skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I signed up for Stadia and was really confused about the value proposition. You stream games, and yet you have to... buy them?

There are some free games included, of course, but I didn't find anything I was interested in playing there.

What I want is something like Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass, where you pay a fixed price per month to play the full library of games, with nothing else on top of that. A Netflix for games, if you will. I don't want to shell out $60 for Cyberpunk 2077.

(The absence of an easy way to trial games on consoles is problematic, in my opinion. I purchased Cyberpunk on my Xbox One before I realized how bad it performs on that console, and fortunately I was able to get a refund.)

Unfortunately, Xbox Game Pass is predictably hobbled by a very limited library (and they keep removing good stuff), and the fact that the games are tied to the platform they've been developed for.

What I'd like is basically Game Pass + Stadia.
Whats the refresh rate? 4fps?
So true. That's how we have come so far, but lost on where to go next.
If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17265151

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13647927
Hi, thanks for commenting. Even though the geo datapoint is currently powered by Maxmind, I am already in the process of building my own geo database.

On top of it, the API supports, security datapoint which exposes proxies, tor nodes, crawlers.

The API also supports additional datapoints, like timezones, currency, ASN data and Company data.

Not really a Maxmind frontend after all ;)
Is there anywhere where you could actually try one of these out? If they worked as desired, I'd get one. A kindle updates so slowly I'm a little skeptical of the demonstration...
From the reddit thread

> No exact pricing yet, but a teaser in form of "1xxx9", so it could be anything from 10009¥ to 19999¥, so about 1500$ and 3000$ or 1250€ to 2500€ respectively.
If the rising trend toward putting the giant info-broker corporations on tighter leashes continues, I'm hopeful that we might finally start to discuss the 'civil rights of data' — who actually owns data of all kinds, but especially personal data, and what obligations come with using it, sharing it and ensuring that it not be abused.
Thank you for writing this. FWIW, what you describe as “not design” has a parallel in programming; as in, most of what we do is not engineering.

Anyway, I’m working on a “design” tool. I’m reachable via my handle at gmail. Reach out if you’re interested. Would be nice to bounce ideas.
I just had to decompress a 7z file on linux. It is really confusing -- there is no 7unzip command. A random third-party tool decompressed the archive incorrectly. The official p7zip package consists of three or more different command-line tools that are meant to handle any operation you could imagine, with different and weird options. Slogging through them takes quite a bit of manpage reading, and there are hidden gotchas. For example, the "simple interface", p7zip, is optimized for .tar.7z files, and deletes the original archive when decompressing. It is supposed to only do it only if there's one file in the archive, but it happened for me regardless.

The correct command is '7z x <file>'.

It's quite a contrast from the good experience I had with 7zip on Windows.
Surface devices are great really, no bloatware and clean Windows
Well, apparently he does not want to be recognized; without your hint I would not have figured it out (there is also no indication in the profile). At least I don't have to convince him of the benchmark's quality.

EDIT: surprised to learn that his group is responsible for the GraalVM and even located in Zurich (https://labs.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=LABS:project_details:0:...) which is not far from the place I live; it's a small world ;-)
It is there— it usually just takes pages of scrolling. I heard a 2nd-hand account which said their product team leadership knows this annoys the hell out of people, know it's an easy fix, but they do it anyway. If that's true, I'd guess they're ignoring Goodhart's Law with their engagement metrics and need to re-focus on their UX, though I don't have any first-hand insight into it.
I have their not-eReader (a tablet sized e-ink display) and it's really nice. I usually have it connected as secondary monitor to my laptop and placed in a small arm/stand next to it. Often, I read docs like man pages or API docs on it while coding. This generally works really well with the included HDMI+USB cable. Sometimes I also read news websites on it and use it as an eReader for "regular" books. It has a sort of custom Android on it and one can install quite a few apps on it as well (e.g. to watch YouTube---yes, not perfect, but surprisingly well). The refresh rate is indeed really nice.
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/systemd-secure-services
I can't think of the last time I did a search and got any pinterest pages in my results. It must be more a factor of what you search for.
Recently switched from Linux to Windows after WSL2 came out. I grew tired of the various shortcomings in Linux, hence the switch.

