skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, considering adapting a game for Stadia takes non-negligible amount of time:

1. Before they released Stadia, they could only work with a small handful of developers without too much getting leaked.

2. Now that it's public, it takes time for all the devs to port their games.

They did announce that there will be 120+ games in 2020, which matches up with my point above. Most of those probably only started porting mid 2019.

Furthermore, if compared to consoles, and not decades of PC history, Stadia does have a reasonable number of games at "launch", though not enough exclusives.
Perhaps high bandwidth random screening, the physical equivalent of fuzzing.
Yea, I just see it as an added benefit that may or may not have value to me. My current job has a happy-hour on Fridays with beer/snacks, but I'm usually not around late enough in the day to attend. That said, once a month or so, it's a free meal and a couple drinks, so it's an extra $10-20 a month I get to save.

Things like free food are gimmicky, but it's also a non-trivial financial and time benefit to not have to prep a fresh meal a few days a week. I'd take a small salary cut to work somewhere where I got a healthy breakfast/lunch every day for free. It's only $100 or so in actual food cost savings, but it's a lot of mental overhead that you get to pass on. Lot less stress on my life to make sure I prep enough for the week, and left to myself, I may not pick as healthy of food as they'd prep for me.
I suspect that Google does things to get data. Google Fiber, Google+, Google Stadia, etc. Google is so big that it needs an institutional understanding of adjacent businesses (Comcast, Facebook, the games industry). And how better to gain an understanding than by competing in that space for awhile?
LOL. Finally! I had that MCSE thing for Windows NT4/Networking and IIS. What an utter waste of time. I had to actively ignore most of what i knew already to pass the braindead questionairies. It wasn't all BS, especially in networking, but mostly...?

Anyways, it smelled scammy, it empowered scammy tutors to scam scammy institutions to scam scammy people to scam employers into employing them. A whole market of scammers.

That is why i cut the card in two and BURNED it in public at the end :-)

(Don't panic, there was an ashtray...)
Well, sure. If Ithaca wasn't what it is, it would be something else. :)
Carnival's over. It's Lent now.
Most of the “don’t bother with masks” is usually about cheaper masks which are not rated N95.
Are you seriously telling this graduate student (with a child!) that she should find more roommates when she apparently has some already?
Despite its failings, Stadia has few complaints about its killer feature: streaming at decently high FPS. Whether Google pulls it off or not ultimately isn't the question- the question is whether game streaming over the web will be the norm in 10 years, and I think that Stadia's initial rollout has proven the tech out.

I'm rather fond of physical game media. I like the way it looks on a shelf, and how I can always trade it at a local store for something else. I like that I can demo titles via Redbox. I like that I own my hardware and can get some value out of it if I sell it. Downloadable games don't have those qualities, but at least they can (generally) be played offline and still allow for permanent ownership. That said, all of those qualities have essentially vanished with music and video streaming and gaming isn't fundamentally different than those mediums. Look at home stereo systems over the past 50 years, where audiophile quality has given way to convenient delivery almost universally.

Any player in the game streaming business needs to have big metal, fat pipes, and money to burn on acquisition, so it does seem like a somewhat of a natural monopoly.
It is a bug :)
Great, that's as it should be. At your university, are graduate students able to afford such a living situation on their stipends?
I don't think Apple is as much of hippie type brand as it used to be, it is very commercial and mainstream. Those opinions are pretty much main stream opinions.
New to me. Thanks I did not know this. It explains why I've been getting this unexpected behavior.
Are you saying high cost of parking is why cars are attractive?
One mistake and you got it. Take out mask, touch clothes and then nose or whatever. Procedures are great for the first minute or two...after that unless you're super-trained and do that day in and day out, you'll make mistakes.
I'm surprised Google still didn't use something like Wine (+dxvk) to bring more games to Stadia sooner, while the library of native Linux/Vulkan games is gradually growing (which isn't going to be super fast process). Is there a reason for that?
Colossus predates ENIAC https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer
As an undergrad Instructional Aide (aka IA aka TA) at the University of Michigan I taught labs/discussions as well as graded homeworks and exams.
I found out that his TV Typewriter design pretty much was the basis for the Sinclair ZX80 video display. I wouldn't be surprised if even Woz took a nod in his direction with the video output on the early Apple computers.
academia is a broken system that doesn’t work very well for anyone involved in it

It works extremely well for administrators and professors with tenure, who are the exact constituencies most in favor of stasis and least in favor of change or experimentation.
Any references for where you've heard this? Then we can check the claims and perhaps reassure you or suggest workarounds. What are you using instead?

IMAP is on its own insecure because it is a plain protocol, but it can be used in conjunction with TLS to add secure transport. Exactly the same can be said for many other mail protocols such as POP3.
> It's known that there aren't a lot of mild cases.

