skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Does having enemies run away make the game more fun for the player, or does the need to chase them become an annoyance?"

A good game mode does not require finding and hunting down all enemies. It has targets, like "go there"(story continues), "blow up X", "clear area Y"

"if an enemy sneaks around the player, gets in cover and concealment, and shoots them while the player does not understand where the fire is coming from, is it an enjoyable experience?"

If the game gets the graphics and gameplay right, for sure! (I still have memories from Vietcong, where you get ambushed in the jungle and don't see anything and just die, until you learn to move in cover and watch the terrain)

And you have the muzzle flash for example. And if you do not see it ... the fun is in getting scared and rushing to cover. Where the enemy cannot see you anymore (if the KI is not cheating) and then move to a different position to find him.
Or you can have the kill cam, where you see upon death, where the enemy was, that killed you.

"If we want the player to feel powerful, then we design so that their character can defeat many enemies"

True, but there are various ways to implement this, without ZombieKI.
Like in crysis for example, where you have superior tech. Or more hitpoints, because you play a badass.
Or in general, you as a player have quicksave and load. The computer does not.

So yeah, I know that the target audience is dumb and wants fast food, so to say, but they also consume what is avaiable. And the standard is mostly ZombieKI, or ultra hardcore realism like in Arma, which is clearly not for everyone, but I really don't see, why the "AAA" games could not invest a tiny bit more in KI that does not break immersion.
Do you? I get unsolicited postal mail, but it's at least well targeted and often relevant to me. Sure I toss the credit card offers, but if I were in the market for a credit card, the ones that I'm getting offered are probably the ones I'd consider.
What is mainstream? Western world? I think that many countries are building nuclear plants and will build more, for example China where real world production concentrates nowadays.
If we’re talking globally then plenty of examples of that exist right now.

I don’t know your gender, race, ethnicity, religion, or country of origin, but I can guarantee someone you’re going to have issues doing business because of discrimination. Saying X in not an issue in a country where X is protected/prohibited/regulated etc is a very week argument for getting rid of the associated laws.
And the interests are purely financial, at least in the US. We can achieve carbon free electricity far cheaper by using renewables and storage. Nuclear construction is suuuuuuuper expensive, and perhaps more importantly, incredibly financially risky. The chances of completing a build are very low, and the chance of spending billions of dollars and having nothing to show are unacceptably high.

If nuclear were our only option, we would have to go for it. But we now have better, cheaper, faster, more economically efficient carbon free energy sources.
It took decades for GE to slowly fall apart after Jack Welch retired. Not saying he lacks responsibility, it’s just hard to tease out how much.
Taleb is an idiot.

Black Swan has no real meaning.

But if Black Swan did have a meaning it's not things that are a surprise.

The fact people call the Coronavirus a Black Swan shows how useless the idea of a Black Swan is.

But then it has no meaning, so maybe that's the way the language has moved and you are right. Now Black Swan are when things we don't predict happen. Like a server going down or a pandemic.
It's easily contained by shutting down the economy and social distancing...

You didn't read a thing I said did you? You're calling whats happening now, easy? Did you even read what happened to the naval ship that got infected?

This has had pretty disastrous effects for the economy of the entire world, there are food riots overseas right now, the unemployment rate is skyrocketing. The social disorder alone, cops are arresting doctors providing supplies to the homeless, yelling at women not wearing a mask while walking their dog, arresting people playing in a park near no one else, by world leaders being put in the ICU. Get your head out of the sand.

None of this is easily contained. Ebola is easily contained, this you don't even know you're sick when you're walking around spreading it for days.

>If you give me a normal amount of resources and competent public health professionals COVID-19 does not scare me.

