skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating how a large portion of germans were enamoured with a murderous corrupt dictator yet they speak with disgust about peaceful east european allies and look down on them and sanction their economies at first signs of dissent. Truly one for science books. Is it because of the age old “dream” of sharing east europe with russia? If so, east europe shouldnt sit idle. It should respond in kin.
Is it even feasible to move Bitcoin to Proof of Stake?
When Super Mario 3D All-Stars for Switch came out I did alright on Super Mario 64 until I encountered a level that required precisely timed wall jumps in order to advance. I consistently missed my jumps and wondered what was up. I plugged in my controller via USB and was still failing to do the jumps properly. What finally fixed it was putting the input on my TV into "game" mode, which reduced the amount of processing/latency. If local display latency can cause issues with gaming, network latency would be a non-starter in a lot of cases.
Isn't fast tracking to a layoff the entire point of quiet quitting..?
> Yesterday night, I just make the A/C runs its fans all night.

If you run it every night, and if you're doing it just for the noise, understand that your next month's electricity bill is going to be quite... shocking.

We used to run box fans at night in our bedroom when we lived in apartments to drown out the sounds of neighbors and traffic noise. We continued the tradition when we bought our first house. One day I decided to get some real data on what our energy spending was and plugged a box fan into a kill-a-watt. I don't remember the exact number but it was high enough that the very next day I bought a "white noise machine" for every bedroom in the house and our monthly electricity bill dropped IN HALF. Basically paid for themselves in the first week.

The best white noise machines are made by "LectroFan". These used to cost $15 on Amazon, now they are $50. Whichever brand you buy, the most important thing is to get one with a good-size speaker so that it can reproduce lower frequencies decently.
I disagree with your characterization (or I read it wrong). These are pay cuts, so customers prefer those where the cuts fall on CEOs first and greatest. Your assumption that revenues remain constant seems to be one not shared by customers

So, yes, people prefer to patronize companies where the pain is shared regardless of the size of the pain.
“AWESOME-O”, S8 E5, if anyone wants to check it out.

A South Park classic imo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awesom-O
This is Google we're talking about. They shut everything down eventually.
If you are talking about reunification, we, the East Germans, definitely overwhelmingly wanted it. There was no need for a referendum, I will make that claim.

Remaining blocked off by not having any real money (GDR money was useless! Exchange rates, if you could exchange at all, were astronomical when you add the fact that East Germans had very little of even our own money to begin with), after we finally got the wall down and saw in brief visits to the West, getting Begrüßungsgeld (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begr%C3%BC%C3%9Fungsgeld), now we should stay isolated in East Germany?

Without reunification everybody who could would have moved to the West. Even so that movement existed even after reunification, but it was a lot less than it would have been without reunification.
iPhones are not food, clothing, or shelter.
There were a decent number of features in Apple's iTools / MobileMe package which were discontinued with no replacement. One big one that comes to mind was iWeb (static web hosting).
This appears to be the complaint https://regmedia.co.uk/2022/09/22/voxer_complaint_1_july_202...
Then can you just duplicate the wallet and you've "pirated" the game

Ah but we'll put it on the blockchain!

...Which is quite literally re-inventing a worse version of systems like Steam
Also, orgs have multiple levels and various individuals in leadership who have their own plans that never quite perfectly align. Miscommunications happen, and corporations aren't a single entity.
My personal problem with Stadia was the lock-in. You were required to buy a game at full price on Stadia and were only allowed to play it on Stadia, a service for which you would've eventually had to pay a subscription fee.

One can tell people that a PC is much more expensive upfront and that you could play for years on Stadia for the same money but the risk of it being shut down and losing access to all the full price games just wasn't worth it. Plus real-time multiplayer games like shooters and MOBAs were just impossible to play competitively, so you needed a PC anyways if you played even only one of such games.
0 based indexing was arbitrarily chosen due to the memory model of old programming languages.
The hidden ending that actually leads to the same ending, just via a different path?
> Unfortunately I don’t think Stadia fits that description well; you need to build hardware, network PoPs, license games, etc.

