skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a company of Googles size, a 100 million dollar outlay of resources is flirting with the market.

They can get incredibly polished looking marketing pages, and advertising campaigns without actually committing.
The problem with virginity pledges is that it's a policy of "just don't find any way whatsoever to meet your needs." Generally speaking, dietary advice doesn't boil down to "All food: bad! People who eat are all going to hell! Stop desiring food at all, you evil sinner you!"

I don't think research into how to eat well really compares one-for-one to morality policies of "sex is always bad and we will allow for one and only one right way to ever get laid while still making you feel like shit for wanting it at all."
I imagine it’s because JavaScript has the lowest barrier of entry. Think tutorials, setup time, and where people generally start their journey into building websites and web apps.

Same thing for backend developers learning the front end the first time. Ecosystem and community matter for adoption
Decrease in China's pollution related to coronavirus shutdown
Not for much longer

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-is-killing-go...
If the coronavirus becomes a sustained pandemic, supply chain issues will push PC component prices up until Stadia becomes an attractive option.
Ice cream and Thai curries are about to fly through Irish skies
Are you referring to the cloth surgical-style face masks, or masks at raves?
Why was it just these 54 grad students that could t afford rent? How many grad students does the system have?
Google needs to just give up and realize they're an ad and marketing company, and continue to be very, very good at it.
Maybe it's a rearranged version of "Create interfaces, users just love that". i.e.: users just love interfaces, or users just love when you create interfaces for them. If that's the meaning, I think it may be correct, but I'm not sure.

;)
The epic approach gets a lot of hate from a vocal minority. Everyone else has had multiple storefronts for a while, and having -one- more is borderline meaningless. As long as they don’t jack up the price, how many people give a shit which executable they have to click on to launch a game?
Maybe it’s my age, but my neck hurts just watching all that neck movement.
The "for me" caveat applies to some of GP's statements, but not all. In particular, leveraging game existing libraries and improved approachability are true for everyone.

That being said, it does feel that GeForce is having a hard time keeping games on their platform. Anecdotically, ever since they launched the paid service, there's been lots of games pulled from their platform, which is a real shame.

They also don't have a transparent way of discovering new games on their platform which is a huge issue.
Backgroud of the bug's infamy and original bug bounty described here[1] with a letter from high scoring Japanese player that details the context here[2].

[1]: http://electricunderground.io/the-top-secret-dodonpachi-scor...

[2]: http://electricunderground.io/letter-from-wtn-to-the-west/
The next IETF meeting is in Vancouver in late March - we'll be discussing them there. Other than that, get involved on the mailing list, and help review the documents!

https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/jmap/meetings/

https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/jmap

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-jmap-calendars/

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-jmap-jscontact/
Fun! It's amazing how ubiquitous WS2812Bs have become in such a short time. They're wonderful for everything from wearables to signage to room lighting, and there are 12V versions available if you want to drive longer strings.

Some advice for people seeing this article in 2020: you might consider using a more modern microcontroller which supports DMA for new projects today. The ATMega328p which is used in Arduino Unos and Nanos is a reliable workhorse, but it's also slow and expensive compared to modern 32-bit MCUs.

Check out ESP8266/ESP32 or ARM Cortex-M cores. They're fast enough to make buttery-smooth animations, they have enough memory for thousands of LEDs, and DMA lets you set up a continuous data transfer to the LEDs which does not require CPU time. These days, there are plenty of ARM Cortex-M boards which work with the Arduino IDE while still being a hair cheaper than "Arduino" knock-offs, and ESP8266 boards let you control your patterns over WiFi.

If you're starting to learn about embedded development today, it's not a bad idea to start with more modern hardware; projects like MicroPython and Arduino support a wide variety of chips.

Also, if you use the Arduino IDE and appreciate their work, consider buying a genuine Arduino Nano. They cost a bit more than $3-5:

https://store.arduino.cc/usa/arduino-nano
Also work: wig, hat, not shaving, changing posture and voice. The a superior disguise would be to change the facial profile between the cheeks and nose.

One anecdotal counterexample: Bill Gates stands in line to get burgers late at night. Not everyone in the public is uncool, but then again, it's not an amusement park where crowds could easily go Beetles screaming girls street mob-style.
A representative for the union that represents more than 19,000 academic workers across the University of California system said she was surprised by the university's decision.

"We are shocked by UC's callousness, and by the violence that so many protesters experienced as they peacefully made the case for a cost of living increase," said Kavitha Iyengar, president of UAW Local 2865, in a statement. "Instead of firing TAs who are standing up for a decent standard of living for themselves, UC must sit down at the bargaining table and negotiate a cost of living increase."