Weirdly, no countries seem to have this, since they're all getting ravaged, at least those with high population density. The only country's with high population density not getting ravaged is Taiwan, which has an extreme mistrust of the CCP, and speak/read Chinese so had intelligence from the Chinese Internet on what was really going on far before most country's public did. They reacted sooner by shutting down travel, and sounded the alarm bells, but the WHO didn't listen to them, because they were too busy pretending they weren't a country.
The article mentions yomali out of Malta. Yomali's just an ecommerce, billing and hosting site doing payment processing for the people selling these guides. Much as Google and AWS host services for numerous questionable companies.

Malta has some weird tax advantage apparently because a lot of ecommerce goes out of there. Also Cyprus.

Yomali's owned by an Israel guy who says his name is Mike Peters. ( https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/326673 )

It's likely he and his company have little to do with these ebooks other than handling payment processing for them along with many other small companies.
To paraphrase Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi, everything in that sentence is wrong--or at least seriously questionable.

> The stock has it mostly priced in

It does? I've seen about the same number of analyses indicating that companies are doing dubious things to bolster their earnings on paper (and haven't priced in the full cost of the crisis) as I've seen supporting your argument.

> but the rise of the stock is attributed to the fact

Explanations for this abound. From basically every corner, qualified, popular, neither, and both. Post-Black-Swan shockwaves are usually accompanied by a lot of confusion and after-the-fact pseudorationalization, and this situation is no different.

> European countries are flattening

Sort of (recorded clusters/outbreaks keep getting reported),
partially (some countries are doing really well, some are not), and only according to really, really new data.

> vaccines

Presumably you mean vaccine research getting underway? This is happening, to be sure. Still has the attribution (after-the-fact potential for false correlation) problem mentioned above.

> ramped up testing in the US

There's not consensus on the effect of more testing on the markets either. Testing builds confidence/information on the one hand but, in many US states, it has revealed worse-than-expected (well, really worse-than-hoped) numbers of sick people on the other.

I guess the upshot of the above is: you make a very authoritative statement about why the markets have behaved in a certain way. That information isn't even beginning to be known, or, at this early phase, knowable, with any sort of confidence.

Edits: grammar.
This is the saddest misconception that keeps getting trotted out in opposition to nuclear power. People use Fukushima as an example that nuclear power isn't improving in safety, when Fukushima was an old plant around even before Chernobyl. They didn't redesign the plant or substantially alter anything in the wake of Chernobyl. It was built to withstand loss of power, a massive earthquake, and a tsunami all at the same time. The fatal flaw was that when the plant was sited and built, scientific consensus was that a tsunami that large in that area was flat out impossible. As the science improved, no one went back and understood the implications on the design of the seawall that was now known to be inadequate.

Fukushima was a failure, and an expensive one at that, but in terms of the death toll almost all of it is solely from evacuation of the surrounding area and only one case of lung cancer that was likely caused by the accident. There were zero cases of acute radiation poisoning.
Love this! Similar to my project https://mmap.it.

For me, the biggest issue with all of these note tools is accessibility. I want to be able to find the information I want with google like search, and no expensive context switching. With mmap, everything is operated by global shortcuts so you never leave your current window.
As big of a bungle as Foxconn was/is, everyone in California knows that Prop 13 has been a disaster of far larger proportion, and no one does anything about it.
End of an Era: Microsoft Word Now Flagging Two Spaces After Period as an Error
I'm aware I'm splitting hairs. But I bring this up because there are a lot of misconceptions about climate, including the energy sub-problem. I.E. people think if we go renewables (or nuclear) we've solved the climate issue, let alone just the energy problem. Or rather, I think people think all we need is renewables and electric cars. Where in reality even after implementing these two (important) parts we still have a long way to go. And that the idea of this is so prevalent that it is actually hindering progress.

So I'm being nuanced. But HN is a place for nuance.
>I mean, if a work accident committed by China's military is ruled out as outlandish then why are they pushing conspiracy theories akin to area52 aliens as reasonable and plausible?

Because the incident isn't about deflection to US.

