skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm afraid you've deeply misunderstood Playing to Win. This is quite common. Sirlin assumed a sort of community knowledge as to the context that people who came across the series later tend to lack.

Playing To Win is about people who refuse to learn the rules of a game. That's not what's happening here. What's happening here is that people who understand the rules very well are pointing out that they have holes in them.

Scrub statement: "throws are cheap". Informed statement: "the way SF2 tick throw setups work biases the gameplay too far in favor of the player with offensive agency." You'll note that the latter makes no mistake about the purpose of the rules and makes no judgments about players using the tools provided. Instead it focuses on system interactions and their net result. You'll note that almost every big fighting game in the 20 years since the end of the SF2 series has reduced the power of tick throws by means of frame data or broader system changes. Players generally decided that getting the first knockdown should not have that much influence over a match.

Scrub statement: "I hate people who get upset at review purchasing." Informed statement: "Review purchasing makes the buying process worse for everyone by creating incentives to deceive buyers, increasing costs for sellers that purchase reviews and reducing sales to sellers who do not. It shifts the Nash equilibrium towards paying more for lower-quality products." Again, the latter examines the system interactions and emergent behavior rather than making moral judgments about the participants.
This is a good summary of what I understand about the work, though admittedly I haven't processed the whole thing. It's a fascinating read, though he spends more time talking about what meaningness is not rather than what it is.

Let me preface the following: I've really enjoyed my time with this work and it's highly recommended if you're interested in these questions. We're all building up ad-hoc models of the world in our heads so I doubt anyone who takes these questions seriously would agree 100%.

My problem with it is that it ignores the observer - we are pattern matchers and we're drawn to find patterns by biological processes. The pleasing aesthetic of meaningness is part of a neurological reward system to find patterns. We could think of meaningness in terms of information theory, but there are no true patterns that always repeat exactly, even patterns themselves are transient (the nebulous nature he refers to). That implies to me we're soft matching local patterns in an ultimately global noisey environment. I'm still struggling to see how meaningness is different than existentialism, and feel he straw-mans existentialism a bit to make it different than his own framework. I love the definition of meaningness, it's the most complete definition of that fuzzy feeling that we all get some times and I would expect it would have value in psychology or understanding brain structure, but I have doubts it "means" anything outside the context of our consciousness.

But maybe that's outside the scope of this work, and he's not interested in meaning in a cosmic sense, but rather in the personal.
I almost wrote about how I think eating like that during my childhood broke something with my metabolism. Like, I can't process sugars like most people do and I'm more prone to gaining weight.

That said, my view of food is 100% different now. I do feel enlightened. I don't blame my parents. I think the state needs to get more involved with regulation. I have a ton of respect for Michelle Obama's push to make school lunches healthy.
I agree with gp. The opposite of "neither this NOR that" is "both this AND that".
Sony is pulling Cyberpunk 2077 from the Playstation Store with full refunds
For anything I use with any kind of regularity I’d hate it. I already have this problem with services that decide they really need to send me some code by email because they don’t recognize my device (because it’s been more than 30 days and Safari killed their cookies). And then every once in a while the email doesn’t show up for 45 minutes for some reason, leaving me with no recourse.

But for certain things that I need to do say once a year (let’s say renew some kind of registration or insurance) I wouldn’t mind it. Because chances are I already do this because I forgot to save the password in my password manager last time and now I need to do a reset password flow anyway.
The game is broken in other ways. Sometimes mission objectives don't register, or save game files are corrupted.
> Sushi rice often has sugar added to it

I know since it was homemade!

I'm glad I didn't become diabetic.
How can it possibly work when the winners (and losers, that is middle class taxpayers) are predetermined???

Hasn't anyone learned anything when it comes to central planning in the past 100 years?
Hey, thanks for posting that! It's exactly the information I've been looking for, all in one place.
Wow what a disaster. I hope leadership is held to account for such poor judgement.
I'm an amateur but I'd have to guess it's the difference between static lights (often baked into the level itself) and dynamic lights (flashlights, moving lights, etc) that are computed at play time.
What fire?
They probably aren't getting healthy sleep, which is why they fall asleep so easy. They're actually starved of quality sleep
Have you ever microwaved a half gallon of ice cream and drank it?
Agents Implicated in Poisoning ID'd Thanks to Black Market in Personal Data
This correlation seems incredibly spurious.
Just curious - what format are the user IDs? I thought they may have been IP addresses simply converted to an int, but if that's the case it's been done in a way I can't reverse.
Sorry didn't read the paper linked. Does it say apnea patients don't have higher levels of dementia/Alzheimer's? Perhaps it's because apnea occurs at all ages while these diseases tend to happen later in life?
Dealing with Stress in Your Everyday Life
They already changed the bonus structure to reflect the fact that poor quality was due to management failures.
His body was undergoing advanced decay/putrefaction and entering skeletonization. Can only guess at what his soul and spirit were busy at.

