skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this because WYSIWIGs are inherently hard to make, or because of browser-specific challenges? Was this due to compatibility issues between browsers?

I've written my own native Windows WYSIWIG editor and a fair amount of web UI, and was thinking of rolling my own web-based editor.
> Game devs don't simulate worlds for the fun of it.

Unless you are Tarn Adams
>I'm personally undecided on nuclear fission, but compared to coal it could be the lesser of two evils?

Hesitance towards nuclear power is part of the reason the public doesn't take climate change activism seriously.
In 1899, H.G. Wells wrote "A Story of Things to Come", which later was adapted become the 1936 film "Things To Come". In the original story, the main characters mention being irritated by the advertisements projected onto the backs of the people they walk behind. Old idea, only now possible without image distortion.
Google Reader's shutdown was a true act of vandalism. Sure there are a handful alternatives, but Reader despite its somewhat basic UI worked really well. And despite Google's attempts to kill RSS, it hasn't gone away.
Language is defined by how people actually use it. If people are generally using and understanding "shutdown" as a verb (which has been true in the computer industry for at least 30 years), then it's a verb regardless of what language prescriptionists say.
This title is such click bait lol. Granted this service was a terrible idea in the first place, and WILL be shutdown, but this is a hypothesis, extrapolated over hundreds of companies that have nothing to do with each other.
Regarding the donations, if she takes the charitable contribution deduction it will reduce her income tax due. That may affect the calculation on whether she’s “making money” or not.

However, she should probably be paying income tax on the value of the items she receives because they are payment for her labor in writing fake reviews. If she’s actually paying taxes on the income, then she could easily be losing money.
I heard that Facebook and Google collect engineers and let them do whatever because its better than them being productive at a competitor.
I think that TiVo does that too?
Fb is going to have to lobby every government hard, they're rolling out their own centralized currency.
The number of words matters. It's a pretty common pattern.

noun: Can you share your login?

verb: Check the URL before you log in.

noun: Is that a turnoff for you?

verb: Turn off the TV when you leave the room.
Do we know anything about the end-user Starlink ground transceiver?

Specifically, I wonder if a old digital satellite TV dish and an RTL-SDR dongle and a little software would do the job. That stuff should all be available in rough countries.
The fact that surrounding a word with tildes ~like so~ works in the initial message editor but not when editing a sent message is completely illogical.
I appreciate the sentiment here, but this feels incredibly reactive and preliminary.

Stadia should have more clearly set launch expectations: there are only a few games worth playing for, most of the cool cloud features aren't there, etc, etc

But that doesn't mean all of those things aren't coming? For all intents and purposes, this was a soft launch. Sure Google is going to burn a ton of consumers by launching before the true value-adds are there, but it doesn't mean that one-day Stadia won't be worth buying.
Every dollar and every minute of attention you give to proprietary software, hurts open source.
> People don't use Linux Desktop because it is bad.

People do you Linux Desktop because it is great. I do.

> 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.

In what way is Android or Chromebook better than, say, Debian or Ubuntu on desktop?

> Linux Desktop is exclusively designed for Linux developers.. blah blah blah

Just false bullshit.

> 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.

If you want to debate the quality of Linux as a deskop OS maybe try using it, learn a little about it, and make statements that have even a little bit of substance and basis in reality.

> 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.

First of all, it is perfectly practical, especially given the fact that you can find step-by-step instruction to do just about anything in a matter of seconds. Second, you rarely have to do these things and graphical overlays are often available and/or come pre-installed on distros such as Ubuntu. Third, you sometimes have to do similar things on Windows, whether it be editing the hosts file or changing obscure registry settings - the difference is that the Linux versions of these things have much better documentation, and much more info and community support online.
> Even Gmail is a giant blob of garbage.

Sadly from a UX point of view I can't disagree. Google inbox (and other products) showed how the UX for mail clients can be tremendously improved. But they shut it down and only migrated some of the more irrelevant features. IMHO the UX of gmail is so bad that I wonder if they want to phase out email altogether.

This doesn't even include some of the thing inbox (and maybe gmail, idk) supported wrt. metadata and live updates and now is discontinued "because it's no longer needed with dynamic amp pages". Just that amp kinda misses the whole point of email :( .

