skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Technically speaking, they were quite far ahead of the curve. While VMs were all the rage, they were shipping container-based products

> The technical abilities of the Joyent folks were well beyond just about anybody else for a long time.

None of that was ever true. Whether they had container-based or VM-based tech was a tiny unimportant detail for a cloud company. Although over engineering in this area certainly made it impossible for them to compete with more traditional hosting companies. And to be able to compete with Amazon they needed something they didn't have - distributed systems background, not Sun background, which was anything but.
On individual boxes, with games having their own versions of anticheat detection. Not at Google scale looking for patterns across all games.
I suspect in the not too distant future we'll need a way to produce provably true videos. I'm thinking something like the subject, a politician giving a press conference for example, carries something that emits a signal that the cameras encode into the video in a way that any alterations could be detected, something like a cryptographic signature. I don't really know enough about cryptography time be sure how / if it would work.
I have never known Seattle to be this way. I am sorry you had this experience, but I have found Seattle to be a supremely welcoming and friendly place.
That's...literally everyone who supports totalitarian and authoritarian states. They support it because they share its values, and they like that those values are enforced.

Nobody goes "well they put my ma in the gulag, but I still agree with them politically"
I have a fiance and a healthy family but even then I notice I didn't have quite as many friends outside my online social chats.

My fiance became friends with a couple that i became friends with, and the husband on the other side introduced me to Disc Golf. I loved the sport, but something I found there was a community, a pretty tight one.

Disc Golf communities are local, and they build clubs around their local courses. People go out regularly to play, weekly rounds that are rated to have a friendly leaderboard, $5 to be included in the leaderboard and to add to the Ace pot. If someone gets an ace thats part of it, wins the pot. People cheer and are excited for other's great shots, aces, and so on. Its the person against the course, and everyone is supporting each other through it.

At the same time, I found new friends. I now go outside regularly into parks, hiking areas, and golf courses to play with them and meet new people.

Disc golf might not be your jam, but the little story is to say that sports, clubs, hobbies can be a huge way to reduce loneliness.

Especially the more casual sports. Bowling, Disc Golf, tennis, ball golf, etc.

You can join a local sewing club if you are into that. Book club. Barnes & Noble now hosts some run by local employees and people in the community.

Look into your hobbies, and see if you can find like minded individuals to make friends over it.

If you are a coder and thats your passion and you want to be more social, go to meetups, dev events, etc. At least here in SF there is many daily, some are reoccuring with a usual crowd.
Should not stagnant/stagnating also be added to that list? And also a negative term (staganation is neutral)? Not every undeveloped country is developing.
> The Free File program will continue as before. The development in Congress only means the program will not be codified into law.

So uh, no real change.
I remember when Facebook did the same thing. Used to you could access friends, posts, likes, photos etc but the they nerfed it to only make a tiny subset of their data available. Tons of great ideas for apps we’re shut down overnight.

When you rely on a 3rd party’s api you have to be very careful. Their interests are rarely aligned with your own.
Where are you getting these numbers from? Do you have something to backup your words, or are you just pulling them out of thin air?

Even average the numbers from a site like gCemetery gives you > 5 years, and that number is already biased because it doesn't count the lifespan of products that are still alive.
I expect to pre-order the hardware, but I'll probably hold off on a subscription until I see the games and have a compelling reason to pay a monthly fee. I don't really mind the difference between 1080p and 4K, so buying the games standalone seems like a nice fit for me personally, with the subscription sitting as a nice "premium" / improve-what-you-have option.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20061764
Have you thought about seeing a therapist? In any case, hang in there and I wish you good luck.
Get rid off your cold or flu fast with this treatment
> Study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, ethics, mathematics, and computers.

Anyone have any book recommendations for these? Any favorites?
Why would child rearing be limited to women?
I work 10 hours a day, but only 4 days a week
Having a baby and getting married has nothing to do with getting your act together. If anything, having a baby before 25 is strongly correlated with not having your shit together.
The thing is, RSS is about dissemination of content while follow/like/comment is more about dissemination of opinion. There were indeed some protocols to fill the missing pieces, including json-ld for having some sane, common format and the Salmon protocol to make information go back up to the source. Like a salmon. But it definitely was a patchwork of multiple technologies with various advancement status and quasi-inexistant documentation.

Today all of those are dead now in favor of ActivityPub. AP loses a lot of the simplicity that could make RSS ubiquitous (you need a home server and na application server to handle api calls) but the expected interactions are all there, and it's built to be extensible.

