skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument of advertisers is not that people want to be tracked by default. It is that they don't care. DNT had a chance to proof otherwise. But "enabled by default" means that the browsers care, not (necessarily) the users.
Google's is OK but it's still not as good as a being able to grep a directory full of files, where each file contains a thread or message or whatever.
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I pretty often find myself searching <keywords> + forum. Seems to work reasonably well.
how wary of conflict for their own self preservation?
But this is not the original Web nor indeed what the Web was designed for at all. But it is cool and better than newsgroups I suppose.
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There's plenty of explanation of https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... if you want to understand why we make a big deal about this on HN.
Voting with your wallet is a good start. In the EU there are strict requirements on what can be labeled ecological, including the use of the EU ecolabel. I believe the US has similar labelling.

If you local supermarket doesn't have a suitable stock of ecological supplies, write to them and ask for some, or start shopping at an organic shop.
I don't think it is? most drivers I've asked have used both uber and lyft and would switch for special incentives; I know a lot of passengers who only use lyft because of the bad reputation uber has, but of the uber riders, most of them also have lyft, and switch based on incentives.

I mean, you need a critical mass in a short period of time within an area, but that's just a matter of throwing money at the problem, and there's no reason you couldn't be a perfectly reasonable regional player in this game.

I mean, of course, at current prices, where margins are all but negative, that requires a lot of money; but in an environment where uber charged enough to have a healthy, profitable business? whenever the uber margins started to climb, you'd see regional competitors popping up.

I mean, that's just my guess. We don't know, because we haven't seen a high margin ride sharing pricing scheme, not after uber made it clear that companies didn't need to follow taxi regulations.
Here I am on Brave browser and most of those tricky hacks are not possible. I don't know why everyone doesn't use it.
And if you read this survey you will see that the increase in rides is because TNC's make for better mobility options than current public transport. That suggests that there is a problem with current public transport (In America) and not with TNCs.
Nothing. The event horizon is an absolute limit on observability and literally means “the threshold beyond which nothing ever happens”.
> Employees who had moved from Sweden were unaccustomed to San Francisco’s homelessness crisis

“Eat your food because there are starving children in America”
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It reminded me of this: https://earthjustice.org/blog/2015-july/how-wolves-saved-the... - how wolves changed rivers and saved national Park. If I'm correct, it was on HN a long time ago, but a different source
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I never liked the description of gaming as addictive, especially multiplayer games — I think its more of a special case of socialization with certain properties that naturally lend to poor outcomes

Its really not that difficult to spend 8 hours talking to a group of friends, especially when an activity is involved (book clubs, board game nights, hanging out, etc). There are two major limitations: external responsibilities break up the group, and eventually you get bored of the people/activity. An extra one that appears in things like sports is that you eventually get tired. If you didn’t, you could probably find groups playing soccer for a week straight and still enjoying it...

External responsibilities don’t really exist in any major form for kids.

Getting bored of a group of people in multiplayer games is trivially fixed: there’s almost no cost to finding another group, or having multiple simultaneously.

Getting physically tired doesn’t occur quickly with games: after about 5-8 hours my eyes/head start to hurt, but I’m a-ok after a night’s rest. Any weak member of your group is trivially replaced by point #2.

So the fatal flaw is the activity... and ofc thats where games have always optimized for — remaining engaging over long durations. But all hobbies naturally optimize for this (else they wouldn’t really be hobbies!)

Which all leads to it being really easy to stay on a game all day long, without being “addicted” to it.

At least, that was my experience. Put some 1k hrs into league of legends per year when I was younger... but the day I dropped it, I dropped it without a second’s hesitation. No withdrawal or anything, I was simply finished with it (half the reason I played it so much is that I had few RL friends, so activity-wise I didn’t have anything better to do, and socialization-wise, that was where all my friends were).

I think the common case is very similar to friends made over sports, but video games have properties that lend themselves to addiction-like behavior without actually creating an actual dependency.
Im not talking about a onesided network effect. Im talking about indirect network effect concerning a two-sided market.

If more of your friends use Uber than Lyft, that suggests that there are more customers on Uber.

This means Uber is more valuable for the drivers as a platform.

This means more drivers will driver for Uber.

This means Uber has better availability.

This means Uber is more valuable to customers.
Right. That's what you get when you build a 3D printer like a CNC machine. Titan takes in pellets directly, rather than bothering with filament. They probably use a heating system and drive screw like an injection molding machine. They can print with more plastics than filament printers. They end up with a lot of moving mass on the print head, but that's what big motors and controllers are for. The Titan unit uses 14KW of power.

