skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It IS going to shut down by the end of the autumn.

I mean it 'was' a streaming platform [0] as I already outlined from the future and called it, since it failed to get anyone using it back then, even in the pandemic and lockdowns and is still struggling today.

So it was expected and very unsurprising really.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27039202
Does anyone else think the future of personal computing is 100% arm?

Arm runs cheaper and more efficient. Aside from PC gaming, were AMD has been doing exceptionally well lately, I don't know what Intel's place is to the typical person.
The 8" Vaio was a great little machine. I wish I knew when and why the hacker aesthetic switched from devices that fit in your hand to devices that only barely fit in your car and double as diving boards. I hate this trend. When you think of "a hacker" you think of a person who whips out an Atari Portfolio to commit some kind of mischief on the spot, not some clown with a 16" macbook.
All of the Xeons and all of the Vega 56’s in the world can do nothing to stop network latency from killing your gaming experience.

Google Stadia is a technically impressive achievement pushing the boundaries of cloud computing but it can’t change the fact that there are certain problem spaces that cloud computing is a poor fit for and gaming is (apparently) one of them.
Guys I know some of us are excited to see Google fail but DO remember this is a rumor.
How I successfully became a software engineer in 3 months
Path was so beautiful. My friends didn’t care for it though since no one was on it
The ultra-rich have always bought media outlets. Citizen Kane is fiction, but is based on very real people.
It seems like Stadia was just a proof of concept for Google Stream which they will white label for partners (like AT&T Batman partnership). I initially thought that Google Stream was a side project for Stadia but it seems that Stadia was the side project.
In my experience, even if the ORG or TEAM does not adopt the policy of adding type annotations, I just do it anyways. They might not use mypy, but I do.

One caveat is I've stopped adding type annotations for anything but the most latest Python versions. Mainly because I got tired of having to deal with importing modules for things like unions, or whatever container types... all of that should be in the core language, and in more recent python that is happening.
The item is irrelevant, everything OP said is something Stripe has to take on for every transaction. It's literally the definition of a payment processor.
Are Superman games still cursed to be awful? I got the NES game in a yard sale ages ago and remember looking it up on the early web and finding others who also thought it was atrocious.
The source of this is an anonymous Facebook comment... how is this news?
Usually everybody gets a chance to transfer. With a hiring freeze that'll be a lot harder.
Compared to just clicking a link and immediately having it working, yes. Installing software also has much bigger security implications than just visiting a website. And that’s if the application even works on my OS!
Even more confusing to see when you live in a town called Marple - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marple,_Greater_Manchester
My employer is strict on security for employee's phones to be able to install our apps. Right now they wont allow any android except Pixels, Samsung recently got taken off the list due to lack of updates.
No, "boys in trailer parks" is decidedly not the same point as women being ignored.

The fact that they are both equally relevant makes it utterly stupid that they are being talked about in the same place. If a separate top level comment were made about how poor people aren't on the map then I wouldn't be arguing that. But as a reply to a point about how women aren't on the map, you aren't doing much other than making it about men, by talking about how some men aren't on the map either. It's some "all lives matter" bullshit and should be recognized as such.
>Perhaps legally allowing backups of games you purchased would help

as great as that would be, the corporate-run governments of the world would see that as tantamount to legalising video game piracy, one of the few (if not, the only) media that have actually succeeded in making online piracy difficult
I think youtube music is also due for a rewrite. I mean, it's almost finished!
Based on the documentation[1], it seems clear that strings are stored in Unicode (which should be UTF-16LE).

If the data has the REG_SZ, REG_MULTI_SZ or REG_EXPAND_SZ type, and the ANSI version of this function is used (either by explicitly calling RegGetValueA or by not defining UNICODE before including the Windows.h file), this function converts the stored Unicode string to an ANSI string before copying it to the buffer pointed to by pvData.

[1]:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winreg/nf...
There’s usually no free lunch in biochemistry.
How do you communicate on tiktok? Direct messages?
Well I mean after OnLive everyone expected this.
Would have tried Stadia but if streaming then GamePass Ultimate is just a much better value. Already does the same + huge library + you can play on PC and Xbox too. Stadia was just the streaming and top of that you had to buy the games too (70€ is the new standard for AAA games). It was doa.
Google> we'll engineer a cloud gaming service

Gamers> um have you even met us? What about the speed of light?

Google> we'll beat the speed of light using genius engineering

Gamers> lol

Google> we're shutting down because nobody uses us

Gamers> lol

Yet another case of having never spoken to the actual customer
This site is promoting a rather selective set of ”famous scientists”.

