skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't that also contradict the biological imperative to pass on our genes? If having children had an overall and prolonged negative impact on your stress levels, it would also impede humans' ability to effectively procreate since stress has a direct impact on life expectancy and fertility. I can understand that in the short-term, that might be the case, but over a longer period (say the last 10k years) it does not appear to be true.
There is also the thought that it is more likely the creator is dead than someone who gave up being world famous as well as 20 billion dollars.
>> Are we sitting in a ball on some gigantic alien's coffee table?

sometimes I have the same question but quite opposite. What if there are miniscule worlds right on our coffee table.
Without the $10 subscription you have to buy each game and it runs on 1080p?
It seems like Google exploded pretty quickly, so I bet there were a lot of disconnected apps being developed at the same time. I think as they continue growing they realize that some apps duplicate features, or have features that may be better served from other, bigger apps (in this case, maps may be better suited for some of trips' features).

I worked at Intuit for a bit, and with only a handful of products they were experiencing the same thing. I can only imagine trying to coordinate so many teams across such an enormous organization.
One thing to keep in mind is city-journal.org / manhattan institute is a conservative think-tank (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Institute_for_Policy... ).

The author makes a lot of fair points I agree with but doesn't go into the positive situations - the change where people may have more ability now to get out of toxic families (or at least distance themselves), questioning how we can move beyond just religious congregations of community (perhaps congregation more around bioregionalism?). Or if awareness of resource limitations in the future may be causing less developed-world birth than earlier.

Finally, to quote David Chapman - ""Just as there are mental states only possible in crowds, there are mental states only possible in privacy."

Loneliness epidemic—or a golden age of privacy?"

https://mobile.twitter.com/Meaningness/status/97139760655443...
You are right, they don't care. If they did, someone would take their place. It's a system, not a conspiracy.

But an Ivy graduated person is a class of person that is highly committed to the system. There's a massive effort a whole family has to make for someone to be there.

If success is based on capturing the most market share the quickest so you can corner the market and extract value via monopolistic methods, then why go with anyone who could be a risk?

Edit: Re who is the aristocracy? There is no exact line. Society works on a gradient of privilege, from those who have access to resources with the least effort, to those who have access to resources with the most effort. This always happens. But I believe it is aggravated when money doesn't cost anything to produce because risk is then more important than reward.
Maybe he used a prepaid card for the domain and a different one for the VPN (which doesn't log), or maybe he did everything through TOR. Not hard to be untraceable for someone capable of inventing Bitcoin.
There's no denying the underlying idea is big, the question is can Google actually penetrate the market, or have the grit to see it through when adoption is low in the beginning. I'm betting no, but we'll have to wait and see.
OnLive tried this, failed, and got acquishutdown by Sony: https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/2/8337955/sony-buys-onlive-o...

Other players who could do this fairly naturally are Valve (steam link) and Nvidia themselves.
> and have growing anti-intellectual culture.

From this thread, it would appear to be baked-in as a function of self-selection.

One might argue intellectuals have an obligation to procreate.
The problem is that Microsoft can't really be taken seriously in the gaming market, or in any consumer space where they might have good or great products but little to zero traction, and Sony doesn't have the network infrastructure.
Check out Fast.com. If your loaded latency numbers are high, it's possible you won't do well with Stadia.

The best test is going to be using it. There are too many factors to have a good predictive test.
Technically we can. We just can't do it (currently) without ruining the living standards for 90% of the world's population.
Where is this? There's no where in the US where you can't get a job as a pharmacist. No where. Retails are needed very much so, you have to stand and it pays really freaking well, except it's hard to cross over into other types. Again, in the USA, in any state in this country, working full time, at the very worse, you will make $90k/yr as a pharmacist.
I am not sure how you come to that conclusion without knowing more details. What if the couples truly love each other and enjoy each other's company. What if they share looking after children thus having time for themselves and each other. There might be people who have good jobs are able to travel but hate their jobs, are lonely and don't like their spouse.
I think zero tolerance on both parties plays a large part into this.

I was mercilessly bullied in elementary school until I attacked my bully at recess in 6th grade. I’m almost 40 now and it still stands out as a pivotal moment in my growth into an adult. That one action stopped the behavior for good and I wasn’t severely punished for it. It also settled down the kid who bullied me.

I know now that schools can punish victims as severely as the bully, and I think it exacerbates the problem instead of fixing it. The bullies incentives don’t change, but the victim of it has substantially more to fear. Not only from the bully, but the institution itself if they fight back or get goaded into the confrontation.

Frankly, let the children fight it out and allow an environment to develop where children don’t tolerate the behavior and work on conflict resolution themselves.

