skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that's not what I saw. Firstly, not all Sky ad slots were placeholders; and secondly, "Brenda" (damn, what's that from?) popped her clogs ages ago. The wall-to-wall BBC propaganda ended three days ago. TV presenters are no longer wearing black suits and ties. Newspapers no longer carry a dozen grovelling headlines on the same subject.
It's because it's not enough any more to have a company with a stable source of income; investors expect a stable increase of income.
The answer is in the article:

> The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition […] receives automatic updates through June 2030
What kind of product you have?
Bias for or against something depends on the context and timing. When it comes to salespeople, it's not bias against hiring salespeople, but against hiring them before they could be successful at their job. When the situation is very fluid: product changes often, market re-defined, target customer changes, hiring salespeople early can be frustrating for all parties involved.

Now, if the product is not complex and the sales process is not complex, then you could get away with it and the salesperson could go after landing enterprise clients.

If the sales process is complex (compliance, security, many stakeholders, committees, etc) then an effective way is to reduce the sales process complexity through technical means in the product. For example: in conversations with people who were afraid about their data and a service shutting down or our ability to provide compute power on demand (that's a parameter that makes the sales complex, one technical way of overcoming it was to have no client data hosted and instead use their own storage and compute for which they had already a budget, a storage provider, SLAs, etc. This reduced the activation energy, or the number of converations and people required to make a purchase. Integration that made it possible for them to run their workloads on their data with their own already-budgeted/access-policies for compute and storage reduced the sales complexity through technical means.

It did not make the product more simple, but the sale more simple, until the next objection.

You need people who can think about incentives, decision processes of the client, and technical ways to circumvent them. In a startup, it's typically technical founders with knowledge of sales or salespeople with knowledge of technology which could be a non-technical CEO who also understands product (not automatic, as many are hands off with sales experience in the proverbial, sometimes literal, sugar water). One risk is the "XY problem" and solutionism.

These iterations lead to acquiring the language of a customer which leads to effective copywriting and marketing material to have leads, and to reduce the number of objections and a "sales script" that contains arguments for those objections/questions. This allows you to lower the bar for the salespeople required to sell your product and increases the chance of them being able to do their job well when you hire them.
Let's see what they can do for Zero-Knowledge proofs.
Bitmaps can also be used for computing funnels:

https://vikramoberoi.com/using-bitmaps-to-run-interactive-re...
We need ~~priests~~ scientists who speak ~~Latin~~ mathematics to interpret what truth really is because none of the rest of us have been trained.

EDIT: I thought HN used markdown for comments, but I guess not. The double tilde is strikethrough in markdown.
> There are much less obscure texts, roughly contemporary with the Bible, which discuss humanistic values such as might be associated with 'Western Civilization'. Some of these have been treated as holy by various religious groups including Early Christians, or as of a quasi-religious importance in the organization of society and its institutions. Many of these were widely read throughout the Christian era and are much easier to see as having influenced 'Enlightenment' and 'Modern Secular' values. For example, Plato's Republic. Any suggestion that the Bible is more important than that or similar works to gain "an understanding of the process of how Western Civilization is formed as it is today" just seems to me to be a hangover from Christian apologetics and bigotry.

Have an upvote!

Can you draw some broader pictures here for the relatively uninformed how you would get a broadly humanistic view from, e.g., The Republic? If that's too broad an ask, could you draw a line from Plato (and others) to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
> Didn't Valve make the "traditional" buy-once games like Half-Life, Portal, HL-derivatives like Team Fortress/CS?

There's a reason that the slogan "we used to make games, now we make money" has been half-jokingly attributed to Valve. For years, their biggest revenue producers have been their free-to-play games with cosmetic microtransactions such as CS:GO, DOTA2, and TF2. As far as I know, their last "traditional" game was Portal 2 in 2011. Half-Life: Alyx could be argued to have similar production value, but was released as more of an erstwhile "pack-in title" for the Valve Index headset.
I imagine he would walk around it. It's usually only very high end kayakers that kayak solo. Or people extremely familiar with the section.
Related:

Chainalysis in Action: Justice Dept Demands Forfeiture of 280 Crypto Addresses - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24306511 - Aug 2020 (54 comments)
Webrtc allows getting the local IP address. maybe these could be distributed manually or when a discovery service is available, and then tried when it's not?
>>Current "AI" algorithms are fundamentally flawed because they rely on a statistical approach.

YES! The old joke about "Artificial Stupidity" is actually more true than anyone realized.

These statistical so-called-AI systems actually work to actively REMOVE or sanitize out any unexpected information, making it all conform with the EXPECTED results from the training set.

