skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elden Ring is peak Demon Souls which was peak Kings Field (FromSoftware 1994).
The lack of gameplay and qol enhancements makes Kings Field a weird boring game, but after having playing the serie (I-IV) during the pandemic I can say that the scope and purpose of these games are the same.

While there are some very difficult arcade games, Kings Field, SoulsBorne and Elden Ring build a landscape around difficulty in such a way that it becomes an inherent property of the world in which the games are set.
The embodiment of difficulty is where these games shine;

- the landscape is a maze, and every new place you encounter needs you to overcome a sort of soft anxiety (Souls games were weird in this sense, every new place you encountered was a relief because it meant you were done with the previous place; but at the same time it was a chore because you became so accustomed to the previous place (LITERALLY HELL) that it felt like you were leaving your house for the unknown wilderness)

- the choreographic patterns of the enemies were exactly the same. You beat a boss forever, on NG+ every boss you encounter is a joke because you feel at home. The way enemies move makes you run backwards, and you feel like you're trapped in a no-match boxing contest where you're a salmon swimming around white sharks; until you realize that all of the mess happening is nothing else than scripted patterns and animated 3d meshes. The bosses seem strong because they seem random or 'human". Pontiff and Malenia seemed to me so spontaneous and virtuosos that it felt impossible to beat them on the first encounters, and it didn't felt "arcade" difficult, but organic-mozart-michelangelo difficult, everything in the fights was there to participate closely to the dramaturgic aspect of the game approach of difficulty.

- Kings Field save spots (and therefore, the lack of save spots) probably lead the way to the bonfire approach featured in souls games. It feels like a "galvanisation" of the concept of obstacle made possible only by the fact that you don't know in advance the location of possible "safe places" (it goes with point number 1). You have to RISK your runes/souls/money in order to progress through the unknown. Kings Field felt sometimes like a collection of safe place connected by some dev jokes that would insta-kill your character, and you knew that to reach hypothetical safe place B you had to go through real trap 1,2,3 and 4.

- Playing the game is a chore and a pleasure at the same time. The gameplay is incredible, the feel is rewarding, succeeding is satisfying and etc, but sometimes in my younger years when playing Souls I really could question my own desire to play the game: a lot of things in the game is made to impress/intimidate/bully you, I never identified what gave me the motivation to continue, all that I can say is that other games felt bland after playing my first fromsoftware game, and that since then I only open steam for one month everytime fromsoftware release something.
Dodders. Those who are doddering old fools. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doddering
The internal term is "Treat and street". Get them out on the street as quick as possible .
I'm from Poland. We moved the US when I was a young child.

I still remember taking a picture around 1990 after going to Costco/PriceClub the day my dad got a raise to $20 an hour. We bought a lot of groceries, put them on the kitchen table, and took a timed photo the 3 of us and all the groceries.
The CS conclusion was worthy though
I wonder how well this would go paired with that attack from a year or so ago that can recover audio from video of a glass window pane. Set up a camera pointed at the outside of your competitor's office? Hear their passwords? heck even send them an email, recieve a reply, and train on them typing emails sent to you?
Not sure if you'd like a reply styled as Diogenes or as Alexander the Great
Costco is the largest distributor of hearing aids in the U.S., there are good terms on checkups and adjustments and replacements. Their prices are significantly below going to an audiologist--a coupleof years ago, their house brand cost $1500 for a pair of hearing aids.
I have pinged Don (though there is a fair chance he's already sleeping).
Presumably he's talking about the intent of the law, which seems to have been to ensure news outlets actually receive money for linked articles. It seems that the government didn't expect Google or Facebook to just stop linking to Canadian news instead.

Canada appeared to be attempting to emulate countries like Australia, Spain, France, etc that have passed very similar laws. It seems like the tech giants were perfectly happy to just cut ties with Canadian media rather than make a deal however.
The key to making money: find something with extreme regulatory capture.
Replace data science with a host of other topics and it's mostly similar:

-- UI/UX

-- Entrepreneurship

-- Productivity

At some pointed Medium became a clearinghouse for all the articles that were rejected by the B-tier blogs.
I also use <angle brackets> to differentiate [square brackets].
I get the feeling it’s missing an implementation of surface tension.
I'm not talking about code contribution here, but about money. Wikipedia raises every year from donation more than what Mozilla gets from its pact with the devil.

I agree with you though that Mozilla has spent most of its good will, and that a donation-based model would have been much easier to pull-off a few years back than it is now.
We would be more efficient if we made the work week 80 hours minimum, at the small cost of people's happiness! China would stand no chance.

