skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no way Stadia will succeed. Sure, Google care now, but they are gonna drop this like a hot potato once the promotions come through.

From speaking to devs who engage with Google on Stadia, it appears to be a tire fire, in that the Google people don't appear to care about how much work the gamedevs need to put in to keep up with their API changes (much like lots of Google services, actually).

Because of the poor devrel, I will be incredibly shocked if Stadia survives another two years.

Without a financial incentive, I'm not sure Stadia would have any games, and financial incentives don't fix the extra work needed when google change things for no reason (or not for a reason that gamedevs are likely to accept).
Over here it's either LINE (does support adding by number but can't remember the last time I used that, literally years) or FB/Instagram.
It's a desperate attempt at profundity. Particularly when a very short sentence follows in the next paragraph to declare some great insight.

Like this.
> rather than develop a different way of gathering and managing the data they want.

European laws doesn't care what way it is done.

It doesn't need to be cookies, it could be actual magic for that matter and EU would still fine them if they use it to collect user data without consent.

And, as others have pointed out: login cookies seems to be fine (as long as one doesn't use them to collect data.)
You are purposefully using language that suggests genocide. Family planning counts as "managing populations" too.

Is every progression on human DNA eugenics? Is every new law facism?
These aren’t water contracts as in “settlement in water” — they’re settled in cash and they’re water INDEX futures. There’s simply no way this will affect actual water shipments beyond maybe being used as hedge for water producers (which is rather unlikely).
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-A former girlfriend is of a Russian emigré family; she always got a chuckle out of Norwegians' inability to understand the concept of inflection.

Her father as a matter of course got letters from all her leisure activities, school &c addressed to 'Mr. Yuri ----skaia'. - as her last name was ----skaia, obviously his would be, too.

At least for us inflectionally challenged Norwegians.
This comment section was my first introduction to it ... I'm definitely going to give it a spin, thanks!
In India, WhatsApp is the gateway to Internet for millions as many of its users wouldn't have ever opened a browser or received an email.

WhatsApp new version updates gets prime time News spot in even prominent, respected News channel.

Social structures are being built on WhatsApp here, Relatives get offended when you don't join their WhatsApp groups, people don't believe when you say that you don't use WhatsApp, Package disptach details from eCommerce arrive through WhatsApp(no permissions asked) and of course spam arrives through WhatsApp(Local shops wish for your birthday because you signed up for that damn discount card 10 years ago).
RobinHood is not comparable to these other guys. There's a difference between investing and punting/speculating. Two of those differences is through your user UX and the education you provide the average retail investor. RobinHood's mobile first view - sure its great - but its more geared towards the gamification of trading versus actually building wealth.
It's true, Flash created and supported a special scene of creativity which drew in both artists and programmers in a way the felt new and unique, and seemed to last for almost a decade from ~2000 - ~2010.

Who could forget Yugo Nakamura's explorations in the early noughties, and many others which defined the early scene.

Even a decade or more ago some pretty impressive experiences were being delivered web-only. I ran a team in London where we really explored pushing the capabilities of the Flash player.

Granted we were just operating in a digital marketing context, in an environment where more involved gaming was already occurring, but we still delivered what feel like pretty decent 2d-gaming experiences, such as Professor Green and the Eco-Rangers: https://youtu.be/gUY2bVnhm44?t=85.

Back then I remember key figures from the Adobe team visiting our London office and candidly telling us the reason Flash was being blocked, esp. on mobile, was entirely due to commercial reasons by Apple, and not for technical reasons.

I believed them at that stage, but in hindsight it does appear there were serious performance, energy and security issues, but ex-Adobe engineers might want to chime in on that...

As someone who lived through that phase of web indulgence, I'm not mournful of a more indulgent time. It was a beautiful, exploratory phase, but the explosion in pointless, nonsense preloaders and custom UI represented usability ignorance and was not something to cherish.

In recent times the creativity and complexity has increased significantly in areas where it matters, such as web gaming, whereas in areas where it doesn't, such as UI interfaces to explore and understand information, it has gotten marginally or a lot better, depending on the context...
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I don't know about using it for footnotes, but this seems a great way to handle spoilers natively in movie/tv related sites with user generated content.

Thanks for sharing the link!
Like many people here, you seem to be slightly misunderstanding what it means for the flash player to be killed.

The flash plugin was always just an output format for Adobe Flash, which is now Adobe Animate, and the reason Adobe can kill the plugin is because it's simply not necessary anymore: as of many years ago (since around when the iphone came out and didn't support the flash plugin) it has been possible to make the exact same stuff in the current version of what's essentially the same program and export it as standards compliant html.

