MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BunsanSpace | 2025-07-02 18:51:45+00:00
There's also labour participation and underemployment to look at.

In your case underemployment would go up.

You need to look at all metrics together to get a bigger picture. Example is unemployment is down, but so is labour participation. That doesn't mean there was job growth, it means people stopped looking.

Or if unemployment is down, but underemployment is up. Similar picture emerges.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-07-02 18:51:46+00:00
IMO, I'd be content with "dump the server binaries in a file server somewhere" as an adequate, if less than ideal, option. If the binaries are available, it'd take work, but not that much work, to wrangle them into something hostable by me. Some containerization here, some packet redirection proxies there, I can make it work.
by tiledjinn | 2025-07-02 18:51:52+00:00
> - Put an expiration date on the storefront and make it clear that your software is not guaranteed to continue working after date X.

This software is not guaranteed beyond 0 Unix time.

> - Have your server source code (stripped down of proprietary stuff) ready for public release at EoL.

This isn't viable, and i would expect anyone on this site to understand that. it's roughly equivalent to saying "just make facebook stripped of proprietary code and ready for the public to run"

> - Allow customers to reverse engineer the binaries and communication protocol after EoL.

This is a reasonable path forward, but likely a non-starter in the US for political reasons. I understand that "stop killing games" is an EU thing.

> - Package dedicated server binaries with the game and allow customers to connect to it via a LAN or direct IP option.

See point 2. This is nonsensical.
by bluecalm | 2025-07-02 18:52:39+00:00
There shouldn't be tax on income. There should be tax on assets. Don't tax income from land, tax land value.

This also avoids a loophole that buying land and doing nothing on it means you pay very little taxes while patiently waiting for its value to increase because of other people who do productive things nearby

>>or do you think that anyone who invests abroad should be exempt on tax on income from those assets

Of course, those should be taxed where they are located. Much easier to tax companies where they operate than elusive "income" of increasing stock value.

>>What about ownership of privately held businesse

You don't need to tax wealth related to business. Your can make operating businesses more expensive by introducing taxes and fees on it and then not tax any income it still generates.

EU politicians intuitively know that's the way when talking about digital tax. Just tax "IP protection" as % of revenue in your country for example. Then you will get a share of Apple or Google no matter where it's registered as long as it has revenue in your country.

It's way easier to make Google generate 20% less profit than to tax 20% on its profits. It's also very easy to tax it where it's operates and not care about creative accounting tricks it uses to show less profit.

The current system means people living on Cyprus pay less tax on Google value than Americans. It's just a completely stupid system that breeds abuse.
by ThatPlayer | 2025-07-02 18:52:45+00:00
An attempted legal remedy is still better than the nothing we have now.

For indie games, would an exclusion like "games with less than 1 million lifetime players" be enough? That's not an unsolvable issue, especially as indie games are not the main games people are worried about being killed. Most indie games will not be 'killed' by the developers because they're not releant on servers that the developer cannot afford to host.

Lots of indie games I see just use the storefront's APIs for multiplayer matching, not even requiring a matchmaking server.
by taylodl | 2025-07-02 18:52:50+00:00
There are three major components:

1. Quality of company reputation.

2. Work performed, roles & responsibilities.

3. Measure of impact.

Most of these are reasonably self-explanatory, but I want to stress measure of impact. That's your hook to sell future employers. What did you bring to the table and how did you utilize it to the success of whatever project you were working on? You want something more than I showed up to work and did what I was told. Did you see the bigger picture and the value you could provide?

