skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stadia's controller is also supposed to work like this
I don't see how it isn't agains the 1st amendment right to peaceably assemble. I could see it if it was a blanket lock down, maybe even on just 18-22 year olds, but it still has carve outs for going to school or work. Maybe someone with more experience could chime in, but I don't see how the government restricting how people can gather is constitutional. Only being allowed to participate in government approved activities is a slippery slope I'd rather we don't get started down.
That’s the clause that says your employer owns every idea that you come up with in the shower. These often go way beyond the “anything done with company equipment or on company time” thing, which is actually already handled by standard employment law.

https://dilbert.com/strip/2006-05-20
What good is a dashboard if it doesn’t show actual status
What's the point though? There were 2 options. Pay the equivalent of $10 USD or dig graves. AKA make poor people dig graves.

Plus, the article says it was only 8 people which won't have any actual impact.

I can't imagine any rational person thinking this would be effective. "Oh, I'm digging a grave for someone who has lived 3x more than me." If that were successful nobody would smoke, drink, eat bad food.
I always admired PHP’s runtime for the way it serves web requests. I think it’s a similar ethos to that described in the post, even though Erlang and PHP are quite different.

Start from nothing. No shared state with previous requests. Plough right through as many errors as you can. Log them, but don’t stop. Keep executing code until you run out of things to do.
Makes sense then that they'd be banned from visiting anyone.
If your product isn't documented it doesn't exist
> I have the choice

A lot of people don't or aren't even aware of the dangers of walled gardens. Like it or not goverments job is to regulate and protect people and the economy: be it monopolies, user data or anti-competitive practices.

Libertarians aren't ios target, it's average casual tech ignorant people who'll blindly trusts the system because they don't care.
Ironically, this increases their own page’s pagerank
Not much point raising a carnivore for meat, since you have to raise another animal to feed them.

Dogs are technically omnivores, but good luck fattening a herd of dogs cheaply on vegetables.
I would have guess two pounds, based on how often I see that in the grocery store. Though five pound bags seem to be getting more popular over time.
You have no scientific evidence that these students not wearing surgical masks or cloth face coverings has anything to do with covid spread. We have decades, nay a century, of science showing that face covering requirements do not slow the spread of a pandemic. There will absolutely be lawsuits over the rash, panicked, capricious, arbitrary actions of authorities during this crisis.
Credibility goes right out the window when you say "No large gatherings! Unless they're a protest/riot for a cause we support! Or a funeral for a late supreme court justice on our side."

If you want people to follow rules, you have to be consistent in how those rules are applied.
Chat coming back up. Hulu was down, appears to be back up?

Edit: YouTube livestream is up, despite downdetector claim that it is down.

Docs, inside and outside of GSuite appears to be up.

1836 Pacific: Downdetector shows improvement across Google services.

1840 Pacific: Downdetector shows marked improvement across Google services. They don't have units, but ~80% improvement in many services over peak down-ness.

1852 Pacific: Continued improvement.

1854 going for a walk. Looks like things are generally headed for normality.
normal != average. I didn't read the article. just guessing they confuse the 2 words.
familiarity breeds comfort.

A common hack to get your kids to eat anything, is to force them to try it at least 10 different times. They always keep spitting it out or crying they don't like it. Eventually one time you feed it to them and they get used to it and like it, as if they never threw a fit with it before. Not everybody's parents did this. That's why there's grown adults that eat nothing but pizza or steak and potatoes...

P.S. that being said, I still don't like broccoli.... Might be one of the only foods I've never liked in any shape or form...

P.P.S. I've had that salty black licorice before when I visited Sweden. I enjoyed it in very small doses.
They aren't ending them, though. Just prohibiting them.

It seems comically naive to expect that the population that faces virtually zero downside and has the greatest propensity for risky behavior would obey such an order.
I agree that we should not declare it as without obstacles. But neither as useless because it doesn't meet the demand of "gamers"

I used to be a gamer, playing hours competing online every day around the Diablo 2/Warcraft 3 times but have since largely lost interest in it as a hobby.

These days I'm more interested in killing a half hour here and there, sometimes a rainy sunday afternoon. Almost exlusively more narative driven or not very mechanically demanding single player, often turn based games and couch coop.

I'm pretty happy with my Switch as the only gaming device, but I find it a hassle to look up which games are out, check reviews to see if their worth buying, maybe wait for a discount and wait for download. Then feeling bad for not having finished most.

So a service which I can just pull up when I feel like it, and click on a random game and immediately start playing for a while then either move on or come back is very attractive to me, and unlike other streaming services I don't care much about owning the product.

That said, I have never tried cloud gaming service, but for the convenience I'd be willing to make quite some concessions. E.g. keeping the Switch for the 2-3 fast paced party games I play.
"General Intelligence" is a well defined term and there's a lot of literature on why it makes sense.

