skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 1978, a US-based study posed this question to 20,000 8th graders. Just 24% selected the correct answer. This is basically equivalent a random guess. In 2014, the same question was posed to 48 suburban US students. Only 27% selected the correct answer.
I buy almost every tech gadget related to gaming. I didn’t buy Stadia. The reasons are pretty much as below, in order.

1. Google is not a reliable vendor. Anything they launch is highly likely to be cancelled and you are left holding the bag.

2. Game streaming is fundamentally inferior to local play, and the structure of the Stadia market didn’t account for this.

3. XBox Game Pass exists, which is superior to Stadia in every way, and comes from a reliable vendor.

I’m more surprised that anyone bought Stadia than I am that it got canceled.
The comment you reply to both explains the utility and proposes ways of mitigating the "huge security hole".
Affordability is a standard. Ease of access to all demographics, rather than just rich people, is a standard.
RMS has the right to behave as he wants. He is not obliged to behave in a particular way.

My point is that the way he chooses to behave is in the long run damaging to the community that he founded and leads.
A cloud security tool to search and clean up unused AWS access keys, written in Go.
Even private healthcare falls back on the public institutions for medical heavy lifting.

Where do you think serious surgeries are performed?
I would argue that voting is neither necessary nor appropriate for this problem, but if you're going to have voting with people who are pretty technical then the usual objection to sophisticated voting systems for the general electorate doesn't apply.

[Confidence in a voting system is vital to the operation of democracy, once upon a time this needed a lot of explaining but I'd guess 2020 was recent enough that most readers know why it's a problem if loads of voters are somehow persuaded the results are bogus. Complicated systems make it harder to build confidence because some voters don't understand how it works and thus why should they have any confidence that it behaves correctly?]

Debian specifically uses the Schulze method (a particular Condorcet method which avoids need for a "tie-break" mechanism by always picking a winner). And yes, this involves a lot more maths than First-past-the-post which may be familiar to a lot of readers.

Note that "proportional" methods don't make any sense in this type of vote because there is nothing to share out. One of the options wins, all the others lose. Whether proportional systems are appropriate for electing members to a legislature for example, is a separate question.
Magnesium, zinc and fish oil supplements don't seem very hard to take.
And what about a cold shower of 2 min each day? also easy to implement without much effort if one is willing to suffer a little bit.
I think it's healthy to lose touch with people as our lives evolve.

Keeping in touch with people you would otherwise forget about is depressing.

Seeing friends and family turn bitter and hateful is depressing.

Seeing friends and family fall down the mad rabbit hole of conspiracy theories or religious cults is depressing.
Healthcare extends far beyond medical emergencies. Also, in the UK there is a very real possibility of dying before getting medical attention.
Why do we still have Title IX in law if it has achieved it's goal and swung the other way?

My theory for the gender performance gap... Men need productive work to be happy and motivated. Schoolwork, mostly filling in worksheets, is not productive work.
It is not true. I worked with many programmers that were productive and never read any scientific papers. It is enough that somebody on the team (me) reads them and provides the corresponding perspective.
The article talks about foveated rendering
I've been curious about Zoho for a while, so I'm interested when you say "docs going away", because it looks like they have this: https://www.zoho.com/workdrive/ Is that not what you mean? I'd like something to entirely replace Google, including Docs - what was your experience?
It amazes me the breathless enthusiasm that junior devs show for this stuff.

We fought so hard to get rid of crazy RPC protocols (COM+, CORBA) and abominations like SOAP and people keep trying to bring them back.

Yes networking is hard. Do everything you can to make it easier to debug. Text protocols, easy to use tools, etc

They have no idea how thankful they should be HTML friendly ("REST") APIs.

Don't wake the RPC eldritch horrors. Let them dream their undead dreams in the stygian depths.
Streaming works for movies and TV, it will work for games.

It was a shitty platform to develop for, end of story. I’m the games industry, there are 100 more failures that look like that.

Specifically Vulkan is bad, and Linux is worse.

The solution is obvious and done by the extant and thriving streaming services.
I agree and disagree! :-)

I agree that you probably shouldn't have cute names for internal important things ("batman" as an internal server/project name is cute, but doesn't convey much unless you have a "bat" or "cave" or similar product/service/process).

That said, at work, we have "Saint Even". This is a cute name for a common problem in our field -- Eventual (Even) consistency. When Saint Even (Pronounced like "Evan") comes to visit, we know we're going to have to either throw up our hands and accept it, or delve into how to fix it. One time, Saint Even blessed us with a 10 second delay. We decided to accept that one because the effort to fix was too large for the delay... However, we should be able to handle a visit from Saint Even for at least 1-2 seconds... It's also easier to say "Saint Even" (when first bringing up the topic, to be clear it's not a person named Evan), and then later "Even" during the discussion, then "Eventual Consistency"...

