skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twenty years ago we were talking about the book "Bowling Alone". This is more of the same, there's a decline in civic institutions and civic engagement. Work is totally anodyne if you even go into the office. Low status men are left-behind in the dating market because women select high status men.

Do some group fitness class, they usually have some kind of social event once and a while, so you can at least get to casually know a few people.
I’m curious if there are any “success stories” out there -- anyone who played the game and felt it made a material difference to their success?
For me it's the crypto bots. Out of control. Stopped looking at notifications for a while because it was always randos pumping air drops and nfts
>Counterexample: I was happily playing Destiny (a "twitchy" FPS) on an iPad in AirBnBs by Lake Tahoe or in Washington. I was really impressed.

Another anecdote: I played through the entirety of Celeste (an extremely difficult frame-perfect platformer) on Stadia with almost no issues.

I switched to GeforceNow when Stadia announced they were shutting down. It's comparable in quality most of the time, but has quite a few quirks and the UX leaves a lot to be desired.
Google isn't a branch of the US government, so the 4th amendment doesn't apply. If you want adtech surveillance to be regulated, lobby for GDPR-style regulation in the US.
There is no edge, no. In some theories Space warps around on itself, but it would be more like a möbius strip. But the edge of our observable universe is just when the Big Bang happened, and before that we can’t detect any light, so it looks like an edge. If you were there the universe would looks much the same as it does from our own vantage as it’s self similar.
It's been fun following Nikita's twitter from the prelaunch announcement, to the "human trafficking" rumor scandal, to a national phenomenon, to the real life experience of my 14 yo nephew being obsessed with it, and finally to this acqui-hire. Masterful execution throughout and a testament to what's still possible because of the internet. 4 friends hacking away in their apartment with zero outside funding to millions of users and likely an 8-9 figure exit, all within six months. Pretty inspiring stuff.
Flat universe theory sounds like flat earth theory in the 14th century. How could the earth be round at that point? It would take extraordinary evidence to the contrary. That doesn't mean flat earth theory was true.. just that everyone accepts that answer now.
Xi's crackdown on tech companies doesn't appear to be some sort of huge disruption that would lead to an existential crisis. Meanwhile, the PRC launching a hugely expensive preemptive war, risking untold amounts of diplomatic condemnation, economic sanctions, and chaos to international supply chains could very well break the entire global economy. It'd be burning down your neighborhood to spite your face.
I see it as a good rhetorical move: Say it's ad blocking, and you get people coming in all po-faced about the need for platforms to make money and how horrible it is to have freeloaders blocking honest, legitimate adtech. Frame it as defense of privacy and malware-blocking and those adtech boosters are on the defensive, to the point they probably don't comment at all for fear of drawing attention to the correlation.
A more in-depth look is that those aggressive guerilla conflicts were different from a presumed defensive conflict over Taiwan.
Obviously someone should've just hosted right-wing talking heads on TikTok so that UT-Austin could be sued under Texas' own anti-censorship law:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/texas-bans-onlin...
The API benefitted power users primarily who are responsible for keeping their large number of followers on Twitter.
I don't uber/lyft, and I don't have cleaning staff. I do keep the lawn company coming, without too much respect to the amount of savings I have. There was a time when I didn't, but... if keeping these extra services amounts to less than a single percent of my cash on hand, I'll likely keep them going.
That's most logic issues though, is it not? I agree with you though, i wish Rust more commonly pushed "safer" (not in the UB way) code, like `Vec::get` and `u32::overflow_add` and etc.

Luckily lints help to easily ban the arithmetic/etc ops from projects. Nevertheless i feel it should be a bit closer to Rust's home.
Correction: I have quite a bit of affection for the people of Taiwan. So there's at least one.
> human resources and engineering divisions,

No lobbyists? Why am I not surprised.
That's a pretty big stretch.

If someone says, "Buy a Tesla, now with Full Self Driving! Here's a demo!" <insert demo>, then you're going to very reasonably assume that the demo is supposed to be of the current Full Self Driving feature, not of any future feature, and of a typical, if slightly polished-up, usage of that feature.

The kind of absurdly nitpicky legalistic weasel-wording you're trying to do wouldn't even fly in most American courts, let alone in the court of public opinion.
Why isn't this this a normal controller? I've never used stadia.
Why some cars from the 1990s are soaring in value
Yes, Elon who made Tesla and SpaceX some of the largest companies in the world in just a few years, and likely many more over the next two decades is a totally incompetent buffoon.

I’d rather take his side than the small minded and intellectually weak detractors.

Just because things tend to be a certain way, doesn’t make it optimal or right. Evidence, all of history where bad practices were pervasive and common and later usurped by better practices.