In fact, I think reusing the "everything is a file" is definitely cool and makes things easier to try, but you would definitely benefit from using the whole JSON-LD taxonomy. Things are already defined and have been used for some time in production, so you can expect some work has been thrown at it. It'd also make collaboration easier.
I think the primary worry is that A. Google has a long history of shutting down products that seems erratic. and B. the economics of this seem precarious, thus pushing on A.

Where Steam has proven to be very profitable and Valve has a longer track record, and this is their primary business.
I almost got into IRC ten years ago, when I was active in a programming community that used it in addition to their message board. The idea of having to keep my computer on all the time in order to stay in the loop, and having to learn yet another set of arcane commands for a chat window, was a big turn off then. I wouldn't even consider it today unless there was a specific need to use it, sorry.
Google Maps shows your speed while you're driving
A thread from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10279864
Mostly people seem to be sceptical of things they already don’t believe. If someone repeats something you believe, how much research are you going to do. So photoshopped images that reinforce your beliefs slip by, and the one that challenge you, you catch. Or worse, the ones that challenge you get labeled as photoshopped regardless of their provenance.
Smart importer? https://github.com/beancount/smart_importer
I think its really important to have your own time in a family. I think its a bit weird to go on holiday by yourself but that is maybe the best way. My wife goes home with the children for a while in the Summer and I'm left by myself and its really great - even when you just learn that you miss them.
It's really interesting I remember in the 90's when I was a kid during the height of the Australian republican movement there were ads on tv celebrating our democratic traditions "Our Country was founded by a vote, not a war" and all that.

Seems to me like the Coalition has done a really solid job of wedging Labor on National security to the point now they can introduce increasingly draconian laws and the second Labor speaks out against them suddenly Labor are "weak on national security" so they don't dare go against them.

Does anyone remember the Ads about terrorism they used to show on tv advising Australian's to "Be Alert not Alarmed" (I'm not kidding these actually aired) the government has done a really good job of conjuring up this atmosphere of fear whether it be terrorism, cybercrime or refugees and most recently "China" the electorate has responded to it ever time.

The Last politician I was excited about was Kevin Rudd when he stood up and declared climate change "was the moral challenge of a generation" mind you this was in 2007. He then promptly walked away from doing anything after he realized it would cost him votes, I've been completely cynical about politics in this country ever since.
I think I need to buy one of these soon. My mechanical keyboard (an original Monoprice with Cherry MX Blue's) is starting to wear out, and I've been contemplating its replacement. I love my T420's keyboard (typing on it now) and "get" the pointer, so this seems very logical. Not sure if it's a "10hr a day" keyboard or not, tough.

Thoughts from any hard core thinkpad users?
> I am really really good (perhaps top 10 or so worldwide) at one thing, and pretty good at a couple other things. If I didn't have that, I think I would feel utterly worthless in 2019.

With the internet, our kind of global culture and the kind of "attention economy" that we have, there is a bit of a culture where if you're not the best at something, and the first to do it, you're irrelevant. The world has changed, and so have we. A lot of the people leading the tech field today were kids in the 1980s and 1990s, just playing with computers for fun. In the pre-internet days, you couldn't just publish code online and immediately get a lot of attention for it. Sure, you'd be proud of yourself if you did something cool, but showing people might involve getting someone to come to your house.

I struggle with this too. When I work on a personal project, I want it to have impact, to be world class if possible. That creates pressure. I sometimes forget to just try and have fun. Over a year ago, I had to abandon my main open source project because it was reaching about 8 regular contributors, and just reviewing pull requests after coming home from work felt like another job on top of my job and I was like... Fuck no, I can't do this, when I come home from work, I actually need to rest and have a life of my own.
A $2.5m mortgage would cost you around $13k a month, Porsche lease less than $1k a month. You've got about $15k a month left in take home pay what in the world are you going to spend that on and still feel middle class?
> smart enough or well educated enough

A really good consideration is experience and observability. Those trump smart and well educated most of the time. It's the difference between seeing something and inferring it or simply repeating orthodoxy.

The Observability test is good when dealing with putative authority. Instead of asking if they are right you first ask, is this something they can observe. If not their opinion means a lot less.

A good modern example is climate change. Almost no one has the training, experience and familiarity with actual data to have form a reliable opinion. Without all three a persons opinion isn't worth much.
I read your entire post word for word and read it as Terminus each time, not realizing I had it wrong until your comment.

Perhaps Termius is a fighting a bit much against the flow of "terminal"? FWIW terminus is also a word frequently used on transit ("Terminus station"), which is kind of cute.
From last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17203304
Yep. I run a server on a small IRC network.
There's a GDC talk by id Software porting DOOM to Stadia [0]. The speaker says that in the latest demos, the difference is basically not perceptible. They had a setup with two computers, one running Stadia and the other locally, and most people couldn't tell them apart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdz4b5psrhE
This means there will be no Trump for Australia
> Buy games whenever you want: Yes

Not sure why a company like Google can't make a deal that will include AAA games in their subscription fees.
> These words are no longer used in common parlance at all.
> it's not common, just a mistake.

