skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A motivation would be to increase the likelihood of one's perceptions of what's going on aligning with what is actually going on" -- this only works if you assume that my perception is not already aligned with what is actually going on.

Your conclusion is that I should consider whether I am being childish in claiming that it is childish for someone to support Trump. When I asked you why you would think this you said that it is because it would increase the likelihood of my perception being aligned with reality. So you are starting with the assumption that my perception is not aligned with reality and then concluding that I should reconsider it. So your premise is that I am wrong and therefore you conclude that I should reconsider. That is what it means to beg the question.
The only reason nuclear interception is even plausible is thanks to the atmosphere. Was it not for the atmosphere, you could wrap the warheads in inflatable mylar balloons, and send in tens of millions of identical but empty balloons. Unless you have the capability of intercepting 30 million+ objects, you would not be able to intercept an interplanetary nuclear attack, even one levied with current technology.
Have you not heard what the criminals employed in Putin’s military will do to you? What you advise is, at the bottom line, “don’t fight back, just give up and be violently raped.”
There are advantages to game streaming but Google never really did anything with them, instead they just made a worse version of a console.

The marketing at the beginning was confusing. Everyone had the impression Stadia was like a Netflix for games. But it was almost the inverse, Stadia is a free gaming console but the games cost money. At the very least Google's number one pitch should have been "We're giving you a gaming console for free. You could buy a PS5 for $500 or you could play on Stadia for $0!" (In practice the free tier of Stadia didn't have the greatest quality but many people didn't even know Stadia had a free tier...)

Game streaming could have opened up new possibilities. Any YouTube game video could have a button for 'play instantly, one click' that loaded an already running Stadia session into a game-state with the player in a fun spot. YouTubers could have been able to hand off controls of their game session to viewers. "Okay GodGamer420 spamming in chat, if you think this boss is so easy, now you have control. Show us how it's done."

Even the lowest hanging fruit. The biggest advantage of game streaming is that it works on any device but Stadia didn't even work on most Android phones at launch, and for many months after.
Android took the same kernel and built a massive eco system by solving the app deployment problems.

Not the kernel but deployment of binary apps is almost impossible because of a fragmented platform and distros not providing a universal set of guaranteed, ABI compatible libraries.
It's absolutely horrific you'd refer to elder care and social security as "arguably minor".
Broadly speaking it is basically the export of culture and ideology. Sometimes that is a good thing, unfortunately this has recently been shifted way too far to one side.

And if you look carefully, it isn’t just one project either, it is current, predominant, majority, vocal norm in US / Tech / Silicon Valley.
Sales and management aren't going anywhere though, so we can expect web apps to continue to be user-hostile and better off avoided by anyone who doesn't want their privacy and security compromised.
Arrest and trade any Chinese spies (that’s what they are. There’s no such thing as foreign secret police. They’re called spies and terrorists) and barter them for Chinese political prisoners coerced in this way.
The corporate sponsor is Consultio/Consultius.

https://peepshow.fandom.com/wiki/Consultio/Consultius
the problem isn't that Google cancels risky projects, it's that they will make 3 different chat apps, cancel all 3, and make 3 more. any remotely sensible company would when making a new messenging app throw their eggs in one basket to take advantage of network effects rather than intentionally fracturing the market with multiple products.
Even if we assume they're 100% true, two cherry picked incidents is very far from proving that "politics is never about the people/victims".
By high profile silliness do you mean arguably piloting free software into the ground?

GCC is almost literally nonexistent as a place for new compiler research in large part thanks to previous stallmanist approaches to managing, this isn't just some cutesy hypothetical about principles and so on.

The above also ignores stallman's manner around people.
The world uses google search and trust their email service even for their professional and civil uses, that journalist is dishonest on purpose, shame

Stadia died due to:

- business model

- cloud only

- conjuncture and anti-competitive nature of their competitors

cloud gaming is 20years too early anyways, i'm not saying it's pointless, i am saying it shouldn't be your sole offering

they own android and they didn't capitalize on it, instead they went rogue with web only

a dedicated handheld gaming console with cloud capabilities would have been 1000x better and smarter strategy to penetrate the premium gaming market
So I have a pi hole for my home network, and a wireguard connection back to it when I'm out and about. I run ublock on everything, block all the javascript, all the stuff.

But I do it because ads are annoying -- I don't like how they look and I don't like how they slow down every experience. I...don't really care about the tracking aspect? As far as I can tell, nothing bad happens to people because some faceless entity is tracking all your browser history.

Is there some secret malice that I'm not aware of that I should be more concerned about? Near as I can tell all this vast tracking infrastructure is really only there to more precisely target me with ads and doesn't really do anything else.

