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by zx10rse | 2025-05-25 14:29:49+00:00
The article touches on multiplayer games which my comment reflected, they are after all the predominant genre that generates the most profit for companies, and of course are the most exploited.

I didn't say that there are no good new games anymore, there are of course good titles great games your example is one, but the market shifted because the cash is elsewhere.

If you compare the profit for a game like BOTW despite being huge success by unit sales, and the yearly profit of a game like Fortnite as some of the commenters pointed, or CoD you will see what I mean, those tittles literally print money with in game shops not unit sales.

I agree with you, and this was my main point in 20 years someone will replay BOTW because it is a great game, the ones that are made to simply print money will be replaced by others that prints money faster, and better.
by lurk2 | 2025-05-25 14:30:04+00:00
> There has been extensive coverage of the US detaining people without charge under the new regime's immigration policies.

Can you cite any examples? Mahmoud Khalil (who you referenced in another comment) was not charged with a crime, but he isn’t being held in perpetuity:

> There is no criminal charge against Khalil. Instead, the government's argument depends on a section of the Cold War–era Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which provides that aliens in the U.S. may be deported if the secretary of state believes their presence will have serious negative consequences for U.S. foreign policy. […] On April 1, 2025, New Jersey federal district judge Michael Farbiarz stated his court has jurisdiction over Khalil's case, and issued a stay on Khalil's deportation while it considers a separate case challenging the constitutionality of his arrest and detention. On April 11, 2025, Louisiana immigration judge Jamee E. Comans ruled that Khalil is deportable, under Secretary of State Marco Rubio's assertion that his continued presence poses "adverse foreign policy consequence". The judge said she had no authority to question that determination.

> The fourth amendment has been effectively suspended for foreigners.

This is not true.

> They are literally putting people in jail forever simply because they don't like them.

This is not true.
by dangus | 2025-05-25 14:30:22+00:00
Rural subsidy for agriculture and other purposes makes a ton of sense. And not all rural areas are subsidy areas, many involved in energy and mineral extraction are economic surplus contributors. I have no problem with rural subsidy.

I think part of my objection to this lifestyle is that the author is essentially a burden on their community by their own choice. The community would be healthier economically if this person wasn’t in it.

Now, all of us may eventually become a burden as we age or if we become disabled. But doing it by choice is a different thing philosophically.

It’s bad for the person doing it in that they are going to depend on external factors keeping that lifestyle staying stable. If the library closes [1] or rural public transportation gets cut [2] this author now has to change up their life a whole lot to compensate.

If you’re already a person who generates an economic surplus you can roll with those punches more easily.

It’s bad for the community because this person is consuming more resources than they produce. Everyone in the community is slightly poorer because their tax dollars are supporting an able-bodied person who essentially refuses to work.

People don’t like to admit that they live in a metaphorical anthill. The ants who aren’t working and haven’t saved for retirement are factually a burden. I’m not saying we should all be wage slaves and we must work or else we have no value, but I think the author is essentially describing an undesirable extreme.

[1] https://members.olc.org/news/Details/ohio-house-budget-reduc...

[2] https://www.masstransitmag.com/management/news/55292030/us-d...
by bronco21016 | 2025-05-25 14:30:40+00:00
I've thought of the same for my lake shore, which is very much not a "just build a fence" situation.

We have 50 ft of lake shore with neighbors on either side. Assuming I fenced my 50 ft there is still a path around said fence on either side.

At the very most I could gate the dock, but again, there are about 8 other docs readily available.
by hn_acker | 2025-05-25 14:32:36+00:00
> There have recently been a few horrifying stories where this wasn't the case, but those are the exception and not the rule.

You made a political statement here that might not be flamebait but is just as careless of reality as flamebait: not only because it ignores the number of people affected in each story (in the worst case, 50 people who literally followed the legal immigration process and still got "deported" to prisons in a different country than the one they came from [1]), but because your idea of "a few" is not mutually exclusive to someone else's idea of "too many". Your "SHOULD never have a problem" is a motte to the `most likely won't have a problem` bailey.

