skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After seeing 'mars.com' I decided to write write a game using that terrain algorithm. I never finished the game, but here is a video of one of my tests: https://www.facebook.com/magoghm/videos/10153819968108735/Uz...
Insurance companies could also use the data to argue with healthcare providers about what the best cost vs value is on a course of treatment, but they probably already have data scientists doing this kind of work for them. Insurance adjusters and all that...
Build it and they will come they said, follow your dreams they said...

yeah, right.
But still crazy like a fox.
I was given some advice long ago that I stick to, and which avoids situations like this entirely -- if a startup cannot point to a repeatable transaction where they get revenue in exchange for something... then it not a business, it is a side project.

Admittedly, side projects can grow into something over time, as you evolve the idea. But there is zero reason to quit your job for such ideas.
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The Battlefield series is a fantastic lesson in product development, especially BFV the most recent edition.

[1]: Despite being a very popular franchise and BF5 being a very popular theme (WW2) the game was received negatively from its very first trailer, in part due to a sudden focus on cosmetics and shirking of historical accuracy.

[2]: Vitriol over the trailer lead to twitter drama where the executives among other things told players not to buy the game if they didn't like it.

[3]: The development team defined a release schedule of drip feeding content over the next few years for free, instead of paid DLC. This sounds great to the user until you realize funding for future content will be predicated on launch success.

[4]: BF5 announced Firestorm, a battle-royale game mode which would be embedded inside the BF5 game. This would be the first BR mode in the series and would have the largest map ever made for a battlefield game. This mode and map would be developed by an additional studio and not eat into the development time of the original game

[5]: The game flopped at launch, EA was already having a horrific Q3 that year. The game launched with a large number of bugs, server crashes, and very few initial multiplayer maps.

[6]: Immediately after launch there was a large number of game balancing issues which the community and the game developers disagreed as to its cause. Eventually they got it right a few months later.

[7]: 5 months after launch Firestorm (the BR mode) released. It was a pretty interesting experience but guffawed in several key categories for a Battle-royale game, including horrific user interfaces and looting systems.

[8]: In order to fix issues with the initial launch of firestorm, Dice diverts resources from the main development team to work on the BR game mode.

[9]: Firestorm begins to lose player count, leading to very long queue times for players trying to play a game.

[10]: The rate of post-launch content (especially new maps) was slower than any battlefield game ever.

[11]: Unsolicited, the game developers rebalance many key weapons leading to the same large game balancing issues which has been "fixed" a year ago

[12]: Cheating issues, huge thematic settings of WW2 left out of the game, a near dead Firestorm mode, and now we can have a thread like this

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My final take away is that this game could have been a 10/10 but was a 5/10 and a sign that publishers like EA really suck the life out of every product line they touch.
There is a value-based angle here. But as the psychiatrist told him, she doesn't make any more or less by prescribing one drug vs. another. If he was able to link the use of a specific drug to improved outcomes (READ: fewer repeat visits, less time in the hospital), then it could be something that ACTUALLY reduces costs.
it just hurts my eyes to be looking at that screen. as a driver, i also wear gloves, which is a nogo in a tesla. for your average driver (you dont even really need a speedometer at regular traffic flow speeds) these dont matter, so for us we are marketed to by companies like bmw. we'll get a driver's electric one day, just not yet.
I'll be very interested to see how Teslas hold up after 10+ years. I own a 15 year old Audi that I drive maybe once a week. Every time I start it up, something new has failed. It could be another broken sensor, a worn rubber hose, a broken plastic clip, a short in the electronics causing a parasitic power drain, etc.

Part of it is the age, but part of it is that gas cars are designed to be driven. Letting them sit for any period of time will cause headaches. Electric cars should, in theory, be better in that regard as long as you leave them plugged in.
I’m not willing to find a source to back up this statement, but I’d be willing to wager that employees that don’t have nicotine in their system are, on average, healthier than their nicotine consuming coworkers. Pretty much every business is interested in lowering their healthcare costs.

Regardless, doesn’t seem like U-Haul should be able to tell you to not use a legal substance during your personal time.
I’ve driven an S but not a 3. It was certainly pretty shocking to floor it at first. As for the 3, I don’t think I could get behind the central mono display, but perhaps I should take one for a drive based on your experience.

The cockpit in my current car, a Mustang GT, is pretty stellar. It’s got the performance pack so it comes with an oil pressure and vacuum gauge on the dash. Between that and the center display showing me tire pressures (can see the PSI of each corner) or oil temperature and I’m golden. https://rallyways.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/new_2015_mu...

It’s very driver focused. You’re low in the car and the central tunnel is very high so you feel like you’re in a tank.

Anyway... the same giddy feelings you have when you drive your Model 3 are similar to the feelings I have when I drive this thing. The V8 revving to 7k is sublime, especially when the moisture is high in the air and the exhaust really starts to crackle and pop.