For example, in countries bordering Russia, science nobel laureates are missing, but racist pseudoscientists and UFO theorists are listed.
I didn't read the article, but from your quote, the wound healing aspect would be amazing; a legit Wolverine Factor!
We used a fork of Logisim for the computer architecture courses (CS 2110/2200?)at Georgia Tech as well. It was called Brandonsim[1] after the hyper productive Head TA Brandon who adapted it for our courses.

[1] https://github.com/TricksterGuy/Brandonsim
Oh right, that makes sense!
That is how all of this works. If Valve went out of business then you wouldn't have any legal right or way to get the games you purchased on Steam. If Amazon shut down Prime Video then you couldn't watch the movies you purchased on it. This is not a unique problem to Google Stadia.
It was (is? Because rumor?) for casual players and not gamers
I have this pipe dream that the digital markets act forces consoles to either allow sideloading and lose basically all of the profits on their ecosystems, or remove digital markets entirely and go back to physical games only.
Valve has a lot of issues, but their apps are not among them. Steam can send me notifications too. They haven’t abused that trust yet.
You would really hope there would be some far reaching repercussions for senior leadership at Google on this one. There are lots of projects that Google has tried and failed on, and sure, that happens. But this one is probably the clearest, obvious failure of execution. There is an absolutely crystal clear playbook of a Tech company forcing its way into the Gaming business. So how Google has managed to enter, completely fuck up, screw around partners, screw around customers and then leave all within the span of 3 years is just fantastic.

And it's not just that, because Google's reputation for giving up on anything remotely difficult, no one bought into it in the first place. I would wager there are entire market segments that Google can just never enter now since they have done such a good job at branding themselves unreliable. It reminds me of a Petrostate where a country has huge wealth because of what they're sitting on, but that same wealth destroys their ability to develop anything meaningfully different.
They're not taking a break. I was just force-migrated from "hangouts" to "chat with gmail."
I would hope that Google can afford a few game licenses in order to keep their customers from feeling robbed.
Using the (discontinued) Steam remote dongle over wireless device to put a game from my computer in one room to a TV in the living room about 5-10 yards away introduced noticeable latency to a game. Obviously things like Stadia are a lot worse. There is only so much that can be done with this kind of technology. I think people are more tolerant of it for specific use cases like being able to play any game you want on a hotel internet connection while you're traveling for work, but given how affordable hardware is it doesn't really make sense as a home entertainment service except for the third world, which was not their target market anyway.
Looking at Wikipedia now, nothing this article says is accurate... Search the page for "two consecutive" it appears 6 times.
I've been using Stadia since day one. It's a really terrific execution of cloud gaming. It would be a real shame if it did get shut down. I hope the rumors are false.
and nobody will notice
The benefit is you can create sample-accurate arpeggios, amplitude-modulated timbres, and other extreme and unplayable effects famously (over)used in tracker music.

You don't seem to have experience of what trackers can do. Essentially Black MIDI is rendered tracker music with a nice animated piano roll background.

On a slow system a render will take longer than real time. On a fast system it won't.
Why would those machines need any public IP address, be it IPv4 or IPv6? I'm not sure if we have a single database server with a public IP address.
Is there the opposite? Can I have a pill/cream that just removes all my head hair so I don't need to worry about shaving it or let it grow into a stupid incontrollable mess?
Well... if you read the article you would have seen that this research actually has the potential to help humanity greatly.

They were only using hair follicles because "...these are the only human organ that regenerates regularly and automatically". Their discovery may help guide our understanding for helping promote and control wound healing..
Yeah, I hear ya, better read the agreements you sign.

But I just can’t convince myself to pay full price for a game when it’s restricted to a platform like stadia.

I guess I’m a hypocrite because I own steam games and plenty of movies on my Apple TV. I feel like steam is a little different because I’m installing them on my own machine? (I know they can take the games away) I know I can’t trust Apple to not take my movies away but I think the likelihood that my Apple TV library won’t be accessible for the next 20 years is pretty low.

Google in particular disappoints me often. They haven’t created a great money generating product since search/ads which is the evergreen money tree which funds all other experiments.

Google gives up on new products far too often and far too easily. They seem to forget, or never learned, that unwavering persistence is a powerful foundation for building a product line. Apple didn’t give up on iCloud after the disaster that was MobileMe, they rebuilt it and kept on going.
Using Karpenter to manage GPU nodes with time-slicing
People don't want a lot of choice. They want iOS or Android. PS5 or XBox. Republican or Democrat. ATT or Verizon. Comcast.

