skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Higher scores on prestige-seeking were associated with narcissistic extraversion and extraversion more generally, while the dominance aspects were strongly associated with narcissistic antagonism (a willingness to exploit others for personal gains), and related to lower conscientiousness, agreeableness and openness.

This is terribly interesting, especially if you've read Haidt. It means that every political argument on the internet will naturally split up into left-associated "virtue signalers" and right-associated "trolls."
Because designers spend an entire year designing what they are going to sell as their line for the year and when they show it on the runway, Zara takes a photo and has it mass produced and sent to stores in two weeks. They do this consistently. It is dodgy.
I think where they really messed up is how they've been responding to people about it. They're literally telling people that they'll listen to feedback but also that they won't change anything, all in the same response. The way they treat their customers is really going to hurt them in the long run, especially as other solutions come out (Microsoft Teams already has significantly more monthly users than Slack does).
> If you have Stadia Pro and you stop paying, you lose access to the free games that are included with Pro, which right now are Destiny 2 and Samurai Showdown. This is the same as Xbox Live Gold and the Free Games with Gold.

Games With Gold are actually free. You need the Gold membership to get them, but you can unsubscribe - they're yours.

Edit: You may be thinking of Game Pass, which behaves in the way you describe.
The Google Docs word processor objectively sucks, it's barely a rich text editor.

To wit, you can't even define custom styles!
Doubt it, the website says it was built 'from the ground up' for a VR experience.
To people that don't know better.
I mean the downside to a counterfeit card is probably that it is going to fail very quickly. I'd think even grandma would notice if she can't access her photos after a few months?
> Thanks for the smug talking down to. :)

Absolutely. There's a lot of people who don't understand how science works outside of a parochial impression from physics, and if I can't get some pleasure from dealing with it, then why bother?

> We don't have a second one to use as a control.

Like all observational sciences, basically.

> In any case, your analogy is actually very poor. You can check and be 100% sure if a gun is loaded.

All analogies can be strained out of usefulness.

> You can't check what will happen to the climate in 50 years because it hasn't happened

We already did. We're fifty years in and seeing the effects.
Amazon needs to be broken up.
I live in Atlanta and have to go to Dallas for work every so often. Compared to Atlanta, it's too flat and has no trees.
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Cool. Can I short stadia specifically? I'm pretty sure you understood what I was saying.
Given the accuracy (or lack of it) of individual finger movements on the Valve Index controller, it's not going to be anything more than a gimmick. The tech looks impressive in a demo, but our hands are used to manipulating things with a much finer touch than the Index controller allows so it doesn't translate very well to games.
Realistic fusion drive with Epstein Drive-like performance
A Political Commentator here in Britain refers to this from time to time as the "Footballification" of Politics.

https://mobile.twitter.com/mrjamesob/status/1153560242908794...
Would you be interested in sharing your project?
I love it when companies realize that a problem impacting a « free » customer could impact their paying customers too.

It’s like, free beta test report so you don’t piss off your real customers. Maybe not something to just trash.
Microsoft thinks there is an audience here too, given Project xCloud.

Maybe there isn't enough high speed internet deployed in the world, but there certainly are a lot of devices capable of streaming given how many people already have an Android or iOS device on them at all times. Both of which support Bluetooth and most modern game controllers. Some of which have better screens than most people have at home. Some of which have better specs than, as just one interesting example, Nintendo's Switch.
He.

He's talking about the WeWork guy, not the theranos woman. I think it's a strange sentence, but technically correct.
Events like this are the modern moral equivalent of the giant, gaudy, gilt-encrusted palaces of the 17th century.

