skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not until the world's internet gets a heck of a lot better.

There's no beating the laws of physics here. RTT in normal installed titles with modest system requirements is already an issue for gamers, let alone the latency this requires. Maybe in a few years when something like Starlink is in wide use, this can be revisited.

I really don't get who Google's target market is for this. A flat monthly fee I can see, that's what Playstation Now and, I think, XCloud is doing, but requiring full price purchases on this platform is lunacy.
Many edge cases are different.

To name one: You realize after finishing your code block that the first two lines of it actually shouldn't have been part of the code block, but should have been normal text above.

Go ahead and try to make this change with the new system.

Compare that to what you would have done with the old, plain-text system.
I wouldn’t be surprised if you could bet on it in Vegas
Hah, excellent joke/insight! If this goes viral it might become a self-fulfilling prophecy - people realizing Google likes to kill their services will say "Stay away from Stadia, it'll hurt if you get into it and they kill it".
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I find it often winds up clearer to pull things into multiple case statements, especially as the code grows more complicated. That said, there may be a difference in what we 're meaning by "most of the time," so let's be more precise. IME, most Haskell programmers will encounter use cases for multi-level matches (beyond simply pulling the first couple elements off a list) a small number of times per week (maybe month, depending on the programmer), whereas they're typically writing a case statement some number of times per hour.

I wouldn't call it a party trick, but I also wouldn't say it's the most common use of case by a long shot. I don't expect that you disagree.
> Because Microsoft makes some of the best tools for developers.

What are some of these tools besides VSCode, and what makes them 'the best'?

> Because sql server is a fantastic product that has basically no real equivalent on the market.

What makes SQL Server so much better than, say, PostgreSQL or MariaDB?

> And funnily enough, I always feel that .Net core primary platform was Linux and not windows.

Why?
Since when? That's nonsense. Browser and a whole operating system are two different things
Yes, Corbyn is winning among a demographic that doesn’t remember when Labor was an actual socialist party and had to completely reinvent itself (a move Corbyn opposed) in order to even be viable. A demographic that hasn’t learned the lessons that led to that.
Beeing evil is expensive. All that empire structure is necessary to get people to be cooperative again.
In 2018, google sold 118 billion worth of ads. Parent was saying (I think) that all ads present misleading narratives so google would have to ban all ads.
Is it though?

> A staggering $24.1 billion of Google's $27.77 billion revenue for Q3 2018 was from advertising – roughly a 22% increase from $19.8 billion in Q3 2017.

source: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/020515/busin...
Those are all good points. I believe paypal wants Honey for one thing, to insert themselves in the middle of the checkout process and offer incentives to complete checkout using their payment service.
Cool. When will they stop aggregating all of everyone’s data ever?
And work hours. Exploiting salaried workers with insane expectations of what amounts to unpaid overtime is a really big problem.
I used to buy pet fountain filters on Amazon, but I've changed to a policy of not buying anything health-related since reading about Amazon's counterfeit issues.

I considered buying a pet fountain filter, but checked the reviews and found lots of horror stories about build up of slime and mold on counterfeit filters. One story even had a cat dying in way plausibly connected to the filter [1].

Unfiltered tap water won't kill you, but a counterfeit filter might.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2T55842GRHFBG
All good causes but I think it’s tangential.

People who are unaffected by all that haven’t “broken out”.
The nice thing about carbon taxes is that they raise revenue. You can then redistribute this revenue out to people to further address income inequality, or at least offset the regressive nature of consumption taxes.
FYI this is run by the incorrigible Jason Scott of textfiles.com/BBS Documentary/Archive Team fame: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1196447880728453120
This is the problem with modern gaming. Everyone wants to fix all the problems that aren't the core problem we have with gaming: microtransactions. No one cares about how nice your game looks or how low-latency your game is if you designed it around microtransactions with pay-to-win gameplay and a laughably greedy content update schedule.
Restricting the categories for political advertising is certainly a move in the right direction. It will reduce the power of digital advertising to that of traditional media. It may not be a welcome move by some political parties but overall it could allow for good ideas from rival parties to have a wider reach rather than 'preaching to the choir' as it were. The dissemination of good ideas might become more democratic.

However, the idea of removing ads because of 'false claims' can only lead to censorship in the future. The list of what's considered false will inevitably grow over time and put a lot of power in the hands of whoever is deciding the 'truthiness' of claims. It isn't difficult to imagine this being applied inconsistently in countries further away from Western politcal norms. This does give Google a lot of power in shaping political discourse and influence outside of US and EU territories.

We know from how they've handled disputes on YouTube, disabled Gmail and developer accounts that this process unlikely have any better transparency than we've seen to date.

