skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any specific realizations, that are unlike "water is wet", that came to you or your friends on drugs?
It's an open source project funded by direct donations...
Probably worth noting: this project appears aligned with Google's Cloud and mobile initiatives. It's unproven, but it's originating from spaces where Google's products have stuck around.
Oh, it should be noted that I no longer needed an AST after rethinking my grammar approach. It was easy enough to just translate in-place. The best part, it wouldn't be too hard to change the output to AST, but I think my next step is to output an execution stream instead of a complete executable program. I'm currently considering the use of neural networks for error detection and suggested error-correction.
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That's for sure, but Google wouldn't be Google if they don't invent the way to derivate from that data something like "neural heatmaps" of the particular user to use it for advertising part of business.
Cheney-on-the-MTA is a classic. tl;dr:

1. Transform into continuation-passing style.

2. Use the C stack as the young generation by calling each continuation as an ordinary C function.

3. When the stack reaches a limit, copy all reachable objects to the heap, "free" the young gen via longjmp() back to the bottom of the stack, and continue on.
> To me the main problem is that I'm always afraid to put a 5, who can not check manuals? ;-)

Quite often I find that the greater skills lies in knowing when and how to check manuals rather than expecting to be a knowledge machine.
Google scores a custom AMD GPU to power its Stadia cloud gaming hardware
Some (most?) people have no eye for design and simply don't notice stuff like that.

Until recently Firefox's URL bar had a THICK blue glow when it was in focus, instead of the more subtle one the rest of Mac OS has. It infuriated me. They didn't fix it for years. Why? Because nobody noticed it or cared enough, I guess.
I think a more apt description would be "You can't PLAN to make a living making music".

Certainly, lots of people successfully make a living with music, arts, sports, etc. However, there's a lot out of the individual's control in those fields.
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It's a payment processor effectively, though in recent months they've taken steps to help encourage more payments. They have employees that actually reach out to you to help you earn more money using their platform, which is nice.
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I see your perspective - however, the irony to me is that the alternative to urban density is to price out the people who are already there (decreasing their quality of life).

Increasing demand while keeping supply constant will (continue to) be bad news for lower and middle income people.
It's not just game pass though. Microsoft has flat out said they are moving towards streaming. They are also doing things like making Xbox live a service on the Nintendo Switch, iOS and Android. Game Pass the way it is today is just an indicator into how things will be.

Microsoft has made clear that they want Xbox to be a platform independent of the physical box they sell to people. They are 100% going in the direction of Stadia. The big question is how they are going to do it in regards to their next console.
> The streaming services of gaming is coming.

It's already failed multiple times. OnLive tried & failed. Nvidia's has been in beta for years. Sony has one.

Everyone in this area has tried this. Nobody has seen what could be described as "success", and the cost models so far have been ludicrous. Turns out renting Xeons and Radeon MI Instincts in a professionally staffed, maintained datacenter is way, way more expensive than a handful of consumer chips in a box in the living room with nobody on-call to monitor it.

The GPU here looks to be basically a slightly cut-down AMD MI25. That'd make a single GPU in this stradia cloud gaming service costs more than 10 xbox one x's. How do you make that price-competitive here?
Well, one advantage is that people that donate (such as me) like to have a single location to manage their subscriptions, see who they are donating to and what they are getting in return, and even discover new and interesting things that might be related. The last thing I want is to look through my CC transactions to be reminded who I'm donating to.

I have foregone donating to a project because they didn't go to Patreon, because the extra hassle was enough that I didn't want to. They noted specifically why they weren't using Patreon even though they got constant requests, and their reasons have merit. But that decision also caused enough friction that I never donated, and I would have been happy to send them money monthly if I didn't feel like it was yet another random monthly transaction that I might forget about that I see years later and wonder why I've been paying.
can't speak for Steam Link because I have one, but it was more headache than it was worth to get running.

That said, I had my Bootcamped MBP with a XB1 controller connected over Bluetooth and any input lag was negligible with the Assassin's Creed Odyssey Project Stream demo.
"Grandfathering in breeds loyalty, and truthfully, those existing creators"

Do you have any proof of this? Everything you are saying SOUNDS like it would be correct but it also sounds like a lot of wishful thinking too.

I have seen price increases rolled out to the base of several large businesses and customers will gruble a bit but the vast majority of them are fine with the change (businesses NOT consumers) after talking to them about why you are increasing the price and what they can expect from it.

Netflix does it almost yearly and people seem to still love them!

Github is another example.
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So, basically, some unscientific bullshit, that probably has no real effect, except the bragging rights?
What do we do? Put an .apk file up for download on a website you control.
Gaikai was one of OnLive's competitors. It had better management and probably better tech as well. Sony bought it out and it still lives as Playstation Now. I believe Dave Perry is one of the founders.

