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The cheapest way to do it is buying a secondhand XBox/PS4/Switch + games for very little on Craigslist, and putting it back on there when you get bored (if that's within 6 months, I'd be surprised if you lost much). Or just keeping it and enjoying no input lag, no requirement for a subscription, no chance of the manufacturer bricking the device in future, and a huge secondhand market for games. Unless I really want to play games on something other than my TV or a handheld device (Switch), can't see why I'd take the more expensive and laggy Stadia option.
This project grew out of our interest in understanding and optimizing time spent in meetings, but don't let that stop you from using it some other way. We're providing direct access to a MySQL database specifically so you can slice the data however you like, with any tool you please.

Questions? Feedback? All very very welcome!
I live in an EU country and the bartender has been hacking up a lung for over two months because her GP doesn’t have any appointments. Unless you speak the local language (or get hit by a bus and end up at the ER), you’ll never get any of the care you pay into every month either.

Until you actually experience healthcare outside of the US you really can’t talk about how horrible it is.
> i can imagine all the negative potential it has

But you fail to imagine all the positive potential.
Terabyte-sized games with 0 download time, more interactions between players, better graphics, no more cheating, no more piracy (which leads to more games or bigger games), and better utilized HW (which is good for your wallet and the environment), and obviously you can play wherever you want.

Streaming games is the future, deal with it.
I don't think the GP comment was focusing on autism necessarily, just bad behavior in general. There are still big problems with kids who aren't autistic that schools struggle to deal with, largely because of a lack of discipline at home. Single parenthood probably doesn't help, but I disagree with the GP that that is the primary factor. At least where I live, the teachers face not only misbehaving kids with little recourse, but also a general attitude from parents that teachers are largely responsible for their kids' success instead of the parents and kids themselves.
Oh on multi arch support. This was purely about keeping focus and reducing the original scope. I shared the same concerns and brought up this exact topic with Solomon. A change here meant changes in docker hub and other key places including devops which would further burden an already stretched team.

I should review the comment a bit more carefully sometimes.
After a brief recitation of facts it ends on a critical note, on par with the title:

> Social media consultant Zoe Cairns said she thought the network would have to grow its numbers quickly in order to prove itself to be a viable alternative to the giants.

> "It's going to need a lot of money ploughed into it," she said.

> "People are so used to social media being free. I think businesses might pay for it, but people are so used to having news at their fingertips for free."
> That is a succinct summary of the initial complaint.

I would disagree in one key way. The initial complaint focused on this as a recent change. "it seems the normal people lost their privacy _nowadays_ at the expense..."

Certainly this is true from a technology perspective. No argument there.

But I don't think this is in any way novel from a _legal_ perspective.

Governments have, since at least roman times, taxed individuals based on the quantity of things they possessed or based on transactions. As long as it has been this way, the government has had a legal right to know your financial standing.

So, if the argument is that we're in novel _legal_ ground, I disagree. If the argument is that we're in a status quo legal ground, but in novel _technical_ and _enforcement_ ground, I'd agree.
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Do users have access to the audit logs of those who have accessed their information?
> "arbitrary confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy, to his oppressive isolation, harassment and surveillance inside the embassy, and from deliberate collective ridicule, insults and humiliation"

Not only hyperbole, but it's entirely self-imposed. He wasn't confined to the embassy, he chose to stay there rather than face trial. He chose "deliberate collective ridicule, insults and humiliation" over defending himself against the accusations.
Not calling it Half Life: 3 seems like a great way to temper expectations a bit. Curious how much focus is put on the knuckles/Index versus generic headsets.
Assuming the omnipotent creator exists. If he/she/it doesn't exist then the question is hypothetical.
Revolutions generally begin with the upper-middle class rather than the poor. The poor are too busy being poor to revolt. The fomenters of the French and American revolutions were quite wealthy, and the Russian revolution began with upper-class intellectuals who had a notably hard time getting the peasant class to go along with them.

You'd expect revolutions to start from the grindingly poor, and you usually have to get those people on your side -- eventually. But they're often the last to join the revolutionary movement, after the groundwork has been laid from the top.
It's almost like you need unaffiliated third parties to rank people on their good qualities.

"Are you humble?"

"Oh yes, definitely, I'm one of the most humble people I know"

"Are you a good person?"

"Oh yes, one of the best"

vs.

"How humble would you say your co-worker is?"

"Hmm, in my opinion probably average humility. I've never seen them do anything that made me think they were especially humble."

"Would you say your co-worker is a good person?"

