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REPL driven development is great, but there are still tons of situations where you want a full recompile and restart. Slow compile and start time really slow down development.

Recently I was porting a small application from Clojure to Rust,
and 'cargo watch -x run' was faster than 'clojure.tools.namespace.repl/refresh' and is more reliable.
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Developers didn't onboard because it was Vulkan-only. You can release for GOG as an afterthought, but you had to build for Stadia as Another Separate Platform, and they somehow managed to make their SDK requirements more onerous than Xbox's.

They might still of joined if there were any customers, but customers didn't join because of the prospect of needing to buy their existing games again, then pay for a subscription service to play them, on top of the already-not-so-big group of people with great internet but not so great hardware. Though they might of still joined if there were any games.

The primary thing Google got wrong was assuming everyone would flock to their service in droves for the promise of the other side of the service, thus forming it. They didn't anticipate that all the roadblocks they installed from the start would prevent any kind of flocking.

HN posters will talk about Google's graveyard, but it is not a factor for businesses; Google's history of shuttering perfectly good services doesn't extend to services you actually fork over cash for. And this won't affect that, as it was nowhere near a perfectly good service and was doomed before it was released.
It's not name calling to make a critique of an argument. Luddism is a real term that describes a particular philosophical tendency that places itself in opposition to what it views as a naive technophilia.
I think what they're trying to say is that the stadia engineers should have seen the writing on the wall, coupled with the questionable history/actions of their employer when it comes to products regardless of their own good faith efforts as an employee.
Bring back Chromecast Audio and I forgive you!
Isn't shared queries faster though?
I only know for sure from the few displays I've looked at myself but this table from a quick Google search is consistent:

https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/inputs/input-lag
The US has been a stable ally since the end of WWII and really prior for countries other than Germany. It’s also quite hard for a president to just unilaterally suspend trade. US sanctions require acts of congress, and it would be hard to get an anti European majority in the senate. So no, there was never any risk of the US suspending trade.

Meanwhile Russian has almost always been hostile to or at least in competition with Western Europe. Moreover Russia’s Duma follows Putin’s lead.
Selling it off incurs the risk of strengthening a potential competitor. Also, in many cases at least half of the value is in the team of developers, which probably don’t want leave Google and which conversely Google doesn’t want to lose.
If you are willing to pay, and "a lot" have you consider posting an offer, to get somebody who actually does work in the field to teach you privately?

I assume you can get somebody willing to do that for some money (I certainly would -- as I did). I think you would need 10 to 20 2Hs sessions or so, to get started.

My field of expertise is not web-development right now... but you could find somebody, for sure. Maybe even posting the question here: who would be able to teach me these topics "....." for $$/Hs ?
Well, anti-Federation society. Ferengi-owned holosuites.
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Or just edit /etc/hosts

Or use mDNS. If your whatever machine on IPv6 network is named abc just open abc.local in the browser. Done.
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I am shocked, who could have seen this coming?
Actually, the Stadia management were this close to being shitcanned for failing to live up to Google ideals. The only thing that saved them was when they announced that their group had already pivoted to a promising new product idea featuring a built-in messaging client.
On the other hand, I also remember all the hype that it received (though maybe I live in a tech-obsessed bubble). "OMG, it will change everything you know about gaming". All my colleagues were so convinced that it was a technical breakthrough (maybe it was, I dunno), and that everyone will be playing with it because it is simply so amazing and revolutionary.

My opinion was "yeah, cool, but I just don't see it". It was very annoying when these coworkers judged me, thinking I am simply too stupid to realize how amazing this is...
Phenaki: A model for generating minutes-long, changing-prompt videos from text
I used to live in a canal boat, 3mm steel roof. The sound of rain on that, so long as you had a fire going, was very cozy and enjoyable. But I think on a psychological level a large part of the comfort is the relief of being sheltered.
Russia has only turned off the tap after Europe had already turned off every possible economical tap flowing in the direction of Russia, so in a sense, Europe did it all by itself. Sure, it's the right thing to do for Europe as no one want to help Russia sponsor the war on Ukraine... but that doesn't change the fact that Russia wouldn't just turn off the tap without Europe turning highly hostile to it and basically leaving Russia no option (it's costing much more to Russia than to Europe).
I'm not sure how bad this is. I think it's good that they like to try new things. They couldn't do that if they committed to supporting everything they start indefinitely.
Really cool seeing this & excited to really start playing with it. 2023 is going to be funky!

It's pretty wild to see how quickly the space of Generative AI Media is coming along.

I started a newsletter on the topic, called The Art of Intelligence (GPT-3 came up with the name) with the first post going out last Friday on the topic of how far are we from AI generated videos, and simulated worlds like the Holodeck given the rapid progress of these visual A.I. Thought y'all might find it interesting:
https://artofintelligence.substack.com/p/dall-e-stable-diffu...

