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I'm not sure I understand your question, or assertion...

Mystical experiences change beliefs, ideology, and alter the way we interpret reality in the long-term. Whether or not those beliefs exist in the physical brain, is, I guess, an open question.

All that said, I'm not entirely convinced that mystical experiences are particularly beneficial. I suspect that the changes in beliefs they engender can indeed be malignant.

But then again, I also low-key suspect that LSD was popularized by the CIA among hippies in the 60s in order to destabilize and undermine the anti-war movement, replacing activism with pointless psychedelia and the search for ultimate reality, mannn.
You leave IT Ghandi alone.
Rockets always blow up, the question is just how quickly.
By this logic, Google should get rid of ad targeting altogether. I wonder why they don't. They're clearly not as smart as you.
I still can't believe this guy gets to walk away with 1.7 billion dollars just for building up fluff while all the people who helped him grow have dire consequences both financial and personal. Unbelievable that this guy gets a clean chit, and all this isn't considered criminal. This to me is almost at the scale of Theranos. Only, this guy was smarter in the legal side of things, perhaps.
COM is good and it is anything except disaster. It its raw form, COM is just a small and natural abstraction over plain C interface.

Just like a C interface is a small and nice abstraction over plain registers/stack call models of the past.

The advent of calling conventions like C was a huge step forward in 1970s. Before that, there was a mad zoo of passing parameters via random CPU registers and praying that you made no mistake and it would work without a crash.

COM is no different. IUnknown is just 3 methods (QueryInterface, AddRef, RemoveRef) over a plain C. It immediately brings an ability to use service model design in APIs.
That's how large corporations work... you have different business units managed by different people, sometimes with dramatically different cultures. The problem is, people like to personify companies, most of that comes from executive leadership and in the case of MS, it's effectively a different 'person' today as a couple decades ago.
Yep, definitely not new tech. (You probably know this next bit, but just for anyone scrolling by).

Having your server verify every action is the only way to prevent hackers from simply sending a packet that says "I got a headshot on that guy". Instead the server replays through all their actions. You never say you got a headshot, you just say when you clicked and the server figures out if you hit.

And because like you mention, clients only receive gameplay data and not the fully rendered screen, this allows clients to do things like interpolate the (delayed) server data with their own realtime input elements. Otherwise every single action you take would be delayed by whatever your latency is, and every other player's actions would be delayed by a similar amount. Instead, it appears seamless until your latency gets so bad that you just begin teleporting between positions because the server can't track you well enough (often called multiplayer rubber-banding).

Instead (well designed) game servers run their own authoritative version of the game world and track each player's latency, and use that to replay the previous few ticks of the game when an input comes in from any player. So if you have a 100ms ping, and press "W" to walk forward, when the server receives your forward input it treats it as if you have been moving for 100ms already.

Basically, saying every player shares the world model is incorrect unless you can set them all to the same latency.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Lag_compensation

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Latency_Compensatin...

Edit: additional source, these gafferongames articles are a bit old (2004) but still extremely relevant.

https://gafferongames.com/post/networked_physics_2004/

https://gafferongames.com/post/what_every_programmer_needs_t...
I think I would call it nested destructuring with default values.
In actual experience, the people in question weren't "out to get me". They complained about things going wrong (due to their own actions), and I listened. Now their failures are my fault, according to some bizarre logic I can't understand, or so I heard through the grapevine.

I don't think any malicious intent was involved. They just tried to protect their fragile egos, and I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Also, I was stupid enough to listen.
Fun fact: Kurt Vonnegut once invented a board game [1]. Called General Headquarters, it was apparently aimed at children. The game was never published and, to my knowledge, the rules of the game have never been made public.

[1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kurt-vonnegut-board-game_n_21...
Judging from the incredible press, it would be amazing if the management can hold the company together and it actually exists in 3 years.
How does a not-open-source product control open-source?

Anyone can try to build an open source alternative to GPS on whatever hardware they can obtain, using Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Without Google open source, they've have to replicate it's functionality from scratch.

If AOSP never existed, Android would still be Android (GPL allows proprietary Android) and would still be as popular as it is.
iOS was never open source, and did fine.
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I recently traveled from BOS<->NYC for business. I left my office an hour before scheduled departure and walked 30 minutes to Penn Station. A slightly different experience than getting to Newark/La Guardia/JFK. As a bonus, I was returning on short notice, so I was able to easily change to an earlier train 10 minutes before it departed, with no extra fee.

At the end of the return trip, I overheard a group of four other travelers saying that they got so much work done, they should just ride the train back and forth every day.

Seat and ride comfort are totally different as well. To me, it's well worth trading in some time for a much better travel experience. I've had a year where I logged close to 50k air miles in coach and over 10k train miles in coach, so I've seen the good and bad of both modes of travel (on and off the NEC for the trains).

