skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like CRPGs but they're so few and far between now. The last big studio releasing them was Bethesda and I really hate the systems used in the various Elder Scrolls games. Specifically, I hate scaling content.

The old style was that level was used to direct a player to or away from certain areas and to provide a broad direction. Too weak? Go somewhere else, get some levels and gear and come back. It's easy to understand.

Somewhere along the line studios decided this wasn't enough freedom or it was simply too hard to get the levels right that they gave up and just made everything scale to your level. So really there's no point in gaining levels. In fact, it can actually hurt you if you level ineffectively. So this robs the player of the reward of progression and removes player agency.

Breath of the Wild broke the mold (or returned to the old model depending on your POV) and gave you open world without scaling content. You can complete the game with 3 hearts and base gear if you really want to. The speed runs of BotW are amazing. Or if you want to play less sweaty you can take the scenic route.

I'm honestly surprised there haven't been more copies of this wildly successful formula. I feel like Elden Ring is really the first to try (and succeed). That's how you have to look at it though: boss too hard? Go somewhere else, get stronger and come back. You're essentially choosing your level of difficulty.

People who ask for an easy mode are missing the point entirely. They're asking for a content conveyor belt with no player agency, essentially. Game companies need to stop listening to these people. They're just wrong.

This is a massive mistake game companies make: trying to market their games to people who don't like them at the expense of people who do.
> when your see a principal engineer with several times more experience (and compensation!) than you do get tripped up by it.

Slightly off topic :) I feel by the time people become Principals, they lose the laser sharp focus because they are juggling too many things at the same time. Principals who work as IC on the team, however are much better since they are hands-on to the current problems.
I know this is the kind of flattering in-group humor aimed at people like me, but I still found it hilarious.

Also, considering that I'm listening to a talk about the computational complexity of economic planning on the side, the "we should recreate the entire financial system from first principles" part felt like a rude yet completely deserved callout.
I use a Qotom. They are cheap and low powered. Runs opnSense.
I totally agree, and you should be selective with take home tests. I do very few and the potential role would really have to be worth my time if I were to get hired. I don't believe dream jobs exist. I see a jobs as a means to an end. It's a tool for me to live my life the way I want to live it.
There’s a huge difference from sending metadata and sending everything. Most notably in the bandwidth required.

If I’m reading this correctly, it’s not sending every password and username it discovers.

It’s invasive but not to the point of being a complete set of malware.
Supply is linear and demand is exponential?

Together they shape all creatures in the universe to co-evolve into the situational niches of the circular crisis situation and create on whatever planet you would visit, a similar loop-deformed species as us humans.

Means, you can find the whole zoo of "neuro-types" aka adaptions to a self-inflicted situation universal.
100%. Unfortunately politicians are there to sell an idea for votes and that’s not going to stop. Add climate alarmism on top of that and we’re definitely not helping anything. End of the day, fossil fuels are still going to charge your electric car for the most part until we embrace sensible energy alternatives like nuclear. Thousands of miles of windmills will not help us and I argue more visually unappealing versus two nuclear towers every few hundred miles.
I think the point is the original author did not prove anything was sent to Avira in this case. All they have is speculation that "the router is making DNS queries about a Avira safe things domain and the DNS query QPS is correlated to the amount of traffic in the network".

I agree this is tremendously bad code, but what they observed could also be perfectly explained with "some stupid code doing a Avira subscription check whenever something arrives at the router and they do that without a cache for negative answer, and even if the feature is turned off".

So we need more evidence.
I get what you’re saying, but no one is really arguing that physical storage doesn’t exist as an issue. That being said, CD’s have a pretty small footprint. You can fit several hundred - if not upwards of a thousand - jewel cases + CD’s in a typical book case. As far as hobbies go they’re pretty space-efficient!

Plus the whole point of a physical collection is to have it and to be able to hold it/admire it. Everything takes up space. It’s not purely about the utility of having the music available.

