skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great that it works where you are, I assume the US.
Here in New Zealand of course it's not launched. So while I can pick one of any other consoles/devices to play games on, Stadia isn't one of them.

If you can't reach more than one country, why would anyone want to develop for it?
Getting chemically treated for ADHD is one of the life-changing moments for me. I spent most of my teen years learning "good habits" thru counseling and all that jazz. It wasn't until I started Vyvanse that all those "good habits" that was taught to me actually made sense. All the meditation practice actually got put to good use when it comes to controlling anger.

I do wish I hadn't waited 15+ years between diagnosis and medication, because it is life changing. I can now read HN/reddit without getting sucked into a vortex of endlessness. Pomodoro actually works. And the inner chatter, they still exist. The TVs in the head are still on with all the channels going at once. But you now have a remote control with a mute key and you get to choose which channel you wanna focus on.

p/s if you're Aussie, Vyvanse is now on PBS so you no longer need to pay $100+ a month - rather it's now $6 to $40 depending on your cirumstances.
I've seen and have compared Databricks clusters to a 10-15yo Teradata cluster and no way in hell I would use Databricks.

Teradata is a lot faster for interactive workloads than Databricks.

PS: I agree there's no comparing on Databricks vs Snowflake/BigQuery.
TermScout has a database of hundreds of software contract ratings to compare
I've just put together a couple of APIs, pretty simple things, but FASTApi made the first one (a bunch of selects) go together super quick (except for matching a legacy query parameter structure that is only questionably legal), and the second one (call outs to subprocess.check_foo) was going well until I tried to access a raw post body from a sync context. As far as I can tell, it's just not possible with Starlette, so after spending as much time as I spent on the rest of the API, I ripped out FASTApi and dropped in flask.

There's a lot more messing with parameters, and it's not as clean, but it does work without dropping subprocess.
When I was little, my grandma had a gigantic console style humidifier. This thing was a beast. There was a vertical conveyor belt that would go underwater (the tank held at least 10 gallons) and then it would pass in front of a low speed fan. The belt would then circle around and back down to the tank to pull up more water. That thing could humidify a damn hangar.
I think Stadia makes more sense when you frame it against game consoles.

The easiest users to steal from the console market are the ones that buy only 1 or 2 console games which are traditionally reserved for those consoles (NFL Madden is the latest promotion and a good example). For these users, there is massive experience shift going from buying a ps4, ps online, just to play the same game all the time. I am one of these users. If they can find these 1 or 2 games that activate each segment of users, they will take cohorts from the console market. This won't get the entire console gamer market, but it's a great place to start.
$10,000 long bet that Google kills Stadia by 2025.
I for one welcome our operator overloads... um, overlords... uh...

[segmentation fault]

Seriously, what's the difference? If you don't have operator overloading, then you have to call a function. And an overloaded operator is a function call. So what's the difference?

You can overload + to add matrices, say. That could allocate. It could also be buggy and subtract them instead. Or, you could call AddMatrices, which could also allocate, and could also be buggy and subtract the matrices.

The only difference is that, if you came from C, you might expect + to be the built-in arithmetic operator, and only that. That is, if you don't know the language, then the language features may surprise you. That's... not news, and not very interesting.

I agree with the article. The complainers have a C hammer, and they can't see beyond it.
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> Google's lack of planning on this

Seriously, When did Google ever planned anything?

It is only in recent years, they fall out of the Media's flavour did people start to look at them rationally.
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How dare you express a personal opinion that doesn't suck off the trend setting tech industry leaders! Down vote! Ban! Mwahahaha...
I'd love to give this a go - we use Django/DRF extensively and we love it, however sometimes serialization performance is awful. Are there any speed ups compared to Django in serialization speed?
Funny enough, DUI checkpoints are illegal in Oregon.
This is accurate, and my comment criticizing the ESD is generally irrelevant to the topic at hand. However, I'm not retracting it, because it's also accurate, and not being at fault for this one doesn't excuse the absolute shambles they've been in for the past year.
> I am curious what the next evolution of this model will look like.

