skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They almost certainly can't. If I remember correctly the "we can just release an unlock patch" comment was back when Steam was just that really annoying thing Valve forced you install to play Counter-Strike. The moment they started including third-party games was the moment that no longer became available. DMCA 1201 is very very clear that you cannot unlock other people's games for any reason, even a legal one.
Recently played around with Quarto in VSCode the other day and was surprised at how nice it is for a (seemingly) immature product.
Wav files aren't a memory dump, unless you consider any file output to be a memory dump; certainly, not in the sense that old OLE (ha) files were.
Joni Mitchell's story and Pat Martino's story are remarkably similar (brain aneurysm). The question is, did they regain access to the part of their brain that allowed them to play guitar, or did they really re-learn?

In Martino's case, after his full amnesia, he was able to retrieve his unique playing style, but was that because he learned by listening to his recordings (just like Joni did), or because the style never left him but was somehow locked?
Microsoft Bing – site gone from SERP overnight
This has happened to me and others as well.
>Mandate keeping the servers open.

Awful idea. Great way to permanently move all content services to subscription based as nobody in their right mind would ever commit to keeping up servers for the rest of eternity for every game or movie they create.
Normally I'd have said nothing wrong with shaving it all off, but your transplant does look worth it, it's transformative. Thanks for sharing the comparison
I'm sure MS has enough issues with backwards compatibility. Can't imagine handling multiple registry implementations on top of it.
This is why I still buy games on bluray for my consoles. I have the gamepass for xbox and psplus premium for PS5, but I'd like at least to be able to resell stuff, if I need...
Other big tech platforms have chosen to do full refunds when they shutdown. I'm thinking in particular of Microsoft- when they shut down their eBooks division, they issued a full refund for all their books and when they shut down Kinect fitness* they gave on platform credit for paid workouts.

I do wish that a major government would pass a law to this effect- if you advertise something as "buy", "purchase", or "own" then you need to have and execute on a plan to ensure access in perpetuity, even if you go out of business.

* XBox fitness remains the best product I've ever used that didn't make it in the market.
Google consumer products have a pretty bad track record, and using Google Workspace sometimes seems to cross the line to becoming a liability, with their approach to customer support and lockout appeal process.

Google Cloud is another story, they don't seem to shut down anything there and you have actual support lines. But we aren't talking about that here.
I will say, SSD pricing is pretty frustrating. There's a lot of focus on faster and faster nvme that's barely noticeable while actual capacity has really stagnated at around 2-4tb. As someone who is very into photography, it takes not very long to fill 2tb of space. If I could buy a cheap 16tb ssd with fast reads and slow writes I'd be a happy camper but it doesn't exist unless I want to buy spinning disks (I don't)
What are those guys doing at the poles? Pretty sure that William Lounsbery wasn't born in Antarctica. There's also a Finnish politician born near the North Pole.
What ended up happening with the collections?
This would be the least surprising Google product shutdown to date. It's been basically unsupported for a year or more.
as a FB sceptic and part of a Berkeley data science community, I visited FB on a group tour, in the first weeks of opening the Menlo Park Campus. We were told explicitly, with a ten meter wide screen in the back, that any analytics could run on their Map-Reduce stack for pay. The example was "people who bowl in the Minneapolis area" or something. Some nod to political or sexual extensions to that was implied but not explained. "You can run your code jobs on this data. We have customers now" the spokesperson announced to the Berkeley data science crowd of about 45 people. I regret not recording it on video.

Much later, after personally running away from anything FB, this Cambridge Analytica scandal happened, and a picture of Zuck and wife walking with the King of Spain was publicized, and a picture of FB COO Cheryl Sandberg on a tour of a US Aircraft carrier and the fleet admiral in dress uniform was publicized -- I do not know how these transitions were managed socially but ... ?? How could anyone not see this?

ugly, creepy.. against the whole FB consolidation here, from Day Zero.
> This is why I don't sign on to anything new google does for a few years now. It's going to be buggy but promising initially, then be poorly supported, and then be cancelled leaving you high and dry.

