skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Vancouver Cyclist Pretending to Be a Bus
But you have a choice to spend less than an hour outside.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QYZ5vM...
Outperforming when Instagram is banned in China.

I remember there was a vaguely similar services from Twitter, and that somehow never caught on.
What you're saying makes sense, but

> No downloading a 150 GB game, no patching, no constant hardware upgrading, no having to go back in your catalog and reinstall everything if you get a new system.

Downloads and updates also speed up as bandwidth improves.
For #3, you may want to include guest engineering blog posts shared to highscalability [1]. There are sometimes growth hints and stats included in the posts.

http://highscalability.com/blog/category/example
Sharing without comment: https://twitter.com/GenePark/status/1196488999524802562
Are you spending the other 23 hours sleeping or standing? Because that’s what solitary confinement is. You get to do nothing but sleep, walk around, or use the toilet.
Take a look at Garmin watches. I replaced my fitbit with a Garmin as soon as I found out about the buyout and I couldn't be happier. It's much more capable than the Fitbit was and Garmin has an actual privacy policy instead of a ways in which we sell your data policy.
From what I understand, they usually don't have to pay anything as long as they do pay some reasonable amount of taxes in the country where they live, but they still have to file taxes in the US, which, from what I understand, is quite a horrific process.
It's easy to imagine this is a perversion of the purpose that public schools are intended to serve, but it's not. This is the purpose public schools are intended to serve: to create conformity, by whatever means are required, in order to render a society predictable and thus manageable. In service of that purpose, individual children are disposable.
The alternative would be to throw away the two extra packages, which would reduce the waste a bit, but would still be absurd if you think about it...
Astroturfed or not TikTok has excellent creators (for now anyway I'm sure it will be ruined as it becomes more popular if history teaches us anything about fads). Just go watch a TikTok compilation on YouTube if you want to get the best parts of it without downloading the app. It's easy to burn 1-2 hours mindlessly watching absurd videos.

I really shouldn't be saying this because I'm not a big fan of Facebook, but if someone at FB HQ is racking their brain for a solution to destroy TikTok it is very very easy. Do what you did to destroy your own product. Create an influx of lame people to produce content for it. When the "For You" page of TikTok is just un-ironic minion memes and Karen levels of "Live, Love, Laugh" people won't use it much longer.
Looks neat, thanks
I have colleagues who use Shadow[1] at work during lunch on their work macbook and they really like it, even the lag is very manageable.

So I guess many people want it. The real question is how long until this kind of gaming is imposed, like the need for a connection even for single player games today.

https://shadow.tech/usen
> Corporations

What you say is self-contradictory. Corporations are literally a creation of the state. Libertarians do not support the State's protection of corporations and do not support corporatism.
Maybe I wouldn't?

Have you ever stopped to think that there is no such thing as free?
I would believe he's exhibiting symptoms correlated with torture victims, but most torture victims don't choose to stay in the torture chamber voluntarily. Assange sought and was granted asylum and could have ended the torturous circumstances at any time by rendering himself to UK custody.
The whole population?

Freedom is freedom for minority rights and opinions to not be quashed by the majority. Thus the term "the tyranny of the majority"

A majority can "not care" about systematic racial injustice and other inequities. The consent of the majority doesn't make the system "free".
I felt the same way. And I consider myself a very funny person. Like it’s written by Deadpool.
(If you think comments have gone off-the-rails, I find the best solution is to downvote the off-topic top level comments, and then make a substantive on-topic top level comment.)
What amazes me is that Tik-Tok fills the void created when Twitter killed vine.

Given the popularity of Vine, and the outrage when Twitter killed it, I have no idea why they thought it was a good move.

I’m bullish on Tik-Tok because I think it’s the next logical evolution of social media (and totally captures the Vine fan base which was pretty big to begin with)

First there was text, both Facebook and Twitter. Then images with instagram. Now people want videos that they can consume in short bits of time en mass.

