skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's part of the game design. I also think it's bullshit from a game perspective. Tying the box to Gascoigne is a secret bordering on an easter egg. The item must be equipped in the usable items bar. And you have to use it on the very first battle against another hunter, an enemy who keeps attacking relentlessly and gives no time to think. Even more, the effect of the item doesn't give enough feedback to the player.

That item is just one of many in that game. The end effect is that players have to either treat the game as an arcane puzzle, or just search for solutions and ruin the mystery. No middle ground. Even accessing the DLC content borders on bullshit! There's only one clue to find the solution that puts the player in the first DLC area, and finding it becomes a process of trying dumb things until you find the right one by pure chance. Of course, that creature did a different thing when you found it earlier, but the game usually rewrites its own rules constantly so that's less of a surprise. Players can do this... or just turn to a guide and forget about the "graphic-adventure-puzzle level of randomness" aspect of Bloodborne and the other FromSoft games.

This is why I think this is a valid criticism. FromSoft games excel at world building, atmosphere, combat design, and music. But their approach to game knowledge is only enjoyed by those who love that arcane aspect, and the only way around it for those who love all else save for that part is to ruin the magic and reach for a guide.

PD. Also, some text translations in Spanish do not manage to keep the knowledge clues present in the English version. Discovering that was not very fun.
Uncomfortable Connection
> The critique I’m seeing here is just saying “no it didn’t” as far as I can tell.

The critique is: there's a difference between taking decades to colonize it (hence "decisive") and centuries to colonize it.

If your argument is: "well, the Spanish eventually succeeded", great, but that's not what GGS is saying. Otherwise it'd be a pretty boring book.
Nobody can give a disabled person a helping hand anymore because there have been too many instances of disabled people suing good samaritans into oblivion when they fall and hurt themselves. At the very least an employee could be written up by their employer for touching a patron and at the worst they could be sued civilaly and have their lives ruined.
Sure, we all want fewer people harmed in this world. With regards to drones/solders - its a complicated topic, and needs a lot of discussion so I don't mean to be flippant about it as I might have come across. I was merely making a point that eliminating humans just to reduce the mistakes they cause ignores the benefits that humans bring - e.g. in this case - Refusing immoral orders, refusing to harm children or non-combatants, exercising judgement during war, etc.
Isn't this an OS feature?
Giving you a simple to expand initial access test case and some pointers based on our testing experience to help better target your EDR coverage testing efforts
The route originally was flown by 3 or 4 engine aircraft so a single engine failure still left you with at least 2. They are now flying it with an A350 twin-engine. Worst case you are 5 hours from a landing site with one engine.
> Unfortunately, there is no politically correct answer to this question that allows study of what Bangladeshis could have done or could do differently.

Development economics studies this question, and the general answer is still the one Adam Smith came up with in the late 18th century: good institutions matter the most, even more than geography. There's a few easy case studies, like comparing North Korea with South Korea. Same geography, same historical heritage, same ancestry... Why do they achieve so differently? "Different institutions" is the sensible answer to that question.
Meld is a 3 way merge tool.
A degree doesn't cost the company. An in-house bootcamp and apprenticeship program does. Once the less-legibly-promising new hires are equally productive, they now have a resume making them legibly good to the company's competitors in the job market, so it can't make up its investment by underpaying. ("Programmers are happy and tend to stay" is something the competitors can do too.)

I'm not saying don't do it, or that the status quo is good. But I don't think your suggestion really addresses the problem that got us here, the problem that we've subsidized an expensive signaling game (cf Bryan Caplan's The case against education).

> Ignoring his political axe-grinding

This was gratuitous. I didn't even see any politics in the thread.
Is this opinion or backed with something?
When I see this all I can think of is Emacs and org-mode, harness all that power and that existing ecosystem. At a quick glance seems to be a lot of what this does.
> The "only thing" worth reading from the The Bible are the "Wisdom Books"

From the perspective of Wisdom you're probably right.

From the perspective of the modern Christian Faith I'd include the complete New Testament. From the perspective of historical reference (I know archaeological opinions vary) include the Old Testament too.
Hi Alduin32,
May I ask you a related question?
I bought recently a VaxStation 3100 and tried to connect to it with a USB FTDI (I didn't try hard), but I was unable to get anything.

Do you have a suggestion?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAXstation
No, I am not. I haven't gotten into an accident, nor have I witnessed one that resulted in a fatality or any major injury.

The distribution of skills amongst drivers isn't geographically even , nor is it static.
Entirely fair.

I've worked as an engineering manager for both professional engineers and non-degreed technicians / technologists. My observation (such as it is) is that the degreed engineers had a stronger framework to be able to connect ideas and learn new skills. On the other hand, technologists were able to do tasks just as well as engineers but had trouble generalizing the concepts.