"Hard to tell. They don't particularly stand out as being especially good."
I hate this kind of "double weasel" headlines. Either of these would have been fine:

We may have discovered a remedy for tinnitus – by accident

or

We have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus – by accident
Yes! Fujitsu desktop keyboards have rather pronounced concave keys - not fashionable but very nice to type on. (They have also figured out tactile response with rubber domes.)
The implicit assumption you’re making here is that there was a court, trial, or even evidence. “Frontier justice” doesn’t always care about those things. Sometimes the “crime” is that you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, maybe with the “wrong“ skin color...

This part of history contains a lot of ugliness. It’s also part of the present. Extrajudicial killings are still very much a thing in the world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana_Vigilantes contains some leads for this specific history, I’d guess.
Actually he'd probably travel to a country that would offer him asylum, where he'd be able to live freely, if he was not denied that. So it's hard to say he was not held in the embassy.
> "SonyATV & Warner Chappell have claimed 24 of my videos because the royalty free song Dreams by Joakim Karud (from the OFFICIAL YOUTUBE AUDIO LIBRARY BTW) uses a sample from Kenny Burrell Quartet’s ‘Weaver of Dream`"

Isn't that protected use anyway?
But it's not HL3 is it?
It’s almost as though the primary way the brains of every warm blooded animal evolved to receive discipline has been eschewed by polite society and problematic consequences ensued?
Sure, but at least it doesn't allow slavery or disenfranchisement.
But you won't be playing the games on high settings. You'll be playing them on the equivalent of a mid tier computer with extra lag. The article goes into this in depth about how degraded the quality of play is. You have to pay for access and the games as well as have a device locally that stream. It's really barely going to be cheaper than an Xbox and give you significantly less performance.
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You can play new AAA games on high with just a $150-$200 GPU. Every other piece of your computer doesn't really matter.
Not to dive into semantics, I guess it's more of a Reddit rival? Meaning that I would be happy if it can be a fairly good news aggregator, and it doesn't need a huge critical mass.

Facebook is for baby pictures of friends, angry old relatives and instant messenger for people that you want to keep at a certain distance :-)
Well, Pascal has been dominant for a short time before C and its family really took off. But that was such a long time ago that I kind of forgot about it. C (without ++) was nice because you could write code without too much boilerplate compare to Pascal and it was noticeably faster (computers were slow.) However any mistake with pointers could crash the computer if it was a DOS PC and not a UNIX workstation.
Don’t mind my nitpicking. A huge part of algebraic data types arises from products and sums just as discussed here. As is always the case, there is hairiness between metaphor and precision, but presenting these ideas in JavaScript like this goes a long way!
I have the Bose QC 25s and the Sony WH-H900N headphones.

I am not an ANC expert and it is subjective, but they're both great, but if I had to pick one, I'd say the Sonys edge it out for sound isolation and noise-cancelling.

The QC 25s are nice, because they use a AAA battery, and not a sealed, lithium ion battery. So, with proper care, they should last a while and aren't obsoleted by a bad, sealed battery.
It seems more like he's absolutely terrified of God. Properly God fearing. And of the mindset that pleasure is sin, but torn because sex is necessary for procreation but also potentially quite pleasurable (sinful).

These are people who are living in an era where good people died young all the time. God seems capricious and cruel. You do NOT want to get on his bad side. So they get wrapped around the axle trying to figure out how to best please God and make up tons of silly rules based on entirely circumstantial evidence and the relatively vague and sometimes contradictory rules passed down for generations in the Bible and other texts. They are undoubtedly suffering from large amounts of confirmation bias as well.
one more detail regarding cloud utilization. It might not be what you think it is.

Game playing activity peaks roughly at the same time during a day, mainly in the evening. Basically you need to launch one vm per user during that time. And those vms will be idle during the day time. Sure, due to time differences, those vms can be used by other people from a different time zone. But the further the data center is, the poorer the experience will be.
What about shouting fire in a crowded theater? I've had lengthy debates about whether that should be allowed or not, and if we still "have" free speech if we disallow it.
Acting politically is ok

Acting corporately is totally not ok
I've done my reading, nowhere it was mentioned that it wasn't about the allegations of rape.

BTW, the comments guidelines state

Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article?
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Hm, I think I see your point.

The biggest benefit of cloud gaming to companies is that more people can access more video games. Under other cloud gaming services, the developers benefit more than the cloud gaming platform. But Stadia's closed platform means Stadia can take a cut of the real profits.
The cliquey and flaky nature of city, along with housing costs, are key reasons I left for Montreal five years ago and have never looked back.

I imagine that: the crush of living costs; the theory someone else mentioned of shops and restaurants closing early due to no affordable housing in the city and people living farther away; the massive influx of ill-adapted rich immigrants uninterested in building social ties, etc. could all be factors.

