skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come on, way to blame the victim. Of course we all want cheaper things, but everyone got on those 2 planes with the faith that it would take-off and land safely, it's not like they signed a disclaimer saying "I accept the risk of death to the fact that the plane is an unairworthy rust bucket but I deemed it OK because the airfare was cheap.".
I'd say one promotion cycle for the top executives on the product, 2-3 more for the next tier of engineers/product folks to ship some cool stuff, then a year or two for the product to coast before no one wants to take on the technical debt. So I'll predict its shutdown will be announced by July 2022.
Steam and Nvidia don't have the stellar 11 9s kind of reputation Google has. Also, you have to actually buy those games first, so your library is a tiny fraction of what Stadia offers.
Strada looks like a game changer, I bet it will be massive by 2025 when internets speeds improve. Only companies with major infrastructure (Microsoft and Amazon) will truly be able to compete with Google. The cost of hardware can even be spread between multiple people lowering prices. Plus it divided monthly via a subscription, meaning a lower cost of entry versus buying a new Console.
> Other than fighting games and fast pace shooters, the latency seems to be imperceptible, assuming a good connection.

There are certainly games out there which would respond poorly to latency and jitter. Play Hollow Knight or Dark Souls, but randomly jitter your inputs by 10ms to 20ms here and there, and that would make it far more frustrating experience.

Its bad enough that those punishing games can kill you quickly with a single mistake. But when you're fighting the controller and the lag, its that much worse.

I think streaming would be definitely fine for games like RPGs, or slower-paced adventure games (ex: Skyrim). But this will never be acceptable for Cuphead, Overcooked, Hollow Knight, or Touhou (or Jamestown). I'm willing to be proven wrong of course, but I've generally felt that even TV-lag is enough to make me rage-quit some setups when playing these games...

And TV-lag is consistent. WiFi based internet lag is jittery by nature. The question of what to do with dropped packets or delayed packets is an important design choice, and I don't think there's a correct answer for these twitch games like Cuphead.

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Fighting game players are so crazy about latency that they don't even use local Bluetooth controllers (!!) The serious fighting game community will likely never accept something like this solution.

The more casual, but still relatively twitchy, "hard games" players (Cuphead) is what I'm curious about. Whether or not the latency is acceptable for that community.
So, yes, Apple describes some iMacs that are not iMac-Pros as "for Pros".

> should they also sell them all with the highest performing graphics card and 64GB of RAM?

Nope, those are each about $400 retail (well, the delta from 32GB->64GB is only about $200 retail), and won't benefit everyone.

But at this point, every iMac they sell with the HDD or fusion drive will meet your description of "the margins were both ridiculously high and the Mac’s were slow."

They should deliver the OS installed on a 128GB SSD ($25 retail) just to preserve the reputation of the platform.
> You are right though, I should have said Apple is supporting the needs of most people who value what Apple offers in a computer (OSX, physical form, etc).

Veblen goods is more like it.

> They aren’t going to boost their market share by adding swappanle graphics cards to the iMac or a j-mouse nub to the MacBook.

Wanting to add/replace DIMMs or SSD HDs isn't asking much.
Paid overtime is an excellent tool to get some time management discipline into an organization.
Key quote from the linked article:

> the company had deployed thousands of servers that were sitting unused, and only ever had 1,600 concurrent users of the service worldwide

They were burning through all of their money because they highly overestimated the audience. That's one of the main problems the cloud was made to solve.
I don't know how unions work in the US, but most unions in the UK fund a single political party, which means you could be forced to pay to support a party with views you find abhorrent in order to work, so I hope not.
I'm tempted but after fiddling with Linux laptops for about 3 years I'm a kind of tired of having to deal with all sorts of minor annoyances, especially bugs/freezes/usability issues (e.g. HiDPI) introduced by hardware incompatibilities (the Linux system itself, especially Arch, is actually surprisingly stable). They do add up, especially past the initial excitement. With a Hackintosh you do get the OS but you don't really have guarantee that things will keep working in the future, nor easy warranty when things fail.

I don't really get the resistance about adding some external cables/cases to your desk. The desk has always been full of cables anyways (monitors, speakers, consoles, even my mechanical keyboard etc.) and I don't see any harm in adding a couple more for an external SSD and an eGPU. As mentioned by some other commentators, I'm pretty much past the days of having to constantly fight my main setup and just want to have everything working flawlessly most of the time.

I plan to get a Mac Mini soon and try it out. I think the performance should suffice for most of my use cases. If it seriously stutters I'll consider building a Hackintosh, or simply do those demanding tasks on another dedicated box.
If this sort of thing becomes ubiquitous RIP game preservation efforts.
Economics were not the main problem with OnLive, it simply didnt work from the players perspective.
Those are dramatically different skills.