Marketplace.
Sounds like the right approach, and it seems Google is slowly moving in that direction...starting with this decision.

As others have commented, it was pure hubris for Google (and Rick Osterloh) to believe they could just start a new game studio and use it to fuel growth of the Stadia streaming platform. Xbox surely would've died without Halo!

This "do it all myself" approach needs to start with building a massive user base upon which to lure other game developers and TV manufacturers - not the other way around. A telling sign is that the newest Google TV dongle doesn't yet support Stadia...

From a hardware technical standpoint, I think most TV manufacturers don't include a powerful enough SOC from which to run a Stadia app (e.g. a built-in Chromecast != Chromecast dongle). There's also some server-side compatibility issues that we're not aware of.
I know that this is unpopular here, but a lot of people (including me) don't mind that they get targeted ads.

If you fear for abuse, then there should be clear laws what should not be allowed and severe punishment for this.

But forbidding facebook to track behaviour and then allowing apple to do so (e.g. they even track what programs you run, is just wrong. Who knows, maybe apple will even start its own "privacy" network later on.
I think oxycontin is an interesting example.

A lot of people got (get) "incidentally" addicted, due to overprescription / easy supply.

Regulatory failure and corruption didn't help, of course.
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Nice list, esp for anyone getting started. I remember web scraping was my entrypoint into web development. I take it for granted now, but 15+ years ago I loved the idea of being able to completely mine a website of all its content.
Does Starlink need any country-specific capital beyond a pizza-box receiver/antenna to function well?

E.g. I was under the impression there would have to be occasional large-scale, ground-based, starlink infrastructure nodes to connect geographically local requests to the nearest fiber-linked internet server nodes (rather than sending requests through the entire starlink infrastructure back to ground based units in America)
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It seems a generic game to demonstrate new hardware is more difficult than we might assume... anyone for Kinect Sports?
What would happen if the US just invaded and wiped out the military?

Would there be an insurgency? Would they be able to train a local and loyal military force to protect democracy?

I guess it would end up like Iraq all over again. Local military leaders would just become terrorist leaders. However because they are mostly Buddhist it feels like it would be harder for them to attract jihadists. And the Muslims are the ones being persecuted.

After all the money we spent on Iraq and Afghanistan, it seems like it would have been better spent liberating a country like this once and for all.

Funny to think how the reaction would be to a Biden government going to war with a tiny military dictatorship. Would people protest it and on what grounds?

Could a modern day colonialism work? With modern liberal ideals of the US it seems like it would be dramatically different from times past. US would just setup and defend a constitution and ensure fair elections and provide military. Minus the exploitation this time.

PS. Not seriously advocating for any of this, just interesting to think about.

—

Also, I think we take it so much for granted that the most powerful military in the world who could easily take control of the whole country overnight is 100% loyal to a civilian elected by the people.

I wonder how much free choice people have in this scenario anyway. It would seem obvious to blame the military leaders and their soldiers who are the ones who enable all this. But how much does a regular soldier rely upon his salary to survive.
It's an interesting time for AI/ML/pattern rec in medical devices.

People have been shipping such systems since at least the mid 90s (e.g. CADe) but it's always been a bit of a difficult area from a regulatory point of view.

If you go back a couple decades, or really even only one depending on the panel, it was fair to describe the FDA as an organization that understood hardware but didn't really understand software. On top of this, a lot of their approach was focused on controlled, reproducible results. So anything probabilistic or even worse, continually learning, becomes difficult to frame.

The FDA guidance doc/ action plan (link is broken in article and on FDA site: it's here https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/software-medical-device-...) is actually pretty encouraging, because they took community feedback from the original request for feedback (https://www.fda.gov/media/122535/download) and seem to have handle that process reasonably.

Many people I've talked to without direct experience seem to assume the 13485 process as a whole is needlessly bureaucratic, but in my experience it's mostly holding yourself to a higher engineering standard that some other industries, and works out ok. This willingness to engage with technologies can be frustratingly slow, but it's mostly reasonable.
I read it again last year and picked up on a few things that had slipped past my understanding the first time around. I had originally assumed that the present day Enoch Root was the child of Bobby's Nordic girlfriend, but it was obviously not the case upon my second reading. A few web searches revealed the supernatural nature of Root.

