skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been binging it since launch.
ATM, I have 40 hour playtime in it.
I'm Playing it in a two year gaming laptop, with every graphical setting on Low. (I graphics don't say much to me)

Yes, the game is buggy. But, IMO, there are deeper problems that that:

- The crafting system is absolutely useless.

- The loot and equipment system is basically a "looter-shooter". Which I dislike. And make the crafting useless.

- The game economy is messed up. Cyberware implants and vehicles are way too expensive. And there is no incetive to buy any weapons. The loop is "fight stuff, get stronger stuff, equip the stronger stuff and sell the rest". After four or five loops you have money to buy something useful.

- Big problems the targeting reticle for interacting with stuff.

- The car physics is awful. The minimap is too zoomed in. And driving in first person is a PITA.

- NPC AI is really lacking.

- Quest design feels a bit lackluster. There are less alterative choices and nuance than what's in the Witcher 3 [0].

- The world, while visually and architecturaly well designed, it is empty. There are no side activities. No hotel rooms to sleep in, no option to sit at the bar and have a drink... There is a gun range that is only open for a short quest!

- There seems to be a lack of consequence in the game. I blow up and steal stuff and beal blows to organizations and the game world doesn't change with that.

I'm enjoying the game. And plan to finish it.

But I feel like CD Project Red bit up more that it could chew:

- I believe a push to have the best and latest graphical quality (raytracing and the sort) harmed other parts of the game.

- With a game having so much "bling", they should've added more stuff to do besides fighting people and questing. The places are only meaningful if there are meaningful things to do there. (GTA 5 had the same problem. GTA 4 did not)

- Writing and quest design should've been iterated a bit more. As I usually say, "voice acting did more harm that good to RPGs". This mean that it is harder to iterate on quests and dialog because it's expensive to re-record dialog.

- The Witcher 3 was more streamlined, the world was simpler, and had less mechanics. It was easy to balance the different systems. As well as game physics.

[0] The quest 'Wild at Heart' in one of the first quests in the game and set the tone for the general quest design in the game. https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Wild_at_Heart
The flip side of this is that a single negative review offsets hundreds of positive ones.

I've literally had to stop using my airbnb account that had dozens of possitive reviews after a single bad review left in bad faith (owner privetly asked for money to remove it) meant that each new owner was hesitant about me and asking me specifically about that single comment.

I contacted airbnb support with proof of this and they said it can't be removed. Ive stopped using the service since then.
What would you assume the intention is here to lie? Are they trying to make themselves intentionally look bad to start a war with Russia? Put more sanctions on them? I don't really see the incentive here.
Of course they can. Air quality is not binary. Air can be clean yet it could also be cleaner.
> With this API you cannot “measure” anything, you can only check what was the result of an already computed and pre-heated flow.

That's a valid point!
I agree, that's just cruel. No one deserves being subjected to Twitter.
It would be cool to be able to use Google Pay with nfc on my iPhone.

There has been previous discussion on Apple’s lockdown of nfc for payments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21544531

It appears Germany passed a law to force providers like Apple to open up NFC to competitors. This supposedly went into effect on January 1, 2020. When I went to Google Pay’s docs, it said they only support US and India.
I don't because it was:

- Slow (remember 56k modems)

- Expensive (remember when you had to pay by the minute)

- It was the early days of the browser war, which IE was winning. Remember the "best viewed" banners. It was one of the worst times for compatibility, you had plugins too: Java, Flash/Shockwave, ...

- Search engines were terrible. Now we can write whatever is on our mind in the search box, even with typos, and 95% of the time, we get exactly what we are looking for. We like to complain about the remaining 5%, but in the late 90s it was the norm.

- The web was simply smaller, there was less information. Wikipedia didn't exist for instance.

- Ads, terrible design and annoyances have always been a thing. The 90s had popups and blink, the 2000s had flash, and we now have JS.