It was retaliating and warning US against pushing Wuhan conspiracy theory (Tom Cotton) and calling covid19 Wuhan virus (Pompeo) after WHO re-designation. Both these events proceeded the Chinese tweets.

Current US administration has consistently been the instigator of bellicose diplomacy. But people conveniently forget when it comes to China who has been remarkably patient compared to other countries, including US allies.

US is pushing crazy propaganda to deflect blame from their inadequate response. In return, China unleashed one of their mid tier diplomats to troll crazy US rhetoric coming from a Senator and Secretary of State to demonstrate that China is willing to escalate to dirty propaganda games. Hence why it had to be de-escalated by Chinese ambassador to US, a diplomat 2 levels higher than the original foreign ministry spokes person. It also plays well to Chinese domestic audience.

If China wanted to deflect blame, there would be much more plausible ways. The fact that China chose to confront US conspiracy with Chinese conspiracy should be interpreted as signalling to not go full retard. The message and messenger was calibrated for this affect. And what do you know the US backed off on this avenue of attack and has shifted to boosting Taiwan. Also concurrent to the conspiracy tit-for-tat was banning each others journalists. These events have to be evaluated in proper context and timelines.
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It's very hard to prove or disprove, and probably even harder with a totalitarian regime, so it's likely just going to be conspiracy theory fodder for years or decades. You might need a whistleblower, leaked/stolen/hacked documents, or a surreptitiously recorded conversation.

Another commenter mentioned a third party inspecting the lab, though if the lab really were the source I think they'd probably be able to fully cover that up before any inspection took place.

I mean, even if they didn't cover it up but are responsible, an inspection may still find no evidence of it (samples or animals containing a 100% or near-100% match of the virus could add some additional evidence, but also isn't proof by itself).

Hell, maybe their leaders don't even know if their lab was responsible or not. If it did happen, maybe it was a fuckup they were totally unaware of and still have no way of tracing retroactively. In such a scenario, maybe an employee made a mistake, got infected, but became a permanently asymptomatic carrier. Then they could've spread it to someone while out on a walk, or in some other way that would be really hard to reliably go back and track.

I will say, from everything I've seen, Chinese citizens are generally also quite concerned and angry about this whole situation. They've actually forced the government to apologize and backtrack on things quite a bit. If there's a highly convincing and credible leak that the virus escaped from the lab mistakenly, and they knew about it and covered it up, I think there would be outrage and possibly massive protests. Yes, I really think they'd be so outraged that huge numbers of them may do this even with an authoritarian regime that's infamous for killing protestors en masse.

Chinese citizens are pretty much no different from anyone else. They would absolutely want to know if their government is covering up that one of their labs accidentally unleashed the pandemic of the century. They're not necessarily going to buy all the propaganda about it if there's serious, clear evidence that this happened. But as it is now, there's no evidence, so they, and us, have no reason to be outraged about this particular accusation. It's something that should be investigated, but even if "unfounded accusations like these are dangerous" sounds like the words of a worried Chinese government censor, it's also true in this case.
Mazda used them. The 2012 RX-8 being the most recent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine
Globalised JIT economic systems and pandemics!
A CLI/library for some web API, there are quite a few missing.
> (nuclear does also have the ability to do variable loads like these. For some reason people think it can't...)

Nuclear power is too expensive to leave idle capacity on standby.
Many years ago, in a previous life, I heard about the ~friendly competition between Caltech's Dabney and Flemming houses. Various spacecraft components would have "DEI" (Dabney Eats It) or "FEIF" (Flemming Eats It Faster) hidden on them. But there's apparently nothing online about that. Or at least anything that's indexed.

Anyone?
On the site it says "Breakthrough peer to peer WebRTC technology" and the title claims "no latency".