I'd argue that political advertising would require greater transparency and I'm not convinced that Google has the capability or the motivation to provide it.
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Kerberos is designed for untrusted networks.. and Azure AD is just AD hosted somewhere else. Same problems.
it does not seem to be available for openbsd. Do you have a link? (or at least to the source code)
My theory is this was a ploy to make use of idle cloud resources Google invested in for GCP. If that is the case I have much less fear of it just being shut down since its just gravy on top.
Yes, I could use some dating advice as well. But I find this post a bit self-pitying. Even if I find some of myself in the words expressed by the author, it is unreasonable to always ask the other party to do the first move. For now, I sort of stopped caring, and see flirting as a social sports of sorts (hone my social skills). Lots of missed opportunities (I generally don't know how to behave if things start going too well), lots of fun and new friends as well :)

Edit: I sort of realize that I am catching up with the social interaction I didn't have at (high) school (too young, different countries, different interests such as tech stuff). Other people generally do the opposite and catch up on the skill side later. Either way, I'm still learning, as always.
Is it me or has his thinking got more sloppy?

A couple examples, his indictment of the Obamas is that they sent their kids to Harvard but his indictment of America is that we don't focus on the things we do well... such as universities?

The assault on science now without any prescriptive solutions. Is he arguing for more populous interpretation of science? Has he had any first hand experience and investigation into the mechanisms of double blind peer review? (In my experience, still prone to gaming but often rigorous and the best method we've got).

Re: The indictment of the SV elite. I don't move in the same circles as he does but it's obvious that he's still smarting from the SV elite's rejection of him.

His hypocrisy from being owner of Palantir and yet seeming indictment of AI software for governments? Another layer of hypocrisy of espousing libertarian values when he's come to embody the system as much as anyone (in the administration, numerous govt military contracts with Palantir). And yet he's even more shifty than that, embracing NZ citizenship for possible tax evasion avenues.

His indictment of Twitter yet entrepreneurs have made material progress in traditional sectors (his old buddy Elon making headway with Tesla).

Our indictment of him should be that he's turned his back on values he's formerly espoused, content to rankle in a 'get off my front lawn style' on his large pile of capital while often committing the same hypocrisies of which he feigns disgust.
>Out of curiosity, what happens when you buy a movie on YT? Do you download a physical file in a DRM-free format?

Oh sweet summer child.
What makes you think this is different? I think this process is baked into the structure of our brains and is part of the inherently biased way our brains operate.
> Because Microsoft makes some of the best tools for developers.

NuGet constantly fails silently when trying to restore packages.

Visual Studio is an editor built primarily around a folder tree, with no competent way to navigate that tree without constantly losing your place. It's also the only IDE that I have used where I just had to give up trying to find the application logs.

> Because sql server is a fantastic product that has basically no real equivalent on the market.

MSSQL's utter incompetence makes MySQL's `utf8` troubles look like small potatoes. For example: the `uniqueidentifier` type doesn't have a defined endianness, meaning that there is no guarantee that two languages reading the same cell will produce the same UUID string.

SSMS is an unusable hog. There is just no nice way to put it.

SQLCMD must have been designed by people who have never actually used a CLI.
Hardcore gamers may not like it, but it's hard to argue against the observation that the overall trend everywhere is towards hosted services. Yes, there are some limitations imposed by physics but applications requiring specific high-performance local [client] hardware are going to be increasingly niche. (As, arguably, a lot of the most hardware-intensive gaming already is in the scheme of the population as a whole.)
This is laughably first world problems. I've been playing cod and other multiplayer games with >80 ping my entire life. It's fine.

I was expecting people to be worried about stadia being 200 or more ms latency but 80? Come on.
I wouldn't say they'd never do an Office on Linux... If you look at how they've been leveraging web tech and Electron for VS Code and MS Teams, I'd be very surprised if we didn't see an Electron based version of Office in a couple years. Electron has an amazing cross platform appeal for developers and MS has taken advantage of that. Not to mention managing to write applications under Electron that don't suck (though memory usage is high).
And despite high memory usage, Office has never been that nimble in terms of ram use anyway.

As for AD, Azure's hosted services for this may well see more inroads into Linux, and I know a LOT of people/companies that would be beyond happy to use MS account management with a cleaner Linux integration.

I won't be using these things at home any time soon, but in a corporate space, MS would be a welcome and cost saving change compared to what is out there on Linux currently.
It was, but Active Directory wasn't. If you put your DCs on the Internet you're asking to get hacked.
This meme needs to die.
Not really, Postgres actually works.
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Absolutely not true at all. Various Linux distributions support MSAD integration out of the box.
Just here to remind everyone that Lightning is vaporware, perpetually "18 months" away and the BTC Core chain of Bitcoin has become a ponzi scheme for the rich.