We also get to laugh at the joy this Saint Even fellow brings us as we often need to collaborate to understand where the error happened / did it overwrite data or just stop a process / how can we better handle it in the future (ideally without forcing master-node reads.. e.g. a better detection/retry)
The Fatal Physics of Falling Objects [video]
In the R3 it's used only briefly to select an initial autofocus point, after which it hands over control to the subject-tracking algorithms.

From what I've read, for some it can be startlingly effective but outright refuses to work on other people's eyes.
And the zero-knowledge groups still don't give that capability to the servers, do they?
There are humidifiers that diffuse scented oils throughout the air. IMO it's a pretty soothing way of getting different smells into the air, particularly in the winter when heaters tend to dry up the indoor environment.
For lots of APIs this is somewhat true. However, I recently took a deep dive into "REST" and realized that for many APIs, you really have to contort how you think in order to make it fit into that model.

It generally works for retrieving data (with caveats...), but I found that when modifying data on the server, with restricted transformations that don't necessarily map 1-1 with the data on the server, it feels like forcing a square peg into a round hole. I tend to think of verbs in that case, which starts to look like RPC.

("REST" is in quotes because the REST model proposed by Fielding (ie, with HATEOAS) looks almost nothing like "REST" in practice).
How to save the internet – Ordinary Things (TEDxVienna)
Vscodium is a wolf in a sheep’s skin and part of the fracturing strategy VSCode spearheads. https://ghuntley.com/fracture/
Open source Developers should be support more open hardware not worried about supporting the latest closed dodgy firmware

Isn't this what made Debian popular? Maybe this is good news for new distributions like Nix and Guix

And a firmware free wifi usb costs 10$ on ebay or ali express

Or maybe this is just a clarification for Debian identity , why support non-free except on the installation? Let's just hope in their SC it is clarified to always ask the user, and only enabled it by manually
Socialized medicine was always going to be unaffordable in the long term. If it wasn't a burden, then the 'cost cutting' measures probably wouldn't have been implemented.

Having the government in charge of something means it's always going to be inefficient.
Comments are judged by what is written in them, not what’s intended.
Classic... I'm working on a project with similar regulations. I'd almost guaranteed the front end does the same and is going to get checked by a similar set of scripts at some point. Thanks for the heads up
vlovich123 built Cloudflare's R2, I think he has some experience with distributed systems.

The RPC debate is confused because the two sides of the debate have different ideas of what RPC is. The anti-RPC crowd is arguing about RPC systems from the 80's, which tried to make RPC look exactly like a local function call, including blocking until the call was complete. The pro-RPC crowd is mostly speaking from experience using modern RPC systems which do not do this; they use asynchronous callback APIs, have some mechanism for reporting network errors, etc. Modern RPC systems are called RPC because they encourage you to organize your network API conceptually into something like function calls, but they certainly do try to hide the fact that there is a network here that can fail in all the ways networks fail.
There is probably some discussion inside Google that prompted this.

"We should aim to double our market share!"
I feel your friend little bit exaggerated the situation or simply had bad luck.

The staff of the doctor you usually go knows you and don‘t ask your statuary health insurance card upon each visit. They have it in your file.

Worst case you present a paper you download from your insurance provider‘s website.

As a last resort, you declare you are privately insured and you walk out. They send the invoice to home and you send it to your insurer or pay from your pocket. A simple GP visit does not cost more than 40-50 Euros.

People are helpful. Maybe the staff of their doctor was not that day.
> On the other hand, I feel like a system should be usable immediately with little effort if it is to be enjoyed and properly useful.

Not all distros have to be everything for everyone. It's OK to have a niche. If you want a distro that you can "just install" on any old bit of hardware that you have lying around, there are plenty of other distros out there that will do that already.

I liked that Debian made you think about Freedom. If you wanted to use the "standard" installer and live up to Debian's Free Software ideals, as enshrined in Social Contract, you had to think about which companies made hardware that had Free drivers available, and make an effort to give your money to those that enabled that use-case. Or, burden of burdens!, you could spend a couple of extra minutes and a handful of clicks to track down the "unofficial" non-Free installer image.

Seriously, it wasn't that hard.

Yes, I know that the SC says that Debian's priorities are "our users, and Free Software" (but below "will remain 100% free"), but "our users" doesn't necessarily mean "all possible users". For those users that came to Debian primarily for the Freedom, I think this is a misstep.

But, I don't determine which priorities and users are the most important to Debian, the membership does. And Debian is still one of the most committed to freedom distros out there, especially for its size. So, while this is not the choice that I would have made, now that it has been, I hope it makes Debian stronger going forwards.
Baker's Math (2009)
Everything that’s old is new again. Reminds me of using Frontpage in the 90s.
> Magnesium, zinc and fish oil supplements don't seem very hard to take.