This is the measure with which to evaluate internship opportunities, leaning heavily into (3). Sometimes (3) and (1) may be at odds: it's often the case you can have a greater impact at companies not having such a great reputation or being unknown. The more (1) declines then you want (3) to more than compensate. That sort of thing.
by Analemma_ | 2025-07-02 18:53:17+00:00
The communications from the BLS are quite good and easily understandable. The problem is that the people making these complaints aren't reading those, they're reading the mainstream reporting on the BLS stats, which is extremely lossily-compressed, and then assuming this makes them qualified to criticize the underlying stats. Journalists deserve some flak here for the superficial way they report on the numbers, but at some point it's on you to get the real thing before you start trying to correct it.
by Ygg2 | 2025-07-02 18:53:34+00:00
Is that you Pirate software? Your takes are as equally misinformed.

> But it's less obvious to me how the legislation should work for a multiplayer-only game

It should. If the game is made after the Stop Killing Games law is passed, you have to have A Plan. Open source engine? Not prosecute private servers? Pick your poison.

> Why is multiplayer special?

It's not. Multiplayer wasn't special ten years ago. Only insistence on always online DRM and micro transactions changed this.
by anonymars | 2025-07-02 18:53:46+00:00
The world got along fine (better, probably) without the internet, yet here we all are.

> What is silly about going to do an errand without distractions? It's more efficient in my experience. I wont look up stuff in the store or answer texts that in reality can totally wait. I've yet to have something happen where not having my phone lead to me missing some big emergency or event. > Going out into the world is in fact the opposite of abandoning all contact, it's directly interfacing. According to your comment, you equated your world with access to your phone.

I have a hard time believing this isn't a disingenuous take just for the sake of arguing. "Hey honey, while you're at the grocery store, could you pick up some milk?" "Hey, I'm finishing up at the doctor, any chance you want to meet for lunch?"

Are we really saying we can't understand the difference between a computer and a cellphone? Are we really unable to imagine any reason why communicating outside the home can be a useful ability? That the ability to do something doesn't mean it is the only way to do something, nor does it mean it has to be done that way at all times in all situations?
by t_mann | 2025-07-02 18:54:09+00:00
I think it's time to switch from GDP per capita to household income. You might think the two are practically the same, and globally that's true, but at the regional level there can be stark discrepancies.

One example: Ireland's GDP grew a staggering 25% in 2015 [0], mainly because Apple decided to book more of their profits there. It does lead to higher tax revenue, but creates relatively few jobs or other income there. The profits go to Apple shareholders, who mainly live outside Ireland. Household income would more adequately reflect where those benefits go than GDP.

Plus, with household income it's more natural to look at the median in addition to the mean, which is the more robust metric, statistically speaking.

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locat...
by tim333 | 2025-07-02 18:54:20+00:00
There may be more to it than this article, based on a story from nature.com, suggests.

There is a dispute going on where the NIH wants papers publicly available:

>New NIH Public Access Policy goes into effect TODAY! Research accepted for publication on July 1, 2025, must be publicly available as soon as it is published.

and

>Nature-Springer and Elsevier already have stated their intent to charge new fees to comply with the new NIH policy (a fee of $12,690.00 per paper for Nature). https://x.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1940156677501726959
by rfrey | 2025-07-02 18:54:23+00:00
This is a super interesting comment, thank you. I am certainly guilty of believing the deaf experience is inferior to the hearing experience - but not because I think ASL is lesser than spoken languages or deficient as a communication channel. It's because deaf people don't hear music. I know people can dance to the beat and often distinguish songs by vibration patterns, but that is surely not equivalent to the emotional and intellectual experience most people can have listening to music.

Less important but similar: birdsong, the sound of crashing waves, children laughing in a playground. Hearing brings us much besides transfer of information.

On the other hand, from my brief number of ASL lessons (about a years worth taken as an adult in my mid 20s) the facial expressiveness inherent to ASL gives it something hearing people don't get in normal conversation. But to me that's a pretty small benefit compared to the things a deaf person is missing.

I'd respect anybody who chose not to get treated for themselves, but I think I'd be pretty judgy pretty quickly for anybody who tried to deny or dissuade anybody else from becoming hearing, including their children.
by i_love_retros | 2025-07-02 18:54:26+00:00
Uh oh, I think the bubble is bursting.

