skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes that is the problem. The inner startups. Some startup from YC fails, oh well they disappeared. But Google isn't willing to put the time and effort to get something to stick as much as it would be for a company that it was their sole effort. For them it is not much of a loss, they just spent some money and moved on. But they also spent their customers' money who purchased some cloud item that is now a brick, they spent developers' time (money) who committed to that platform and now have a 30 day sunset.

When you are a company that is as large as Google with a brand like Google, you don't want to be known to be making half baked marketing efforts, getting people on board and failing. Customers and developers then remember that and rightfully associate Google as a company that will gladly abandon you and cost you your money if it does not become big enough for Google to care (multi-billion). So Google cannot operate like a startup if they want to keep their reputation. A start-up would be very happy to have a low millions revenue but for Google that would be a rounding error and killed. So they need to make less bets, and put much more effort into getting their bets to the level that they can make acceptable money for Google while being mindful that killing a product does a lot more than lose Google the money invested.
Disney+ has been out for less than two weeks, and like Apple TV$+-\mul\div\mod$, they're giving it away for peanuts or free to capture users.

We'll see how effective their respective libraries are at reducing churn when it comes time to pay the piper.
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I and many of my friends are old enough to remember Labour of the pre-Thatcher years. Before I continue I should point out I consider myself "of the right" - somewhere around where the old One-Nation Tory majority used to be, with the likes of Heseltine, Clarke, etc, or even a little further right. Even Cameron claimed to be one-nation until he dreamed up a referendum to subdue the extremist wing of the party...

Most of that friend group are similar "natural Tories". Business owners, and comfortably off rather than all billionaire hedge fund owners or trade unionists and manual workers. 9 out of 10 Labour policies resonate well with us as a rejection of the clear excess and mistakes of neoliberalism. Of the brutal treatment of disabled, poor, and society generally. Of the application of market to utterly irrelevant things. Not as a vote to return to the Labour's Trotskyite Militant Tendency and idiocy of the seventies. We don't need to reinvent history and blame a demographic that knows no better...

I should probably add that for some the 1 in 10 policy that we dislike can sometimes be a vote killer or of veto level. :)

Most of the seventies problems can be explained by a) Nixon abandoning the Gold Standard and disassembly of Bretton Woods, both of which were hugely inflationary and b) the oil crisis. The Conservatives did no better in that era, and often markedly worse - fiscally, on labour relations, on balance of payments, even on defence. Heath did so poorly in the last administration that we had a three day week. Worse than Callaghan's later Winter of Discontent that brought Thatcher. Interestingly Callaghan's Labour were governing strongly in opposition to the unions during that winter...
That's...probably not true at this moment. They're using AMD GPUs, which generally support the sorts of workloads folks need, and AFAIK they haven't opened up support for AMD GPU spot instances to users.

The OpenCL ML ecosystem is really lacking at the moment.
> On mobile, but there's a famous story of a server that had been drywalled over and had been running just fine, unnoticed and unattended, for years.

This one?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/12/missing_novell_serv...
They already blew it with the name...
The problem with free review sites is that once you've built up trust as an honest, objective reviewer, the most effective way to profit on that trust is to violate it.
nit: these updates often break working software if you ask me. the productivity loss here is not negligible.
Slack is at the point where we as long-term customers are wondering what they are working on all day. In fact, we are actively looking for replacements.

We could stand this new editor (even though it’s annoying), but what really drives us nuts are the performance issues on mobile, that there’s no way on iOS to see a screen share or to share the screen and that Slack is not integrated into the iOS call system. And when you have the pleasure to use it on mobile, it always tells you that the connection is bad
Now you can play games at lower quality and higher latency than ever before, and pay Google for the privilege of renting them! Plus, Google can control what games you play! Innovation!
Mattresses seems like another one so over polluted by affiliate links, you can barely find a real comparison. (sleeplikethedead.com seems pretty good.)

On its face, affiliate reviews are ok if the company has integrity, like Wirecutter attempts. If they pick a profitless product as first over one that makes them money.

