skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Stadia doesn’t work “fairly well

Yes it does? What issues do you have with it? It just works.

> It’s also low-res (still) compared to a local GPU

1080p for free or (upscaled) 4K for 10€/month is fairly decent, and on the latest games is better than most integrated or older GPUs.

> serious gamers

What percentage of the gamers' market is "serious gamers"? For the people that "must have" 8K low latency etc sure, cloud gaming isn't the best option. But IMHO they're the minority and vastly more people are "casual gamers" that are more than fine with playing 1080p/upscaled 4K for peanuts for multiple years ( how much does a RTX 3080 cost, and how many years of Stadia can we buy with the same amount of money?)
Palantir responded in a statement to TheStreet.com: "There was no glitch in the software. Our platform has robust access and security controls. The customer also has rigorous protocols established to protect search warrant returns, which, in this case, the end user did not follow."

Source: https://www.thestreet.com/investing/palantir-shares-data-acc...
"While red made the links easier to spot, user comprehension and recollection of the content declined." -Ben Shneiderman

Ben likes to actually run controlled experiments and measure things like that, instead of just speculating! ;)

See the email quoted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28317104
Payment too, to add $$$ you go to a external noname site from the nineties. Until a month ago your balance on the main site would not update until you logged out and in again.
Usually "landlord" is used to mean somebody who owns the property to rent it out. So it doesn't apply to a private-use holiday home, the leading example in the article as I understand it (but does to later ones).
You have a communication issue in that people assume you're providing something Alpine "official".

They have a communication issue in this escalation (TSC/Council) before trying to simply talk to you.

I'm not gonna blame either of you.
Russia and America’s overlapping legacies in Afghanistan
Oh cool, thank you.

I’ve read that oil companies were well aware of how climate change is going to develop based on their sales volume and the resulting oil consumption.

Assuming that's true for BP. To which detail was the climate change impact communicated to you? Was it an explicit requirement to focus public interest away from BP?

What is your opinion on the article in this post?
Vaccination is a great thing, but vaccinated people can also spread the virus to you. Small children aren't eligible for vaccination so should they be banned from restaurants?

At this point the Delta variant is so contagious that all of us will probably get infected eventually no matter what precautions we take.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
SOP for government
No WiFi support?
Unrelated: How do you measure the speedup of various your improvements in the web server you are working on e.g., what do you think about the SpeedUpTest protocol? https://hal.inria.fr/hal-00764454/file/Speedup-Test-Article-...
I was going to do a very fancy calculation but 136 TWh would be perfectly ok if Bitcoin did at at least 5k transactions per second with a transaction fee of $0.10.
Do. Not. Use. GCP. This product will be sunset in a few years. Google does not care about this product. Their UI is totally broken, their offerings are years behind, any issue you have is unsearchable (since no one uses it). Their 22 year old "representatives" only try to lock you in and ask for "network diagrams" - no they do not care about your issues or read your "network diagram". They do not care about you as a customer. Disclaimer: I went from AWS million+ spend to GCP million+ spend. Do not use GCP. Bail leave flee - save yourself.

edit: lol. downvotes. you suck google.
OK, but those exact same places could power servers instead of miners, taking a load off of wherever the servers are currently hosted.
> https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/j19txa/average_age_...

It has been working really well all these years.

> But until recently, getting a well-maintained, rent-controlled apartment straight after school is something some Swedes have just taken "for granted", argues Liza, a 37-year-old tech worker, who didn't want to share her last name.
She moved to London from Stockholm last year, and believes Swedes complaining about housing shortages would do well to put their struggles in a wider context.

The content just contradicts the title.
> multi account support

That would be great even without any business features. Some open source projects are starting to use discord and it would be nice for some users to link and use their github names and identities for these servers.
> they choose blue because it looked good on white

Websites back then did not have white backgrounds, they were all gray. In fact I’ve always wondered why the default background was gray more than why the links were blue.
Becoming Your Enemy
Do any German readers want to offer their judgments on this. I thought I remembered from the 1970s that some of Springer's newspapers were a bit sensationalist.
Microsoft dotnet has opt-out telemetry. I'm not sure for what.
E-Book Trending
how would you prove that it has happened?
The Blade Programming Language
Hi all,

I've been working on a new programming language called Blade for a couple of months now and think it's time I introduced it to people and get reactions and feedbacks. Plus, I need people to test it and find the bugs in it.

The repository is at https://github.com/blade-lang/blade and the documentation is in progress and going great at bladelang.com and even though I wanted to wait to write everything before I do this before, I think it's best to get started with letting people know about it now.

There are lots of tests in the repository and experienced developers can basically pick up the language looking at those tests and by reading through the bundled libraries.

There's also a Visual Studio code extension for easy syntax highlighting in the VS code marketplace (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=blade-la...).

