skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To everything else people have said about the controls system, I'll add that the combat system these games use is the only thing that really makes the diversity of weapons meaningful; if your play style is zippy and responsive, you need to use zippy and responsive weapons, and there are dimensions to it besides "fast" and "slow"; a curved sword, a straight sword, and a poking sword will have different movesets, and differing levels of commitment and payoffs. Without that system, the only difference between these things would be damage stats and maybe an AOE radius.

Horizon is a game series that makes the opposite decisions --- it's amazing looking, super responsive, and extremely ergonomic. And for me it might as well be a 2D platformer. Combat looks spectacular, but nothing means anything, as you quickly come to realize while your character crafts 20 special arrows that involve soldering robot parts onto twigs in slow-motion as she aims. Why even maintain the conceit that she's shooting arrows? Just give her a ray gun.

I agree with you about the visuals! I'm playing on a PS5, and this is the least visually impressive Soulsborne game I've played. The comparison downthread with the Demons Souls remake is spot on; Demons Souls looks incredible on the PS5, but Elden Ring isn't even competitive with From's PS4 stuff.

I also think the game suffers visually from the open-world design; the linear paths in previous Soulsbornes have let them do a lot of interesting stuff with level design, but in this game almost everything on screen has to be addressable by the character, from arbitrary directons. This was especially apparent to me when I got to the Hieronymus Bosch-inspired midgame. In previous Soulsbornes, that would have been a wall of composed visuals; here, it's a flat plain studded with red blobs.

It's also much easier than any FromSoftware game since Demons Souls, which may be good for you, or may make it harder to see why people love games like Sekiro so much.

Bloodborne is the canonical starter Souls games for Soulsborne skeptics, and my bid for best AAA game of all time (but I don't play a lot of these games, so, grain of salt.)
C# also supports AOT compilation. It's definitely not a low-level / high-level language differentiator. The term generally means the abstraction level you can reach.. I'd be tempted to define it as the distance to simple lambda-calculus in the lambda-cube
Could you elaborate on this on more? I tried on xterm and it worked the way it should've. If you could raise an issue on GH I can look into it further, as it definitely seems like behaviour that should be fixed.

Thank you so much for checking it out!
Zim-Wiki is my go-to as it pretty much manages everything for you.

It mentions an advantage of not fiddling with formatting but I constantly switch between wiki markup, markdown, and even ini format; I can't help it.
Do you run many programs that need anything newer than SSE2? I can name one, I think.
This is the correct explanation. Their request comes out of trying to limit the damage of this leak:

"Credit Suisse leak unmasks criminals, fraudsters and corrupt politicians"

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/feb/20/credit-suisse-s...

Even the Vatican is on it:

"...One Vatican-owned account in the data was used to spend €350m (£290m) in an allegedly fraudulent investment in London property that is at the centre of an ongoing criminal trial of several defendants, including a cardinal..."
Taking at face they're 99.9999% the same, are you opting towards the self selection option, the DNA option, or some combination of the two?

Can you walk me through which DNA algorithm you're referring to that matches self-reported 'race' 99.9999% of the time?
Your need for swearing in dialog for it to sound real says a lot more about you than it does about the author.
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Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert heckled President Biden Tuesday at his first State of the Union address — making rare breaches of etiquette to show their disapproval of various Biden policies.
An exec's guarantee of support staff, even the support staff of her choosing, doesn't guarantee the support staff anything.
My post-Smalltalk journeys of the last 10 years have yet to take me across a language that did functional closures so elegantly, uniformly, consistently, and ubiquitously as Smalltalk.

I often find it amusing that it’s a sort of an extension in something like Kotlin, but you struggle to go 10 characters in Smalltalk without crossing a closure.

Because closures were first class polymorphic objects (as opposed to compilers-only-language-feature), you could build your own function composition patterns.

Want to lazy memoize a closure? You could add a “once” method to closure to do that. You could extend Symbol with value: and use #symbols for shortcut closure syntax for unset sends. Want trinary logic? Easy. Optionals with lazy alternatives. No problem.

And many of the standard systems did add these as part of the system. There was no deep sauce. Easy to see and grok what was going on.

