skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't understand how fickle technology is and how fickle users are. It's a browser plugin, it takes 2 seconds to uninstall. This entire company could disappear in a flash if something about the plugin ecosystem changes, or if e-commerce habits change to be more mobile oriented. They have absolutely 0 stickiness. Most of their users probably installed the plugin during their initial marketing push and have forgotten to turn it off.
You may want to look in their uservoice forums to see how requested that feature is, and upvote it. I've seen a few of the features I've requested and supported bear fruit from this.
Jump. That $7k won't make a difference in SF and you're never going to get back the time.

You're already getting (and doing well with) interviews. Negotiate yourself an offer (maybe even with relocation expenses) with one of these companies and then move.

Understand that time is a much more scarce resource than money.
See also “Rust out your C” by Carol Nichols:

https://github.com/carols10cents/rust-out-your-c-talk
A third of the tropical African flora is potentially threatened with extinction
> MS has open sourced huge amounts of resource and platform building code in .Net Core the past several years

Maybe they're trying to embrace, extend and exterminate open source. /s

As far as I can tell, EEE ended during Balmer. Not because he's necessarily a "good guy," but because he genuinely hated everything 'not Microsoft' too much in order to following through with the first step of EEE: embrace. There can't be a consistent "EEE strategy" because that strategy ended (for completely different reasons). If Microsoft has decided to attempt EEE again then, sure, there's something to be worried about.

There is certainly one thing that has always been more reliable than Microsoft and EEE: lose if you do, lose if you don't. Microsoft could shut their doors for good tomorrow and there would likely still be people spouting nonsense about how that's actually EEE.

> Defend and aggressively expand APIs and technologies where Microsoft leads (e.g., keep DirectX the only first-class API for games)

It's curious that Microsoft partners so closely with Unity, then, who provide a way to develop games outside of DirectX.
Potentially noob question, with Moore's law slowing down, are there enough specializations/hardware modifications available like those mentioned in the paper such that progress in ML will continue to progress rapidly? or will these advancements simply forestall an inevitable asymptote.
I know you're joking, but serial line afaik has lower latency than the USB stuff being used today
I am sure this will be down voted, but given the frontrunners for the Democrats, I think Zuckerberg has both a personal, and corporate vested interest in ensuring Trump is re-elected.
I don't see the Usenet connection to RSS. Could you flesh it out a little bit please? Before the governors used the fear of pr0n to encourage willing ISPs to kill netnews it was a nice free distributed "town square" kind of service that came along with an ISP account. The ability to download article headers via NNRP is the only obvious commonality with RSS.
From the article, 2,400 employees is 19% of the peak of 12,500 employees on June 30. There was no mention of where the cuts were made however.

I am curious how many "white collar" type jobs WeWork would have, since I heard from previous discussions here that they were hiring for roles in unrelated-to-real-estate things like machine learning. I would imagine that there are lots of hourly-type roles managing the sites, but 12,500 seems reasonable for 849 locations (from https://www.wework.com/locations), ~14 people per location, assuming that they are included in that 12,500 number.
Then what’s stopping us from making a MMORPG with the physics of a simulator?
What is going on with Google?

I used to think Google had the best product team in the world. In some ways I thought they defined what modern product management is/was.

Now I have no clue what they are thinking with their product launches as of late. All of their products (and marketing) invoke this conservative, risk-adverse blandness that tries to appeal to everyone and in turn appeals to no one.
insert newlines until your eyes bleed
Isn't obsessing over the neurobiology of DMT experiences burying the lede? The far more interesting question in my mind is how mystical experience engenders lasting psychological benefit. And considering DMT's 5-7 minute half life, I doubt it has a lot to do with the physical brain.
Plaid Launches in France, Spain, and Ireland
> They certainly dont inspire trust in anything but their flagship brands like Gmail that have been with us for decades.