I’m not against EV vehicles by any means. I think they are awesome and will certainly own one at some point. But for a while I’m gonna keep playing with my physical switches and gauges. Beating the hell out of a high revving motor with a six speed will never get old.
Read the article.

"In states where testing is allowed, applicants must consent to submit to nicotine screening in the future to be considered."

And you are aware that there are nicotine delivery methods that do not involve cigarettes?
There absolutely is a right to be treated with respect in professional settings. Part of respecting people is using the names and pronouns they ask you to use.
> a linguist (with some understanding of development)

Your wish has been granted: Larry Wall, Perl 6.
This would require a hardened OS and is outside the control of the game creator.

Transparent walls, for example, can be done via the graphics driver (or by replacing your graphics driver).
It's certainly a problem and I don't mean to minimize it.

If you look at numbers, it's also enormously better here than in Asia. Like all of Europe and America are responsible for less than 5% of worldwide river/ocean litter.

Part of the problem is us (western society) shipping bulk "recyclables" overseas, which then get picked through for valuables, and the rest is often left out to be picked up by the next wind or rain.

One of the best things we could do for world wide river ocean litter pollution, is to just landfill low value recyclables domestically, instead of shipping then overseas. (Edit: or at least recycle them domestically, or with a trusted, regulated country)

Also applies somewhat to air quality with burning plastic for electricity.
Have you looked into Nebula Genomics? I already bit the bullet and went with 23andme before I heard of it so I haven't done crazy amounts of research, but the guy running it is generally seen as high-minded by the biohacking community.
I'm aware of the reduced fees with membership pricing. Problem is, unless you're using them constantly, it's a huge waste. I don't roadtrip all the time, so a $4/month fee eating away at that will erode every benefit I get from the cheaper fees.

Per the 85 and 90 pack issues, sure there seems to be some problem with them... especially when supercharged repeatedly. Unclear what the actual issue is though. Doesn't seem to impact every other line they offer though (70, 100, and all other variants). Might just be the actual degradation though.

It's funny, because I haven't seen huge news about the Nissan Leaf problems. They have garbage degradation curves and haven't fixed it after many battery iterations... besides the lawsuit for 2011-2012 model years, it seems everything else is considered 'OK'.
Back when I played a lot more, I would usually call it a bad day if I didn't get accused of cheating a few times.

I guess it's the Dunning-Kruger effect, where players think they're a lot better than they really are, so they can't imagine how someone can be _that_ much better than them.
You are in fact not free to call people jerks in a professional context.
I've been looking at ways to organize the retros done in our company. It would be helpful if there was a video demoing a fictional startup using this product so we could see how this fits into our workflow?

Aside from JIRA/Confluence I don't know of anything tackling this space.
It was sarcastic, so we both agree I think.
So one thing I will add, you might want to approach the companies that are at the top of the list and offer them the tool as a sale tool.

But overall, the goal of health care as a commercial Endover is to keep you sick (I.e., not healthy, since then you will not spend, and not dead).

So the goal of selling to health care professionals is actually the opposite of your goal of helping patients.
You misunderstand the real evil of JScript. Microsoft made it to be a complete clone of Netscape's implementation.

When Netscape decided to standardize the language, they went to ECMA. Microsoft didn't have ECMA completely under their thumb, but did have some control.

Netscape wanted to fix some fundamental issues with JS, but MS had just spent a ton of money making their clone, so they insisted all those problematic bits stay right where they were.

So, JScript is to blame for most of the bad parts of Javascript and is therefore worthy of all the hate you could possible heap upon it.
Is the politics of information a liberal issue? Other than their complaints about Russia, it doesn't seem like there's many speaking out against the inordinate political power wielded by information overlords like Facebook and Google
Higher evaporation means more clouds (somewhere) and more rain (somewhere).

Recent studies show increased snowfall in central Antarctica for instance.

It's entirely possible that global warming has lessened the severity of these droughts. One fallacy of climate alarmists is to never admit that global warming has some positive effects, no matter how few.

If in fact global warming has in effect cancelled the next ice age, that is a giant win!
That 1% has consistently shown that they are willing to perform that extra work themselves.

While less than ideal, the status quo is nothing to lament. It is so much to ask for these publishers not to go out of their way to sabotage it?
>No

Yes.

Google it. All the major companies do hax bans in wave patterns. Valve, blizzard etc

>There are no circumstances where it makes sense to ignore player-submitted video proof of cheating.

Agreed. Not sure why you're bring it up though. I wasnt talking about user submitted anything???
If all parents would have that kind of money...
The most amazing thing is that after all of this hullabaloo... a good number of these frustrated players will still purchase a Battlefield 6 game.
Toyota is definitely an interesting case. They clearly think BEVs aren’t fit because batteries slowly charge a fixed capacity. They think hydrogen fuel cells are a better drop in replacement. In that sense, they’re in a better position to replace ICEs with hydrogen FCs in their hybrids. They could side step the whole BEV generation that way. Or, BEVs could fall in price so dramatically that a full charge is more range than any driver wants to drive in a day - say measured in MW of capacity instead of KW.