This not only REMOVES the most high-information 'surprising' or unexpected nuggets, it actively HIDES them. When something unexpected comes up, it gets force fit into the expected prediction algorithms and output as if it were good.

I'm not saying that there are no useful things that can be done with this technology — there is a LOT of mundane work out there to be done.

But, we will never get this type of "AI" saying "Huh, that's odd, I wonder why that is?", which is exactly the kind of observation that leads a prepared and fertile mind to great discoveries.
The pacing and joke delivery is completely shattered.
I mean that distant galaxies are both definitely distant and definitely getting further away, and that's been measured and tested in lots of ways. Tired light is one proposed alternative to the expanding universe cosmology that's failed.
Is not a panacea.
In case of a single message yes. I guess sane default behavior is to copy content only with single message and content+metadate with multiple messages.

I guess we are in agreement then
See, I didn't like Joel McHale as Roy. He's too charming and attractive. I think the key difference is that O'Dowd played Roy as tired of this shit while McHale plays it as annoyed with this shit.

But I think it suffers the same problem as the US Red Dwarf and the early episodes of the US Office, you can't expect to clone the characters. You have to deviate. Hew to the spirit, but not necessarily the letter.
I thought it was fun to see the same sort of metaphor used.
> moment Meta fails to follow any local law

Meta has a thorough history of selectively following local laws.

> don't see why Meta should bear the responsibility of being the global free speech police

They don't. They have a duty to not undermining American interests overseas. If they need active lawmaking to tell them when they are and are not doing that, Congress will create a permanent regulator for them.
>>they insist my expectations of that library where too high

>I don't see anyone insisting on that, either.

Okay, I'm really lost -- if they weren't disputing that my expectations were too high, then their comments ("it was way back in 2016, man!") were not responsive at all. Is that really the pillar you want to lean on?

In any case, let's review:

Steve Klabnik dismissing my criticism because the library is abandoned (as if that's a defense of a 2016 library not having abstraction):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18943056

User cetra dismissing my points because the library "had not been updated" in a number of years (as if you can't expect a 2016 library to have to proper abstraction until it gets updates):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18943056

fpgaminer dismissing my points because "Static, perfect code is rare" (as if failure to abstract irrelevant details is okay because no one gets the code perfect with no need to ever change):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19109529

kaoD insisting it was a dark age of rust, justifying the poor abstraction:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19110116

Are we looking at the same links?
I thought accessing deallocated memory would crash an app anyway?
Australia has millions of km^2 in the subtropics. Why would they move due to heating requirements?

Also there will be many, many climate refugees from floods, famines, droughts, super storms, fires, dust storms, and so on. Most of these issues are much harder to overcome than adding insulation, living in a reasonably sized home, sharing a wall or two, installing a heat pump, and putting on a jumper.
Django temples are pretty simple. They are basically HTML with a a few constructs that you can put variables or loops in. Way simpler than React and Typescript.
Poor compared to a modern calculator like the HP Prime.

https://www.amazon.com/2AP18AA-ABA-Prime-Graphing-Calculator...

but pretty good for the time.
While I disagree with your "qualification issue", even that can be caused by money. Surely, hiring "more qualified" engineers cost more money that you may not have in a humble beginning.
Because the simulation maker patched those bugs. :)
Simple concept executed well - got hooked into it straight away. Would be cool if you could figure out a way of automatically generating more, then you could show a different one every day like Wordle.
Google never cared about Stadia or marketed it much.

GeForce Now, Luna, PSNow, XCloud, etc. are doing much better. Stadia is just the neglected stepchild of game streaming, not representative of the overall health of the technology.

I should note that Google by no means invented game streaming. OnLive did it ten years ago, and today there are still other small providers like Shadow.tech, Parsec, Paperspace...

I think Nvidia has the real advantage here though, being the only ones who can produce those gfx cards at datacenter scale. Unless one of the other providers want to develop their own chips, they're always at the mercy of Nvidia. Even during the COVID GPU shortage, Nvidia was able to keep GeForce Now sustained with enough hardware while the other providers struggled... Shadow had a waitlist of several months, for example.
This family of calculators was built around RPN, a Forth inspired language.

The thing is that language tokens were not exactly interpreted in the classical way, they were converted to address of routines in the 512K ROM (or RAM for more dynamic objects)

Programming language, OS and hardware were very closely coupled.
I think it's not so much about them talking to each other, it's about shutting them off from the outside.

> The last time the Islamic Repubic cut off the Internet in Iran, they brutally massacred 1500 people, just 3 years ago. I beg you please save my people (crying while typing)

-- https://twitter.com/AsingleNight/status/1572930406709530624

> We are covered in blood, don't forget us, they want to suffocate us. Please be our voice.