I always wondered if Stephenson chose the name "Enoch Root" on a dare, or maybe he has some other story. It's probably something related to an "Enterprise NOC Root" computer account.
> That this thought experiment merits a web page is really quite astounding. That I decided to write you an e-mail telling you that is even more astounding. And that I don't drink myself stupid following this exchange will be the most astounding non-event in the history of mankind. I am baffled, shattered, and destroyed by the mind-numbing pointlessness of The Incompatible Food Triad experiment. It makes me ill. I promise you, sir, I will never again be the same after witnessing the sheer mind-blowing uselessness of that puzzle. My life as I know it, is over. I once was lost, but then I was found, and then I found your website linked to Wikipedia and now I am lost again, irretrievably lost in a dark maze, a pitch dark maze with the Minotaur of Bafflement hunting me down. I shall not escape him, I shall not escape my doom. No, good sir, instead I fall - far and away, even from myself I fall until I slam forcefully into the cold steel floor of my own mind, crippled and alone, dead to all sensation. I am gone, sir, and I shall never return.

Loved the page, myself.
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Having the money to port a game to console is great, but usually not comparable to fronting the full development of a game.

There might be a couple where Epic might have done that (kind of, I know they saved some games), but I don't think Microsoft funded any development for a gamepass game so far. (From a third party, not published by Microsoft.)
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Is the app available on the App Store?
pretty awesome - I wonder if the algo could be used to teach people how to sign the alphabet - new twist on machine "learning"
Oh I'm sure benzos help for anxiety lmao good one dude. Of course they do.
> FWIW

It's worth basically nothing. We already know it's 95% effective; someone has to be the 5%, and there's a publication bias towards reporting on those.
I know my city like the back of my hand and can chart my own course across it on a whim thank you. I don't just decide where I'm going, but I also choose how to get there. Sometimes the course is more important than the destination.

Reliance on online nav systems is an excuse for poor roadwork planning and lazy accident management. I want robots and helicopters to take of the roads as I know them, not constantly updated paths that need to be tracked. Learned mental map of the territory should prevail. Else we'll end up being floated over non-euclidian chaotic trajectories for reasons of economic efficiency.
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Could you please stop posting swipes and flamey comments to HN? You've been doing it a lot lately and it's not what this site is for, no matter how annoyed you may feel about some of what you see here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Jepsen review 2020:

https://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-4.2.6

... not good.
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Cool! TIL. I've seen Datadog job postings for positions near Boston. I should apply.
It's interesting that nobody really talks about this.

The experience or knowledge of a problem seems like an extremely important aspect of starting a business, but it's often talked about as being "generated" or thought up.

The more I've worked on my own idea, the more I've realized that I needed to better understand the problem space and refine my vision.
Can confirm - Cyberpunk 2077, along with Doom Eternal and Celeste, have been a blast on Stadia for me for the past few months.
Microsoft shutdown Invoke - I got a $50 voucher and I still can use the device as a bluetooth speaker. What happens with my Stadio investment in hardware when they shut it down soon?! How many times we need to say: "Not again!" investing any time with a new product/service from Google?! My daughter got a Pixel 3a - it has so many issues and Google won't fix saying it has to do with my carrier. Their forums are flooded with people from different carriers having the same issues, but, not, they blame Bluetooth problems to T-Mobile! Same with Google Home Max - I bought one wanted to buy another until it's gone (when it was $179) just to be brought back at full price ($299) and then be gone again! Same with Google OnHub - I bought it, then it became unsupported and gone!

Google cannot run a business, they really don't know how to protect their brand, and never fail to piss off everybody and especially their early adopters!
I've had a great experience with their service quite some time ago, though I'm a bit worried about their ability to scale up. IIRC they had suspended new sign ups for some time, and rollout of their Ultra and Infinite offerings seems pretty slow (possibly because of GPU shortages?).
All eyes on Alphabet's first-ever disclosure of Google Cloud profit