skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For better or for worse, he puts a high, high premium on gameplay. He already gave non-enthusiastic reviews of many games that many consider "classics" (such as most Sierra adventures, or Myst, just to name a few examples).

It's an opinionated approach, sure, but at least he's open about it and seems to apply it consistently.
Where was this? I highly doubt this is true.
And if this results in horrific consequences because we've fundamentally undermined security, who's accountable for that? No one (and everyone)?
I had “write a C function that swaps the contents of 2 pointers”.
>noone wants to work those jobs anymore

The implication of that in turn is that these US companies aren't willing to pay at a rate that would be competitive in the market
That's true, and on the opposite side you have companies that manage so much hardware that it starts being profitable for them to become a cloud operator.
Maybe they fly more during the day, but there are tons of red-eye flights over land, plus cargo flights, etc. Check out https://www.flightradar24.com/ in the middle of the night.
You're mistaken. TSMC has no choice but to stop manufacturing for Huawei as TSMC's EUV tech is using US R&D that they and ASML have licenses from US research labs many years ago.
IME device/os choice is usually more around IT security than weird cultish things. I.e. my current job, we only use iOS/mac because then IT only has to worry about keeping a fleet of iOS/macs patched and secured. Instead of Windows and a million different linux distros.

I also personally think they picked osx because devs using windows probably won't care (since windows is already not great for dev), mac people are happy, and linux people are just glad they're not using windows.

(I'm personally in the "linux person relieved to not be using windows" camp).
I think he's overstating the case. It's true that it wasn't a huge seller, and reviewers were kinda lukewarm, but my impression is that the reviewers were saying, "ho hum, another point-and-click adventure game, aren't these games over by now?"

I furthermore think he's taking that approach because he himself doesn't like the game, which, if you know his tastes, should come as no surprise.

The author's aesthetic for adventure games is that the puzzles have to be fair and solvable without hints. https://www.filfre.net/2015/07/the-14-deadly-sins-of-graphic...

I've argued with him in the past that this attitude closes him off from enjoying games that are pretty good but have a couple of unfair puzzles. (You can see the argument there in a comment thread on that 2015 article, and again recently on his Full Throttle article.)

Thus, the key paragraphs from this article are when he points out that the alien skeleton puzzle is unfair (and, isn't it??) and the "alien control panel" (where you move the lens to the light source by programming a little robot, but there's no hint/clue what you're "supposed" to make the robot do).

I think he's spot on that those puzzles are unfair, but, in his mind, that means the whole game sucks as a game.

His criticism of the acting and plot are a matter of personal aesthetic, but I think I agree with him that Dig's ending is not great, especially when you consider what happens to the NPC five minutes before the ending.
Did you honestly just equate being persecuted for only being attracted to people of the same sex as you to antivaxxer bullshit?

Here on HN I thought we prided ourselves on evidence-based opinions. dO yUoR ReSeARcH and educate yourself on vaccines, how they work, what the risks are and why they are important.
I put a link to the Wikipedia page.
In the narrowest ruling possible, for that one time only on a technicality, which means that baker is currently being sued again. And it doesn't change most LGBTQ activists want him to lose, with their agenda triumphing over his autonomy.
It is deflationary, in terms of your chosen unit of exchange/account, when combined with an increase in demand, hypothetical or otherwise, that is above the rate of emission.
yep, the joke was getting at the "talk lots and lots of bullshit" aspect. it's the engineer's stereotype of a marketing person. like, "hey, this guy won't cut it as an engineer - he couldn't even answer the manhole question. but he sure can spout bullshit with the best of them!"
Do you mean compared to the cost of living in those regions?
I can't read anything about Richard Feynman without thinking of the letter he wrote his wife 16 months after she passed away. "I love my wife. My wife is dead."

https://fs.blog/2013/08/richard-feynman-love-letter/
> oppose the agenda and oppose adoption

"Oppose the agenda" is opposition to their right to exist as equal members of society. (In places like Ghana, the "agenda" is survival.)

> maybe religion itself is "extreme" and most of its followers are lax

This is a hypothesis. It's falsified by the observation of numerous tolerant and religious societies.
There’s an enterprise version listed in features but no pricing or any other info on the website. Not even contact info. At least on mobile.
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Not a single mention of Operation Mockingbird?
Apple giveth: firmware updates for 5 year old phones

Apple taketh away:

"Apple on Wednesday agreed to pay $113 million to settle consumer fraud lawsuits brought by more than 30 states over allegations that it secretly slowed down old iPhones, a controversy that became known as "batterygate. Apple first denied that it purposely slowed down iPhone batteries, then said it did so to preserve battery life amid widespread reports of iPhones unexpectedly turning off. "

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/18/936268845/apple-agrees-to-pay...
There is an option of peering at 2c/g but yeah it’s not particularly cheap either when you compare it to transit costs in the real dc
I think that most would be very welcoming, and the younger generations speak a decent English for the most part.
AIDS? https://borgenproject.org/common-diseases-in-ghana/
now you are starting to ask extremely uncomfortable questions for the higher education cabal.