What's the difference between "common use" and "mistaken use" exactly? I've heard phrases like "third-world [pejorative]" thrown around here and there over the years. Is that a mistake or a change in common use over time?
I fondly remember Joyent as one of the first companies to do Ruby on Rails hosting right. They were using a combo of FreeBSD, Virtualmin, Apache (proxying to mongrel etc).

Fun times!
To some degree, it is the willingness to "know your place" in human history. No one in ancient Greece could have discovered cosmic background radiation or observed that all galaxies exhibit redshift, which would have provided evidence for the existence of a Big Bang.

Similarly, we have limitations to what we can observe and measure. We strive to continuously make improvements, but we also need to accept that not all questions will be answered within our lifetimes, and unless civilization collapses, schoolchildren will have a more complete understanding of the nature of the universe in 300 years than we do.
> Are Asian Americans oppressed? Are women in Sweden oppressed? For example in the example of women in Sweden sure they are under-represented in some areas like board of directors and pay but they also don't work as much, they don't die as much at work or otherwise, they don't kill themselves as much, they do better in school, they are not as many homeless women etc.

The fact is, most people are oppressed, and most in different ways. I'm against all systems of oppression. I think it's mostly pointless to compare individuals and how oppressed one person is to another. I do think it's good to attack systems of oppression, and criticize (and maybe even attack) the people that support those systems. To criticize the idea of "whiteness" is to attack racism. To criticize how a lot of men treat women is to criticize sexism, etc. I see nothing wrong with challenging power like that.
To be fair, PlayStation and Xbox have a lot longer and reliable track record compared to Google products.

And so, you'll be at the mercy of the lifespan of yet another Google product.
We’ve come to learn that images and audio can’t be trusted. It was inevitable that video would fall as a trusted source.

Next up: the person you’re sitting across from at dinner.
Is there anything close to Rock Band or Guitar Hero?
Disclaimer: I’m part of the Nextcloud team (and formerly ownCloud before we forked).

With Nextcloud we don’t offer hosting for a reason – we would compete with Google, Dropbox, Amazon etc. in a race to the bottom, and it wouldn’t be private either. nathan-io said it very well already in their reply.

Another thing which then makes it super simple for people to self-host is a) PHP (yes, we got ridiculed soo much for that through the years …) and b) a dead-simple installation which in the simplest case (with SQLite) only asks for username and password you want for the admin. Most importantly, we use open standards and formats like WebDAV, CalDAV, CardDAV, IMAP, gpx, ActivityPub, etc. which makes Nextcloud universally compatible.

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However, for people who do want to simply sign up we do have an easy way: https://nextcloud.com/signup/ – this is also very presently available as "Sign up with a provider" in the mobile and desktop apps.

How it works:

- We have a list of participating providers (of which there are many more at https://nextcloud.com/providers/ ) with some strict guidelines like minimum storage space, minimum set of specific apps, uptime, reliability, etc.

- On the signup site or step we show exactly 1 provider (instead of a list like Mastodon etc.) to not overwhelm people with choice. This is based on your location and it just shows the nearest one, assuming it’s probably best regarding law and performance. There’s an option to "change provider" right below the provider.

- The only thing we ask for is your email address, and you only have to wait shortly while they provision your new instance. Sign up approaches the simplicity of Google or Dropbox this way.

I’m curious to see how it will fare for you, and wish you best of luck. If you ever want to join us or collaborate regarding integration, you are very welcome → https://nextcloud.com/contribute/
There is a great mini documentary made that tries to answer this question
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA
1080p games should be able to run on a low spec PC. Why not buying the actual game?
Been using it since the late 1990s. Freenode is still very active for tech.
> There is coming a point (it has already passed, in my opinion), where we can no longer justify our purpose for existence as "creating more humans."

Two comments. First, within evolution (true, a brutal and inhumane theory), the point of life is exactly to survive and reproduce. It is literally unnatural to deliberately choose to not have children (unless you don't believe in evolution).

Second, I presume that you don't mean for this to be taken to the point of nobody having children, that is, to the extinction of the human race. I get the impression that some eco-types think that would be a good thing; I deeply disagree.
Yes, indeed! However Google has historically shown that they are eager to shut down products, and the costs of distributing Stadia games far outweigh the costs of distributing Kindle books. Competition makes this also less likely to succeed.