I think you would be amiss to not see TikTok as a potentially big player in social media in the future.
How to Do Good Code Reviews
We actually use something very similar to run our servers at conferences and presentations, don't really care about the gpu but having a desktop-grade CPU in a "portable" package is very useful for this.
What is the advantage of Stadia over NVIDIA GeForce NOW? I just learned today that Stadia requires games to be specifically developed for the platform, and you need to purchase a controller in order for the system to function. On the other hand, AFAIK, NVIDIA's product allows you to play most major Steam games that you own without requiring you to purchase a second physical device.

I think even the Steam mods work, but you have to wait for them to install every time you launch the game.
Of course there is, but there are some tricks also for it :) Modern software (and AI) can predict some user actions very precisely. Anyway, there will be input lag, without any doubts, even with the smartest AI, but for some games it's pretty acceptable. Especially for non-competitive ones.
I've had tinnitus for 40 years, accompanied by deafness in one ear, due to inner ear damage caused by getting Mumps when I was 13. If I focus on it, it's really loud
- I can easily hear it over a loud pub environment, and it's there all the time. But the brain is amazingly adaptive - if I don't focus on it, it doesn't annoy me, and I forget it is there.
I think if they dropped the purchase price that currently sits on top of the subscription price then it would become scary. I don't know if those financials would work out, but it would be compelling.

Note that I say scary. I'm not even a game developer, but I am terrified of the implications of centralized, ownership-less gaming. Independent game preservation would disappear overnight. Things that end up in licensing hell could be retroactively removed from the face of the earth. Indie developers would be even more at the mercy of publishers and gatekeepers than they already are.

Of course it would be twice as bad for Google to be that streaming company, given their general detachment from and lack of understanding of games culture. But I won't support even the streaming efforts of Microsoft and others. Having it become the de-facto distribution model would be a bad thing for developers, and a bad thing for people who like games.
>> I do not see how this can possibly be the case. How do you define rational arithmetic with bounded denominators so that addition is associative?

> That's easy. In the case of bounded numerator and bounded denominator, you simply define (an/ad) + (bn/bd) = (bd x an + ad x bn) / (bd x ad)

This definition is not complete. What happens when "bd x ad" is larger than the maximum allowed denominator ?

> The overwhelming majority software developers are not numerical analysts,

the overwhelming majority of young people who learn to program today do machine learning, which is based on mungling huge arrays of floating point numbers. Tell them to use rationals if you dare!
That editorial judgement is exactly why most articles with no actual content are published in the first place - "We need to beef up this headline so it reaches more people"

Correct headline would have been "A handful of Fitbit users are..." but it wouldn't get clicks. The editors are to blame most of the time for doing a disservice to their readers.
Isolation rooms shouldn't exist in schools.

The reason they do exist is equally cringeworthy.

Parents don't discipline their children and teachers aren't allowed to discipline them so to mitigate the safety issues, to protect the other kids in the class, they fall back on isolating the 'problem' child. It's not good for the anyone (the child, the parents, the teacher, the other kids in the class.)

I'd bet 9 out of 10 of these 'problem' children are from single parent homes.
People should be presumed innocent until proven guilty. That isn't just a legal principle - it's a philosophical principle.

If you throw that away and want to talk about probabilities - that's ok too - but then you need to add the probability that the global super power put pressure on people to drum up baloney charges.
And the years before he spent time in an embassy on his own free will, the solitary confinement is new.
Wouldn't have thought sick people make the best revolutionaries.
>Of all the myriad human issues dealt with in the Bible, sexual misconduct isn't particularly important

