skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You haven't explained why this particular consumer preference is more akin to "getting shit for free" (i.e. not worth consideration) than other consumer preference)

This would be a straw man. I never claimed that this particular preference is the same as 'getting free shit.' I merely show a customer preference isn't evidence of benefit for the employee or company in the long run.

The statement was made to present that mere customer preference is not sufficient to show that the employee, customer, or company will be served in the long run. Whatever emotion you feel ('condescending' / 'hostile') you can talk to your therapist about; I'm not going to address your perceptions of hostility.
> The passive voice is to be used exclusively in this abstract. Recognized as superior, the indirect method will be foisted upon the unwilling audience which will be assuaged by the copious delirium found in the general laity.

> Reviewer's suggestions for your text:

> Looks like this text is perfect!

Hmm.
To clarify: I don't see anything from blocked channels, but there are a thousand clones of blocked channels and YouTube ignores my obvious signal that I don't want anything to do with them.

I block a Minecraft channel and YouTube shows me another and another and another.

I block a K-pop channel and YouTube shows me more and more K-Pop.
> I'm sure there's some sort of doctor-like logic going on in some heads where you tell the patient everything is going to be fine because the surgery goes better if they aren't freaked out before the anesthesia hits.

That is a clear violation of informed consent. Even if it might lead to better short-term outcomes, over the long-term it leads to degrading trust in doctors. Same with this case. It gives all of us (internal employees, outside devs, businesses, customers) even more reasons to never believe any promise that comes out of the mouth of an Alphabet executive.
I was thinking how far back this whole “launch and cancel” cycle started and I think I’d have to say the Nexus Q was the first one. Launched, received poorly, recalled for further work to be done on it and just sort of died an ignominious death.
That depends. Median usage of languages over the population of devs shows that they prefer 0-based indexing. Median usage of languages across the entire population shows that they prefer 1-based indexing (Excel has more users than all other languages combined, and is a 1-based programming language).

As far as human programming languages as a population, they may tend toward 0-based because they are written by devs, who prefer 0-based. But if we're talking about aliens, are we sure that alien devs would be the ones writing programming languages? What if all aliens could code? What if their languages are expressive enough that any alien could make their own language to suit their personal preference. It's really hard to say anything here without specifying anything about the hypothetical alien species and their culture.
Bias up front: I work at Google but this is just my personal opinion.

> AWS has shut down I believe only one service in its entire existence (SDB).

Sure, but that's comparing a different branch of the company. Stadia is a consumer product, not a paid developer product. On the consumer side, Amazon has discontinued plenty of things (as every large corporation has):

According to this article[1], Amazon has canceled Haven, Amazon Spark, Amazon Restaurants, Amazon Storywriter, Amazon popup stores, Dash buttons, Amazon Tap, Instant Pickup, Amazon Tickets, Whole Foods 365, Amazon Fresh's Local Market Seller, Quidsi, Endless.com, MyHabit.com, Amazon Webstore, Amazon Destinations, Amazon Local, Amazon Wallet, Amazon Local, Fire Phone, Amazon WebPay, Amazon Askville, Amazon PayPhrase, and Amazon Auction.

Relevant to this thread, Amazon Games is technically still around, but they canceled Nova, Intensity, Breakaway, Crucible, and the Lord of the Rings MMO. Many top executives have left.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-products-services-fai...
I used Shadow [1] for a couple years. They basically give you a windows VM and you install whatever you want. All the other big players limited the games you could install, which was a deal breaker for me. I think there's 1 or 2 others that have a similar model to Shadow, but they are pay by the hour.

Shadow was great, when they had a California datacenter (~20ms latency). I noticed zero lag most of the time. Once they closed that and I was forced to go to TX (~60ms latency), it started to become an issue for me. There were other issues too, like some games don't let you install on a VM (very rare), and I kept running out of space.

I finally upgraded to a PC this year (~$1400 w/GeForce 3070 & i5), and it is a much better experience. I was so used to the latency, I kept failing mini-games with timed key presses. Now I have all the hard drive space I need, and the graphics look and feel much smoother (I assume something to do with the compression). While the cloud GPUs were performing well, I don't think the CPUs were up to par.

I still think cloud gaming is great, and wish Shadow well. But if your cloud gaming service is going to limit the games people can play, get your tombstone ready.

[1] shadow.tech
I would have liked this kind of promise, but for the general public this marketing message might have sounded differently: "We might shut down before 2024".

Even if some people are kind of used to this happening, stating it more obviously might have a negative effect just as well.
IPv6 support for cloning Git repositories?
And if you save a lot of money, you can improve all of those.
It's not even just "pro gamers", the most popular fighting game in the world (Smash Bros U.) is enjoyed by casual players and pros, and has an entire mechanic based on "two-framing" for edge guarding.

