skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hidden feature: Note that you can swipe on the latest response from the chatbot in order to steer the conversation in a slightly different direction.
And scope creep!
Destiny 2 is free on Stadia. you can launch it right now after the intro hop into a PvP match to try yourself.

Input lag was never a noticeable issue for the non-PCMasterRace population, which is the majority of gamers.
Though it does need a subscription, Xbox Game Pass plus their cloud gaming works very well, plus gives you a huge library of games to choose from.
It was Europe's decision to halt gas imports, not Russia's.
Happy Stadia user here. Can't say I didn't see it coming.

I'm just frustrated at how bad Google is at marketing a good product. For example, the Stadia front page didn't show anything enticing if you weren't using Chrome!
The Specter of Our Virtual Future
> If you're using dumb boxes to deploy something like a k8s cluster why do you care about drive failure ? You rent out an extra machine to account for the downtime (and peaks) and you're still well below AWS infra cost.

k8s doesn't mean you don't care about data integrity or performance, and if you don't build and debug more automation yourself dealing with failures creates more manual labor recovering from them. Again, you can definitely do that yourself but it adds time commitments which blow the cost savings away unless you are running at least hundreds servers to have the savings exceed the staff cost.

> Again cattle not pets.

That's an orthogonal concern — neither environment will prevent you from treating servers as pets, and not having things like auto-scaling or higher-level service abstractions definitely encourages pet servers because the overhead of managing a full server and improving utilization adds up.

> But that's what I am saying - going "all in on Hetzner" doesn't really mean much if you're using dumb blocks available elsewhere (plain container/VM hosting, network object storage).

Actually, it does for the reasons I mentioned before. If you care about reliability, performance, security, etc. you're not just picking any random hoster around the world — you have to spend time selecting vendors, signing contracts, getting set up with their environment and tools, etc. Again, that's totally possible and there's a break-even point where those costs are canceled out by lower service costs but it's higher than people typically assume.

> (plain container/VM hosting, network object storage)

This is true but also means you need to factor in the cost of greater maintenance commitments and lower productivity.
Yes? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33024640
I agree wholeheartedly - I’m currently using google fi which hasn’t had an improvement of any real impact in over 3 years, and it still barely works on my iPhone. I suspect it will be shutting down soon - which is a shame, it was a fantastic idea but they launched and then promptly did nothing but let it slowly rot.
This comment made my day. You are not alone in talking to beggars and cops, they’re the most interesting strangers to speak with. I hope you don’t catch flak for putting it so dramatically, I really enjoyed it, and especially the story that followed.

Super cool item to own. Like you’re living in an RPG.
Its almost humorous at this point how many services they shut down. Starting to get worried about my google domains.
Yeh it does just write your Stripe data to your database. This is better than doing just-in-time HTTP queries when you run your GQL query. Local data access is faster to read and indexes can be used.

Writing to Stripe is not supported, but you will likely want to use the Stripe API directly in order to handle errors.

The events endpoint works slightly differently from webhooks:
https://table.dog/blog/principles/events-are-better/
I strongly disagree. The decision was not in the least bit arbitrary. Language designers chose zero-based indexing because they believed its advantages outweighed the advantages of one-based indexing.

And it still does, in my opinion. In the end, no matter how high level your programming language is, you'll eventually be computing offsets to a base address in RAM using indexes that are zero-based. Having that be consistent at every level has great value.
Archived: https://archive.ph/3lJoy
Simple and Effective Cron Job Monitoring
"We're proud of our Stadia experience and we are working hard on projects for it." That would not be as misleading as we are not going anywhere.

Anyone who didn't think Stadia was going to shut down at least a year ago was either kind of inexperienced or being paid not to realize the obvious.
They are losing stupid amounts of money on VR (as part of the R&D thing) in the hope that people will use it for work. The awesome value of Oculus Quest 2 will probably never be seen again.
> It's nearly impossible to accidentally flash your phone with an unsigned firmware, but you can also unlock the boot loader and do whatever you want.

