skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the open market they are currently $45-$55 USD per IP depending on block size.

Source: https://auctions.ipv4.global/prior-sales

So a /16 (like a cloud provider would be buying) is $3.5M USD right now.
It's quite amazing that it turned out it's easier than expected to get helicopters working on Mars.
https://killedbygoogle.com/ time to update lmao
"there'd be no license transfer of any sort, which means that any purchases made on Stadia would effectively be nullified as the service closes down."

It lasted less than three years and will leave players with nothing to show.

This is what people were predicting when Stadia lauched and part of the reason why it had poor adoption.
I do feel bad for people who bought into it too. On the other hand they did not care about further normalizing not owning and running software themselves despite the negative influences streaming would have. Like excluding or monetizing and profiting from user content etc.

Perhaps it is not their responsibility but I guess they accepted the risk in the first place. I don't think Google will kill the service anytime soon though and this rumor is probably wrong. Won't get too many new users with them around either.
It really should come in two options
Too bad, I really enjoyed the freedom it offered. Just wish it had worked while I was travelling in Mexico. Oh well.
The most chilling is that this also inflicts the military.

Lieutenant Colonel Heffington on West Point, published in 2017:

> Academic standards are also nonexistent. I believe this trend started 10 years ago, and it has continued to get worse. West Point has stated standards for academic expectations and performance, but they're ignored. Cadets routinely fail multiple classes, only to be thrown back into the mix. The faculty is expected to somehow drag them through the academic program until they manage to earn a passing grade. As a result, professors have lost hope and faith in the entire Academic Board process

And this is supposed to be the most prestigious institution in the armed forces, the people who will have nuclear weapons in their hands...Chilling. That's how the West ends up with leaders who do not know how to lead, reporters who do not report, officers who are clueless about real war, and diplomats who are incapable of being diplomatic
i'm not sure which one i have but i know i have hte mini form factor and i love it. My wife and oldest son have the gigantic tablet form factor and it feels like i may as well be using an ipad hah. (and they hate using my phone too)

edit: settings -> general says it's an iphone 12 mini
yep agreed, I've disabled the IP detection
I don't see anything in your post dealing with race, so not sure what that poster is on about.
Even if it's on the same system your piano still has 88 keys and you get either a loudness gain per key or a phasing effect when a key is played more than once per time. The only somewhat interesting effect (at least for some) might be that the generator hits its limits (usually 20 to 40 notes polyphony) and randomly decides which notes to leave out or prioritize. But this is out of control of the "composer" and likely not the intended effect.
Yes but that is the comparison being made, that the registry is like a filesystem and thus should have just been a filesystem. If the suggestion is to put many fields in one file then that's a different suggestion.
Gov'ts are so sordid that sometimes sharia can make things better even for girls
It is a long standing debate, see this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27939728

basically it has some characteristics of a database and some characteristics of a filesystem (and a filesystem is actually a particular form of database), not entirely unlike the "over or under":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation

it is an endless one, both views have their merits (but it is "over" and a filesystem ;))
"The source also claims that there'd be no license transfer of any sort, which means that any purchases made on Stadia would effectively be nullified as the service closes down."

There clearly needs to be a law to make such things illegal. I've refused to take the discount on digital Switch games since Nintendo has clearly shown they are willing to shut down old servers and tell you to just buy your games again.

But there are some games that are digital only and I fear the next generation of games will be like Xbox. You buy a physical that does nothing more than connect to a server that downloads the game.

Perhaps legally allowing backups of games you purchased would help.
There are two different definitions of OP. Original poster and Original post. The original poster is the person that made the original post. The parent was hoping that the link would be on the original post and not on a comment which could be under many other threads.
I absolutely hope not.

Stadia has provided an excellent game night for me and my remote friend (who is on a Mac) this year and we've had a blast, we mostly play little party games as nither of us our big gamers, but it makes for an excellent night,i've bought a couple of games on it that i've yet to even get too and plan to buy some more and enjoy the odd hour or two in the evenings. Stadia removes all fraction and means I don't need to install/update or have gaming hardware.

The service is great. Despite it not being popular. It would be an absolute disaster for me if the service were to close.
FreeDOS would boot in about 2 seconds, literally. :)
Or transferred to the strategy department to decide what the next in thing is so they can build multiple versions of it, seeing as they are now bored of messaging.
I don’t think self hosting can win either. As you’re saying. I do like the idea of everything like micro blogs not having to be on a central site. Though even that seems unlikely. It would be nice to have the format of blogs again where there’s different subdomains or domains and you can’t directly click thru to get to the rest of the “social media” bigger org.

I sort of described substack here but a bit more personalization and independence if possible.
I really liked the idea behind Stadia as someone who doesn’t buy many consoles or own a computer suitable for gaming.

