skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is still some good writing out there for sure. Check out Spider-man on PS4 - it's a linear game so there aren't conversation options to choose, but the writing is up there with anything else in the spider-man/marvel universe in any format in my opinion.

The games you mention all seem to be games with options for dialog which if you think about it is hard to write for, games are the only medium where you're essentially choosing your own adventure and the writing has to be able to account for any/all choices and still end up leading you towards some kind of conclusion that makes some sense.
There is an `if` statement in a `for` loop that looks like it could be eliminated. Abbreviating:

if (dd.all >= dr.all) {
dd.all -= dr.all;
quo.s.low |= 1;
}

could be

bool c = dd.all >= dr.all;
dd.all -= (-c & dr.all);
quo.s.low |= c;

Clang might implement this with `cmov` instructions, coded either way.
https://remarkable.com/

Combines the best of analog and digital.

I use mine every day all day. Works great.
I'd be a little careful with your one-line dismissals of fields. Each field has hundreds of people dedicating their entire lives into it. It'd be offensive to them that someone who hasn't even done any research to think they can judge an entire field like that. Imagine a high school student who took a community college course and saying "University juniors don't know anything. I discovered that they just copy from Wikipedia." The advice in this thread is a great starting point.
Except in this case he utterly failed at answering the question and went on an unrelated rant.

“What you feel in the magnet is the same force that keeps my hand from going through the chair, so the question is why does it work at a human-scale distance? The answer is that in an iron magnet all the magnetic forces in each atom are aligned. An individual atoms‘ force is too small to be felt at distance, but the combined effect of all the atoms in a magnet is large enough.”

That wasn’t so hard.
New Text-to-Voice App Uses Real Human Voices and AI to Create Voiceovers
Agreed. Most game trailers completely lose me; That was a joy to watch.
I am a PhD as well. Solid advice picking the right supervisor. That is one of the most critical factors to your success (be it publishing, having a career as an academic or getting into grad school in your situation). Don't ask me how to pick the right advisor because I think it is partly fortune, and partly the fit for you. Key thing is to find something you are excited about (and so is the advisor).

Btw .. three pieces of random advice:

- Go to the best grad school possible. Below a certain threshold, it is pointless.

- Learn to write well, and learn to read research papers in your field of interest.

- Get good taste in your problem to solve. When I was starting out my post-PhD life, a very senior Director/VP-level scientist at IBM Research asked me if I had a good taste in picking problems. I gave a BS answer since this was during my job search/interview loop. But I have thought back to that question a lot as I hit mid-career. I suggest you watch the first keynote at MobiSys 2020 (free on youtube). I think you need to pick problems that are within your capability and then build on the skills you have picked up to work on the next better problem, and so on ... all perhaps in sight of a worthy problem at the very end or on the road. I wish I gave this deep thought early in my career .. maybe I'd be more satisfied in my career (but hey .. I still have time .. maybe I'll figure it out one day!).
> Figure out a treatment?

That'd be the "refer you to participate in a study" part.
Your average medical practitioner does not do research.

> Or at least establish what is actually wrong?

How? Based on what? That's the whole point for something like this; the medical consensus does not know how to diagnose it.
They only sold 14 Concordes and if they had invested the same time and energy in a more economically sound airplane design they could have sold hundreds or thousands and created far more highly skilled jobs fir much longer periods.
Basketball requires less space than many other games, and more easily scales from one person to many. The low space requirement makes it a very friendly game for cities where space is often a premium.
Because then all the robots (vacation responders) reply too. The separate address in the body of the email is a little like a captcha humanity test.
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I'm always fascinated how discoveries like this can often be simultaneously discovered only a few years apart, like what happened here.
Thiel himself is a lawyer. Seems to be doing OK innovation-wise.
The video is great. If you feel offended by it, think about why.
Cakebread Cellars : named after Jack and Delores Cakebread.
The planes were facing expensive maintenance costs, the operating profits weren’t going to last. Plus the planes were very unsafe., and couldn’t be easily brought up to modern safety standards.
If you ask us, "Do you want to improve X?", of course we will say yes.

I think Project X (a powerful but sadly unmaintained third-party scripting mod for the game) has shown us a glimpse of what the culmination of the game's development might look like, so that's the direction that we want to go. Games with powerful modding capabilities (Garry's Mod, Skyrim) very often outlive the more static linear games, and combined with Armageddon's existing configurability and random map generation, I think it is something with a lot of potential.
What? No. This is not true. We understand 100% the physics of how magnets work.
Something You Can’t Use at a Price You Can’t Resist (2018)
Why is it valuable that hiring managers consider candidate age?
This is the key of the article:

“ Those successful companies aren’t successful because they use OKR’s. They use OKR’s because it is designed to leverage the empowered product team model.
And as I have tried to make clear with years of articles and talks, the empowered product team model is a fundamentally different approach to building and running a tech-product organization.”

