skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any time I see the term hodl I immediately assume it’s a toy for extremist speculators who dump all their excess cash in bizarre crypto praying for a win. I can’t even begin to imagine how much value has been destroyed by cryptocurrency.
An Alarming Discovery in an Astronaut’s Bloodstream
> It looks like someone is grudge-downvoting all your comments no matter what you say.

Welcome to the Internet! :)

> I love Rambo (the dev) and the information he provides but he clearly violated the NDA. I wonder how the pitchforkers here would handle it if someone violated their company's NDA.

Yeah see, I don't know this person from a hole in the wall, so I have no attachment and that's kind of how you have to approach these things. I've seen this song and dance so many times when someone who has social pull in a given community suffers a blow. It's not fun to swing the hammer (or at least it never was for me) but someone has to.
I feel badly for the employees. SoftBank, not so much.
Key GCP Announcements This Week at Next UK
Thanks carapace, I appreciate it, and you are too. Know what I think? I think we're all all right, but we just can't see it, and we're too <?> to look.

Can something be done about it? I think so, but it has to start somewhere.

Perhaps we could all learn something from the kids in Hong Kong.

https://i.imgur.com/EASOsTE.jpg
A (Paid) Monthly Newsletter on Privacy and Mindfulness
The smallest hundreds is 200ms. 100ms is half that.

And I do notice 100ms which is why I mostly play on PC with sub-50ms end to end latency. But this is besides the point.

> add another 50 - 100ms for a typical plasma tv

The typical TV has never been plasma? LCD TVs have had game modes for a decade and those are 10-20ms latency. Consoles automatically switch into game mode, too, and have for a long time.
Promoting people who notice impending implosions should also be SOP.
You can use https://github.com/mholt/timeliner (open source)
Reason, Cato (especially worthwhile: https://www.cato.org/people/julian-sanchez), The American Conservative, they exist.

Even Fox News does some actual investigative reporting, notwithstanding that most of their airtime is spent on opinion and propaganda.
I feel that we are a little bit too hard on the big G on this one. They simply have their own inner startups, which they kill if product gains no traction.

We should look at how many startups from YC die within 4 years and make the comparison. I might be wrong, but the ratio could be very similar.

Still, Stadia will fail for sure ^^
Learning a framework will enable more participation and contribution _now_. And arguably knowing the framework isn't so important compared to going through the _process_ of learning one; if you know how to do that then you can just latch onto the next up-and-coming framework. But yes, it's certainly also good to master JS itself.
Within the company you have to remember that there are greedy executives (as anywhere) built on top of a fatty layer of incurious middle management and mixed in with enthusiastic tech heads. Whether or not the happy chaps working on the Linux support have their work mutilated by the fat cats has yet to be seen ... it's always like this in the beginning of an embrace. And in the meantime I think there's a lot of good being done even if it's just serving as a model for FOSS projects. So as the support fades and the dream dims, there will be things to pop up to continue the legacy.

In the meantime, I'm quite happy to see Microsoft participating feverishly. I much prefer that to the alternative of intentionally making my life hell when not using their software / systems.
That's an underrated suggestion! However, even if configured as a single-hop service Tor would add substantial latency and bandwidth restrictions, and would not support UDP. But Tor would not require the user to self-host external infrastructure so could be used in a pinch where this (or more canonical ssh -R) couldn't.
The manifesto and ticket on which they stand is more than just a Corbyn brain dump, it's a reflection of the range of views within the Labour party, just as a Tory manifesto is more than just BoJo or May. Our Prime Ministers do not get US presidential - i.e. 18th century British monarchical - powers.

