skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not fun. I had a small stroke while in a music lesson. Instructor was very confused as to why I suddenly couldn't play or follow any instructions.

Programming has been this weird mix where I would see a simple problem. Say a fibonacci sequence. Something I could do in my sleep.

I would look at it. Understand that I can solve this in seconds. Then it would take me a week to muddle through it, badly.

So I know how to program just fine, but I somehow I can't actually do it. So it's been relearning things I think I know how to do.

The saving grace is people would often ask how to approach a difficult problem and I could still quickly figure out what the issue is, and what approach to take to resolve it. So I was very helpful to others, but I couldn't do the work I suggested.

Weird stuff.
> hiring freeze

> removing benefits like meta vacation days

> CEO threatens underperformers, requires higher performance for less compensation (stock options tanked)

> desperately and forcefully copies big competitor, alienating a lot of users in the process

Clearly.
Good tech CEOs also plan for the long term. Google needs a near-death experience to get some management discipline.
Ask HN: Why there are so few good company blogs?
Noticed that there’s a lot more good personal blogs than good company blogs. Why do you think that is?
Dude I literally wrote on the landing page, and said in the trailer video that the guide was to:

1. Help people build great courses (which is 99% of the content, took me 5 months to research and write, and is totally free)

2. Promote our software (1% of the content, and any course creator can still apply the guide, even if they don't use our software)

What are you talking about :')
Does Jansport not have a lifetime warranty anymore?
On a VM, you often don't. I get login: on a bhyve virtual debian or FreeBSD in seconds.

Probably, you're running in a mode which has no "hints" to avoid probe delay costs. Or, depend on subsystems (SCSI?) which depend on device spinup delay to avoid surges in current draw on the PSU, so e.g. raid disk arrays delay boot time to cohere and stabilise before they do cam control.

But usually, its because people run un-optimised, generic, factory-shipped because 30s is lost in noise. If you dive down the rabbit hole, you can get a LOT faster.
> This breaks any link with embedded world (and will come back to bite them when Intel ME becomes abandonware due to malware pervasiveness and their inability to keep those out.

Can you expand on that? What does /usr/bin have to do with embedded systems programming??
Also, https://www.myvmc.com/drugs/magicul/
What good does having a non-UNIX OS do if it insists on doing everything worse than UNIX?

The bet on "everything is an object" was a honest and competent one, but unfortunately it didn't work. "Everything is a file" works better on practice. Unfortunately, that was the last real attempt on Windows to improve things.

Yes, the lack of diversity in OSes is bad. But Windows doesn't fix it. (Android and iOS were the last large attempt of innovation there, and implemented some really good things, but it's also useless to have the OSes completely managed by large corporations that antagonize both their customers and society as a whole.)
no, but it'd be a funny nod anyways.
Interesting-- hadn't thought about how the outdoor sports functionality was part of the origin story. You can get high quality/durability without infusing it with military aesthetic. It's kind of disturbing that something that was previously an activity for children (playing soldier) is now so prevalent among Western adults.
I don't feel it's fair to say Gaikai failed miserably. They were on par with other competitors such as OnLive. That whole first generation of game streaming created a new market, but was ultimately too early -- the internet infrastructure they were betting on didn't come soon enough to enable their product to take off. At that point, getting acquired by the biggest dog in the gaming industry is the best possible outcome.

Phil Harrison is an absolute tool though.
I have always felt that applying the label "origins of life" research on amino acid/nucleic acid synthesis is extremely misleading.

An analogy would be writing an article about the natural abundance of silicon on beaches and calling it "how computers are made."

We have a decent idea of how the first nucleic acids may have been synthesized, and we have a decent framework for how life evolved from protobiont to prokaryote to eukaryote to multicellular organisms. But there is an absolutely staggering gap between the synthesis of individual nucleotides and the synthesis of the first RNA replicase that we know nearly nothing about.
Looks really cool! I work with phone IMU and this looks appealing.

