skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's absolutely noticeable. The question is whether it's tolerable, and people do seem to tolerate increasing latency both from networks and their TV.

But, personally, I find the experience much less enjoyable as the latency goes up. It's not about being competitive either. (I don't play games online.) It just feels sticky and sluggish and I don't enjoy it. I miss the crisp responsiveness of older consoles. :(
> but when Russia invaded the Ukraine, Germany decided to cut Russia off economically.

Yeah, 8 years after invasion, maybe.
I had a positive experience with Linq2db: https://github.com/linq2db/linq2db

I mention because I had something of the opposite experience with it. It not only ended up yielding the correct queries, but I saw a significant increase in performance. And the neat thing about it, beyond ORM and linq-to-sql, is a common interface amongst providers - so you can do things like swap from SQLite to Postgres with 1 line* of code, so long as you're not using provider specific extensions.
If we collectively stopped believing non-binding statements with no skin in the game, these bullshitters would stop bullshitting.
If you want to build a toaster from scratch
I'm not blaming Lua. I'm saying that the context where it is used is important and can effect whether things are problems or not.

Semi-colons are a bad example, you are generally not going to have subtle bugs from those. Off-by-one bugs are already bad enough in programming, having people switch their base index between tasks will not help.
No surprise that its shutting down, but the refunds are a nice touch. I own 3 stadia setups and pre-ordered 2 copies baldurs gate 3. Glad to be receiving my money back. I really enjoyed the service with Cyberpunk.
Or you know, this little company called astronomer https://www.astronomer.io ...
George Jetson's birthdate is arguably this year.
The actual big goals appear to be to get GCP out of third place and to do something nebulously magic with AI. Both of these have made progress, but not in a way that actually makes the company money. Other than that I agree with you, there doesn't seem to be any sort of coherent product vision other than "ads in search/youtube" and "keep building the handful of actually popular products we've had for ages."

It is definitely hard as hell to develop another business the size of ads alongside it, but it really doesn't seem like there's a clear idea here.
Sure. Line height sucks on your page. May be add a little bit of it. I would do:

body {
line-height: 1.6em;
}
You can’t blame this on Google’s size. Neither Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, or Amazon (Disclaimer: I work at AWS) have this problem.

Google has never struggled as a company. Amazon barely survived the dot com bust, Apple almost went bankrupt and even Microsoft had to pivot or become the next IBM after Balmer and missing out on mobile.

Facebook being still founder led and having the advantage of knowing how fleeting social media networks have been in the past, keeps Zuckerburg paranoid.

Google’s ad revenue is covering up a lot of project/program mismanagement.
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It seems likely here that since revenue numbers keep going up, they don't really realize that there is a problem. Why rock the boat and change anything with the culture when you can just keep collecting your bonuses?
That person literally finished by:

> Right of way won't matter once you're crushed metal.

while arguing that small cars and everyone else should actively count in his lack of visibility and lack of care into their behavior.

We react to this driver and not to small car drivers, because those did not shown such a huge lack of care about safety of everyone else.
I argue that if your car makes you hit someone with right of way because you did not seen him, that car should be banned or you should be banned from driving.
And the fact that it seems literally nobody at google is even looking at said loops.

But you know what is needed : is some whistleblower from within google to tell us how the decisions are made for shutting down services…

And btw I don’t even know what stadia is!
> The people are fed up with dangerously incompetent leadership

When thinking of politicians, Intelligence is not an attribute which comes naturally to my mind.

Yet the absence of intelligence in karge swaths of green politicians is striking. Im specifically talking about the German green movement, not generalising.
Which in turn, the margin AWS has on the bandwidth they sell must be insane! People seem to pay for "premium" bandwidth and not even batting an eye, people just swallow that stuff right up. Just like TE, it must make them a ton of money.
Ever wonder why you weren't born a medieval peasant?

Well, from the outside reality's perspective, it's helpful for people to spend the first few decades of their lives in an early 21st century simulation, just so they can gradually acclimate themselves to all this technology.

/folly
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It's all about putting all in the balance. More money, more safety and security (it almost every aspect of life). On the other side, family and friends left behind.

If you just came: don't think people are different here (anywhere in EU) as in Mexico. You will do new friend here, locals, and for sure other expats. The food, if you search, you can find almost everything. I've been many places (also Mexico) I found China and Japan to be very different than Mexico, but the EU is not that far away. Just chill, enjoy the good, and if at any time it gets too heavy, you can always go back, and have an interesting experience in your CV.
Glad to see more attention being paid to the psychological impacts of noise. Our cities are full of noise pollution- car alarms, motorcycles with tricked engines, the list goes on. These things are detrimental to health.
We appear to have made kilometres the default unit. For EVs in the United States, we'll modify it to miles. Thanks!
> they suggest the alternative Wind+Solar, not gas.

