skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we can all agree that blue check marks shouldn't be misrepresenting who they are.

That said, the 'outrage' to this is pure political games. Don't be a sucker.
There will almost certainly be some tie-in with Microsoft's impending xCloud-based streaming service. Given that they will be starting from a position where people already own games on their platform plus the addition of Xbox Game Pass, I expect that service to really eat into any potential Stadia users.
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> I guess he needed to use his laptop to ensure that deal looks legit.

I think that's true for his work email, but he could probably have gotten away with using a different laptop for the files.
Yeah, fraudsters and the corrupt had to do at least some work to get where they got.
> Furthermore, with initiatives by Microsoft (Project xCloud) and EA (Project Atlas), there's no reason to accept Google as the standard bearer for game streaming. There's plenty of companies that could be coming up with the experience we've been waiting a better part of a decade for.

Also, when those other streaming services are at least somewhat established there will most likely be content fragmentation soon after, i.e. Microsoft (published) games only on "Project xCloud" etc. like we're seeing in Video Streaming currently.
Why can’t there just be one simple solution for this which is peer-to-peer? Why does it have to depend on the cloud?

Peer to peer solutions are more difficult to build because there are more problems to solve:

* Peers need to be in the same network (same Wifi, Internet, etc.). If they are not, a connection needs to be established in some way.

* Peers need to know how to reach each other. How can they exchange addresses?

* Network/OS needs to allow exchanging messages (NAT, firewalls, proxies, ...). If they can't, then what?

All of these are complicated and have lots of error cases.

Cloud-based solutions make some assumptions to simplify the problem space: peers have a working internet connection, they can use DNS to look up addresses, and can reach a centralized server, usually via HTTP. It's even better if they are browser based, then peers don't need to install a new client.

As Bluetooth and Airdrop show, things don't always need to be cloud based. But also, as Bluetooth shows, it's really difficult to make it work seamless.
As others have written, many languages are like this.

My native Hungarian is also very powerful for poetry. It distinguishes between long and short vowels, allowing for close emulation of Greek and Roman poetry. Being agglutinative, it's also quite free in word order. Well, free is not the right word, because depending on the context and emphasis, only some orders are applicable. The point is, the word order carries higher level meaning, like intention and pragmatics instead of syntax.

There's also a huge amount of poetry written mostly in the 18th-20th centuries, but nobody except Hungarians can understand it so it's essentially unknown outside of Hungary.
Short answer: if you do it right, it doesn't matter.

Long answer: I have saying in statistics: "nature abhors two numbers: 0 and 100". In the real world, there is no 100%, you have a number of models and a (finite) number of trials/comparisons to whatever metric and then you have to then make a decision.

My point was that their "non randomised" models may in fact have the equivalent performance of a random model, and that if this was in fact the case, you would expect them to beat a randomised comparison roughly half the time. If you have repeated trials of multiple models, the odds of one consistently beating others (even if it's properties were essentially equivalent to a random model) in a small finite number of trials is much higher than most people realise. Essentially, they're flipping a large number of coins to determine their performance, and choosing the coins that consistently come up heads.

Another observation I'd make is that in the real world, random or averages are almost the most facetious thing to be comparing performance against. We aren't generally in a state ignorance or randomness, but you see this kind of metric all the time, even from "respected" sources. 2 if/then/else statements will generally outperform randomness universally in a huge number of fields/subject matter areas.

What's not interesting is that one can build a robot that beats/meets the average human at tennis (the average human probably is probably incapable of serving out a single game), but that one can build one that performs better than a relatively cheap implementation of our current state of knowledge of the game.

Moving from 2 if/then/else statements to an n parameter complicated model that requires training data and that no one understands and requires huge amounts of power and time to train is not only not progression, it's actually a regression on the current state of affairs. In almost all fields, random or average is the last thing you want to compare against.
mailinabox ftw.
After the first couple of months I've had zero delivery problems.
That's exactly the case for me, but I've been handing out these addresses for nearly 20 years. I also suffer from the problems with gmail that the GP referred to. I can't even forward all my email to myself without having it dumped into gmail's trashbin!
this sounds exactly like what the linked product does. applies cranial vibration behind the ears.
Right? If these companies could stop being so reliant on in person meetings they could save money on office space and just pay me more for being remote where I want to live.
Mine doesn't show up either, but I figured the verification process might have affected the spam classification.
Heh, thanks for making me feel old. I was repairing Apple ][s when you were in the womb.
> Is it just that it can be true or false, and because there's the "or", it's a sum type?

