skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zelda: OoT and MM did a great job of this. It was mostly about getting new equipment not necessarily stronger equipment. Aside from health (and doubling the magic bar in OoT) there’s no real upgrading in them, grinding isn’t even an option.
I think that you've missed the beauty of Elden Ring (and the Souls series in general).

> you don't have quests

You do have quests! They just aren't forced upon you. Listen to the dialog of characters and you'll hear where they're heading and what they want you to do.

> you don't have a narrated story

Exactly! Instead of being told a grand narrative of what happened, you piece it together on your own, if you care. If you don't, then just ignore it.

> nor giant enemies who react to weaknesses and have special ways to be fought.

The whole point of combat in the Souls series is that every enemy (giant or small, boss or minion) is dangerous, and you have to learn how to fight them to win. Every enemy has weaknesses (whether that be to damage types or after certain attacks).

The core difference between Elden Ring and the other games you listed is the atmosphere and tension. If you don't feel it, maybe it's not the game for you and that's okay.
Well if an invasion of a NATO country doesn't invoke Article 5, then NATO ceases to exist. Is that what you think would happen? You think Putin sees Latvia which is backed by the largest military in the world as the same risk as Ukraine which has no such backing?
I was responding to GP’s unreasonable demand:

> if the vehicle is autonomous, it should be illegal for it to have a steering wheel.
Oh from the title I was expecting the inverse -- the first time someone in popular media mentioned the internet in some way.

I still remember the first time I heard _modem sounds_ in a radio ad spot. I about fell out of my chair. Why would someone advertise that? Only like 0.0001% of the listenership would know what that sound means! Oh wait.... are there more people who'd recognize that now? Hmm, I guess that might be the case. Whoah. Some advertiser, whose job is to know these things, believes a commercially significant fraction of listeners would know that. WHOAH.

What is happening???

The idea that modems and computers were going mainstream, was a paradigm shift I think other folks must've experienced but we don't seem to talk much about. Anyone under about age 35 I figure has always known the internet as a popular thing, and I don't know if it's possible to convey how huge a transformation that was for us older folks who lived through it. Imagine a talkshow guest just casually mentioning their fursona like it's no big deal and the host just responds by talking about theirs like of course this is something everyone does. That's the level of shock and confusion.

But it's bigger than that. This wasn't just a hobby, I mean it was a hobby, but it's one that everyone involved understood would change the world if it went mainstream. Of course that would never happen...
>It is just the reality that sabotage, deception, and espionage are used and in many ways just as important for winning wars (aka, survival) as any other military tactic/strategy (just look to influential and studied military tacticians such as Sun Tzu, Cardinal Richelieu, or Clausewitz).

If we accept that, then we basically also accept that in war, it's expected that everything coming out from both sides is going to be lies and propaganda, so there's no need to take anything seriously. Sounds like exactly what putin wants for his PR war. Are russians committing war crimes in ukraine? The ukranians say so, but we all know they're going to be lying anyways, so who knows?
The last link on the page (Nov 1989 First post from Berlin after the wall came down) seems to be wrong, it links to the page itself
But the risk is artificial. It mostly boils down to “do I want to spend 5-10min running back to a save point and making my way back here?” It’s just a chore, not a real risk.
Every example here is a female protagonist also, I think it's also partially kowtowing to feminist cultural critics who are vocal online and are particularly sensitive to perceived slights.
Can you please name for me any that you think are good?
The obvious solution is to get rid of the idea of prestige.

Why have we never had a president who went to a state school?

In fact, someone who went to a state schools probably more in touch with what normal people go through versus some ivy League elite.
From the first mention of "Return of the Jedi":

"I wish Lucas & Co. would get the thing going a little faster.
I can't really imagine waiting until 1997 to see all nine parts
of the Star Wars series."
No, the issue in Virginia has to do with Asian students being discriminated against by schools like Thomas Jefferson High because they are overrepresented at these prestigious schools.

Democrat educators tried to introduce racial quotas to increase the number of non Asian students and the national media called any resistance to those quotas white supremacy

This became a whole controversy and then the pandemic took place and parents started to realize these racist ideas were also being taught in the curricula, and the Democrat candidate committed political seppuku by telling parents they had no right to decide what the curriculum is

That's why Glenn Youngkin is governor
The page now [EDIT: as of writing] points to a 404, and has been excluded from the Wayback Machine. However, it's still in Google Cache, which I've saved to https://web.archive.org/web/20220312144415/https://webcache..... The article might've been retracted for a reason though, IDK.
Well it's at least telling that we're not allowed to refer to that as a coup, isn't it? I mean, what else would we call a revolution where a democratically elected government is removed from power and replaced with one backed by an adversary, which then immediately rewrites the Constitution to put that country in an adversarial foreign policy position to their powerful neighbor?