Also, I am greatly wishing that I'll find some contributors through this post who can fix some of the things I might be missing on and who may as well be interested in contributing libraries to it. The process of doing so is really straight forward and I'm available to guide anyone through the process.

Feedbacks are highly appreciated and treated with upmost priority.

Thanks all!
Those CEOs set us back by 50 years in getting people used to the idea that we need to make changes in order to have stability in the future. They manufactured the idea that there was no problem, and therefore the greater resistance to change.

The alternate history looks more like CFCs and the ozone hole, only slower and writ larger. The time it takes to convince most people a) that there is a problem, and b) it will require big changes to address is a very important factor. If the scrambling towards renewables we see now happened in 1980 or even 1990 instead, we’d have more runway before missing some tipping points. It would be more of a behavioral adjustment instead of a crisis.

I don’t just blame the CEOs, I also blame our politicians. They only respond to big donors and public pressure. Without the billions backing the big lie, and with more time to alert people to the problem, public pressure would have won out much earlier—not that it has, yet.
Between this and extreme authoritarianism relating to COVID, like killing shelter dogs to reduce human interactions (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/23/australia-do...) and aggressively suppressing protests (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/21/world/australia/melbourne...), Australia seems like it has become a hostile mess. It’s very strange to me as an outsider because I didn’t send a cultural capacity for authoritarianism when I’ve visited, and instead sensed a pioneering attitude. Where’s the disconnect? And why doesn’t the government fear its citizenry more given it’s a democracy?
As someone who lives in Rome, it's about as quick to order a fresh pizza to go from a local restaurant as it is to get one from this vending machine. Alice Pizza is a popular pizza-to-go chain, but the place with what I think has the best pizza is Sementi la Pizza.

Just my own 2¢, I digress.
Show HN: Hop2.page URL shortener – Track and analyze your customers
Interesting, I wasn't sure at first how it was adjusting the title, but it seems like it lower cases it. Interesting demo, but I think you could do better by just aggressively not clicking on videos like that to begin with. I never see that style of click bait anymore, as long as I'm logged in.
Follow up question:
I am looking at a vehicle that has a gas or PHEV option. The hybrid option is ~$9k more. I plan to own it for only 3 years to purchase a full EV, and I expect the $7,500 tax credit in the U.S. may not apply. So in effect - if I did removal (calculated at 3.2t tons/yr driving so $498 for removal).... wouldn't it be cheaper for me to $1,500 removal rather than purchasing a PHEV ($9k addl)?
Given Brendan Eich was CEO of Mozilla for all of 11 days it seems slightly speculative to claim he was a "great" CEO
Mask mandate and use efficacy for Covid-19 containment in US States
Do you think it was wrong to do in hindsight?
> The 1-size-fits-all approach to social networks never seems to work. Facebook seems to have figured it out with a clear separation of the kind of lifestyles sold by each of Instagram, Facebook, Whatsapp and soon Oculus.

Even Facebook tried forking their own product with Campus.

https://about.fb.com/news/2020/09/introducing-facebook-campu...
This sounds like a dangerous Qanon conspiracy theory to me. All the sources have told me that electronic voting machines are 100% secure. So that must be true and you must be wrong.

/s
Last year Mozilla laid off a lot of people from the MDN team. This might be the result of cutting costs for them.
> Another interesting thing about Windows 1.0 that still appears in modern websites is the underlined hyperlink. This is the first example of an underline being used to indicate a hyperlink that I have been able to find.

I'm confused, what in Windows 1.0 is, or is being called, a "hyperlink" that's underlined? Is it shown in the screenshots? I wouldn't have expected there would be such thing as a "hyperlink" in Windows 1.0, and am not sure what the author is referring to.
I'm not sure how any of this would radically change where we are today (not saying it wouldn't be better, just urging some basic PCA here).

Solar was only possibly due to massively unprofitable investment by the Chinese state and cheap labor. Wind costs haven't decreased nearly as much as solar and still suffer from the same problems they did decades ago. Battery technology has been driven by the consumer electronics revolution, which couldn't have been otherwise sped up.

Long story short: I'm not sure that even in a perfect world, that we would be all that different. Fossil fuels were still the cheapest source of energy for many, many decades in a rapid growing global economy. 20 years ahead is certainly a stretch. 10 years would be high case, 5 years base case...in a perfect world.
Sounds military
Yes, I agree on all this. But rent control is about price changes on existing houses, not on new construction, at least in the US.

So it's not a "price control" as much as it is a control on rentierism, on existing rentiers taking unearned profits without working.
The food issue isn't a problem at all. For one thing, plants like CO2. More importantly, CEA (Controlled Environment Farming) is building-up speed all over the world. Farming is not a natural process, it was invented by us to grow food more efficiently. We are now navigating the next evolution in farming by bringing it indoors. We can, at the micro scale of a building, control climate.