In other words, Adobe isn't killing flash (which is now Animate) at all, they're just killing an obsolete browser plugin format.

If this type of animation is less popular now that's just an issue of fashion; if people still wanted to make the exact same type of animated landing pages using Adobe Animate they absolutely could.
Could it be due to a focus on progress over perfection, and that hitting the enter key feels like progress?
>6. more importantly..before the depopulation occurs due to scarcity of resources, there is a real danger for india. if the wet bulb temperatures[1]rise as predicted, the heat and humidity will kill people in their sleep. they'd go to bed and die in their sleep.[2]

Yeah but people have a survival instinct. They won't just say"Hey, it's so hot I will die before I wake up. Let's go to sleep!". They'll go somewhere where they won't die. They will go to where we are...
Is it really that hard though? Just in nursing homes alone there are way more than enough votes to cover the small margin of victory.

And also, how confident can we be that the double-voting would actually be detected?

E.g., https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-14/u-s-elect...

I am not very sympathetic to the argument that we shouldn't care about signature matches.
Or they know that responding via SMS only encourages the use of a messaging system whose time has past.
A Discord server for Hacker News reader
I didn't create this server -- it has been around for a couple of years, but is not very active. People join and leave at a meteoric rate because it's "dead". I'd like it to live again.

This is the post I found the invite from:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19183736

Feel free to remove this if it is aganist the rules.
Not being a sys admin or that. How much work is it to change distros for say a mid size tech set up?
Making Kin with the Machines, https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/lewis-arista-pechawis-kite...

'What if we treated AI as equals, like other human beings, not as tools or, worse, slaves to their creators?' That's the premise to this paper, which is a wonderful provocation. It's a really important consideration too, when you consider how many of our decisions we're asking machine sentience to make for us. If algorithmic bias were a human judge, they'd be thrown out of court (you'd hope).
New personality construct: tendency to see oneself as a victim
After debugging configuration error for last 7 days, where even logs didn't help because manufacturer decided to use reference clock from different pin which was not documented officially to be able to do this - moder IoT sucks, because chip manufacturers release documentation as confidential and then firmware is implemented by hardware guys. As a programmer who can design some simple digital circuits, I could very mean things about HW guys doing SW/Fw, but I can see how much my HW skills suck and how funny my designs look from the other side.
Good idea. We can also see which happens first: Facebook fixing its outage, or Facebook buying up that competitor.
There’s pretty decent evidence that viral load is a big determinant of infection severity.
as a totally randomly chosen example, that I spent not more than 20 seconds searching for, here's a system with 128GB of RAM for way under $500.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/DELL-R910-16SFF-model-4x-Intel-X755...

need to add your own storage (good quality SSDs, of course).

and it assumes you have somewhere to put noisy things...

I would estimate it's about a 500W electrical load, so figure $40-50 additional electrical bill, if you're trying to precisely account for all costs.

you can totally set up a desktop workstation dual xeon for a similar price as well.
I don’t have any interest. I know what I’m getting and I don’t need approval from an armchair stranger on the internet.
> Free/Open source != free as in beer. You either pay it in financial support or sharing of development and maintenance of such projects. Sooner or later.

It can if you want it to. Just like with free beer, if you doN't want to drink that beer you have to go find other beer.
Sundar Pichai apologizes for Timnit Gebru controversy but not her firing
> Would you count this statement as falsified, if eg the median income in Bangladesh went up? (Or any other percentile.) If not, what would falsify that statement?

I don't honestly know. Quality of life is in my mind the most important factor and is hard to measure, I don't think there's any one statistic or small group of statistics that can capture it.

What worries me at the moment is the trend of 40-50 years of productivity increases leaving wages far behind. The elimination of secure, well paying jobs for the lower working classes that have been replaced with gig/service work where you hope you'll be given enough hours to make end meet that week. Sectors of local economies destroyed or made dependent on global capital firms with huge losses. I want to know where it will end, because all I can see in the future is rising inequality and stratification.

> Close to my heart (coming from Germany) is the absence of pervasive occupational licensing in Singapore. Similarly the absence of minimum wage laws.

I'm not familiar with occupational licensing in Germany. But I don't have a problem with it if it's done to ensure safety/quality and there are minimal barriers to entry, employers seem all too happy to introduce inexperienced workers to situations which may not be obviously dangerous to the worker without proper training.

Minimum wage is a fairly contentious issue, what is it you dislike about it in particular? Interestingly it looks like some sectors have enforced a minimum wage:

https://www.minimum-wage.org/international/singapore

I'd be interested in knowing why cleaning and security were singled out specifically rather than a more general rule.