EDIT: https://www.pcgamer.com/gaikai-founder-blames-onlives-pc-foc...
Why is it tied to only 1 screen? You can use Steam or Nvidia Shield to stream to just about any screen or tablet in the house and it works great. My gaming system is headless and I play all my games streaming to one system or another.
They know. It is a strategic and extremely carefully phrased denial.
I'm not super sure, anymore, about latency being as big a deal. Particularly with regards to monitors. Display lag on a large TV can be upwards of 50ms by itself; display lag on a monitor can be as low as 5ms. If you're viewing this as a competitor to low-end, relatively lightweight console play, the total lag of display plus network is actually maybe not that bad. Also, living in Boston I was seeing 16ms pings on Google's service when I tried it out, which might be an adoption factor. 16ms plus a monitor's display lag is going to be competitive with most HDTVs.

That level of lag definitely makes some games implausible. (Part of why I bought a big-ass OLED is that newer TVs, but particularly OLEDs, seem to have generally consistent display lag; being able to play Tekken 7 on a 55" screen with only 21ms of lag is nice, but to do it on my old LCD is like playing underwater.) But I think it's going to be more practical for more games than the current conventional wisdom suggests.
>Sounds like a horrible design choice. My controller now needs to be wifi connected, so I can instantly change my game session from my phone to my TV?

It also improves latency.
You could pivot to a PWA and rely on others channels to get the word out
Why buy the cow if you get the milk for free?
Patreon is a classic VC tragedy. They are already a monopoly. They could be fantastically profitable right now. All the growth that is there to get in their market segment, they are already getting.

Instead of realizing just one of these things, they are escalating headcount, exploding costs, manufacturing imaginary growth and squeezing their captive audience for absurd "revenue cuts". Only to wake up one day and realize their audience has left, pivot, straggle and fail.
when the broken people is number enough, they could blame the system is wrong. 1+1 can not equal to 2 when most people agree with that.
Is this the same country that lit fire on Uber drivers' cars?
Because none of the Indie OSS developers that have donated their free time and energy into creating it will be rewarded with any of the value they've created from their efforts.

Because there will only ever be 3 major multi-billion tech companies that stand to benefit most from OSS.

Because they own their markets, where they can wait to find out what OSS software has become successful and either just profit from it by hosting it directly or invest the paid resources into replicating it - an opportunity and reward not available to anyone else that doesn't have a large cloud market share.

Because they're using their profits (made possible from hosting other's OSS investments) to finance their own OSS investments which will have infinite paid and support resources that Indie OSS developers will be unable to compete against, eventually leading to building a brand where there'll be customers that will only use OSS by the cloud vendors first, since they're commercially backed and dependable.
What? You downvote because it wasn't obvious to you?
> those with existing SFH will probably see their net worth skyrocket.

depends. It would go up for some in convenient locations but as soon as new apartments start going on the market they'll have to compete on price and prices will start to fall.
> If Patreon is providing a similar service to twitch or YouTube, then then 8% is pretty low.

They're not, but apparently they're trying to so they have a justification for increasing their cut.

Patreon started as a way to tip / nanofund artists whose content you enjoy, because subbing a buck of 5 to a writer or drawer/painter is easy.
Speaking of Baader-Meinhof effect, I can't remember the last time I saw anything about it - probably last year sometime - but I just got a brochure in the mail yesterday, and now this!
Unfortunately, since Fiber didn't take off, they didn't spend ten years optimizing your network latency. ;)
Considering that Dragon is based on machine learning (hidden Markov models, or HMMs, to be exact) [1], I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. In any case, I used Dragon in the late 90's, and it was terrible, whereas Google's voice recognition on Pixel devices works great for me. One benefit of using deep learning is that they are much less brittle, e.g., working much better for people with accents, in noisy environments, etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_NaturallySpeaking
Its two different technologies, right? Carbon capture & processing?

Does the $3/gallon include both?
My family and I went a couple of years ago. It seemed fairly benign, if a bit corny/garish. The whole "evolution is evil" thing kind of comes out of nowhere. Afterwards I looked up the group behind it and read about Falun Dafa. It won't convince anyone to join their group, but it probably raises a fair amount of funds for it. As entertainment it is moderately interesting, but I wouldn't go again.
During my CS studies, a considerable number of male students were computer geeks who were playing with computers pre-uni. Female students, OTOH, were 100% oblivious of any fundamental concepts (ex. what is programming). That could explain the disparity - they had a lot of catching up to do, esp. at the beginning.
Someone could sue you for publishing code that causes them damage, if they tried to use it in the way it can reasonably be expected to be used.