Personally the initial excitement has worn off for me and I am enjoying writing code myself and just using kagi assistant to ask the odd question, mostly research.

When a team mate who bangs on about how we should all be using ai tried to demo it and got things in a bit of a mess, I knew we had peaked.

And all that money invested into the hype!
by ryandv | 2025-07-02 18:54:49+00:00
That's right, and you see this directly reflected in the "types" of the transition functions for DFAs and NFAs, respectively [0] [1]:

δ : Q × E ⟶ Q δ : Q × E ⟶ P(Q)

... where Q denotes the set of the automaton's states, E its alphabet of input symbols, and P the power set operation. Deterministic automata arrive at a definite, single state drawn from Q, while non-deterministic automata may arrive at a set (~list) of possible states, when given a current state from Q and next input symbol from E.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic_finite_automaton

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondeterministic_finite_automa...
by itishappy | 2025-07-02 18:55:04+00:00
I recently learned that the New York City Police Department has international presence as well. Not sure if it directly compares, but... what a world we live in.

https://www.nycpolicefoundation.org/ourwork/advance/countert...

https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/investigative/intellig...
by xoa | 2025-07-02 18:55:30+00:00
>I was under the impression that iOS devices were prevalent among wealthy and aspiring wealthy Americans, but that middle class and lower class Americans were much more likely to have Android devices.

I think your impression is pretty dated, like to 2010 or something?Apple has generally kept iPhones fully updated for a good 5-7 years, with some security updates after and apps typically supporting n-1 or n-2 OS. Current iOS 18 supports devices back to the iPhone XR/XS released in 2018. And the pace of progress has leveled off a huge amount since the heady early days in the steep part of the S-curve. But prices still fall fast on used phones. Even if you go back fewer years, iPhone 11s and 12s can be had for a few hundred bucks or less and still work well (I had a 12 until recently). Battery replacement can be done for ~$30.

So while sure, if someone was always on the newest phone that'd have some premium, it's definitely not any big deal or sign of riches to have an iPhone. They're all over the US market space.
by whatshisface | 2025-07-02 18:55:36+00:00
It comes about when the deterministic collision process is integrated over all the indistinguishable initial states that could lead into an equivalence class of indistinguishable final states. If you set the collision probability to zero it's time reversible even with molecular chaos, and if the particles are highly correlated (like in a polymer) there can still arise an arrow of time when the integral is performed.
by qkhhly | 2025-07-02 18:55:40+00:00
> Does this mean that Huawei phone which has been hurt badly by sanction will now stand a fighting chance because of homegrown GPU?

oh, man, "stand a fighting chance"? huawei phone sales has already been back and surpassed apple in china.

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insight/china-smartphon...
by lupusreal | 2025-07-02 18:56:11+00:00
Credit where credit is due, American cops are considerably less corrupt than American politicians. Most people in America would never even dream of trying to pay off a cop to get out of a speeding ticket, that sort of thing just doesn't work and everybody knows it. On the other hand, bribing local politicians to get some land rezoned for your business, or some other similar crap? That's just standard operating procedure in small towns everywhere.
by smt88 | 2025-07-02 18:56:25+00:00
No.

It's easy to keep abortions secret. They're protected by privacy laws, so even HR can't ask about them. Medical issues are secret from the workplace by default.

It's impossible to keep your sexuality secret if you're married. Your marital status at work is public by default. And no one should have to keep the identity of their spouse secret for fear of being treated worse by the CEO.
by icameron | 2025-07-02 18:56:55+00:00
They work until they don’t in my anecdotal experience. Any substance it seems the first time is the best. Then, slowly, my brain chemistry adapts, and it becomes less effective. Sometimes a higher dose works for a while. But it never lasts. Then side effects start to build up, and before long it’s counterproductive. SNRIs worked, until after a few months I lost all my endurance (running) and libido. Kratom was wonderful at almost everything, until it eventually stopped hitting as hard and skipping it caused withdrawals. Micro dose maybe worked but very quickly wasn’t effective (like after 2-3 times with psilocybin, or a couple months of ketamine) many others on this list have a similar track record with my brain. Good at first but the effect wears off after a while and usually end up worse off for it.
by kedean | 2025-07-02 18:56:56+00:00
> It needs to also day 1 launch with a self-hostable standalone server distro instead of the crappy spaghetti mess you live coded on an EC2 machine?