We created our own in house infra to manage and visualize the data, but will try to check this out.
Serverless Internationalisation
From Brussels, Belgium, you can reach in 5h:

- Wales and deep into northern England (Newcastle

- the whole western border of Germany

- the south coast of France

- Switzerland

I was never into the whole "center of Europe" thing, but this puts things in a different perspective.
Oscar had a stroke, which he didn't really recover from -- he just played mostly one-armed.

I just saw this incredible video [1] last week about him and "the greatest solo ever recorded."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj93v9j2A4A
Not those mother sauces, and not by that particular name, but Indian cuisines do have the same "variations on a theme" structure.

A lot of North Indian dishes start with a base of tomato, onions, ginger, and garlic, to which various things are subsequently added. I think you could call that a "mother sauce", and people occasionally do: https://food52.com/blog/19216-does-indian-cuisine-have-mothe...
This is directly addressed in the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03005
The best part is how he just completely avoided actually answering the question. They simply refused to ever give a clear answer. Because they know the answer, and we know the answer, and it's all bad for them. Rather than engineer a system where the answer could be more positive, they stick their fingers in their ears (the most charitable interpretation).
I absolutely buy that Stadia might be getting shut down, but I really don't think the underlying tech is going anywhere. Google wants to white-label the service as Google Stream or something similar - they've done this already with T-Mobile[0].

If I had to guess, they'll shut down Stadia as a platform but keep the tech alive, rebrand, give everyone new URLs to play the games they've already purchased. Kinda similar to how they migrated everyone's songs/purchases from Google Play Music to Youtube Music when they shut down GPM.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/21/22738550/arkham-knight-g...
Is this thing going to overheat like all other snapdragon 8 phones (pixel 6 etc.)?
Analogue comes out swinging with Pocket 1.1 update
3 years is “years to come”

I am slowly moving all my customers/clients away from Google Analytics, mostly to Matomo. Couldn’t be happier. Some clients can also diversify their ad spending to other platforms. Google needs to start feeling what “customer service” means, for now it has none.
Great minds think alike
Here you go:

https://cnevpost.com/2022/07/21/nio-reaffirms-150-kwh-solid-...

And because NIO's battery packs are swappable you can upgrade your current NIO to the new 150 kWh battery.
Sure, why not run a marathon instead of taking a first step? There are thousands of steps in a marathon, it's literally thousands of times better, so why not do it instead?
Don't pay too much attention. This is just fear mongering. Most outdoorsy types would wear clothing that would fit this genre, and just call it "atheleisure"
Here in NL i see that mainstream street fashion is clearly taking cues from tactical gear as well. Body warmers resembling bulletproofvests and when the new Dutch police uniform was announced, tracksuits soon started having similar color ways. Very confusing.
Nobody understands where oil comes from. Anyone who did would have drilled there already and would be a new letter in FAANG (maybe MANGA instead now that FB -> Meta?).

Since no one knows where oil comes from, the best way to find it is to drill everywhere (for which you’ll need lots of resources) and hope you strike. This is pretty much just Darwinian capitalism; companies in the market compete on whatever they think will give them the win (drill), and everyone who happened to be wrong dies or is bought out (no oil), and everyone who happened to be right (oil) becomes the monopoly.

Google is so huge and rich from ads it’s able to effectively implement Darwinian capitalism inside itself. This is almost the opposite of “riding the wave” - they are constantly trying new things and (smartly) canning them when it’s clear they aren’t worth the investment. By doing this, they are at least able to push the odds a bit in their favor that the next oil well is found by Google instead of startup #10327.