Even Gmail is a giant blob of garbage.
Microsoft is working with Sony and Nintendo on this in some form or the other. Cloud gaming has a future, but it's not going to be Stadia by the looks of it.
Granted that the technology is feasible (and, FWIW, I believe it) how to address the political/social side of it to actually "get 'er done!"?

Technically, your stance or proposals are a political extreme, eh?

- - - -

FWIW, and apologies if this seems way out of left field, there is a kind of psychological algorithm called "Core Transformation Process". It operates between a guide and a single subject, in a therapeutic setting, to resolve and transform personal issues. Now I suspect, although I haven't tried it, that a variation designed to work with two subjects simultaneously (or alternating, or something) could work really well as a kind of negotiation or conflict-resolution process.

The thing is, something like that is even further out sociopolitically than your technology-saves-the-day proposals (which, again, I am all in favor of, FWIW.)
We are about to launch a new .NET core service and I've been working with .NET core for about 2 years now. Not only is Linux not a second class citizen (it is the easiest platform to run on and scale), but dropping support would make no sense from a business or technical standpoint. Microsoft is making a ton of money by supporting cross platform.

We aren't using SQL Server, but I've used most of the big RDBMS and SQL Server is the best. It just tends to be more expensive.

So far it has been anything but a "pain".
I use the website, and for our workspace I am not seeing the auto-formatting at all now. It appears to be like it was before they rolled out the wysiwyg. Yay I guess. I did not like it at all so I'm happy about it.
Just don't organise it on Google Hangouts as that'll probably be shutdown before Stadia.
You already do, just with different consequences. Our brains are very good at mitigating input latency since it deals with it all the time, so we adapt quickly to 80ms. Compare that to the current system where what you see on screen is not what actually happens in the game. You get used to it, but every game solves it differently and it always feels bad. So I think that a lot of players would actually prefer this kind of latency over the kind they are used to now.

Also note that many who play for example COD does it on TV's and consoles which has hundreds of ms already without people noticing it, so playing with 80ms input lag would be fine for 99% of players.
This is just the 21st century version of old illiterate people whinging about younger, literate people writing things down or keeping reference materials instead of trying to memorize everything.

The human brain is way better at remembering where to find information than remembering information itself.
Among many things:

“500$? Fully subsidized? With the plan? That is the most expensive phone in the world” [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qycUOENFIBs
I agree with you on the value of honey as a consumer, although I'm guessing we're not the main targets for this kind of plugin. But, I think you have to look at it from the perspective of PayPal's core business: payment services. My guess is that paypal wants honey because honey lives in the checkout of every website when the plugin is installed.

PayPal can increase their own revenue by offering incentives for people to checkout with PayPal (instead of another payment service). Maybe someday they could even offer payment services on sites that don't even accept paypal, at least more easily integrate with those sites for Honey users.

They could also sell extended warranties, or resell 3rd party ones as many retailers now do.
Exchange of goods for services is called “payment in kind”. It is a form of payment.
Germany is also amusingly building new coal: https://www.reuters.com/article/uniper-coal-plant/unipers-da...

China has 43 GW of nuclear built, 11 GW in construction, and another 36 GW planned. I guess it's not a huge figure compared to 148.
There are some invite-only third parties selling on target.com.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/02/26/target-like-...

https://www.target.com/p/steel-hammock-stand-10-sunnydaze-de...
I don't think these are really excessive. You could probably learn much of each stack by essentially using personal projects as excuses to use these technologies and touch at least half or one third of each list each go. For example, "write a poker card playing website that saves your hand when you press a button" will get you a bunch of frontend, backend, and database.
The anti-cheat potential would actually be a killer feature for me. Unfortunately the games which would benefit the most from it also tend to be latency-sensitive.
In the snow!
The timer is based on historical averages of Google products. Seems like a decent heuristic, except niche products like Youtube app for the Nintendo 3DS is included

https://gcemetery.co/youtube-nintendo-3ds/?ref=lifespanrecen...
Google Stadia gameplay test from a laptop on Chrome with a 100 mbps connection.
Rendering is the computationally heavy part.
/r/woosh
From what I hear, this is due to the promo driven culture at Google. You can good reviews/promos based on new products that get pushed to market, nobody cares about maintenance at Google.
Why do you think it would be hard to get elected on that platform?

