skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need to have a subscription to buy or play your games.

Without a subscription you can stream the games you buy at 60fps 1080p with stereo sound.

With a subscription you can stream the games you buy at 60fps 4K with 5.1 surround sound.

There's a risk that they increase the subscription price and hold _higher quality_ versions of your games hostage. Or, of course, there's the suicidal option of changing their pricing entirely such that free users can't stream the games they've bought (because what are you going to do about it?), but I'd imagine they'd shut down the entire service before trying to pull that off.
Wow it must be so hard for you to have to deal with people talking with you and trying to get to know you better!

These men attempting to talk to you are literally devils!

Obviously there needs to be a law passed that if you're a man, you need written permission to be allowed to speak to a woman before you do so, otherwise you should be jailed.
You don't sound too thrilled about the way things are going. You can change it if you want.

Volunteering to help with for some in-person activity can provide that essential social connection.

Also, consider talking to a professional. They evaluate situations like the one you describe all the time.
Adobe was showing off some amazing tech for editing voices several years ago, called Adobe Voco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3l4XLZ59iw
I love IRC, particularly #freenode. I really detest having to first search out then go through the whole process of signing up for yet another Slack group.
Thanks!

Most of these make me feel smart, though I can't explain the last one either :)

I mean, I like immutable data structures, but the tuple always seemed like a random addition to the language.
A web API to the NRLMSISE-00 model of atmospheric density, temp and composition
Reality TV is probably going to have a hay-day with this
My spouse meets people entirely through her existing social networks - me, her existing friends, her dance community, and work. She doesn't just strike up conversations with complete strangers, it makes her very uncomfortable. Whereas I'm an extrovert and happily start or engage in conversations with strangers all the time.

She and I met back in the day through her boyfriend at the time (interestingly, we're still friends - he lives in town and we see him regularly). And she met him through her college roommate, freshman year.
The tech is only going to get better, faster, and easier to use. And that will happen incredibly quickly. Being able to spot artefacts in the output is not a viable defence.
I try it from time to time for asking questions on what I think will be technical forums, with mixed results. (Yes, I know how to ask technical questions...)
I wish people would be able to keep things simple and still use IRC instead of bullshit "productivity" apps like Slack
If misspelling is one of the main problems than it would be interesting to have suggestions based on how similar a word was to another, so that you could have something similar to the rust compiler’s “<undefined variable name> does not exist, did you mean <defined variable name>”. I think it uses Levenshtein distance, and maybe some other algorithms/heuristics to pick it’s best guess.
Good points. I think the value of each offering greatly depends on whether you already have a Steam (or similar) library of games.
This is simply not true: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/race-is-a-social-...
Staying Out of Trouble with SMS Marketing
Exactly, which is the point. If it was codified into law, then it becomes more or less permanent. It’s insane that we allow the tax filing companies to have so much say over how taxes are filed, so at least if it’s not an actual law, there’s a better chance the situation can change in the future.
As much as I'd like to follow the rule, I think I have an actual, varied social life now, and this would be... Risky.

I've been invited to a violent sounding orgy of the many male, one female kind (always been a dream of the girl's, but I do have someone I'm seeing). In the last few months, also been invited to an open Satanic book reading sessions. Beginner friendly, I had been told.
The South is pretty friendly and outgoing in many places. I strike up conversations almost everywhere and most people are ok with it. Of course there are some people that hate small talk and I try to respect that.
"And to be able to compete with Amazon they needed something they didn't have - distributed systems background, not Sun background, which was anything but."

lol. "The network is the computer."
Decline of the family? How about decline of the entire Homo Sapien social structure ...

I’m looking out my window, and I see houses of neighbors I’ve never met, and the rest are owned by people with whom I have nothing in common. So, needless to say, I spend a lot of time at work. Work has sadly become my “new family”. Yet, I trust none of them. So, no wonder my Homo Sapien brain is flipping out.
The Daily Mail is neither fake news, nor propaganda, nor a content farm...There are equivalents in every western country.

The elephant in the newsroom, is that declining subscribers and outdated business models are pulling down the whole of legacy media towards the level of unpleasant sensationalist tabloid and further. The lack of fact checking we saw in the wake of the Covington Kids debacle stands in stark contrast to the level of journalistic integrity Dan Rather was held to on his fall from grace.

Legacy media can't compete with the Internet, and its quality is declining as it's circling the drain.
does irc show link previews?
South Korea pollution: Is China the cause of 'fine dust'?
I try to not assume other people are either stupid or malicious, that if they see the world differently from me, they have good reasons. I think it makes me a better person, and it certainly makes me a more relaxed person.
IRC was a pretty big part of my life. I remember when EFnet split to form IRCnet like it was yesterday. I’m probably still connected in a detached screen(1) session somewhere.
As an ex Australian, left well before the current situation/ malaise. Still informed well.
>These raids have been highly condemned amongst the public here, and (at least my echo-chamber of) people seem to be pretty wholly against it.