I used to frequent the social dance community in Vancouver and I'll never forget what someone told me about her having spent her entire time doing her PhD in Van essentially friendless because people really are the - as someone else mentioned - "friendly, but not your friend" type.

Man, so glad to be out of there. I'm surprised more people haven't left that sinking ship already. At this point, it feels like Vancouver needs a good recession and a couple of lost decades, similar to what happened to Montreal in the 90s, for it to eventually get back on track. I chose to make my life such that I could stop watching it ruin itself but it's still sad to watch our third biggest city and all those fellow Canadians suffer this.
> This definition is not complete. What happens when "bd x ad" is larger than the maximum allowed denominator ?

All integer operations are twos complement operations, as I'm sure you guessed anyway.

> 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's very far from factually true, but this kind of argument is not relevant to the Raku defaults in any case. A machine learning library can use whatever optimized number representation its creators wish to use. In fact, the default choice of most language implementors (double-precision floating point) is typically not the representation used in training or inference on deep learning models anyway. The 1080Ti is fast enough only with single-precision floats.
$CITIZEN is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported to the secret police.
Ok Google.
My tinnitus is high pitched but not loud enough to ruin my life, It took almost 6 months to overcome the mental trauma.

Making some hard-ruled habit worked, I meditate every day morning and have a good walk of an hour in evening. I almost never skipped walk unless it is raining. I have same desire for experiencing silence, silence is golden.
I do not fail to imagine the positive potential, i just consider it totally insignificant to the negative potential it has. None of those you mentioned is worth giving up control over the games you are paying for and your computing environment.
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yeah but that might not always work. there are evidence against him but he will never be proven guilty in a court because of unrelated practical reasons. that don't make innocent either.
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> If we was so sure of the charges being fake then he should have let them judge him.

Sure, because trumped up charges are symptomatic of a working justice system.
I didn't claim Assange was breaching the rule of law. Part of the rule of law is that individuals are accountable for their actions. A court of law is usually the correct way to determine accountability. The state is obligated to protect individuals (in this case the women who were allegedly raped) via the justice system.

The idea that having to flee charges is tantamount to being tortured implies the state does not have that right. If there is to be the rule of law, the state has not only the right but the obligation.
Moved to Montreal because found it completely the opposite when I visited. It's just generally the thing here that people tend to be more up for socializing it seems.
And, of course, the entire book Song of Solomon:)
This is true, US isnt so bad at public spending management. Still, that doesn’t make taxes voluntary
I think what you said about condoms highlights a key historical difference. Throughout most of humanity's moral development, there was no such thing as protection, against STDs or pregnancy, other than the rhythm method or induced abortion. Definitely, there was wisdom in limiting the number of partners and orifices in much of that time.

Edit: which is to say, technology can affect morality and there's a good reason for these attitudes to change now.

Also, what you said about Jesus and poverty is spot-on. I really wish more Christians would embrace the truly good and radical parts of Christianity instead of fixating on arcane moral rules.
there's that fag talk again
I have something related to tinitus: I sometimes get a ringing in my ear(s) when I'm deep in thought. It's not always both ears.

The article suggests to me that tilting your head sideways could be a way to cure tinitus - e.g. try various tilting movements (different speeds, angles, repetitions) to tune in and out of the parts of your inner ear that cause the tinnitus, taking note of any phenomenon that arise during various movement patterns. And don't forget the tension/relaxation variable! E.g. large, fast movements increase base tension, while slow, small movements decrease it.

I've quite a bit of experience loosening and tightening my joints from martial art; I imagine a similar process can be applied to nerve connections.

(In fact I've been trying to apply it to muscle growth via nerve stimulation because my room is on the small side for doing exercise. Burnt out a lot of nerve cells trying, now focussing on nutrition before I continue.)
It's HL√3 (i.e. between 1 and 2 in terms of the story, as I understand it)
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You used the term first, so probably you should define it, and then you can explain why it's "questionable" for threat of prosecution to ever be considered torture in such a place, and then you can explain why the country threatening to prosecute Assange meets that definition.
Anecdotes don't necessarily correlate to populations.
Well, I did not think this would be a controversial topic, amongst the HN community.
But apparently I have struck a nerve, getting replies like this and downvotes.

What I want to say is this:

- Christianity makes very strong claims about moral and is very prescriptive about human behaviour, esp. around sexuality.

- There is extraordinary little evidence that support any of their claims.

