skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel Earthbound, the classic SNES RPG where Ness debuted, is a masterclass on NPC dialogue. The dialogue is so well crafted it makes you eager to talk to each NPC you come by, knowing even if they don't give you relevant information they will give you a silly hot take on the world they occupy. It makes everything so much more rich. The Rabbit Girl referenced in the article is from Undertale by Toby Fox, who cut his teeth in gamemaking creating Earthbound mods. I suspect this is why his characters in Undertale follow a similar whimsical nature to this early influence of his. Undertale borrowed a lot from Earthbound's character construction.

I've been playing through Earthbound over the last few weeks and consistently find the writers and localization team put in just the right extra 10% to turn a "bleh" interaction into one you think about for days to come. For example, in a nod to the greedy, one character grumbles about the loan he gave to your family and now he "lives in poverty" - all while standing in the biggest house in the game.

Later on, a key item with key information gets shipped to your character via the equivalent of Fedex "Neglected Class." A rumpled delivery man eventually shows up and tells you "Anyway, he said... well... uh... I forgot. Yep, I forgot... actually I forgot the stuff I was supposed to deliver, too. I think it was some weird machine to make trout-flavored yogurt. Yeah, I forgot it at the desert... I'm not going back that way, so don't ask me to get the package... I mean, it's your package, right? So YOU go get it! Go on, get out of here." You then have to schlep to another part of the game to recover the package the delivery man decided just wasn't worth his time [0]

If you've played the game and want to figure out why some of the quirkiness just WORKS, I would recommend the later parts of Tim Roger's piece from a decade or so ago [1].

[0] https://youtu.be/EIoLcNLyd0g?t=27902

[1] http://archive.is/fMD7F (edit - huh, yeah this article has NOT aged well at all I should have taken a closer look since it first was released long ago, but I'll leave it here for the sake of discussion & derivative comments).
What do you mean exactly? Are you referring to adding a comments section to my blog? I didn't even consider doing that, but if you want that then Wordpress makes a lot of sense.
If you're working for defense or weapons contracts you're supporting the industry that has kept us in the Middle East for almost two decades.

I agree that it's often a moral grey zone but in this case it's pretty clear. If you're an engineer there's plenty of other companies to choose from.
Oceananigans.jl: fast and friendly fluid dynamics on CPUs and GPUs
Yeah, I guess it's a matter of perspective, skill, and technique. Maybe larger and heavier baskets can be made in a pool?
I'm only a week into using it, but check out Notion. I really love it so far. The UI has blown me away in both beauty and how it gets out of the way.
> I haven't seen any evidence that someone specifically predicted the chain of events which would unfold on those flights, and clearly communicated the issue, then had executive(s) respond that it was 'worth the money'.

People understand the consequences of what they say. I doubt that most people will say that statements out loud, even when they know that are true.

But, people knew and money was involved.

* February 2018

“I don’t know how to refer to the very very few of us on the program who are interested only in truth…”

“Would you put your family on a MAX simulator trained aircraft? I wouldn’t.”

“No.”

* August 2015

“I just Jedi mind tricked this fools. I should be given $1000 every time I take one of these calls. I save this company a sick amount of $$$$.”
What an unbelievably low effort comment.

>It's been far worse for countries peopled with and led by idiots, like the USA.

Ranked next to Western European countries, the US ranks at the bottom of worst effected. The worst effected country is Belgium, followed by France, Italy, the UK, Sweden, and so on. As far as CFR, the US is about 1/3 or Belgium, and about 1/2 of the Netherlands.

Among western liberal democracies, the US is among the safest/best place to be right now with regards to health outcomes related to the coronavirus.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

>We've already seen a huge shift away from the idea of American global leadership.

This is simply not true, and the evidence of it not being true is echoed at every reasonable metric. People are increasingly storing their money in the US (as evidenced by the stock market refusing to collapse), and increasingly following along with US-led pullbacks against global organizations like the WHO.

China is rapidly losing its ability to enact soft power anywhere in the world.

We are also only gaining in economic power: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-0...

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The US coronavirus response has been one of the strongest among western nations, our economy has weathered this better than anywhere in the world, and we will likely come out of this crisis even stronger, with even more global power, than we went in.
> I think you could have gotten your point across without the rudeness. Talking to people like that creates a toxic environment.

Thank you for calling this out. To some, this may seem like over-reaction, but only by calling even minimally rude statements out can we ensure that HN doesn't become Reddit.
Neat, but there doesn't seem to be a way to change the server you're connecting to.

I wondered why map markers were always airports:

> Data center locations are tracked as airport codes and may not be 100% accurate.
Please point out where I claimed to know that Vitamin D explains a significant portion of the excess mortality in Sweden.