Interesting times for sure.
It's a shame this project was shuttered as what screenshots are posted look amazing.

Better data aggregation is desperately needed in medicine and sadly I think the creator has walked face first into the horror of cost merely to access clinical trials. Plus, the cost of paying contractors to extract the actually useful information from those trials.

These are key reasons why Open Science and Open Data are so critical, to produce tools like this one. Sadly I don't think there is a "Startup" level of money available for it even so.
Insurance companies have very little/not at all influence over prescribing patterns of physicians. If you could tie this improved outcomes, then there is a business model here.
IRS drops longstanding promise not to compete against TurboTax
> is negative-spiraling in a way unsupported by the research and current economics.

Are you sure? (I'm a "doomer" I admit, but I think the science is there.)

From Dr. Gwynne Dyer – "Geopolitics in a Hotter World" – UBC Talk Transcribed (Sept. 2010)

https://spaswell.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/dr-gwynne-dyer-geo...

> All of these numbers are fairly fuzzy, but what happens around 2 degrees is that the natural–the consequences of the warming trigger natural processes that contribute further to the warming (positive feedbacks as they are called) in which the permafrost melts and releases huge amounts of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere; in which the surface waters of the oceans become so warm they can no longer contain all of the carbon dioxide they absorbed earlier–high school physics, right? Warmer water can contain less dissolved gas. Buy yourself a beer and you’ll see what I mean: if you don’t drink it, it goes flat as it warms up.

> So, all of those feedbacks kick in around 2 degrees and then you’ve lost control, to the point where you may not be able to stop the warming process, even if you stop all of your own emissions.
Extended review: iPhone 11 looks like the next generation of the device
That complexity is useful and justified.
Is this completely secure? I think this point should be addressed as the main selling point if it does.
Simple question.

Do you exist the day your born, or only after your first birth day?
Imagine each car brand had their own mutually incompatible proprietary gas station network.
> instead they're doing the opposite and have removed emulation from XCode.

what?
> is 500€ (tax included) considered high end?

These days it's upper middle for the U.S. I would say. For example the new top-of-the-line Dell consumer laptop, the XPS 13, starts at under $1000 (900€). When I got an XPS nearly a decade ago, it was a model they had at a considerable discount (as I recall it was an overstock situation or something) and it still cost me $1350.

As far as I can tell, low-end, mid-end, and high-end laptops are not only more powerful than the laptops of 10 years ago, they're also considerably cheaper at each level. I can't say for ultra-high-end laptops, I'm sure you still can spend $2500 on a laptop if you want, but even the MacBook Pro starts at only $1300 these days.
Another of Musk's companies achieves a killer landmark. Maybe space turns out to be profitable. Maybe cities do massive transport projects. Maybe neuralink pushes an update and everyone knows kung fu. A million solar roofs.

Antitrust becomes a big deal. Landmark rulings will be on marketplaces: ubers, app stores, Amazon's retail & ebook markets, adwords etc. Regulators target cases where a company [a] dominates a Market (eg equity finance) with their market (eg NASDAQ) [b] is a major participant in that market and [c] it's an explicit marketplace. Things get beaurocratic.

Labour markets get worse at the bottom end of the "white collar" market.

The economics of "automation" remain subtle and debatable until something dramatic becomes the symbol of economic automation. Could be driverless cars, but it could also be a zero-employee chainstore. At this point automation becomes political-economic narrative. This will happen regardless of the actual economic realities of automation, on which I have no prediction.

Actual energy game changers start to emerge, ones that genuinely drive major cost/price/volume changes.^

People lose interest in politics again, in direct misproportion to its importance.

Hacker News gets a makeover

^If solarcity does this, I get points for the 1st prediction too.
You are also comparing two different games in terms of popularity.

CS:GO is usually in the top 3 of most popular games on steam. Last time I checked, it was number 1. I would be surprised if Battlefield V has a quarter of the amount of players (across all platforms) versus CS:GO (which is just on PC).

I am not trying to make excuses for EA (Which has been nothing but a trash fire of a company for the last few years), but how could they justify putting those kind of resources behind a game like BFV?
I remember seeing it back when I was interested in programming language design. I lost interest around 2010 (after concluding largely what the checklist was getting at, that there's no point developing a new programming language), so that would put it in the 2005-2010 period.