Brexit reveals there are some major failings with the system and how it can be hijacked by a focused minority group (e.g. the ERG), but it is not subject to the major US weakness to the {right|wrong} individual.
Ask HN: So you started as a software developer.. What are you now?
Curious to where people's careers ended up. Did you stay a dev or move to a different role?
I'm sorry to say, but this is incorrect. Clicking that button hides the strip of formatting buttons, but does not return to the old text input behavior.
hilariously and non-ironically i complained about this to my co-workers today. I was like yo did slack change their shit or am i going crazy? Now i'm on here seeing 800 comments and i'm laughing my butt off at how upset people are.

i get it, i typed a couple snippets already with backticks and it did weird stuff. took 5 minutes and guess what dont care
>However, the idea of removing ads because of 'false claims' can only lead to censorship in the future

you might be right, but the reality is that the world has a large problem with disinformation and false claims right now that's causing real negative consequences for real people. Stopping the spread of false information is a good thing that should be done.

Letting blatant lies control our political processes now just to prevent future potential censorship in the future is not a good compromise.
Q10 shows big $$ lost from Stadia, investors brings heat to the CEO. Shit rolls down hill
Since the atmosphere does not care about arbitrary political boundaries, per capita is in fact the correct way to measure when trying to decide whether a given country is contributing more or less than its fair share of the world's total for any kind of atmospheric pollution.

One simple way to see this is to consider what would happen if China were to split up into 100 separate smaller countries, each with the same per capita emissions as before.

Under a per country measurement, you get the absurd result that emissions have massively improved, even though the amount actually emitted into the atmosphere has not changed at all.
Wow, congratulations to the team! Amazing to break through regulatory barriers and make new things possible.
I feel no emotion for the investors since these are professional VC funds which should be fully aware of the risks involved. However, the situation would have been very different if they pulled out the IPO, cashed out to (among others) individual investors and then folded.
I read that as "Paid lunches"
Haven't seen MS Project in a decade. I haven't found any SaaS like it, but maybe I don't know the right keywords to search for.
Nonsense, a publicly traded corporation is inherently an immoral psychopath. They are required to single-mindedly pursue shareholder profit.
Semantics, but JavaScript itself is not a "web technology" - despite being conceived for the purpose of web scripting the original publication for version 1 even calls out that the language can be used on a variety of host environments (not limited to browsers). This can largely be seen in host environments like Node.js where it acts like any other similar language.
When Stadia announced I think the general consensus was cautiously optimistic. They promised a lot, 4k game streaming on any device - seemingly anywhere in the world. A lot of people familiar with the challenges were especially skeptical. But the marketing kept going with its promises. Now it comes out and many of these fears are validated - it only really works in tightly controlled situations with very specific types of games. The sticker price and ridiculous marketing remains.

The current negative sentiment as seen on HN is about Google dropping products. But I think the negative sentiment outside of our bubble is due to Google blundering into this with dishonest marketing. Google tried to force this into a viral success on day 1 and that's not going to happen. This strategy also eroded trust that it will be fixed to the point it was originally promised either.

Finally, it didn't help that they didn't vertically integrate the games themselves and are charging full price for the game on top of the service. Microsoft is a good example of how it may have been done, by investing heavily in studios and exclusives to get the people going. To be fair though, Microsoft has decades of experience with this with xbox alone.

EDIT:

Because of a sibling comment I just want to mention how I think this may end. I think Google is now between a rock and a hard place, they either dump immense resources to get it right, or they dump the product and face even worse consumer reputation decline (this time in an entirely new market segment!). I suppose there may be a third alternative of putting it on life support. Either way there is no clear win here, I do empathize with the team which probably has a lot of passionate members who just want to do a good job. It'll be a good PM lesson to watch how it shakes out.
To any other devs who like me who want to use Firefox Debugger, but were driven back to the devil Chromium by need for consistent, seamless copy-paste and select-middlemouse interaction: Give 70.0.1 a try. Much, much better. So much that I've dropped Chromium. (Ubuntu 18.04)
I agree. If Google was really serious about Stadia, they should have invested in first-party and second-party dev studios to show off the platform (instead of relying on disinterest third parties to port their old games). They should also subsidize the service (and the games) and lose money on it while they educate the public on the benefits of cloud gaming. And yes, they should also forge deeper relationships with third-party developers and sign license deals to maybe turn this into an Xbox-GamePass-Type service (i.e. Netflix for games), or just experiment with other types of business models (maybe something like Audible, where subscription gets you one free game a month).

