skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why "you can't improve what you don't measure" bothers me. It's rare that you can condense all useful information into a number and it encourages people to remove critical thinking from the equation. People come to rely on the number instead of thinking deeply about what they're doing.
Game is fun (but Overwatch 2 is needed?) Characters are cool. Zero map rotation. Competitive scene is terrible, OWL even more so.

Really just highlights Blizzard is terrible at esports. Lots of examples here for MDI, AWC prize pools vs. investment required to be successful.
The assertion of this idea is what got Larry Summers fired from Harvard.
https://share.ipfs.io/#/ is also very convenient for simple p2p file transfers.
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Any study? I would even wager that “ugly” girls have a harder time than “ugly” guys.
Or maybe Overwatch does not have staying power. It is quite interesting how CS still has million daily players... And they don't do that much either in terms of new content.
I tried to use it while in Beta and the big issue with these frameworks that include js today is how to use them with other js frameworks like Vue.js. For a js noob like me it’s a nightmare, so much that I had to downgrade to bootstrap 4 to use the unofficial bootstrap-vue framework.
I’d love to play World of Warcraft with Diablo/Starcraft fixed-POV and gameplay controls. It could be such an interesting story if it weren’t for the camera controls that make me wish I had a flight simulator joystick.
Thanks; absolutely! Modelling these additional aspects like recoil and accuracy with customisable shot intervals is underway.

To elaborate, they didn't make it into the initial release as there's a substantial amount of work involved to tie that in dynamically with the data (as each shot is inherently dependant on all the shots before it and the time between them when firing multiple rounds).

I understand how much value this would add to the comparisons, so it's a top priority!
For me being outside of thess relations are indeed it is not so clear. Can you describe it more ?
FFXIV is the one that finally hooked me. It improves on WoW in a lot of areas. The learning curve is a bit steep and the hell that is mogstation are points against it, but I've been very much enjoying it.
Decommissioning nuclear is pain in the ass though. A turbine can be recycled - everything but the concrete.

And I think that you have some serious metal fatigue in some critical nuclear reactor core components.
Lately I've been a fan of lazy preloading. First I just load the requested page and all resources on it. Then, if javascript is enabled, I start loading the rest of the site (or section of the site) into hidden dom elements, starting with the resources most likely to be requested next. Then the rest of the user's interactions on the site are near-instant and you can even bring the entire thing offline.
> IMO defaultdicts are kind of dangerous, especially when passed as arguments to other calls that expect a normal dict.

A defaultdict is a normal dict[0], its just a space-efficient way of expressing a large normal dict, most of whose keys won’t be accessed.

The default function itself should throw KeyError on values that are logically not in the dict (including, due to Python’s dynamically typed nature, those which are outside of the key domain because of type.) Though in some uses you can skip out on this because its used in a very lonited scope where you know its not going to be indexed improperly.

> I generally prefer to use .setdefault(key, default_value) with regular dicts, as it's much more explicit.

I’m not sure why one would prefer one of those over the other, as they have very different use cases; certainly defaultdict isn’t a great choice for places where .setdefault makes sense, but that’s true in reverse, too.

[0] well, except for the unfortunate .get() behavior; a ReallyDefaultDict where rdd.get(k, default) works more sensibly, returning rdd[k] unless that throws KeyError, and default otherwise, would be better.
NuScale is still moving, but they have slipped on schedule and budget, far enough some of their project partners have pulled out.

So far everyone who's pursued this small modular reactors built by factories approach has failed in the ambition. Doesn't mean it's impossible but just maybe we should be a bit more bearish than bullish on the idea of this sparking a revolution in the capital costs and time scales of nuclear power.
Business idea: billing system for enterprise SaaS software.
Well, they have it LoL, so that's to be expected. (the hextech chest stuff)
Been there, done that, didn't buy the t-shirt. Calling one's opponent an "extremist" was insultingly reductive then, just as it is now.
Interestingly, in Common Lisp,

(push event (gethash day days))

does this with zero extra effort, since the default value for fetching from a hashtable is NIL. The magic of reasonable defaults... I feel like it's underappreciated sometimes.
1. You can seek out a lender who specialises in higher risk loans

2. If there isn't one, you can start a lender that does that, since there is probably a business opportunity if noone is doing it.

3. You can convince friends and family that you are more reliable than your demographic and get angel investments from them.

4. You can convince VCs that you are more reliable than your demographic and get investment

5. You can try and aim for quick profitability and bootstrap your business.

6. You can complain about your victimhood and do nothing.
Motorcycle safety gear is almost unregulated in the US. The one regulation (The DOT helmet standard) is an absolute joke.