[1] https://www.cato.org/blog/50-venezuelans-imprisoned-el-salva...
by bgwalter | 2025-05-25 14:33:34+00:00
Contraction of "information" and "electronics" according to this site:

https://grodiko.fr/informatique?lang=en

German site claims that "Informatik", which is practically the same, is a contraction of "Information" and "Mathematik":

https://www.pctipp.ch/praxis/gewusst/kam-begriff-informatik-...
by jodrellblank | 2025-05-25 14:33:37+00:00
A problem is the clay surrounding the tunnels insulates them - it traps heat because heat flows through it very slowly. So you drill down and put a heat exchanger pipe down there, you pump heat from 3cm of clay around the pipe and now no heat flows through the clay to your pipe even though there’s a lot of heat still down there.

Your pipe becomes a tiny worm of cold pipe in a big lump of hot clay and you’ve done very little to cool the underground or warm your water. That is, if heat moved easily through the stuff then the problem of heat buildup would be easy to solve but in that case heat wouldn't build up so there wouldn't be a problem; and vice-versa.
by pauldix | 2025-05-25 14:33:39+00:00
Right now this is just in the AI Studio web UI. I have a few command line/scripts to put together a file or two and drop those in. So far I've put in about 450k of stuff there and then over a very long conversation and iterations on a bunch of things built up another 350k of tokens into that window.

Then start over again to clean things out. It's not flawless, but it is surprising what it'll remember from a while back in the conversation.

I've been meaning to pick up some of the more automated tooling and editors, but for the phase of the project I'm in right now, it's unnecessary and the web UI or the Claude app are good enough for what I'm doing.
by wkat4242 | 2025-05-25 14:34:40+00:00
I don't really believe in unions either. But I do believe in a good balance between capitalism and socialism (and welfare systems, employee rights etc). I don't believe in the market solving everything.

The problem I have with unions is that they can be too unreasonable. They're too much on the other side, they're too hardline just like the ultracapitalists/neoliberals but on the other side. In a good system we wouldn't have to fight for our rights because we'd already have them anyway.
by oulipo | 2025-05-25 14:34:56+00:00
Agreed, although it's slightly beside the point. The goal of building tools and robots has always been to alleviate work. And this is fine. There's still plenty of stuff to do if machines work for us to give us basic housing and food.

Now what needs to be done is to give back the profits to everyone, inclusively, as a kind of "universal basic income", so that we all enjoy it together, and not just the billionaires
by catigula | 2025-05-25 14:35:47+00:00
I'm not sure what point you think is being made but your own chart shows suicide exploding during the exact timeline we're discussing.

It's probably not causative, as that would be quite silly, but economic plenty for extremely wealthy people caused by a massive influx of cheap labor is clearly not a net boon on this metric.

The US made its bones well before this insane population explosion we only very recently had.

(Yes, we've had large amounts of immigration before. We also built infrastructure and were vastly less developed).
by dxs | 2025-05-25 14:36:20+00:00
There's no need to be fancy unless you really like diddling around.

My current method: Buy a can of potted meat. Do not open it. Use a utility knife to score around the circular indentation in the bottom of the can. Pop out this indented part when it finally surrenders. Scoop out the can's contents. Wash the can thoroughly and maybe dull the sharp edge where the indented part was removed. (SHARP!) Get a bit of fiberglass insulation and stuff it into the can as a wick. Done.

The stove is now usable and with the wick it will light easily even in low temperatures, and the flame will be more regulated.

What you finish with is too light to register on the scale at the post office. Can't beat that.