Last week, the university filed an unfair labor practice charge against the union, claiming the union has failed to stop the wildcat strike by the graduate students as it is required to do by the collective bargaining agreement.

The union responded by filing its own unfair labor practice charge, alleging the university has refused to meet with the union to negotiate a cost of living adjustment.

Direct from the article. Care to back up your statement?
If me and my flat earth friends shut down the highway you need to take to work in order to protest the teaching of sphereism in schools, you wouldn't complain?
Just because you exist does not mean you deserve success.

This strain of leftism is essentially just jealousy and entitlement. I learned life isn't fair as a child it really isn't that hard of concept to grasp. That gave me the motivation to think about what I wanted out of life and to work towards that goal. I didn't get a loan from parents (they barely made ends meet growing up). I didn't go to college or a code camp. I worked delivering papers, then as a janitor ($5.65/hr), then a courier at a hospital before I got my first coding job. Instead of going out with friend in high school I stayed home and taught myself how to code. Now I have everything I want in life. I am happy. It just took actual grit and work.

There is, quite literally, endless opportunity in this country if you have the grit to find your own slice. But, because it is not dropped in some people's laps they cry foul.

Our modern society, which was created through capitalism and the defeat of socialism and communism, has lifted billions out of poverty, has made previously deadly diseases a thing of the past, and the list goes on. Instead of learning from our past successes these people throw a childish fit and refuse to work while demanding more pay. It is asinine. If money is important to you find a line of work that pays what you want. Grad school is not that.

Edit: I forgot to mention that these kids withheld students' grades from last semester as leverage. Those students have nothing to do with their compensation but are suffering due to their entitlement. The union for these kids didn't even authorize the strike.
I thought with this virus you can be be infected but not show symptoms for many days?

Hence when HHS sent untrained staff with zero protection to meet all the infected people and then they returned all over the country afterwards on commercial flights, they essentially screwed the entire USA in one easy step, practically malicious idiocrasy.
It is literally idiomatic advice. Like what's your definition for "idiomatic" and how doesn't that apply?
> You're assuming consciousness is a single bit

No, I'm not. Consciousness is a continuum, not a dichotomy. There are nonetheless systems whose degree of consciousness is indistinguishable from zero.

> there's no hard evidence about how low the scale goes.

Of course there is. It goes down to zero. Rocks are not conscious. Dead people are not conscious. Even humans under general anesthesia are not conscious.
I guess I'm not being too clear, so I'll try again. There are two concepts:

1) Positive and negative numbers (defined in terms of comparison to 0)

2) The negation of a number (i.e., the additive inverse)

They're related in that when both concepts are defined, a negative number is the negation of a positive number. However, the two concepts don't coincide. I'm sure you know this, but even over the reals '-x' is the negation of a number, but not necessarily a negative number.

(-a) * (-b) = a * b is an equation about #2, and it holds in any ring/field, even ones where #1 doesn't make sense, e.g. Z mod 5. If #1 makes sense, then this immediately implies that the product of two negative numbers is positive.

My original point was that the blog post is talking about real numbers, for which #1 and #2 are both defined. However, if it's generalized to arbitrary rings/fields, where only #2 is defined, then you can't really refer to the equation '(-a) * (-b) = a * b' as 'the product of two negative numbers is positive'.
I used an Elgato game capture card to play my Nintendo Switch through my PC. I know they also support OSX.
Looks good!

What's going on with that app icon carousel, though? On mouse-over it shows the link cursor, but nothing happens when you click the icons.

The feature list could also use some editing. I'm not sure what "enticing features" and "superb performance" have to do with "stability", and there is some random capitalization here and there.
VPS requires managing. GAE is pretty much the same thing, but technically better at the expense of higher barrier to entry. Would you feel better if LAMP hosts rebranded as PaaS?
To add, Australia is caught between US and Chinese interest, US for security, Chinese for trade.

ASPI is nominally aligned with US interests, receives funding from US State Department and is one of the largest proponents of China threat theory in Australian foreign policy. I wouldn't say their work is bad per say, but exceedingly one-sided in narrative. As long as that's understood.

>Former NSW premier Bob Carr has accused it of pumping out a “one-sided, pro-American view of the world”. Veteran foreign editor Tony Walker has slammed its "dystopian worldview" which "leaves little room for viewing China as a potential partner". "It lacks integrity and brings shame to Australia," says retired former DFAT chief and ex-Qantas CEO John Menadue. “I see it as very much the architect of the China threat theory in Australia”, adds ex-ambassador to China turned Beijing-based business consultant Geoff Raby.

>The rhetoric is extreme. And says much about how Australia’s consensus on China has dissolved.

...

>ASPI's annual reports list alternate funding sources. Sponsors from its most recent can be divided into three buckets.

