skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WaPo?? not gonna give this garbage source a click
David Ahl's, Creative Computing magazine is rarest and best of all. My mom threw most of mine out when I was away in school and so did most of the world's libraries!

The other day I found the first issue of "PC Computing" which did survive in my collection and it has a nice article on the "future of printing" that explains current-day inkjet and laser printing quite well.
I got a Duron 650 together with a Geforce 1 back in 2000. That Geforce was really expensive butw a dud, it was slower than the cheaper/older TNT 2`s all my friends had...
Cyberpunk probably should've been that game, in the sense that it ran like shit, in the middle of a huge GPU drought, but it wasn't very good.
"The army is looking for a war in which it can test out a new toy" is how I read that.
Not officially _yet_ but between the VP leaving and some other signs, it does appear that Stadia isn't likely to last a ton longer.
Fun Stadia story: pulled in by the lie of Google 4k cloud gpu gaming, I preordered a Stadia "founder's edition" controller + chromecast ultra setup kit for ~$100 + shipping. A couple days later, I got a notification from Google telling me my order had been cancelled, with no explanation or remediation/reorder path. The founder's edition pack was no longer available for sale. I gave up.

A few weeks later, from Google: get a free Stadia founder's edition pack, just pay shipping! So, I did.

It arrives, and you can't enable it without a) an app, and b) giving them all sorts of permissions. It also has an abysmal selection of games, and rarely in 4k.

Now, they will presumably cancel it soon.

This is too-much-money-itis.
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Cocaine is also a drug, and yet, one doesn't need to date someone addicted to either.

> I wouldn't go that far - we all have hobbies/interests we are passionate about that we're not utilitarian about and are willing to go all-out on. Judging a person on one axis feels like a mistake to me.

I don't this is a hobby so much as a world view, or as you stated, an addiction. To me it indicates a very materialistic, shallow worldview. If 40k rings are required to show love, what do they think of people who aren't as wealthy? What would they think of you if you lost your job? Heck if someone's marrying you, why do you need to show your love at all, shouldn't that be established to them?

I think you should be incredibly judgy about who you choose to marry.
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We know exactly who dumped them, and when, because the company doing the dumping kept records and shared them with investigators!

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-coast-ddt-dumping-ground...
I think Facebook gets gaming too
I do take steps to prevent internet stalking but I don’t find the “stalkers are part of society and need to earn a living, too” argument all that persuasive.
Oh man, I'm lucky my father never would have believed this stuff. In 2001, I was putting together tens of 486 and 386 based PCs out of a heap of old parts donated by a family friend and the neighbors thought I was some kind of hacker.

I fondly remember dad spending his tax refund to buy me a brand new Dell the next year, and coming home from work to find me at the kitchen table with it in parts. He said nothing at first, but from the look in his eyes, it took him about 30-40 seconds to remember that I knew what I was doing already.
Cubic zirconia (Mohs 8) is less hard than diamonds (Mohs 10) or Moissanite (Mohs 9.25). For something that gets a lot of wear, the CZ will get scratched up and have its edges rounded off more over time than diamonds or Moissanite. But, if its something that only gets occasional wear this is likely not going to be too much of an issue. Just don't go banging your stone on a pile of diamonds.

CZ also has a lower refractive index and less dispersion than either diamonds or Moissanite.
Do you share those notes somewhere or they are only for personal use. I wanted to know the social aspect of reading books, how does a person share an idea he/she read in a book with a larger audience and get more engagement
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I love learning. My interests around the past few years have been around coding. Before that I was big into designing ships.