I can't really understand how people can trust google domains.
The fact the US is basically empty means the cost to build a HSR route to go between population centers is super high because of the sheer distances involved. You’re talking like 1000 miles, not 200. The places which are closer together, like the East Coast, do have some passenger rail but they’re also much denser, like Europe, and so they have the same kind of constraints (or worse).

The US has a lot of freight rail, and we use it.

The Wild West mentality has gone away in the railroad industry which is now hyper-conservative and regulated.

I do sometimes wish the US lived up to the Wild West stereotype the Europeans imagine. But no, we often have just as much stifling regulation (if not more), depending on where you’re talking about. But we do have gun violence, so there’s that.
License transfer is the (relatively) trivial part. Porting stadia-exclusive games to another platform (PC) would be the slightly trickier part, whos effort would differ for each game.
I don't think Simplot was the founder, just the funder. IIRC it was a couple engineers from Texas Instruments who founded Micron. Pretty sure JR Simplot and Ron Yanke funded the company.
which is why facebook was smart to buy instagram (checks notes) 10 years ago. Time for them to buy the next gen interface for socializing with friends for zoomers
Except that "refcounting is faster than a GC" is mostly a myth, both are equally bad if predictable performance matters.
Boy, I can't wait for theangeryemacsshibe (posts here as hayley-patton) to tear into this one.

But yeah, the correct way to handle resources (not just memory!) is with value semantics and RAII. Because then you know the object will be cleaned up as soon as it goes out of scope with zero additional effort on your part. In places where this is not appropriate, a simple reference counting scheme may be used, but the idea is to keep the number of rc'd objects small. Do not use cyclical data structures. Enforce a constraint: zero cycles. For data structures like arbitrary graphs, keep an array of vertices and an array of edges that reference vertices by index.

If you use a language with GC, you're probably just contributing to global warming.
Early Alzheimer’s detection up to 17 years in advance
> It lasted less than three years and will leave players with nothing to show.

Well they got to play the games? Not sure what you'd want to show? Like high-scores?
> That this ancient format is still as prevalent as it is on the modern web is somewhat dumbfounding

Browser vendors didn't provide any alternatives to animation that just work until very recently. It's not dumbfounding when you take that into consideration.

For some reason GIF support was grandfathered in everywhere yet APNG, ability to just upload or embed a video and (god forbid because photoshop still can't open it) WEBP all took decades to be ubiquitous.
Hey, welcome to programming.

I guess my question is - what makes you think basketball reference uses a ton of api calls?

They do have some - search for example - but static sites and a mix of static sites and html works well for a lot of the web and can lower costs tremendously.
From my research, it seems like SDF is a best suited for game engines to use for text, especially non-UI text (that may appear at arbitrary sizes), as it is a fast, space-efficient, and easily scalable approximation.

Unfortunately, SDF tends to lose precision at corners, making it less good for text-oriented applications. It does seem like multi-channel SDF improves on the corner precision issues (as highlighted by the repo you linked to), but in a terminal, we don't frequently need to render text at different scales, so not sure there is much benefit. (If a user changes font sizes, we can clear out and rebuild the atlas sufficiently quickly.)

That said, I could borrow some ideas from MSDF to improve on space efficiency by encoding the three different offset variants into separate color channels at the same atlas location, reducing size of the atlas itself as well as the hashmap used to look up atlas position from glyph ID and whatnot.
Goolge Stadia twitter account is saying the rumour is false:

https://twitter.com/GoogleStadia/status/1552989433590214656
Corporations may be comprised of humans, but the corporation itself is not human. This is particularly true for large corporations with a lot of organizational complexity, like Google. They are forms of artificial intelligence, but instead of running on silicon they run on the organizational chart. Corporations are capable of doing things that no individual human in the organization personally agrees with but go along with anyway because of the way the organization is structured and enforces compliance with itself. Even the executives at the top, who may believe they're in charge, are ultimately components in the machine whose perspective and insight into the true workings of the machine are filtered by the machine itself.