But they did none of it. The focused on the technology with no thought on the value prop and the business and consequently decided on the easisest and worst model where the customer pays full price for old games. Typical Google.
The ads are unappealing, reviews are not favorable, the name does not really sound like an entertainment product.

A dead on arrival product.
Google will be totally neutral fellas despite:

1. Some 95% of employees being registered Democrats

2. 100% of senior leadership being Democrat. Heck, they even wept publicly after the 2016 elections.

3. They've never refuted contents of leaked tapes exposing bias - just keep denying that the said bias is company policy. [1][2][3][4]

[1]: https://youtu.be/CX6LlEcJ4nw

[2]: https://youtu.be/IzF7nBmwPso

[3]: https://youtu.be/SY82j7NUtCQ

[4]: https://youtu.be/ik_kzn3etsE
I would consider this different than a typo. It is a common misuse, where to some eyes it appears correct, while to others' (including mine) it jumps out as blatantly incorrect, like saying "there" when you mean "their", or "it's" when you mean "its".

And it isn't just a case of typical compounding, words/phrases of that general form are never compounded in verb form.
I don't agree with the person you are replying to either, however I don't feel much emotion for VCs who throw their money around and don't do their proper due diligence.

A property leasing company that sub-leases property owned personally by the CEO is a massive conflict of interest and a huge red flag, how these "professional investors" came to the conclusion that it would be a good idea to invest is beyond me.
Was it "we want these specific sizes", or was it "we want these specific sizes and you can't sell those sizes anywhere else"?
Hmm the average joe is already using google drive rather than office et al. Works on linux and mac better than the office stack works on windows.
I think that this project has the economics to work, so, even if Google abandons it, somebody should eventually build it. Why I think streaming games is a powerful thing: Piracy. It will be more difficult to get a ilegal copy of a game that was never released to the public, only run on servers. But yes, kind of sucks to who wants to test games or live in third world countries.
Oddly enough, the Amazon 'Vine' program could be more reliable than other reviews; that program rewards critical reviews just as much as positive ones. There is no quid pro quo.
Surface is a huge hit AFAK
> It might even get cancelled a year from now. None of that matters

To the customers who spent money on Stadia and games on Stadia only to have it shut down and leave their games inaccessible it matters. If this were a free service there wouldn't be so much negative chatter about it. This is mostly people warning others to consider purchasing Stadia may be equivalent to a high-priced one year subscription.
Do you regularly go to restaurants you can't afford and declare their desire not to make you a plate hostile?

From where do you derive the requirement to graciously work for free to serve your ends?
Isn't it subscription based service anyway? Probably by the time they canceled the project, there would be a competition that you can move to.
Maps, thanks. Still pretty good.

I agree with none of the others.
MSSQL's replication is a minefield of ways to screw it up completely.
Yeah, teams was pretty badly broken even a few months ago... There's an "unofficial" client in Flathub, that's what I've been using and it mostly works now... the only broken feature I'm aware of that I haven't re-tried is the desktop sharing... but the A/V chat and webcam now work.
"Even Fox News does some actual investigative reporting, notwithstanding that most of their airtime is spend on opinion and propaganda."

I actually read Fox News daily for a few months to try and see this, but I didn't, and eventually stopped after they autoplayed played someone getting fatally hit by a truck on their front page.
Gamers Nexus has a scathing review of Stadia that is amusing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6dyrtnLU_w
My company payed once for an outlook plugin written by, near as we can figure, a single guy and has been using it for over a decade and it continues to get updates for free.