I think this vastly overstates it. Versailles cost some significant fraction of France's GDP - possibly as much as 25% in some years. WeWork's $10B is a mere drop in the US' $20T GDP.
Not compiling is a great outcome when you've introduced an error.
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Unfortunately that has become a loaded term because it was only used by "one side" against "the other side." Often that term is rejected and ignored outright because of this. But yes, I agree.
It's very cute!
its not over the top, its under the top. it is only your social-triangulation-reflex that makes you feel its over the top. 4C is a fucking nightmare, no one should be at all unclear about that. I think aspects of 2C and most of 3C will be, but even if you think i'm too pessimistic you cannot dispute 4.

the "tide turning" is wonderful but we have very specific deliverables and deadlines to hit. lots of people love to give optimistic status updates at meetings for projects that are not going to hit their deadlines. the catch is, this time, "dead"line is not a metaphor.
Wonder if I can do Oculus Quest + PC Link + Index controllers. Don't really want to buy an Index, but the controllers look really nice. Also considering Quest since my biggest gripe before was the wired headset and how heavy it was overall.
A cool idea that I'd never ever ever try. Half Life 1 on low res was scary enough.

In all seriousness though – is there any studies done on potential PTSD-like effects that arise from this sort of VR game?
In fairness, her answer to “ it what if I need it later?” is “then you can just buy it again!”

Her shtick has always been “get rid of stuff you don’t need” layered on top of rabid consumerism. This doesn’t seem the slightest bit out of character.
They did; I just looked up someone's post about USB-C standards the other day
mrustc can compile Rust to C.
Appears to be fairly on rails, which I guess eliminates the whole movement thing.

Good to see them releasing something, even if it is a narrow market. Seems to be a lot of doubt in them after lackluster Artifact and Epic Store entering their space.
Here in the UK, we're going through a phase where right-wing middle-aged men are dismissed as "gammons" and progressive young people are dismissed as "snowflake millennials". People that don't buy into Brexit hype are remoaners, people that want to nationalise services are commies/marxists/trots, people that think the free market would be good for the NHS are neoliberal scum, people that are uncomfortable with current immigration levels are fascists etc... . All in the service of categorising and not having to apply any real thought or empathy.

I don't know if it's significantly worse than the situation 50 or 100 years ago, but it does get on my nerves.
Unless you are a divorce lawyer.
If you are looking for specific games and already have a Switch for portable gaming, I would suggest that you buy an Xbox One S All-Digital Edition during the Black Friday sale, which I've seen announced for $150 [1]. That's on par with Stadia's hardware costs, doesn't need a subscription for single player games, and has a much larger library of games.

[1] https://www.onmsft.com/news/you-can-grab-an-xbox-one-s-all-d...
One big difference is in sports there is a common higher order set of rules which are already established and everyone follows. Contrast that with the outside world where many higher beliefs, e.g. religion are no where agreed upon.
Keyhole became Google Earth.
Pretty lame that there's no Linux support. Valve was supposed to be on our side. Oh well :(
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Trump has publicly interferd with the process and apparently also pressured Mattis in private. I think Amazon has a case.
A criminally overlooked feature of this game is the release of the dev tools used to make maps and mods. Giving the tools away for such a powerful base game is what gave HL1 and HL2 it's incredible staying power.
Yes on the 360 because its Store was never built with Memberships in mind. No on the Xbox One (and PC where applicable) where a lapse in your Gold status will make those games unplayable until you rejoin.
They don't have the game dev experience or the library. Seems obvious. They can stream the games for the same reason Netflix can't buy a single DVD and stream that movie to everyone on the planet.
Huh, I imagine that internally nobody notices this type of problem because they all use keyboard shortcuts and hit 'f' to forward.
People like to pretend that karma/upvotes/likes aren't "real" but they absolutely are real, if everyone even slightly considers them a symbol of status online.
I for one love it.

That is all.
> [...] which I can only take to mean that they did work, just not to parent's satisfaction.

I think you're succumbing to a moderation fallacy. It's simply not true that things must have some positive aspects to offset their negative aspects, or to use that belief to somehow interpret "sucked" as that they worked well enough to deserve better than the lowest rating (which may have increased after the replacements arrived, all we know is that the rating remained less than 5 stars.)