Is that not a coup? Is that not a recipe for war?
I'd be curious if someone trained a large language model (i.e. BERT, GPT) on the Usenet data, and compare with those trained on modern datasets (i.e. reddit).
Russian Official Warns Finland, Sweden Against Joining NATO
That's impressively evil really.
Then why even bother? Really? You bank with some one that you feel like is good, but you won't tell people the name? Fine, you think that reveals TMI. Then don't tell us who you bank with, but tell us what bank you feel is good and the maybe some supporting reasons. You could do that without, "that's who I bank with".

Otherwise, this was a completely wasted/pointless use of electrons.
I agree, all the easy problems are solved so only hard ones are left, but the issue of widespread knowledge doesn't seem to be as important to me. The difficulty in a lot of fields is not for example picking up undergraduate knowledge in game theory or whatever, calculus was once an advanced topic but we can teach it to 12 year olds now, but making deep contributions to fields because as you say the easy problems have been picked so either you have to introduce a new paradigm or you have to have an ever growing amount of prerequisite material to know beforehand to contribute something new of significance.
I heard that ads were able to circumvent DNS by using canonical names.

But uBlock origin and PiHole both do CNAME inspection to block this.

Is there other ways that ads are circumventing DNS ad-blockers such as PiHole?
Teaching is a slow process of becoming everything you hate
Russian Artillery Damages Another Hospital and Mosque Sheltering Children
As for why: Probably because it’s a cool hack.

Does anyone actually use it? Probably not.
Also try Lispy (only for lisps). Works just like SP and Paredit except most commands require a single unmodified key press, but can only be used when point precedes or follows a delimiter or text is selected. Feels like magic.
The question, though: is that to avoid more targeted attacks against you (like not telling people you own gold or bitcoin) or to avoid your bank becoming so successful that they can use their market position to become abusive to customers (like not telling people where you get your news on the off chance that you have a trustworthy source of news)?
This sounds like a perfect command and control setup for malware.
This seems a little similar to Genetic Programming, from John Koza.

In my very old McGraw-Hill book (“C++ Power Paradigms”, McGraw-Hill 1994. Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, and Constraint Programming), I had an example using a genetic algorithm for synthesizing a recurrent network. I had lunch with John Koza, he said that it was an interesting idea but that it wouldn’t scale - and he was correct about that.
Putin is a totalitarian. Russian citizens do not see accurate reporting on this war. They're fed more lies than FOX viewers. Their view of the war might just be more distorted than Putin's.
> Perhaps, if the CDC had lied. But they did not.

They absolutely did - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/20/health/covid-cdc-data.htm...
Are there any efforts to grow organ meat?

I've read claims that organ tissues have more of the macronutrients that our bodies need.

Dr Terry Wahls of Minding My Mitochondria fame:
https://terrywahls.com/minding-my-mitochondria/
Meta Package Manager – One CLI for all package managers
I never thought Star Wars episodes 1-3 were all that terrible. I struggled to make it through the latest batch.
The challenge posed by a game is artificial. It could just give you all of the best items at the start and make you invincible.

The question that Souls/Elden Ring ask you is: "Can you do this consistently?"

Which is different than most games which ask: "Can you do this once?"

The former is a question of mastery, whereas the latter is a question of a combination of mastery, perseverance, and luck.
If your country doesn't have an online payment system, it's probably a low priority concern for your government / banking regulator. If there are no laws / regulation prohibiting it, that's great for you as you will have more freedom to build a system with whatever feature you want. But there's always the risk that as soon as you build something and introduce it into the market, you and your product will suddenly be under the government or banking regulator's glare.

So the first step (and this is true for anything to do with the finance industry) is to study the banking laws and regulations of your country.

The second step is to determine what FinTech infrastructure they have in place for banking, and what you will have to build and add-on to it. E.g: National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) was created by India to be the backbone of its digital payment systems over its existing banking system - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Payments_Corporation_... ... If your country already has something like that in place, then check if they offer a way for private entities to use it build on it. For e.g. NPCI offers an API Platform called Nfinite that allows corporates and startups to tap into their network and build new platforms (see https://nfinite.in/about-us ).
Christopher Nolan's Tenet was a prime example of horrible stereo translation. I could hardly understand the dialog. I've never changed volume so much during a movie. IIRC he refused to produce any audio mixes aside from those meant for the most premium 7.1 stream theatres. What a shame.
> Whether something is disinformation or lies is often a matter of perspective or too difficult to determine.

