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I think depends on the implementation. Skyrim does dynamic leveling and this has the advantage you are not stuck in the beginners zone where you have to do most of the quests so you can get enough levels and money to be able to exit this zone.

I also like Gothic series did the static enemy levels and enemy would respawn only on Chapter changes, this gave you a god feeling when you could finally access a hard area and defeat the guys that were impossible to scratch at start.

So IMO both Skyrim and gothic work because they feet the game and the player base that is targeting and give a different feel of the world, there is no better system IMO. Also in Skyrim the stronger enemies differ visually too, is not just a hidden number that is increased, stronger enemy types with stronger gear is spawn.
I regret ever selling my PowerMac 9500 though.

I also regret getting rid of my PowerMac 7600. Still have my SE/30 however! And a network card I have been meaning to install in it but can’t find the right screwdriver. With that I think I could do some “real work” on it.
Yours is the toxic comment. Appeal to authority is fine if the authority is an authority and WB has proven his. Suggestions of intention to flatter and accusations of hero worship are pretty gross. @kingaillas's point is entirely valid IMO.
Eh when your consider things like this;
https://www.fox7austin.com/news/texas-gop-chair-suggests-law...

>Texas GOP chair says 'law-abiding states' should 'form a union' after SCOTUS rejects election suit

I feel there may be a real point to that. Is he being a bit emotional with his post? Sure. Should that be enough to write off a possible threat to democracy? No. I mean if that alienates you, I expect what the TX GOP chair did will REALLY make you passionate
That's true, but we're actually talking about YouTube here, not the government. So if false factual statements enjoy little First Amendment protection, then there's even less grounds to whine about a private party choosing not to disseminate them.
It was still an extremely scattergun approach. I'm moderately familiar with NLP but nothing in that paper really had traction overall, it was more of a list of mildly bad things than anything huge.
"Weaponized mininformation."

The same people claiming this now are the same ones who promoted Russigate for 2+ years. It had absolutely no basis in reality and resulted in no evidence of collusion - at all. But the whole time we were bombarded with claims of it by the media. It wasn't just fringe youtubers or twitter commenters, it was the actual mainstream media.

Where was this attitude of yours when that was going on?

I'm sorry but you're just fucking full of shit. You don't even realize how compromised and implicitly biased your thinking is. You are not being honest, not being fair.
One can really clean house if they understand networking well and pay close attention to what the WAN is doing. On the flip side, one can easily be ruined if the WAN is not considered during infrastructure planning.
Saturn and Jupiter in Summer 2020
Show HN: Generate static sites in Node with plain JavaScript and HTML
It's supposed to work as follows, from the article:

> A popular video titled “TOP 10 SCRIPTING PROOF! EA 100% EXPOSED! FIFA 19” purports to show 10 different clips demonstrating dynamic difficulty adjustment during gameplay, mostly near-misses, goals that should have gone in but don’t, that sort of thing.

A game is just a simulation and the skill of the player doesn't influence every aspect. Any event that is not in complete control can be nudged to benefit the weaker player. For example, a ball that's just in or out.
Tether has now printed over $20B USDT, up $15B since January
I used to use Dash [0] all of the time when I was traveling a lot because I loved having all of the relevant docs and stack overflow questions available offline. How does your offering compare to theirs?

0: https://kapeli.com/dash
> That's the development. Adjust your outrage accordingly.

Maybe folks are outraged that water is being bought and sold to begin with, but this is the first time they are hearing about it?
Then again as austrian o barely face any issues.
These threads have convinced me that how a person uses search is the biggest factor in whether they find DDG useful. By that I mean what type of things they search, how they craft their queries, and what they intend to do with the results.
are you sure you are not flipping cause and effects here?
> for some reason

And the reason is Google does it on purpose, and has done it for a long time. For years, Firefox was served an older, uglier, less functional version of their website.
That's actually a special case of a general phenomenon, which I seen here on a link on HN being called the Conway or Neumann problem (in any case, that blog post did purposefully misattribute for a joke, so I am not too concerned in getting the name right). The thing is, you're reading an newspaper article on anything where you can evaluate the quality with any kind of confidence, and it is invariably garbage, much too much simplified, glances over the interesting bits, and obviously the journalist did not understand the topic. And then you're turning the page, and expect the article on anything else to be much better.
It's generally a good attitude to have, but network effects are real. Disregarding them is a mistake.
Industry leaders like NordVPN and ExpressVPN may engage in P2P routing (to use residential IPs especially) to unblock services like Netflix and Disney+ [1].

HolaVPN unapologetically does this too [2].

