skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asserting that an article is "sprinkled with claims that go a bit too far" calls into question what the reader may have learned. It does not build upon the article, like a popularizer would, but first tears it down.

Then, to restore the reader's sense of mastery over the material, it's proposed that they grok a significantly more esoteric perspective.
And yet most people don't find it - why?

Because it's crowded out by "articles" such as this.

Most "in-depth" stories being published are just longer length narrative pushers.
Hillaire Belloc made the interesting claim that it was thanks to Latin that the various European languages were able to develop so freely: you could always communicate in Latin when you traveled.

He also noted that the various lingua francas since Latin was lost have tended to suffer from becoming the world language. Looking at English today one is hard pressed to disagree.
Source? I have a Chromecast which works fine, Google DNS servers are blocked on my network.
His site blocks me as a bot, so posting here.

Pandas str replace is almost certainly faster than Numba:

https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/p...
Not only that, but he managed to navigate his army of editors to weed out fake/pseudo scientific entries. He's the fake news anti-hero.
Today ML can solve some problems. In the future it might solve some problems with advances in the field. Yet other problems will likely remain unsolved, such as the stock market, or the weather, or predicting /dev/rand

"Up Next" problem can easily fall into any of the three buckets.
This is effectively a service mesh implemented directly at the IP layer, integrated with the OS.
How has English suffered from becoming the world language? I don't see it.
>on your PC, literally today (unfortunately, no Mac support yet)

and no linux support
There are many calls for personal responsibility here. But I think the average person is not making a choice to sustain permanent hearing damage – most people don't know the risks.

I used to own a decible meter. I brought it to a movie theater (large chain) and found sustained volume of 100+ decibels. It was physically painful. I was the only customer who complained to the theater. I asked what sound level they intended to set the movie to. They told me it's up to the projectionist, who sets the volume knob in the booth based on no measurement or preset.

There's a lot of real harm being done, and I would like to see at the very least some basic informative disclosure. And operators should be held responsible for creating dangerous conditions that are not disclosed or agreed to by customers. If people want to sustain hearing damage for a night of enjoyment, they should do so only willingly (and therefore knowingly).

I'm very keen to protect my own hearing, so I carry musician's earplugs (reduces volume without sounding muffled) and wear them often – not just at obviously loud places like concerts, but in common situations like loud restaurants.
It often is. Place-and-route is typically implemented as simulated annealing, which is a randomized algorithm. Unless you explicitly force it to reuse the same seed, you'll get slightly different results each time -- and even if you do set a seed, small changes to the HDL may result in a vastly different result.
Holy cow, 200ms of input lag? At that rate even my pleb gamer self would notice it.
Genuine question, at that point does DoH buy you anything?
But the pie has also only stayed the same size (or possibly shrunk) from the perspective of people-chair-hours in big chain theaters. Scorsese himself is an example that a lot of the same filmmaking is still happening, it's just moved to Netflix and other streaming services (and "prestige Cable", which is a branch of streaming services).

It's interesting the forces trying to fight that "real cinema" means people-chair-hours in building labeled a theater, and the obvious fact that the more serious/prestige/independent cinema is increasingly moving directly into people's homes. Netflix versus Cannes, for instance, has just been a fascinating thing to watch, because you've got economic forces versus traditional nostalgia for a cinema that only briefly ever existed as people-chair-hours, and has always been fighting economically for theater time versus whatever "lowest common denominator" fads were current (look at complaints over the decades aimed at Universal's early monster movies, the many decades of cheap musical spectacles, the eras of cheap westerns, etc and so forth).

If you need big events to push people out the comfort of their home theaters and streaming services, of course it is going to be some "lowest common denominator" fad.

(Also, mafia/gangster films were another one of those cheap film fads, and Scorsese and others "elevated it", but that was once considered a genre like we consider superhero films today that maybe didn't qualify as true "cinema". What debate that is old is new again.)
This is one of those situations where I have to hold two conflicting ideas in my head at the same time and am reminded of the difficulty of doing that.

You both make good points. China is doing a lot of bad stuff here, but it is their land and their right to exert their power over it how they see fit.

If China tried to tell another sovereign nation how to handle their internal disputes, they'd be just as wrong as the west is in this.

This is really something China needs to handle. It's not the west's place to butt in.

At the risk of whatabouting it, most of all the tactics you're saying China is using in Hong Kong have been used by western governments as well. It's not right.

You know, China gave away Hong Kong to stop the bombing from the west and now China is trying to wrestle back control of it... kind of still, in a way, from the west.