You can rote learn that, but the reason why it's intuitive to call them sum types is because you're adding the number of possible values. With product types, you multiply the number of possible values that the type represents. Consider these types:

-- 1 + 1 = 2 possible values
data Bool = True | False

-- 1 + 1 * a = 1 + a possible values
data Maybe a = Nothing | Just a

-- 1 * a + 1 * b = a + b possible values
data Either a b = Left a | Right b

-- 1 * a * b possible values
data Pair a b = Pair a b

-- 1 * a * b * c possible values
data Triple a b c = Triple a b c

`Maybe Bool` would have 1 + 2 = 3 possible values.

`Either (Pair Bool Bool) (Maybe Bool)` would have (2 * 2) + (1 + 2) = 7 possible values.

Integers would be defined as:

data Int = ... | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ...

if they were finite, but since they're not, they'd have to be defined recursively with something like:

data PositiveInteger = One | Succ PositiveInteger
data Integer = Zero | NonZero Bool PositiveInteger

where the Bool represents the sign.

Since 2 * x is the same as x + x, we can also define it as:

data Integer = Zero | NonZero (Either PositiveInteger PositiveInteger)

where Left of Either would represent negative integers, and Right of Either would represent positive integers.
Yep it seems like Deliverr and Shopify are trying to pry sellers away from Amazon FBA.

I'm actually working on an open-source fulfillment system for Shopify where users can source their inventory from ShipBob, Deliverr, any custom 3PL:

https://github.com/openshiporg/openship

Could we integrate with Convictional?
I love finding these retro-net communities. Another good one is the bboard at sdf.org.
> being inflected marks marks Latin as a primitive language, not a sophisticated one

> it is easy for a language to lose grammatical rules, but very hard to gain them

You're assuming loss of grammar over time is a mark of sophistication, but it's hard to see how. I think you have it backwards.

Literary, classical Greek and Latin absolutely destroy English in their sophistication.
here's the picture: https://www.freelancerprotocol.com/howitworks.png
How I went from my first job to a 1.5 year coding break to being a solo founder
There haven't really been non-capitalist functioning societies for a century I think. There have been short-lived experiments that quickly collapsed into either authoritarianism, war, or back to capitalism.

However, if you accept one of these short-lived societies - the very early bolshevik/Soviet regime, immediately after the revolution and before Lenin assumed complete control, was the first nation in the world to recognize the rights of gays to a normal life, and had some other very high-minded rights for its citizens. Of course, that very quickly ended and became one of the most vicious regimes in history...

If you look at older societies, the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois confederacy) in North America actually inspired some of the ideas of the US constitution. I also think a place like Athens had relatively strong human rights, if we ignore their practice of slavery and treatment of women.

By the way, when I say non-capitalist society, I am thinking of a society where the majority of the population is not working for a wage, and where most of the land and business is not owned by a small group of people ('the 0.1 percent' in the US, the party leadership in China or USSR).
I was looking for something like this
Once we have that man things in space we will have the launch capacity to launch gigantic/multi satellite space overvaluation platform for gravitational and 'normal' astronomy. Astronmy will benefit from this overall.

And what the alternative, for the rest of time not using this capability?

I understand that they are sad, but since this doesn't even effect the majority of astronomers, I really think this is kind of a non-issue.
> Most MMO stuff could easily pick a player to handle the processing of their immediate area on a background thread.

This is how you get cheating. Decentralized hosting can work (look at CoD for an example of a highly successful game that used end user systems as servers), but an MMO is probably one of the least trusting environments you can have.

It's not about immediate processing or anything, it's about having a trusted copy of the game state.

Further reading: Latency Compensating Methods in Client/Server In-game Protocol Design and Optimization by Yahn W. Bernier: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Latency_Compensatin...
my ML team is currently developing remote environments along these lines. I think I'll cry the day we have build pipelines that can auto-upgrade our conda environments overnight.
> How about this for a long term vision: any game you buy now will be totally lost in the future ("long term")

But you don't actually know that. You're paying for a license for the game and even though they're likely covered in the event of a shutdown, it's unlikely they could do it without giving back _something_. With their Project Stream beta they gave everyone a free copy of the game directly from the developer.

This assumption just doesn't make sense to me, especially for such a larger company.

> when Google decides to shut down the service (which happens all the time)

Does it happen all the time? Granted they shut down _free_ things quite a lot but things you pay for? It's significantly rarer and even in those cases they give you a large amount of time before it gets shut down.

> I'm 100% hoping this will fail, not because it isn't a technically cool product nor because i cannot imagine the potential it has - i want it to fail exactly because i can imagine all the negative potential it has.

Do you want PS Now to fail? xCloud? I really don't understand the polarization here. It seems like so many _want_ it to fail because of _theoretical_ issues. It's so bizarre.

Why not, you know, just let it compete on its own merits?

> I do not want to rent my computer nor i want to rent my gaming device, i want to fully control everything in it and i do not want any commercial scheme that erodes the marketplace which allows me to have that freedom.

