skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prop 8 was a ballot initiative, started by and primarily funded by religious groups. It's not a "republican" thing.

It was supported by some prominent republicans because of the word "marriage," and for political reasons[0]. Note that to religious conservative thinkers the word "marriage" has deep religious meaning, and to regulate marriage is to encroach on the separation of church and state. This is why many republicans are okay with "civil unions" but have such strong opinions over the word "marriage."

Personally I voted NO on Prop 8, fwiw.

[0] Political science is the pinnacle of complexity in human society. But a lot of it can be understood as virtue signaling combined with pandering to the lowest common denominator and their short attention spans, combined with the destabilizing effects of primary-issue voters. So while there is a primary distinction between the left- and right- political spectrum which has to do with the role of government, there's also a bunch of tag-along, hot-button issues which politicians pay lip service to in order to get elected by the ignorant majority, but don't really influence legislation to large degree. Things like gay marriage, abortion rights, and climate change fall in these categories, sadly.

Which is to say, you'll find conservative think-tanks putting out policy papers justifying the status quo for marriage rights on the grounds that I mentioned. But then some religious fanatics get something like California's Prop 8 on the ballot and republican politicians feel they have to endorse it if they want to get re-elected, which they do. But in reality they're quite happy with the "civil union" compromise because it solves the fundamental civil rights issue without infringing on the religious definition of marriage.
Myself and most all my coworkers are on 40%, and obviously tax evasion is not on anyone's mind. I think it comes down to your social environment and values.

If I were born and raised in the US, with all that anti-government and anti-tax rhetoric around me, I might feel similarly to the impassioned gentleman or lady above. Yet as it stands I am happy to pay for taxes as I see great value in them, and I would generally be happy for a tax rise if justified and needed.
Then why aren’t more companies trying to get one?

It’s a huge undertaking to do. You have to prove to the US government that you’re capable of handling people’s money safely and that you’re providing a benefit to your customers. Years of internal systems audits with nebulous requirements. How do you do that without handling people’s money? You partner with a bank. It’s easy and relatively cheap.

But regardless of your ignorance on the subject, the original point still stands that Google is not gonna just “take your money”. Your money will always be in the custody of an actual bank.
That depends on Apple. If they are willing to repair a keyboard for like $150 and a broken SSD for what the SSD prices are going for at that time, at least the customers wouldn't be harmed by these design decisions. If Apple then would reuse the additional changed parts, then even the environment would benefit. But right now, all the burdon is on the customer and the environment.
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You have to hang on for her sake hestipod. Are they threatening to throw you out? Would they give you money? Is there anyone who can help? You are really worrying me. Please hang on for your cat's sake. It's her best hope. Hang on.
I don't think the problem is the definition of empathy but the measurement of it.
To comment on the choice you have when building your frontend, Reflex/Reflex-Dom also comes to mind.
First of all, it's not always under Google's control what the user latency is. There are a myriad factors they do not control when it comes to the network connection. Second, Stadia does not send a game state like a multiplayer game server does. What you send is input, and what you get back are video frames. Had the game engine touched your own computer, you would be using the same tricks as any other online multiplayer game. Yet, we can see the input lag being a major deterrent in the play quality.

Presently, the only defense for Stadia right now is that your average gamer probably won't give a crap if the game feels a bit laggy. We only recently had the stupid ongoing debate with console developers and publishers trying to convince people that 24-30FPS is the maximum that humans can perceive. Luckily that ended with eSports players going for 144Hz monitors and showing that there is an obvious (i.e. noticeable) improvement in reaction times and responsiveness. Hopefully people are convinced that cloud gaming latency does affect the way you play your game, and how much better it feels when you're playing on your own hardware; weaker or stronger it might be than the Stadia server farms.
That is not correct. You can play audible books w/o a subscription.
Pray you never visit Boston.
I bought an add-on USB-C 'magsafe' adapter when I bought my 2017 MBP 13" [1]. I had planned to leave the one bit in the laptop, and use it like a magsafe, but it didn't work out well - it wasn't as magnetic or as positive in location as a real magsafe (it tended to fold 'sideways' too easily), and in the end I just stopped using it because it became more of a pain than the real risk of it getting dragged off a table (the only location I used to use it was at my girlfriend's house in the kitchen and I took to just taking the cable out when I walked away to save the kids having a nightmare).

[1] - https://snapnator.com/
Morbid Angel - Covenant and Diablo II for me.
Nothing about the definition of empathy demands that it be universal. You should be careful about re-defining something just because you don't like the implications.
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Micro data-center in each home. Then we can just attach the input and output devices to said data-centers, and skip the whole video encode/decode step as well.
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Do you think the money is on those small islands? Or on Guernsey? Or the British Channel Islands? No, the money is in New York and London at the usual banks who earn money on fees and can work with the deposits. The banks on those islands don't have a data center, or a bank vault. They only legally have the money on paper, but "their" money is in the banks in NYC (Caribbean) and London (former Empire).