>The first is filled with defence contractors such as Lockheed Martin, BAE, Northrop Grumman, Thales and Raytheon. The second, technology companies like Microsoft, Oracle Australia, Telstra, and Google. And lastly, there are the contributions from foreign governments, many being strategic competitors to China, including the Embassy of Japan and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (that is, Taiwan).

https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/the-think-tank-be...

I'm not going to label them as propaganda,they do some good work like collating data on Chinese firms abroad, but their analysis isn't neutral. They're certainly not as lolbad as ChinaTribunal and all the Falungong funded organ harvesting studies that's been spamming the internet since tradewar started.
And one more point. There are a lot of big companies in the renewable energy field, but they are for the most part a whole different set of companies than the fossil fuel ones. And the fossil fuel companies know this, and that they are going to get replaced, so they have been denying global climate change for decades.
This is cool project, the effects look great! makes me think of 'Ruiner' computer game, the main character had an animated mask set in a cyberpunk world.

Great work enjoyed the article :)
This was inevitable. There are very few people in this country who could keep their jobs after refusing to work for more than two months. If these guys couldn't afford to live in Santa Cruz, they shouldn't have chosen to go to grad school in Santa Cruz.

And I know UC-Santa Cruz has never been thought of as an elite school, but still it's quite embarrassing for the university as a whole that they admitted people this dumb into their post-graduate programs.
Or HN has a large skeptical user-base who can spot obvious propaganda a mile away?

> That's also why this thread has been knocked off the frontpage despite having 155 points and being only 3 hours old.

This post is outright government propaganda.

"The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) is a non-partisan defence and strategic policy think tank based in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, founded by the Australian government and partly funded by the Australian Department of Defence."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Strategic_Policy_In...

You seem to keen on pointing out chinese propaganda yet you seem blind to australian propaganda. Why?
It's more likely some other random virus, but it could be COVID-19. It's unlikely to be allergies in my experience. See my above response for more info.
23 according to npm, with a size of 83kb. Sounds pretty minimal to me.
I use hyperswitch (https://bahoom.com/hyperswitch) which emulates Windows alt-tab behaviour on MacOS. Not bulletproof but it mostly works.
In 1920, less than 20% of Americans completed 4 years of high school. How do you think the average economic status of that group compared to the whole country?

As old limits cease to be sufficiently exlusive, new ones are introduced.
In this case it doesn't matter. The indiscernibility of a pattern has the same effect as the absence of a pattern, namely, I can't tell whether or not the decice that my phone is asking me about is actually my computer or malicious hardware embedded in my USB cable.
http://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1005
I dont think you understand what it is like in some job markets. Once you are in an industry you might be able to sustain a career without certifications but how is someone supposed to break into an area when people only hire candidates with "experience" or certifications? Certifications were proof that you got off your ass and learnt and passed an exam. People that hire do not trust resumes anymore because candidates can put anything in a resume to make them sound good. You could construct a lab at home and write about your learning activities but in my experience no one trust such "evidence" since people can just copy and paste other peoples work.
Google used to use the term beta a lot in there past. I don't understand why Stadia wasn't tag with the beta or early access this would of put the problems and the media more at ease until the product was stable
Being downvoted? 0 points doesn’t seem like a largely unpopular opinion. I’m making a high level point. I am aware of the details that contribute to user experience, and latency specifically, but most of them are unnecessary, and even detract from a conversation at this level.

Why do you mention google’s implementation as if it was something I was suggesting would be suitable for competitive gaming? I am suggesting that total player-to-player latency is reduced if all clients and the server are combined into one system.
Thanks for sharing it! Really interesting, and well done!
Is it though? Certainly some folks are over-reacting, but the vast majority of the population seems to be going about their normal routines. And considering that it might be possible to push transmission rates lower by educating the public on some fairly basic preventative measures, it probably makes sense to err on the side of caution/over-reaction while also trying to avoid triggering mass panic. Public Health officials are aware of all of this, and I assume they are doing their best to thread that needle as we speak. But I also don't have a ton of confidence in this current administration, so I guess we will see how this shakes out.
Magic the gathering decks (60-100 cards) also seem to trigger this as they also show up as dark blocks on x-ray
By itself that's a good trade if you need vastly more signatures than keys. I can imagine package management tools would accept much larger keys (maybe you have a dozen keys total in use at any time) for smaller signatures (every single package and metadata update needs signing).

Of course other factors may dominate anyway.
It'd be interesting to back the claim that "Clojure is (slowly) eating the world.".

