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> I never understood why Amazon rolled another engine.

For the same synergistic effects as Epic and their game store + their engine. If you use epic's engine, they charge you less to sell your games. It's basically trying to incentivize selling on their platform and using their platform tools at the same time.
The measured approach is a problem too. You see it in marijuana legalization, where some state’s are so restrictive about licensing sakes outlets that legal weed costs more than illegal.

How can that kill off a dangerous black market?

Someone who is going to try heroin is going to try heroin. They can live a mostly long, healthy, productive life if they get clean drugs and needles. Where are they going to get that from decriminalization?

An idea I’ve noodled around with is adding drug (and alcohol) consumption as a badge to your drivers license. Every time you go to a drug dispensary you have to show your license.

If you get out of line, driving intoxicated, or commit any crimes while drunk or high they take your license until you complete rehab. And if you go too far off the deep end, maybe they keep your badges off your license for a very long time.

At least that way we can eliminate all the other crimes the war on drugs helps create.
The morbid roadside ad poetry of Burma Shave (2012)
VLC is great! I am just wondering when i can chromecast subtitles on VLC
First of all, thank you for VLC, for choosing the GPL, and for being one of the too few examples of French excellence in tech ! I can only sympathise with stories in Grandes Ecoles involving "found" cones :)

What's coming for the next 20 years? Are there any challenges that the VideoLAN project has unique expertise on that it can bring out ?
In the sense that you need less capital today to be industrious than maybe ever before, you are absolutely right. You don't have to invest a lot of money to build a factory or pay for inventory. But even being in a position like Michael Lynch to be able to not having to work for your sustenance for three years means that you already are very privileged.
> caffeine does help from my testing

My doctor put it this way: Caffeine triggers a useful dopamine response, but the side effects are strong at "useful" levels.

Ritalin and Adderall provide a stronger dopamine response with fewer side effects at "useful" levels.

They're all stimulants, but the magnitude of the useful vs. non-useful effects differs.
Got any customers yet? When did you release it?? Looks great
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What's your best advice for people getting into performance- and reliability?
I'm certain that brothers Wright did not have a rigorous mathematical model of their airplane. It is well known that Bell's telephone was invented by accident. I suspect we still lack a comprehensive theory of pizza-making.

Sometimes you just hit a mother lode, and keep digging, preferably doing proper geological research along the way. But to postpone practical applications before a complete theory is ready is to lack business sense.
What are the best settings/codecs for upscaling video to 4K in real-time?

Or is there a post-processing solution to upscale video for VLC?

I've seen some impressive neural net solutions for upscaing, but they haven't been open source.
What technology is required to compete with this, mostly i notice that it is based on open-source Linux and Vulcan graphics rendering?
It was an ATM backbone, but the routers did not support mcast. So they cheated to do multicast on a non-multicast network.
I don't believe Google has the right culture to make compelling video games anyways. Maybe at best a super safe mario clone for children. Anything remotely controversial will have half the staff protesting threatening to quit.
Citadel, 1.8 mill shares missing because of naked short selling, because they are counterfeit, because all hedge funds are doing this , because connect the dots, because the game is rigged, because it is illegal. At the end RH is in the game selling the stock owned by investors without their consent.
A useful link. Need to do some comparison against different genres. Subaligner is just yet another tool and not one of a kind.
I limit myself to one mug in the morning and another around lunch if I need the help on the days I do drink coffee. I try not to build up a caffeine tolerance since it's the next best thing to ADHD drugs for me. If you just like coffee, switch to decaf and only drink caffeinated for when you need it.
> We already massively promote and sell alcohol nearly everywhere.

Two wrongs don't make a right. Alcohol and tobacco are "grandfathered in" to the current system due to widespread usage for centuries. If I were king for a day, alcoholic beverage marketing would be made immediately illegal, but in our current democracy there's no way the alcohol lobby would allow that.
I think they know that it’s a sub standard product that is “good enough” for today but it will never be good enough for a use case like VR. I think the future of gaming is in ultra low latency, high resolution experiences and people will look at Stadia like a silent film from the 1920s.

Also it’s clear that by getting rid of their reference developer they don’t have the appetite to dog food Stadia for themselves. There is a secondary and tertiary reason Apple and Microsoft write software for their platforms, it’s to 2) serve as a reference for other developers what is possible and 3) iron out the bugs in their SDKs.