The mechanical kinesthetics of combining things is not the same skillset as the mathematical process of computing it. Lab work is its own craft.

Based on what you're saying, I'm assuming you already put your questions in the "Story time" format and are getting that 1/10 success rate because the story problems are yet a Third skill - this time one about reading comprehension and language mastery.

Reading comprehension isn't kinesthetics and that's not computation. One may partially inform the other, but each skill is fairly independent.
Prediction: if whoever is leading the charge is even moderately successful in getting employees to rally, they will be offered in job in management (at Kickstarter or somewhere else) at twice their current pay and the whole thing will crumble.
> More likely, they didn't see you as a serious buyer if you don't have an agent. There are a lot of tire kickers out there.

That's definitely it. I literally never got my foot in the door. My plan (which I never executed) was to use a real estate attorney and lower the offer by 3% since no buyer's agent commission would be needed. I had read about people doing this, but it didn't seem viable in a hot market unless you are flush with cash. I wasn't an all cash buyer.
Yeah, my first thought on reading the headline was "That was not where I expected this to precipitate out first."
Favro and Zenkit are great alternatives with an offline mode
figure out how to deal with fraud

The token issuer would just has to stoically do two things and two things only:

1: Sell tokens for $1.10 each
2: Buy them back for $1.00 each

Done. No fraud issues.
How is Youtube a Patreon replacement? There's so much more on Patreon than just video creators and I don't think Youtube even supports recurring donations of arbitrary values.
We are about to see a whole sea of Patreon competitors.

I really hope so! I had been using Patreon as a "poor man's microtransactions" with $1 subscriptions (contingent on actually producing content, if possible) on something like 40 creators. I moved over to SubscribeStar, but they don't have the default $1 option.
From the gist found the article:
http://www.newsguild.org/mediaguild3/software-company-learns...

$775k for 15 people especially SF based I wouldn't exactly call that a large cash settlement considering what happened, rep damage, time to find new work, etc.

Just had expectations of at least a year salary per person.
You can also use the 'magic empty tree object' to make your repo more amenable to joining disparate histories of other trees. It requires both the source and destination repo to abide by this practice, but I do this on all of my repos...

Immediately after `git init`, do `git commit --allow-empty -m"initial empty commit"`. Now you have an empty commit, and any other repo which has this empty commit has some history in common with your repo.

The SHA-1 hash is well-known and there are plenty of articles you can find about it, if you search for 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904

Here's one for example:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9765453/is-gits-semi-sec...

I'm not sure this helps for projects which have a shared development history, but not a shared commit history. But within an organization, where you have projects which may split and/or merge, it can help to bridge some gaps.
Off the record, your comment reminded me of this Douglas Adams quote:

1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;

2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;

3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.
I don't, getting that many different companies on the same page would be basically impossible.
The failure rate of startups is drastically higher than Google products, so it's only unusual in the sense that they have way more success than the industry as a whole.
I urge anyone who likes weird stuff to not read this or anything else about the show and go see it immediately.
Once again how does this argument convince the voters and home owners to change their mind?
Watkins Colorado is not off Highway 36.
> How is high density sustainable?

The question really is how is 'low density' sustainable. Can you point me to an agrarian area that has lasted for thousands of years, with continuous occupation, and continuous economic prosperity (or at least no long periods of economic destitution)?

I don't think you can.

On the other hand, humanity has countless examples of the sustainability of high-density cities. I can name off the top of my head many cities that have successfully housed humans with high density for thousands upon thousands of years:

1. Rome
2. Cairo
3. Chengdu
4. Baghdad
5. Bukhara
6. London
7. Mexico City/Tenochtitlan
8. Tokyo

> Don’t you think it’s connected?

Yes. Low density housing decreases access to education by requiring extra costs to achieve the same ends. All the civilizations listed above managed not only to house people, but also to educate them, hence retaining the prominence they held thousands of years ago to the present day.

The issue is not enough high density housing. Having lived in some of the cities listed above, San Francisco feels like living in the country side. Do not respond by asking how high density is working in San Francisco. San Francisco is not high density. It acts as if it is a moderately sized city when it really ought to be a metropolis.

This is also not an issue of taxation, as several of those cities have much lower tax rates than California. I am a libertarian at heart, so I am for lower taxes. However, it is a mistake to think California's high taxes are because of high-density. California's high taxes are a response to the need to pay for the externalities caused by low-density housing. For example, road maintenance, bus systems, etc are all much cheaper to run if people live closer together.