As far as privacy goes, I'm much more weirded out by the fact that my property tax records are public. Or that cell providers have the ability to fairly accurately track my location if they want to. Facebook seems pretty benign compared against that.
Do the kinds of people shelling out $60 for a game find the $500 console a big barrier?
There is no reliable evidence that testosterone increases the propensity to violence in humans.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2019.104644
The US government will find a way to ensure that its foreign policy goals are accomplished.
>It's conspiratorial and misrepresentation to talk about this - to the point of it being a lie.

this is false. there is a great deal of direct and circumstantial evidence that has come out in the last two years. this isn't "bin laden knew people", this is "the 9/11 hijackers received assistance from saudi diplomats in the US"

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/11/september-11-saudi-arabi...
Makes you wonder what would happen if companies occasionally did the exact opposite to their engineers.

"Oh, you know that 32 GB machine you've got? We're replacing it with this new 16 GB one. If the test suite is too slow on your new machine, I guess you'll just have to make the tests faster."
this seems mostly like a well written argument for the politics and procedure as well as implementation of emacs, and its absolutely worth a read.

I don't hope to see this comment beyond down vote oblivion. the author dances around a fire I want to throw myself into though. for the uninitiated, RMS as a potential sexist, and his unorthodox commentary on the age of consent in particular made him an unwanted figure. never meet your heroes, or so they say I suppose...

my burning question is what is RMS now? repentant? reflective? changed? alloyed or convicted beyond his gnu?
People don't tend to care about operating systems, but they do tend to care about applications.
What proteins are you measuring?

The point of mRNA vaccines is to generate the proteins inside the (dendritic) cell so that the MHC 1 and 2 type can digest them and present them on the surface so that T cells get trained. This process is rather destructive and T cells can generalize across mutation more easily than igM and igG antibodies generated from the proteins can. If we take the linked editorial at face value this would explain it. But I wouldn't do that without an unhealthy amount of salt.
Do you understand that China will arrest some American citizens afterwards and will trade them for those "spies"?

Some western people are completely out of bounds. You're basically suggesting trading humans. It's called slavery. To arrest someone and trade him for someone. What's going on. You're not the only person suggesting it. I saw similar comments on other websites. For example someone suggested to arrest some random Russian sportsman and trade him for American sportsman girl who was arrested because of marihuana found on her in airport.

It's just wrong. It creates all the kinds of wrong incentives. If you think that someone is a spy and you can prove it, go ahead and put him in jail or deport him or apply whatever measures law requires. But no human trading.
Wait who’s attacking Alaska?
You'd think everyone working from home where they have real-world internet speeds would fix that.
An update if people are still watching the thread. Got the following output today (~2 days later):

=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 28 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 6%
Data Units Read: 510,433,533 [261 TB]
Data Units Written: 395,139,884 [202 TB]
Host Read Commands: 4,755,060,485
Host Write Commands: 1,317,327,139
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 180
Power On Hours: 944
Unsafe Shutdowns: 9
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0

So looks like my MacBook did an average of 87GB /day over the last 2 days (approx).

Which seems a lot better than the 18 month average, which was 700GB /day.

Hopefully means it's since been fixed, and I haven't destroyed my SSD too much!
Windows definitely stalls less in those kinds of situations. I remember running both Windows and Linux on my old 2 core 4GB RAM laptop. On Windows I could have easily swapped out almost ten GB of memory and it'd still chug along, whereas Linux would be completely unresponsive after a couple of GB of swapped out memory and require a reboot. I wonder how much the pending MGLRU patch for Linux 6.1 would help with this.
As someone who blocks JS by default, don't depend on remotely hosted JS. If I go to example.com and I think it seems truthworthy I might allow scripts to run from that domain and that domain only. If the site doesn't work after that, I'll just close the tab and move on. The simple stuff doesn't need bloated frameworks.

Don't obfuscate your JS either if you can help it. If I'm not sure if I should be trusting your site I'll be looking over your JS to see what's doing, but I'm not spending more time than it takes to glance over it either.

a convenient user experience to me, is one that fails gracefully without JS. Displaying text/images shouldn't need JS at all. I'll accept that it won't be as fancy without it, and I won't hold it against you for having JS as a fancy default, but a site should still be mostly functional without JS. Content at least should remain accessible.
Mine was more ulnar tunnel (emacs pinky) than carpel. I too had the problem of the hard keys. From what I can tell my problem was that my muscles grew so tight that there was no space for my nerves, causing owner tunnel numbness. Neurologist tested my nerves and found no damage, and the massage therapist I later visited told me that this could happen. It also explains why rock climber's stretches helped me make the problem go away. But to this day it comes right back the minute I turn on emacs.
I sympathise with the frustration here. However:

- There isn't a big pool of people willing to devote time to Free Software. If we had a big pool of people who are better than Stallman and more willing to work on the cause then we'd talk about them. Stallman may not be unique, but he is rare in being simultaneously 1) principled, 2) motivated, 3) willing to work very hard for not a lot of money or prestige in the circles of power and 4) willing to put himself out there pushing a message.

