skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get constant audio issues where dialog from one NPC is either not coming through or sounds like it's from 100ft away. I've also had problems getting the next part of a mission to trigger when you're supposed to wait a day for the NPC to call you back (one particular one, I waited an in-game week with 2 game reboots to trigger it). I randomly get stuck in the zoomed view. When I'm being passed a shard by an NPC, it's randomly replaced with a gun. Multiple areas at ground level throughout the map with gaps in collision resulting in you falling through the world. I've been stuck in rooms multiple times where the input prompt to open a door simply never triggers and I'm unable to open the door, requiring me to reload from checkpoint. Texts from NPCs come in the wrong order. Forced NPC calls in the middle of dialog during a separate mission. Sometimes unable to choose dialogue options when driving, requiring me to stop in the middle of the road to get out to give the response I want. Sometimes unable to do absolutely any blunt melee damage, which has resulted in a stuck loop requiring a reload (like the boxing robot near the beginning of the game)

The list goes on and on. With that said, I'm playing on PC with pretty decent performance all things considered, I've tolerated them because I'm still enjoying the game, and I wouldn't classify any of the bugs as necessarily "game breaking", but they're significantly detracting from the enjoyable game and narrative underneath.

It's almost as if not a single gameplay aspect has any sense of polish whatsoever and that sucks.
> I can't remember the last time I talked to anyone who could recall to me a single time they changed their mind

If I gave you an example, would you change your mind or still be of the same impression that no one changes their mind the next time this discussion comes up? ;)
The pathology for clavicle fractures is still changing today, with evidence suggesting that there is no need to operate on types of fractures they would previously operate on.

I shattered my clavicle on my bike, many pieces, bits were floating in the middle of nowhere, it was pointing in all the wrong directions. It would have typically been suggested for surgery, but my hospital is a research hospital and so my case was cause for heated debate and I was eventually recommended not to get the surgery.

During the process I met with many doctors for checkins and most of them were extremely surprised it wasn't operated on, but by the end of the healing process the surgeons said that if they had gotten that result from surgery they would be elated. So it all worked out and I've healed just fine without surgery, plates or follow up operations.

There is a difference in time though, I was in a sling for nearly 8 weeks, whereas my friend who had surgery and plates put in was using his arm again in much less time.
More about the frequency drift:

"The positive drift rate actually to me argues in favor of it being extrasolar technology, because that implies it is significantly accelerating with respect to the barycentric frame."

https://twitter.com/Astro_Wright/status/1340119074756550656?...
In French, copyright is called "author's rights". When I hear that copyright endures 70 years after death... well it's not longer the author's right
I don't know where the assumption that cyberpunk has little content comes from? There's a crazy amount of side missions and all missions support different outcomes depending on how you play. Skyrim I personally find frustrating because almost all missions are just shallow fetch/kill quests, even compared to Oblivion, Skyrim has loads of content and very little of it is interesting at all.
Something I will never understand... your character never uses personal pronouns in reference to their self.

And I don't mean gendered pronouns, just pronouns like "I" and "We". It seems none of the characters do.

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Instead of: "I need to get lunch"

It's: "Need to get lunch."

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"We need to get in there, and we need to do it fast"

"Need to get in there. Need to do it fast"

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"I'm tryin' alright?"

"Tryin' alright?

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"I like chocolate"

"Like chocolate"

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It's even more grating when you add in the forced sounding "Gruff Guy" voice the male V uses. I don't know what kind of weird tough guy vibe they were going for but it's like nails on a chalkboard sometimes.
First time looking at Cyberpunk 2077 stuff online, after having just beaten the game at ~50 hrs.

Super surprised it's not being praised, it's certainly the best game singe-player I've ever played.

I can't believe the reaction I am seeing.
By having macros that produce the required information, similar to how Qt, wxWidgets do it, and Rust/WinRT is in the process of doing.

https://github.com/microsoft/winrt-rs

But that is the easy part, the hard part is having the ability to plug a widget anywhere on the tree without triggering a bunch of lifetime errors. WinRT gets around this because it is built on COM, so you get reference counting no matter what.
Yes at higher temperatures
Does the VM claim it's network driver was manufactured by Broadcom, or does it go with Cambridge Silicon Radio?

It would simply be whatever the virtual NIC is. Intel ones seem to be pretty common, likely due to wide availability of drivers and documentation.
Streaming has been incredible for me, and my love of music.

I know and love music today that I never would’ve even heard in the old days because it wasn’t on the radio, and I had a limited budget for experimental purchases.

I used to have to spend $15 to try an album which would have 2 good tracks if I was lucky. Most times it was entirely mediocre. As a kid, that was a big investment, so I got stuck listening narrowly, and buying things that were very likely to be hits (the same bands; the same labels; etc)

Now my friends send me Spotify and YouTube links every day. I’ve found new genres and artists. It’s been wonderful.