Storage technology to support an industrialized nation with pure Wind+Solar does not exist, necessitating gas. Advocating for Wind+Solar but not gas is like advocating for building with lumber but not cutting down trees. One inescapably implies the other.
The thing I remembered most from that launch was when Sundar Pichai walked on stage of this massive product launch, in front of the entire gaming industry filled with skeptics, and the first words out of his mouth were "I'll admit, I'm not much of a gamer".
I never heard of the name of that problem and now I will never forget it! Thank you!

I'm actually on a 3 day Facebook ban because I posted a very legit medical NIH link that looked quite innocent (despite dealing with sexual organs- it was an article about a case of urethral intercourse, which I was including to demonstrate how little people, or perhaps just Americans, seem to understand human anatomy) and unbeknownst to me, the preview card picked a closeup of some kind of vaginal surgery to feature, and that resulted in an instaban. Fffffuuuuuuuuu

It was basically the visual version of this
"More wood, fewer arrows" has destroyed the longevity of Google as a company for anything beyond search/ads

Alphabet seems to have been a mistake, too. Instead of shielding their bets they flounder and wither.

Just terrible strategic thinking.
At first try this is pretty good for remembering acronyms or technical jargon I've forgotten. The accuracy of the info is, as cautioned, suspect at best. But I wouldn't mind having an assistant like this available at all times.

The alternate personalities are very superficial though.
Nice find!

The timeline has now been updated too: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/mv2-sunset/
Inflation hurts me every time I go out to dinner and have to pay $100 for a simple meal for two.

BTC as an asset can be used as collateral. It doesn't have to be used just for trade. Maintain your LTV and the daily swings in BTC price are less relevant over the long term, while still be an effective store of wealth.
Take away that search monopoly and you have one one of the most dysfunctional and slowest moving companies in tech. Which is incredibly surprising as they hire really bright people but their leadership and product direction is not good at all.
Does anything support IPv6?

The product management of IPv6 is terrible. They could have turned

10.20.30.40 (IPv4)

into

10.20.30.40.50.60 (IPv6)

where

0.0.1.2.3.4 just translates into 1.2.3.4

and everyone would be using it already. But instead they chose

fe04::fa23::://::23::::!!/45:234a::23ff

And guess who uses it? Nobody.

When I need DNS I know 8.8.8.8 just works.

What is the IPv6 Google DNS? Hell if I can remember.
I can’t believe that I’m defending Google, but this time at least they offered credit or refunds for any purchases. Google not doing this in the past has made me extremely hesitant in paying for new Google devices that feel risky. This will alleviate that worry a bit
Microsoft executives say it's 'wrong' for managers to spy on remote employees'
That's good to know. I think the WiFi and/or Bluetooth was what I had looked for and found nothing. I'd want to use it for games on my Apple TV or Nintendo Switch.
The company really did go from "hire like mad" to "oh shit cut stuff" seemingly overnight. It would not surprise me if Stadia was an easy way for some SVP to slash their budget to appease Finance.
I have no doub it does, but checking a business' Facebook account to see if they are open would probably be the last thing I could come up with.
> They also apparently will stand up their own MV2 store after Google's deprecation is complete.

Complete deprecation means shut off for enterprise. MV2 items will be unlisted before.
Ooh very interesting, thanks for explaining!

From reading others replies too, it does looks like client-only mechanism on its own is weak compared to having checks on both the client and server..
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I do not know if your commented was targeted at Windmill or Airplane but our pricing is very clear and upfront. It's 10$/mo/user for the premium hosted version. You can read the code, use and self-host the product freely and without our blessing. The enterprise contract is a call us because that's how enterprise contracts work, they need complex agreement with various clauses.
Saying it's strictly better is exaggerated. The benefits of 0 indexing are well known and mostly revolve around the fact you tend to have far less fiddling with -1 and +1 as you write code.

How do you access the item in a 2D array represented on a flat array?
my_array[x+ywidth]

But what is all that starts at 1?
my_array[x+(y-1)width]

I did a lot of code in both systems and I remember distinctly that 1.. indexing just was more work to do, in turn bringing in more off by 1 bugs.
> Just a couple of months ago.

This was exactly 2 months ago (July 29th).
I heard a good source routing joke but I don't know who to tell it to next
Motivated reasoning. Cheap energy is extremely attractive, so seemingly obvious downsides can be swept under the rug.
It seems like a self fulfilling prophecy for Google products. They have a reputation for killing them off, so users don't want to invest and get committed to them. Then the products don't match their expectations and get killed. It just further fuels the cycle.

