skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And in most cases your "floating point" calculations are tied to sensor values with known precision. If you have a pressure value from a sensor with a precision of 2 mBar then it often make sense to just do calculations in fixed point in those terms. But make sure you document your structs for units!
>atleast ancient greeks and romans didn't seem to care about that.

Eh you should do your own research- but I seem to remember reading about how being a top for gay sex was fine, but being a bottom was very much not. So I certainly wouldn't say everyone didn't care about it. It was just accepted in a completely different (and non-reciprocal) way.

If I had to extrapolate from that logic.. to put it bluntly "a hole is a hole" so no big deal for the top, but being on the receiving end probably had the same type of feminine stereotypes we can imagine people still have issues with.
But the biggest actors in crypto are the exchanges, literally the middlemen between buyers and sellers. The volume of trade with crypto as a medium of exchange is dwarfed by the amounts changing hands via the exchanges.
>> You'll notice the person running the website never cooperated with answering Amazon's questions ...

Where do you see that? The only question asked was the phone number the scammer used for the scam account.
When buying a game on Stadia is the same price as buying it on other platforms but with the downside of a total loss of control or ability to play offline it becomes less attractive.
A thought: the Half-Life games have always essentially been explorations of the possibilities behind new technologies.

• HL1 was an exploration of the possibility-space of having objects interact through emitted “energy” (i.e. by broadcasting messages that get attenuated by distance.)

• HL2 was an exploration of the possibility-space of putting a dynamics simulation engine in a game (and also spawned Gary’s Mod to continue said exploration.)

• The major offshoots of the series, Portal and its sequel, were explorations of the possibility-space created by combining “beams” of matter or energy (lasers, hitscan gunfire, tractor beams, paint), gravity, and wormholes.

In other words, each major new entry in the Half-Life universe was essentially a narrative wrapped around the results of playing around with implementing some journal paper (or reimplementing some prototype) of a novel type of realtime physical simulation, that had obvious game-mechanical implications.

I’m not surprised that we never got an HL3, because for the past 10-odd years, there hasn’t really been a big new obvious realtime physical-simulation tech to turn into game mechanics.

I’m also not surprised that Valve would return to making games under the Half-Life brand in order to explore the implications of a new technology (even if it’s not a new realtime physical-simulation technology. Or maybe they’ve got one of those up their sleeves as well...)
Thank you Julian for confirming my long held beliefs of the atrocities the US government continues to do on our world. I'm sorry that we are not as strong as you but your actions have breathed hope. Hope that there still are breathing humans with their heads together,fighting for a better world. You have convinced at least this soul to be a shittier brick. I apologize for my comfy cowardness. You deserve better citizens alongside you. By the looks of things, they are likely to be behind bars as well. Good luck sir.
It is mostly self-inflicted, though. He chose that exile over facing justice for these charges.

And calling systemic judicial prosecution "torture" is most certainly hyperbole. It's the job of the judicial system to prosecute people who break the law, and it's definitely better if they do so in a systemic rather than arbitrary way.

So while it's entirely possible that Assange shows symptoms of torture, the question remains who tortured him. For a long time, by his own choice, it was only the Ecuadorian embassy that had access to him.
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I actually enjoy anti-hero series such as "The Boys" which runs counter to the MCU
Well yes, it was a shorthand.

There aren't many countries with the death penalty that the UK has an extradition treaty with - 12 out of 121.
TIL I actually have perfect 5G coverage and not incredibly flaky 4G that drops every time my BART train goes underground or when I ride my bike around a hill.

The SF Bay Area's internet infrastructure is much worse than you think, and I regularly find myself without a working mobile signal and I don't have the option of fiber at home.
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What are the issues that America is trying to push in Europe?
> This would mainly affect the not-so-rich people, who, given fixed purchase budgets,

Certain items can be excempt from sales tax, such as groceries.

> Likely to hurt businesses

Since when is the HN crowd worried about hurting businesses. Most people here want higher taxes for corporations.
Movies still come out on disc even though netflix and streaming services in general have been very successful. I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be the same with games.
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I also deleted.
Admittedly, this is Martin Scorsese instead of Moore, but....

> It isn't the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.

I'm in my late 40s, and I teared up when during the death scene in the most recent movie. And again during the scene with his daughter, talking about burgers. If I had been watching it at home alone, I would probably have been outright crying, thinking about how I miss my own father.

