skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those aren't really arcades they're bars with arcade machines, and pool tables, and jukeboxes. They're just bar distractions. People go to these for the alcohol and socializing and to cater to a specific market. The games are often a secondary excuse to visit.

When I was little the arcade market was crazy. There was one in every mall, every shopping center, and even modest sized strip malls had them. Then you'd had random stand-alone ones here and there that were significantly bigger. Every mini-golf place had an attached arcade too. I think I grew up within short driving distance of several. Now there's a couple barcades, one nearby another a longer drive, and none of which anyone under 21 can visit.

Its not a healthy market and nor one that is actually buying video game cabinets. I don't think Ive seen a remotely new cabinet in any of these. Just old classic stuff being kept together with hope, elbow grease, and baling wire. The barcade exprience leaves a lot to be desired as games people like are very old and the maintenance budget and ability of those barcades isn't impressive. The few times I've gone I'd have bad joysticks, bad buttons, machines not registering quarters, hardware locking up, and CRT screens that have aged into displaying burn-in and seemingly a lot dimmer and with more "ghosting" than I remember. They're cost centers to these bars, so they just aren't able to take care of them well, assuming spare parts are accessible (or affordable) for bar economics.

Yes these things won't go away soon, but its a small and shrinking market. SEGA can't justify the rents on those spaces which is a bad sign in otherwise arcade friendly Japan. So the transformation of arcade games into bar toys is almost complete, which is not a healthy sign for this industry. Google says the arcade industry CAGR is projected to be almost 2% during 2021-2025. That's just really terrible and the sign of a stagnated industry and perhaps one entering its negative growth rate period sooner than we might assume.
I think it is quite telling that Planck's principle was formulated by a physicist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck's_principle

Though probably Planck was at the time still under the impression of the C.G. Barkla affair.
This is bad. Maybe it is because this switch is often used in Germany (when you approach a traffic jam on the autobahn you should press it), they though after a few of these incidents one would have figured out.
Do you think there would be less moon landing deniers if the media talked about it earnestly? If legitimate scientific journals published "research"? Honest question.
This. It is truly amazing how many in this thread have 0 clue about MS products. I guess GSuite is amazing if you are a 2 person company. Everything above that is on the Office 365 train.
The mm widths refer to exact rim diameter while the inch measurements refer to rim+tire diameter and are not exact.
To me this seems like a possible solution for the "last mile" of rail. My imported shipments from overseas end up getting delivered to a city that's 350 km away just because there are no large scale rail depots any closer. Sadly, this may be too late as most of the smaller rail lines nearby have been ripped out of the ground. The decimation of rail infrastructure compared to what existed 100 years ago has already happened, so they have quite an extreme uphill battle to gain any acceptance.
Well yes. It’s not cool to out someone in front of millions of people.

Feel free to dismiss the claim if you wish.
I think the vast rate at which things are improving every decade is really dramatic.

Compare now to ten years ago, before me too. Things are hugely different.

I fully expect that if you give it a long time, things will be markedly better. In a hundred years for example.
For sports it is.
OCSP stapling solves the privacy issues IIRC.
If it's anything like most of the software industry, being data driven means you look for data to support what you wanted to do already, but pretend you're being objective and rigorous.
> Has that maybe been true since the beginning of 'natural philosophy'?

Unlikely. In its infancy, science -- aka "Natural Philosophy" as it was called at the time -- had to establish its credibility. It did so by delivering results.
> Can you imagine, taking your Honda Accord in for an oil change, and you find out that dealer completely re-arranged your center console?

If ever there was a case of “you break it, you bought it”.
This is very cool!

hyperhello - question: is the "how do I make cards?" button at the bottom of one of the cards supposed to do anything? It doesn't seem to for me.
"So either this is a terrible problem with no solution, or the problem is exaggerated and it's not really a crisis."

Either of these means this isnt something to worry about
Americans see different expectations for men and women (2017)
> As the surface area of new software markets plateaus, tech will transition towards a consolidation era.

Do you think this is true? We are seeing more tech companies than ever before. But that could just be due to the pandemic and insanely high amount of money in the market.

If consolidation happens, innovation will plummet. This always happens. Any oil-based company hasn't innovated in 20 years. Most of the consolidated industries have little or no innovation.

As any product gets more complicated, consolidation does happen and innovation does plummet.

Think:
1) Web browsers: Ruled by Google and Safari now (+ Firefox so HN won't be offended, although they have 3.6% and it's going to keep declining over time). We have not seen any innovation in browsers in such a long time.
2) Operating Systems: Windows, Mac, and Linux haven't really done anything new in the last 5 years. Win+Mac just keep adding more "telemetry", but no innovation
3) Cloud: it's obviously really complex. It's consolidated. It's innovating today, but seeing the trajectory of browsers, OS and other products, innovation will stagnate there as well.