Overt surveillance by adults isn’t a fix for it, nor is allowing it to develop to a point where a kid brings a gun to school to fix it themselves.

We’ve lost healthy conflict resolution in this country, and yes, physical fighting can be a healthy outlet to solve it.
I believe what you described is called 'survivor bias'.
Dataclasses and Attrs: When and Why
Microsoft Xbox persevered only because of Microsoft's deep pockets not because they necessarily did anything different enough to attract gamers. It was not a successful console.
How does it work with parameterized filtering, time intelligence, etc ? Does the user have to modify the script or can they do it through point and click UI.
> It's this postmodern view of the world where humanity is somehow separate from nature and must be controlled to protect nature.

The viewpoint that really puts humanity as separate from nature is the one that assumes that the planet can support an unlimited quantity of humans without obliterating nature in the process. How many people do you think the earth can support? 10 billion? 15 billion? At some point we're going to hit a wall. But, thanks to technology, long before we hit that wall most of the plants and animals we take for granted today will be gone.

If we want to preserve a fraction of the biodiversity we have today, at some point soon the human population of the planet will have to stop growing. People who don't have kids are making the rational, forward-looking choice as far as I'm concerned.
It's a form of prisoners dilemma. "Cooperating" with traditional society meant being a single-income couple. "Defecting" is being a dual-income couple. Once enough couples start defecting, they're so much more competitive that other couples have to defect to survive.
That... would be the marketing team for you. We do spend quite a bit of our time adding stuff that I don't think I've seen anywhere else but is extremely useful for some of our biggest clients.
show me a country that suffers from loneliness, i will show you a country that has over 30% net tax burden on the individual, and where currency value is so destroyed that most couples cannot reasonably retire without both having to work for their entire adult lives.

Simply put, we work more to pay more to the man. And our children and grandparents pay the price, via daycares, retirement homes, and to opioids
This is one of the reason I married into a (liberal) middle eastern family: while we have enough room for our own when we need it, the traditional family ties are so strong that it is impossible to get sick from loneliness. I'd rather be stressed from too many people around me than being alone, western style.
Ha! If it's roomy, plus 92 atmospheres (plus hot acid clouds!)
Opinion vs opinion driven by marketing. At the end of the day, the mom who chose to breast feed her baby using formula will argue that breast milk lack essential nutrients as opposed to scientifically researched formula and and the cross-fit practitioner will tell you their regime is safe and sound for the human body. Who wins at the end of the day? Me. The one selling you the dream with frequently purchased items such as products and services to improve your chosen lifestyle.

Solution? Build a family that consists of blood relation and friends that are not fickle like your aunt Judy. People who can show genuine support and encouragement when you talk to them about life. If the "family" doesn't show goodwill, boot them. You want absolute loyalty. Fuck high school drama.

Otherwise, you will grow old, grumpy and lonely like your uncle Jerry. Mom and dad are dead; best friend settled down with a family; old Henry broke off with you; and a trip to the Land of Smiles isn't so happy anymore when no one visits you, but elementary kids during their field trips to your retirement home.

Jokes aside, have a family or don't. People like me are the real winners...you're just a by-product of our secret marketing. With that said, how do you feel about our latest product we know can improve your lifestyle immediately without any side effects in less than 7 days for as little as $0.25 a day (ps: your friend probably uses it too, no wonder he's always better than you).
It's very doable, but sadly even skilled management (in my experience) tends to avoid / flee support organizations due to their low prestige / resources pattern that is across a lot of industries.

I fear it is something very doable, but I'm not sure there are many in leadership that can.
I moved away from family to a new city around 5 years ago for a job, and I'm in the midst of deciding if I should move back. Most of my immediate and extended family lives where I grew up, but job prospects aren't as good (I work remotely, so less important but still relevant), and culturally it's probably a step down from where I am. That said, I'm from a fairly large family, and having them around is something I miss despite visiting several times a year.
Does anyone have a release from what the directive actually says? I know the article says cars, but did they maybe mean to say fleets? An “auto” in India could mean an auto-rickshaw (tuk tuk), and you certainly can order those through Uber there. It’d be a lot easier to imagine autos going electric.

Also to the parent’s point about self driving cars as part of Uber’s strategy, while totally valid, I really can’t imagine autonomous vehicles working in the places I’ve been in India. I’ve had drivers hit traffic jams and just literally turn around and drive into oncoming traffic for a while. It’s pretty impressive how traffic flows there — I can’t imagine an autonomous car figuring out how to do it.
From what I understand, Sony and MS are literally throwing xbox's/ps4 hardware into racks and streaming from them. Doesn't seem very scalable or cost effective.