Don't expect human decency from a corporation, because corporations aren't humans. They're alien intelligence constructed out of humans, but that humanity is not inherited.

related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_brain
Let's say that freedom is too big of a word and mean a lot of different things, so let's adjective it.

Let's call it political freedom.

Do having almost no political freedom in the society you live in prevent you from enjoying other freedom?

Well, asking myself the question makes me believe my first thought was wrong and that you are right.

Which is weird because I also still believe GP is right too about his feeling of freedom.

I'll escape with this maybe you agree: as a kid, you are not really a part of the society yet, your parents handle this for you(taxes, responsibility in case of crime, but also voting). So the lack of political freedom, as long as it didn't came with a lack of mean, didn't impact GP as much as it would an adult. The policed society can then allows you more 'freedom' (which i cannot really define).
TIL that there are only interns and people with 10+ years of experience.
While this is the common shorthand, what actually happened is pretty different. The ruling is people don't lose their rights when acting as a group. John Smith, Girl Scout troop#2365, and Bank Of America are all equally protected to create and publish a Pro or anti politician message. There isn't really a law that can just say money isn't speech, because that doesn't change anything.
The fear of the early internet, as seen through ’90s TV shows
Stop paying PaaS for your side projects, make one easily like a PRO
It's not a stupid question at all.

They will most likely be rendering the page in full server-side. This is how things were done in the beginning, but also what a lot of websites are returning to, for performance reasons.
I don't know exactly when I started "porting" vim into Linux on the Web (it's actually a complete rewrite in JS). It's been a few years at least. You can play with it by going to http://lotw.site/shell and then entering `import fs && vim` at the prompt.

(A tip... if you do `echo "import fs" >> ~/.bashrc`, the 'fs' command library—which contains the vim command—will be automatically imported into the current shell's execution context.)
That's an odd comparison. Unlike Stadia, if the Pixel phone division shuts down you still have a working phone.

Forums will be forums and the trolls get the spotlight. Pixel phones, particularly the cheaper 'a' models, are very popular and good value. What significant things are much better on non-Google Android phones?
Is Apple Arcade doing fine? In my small world I don’t know a single person who uses it.
To put things in perspective, Microsoft lost a billion dollars a year for four years before turning a profit on Xbox.
The container for the radio buttons stretches to at least to the center, isn't visible, and prevents clicking/tapping on map items. This is on mobile in FF.
Reference counting can also have unpredictable hits if you release any large data structures. Whoever drops the last reference suddenly gets to sit through the entire deep set of items to release ( unless you can hand off the release cascade to a background thread ).

I've never heard of a reference counting implementation that can handle memory compaction.

Every time you update a reference count, which is every time you touch any object, you're going to have to write to that RAM, which means stealing it from any other threads using it on any other processors. If you share large trees of data between threads, traversing that tree in different threads will always end up with your threads constantly fighting with each other since there's no such thing as read only memory in reference counting.

When releasing something like a huge list in reference counting, how does the release avoid blowing the stack with recursive releasing? My guess is this just a "don't use a large list whose release may blow the stack with recursive releasing" situation.
Everything Google produces is either a product to sell ads through or an experiment on new methods to sell ads. They don’t seem willing or capable of selling stuff for money as the primary goal.
Wow so you're comparing Mac users to Mac users. You seem unable to read what I actually wrote.
Fun. My biggest surprise so far is Ruggero Deodato. Did not expect to see him.
I decided to try Stadia just now. Their games page has lots of games saying "try for free X minutes", so I tried picking one. Selected the Google account to use, and then I get a 403. Tried a different game with a different Google account. Also 403.
Also, the ability to listen to whole albums or discographies at a time when no one else was really offering that.