This type of progress also reminds me of a really lovely publication from 2017 in Distill.pub, on the topic of these A.I. enabled creation tools - I think y'all would enjoy seeing what folks were thinking even then:
https://distill.pub/2017/aia/
> These exploits should certainly be fixed, they're security holes which can let malware into the TV. The same exploit that lets us root our TV would also allow anyone else to root it.

What dangers are there for TVs in terms of malware? This isn't a phone or a computer which holds sensitive information. The very worst that could be done would be to steal your streaming service session cookies.
“We’ll refund the purchases made while the service was in public beta”
It may have a confusing behavior, not interpretation. += may mean “evaluate lvalue, add a value to it as usual and set it back”. If you end up getting confused by:

t.x = t.x + v

Then it is a question to t’s metatable designer either way.
Maybe Europe should take responsibility for reckless energy policies over multiple decades?
Winning never gets old. Even when it IS about the money, it’s first and foremost about winning.
It was chosen because that's how pointer math works and nothing has happened to change that.

I can see some benefits of using 1-base, but on the whole, if 0-base has to be used anyway, I'd rather only use the necessary version so I'm not making off-by-one errors when switching languages.
Somehow Blogger persists almost 20 years post-acquisition.
It shouldn't baffle you. Google ads make so much money with no real competitors that there is no motivation to innovate anything else. Blizzard has the same problem. World of Warcraft makes so much money that it kills everything else. Valve makes so much money being the only real PC gaming platform that they stopped making games.

These companies become victims of their own successes and eventually become hollow money machines that are preyed upon by professional executives. The culture dies and all the good people leave except a small cadre of highly paid early employees who have worked on core services for decades.

Google's problems are so pervasive and famous because they don't care. Why fix hiring? That requires effort and time for a questionable payoff. Why fix promotions? Same problem. Why fix customer service? That's just a cost. Why enforce stable APIs that are well documented for cloud services? Not my problem. At the end of the day, a small core of people will keep ads going and everyone else will decorate their resumes for their next jobs.
Ask HN: How do you find startup owners to interview?
I have an idea for a startup and to validate it, I’d need to talk to some startup owners. But… I don’t know any.

How would you go about finding founders to interview without coming off spammy or annoying?
Id3vx: Library for parsing and encoding ID3 tags
Psychedelia is a cohesive but distributed group of the most knowledgable and experienced psychedelic producers in Canada. Every member of our team possesses years of experience either studying, cultivating, synthesizing, or consuming these substances, along with a burning desire to proliferate the virtue & benefit that each different experience can provide.
Yes, but I figured a proxy is available via ISP when you have ipv6.
Seems the Stadia engineers were only told this morning by Google.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Stadia/comments/xrcea4/comment/iqe3...
The Proof Of Work incentive structure forces miners to always use the cheapest available source of electricity. Some of the most profitable mining farms are those using renewable energy sources like solar or hydro power. It will organically not be profitable enough to mine PoW coins on anything but renewables soon, but it would be reasonable for countries to accelerate this by banning mining on anything but renewables.

Bitcoin will lower energy cost the same way porn lowered bandwidth costs. Sometimes humans need to create economic forcing functions for ourselves.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/this-earth-day-analysts-say-b...
A valid point, but restrictions are often used to build or fortify fiefdoms.
I think this is mostly due to the fact that the advantage of nuclear is long term and humans -- and especially politicians and bureaucrats -- aren't good at long term planning. Globally we basically rolled out a bunch of nuclear plants and went "welp, that'll hold us off for the next 50-60 years." It's like exercising and eating right for a year and expecting this to keep you healthy for decades as you eat poorly with little to no exercise. Maintenance and continual production is key to cost reduction and advancement but this is something nuclear never got. I really do think nuclear's biggest flaw is its lifespan. Just allows people to get lazy.
As much as I think this is a bad way to record audio (or data), the idea of an audio recording media that can be played without electricity or electronics is appealing.
In Pakistan we have had daily blackouts for almost 15 years, though things were better in urban areas recently. Basically, everyone in the middle class has a UPS, with battery to power lights and fans for several hours. Except these are maybe 70-80% efficient. So, yes, the grid has had to deal with, in a very real way, with the increased power demand of millions of households.
It's really the endurance of Windows more than anything. I can play stuff on Windows 11 mostly the same as I did on Windows XP. I can't play any game from Steam on Mac more than a few years old.
I would suggest reading Paul Graham essay about identity. You have to avoid identifying yourself with your opinions. At least that works for me.
> Can someone please explain what Sundar Pichai's big goals as a CEO are?

