skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate how you highlighted two things: 1) about how it can lead to disagreement and 2) how NVC seems to require both sides to participate.

For the first one, I agree with you in that if someone says to me "I feel like (or believe or worse, know) that statement was rude," I can quickly jump into a defensive mode, "Well I believe it wasn't," and reach a stalemate. I, however, also can jump into that mode when someone says to me "that statement was rude" because I 1) may not believe it or 2) find an example of someone who doesn't believe it and then am likely to start to argue. This is why I try to avoid labeling things with these adjectives and try to dig more deeply into how I'm feeling internally.

About two, with the two-way participation of NVC I strongly agree and have found it be one of the things that frustrates me the most about it, both on the receiving and giving side of it. On receiving, I feel forced, stuck, nudged, coerced, whatever, into playing the games even if I don't want to. On the giving side, I feel stuck if the other person won't play and then can feel frustrated and passively try to trick them into playing.

This is why I really like adding another step, whereas step 1 is to say how I feel, step 2 is to tell them how I imagine they might be feeling and then step 3 is to say one thing to connect with love. I've found that even if the other person isn't playing, I can consider how I'm feeling, consider how they're feeling, and feel closer to them.
It sounds like he bought MSFT stock and then sold a call option on it. Selling call options is a profit and risk reducing betting strategy where you sell rights (but not an obligation) to the buyer to call away shares at a fixed “strike” price between now and an agreed-upon expiration date in exchange for a modest fixed premium. The stock price went over the strike price before the expiration date and were called away from him. Looking at Microsoft’s price chart, over the last 5 YEARS, you would have never lost money over any 4 month period (fiscal quarter) by just simply holding MSFT shares —- and that’s before adding in the increasing quarterly dividends!

Here’s an reasonable analogy for article writers that understand baseball more than options and stocks:

1) Selling call options like this Rep did is like bunting the baseball. This is where you hold the bat sideways and let the baseball tap on the bat. No chance of missing the ball but you can only get 1 base.

2) Buying and holding stock is like hitting the baseball your normal way. It’s the most common strategy. Maybe you’ll hit a home run, maybe you’ll get a few bases, maybe you’ll strike out.

3) Buying call options is like swinging for a homerun each time. You often run the risk of someone catching the ball or you miss hitting the ball but when it works, you hit it big.

In terms of baseball, swinging normally/commonly is the best strategy… do you agree? Next is aiming only for home runs. Last is bunting the ball or copying what this rep does.
agree. That's what I meant that I knew was imperfect would have done differently :) It's often hard to find words for feelings. Sadly I didn't have as much time to prep to think (and really feel) what I was feeling as much as I'd like.
TOS language is usually not grandfathered in.
I think the birth of the influencer muddied the signal to noise ratio of people who do hobbies for creativity/fulfillment and people who do hobbies for status. It's probably true that some people who would have done these things for themselves are now doing it for influence, but I'd guess more that what we're seeing is that people who otherwise never would have been photographers or artists or writers are now doing those things.

>We use to have hobbies. Now, we have side hustles.

I definitely agree with this, but I wouldn't blame it on the internet. My generation grew up being told to follow their dreams, that we could do whatever we wawnted if we worked hard enough. I think many of us have dreams that we've been holding on to, but with the understanding that dreams are expensive. So the prominence of side hustles is people trying to be efficient with their time and money.
If I'm understanding their desired goal correctly they'd like to get that kind of DNS-level blocking everywhere, not just on their home wifi. I know I appreciate having those nuisances blocked remotely -- some apps don't even run with poor cell service for me without DNS-level blocking because of all the extra data they're trying to transfer.
$399US is ~338€ though. Even adding in 19% VAT we'd come out at a nice round 400€, so I don't really understand the 419€, which is just a weird number from a marketing perspective as well.

