skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“I ran a startup and I thought working with unions was no problem at all.”
They have TPUs for their AI stuff, and you still have to dedicate these resources while gaming sessions are active. How much monetary value can they really get out of the idle population here to offset the active usage?
Contributors in general are pretty crappy at recognizing top contributors.

How many people in this thread honestly DON'T see themselves as a "top" contributor? Tech is like Lake Woebegone... all the kids are above average.
I like Apple's current lineup but I do think they have lost a certain segment of users: people who don't care about appearance or thinness and just want a modestly priced, upgradeable box.
Ways of Rebooting an x86 Machine (2011)
(Disclaimer in bio.)

It's not the edge cache itself that matters; it's that many ISPs peer directly with Google.

Google Cloud can route the audio/video/keyboard packets mostly over Google's private network and then only use the public internet once it gets to your ISP (or their transit provider). This provides Google with more control over how the packet gets to the end user.

Google provides a similar service to Google Cloud customers as the "Premium Network Service Tier".

https://cloud.google.com/network-tiers/docs/overview
Doesn’t it amount to mobbing to terminate all accounts related to companies associated to a previously banned individual account? What’s that individual to do? Turn to horticulture?
What about banning autoplay on background tabs, with a blacklist for abusers on the focused tab?

The problem with blacklists is that they default to letting bad things through if not maintained. But yeah it would be nice to think that we still have a web where the blacklist would be less unwieldy than the whitelist.
Just a hint: TV latency varies between models from 10ms all the way to 200ms (!!) in my experience. 200ms latency TVs completely wreak almost any video game experience, even if it is "smooth" and non-jittery (a "timing" based game like Guitar Hero can compensate to some degree, but few games work at that level).

I would suggest checking your TV against a latency database: https://displaylag.com/display-database/

Its very possible that your issue is in the TV, as opposed to a network issue. If your TV latency is below 30ms, the TV is probably fine.

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For whatever reason, computer monitors consistently score around 10ms, maybe 15ms in the worst case. Its TVs that have all this processing that kicks the latency to 50ms or 100ms+. Especially on larger TVs.
Adding onto the complaints of economic inefficiency here: one of the worst things I found living in Boston (not sure how many other major cities this applies to) is that it's completely standard for the renter of a property to pay a broker's fee, generally equivalent to one month's rent, to the landlord's agent.

In most (healthy, cheaper) rental markets, the landlord will pay a real estate agent a fee (one month's rent, again) to find a renter. This intuitively makes sense, as the landlord requires some number of hours of effort from the agent to list the home, show the apartment to a ton of people, and find one willing to rent it.

It seems economically so incorrect that the renter should bear the cost of the fee the rental agent charges for showing the home to like 10 potential renters— they spend maybe 10 minutes of their time showing the individual renter, and they're late more often than not!

Edit: below commenter rightly pointed out that this is economically perfectly correct— unjust from a value perspective would be better phrasing
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19351236
That's got everything to do with digital rights management, and nothing to do with resource utilization.
Notice Turchin's exclusions and his analysis:

Wage stagnation primarily for unskilled men (women's wages have risen a lot, skilled labor has risen as well).

The reason? "The TL;DR answer is that it was a combination of immigration, loss of manufacturing jobs overseas, massive entry of women into the labor force"

So a drastically increased supply of labor depresses prices of labor.

He also avoids "household income" because households are smaller (fewer children, divorce) and because of two earners, but those very things increase economic "quality of life" measurements for individuals in those households ($ per capita).

He also focuses on pre-tax/pre-transfer income, avoiding the net effect of our progressive taxation/transfer regime. If we include those effects, we get a different picture: https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/the-trend-toward-inequali...
I appreciate the introspective question. I think at a foundational level, it's a matter of being left out of meetings and conversations pertaining to tasks/features that I was previously responsible for. While I do miss having my input heard, I imagine that being "another cog in the machine" is just something that I'll need to get used to for the remainder of my time here.
They didn't say anything concrete about money.

I'm guessing developers will be compensated with "exposure" :-)
well, to start with the power of monopolies should be limited. Google with play store on Android is the MS with IE on Windows 20+ years ago.
People typically see MacOs as "Unix-family OS that doesn't suck". The day Linux delivers a decent desktop environment will be the day people ditch Apple. Unfortunately, that day is somewhere between "20 years from now" and "never"
fwiw

No lag at all on my end. I am in the USA, so I have a solid but not amazing connection.

I should note that I have only played for half an hour because AssCreed was extremely boring. The tech itself was very solid in my experience.

I tried to catch some streaming artifacts, like parts of the screen not updating or a visible lag, but I could not see anything. In a blind test, I doubt I would have been able to differentiate this from running the game on my home console.
Cloud companies pay by hiring developers to improve opensource.