One absolutely does not need to be a pro to pull it off, and the whole interaction window for that mechanic is based around being able to react within ~32ms (1/30th of a second) to edge guard an opponent. It is exponentially harder to pull off in online play.
That’d be great for people willing to dive in, but to me it just says that they don’t expect it to be around for long. You might say it shows they’re confident enough it will be around to offer refunds if it’s not around long, but nobody else launches a product and talks about it going away so that would make me think they they secretly don’t believe in it.
Are you all using some rare electron apps that are unknown to me because I keep hearing this meme repeated but when I look at my RAM usage[0], it never corroborates this.

I just don't see how 220MB for Discord is unreasonable in any way, when Firefox with 8 tabs takes 1.2GB. Telegram written in Qt meanwhile takes 200MB, literally no difference to Discord, an electron app.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/cfCRWDS.jpg
The thing that baffles me is that this has been a known issue for a long time, and yet there doesn't seem to be any significant moves to improve this.

Can someone please explain what Sundar Pichai's big goals as a CEO are? That's a genuine question. He doesn't seem to be solving existing issues related to culture and incentives. And the company hasn't landed any big wins recently. I mostly see increased monetization of products from 10-15 years ago. I know I'm only seeing this from the outside looking in though. There must be a reason why one of the world's biggest companies has him at the helm, but it's not obvious to me what that is.
Unit tests are exactly one of those situations I had in mind. Unit tests are always kind of painful that way: you need to construct things by hand, using interfaces that were designed for automated use.

The same fact is what makes unit tests so brittle. Ideally, you do as little of that as possible: you less fake stuff you make, the more robust the test will be.

There are days you can't, and that sucks. But the language is giving you a nudge in the direction of how to do that, by making it easier to construct actual POJOs than unstructured intermediate data.
Surprisingly the display latency on TVs is regularly over 100ms, way more than latency at most homes these days (about 10ms for Comcast here).
The title is clickbait that does the article a disservice. Bitcoin is a sideshow. Twitters biggest problem historically has been Jack's absentee style. His behavior has been the epitome of trust but don't verify, which really is not what you want in an executive. He should have stepped down as CEO years earlier.
Tim Cook: Not Too Long from Now, You'll Wonder How You Led Your Life Without AR
I ran up against a warning because I tried to enhance/expand old videogame cover art which happened to feature... sit down because this will shock you... fighting!
I'm happy when anything bad happen to Meta, but why does it matter than the app is from a Green Beret veteran?
One thing I've learned is that even when folks think their problem can only be solved in a particular way (fast interconnect to implement the underlying physics) there is almost always another way, that is cheaper and solves the problem, mainly by applying cleverer ideas.

I'll give (yet another) AMBER example. At some point in the past AMBER really only scaled on fast interconnects. But then somebody realized the data being passed around could be compressed before transmit and then decompressed on the other end- all faster than it could be sent over the wire. Once the code was rewritten, the resulting engine scaled better- on all platforms, including ones that had wimply (switched gigabit) interconnect. It reduced the cost of doing the same experiments significantly, by making it possible to run identical problems on less/cheaper hardware.

Second- I really do know a fair amount in this field, having worked on both AMBER on supercomputers (with strong scaling) and Folding@Home (which explicitly demonstrated that many protein folding problems never needed a "supercomputer").
Developers can still make the executables available on other centralized servers, decentralized solutions like BitTorrent, etc.

The NFT wallet check could happen internally within the game, perhaps some kind of WebView allowing access to browser wallet extensions.
Yes it's happening real time, so far it's been generated about 8k movies over the last 3 hours. The costs right now are roughly about $150 for the generated images (Stable Diffusion) and $30 for the generated texts (GPT-3).
https://archive.ph/ydsYA
I can't believe people are still seriously trying to argue this.

You count "things."

You don't count "not things."

Arrays are containers of things. Starting with 1 is overwhelmingly likely the thing that makes sense when using them.
Yes, I'm completely fine with Elon putting electrodes and implants in his own brain to further science.
> Hardware is literally scaled by customer demand

Hardware manufacturing is, but design is most certainly not. It takes as much work to design a controller that you build one of as it does a controller you build a million of.
But is that not a problem, to read what you are writing?
I have seen plenty of (annoying) stadia adverts
Not to mention that it seems that the relationship between Flutter and the Android team is contentious at best
> How can you trust in the leadership

You shouldn't. At best, they are fellow travelers. At worst, they aren't accountable to you, and their incentive structure usually does not drive them to behave ethically towards you.

Execs aren't paid to lead, they are paid to deliver business value. Ethical leadership is often incidental or counterproductive to it.

In this case, the execs were paid to do everything possible to promote and grow the product. And that's what they did.
Lua 5.2 + luajit with the 5.2 compat flag seems fine to me, don't feel like I'm missing anything post-divergence
Queue Management and Load Balancing on Intel Architecture
It’s easy to see from the outside that Google is incompetent when it comes to overall product and program management.

