skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My constructive feedback: on Steam, the "Jump Challenge!" trailer [0] (2m51s, way too long, not snappy) sucks and the in-game screenshots 3..12 are way too dark and static-looking. This is the developer's main chance to attract customers - compare to rockstar trailers like "Bubble Bobble" [1] which hook you within 5 seconds. Things that are painfully missing: zoom-to-closeup on the characters e.g, on level completion or when they complete a key move, add big captions, animation, color to the trailer, screen transitions/dissolves/fades (compare to the (static) screenshots for "Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved"[2], they superbly use neon glow/fade to convey tons of fast-and-furious movement). In the trailer, the human voiceover (excessively chatty/jokey) and clipart (plain irrelevant) instead of in-world captions (like "Bubble Bobble") don't work for me, it feels too much like QVC; don't waste our time saying cheesy infomercial-grade stuff like "Now we've got your attention..." or "You will love it". Take a chainsaw to the first 0m35s of trailer (well maybe a 3-second splash screen for your studio's name, like Taito/Bubble Bobble does) and start on an actual game screen, already. RIP Stadia, but get on with a compelling kickass trailer for your Steam store, already - you only have 15 seconds tops to attract and hook the user. It doesn't take 5 months to make a compelling trailer. Based on the current trailer I wouldn't even download this. Fix it, already.

The game is (mis-)tagged "4 Player Local" but also "PvP"; I don't see anything in the trailer showing how multiplayer is supposed to work, either adversarial or cooperative. ("4 Player Local" sounds mistagged; it conjures up memories of "Gauntlet"). The voiceover says there are many ways to play the game; that's too open-ended "Either play solo or challenge up to 3 friends, local or remote", overlaid on an animation showing exactly that, is way clearer. I don't even get the tag "Battle Royale", it seems irrelevant, if it isn't then you need to add to the static screenshots and trailer to show why this is "Battle Royale". Own your listing's tags and delete the misapplied ones.

I find it hard to get useful information from Steampowered. Curiously, "Jump Challenge!" does not appear anywhere in Steampowered's 17 hits for "Jump Challenge!" (?!) [3]. Probably downweighted by sales rank/popularity.

Does Steam provide the developer with analytics on how many users viewed the trailer and bounced? by demographic, by OS, by genre of Steam titles purchased, by referring channel/URL...?

Also, I tried crossbrowsing by the tags used for Source Byte Franchise > "Jump Challenge!"" "Action/Casual/Racing/Battle Royale/Parkour/4 Player Local/Multiplayer/Local Co-Op/Platformer/Arcade/Co-op/PvP/Pixel Graphics/Runner/Exploration/2D Platformer/Puzzle Platformer/Funny/2D/Rhythm"

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1787630/Jump_Challenge/

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1287030/Bubble_Bobble_4_F...

[2] https://store.steampowered.com/app/8400/Geometry_Wars_Retro_...

[3] https://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=Jump+Challenge%2...
Schmidt ran the company relatively well. Googles issue is the lack of focus and rewarding technically complex 10x ideas. Meaning long term recurring compound gains is not rewarded.
Not all (or even most) CEOs have the same amount of power as, say, Mark Zuckerberg at Meta. Most CEOs cannot take the company in the direction of an entirely different business model without the Board of Directors agreeing. Dorsey was booted out as Twitter CEO once before, in 2008, and then brought back in an attempt to fix things, after he had already started Square.

It appears, not only from this text but many other comments he's made, that he found the board to be just as difficult to work with. I think he's spot on here, identifying the root cause of the problem, and a realistic appraisal of the chances of changing the existing company.
Grünenthal's apology for Thalidomide in 2012, 50 years after it was removed from the market, included this statement:

“Grünenthal acted in accordance with the state of scientific knowledge and all industry standards for testing new drugs that were relevant and acknowledged in the 1950s and 1960s.”
Meetings cost companies up to $100M a year
Reflecting, this is quite off topic, but due to more voltages supported by USB PD, I thought I'd bring this up.