Part of what drove me away from Pandora at a certain point (maybe they've changed since then, don't know) was that they would only play a small subsection of any particular artist's work-- that is no bueno for me, if I really love them I want to hear it all at least once.
Customers are paying for a service not just tech. Google makes some great tech demos, but seemingly has no idea what to do after that. They are really bad at providing services for money and auto-ban, game selection etc are all symptoms of the same issue.

Which is why Stadia is a bad joke.
Yes and no. That particular example can indeed be type-checked without extra annotations (unless I want to indicate that the use-case of the variable is actually immutable). But consider I slightly modify the script:

def main() -> None:
words = []
for word in (words + ["Hello"]):
print(word)

if __name__ == '__main__':
main()

MyPy rejects to infer the type of the iterable. Here's an equivalent Haskell version that does infer the type without manual annotations:

import Data.Foldable (for_)

main = do
let words = []
for_ (words ++ ["Hello"]) (\word -> print word)
> We get that a lot actually

Now think of all the people who never tell you and just move on. They don’t get to use a useful tool and you don’t get the customer. Lose-lose.

> if you reach out to our customer support team we can convert a small file for free for you.

Which costs you money via the time spent on support.

> Maybe we should add a free trial tho.

From your grandparent comment, it seems you offer different prices based on the number of artboards. Maybe the trial is instead a free tier which only works on files up to X MB in size with at most Y artboards.
> I would hope we actively plan for much cheaper launches with Starship coming online.

(disclaimer: I'm a SpaceX fan) Savings that was supposed to be generated by rocket reuse with Falcon 9 haven't trickled down to clients, if I understand situation correctly. What makes everyone think that Starship will bring cheap kg-to-orbit era?
Do you think women and girls don't want everyone's attention to orbit around them ?
To give an indication 4,000 of these things were deployed in Afghanistan since 2013, I'm not sure if that counts as a significant quantity. I've no idea what their manufacturing capacity is now, but that's an average of about 600 a year.
> Q: If the Stadia service is discontinued, do we know what (if anything) will happen with game purchases?

> Andrey Doronichev, then Stadia Director of Product:

> We get this a lot. I hear you. Moving to the cloud is scary. I felt the same way when music was transitioning from files to streaming. I still have all my old CDs in the garage… although it's hard to find a CD player these days :)

> The same happened to Movies and Photos and my Docs and other files… And it’s great! Games are no different. Eventually all of our games will be safely in the cloud too and we'll feel great about it.

> [..]

> Of course, it’s ok to doubt my words. Theres nothing I can say now to make you believe if you don't. But what we can do is to launch the service and continue investing in it for years to come. Exactly how we've been doing with gMail, Docs, Music, Movies and Photos. That’s exactly what we’re committed to.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Stadia/comments/ceuy4w/hi_im_andrey...

(I've been holding onto this bookmark for a while)
I know they put the full force of the machine behind it, it's just not obvious to me that the reason they did it came from the top, or was even known to the top, versus just being an emergent phenomenon.

I think people ascribe way too much agency to corporate executives.
Most of those are not real options, they're about to stop getting security updates, or already did.
Thats very comprehensive-- not the 500 page "essay" with a link to buy I was expecting -- well done!

Edit: That said, your actual product is very expensive, at least compared to Teachable/Thinkfic etc (though it similar in price to products like Kajabi-- is that who you are competing with?)
It looks fantastic.
Show HN: Graphman – Quickly scaffold a postman collection for any GraphQL API
Which is especially comical If you've ever wandered through the street markets of Saint-Ouen just outside of Paris - stall after stall of haute couture brand merchandise priced under 10 euros.
More people seen Britney than Jesus...
I feel like I started this way (in middle school and high school), but grew out of it over time. Basically had a video game addiction and could not for the life of me long-term-goal anything outside of school.

I think eventually I found that these short-term sweets are quite unfulfilling in the long-term, and now enjoy less immediately-stimulating hobbies like fitness, reading, learning, etc.

