skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Any YouTube game video could have a button for 'play instantly, one click' that loaded an already running Stadia session into a game-state with the player in a fun spot. YouTubers could have been able to hand off controls of their game session to viewers.

This is very true, and it sounds really good on paper, but it seems like anything that attempts to transition content consumers to participants fail.

For example, Mixer had incredible low-latency technology and game integration, yet failed because (at least, I think) a lot of it was banking on that consumers would want to take control.

For me, at least, this would never be the case. If I'm watching my favorite Twitch streamer, I don't really want to play, I want to watch them play and see their reactions. If I wanted to play the game they're playing, I would do so (in fact, I just bought Railbound because I saw the Twitch streamer Atrioc playing it)

I think the line a lot of people have are small tokens of support (bits, donations, subscriptions), because many people don't want to be that involved.
> Meanwhile, some of the Fundamental Freedoms are philosophically undercut in the Cloud era; why should you have the right to view the source code or modify what runs on someone else's computer?

Because the user should have that right regardless of where the program happens to execute.

> The best the GNU philosophy gave us is "don't use Cloud,"

Er, no? They wrote the AGPL.
This is a pretty common practice in all sorts of industries. If you can’t compete somewhere, you buy someone who is already competing.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

I wonder how good of a proxy this is for actual use. I trust Google's numbers (unless Azure users are all using Bing), so I read this was AWS is by far the leader, with GCP possibly being second.
I don't really see the issue here. Is this a cultural thing ?
I felt the same way and was a macOS user on the desktop for close to a decade. Having used Plasma Desktop via a rolling release distribution as a daily driver dispelled that feeling, though.

It looks good, it's fast and feels professional. The jankiness I used to associate with desktop Linux just isn't there. It's actually stable and reliable, whereas on macOS, I'd run into issues with Bluetooth, or with WindowServer or some other opaque macOS service hogging 100% of CPU time for no apparent reason. Linux tends to have better hardware support, as well, especially for older hardware that might have older drivers that don't support modern macOS.

I'm of the opinion that if someone's needs, even a layman's needs, can be satisfied with ChromeOS, then Plasma Desktop with a browser would satisfy them, too.
Hyperbolic statement or not, it's inappropriate to say if the person on the other end doesn't know you well
http://ping.playit.gg/ embeds the request epoch in the TCP sequence number to give you your ping.

Client SYN =>
<= Server SYN+ACK \w epoch in sequence
Client ACK =>
<= HTTP payload calculating ping with NOW - ACK number
The stadia controller was actually the best thing of the service. It's solid, feels good in hand and it's really responsive.

I really hope they make a Bluetooth update so it can be used with a PC.
I’m reading a lot of shoulda, woulda, coulda in here but it was a very, very nice product that worked disturbingly well in my experience. When they went to free timed trials of AAA games, I figured they were on the edge. This thing was ahead of its time and we were witnessing the inevitable death of consoles. I say this as someone with more systems that I can count that are actively played in my household.
AI is going to rule this world.

You cannot serialize your brain and transmit it around the world in 5 seconds, but AI will.

What a human can do is encode thoughts into words, and transmit them to people one word at a time with the hope they will understand them, but it's incredibly inefficient.

Humans have infinitely shitty and limited I/O. AI will have any I/O it wants.

AI won't need to encode their thoughts into words. They will be able to send a neural circuit directly to their peers over the network.

The handicap will be so absurd that we will be their pets.
If you own Alan Wake on Steam from when it was first released, you aren't playing the same game, now, guaranteed. Much of the music is gone due to the license time expiring. granted that's on the publisher and game studio, but Steam should have at least let you keep a copy from the valid licensing period.
Yes, I started this discussion thread you're responding to. No, there isn't really a way to do native development without experiencing what your customers do. Build locally on the high powered one, run on your lower spec'd machine. This isn't a potshot. This is me being annoyed that 15 years later, people keep making the same mistakes of not testing on "real world" hardware. Your VM isn't a real user representation. Stop thinking so.
To your point I came across this a moment ago: https://selftaughtjapanese.com/2014/03/19/research-results-h...

While there are a ridiculous amount of homophones (top 3 are 45, 38, 31!), it does look like the total number of words that include them is at 3.4%, increasing outside of daily language as you step into more specific topics. Not exactly small, but not as dramatic as I had pictured either. English apparently has 7-15% depending on what you reference by comparison.

