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> Despite it being reviewed every well upon release, gamers expected even more.

I don’t think that’s true - this review seems representative:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2008/09/spore-review/

> Perhaps the whole concept of Spore is just too high, when all is said and done. I honestly had more fun with the rather middlebrow The Sims series. But one also gets the uncomfortable feeling that each phase is now just a shell to be filled in with upcoming expansions and for-pay content packs. Imagine an expansion pack release for each phase, adding in the depth that's sorely missing. It's not a fun thought.

There was also a problem with the DRM system being buggy (the iMac I installed it on had to be wiped to return to normal system performance) and the whole game crashing too often.

Like others, I think it goes back to massively over-promising: the amoeba game on the iPhone was the most fun because it was a complete game. The full game was like they tried to make 4 separate games and made each one progressively less fun because they just didn’t have the resources to do any of them well. I spent many hours playing Civ, SimCity, SimAnt, Railroad Tycoon, Master of Orion, Master of Magic, etc. so I was expecting a game with similar rewards for spending time on it but never even completed Spore because my completionist drive couldn’t make up for the boredom.
The only time ChatGPT should be cited is when the purpose of your paper is to study the behavior of ChatGPT.

I think it should be morally okay to use ChatGPT in the research process and to improve the quality of your writing, e.g., "Make this more clear and flow better"

If ChatGPT must be cited, I think for maximum transparency the citation should include the model, date retrieved, prompt, and output in an appendix.
When there's competition it works. For example in Europe the airlines with the most fees also have by far the lowest base prices.

The problem is if for a specific route or airport there's only one airline. That seems to be somewhat common in the US, and in that case price isn't constrained by competition but the customers willingness to pay. That's where the abusive practises flourish
I only use the AWS console to check logs, monitor batch jobs, and check spending.
I don't do state configuration in the AWS console.
Generally speaking, plagiarism (as in, passing off other's words and ideas as your own) is not illegal except in cases where it intersects with copyright law. In the case of ghost writers, they transfer copyright to the publisher, so legally speaking there's no issue.

In academic writing, there's a standard that the authors are the sole authors of the text that is upheld by academic institutions, academic communities, and the academic publishing industry (but not the legal system itself). This same standard doesn't exist in the same way in non-academic publishing (or a lot of other media) so not crediting ghost writers is considered acceptable.
I have a very different experience with GPT-4. It always provides about 6-10 references for every response, and they work perfectly every single time. I realize the hallucination problem and check everything every time, but compared to 3.5 (which often got titles a bit wrong or mixed up some authors, etc), it's astoundingly good at providing reasonable and factual information most of the time when it gives references that work pretty much every time.
Definitely always check though. It's great for getting over staring at a blank page and getting writing on something where you probably already know the references that will be called anyway, such that you can edit out any subtle over reaches that are made.
> optional added effects

Right. so why are you pretending that this feature doesn't exist, or is not consequential? playback alone is not the same thing as playback with effects.

> for straight playback of audio data

who said that is the use case here? the original link is just to the man page itself. YOU DECIDED, that the only use case is straight playback with nothing else. that might apply TO YOU, but others might be keen on utilizing the other features, hence why they were added in the first place.
> A question I love to ask people is, “What have you changed your mind about in the last decade?” I use “decade” because it pushes you into thinking about big things, not who you think will win the Super Bowl.

This is a great question. And "decade" is a good time frame not only because of size but because it's a long enough time frame there's a better chance people will have good answers.

The Dee Hock quotes (“A belief is not dangerous until it turns absolute” and “We are built with an almost infinite capacity to believe things because the beliefs are advantageous for us to hold, rather than because they are even remotely related to the truth”) are great too.
I don't find that so bad. They look complicated but behave as expected, and would only be a problem if you inherit a code base from a lone wolf without common sense.