What was Leonardo da Vinci doing at your age?
Seems to be an artifact of the teletype system. From the bottom of page 4:

> The third observation is that we only use capital letters, and that the letter "Oh" is distinguished from the numeral "Zero" by having a diagonal slash through the "Oh". This feature is made necessary by the fact that in a computer program it is not always possible to tell from the context whether the letter or number was intended unless they have different appearance. The distinction is made automatically by the teletype machine, which also has a special key for the number "One" to distinguish it from the letter "Eye" or lower case "L".
For some reason this sentence jumps out as being easier to read than the rest; maybe it's the self-deprecation?

> I was, after all, something to sneeze at, someone you could easily hold a candle to, someone who usually aroused bridled passion.
I'd agree that the relationship looked like it was all but unsalvageable. The thing I don't understand is why Google insists she resigned rather than just owning that the ended things early.

Saying she resigned sounds better I guess and is at least plausible to enough people that maybe they thought it better to characterize it that way.

But like you said, it's not really the crux of the whole situation. At least not IMO.
I can only guess that they put limits on promotion rates in order to make the senior management more equitable over time as the current leadership retires, rather than force termoil through rapid replacement of leadership across many many roles at the same time. The intention was to put a cap on the percentage of men that get newly promoted into those roles, but the law was written in a gender-neutral way.
Source article, fascinating and staggering in implications, consequences, and significance submitted 3 days ago, to positive voting but little discussion:

https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2020/12/14/navalny-fsb-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25417961
This comment is much funnier if you pretend it's not rot13.
I can't for the life of me understand how people get the misconception that this one factoid equates to a tax rate equivalent in some magical vague way.

1. If it closed any loopholes it only did so to open more convenient ones we are currently still struggling with that go to wealthy individuals and companies far more than the middle class, which most of those loopholes you are taking about were for prior to reagan. They were less loopholes and more accurately social safety nets put in place after the great depression.

2. The "effective" tax rate is a more or less meaningless number contrived to hide the nature of what is actually occuring. It's a way of obviscating the raw revenue but you can very easily cut through it by simply counting the currency in circulation and determining how much of it is in the hands of the wealthy vs regular people. When you do that you find that raw inequality is on par with what it was on the eve of the great depression and there are plenty of papers to support that this is no coincidence.

Secondly you conveniently lock the rate at regan without pointing out that immediately prior to regan there were significant changes in taxation. In the 50s for example it wasn't uncommon to tax a CEO and their company at 90%, which is widely different than the tax rates we see now even if we use the arbitrarily designed "effective" qualifier.

3. This makes assumptions that the tax rate reflects actual taxation which it doesn't. You are correct that if you look at the books quickly the effective tax rate seems on the level but look even a bit more closely and things quickly don't add up.

Many companies corporations and individuals pay nothing yearly in taxes by using the location of their business to avoid having to be taxes in one country vs another or one state/province over another. They flood vast sums of money to shell companies and then report themselves as only having earned 300,000 (as bezos has done for the last 5 years) in order to present this falsehood that he doesn't take the money, but instead he gets paid in stock which can be far more flexible with taxation and isn't accounted for in your "effective tax rate"
5nm
The same applies to pandemic preparedness. There is no incentive for a hospital to over-provision beds that are empty most of the time.

Looking for examples of cultures and organizations that over-provision, the military might be an example. Why do we translate worry about physical attacks into action but not cyber attacks or environmental harm?
> You can also report them to /dev/null, it will have the same effect.

Seems to be the same effect as reporting them to jeff@amazon.com, then.
Cloudflare Launches Cloudflare Pages
I assume they are referring to the CISA report today:

> The SolarWinds Orion supply chain compromise is not the only initial infection vector this APT actor leveraged.

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts/aa20-352a
In all seriousness, after nulls, I think I've seen more issues caused by case-sensitivity in string comparisons than by any other class of error.

Domain names. Email addresses. Windows UPNs. Windows filenames... All manner of LDAP shit.
This is the first I've heard of this. The "Appetizer" on the website begins with:

Especially at turning points in life, people ask questions like:

Is there any purpose at all in living? Or is everything completely pointless?
What am I supposed to do?
How can I choose among the many ways I could spend the rest of my life?
Does everyone’s life have the same purpose, or does everyone have their own?
Where does purpose come from? Does it have some ultimate source, or is it just a personal invention?