Ironically, most of the languages I've used in the last 5 years (Swift, Rust, Kotlin) post-date that period, so I was wrong in my conclusion.
Long battery life, cheap, can write some code in Linux -> perfect travel device
Copying data is wasteful, mutating data is dangerous
Thanks for your feedback. True, in terms of values we spoke to the companies and also employees working at each company before assigning a value to the company. Intuit does offer work from home and here is some public feedback on this benefit - https://www.glassdoor.ie/Benefits/Intuit-Work-From-Home-US-B...

As our product is just out, I believe it takes bit more time for traction but am working constantly to provide more value through the site. We thought of culture itself as a niche as only few companies have their culture defined and also that way we would be able to cover different types of roles and companies. We are on a mission to be the largest and finest culture fit job board. Would love to be the go to place for culture fit jobs in general. I'll promote this more once I have the ongoing features like blog, newsletters and company profiles are integrated so that it can be of more value to our users. Thanks once again for your inputs and a Happy New Year!
He might not have succeeded in getting rich, but he can still turn this into an incredibly effective $40k donation to public health research.

I'm sure there is a researcher out there who can find hosting for this service, and maybe continue to keep it up to date with new trials.
I feel like the best play would have been to spend 100% of his effort to get WebMD as the first Angel Investor.

If WebMD owned 20% of his product, for say $300k in Seed Money, he could have used that Runway to build something really cool.

And WebMD would have an incentive to promote his site and help bring free users.
This is my first time at outlookzen.com as far as I know.

My first impression: A rather incongruous (in my experience) juxtaposition of conservative ideology with use of the word "zen".
Wiper controls use the standard column stick just like any other car. Same with lights.
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This review seems oddly combative.

It's $35, it boots off the shelf Ubuntu, it has a real graphics chip, it does what it says it does. It doesn't have RF shields, and was probably designed cheaply, but it's $35.

Aside from the RasbperryPI (which obviously isn't x86) the review compares it to items which are 3x in price.

Admittedly, I assume that 3x price is probably closer to what the actual retail would be for this without the surplus angle. I think it being surplus is cool in a hacker kinda way, but I do see an issue there if you're concerned about longterm support.
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Honest but perhaps naive question: why is it that anti-cheat needs to be conducted through technology only? Back in the day, online communities had admins with near unlimited power (I'm thinking IRC and community Counter-Strike servers) and they solved that problem proactively.

EA could have a few employees do this work but also let such employees appoint long-standing, well known community members have a limited set of powers to act upon the most blatant offenders in real time. Similar to how IRC had network and channel OPs
No one will mourne the deaths of billions of blowflys.
According to your source that's 50% share of new bike sales in 2018, not market share of all bikes in Belgium. Not the same thing.
cloud gaming only or enforcing signed code at the hardware level may reduce online cheating significantly.
Sure, when you're desperate for decent parts, it makes sense to use overseas suppliers with long lead times and customer service and datasheets all in English. And the STM32 line is really great. But if you can instead use a domestic supplier who speaks Chinese and can get you parts in a few hours instead of a month, why wouldn't you?
> However with EA I don’t really have utmost confidence they will pay any attention to this, so I’d guess it’s time to get loud if you want any hope of this being fixed.

Or, stop buying games that are essentially rootkits...
The false positive of someone getting kicked for being too good is a better negative outcome than the false positive of a ban, especially in an opaque system with poor support staffing and resolution processes. When users can trivially provide and administrate and experiment with their own servers, then the effect of not being able to return to the same server is lessened.

>MMO games

They're a different beast entirely. But in the case of battlefield, you have a capped playercount that is orders of magnitude smaller than an MMO, and much more manageable.
That is basically how it works today with Tesla. And you have the option of applying the updates.
What Google product doesn't feel stalled? (Serious question)
To be clear, we are talking about professional settings here. No one is taking away your right to misgender someone at a bar (even though you'd be a giant asshole for doing so). A professional setting like Stack Exchange or a workplace is very different from a bar, though.
That’s a question of riding habits not the conversion. Treat em like a bike with assist up hills and the breaks last just as long as a normal bike. Treat it like a moped with lots of hard braking and you want quality disk brakes as part of your conversion.

Saying that I stick at the low end. 50W - 150W is still very noticeable assistance, but still mostly a bike. 500+W is really a very different category.
I'm not sure of the point you're trying to make, but FWIW consider this:

"Earth's LAND MAMMALS By Weight"

https://xkcd.com/1338/

> [[A graph in which one square equals 1,000,000 tons. Dark grey squares represent humans, light gray represent our pets and livestock, and green squares represent wild animals. The squares are arranged in a roughly round shape, with clusters for each type of animal. Animals represented: Humans, cattle, pigs, goats (39 squares), sheep, horses (29 squares), elephants (1 square). There are other small, unlabeled clusters also. It is clear that humans and our pets & livestock outweigh wild animals by at least a factor of 10. ]] {{Title text: Bacteria still outweigh us thousands to one--and that's not even counting the several pounds of them in your body.}}