Python has plenty of warts[1], but I don't think the syntax is one of them (yet). Some of the more concerning warts:

# Mutable defaults in function parameters.
def fn(arg=[]):
arg.append(1)
print(arg)

fn() # [1]
fn() # [1, 1]
fn() # [1, 1, 1]

# Loop variables are shared across executions.
lambda_list = [lambda: print(i) for i in range(5)]
for fn in lambda_list: fn()
# 4
# 4
# 4
# 4
# 4

# Iterating over an exhausted generator yields an empty list.
numbers = (i for i in range(5))
assert 1 in numbers
print(list(numbers))
# []
# I hate this one because it could have easily been an error, it's
# hard to track down, and lots of stdlib functions return generators.

# Chained operators can sometimes be very unintuitive.
should_be_ascending = True
assert 1 < 2 == should_be_ascending
# AssertionError because it was interpreted as
# `(1 < 2) and (2 == should_be_ascending)`

[1]: https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython
I would assume that most books written by CEOs, professional athletes, general celebrities, and the like are significantly cowritten with someone whether they were entirely ghostwritten or not.
Replacing lawns with almost anything would help. Less water usage and less fertilizer runnoff would be great. But transporting food to "city folk" is way, way more efficient than transporting food to suburban or rural folk. And a small garden isn't going to move the needle much there. Densification is necessary to reduce per-capita carbon emissions.
Right from the about page:

> Our clinical vignettes serve multiple purposes. They provide a distinctive, engaging learning tool for medical students and healthcare professionals looking to familiarize themselves with the ICD-10-CM system.
Well, no one knowledgeable about the field. I have, unfortunately, heard otherwise intelligent people saying that the Chinese government doesn't mind sacrificing it's own people, and did launch it in its own city on purpose (which is, to be clear, ridiculous).

"Never ascribe to conspiracy, what is adequately explained by incompetence".

I think the evidence is pretty clear that at least the Chinese government believes that the covid-19 virus came from their lab (they could, of course, be mistaken about that).
I have about 20 different grocery stores within 10 min driving distance (4 within 3 min). I buy different things at around 5 of them, depending on what prices/selection/quality are better where.
I am one of those people who feel there's a certain amount of meaningful and useful context embodied in the last position of things... the files on the Desktop, the junk on the table, the books out of the book shelf, the tabs in the browser.

As a consequence, I can shift context easily because all I have to do is scroll back to my prior workspace (physically or digitally). However, to remain effective, such a strategy requires a strict policy of no interference (nothing irritates me more than people reorganizing my stuff - which is why I insist on doing my own cleaning).

Sometimes it gets out of hand. This week I closed all my browser tabs and realised the left-most of them had been open for 3+ months. On the other hand, it means using mental powerups like RCS/VCS repositories, todo lists, and project documentation becomes second nature because they are all free stored-context extensions.

It's the mental antithesis of inbox zero - notbox infinite.
That seems a bit trite. I was thinking it was a misclick, but hopefully whoever did it will chime in, and they will NOT themselves get down-voted, whatever their reason.
Then something has to safeguard that firmware.
If there's 5 people in the car, clearly the optimal solution is to pay the congestion fee. You'll also have less traffic to deal with.
They do. That's what makes the lying about "you have to pay anyways" extra egregious.
Two things:

1) Not all travel is for pleasure.

2) I’m fortunate enough to be able to afford baggage fees or whatever nonsense the airline wants to try and charge me for, but I absolutely hate being nickeled and dimed. I prioritize using companies that provide upfront total costs whenever possible to vote with my wallet.
Looks like it actually was kind of successful for a while though. It just got out competed by other methods.
There was a lot of confusion about what RSS was until RSS 2.0 came out
Iran systematically employed 12-16 year olds en masse for the purposes of clearing minefields and drawing Iraqi fire. Perhaps 50,000 Iranian children were sacrificed in this manner. Iraq regularly responded to these child-wave tactics by deploying mustard gas.
“One can not learn what one thinks one already knows”
—Epictetus
I enjoyed Spore a lot. I never saw any of the apparently overhyped marketing, so there were no disappointments for me there. I will admit the gameplay itself was pretty flat - I probably played through the whole game, which was pretty short, only 3 or 4 times. But I'm surprised no one has mentioned the creators, which I think were the really interesting part of the game. They were essentially 3D modelers that were constrained enough that a kid (and I was a kid) could easily use them. I had a ton of fun pushing these creators to their limits.