I can legally ride my Suzuki motorcycle, which has a fully custom exhaust, an ultrabright LED floodlight and zero safety features, wearing no safety gear except eyeglasses in my state. (I built it as a dirt bike juuust legal enough to ride to the trailhead.)
Old Apple II’s and Macs will never truly die, they’re just too much fun. Emulation and FPGA solutions exist and once gone over, the hardware is very robust. Replace the old caps with tantalum, align the screen, and you’re set.
It's surprisingly, but there are exceedingly few 13-14" notebooks still in the market with socketed memory, and especially not with both channels socketed. The same goes for WiFi, though at least storage is still socketed on most notebooks other than Apple's.

We enable CPU upgradeability through mainboard replacement. Since everything of value on the mainboard except for the CPU is socketed, the vast majority of the cost of the mainboard is the CPU itself. That makes the mainboard upgrade path pretty sensible.

We have designed the panel to be replaceable without needing to replace the full lid assembly. It is fastened in behind a magnet-attach bezel (which is also color customizable). The keyboard is held in with fasteners to be replaceable as well.

For the power jack, we actually do one better, and have made all of the ports Expansion Cards which can be hot swapped. This means you can choose the ports you want on the system and which side you want them on, and if you ever manage to damage a receptacle, you only need to replace the card instead of the mainboard!

I agree that what we're doing shouldn't be that unusual, but it is!
You’re referring to Leviathan, the newest expansion for Europa Universalis. The developer plea for less toxicity in the forums was from a Hearts Of Iron developer.

Their newest DLC wasn’t exactly met with glowing reviews either, but it wasn’t apocalyptically game-breaking, so even if abuse was warranted for the quality of Leviathan (and it’s not), that still wouldn’t explain why the HoI forums should be a cesspit.
> Is this what Enterprise mean?

Yes, yes it is!
None of these are true.

- You can get the completions to display as you type (see zsh-autosuggestions, zsh-autocomplete).

- Completions are completely aware of their context, probably more so than what fig can infer. You do need to actually load the completion functions of your binaries though, which are traditionally named ‘_command’ (so, an example would be ‘_git’).

- They can provide documentation; fzf-tab does so.
I was super hyped for Overwatch, I loved my time with the beta. I thought Overwatch was going to be the new Counter-Strike, Quake, or Halo. One of those games that just defines its time period.

Then it launched and I got bored after 1 month. Too few maps too few variety.
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if you just want to achieve non-linear falloff (that's apodization) then all you need to do is the graduated-density filter I mentioned, with darker edges and a clear center. In principle you could probably expose a negative or laser-print a transparency to your specifications.

(laser-printing a negative for direct contact printing is kind of a fun process in general!)

the idea of using a polarizing filter (privacy filter) is kind of an interesting one, can't really picture in my head whether or not that would work. I think the answer might be that yes it would probably change the bokeh, but it might also result in uneven illumination across the image or weird color shifts? it would be neat to see what happens though.

possibly also of interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_sieve
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Eh I mean. It's the biggest game in the world for a reason. It's shallow and money hungry to you, but a huge % of its players love it.

> Nothing like Blizzard's best work from the past (Diablo 2, Starcraft) that could be played for years with no "season passes" or other MTX.

The people responsible for that iteration of Blizzard no longer work there, is the problem.
I haven't done the math, but I would be surprised if a Delta IV-H couldn't fly a similar profile, resulting in the first stage being in a low orbit. DIVH and LM5 have similar LEO payload capacities, and the mass of everything above the first stage (dry second stage, propellant, and payload) is ~90t for both. So, quick napkin math looks like it works (obviously there are a lot of other complexities I'm ignoring here, for the sake of simplicity).
I've observed that in informal gatherings of Caucasian and African-American men and women, that the women sort themselves with women and the men sort themselves with men. Sex overrides race. I can't be sure I'm not experiencing a confirmation bias, so I put this forth only as a casual observation.
I believe there is a lot of ground between "companies ought to issue every statement demanded by any employee" and "companies ought to explicitly prohibit any workplace discussion about anything that can remotely be considered political."
Thanks for pointing out! You're right, I'm not a native speaker. Some dictionaries list it as an alternative form though: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/bet
> There was a foreign influence campaign.

Rofl. A few thousands dollars bought ads that influenced the election, oh wow! If it was the US citizens who voted, they are free to listen anyone they want. Or you think that US citizens are too stupid to be allowed to judge for themselves, and should be guarded from 'wrong' information? (Of course, we can trust Facebook to decide which info is right, and which not)
What sources suggest the incel condition is genetic?

Edit: or even predominately male?
> "I'm old enough to stand up against censorship and for the right to use ugly speech."

Then why are you hiding behind a throwaway account?

> "I am saying I dont support companies that dont support unfettered free speech."

