least 2 different games available at any one time a single group can trigger a cascade of business. It only takes one person from that group wanting to come back to play your other game, and quite often they'll bring new people. Then, if at least one of them comes back to do the first room, they'll bring new people as well. Etc. And of course, whenever you do get around to creating a new game the cycle can repeat.

(b) If you want to spend big bucks to make Hollywood-quality games in big cities, yeah you're not going to scale well. But if you create "generation 1" games (basically a series of padlocks, most needing a number or letter code) put them in everyday, contemporary settings, and focus on serving large suburbs and smaller towns, you can scale relatively well. Out of the 7 games I've created thus far, the most popular ones were the quickest and cheapest to build as they took place in a grandmother's home and a generic business office. Quite easy to find relevant decor and furnishings dirt cheap.

Yeah, escape rooms are not "big business". But I think what's impressing people is the ROI given the relatively minimal start-up capital and low overhead costs. I only spent $4,700 starting up my escape room business and in its first three years grossed over $100,000 in a tiny mountain town of only 17,000 people. While that isn't gangbusters, it's not bad for a little 20 hours a week side gig.
I would assume Porsche to be able to launch a car with an equivalent of production hell, so.
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kinda, I mean, IBM consulting have been happy to move customers off legacy IBM/AIX/DB2 onto Dell kit running Oracle on windows for decades now if thats what the customer wanted and was prepared to pay, precisely because its better to take the services revenue and the reseller margin then lose everything. So that relief well was drilled years ago, and certainly the name IBM helped with persuading those slow conservative orgs to use their services, but this predates the Red Hat acquisition by a looong time. IBM have been a major reseller of RHEL for those migrations for years, this just means they take the software as well as the services revenue, and (they hope) can sell RH software into more of those conservative accounts by bundling it under the IBM family.
Not in Germany, which is most valuable market for Porsche.
I love the Polish colloqualism for it, "małpa" meaning "monkey" because of the curled tail.
Dude, Ultima Online
>russian chat app

British-Emirati, but same difference.
That was a good 15-20 minute read, it is amazing how doing things in a different order can change so much
Let's see, you're comparing a full sized EV sedan that was was developed in 2012 and was designed to be as practical as possible with still awesome performance range and storage.

Just an anecdote..I bought an 8 foot door from Lowe's and it comfortably fits in my Model S by just folding the rear seats. Even the store attendants were amazed and took several pics while we were loading it (also fits in a Mode 3 btw).

A performance Model 3 is more suited for track purposes since it's a newer design.

Here it is being driven at the track by the legendary Randy Pobst:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aywleQX5lyA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfWbdk28azQ

Even then, the Model 3 is based on a 2016 design, while the Taycan is still actively being developed.

So not really sure what argument you're trying to point out here.
Once upon a time that was called a chat room. You entered when you wanted to socialize and left when you were done. Which is more in tune with natural group interactions in real life.

This group chat BS was cooked up more so app devs could hit engagement metrics to satisfy braindead unimaginative investors.
They could index chats locally…
More color on Kary Mullis:
https://classic.esquire.com/article/1994/7/1/is-kary-mullis-...
I don't believe Cisco would be liable. Just like not a single manufacturer was liable for Mirai.
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