At some point I wish Google would take a stand and believe in some products. If they said we have a 10 year commitment to making Stadia a success and will not close it before that, no matter the cost. I might be willing to consider giving it a try. I don't want to buy into something that's going to just get shut down, especially when there are high costs involved.
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Yes, they really could. We're not talking about your energy supplier company, we're talking about electricity producers and fuel suppliers (oil and gas companies). Different set of companies and they are indeed raking it in.
One Lua thing that is wacky is that you cannot have large integers as keys to a table. Lua converts {2938433:"hello", 983748323:"hi"} to positions in the array portion of a table and creates a giant 99.999% empty table eating all the RAM.
Unless somebody knows something I don't on how to make it work.
This.

And when you refer to pm-Ing in this way I’m reminded of the guy in San Francisco that did all the management for a huge eve online guild and he didn’t play the game he managed all their affects in a spreadsheet and whatever they were using to chat…. And he was making a boatload of human money a month…

I wonder where he is now…
Once it is realized the ads are mostly harmful this is inevitable
The question isn't whether someone will die but what happens after.

80s shlock like Running Man used to be portrayals of a ridiculous dystopia, but at this point they should be considered a warning. We already increasingly undervalue human life and have culturally accepted avoidable deaths as long as they can be justified with "personal responsibility" or follow from a perceived moral failing.

We're not there yet, but we're inching ever closer.

The first article of the post-WW2 constitution of Germany does not establish freedom of speech but the sanctity of human dignity. Of course in practice only lip service is paid to this, but it feels like "entertaintment" like Mr Beast's videos are the exact antithesis.
I wonder what the overlap is between Stadia's target market and people who watch YouTube without blocking ads.

It's not zero, because Chromecast doesn't block ads and that's the natural fit for Stadia. But it's definitely not 100% either.
Satan
Actually, bitcoin was made by a human called a certain Satoshi Nakamoto, but we were the ones who actually inspired the idea of cryptocurrency, which is bitcoin. We didn't think the human would actually take it though.

eithed
were you surprised that we did start using it?

Satan
Yes. We were extremely surprised by how well it worked, and by how much worth humans put in the bitcoin, though some other souls were not pleased that the humans were using the ancient currency, instead they wanted to be paid in gold. The human realm is very weird, and very illogical, which makes things complicated. But we can always make things work out.

eithed
do you manipulate bitcoin prices?

Satan
Actually we do. Our analysts, the minions, are responsible for that. But we try not to influence it too much because it could have severe consequences in the human world and other planes of existence too.

hmmm
> I mean it still exists bu tall expansion palns stopped and it went into maintenance mode.

Google Fiber is currently microtrenching in front of my house, and continues to move into more cities here. Did they restart, or did their mothballing just mean that they aren't entering new geographic regions?

TBH, I'm super excited about it because the only other high-speed option we have is Comcast and it is super unreliable and the data cap sucks, but I'm also mentally preparing for the day they get bored of it and shut the whole thing down.
> Perhaps the problem isn't really the increment operator, but rather folks writing too fancy of code while using it

I find this is a common theme of many complaints of C++ and OOP.

For example, C++ lets you do some incredibly ugly things using operator overloading. This can be useful so you could, say, make a matrix class and allow matrix operations to just using + or * rather than .add and .multiply functions. The fact that it can be abused to do very non-sensical, unintuitive things should be a criticism of the programmer who does it, not the feature.
12 years ago, Google offered to buy Groupon for $6 billion and Groupon declined. Those were the second and first dumbest business decisions I've ever heard of, respectively.
It's curious to me that there hasn't been an evolution in re-exit strategies. You want to get bought by Google, then sold by Google. Why don't we hear about something getting sold off by Google instead of just shut down? Is it just a given that if Google can't make it work, nobody can?
Posting like this will get you banned on HN, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. Please review the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and please don't post like this to HN again.

This is particularly important when your argument happens to be a good one, because in that case you're discrediting the truth by posting abusively (see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... for past explanations of this point). That hurts everyone. It particularly hurts those of us who happen to agree with your view (me, for example—I haven't read much of this thread but I'm pretty sure I've made similar arguments about readability in the past).
My intro was Airiel - The Release.
Isn’t that “just” a hosted version of Airflow? If it is, that’s a different value proposition/risk assessment. If Astronomer goes out of business, you just take your code and host it somewhere else.

Or is that exactly the point you are making?
> Something that can be further refined by humans is more interesting.

Exactly, that is what I was trying to say. The way I look at it is that most people who have Ableton installed cannot create an amazing song. Now let's say they are able to prompt a Stable Diffusion Audio system with a prompt like kanye type beat with flute melody in the key of E.

The system might output 90% hot garbage, but it's easy to skip that within seconds of hearing it. So they clip and loop the good part, add whatever personal skills they do have, and upload that.

