skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I the only person that hates Steam?

The UX is crap; the info architecture is obscure; it doesn't work well on macOS (or at all if I use the wrong file system); it uses confusing labels for the stash of stuff I've already bought. I don't use it often enough to know if my usr/pwd is still valid (it is, fortunately). It had some slightly odd 2FA type thing the last time I logged in. It just gives me the impression that it wants to hide games from me that I've already bought and to make new ones hard to find. I'd rather have discs in boxes taking up space (tbf I also collect vinyl so maybe I'm just anachronistic?)

The only good thing going for it is that it doesn't ever email me junk.
I'll try that! Dan Carlin's works are some of the ones I find easiest to follow, but still too difficult, so maybe I'll try it on him first.
CNN went from being the premier news gathering/dispensing agency to their present state of a news reporting agency by making the decision to replace their own field reporters with information given them by other agencies.

My take, anyway.
acquiring currency requires effort. Considerable effort, for some. One can click on a torrent link way faster than they can earn $3

Plus, this rental will not be available in all locales, for every video, etc
Here's a long Twitter thread on how weird Urbit, Urbit VM etc. is: https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1502278405391331332 (or for easier reading, https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1502278405391331332.html)

Apparently it is intentionally obscure and confusing.
Who was asking for Woke Clippy? Is Google just bored and completely out of ideas?

They seem increasingly disconnected with what their users actually want.
I'll go into your mailbox and take your paycheck. I'll provide you with a new identical copy of it. I'll leave the previous existing copy intact, but in my possession.

Which one of us gets to deposit the money?
Yes, it is. But even though you didn't manage to communicate your point correctly, it still stands: the only reason streaming replaced piracy was because people could afford it and it was easier to use.

Even the ease of use has declined, and the affordability is down the toilet. And as usual, we have people at the top reaping record profits and making victims of their greed blame each other at the same time.

EDIT: Fixed a grammar error.
The items on the list are the problems relevant to most Americans. Except, the human brain has a limited capacity for "currently tracked" problems and tends to pick them proportionally to the amount of attention paid to them.

So the media is abusing it by spamming people's attention with disproportionately exaggerated problems that don't cost the elites anything to solve, so that people won't have any time left solving the problems that would look bad on the corporate bottom line.
It is a nice approximation, but fails short of the whole experience.

Imagine that your shell was like those notebooks, and not only you can interact with the whole OS, you can even change existing notebooks dynamically by reloading code that they depend on, e.g. a displayed image gets a new effect added to it.
They started losing me when they took away the ratings. Just got worse from there.
Comics are often created with a greater idea in mind, and then continued by someone else without that idea.
It's in the banned words list, I can share a link internally if you want.
NYT only does those kinds of stories when they want to tug at your heartstrings. I always find it amusing whenever there is an article and they have real people standing in these very carefully posed photographs with excessive HDR effects.
I pull up a few news sites twice a day and read a few articles, but I don't watch anything and I rarely listen to anything either. The written articles are usually more informative and contain less partisan stupidity. I can't do podcasts, because I'll inevitably tune them out, hear something important to the presentation, and then spend my afternoon rewinding. Also, the need to be sensationalist is vastly stronger for podcast creators than it is for major media orgs whose networks have cable contracts.
AudioCLIP has not received as much attention https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.13043 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SLQVh9ABDM
> In Hawaiian traditions and belief systems, for example, the tree snails were connected to “the realm of the gods.” Hawaiian royalty revered them, which protected them from overharvesting.

Having learned this piece of trivia, I don't feel like my understanding of the natural world has moved an inch.

While there are important reasons to preserve these languages, I'm having a hard time buying this one.
The "build it nearby and move it into position" has become all the rage lately, it's been proven multiple times and has advantages, even with longer spans like the St Croix Crossing.

Another one in China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKi8VWRDA_c
The kids grew up and the corps figured it was easier to sell to the already hooked than compete in the even more vapid trinkets world of the newly young?

Young adults used to migrate from teen pulp to more in-depth fiction. Nowadays they just seem directed to cuddle in infantilized cultural substitute.
> The reason these companies keep faltering is that they push cloud-based and/or locked in product ecosystems.

I agree. It's a shame because Insteon products were pretty good for their time, for the most part. Granted, I never used their cloud stuff at all -- only local control (via ISY99 and later also Home Assistant). Though I'd say this was a long time coming; it had been nearly a decade since any new products came out.