Fuel: Buy denatured alcohol anywhere paint is sold. (And if you are stealthy, and at a place like Home Depot, you can also get a small "sample" of fiberglass insulation to use as your wick there while you're at it. You need only a tiny bit.) Carry the fuel in a 16 oz/500 ml bladder like Platypus sells. To reseal the "bottle", squeeze out the excess air and make sure that the cap is on tight. Alcohol vapor will escape from a bottle with a push/pull dispenser cap and leave you short, especially if carried in a rigid, fixed-volume bottle. (Talking from experience.) And the little bladders weigh essentially nothing and take up no space when empty.

Measure fuel by using the cap from the bottle that carries the fuel. A cap full is about 1/4 ounce or 7.39 ml. After a while you get really good at measuring out exactly how much you need.

My free book which may or may not be a little fun: "Fire in Your Hand: Dave's Little Guide to Ultralight Backpacking Stoves" at https://fireinyourhand.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html

The book needs some updating and much better illustrations, etc., etc. but I've quit backpacking now anyway. I live outside the US these days, and though I've been back a couple of times just to go backpacking, it hasn't worked well. Too hot, too wet, too dry, too expensive, disintegration of national and state parks, too much incipient violence. I've gotten death threats just for being on a public trail that someone else regarded as their own. And so on.

Be well if possible anymore.
by firesteelrain | 2025-05-25 14:36:27+00:00
This article seems to romanticize a time of long ago

Most of these developments were meant to be temporary wartime measures and were heavily discriminatory. Housing hasn’t been seen as a public good so that’s partially the reason why we don’t do more of these types of projects. Habitat for Humanity is one organization that builds similar public housing projects notably not on the best real estate. Our housing situation is deliberately chosen over the last 100 years. We could have continued down that path beyond WW1 but realize it was done for a specific purpose at a specific point in time because the government realized it needed to bootstrap a nation for war.
by dazzaji | 2025-05-25 14:36:35+00:00
I’m still stuck on the first sentence "An LLM should never output anything but tool calls and their arguments” because it just doesn’t make sense to me.

Tool calling is great, but LLMs are - and should be used as - more than just tool callers. I mean, some tools will have to be other LLMs doing what they’re good at, like writing a novel, summarizing, brainstorming ideas, or explaining complex topics. Tools are useful, but the stuff LLMs actually do is also useful. The basic premise that LLMs should never output anything beyond tools and arguments is leaving most of the value of LLMs on the table.
by nrclark | 2025-05-25 14:36:58+00:00
I've taken this stove backpacking lots of times: https://zenstoves.net/CatCanStove.htm

it's been very reliable, lightweight, and works in cold weather. Fuel is cheap and a lot more environmentally friendly than disposable cannisters.

Plus, it's easy to make and works great as a project for ~10-year old kids. You need a windscreen and a pot stand with it (those are both easy to build), just like you would with any other small burner stove.

The one change I made to that stove's design was that I used a little bit of JB Weld to help keep the inside can in-place. Then I put the lid back on the outside can and JB Welded it on. The result was a very durable, lightweight stove that works great.
by hnlmorg | 2025-05-25 14:37:30+00:00
Surely that says more about how NYC than it does about London?

If I had to suffer overcrowded trains with standing room only, people’s armpits in my face and all, at 40C temperatures everyday in the summer, then I wouldn’t be laughing at London for trying to avoid the same fate. I’d be complaining that my own city isn’t taking their problems seriously enough.
by zo1 | 2025-05-25 14:38:01+00:00
Definitely still an issue in C#. C# devs are just comfortable with the way it is because they don't know better and are held hostage. Everything in C# world after a certain size will involve IOC/DI and the entire ecosystem of frameworks that has co-evolved with it.

The issues are still there. You can't just "go to definition" of the class being injected into yours, even if there is only one. You get the Interface you expect (because hey you have to depend on Interfaces because of something something unit-testing), and then see what implements that interface. And no, it will not just point to your single implementation, it'll find the test implementation too.