Should we just take it for granted that tech is supposed to be consolidated?

New fields in tech like crypto, mobile are still very active but are they also just moving towards consolidation?
We, as a society, bought a dog, and it took at literary shit in our communnal kitchen. No one wants to clean it up, and frankly, I can't blame you/me/any one individual for it. It's exhausting but a society-wide problem. It sucks that the only response from platforms has been to ban the discussion, rather than pay for a writers corp to come up with easy to parse FAQs why some of the garbage misinformation is a pile of lies, and to write systemic takedowns of odious dreck. But here we are.
That’s worth mentioning, but I was looking to run the static site generator locally because the workflow of committing to Git, waiting for a build, etc. is too slow for iterating (and also difficult to debug when stuff inevitably doesn’t work as expected).
The thing is, C has an actual standard and people get bit making the same kinds of assumptions on things not stated. You may very well be right that there's no way this will ever happen, but then it also doesn't appear to be guaranteed. They literally say they make no guarantees about the data layout, but you're assuming there is a guarantee about the data layout :P

Maybe this time it works out, but there's plenty of other cases where things are not so clear cut.
Microsoft Azure Active Directory is a great example of Microsoft's habit of using buzzwords to indicate chronology rather than indicate anything about technology.

That's four words, you've got lots of opportunity to tell me what exactly this does, but nope, Microsoft at the front tells me this is from an era when the Windows group wasn't ascendant at Microsoft, in this case the recent era. Azure tells me this is from Microsoft's "cloud" era starting in about 2010 (but the early part of that is "Windows Azure"). Active though is from an earlier incarnation, it's a turn of the century idea. Huh.

"Microsoft Core Directory 365" would tell me this was a newer product, maybe from the last 3-5 years or so, "Windows Directory.NET" is from maybe 2005, while "Windows Directory X" would most likely be a late-1990s product and plain "Microsoft Directory" suggests maybe it's from the late 1980s or early 1990s.

Notice how if you don't know that Microsoft names their products based on chronology you might assume Azure Active Directory is Active Directory but in Azure? Big mistake. Thinking that way can cost you a lot of time or money.
There's also Pixelfed, which is like "Instagram on the Fediverse".
the two parent comments speak to me (uninvolved) as wholly throwing all people, institutions, grant selection and everything else, under the bus without distinction. The drivers for that are unknowable, but I guarantee that neither these statements, NOR their complete compliment, are Truth. Proof is that without sufficient distinction, nothing claimed is distinguishable enough to even weigh. Add that the selection pressure in many institutions is many orders of magnitude more than ideal, and the consequences of the outcomes, similar.
Luckily their virtual singer business is still going strong.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hatsune-miku-colorful-stage/id...

Although I don't think as many people use Vocaloid to write songs anymore - the appeal is basically that you don't have to hire any singers, but that's not a problem once you get enough fame you can afford them. So now the games are a nostalgia play.
Ah yes, IT is big dumb dumb I forgor. durrrr

If you want to make the equivalent of "You are stupid" comment, go back to /g/
Rowhammer? F00f? Spectre?
Presumably OP does not have hard evidence and is only relating an anecdote. There isn’t much of an incentive to waste time and resources fighting for academic integrity or some other high minded concept like this. Baring those incentives we’ll be left with anecdotes on forums and a continued sense of a diminished trust in academia.
Do you know that the particular strain of Covid-19 was in WIV without a doubt or is it still speculation? You could argue that indeed this was a lapse of protocol through disposal of lab specimens but does that mean we need to condemn an entire group of people for the mistakes of a few within a group that was studying this gain of function? I just don't buy that we should somehow make this into a holy war against an entire country if indeed this was a mistake in the scientific community within that country. If this were to happen in the U.S. (I'm assuming you are American, but this can be applied to anywhere) than who would we have to blame? What about the mistake of dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima or Nagasaki? That in itself is a specifically horrific mistake. Even if it is proven that a lab was the origin of this virus will be ultimately forgotten like the people who dropped the bombs themselves and the people that made nuclear bombs a reality. We still pay the price for the mistakes of nuclear armament by the logistics of disposal and the logistics of multiple entities who are now proven to be unstable in the long run that hold that power. This is why biologic warfare is outlawed and why nuclear war is something to be avoided based on our first hand experience of what that could potentially look like for all of humanity. A mistake has many outcomes. Don't assume just because something may have happened it was with intent by proxy.
My interest in computers didn't come from primary school; primary school didn't teach us very much about computers, except near the end in a one-off series of experimental lessons by a teacher who left not long afterwards. However, my interest in biology very much came from primary school; until then, I didn't know there was a field of study devoted to living things. (Sure, I could've found out later, but why should I have had to wait?)
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“I played in the local soccer club once, and can now confidently tell you that every professional athlete is an alcoholic. “
Gameworks was co-founded by Sega and also owned for a time by Sega Sammy; at one point it had dozens of locations, but it seems to have struggled financially for much of its life and is closing its last two locations due to pandemic-related difficulties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameWorks
The BBB is a part of capillary walls and so there really isn’t a good way to “manually” inject beyond it. That said, there are current trials ongoing to temporarily disrupt the BBB using high intensity focused ultrasound, allowing injected chemotherapy to cross and help treat brain cancer.
But they are not before the TV, the Telegraph, the Film, the Printing Press or the Story.