Early on, their power-line-only stuff was sketchy and had issues, but my later experience with the dual-band stuff was great. I had many devices in my last house (sold with the house). I bought all new zwave stuff for this house, because of the lack of anything new and I figured Insteon was a dying brand. Glad I did that.

My biggest frustration is there's still no equivalent for the Insteon KeypadLinc. There's products that come close, and even have some additional features (that Insteon probably could have added via firmware), but nothing that stands out as overall better.

The other thing that is still unmatched is the local linking. Zwave kind of has this ability with groups, but it's so much more complicated to setup and still less powerful (eg: I don't think you can set on-level or ramp-rate).

It would be interesting to have more insight from Insteon as to what went wrong. Why did they stop innovating?

I almost wonder if they bet big on cloud then sales didn't match their expectations. I'd be interesting to know what sales of Universal Devices ISY99 (and other similar 3rd party control products) were vs their own cloud-based controls -- I get the impression there were probably as many, if not more, ISY99 users than Insteon Cloud users.
Sometimes these are officially sanctioned and even required! Most notably, including logos/other embellishments are a form of "trap street" where the idea is to have something to point to that trivially proves someone is using your mask design if it comes to it.
That's a very reductive view. Yes, strictly speaking, the law is always superior. But if that law allows things such as signing away your rights, then that superiority is meaningless.
Also In My Life, I Call Your Name, You Won’t See Me, When I’m 64, Across The Universe, If I Fell, Blackbird, and Hello Goodbye

yeah the beatles loved that one
The comment was:

“It's easier just to pirate than keep up with all these streaming services.”

Which seems false on its face. Every TV has access to all these streaming services built in. Or Roku devices, which take moments to set up. This is unrelated to whether people are capable of learning, but I am even bearish on that when it comes to the average person in the current piracy environment.
It's a code of conduct violation and the other employee can ask you not to use the word. If you continue using it that's an even worse violation.
> they clearly perform their best work offline and they want to work offline,

Be careful with this.

My biggest concern is that the younger generation is perpetually online, and being in person in the office interacting with other people is the only way they stayed somewhat grounded to reality. While short term effects may be positive improved morale boost for more people, long term effects are unknown. We have already seen what the online world does to people, and WFH is not going to make this any better.
Or you could just open Tor browser, search the pirate bay and download stuff with a bittorrent client.

That's easy.
I have been thinking about this for a while, and came to the conclusion that the main weakness of progressivism is its arrogance. A progressive simply thinks that she is more educated, virtuous or simply better than others. This manifests subtly, from "helping poor immigrants", to not so subtle implementations, like knowing better what Google queries you actually meant to type, to censoring "fake news", because people do not have the faculty to decide for themselves, to downright auto-correction of people's speech. A progressive copes with this implied superiority by casting it as her goodness.

One of the best films on this subject is Dogville by Lars von Trier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogville , with Grace as its main character.
Some of these words may not be inclusive to all readers.

Try using:

[carbonated malt beverage]
you are able to pay for individual film and tv shows right now through Amazon and Apple, i'm sure others.

I do advocate for change, within my own union. Today I am educating consumers on who exactly they are stealing from when they pirate shows.
Slovakian flying car officially cleared for takeoff
Sorry for the rude intervention but...

> Nobody remembered to ask me for my opinion, so I was constantly interrupting

that's not much because of you or others but the actual management organization is crap. The basic idea is have a workforce, at any level, made of stereotypical Ford-model workers, those who ancient Greek's call "useful idiots", people just able to work but mentally unable to be citizens, to be adult, autonomous. So there is the idea of creating a hierarchy of shepherds to keep the flock "as it should" and that does not work because such social model does not work.

A proof? We have not invented anything really new in the last decades. We have improved anything, popularized anything, but nothing really new have seen the light. Now for the first time in human history after industrial revolution began we see a decline in quality of anything not because of scarcity or war but because of a system that can't anymore sustain itself having consumed itself from the inside.

That's the classic failure of merchants societies: they are skilled in making money, but they only exists if there are some others society to commerce with, different society who develop and produce. Now that everything is commerce...

> I suspect someone with 10+ years experience managing recognizes that all remote, or all in person, are both tenable solutions, but hybrid will cause a separate-and-not-equal workforce schism.

I think it's already there: most talented escape, lest talented start the so called big resignation with vague autarkic attempts doomed to fail and resulting in a mass of future new poor ready to be inserted in the WEF 2030's agenda new society.

