skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I came across this list https://thedigitalprojectmanager.com/microsoft-project-alter... (scroll down for the screenshots of the various products) but I haven't used any of the tools on that list. But they're certainly out there.

I used https://liquidplanner.com/ for a bit, it was clunky and slow and expensive, but did get the job done for what I needed.
I would love to read more about why this is important/interesting/useful

My eyes very quickly glazed over while reading the blog post, it seemed like an obscure theoretical curiosity
On this website?
I fell in love with Vonnegut when I was in college.

A friend recommended Catcher in the Rye, but it didn't appeal to me, so he suggested Cat's Cradle.

After that I went on a binge.

I know Slaughterhouse-5 gets all the accolades, but for me Breakfast of Champions is my all time favorite novel.
Oh, snap: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wework-newyork-investigat...
Google was really good long ago, before the IPO, when their motto was still "Don't be Evil", and for a short time after that.
I'm generally a descriptivist vs. a precriptionist, but this is a different thing. Is there anyone arguing that, just because many people write "there" when they mean "their", that we should consider it correct? To me this is the same.

Can you show me anywhere "shutdown" is used as a verb (in the computer industry or otherwise) where it appears as a choice rather than a simple error? Like in the title of a well circulated article, or otherwise in something that has been subject to professional editing?

https://twitter.com/apstylebook/status/1087717834975789056?l...
Oh lord. I knew Google Wave was going to be a disaster from the get go. It was a secret project inside of Google that was not required to follow any of the normal google product design. This meant that it could use whatever database technology it wanted. This lead to some really terrible design decisions that would make sense at a very small startup but not for a large multi-million user product.

At the time I was working on the mail delivery infrastructure and they basically reached out to us at the last minute asking about email functionality. That was horrible because its not easily to wedge into a product after the design phase.

It annoys me so much because it was such a cool idea but the tech stack was badly implemented from the start. =/
This is incorrect. Furthermore, just about every consumer TV has a “Game Mode” setting to further minimize latency by turning off post processing — a feature that wouldn’t exist if people didn’t care about latency.
This argument also applies to protesting or voting - one protestor/voter alone makes no difference - or almost any possible attempt at a solution. What's the alternative?

One person voting or acting makes only a small difference, but doing so as one of many eventually has an effect. Corporations and governments will move only because of the cumulative economic and democratic incentives from many many personal actions.
>On the other hand it looks like it'll become much harder for JavaScript-less environments to extract data from web-pages as now an article on a news site could be something like <news-article id="23848923"> and the JavaScript side will do the rest.

This is already the case on a lot of sites, just not standardized. With the standard you could sandbox the javascript or maybe implement specific parsing for the most common web components.
"Google kills all their products" is a bit of an overused meme trotted out at any launch... But for Stadia it's a pretty legitimate concern, I'd say.

The model where you're still "buying" the games ties you to the ongoing operation of the service much more strongly than in many of their services where an eventual migration might be a little painful, but it's still possible.

The counterargument would be that they've deployed a ton of network capacity and GPU resources for cloud computing anyway, and so Stadia is just riding on those coattails... But it's certainly not a promising track record.
There is a hamburger icon (top-left), 9-dot icon (top-right), gear icon (top-right) and 3-dot icon (top-left). What do they all do? (I actually know).
> You can include native code in Electron apps. I am not sure it is actually needed in any of the messaging Electron apps (Slack, Discord), but the capability is there.

Discord has options for streaming your game to others, identifying running processes to display games as your status, downloading and launching games, and displaying a chat overlay on top of external game processes.

Some of those can be accomplished in a roundabout way without native code, but I think it's safe to say Discord benefits from that ability.
The services you mention all have entire large teams devoted to tackling spam, reputation, uptime, etc. That it's easy and cheap on a marginal basis for them to add one more inbox to their millions doesn't mean the overall infrastructure is easy to keep running.
Basic communication skills for Websites: Have all the contents in a single page with a table content at the top; instead of me trying to figure out my way through dozens of pages each with very little content.
Couldn't you just return it and buy from a different vendor?
Your link made your earlier statement appear disingenuous. One person's beliefs against the concept of same-sex marriage doesn't necessarily mean said person is anti-gay. Those are two different issues really. One represents a social construct (and legal arrangement) and the other involves a personal preference or choice of lifestyle. Many who are against same-sex marriage still believe in the freedoms people should have in choosing their sexual partners.
But these are all things where Google was late to the game and didn't succeed in taking someone's crown. So it's an interesting question: How does Google failing at some product that isn't already a well established concept impact the consumer's sentiment towards the idea behind it.
La extrema urbanidad y cortesía
agota y cansa la paciencia mía.
Figúrate lector, y es un ejemplo,
que entrar queremos en sala, alcoba o gabiente
y que somos por juntos seis o siete.