In case I'm unclear, I feel that not keeping our economy diverse and fair because China might make more stuff than us if we do is very misguided.
So, managers?
This should work fine with vim-dadbod and vim-dadbod-ui... Right?
> I don't see how this could ever work,

http://www.orgsyn.org/

> All procedures and characterization data in OrgSyn are peer-reviewed and checked for reproducibility in the laboratory of a member of the Board of Editors

Never is a strong word.
Some people can lead a simple satisfying job. Some can have a bullshit job. I totally feel the same things as the author. Some IT jobs are not creative at all. I had to work it out. Had to find I'm most interested in writing. Some jobs are more orinted towards verification, support, management, not development. If you struggle in your current job maybe it is not meant for you.
Writing a Blog Using Rust
Don't know about popularity but Scheme has a SRFI and syntax 'model called Wisp which does away with most brackets. It relies on indentation.
> They don’t “confiscate” meds. They steal them.

Which is why you put them in your carry-on: so that it is never in possession of the baggage handlers. The TSA employees at the security checkpoint won't generally steal things right in front of your face and under the cameras.
By data-aware I mean that the AI leverages additional context about the data to generate code for a given prompt. Let's say you're asking an AI to "build a regression model for column X". To give you a targeted, executable response, the AI needs to know: which dataframes contain a column named "X"? if there are many such dataframes, which one should be referenced for the regression task? Is X a numeric column, and if not can it be converted to numeric column? Does the data need to be normalized beforehand?
If the AI is unable to answer such questions on its own, it will only ever be able to return a generic answer. That's equivalent to typing it into ChatGPT, requiring the user to modify the returned code before it actually does what the user asked for. That clearly isn't a great for an AI that operates on data. A data-aware AI on the other hand is able to provide more targeted responses that require much less user intervention because it has access to the broader context.

A couple of other benefits:
- the AI will have an easier time automatically fixing runtime errors
- it knows how to fix and transform user input into the correct data format, e.g., "san fancisco" => "San Francisco"
I worked for a company that was building a prototype using the predecessor (the 'NOVIX'), which was incredibly fast for the day.
Because it's not a dumpster.

It's a casino with flashing lights, exciting noise, and free cocktails.
They cannot be, because all browsers on iOS are reskinned Safari (due to Apple's App Store policies), and Safari is not on Android.
This only protects the Draconian Canadian government. The same that will take your money if you protest against it.
Pretty funny.

Having taught low-temperature condensed matter labs, a big part of the grade is figuring out what went wrong, and either correcting for it, or at least acknowledging that it went wrong. The student needed to give more information about the experimental setup (what instruments did they use? four point or two point resistance? resistivity vs resistance? what is R_0?) and why they think the experiment didn't work. It looks to me like they had something miswired, so they only measured noise.
well yes. But these should go somewhere else than the papers that may actually contain significant results. The problem we have here is that there is an enormous quantity of such useless papers mixed in with the ones actually trying to do science.

I understand that part of the reason for that is that people need to appear as though they are part of the "actually trying" crowd to get the desired job effects. But it is nonetheless a problem, and a large one very worth at least trying to solve.
What's not real? Could you elaborate?
The government isn't moderating Facebook conversations about the government.
Please make your screenshot carousel stop automatically rotating after it is interacted with; it's really hard to take in the details of the screenshots.
I struggled with that aspect as well, but after reading the piece entirely, it becomes clear that massage parlour is used as an euphemism.

Also about being legal or not, it's probably work in the lite-grey zone (it's not Texas after all). The schedule looks something like, during a fixed period of time at night you just wait until you get scheduled/picked. That said, I don't think it is very important for the article.
V2 Rocket in detail: The Turbopump part 2 [video]
syntax 'mode'
I remember that little animated walking floppy guy on the downloads page! It used to be everywhere
So many interesting things here: first, only .5L of vodka per month? That surprises me, as I know people who would go through that in a single weekend, let alone an entire month... especially in Poland, known for their drinking culture, that little amount of (what seems to be cheap to produce) alcohol is striking. Second, these are all just staples: the only real things one could make out of these rations are bread, meat, and rice—which is odd in of itself: I wouldn't expect rice to be a part of the Polish diet. I'm assuming vegetables and other foods like that weren't rationed, and/or people grew it themselves.
I’ve been wrestling with WASM bytecode and text format of and on for the last couple years for want of doing something assembly-ish but not wanting to write off doing it for the web.

Personally, I’d say it’s at least as much of a register machine as a stack machine and ways in which it is one vs the other at times sure had me running in circles.

I’ve seen plenty of quotes about how it’s not supposed to be a real assembly, how you’re not supposed to deal with its text format or bytecode, and how it and its documentation are for compiler writers not typical programmers.

Which is exactly the take that I think is so wrong with our status quo of opaque, overly abstracted technologies that are highly optimized in their parts yet so disappointing in the whole.