I know that your ignorant, judgmental, and elitist opinion doesn’t matter; streaming is here to stay. But it’s absurd that your whining that kids today don’t enjoy music the right way is near the top of the page.

Your arrogance should be dead, like my comment surely will be.
> no company should own that.

In a world without licensing, the companies who make money off of art are the the ISPs.
Clearly..you have mistaken me for someone who is smart.

Like this guy’s bit on planetary brains...The ‘Jupiter Brain’ https://youtu.be/Rmb1tNEGwmo ..

But why stretch it that far..why not make Jupiter itself a computer. Who are we to imagine that intelligent life has to resemble Homo sapiens?

In Indian astrology, Jupiter is teacher..the keeper and distributor of all kinds of wisdom. Venus is his colleague and peer..Venus is also a teacher but while Jupiter is guru of the gods..Venus is the guru of the demons. They could be planetary computers running earth simulations. Just saying.

If astral energy and planets can affect our lives and this can be seen through our horoscopes based on the time and place of our birth, we could all just be snippets of code.

Distributed processing between 5 planets, sun, moon and the two (imaginary) lunar nodes. That’s what I want to believe.
And they don’t cause... why would they when they don’t have to?
I suppose that refusal came in the form of an NDA, but even so is that actually enforceable? Seems to me this whole debacle essentially amounts to false advertising, and if reviewers failed to mention that the thing doesn't actually do what it says on the tin but claims otherwise, are they not in some way complicit?

I'm not a lawyer so I have no idea but I'm genuinely wondering whether a studio actually can order reviewers to stay quiet about such fundamental issues? Sure they can blackball the reviewer from future releases, but who cares if what they produce is crap anyway?
> It's clear that they just didn't have time to implement like half the gameplay they promised.

Yup. From an art/style perspective, the game is top shelf and legitimately impressive. From a gameplay perspective, big parts of it are barely there.

It's like the opposite problem MGS5 had. That game had a great gameplay loop and well fleshed-out systems but it obviously lacked the assets to make the story work or offer much variety.
Until nuclear weapons. Now one mistake ends humanity forever.
Mercury is the clone of the Moon..obvi.

https://education.seattlepi.com/surfaces-moon-mercury-simila...

Have you compared the pictures of the moon and Mercury. Tough to tell them apart.
I hear what you’re saying, but Spotify solves a problem I never managed to solve with CDs: it solves discovery. I used to go to music shops and browse albums, and I had no idea which CD would be worth my money because I couldn’t listen to them and find out! Even from a band I like I would often buy their other albums then get home and be disappointed because they didn’t work for me.

In comparison, spotify will find and play hundreds of fresh songs similar to any song I like. And lots of songs I don’t like - but that’s fine, because more music I’ve never heard before is a click away.

I miss owning my music collection, and I’m very frustrated whenever spotify is missing some of my favourite music. But any scarcity of musical variety you feel is entirely artificial, self imposed and ridiculous.
There is no way to vote against the interests of Raytheon.
I feel the same way about books. I much preferred scrolls.
Actually the partnership came together the other way round: the "comparatively tiny startup" saw articles about SARS-CoV-2, decided to start sketching out a vaccine, called Pfizer, which they had prior business relations due to joint work on previous projects, asked whether they'd be interested in jointly develop this new vaccine, and Pfizer's head of vaccine research said "yeah, sure!" immediately.
His own comments on the matter are that it come down more to a matter of politics than actual legality. At least, in the one case[1] that a record label (rather than the artist) told him no, he seemed confident that he could still have sold the song, and he had no problem releasing it anyway.

{1}https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=548277...
But spacetime can expand at a rate that makes two points recess from each other faster than the speed of light, so still weird.
What do you think about one of the Australian Vaccine that got everybody in the study to test HIV positive. I don't think researches know enough to claim it save without long term tests. I also heard that HIV can hide in mRNA from your Immune system. I would call that long lasting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4C9huNGdSw
I’m not sure about Sweden. This week their king was on TV saying ‘we have failed’. Nearly 8,000 dead. This is not normal.
> I can easily guess the names of classes/methods.

And if you're using something like IDEA it's even better. You can take a guess at the method name, look at the auto-complete options, pick one, and hit CTRL-Q to read the Javadoc for that method.
> Personally, I think the majority of these people are addicted to their struggle and probably should work on moving past that with a qualified professional.