This is bullshit. There's no other word for it.
Thanks both of these were excellent.
I don't see how that follows?

If anything, we'd be suggesting bigger houses. Tall and with nice and large flats in them.

In the city centres where that makes commercial sense. Just allow tall buildings, and let developers worry about whether they _should_ build tall.
Nobody forced her to make these living arrangements that consume such a large percentage of her monthly salary. While it is regrettable, it's not the responsibility of the university to make sure that its students make good life choices.
>Would you care to show me where you think I claimed 100% of managers have MBAs?

You wrote it was a "vital qualifier" to join the managerial class. You didn't 100% commit to saying it was necessary, but without that implication, I don't think you have really said anything.
Some think the status quo is the way forward and such a progressive state cannot slide backwards - as California goes, so goes America.

Nixon, Reagan, Jarvis and a lot of very conservative Democrats controlled this state for generations. Democrats have largely left their old base behind to neoliberal economics, deregulation (Carter) and financial market weaponization (Clinton).

The radicals from the left aren’t from CA anymore, and my guess is a future that is a bit more Nixony but wearing Allbirds and sipping a Grapefruit IPA.
I have fixed and replaced control boards in both my Kenmore washing machine and oven. I've had to replace the duck valve in my Kitchenaid fridge (it got plugged and froze up, leaking water onto the floor).

Without online videos, I don't think I could have done a few of the repairs I did. I had to do some soldering to fix my washing machine so I can see how some people wouldn't be able to do these things.
Our society should not be built on SLAVERY! It is the responsibility of these brands to know their supply chains or we all pay the price.
Designing Real-Time Reports from S3 Data
I find this point so overplayed lately.

Can someone here name "so many other (paid) services" that Google has killed? And even for free ones, how many major services can you name of the scale of Stadia? G+ is really the only one, and maybe Allo. Hangouts is still not killed though its future is uncertain, GPM is apparently being migrated and Inbox was mostly a UI over Gmail.

Other than those, almost every other item in those cemetery site is a trivial side project, not even close to being comparable to Stadia.
This doesn't surprise me at all. Some country (like Japan) is seeing these detected, because they are often seeing a doctor for the common cold. This is very different dynamic in the country like the US where a lot of people don't (or can't afford to) see a doctor for it -- thus I can only imagine there are quite a few infected, but undetected cases behind numbers that are reported.
Could you also please show infection cases/deaths within China alone? I've noticed something weird in the data reported from inside China (at least the WHO SitRep values). It seems like they are following a quadratic trend (R^2 = 0.96), while the rest of the world is following an exponential trend. Your own graphs show exponential in the World stats.
China transferred detained Uighurs to factories used by global brands
> The vast majority of advancements come directly from materials science.

This is one of the most thought-provoking comments I've ever seen on HN!

Can you expand on that for a couple of paragraphs?
I really hope you pay close attention to the comments by assdf replying to this. The graduate students clearly got desperate because of how crazy the financial situation got. It's sad to see how few people really recognize that. I hope you're lucky in life and never end up trapped the way they were!
Lol. Posts of this length scream ‘adderral just kicked in’. At OP, I hope you are doing okay, recovery can be tough. Plus, you are probably mostly on point, work on that conciseness though.
Late stage VC and PE went after sky-high valuations, startups didn't see the need to go IPO for much longer than the yesteryears. At some point, they run out of money and IPO is their only option to raise afresh. VC/PE must correct this by bringing their valuations inline with the IPO market and be just a stepping stone and not the ultimate step in the fundraising market
Yes, of course it is. And many in the Holocaust, like Anne Frank, died from disease outbreaks in camps.

As to why this is all parroted, it’s because the wealthy make money hand over fists from slavery in globalized industries and pour millions into manufacturing ideologies that justify this state of affairs. There are thousands of think tanks, academic careers, and media apparatchiks that work in service to that money and spend every waking hour constructing apologies for it.
Person in New York City Tests Positive for Covid-19: Officials
The advantage of the bicycle is that it's lightweight enough for a single rider to make it go faster than a horse-drawn carriage. Even on a dirt path, a rider can average 15 mph while horses can only sustain that for short bursts.
Query plans are dependent upon actual data itself. Plan performance issues can be difficult to replicate in test envs.

AFAICT, this product relies on LVM snapshots/copy on write : so is ideal diagnosing, trying out ideas on large databases.
I didn't realize that "common" was a synonym for "good" or "desirable"
Sounds like an amazing way how to get picked up by customs every other time you cross an international border.
What? I didn't say anything about any of the above. "Someone might claim" is a euphemism for me, not a straw man.