I firmly believe this is a necessary future of the reality we are facing. I believe this to such an extent that we have been developing various technologies for CEA over the last couple of years, some of which will allow us to grow the same or better crops using 1/3 to 1/2 less energy (and heat) than best-in-class solutions in the market today.

I think this is an important element of humanity adapting to the changes ahead. It does not solve all problems. It solves one.
Random, but what do you do in Tokyo? I’ve been trying to break into their market for two years. Had an offer rescinded from Rakuten because immigration shut down.

The housing market boggles my mind how houses don’t appreciate at all there.
You can have hyperinflation in a currency with limited supply. Lots of cryptocurrencies went to zero.
Given the author's "conclusions" about Windows's influence here, it's probably worth mentioning that Windows 3.x (including both 3.0 and 3.1) used green for hyperlinks in its help system by default (which was hypertext but not HTML): https://i.imgur.com/ZjX5xIW.png

Green hyperlinks stuck around in the Windows 95 help system, and were eventually replaced when Windows 98 switched to Microsoft's new HTML Help system which defaulted to blue hyperlinks (inherited from Internet Explorer).
> This is yet another way we’re all forced to pay the price for cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin has existed for more than a decade. This is yet another way we're all forced to pay the price for COVID-19.

When everybody started working from home, companies whose employees had desktops had to buy them all laptops. People with old home computers bought newer ones once they started using them 14 hours a day instead of two. Demand went up.

A bunch of car manufacturers thought the pandemic was going to crush demand for cars, so they canceled all their chip contracts. Then it didn't and they bid up the price of chips trying to source all the ones they canceled the contracts on.

The primary cost of Bitcoin mining is the electricity, not the hardware. If there is more demand for hardware, the world can build more fabs. Assuming we're given some advance notice, which this year we haven't had because COVID-19.

And the reason the electricity consumption is bad is that we don't have a carbon tax, so people are burning coal to mine Bitcoin, which is Very Bad. But it's also Very Bad that people are burning coal to power electric heaters or elevators or anything else, because the problem is burning coal.

If people were mining Bitcoin by building wind turbines, nobody would care. It might even improve the world by increasing the economies of scale for renewable energy production.
Automotive. Looks like combined native qt android. Which jolla knows...
I'm not prescribing any restrictions. I'm just suggesting to the parent comment that the analogy actually makes sense and is closer to reality.
I wish more people shared this opinion. There are many Reddit alternatives, which would all improve with wider adoption. As a technical problem, it’s a solved one, and there are some pleasant options.
Isn't PoS just limiting the amount of work done based on the share of the total 'wealth'?
There is also a level of hell where reified retired 3D company logos swoop around booming out thumping techno trade show floor music, spinning, bowing, and pirouetting around with each other. Somewhere the old SUN and SGI and DIGITAL are still dancing.
One underappreciated aspect of paletted computers is that you couldn't just take the whole palette for yourself, you have to leave some colors for the OS and for the other applications running alongside you. Palette management gets really complicated when you have multiple applications trying to share one. Even though it takes three times as much video memory, you save considerable complexity when you go true color.
Yeah, it's voluntary self-regulation that was establish to stave off laws being passed in the early 90s during the panic over Mortal Kombat, Doom, etc. Presumably if legislators start looking into microtransactions and rating tricks then the ESRB will start taking them much more seriously.
I see the multiple modes, but I think it’s human nature and not central bank policy as being the prime driver of that behavior or of the overall financial treadmill.

On average: People want nice things more than crappy things. Nice things cost money. Getting money requires doing something to create value. Creating value for most people means working at a job. If you want nicer/more things than last year or than your neighbor, you need to increase your income.

The beauty of this system is that individuals can choose to live frugally and opt-out of the race to a significant extent, taking advantage of the equity market’s consistent long-run returns to setup a system where they can work hard for 10-15 years and bank enough to live a frugal life for their lifetime. In that regard central bank’s current easy money policy is very much supportive of the choice of people consuming less than 100% of what they could rather than encouraging 100+% consumption.
The low end of QLC is low.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13633/the-samsung-860-qvo-ssd...
Actually, it does not take a huge amount of data to make use of statistical process control. In fact, it's so little that someone should be able to do it with paper, pencil, and calculator.

The statistical technique I think that's better able to displace A/B testing is design of experiments (DOE). This approach also does not require that much data to implement. There was an excellent youtube series on it where the presenter used popping popcorn for his experiments. I can't seem to find it now.
Cody wilson met her through a sugardaddy site. The site requires ID verification but she used a fake ID. Every girl on the site was supposed to be 18. (Turns out she was 16 I believe).

Of course the girl voluntarily went to the site, signed up, and accepted a cash payment. She never even reported anything to the police. She was talking to a school councilor ("Mandatory Reporter") and mentioned she was earning money by sleeping with men. The school councilor was then required to refer it to police for prosecution, even though none of the parties wanted it.