I don’t like the idea of never owning games but I could accept it as someone who essentially never buys them otherwise.

But I expected this to happen and I didn’t feel like dealing with the hassle of getting accustomed to a service and watching it get shut down.
The failure was around tech. We are not there yet. Speed of light is what needs to be overcome in order for this kind of service to be viable. Until then no amount of money, business development, marketing, brand reputation will ever make this viable.
It is highly unethical to take away copies of the game that players had to pay full price for.

Stadia owes them a retail copy of the games they purchased.
It was a perfectly sensible strategic bet.

5G = easy streaming everything everywhere

Their mistake was assuming the American telecoms would actually deliver real 5G in any reasonable amount of time. Maybe they should've tested it in the Korean market.
This just reeks of entitlement. “Entertain me and engage me! Let no moment of my life ever be touched by confusion or struggle! Spoon feed me everything I can ever want or need!”

Ultimately, it’s not the school’s problem if you don’t learn, it’s yours. You’re the one who’s going to have to go through life not understanding math and whatnot. So if you care to have any agency and control over your own life you better figure out how to learn what you need to know, whether it’s engaging or not.

As for jobs, they’re hiring you to do work, not to be entertained. Don’t like it? Move along to something else then.

The people who feed you an endless stream of engaging content that keeps you mindlessly consuming are not doing it with your best interests at heart.
full text here: https://ideas.repec.org/p/crm/wpaper/1701.html
Anyone looking at hand-rolled disks on files isn't needing anything sqlite won't give them. + getting people comfortable with sql & then migrating from sqlite to postgres isn't a bad tradeoff.
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> I don't see anything wrong with the premise of the service

You will own nothing and be happy. Great.
Some of the famous people are famous mythical people who possibly, or certainly, did not actually live.
If they do, Google should refund all hardware and game purchases.
Oh yes. I have a tremendous amount of Cubase .arr files I can't read, and heaps of floppies in various weird formats from old workstations that there's no easy way to read except by using the original hardware, which is slowly dying out (my second MV-30 gave up the ghost recently).
You don't say...

Google has a bunch of great products, but most of their consumer facing success are driven by data collection and ads. Even if it's just a rumor, I don't see any evidence that Google is able to run successful products that requires actual support to paying users.

Stadia does makes sort of sense as an idea to try, in that it exists in a space where Android, GCP and YouTube intersects. It's entertainment, you could bring it to Android phones potentially and utilize Google infrastructure. Still it seems a bit far of from what Google can do.
Maybe there isn't a database engine that explicitly supports file system data structures, but you could implement a filesystem in the application layer using SQLite as a storage mechanism.

Here's an example of someone doing that very thing.

https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs
While it was always doomed from launch, I can't imagine the impressive debut of the steamdeck helped matters.
Your site is quite nice and responsive, made me think of Stripe's interface. May I ask what frontend you've built this on? Or really any details of your process of frontend rebuild you'd like to share?

The French-speaking populace can take jokes like this, so you're safe. :)
The technical side was initially plagued by lag in games that were ill suited for it but this has consistently approved.

I think the real failing is what you stated - biz dev and brand reputation.

Read the other replies and you will see folks say "There were no games" or "The selection was limited." Why in the world would a major game company hesitate to invest in google and google services? Well, if you have a reputation of killing off your services like the grim reaper, I imagine that would come up in an executive risk assessment.

Google can fix their reputation but its going to take a lot of work. Consider Microsoft's reputation in the late mid to late 90's on slashdot and other forums compared to their reputation today. It took a lot of work but possible.

Googles going to have to put down the scythe though.
We probably need a social media craigslist that implements the basic features you are describing and then is ok with keeping things running without the need for growth.
I'm gonna be quite pedantic, nitpicking and killjoy-y here, so don't read on if you'll be annoyed by that

>"The entire french community"

seems like a huge exaggeration. input/output is i/o, not io. while that's a relatively small difference, it's enough that without context I'd never read io as input output. also I'd question how much of the French [presumably design?] community at large has even heard of or seen i/o as a symbol for input/output
I hope the Linux ports of the games in the service get some extended life, but most likely they will just vanish.
This is the key difference.

It takes 60 seconds to fill and fuel tank, it takes 60 minutes (if you're lucky) to fill an EV.

One is an insignificant amount of time, relatively speaking.

The person you're replying to isn't making the right comparison; do we care about waiting/wasting 1 minute vs 60+ minutes?

I sure as shit do.
I have a real piano capable of midi input here and there is no way I'm going to test the power supply and solenoid drivers by sending them that kind of data because I'm pretty sure that the designers did not anticipate this kind of use.
I'm surprised by the data, to be honest. I've never heard of either of the two "famous" people shown in my hometown. Strange considering we're known for a very famous actress and a very famous hockey player, neither of which showed up at all.
I wouldn't call Stadia a joke. It does in fact work quite well. But it's not really positioned to compete with the other first-party console alternatives, nor does it have compelling features that make it a better choice than products let you DIY an experience (e.g. Parsec + self-hosted gaming rig, Steam Remote Play, GeForce Now, GPU-accelerated VDI as a service like Shadow...).