Go tell any music archive to destroy their physical CD’s if they’ve ripped them (or if they have the masters), if you want to see my point. It’s not just about the music onboard.
Centralization of Lost & Found is a Good Thing (TM). The city of Helsinki, on the other hand, has completely screwed up. Splintering of lost & found combined with outsourcing/privatization. Bah humbug.
To me it’s the next step forward after Breath of the Wild. It’s similar in many ways but leans more towards D&D than puzzles. The bosses are more varied and designed exceptionally well.

It’s just one of the best crafted games ever imo.
What examples of "drifting to the left" have you seen and how are those dark times for the future of society?
Hey I did as well. I always thought it cool and as kids wondered if we swam in there if we get sucked up the hill at night. Had loads of fun at the community pool there as well.
Newer TP-Links use broadcom chips which have no drivers on Linux, so it makes using openwrt basically impossible.
If it had nothing to say about the human condition it would be called something like "multi-party valuation theory" and not specifically designed to analyze "roulette to chess, baccarat to bridge".
"It’s just that all of us have so little agency in this world now." ...made my day.
We can blame a lot of the dumbing down on Hollywood's kowtowing to China
I appreciate your inclusion of an interrobang here, which, like non-English movies, is too often overlooked.
This is where imposter syndrome comes from. Holy moly.
The level of craftsmanship they brought to this game really blew me away. Many open-world games have a feeling of emptiness or a lot of pointless content to fill in their map. Not so for Elden Ring - every area feels like they added something meaningful and interesting. Exploring is very rewarding
Actually, web pages are a very declarative GUI, with an amount of reflexivity and editability that should be on any declarative GUI framework, but normally isn't.

Those properties open up the possibility of abstracting things and making very powerful libraries over it. There is nothing else as powerful out there.

Yet, everybody stops at plain react. So whatever is the reason for the success, it's not that one I pointed.
"But would it be significantly harder to do, easier to detect, and easier to resolve? Yes, and that makes them better suited to critical infrastructure. "

But like what is that conclusion based on?

I'm not saying you're wrong - just curious why you hold HP and Cisco in high esteem.

At least in terms of engineering talent I'd expect them to be much worse. Huawei is prolly the Google of China paying huge salaries and getting the county's top engineers (along with Alibaba). When I lived in Santa Barbara Cisco didn't have a good rep and they didn't pay well. A typical bureaucratic officespaceesque soul sucker. I don't know about HP but I don't get the sense it's a presitgious place to work either.

Again, these are very shaky ill informed judgments on my part I admit :) hence why I'm curious if you're talking from a position of knowledge on the subject
Avira’s bosses get their marching orders from NortonLifelock bosses, which seems to have pretty American leadership:

https://www.nortonlifelock.com/us/en/corporate-profile/manag...
I just built a relatively decked out router from eBay and Amazon parts for less than $300.

- used HP Elitedesk 800 G3 SFF (4 core i5-6500, 8GB ram, 240gb SSD, 4x PCIe slots) $170 shipped

- 2x new dual 2.5Gbe PCIe cards $40 each

- 1x used quad port Internet gigabit $30 shipped

So for $280 I have a machine that will route at 2.5Gbe for a few machines and gigabit for the rest of my network while using about 25 watts. If you don't need that many ports you can cut the cost down considerably with a smaller machine like a Prodesk 400 or 600.