Amen to this. Google is an example company that claims to have had great success with OKRs. But let’s not forget that before OKRs, they had empowered teams, a growing market which they disrupted and grew, and a unique culture.

My bet is they would have done spectacularly well without OKRs, using some other method as well. You can’t say that OKRs caused Google to succeed, and they certainly won’t be enough to turn a company or org around, like the author argues.
Everyone just maintain their own Mastodon servers!
Does this really work?

Not seeing any torrents of mine.
I think it's because they are useful tools that a lot of webdevs see and can see themselves reasonably implementing by themselves. (Like todo lists & habit trackers)
The 'side quest' side of all fallout games is usually far stronger and more interesting/rewarding for sure than the main trail which I think is almost deliberately made flat/weak to encourage you to explore the world more. The really good ones I think are the stories you piece together from terminal entries, particularly those in vaults (Vault 11!).
I settled on Rednotebook on Linux on my work laptop.

It has almost no features beyond a daily page and a term cloud (basically, an index of terms where the most frequent terms have bigger fonts).

I use some informal markdown syntax, in the sense that i mostly recognize visually.
Emirates Mars Mission Launches from Japan
Half joke/half serious:

1. Food(any objection?)

2. Public transportation: high speed rail road

3. Huge and fancy malls: USA is behind believe it or not

4. E-payment & WeChat: Chinese people think differently.

5. Food delivery and all kinds of half-day delivery

6. Free of Racism: invisible ceiling

7. Cultural recreational activities that you don’t understand

8. Crowded.
Now apply this logic to people who believe that there is an invisible man in the sky watching all your actions.

That's a majority of the worlds' scientists, teachers, politicians, and just about every profession.
Seems to be a style that doesn't add anything useful.

In related news, a formal convention that really grates is the american way of spelling out a number then putting it in brackets after: "You are permitted fourteen (14) days holiday a year" kind of thing. If anyone can shed any light on that I'd be interested.
The NRA is still heavily involved in hunter education, general firearms training and organizing classes for police departments.
Answer the following: Does the period help in any way? Go from there.
>But every branch of the military is making serious attempts at getting better. There are pockets of absolute filth, but most people in the military want to fix the problem and do not tolerate sexual abuse or abusers in their units, and act swiftly and appropriately when it is discovered.

"As a naval officer I abhor the implication that the Royal Navy is a haven for cannibalism. It is well known that we have the problem relatively under control, and that it is the R.A.F. who now suffer the largest casualties in this area"
amazing little moments all throughout that video haha
> The PinePhone can now achieve 100hrs standby time without modem

Is it really standby without the modem? Sounds more like sleep.
Thanks for the tldr. Maybe good to always add that when posting a link :)

Also from the article:
"You can’t take your old organization based on feature teams, roadmaps and passive managers, then overlay a technique from a radically different culture, and expect that will work or change anything."
The Amiga OS used this pattern everywhere. I first learned C on an Amiga in the late 80’s.
If someone needs to read documentation for a few days in order to figure out which end of the sword to hold, perhaps the sword was just poorly designed and unintuitive.
I, on the other hand, found it very lackluster. Most of the game's environments are filled with identical copy-paste monsters, it's almost entirely lacking all the incidental background quests and character material that make even the "bad" Fallout games feel like there's something new around every corner, and the game very visibly gets a simpler, less player-driven narrative as you go to each new world.
The problem is that not only is this "not full blown AGI". The problem is that, if you understand how this works, it's not "intelligence" at all (using the layperson meaning of the word, not the marketing term), and it's not even on the way to get us there.
Intel limits memory speeds in mainstream motherboads
Top five suggestions for getting out of Depression and Anxiety?
This got me thinking about how "module" - a language concept - is about bringing in definitions (values, types...) into scope, but then there is deployment, something being "installed at a version".

Modules, understood as such, are inevitably connected to the stuff that is happening "one level above" where these things providing the modules are installed (Rust crates, npm packages).

Reaching for a language-independent word, I'd propose to call these things "components" (slightly longer-form thoughts here: https://blog.burakemir.ch/2020/07/modules-components-and-the...)

... but those things happen to be called (or heavily associated with) "module" in Java, C++20 and go.
In my experience this is standard practice in the PR industry and isn’t seen as a problem to solve or viewed as any sort of ethical dilemma.

In the industry these articles would be talked about as a “3rd party op-eds”, and the general practice of finding “3rd party advocates” is a key element of any issues advocacy campaign.

The practice doesn’t stop at op-eds. PR firms or in-house corporate communications teams cultivate a roster of business leaders, academics, politicians, etc that can be called upon to speak on panels at conferences, participate in media interviews, be featured in documentaries and show up in other creative ways.

