skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought Elden Ring was a bit weird in this regard. Margit is likely the first boss people fight. And he does introduce a lot of concepts that seem pertinent. He's classic souls boss with a few touches of the game's unique concepts. He hits very fast, sometimes without telegraphing. If you're competent at Margit then Godrey is likely to be mechanically simpler.

But then for some reason every single other major boss is very gimmicky and does not draw upon this. Radahn is a (fun) clusterfuck with yer boys. Rennala just has projectiles and no defenses. Rykard is... just poorly designed and can't hit you if you're in melee range. Fire Giant is a gimmicky horse battle. Astel is sort of similar to Rennala. Hoarah does his own thing with grabs and jumpable stomps. Malekith and Malenia are so awkwardly fast that you need to be proactively positioning rather than reacting to their telegraphed moves for the most part.

Then you've got at the endgame Morgot and Radagon who, for some reason, seem to be not only simpler, but significantly slower opponents than Margit.

Not a complaint really. I thought boss design was great and entertaining. But definitely a bit unusual. Sekiro's boss progression was amazing and the best I've ever seen. It's a really great inflection point when Genichiro swings by to make sure you understand the game's not gonna fuck around anymore.
Most of the really smart kids (and the ones I knew in high school who ended up the most successful in life terms) did "terribly" in school.

It's hard to initially distinguish future successful dropouts but there were a few things they had in common.

Firstly they usually came from at least "ok" families - they were confident enough in their social supports and knew they had "options" and second chances if they needed them.

Usually it was clear that they could do the work (and had no trouble in later in life learning independently).

But instead of believing what "the system" told them or following its rules, they either ignored or actively explored and exploited the rules and behaviour of the system itself. This looks a lot like skipping class, acting out and not caring...

But now that I look back it looks a lot like learning the "meta" game, which turned out to be much more important in life than what was being taught academically at the time.
Is it eye contact or seeing the drummer, though? Or maybe even feeling the bass drum, not sure. I'm going to guess that seeing the drum sticks would be helpful too.

Probably a separate skill set, I'm sure a good studio musician knows how to do great with headphones on their head. I'm a bass player myself but rarely do any recording so I'm crap at it but I'm sure I could learn.
I'm not sure that it's disdain. I think it might just be more that it's a niche that matured in a different era, and the solutions are "good enough" to not warrant the recreation of these tools from scratch.

The amateur radio community isn't enormous, and the overlap between operator and developer doesn't always exist.
As a user of Nextcloud (self-hosted), the most important feature for me is in direct conflict with OP's. I want my files stored verbatim as files on the server and accessible as normal files on a normal FS. No chunks, not encrypted, with the same directory structure as my cloud space. My main issue with availability and durability, not security. Of course I care about security, but losing my large collection of personal and family photos would be a much bigger disaster than some hacker having a copy.

When I tried Seafile, they had some FUSE implementation that allows access to the chunked files as a virtual FS, but I couldn't get it to work, so I dumped the whole thing. Nextcloud was so much easier to set up.

Having it this way makes it much easier to verify everything is readable properly and easier to replicate it to external drives and backups, also ensure things are accessible there.

Having different open source implementations with different tradeoffs is great, isn't it. That being said, I don't love Nextcloud's performance and some of its other design decisions, but it's the best I've found so far.
<About a year later I had to write a paper. One of the disadvantages of being a researcher is that in order to get money you have to write a paper about something or other, the paper is never about what currently interests you at the moment, but must be about what the project that financed your research expects to read about.

Well I had my gossip network setup on planet lab and I could tell it to become anything, so I told it to become a content distribution networks and used a gossip algorithm to make copies of the same file on all machine on the network and wrote a paper about it and everybody was happy.>

I miss Joe, not that I ever met him, but his attitude and good humour are inspiring.
I spent one memorable Christmas-to-New-Years holiday tracking down a bad bug in the Newton kernel that (for a while) only happened up on those kiosk devices. I spent nearly two weeks tracking down a timing window where an interrupt between two ARM instructions would cause the scheduler to stop scheduling threads. Very Heisenbuggy.