I'm using VyOS but OpenWRT, Untangle, OPNsense or Sophos Home would also be perfectly fine choices.
Hilarious. Some things haven’t really changed in 40+ years I’ve been dealing with banks. Looking forward to a “short conversation with YouTube about my account” version.
Big Tech, eg. Microsoft, took everything to the "cloud" and charges a subscription fee. Google, et. al., scans your mail and docs, Apple the various things uploaded to the cloud. Ever had your own music, ripped from your own CDs, removed from your IPhone following an update? Yep, I have. Electric cars are the ultimate virtual signaling status symbol. The younger one is, the more conditioned to the Big Tech business model, e.g., in game purchases, always on phones, Instagram, blah, blah. Now the US is likely to follow China down the "social credit score" path. The inflation and high gas prices are intended to accelerate the changeover. Fundamentally, the younger one is, the more conditioned they are to surrender their freedoms to the oligarchs and bureaucrats. One additional benefit of EVs to the bureaucrats is they limit the populace's mobility, i.e., the travel range is much shorter and recharges take much longer than filling up with gas. I drive an old car devoid of any electronic gadgetry and very repairable.
For anyone downvoting - feel free to offer some counter argument. Or try asking the women in your life whether there is any truth to what I'm saying.
NASA's monstrous moon rocket is an overpriced, political beast
UK mobile ecosystems market study responses
For what it's worth and since you ask, no problems like that here. Spotify is fast and responsive, and I'm on a real cheapo Android phone at around the $100 price mark, and with really poor internet connection.
that was beautiful.

> bank: sir this conversation is recorded but I blinked my eyes very slowly twice

I laughed out loud at that.

Edit: Also, I never realized why Amazon stopped putting the name of the thing I purchased on the email receipt. Now it makes sense.
Perhaps you’re surrounded by open minded people who you can gracefully decline to agree with on every subject. Many of us live in areas where not holding status quo opinions is enough to lose your job. So I can see where folks would try to believe something despite cognitive dissonance with it.
After that he got Broken, then he got Fixed. But well before that he was a keyboard salesman.

I have seen him get angry at a keyboard live. Trent 1, Keyboard 0.
Juxtapose this with a movie like Lost in Translation, where as much of the progression comes from just observing characters and actions as comes from dialogue and interaction. That movie was a modern masterpiece and spits in the face of most Hollywood junk.
Svelte has some pretty neat animation tools built in
For me this is the best open world game since Skyrim and ignites the same epic exploration feeling I had in the first version of WoW and Zelda Ocarina of Time.

That's because you have to figure out yourself where to go. No quest marks or quest helper. Just you and the open world.

As for hard, for me it is. The first boss took me 30-50 attempts. But it was awesome to slay it in the end.

I think you can play it somewhat as hard as you want. Nothing's stopping you from challenging areas with a higher level than usual. It just takes more time.
Classic off-by-four error.
Any pagination is brittle. Regardless of whether its by page, cursor or something else. You can't have equal sized pages if there is a risk that there are deletions on a previous page or at the exact index you use as a cursor etc.

The solution is usually simple: assume it doesn't matter. Write a spec for your feature and explicitly state that "In the solution we assume it doesn't matter if the same record is ocassionally reported twice or a record is missing from the pagination in some cases". Done.
Thanks, I will give paredit a shot.

I'm a regular emacs user, but I normally use expand-region[1] and cut/paste to edit lisp code. Expand-region usually knows what I want to move around after just one or two calls, only requires one key binding, and has visual feedback. And it works great in every language I have used.

[1] https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el
I’ve never found the Dark Souls type games interesting at all. But I’ve never tried one. Is it worth a try even if you don’t feel interested at all?
Senior people at tp-link should go to jail for this.
For better or for worse, it doesn't seem difficult to attribute them treating everyone like family to the fact that they are essentially a homogeneous population.
off topic but is there a tool that just lets me read a YouTube videos transcript?
What negotiations regarding NATO?

Should Ukrainians always be forced to be a vassal state to an authoritarian ruler?

Why not Moldova? Or Poland?
That's terrifying. No wonder Google and Apple caved in, it's human.
> I agree this is tremendously bad code, but what they observed could also be perfectly explained with "some stupid code doing a Avira subscription check whenever something arrives at the router and they do that without a cache for negative answer, and even if the feature is turned off".