The Galactic Adventures DLC had an "adventure creator" where you could create simple scenarios with your other creations. I didn't realize it at the time, but this was my first exposure to programming. It really lit my imagination on fire and got me interested in game development, and is ultimately how I ended up as a programmer.

Such was my love for this game, I ended up getting involved in the Spore forum ("The Sporum", ha). Strangely enough, one of the official boards was "Creationism vs. Evolution", or CvE as it was known by the forum's denizens. I grew up in a deeply rural and fundamentalist area, so CvE was my first real exposure to the beliefs of the other side, rather than the strawmen the church presented. I argued sincerely on the side of Creationism and got handily defeated by facts and logic many times. It didn't fully change my mind at the time, but it planted the seeds of deprogramming.

So in a way, this game that was so disappointing for many has a lot of personal significance to me. It had a big influence on my personal beliefs and my career. Thanks I guess, Will Wright.
Huh? The Arab Spring movement was mostly coopted by Jihadists. The French Revolution was followed by decades of Terror which led to more dictatorship and death, and even after that the death and dictatorship merely moved over to the colonies.
I did not fully read the article yet as I'm away from home - does this also affect Linux clients?
That example seems a little contrived, when with the legislation used for interception is broad enough to just got after the actual target straight away. Seems a long way for a shortcut, so to speak.
> When you revert to pure agriculturalism, where does that happen exactly, it is in the environment.

Everything happens “in the environment”, of course.

What I meant was that Ted Kaczynski’s main motivation for wanting to return to primitive agriculturalism was not a concern about industrialization damaging the environment. So he would not have cared about EVs or recycling as they are still happening in a technological society.
Dunno so much about Russia propaganda, but comments jumping to the defense of the CCP have been a staple of HN for about as long as I've been reading it. In that sense, I haven't noticed anything different.
FWIW IC training is also bad.
You can have a career just winging it (having done so myself) and any standards of competency are left to individual teams/companies or simply who you chose to imitate
I'm quite the opposite type, hate being nickel and dimed for different services, just charge flat fee and include all the basic necessaties.
You cannot say belief. Say hypothesis while leaving rest of your argument intact. If you value that kind of score in your life.
LOL. I also thought of Merkel when looking at the title.
The Hooked Model: How to Manufacture Desire
Not trying to minimize it, but it's difficult to measure violence, what's the level of violence of a rapist? of someone with a polluting lifestyle of 100TCO2eq/year (violence to the environment, so distributed to people)?
Have you ever had to enter codes as a provider in Epic for instance? The UX is fucking terrible. Incentives are completely misaligned for accurate coding in academic institutions.
Finally the ontology of ICD codes are trash on their face.
You’ve described my experience pretty accurately. At some point I also realized that I have Aphantasia, and I’ve wondered how much of a role this plays.

When I do recall something, it’s never visual, and this lack of fidelity seems to play a big part in the richness of the memory. It also seems to allow painful memories to fade more quickly, and I’ve long suspected this is related to CPTSD but in any case, it seems like a blessing and a curse.

I’m the opposite when it comes to photos though. I took up photography and journal about moments I want to remember. I do remember feeling unnerved by photos I don’t remember early on, but with time, this changed into something closer to periodic reminders that I’ve lived some great moments, even if those moments don’t make it into my everyday consciousness.
Where's this bus going?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnE08Dvx-Cg
No laptop in it's own bin, some countries need you to put phones, battery packs and other electronics in separate bin etc. Wish they made the process easier.
If you are excited about these data structures you might be interested in my new database engine using prolly trees and designed to be used by React developers.