That we're getting overcharged on this side of the Atlantic isn't new though, but happens with basically everything.
Ford Looking at Charging EVs by Flat Towing Them
Much appreciated! And yeah before building this, I was surprised there weren't already more tools that can show you a nuanced view of what the future may hold and the ways various decisions affect that picture... and the complexity of the spreadsheet I had been playing around with eventually became untenable haha. Thanks for the UI feedback so far, and since you've been in finance for a while I'll be very curious to hear more of your thoughts as you dig further into the app.
Yeah - I imagine that the games are designed thinking most players probably have an SSD or - at worst - an HDD. An SD Card - especially a not-good one - can be 100x+ slower than an HDD for small reads. Any games that depend on this would effectively not be playable.
It probably wasn't how many B&W sets were sold, but who owned them, that drove the compatibility. Sets being expensive luxury items meant you didn't want to upset the existing userbase.
It’s more less the same price as Nintendo switch and the switch is limited to expensive Nintendo games. Now if you are a fan of Nintendo games, great! But if you are a of gamer then this steam deck sound like a better idea!
One negative: With all that hardware it’s almost 3 times heavier than the Nintendo Switch, which is already near the upper limit for holding comfortable for longer play sessions.

edit: On closer look that's comparing the Switch without controllers (297g) to the Steam Deck with controllers (669g). The Switch with controllers is 398g, so the Steam Deck is only ~1.7x times as heavy - though that's still a lot of extra weight to hold in your hands.
I learned here on HN that contracts are supposed to be a "meeting of minds".

And in EU, as a consumer, you can pretty much ignore most EULAs because they aren't valid if they break EU consumer protections.

Now if your interpretation is correct the idea of a meeting of minds falls completely on its face.

And, as a lot of individuals also upload their projects to GitHub, GitHub is on shaky ground there as well.

I think most EULAs have clauses like these in them but we are always told that it is because of crazy American lawyers and nothing to worry about.

If Microsoft decides to prove once and for all that we should worry about ridiculously broad claims in EULAs I think it will be hard for GitHub to continue to operate in more sane jurisdictions.
What was wrong with SteamOS being based on Debian? I’ve not used SteamOS myself, but I wasn’t aware there were problems in that regard.
I was waiting for one of these responses to arrive. And just like clockwork...

So let's dig in:

> If I can believe the current narrative things have been going from bad to worse to black people walk the streets in fear of their lives from racist cops in the last few years.

In fact, just the opposite. It was worse before, but has slowly gotten better. Black artists have been making songs and paintings about corrupt and racist police not for years but for over a century. Body worn cameras and phone cameras have made the evidence irrefutable, "the police lie." So, now the NWA song, "Fuck the Police", wasn't just a bop but an actual indictment of the LAPD set to a 3/4 beat.

> that same flag is being called a racist symbol by leading politicians

You must be confusing the American flag with some other racist flag. No leading politician has ever referred to the stars and stripes as racist.

> the 4th of July supposedly celebrates independence for only part of the population

Umm yeah, that declaration was for land owning, white men. Native Americans didn't get theirs until 1965. We celebrated it but we knew it wasn't "for us"

> everyone has been blind for decades or the current narrative about racism is a lie meant to achieve some political purpose.

Great big omissions about the history of this country have been uncovered. And instead of believing the citizens have been intentionally blinded you prefer to think it's some conspiracy. Carry on.

> why the parent poster brought up the bad racism in SF and LA and the racism in Boise, Idaho.

Because when deciding where to relocate in the US some of us don't have the privilege of going wherever we want. One of the questions that get asked is "is X minority there? and if not why not?" Sometimes it's as simple as location (ie, HI, AK) and sometimes it's an old racist law like sundown towns. I bring up Boise as a counterexample. We're familiar with LAPD and know what to expect when dealing with them, and Bloomberg era NYPD. When discussion on moving out of California came up it was to other large cities with large minority populations, a place like Boise is an enigma to us. We don't know what's there and that can be dangerous for us.