Being in person offer benefits form human interaction we can't have on remote BUT have the downside of the physical location need. In a changing world people want freedom and actual cities does not offer that and have no visible chance of improvement. Remote allow living in good place with enough services at interesting costs (at least in theory, in practice for some a bad cold shower of reality for others) trading the less benefit from human interaction to a far more comfortable life. In a society designed around the panem et circense concept at the start of a scarcity era most prefer the circense in absence seen the scarcity of panem...

Beside that, at another level, economy of scale have reached the tipping point of density where we are now too dense and so the scale benefit drop crushed by the density costs. A reset is needed and nobody want to be in the places to be resetted and no one know how will be the new world. So no one want brace the new trying to save resources in classic reactionary moves.

Here the real schism.
> I don’t buy this.

I'm not selling it, just explaining it. More info here: https://urbit.org/blog/toward-a-frozen-operating-system
This site has a nice timeline of computer development history dating back to the 1930s:

https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/
Well, yes -it does.

Children have not been the primary demographic target of comics since the mid to late eighties.
I generally support this argument, but to play devil's advocate, you might consider the bit stream used to transfer the content to be new bits. The file may be a bit-for-bit copy if you ask a computer, but streaming it required a series of voltage fluctuations that wouldn't have happened otherwise. You could consider that series of events to be roughly analogous to a CD-ROM containing some content. You can load the CD onto two computers and get two copies of its content, but there are two physically distinct CDs just like there are two physically distinct series of bits streaming to two locations.
I've never seen a question like this asked in good faith on HN. Seems it's always to pick a fight.
Thank you, It's long overdue to update. I appreciate the bump
Most meetings can be and then are emails (sent after the meeting) so you probably didn't lose out on much.
I really don't think it's art, cloud's in the sky are more "creative"
The setting doesn't exist in the netflix UI on TVs and your phone etc. But it's there if you log into the netflix settings on a browser.
But you agree, that there is a difference between copying information and taking physical objects away?
There may be a paywall but it's one of the cheapest paywalls of any daily newspaper in the US. There are constant, renewable deals for WaPo subscriptions such that anyone paying more than $4 a month is grossly overpaying.

In contrast the two daily newspapers closest to me charge $10 a month and $4 a week for online access.
I've seen the opposite* - I had nothing but Mastercards a year or two ago, and now I have none.

* in the UK
Weirdly enough you’re not alone at all. I hardly know a few people who are honestly satisfied with their social life, no matter the circumstances or external image they trying to project.
I don't follow the point you are trying to make... that it was before a bunch of wars doesn't seem relevant. However, the inclination described here seems as common a habit among developers today as in the past.
Another way to say that Bloodletting can reduce toxic forever chemicals in the bloodstream.
I was expecting a catch. Perhaps a play on words or something.

Nope. Just an actual Tesla colliding with an actual jet.

What’s surprising to me is that it keeps moving post collision… seems odd that it can meet with unexpected resistance and not trigger some sort of emergency measure. (eg. stopping)

I used to be bullish about Tesla’s “only cameras” approach, and I still think they’ll crack FSD in some form, but I am increasingly wondering if there needs to be additional sensors for an abundance of extra safety around collision avoidance.
>"My advice? Hit them where it hurts & vote with your feet. Google's not the top payer anymore, so just leave. "

In principle I agree but I feel like level headed folks choosing to leave only makes the echo chamber even worse. And sadly, I don't think Google as a company will suffer much of a downside because they're so big.
I'm allergic to malt.
This.

I'm a 60-year-old (Do I win a kewpie doll?), and have the tech chops to pirate, but I don't want to.

It's important for me to live a life of Personal Integrity. That stance gets a lot of chuckles with this crowd, but it's of critical importance, in my life.

I'm fortunate, in being able to afford streaming services, but find the profusion and variety to be a mess.

I like AppleTV Channels, and the way that the AppleTV Watch Now app aggregates the apps. Amazon has something similar, that my wife uses.

Unfortunately, it looks like these knuckleheads can't agree on common licensing models. I don't want the "You can have any color you want, as long as it's black." approach of cable bundlers, but I also don't like the myriad ways of subscribing, or, quite frankly, the ever-changing prices.

They need to get their shit together.
> I'm an IC-turned-manager.

Let's all recall that IC-Turned-Manager is a rarity in the general management space. Engineers choosing from amongst their own is an anomaly, not the norm, across many industries.
Best thing a subscription service can do is not remind me that I'm subscribed. The constant price increases were poorly planned, against the lack of good content - since Stranger Things and House of Cards can't recall much attaining that level of vitality (besides maybe Squid Games)
I'm okay with that. The business is unfair to those in it, particularly at the lower end, and also unfair to its consumers. It is not the job of consumers to fix or perpetuate that system.
Yet. I do have minor creative input depending on the production. When an audience shows they enjoy something I am able to argue more fiercly to include a similar thing into the next one.