- Tracking, privacy and security. The 90s web was insecure as hell. Remember there used to be a popup warning you that SSL was used, plain http was the norm. It was less of a concern simply because we used to do less on the web. It was a time when people were calling you crazy for buying something online.

So no, I don't miss it. It is a piece of history that would look nice in the digital equivalent of a museum, but for day to day use... no.
No reference in the statement relative to the security of the Raspberry platform, since the security of the device is close to zero. The Raspberry SoC is not capable of a secure boot process, at least not for now.

I'm curious whether this is something that will be addressed in the near future, since this is not something you can turn a blind eye to, when you claim the industrial sector.
> so we decided to look for a solution. After a brief search, we found one: just don’t use any non-essential cookies. Pretty simple, really

Many people told you so. Remove third party scripts and cookies and suddenly things become easy.
> Adding “Dict[str, Any]” gives you value and let’s you catch bugs

What types of bugs are you speaking of? Can you share an example?

Remember about constructive feedback method - what, why and how.
Isn't Apple getting ready to enter the advertising market also?
Sony offering Cyberpunk 2077 refunds, pulls game from Playstation Store
iOS users generally have quite high purchasing power. I suspect that even untargeted ads on Apple's ad network would still be quite valuable. Even just knowing the category of app an ad is displayed in (e.g. "Game", "Reading App") might be enough demographics to "target" reasonably effectively without tracking the specific user.
Commercial 'Smart Thermostats' bug the hell out of me.

A Thermostat is a temperature sensor, and a relay. Anyone who has a little bit of tinkering experience could probably build a smart thermostat that doesn't need the cloud and is totally private.

However, accepting that most people can't be bother to DIY, or even have the needed skills, I'm surprised there aren't 'Open Hardware' Thermostats available that are just as easy to fit?

I've not Googled, but does anyone know of any non-DIY 'open' alternatives ?
I've tried both Ratpoison and StumpWM. Both follow a similar
concept, but Ratpoison is more lightweight and minimalistic
whereas StumpWM has a lot more features and is excellent with
handling multiple screens(it treats all screens as separate
splits of the same workspace, so it's easy to move around
windows).
It looks like a pretty cool horror game—the screenshots remind me of Amnesia.

It’s seriously a shame that publishers are censoring the game and denying revenue to hardworking devs for something as innocuous as an amulet with the expression “Xi Jinping Winnie the Pooh” on it.

The devs even patched it due to the backlash, but that appeal seems to have been denied.
Star Wars' Boba Fett actor Jeremy Bulloch dies aged 75
I still remember using `display: table` and `display: table-cell` for getting vertical alignment as well.
Interestingly, that despawning does not happen on PC.
Have you been working on any side projects? If you can finish and launch a software project, then you are OK. The consensus seems to be that interviews are bad at identifying capable people.

I think JK Rowling's Harry Potter books were rejected by 10 publishers, so fuck other people's judgement.
You are doing what? Describing and accentuating the link between low level comprehension, and high level utilities. A link mostly missing in software documentation. A great effort, not so much for it´s pertinency but as a theoretical exercise how software documentation, ---be it a README.md or a "book", should be conceived.
Aren't newspapers the traditional venue for this type of corporate announcement / ad?
Maybe the fog droplets move slowly compared to light? Don't know if that's true.
Is it really possible to get such analysis if you're not a macos developer? From a layman point of view, I would take a list of instructions executed during common case OS usage and then extract the most common patterns (basically compression) and put them into silicon. These wouldn't be easy to understand if you don't know exactly what the OS is doing and how. I mean of course you need some cleanup and well thought-out design for future software development, but I wouldn't be surprised if in the future, to get the full experience of a new OS you will also need to update the hardware.
This looks very cool and I could use it but I would be more happy for an EU version of this where I can simply pay you for hosting it for me, at least until I know my app or project is successful. I think there is a room for a Plausible version of auth. I think it's good that you offer to self-host it but honestly that is a bit of work as well.