In the PR world it’s a taken as a given that “your message is most powerful when it comes from a respected third party” so this practice is pervasive and impacts every conference you’ve ever attended, op-Ed pages on a daily basis, and many of the media stories you read.

As for solving it, I’m not aware of any groups dedicated to that cause. Raising awareness is one step — ham-fisted astroturfing made public is embarrassing for a company, but 3rd party advocacy is generally more subtle and not viewed as astroturfing by PR pros.
There's very little reason for home users to be running smeltdown mitigations, especially if you find the performance hit objectionable.

Browsers immediately mitigated via other measures, and I've never read about any criminal network choosing to crawl through memory for credentials (that might even be stored encrypted) as opposed to just dropping some malware and keylogging.

It's a big deal if you are a cloud host or your threat model includes state actors, not for joe public worrying about his bank credentials or his CS:GO knife skins.
> Google’s search engine works so well, precisely because it relies on credibility-based differential voting power

I guess this explains why web search results no longer appear on the first page?
That sounds like a worst-possible world, and something we really shouldn't be tolerating.
You may also have been thinking of Myers-Briggs which is pseudo-scientific nonsense and quite worthless given the ease it can be gamed when answering the questions.
You don't know how communism works.
There are no "Chinese companies" or "Chinese investment founds", or "Chinese 5%".
There is only the Party. The single and only united entity, political and economical.
There are wealthy people but they don't own any capital or means of production. They may own a Ferrari but can't own a wheelbarrow. They may decide if they want to buy a villa in Italy, but they can't decide to buy a Pizzeria in Verona.

There is no difference between political and economical power.
If you accept any Chinese capital, you are dealing with the Party. The Party's decisions are not economical, they are political. They will destroy any company for a political gain. They don't make any decisions that are apolitical.

It's not about selling your products or services to China, it's about following the politics of the party.

There are no Chinese students. You can't leave a communist state just like that. Money don't matter. You have to be a good citizen, you must leave your family behind, you must agree to cooperate with the intelligence and to follow politics of the Party or you will never will be allowed abroad again or something bad will happen to your family.

There is no China, there's just the Party. There are no individuals, there's just the Party.
Well yes, but that doesn't solve the parsing problem right?

My point is that some YAML or JSON documents conform to a specification which can be codified as a set of rules, which combined with the data form facts. I'm asking if there are existing systems to parse these files given I write these rules in a particular syntax, spitting out a queryable representation of the data.
This is exactly what happened to me. A glitch, lost changes and unpredictable behavior at unpredictable times. It's too bad, because I thought it was a keeper.
These differences are real but most probably don't make the difference you expect.

For example, concealed carry holders in the USA (about 5% of adults) are much less likely than the general population to be involved in a crime of any kind, and much less likely to be involved in a shooting.

Fully automatic weapons in the US are certainly more widespread than in other countries, and there are even privately owned artillery pieces and grenade launchers; but these weapons are never used to kill anyone. Eliminating or regulating them further serves no public safety purpose at all.
Is this what is called “p hacking”? Looking a among many different criteria until you find one that is statistically significant?
Meta: typo in the title, mods please s/lanuage/language/. Thanks.
Contact the Switchboard number for Nominet.uk, as they run the .uk domain system. They also have a domain resolution service for cases such as this.
I feel like you have missed my entire point. The example is not related.
> Replacing the culture of a nation with one's own is imperialism.

Protip: this is the covert part. Who convinced you that's what's happening? Riling up Americans to make a lot of noise about how "China is totally getting one over on us, we swear" makes it realistic and keeps those things in China as sources of American cultural osmosis. If Disney or NBA "took a stand" then they would get the boot just like South Park did once Matt & Trey took the fall (and ton of free publicity) to prove that possibility is real.

For what it's worth I also absolutely see e.g. TikTok as the same concept in a slightly different domain and operating in the other direction. I don't know where I stand on "banning" it in America since the idea does offend my inner libertarian but China already set the precedent there many many times over.
Nice to know that the Uyghur genocide is racism-free.
Honestly, you need to level up your argumentation. No material is (except in form of waste) converted to anything abstract without an intrinsic value. Capitalism generally reduces waste. What happens though, is that material is turned into products which a lot of people find useful/desirable. This problem is a problem, but it is a much harder problem to 'solve' than the one you are claiming.
In Praise of the Gods: What the Rationalistic World Forgot
I agree that's a really striking and suggestive result, but keep in mind the sub-sample size there is four passing on the private side and six failing on the public side. My guess is there's a real and meaningful effect there, but it may not be to the degree that sentence without context would suggest.
The LEDs in the article are WS2812B LEDs that operate at 5v rather than 12v. 5v is a slightly more "normal" LED voltage, 12v strips are usually going little tricks like have 3 or LEDs in series and using that to get the required 12v drop.

