skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently found this as well, via the Control Center item called Hearing.

There are some other interesting features behind this icon in Control Center as well: Live Listen, and noise levels for headphones, to name a few.
>> spam the internet with thousands and thousands of souless generated videos

Unfortunately, that's already happening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7oiHtYCo0w

From what I can see, YouTube has done quite a bit of work to cleanup YouTube Kids, but it's kind of an arms race.

There's this worrying issue in AI ethics discussions where most people seem to assume the problems and dangers of AI are still off in the future, that as long as we don't have the malicious AGI of sci-fi stories, then AI and "lesser" algorithmically generated content isn't harming society.

I think that's not true at all. I think we've seen massive damage to social structures thanks to algorithmic feeds and generated content, already, for years now. I don't think, just because they aren't necessarily neural-network-based, doesn't make them something to not worry about.

So I don't see AI as a particularly, different, worrisome problem. It's an extension of an already existing, worrisome problem that most people have ignored beyond occasionally complaining about election results.
I think it does depend but there is something approximating an absolute distinction. For example low functioning autism or severe schizophrenia would be debilitating in all but the most advanced societies.

However, high functioning autism or mild schizotypal/schizoid disorders probably would not be debilitating unless the society had a low tolerance for eccentricity.
Elizabeth Warren Wants the FTC to Stop Amazon's $1.7B iRobot Acquisition
That is an outright lie if they do have plans for layoffs.
If you mean access and refresh tokens - both usually have a lifetime in the signed payload.

Your access/ID token is short-lived (~5 minutes). This token is trusted without confirming if the user still has access.

Your refresh token has a longer lifetime (hours to months) and can be used to trade for another access token (and a new refresh token, invalidating the old one), but every time you do this trade your authentication server can also check if the user still exists, is not banned, has not signed out and still has the same claims (username, email, groups...) and either not issue a new token or a token with different claims.

There are proxy servers that will do this entire thing in the background for you and hand you the claims of the current access token in HTTP headers.
I'm saying that their statement 60 days ago was a lie. A lie that leadership knew was a lie, yet they let the PR statement be generated and broadcasted regardless.

Google will have financially benefited from that positive PR (from interest on invested money, if in absolutely no other way).
GeForce Now gives you a Windows box with Steam on it, and you log into your Steam account on it. They pair it with a super fast cache of the Steam Depot so your first install is speedy. That way, there's no integration necessary, and Nvidia doesn't have to reinvent the achievement/launcher/licensing wheel.
IIRC, the only other useful one is whether the light on the front should be off all the time. There are a few other options, but they felt more diagnostic
Facebook is dumping money into VR to try and push their boulder of a terrible idea (the "metaverse") up a hill. Except the hill is a solid 90 degree angle cliff

Nobody wants to go to Walmart in VR and artificially grocery shop. That's a dystopian misery. But Facebook is happy to try!

Their counterparts at places like VRchat meanwhile realized that just making a sandbox environment for people to do whatever they wanted is far more enticing to users. Valve meanwhile is happy to chug along and putter out critically acclaimed games to go with their own bespoke hardware releases
I mean, HN is read more often then memegen/ I guess they know now.
I actually am bought into game streaming. I subscribe to both MS and Nvidia. I travel a lot and not needing a console or gaming laptop rocks. Most of my gaming is from the hotel or Airbnb, so the connection is not a problem.

Even then Stadia was dead on arrival for me with a completely unattractive consumer proposition of having to subscribe but get no games (aside from some trash freebies) and having to rebuy games at MSRP that I already owned on storefronts that were still going to be around when the leaves fell off the trees.
I know the feeling, believe me, but from a mod perspective I can tell you that everyone always feels that way (myself included). It seems to be a hard-wired bias we all have. Therefore, everyone needs to make a conscious effort to follow the site guidelines despite that feeling (myself included). I appreciate your response!

Past explanations on this point if anyone wants to read any: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
> Just because people eat meat out of a package from the super market does not mean they are okay with their bacon being raised on a farm where the pig was in a 1 square meter cage its whole life. Most people don't have the time, effort, or will to fight against large factory farming practices because they are too busy trying to survive and take care of themselves and their families.

Unless one is a hunter-gatherer, meat eating isn’t about survival.

Instead, what it means is that they may care; but not enough to give up or work on giving up the pleasure of eating meat daily.
yes, incredible. Now UK is waiting for OBR to conduct this analysis in November, not only classic cart-before-horse but punitively long period of uncertainty which will be sure to bleed what remaining confidence there is the UK economy
We can agree/disagree all we want, I wouldn't bet any money on either "prediction" :)

I can certainly expect "consumer" devices to move towards more of a silent profile, but workstations will still keep aiming for as much performance as possible.

Even today, witness MacBook Air vs Pro lines: Air arguably gets enough performance from very similar hardware, but... you get the point. And in your example of consoles, sure, but also take into account that 8k screens are also around the corner.