All of this is discounting the new-age dVPNs like Orchid (not quite the Tor replacement that was promised? [3]) and Mysterium [4].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21664692

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9614993

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15576457

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14331049
Grosjean Bahrain 2020 F1 Crash 3D Animation Analysis
Show HN: I wrote a book about Debugging CSS
Hello! My name is Ahmad Shadeed, a designer and front-end developer who enjoys finding and fixing CSS bugs.

I have always wanted to have a resource which fully explains how to debug CSS (using DevTools) and contains a list of most common CSS issues. This book aims and delivers this.

The book teaches you how to leverage the full potential of the browser DevTools to find CSS bugs, and details the most common issues.

Who can read this book?
With this book, you will learn something new and different (regardless of your level).

Checkout the free preview:
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Crash analysis.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAeQHfwtr5s
> where the women do all this crappy work

This is very disrespectful to the many women, and a growing number of men that are making a conscious choice to prioritize raising children and caring for a family over salary work.

The problem is forced labor here, i.e. not having a choice to enter the work force. Not that the work is inherently "crappy" - it is not.
The link provides some arguments and maybe FDA should've/could've rolled with the process. Long times do not provide safety, only double blind tests and verifications do.

Are Gov jobs granted overtime work by ruling party, and how was this important work prioritized and coordinated by top leader?
Can I ask what you're doing these days? I was heavily inspired by modding EV to become a game developer myself.
Another explanation that makes more sense to me is it was done intentionally to make it harder to decipher. When I was young our newspaper used to have cryptogram puzzles in them based on a simple substitute cipher. The first thing you look for is repeating letter patterns like double letters and common word patterns like words ending in 'ing' or 'tion' for example. In his cipher he tends to drop a letter in words like 'button' and adds double letters to words that don't have them. Plus in his plain text letters to the press and police he tends to spell everything correctly.
A comment that just says "thank you this was a good post" is basically an up-vote in the form of a comment; it doesn't add any substance to the conversation. That would be a polite response in another context, but on HN the goal of the guidelines as I understand them is to keep the signal to noise ratio high - basically to increase the density of useful information and insightful argument in comments. In order to do that, comments that don't add substance to the discussion are discouraged here.
What makes you think the market for IPv4 doesn’t have the demand for another 2.5% given it’s a scarce resource?
The unexpected rule of adjectival ordering in English (2016)
The team behind Preact also recently released WMR [0] which attempts to simplify the process of actually building a web app. We're thinking of trying it out to replace the current mess we have with create-react-app, webpack, etc.

0: http://github.com/preactjs/wmr
A small nitpick: They don't "own" these addresses, the regional internet registries (ARIN, RIPE, APNIC etc.) loan them to Amazon so they can use them, they could take them away again if AWS would do something that's against the RIRs' policies.

We also have a single /22 block of addresses from RIPE (we were one of the last companies to get such a block in 2019), so far we haven't made use of it though as it's still a bit tricky to find providers that will announce your addresses (without asking a hefty amount of money for it).
Was chatting to someone yesterday who ran a RPA startup for last few years to automate repeatable desktop activities.

Essentially automation anywhere, UI path got to big for them to compete with, they also did not raise enough at the right time, but - more interesting to me - was that the founder said larger corporates were moving away from RPA to more structured api integrations to support automation.

They had an OK offering (I tried it) and managed to build up a client base of 20 or so corporates but now they are winding down and founder is looking for a job.

The quick ROI bang for buck through RPA has probably been exploited enough I feel and limitations are being exposed... My view but curious to hear others on state of automation software.
> I made about $20k a month and it paid my bills through college.

Lord man, what kind of bills were these?
I agree from my own painful experience, which makes the OP more impressive. I once tried to get the navigation stack running on a raspberry pi based robot to test out a gps driver, and was shocked that I had to include massive libraries for lidar and point clouds that I had no intention of using to get anything to build. In the end everything ran but the nav stack ate up so many resources that my robot wasn’t able to move reliably.
Going back to the OP though that talked about settling on the WIMP model, you're not really contradicting their point.

If you take a hammer from 1920 and lay it next to the most jazzed up hammer from 2020, they would be recognised as the same tool/having the same general purpose. A carpenter from 1920 wouldn't need to change the way he used a hammer if he picked up the 2020 model, even if the 2020 model might enable new ways of actually using it (or improve old ways of using it).

So while there is evolution and development going on, we're not replacing the hammer metaphor as it were.

The WIMP model has also seen evolution and refinement, but it's still recognisable as the same model. I think the analogy holds.
I’m just glad she’s alive, the article made me think she was no longer alive.
Yeah this is correct, I think what the OP was getting at was the fact that Redux requires a little more discipline as it's less opinionated than MobX.
This is amazing. Can you share the code?
Organized crime is more powerful and better organized right now than it has ever been in American history.