I use a js-only backend so installing Java as a dependency maybe isn't the biggst deal but it's still something I will have to consider.

Even if it's more work to configure and setup an auth myself I will know the intimate details of how it works and don't have to spend time learning another tool in another language. Both takes time and since I've implemented auth several times already it isn't that big of a deal for me.
UK designer's wheelchair innovation wins $1m Toyota prize
> Portal, the game by Valve

Published in 2007.

> I only played it this year

Portal is to a great extent a tech demo for its unprecedented "portal" rendering. This enabled some very 3D puzzles of a style that gamers hadn't seen before. Of course it's going to look a little pale in 2020, although you'd hope any original bugs were fixed.
I recently introduced chess to my kids (6 & 11 years old). They both immediately got hooked and we have been playing several games every night.

It's high-quality time for you & kids (no screens!), and also teaches the kids to think complex sequences (or combinations of the future) in their mind, and patience in general.
The incredibly clickbaity title of this HN post needs to be changed. I would flag the article, but it is actually interesting.
This reminds me of a question posed by an online user of a message board I frequent: Will the likes of Deep Blue and Alpha Zero kill competitive chess?

My initial thoughts were, "No, of course not! Cars and trains didn't kill track-and-field competitions!".

But now that I think about it, I really do feel a slight aversion towards getting back into chess.

Although practiced concentration is a side-benefit of playing chess regularly, the fact of the matter is that nowadays, it is impossible to play in a manner that hasn't already been thoroughly examined by some AI.

There's no new ground to discover; no interesting techniques or thought-processes that an amateur or a world champion can invent; there is no more sense of human innovation in the game.

If I picked up a chessboard for the first time in a decade, there would always be a chance that I can come to defeat Gary Kasparov someday; that is not the case with AlphaZero or DeepBlue.

Say what you want about the benefits of forced concentration or the social benefits, but that desire to play chess has been extinguished for me, and I'm sure for many others, once AlphaZero and DeepBlue hit the scene.
That’s because they wrote it all in ruby, which don’t get me wrong is a fine language but did have scaling issues back in the day. As it happens this was a growth experience for ruby too.

However limited their technology choice might have been from a performance standpoint it did give them the adapatability and flexibility to provide the fun and entertaining product that got them off the ground in the first place.

It did inevitably lead to the growing pains we discuss but I doubt anybody expected it to get as big as it did.

WRT the original comment here ... the main limiting factor nowadays is just getting people to use it. The network effect. Mastodon is a thing, and people do use it but it’s a minnow relatively speaking.

The next big challenge I think will be some kind of decentralised twitter based on some kind of blockchain (by which I mean progressive content hashing and consensus) and I don’t mean federated, like mastodon. The mastodon name is ridiculous too .. I’m not going to go into why but if you know you know, and stupid as it is it does matter.
So in other words this is the forefather of Yoda's "Do or do not, there is no try"?
Interesting to think about the experiment of copying some chunk of the universe with a wave in it and letting the time tick in a simulation: which direction should the wave propagate? Surely there must be some information encoded somewhere about that fact.
That's great! That is exactly what I would like to see happen. Software comes at a cost, and nobody should expect to get software "for free", where "free" is actually a lie, because you pay by giving up your privacy.
Is "The Dip" a worthwhile read?

I wonder what YCombinator thinks about career aptitude tests. Could the YC interview be replaced by such a test? I suspect the answer is no.
You’re asking how type annotations can help you catch bugs. I’m not particularly inclined to synthesise a bunch of examples (especially after the highly condescending initial wording of your comment), it seems fairly obvious and I’m sure you’re smart enough to figure it out.
I like to use the audience score as well. I found it has some pitfalls occasionally, although they can be fun.