I'd say the opposite is true. Jesus didn't have a lot to say because he's speaking to an audience that's very Old Testament in its sexual ethic. Once Christianity spreads to the broader Roman/Greek world, Peter and Paul and others have a lot to say about it.
Ad tech industry questions intentions behind Google’s latest privacy moves
Please don’t do that here. We’re not talking about rape. We’re talking about the espionage accusations.
Are you using Firefox? Because it happens to me too with some websites, and it really creeps me out.
Then I'd ask those same people to hand over their credentials to all their accounts since their data, privacy, and property, seem to matter little to them.
I was planning on switching to iPhone at some point next year while I figure out how to replace the smart phone with a dumb phone plus other devices.
I thought I posted the command in the readme, nmap -sP. Yeah I remember reading about nmap adding parallelization. According to the link you shared: "By default, Nmap calculates an ever-changing ideal parallelism based on network performance". So my benchmarks are based on comparing against that. I don't know why my implementation is faster, but the three tests I performed show that findpi is faster. I guess because I am forcing more threads than nmap's ever-changing ideal is allocating?
Would that we all had the luxury of the ability to skip bail on charges we believed were fake, yeah?
I don't see this cost argument.

Either you buy a decent gaming PC and use it personally a few hours a week, or Google buys a decent gaming PC and uses it ~50 hours per week across ~10 users on average.

Google can probably also utilize that gaming PC during the other 118 hours of the week with batch jobs, indexing, etc. Your PC will just be idle and depreciating at 3am.

Google's costs are clearly lower.
He locked himself in a room trying to evade exactly the treatment he is receiving right now. Is there any precedent in the UK for solitary confinement in Belmarsh for skipping bail on a rape charge in another country?
> She wasn't technically a whistleblower

How so?

> technically she stole classified documents

You can't steal online data. You can only copy it.

> betrayed her country that she swore to protect

Exposed crimes against the constitution by the government and the military to the people. This sounds like a very honourable (and whistleblow-y) thing to do.

> She was in fact sentenced by court-martial not by a regular court.

Which is an extremely corrupt move.
I don't necessarily disagree with your statement, but I also don't feel particularly honorable funding invasions of foreign countries, killing civilians with drone strikes, developing and producing massive amounts of weaponry, spying on American citizens, and other unsavory business the US is involved with
Basically everyone there uses client based prediction models (for your and enemies actions).

See also: https://gafferongames.com/post/what_every_programmer_needs_t...
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_Multiplayer_...
I like ones with full suffrage for all citizens of age of majority, including criminals. Like Canada.
Do you spend the other 23 hours in an 8x5 room with cement walls and nothing but a bed and a toilet?
Yes. That's what the edit (from a few minutes after the original post) says.
It's not a Netflix for games if you still have to buy every game individually. It's like every other console except you always have more input delay in exchange for not paying any hardware.

For me the important question is: will the game pricing be comparable with Steam or more with PSN etc.? Considering Sony still asks almost full price for some 8 year old games the pricing can make a huge difference.
Netflix is a good comparison because google will need to secure rights for AAA games, and some games don't appear in all platforms.

Fortunately, a user can install Steam/GOG/Origin whatever and just pay for a single game, unlike video streaming platforms.

In terms of pricing, 9$99 for 4K/60Hz games is 120$/y; if you buy two AAA games (around 59$) it's already the same price, so in the end the appeal is NOT having a beefy computer to play whatever game you'd like. My guess is that hardcore games will have their own PCs, console gamers prefer TVs but the "casual" gamer may be attracted depending on the catalog of games.

edit: it seems you have to buy most of the games too? So google is basically renting a gaming PC with a higher latency.
It's a form of duress.
I'm running Mojave (10.14.6) and just tried to download Firefox using Chrome 78.0.3904.108 and was not prompted at all.
Encryption backdoors mean they can look at your data without your knowing. This is not equivalent to warrants.

What they however can do is have a warrant to access your house, where some of your data might live, or potentially decryption keys. And they could potentially motivate you to reveal your keys.

All of this is possible currently without encryption backdoors.
So this would be like mudering a bunch of people, hiding in cave to avoid prosecution and then claim that you are being tortured?