A generation that grew up reading about and watching recordings/movies of the civil rights fights of the prior generation(s), with no more such large fights of their own, seeking ever further niche subjects to blow up into something they can fight for.
I make a new playlist each year. I seed it with some stuff, and it’s locked in place at the end of the year. Same Spotify handle as HN. Add a song here and there, perfect the flow, make sure it shuffles.
The summary of this page is essentially:

For the kernel: C, C++

For the rest of the OS: C, C++, Dart, Rust

For the "end-developers" (=regular app developers): C, C++, Dart
Just sounds like a whole load of "these kids are ruining what used to be the good old times". Of course, I also think music from back in the day was better, but I am also aware that its just a matter of taste and our tastes are molded by prevailing business-social pressures as ours was back in the day.

If music appreciation sucks today it can be blamed more on the music industry and their idol manufacturing pipeline than streaming. This rot started well before any of these internet era breakthroughs anyway.

The only difference I see in the Spotify era is that if I want to listen to the Beatles or the beach boys, I can. I might not be able to find the exact bootleg recording of Dylan from some concert but whatever, the internet probably has a forum where you can find it if that's what tickles you. Don't blame streaming for what is fundamentally a music industry problem.
The British Medical Journal has an article that makes the point, including quotes from Tal Zaks of Moderna, that the studies aren't designed to be statistically significant indicators of disrupting transmission, preventing hospitalisation, or even preventing death:

https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4037

So, from what I can tell. It isn't proven to disrupt transmission or reduce hospitalisation/death. It would require much larger or longer studies, which they have opted not to do.
> […] and if reviewers failed to mention that the thing doesn't actually do what it says on the tin but claims otherwise, are they not in some way complicit?

CDPR didn't provide PS4/XBOX versions for review until the day of release, afaik.
So the surgeon found water for you. Good for you, I'd rather listen to the data.
That is true, to. very large extent. However, paying royalties for music is a chore that even big companies struggle with.

Do you know who to pay royalties to for a piece of music if it's broadcast in the US? In Europe? In Japan? It's not uncommon for a piece of music to be co-owned by multiple companies with weird things like "in the US the rights belong to Warner, in Europe it 27.5% Warner, 13% Sony, 1% the original production company that still exists and the rest goes to UMG"
One thing to consider is that vaccine production is going to scale up in time; since the second dose is a month after the first, giving two doses instead of one will not mean that half the number of people will be vaccinated.
Assuming, for the sake of the argument, that vaccine production doubles every month, at any given point after the first month the amount of people that have received at least one does will be a bout 2/3rds of the single dose protocol.
Let's not forget games like Ghost Recon Breakpoint which released as sequels to successfull games which ended up missing half the game systems from the original like AI teammates which they are adding 1 year after release due to popular demand. Like, how hard can it be to reimplement a system which you already had in the game before. Wouldn't a game source code for a system like AI be orthogonal to the rest of the game code and easier to just port over to a new game. I cannot believe a game like Cyberpunk 2077 can not have driving AI in a 2020 game. It's been done already with various success rates in 100s of games. How badly do you have to mismanage to have nothing after 5 years of development??

Assassins Creed Valhalla crashes for me every 15 minutes on rx480. I get that a game would lag, but how the hell can it crash? You have exceptions which you cannot handle on any layer of your code? The game lags when the map is open. What is happening in then code for the game to lag when a world map is open? And it doesn't stop lagging as if it's finished with calculating something unrelated. It just lags
L systems are so magical to me. Opened up the world of procedural generation to me. And I look at trees differently now as a result. I also see fractals everywhere in the real world.
This is a great point often forgotten in this kind of discussion.

Size matters, and depending of the system size we’re dealing with it will have a significant impact on what approach we take. Or how we handle documentation for instance.
That doesn't make sense to me. For one, Blender is GPL. For another, Amazon is hardly the first big company to sponsor Blender development: Facebook, AMD, NVidia, Unity, Epic, Intel, Microsoft, Google, etc. all contribute. They contribute because better free software for 3D modelling helps grow their own markets, for games, VR, graphics cards, gaming PCs, consoles, cloud gaming, visual effects, cloud rendering, etc. Amazon's The Man in the High Castle series used Blender for almost all its visual effects, and they sell cloud rendering services.
As the famous saying goes "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." People look out for thier own interests, and will work to craft narratives that support themselves until they compeletly fall apart. Thats the bad news.

The good news is that many people don't have vested interests in any given subject (or have crafted an outsider narrative for themselves). Outsiders get to compete with the vested players in both the marketplace and marketplace of ideas. Competition ensures progress.
The entire point of this discussion is that you are biased. What you need is scientific evidence to back it up. Finding water for your patients is not a good way to view the world.
Aren't L-systems just fractals ?

Also, if someone can expand, what do you think of Stephen Wolfram's theory of everything[0] which to me seems quite similar to L-systems (I might be completely wrong here).

Has anyone combined cellular automata and L-systems, will that lead to....simulating evolution?

