skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem I have with all these Web3 games is they are incredibly expensive to participate in. The core problem seem to be that they use real world crypto currency as in-game currency, which leads to in game items like plot of land, going for $300k [1].

All these games are going to run into a brick wall eventually unless they figure out their own in-game currencies that are detached from crypto. They will always retain a playerbase in some regard of folks that are willing to dump insane amounts of money into a game, but IMO any sort of scale for these games is out of the question until in game items stop costing thousands of dollars.

Last thing I will say on this is it seems that all these blockchain/crypto games are confused about what they are. Take Axie Infinity, it's a game, but it also sells itself as a way for people to make money, and also sells itself as an investment vehicle via those expensive in game items. All this sounds really great on a landing page until you start thinking about it. Is Axie trying to be a game? Are they trying to be a job? Or are they trying to be a form of investment? What I think will happen is the communities of these confused games will rot, the first group of "gamers" will swiftly exit because of the prohibitive cost, the other two groups will stay to try and make a buck but without the first group in the picture, demand for the thing they are producing, flipping, minting, etc will fall through.

[1]: https://marketplace.axieinfinity.com/land/-78/17/
I would like to see more discussion of the role of SSRIs in treating anxiety, rather than depression (which always seems to be the default focus). I also suffered from panic that went away completely with SSRIs. I have never had issues with depression, but these medications gave me my life back.
As alluded to in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
I will ask you again:

Do you have any historical examples where this has happened? Please don't bring up a time when there were multiple major powers but they were so far away they couldn't reach the other, assuming they even knew the other existed.
The 80's also had some of the darkest horror and dystopian sci-fi that we've seen in popular culture. Interesting in the article he never mentions Seinfeld or Peanuts as those were turning points into more realistic or less sympathetic characters for their genres (tv comedy and comics respectively)

edit as I'm still reading: "The one note today’s entertainment strikes is the depressive tone" is an eye roll level of reductionism.

I'd be curious how the reduction in influence in religion has played a roll as well. The FCC rules on what you could say in TV/radio used to be downright archaic, and I think religion espouses this idea that good people are happy and everything turns out ok in the end because god.
Is hackernews on the side of QA people?

What’s the general feeling? I can’t see their working conditions being genuinely terrible or unsafe, or the pay being that unfair. Perhaps they’re being driven too hard?
Buses are far from the most expensive form of transit. High-speed ferryboats or helicopters probably claim that prize. I'm pretty sure airplanes are also more expensive, as are subways if you include the cost to build them in the first place, as well as cars if you include total cost of ownership.
Chromecast works ON ALL my devices TVs included, again unlike AirPlay.
The news media companies promote issues. Race relations was hot since Ferguson riots and Mike Brown being shot dead. Now it is abortion rights since Rowe vs Wade was dismissed and Gay rights since transgender people are under attack.

They forgot race relations to push other issues.
I have never needed to install an app from Facebook, and never have. Amazon has an appstore; I have never been forced to install it or anything from it. Should the day come when people are actually forced to use any facebook app or appstore, that compulsion is the problem that needs to be corrected. The problem isn't having the option to install a facebook app; the compulsion is the problem.
From a purely finance perspective, that's a sign that you should sell the stock.
Is it possible to see the right set of moves after failing?
Interview with Leonardo da Vinci
US military type guys with truck caps doing manual labor on some strict team say exactly this kind of nonsense too, right now.
I hired a guy because he loves to be (technically) correct about everything, and he does so by reading (and REREADING) specs. Gives my team a superpower.
Are you using the same model for cookies and cheesecakes? Do you get sometimes a cookiecake?
I think the question should not be about company size. Size does not matter here. For huge companies (thousands of Engineers) your growth opportunities are much more based on what your team does, how crucial it is to the wider Company, how it does, what other engineers are there, turnover, etc. than the actual size of the company. I work for a huge company and a lot of developers are stuck in dead-ends and will only really be able to grow more if they change to other teams in the company. Also some teams are really nice but if you want to grow on those you basically have to hope a bus runs over the brilliant engineers occupying the best slots because they're not going anywhere ever.
> Get rid of fucking assault rifles. Ban their sale. Mandatory buybacks. Jail time for violators.