Interesting read "Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World", Nicholas Shaxson
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>I seriously did not understand how there could be no input lag

Of course, there is.

>and even though I was asking people who both tried and watched it they all said that it was not noticeable. I had a hard time believing it, and still can't...

Network latency is highly context-dependent. In the right environment, it could be minuscule. Online multiplayer has been with us for decades now, and in general works very well (even with FPS, RTS, and fighting games, all of which require a high rate of actions) so it is something that can be mitigated. In an online multiplayer game, your local state is updated quickly and the server state catches up (or uses some prediction heuristic) or rolls back client state. I'm sure there are some strategies to mitigate with pure cloud games...

Having said that, a purely server-side streaming solution wastes the processing power of the client, with even a typical phone being a pretty powerful device. Maybe there is a hybrid approach lurking in here somewhere, where some processing is done on the client, and heavy rendering is still done on the server. This lightens the server load and improves latency.
Are you also going to support JSON feeds?
Spot on, the best cure for burnout isn't a cure at all, it's prevention.
> somebody read about drop-shipping and thought "How can we do something like this, but make it even more pointless and wasteful?"

...what's pointless and wasteful about dropshiping? In an ideal case the manufacturer has no interest/skills to do online presence and stuff, and the product is shipped directly from manufacturer to client which coordinate delivery, the dropshipper only operates website and handles customer support etc.

What's wasteful about that, since the same merchandise is transported the same route as it would in a direct shipping case, and the coordination around custom labeling and delivery doesn't produce any waste and is not pointless.
I mean we use Uber and book rooms on AirBnb. Why not to share gpu cycles ?
They have a whole thing on using machine learning to predict your inputs to reduce input lag....essentially making it pointless for a human to play at all but that's another philosophical topic.
Thanks for pointing it out, I forget to make the repo public at first LOL
There is no money in protesting. Until there is, America will be on the couch.
I remember trying out Gaikai in some 2009, and I was completely blown away both by the quality and by the latency. It felt like magic, I couldn't understand why they didn't succeed commercially, and I still can't understand why there is still no better service out there.
The point is that a keyboard shouldn't have those kind of problems. If it fixes by itself or if it needs sometime, doesn't really matter because most other keyboards works fines for years.
>The problem I have with Stadia is that you need a monthly subscription and also need to pay full price for all games.

Yes. The problem with Stadia is Google. Google hates hardware and they pretty much half-ass everything that is even an inch outside of their core competency.

There is something exciting about cloud-gaming, even in the present state ... but to make it a success it would have required Google to make better deals with content providers (maybe turn it into a true Netflix-for-games), and potentially pour some significant resources to subsidize it. For example, they could make the controller/hardware really cheap, subsidize content-provider licenses (so games are available via an Xbox-pass type service, or are half the price of their PS4/Xbox counterparts), or, god-forbid, invest in first-party studios to create original games. But that's not the Google way.
You're right! I had misread how it works.

TechCrunch describes it this way:

> Apple provides a virtual card number and confirmation code (CVV) for the card in the app. You can use this for non-Apple Pay purchases online or over the phone. This number is semi-permanent, meaning that you can keep using it as long as you want.

> But you can hit a button to regenerate the primary account number, providing you with a new credit card number at any time. This is great for situations where you’re forced to tell someone your card number but do not completely trust the recipient.
That’s exactly what I experienced trying to figure it out!
any reasonably mid to high tier product from 2011 is still perfectly usable today thanks to CPU stagnation from intel from no real competition from AMD in that time frame. it's only the release of ryzen 2 years ago that finally ignited real advances in (consumer level) CPU power from both teams.
before that it was only sandy bridge which really moved the needle from it's previous generation. Ivy Bridge, haswell, broadwell and skylake were only around 3-5% improvements over thier previous generation counterparts, and i5 only got more than 4 cores (without H/T) in recent gens (7th or 8th IIRC)
My 2015 broadwell i5 thinkpad is not showing any signs of needing replacement (for what I use it for) soon. It'll quite easily push on for considerable time too with replacable, well everything except for the CPU. regular SATA SSD, (small) M.2 slot, 2 RAM SODIMMS (albeit Maxed out with 16 GB but that's a platform limitation) accessable other parts with just a screwdriver
Noob question but why the heck does it take so long to build a nuclear plant even in 2019? That’s longer than some FDA drug development
“A new menace: Disinformation”

I think disinfoRmation has been around since the time before the Pyramids. Instant global reach of disinfo is newer. “What is true is not printed and what is printed is not true” — I think we would do well to read more books and less of what passes for “news.”

