skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Price wise this seems alright to me, I imagine it's a bit cheaper than their usual things because it'll become a thing a decent number of people use to make things like rewards for Patreon supporters, zine bonuses, etc.
Production costs of £2 plus postage per (potentially) personalised 5" seems pretty good to me for all involved.

A tangent but it's crazy how bad their LED matrix for IKEA is, I like the speakers and all on an ornamental level (especially with the 3D printer potential) and the matrix could be super neat (even with the lack of dimming options) but the patterns and sound responsiveness are so terrible it's a bit baffling they let it go out in the condition it went out with... I'd actively keep it away from the rest of the set so I didn't have to underwhelm people by showing how bad it is (until I get around to modding it, anyway)
> As for when these tradeoffs are appropriate, hard to say

And that is my biggest problem. If you don't know whether you need something, you don't need it.

Or you just don't have enough expertise to understand why you need it, but that means you will implement it the wrong way anyway.
Lua doesn't stand well entirely on its own. You could write command-line utilities with it, but if you're finally leaving the traditional masochism of using C and C++ for that, then you might as well go all the way to Python or Ruby.

I think Lua was always intended to be used for making other software programmable, at least that's where it seems it works best.

Something to do: count and compare the number of applications written in Lua to the number of applications using Lua.
The unique 4-colors-ID string generator in Rust
Remember like three weeks ago when some news about this came out and they were like no we promise we are not shutting it down?

Glad they are doing refunds though.
Is it really all that hard to build a TV designed to be used only with a separate device (Apple TV, Roku, etc)? I wonder why no one has started a company to do this; perhaps VCs only want to fund people who make money with ads.
I wonder if Google's tried to study & put some numbers on how much harder it is for new products of theirs to take off, due to their reputation, and decided it's not worth the cost to fix, or if they just don't care to even find out.
Google's reputation for not supporting things long term is finally starting to affect them in noticeable ways.

Developers didn't onboard because they were afraid it would get shut down. It got shut down because no one onboarded.
It is ludicrously unlikely that aliens would be comprehensible at all. Several of Lem's SF novels try to get this idea across, Solaris is most famous, though I'm more of a Fiasco person myself. An octopus is very closely related to you, far more so than any conceivable space aliens - and yet we have no idea what the fuck is going on in there. When you look at an octopus in an aquarium is the octopus wondering whether you are self aware?

We have assumed that aliens would do arithmetic, because we do arithmetic, and it seems very fundamental to us, but that might just be a matter of perspective. So the aliens might have no use for programming languages, or their languages might have no more built-in concept of "0-based arrays" than our languages have of "Happiness versus sadness".
Two months ago, Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32276188
I disagree. The fastest human reaction time is something around 100ms. (https://humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime). I've just measured, and mine is 230ms. As such 10ms lag wouldn't make any difference. I've used Shadow Tech PC for a while during pandemic. With good upstream and downstream bandwidth it was a fairly decent experience, even for playing something like competitive Overwatch. I noticed the difference with normal gaming PC due to some other factors (quality of sound, etc.). Standard accessories worked seamlessly for USB-over-UDP.
That screen is just TOO small, in my opinion...
Just a couple of months ago.

"Stadia is not shutting down. Rest assured we're always working on bringing more great games to the platform and Stadia Pro."

https://twitter.com/GoogleStadia/status/1552989433590214656
Does it though? It doesn't seem to be in keeping with how the rest of Google functions with their general lack of care, customer service, or recourse on anything. It also don't paper over the fact that they killed a service that, just 3 months ago they said wasn't being shut down.

If there was some new Google paid service that I cared about coming out, I'd still be hesitant that this refund is some sort of fluke and not a standard practice, and avoid giving Google money for something they're likely to kill in a couple years.
I agree, I have the controller and it's pretty decent ergonomics-wise for me. Just hate that I have to use it wired if I want to use it for other PC games.
Maybe you will appreciate https://github.com/sormuras/bach/ ?
While you are not wrong (simply because many people would agree with you), systematic bullying of outgroups is divisive and also disrespectful.
2 - correct, depending on the task type we still call through to node etc. But the CLI also provides a dev UI and other niceties specific to Airplane.

3 - correct, the code is built and pushed to us, similar to Heroku.

Our value prop ultimately is that 1) you can build tools like admin dashboards, data migration scripts, one off devops operations, etc, into production grade web apps and 2) you can do this using code!
> Working with Webb data involves several types of calibration, but the current controversy is around one of the telescope’s main instruments, its Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam). In the six months after Webb launched, STScI researchers worked to calibrate NIRCam. But given the demands on Webb, they had only enough time to point it at one or two calibration stars, and to take data using just one of NIRCam’s ten detectors. They then estimated the calibrations for the other nine detectors. “That’s where there was a problem,” Boyer says. “Each detector will be a little bit different.”