A few years back, I really wished all the AC/DC converters for smaller home appliances would ditch the fragmented round pins, and go for a universal USB-A (at the time) standard. E.g. some fans, routers, my smart desk, my key light, etc. Perhaps we would be able to optimize better unified AC/DC converters.

Perhaps it would be nice to think about something like this.
Instead of having bulky AC/DC converters, go for single multi-port USB-C PD converters?
How does google lose so much money with GCP? 858m in operating losses? [0]. Where are they burning money? Hardware, salaries, sales, promos?

[0]: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252523200/Google-results...
Anyone with a full-time job has spent about 8000 hours on that singular activity in the same timeframe. I'm not sure that tells us that what this guy is doing is healthy, but it does raise the question... is working the way we do healthy either?
Let's look on the bright side - this guy has certainly gotten his money's worth out of Stadia.
You (not OP) are being downvoted because your post has no content other than complaining about post votes, and that's in the HN guidelines as something not to do.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

OP's comment hasn't been meaningfully downvoted; it's still black text. Yours has, though.
EU Software Patents Through the Unified Patent Court
Here [1] is a previous discussion on this as well.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33009545
Netflix never drops support for anything. A couple of years ago, I dug my first generation iPad (2010) out, reset it, downloaded Netflix (you can download the “last compatible version” from the App Store) and it worked.

Netflix still works on the first gen Roku devices from 2011 - at least it did a couple of years ago.
The weight of the random-press aka "we don't know it, but the CIA already told us that could happen in the future, and therefore it must be true and it was russia" sound's like a big minus weight.
Google has drifted gradually from helping you find things, supported by ads, to actively steering you away from what you're trying to find in order to sell you to advertisers.
The pipes are 4 inches of steel wrapped in 6 inches of concrete. It's hard to see that being something that would rupture easily by accident. Especially 4 at a time.
I’m not sure this is a particularly useful critique. I learned a good amount from this post.
There is at least one factual inaccuracy here--Nordstream 1 was not cut off after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It was running at more or less usual capacity until early June, when the flow was cut by about 60%. It was then shut off in July for regular yearly maintenance window. It returned at 40% capacity for a while, before being slowed to 20% capacity in late July, and then shut off again at the end of August. So Nordstream 1 has only been not moving for a little less than a month at the time of the explosion.

While I think accidental failure of the Nordstream pipeline is an underrated explanation, such a glaring factual inaccuracy makes me skeptical of the viability of the specific theory espoused in this article.
He did none of that single-handedly though. Thousands, maybe millions of ours of man hours went into making all that happen. What spurred my original comment was that when I hear him talk, I think he does fail to acknowledge the people around him a little to conveniently. I don't care, I just don't think it's a good quality and I think longer term, it will probably lead to him having lower performing teams and people around him.
The current Windows logo is just four squares, that's hardly an obvious logo. It's not even that different from the looped square, or the meta diamond.
>Too file oriented
>Not task oriented enough?

Jesus, is this why modern devs are completely ignorant as to how to use filesystems?
History is fun again.
Right, whens the last time you purchased a company for billions of dollars off the cuff ?
It really doesn't matter how many bitcoi s are minded every ten minutes.

Bitcoin still changes it's value up and down.

My argument was not based in the amount of bitcoins itself. It's still valid. It's a rat race and this doesn't mean Bitcoin is 100% energy efficient.

It's as efficient as the market makes it.

The methan discussion: either it produces enough energy that you can do things with it or it doesn't matter at all

We could force them to have edge mini Datacenters there to render things or do research workload. We could also charge batteries or enforce an energy line. Tons of options and no motivation to do it because profit and easy but useless solution of Bitcoin.

And yes it's less efficient to run Bitcoin instead of just burning it. Bitcoin then still steals critical ASIC/chip production capacity.

The guilty pleasure thing is just a strawman argument. It doesn't make Bitcoin better or worse just because of others. And yes I do totally disagree on GPUs etc not having a value.

I don't mind clarifying how much better gaming is, but it is. The discussion general is valid but at least the energy consumed gives a direct value.