Google doesn’t take that seriously and it shows us the Stadia is already starting to wind down.
IIRC the drinking age on private property in the UK is 5 years. So there is a limit :P
Would be very helpful to understand a few aspects that are common hurdles for small sat constellation companies. How much will each of your sats cost? What is the projected development cost to launch your first satellite? Or What will you need to raise from investors to get one satellite in orbit? What is your strategy for de-risking what sounds like a lot of new tech before your first launch? When does the first, to spec satellite fly (not including hosted payloads)? Why LWIR over MWIR? How would you respond to competitors claiming claiming similar thermal imaging resolution (MWIR)?
By troubled I mean it would regularly go into what I called "three stooges" mode where each node swore that another was the master. Of course this would mean that writes would stop dead in their tracks.

Given that this happened to me across companies, teams, and a half decade of time, I've decided that this is a case where the problem is Mongo and not me.
We were able to set up a certificate-per-device authorization for MQTT where we use CN field of the cert for mapping to what particular device is allowed to pub/sub to
Phil Harrison's (VP of Stadia) blog about the subject:
https://blog.google/products/stadia/focusing-on-stadias-futu...
auto renew is a great suggestion. I own a european domain, which I manually renewed, and the registrar wanted to ding me a $250 REINSTATE fee. Why? Apparently the time difference. As I'm quite detail oriented, I checked and my renewal was confirmed 1 hour prior to the deadline european time. UST to the rescue. The registar did eventually own up, but it left me quite amazed at games some people will play for a few dollars.
You don't have to buy any hardware to start using stadia from your browser. If you want to play on your TV the hardware is a lot cheaper than a PS5 or Xbox.

Its also nice to not have a large box hooked up to your TV.
It makes sense. As I said, I'm building for our own needs as we help organizations with machine learning and we needed to deliver faster, but I appreciate talking with people in the field to cluster families of problems and see a slightly bigger picture, and I generally like talking with this kind of people. They remind me of my colleagues, and I really like my colleagues.
>the health risks of low doses of adderall were smaller than those of high doses of caffeine.

I hadn't seen that before, so thank you!

I ran into this same thing accidentally, I was regularly 'overdosing' on caffeine by drinking 300 - 400mg of caffeine per day in college.

The safe dosage is ~200mg for an adult if I recall, but I can only do about 100 - 125mg absolute max or my heart starts pounding. I am not sure if this lowered limit is due to 'abuse' or if I also have different caffeine metabolization. I will have to take a look at my data.
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Phil Spencer is XBOX, Phil Harrison is Google
My memory is that early VLC was actually a bit slower than MPC, at least on my low-powered Windows 98 PC of the time (cobbled together for schoolwork from spare parts). There would be skipping or a loss of sync between audio and video on some heavier clips that didn't happen on MPC.

But what I primarily remember in making the switch was that VLC could play everything I threw at it, right out of the box, without installing a bunch of sketchy codec packs. And that also allowed me to basically just throw the VLC binary onto my flash-drive, and then be able to open any videos as needed from parents'/friends'/school computer by just plugging in the usb stick. It was definitely a game-changer.
Imagine buying health insurance from someone for whom it's a hobby.
Technically, most of those features are only in modules, and you can remove most of those already and have a functioning VLC.

We don't remove them, because besides disk space, they don't take any CPU or RAM of the user.
delta lake is open source too btw
Worst chess books and yet they are best sellers
I think the reason this is a big deal is that one of the selling points of Stadia was that "cloud gaming" would enable things that consoles and PCs didn't, like huge persistent worlds with a ton a players in a single area. With no first party support, Stadia is just going to be a way to stream ports of games designed for consoles and PCs. Imagine if Valve released the Index, then announced that they aren't making VR games any more. That's basically what Google is doing by saying it isn't worth it to develop games specifically for Stadia.
I applied here last month. Unfortunately I only received a form email two weeks later that said "Members of our team reviewed your application, and we do not have a match for your background at this time.

Considering that there is no way to specify roles of interest, it felt very opaque. Especially so, since I fall into two of the aforementioned categories.
I saw a talk about Lumberyard once. The really special things they wanted to do were integrate it tightly with AWS and Twitch, which enabled some neat features like letting people spectate games and move their own camera around the field to do so.
The training is quite heavy on the sales pitch, I agree (and expensive). There were some useful bits if you dig around though.
Now you’re just repeating the same fallacy by assuming all these tools have improved at the same rate.
Why does a game need to be controversial to be compelling?
it's way more portable so that's a major value proposition in my book. I would never use it for multi-player games, but for single player it's probably okay if you're an average gamer.

I personally wouldn't use it because I'm anal about refresh rates/max settings/latency/etc but for other people (especially younger gamers with less disposable income) I think it's pretty compelling.
Serendipitous, I'm also about 75% of the way through!

It's one of the most beautiful books I've ever read. Perhaps the most.

I very highly recommend it, though I imagine much of HN's audience has done so or is at least aware of it.
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I agree that absolute statements like "never" obscure useful discussion.