...

> In the long run, astronomers are sure to sort out the calibration and become more confident in their conclusions. But for now, Boyer says, “I would tell people to proceed with caution — whatever results they might be getting today might not be quite right in six months, when we have more information. It’s just sort of, ‘Proceed at your own risk.’”
What do you mean by independent power feeds?

If you mean fed by two different substations it’s not a problem in Sweden at all. Most(every station I’ve ever worked in) medium/high voltage substations in Sweden are fed by at least two separate lines.
Same as any other country I’ve built substations.
I think there is an argument that you can level the playing field by making everyone's lag suck equally. I don't know if stadia did that though
But this is from 60 days ago, and Google has now announced they are shutting Stadia down.

While "cover your ass" posts may need a grain of salt, there's no logic in "we're killing a product/service" being lip service.
Freelancing as a Laravel Developer: One Year Later
I donate to the state police retirement fund occasionally, and I donate to the local shop with a sheriff, which I'm actually intending to go to the kids, but of course the sheriff is all about it and the one soliciting donations.

My business actually started the shop-with-a-sheriff in this county, although the new sheriff took it over after a couple of years.

I waste plenty of money, but I don't particularly feel like I'm wasting it here. You should meet the kids, and the deputies.
>Stadia will exist by the end of the summer. You don’t have to believe me. Like I said feel free to come back to this thread in October.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32278402
Never used in the first place, only because I had almost no trust in Google not shutting down any new services.

Not surprised. Google really needs to stop doing this.
This! I would love this!
You can also see a doctor and get vitamin D injections.
I really like this version of the joke, but it's impossible to tell during regular face-to-face conversation
They aren't just regular old Bluetooth?
"Stadia is not shutting down. Rest assured we're always working on bringing more great games to the platform and Stadia Pro. Let us know if you have other questions."

- Jul 29, 2022

https://twitter.com/googlestadia/status/1552989433590214656
10ms isn't even one frame at 60 FPS. Modern consoles have more "native" input lag than that.
Because you have to address the separate permutations and concerns of multiple stack levels versus just declaring what you want the result to be from those additional stack levels. In essence, your "unit" test is a lie because your testing other units accidentally. I see a similar problems a lot with classes that have a small number of public methods which delegate to a larger stack of internal private calls. Unit tests are about testing the unit explicitly and forcing/contriving results of dependencies which you shouldn't be concerned with because those dependencies have been explicitly tested elsewhere. When these situations arise what you have are in memory integration tests, not unit tests.

As an example, suppose I have a static method that takes in an object and returns a result based on the state of that object. Now I have conditional logic in the unit under test that has a dependency on the result of that static method. In my unit test, I don't want to go to the trouble of creating the state of the object to force the delegate call to return a certain result that determines the execution flow, I want to just force that call to return the result I need.
It's not credentialism at all, I said nothing about having a PhD in Physics for example. These theories are highly technical and if you aren't actively engaged in reading/replicating the most important papers and even lack the technical training to do so how can you really make coherent criticisms of them? It really beggars belief that a Biologist with nothing more than basic stats training can make sense of or poke holes in String Theory or Quantum Chromodynamics for example. Hence we get Marcus' pseduointellectual mush that passes for valid criticism of DL in the media or among other non-experts.

>Why? If their arguments are sound, why shouldn't we listen to them?

Generally arguments from non-experts like this fall into the "not even wrong" category and don't merit much attention.
I am not sure I would fully recognize what I intended in your rephrasing. The first point was about how often those publications feel like "pulp paper" - they are very cheap. In some territories, that happened with publishers that faced some financial crisis, while with one of the most known publishers in English language it is the typical experience.

In the second point, I noted that the amount of text (character count) seems to have a critical relation to the burden set by inflation primarily with that literature that seems to be inflating the number of pages as part of its virtual "key performance indicators". Which seemed to me an odd focus in the article, since "many things are a book" (it seems to some data, as I mentioned, that the largest part of books sold in the USA are colouring books), but for Books (especially when we are talking about a context of crisis), I think of James Joyce and Umberto Eco, not of those produced with the purpose of "I really need to think to something different than the daily hassles, for the longest possible time".
Time to update http://isstadiadeadyet.com
I had no idea this was an issue, tv ads? I'm about to buy a new tv for new home. So go-to is buy any new tv but just use Apple TV box instead, and this box is worthwhile?
I'm a documentation writer at a medium-sized company.

I like the Diataxis system of thinking about how-to guides vs. tutorials vs. reference vs. explanation.