For the long distance trains, I consider the time it takes to travel one of the benefits. In today's highly connected, highly active world, I find having 24 hours to simply look out the window and be alone with my thoughts to be incredibly rejuvenating.
A lot of people pay directly for Gmail in the form of Google Apps for business.

YouTube also launched a subscription model, although I have no idea if the number of paying users is relevant
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Indeed, this whole particular story started when Google retaliated against employees who opposed its bid for a CBP contract.
FWIW though, setting up a mail server is difficult. Setting up a mail client with reasonable spam filtering to make email usable is also difficult. Compare the list of steps on either of those tasks to the list for getting email via Gmail: "1) Sign up to a Google account, 2) visit gmail.com"; it's obvious almost all users are going to do the latter (or its equivalent at a Google competitor).
Carbon taxes, even if "flat" (i.e. a set amount per carbon) are "progressive" taxes because the rich spend more on carbon generating stuff.

It is of course easy to tweak them to make them even better, like directing some of the money to subsidize public transport.
> I really hope things get better for these poor people caught in the middle of this shit show.

As in, you hope they find new employment at a legitimate company?
I got some ad on Gmail for Android, back in the days and tried it for a week or so.

Couldn't figure out how it was better than the stuff I already used and switched back to the regular Gmail client again.
Come on, you are being at the least disingenuous, that $250k is taxes down to around $130 so now that $250k is going entirely to COL. No savings, no retirement, no vacations, that’s “just surviving” which is the OP’s point. $250k is extremely relative
APL is not so much a model of computation as a new notation for semantics which already exist. The real semantic explanation of APL is set theory and traditional mathematics.

Probably the best deep ground-level explanation of APL is Iverson’s paper “Notation as a tool of thought.” [0]

The bootstrapping explanation you describe sounds a lot like what Paul Graham did in “On Lisp” [1] and in a much more complex fashion, Queinnec in “Lisp in Small Pieces” [2], both highly recommended.

[0] https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521545668
> However, the idea of removing ads because of 'false claims' can only lead to censorship in the future

Looks like what they're calling 'false claims' is extremely narrow and based on simple objective facts:

> For example, Google would remove ads that falsely claimed that a candidate had died or that gave the wrong date for an election.

> However, it would not ban claims that you cannot trust a rival party, for instance, which would be viewed as being a matter of opinion.

IMO, I think the better approach to handle truthiness issues is to give the other party/candidate/candidates a chance to post a rebuttal.
Another Fastmail user here. Switched just over a year ago and haven't looked back.
I think people are critical of google in general, not that that is a bad thing. Although for Stadia's case, I think Gamers Nexus shows why people are negative towards it off the bat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6dyrtnLU_w
Good stuff! Thanks for sharing.
Just dont sell the startup to google again and keep building the same product over and over again. :)
This is a blog post about a twitter post about a picture. The whole article can be reduced to "tim cook good, trump bad, why in picture together?". HN cannot become reddit, we have to hold our bar higher than blogspam about politics.
Destructuring, that rings a bell. Thank you.
Stadia will stay. Google needs this to happen since they need one more revenue stream. There is no way it gets shut down. All of the other products that Google was quick to cancel didn’t represent long term key businesses for Google. To shut down Stadia would be akin to shut down their self driving division. Microsoft lost billions with the Xbox before it was profitable and the brand stablished itself in the market. Google recognizes it will be that kind of marathon with Stadia.
I'd hope that, when making a title (not just texting a friend), more than whether it causes ambiguity counts. Would you be equally ok with it if they said "there" when the correct word was "their"?

This sort of word does not become compounded in the way "rain coat" can become "raincoat".

There isn't a single example where the verb form of any of these, as a single word, is considered correct:

backup
carryout
checkout
comeback
cutover
cutoff
failover
handout
knockout
lookup
lockdown
login
logoff
logon
logout
meetup
meltdown
pickup
rollback
rollout
rollover
setup
showoff
shutdown
shutoff
signin
signoff
signout
signup
slowdown
startout
startup
takedown
workaround
workout
Oh, thanks for the education i had no idea.

Eggs to me have always lived next to the flour and sugar in a larder. - The more you know =)
I shed some tears for the Google widgets or how it was called.

It was pretty nice to have some kind of dashboard when opening the browser.

A todo list, a calendar, emails, news, weather.

When it went away I tried some alternatives, but they weren't the same :/
Very few companies will ever pay engineers that money. And those companies have campuses all over the USA. So, they don't need this... The ones who could be interested in what this company offers are those that are much more financially constrained. Thus, offering more than $10k for a sign on bonus is probably not plausible for them either. I'd be surprised if anyone who gets hired through this company would have a TC past $200k. (ignoring silly valuations of startup stock)
What dire consequences?
Once it formats your text, you are forced to use the formatting menu to change anything.