Maybe use forethought and critical thinking rather than credentialism and groupthink
Infinite means infinite number of galaxies, right? I watch How the Universe Works religiously. Most of the astrophysicists on that show don't seem to think the universe is infinite.
And ideas like this will be the reason why we won't have good programmers for the next generation. Or worse, a more ignorant population.
Unless it's voluntary (which it darned well better be).

I envision a future where individual appliances (including EVs) can opt in to spot pricing for the electricity they consume (or produce). That would naturally incentivize charging during off-peak hours and discharging during peak hours, all without requiring any government incentives or coercion. It could also be useful for other major appliances which could benefit from the lower prices afforded by load shifting, such as hot water heaters.
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It would be cool to get the SoC on a socket like the Pentium II was, and then have some NVMe slots, PCIe slots, and more I/O ports. This would also be better for the planet if it was a standard feature of each Macintosh and just the SoC got replaced. Unfortunately, Apple's Macintosh line doesn't work that way. The first Macs were all-in-one designs, the 90s saw some heterogeneity, and then the Macintosh line came back to an all-in-one design (except for the MacPro line and the G4 Cube). Today, the G4 Cube is like something out of an alternate universe. Not only was it upgradable, it was also incredibly easy to "open up".
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> analogy that's usually used for this is to think of the 3D universe as the curved 2D surface a balloon

This still requires the balloon to expand into 3D space.
You mean West Taiwan is part of Taiwan? The legitimate government in exile when the commies took over, I believe.
Sure thing:

https://lets-go-further.alexedwards.net

That book is a follow-up to an easier book [1] that I also bought, but ended up skipping since I was only interested in writing JSON APIs.

[1] https://lets-go.alexedwards.net
Socially? Maybe nothing.

But personally?

Caring but not doing is the path to deep depression and constant guilt.

There is absolutely nothing worse for me than the feeling of "I need/want to do this thing today" and then I just can't get myself to do it. I wind up losing hours of time being completely unable to do anything. Literally sitting in a chair and staring at a wall feeling frustrated with myself. Not replacing what I need to do with anything else either. Not even watching a show or playing a game or something. Just sitting. Or laying down. Unable to make myself do it.

It's miserable. Medication has fixed basically all of this for me.
This is really interesting. Our thinking is so entrenched in 3D, we just can't develop an intuition for a universe where space itself expands and there is nothing else. Even if you say that the universe expands into something then what are the boundaries of that? Turtles all the way down.
Well I was just throwing 8 out there as an example. How about other numbers of VM registers, or single argument operations?
Came here to say the same thing. The easel feature in Arc can do this.

Arc browser https://arc.net/
Two systems as in Hong Kong? Btw, those were local elections and if you've been reading Taiwanese news sources, you'd find that nobody saw those elections as a referendum on joining China.
tinfoil hat, but couldnt this be an easy way for foreign agencies to easily find whos working in a sensitive industry
They’re also just high profile.

Some random whacko thinking you’re in a love affair with their crush (cough like Jodie Foster/Reagan) is enough to catch a bullet. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hinckley_Jr.]

Whack jobs are a real problem.
The Stadia controller integrated wifi functionality to send input directly to the cloud. It wasn't meant to be used with a local device.
unlimited time off plot twist
> some of these companies are free-riding on the ability to do some firings with minimal pushback because of the "well, look at what everyone else is doing!"

In finance circles it is referred to as “taking a big bath”. When everyone is doing it, you write off past goodwill from bad acquisitions, lay off redundant employees, etc, all to emerge clean on the other side. Having used the cover of everyone doing it, you aren’t punished.
These days it seems like management tries to keep a buffer so they can operate for a little while during a government shutdown. That being said, there are a variety of funding sources and it wouldn't be fair for some teams to be allowed to keep working while others could not, so they'll typically shut basically the whole lab down once they run out of extraordinary budget measures.

Also, if there is an actual shutdown Congress usually retroactively pays the federal employees who were furloughed but it doesn't typically apply to contractors. (DOE labs are staffed by contractors rather than government employees so that they can pay more than the government pay scales)
Is this a mean way of saying "true," or did the US win in Vietnam and Afghanistan?
Flatbuffers is used in Arrow, which is a ringing endorsement
Did you know that the standard DC chargers communicate with the vehicle using PLC (Powerline communication) chips even though that communication is not over the high power conductors? I've always had the feeling the grid operators got that included because they thought they were going to communicate directly with the battery management system to control it as they wish. It never happened and now the standard is stupidly complex and they're still trying to use cars as storage without much consideration for what vehicle owners want.

Sure, offer variable rates. Offer interruptabke service. But stop wanting V2G, nobody actually wants it.
It's time to move away from today's hotmail or aol. Fastmail works great.
To what degree is the Big Bang a parsimonious explanation of our data versus a theory physicists fundamentally believe in?
> there's no reason why Southwest's advertisements should be shown in a negative light..

