skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem I see is that kind of stuff is just not profitable anymore. IMO it shouldn't be a company like FB running a people directory, it should be something mastodon.

The utopian future I would like for social media is if we had a protocol for a people directory social network. It would function in much the same way as facebook pages or your myspace page. Most users will just sign up for a service, technical users will have frameworks and API's they can reach for to build their own "custom" pages. I realize I just described the fediverse but seriously, fediverse needs to go mainstream.
That's interesting, yeah mine has a fan but it is normally impossible to notice if the noise level in the room is even just a little bit above "quiet". Same with the original HDD, which on mine was spinny. I don't recall ever hearing it in operation. I replaced that with an SSD (be sure to clean the fan venting area while you're in there if you do that) but the before/after change didn't exactly blow my mind.

For a hacker it could be great. You could do a LOT with it. Most development and scripting tasks are easy. However I would strongly recommend a separate pointing device, as it's a pretty substantial upgrade to the user experience.

For web browsing, Falkon and 3-4 tabs max can work pretty well but modern JS SPAs probably wouldn't be very fun (if they'd even work in Falkon). I use Dillo a lot myself.

I remember hearing about the Samsung, that's too bad about the white screen problem. I think the biggest problem I've had with the Wind was that the power button's blue LED failed, but all the other LEDs work and the button itself is fine.
> advice for scrolling without spamming j and k

Or just use the directional keys and PgUp/PgDown like any person in the last 30 yrs
Already discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32271904
I tried mini. Didn't work for me, so went for Zenfone 8.

No regrets.

The mini was big enough already to occasionally being forced to activate single hand mode.

But superior gestures navigation makes Zenfone so much easier to use with one hand.
Thanks for pointing that out. I fixed the post.
>>Maybe if Stadia allowed you to play the games on your machine OR Stadia, the would have been a more compelling offering.

And this is the #1 problem with stadia - it's a completely different platform, it's as far away from Windows as PS5/Xbox are. You can't just run Stadia version of games on your PC, even if you could download them. GeForce NOW is a much better product, because it runs normal Windows executables(just in the cloud).
Personally, I subscribe to a waitlist of tools that can increase the efficiency of my work. And also tools to increase personal productivity (Notion like tools). I won't say there are VERY many of them, but if I come across a site with a good description, why not get notified when the product is ready.

For example, that was the case with Pitch.
I recently purchased the cloud version of Kingdom Hearts for my Nintendo Switch, where the game runs in the cloud and streams locally to my console [1]. Despite the criticisms of cloud gaming, I decided to buy it because I already have a Nintendo Switch as my only console, and I wouldn't go buy a Playstation just replay those couple of games anyway.

My experience has been mostly good. I was able to tether my console to my phone while out of town and play flawlessly over 5G, it was surprisingly smooth for well over an hour.

But at home with a wired Ethernet adaptor and stable Internet, I still run into occasional gameplay issues with stuttering/lagging. And if I pause the game for too long it disconnects my session (presumably to free up cloud resources) and kicks me back to my last save point.

I really want to love cloud gaming, but the concept of having _all_ your games as a part of a subscription just doesn't seem appealing yet. Until we can transfer those licenses to different providers, it will remain a pretty niche category that the majority of people won't buy into outside of a few games here and there.

[1] https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/kingdom-hearts-hd-1-...
Can you be more specific or offer any evidence? That Valve offers DRM through Steam is unambiguously true. Here's their developer document on it: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/drm

And here's a list of games which are sold through Steam but which nonetheless do not use Steam DRM: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_g...

Why would such a list be necessary if games sold through Steam that used Steam DRM were the minority?
> It's a shame we can't discuss obvious language bias without you becoming defensive about imagined sleights.

Just wait a few years, I feel like this nearly-satanic-panic level of sensitivity will pass. Maybe a decade or so.
I have to agree. Peter Thiel's has turned into one of those who speak a lot without saying anything much of value. The causal relation he seeks to establish between Christianity and Western progress feel shoddy at best.
I had the opportunity to work with Roger at Mark Williams Company. One of his side-side projects was to work out a method of calculating the local time at any location in the US at any historical point. This turns out to be rather difficult, as, for example, Indiana at one point had a county-by-county choice as to whether or not they would do Daylight time, or Chicago time, or neither.
> when you go naked. In most cases there's virtually zero sexuality going on

I definitely helps that most attendees are not particularly attractive. But as soon as an actually attractive girl/woman is present - I do have to manage my attention to avoid ... ahem ... drawing unwanted attention. Happens very rarely, though. And I'm saying that as someone having gone to the sauna for many years.