The fix was to swap those two ARM instructions. It's simultaneously the hardest and the most trivial bug I have ever fixed.
>But to an established company trying to make money, 0.7% of revenue is a huge (seriously, huge) line item in a CFO's accomplishment list.

Ok, that seems pretty weird right there, 0.7% overhead of an early stage startup is now 0.7% of revenue even though we agree it is just increasing as the same rate of hires?

In other words while each new programmer hired will drink the same amount of soda as the others it should be evident that the percentage of revenue would be decreasing, otherwise they have some serious problems that getting rid of free soda will not fix.
We've lined up a number of finance partners to help facilitate transactions. Our first priority on our seed raise will be to bring some qualified finance experts in house.

We've been working with accredited investors who are making 100K+ investments for entire solar facilities. We think of those transactions as our training wheels as we build out our software, financial knowledge, and design.

As we evolve to a larger scale we will certainly bring on specialists to support the product.
I'm curious the legal structure of what you're selling here. The terms and conditions on your website[0] seem generic, and don't describe the offering.

You're promoting something you call "shares"[1], which promise to pay a dividend. Regardless of whether or not they can be resold, I assume your counsel has figured out a way that these aren't considered "marketable securities" within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933, which would trigger all sorts of SEC scrutiny.

I assume you're familiar with the early business model of Prosper Marketplace and their struggles[2] with the SEC over a similar issue.

Does this fall under the Regulation Crowdfunding exception[3] or is there another loophole?

(This is not meant as criticism; I'm genuinely curious. I'm not an expert, and the legal landscape has quite possibly changed since I last researched this issue.)

[0] https://www.legends.solar/legal/terms-and-conditions
[1] https://www.legends.solar/learn/actual-ownership
[2] https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2008/33-8984.pdf (PDF)
[3] https://www.sec.gov/education/smallbusiness/exemptofferings/...
Contractors don't get perks like that anywhere, thanks to Vizcaino v. Microsoft. Withholding resources afforded to permanent employees is weird and counterintuitive, but it's how employers demonstrate compliance.
Was VMS capable of achieving this as well?
> Let's say you enter Mamma for example. And there is one M in the word but in the second position. Which M square does Wordle choose to turn yellow? (But maybe it doesn't matter?)

I don’t think it matters, it should just default to the first M.
This was at least 25 years ago and it's very odd that I remember such insignificant detail. I was watching an American TV show where a person opened his front door to find his friend at the doorstep. He then proceeded to ask:

"what are you doing here?"

I remember thinking: Americans are so rude. What do you mean, what are you doing here? He's your friend. He's obviously there to see you. What kind of hostile way is that to greet somebody so close to you?

Now I'm exactly the same, although I'd not say that phrase out loud. I cringe when somebody ruins my plans with an unannounced visit. I'm not proud of it. I think the main cause is that we allow ourselves to be overloaded, leaving no room for "nothing" time or spontaneous time. Whilst that is exactly the time in which life happens.

So create the room. Society tells you that life is about juggling 10 balls in the air but this is nothing but an illusion. Just drop a few balls and decide they're unimportant.

Then the next day, you spontaneously come up with the idea to take a ride with the bicycle. When somebody asks, where are you going, and when will you be back, you give the only correct answers: I don't know and I don't know.

Perhaps you'll drop by the forest, take a stroll through it, and see a fox. The thing about life is that had you put in your calendar "in two weeks, go to forest to find fox", you would find zero foxes. The fox happened.

Or perhaps you'll take a ride downtown and spontaneously go to this dodgy coffee place, purely triggered by seeing it. A place you would have absolutely never attended had you done an internet search filtered by reviews. You go in, and who knows what will happen. Maybe it's a treasure, maybe you meet new cool people.