Unfortunately, what I suspect is going on with all this high minded "get rid of the SATs" is really going to at least help the universities combat what was an increasing pressure to do pre and post testing to validate or establish the value of a university's program. You cannot as easily gain useful information if you have no pre-test.

The very irony of this is of course that it is a kind of deliberate and manipulative breaking of the scientific process by universities who will simply claim even more profusely that their graduates improve over 4 years of study, without any control of variables.

The only possibility I see to circumvent what may be a devious scheme is for citizens to press state Legislatures to require a pre-test on entry and a post-test on graduation. Expect extreme pushback though because the data that is available strongly indicates that universities are largely not actually conferring the value one may expect. In other words, the quality of the students on entry is the primary determination of the quality of the student on graduation, which seems to hold across the board.
The SAT is basically institutionalized racism. I think this has been well studied, from its origins until today. If you have the means and money you can get tutored test prep and do significantly better than you would otherwise.

Next on this list will be scholarships and admissions for elite sports. Rowing and gymnastics all favor the wealthy.

https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/views/2020/08/17/h...

Maybe we need randomized admissions when kids qualify above a threshold...
A Catholic will firmly disagree with that belief.
> I appreciate your story, but this comment bothered me, because it's something people repeat a lot and it's actually not true. There's no good evidence that adults have more difficulty acquiring language than children. There were some older studies that claimed to show such, but as has become all too familiar these days, their methods were spurious and there have been some replication issues.

According to a 2018 paper [1], the ability to acquire new languages declines steeply after age 17.

[1] Hartshorne, Joshua K., Joshua B. Tenenbaum and Steven Pinker. 2018. A critical period for second language acquisition: evidence from 2/3 million English speakers. Cognition 177:263-277. https://l3atbc-public.s3.amazonaws.com/pub_pdfs/JK_Hartshorn...
Rich, privileged kids who can buy good extra-curricular "experiences" and bribe their way to better grades at private schools will be the big winners here.
Yep. Packing unprepared students in based on non-merit items (including legacy) and disadvantaging prepared students is absolutely ridiculous. It's bad enough that the standards are low for student athletes because it's all about talent-recruitment business and NCAA $$$, where educational attainment is tertiary.
> done in excel by one person in a week

Done by a domain expert in their field. If you had to create the project from scratch without aid of an existing Excel file to clone, you would not be able to do it even remotely as quickly as the domain expert, if at all.
The few Mujin videos I watched look a lot like PCB assembly pick-n-place machines. A little bit of computer vision, a little sensing here and there, but overall fairly simple pre-programmed moves, on a pretty controlled environment.
Our species needs to be more mature for a Metaverse not to be a wholesale rape of all one's data and everything one does. Facebook, Google, E.A., Apple or NASA... it don't matter, the problem is us humans and how we treat one another at scale.
What on Earth could be next? The government is gonna force your publicly advertised shop to serve <insert racial epithet>?
I've lived in a variety of multi-family units, some have _definitely_ been far too noisy. I'm still trying to work out what some upstairs neighbors I had a few years ago were up to regularly that sounded just like bowling but with office furniture.

But for the most part as long as the unit isn't facing a major road/rail and the neighbors aren't the college-frat sort, they're usually not too noisy at all.
for the downvoting and I want to make clear that I am not in any way agreeing, im just stating a pretty clear observation.

social pressure has a strong effect. As an example, quite a number of lawmakers have been caught with homosexual prostitutes, yet they have families. This is because their is a high social cost to not having a wife and children, even if they preferred not to.

Now apply this society wide 200 years ago.
There are a ton. It's weird, because they use FB differently than a lot of people. It really is the 'internet'. Pirated movies and all.
The line has to be drawn somewhere and I don’t believe anyone is so naive as to believe this was “just a talk”.

Would you allow a “talk” instructing North Koreans on how to better leverage ransomware to extort money from municipalities?

Save the fake outrage for a real injustice, because there are plenty of those.
Humans use stereo vision to overcome things like this. I think some kind of stereoscopic strategy would be a feasible strategy, no? Why revert to the age-old argument of "common sense"?
I thought the same as well but then I went down the docker/container route for making something similar to k8s it turned out to be just reimplementing k8s badly. The reason k8s is so complicated is the horrible infatuation with walls of YAML and CRDS, think of YAML and CRDS as XML and XMLNS for those of us who lived through XML.
The linked article may give you another point of view.
Cancel culture is a decentralized phenomenon, and it most certainly is not dying. As much as we hate it, cancel culture endures because it works and people are very much afraid of saying the wrong thing on social media.
This is attention-grabbing posturing, in the style of most Twitter posts. Amazon is most definitely cruel to its employees, but that cruelty is not applied for the sake of launching Bezos into space. It's applied to make Amazon (and Amazon's investors) money.

Going into fits of stylish hysteria because the evil billionaires are launching rockets again misses the more important point: they would be just as evil if they WEREN'T launching rockets. Space exploration isn't the issue. The issue is that workers (and small businesses) are getting ground into a pulp to grease the gears of an increasingly cruel and dysfunctional society. What the ill-gotten gains are spent on is irrelevant. The point is they were ill-gotten in the first place.

And this matters, because the vast majority of nasty people running these society-crushing companies AREN'T operating private space programs. Walmart doesn't own any rockets. Nor does McDonalds. But they're still disassembling the foundation of a free, equitable society everyone can participate in, brick by brick, with their perverse economics.
Facebook will be like cigarettes. Legislated to death in some countries, preying on the vulnerable like vultures in other countries. Prospering.
Interesting post. I think nicotine is probably a valuable nootropic for most people and for schizophrenics (though extremely unhealthy if it's consumed via smoking tobacco), but I don't think that post is at all trying to argue that "The evidence seems to strongly indicate that nicotine is a powerful antipsychotic."

Rather, it says a single study found that, when controlling for confounders, smokers in their sample were less likely to get schizophrenia, and heavy smokers were much less likely to get schizophrenia. (When not controlling for confounders, they were more likely to get schizophrenia.)

First, "antipsychotic" doesn't necessarily imply "reduces chance of developing schizophrenia". Modern-day antipsychotics generally seem to be blunt instruments designed to dampen acute states of psychosis at that moment, often by doing things like antagonizing dopamine receptors.

Something that lowers the risk of developing schizophrenia won't necessarily be an antipsychotic in this sense, even if it could be considered anti-"psychotic disorder development". As far as I know, nicotine doesn't work as an antipsychotic in the sense of it helping to stop an ongoing psychotic episode. It may temporarily improve functioning for someone in such a state, but it may not make them feel less delusional or paranoid, for example. Or at least I'm not aware of evidence of that. And, conversely, I don't know if taking antipsychotics actually reduces the chance of developing schizophrenia if you aren't currently diagnosed with it.

And this is just a single study, cited by the author of Beware the Man of One Study (https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/12/beware-the-man-of-one-...). He definitely is not trying to claim that this is overall strong evidence for nicotine being a powerful antipsychotic. As he mentions in it, controlling for confounders is very complex and difficult.

So, it seems plausible it could possibly help reduce the chance of developing schizophrenia, but there's definitely not strong evidence of it at this time. The only strongly supported phenomenon I know of is that schizophrenics very commonly use it, with some evidence that it may temporarily reduce negative symptoms and improve cognitive functioning.
It's not a translation error. Besides, there are many other verses in the Bible that condemn homosexuality.
Making it illegal in eg Europe to financially support homophobic organizations would reduce their worldwide money supply, and in the long term help their victims in all countries, including Ghana.
California has an even better program. If you go to a California community college and have a 2.7 GPA you are guaranteed admission to a CA State University.
I have one eye and have no problem not making these kinds of mistakes.
As opposed to the stock market which is only propped up by the, not just pedagogically uninformed as may be the case with crypto shilling, but factually uninformed 401k and pension fund ‘investors’.

Sure, many cryptocurrency investors may not fully understand the depths of each protocol, but at least the information is 100% available. The vast majority of stock investors have absolutely no idea what they are invested in, and would be unable to find much information about it if they did, and all of that is considered the main feature of stocks. Isn’t it great that you can give all of your money to a bunch of people you don’t know so that you can watch the number go up and then pay even more money in taxes every time they move the money for you?

I’d be shocked if a randomly selected group of those invested in stocks would outperform a randomly-selected group of those invested in cryptocurrency, on the basic SEC investor competence test.
I'm sure Elon Musk is going to take this problem extremely seriously, given that it's going to be twice as prevalent on Mars.
If you have a weighted GPA...