You can't consider having an extreme opinion on something as prima facie evidence of bias without distorting your perception of the world.
Went through the e-commerce site they reference. Besides spiritualist tools like tuning forks (useless to some, some people dig it, I try not to hate on fandoms of any flavor), I wouldn't call anything in there completely useless.

Maybe overpriced, but overpriced, high quality, purposefully minimalistically designed items are a staple now. Given the number of questions you can find on /r/minimalism of "what is the most minimalistic toothbrush", this is mostly harmless in the way capitalism tends to be.

The store is for people trying to deal with their anxiety by adjusting their environment to be more like a luxury spa/hygge cottage in the Alps. At the point where buying things from her website sounds awesome, I'm guessing you've already read the books and gotten something out of them.
I disagree with this 'legacy software's moniker, all the most productive software falls into this category.

Look at the Autodesk Suite, Adobe Suite, Enterprise Architect, blender3D, Unity game engine, a traditional IDE like Jetbrains or VisualStudio.

They have waay more power than the their web-based or, worse yet, electron competitors.
Can't read because of the paywall, but their previous response amounted to "No, you."

>The Times article is “distorted and factually incorrect,” Smith said in a statement in response to the article. The CEO lobbied for the tax cuts in 2017.

>“Pertinent to this outrageous distortion of the truth is the fact that unlike FedEx, the New York Times paid zero federal income tax in 2017 on earnings of $111 million, and only $30 million in 2018 — 18% of their pretax book income,” he said.

>Smith didn’t dispute any specific details of the article in his statement, but challenged Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger to a public tax debate.

Edit: Source for the above is https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nyt-fexex-case-study-shortcom...
Marie Kondo's main criterion for keeping stuff is whether it makes you happy to have it. "Does this spark joy?" It has nothing to do with the utility of the items in question.
In order to make this work, hardware-wise, you'd need the lighthouses, too.
> little more than an admiration delivery device

Actually if anything she was the primary driver of the plot. Freeman, being a passive mute, follows what Alyx and co are doing for the majority of the plot(s).
I can see some big usage for this in medicine. Projecting stuff to help doctors performing complicated surgeries.
Why is paying by credit card a problem?
In the US, we tend to use food calories, where 1 Calorie == 1 kilocalorie. The capitalization of Calorie is intended to show the difference in units, but in most written language, often isn't used.
Another instance of how making something "cute" (subjective) likely makes it harder to use (objective).
Gates has always operated at the world level. In business, he wanted nothing less than total domination. The older, kinder Gates has a philanthropic ideology that is no less bold - he's thinking big, at the global level.

Being separated from that, Microsoft is doing what they are supposed to do - be Microsoft-centered, and focus on profit. But they can be more objective, with the founder's emotions no longer driving the company's direction.
I remember something like this, but everything took up more space.

edit: Just decided to log in and check ;) So what I didn’t like was the way it popped up from the side instead of actually doing what GReader (and TT-RSS and Newsblur) can do: Simply popping down the current article, and not switching the view.
It's great all this additions on Cranelift for supporting multi-value returns. We will update Wasmer soon to support it as well.
Here's the multivalue return proposal (Phase 3 in the WebAssembly proposals): https://github.com/WebAssembly/multi-value

Quick question: Is multivalue return supported in LLVM?
Or said in other way ...code compiled from Rust or C/C++ will output Wasm with multivalue returns? Or only written-by-hand WebAssembly can take advantage of this at the moment?

EDIT: after reading the article more thoroughly: LLVM doesn't support multivalue returns in Wasm yet. They are using Walrus to do wasm to wasm transformation from the return metadata info they have in wasm-bindgen (Rust).
I'm not entirely sure what OP's idea of a "startup" or "the next level", aside from taking a regular "small business" and turning it into a "slight-larger small business". However, one of my childhood dance teachers founded a small dance theater (http://toygunstheatre.com/) which seems to have grown in the past few years, so the later is not unheard of.
Maybe it's time to up that warranty period? Perhaps even different values for different kinds of products (3 years for a phone, 8 years for a washing machine, etc.).
I think it's unlikely that Adam would be liable for having accepted an inflated valuation. Courts typically give management pretty wide latitude to make business decisions as along as they can give some plausible explanation. It's called the "business judgment rule" in corporate law and gives the company quite a bit of deference[0]. It derives from Delaware General Corporate Law § 141(a), then gets carved out through case law.