Certain movies attract a very narrow and enthusiastic, that will upvote the movie disproportionately (people not interested in the kind of movie will not even vote).
A my little pony movie can get as good scores as the Godfather. Maybe it is, who knows.
Google is killing off Android Things (OS for IoT devices, for hobbyist projects)
Just swap the “building owner” with the “mafia boss” that demands 30% cut of the services you use for this protection.
I've been working desk jobs my whole career, and I consider it absolutely mandatory to just get up and walk around often. Always take the stairs, walk to the water cooler, take a walk outside after lunch, stand up at your desk.

Unfortunately management and company culture tends to frown on doing these things.
Imagine for a moment that you want to advertise your new iPhone app on Facebook. It’s important to know if someone clicks an ad and downloads your app. That’s called a Conversion. It’s used to measure the effectiveness of the ad campaign and the value you gain from spending money on an ad.

The flow of information from Facebook to iPhone app install needs some kind of per-user unique identifier. That’s unique ID is what Apple wants to remove, which breaks the advertising model in entirety. It also hurts small businesses that want to advertise on Facebook.

Does that help understand the situation?
The proposal to use sqlite database files instead of zip files falls under the precondition that an attacker can submit a maliciously crafted database file. So the security concerns apply.

SQLitte is mostly used in situations where neither the database nor the SQL statements can be provided by the attacker. If SQLite is used to exchange data both of these attack vectors are available.
Wow that was really shitty. I was scammed by a regulated taxi driver in Santiago. Neither stars or regulation are substitutes for shit human beings.
Pinterest has proven by spamming SERP for years that if you're big enough Google will close eyes on it.
One more try and we will achieve the utopia, eh?
Some had commented in the past that they still use some groups to interact with their local community (think parents and the school of their children). It was on HN so I guess it was in the US?

Other features that are still relevant: the marketplace, events, and pages from businesses where complaining can actually lead to an answer. This year I was waiting for refunds from some sport events, and the only way for me to get some updates or at least know if other customers were happy with a 30% refund (!) was to check the Facebook page of the business. Businesses have a bigger pressure to answer since it's public: no answer to a lot of angry comments is bad for them.
I can’t. We are not talking about a start up trying to deliver a product to test the market as soon as possible but a gaming studios delivering a polished experience. I really hope they didn’t have such amateur problems
I do think it contributes, however the techniques for rendering these have also advanced in quality and performance over the years, so it's probably possible for them to get the game to a decent state even on last gen consoles.
The review system is basically broken on the internet. Paid reviews and fake reviews (positive and also negative) are everywhere.

A good solution could be if shops would simply allow only reviews, but without a grade. Just some text. This would reduce the incentive of trying to game the grading system of reviews, but still give consumers some information about the pros and cons of a product.
Agreed. Which is also why I would love to know the cost to "society" if we ban it? How much more are advertisers prepared to pay for effectively choosing which people to show ads to versus having to run a marketing campaign that then causes me to search or seek out their goods.

I can see it either way - perhaps having vast costly adverts / PR pieces is ruining the media landscape - I mean how many column inches cover films, Tesla vs GM. Would we be better off as a society if we paid for journalism and just accepted there would be a banner ad at the top that only middle aged men with bad backs like me see?
That's true, but I wish they spread their reach wider. These fines to Google/Amazon/Facebook make the news, but are just a slap on the wrist to these giants. What would work much better is a wider campaign of smaller fines, so that everybody in the sleazy business would know or heard of someone who was fined.
IBM has long since been a has-been software player in the 21st century.
IBM is a global consultancy, and is in no way similar to the IBM PC company in days of yore.
Vertical centering would work just as horizontal centering works in 99% of the cases as expected. The syntax could be symmetric. We override and adjust as needed. Instead, we have nothing to override or adjust. We're forced to pick a layout system just for a specific feature, and add 5 lines of code that now interferes with everything else.