I'd say he's trying not to be remembered as the "Steve Ballmer" of Google. You know - that second-run CEO who drove the company into the ground while keeping the wall street numbers looking good. Cuz that's exactly where he's heading right now.

I think he knows he needs to fundamentally change the culture of the company. He's been making public statements as such. He knows it's a problem that Googlers have been treated as unicorn snowflakes with free massages and all the gourmet food they can complain about, with zero accountability for getting anything done. And despite this obvious rot, most of the world (like everybody here who dreams of a google job) still reveres Google as an idyllic place to work. Which makes it all the harder for the company to admit to itself that anything is wrong.

Cultural change is really hard. And it's not at all clear that he's got what it takes to do it successfully. Googlers are so pampered that any attempt to push them out of their comfort zone is going to get serious pushback. I say this as a former googler. There was a hilarious post on HN not long ago which I can't find where a googler said something to the effect of "no way in hell my manager is gonna make me work."

The entire company is built around solving HARD problems, not USEFUL problems. Obviously they've pulled off a lot of truly amazing things, but that difference is pretty important when your company's entire revenue stream is still coming from key insights made in the late 1990s. To me it's clear they need to change their promotion criteria, which solidifies this and drives so much of people's energy and bad patterns. But the arrogance built into the culture of "solving the world's hardest problems" means that any changes there are likely to insult the fragile egos of all those snowflakes and cause them to go on strike or make the good ones just leave.
I bought a Kawai ES8, and while the sound was great, the action was unable to manage the Bach Prelude & Fugue #2 in C minor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcC4Thug-h8

Whenever your hand goes "in", there isn't enough leverage to play the black keys, leading to complete misses. On a few grand pianos, no problem.

I ended up returning the ES8 for that reason.
Which framework are you talking about?
Do you have anything like

https://www.revithaca.com/

in your town?
why would they speak for anyone but themselves? and why would you think they were doing so?
> Why not just use HTTPS on the "untrustworthy" ISP's.

I don't know, ask the Gemini people.

> The use of the word "most" implies that there are some that can be trusted.

Only a Sith deals in absolutes. I'm sure someone out there is their own ISP and can trust themselves.

> Personally I like to make these decisions for myself.

Sure, you do you. That doesn't make it a widely viable neither mostly secure approach.
>forgotten that corporations exist at the whim of the public, using public resources and given public permission.

Now that seems to the other extreme - your bogeyman business has largely been the source of the income for "public resources". They are - imho - a virtuous cycle.
Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring
>> we were writing a lot of long SQL queries with bad performances

How your tool makes sure the queries are performant?

Seems this tool connects to cloud DB's only right? how can I access my on-premise DB?
Yes, they do. I personally would never put a single service on GCP just out of principle.
Quite honestly, if a bank robber goes into a bank and shoots himself into his foot, saying: 'now imagine what I could do to you' - I'd be pretty impressed!

Related, an article in the WaPo about this behavior:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/02/27/r...
For portraits maybe, but in general no, they have not. It's fairly easy to come up with objects they can't do well. (One example: a piano keyboard.)
> governments get serious about ad regulation

Or companies pull back on Internet advertising.

The unknown unknown is the creation of a new advertising method. I doubt that any newspaper in 1990 thought that this thing called the Internet was going to all but destroy their ad business within twenty years.
This never had any potential to decide the fate of the open internet. IETF generally documents what things are, not what some actors hope things to be.

Countries that want sovereignty (control) over the internet can limit connection and participation to the extent they can, but they can't dictate what other countries that fully participate in the internet do regardless of what positions they hold at ITU or other organizations.
hey thanks for this I didn't know it existed. I'm still kind of a rust noob and working my way through Rust in action and various examples.
Expense is also not a good argument.

Nuclear power should be subsidized as necessary for the exact same reason healthcare is: energy security is a critical matter.

A nation like Germany for example could easily afford to have many more nuclear power plants and be pushing that much more energy over the borders to the rest of the EU in exports. They could do a lot to further the EU's energy security, given their fiscal and engineering capabilities. Their main reason for not doing it (fear) is heavy in emotionalism, irrationality.
I also worked this way, I've had REPL sessions that ran for months, but IMO this is a workaround rather than a real solution. It's a good workaround, but fast startup would be a game changer.

If Clojure would start fast enough, projects like Babashka would not be needed.
It was clear to me that Google was completely unprepared to enter this market when their little display outside the big reveal was a Sega Dreamcast, NES Power Glove, and a copy of E.T. for Atari 2600. It was practically foreshadowing.

I wouldn't be surprised if that display was pitched as a joke, and some executive approved it knowing nothing about these products. They just saw "Sega", "Nintendo", and "Atari" logos, and loved their product launch being compared to these instantly recognizable titans of the video game industry.
Here's a counterintuitive piece of wisdom: building both is equally hard.