Windows has its quirks, but I can say I prefer it at this point. And still do all my development in WSL, so win win.
> My impression from modern art galleries I went into was not "social critique". Very little of that was in social critique category.

It's almost never quite so direct as that. Rather, the job of an art piece, especially in conceptual art, is to take some aspect of the way audiences typically view a work -- or any object -- and challenge it. Turn it on its ear somehow. Because there's nothing universal about what we find beautiful, what we find happy or sad, how we respond to color or light or space, etc... all these things are indoctrinated in us by the consumerist society that surrounds and pervades us. The purpose of contemporary art is to challenge that, to offer an alternative. To counter the desires and judgements that have been ingrained into us since childhood by capitalism.

As such, art isn't really art unless it's anti-kitsch, because kitsch affirms consumerism. Being "anti-kitsch" in this way is like being "anti-racist": inasmuch as you fail to adequately oppose kitsch you are kitsch. Damien Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living was art because Hirst offered a novel challenge to how we view life and death, or living and dead things. Having done so, however, any subsequent pickled animals would not be novel. They would be kitsch -- trite reproductions, shallow copies of what Hirst had accomplished.
There's an element here of being led to the proprietary stack only because of paper-cut UX considerations. They aren't going micro-budget here - which they could do, by simply eliminating all the equipment and doing the show a capella - so much as they are looking for impact for money, which means something that works reliably for the current talent pool in live scenarios.

Audio on Linux can definitely work well, but other comments here mention Mainstage as the live performance software driving this decision, and offhand I can't think of a comparable app on Linux; you'd either live with different/worse UX, or have to code up something, which is not really in the scope of the quoted budgets.
Modern software have so much input latency that an e-ink monitor no longer sounds ridiculous.
I don't think Apple generates those, though.
I agree with you conceptually, but it seems like everyone wants this and nobody doesn't want it, so as the lawyers sometimes say, "no harm, no foul".

In particular, the users of the Android devices want to continue to be able to access sites protected with Let's Encrypt, the site operators want to continue to allow this, Let's Encrypt wants to continue to allow this, and the auditors and root program operators decided that they don't consider it improper either.

You're right to describe it as an implementation flaw -- among other things, it removes the lever that root programs normally have to ensure continued compliance by CAs.
Software "Engineers" are not Engineers
That lifetime is for domain certificates. CA certificates, which is what matters for the Let's Encrypt issue have much longer lifetimes, like 10 years.
The idea is fantastic but I am very skeptical how this would handle state drift and larger projects.

Anyways, being able to visualize infrastructure this way is pretty great. Currently, the way it usually works is to draw the infra and then manually write the tf resources. This seems like it would simplify the process greatly since one could genereate the IAC directly from the diagrams. Pretty neat (if it works well).
I’ve been using DDG as my default for years and it really fails to provide me helpful results for programming and Linux questions. I know this because I frustratingly have to add !g to queries all the time lately and I’m questioning my choice to default to DDG.

That said, I don’t like being tracked. It’s not clear to me if the quality of results I am seeing are due to Google’s tracking or not. (I suppose I could research this but I’ve not done so.)
Do you mean Switcheroo? That's the one I use
BBC's "Storyville: Brexit Behind Closed Doors" is exactly that, a surprisingly revealing documentary on the negotiations from Guy Verhofstadt's point-of-view. Highly recommended!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07RkzvN5X3Q
MIT license doesn't restrict commercial usage or distribution. Add proper attribution, but you can "link" that to another page, e.g. "Author XZ, MIT license, see page 251" https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/
So, I can't do anything on this land?
That’s a GPD Pocket. Neat little devices.
Wow vim would be heavenly to use on this.
Services and users have different goals. Why is the helpful technologist the problem?
Outside of searching for specific technical issues, DDG is pretty good. I use DDG for most of my searches and this is the first I've heard of search results being dominated by Pinterest, so it's at least better on that front.
Well, Google and Bing do favor big or older/established websites. And Google's search is trying to be smart when it clearly isn't.