Blog: https://fireproof.storage/posts/from-mlops-to-point-of-sale:...

React hook: https://use-fireproof.com
I remember traveling as teenager, I setup monitoring system to catch cheap long distance bus tickets.

(I bought some 400km travel tickets costing less than travel to bus station within city)

Some people are in a different situation than you.
In Europe you can get flights for $25. That's $50 both ways, plus let's say 2 nights, which in many places can be had for $50/night. That's $150 plus whatever you send there. Spending another 2x$25 on baggage fees makes a huge impact on that budget.
I don't actually think that is what they meant. If there are no animals to even sample, you don't describe that as "that covid was not found in a single animal sample". No one would phrase it that way.
Just make a MITM node.js app to filter out anything not supposed to be there

Edit: a raspberri pi that filters out bad packets from old games
For those curious: https://www.sovietmilitarystuff.com/airsoft-tactical-boots-u...
I mostly agree this way of looking at it, but find 2 things distort this nice clear explanation.

1. Lack of clarity. I've no problems paying a fee I want and use. But when the fees are hidden at point of sale, and then added later it makes comparisons hard or fees I don't want getting added because I didn't know about them in advance so couldn't change behaviour to avoid them.

2. Fees that don't accurately capture the benefit Vs the cost, and are gamed. Things like "2 peices of hand luggage" with no weight specified. I once had an attendant tell my wife her hat she was carrying counted as one peice, so she had to put in her bag to walk past the check-in desk to avoid being charged a fee for extra hand luggage. And then you get the opposite with schemes like wearing vests to carry extra items without it counting in your hand luggage allowance. I once had to move ~2kg from my hold luggage to my hand luggage because one was over and the other under. Why not literally charge a per kg fee regardless where you store it that way everyone pays for exactly what they use, no gaming. The current fee structure tends to incentivise maxing out on hand luggage to avoid hold fees, which means overhead storage gets crammed full. Charging per kg would shift a portion of this to the hold and make the cabin less cramped and better for everyone.
I don't see managers who grow and the reason is because they often weren't growing as engineers...

The most common reason I see people become managers is because they weren't cut out for engineering work or it burnt them out over time. Many couldn't keep up with the ocean of new technologies and philosophies software has gained in the last few decades and so they are relegated to being a machine that checks email for twice a starting engineers salary.

Some managers really have done so to steward a company or team through a problem but so many more of them just want to "check out" essentially and in just a few short years loose most of the engineering context value they had and become some degree of roadblock to progress because sadly they want their cake and they want to engineer it too...they often create tasks and conversations they don't make sense or deliverables that are missing the point because they are no longer engineers no matter how badly they still want to identify as one after leaving a organic growing codebase.

I get it they have families and they are getting older and the kids coming out of college are honestly intimidating sometimes but that's a problem with the absolute lack of upward mobility within engineering and they unhealthy standards of modern corporate culture.

It's sad really. Very intelligent opinionated people slowly go from talking about solutions in concrete terms to a mix of language about deliverables, burn charts, agile, circling wagons, getting on the same page, and determining a funnel for Q4 while the software they are talking about has no unit tests and they themselves have determined that it's not part of the MVP...

If they could go back 10 years and hear themselves I wonder what they would think of the people they've become...
What really happened, as stated in the very source you gave, was that if you had a heart attack at home an ambulance would come to “deal with you” (because of course they would), but if they attempted to resuscitate you for 20 minutes and you still didn’t recover they wouldn’t then take you to the hospital.

You should know the survival rate of a heart attack is far far lower than most expect, especially after 20 minutes of failed active attempts to resuscitate. The only real reason to take someone into a hospital after that is if they’re hypothermic or just so you can say “we did everything we could”.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-cpr-expectations-i...
Gotta do something with the bandwidth you saved on JS bloat
> The somewhat awkward truth is that a large portion of the republican political base at this point have turned inward and are deliberately hostile to organizations like NATO.