Honestly I'm surprised there's not only two auto makers.
Very similar would still need a dedicated maintainer working for free.
I do see your point. But if you're talking about a probability or probability distribution, it can still be an exact solution to a model. For example, if I throw two standard dice, what is the probability of throwing two sixes? The answer is 1/36. To me, it sounds odd to describe 1/36 as the "optimal" solution to that problem, even though it's stochastic. Even "exact" solution is a bit odd, I'll concede, but a lot less so. "The solution" or "the answer", with no more qualification needed, sounds best to me.
Related documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sysinfo/regis...
What should the consumer to do? Donate their money and time to the service in the hope that this time will be different? (not to mention that Stadias pricing was pretty bad)

So yes, it's Google's turn to show commitment and keep their services running. Plus, the possible loss with keeping Stadia up should also be weighted against this cementing their reputation.
Look, I strongly dislike changing definitions for things as a result of one political party or another - but this concern re wikipedia is manufactured I think.

The wiki article on recession literally mentions two consecutive quarters of negative growth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recession

The history page even goes into whats going on behind the scenes with vandalism and the like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Recession#ATTENTION_NEW_V...

Not to say that we shouldn't deride the changing definition in popular media, but wikipedia seems fine ?
This is an anonymous source (not even verified by the original publicizer of the rumor) reporting second hand on what their "regional manager" friend heard in a "seminar". Why give any credence to this? This is about as close as it gets to "my friend has an uncle working at Nintendo" level of sourcing, but it's being taken as absolute fact by basically everyone in this thread.

Mr. Killedbygoogle doesn't seem to be all that confident in this either, and is hiding behind a "I'm just a shit poster" defense: https://twitter.com/killedbygoogle/status/155293002348465766...
You would still have your games files and be able to run them. Steam is not a rental or streaming service.
Tethering to my phone is my backup.

Although it's more than a backup, I use it daily when I go sit in a park to work, or work from a cafe or whatever.
That's also my view, although I never had an opportunity to use such a beach. When my outlook on nudity changed I was already married. My wife wouldn't go to a beach like that for example. However I did enjoy far simpler and less fussy changing on Berlin beaches.

Do you mean that you are not going to FKK beaches because your wife doesn't want to? At the same time do you mean you go to baches where you can be naked privately?
Do you think senior leadership was involved? It seems just as likely that some platforms engineers figured they could mess around with hardware on the edge and got it shipped from the bottom up.
Just wanted to call out point 4 — native apps can absolutely change without your knowledge and execute malicious code as well. And the potential risk is higher for native apps (on desktop, at least) — the browser sandbox is another advantage of web apps!
I am a customer. I played several AAA games all the way through on Stadia and it was a great experience. It was not like OnLive back in the day. If Stadia gets shut down then I'll have to switch to GeForce Now which is way more clunky.
People like myself have been pointing out that they had no legitimate audience for years and no one listened. Zombie organization made a decision years ago and was the walking dead.
I had already tried Stadia with Cyberpunk, which was a great experience and better than the console launch of the game.
So I actually preordered 2 copies of the Baldurs Gate 3, as I wanted to play with my wife who does not have a gaming computer. I figured $50 gamble was better than a $1,000 computer investment. There was an early access component to the game, which is why I preordered instead of waiting for final release prior to purchase.
> Google can fix their reputation but its going to take a lot of work.

Every time they take a decision like this one, they are making the hole deeper.
Please DO NOT post daily mail articles as they are JOURNALISTICALLY DEFICIENT!
Not sure I like the "Voyager on steroids" - I strongly associate Voyager with the Grand Tour of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Seeing those pictures come back when I was a child made me do astrophysics at university. "Mission would probe the region beyond our Solar system" is fine though.
My bank decided to abandon their own payment solution in favour of GPay, and the neo-bank or two I do use also uses GPay, while I don't actually have physical cards for these. In short, not using GPay is not an option.

> it is more secure than the stock OS

Maybe, but I don't trust community maintainers (nor auditing) enough. At least Google has a business entity that backs their services, community ROMs have nothing of the sort.

I dabbled in ROMs and the likes previously, but I just want a phone that works like a phone should right now. I've got too many other things to tinker with already.
> while the true optimum is population growth.