As a Forth substitute, I was sorely disappointed. I did learn a lot in my wanderings, and what WebAssembly is mostly is a an implementation to run a C architecture. Which is pretty much what it came from. Not that I’m against that, but I sure ran in circles trying to make it more Forth-like.

And given it’s raison d’etre to be more performant vs Javascript it seems to be faster in some benchmarks while slower in others. I think this is more a testament about how optimized V8 and its brethren are then a slam on WebAssembly.
Browser from Scratch: HTML Parsing
going to shamelessly plug my library for python architecture visualization here:
https://github.com/mivanit/dep-graph-viz
Wow, this was a unique and beautiful read. Incredible writing.
I think about this topic often and am also curious, but not an Apple fanboy, unless we end up talking about the 8 and 16 bit 6602, 65816 based computers. :)

The way I see it, Apple has targeted a very specific kind of customer. And these people have a few things in common:

Value privacy

Value great hardware

Willing to recognize and pay for all the ways Apple adds value: packaging, UX, etc...

And there are some more, but I feel listing more won't add value here.

I do like the Apple M1 computer I own. And I like the older 8 and 16 bit ones too. The reasons are very different with the older machines being open and hackable and the M1 being fast with crazy good battery life given the overall performance.

However, I flat out won't own an Apple phone. Too closed down, and the UX is not well aligned with how I prefer to do things.

I disagree strongly with many things Apple does and feel their products often are too restrictive.

But, I do not have to use anything they make either.

Some have argued that Apple has serious lock in on their products. Yep. Except for the computers, I agree! That is why I won't use any of their stuff.

Yet lots of people want it that way and Apple delivers it to them and asks those people to pay right up, and those people do pay up and a whole lot of those people are happy having seen good value for their dollar.

In my view, Apple gets to do that.

And nobody has to like them doing that, right?

How is any of it a monopoly?

Serious question.
No, generally managers see themselves as “above” engineers and tend not to work as peers on the same projects. They (try to) manage rather than lead by example and practise.
While I agree with the general sentiment of the paper and creating incentives for more replication is definitely a good idea, I do think the approach is flawed in several ways.

The main point is that the paper seriously underestimates the difficulty and time it requires to replicate experiments in many experimental fields. Who will decide which work needs to be replicated? Should capable labs somehow become bogged down with just doing replication work? Even if they don't find the results not interesting?

In reality if labs find results interesting enough to replicate they will try to do so. The current LK-99 hurrah is a perfect example of that, but it happens on a much smaller scale all the time. Researchers do replicate and build on other work all the time, they just use that replication to create new results (and acknowledge the previous work) instead of publishing a "we replicated paper".

Where things usually fail is in publication of "failed replication" studies, and those are tricky. It is not always clear if the original research was flawed or the people trying to reproduce made an error (again just have a look at what's happening with LK-99 at the moment). Moreover, it can be politically difficult to try to publish a "fail to reproduce" result if you are small unknown lab, if the original result came from a big known group. Most people will believe that you are the one who made the error (and unfortunately big egos might get in the way, and the small lab will have a hard time).

More generally, in my opinion the lack of replication of results is just one symptom of a bigger problem in science today. We (as in society) have essentially turned the scientific environment increasingly competitive, under the guise of "value for tax payer money". Academic scientists now have to constantly compete for grant funding, publish to keep the funding going. It's incredibly competitive to even get in ... At the same time they are supposed to constantly provide big headlines for university press releases, communicate their results to the general public and investigate (and patent) the potential for commercial exploitation. No wonder we see less cooperation.
Yes + guaranteed work and housing is a clear advantage :)
(or "ice cream was tastier")
Yes but the government of Canada is not. Clear distinction between a sitting government and a political party.
> hate crime: a crime, typically one involving violence, that is motivated by prejudice on the basis of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or similar grounds.

this is literally the definition of a hate crime.
Cree firme
Did exactly this at my previous employer as part of a large plan to become effectively unphishable. With all auth requiring something physical, and no OTP anywhere.

We deployed Yubikeys to every employee (5 Nanos), which went into a USB port on their MBPs and were told never to remove them. We rolled out Okta as well (similarly moving from GSuite).

Definitely took some training initially, but after that employees are used to Okta + a Yubikey touch to authenticate to all the systems we used.

Internal SSH as well used certs deployed onto the Yubis, to ensure SSH was physically backed.

With hardware devices all remote managed through MDM, and enforcing access policies, and full disk encryption, along with the Yubis, you can end up with an incredible amount of protection again phishing and other remote attacks. Even lost hardware is protected, and can be remote wiped.