It was the west that caused this problem in Hong Kong. It's time the west stopped meddling in it and I think that'd be best.
I think you're misunderstanding why OP posted the quotes. The quotes are mocking people that say that technology is making it harder for people to focus, because a hundred years ago people said the same thing about books and the telegraph etc.
Slack has a substantial security team, put Nebula through a 3rd party review, and has been running this in production for two years.
The old Apple IIe’s used suffered from an occasional manufacturing defect that would cause the chips to be slightly disconnected from the main board. The recommended fix was to pick it up a few inches off the desk and drop it to re-seat the chips.
You just need to pay once :)
>maybe someday we will see a social network where the emphasis is on communities and not the self. that's what google+ did better than anything that was out there.

That seems to be filled by irc channels (less now), subreddits and more recently discords.
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This has been a long time coming. I can personally attest to how much thinking and hard work has gone into this.
I thought the same. After working remotely for 3 years I was happy to learn that FB and Microsoft were starting a remote program. I was wrong...
Or not enough communication with the team, discussing what the objectives are, providing them with good, enough, relevant data to work with etc. I guess in many cases a data science team is expected to just "do their magic", build the AI and then come back and meanwhile not bother anyone else. In other cases, nobody really cares anyway, they just want the buzzword label to be includable in the brochures.
Astronomers are not changing anything IN the sky, Starlink does?
So the target market is people who want to play video games but don't have a gaming system?

Maybe their catalog should be more casual/indie oriented? It's hard to imagine too many people who want to play a loud shooty game like Red Dead Redemption 2 but don't have a console or PC already. On the other hand, the price point seems kind of high for someone who wants to play card games or Words With Friends style games.
Are there any good resources for learning more about voice acting? I'm a complete amateur and probably will never record an audiobook, but I love reading to my kids and always feel like I could do better with differentiating character voices, accents, etc.
If that's actually a requirement, then why are most providers happy to accept that it's me over the phone/at the pharmacy if I simply say I'm Silas and maybe give the right date of birth?
We launched yesterday. So no need for an access key anymore. And we really are interested what you think aboutit
The melting point of iron doesn't depend noticeably on pressure with the range of atmospheric pressures, as you can see from the flat lines in the phase diagram at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron#/media/File:Pure_iron_pha...
Yup, also if you look at people who write or have written netcode for a living, it's been pretty obvious where Stadia was heading for a while.

You need to be able to reliably hide ~100-200ms of latency for any number of reasons. If you're talking about something that runs over wifi you're fighting against the laws of physics and no back-end infrastructure is going to save you.

The way you do that is with client side dead-reckoning and/or lock-step simulation with a pre-shared seed. Streaming video eliminates any opportunity to do that and you don't get to buffer frames ahead like Netflix can.

There's a reason OnLive folded and I wouldn't be surprised if you see Stadia EoL'd in the next year or two.
> go bust as the costs of the Mechanical Turk become evident

I'm afraid you have misspelled "raise a humongous round form SoftBank". It's an easy typo to make, don't feel bad.
Zachtronics! He's one of my favorite game devs, I'll definitely have to pick this one up as well.
I studied Latin in high school, but I don't know much about its evolution.

When you say it's the "most powerful natural language" that you know, is that some late, cleaned-up version used by the best-educated? Or does that include earlier / common-use (vulgate?) forms as well?
At lot of comments in these threads fear-mongering about China, but if it weren't for a powerful government asserting that FB, etc cannot acquire ByteDance and the like, then 5/5 would be FB owned. This space only has competition because China aggressively enforces it.

The US government is basically run from corporate interest, which has served people well for 50 years when things are good. But those corporations have no loyalty to the US. As political and economics interests shift, expect those large corporations to follow there own interests, not those of any nation.

The Chinese government, for all of its many faults, is making sure that Chinese corporations serve the interest of China. Corporations currently located in the US no longer even pay lip service to being interested in supporting the people of United States.
In school, one of our teachers was also a priest, and he told us that his job once required him to travel to the (former) Soviet Union.

His Russian colleague did not speak German, and he did not speak Russian. Latin was the only language in which they could communicate, and the first question by the Russian priest was:

re publica missus?

i.e., "[Were you] sent by the state?"
Yes the order is essentially arbitrary.

I took 6 years of Latin classes in school (12 yo -> 18 yo).
The first day I learned the order "didn't matter", I was so happy. I thought it would make it so easy to study.

Then after 6 years, I was still terrible at Latin.
Instead of "The soldier yield the sword at the ennemy", I would always end up with "The sword yield the ennemy at the soldier" (you get the point).

I think the order is so important to make the language easy. For me in certainly didn't help studying Latin (even coming from French). Maybe it was my math spirit or so, I don't know.