I understand your perspective, and I believe I understand how you arrived at it. I even largely share your concern - but I don’t think you fully realize just how repugnant it is to many people.

Have you considered how many lives your proposal would cost, or how likely it would be to succeed in any measurable way?

This is not a rhetorical question. I would definitely consider myself part of “American gun culture.” I would resist disarmament with lethal force if necessary. That statement may be somewhat shocking in this context it wouldn’t so much as raise an eyebrow amongst gun owners.

… and this is about banning one kind of weapon. One kind. An ill-defined class of firearms that are used in a tiny fraction of crimes. How many deaths would be worthwhile to make that happen?

> But when the patient is bleeding out, you first STOP THE BLEEDING.

Attempting to disarm the US may or may not “stop the bleeding” - but I’m extremely confident that it would create many times more patients.
Intel 64 ? You mean the Itanic ?
It's also such an obvious question though, isn't it? You think that the developer pouring so much of their free time into a browser-based DAW wouldn't have considered the idea of supporting plug-ins at all?

People far too often approach projects like this with "this app is only useful for me if it does x..." and I think that framing is poor when someone is just exercising their passion on a project. I'd personally respond with "great, go build your own that supports your plug-ins. Have fun."
Kingsajz [1] is one of my favorite Polish movies of all time. It's about way for people to consume some elixir and become tiny (it's an adult movie, although may not sound like it).
The special effects are absolutely phenomenal - it's mind boggling that it was done in 1987, and with communist budgets!
Unfortunately looks like no English subtitles are available.

[1] https://35mm.online/vod/fabula/kingsajz
It's the "intelligent life form determines the alert is a false positive" part that's not automated.
Sure, but I'm saying that most C++ code in the wild is probably firmly in the former category.
We have trained four StyleGAN2 image generation models and are releasing checkpoints and training code. We are exploring how to improve/scale up StyleGAN training, particularly when leveraging TPUs.

While everyone is excited about DALL·E/diffusion models, training those is currently out of reach for most practitioners. Craiyon (formerly DALL·E mega) has been training for months on a huge TPU 256 machine. In comparison our models were each trained in less than 10h on a machine 32x smaller. StyleGAN models also still offer unrivaled photorealism when trained on narrow domains (eg thispersondoesnotexist.com), even though diffusion models are catching up due to massive cash investments in that direction.
ABI with a clear major version number would solve this. It's what C++11 should have done with CoW strings.

You just ship 2 version compiled targets of std libs
> For whatever reason, capital costs for consumers are penalized with taxes more than incremental operating costs.

How so? Is the gas tax lower than the purchase taxes?
If you track population growth and the number of people without cars you find street cars died out way too soon in any kind of car transition to be the root cause.

Instead they where largely replaced with busses which where initially more expensive, but also more flexible.
What counts as a garbage language? Java guys will tell you it's rust or go, go guys will tell you it's java or rust, rust guys will tell you it's java and go.
given that every bride is obviously unique, being a professional wedding ringer might actually be a viable job for a lot of people, as the qualifying criteria is going to change every time. One of those where maybe we should all sign up on the off chance we get called up - food, party and get paid for it? Deal!
Well, we kinda know - a more contagious, immunity-evading one for sure! SARS-CoV-2 is on it's way to become the most contagious virus ever!
Yeah. Also, unless you are a genuinely essential application—like air traffic control, a hospital, or a nuclear power plant—you can live with a few hours of downtime.

AWS goes on the fritz for a few days out of of every year and breaks half the internet. Your business will be okay.
What are the chances some third-party OS vendor complains that they have to work with iBoot to launch their OS and demand they be able to replace it?
Ah I just noticed the footnote.