Hopefully people can grow out of this as they age.
And yet the registry is used by billions of people, everyday, without issue. So the technical problems must be minor in practice, right? This is all very academic.
Like Slashdot, perhaps?
I used to think this too, now I live here the American system actually works pretty well. Railways are actually very busy with freight, which keeps it off the roads and freight doesn't mind pauses and running overnight. Lots of rural connections are much easier to drive. Even between cities its easier because for train connections you'd have to get to the station (usually central) where if you drive you can go directly where you want. As a result people are much more mobile and can live in a wider area in USA, where in Europe to commute to the office you really have to live near a train station.
This is great, but it would be better if the selection of the station was a textbox or a smaller map. Right now you have to zoom in to select a station, and then carefully zoom out to see the reach.
Well yes, the OP is a map of trains in European countries.
Ha, nice visualization. Some surprises, e.g. I didn't know about Orwell, but literature isn't my strong suite.

The data source seems a bit outdated, as it has Elliot Page still listed as Ellen Page (or there is some other notable person with that name which I don't know).
I'd like to be a counterpoint for the Stadia bashing here:

I'm not much of a gamer, but I've always been interested in playing Red Dead Redemption 2. However, I neither had a console nor a PC with a decent enough graphics card.

This spring, I picked up a Google TV with Chromecast, and realized I could pair any bluetooth device with it. I bought a cheapo PS4-like controller off of Amazon, saw that RDR2 was on sale on Stadia, and gave it a shot.

I have to say, the experience was quite pleasing. No need for an expensive/out-of-stock graphics card. No need for a dedicated console. If feels like a great solution for a casual gamer. Overall, I've been impressed with the experience, and haven't experienced any lag or game stutters. Heck, it even plays Cyberpunk smoothly!

Stadia definitely lacks in terms of marketing and game library, but I feel like it's a concept that works.
Wasn't aware that baldness was a problem.
>> But the publishers looked at it like Nvidia had stolen their games to make their own bootleg streaming service.

You still bought the game, you're just running elsewhere. They're worried about ports - they want to sell you that sweet android/iOS port of their game. That's why they block the games.
TikTok is going to eat away at other platforms even more once they increase the fund, and it looks like they have plans to do just that:

https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/introducing-the-200-millio...

Over 1 billion dollars in the US over the next three years.

One common complaint from creators I watch on YouTube seems to be that the fund isn’t high enough for them to do TikTok full-time.

So currently the flow is:

Build an audience on TikTok, have that audience follow you to YouTube where ad revenue reigns supreme.

One day that flow will just be to build an audience on TikTok.
It's much easier to be a polymath when the subjects are an expert in are pretty relatively unexplored. Today people spend their whole lifetime studying a deep branch in a single field, because the tree of math/physics/bio etc.. is much much more explored.
Yeah he could buy that car at a different moment after a significant success, in that case no problem. It looked like squandering all the work the Japanese put into the deal.
Seems likely there will be lawsuits though. Just too good of a case for publicity.
Nope, white as fuck: https://imgur.com/a/aXLg5Yg
Not necessarily. The DRM part is optional.
I guess that would work for a lot of people, but I'm personally not attracted to bald men. So I think I'd prefer if my husband got the transplants, I think our only problem is money... but the more I think about it, it'll probably be worth it for our marriage in the long run.
Central Governor
Maybe they could pivot and turn it into another chat app?
> if people are accustomed to avoiding new Google services because of their potential to be cancelled at any moment... they'll stop trying them to begin with.

That's just the 1st order effect. The next thing is that customers already onboard will start to feel nervous; as a Gmail user, is my email safe? How about Google Photos? Google Drive for consumers? Analytics?

Not just limited to shutdowns, of course. Lots of businesses were using Maps and then the price got hiked quite significantly. Google services are creating a new meaning for "unstable", besides technical instability.