Or maybe nothing memorable happens at all and you cycle back home. You still had exercise, fresh air, were able to clear your thoughts...that's quality time and the "worst" outcome, in any case better than "Netflix".
Public Transport in the US in not safe due to demographics and failure to imprison criminals:

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/funeral-today-for-danie...

Private mass-transit using autonomous busses and auto-routes, where passengers can rate eachother, is a better solution.
I've always put years but have also openly admitted having gaps. I simply told I wanted some free time. Or were messing around with some pet-project (which I do put on my CV). Or learning some new language (which I don't put on my CV). It's never been a problem. Perhaps because I never acted weird about it.
Thanks! The digital photo frame sounds good~
Fair enough, was just pointing out it's not (primarily) a government backed scheme (in theory at least).
thanks for the info. I use letsencrypt and have never had to touch it since setup, cloudflare must work in a similar way but handling DNS aswell
I’ve tried c4/plantuml (and loved the concept) but have never been able to make it stick, it always seems to get out of date quickly and having a feeling of “I’m not sure if this is up to date” is worse than no documentation at all (because you need to learn the documentation, then the behaviour). Honestly the fastest way I’ve found to understand large distributed systems is by observing the interactions between them, schema detection in service bus type architecture and tools like X-ray (in aws) or open tracing give you a good picture of “this thing produces or consumes this type of message”

For individual systems I think a good inversion of control/dependency injection system can give you a good overview of the connections between components.

If I’m stepping into a giant ball of spaghetti code I generally set the debugger at line 1 and start stepping, and draw a lot of boxes and lines as I go… then throw those drawings away when I’m done. They’re really only helpful while you’re producing them (like taking notes as you read a textbook), hopefully in that situation you improve the code as you go so this approach isn’t as necessary!
(1) is answered here https://github.com/apache/incubator-devlake/issues/1771
Hi, random developer that somehow ended up in the top 500 but didn't have 2FA turned on (https://www.npmjs.com/package/xlsx)! npm inc invalidated all of our authentication tokens in mid April and we have been unable to sign in via the web interface since then. Assumably the same fate befalls other random devs.
Anxiety vs. Worry (2020)
Recently joined a company with legit soda machines(the fancy ones with exotic stuff like cream sodas), slim jims, ice cream, cookies, cakes and which buys lunch for the engineers every weekend. It's amazing. I came from a place where you had to pay 2 $ for a soda!

It's definitely one of the things that you don't realize when you don't have it, but when you do it's like heaven. It's really helped me get more work done since I can snack away and it encourages me to get up for walks around the office.
Out of curiosity what was your list price? I’ve been starting to collect (got a Mac IIsi with a portrait monitor a few months back) and would be interested in getting a MessagePad in working condition
Show HN: Set up a Go Neovim development environment in one command using Nix
I'm not sure I agree - compulsory participation/cooperation in the only place I have a right to exist is exactly "holding me hostage"
I drive 100 miles many weeks (usually in one go.) I'm not doing that on a moped, it's bad enough in a car.
Years ago (like, 1993 or so), our college CS class visited Jones Farm. One of the stops on the tour was a break room. All of the drinks were free at the time, whether it was coffee or coca cola. One of the engineers there remarked that at Microsoft only the caffeinated drinks were free. LOL. I just about believe it.
This is something I didn't like about the game. They always had multiplayer so difficulty has always been... optional in a way. But the summons in this game are extremely powerful, and they change the dynamics of the fight from slowly mastering an encounter to high variance gambles on being able to capitalize on the boss just not looking at you. Which is fine. You can just not use summons. But then you see something like the godskin duo with a premade npc ally outside to be summoned and you start to get conflicting feelings about what's appropriate "intended" difficulty.
Mind if I ask how much profit you make from that revenue? What’s the margins like when running a small dev team?
Last chance to fully ban Bitcoin, Ethereum and PoW cryptos in the UK
That's nice. How fast does note taking...take? Would you recommend Apple pencil for that? I found note taking to be challenging: if I write them down with hand, I need to digitalize them. If I type them it's too slow for a meeting.
A lot of games I worked on kept a running counter in RAM and then seeded the PRNG when a coin was inserted. That was random enough.
At the very least Maven-style DNS-based namespaces would be quite welcome... Then these authentication schemes or even "reputation" becomes DNS based which is much easier to do. Instead of having this random cutoff of popularity.