Just because the movies don't speak to everyone doesn't mean they don't speak to anyone. I feel like there's an awful lot of people out there that think they're better than everyone else because they're more limited in what they can understand. That seems backwards.
Or, maybe you can explain to me why the country that has the largest intelligence community by an order of magnitude also has the largest terrorism problem on the continent?
The author seems to me to be blaming society and her former employer for her own failings. Perhaps if she were smarter about how she performed her job duties she wouldn't be so overwhelmed, unable to do even basic chores like buying groceries or going to the gym. And if it really was the fault of her unreasonable employer/boss, she could have applied to other jobs. Or maybe she should find a different industry, or develop useful skills that are in enough demand in the economy for her to dictate a better work environment. By blaming everything and everyone but herself, she has set herself up to fail. It's not the patriarchy or capitalism that is the cause of her issues-- it's her own bad choices and even worse ways of grappling with the fallout of her bad decisions.
It's interesting that people have raised presumption of innocence until proven guilty to a philosophical principle, because its primary utility is as a legal principle.

Presumption of innocence in criminal cases has value because the state has all the power (including the monopoly on violence), so if they are to use their monopoly on violence to deprive anyone of their freedoms, the burden of proof should be extremely high to offset the inherent power imbalance. In other words, even if all other things are equal, we should make the state's job harder because if the state is "cheating" to get a conviction it's a lot likelier they will succeed than the individual.

As a larger philosophical principle, assumption of innocence isn't really proven out. Iterated prisoner's dilemma solutions suggest trust followed by tit-for-tat (i.e. presume innocence until someone shows they're willing to screw you over, then assume they're likely to continue screwing you over rather than assuming that was a one-off; this is a policy the law notably excludes, as past unrelated felony convictions aren't admissible evidence in a trial). I'm not saying we should toss presumption of innocence in the bin; merely that I'm skeptical of it as a deep true virtue to build one's values upon.
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I feel lucky that I learned Standard ML among the early languages I learned as a teenager, which got me into this mindset. That was way back before the monadic revolution.
Why is he in police custody? Excuse my ignorance, I don't know a lot about him other than he's a popular whistleblower who was involved in WikiLeaks. Is he in police custody for that?
Steam automatically updates your games. Windows 10 automatically installs updates for your system. Chocolatey automatically updates your apps. And your driver software automatically updates your drivers if you choose. Everything on my computer automatically updates without my intervention unless I choose to intervene right now. With GNU/linux it's even easier with package managers. Same with Mac.
"but that A needs to shut up about their problems."

I don't think that is what that person said or intended.
to believe in stadia, you need to engage in magical thinking that allows you to believe that google has somehow managed to solve network latency and america's laughable internet infrastructure and just forgot to tell everyone.
This is a reason the US government should be funding satellite internet.

Get the population of Iran, Syria, North Korea, etc hooked on Google/Twitter/Facebook and take away the local governments ability to cut it off, and suddenly you can influence hearts and minds worldwide. Whoever controls those tweets can overthrow any government at will.
Yeah, the "few aspects" like the prison system, healthcare, inequality, corruption, homelessness rates, freedom of the press, air pollution, crime rates, discrimination, police violence, homicide rates, unemployment benefits, social nets...
It's important to understand that there are so many people on Twitter, and it has such good search function, that for any clickbait "people are actually saying X about Y!!* article you can imagine, you can find 7 tweets to support it.
I don't think someone should even consider to get used to commie influence

Or in 5-10 years that someone will be in situation worse than HK now
We know for a fact that US business funnel data to the US government, often unwillingly, thanks to Snowden.
Supposedly it's being designed around Valve's index controller, letting you grip and manipulate objects in the game. Ars describes a set of Magnet Gloves which can pull stuff toward you from across the room and adjust/use it.

I've enjoyed quite a few VR games over the last few years, but part of why I'm excited about this one is that they are able to design the hardware and the software in conjunction.

Hopefully this will lead to something which can really take advantage of that co-development, like we sometimes see when Nintendo or Apple are able to do both.
Can I play offline? This is a deal breaker for me. I am not a multiplayer gamer. I prefer solo play.

Also data usage being a Comcast user with a 1TB cap and a 4K TV, it is not really economical unless you are very casually using it.