I'm still trying to add http3 to my DNS server and can't test DoH. But based on the other comments, it looks like a custom DNS server will use DoH if supported?
That is such a weird title.
The worst is when it connects to my laptop with the lid shut and not logged in.
From Bootcamp Grad to Software Engineer
If you prioritize sustained load performance, then the pro machines are designed for that.

If you have less need for that or don't care about a mild slowdown on the rare occasions where you can push it into throttle territory, then the Air would be good for you. I would gladly trade away some maximum performance in order to get a cheaper, lighter machine that doesn't need a fan blowing.

This is not about "gimping" the Air. it is about tailoring the balance of features, performance, and cost to meet the needs of different segments of customers.
You're of course right but "too many money" sounds cute, too.
Considering that HTTPS completely and utterly fails to solve its stated purpose of cryptographic verification of content, it's basically security theater, the last vestiges of which have been completely broken by LetsEncrypt.

But I'm a luddite who also thinks we shouldn't have gone beyond HTML 4.01 as a spec, and that JS in the browser is a pox upon the web.
This is much more negative then for Apple then google. Google subsidizes their (far less profitable) app ecosystem by selling user data in the form of advertisements. While there is language about Google having to share marketing response rates, it doesn't prohibit this practice.

Apple on the other hand makes their money by targeting features (privacy, integration, etc) that people pay more for.

Apple will have to transition to a more ad-tech focus in order to compete in Europe under this infrastructure.
Agree, some interesting problems require it
Yeah Miami to Nassau seems like a decent candidate.
I don't know. Even if this anecdotal narrative has any merit, I'd still take doom-and-gloom over the recent infantile direction of popular music and film. Thankfully there's some decent TV still.
I feel like if you need to redefine cooperation then your argument is a bit of a stretch.
Well, we've never had microplastics inside literally everything before, and I'm not too thrilled about it, and forever chemicals aren't too flash either. We get a pass for asbestos because the earth made it (thanks for nothing, gaia), and radiation because it goes away, but we've really taken the cake for worst idea with these things.
Is there any way to get notified when they are in stock for US shipment?
I've been inspired by Nat's journey for awhile. I always had the impression that he was doing quite well financially from all the self-help/teaching products, mobile apps, and SEO business he's built.

I stopped following him when he got into crypto though. I don't quite understand the article's point if the money in crypto was "too good". Does that mean something crashed to the point of not being able to live sustainably off of?

I wrote a little bit about this phenomena the article talks about of "distracted from distraction by distraction":

https://jondouglas.dev/distracted-from-distraction-by-distra...
Great point, sometimes I’ll schedule time in my to do app to cancel it before it switches to the paid subscription so I can still get the benefit of the freebie for a while
There is (that I know of) no such requirement in American custom. One does hear of a "Matron of Honor" as opposed to "Maid of Honor", but it is true that "bridesmaids and/or matrons" has an awkward sound.
Yep, still waiting for mine too. Got the delivery code a good three weeks ago, no movement after that.

I've waited for 2.5 years, so what's a few weeks more =)
The low-dopamine hypothesis for ADHD is a legitimate idea still being actively studied.
> and Tinsley was able to see the win 64 moves into the future.

It's more likely that Tinsley was able to see a winning position much closer to the present than that, without bothering about the details of how exactly the winning position 6 turns in the future converted into an actual win 64 moves in the future.
Well the US has a strategic interest on EU using their spyware.

They're slowly losing their grasp on EU (e.g. threats regarding Nord Stream 2 in 2021). This could slowly turn into Cold War II and this time around it doesn't look like the US is capable of/willing to carry out a Marshall Plan if things turn ugly energy-wise. EU is starting to realize how they're puppets to the US and an economic war is being waged on their soil. The US is not the reliable partner that it used to be.