Running marathon is way harder than running 100m. Most people are not even capable of doing marathons.

But that doesn't mean that winning 100m is easier than winning a marathon. Might even be the opposite, because of harsh competition.

When you're building products, your goal is not run. Your goal is to win.
Google shuts down service. Film at 11.
To answer a few common questions.

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I created a Richard Stallman character and the results are pretty convincing. Maybe this AI could become the next president of the FSF.

https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=Td-JACGjCf9-ZAysbtegKwmo...

It seems like you can make different characters talk to each other:

https://beta.character.ai/post?post=3xhTsZ5nXimMk6wuMwpMRNBS...

Should start a conversation between Steve Jobs and Stallman
Very cool. Do you have plans to add other manufacturers like Lucid and Rivian anytime soon?
Ubuntu's bug #1: Microsoft has a majority market share
All of my current side projects are focused on lowering the barrier of entry for self-hosting. As much as I would love for all devices to have their own public IP address, I think that ship may have sailed.

Fortunately, I've found TLS SNI routing to be a viable alternative for most use cases[0]. I think the future of self-hosting looks like users paying a "VPN" provider in their local city. The provider gives them a shared public IPv4 address. All their devices use WireGuard to tunnel all traffic through the VPN. Incoming traffic sent to the user's domains (obviously requires coordination with a registrar) is routed by SNI. This setup has several benefits:

* All traffic outgoing goes through a VPN, preventing your ISP from snooping. VPNs are much more competitive than ISPs which makes them easier for me at least to trust.

* Since IPs are shared, users also benefit from "hiding in the crowd" for outgoing traffic.

* When hosting services, your actual IP is hidden.

* VPNs can compete on features like ability to handle DDoS attacks, auto LetsEncrypt support, domain registrar integration for auto DNS, etc.

[0]: caveat: I haven't played around with getting UDP to work.
It is an ad hoc solution to the current situation so I'm not surprised it's not exactly smooth sailing. It doesn't help that they recently shut down some of their reactors, they could have at least kept them open until the situation stabilized.
Well Google sure proved them wrong, they kept those purchases alive for nearly three years!
there you go https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/104380-000-A/dans-le-secret-de...
>I wish they enable Bluetooth for it because it's an excellent controller. I use it to play Halo on xCloud via iPad...

He's too dangerous to allow to live.
I wish they'd refund my Stadia Pro monthly subscription fees.
Our team has been working on making FHE practical. Performance has come a long way in the past few years so FHE can indeed be "practical" for certain applications.

If you'd like to check it out yourself, feel free to take a look at our team's FHE compiler and playground [0].

[0]: https://playground.sunscreen.tech/
Please leave a Glassdoor review so the world knows that their tech leads are clueless.
Tim Cook: Cash will be dead for the next generation of kids.

Tim Cook: It ( Apple Music ) ’ll change the way you experience music forever, it is all about the "Next Song".

Tim Cook: We are not in the business of selling ads.
> Is it just me or - I hate to say it - Trump actually had a point?

I'm not sure why people are afraid to say this. He has literally said everything under the sun. You throw enough darts and you're bound to eventually hit the board. Supporters just focus on the hits and don't pay attention to the misses, but this isn't different from any populist (I mean look at Musk. If you keep predicting that autopilot is a year away you'll eventually be right and that's all we'll ever remember)
Customer effort keeps flooded NYC data center running (2012)
New York City tightens admissions to some top schools
Yes I understand pointer array math. The zero based indexing is great for that. It’s still a leaky abstraction to make the implementation correct. I’m also not saying it’s not my preferred way, but it’s not for any really good reason, it’s cultural.
The most inevitable gaming news in the history of ever.
Pay the CEO well and the employees even better.

It's much more competitive than that. Like only 10% of wealth is created, the other 90% is won or maintained. There is such a thing as excessive innovation like telecoms complain about. The focus in on the generated wealth, grow the pie, so that people think they don't have to fight for their piece of their pie. Real estate is a pie. Spheroid not a cylinder, same thing. Tiny slivers and that's all there is. So like if somebody encroaches on your land and tells you to build twice as high a building on what he didn't encroach, you do that? Like it's your fault you don't build pencil buildings? Japanese pencil buildings.

One hand to make and one hand to fight. Everyone must do both.
Cheap long time storage methods, like "Sand battery"[0], can change the equation.

[0]: https://polarnightenergy.fi/sand-battery
> Not that you have an answer, but it makes me wonder what is the target audience for this board ?

I have a feeling that the primary audience for this product was Arduino's own management team, rather than any actual customer needs.
Vulnerabilities are often with wetware running between people's ears.