I do wish that it is at least it's Google-like (https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/v4/update-api) and I hope that it's simply just a bad code, but the simplest method to check if a domain is blacklisted is to simply send the domain - there's no hashing and canonisation to deal with. And before counterarguing, this already happened with Avast (https://www.howtogeek.com/199829/avast-antivirus-was-spying-...), so while I agree that a stronger evidence is needed at the same time I can definitely consider it a smoking gun.
YC SUS Winter 2020 alum (enjoying the current "build sprint"). Discovering new startup wisdom everday. Here's to YC's next 17 years, and what 2040 will bring ;)
As another post mentioned, this really only applies to big budget blockbusters. Just to summarize what I've observed:

1. Every movie is basically the "Mattel-Mars Bar quick energy chocobot hour" at this point, basically just an empty ad

2. Studios are currently falling all over themselves to show how ideologically correct they are
There's an item on their roadmap to allow commenting on unchanged lines: https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/456
College town
Why is it crazy? Doesn’t a lot of the office tools also use react these days (maybe just the online ones but still)?

I’ve only recently started working with react, but so far it’s been the best experience I’ve had working with GUI in decades of working with different things.

I’ve always been what you’d call a full stack developer, but I’ve always very much not been the front end design developer, and react with bootstrap and font awesome is the first time I’ve been able to effortlessly create GUI stuff that doesn’t look like it should’ve been made by a front end design type.

So to me this is not at all surprising or crazy. It’s simply what happens when you have a really effective tool that a lot of people know how to use.
But the laws you are citing presupposes discriminatory intent. That is, the actions we are discussing must be motivated by a desire to discriminate. That intent cannot be established here as the claim that the motive for refusing to do business with Russian nationals in Russia and Russian companies is to put economic pressure on the Russian government.
I've had my bank close my account and send all the money in it as a cashier's check to my sister's house. They never told me and let me keep depositing money (at one point I had ~$5k in there.) The only way I was able to figure it out was when payments stopped working and I physically went in to try to withdraw the money I needed.

Crypto has issues but banks are worse.
There are also lots of modern movies sub-$100M budget that suck spectacularly. Many of them star Bruce Willis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd1eNS9HtXo
The Mueller investigation did however find evidence of obstruction of justice. There was also undisputably communication between the Trump campaign and the Russians. A reasonable person can still believe that it’s within the realm of possibility that something illegal went down there, although I concede it has not been proven.

Contrast that with what I asked for, claims as deranged as what QAnon put forth. Are you telling me that you think that what you mentioned is on par with stories about a cabal of satanic cannibal pedophiles secretly controlling the entire US government, with Trump being the only one in power fighting back (also in silence, by the way)?
> He slept for only 4 hours a day

Edison as well. Interesting that.

When I was a teen, I was introduced to a friend of my step-father's that had the same affliction — he slept only 3 or 4 hours a day. He had told me it was unusual. I don't know how unusual it is. If it is common enough then von Neumann and Edison having the same inclination is of no significance.
One could delete "long-covid induced" from the title and not lose anything
Oddly enough, money is also why exciting movies are made. Not many people make movies, nor art, out of the generosity of their hearts.
Lands of Lorecraft
Francis Fukuyama: Preparing for Defeat
How are people finding it on PC? I’ve heard reports of issues with stuttering which is putting me off purchasing it for now.
Robust K-Means via Radius Upper Bounds
"...Through qualitative results, we show that our proposed method is robust towards
dataset imbalances and sampling artifacts. To the best of our knowledge,
ours is the first constrained k-means clustering method with hard radius constraints..."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.02502.pdf

https://github.com/AhmedImtiazPrio/radius-constrained-kmeans
God...the headache I had coming out of the new Blade Runner...terrible.
So my affinity and longing for simpler times with 8-bit computers can be used to manipulate me for someones ideological purposes? There is a huge gap between someone saying 'it used to be better' and the primrose path to embracing a fascists autocrat!
Here is the pdf[0].

[0]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3401071.3401659
I have a different problem with the modern movies - modern people have pretty much seen everything, but still ask "show me something I haven't seen before", so movies try their best to create "novelties", and end up with crazy plot twists that make the story worse. But then the novelty wears off quickly as we've seen everything yet again, so movies have to find newer and crazier shit to keep us entertained, and deviate father away from the best stories. Sooner or later we'll run out of stimulus, meanwhile our children are exposed to crazy shit from day 1.
> People who ask for an easy mode are missing the point entirely. They're asking for a content conveyor belt with no player agency, essentially. Game companies need to stop listening to these people. They're just wrong.