To be clear I think you're right, but the reason I'd give is that people with financial interests in fossil fuels will spend their money on attacking you and boosting your opponent.

Nothing about the actual steps required seems that unpopular to me. Cleaner air, cheaper energy, better cars and busses? It only seems terrible if you believe the lies put out by the aforementioned fossil fuel interests.
One of the excuses Jobs used for not putting Flash on the iPhone was that it was closed-source, and that he believed that web standards should always be "open-source." This was a convenient excuse to snuff Adobe that he only got to use because Webkit was LGPL'd (by KDE's doing, not Apple's), but it did stop critics from complaining as much. Most free software that Apple has released around the web was because of this.

Jobs was notorious for snowing out free software people. If you don't know what that means:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snow%20job

A primary example was when Jobs tried to convince Stallman to allow NeXT to break the GPL, Stallman resisted, and a bit of NeXT got released under a GPL-compatible license.

From a mail exchange between him and the developer of clisp:

I say this based on discussions I had with our lawyer long ago. The
issue first arose when NeXT proposed to distribute a modified GCC in
two parts and let the user link them. Jobs asked me whether this was
lawful. It seemed to me at the time that it was, following reasoning
like what you are using; but since the result was very undesirable for
free software, I said I would have to ask the lawyer.

What the lawyer said surprised me; he said that judges would consider
such schemes to be "subterfuges" and would be very harsh toward
them. He said a judge would ask whether it is "really" one program,
rather than how it is labeled.

So I went back to Jobs and said we believed his plan was not allowed
by the GPL.

The direct result of this is that we now have an Objective C front
end. They had wanted to distribute the Objective C parser as a
separate proprietary package to link with the GCC back end, but since
I didn't agree this was allowed, they made it free.

So I don't think the GPL actually requires a correction for this.
But perhaps it would be a good idea to add a note explaining this.
Everyone wants to control the narrative; this is simply the first time you've been faced with a right-wing POTUS that is capable to some extent of doing so, and it's helped you forget that all political parties are putting forward a narrative, because partisanship is a hefty drug. This is nothing new, which is both good and bad; it's not a novel crisis, but it's also something we can't get rid of.
It really does suck!
You can use (encrypted) sparsebundle images with a given size limit as backup destination on the server.
> Many of the older .NET class libraries were just not designed with *nix in mind. System.IO still doesn't support symlinks

Windows supports symlinks, so that problem is not unique to netcore on nix. Many of the newer APIs are designed with explicit support for nix.
Neovim and the state of text editor art in 2019 [pdf]
Safety Gym
Cartoon: Aspects of Intimacy – Devops.com
Microtransactions are a pet peeve of the hardcore crowd, but ask any average gamer and it probably doesn't rate in the top 10 disagreements with modern gaming. It's an artifact of the hardcore gamer filter bubble online, not a widespread grievance.

The problems Stadia addresses - eliminating 100GB downloads and constant 10-20GB patch downloads that might take hours to pull down, removing the cost of entry in the form of a console, being able to play AAA games on your phone - these are things the average non-hardcore gamer cares about.
Sorry, but pet peeve. Shutdown is not a verb. (should be "shut down")

http://notaverb.com/shutdown
While things improved in some aspects (like recent freeing up of exFAT), as a Linux gamer, I still see MS if not outright hostile, then surely by far not friendly when it comes to Linux.

Thanks to Phil Spencer, they didn't join the Vulkan working group, and continue pushing their DX lock-in. For Linux it means dxvk and vkd3d are important tools to break it. When MS will start using Vulkan proper, I might change my mind about them being hostile towards Linux.