The hump you have to get over, I think, is the one where your product doesn't explode the second you disappear. That's tough with web stuff, but easy for native.
I get this sentiment. But whenever my wife and I swipe through old photos and videos of our kids, I am also overjoyed that I am a parent in the smartphone era.
C++ has no notion of signals and slots or other metaobject utilities. Your editor cannot autocomplete those signals/slots like Qt Creator. Anyway, I encourage you to not get too hung up on this particular issue with Qt and consequently miss the broader point.
I think Jessica may also find that the IRS is real and the idea that she doesn't need to pay tax on this -- is fake.
You do realize that streaming games is an old idea and has been tried many times and Google's competitors do or will have similar services. Google isn't doing anything new here. They don't have any first-move advantage. The only advantage they have is infrastructure and scale. Whether that is enough, we shall see.
Counter is optimistic :D
Plus J Allard was phenomenal leader for xBox.
Unasked-for advice is often not actually helpful and more about the advice-giver than the receiver.

They would probably not say that and just slowly freeze you out of their social life because they found you annoying, grating, or unpleasant to interact with.

People often simply want to share what's going on and be heard and recognized. It's a basic human need.

Obviously it all depends on the situation.
Google docs works like a charm
The truth is knowable.
Can you honestly expect a project to be taken seriously when it's named after a dumb meme that everyone associates with dumb armchair investors who make terrible decisions?
> Google is trying something really innovative

This kind of thing has been around for nearly 10 years.
Aaron Hsu’s co-dfns is a compiler of a subset of APL, written in APL, which compiles to GPU code.

Do a HN Algolia search for his username “arcfide” to find a lot of discussion, and there’s a couple of YouTube video talks, one of him talking through the codebase on a livestream, another a recording of a conference style tall introducing it to people.

It needs Dyalog APL, but that’s now easily available for non commercial use.
Blink Principles of Interoperability
> I don't think its target audience is hardcore gamers

They are marketing to hardcore gamers
The Patterns of Scalable, Reliable, and Performant Large-Scale Systems
So... people shouldn't be promoted for keeping existing services running, but they should keep those services running as SOP? Sounds like a recipe for misaligned incentives to me.
Glass cost money, more than 10x what this cost, and that was not a signal of their long term ambition.

The problem with Stadia is that it costs money, the service costs a monthly fee, and on top of it you have to buy the games. What happens to those games if you stop paying the fee? If you stop using Stadia? If Google deprecates Stadia like many are worried. I'll tell you: you lose the game.

If I, conversely, buy the same $60 game on Steam, I know it'll be there years down the road, that I'll be able to play it on any PC I build, and I don't have to maintain a monthly fee for it.

What Google is trying has been tried many times before, by people who had more permissive game ownership structures.

Do not tell us we shouldn't be worried about using such a product from Google given their track record -- especially when the costs to them are enormous in terms of computing power and the reception has been very tepid (meaning those costs are larger per-user than they likely anticipated).
> MAYBE you can feel some emotion for the investors whose money was essentially stolen, by a scam artist?