> Is that the change which made it possible to claim racism is everywhere

So a country that is built on racism, which the US was, it tends to be everywhere, just not in expressed in objective terms and concepts you'd be familiar with. For example, Washington has an unnaturally low Black population. Because black people were literally banned from an entire state.

Btw, I'm sorry for you other people have a different experience from you, and that makes you feel uncomfortable.
You can find a natural number that is bigger than any one natural number, but you can't write one down that's bigger than every natural number in the ZFC sense.
> Reduce your steam tax for the companies that provide a native linux build

The idea that this would move the needle seems like wishcasting. Ten percent less of 0.89% of the Steam hardware survey is a couch-cushions rounding error. Meanwhile, Proton is a really good way to get hold of that rounding error as-is and works with surprisingly few problems across most games I've tried; For the amount of noise that 0.89% of the audience makes, Valve's spent quite a lot of time-and-effort to come up with something that works quite well.
Bringing PC gaming to a portable form factor will probably be successful, but I don't game on my phone, so I don't think I'd buy this.

I am in the market for a gaming laptop that can dual boot Linux as my work machine. If they did an Alienware or ROG style build I'd very likely buy that.

Btw if anyone has recommendations for me, I'm looking right now. Looking for a 15-17" heavy ass laptop with minimum 32gb ram, quality 4k or close display, and as much performance as I can find.
What’s the language de jour typically leveraged to declare these workflows?
This seems really cool, but I'm curious about the ethics of creating a tool that seems to replace Postman's paid offerings while leveraging all the free features of Postman.

I'm new to software development though, and I don't have an exact understanding of how open and sharing things are, and while I do understand we are all standing on the shoulders if giants, I wonder how far that goes.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding though, but this seems to be solving a lot of the collaboration issues that exist on the free tier, that they sell for Enterprise postman.

But once again, I'm new to the culture.
I have practical experience with that society as well. And have children at school. I used to go to house-parties a lot in '90 and '00 and have first hand experience in the 'drug-scene'.

What you are describing has happened in the 70's and 80's. Education, special programs and (semi-)legalising weed (soft drugs) had though most kids how to avoid addiction. Since then alcohol abuse is a far bigger problem amongst kids [source: https://www.trimbos.nl/kennis/cijfers/alcohol-drugs-roken-sc...]

Sure, drugs is being sold to kids. For recreational (weekend) use and not full-filling some addiction. So does that make it a drug-problem? From my point of view most kids know exactly what they are doing. Plus I haven't met a single dealer in NL which needed to resort to 'pushing drugs to kids' to sell his stash. So maybe your sons were asked to buy drugs, which is a very different situation.

Thé most troublesome problem, involving drugs in NL is people slipping GHB into other people's drinks, to abuse them afterwards.
Had to google what you meant by NVIDIA Shield (wrt portable gaming): https://www.amazon.com/NVIDIA-SHIELD-Portable-pc/dp/B00E3667...

One major difference (besides the form-factor obviously) is that the Deck doesn't require WiFi + desktop to play your PC games. I'd also argue that the trackpads will be a major difference. The Steam Controller's trackpad wasn't perfect, but it made possible to sanely play a ton of designed-for-mouse games
Definitely interesting. This is important though:

> Earthsight holds FSC largely responsible for the logging abuses linked to Ikea and other retailers we connected to the scandal. They rely on the green label and its competitor PEFC to ensure their supplies are sustainable and legally sourced.

Seems at a first glance this is about a certification body failing to do it's job. It may not be entirely fair to have IKEA in the title, even if they are affected.

Personal opinion, certifications like this always end up being gamed. Look at debt rating agencies, look at Big 4 audit results, etc. The certification body just becomes an easy weak spot to be exploited.
Do you think what a person reads has no predictive value on their 'moral value'? (An admittedly vague term)

Trivially: someone who reads NRA's weekly newsletter religiously is more likely to be pro gun, pro republican, and pro 'life', for instance
A lot of the things you mentioned only developed during the time when there was (or seemed to be) a compelling competing ideology.