And someday I'll be makign my own productions.
The difference is obvious. If they steal a Mercedes it's gone, the car dealer does not have it anymore.
I'm fairly certain that's just a convenience. The HTTP client will transform that into basic auth header in the actual request
>Is it really stealing if they wouldn’t have ever paid for it in the first place?

>If it’s not easy to find and use on a subscription service that I already have, I’m just not gonna try to search for it or pay for it.

That is easy to say when you just take it for free regardless. I strongly suspect people saying that would actually pay for a decent amount of it if piracy wasn't an option.

And the number of pirate I know would plop down 15 bucks for a movies (since CAMs and TSs are terrible copies) but won't pay for a movie on VOD (since they can pirate it in clear 4k) confirms my suspicions.
And you are stealing people's attention spans. Which is more criminal?!
Every "smart home" system out there wants that sweet sweet recurring subscription cash, but the cross section of people who want smart home features and those who are wary of vendor lock-in is pretty damn big.

Commoditize your complement. Stop trying to make money on cloud services, and open source your cloud software, or provide it as a service for a nominal break-even fee. Make your money on hardware instead.
A couple of us are working on exactly this, just a side project for now. Essentially pairing open (as in protocol, data control) standards based cloud control and data collection with open hardware that could be repurposed or used elsewhere.

If there are any features that would really make this enticing let me know here or in an email.
We're sure it's in a List, but the point is that the List is not uniformly enforced, and "motherboard->mainboard" definitely seems like one to go to bat against because it Doesn't Make Sense to get rid of it.
Since you work at Google, maybe you can answer this: does internal tooling exist to flag occurrences of "bad" words in say, code reviews or shared documents?
It's the infantilization of the newer generations of adults. We are now kids until we are in our forties, still playing with Lego and Star Wars and hankering for the next Marvel episode. In the process, as the article points out, we have co-opted these categories and imbued them with a discordant set of adult sensibilities which makes them wholly unappealing and inappropriate for actual kids. Not even My Little Pony is safe.

Some will probably argue that it's wonderful, finally we allow ourselves to let the inner child blossom and bloom into adulthood. It just seems to me that it is the worst parts of the inner child that we indulge: Escapist, shirking responsibility, partial to instant gratification rather than deeper pursuits. I know it's a value judgement, it's just sad to me to see grown men spend all their time on video games and comic books - not because of the formats themselves but because the content is usually rubbish. Cultural junk food.
>but I absolutely 100% think a lot of people are bullshitting how effective they are at home, because none of the workers want to lose the time- and location-flexibility of WFH.

If there are performance losses, why are they not being addressed? Why is there a blind assumption A or B is better? How are people able to BS their way through in a way they wouldn't in the office?

This is an incredibly negative take when the opposite may just as well be true. If people don't want to lose this flexibility, that's an incentive to not drop their performance in a way that is measurable, making them at risk of losing that privilege.

>Maybe not, but it takes more and better management, not less.

Better, yes. More? Why would the assumption immediately be that we need more management, given that WFH resonates primarily with people who tend to be far more autonomous and communication-independent than those who want to work in office?

If anything, this shows just how much management has been pushing a one-size-fits-all solution for decades to make it easier on them, at the cost of ICs. WFH is the tip of the iceberg in this regard.
But... you don't own the copyright to the movie. The studio does. You were paid a wage for a job.

You can accuse the pirates of limiting your potential for future earnings, but that is not the same as stealing from you.
Yes. It will get worse. Support the type of content you want and you'll see more.
I am fine with renting and paying. But the arbitrarily stupid rule “you have 48 hours to finish once you started” is what stops me from “renting” any lure.
It is 'yet another' standard yes, but it's worth pointing out that Matter was jointly launched by the ZigBee Alliance (who now call themselves the Connectivity Standards Alliance).

So it's not exactly a rival to ZigBee at least.

Z-Wave are going a different direction though, and I wouldn't be surprised if Z-Wave slips into obscurity over the next decade.
Not in any way a web dev, but couldn't an XSS on Lenovo's site make it possible to leak these?
> ...the main development is the rise of *multimodal learning*.

> Multimodal learning, in this case, is learning to match up text and images. Our new models are really good at learning to write captions for images, and (more importantly for artistic purposes) to generate images that correspond to a given caption.

Can anyone explain this more? I think I recall Facebook was automatically generating captions for images automatically a good while ago, but this is something different?