Richard Gabriel once mused over lunch at OOPSLA that it was ironic that Lisp had built the ultimate meta object system (CLOS) which should have been Smalltalks tour de force it being a testament to object/message all the way down, but that Smalltalk block closures had made the lambda (one of Lisp’s pillars) so simply and widely useful in a language that wasn’t Lisp.
But then you have to also not discriminate against white students. I'm aware that at super elite schools this discrimination usually helps white people, but in a lot of other situations it doesn't.
> Would be nice if you also had an argument with your statement and not just mockery, to prove me wrong.

So you make a massive unsubstantiated claim and I have to prove you wrong? I see the way your logic works.

Lets see.

You've made the claim that "E-ink owns the parents, the fabs and the secret sauce to profitably producing quality e-ink film in good yelds.".

So let me ask a simple question. Since you say E-ink owns all the fabs, can you show me the location of even one E-ink fab?

Here's a hint for the answer. E-Ink is a fabless company. That may confuse you so lets make it clearer. It means they don't have ANY fabs. In fact, I don't even know of even one electrophoretic material producer who has a fab.

Would you like to try again and provide a more accurate statement that reflects your level of ACTUAL knowledge of the display industry?
Lots of zingers flying around these days. Snake Island, Ghost of Kyiv, we are getting a daily dose of things that are walked back.

As much as Ukraine is turning into a humanitarian crisis, the silence from many other humanitarian crisis that are also ongoing is deafening (the Yemen civil war comes to mind).

Be extra vigilant - these are not normal times and when Russia and the USA face off like this, there is going to be a lot of manufactured consent flying around.

It's pretty clear who the aggressors are, and who is the evil dictatorship starting an unjustifiable war, but don't assume that just because you agree with "the good guys" that the truth will come easy.
If NATO wanted to go to war, they'd have supported the Ukraine directly from day one and the world would be a different place now.

To be honest, I also thought this would end with the two Eastern regions falling under Russian government and that'd be the end of it. Russia did already annex Crimea in 2014 though, and now they're basically trying to disarm their neighbour and make sure it isn't attractive enough to join NATO/EU.

Sounds easy to give Russia a symbolic win, but where does that stop? Is all Russia needs to do fight a war, take a province and wait out some sanctions? At what point do you realise they're not going to settle for a few pieces of the pie?
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I kind of see what you're getting at, but don't think you've described it well.

My attempt to restate your position: Suppose you write a program that just so happens to log information every leap day. No one uses the information, it doesn't effect the rest of the observable output. If you delete this logging from the program, no one else notices.

The complete observable properties of the universe (the program) include this logging, but the functioning of it is not really dependent on the logging. Thus, we probably should expect that there are some aspects of the universe that are independent, they don't really matter (or at least don't substantially matter) beyond their own observation.
You don't need RL to compute the trajectory of a falling object.
Why is race the end all be all grouping? Maybe we should group by favorite dinosaur.

I’m (mostly) white. The first 5 years of my life I grew up in a trailer house. My wife is also (mostly) white, and both sides of her family lost everything during the Great Depression. Is there any good reason a rich black kid should have been out ahead of us in admissions, just because of his skin color?
Almost all of them use the same E Ink displays and have the same resolution/density. The newest ones use the Carta 1200 panel which improves response/updates, not resolution. Here's a reasonable chart of pixel density: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Ink#Comparison_of_E_Ink_disp...
> Matrix had a horrible UX

Matrix doesn't have "terrible UX". The client you chose had. Pick another one. You don't have that choice with Signal.

Try:

https://syphon.org/

https://schildi.chat/
Oh, you're even quoting a source!

Because some rando on GitHub is such an authoritative one!

Sheesh...
I find it highly interesting how people who try and put these despots in a rosy light almost always require using “America” as a foil for how totally evil and wrong they do everything, meanwhile ignoring the person they support has launched no fewer than three(just from my amateur knowledge) invasions into countries that Russia has __literally__ zero claim to in any sense.

