skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really agree with this. I despise Facebook and happily retweeted a post a few weeks ago specifically aimed at helping FB engineers find work elsewhere.

I'd prefer to help good people get out of bad places.

https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1190701524210438144
I encourage everyone here to read the underlying report for a more nuanced view: [1].

Apparently, the central government turned over permitting to provincial governments in 2014, leading to a massive surge in permits for coal plants, peaking in 2015 (see Fig. 3). Provincial governments wanted to promote growth above all else, so they went for coal. The central government was apparently alarmed by this, and imposed restrictions in 2016, leading new permits issued per year to drop by 80%. However, the new plants that were approved from 2014-2016 are still in the pipeline, which is why there are still new plants being built. The central government has slowed their construction and has proposed withdrawing a large fraction of the permits (for example, 150 GW of permits were canceled in 2018-19, while 8.5 GW of new construction was approved - see Table 4).

But just as in the West, there's a powerful coal lobby in China, which is pushing for already permitted projects to go ahead, for restrictions on new permits for coal plants to be lifted, and for the overall cap the government has set (1.1 TW) to be increased. Playing into all of this is the general economic slowdown in China, which of course puts pressure on the government to ease restrictions.

Despite all this, the trend in China is for less coal capacity to actually come online each year (Fig. 4). The question is really whether it will fall fast enough (Fig. 5).

1. https://endcoal.org/global-coal-plant-tracker/reports/out-of...
Given the constraints of the time when the format was conceived, the pdf format has a great design. I think, embedded designers should have a quick look on the PDF format to learn some tricks on how reduce unneeded memory accesses -- it basically implement a directory inside a file.

With the entry removal example, I was trying to show the format was not meant not to be shared. I know it is possible to remove data in other ways, and that probably every modern editor removes the data correctly. But it was not how the format itself deals with it. Of course, hiding entries with the flag had others uses such only print only the pages you currently working on without having to rescan the whole file.

I agree most devs don't have interest in learning how to do typesetting. But also, typesetting is quite complex by itself, specially when dealing with non western language. Luckily, projects such Harfbuzz (nowadays, hb is used even my emacs) makes it a lot easier.

Like I said in my original post, the format is anachronous. I don't think the format is intrinsically bad, I just think the format is not right for your time. I think we can do better nowadays.

PS: I've been thinking, it would be pretty cool to talk with the engineering team that worked on the first spec, and actually know what they were thinking back them and what they would change in it nowadays.
> Whatever proprietary company is most sucessful will be the greatest enemy. If not MS, then Apple, or Google, or whoever.

That's not true. Apple and Google have not done even 1% of the damage to Linux and Open Source that MS has.

> Until we get the same $5T-equivalent investment in Open Source that FAANGMwhatever have, Open Source will will trail the rest in many quality and network-effect dimensions that will hinder the virtuous sycle of growth.

Except for the fact that most successful modern tech company stacks are mostly FOSS and Linux. Microsoft was essentially forced to offer Linux on Azure because the overwhelming consensus is MS Server cannot hold a candle to Linux.
I seriously doubt that's everyone's first thought. I know my first thought when Google launches a product is: "this will suck and I'm not even going to bother trying it". Experience as trained me to avoid Google products and look for migrations away from things I'm stuck with that they executed well on in the distant past (email, maps, search, browser).
Still waiting for the day we generally agree that long-term living in microgravity is a horrible idea and start spending money on testing simulated gravity solutions in orbit.
> I think the better approach to handle truthiness issues is to give the other party/candidate/candidates a chance to post a rebuttal.

I disagree. That's effectively how modern journalism works where the news is "objective" by letting each side say its piece.

The end result is that the media is easy exploitable. The fundamental problem is that manufacturing lies takes less effort than explaining the truth. The latter is hampered by requiring research, evidence, and consistency. The former has no such restrictions.

That means Party A can spend five minutes saying "Party B eats kittens!" Now Party A has to spend a week providing evidence that no, they do not in fact eat kittens. Meanwhile, Party A has already put out five more press releases about how Party B drinks the blood of infants, was responsible for Firefly being canceled, and wants to raise your taxes to buy bombs to drop on wildlife preserves.

The consequence is that whoever has the least respect for the truth has the greatest ability to control the narrative. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Bullshit_asymmetry_pr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
i thought part of it were also consultancy fees for him to be a consultant for the company many years to come?
Absolutely, but there don’t have to be human rights violations in order for a country with lower costs of living to be a more attractive host for manufacturing than one with a higher cost of living.
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I fear that Stadia could bring change to gaming as publishers might decide that streaming is the way to go against piracy, technical difficulties of users and distribution costs. Maybe it would allow them to externalize support to Google even. Another step to take software away from the user.

