skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When a game does put a novel mechanic to best use ... was the novelty overrated? Or the game that first introduced it (poorly) overrated?

Regardless, I think we both agree we want novel games. No one still wants to be playing Senet. ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senet
Internally Pandas often uses NumPy arrays, especially for numeric data, so might be able to pass things that way in some cases?

E.g. `df["column_name"].values` will you get you a NumPy array.
The official statement from AstraZeneca's CEO is that they have a fully operational production in the UK and are still resolving production issues in the EU sites.

From his explanation the EU signed their contract with a 3 month delay from the UK contract. Arguing that he is being accused of EU production issues on sites that have not had the 3 month lead time that the UK sites had to resolve any production issues.

You can argue that the UK production output could potentially be distributed proportionally for worldwide demand but to me the real question is why isn't anyone in the media or in the European Commission asking questions on why did it take 3 months to draft such a bland generic urgent supply contract?

I am sure the truth is probably somewhere in between but to me it seems the EC is playing the media game and trying to through AstraZeneca under a bus to cover for their own ineptitude in such a clutch time.
"let's not discuss anything because we aren't experts or even amateurs in _____________. HN discussion is therefore useless and I declare the site be taken down immediately, post haste"
I get what you are saying in 2), but anybody who wants to fork the code, let them have at it.
Whoa, this code looks interesting. Must've been emitted by something higher-level? Something like PyTorch/TF/MLIR/TVM/Glow maybe?

If that is the case, then maybe it could be emitted again while masking the instruction sets Ryzen doesn't support yet.
Oxford University should be commended for that.

We would all have been better off of Oxford had partnered with someone with more experience that hadn’t already messed up:
1) The scientific trials
2) Manufacturing the vaccine
3) The legal agreements they signed with various governments.

Moderna, for example, has also fallen behind on their supplies but they signed sensible contracts (and followed sensible policies) and don’t have governments hounding them for more supplies.
are you planning on batches in future years? I'm not really ready for this now, but will be in a year or so.
I kinda got that vibe, but the source should have been way easier to find
Matt Levine's email today estimates retail investors to be about 30% of total volume (with actual data from Citadel), but retail was net selling on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. So theoretically retail is enough to move the price if they were truly united, but that isn't actually the case. It's just not sexy to say "I bought in for a couple days and am taking my gains" in a public forum.
Sure, but most people agree on what makes a discussion worse. E.g. if one person constantly interrupts others and leads agressively voiced monologous with no real substance, most people might agree that person might not improve the climate of the discussion to much
I see, you're right that those two are entirely equivalent (it's what makes the Markov chain 'Markov'). And using an approximate sample instead of burn-in isn't entirely without merit, though I think I've only seen that being used with things like Brownian motion where the trajectory is the thing of interest, rather than the samples themselves.
I’m not saying we should censor for these. I am saying currently platforms may reasonably feel pressure to.
Agree, life and the internet have taught me that "nothing new under the sun" is true.

Novelty and ideas are golden. There would be no good execution of said idea if the idea wasn't put first first (of course).
There are a number of posts on the /r/Dogecoin subreddit for how to do it but I haven't looked at them. I already had a bunch of DOGE from 2014 mining (really just for fun) but if I didn't, and I wanted to trade, I would probably buy (or use what I have) BTC from Coinbase or similar, then move it over to a platform like Kraken/Binance.us, then trade on the DOGE/BTC pair.

Binance will let you trade the DOGE/USD pair, you just can't cash out without going through KYC-type stuff (or trade back to BTC/other and transfer wherever).
Bay Area cucks. It's a niche market, but those are the ones who would think such a device was a good idea.
It's worth mentioning that vim has added debugger integration support as a plugin, but that plugin is available with vim by default, you just need to enable it. It's not perfect but it's usable - you can set breakpoints visually and save/load them, you can step debug inside your code window (gdb is actually running in another vim window and can be controlled directly) and you can see the value of expressions in your code window.

This is a nice guide to it: https://www.dannyadam.com/blog/2019/05/debugging-in-vim/
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Co-founder here. My wife and I left London 3 years ago when we found we were expecting, and have been working away at a pair of projects since then. The first is now a two year old toddler, and the second is this.

The short version is, I spent 14 years running marketing and design teams/companies, and have been involved in thousands of conversations around product and marketing strategy. In that role, I've spent years playing with the hundreds of tools which give you data on what people are doing, but grew increasingly frustrated with the lack of any tools to help you think about what to do next based on it. My wife, albeit from a different industry kept running into the same issues.

So we set created this. Think of it as the scientific method meets strategy for creative teams.

