skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Equating polio and covid is ridiculous. Also its amazing you trust the efficacy and safety of vaccines made with such haste.

The number of armchair virulogists that spawned in the last year makes my head spin.
Folks who didn't know the difference between a virus and a bacteria are now pushing covid vaccine wokeness while a big bunch of them still think that hepatitis B is a bloody vitamin.

Good luck mate.
Yes, the multi-process model was a godsend. Especially since it was around the time multicore processors started becoming more common, especially on laptops. Perfect timing. Terrible javascript not locking up the whole browser was fantastic.
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> (I don't know any spoken language that would map to placing verbs first in a sentence.)

There are some less spoken, and some more widely spoken languages have this as an optional possibility. Verb-Subject-Object order: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verb%E2%80%93subject%E2%80%93o...
Thank you for coming out with us! I tell my doctors all the time, I’m tired of being diagnosed, I want you to listen to how I feel. That has got to be so much further in helping me than any diagnosis has.
Because animation takes so long to produce there's a lot of time to polish and dial the jokes.
Same, even though I've been bit by it.

After rationally agreeing not to get anything (because we were about to move overseas on a couple of luggages and didn't want extra stuff) my SO got me 3 (3!! usually it was one per event) gifts and I was empty handed.

And I had to resell / returns some of the items as we were moving anyway and we could just buy better quality stuff later on, without having to pay for the move.
> My understanding is that the vast majority of these M&A destroy capital.

It'd be interesting to see whether the modern tech industry is an anomaly with regards to this longstanding pattern. In particular, I wonder there's an exception for the typical acquisition of smallish, fast growth startups by a tech giant who can generate synergies by quickly integrating the tech on to their platform. Historically these types of acquisitions wouldn't show up in the M&A literature, because the targets are private companies, and the standard estimation techniques rely on public equity returns.
> I feel like if you took and old diamond ring, reset it and refinished it, there would be no way to tell that it was "used". Maybe resetting it will introduce some flaws that weren't there before.

Can anyone who works in the diamond industry respond to this? Can anyone tell if a diamond has been made into a ring before? Would it damage the diamond to remove it from the ring? This sounds like an opportunity to plaster signs that say "WE BUY DIAMOND RINGS" all over and buy them back from consumers at a discount from wholesale.
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This was not a startup project.

For Stadia to work they needed a lot of ties to the customer and games companies.

> Release the mvp, iterate quickly, shut it down if it isn't working...

This means that anyone integrating with your product takes huge gamble that you will be here in X months, why risk it?

Google made none thinking that G factor is enough. Its basically Google+ 2.0

Throwing just some money into already occupied and competitive market and expecting things to happen is borderline fraud.

Statia was a stillborn project sailing on a sinking ship made purely out of wishful thinking.
> Everyone acts hoping that they can bring more good to the world than bad.

I want to live in that world.

Those are some seriously potent rose colored glasses you've got going on there.

I think it's true that many people think and act that way, but I don't know what percentage of people are basically good like that.
> ending distribution of a copyrighted work

That's not what the article was about, as I understand it; the music concerned is generally still being distributed in its own right, but the show's license was for a limited period (and/or distribution channel).

> we could just move to a mandatory licensing regime

I'm not sure a mandatory licensing regime would be a good answer for anything; or at least it could be really hard to design one.

Suppose the next populist presidential candidate wants to use some popular artist's latest song at rallies. Does the artist not have a right to decide whether to license that?

Suppose Pornhub wants to license Disney's content, to stream alongside the other material they provide. Shouldn't Disney have a say in whether to allow that or not?
This is a super cynical take and does not at all address the wants and needs of the majority of users. Removing the need for a gaming PC reduces the barrier to entry and increases the number of people with access to PC games. Not everyone cares about modding their experience, but tons of people would benefit from access to these otherwise unreachable games. Their access through game streaming platforms doesn't hurt your ability to mod.
I mean, you could also see that as a pivot with a new type of product, as they see which market actually uses it.

I along with others questioned why they were targeting hardcore gamers (who already have consoles and PCs) right out of the gates when the value it offers is to a more casual market.
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Maybe. Maybe a bunch of people tried the game made at their studio, and it was bad. And if the first 1,000 enthusiasts used to trying new stuff don't like your game, the next 1,000,000 people aren't going to like it either.

It's better for these people's careers to shutdown immediately and move onto something else, before you release something crummy. Isn't that what startups do anyway?
Is the donation still tax-deductible if you do it through a NFT?
Under Amazon, I would also include commoditizing compute and selling you their spare compute cycles (AWS) as their major efficiency win.