These seem like questions without answers. Or, alternatively, the correct answer is whatever you decide it to be.

Imagine a dog or dolphin or octopus asking this question. We'd think: "Why are you asking such questions? You're a dog/dolphin/octopus. You do dog/dolphin/octopus things. That's all you're supposed to do."

Isn't it the same with humans? We do human things. Take care of ourselves and our loved ones. Help others who need help. Try to better ourselves.

Does it need to be any more complex than that?
Does mercurial have something like git svn to bridge between so that others may use git protocol?

I'm getting tied of git and disappointed no one wants to get off of it instead more are using it.
I know redux, but I believe that there should be an even more low level library.

Coming from the backend, I miss something like the effect system builtin in Haskell/Purescript or added as a library to languages like Scala (e.g. https://typelevel.org/cats-effect/) or Kotlin (e.g. https://arrow-kt.io/docs/effects/io/)
You could probably get pretty close with Red Hat Linux 7.2 or 7.3 to 8 to 9 to Fedora Core 1 and on. There might be a break somewhere that the upgrade doesn't work, but nothing sticks out in my mind. Anaconda is a seriously impressive install/upgrade system.
Ha! Exactly my thought! My uneducated guess is that because we are (or at least I am) lacking a lot of vocabulary compared to native speakers, we have to do every time we read something written in a rather lyrical way or that has unusually complex words.

Regarding the 1600's English, for me this is definitely easier to understand than Shakespeare.
> I’d say it’s analogous to the NCAA. They do everything in their power to punish immoral institutions

That's a rather controversial claim about the NCAA; a fairly common alternative view is that not only does the NCAA do little to identify and punish institutions which exploit beyond it's overt rules, which include a very large number of it's constituent institutions, including the biggest names, but the overt rules themselves are systematically exploitive.
Very nice. I'm a big fan of these types of "perpetual motion" computers.

The project reminds me of https://developers.google.com/gdata/articles/radish which was a solar cell + LCD system that showed who had booked a conference room. It had to use LCD because e-paper wasn't feasible in 2008, but someone could do something similar now with e-paper.

> I’d like to find a vendor who could help me design a one-piece panel that would go all around the frame, which should decrease complexity and increase efficiency. It would also be nice if the panel was black, so as to nicely tie together the white of the mat and the grayscale of the image.

If you opted for a black border, could you put a slightly tinted piece of glass on top of the solar cells to make them look like a generic piece of glass instead of solar cells? You would lose incoming light, but the aesthetic improvements might be worth it.
And the increasingly-dark patterns, appearing with every new Feature Update, to trick the user into allowing Microsoft to siphon off yet more data. I jumped ship once Windows 7 reached EOL as I saw this coming years prior :-\
Is there a lack of phys ed or too much soccer and hockey etc classes? Looks like a contradiction.
Science requires tests for demonstration and refutation. Things that don't describe the real world are outside the realm of science.

Ideas are a dime a dozen, especially if they're as simple as imagining matter being built out of tiny blocks or disease being caused by tiny invisible things.
Yup, it was also mentioned in the article itself. I misread it originally. My bad, and thank you
Doesnt everything apple "just work"
Can someone ELI5 what Airflow is and why I should care? I'm seriously out of the loop on this and would love to know, thank you.
> A counterpoint: Option and Result are hard to read and unpleasant to work with. They are so annoying, that the language designers extended the language itself to make them tolerable - do notation in Haskell, '?' operator in Rust, guard-let in Swift.

Option and Result are tolerable without language extensions (as long as your language has first-class functions and parameterized types, which you want anyway) - https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/recipe-part2/ . do notation is a small, purely-syntactic piece of sugar that's usable for many different cases, not just error handling.

> A plain old for loop has so much to recommend it. You get powerful control flow constructs (break/continue/return) and obvious performance characteristics.

Those are all language extensions! You're talking about adding four keywords to the language, none of which are anywhere near as reusable as do notation.

> Can you tweak your function to stop filling the first time a zero is encountered? That's a simple one-line change with the for loop, but a puzzle for the functional iteration.

Different code should look different. map, reduce, fold, traverse, foldM are all different functions that do different things, but they're easy to work with because they're all normal functions that obey the rules of functions (and if you're ever confused you can just click through to the implementation in plain old code). Languages don't want to offer several different variants of "for" because it's a language keyword that has to be supported at the language level, but the result is that the "for" loop is far from simple - it does several different things depending on how exactly it's used, and you can't tell which except by going through the details every time.
Even actual reputable auction houses auction stolen antiquities or lots with dodgy provenance information. They don't care at Christies and similar houses.