Credit card reviews are another one that have gone off the chain. There are thousands of identical sites ranking the same cards.
You are probably right. But my point still stand, the format was made to deal with files much larger then the memory.
This is simply an incorrect statement. Even with a dedicated server, most games simply replay game logic with deterministic lock-step simulation based on ordered user input events. There's some exceptions, but (partial) state synchronization is tricky especially with complex physical interaction and complicates/limits game design with a huge amount of edge cases so it's not a wise choice unless you absolutely need to do this, like open-world or MMO games.
Ask HN: Best way to grow an arts startup?
I'm working with a team who are working on a professional ballet company, focusing mainly on performances. They are a couple years in and are looking to step up to the next level. What are some of the best ways to grow the company? More generally, what are some growth hacks from the startup world that work for art organizations?

Thanks!
It’s not the market that wasn’t mature, it’s the technology/product —- although the latter is what you need to grow a market.

I love new technology and gadgets. I bought an Oculus DK2 and Vive and they were both mind blowing when I first tried them, although I don’t still use them. Trying Google Glass, on the other hand, was beyond underwhelming. Holo Lens and Magic Leap, while slightly better, were also extremely underwhelming. Other than niche industrial applications, these products are far far too early for any consumer product.
You are on a website called "Hacker News" hosted by a venture capital company named after an obscure mathematical function. Said venture capital company invested in companies worth a total of $155 billion[1].

The markets love funny and playful.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/
"The only thing that matters is the emissions under control of any one government."

Why is this the case? Global warming does not care about the number of governments in the world.
Vonnegut is my favorite author by far
Sad thing was google+ and the control it offered was nice. The tech communities on G+ were wonderful but for the average person they were just too entrenched in facebooks ever growing social iron fist.
>16:9 ratio is another bugger for me. Between 16:9 and number pads on laptops, I'm an odd man out. It's tough when my preferences aren't mainstream.

No number pads on laptops IS the mainstream. Almost no laptops have number pads; the only ones that do are huge ones, which are really "mobile workstations". Those aren't "mainstream" in any way at all. 13-14" laptops are mainstream these days, and none of those have number pads.
Check the Internet Archive. I want to say they grabbed a copy of all the Google+ posts, but I might be wrong.
I like your hypothesis but fear the reality is less benign. To me it seems most ('those at the top' as you put it) do what they do in an attempt to obtain ever more money and power - never satisfied with how much they already possess.
I didn't say they didn't, I said we haven't adopted a way of verifying senders. If DKIM, SPF, and TLS were universal, it would be a solved issue, but they aren't for a whole lot of reasons.

P.S.: However, come to think of it, they don't. You can receive a perfectly legit and verified email from scammer@consrus.ru with the name displayed as "Mr. Your CEO".
Is this a problem something like Plaid could help with? (Assuming she used the same credit card.)
I disagree about practical and accessible:

- its exposition is complicated (trying to prove everything in a general base makes it difficult to understand)

- it's woefully out of date (lack of guard digits haven't been an issue for at least 25 years, extended precision hasn't been an issue for the past 10 or so, and most languages now default to having fairly strict floating point semantics)

- it gets bogged down in irrelevant minutiae (rounding modes and exception flags, while available in modern hardware, aren't really supported by any modern languages/compilers)

- it doesn't really provide any practical advice (it barely mentions binary-decimal conversion, it jumps to doubling precision and Kahan summation without suggesting any intermediate steps such as sorted or pairwise summation).

But my biggest complaint is the frequency with which users are referred to it on StackOverflow as if (1) it is a good way to learn about floating point concepts, and (2) anyone using floating point numbers should be expected to understand it all.
Sure, when people didn't style buttons or text boxes, because those also used native widgets
I'm asking what false claims you think are "controlling our political process", and causing a "large problem" in the world?

It seems to me that good old fashioned state/media propaganda are a much larger problem than any false claims circulating on the internet.
What about parties C through Z?
How does one provide migration paths when Google owns the data, licenses, etc. on their servers?

Just one of many ways that Service as a Software Substitute reduces user freedom.
The best approach I feel is how [1] does it.

A list, what features each provider has, and leave it to yourself to make the judgement. If you're being told why it's good there is bias involved somewhere along the line.

Of course, you need to understand whether the site has updated their information and presenting it truthfully, which should be easily verifiable.

[1]: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/
Google+ didn't represent a long term key business for Google? From what I've heard the general attitude at Google for a while was that Google+ was the future of the company.