The argument isn't that it's hard. It's that it could be so much easier. But also, that there just might be a fundamental issue with the philosophy of what could have been just html has evolved into the monstrosity that is css/html/javascript+framework+backend_render... with "the inability for vertical alignment to declared simply" as evidence.
Is this satire? Looks like an advert for a toilet cleaner.
This matches my experience. I played it for 50 hours on PC (and I am a very lazy gamer, typically I get tired of everything in one hour), and didn't encounter any breaking bugs. Overall, it's a very enjoyable story-driven game, although "AI is more A than I".

My explanation for the outrage is that in the past few years quite a few people made youtube careers bashing AAA games. Making outrage videos a lucrative business, apparently, and the new generation of wannabe game journalists jumped on the train.
Salesforce, DoorDash, Fb, Slack and others got their fisrt users
Growth Hacking is a thing. Whether that counts as real growth or not I don’t know. But metrics can become suspect when they become a target.

There are quite a number of people using Mastodon and it is quite nice but it does feel a bit echoey all the same. At the same time there is a lot of garbage on twitter that you really couldn’t call “active users” and keep a straight face. As usual e truth is usually somewhere in the middle ...
Early detection of cancer 4 years before conventional diagnosis using blood test
Does that work? I donate a 5er monthly and I’m still getting the Wikipedia “please donate “ appeals...

It’s like listen to public radio pledge drives after you’ve donated.. necessary but still slightly annoying.
https://mbasic.facebook.com/messages/ works for me in Chrome on Android 11. If it stops working i am done with FB messaging forever.
Would be interesting to know how many of the people that not got the vaccine died beacuse of covid. Because if all of the seven not vaccinated died because for covid means that we have 6 covid unrelated death in the vaccinated group vs 0 covid unrelated death in the control group, and that would not be really good.
The classic bugs are passing the wrong type of argument and calling a method on None.

PyCharm did static analysis and caught a lot of these, but it wasn't always that obvious. With a type hint, it's easy for the IDE to spot things. It's easy to integrate mypy into the CI process, etc.

We inherited a py2.7 codebase, written by one dev. It uses a library written also by that dev. We had absolutely no idea what worked how. Sure, looking at the code gave us a very rough big picture, but adding typing helps with the details.
You're missing the point. You don't have to ignore their behavior. The behavior and the work are two separate things, and can be regarded separately. If you require everyone to be a saint to learn anything from them, you'll never learn anything.
Looking at the die shot, the CPU, GPU, and NPU jumps out, if you've seen a bunch of other die shots before, and combine that with the core counts that Apple announced. For less obvious blocks, engineers with the right specialties might be able to make a guess. Otherwise thermal imaging would allow some guesses when running targeted algorithms.
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Show HN: POSIX shell timer script to practice timeboxing
Or run the IO in a sandbox where it is streamed out in a simpler/safer format. Or run the entire suite in a sandbox like we do with parts of web browsers.
I don't mean to be a jerk, but I don't think you know what you are talking about here. Driver AI in a video game isn't nearly as complex as self driving cars in the real world. Plenty of games have been able to create a more realistic driver AI.

For example take a look at this video[1], specifically the part in which the user shoots at AI driven cars. The AI in GTA 5 responds in a much more realistic fashion. This has a huge impact on immersion and creating a lifelike world. GTA 5 came out 7 years ago. There is no technical reason for Cyberpunk's AI being this bad. CDPR simply didn't want to invest the time in making it better.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9VMTk13wfo&t=390
Apple already tried it’s own ad network (iAd). Success was limited and it was abandoned in 2016:

http://www.techsnackbar.com/2016/06/11/apple-abandons-iad-un...

Now days, they still sell ads on the App Store, but don’t place ads in third-party apps.
Exactly, bugs that we have are similar that were e.g. in GTA V PC release or in Witcher 3 release (remember horse on a roof?).
We asked an influencer, yoga teacher, and others how their pandemic pivots went
Even without checks, there's a benefit to having documented links like this tied to the data release rather than a random website.