I don't really get why all these package managers don't copy this from the Java world.
A company has every right to build its culture, so I'd disagree with this. It's really the "you must be at a desk in our office for 8 hours just because" part that most people object to.
Seconding this book. The section on closures helped me solve a tricky parsing problem for a research project.
In what ways is this better than investing in a hypothetical public utility that intends to make all its electricity from solar panels?

In what ways is this worse than that?
The op was "why does MBA have the same as MBP", your response was "consumer does not need more RAM than MBA has". My point is that MBP is not positioned for consumer, because if it is, then whom is MBA positioned for. What's your objection I still can't grasp.
someone posts one article on kayaking and the hn canoe polo people just come out of the gd woodwork
Wow, that's terrible. Thank you for the heads up. Just transferred my domains back to namecheap.

While we're all here venting about Cloudflare, is anyone else frustrated about how they lure you in to their CDN product with "free" bandwidth, but then lock behind so many useful features arbitrarily behind what I can only imagine is a thousands of dollars per month enterprise plan? Just look at their cache-purging page for an example of this, everything other than basic purge by URL is enterprise only: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/how-to/purge-cache/

These days Cloudflare is literally my last choice for a CDN for my new projects, and I try to warn against others considering using it. My new go-to is bunny.net, who charges a reasonable usage-based fee for bandwidth and gives you unfettered access to all the features they've built. Though I'd even reach for Cloudfront with their expensive bandwidth costs these days, because at least their pricing is transparent and scales smoothly with usage, and they don't arbitrarily cut you off from useful features.

Even their bandwidth might not really be "free", since I've heard if you actually use any significant amount, the sales people will come knocking on your door to coerce you to get on the same enterprise plan or have your site taken down.
I appreciate your contrition of contention.
No one in their right mind wants to build a pseudo-investment company dealing with tons of small investors in the few hundreds of dollars to few thousands of dollars range. The only thing missing here is a crypto coin.

If they really have a business model that can yield 8+% annual, assuming they get a cut, then they would raise real capital and not deal with randos. They don’t.
I assure you, targeted persistent harassment is in fact not legal in most countries. With caveats for public figures and failing enforcement.
So average consumers.
I once heard that Microsoft subsidized caffeinated soda, but you had to pay for the caffeine-free options. That may just be an old wives' tale.
What's the criteria for inclusion?
This is like a high-tech version of the orange grove that sold investment contracts for the harvest of oranges in the famous Howey case
Self-deception allows people to lie
I was onboard the USS Mount Whitney during a dry dock fire while in Croatia and even that was terrifying. I can’t imagine being at sea and having something like that happen.
What we are doing is super simple. Equity ownership in real, operating solar panels. There is nothing particularly synthetic or structured about these investments (i.e. like BNPL, etc.)

We need enough scale to move a large (20M+) facility, but beyond that scale will only help insofar as bringing on follow on investments and referrals becomes a bit easier. We may also do some institutional stuff, but for the time being, we are 100% consumer focused and always will be.

Our innovation is to bring a consumer experience and true design focus to investing. Instead of treating retail investors like tiny little hedge funds, we design the product to match their expectations of what 'ownership' should be.
for #4 does setting the a record for the naked domain to 174.129.25.170 not support tls?
Thanks. Do you use Apple pencil for annotation?
Drawing on a plasma display with a laser pointer
Maybe it pays to have an image of not wasting money looking pretty.
That's a praiseworthy intention, but I don't believe it works in practice, and I really don't believe that any current process for selecting 'gifted' children is effective. I'd also draw a stark line between 'gifted' programs and what you describe

> but an intelligence test coupled with subjective teacher evaluations is the best way we do have to identify which tracks are appropriate for which children.