By the way, I found your post totally unhinged, though you did hide it pretty well until your final point where the guy ordering assassinations against his political opponents(read: “when they threaten his power”) is somehow painted as the reasonable and moral person.
From all the measures and sanctions applied, financial and of other type, this is actually the one that is most likely to have the biggest impact.
Celeste, another famously hard game (that incidentally I used to speedrun and am wearing a tshirt of right now) has "Assist Mode." (which I now see was mentioned downthread) When you select it from the menu, it states:

> “Assist Mode allows you to modify the game’s rules to reduce its difficulty. This includes options such as slowing the game speed, granting yourself invincibility or infinite stamina, and skipping chapters entirely. Celeste was designed to be a challenging but accessible game. We believe that its difficulty is essential to the experience. We recommend playing without Assist Mode your first time. However, we understand that every player is different. If Celeste is inaccessible to you due to its difficulty, we hope that Assist Mode will allow you to still enjoy it.”

Well, more properly, that's what the initial version said. There was a lot of discussion in accessibility circles about this; it was clear that they had their hearts in the right place, but it was still a little ... condescending is too strong, but a little too judgy, maybe.

When they released Chapter 9, it was updated to instead say:

> “Assist Mode allows you to modify the game’s rules to fit your specific needs. This includes options such as slowing the game speed, granting yourself invincibility or infinite stamina, and skipping chapters entirely. Celeste is intended to be a challenging and rewarding experience. If the default game proves inaccessible to you, we hope that you can still find that experience with Assist Mode.”

This is still an options/settings style solution to this problem, but the way it's framed is significantly different, and the options are fairly granular, so you can tune things as you wish.

Incidentally, Maddy, the game director and one of the devs for Celeste, had a Twitter thread about what she would imagine an Assist Mode for Sekiro might look like: https://twitter.com/MaddyThorson/status/1113534763564826624
So you're African American if your dad is African American and your mom is Asian American, but Asian American if it's the other way around?
Who uses buffer?
Thanks; but I don’t want an MCU. I don’t even know what an MCU is. Arduino style devices aren’t interesting to me.

I want something I can run Linux, like a raspberry pi but RISC-V. I know there were some bigger development boards out there for $600+ a few years back. Is there anything in the pipes which is smaller, for hobbyist messing around?
No, it's the emacs keybind: C-x o
Sounds interesting.

I like the notion of having an IPFS capable store with support for pinning at a reasonable price. When I looked into this a few years ago, this was a bit of a mess. There was a half-assed s3 plugin with some severe limitations that was a bit sketchy to setup and not a whole lot else in terms of what to do, best practices, or anyone offering commercial support for this. I liked the idea but our conclusion at the time was that we'd have to build out our own storage solution to be able to use this. I walked away from this company ultimately and haven't really looked at the whole space again since. Filecoin, which people were pitching at the time seems to have largely gone silent. Is that still a thing?

So, if this is legit, I could be a potential customer for this. One of the issues I have with using s3 for personal storage is just that it is so expensive to use at scale. Basically the cost of storing what I want backed up would be the equivalent of buying a new hard disk every few months. Plus I need to baby sit and micro manage the whole setup. Both are bad things. I need something turnkey that "just works" that has a reasonable cost.

So, liking the idea.

But I have some concerns:

- I never heard of Filebase before. How long have they been around and what is their track record? Maybe a blunt question but I'd need to know before trusting something like this with my backups.

- Not to excited about the NFT and web3 stuff they seem to be pitching. Is that needed? Is this some kind of blockchain thingy or is there a serious business that works with normal money and invoices. In that case, maybe start acting more like a trust worthy SAAS company. Seriously, this stuff scares away corporate customers like nothing else.

- They mention they use the Sia storage network. It lists a price even lower than the Filebase price of 2$/TB/month but it looks like it doesn't have any commercial operations around it. What's the relationship with Filebase.

- How many people actually use this and how robust is this sia network?

- I looked at the sia github and that doesn't instill a lot of confidence. I maintain several tiny projects that managed to get more stars than siad or sia-core.

So, a few red flags here. I don't mind being an early adopter of stuff but I'd like to know what I'm getting into at least. This all looks a bit sketchy and too good to be true.

I'd recommend the founders to

- park the web3/nft stuff; this will re-assure corporate customers and be good for business.

- add a page to the website detailing a bit what this company is, where it comes from, and who is behind it. I was able to figure out from the terms of use that the company address is in Boston at least.

- if you have notable customers, maybe add some kind of logo wall. I actually suspect the answer might be no at this point.

