skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Im surprised at peoples comments like "its not organic growth" and "they'll never be profitable" - how is TikTok different to snap/insta/fb in the early years? The thing that matters in that biz is hitting critical mass of users. Then they can spend the next 10 yrs bleeding their users in long tail of platform stickyness.
That still doesn't cover the cost of a high-end gaming machine. GPU alone can be north of $1k.
Imagine not having to re-buy all those components every 2-3 years.
You are severely underestimating Google's infrastructure if you think the latency to your nearest datacenter is going to be 500 ms.
Somewhat of an aside, but I see mcc come up on Hackernews fairly often, and whenever that happens I usually find myself enjoying her technical commentary a lot -- even when I disagree with it.

In this case, I think the analysis is pretty spot-on.

I can think of a world where Stadia is solving real problems and presenting a really attractive use-case. I don't think that's the world we live in.
The UK is not within the Schengen zone, and has passport checks for entry to and from the UK for that reason.
This is what they said of their specs:

"CPU: Custom 2.7GHz hyper-threaded x86 CPU with AVX2 SIMD and 9.5MB L2+L3 cache.

GPU: Custom AMD GPU with HBM2 memory and 56 compute units, capable of 10.7 teraflops.

RAM: 16GB of RAM with up to 484GB/s of performance."

That's not really a spare capacity machine but what sounds like Custom SoCs.

But perhaps if it goes to crap, there'll be a new GCP instance type.
This isn’t a cure but it helped me and the author mentions their job having to be on Twitter a lot.

The constant churn of social media (esp Twitter) is not a place for sanity or calm and is absolutely a recipe for late nights wasting away when your brain can only handle repetitive tasks with quick endorphin hits (railroad tycoon was cited) or random mobile games.

When success is how quick you respond to the latest with something witty or anything at all, rather than considered substantive discussion you will not be able to quiet your mind.

Get off Twitter if you can. Logout of Facebook. Have a friend change your passwords. Avoid the “news”. Some good can come from it, but this is step one. It is an addiction, and must be treated as such.
There is a bunch of tricks that go into the netcode though. A slight delay on hit recognition is noticeable and sometimes annoying, but movement can be silky smooth. With Stadia, wouldn't that latency open you up to input lag?
The link says it's trying to maximize log wealth. If it's not actually doing that, then sure, it can limit loss. What exactly is being optimized?
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That's the crux, right? There used to be a benefit from choosing Amazon over Walmart and other bigbox chains.

It's like Amazon has spent their savings from having relatively no infrastructure expenses (stores, parking lots) on an inventory of pure crap, like Nieman-Marcus selling their stores and moving completely online, only to start selling cheap underwear and Ed Hardy tees.
i fear people will "want it" when it gets good enough

the combination of "dumb screen(TV?) as interface" with "any/all content* you want (cheaper with ads)" will be very attractive to the 99% of humans who dont want to think about computing

is widespread personal physical ownership and control of general purpose computing a feature of the future ?

what laws do we need to think about to prevent harm that may cause ?

*text/radio/TV/movie/social/web/games/etc
He always maintained he didn't face the charges in Sweden for fear of being extradited to the U.S.

For sexual assault he'd likely already be getting out of prison in Sweden, or at least be very close. Extradition to the U.S. has always been the real threat to him. The fact that he's facing extradition now proves it was a valid concern.

Even if the Swedes were honestly just trying to get him for sexual assault, he was still gonna face U.S. extradition. It doesn't matter if they were helping the U.S. knowingly or not.
I read the articles. As I noted I disagree. If he didn't divulge something(s) that also added to his assessment I can't account for that.
Here in Sweden where collective bargaining is widespread I haven't found that it's somehow in conflict with individual bargaining. Collective bargaining results in minimums, like this is the worst deal we can give you based on collective agreement. You can still bargain individually to get a better deal than that.

It can perhaps be an issue if you feel that you can be more attractive on the market by undercutting the competition, but I'd guess that the majority of game developers are not in that position.
>Records get lost

This could not possibly be a problem anymore?
But look at how Google approaches this topic (were you even aware they had this data?) compared to Apple who advertises very clearly that they will use it in studies, etc. It's not only what you do but how you do it also. Transparency can go a long way.
That last one is technically false.
Because it is -never - going to be anonymized. They are going to call it anonymized, and then publicly apologize for it not being so a couple of times, while keeping business as usual. There is just no incentive for them to anonymize it.
I want Google Stadia.
My internet bandwidth is more than enough for 4k 60 FPS and price for their service is pretty good - better than $3k PC for 5 years - you need to upgrade GPU at least every 3 years and CPU every 2 years (and, therefore, motherboard) to keep "high-end PC" title and play new games on "ultra" settings. Here they promise the same for a price, comparable to what my high-end PC takes for electricity.
This is a startling and beautifully written excerpt from environmental philosopher Christopher Preston's recent book about how humans are fundamentally reshaping the natural world. Specifically, it explores the ways in which our increasingly urban (and light-polluted) world is changing behaviors and even genomes of species, including our own.