"At the best possible quality, Stadia will use 35 Mbps of data per second, or about 15.75GB per hour. At Google's recommended minimum quality, Stadia will use about 4.5GB per hour."
The space thing is what kills it for me. Even if the VR and computer were free, I just don't have the space to use it. I'm not going to rearrange furniture or lock my dogs outside just to play a video game.
I do this as well. I used Samsung's TTS engine at first, but Google's has mostly caught up.
As a bonus, I can switch between listening (in the car or working out) and reading (most other times) without losing my place.
I don't think that's the pricing. The device itself is about $130, $10 a month for the service, and then you will likely pay $20 - $60 for each game. Yes, they will eventually have a catalogue of games like Netflix, but similar to Netflix, it may not have the game you want to play now. See https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/18/20970297/google-stadia-r...
Don't forget that these people have tremendous amount of power and influence in politics and work hard to keep these loopholes open for themselves.
I enjoyed The Boys too. That being said, part of why I watch super movies/shows is to enjoy the escape, to see people being ... more. I can see people being assholes anywhere, so a story that focuses around that needs to be significantly better than one that doesn't for me to enjoy it.
I don’t know what their target audience could possibly be. If the game is so visually unappealing that the customer doesn’t care about frame rate or resolution, then it’s likely they already have the capability to render that with the console they already have. Stadia needs to convince people they have a better product than what consumers have today. Instead it looks like a step down and you still have to pay full price for the games. People can finance a console purchase over a couple years for a little more money and enjoy their experience more while having a structured monthly payment.
But then the question naturally becomes what could someone at that point be running in their own home? 8k at 120fps? Part of the argument needs to be that the cloud stack could eventually deliver an experience that would surpass what a "gamer" could cost-effectively create locally, and I'm not 100% that's necessarily the case.
>As someone who stopped playing after high school, Stadia is the first offering that matches my needs of a Netflix for games. I don't care if gamers nor teenagers want it, as long as developers make money and people like me use it the business model will work.

I had some qualms about the rest of your post but this is where you really lost me. You just described a DOA business model.
How many VR first-person shooters are there where you can actually move? The last I heard, having your character move in VR while you are standing still is a fast pass to nauseaville.
Self-inflicted? That makes no sense. I advise you to revise your understanding of that definition.
> The same sadly does not happen for the intelligence community

I confess I don't know, but I imagine that if you make some mistake while working for agencies like CIA or MI5 or KGB you simply disappear, you die if you're lucky, or something worse happens to you.

> They can murder as many innocent people as they want without having to prove their usefulness.

I seriously don't think it works like that...
Thousands! Thousands of users, I say!
You made a lot of good points here. Thanks for sticking with me and having a nice conversation!
Context:

> Eliza, the first visual novel from Zachtronics, the developer of Exapunks and Opus Magnum, explores a reality where digital therapy and AI merge to solve healthcare at scale. It’s a departure from the studio’s other titles, which felt more like puzzle games for programmers. Instead, Zachtronics’ new title is a fully voice-acted, conversation-based story game where players role-play as a character engaged in a story that changes based on their decisions.

This is a visual novel game where you play as a human proxy for a counseling AI.
After the barb-wire, armed guards, and metal detectors, you almost expect "the hole" as part of the deal, no?
>when Google decides to shut down the service (which happens all the time)

What service has Google shut down that you paid for?

>deactivate your account (which also happens all the time)

When has Google randomly deactivated your account without compensation for something that you paid for?

You are making some gigantic leaps of internet logic here to be honest.. no one is going to deny they have an interesting record on projects, but I find it astounding you are comparing 100% freely created google products to a service which you are paying for.

>I do not want to rent my computer nor i want to rent my gaming device, i want to fully control everything in it and i do not want any commercial scheme that erodes the marketplace which allows me to have that freedom.

I sure hope you don't use Steam!
I enjoyed that show quite a bit. It's fun to see supers w/ both light & dark sides.
It will be interesting to see how all of these silly videos recorded by kids will be used against them in 10-20 years. Everything that they do and say will be indexed and accessible for blackmail.
Yes, maximizing the log implies you shouldn't bet everything. But you should still bet 99.99%, if the odds are a googol to 1.
Comparing Stadia to Sun Rays does not make sense. Companies buying Sun Rays did have to pay for the server in the basement. For me it solves an actual problem - I want to play Red Dead Redemption 2, but don't have a gaming desktop computer or a TV, just a Macbook. I don't have to spend $2000 on a machine that will be obsolete in 2 years, takes up a ton of space in my house, even when not in use. Why isn't the use case obvious?
> I'll take things that are not crimes being used as proof of a crime for 1000, Alex.

Rape is a crime.
Way to strip paint off a fighter jet? Laser-wielding robots
The Xbox One S for $150 is 7 year old hardware. I would hands down pay $130 if I don’t need to be concerned with hardware and can play with the latest and greatest graphics.

I haven’t tried Stadia but just wanting to make the larger point.
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It's in the links of course, but I wrote the site specifically because I saw it being used too often as a kneejerk response to basic questions, where it's not helpful at all.
Oliver: How many of those documents have you actually read?

Snowden: I've evaluated all of the documents that are in the archive.

Oliver: You've read every single one?

Snowden: Well, I do understand what I turned over.

Oliver: But there's a difference between understanding what's in the documents and reading what's in the documents.

Snowden: I recognize the concern.