Moreover, the schools fail not because of the density in housing but because of the lack of competition to drive prices down. Catholic schools in the inner city do a better job at turning out students than public schools, despite having broadly similar student bases (In terms of socioeconomics) and spending much less per student (limiting myself to Catholic schools because they have the lowest average tuition among private schools by far). I believe the average inner-city Catholic school class size is actually larger than the corresponding public school. Historically speaking of course, large classes were the norm. Sowell details the issues of public schooling in his book 'Education in America'. If you think California needs money to fix its schooling, I highly recommend that book.
No, the client is still the client. It's still a big bunch of stateful code, but now it's running on the LAN with the server and can't have its bits fiddled by the customer. All that code where the server fastidiously checks the client's untrusted state updates goes away, replaced by a much simpler layer that sanity checks the inputs. All that code where the server has to rewind and replay inputs to deal with late-arriving client state updates goes away (assuming your game isn't cross-DC). All that code where the server is protecting clients from other clients, sending down corrections and fixing up the world so it maintains some semblance of causal order, goes away.

At my day job I'm working on a AAA multiplayer game, and making a properly server-authoritative game with significant client-to-server latency mitigation imposes serious costs in dev time and complexity and security review process. And now, at least in theory, they mostly disappear.

The input/display lag problem is different from what we have now. It's new. We don't, of course, compensate for lag from input to client. (Between client and server, yes, but that's actually a different beast.) And yes, you won't be able to do much about it. You'll be relying on Google to keep your latencies down. They said they're deploying to 7500 nodes, so there's hope. Time will tell. I'm hopeful a lot of people will be reporting single-to-low-double-digit latencies.

But this is much, much more than just moving around the same problem.
The whole gaming industry is positioning itself for cloud-only streaming in the next 10 years. With 5G+ everywhere, reduced latencies, nearby datacenters full of specialized GPUs, many gaming studios plan to release streaming games only at some point, cutting off local players completely (it makes a perfect business sense, collecting regular monthly rent for gaming). Unless there is some regulatory pressure, the only way to play AAA games in the future will be via streaming, local computers will be pretty dumb latency-optimized streaming machines.

Not sure how would that affect game developers though as there won't be any attractive way to programming for young people; before, making an own game was quite an attraction to jump into programming and a motivation to study hard.
If you're management you won't be part of the union. As a non-manager person it's generally more complex. Often, non-union employees will work under the collective bargaining agreement and still have to pay union dues. At that point, you might as well join the union as you'll get other protections then.
I never made an offer. I was simply trying to see the house without an agent of my own. The house in question was near where I was renting and had been on the market over a week without an open house. It went to pending a week or two later. The seller's agent never got back to me at all.

It's funny you say that about legality though - some of my relatives recently put in a low-ball offer on a place in AZ. The seller's agent called them back, said it was insulting, and would not be even showing it to the owners. The house had been on the market for months. I wonder if that was legal.
Have you actually added them up? If you really do, and look at it percentage-wise, Google is probably on the lower end.
QLC drives are not equivalent to TLC or MLC drives in performance or durability, which is what apple is using.
EA paid the world's most popular gamer $1M to play its new game for a day
You can also use https://www.reddit.com/r/%S with a capital `%S` to avoid escaping the slashes, so you can type "r all/top" or with GitHub "g Zren/reponame"
It's just a different kind of experience. Psychedelics gave me this particular one. But plenty of other things, like having eyes or skydiving, give you a different experience too. You get a pretty accurate idea of what skydiving is like if you bungee jump, but nothing really compares to psychedelics so it's very difficult to explain, like explaining a rainbow to a blind person. Because no experience is really similar, words feel especially inadequate.

It doesn't make me better than anyone else because I took some shrooms. I'm not sure what you're arguing with me about.
From my experience the US workplace is much more hostile both ways. Either the employer will screw over the employees or the union will try screw the employer. At least in Germany it'a little more collaborative partially because of laws that give employees some say how the company is run.
It would use a cryptocurrency of course and probably a stablecoin. That means there's a blockchain somewhere along the line although crowdfunding would be an excellent use case for lightning-style payment channels to compress fees. If you pay a recurring fee every month then that's 12 fees a year. With payment channels we can reduce it to 2 - the fee to open the channel and the fee to close it.
>> Legal, trust and safety, legal, etc.

Why did you list legal twice? Sounds like a way to save money right there. Anyways, the point is that the service is very minimal given the money raised and there's no reason they had to build this in San Francisco.

It's definitely a classic case of something that could be wildly profitable but now will never be sustainable because of taking on too much VC.
Well, it depends. Which particular 2018 XPS are you referring to?