After building all that infra, now I wish I had more Yubi support at home. So few serious services (eg. banking) that I care about support it. I can lock my Github with 2FA supporting Yubi keys,but not my bank, broker, mortgage, etc.
It’s also very easy to come up with bad ideas — I did plenty of that and I still do, albeit less than I used to. Finding an idea that is novel, interesting, and tractable given your time, skills, resources, and knowledge of the literature is hard, and maybe the most important skill you develop as a researcher.

For a reductive example, the idea to solve P vs NP is a great one, but I’m not going to do that any time soon!
Right. The society today is defined by technology. I like to call it "the smartphone society" instead of "the modern society" or whatever.
I wonder if they've looked into yet. Anyways, nice to see Lanzhou going from one of the most polluted cities in the world to much less than that.
Similar experience but I was in the military and I didn't have a choice to say no. I have 5 fillings. They wanted to schedule 2 more but I was due to be reassigned overseas. They tried to delay my reassignment over it. Eventually, they cleared my paperwork but made it clear I was to see the dentist at my new base as soon as possible.

My new dentist says there is nothing wrong with my teeth whatsoever.
What was the point of repeating yourself? You didn't specify what those measurable things were. My point is, the term "IQ" should not be used if the test is unable to measure what its name implies. That's about it. The cultural bias in IQ tests has been widely documented. However, I must admit the usefulness of these tests by the U.S. Army and Marine Corps in decreasing fatality rates. It might be better to rename these tests though.
Maybe you do. If I have to compete with them I am not interested in the job.
Qualcomm is one of those companies that employs five lawyers for every engineer. That works great, right up until the patents expire.
But they didn’t think that? That link explained why, which probably applies to all movies/sports industry, keep them distracted while they can barely afford to live or ever own a house.
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nginx

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How about we create a Nobel prize for replication. One impressive replication or refutation from last decade (that holds up) gets the prize split up to three ways among the most important authors.
I've seen planning marathons, but not the way I would do them. How much peace and quiet did people have to think about the plans and take notes, before the talking? Did they record the final decisions and reasons to refer to next year?
Ah, I just had to take off my watch right now to see those, I've never noticed the bulge before.
> the word "massage parlour" is some local euphemism for some kind of sex work and its implied they aren't actually masseurs/masseuses?

I'm genuinely curious where you live that this is not the case. It is such a euphemism in every Anglophone country, and (large parts of?) Germany and Italy. It is usually illegal (or at least unlicensed) even in places where prostitution has some kind of legal status.
...It isn't the algorithm that's the problem. It's people invested in becoming a value extracting diversion for an answer that'll be around.

Lets take your problem. Applying for a visa for Moldova. Let's say that there's a site hosted at visa.moldova.gov with a form to apply.

Eventually, someone is going to integrate a bunch of data broker services to auto-fill that form, then data broker to other tourism related businesses trying to compete to plan your stay.

It is very much in their interest to ensure that no one sees visa.moldova.gov, but instead sees one of their onboarding funnels.

Thus the well around a well known onboarding point to a critical government service is poisoned.
I don’t buy this - I’ve seen good support people solve problems despite system inadequacies.

The guy in this story who said “your AirTag may be there but that doesn’t mean your bag is there” is the opposite of that type.

Maybe they left a note in the file, probably they did nothing.
This isn't a random blog post and the techniques in the blog are actually used by the standard library and some pretty major C++ libraries such as range-v3 and fmtlib.

The author of the blog post is in fact one of the authors of fmtlib.

Getting libraries to play nicely with ADL is actually a huge pain in the ass and in fact the three major C++ compilers don't agree with one another on how to actually perform name lookup in a large number of cases.
For me, the train is much faster. Whenever I go somewhere with a friend in their car. We spend so long stuck in traffic and then finding parking. While the train leaves every 5 minutes and brings me pretty much directly to my destination.
You sure it isn’t Schottky diodes formed by the metallic contacts that are interfering with the measurement of the bulk germanium properties?

I’d sputter deposit metallic contact regions and solder to those, then maybe compare two different thickness samples and look at the difference in resistivity vs. temperature, essentially de-embedding your fixture.
> In a way the ads-filled product search results are better, because at least they're honestly trying to sell you the product you are searching for rather than making fake comparison sites pretending to be genuine content.

In what universe can for-profit behavior be trusted or accepted at face value as genuine? Also, maybe I'm using it Wrong™, but I don't use general search engines to look for products. I'm not shopping all the time, so why should we be advertised to all the time? I use a blocker and aggressively eradicate ads from my experiences, precisely because they are useless to me, take up valuable screen real estate and bandwidth, and are security and privacy vulnerabilities.

It wasn't so bad back when it was just a JPG and a link, but the telemetry that gets baked into it is creepy as well. For-profit Internet behavior needs to rein in its snooping if it wants to gain trust.