I would reword your comment as: "If you are building something and excited, then keep going, don't stop because a blog told you 'never'". I think that's what your main point was, and it's a good one.
its standard practice in asia to wear masks if you are sick or worried about getting sick. its not standard practice to wear masks 100% of the time forever.
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Many common shortcuts are hamstrung these days by having keys disappear from keyboards, or things like every Chrome-based app on MacOS doing input editing wrong, and so on.
Really? How about in the case of armed robbery? Or murder? Can they choose not to arrest? Yes, but there will be serious consequences. BTW I voted for it too.
> There are other states where drug possession is only a misdemeanor, e.g.:

You say "other" as if that's the case in Oregon. As of today, it's no longer a misdemeanor (or in some cases, a felony).
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> There's a legal mandated Chinese firewall between the organizations.

You don't seriously believe this nonsense works, do you?

What's legally mandated is irrelevant unless the CEO of each organisation is constantly tracked, their every personal conversation recorded by government at all times.

If I own those companies, I can have lunch with one of my CEO's today, and the other one tomorrow. Now they both know what's expected of them, without there ever being a written record of anything.

These people didn't reach the pinnacle of Wall St by giving a shit about what some lawmakers scratched on paper and told them they had to follow. You're in dream land if you think the honour system works to keep Wall St. bosses honest.
You can get benefits with IO bound work.
A valid question. When my mother was growing up, pizza was considered a somewhat exotic Italian-American import.
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Congratulations!!!

Three feature requests:
1) Make it possible to disable the playlist feature completely.
2) Make it possible to start it a second time with another video concurrently.
3) Make it possible to use a list of regex on subtitles, to filter out SDH and other stuff I don't need.
ours mostly just ran x86 code..
"Speeding, being a crime, allowed him to do these things that parking tickets do not."

That's not entirely true (excluding the pat down). The "search" you are talking about is simply plain sight/smell/etc. A cop writing a parking ticket can look through the window of your car and run the plates to see if it's stolen, lacking registration, etc. In either case they need probable cause to do an actual search of your vehicle.

Not to mention, they can stop (in most states) you even if you didnt commit a crime, like at a DUI checkpoint.
This will probably be an unpopular opinion here, but I love Stadia. I have a gaming pc, but my GPU is getting old so the newer games don't run well. So I gave Stadia a go. My internet is good enough and the fact of not having to download a game before playing is just fantastic. Also I can play on my tablet in bed.

I definitely think this is the future, if it's not from Google, then it'll be Amazon, Microsoft, or Epic/Tencent.
Google shuts down internal Stadia game studio
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I’m likely going to get downvoted to oblivion but as good as the video player application is, the development experience when trying to incorporate the SDK into your own software is utterly miserable.

I’ve given up trying to use it after searching for a solution and not being able to find one and asking in the support forums. I presented a clear description of the issue and example code and was rudely told to not ask developers to write my app for me. It’s happened a few times in exactly the same way over the years. Each time, I foolishly think it will be improved and spend even longer polishing my question, making sure the same old code builds etc. It’s always the same. Miserable.

Charitably, I see so many messages along the lines of “I wantz to build video app- pls helpz” which must get tiring but not as disappointing as asking sensible questions and proving source code.
I haven't looked into it for a couple years, I was initially very excited about the concept. TLDR: Unless the user experience/accessibility/hosting experience is improved, I just couldn't suggest anyone use it.

Last time I really dug in the user interface and accessibility concerns were not great.

I understand the idea was more about the data handling, and that anyone could produce something based off the framework but I had all sorts of issues with the login tokens/usability. (ie, if you logged in with the wrong cert it didn't have an easy way to clear it, and would 'log in' to an error page. ect. )

as far as I can tell, each pod/data host can run different versions of solid, so your experience may vary between them. You can self host as well.

I'd have to dig in again to see if things have gotten better, but I don't have time at the moment.
on quick look, some of my data sites are no longer working. oh! link says it was shut down in oct. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-solid/2020Oct/00...

That said, the community was pretty nice and willing to answer questions.

Maybe things have improved?

I was hoping that maybe they'd start using DAT as well, because it seemed like it might be nice to dovetail with some of the beakerbrowser/distributed web stuff going on. re @pfrazee
> Can you add to VLC a support for reading subtitles with the os screen reader?

it's already doable. But it does disable the display of subtitles.
Are there any plans for an UI refresh?

I've seen people on macOS switch to IINA in droves because the interface looks very slick and modern (yet functional!). I understand VLC is not in the business in chasing the latest UI fad, but the first thing people who don't know VLC notice about it is how archaic it looks.