There are many human cognitive skills that seem to be very helpful for some specific tasks (e.g. noticing that someone is watching you, identifying the pitch of a strummed guitar string) but are not very useful in general, but others (e.g. analogous thinking) that we found to be relevant to a vast range of cognitive tasks. There are also tasks that require mostly the second kind of skill. An animal that can perform them well should be considered intelligent even if it doesn't have perfect pitch and can't notice that it's being watched. An animal that we can't get to perform them well may or may not be intelligent - perhaps we're not good at convincing it to try hard.

Some relevant links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)
and also, I guess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc...
Looks like it might be fixed now?
If it matters or not... as an unaffected person, but an open source + license nerd, I like the outcome of what you've done. (and yes... "open source in spirit" seems like your hearts are in the right place).

When you're talking about the licenses I think it's great that you've introduced the talking points of "right to repair/improve" ... that's something which is guaranteed via DFSG (b/c you can do what you want with it), but it's great to see it called out as a more fundamental concept expressed in "non-legalese".

You're also looking at "protections" which could be called out as: "the protection from $CLOUD_PROVIDER taking our work and using it to strangle our company and the people who made it" ... probably with a different wording though.

Have you considered writing down a set of principles / protections which you could rally other businesses around as well? Something like the DFSG guidelines, but organized around protecting potential revenue streams?

What would it look like if you had another option / logo on the creative commons license picker? (ie: "$NO + $CLOUD + $MONEY")... https://creativecommons.org/choose/

What would your "Timescale Monetizeable Source Available Guidelines" look like, and could they be expressed as snappily as you've expresed "Right to Repair" and "Right to Improve"?
I was willing to at least consider anything Sanger had to offer, given his CV. But generally I fast fail [...] any media critic leading with "liberal bias".

Especially when one of the main criticisms is "It's biased to say a false statement is false".

Sanger's fundamental misunderstanding is that a neutral point of view doesn't mean that the thing you're writing about is also going to be neutral.
So they're using history.push() rather than history.replace().

I love the history API when it's used approprately, but it is a double-edged sword that has to be used carefully. News sites injecting their homepage in history on an article sometimes make me wonder if it's worth it.
Neat! I wonder if a biologist might describe this type of behaviour (attacking perceived threats to the creature that produces your renewable food source) as primitive agriculture.

Maybe the crows were just tending to your children like livestock? ;)

People talk about ants practicing agriculture, but sounds like maybe these crows are making a foray into it as well :)
It generates Playwright scripts which automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit. Ref: https://playwright.dev/
"collectivist, utilitarianist thinking, and it gets us to a bad place."

You can't proclaim this as a universal principle. Modern civilisation requires a significant amount of collectivism.

Think of the justice system. Back in 18th century England prisoners were charged for being in Jail and by judges to be judged - with massive corruption. Courts were not open to public.

There was no police or detectives - they were seen as totalitarian and opressive. Arrests depended on hue and cry and violent criminals openly boasted of their deeds in pubs
> I'd argue that younger people are less likely to vote because they're less likely to find politicians who they want to vote for, so just telling them to vote largely misses the point.

So vote and get active in a political party, then?
Yahoo comments are disabled, so I will say this here: What a bunch of pussies. Contrary to popular belief, you will probably not die if you catch the virus.
I understand the context but I think you've actually largely misunderstood the point of the original poster you were quoting:

> To me the iPhone is a console, end of story.

That poster was suggesting the iPhone is an intentionally locked-down device similar to the way that consoles are locked-down devices. They also suggested there are alternative devices on the market (Android for smartphones, PCs for gaming) that are not locked-down for users who prefer that approach.

Whereas you've interpreted the original post to mean that smartphones have the same level of utility as consoles, but no one actually suggested that. So you jumping in to point out that smartphones are more useful than consoles is, while true, not really relevant to this particular discussion.

> The parent said "the iPhone is a console, end of story" which means all smartphones are consoles. Right?

No, see my above explanation. Regardless, they specifically used the word iPhone, why did you think it was appropriate to interpret that to mean all smartphones? If I said "a Ferrari is X" no one would reasonably interpret that to mean "all vehicles are X".
That's not what they said. They're pretty clearly taking a weak stance, and even disclaimed as much.
Police seize 345,000 used condoms that were cleaned and sold as new
And lots of people avoiding the doctor’s office or hospital because they are afraid to go.
I've seen Google Login fail on multiple services including Trello
GNU Artanis web-framework (Guile Scheme)
Search handles probably an order of magnitude more changes per second than GMail+Docs combined
Not trying to convince you otherwise, but rather maybe explain some of the rationale for prodigy using the freemium model.