Edit: even the two stages of development today involve reducing power in one phase, then pushing that model to the max through pushing the power envelope (eg. Nvidia RTX 3000 -> 4000, AMD Ryzen 5000 -> 7000...).
I remember a talk given by chief of czech google at our highschool, she told us that we are one of the few countries where they had to use marketing to compete with for search market (I remember seeing ads for Google chrome in metro when it was new. ).. I think as a monopoly they just usually dont feel the need for marketing when there is no else running ads...
Yes. I only tried Destiny 2 because no other game (that was available without extra purchase) was of interest to me. It worked very well and I _really_ liked the experience. Just open the website in Chrome, click on the game you want to play and it launches in seconds. Certainly faster than launching Destiny 2 on my own PC, which is also a gaming rig.

For comparison, I also subscribed to GeForce Now. Technologically, it’s basically… remote desktop to Steam? From a dedicated client application. Everything felt hacked-together. Sometimes the language was wrong, sometimes the resolution. Almost every time I had to re-login to Steam. Performance was so-so, sometimes with ridiculous lag and video encoding errors. Oh yeah and waiting times, lol.

I have not tried the Xbox cloud gaming thingy yet, I imagine it could be more like Stadia.

I think Google made a good choice with customized game versions for Stadia. Not using Windows then was good, too. The custom hardware? Probably not so much. Either way, the customized game versions were also what killed Stadia. Establishing a new platform and getting software on it is very hard.

Stadio was awesome. It also never had a chance.
Sundar Pichai is like the anti-Satya_Nadella.
Since taking over Google, the company has only gone downhill but they haven't realized this, heads will only roll once they get hit over their search and ad dominance, by that time it will be too late.
if people weren’t so repressed, this could also be used to severely reduce exploitation in the porn industry. what’s the point in making and selling exploitative porn when it can be auto-generated at will?
The problem with such statements is that game streaming services are INSANELY dependent on literally a century of cruft and how it was handled on a house to house basis. You can have great performance in your house, but your neighbor across the street could have utterly useless behavior.

Like this product literally depends on which godawful modem your ISP sent you when you first got service.
I don't know, I'm used to zero-based semantics, but I've used MATLAB and R a bit, and it's not that hard to switch gears. My biggest problem is usually figuring out which library to use in a given ecosystem, and how to use it.
Have you tried shadow.tech? What did you think about it?
One of those rare instances where I think NFTs and having digital copies available for all to download might make infinitely more sense than buying into centralized gaming platforms with their own licenses.
Correct, just updated the title to reflect this!
> Developers didn't onboard because they were afraid it would get shut down. It got shut down because no one onboarded.

One of the reasons why they launched and bought studios for exclusive content. Which they then shut down early, only a bit over a year after launch of Stadia (?).
Same, I live by a busy road. Can't sleep without it.
Stadia owner here, the entire concept of a streaming game system where you still have to buy the games is just weird. I used it for a couple weeks and went back to my Xbox.

To succeed, it really needed to be just a gamepass-esq model.

The thing I found really impressive is that the latency felt better over the actual internet than streaming my Xbox from another room.

It's also super impressive that the headphone jack in the controller's audio seemed perfectly in sync with the video from the Chromecast despite the controller operating over Wifi. The video and audio streams are presumably completely separate, originating from Google servers.
Very exciting to see the field progressing so quickly. I wonder how quickly it's going to move forward from here. Will we be generating coherent audio to accompany these videos soon? Will we have multi-scene videos in the next year? Ones with coherent plot? Can we get there just by scaling up, or are other advances needed? Excited to see what comes next!
Compressing Logs 169x
I think you meant shadow.tech
> If there was a general failure of Internet on the level of a country for an extended (weeks) amount of time then it would be chaos.

I'm curious if you are very young?

Life doesn't depend on the internet.

Take hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017. Wiped out electricity, phones and water for many many weeks for the lucky and for multiple months for many people. The unluckiest areas were without power for a year or more.

Life goes on. To great inconvenience, but things keep going.

The worst is being without water. As long as there is water, being without electricity or internet for weeks is no big deal. (Except of course for people who depend on life support equipment.)
I don't dislike ebooks, but otherwise agree with you.
Nope. I never spent much time in the library for the purpose of studying for exams. I quite like libraries, I just don't spend much time in them today because I usually acquire books by buying them at physical retail (Barnes & Noble) or online (Amazon, Alibris, Ebay, etc). And if I want somewhere to go sit and study/read/work or whatever, I usually go to Barnes & Noble or a local coffee shop.

Interestingly enough, the main reason I go to the Town of Chapel Hill library these days is for their periodic used book sale events.