>I am currently living in Singapore, and so far the 'propaganda' has been so effective that even living here I still see that it's fairly pro-market.
>And that includes talking to 'normal' locals, and also to people running businesses here.
>Malaysia is useful for contrast. The government is a much bigger drag on the economy there.
>The paper you quote is fairly old, and also doesn't seem to reflect the consensus of economists. (It's nonetheless interesting though.)

It was interesting to see how far back the disagreement on Singapore's economy goes.
Please read your own articles before posting. Your article it states clearly what the funding was for:

> The goal of the initiative is the expansion of vaccine development and manufacturing capabilities in Germany, as well as the expansion of the number of participants in late-stage clinical trials.
Ethics is a very common alternative, even bavarian countryside schools (source: a friend of ours is teaching English and religion at such a school), upt to the point where they have to mix classes for catholic religion. And ethics is covering much more than just religion (source: bith my childern are in ethics class).

Regarding your last argument, following that logic would include argueing genocide as a solution as well. Which you obviously cannot. There is no way why China's human righs abuses should be tolerated or supported. Tolerated to the degree geopolitical realities dictate, sure. Learning why realities are what they are and why China is doing what they do, of course. Finding arguments supporting their actions for the sake of the argument and "critical thinking" excersise, no way. Same goes for the death penalty.
> to reunite the "kingdom."

BS. They just don't want to be part of a new "kingdom".

Brexiteers don't trust EU politician, but they also don't trust UK politicians.

> My money is on the Chinese

Chinese aggression isn't much better than US "xenophobic thinking", plus India has pretty good contacts with Europe and other south-Asian countries. Plus there is a large and influential Indian population in the US, I'd be surprised in The Indian population in China are half as influential.
> uBlock Origin is blocking ublock.org on the basis of it being malware. Are you saying it's not actually a malware risk, and it's really on Origin's blocklist for some totally unrelated reason?

We don't have to speculate. The reason is right here, and it's not because of malware.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-is-comp...

If it were malware, then why would it still be in the Chrome Web Store? Google reviews every extension update, and also has the power to remove extensions from the store, regardless of Manifest v3.

It's also important to note that Manifest v3 only affects the content blocking capability of extensions. Extensions that are not content blockers still have extremely powerful capabilities that could be abused to capture user data or otherwise do harm. And those extensions can change ownership too. Manifest v3 is not even remotely close to a solution to this general problem.
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You forgort to mention that the actual reason to call it GNU/Linux is not so much these technical details, but to attract attention to the GNU project and its fight for freedom (while Linux is just "open-source").

Upd: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html

Quote:
Granted that the GNU Project deserves credit for this work, is it really worth a fuss when people don't give credit? Isn't the important thing that the job was done, not who did it? You ought to relax, take pride in the job well done, and not worry about the credit.

This would be wise advice, if only the situation were like that—if the job were done and it were time to relax. If only that were true! But challenges abound, and this is no time to take the future for granted. Our community's strength rests on commitment to freedom and cooperation. Using the name GNU/Linux is a way for people to remind themselves and inform others of these goals.
They don't fix driver issues.
Seems to be the standard tactic among big tech bosses these days.

Apologise for the controversy caused, not for the action or incident itself. Learning all the tricks from Zuckerberg here.
Indeed, I think most linguistic tasks could benefit from the neural (transformer) approach, even a tiny spellchecker. The combination of semi-regular rules, semantics and logic makes a highly effective "manual" solution too expensive to obtain (in terms of research and programming time).
Yes and no. There are huge amounts of fresh drinkable water. It is just that it is in Canada and Russia and not where we have our agriculture. Here in Stockholm we have much more clean water than we ever could use, just like Russia and Canada.

Water shortages are local problems. The issue is just that a lot of the world's agriculture are on places with little water.
Good Idea ... It solves the critical problem of turning people into products.
The question is currently being discussed in the stabilization PR. Let's see what they end up with. I don't lean either way tbh.
Documenting provenance is hard.

I'm considering releasing some projects under CC0, and I would like users to feel highly confident about using the material, which for anything I'm the sole author of would be fine because I have a decent reputation (past
ASF board member). However, accepting contributions from others would require assessing their right to contribute and documenting it.

Any patches which show up from a previously unknown author are potentially a curse rather than a blessing. At the least, I have to vet the author. If I can't do that, or don't want to spend the effort, then not only can I not use the contribution, if I want to write my own patch I have to do in such a way to avoid creating a derivative work. I'd rather just get a feature request, it's less trouble!