Education is a hard market to break into and build adoption of a new product. Budgets are very constrained or virtually nonexistent... in America some teachers even have to purchase classroom supplies or tools with their own wages.

With that in mind (and maybe other reasons that I do not know), Prodigy took the decision to offer their service to schools and teachers at no cost, otherwise it would’ve been much more difficult to build adoption in that market. It’s very hard to convince teachers, schools and boards to allocate budget on a new initiative, when they are already spread so thin.

Now to build a service like prodigy, it takes game artists and developers to build the game, web developers to build the website and teacher dashboards, teachers to build the prodigy math curriculum, and then all the supporting teams too; data scientists, product owners, testers, operations, etc.

They either need some sort of investment or revenue stream to make the company run; and this is where they adopted a freemium model.
Of course it's worth it! You gained valuable insight on which sites utilise a particular dark pattern, and that they probably use others.

I don't bother clicking on TechCrunch articles for this reason.
Or, the exact opposite. College campuses aren't exactly known for dense populations of people the most at risk (people over 70.)

College campuses are the best possible location for herd immunity to take place.
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> it's not following the "spirit" of the community.

Which community are you speaking for here? "Free Software" or "Open Source"? They are separate communities with a long history of rivalry between each other.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Open_Source_Initi...
Ohh, didn't know that.
It makes me wonder if it has anything to do with GCP. Pure speculation, but if it's in the cloud then they probably wouldn't hesitate to dogfood their own platform. But then it would be interesting since search still works. Maybe search was too high-value to risk having a hard dependency on whatever it is that is causing the outage.
Trying to be way too fancy.
Both things can be true. People can be racially biased and also find it harder to sentence someone to to death while looking them in the eyes.
Normal people run on stories and analogies.

Epic doesn't need the tiny number of technical people to win their case. Epic needs the vast number of users to be on their side in order to win their case.

HN is not the target of that "manifesto".
I think you are wrong. Almost all Americans want police reform for example.
Are there any professional epidemiologists advocating for natural herd immunity as a goal? I'm not an expert but what I've seen is them saying the opposite. Here's one example https://www.islandpacket.com/news/coronavirus/article2458339...
From experience: depression can also do this to you.
I agreed with you until the "fashion" thing.

Yes, Postgres adoption and development really picked up steam once Oracle acquired MySQL and quickly confirmed everybody's fears: they bought it primarily to ensure that MySQL stayed something of a "toy" database.

But the "fashion" thing is needless, insulting, and not even correct in my opinion. As far as mindless fashion trends in the industry go, traditional RDBMS's like Postgres are almost the antithesis of fashion.
I had issues signing into YouTubeTV.
I think it's quite a bit more than a "perhaps". The order is clearly an attempt to target a politically disfavored age bracket; it would never occur to someone without specific animus against CU-Boulder students to write such a narrow rule.
AirPods Pro Firmware Update: Spatial Audio
It's really funny reading this and seeing the lower-ranked comments saying "Time to switch!"

Yeah, you won't. Stop being hyperbolic. You're amazingly served by google and you'll forget this 20 minutes after service is restored.

It makes me wonder, what duration of outage is necessary for people to actually switch?
Many towns make it difficult for college students to vote in local elections.
Looks direct competitor to Google’s stadia
Just out of curiosity how does cloud gaming works and don’t we need high bandwidth for that
The level of involvement in politics required to influence who's on the ballot is quite a big commitment, and I think it's entirely reasonable for people to expect representation even if they don't have time for that.
>So the suggestion of ending youth public gatherings at a university seems in-line with the science

I didn't get that out of the article you referred to. The article said that students mingling should be assumed inevitable:

"They're going to wander. They're going to visit each other. They're going to go into town. They're going to sneak off and have a party. This is what they do."

And that sick students should be grouped together, away from healthy students:

"Some colleges have the capability of a dorm or a couple of floors of a dorm where they could keep people who are infected,"

Sounds reasonable, better than sending them home, given the odds.
>> Aw jeez seriously? Caffeine pills are helping me kick my Dew habit.

Not experienced; but isn't that like taking amphetamines to kick a cocaine habit? :/
google search runs on aws
It probably means your company was successful enough that you can retire and do whatever you like for the rest of your life. Would be a good thing for me, although probably a bad thing for the company as a whole.

I'd call it a best worst thing - one of those problems where it's bad, but the only way to have the problem is to be really successful.
>I think we are going around in circles on this. Even 14% worldwide is significant enough for me to ask for regulation but the right number to look at is, app revenue generated.

This is such an absurd comment. Revenue has nothing to do with whether a company is a monopoly. Monopoly has to do with competition. Do you have a choice to use a company other than Apple? Yes, unequivocally yes. Apple, with their 14% market share do not have a monopoly. You can't just willy nilly make shit up to fit your argument.
> I would have no moral issues killing him for food, though I probably wouldn't much like it.