Yes there seems to be some distaste among the public, its been a significant story. But people that really care about it are in your and our echo-chamber. This has happen before and will happen again, it is clear they are emboldened, there was just a big election, the good guy were going to win and then they didn't...

>Of course, we're also an apathetic people because we've had it so good for so long that no one will force any change, and it'll just keep getting worse.

Yes Australia implemented some pretty bad economic policies, yet very little of it has come due, some of it is because of our/your big seemingly kindly neighbour to the north, but well all pay eventually it will just be later.

>It's also seen in our elections. There's no big visions. No bold statements from politicians about producing changes to make a better society. It's all attack ads and pandering to key demographics just to win votes and stay in government.

Or stay out of government. Labour screamed harder about non existing terrorism. Promised to crap even harder on immigrants. They then went on to lose a completely unlosable election. You won't win in 2019 even if your Tony Blair. Sure as hell not with Ed Milliband...
The economic policies was OK, if you read an economic professors blog. Quite incoherent. Raising taxes without raising anyone's taxes, huh? Not dumbed down, just dumb. To little to late. I can go on forever.
They thought they were going to win anyway, so who really cares? And then they didn't.

>Hell, our current PM literally brought a lump of coal into parliament as a prop to taunt the opposition by saying "this is coal, don't be afraid".
They are quite gleefully mocking you, they are enjoying themselves and this very much, they are "owning the libs" like never before.
Except now it's gone totally extreme the other direction. Young ladies now days have told me they feel guilty for having thoughts about having a family. That the idea of getting married and having children young is a slap in the face to women and wrong and stupid.

If you think I'm being facetious you obviously haven't spoken to enough women that are in their low 20's. Older women have literally convinced younger women it is shameful to not be a career driven, family last type of power CEO woman.
Increased urban density helps areas reach a criticality, denser accomodation cheaper to service, the trick is as ever to find the optimum balancing point.

Green spaces aren't to be sniffed at though, even for hayfever suffers.
The jump from os 9 to OSX was about as significant as the jump from win9x to the NT based XP. Suddenly, multitasking stability without a huge dollop of luck was a reasonable expectation.
In some countries, that is a good way to get killed.
Elite:Dangerous wasn't released even in alpha form until 2013. I assume you were a fuel rat for Elite 3.

When was the origin of Fuel Rats in the franchise?

Have they existed since the first game was first released in 1984? Or only after IRC came around a few years later?

Very curious about the history of Fuel Rats in the game series, as well the history of technology these used to communicate.
I would strongly encourage you to look closely at the numbers. There are so many involved that nothing short of an actual model of all involved factors is enough to demonstrate the true return profile.

I might post mine here for reference when I get home later. It unequivocally demonstrates that it is far better to be a California renter than a California homeowner (at least for LA/SF). And yes I accounted for a locked in property tax rate. It’s still not even a close contest.

I will note however that the Case-Schiller index is at historical highs atm and this is a substantial driving factor in the current calculation around homeownership. That may change with a correction in the real estate market.
Perhaps you’d be willing to share an example of an idea about which he has convinced you to change your mind?
Just because the platform is running Linux and Vulkan doesn't mean that Google won't wall that behind their data centers. The PS4 runs on BSD.
Interested to see if counter-measures begin to be deployed in order to make a deep fake more difficult and buy time. Incorporating dynamic backgrounds and body gestures like touching one's face while talking.
I'm only 22, and moving back into my mom's house has made my life a lot better, especially while living the startup life; it's better to have somebody around who loves you unconditionally, and it's okay to be at home when you're reeel young (as long as you know you don't have to be there).

I now know it'll important to organize and integrate my next local community when I move out, or I'll probably end up lonely.

Go meet your neighbours!
I also read the whole post as terminus until I saw your post here
You're misunderstanding potential.

Potential cannot exist of its own accord. It is secondary to something already actual and only then can it be actualized.

If in the beginning there was truly nothing, and I mean also the absence of any cause that could make things exist, then there is not only nothing to actualize anything since only actual things can actualize, but not even the potential to be actualized.

So no, absolute nothing can not produce nothing and can never yield anything not even in principle.
IRC is a protocol, not an app. Many apps can connect to it. An app can show previews if it wants to.
For how good he actually is, he's actually being quite humble.