- publish some details on the size of your network. Numbers of TB stored, usage statistics, etc.
I second this choice. Legion is another short story novella that is really fun. My favorite Sanderson series so far is the Skyward series, for which I highly recommend the audio books. The narrator is amazing.
A lot changed since a few years ago, I wonder if those same people might have a preference now
Or fly for that matter, with all the Stingers. I can't imagine flying some expensive attack helicopter, and at any time some Volodymyr can pop out behind a corner with a Stinger and a finger on the trigger.
One thing to consider to increase the difficulty is to make jumping add to the vertical velocity a la flappy bird, rather than fix it to a certain positive vertical velocity. Right now a reliable strategy is to let the ball fall to a certain angle below the paddle, then spam jump to get a fixed trajectory to the paddle.
All of their games demand that you get better at the game mechanics as you progress through them, which is what you’re actually describing, but for some reason you think controlling your character in combat is something other than game mechanics? The fact that people have practiced these games enough that they can beat it with all sort of whacky interfaces doesn’t really prove anything.
> he's a nut job who for some reason sounds eloquent to the upper class Hindus.

This is true for any demagogues btw. It’s why Jordan Peterson appeals so much to upper class White Americans.
If they are such obvious lies then people will figure it out on their own - why do we need to censor them?
But author is not writing plain text files.

As he shows at the end he is clearly writing some mixture of HTML and some custom language that he uses to parse title, tags, and date.

I do agree that unless absolutely needed you shouldn't tie yourself to proprietary formats, but unless you are writing simple notes you probably want more functionality out of your files than actual plain text file can provide at which point you should instead use markdown.
I mean, that's what you should expect, right? That (Sia) market forces will push the price of storage towards equilibrium, which is the price other similar products are charging.
I have a different take on what makes the Souls game interesting (but it has changed somewhat with Elden Ring).

What I enjoyed most about the Dark Souls games and Bloodborne was the sense of adventure/exploration/dread that comes with leaving a safe zone (bonfire, lamp) and venturing out into the unknown. You don't know what to expect, there will be new enemies that you don't know how to deal with yet, there might be traps but somehow you forge on, not knowing when you will reach the next save point. With every enemy you kill you gain currency you can use to level up, but one mistake and it's all gone. Then you have to be extra careful to get it back. The sense of relief you feel when the level design all of the sudden brings you around to an old safe zone is beyond anything I have felt in other games.

That's also why I didn't care so much about the boss fights initially but I came to enjoy them for the challenge. To the point that I spent 2 hours yesterday in Elden Ring trying to defeat a boss that was totally optional.
People are wrong about their own religion or community constantly, often because they feel a need to be defensive, or to portray it in a good light.

I grew up Mormon. Many, perhaps most active Mormons will spin controversial Mormon history and teachings in the best possible light, and downplay toxic cultural practices as being not that common, or not really part of the church (even when they were widespread).

It's funny, there was even a sort of saying on my mission, "Would you go to a Chevy dealer to ask about a Ford car? No, you'd go to a Ford dealer!" to try and explain why you should trust LDS missionaries. But of course, that saying doesn't really make any sense -- the real authority you should trust would obviously be a reputable third party, not someone with incentives going either way.
I think you may have a reading comprehension issue, but this clearly isn't a conversation worth having.
Can you elaborate?

Smalltalk was certainly a pioneer in that area but in the past twenty years, plenty of languages have implemented closures in a way that's pretty much 100% identical to how Smalltalk did it, just with different syntaxes.

What's so different about Smalltalk's closures from the likes of Rust, C#, Kotlin, Swift, Groovy, etc...?
Meh. That sounds nice in theory, but there are many good practical reasons to keep answers private. The number one reason for me is it's very hard to build high quality exercises and assignments, and much easier for students to plagarize off answers on the internet. Reducing the temptation to cheat is pretty important for me.
Grinding is certainly an option, but wasn’t what I was trying to communicate. The games tend to have dense worlds that reward thorough exploration. It’s in the course of this exploration that player characters have the opportunity to become more powerful by finding valuable items tucked away off the main path.

Of course, if the player doesn’t know what to do with the things they find then the extra exploration won’t help. A common mistake is failure to engage with the weapon upgrade system. Encounters seem a lot harder when your attacks do half the damage they ought to.
I do not think you should be using this site to set up conspiracies to steal money from people through computer security holes. Not even if they are rich people and you think they are very bad.
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