Bitcoin hash finding still doesn't do anything and it also still doesn't solve the trust issue: Bitcoin is not decentralized, tons of miners are under control of few people. El Salvador shows how far away normal people are of even understanding it.

The excuse of 'people without bank account ' you really believe Bitcoin solves such issues? It doesn't. People still need infra to get crypto. We see how it works in Africa with simple phones. Bitcoin is not solving a problem here.

The same dump argument of people in north Korea or Iran: you still need someone exchange your currency and dollar and euro actually do the job. Go to Iran and pay with euro. You will be able to pay with it with zero energy consumption... (I have been to Iran)

We can stop it and it will not be allowed. Why? Because no country has any incentive to allow a parallel existing financial market circumventing anonymous payment system.

You will see how it will fail when a normal user can't loose there money by just buying it on normal platforms. No one cares about Bitcoin. Go out and ask any random people it's already wasting tons of resources while having zero impact.
Spell Token (SPELL) is a governance and reward token associated with abracadabra.money, a lending platform that uses interest-bearing tokens (ibTKNs) as collateral to borrow a USD-pegged stablecoin known as Magic Internet Money (MIM).
Within the Abracadabra protocol, there are two main tokens. It’s a governance token, SPELL and the other is MIM (Magic Internet Money). Spell Token also provides staking functionality.
CoinMarketCap estimates SPELL’s circulating supply is 102B SPELL while its maximum supply as 196B. Spell Token (SPELL) is traded on a number of cryptocurrency exchanges, such as Binance, OKX, Bybit, MEXC, and BingX, and others.
Spell Token (SPELL) Price Prediction 2022
Touching the lowest of the month at $0.0011864, Spell Token (SPELL) price swung from $0.0019201 to $0.0011864. SPELL bounced back from support level and is presently sideways in the market and is expected to be bullish in the coming weeks.
The long-term price prediction for SPELL for 2022 is bullish since it is unlikely to break the current support level anytime soon. We can expect SPELL to reach $0.0019201 in 2022.
It's 4 hours a day for 4 years. That could breakdown to a couple of hours a night and full days on weekends. Millions of people spend just as much time watching TV, or reading, or playing Call of Duty. That's nothing particularly unusual or special about that amount of time.

Back in the early days of World of Warcraft people would have seen 4 hours a night as light, casual gaming. :)
Left blank white square.
Right OSM map.

Is this a prank or broken? What year did OSM come out?
yes, just as white noise came from KKK movement :D
I think we are fairly certain it's not an accident?
In this case the fault lies somewhat with Rockstar. When you decide to move from playing GTA V on console to PC for example, you still lose your online progress with no option to transfer after Rockstar shut down transfers in 2016.
People with uncontrolled obsessive behaviors aren't typically "cured" by losing the thing they obsessed over. Sometimes it's the opposite, and they become suicidal.
Poland benefits but doesn't have the operational capacity. US can't really expect to sell much gas to Europe regardless, so if it was then it would be for anti-Russia reasons, which seems like a stretch. Objectively the funniest possiblity is that some cargo ship dragged it's anchor across miles of ocean and a captain is very very worried right now
And on the mobile side you cjisyvthroe your hands in the air and claim network latency is the root cause of your performance problems. I spent some time with a team that did this, and what I saw, and tried but failed to fix, was that the problem is usually an abuse of ORMs and a complete and utter lack of software design.
There is exactly one imperialist aggressor in this conflict, and it isn't the US.
I read Japan's lack of growth as directly stemming from their cultural conservatism. I believe they're among the countries with the lowest immigration and least ethnic foreigners living there?

It's hard to engage economically with a diverse world when your available viewpoints are less diverse. At some point you reach a ceiling.

China has run through the Japanese hypergrowth years (leverage wage disparity, then move up value chain by producing copies of higher value items) and is now in the R&D phase. We'll see how it goes from here.
Press Source: "Trust us, little ones"
Assuming covert ops follow a pattern is just naive
> Any consumer who took opiates and got addicted has exactly one person to blame - themselves for being uninformed.