Also, GPA is not a great measure of student quality. IRT [1,2] is better.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/1434976
[2] https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar...
Funny, when I saw that I thought how did they miss this one? It's the moon, how is it possible no one has driven a Tesla at the right time in the right direction to have picked up the moon? The moon is out quite often. It doesn't seem like that much of an edge case to me, though I could be wrong.
Micro USB was definitely worse than USB-C.

For context: I am someone who still has a 9 years old smartphone in use (not exclusively). So for the normal 24 months usage the connectors might suffice, but I prefer solutions which are either easily replaceable or hold longer like wireless charging for example.
Maybe this isn't a substantive comment that really adds anything, but just wanted to echo a few other commenters- I don't find anything special about the TikTok algorithm, or TikTok in general. It's.... fine. I signed in via Apple ID initially, and it clearly didn't have much info on me, so it just served up what it thought I'd like based on my age & rural location at the time (basically, tractors & Trump). Later it got a little better, but I just don't see the 'scary' or 'addictive' algorithm that people rave about. It's.... it's just OK. Eg I liked one funny video of the Hispanic guy pronouncing various states, it now shows me a bunch more by the same guy- doesn't exactly seem like superhuman AI. YouTube has more relevant content for me, personally
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Aside from quantization errors for high school classes with fewer than 16 students, why would it be easier to get the top 6% in a rural school?
It adds a menu bar icon to stop recording.
Hey man, totally agree. Instead let's just give IQ tests, because test prep doesn't help. Uhuh, whoops, those are racist too.
Elon Musk on UI: all input is error
Would this introduce spectre like vulnerabilities?
Nope, google is legally obligated to not do that, and in fact they don't. Google has much more to lose in this than you do, and a strong incentive not to lie.
No, it's not far-fetched, this is a pretty well-known optimization.

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/970
> Well, ask any Christian who considers themselves devout, and they'll happily remind you about Sodom and Gamorrah, Biblical cities which were destroyed by fire falling from heaven for homosexuality.

Actually, as a lifelong Christian, that's...disputed. A very common interpretation is that they were destroyed for violating the obligations of hospitality to guests. Even assuming an absence of translation error in the phrase translated as indicating a desire to use the guests sexually (itself a point of intense debate), the offense isn't “gay sex” but “demanding to have guests turned over to be gang-raped”.

I think most people would agree that there is a giant moral gulf between the morality of consensual sex and the morality of demanding someone turn over guests to a rape mob.
I'm not them but I think the [citation needed] might have been regarding the "yet many "progressives" don't have a problem with that" part.
Eventually, yes. We will add it to web version as well. As for recommendations, it all depends on what you were using before. We have our own recommendation algorithm so it might be a bit different (hopefully better haha)
They wouldn't ever do that on iOS because it would 'add friction'. Apple makes money off the App Store. They want users to head to the App Store for everything. Developers also want you using their apps, because they can track you better than they could on a website with content and tracking blockers.

It's not the same on MacOS because users aren't going around looking for new apps to install. People install their core programs (e.g. Office, maybe some games), and they get everything else on the web.
They said "When you grow up, you won't always have an abacus in your pocket!" And yet here we are.
I don't disagree, my comment was specifically about cultures where overconsumption is the norm. Which aren't necessarily the ones most of us would expect.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_r...
It would be helpful to hear some sounds it can generate.
Most apartment buildings in America have a quite bad sound insulation in my experience, and although I've seen some modern apartment towers with a solid soundproofing, those are usually not affordable to most people and so everyone just believes that apartments = noise.
The choice to remove radar has definitely reduced the chances that I will buy a tesla. It would be one thing if they lowered the price, but the "full self driving" upgrade continues to be $10k usd.

https://www.tesla.com/support/transitioning-tesla-vision
Both. There’s no difference between spreading homophobia and eg spreading drug addiction.
You're probably right. I wonder if you could get enough of a speed improvement using an FPGA for the image processing?
The investment GP is talking about is money.
Yes, depending on the organization. Me and many others I know used OSX exclusively for development, but some orgs use Windows-only internal tooling (e.g. the Windows team.)
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Same argument could be made about reproduction. I am not saying I am making that argument. But I still believe the comparison isnt that outlandish. In both cases, people are pressured to do something they dont want to do. Period.
safety of person and property.. from what? because if the answer boils down to racial/socioeconomic unrest, blaming racism seems justified, no?
You can't wait for there to be even more ads in this world? You want them to physically follow you around? You can't wait for corporations to see your every move? No thanks.

We need to fix our current internet before allowing it to permeate our lives any deeper.
Don't forget the developers who instead of hippies who were going to change the world sold their soul to the marketing industry.