That's a bit silly in my view.
The life of the University students in Hong Kong doesn't look half bad. And yet they're tossing Molotov cocktails at armored police vehicles. Not too long ago here in the US we had thousands of people occupying big chunks of downtown NYC and clashing with police, albeit in a slightly less violent way.
I think cost is what people are missing: Stadia hardware is much cheaper than consoles now, and when the next generation of consoles come out, they will be even more expensive, but Stadia will be the same cheap price.

"Gamers" might not care about this, but parents buying their kids consoles definitely will.

Obviously this is predicated on Google sorting out the content situation, but if you look at the Education/Chromebook market you can clearly see the vision of cheap hardware with most of the processing on servers already succeeding in a market that cares about cost.
He could have just faced the charges in Sweden. He'd be out by now if he was found guilty. His behavior and streams of lies about extradition, etc. suggest the whole episode was a guilty man hiding and foolishly digging in. His best option was always to just face the charges instead of fleeing justice.
> He always maintained he didn't face the charges in Sweden for fear of being extradited to the U.S.

Yeah... not really.

He's guilty of being a dick to women and is finally paying for it.

According to court transcripts, Assange said he “wanted to impregnate women” and “preferred virgins because he would be the first to impregnate them”. He also reportedly told one of his alleged victims that “Sweden is a good country to have kids in”.

It’s unclear if Assange has engaged in this behavior with other women, but it is clear that he was fixated on, if not obsessed with, impregnating women. By the time he was accused of sexual assault, he had impregnated at least four women, all of whom gave birth to the children.

There also was the time when he tried to scare them, to make them drop charges by using wikileaks as a weapon to frame them as manipulators

“An actual court case is going to be very, very hard for these women,” he warned. “They will be reviled forever by a large segment of the global population, so I don’t think it’s in their interest to proceed that way.”

And he also wanted to share his opinion on Sweden with the rest of the World

“I fell into a hornets’ nest of revolutionary feminism,” Assange said in a 2010 interview during which he also described Sweden as “the Saudi Arabia of feminism”.

Imagine saying the same thing of U.S. in U.S. while accused of having raped a woman from U.S.A.

He clearly deserve what happened to him in Sweden, I don't know about the rest, but the Sweden rape case was the nail on his coffin, and he's the sole responsible for it.

https://bylinetimes.com/2019/05/02/julian-assange-is-a-misog...
They're working on it:

https://youtu.be/uwvAgDCOdU4
Or, more likely: Archbishop Theodore was asexual (before we had labels for such things) so it was effortless for him to label the bulk of the heterosexual experience as sinful. He thought it was all super gross; just like how he felt about beastiality and homosexual acts.

How does not cultivating a healthy sexual relationship with your spouse lead to a nuclear family?
Yep. If Assange were betting a Trump administration would pardon him, he didn't do his homework on Trump.
Thing is, someone, at one point, needs to check the source. Also, most potential whistleblower are not privacy experts and need help. Assange wanted to be in that role, that is necessarily public.

He did many bad things (especially uncovering the name of sources, not redacting the cables in the cablegate) but like he said, it is interesting to see how censorship works in a democracy.

I also like how no one is talking about the (probably externally provoked) internal drama at wikileaks that led to the destruction of the Bank of America files that they had.
Political polarization is weird, if you think about it. It makes sense given the social dynamics, but makes zero sense from a logical standpoint.

Maybe it would be interesting to make a kind of polarization "test". You could ask someone a bunch of questions, and calculate how polarized they are. If statistically improbable, it would inform them that, logically, their opinions are not really their own, and they should consider them more deeply and objectively.

Obviously you'd need to make the test carefully and try not to bias it, or it would be worthless. But you could use some objective criteria to make it pretty good.

There are certainly some challenges. People who live in cities their whole life are bound to have different opinions that those who live in small towns their whole life. But you could address that by looking at how people change their opinions after moving to a city from a small town or vice versa.
What about OnLive? oh ...
probably because on cpu without fp units, fp instructions cause invalid instruction exceptions to be raised that need to handled by the kernel, and that can be very expensive (that used to be a thing on x86 in the past).
Good to see this voice among the masses who have a memory long enough to understand the big picture.