Or actually, don't bother. My intention is not to suffer this foolishness, and it sounds like you don't even have the time to read my comments.
No, you're just projecting the modern bar for AI into the past. AI roughly means "things human brains can do that computers can't": when computing was primarily straightforward and analytical ("calculating"), then relatively more sophisticated algorithms that could "solve problems" like mazes absolutely were on the AI frontier. The fact that they've since retreated so far from "things computers can't do" is just a function of the fact that it was an early success in the field.

Your comment is just a crystallization of what the parent comment is talking about: claiming something isn't AI because "pft that's such an easy, solved problem" _after_ it's solved defines away the possibility that AI can solve problems.
mcedit is my favorite. Fortunately it's really common in most distros now.
The problem really is platforms that give people content to please them. An algorithm selects content that you are likely to agree with or that you have shown previous interest. This only causes people to get reinforced in their beliefs and this leads to polarization.

For example, when I browse videos on Youtube I will only get democratic content (even though I am from Poland). Seems as soon as you click on couple entries you get classified and from now on you will only be shown videos that are agreeable to you. That means lots of Stephen Colbert and no Fox News.

My friend is deeply republican and she will not see any democratic content when she gets suggestions.

The problem runs so deep that it is difficult to find new things even if I want. I maintain another browser where I am logged off to get more varied selection and not just couple topics I have been interested with recently.

My point of view on this: this is disaster of gigantic proportions. People need to be exposed to conflicting views to be able to make their own decisions.
> Is it just me or did we actually start regressing in terms of moving things off IPv4?

To my knowledge, nothing was ever moved off IPv4. IPv6 was setup in parallel, but IPv4 was never removed.
Of course, no one planned it. But encouraging or demanding to take shortcuts is what caused it.

I have been in software industry for 15 years and this happens all the time, being forced to release unfinished features, asked to ignore security, backups, etc. I would imagine same thing happens in other industries.
No. I can certainly imagine anyone scoffing at someone using a hammer when they are trying to dig a hole in the ground screaming "Tools are just tools!"

So yes, writing a website with assembler raises eyebrows and it is quite OK to ridicule bad languages such as PHP.
Disclaimer: I started working at FB recently.

Consider the following model scenario. You are a PM at a discussion board startup in Elbonia. There are too many discussions at every single time, so you personalize the list for each user, showing only discussions she is more likely to interact with (it's a crude indication of user interest, but it's tough to measure it accurately).

One day, your brilliant data scientist trained a model that predicts which of the two Elbonian parties a user most likely support, as well as whether a comment/article discusses a political topic or not. Then a user researcher made a striking discovery: supporters of party A interact more strongly with posts about party B, and vice versa. A proposal is made to artificially reduce the prevalence of opposing party posts in someone's feed.

Would you support this proposal as a PM? Why or why not?
Zuckerberg’s invincibility as CEO is nothing short of one of the greatest failures of modern capitalism. It’s simply astounding that such a terrible leader has retained control of what is clearly a company out of control. And the market accepts all of it while individuals constantly criticize his and Facebook’s actions.

People always throw around “well stop using Facebook” but that clearly isn’t a reasonable solution from a scalability standpoint. What percentage of those people also hold Facebook stock, either directly or through a hedge fund, ETF, etc.? It could be more than we think.

At the end of the day, profits don’t care about people, and this is the consequence we all have to live with.
we are in all out conflict with China because some super computing sites were "attacked"?

That's not a very responsible statement.
> The 'long' startup time appears to be a second or two.

Good to know. But sad that I had to look in the comments for this information, because for some reason the video doesn't play. I'm not sure how the article author thought it'd be a good idea to embed a video containing the same amount of information as a single number, but I guess that's considered a feature in the modern web.
"Stealing" as a verb for copying thoughts, ideas, or other intangibles has a long history. Longer than this defensive posture of people who want to feel better about ripping shit off.
Thanks John! Not discouraged (or surprised) by the reaction. I think using the word "ideal" in the title was a fatal mistake - lesson learned :)
Profitable Chrome extensions by solo developers
But here you are, letting us know that they have been wonderful sending consultants.

It's part PR, part long term customer acquisition
Couple issues.

(1) Optimization is much, much bigger than graph traversal and sorting.

(2) Modern route-finding algorithms are to your on-paper-Dijkstra what a rocket ship is to your bicycle.

(3) I think you're under the same misconception I'm talking about: graph traversal is absolutely a fundamental of AI. Ask anyone what the main AI textbook is, they'll tell you it's Russell and Norvig: http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/

The first topic they cover is graph traversal and search.
The interesting thing is that if the lenticular lens is done with mini spheres instead of mini-cylinders, it should be possible to create a more fully holographic effect, given a sufficiently high-res base display. Basically a light-field camera in reverse.