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In 13.1. (e) of the contract AstraZeneca warrants that:

> it is not under any obligation, contractual or otherwise, to any Person or third party in respect of the Initial Europe Doses or that conflicts with or is inconsistent in any material respect with the terms of this Agreement or that would impede the complete fulfillment of its obligations under this Agreement;
So weird - and a good lesson for business. Generally the customer that gives you the most hassle on front end and is the cheapest will demand the most and hassle you the most for the entire period.

This argument reminds me of someone who I once tried to work with, I said, I'll just charge you my costs instead of full rate (this is like a 3x difference in price). So many arguments around cost, so many demands on quick delivery. Meanwhile, the folks paying 3x kept on reasonably agreed program and took 1/10th the time.

Anyone else have this experience?

Rumor had it astra wasn't going to mark up a huge amount.
Here's a definition I like: "A sudden and decisive action in politics, especially one resulting in a change of government illegally or by force." (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/coup-d-etat).

Start before the election with attempts to suppress Democratic voting (I did not know this, but apparently mail-in ballots are known for leaning Democratic---"Red mirage and blue surge" or something.), then attack the legitimacy of the election, both in the legal system and in public statements (increasing the latter as the former failed), further make semi-covert calls for illegal actions on the part of various officials associated with the election, and finally call for and support a protest (specifically including the more extreme supporters) at an event that is largely a formality. Yes, I think the whole course of events satisfies the definition of a coup.

Not a competent one, of course. A competent coup would have called in National Guard or military forces to suppress the rioters and at the same time sequester the members of the House and Senate in an undisclosed location for their own protection. Then declare a national emergency, place National Guard or military forces in state capitols and large cities---at that point violence becomes inevitable and the coup self-sustaining. (This isn't exactly a genius mastermind plan; it's how it's done all over the world.)

That does require the cooperation of the military, which Mr. Trump never really had, though.

Some of us are still wondering, though, why there were only Capitol Police at the Capitol. It seems likely that had the protest been another group, significant riot control forces would have been in place.
> I’m not saying we don’t need them

We need them, but we also need them to be held accountable for their actions.
Feature Factory, where the primary measure of success is features delivered and nobody ever bothers to find out of those features are used or even wanted.
Calling this a "Fellowship" is misleading. The funding is an investment. See their FAQ:

Q: How much equity does Sci-Founder take in my company?
A: There are two funding options we offer:
$250,000 for 10% equity
$400,000 for 15% equity
Yea, it's objective in the sense that it's the net present value of all future cash flow. Many unknowns in that formula, of course.
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Correct at the time of writing that document UK was still bound by the single market rules (transition period) but EU27 decided to not fight over vaccines, but coordinate and go for bigger central orders.
> My company had a zoom conference with a very well respected British doctor, he won something more or less equivalent to a nobel prize in mediciine, and he told my company, on May 4th, that masks are not necessary. This was already a bit head scratching, but what I feel he probably meant, but certainly did not explicitly say- is that its not a priority for an individual to wear a mask when there are shortages for front line workers.

This comes off as blatantly lying to us for our harm, not "they don't know what they're talking about". If someone lies to you and knowingly puts your life at risk through the lie, it's very rational not to believe anything they say in the future. This is not mere mixed messages.

If government and/or experts want to have non-negative credibility, they are going to have to start consistently telling the whole truth.
2 days back there was an article about how they scales to $10k MRR. https://www.bannerbear.com/journey-to-10k-mrr/
Sure, it's not perfect, but it still miles a head of everyone else in consumer tech.
Part of Hwy 1 in Big Sur completely wiped out
This is gold, thank you.

He went after the same problem, yes, but with a traditional SAAS approach.

We feel strongly that the only way to make this work is to have humans on our back end, thoughtfully automated with tech (vs the other way around).
hi tearsfromcrocodile, i don't think so - i translated a relevant section with deepl from cologne, you might be interested in the whole document.

Also see this subthread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25955746
Any scientists applying need a partner from the software side? Would love to make an impact in something like this!
I've seen the phrase "Anger is a good servant but a terrible master" used to encapsulate some of this. The idea being that if you control it but get energy from it then it can be used positively, but if you become angry and lose control then that will lead to bad things.

I don't know if this can be squared with the Buddhist view however. Is seeing it as poison meant to say it's bad in all measures, or is there an appreciation of the dose making the poison?
The motivation is one thing, the end result is that it created a slanted playing field where one party was blocked from buying, but not selling, and the other party (the losing short side) could do either unrestricted. Not only that, but it was pre emptive. We can talk all day about GME, but the handful of other names like BB hadn't even reached that point. There was simply a risk of a short squeeze and we slanted the field here, too, enough time for the losing side to mitigate their risk.