I'd once considered heating the surface to which you are bonding with a laser, just ahead of the extruder, so you weld hot surface to hot surface, not hot surface to cold surface. That's why filament type 3D printers make such weak joints between layers.
I'll be sure to tell my 69 year old father to "keep his meatspace stuff compartmentalized" and just go ahead and subscribe to several "different VPNs" so that he'll be able to fire up "multiple VM's" when he doesn't want to be tracked. Easy right? Piece of cake.

Give me a break.
Which doesn't necessarily indicate that they would drive 50/50 for both. It might be closer to 80/20 easily.
After Brexit I can only see practices like this increasing in the UK. A lot of the farm work is done by immigrants, because natives don't want to do the work. People aren't going to pay more for food, so the wages can't go up, meaning more 'efficient' farming practices will be used.
And what happens when they finally evaporate due to Hawking Radiation?

With our current theories such questions are nigh intractable.
I am actually guilty of this- I'm trying to overcome my fear of being more friendly at work. I'm seen as the serious guy who doesn't talk to anyone (outside of work-related matters). The result of me not being more social for 10 years since college means that I don't really get contacted by colleagues, and I always have to go in cold with a new job. I don't have any "voucher" people.

TBH the whole thing about getting ahead more easily to jobs through common friends, man does it remind me of nightclubs. I don't care about having a personal entourage, but the industry seems to be forcing me to. I'm just trying to live a happy career and life without needing to be popular and stuff.

And while I do have friends I've made in high school, they're a small group and they've never given me good leads. I don't generally see them as people I rely on for jobs. They're in totally different work fields and the kind of people who can't tell programmers apart from IT.

Why wasn't building a good network second nature with me, I don't know. But want to know why I don't have the intuition, and how to fix that.
Ditto for Allwinner and other Chinese ARM licensees. They buy the majority of IP blocks from ARM and perhaps a HDMI PHY & WiFi chip from some small company (also not Chinese) cause its cheaper, send the mostly vanilla design to TSMC, and when it doesn't work immediately run back to ARM asking them to fix it (which they do).

Apple & Qualcomm comparatively tweak or redesign most of the IP they license from ARM, which is what gives them such a significant performance advantage over the 300 other ARM licensees.

Another example of this is AMD's recent JV in China, essentially passing a holding company the IP to build an original Zen core. While this is sketchy AF, I think we can expect brutal embargoes if China attempts to sell these chips outside their domestic market, and despite having a year and a half to improve Zen, it appears Dhyana is nearly identical to Zen.

Meanwhile Zen 2 has already started sampling in useful quantities on a newer process node that Chinese foundries likely won't replicate anytime soon, seeing as Global Foundries gave up, Intel is running years behind and massively over budget, with TSMC having the only working sub-14nm process. Even if AMD licenses this architecture, it will take years (even with process theft from TSMC) to make those chips on 7nm in China.
I guess it depends on the price GM is asking for. The problem is that this news item itself increased the selling price probably significantly, as it's harder for Elon to say no to buying.
Whatever the case, the exit-ramps are there at every stage and every moment until you do it. To play this as some kind of rolling ball that couldn't be stopped strains logic and seems basically counterfactual.
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Would you say the same for regular physical playtime? Or would you let your kids go outside and play/socialize anytime, as long as they had nothing else of more immediate importance? Why would video games be different?
Well then I must be doing it wrong because all I want to do after work is relax and not talk to anyone and sometimes play video games. I still want to be recognized for the work that I do but apparently that's not enough.

Maybe I have Asperger's or something else, but this whole thing about relying on connections to get jobs more easily doesn't come naturally to me.
I second Witness. Quern is also good, probably closest game to Myst you can ever find : https://store.steampowered.com/app/512790/Quern__Undying_Tho...
> Personally I like to show people a piece of code from a big system they've never seen and let them walk me through what it does and what they would change to make it work better.

This could be the first coding interview style that actually makes sense to me
Because it's an externality, no company will take on an externality willingly
Interesting question.

I did some terms in the board for our cooperative housing association (Sweden). The association signed up for a web hosting account. The association paid for the account but a private person had to own the account, which had all the access.

Changing the owner - even if the association paid the bills - was a big hassle and not easy. The hosting company where/are pretty strict about this.

Hence, the everyone in the OPs story made bad choices.
That launch is already considered an innovative turning point.

What he shows is basically what exists now in phone tech (apps, good internet, GPS...), and it's the same only-screen device (today's are equal, only larger). And it's now owned by more than 2 billion people.