Which companies do you support? Are there any which support unfettered free speech on their platforms?
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/freemarket.asp
> 200

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fairmarket.asp
> 404

Free market is something like a technical term with a generally accepted definition within economics (sure you could squabble about the details of this definition)

Fair Market value is a saying that means you got what something is worth. Semantically you would break it up as (fair) (market value) not (fair market) (value). There is no implied shared definition of a fair market in an economic sense and that phrase is not implying that the sale was done in the context of a subjectively ethically "fair" circumstance. I think you are well aware of this though.
Totally fair point! But I'd also like to point out that prior to World of Warcraft, Blizzard hadn't released an MMORPG. Prior to Overwatch, Blizzard hadn't released a first-person shooter. I totally understand your point that Blizzard might not have the talent to pull off a single-player RPG game, but I still think it's within the realm of reality.
I would say WoW is getting less and less polished, at least for existing, active players (the new player experience has just received a massive boost).

The WoW community has become accustomed to systems getting launched in a poor state, expecting future patches to fix glaring flaws in core gameplay, with the developers all but admitting this in interviews (if you're really into the details, Torghast would be the latest example of this pattern).
If I was born a few years later I could have easily ended up on those nice-guy, red pill type of forums. If you feel rejected by society it's easier than ever to retreat to your room and immerse yourself in an imagined sense of belonging to online groups. The basic ingredients are shyness, social anxiety and low self esteem (all easier to acquire than ever). After that it's a self-fulfilling downward spiral. You feel unlovable and so the world affirms it.

The message we get from the media is that finding a partner is only for those who ooze confidence and charm. The West has a hidden Hikikomori epidemic too. Shared houses are full of single guys living on the internet and takeaway food in their rooms. We just don't have a word in the culture for it yet.

Thankfully I met someone who was willing to look past the awkwardness and shyness and surface level quirks. I'm happily married now. I'm not sure I would have ever found my self esteem without her positive encouragement and support. The author's plea for compassion is probably what these guys need to begin healing.
> Are there really not laptops anymore with SODIMM memory and discrete M.2 ports for both storage and WiFi?

Here is one: https://puri.sm/products/librem-14 (battery is replaceable without involving a glue).
I logged into Ultima Online recently and played a bit. Still fun, though the community is a lot smaller now. It is a shame that Origin took so long to try to fix the nonconsensual PvP and other issues (then split the worlds instead of just doing consensual flags), which resulted in lots of people leaving. They really did a very impressive thing with UO, and the original graphics still beat the cartoonish 3D stuff they added later. Again, goes to show that a solid foundation can endure for a long time. Lots of good memories, friends, and immersive play.
There are some excellent courses on Udemy.
I love BW but it's still far from perfect. Even if things like single build select and max 12 unit select were okay at the time and worked decently within the game's design, they're still incredibly clunky choices. Honestly, even playing it in its heydey, I already disliked the 12 unit select.

> It's basically the perfect RTS so everything that came after it seems inferior. Even Starcraft 2.

SC2 had a bunch of design choices that seemed to reflect a shallow understanding of what made BW actually super good. Like, how incredibly tightly units clumped together should've been picked out as an obvious flaw immediately, but instead they never fixed the underlying issue and just patched up some of the negative impacts via econ changes.
Social apartheid is de facto segregation, no laws are strictly necessary, but often support it. It’s most prominent aspect is seen in the division of white/black capital. Zambia is very much a country with vastly wealthier white demographic.

“ On the eve of independence in 1964, 2 percent of Zambia’s 3.5 million people were white, but they controlled everything in a system resembling apartheid.”

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/04/23/black-white-zamb...

I’m saying Musk has a lineage of abusive behavior and was raised by those same people. It explains his exploitative and abusive behavior for workers.
Speak for yourself; I can't stand SC1 after all the quality-of-life features they added to 2.

There's nothing dumber and more immersion-breaking than watching 15 dragoons get stuck in a small opening because the game's pathfinding is the very best the mid-90s has to offer. Or watching a reaver's scarab just ... get stuck, on the way to a target. They solved all of this crap (and a whole lot more) in SC2, and I can't go back.
From my point of view, Blizzard has been slowly going downhill for ages. Some whines in chronological order:

WoW died for me when they introduced the random dungeon finder in Cataclysm and cut down the player-to-player interaction outside dungeons by 99%.

Starcraft 2 ... might have been polished and all, but honestly I don't see much difference from Starcraft 1. Also, I don't like memorizing openings (either chess or a RTS) and the multiplayer is toxic enough. Been called a stupid noob a lot, especially when i won :)

Diablo 3... i sometimes play that when i feel like doing something that doesn't require even one active neuron. It's about like watching TV.

Hearthstone was fun until I realized it's like MTG and you have to spend real money to improve your card collection.

They made WoW classic unplayable with their decision to cram 10x as many people on one server (and refusal to fix it). Then WC3: Reforged came up. So two botched remakes/updates.