That's why they integrated it into everything that they could (YouTube, Drive, GMail) and shut down any service that might remotely compete with it (Reader, Wave).

If Google could kill Google+ then they can kill this.
> These are all good points.

(I am not GP) I agree that they are good points. And yet, somehow, the parent post is sitting there heavily downvoted. Does it mean that people like the current system?
>Oh sweet summer child.

who? the person with the legitimate question , or the person who doesn't seem to realize that some folks download anything they want from youtube, purchased videos included?

youtube-dl is great, and it makes you realize that video streaming sites aren't as ephemeral as the owners wish they'd be. Similar tools exist for Netflix.

Anyone that trusts these groups after things like the Amazon e-book removals probably should re-evaluate how they think property can work. Save what you can -- it won't be there tomorrow.
Your post got me to go through my emails to find my Google Wave invitation for a nostalgia rush
Stadia .net 2003.
Their Mac codebase likely isn’t that Unixy.

Also, Acrobat Reader has been available for Linux (https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-adobe-acrobat-reader-...).

I guess they abandoned that because of the support load required (supporting Linux can be hard because of the proliferation of distributions with different directory layouts, font engines, etc. Most users may be on one of at most a handful distributions, but the few that aren’t can cause high support costs)
It's not different or unique. It's their bias that makes them think it's different.
I find this admirable. You realized you had an issue, you tried something to address it. You might even have had some success at it. Awesome! It's weird that you're getting downvoted for this.
Apple, Intel file antitrust case against SoftBank firm over patent practices
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I immediately thought of Disney parks and stuff like Cirque du Soleil and other performances (concerts, raves, etc)
Undisclosed affiliate relationships are against the law in the US: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/ftc...
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Federal Reserve is looking into developing a digital currency in the US
If you're looking for VPN review sites, this is the only one with credibility IMO: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/#detailed-vpn-comparison

My personal recommendation is AirVPN, but I wish they supported wireguard.
Well, if the buzz I've heard recently (and the article below) are correct. A native Linux "Microsoft Teams" client is coming (pretty sure I heard mid-December)

https://www.windowscentral.com/its-official-microsoft-teams-...

EDIT: Yup, the link referenced by the article (https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/su...) says:

"We’re pleased to confirm the Teams client for Linux will be available in preview by the end of this calendar year, enabling people who use Linux client at work or in educational institutions to collaborate with others on Teams. Users will be able to install native Linux packages in .deb and .rpm formats."
This company should outsource all engineering to infosys
They wouldn't have true but that isn't the point. The point here is that Google is willing to kill products that are successful by all other metrics and burn the users because it just isn't enough for them. They are acting like a startup but not putting in the dedication or caring enough about more modest gains that a start-up would do.

So if Google is going to launch something under the Google brand they either have to be happier with things that aren't making 10s of billions, or not make so many efforts and burning their users/customers/devs at every step. Why as someone downstream do I want to dedicate my time and money to their product when they've shown that unless it becomes a massive success it will be folded?
This article misses the most vital point: VPN providers are asking you to trust them, and there is no way to verify that. That's why I think DIY (e.g. Algo or Streisand) is the only way to go.
My concern for Stadia revolves around Microsoft's upcoming offering.

Apparently, Microsoft is simply going to rack-mount XBox hardware and stream it that way, which means the entire XBox library is instantly compatible.

For Stadia, games have to be modified specifically for it and their Linux configuration, which limits what games are announced for the platform, and requires engineering effort.
What's commonly known as the C ABI is actually the System V ABI:

http://wiki.osdev.org/System_V_ABI

Projects that are meant to be widely reused should export their functionality through that simple ABI. Otherwise people will rewrite it in C.
Interestingly, with a few exceptions (looking at you, Xcode), stuff barely ever crashes anymore in my experience.

Instead the issues are a lot more frustrating: failure states where no indication of failure is provided (other than what you’re trying to accomplish isn’t happening), no reason is given, and no means to try again is available.

It’s become even worse now that most things have some sort of web sync aspect. You’re just left turning things off and on in different combinations, in the vague hope that you can reset some piece of state somewhere.
Here here, this attitude that somehow the truth is impossible to know, and that there is no difference between insane conspiracy theories, and researched, documented facts is a pile of horse pucky.
In addition to PrivacyTools.io and ThatOnePrivacySite/Guy, RestorePrivacy.com is a site I've used for privacy related research.
I don't see how. Those libraries are already loaded anyway because they're used by the OS and native apps.
Fair warning: I'm going to sound like a shill because I think this company is awesome.