Obviously people do that and it works for a handful, but rather ineffective in general.

> willing to suffer a little bit.

Yeah, no. That's definitely not something a seriously depressed person can do, I say as someone doing that now. People who suggest these things are completely out of touch with what depression means. You'd be lucky if they were taking shows at all.
> It would be nice if they made it optional within the installer I suppose.

Apparently this option lost by 6 votes:

Option 5 "Change SC for non-free firmware in installer, one installer"
Option 6 "Change SC for non-free firmware in installer, keep both installers"
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Option 5 defeats Option 6 by ( 169 - 163) = 6 votes.
That's assuming consciousness doesn't fill in its entire contenant, or at the opposite spectrum, that it's contained rather than everywhere but more or less concentrated.
>I think the common advice not to cite Wikipedia is telling, because nobody had any problems with citing Britannica. Why's that?

Wikipedia has "editors" that throw things together and reference "sources." Some sources being better than others.

Looking at the 13th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica: Niels Bohr (atom), Marie Curie (part of the radium article), Albert Einstein (space-time), Sigmund Freud (Freudian School of Psychoanalysis), Harry Houdini (conjuring). <https://www.britannica.com/topic/Encyclopaedia-Britannica-En...>
>Streaming works for movies and TV, it will work for games.

Latency isn't an issue for movies or TV. Streaming will never work for games in the same way playing a game locally does.
I was hoping this would be an innovative way to write hyperlinks kind of what bit.ly or QR codes do and then you just point a camera at what you drew and it will go to it.
Executive Order 14067
This is a really good explanation
A newspaper copying works for commentary or criticism on said works is like textbook fair use though.
That definition seems to conflate "determinism" (something largely impossible to achieve in asynchronously parallel systems) with "correctness" (an abstracted property of a system that doesn't have anything to do with determinism per se). It just doesn't seem useful.

No, in overwhelmingly common usage, programmers use the term "race condition" as a category of software bug. We mean it in the correctness sense, not the one used in the linked article nor your reference. You'd be met with some very weird stares if you tried to explain how arbitrary SMP ordering of log entries or whatever was a "race condition".
First Word Art, Last Word Art
I work in code analysis automation so I have way more than a couple dozen but the point is:

1. I'm not an average case.

2. Even I've never hit 50GB

3. (not mentioned in my original post but...) if you did reach 50GB that's likely going to be because you've a load of old projects lying around needing deleting. Using a new tool in other to retain that dysfunction isn't exactly a great recommendation.

Pnpm is great for other reasons: not recommending against it, just calling out the ridiculous title here.
In what cases do you see it when when not necessary?
I'm curious, can you describe your ideas for filters/smart feeds a little more, or link to an older version of NNW that supported what you're looking for?
That is completely wrong.

For foveated rendering one could easily build dedicate hardware into the device which would require almost no additional power.
And those algorithms are not that expensive to begin with.
Every camera has face tracking build in (which basically is the same problem) and that does not drain the battery either.

And why should northern Europeans eyes work differently?

Even if that would be true one could add a bunch of settings for personalisation.

Eye distance for example is a common setting on dodays devices...
Black people have a higher murder rate than white people worldwide. That does not mean black people are more intrinsically violent than white people or "intrinsically less suited to productive participation in a post-industrial economy".

Often these problems are cause by systems we have set up rather than by innate character qualities.
So, just a shade away from Squid Game?
Did you notice that that promotes an eternal cycle of hatred? Because present day discrimination would mean discriminating against yesterday's powerful, and thus future discrimination will be the opposite. That someone, who seriously wrote something like that, has got influence is not a good sign.
Professional models typically are paid. (And top fashion models can get paid very well.)

But that actress probably wants to be on that Vanity Fair cover shoot. And people who are famous in general for things other than modeling also generally want to get their photo taken by well-known photographers.

People do have rights to their images being used in marketing and advertising materials. I can't take a photo of you on the street and put it in an ad without your permission. But, no, you don't generally have rights related to me taking your photo in public and making a poster of it or otherwise publishing it. (In the US.)
The answer is so obvious that it isn’t even worth testing or commening on.

Did you guess correct one, btw?
Careful. You'll attract the infamous "GNU plus Linux" meme that has been attributed to Stallman for decades
> It’s worth noting that algorithms can be designed correct under nondeterministic execution.

In fact the whole concept of "symmetric multiprocessing" demands it.
FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) has been defending student rights from attacks from all sides since the late 90s, well before any of this social justice stuff. They've done innumerable good works that your slanderous implications here deny without cause simply because the world changed around them and they're not exclusively protecting students from one political block instead of all political blocks.