On the other hand, it often isn't too difficult to determine, as with the various videos floating around that allegedly show the Russia-Ukraine war but are readily identifiable as predating it, showing an entirely different location, and/or having audio dubbed over from another source.
defining a scale using the two transition points of a common naturally-occurring substance which is crucial to life and chemical processes makes a lot of sense.

Using a random human’s body temperature and a strange random mixture of chemicals as scale points does not make any sense. Might as well pick a random hot day and a random cold day and use that.
To me the singular fascinating thing about Johnny was that for all his freakish intelligence and astonishing powers of recall, he apparently took Pascal's Wager on his deathbed, that is, he converted to (IIRC) Catholicism just before he died, in case God does exist (and is Catholic.)

Not to put too fine a point on it: he was a metaphysical dullard!
Thanks. I didn’t read to the end of your comment and it took me a while longer to grasp the concept. The tax is weighted, not the truck.
Lessons in Electric Circuits
I've noticed an even newer effect: Making scenes almost all black. It might be a software problem with the HBO Max app's gamma and brightness settings, but it's absolutely the case that, during the day with thin curtains drawn, I had to put a thick blanket over my head and an iPad in order to see the highlights in some of the darker scenes in one of their recent original productions (probably Raised by Wolves Season One; can't remember for sure).

These were action scenes with grunting and no dialogue, so the blanket was the only way to follow the plot.
Probably because it is not as big an issue as the CleanTech industry PR wanted people to believe?
I worked for a 80+ year old non-profit. Their tech was definitely a shit show before I turned it around. I won't be surprised if it ends up degrades into a shit show again in a decade or so.
This argument suggests that by sponsoring conferences, companies can shape their content. That may be true for big commercial exhibitions, but I don’t see how it works for academic meetings. For those meetings, the financial backing is confirmed years in advance, while the actual program is set six months or so before the event. And at CS like conferences, the content is determined by independent reviewers. So I can imagine that corporate sponsors might shape content by stopping support of conferences with low quality papers, but otherwise they have essentially no role in what is presented, other than providing some high profile keynote speakers that might increase conference visibility.
Is this why the UI had become so slow and bloated feeling? A massive IDE in the browser? I hate how every tech company finally arrives at a stage where they do everything to keep you on the platform. I won’t even be surprised if some time before 2030 the phase out Git entirely and rename it Microsoft Visual VCS, only accessible by writing code in their Electron text editor or directly in the browser.
I can't tell if this is a joke, or a serious attempt at telling us how good a company is by someone that drank the kool-aid.

2 days to receive answer to a simple question? Responded via secure message? What does that entail?
>> In my view, instead of trying to bring back the zombie of symbolic
programming for AI, the authors’ time would be better spent on contributing
novel, highly complex neural architectures.

It's misinformed to characterise Symbolic AI as a "zombie". Research in symbolic
AI has continued even since the days of the last AI winter. It does not enjoy of
the extravagant publicity given to statistical machine learning research but
that doesn't really say anything. Symbolic systems are well-known to have
capabilities missing from neural networks, particularly reasoning and knowledge
representation. There are many AI fields on which symbolic systems are still
dominant, for example search, planning, SAT solving, automated theorem proving,
etc. And of course, one of the most successful machine learning approaches of
all times, decision tree learning, is a symbolic machine learning approach that
learns propositional logic theories, rather than statistical models.

Finally, and lest we forget: one of the most publicised successes of neural
networks reserach, the AlphaGo family of systems, is a neuro-symbolic system
that combines a symbolic adversarial search algorithm, Monte-Carlo Tree Search,
with a neural network-learned evaluation function.
If this were a conversation about mixing for recorded or live music, someone would invariably mention hearing damage. It's a huge problem. Could it be that the technicians are deaf?
Visual Differential Geometry and Forms
Yeah, though it's hard to say which parts matter to IBM's bottom line since in terms of cloud DB sales they must be relying more on the trapped audience "not getting fired for choosing IBM" than on upsell to developers who try couchdb.

Really around 2.0 things like pouchDB were drowned out by a commercially funded choices and things more directly sponsored to work with each of the frameworks.
In the article they explain it. People nudged intel to mitigate spectre like AMD. They looked into how they did it to learn more and found some flaws and responsibly disclosed them.
> And they have suffered zero consequences for their war crimes in the past.

Bringing me some grim joy that Ukranians have picked off at least 2 high-ranking Russian military. The morale setbacks for Russia, just the ones that make the news, are pretty serious. It's not clear there will be a winner of this war, but the losers are already stacking up on both sides.
Some clues to understanding Benford's law
> Sure, HTTP only has 5 verbs

More like 40.