-- https://twitter.com/dokhtr81/status/1572907289774006272

It's heartbreaking, and I for one do not intend to let it go. Enough is enough.

https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1572273975639642114
Only embedded systems and servers lack it these days. Server-side rendering is an interesting use-case, I guess.
Compared to other stuff canceling prime was pretty easy. Try canceling comcast or satellite radio
The Luxury Home Market Posts Its Biggest Decline in a Decade
New tools offer new benefits and new risks. There are obviously benefits to facial recognition, it's rather disingenuous to deny that, but of course there are also risks. A blanket ban is the irrational approach and, again, a worrying sign that everything has to be absolute and black and white nowadays without the possibility of open discussion and measured approach.
When I share an application on my mac, Teams overlays directly on top of that application window every time and I have to move it out of the way. It is so annoying.
Compared to other stuff canceling prime was pretty easy. Try canceling comcast or satellite radio. Even better a newspaper or magazine subscription
I think they probably realized that the success of the series were due to the characters, and not so much the writing. So if its going to live/die based on the audiences response to the characters then why spend time working on the script?

And I have to say, this episode of the US IT Crowd just wasn't the same for me. This version is quirky and forgettable. The cast of the UK version is _so_ good that it elevates it to a hilarious classic.
that's the foundation of our society 3.0
The NFL is the most ridiculous two hours of television in the US. I don't really understand why people put up with the amount of ads they shove into a game.

There was service years ago--maybe it's still around--from one of the TV networks that would cut a whole game into 15-20 minutes, mostly be not showing any ads during the game, and cutting out all of the commentary/standing around.
Vital Questions you should ask your potential manager
I put together a small list of questions that you can ask your potential manager while interviewing. It's free. Hope people find it helpful and I appreciate any feedback/reviews!
The Japanese are a similar kind of pagan as the ancient Romans, all the way down to believing the Emperor was descended from the gods.
I don't think you gave this any serious thought. There are a lot of situations

https://www.nfl.com/news/officer-apologizes-after-delaying-t...

https://www.ems1.com/airway-management/articles/video-man-be...

I'm sure you could come up with many more possible scenarios
Sure, but this is another problem: we need a common culture in IT, with specialists of that field that are missed because most schools of any degree do not form them being tied to some specific corporate and political interests.

Let's say we have a widespread classic desktop system, we start learning it when we start using a desktop computer in the childhood, when we arrive at the high school most already know it a bit, not differently by those who start driving cars: they do not really start from sketch. After university some will know some aspects, some others some other aspects but in general the current common social brain is known enough by most to be mastered enough by most.

At that point a CAD user do know how to fix certain CAD issues and who to ask if he/she can't because at that point IT is a common knowledge enough.

Instead if we keep up the refrain "just learn to click around and there you go, no need to study more" we end up in present impasse where in most professions, not just IT, there is a so deep lack of competence that anything fall apart because even those who know a bit can't act lacking tools to act.

We can't design of course a really perfect system, there always be issues, but we can and should try to tend to. Aiming high to still collect something good.
It's true that EU plugs of some devices can be a bit loose; especially 2-pin variants where the wall socket is not indented or the indent is taller than the plug.
Why not just "killing"?
When they can't answer that, it's about as credible as religion.
Remember the Time Paul McCartney Released a Video Game for the C64?
Real money in exchange for non-cosmetic items (weapons, characters, skills, more attempts per day on boss X or dungeon Y) is awful and must die, I do not condone it. It should be outright outlawed.

Real money in exchange for convenience (storage space in PoE) or purely cosmetic items (non-combat pets, hats, angel wings, whatever) ? Fine.
always has been.
> emotionally compelling origin story you just invented

This doesn't seem to describe the previous comment. It's not just invented, and not emotionally compelling. It's just a fun idea.

> You can't skip straight to the metaphor! Where are your numbers?

I have a story about ants on a rubber sheet for you.
I guess my point that it started out as a "publisher-owned distribution platform for 3 games" that many CS gamers at the time hated. Obviously I can't speak for the entire gaming community, but I remember sitting in some fairly large IRC channels with everyone bitching about it. They really managed to turn that around.

And then after becoming "the default game purchasing platform" they continue to improve the experience and invest in cool technological advances. The post says:

> Unfortunately, you can't just build a better mousetrap,

But no one has come even close to building a better mousetrap, the alternatives suck. Valve didn't just become the biggest and sit around stagnating and buying out the competition. They continue to innovate, at least in my humble opinion.
Make sure to read the complete Canon i.e. all 56 short stories and 4 novels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_of_Sherlock_Holmes).