This way everybody using opensource benefits. The original opensource contributers benefit twice: their software gets improved, and they have marketable skills as cloud companies will be interested to hire them to work on opensource projects.
Oh thank God, Windows hello support. I had to give up Firefox at work because all our sites authenticate via Hello. Now I can kick Chrome to the curb.
> No users reported the video during the live broadcast.

I don’t mean to be pedantic, but why do you need to state that. It’s not the users jobs to report the videos. They aren’t getting paid.

I might be reading this too much but somehow this sentence stands out as a sore thumb for me.
> What do you do when all the best-paying companies in your industry lobby for things you don't like, leaving you few, poor, options for employment? If we must solve this problem for unions, it's surely at least as important to solve it for companies.

But the thousands of companies I could work for have healthy competition and diversity of approach to issues. An industry-wide union has no competition and no diversity.

> Maybe leaving others, sure, but this issue's... not an issue.

Say you were a Green supporter, and had a strong conviction against military intervention. How would you feel funding a union leadership that campaigns for Labour, following Iraq?
Low density can be sustainable if we live in clusters that are self sustaining. Form 4-6 Dunbar number sized communities and another bunch of them forming a bigger cluster. Intra city transport to be separate from Inter city transport..maybe underground or mag lev along with surface transport.

The problem is not low density. The problem is sprawl.

The solution is not high density and shaming people NIMBY or coerced altruism but cooperation. Giving people incentive to cooperate and share in return for something of non material value would work better than worsening quality of life for the productive and working folks.

High density can also be sustainable. Paris is a good example but it has public transport and its shaped like a snail. It would also mean segregation of regions according to income and ameneties.

Also..I can’t give you any example because no system lasts for ‘thousands’ of years.

I am rejecting your high density sustainable cities list but when I get the time, I will do my own research and if I am wrong in my intuition that you are off mark, I will certainly come back to you with it.

Again. You are wrong about low density meaning less education dollars. In California, we have a funding formula by which all the money goes to a common pot and then redistributed. The formula ...to put it simplistically...assigns more money to school districts with kids who need free lunches, English as second language etc. so this means counties that contribute less tax dollars and less property tax dollars due to low house prices get more of the education dollars. Highly educated households and English speaking households and those are higher income where kids don’t rely on school lunches get less education dollars.

This leads to no money for infrastructure improvements or overcrowding in schools and budget cuts. And yet..it’s these high property priced areas that have a higher influx of school kids. It’s not working.

https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/fd/ec/documents/currentexpense1718...

Per student expense allocation in affluent cities is less than in areas that have lower property values. No child is truly left behind in California when it comes to education at least as far as $ redistribution is concerned.

The problems we have cannot be resolved by high density building in Bay Area and LA.
Yes that seems about right. I would say lag occurs once every 5 mins and lasts for roughly a second. Not longer than that. But since gaming is such a visual medium that 1 second seems longer than it actually is. One thing I forgot to mention is I was on wifi and the performance may have been better had I plugged in an ethernet cable. Although I would add that wifi usage is going to be what the typical user opts for.
No, what I mean is more straighforward. Let's say your signed offer is for $600k. Literally $18k is being set aside for your agent to point out these (IMO rather minor) things, and do some other pretty minor stuff, very akin to what a tax accountant might do during filing season.

What if you could just buy the house for $282k and never had to have an agent? Perhaps you would have missed these issues. Or more likely you would have Googled for a robust checklist of things to look for in an inspection, and discovered them yourself.

This is a structural reimagining of things could be.
Between this and Valve's push for gaming on Linux, another of Linux' Achilles heels is solved. What else is missing before the Linux desktop is adequate for pretty much everyone?
My school uses them in the UK but I believe that's a minority. A lot more schools seem to use iPads instead.
So "abolish the NLRB" then.
New York is the same way, except the fee can be up to 20% of yearly rent. You hope you only have to pay one month broker's fee.
There are "way more" actors in the sense that there are many people who want to act for a living, but the analogy doesn't hold from an education and experience married to that desire standpoint.

Further acting is older than gaming, and those unions were given space to form during a period of time that was very different from today.
It's used in the multiplayer, but whether it actually makes a difference or not is debatable.