(I am sure they have thought of this by now ...)
US Intelligence has released the following images of mobile bioweapons production labs, could they be in use by PRC to create Covid?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_weapons_laboratory#/med...
Hey, I built this. Let me know if you have questions.
thanks, I was just wondering, totally ok vagueness - English is a language notoriously easy to be vague in.
> First, you very well know that is not the definition any english speaker identifies as religion.

It's certainly not the first one people may go to but it is by no means the only understanding English speakers have of religion. I'm a native English speaker and I will attest that I perfectly well understand that usage.

> Second, you may think it's by faith but to them it's facts

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/faith

"something that is believed especially with strong conviction" - kinda duplicating the "ardor" but absolutely nothing to do with whether things are facts or otherwise.

> is FOSS a religion if I have faith that it will lead to the best outcome for society and I hold that belief with ardor?

By MW's definition? Yes, it can be.
I see the same 90Mb/s as you, so I suspect they are capping at 90Mb/s. For another test, try fast.com and click "more info" after the download stops.

I have fios 1Gb service. From clouldflare I see ~500Mb/s down and 90Mb/s up, and fast.com shows 600Mb/s down and 900Mb/s up.
First of all, the IC works with estimative language, i.e. "with a high degree of confidence", which everyone understands on what to make of it and how it should inform policy (I know, policy is different than a criminal investigation).

To your question: Imagine tracking these threat actors for years (or decades). You have observed different TTPs (Techniques, Tactics & Procedures) from different actors, you see them operating in different ways and with different teams, you can observe the time when they are active, by their targeting you can make an educated guess what they're after, you can correlate their activity with policy changes in their presumed home-countries and lastly you can repeat those observations over and over again since these threat actors are persistent and keep coming back since it's their job. If all these soft and passive observations already point to the same actor(s), and then you get some additional hard evidence on top (Opsec failures, HUMINT, SIGINT), you are eventually able to make a verdict with a high degree of confidence.
> You lost me at "plugins" I'm afraid.

Plugins are optional. If you used Webpack directly to manage your static files you could just tell Jekyll to load them from whatever directory Webpack outputs them to and then you can build your SPA to render blog posts however you see fit.

If you're using React you would want to use a native Webpack config right? This way it works anywhere, and isn't tied into any specific static site generator.
If your herb was shown to improve abdominal pain in a certain population through use of well-executed, replicated randomized control trials, I think it would count as medicine, yes.
So, it's a much higher end Nintendo 3DS.
Ebooks are words arranged in a digital document. If that's a "gimmick", then everything is a gimmick.
They are both cool for short term use, but I've yet to see a shutter glass/etc implementation that is synced well enough to the screen and blocks 100% of the light to avoid ghosting.

VR googles have their own issues, because the lenses never seem to be perfectly in focus, and the resolution isn't high enough directly into the glasses.

In both cases you can choose to ignore the problems for a while, but at least in my case the eye strain builds up enough I doubt I could deal with it for even 4 hours a day on a regular basis.
Just so you know, the model of "alpha wolves" is considered simplistic and outdated in the study of actual wolves. Just one link: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/wolves-fact-and-fic....

I've found that when people use "wolf pack" (or "caveman times") explanations, what they're actually doing is using social models that (surprise!) reflect the culture that created them: humans in the twentieth century.
Can companies just dilute or do they need to buyback shares from the market for this stock based comp? The latter does have a real cost.
The title should have been a computer science introduction to marketing terms
My comment applied to the comment you're referencing as well. The original comment is the one above that.
Thanks- was using through byobu wrappers, need to check what version is on our company machines. Edit: 2.7, so that explains it.
That's a pretty cool tool! The most bloated site I managed to find was Facebook's login page at ~77.
I do something similar, although I use venv to create a new virtual environment and update pip and setuptools:

alias venv='python3 -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate && pip install --upgrade pip setuptools -q'

And then ae and de to activate/deactivate a venv:

alias ae='source venv/bin/activate'
alias de='deactivate'
QUIC would never have been needed if it was actually possible to use SCTP without unnecessary roadblocks.
J.K. Rowling will donate royalties of new book and illustration contest
Pandas has a hard job (and does it well)
In much of South/South-East Asia, for many people, Facebook is the internet. (And remember Facebook Zero? Facebook was aware of and tried to engender this).

https://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-id...

A staunch defender of the EITC would claim they were "just" engaging in mercantilism and facilitating the exchange of goods, and the war and deaths were just unfortunate side-effects. Facebook is "just" engaging in connecting people and facilitating the exchange of information, and stoking violence and racial conflict are just unfortunate side-effects.
I'll second "take notes" and "paraphrase". My retention has drastically improved when I paraphrase a piece of text and then write it down.
This is exactly my feeling with French news as well (the mainstream ones at least).