And this is not such a bad thing to have to deliberately renounce. You can imply the safety of something just by giving it away for free.

If you built a swingset and put it in a park, you imply that it's safe to use. If a child injures themselves because it breaks, you are liable. Better to say "I don't accept any responsibility if this swing injures you", and let people infer how confident they should be in using it. That's fair, because trust is a reasonable thing to have, and if you can't express the confidence in your product that justifies the trust people have in it by default, they should be made aware of that explicitly.
The single biggest factor is that credit card processors charge flat fees per transaction, which makes donating $1 to a creator in isolation unreasonable - the entire donation will be eaten by processing fees.

Patreon allows you to support 20 creators at $1 each, and only make a single transaction of $20. Not to mention ease of use - it's a lot easier to click "pledge $1" for someone whose content you're enjoying than it is to go sign up for some new service or enter your credit card info. Paypal could offer something similar but they don't. Effectively, the value add is network effects.

As for the flat fee vs % cut, you're probably right - in terms of costs to the business, transaction costs are a flat fee. That said, a crucial part of their model is making it easy to sign up and get a couple of people backing you for a few dollars each. And it therefore makes sense to effectively subsidise your small users by charging more to your large users who can most afford it (and who are getting the most value out of your service).
This seemed like the most interesting startup in the batch to me. For those who didn't want to comb through 85 startup descriptions, Prometheus claims that they can "remove CO2 from the air and turn it into gasoline" for about $3.00/gallon. If that's a number they can eventually get closer to the current cost of manufacturing gasoline, well then this is gonna be a $500 billion company.
I'll watch it again, and I'll be the first to admit that there are unscrupulous salespeople of all stripes -- maybe they're even the rule rather than the exception. But there are also honest salespeople who truly want nothing but the best for their clients, who refuse to cheat or lie, and who often get screwed by people who do.

I personally know very well one of these latter types, and just feel really bad for them because of how much shit they have to put up with, how much work they have to do for free, and because it's a really tough business to succeed in if you're honest.
What are you talking about? If people live longer, healthier lives, then they can work a lot longer.
The Yellow Vest movement was largely a tax revolt; a Boston Tea Party type event.

... and Macron’s big take away is that France needs higher taxes?
What you describe is basically a gift card. But there are restrictions on them because they could easily used for money laundering.

The reason we can't have nice abstractions involving money is basically because it attracts criminals. Any business dealing with money has to figure out how to deal with fraud or they don't last long.
The cost will change per game, so it could be that game's cost is associated with how much compute they need. I think it will probably be a monthly subscription based on the gym membership model. Most people won't use it a lot and they'll make all their money on them.
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I agree, and I'll add that many gamers care a lot about their privacy which conflicts with Google's core business model.

Also, this will fail miserably if Google thinks it can continue with its current attitude toward user support, so there is hope.
The only use case I can think of is if I'm traveling and staying some time in the same city.
In my book the main part of the 'virtual gifts' experience is in 'for you'.
I can't answer for OP, but I went with a 2080ti because it's cheaper than purchasing a 2060/2070/2080 now and buying a 2080ti later. If price wasn't an issue I'd have gone with the best possible Titan RTX.
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It's worth noting that this was one of the original use cases of cryptocurrency, especially alt-coins like Doge. In reality it didn't shake out that way because most people ended up "investing" in crypto rather than using it as an actual currency, and because transaction costs got stupid in a hurry.
If you use DDG as your default search engine you can use bangs to get something kind of similar, typing "!yt search query" for example
If this works out, this has the potential to be huge for the industry. I would love to see more unionization in tech, and this could be a first step in that direction.
I agree with your comments. I'd also add Stadia could operate a traditional platform/store model as well. It'd be a big ask for big publishers to launch their huge-budget flagship content straight into a content bundle. But you could have them sell access to people with Stadia accounts same as they sell physical/digital copies to Xbox/PS/PC owners.
How are you soliciting code contributions? Do you have a strategy?
From a frog.
Modern chemistry was born from Alchemy research. I find it unlikely that Newton would have continued to do exactly the same kinds of things for centuries more.
Gaming can be competitive on all kinds of consoles, input devices, and levels.

Some games like Rocket League and many fighting games are primarily played on a controller or some kind of gamepad at the top tier.
I just wish FF Focus would let you sync your browsing history :(
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They are using them as cash cows to just exploit. It is a closed ecosystem, so they can afford to overcharge and under offer.
Got it makes sense, thanks for explaining. Good luck!
That's one of the finest and most entertaining "post mortem's" (it didn't die, though so what's that called?) I've ever read.

There's something in it for everyone who enjoys programming, video games, or technical papers.