I'm getting sick of my searches being "corrected", sometimes they even ignore the quotes.
How funny we are in awe of cyberpunk gibsonian minority report holo interface but what we want is the closest thing to paper possible.

I want a second generation screen :).
They discuss these in that TWiV episode as well!
Ah I had never heard "heterosexism", I learned a new word. I just checked a bunch of definitions, and I would now use "heterocentrism" for presumption of heterosexuallity - it's possible to presume that without thinking it's the norm, but just because in practice in many places it's more common. Just like when I hear someone named Daniel(le) I assume it's a man because I know more man Daniel than woman, but I do not think there is anything wrong or abnormal with a woman named that way. So yes I would kind of reserve sexism (or heterosexism now) for cases when the remark carries some negativity related to a given gender (or sexual orientation). And I still stick with my original impression that OP did not carry any negativity towards women (at least we can fairly give them "reasonable doubt"), but that they were just making a joke about living with someone else in general.

Sorry for the long thread and I hope I have not offended you. I'm always interested in having other points of views so I like this kind of discussion. Also English is not my native language, so there might have been things lost in translation.
I was shocked when I saw that it's 120 MB, but I downloaded it anyway. Looks like a good Wox alternative so far....just skeptical about the performance and impact on battery given its Electron roots.
With a backlit monitor (or projection screen) your visual system is doing extra work to reconcile two different lighting conditions.

eink/epaper is reflecting ambient light just like every other object in the environment so your vision won't need to adjust when glancing back and forth
I wonder if there are more pro-user friendly spellcheckers out there that allows for on-the-fly customization.
M1 emulating x86_64 is typically faster than any Intel Mac below a Mac Pro, so in the context of a Mac Mini it’s a safe bet on emulation from a performance standpoint.
"Programmer" here is wrong. Because we are all user of the product "google search".

But yes I see your point. I call it the "permanent workaround"
Why's Poignant Guide <:"-) that was epic.
Wingsuiting and basejumping simulator Volo Airsport is now open source
The article is easy to follow and is an enjoyable read!
Pijul is the spiritual successor to darcs I think.
Admittedly, this is obviously from a "competitor", but

Established Titles – Buyer Beware

https://www.highlandtitles.com/blog/established-titles-buyer...

Also related

You might be a ‘Scottish lord’ on paper – but you won’t get a coat of arms

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/shortcuts/2016/aug/07/yo...
Cyberpunk 2077, Supposed to Be Biggest Video Game of the Year: What Happened?
Sure, will PM you. Thanks.
These are all hard questions, but what I personally want to avoid is humanities people (or worse, business people) making all the decisions without tech people having input. Finance is a field where there were strong consequences for the misuse of mathematics -- in particular, the use of "value at risk" as a complete and sufficient risk metric or even worse a target/KPI was something widely seen by the mathematical types around as a disaster in the making and by the business types as a great tool for doing whatever the f*(& they wanted and papering it over with math. Look where that got us.

Cryptography is actually a great example. Gauss called number theory the "queen of mathematics" and several key mathematicians (Hardy) escaped there as they figured it could never, ever be used for political purposes or anything else. And then oops, cryptography comes along and it's built entirely on number theory. You never know.