Digital Foundry's opinion:

> Crackdown 3 doesn't deliver much of the promise previously showcased from the power of the cloud.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2019-crack...
Like Steam, but a little bit worse?
You get upset that tenants are subsidizing a landlord's political spending without a say? Any time you give money to anyone else for any purpose, for that matter? And "their money" comes from your labor (plus their capital, in some share, yes) as surely as "your money" does. This is a way less clear-cut distinction than you're making it out to be, and may not be relevant anyway:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_shop#United_States
I feel like there's a lot more low-hanging fruit that could be added to the Chrome experience to win people over, rather than building a relatively expensive game streaming platform.
This is a problem everywhere, but it is worse when you are stuck with unionized employees. Compare public school teachers to private school teachers. Higher pay (thanks to unions) for public schools, and lower quality (thanks to unions).
> Reasonably well paid doesn't alway hold compared to the cost (and supply) of housing in the bay area; new grads are often forced to share bedrooms even though they make $110k+.

Yes, this is true, but I wonder if anyone is going to someday connect the dots between "crazy high average salary" and "high housing prices". Simply raising wages doesn't in and of itself make housing more affordable... it kicks off a feedback loop. When it's not unheard of for tech workers to make $250K-$500K per year (ostensibly to make it easier to buy those million dollar homes!), don't be surprised when housing prices spiral out of control.
Short list. Includes many who have never made a profit, and at least one (Coinbase) which is completely not an open source software company.
Google Stadia: The future of gaming is not a box
I think it would be comparable, but not equal, to a factory walkout. Without active bug-squashing, DevOps and server maintenance, there is an increased risk of a major outage, which would even affect previous customers as well. Also, most tech companies collect revenue incrementally, via subscriptions, ads and the like, rather than up-front like most factories would. And getting a scab developer up to speed would likely take a lot longer than getting scab factory workers up to speed.

There are some differences as you said. If you're an auto factory that goes on strike, the management is likely still making money—they have all the cars made yesterday and the day before to sell. Of course, the pressure would rise much quicker in a factory vs a tech company; where the latter could presumably float itself for a few weeks, the former would start losing money within days.
Jeremy from Basement here. We're considering a freemium model, maybe turning the font of people who don't pay to comic sans :)
Thanks for the advice, I think you are right. Due to your comment I've just been going through https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_reports for ideas. Marketing, social media, and fundraising are all skills that I definitely need to improve on.
The value driver of the SFH is that is can be converted at any time into an n-family condo.

So if n * avg_condo_value - development_costs > current_home_value, then the homeowner comes out ahead.
Lisp without s-expressions is like bathwater without a baby.

S-expressions enable homo-iconic macros and make compile-time computing super easy!
I spent 35 years programming in C and C-like languages and then developed my own Common Lisp implementation (http://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp.git) - the only Common Lisp that interoperates with C++ and uses llvm as the backend. When I started with lisp I wrestled with the syntax and sweet-expressions and just decided to let it go. Now I've found language love all over again!

In a world that runs on Javascript, nobody should be able to complain about a few measly parentheses.

Obligatory relevant XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/297/
And of course, only Google can build it's game service into it's own browser, and into it's own video sharing site, and into the Play Store. Stadia is Google utilizing multiple of it's existing monopolies to enter into a new space. It's also a major shot at Twitch, not just traditional game platforms like PlayStation and Xbox, since streamers will need to be streaming on YouTube to take advantage of things like Crowd Play.
Standard economic theory predicts that the tax incidence falls more on the party that has lower elasticity — that is, fewer alternative options to make a deal. If it is hard to find an apartment, the renter will pay most of the fee. If it is hard to find a renter, it’s the opposite.
Crunchbase says they were founded in 2009 and have 50-100 employees. They are pre-IPO and 10 years old. Maybe if employees were more owners I think (not knowing the inside story) this might have been less of an issue. Secondary grant?

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kickstarter
Orbital Index: Issue #4
It is an instagram knockoff. I think they are avoiding the fediverse mention on purpose in order to get users by just marketing it as an alternative without any special magic. This about page as a landing page is really confusing but the homepage doesn't do much better... Also registration is closed so this is a really strange time to be advertising
The report was extraordinarily fast, widely criticized even by common news outlets.
One thing this article didn't cover was how kickstarter's management reacted to this news and why it's happening now. Are there issues at kickstarter that will be addressed through collective bargaining? Was this move considered necessary in order for leadership to take developer concerns seriously? I'd love to know more.
I wish them well, but having family members and friends work in unionized workplaces, it's not something I would ever do.

It always seems to degenerate into an "us vs them" sort of thing whenever I talk to them about where they work. Why would I ever work some place where things are so adversarial?

You also end up with this 3rd party involved in everything, creating all kinds of "rules" to make things "fair". Want to go on vacation? To make things "fair", the most senior people get to pick their times first, and the new guys get the not-so-good times. Don't care about the union's bullshit "industrial action" and just want to work and earn some money? Get used to being called a "scab". You get the point - it becomes more about knuckling under to what the union wants than getting work done or having a career.
> Why not take power that is available to you? Management certainly exercises every bit of power that they are able to.