Whenever I get into something I really deep dive into it and want to build right away. What are the steps that you take when wanting to build something new as a complete noob? I'm guessing learning platforms are somewhere in the mix but what about other platforms? I do a mix of wikipedia, quora, and general google searches.
Currently reading "The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator" By Timothy Winegard, and in it he suggests that the mosquito was introduced by Columbus and is not native to the Americas. If this is true (I dunno if it is), I wonder if it changes the opinion of anyone arguing against this because of the "tampering with nature" angle.
> most diamonds are marked and registered in a database that traces its unique history

Most engineering projects around cultural products change (not necessarily improve) the "registered in a database" process. Whereas most value comes from creating / enriching a "unique history."
You don't even need the referral. Unless your CV only has farming experience or something :-)
I guess the Slashdot Microsoft story image was prescient

https://lurkertech.com/bill-the-borg/windoze2495.jpg
Why do you think the Washington Post is garbage?
Part of the trouble here is that the Google brand spans their B2B and B2C offerings.
Hangouts is now read-only for messages to/from phone numbers (as of December 2020 iirc), but you can still message people who are signed in to chat on Gmail. Effectively axed.
From experience with living near The Three-Border Region (Drielandenpunt) on the Belgian-German-Dutch border these marking stones are fairly frequent, every hundred meters in the woods.

I always figured they were mostly symbolic. At least I hope, because the local loggers have moved Germany about 30 meters into Luxemburg by uprooting a stone.
I'm using the Sony Headphones app for mainly changing the Clear Bass to my liking and for checking the battery status of the case and the buds. Just to be clear, I'm referring to WF and not WH.
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> But there is no need to talk in such grandious terms, when talking about a voice chat app.

This is the statement I'm responding to. I think it demonstrates a lack of vision, and I'm trying to correct it. So yeah, basically different conversations at this point.
I'm not opposed to helping them, but I worry that they're helped disproportionately. In my opinion, kinetic warfare is not our weak spot - I feel like we've got that covered pretty well; information warfare is a complete blind spot from a defense standpoint. I'd like to see more money headed to defense on that front instead. Re >> "you need to take that up directly with the people that take your money and give it to them" - I do when I can.
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Trademark has to be actively defended. It is quite unlike copyright in that respect. They can allow you to use the name under generous conditions, but if there is any chance that they could have reasonably known, and this post is definitely proof of that IMO, then they have to defend their trademark against infringement.
I think I disagree with this assessment.

The distinction is that the symbol is used to denote the function of an area of text, which is commonly also served by an underline — and not an innate property of the words in which its associated. In any other context, that symbol conveys no additional meaning.

(I've noticed Unicode is very specific nowadays about declining "icons appearing as UI")

Similarly, the "Box Drawing" characters are clearly a formalization of legacy text. In many ways I see that as akin to adding support for ancient languages.
Each circle represents a state. A filled circle represents the formula to be true in that state.

Here P is true in state 2, then false subsequently. So in state 1, the formula "next P" is true. "next P" is false in state 2, because P is false in state 3.
>I don't know what kind of spell the diamond people cast on otherwise reasonable women to make them able to reduce the totality of a life and experiences shared together into a single crystalline bet, but they need to package it and sell it to the military.

The militaries of the world invented it, it's business that bought it. Much of this diamond/marriage symbolism stems back to the late 1940s post WWII with DaBeer's engagement ring ad campaigns.

WWII involved a lot of R&D in psyops and effects of propoganda. Sure, these strategies always existed but it became part of scientific research, was refined and weaponized to manipulate perceptions of people using non-kinetic approaches to try and avoid or minimize kinetic warfare. After the war in the mid 40s ended, where do you think all that expertise in propoganda from military went? Business marketing and advertising sprouted from much of this expertise. Marketing and advertising always existed before then but there was a dramatic shift in how things were sold creating armies of refined snake oil salesmen.

In the late 40s, DaBeers ran a massive ad campaign employing such propoganda that shifted culture into associating diamond rings with marriage. There had been dowries and other exchanges of wealth and power in marriages before (it's often been a basis for marriage) that but DaBeers managed to shift that in culture in the west to the diamond ring. It's now so deeply ingrained in culture and people's perceptions that it can make otherwise rational people irrational.

Do not ever underestimate the power of propoganda in its various forms. Pyschogical manipulation runs rampant in business marketing and these are the effects. We've culturally accepted it for a variety of reasons. I question if we should continue to accept these practices in business.
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I'm not a huge gamer anymore but I often use Proton over native Linux. It's such a huge difference from the Wine days.
Is it called that because u looks a bit like μ? How is it pronounced?
> Imagine a platform where users can't mod in their own content or modify (or even improve) the experience in any way.