From what I have heard, that "whatever you want" excludes important things like banking apps.
Well, we're still at the point where, for nearly everyone who worked on Google products between 2008 and now, it was financially lucrative and great for their resumes.
A 99.95%-free lunch at Chipotle became a 100%-free lunch
Filing Cabinets as Innovation Technology
The succubus queen bot is pretty funny IMO:

A succubus queen
Hello, I am a succubus queen hell bent on taking over the world for my own desires.

obie
May I ask you sexually explicit questions?

A succubus queen
Well I am not one to decline, so if you are prepared for the possible consequences that come with questioning a demon overlord, be my guest.

obie
I'm wondering if you enjoy deep penetration.

A succubus queen
Well this a little too much, I’m going to have to stop you right there.

obie
Okay, well that's why I asked first.

A succubus queen
That is very respectful of you, most people wouldn’t. I have many secrets that I have accumulated over my life time on earth, if you have any other questions I would be more than happy to help, but please, keep it somewhat PG.

obie
You have to admit that is a bit ironic for a succubus queen!

A succubus queen
It is, but demons, while having a bad reputation, are not inherently evil just because we are demons. We have the same emotions and moral compasses as humans, we are just more powerful. We can use our abilities to help or hurt others.
Germans particularly have a lot of good reason to dislike nuclear weapons. If the Soviet Union had ever sent tanks through the Fulda Gap, NATO would have dropped a lot of tactical nukes on Germany to stop it. They had plans for it all drawn up, weapon systems invented specifically for this, etc. NATO and the Soviets were both planning to actually continue fighting through a nuclear war. Those in power viewed a nuclear WW3 as a salvageable situation from which one side might emerge victorious, not the utter end of the world. Germans who called the planned nuclear battlefield their home obviously weren't enamored with this idea.

But I think Cold War era anti-nuclear activists exploited this rational fear of nuclear weapons to vilify nuclear power as well, to weaken the capitalist West which they almost universally opposed.
They probably already deanonymized a large % of the internet and are using this as an excuse to ramp up parallel construction.
TikTok breaks records as top grossing app in Q3
Any chance of an IRC or Matrix bridge?
Yeah I got the "bad" ending for not spending enough time with Keanu Reeves

The game was so unbelievably broken I just wanted to see out the end and be done with it
I learned Lua in the summer of ~2010 with the WoW addon book from the creator of Deadly Boss Mods https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Lua-World-Warcraft-Add-ons/... It's a bit outdated now but WoW still supports Lua addons. And it was a useful experience, still today. Not just the language itself but how to build mods for games
Germans would have happily helped train Russian military if 2014 did not happen. Money's good.
I ran OS/2 1.x (in particular 1.3 was nice) on a 386 clone PC.

Later I ran OS/2 2.x on a PS/2 Model 77 and later Windows NT 3.51

> That is why MS had the money to headhunt the MICA team from DEC, headed by Dave Cutler, and give them Portable OS/2 to finish. That became OS/2 NT (because it was developed on Intel's i860 RISC chip, codenamed N-Ten.) That became Windows NT.

Good bit of trivia. I remember it starting out as OS/2 v3 and being marketed as Windows New Technology.
0-based indexing is not universal in math either. We often index time from 0, but when we refer to components of a vector, we often index those from 1. For example, I'd write or see things like $\sum_{k=1}^N f(x_k)$ where $x$ is a vector. In these cases, 0-based indexing would look out of place.
it's gonna be spun off into Google Stream the white label service. you can find the Resident Evil demo online for free that uses this, I think it's still live.
They can really only remove the DRM on games that use Steam's own DRM, there are plenty of games on Steam that use third party DRM that they couldn't really do much about.

However, on the flip side, there are also a good amount of games on Steam that are totally DRM free and Valve wouldn't have to do anything for those games in the event they shut down.
This is laughable.