If you can't meet these very achievable goals, perhaps the game isn't at a point where it should be sold for money. What are you going to do when that ec2 instance gets randomware and becomes inaccessible, just tell all the people who paid you money to go home and forget about it?

I love indie developers, but if one can't have a modicum of professionalism, then they shouldn't ask people to pay for a product.
by princealiiiii | 2025-07-02 18:57:06+00:00
The world has shown that the only way for a country to have sovereignty is by having nukes - see what happened when Libya or Ukraine gave them up. Having just been attacked by US/Israel and talks from them of fomenting regime change, it is obviously in Iran's self-preservation to pursue nukes.

There was a deal in place to prevent this, and the US broke it.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-07-02 18:57:09+00:00
> people ... being put in concentration camps for their ideology

Citation needed.

> It's now socially acceptable to corner someone in a bathroom and make them expose their genitals to prove their sex.

Citation very much needed. That is not socially acceptable anywhere that I have been.

As for the larger issue... a camp to hold people who are subject to deportation is a "concentration camp" in a literal sense. But since WWII, it is not what is generally understood as a "concentration camp" - there is no mass death, no genocide. The headline is therefore designed to give an impression of "just like the Nazis" when the reality is quite different.

Personally, I consider it within the legitimate bounds of the federal government to deport those who do not have the legal right to be in the country. As for how it is being done... yeah, it's being done in the most stupid, brutal, offensive way possible. I don't deny it, and I don't justify it. But the government has the right to do it, in mass.

Do not read this as me justifying removing the legal right from those who already have it, still less removing citizenship from those that already have it. (Though, if they lied on their citizenship application to get it, I can see even that. Not for crimes, though. Citizens who commit crimes are jailed, not deported.)

So, yes, the situation is grim, and they're crossing red lines that are really wrong, and also the headline is seriously slanted and trying to make this look like a death camp, when it isn't.
by birds-that-yeet | 2025-07-02 18:57:15+00:00
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by RiverCrochet | 2025-07-02 18:57:15+00:00
The Internet is not the first global network. Before the Internet, you had the global telephone network. It, too, strangulated end users, but eventually became stagnant, overpriced, and irrelevant. Super long-term, the current Internet is not immune from this. Internet standards are about getting as complicated and quirky as the old Bell stuff that was trying to make miles of buried copper the future, and if regulatory/commercial forces freeze this stuff in place, it's going to lead to stagnation eventually.

Something coming down the pike I think, for example, is that IPv4 addresses are going to get realllly expensive soon. That's going to lead to all sorts of interesting things in the Internet landscape and their applications.

I'm sure we'll probably have to spend some decades in the "approved devices and browers only" world before a next wave comes.
by href | 2025-07-02 18:57:16+00:00
I've dialed down a lot as well. The answers I got for my queries were too often plain wrong.

I instead started asking where I might look something up - in what man page, or in which documentation. Then I go read that.

This helps me build a better mental map about where information is found (e.g., in what man page), decreasing both my reliance on search engines, and LLMs in the long run.

LLMs have their uses, but they are just a tool, and an imprecise one at that.
by jawns | 2025-07-02 18:57:30+00:00
I bet there are a bunch of people in upper management who hear about this phenomenon and think that employees are skipping meetings to slack off (appearing to do work but they're actually playing Mario Kart).

In reality, it's more likely that they're being judged on their attendance of BS meetings, but if they attend the BS meetings, they won't be able to make the BS deadlines they're responsible for hitting.