[0] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-h... (Read How it Works section).
Like with the plague. This is why it stuck around for centuries while causing high death rates. Without the animal transmission it would have been much more contained.

Obviously, it was made worse by people blaming cats and killing their best defense.
There’s no additional adjuvant. I have no idea how they’re produced, would love to learn more.
Ads, fine. Participating into a pervasive tracking infrastructure that strips you bare of your privacy to optimize manipulation of your individual cognitive faults is entirely another thing.
They've always worked for me. I was pretty surprised that rubbing a bit of metal was more effective than soap at getting smells off my hands.
There is an absolutely fantastic quote relevant to this in An Astronaut's Guide to Life by Chris Hadfield (a fantastic book). Unfortunately, I don't have the book handy and cannot do it proper justice, but the part I refer to involves dozens of years after a childhood appendectomy when Hadfield was beginning his "real" astronaut career.

After experiencing severe abdominal pain at the surgical site, he was sent to a panel of surgeons for guidance. Going into surgery at this time would've been catastrophic to his career, as after a surgery one cannot fly into space for some extended period of time. At this point in his career Hadfield was relatively green, and there was a plethora of new astronauts as talented as he was just waiting to take his spot. Going into surgery at this point would have relegated him to a successful career at mission control, but not in space.

To the best of my recollection, his physician's opinion was he didn't need a full surgery to investigate this abdominal pain. However, the panel of surgeons universally, unequivocally recommended the gastrointestinal surgery. He states infinitely more eloquently than I can how applicable "uf you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail" in regards to the surgical panel.

I recall he decided against the recommendations of the surgeon panel, and decided his abdominals wouldn't suddenly tear apart with potentially fatal results while orbiting earth in the ISS. It turns out he guessed right, and had one of the most prolific careers of any astronaut of the last few decades.

While this anecdote may make it seem like I am some anti-surgeon, anti-surgery person, let me state that I have had one surgery (besides wisdom teeth, which "doesn't count" as it's so common). It was an orthopedic reconstructive ulnar collateral (thumb) surgery, and my repaired thumb is honestly almost indistinguishable from my left thumb. And in this case it was clear surgery was needed, but after reading Hadfield's book and the parent article here it was astounding how the surgeons were literally unable to see any mode of treatment which didn't involve surgery. I think just like overprescription of antibiotics, we as a society should look at the overprescription of surgeries for medical issues which can be treated without surgical intervention.
> I am also concerned that Moderna has never produced ANY drug beyond the third stage before.

Have there been a lot of disease outbreaks preventable with an mRNA vaccine before? To make a product, you need customers. Whatever research we did to deal with SARS and MERS became moot when people stopped spreading the diseases; maybe Moderna could have delivered a vaccine, but there would have been no customers because other containment measures limited the spread.

My outsider impression of Moderna is that they had all the technology ready to deal with something like COVID-19, but there was no COVID-19 until now.

The fact that Pfizer/BioNTech independently produced a similar product on a similar timeframe is a pretty good indication that the technology was ready, and was just waiting for a market.
Framing was a mean, the goal was to disrupt meetings.

Complaint-bombing has become a popular technique to silence opinions on public platforms.
AMP is opt in, so no drama there. What Google have is a giant big carrot in the form of the news carousel.
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I'm also enjoying the game, and I love going around in the city, it's amazingly beautiful and quite detailed. But on the other hand, it feels absolutely dead at times, during the missions the city comes alive, but outside of missions it feels empty and soulless.

I've encountered quite a few bugs, but nothing game breaking yet. Usually it's NPCs acting strange, or people just spawning in right in front of me. I definitely feel it under delivers, but I'm hoping it turns into a No Man's Sky type story, where the game actually becomes super fun to play.
I've noticed that in myself, it's really hard to change my way of living with facts, Like I know I should exercise more, and eat more healthy, and create habits, etc. What I found works: emotions. Reading a good book will change the way you think deeply, watching a good documentary or movie can motive you for months, and so on.

BTW I recommend The Minimalist on Netflix.
>In mathematics we write a² + b² = c² to describe the relationship between the lengths of the sides of a right triangle.

Therein lies the problem. Can you explain to me the meaning of a² + b² = c² without English? Can you just write down an equation and expect me to know what you're talking about?

Can you explain to me the concept of entropy by just showing me all the equations?

Can you explain to me the meaning of your program with only one letter variable names as shown in your Pythagorean equation above?

You can't. That's why math texts consist of equations AND English, and there's no reason programming shouldn't either.

Anyway a side note, have you ever heard of literate programming?
Can someone speak to what the applications of geometric algebra are?

I see this topic show up often on HN, but no mathematicians I know in real life care about it, or even know about it. From googling geometric algebra and related terms, it just seems like more linear algebra to me - why the different name?