You wouldn't much like the taste, or the act of it?
Yep, increase friction. Instagram is a good example.. You have to post a photo and you can't retweet.
It is a public health issue. What about the rights of people that are vulnerable. Why would public policy risk fatality of the vulnerable population over restricted movement of a few targeted populace in an emergency.

The reality is that compared to March New York city in September has quashed the virus, per data.
Then I'm afraid you're just wrong.

Open source is a well-defined term with a well-defined meaning. In fact, it was coined precisely because "Free Software" was considered to be too ambiguous.

Words have meaning. You can't just change the meaning of a well defined term to suite your views.
I wonder why don't any of these game streaming services every launch in developing countries like SEA. Affording gaming PC is quite difficult here, that's why Gaming Cafes are still so popular and even more so mobile games, however most people do have TVs because they are so cheap. I'd imagine 5$/month game streaming service would be much more attractive here than anywhere else.
Just guessing here, but I imagine that updates for service-wide statuses which are used on the scale that Google operates require manual vetting.

It is frustrating that these pages are not updated in real-time, but I do understand wanting to be sure before publishing a message to your entire userbase that you are experiencing disruptions.
> It matters in the current context. Developers have a much easier time targeting the latest and hottest on iOS, compared to the only other alternative.

As mentioned above this is not true. On Android developers can ship the latest and greatest to devices 4-5 years old because the first party libraries are distributed in such a way to enable that.

SwiftUI/Combine are bundled with OS versions.
If this is a buffet option I don't mind possible obsolescence myself.
Whoa. I see both; extremely clearly. Comparing an album like 'A Hard Day's Night' to 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band' surely demonstrates a clear increase in not only technique and creativity, but also originality?
> "My, the intelligence in this species isn't very well-distributed," they and their tentacles agree.

And then maybe they conspire to orchestrate your firing from that cushy corporate office job. They note that you then go home and start working on your career skills, in hopes of joining another company.

"My, the intelligence of this creature is quite distributed," the tentacles and central brain agree, of the corporation.

See: https://dague.net/2018/01/09/slow-ai/
Bringing the ocean's midnight zone into the light
It's pretty disgusting the amount of additional powers we're allowing the government to take during this pandemic.

You might may something to the affect "desperate times call for desperate measures," but have no doubt, the next 'emergency' is right around the corner. Once you give government power, it's quite difficult to take it back. People will be toeing the lines for years on what an emergency is, until it simply becomes the norm.
"Best" for whom? Any action has the potential to be either good or bad, depending on who you ask. But if it has a positive impact on society as a whole - that's probably good enough. And striving to do the right thing, upholding important beliefs like fair access to justice and freedom of speech, these certainly fall in that category.

If a smaller company, or even one of us on HN had sued Apple would that suddenly make it okay? Apple's actions haven't changed, why should the identity of the plaintiff matter?

Regarding your specific example - if Amazon is doing something wrong, then an antitrust case should be brought against them too. But that doesn't (and shouldn't) give anyone the right to continue doing something unethical and illegal.
The young can never outvite the old because the old are 65-90, but the young are 18-25 at best. The latter cohort is by definition several times smaller.

Why are 16 year old 'too immature' to vote by 90 year olds eligible? You can vote even if you are mentally ill.

Do schoolchildren have no interests at all that deserve at least some representation? Imagine we had a few representatives in parloament talking about their issues, that would probably improve discourse.
When the company I work at decided to become "agile", it all went to hell. Every "innovation" just makes it more and more miserable to work there. Standups are a real pain, and I have yet to see any value whatsoever from this daily ritual that interrupts key work time.
I am trying to understand why they approached this ML problem this way- as a conv net. Conway's game of life is in itself a convolution. The state of a cell is calculated from the state of the 9 neighboring cells. When these authors made a neural net to learn these 'rules', they were trying to learn a simple convolution kernel from a bunch of macro states. They used a 32x32 grid board and 1 million training examples. It seems from their paper that each example consisted of a pair of states in the 'game of life'-the before state and the after state. But what were the labels? Was the 'after' state being used as a label for the before state?

When the problem is stated this way, it seems more akin to to predicting the next word in a sentence based on the present word. Wouldn't an LSTM or perhaps a GPT-3 architecture be better suited?

As you can see by the stupidity of my question, I am an ML amateur and neophyte.
To be completely naive, how would one approach the problem of designing an ML algorithm to 'learn a convolution kernel' For example, suppose I had a million image pairs generated with a 3x3 'blur' kernel
{(.0625,.125,.0625),(.125,.25,.125),(.0625,.125,.0625)}
what architecture would be best to feed this data into?