MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by moffkalast | 2025-07-02 18:03:18+00:00
MMOs don't often have a profitability problem, they even tend to overstay their welcome compared to any other game. While it would be nice to get a server binary to self host after they're EoL it's gonna be unfeasible to run it anyway.

The issue is really more with lazy implementations where a server check is required to play something that's fully single player as you say, which has become standard for major publishers now and is far too common for indie games too. It's not too much to ask to do the bare minimum and keep that single instance auth server online or just remove the requirement entirely by commenting out a few lines.
by nfriedly | 2025-07-02 18:03:27+00:00
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by elcritch | 2025-07-02 18:04:15+00:00
Given I’ve been trying to use some of Microsoft’s various productivity SaaS tools for a new job lately, and well, they need those workers.

Teams is sort of tolerable now, but still feels terrible and lacks many of slacks niceties. The rest of their productivity stuff is terrible and slow. It’s embarrassing really.

From what I read Azure is a border line dumpster fire.

Then what LLM integration do they really have in their software apps?
by retrac | 2025-07-02 18:04:16+00:00
I said "not disabling", not that deafness is not a disability.

Those two things mean different things to me. Obviously deaf people cannot hear. Not able. Dis-able. Deafness is a disability.

But not all disabilities are generally disabling of individuals. The only disability that deafness causes is a lack of perception of sound.

Hearing people have a panoply of inferences about what that means -- about how it disables and how broadly it disables. And most of them are faulty. It doesn't result in isolation, in particular, in a deaf cultural context. In fact in the deaf cultural context about the only thing missing is some auditory alerts that would be nice as a visual complement, and some aspects of music and the like. Yes. Birds chirping is beautiful. I miss it deeply. It'd be nice to have a world where every kid gets to experience that.

But all of the social and emotional and cognitive consequences imagined of deafness, are not innate to the lack of hearing.
by pxc | 2025-07-02 18:04:46+00:00
It depends on the model, probably, but there are multiple layers of censorship, one of which is the post-facto nuking these models will do online, and that goes away "for free" when you download the open weight model.

I don't have a powerful enough system to run DeepSeek, but I've tried this with some of the Qwen3 models. They'll write answers that discuss Xi Jinping (which results in an auto-nuke of the reply from Chinese-hosted models, at least DeepSeek) or other very mildly/nominally sensitive topics.

(This is probably a coarse measure to easily ensure compliance with a recent national security law that requires commercial providers of web services address sensitive topics "appropriately" or something like that, and LLMs run non-deterministically. That's why this layer of censorship often comes across as laughably extreme— it's an extreme compliance strategy that exceeds the demands of the law for the sake of guaranteeing legal safety from an unpredictable software system.)

But the same models will altogether refuse to discuss the Tiananmen Square Massacre, even locally.

Some "decensored" versions of the Qwen3 models will discuss the Tiananmen Square Massacre, but in a very concise, formulaic, "official" way. After some chatting about it, it fell into an infinite repetition of one of its short formulaic answers (a behavior I didn't see with the original Qwen3 models with the same settings).
by readmodifywrite | 2025-07-02 18:04:48+00:00
My go to analogy is that conservatives will underfund the assembly of a car, deliver a car that only has two wheels that are both the wrong size, and then say "See? Cars will never work!"

I think it is amazing that in a country as "exceptional" as the US, the answer to "Why can't we provide affordable and accessible healthcare to everyone?" is "We are going deport liberal scum like you".
by xur17 | 2025-07-02 18:05:02+00:00
A few questions that you might be able to help with (also happy to jump on a call to discuss, you can find my details in my profile):

- Transferring - will partial shares be liquidated (since both are part of Apex)?

- Can I see my portfolio through Apex Clearing independently (something that Double provided)?

- If I want to transfer my assets in in kind, and invest them in the Total US index, how do I ensure that nothing is sold as part of the rebalance during that transfer?
by tshaddox | 2025-07-02 18:05:36+00:00
> If your lawyer sent you your case files in the form of an LLM trained on those files, would you be comfortable with that?