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just to be clearer - I never go to the sauna with sexual intentions and never ever made anybody feel uncomfortable for sure. I just don't find this often proclaimed "saunas are asexual" credible. they can be very sexual and many people go there with that mindest - as far as I can tell (as a man) mostly from the gay community. and for me as a man who very well can admire a firm female body I simply have to say that indeed it helps that there are very few of that kind. most people are old and wrinkled and I just keep my eyes everywhere else.

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also this "naked is cool" but "sexuality is inappropriate" attitude is not fitting the lifestyle and mindest described in the article. it's a prude and artificial take on human life and desires.
Very cool! Let's hope we can make it to that age in reasonably good shape :)
Though it would be a total scumbag move not to compensate people whatsoever it might be a "good" scorched earth tactic. It ensures consumers will probably think even harder before adopting such a service. Meaning it will be even harder for competitors to succeed where Google themselves failed. Then again you will need to be sure never wanting to return to that particular market....

> Back in the '90s if I gave you a Game boy game, it now belonged to you.

Fip side is that if you lost the cartridge or it broke you had to buy it again. Granted, that almost never happened.
I'm not even entirely sure what such a comparison means for a DBMS to be faster than another.

In practice, claims boil down to this query is 182x faster than that query in MySQL.

Using the same type of comparison, you can come to the conclusion that MySQL is 10x faster than MySQL because one query was constructed one way and the other another. (Applying induction, we can thus prove that MySQL is infinitely fast ;-)
> Being a lower class woman was an extremely oppressed state, illustrated vividly by books from Victor Hugo.

This is true, but also read The Road To Wigan Pier to see the lives of lower class men in England. Go to work, crawl 2 miles underground (unpaid) to get to your work site, work for hours in a small space mining coal, crawl back, get home, scrub off as best you can, eat, sleep, repeat. Almost nothing that wasn't either a crime or being sent to war was as bad as that nightmare of a life.
He Made a Multiplayer Game in Microsoft Word
Here are few examples of tools who used waitlist and same mechanics:

https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/1*8k2RcO72JNlo1tYVrlRVJw.pn...
Jarred Sumner: Presenting Bun
I've bought a copy of Iron Dragon for the PC - I can even find the license key in my ancient google mail. It was published by http://www.antigravitybox.com/ and the game's website is http://www.irondragon.org/

I don't see too much of a difference other than Steam has more proven longevity - even if the developers that sold games on Steam don't. I can still download Dungeons of Dreadmor from Steam even though the company appears to have disappeared in 2016.
> I was hired as a junior software engineer at a tech startup

He says ‘Junior’ later on, and if his job role says software engineer he can use the term.
It is unique in that Google has plenty of money and is not going out of business. In fact it just posted excellent earnings this week.

To say this project failed and everyone is just out of luck would really shows what kind of company Alphabet/Google really is.
As a late 30s individual, there's still plenty of niche communities to be pushed into once the algorithm figures out what people like us actually like.

I haven't seen a single "20-something nobodies dancing" video since the day I downloaded the app. All I get on my feed is DnD stories, interesting math, physics, and history facts, and the occasional standup comedy routine. Exactly the sort of things that keep me, specifically, engaged for far longer than I would like everytime I open the app.

Do a search for your actual interests, quickly swipe past the random things that pop up that you don't like, and soon, after a few days of this, you'll begin to see what tik tok's actually about.
>There clearly needs to be a law to make such things illegal. I've refused to take the discount on digital Switch games since Nintendo has clearly shown they are willing to shut down old servers and tell you to just buy your games again.

The problem is that there really isn't a way to legislate it. The content is tied to the service (either the platform service like the Switch, or the game service itself), and if the servers aren't running, you're done. No backup is going to help you. And there's piracy. I do not see any governments creating legislating to force publishers (or platform (e.g. Steam) or console manufacturers) to remove anti-piracy measures.
Apparently my hometown is famous for a french clothes designer born during the colonial era.
> I wouldn't call Stadia a joke

What kind of gaming platform randomly bans high profile game devs. because an automated Youtube bot told them to? A bad joke of one.

> It does in fact work quite well.

Didn't they fake high res video streams by up scaling bad renders? Haven't used it but as far as I understand there was quite a bit of overpromising and underdelivering going on.

> other first-party console alternatives,

Their competition would be GeForce Now from NVIDIA. Which not only is still a thing but also predates Stadia by several years.

> agreed that it was a good experience...and then pretty much never touched it again.