Right up until you overshoot your ecological carrying capacity and the whole society collapses, of course. That part tends to be less optimal.
Because the current/younger people all have the different apps that provide that already

People understand that their social graph is optionally transportable

They can recreate it on any app just by putting in their phone number or letting the app access their contacts
> Democratic party mandarins like Elizabeth Warren.

What does "mandarin" mean in this context? It sounds negative. Curious to use such language in a serious piece.
Legally you may be right (probably depends on the country, idk) but it’s still an ethically shitty move and would make me think twice about doing business with Google in the future, even though I personally am not affected.
Reference count, don't garbage collect
They were formats designed to be fast on floppy drives which were major storage format at the time, and most importantly, designed as "work in progress" format.

For interchange, you were supposed to use other formats - for example RTF with Word, which was kept in sync with DOC capabilities all the way to Word 2003 which was the last version that used DOC (2007 uses DOCX and no longer maintains DOC+RTF combo in sync with internal features). However, saving back the file if you did small change in large RTF file took ages in comparison.
The churn is the result of the fact that we don't understand what is optimal.

We know how to optimize for things like the shortest distance between two points but we don't understand how to optimize Software Design or even GUI.

This is literally what "Design" means. If something needs to be designed it means there's no theory or notion behind it on what it means to be "optimal." So we "design" a "better" solution but we don't actually know if it's better. So we design another solution and the cycle continues.

A/B testing when done on a population that gives consistent answers should converge on a consistent solution. If the population gives different answers at different times then of course there will be churn.

I would say the methodology of A/B testing is indeed like machine learning, it's quite good and accurate. It's the data source that's the problem. If you have users that don't know what they want or behave differently and inconsistently then your conclusions reflect the data. Perhaps the data is accurate and there is no consistent conclusion, OR the data is inaccurate and you need to get it from a better source other then users telling you what they think is better.
That’s why I used Geforce Now instead where you don’t have to buy the game again if it’s in your steam library. I hope game devs will release all Stadia exclusives to GFN after this change because the library is a bit lacking.
So it isn't really a purchase but rather rental
It's a Google service that isn't search or ads. Of course it's getting shut down, it's just a matter of when.
An anecdote, but I recently found out a friend games on Stadia (Destiny 2).

He's actually quite happy with the platform, especially because of the portability.
This is absolutely false. Feel free to quote this post in October. HN has a pretty high caliber of commenter compared to other forums. People believing a baseless rumor so easily is sad.
Even with fiber (or hell, LAN), game streaming is still very much inferior to a local experience for many games. The only market they can capture is casual users that still want to play AAA console games, when most of the casual audience is on phones.

At $60-$80 dollar per game, it's not too far to just buy an Xbox Series S for $300. Plus Game Pass is a great way to find a game you enjoy without investing time into research or money into trying a bunch of games.
I wouldn't mind reading an autobiographical take on the development of Fallout, Icewind Dale, etc, and your life up to now.
We essentially did something similar with the hoverboard craze a few years back. Ten years ago no one would have said a hoverboard should roll around on wheels but now they do.
nice to see Google's business practices biting it in the backside

exactly the same reason I would never recommend to my employer to use any Google services, ever for any reason

say what you want about MS, they're not going to abandon Azure
It is a joke regardless of "technical" quality because it has been completely obvious from the first announcement that the only problem Stadia tackles is making your game depend on Google, relying on their traditional long-term loyalty to their own services and products.
I would actually be better if most of the data that applications store in the registry would instead live in simple text files in the AppData directory (which shouldn't be hidden by default). The registry should be restricted to Windows configuration data (like file types and their associated programs), and information that needs to be shared between installed applications.
> Tiny minority

I see what you did there. Anyway, I’m in the tiny minority.
I also set scrolloff to 10 or so that way I can always see what's above/below what I'm currently editing.
Meta Reports Its First-Ever Quarterly Revenue Decline
If this is the case, what about their Wifi locked controllers? No way to free them I expect, just instant e-waste.
As someone who is starting something like this, how did you get your guests? Did you cold email some of them? And did you give them anything for participating? Thanks!
Of course it is! if it's not a runaway success at Google, then it's inevitable. Stadia isn't a runaway success by any measure. I'm surprised it hasn't happened already.

Though at this point Google's starting to create a problem for themselves: if people are accustomed to avoiding new Google services because of their potential to be cancelled at any moment... they'll stop trying them to begin with.
>It lasted less than three years and will leave players with nothing to show.

You'll have to pry my Stadia controller from my cold, dead hands.