With the WS2812B you're issue is that they operate on 5v logic for communications. 3v logic from a chip can _just about_ communicate with 5v devices. But you can't send the signal very far before the voltage drop stops communication. The cheat here is to use a single WS2812B LED as logic voltage converter. You put a resistor in line so it's operating at ~4v, give it a 3v logic signal it can understand, and it'll then talk down stream using ~4v logic, which you can then pump into normal 5v LEDs.

You can find detail of this little trick on hackaday[1]. But it's specific to WS2812B type LEDs that are really microcontrollers that happen to also put out light, rather than traditional dumb LEDs that have no smarts.

[1] https://hackaday.com/2017/01/20/cheating-at-5v-ws2812-contro...
Frostbite engine is such an unwieldy monster that it has killed the last 3 games that tried to use it, all of them top-tier AAA franchises no less (BFV, Anthem, ME:A).

It is optimized for two things, Battlefield and FIFA, and it is even cumbersome for that (see: BFV's lifecycle and the numerous long-standing bugs that plagued it). It was never designed for an RPG and things like inventory systems and facial animation did not exist and had to be invented (badly). But EA is all-in on the "everything has to run frostbite company-wide".
And what the parent is saying, is that a study like this is not just demonstrating correlation, otherwise there would be no point in publishing it.
I disagree only because I've had real contacts with personal giants on twitter dozens of times and never won anything at a casino. While I do spend more time on twitter, I believe this effect is more common than your analogy allows.

People into fringe academic topics are likely to see this effect more than people @ing along and kanye.
That's one of the most ridiculous hidden UX'es I've heard of in a long while. It always surprises me when people think of Apple as somehow "user-friendly".
Scientific papers should not be treated as health advice
Wow you're taking the story way too literally if your takeaway from my story is that you think I was saying that the world needs more coffee shops. The whole point is that our society rewards financial speculation and rentiership / wealth-extraction over labor, the topic of the book in this thread.

I never said that management isn't work. I'm saying that society overly glorifies managers and underappreciates workers, as evidenced by CEOs getting paid 271x the average worker. Everyone can't be a manager, financier, or passive business owner, someone has to do the actual work.

> What would you think if someone claimed that a major problem in society is small business owners who are not lazy enough? People like your friend are making it harder for all of the competitors and their employees by working long hours for little money, so it becomes a "tragedy of the commons"

Sounds like you're blaming a systemic problem on individuals.

Sad that people are misinterpreting my little story to think my takeaway is that everyone needs to work harder. If it were up to me, we'd have a universal basic income and anybody could do as they please without having the threat of destitution constantly looming under them.
> because offline conversations never happened, and they moved to online conversations where necessary

Not to mention throwing everyone who might need to know about something on a thread because you don’t know who should be. This would be measured as a network increase. But it actually represents distancing.
Show HN: Make sense of your call data
does this boil down to "diets that are high in iron, aka meat, will yield a life that is less long compared to a diet that is low in iron (meatless)?"
I honestly don't want to do that for two main reasons.

1. Apps like Revolut and others I rely on don't work on Ubuntu Touch to my knowledge.

2. Ubuntu Touch is not 100% customizable either. The rootfs for example is mounted as read only with no ability to change that. My ext4 sd card could not be mounted through any gui from what I tried. Mounting it through the terminal worked, but when I put it into fstab (and imo "fixed" the read only rootfs) the changes were reset on the next boot. That was the point where I decided to switch to mobian.
Valuable for who?
Similar story: Kicking Horse Pass. (BC Canada)

Most think it a native name, that there was some warrior or chief named "Kicking Horse" and that we should rename the pass to give it a proper pronounciation in the native language. I've seen people protest about this (1990s, pre-wikipedia) and try to locate the historical person of which there are a few with that name. The reality is that one of the guys surveying the pass was literally kicked by his horse. No translation needed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kicking_Horse_Pass
Twitch should refund them. This is ridiculous.
Someone wants to sell his supplements, uh?

Title is: "Multivariate genomic scan implicates novel loci and haem metabolism in human ageing".
The primary advantage of democracy vs. most other systems (authoritarian, monarchy, etc.) is that leaders can be voted out of office.

The primary disadvantage, as noted in the article, is the tyranny of the majority.
I think a lot of Americans are unaware of how much Hollywood has become an export business, such that a movie can kind of flop in the US and be a spectacular success elsewhere. My impression is that has been the case for quite a while.
These are (almost) all isolated questions.

I wonder if GPT-3 can hold a longer conversation where it remembers facts mentioned earlier and what it itself has said.

In other words, does it exhibit any "theory of mind"?

I'm guessing it would do quite poorly on that stuff.
Is there any evidence that eating more meat actually causes higher blood iron levels?
Testing Stripe webhooks locally with expose.sh