So did the free trial run out? Where the games crap? Have you ever asked them why they decided that it wasn't worth using?
The people at nixos and guix are doing it differently. No longer is the configurarion just state in files, scattered who knows where that cannot be understood fully by anyone. Insteady everything is defined centrally and then neatly versioned and managed by the system. If you think the unix way of throwing files in a directory sucks, check them out!
It may look like that from the outside because you can go to the Steam library directory and double click a game executable directly, but this will still start the Steam runtime and do a DRM check. You can run a game in 'offline mode' for up to two weeks before another online DRM check is required though.
Typing in small scripts is pointless. The type annotations are only useful for large codebases
Right so this is all assuming you have people’s numbers. Which was my whole point. You may not have that. I said “other people’s info”

This is no different than when gen X or older millennials were kids on different apps too like IM apps. Which weren’t the same as FB early day either.
> So yes, it's Google's turn to show commitment and keep their services running. Plus, the possible loss with keeping Stadia up should also be weighted against this cementing their reputation.

Agreed. The ball is in Google's court. Consumers should (and clearly do) cast a vote of "no confidence" with their wallet.
Idea: start with the recipe, have the lessons based around explaining why the recipe contains certain ingredients, why they work together, how to prepare them (and why we're preparing them in that way). Would be much more informative than just seemingly random, often patronising trivia

And it would also fill a niche that no recipe site seems to fill right now. It's almost impossible to find a recipe that actually explains why you're doing everything, why this ingredient works, etc. Knowing why an ingredient works opens the doors to substitution and recipe modification by the 'student', which is a great pathway to learning. And it would be a hell of a lot more engaging.
Hacks already exist to make the games not check the servers, and only stop working after new Steam updates. If Steam were to never update again it seems likely the hacked dlls would work forever.
That's always just been a wishful statement of intent with no legal backing. Valve might be unable or unwilling to actually follow through on that urban legend if they do ever shut down for some reason.
The problem with social media is that most people want to fill their free time consuming social media. But you have to have creators that want to create content for everyone else to consume. So you need to have some kind of addicting reward mechanism to get people to create content. (The simple upvote here and Reddit)
I think this is akin to focusing too hard on things that are appear easy to measure over things that are (perhaps incorrectly) perceived as hard to measure.

The parable of the drunk found looking for his keys under the light instead of inside the dark bar where he lost them comes to mind. What's needed is a flashlight, however imperfect.
If everything has its place, then how can some things be better to not be produced?
>You couldn't criticize the party but everything else was free.

Politics wasn't free nor was there economic freedom. There's a reason why this Island had temporary visitors :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goli_Otok

Among them, not just political dissidents, people who touched on subjects they weren't supposed to touch on be it in social sciences, economics, art.

>You could drive a light motorbike, no helm, no license.

>The food was natural. You could sleep anywhere without anyone bothering you or having to be afraid that someone would steal from you.

Seems like you're just rendering a nostalgic view of the past common just about everywhere.
is there a way to extract the sorted list of people by fame? how was the fame list decided?
>To be honest, learning to code was a complete waste of time.

Counterpoint:
If the only reason you learned to code was to get hired, you'd be correct. Many learn it because they are fascinated by computing, and desirous of being able to make computers do things they previously could not.

On the other hand, totally with you on hiring dysfunction.
You can optimize reference counting: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.23...

With allocating as dead, you're basically turning it into a tracing collector for the young generation.
Explore the Pacific
It may be related to them preparing for a round of begging for public money?

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/07/28/politics/house-vote-chips...
I think this should be rendered in 3D on a globe so it's easy to compare the covered distances between different places.
From what I can see, the myth that needs to be debunked isn't that garbage collection is super fast and easy with no consequences, it's the myth that garbage collection always automatically means your program is going to be spending 80% of its time doing it and freezing for a second every five seconds the instant you use a language with garbage collection. I see far more "I'm writing a web server that's going to handle six requests every hour but I'm afraid the garbage collector is going to trash my performance" than people who believe it's magically free.

It's just another engineering decision. On modern systems, and especially with any runtime that can do the majority of the GC threaded and on an otherwise-unused core, you need to have some pretty serious performance requirements for GC to ever get to being your biggest problem. You should almost always know when you're setting out to write such a system, and then, sure, think about the GC strategy and its costs. However for the vast bulk of programs the correct solution is to spend on the order of 10 seconds thinking about it and realizing that the performance costs of any memory management solution are trivial and irrelevant and the only issue in the conversation is what benefits you get from the various options and what the non-performance costs are.