They are clearly moving towards WYSWYG-only, markup is minimally supported now to facilitate transition.

Sad.
> An actual quote, yelled before storming off: "oh, that is just like you, trying to solve everything".

Maybe they wanted comfort, and not a solution?
How much trust in longevity do you need to be willing to play a rented video game?

> Even when they come out and claim that this product will not be cancelled,

When has this happened?

Has Google broken its contracts?
Can this be a library instead of a standalone executable?

I can imagine a lot of end-user P2P applications where this, as a library, would be a great help.
The majority of the population lives in urban and suburban areas, and a minority lives in rural areas.

These are very different environments and public transport should be expected to be very different between them.

In cities, we should expect a high capacity system, like subways, 10-minutes buses and trams.

Gradually, as we move outside the cities densest areas, we should have a lighter but faster system, such as light transit rails, longer but still frequent bus routes.

Eventually, as we move outside suburban areas into rural areas, we should get something that barely exist right now: on-demand transit, like collective taxis, or flexible minibuses.
850 billion can be broken down by:

* Long term customers gained

* Goodwill created

* New products

All of this reduces to "discounted future revenue". Say you have a 10 year target on MSFT. Do you think MSFT will make $850 billion dollars more in the next ten years than they did in the last ten years? MSFT revenue has doubled in the last ten years. Even if it does not grow at all, they will earn around $1T in the next ten years as compared to (about) $800 billion in the last ten.

Edit: and if you DO think it will grow then perhaps $850B of value is perhaps the top line.
A lot of orgs have been there. Jabber/XMPP. It hurts. So we all use slack now.
WeWork is under investigation, so.
> Has a Google product ever been good?

Uhhh...

Maps? Mail? Pixel 2 and 3? Fi? Sheets?

Sure, their Cloud doesn't sell as much as Amazon's, but it's been praised as being a much more coherent product.

Not sure how anyone could argue that Google hasn't gotten it right several times.
Stadia uses custom hardware that they had to make specifically for this, so this is at least unlikely ;)
Exactly. PDF is digital paper. The "print to PDF" metaphor is perfect. If you've printed something and decide you want to change it, you don't grab white out, you open the source file up and change it then print again.

If editing PDFs is something you find yourself needing to do regularly, something is very wrong with the process that's leading to this. It may not be your fault, it may be an upstream party who should be providing you with the source material, but either way making PDFs easier to edit is not the correct solution.
The web is ready for great graphic design
Even more so in this case, where if they discontinue the product you probably risk losing access to your entire game collection.
The goals of the private sector sometimes don't align with the goals of human freedom. But we can nudge the private sector in a better direction.

Consider tariffs on Chinese goods. There are other countries in Asia that could serve as manufacturing bases for international companies which are not led by brutal dictatorships and better align with Western ideals. Tariffs can be effective in convincing companies to move out of China into these other more appropriate countries.
Get ready for cease&desist from Slack: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17869249
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I've actually had more issues with it in Windows than on Linux/Mac. Though I will say VS proper is much nicer than VS Code for C# development. It will improve. I'd still prefer to use mostly node, which gets its' own ire from the developer community.
Another question to pile onto this. Maybe you're the right one to ask.

I was always taught that the body uses up its glycogen stores before burning fat. But if that were true even a small calorie deficit would gradually use up our glycogen stores and we'd be walking around without any after that.

Plus before losing any fat you'd have to experience a glycogen crash/wall which most small deficit dieters don't experience.
Game streaming requires tens of gigabytes worth of data downloaded every hour, resulting in choppy gameplay because of the latency. Their production product seems more like a beta release. They may be too early to market and could see them shutting it down relatively soon.
> just try the following

This is the typical format when responding to people who have dating issues. "Sounds like you're too X. You're overthinking things. Just do Y."

Typically, Y is the most mundane, boring straight-forward cliche advice that everyone and their grandmother gives. It's delivered as if the person with the problem just never thought to try out the basic advice, like do an interesting activity or be a positive person.
That’s an amazing idea. A naive approach would be to slice the volume into N surfaces (say, ~30 layers to stay above 30fps) but there is probably a much more efficient organic pattern or interlacing that would give good volume and angle coverage at much higher resolution - think of crumpled cloth blowing in the wind at speed.
In general, Google runs its operation like a family of startups still (even given their new departmentalized org chart), and for any new Google product, I consider the operational expected life to be the operational expected life of a startup company announcement.

Google doesn't have a process internally (AFAIK) equivalent to series funding, but the processes they do have are functionally equivalent; if management decides a project isn't worth investing in, teams get re-assigned and that's it.