¿No es un feroz y bárbaro tormento el
"pase Usted primero" y "faltaría mas, caballero"?
Y han así de pasar horas galanes y señoras[1],
estando todos ellos convencidos
de lo inútiles que son tales cumplidos.

Voy a dar aquí un mínimo consejo[1],
y mírese quien quiera en este espejo:
cuando te digan que pases adelantes,
no te hagas rogar, pasa al instante.

Figueroa

[1] Paraphrased, I don't remember this verse right now.
Does anyone have a term for the practice of transitioning from in-universe to out-universe? A few of these sentences do that. I've always found it a little annoying. Another example is when someone asks, "Why did the so-and-so movie character do this?" and someone else wittily responds, "Because the screenwriter needed him to!" I've heard them referred to as Watsonian and Doylist respectively but I'm wondering if there are other names for it.
> I know for sure that in the end the C macros will only do text replacement, whereas the Rust macros could do anything.

My impression is exactly the opposite: Rust macros are guaranteed to expand to syntactically valid code that still obeys the memory/type/lifetime-safety constraints, whereas C macros can expand to something that won't even compile, never mind have any guarantees about soundness. Not to mention all the hoops you have to jump through with extra parens and whatnot to avoid the footguns of C macro operator precedence.
More powerful macros and full unicode support feel like advantages to me.
Eh, I agree with him. I've been with gmail since middle school (going on... a LOT of years now, back when it was invite only).

Somewhere in the last 10 years or so it feels like the gmail team switched from "Make a good email client" to "Shove all the enterprisey things into gmail!".

It's gotten SO slow to load and is incredibly bloated.

I was a happy inbox user until... drumroll... they shut that down too.

I still use Gmail because old habits die hard, but I won't ever suggest a google tool at work. Fool me once, shame on you...
Exactly the same thing happened to WordPress in version 5 when they changed the default editor. I am surprised that innovation is not embraced but it is met with strong opposition most of the time.
What amuses me is that no one switched from X to Slack because of the editor but some will switch from Slack because of it.
You don’t need to know everything on the list to be good at a role.

Just for example, Devops engineer lists Mesos, emacs, sockets, and virtualization. Other than know that these concepts exist and a 5 sentence description of what they do, you don’t need to intimately understand them. I haven’t gone through the other roles but I’m sure they’re the same.
The comment I'm replying to specifically said money.
Some of the Google Cloud Products are quite good in my opinion. Spanner, BigQuery, GKE. They have pretty high price points, but that's what you get to have with a good product. With GCP Google gets to show off what it is actually top of the world at, with these one-off consumer products Google Employees are just being naive to what their strengths really are.
> And then for many of us there's nothing quite like the feel of a paper book and, if you have space, building a physical library of stuff read, and stuff to be read and being able to peruse it when looking for the next thing to read.

A lot of people dismiss this, but I think it’s absolutely true. A hugely formative part of my childhood was just browsing the bookshelves at home and pulling down whatever looked interesting. If our books were on kindle, that experience doesn’t happen.

Also, in the immortal words of John Waters: “If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
> Stadia is different, with this product Google is trying something really innovative.

Genuine question: What is innovative here? There are at least a dozen attempts at 'cloud gaming' that I'm aware of dating back about a decade.
Doesn't MS pay dividends? Stock price alone isn't the whole story.
It's funny seeing different peoples' takes on this; someone else said the frontend section was a 'hot mess' but the backend was much more structured and well done. Guess it's just a testament to how much is out there.
You misunderstand; I don't have any trouble with human interaction, including strangers.

But I've heard many women describe being exhausted by getting hit on constantly, in situations where they really just don't care and just want to get their coffee, or get to work, or be out in the world for literally any other reason. If you're at a bar or on a dating app: go for it. In that context, people are actively soliciting that kind of interaction. There's an implied social contract: "we are here to flirt". You may still be rejected, but you're invited to put yourself out there. In most other contexts, jumping straight into romantic interactions out of the blue is probably going to be unwanted. Being friendly to all people is great, sure. But read the room.

And, from others' anecdotes, those annoying interactions are the best case scenario. Some (a minority, but not so small it doesn't matter) men don't handle rejection well. They get persistent, or pushy, or sometimes even irate or violent. Even if it only happens one out of one hundred times, it's enough to put someone on edge when a stranger approaches them and compliments their hair. Just another reason to keep unprompted amorous interactions within the appropriate contexts.
> as long as end users can keep control of the browser and computing device hope is not lost.

Mandatory : "Why Rosyna Can't Take A Movie Screenshot"

http://web.archive.org/web/20180919021829/https://www.alexra...
Realistically, there is little incentive for China to cut back on coal usage. In an ideal world China would use the funds directed to Belt and Road to green infrastructure but in terms of its own ambition and growth prospects coal is the only reliable energy source to match the scale of China's ambition.