If you want 100% made in America, https://originmaine.com/ is a great company. They've literally brought back cotton looms that were shipped out of the US to revitalize American manufacturing. Their jeans, for example, are manufactured in the US and made from cotton grown in the US. Even things like the rivets on their jeans are American made. I haven't tried the clothing but their protein shake is excellent, if a little pricey. I may get a pair of their boots soon.

Here's another one I stumbled across recently: https://www.tannergoods.com/.
They’re not destitute, no.

But their employees were heavily compensated with options that are now worthless.

Of course options are a risk, but they didn’t work there if they didn’t think those options would be at least worth something in the future.
Yeah mattresses, any specific type of software (CAD, photo editing, video editing etc), credit cards, supplements of all varieties... these are all the ones I've personally encountered when trying to find info.

People are always quick to throw Amazon under the buss for reviews but it's not just Amazon/Newegg etc but I don't trust reviews anymore, at all, the only time I trust a 'review' is when a friend is like "yeah man I've been using this thing for such and such and it's great".

Even when friends recommend something I've been burnt simply by listening to just 1 or 2. Altman mentions a specific mattress cooler in one of his blog posts, I bought it without even checking other online reviews because I respect Sam and value his opinions (he also has no reason to plug a specific product, especially when he is in no way involved with the company). Man it was great, oh man was it great, until I'd been using it a couple of months and was changing my sheets and saw mildew all over my mattress protector from the condensation forming on the tubes at night while I slept. San Francisco doesn't have the summer humidity that Indiana does and in the 2 weeks between sheet changing...
I disagree. There's a lot of shilling in the games industry and if you pull back even the first layer you'll see a lot of discrepancies crop up. The tear down of the controller, the fact that they didn't allow internet speed tests during live demos, and a lot of videos on youtube showing game-breaking latencies. I think it's still new and you may be proven right, that these are early quirks that are fixable. But I don't think they will be outside of ideal internet connections and very specific games.
Marie Kondo betrays her whole premise by launching e-commerce store full of junk
Probably rather easy to enforce a sea border with drones and SDBs - barring submarines. (Like the ones the cartels are using for drug smuggling)

Inhumane, but...
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> about problems that require experts in a specific area to solve, and you are not an expert in that area? Do you still try to help?

Depends on the situation. I would certainly make it clear (if I didn't think it was already abundantly so) that anything I said wasn't from a position of expertise.

If someone is simply wanting to sound out a problem, or is seeking to describe their frustration as in your example, that should be fairly obvious from their wording (this tends to fall apart a little when there is a bit of a language barrier, so take extra care in those situations).

They may be deliberately looking for an outsides view - sometimes even a wrong suggestion can jog the mind towards some wood that you've not seen for the trees. Here asking questions can help: if you try to formulate your problem in a way that an outsider understands it can actually help your own understanding, or make you spot the simply thing that you'd managed to miss while "thinking too hard".

Another way of helping rather than directly, particularly in technical matters, is to suggest other helpers ("have you asked [insert someone I think will be able to help for more than I, here]?"). Or even general problem solving help. They may just need a distraction (the old "fresh air / food / hydration / company - then hopefully hit the problem again with a fresher mind).

> When people attempt to give advice on things they don't know about, I assume they are more interested in appearing smart than my well being.

I would agree with that, but only after allowing for the above caveats. And I try to be polite when it happens: the Dunning-Kruger effect can lead people to innocently misunderstand both complexity and scale, through no malice nor desire for self promotion.
That is very cool and I'll bet having a steady flow of later cohorts of students helped a ton!
I mean, this is a guy whose avatar on Medium is a semi-close up picture taken with a low-quality somewhat-fisheye webcam with bart simpson faces pasted over his eyeballs.. Yeah, he's probably lacking some of the basics.
It's also relevant to those who would take it away. Widespread adoption will compel them to break it.
> And emojiis in code, really?

For something like the representation of keyboard icons that have unicode support specifically to support use cases like this? Why not?