Finally, Amazon is automating warehousing in their logistics (first using automated checklists for people walking around the warehouse, now using Amazon Robotics, formerly Kiva Systems)
Apparently there is a company called Appel, Inc.

https://www.bbb.org/us/fl/port-saint-lucie/profile/accountin...

Of course, they're not in software or hardware, so your point stands.
It exciting to see those new kind of funds thrive.

I was really surprised by the business diversity of this batch with, amongst other:

- note system for researcher

- evidence, and lab management software for digital forensics labs

- CRM for senior placement

Disclaimer: part of TS 2020
Haven't people been saying this for at least 4 years?
Problem is that we're still in a zero-sum game that the CCP wants to play.
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Most of them are tax avoiding, so yes, they are using your money. Or at least causing your money to be spent on other things than it would if they contributed proportional to their advantage.
It's bad satire, making all the obvious jokes and taking itself too seriously. It's a one-liner dragged out to three pages.
Rivers are an incredibly convenient border and also incredibly flexible over time. "Go west until you hit the river" is easy to understand and convey, and when things are measured in square miles or local it doesn't really matter, but over time that river moves and the exactitude of the boundaries matter more and more.
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Is Ethereum anything like bitcoin in terms of power utilization/environmental impact?
Look at it as a proof of work. What matters is you burned a certain chunk of your life for her.
I get so tired of this dichotomy between nature and nurture. It’s both. Some people have more issues on the nurture side other people have more issues on the nature side. What’s needed is to look at this more holistically.

When I realized this I didn’t know how much my environment was affecting my bipolar disorder. Buy matching my nature in my nurture I’ve come along way and getting off of almost all my medications.
The post is from 2001. The spanking.com domain name was probably owned by someone else at the time and might not have been NSFW. The books are all going to be 20 years old at least.
Same - if it were a subscription service I may have tried it out. But knowing how these digital services tend to go and how quickly Google kills its services I was never going to “buy” a game from them.
> Now try a "used" diamond.

The right “used” diamonds are often received better than fresh natural diamonds by recipients. But that depends a lot on the “origin story”.
Amazing how short sighted HN is when it comes to NFTs. Blindly accepting the "bad for climate" tripe and showing utter ignorance to the upcoming transition away from energy guzzling proof-of-work to a proof-of-stake world. Sad to see this community act so willfully ignorant to all things crypto.
I love lisps, but isn't using a garbage collected language on a micro a bit bizarre? I'm sure in lots of cases it won't matter, but then you could probably can use some cheap ARM SBC and IO pins (and a full dev environment).

the Venn diagram of situations where a SBC won't do and you don't care about random pauses seems kinda small.. I could be wrong
The environmental harm of a single ethereum transaction is very low. Lower than a fundraising dinner. Please take your nitpicking elsewhere.

They're literally aiming at saving thousands of lives and the comments are all focused on how bad NFTs are. Give me a break, talk about missing the point.
Interestingly they are spending extra time on self driving tech with Waymo. I wonder if Google has a culture of taking ‘serious tech’ more seriously than say ... video games, and certainly over social.
I think the service is amazing and I even pay for GeforceNow and did a Stadia trial. There's no way I was going to spend a dime on content or hardware. It was just too likey to be killed off. By contrast I've spent tons of money on Steam and Oculus stores, so I have no problem buying digital content from a company I have confidence in. Google has seriously hurt their brand and I am always concerned they're going to pull the rug out from me on the ancillary G products I use. Many companies sunset products, but Google has an absolute knack for destroying my consumer confidence.
> death of inefficient retail.

More like lobbying to maintain a tax holiday for a very long time. I suspect retail will slowly come back due to the end of that tax holiday, and Amazon's devaluing of their platform with counterfeits.

I'm also not sure that the distinction that you're making here is super-significant. Facebook and Google are plundering advertising spend from print just like Amazon took over retail.
I did some refactoring work a few months ago, replacing the old way we did something with the new. I didn’t have to do it, I could have punted like the creator did. But I was used to the new thing and I wasn’t about to write new code that was already deprecated.

Nobody called me out on it but it wouldn’t have been the first time in my career.

But now I find out belatedly that we’re changing our auth system, and now that work is going to save me from having to drop everything to get it done on time.
There used to be an emacs/lisp library that did this, does anyone remember the name ?
The JavaScript tooling ecosystem is fragmented, bloated and slow. Rome is the best - and currently only - bet to fix this. I’m excited!
that's how it works
Crypto marketplaces are marketplaces on steroids
I don't get it. A non-profit is inherently a centralized entity. What's the point of using a blockchain in this scenario?
Can I use this with GKE too?
I'm not sure why this is an NFT other than trying to capitalize on the current craze. NFT or not, a charity should still "issue a public report tracking how this specific tranche of money is spent, and estimating the number of lives saved as a result". Having decent reporting on how efficient your charity is feels like it should be basic table-stakes in order to raise more money in the future.