I'd call the above streaming or setting, and it's definitely valuable/effective. However, it doesn't need to be tethered to any system that focuses on labelling students. 'This is the stream you are currently in' is a very, very different idea to 'this is who you are', particularly for a child.

> being in an 8th grade classroom where teaching algebra has been banned because it's too advanced

This is definitely a problem, but I think it's best solved in other ways, rather than a poorly-supported regressive policy.

Gifted & talented programs often have positive intentions, but every implementation I've ever seen or heard of just reinforces existing systems without actually having a positive impact.
And a kernel. And drivers. And devices. And busses. And interrupts.
I like to see innovation in aerospace, but there seems to be a lot of either solution searching for a problem or problems I’d rather not see solved (weaponry). This is one of them. Spinlaunch is another (the Gs). Astra is yet another (“launch anywhere” =
military use).

IMO the things to watch are reusability (SpaceX, Rocket Lab), mass/efficiency (SpaceX), 3D printed components (Relativity and others to a lesser extent) and humans long-term in space beyond LEO (NASA I guess? SpaceX makes noises but doesn’t seem to want to be the one to solve the hard problems here).

tl;dr I think Stratolaunch is “cool” but not particularly interesting.
Scale and context matters.

The loss of a single food item in your own house has a much larger impact than the loss of a single food item in a kitchen stocked to feed dozens of employees - in the former case, your lunch disappeared but in the latter case there's just one less pack of crisps in a box of 100 that nobody will even notice and the positive impact of that (in terms of morale, especially for regular contractors) outweighs the 50c the pack of crisps costs.
Supreme Court temporarily blocks Texas’s social media moderation law
You've clearly never lived along the Gulf coast.

During natural disasters like hurricanes, this kinda thing can be a life saver. Many people buy diesel generators for these kinds of situations. This is a marked improvement.
Easy to learn, impossible to master is actually one of the classic tenets of game design. I'm genuinely curious, did you hear this or variant somewhere before, or did you come up with this on your own?
For what it's worth, at least for HPC-ish distributed computing, this sort of thing turns out not to be terribly worthwhile. We have a standard for distribution of computation, shared memory, i/o, and process starting in MPI (and, for instance, DMTCP to migrate the distributed application if necessary, though I think DMTCP needs a release).

I don't know what its current status is, but the HPC-ish Bproc system has/had an rfork [1]. Probably the most HPC-oriented SSI system, Kerrighed died, as did the Plan 9-ish xcpu, though that was a bit different.

1. https://www.penguinsolutions.com/computing/documentation/scy...
Some of these things can be done by anyone yet academia gatekeeps the academic creds for itself. E.g. anyone can do machine learning research, but you can't publish in a journal without being affiliated to a university
Yeah, they know the "keep everything default as much as you can" rule better than anyone else with SaaS providers. What a load of gobshite.
>86 million

*billion

"The human brain contains 86 billion neurons, with 16 billion neurons in the cerebral cortex."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_n...

The difference is not 3 orders of magnitude, but merely a factor of ~2.
Yep, very much so!
The original words aren't recognizable at first glance, but they do serve as potential mnemonics for remembering the terms/definitions for any learners who speak one of those source languages (English, Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic, Russian, Hindi)
Back in the distant past (1980s-1990s) we used to say only ECC memory because once you got much above 128Mb of memory, the risk of an unexpected bitshift was too high. We were talking Sun workstations and like rackmounts. Mainly. PC's were still not entirely taken seriously as servers.

I think if, at that time, the industry had shifted to ECC only, we'd have been fine. The thing is, the industry recognized this as a price differentiation point, and although its really been absorbed in VLSI real estate and complexity by now, it was seen as "too expensive"

TL;DR why is ECC still seen as a price differential on plan RAM, when its just lost in noise in the BoM for the silicon? Why isn't ALL ram ECC ram?