So they're likely buying themselves time to do the actually important work, while still attempting to meet unrealistic expectations around meeting attendance.
by hatradiowigwam | 2025-07-02 18:57:50+00:00
Their "powerful and normally very vocal unions" are saying /nothing/, because the union's overall goal (by their messaging and their members messaging) is to increase and sustain additional hourly pay and increase the wages for said pay.

There is no effective system of checks and balances, or this entire discussion would be moot. Civilian solutions(like ICEBlock and friends) are a whimper of a response compared to the lethal and aggressive actions of these LEOs. Typically entrenched groups(like LEOs) can not be talked or reasoned with into changing their position. Those changes in position come from leverage (ie, your supervisor is replaced or leveraged with the threat of replacement), or direct aggression.

As an example, certain villains took issue with these systems and mounted their own lethal response. We are /still/ talking about these individuals because of how riotously effective their actions were at illuminating and mitigating the perceived problems. Whether your talking about Ted K, or Timmy M....they are examples of people who took action to correct a perceived problem. Right or wrong, every reader of this post knows who they are, what they did, and why they did it. Until something of equal magnitude opposes the authoritarian problem of the day(ie ICE), the status quo will continue.

edit: typo
by wtallis | 2025-07-02 18:57:54+00:00
> solves the same problem set with the same or better performance

The games industry has spent the last decade adopting techniques that misleadingly inflate the simple, easily-quantified metrics of FPS and resolution, by sacrificing quality in ways that are harder to quantify. Until you have good metrics for quantifying the motion artifacts and blurring introduced by post-processing AA, upscaling, and temporal AA or frame generation, it's dishonest to claim that those techniques solve the same problem with better performance. They're giving you a worse image, and pointing to the FPS numbers as evidence that they're adequate is focusing on entirely the wrong side of the problem.

That's not to say those techniques aren't sometimes the best available tradeoff, but it's wrong to straight-up ignore the downsides because they're hard to measure.
by squigz | 2025-07-02 18:59:08+00:00
I'm not deaf, so I don't know about the lived experiences of people who are. But I am extremely visually impaired, and if someone said something along these lines about being blind, I'd be... annoyed. Thankfully, people don't often say things they would about being deaf, about being blind, which I've always found a bit odd.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but are you basically saying that there's no real negative aspects inherent to being deaf, outside of those imposed by society?
by treve | 2025-07-02 18:59:26+00:00
It wasn't meant as a gotcha. I'm actually curious if this went wrong, and if it was more of a spear-fishing style attack or a vulnerability hitting multiple people.

Tons of devs download thousands of NPM packages as well, and each can execute code upon install, so a single curl-to-shell pipe from a HTTPS endpoint from a domain you checked always felt way safer than any `npm install`, and so a pretty minor in comparison and yet it gets a lot more attention than package manager, which _feels_ like security cargo culting. Plenty of supply chain attacks in package managers of course. But yeah, would like to be corrected if that intuition is wrong.
by nirava | 2025-07-02 18:59:26+00:00
> This is nonsensical.

Nope. This has been done for many "dead" games. Servers have been reverse engineered from nothing. Private servers are a common thing.

> This software is not guaranteed beyond 0 Unix time.

Imagine Apple says that about iOS. Wouldn't you want consumer protection so Apple doesn't do that? Why should anything else be any different?
by virgildotcodes | 2025-07-02 18:59:54+00:00
Applebees drops prices to enable their employees to eat at Applebees. Margins fall, wages universally clamped to minimum wage, layoffs hit. Fewer Applebees workers with lower wages means a shrinking demand side of the Applebees ouroboros, resulting in a spiral of Applebees price cuts, revenue drops, layoffs. The end state of humanity is a desolate Applebees parking lot strewn with desiccated human corpses and the last person alive is the largest shareholder of Applebees, inside the store, consuming their own flesh.