(full disclosure: I work on the MIT Press Reader)

For a species that spent close to 200,000 years living in grasslands and scrubby forests, hunting and foraging, and using skins, wood, and grasses for shelter, we are increasingly occupying an evolutionarily unfamiliar niche, where the sensory and physical dimensions of a life lived in daily contact with the natural world have been replaced by a whole set of alternate experiences: Cement and traffic, 90-degree corners, bars, sirens, glass, and streetlights increasingly dominate our senses. As far as our genes are concerned, we live in an alien world. ... Alongside us, fast-breeding and opportunistic species are changing their behaviors and their genomes so that they will fit better in the urban world. City-dwelling swallows are evolving shorter wings that allow them to avoid the traffic better, and sparrows and starlings have raised the pitch of their calls to compensate for the background urban noise. Moths are gaining different color patterns so that they have more suitable camouflage in their new concrete habitat. Evolutionary forces are turning city-bound mice into separate subspecies in different city parks, unable to exchange genes with cousins who live a few blocks away.
> It does not preserve associativity of addition.

It does, if you use the mathematically natural addition operation (see my reply to enriquto). In the example above, the result is MAX_INT/1 in both cases.
I don't get the "crap experience". Twitter displays it in a nice, chronological view, where you can read and treat every tweet as a paragraph (with some irrelevant meta information attached, but I can skim that).

So, for me, the experience is fine. I grew up with blogs and all the bells and whistles.
>betrayed her country that she swore to protect

Hasn't she in fact protected her country from commiting further war crimes?
> . He should not have to stand trial for that.

The Trump administration pushed the pedal on it.

And to think that Assange was scared as hell of Hillary Clinton, which actually would be a much better option for him now, imagine Hillary forgiving Assange, she had a lot to gain from it, Trump doesn't care, he just really doesn't.
Maybe. Could also be they did include some half-hearted validation like the message includes "reboot after" with some long or variable validity period. That would increase the number of possible valid codes.

Also I get the huge unlikeliness of this happening but massively unlikely things do occasionally happen.
I don't think so. I spend less than an hour outside each day and I don't find my life to be torturous.
You're forgetting that many people in America have lived through revolutions. We're the great melting pot of people who had to come here because our military destroyed their home countries.
There is no reason to rise up. You can just vote. And it works just fine.

And when your side loses, that's because democracy works.

Sometimes democracy means that idiots will win if there were more of them. There is no cure for that.
Edit: if you are going to do this by yourself, please do let us know in this thread how it went for you! I hate to be an anecdotal n = 1 'experiment'.

Note: this technique has some risks. Especially when you practice by yourself. The biggest one is that scientifically speaking, experts are a bit unfamiliar with it. I can only offer anecdotal experience. There are some articles written about it [1], but I wonder if they go into the risks of the technique (I don't think so, I was one of the people in the experiment).

Yea, it's exactly as described there. The tinnitus will be temporarily gone in step 3 (when you hold your breath). Or at least, that is the case with me. It'll come back after you took your breath in step 4. So it's a temporary relieve, unfortunately.

In any case, there are a couple of checks you can do to see whether step 3 is working as intended.

1) You are capable of holding your breath for more than 1 minute and 30 seconds. Note: if you go over 2 minutes, you might want to have someone by your side who can shake you a bit. I sometimes faint around 2 minutes and 10 seconds, I wake up without assistance as well though, but better close of small risks. Shaking works quite well (there was one case where I saw it almost fail, the person was unconscious for 3 minutes and then got to consciousness after 3 minutes of being shaked, normally it takes about 10 to 20 seconds, except for this one case).

This is a hard requirement.

2) You feel a tingling sensation in your hands, feet or body. This is not only my experience, it's almost everyone's experience who did this. So this is a semi-hard requirement.

3) After doing this for 2 rounds, it is my experience that my body naturally understands how this type of breathing works. I naturally get into a flow of things. In a sense, I can only describe it is "my body is breathing like my life is depending on it". It's a very rare sensation, and definitely not similar to swimming under water and almost running out of air.