The stories have actually much to teach one. It was the first place where the power of reasoning starting from a set of data-points was laid out in such a intelligent way. It taught you the importance of thinking in a logical manner. Arthur Conan Doyle was inspired by his professor Joseph Bell from Edinburgh Medical University who used to deduce people's occupations just from observing key physical characteristics. The main idea is to identify the key data-points from the mass of irrelevant data and then draw inferences using logical chain reasoning. If people actually practiced this mode of thinking then the World would be a far better place i.e. understand inferential statistical thinking, less scams etc.

As a followup you should also read Edgar Allan Poe's four short stories; three of them featuring Auguste Dupin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Auguste_Dupin) and another named "The Gold Bug". They were an inspiration to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation of Sherlock Holmes and he mentions this in "A Study in Scarlet".
I think the worst part, by far, is the search. Trying to hunt down a message is a complete mess.
And was it useful thing?
If tired light is due to light absorption and remission with matter, it's falsified. If light fundamentally increases in wavelength due to travel over spacetime, it is not falsified.
I've taken math courses that were beyond me. This stuff is actually difficult, in ways that are probably irreducible. Once you get your head round a new mathematical tool though, it opens up others. But without that base understanding, that stuff would be incomprehensible. You can't jump over building understanding of the complicated underlying metaphors first.

It's like first encountering, say, computer programming. Until you've got the fundamental tools of loops, conditions, and so on, the whole thing can feel like incomprehensible magic. And that's a system that was designed by humans to be more-or-less comprehensible. The universe doesn't have to be!
My first thought was that this is chatbot like functionality. I'm now desensitized to chat bots on websites. As soon as I hear their chime I look for the chat window to close it.

My second thought was when Microsoft used to integrate feedback in their desktop apps.

But, it's an integrating concept to use radio buttons for quick engagement is a great approach. Compared to the previous two examples, this seems much more focused. Seems like a great way to get quick feedback!
It would be an epic demonstration to Crash test a fleet of iPhone 14’s and verify their waterproof capabilities.

I’ve seen many demonstrations since iPhone 12 of people just recording video in their fish tank.
>You paid a subscription for the benefit of being able to buy games on the platform, with you couldn’t access without the subscription.

This was only true during the first five months of release, when you had to buy the Founder's Edition, which came with hardware to access the service. All purchased games can be accessed without the subscription via Stadia Base, and they planned it this way from the start[1]. Stadia Pro primarily provides the perk of running games on better cloud hardware, providing a 4K HDR surround sound stream instead of the baseline 1080p stereo stream.

1: https://blog.google/products/stadia/summer-announcement/
I actually came across an Eos “webcam kit” at Walmart in-store that came with a USB cable and the AC adapter. Pricey at ~$90, but they did sell it like that.
For the scale model in Alaska to really sink in for your story, it would have helped to know where your college was located. If your college was in the Yukon would be one thing, but if your college was in Miami that would be totally different.
>You shouldn't need to "think for yourself" as a prerequisite to have usable tools

This is not true, we are not all the same. For example my eyes are bad, and one is worse, so I prefer one side of the screen more, I want to put my important stuff like notifications on my good side, I do not need a pretend UX guru to tell me how to have my notifications and hard code them. I also prefer to change the keyboard layout around so I can do most used keyboard shortcuts comfortable with just my left hand. I don't care that the majority things the keyboard layout should look like, I am more comfortable in my way where a GNOME user will not even consider that it could be possible to customize the keyboard layout or change keyboard shortcuts, some big ego dude decided for them.

Let's assume you are right and defaults could be good for 99% but IMO are great only for 40%, I want great, not good or OK, but I don't want to force my preference on others , just wish others won't remove functionality because it is used by less then 50%.

EDIT: I think I might have misunderstood your point and my reply was offtopic,
I assume that GNOME big EGO designer checks the touchspeed setting on his laptop, decides what is best for him and hardcodes it in, in their mind GNOME is usable and if you somehow disagree they will tell you to move on, they will never admit anything, they want to push out all the people that disagree with their vision and keep only the ones on the exact sam page with them on all the possible points.
not sure why this is downvoted. Chinese companies can definitely make their own search engine. And in fact search engines are not so big in china anyway; everything is an app, and questions are answered on Zhihu. Google's time in China was up anyway and they knew it. It was good PR for them to leave with a bang. Does anyone really thing the CCP would allow Google to collect data on every Chinese person as they do in the US? And without data collection ads become much less profitable (see: facebook). This would also set a precedent of barring Google from data collection which would spread elsewhere. Now its just seen as a domestic Chinese thing only.
Rust 1.64.0