Hindsight is 20/20 and it’s pathetically easy to look at other services (e.g., MS or NVIDIA’s game streaming services) and say “obviously what the winner did is right and what google did is wrong, and google is therefore stupid for trying”. Think of how many apps (Vine, Cinemagram) tried to compete with FB/Insta and lost. Then TikTok came along and has beaten FB so bad that FB/insta is changing to be more like TikTok. TikTok’s market success is the lucky result of the flip of a coin whose weight no one understands. In hindsight, sure, TikTok’s win came from having done x, y, and z better than everyone else, but no one, not even FB, knew what x y and z were ahead of time (or they would have beaten TikTok to it). Google is in-house-developing Vine and Cinemagram (failures) in the hopes of hitting the next TikTok (success).

In a strange ironic twist, success in capitalism is brought by trial and error, a blind search… which just so happens to be Google’s bread and butter.
Jon Skeet's Blog – Taking .NET MAUI for a Spin
Yeah, I was even more surprised that history log didn’t exist, much less its content.
Super, I hope it's easy to read and write, I think it's convenient to invent languages that make life friendly.
Harmonic for Hacker News
With prompt treatment, somewhere around 50%. A really bad one can kill someone in minutes.

Untreated, like you're alone and nobody finds you for days, much much less, and the recovery of functioning less likely.

Depends on how much bleeding and where.
Nearly called it when Stadia was announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19434347
> The missing connection to South Germany don’t make sense though. Just take a train to Berlin and take OBB anywhere.

It's the difference between 6-8h and 2-3h to reach a city in Czech Republic. However the tracks connecting Germany/Czech Republic in the south are not in good shape if I remember that correctly.
Agraphia is an impairment or loss of a previous ability to write.

I can read fine. I can type fine. Drawing is mostly fine.
Physical writing is total gibberish. Think severe alzheimer level.
A lot of FUD around GraphQL these days.

Seems this particular twitterer made the mistake of trying to implement their own GraphQL server from the ground up. Never do that! There are ready-made servers with neat resolver patterns which allow you to respond to queries with well defined entities while fetching their fields from any source.

That said, never do that, either! There are ready-made GraphQL adapters available for pretty much any database, and there are some very promising ”GraphQL-native” databases out there too!

And then there is Prisma, which is a one-stop shop for all your app’s GraphQL needs, whatever the database.
Pivot to Video
So you think all the talk about performance tuning in games is just made up, or what?

What ends up happening is you write scripts for lower compile times and ease of use. Then if something is too slow you rewrite it in native. The speed of the scripting tier lets you write less in native. Its not irrelevant at all.
Is performance better now? I was in the beta when there wasn't a limited selection of games and my friend used the free version once it came out of beta about a year and a half ago.
no paywall: https://archive.ph/TnNAo

> Fracking has been, for nearly all of its history, a money-losing boondoggle, profitable only recently, after being propped up by so much investment from Wall Street and private equity that it resembled less an efficient-markets no-brainer and more a speculative empire of bubbles like Uber and WeWork.

> From 2010 to 2020, U.S. shale lost $300 billion.

> These losses were mammoth and consistent, adding up to a total that “dwarfs anything in tech/V.C. in that time frame,” as the Bloomberg writer Joe Weisenthal pointed out recently. “There were all these stories written about how V.C.s were subsidizing millennial lifestyles,” he noted on Twitter. “The real story to be written is about the massive subsidy to consumers from everyone who financed Chesapeake and all the companies that lost money fracking last decade.”

> For a decade, as fracking boomed, Americans were told again and again — and not just by climate deniers — that rushing a green transition would be too expensive, imposing a huge burden on taxpayers, who would be footing the bill to subsidize and support a renewable build-out that couldn’t possibly be justified in terms of market logic or demand.

> The contrast raises a basic question: What does it mean to call one form of energy “expensive” or to say that transitioning to another would “cost too much”? Put another way: Why did the country decide it was OK to lose money on one kind of energy but anathema to lose it on another?

> The question is a purposefully naïve one, of course.
What Does It Mean to Be OpenSource? (PyTorch and TensorFlow as Examples)
Sales are infrequent, but they happen. https://stadiadb.app/ lists lowest sale prices of all their games.
Extraordinarily good writing on a topic which makes me shudder, but probably needs to be talked about. Good, humorous, thought provoking. TIL about "TTP" in game design.
why don't you want to buy spinning disks
I bring this up with all the news around Facebook trying to push this again through Instagram.
>>Steam sells permanent licenses.