I really want to write my own client. But I know it's way to much work to get to the point where it's nice _and_ that is pointless if the people sending mails will stop including thinks like json-ld sections in mail. Really sad, as that had a lot more potential then the amp * they want to ship now.
If usability testing was an actual, consistent driver of UX decisions, we'd still have skeuomorphic interfaces. I'm sure somebody crafted a UX test or metric that showed the WYSIWYG editor is superior, but this was probably done to back up an existing product decision, not as good-faith research.
Great content. Lots of typos
From your website, it looks like Podio and Notion had a baby. Or maybe it was Airtable and Coda? Looking forward to giving this a try soon.

What are the primary use cases you are seeing from your early adopters?
Not true. Please read the blog post. They're only allowing political ads to be targeted based on age, gender, or location. All other forms of targeting are now disallowed.
Yeah - Zuck should listen to team Warren, and only allow Democratic political ads on social media. Is it even a fair election without overt interference and collusion between big tech and the Democrats?
Amateur radio is great for last-ditch communications in a disaster, but it is not in any way covert or safe for people in a hostile regime to use; a bit of direction-finding equipment will easily track down anyone using it.
I can't fathom the morale at this place. I really hope things get better for these poor people caught in the middle of this shit show.
Editing stops being simple when you have to deal with reflows and boundaries. In general it doesn't really work, at least not for any complex documents.
Google has a vested interest in reading your email. Google lets users think that setting up a mail server is difficult, that email is a dead end communication medium compared to walled gardens, and that phishing is difficult to combat effectively.
I've never seen this pattern before in JS, in the parameters for the constructor. playing with it in the browser, I can see it lets you define default values for expected arguments when calling it but you can provide other values.

What is this called? I'd like to read more about it.

class Resource{
constructor({
min = 0,
max = 1,
count = 0
}={}){
this.min = min;
this.max = max;
this.count = count;
}
}
They added the parenthetical "it should be 'shut down'" in an edit.

Originally it was just "Sorry, but pet peeve. Shutdown is not a verb." and I gave them the benefit of the doubt that they weren't just quibbling over a space.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is cast out of society because everyone thinks he's crazy.
> just that a most people are surprised if you tell them that they have hundreds of ms latency when they play on their console

They're surprised because that's absolutely not even remotely close to true. Consoles & TVs do not have hundreds of ms of latency. This horrendous latency does not exist. That's why it's not an issue.
I have zero interest in Stadia personally and I would consider myself a gamer. 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.

If Stadia is successful I can see it being a way to pay for new data centers for Google's cloud infrastructure.

If you consider that most consoles last a 4-5 years, they cost ~$299-500 over that period, that's ~$39-$125 per year for the generation. Instead of the users owning the machine locally, Google installs a consoles worth of power in a data center. Once the generation is over, the data center is still there and Google has put all that money into a semi-new server datacenter infrastructure that can be rolled into Google's Cloud service offerings. "Kids" / Gaming money then pays for "Adults" / Cloud Server infrastructure. The idea sounds great as long as there are enough gamers who don't mind the latency.

I am unfamiliar with the lifespan of a Google data center but I imagine it's around 5+ years.
If they don't have any respect for their users I guess.
QuakeWorld did. They original was not so clever about networking. Much like streaming games.
not the author, but it looks Java-like to me - with the "everything is an object/class" approach.
A "product" is something people pay for. Nobody pays directly for Gmail or Youtube, or most of Google's well known "products".

That fundamentally distorts their incentive to develop and release improvements according to what the customer wants, because customer satisfaction or loyalty isn't the KPI, it's the growth rate of new customers.

Get them through the door by any means necessary and suck up all their data. If a customer leaves the service, who cares? Their data has already been profiled for better ad targeting.

They might have left Stadia, but they're still very much in the Google-verse of search, Youtube or Android.
A large part of the reason we're talking about this is that "possible personal actions you can take" are utterly and completely irrelevant to a problem of this scale. It's actively harmful to talk about personal action in a way that implies it makes a meaningful difference.
> 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.

I don't understand what you're getting at. You said there was no slavery in old Egypt. I provided a link showing otherwise. I'm not here to debate the details of it. If you even just peruse the article, there are tons of written records showing that there were people who were "bound for life". It was a thing!

> 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.

It seems like I'm not going to convince you of anything, but I looked, and despite what you've said, I couldn't find a single comment providing definitive evidence of who built the pyramids. Again, lots of theories, but no evidence!

In one comment, there's a theory that the workers were were well-fed because there were cattle remains in the proximity of their graves. That's not evidence of anything. Maybe it was a trash dump. Maybe they were beasts of burden that helped move the stones. So many other explanations, but I suppose for some it's rock-solid proof of whatever it is they want to believe.