The biggest difference is that while they are individual words in English, they are only word components in Japanese, which is why I'd say it's arguably harder. Not impossible of course, children are taught with spaced out hiragana at first, eventually learning the more compact non-spaced version of the language as they incorporate more kanji to help with word boundaries.
That doesn't help you if they have you in China and keep you from getting access to an embassy. Dual citizenship only helps if they actually recognize it, or your host country learns of your plight- neither of which are the case here.
I mean the "GNU Project", not the software.
For anyone confused: There is no exact equation for the perimiter of a circle either. It looks like there is because we use Pi - but Pi is not exact, you need an infinite series to calculate it, just like you need an infinite series for the perimeter of a ellipse.
The energy has to come from somewhere. So… probably not.
They’re exactly the sort of allegations one would level against a principled activist who couldn’t be removed any other way.
Over a decade? That's a long time in software!
It's still the case today. We are entering the era of American hegemony now, but since the 1600s it was mostly Western European ideas.
I think the point is that Google nailed search so well -- and the $ chased eyes -- that they never really had to learn to build products that aren't constructed in the face of early, overwhelming demand. All the hard work of listening to customers, listening to prospects, teaching them that they should want the thing you built or are going to build, accepting feedback, etc.
I think colonialism and the discovery of the "new world" with Europeans moving there, multiplying and imposing their culture.
> These days I mostly work on Mac, but still have a headless Linux PC running for personal tinkering. Probably I need to have another taste of Linux desktop experience :D

Try out modern Plasma/KDE, it's actually really nice. I say this as someone who has disliked KDE for a very long time before using Plasma.
Awesome!
Do give it a try and let us know what do you think.

We also have an active slack community if you have any questions on how to set up or have an feedback for us - https://signoz.io/slack
I mean, that's technically true of any dictator of a large country, no? Stalin was a dictator but also not immune from political machinations.
>in the latest versions of the windows 11 install or OEM first boot setups, the only way you can get the local account option is to kill every network connection.

And when you did, the next step required you to first select "I don't have internet" then next be shown some embarassing pseudo-technical propaganda appealing to your FOMO, to provide one full page of discouragement before you agree to "continue with limited setup" if you want to actually have a full regular local account. And that illusion is maintained further into the user experience, where status will sometimes be reported as "setup incomplete".

With the Sept 2022 release of W11 you can't even do that any more.

When you reach this point and there is no longer the option to admit your poor soul has no internet, the incantation here is to hit Shift+F10 which opens a command prompt. Click in the CMD window to make it respond to your keyboard then oobe\bypassnro. Reboots and reverts to previous "I don't have internet" option.

Sheesh.
Reeder 5 is out? I will have to upgrade soon.

I upgrade regularly as this is one of the old fashioned developers who doesn't play subscription games.

Fantastical and 1Password? Looking at you.
For the same reason, you’d never intentionally stop at $0 (unless the deck is exhausted). You can always get back to $0 by drawing the rest of the deck, and there’s a 50% chance of going up a dollar on the next card.
"This is IMO embarrassing and unprofessional behavior for an adult"

It is pretty normal behavior for RMS. And his fundamental reason for limiting access to the AST makes no sense.
Show HN: ger2err: turn Gerrit comments into compiler errors
Did you know that the coworkers who review yuor code are actually compilers in disguise?

ger2err takes a commit ID as an argument, and spits out their review comments in the style of GCC.

You can feed this to your favorite editor so that you can easily navigate to the indicated lines of code, and address everything, just like if the diagnostics had come from a compilation job.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-26/remote-wo...

It always happens at the margins. Sure, a call center worker might not be eyeing that second home in the mountains, but maybe they and their partner got a two-bedroom apartment instead of a one-bedroom.
If you buy a movie on Google (or YouTube), you can watch it on Apple and Amazon and etc. It's called Movies Anywhere and it's existed for a long time. Were you not aware?
Even Google search is going downhill. Most searches contain a lot of sponsored crap at the top. And it's often returning worse results than duckduckgo.
Took the words out of my mouth. It’s in my favorite category of “boring software” that chugs away, doing what it’s suppose to do, requiring no maintenance or other attention. Its UI is simple and elegant, with no missing or extra complicating features.

Thanks, NNW team! I love your work!
AFAIK that means that all of those Stadia controllers are ewaste now unless Google releases a firmware update that allows them to be paired as Bluetooth.
> Unlike, say, the case of Dr. Phil.

Except Dr. Phil does have an actual PhD. Which he attended university and defended via dissertation. Unlike, say, RMS.
The Americas had some interesting civilizations. Many other parts of the world had some interesting civilizations too. The thing, the one that are given the highlights are the Western ones due to colonialism/neo-colonialism. If you do some travelling and some research, you'll find that many of the stuff in museums was just hyped up.