That said, there are a few ways to overcome it. Self-dealing is one way, assuming Adam didn't disclose the transactions. Fraud would be another.

All this stuff is pretty fact-specific. We can guess, but there's a lot we won't know until it gets litigated.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_judgment_rule
That's not always true. I don't think it would matter how much Amazon money offered Apple, they aren't going to install an Echo end cap.
We had dramatically different experiences with HL2 if that's your opinion of Alyx. That's even more true if you're including Episodes 1 & 2 into that.
That’s pretty vague, can you be more specific? What issue do you have in mind? What is an example of someone claiming that “speech merits a violent response”?
Minimalism is something only the truly rich can actually afford to do: https://priceonomics.com/post/45447777955/is-minimalism-just...

Money is the ultimate backup for missing things or for things that are needed infrequently. Regular people can't afford to keep minimal, once you have paid for the item, it needs to be kept for future uses, even if those are very infrequent.
He said "adopted". Not "invented". PGP is not main-stream and probably never will be.

Such technologies have to be done behind the scenes and presented seamlessly, or they will probably never take off.
It's been done-

https://thefutureofthings.com/3029-the-return-of-the-3d-crys...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U80TK6PAVc
I’ve been using servers spun up by this for two years now. Worth it for the dns blocking abilities alone. Made phone browsing tolerable again. Thanks!!
It's certainly stuff that I would never purchase, but if they spark joy for her, it seems perfecty aligned with her philosophy. Tastes differ. Meh.
I have a Vive, just been cagey about updating. The Quest looks like the kind of casual experience that I wanted after having a Vive since launch.
Microsoft already announced they're working on xCloud: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-streaming/project-xclou...

Google is going to face the classic conundrum that anybody who's ever tried to enter the gaming industry has had to face, it doesn't matter how complex the technology is, every generation of gaming has some degree of complexity. Google will need a killer exclusive franchise.

When Microsoft entered the market with the original Xbox, it took Halo to make them competitive. When Nintendo did it in the 80's, it was Super Mario Bros. Sega did it with Sonic. Google needs a flagship IP or they'll fail.
If your concern is efficiency of production, than pollution per unit of GDP is valid. If you want fairness based on population, then you can look at pollution per person, but that metric won’t really tell you how/where things can be improved.

What it does show is that China’s CO2 use is mainly industrial while in America it is much more personal
Any explanation of why social media is toxic without mentioning the Like button is incomplete.

All of the status-seeking behaviors the researchers describe existed before Likes, but by gamifying social status Facebook threw gasoline on the narcissism fire.

And yes, Facebook didn’t invent the like button (that was Friendfeed) but they made it a standard.

Also worth noting that a key component of Facebook’s initial positioning was that it did NOT have any gamified counters, unlike MySpace and Bebo which were fueled by profile views and friend counts.

Source: was Bebo engineer/exec 2007.
I've not seen any OS stability issues, my main issue has been the Mail rewrite not listing messages reliably. Pretty frequently messages show up as a blank white box. But it hasn't been crashing.

13.2 had an issue with apps terminating and having to be relaunched every time you backgrounded them, but that hit the iPhone too so it wasn't an iPad multi-window problem. Speculation I saw was blaming iPhone 11 camera RAM requirements for more aggressive memory management, but who knows.
Yeah exactly. I want to see Dynamicland-style AR rooms based on this
Trump and Warren aren't the only two candidates. Just because Warren might be worse for their business than Trump doesn't preclude someone else being better for it than both of them.