But your point is totally valid. Authors (I studied Cicero a lot during the last year) basically use that to enrich their style constantly.
There are security benefits of TLS. Now, if you're asking what benefits it has over DNS-over-TLS, making DNS requests indistinguishable from other HTTP requests has privacy/shaping benefits.
Their competition includes Nvidia, that is testing a streaming service that allows you to buy games through other platforms (Steam, Uplay, maybe others) and stream them from the cloud.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/
> it's always been possible for software that wants to circumvent hosts file / DNS filters to use an alternate name resolver.

And it's always been possible to block access to all DNS resolvers except your local one. Until now.

> the fact remains that it's the users decision to run software that doesn't respect their freedom of choice

Unless that code is malware or some Javascript an advertiser has placed on a website. There is no way to stop software from doing its own DoH requests without using browser or OS services to do it, so the controls supplied by the browser or OS are of rather limited value.

> The net-benefits far outweigh the downside that "good" network providers can no longer tamper with DNS results.

I disagree. I'm of the opinion that DoH brought with it a security problem that is difficult to resolve. It does provide additional security in another area, but that's not something that couldn't have been done using a more reasonable approach that didn't hamper my ability to control what's happening on my own machines.
Iran kills the internet for the government's good, not for the people's.
Why not play Hearthstone or similar games on MBP? They need to invent new class of games: latency-tolerant, but graphically intensive. Photorealistic turn-based massively multiplayer games?
There are other ways to watch movies.

When those delivered a sufficiently good quality experience, I stopped going to a theatre.

Control is one part of that. "Let's pause..."

Replay is another. Maybe watch it a few times for whatever reason.

Sharing is another. I still like physical media for this reason.

Games are similar.

Renting a game should cost less than one that can be replayed, shared, etc...

Keeping history is another good reason. I have media and games from times past, and I have the ability to share that experience today. High value.

Gaming and movies today? Definitely moving away from the higher value things, yet pricing often seems the same, or not in line with the lower value proposition.
Wouldn't tagging only affect inbound mail? I would've thought a domain forwarder would work around this for migration?
Nothing you listed there means you can't still use it, so your argument is wrong.
Why are Microsoft doing this? One explanation is morality - they are doing it for the greater good. Another explaination is branding - they want to look like the new "no evil company" which ties in with their open source initiatives. It could also be a way to prevent Google having too much power which is a good thing for Microsoft. It also might be to sell more Windows licences, but I doubt this would factor into the decision about what OS to use. Or it is just that technical people got to make the decision unhampered by management, and technical people value privacy.
Disclaimer: Work at Facebook

Not really sure what you are implying with the 'Big Brother' comment. The remote development servers are only used for writing/debugging code and not for other daily tasks. Even if they are tracking what tools/functions I am using on the server, what does that matter?

Personally, I have found remote development awesome because it enables engineers to start contributing to a huge product in the very first hour. No need to wait for the repository to clone, the dependencies to install, and the code to build before you can become productive.
I'm a gamer with a heavy Xbox One that I lugged across 15 countries over 2 years and I cannot wait to replace it with Stadia. 90% of the time my Xbox is just a YouTube/Netflix machine, but that means it wins out the TV's HDMI port over the Chromecast for the 10% of time someone wants to play a game. Adding "gaming" to Chromecast makes a $300 console vs a $60-70 controller a no-brainer, especially when you throw travel into the mix. If my Switch supported Netflix, it would have filled this niche but... it can't.

>The only part that stumps me is why you need pay $130 for a controller and a Chromecast with "special" software on it. Isn't the whole premise that you don't need dedicated hardware to play games?

I might be wrong on this, but $130 was for the controller and a Chromecast Ultra (which retails $70), so I'd assume controllers will run $60-70 after launch.
Thanks for this; pricing tiers based on outgoing email volume instead of number of domains or mailboxes is perfect for a lot of situations.
>If you mean do the EU countries have reasonable thresholds, then that's a country-by-country issue. As it should be...

When did they make this change? Because initially when the system started the mini-one-stop-shop did not allow you to use VAT thresholds. That was one of the big points of contention about it.
We just have to hope our robot overlords will not be overly environmentally conscious
A Day in the Life of Dominic Gallello, CMO at Dating App Badoo
>>The best performing variant happened to be random.

Some years ago I heard an anecdote from a developer who had worked on a video game about American football. The gist of it was that they had tested various sophisticated systems for an AI opponent to choose a possible offensive/defensive play, but the one that the players often considered the most "intelligent" was the one that simply made random decisions.

In certain domains, I think, it's quite difficult to beat the perceived performance of an AI system that merely makes committed random decisions (i.e. carried out over time) within a set of reasonable choices. If we don’t understand what an agent is doing, we often assume that there is some devious and subtle purpose behind its actions.
Definitely Vagrant, easy to setup and close enough to the actual server (same ISO after all)
There are a lot of ways of formalizing the problem of recommendation. Perhaps the variant of the problem used by Netflix is "solved", but it's kind of an odd one. Basically, they built a system to answer questions of the following form: "Given that user X watched media Y, what rating would they give it?" They trained and tested on media that users have already rated. Some of the ratings are masked and thus need to be "predicted" for the test.