My favorite four takeaways from the development story are:

1) The mechanic I spoke of above where the game tries to dumb things down for less skilled players.

2) The fact that Crash Bandicoot was originally designed as the flagship game and mascot character and ultimately Sony messed up in terms of making Crash into the Sony Playstation mascot as Mario or Sonic were to the Nintendo and Sega consoles / companies respectively.

Naughty Dog aimed for that as they saw an opening for it and, I think, absolutely nailed that aspect of creating an iconic and lovable character but Sony seemed gun shy about it. I could see, with hindsight, how Naughty Dog could have developed Crash further as a character and branched out in terms of making all sorts of Crash branded games of various genres in the future instead of the few platformers that we got (although they were all well above average).

3) The fact that pit falls, unbreakable boxes, and other in-level obstacles / item boxes weren't just there by chance. The Sony Playstation could not handle too many enemies on screen so the level designers worked hard to craft levels that would ensure enemies would fall into pits or be blocked by boxes from entering into an area that would ultimately crash the game / console from having too many polygons on screen.

4) The fact that Naughty Dog was thought to have "special secret hardware codes" given to them by Sony because comparatively Crash Bandicoot was performing and looking a few levels above anything else other Sony Playstation developers were capable of creating. The team wrote all sorts of specialized tools and programs to help refactor polygons, smart load levels, and ensure that the team was able to have great looking graphics and models on screen that were as close as possible to squeezing out everything the hardware could handle (see item 3 above) and this caused other developer teams to question Naughty Dog and Sony's relationship behind the scenes.
For others interested, we just had a sit down with the developer and asked why they were previously terminated. They disclosed years ago they had created an app, and then decide to rebrand it for other use cases - basically "templated" apps in the play store. They were then terminated for violating the "spam" policy.
Not necessarily. Google doesn't derive advertising (or any other data beyond broad bytecounts, for that matter) from the cloud-customer data stored in their cloud storage infrastructure.
Sounds like many of these should be automatic by now. One area where I'd like to see some progress in Postgres.
For me, I think something like an sd express slot and their 1000MB/s performance profile, where cards would be flush with the laptop case, would be a good solution.
In 20 years, tech monopoly = government
Having used Hackintosh builds for several years, it's not something I want to do anymore. The whole point of using Mac hardware is to get Mac software along with it and be able to concentrate on actual work instead of endless fiddling with the system to get it to work. The Hackintosh experience is cool, but not for people whose goal is to get work done.
High spec is subjective.. it’s high spec compared to a 2012 iMac
Not the same iMac. If all iMacs should be for consumers and Pros should they also sell them all with the highest performing graphics card and 64GB of RAM?
Well that and your labor market power is maximized in places where there are many potential employers. If you put down roots in a one company town, they can just tell you to go pound sand when you ask for a raise or promotion. Also, being in a place with lots of employers is a hedge against layoff risk.
As an ex-founder who was mad about side projects, I can tell you in hindsight, if you start a side-project, definitely make sure you enjoy what you are doing. The joy is in the process and not the destination. Otherwise, you will just burn your way through and destabilize your relationships unnecessarily as well.
I disagree there, too. Attempting to make money makes you a business. As a business, your fate is in your hands. You're the one making the decisions.

If you decide that the path you want to take in the business of music is to give control to record labels because all the business-y marketing production stuff isn't fun for you, that's your decision. You don't have to do it that way.
A couple of observations:

Russia has less economic disparity than US-Canada (despite oligarchs), at least as they measured it.

Minimum international corporate tax rate, at least in theory sounds like it could kerb companies from moving HQs to low tax havens for the main purpose of reducing tax burden.
How generous of them
Most people I have met who claim they are AI/ML experts, usually do linear regression or use pytorch or Tensor flow to get results. I don't say that's not valuable. But I don't think they are experts.

The hype has attracted manager like people who call themselves AI experts who have read a book on what AI can do and simply write blogs on the dangers of AI.
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If a PCIe device doesn't fall back to the available channels that is most likely a bug. An NVMe from a reputable manufacturer should work in this slot.
OnLive was both before the Cloud era (where they manually had to maintain many points of presence that were near consumers and they didn't have the money to do it near what Google, Amazon and Microsoft are able to do) and before GPUs were really mainstream for in normal data center servers to the scale this type of service requires.
I've been once too. The acrobatics and dance and production values are quite professional and nice.

But the side-trips into propaganda made me feel like I had been deceived by the advertising, which really turned me off.
As a development platform this seems pretty awesome. Abstracting away compute from game development is going to open up a lot of opportunities.
France is barely capitalistic though when compared to the US or even its close neighbor the UK.