Oliver: Right, because when you're handing over thousands of NSA documents, the last thing you want to do is read them.

https://youtu.be/XEVlyP4_11M?t=1175
I'm leaning towards the former option. I'd describe mine as very similar to yours (mentioned in another comment), and it doesn't present an issue unless you really think about it, where your mind consciously/subconsciously focuses on the frequencies the tinnitus manifests in.

Getting to a place where it's just not something that you think about/bothers you is, all things considered, a pretty good place to be in.

Edit: I don't mean to trivialize this issue, as it definitely does have a greater effect on some people more than others. So, your 3rd possible explanation is quite intriguing here too.
I don't think there was an extradition request from the US, was there? Only one from Sweden. And it's very unlikely that Sweden would extradite him to the US for this. They value the free press, but take rape very seriously.
I'm right beside you. It spoke to me due to experiences, emotions, and fears about my own responsibilities I didn't have as a teenager.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Portable — the last good Apple laptop keyboard.
Is that true though? When I buy (and install) a game on steam it gets put into a downloads folder with an executable I can use outside of Steam to start the game. Are you saying that Steam would be legally obligated to delete this directory should they go out of business?
> • HL1 was an exploration of the possibility-space of having objects interact through emitted “energy” (i.e. by broadcasting messages that get attenuated by distance.)

I played FPS games before HL, and I played all the original HL games including Blue Shift and Opposing Force, plus a bunch of single-player fan-produced games and even Gunman Chronicles, all using the engine, and I don't follow what you mean here.
Back when I used to work as a VR developer "Half Life 2 quality cinematics and plot but in VR" was my go to example of how powerful of an experience VR could be if done right. I really hope they don't botch this. If they do this right you'll feel like you were there.

Due to some of the technical limitations with people (motion sickness does not make a popular game) I don't think this is not going to be an open spaces and free-movement heavy game like HL2. Not having some really good expansive panorama scenes would be a disservice to the VR tech but don't expect to be able to drive a go-kart around in them. I'm expecting a lot of semi stationary scenes where the player is free around a small space as the environment smoothly and steadily around them (like all the various freight elevator and rail car scenes in HL1). I expect that in typical Half-Life fashion there will be lots of object manipulation and head crab batting practice while the player remains nearly stationary.
Event Films. Even Fast & The Furious are basically low-powered superhero films. We want deeper dramas (so TV) and the price of buy-in for films is pretty damn high. Plus, you need to appeal to US, China, and maybe Europe. High powered stuff works better. Horror seems surprisingly resilient, but that might be the nature of going to a theater.

I'm sure the trend will switch again, but I have doubts that some genres will ever return to movie theaters in mass.
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I certainly don't want Stadia. Stadia doubles down on the very things that drove me away from most modern games in the first place.
This is actually the perfect comparison. I can still watch movies from the 1950s on various media. Good luck playing a Stadia exclusive in 2090 in any format. Treating games like a disposable commodity is short-sighted and undermines any claim the medium might have to being an art form.
You mean to, in supposed good faith, suggest that USA influence in Europe is similar and/or equivalent to Chinese influence and interference in the USA?
The way I see it, the Chinese government doesn't care what you do as long as you don't challenge it. The US on the other hand seems intent on enforcing its whims everywhere on the globe it can. War on terror, war on drugs, war on encryption, war on financial privacy, war on intellectual property infringement. To quote CS Lewis: "It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
Otoh, its also the part of the market that has demonstrated that they have a lot of disposable income and an interest in the hobby.
Correlation without causation. The United States has a lot of "the largest" by an order of magnitude. The size of the intelligence community could be causal, but so could the country's national visibility or wealth consolidation.

We're also working with a messy definition of "terrorism." For all its problems, the US doesn't have a destabilized central government; I would imagine one could ask the leadership of countries undergoing active revolutions whether they consider the opposition "terrorists," and if they do, I'd say they have a bigger "terrorism" problem than the US.
Yes. Are you familiar with the NATO?
> Primarily, mass-market superhero movies seem to be abetting an audience who do not wish to relinquish their grip on (a) their relatively reassuring childhoods, or (b) the relatively reassuring 20th century.

Or, you know, sometimes we just like a little escape-ism. It's no different than reading a good sci-fi/fantasy book where the hero(es) win in the end. It's fun. Not everything needs to be a deep exploration of our intellectual and emotional destitution, not for everyone.
Romanoff and Banner.

Stark and Peter Parker.

Thanos and Gamorra.

Gamorra and Nebula.

There are plenty of interesting relationships there.
My company is talking configurations for all next summer's upgrades... top i9 8-core, top 5500/8G GPU, 64GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage. Someone may up their storage, but I'm mostly insanely happy about the GPU and RAM.