The issue is that the Netflix dataset has a baked-in assumption that a recommender system should show media that a user is likely to have ranked highly. It may be more important to show the user media they wouldn't have found (and thus ranked) at all. Or perhaps a user will be more engaged with something controversial rather than generically acceptable. Who knows?
Seen ReasonML? Pretty cool. Does that with a JS-y syntax.
There are rumours of a Steam Cloud [0]
IMO this would be the best of both worlds. I don't want to purchase games from Google that will only work on Stadia. The ideal solution is to purchase games on Steam that you can play either on a regular PC, or on Steam's Cloud Gaming Service. I'm fine to pay $5-10/mo for Steam Cloud, but I really, really don't want to re-purchase some games again (like I'd have to do with Google), or lose my cloud purchases if either a) Google cancels Stadia, or b) I want to switch to a different cloud.

[0]: https://www.resetera.com/threads/rumor-valve-is-working-on-s...
From https://www.vox.com/2019/2/20/18231742/amazon-federal-taxes-... :

1. Research and Development tax credit

2. 100 percent tax deduction for investment in equipment

3. Companies can deduct the cost of stock-based compensation from their taxable earnings

More detail in the article
> You'll still be able to run your own resolver that applies DNS filters and configure your client to use it, just like today.

Not really, because you have no way to enforce the use of your own resolver or filters without using a proxy to MITM your HTTPS connections.
Integration with SPF and would be unfun and probably even impractical (max 10 lookups iirc?). I’d also worry about the inevitable abuse which would appear to originate from your range(s). If you can mitigate those though, it sounds interesting
They're not... completely wrong.

One thing I actually do enjoy is Facebook's ability to recommend me concerts nearby based on other music I like/venues I attend.
I once trained a neuralconvo network on irc-logs. You cant answer problems from that- the ai- will just not know what the context is, because it cant follow links- but you can build a pretty solid insult-o-mat from those logs. User-Engagment as a metric for answered questions!
I consider myself a "gamer" and would never ditch my PS4 or PC for Stadia but most of my friends who like to play games casually would love something like Stadia. One of them even purchased the founder edition. Most of them don't want to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on consoles and high end PCs to play just for a few hours on every other weekend. It's just too costly for casual gamers. A service like Stadia makes total sense for such people.
Yes, it has. I'm still pretty sure we have more to learn from what users think so I am eager to hear feedback. Please bring it on!
Or not.

There are lots of fun games and other activities.

That's what I have ended up doing as gaming continues to get more hostile.
Do you know how these musician's earplugs work? I imagine instead of just blocking vibrating air like regular earplugs, it must be trying to dissipate the sound waves a bit. Is that even possible across the whole range of sound?
That statement is not as obvious as it seems at first.

Cinema in particular is way more similar to temple sermons than it seems at first.
Going to the source is excellent advice.

A newly-favourite passage from Schopenhauer:

"No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress. Men who think and have correct judgment, and people who treat their subject earnestly, are all exceptions only. Vermin is the rule everywhere in the world: it is always at hand and busily engaged in trying to improve in its own way upon the mature deliberations of the thinkers. So that if a man wishes to improve himself in any subject he must guard against immediately seizing the newest books written upon it, in the assumption that science is always advancing and that the older books have been made use of in the compiling of the new. They have, it is true, been used; but how? The writer often does not thoroughly understand the old books; he will, at the same time, not use their exact words, so that the result is he spoils and bungles what has been said in a much better and clearer way by the old writers; since they wrote from their own lively knowledge of the subject. He often leaves out the best things they have written, their most striking elucidations of the matter, their happiest remarks, because he does not recognise their value or feel how pregnant they are. It is only what is stupid and shallow that appeals to him. An old and excellent book is frequently shelved for new and bad ones; which, written for the sake of money, wear a pretentious air and are much eulogised by the authors’ friends."

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/essays/...
I lost a lot of games when OnLive folded

(LA Noir, Sleeping Dogs, Darksiders 2, London Olympics 2012, Deus Ex Human Revolution.....)
I found the best nugget of this entire article to be at the very end

> Keep persevering. Don’t give up. If you find that a bunch of blog posts don’t explain things in a way that makes sense, skip them. Keep looking until you find some well-written ones. The same goes for courses and tutorials. Everyone comes from different backgrounds. What makes sense for someone else might not work for you. And that’s OK.

I feel like this is advice everyone should hear, especially junior or mid level developers
It's every BOFH's dream come true.