Conspiracy or no, the end result is so far from your day trading 25K minimum example. Your example is a rule that already existed going in, rather than a rule that changed temporarily to convenience one side for a day.
Of course this microbenchmark is in the L1 cache so codesize doesn't matter. The article doesn't matter the codesize at all.

I wouldn't be surprised if for cases where this wasn't the only code that you were executing that could sway the overall performance.
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I have never seen a convincing argument that we don’t need cops, courts, and prisons (not that you’re making that argument). Every society seems to have them, and I have a very hard time imagining a society that wouldn’t lock up someone like, say, Anders Breivik.

That being said, it’s pretty obvious that the American justice system is unnecessarily brutal and inefficient. We lock up a huge percentage of our population and have a pretty high recidivism rate compared to our peer nations. Well short of “defunding the police”, we desperately need to rethink the scope and responsibilities of our criminal justice system, and rethink the relationship between police and the citizens of this country.
Their "democratize finance" slogan serves the same purpose as, and means as much as, Google's "do no evil" slogan: it's a cynical ploy to trick naive rubes into joining and/or using the services of the company.
It's specifically stated in the contract that the UK facilities are covered. It's literally written in plain English, like you can read it from the document(the black markings on the white background). The continental facilities not getting online is irrelevant.
> Oxford University should be commended for that.

If you go that way it depends on the terms of the deal and how much AstraZeneca is paying them. But yes, good on them for making that demand.

AstraZeneca, a private commercial company, has agreed to produce a vaccine at cost in huge volumes and they should be commended for it in any case. As I said, not all Covid vaccines are produced at cost, some of them are even sold at, I suspect, eye watering margins.
> But can we actually talk about game design theory and how games are designed.

That is antithetical to how I view art.

Let the people playing the games sort the wheat from the chaff. There's a reason why "Settlers of Catan" and "Ticket to Ride" are on big box store shelves now.
This makes our day :-)
Academic MCs are our main target right now.
Thank you!
There are many misunderstandings in Software Engineering. The first main misunderstanding is that Software Engineering is about writing code. I would argue that is the main misunderstanding.

In reality, software engineering is about solving problems, business problems, process problems, machine problems, etc. using code in software as a tool.

The 80/20 rule applies here. 80% of time is spent analyzing and developing solutions, 20% of time is spent writing code and developing software.

Too many people focus on the code part, when they should be focusing on problem solving part.
In a “do nothing” scenario we would probably expect hundreds of thousands more vulnerable people dying before their time in the UK, along with who-knows how many 45-64 year olds (and other age groups) due to overwhelmed hospitals. We’ve seen that overwhelmed hospitals can’t do normal things like cancer treatment either, so tally that up too.

This is worth some inconvenience and higher taxes to me. I guess some people have no vulnerable relatives and no co-morbidities, or maybe value things like going to the pub above their gran. Personally I would rather have my 80 year old dad and 76 year old mum around for another few years than spend a week in Tenerife this year.
This is a pretty typical Atlassian experience. They push changes and will often ignore negative feedback which results in flames.

When I had to use them at previous jobs, I had a couple of favorite threads that I liked to follow. One of these was "Hitting Escape key while editing issue description loses contents" [1] which took about five years to address. Another was "Was blame removed from source tree?" [2] where Atlassian decided to reference "blame" as "annotate" without announcing the change, but did it because "blame" is a bad word (there was more on that thread from the devs themselves, but they apparently have deleted their posts)

[1] https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-36670
[2] https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Sourcetree-questions/Was-...
Don't worry, that's just cyclical fluctuations in human OS software, best summed up like this:

Hard times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
Weak men create hard times.

You only see this as troublesome because your scale of perception is one human life. Look at current events as if you are reading a history book.
The chatter on slickdeals.net forums (yes, Someone on the Internet Told Me...) is that Ikea has switched to a lower-quality Chinese supplier, and theirs are not white-labeled Eneloop anymore.
Book publishers just have an archaic business model. I happily pay for Safari Books Online which gives me access to all O'Reilly published books and I imagine I'd be willing to do the same if other services offered something similar for non-technical books. Instead of looking towards how the video industry handled piracy, book publishers just seem stuck in their ways.
>> (me) I encourage you, prove your case that EU provides this human right.

> (you: prof-dr-ir) This is a basic tenet of law: it is not forbidden, hence you are free to use encryption everywhere in the EU. QED :)

Interesting. You went with proof by assumption. There is the rub. If you're going to assume cognitive bias, I can't argue with your irrational belief. Instead, I'm writing for others to realize the error in this mental structure.

> (you) You probably want to argue that in an ideal world,...