This isn't true. Management only exercises every bit of power once the relationship becomes hostile. There are tons of things management could do to me to make their jobs easier (e.g. standups twice a day at 8am and 4:45pm with mandatory, in-person attendance) that they don't leverage.

Unionizing when there isn't already a hostile relationship is sure a way to bring hostility into it.
Who’s „we” in this context? Everybody in the world? I don’t think we can coordinate on this scale (which would be required for collective bargaining), at least not yet.
I think people assume I'm anti-developer or anti-union, but I was just trying to remind people stuff they seem to be discounting (but already know -- nothing I said was innovative at all). It really isn't that complicated, I don't believe. :/
Why Feelings Matter When Hiring for Your Startup
Not everyone in the US likes unions. Union-driven high labor costs are one of the reasons why lots of auto manufacturing left Michigan for various points foreign and domestic. Some unions do a great job negotiating benefits for workers. Others do a great job only for union leadership, to the ultimate detriment of companies' profitability and workers' salaries and job security.

If tech unions are new organizations by, for, and of tech workers, they might result in positive change for tech workers. If they fall in line with AFL-CIO et al., stand by for trouble.
The managers of the corporation are not spending their money either, unless they own the corporation.
The Apple support document[1] makes it sound like it can be upgraded, just not by an end user. Is that what you meant?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201191#note
I am arguing about the constant use of the word "enlightening" in relation with drug use. People don't call skydiving or bungee jumps "enlightening".
Fresno is not the Bay Area. I am all for building high density homes in Fresno. Not so much in Bay Area because we are full capacity.

California is more enlightened and egalitarian than most other states in the country. If making rational choices is ‘shortsighted self interest’, I can see how I am comfortable live that.
I'd be interested to learn more about the German system, where the union sits on the board of the company. They would seem to then have an actual interest in the success of the enterprise as a whole, rather than just trying to extract as much as they can from it. Of course in other places they have no power and just extract fees from workers.
I think these two questions can be separated

Regarding disruptive employees: Why would a union restrict a company's ability to fire disruptive employees? (excepting the corrupted union that has irrational favorites)

Regarding under-performing employees: Are you talking about the person who is just a bit slower than others or the person who's lack of aptitude causes other employees to lose unreasonable amounts of time to assisting that employee? I'd count the second type in the same class as being disruptive.

Also, at your current workplace is everyone equal in terms salary when when normalized by performance? Is it a problem if you're a bit more efficient than a co-worker and earning the same salary as them?
its not "some of them fail" its "all of them have terrible support and most fail"
Making Dart a Better Language for UI
Nice of the hipsters to be the test case like this.
I also was a participant. It was pretty cool. I did a wireshark and they are using Google's QUIC protocol.

In my experience the game would drop graphics before I would experience input lag. There were a handful of times that I did experience input lag. This was on a wired connection 100mbs down 20mbs up through Xfinity.

I did notice in the Google demo, that when the person was using the game pad, he experienced input lag when he was trying to jump up on top of that steeple on top of the building.
That doesn't seem practically any different. I still have to support the union if I want to work.
Ruminants are by definition able to produce all necessary nutrition in their gut. That was the point.
Java 12
If you give me a token when I give you a fake note, and then you give me a real note when I give you a token, how do you stay in business? And how do you not have to deal with fraud issues?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura_(symptom)
If anyone is interested in this, I wrote up my thoughts on my first year in the program:

https://medium.com/@mycahp/thoughts-on-the-omscs-program-at-...
Will the union help or hurt when you have colleagues being treated unfairly by management?
I suspect the opposite given history. Humans are very reactive to incentives - more deaths leads to more reproduction so that when threats are gone they stop trying to "out-compete" it. The deadliest wars in history failed to make a dent but peaceful first world nations are leveling off to replacement rate or worse or only achieving it through immigration. Furthermore living long encourages even the selfish to care more about sustainability since "whatever I'm not going to be around for it" wouldn't be a thing.

As for "only the rich" there are only two kinds of tech roll outs - cheaper alternatives to the existing or for the rich first. The previous while impactful tends to be less groundbreaking by definition because it isn't anything "novel". The latter is how it always has been.

We always here "but what about the consequences" but I have yet to hear a proper forecast. Which means it ammounts to stopping development for imaginary fears, pointless.
The time to stop is if there are problems in testing /after it actually exists/.

It is one thing to say cancel carbon nanotube body armor or structural components due to being too carcinogenic - it is another to stop development for fear it will somehow create a new ice age, grey goo, or similar.
A Stripe token for accepting credit cards isn’t a barrier IMHO.