Same applies to other lock-in cases the article mentions.
Reminds me of this high speed tracker video from 2013:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn5YQVvW-hQ

Much easier problem to solve at 1k fps but still cool.
Presented by Justin M. Keyes on VimConf 2019.

Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt-vmPC_-Ho
The technical difficulty of making an MMORPG I'm guessing.
I'm also a software engineer allegedly in the same cultural circles as these folks...but this brunch reference is honestly baffling to me to an extent that it makes me wonder if I even am in the same class as these folks. I've never even been to brunch!
Well then, here's another reason it's false: there is huge variation within the West, with the US for example having more than twice as much co2 emissions per capita as the UK.
>You wouldn't say "I have two solitary eyes" would you?

I would.
Proportional to other possible personal actions you can take, I mean.

It's easy & fairly affordable for example to offset 10x your own personal emissions. For an average person in the US that would cost about $70 a month (about 20 tonnes/year * $4/tonne * 10 = $800/year). Meanwhile it's clearly impossible to 1000% reduce your personal emissions, no matter the sacrifices.

Completely agree we need large-scale action from nations & corporations too, but if you're looking for a way you can make a difference right now then offsetting is one of your most direct & effective options.
Feature flags are not a panacea for software quality. They actually make your test matrix much larger, as on any given system a different set of flags might be enabled.
Chromebooks would like to have a word with you.
In the last 11 days we have had two public releases of iOS.

That’s MORE than one per week.
Absolutely, I grew up there. Who needs the sea when you can't see the other side of the lake and it doesn't stink like the ocean?
Maybe I'm crazy but I've never thought google had a good product team. Has there ever been a coherent vision for their collection of products?

Edit: just to be clear. I'm not saying google doesnt have good products. I use and enjoy lots of them but for a long time it has seemed like even google isn't sure how all their products fit together. Perhaps that leads to weird forays into territories that don't fit which then results in shutting things down.
Threads turn every slack channel into a multi-headed hydra. Now, in addition to keeping up with updates on slack channels, you're also having to keep up with updates to threads in slack channels. Worse than that, if you're looking for an old thread you have to remember the channel it's in and the first message that started it if you want a hope in hell of finding it, since the threaded responses don't (normally) show up in the channel itself.
A lack of gameplay from the resulting physics to justify the server costs? Game devs don't simulate worlds for the fun of it. They have a purpose behind things. There's a cost/benefit involved.
I'm not the author, but I _think_ this is similar to what you can do via "ssh -R" (SSH remote port forwarding) - but generalised to UDP too.

Scenario:

- You have a Linode VM running, accessible to everyone on the Internet

- You run Mr.2 server on this Linode VM

- On your home laptop (behind NAT), you run Mr.2 client, pointing it at your Mr.2 server on the Linode VM

- Now, from anywhere in the world, you can connect to your home laptop via the Linode server

... I think.
Backstage 9: Ten Years of Changelog
>This comment is extremely frustrating

If you find that comment "extremely frustrating" you must really hate... well everything really.
I got my first promotion in Google for preventing a half-forgotten system from imploding.
Surprising absolutely nobody.

Meanwhile, Adam Neumann is still collecting a $1.7 Billion payout.
Same news, no paywall: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/21/wework-lays-off-2400-employe...
Google's missteps are someone else's opportunity. I use FastMail, NewsBlur, etc, all so I don't have to use Google.

Vote with your wallet and choices. Use non-Google tooling whenever possible.
If ads didn't exist, the pricing of that content would be quite different...
So what? There are many alternative smartphones besides an iPhone.
Money is cheap. Homes in particular rely a lot on financing. Goods that don’t rely on financing are relatively cheap since inflation has been so low. I believe in part because money is so cheap currently that businesses are able to sell bonds cheaply to finance their operation. Because of this the savings are passed down to consumers.

But house prices have more to do with interest rates than inflation currently I suspect.
>Microsoft loves Linux because it makes them money. I'm not sure why anyone would expect differently.