That said, I do sometimes pay for a "non student" library card for the UNC Chapel Hill library, just in case I need a book they might have, that I don't necessarily want to buy.
The popular hit game Project Zomboid is also in Lua I believe.
A bit condescending yes but he showed a really good example of how input lag is noticeable.
Using mechanical turk to test consumer purchasing behavior is a meaningless exercise. Consumers care about price and quality, first and foremost. To fully explain the ethical practices of executive pay vs. employee compensation when someone is buying soap or cat food is not easy.

However what I love about the free market is that everyone can experiment. If you can find competent executives willing to work way under market-rates to sell your soap and cat food as a for-profit charity, I welcome it!
they MUST open source the proprietary parts inside of it

This would have no impact on anything. If they had to share IP after shutting it down they'd just restructure the business so that Stadia licensed IP from Google Streaming Gaming Technology LLP, and do the all the real work in that absolutely-definitely-a-separate-company-look-the-logo-is-a-different-shape part of Alphabet instead.
He makes up his own achievements. Tough, real-world achievements...
Ah, right, I'd forgotten that bit. Dumb server, smart clients.
The point of the UN is to negotiate your differences rather than decide them with MAD or nuclear weapons.
> I was immediately roasted by a flock of obvious astroturfers

I was a true believer in Stadia for years and still am when it comes to cloud gaming. I was never paid a cent by Google to my knowledge (although they are refunding my purchases so I appreciate that).

That said, unfortunately you are correct that Google is a bloated rotting mess. The worst part is that Stadia was a legit good product.
As a general rule, I tend to invert any sentence any manager ever gives me.
Sure!

Regarding the backend we're essentially adding events into a queue and polling the queue for messages that are ready. Since this is an MVP we don't have any scaling or delivery guarantees but from our testing all of our events were delivered within 2 seconds of the desired time. We have many retries if something fails on our end while attempting to send the event to you, but if your server returns an error to us we will mark it as failed with a timestamp.

We are literally adding retries & some more customizability options right now, as well as better docs for usage and other endpoints!
Silly consumer, you need to install the 5g box closer to your family room
I think folks can finally accurately model what Google is going to kill... GCP surely wouldn't be on that list? ;)

> You can pretty accurately model what they will and won't do with this one unusual insight that they're a business... But "It's a Google product" is a weak signal about whether it's going to get killed, and there are many stronger signals. Let me know when they kill Ads and Cloud.

-u/geofft https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30353025
In case it wasn't clear the first time: I would not even do that. Write a makefile, use your regular M-x recompile etc. bindings. Configure `make install` to upload it, so e.g `projectile-install-project` does the right thing.

The more you treat "Arduino project" differently from any other project, the less sense it makes to be using Emacs instead of the Arduino IDE.
I would 100% have signed up and bought games if I was assured that I'd get my money back if the service was shut down in under, say, 3 years.
It’s not worth the risk to lie about deleting in my experience.
Have you ever seen an antenna on a roof somewhere with a diesel generator?
I'm still convinced industry applications that have to run on powerful hardware (such as 3dsmax or AutoCAD) would have been a better target than games, especially when products like GamePass exist.
To add on to what Josh said, using Airplane for scheduling gets you a number of benefits over cron:

- Serverless - no need to maintain a cron server or worry about where the job is running

- Notifications - get notified in Slack or email if a failure happens

- Logging - we'll record every run, what happened, etc

- There are also a bunch of convenience features as well, e.g. having a native SQL integration so if you just want to run e.g. a query on a schedule, you can do so in minutes of work.
Hey Reza!
Do you develop a customized feature if requested?
This is utterly unsurprising.

By the same token, consider the vehicle market which has seen prices balloon in 2022 due to high demand. Consumers are less tolerant of dealer markups (which enrich a low value-add dealership) versus OEM markups (which ostensibly flow to the manufacturer and its employees).
If you can find your game on GeForce Now you should give a try, works really great on PC or Android TV.
>Google never adversises its producta.

Not really true (e.g. Chrome) but it's probably true they advertise relatively little given their size.
What you’re missing here is that you don’t actually have a right to be a user.
Other commenters mentioned that they will continue to support MV2 and are even planning to stand up their own extension store that offers MV2 extensions after Google stops allowing them in their store.
I'm still amazed that I not only completed Cyberpunk but was able to do so quickly enough that I was able to get a refund from Steam support! Initially they denied it, but after showing the tweet from CDPR saying refunds were allowed they were happy to refund me
They absolutely inundated YouTube with ads for Stadia for a couple of months, to the point that it felt like half the ads I saw were Stadia ads. So that’s something, at least?
There are mechanical ambient noise generators that generate sound via fans and rushing air in a special cavity; a popular one is the Marpac Dohm.

I've considered 3D printing custom shells for it to further tune the sound profile to achieve the brown noise ideal.
"The full missal was once owned by William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper publisher, before being sold in the 1940s and, much to the consternation of today’s academics, was divvied up into individual pages, she said."