But I've also tried to segregate content into these discrete categories in documentation to limited success. This framework is helpful for thinking about content, but also results in a strange sidebar for your docs if you actually follow their advice:

> Technical documentation should be structured explicitly around these four types, and should keep them all separate and distinct from each other.

I think tutorials and guides can live separately, but I really really struggle to disentangle reference material from how-tos. Even simple task-oriented information ("enable or disable Feature X") feels unnatural to segregate from the reference material and the explanatory info. If you do separate them, you end up with a serious linking problem, where every page is useless in isolation and users somehow have to figure out a starting point when multiple pages all build off of each other.

The best I've ever managed is a system that uses separate top-level sections for explanation/tasks/reference on a single page for a single concept. Which I suppose isn't a direct violation of Diataxis, but it feels somehow different in spirit.

How have other documentarians approached this problem?
OPV machines sure but I was referring to appliances in the field. I don't think these are OPV capable?
I’m surprised, but I’m also glad they are doing this. It could be to avoid class action lawsuits. I used mine for a total of 5 minutes before throwing it in trash. It is a very unfinished product they shipped thinking they’ll solve it. But the reality is, even with the best internet in the country, the games were barely playable. I’m talking 600mbps download and a 100mbps upload speed.
No no, I added the text while submitting the link and it came as a comment. I don't know why
I guess they're keeping the subscription fees for those who subscribed, not sure what percent of their revenue that would have been. All in all the total sales are probably paltry relative to the investment they've made in it (though surely they'll find other uses for the servers and tech), so it's not a big sacrifice to give that back to avoid anger and lawsuits
Indeed, yes.

For development, if you're finding "slow startup" to be a problem, you're just doing it wrong: start a REPL and leave it running -- mine run for days (or even weeks).
The Affinity Suite of tools (competitors to PS, IL, ID) are very much great alternatives to the Adobe ecosystem. Pricing is significantly less too.
Thanks for the perspective from east side of the wall.

It was not voted on directly. Like removal of Deutschmark under Köhl, it was done by those governing without direct vote. The people didn't react, so you get what you tolerate.
I think the best thing is wait 5 years and see if they are going to shitcan it or not...
It's a shame he doesn't do many BOLTRs anymore. His output slowly petered out during COVID.
Yes, luacheck for example.
Are they refunding the original price of the games bought?

In that case, it doesn't seem like a bad news at all for Stadia users. They will have play through multiple pretty recent and expensive games for free during years.
Same here. If they intended to use this buyback as a strategy so next round we’re more comfortable buying into their project: it’s working.
Whenever there is an explosion of content, curation and search become important. Meta has many of the products people use to show off their taste, so having more content to curate and share is good for their ecosystem (until people stop consuming as much because they know they can produce even better with their own imagination). This may be good for Google - the more content there is, the more you need search to find it.

The downsides: there will be less money out there for creators, because that becomes a commodity. You will be able to make money if you are known for quality content polishing, editing and generally bringing that last 5-10% of generated content to look perfect (all the way until automated tools are trained to do that as well). AI will automate and improve most white-collar jobs. Instead of generators, everyone will become curators, as taste will be more important (until that's trained into the system as well).

For deeper levels of consequence we have to look at history: how did the world change when people finally got paper after most writing was done on animal skins (more got to write, the richest or most powerful didn't have the only say), or water piped to your house after you had to carry buckets and dig wells (It freed up time for everyone for more interesting tasks). Now GPUs are going to be the new paper and the new PVC. Yes, software has been eating the world for a while, but you won't be able to brainstorm without AI generating the first pass.
But you could hear the sound of the magic going on in the cyberspace inside the circuits when you dialed into your provider with the modem speaker activated!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0
see also synechdoche [0] as a figure of speech, or "container for the thing contained" as james thurber's english teacher explained...

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
I actually got Cyberpunk 2077 specifically on Stadia so I could play the meta-game of "Can I win Cyberpunk before the unaccountable mega-corpo revokes my access to Cyberpunk?"

I will be losing that game.
https://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/10/why-its-ok-to-...
You're mixing two different things. I agree with you - if we could live in a world where we didn't have to work, that's great! That's the desired outcome IMO.

But you also ask:

> Why do we need to earn those things? Are they not inherent within us?

And if I'm understanding correctly, the reason we need to earn these things is because right now, we're not living in a world in which we can stop working. The world doesn't just hand us what we need without toil, unfortunately.
It would be great if they could somehow open up the API of the controllers, they are nice.
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Native Seattleite here, I aspirate them both. I'm confused.
How do you get the private key?
I thought for sure they would've kept this going a lot longer, and I'm a bit shocked that they're doing full refunds. Very unexpected and very not like Google.