I mean, no? Just no. Kindle doesn't sell you permanent irrevocable licenses and neither does steam, nor origin etc. They've each been revoked in the past and it's demonstrably true. Their TOS is clear and trivial to read. They all grant personal, limited, non-transferable, revocable and non-exclusive licenses.

You may be able to crack the downloaded steam game files to get them to run. But that's lateral to steam and irrelevant to discussion. if you're going to run cracked files skip steam and go to piratebay.
> As someone who has frequently hung out with friends of my age naked, and I consider many of them very attractive, I just do not get aroused in this situation

> Are you [and certainly not me] so sexually repressed that any attractive person in the nude causes such an involuntary reaction?

both of these things can't be true either :D

A sauna is usally small with seats arranged around an oven. If an attractive woman with ample bosom is sitting at right angles to me then it can be optically impossible not to constantly notice ... and yes, there are women who are seeking attention and optimize for it actively.
Oil 0.11.0 – Big Features and Project Changes
"In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen people"
(Momus, 1991)

http://imomus.com/index499.html
The entire Great Lakes region is decently densely populated.

- Columbus - Cleveland 142 miles

- Columbus - Cincinnati 106 miles

- Cleveland - Pittsburgh 134 miles

- Cleveland - Toledo 114 miles

- Columbus - Toledo 142 miles

- Toledo - Detroit 58 miles (Cleveland, Columbus, & Cincinnati can share this)

- Toledo - Chicago 244 miles (Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, & Detroit can share this)

Theoretically, you can connect Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, & Pittsburgh into <3 hr trips by HSR.

That's going to beat flying. And that connects about:

- Chicago 9.5M

- Detroit 4.5M

- Pittsburgh 2.3M

- Cincinatti 2.3M

- Columbus 2.2M

- Cleveland 2.1M

- TOTAL = 23M+ people (~7% of the US)

For 940 miles of rail...

Even considering that HSR costs ~$100M per mile - that's about $4k per person.

That sounds like a lot. But since we have frequent opportunities to finance 30-year treasuries at ~1.5% interest and the Fed mandates inflation to be ~2% or higher:

=PMT(-0.005/12, 30*12, -4000)

That's about ~$10.30 per month per person. Considering the average tax payer is paying ~$1,300 per month in federal taxes - 0.7% of that going to HSR where it makes sense - does not seem like a terrible idea...

For context, highways cost about ~$200B per year - which comes down to ~$49.75 per tax payer per month - however, only about 1/4th of that is Federal taxes (~$12.43).

I'll also add that the Great Lakes is probably at the bottom of the list of regions where HSR would make sense. Other places like the Northeast make much more sense.
RHEL/Fedora going for unified /bin is about system recovery.

On the types of systems you're expected to install RHEL, if you can't mount the root filesystem correctly, then /bin isn't going to help you either - what you need instead is that dracut put your repair/minimal tool set in your initramfs.
Since I first used GraphQL, my opinion has been: I like it for admin applications where the client can safely be trusted to tell me exactly what they want, and as long as I authenticate them, they can have it. For everything else, it's more of a headache than it's worth, and I'd take REST any day.
That moment when you realize how depended you are on a few sources of information...
This includes airpods, aren't airpods a lot more popular than the watch?
Boston to Philadelphia a closer approximation. The Acela is scheduled for 5h 1m for that trip. I travel between Boston and New York by train frequently, and even the slower regional service takes < 4 hours. Either way, still not a great comparison to Europe.
It’s interesting - those financial cross-subsidies could lead to a situation where the sum(consumer_value_from_free_product) > total_consumer_harm.
You can’t look at HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and claim with a straight face it’s not complex, and it’s a central piece to how a lot of things work in Windows.
Would never work because of our car culture? I’m going to use my imagination on this one since “never” is a long time.