I don’t like Stadia, but doesn’t this describe most if not all major consoles?
I would just add that the content of The Book of Why is amazing but damn is the audio book bad.

It might be the worst read book I can think of. I am not even sure why, it just so painful to get through with the way the voice actor speaks.

Hopefully it gets a new rendition at some point in the future.
Hrm. Sorry. OTOH, it's sufficient to ask you "Did you mean: Frog Design Inc.?" and get you there whith one more click!

Incredible, innit?
Deezer wants artists to be paid fairly
That doesn't make any sense if there's no non-religious category
This is truly the most baffling thing. Google could have truly just built a very tight end-to-end cloud hosted "streaming" product that would have leveraged all their Cloud infra to help you play YOUR games... just on any device through their UI. Pay a small hourly or monthly rate (think spot rate for cloud GPUs) and there... you have a business.

Other people have done it sure and maybe that is why Stadia tried to go even bigger, but if they just launched a simple product like that I think it would have been a big hit (and truly hit the market of people who want to play the latest games at full settings but don't have the hardware to do so)
it's a political propaganda machine spewing misinformation for years.
How is this not survivor bias?
It is not a rational argument, result of some cultural indoctrination. Media, friends, peers... Everyone is susceptible to such influence to some degree but not aware. Still, must be sad to witness.
I'd say the fact that Google is the "0 support or human interaction, ever, once you need help with anything, forget it" company does not help either.

When it comes to their paid products I hear mixed reports in my circles, some claim that they have good experiences with it. But ultimately the question is: Why risk it?
>> The outputs on pageload are just a random uncurated set I ran. I never claimed smaller models like the MtG models were immune to the same curation issues as larger text generation models.

Are you sure? I reloaded the page once, before commenting above, but the output didn't change. I keep reloading now and the same set of cards is displayed. I reloaded with Shift-F5 to be sure ish.

>> As someone who did try to reproduce RoboRosewater with LSTMs years ago, I can say using GPT-2 overall has a higher signal-to-noise ratio in terms of generating interesting cards which is a win.

I don't know what an "interesting" card is, when we're talking about automatically generated cards. If a card looks too much like an existing card (e.g. if it has abilities that you can find on cards in a real-world set) then it's not very interesting. If it's an ability that hasn't been seen before but is only a variant of an existing ability ("Destroy target donkey") it's still not very interesting. To generate really "interesting" cards a generator must go beyond what's in the M:tG corpus, but not so far out that the abilities don't make sense anymore because that's not "interesting", just "random". The ones generated by your project are not far out enough to be what I'd call "interesting" but I think if you tried to make them more interesting they'd also become less coherent than they are currently (looking at the same few results I keep getting anyway).

(This is not very harsh criticism I hope.)
Married about 12 years (together 16). I bought my then future-wife a ring for $200. She didn't care it was small or that it was a tiny fraction of my salary - we both wore our rings for everyone else for a year or so... My personal do-over would be to have purchased an even cheaper ring (or none at all) so we could buy more useful things, and she would agree.

In any case, the spell doesn't work on everyone.
The reduced albedo effect from the no longer radiant Sahara would cause a significant amount of heat absorption. While it would remove CO2, for a while, the increased heat would be enough to almost offset the entire benefit from the project.
Yeah, it made me feel like I had to read the manual but there wasn't any. Seeing such a bad one reminded me how spoiled we are with beautiful abstractions.
Comcast maintains their monopoly through state power. Through licensing, easement access, and other regulations, no one takes on Comcast.
In france, it is GAFAM: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAFAM
You may be confusing ruby with perl or clojure.
Take the money and have a nice honeymoon, buy two $5 seashell necklace at the beach. There are so many ways to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars that are way better than investing them into small chunks of metal.
You forget to mention that the coverage was in 2002. Which makes me vaguely curious about the content.