A stuffed octopus is indeed something people (techies) use as a sounding board - and it works. You can explain your problems to anyone or anything and get surprisingly good results. I have used my manager this way. However, that's not the limit of what a manager can do.
And this is exactly what my professor has done in response to the graduate student strikes: she is some grading assignments herself and has dropped ones that she no longer has time for. I will probably receive my grades on time, and if I don’t I’m going to be a lot more annoyed at the university for not working something out than I will be at my TA (who has already submitted grades for assignments due before the strike).
Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone
Markets can’t really get smarter over time as they represent all investors. From young teenagers to experienced institutional investors. You just get cycles of people learning the same lessons over again, but that doesn’t last long term just at best a few decades.
myInitials-descriptiveName, e.g. blk-tpsReporter
I think the Democrats are not the party of the working class anymore but the party of well paid specialists and middle management upwards. I would call them party of the top 10%. They have no ability to talk to the lowest ranks anymore.
You can't just "bring games to Stadia". First off you need the approval from the devs. We've seen Blizzard and Bethesda pulling out their games from GeForce Now. Next, the way Stadia is designed, it requires actual porting to use its APIs, which is a non-trivial amount of work required from the devs.

You can argue if it's the right design or not, but as it is, it takes time and effort to move games to Stadia, so it's not as trivial as just running them on Wine.
I leave it in the guest room, so it rarely gets much use, but for a short while I was using an Android TV and it was the best of both worlds. You'd have the Chromecast support in every app, but you could still use the Android TV remote to pause and track back/forward depending on which app it was streaming. Really a good experience!
now is not the time to back down. teaching is hard. teaching and doing research is even harder. this whole problem would be solved by everyone grad and undergrads walking out for a few weeks. Throw in a hunger strike in there too. Only a big disruption at this point will get things done. Now is not the time to back down. The School admins will not understand any other language unfortunately.
Cisco Lays Off and Pivots While Huawei Grows
I'd say the only real improvement has been better insulation; if anything the newer "more environmentally friendly" refrigerants are less efficient than the CFCs that they replaced, which were specifically chosen for their nearly ideal properties at everything besides ozone depletion and global warming (which was unknown at the time.)

I restored a 92-year-old refrigerator, which involved reinsulating it, among other things. The compressor and rest of the hermetic system is original, as is the refrigerant. It actually consumes far less power than most people would guess --- on par with the newest high-efficiency models which I suspect would not last nearly a century.
I don’t think western media outlets or western governments in general particularly care about human rights. We’ve given our citizens rights, at least in the US, because we can more or less shape and influence their opinions. Our government doesn’t have to use force. At the end of the day, capitalist interests are what matters. I know there are the Bill Gates of the world trying to make a difference, but let’s put aside the notion that our foreign policy is shaped by human rights or where another country is a democracy.
Birth of a Virus
Also if you want to make them efficient you will have to invent thermodynamics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_L%C3%A9onard_Sadi_Carn...
The Paralyzing Uncertainty of Not Knowing Whether You’ll Get Sick
that little detail, everyone seems to miss...
Not at the University of California…
It's not only the vendors, it's the market around that too.
I just remembered which company did my certification, clicked on the link from ddg and got

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to www.pearsonitcertification.com. Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s).

Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP

Yeah. Right.

/me giggles

edit: Hm. May have giggled too soon, because https://home.pearsonvue.com/ works. Don't know how the link above is related to them.
The thing is, ios apps have been doing nefarious things since forever.

Apple takes away the ability to:

- see what the apps on your phone are doing

- let you prevent them from doing it.

The big one is networking. Apps can use the network without restriction. apps can link in SDKs that can contact any and all online advertisers. Apple does not allow firewall apps.
There are some decent open source forensics projects out there, such as The Sleuth Kit / Autopsy. I'm not sure how well they compare to the more pricey alternatives like EnCase, but they seem popular enough among law enforcement.

https://www.sleuthkit.org/autopsy/
An increasing number of brands are just that, brands. They buy product from china, slap their logo onto the product and go to market. If consumers complain of poor quality, brands look for a new OEM, but cannot do much more. Service is often outsourced to other companies making the brand incentivised even less.
Maybe you first use physical access to connect to the victim’s computer, get the ID, and masquerade as it in the cable? It’s a hassle, but if the laptop is left alone in the house, doable.
The separate lossless codec and FUIF and some additional ideas have been integrated into the modular mode. The modular mode and VarDCT can be mixed in the same image.

JPEG XL decoder no longer performs 'quantization constraint', it is a classic loop filter, just with heuristics and control fields to maintain detail much better than loop filters in video codecs.

If you start with sharp high quality originals that don't have yuv420 in them, you usually will see 65 % savings with JPEG XL, i.e. more than 30 % on top of brunsli. You can think of VarDCT-mode as guetzli(-35 %) + brunsli(-22 %) + format specific changes(-30 %) like variable sized dcts, better colorspace, adaptive quantization and loop filtering.
I bought both the TTL and CMOS cookbooks by Don Lancaster during my 20s, still have and love them, and spent so many nights building stuff thanks to their examples. Although they might appear outdated to young electronics enthusiats, I would strongly suggest newbies to get them and learn from them; you won't regret it as the knowledge gained there will help a lot also with more modern stuff such as the Arduinos etc.