The reason people are unaware of this is that organized crime is really only visible when they are having problems. Gang wars lead to news coverage, one gang monopolizing an area and effectively extracting revenue from it does not.
> AWS don't obviously have an incentive to sell ...

You just invalided yourself. What do you think my point is?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-12/supreme-court-rejects...

They rejected it.

Once again it was a fantasy disconnected to facts.
$7500 was a federal subsidy. Had nothing to do with state.
>Because, you know, they're "private companies" or something.

Wait so are you for them being able to do whatever they want, where you can be banned from their service? Or do you want them under the arm of the government where they could be regulated? I think you're just mad at the culture. Trump isn't gonna fix that
No mRNA vaccine has been approved before, but from clinical trials of mRNA vaccines dating back to 2008 [1] there’s evidence of short-term side effects but no reason to suspect long-term safety concerns. mRNA vaccines don’t present the risk that attenuated vaccines pose to immunocompromised individuals or pregnant women, and they don’t stay in the body long enough to be a long-term threat. We can’t guarantee 100% because our bodies are complex, but I wouldn’t characterize it as “significant increased risk” for people under (or over) 40.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243/tables/2
Positive habits are underestimated [All the time]
Breast Cancer Classification Python Project
For one thing, rules for thee and not for me is simply terrible, and the left argued that there was fraud last time.

But more importantly, I don't even think your charity example works. Like you can be charged with fraud if you just put the money into your bank account, but if you collect for a charity and charge a 75% collecting and handling fee? Are you then collecting to a charity?

In this case it is more that somebody claims you are not collecting for the charity, you show the bank statements that conclusively prove (according to yourself) that you were collecting to a charity. Then somebody starts looking into it and claims they have evidence that you play golf with the bank teller. And that their manager is your college buddy.

And now you try to suppress the (alleged) photos.

To be clear, I don't think there was widespread fraud or voter suppression in favor of Biden. But the key difference is that normally there are disinterested parties (in particular courts) that can rule on the evidence, in politics there are by definition no disinterested parties in the US. And because of the superpower status of the US, it is even worse outside it.
I'm totally ready to be a BlueOrigin "fanboy" but their bigger promises haven't materialized yet. I think Rocket lab is cool and follow their progress, but their ambitions are comparatively small.
Disney finally revealed the real Disney Plus
Factors like the rising cost of housing and competition for education means that two parents working in professional careers with university educations can barely attain the same assets as a family supported by one blue collar tradesman in the 50s. People are having far less kids any more and they are stunned by the incompatibility of work-family when they do. We have been played.
> can the fields of mathematics and advanced physics or programming be studied to the degree they are with an understanding of causation?

Yes, pretty much. Newton's laws are a perfect example of something that establishes a correlation but are useful absent accurate causation.

They did just fine until we needed something better. Einstein provided this but can we be so sure gravity as a result of curved space is "true" and not just a really good model? Perhaps the hunt for what quantum gravity will one day tell.

> As a better counterpoint: if we could not distinguish between causation and correlation, why is general AI so hard?

I think general AI is hard because for one it might be a fiction. For general AI to be real, we'd have to assume people posses "general intelligence". Or at the very least, were it beyond us, we'd have to assume we could tell if we had created it.

What we are really trying to do with "general intelligence" is reproduce something that took 3.5 billion years of natural selection to design. We have only recently become capable of even creating machines with the kinds of part counts that biology comes with. Were we to produce "general intelligence" in the next thousand years I'd be surprised it came so easy.
What cert are you getting? I (not on Centurylink) see a Let'sEncrypt cert with sha256 BB:37:8D:DE:4E:AB:42:55:30:BE:08:10:A0:11:7A:CD:CB:99:51:91:4B:44:30:3F:E5:F4:76:B0:41:E0:AE:59.
I know nothing about what goes into approving a vaccine, but I am genuinely curious how come the US FDA was a whole 10 days behind the UK in approving this, and were also beaten by Bahrain and Canada.

Is it because they're genuinely more careful? Or is it just bureaucracy?
Our farm purchased several New Zealand asparagus sorting machines back in the 90s and they were quite excellent. They would size the spears by laser, and could do color analysis as well. There was still a significant manual component, but half the workers could manage the same throughput. Sadly we no longer use these machines, as there is no market for growing asparagus in the US these days. Labor costs have caused all the acreage to move into Mexico.