According to Global Affairs, support for US commitment to NATO is at a 48-year high. Quoting from https://globalaffairs.org/research/public-opinion-survey/sup...:

a) Eighty-one percent of Americans say the United States should maintain (62%) or increase (19%) its commitment to NATO, the highest level of support recorded since Chicago Council Surveys began in 1974.

b) Support for maintaining or increasing the US commitment to NATO is bipartisan, with large majorities of Democrats (90%), Independents (78%), and Republicans (75%) in support.

c) Bipartisan majorities support the admission of Finland, Sweden, Ukraine, and Georgia as new NATO members.
Scientists indeed mostly do science because they like it, but it's supposed to be that way and it's supposed to be funding managers that are responsible to direct that towards the welfare of humanity. That they don't is a matter of ideology. Kaczinsky made a mistake in attribution of responsibility, scientists aren't supposed to bear that responsibility in our system.
posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36216126 but no traction

The paper is entitled "SpQR: A Sparse-Quantized Representation for Near-Lossless LLM Weight Compression" and https://twitter.com/Tim_Dettmers/status/1666076553665744896 is a nice summary

"SpQR allows lossless LLM inference at 4.75 bits with a 15% speedup. You can run a 33B LLM on a single 24GB GPU fully lossless. SpQR works by isolating sensitive weights with higher precision and roughly doubles improvements from GPTQ"

Code here: https://github.com/Vahe1994/SpQR (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36219128 but no traction )
"Infamous" has nothing to do with scale. It's entirely based on how well known something is. This incident had worldwide attention almost immediately and for weeks. Many articles were written at the time, and followup articles since (some of which are linked here). By all definitions of the word, it tracks.
No kidding, this review made me very interested in reading the novel. I wonder if something about a depiction of anxious, uptight, pretentious and rudderless hipsters struck a little close to home for the reviewer.
That's not how it works. It's not "when you report a hack the government can now hack you at will". It is: When an intelligence agency with a legal warrant to monitor another entity that's a severe enough threat to national security sees that entity hack you, they can follow along and monitor communication from the hacked machine and/or hack into it themselves. If enough precautions are taken to limit impact on the victim's privacy and only if their right to privacy is less important than the national security risk the original target poses if not doing so.

Source: Read the source doc in Dutch, it's far more nuanced than the English blog post.
I will try to write / formulate a screenplay. I have started to look into it a little bit more and thanks to YouTube it acutally feels doable for getting more feedback.

Lets see :)
Previously, looking for some garments with pockets in them for a female coworker, I found the company "scottevest" - https://www.scottevest.com

Pockets are kind of a thing for them... and it's a bit more stylish than a fishing vest. For example: https://www.scottevest.com/products/edc-jacket-mens

> Tactical and ready for cold weather, this matte softshell jacket is the ultimate in everyday carry. Securely stow your gear in the 30 purposeful pockets. Designed for stealth, so items wont print, youll have quick and easy access to all your essentials without broadcasting what youre carrying. Key features include side zips at hips, Rapid Access Vertical Panels, removable RFID blocking pocket, internal back pocket, 2 phone pockets, key holder and attached chamois to keep glasses smudge-free. The Weight Management System ensures maxiumum carrying capacity and comfort. So load up with confidence and be prepared for whatever life throws your way.
Regardless of the merits of the lab leak theory, David Martin is a NWO-level conspiracy theorist who thinks that Pfizer colluded with Bill Gates and the US government and infected the whole world with a virus, on purpose, just to push their vaccine on people. The conference that you allude to has nothing to do with the European union. It was organized by two equally nutty far right EU-politicians in one of the parliament's public rooms to give a false legitimacy to their "conference" and mislead people to think that it was an official event.