Humanities people know what they know, and I respect that they've done stuff; but I'm sure not going to bow out of the conversation and hand all the ethics stuff off to them. While some really dig deep, some have no idea what the actual technology can do! There was this long thread recently about Proctorio and McGraw-Hill. Is it right for ML researchers who know about the shittiness of facial recognition to simply say "yeah whatever, do whatever you want to students who are more or less trapped by this system, we won't make a peep"? It's improbably that a NeurIPS paper addendum is going to make a huge difference in that particular problem, but we can 1) practice thinking about these things in preparation for disputes we can take part in, 2) provide ideas and information for journalists, politicians, and humanities folks who'll get involved along the way, 3) develop a habit of at least talking about it.

And last, NeurIPS has so many people/teams submitting that I figured it would be inevitable that more checkboxes appear on the checklist for inclusion -- thinning mechanisms always appear when necessary to slow the flow. If not this, it'd be something else.
The economy is meant to be built so that anything harmful to the rest of society is either unprofitable, or criminal (i.e. theft).

Obviously we have a new frontier of digital stuff, but the law and economic incentives are still ignorant of it.
I see a lot of discussion about server certificates. But does there exist ocsp stapling for clients at all?
Weird, I don't do anything at all to block pinterest, and I just did that same search on Google Image search, and pinterest results are 6 out of 20 on the first 3 rows, and 1 per row at most for all of the rows below that.
Thanks, none of those Chinese links were working for me. The refresh rate is better than I expected but I kinda like color. We’re a few years out for me it seems :/
> What's stopping us from just using those words to describe operations with Git?

The huge existing body of documentation, tutorials, StackOverflow questions, etc. that use the confusing standard Git terminology.
How about the malware aspect? The most open system could be the most vulnerable as well.
One of the tools I kept hearing about while on Linux. Really impressed at how fast it is!
That looks really cool. Will check it out
As a kid I was so excited when dad would bring home a color monitor. We could finally play sim city 2000, too.

And now people are excited many years later for a new kind of grayscale monitor :P
Worth noting that you can’t test a hypothesis from the data you used to formulate it.

I haven’t seen any work on this variant that doesn’t fall into that trap.
This is a little bit like: 'McDonald's should serve healthier food, like Salads'.

'What Google Wants' and 'What We Want' have reached a crude equilibrium and it's unlikely to change that much, even if there are obvious improvements to make.

Qualitative improvements beyond need generally require a very specific corporate and cultural focus. If Sergei or Larry 'came back' and mandated it, the system would move around it. Or Sundar could, maybe, pull that off, but it's not in his DNA really.

The lack of material innovation in search stopped over a decade ago.

Otherwise, we should be getting betas every few months, with all sorts of options, features, etc. Even simple things like 'forever blocking a site by default' would be great.
I found this to be very profound. Current economics paradigms are severely limited in scope by focussing only on "excludable goods" and may have little interesting to teach us about other forms of value preservation (e.g. protect nature's resources as 1st class citizens, not as externalities), value exchange (e.g. FOSS and open content). Indeed, in 2021, it's past-time for the Chicago-Boys-style economics to retire and let new ideas come in.
Are you referring to web/text search, or image search?
This is a very poor way of looking at it. H1N1 is considered a subtype rather than a strain, and there are many H1N1 strains around. It makes more sense to think of the 1918 strain going extinct and some of quasispecies descendants of it persisting.
I’m curious how the XRP network itself is dealing with it. There are a lot of Ripple gateways, like Bitstamp, with long issued IOUs accessible in the Ripple network. Since one can find a route to swap for XRP it’s sort of an exchange, and not one that knows whether you’re in the US or not in some cases, until you go to cash out. But that means they’re still facilitating trade of a potential SEC violating security to US citizens in the meantime, perhaps. Or are all these exchanges closing their gateways too? Defaulting on IOUs? Probably hasn’t happened yet but that would really signal the end of XRP. Guessing it’s going to get worse for Ripple.
My suggestion: O&O ShutUp10 [1]

It allows you to control your privacy by deactivating various Windows functions, and you don't even need to install it.