Hardware is literally scaled by customer demand, and was one of the reasons gmail went with the invite only launch.

Network PoPs are less an issue when you are already piggybacking off of Goog / GCP infrastructure, and you can mitigate the remaining costs by per country launches. And they did exactly that. It's still not supported in Hawaii. https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/9338852?hl=en

> I think if Stadia had just been better (so everyone using it was raving about it) the Google reputation might not have mattered.

Stadia was too late to market, in a field where content is rare enough relative to the number of competitors to have bargaining power. And they have no vertical integration to lean on. Nvidia has GPUs in house, MS/Sony/Nintendo have game devs in house for exclusives. Amazon _might_ be able to parley Twitch into a profitable Luna, but its a long shot.
I'm surprised that around 5900 B.C. it was apparently more warm than now. At least this is what is suggested by the fact that at that time the glacier didn't cover that crystal vein.
Sounds interesting, but isn't there an issue that 10 friends could hold a key to the same wallet and all play all the same games, even simultaneously while purchasing just one copy?
Airbnb lists Santa Clara campus for sublease
I'll trust math more than human language evolution as a solid basis for indexing.

Also Julia's (default) 1-based indexing has become a mess.
Would be cool if I could use stadia hardware for GeForce now
That is an overly simplistic and utterly senseless perspective. The overwhelming majority of consumers could give a sh*t about these things when they're actually shopping for a product. These are the things people care about when being judged by others, not when deciding how to spend their money.
Google needs to restructure their incentives before it wrecks the company. I have no doubt whoever launched Stadia got promoted and then bounced to a different product and didn't care about whether Stadia was a success long term.

Google's ad money printer masks the rot underneath, Google is literally a meme at this point for shutting down products. No serious business or developer is going to trust them. If governments get serious about ad regulation and damage their cash cow, Google is in trouble
It's possible. They also push anti-fracking campaigns.
BTW when Cyberpunk was released and didn't work, and PS Store / Steam / XBox gave refunds, Stadia was the only platform that refused refunds.
Google is that crazy girlfriend that all your friends warn you about, but she's really a good person and is going to change.
Any relation with LÖVE or is it just piggybacking on its name?
This just gave me a flashback to everyone working for WeWork pre IPO

Nobody I knew there was willing to understand how all of Wall Street was making fun of them and the valuation attempt.
If it's a C program, I like to embed Chicken Scheme (alternatively, one could embed Gambit, or Guile). They are all pretty easy to embed with simple FFI and C APIs.
How about Dream Pop from groups like Still Corners and their song The Trip?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m2Lr_HqCfg

I find it very relaxing. I like how the beat seems to subtly change in different parts of the song - it could be an auditory illusion.
I try to work for companies that aren't openly evil.
Great question! Two people actually guessed correctly (not posting their names for privacy), but the average date across for all users (October 6, 2022) was surprisingly close to the date they announced it would be shutting down.

https://whenwillgooglekillstadia.com
Very Norwegian. Especially the emphasis on universal design
On the one hand YouTube can tweak the algorithm at any time and stop rewarding sudden endings (anybody thinking of Michael Ellis? How about a sudden ending?)

On the other hand, think about what benefits the platform. Executing a sudden ending that leaves people engaged and ready to continue to watch, rather than a friendly sign-off that gives people permission to go about their day like a healthy human being?

YouTube inherently will be strongly motivated to keep people connected and watching, rather than happy or healthy. So it's got me wondering about sign-offs that might invoke this reality. I'll have other videos, the viewer is not guaranteed to go from mine to a MrBeast video. If I wanted to be cagey about it I could try to connect to another video of mine: I've seen this done by others.