That's item number one marked off on my list of 2020s predictions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21943323
It is childish to want to fly to America from Europe in 1700 and get upset that it is not possible. That is what I meant: "want" as a present demand, as seen in some dictionaries.[1] I should have been more clear about this as it seems to have become the point of contention. But see my later point about the carying capacity for why this is an unreasonable future want as well.

[1]https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/want
Also, do not forget an easy and powerful sandboxing that you can achieve with Lua by selectively including/excluding parts of its std library at compile time and running Lua itself in a thread with no (or minimal) shared state. This alone is priceless when embedding scripting into an application.
I got this on my 4th try or so: https://thismoviedoesnotexist.org/movie/alice-in-wonderland
Maybe it is cheap. Any idea how many units they sold?
It's notable that in 1909, people thought the world was so interconnected that there could never be another general war in Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion
I'm using Lua for a game right now (sdwr.itch.io/underlod), and it's grown on me significantly. Using tables is a bit clunky, but the flexibility is insanely powerful.

The codebase I'm using has multiple inheritance, and it's implemented right out in the open, in 40 lines of code using metatables. Been dabbling with runtime function binding as well.
1. I did read the article. I simply wasn't interested in arguing with you about its contents to prove I had.

2. The article was taking about some specific data points and some vague data points. The ambiguity I am referring to is in the data provided by a vague question's answers. Asking if people want to be in a relationship does not tell us clearly and unambiguously what kind of relationship they are interested in.

3. The article is treated as a topic for discussion here. I'm allowed to expand discussion to other closely related information. Taking about a general trend that applies to all relationship studies, when the topic is a relationship study, is not a strawman or way off topic. You are just gatekeeping conversation.
Agreed. The upfront cost of games and a new Stadia-specific controller was too much. I subscribed to PS Now to play Spider-Man. I still had to buy a PlayStation controller, but it was reusable for other PC games.

Ironically, I am now only subscribed to a visit GeForce Now, which requires game purchases. This is primarily due to Sony’s lack of macOS support for PS Now, and my owning an M1 with no Bootcamp support.
Ironically, authorization downstream of an API gateway is an application that JWTs are a good candidate for.
Refunds are nice and all, but gaming is a time investment too. Wonder if they will allow exporting savegames, or will people's progress be black-holed?
Monkeys are primates though, which I feel like entitles them to somewhat special treatment. They are cognitively equivalent to a human child.

While chickens are dumb, evil animals.
Thanks, I should have realized searching for "play" in a package manager was going to be a poor user experience.

I think it must be installed by default in my distro.
That's honestly too bad. I used it to log into Destiny 2 to buy items that were on rotation when I wasn't able to be at my desk to do so, like traveling or already in bed and too lazy to go downstairs.
I was thinking of white collar tech worker as engineers. However it makes sense to include all the tech workers including UX, PM, etc and then I agree that’s the majority.
Aka I was wrong, you’re right.
Kudos to Google for doing right by their customers without being prompted. They could’ve said “$5 off a Nest Thermostat” or some crap and instead they manned up.
People predicted this was gonna happen the minute the first Stadia announcement was made.
These decisions are not made over the course of days or a couple of months. They're made quarters or years in advance.
Is it unnecessary, or did they save spending money on your instance of an AI when you probably weren't going to pay them anyway?
> https://killedbygoogle.com/ does not confirm it.

So what? Are you in doubt of the veracity of the post? Look at the URL.
Generally, you'll find that these non-standard gauges for urban/light rail have good reasons, at least good for the time the decisions about them were made. The history of the TTC gauge used here in Toronto is a great example of that.
Does anyone have sales numbers on hardware and software?

If the actual sales were low (and that's part of why they shut down) then it might actually be (relatively) cheap, and perhaps buy them goodwill towards their next experiment. Maybe next time more people will try it, with the hopes that if it fails, they'll get refunds. And maybe it'll build momentum for them.
You'd need to define "all the users".

I read this article as talking to people who're (professional?) programmers, who're evaluating Lua as a programming language that they might want to use and are comparing it to things like C / C++ / Python / etc.

But I would be willing to bet money that the vast majority of people who write code in Lua are scripters. Roblox users alone probably outnumber people who're doing general-programming in Lua. For them, things like 1-indexed arrays are a particularly good idea.
When I rejoined Google (working in the hardware division), my managers tried to get me to work on stadia and I refused (this was shortly before it launched). I looked at it, said "this won't be successful, and google will eventually get rid of it". My managers simply couldn't understand that. They said "the leadership thinks this will be successful and we should build it" and then I realized they were sheeple.
Here’s another Terminator one: https://thismoviedoesnotexist.org/movie/terminator-war-of-th...
Bandwidth isn't that important with game streaming after ~40-70 Mbps, latency and jitter (essentially latency consistency) is.