Since one of our national sports is to protest, people complain that "they" (the bad news paper or station) is showing one side only, and that "we" are different.

In reality they all tell the same thing, objectively without even editorializing it. So I can read Le Monde, Le Figaro, l'Obs, la Croix or l'Humanité and get the same info. And this is very good.
True. I briefly mentioned Headless CMSs but didn't really give them the time of day. I didn't want to do anything that required a server/db/CMS, but I didn't do a good job of justifying that decision.

I do think the term "tech stack" has come to be used more broadly than your definition.
Nice. Didn't see anything about a terminal client. Still looking for terminal clients beside speedtest-cli. Thanks.
This seems like a controversial subject because it's one frequently used without any actual scientific basis or rationale behind it. Hence, bigotry.

A good example of such a situation is what happened to Caster Semenya who is biologically a woman and has had her testosterone levels used against her in attempt to discredit her and her performance, despite evidence contrary to the idea that it's testosterone that gives her an unfair advantage.

And ultimately if we were to make that argument in the first place, then we should argue to limit all professional athletes (male and female) by testosterone level as it is not a consistent thing in either men or women rather than using it as a bludgeon against specifically transgender athletes.
Performing optical logic operations by a diffractive neural network
This is more of a premium platform, years of experience matter less that what you can produce.

You will have to do less client building, as they have the ops side for both dev/co managed.
You are making a bold and incorrect claim.

"""vergence-accommodation conflict, which causes a lot of the motion sickness, headaches, eye strain and other issues people have with VR"""

This is untrue. It actually a pretty minor amount of the issues. There are individuals that suffer from this disproportionately but the estimates I've seen were in the low single digits.

The major issues are in the source to the link you posted -

http://doc-ok.org/?p=1602

"""Accommodation-vergence conflict is the one remaining aspect of vision that is not simulated by current VR headsets. While it is not as big a deal as simulator sickness induced by poor tracking, high latency, or artificial locomotion, """

These are the major sources of vr discomfort which are increasingly handled by the baseline vr specification being increasingly in the reach of more and more hardware systems.

I'd also note that as the poor tracking and high latency issues have disappeared people have found they are comfortable with radically wider ranges of artificial locomotion styles.

At this point, in my opinion, the utter uselessness of any text based applications (ie what people actually DO all day long) is what is holding VR back. The resolution needs to scale up fairly radically.

This monitor may have better text results but its not clear what the boundaries of it as a 3d display are as I haven't seen a review from knowledgeable sources (Oliver Kreylos/ docok is one of the people that I'd like to hear from).
They peddle a high risk product. So do companies that manufacture motorcycles and parachutes.
I would trust Coinbase over Facebook, but I'm not a believer in cryptocurrencies.
This is so ridiculous coming from someone that did front end during the pre SPA days. I don’t event know where to start here . It’s a blog, not a complicated backend solution requiring a stack like this. Just throw in something simple to get the posts from the database and update the dates and you’re done . It’s over engineered and symptomatic of major issues in the front end community.
The Philip Roth Archive
Huh.

So when you wrote that comment, was TFA's URL a BBC link?
Also, IME, if you do say something, others jump down your throat quickly and viciously. I still remember this one former cow-orker and his words: 'they debate, they decide, we deliver': this project ended up losing the company millions and left it as a has-been in ecommerce because people chose to accept and support the utter insanity that was going on right in front of their faces.
I find it fascinating how we can sort of up-scale things but never without adding something weird that no one wants. Often there are competing formulas that have us compare the drawbacks rather than the qualities. (The funniest to me are monasteries running some kind of business. They have a management level above the suits (so to speak) made up out of monks who care only about quality.)

Something that increasingly puzzles me are the implications of having links in a chain that either do not care if things work or not or are able to pressure the rest into obedience though lack of skin in the game. They may seem the least significant but have the most leverage.
> It could lead to more sales, or you could really piss off a troll who has nothing better to do than DDOS your site and try to hack every account you own.

This seems more like FUD for nagware than a proven system for not dealing with piracy.
Post isn't a satire, the title is tongue-in-cheek (and a huge miscalculation).
It's more that there were several meetings where issues were raised that would kill people if they occurred, and those in charge decided the risk factors were minimal enough that they could execute on the plan.

Nobody planned to kill the astronauts on the Challenger. Such a systemic failure to anticipate and manage risk correctly is a team effort and heavily incentive-driven. Putting incentives in place that reward risk-taking increases the odds someone will die.
What kind of liabilities? That looks like a case against an individual.

Are you talking human counter-intelligence as well as IT security?
Unfortunately, heavy cars are allowed higher limits, and that's part of the reason the automakers are pushing heavier cars like hybrid crossover SUVs.
One case that comes to mind is when they started charging for S3 API requests because people were using it as a free KV store.