This is not a hard requirement at all.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/111/20/7379
I think there's a potential for how games are made to make a huge change. One possibility is a "thin-client" that sends input events separate from the rendering machine.

A drastic improvement to input/rendering delay for "cloud gaming" (<10-30ms) and lots of bandwidth could even attract professional gamers. Having the your gaming machine in the same DC as the game servers is a huge advantage if everything else is optimized.

It's exciting what the future might hold.
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My point was that it isn't a good definition, I'm not implying anything regarding the assange case.
> "It's really is not your business how much I spend in my country to produce goods I sell in yours."

That's exactly my point: you tax the economic activity only in your country: the revenue minus the profits in your country. What the company does in a different country is irrelevant to this.

Note: this is my tax proposal. Not how I claim things currently work, but what I think they should be changed to.

Although on a different level, I think what happens across borders absolutely does matter: I think countries should not import products created through slavery, child labour or other forms of oppression. Companies and countries should take more responsibility for the entire supply chain and not just the bits inside their own border.
> I could not believe they had not been part of any prior language I'd learned.

Huh? They're part of Pascal (known as variant records) and plenty of other languages besides. It's mostly C that lacks them, and even then you're just expected to implement them yourself, for maximum efficiency.
Considering TypeScript ~success, python type annotations and even PHP looking into sum types it's not far fetched to think js may adopt them.
People eating/chewing, mainly. Basically any sound that comes from the mouth, even when not eating. Tooth picking, brushing teeth, etc.

Unless I'm on a noisy environment (like a crowded restaurant), I simply can't eat with others. I just ended a 2-year relationship because of it -- and I have no idea how I'm supposed to live with someone else while having this disease.

Ironically, I'm indifferent to sounds that most people have aversion to, like metal screeching or fingernails on a chalkboard.
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The point is probably in reference to your comment:

"There aren't many resources out there for folks who who've never built a web app before and want to see a complete one for reference"

As there are completed web applications that people can look through.
Unfortunately, this silence only lasts for 20 seconds per "breathing round" max, in my experience.
I think this is accurate except for health care. If health care isn’t fixed soon people are going to be really angry.
Incidentally, Sudo is an actual name on Sri Lanka. I have a friend who was teaching me surfing in Unawatuna, and his name is Sudo.
I don't show humanity to people that don't act human off the bat. You invoked the golden rule with your condescension and lack of empathy in your statements. I'm merely returning the attitude which was presented to me.

And no, I meant positor - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/positor

That's a word you should've learned around 6th grade.
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What a weird statment. How can a country decide to drop a crime against its citizen. Shouldn't the person who got raped be deciding that.
I for one would like to see more, better local software rather than web-everything. My laptop is more than capable of running photoshop locally, and I don't see the benefit of running a slower, high-latency version which is vulnerable to network conditions. It seems like that does much more for Adobe, their cloud provider, and my ISP than it does for me.

That's not to say there shouldn't be online options for things, but it seems inevitable that as those options become increasingly viable, software vendors will aggressively push consumers toward them so they can have an excuse to have a recurring revenue model.
It’s not well known but AT&T and Nvidia partnered to use hardware encoding/decoding (Shield) and fiber internet with compute at the last mile and they still couldn’t make a product that wasn’t laggy and have distracting artifacts. I am sorry to say Google‘s demonstration was more of the same and customers will not overlook this. Imagine how bad VR titles would get you motion sick with all of that latency and compression artifacts. With computers cheaper than ever and games hitting a ceiling on how much power it takes to render them, Stadia makes less and less sense. What does make sense is Google is so hungry for revenue they don’t care about user experience. What also makes sense is that those downvoting me have become blinded by optimism.
I've been using Nvidia GeForce Now for over a year and it's been pretty good actually. Like there is a small delay but it only really impacts me if I play against other people. For RPGs for example, it's really good.
My only issue with Stadia is that Google has no policy regarding what happens to the games you have purchased if/when they shut down the service. Well, I guess they have a policy - and that is "you don't own these games, you temporarily own the rights to use them while this service is running."

I take solace knowing that the $60+ games I buy for my PC or Switch are mine because I have local copies. I am not going to spend that same amount on a game that I don't control. And Google is now infamous for terminating services that people like and use with little notice.

I think the tech is fine. I think they'll get the latency issues worked out for most uses. Fighters, rythem games, or fast-paced shooters were never going to work well streaming from the cloud. The physics just don't work. But there are many games that would be enjoyable streaming and ~150ms of latency wouldn't matter much.