You already do not have this freedom. Even with physical games if you let the device connect it can be changed or prevented from working entirely. I get that you _want_ this but considering you already don't have it, I don't understand why this would be taken out only on Stadia.
I am unfamiliar with objective. Are you referring collectively to the accusative and dative?
That makes sense though. An aggressive recruiter overusing their work email to contact cold leads will get flagged a lot, even if the domain is clean I imagine they also train based off of individual addresses.
It also works for group by.
I guess the elephant in the room, which is inside the elephant described in the article, is that China is the manufacturing hub of the entire world. They’re not just like, setting stuff on fire to emit carbon for the hell of it. We all just basically moved a bunch of our emissions over there.

Also seems disingenuous to look at total carbon and not per capita
Considering I couldn't even stream steam games from my PC to my tablet at enough of a speed to make games like Destiny playable, let alone enjoyable, you'll have to forgive my skepticism.
Absolutely agree. I hate this trend of measuring success by comparing small products to massive bloated giants of tech. You don't have to get to that level to be a success, and you're honestly probably better off if you don't.

Big social media companies are now seen as responsible for the destruction and compromise of democracy and have many more problems which wouldn't exist if they weren't so universally adopted.

I hope the future is full of many smaller niche social media sites that cater to a smaller group instead of trying to appeal to everyone.
Thank you to everyone in the comments - I noticed I have mild tinnitus in my right ear just on Friday.

Have already been to the doctors, but so far just at the "monitor it" stage with more tests to be done in a few weeks if it persists.
This is true and that's why the US should have a publicly funded, independent (think judiciary and national bank) news organization similar to the BBC in the UK. As it is, there's a plausible reason to question the motives of any of the news sources that are available to US citizens in their country.
"Astrology" (where mathematicians used to hang out before the scientific revolution, so no "computational"/"mathematical" qualifier needed) has been going on for decades in the financial and economic fields, so this one seems to be promised a bright future too!
> 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.

This is true irrespective of DoH. If software wants to ignore the OS settings and resolve names down via its own custom protocol, that's what it's going to do. Short of auditing that software and it's connections, you can't really stop it.

The OS settings are not a control, they're a convenience.
Fair enough. I should probably just enjoy a story for a story.
It's a famous Brazilian podcast, unfortunately there's no transcript, but here's the link: https://www.b9.com.br/shows/braincast/geracao-z/

They had a teenager as guest and the talk dynamic was good, with a lot of Q&A. Since I don't usually interact w/ teenagers I was completely blind to how they were using the web today.
If it every becomes status quo to work remotely at a tech company, what will that do to the housing markets? Will people flood out of the cities and towards cheaper parts of the country?
> and games for PowerPC Macs are all but impossible

Personally I played games for Mac OS 9 without any problem in standard QEMU+libvirt and performance was decent on my i7 4771.
What is the scientific or objective way of measuring "sophistication" of a language that you are using to make this claim?
When someone in a company agrees on a meeting in their office with someone from outside the company, and the visitor arrives at time well-dressed and is rejected by the companies security without any explanation, then who is at fault? It is not the visitor, it is the awful cooperation between the person in the company and their companies security.

It is entirely reasonable to show how you've handed your mail to gmail and they refused it without actionable explanation, so it is a problem between the recipient and gmail.
This does look really great! Is there ipv6 support?

Both for overlay network[1], and/or for nodes?

[1] https://github.com/slackhq/nebula/issues/6
I'm torn. Xbox game pass for PC is one of the greatest things to happen to gaming. Ps now let me play red dead 1 before #2 came out. EA access is great if you just want to play battlefield or Fifa for a month (those games don't typically last longer than that for me). But I also love my 500+ steam games. If these services keep getting better they'll definitely take over, though. Outer Worlds on Xbox pass comes to mind. You can beat that in a month for $1 right now and never think about paying retail price.
> If not, this is totally unfalsifiable and unscientific.

I don't think that's a particularly good standard to judge recalling an observation made by Belloc.
If those companies didn't need people on-site, the jobs would, and typically do, go overseas to lower-wage countries. There are tons of companies using remote work. It's called outsourcing.
In other news counties with the highest incidence of kidney cancer (very rare) have few people [1] and surprisingly many of the best schools are small [2].

In any noisy metric small samples tends to be overrepresented at the extremes. Emsi (the company behind this article) should note this where appropriate.

[1]: https://dataremixed.com/2015/01/avoiding-data-pitfalls-part-...

[2]: https://caroljacoby.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/are-small-schoo...
Agreed, I can’t tell if the Bay Area is an exception to this trend or if this trend is just wishful thinking by those who have left/want to leave.
> Qemu is also supposed to be pretty good these days, although I've never tried

I obviously can't say about every game out there, but in my limited experience it's really quite decent.
Personally, it seems to fill a niche I'm in. I don't have any high graphics quality gaming systems. The closest I have is: a 5 year old macbook, a Switch, a Quest.