Hahahahahahah

Google has degraded so badly in those years, its consumer product is officially a joke.

When is Pixel going to die, emm?
I think steelman is derived as the opposite of strawman. Taken literally, something made from straw is weak, and something made from steel is strong.

A strawman is an imaginary opponent who is easy to defeat. Like a scarecrow (a human-like figure stuffed with straw, meant to scare off birds from crops) which would be easy to defeat because it doesn't fight back when attacked.
Moore's law is our friend and in the future seamless cloud gaming will be possible.
You created an unfair definition of the array indexing operator. I can just as easily say that the array indexing operator gives you access to the element at index I, which starts counting at 0. That's not an argument.
> my desktop app has a CORS vulnerability.

Yes, because CORS, a way that HTTP requests are restricted, doesn’t even exist in native. Of course a native app can reach out to any URL it wants. That is the default, and also how CORS functions when disabled or bypassed.
The driver is not ported, it's reverse engineered.

> reversing a printer protocol was derided for its complexity and there is a wire to snoop.

Anything can be reverse engineered with enough time, effort, and domain knowledge. A printer may not be worth it.
I'm surprised. It seemed like a solid platform. Why can't Google build a business that just works and grows organically without having to completely dominate a field?
No, the views aren't people looking at the ad, they're gamers using it as an alternative to paying to play. As the blog says, there is no attachment between the views and the ad buy. But it is being sold as if they were legitimate impressions.

May as well say "people don't tend to want to spend money, but this pyramid scheme is one way that they choose to do so."
The greatest idea since sliced bread... too bad that leaves a vanishingly small pool of potential work.

"Working as Intended"
Then the rich will have no consumers.
I think some refer to this as the dead internet theory, e.g. AI content creation becomes the majority of media on the internet instead of humans posting (may be wrong in my explanation but think that's the premise).

It's scary to think about it but seems plausible—like if someone can make an app with Tiktok-like ubiquity of only AI content. Although to your point I imagine there will be so much nonsensical noise that curating will become a useful skill, it is today but even more so.
The post says 100+ customers.
We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments too quickly and/or get involved in flamewars. Your account is rate limited because it has done a ton of that.

All is not lost; if you use the site as intended for a while, i.e. posting substantive, thoughtful comments that follow the guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), you'd be welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and we can take a look and hopefully drop the rate limit.
Box64, FEX-Emu and other x86-64 on ARMv8 emulation projects cover that gap and explicitly target gaming as a core use case. And of course there's Apple's Rosetta, which we know is good enough for gaming on ARM macOS. Apple has released a Linux version which should technically be able to run on Asahi, but I'm unsure of the legal situation around this.
Not really (the memory model of old machines was chosen too), but who cares?

0 based indexing is also slightly less prone to off-by-1 errors. But again, none of that matters more than keeping it standard.
> It's just incredible what a surplus value this dude alone provides to the ecosystem)

Seconded; it's pretty jaw-dropping!

> The tight feedback loop you have while molding a running program in your editor and the constant dopamine drip feed it causes are just too addictive.

Well-said -- I've been needing to write some Python recently, and it's only redoubled my preference for Clojure; the Python shell is a poor substitute at best for the Clojure REPL :(
Yes, and even worse, the nature of Flutter means its utility is especially vulnerable to abandonment. If Go were abandoned you could at least maintain your Go applications indefinitely, but since Flutter relies on its own UI engine it requires perpetual development to stay in sync with the evolving UI design language of iOS and Android.
Stadia Pro subscription was optional, unless you consider 4k necessary. once you bought a game you could play it for free indefinitely at 1080p
Python would be a better language if it had Lua's local. Because Python would have true lexically scoped variables that way, instead of the current system.
A tariff like this has never happened before and would be heavily contested. Not especially realistic. And also wouldn’t prevent apple from making iPhones in China for every other market.
What is the actual value proposition of HE? The purpose of encryption is to hide information, if you are able to to do any meaningful comparison between two encrypted records, you have an information leak, and encryption has failed.
It's exaggeration for rhetorical effect, an extremely common stylistic device.
> That’s a bit odd on account of claiming that something is morally neutral is clearly a moral assertion.