But where that "thing" gets instantiated is still a mystery and depends on config-file configured life-cycles, the bootstrapping of your application, whether the dependency gets loaded from a DLL, etc. It's black-box elephants all the way to the start of your application. And all that you see at the start is something vague like: var myApp = MyDIFramework.getInstance(MyAppClass); Your constructors, and where they get called from is in a never-ending abyss of thick and unreadable framework code that is miles away from your actual app. Sacrificed at the alter of job-creation, unit-testing and evangelist's talk-resume padding.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-05-25 14:38:04+00:00
> From what I've seen on the wider internet, the support for Trump is mostly a personality cult.

I agree with you but the point I'm trying to get across is that a disturbing amount of seemingly right minded people actually support him now on a policy level. Maybe they always did and feel comfortable to say it out loud now? I don't know.

But the deportations, skipping due process, defunding science, excluding foreign students, dismantling aid programs, cutting ties with Europe and Canada, stripping trans people of their rights, pulling support from Ukraine, not following the Paris Climate Accords, etc. etc. It's all stuff I've seen people here genuinely argue for.
by nelgaard | 2025-05-25 14:38:41+00:00
And they manage to make it even more crazy by also comparing it to average external temperatures.

== The Victoria Line average temperature in August last year was 60% higher in temperature than the average external temperature that month, measured at 19.5 degrees. ==

Certainly for January it must have been hundreds of percent higher.

And what would the numbers be for e.g., the Moscow metro in winter months where the average outside temperature is negative?
by cluckindan | 2025-05-25 14:38:50+00:00
That is untrue. Did you read the OP article? Just 10 standard 500mg tablets of paracetamol in 24h will cause irreversible liver damage.

It’s the exact opposite of what you claim. Cannabis is orders of magnitude less destructive to the body than paracetamol.

If you honestly believe what you wrote, you need to check your sources. There is a lot of drug war propaganda still out there.
by aidenn0 | 2025-05-25 14:38:55+00:00
That's interesting. I suspect that this is a difference in continental usage vs American (I am unsure about the UK).

The first Wiktionary definition of democracy is fairly close to what I learned in school as an American:

> Rule by the people, especially as a form of government; either directly or through elected representatives[1]

The first half of the EU definition is much weaker ("participate in" vs "rule") and the second half directly contradicts the Wiktionary definition:

> ...where there are safeguards against the abuse of power, including a strong rule of law, protection of human rights, and an independent judiciary.

To the extent that the majority want to destroy the rule of law, violate human rights, and capture the judiciary, those things are antidemocratic. Now I think it's a good thing that (for example) an AfD majority in the Bundestag would be limited in its ability to dismantle those 3 things, but it's certainly not "Rule by the people."

1: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/democracy#English
by agent281 | 2025-05-25 14:39:00+00:00
I agree with GP. I would amend their claim with "most problems* could be solved by building high density housing and services in areas with jobs." I.e., build real cities.

Building homes on federal land in the middle of no where will not do anything for people. We just need to allow people to build housing where there is a demand for labor.

Some things I think would be solved include:

- the housing crisis

- mobility => it would be easier for people to move to other parts of the country because they would be less tied to their homes - labor mismatches

- climate change => less reliance on cars

- funding infrastructure => more dense infrastructure means you don't have as much infrastructure to repair and you have more people paying for it

- city government budgets => high density areas are more tax efficient

- home insurance => the homes on the outskirts of cities are most likely to burn down; if housing is cheap the cost to insure it will be cheaper as well

IMO, if housing is 30-60% of peoples budgets and transportation is another 10-20%, if you can bring those costs down you can de-stress a lot of people. That might make politics less intense too.

* "Most problems" is not strictly accurate. But "more problems than you might think are directly related to housing" doesn't really roll off the tongue.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-05-25 14:39:10+00:00
> At least say you want to pay Nintendo to play the game...

They possibly did this 30 years ago but now they can’t play the game - despite the license they purchased - because they are missing the original hardware. For the same reason I would never pay Nintendo (again) to get permission (again) to play Pokemon Red: it doesn’t matter to me (and it never will) that I’m somehow “infringing” because I want to enjoy culture that I grew up on. It just makes copyright law a joke that people will reasonably ignore until it is less farcical. Oh no, boo hoo, they make a little bit less money; I’m over here playing (not a beloved game from my childhood, but) the world’s smallest violin in solidarity for the profits of the largest media conglomerate in the world.