Is this really any different than a charity asking for donations?

Edit: asking for one very large charitable donation.
Well... the good thing if Stadia shuts down is that Orcs Must Die 3 will definitely come to PC.
"Eastern realm", actually. Wikipedia has some details - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria#Etymology
> The environmental harm of a single ethereum transaction is very low. Lower than a fundraising dinner. Please take your nitpicking elsewhere.

Source? I'm curious to see exactly how the environmental harm of a fundraising dinner is quantified.

edit:

When I google "ethereum transaction energy cost" the Google featured snippet says 50kwH for a single transaction. I find it hard to believe that it would take 50kWH to cook a single dinner. If you're referring to multiple dinners, then you would have to subtract the cost to eat in general as eating is a human necessity - hence me asking your source since I'm genuinely curious.
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This + the NFTs will make for truly excellent virtue signaling.
> What I wonder about is how that came to be

Social identity is a big one, and insofar as social media dispenses with the subtle social cues that we rely on to communicate and emote, I think we're stuck with this if we're going to rely heavily on public communication devoid of facial expression.

Also it's somewhat obvious that a certain side of the political spectrum has an obsession with literal enumeration. I'd be interested to see if there's a conservative parallel to the growing list that so many feel obligated to put forth: pronouns, vaccination status, race, political identity, gender, sex, romance orientation, mask-affinity, mental health identity, astrological sign, etc.

As a qualifier, I say this as a gay guy who's often in queer social circles and it seems to me not only pathological but cognitively dissonant: in a sphere that claims that labels and normativity are bad, they then go on making an ever-growing list of definitions of existence. None of this is pleasurable - it's robotic and authoritative. There is an obsession with definition instead of just living their lives and embracing the ineffable and infinitely complex nature of life.
I feel sorry for anyone who has brought into Stadia in any way, shape or form. This is soon to be headed to the dustbin of history and a prominent display in killedbygoogle.com. Many people predicted such things the moment it was announced - such is Google's terrible reputation - that they simple cannot be trusted to launch a new product and commit to it for years.

I decided that I'd give ANY new Google project a minimum of 2-3 years (up to 5) before investing. If it shuts down in that time nothing has been lost.

I do look forward to the rage when it just ups and dies and you're left with nothing, while I still have my ISOs and other media that cannot be taken by anyone, ever.

What a farce.
I think of all of Google that's not Search & Ads as "side projects" that they do kind of like a hobby.

They'd like for them to succeed, but it's nowhere near the focus an org that lives or dies by the project has.

So if gaming proves harder than expected, they move on to other fun things.
> There is more to the web than crud.

not really. 90% of people using the cheapest vps are going to host wordpress or crud apps on there, not their video streaming startup that competes with youtube.
We got our current revolution because gaming paid for the development of GPU’s.

Getting consumers to fund R&D has a big impact.

Still waiting for consumers to fund the robot revolution.
Your mistake was not knowing enough about evolutionary biology. I suggest you read about Signaling Theory.
People didn't think well about the other side of the coin: if anyone can hack away a product, then what you need to make a lot of money is somehow gather the best minds that can make this machine work for you and monopolize their ideas. This is exactly the strategy behind the FAANG.
Exactly. Your quote does not invalidate the previous statement at all. Per evolution basic theory, the gene most adapted to the environment and which produces more offsprings, survives.

Therefore, offsprings of unmodified mosquitos have twice the chance to reproduce, as both males and females can reproduce and both will yield unmodified males and females. I wouldn't know the rate, but even if slowly, unmodified strain will come back, unless extinct.

There need be no female preference for this to happen, but of course if they evolve to detect modified males it would accelerate the rate which modified mosquitos get extinct.
Allowing alternative stores in iOS isn't even "opening the App Store".
I'm really excited to work with these 18 companies. This is also our most international batch yet, with seven companies based out of the US.
Searching the web immediately turns up:

> Man Bites Dog is an intensely disturbing movie that, despite having frequent moments of dark humor, is shockingly violent and very difficult to watch.

With 74% on RT, which is pretty good. I already have conflicting emotions from this. The descriptions evoke the spirit of Bret Easton Ellis' stuff.