It would restrict things like modding and user modifications of games, which I value rather highly. The fear that I suddenly loose access to software is also present since I certainly am one of these backwards hoarders. I saw people loosing some of their digital media when GFWL shut down.

Still, in context of this page I believe that there is life in the old dog yet, even if the dog isn't old at all.
Plus if you're a knowledge worker it can help to engage in physical activities and even mental ones that exercise your mind in different ways than your job does. Seymour Cray famously used dig under his backyard when he was stuck on design problems for his supercomputers. He claimed elves from the nearby forest (the destination of the tunnel he was digging) came into his study and solved his problems while he was out digging the tunnel. He considered the digging to be an essential part of his design process.
Toronto is similar (~52% tree coverage) and pollen can go off the charts.

https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2016/pe/bgrd/backgroundf...
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I do understand that this is an old idea. My TV actually has a steaming service for games built in but I have never used it because I doubt the performance would be up to standard.

The innovation is not necessarily in the product but in the engineering required to make the product feasible. There is a long history of tech that simply is too early for the current environment. Google is betting the cloud gaming has reached a point of viability and it's very exciting to see them tackle the challenge.

Obviously there are concerns with the products. Specifically paying for games, the games itself, etc. But generally I'm excited for this effort.
FWIW Google had orkut long before facebook became a success and moved out of colleges. Google had gtalk long before WhatsApp was conceived.
The market share for Linux on the desktop is tiny - I can't ever see Office for Linux.

Not sure about your memory claim either - I don't recall high memory usage in Office ever being an issue.
The UCC[1] requires that wire transfers are reversible for 60 days, although only in very special circumstances (only fraud and bank error basically). The receiving (beneficiary's) bank is on the hook for collecting the money back from them.

In cases other than fraud and bank error, the timeline and process depends. Basically ask your bank really nicely, they'll ask the receiving bank really nicely, and if everyone agrees with your reasons (and the money is still there) you'll most likely get it back.

There has to be a way to reverse wires, otherwise if the teller fat-fingers an extra zero onto the end of your requested amount you'd be SOL.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Commercial_Code
Average student is using Google Docs and Drive but the office workers I hear are driven by corporate culture, and traditional places of work like accounting offices haven’t culturally embraced these kinds of solutions.
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Another patterns:

- $(SHINY_NEW_TECH) [beats|as a better|replaces] $(OLD_TECH)

- $(OLD_OR_BORING_TECH) beats $(SHINY_NEW_TECH) (because)

- $(OLD__TECH) refuses to die
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A few days ago I was researching a bug I was seeing using with xfce on chrome remote desktop. Apparently this was thoroughly solved in someone's Google+ post that everyone linked to. All I can see now is the Google+ termination notice. Thanks, Google.
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I've really come full circle with online retail. I used to go to Amazon because I trusted the consumer experience: I trusted them with my credit card, and I knew I could get a refund if I needed to. But I have so little confidence in what I'm getting from Amazon, that I'm back to going to smaller, more focused online storefronts (camping store for camping stuff, music store for music stuff etc.) because it seems like someone's actually vetting the merchandise.

I think it stems from a lack of competition. Since Amazon captures so much of the market, they don't have to be that good anymore.
There was more of a case in the 90s, but the fact is that today's Microsoft has a strong open source development presence, and incompatibly embracing and extending was always, even in the 90s, an odious GNU practice that they happily perpetrated against non-copyleft Unix.

"FUD" is a mindkilling term, so I won't call this apparently sincere post "spreading FUD", but I will suggest that you try PowerShell Core (MIT licensed) on the platform of your choice.
Even if this were true, leaving the ChromeOS argument aside (which you shouldn’t, it’s awesome for casual users), it has nothing to do with what I said.

Most software that would’ve been desktop applications moved to web applications a long time ago. Web applications don’t care what the client is running, ergo, the web platform is your competition.
> 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.

