skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment is classic internet drama.. Is it too much to ask for that people back up their statements with facts?

- "They are already a monopoly" False. Youtube is pretty big. And there are more.

- absurd "revenue cuts" - break down the costs. The human cost of doing email support and in some cases phone support. Legal, trust and safety, legal, etc. Now add the product development costs of a web service service in San Francisco. And finally add the % for the credit card processors, which isn't small.
> with every version it is harder and harder to sideload apps

Really? How?
I find that problematic and Google should do better.
For some people, the grind is the main attraction, especially if it's well balanced. Look at Path of Exile, that's one hell of a grindy game and people absolutely adore it.
That doesn't make sense. If you go to the seller's agent directly, they get the entire commission instead of splitting it with a buyer's agent. It's in their best interests financially to not have a buyer's agent come along. But that's also terrible for you because it's a conflict of interest for the agent to represent the buyer and seller.

More likely, they didn't see you as a serious buyer if you don't have an agent. There are a lot of tire kickers out there.
The whole situation reminds me of the opposite of BaseCamp. They got rid of all tiers and went unlimited to simplify the product. And they still rake in the dough. You fundamentally make your business more complex and costly with all this non-sense. The difference is BaseCamp doesn't have VC influence. So the cult of growth and squeezing people for every penny isn't in their DNA.

I think the VC and Silicon Valley influence on Patreon may kill it.
Yes, it's different - it only mutes audio and video is still autoplaying. Safari blocks both audio and video.
Interesting. On Mac, the process is called "plugin-container" if you use something like "ps", but Activity Monitor shows it as "FirefoxCP Web Content", which is a lot clearer...
Google has more of "their own infrastructure" than any ISP you could name or any of the transit networks that people think of as "tier 1".
Not really, they want other people to be taxed instead of them. Of course people always find someone richer than them to blame. (Taxes are already very progressive in France).
Where did you get the idea that there aren't industry-wide unions in the US? UA is, for instance, a national plumbing union, with numerous local chapters.
By far the biggest annoyance with firefox on mobile is that when you open the browser, are presented with all your tabs, and a toolbar which only searches your open tabs rather than just being a toolbar that you can type in a website, or a search term, or also search amongst your open tabs.
There's a lot of lobbying and work between the current generally anti-union situation of the US and that sort of setup. I'm quite sure the German model is the result of no small amount of work on the part of the unions.

Join the union at your job, ask why there isn't a union at your job if there isn't one, find a freelancer's union if you're not working for The Man, give some of your time/money/skills to people fighting for unions...
There likely would be no offline option for this if (when? Ha!) it gets shut down.

It’s not like a photo site where you can just download your content. Whatever is built to run on Stadia will not run on your home machine or anywhere else.
although a lot of injustice was done to Falun Gong followers and most of their assets frozen

No individual human rights in China. The government can squash them as they like, and if the public doesn't like that group, no one will complain. (Which makes propaganda very useful for both sides.)

First they came for the wackos, the conspiracy theorists, and the minority religions...
Those are probably QLC drives at those prices, while I would think apple would be selling TLC or even MLC drives given their speeds. To properly compare against apple' storage, you have to look at the prices of things like the samsung pro series, which is about $350/TB
I have many Odroids, none were DOA.

If you are in North America, I would recommend purchasing from https://ameridroid.com/ or https://olympianled.com/brand/hardkernel/

Distributors are listed on https://www.hardkernel.com/distributors/
it didn't shake out that way because
most people ended up "investing"

No. It didn't shake out because current crypto currencies all are totally overambitious, overengineered solutions so none of them managed to create a bearable user experience.

- They want you to put a fu..... app on your phone. People hate that.

- Then they want you to send fiat to some company involved in crypto. So your bank might mark you as a criminal.

- Then they want you to guess some transaction fee that will get your payments through.

- Then they make you wait an undefined amount of time before the transaction counts.

The reason for this mess is that all the crypto currencies used Bitcoin as their blueprint for their design. And only made minor adjustments to how it works. Bitcoin has a lot of interesting properties. But they are not needed for every day transactions. Yet, it pays an insanely high price (in terms of complexity, usability and performance) to achieve those.
This is fantastic news.

I'm one of the software engineers who was fired for organizing a union at a SF/DC based startup last year. The National Labor Relations Board found in our favor and we won a large cash settlement. But what we wanted was a union. Seeing others pick up the torch is extremely gratifying. Below are some links to news coverage of our case.

https://gist.github.com/bwestergard/a77744dc6f3095fd3fb769dd...

If anyone has questions about the process, I'm happy to answer what I can.
> Being able to use it for free is quite literally the point of FOSS.