Ethereum is now the closest thing to a decentralized computer and Bitcoin Cash has continued to be Peer-to-peer digital Cash. They split the use cases and killed the original.
Let's make it a sweepstakes. Everyone choose a date and put in $1. Person closest to the date wins the pot.
Seems like formatting characters are ignored in multi-line blocks (triple backticks) but not inline blocks (single backticks). Most people are upset about the latter.
I agree, but I think Microsoft would end up leading the way. They have all their Azure data-centers already, and I believe they're working on Xbox/Cloud streaming. Looking forward to what game developers can do with powerful dedicated servers.
Well, this article refers a time frame about 1000 years after the pyramids have been built. It also mixes slavery, where people are "owned" by other people, with forced and mandatory labor, where people have to provide a certain amount of labor to the state, but are not owned.

In other posts to this discussion, people have provided further links documenting, that the pyramid were not being built by "slaves". That is the current state of historic science in old egypt.
All of these things work fine for me?
People don't use Linux Desktop because it is bad. Constantly looking for others to blame (Microsoft, DRM, Google, Valve, Apple, etc) doesn't change that fact.

The fact that Google has been able to take the Linux kernel twice and produce a better and more popular desktop experience (with Android and then Chromebook) should be a good indication of that.

Linux Desktop is exclusively designed for Linux developers, it is user hostile, highly inconsistent, difficult to centrally manage, not accessible (and thus could leave employers liable to lawsuits in some countries), and buggy.

Incidentally Microsoft does have a version of Office that runs on Linux: Office Online. Yet somehow nobody is quitting Windows, MacOS, and Chromebook to go Linux Desktop even for completely free. If you want Linux Desktop to be a success, maybe spend less time finding the latest scapegoat and more time helping make it a good user experience.

Personally I don't think it can be fixed not because the software is beyond saving, but the community surrounding it doesn't actually want it to be an experience for regular non-technical people. Try going to a mailing list and suggesting that editing text files in /etc isn't a practical end-user experience and see what response you get.
The point still holds water though
Google’s different brands remind me of MSFT of the early 2000s. No rhyme or reason. More chaos and throwing spaghetti at the wall. No issues changing or deprecating APIs and products like this on a whim.

They certainly dont inspire trust in anything but their flagship brands like Gmail that have been with us for decades.
What do you have against Luxembourg?
good tip, thank you!
Brutal, but fair given the track record of so much out of Mountain View. I’ve always detected a certain sense of tragicomedy about Google; their money-printing ad machine is something they’ve always seemed to feel deep shame about, which drives (and also pays for) all these other things that they give up on when they realise they’ll never come close to that kind of commercial success again.
China is building out nuclear faster than anyone else. Eventually the coal will be obsolescent.
What don't you like about threads? I think they're actually my favorite Slack feature. I find myself missing them in more casual chat apps like Discord.
> I don't understand why autistic people are assumed to be wrong/inferrior in scoial contexts even when their behaviour is the right thing to do.

The world would be a better place if you ever found an answer to that question.

It's not a fair comparison[0], but I tend to internally categorize people as logical or emotional. It usually helps keep things running more smoothly to treat the two groups how they prefer.

The trick is to not make the distinction a value judgement. I'm usually pretty good at that, but sometimes I slip up.

[0]: Because both groups display traits of the other, and it's not a hard line distinction. Ever seen someone on the spectrum throw a tantrum? It might (might) be logic that started it, but emotions take over nearly immediately.
I had an intuition that quantum entanglement might be used some day to give us worldwide 0 latency communication, until I understood that this would break the universe’s causality :)
> does Honey run any advertisements or recommendations for products?

They can drive a sale by tracking prices and notify you of a drop in price. That might be one case where they help make a sale that wasn't otherwise going to happen.
I understand they want to make text easier for non-tech folks, but they mess with the feature only tech folks actually use

``` blocks are such a pain in the ass to edit now.
Say you have
```aaa bbb``` and you decide you actually want...
```aaa```
```bbb```
You get stuck in the stupid codeblock editor, to actually leave it, you need to insert newlines and extra ``` until it splits AND YOU END UP WITH MORE ```. Slack...please fix this garbo
Joking aside, this self-fulfilling prophecy issue is turning into a serious problem for Google that needs attention from the C-suite. Killing a product is no longer isolated to that product alone but is reflecting badly on the entire company and kneecapping completely unrelated teams. It's especially bad in the cloud: there are tons of enterprises that won't even look at GCP because of Google's flighty reputation.
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Sadly, that just sounds like "software development" these days.
The population is projected to stabilise and then fall in the future. Most of the future growth is from people not dying as fast rather than people being born.

Are you intentionally using per country rather than per capita numbers. This appears to be a talking point I see it so often, but it's hard to tell if people are just repeating it without thought.