This is a reprehensible point of view. Consumers can't be expected to place their personal medical judgements above that of their doctors and their government's regulatory agencies. We in fact attack them 24 hours a day if they do, and call them stupid selfish traitors under the mind control of foreign powers whose only goal is to foment strife and destroy our unity and world leadership through the corruption of our soul, the science, and the facts.

Besides that, people have to work and they don't have time to independently determine if their cellphones will give them brain cancer. They rely on experts and authorities to tell them, on the morning news, as they run out of the door on the way to work.
It says he's a youtuber so it may be his job.
I know there have been gamers like this for years but in this case 2 of the 4 years were during a mandatory isolate at home public health crisis. It’s possible this was actually a positive escape to help cope.

Personally I’m not attached to digital ephemera. I’ve already lost more save games and files of one type of content over another to be used to it. I’d call the clingy-ness the real issue. Others have to put in a bunch of work to manage this persons figurative video game identity?
> An adjustable voltage supply mode allows the device being powered an ability to request intermediate voltages between 15V and up to the maximum available fixed voltage of the charger.

So devices with this should be able to power anything in the range of 15-48V?
And Godot's editor is very snappy and responsive
If the threshold for the headsets to become comfortable in mainstream conditions is 10-15 years away, their metaverse will fail.
Depends, if you play fortnite on GeForce Now for example, you keep your character on your account across devices.
This article is poorly informed opinion piece. Ignore it.
> Blaming the manufacturer for opiate deaths is like blaming manufacturers for firearm deaths, rather than the shooters.

Columbian cartels whole-heartedly agree. They're just manufacturing and shipping the stuff, they don't make you buy and use it! Stop the war on drugs, legalize over-the-counter opiates, inform the consumers, and in five years you won't recognize the society — that's how drastically it will improve^!

^ "improve" here means "change", and may include both positive and negative improvement. Void where applicable.
I think Google's biggest flaw in this regard is their own denial of the pattern of shutting things down. If they just acknowledge that's how things go, they can prepare better off-ramps for people who adopted their product. Doing this to your users is a slap in the face because it shows no gratitude for the fact that those people took a chance on your product. They believed in it, and it's not their fault your project failed. Why should they suffer?

But because of Google's hubris, they seem to never admit that failure is an option. Of course they shouldn't say it publicly, but they should have much better internal plans in place for euthanizing products humanely. Failure to do so repeatedly, on a scale like this, reeks of organizational dysfunction, and the absence a moral compass.

I was not a Stadia user, but events like this reinforce my motivation to drop all the Google products I possibly can before they drop me.
++ is useful to switch over the items of a string:

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if (x == ‘+’) {
op = OP_INC;
x++;
} else if (x == ‘=‘) {
op = OP_ADDEQ;
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} else {
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}
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The Curious Case of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
LLVM already supports types like i31 and i7, but without language support it may be difficult to reliably convince the optimizer that's what you mean.
I did not imply anything about age. And there was no president under 42 so far, and one that finishes a term before 40 would be a stretch since 35 is the minimum age limit for being elected POTUS.
Take a look at Tippecanoe, which is under active development again[0]. The original developer, Erica Fischer (who is wonderful to work with), has a fork[1] where new work is happening.

[0] https://felt.com/blog/erica-fischer-tippecanoe-at-felt

[1] https://github.com/felt/tippecanoe
US / UK interests are well enough aligned that if one had a motive, the other might have done it for them as a favor in return for some other unknown favor. And whatever issues the UK is having now, it would not have precluded doing something as easy as this.

The UK is not my first or even second suspicion, but it could have been them.
No. It must support 5V, and optionally can support the rest (and more).
I truly hate this way of sunsetting projects, esp platforms that others materially depend on. Even if you don’t want to say you’re cancelling it, an attitude of reduced pressure so they’re not crunching to finish the port. A friend was about to close on a house a couple weeks before layoffs happened, and an in the know manager just said “hey you may want to hold off on that for a few weeks.” Of course google can’t sunset projects over time because advancement is so competitive and based on novelty that if anyone knew they were working on a dead end project they’d be gone immediately. If only advancement was based on stewardship and responsible work and not just leading new projects…
Although the angle of: Losing his characters is the best thing that's happening for him due to wasting a very significant part of his life in video games has some merit (but could be worded differently), this is yet another example on why you shouldn't depend on these platforms for anything of value, specially Google.