Communism/socialism was seen as a potential alternative to capitalism during that time, and I think that the competition of ideas during that time led to more benefits for the lower end of the economic ladder.

Yes. I've made that point before, but it's not a mainstream position.

Many of the problems we have with capitalism come from capitalism being a monopoly, and acting like one.

Here's anti-communism PR from the 1949-1955 on the distribution of wealth. Back then, capitalism had to be sold in a competitive market.[1][2]

[1] https://archive.org/details/Americas1955

[2] https://archive.org/details/MeetKing1949
Even in urban areas we lost broadcasters in the transition to digital. It is just worse in a lot of ways. I don't care that my morning weather report is clearer in picture, if it stutters seemingly randomly. It's not as far as unintelligible, just fantastically irritating.
It's ancient and Valve had to do tons of backports to support it properly. I imagine they didn't like that very much.
Nintendo has the best IP as a whole in the industry. Nobody has what they have. They also aren’t going down the crazy AAA shooters who will milk every skin or map pack penny from their users.
Why move the goal posts, they weren't speculating on “price go up”, they took a capital efficient loan from an automated world bank instead of dealing with a boutique lender that wastes everyones time
>They fixed the worst thing about SteamOS: It's now got an Arch base.

I'm a little surprised they didn't go with something like Fedora. The kernel / drivers are kept just as up-to-date as Arch but the rest of the system is a little more stable.
What, really?

Welp, I've had that wrong my entire life.
I've had great results with their WINE/Proton layer.
Exactly this.

Why would one want to do n pull/merge requests, n separate reviews (of related code), and n deliveries for a single evolution, is something I can't understand.
Does that not look uncomfortable to anyone else?
You're saying 100+ MB/s won't be enough anymore? Why would that be the case?
Wow that's as powerful as a base model PS4.
“Those eyebrows are tickling my brain’s facial recognition systems” would be my mindful take on the thought, though yeah, unless you’re asked...
Where have you been? Valve has been pushing native Linux games for about 10 years.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTcxMTY
>I guess the question becomes “what percentage of current PC gamers are motivated to shell out $400 to play on the train?”

Yup.

Before clicking the "Reserve" link, I put a personal threshold for this thing at $300. If it was somewhere around that, it'd be an instant purchase for me.

Over $500 for a version with barely acceptable (by 2021 standards) storage? No thank you.

The 64GB version is almost a made-for-landfill device. I can't imagine people not running out of space very, very fast (even with microSD card slot, which we may or may not be able to install games onto: I wish they made it clear in the specs). Still, for $300, it'd be an instant buy for me - just to be able to play in bed.

I really hope enough people buy this thing, because I'd really want it to thrive - and the price to drop :)
Ikea is probably not even the biggest consumer of forests. A lot of trees go to make furniture in china, and no one holds anyone accountable about FSC or anything there. Certainly, not corrupted russian government.
Won't these guys get in trademark trouble with Elgato's "Stream Deck" which is also a piece of hardware targeted at the gaming market?
You really only need to do that expensive key agreement operation when you want to get rid of some old messages that someone has captured off the wire.

Could you perhaps share more of your analysis here? I'd like to be able to better follow what you are trying to say.
That was amazing because they unexpectedly succeeded on their first attempt. The individual falcon 9 landings were a bigger milestone but the success was iterative.

If SpaceX can successfully land starship after the first suborbital flight I think it will dwarf the twin booster landing.
Thank you for the detailed insight.

Can I ask you about this?:

>But the main point is that it doesn't degrade much under harsh UV radiation, with photocurrent 94% of the initial value after more than 60 days of aging.

Does not that mean that there is 3% degradation per month or 36% per year (i.e. the whole stuff lasts roughly 3 years only at this stage)?

Or once it gets to 94% after 2 months it somehow "settles"?
> Any company that requires candidates to have significant open source contributions is going to have a hard time hiring, because it’s not very common.