Google built their game platform from the ground up for the cloud, including specialized graphics hardware. Sounds like it will be able to scale up to meet demands of games, while the other services are just renting a console-in-a-datacenter to the user.

Maybe it will matter, maybe it won't.
The main reason I didn't use AP is that it's designed for federated servers and uses a mailboxes network which doesn't fit with Dat & P2P. We may find a way to interop, but it'll require some kind of bridge service, and I didn't really see the point of adopting their schemas if it didn't buy us interop automatically.

Edit: also, thanks!
Yup, as someone who wrote action networked games when I was in gamedev this is pretty on point. You're not going to get any chance at latency correction so jitter(which tends to be bursty) on the connection is going to really hurt you.
>Zero people wake up in the morning thinking "I'll just browse for new papers from people I've never heard of."

Make that 1 person.
Probably referring to the ARB (angiotensin receptor blocker) shortages.

Basically, an API manufacturer changed up its process, but it turned out to generate very small quantities of a very small molecule side-product that’s carcinogenic.

NDMA and NDEA.

https://www.google.com/search?q=arb+ndma
That works for vtables and interpreters because the vtable/interpreter jump table will be hot and in cache. It doesn't help for linked list iteration unless the next element in the list is in L1 cache.
Wow you must feel really special and smart to reach the conclusion that your Cloud Provider's own SkyNet playing Russian Roulette with your product is a matter of concern.
Not All Seniors Are Created Equal
For women, divorce risk spikes sharply after the first sexual partner: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1741-3737....

Excerpt:

>The results presented in this article replicate findings from previous research: Women who cohabit prior to marriage or who have premarital sex have an increased likelihood of marital disruption. Considering the joint effects of premarital cohabitation and premarital sex, as well as histories of premarital relationships, extends previous research. The most salient finding from this analysis is that women whose intimate premarital relationships are limited to their husbands—either premarital sex alone or premarital cohabitation—do not experience an increased risk of divorce. It is only women who have more than one intimate premarital relationship who have an elevated risk of marital disruption. This effect is strongest for women who have multiple premarital coresidental unions. These findings are consistent with the notion that premarital sex and cohabitation have become part of the normal courtship pattern in the United States. They do not indicate selectivity on characteristics linked to the risk of divorce and do not provide couples with experiences that lessen the stability of marriage.
>Microsoft can't really be taken seriously in the gaming market

But they are in this market for a long time and are taken serious.
Great find.

"In 2009, when bitcoin emerged, he was busy launching multiple ventures As I detailed in Hunting LeRoux, among these were small arms sales, trading in hard drugs, trading in smuggled gold, building a submarine, devising a new missile navigation system for Iran and setting up a new base in Somalia, where he intended to make himself into a white warlord, expanding his arms business into an Amazon-for-arms platform with fortified bases, his own militia, barracks, warehouses for arms, an airstrip, a seaport and so on. Significantly, he discovered oil on the land he controlled but declined to drill it, saying it would take too long to turn a profit."
You will also hear a lot of bragging about how much more robust the partitioning is on Solaris versus Linux. Which is why they did the work to get Linux containers running on top of Solaris instead of just doing Linux.
There are also corridors in L.A. that are very dense and would benefit greatly with transit. L.A. metro is so ambitious because the size of the basin, >500sq miles; you can fit over 20 manhattan islands with room to spare in the basin. Koreatown is the densest part of the town (and very well served by metro rail), and its at 40k per square mile.

Metro is prioritizing building into dense areas and state government and developers want nothing more than to focus new builds around these rails and get these areas one day near ktown density levels. The thorn is NIMBY neighborhood councils and the city councilmen beholden to them that want to plug their ears and hope L.A. gets back to 1960s era population levels by some magical force of collective cognitive dissonance.

The fact is, people are moving to L.A. in droves because they are getting hired in droves, rooting against that is rooting against economic growth of the city.
Atavist did a long multi-part series of articles on him:

https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind

For the sheer amount of crazy stuff he was involved in all the same time, which he was able to manage quite effortlessly, I wouldn't be surprised if it was him. I would also add bitcoin would be perfect way to give him cover for many of the illegal activities he was involved in. It would give him a seamless way to move his money around without raising the eyebrows of authorities in a variety of countries.

Having said that, I can't give any credence to anything Wright says at this point. The amount of disinformation and his overt attempts to ride Satoshi's coattails to fame and fortune have discounted anything he has to say in regards to anything Bitcoin related.
I had a similar path. My first mech was a Das Keyboard with MX Browns, and it wasn't bad. But I switched (no pun intended) to Topre as my daily driver on advice of a friend, and I haven't looked back.