Since this is a technical audience, I guess I should clarify that “program management” doesn’t refer to software development

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_management
I wish I could be excited but Astrohaus has a really bad record.

- They produce the worst software you can possibly imaging
- They’ve shutdown their user forum because people had (very valid) complains about their product
- They force the use of a (bad) proprietary cloud
- They suddenly stop supporting not so old device
- They have openly lied to their community about future support/upcoming devices/features

All of this could be forgivable but my main complain is this: they managed to make devices for writing that are bad at writing. If you type to quickly, the software cannot manage it and mix the letters. That should tell you enough…
(see gemini://rawtext.club/~ploum/2021-10-07.gmi )

I really would like a modern AlphaSmart that would support my keyboard layout (bépo) and have weeks of battery. Currently crossing my fingers for the MNT Pocket Reform…
interesting that religion is on a general downward trend yet you give the people a website where they can make their own "AI" chatbot prompts and the first thing someone does is make "God" and next thing you know it's the most-talked-to chatbot on the site—with double the interactions of "A succubus queen" in second place.
If the devs have servers to validate authorization anyway, then NFTs are unnecessary. Were also discussing the case where the devs go under and no longer provide such a service.

Asking clients to check their own NFTs is very weak DRM.

So what is the actual proposed flow?
I can see where you're coming from.

I think it's appropriate enough to interpret the commenter in jest and see that their point is that google spent 1/nth of the required time/resources necessary for it to succeed.

In that light, it reads to me more like having some understanding for the people working on it that they were set up to fail, and the failure is not a reflection of their effort.
That's still a lie from whichever individual or group of individuals you consider to have agency over the matter. Like sure, maybe the individual who physically typed the tweet had little or no agency, but it's still reasonable to call it a lie when the responsible agent was deliberately making a false statement.
It's a great controller, you're right! Very comfortable and my goto on emulators.

I also looked into the weird WiFi/Bluetooth hybrid protocol stack. It's really impressive, and as far as I know, not jailbroken. Also massively overengineered.

They tried really hard with Stadia, at least at the hardware and streaming level. It's just that no one wanted it. They are before their time; PS Plus and GeForce Go are seeing adoption for streaming games. I bet it'll be popular in 3-5 years, maybe sooner. It's just that Google isn't a reliable carrier for this service, and they don't have enough patience.
I interpreted their comment a different way. They're raising a question I've always wondered...

Why are humans the only species to have reached such an incredible level of intelligence relative to all the other species on the planet?

Every other creature has plateaued in intelligence. Some are more intelligent than others, but have any of them even learned to create tools beyond bashing things with rocks and sticks? Have any learned to build things beyond a basic nest? None of them have even learned language beyond a few basic noises or bits of body language to express aggression, submission, and maybe happiness.

The usual answer is "Humans are the only species where learning these gave an advantage", but I think that's hogwash. Imagine how much more successful a prey species could be if they had better ways to communicate that they spotted a predator nearby, or even what a predator looks like.
No problem. So in general: yes, it's not always trivial to crack a locally-hosted binary but it's generally possible. It can often be done by actually modifying the binary itself (it's just machine code; if, for example, the entire check is evaluated by one "Call out to the server to find out if we're authorized" function that returns a boolean, you can just replace the first few bytes in its machine code with "LDA $FF # true ; RETURN" and the function will think you're always registered. If it's more complicated, you could maybe run a proxy server locally that pretends to be the check server and always returns "authorized" for the query.

Assuming everyone's playing by the rules, I can see how an NFT could be used to indicate when someone has an ownership license to play a game (but not the mechanics of how that right would be enforced were someone to patch their local copy to just ignore the rights check). If the game is cloud-hosted, this is easier to enforce.
China’s Phytium D2000: Building on A72? – Chips and Cheese
It's more like learning to government from Saudi Arabia or another gulf country.

The money printing machine obliterates all economic feedback loops.
> read an article about how niche languages can be lucrative. (I want to say that article was here on HN but too lazy right now to search for it)

I'm not having any luck finding it -- if you find yourself more eager (heh) I'd love to get a link.
We're Airplane customers, after evaluating Windmill and trying some AWS feature that might be similar but was too hard to configure. We had two focuses when choosing Airplane and they've been met so far thanks to both their good product and to their amazing team who were responsive & understanding to changing things to make our requirements work.

1. Super easy to use actions & internal UIs, that allow end-users to run things without following Confluence rituals/SOPs. So many things that used to be "ask an engineer to do this when they have time" are now just buttons or interactive screens. But engineering still has control: anything that can can an incident or that is hard to reverse, Airplane automated the approval workflow so that a qualified person can approve it - whether it's a task or a button in an internal UI. Also, several scheduled runbooks/workflows that we could have set up a system to run - but why do that (+ maintain it forever) if it takes 20 minutes to configure in Airplane?