I'm not sure they are 'valid' but they are interesting. I think its more of a negative take, to highlight difficulties. I don't think they are always true. For example "4. The more we communicate, the worse communication succeeds." seems the opposite of say televisual political messaging which relies on bombardment of essentially false information to convey meaning and proposed societal behaviour.
I would rather government take reasonable risks, and end up with occasional Solyndra's if thats the price for increased innovation.

To be honest, I don't consider the half a billion dollars from Solyndra to be much of a boondoggle, in the grand scheme of things. It's a loan guarantee that had intentional fraud by the borrower.
There are far more MRNA vaccine skeptics than moon landing deniers.
It works just fine for the “L” here in Chicago. I'm not sure how the convoys would work in terms of power drain, my EE knowledge is pretty much zip, but since this would be for last-mile transportation by and large, I think it would be ok. The biggest concern would be public safety, I imagine.
The thing about it being found mostly in immunocompromised people suggests it could be a fairly common and widespread organism but most people shrug it off.
Click on the "past" link
Isn't that what you get if you add the formula for (0,0,0,0,0,0,1,...) to the formula for (1,1,2,3,5,8,13,...)?
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My personal view on Transgenderism is that it should be seen in basically the same way as drug addiction.

Drugs also occur naturally and many people dabble in them without much harm. But drug addiction is truly destructive, and almost impossible to escape from.

We shouldn't be encouraging people that we care about to sterilize themselves, or treating the path to that lightly.

This view is quite unacceptable within the dogma.
That's because the screenshot functionality in Windows is unusable. Don't you still have to do some strange dance with MSPaint to get a file out of it?

Emailing yourself things is also never going to go away because of how well it works.
It really is just people. Look at all the information about HIV in the 80's, long before social media. People believed some truly crazy, racist, and misinformed things about HIV and its spread.
Ether isn’t intended to be used as a monetary currency like a dollar (reasonable stable). Its purpose is to pay for EVM instructions which are priced in gas.

This is like saying because shoes happen to be worth money (sneakers/trainers) and because people happen to speculate on the price of shoes that the future of money is shoes.

Bitcoin claims to be currency, Ether (used to pay for execution fees on Ethereum) does not.
What's the alternative?

While I agree with the general sentiment, science and academia is still better than random YouTube videos.
Triviality is in the eye of the beholder no doubt, so I'm not surprised that we differ.

But I just have a hard time seeing any one dogma in modern US society surrounding gender identity. Certainly there are people who believe they are women from birth, and with modern medicine like hormonal and surgical treatments, they can do far more to alter their biology to get closer to their preferred gender; an option only recently available in any human culture. But there are also people who consider themselves truly non-binary, and I'm sure many identities that I'm unaware of.

Mostly the only dogma I see (and the one I try to hold to) could basically just be summed up as "try to be nice to people and address them as they'd like you to". I've known a fairly surprising number of transgender people at all stages of transition, and it's actually never something I've needed to talk with them about or make a big deal of.
> But the world isn't a comforting black & white; instead, it's nuanced shades of gray.

And that sentence is a comfortable cliche that invites one to stop thinking about the matter any further.

Often, if you have a "shades of gray" situation, I think it's more interesting to examine the seeming contradictions and try to find out where exactly your intuition went wrong. In this case, how did a chaotic organisation like the Trump administration, headed by someone with a history of scam and fraud, manage to pull this off?

...or you could just say "world is complicated" and be done with it.
They brought it up. That's not how suppression works.
You can get that locally. Not many places serve those speeds.
Oh duh! Thanks for pointing that out, I forgot about that, and I really should have known better!
It may be useful to separate science itself (with its self-correcting nature and such) from academia and the community/economics of scientists and research. Furthermore, if the incentives for publishing research are wrongly aligned, can you really trust published papers in mass?

Scientific consensus can be a hard thing to define sometimes. Climate change is an example where there are enough studies out there that a meta-study can prove consensus, but what about something more recent and difficult to measure, like the effectiveness of covid vaccines/measures?
I wrote:

> It's hard to *reuse* HTML

And not:

> It's hard to use HTML

Anyhow, assuming you are not trolling, my point is: writing plain HTML is not productive, as I need to repeat myself all the time. I can't create my own abstractions for reuse, as I would in most programming languages.
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Thanks for your comment!