The global economy needs China to keep on growing. Germany, arguably the most important economy in the world outside of China, India and the US is nearing recessions because of slowing Chinese consumer spending. A recession in the EU spells disaster for the rest of the world.

It's difficult to expect China to curb it's growth for the common good when more advanced economies ignored the science for decades (ie. at least since the 70S) to favor its own growth.
The fact that Microsoft is still alive and somehow kicking is a surprise in itself. Computing market swerved wildly and they could have fall apart easily
article quote: But the clot was an uncomfortable surprise. “I think it was probably scary for everybody,” Marshall-Goebel says. “But I think the fact that we found this now is really, really good news..."
True. But the rate of new projects has fallen to almost zero.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612564/chinas-losing-its-...
"No traction" for a Google product just means it's not the next Search or Gmail.

It doesn't mean that zero people use it. Thousands or millions of people used Hangouts, Google Reader, Google Code, or Picasa - they'd have been considered big YC successes.

If big YC companies all got shut down if they failed to turn into another letter in the FAANG acronym, maybe people would become reluctant to use services from YC companies.

I still use some Google services, but I check out my data on a regular basis, I'm not buying a Fitbit, and I'm not subscribing to Stadia because I want those things to last longer than I think Google will keep them around.
Where? Who else is doing this type of cloud gaming?
Here's what I propose we should do to figure out the causality

1. Split Microsoft into three parts, each with its own exactly equivalent market.

2. Have Satya Nadella as the CEO of one of them, Steve Ballmer as the CEO of the other, and a control group with no CEO in the third.

The lift obtained from the first may be because of Satya Nadella. It's possible that Steve Ballmer may be getting worse over time, which is why you have a third control buckets to compare against.
Personally, I'm conflicted. Your argument rests upon the idea that people's minds can be "poisoned" with false information. And I understand that. But at some point you have to hold people responsible for believing stuff that is blatantly false. There was a time that, if you believed in Bat Boy [1], most people rightly thought you were a bozo.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_Boy_(character)
Agreed entirely. I struggle at times to figure out how to get directions between two places in the new Maps UI in a way I never used to.

Same thing with Gmail - what was once zippy and performant-feeling now feels like swimming through molasses.
Is this support offline mode?
Powerful machine learning applications in marketing
Your perspective might seem overly cynical to some.

As a counterpoint: it's funny/playful, it speaks to their niche, and it speaks to the utility/functionality of their product.
>How is that being fair? Does you not having heard about it define what is a great product, and what is not?

It's fair because MANY people had never heard of it. I even heard on those same Leo Laporte podcasts people going "what's inbox", people who report on tech for a living. I imagine, compared to people just using the gmail app or the web interface, it had terrible adoption rates which made it not worth supporting. From all I could gather is it was almost exclusively used by those in tech and then only by a small subset.

I imagine reader had a small user base. RSS feeds are a pretty obscure thing and always were.

The only hangouts messages I've ever received have been group spam and likely has a relatively small user base.

Google Circles was largely spam and garbage content created for SEO in my experience and probably had a very small real user base.

Etc etc. If you your user base is a small percentage, or a fraction of your percentage, of your overall user base it's perfectly fair to go "well, let's shelf that".
Live there now, a block from Lake Erie. It's cool for 3 summer months, the other 9 months I might as well be in flyoverland cornfields...
I absolutely support that for two reasons. 1) all six would not be monolithic in their values, temperament, and concerns. 2) the point of my position is not to have more opportunities for my way of thinking to prevail.
Most of those products killed without any transition path are actually consumer products without revenue. So my rule of thumb: if Stadia manages a chunk of other Google business to depend on itself (which makes it much harder to be deprecated), then probably it's okay to use it. Integration into Youtube or Ads would be a good sign of their commitment.
We've moved on from hyper targeted ideologies and pre- and post-truth storytelling to ageism and money/time/quantity as political symbols. Ok boomer. This 'restriction' is simply Google keeping up with the times. Google wants to move from being the narrative controlling, ai job-taking strong man to the biggest fish in the sea that you have to pay to be on.

In a few years it will refine the rules again.
Musing on Content, Creativity, and Monetisation in the Modern Internet
You "buy" games for Stadia, you don't rent them.
"Most companies are bloated and would require a huge staff of N to maintain this product, but I'm able to do it with N/10 because we've invested heavily in the very best intelligent automation. I've staked my entire life on this project so I cannot afford to let it fail."
Sure enough, the rich text formatting is copied. The workaround I have for this is the Get Plain Text app. It strips all formatting from copied text (either automatically or on a keyboard shortcut). Sad it's required for this use case. But at least this works.
Thanks, there is some thought-provoking stuff there.
Yup. OnLive tried it with similar results. There are many markets where 10ms - 20ms latency doesn't matter that much, but realtime gaming isn't one of them. It's extremely disorienting to play a game with even the slightest framebuffer lag.
> And I find this troubling. On what moral authority the west think it is ok to kick the ladder?