And more importantly, the goal is not to make himself look good, but to relate a point as he experienced it.
Hm, I am definitely not sure if you are joking.
Multiple adversarial journalists recording it, like we currently have, would protect against that.
Hey cool! I made one of these too. If anyone is interested in minesweeper: https://minesweeper.zone/

And the GitHub:

https://github.com/reed-jones/minesweeper_js

Doesn't work well on Mobile unfortunately, but it's pretty good for killing time in desktop (if I do say so myself)
Ironically, the current belief is that The War of the Worlds panic was greatly exaggerated: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/war-of-the-worlds/
Took a GA class during my undergrad years -- actually went to a neighboring university to do it because mine didn't offer it -- and it informed a research project I got a tiny grant for. One of the things my prof noted was that many people looooved GAs as a research topic because, at least at the time, a good chunk of related work was in coming up with ideas for fitness functions and examining them and that's a vein a reasonably creative person could mine for publishing for a long time.
the costs of distributing Stadia games far outweigh the costs

Games are just another form of media. YouTube costs Google a ton of money. But the control over media, virality, discovery, and advertisement is worth it to them. So has it been for video. So it shall be for games.
I've used Nim a bit and even read most of Dom's book (Nim in Action) and it felt pretty natural to me as someone who does most of their coding in Python. Sure it has some Modula inspired keywords, but it still feels Pythonic in a way I can't easily describe.

Rust on the other hand hurts my brain like Haskell as it is so foreign.
My own parents were pretty horrible. I've been determined to do better. Part of that is respecting them for who they are, not resenting them for who I wish they were. As I've said elsewhere, I really admire my son's ability to focus on what actually matters to him, even if I also worry that it may cost him in the future.
And the other big difference is that Stadia is a lot more expensive to run.
Small thing I noticed on the pricing page, 'annualy' is misspelled - otherwise looks very nice.
some clients can, yes.
Measles cases hit 1,001 as anti-vaxxers hold another rally of disinformation
I was an IRCCloud customer for a while. It was really good, and I left because my friends switched to a slack. :(

Idling in IRC was 10x better than slack.
Except that if that were actually true (which it isn't) it would be called egalitarianism.

Feminism is a feminine superiority movement.
Etleap (YC W13) Is Hiring a Marketing Manager in SF
Etleap [ˈet-lēpˈ] is Hiring a Marketing Manager

Who is Etleap?

Etleap's mission is to transform the way businesses drive analytics projects.

We started Etleap out of frustration with the exorbitant amounts of engineering work required to set up, maintain, and scale data pipelines for analytics. Our vision is to make it simple for analytics teams to quickly and securely connect the data sources that power their businesses. We’re doing this by removing all of the traditional complexities of data integration and creating a new kind of ETL that enables the end user of data to integrate and transform data from any source.

Our team is customer-obsessed and values openness and being experimental. We’re growing fast, and we’re backed by First Round Capital, SV Angel, YCombinator, and a number of other top-tier investors.

About You

- 3+ years of B2B marketing experience
- Experience in demand generation, including everything from content creation to optimizing customer journeys
- Experience and a strong desire to work at a startup
- Strong competency managing automated marketing tools, like Hubspot, with a knack for using data to drive growth
- Successful at managing partnerships in order to drive growth through co-marketing initiatives
- Entrepreneurial self-starter: propose ideas rather than needing direction, with a figure-it-out attitude
- Experimental approach, pragmatic vs. dogmatic
- Curiosity and drive to understand a technical software product and how it creates value for its users

About the Role

- Own marketing initiatives to drive traffic and engagement. Our inbound channel is our best source of sales leads, and it’s your job to make it even better!
- Manage content generation, ie. case studies, eBooks, and white papers, to support demand gen and sales efforts
- Team with clients and partners to run webinars, in-person marketing events, case studies, etc.
- Own communication with prospective customers via email campaigns, newsletters, managing social channels, etc.
- Manage and maintain Etleap’s website, and own SEO/SEM initiatives
- Work with the CEO to define/communicate Etleap’s value proposition and competitive positioning to prospective customers, on both a company and a product level
- Lead launch communications for company announcements

You will be working alongside a team of dynamic engineers in a fast-paced startup office environment. Our office is near AT&T Park at 2nd & Townsend in San Francisco. We offer catered lunch, a kitchen stocked with great snacks, as well as Unlimited PTO, Health Care, and Commuter Benefits.

To apply, please send your resume to jobs@etleap.com along with a cover letter that answers the following questions:

1. What excites you about this role and Etleap as a company?
2. How did you grow traffic in your last role? What tools and strategies did you use? What metrics did you use as benchmarks?
3. How would you manage a new product feature launch?
4. What are your goals for further professional development?

More info here: https://etleap.com/jobs/
I have at various points used IRC more or less actively. It's necessary for Bitcoin r&d more or less. I've also used Zephyr more often in the past (MIT has a lot of users), and found it's ability to handle topics in a channel (and diversions) easier to work with than IRCs single stream.
"There I was thinking that the scientific method involved falsifiable hypotheses - so how are they going to prove or disprove their respective beliefs?"