Not trying to attack the above commenter but god damn am I sick of hearing how I should be paying money again to enjoy something I “““owned””” in my childhood. Fuck that every day of the week. I do not want to pay Nintendo to play Pokemon Red, I never will, and that is reasonable even if I choose to play it.

/rant
by ZeroCool2u | 2025-05-25 14:39:36+00:00
In my experience with Gemini it definitely does not take a few minutes. I think that's a big difference between Claude and Gemini. I don't know exactly what Google is doing under the hood there, I don't think it's just quantization, but it's definitely much faster than Claude.

Caching a code base is tricky, because whenever you modify the code base, you're invalidating parts of the cache and due to conditional probability any changed tokens will change the results.
by somenameforme | 2025-05-25 14:39:41+00:00
Doom was the genre defining multiplayer game, and it released in 1993. And there were a ton of multiplayer shooters released in the 7 years interim. The only really distinct thing about Counter-Strike, besides its quality, is that it came to Steam from the very beginning. But the game had already become a classic before 1.6 launched on Steam and the idea of playing on/through Steam at the time was quite divisive.
by throw0101d | 2025-05-25 14:40:28+00:00
> Didn’t the greatest advancements in science occur during a time when it was more of a personal hobby (19th and early 20th centuries)?

Perhaps, but there was a lot of low-hanging fruit (as a sibling comment mentions).

Biology then was taking a cup of pond water and putting it under a microscope. Biology now is gene sequencing and using HPC clusters to search through FASTA files.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASTA_format

What kind of new discoveries are available to backyard astronomers versus using JWST data?
by grepexdev | 2025-05-25 14:40:48+00:00
Are you familiar with the DICE framework in terms of VR? Essentially, VR enables one to do things that are [D]angerous, [I]mpossible, [C]ostly, or [E]xpensive.

Your racecar example is a perfect example. It would be dangerous and costly. Would it be better than VR racing? I think so. Would I be able to actually do it? Hell no. I suspect most people would answer the same.

Yes, I know expensive and costly are basically the same thing.
by jpc0 | 2025-05-25 14:40:55+00:00
I think the situation is likely significantly more nuanced than either of your points of view allows.

Suicide and basic needs being met is likely not highly correlated. On the other side suicide stats likely don’t include dependency related death, alcoholism can be a coping mechanism, if you didn’t commit suicide but instead murdered your liver and died early is that really a different statistic in your assessment?

The only way you can measure is access to basic needs, housing, shelter, medical care, nutrition. A century ago those things were significantly lower for the average person vs now. Could the world be in a better situation? Very likely yes, but is could also be much worse.

If you want to significantly change things then better, advocate for more social workers and to make sure the social welfare system works through them. They are in my experience very good at sussing out whether someone is a leech to society and is just looking for a handout of someone who is truly in need.

Advocate for adequate housing, more suburbs doesn’t help low-middle class people, you need more dense housing close to infrastructure or workplaces.
by shoxidizer | 2025-05-25 14:41:24+00:00
Refining gasoline isn't special. The Syrian civil war caused the construction of thousands of makeshift oil refineries. It's basically just distillation. You won't have an easier time making batteries and semiconductors from scrap metal.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/04/24/dying-to-keep-war...
by dlubarov | 2025-05-25 14:41:25+00:00
You said "assassinations by the IDF", not just "assassinations".

You also mentioned "directly funding Hamas" which isn't accurate. You might be thinking of when Israel facilitated a transfer of funds from Qatar, ostensibly for some humanitarian projects in Gaza, not really for Hamas.

It was Hamas' decision to violently seize power, overthrowing the multi-party democracy that Gaza was intended to have; I don't really see how that could be Israel's fault.