Except Hacker News — this is essential reading!
> I think this would look a little like a stablized video, but it's only for a max of a few frames, so not as bad.

The issue is that the stabilisation is not just for a maximum of a few frames, because you're always behind by the amount of frames stabilised/processed/corrected. This would lead to the stabilised video feeling as long as you're moving... which happens rather often when playing games.
Yeah. I don’t think we can avoid the breach into politics on this subject, though, since it seems inherently political and I can tell we have some fundamental philosophical differences!

Anyway I appreciate the thoughtful responses regardless.
I remember playing borderlands on the first streaming game service back in 2010, I forget the name of it; there wasn't any noticeable input lag back then. I was lucky enough to have 10ms ping to the server, so inputs would only have been getting to the servers one or two frames late.
Are you suggesting that there be a home-installed computing device dedicated to the needs of one person? I suppose this could be called a "Personal Computer".

You, my friend, just made a trillion VC megadollars.
I was thinking the same thing. Those states are more populated than southern and Rocky Mountain states.
I understand the "problem" from the hardware perspective, but I still don't accept their "basic answer" as reasonable.

> It’s not stupid, just different.

Over the past 50 years, my computer has adapted to how humans normally operate in nearly every other way. Why do they continue to use this system which produces results different from what any normal person expects?

> Computers use binary numbers because they’re faster at dealing with those

Computers are faster at dealing with all-caps ASCII, too, but we've accepted here that micro-optimization is less important than doing what people want. Most of the languages I use have even moved past fixnums. Why have we not improved real arithmetic since 1985?
You are right, I was mistaken. The DPAN is the tokenized card number, and that is the only account number an acquirer will have. My experience seeing both in the auth system log was from the issuer side.
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THer's also GeForceNow, from nvidia - it's been around for a few years now.

I've used it for Prey 2 (finished) and The Witcher 3 (in progress) and I'm really happy with it. It's still in closed beta (although I think it's available commercially somewhere in Asia(?)), but it's a no frills product that does exactly what it says.

There's no platform play, though (like the Stadia integration with youtube and special Stadia dev framework etc), but that's an advantage to some.
well the counterpoint is that between 2016 and 2019 there _wasn't_ really something useful around the corner in terms of Mac laptops.

Unfortunately the times of "the next thing is basically strictly better than the previous thing" have disappeared
I’ve played on these sorts of systems a good bit. There was a post on here a long time ago about using AWS GPU instances and Steam streaming to do exactly this.

It’s really not noticeable (unless of course you hit a latency spike, which was pretty rare.). It of course requires a fast, stable internet connection. But the reality is that we don’t really perceive a 60ms lag as anything. Or at e very least it’s fast enough that our brain compensates for kt
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Yes this is a key, consistency of lag for some is crucial for experience.

I can see a lot of games to be playable with Stadia.

However anything competitive PvP is a no-no. Playing TF2 I could tell whats is server ping with accuracy of around 30ms by using projectile weapons.
Adding best case scenario 60ms is a big deal.

Stadia simply can't ever compete with local setups. Currently multiplayer game will play with your local input and then resolve any inconsistencies on server side (this is the reason you were 'killed' when clearly behind a wall). While the resolution of the local input might differ to server the responsiveness feeling of local input is part of good play experience.

There are corner cases for some games (RDR2 - all actions have long unskippable animation) or game play style racing games (input lag is hidden by the 'responsiveness of a car').

All that said, its still very impressive how low they got.
I was expecting no less then 100ms.
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Yes, I agree there are objective questions. But few people who make these arguments are..
1. Qualified and Educated enough on the matter to really comment and dive into it.
2. Are making the argument from an objective perspective.

Simply put - A majority of Americans don't even realize that with deductibles, if they paid cash for a doctor visit or medication and then sent insurance the bill. That they would save money. Instead they go through insurance, which increases the price, and because they haven't hit their deductible. They end up paying more.

> I don't see this relevant when comparing healthcare systems. Health care should be compared on how those in need are attended to.

Because rates such as the ability to care for people are largely dependent on how many people are sick and ill. - For Example - The large replacement of fats with sugar in foods in the United States is being tied to an increase in Obesity and Diabetes. This alone is one of the biggest spends of the US Healthcare industry.

These are things that need to be considered when planning long term 10-20 year changes in Healthcare. Because in order to plan for Healthcare needs for 10-20 years, it is largely dependent on factors such as this.
Hey, thank you for the extended review. I agree on all the points you've made.

Concerning the microphone, yes it's terrible enough for me to avoid taking my calls with it. So whenever I have a incoming call in the middle of my music/podcast, I have to take off the XM2 and put on a tiny bluetooth earset (both connected to the phone). A bit cumbersome and not great.