I think Assange will be taken care of when all is said and done. This is from 2016, Dr. Steve Pieczenik explains it all -- Assange was part of a 'counter-coup' from within the US Government to take down the Clinton cabal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov5kvWSz5LM&feature=emb_titl...
That's an interesting look at history. The original iPhone was a synthesis of existing phones. People who wanted a touchscreen had a SE p900, people who wanted a decent camera got an N95, people who wanted a decent web browser installed Opera - and so on.

The iPhone succeeded (eventually) because it looked at what a diverse group of people wanted and (eventually) put the best features in one package.

Regarding Stadia - there are a huge number of gamers who buy fewer than 2 games per year. An expensive console is a turn-off for them. There are a huge number of gamers who want to play every single game - subscriptions are their saviour. Stadia could - eventually - bring together what a diverse group of gamers want.
Didn't they acquire Messenger as well? I think it was called Beluga
I've used Parsec. It's not perfect, but better than a low to mid-range gaming machine.
The input delay isn't as much of a problem as bandwidth, but it could definitely be improved. The problems arise when setting it to 120+ FPS.

60FPS works surprisingly well, and for single player games you probably wouldn't even notice the input delay.

Stadia is most likely much more optimized.
This. Stadia is about convenience and price not about bringing a 'new' gaming experience with exclusive titles and what not. This will be the first time in over 10 years I will be able to play up to date games as it just doesn't make sense to me to buy hardware dedicated for gaming if it costs more than a chrome cast and a controller.
Oh my gosh, this is AMAZING! I was wrong, and thank you for this correction.

Hope in humanity restored, a little bit.
Well, as someone with friends on Broadway... I hate to tell you, but your belief is just wrong. Sorry :)

When you're rehearsing, it's all day long, for weeks and weeks. And once performances begin, Broadway actors are known to make further money during the day doing voiceover work since it fits their schedule, being one of the few acting gigs with a fixed, predictable daytime schedule.

Now certainly, you can't be belting high notes all day long. (Which may explain your story about Michael Crawford -- extreme singing is different, and that's a professional tenor range.) But a normal speaking voice? Absolutely.

That's also why, if you'll notice in the article, only one person is quoted as their throat hurting. Because for trained voiceover artists, it's simply a non-issue.

Fun fact: the vocal cords are one of the muscles in the body that don't ever get fatigued (similar to the diaphragm, heart). Which isn't to say you can't damage them (you can, with improper technique -- which is the case with most people without vocal training). But they don't "tire out" with use the way most muscles do.
I'm currently being told I've received certain packages when I've actually received other packages I ordered. Amazon is really weird.
Unpublished data from Stanley Milgram’s experiments cast doubt on his claims
> typical for prolonged exposure to psychological torture, including extreme stress, chronic anxiety and intense psychological trauma.

Due to recent imprisonment or is this due to living for so long in a tiny "dorm room" in the Ecuadorian embassy?

No joke I think that could easily drive someone insane given enough time.
If you're a serial entrepreneur trying to get rich, or maybe a corporate product manager trying to get a juicy bonus, ya you'll have no clue what the users want because you'll be forcing it. But if you are one of the users you are very much aware of what your problems are and what might solve them - even if you don't have whatever domain experience is necessary to solve them.

I agree with your overall point, that things are worth trying even if they don't inherently scream success. But that doesn't mean we need to try everything and abandon common sense at the door. In this case I don't think Stadia defies common sense, I think it defies consumer benefit: gamers should own the games they buy, freemium services powered by ads are dubious, and products which need to be advertised dishonestly to sell well probably shouldn't be sold at all.
I think this theory has been discredited as Reaganism propaganda. The fact that its wikipedia page does not account for criticism makes it even more dubious.
On the Directional Predictability of Equity Premium Using Machine Learning [pdf]