I know Jobs was seen (probably correctly) as a jerk. But this was such a huge achievement that I can't help admiring it.
Badly written (lacks basic proofreading!) and has elements of utter bullshit, like this:

"A Ruger revolver was said to have been recovered at the site an hour or so later... The Ruger had an empty magazine and it was not in the lockback position, indicating it had not been recently fired."

Whether or not the slide is back says nothing about how recently a gun was fired.

But the more basic problem with this account is that revolvers don't have magazines. Or slides. And they don't eject shell casings automatically.

The ShotSpotter bullshit doesn't surprise me at all. They make their money on politics, not science. I don't know of a single case where ShotSpotter data made the case for a conviction anywhere.
I really miss those old forums. There was one phpBB forum for my bumfuck nowhere town's music scene that I really loved. I made a lot of friends there that I still talk to 15 years later.

The internet now is so much more 'global' but also so much more bland at the same time. Someone tried to resurrect the music scene website as a facebook group but it floundered.

My theory about that failure was that there were no trolls and flamewars to keep it interesting. The kind of trolling where you might actually see the guy at a bar a couple weeks later and admit that, "yeah, that was actually pretty hilarious".

I think trolling in general is actually useful in some context. It's absurdist and the best troll copypasta is by definition funny, otherwise people wouldn't keep copying it.
My takeaway from that is it’s basically Go’s Stringer() but with a default method so even objects without String method can still return a string.

Quite a few languages have that kind of feature though I believe. PHP has print_r and var_dump, Perl 5 had Data::Dumper, Python has tools too which I forget the name of.

I like how Perl 6 has baked it into the language though rather than making it a part of the standard library.
Exactely! I still occasionally play Dune I (say, once in two years) and set some new goals for each game: top the spice production record, win the game in shortest period of in-game days, find previously unknown caves...
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If someone from fair is around, what does this mean for caffe2 ? Is the new torch c++ API a form a replacement for caffe?
I really want to play something like this in VR. PSVR’s resolution is too low for me so I recently bought an Oculus Go. Great device but I can’t find anything Myst-like. Any recommendations?
One idea would be to use something like Grafana or Superset, but you'd still need an ETL pipeline behind everything.
Yes, state action on this is likely to occur first, and it should definitely be done sooner rather than later. State law commonly templates federal law, as it has historically done with mileage standards, the ACA, etc. Get this done in CA, NY, and MA, where it's politically viable.
Einstein-Cartan Theory (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Cartan_theo...) introduces a torsion term to General Relativity’s field equations that is not incompatible with observations and provides both an avenue for explaining the cosmological constant (https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01128) and “big bounce” motivation for the beginning of our current universal epoch (https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.06074).
Digital nomads.. it works for short term I think. But this is why I’m opening my own business in Hong Kong. At least then, I have a business and an account that clients can pay me through. And I’ll open a rep office in Taiwan, which is where I’ll live. Yes I have to report everything to the US IRS, including my own income. But I won’t be double taxed, I stay legal with local laws, and I can still work remotely.

Just takes more effort. Anyone can do it, as long as you make enough money. And it’s worth it in the long run.
Yeah everyone thinks it is a bubble. Investment in anything other than stocks gives you pretty much no return at the moment so everyone is pouring their money into the stock market, possibly resulting in crazy valuations.
ARM was founded as a joint venture of Apple and VLSI. And Apple was the very first client and used an ARM processor in the Newton—the grandfather of the iPhone. So it makes a lot of sense to describe the ARM1 as an ancestor of the iphone’s processor today.
Wonder why they still look at trivial problems, like playing limited games or doing analytical static research problems, but not solving current dynamic realworld problems, like e.g. driving cars, directing traffic control, ...
When I was younger I had similar experiences with customers who ghosted when their needs to be paid. The lesson I learned is to make sure you keep control over your code / env until the customer has paid. I implemented some mechanism in my sites that when they ghosted me, I just did a special api call which cleared the database and showed in big letters that this website was stolen. Suddenly there is contact again.
But the snowflake doesn't know that it is falling on a mountain slope.
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Elon Musk: Tesla 'would be interested' in GM's idled factories
That's the thing, I think it's exciting because that researcher does believe it to be testable. My comment from the last negative mass thread:

My favorite bit from the author on Twitter: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1070302359325151233.html
> The next-generation radio telescope - the Square Kilometre Array @SKA_telescope will be able to test this theory, and directly confirm or invalidate its predictions. 13/17 It is rather surprising that the model predicts the properties of a LambdaCDM universe.