This is quite a dissonance, no?
1) That can change at any time,

2) Those data are never going away, and may not (=will not) belong to Google forever,

3) Data that exists can be demanded by the government, justly or otherwise, and they will get it—private companies running a dragnet spy operation on everyone is only marginally better than the government doing the same directly,

4) Targeted ads are adversarial. So are ads in general, really—yes I know they can be useful but I'm talking in general, and in practice—but it's definitely more off-putting to be spied on then have that information used against you.

5) Google's incentives suck, their ethics suck, and I don't trust one bit that they won't do all kinds of nasty shit with the data they've collected the moment that looks like it's best for their bottom line.
Put scare quotes around "justice" and your comment will be more accurate.
But they aren't banks, they are just partnering with banks and putting a smooth veneer on top of old/greedy banks. The current trend seems very similar to when retailers all launched their "own" credit cards.
> Google explicitly said in the deal announcement that it won’t sell their personal or health data.

That’s not all. Google also said they will not use your data to target ads. In a forward looking statement about the deal. That’s significant.
Also, ban on oral and anal sex makes sense, taking into account level of medicine at the time.
Right now, $130 is the only edition. I think the one you're talking about comes out next year.
I find it remarkable that so many here feel they are in a better position to assess whether Assange's human rights have been violated than experts on the topic at the UN who've spent considerable time looking into his situation.
The ban on pleasure is not universal within Christianity, though. There's not a lot of biblical basis for a ban on pleasure, and maybe some people should take a good look at Song of Songs.
https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/placebo-sleep/

tldr: just say to yourself that you sleep was amazing and do not need any tracking
Thank you for your comment. Yes I am new to Hacker News but I am very excited to contribute with discussion about technology and citizen engagement. I hope that your reference to that I only have 6 karma is not an effort to discriminate me or my opinions.
Instead of describing a movement of millions of people as propaganda and biasing media I would encourage you to participate in the discussion with links.
Again, there aren't many resources.

Not many previously closed source, fully-commercial SaaS web apps have been completely open-sourced. If you'd like to debate what "not many" means, I suppose we could, but I think that's missing the point. I, for one, can't think of any.

When most startups shut down, they take all of their code with them. I'm kind of surprised that anyone's response to doing something to changing that status quo would be negative. I mean, I'm sure you'd like to have us just give it away for free, but why? Why would we do that?
Always be wary of researchers who go straight to the publicity mill instead of seeking verification via a sample size >1.
Provided you consider breasts to be a strictly sexual thing.

Provided you consider that quarrels & wars could not be a strictly private matter.

Provided you consider that sex could not be a very public thing.

Comes down to choices, and culture.
I think it's a horrible misuse of something that can be a good tool for helping children with sensory issues. A safe room where an adult and a child who is overwhelmed can sit, isolated from the hustle and bustle and sounds of the rest of the school. I have a young relative with autism, and their behavior in school and many other situations improved amazingly when their parents got them a pair of sound dulling ear muffs so that they were no longer overwhelmed by noises.
I still use CoffeeScript for every game I make [1]. I know it's very passée but every time I rewrite something from javascript it turns out to be much shorter and more readable. It's true that there is now many improvements available compared to ES5 times but for me CoffeeScript still has a lot to offer. I admit, it's mostly ergonomics, but the cost of compilation is so minuscule that I find it worthwhile.

[1] https://redka.games
I mean describing it like that you’ve basically described every human nation, numerous businesses, tribe, cult, that’s ever existed.

And in America we pardon our war criminals now. Don’t really see the public being too concerned with that. So why be so judgmental of others cultures when your own is exactly as you describe?

Righteous clowns, westerners are.
Aight, conspiracy theory time.

I'm becoming concerned about PRC influence in my country (USA). From my perspective the PRC (government) is blatantly evil, and happily engaging in cultural warfare, and nobody seems to be fighting back.

I see absurd astroturfing and shilling on social media here (Reddit, Twitter, Facebook). It's always obvious - whereas a genuine criticizer of the Hong Kong protestors might ask about violence, the shills will always use the word "ISIS" somewhere in their message.

It's everywhere and we don't seem to be fighting back. I browse Chinese social media and while my Mandarin isn't great I'm not seeing any level of AstroTurfing at all. So am I just a crazy conspiracy person? Is the PRC astroturfing not a big deal? Maybe my concerns are valid but that doesn't justify further concern about the influx of PRC messaging vectors to the USA, i.e. tiktok?

When I worked in the PRC I got to see first hand the strong-arm of the Party. Every business involved in communication had a government official whose entire job was to ensure the company "protected the social wellbeing of the people of the PRC" or similar. I can only assume tiktok has the same and I can only assume it's a matter of time before the Party starts directing the company to leverage their access to a massive US audience in a way that benefits the "social wellbeing," i.e. by disseminating PRC propaganda.