I’m not sure I’d agree the US is overall behind in automation compared to other countries, but I think we probably do have automation in different places. Farm labor is certainly not cheap in California. Our blueberry pickers averaged about $23 an hour this year. I admit I have no context for what would be an acceptable rate in New Zealand or Europe, but I can’t imagine it’s much more than that.
But why? Hammer/nail is essential, cheap and natural for crafting, and honestly I do programming in a somewhat handcrafted way, i.e. I don’t need sophisticated stock market frameworks for e.g. sending a request for quotelevel2. And many people seem to do that, that’s why deprecating ‘request’ instantly gave birth/popularity to ‘got’. There is no reason to complicate simple, battle-tested things until there really, really is a big reason. There is no such thing as “new”, until your task is “new” in any way. Using new things for the same old purpose is called fast fashion.
Ta, looks good.
Did you register a ASN?
Just disable javascript on any other browser and you will be amazed, how fast it can be. Although, compatibility will vary from site to site.
Yea In Japan the AI hype (or fad) arrived with like 3-4 years of delay compared to the west. Thing is it works so well for startups to get funding, it's not just media but investors too. Worked for a startup which sold "AI" interact with customer by detecting human face (and age, gender etc) and having targeted conversation. Turns out it's just a facial recognition and replay of prerecorded voices. I felt really dumb when customers, investors & the CTO somehow were impressed by this basic functionality.
It's interesting to see how things are playing out now that attacking a company via its payment processor has been mainstreamed as an activist technique.

Incidentally Pornhub is really a company called Mindgeek, so its tech employees can keep their resumes SFW. Worth knowing whether you are pro- or anti- Pornhub specifically or porn in general.
> but there is now firm legal precedent that greatly limits their ability to do it again.

There are also the situations of highly targeted minorities that would now be unable to protect themselves, because you've made anonymity illegal. These people really do need anonymity to protect themselves.

And no amount of laws can protect someone from a hate mob attacking them, that doesn't care about the consequences. One of the only ways for many of these people to protect themselves, is to be anonymous.

> Some people should not be able to avoid the consequences of their speech.

I have given pretty good examples where people absolutely should be given immunity from consequences. Specifically people should be immune from consequences if they are engaging in government criticism.

The examples that I gave are great reasons as for why anonymity is important for people.

> It's possible with enough tech savviness

Actually, it is possible with basically no amount of tech savviness. All you have to do is click the create new account button, on twitter, and you have just been given a pretty large amount of anonymity.

In order to have your twitter account de-anonymized, the government has to take pretty extreme actions, such as court orders.

Even if a certain anonymous situation is not 100% foolproof, it is still important that it is available, as it can help most people, most of the time.

It turns out, that simply being able to create an anonymous twitter account, is pretty anonymous, most of the time, for most people.

Also, the original point that I was countering was this "pseudo-anonymous political discourse on open mainstream mass-broadcast social media".

So I am talking about specifically why anonymity, in the form of having the ability to do what people do now, which is create anonymous twitter accounts, and engage in political discourse.
> When you “geolocate” an IP, you’re really just looking up the registered info for that IP’s ASN in the ARIN/RIPE database.

That's pretty much the whole business model of VPNs.

That, and secure encrypted traffic.
It’s not a motivator at all and your argument is invalid. Secondly, hiding things on your own screen is not censorship, hiding things on someone else’s screen is.
You're ignoring the ; which are sync points.

> How can you be sure that that } is the end of a certain defined block

If it's not in a string, what else is it but a typo? If a typo, it fails to parse but so long as it doesn't crash, fine.
Yea I got hired as a CTO for a startup in my late 20s and thought I had found my dream job. They offered to double my pay as a JR engineer which was a good amount of money for my age and was given 4% ownership that vested over 4 years. Well about 9 months in, the CEO decides the current business plan isn't viable and wanted to setup a competitor to his previous employer. He knew that this could very easily result in litigation from his former company as he was also the CEO there and started playing the LLC umbrella game and suddenly I'm getting paid by some company in Wyoming with a totally different name.

To comfort me, the CEO told me that they would go ahead and vest my 4% shares immediately for the new entity. The checks were still cashing and I didn't think much of it at the time. The company started making decent money about 1M annual revenue, but when profit sharing season came, I was not given anything but a 2k bonus. Then one day when nobody was in the office, I happened to see some documents on a desk that dissolved the company I supposedly owned 4% of and described a 3 tier ownership scheme (dreamt up by a creative lawyer on retainer)

There are many people that will prey on young talent, get them to build their startup infrastructure by promising them 250k+ salaries plus profit sharing. After you build the thing and server your use, be warry of the people suddenly wanting to "help" or "co-administer" the system. It's code for they are trying to learn how to run things without you because you are too expensive now that the system is online. Additionally, in more conventional contracts vesting options can cost you a lot financially if you don't calculate the taxes right.

In the end the CEO and VP got sued by both their former employer and the state of california. The CEO's wife then divorced him and took half of his money after he lost nearly 500k. Karma was a little mean in my opinion on that one haha