I can find any number of people who are 2/4 on that list. 3/4 is rare. A lot of people who want Stallman gone are going to trade off their principles when they realise that they can get invited to very expensive parties put on by the likes of Google, Microsoft and Amazon. Or plan on just fading in to the background. I think there is an interesting wound to be reopened in the Eich v. Mozilla topic on this point as well.

- No related to this article, but people have completely unrealistic standards for volunteer leadership. The man is human and has flaws. Everyone has flaws. We can tolerate some flaws in people who are doing good work.
One thing I did that really, really didn't work is buying a lot of bond funds. Just buying a lot of individual bonds seemed too complicated, so I did that and apparently bond funds don't behave like bonds and just go down on sentiment... It's my biggest ever loss investing anything so far, and unlike stocks I suspect it won't go up very fast. Painful lesson, I now buy some bonds but only individually - i.e. treasuries or Goldman Sachs/Bank of America bonds on dips. Dunno much about bonds though, so I don't buy much.

Another thing that didn't work out so well although on a much smaller scale are international funds. What's up with international funds, I don't know. Seems like whatever international things they are investing in have been going nowhere for the last 5 years, luckily I only have very little. I wish there was ELI5 somewhere about this.

One of the things that worked surprisingly well in a sideways/down market is selling a cash-covered put ladder on SPY. I try to get $650-850 for a 3mo put, resulting in rather implausible strike prices. Unlike stock puts, where you can automatically catch a falling knife, I am not actually sure what the catch is with SPY, other than if it's the money you might need soon (i.e. you don't want to have to sell when you get assigned). I feel like, in the absolute worst case, you get assigned a lot and SPY tanks for a long time a-la Japan; that would be bad but most other investments you could have conceivably made, including just buying SPY, would do just as bad or worse. If OTOH we say buying SPY low is good, you basically only get assigned at big drops - it's automatic market timing (that also takes care of "oh noes it's going to hell I cannot buy now" mental block - I wish I this going during the COVID drop!). I got assigned once last year, I think around the dip in June, so it's still barely in the red, even after the horror show last month, compared to my buy-and-hold SPY purchases since then. OTOH if you don't get assigned you make 7-10% interest on cash used to cover, effectively (e.g. selling a 3mo SPY 335 put for $650). I also sell implausible 3mo calls on that SPY I got assigned, mostly because I have lots of index funds already via buying and holding so I don't care if it misses a huge market rally.
That's true but I don't see how the earlier claim necessarily follows. It seems to be making assumptions around the amount of gene flow between Europe and Asia in the last 30k years, as well as that it was distinct migratory groups that seeded Europe versus seeded Asia.

It could well be true, it's plausible, I tried to google it without much luck, though.
The article just says it's a chemical spray polymer like Silly String.
It's literally only the media, and not the law enforcement, that use the term "hack." The word "hack" probably doesn't even exist in any criminal code.

Law enforcement use phrases like "unlawful access to a protected system" and whatnot.
I think the article is naive in the sense that NATO has done everything in its hands to steer and asure everyone in the world that this is absolutely a regional conflict, nothing to be worry about, nobody is going to globally deploy any force to handle anything, because you don't need to mobilize a dozen of armies resources for a fairly local conflict, even if the conflict involves a potencially hostile - to NATO - nuclear power.

Hence, MAD is not present in most of the scenarios probably evaluated in some tables around the globe. Even here, I think nobody is even mentioning great chances of a massive nuclear confrontation.

So, Russia has the upper hand in the game, and there's no MAD as a variable. So perspectives look awry from going towards a clean exit from the conflict. Nuclear options, are just of the several bad outcomes for EU.

I think by now NATO has lost the war and Ukraine is by itself, most probably any further military, intelligence assistant directly regarding about regaining control of the south of their country is being re-assesed right now.

They probably know they will have the lines of cooperation open just a couple more of hours till they fall to silence, and they will try to exact the most advances possible in this grim situation, for those lines would probably be stable for years, as it happened with Crimea.
A diffuser and a scent like you like?