Thing is, history isn't the study of belief. It's the study of written records. Making up stories is fun, but it's not history.
the desktop doesn’t matter anymore

most casual users gave up computers for smartphones years ago

I would consider either statement to be completely false. While less people have full blown desktops almost everyone has laptop and modern laptops are good enough.

I would agree that there are many poor countries/places where people can only afford smartphone. But hopefully the future of humanity is to get better rather than going down to that level.
Oh, well, if you're going to be reasonable about it... :)

I still feel like the conclusion is wrong, so one of the axioms or deductions must be wrong, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

In any event, well met.
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An Entirely New State of Matter
I wonder about the damage Google does to any potential start ups in a field.

How much buzz can you get when everyone’s first thought is “how could this be any good? Google already tried that and failed...”
Out of curiosity, what was the site?
A tablet with keyboard is a desktop.

A laptop with wireless connectivity is a desktop.

Anything with a pluggable keyboard and screen is a desktop.

Something that many fail to grasp.
But consider incentives. If nobody gets promoted for doing it, nobody does it. Promotion for maintenance isn't a bad sign if your corporate culture is "hire the smartest people in the room and let them build great products;" you're going to have to incentivize maintenance somehow, and "maintain it or you're fired" is counter to your cultural goals.
Mapped: The world’s largest CO2 importers and exporters

https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worlds-largest-co2-import...

"Despite the large total of CO2 imports and exports, US emissions are only 6% higher and Chinese emissions are 13% lower when CO2 transfers are taken into account."

Energy related carbon dioxide emissions peaked in 2007 in the United States [1]. They didn't just get hidden by imports replacing domestic manufacturing. Even incorporating imports into the national balance, US emissions are down from the peak. This is largely due to efficient combined cycle gas turbines replacing coal plants and -- to a lesser but growing extent -- a larger proportion of renewable electricity in the national electricity mix.

Chinese carbon dioxide emissions have not peaked yet. As of 2017 (referenced above), 87% of Chinese emissions are attributable to domestic consumption. That should moderate hopes that Chinese emission trends could be reversed by CO2 tariffs. It should also moderate anxiety that Chinese emissions are "really" the offshored emissions of Western consumers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_th...
Certainly nothing to merit 12k, but they do have close to 1,000 locations and it's fundamentally a brick and mortar managed office space company, so every location needs at least a few people to keep things running / deal with client issues. The question is how big their back office operations really needs to be.
I don't know, to me the C version is more readable. I know for sure that in the end the C macros will only do text replacement, whereas the Rust macros could do anything.

And emojiis in code, really?
Managing their local facilities.
In the present participle, it's "shutting down", not "shutdowning". Or, "she shuts down the computer", not "she shutdowns the computer". "shutdown" is a verb as much as "alot" is a word. It's just a common typo.
OTOH, the wrong trees may be responsible for your allergies...

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/seasonal-allergies-bla...
Just to add to your list, I've been using frp[0] for the same purpose.

[0] https://github.com/fatedier/frp
What reasoning do you have to say that open sourcing it would amplify problems because it allows it to be fixed by people without deep knowledge of the codebase?

So confused by how enabling someone to see the source code will somehow hurt the code that would still be maintained by apple. It would still be up to them on whether or not to include a fix that was proposed by someone that viewed their code and tried to fix it.

Also, I think that fresh eyes on a problem can be quite beneficial. I believe a tunnel vision can occur when one group of individuals are trying to fix the same problems for years.
I created the exact same app in React and Svelte. Here are the differences
That isn't the issue -- it isn't a comment about the quality of Stadia today or even what is possible. It's a comment about Google's propensity to lose interest in products and services and shut them down.
Two ways to read it: the way you read it and "out of all the people who support Linux, MSFT is the strongest".
greatest polluter of air via coal

Cue the usual apologists saying “but per capita...” as if that makes the slightest difference
Managing 800 physical office locations? That’s not really that many people per location.
Excel is much more limited in the browser compared to the desktop app.

Conditional formatting for example can not use formulas in the online version.

The browser version is good but it's not at the same level as the desktop or even Google sheets yet.
Aside: Costumers, er prospects rather, love my products until the end when they ask, "so... how many people work there?"

As though that would indicate how likely it is that the product will have a long life. They are telling me with that question they want my software for a long time. But when they hear the answer they bail.