Importantly, the degree (combined with professional guidance) also helps you appreciate the things you don't know. For example, a geotechnical engineer may be perfectly able to assess an abutment or design a blast but they wouldn't certify a dam foundation and would reach out for help in doing so.

It's probably worth sharing that I hated my undergraduate education with a burning passion. I've only recently begun to appreciate it more -- turns out those old farts who did the accreditation might have known a thing or two about what you need to know later in your career.
It's one step in building personal connections with your co-workers. It's one thing to get into a fight with somebody who is only a username on your screen. It's very different if you get to know your co-workers, understand how they think, how they work, what their culture is, their way of expressing things. Seeing a face is one of the first steps in this process.

Much of the online ranting (and frankly, hate), including in this thread, would be avoided if people would just spend some time getting to know the human beings behind the text on their screen. The very thing that has been called "infantilizing" somewhere else in this thread.
It seems your perspective on the industry has been built over the hype of "Software will eat the world".

Aell, I'm not discussing whether this is true or not but just remember that building software is about building automation and experience. What I mean is that you must look for a company that enables or offers leverage to an existing company or industry. What it will provide you is the understanding that software is not the beginning and end of all things. It's a tool. A very valuable one, but still a tool.

And then, you will leave the vicious circle of hype and software centrism and maybe you will land in a much less fancy, much more interesting, software project in which you can commit for a longer term and actually feel like you have an impact.

FYI: it feels good.
Clingo is a standard library for C
The problem is not ibvalid.code being rejected with an error, but rather code that is accepted but does something unexpected. Lints can help with that, but that has many limits.
> I totally disagree that this law warrants Google leaving Australia

I think most people have this opinion, but I wonder if they would have the same opinion if the country in question is a non-Anglo non-West but democratic country like India or Brazil

For the record, i think Google should leave
How often do they use these compared to the shepherds, I wonder… seemingly not long enough to carry around a resting staff?
It's still important to have doctors/nurses/engineers that went through rigorous tenure. The problem lies with inflated tuition costs for a useless degree like gender studies, where after graduating college, your options are 1) drown in debt 2) continue the cycle of being in academia (masters/PhD) and justifying the existence of this system.
they probably don’t want to be known as forcing users out unilaterally, so a false offer becomes the diplomatic move, now backfiring from public exposure.
Elon Musk has certainly done worse.
> they create a payments profile for you without consent.

And? I create a "profile" in my mind of every new human I interact with, and every human I read about or hear about even without interacting with. It's a basic human function.

When I gain a new business client, I create a profile of them too. This might start with a phone number, but over time, expand to include an email address, knowledge about their location, work hours, bank of choice, etc. Most businesses do this and always have.

Consent isn't required for this.
- I was sort of wondering if this article would be written as a list.

- I was not disappointed.

- The insight is nevertheless good.
It sounds like you might be ignorant of the anarchist vs. state socialist divide which has existed since 1872. [1] At every opportunity, state socialists have suppressed or outright killed anarchists, especially in the USSR. [2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workingmen%27s_A...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Russia#In_the_Sov...
It is much more noticeable on smaller CRT screens, like the 9 inch one on the Kaypro.
1. vaccine passports (the QR code kind, because it invites the possibility of mass data collection)

2. freezing "freedom convoy" participants' bank accounts without a court order
If you want to just be contrarian, you'll say that it's not "free" if you have to CHEW your lunch.

Either "free" is effectively meaningless or our world is full of free things. Uncompromised free things. Sunlight, air, water, fruit on wild plants…

I mean this is just nature. You know why Birds of Paradise have unbelievably fancy plumage? It's partly sexual selection, but the reason they can afford to spend 99% of their time doing bizarre dances and pruning their plumes and setting up their special dance areas is because their FOOD IS FREE basically. They live in an abundant ecosystem where it's trivial enough for them to get food. It just grows or is around, and when they want to eat, they just go eat. If that's not "free" then you're just denying the concept of "free".

I mean, let's go further, if truly, literally nothing is "free" than the word "free" has no meaning.
> We already have built in tracking for cells phones that people don't seem to realize or care.

It's in most cars, too.
Past performance is unfortunately not a safe marker for future performance.
Yes, much like the Underground Railroad was a tool used to get around property laws that the government used to enforce turning slaves back into their owners.

Governments have a long history of doing the wrong things, and trying to starve the populations of countries acting against our interests, is one of many examples. If Bitcoin can be used to help feed the innocent, you've actually turned me into a crypto-convert.
> Is there an agreed on book to start with and an order to follow?

No, so I'll get shot for this but ... read the first (Dune) then stop.
Haha. Also I guess because the larger unit makes for easier comparison.

For example, while we in the UK we still habitually use imperial measures to weigh ourselves rather than metric, we don't know our weight in pounds, but in stones and pounds, which gives a more manageable/comparable number.