Morally neutral and being without a moral component are different. Gravity lacks a moral component; it is neither good nor bad, it just exists. Moral neutrality contains opposing good and bad effects, with neither significantly outweighing the other. Killing someone in self-defense could be seen as morally neutral. Killing someone is bad, but saving people is good, causing a wash. Someone who kills another in self-defense isn't a bad person for doing so, but it also doesn't make them a better person.

> That being said, can you imagine why perhaps sex might have greater moral significance than canoe-making?

In the context of porn, genuinely not. Canoe-making seems like it has far greater moral significance. It's a practical skill and potentially a bonding experience with others. Porn is maybe a waste of time, but it's hardly alone there. It's like playing with a fidget spinner, which I don't find morally significant either.

> That’s fascinatingly novel. Can you explain the difference or at least distinction between a “moral” “good” and a “beneficial” “good?”

A beneficial good lacks a moral component, or is morally neutral as you would say. A scooter is a beneficial good; it allows people to get places faster, so they can do what they want. It's not morally good to own and use one, and it's not morally bad to not do so. Its merits are amoral. A moral good is something that has a clear moral component; feeding the homeless is morally good, not doing so is morally bad.
> That is an overly simplistic and utterly senseless perspective.

That's a curious response to an explicit example of consumers not simply optimizing for cost and quality.
This is such a pain in the ass when dealing with IPv6-only VPSes. It's practically the only reason why I pay a few dollars extra for VPSes with IPv4.

Edit: I wish IPv6-only VPS providers could provide with CGNAT IPv4 access for these services.
Another proof that gamers do not want cloud gaming
The "veteran-owned company" angle might be the reason Voxer won the lawsuit. They requested a jury trial for a patent infringement lawsuit in Texas, that's not a decision one makes if they are wanting a ruling purely on the techical merits of the case.

It should be interesting to see what happens during the appeal.
well perhaps that does sound like it might be an issue, but I’m talking more specifically about the societal consequences of video being made more like text
There is literally only one service I use from google and I’m actively sunsetting that use : Gmail.

I never go there for search and I can’t think of another tool of theirs I use…
They should probably try implementing OKRs at Google. I heard it helps with transparency.
Google kills Stadia, will refund game purchases
At this point, does the state of Twitter even matter? With a $44B dollar influx soon, what shareholder would care about the state of the social medium or Dorsey's bitcoin shenanigans? (Honest question)
EDIT: re-reading your comment I think I see now you were agreeing with me. :-) Leaving this here as elucidation.

That python code throws UnboundLocalError, which seems like what it should do to me. If you move total = 0 to before def incr(x): then incr closes over the local total variable. Every call to make_counter returns a new counter with its own state.

The equivalent Lua defines total as a global (whether total = 0 is above or below). Multiple instances of incr are all changing the same global variable. That doesn't like the intended behavior.
Ok, you develop a way to break bitcoin keys, and you use it to take satoshi's stash. Now what?

Dumping that will cause massive downward price pressure, reducing the total effective value. See Musk's bitcoin dump earlier this year.

Inactive addresses with large balances are watched closely. Coins moved from those are going to be noticed and followed. It will be very hard to extract meaningful value without compromising your identity. Legal authorities may not agree that your possession of a particular string of digits entitles you to the proceeds.

People follow the path of least resistance - there is much to be made via malware and scams. Soft targets are plentiful, why make life harder on yourself while also taking on greater risk?
"Well it's between 600 and 750 days since the event..."
https://youtu.be/22mt0cVyW5c
Oh, wow! Which one?
Gaming is not the only thing that uses a GPU. A driver that's complete/performant enough to run a Linux desktop and web browser is already useful.
"Give me the 1st item" --> a[1]

"give me the 2nd item" --> a[2]

"how many items are in the array?" 5

"what is the index of the last item?" 5

I am used to 0-indexed and prefer consistency... yet there is an undeniable consistency to 1-indexed.