One of my builds which would have been impossible without the stuff learned on those books was an ultrasound motion sensor built around IIRC a 4070 CMOS quad XOR gates chip: one gate worked as oscillator driving a TX ultrasound transducer, one as linear amplifier driven by a RX ultrasound mike, one as phase detector with its inputs connected to the oscillator and input mike, then one as buffer driving a led when an object was moving in front of the ultrasound capsules. I miss those years!
Well "two grandparents" are people of course.

And people chat like that on dating apps all the time.
Nit: the blue header background took a while to load. Since there’s no `background-color` set, the white text on white background was really hard to read.
I've seen a lot of people suggest not buying the masks when they're in stock at hardware stores so 'hospitals can have some' which I find absolutely hilarious - Just the image of a hospital sending staff down to a Home Depot for some N95 paint masks...
A tad selective there? The headline for example includes the phrase “forced labour”, and the descriptions of conditions are clear enough. I’d argue that those innuendos are being called out for what they are.
"This sounds like a dysfunctional company to me."

Well, I hesitate to call something "dysfunctional" if it works. It becomes a subjective value judgment.

Different companies have succeeded in different ways.
Thanks for this. The US Surgeon General needs to be fired and delicensed from medical practice after his claim yesterday that no one should buy masks because masks don't work. He has no business representing himself as a qualified medical professional.

His statements are such egregious malpractice that they rise to the caliber of extreme negligence and should expose him given his position to liability and possibly criminal charges for contributory homicide.

South Korea is looking at charging church officials with "murder through willful negligence" (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/world/coronavirus-news.ht...). The reason? They told church members to remove their masks during services as it was "disrespectful to God." Telling people not to wear masks is murder through willful negligence.
We’ve been accepting of slave labor for decades now. Your clothes and electronics are built on virtual slave wages, for decades.
"Cyberpunk 2020"
Notes: The Tail at Scale
Briggs & Stratton

They never made lawnmowers, but they made a lot of engines for them and other things.
I'd actually put modern crypto in the opposite bucket: there's virtually no physical constraints at all. You could do RSA by hand if you had to, and if nobody else has computers, you can pick a key size small enough for doing it manually to be practical.
They probably were not wearing a mask. It's possible the patient never encountered anyone wearing a mask until the moment that coronavirus was considered as a diagnosis. My basic understanding of this is that it is simply uncomfortable for healthcare workers to wear masks all of the time, and they interfere with patients being able to see their faces (which humans usually like, even when it is a bad idea).

I am interested to hear from anyone in the healthcare field regarding this and if there are any policy changes being put in place, even in regions where coronavirus hasn't (knowingly) spread to yet. From a layman's perspective, it would make sense to require every healthcare worker - particularly in ERs - to immediately start wearing masks.
i bet none of the 54 fired students were on student visas. they are not that dumb, i hope. it was hard enough to get into us school system just to get deported for striking.
Adding support for Stadia SDK (for remote input and video streaming and such) is not as difficult, as writing a Vulkan renderer in the first place, for a game that doesn't have it. Incentives are measured against the difficulty of the whole work.

I'm sure, using Wine+dxvk as a first step for existing games is a lot easier than writing native Vulkan renderer. In this sense, Google can actually provide one level of incentives for native games (higher one), and another for Wine use case.

I.e. developers can first release it in Wine (phase 1), and then make a native version for example (phase 2) to improve performance.

What Google could do, is to provide integration of their SDK with Wine for phase 1 above.
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> when she apparently has some already?

Where are you seeing that she has roommates? It's not mentioned in the article I read, and I don't see any evidence that the units are shared at https://housing.ucsc.edu/family/. In fact, it says the rent for a 2br is $1700 a month, the same as what she says she's paying.

In any case, the mistake seems to be earlier in the decision-making process, when she decided to become a anthropology graduate student while having a child to care for and without the financial resources to complete the program.
My experience with the technology supporting YouTube TV being so lackluster, I am reluctant to ever consider Stadia. By lackluster I mean buffering on episode load, waiting for the rewind feature to start working.
I misinterpreted "X" as meaning "X windows"

Good article, but I still wish it was about X windows...definitely a buzzkill.
As a Mac user, the best nomadic setup is a MacBook and an iPad. I can’t think of a more practical dual monitor setup to travel with.
even 5-10 years ago rents were much lower. unless you just graduated in 2019 this is irrelevant as rents have in many cases doubled since then in many HCOL cities.

i "survived" in HCOL city then but even then it was not as expensive as it is today.