Are you aware of the F in FOSS being free as in libre/free speech?
If the people are broken, then by what measure is the system fine?
The problem isn't just windows - it's more along the lines of "narrow software" being very much sold "as is" with "strict and boneheaded compatibility requirements (run known vulnerable software/os)", combined with either consciously or unconsciously taking on the risk of doing so, with or without appropriate mitigations in place.

Control software, or for that matter, software for a sufficiently narrow domain, tends to come "with bugs" and "for compatibility reasons you need to run this on OS/release version X (which is probably what the vendor ran at the point in time when the software were minted/released).

I've had the displeasure of crossing paths with both the linux and windows variety of this.

In some cases you can ignore the vendors and just upgrade, and jump through some amount of hoops to make it work.

I'm sure in most cases you could engineer around this with isolating it from the world, although it may be non-trivial since it'll probably want to communicate over a network of some sort. Although - exactly what is needed in terms of achieving that may be less than well documented, it costs time and money, and is maybe not really budgeted for, there's aggressive installation timelines, and the security part is probably the first thing to get slashed from when the installation timelines starts slipping.

The vendor just wants to sell you a black box, and preferably not touch it ever again after they've sold it to you. (Actually - some even do sell you a branded, badly engineered, stock PC running some variety of windows or linux or bsd, to control your winch/navigation/foundry/whatnot).

I have witnessed "IT for offshore", in which a vessel is docked for X days, here's a list of things that we need to do, after X days the vessel will depart. You may have a few days on top of X days if you can leave somebody at the vessel, after X+Y days, the vessel needs to be somewhere in an operable state, because we have a commissioned work to perform.

For say running a foundry, I'm sure much of this is similar, except the foundry doesn't have go anywhere - but having your foundry do nothing is exceedingly expensive, and making changes during production comes with a different set of risks.

People have probably complained somewhere along the road, disagreeing with the risks, and somewhere higher up in the chain, the choice were made to take on the risk.
>Young Berkeley professors can't afford to live where they work. Young teachers can't afford to live where they work. This sort of thing is a societal recipe for disaster.

How so? It's surely a local recipe for disaster. But there's nothing preventing young professors and teachers from leaving the area (or the state) and finding jobs elsewhere where housing is cheaper.
> because it would be so totally easy to create something like cash on the web

If you really think it's that simple then I encourage you to start your journey to becoming a billionaire, but you'll quickly find out that very smart people have already worked on this and what we have today is the best given the vast complexities and regulations around money transfer.

> It just needs someone to start a business of selling tokens for $1.10 and buying them back from whoever comes first for $1.

You just described what patreon, paypal and other exchange services already do, but with even higher fees.
Complaining that their service is terrible while also complaining that they are trying to generate more money to further invest in that service....riiiighhht!
Oh, I don't know. How about the world state saving part? Or what about the ability to instantly jump into the same game as your favorite streamer? Or how about the ability to play a AAA game instantly within 5 seconds without spending hours installing it and then hours patching it. Come to think of it - did you even watch the demo?
Publish it with lower-res versions of the pictures, perhaps clickable if someone really wants the higher-res version. The no-frills, no-JS, no-bloat reading experience is still useful even if your content is mostly picture-centric.
No, more a function of businesses having obligations not to waste their shareholders' money. By definition, donations are optional things. A donation be heavily questioned afterward if it is allowed to go through at all. But buying marketing, or support, is a perfectly sensible thing for a business to do.
I think undoubtedly, I would bet on the longevity of a streaming service from Valve or Amazon more than I would one from Google. But Google's past history of killing free side services doesn't offer the most relevant precedence. This is a service into a mainstream (and growing) industry that gels with Google's strengths, particularly scalability and AI. YouTube Premium/TV would be better precedent, though the jury is still out on those. I think there's still a difference, though, in that YT+/TV entered a market with already dominant leaders (traditional cable, Netflix, free YouTube). If Stadia can satisfactorily mitigate the problems inherent to streaming, and get it out before Microsoft's rumored Xbox development, it will be in a prominent position in a new field for gaming.
Apple might announce a refreshed iPod touch tomorrow
They’re actually fantastic and have a genuine desire to arrive at the correct number. I had one take over an hour on the phone to explain to me the logic behind the IRS’s position and, once it became clear that the problem was with a corrupted data import and the cost basis was incorrectly computed, took two more hours of his own time without me having to wait on the phone to arrive at the conclusion that the IRS actually owed me money. He could have resolved the call immediately by saying that he saw my position and that he’d cancel the correction and I probably would’ve accepted it. Instead, he went the extra mile and figured out the correct refund, costing the government hundreds of dollars and two more hours of his time.