I think the concern is fundamentally the same, but the chances feel much higher, which makes it a bigger worry.
Google Cloud Networking Incident Postmortem
Let me guess, you're jewish right?
Oil and gas are a huge part of the economy, and a huge part of that is "unconventional oil", i.e. oil which is far more polluting during its extraction compared to other oil.

If the world actually committed properly to limiting global warming to 2C, there would be no point in extracting this especially polluting oil.

Besides that, they are allowing some very unique forests to be cleared to have the oil extracted from, with the promise of later rehabilitation that never happens, as the intermediate company that is responsible to pay for it goes bankrupt.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/rob-magazine/articl...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/14/canada...
If if there was, would it matter? 144Hz monitors draw a frame every 7ms. What does it mean to have sub-frame latency? Human reaction time is about 250ms. So from the time you see something and ate able to react, over 30 frames have rendered.
I got in for a similar reason. I was put off by that for a while too, but then someone introduced me to ZNC.

One of the members of our core team set up a server and it was smooth sailing after that.
I love going on Freenode, simply because the people that lurk on any given project's room have always been incredibly helpful to me, and really nice too. I am in the #clojure room semi-often (asking silly questions), and occasionally the Haskell room if I'm up for learning a bit more about theory.

I like how simple IRC is, but I get why so many people have an aversion towards it. In the age of Slack, telling people to install Weechat and connect to a server manually is kind of scary. I largely embrace the transition to something new, but I do have an issue with the open-source world moving to a proprietary platform.

I wish XMPP were more popular, since I think a federated chat system with an open protocol is pretty neat, but sadly I fear that the Slack hype-train might be a bit too far-gone.
Yes every day.
It's my understanding that https://www.irccloud.com is a good contender for getting a slack-like experience for irc, i.e. good mobile client etc.
"reputable content" as defined by GOOG's own ideological bias

I think a fair assessment wouldn't pin 100% of the cause to Google's ideological bias. However, a fair assessment of the situation would also acknowledge the existence of Google's ideological bias.
They probably are also not be expecting to sell as many of these stands as other stand manufacturers, so their manufacturing costs could be significantly higher considering it uses a unique design.
Cool, I hope it works for you! And thanks for the offer :-)

Yeah, some trellises sound like a great idea, I've always wanted one of those over a patio, covered in vines.
The problem is that the public school environment is not reflective of real social engagement at all. You aren't forced to spend years with the same people without recourse like you are as a child, your time is not controlled as astutely, and your options to disengage with people you don't like is nonexistent.

Its why school bullies often end up totally dysfunctional in adulthood and end up drug addicts, because they can't compel anyone else to be around and stay around them while they are abusive. Some "luck out" and can find someone emotionally damaged enough to exploit, but then they just abuse an already damaged person in near isolation - there isn't a "cool wife beaters club" for them to hang around at the mall with.

You largely get to choose your peers in adulthood. Sometimes that means you have to live somewhere else, find a different job, maybe even move to a different city or state to escape an incompatible culture. But having that choice alone radically changes the dynamic enough that all the "tough skin" and social paranoia you have to develop to survive most public education systems is inapplicable and often harmful to have in adulthood.

Women develop a thick skin just to endure years of spousal abuse. Men don't express themselves and develop deep psychological complexes and overwork themselves to the point of self harm.

The public school environment is a far cry from an optimal environment to develop social skills in. I'd go as far as to argue it contributes somewhat to why the top post on HN right now is an 800 comment thread about pandemic loneliness. You don't get to deviate in public school much - either the authorities will punish it or your peers will ostracize it. And kids learn to cope the same way abuse victims do by suppressing the bad feelings and developing resultant mental illnesses and lifelong emotional complications.
You can create a backup of all your Kindle books, and continue to read them even if Amazon's service disappears. The only thing you won't be able to do is download them again from Amazon's servers.
> Looker's sale team is so aggressive and their support team is great. In fact, that's why Looker became so big in the last few years. Google is not famous in terms of support.

That's probably the major reason of the acquisition.
More likely that trusted sources become more important. A politician can share their own stream of a speech.
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Google has a monopoly on search. Their market share is 94%.

https://sparktoro.com/blog/as-the-antitrust-case-against-goo...

As a monopolist, they need to meet much higher standards of accountability, transparency, and fairness.

Would we tolerate it if the electric monopoly cut off power to the Daily Mail? Or the water monopoly?

When you're not a monopoly, you don't have to care about any of these things. You're in it to win it.

As a society, we cannot have a monopoly willy nilly censoring sites with no accountability or means of redress. It is an intolerable situation. A monopoly must be demonstrably fair to everyone.
You made me laugh when you said "servers are walking distance away". That's a lot of very long walks, friend.