Russia is not looking good but neither is the US. China is going to slowly eat the european cake if they play their cards well as they're already doing in Africa.
It is true, that it's not only due to a car make conspiracy and it is also true, that contemporary structure of American cities isn't good for public transport. However where city structure is built around public transport and public transport is operated well, I claim you get a way better quality of live. (Less noise, more efficient transport, city structure with reachable shops, ability to use commuting times for rest or reading or something, ... especially, but not only, for the younger, elder or others who can't drive on their own)
Good.

I have always felt like tech workers have a hard time organising, which is a bit ironic. Events like this are a good sign for the overall industry.
Not sure if this is a frame of reference effect, or maybe just a local minimum, but alternative/rock music from the early 00s was extremely depressing compared to the modern stuff (which seems to have settled into an abstract/esoteric niche). I have sometimes wondered why it seemed like depression was "cool" in the late 90s/early 00s. For instance, if you look up the lyrics for Chevelle - Send The Pain Below, you'd quickly realize such a song would set off a bunch of red flags in 2022, yet this was a song played daily on the radio.
This isn't the take away from the page nor the documentary linked below.

> It wasn't just some crazy scheme cooked up by a few oligarchs in a smoke-filled backroom.

It was literally this.

GM, Firestone and Standard Oil literally colluded to buy up streetcars and burn them down and then use their profits to sell a car fueled suburban future of the good life.

Macroscale effects are systemic, projecting individual choice into is mostly always a smoke screen. It is the same tactic that the plastics industry used to shift blame onto the individual "litter bug" and not the prevalence of single use plastic packaging.

Your comment history is littered with similar reinforcing tropes.
I run a security team in a large company.

What you described is usually the result of some "consulting company" (in our case big ones) that drop stuff with zero actual knowledge.

Every year we "review" these with the board and it is annoying as fuck.

Recently they got a new manager who understands we are in the same boat. They have to provide a report with some findings and I need to have a secure environment. We talked this over and suddenly the board presentation was cool.

As for internal teams, I have a few extraordinary people. They are very young and I had to coach them on how the vulnerability is actually critical or not depending on the context, data, etc.

So not all cybersecurity teams suck :)
Indeed - if heavy trucking is subsidised then eventually the prices you're paying for something are lower.
No that's IA-64 - that's something else entirely. Intel 64 != IA-64.
They’re not just disagreeing. They’re asserting that you shouldn’t analyze the issue statistically (I.e. they reject the notion of putting it into context) but defending the non-zero rate of gun deaths in other countries with statistics.
I've needed to go to Kalamazoo several times, connecting through O'hare. On the return trip, because of the timezone change and the extremely short flight (~15m IIRC), the arrival time printed on your ticket is earlier than your departure time.
Until google breaks things on other browsers on purpose again.
We currently train each model independently, ie we first gather a cookie dataset, train a cookie model then restart from scratch for the next one.

That's actually something we're investigating: can we train a single class-conditional model for multiple types of food? Or, can we finetune cheesecakes from cookies?
Sure, but Android TV sucks. I mean its 2022 and it's still laggy and slow compared to Apple TV. And slowly getting more and more adverts. Even on the fastest TVs its still slow compared to AppleTV. So it could be supported on every single device in the world, it's still a turd.

What I've never understood is a high end Android decide is quite fast and responsive. Yet no matter how much hardware you throw at Android TV, its slow.
So true. On my Pixel phone, which allows alternate app stores, I had to update the Adobe Updater to update Adobe Reader, Epic EpicStore to update Fortnite Update Store to update Fortnite, TenCent Store to update Grindr, and finally F-Droid Pro Max Store to update Signal. Why do I have to download so many app stores on Android!!
I believe what’s happening is that certain car stereos are programmed to basically send the “play” command as soon as a device is connected. From the phone’s perspective, it’s as if you had connected Bluetooth headphones and then pressed the “play/pause” button.