Agreed 100% that there are different types of political biases, with in the context of this product "unbiased" translates to "leaning center". Up on thinking further, it might be worth making that clear upfront, we will update this.

Would you be interested in a version of this product that resurfaces under reported stories/topics?
Loeb is rapidly dissipating the reputational credit he still has. I expect him to become a regular on Ancient Astronauts soon.

Academic reputation is properly based on original hard work. Idle speculation is the opposite of that. It is fine for me to suggest that pre-dynastic Egyptian stone dishware is evidence of an unknown technological efflorescence, because who cares? It doesn't matter if I'm right, though it would be cool if I was. But I am not doing the work, and nobody expects me to, so if it gets done, somebody else will deserve and get the credit.
The older electro-mechanical telephone switches are seriously impressive pieces of technology from a century ago. Have a look at the Connections Museum YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm87i_qG_B-rRvG7NWqyVLw - watching that old machinery in action really makes me think that could have been a path I might have been able to take through life back then.
It is, see the comment of vmception above.
It completely stops everything else playing. I think they need multiple microphones to do the signal separation (like Homepod and Google Home do) but I'm not sure if the car has multiple microphones inside (new Model S and X certainly do as they have active noise cancellation for outside noise).
Maybe we need a Parnas day/week here on HN. A lot of his papers have shown up here, but seem to be light on comments in a lot of cases.
Interesting…here I thought all along that we were talking about on this little comment spur about who constitutes a “child” and whether or not those children should or should not get vaccinated and which opinions on that subject were popular where. I frankly don’t care what any musician does with their art and for whatever reason they choose to do it and I have said that elsewhere on this greater thread. I do care about attempts to suppress information and…whether I agree with that information or not. I don’t care that Neil Young wants his music pulled, but I would definitely care if Spotify pulled Joe Rogan off the air because Neil young wanted him off because of their conflicting opinions.

Ultimately you took umbrage with my explanation of a colloquial definition of “children” that is used where I am from (without even knowing where that is) and then proceeded down a rant about how I am wrong because you are apparently the gatekeeper of the English language or something (I guess).

And now you decide to end with a smartass commentary. I have said what I said, if that doesn’t interest you…oh well, don’t care. If you don’t agree with it…oh well, don’t care. If it offends or upsets you that I would approach vaccinating my own children with an experimental and novel vaccine by wanting to learn everything I can about it, oh well, don’t care.
What is auto-hold? Cruise control?
The thing is that there are enough frontends using this smart contract where you can simply chose 'WETH to ETH' and you'll get the right transaction. For whatever reason this person thought it'd be a great idea to interact with the smart contract directly. This is possible and fine if you either know what you're doing or read the smart contract beforehand.

This user unfortunately did neither.
How did the erosion affect the entire planet so thoroughly? Is it plausible we’ll someday find a place where the geological record of the missing years is still intact?
What exactly did they bring up? Against whom?
Housework or sleep? Study says it depends when you were born
I think it's a good idea and I wish there were more projects like this - I work on existing projects much more often than I start on new projects, and often enough I'll be using a new technology when I start something new so I probably will make mistakes in what I do.
I have no use for LinkedIn generally (at least not now) but I've had an account for years with links to some old acquaintances I don't really care to be associated with anymore, due to several industry, geographical, and social changes. I checked it on a whim about a year ago and found an old message from someone I hadn't talked to in over 7 years, very professional message just trying to catch up. I have no other social media accounts and am not easily found through general searches, so it was the only way this person could reach me.

I felt horrible for weeks that I had never responded, then I sent off a reply. I then promptly forgot that I did so, and abandoned LinkedIn for another year. I checked again last week for some reason and I had a year-old response to my response. I forgot to reply and only just now remembered this situation.

I'm now trying to decide if I should bother responding and risk another long delay, or pretend I'm dead.
Change the economic incentives in academia and research. If right now universities and researches are rewarded for publishing studies/papers no matter the quality, change the rules so that you're rewarded for quality, not quantity.
I don't necessarily think that government's job is to "solve collective action problems" (there are plenty of alternatives, actually free markets themselves are a solution to the collective action problem of "what should the price of X be") -- but if it's going to doit, it should be held to a high standard of effectiveness.
Ye, kind of baffled me too - it seems to use Google tech to recognize your voice which is almost perfect. Google assistant already does an amazing job with understanding natural language variations, I think Tesla is doing their own thing after getting the stream of words from Google.
If we could make progressive enhancement trendy again, then every site would be usable on ancient devices, but newer devices (or browsers with more features enabled) would get slightly nicer interaction methods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement