skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is surprising for me to hear. I did cloud gaming a decade ago with OnLive and some Playstation Now a little later and it was never as bad as the gaming gatekeepers suggested. 60ms latency on a 50mbit connection should be good, sad it isnt.

With racing games I learned to compensate and anticipate. And there are pleeeeenty of slower games to play.
The title here is misleading. This is not a bet by WallStretBets, it's an unrelated project. (Also the guidelines ask to use the original title https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html )

Also, the government permits can be printed out of thin air. If the government sees that the permits are not used, they can just pass an "emergency" act or something and create more.
Many fallacies are perfectly sensible ways to reason in a messy, imperfect world.

ad hominem - someone you know to receive large sums of money from cigarette manufacturers gives you several plausible sounding reasons why cigarettes don't cause cancer. It's an adhominem to doubt his arguments based on your knowledge of how he's getting paid, but it's also sensible.

argumentum ad populum - an argument isn't necessarily true just because lots of people believe it, but in the absence of you being able to work out the absolute truth from first principles, it's completely sensible to take into account what other people believe when you evaluate your options, or what people in your situation have typically believed (appeal to tradition)

denying the antecedent - red sky in the morning implies shepherds should take warning. It's not true to say that just because there isn't red sky in the morning, then shepherds should assume the weather will be fine, but excluding one of the conditions in which shepherds need to be careful is weak evidence that shepherds will be fine.

The old 'absence of evidence is not evidence of absence' one, although I didn't see it on this page. Actually it is. It is weak and incomplete evidence of absence, but in the right circumstances it can be perfectly reasonable to change your opinion on whether something is present or not based on a lack of evidence for it being present.

In the real world, weak evidence is often the best we're going to get and we're often going to be in situations where thought shortcuts are necessary and valuable.

Pointing out fallacies is usually poor argumentation. My pet peeve on this one is the 'burden of proof'. Normal human debate isn't a game with strict rules and a judge that awards points, and I'm not sure it'd be any better if it were. You engage in a debate with someone when you both want to change the other persons mind. If you didn't want to change their mind you shouldn't be debating with them. You're very unlikely to change their minds by telling them that the burden of proof is on them not you (much more likely to end up arguing about who really has the burden of proof, a fruitless and uninteresting topic).
Could you elaborate on why ? I've also thought about this and would like to hear your thoughts.

If I were to take a guess, it would be politically connected organizations benefiting from the welfare system. I wonder what these organizations would be.

Or, there might be some political calculus that makes means testing and administration more favorable to the ruling establishment.
I'm sure this could be implemented if someone were to sit down and implement it.
Is there NO (Nitric Oxide) way to stop Covid-19?
I can tell you what I did, coming from a somewhat similar but different situation. I kind of over-promised for a small project, thinking that some electronics and little code could not possibly be too hard. After some time I realized that if I had to do the stuff around 50 times (project was a small sensor network), I would be stuck soldering for a few weekends. Then decided that maybe learning some ECAD along the way and getting PCBs manufactured would be cool, albeit totally overkill.

I cannot recommend Phil's Lab [1] enough. He has videos which take you from basically an empty sketch to ordering a finished board in around 2.5 to 3 hours. Some of the most worthwhile content I have found on YouTube to date.

Also, get a multimeter and an oscilloscope. Any oscilloscope will do probably, I have one from Amazon for 30$. For my project, it totally does the job, although you may want to invest a bit more here if you intend to use it for more advanced projects. You cannot believe how many times being able to look at a signal has helped me understand where my problem could be and what might be wrong. It has also helped me figure out what questions I had to ask. For simple projects, you are always going to get there by guessing I suppose, but why make it hard on yourself.

Aside from that, just try things. It is probably helpful to spend more time thinking when you are handling more expensive parts, so you do not burn a couple of them out because of carelessness, but also, don't overthink it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/c/PhilS94/videos
Exactly.

700M Chinese citizens who live on $140/month income.

500M 65 year olds by 2050 (money flows up in Chinese society. One grandkid pays 2 parents who pays 4 grandparents, since it's a one child society) Oh and no social safety net. you think CCP members care about the plebs?
There's only integral buffer scales, so it's entirely up to the compositor or client to do fractional scaling.

https://wayland-client-d.dpldocs.info/wayland.client.protoco...
Fonts in general usually keep their numerals and certain punctuation characteres all of equal width, and of equal width between regular and bold (even when their letters get wider in bold).

It's not really something special spreadsheet programs do or select for. It's just how basically all workhouse body typefaces operate, like Helvetica or Times New Roman or Calibri, precisely for the reason you list.
For those trying to follow along. Margin lending occurs when part of the funds put on the market are funded by a debt mechanism.
Classically I might invest say $10,000 and the debt facilitate would say provide a $10,000 loan and I’d have $20,000 invested in the market in my name, with a 50% loan to value ratio.

If the investment dropped far enough.. say to $12,000, the margin call facility works like this.

It considers the remaining money is always the lenders, so now the lender is exposed for $10,000/$12,000 eg 83% of the exposure is theirs.

They then ask you to top back up your contribution so they are less exposed (within 24-48hrs), or they auto-sell stock to ensure they are not exposed further.

In the case of Robinhood, the margin lending arrangement is always fully backed once the cash is processed. Which I’m guessing is always reliably a few days after it’s deposited.

So it’s crazy to trigger margin calls as all the debt is quickly fully backed.

It would be expected that Robinhood would have negotiated an instrument that never left them with margin calls on cash contributions like this. This is totally on them.
My work computer upgraded itself to Big Sur last month and killed the network card: neither WiFi nor wired worked after the upgrade, no matter what I tried. IT believes I had something installed already that conflicted with the new OS, but they weren’t able to figure out what it was and ended up having to wipe the OS and downgrade back to Catalina. Say what you like about M$ or Linux, but I’ve never seen an OS upgrade with so many problems in 30 years.
I'm working on building a game streaming cloud service at the moment.

In the long term, I believe running your own servers is going to be the future, because otherwise there'll always be license issues, e.g. when you want to play your gog.com games on GeForce Now. Or indie games or business apps in general.

Also, all those services prevent you from sharing with friends for their business reasons, meaning absolutely no coop or splitscreen.

Anyway, the key for making such services work is custom ultra low latency udp protocols. I'm going with nvenc hardware encoding, cuda for data wrangling, and a boost::asio based c++ core for the network layer. That, and controlling packet loss, for example by self-throttling and spacing to avoid overflows at intermediate relays.

BTW, I'm surprised by the bandwidth numbers in the article. Even fast explosion heavy games like BroForce work reasonably well with 5mbit/s if you use h265.
“Customers rely on Accounts (I.e. have one or many)”

Alternative model: the Customer relation couples a Person to an Account.

I think that’s a better model, as it allows Person P to be a Customer at bank B but not at Bank C, Person Q to be a Customer at both B and C, etc.

It also allows you to model Persons before you model Accounts, breaking the circularity, allows Companies to become Customers, etc.
only a matter of time before all ESPN and Fox Sports are bundled into Disney+, since Disney owns both.
As usual, your comments on the topic knock it out of the park. Thanks so much for contributing.
Do Words Mean Anything?
> A lot of hyperbolic reporting but there’s a ton of off-peak excess overnight electricity capacity.

Looking at California's demand-profile it appears almost flat throughout the day (page 3 http://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/Combi...). I dont see an obvious reaon why other cities would follow a different profile, so no I dont think that assumption is correct. The problem is indeed cost, but more the cost of storing the energy created by green renwables to be used when the wind isnt blowing or the sun isnt shining. If anything electricity will become much more expensive and become cheaper not overnight but instead when the weather is great. Indeed this is whats happening in Germany as a result of their energiewende program
That's optional. User can turn it off.
I’ll lead with my peak cynical take, apologies in advance, but I think Google just wanted to entice people with cheap centralized streaming games while it was viable to get them married to a platform they will ultimately have to buy a local console to render games with anyways.

Can they even get close to DisplayPort 2.0 performance in the next couple years? I don’t see how this is ever going to scale as bit depth, resolution and frame rates continue to increase. This is a losing strategy because a lossy, slow connection between your display and your controller will only get worse (quadratically so) as those three factors (bit depth, resolution and frame rate) increase.

They are going to have to beef up the client hardware and do more of the game engine and rendering compute locally, which will undermine the cost savings they offered being centralized.
If businesses can increase prices they have done so already and that would show in the form of higher demand for labor.

So really, the only benefit is a psychological trick. Simply handing out money to underpaid workers would drive inflation much more effectively and do the exact same thing.
Do people not read the labels on their boxes of chocolate??
There is plenty of propaganda floating around from both sides. If you dislike muddy waters, I would recommend staying out of Indian politics. It is a clusterfuck.

To add to your top comment, these events - protestors attacking police personnel and protestors raiding Red Fort and raising their own flags - happened on republic day, which is like a mini 4th of July for India (we have two: 15th August, which is when India became independent and 26th January, which is when India adopted its constitution). On Republic Day, India observes the president furl India's national flag from the Red Fort, so seeing these events unfold, especially seeing a flag other than the Indian flag at Red Fort on Republic Day, were of very big symbolic value.
Only people with a morning chronotype. I'm more productive in the late afternoon and evening.
I’m about 10 miles south of Santa Fe and the night sky blows mind. Nothing like the sky in my moderately sized hometown.

Some nights I think I can faintly see the Milky Way... but I might be fooling myself.
IMO, the main problem with university finances is the easy loans and the fact they survive bankruptcy - the only loans I'm aware of with this status. Without this easy money, colleges and universities could not have raised tuition like they have, because most people couldn't pay it.

But with the loans, colleges and universities are flush with cash, so they build extravagant dorms, hire way too many administrators, VP's, etc.

My idea to fix this is to make the universities provide the loans. Then they have an incentive to make sure students graduate and have a career path that makes sense (and money!)

We have allowed and encouraged an entire generation to screw themselves with these outrageous loans.
Sadly the Indian govt passed the laws without taking opposition and farmers in confidence. They passed the law very bluntly. Thats from where all this started.

It's very simple thing to solve but current govt want to make it political. They are basically saying MSP(Minimum selling price) is not affected. But farmers protesting why you include this in bill.

But because of govt ego millions of farmers are protesting for their own livelihood.
only if chrome is not censoring internet which google is happy to do
Do you think this is because of ego? These days, it seems like if you even suggest that some people are born with more natural talent for computer engineering, you get skeptical responses. And from personal experience, these skeptical responses generally argue how productivity can not be measured properly, or how production contribution is somehow offset by deficits in other areas (interpersonal, team work), so it evens out, etc.

Personally, I have seen the Pareto principle play out in many a software project to be sure that these mythical 10x engineers are, in fact, very much real.
I purchased a Nvidia Shield Pro before Christmas (an unbelievably slick piece of tech btw) and signed up for GeForce Now. I'm based in Ireland, as are the local Geforce Now servers (presume it's running on Azure). A surprisingly decent gaming experience - The Witcher 3 looks amazing, and performance is extremely decent with only slight delays.
You’re calculating energy use per day, you have to divide by time to get power. 14.46 kWh/24h = 0.6025 kW = 602 W.

(Or, equivalently, multiply the power from the PV by time to get daily energy output).

The “won’t take a charge below 1 kW” is definitely a killer, if it’s a limit of the batteries themselves and not the charging circuit logic.
Oh yeah, I do know that with modern editors it's not such a chore anymore. I just mentioned that as an example of verbosity that slightly annoys me. (The same with Ada too, which I understand also draws inspiration from Pascal).
Just get used to it.

It will come a time in US when people will come to understanding that the Internet exists, and one does not take any random thing on the Internet at face value.

I've been on the Internet under a few identities since 1998, and has since stopped much trying hiding.

The more your online notoriety goes, the more your IRL consequences snowball.

I've been to many countries, and in most of them you cannot character asassinate anybody by randomly calling guy's workplace and telling "guy A is a dreaded pedophile!," and at most it will make people chuckle, and remark on you being famous.
A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston

My computer science education included CS philosophy where a.o. this was a course text.
"... in order to stay on the safe side with the very first release of the source code, we have temporarily removed all comments"

This sounds weird, wonder what they're worried about here: Personal Information? Profanity? Or just airing their dirty washing in public.
I agree!

Yep, I do use melatonin during the day but at a lowered dose. Usually 150mcg or half of one of the tablets I take at night. 300mcg is for me nearly a guarantee that I'll nap for 3 hours, and those oversleep results (depending on last night's sleep, but usually it'd be oversleep) are not enjoyable at all.

Edit: I've also taken a quarter tablet or about 75mcg to calm down after a long day, and I'm glad I tried it.
Bort: Biological Sort
This also works well on GNOME Wayland (and probably other Wayland compositors) since about 1.5 years ago (for me at least). In the display settings you can pick a scale per monitor and almost all apps will respect it. (It seems some apps with custom toolkits are lagging but I can't remember the last time I ran into one of these).
I don't know about negative income taxes but UBI just gives you a flat amount no matter how much you earn or whether you are unemployed. It's always on top of your existing salary.
It may be that HN requires submissions use the actual page title, not a title chosen to make the submission stand out. Here’s a longer explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You might resubmit it with the page’s actual title.
Bernard Shaw’s Writing Shed
In theory you can manipulate atoms and molecules at a distance with light.

So you can use a laser beam to construct a 3D printer at a distance.

Rinse and repeat, and this is asymptotically expanding at c.
Pretty much.

Anyone who's written game netcode(either as a hobby or professionally) knows that you build the game design and game engine from the ground up to tolerate latency.

For action games most of the time it's all about building a game design where you're predicting(either via physical location or other player's actions), except in the few rare cases that do time-rewinding(most fighting games, some FPSes that combine both, most notably Counter-Strike). This is usually handled by dead-reckoning[1]

For large scale, low bandwidth games(AKA RTSes and the like where gamestate is deterministic) that's handled via lock-step[2]. The gamestate is 100% deterministic and all clients move together with a shared set of inputs in "lock step".

Both of these approaches can be tolerant to latencies up to ~600ms(back in the ole 28.8/56k days of '97 SubSpace[3] was doing ~300 players in one zone with a high skill curve and a robust netcode). They usually mask it with client side reactions that are then reconciled with the server in a robust way. If you're just dropping video frames over a network stack none of that is available to you no matter how fancy your FEC or other tricks are.

Somehow I've now got the urge to go dust off the Continuum client again and boot up SubSpace.

[1] https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131638/dead_reckoning...

[2] https://meseta.medium.com/netcode-concepts-part-3-lockstep-a...

[3] https://store.steampowered.com/app/352700/Subspace_Continuum...
The claim of 'you'll spend more fuel transporting panels' is a total fantasay

"generator that will sip fuel."

For this discussion to be usefull, you have to provide some numbers. From generator efficiency I was able to find, you need to consume roughly 1 liter of fuel to create 2 KWh of electricity. Playing around with batteries won't change that.

If you look at my calculation above, a single solar panel produces the equivalent of half a ton of diezel. There is no possibility anywhere outside the arctic that a solar installation won't pay for itself.
Thanks!

This is a good starting point: http://uvicrec.blogspot.com/2015/12/lab-explosions-and-accid...
We can have democracy or a surveillance society, but we cannot have both
RTP, and yea.

“However, these companies released so far little information about their cloud gaming operation and how they utilize the network. In this work, we study these new cloud gaming services from the network point of view.”

They’re early too, so this paper will get a lot of citations in the future.
Was about to say the same. In my experience these privileged people are the most likely to pull this kind of tricks.

Maybe because they have been so privileged throughout their life that they feel entitled to not taking responsibility
Can somebody summarize this in 20 words or less?
This is over my head, sorry.

Tho, I think your scenario doesn't exactly mean "mathematically impossible" but rather speculation about the short situation's specifics. The whole situation only exists because the big fishes can deceive and manipulate the market mostly to their liking. I wouldn't bet on them not playing dirty to distort analysis of what's really going on.

Sadly, I didn't get into a broker in time. I literally have no shares in this and just hope wallstreet burns over this one way or the other. Would have preferred to throw 50€ or 100€ into the game just for the education. There will be another crisis for me :)
Choosing such a bad source by default pretty much wipes your credibility out.

It like saying domestic drinking is up and posting

https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2021/01/29/local-man-to-sp...

As proof. You may have had a point, but it’s lost from your source.
The pandemic seems to be exposing the wealth inequality, which I think is the root issue here. The haves have even more and the nots bore the brunt. Judging by protests, approaching breaking point
I was talking about legal immigrants. If you're caught illegally in Australia you're basically immediately deported even if you've managed to stay in the country illegally for many years. There were some notorious cases of people being deported after 20 years in the country (not sure if the outcry from their supporters actually stopped any deportation)... Sweden is almost as dacronian. It is known to deport parents of children born in Sweden (who are legally Swedish citizens) because they were illegally in the country.
The correct solution here is to make it automatic.
Try 2021 of both. You were looking at MCU1. They are on MCU2 now, and it looks like the new S/X may be on an even newer MCU. You will find the typing speed and screen responsiveness 100% reversed.
Yes, but we aggressively export the unbalanced rights all over the world via trade agreements.
1. I was expecting to read about a gamma squeeze... (people buy far out-of-the-money calls on GME (low delta), option seller is short, buys a bit of GME to get flat, more people buy & price goes up, delta goes up, option seller needs to buy more stock to hedge, and you have your feedback loop going (until option is far in-the-money, delta is one, and option seller doesn't need to buy anymore).)

But that never came... it was just positive feedback in perception.

2. It's not "usually" crazier than you expect. Most everywhere, we have feedback loops that keep things stable. Demand rises, prices rise, people think, eh, too expensive, and demand and supply are in balance again. Airplane gets bumped nose-up a bit, angle of attack increases on the wing and the horizontal stabiliser creating upward forces, but everything (centre of gravity, tail volume, etc.) is carefully designed such that this results in a nose-down momentum until the plane is in equilibrium again. And I could go on.

That's why it is so unusual when things spin out of control (nuclear bomb, anyone?).

3. As for GME, I trust that the forces of the market will pull it back down where it belongs soon enough.

EDIT: closed parenthesis
I would hope they keep it as an option. Sports make up a big chunk of an overall cable bill. So if Disney bundles it in, expect that to put big upward pressure on the price of a subscription.
streaming in inferior in a lot of ways. It used to be I could turn on the TV and it powered up instantly. Now it takes about 30 seconds to turn on my TV, open streaming app, and click play. There's a real benefit to some analog mediums.