So basically there's been a team suppressing any really bad news about any company who advertises on Twitter? Am I reading that right? And you want them back?
Selling electricity is compensation, like with solar panels. You only need hourly energy prices to make it profitable. Plus an app that does the profitability calculation and discharging.
> always said that they would refund the games if the service shut down

Link? I remember lots of people asking about this at launch and I don't remember there being a public statement from Google.
With one glass of red wine per day my grandmother in law lived to be 96yo.
Especially when you don't have a real navy.
> What else has dropped 50x in value in 3 years

All tech ever made in the entire history of tech, as far as I can tell.

It kinda doesn't matter if you can get more for it in a secondary marketplace. Manufacturers don't really want to be in the business of buying things back from you if it will cost them less to make a new one.
I just ordered the M2 Pro Mac Mini that was also released. The Mac Studio was a bit excessive for my music production hobby needs, but I do need the extra cores of the M2 Pro models. Really thrilled they released this.
Sounds good, best of luck!!
Thanks the reference and the nice words!
Naw I think it's more "let's get rid of all these heavily overpaid employees and replace them with cheaper ones" :D

Especially the ones that spend all day bragging about how they're a top performer on hackernews. :D
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> But also in this analogy if the bug travels long enough in what to it seems a straight line, it will wind up back where it started. Does this hold true for the universe as well?

That’s indeed a very important question. The shape of the universe is a subject of study in cosmology.

The property you mention relates to its curvature (hyperbolic, flat or spheric). Experimental data shows that the observable universe is flat which means the universe is either flat or sufficiently big for the observable universe to appear flat as a local area.

> If not, how can the universe have no edge?

What we see of the universe indeed as an edge. Light takes time to travel. It means that the farther you look the earlier you look and we can’t look farther than the beginning of time.
If the US Gov has access to the data Google collects without issuing a warrant, which they do according to the Snowden leaks, then the distinction is meaningless as far as the intent of the 4th amendment goes
Maybe I've just been blind to it but feels like CL has been getting mentioned more on HN lately (I do remember the early days when Lisp/Scheme/Arc were mentioned a lot since this site runs on Arc). Actually gone through some of that Common Lisp the hard way that was linked here not terribly long ago.
I've been only seeing crypto-shilling and sports betting.
Well, how do the Catalans feel about being part of Spain? Seems like none of the referenda that were held had close to 100% participation, since anti-independence votes boycotted them. Certainly Catalonian nationalism/sovereignty shouldn't be discounted, but is it as comparable as you'd say? Maybe somewhere like Palestine would be a better analogy, as that is also a case where a long-standing autonomous government has actually existed.
Breaking SMS delivery, logins, increased number of 500 responses, failures in the recommendation engine, failures loading conversations and bugs galore, including displaying tweets of locked accounts you don't follow that someone you do follow replied to are some of the recent outages and bugs I can remember of the top of my head from the past 3 weeks.
It's hard to remember now, but the US's war on Iraq was declared with widespread popular support.

Many people today seem to feel that Taiwan and Ukraine are interests worth using military force to defend. I do wonder how well that support would hold up if either of those potential wars becomes reality.
The labels already have a danger to pregnancies warning. It helps reduce FAS rates. Your concern trolling over extending that warning with one about cancer risk doesn’t deserve any greater attention.
> no interest in running a country the way the rest of the world runs a country

The US and Europe aren't "the world," and the actual world has plenty of theocracies.
> Note the Big Bang is a point in time where all paths started, as stated in the article. It’s a mathematical singularity. It’s not an explosion as you think of it. It was a sudden expansion of all points in space creating vastly more space between the points. But since space has no boundary it didn’t get bigger, and it wasn’t smaller.

This makes zero sense.
IIRC, Google said from the beginning they'd refund purchases if they shut down.

>Question though: Did you get to keep your progress in the games, or did you lose that with the shutdown?

You can get all your game savedata from Google Takeout, but in order to actually use it you'd need to own the game on another platform that lets you import that save data (like PC). The refund for each game is nice for re-buying the games elsewhere, but some consoles aren't that easy to import existing save data into. Some games implemented some cloud saves to help move data around, but there's probably some games where you're SOL getting your progress into your next platform.
From what I remember from some old all-hands slides, in the R&D groups (so not facilities, not administration etc) there was a pretty even breakdown of 1/3 PhD, 1/3 MSc, 1/3 BS, and like 2% with no degree.
It is interesting to see how different communication patterns are compating to your own bubble.

For me dumb phone is no use, as I don't use cellular voice for anything (I've talk with my friends and parents on daily basis, but it is always Telegram/Skype voice call, not cellular voice), and only usage of SMS for me is force-feeded 2FA for banks and other services which don't know better (unfortunately)...