It makes sense if you assume that YouTube will reward you for keeping the viewer from switching off, through and beyond the end of your video. You become complicit in an attention engine, with some known parameters: you are there to keep people watching. What you do isn't relevant. You could be helping or hurting them, whatever you like, so long as you keep people on YouTube, and whatever YouTube does for metrics or algorithms, you can be sure that keeping people tuned in is an existential need of theirs and you'll always be rewarded for directing people to more YouTube. of ANY kind. Doesn't have to be the latest MrBeast. If you can successfully direct people to any other video of your choice, yours or otherwise, that still counts.
Yes and no. Even in the GDPR there is a thin area left for cases where you have several layers of data being backed up and immediate deletion is technically difficult.
Played with this for a bit and this feels weirdly dangerous, though awesome.

A lot of the technical questions I asked were just … not answered correctly, beyond surface level stuff like "What is …". There's nuance and abstractions the AI doesn't understand, while sounding very authoritative when answering.
"On our memory-constrained systems, this causes many small writes over a long period of time, which in turn causes SSD write-amplification. As a mitigation, we reduced the logging level from INFO to WARN, but this is contrary to what our users want!"

I wonder how many developers ended up doing... s/log.info(/log.warn(/
Gmail and drive are pretty much the only safe havens. The rest… how many its own chat apps will google kill this year?
Full disclosure: I work at AT&T but not directly on fiber. My views are my own and do not represent my employers.

Scaling fiber is hard and expensive. It’s a labor intensive process to get all the permits and get people to go and dig trenches and wire up homes. In sparsely populated areas you have the cost of laying lots of fiber and not ever having the hope of recovering your investment. In densely populated areas you need to relay cable and rewire apartments and homes. It’s a slow along and the USA is a really BIG place.

I’m not privy to the politics but Google has oodles of $$. They could lobby effectively if they were interested. Lobbying happens - and like anything else its a tool to use. Google would use it against competitors if they were able to. so ISPs use it. They could have bought 5g spectrum. They could have started something like Starlink instead they play around with balloons. They had the $$ to muscle into that. So, the only thing I can guess is that they aren’t / weren’t interested in the ISP business to begin with. The Fiber misadventure was just that - something they thought they could easily scale, tried it and got out when they understood the reality on the ground.

Also- I don’t think working for Google is embarrassing. They deprecate products quickly before they become a ball and chain on your bottom line. Working for Google remains as prestigious as ever.
What a great win.

When being interviewed with Facebook (or anyone else for that matter) about your product, always impose and enforce a non-disclosures agreement (NDA).

I am not a lawyer but damn, … this is basic business law.
On a library level won't be easy, as there will be wrapper libraries of some kind (axiom-style or whatever) and those wrapper lib will get the permission, so you'd then need a mechanism to prevent somebody calling into that library directly ... and not indirectly (say telling a third module to use the http-wrapper as a callback for some other thing) it is a rabbit hole
Comparing BTC to beef is the wrong comparison: we should be comparing BTC to USD. Over 95% of the USD money supply exists in digital form only; while there's no proof-of-work element to creating new USD the electricity to run all of the servers at all of the banks, Federal Reserve, Treasury department, etc is non-trivial. The physical protection of the money supply (Secret Service, FBI) also has massive cost and impact. And the ultimate environmental impact is the "full faith and credit" of the united States governement -- which translates to the US military-industrial complex and the threat of force of arms -- which causes far more environmental damage.

(And yes, we do use our military to protect the USD: we killed two heads of state primarily because they wanted to price their oil in something other than USD. Had they succeeded that would have killed the petrodollar system.)
Seems like they should have settled this right away. I predict the reward will be increased through further litigation.
No, Google upper management is a bunch of incompetent clowns, and they should rightly be called out for it.

Working at Google today, you better be in just for the 200k salary, because your options there are to sell ads or work on a product that's going to be shut down in a week.
Isn't the recourse then to ignore the product? Not take their stuff on your own terms just because you really want it?
The essay is about the emotional tribulations of a lone not-quite-white Asian male token diversity hire, with a well-to-do background, in a well-to-do white world of work.