Their other titles don't run on Macs, so considering how good the current titles are, I didn't even look. Heard that the Diablo 2 remake will be Windows only as well.

So... i guess good luck to them. They have to do A LOT to convince me they're worth my time now.
Many people need support for searching asynchronously over the network, but this is neat.
For a "perfect" game, Dragoon / Goliath pathing is sure awful.

Starcraft 2 units really do "what you want" most of the time: automatically balling up into groups or "dancing" together. From one perspective, elite Starcraft1 players who memorized "The Magic Box" and other engine-level pathfinding behaviors saw this as an abomination: other players can gain the same skills now without practice.

On the other hand... lets be frank. Dragoon / Goliath pathfinding was bullshit from Starcraft1. The extraordinary measures you'd have to take to become a competitive player who uses those (ie: Magic box memorization. Dragoon Dance practice. Etc. etc.) was fundamentally unfun.

This is coming from me: someone who did put in the effort to properly dragoon dance / Muta stack / etc. etc. We all do things to seek a competitive edge against our opponents.

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The work / reward ratio needs to be there in some extent. But it can't be so large to turn beginners away. I'm not sure if anyone's found the proper balance yet, but Starcraft2 definitely was better from that perspective.

EDIT: I'm also a big fan of fighting games. Hyper-fighters, like Blazblue or Guilty Gear, have a nice auto-balance called combo proration. Combos are clearly the best way to play, but each combo makes the rest of the combo exponentially do less damage (!!!). This means that a 50 hit combo in BlazBlue will probably only do 10% more than a 20 hit combo, despite the huge difficulty curve in executing. The bulk of the damage is from the attacks before proration kicks in. This allows for the expert-community to practice for those 50-hit combos, while not necessarily granting huge 250% bonuses over beginners. A casual player may only decide to learn the 20-hit combo and still be 90% of the way to playing like an expert (compared to experts who have to work far, far harder to get the last 10% of damage).
Maybe I'm just in the HN echochamber, but this really feels like a case of death by MBA.
I don't think there will ever be another successful game without "season passes" or other MTX. Overwatch may be used as a singular reason in the industry why the old model doesn't work.

Fortnite can afford to keep artists and programmers on staff to develop a huge amount of content because they have consistent money coming in. This isn't the case for OW and I hypothesize this is why they struggled to crank out new content.
I'm one of those people, but let me tell you, they have made it very easy on me. They haven't made anything even vaguely interesting in years.
Still looking for any ideas that could work though. If someone have them please share.
https://unherd.com/2019/08/the-truth-about-the-female-brain/

This review by Saloni Dattani tells exactly the issues I've had with Gina Rippons book, The gendered brain. The introduction goes into detail on how a lot of statistical analysis is prone to biases and massaging of data etc. It is fairly comprehensive. But after that, the section where the author makes her case, she puts forth a lot of studies without going into why these studies are robust compared to the other studies she criticised in the introduction. It's pretty hard to just take her word for it especially when you have been primed to look for issues in studies after finishing the introduction
There's a pretty good definition on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism

> Institutional racism was defined by Sir William Macpherson in the UK's Lawrence report (1999) as: "The collective failure of an organization to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture, or ethnic origin. It can be seen or detected in processes, attitudes and behaviour that amount to discrimination through prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness, and racist stereotyping which disadvantage minority ethnic people."
and you guys finally got rid of the US survey foot - the bane of this Canadian's existence when working on big civil jobs in the states. We'll get you guys using proper units afore long
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I'm with the GP, companies aren't there to censor (unless it's a kids game). I don't like the toxic nature of many who play games, but at most the company should look into harassment / abuse, not censor words. My reasoning is Poe's Law. One could be using a would-be censored word or phrase to describe something in a non-offending way. A farmer might say, "I have several bitches to sell, would you be interested?" Here, bitches is used appropriately to describe female dogs. My example may be shite, though I hope the point is made.

(Nevermind the use of exposure therapy to make certain words/events less impactful on an individual)
I was disappointed with Warzone.

* Best load-outs are faster to unlock with the paid game, so it is semi play-to-win

* Warzone client is MASSIVE (seriously, like fill your entire SSD massive) because it installs other games alongside

* Servers are awful, with extremely low tick-rates, so movement and shooting feels pretty ropey

* A general sense of sameyness crept in after a few hours. I have a hunch that this is due to a low skill ceiling to the mechanics. Whilst I'm sure this makes the game more accessible to a wider audience, I found it left me with no sense of progression. Like eating a Big Mac rather than a nourishing meal.
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Dragoon pathing is actually a bug where the dragoons think they're smaller than they are IIRC. They just never patched it because it ended up becoming a part of the accepted balance.
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