You can also just like...make up your own verbs, the HTTP police won't arrest you, though this rustles the jimmies of HTTP purists. No guarantees any middleware will support it, and this is probably a bad idea if you actually do this in public apis, it's more so "hey, these verbs aren't magic incantations, it's just a string which gets switch-cased".

Same with HTTP status codes. There's obviously some well known ones but you can just like...make up your own.

https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-methods/http-methods.x...
That's clearly a manufacturer defect (on Dell or MS's part).
It's a bit naive to compare it on those terms while completely ignoring the sheer superiority of ER's world building. It is of course personal opinion, but no open world RPG has amazed me as consistently when discovering new regions to explore. Fromsoft has provided what is probably the most beautiful and diverse world ever crafted at a macro level, while staying true to the Souls formula at a micro level. Even the worst of the small dungeons retain a very Souls-like quality to them which allows them to keep you always on your guard, hence making exploration much more dynamic.

It's also pretty disingenuous to state the differences between ER and other open world RPGs and then pretend it has to compete with other titles exactly on those points. It is true that ER has moved into a more popular genre, but it still remains a very niche type of game. It's not this incredibly popular because it moved to a full-on mainstream genre: it took some more widely appreciated concepts and adapted the souls formula to them, but what everyone is praising is how well they managed to keep those core souls values intact while moving to this new genre.
This is very wrong. VCs don’t control the game at all and their economics come from the few huge outcomes where founders also have a life changing outcome. Also, gambling has a negative expected value, while a good team starting a company has a positive expected value.

Startups are a high risk game but no one says you have to play it.
“customer service agent: would you be able to participate in a customer satisfaction survey to provide feedback on how we did after this call?

you: if I don’t give you a good rating in this survey will you get fired?

customer service agent: yes”

This particular aspect of modern society really bothers me
I agree that something like Julia vs. Python + libraries written in C++ seems like a better fit. However, there is such a vast wealth of tooling around Python, and high level development services like Huggingface, that for the foreseeable future, Python dominates.
Salaries are going to double. Elite engineers are underpaid and impossible to hire.
JvN grinding LeetCode before it was cool
Nice list! For using org-mode on desktop we made EasyOrg, https://easyorgmode.com. With a focus on managing todos for projects and with easy to use agenda and calendar views. More features and improvements being worked on.
Why use string-based timestamps at all? Use unixtime. It's much easier to parse and it literally can't be malformed.
I think what you're getting at is that novelty is being sought as a (poor) substitute for real substance. Give me a movie made by someone who has really thought about an aspect of the human condition and explores it from their own point of view, and it will have true originality and keep you riveted, even if the theme has been treated thousands of times. There aren't that many different themes, but they are inexhaustible if treated well.

Movies bore us not because of lack of novelty, but because they're just tropes stitched together to fit a formula rather than representing a real creative endeavor.
An Ukrainian village armed with two flags defeated four Russian tanks
What’s scary about UEFI is that it has both direct hardware access and a massive attack surface: GUI, Ethernet stack, occasionally an 802.11 stack, etc.
>>The "left wing" media pretend to be the only real/factual news/journalism, but can be just as biased and partisan, if not worse.

see r/politics
There are quite a few third party client who work quite well.
Perhaps some historical context would help? Going back 25 years there has been universal acknowledgement that the further expansion of NATO to Russian borders was guaranteed to trigger conflict and potentially WWIII - https://www.armscontrol.org/act/1997-06/arms-control-today/o...
https://nitter.net/TOrynski/status/1502274459620855812
I'm impressed when they have VirtualBox or qemu running in UEFI, sandboxing my real OS.
This is a gold mine of very good information and signals. From companies across different industries using Tech or Mobile. With their own interest and views along with clear explanation as to why it is a problem and what needs to be done. Millions times better than any internet discussions or traditional media editorial. Even what they wrote as "a short response to CMA" are 10 pages long written in clear and concise manner with another 10+ pages of additional resources / materials.
I have found that, as long as your name is on the check, they will allow you to deposit a two-party check via the BofA app.
> The obvious solution is to get rid of the idea of prestige.

All animals are equal...
I certanly also struggle with modern dialog. Another common factor is twenty years ago my hearing was much better.
Same here. It's not weird, it's abuse.

The only time you get any service is when you are looking to saddle yourself with debt or they have to comply due to regulations.
You can technically vote on any little detail but it doesn’t mean you have time to analyse every one of those little details.
ntoskrnl.exe is C too
As long as western weapons flood in, there's no hope for boosting the morale of Russian troops.