Stadia would let me play some of the hi-fi titles out there without buying a more serious console or a newer PC. Hell, even the Witcher novels were fun to read and I'd enjoy trying the games. I ordered a founder's edition Stadia, but haven't received it yet.

Biggest drawback to me is that it won't support a higher quality VR headset than my Quest, like the Index, and won't support the latest Half Life game. What if the next Portal is in VR? Then I'll have to buy a PC and Stadia was pointless...
Can someone here explain this in an easier to understand way? This was a bit too dense for my understanding...
I just wanted to say that your original post made plenty sense, and that I agree. And I found parent's wife-beating analogy quite confusing and unrelated.
If you spent €2k+ on a gaming PC you're definitely not in the casual crowd.

(Or you've got a lot of disposable income I guess)
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I don’t think the volume is necessarily related to the amount of ‘distortion’ or how ‘audiophile’ the sound is. Some nightclubs have pretty incredibly clear sound but still require hearing protection to be safe. An acoustic big band can damage your hearing just fine if you are close enough.
Back in the early 90s, when a fast modem was still excruciatingly slow, a webpage could (and did!) take tens of minutes to load. I tried downloading a six megabyte file once which used up about 4 hours of my monthly quota, only for the file transfer to be aborted right near the end. I nearly cried.

Most of us then used UUCP to send and receive our email, usenet, etc from the Net. A typical call lasted 15 to 20 minutes sometimes.

Only the rich power-users could afford to log in more than once a day, it was too expensive otherwise. And the service providers were charging an arm and a leg per hour, with a monthly contract total of say 30 hours.

Around that time, one of the local members of the user-group posted to say that he had sent an email across the Net to the US, and had received a reply within 10 minutes! We were astounded at the speed of that turnaround.

Also about then, somebody told us that they had heard that the total number of computers on the Net had reached a whole million. Again, we were astounded. We literally couldn't envisage that within a decade, that number would reach billions.

And don't get me started on how twitchy I got when the 'always-on' broadband era arrived. I kept getting thoughts of thousands and thousands of dollars of provider charges racking up every month. <grin>
I'm in a similar camp. The things I value about a place of residence simply are outweighed by the downsides of these cities.

I work remotely for a medium-big tech-related company, based out of one, and had to visit HQ for a few days. The weather was much nicer than where I live this time of year, but otherwise was not my cup of tea.
Or to LA, which has all the perks California has to offer (but with better weather and better affordability than SF, while being a world-class city with more to offer than the Bay). In terms of quality of life SoCal is pretty hard to top.
It amplifies the ambient sound so it drowns the tinnitus more.
Hey, when I first visited Vegas, landed at noon, drunk by 2, vomiting by 4, asleep by 5, woke up with a hangover at 10. First time I went from sober, to drunk to hungover in the same calendar day. Fat Tuesdays margaritas man... so good... but will knock you clean the fuck out like Tyson.

But... seriously though... I like video games too. But not that much. The whole escape reality, I get it. I enjoy it too. But, if you are escaping reality more often than you are in it... that's a problem.
On top of all that, Google has said that they plan to roll out over 7500 edge computing clusters just for Stadia, all for tackling the latency problem. (Not clear if those clusters can be put in existing Google facilities or not.) Having so many edge clusters runs counter to the ability to amortize costs by ensuring fully subscribed hardware usage. Each edge cluster will be as costly as the required peak usage for each location. And I imagine Stadia will have a very distinct pattern of peaks and troughs of usage relative to local time.
The companies are also signaling that they find random in person collaboration more valuable than heads down efficiency.

I imagine there is a correlation between novel/interesting ideas that generate new revenue and being immersed in an environment of peers that you collaborate/chat with.
It takes some work to keep yourself in the will. Tiffany's getting nothing.
Also we are gone move into types of systems where its not one thing anymore. We increasingly telescopes that are consistent of multiple parts sometimes including things like a sun shade that operates far away from the rest of the parts.

All of these things are only gone be possible once launch prices are cheaper and Starlink (or something like it) is a major part of how that can happen.
It depends if the goal is mostly to inform or entertain me. For some investigative-type articles about a foreign culture/environment, it can be enjoyable. For news reporting, it's a nuisance.
I am against rent controls, but dont you have it in San Franscisco?
Indeed, I remember trying to switch to IntelliJ locally (with SSHfs on the server), a couple of times and always going back to Nuclide because of the lag with sshfs, whilst working there. Nuclide had a lot of problems, but good support for remote dev wasn’t one of them.
A Python library for writing distributed self-replicating programs