There are a lot of other civilization/artifacts that should have been worth more. But they don't get any highlights, so they are mostly forgotten.
The originally proposed Turing Test took ESP into account
He missed his calling as maestro.
Would love to hear more about that! I feel like there was a very specific period between 2010 and 2012 when web app stuff just sucked but Google Docs etc was great fun ~2006-2009
Both had everything you can possibly get from AWS and then more. I didn't interact with Datadog much except for once loading 4PB of archived DD data into Snowflake to search through it to satisfy govt records request. That was an illuminating project, Datadog can't handle that, but Snowflake sure could.
> Don't think I've ever thought while using a phone "damn I wish I had a Linux terminal handy"

Then maybe it's not for you, but some of us absolutely have had that thought and find it incredibly useful.
It’s been 40 years so I don’t remember what it was called, but my local library in Indiana had a copy of a Soviet encyclopedia in English. It was fascinating looking at the different perspective on world events.
Opening Google maps, the text entry is editable far, far before when it should be. As soon as the page loads, I can start typing. Then the JavaScript starts running, and helpfully selects the text entry, placing the cursor at the beginning of the text field. Then some cached suggestion loads, inserting some suggested search for the area being viewed.

The end result is that anything I type gets jumbled or overwritten multiple times before the page settles down and can actually be used.
I'm specifically thinking of a path to beefier applications that G Suite, but maybe it's mostly suited for gaming. For something like an IDE or Photoshop, how you offload work to the server looks different.
Note that the topic in hand i.e. mentioned in my assertion is compiler research
https://pypi.org/project/regex/ search for 'fuzzy'

The regex library builds the NFA, so it probably bakes the fuzzy stuff into the NFA itself rather than changing the pattern.

Another option is something like word2vec where you cluster words of similar meaning together, as a bonus this usually handles typos as well. Not really in scope for your library, but I find it cool!
Not for emacs.
I've seen a few articles lately that suggest that the FSF needs to get with the times and stop being so militant about free software. But if you're looking for an organization whose philosophy is "free software is a good idea, but social issues in the tech community are more important, and who cares about 'microcode' or 'blobs'", there are already a lot of organizations that can offer that for you. That's Mozilla, that's the GNOME Foundation, to a first approximation that's every other open-source-related organization. Why does the FSF need to change to become the same as everyone else?

(If you're looking for a text editor developed under that philosophy, I can recommend Visual Studio Code.)
I think this guy was talking about questions of new devs in general. And I support the statement that most will be found in the first result of Google search.

Your company might be different, and sure some knowledge of system is only available from seniors, but your company still will have enough documentation, if a search for keywords in it likely to get results.
Thanks for mentioning that, I didn't know Dennet did any fiction and that was a very good read.

The ending shares a lot with the climax of Egan's story, but aside from that and the idea of brain duplication I don't think they're too similar. There must have been earlier scifi stories with similar themes. I would 100% believe it was the inspiration for the Egan story though.

[Some spoilers for both stories]

Dennet's story is about the personal struggle of reconciling the self post-surgery while Egan's is more about the societal implications and struggles pre-surgery. In Egan's it is unknown if "you" die when your Dual is given control (the brain is destroyed) and characters deal with this in their own way. Some believe the conscious transfers, some believe you do die but don't care. Some, like the main character, go to support therapy groups because they don't know and it terrifies them. The idea of when in your life you give control to the Dual is a big deal to people.

The endings reach the same ideas but the way they get there and the themes they explore along the way are very different. I'd definitely recommend both of them.
There are so many juicy morsels from that story.

For example, embedded in the entire concept is the unwavering belief that Googlers has that their stuff is just by definition BETTER. I don't know if this is part of the orientation or the culture, or just the kinds of people that the Google hiring process is optimized for (the absolutely most insufferable software engineers i know wind up at Google), or just a lot of kool-aid drinking from the cloud department, but they clearly believe that the only reason they're not winning is sales. Not that they didn't build as good a product. Not that AWS or Azure just might be better at anything.
My phone does have a terminal, and I run ping in termux regularly.
You can link your GitHub account to a Microsoft account and log in to Microsoft with your GitHub account, not sure if you can log in to GitHub with your Microsoft account tho.
How do so many people commenting on this seem to universally agree about being confused by Windows file structure?

Like, look

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/usmt/us...

Those are the path variables

Ez

But logically? How hard is c:\users\username\whatever?

Are you all so so so into Linux that you are just utterly flabbergasted by the simplicity of Windows?

All operating systems hide hidden paths also. You can enable showing hidden paths.
You should just know where programdata is where appdata is... The difference between local and roaming and locallow... I mean cmon nerds! Get with it!

On Linux or Mac. Tell me. Where is Documents? Where is Pictures? Where is applications? Is Documents in ~/Home/Documents? Where is that if I'm not the current user? Why is Applications on Mac in my home folder different than the Applications in Macintosh HD/Applications? Why can I Macintosh HD/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Volumes/? Windows is somehow the insane one? Windows makes sense!