I suspect the IRS gets a bad rap because people don’t like owing money and the IRS is usually right when they send corrections, but my experience left me with nothing but respect for their front-line support. To remain as friendly and courteous as they were considering the rage that must be directed towards them on a daily basis is pretty impressive.
Forget cash, why don't we have checks? A check is just a piece of paper authorizing a transfer of funds from a bank account to a person or entity named in the TO field. Why can't I go on my banking app and generate a cryptographically signed bit of text authorizing a transfer to someone by name? Why does Paypal have to sit in the middle of a transaction like that?
Doesn't seem there's anything wrong with the approach. Why would you want to leave money on the table anyway?
I've been once too. The acrobatics and dance and production values are quite professional and nice.

But the side-trips into propaganda made me feel like I had been deceived by the advertising, which really turned me off.

Propaganda makes for mediocre art. I think one of the seminal essays to that effect was actually written by a prominent propagandist. It's a very important idea for 2019.
California has a very significant Ag economy. We have an income receipt of 45 billion per annum. We have pockets of density because most rural areas can be considered ‘open air factories’ that bring in a lot of money to the state.

Japan on the other hand is smaller and has lesser immigrants, most ageing population.

Also..New Zealand has 5 million people and it’s a country. Canada is 22 million people and it’s bigger than Japan. India is 1.3 billion people. What’s the point of comparisons? It’s not a race to be the most dense state. There is no prize at the end of the race.
I have an X1C6 on Linux as well since launch, but since they added s3 sleep support it's been 100%. What compatibility issues are you having?
I'm really enjoying your 6502 emulation code. It feels clean and easy to read.

https://github.com/koute/pinky/blob/master/mos6502/src/virtu...

(I imagine the rest is good too, but 6502 is what I know. :-) )
> Unfortunately most of the wealth created by OSS is being reaped by the large cloud vendors

The amount of value generated by open source software running on cloud providers may be much greater than the fees those providers are charging. It’s not a zero-sum game.
Isn't this similar to Nvidia's GeForce Now service? I've been impressed with Nvidia's beta; with a good connection you can play a ton of games at maximum settings with just minor input lag.
Other comments have suggested this might fail like OnLive/Nvidia/PlayStation Now because the economics of streaming on the business end don't work out.

This case is different. Stadia is the first video game streaming product made by a cloud computing company, and also a cloud computing company which developed a video codec (VP9) just for high quality/low latency streaming.

The economics are much different on all sides; it all depends on how Google prices the service. (it'll be curious how Microsoft's xCloud competes. Maybe Amazon will get in on the fun too.)
The problem of open source is one of scarcity. People don't pay for value, if that value can be obtained for free and without effort.

People pay for scarcity and our whole economic system is based on it. Open source unfortunately is the exact opposite.

Note that there are open source projects making money. For example Wordpress is GPL, which forces all plugins and themes to be GPL-compatible as well. And there are plenty of commercial plugins and themes selling quite well, all of them open source.

But that's not necessarily something Mozilla could emulate.
I think your worry is overblown.

This is going to be an alternative for some types of games.

And quite on the contrary I think it would awesome for indies, since they tends to be pretty short. And it is much easier for them to gain consumers, if they went viral over streaming, many of which are, like horror games.
That assumes the browser can know the image's content-length before loading the whole image, which unfortunately isn't always possible.
What stack would you recommend if not rails? Serious question with no malice
Will be on board as soon as it has an app.
>Google Books

broken and abandoned http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-badly-is-go...

>Google Finance

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/google-finance-as-you-know...
That's good! My girlfriend works for SEIU and they have different contracts with pretty much every employer. this causes a lot of friction.
> Never mind the plethora of studies that have found links between arts education and performance in other educational/vocational areas.

It seems at least possible that this might be due to schools that are better funded tend to offer more arts education, and the better funding would also presumably increase the quality of the education in other areas. Without seeing the studies, it seems hard to conclude that the arts education is the cause of the better performance in other areas.
I participated in the beta and was pleasantly surprised to see how the entire experience came together. I only experienced one small technical issue. The game runs in real time on Google's servers. If you have some lag on your network, the client will drop all the frames during that time. Instead I expected behavior like Youtube where you will see a small loader and the game will continue before the lag started. This was specifically a problem when playing Assassin's Creed: Odyssey cause in the cutscene the characters would say something like "Go to the * lag * and meet * lag *" and then I had no idea what I had to do next. Lag was still a rare thing during my experience. It's just that when it occurred the timing was unfortunate.
Of course, the actual practical translation of "matter of policy" is probably more like "way to save money on support staff".
I do understand most of their trade-offs. But these little m2 nvme sticks should be just as easy to expose as ram is. That'd make a huge difference for me. Being locked in to a purchase-time decision doesn't sit well with how quickly SSD capacities and prices evolve.
That seems draconian; there's no way to buy other sources of fish (farmed, local, etc) that doesn't contribute to the problem of ocean pollution?
Is 6% realtor fee a norm in USA? Isn't 2% the old, established base?
> They don't know it yet but unchecked this will seem to them to instantly become an existential threat to the play store