????

Scientists think out of the box, they speculate. They talk. They debate, they argue, they get ideas from one another.

Then they get an idea of 'what might work' and possibly form rough experiment to see 'if it makes sense'. Then if things look good, or they figure a few other things out, they might do a more formal experiment in the context of demonstrating the validity of the theory, and possibly try to get it published.

Or, maybe experiments are not possible, or too expensive, so they write their crazy speculations down for others to think about, riff on, and possibly do some experiments later in time.

That's science.

It's a ton of speculation.

I don't understand why you think these things are 'beliefs' and that speculative discussion is not part of the process.

FYI Einstein mostly only ever 'talked and speculated' about stuff.
99% of the value is in the exercises. I would re-think the strategy of a first read-through without the exercises and spend the time to do the exercises.
VPS Showdown, June 2019: Do vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
Because for some people talking to strangers is hard. Literally - like for some people carrying a 50 lbs bag might be hard, so can be talking to a stranger. Can I take this 50 lbs bag and walk with you for a mile or two because you think it'd be fun for you? Yes, I can. Do I want to? Maybe, if you're my friend or I feel like working out or just in the mood. Or maybe not, because I don't feel like doing this work now. Maybe I just want to rest and be alone with my thoughts right now. Not for the whole life - but right now, in this moment.

People have different needs and different informational metabolism. Some like conversing with strangers, some - not really.
You're confusing formalism with metaphysics.

Emptiness isn't nothingness. Emptiness presupposes something that is empty of something expected to fill it, the absence of something not the total absence of anything. Absolute nothingness isn't empty because there's nothing that can be empty. Nothingness is not a something, but people here seem to be reifying the notion.
People's eyes and ears may be fooled by a video but as this capability becomes widespread, which it certainly will, I'm not so sure that many people will be deceived in the long-run.

Technology is evolving but not in a vacuum, society's reactions also evolve in response. Today, many people interpret video to be "evidence" but those same people can interpret a photo to be a "claim" or perhaps some form of lower-confidence indication. Before photo manipulation was commonly known, I think photos were in a similar place as video - more trusted. Based on history, it's reasonable to expect video may follow a similar trajectory as photos to becoming less trusted in situations where it matters.

So, what happens when media types which were previously more trusted as evidence become less trusted? The same things that happened with print, audio and photos. Viewers will evaluate external cues such as the reputation of the publisher and corroborating evidence. The leading indicators that we should suspect deception will likely be similar. For example, how divergent the behavior depicted is from expectation, how contentious the surrounding context is and the existence of parties with an interest in creating such a deception.

This effect already happens with manipulation of intent through tricky video editing, for example deleting the rest of a reply to a question or even swapping in an alternate question. In the last decade I'd say the typical person is far more aware this is possible.

So, in the near-term there may be some successful deception but in the long-term I expect the potential value of creating such deceptions will diminish and we'll arrive at a new "normal" much like we have now. The biggest long-term impact may be false claims of "doctored video!" from those who were actually caught on video doing something they didn't want seen by others. But as we already see now, those pre-disposed to believe whatever is shown is false will search for indications it's doctored. Those pre-disposed to believe whatever is shown is true will search for indications it's just more confirmation of what what they already suspected. Either way, the existing reputation of the person shown, the distribution source and the pre-existing knowledge of viewers will likely be more determinitive than the media itself.
You can teach your kid to resist psychological abuse. Physical abuse is more challenging - often the only real option is to push back in self-defense, which can be quite problematic.
well, these two things (strongSpaces couldn't have been "undocumented": i knew about it from a cursory glance at the language a few years ago, never wrote more than a hello world in it) made me shy away from the language. i mean, it's niche and all, that does not help, but those two things did decide which way the scales went.

re [0]: whether FUBAR and f_u_b_a_r mean the same thing or not is a matter of semantics, not syntax (it's in the name: "meaning").

re [1]: i use zsh where setopt errexit and setopt e_rR_EX_it mean the same thing, and it's really annoying. all it does is complicate search in man pages and code, i'd say this feature has negative value. e_rR_EX_it is extreme, but consider that zshoptions(1) documents ERR_EXIT while bash(1) lists errexit. i never know which to search for, and i end up mixing various spellings in zsh code. now shell options are a tiny slice of my shell scripts, but doing this for all identifiers? ugh!

i think the arguments in [1] are weak, unsubstantiated, and admissions of negative value.
I used to follow that guy religiously then I realized that he knew how to hack the "attention" system on social media. He is famous for what really is little fluffy sentences that would get retweeted and make him look like a wise man with the ultimate truth about everything.

Now I see him as a huge hack. Almost a complete parody of Silicon Valley.