Could you elaborate what makes this different from normal P2P WebRTC without a SFU? Do you feel that the claim of "no latency" is even possible/reasonable regardless of the tech involved?
Burroughs MCP impresses me with its lifespan (which is ongoing)

Initial release 1961; 59 years ago

Latest release 19.0[1] / June 2019

I wonder who uses it today and for what?
> local non-imported cases in Singapore look like they've been increasing exponentially since at least the start of March

MOH provided an annex[1] breaking down new cases by transmission type in the latest update. The data shows that local cases had been increasing, but they're in a slow decline - for now - and most of the new infections are in or related to dorms.

1. https://www.moh.gov.sg/docs/librariesprovider5/pressroom/pre...
I started writing custom yasnippet snippets (in GNU Emacs) to write kubernetes yaml files.

If you ever had to write a non trivial deployment by hand you know what I'm talking about.
F-1 is still the biggest chamber, by thrust. We decided to go with smaller, even though much more advanced engines; even Starship is going to use Raptors of smaller thrust per chamber. Were the questions of how to develop first stage engine answered differently in 1960-s than now? Starship is decidedly not Sea Dragon regarding first stage engine solution; will we come to bigger thrust chambers again or we see why we won't need them?
Pretty sure what they mean is the image is illegibly blurry. It is for me, at any rate.
I blame Homer.

The Simpsons painted a horrific picture of nuclear safety - greedy billionaire owner, incompetent safety inspector, three eyed fish, glowing green waste flowing into rivers...

Two decades of TV viewers where indoctrinated with that as a worldview of Nuclear Power.
I can only think of rkhunter or chkrootkit, which are not the same.
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The Fukushima earthquake was the biggest in over 1000 years of known Japanese history, and it hit in the exact area to overwhelm the considerable tsunami walls.

Given that no security system can prevent 100% of accidents, that one seems like it's in the allowable error margin to me.

The construction flaw where some important machinery ended up under water is less forgivable, sure.
A chemical catalyst is an agent which lowers the activation energy for a reaction to proceed. A biochemistry professor of mine was fond of declaring life to be an entropic catalyst.
> Unless one of those plants was in New Orleans or Houston and suffered a Fukishima type meltdown

If the nuclear industry were a person, when it built Fukushima it wouldn't have been old enough to drive a car. Today, it would be retired. It learned a thing or two in the intervening years. If Fukushima had been built a mere 2 years later it wouldn't have had its fatal flaw. There are some horrible reactor designs still out there posing a danger to everybody -- but refusing to build new reactors because extremely old reactors were (and still are!) dangerous is... tragic.

> if one of the thousands of trucks and rail cars that would be required to ship nuclear waste to centralized storage locations crashed or derailed

https://youtu.be/Bu1YFshFuI4?t=114

> Unfortunately many of the most ardent supporters of nuclear power downplay (or deny completely) the tangible and serious risks

The people who don't take the risks seriously are the people who refuse to perform numerical comparisons and instead make snap judgements on the basis of meltdowns being scary.

Other energy sources have risks too. The Banqiao dam makes Chernobyl look tame, but hydroelectric has a squeaky clean rep. Even solar and wind do worse per kWh, because their density is so low that they require (comparatively) tons of install work and upkeep, so the severe slip & fall accidents add up.

So yeah, we do care about the tangible and serious risks. We should pay more attention to them. I don't think that calculus points in the direction you think it does.
Silent mode cyber security Read Meet Work
The company of readers.
Olympics is a once in a lifetime opportunity for a tiny groups of people in those countries ( contractors, politicians, all sorts of middle men,etc). The country decides to open money tap and everyone goes bananas. There are no long term planning (we'll sort it after the games), everything is built just to show we are better than the country before us and etc.. In most cases it's the ultimate Bentley parked just outside crumbling council estate...
How would that compare to keycloak?
Authorization: Bearer <token>

Ultimately similar to what github did..
Bad... how?
Occam’s razor, it seems to fit
You're using a "Nothing to hide" argument to counter this supposed "appeal to perfection". Lack of evidence is not evidence.
Carbon free renewables will always be a partial solution. People aren't willing to endure rolling brownouts because of low winds or long stretches of overcast weather, and the storage required to solve those issues are never baked into the cost estimates under which these technologies are considered competitive.
Apollo 13 enhanced images reveal life on stricken spacecraft
Coronavirus vaccine could be ready in six months
It would be better if VM comparisons included JSC rather than, or in addition to, V8. JSC tends to outperform V8 so if you find a pathology in V8 it’s just not so surprising. It would be more interesting if you found a pathology in JSC.