Unfortunately when there are realistically only 2 app stores, and considering Apple devices cannot use the Google Play Store it doesn't matter. Google can do what it wants, just like Apple can do what it wants as for there is no real consequence. There will always be another developer willing to take a dollar less for the same thing and abide by the 'rules'. We absolutely need diversification, but until these companies are split up it will never happen.
> even though its not part of the git protocol, the GUI element of the Pull Request feature could have continuous integration that showed when a threshold of votes were passed to get something into to the next branch like out of committee and onto the floor

I'm wondering if Fossil would be more suited to this than Git.
Have you thought about selling support contracts? Any enhancements developed for one customer would benefit another, but they get the guarantee of bug fixes and custom features. Sure, they could hire any coder to do this, but who better to trust than the developer?
Why not o-expressions? http://breuleux.net/blog/oexprs.html
Why are you sky-is-falling this announcement? Where in their release did they say anything about per-MB or ad based business models? Did they say anything at all about personalized costs in general?

No, they didn't, and every single thing you've suggested about their gaming platform is also true about every other streaming platform, and yet none, literally none, of those platforms have tried any of the things you're complaining about.

You basically just made up a bunch of things to complain about because nothing in the actual release was objectionable. Yours is not a helpful way to react, my friend, though it is a popular one.
There are a couple, but they've been squeezed out by those who see them as dealing with undesirable content creators. I forget the name, but one of them just got some alternate payment processor that steps around the whole credit card company/stripe/paypal monopoly somehow.
I've been reading a book on the credit theory of money, and it's been fairly eye opening on how banks create money when they make loans, and how fractional reserves don't really limit their ability to continue "printing" money that way.

However, the 1970s stuff there sounds like a long chain of data to understand. (And is that why your comment currently downvoted)?) Do you have any recommended sources describing what you're talking about?
I think the most important take-away here isn't whether or not you can make a profit with Open Source solutions or not - the take-away is that whether or not a Open Source project is profitable or not is completely irrelevant when discussing the usefulness of said project.

It's like complaining that insulin isn't fun enough. Nobody taking insulin was trying to have fun.
No grammar? No problem (2013)
The joystick and display device are just the clients now. You have the same problem just moved around a bit. Without the benefit of being able to use techniques to hide latency, such as client side prediction.
Exclusivity contracts are also the norm for buyers.
There is always a second direction to go in addition to up.
I'm not comfortable with the idea that Google can effectively dictate the employment prospects of all Android developers forever, regardless of past behavior.
>If you can't get employed in one, develop/learn marketable skills to do so

Tell this to a single parent working multiple jobs. When are they supposed to be brushing up on their web development skills?

>If you want freedom from "finding work", create your own value by starting a business

Not everyone can afford the startup costs and risks of starting a business.

>it's not the system that is broken — it's the people

Do you believe wealth is perfectly correlated with behavior that improves society?

I believe that history provides countless examples of the merits of capitalism and it's helped us achieve things that were previously unimaginable, but I don't think that's enough to say we can't do better for more people.
The gist of this strategy seems to boil down to: "Have very modest annual income expectations for the rest of your life, live in a place with free healthcare" It would seem that something like having kids would definitely throw a wrench in that. Unless I'm missing something?
Trello is great but is incredibly expensive.
Multi tab browsing (sorry, couldn't resist)
Google employs thousands of people. Do they all live in the same town as where their offices are...many mid range companies and public agencies and Starbucks baristas commute to work too.

What is so special about teachers that they have an expectation of walking across the street to their place of work?

Everyone commutes. Everyone.

This expectation of living next to where you work is exactly why we have a housing density problem. Instead of focusing on public transport to make commute painless ..we are stuffing people like sardines in a can with talking points crafted by housing activists who are mostly grant funded non profits and public agencies. More homes in expensive areas serve tax coffers in Sacramento. Not the public.
Really odd to see you promoting Salvia, one of the psychedelics with the worst (and deserved) reputations imaginable. I know you give you passing warning of it being "scary as hell", but that's probably not a strong enough of a warning.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yvqkvb/why-is-salvia-so-u...
I would love to use it for my compiler backend…if I could find any maintained standalone implementations of it.