My impression: This guy's employers are doing some serious optimizing, to add more 9's to their 99.99% white elitism.
This made no sense to me until I realized that I was taught the British way and use that when trying to be clear (e.g. in lecturing or speaking on the 'phone).
Did the TGS2022 Help the Steam Deck Gain Awareness in Japan? Apparently Yes
That is the usual speech, yet when they offered cheaper packages about 10 years ago, everyone wanted free beer, hence why they turned into those that actually pay.

When everyone wants free beer, in the end they get Electron.
Funny fact: one of the only times online I actually caught a company shill acting as a regular person posting - essentially, ads; and whose extensive comment history only included positive remarks about a product - was a Stadia shill/plant I found on Reddit about a month ago.

Their entire history comprised of posts and comments praising Stadia, but clearly typed by a real person; with like these weird intentional grammar and spelling mistakes to make the account look like it was a real person. Either that or the Google employee behind the account needed to go back to Grade 5 or 6.

Ironically - they’d posted the article one or two months ago where Google promised continued Stadia support, and I found it on the front page of Reddit News.

I didn’t think twice about the poster of the article; until enough people started joking that - yeah - give it a month or two and Google will close it down, kinda thing…

The OP got so defensive in a very strange way to the point where their comments started to be more than questionably ‘real’.

So, I did a quick background check on the account - only to find - holy shit; it’s true, this person is literally paid by Google to post only positive things about Stadia online. Had to be - just from looking at it - but most telling, and the dead giveaway was that once myself and several other Redditors pointed out that the account was obviously just a paid shill from Google, the entire account mysteriously disappeared about an hour later. :P

Companies: if you know your product has problems and/or is shit - here’s a thought - instead of paying people to shill mostly false positive information on social media - how about you invest in actually improving your product; or marketing it in legitimate ways that don’t make you look like a total scumbag. Just my advice.
I was referring to the referenced earlier study contained within. It wasn't focused on cuts, although it is assumed in this study that the same would hold true in a cutting situation.

My assumption of equal revenue was meant to be across companies. Obviously a company with no money can't pay as well as a company that can print money. But if two companies have equal revenue, but one pays less for its workers, then the net will stay in the company with a disproportionate benefit realized by the shareholders.

I was surprised that consumers favour the shareholders getting rich over the workers, but perhaps that is because the odds are they are shareholders themselves.
It wouldn’t work for a native streaming service like Stadia, but I could definitely see it working for Single Player games where all the content is stored in the executable, where there isn’t reliance on centralized servers for content. Maybe download the game from IPFS or Arweave, or as another have said, developers making it available on torrents

For multiplayer games, you’d need servers for match making and such, so it’s probably not possible right now.
Edge and Silverlight both had replacements. Windows phone was shut down because almost no one cared.

The difference is Google shuts down services people actually like and use simply because they aren't profitable enough
The problem isn’t that people are never going to need “An uncensorable store of value/currency”

the problem is that bitcoin is simply video game money masquerading as “An uncensorable store of value/currency”
Users Are Birds
There must be something I'm missing.

I borrowed the author's choice probabilities and wrote a script to verify the probability of winning by simulating 10 million rounds of gameplay.

It seems it's true that when all three agents are following the same choice probability distribution the result is a win about 29.6% of the time.

However, when one of those three agents follows an alternative choice probability distribution, the percentages change significantly.

*Example:*

Agent 1 (nash distribution): .296

Agent 2 (nash distribution): .296

Agent 3 (nash distribution): .296

*However:*

Agent 1 (always chooses 1): .296

Agent 2 (nash distribution): .248

Agent 3 (nash distribution): .248

My results indicate that the nash strategy is not optimal in an environment where agents can choose their own strategy.