The year 2040. Two technologies combine make never a reality.

1. Maglev trains that travel at 350 miles per hour (600kph)

2. Self-driving taxis

Exhibit 1:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/amp/china-fastest-maglev-train-in...

NY to LA in 10 hours by maglev sometime in this century.

The 4 hour maglev between Miami and NYC will be popular.
"... rough edges ... complex"

I've put a couple GraphQL services into production and have similar thoughts.

What suprised me most were the range of views from colleagues when they needed to integrate into one of their products. Some people were happy to work with something new, while others didn't appreciate the tax involved with the learning curve.

That said, I published an app that auto-provisions a CRUD service in GraphQL. So while I may not use it for most apps, I use this for general data-access.

https://github.com/sudowing/service-engine-template
No thank you. I live near enough howling dogs. I will never forget the peace and quiet when I stepped into my first house.

Why anyone lives in apartments by choice is beyond me. The noise is absurd.
You're proposing then that Google is in a disappointment loop. I think that's much more true for the technologically versed than the broader public. If they shut down Gmail/Maps/YouTube/Chromecast that'd breach the layman dyke, but I can't see them doing that.

Google I feel's is this age's General Electric. They already borrowed all the wrong ideas from Jack Welch. Most people, if they dug a bit, just want Google to keep what it's already built running and not charge for it. It's just not a place you expect radically good innovation to come from anymore. So, like your Whirlpool dishwasher, you expect it to do its thing, never rave about it to anyone, and moan about it when it breaks.
No idea but I can cold boot a Deb VM containing full Samba and Emby Media server installations and have it responding and serving media in under 4 seconds.

My 'host rig' takes about 10 seconds to go from power-off to logged in to a full graphical desktop (LXDE) on a low-end quad core desktop with 8GiB total memory running Mint 20.3 and the Deb based VM assigned 1GiB of memory and 2x cores.
I think there are two thing going on.

First, a huge a mount of people are sexually repressed in the west. Second, is a double standard where looking around naturally is upsetting to some in a nude setting. This causes a lot of issues with people trying to behave in ways that were never natural to them.

When I meet someone at a work or a coffee shop, I will look at them and notice what shit, pants, and shoes they are wearing. What their body type is and if they work out. It isn't a sexual thing, just part of being an observant and curious person.

This level of attention is generally regarded as impolite for some nudists. They want to be naked but they also want their bodies to be invisible to others, which causes some serious conflicts with reality.
Automating Data Protection at Scale by Airbnb
Kubernetes Namespaces the Ultimate Guide
After meditating on my rant here yesterday, I had a couple more insights:

* Human beings evolved as hunter-gatherers working 2 hours per day to meet their basic needs, or about 1-2 days per week. We're designed to work hard in short bursts and save for lean times, not every single day in overcrowded communities just to scrape by. Until modern tech (and civilization itself) can provide that level of affluence for everyone on the planet through automation, it's self-evidently a bill of goods.

* To accomplish this, "People" should be substituted for "Developers" in the list above, and resources to achieve self-actualization should replace the tech-related subject matter.
How does one draw the line between normal politics and, I guess, meddling? I'm not sure what is being implied by the US not "leaving EU alone"
Something something EU consumer protection law, stuff needs 2 year warranty, and if it breaks in that time you either have to replace or refund the customers. Doubly so if you knew the product wouldn't last 2 years.
Cloud gaming as a concept is long proven. Pc gamers bothered by a 10ms button delays are not a huge target market.
A significant portion of the land wasn't bought, it was acquired through eminent domain.

And an even more significant portion of the land was simply stolen from natives (both by settlers and by the railroads.)
Not at all. As long as you regulate the offramps to useful money via KYC, you can regulate the entire chain. That's what Chainalysis and kin are selling, perhaps not realizing that as soon as you regulate away the grift, the whole point of decentralized currency goes away.