Interestingly, that's absolutely not my perspective and I don't see any sources for that statement in the post.
Yeah, most of those systems have an automated dunning system built in.
Except that you can’t actually use stadia to play on the low end equipment you already have.
It only works on a select few high end phones, it only works on the most expensive chrome cast, and it requires a high end internet connection. The people who have the money for that stuff is likely to easily afford a Nintendo Switch which can actually be used for gaming everywhere without needing an internet connection.
"The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) is a non-partisan defence and strategic policy think tank based in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, founded by the Australian government and partly funded by the Australian Department of Defence."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Strategic_Policy_In...

So yes, lets see what both sides have to say. Or neither. You can't defend one set of propagandists while rejecting another without seeming a bit biased or agenda-driven.
Good. I spent about 15 years hiring and managing MS devs and these certs were always a red flag to me. It almost guaranteed the person would only know the MS exam way and would have no critical thinking capabilities. They also rarely knew anything beyond the MS world.

They were a very strong indicator of someone’s ability to pass an exam, not that they were a good engineer.

From talking to other disciplines, the networking and infra certs were useful but everything I saw about dev certs was negative.

I guess they were useful in helping thin down a pile of CVs as these went straight to the bottom.
https://jcs.org/2018/03/20/dolch64

https://twitter.com/jcs/status/1232779884751204354
Space Debris by the Numbers
Maybe this is silly given Google's vast resources, but I do worry about the future of a company that seems to consistently fall short when it comes to marketing and product management.

Google probably still has a lot of the best engineering talent in the world, but without coherent product strategy and marketing what good does it do? When was the last time Google made a big bet that achieved the same level of success as their earlier products? Does Google's inability to diversify its revenue stream make it more vulnerable to disruption than say, Amazon, in the long run?
because they perform a service. they teach classes. that's literally what they were withholding - grades for classes they TA. so there is plenty of demand for that service. it has nothing to do with the labor market after they graduate. god some people just fall all over themselves to be smug.
I have been writing helper libs with our shared logic in Clojure (CLJC). It is pretty nice to have the same core on the frontend and backend. It is easy enough to use the conditionals to call a Java fn vs. Javascript for certain logic (I.e Dates, etc)
Then they have to actually provide support until at least X date. Which, if it’s not successful, they don’t want to do.
The urban core of most American cities are pretty hollowed out and artificial in my experience. It's changing slightly, but I encourage you to see some of these mid western cities that don't get much limelight yourself. Have a night out in Cleveland, Ohio, as I've done several times.

All will seem pretty standard, you go to a bar on a street with four other similar bars, then you realize that these four bars are the only places with people in them in the entire downtown area. You leave the bars and walk a block and you can hear your footsteps and thoughts echo off of the empty blocks. You might be lucky to see another soul on foot. There is just a lack of life in a lot of American urban cores, and that's not a feeling but a fact backed with population data. Cleveland in the 1950s had nearly 900k people living in the city. Today it's a bit over 350k people living in the city, a large portion of it is literally hollow (or demolished and converted to surface parking lots) due to large swaths of the population moving to new suburban developments in the 1950s, and a lack of immigration back into the urban core. The overall metro population of Cleveland has been pretty stable, if declining, but the city itself only appears as a city from 9am to 5pm, and during the odd sports game, as a result. Restaurants and stores might only be open for weekday lunch because there isn't foot traffic otherwise.

This isn't true in every city, however. For instance, Los Angeles experienced a similar white flight effect with the development of their surburban neighborhoods, however in the wake of this population shift, immigration continued to occur and the population continued to rise at double digit rates every decade. Now, the former neighborhood of the Los Angeles elite of the 1920s, Westlake, is a thriving community of central american immigrants and the densest part of the entire city. The same cannot be said about the Cleveland analog, millionaires row on Euclid Ave, which used to count Rockefeller and Carnegie among their storied residents.
I thought the same thing as they. From the article:

"The strike, which is not authorized by the union that represents the graduate student employees, is in violation of the current bargaining agreement, the university said."

It's not clear that the union authorized it, despite what they're quoted as saying further down the article.

I don't know enough about unions to know whether they could authorize a strike after not explicitly authorizing initially.

It reads like the union didn't authorize the strike, but was fine seeing what would happen/causing a reaction.
I'm an undergrad at UCSC right now and have found the entire strike to be more detrimental to their cause. They've lost so much undergrad support after disrupting a STEM midterm and shutting down campus causing us to miss the classes we have paid for. I even lost my grades last quarter as my TA was fired ( of the 54 ) and he has refused to hand them over post firing. What it has done to the undergraduates is a little ridiculous and I felt for them in the beginning, but the strike has made me be a supporter against them unfortunately.
I read a tweet on Reddit: if you think you made it through hard times okay but think it's okay for other people to go through the same hard times then you in fact did not make it through okay.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19955830