What I've seen of French film violence tends to be cinematic in an off-putting way, but perhaps that's only post-2000s explosion of movie tricks.
Great, get back to us when it actually happens, right now it is an environmental disaster.
India's lowest tax bracket is zero-taxed. That's up to 20k INR (270 USD) monthly. You don't have to file if you have zero tax (unless you meet one of the other weird conditions that is aimed at people who make lots of money in 'weird' ways - abroad, cap gains, etc.). In practice, these people don't have to file.

The increased responsibilities are:

* They're tied to the national ID which has biometrics and all that shite

* If they make more than the exemption (which can happen occasionally) they have to file now. In practice, they'll just dodge it since they work 'informally' (i.e. the guy who goes out fishing and then has his wife sell at the local market isn't having income deducted by an 'employer')

* I don't recall particularly, but I think they also stick you with a religion and an ethnicity field (for affirmative action stuff). Not sure about this so check. This one makes me nervous if it's real.

But it's just so much more beneficial to be known to exist. If the government simply doesn't know, it won't particularly look. Some bureaucrat in the big city will look at the blank spot and put a desal plant there and then they'll come evict you.

At least if you are known to exist, you can fight the eviction temporarily or get some money.
Microsoft's key strategy was always market domination by monopoly, paid through the vig of per-CPU licence fees (whether DOS/Windows was installed or not, still largely the case), and extending through "productivity software" (MS Office) and later organisational glue (MS Active Directory / Exchange) and the Web (MSIE).

The DoJ case had Microsoft back off that lever a bit, just as Apple executed beautifully (and with some Microsoft concessions in part devolving from the DoJ suit ... yes, a simplification, my 4th-fav pedants), and then hit it out of the park with the iPod and iPhone (subscriptions, apps, hardware sales, fashion accessories, ...).

Google cracked Microsoft's revenue model with advertising (though that may be starting to give a bit), as has Faceboook. Amazon got where both Microsoft and Google wanted to be: between the buyer and the lion's share of online retail.

Work, comms, adverts, shopping, fashion, and entertainment. There's hot competition for transport (automobiles, whether smart, electric, for-hire, or self-driving). There's not a whole lot of consumer spend left to grab that I can see. (Housing. Utilities. Insurance. Finance.)
weren't they making sort of crossbreed and so made way more changes than 1 gene?
Great article. Nice insights on techne & metis.
Environmental pollution also "works better" for companies and yet we regulate it. I don't think this is a false dichotomy, the role of government in business regulation is to modify business practices that are contrary to the best outcomes for society. Not what is more efficient for businesses.
Can you imagine the outrage over Google making the next Elder Scrolls Stadia exclusive? I think a move like that might displace EA at the top of the hate pyramid for a bit.
Microsoft is going to have some issues if they make the next Elder Scrolls and Fallout permanently XBox exclusive, and that's a well established console franchise that is well accepted for using exclusives to differentiate from Sony etc.
To what monetization methods you are referring to particularly?
And English, in its predatory way, will adopt those 'different' words and constructions as its own in due time :)
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Apparently the developers had to make it specifically compatible with an in house distro of linux used by Stadia. Which is kinda stupid, since it means that games released on Stadia which would have otherwise been natively usable on Linux systems, are not.
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For me the value in seeing this kind actual numbers is that it puts into some kind of perspective the reports of falsely terminated accounts.

If you are terminating accounts at this level, then it is - at least for me - a bit more understandable that you can't conduct a deep human review of each termination (and even if you do, there would be still likely some mistakes).
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As far as I know, you can't manage the list of paired devices from just the headphones, as well as managing the noise cancellation level on the original QC35.
We've been running NewsCatcher [1] for over a year now.

Many things that we've learnt we got from YC SUS and HN. We'd love to thank this community & YC's free resources: it definitely help us get where we're today!

This season, we applied to YC, TinySeed, and Alchemist. Going to YC was my dream for ~2 years. However, we had to reject the YC S21 invitation this morning to join TinySeed S21.

Maksym and I are super happy that we got the invitation from the TinySeed team: we're two first-time bootstrapped founders, and we feel that TinySeed's 12 months program is the best fit for us at the moment.

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Mine too. But it has nothing to do with the hardware or software (I'd argue that for many things the Apple ecosystem makes things harder due to its inflexibility) and everything to do with the fact that whenever they have a problem they can walk to an Apple Store (or call Apple Care) and they are able to help without having to work around my time constraints (job, family, etc...) I suppose that's a type of integration too (the fact that Apple has retail stores and a Genius Bar that for "normal" people works well to solve "normal" problems) but it has nothing to do with pure technological innovation.
Österreich - The Eastern Empire (my limited german)

Ost - East

Öster - To the east, easter - relative to something

Reich - Empire