Some Passmark CPU comparisons:

2012 iMac with the i7 3770 - 9282

XPS 13 i7-8550U - 8305

XPS 15 i7-8750H -12477 (Note that XPS 15s tend to be thermally throttled also)

Desktop i7 9700K - 17257

Desktop i9 9900X - 22883

Desktop Ryzen 2920X - 21920

A high spec laptop doesn't compare with a high spec desktop CPU, especially if it's a U class CPU like the ones used by the XPS 13 (which seems to be way more popular than the XPS 15).

If you have an i7 2012 iMac, it still holds its own to any top end ultrabook (U) class CPU.
Sure. And when a "new German" stabs an "old German" in the heart and kills him, he died of "causes unrelated to the injury" to quote one of our coroners, 6 hours (!) after the attack. These things aren't worth the papers they're printed on. A tool in the hand of politics

[1] https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article181477442/Obduktionse...
>Are you going to make sure that everything is properly filed?

Yes, also that's what the attorney keeps track of.

>Are you going to keep on top of all the other people involved to make sure they're doing their jobs?

Yes, that's what I had to do anyway, even with an agent around.

>Are you going to go through 4000 pages of legal paperwork?

No, and neither does anyone else.

>Are you going to ride the sellers' asses to make sure the sale closes, so you aren't stuck homeless after moving out of your old place?

Sure, if I have to.

>There's nothing stopping you from hiring a real estate lawyer instead of an agent. I'm sure he'll be happy to charge you by the hour.

Depending on the state, you're required to hire an attorney in any case.
I mean, I’ll give you that nothing is confirmed, but nobody has made this work yet. It’s mostly tech testing, so current business models aren’t a good metric.

I’m open to debate about how this could be priced, but I’m pretty comfortable pointing to existing cloud computing business models or streaming services as a precedent.

I would invite you to come up with an alternative business model for serving people who like to play high end graphics games for many hours a day.
From what I've seen the parents stay around, the kids move out of state, eventually inherit their homes, and then either rent the homes or cash out but face a huge tax penalty.

Older people have a community and time invested living in a place, it's hard to motivate them to move or want change. They would also rather their kids get their financial investment (gold) and have comfort knowing they'll be taken care of when they're gone.
Samsung 860 EVO 1 TB is MLC and $150 on Amazon right now (2.5" formfactor).
Embrace, Extend, Engulf?

I'm not sure what you call it when Amazon can pretty much just take your project over when you piss them off.

Mongo is getting EEE'ed.
It's far from disastrous but it also hasn't been as smooth as it should be.

As a customer, I have a certain idea of what a well run web app looks like. Patreon never fit that, but I tolerated them because they were the only viable option. As a company, they give me the impression of being half-competent at most. As a customer, I'm champing at the bit for better competitors to come about!
Twitter alternatives (mastodon), instagram alternative (pixelfed), reddit alternative (prismo.news)... Things are looking great!
Is anyone aware of an example where (a) a really small company unionized and/or (b) a workforce unionized without any real demands?

I run a 17 person company and I've heard employees mention that they think all companies should be unionized even if there aren't currently any problems that the union would seek to address. I strongly support the big tech companies unionizing and so it would be hypocritical of me to be opposed to it for my own company, but at the same time it seems like the overhead for such a small company would be really significant and I'm not sure what it would accomplish given that I'm not aware of current employees having any demands that we haven't satisfied already.

Even if nothing comes of it, I think it's an interesting thought experiment.
NestJS 6 releases – a Node.js framework for building reliable microservices
I don't think that's how unions work unless the company has agreed to that in collective bargaining.

I think it's more like you join a company, and there is a set RoE for both the company and the union to talk to you about the union, and joining the union as an individual is usually, politics aside, a strong option because of all the extra benefits and protections union workers receive.
Not to mention the frequent horror stories of people having their account closed by google, often by mistake. There's even a link about a story like that right now on the front page. [1] Good luck getting in touch with a human and get your saved games back if that happens to you.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19432702
> They lack the ability to commit to a space and cultivate it

That's because states, entrenched providers and in some cases local governments made every inch of work cost a mile of time. The cost was making Fiber a non-starter... ISP's benefited from nationwide networks largely funded by governments, then used their monopoly influence to prevent any competition, and "hired" state governments to enforce their monopolies.

But we can hand-wave all of that away and claim it was Google's lack of commitment.
... and yet the movie and tv industry is being completely changed by Netflix streaming
"Do we really need all the little incompatible changes, new UI shells, multiple marketplace stores and multiple messaging clients and crapware on Android OEM phones?"

Yes, we do. If different people did not try doing new things (or just old things done differently), there wouldn't be as much progress, and we would all be poorer for it. Sure, some things stick, some don't, but that's how it's supposed to be.