For example: https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-5546862/

Also don't forget eBay, plenty of stuff to find there too
Magdrive secures seed funding for new satellite propulsion system
What if the browser lies about those system properties in order to defeat fingerprinting?

How about: if you don't need the JS, don't load it.

I know you don't need most of it because I use NoScript, and most sites work fine with a good chunk of JS disabled. As a generally observed pattern, the more JS they load from more sites, the more you can disable and still use them.
I do enjoy watching Apple users squirm as the walled garden closes in around them.
I'm not sure Jordan Peterson is trying resurrect Christianity, but maybe he's trying to resurrect Jung. He uses myths to understand collective unconscious (which is the really interesting part of his work) and then uses those metaphors on an ad-hoc basis to infer biological truisms with the goal of making people psychologically well-adjusted (which is where he swims in the crazy pool)
> Open Source has nothing to do with Free Software

I don't see how this is a true statement. Open Source is clearly a subset of Free Software. Free Software is, largely, Open Source software that also respects user freedom.

Unless you are making the claim that the "respects user freedom" part of Free Software is so huge as to make up 90% (or some other large percentage) of the importance of "Free Software"... but I don't really agree with that claim.

> since anybody can take Open Source and add whatever restrictions they want to its licensing

Well, no, not really. Copyleft licenses are free software licenses, but are also generally Open Source licenses. You can't add restrictions to copyleft licenses (in most cases). And while it's true that you can fork and add restrictions to your modifications when the original work is licensed under many of the weaker open-source licenses, that does not make the original work further encumbered. Someone can come along and take the original work, keep the license, and make modifications under that same license.
I was contacted about one of my reports, and gave them more information about what happened. I haven't gotten a follow up to that call, but I didn't expect to.
NeurIPS 2020 Papers: Takeaways for a Deep Learning Engineer
Delight the customer, eh Bezos?
Why, when you're too lazy to visit the site and spend 2 minutes reading the About page?
You don't really need language features, assuming your language has sum types, polymorphism and first class functions (and why bother using a language that's missing any of those). All you need is some functions, and you can write those yourself since they're just functions. https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/recipe-part2/
I'm toying with the idea of building this as a service (I made a landing page last week [0]), but I'm not sure enough would pay for the convenience of having this as a service. The service would handle token generation, verification, and e-mail sending through an API.

[0]: https://magiclogin.net
I have no idea what that site is meant to be but it doesn't work on FF/Linux.

There is only a headline and a no-sound not-telling-me-anything video...

EDIT: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-17/how-we-i...

Seems to be a link to the actual article? Or a different article related to it?
As the other comment alluded, lighting is traditionally static. This is because all the lighting would be calculated during development and be "baked in" to the level. Up until dynamic lighting became feasible (doing it real-time is very expensive computationally) the games that had shootable lights had to resort to clever programming, at the very least, to get it working

And in any case it takes additional logic to make a light be destroyable, in addition to needing the proper flags to be set in the level design process. I can't think of very many games where all lighting is truly dynamic like you are thinking, and up until recently a lot of graphics cards could not handle more than a few dynamic lights at a time

When DOOM 3 released, part of its technical wow factor was how it was able to get dynamic lighting working using early 2000's graphics tech. I remember being blown away watching the light change as an overhead lamp was being affected by physics
"I might as well finish the whole sleeve of Oreos"

- A child after school watching Batman: The Animated Series somewhere in the Mid-West.
Can we get a Duke Nukem update now?
They've been inside since March, so any pre-breach backups and images are probably too old to restore.
That's a lot more effort than a quick 2$ at the corner cafe.
/r/stupidpol
It’s much less catchy headline “someone found some stolen antiques - more investigation needed”.
I wonder when we will hear the news that all major clouds have been breached and data has been leaking for months/years...would be interesting to see. My wet dream is that people ditch the cloud to hold their own infrastructures.
Must have been before Unicode. :)
it just seems like an even money gamble that is priced as such.
You can cook more things in a microwave than you'd imagine.
I guess mocking pronouns isn't a human right? I mean, who would know better than the Human Rights Council.
The block syntax is comparable to understanding File | null - it's day 1 learning in Rust. The part I'd say you're missing is that Option is just a plain old type and ok_or is just a plain old function, so if you don't know what they're doing you can always just click through to their definitions (which are in normal plain old code) and read them. Even if you don't do that, you know that they're not doing any magical control flow things. Whereas to understand the first example I have to understand what "if" does and how having a bunch of statements after each other works, and there's nothing to tell me that anywhere.
That’s the strongest truthful statement any company can give you. You can never be 100% sure you aren’t hacked. You can only be sure, that as far as you know, no one hacked you.