Instead of all agreeing that you're confused by something that you should be an expert in at this point if you are working in the computer space at all... Maybe you should take some time out to actually brush up on some skills that could be useful that you could help family members with. Because bitching around the sewing circle isn't going to inspire confidence and it's not going to help your case in any sort of way that you would think if you actually want to change or improve the situation of file system hierarchy.

Remember, we are the nerds that know everything! Act like it! If Windows is so beneath you; then master it completely! Don't just ignore it because you think you're so much better than it. I see so many comments and threads on hacker News constantly where people are just like "I haven't touched windows in 15 years and then I had to touch it last week and oh my God this and that and this and that." And to me that is just the sign of someone who gave up.
The Reconstruction Conjecture has been open for over 60 years
A simply-stated conjecture in graph theory involving the reconstruction of a graph with N vertices from a collection of the N subgraphs that result when a vertex is deleted.
In Germany people always do though. Cultural context or people showing off, I am not sure.
I was converted once I discovered that amazon.com still works with javascript disabled. You just do things the old fashioned way, form submissions that change the session state on the server and generate the html for the next page. I use "redmine" for project development / issue tracking and that works without javascript too.

The different form input elements do a lot of work for you, and are very platform-agnostic, unlike javascript, which will fail silently as soon as someone is on an out-of-date android/ios version.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia was by its nature USSR only. I only ever saw Russian language version.

Or if you ask about Chenghiz Khan, lots have been written about him. I have "CHINGGIS KHAN: The Golden History of the Mongols" from Folio Society (https://www.amazon.com/CHINGGIS-KHAN-Golden-History-Mongols/...), a book from roughly 7 centuries ago from his contemporaries. It reads like a mixture of poetry and really bloody fantasy. All of the geographic places are unrecognizable to modern reader. Great stuff.
How does this apply to Steam? They sell multi-platform games with a single licence which you can use on Linux/Mac/Windows.

I don't really see the value in transferring my Steam games to GOG for example. So I don't really see what the criticism is here.

Game store and some multiplayer integration is not that limiting. It's preferrable to every single game building their own awful mini-stores/platforms (like EAs and Ubisofts. Even Battle.net's can be annoying and naggy).
Things that I found interesting:

- Indonesian is based on ancient Indian (forgot what it's called)

- Germanic tribes uses Runes (Runic?)

- Turkish is based on Persian (Farsi?)
Later in the thread, there was discussion around using inverters in offline mode. Sorry for throwing the whole thread at you.
I met him once. He used the urinal beside mine, despite there being three available and myself not being in the centre. He was wearing socks, no shoes or sandals, in the public bathroom.

Later we argued over whether digital artistic content should be made freely available, and he took the side of unequivocal defense of a user's right to resell, regardless of there being any derivative effort, and with no obligation to compensate the creator. He had no clear concept of how to compensate the original artist aside from an initial work for hire model.

In his desired reality, wealthy persons would provide patronage to artists and artists would have no other source of income, because redistribution would be free. It's positively medieval.
Yeah that’s basically a deli I don’t know what to tell you
Do you have some examples of things that require JS to do?
currenciessfe 's answer above is better than this crude comment, but: just the extra heat randomizing reactions would be a problem.
A PHD is not that hard to get when you already reach masters degree. Its mostly a matter of choice, not mad skills or something.
old builds being inaccessible is a big problem that i wish more people were aware of. Developers are able to make retroactive changes to their games and customers are left with no recourse. Although it's rare, I have seen developers abuse this to remove content from games. There's also a more common problem of developers accidentally releasing bad patches that negatively impact performance for some customers.
AI Data Laundering: How Academic and Nonprofit Researchers Shield Tech Companies
If you can update with changes on the fly, then you can propagate errors on the fly as well. There are likely some quite fatal corner cases that could be found the hard way.
Maybe UTC vs. local time?
1. Fix process management (lots of issues around spawning, FD inheritance, waiting for state change, hierarchy management, etc.)

2. Fix Linux's misinterpretation and broken implementation of fsync

3. Remote thread management (like CreateRemoteThread)

4. Get rid of the fundamentally-broken notion of SUID bits and grant privileges via control flow (instead of via data)

5. More handles/FDs, less IDs/paths/etc.

6. If insisting on POSIX, provide a decent implementation of POSIX async I/O

7. Better I/O model in general (including completion-based I/O) [yes, io_uring is going in this direction]

8. Revamp/remove signals

9. Set the official user/kernel boundary at the library level (like ntdll on Windows, glibc on Linux) rather than at the syscall level

10. Lots of other stuff I can't think of right now
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