It's so habitual to do that, that many people (including me) can't easily do the mental maths conversion to a US-style imperial weight at all.

It still enrages me that there are 14 pounds in a stone but 16 ounces in a pound. What kind of system of logic is that?
Yea, for a senior person it's possible to quickly transition into something like this from my experience. Furthermore, there's still loads of web2 type of development that needs to be done around the web3 part. That's where it's useful to know how the space works, but not strictly required for a lot of things.
I’m assuming good faith, but I feel like you’re intentionally ignoring and redirecting away to prove some existing conclusion.

We’re talking about advantages and capabilities - specifically granted by crypto of which self-custody is a prerequisite (yes technically true of stock, but not indexes and not as comparable). Within that context it has advantages over other options and more capabilities.

I’m not pretending it’s better at everything or it should be 100% of your holdings or anything like that, but it is better at some things and the new capabilities it provides are interesting and valuable.

That chart is a limited slice of time. The nice thing about economic bets is it doesn’t really matter what you (or I) think, the market will play it out. I suspect you’re probably wrong, but we’ll see.
Private elite institutions (Yvies) offer excellent education, and networking with really rich people ;). Some people already had that, some will make economic use of it, and some not. I assume the variance within-group is very very high, so you can probably calculate stats to defend any point. And then the cost also varies, so ...

'Elite' state schools (GA Tech, Michigan State? Etc) probably have excellent ROI.

Expensive, not really elite schools are probably not worth it on average, but again, cost varies highly, so ...
There's the commercial SemanticMerge [0] which might work if it has a parser for the language that you use. According to their docs they currently only support C#, Java, C, C++ and PHP [1].

[0] https://www.semanticmerge.com/

[1] https://www.semanticmerge.com/features
I ran Meld on GHC Core before and after a subtle optimization to some slow Haskell. It called out exactly the improvement. Very cool to see.
It is work in progress to capture MIDI input and produce a Melrōse sequence expression from it
Share your project if you charge less than $10
My thoughts exactly. Org-mode just works and has so much functionality that I haven't even discovered yet. I am currently using it for notes and TODOs.
> However I dont understand why civilisation thus started and grew in Egypt / Babylon and not in say Norway.

Civilization is mostly defined by the presence of urban-like settlements, and the ancient Norse were not urbanized for a long time. This is not to say that they lacked complex skills, however. But we have to judge that via complex circumstantial evidence, whereas the case for the Levant is much easier to make.
Well, part of that is it predates Composer by a few years (and especially popular adoption of Composer). PEAR never really had the adoption that Composer did. The popularity of frameworks didn't soar until Composer was adopted by the community, either. And the overall application is actually fairly simple, assuming that getid3 folder is a third party library as it appears to be.

That said, I'm not discounting anything done here. I've had to do deep dives on streaming video before. Even built my own h264 streaming protocol prior to HLS and DASH being introduced more than a decade ago now. Figuring out the format, finding obscure documentation on the file headers, figuring out how request and send it in pieces, hell just finding documentation that long ago... it's not easy. And at least when I did it, I was working on PHP 5.4 which had namespaces. This was likely built on 5.2 if I had a guess, which lacked that luxury
Looks out of place, does not follow the GNOME HIG as opposed to better text editors/IDEs. Furthermore the text rendering looks weird and feels laggy, at least for me another factor is the use of electron and how opaque VSCode is as opposed to e.g. GNOME Builder.

For GNOME-Builder, if I want to debug LSP-issues, I add "--env=JSONRPC_DEBUG=1" to the commandline and I get nice output. For VSCode? - No idea. In the end I redirected strace for writes to a file and then grepped for "Content-Length", because I was frustrated that there was no straightforward way to do this otherwise.

Another issue I have with VSCode is, that it adds some folders to the project, that's something I absolutely can't stand.
The source code needs to be on everyone’s computer so that its execution is decentralized.

Part of the problem is confusion around the word decentralized. If I have a website billprin.com , in a sense it’s decentralized because there’s a million websites and that one is my little corner and you have your corner.

But in another sense it’s centeralized since I get to be the sole arbiter of truth on billprin.com

On ethereum, everyone runs the same code and has the same state so nobody is the sole source of truth.

Blockchain is way slower and more expensive that a centralized db but it has this key feature that no single party controls it. This enables us to write applications like automated market makers that require no trust in a centralized party or more choice in whom to trust and more granular control over trust.

It also has the nice side effect of making a lot of stuff more transparent and programmable.

When do we prefer not to have to trust a party? Many people don’t trust Wall St entities so are excited about potential ways to decentralize finance.

Others don’t trust big tech companies and are excited about ways to decentralize identity and communication.

And the future is hard to predict , it feels plausible that a big blank canvas will lead to more applications that are hard to predict.