Actually, on the contrary, I think you're arguing in an ideal world that those is power don't circumvent the goodwill intents of the law due to accidental reasons, or negligent reasons or even nefarious purposes (notice these circumventions to the law happen with a positive motive or negative motive. Which is why I went away from that when you got caught up in charactizations).

Assuming you have a right because it doesn't explicitly state it, is logically equivalent to your gripe with the ban of E2E.

> (you) I have a hard time seeing it because, well, the resolution does in fact not explicitly ban (E2E) encryption.

Said in reflection to your assumption: I have a hard time seeing it because, well, the resolution [nor any other EU law/resolution/court-case] does in fact explicitly state we have a right of E2E as citizens.

A side note: Since you're using assumptions for your human right. I feel you've not learned history. Laws can and should be explicit (I don't argue against your logical battle but I argue against where your focus is). A region of the world that had Hitler doesn't recognize this assumption could cause dire consequences? It's an absolutely fair point since you're focusing on the EU. (I'd quote other local atrocious leaders if we were debating a different location)

A final point, laws should be able to hold the powerful into account. So, even if it's stated in the law explicitly and even if the court cases confirm our cultural interpretations of the law, then this is still not what is necessary. We need one more aspect included. Consequences to law breaking. So my conclusion is that prof-dr-ir you're a far cry away from having all three aspects QED. I hope others realize and not take this situation lightly. Especially if we don't want to accidentally, negligently or even maliciously fall into a dystopian society.
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A sincere question here. There may be many positive answers that I don’t know about. Which non-capitalist ventures have done as good a job as capitalist ones at creating drugs?
When we look back on past injustices, there is almost a feeling of ridicule. As if we can't imagine how can those people fall for someone who says he (almost always a he) is appointed by god and bear so much of his bullshit for that. It is not victim blaming, but just barely so. It's a massive surge of disbelief, and an accompanying faith that no, those days are over now. We are better than this now.

Only we aren't, and we are still soaking up massive shitloads of inqueqlity and blood-boiling rule-bending like the good folks we are. For reasons that are, for all practical purposes, exactly like "god says I can", only this god is called "the free market". Slightly less superstitious, but no less unreal or stupid as the old thing. It's amazing how much you can get depressed thinking about the sheer "same shit different day"-ness of human civilization.
Ballsy. Amazing to see these mega-corps flex to help their billionaire friends. They feel invincible now with the new political environment.

DLive recently destroyed people's ability to be monetized if they weren't streaming gaming content.

They had a similar hit to their reviews. Doesn't look like Google took action there. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.dlive&hl=en...
scylladb had a blogpost once about how surprisingly small amounts of cpu time are available to process packets at the modern highest speed networks like 40gbit and the like.

I can't find it now. I think they were trying to say that cassandra can't keep up because of the JVM overhead and you need to be close to metal for extreme performance.

This is similar. Huge amounts of flooding I/O from modern PCIx SSDs really closes the traditional gap between CPU and "disk".

The biggest limiter in cloud right now is the EBS/SAN. Sure you can use local storage in AWS if you don't mind it disappearing, but while gp3 is an improvement, it pales to stuff like this.

Also, this is fascinating:

"Take the write speeds with a grain of salt, as TLC & QLC cards have slower multi-bit writes into the main NAND area, but may have some DIMM memory for buffering writes and/or a “TurboWrite buffer” (as Samsung calls it) that uses part of the SSDs NAND as faster SLC storage. It’s done by issuing single-bit “SLC-like” writes into TLC area. So, once you’ve filled up the “SLC” TurboWrite buffer at 5000 MB/s, you’ll be bottlenecked by the TLC “main area” at 2000 MB/s (on the 1 TB disks)."

I didn't know controllers could swap between TLC/QLC and SLC.
Wouldn’t be the first time a politician behaved hypocritically, would it?
IKEA Collecting Images, Video From Customers' Homes

fixed that headline for you
"Hobbyists beat professionals of [x] in [x]"

No they don't.

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Look, I know we can go down the rabbit hole about what constitutes a good epistemology, how these notions are correct only some of the time, or how the metrics can be wrong. Here's a simple rule of thumb: if the result is completely counterintuitive in basic scenarios, then it's probably not true.

Yes, yes, of course, the new response is "but wait quantum physics is utterly unintuitive, yet it is correct! So is chemistry! etc, etc" but look both you and I know that this is beside the point. Our simple and obvious priors are much more useful than we think, and they are right a lot more of the time than any of us want to give them credit for. Surely, there will be times when it's flat-out wrong, but those times are very few and far in between.

Reading the paper, this certainly looks like the basic knee-jerk "No" is right by most useful metrics.
they say "we animate in certain elements to bring your attention to them" but so many things are moving!

it's wildly confusing, unless you scroll very slowly and wait for (most of the) things to stop animating