Most of the West doesn't think it is OK to kick the ladder. That's why the Paris agreement included the developed countries providing a lot of aid to countries like India to help them meet climate goals without having to give up on development.
The employees deserve more cause they didn't get their share of the grift? By all accounts they were well compensated for working in a wealth destroying venture.
And maybe, just maybe, they just don't understand the issue in the first place and aren't aware of the implications.
Trees brings psychological calmness to those around them. Trees also cleans the local air from pollution. Trees also by means of evaporative cooling cool local hot spots in cities.

Take Central Park in New York living close to a green area means flats there have some of the highest prices in NY.
agreed. disgustingly antisocial and immoral. I was astonished back when the poisoned chinese baby formula story hit the news, thinking "how could people knowingly perpetrate such evil?" yet here is this story about "Jessica" knowingly endorsing products that her chemist-boyfriend has identified as toxic. But she "earns" $100/month in kickbacks and gets lots of "free stuff" so I guess it's all good even if others are harmed. (Hope that sarcasm was obvious.)

Looks to me like "Jessica" might be a co-conspirator to racketeering. If I were a prosecutor, perhaps I would think that's something for a jury to sort out?
The demo video answered my questions, is short and the tech is impressive. Not entirely sure of the business model though. The non-rigid tracking might be more useful than the projection -- perhaps a Defense application?
Banking on the Future:Why our most hated institutions will become most beloved
Not a cluster, just three independent GPU servers. Each one has a remote interpreter configured in Pycharm.
I don’t think sales figures support the notion that everyone has a laptop at all but I’d be happy to stand corrected.
My first thought is their obsession with their own culture as opposed productivity. Seems like something that could merge well with the Peter principle and put incompetents in important positions.
I hate to gatekeep here, but I guess I'm going to kind of do it anyway: A lot of people who have taken psychedelic drugs and report a religious experience or an experience where they encountered ultimate reality, are mistaken.

So we get someone who had a moderately intense psychedelic experience for the first time and it overwhelmed them. That person has heard a lot about the mind-expanding properties of psychedelics, and figures "hey, that must really profound. That must have been religious. That must have been a mystical experience."

And they go about their daily life enjoying the totally-real benefits of taking LSD here and there. They feel happy and sociable. They feel more appreciative about their life. Great.

but look....

sometimes... folks who have mystical experiences have a difficult time integrating that experience. They obsess over it. They attempt to repeat it, but fail because they discover that it is not repeatable. They change their priorities in accordance with their new knowledge, to the bafflement of their friends. They find themselves unable to relate to other people because their priorities have become so far-fucking-out. They seek out people who may have experienced something similar by immersing themselves in religious practices, befriending religious teachers, and devouring everything they can get their hands on.

and so on and so forth.

My only point is that psychedelic experiences can seem very important and religious in nature. How genuinely important that experience was tends to be reflected in the person's reaction to it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnLive

>The OnLive Game Service was launched in the United States on June 17, 2010. The service was launched in the United Kingdom on September 22, 2011.
Not only Google, I can't remember any recent internet/web/mobile/computing consumer product I was excited about. Everything is either "meh, seen that already many times" or "nasty thing that's going to exploit users".
And that's before you open up the compose field. To this day I click the wrong button every time when I want to forward an email. Every time. Despite knowing I do it every time, I still click the wrong one.
>MAYBE you can feel some emotion for the investors whose money was essentially stolen, by a scam artist?

Honestly, I think investors were quite aware of what kind of business WeWork is. They were hoping to dump the whole hot mess to public markets and walk away, and they failed.
Cape Town came damn close in 2018
Why would that matter? You can be doing great technical work even if the company overall is doing something that may not be working out well.
Swappie, Cultural Experience Exchange
"'I definitely feel like I have to keep [the reviewing] a secret from people who have strong morals,' Jessica added."

But then she plays herself off as this cute, innocent girl who just does this for fun. She knows she's doing something immoral and unethical, she just doesn't care because she likes feeling "like its Christmas every day".
That's great, not sure how I missed this video since I follow you guys on Youtube.
I really don’t get the hate... I’m reading that in general UX is pretty good. I only have a Switch so haven’t been able to play RDR2 or AC Odissey... The solution seems perfect for me given the price point and I’m seriously considering picking it up.

When I worked for Nintendo we broadly called the segment I’m in “lapsed gamer” and it’s actually a pretty big niche...

What I read between the lines is that people are pissed that Stadia doesn’t address the “core gamer” demographic well (this kind of reaction is recurrent - see the Wii!), but might this not be a great go-to-market strategy?