As a casual observer this is is what gets me excited! We'll get our answers one way or another
Exactly, thus far China doesn't have the technology to do sub-14nm foundry work at any notable scale, and as we saw with Dhyana, they apparently don't have the internal talent to improve AMD's Zen cores. The foundry issue isn't apt to change anytime soon, as newer nodes are extremely expensive and take years to bring up (see Global Foundries & Intel's troubles with newer processes).
Maybe he could leverage it the other way. He could say that Tesla is willing to save the factory but the evil GM, who previously saw no value in the factory and was going to close it, now wants an outrageous price. Tesla should be able to get it for a fire sale price.
(An account of how USA codebreakers verified that Midway was the next target of the Japanese navy in WW2.)
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There's another recent topic here from someone else, on asking how to get a job while you have a job. And some of the replies suggest he has similar problems I do which comes around to my struggles in my career.

I almost always apply to jobs cold. Go online, through the filter of unwashed masses. Then eventually I learned that referrals get you on the short list to interviews.

Someone who mocked interviewed me told me what was wrong with my approach. Generally speaking I meander too much when I talk. I hope to have another mock session with him again. We actually scheduled four of them, one week after another, but he only had time to do the first one. The rest of the schedule was postponed indefinitely because too busy to do them (because of work). No wonder finding interview help from professionals is hard, even in person.
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Not to be trollish, but is anyone actually using Perl 6 for more than just for kicks? It is a super interesting language, but has it been battle tested over the years similar to Perl 5?
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And Estonia is also very cold...
Given that "uni" means one, what could "universes" even mean?
Living in Michigan as much as I think this is great news I'm pretty certain Musk would chose either Windsor (Canada) or Cleveland plants over the Detroit one.

There are two reasons for this happening:

1. Why would Musk add to his investment in Michigan, a state where he cannot sell his cars? Tesla already owns a tool and die shop in Grand Rapids.

2. Even though Michigan is now a right to work state the current Governor-elect has said she wants to reverse this law. Musk has always been anti-union and there is no place harder to do that than in Detroit where the United Auto Workers is located

It's my personal opinion that the Canadian government would make Musk an offer with government subsidies that neither Michigan nor Ohio could match. Unless President Trump who famously promised Detroit he'd help during the election steps up with federal subsidies.
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Duke Nukem Forever jokes, really? Look, Perl 6 can either be a "crazy complex" language that is "over-designed" and "hard to read", or it can some sort of toy with laughable complexity (your supposition is that Perl 6 is to elite programmers as Duke Nukem Forever is to elite gamers).

So which is it? Complex enough for only elites to grasp? Or just some toy language with no real capabilities, let alone unique features of interest to elite programmers?
Just to clarify, you mean it's a future singularity in the entropy sense, or in some other sense?
... or I could just start doing that, yes.

But seriously, thanks for saving me from my own idiocy.
> Are you implying that Europeans can't see through propaganda? That, somehow, only Americans have this gift?

I’m saying reality is a hell of an antidote to propaganda.

I’m certain French people are far better at recognizing biased and misleading reporting concerning France than I am.
Thanks for pointing out this Python similarity!
We must be living inside a black hole.
Taking a page out of the Gavin Belson book? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XE5m_meLVw
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And the bar exams are just another "has a college degree" filter too, but they've been proven to work as a useful metric, and they are overseen by an association of professionals. And legal knowledge is way more open-ended than software knowledge, with far more subtleties in its practice. Yet. The bar exam somehow works.

>Why can't we have some sort licensing board like a medical board so that you prove you can code

Too many software developers have a strong aversion to regulatory bodies in their own profession. That really is the issue here.
I never said they're dead or dying. They're losing relevance because they're losing their dominant (monopolist) market position (Windows and Office).

If Intel loses their dominant monopolist market position in the processor market but stays relevant in e.g. the GPU, network card, SSD, and what have you business then I (from my consumer PoV not paying too much plus ethical PoV) am happy. But the shareholders would gain far more from a dominant monopolist market position...
Really, it's time we started to reevaluate the whole "limited liability" thing. There's been numerous examples of people who start businesses, run too close to the wind, and then push the cost onto their suppliers, customers and employees (rather than the investors, who morally should wear the cost as they will be recieving the gains).
Did they eat your sense of humour too?
Help I'm trapped inside a universe factory!
Tangential: what corresponding labels or certifications are there in the US and are they in any way government backed like the EU Ecolabel?
By objective measures, the US is by far the most corrupt nation in the world. China aspires to the title, and may get it, and Russia dreams of it, but just doesn't have the volume to match us..

We don't like to think so, but consider: did anybody get charged with fraud over the crash of 2008? Why not? We have laws on the books making what everyone did a writhing, toxic mass of felonies.
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I just realized I lost my twitter name. It was transfered to a media company. I hold a trademark on the nick too, in a different category but Twitter seems to transfer names easily if a big company asks.