I still don't know how to get over that hump.
> 000s of dollars

Wow, that's a lot of dollars
NMBD and WINS name resolutions are dead on Windows too; normal DNS is used since the AD was introduced. For service discovery, WSD is supposed to be used now, Windows 10 and Windows 2016/19 are slowly killing SMB1. Windows itself doesn't really play nice with mDNS/DNS-SD (Bonjour).
The worst part of this for people will be having WeWork on their resume.
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> Nobody held a gun to their collective heads and said "You must produce cheap goods for western countries, and you must power your economy in the cheapest and most polluting way possible."

No, but experience has shown that that is the surest path to economic development - probably the only viable path for a country the size of China. A small city state might be able to develop by establishing itself as a financial or shipping hub, but for a giant country of 1.4 billion people to go from utter poverty to wealth, there's a good argument that it first has to turn itself into the world's factory.
I set up my whole company's communication on Google Wave. RIP

Slack, FWIW, is actually quite a bit like Wave was. I feel like if Google didn't screw the launch up so badly, and iterated on the product, they could have had Slack about 5 years before it actually existed.
The Danish accent is definitely instantly recognisable, but I also can't put my finger on what it is. It's definitely something about the vowels. Danish is a very vowel-heavy language, so I'm sure some of that bleeds over into English.
The guy won the point in this case, but in other cases they haven't been as lucky:
https://dailygazette.com/article/2016/12/14/treasure-hunter-...
The criticism of Google Stadia and the defense of its concept in this thread are correct.

There is a successful future in cloud gaming and nobody denies that. However, it's extremely likely to be delivered by a company with both the technical chops and industry chops, including a deep existing library. Google only has one of those, and they didn't even nail the technical side convincingly.

Look toward Microsoft or Sony instead; all the pieces are there for them to waltz in and drink Stadia's milkshake. And we know they're working on it. It's Disney+ all over again.
The question I assme they ask themselves is "If we no longer let small teams build and release interesting products, what do we miss out on?" The answer probably has a lot to do with employee motivation and retention as well.
This does not cause ambiguity to anyone. Its a distinction in search of a non-existent problem. The dictionary will change to follow our usage on this one, and we will lose nothing. Compound words become closed all the time.
Cloud gaming is solution looking for a problem. It's not customer demand driven. Nobody want's cloud gaming (at least not yet).

They haven't shown anything compelling why this would be a game changer for end users.

The games are not more fun or unique than on any other platforms.

Any of the cloud arguments also hold for consoles or PCs on internet connected games.

I think the site may be a bit optimistic.
> This misses my point. If I create a language and assign different semantics to the Python AST,

but which semantic differences are you talking about ? It is plain C++. Function calls are function calls, the only difference being that some are auto-generated and some are your own code.
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This is a good point that runs a little deeper than some people appreciate. (moving a topic into the category of "political" can already, today, be a subtle form of censorship in the public sphere)

At the same time, if we're talking about advertising, in the US we can just rely on what constitutes political advertising under the law.
It's a very different thing from raincoat vs. rain coat. Those sort of combinations happen all the time, and either can be considered correct.

This is a whole class of words that are always two words when used as a verb, and one word when used as a noun. Setup/set up, login/log in, lookup/look up, checkout/check out, etc.

I guess you can claim it is petty, but to me it is like using the wrong "there". Especially bad in a title.
Very surprised of general negative sentiment towards Stadia. Why is it like this? Because it's Google, the evil company?

Seriously, if any startup launched it in its current state, people would be cheering and blaming it on a new tech/new challenges. But cause it's a very big corporation with top talent it means that they have to release top quality product every time? What the hell...

I'm very excited about the project, although not really interested in it at the moment. I don't think its target audience is hardcore gamers, so why all of you are so over dramatic? Possibly, feeling happy that "real" gaming isn't going anywhere anytime soon?

Obviously, there are problems and challenges, but I'm pretty sure that sooner or later it will get better. That's what the MVP is for, isn't it?
How is that being fair? Does you not having heard about it define what is a great product, and what is not?

Google Inbox was great. Intuitive, modern, snappy, a testbed for new features, and on the surface it seemed less monetized and ad-ridden than gmail.

I switched away from Google's email-clients as soon as Inbox died, also having used Gmail since as soon as I got an invite when it was more closed than today.
Agreed. Hence my comment that traditional gaming is already something of a niche.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)

Your comment could've been more productive.
It's bad that there are half forgotten systems but almost every sizable business that has been around for many years will have this. On mobile, but there's a famous story of a server that had been drywalled over and had been running just fine, unnoticed and unattended, for years.

It's good to see that maintenance is rewarded at Google at least occasionally. I only ever hear that it is only new products that are rewarded. And I notice new people piling on to issues in their product trackers that I've been following for years.