It is in some sense as big a mistake (proportional to the program size) to write every little program like it's a AAA game as it is to write a AAA game as if it's just some tiny little project, but by the sheer overwhelming preponderance of programming problems that are less complicated than AAA games, the former happens overwhelmingly more often than the latter.

Edit: I can be specific. I just greased up one of my production systems with Go memstats. It periodically scans XML files via network requests and parses them with a parser that cross-links parents, siblings, and children using pointers and then runs a lot of XPath on them, so, it's kinda pessimal behavior for a GC. I tortured it far out of its normal CPU range by calling the "give me all your data" JSON dump a 100 times. I've clicked around on the website it serves to put load on it a good 10x what it would normally see in an hour, minimum. In 15 minutes of this way-above-normal use, it has so far paused my program for 14.6 milliseconds total. If you straight-up added 14.6 milliseconds of latency to every page it scanned, every processing operation, and every web page I loaded, I literally wouldn't be able to notice, and of course that's not what actually happened. Every second worrying about GC on this system would be wasted.
A paper I quite enjoyed on automatic reference counting for pure, immutable functional programming: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05647

It can be quite "fast."
While I'd have no need for anywhere near 100+ TB, I'll be really happy when SSDs are cheaper than spinning disks. If they can make a 200TB drive for business, a 20TB drive for home users should be pretty reasonable.
Any game using Steamworks behaves this way, which is a pretty massive chunk of them. Ubisoft uses their own DRM which is an entirely different system.

I think what you may be saying is the behavior if you open a Steamworks game while Steam is opened, it just executes as normal. Any authentication or nonsense happens in the background. Try opening a Steamworks game with steam closed, it will force steam to open and login before the game can be played.
Netbooks are kind of back, though. 11/12" screens, N3000/N4000 series Celeron processors, 32-64GB of storage, sd card slot, and Windows 10.
Its actually usually slower than both manual memory management and GC. It's only coming back now because people are finally learning how to make memory allocations large and rare.

This blog post is an answer to: "Tell me you haven't learned about cache coherence without telling me you haven't learned about cache coherence."
This is really fun! I even shared it with my family.

Please ignore the others who just fucking HAD to make it about race or gender or whatever.
At least I can rest assured that pretty much anything that's been put on Steam has a cracked version out there, and if one day Valve disappears and I lose my entire library, I'll just go pirate whatever I want to play again.

Good luck doing that for a game that consumers were only ever sent frames of. If/when there's a streaming-exclusive game, it'll be conclusively lost to time when the company stops letting people play it.
I lost patches of hair during my 1st Covid illness. Not just on my head, but chest and leg, too. It was all on the left side of my body, which is weird. When the hair grew back it was thicker & darker than it has been in 30 years(I'm 50 now, some grey hairs, but the rest is mostly thin, bland). People have been giving me skeptical reactions to my hair loss claim for the last two years. I am vindicated! And... still mostly bald.
Well, doing the right thing isn’t enough.

Looking good (being attractive) is mostly about immutable traits like height, physiognomy and until now having hair.
Look at video of Steve Ballmer. Say what you want about the man but his bald sure does not get in the way of his alpha.
It's just his imagination..
Expanding Testing for the Privacy Sandbox for the Web
why the FUCK did you use white text on a white globe?
I always give a chance to new applications, services or products that have the potential to be more effective substitutes for current problem solvers.

And besides, early users always get the benefits. For example, free use for a few years, or special subscription plan.

Not too bad for trying the product as one of the first.
Just convert .gif to .webm or .mp4 and render the media as a video element. You will save yourself a lot of trouble by replacing gifs with videos.
Comparing 'Holocaust denying propaganda' with healthy sexual activity (this is what OP is talking about) explains a lot about US puritanism.
If you zoom in on Philly it seems like they position Grace Kelly in Center City and Noam Chomsky in North Philly somewhere. Noam Chomsky was actually born in North Philly (according to Wikipedia) - I can't tell what part of Philadelphia Grace Kelly should be associated with.

But then they don't have anyone in West Philly. I don't know if Will Smith is the most famous person associated with Philadelphia, but he is surely the famous person most associated with West Philadelphia.
http://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/1159.jpeg

Looks like it’s dropping anyway. Is there a more updated graph?
It also helps that Steamworks DRM is trivially bypassed. All it takes are a couple of replacement DLL files in the games directory and it runs normally (minus multiplayer support, of course).

This isn't even a sketchy crack thing, it's an open source tool. Look up Goldberg emulator.
Marketing says not to worry about a negative rumor? Well, case closed!
Offhand, doesn't this kind of perfectly explain systemd fear? Probably what people had in the back of their heads.