Carbon tariffs let you penalise any country that doesn't play by the rules. We already do similar for other environmental and social reasons. Plus, the environmental option is often cheaper and more efficient, it's only a short term hit to entrenched interests. So really you should be worried about African nations leapfrogging you to cheap solar based manufacturing while you get locked into expensive fossil fuels to keep Republican donors rich.
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Yeah, I was expecting some detail on whether it was firewalls, DNS, downing interfaces, or null routing, or...?
the thing with multiplayer games is that they are often latency dependant like first person shooters or fighting games, or mobas.
Portable and cheaper single player games may be a better application in practice, because you're more rarely fighting over advantage over fractions of seconds with other agents, and NPC behavior is likely easier to predict for the machine learning next frame prediction stuff I imagine they are using
Sure if they're great roommates it could be worth it.

But I feel like if you have roommates for financial reasons, you generally don't get the choice.
That’s a problem with their business model. I’m not defending Stadia, but the concept of cloud gaming.
Exactly. Obvious factual errors on Thiel's part tells he's lost the plot
You kids today. We would play Quake over a serial line back in the day. Uphill both ways. And we liked it.
How does this compare to go-redis (https://github.com/go-redis/redis)?
WeWorkOnLayoffs - what a terrible turn this has taken and how many good people are impacted by this. truly sad
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Fwiw, Firefox stores almost everything it will need on startup in one large file (omni.ja) precisely to avoid the "thousands of tiny files" problem. That data is uncompressed, precisely to avoid the decompression problem. The low-hanging fruit has largely been picked.

As for why so much data needs to be read... I just checked, and on Mac the main Firefox library (the executable itself is mostly a stub) is 120MB. So that's going to take a second or three just to read in at typical HDD speeds (faster on a good SSD), and then the dynamic linker has to do its thing on that big library, which is not instantaneous either.
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I oversimplify both the MS and Apple examples as the "builder vs. caretaker" pendulum. Though Tim Cook could hold the reins for the next 10-20 years, I have no doubt that Apple will transition to another builder in the future. Once per generation? Every other generation? The computers (plural, laptops, PCs, phones, etc.) industry is still young.

Eight years post-Jobs, it remains to be seen what Apple's evolutionary thrust turns out to be, Amelio/Sculley. For now the market expectations (user desires) would seem to support innovation and design as a business priority.
Storage support is a sensible addition to the OS for sure. It should also be in iOS.

I think the multiple app stuff was a mistake on Apples part. It complicates the OS significantly and starts to make it feel like a computer operating system.

Improvements to Safari make sense, but then I'd consider that an application and not part of the operating system.
Right. All ads are political by definition. So it’s really a ban on opposing ideology, and on overtly ideological ads which are really not so much of a problem. I think it’s a non-change from the current system, mostly a pr move.
This comment is extremely frustrating.

You can't shed multiple "solitary" tears.

Even if its one tear per eye. You wouldn't say "I have two solitary eyes" would you?
Based on your questions and comments I get the feeling I am communicating with someone who does not know that journalism exists or how it is supposed to work. What constitutes an "obvious lie"? is not even close to being an intractable problem. Reporting what China said is not the same thing as putting it forward as the truth. Determining whether it is the truth or not is not necessarily an impossible task. Etc. etc.

It's true enough that Google will experience some pressure to kowtow to the governments or powerful interests who have the ability to lean on them, and that is probably a pretty good argument to get out of the business of political advertising altogether. "What is truth anyway, man????" is not much of an argument.
Is that "all ads" or just the ads that get marked as political?
> Or things could just cost more

This is why I said manufacturing would move to somewhere with fewer labor/environmental regulations. Things may cost more in the short-run, but that's just before some new, enticing land of opportunities pops up.
I'm not clear on why that would help shareholders as compared to current course.
> Most people need an operating system they are comfortable doing their daily work.

True, and Windows is very entrenched partly due to Office and legacy software depending on it. Chromebooks and Mac OS seem to be adopted without to much hindrance from a UI perspective. i.e How much more populate would Chromebooks be if they ran the full desktop Office suite?

> not all non-devs work only in office.

Certainly not all but a lot of jobs, particularly in management consist mostly of emails, meetings, spreadsheets, word documents + a few web apps.

Also, lets not forget about all the jobs where the computer isn't really part of the job at all; it's just a tool to communicate (email) and for document production/consumption. These machines are basically kiosks that Microsoft has milking licenses out of for Windows + Office + 365 Storage.

Some businesses can switch to Google but many rely on existing Excel spreadsheets elsewhere in their organization so there is a lot of momentum to switch away from non-desktop spreadsheet and document applications.
Nice joke and nice irony. I actually think that Stadia will be very successful in the long run, and I think Google will never shut it down. Same for GCP.

(Just IMHO, and not much to substantiate my prediction.)
Google (GCS) has huge gpu server farms everywhere too. that's not the factor here