And personally, I'd prefer if they banned election campaign ads, and other election-related advertising, from all sides (including people who aren't part of either party), instead of subjectively approving only ads they consider sufficiently honest. They, and any other corporation (be it a sole proprietorship or a trillion-dollar monopoly behemoth), shouldn't be in the business of "curating the truth" for the public.
Ah. I stand corrected. Thank you.
I'm not pleased that Valve has shifted its focus from developing great games to being a digital platform rent-extractor that tinkers with VR and disinterestedly ships occasional updates to Dota and CS:GO, but I'm optimistic this might be good, even if it's only out of motivated self-interest to drum up the VR hype again.

What I mean is, I get the sense Valve is unhappy that VR hasn't had its system-selling killer app yet, and I wonder if Alyx is trying to be that. If so, I'm reasonably hopeful they'll push hard to make this a genuinely good game that shows VR's full potential, rather than a disposable gimmick.
You forgot that stadia also lacks nearly all of the nice-to-gave features already provided on consoles. You don't even get a notification when you unlock a trophy.
Actually VR games and simulations reduce the likelihood of developing PTSD.
I stopped reading his blog as it got longer and longer and I got less and less signal out of it. Haven't checked in years.
it's not going to be anything more than a gimmick.

Not sure if I share this sentiment, I read elsewhere Valve is treating this as their next "flagship" release, a true first class VR game (hopefully not just some 30 minute "experience" that ends right as it's getting good). It this were literally any other game studio I'd have an eyebrow raised right now, but when Valve puts their full muscle and creative energy behind something as a flagship, lead-off hitter, they've yet to disappoint.
Ask HN: Should I go for a CS degree?
Currently I am working in a completely unrelated field in a non target tech hub but have been debating about what I want to do. In my spare time I have been writing BS little utilities such as a sports card DB (that was then broken by a change in website code) and also have been working on a desktop application to solve an issue I have noticed. Having said that I am Ok with Python, working with Tkinter, Beautifulsoup, and other libraries. I may eventually dive into ML with Python but have not had enough time to work on it. Further I have been learning Java to get outside only programming in Python.having said all this I am not sure whether I will be staying with this job so I have been debating about going back to school for CS (currently I have a BA in Business Administration with a minor in Marketing). This school would be a state school and would be about 5k a year for tuition. Further they offer certificates and was thinking of maybe doing that and adding a few classes here and there before committing to a full CS degree. I am wondering for the cost would it be worth it to pursue it or just get a certificate and call it a day (as Algorithms and Data Structures are probably the biggest thing I need to work on)? Also the unemployment rate is low where I am so find A job would not be a problem but if possible I would like to work on more application development stuff instead of web based stuff.
My mom ran ubuntu from ~2009-2014, she never had to run sudo from a terminal.

What are you imagining goes wrong in so many linux deployments that requires everyone to edit /etc files or run command line programs all the time? Just because enthusiasts do it (enthusiasts do a lot of crazy stuff to Windows too) doesn't mean it's common.
You can do this already for slack in chromium browsers. Click Menu -> More Tools -> Create Shortcut. The app will run in an app window and NOT a tabbed browser window, just like a PWA, with it's own dock icon and cmd-tab icon.
>It's his fault because he accepted the price for his business! He was in numerous conversations where people wanted to invest in WoWork and he told them that the valuations they were investing at were not just reasonable, but under the real market price - which is why venture buys into companies.

What? It's his fault that he was able to hoodwink all these amazingly smart venture capital owners into investing?

No. What happened was some venture capital owners made a bet that they could find a bigger sucker to dump their shares on. But that bet went sideways. Nothing more. There is no indication of any fraud yet. Just some people that thought an eccentric personality could help them ride the wave of funding.
I still remember the first time I saw screen grabs of screenshots of Half Life 2 from PC Gamer, back in 2004 (or was it 2003). I thought I was looking at real-life photos and didn't realize they were from a video game initially. Then, watching the tech demo with all the cool physics really excited me.

Maybe it's because I'm older now, but this didn't "knock me out" like that did.