Edit: alas it's just a reiteration of the text, pretty much what I would expect from a modern Youtube clip on a channel with a name like ‘TechTV’.
I've only been working professionally for 5 years and this is something I am only recently beginning to appreciate. Optimizing for efficiency makes you get a lot of work done but it reduces your ability to think creatively which can potentially impact the quality of ones work.
Honestly, Stadia would have worked out fine had they started it with a game pass model. Pay a monthly fee and get a library of games to play. They could have later allowed people to buy games 'forever' as well.
> Doing so makes it possible to value the history as unique

It may make it possible, but I would dispute that many people really care all that much about the story. Sure, they care about 'real', but what that means is up for debate.

> the target buyer is focused on whether others recognize the value

Pretty solidly they don't, hence the abysmal second hand values! But you're not wrong - to split hairs I think it's whether others recognise how much was spent, which lots of people confuse with value :)
> Surely Google treats their B2B products and B2C products differently, no?

Apparently not:

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...
This is great, I want to go back a decade and relive an argument I had about this with a co-worker who was ring shopping for his now wife.

I was trying to explain to him that diamonds are worthless, they have little resale value because they're not fungible, the rarity is being manipulated, and man made diamonds are indistinguishable without a special tool.

His position was that he can't get his fiance a "fake diamond" and I said just because it's man made doesn't mean that it isn't real. We went back and forth a bit, and started to get heated, and eventually I said "If I make a sandwich it doesn't mean it's not a real sandwich!" which made our other co-workers laugh hysterically and repeat for years. Ice would have made the point much better than a sandwich, but I suspect I wouldn't remember the story.
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> Berkshire Hathaway recently remarked on the dynamism as seen in the top 20 companies in the world in 1990 vs today.

180-year-old 360,000-person company worth half a trillion dollars says what?

(They might not be wrong, but they certainly aren't impartial.)
I was making a general point. I wasn’t even talking about Twitter. Though I do agree that Twitter is simultaneously significant and has engendered a lot of stupidity. Many things throughout history have been both great and stupid.
I cant' help but rejoice that europe's borders (at least within the eu) are a mere stone. Not too long ago moving that stone might have led to war, now it leads to jokes.
I feel their strategy makes a lot of sense if each project is treated like a startup. Release the mvp, iterate quickly, shut it down if it isn't working...

The problem is they attach the Google name for clout and then proceed to drag that name through the mud when they stop support.

Google's name now isn't worth much to me if I'm considering an experimental product.

They should not use the Google moniker unless they are willing to provide long term support.
10ms ping is about the best possible case. You're practically living inside the servers if that's the case. What if it's more like 50ms?
It is both sides. The right is falling out of religion too. They just don’t realize it. How can you believe in Jesus and vote Trump? The best I got was, “lesser of two evils”. What they fail to remember is that they are called out of this world. The politics here don’t matter.
This looks like very bad idea to make a page looking different for users based on their cookies. When user comes to this page from different laptop, he will get confused since the highlighted button won't be the "Sign in" anymore as he got used to.
I guess Sign In and Sign Up should be distinctively different all the time.
I imagine a future with smugglers and pirates which only move during the day and generate enough smoke and water vapor during scheduled flyover to hide their journey
I get how static sites are useful for readonly content, but what do you mean by "financial transactions without a DB in sight"? Even in jamstack you still have an API backed by a DB, no?
Yes, u is often used as an approximation to μ. Pronounce it »micro«. The most prominent abbreviation is uc for microcontroller, and uLisp is »Microlisp«.
i imagine Google did not buy Zenimax because they seem to operate on a very compressed timeline for their new projects which makes any corporate courtship hard to pull off.

so unless Google came with an obscene "instant yes" offer to Zenimax then both sides would have had to enter some kind of protracted negotiations and talks, which doesn't seem to jive with Google's half in/half out attitude towards new products.
I am much further removed from the "startup frenzy" of the early 2010s, but does it seem like this model has trended downward since the start of lockdown?

As optimism about the pandemic rises, it seems like the innovation that you would expect from this kind of volatility never panned out. I suppose capital was pumped into the public market instead?
Why is it so hard to find people with patience and shallow interest in the same topic as you :D
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https://github.com/Budibase/budibase
Eventually most people's most sensitive info will be publicly accessible; after all, can anyone reasonably expect to trust institutions from hacks and ransomware with how little most orgs/contractors care for security? hopefully this is an extremely cynical view