2. Cannot introduce more risk than it reduced (because we _did_ have risk from people doing these things by following written procedures). Everything gets logged, critical things are reported as Datadog events + Slack messages, our tasks and UIs exist in multiple environments (and go through source control) so we can test them like real software. All tasks run on _our_ infrastructure, using our IAM roles (which we've worked with Airplane to get to their minimal form, where they can't touch anything non-Airplane'y - and they changed the default installation to match, so if you start using Airplane you'll benefit from that too) and security groups (which reach dedicated load balancer listeners that can validate the requests). We have set permissions to be as strict as Airplane allows, connected to Google Workspace user groups (and so audited regularly).

Obviously whenever doing Build vs Buy: we could have built this. We could have also soldered our servers' circuitry on our own. But if someone needs something quick to automate their work, it takes less than an hour to set it up from scratch now and it's all straightforward.
Wow. I want to switch to Solo2 (but no piv/gpg yet). In lieu of that, I love my Yubikeys. This is easily the best "deal" I've ever gotten on a retail product ever, assuming they don't cancel me for not attending Ignite. Thanks for sharing!

Edit: -_-. Ignite hasn't even happened yet, bit amusing.
Is it multi-tenant ?
have you ever had a loved one fall for a scam?
My steam account is 18 years old. I can still easily download Braid, a game released in 2009, and I apparently played in 2014, install it on my Steam Deck and be playing it again in ten minutes. Considering it has cloud save support, there is a not small chance that my saves may even be intact.

It's that endurance in the platform that has me coming back. I have faith that Valve as a company is in it for the long haul to act as a game store platform and honor my digital purchases. It's allowed me to put several thousand dollars into them.
You know, if ppl would just using electricity to perform their scams/utopian dreaming while exacerbating a world wide calamity the states will not need to decide for them...
We get more regulation mainly because of bad actors giving a f*ck about externalities.
"The research found that every $1 in Bitcoin market value generated an average of 35 cents in global climate damages between 2016 and 2021.

For comparison, gasoline generated 41 cents, and beef production was responsible for 33 cents in damages."

What are the total market values of each of those things, though?
>Why would that even be allowed to happen in the first place?

Not just failure, you could also see this with just big spikes in traffic like a release day.

Either way, sounds like you're convinced the cases are common enough that mitigations should be table stakes.
I really enjoy Secure Scuttlebutt for interacting with friends (social) and journaling. It is offline first, so I can write out my thoughts and respond to other people while away from the internet, and it will sync up when I have a connection.

Takes some effort to get involved in the community, but if you had a group of friends you could all meet up once, connect to the same wifi connection, follow each other and then gossip each other's messages effectively. Setting up a pub or room server helps out too.
And as someone who wants "programming" to NOT be the domain of "only programmers" I welcome this difficulty if it makes it easier for "regular people."

Let's humanize programming and not keep it in a tower.
I'm not sure that summary is quite correct.

Looks like they passed a law designed to curtail speculation and rapid price hikes throughout the country. It says landlords cannot raise rent on apartments they renovated for 5 years after they purchased them. They must increase energy efficiency too. Finally, they cannot pay tenants money to leave.

Maybe it will help some. Time will tell.
Totally non-sarcastic question: then why bother?

It's an honest question. Even if someone (or a team) could somehow be paid for this work, by the time the results are usable, the hardware will be more or less functionally obsolete.

And that is on top of the fact that ARM64 on MacOS will always be a small slice of the gaming pie, and ARM64 on Linux games and GPU applications virtually nonexistent.
Prediction: they won't.

The Fire phone and their conventional cheap tablets have been a fail, also.
Maybe (probably not) this high profile disaster will finally make the leadership at Alphabet realize how ridiculously dysfunctional the organization is, and things will finally start to change. (doubt it)
Massive pain is overstating it I think. Plus there's almost certainly a patch out there that changes it to zero based.
I didn't say that.

What I said is that the two scenarios are very different.

ipsum2 is accusing the devs of already violating privacy.

Also their privacy policy is here: https://www.theogapp.com/privacy
The gods hate this one weird trick!
They absolutely do - in spades. Claiming that private companies are free to operate as they choose, and if you don't like it - leave.

There's a libertarian minded group, especially here on HN, that seems to have completely forgotten that corporations exist at the whim of the public, using public resources and given public permission.
By "the latter" I meant corporate press releases. The link explains why (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

The best third party articles tend to quote the salient bits from the press release as well as adding additional background and dropping the most embarrassing spin.
"if you follow these instructions without fail, Matrix can provide you with confidentiality and authentication." I was hoping the researchers could clarify these simple mitigation instructions to protect users, assuming they already know how to use Element.