What did I miss?
I agree, mocks should not be used and if you remove mock dependencies it usually exposes glaring problems in the code organization and design because the tests become overly complex. The dependencies should be coded to an interface so that you can inject whatever implementation you want.
Really have a feeling that if you don’t build your nest egg in the next 5-10 years, its going to become incredibly hard.
Hyper Products Recalls HyperJuice Stackable GAN USB-C Charger Due to Fire Hazard
> we generally prefer third-party articles to the latter.

Why do you? I've noticed several times when a journalistic article was discussing a scientific paper, the preference from some community members was to link to the paper itself.

Shouldn't there be a similar preference for a first-party source such as this? I found both links on an HN reddit bot, and read the press release first - to learn what the Stadia team had to say - before coming to HN to see what the community had to say about what the folks at Stadia announced.

Why are you giving preference to a 3rd party article in this case?
Quiet quitting is a thing because of quiet firing. Corporations have long since abondened the concept of rewarding ground employees for anything, the only way to get substantial raises is frequent job hopping already
Seems unlikely to me that Facebook Live based their development on this Walkie Talkie app and reading the complaint [0] many of the patents seem excessively broad. Both streaming and storing a live video transmission can be patented?

I suspect that military veterans get extra deference by Texas juries.

[0]: https://ia801906.us.archive.org/16/items/gov.uscourts.txwd.1...
More realistically, "We don't have a plan for laying off employees at this time. Our plan is for laying off employees next month."
This gets confusing when you consider public companies, whose shareholders are also the targets of public statements (like tweets saying "no we won't shut X down"), and there are (well, supposedly) legal limits on misleading public statements by public companies.
I guess then it could even work on a Jetson Nano(4GB) then, I run models of ~1.6 GB on it 24*7; Would give this a try.
It's amazing to me. How did they do it? Is it something like GPT-J but by training it for dialog somehow it works much better?

Maybe GPT was already better than I realized. Or it's something different that I haven't heard about.
You are correct. That certainly will not happen immediately, and not as a direct result of that action.

However, it could theoretically result in employees preferring to work for Google instead of Apple. And employees at Google being happier. And happier employees doing better work. And then Android eventually being significantly better than iOS. And then consumers switching.

Whether that chain of logic pans out in reality, I can't say.
There are two classes of engines. One is like you describe, faster and faster brute forcing. AlphaZero was much more creative and didn’t use brute force.
I think it's realistic to assume that this happens but it doesn't mean it should be accepted. How can you trust in the leadership of someone you know will lie whenever they think it will get them a slightly better outcome? Execs like that are not leaders and they should not be in those positions.
Ask HN: Tips, tools, for a “solopreneur” building side project on free time?
Hello friends!

I would like to start a conversation here, looking for tips, links, good practices, knowledge sharing, good free tools (do you work like sprints? do you use asana/jira? etc), and whatever else you want to talk about, that helped you on this path of working out an idea _alone_.

Last question: How do you overcome the tireness of a full time job to work on your idea?

Thanks!

ps: feel free to post your ideas/microsaas links here, i'd really like to see what you guys are doing! :)
>Trump blurted that to the Germans around 2019. The press brushed it off as "highly misleading".

And the Germans literally laughed in his face: https://youtu.be/FfJv9QYrlwg

Pretty hard to watch now. The smugness is palpable.
Fittingly, piracy would’ve served consumers better than Stadia did.
At this point it's standard fair for Google, in my opinion, a large reason this ended up being unsuccessful was that people were worried it was going to be shutdown.
If you read the article, it says they didn't do Anything except force them to do energy efficient and safe housing upgrades. So Denmark actually failed.
Isn't this a straight up rip-off of https://smartcar.com/?
I mostly agree with you, but I downvoted your comment because

> We devoted an entire month of resources to this project and thought that was enough!

...is not just wildly inaccurate, but also disrespectful to the people who spent years working on it.