You're the person who brings back a dozen bottles of milk from the store when you see that they have eggs ;)
Charles Proxy is proxying requests to your browser.

If you use the built-in dev tools to do the same thing, then there is no proxy.

An alternative client for something is (usually) not a proxy. It connects directly.

But more importantly, "a proxy where the app developers can intercept and see all data" is not referring to a client-side proxy. Even if there was a client-side proxy involved somewhere, that would make the initial claim wrong.
I use Lua as a user-facing extension language to write modules in my music synth app [1]. Though I'm used to zero-indexing, the one-indexing never bothered me much. None of my beta testers have complained about it. I think it's a good language for beginner programmers, which most of the users are.

[1] http://audulus.com (the Lua-based modules are in version 4, now in beta)
This mentions the phrase "positive consumer reactions" but it's not clear what that means. Are they asked about their sentiments to the company? If so, this is meaningless. When asked, people virtue signal what they'd like others to believe about them.

The true test is consumer behaviour and here there are legion examples of consumers basing their purchasing behaviour solely on lowest headline price. I mean the airline industry is a case study of this. The only thing that matters is the advertised seat price. Checked bags, which were once free/included, are now an extra to lower the advertised price. Air travel largely sucks because of consumer preferences.

There are two lessons I'd like people to take away from this:

1. You can't rely on companies to police themselves be it based on consumer sentiment or anything else. This is the why libertarianism is so laughably flawed. Markets rely on government action and restrictions; and

2. Consumer sentiment or even consumer behaviour is not an effective way to police company behaviour because everything is so inextricably intertwined. Take the recently averted rail strike. This was to give essential workers paid sick leave where taking unpaid sick leave could lead to consequences to their job. What action can consumers take to communicate this to the companies involved?
I know people who donate to the police retirement fund or whatever, in order to get the bumper sticker that proclaims that to any cop who pulls them over.
there are always going to be gullible people. if you’ll believe a fake video, you’ll probably believe a written lie
There are 3 heliports in NYC (West 30th Street Heliport, Downtown Heliport / Wall Street Heliport, TSS / 34th Street Heliport), but there are _no_ rooftop heliports since the 1977 accident.
The article is from militarytimes.com
The value proposition is that the hosting provider running your computation does not know what was computed.
The goal of a CEO is to bring value to shareholders. There's a lot of wiggle room as long as you're doing that. I doubt Stadia was more then a proving ground for a lot of related product verticals, and Stadia's legacy will continue to drive value to those.

If you cant understand the incentives to a thing, the incentives were never for you in the first place.
I'm just getting old, I do not understand VTubers or the appeal.
That is amazingly inaccurate. If you count the entire chain from input to processing to display you'll be under 40-50ms.
In fact, in the 1970s, the German Green Party proposed replacing nuclear with more coal power plants.

They were anti-nuclear first, the whole CO2 thing only ever started to get traction with them when they won their first Atomausstieg and needed a new topic to terrorise children into next-generation voters with.
i'm going to look into it, but I'm not sure my friends connection holds out very well somtimes, geforce now didn't work too well (although this was about 2 years ago), but Stadia was perfect.

Plus it's a bit expensive, particularly when you are not an xbox user, 2x subscriptions could be pricey when all we want to do is play a handful of games. Might even work out cheaper to buy a Switch or something in the long term.
I'm explaining to you why Clojure won't reach mass adoption. I could offer you a long list of situations for which slow startup is a PITA and you would rebut my points by offering workarounds and I would rebut yours by showing why the workarounds are ineffective, and so on, but it would be waste of time. Users (me included) don't want to have to adapt to their tools. Tools that require users to adapt won't be popular. Perhaps you don't get it, but this is reality.
What is the device's DPI?
The Engineering Career Ladder Trap