But maybe you're just acting the clown to highlight the very issue this comment thread is discussing: inability to discern shades of grey due to polarization.
So interesting, I have an extremely averse reaction whenever I used (and still have to use) the three software you mentioned. They are as far as possible as what is comfy for me.
I have not heard the claim that it's the mystical experience doing the work. I have heard some theories about the glutamate system in the brain, which is strongly affected by e.g. ketamine, psilocybin.

My experience with ketamine treatment for TRD is that it was lots of awesome shapes and colors and sense of melting into the floor, but definitely no communion with "god" or "mystics", no special reexamination of the self or amazing new perspective. Despite that, I still experienced some improvement in symptoms.

I would hope that pharmaceutical research can reduce the time and expense related to this treatment and the side effects like nausea, and less on the moral panic that some people use these drugs for fun somehow.
Finally. The user experience of manually providing non-free firmware on a separate USB stick was horrible, even for a technical user.

What Debian really expects are DEB packages placed on the drive, not raw firmware files. Finding which package you need (the installer only tells you the raw firmware files, not the package containing them) and obtaining them is not straightforward - there is a web UI to browse packages and download files but navigating those requires existing domain knowledge of Debian and Linux in general. It is not a straightforward web form "want a package? enter package name and architecture and we'll give you the download link".

I now know from memory which firmware packages my systems need and the requirements for the USB stick and how to navigate the web UIs to download packages, but the first time probably wasted an hour of my time searching around before piecing all the various (and sometimes contradictory) resources out there into a coherent solution that worked.
>Why not? Because I understand that I have no control over them, no way to prevent them from making bad decisions, no way to prevent them from being managed poorly (as most companies are).

I think this is a necessary attitude to adopt, even as an employee. You need to draw boundaries about what you care about, and one of those ways is to evaluate if people you work with actually care about something or if they only say they care about it. If you're not responsible for it and others don't really care, you should also try to not care.

I'll give a concrete example. I worked on a project recently where I was dependent on somebody else to finish something. They are perceived as a somewhat competent but lazy person and they took a very long time to get it done. Certainly much longer than other people would have done. Despite claims from our management that this was urgent, no additional people were added to that task to speed it up. Actions speak louder than words - if it really was urgent they would have asked somebody else to do it. So when my part was delayed I simply said I was blocked and tried my best to let it go and not get frustrated.

I had a major burnout years ago and one of the big reasons was because I took responsibility for my management layer understaffing projects that were supposedly a top priority. The priorities were always talk, but no action to add people or manage expectations with the user/customer(s). It look me years to realize that instead of fully putting the blame on my management, I should have stood up for myself and said I can only do what I can do and that's it.

>So don’t play that game: only take responsibility for, only worry about, the things you have control over. And for most employees, that’s just themselves.

100% Agree. You can strive to do the best you can do so you don't feel like you, personally, are doing a half-baked job. But beyond that, it's not your problem anymore.
Entirely independent of the primary theme of this discussion, I found this statement from Haidt to be quite grating:

> "The telos of a knife is to cut, the telos of medicine is to heal, and the telos of a university is truth."

Since when is "truth" a verb?
You have it backwards. Except for the very first iphone, largely Apple steals from UX, technologies, and form from the Android ecosystem. Apple is great at polishing ideas, but not so great at launching new ones entirely. They do have a few, but not many. Most of their "advances" can be traced back to non-Apple ecosystems. Apple has a closed ecosystem that they control completely, which I why I (and many Android users) hate. They stand on the shoulders of open systems like Android and watch for innovation that has merit, pluck it out, polish, and deliver it as their own, then gain the bulk of the reward. I see them as largely parasitic. Hell, they even claim reliability claims for OS X while standing on the back of unix.
And you expect Apple to put out a $300 device like the Quest ? Because this is the main subject.

Paying $1000+ for a standalone headset, even if you can play Half Life Alyx in 4K is still not something that will reach any proper market adoption. Unlike a phone, which you can use at all times, a VR device requires a ton of space, requires buy-in from developers (Apple's current list of games and apps that support VR is... right, zero. Planning to run your game on Rosetta + MoltenVK ?), etc.

It's not the whole computer. It's a computer that you can't really bring outside, that is heavily limited because haptics are still terrible (and will stay terrible). Do you expect people to bring their VR headset to starbucks ?
“No your honor I did not steal the painting off the gallery walls. I made a performance art piece, a derivative work, about art theft.”

Awfully convenient eh?
Exactly this. Would I trust a new google offering by putting a bunch of my money, time, dependences into it? Hell no. The history is too strong that this offering will likely only be around for a short time and then be unceremoniously shut down and leave you hanging. Ironically, the fact they they keep doing this becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
PSVR 2 has eye tracking. So, we'll be seeing more usage of it.