And companies that can offer a 10+-year support cycle on their products announce fewer new initiatives a year.
That's already an issue with minified JavaScript.
Can we still call minified JavaScript "Web" ? What about non-minified JavaScript?
Do they seriously have employees at each? I assumed it was either a franchise or contractor thing. Rare for a tech company to actually hire people directly for that sort of thing.
There is no institution to enforce them - the best we have is the UN Security Council and the International Court of Justice, the latter of which will only arbitrate disputes between consenting States.

No State is going to hold each other accountable when they're all doing the same thing, and nobody would ever sign up to some sort of supranational authority.
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> Because it's Google, the evil company?

Yes - they have closed down so many services that people depended on.

> with top talent

I don't see much evidence of this in their service provisions.
Textbook anti competitive behavior. Google needs to be broken up.
Yes. https://github.com/Co-dfns/Co-dfns can target GPU.
Only if by users you mean people living in the terminal. Yeah, those people hate GUIs, compositing desktops and anything more than monospaced text. Just whisper "Emoji" in their ear and witness the Wrath of Khan unleashed.

I would say exactly the opposite, not using web-tech for GUIs is disrespecting the users, because the end result is an ugly app with a lot of missing features (gif/image/emoji support for example).

Users seem to love their VS Code/Discord apps written in Electron. I wonder why.
> For example I'm regularly amazed at small features in Maps that make my life easier.

While I generally agree that Maps is a great and amazing product, I really feel that it is now suffering "peak product" syndrome like MS Word circa late 90s/early 00s. That is, I think Maps was probably "optimal" about 2 or 3 years ago, but since then there has been so much organizational pressure to do something new and add features than each successive version gets worse overall with feature bloat. Yes, some of those new features are useful, but overall I have less and less screen real estate taken up by the actual map and more and more taken up by shit I usually don't care about.
I'd argue that they would have been reasonably happy with their salaries (and any other perks) while they were employed (otherwise they would have gone elsewhere). And whilst I've not read the article chances are there will be some severance payout. And whilst it's inconvenient there's a good chance many of them will find employment elsewhere. Lastly, the writing's been on the wall for some time now. I'd like to think that they would have braced themselves for this eventuality.
A console and a Google project has a similar life expectancy, but when the console EoLs, you can continue to use it indefinitely for free if you want.
Except for in-the-box replication and failover options.
Different sectors of the economy have different energy intensities. China's is much more reliant on heavy industry than more developed countries, which are service-sector dominated.

Just a quick comparison of the share of industry in each region's GDP:

* China: 40% industry
* Japan: 30% industry
* EU: 25% industry
* USA: 19% industry
Google Stadia games needs to be customized for Stadia. For how long will developers continue to make Stadia versions of their games?

What will happen to the service when the people first involved have moved on and they have trouble finding engineers wanting to work on something that's not brand new? Wasn't that why they cancelled Reader?
Every time someone posts "Nobody wants cloud gaming" half a dozen people come in and say "Actually, I want cloud gaming"

Don't mistake the fact that you don't want cloud gaming for nobody wanting cloud gaming
I also fondly remember iGoogle! Or google homepage, whatever names it had. Looks like it died for G+[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGoogle
So, exactly what parallels do you see between the world today and Harrison Bergeron? This story is constantly misinterpreted by libertarian types. Vonnegut himself has disputed such readings. [0]

[0]: https://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/may/05/vonnegut_lawyers_c...
Indeed: https://gcemetery.co/google-hangouts/
Or indeed a non-counterfeit water filter. They're not regulated.
That’s not remotely the same use case, nor is Tor something most want to use in their networks unless it is absolutely needed.
You could look at this as a shifting of talent. Instead of those 2,400 people wasting their time managing short term office rentals for yuppies, perhaps they'll move on to more meaningful work! Some will start companies, some will join companies that provide more value to society, some will spend time with their families.
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From the post, I wasn't sure if you knew, but JS also has regular default parameters if that's all you want.
True that. Thank you for your input
I think the two are inherently connected, no? By assuming Stadia is a failed product out of the box, we just label it as another Google product that is waiting to be shut down.

Google is on the hook for a bunch of titles and features they haven't delivered yet, if they were to "lose interest" in the next six months to a year I'd be pretty suprised
Your reply made my day. Comment away. You're obviously "a gentleman and a scholar" and the Internet could use more like ya. :-)
True I edited, but the link to "not a verb" is pretty obvious what they are talking about. Nobody is going to make a site to claim that you can't say "shut down" as a verb phrase, that makes no sense.
Prohibition doesn't work. You can murder and imprison millions of dealers; as long as you don't get treatment for addicts it won't matter.
i mean, why downvote the GP? there is a good discussion to have here. and i am in fact learning new things. i am all for using one word (less typing) but i am not sure i am ready to see shutdowning...