[0]: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
Try to refresh/reload after opening them, they don't seem to like external referers. Or copy the link to a new tab, that's a more reliable way on any browser.
Who are your force multipliers? The ones who can potentially result in the life or death of multiple other people? This would probably be your front-line medical personnel who are dealing with COVID on a daily and hourly basis. They should be first.

Who are the people who have the greatest positive impact to our society? Politicians and rich people would probably put themselves in this category, but you should carefully examine their claims to be sure. The ones that pass the exam should be second.

Who are the ones who are Super Spreaders? The Typhoid Marys of COVID? They need to be caught and inoculated next, to slow down the transmission of the disease.

Who are the ones who are most vulnerable and most likely to die if they catch it? They are fourth. Yes, this means they might die while waiting for the vaccine to trickle down to them. But you’re trying to minimize the overall number of deaths and the overall long-term damage to society as a whole. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. And I say this as a member of this fourth group, due to various medical issues that my wife and I have.
The actual manufacture of a robot, depending on its scope of automation, ranges from inexpensive to insane. Most industrial robots are in the upper middle.

Some simple robots are cheap, mostly mechanical.

So, just making one overlaps both our points of view.

Setting mechanical ones aside, the programming, test, safety, and depending on what is needed, interactions between multiple ones is very expensive!

A seat of software can cost a years wage for an assembly line worker, and the people needed to do this work tend to be highly educated and expensive as well.

That can change, and maybe will as tech advances and more advanced computation, sensing and such continue to scale.

But, for the foreseeable future, doing that work is expensive and time consuming. And the product of it tends to be fairly rigid.

Changes are not cheap either, though they can be a smaller fraction of the original build, depending on both the change and how robust the initial build was.

Maintenance is a factor too, as is aging systems and the software footprint required.

I have experience with these industrial machines (FANUC and the like), and they definitely cost less over time than people do, but only at scale and on well defined tasks in well defined conditions.

The initial investment is a lot more than people.

Where there is any "turbulence", task change, part change, condition change, people do prove far more efficient.

As a general rule, robots that are more capable, in the sense of fully replacing skilled people, are a lot more expensive.

Where the tasks require less of people, and conditions are constant, they are much cheaper.

In my manufacturing career, 80's and 90's I spent time automating and training people to exceed automation performance. Have been on both sides of the discussion. Improvement just is not cheap.

Today a lot more is possible, but the basic dynamics remain unchanged. We are far away from being able to generally replace people.

And we flat out are not capable of that where the labor involves taking care of one another and or performing the many basic labors we all depend on far more than we realize.

This is why I make a point of suggesting we value basic labor differently, and in general, higher.

We need it, for one. People, like the HN audience, are not cheap and what we can do is not common. We get valued for that, and there is downward pressure on it all generally.

However, if we suddenly have to perform basics ourselves, our output goes way down, and that too is expensive. Having more of our time available is worth far more than the compensation is for basic labor.

Most people are not like us, and the training needed, assuming the basic skill is present, is expensive as well.

Most jobs are basic labors too. That means most wages are not contributing to demand, and as those numbers rise, with costs and risks, the issues grow more acute.
Oh for heaven's sake. If you're going to be ethically honest about this, note that he tweeted speculation about her porn habits. When is a person allowed to fight back? Is there a sufficiently "polite" way you'd like her to react? Convenient that her side of the argument gets to be labelled "cancellation".

My God. Can we not just have an old-fashioned down & dirty fight these days without it being labelled a "cancellation"?
I can't articulate it very well, but "The Red Queen" [0] offers a theory whereby sexual selection evolved as a defense against bacteria, viruses. It seems as though it may be disadvantageous to live too long as these mechanisms wouldn't be refreshed.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Queen:_Sex_and_the_Evo...
I’m still waiting for a eink small phone + reader. Is there anything interesting in that space out yet?
It's not perfect, but I use the Firefox version of this extension. Good for blocking Pinterest and those techno-babble scraper sites.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...