For a while Google was literally giving away Stadia controllers, a Chromecast device to support using it with a TV, and games for free. Every power user/gamer type person I know that took them up on it fooled around with it, agreed that it was a good experience...and then pretty much never touched it again.
I have no proof but I called it on day one. This never stood a chance. It made no sense. They could've saved billions of dollars by just talking to me for 5 minutes, a gamer.
Hopefully one of those team members/memberettes can go on to implement some standard protocols like client side caldav and carddav on Android since, you know, Google is so open.
Does Truth Social have more people than the rest of Mastadon now? I thought it was mostly a dumpster fire. The SPAC stock isn’t doing well nor the insider behavior.
I mean, buying games at full retail price that you can only use on their service is not very appealing to me... I hope they'll give out Steam codes or something to folks that did.
Magical ass or not, you offer no trial and $94/file -1 file with up to 50 artboards. $124/file - 1 file with unlimited artboards. Hard no from me and my team.
Rumor - true or false - is true.

If the rumor is true, the service is killed off.

If the rumor is false, well it sounds like something google would do, and consumers will hesitate to buy into it and businesses definitely won't. I've read and written my fair share of executive summaries before - I imagine this would make its way into it.
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From the account in the linked article, it seems that a large part of the blame can be laid at the feet of the licensing folks at WB, who ate up a ton of the development time by constantly demanding changes. They probably didn't lose their jobs.
It's been interesting watching you build this on Twitter.

What prompted you to invest your time in this project vs the others that you were probably considering?
That would sound like a very quick glissando.
of games they purchased temporary license to use*

no games were actually purchased, so customers are free to take their complaints and do exactly nothing with them.

(yes, this is egregious)
It's already PyPy, so shouldn't that be "PyPy PyPy"?
> The source also claims that there'd be no license transfer of any sort, which means that any purchases made on Stadia would effectively be nullified as the service closes down.

This is precisely why I didn't try Stadia. I never expected anything more from Google.
Have you looked into using Geforce Now with your friend? It's a fantastic service and works on OSX.
Overlooked this question:

> But you can still just sign up and use it already

Yes. You can just enter a credit card & start using it.
I'd hardly call the fundamentals of organization pedantic nitpicking. It's not much of a country if they can't figure out whether or not a huge enemy army is on their territory. I'd say the only way this situation could ever be remotely possible was is if the country was in the final stages of collapse.
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We Chose Jsonnet over WebAssembly
I suspect they'll just refund all users that complain.

Adoption of stadia was sufficiently small that Google will pay the full refund cost just to prevent PR damage or lawsuit losses (and take the loss themselves, because the game developer isn't going to want to give a refund).
Are there modern "netbook" style cheap laptops with upgradable RAM/HDD?

One of the joys of netbooks (for me) was throwing 4GB or 8GB or RAM and an SSD into those things. At which point they become pretty credible performers for a lot of things.

But every time I look into such things these days, I can't find any upgradeable ones.
Google+ fucked up for a variety of reasons. If you had a Google Apps account, you couldn't sign up at first. You had to have an email address ending in @gmail.com. With that move, Google alienated their most enthusiastic users from the start.

When I finally was able to get a Google+ account with my Google managed email address, it immediately had me following some celebrity and it suggested following other celebrities. I use Facebook for the same reason I use(d) instant message protocols like AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, etc. and now still use Facebook, Discord, Hangouts/gchat/whatevergooglecallsitnow, etc.: To talk to my friends, and to share stuff and organize events with my friends. No interest in using anything Twitter-like. So I didn't. Facebook also has surprisingly good private interest groups, still based around talking to people rather than celebrity/influencer culture.
You're confusing a byte (8 bits) with a C `char` (the smallest addressable unit of memory that's at least 8 bits). Usually the smallest addressable unit regardless of size is a "word", some early machines had 6-bit words.
I had a 6p it was great but cheap construction. First battery wore out after 9 months, second one wasn't much longer, especially in the cold. Lots of other people had hardware problems, it was rare to see them after a few years.
Heierarcical databases support the registry format. But they are popular in the 70s?
The biggest issue with etc is that it's owned by root and therefore read only from the application's point of view. So, a great fit for sysadmin-managed configuration, not so great for applications that are GUI-configurable. You end up with a tiered approach of defaults in lib, and cascaded overrides in etc and var.
> They are developing those for their companies

And what do you think their job title and experience are?