Exactly, in fact, Stadia is really just a way for Google to subsidize their cloud GPU buildout. Do you think those expensive GPUs are sitting idle in the meantime? No way! They're crunching numbers or spot instances for AI/ML workloads.
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And rebates (5% bonus) on purchased made with her Amazon credit card.
In general, a rice cooker is indispensable and costs about $30. Plus you can walk away from it as it cooks, and you can put things on top of the rice to steam in there as well. (It will impart flavor though, so maybe don’t put greens in there unless you want broccoli-water flavored rice.)
In theory, yes. But millions of middle aged blue collar workers aren't going to learn to code, so to speak.
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I certainly understand why Microsoft and Apple keep their best and most profitable apps proprietary to their own platforms. What I don't understand is Adobe... They already have a Unixy codebase for Mac and the argument of profitability of the work due to lack of users doesn't cut it with me. Just do a search and you will find users like myself pining for the day they release on Linux so we don't need to keep windows or macs around. I'd love to explore why with the HN community...
The view of Google within tech (oh, but the interviews are so hard...everyone who works there is a genius) is quite opposed to the view of Google without.

They are quite poorly run. You have this huge monopoly product that is locked up super-voting shares. The people in possession of those shares appear to have no management ability or even interest (or just ability in the case of Larry Page). There is no oversight.

So it shouldn't be too surprising that the products they develop have no value...that isn't really what Google do. They make products for staff to manage, not for consumers to use. Maintaining products isn't fun for managers: they need to build empires, acquire staff, and grow budgets. Google is a bureaucracy attached to a monopoly (btw, this is totally unique...I am not aware of another company that has ever been like this outside of tech/the present...the East India Company maybe?).
Now I'm going to be pissed off all day that Google Inbox died. I will never forgive them for that.
> and have the appropriate employees for this type of business

I disagree. WeWork has 836 locations and 12.5k (now 10k) employees, or ~12-15 employees per location. Regus/IWG has 3,306 locations and 9.6k employees, or ~3 employees per location.

How is 4-5x the number of employees for a comparable non-tech company appropriate?
The suburbs have fewer people per unit area, but very few trees.

Meanwhile some areas have high-density townhomes and tons of trees. See: Montreal.
Much or this can be automated with c2rust[1][2]. They recently published an overview[3] of lessons learned and future directions for Rust and C integration.

[1] https://c2rust.com

[2] https://github.com/immunant/c2rust

[3] https://immunant.com/blog/2019/11/rust2020/
In their filing for the IPO WeWork posted a net loss of 1.6 billion on 1.8 billion in revenue.
Or about a thousand other small indie devs, but somehow I don't think Stadia has much interest in them.

P.S.: Don't take this statement the wrong way, I love small indie devs and donated for Dwarf Fortress.
That's not cookie stuffing, that's just being deceptive. Cookie stuffing doesnt just mean sending a user to an affiliate link, it means specifically loading unrelated sites, usually in the background (or used with js/flash). I'm noting it because you're using the wrong term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie_stuffing
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I have to agree... I'd wanted to use it for a few things in the early 00's, but the support just seemed absent.
Same with missed calls on an iPhone, the notification never wents away after checking.
Only restarts helped me.
Weirdly enough this issue seems to happen randomly, not all missed calls are being this persistent.
Meeky Moose is my pick.
It worked for Etsy.
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> for the people who got laid off, obviously it's very bad, they should sue and they may get something back as settlement.

On what possible grounds? They were fairly compensated and got severance. There is no indication that they were hired under false pretenses. They're angry cause they didn't get to rip off Softbank too.
Something like this should play a role in the future of more sustainable clothing/fashion.
That only works for products people actually like. I can think of maybe one product where this was a good model.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Now

"PlayStation Now (PS Now) is a cloud gaming subscription service developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment."
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https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/products/geforce-now/

Has been a product for a long time and actually works really well.
So Apple Arcade, then? It's only $5.00/mo, but seems to meet the criteria you've set.

For me, I prefer something like Apple Arcade because it downloads the game to my system. I'm not sending commands over a network connection that might flake out at a critical moment. I also don't care about playing with others, usually, though.
It's a surprise only if you live in hn bubble
I think it's because most people don't decide how much house they can afford based on the purchase price. They decide based on the monthly payment. Obviously, as the interest rate declines, they can buy more for the same monthly payment. Therefore house prices go up, because everyone can pay more for the same monthly payment.

I remember when interest rates fell from 9% to 7% (early 90s). We had just bought a house for about $60K. Then interest rates fell, and house prices jumped, and suddenly our house was worth 90K. But if we had bought the same house at 90K at 7%, our monthly payments would have been the same.
When dealing with people's money, funny/playful isn't something a company should be.
Something I love is how companies have been able to convince people that they are a tech company just because they have an app even when they do something which has existed before the internet was even around.
Honestly, glass simply seems too early. We know that Apple is also working on AR glasses, even Intel came out with a AR glasses platform but quickly had to kill it because the market is simply not mature.