I say this because my iPhone never autoplays when connecting to any Bluetooth audio device except for my car stereo.

I agree it’s aggressive and should be able to be turned off, but it’s the car’s software, not the phone’s, that’s the problem.
> Clearly the market has chosen the preferred route

Indeed - iOS trails Android in Europe. With this law in effect, perhaps more Europeans will choose to buy iPhones
Mine arrived this week :) No idea how to use it yet though
The point of 1 is that whoever is oncall shouldn't be working on features/sprint tasks, but actually fixing the underlying problems of the system. This is second to addressing the pages.

Of course if your system is so deficient that engineers spend 100% of their time putting out fires, then you need to address that first. That's what reducing toil from the SRE books is about.
One way to make on-call less bad, ask your employer to let you work normal 8hr days on the weekend that you're on call, in return for having 2 weekdays off the next week. That way you don't have any weekend days that are lost due to having to be available. I was allowed to do that, it was a win-win. Useful for them to have really thorough extra cover over weekend, then 2 uninterrupted days in the hills for me. ;)
Friend has airpods, they have problems during phone calls pretty frequently. Maybe better than vanilla bluetooth, but still there are issues.
Agreed. It's why i get frustrated in a lot of the antiwork movements. The core of the antiwork movement is about respect and healthy treatment of course; but as a community they also fraternize (?) with people who think we shouldn't have to work at all; that it's optional and society is just asleep to this simple and obvious "fact". But of course it's bunk.

Until automation "saves humanity"[1] we have to work. We can and should push for healthy balances, respectful treatment of workers, sane retirement ages, etc. But still, work needs to be done, and i find it incredibly frustrating that some people think we can all just stop working.

[1]: Though i'm quite pessimistic that automation will save humanity. I suspect that while it could, it will also cause such turmoil in the beginning that we fail as a species. A nuclear winter of the working class.
What about the Google Play Services as a whole? Most of the Android apps don't work without these (so you can't for example use LineageOS without GApps), does the act in any way reference such things? What about contactless payment without "Google's approval" which require hiding the root, hiding the fact that the system is unsigned or has unlocked bootloader.
Order total: ~$300, where ~$50 is taxes and ~$50 is shipping. I did not research any customs fees, as I've been craving the device since I came across this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31534257 (2 months ago), so don't really care about the custom fees.
Not at all true in general; consider tic-tac-toe.
The issue is what if you have to use a specific app to access some service or community. And then that app requesting access to your location data and your address book even though there is no point in it requesting either. Sure you can deny but if you do it, the app will refuse service. It can only be solved by the app store requiring that users denying access won't result in the app refusing to work, or only the features will refuse to work that actually need that data.

"just don't install the app" won't work in many, many cases.
I’m not the fact checker I’m the fact checker’s son. I’ll be checking facts till the fact checker’s done.
There's a load of GPIO on it too
The problem with the pool argument is that a pool isn't designed to kill. Guns are. Hunting, self-defense...doesn't matter.

Not saying I agree with this line of thinking, but that is a common retort.
"Jason needs to stop interrupting Sacks" very funny line.
> Public transportation believers hate to admit it but systems like the streetcar are just slower and more inconvenient.

Car lovers hate to admit that public transportation is the not fiction but preferred by many all over the world. This sentence is completely impossible for me to relate to. I even don't have a drivers license! My girlfriend and many of my friends also. I want to live urban and don't want to drive or own a car, I consider it inconvenient. I am also not a "public transportation believer", it's not something I care much about, I just use it. I live in a small student-city in germany, nobody uses a car (I literally know nobody driving to university and I know a lot of people here!). I would say more people bike to university than take the car, by far. Nearly my friends from where I grew up (munich, city of 1.5 million people) also don't drive, many don't own a car and many also don't have a drivers license. The only few I know that use a car live quite suburban, bordering rural.

Many may prefer a car, but that doesn't mean that streetcars are only used because you are forced to.