skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I still gamed, I was one of the first people in my group to get an SSD. A few days later the game glitched the graphics card and I had to reboot. Restarted the machine, the game, voice chat, logged back in and playing again in just under 30 seconds.

That was kind of a big deal. I'd already had a 7200 rpm disk in my old machine and this was still hands down faster. I can't imagine going back to 5400.
Steam has built-in in-home streaming so you can play games on your beefy PC from anywhere in the house.
The pay gap doesn't exist.
> I have a theory that from now on, the candidate who wins the presidential election will be the one that generates the most advertising revenue for the media companies.

That's not actually a big change; Free media has always been powerful, and it's always been awarded based on the media’s business interests, mostly advertising dollars (except for outlets that are in the game to drive a specific agenda even when that involves sacrificing profit opportunities.)
So don't use floating points? You can use arbitrary precision math libraries.

If you devote enough memory, you can be much more precise with continuous values than an analog computer could ever hope to be. Frankly it wouldn't take much memory at all by modern standards though.
California is more enlightened and egalitarian than most other states in the country.

That's the narrative California tells itself. The reality is a bit more nuanced than that. The visible income inequality in the Bay Area puts me in mind of France before the revolution. (Another wine growing world power with world renowned culture and upper classes concerned with fripperies in the midst of incredible squalor.)
$400 for a current console and $60 or so for a recent game. Assuming you buy the next gen after 3 years or so there's quite a budget invested in the gamer's part - a streaming service at maybe $20/month that gives you access to recent titles doesn't look that bad in comparison.
This is a bit like being forced to buy health insurance and complaining when you don't get ill.

I'm not saying the deal was reasonable for your friend, I don't know the details or his life situation. But like security guards or insurers, unions aren't always in "active" mode.
>I read through the linked page and it's not totally clear to me why you can't just import directly from node_modules.

Bingo

This is why it doesn't fully pass the smell test for me
Google and friends would just open source their internal rewrites of projects which had been locked out.
> Which pod do I choose?

That is actually a great UX question. For federated services how do you think we best solve this? I mean everyone wants to just not pick one. But different loss suits people better in terms of location/interests/something else.

UX folks, what patterns would you suggest to help solve this?
That was not a political comment - merely remarking on the practicalities of dealing with large powerful organizations.

While some aspects of interacting with the IRS may be refreshingly easy compared to expectations, they are not setup to be universally so. See the steep after-the-fact penalties for getting some types of things wrong (as opposed to simply just preventing them in the first place), as well as the prohibitive fees associated with "private letter rulings".

Your appeal to the individual people working there is fallacious, as it would preclude any criticism of organizations as a whole. I have no doubt that the individuals working there are all trying to do a decent job, just as at Google. The problems are at higher levels of complexity. A program segfaulting is not an indictment of the transistors.
https://www.givero.com has the full range of DDG bangs - and shares its revenue with good causes.
In the history of the world, you don't think that's ever happened? I can think of quite a few places in tech and even a few in manufacturing which are fair and reasonable, IMO.
Was this person in their late teens / early 20s? Many people who have latent schizophrenia end up initially triggering it around this age via LSD - these people would have most likely triggered it eventually through stress.
Have you been though a recession yet :-)
Wasn't trying to be unbiased there and it's not especially relevant to the broader point—I just find the "I want to be free to keep punching myself in the face!" POV funny and couldn't resist a poke. As for evaluating statements, I evaluate everything with bias, of course. FWIW I'm pretty much single-issue on fixing our healthcare system until that's done, and only one viable party's even sort-of trying to do that. Anyway, the post that started this thread was written by one "mises" so I'm not worried about ruffling feathers—that was inevitable.

At any rate, the two-party thing's how our (the US's) system's structured. It stabilizes there. A third party replacing one of the big two, as has happened occasionally in the past, would assuredly acquire a good bit of distasteful cruft along the way. Effective political action revolves around trying to help a 3rd party replace one of them despite that likely outcome (and accepting an even smaller voice in policy than most voters have, in the meantime); participation in one of the big two parties themselves (much, much large effect than just voting in elections, though still usually tiny); or working to reform our system to break the two-party stability point. Or some combination of those things.
> This is not really true for SPA's, but I hope that's a trend that will eventually sizzle out again except for specialized cases.

I suspect we'll see the opposite, with people building desktop type applications and deploying through the browser (especially with the growth of wasm)
I certainly have. They were mostly the places where if you weren't perceived as the type who is willing to stay till 8PM a few nights a week peppered with the occasional weekend PR, you were relegated to the "poor work ethic" caste. Unions aren't perfect, but they certainly stomp out this type of abuse and force the company to either hire more people or pay fairer wages.
It's dystopian in the sense that nothing is actually owned anymore. I grew up collecting games and still collect them now, and for a ton of people (the average gamer is in their mid-30s, and that's a massive demographic) still likes to collect their games. They like a shelf of titles. Heck, even those who buy digital have little digital collections, and more power to 'em.