I think that the use of small benchmarks obscures what’s going on. The VM is trying to win in the average. It’s like a professional gambler. Observing that the VM did something dumb for a program is like observing that a professional gambler lost a bet. That’s not interesting. In a game of chance, even a really great strategy will have its outliers.

I think that to understand the quality of a VM you have to throw millions of lines of code at it and see if the optimizing JIT can consistently produced speedups or at least produced speedups more often than not using some aggregate metric. As someone who studies the behavior of JSC on million line code bases, I can tell you that a pretty good outcome is if only a small number of functions experience an “upside down” effect from optimization and ends up running slower over time.

Finally, the whole search for a methodology to pinpoint warmup is broken. It’s pure brain damage. VMs need to be fast even for small programs that don’t have a chance to warmup. Startup time is absolutely important. So it’s a methodological antipattern to even try to find the warmup.

The questions worth asking are:

- for some program, how long does it take to run that program. Start to finish. No ignoring warmup.

- how long does it take to run some very long program or the average running time of a small program averaged over many iterations

- some percentile of behavior, like the 99th, to get an average of the janky behavior.

Ideally you measure all of those things and include both short running and long running programs.

This tells you how good a VM is.

If you’re doing math or methodology to identify the warmup point then you’re effectively biasing your experiment to forgive VMs for bad behavior so long as that bad behavior happens early. Nothing could be sillier. Users care about the perf of their VMs at startup not just in steady state.

Anyway, that’s the way I like to do optimizations in JSC.
> And yet, despite all that nuclear power is incredibly unpopular here and the vast majority of ecologists want to reduce our nuclear capacity more and more.

The problem with nuclear is that they don't have the lobby and the political backing that oil and gas does.

> Germany is about to open a coal plant (partially) to take over from one of the nuclear power plants we're shutting down.

"Partially" while we fight with the russians over who gets to supply germany with natural gas.

Much of the geopolitical issues today results from the fight over who gets sell gas where and who buys gas from whom. When you supply energy to a country, you have leverage over a country. It's why we limit how much energy russia supplies to japan, korea, etc. It's why we got upset when russia built a major pipeline from siberia to china. It's also why russia wants to build more pipelines to germany/europe. It's also why iran is such a major issue ( guess who has the largest gas reserves in the world? ).

"Clean gas" isn't winning because they are "cleaner" than anything, it's because the players backing gas are much more powerful than those backing nuclear. In the near term, it will be "clean" oil and gas dominating the energy sector. Unless Trump is successful with his "clean" coal.
Apparently some doctors are indeed asking joggers not to jog.

I don't know whether there have been cases of transmission, but it seems clear that some people are not taking distance particularly seriously, and it's certainly not hard to imagine that people exercising are exhaling virus with more vigor.

How far do you have to be behind someone to account for your speed? How do you run past someone without some risk?
The only reason I can possibly fathom as to why it would be nefarious would be trade. And that’s a stretch.
How does an "accidental lab leak" happen without a bunch of people at the lab getting infected? Seems like we'd have some evidence if it was an accidental leak.
It's more than Homer. Nuclear and radiation being scary is absolutely pervasive in pop culture, from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to MacGyver to Spiderman to HBO miniseries.

Part of the problem is that nuclear PR wing is run by utility companies that have a bunch of fossil assets that they don't want to make look bad by pointing out what's good about nuclear (no air pollution, no carbon emissions)