And wow, I just found out that OpenAI's Jukebox[0] was creating this stuff two years ago. This seems like the lowest hanging fruit to me, compared to visuals. Also could be extremely lucrative. I wonder if we are already listen to ML generated music and it's just not advertised?

[0] https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/
related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23032243
That date has now been changed to 2024: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/mv2-sunset/
low-relevance scenario - there are hundreds of thousands of companies serving consumers, with millions of employees, across the Western system. The vastly disproportional reward of C-Suite versus employees since the 1990s is very well documented. Google Inc is not any of those companies, and their economics do not apply.
Heh, well, they're owned by MS now. I wonder how much they've been forced onto Azure … which last I tried, didn't completely support IPv6¹.

And just yesterday-ish I got an email from Azure that "Basic" SKU IPv4s (yes, MS has SKUs for IP addresses…) are going away. And the new SKUs are more expensive… granted, it's not a huge expense, but it's lovely to pay for artificial scarcity.

¹specifically, managed PG didn't. Worse yet, it refused to operate on a dual-stack vnet, meaning it forced me to IPv4-only the vnet.
That's a fine sentiment in the civilized world but here in the United States women's bodies are controlled by the government - and so is their decision to have children. You got impregnated by a rapist? Sorry, tough shit! Then whenever it comes time to actually support the children they forced to be born they come back with this it was your choice to have the child so it's your responsibility to care for it! Grrrr! That really grinds my gears!
> Amazon publicly stated that they ran their own business on AWS, and however much of an exaggeration that might have been, it gave people the confidence to try it out. The reasoning was clear: if AWS handles Amazon-scale business, they can surely handle my smaller workload.

I think even more important than the scalability, it implies AWS isn't going away as long as Amazon is in business.
That is an outstanding animated gif! People should click the link even if they have no intention of reading the article. Nice job Scorpion Dagger!
Blaming Intel for US' lack of new supercomputer is a bit weak. IBM also can produce supercomputers. There are also others computer "manifacturers" in US: AMD, HP (itanium), Quallcomm.
archived for posterity:

https://archive.ph/W3F3g
There was a cool challenge in the Code Golf community in Stack Exchange, where participants wrote python scripts to compete in this problem over 1,000 rounds. The bots had access to previous rounds' results to inform their choice in each round.

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/172178/smallest...
UUIDs leak information, by definition. For that reason, I'm not a fan. It's just leaking on the other side.

I'll explain: A UUID should be pretty unique in the universe. Wherever it crops up, as there should always be an assumption of the possibility of leaking data and associated data at the same time, whomever the UUID belongs to has had their information leaked. That could be associated meta data in a request like IP address, to a print out that has a user's UUID in the header. In all cases it ties data to an individual.

Better is to just use a high integer that doesn't simply increment, but changes by an amount. But low enough to blur into noise. Heck, this can be rotated.

I stand to be convinced otherwise, but via the reasoning above I believe UUIDs are not desirable for user privacy.
Hindsight is 20/20. There were plenty of reasons to be skeptical that russia would turn off the tap. There's always counterparty risk when importing things, the US could also decide to cut europe off from LNG if they wanted.
Pretty much all programming languages designed for math are 1-based. Besides Julia, there's R, Mathematica (or "Wolfram language" as it is called these days), and Matlab.
Google is search, ads, and G Suite. Everything else is recruitment window dressing.
Looks like some kind of ad that tries to discredit regular encryption by claiming that it's already compromised (it isn't), or that it will be very soon. But lo! Here is the knight in shining armour coming to the rescue (FHE)! Soon. Maybe.
In good conscience, I can't take credit. I saw this...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33024333
Isn't the point of standing on the shoulders of giants that we should reach farther and greater heights than they ever could? To seek to provide for your children is human - and to provide for others in general is human as well. So what happens when the provisions of the past exceed the demands of the present? Do we grow our demand, as we've done so many times? Or do we seek to alleviate our struggles and strive for growth for it's own sake, rather than for the sake of our own survival? I prefer the 2nd option
Right. That was my point in response to your point that value judgements are reliant on human consciousness.
>Can someone please explain what Sundar Pichai's big goals as a CEO are?

The same goal as most other Fortune 500 companies CEO, to earn as much money as possible for themselves while they are at it.

It is funny I was extremely sceptical but I remember all the hype around Sundar Pichai becoming CEO and how it would improve Google. Repeating something similar to what Satya Nadella did to Microsoft. And it wasn't media / VC or submarine PR article hype, it was real hype on HN, by Silicon Valley fellows. And Google wasn't considered "evil" back then, even though nothing much has changed, only the perception of the public.
The seat doesn't belong to Afghanistan nor to Russia, but to the USSR. Ukraine was as much a member state of the USSR as Russia. If the UN decides that Ukraine is a more legitimate representative of the USSR than Russia is, it can decide to let Ukraine fill the seat.