But paying a monthly fee and having my gaming time leased out to me by MegaCorp is not anything I'm interested in. I want to pick what I enjoy, buy it, and play it. I'm not crazy for thinking that way, collecting is part of the fun of gaming for me and many others.

Speaking of the 4G/5G, I cannot fathom a world where you can be on a subway underground and somehow have a perfect streaming connection. And subways are only in major cities - what about the rest of the entire country? The current infrastructure, heck, the infrastructure of 10 years from now isn't built to handle this kind of bandwidth for constant streaming. It's not even efficient - always-online services have been vilified by the gaming community, and now somehow we're celebrating being stuck on 1 TV, playing at home.

Sigh. I feel like this whole industry has left me behind, and nothing makes sense anymore.
Assuming that your disks, DB, CPUs and RAM were all ok, maybe you did not set up PiWik's jobs that are supposed to aggregate the metrics every XX hours/days... ?

https://matomo.org/docs/setup-auto-archiving/
I would recommend to do that. In Germany (depending where you are located and the school ) I even could keep my job and just extend the study time to about double the regular time.
I didn’t learn a lot of new stuff but I was „forced“ to repeat and relearn a lot I wasn’t using in a long time (math, proofs, low level electronics in my case).
Doing that didn’t change a lot regarding my income but helped me to reflect on my daily work.
It feels a little bit weird to be one of the oldest in the lecture though.

Edit: Education is pretty much free here, the only thing you’ll have to spend is your time.
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Safe to say this is only possible with default/official AMIs?
Louis Brandeis had similar beliefs. Leisure was important for workers and his battles against the monopolies of the day were often focused on this belief. Though his focus was on self-growth and learning in the leisure time provided.
Hi there are dozens of us using Google Cloud. We’re using it for a variety of NLP work alongside on prem systems. Fun stuff.
If you think they were "given space", read up on the history of the labor movement in the US.

IATSE Local 728 has an article about their own history that doesn't gloss over the bad stuff.[1]

[1] https://www.iatse728.org/about-us/history/the-war-for-warner...
Its a good thought, but you're excluding ~15% of all web users[0] from using your product.

[0] https://caniuse.com/#feat=es6-module
Grindy games like classic WoW? Sign me right up.
Choosing not support or engage with such an ethically compromised platform is a solution.

Why do we carry around this mentality that everything can just be fixed? When did the idea of "maybe X thing shouldn't exist in our society" become such a foreign idea?

Facebook is only valuable because people use it.
Yes, this is true. But Falun Gong does not become less of a cult, whether you agree with the official Chinese opinion about them or not. They have a lot of weird beliefs: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Falun_Gong . And they are persecuted by Chinese government. Both facts are pretty much true, I think.
Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-pay-apple-12-billion-1...

Apparently it's a Goldman Sachs estimate. The last time that number was explicitly listed (in court filings) was $1B in 2014. The more apt metric would be what YouTube pays for original content, though I've only seen estimates/projections (a "few hundred million"):

https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/23/youtube-red-original-pro...
In most US areas everything is on the MLS (a central listing source that all brokers use), so it's actually even easier: Zillow and Redfin both hook into it and make it easy.

Mostly I think the house finding part of it is kinda easy: I think the bigger value is having someone "on your team" who can help you understand value / issues to watch for / etc.
To be fair, Chinese propaganda comes off as heavy-handed to a Western audience, FG is putting on a propaganda show for literal survival, and FG has received the treatment which happens to "bad" groups of people. FG is a nutty cult, but (in my opinion) dont deserve to get organ harvested for belonging to a cult. Other "bad" groups might be Uyghurs now, Hui 5 years in the future, "intellectuals" fifty years ago, and lots more. The quote about "first they came for the Jews, and I was silent because I was not one" comes to mind.
And a clear downgrade from "us and them vs our actual competition"
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I ordered close to $180 worth of shirts from GitHub's shop on 03/08/2019. They charged my card almost instantly, and now 11 days later, I have not received a tracking number or any information on my order. I've emailed them multiple times and have received no response. In addition, I'm traveling for two weeks in a few days and if they do ship my order, it looks like it will be stolen from my doorstep...
I'm sorry but suggesting a 5-6 hour commute round-trip, even once a week, is absolutely not a reasonable solution.
Still, even if a home appraises for 25% less than it otherwise should, that's still a vastly better compensation scheme than our current system.
Responsible people did report it to the proper authorities, which is not Facebook.
Reporting it to Facebook so they can take it down and prevent people from knowing what is happening is not responsible.
> 'too computationally expensive for machine learning/big data world'

But not for normal-sized datasets...