The DA was happy to take it on because Cody Wilson of course is the guy responsible for making 3d printed guns popular, and he had a number of political enemies.
No, no, the article is true!

the glitch is that we allow companies like Palantir to exist.
USPS Unprecedented Move: Longer Delivery Time and Price Increases
The Guardian had a similar April fool about the island of San Serriffe [0], “a small archipelago, its main islands grouped roughly in the shape of a semicolon, in the Indian Ocean”, which was apparently celebrating 10 years of independence.

But coming back to roaming Pizzas. Another anecdotal food myth (in the UK) is the haggis that roam the Scottish highlands. They allegedly have shorter legs on one side so that it is easer to go round and round the hills.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/gnmeducationcentre/archive-educa...
A snippet from the blog post:

> This chart shows CPU operation in AWS (t2.2xlarge with 8 virtual cores) at different times after several idle CPU periods. Would you expect such unpredictable CPU behavior within a single cloud provider?

> [image showing extremely bursty CPU performance]

In AWS EC2, the T-series are burstable instances types that have a low base performance, and use a credit system to offer bursts above that baseline. In exchange for this credit limit, T-series instances are less expensive than instances with consistent CPU performance.

They are marketed for use cases where applications often sit idle, and work well in that case. Pointing out erratic performance in a benchmark as a problem (a problem with all of EC2, at that!) is incorrect -- the machine is working exactly as its advertised to work.

See here for more info: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/burstabl...

Edit: I see later on in the article they talk about burstable instances and their performance impact (so why make such a novice mistake!?). However, Google Cloud's E2 instance series is price-competitive with AWS's burstable T-series, and doesn't have complexities and pitfalls associated with bursting. That wasn't mentioned, despite this article literally being a comparison between what the platforms have to offer in terms of compute.
> Fear of punishment works on most bosses of news media outlets and internet platforms. If they slip up and allow the wrong content to reach the public, they may not be sent off to do hard labor in a detention camp, but they could be demoted and their day docked

Can't help but note that Twitter declined to deplatform Trump for years - long before he was elected president - because he was good for business. When they finally did kick him off (yes, yes, as is their right to do as a private organization), they defended their actions by insisting that they were afraid that he might do or say something that the government might hold them legally liable for. AWS said effectively the same thing when they kicked the service Parler off of their servers because - a degree of separation away - Trump might do something on Parler that AWS might end up in legal trouble for.
It's difficult.

Sometimes in England a landlord will be attempting to illegally evict a lawful (non-squatting) tenant, so the tenant calls the police for help and is surprised when the police assist in the illegal eviction! Obviously this is not supposed to happen. The police should not be evicting people just because some random told them he owned a property and it was being squatted.

On the other hand, the legal situation for evicting squatters in your home isn't so bad here. You have 28 days after you find out you are being squatted, and the eviction only takes 24 hours.

Unless you register all tenancies with the state (which seems like massive overreach) how can the police quickly determine the lawful possessor?
If places like the Bay Area had a modicum of intelligent governance, they’d take the approach that Tokyo did. Urbanize and ban street parking. Make the place walkable with affordable rent. The current real estate developments out there are a joke.
> My personal lifestyle changes don’t impact the state of CO2 emissions in any significant way.

Collective action requires personal changes. You, and everyone else, must alter your personal lifestyle. You are only a little bit responsible for the harm, but in aggregate, the collective you are enormously responsible. Each individual must change.

> It’s the same reasoning behind targeting drug dealers and cartels more heavily than end-users.

I don't like the drug dealer analogy because it implies that targeting drug dealers has been reasonably effective in combating drug use. It hasn't.

To combat substance abuse the users must be targeted; to combat climate change, the consumers must be targeted.
I don't know that anyone should be worried about supporting anything in MSIE 11 unless site analytics reflect a significant number of users with that browser version. I annually audit a company's access patterns to see which browsers and resolutions we need to worry about. This affects development, QA and support at the very least. For example, global patterns in the US alone reflect 0.64% and dropping as of July. https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-version-partially-combine...
"glitch" /= user error
The point is not to lose yourself in the technical implementation.

Design of the system is corrupt, implementation is done in a way to hide this with
layers of complication and false "privacy" for "normal" users.

For me and many other people there is difference in knowing that Apple is the only responsible part in a contract and on other hand adding third party private corporation (funded by DOJ with more than 30 million dollars), which will "provide" the hashes and because of the sensitive nature of hashed material nobody will have access for auditing.

Nobody in their right mind believed Apple about "privacy". The difference here are that this is intrusion on my property from assumption that I am guilty until proven innocent.

A lot of normal people, without technical knowledge can see that this is a big problem.
How to choose a target from 10k options