Everything's for sale. :(
Except in Korea, where babies are considered to be age 1 starting at birth!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning#Korea
For those wanting to generate some sounds like the above, I made what is effectively a noisy synthesizer / visual demo a while back that can be played note by note on a PC keyboard (or will play itself if left untouched, see attached readme). But to get it into "wall of sound" territory you need to hold down the up arrow and/or space bar for quite a while to speed up the bike until the visuals start distorting:

https://acatalept.itch.io/eternalapex
Practiced musicians begin to feel discrepancies in time starting at latencies as low as 10ms. I learned this when investigating whether bands could practice live over the internet (spoiler: most of them can't). Turns out that due to limitations of physics, even absolutely optimal connections still have enough lag/jitter to ruin it for professional instrumentalists.
This is a hard area to work on, everybody that says something apply their own meanings to the words, you can never know what anybody else says.

Anyway, I have always understood it as the token being opaque for the verifier too, that only ever tested it for equality. The token that is opaque only for the holder is normally called "encrypted". It may not be opaque to the issuer, but that doesn't change much.

But anyway, depending on what you read, you will get different meanings.
Yes agreed, and then you can go with a local web host - local to your country or city. And let's face it, cpanel or equivalent is fun to mess around with. Much more fun than github, zola and cloudfare pages!

If the aim is to satisfy non-technical website builders, then the HTML files can be simply SFTP'd up to the web host. Badabing badaboom.
racism, sexism, ant-gay and anti-islam interests are fiscal interests
> Because most people are willing to pay a little bit more if they fully understand the ethical consequences. Actually, what is more likely to happen is that many people would eat meat less frequently, opting for more plant based sources of protein and then spend the extra money needed for the more humane meat when they wanted meat itself.

Most people I’ve grown up with are aware but don’t care or just put it out mind.

Willful blindness is a very human condition and a terrifying one.
Of course GCP is losing money, have you seen their rate of investment in new datacenters and services? That shit is extremely expensive. AWS was losing money for many years too, they're at entirely different places.
So both wrong and stubborn about it.

You clearly have a goal other than effective communication, and I wish you well in pursuit of that goal.
speedtest.net used to have a sibling "pingtest" site that measured your jitter. I'm not sure why they don't exist anymore.
Total occurrences of nonlocal in Python are tiny. Typoing variables is a constant fact of life.
The Least Interesting Generation (2021)
I played God of War (2018), the Last of Us games, and some other stuff on PS Now (Sony's cloud gaming platform). There were some issues but overall it worked pretty well. There are some games where cloud gaming can't give you low enough input latency, but I disagree that it is as many games as you think.
Agreed on the looping. I had a cheap white noise machine in the 90s, and once my brain identified the loop, I was locked into it and couldn't fall asleep.

But it's not as bad as hearing somebody in your white noise: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/mehrar
Agreed. Anyway - looks like I am limited so likely not to participate in discussion on HN anymore anyway.
Long term and strategy doesn't match with Google
You're getting a refund, at least?
Also TIC-80, a fully open "fantasy console" that uses Lua by default, but also supports other languages like JavaScript and Fennel (a Lisp-like variant of Lua).

https://tic80.com/
I was blown away by the claims Google made while unveiling Stadia. I saw it as a true cloud promise fulfilled. I even blogged about it.
The tech is still cool. Sad to see Stadia go.
What you're describing is already dealt with by mobile applications, and could easily be added to a PowerPoint/Publisher type app. You wouldn't have to use a fixed viewport.

Here is a screenshot of Android Studio using a point-and-click layout editor to create responsive design, with no manual editing of code: https://developer.android.com/static/images/screens_support/... https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/large-screens/sup... It's very reminiscent of Visual Basic.
>This was a concern with early adopters of Steam, as well; and Valve made it clear that if Steam were to shut down that purchasers would have an opportunity to download their purchases.

I didn't realize this. I'm looking to build a pc in the coming months, and the fact that valve has a plan in place is comforting
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33022768, which was posted slightly earlier and also isn't a corporate press release - we generally prefer third-party articles to the latter.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Apple's $64B App Store isn't catching the most egregious scams (2021)
One night ago, I tried a new thing.

I slept with the new Airpods Pro with noise cancellation on. I am trying to escape road noises. E.g., random car noises, sirens, tyres screeching, etc. Noise cancellation on these are crazy good. However, it was actually worse to find peace. I keep trying to guess if I am still hearing noises when it was actually fully quiet. It was a bad night.

Yesterday night, I just make the A/C runs its fans all night. Which I guess is very similar to brown noise. Found peace immediately. And I was able to ignore almost road noises during the full night (despite being the same as the previous night). It was a surprising restful night.
I can think Stadia was part of my Google One subscription. Do I get a discount now that one of the promised services gets removed?