Who will I call, we all are all around the Globe? Why I will text?.. Ok, week ago I had birthday party and there were a fair amount of guests, so some of my friends now in same location as me. Do they have local phone numbers? I bet, they have, because without it it is impossible to open bank account or rent a flat. Do I know these numbers? No. Because for what reason, we all communicate in messengers for years. These accounts are fixed identities for us, and phone numbers are for governments and banks.

I could simply turn off my smartphone with same effect as have dumb phone :-)

Oh, maybe, I need to call ambulance once a year...

Edit:

Idea of phone which is technically LTE Modem with all chat/voice protocols under the unified phone-like interface, plus ability to run some offline GPS, like Organic Maps or OsmAnd, looks good, but politically impossible due to close nature of most chat/voice apps.
Firefox no longer allows extensions to have full control over requests in Manifest V3, despite their repeated public statements.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1786919

They have merged a change that makes it impossible to access and download certain website content the user is viewing and wants to process. Now that Firefox has introduced this limitation without offering an alternative, it is now much easier to port some of my extensions to Manifest V3 on Chrome, despite Chrome not supporting the blocking webRequest API.

It's disheartening to see how these changes are introduced without any planning or care for how it affects extensions that are being ported to Manifest V3, and the general lack of respect towards extension developers.
I'm not sure that was an unintended consequences. More money for the contractor companies.
That's not what your parent said: they said when there's any really bad news about a company who advertises on Twitter, that company doesn't want its ads shown right next to that news.
> I think you've been Teslaed or possibly Musked.

:-)
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I wonder how much of it is related to how Python is being used for short running scripts more than Ruby, at least in my experience. In such cases startup time is more important than being faster in a long run.
Before WW1 people stated similar reasons why a war would not start.

People also thought that Putin wouldn't invade Ukraine because the economic consequences would be devastating, especially for Russia. Seems dictators don't really care about their own countries. Now with Xi grabbing more and more power in China he may also lose grounding in reality.
The US Military can crush any other military force in the world into dust. What they can't do is force people at gunpoint to adopt American and/or modern or western values. That was never going to work. It never worked in Afghanistan even when the people trying it were Afhgani. It didn't work when the British tried it there, nor when the Soviets tried it there, and of course it didn't work when America tried it there. 20th century Afghani history is long list of people who attempted to impose social reform and ultimately lost.
Fair points. I appreciate the nuance you bring up.
As best I can tell from the "The Windows-specific issue involves a $PATH lookup including the current working directory" part, it would be:

echo "calc.exe" > aspell.cmd
git commit -a -m"lolol windows"

and wait for someone to clone that repo
Solving integral equations in free-space with inverse-designed ultrathin optical
One is cache/memory bandwidth, the other "FP32 FMA Vector Throughput", isn't it? If so - not the same thing.
Because every time you want to build a new product you risk that no one ends up wanting the product, or not enough people to justify keeping it going. Alternately once you have depleted all of your current ideas you don't have anything productive for those people to do.
Taiwan would have to initiate a defensive conflict over Taiwan. The US attacking China is not defensive.
It'd be burning down your neighborhood to preserve CCP legitimacy and control of China, which seems to be a reasonable tradeoff from Xi's perspective.
The GOP is so nearsighted. It’s almost certainly better for them in the long term for the DC federal workforce to leave the city and inner suburbs and raise their families in the surrounding red and purple areas exurbs. And all of the downsides of that (reduction of economic activity downtown) is going to be felt by democrats.
The explanation isn't very satisfying to me. If you expand the surface of a sphere, you're still expanding a 2-manifold in 3 dimensions. When you expand the sphere, you're expanding into the empty part of 3-space.
> They obviously did that because the API is not benefiting them at all from a revenue perspective. If it were, they wouldn't have gotten rid of it.

Everyone hates on Dorsey because he essentially turned Twitter into a walled garden (killed third-party clients + RSS support), but really, how else are you supposed to make a startup that got millions in funding profitable? Just by giving your stuff away?
Per a marketing page, GFN supports some Steam games (publishers can opt their games out).

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/games/
That's certainly fair! I'd describe the Drawabox exercises as... maybe not hard, but not exciting? I mean, it's pretty much "do these things => get better." They're not difficult, but there's a bunch of them and some are more interesting than others. Maybe one might describe it as "hard like dieting" vs "hard like math." :)

I'd say DrawABox is good for someone who's decided they want to make a solid go at learning to draw, rather than someone who's just testing the waters. I could definitely see the latter being put off by it!
You've got it right! The KMS keys used to encrypt sensitive data are generated per customer, and the majority of our engineering team cannot access any sensitive production data at all. In theory, it would only be the select team members with privileged access that could access it, but as you mentioned, it would be logged in CloudTrail. We also have GuardDuty enabled, and it would likely alert on anomalous activity.

Personally, I think we could do a better job explaining our security model in our FAQ. I'll bring it up with the team.