The key is realizing that the core feature is not having to trust a centralized entity.

There’s technological challenges , and ways in which the current landscape doesn’t live up to the ideology. The money both incentives early adoption and development and turns it into a casino. But hopefully that helps clarify why some people are excited about the underlying potential.
not needing to trust a third party is a feature many people care about

I think this is overblown. Most DeFi is illegal so people are using it because of regulatory arbitrage, not because it's trustless.
Whatever system I have (tried to) used over time, I've run into the following challenges:

1. how to deal with old tasks (are they relevant anymore? should they be removed?).
2. connecting tasks to their related source and needed information to act

For the former, the accumulation of old stuff has consistently led to less and less usage of the system and as a result to a continuously decreasing trust in that system. Adopting a new solution has given the feeling of a better system with better chances to success; but it has mainly been about having a (temporarily) new clean inbox.
Covid’s toll on smell and taste: what scientists do and don’t know
That sounds like the sales pitch for Semantic Merge: https://www.semanticmerge.com/features/

I haven't tried it, but it does seem like a good direction to be trying to take merge tools.
> To get a debit card you must be either 18 or have a legal guardian who is at least 18 on the account.

I don't about the US or Australia, but this is definitely not true everywhere.

I know for a fact that in some countries children as young as 13 can have bank accounts and debit cards that are not linked to a guardian.
Sanctions is a fancy word for "starving the innocent women and children who live in countries not aligned with our interests".

You want to take out Putin, take him out. Don't try to harm innocent people just because they had the misfortune of being born in a country that we no longer find economically useful.
The melrōse tool starts a local HTTP server which accepts the language to process. This is how the VSCode plugin communicates.
Firefox on iOS is a Safari reskin
Atheism is a dirty word in America. Way more people have no particular religious beliefs, but they’re turned off by the word.
Actually no, dav1d is a decoder
What they signal? Like generational wealth and elite connections? [1]

I have definitely seen hiring managers lean very hard on pedigree so they didn't have to do the actual work of evaluating candidates. It was basically the same deal with a lot of certifications, like Scrum/Agile and Java certs.

I also think that your bucketing people such that Harvard = smart and state school = "the opposite" is a great example of the problem. Personally, I'd always rather work with somebody who has had to work their way up, as they tend to have a more balanced perspective.

[1] E.g.: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/07/harvards-freshman-class-is-m...
>That’s what I think about when I’m in NYC, and sure I see the piles of trash… I just don’t really care. It’s a necessary part of having a gigantic megalopolis.

there are many other giant megalopolises in the world that somehow manage not to have giant piles of trash everywhere. london and tokyo for example. demand better from your government.
Is it really the media's fault when they've reported at length about Snowden and Assange and Manning and in the end... nobody cared? Investigative journalism was THRIVING in the last few years. Trump, Kavanaugh, Epstein... can't even keep track of the scandals anymore. Did anyone care? Half the country kept voting red as before, the other half blue.

Nothing really changed, and nobody was held accountable for anything of note. The media has been reporting a LOT, people are just... outta fucks to give? It's like a mix of compassion fatigue and learned helplessness... not really sure what normal people can do when there's a class of people unaccountable to the law, the media, or anything really. Their cronies are all in business and government together, with no checks and balances. It's not the media's fault we have zero accountability for our elites.
On a recent senate committee hearing about authoritarianism the US said Russia is more synchronized in their message of using propaganda and that the US needs to figure out how we can do the same.

In calling out authoritarianism their response is in order to fix it we should be more like them. The US could in the same sentence tell you why it is not okay to start war but it is okay if they do it.
This is a report about farmed salmon in Norway based on research. Norwegian farmed salmon is very commonly sold in Sweden. It is also common to find it in UK supermarkets.

Some points from the article:

- Salmon feed has changed and has become much more plant-based, which has affected the nutritional content of farmed salmon.

- Levels of Omega-3 fatty acids, selenium and vitamin D have decreased in farmed salmon, but the overall levels of these important nutrients are still high.

- Farmed salmon beats animal meat when it comes to Omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin B12, vitamin D, iodine and selenium. Animal meat is higher in iron and zinc.

- Plant-based feed has led to lower dioxin levels in farmed salmon, but dioxins are still something to monitor.

- In wild-caught salmon from the Baltic Sea, dioxin levels are 10 to 20 times higher than farmed salmon from Norway. The claim was made on Swedish TV.

- Antibiotic levels are so low that they are undetectable in a farmed salmon fillet according to researchers

- Norwegian farmed salmon has a higher climate footprint than Swedish-produced chicken and pork, but have a significantly lower climate footprint than red meat

- Researchers did not investigate issues related to animal health, animal welfare, eutrophication or the effect of farmed salmon on wild salmon.