I like the lemongrass and there’s another one that smells like a fir tree..

https://www.saje.com/ca/diffuser-blend-kits/
I'm kind of done with HN posting weird sites with arcane info about virus worries. I have no way to vet the info. I'm not an expert microbiologist. The authority of the source is what most of us have to go by on these things. I have no way to vet this source. So I'll ignore it.
AG warns politicians, confirming integrity commission can access encrypted texts
Original article title is too long: “ Attorney-general warns politicians after confirming integrity commission could access encrypted texts on WhatsApp and Signal”
A tangentially related anecdote - I heard from a guy from MS that if you turn on Azure's AKS monitoring without any filtering of events applied the cost of the monitoring will be significantly more than running AKS itself.
There is still validity to the article. All of that Bluetooth chippery, licensing, development wasn’t free. And to have that functionality be totally bricked, seems like e-waste to me.
> A jumbo jet has countless failure modes that are completely fine where something analogous happening in a nuclear plant would wipe a city off the map.

No, the first post is correct - safety is not the issue. We build keep building dams, and dam failures have killed far, far more people than nuclear. Other comments about nimby are also off the mark. People whose properties are flooded hate dams, nimby's force delays measuring decades, yet we keep building dams.

The comment you are responding contains the answer to the riddle it posed:

> a thousand of them are in the air right this second.

If the one factory could build 1000 nuclear reactors, complexity would not be an issue there either. And I'm sure after building 1000 of them, the price would not so much as drop as plummet. Which is why small nuclear reactors built in factories are such a common meme.

But the first 100 of those small nuclear reactors will be hideously expensive based on the quotes we have from people who've actually tried to do it - far more than a couple of big plants generating the same output. And the big plants already being crushed by cost overruns.

Maybe if all these people promoting nuclear put their money where their mouth is, it could happen. There seem to be an awful lot of them. That seems to be the only way it could happen, because after decades of refusals I think we can safely say the banks aren't interested in funding a technology that turns out energy 100% more expensive than current competitors.
California stepping up for States' Rights.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Euromaidan : After a small group of protesters attempted to storm the Government Building, police used tear gas to disperse them. Protesters also used tear gas and some fire crackers (according to police protesters were first to use them). According to the General Prosecutor's Office, more than 400 people were injured from 24 November to 13 December, including 200 policemen and 18 students.

The US proclaimed this kind of events on their territory as "January 6 attempted coup", and people involved are now being prosecuted by the US authorities.

> but that doesn't even come close to a Russian puppet president they had in the past

The so-called puppet president didn't break state laws when he suspended preparations for signing of the Association Agreement, yet the coup happened anyways. His prior election was also recognized and endorsed as being fair and an accurate reflection of voters' intentions by all international agencies observing the election including the OSCE and PACE [1], yet he was ousted out of the country by the armed mob who didn't care about legitimacy of their actions. Meanwhile the US Assistant Secretary of State and the US Ambassador to Ukraine were deciding who would take what roles in the new Ukrainian government.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Ukrainian_presidential_el...
It's interesting how seeing how these scripts has spread, can teach us about the tight trading routes and connections different civilizations in the past had, initially spreading the logographic writing from Egypt to the rest of the world, and later spreading the phonetic script, again from Egypt area.

It's also interesting how according to this map, the entire southern and western hemisphere use latin alphabet, and that the only two countries still using a logographic writing system are China and Japan. I wonder why this writing system still has a stronghold there.
This model has been tried many times in gaming, and has never succeeded
It's the circle of life, though.

Companies grow old and fearful. They stop taking risks and treat failure as a "bad" thing to be avoided. In so doing, they become blind to new frontiers.

That, in turn, finally opens the door for a new wave of hungry startups who are willing to take risks and embrace failure. They come in, disrupt the old guard, and spend 10-20 years becoming giant corporations in their own right. In time, the cycle repeats again.

It's been a very long time (20+ years!) that some of these companies have been going. If they're just starting to become fearful and risk-avoidant, then perhaps the next wave of interesting startups is finally < 10 years away.

(For what it's worth, the current bear market also has me thinking it'll be a good time to start a startup in the next 5-10 years. If I were still young and spry, I'd be champing at the bit to save up a few bucks, stockpile some ramen, and go for it.)
As Google Stadia's target user, in my opinion a stronger reason Stadia died is because GeForce Now was a competing and better product.

GeForce Now allowed me to play the games I already own with a more powerful machine than I could buy myself, for just $10/month. Artifacts were noticeable but not enough for me to care. If I bought my own gaming PC later, I would be able to continue playing the game there. GeForce Now offered "Hey, you're playing Cyberpunk at 720p@25fps? Wanna play at 1080p@60fps for $10? And you can leave any time" And I said heck yes.

Stadia would have denied me the ability to continue playing on my own machine while charging me even more money. There are a bunch of stories of people with saved games trapped in Stadia. Google made no attempt to be better than the competition. It's like they're unaware of anything other than themselves.
They can be incompetent and still successful. Look at Android. Its competition is an absolute joke, but Android still can't get dominant market share in the US even though it is cheaper than free to use in products. That's just bad management.
You could also just use an Xbox controller, right? I mean, I'd rather use that than the Stadia controller.