I do have a WASD with MX Reds for gaming, because my fingers were getting tired gaming on Topre.
I don't know that it's family alone, technology is helping. You can live vicariously through your palm today by holding on to a phone. We see it when people are out and about and peering deeply into their phone as if it's the end of the world. Most people spend more time looking into their phone than talking to others. In some ways it connects us to those far away but disconnects us from those closest to us. In Japan, the hikikomori sometimes have family and yet are lonely, and lock themselves up in their room and just live through black mirrors.
Leave the small town attitudes and pervasive small town social control. Live in close contact with people of many backgrounds and experiences. Learn to be your own person. Earn substantially more in the city, so pay a smaller percent of your wages for basic services and staple foods. Have access to a set of services which are unsupportable in sparse populations. Have your parents become assholes as they are propagandized into xenophobia by a giant foreign corporation.
Square is bound by copyright law just as much as anyone else. Agreeing to that license is the only thing giving them permission to redistribute it in the first place.

This is why we have the DMCA safe harbor provisions - it'd be incredibly easy to be on the hook for copyright infringement as a company hosting any user content otherwise. Those safe harbor provisions aren't a blank check to knowingly commit wanton copyright infringement however, as can be seen with all the legal wrangling over Megaupload, as an example [1].

Square knows about the AGPL, knows they might not be abiding by it's terms if they redistribute AGPL code, and knows they probably don't have the right to redistribute under any other term. They can choose to knowingly possibly violate the license, or to knowingly commit copyright infringement, or to ban AGPL code. Those first two options, with that "knowingly" in there, open them up to potential legal action.

> And AGPL isn't the only "must publish all your server's source code" license available, so to prohibition is too specific if that's the actual reason.

If you make Square's lawyers aware of some of those other licenses, it wouldn't suprise me if they get banned too for the same reason. It's not like they have psychic knowledge of the existence of all licenses. Failure to audit the universe doesn't mean that's not their reason.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload#Safe_harbor_provisi...
Its a 0/2 flying wall that can't take or deal combat damage. What more do you need to know?
Please get some help. Don't let your frustration fester in toxic communities. There's so much in life to enjoy.
How coupled is the UI to the “engine”? Are there any alternative frontends to GnuCash?
It's not like you can contact Google and get support for Go. The Nim community might be smaller but you still get help if you ask.
So why has the cost of televisions gone down, with more households being able to afford one ? Surely Samsung can gouge those foolish couples that have dollars oozing out of their pockets!

Hint - look at the austin real estate market.
Beating Back Unwanted Robocalls
The North End had the 93 run right through it (above ground). They've since demolished it like the Central Freeway in SF was demolished and turned into an urban park (and now routed it underground). But it remains the neighborhood was cleaved in two as in many other places where freeways were built in already existing dense areas.
> I strongly believe that more data is always better.

At a society level, probably true long term, but in the short term more information results in a 'shit show epoch'. To clarify what I mean there: anytime both in history and in the current world when more information quickly becomes available to the average person there is a 'shit show epoch' which lasts until society adapts. I think the current web / social media explosion is an example of this. Lot more information available, little implanted knowledge on how to navigate it, we're in the midst of a 'shit show epoch'.

To wrap back around to the medical world, cheap MRIs are good long term, but they are going to drive a 'shit show epoch'. The majority of adults have benign growths in their body[1], the ease of access to that information is going to cause a shit show.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5008738/
> Pay more per capita to landlords.

If you run the numbers, no one should want to be a landlord. Atrocious ROI. Homes are horrific investments if you live in them and still terrible even if you rent them out. I would encourage anyone who thinks otherwise to model this out for any major city/region to convince themselves.

Renting is a great deal. You pay less, get better ROI on what would have been the downpayment by investing it elsewhere, and there's someone contractually obligated to deal with most things that can go wrong. And if you're in California, chances are you benefit from a lot of regulations that protect tenants as well.
Really not seeing how they pull this off. Even a couple of congested wifi channels is enough to put latency jitter into the connection that's noticable.

Back in gamedev we did all sorts of tricks with dead reckoning and the like to hide/compensate for it. With the current architecture I don't buy that you'll be able to make those same saving adjustments.
They're putting a big emphasis on the "frictionless" aspect.

If they can get people impulse buying subscriptions/games, they'll get some traction.

Its not exactly breaking most people's bank to have a $9.99 subscription for all you can eat gaming.

For those who don't already have consoles, its a no brainer.