Sadly, I think the negative press from this launch is an early nail in the coffin. I don't know if Google cares enough about the product itself to turn it around.
If Google shuts it down, they will likely refund all games purchased. (But probably not any subscription fee)

They have done that previously with all discontinued products. Even hardware they tend to refund in full if it fails during the warranty and they don't have stock of that model anymore, or if they shut down the servers.
> "When it comes to international corporate interest, American tax dollars are extremely well spent."

That just makes it worse: people pay taxes but don't get value for their money, while corporations pay no taxes but get lots of value for other people's money.
> I read the article, but it feels like "don't build anything until you are sure users want X".

The article addresses that exact point:

> I think the answer's obvious. Because they designed the product backward. They didn't think "what do people want?", or even go Apple and think "what COULD people want, if we showed them why they wanted it?".

Your issue is largely addressed by their second Apple example. They're talking about the thinking that ultimately results in the product, and how Google's (and Sun's) thinking is focused on themselves and e.g. Apple's thinking is still user-orientated even if they have to "sell" an original concept.

So absolutely try something new, but as the article says, it still has to be designed for an actual audience rather than just being created to further that company's own interests without offering enough value for their market.
As a white man who's neither American nor Western-European I often see things being associated with or characterized by my skin tone when this couldn't be further from the truth.

I mean, in reality, these things almost always have everything to do with status and nothing to do with skin tone - otherwise I wouldn't be experiencing them from my higher-status friends who are baffled that I don't put more than 70% of my income into savings(actual thing one far removed from reality person said to me).
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An editorial judgement however absolutely should take quantities into account.

What were discussing here is whether the editor's judgement was poor and not whether there is some magical, exact "this is newsworthy" criterion.
I was at a very large Sun customer at the time. Sun's account team tried pushing these for years, and to be fair it was an intriguing solution.

The problem? Our developer UNIX workstations were never centrally managed (or budgeted) or in great quantity, so IT management wasn't pushing it. Developers didn't want to give up their personal machines. (And they didn't trust any replacement.) Sysadmins didn't want to kick over a hornet's nest of conversion and support issues.

All that said, even if Stadia isn't there today, it has a very clear potential with scenes that would otherwise exceed console capabilities. It could even significantly improve player-to-player latency in massively multiplayer environments. The initial end-user cost of Stadia is quite low, making it easy to try and at least a short-term alternative to purchasing the next generation console. As a PC gamer, I'd be willing to try it out if it granted me access to titles that I couldn't get on my PC.

Despite any number of "could-be" advantages, we'll have to wait and see how it all pans out. Will Google give it five years to blossom before they grow bored and take the knife to it? Unfortunately, I (like many others) have an ISP with a bandwidth cap, so the entire thing is pretty much a non-starter.
From a fraud perspective, it would be extremely cheap to fake downloads.

Since Chinese companies aren't audited the same way US companies are, yet they can still list on exchanges, having some outside "probable" growth metric gives more credibility to their internal numbers.

I'm not saying it's all fake. I'm just saying it wouldn't take very much resources to fake this, and ByteDance has the resources, and we don't really audit them, so I'd gladly miss out on this growth opportunity, but that's just me.
i got that from wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Australi...

> None of the extradition charges carry the death penalty.

I 'm not sure about that, the UN seems to be concerned:

https://www.ft.com/content/c3d35d24-82ec-11e9-b592-5fe435b57...
_left libertarianism_ that applies the same logic that right-wing libertarians apply to governments to any large organisation is pretty interesting (and a lot more internally consistent).

Under that worldview you end with strongly progressive taxation funding something like a Universal Basic Income, which allows you reduce corporations' economic power without just moving it to the government.

That said, government is definitely the appropriate place for a lot of decisions to be made.
Thanks! I assume that was for a reason? Or just oversight?
Then use it to post a link to an article on a platform that is actually suitable for long-form content?
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Apparently HN loves paywalled sites so much that now they upvote literal paywalled comments to the top of the page. Yeah, no one’s paying you for exclusive access to your short paragraph about Wim Hof or your lengthy pyramid scheme/cult recruitment video seminars, it’s one or the other and in both cases you’re a trash human being. Get bent you cretin.
Except if any of this was true, then OnLive would still be alive and well. And Stadia is far more difficult to support for developers as it requires custom builds for the platform, so I have no idea what their plan is to keep developers publishing for it unless they start seeing serious sales numbers very soon.
Thanks for sharing! I will read up on this as I am about to venture out in the gamedev world myself.