I've noticed a shift in the past year where (new?) people are thinking ML is synonymous wth NN/Deep Learning models.

To me ML has always encompassed statistical learning techniques, most of which work very well on normal-sized datasets (thousand to a million rows, definitions differ). Most classical/statistical methods work just fine at this scale, including the method in the linked article.

Lately I've also been thinking: given certain patterns of regularity in data, and outside of certain domains involving images/sound/language, we don't really need large-scale datasets to train our models. Good models can be trained on carefully selected samples without significant loss of fidelity, which opens up the scope of the types of models that can be deployed.
I wasn't speaking of my specific experience[], rather I was guessing what might lead to profound moments while under the influence.

"Water is wet" isn't the realization in what I'm hypothesizing, but could be a spark of an idea that sets of a chain reaction of tangentially related concepts that seem to make a whole lot of sense as a whole and impart feelings of great beauty to one who is high and might inspire that person to write down the "big bang" of their experience, if you will. So, someone writing "water is wet" is writing the map, not the treasure.

Maybe?

[]I've done mushrooms once and it was mostly a horrifying, traumatic experience. The drive home during sunrise with my car's radio set to the local classical station playing choral music felt particularly affecting, though.
It's just not realistic to expect the level of dedication from supporters making manual monthly donations that it would take to match what automatic pledges accomplish.
Thats US today.
Seems asked and answered to me:

> What do you suggest at this point?

> I truly believe the absolute best thing FB could do for society would be to dissolve, but that's not realistic.

I take 'not realistic' to mean that it's not going to happen, which is accurate.
None of these things applied to him. He did not get medical or dental benefits because he was employed there for less time than their minimum to begin receiving benefits (or maybe he had just qualified when his teaching license finally got through? I can't remember now). Membership was mandatory for employment, so anyone who works there part-time for less than whatever the minimum amount of time to receive benefits is (six months or a year I think?) is literally paying money to a union that will do nothing for someone who shows up to work, does what he's paid to do, and goes home without incident. It's like a mandatory tax on temporary hires that benefits long-term hires that means temporary hires make less than minimum wage as a result! EDIT: Oh and I forgot, they also took a fat chunk of his first paycheck as an additional fee, too.

Previously my friend and I had both worked at various Walmart stores in our home state and not only were we paid above minimum wage starting salary, but there were no hidden mandatory fees of any kind. I know Walmart's famously anti-union to the point of absurdity (the propaganda in the training materials is outright laughable), but from the point of view of a couple of young guys looking to work part-time at a grocery store, Walmart treated us both far better than Kroger treated him, and without unions.
Or if you allow all family members to stay logged on with their apps running like we do, you can upgrade to 16GB or 32GB. :)

I bought an iMac a couple years ago because at the time it was the only consumer level Mac being sold new where you could upgrade the RAM yourself.
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Yup. We're going where the puck is going.
A slew of what you mentioned is the responsibility of the closing office and attorney. Your real estate agent is not our there verifying deeds, ownership interests, liens, titlework, or insurance. They have real estate attorney/title offices they generally work with, you always have a choice and generally the spend is the same.

The best bang for your buck buying/selling is choosing a great closing office. Even boutique ones tend to be within a margin of cheap ones and their the people making sure everything will be smooth, from loan closing to property transfer.
I enjoyed when the presenter said "there is basically no hardware acceleration on [the Pixelbook] whatsoever." Roasted.
It’s unfortunate that you forgot to mention that these indie oss developers are highly sought after for independent contract work or direct hire positions. Open Source software was never meant to pay the bills of open source developers, it was meant to open source code to the public and allow free use. To somehow read this narrative that indie developers are losing because others profit from their work is facile and not helpful.
The problem is that the "cost of doing it themselves" for OSS is downloading and building your source, whereas for proprietary software, it's the cost of writing it.
> That’s what we think the world should be like, but we all know it isn’t. You can’t make a living making music. Or art. You can’t even make a living taking care of children. I think this underlies many of this moment’s critiques of capitalism: there’s too many things that are important, even needed, or that fulfill us more than any profitable item, and yet are economically unsustainable.

Great quote; tucking it away for later. This is why democratic socialism is essential. Money is a lossy codec for true value.
There's a difference between having a monopoly and being the best product in the market.
> tradeoffs

lag is the least of your worries. Encoding artifacts will get to you and completely ruin the experience on anything that is not a simple puzzle game.
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I'd like the option to disable checking for updates back, please.
What about on a plane? I get quite a bit switch play in on flights.
> That's the point, "us vs them" is pretty good upgrade from "me vs them"

But a huge step down from "Us"
Still, always-online connections are still subject to typical tech issues. We're not living in the world of Ready Player One, and the country is extremely spread out. Add to the fact that a few mega corps own all the infrastructure in the country and for business reasons don't want to spend a dime, and I don't really see how any of this is possible, or even practical.