I rather thought the point of the article was that Microsoft didn't actually love linux but pretended that it did to stave off irrelevance in markets where linux is kicking their ass (i.e. server).

As he said, if they really loved linux and this isn't just another "embrace, extend, extinguish" ploy sugarcoated in PR niceties they'd be porting office and directx and outlook to linux.

Which they're not.
Worst Show HN ever?
Always online is really just for smooth microtransaction delivery.
Reminds me of Jeff Han's original multi-touch demo. Slightly different topic, but also mind-boggling back then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiS-W9aeG0s
Sometimes I think that Linux is the 1st class citizen for .NET Core when it comes to a server stack. .NET Core is seriously awesome since version 2.0 on all platforms.
In the EU the rules against anti-competitive behaviour are based on market dominance. Remember that term. That is how Google got fined even if they don't have a strict monopoly.

Even though it's technically incorrect to refer to these situations as "monopoly", that still happens in conversation.

But if you then correct someone for not using the strict meaning of monopoly properly, then really you're just showing that you are unaware of the regulations around anti-competitive behaviour. The actual rules don't mention "monopoly", they are centred all around market dominance.

It should be pretty clear what people mean in this context when they say "monopoly" and it doesn't really help to take that word literally, since all the actual regulations are about market dominance.
I would hazard to guess that latency would be a killer for that. It's painful enough if you have 100ms ping on tactical FPS games like CS:GO for instance, but if the delay in a player's position updating caused a completely different physics cascade to happen (running into a wall rather than a stack of cardboard boxes for instance), that could get pretty jarring to see either the correction occurring constantly or the physics delayed after someone's actions.

Of course I'm just theorising - it could be an idea that no-one's implemented yet.
His about page doesn't 404. Nor does it contain the text you quoted in your previous reply and his main page does not link to /about.html.

In fact even if you deliberately add .html to the about page URL it just redirects to /about anyway, which makes your comments even more baffling.
The privacy implications of this are concerning. How long will these recordings be kept? Will the recordings, or excerpts from them, be sold to third parties?

I can see recorded conversations being used to extract data that is anonymized and then sold to third parties. An example: this week mentions of the company Foo,Inc. went up 35% in Mountain View,CA as opposed to up 5% average across the rest of the country. From this example it's reasonable that one of the companies in Mountain View is about to have a significant interaction with Foo, Inc., perhaps an acquisition, so this could be financially valuable information. And of course it would valuable to marketers.
> Hardcore gamers may not like it

I'm not a hardcore gamer -- I think hardcore gamers would call me a "casual gamer". But Stadia is not interesting to me at all. It offers tons of important limitations, and brings no actual benefit that I can see.
> Everytime I hear someone say "just look, they don't support office on Linux!" I ask: and what exactly do you think the market share is of guys who love Linux so much they use it on the desktop, but also would PAY Microsoft for Office vs. just using LibreOffice or Google's office suite? If you think MS hasn't done the math and figured out that solution would never break even much less turn a profit, I guess I'd ask anyone making that claim to show their work.

Microsoft crunched the numbers for the platform rather than the software and decided to steamroll over the ODF format[1]. The largest revenue for MS Office comes from enterprises who do care about paying less for the OS if all they are going to use is a wordprocessor or spreadsheet. Are you claiming that desktop linux would not have been adopted by enterprises if they could get the same document render and be editable exactly the same manner irrespective of the vendor software being used ?

MS has had a long dirty history. I am not opposed to giving them the benefit of doubt but it is way too little, and way too early to do this right now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open...
I believe such services exist. They are commonly referred to as “Escort Services” and I agree that John would be well advised to consider using one.
Google started to make sense to me when I started to understand their business model- Own every 'entry point' to engagement with a business, and then force that business to compete for users by purchasing Google's advertisements.

Gaming is big business, Google wants to own the consumer relationship so it can force publishers to advertise/sell through them.