I'd like to put the CC0 projects on Github for the convenience of users, but the problem is that Github's culture of contribution doesn't meet my requirements and you can't turn off pull requests short of "archiving" the repo. I might do something like maintain the project elsewhere and put an archived mirror on Github, running a script once per day which unarchives the repo, pushes changes, and rearchives the repo...

Public domain art aggregator sites like Artvee aren't ever going to be able to offer a level of care like this. Users who are serious about copyright need to be able to verify provenance to high degree of confidence, and Artvee can't vet uploads to that standard or they wouldn't have any inventory.
The worst consequence of COVID will be thousands of people dying from other disease, because healthcare system focused on COVID neglected them, and the economic depression caused by lockdowns.

The worst consequence of global warming will be economic depression caused by pushing expensive and ineffective, but low-carbon technologies on us.

In both cases we would be better off doing nothing.
I was mostly using the term for shock value to emphasize the point and to help drive home the fact that not being able to find the counter-arguments/deradicalization can be a very bad thing!

(Annoyingly, there's so many meanings of "racist" that it can apply to anywhere from 99% to 1% of the population, depending on which of the main definitions are used)
That slide is just shocking. Freddie Mercury? It's like this sketch but real life

https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ
Just China checking their already 100% working vaccine from months ago is still better /s
Airtable also very sluggish
> Wouldn't websites fail in obscure ways if you disabled cookies?

I believe that the way most people who care about this issue have them enabled, but deleted when the browser is closed. Therefore nothing breaks while your browser is opened, and if you restart it, you basically get a fresh start (signed off everywhere).
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> let's say your bank's website uses JavaScript, what do you do

Well mate, take a guess :) I do it on the phone only (and I don't mean smartphone). I've had a little exposure to bank's competence from the inside 20 years ago (large UK bank, mortgages), they couldn't find their own arse with a torch, arrows, diagrams and a PhD in arse-finding.

> 'll just rephrase things to something less offensive: you're not "hurting" yourself, you're limiting yourself, sometimes with drawbacks not everyone is able/willing to endure.

That's much more accurate. We can agree, however consider that that 'limiting [my]self' means limiting my exposure to ads, abuse of my CPU, tracking, most dark patterns, nag screens, malware and more. The tradeoff's very ok for me, and I've experience the web on both sides. Oh yes it's worth it! (for me).
People don't just have kids en masse without a reason. People historically had lots of kids for 2 reasons: a lot of them died before reaching reproductive age, and they needed more hands to produce food because most people lived in a subsistence agriculture environment.

The population boom over the last 100 years is not due to people reproducing too much, it is due to a decrease in child mortality, that and development from agricultural to industrial economies meant a cultural lag time in reducing the number of kids a woman has.

Once you have an industrial economy, the pressure then becomes to have less kids. You don't need to be told in a classroom to do that, it happens naturally. If you need proof, these education programs didn't exist in the west during development into industrial economies and yet the fertility rate decreased simply due to economic pressures.

A fertility rate of 2.3 (the .3 accounting for child death and people who don't ever have kids) is replacement rate. At that rate population does not increase.

Long story short, at least in cities (where the water shortage we are talking about is happening) you won't see a doubling of the population due to sustained fertility. So the shortages you see of water and other resources can be entirely attributed to inefficient resource allocation, and once capacity is increased to match population you won't have to worry about it again and again.
> Red Hat promised

If a corporation goes back on their 'word', who else can you believe? Honestly, what is this world coming to.

> it's understandable why people are upset

... because they have to pay for a product they use. very understandable, yes.

so what?
"Progress not perfection" is a popular term in AA.
This doesn't sit well, to me. I think it makes more sense to use `<sup>`s and `<a href>`s that point to `<a id>`s inside a `<footer>`. I think this conveys the meaning better.

That's not to say the displayed technique is "wrong". It's interesting, clever, and a great exploration of the semantics.
dont use SMS, even sending an email from a public cyber coffe is safer than an SMS this days
_Steal as much as you can_ by Nathalie Olah. It helped me consider what social mobility really is, as a person from a working-class background.
I'd say >50% of smartphone users have Whatsapp in the UK and >50% of smartphone users have FB messenger, of course quite a few have both. I prefer Whatsapp, but contacting a small or large business like a pub or takeaway often works surprisingly well with FB.
Again, this is patronising. Apparently, you believe your opinion is more worthy then the opinion of others because you assume you are more intelligent and more informed then they are. So in essence you are saying you are the better human. This is a very slippery slope. In fact, I would consider this borderline fascism. But hey, if a lefty utters ssuch nonsense, nobody seems to notice.
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