This is gatekeeping. Game developers at the AAA level should strive to make them as approachable and accessible as practical. An easy mode or other accessibility options don't necessarily have to dumb down the 'intended' way to play. They can supplement the core experience so that busy or differently abled consumers can enjoy it as well.
Movies (non-documentary) can moot and champion whole ideologies, psychologies, and philosophies, for example Fight Club (nihilism), Logan's Run (progressivism, anti-establishmentism), Lost in Translation (existentialism, contemporary anomie), Magnolia (existentialism, fugue) etc.
I suggest you broaden your viewing.
Your argument about car slogans could be applied to the advertisement of nearly anything. Computer ads aren't about how reliable and well built the parts are, it's about how it will "unlock creative potential" or make you a "pro gamer". That's just modern advertising and I don't think it's a reflection on people's day to day feelings about their objects. It gets a sale.
The 70's were a great time for character driven film.

A more recent character-driven film that reminds me of the 70's was "About Schmidt" with, of course, that veteran of 70's films and filmmaking, Jack Nicholson.

Oh, "Frances Ha" comes to mind as well. You'll probably have to pick through the indie films to find character these days.
I love YC.

Even though I'd never apply and thus never get in because of my preconceived notions about YC's preconceived notions (too "old"?, proud Dad of a bunch of homeschooled kids, mostly solo founder (well, I've got kids who code!), building a social/chat app way outside of the Bay area echo chamber, and not toeing any particular political lines (hey, I'm a coder so I'm allowed to recursively nest parens -- don't tread on me), and even if I'm doxing myself a bit with this comment!), YC and PG (through his essays, Hackers and Painters, and his genuinely kind and sincere approach to everything, even with people who are on the opposite side of the political aisle, like me) have taught me so much about how to be a force for good in this strange and weird world.

PG seems to truly live out Jesus' wisdom and the Golden Rule. He wisely avoids getting dragged into political discussions, and the HN moderators wisely steer even very wild discussions away from flame wars. For my next act, I'd like to build a social app that scales up the same sort of non-partisan (or multi-partisan!) active, intelligent discourse that occurs here, even if there are, sadly, very few dang's in the world.

I would like to say a very, very warm and very sincere thank you to pg, dang, and the rest of the YC team who make it possible to still have a civil, mostly uncensored, and wide-ranging conversation, and has helped so many great startups get off the ground, both inside and outside of YC with things like the SAFE and the startup-school opened to all, proving to VC's how things can and should be done, and just pursuing the most interesting startups, period. If I truly thought I had a chance given my coloring so far outside the SF political lines, I'd apply in a heartbeat!

Much love from someone deep in the heart of Texas. Keep up the incredibly awesome work.
Its dark souls in skyrim
This seems like it was written by GPT-3
How about Radio Free X/Radio Liberty?
SwiftUI is promising, but still green (for now). So no, I was talking about just plain old AppKit and UIKit. No fancy declarative syntax, but plenty capable.

Closed source isn’t great, but I’ll take that tradeoff for how much less frequently I need to reach for a third party library or write widgets from scratch.
Talk principles when others are concerned, protect interests when it concerns them. The hypocrisy, condescension and self-righteousness of the entire western world is on display in this conflict. The relentless onslaught of western propaganda might have worked 20 years ago, but is mostly a self goal now and a bubble for their own populace to bask in moral high ground. From Gulf to Africa and Asia, countries are paying lip service at best to western narrative or downright ignoring it. Everyone acknowledges Putin as a dangerous individual, sympathizes with plight of Ukrainians but knows west lead Ukraine on, refused to listen to Russian concerns (valid or not), all for a defunct military alliance that has lost its purpose and only exists for expansion.