I think Google is betting that cloud steaming is now viable and are going to put as much resources as possible to make it work.

I am not doubting that there are issues with the product and concerns about Google, I obviously have reservations but don't believe that it hinders me from being excited about the prospect itself
Probably a big portion of that is managing the actual physical locations and another big portion of that is sales.
I have heard that the latest Counter Strike servers do player occlusion calculations on the server so that cheaters can't see through walls. If you can't see an enemy, than the server won't even send your client their position.
Right, but decades ago coal was the cheapest source of power. We didn't have cheap renewables in the 70s. Solar is cheaper than coal in China.* They could certainly grow (at least) no slower by building huge amounts of renewables rather than coal.

*(I'm not sure if this is on a "spot" basis or annualised to account for intermittency, but then it probably doesn't account for the negative externalities of coal either so let's chalk it up to a draw.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Drug_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_(Singapore...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_drug_trade_in_China#Ov...

http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/topic-overviews/con...

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/06/14/a-change-in-russia...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/08/28/ten-years-drug-policy-fa...

You'll notice a lot of countries on the list who aren't exactly best buds with the US.
Yes, it would be nice to say the responsibility lies with the people who believe that stuff, but their believing it has real consequences that impact people beside themselves. This is a problem that needs to be solved now, not a problem to be dismissed because you don't like the problem.

It's all well and good to dismiss the people who believe widespread disinformation campaigns as idiots, but that doesn't do anything to prevent the next guy who shoots up a pizza parlour because he believes that the basement is home to a leftist pedophile ring and it doesn't do anything to stop the very real climate crisis that some news sources would have you believe doesn't exist.
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Military camouflage applications?
You should really familiarize yourself with caselaw surrounding speech, and educate yourself about rights other than the freedom of speech. Your ideology is far too removed from reality, but your phrasing is too absolute. Be honest about the difference between your desires and legal reality. Otherwise, nobody is going to take you seriously.

I'm fairly leftist, and I support a pretty strong freedom of speech, but I'm also familiar enough with other rights to see how they get balanced against one another, a la "the right to swing your fist ends at my face." I read popehat, because the authors are attorneys specializing in the first amendment. They defend people I find deplorable; they've got politics I disagree with. But I keep reading, because they're experts and it's a good source of fact.
I think it will take some time for an effective business model to evolve that works for games. Games don't exactly follow the lump-sum, zero maintenance model of movies, but they also don't work well with the SaaS treadmill either.

Some games lock players in and absorb their time continuously (e.g. Overwatch, PUBG, WoW, etc), while others package a digestible block of content that can be consumed in 10, 20, 50 hours, and then it's done. Subscription payouts based on proportional screen time would drastically favor the former over the latter, while lump-sum compensation flips the tables since it doesn't consider ongoing server and infrastructure costs needed to make multiplayer work.

I think this "Buy your games, and subscribe to them too" model that Stadia is using is how they're trying to split that baby, but given that nearly every other service is either subscription or one-time purchase, I have a hard time seeing it stick around long-term. Then again, some console systems also function that way, so I might be wrong.
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> 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.

Can you expand on what you mean by this? It seems we have more transparency than ever before into how governments are operating (mostly corruption) and that's a good thing. What negative consequences do you see coming from false claims?

I suspect the answer to this question might highlight why people are nervous about Google (or any company) being the arbiter of truth.
They can project what's behind an object onto an object to make it "invisible"
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The current One Microsoft is Ballmer's vision executed by Nadella. Ballmer absolutely deserves some credit for putting the plan in motion that lead to Microsoft's resurgence. Nadella did NOT take over the company and lead an about face on Ballmers plan. He did extend the plan to be even more open to letting other Microsoft products cannibalize Windows.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/7/12/4516806/one-microsoft-bal...
I presume that by all the people who helped him you mean the WeWork employees and not investors like SoftBank. Well, these employees aren't walking away empty handed either. They've been getting paid all these years and most of them will probably continue getting paid for some time. That's also a fruit of Neumann's scheming. These people didn't have to fight for jobs in a real business, they are benefiting from the WeWork illusion of grandeur and bringing in paychecks month after month.
Hypothesis: Events like this are the modern moral equivalent of the giant, gaudy, gilt-encrusted palaces of the 17th century.

Economic disparity has reached a point where those at the top end literally have more money than they know what to do with and are increasingly spending it on stupider and stupider things out of some perceived need to do something.