Nope.

Logical fallacy.

FAANG needs to hire thousands. Startups I've been at need to hire maybe 1-3 people at a time. Best CEOs I've met spent a ton of time recruiting those 1-3. Best strategy is to look at something others aren't looking at -- any other source of signal. If your hiring process is like FAANG, you're competing with $350k+ compensation packages. If you can find good developers who FAANG can't, and there are plenty, you'll have a much easier time.

A hiring process which selects for 10% or even 1% is plenty fine for a startup. 1% of developers in the US nets you 3000 people.

Best managers I've worked with hire through side channels which FAANG doesn't look at. If I'm a startup CEO/CTO/etc. I can afford to read code in your github. FAANG can't. Indeed, I can afford to browse github to find good people doing similar work, and work on getting them to join.

I'm not going to post my favorite ways to hire, since they'll lose signal if more people adopt them, but:

(1) they typically find on the order of a dozen people (and exclude far more than 1:10)

(2) all the people they find tend to be good

(3) I'll usually need to extended 3-4 job offers before someone takes one
> To be honest, I would think twice nowadays if I wanted to do invest my precious life in developing an iOS app and have my income derived from that. If the gatekeeper is unhappy, they can kill my livelihood without any recourse.

Don't worry, Apple has predicted your concerns, and has made sure that PWAs can't implement basic functionality[1] that native apps can. You're practically forced to write native apps for mobile users because of it.

But I am in the same boat. I have several open source macOS apps that the gatekeeper is making difficult to distribute without paying a $100 a year Apple tax. If you don't pay the Apple tax, then macOS treats your app as if it's radioactive, and refuses to run it unless users know how to perform a magic ritual that bypasses Gatekeeper.

There are iOS and Android apps that I'd like to develop, but I'm not going to bother for two reasons. The first is that the App Store and the Play Store have encouraged a race to the bottom for mobile app pricing, and consumers expect apps to either be free or costs a dollar or two. The mobile app store distribution model has broken the paid upgrade model for apps, the same payment model that is alive and well on desktops. The second reason is that Apple or Google are capricious, and my potential mobile app can only exist at their whims. There is also no guarantee that either company won't rip off the apps, either.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26520148
I don't need to, I can measure and label with real numbers. That's enough for being a number.
They show it running htop and a normal desktop. I'd assume so.
The Steam Link continues to be very useful for my girlfriend and I. It’s plug and play and we haven’t had issues with compatibility or controllers like we have trying to set steam up on a Pi 4.
As someone who has a stReam deck[1] sitting on their desk this is a very confusing name. Before I realized this new product was steam not stream I was trying to find if valve bought elgato or something.

[1] https://www.elgato.com/en/stream-deck
Just working! We don't need more features, we need the ones we have to work well! I have to put a lot of effort into making my computer reliably join meetings with working sound, video, etc.

Yeah, there's a ton of reasons this is hard to do, but you can't tell me that if everyone at Zoom/Microsoft/whatever redirected their efforts to making their existing stack work reliably, there wouldn't be progress.
Used to play them fine on hard drives. Micro SD cards became as fast as them quite a while ago.
Well then let's hope the judges apply the same standards as when criminals claim they wasn't aware that the money they got was being laundered through them.
Isn't that a tax thing? Prices in Europe are displayed VAT-included, while prices in the US are VAT-free, are they not?
Ah good call. I see how that can be confusing. Hopefully I'll also be able to add in a system where you can toggle some of these inputs between percent and fixed value as well.
> And we believe it’s up to tech Founders, VC’s and employees to do something about it.

Nobody stops Silicon Valley from saving the world, it's just that it is harder than creating Wi-Fi connected juicers and apps, even if that app is Facebook.

I understand the hubris, everyone uses these apps, but getting people hooked on something we are predisposed to want like sugar, social media or loot boxes only qualifies you as a predator.