The immense pressure to transform/re-frame everything as a service, aka: "You'll own nothing and be happy" leads to these situations. Now it's "just a video game", but this is starting to happen to most walks of life.
So far the most plausible theory is that Russia sabotaged the pipelines for two reasons [1]: 1) to claim force majeure and avoid massive penalties Gazprom would have to pay for the breach of contract (we are talking billions here; now they just blame the West and good luck proving in courts who actually did it); 2) to further blackmail and coerce the European nations (particularly Germany and Italy) who depend on Russian gas to stop supporting Ukraine.

As for explosions, they were recorded by the seismologist in Sweden and Denmark who are quite convinced it was due to a deliberate action: https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-gas-baltic-pipelines-leaks/32...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2022/09/29/russian-s...
Atlassian's critical services consistently gets above 99.9999% availability
Is this one of those "actual majority" situations or one of those "vocal minority get's mixed up and thinks they are a majority" cases? I'm asking because typically when I see majority claims, far too often it is the later.
Fair question - and to be honest, since I’ve never worked there - I don’t know.

But to counter that, again, what’s the interesting or exciting engineering challenges at the various mundane companies where the vast majority of SWEs work at?

Having worked at such “boring” companies, but recently transferred to an “exciting” company in the same tier as Meta, I can say the fundamental concept of my projects or work hasn’t changed, but everything around it has. The people around you, the resources available, the respect, the culture.

It’s all a matter of context too. If you’re the type of elite SWE that can snap their fingers and land offers at any of the FAANGMULA+ companies, then sure it’s much easier to scoff at Meta and say there are many equivalently “interesting” places to work out there.

On the other hand if you’re someone that struggles with leetcode and Meta is the only company of its type that gives you an offer and the rest are cost center companies like the Wells Fargos and Home Depots of the world, then that’s another story.
100k/pa in the UK is 'ultra wealthy'. 120k/pa puts you into the 1% of top earners.
My initial reaction was indeed very positive ( I take open protocol over corporate-owned fiefdom any day ). Then the obvious question came why this was released and how. Is it PR campaign ( Dorsey - and Musk especially - were being hit in press a lot lately ) and this is just one way to help their image?

I don't know. I would like to hope it is more than just image clean up.
That was never a possible outcome. Pipelines transiting Belarus and Ukraine remain operational and AFAIK in-service.

Who did it does matter. If Russia didn't self-sabotage they may feel some obligation to retaliate proportionally against someone else's energy infrastructure.
"I really didn't say all the things I said." (Yogi Berra: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/12/30/yogi-didnt-say/#:~:...
Pyston: 3.7-3.10 support and a new direction
I spent 7 years in physics, and physicists often (most of the time, even, in my sub-field) spoke in field-specific lengths.

"The pulse is 1.6 plasma wavelengths long", "the shock front is on the order of 2 laser wavelengths thick", etc

SI dimensions (again, in my sub-field) were treated more as a manufacturing spec for experimental equipment than as a convenient way to discuss phenomena or a good way to communicate the size of something with someone else in the field.
> rather that they guessed your email address

I'm sorry, I don't see how the fact that there are a large number of recipient email addresses provides evidence for the idea that my email address was guessed. A spammer with a list of addresses bought off a marketplace could easily have done the same thing, couldn't they?
> 2nd edit: this used to be the case many years ago, thanks for those who confirmed

No - what other posters 'confirmed' is that www.apple.com was one of the choices that could be made for a new tab or homepage - absolutely not the Apple store as you said.

Worth correcting yet again because of what's become a knee-jerk 'but whatabout Apple?' in comment threads about Google on HN.