In other words, we have the technology (and it'll get better, I mean) to have handheld gaming devices. Even if they are digital only, it's extremely inefficient to generate video hundreds/thousands of miles away and beam it down to a device.

To me, this sounds like mailing a letter to your next door neighbor, going through the entire US Postal system, vs. just walking over and putting the envelope in their mailbox.
Bear in mind that Niantic (company behind Pokemon Go) was originally an incubated project within Google. So they have plenty of reasons to stick with GCP for the hosting. As for Snapchat they were originally on Google App Engine so that incentivised them to stick with the platform as well. But for new companies starting today it'd be a tough sell to use most of GCP.
Open source software is like oxygen, big companies can burn really big fires and individuals can light their candle with it. We are all responsible for replenishing the oxygen in the air by planting trees. If the oxygen dies, so do the fires. Likewise companies have pinned their futures on OSS. They are investing.

Edit: please downvote me dogmatic stallman types
There's a lot more kids who grow up wanting to be animators than there are animation jobs, and yet they have a successful union.
On first glance, looks like a decentralized Instagram.

A couple of questions:

- What is the business model? If millions of people are on this and there's no ads/monetization -- how is the service covering costs?

- If people had to pay, then it might limit adoption, how are you going to handle that?

- How are you guys thinking about support, monitoring content (removing illegal/copyrighted content)
> Run twice as many cal trains.

My understanding of this is that CalTrain is already running at capacity. Trains are, essentially, back to back. Part of the electrification project is that the electric engines should have better acceleration than the current diesel ones, allowing tighter packing of trains on the tracks. (And thus, more trains, and thus, more capacity.)

We really, IMO, need 4 rails from SF to SJ, but if Atherton doesn't want to give up a few trees, I can only imagine the hell that would get raised for more space. That, and funding.

> Bury five of the crossings.

AIUI, Mountain View considered this (grade separation) w/ the Castro/Moffett/Central intersection, but decided against it, opting instead for simple removing the crossing. (The wrong decision, IMO. I'd bury the train, but I think the (canned) plan was to bury the road, as it would be less disruptive.)
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It's a ton of work to start a union, one that can and has absolutely cost people their jobs, both historically and recently. It seems unlikely that it's just "lefty political signalling". Perhaps you can point to specific reasons why you think this is the case?

Furthermore, articles published on this topic indicate that their motivations included well-established and reasonable on-call hours, slightly more vacation days, and more collaborative decision making with management. All of those are real, tangible benefits that most of us would value and enjoy.
It should be noted that this video has been rated the video as 'objectionable', a technical term making it illegal to share, possess or distribute.

Note that NZ law is written so that this means it was always in this state from its creation (not just from the point of classification).

People found doing so could face up to 14 years in prison and/or a $10,000 fine, there's already one person in jail for doing this.

NZ ISPs are blocking the IP addresses of websites that are hosting this video.
I agree that updating tech stack can be expensive and sometimes not worth it. Being on the bleeding edge isn't a great idea for a business use case. You have to draw the line somewhere. I do think that the line is drawn very well ahead of analog computers though.

I think that this guy is using the analog computer because he's an enthusiast. That's fine. It's not better by any means other than making an employee happy.
Putting/letting Jony Ive on designing the new campus is one of the dumbest things Apple has done. Effectively dereliction of duty.

Now that he's back on task, I'm holding my breath that there are some mea culpas in the next round of hardware updates. If there aren't some significant quality improvements I'll probably still get a new laptop, but I'll be selling my shares.
It means that the union can't (eg) control supply by limiting union membership.
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Whose competition? Other companies are not employee's competition, they are potential places to work. They only compete with the company, not the employees.
Exactly. Or underground on a subway. Or in a bus next to a mountain. Or in a very congested area with tons of people on their phones dragging on the network. Or in a building that blocks service.

Every day of my life I am in all of those above situations, and I almost exclusively game on the go, either on my Vita or Switch.

5G doesn't make these problems just vanish, the US is a massive country and the middle of the mountains just won't have 60fps streaming capabilities in 5 years, it just won't. Why would any company want to spend the money on that infrastructure outside of a few major cities?
I've been known to boycott companies for political actions I don't like. It is much easier to boycott when there is an option down the street that is otherwise equal.

Switching jobs is harder: could you be working for a different company tomorrow, or would it take a few weeks to figure out. Switching unions is often impossible: the same union often covers everyone with the same skills.