knightly the Sneptaur

I’m confident in my “never” because of the capital economics; the service has to be expensive enough to pay for the infrastructure it requires plus some profit for the shareholders, while simultaneously being cheap enough to offer gamers a better value proposition than buying their own hardware. There’s no margin between those limits, so the only market left for them to appeal to are niches where local rendering performance is limited but network latency and bandwidth are not. Even then, gamers still have the option of streaming from their own hardware using Moonlight rather than paying for a third-party service, so the only customers left are the ones with more money than sense.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the concept (I even bought an OnLive microconsole back in the day and still regularly use a Steam Link to stream games to the living room TV), but it isn’t nearly convenient or performant enough to justify itself as a subscription service.

That’s 100% correct, because the shareholders still haven’t learned their lesson from OnLive, Google Stadia, Amazon Luna, Nvidia GeForce Now, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, or Playstation Plus Premium.

Game streaming serices are never going to catch on because the capital needed to build out the infrastructure is ridiculous.

Without even counting the cost of hosting and bandwidth, a game streaming node already costs as much as a gaming PC, easily $2k. Say it gets 100% utilization with four customers each playing 6 hours a day, and that they’re paying $20/month for the service, then it’d take 25 months for that $2k node to pay for itself. However, by that time the hardware will be old and outdated, in need of replacement.

That’s zero return on investment for the lifetime of the hardware, absolutely no profit even in this idealized case unless you can charge more than $20. Add in the monthly expenses for colocation space, power, bandwidth, and overhead and you get a product with zero ROI even at $35/month.

Then, consider that this node can only realistically serve a small geographic area due to network latency limitations, and that using the service requires your customers to already be paying for high-quality broadband, and you’ve got a recipe for a tiny potential customer base and massive capital investment to make nodes available in close enough proximity to all major markets.

This exact sequence of events has happened to me too. XD

Absolutely. But at least that bubble is popping. Soon we won’t have to worry about AI mania anymore. XD

This makes a lot of sense though, from the description it sounds like they’re trying to build an NPU out of memristors. We’ve been expecting them to show up to do this kind of math for a bit, since they’d cut a lot of redundant computation out of the layered matrix calculus that NPUs are optimized for if we can make them small, fast, and reliable enough.

And it’s not just for “AI”. A lot of problems, like physics modeling or speech recognition, can be reduced to matrix math. An analog, programmable memristor network can do that kind of calculus almost passively.

I have, and you’re absolutely correct. There’s shades of Tribes in the momentum mechanics and something about them tickles my pathfinding brain something fierce. My biggest request on top of yours would be a less-punishing endless mode so I can play around with the maps and builds more leisurely.

Because if they don’t then I won’t use their chatbot.

how much more for the product/service would you be willing to pay for a human operator on the other side or conversely, how cheap would the non-human supported product/service have to be for you to choose it over the more expensive human supported option?

Better question, how much is a company willing to pay me to use an LLM instead of going to one of their competitors?

Because if the answer is insultingly small then I’m not patronizing them.

Sounds like an LLM that could have been a PDF.

It also makes those large corporate platforms unappealing, which is a very good thing for those of us who have always said that federation is a half-step towards proper decentralization.

“In the USA” and “by large portions of the capitalist class” are the answers to your question, I think the previous commenter was just a bit too incredulous because this topic came up in the news lately and they’d expected it to be common knowledge even outside the U.S. since much of the “AI Industry” is involved with U.S. tech companies.

I did, I do, and I’m calling this article bullshit for not pointing out that while the protocol might be open-source, they have yet to share the server software that’s required to operate it.

BlueSky “lets” people host their own profile data because it reduces how much data they have to host. It does not allow them to login and browse the network without going through their centralized servers to do so.

So, it’s not really decentralized, not really open source, and remains under corporate control until such time as they decide to let anyone compete with them on their own network.

This is entirely doable, but you may need to do some manual network configuration.

Omfg.

I was trying to remember the name of kdirstat ladt night when I stumbled across filelight and made use of that instead.

And now there’s a thread on this exact topic. Y’all need to quit it with all this Truman Show nonsense, Baader-Meinhof alone isn’t enough to explain how frequently shit like this happens. XD

If you’re on Android, grab PipePipe from the F-droid store. That’ll handle the mobile use case and block ads and skip sponsored segments at the same time.

When it comes to music videos on youtube, it’s best to save a copy in case the video gets taken down in the future.

No problem! I love getting into the comments under articles on quantum stuff 'cuz the topic is weirdly unintuitive from the classical perspective and a lot of folks share some common misconceptions about jargon like “teleportation” and “entanglement”. Please do ask if you’ve got any other questions! 😄

It’s real, but the jargon is unintuitive.

“Teleportation” in the field of quantum mechanics refers to the process by which a quantum state can be copied from one place to another.

This process is like Shrodinger’s Cat, both alive and dead until you open the box to check. Quantum information simply does not exist until a measurement collapses it into back into classical information, so copying a quantum state literally involves teleporting the information about it from sender to receiver without allowing the box to be opened during the transition.

I think they were making a joke about the bluetooth protocol rather than literally describing the electromagnetic field.

Yes. Information is what’s being teleported. The photons that carry the information still have to travel from sender to recipient but the information they contain doesn’t exist until it is received. Like how Shrodinger’s Cat is both alive and dead until you open the box to check.