For the touch controls, I live in a very hot (tropical) area, so no chance of having winter here ^^
And where might that bank be? I live in a relatively small city (~100k people) and each of the three banks I have accounts with has at least 3 branches within 30 minutes walking distance. Even if all of them tell me to fuck off, I can hop in a car and be at their headquarters in 2 hours or at the ministry of finance to file a formal complaint in even less.

Best case scenario for me with Google's bank would be an 8-hour drive to Germany, just to run into not only a language barrier, but a buerocratic one as my ID would not mean shit to them and their regulatory bodies would not even consider hearing me out without going through the EU first (== more buerocracy). All of this I would of course have to accomplish while not having access to my bank account.

Banks are one of the few decentralized services that have survived the modern economy and while I would switch banks immediately to have access to even something as simple as a balance check API, I would rather continue to fight the reverse-engineering arms race with my current bank than hand over my finances to a faceless, poorly regulated, foreign corporation and risk any one of a million possible small mistakes leave me penniless.
Filenames in most Unix derivatives is an arbitrary bag of bytes only excluding '/' and '\0', they don't even have to have a valid encoding. If you can handle that spaces are the least of your concerns. Tools should be able to handle them by now, one would think.
People can have conflicting emotions. It's possible to hate the ideology without hating the people attached to it.

"Hate the sin, not the sinner."
> The end result is a bizarre, looping supply chain. Some hair conditioner might get sent from a Walmart warehouse in Grantsville, Utah, to Roundup, then from Roundup to an Amazon fulfillment center in Joliet, Illinois. Finally, Amazon sends it out to a customer.

> Or maybe it doesn’t. Maybe another seller buys the item and sends it to another prep center. The preppers are constantly getting packages from Amazon, which they unbox and repackage and send back to Amazon.

Ah, the efficiency of capitalism.

More seriously, this is a weirdly organic process. Just as anything edible will be infested with life within a short time, a huge algal bloom of businesses develops to feed off this arbitrage. It shouldn't make sense to do all this, but the endless search for ever-tinier market inefficiencies to live off somehow calls it in to being.

I'm reminded of https://www.amazon.co.uk/Scheme-Full-Employment-reissued/dp/... , a novel in which vans endlessly circulate among a series of depots carrying parts for other vans, until someone discovers that the whole thing has no underlying purpose and the scheme collapses.
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What the roll of AI in this? A single RaspberryPi with an accurate time source could give continuously updating inputs to a field of mirrors to be aimed for the most optimal heating potential. Tracking the movement of the earth and sun for the next thousand (million?) years doesn’t require AI to make concentrating solar power work.
When World of Warcraft got released, 2004, they optimized bandwidth usage for 56k modems in order to ensure that they can cover a big percentage of the market.

And at many places, if it's not a city, you still (in 2019) have to deal with ISPs which offer not much more.
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Yeah, I've got that one but gave it away. Turns out I didn't use it all that much. If integrated into a cable, it could be nice, though.
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Yes, the search supports RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds. There's an example using jsonfeed.org, but other than that I haven't actually seen any JSON feeds in the wild.
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Announcement using datagram broadcast is not esoteric or obscure. It's how mDNS and a multitude of LAN games work. Likely reason that the Roku reboots is that it accepts the packet and fails gracelessly to parse it instead of just discarding it and carrying on. That's what not sticking to the tried-and-true idioms is like.
You're right, I thought "tested" did include that.
Ask HN:

Do Apple Maps, Google Maps, Yelp, etc scrap local business listings? Local search still remains very frustrating. I'm baffled how stores, dr offices, public parks which I know exist don't appear in results. If I was doing the work, I imagine I'd start with every known address and every known business, try to pair them up, and then triage the remainder. Classic data quality efforts. No? I recall an OpenMaps presentation on measuring data quality maturity. Much like bug curves, where rate of changes is used to estimate completeness (coverage). Commercial map vendors do the same, right?

More selfishly, I'm always looking for places to run with my dog. I use a combo of Apple Maps, Google Maps, and AllTrails. I have no idea how local governments account for open spaces, but I imagine they're all in a GIS somewhere, and that Apple & Google have data feeds.

Also local data search (on mobile), if there's a way to geofence results, as in only show shit within my timezone, or even within driving distance, I haven't stumbled across that feature. Driving thru Phoenix, I don't want listings from Indiana, ffs.
Some of the listing appear to be counterfeit or at least copyright infringing (https://upakka.com/p/5aa84dd6-090f-4791-b327-1070777b3c79/), do you have a plan for dealing with this?
It's pretty rare for it to get above 25C where we live in Scotland - pretty sure it didn't get that warm at all this year.
They are also not magically low latency. Maybe there are some QoS rules in place that deprioritize Stadia's video stream. According to the video the mobile connection was fine and the router just treats traffic over wifi differently.