I've got plenty of sympathy for people being laid off I was just putting forward the case that it was good while it lasted. Less so for investors. From the perspective of the latter you win some, you lose some. And any concerns should be raised with people that funded the company to the tune of billions with what appears to be little governance or due diligence.
Been a frontend dev for 10 years angular and react. You’re right it’s a little mix of functional state management and imperative structures for the game objects.
Scaling costs ?
Agree it's terrible. Start a sentence with inline code and then try to go to beginning of line to add words that are non-code. It'll think you're trying to edit the inline code and you have to manually press the GUI buttons now to turn off code mode.
Well if you define a market simply as a mechanism of wealth transmission from dumb people to smarter people then I think that Adam Neumann deserves every single cent of 1.7 billion dollars.
The RPi 4 SoC does have crypto accelerators, specifically for HDCP. It does not have the ARMv8 crypto extensions.
If memory serves me well those keyboard USB ports weren't amped enough to handle power hungry devices though.
I give this the millennial stamp of approval
Thanks for the response. The situation became much clearer to me now.
There is an startup bubble funded by central bank low interest rates. It’s understandable that capital is seeking higher gains. What is not so ok is that we are building a casino like economic bubble funding ideas which are not profitable. If interest rates where higher bets would be more selective.
What if they could give away the underpowered devices and sell subscriptions or ad-supported games?
Also worth checking out: the "near death" page on the Google cemetery website: https://gcemetery.co/tag/near-death/. Lots of obscure products you probably haven't even heard of.
SaaS Pricing Pages – My #1 Tweak
I reread Cat's Cradle every couple of years. You can read the entire book in a 3-4 hour sitting. It is funny and sad, it loves humans and hates them. It is one of my favorite books of all time.
> Part of the problem is technological in that we never adopted a way of verifying senders are who they claim to be, but a large part of it is that humans are really good at fooling other humans, at least enough of the time to cause trouble.

Tell me more about how DKIM and SPF and TLS with client certificates don't verify senders.
Google has a few products which were stellar and singularly awesome at the time of launch: Search, Maps, and Gmail. In the years since I'm not even sure I love those products anymore. Search has nearly become pay-to-play, a model which the original search killed. Maps is not nearly as stand-out as it used to be (mostly because products like Apple Maps have improved massively over the years). And Gmail is a bit of a mess and it's gotten pretty damned creepy having Google shuffling through mail.

They've also acquired Google Docs, YouTube, and Android which are arguably their most appealing current offerings. But those products are themselves giant question marks. YouTube and Android in particular seem plagued with privacy and ethical flaws.

Probably the most compelling product to come out of Google in a long time is the Chromebook. Given their history, a lot of people are rightfully suspicious of Google's intentions with the Chromebook and privacy aspects around it.

I tend to eye Google's offerings the same way I looked at MSFTs 15-20 years ago.
Carbon tariffs don't have to only be on the carbon content of the goods transferred. You can just punish a country generally for not doing their part if you'll otherwise have a tragedy of the commons type outcome.

I'm relatively hopeful that renewables will simply be cheaper though, in part thanks to China. But we could still use tariffs for global co-operation on other sources of emissions (there was a story recently about China releasing CFCs for example).
I looked into a few websites tracking climate change progress. They seemed to show that China is doing relatively better compared to others, in terms of climate change goals.

Here is the summary that I posted on my blog:

https://paraditedc.com/2019/11/22/pdc-10-chinas-real-progres...
Only 2% of 10M websites pass WCAG 2.1 and ADA requirements
It’s not at all a bad sign. Any large and complex system will have parts rot from lack of maintenance, and giving awards to people who identify and correct this ahead of disasters is a good thing.
It shows that it was a DDos simply by the fact that is what Cloudflare does? Protects against DDos attacks? IDK maybe your right, I supposed they could have spoofed a DDos using a small botnet and simultaneously rebooted the servers. That would require a level of sophistication but certainly possible.
Fighting games too via things like GGPO.

Not to mention even fighting games like Melee have a little local input lag, which you can then remove and use to hide network latency online.
As far as I can see the major difference is that the C code uses longer macro names.
It’s just what happens when you mix the spirit of legal and business imperatives with tech, but there probably was never a tipping point for a world of hobbyists. Nobody accuses the lawyer or businessman of malfeasance when they secure the business moat.
Phoebus Cartel
Right. But it is still possible to run a DNS resolver and dump those domains in a address based blacklist at the firewall.
> I just feel like I want less latency and video over internet doesn't seem like it's going to catch up with a 4-6ft video cable direct to my monitor / TV.

It's already close, I've gotten stable <20 ms over 100 m distance with Steam Link in standard 1 gigabit ethernet LAN without any tweaks (QoS etc). This is enough to play slower performance-heavy games like citybuilders without noticing any difference compared to playing on a local computer.