> If I‘m hiring a front-end developer I‘m sure as hell not paying them to write custom datepickers all day.

This is the opposite of what you said above.
There should probably be more regulations to protect both the users and the environment from hardware that becomes e-waste the moment a cloud service shuts down.

But as for the software side, it's pretty much down to users to realise they they don't 'own' any digital content unless it's completely DRM free and not reliant on somebody else's servers. Stadia was always high-risk and quite likely to fail, but how many years can you guarantee that something like Steam or iTunes will remain up for?

(And even if the servers remain up for many decades to come, you could potentially lose access to all your 'purchases' for other reasons... perhaps your near-future social credit score will drop below the required threshold for continued access?)
Nah - they're only taking a temporary break from messaging apps... They'll be back at it in a year or two.
It isn’t the first time YouTube has pushed a specific length of video, but this is more brazen than how they have operated in the past. Several years ago they changed the incentives so a video had to be at least 8-10 minutes in order to ‘play nice’ with the algorithm… which was good, in my opinion. Prior to this shift, 2-3 minute (or even shorter) soundbite videos were incredibly common. Now TikTok has YT careening back toward this old, uninformative order, pushing an even shorter format than the equivalent of a cable news blurb.
I've recently tried XBOX Game Pass. Don't have a console anymore, just bought a wireless controller and hooked my laptop up to my TV. Was pleasantly surprised by the performance! Thought delay would be far larger but it was very playable for most games, not so much for things like FPS games.
CHVRCHES is the opposite. Spelled wrong intentionally for SEO.
Which right wing influencers are your favorite? Tim Pool, Peterson, Shapiro, Tucker? Or politicians like Rubio, Paul, DeSantis, Hawley?
As an engineer who used to work on cloud gaming, I know the biggest challenge of cloud gaming is not achieving low latency, but achieving low latency at reasonable cost.

The reality is that the economic numbers don't really add up.
It really doesn't! The common responses you hear in these types of threads include "I didn't even try it; because I knew it would get killed." And of course, this results in lower turnout, and eventual death of the offering. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy at this point.

So what's Google to even do?

* They could burn money and keep the offering afloat to "prove" they are serious (seems to be the case with Stadia).

* They can pivot/transition the offering (see Google Glass).

* Or they can use new offerings for R&D (and in some cases, like that of Stadia, be paid for that R&D), and then fold that technology/data somewhere else (see Wave) - this seems like the path most taken.

If we remember Google's core competencies, the revolving door of offerings as feeder into their larger services makes sense on paper, but I do agree that it's hurting consumer confidence and there is a hidden cost to that.
I like having hair - but baldness runs in my family.

I've been using topical hair treatments since my early 30's to keep what I have.

Its vain, laughable, and a trope - but it bothers me.

We could be doing more with research, things that help humanity more than this.. but I appreciate this quite a lot...
It's the basis for a tremendous number of recipes in all Western cuisine.

>If you are from Louisiana you'd think the Holy Trinity was cooking 101.

Yes, and you'd learn bases like soffritto/mirepoix/holy trinity as well. They are also a part of cooking 101.
I pre-ordered a game on stadia over a year ago. Somehow I had a feeling the sevice wouldnt be around once the game came out.
When opening the article I actually assumed it would be shown how to create motion blur from the individual frames calculated for the target frame rate. might have been a nice feature
You know, in this case I don’t think Stadia was a joke. I think it was a completely sincere effort to compete with a new kind of “console” in the game industry. They had hired a gaming industry executive to lead the effort, started several in-house game dev projects, and starting negotiating streaming exclusives with many studios (much to the annoyance of people who owned games on GeForce Now who had them removed). I even encountered paid social media marketer trying to generate hype for the service.

But like everything Google these days, they made some poor initial choices, didn’t take in any customer feedback, dug in instead of pivoting, then slashed and burned when it failed to become a billion dollar business overnight.

Hope they sell the tech off to Sony or Microsoft which is actually capable of building sustainable consumer products.
Well, no, the registry in Windows 3.1/3.11 was vastly different in format and at the time it was actually a single file, reg.dat:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120521-00/?p=75...
I was an occasional IG user and that update was really jarring. I figured alright, I guess I’m not an IG user anymore, and I uninstalled the app without much hesitation.

I think the ad spam was what did it. There was enough already, but it’s way over the top now. I had to constantly stop and check if I was seeing something relevant, as though there was never a long enough break from it to just enjoy my friend’s photos.
Probably because class is boring. People are happy to watch three hour criminal psychology interrogation videos on YouTube. It's the educators who need to change, not the students.

I've learned a lot more on YouTube than I did in a classroom, and I don't buy the idea that reading is somehow a superior form of learning than video.
Voted you back up, thanks for the laugh :)
I have a NYC ID, and a federal ID (Global Entry) when that doesn’t work.