If the LLM-based compression method was well-understood and demonstrated to be reliable, I wouldn't oppose it on principle. If my lawyer didn't know what they were doing and threw together some ChatGPT document transfer system, of course I wouldn't trust it, but I also wouldn't trust my lawyer if they developed their own DCT-based lossy image compression algorithm.
by hx8 | 2025-07-02 18:05:42+00:00
The amount of equity you have in your home matters. Most recessions do not take 20% off home values, so people with conventional loans are pretty safe. Even the Great Depression just cut valuations about 35%.

If you lose your job in a depression there will be plenty of people willing to buy assets at a discount. If you have equity in your home then your position will be net positive. About half of all mortgages have an outstanding balance less than 50% of the home's value.
by tracker1 | 2025-07-02 18:05:43+00:00
The past few projects I've done, I've made some effort to just not polyfill anything, it's always too easy to wind up with fills for things long supported in every major browser for the past 3-5 years.

On the flip side... if you're running something bespoke relying on an older JS engine, it's becoming harder to find pure polyfills/shims that aren't a tangled mess relying on DOM specific features.

While there are some newer features I don't mind seeing early, I've mostly just avoided touching some of the more recent features for now, only to avoid the mess that are the current state of fills.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-07-02 18:05:52+00:00
I think the fact that you used the word "studio" kinda betrays a disconnect here. What about all the games that aren't built by "studios" and don't have "cloudformation templates" and have barely any sales?

They also need to have had invested in the extra work so that hypothetical players can have the opportunity to self-host the server on day 1 for a game that never caught on in the first place?
by mxuribe | 2025-07-02 18:05:57+00:00
Hi @crmd For that tech industry-famous CEO, did the company that they used to run continue/preserve even a little bit of that good and common-sense approach? Because if so, then I'd love to know the name of the firm...so that i can immediately apply for a role there. (My profile has my email address if you wish to keep the company name sharing private.) Mind you, I'm employed, but, ahem, less than enthused with my current state of affairs. :-)
by prophesi | 2025-07-02 18:05:59+00:00
People have found decent solutions for that. Proton's is essentially a backup password/phrase or a file you keep safe. Not as simple as a magic link, and could still lose your backup phrase/file, but alas. Security is always a compromise on convenience.

[0] https://proton.me/blog/data-recovery-end-to-end-encryption
by cloverich | 2025-07-02 18:06:07+00:00
Its not brainwashing though, how to properly regular this is as old as Adam Smith right?

Union leader is one approach. But really if the US had a proper safety net, universal healthcare, and progressive taxes on capital accumulation, layoffs in OPs framing would not be nearly as bad.

The real issue here isnt the layoffs. Its that the top are pulling up profits, theres no quality healthcare for the unemployed (and getting worse), SFH are all levered up making the price unattainable for the average worker and high risk bc layoffs, etc.

The frustrating part is how dead simple the solution is. Universal healthcare. Progressive taxation that applies equally to capital gains. Block SFH investments (by investors and average joes alike). Maybe not emough, but light years ahead of where we are.
by sirwhinesalot | 2025-07-02 18:06:19+00:00
If you're buying a time limited license then the guaranteed time should be part of the license and considered part of the budget.

You are buying a license for 2 weeks sounds a lot less appealing than just "buying", but that would have been the reality for Concord had they not issued refunds. Is a year that much better? Maybe, but have it in writing.

These "we sell you a license we may terminate at any point for any reason" terms are absolute bullshit.
by amendegree | 2025-07-02 18:06:27+00:00
This is on a corporate PC, I don’t run into this issue with chrome (which I try to avoid using in general) whose update schedule is also managed by a corp IT policy.

Those settings don’t do anything bec even when I select “Check but don’t install” it still nags me and eventually installs even if corp IT policy is only to update monthly.

I wish there was a way to turn off the nagging too. Why can’t Firefox trust my corp IT to follow their process?
by shermantanktop | 2025-07-02 18:06:28+00:00
Of course. But they have a reputational stake in their recommendation as well.

I take a Wirecutter top pick as meaning something very different from Bobby123's glowing review. Wirecutter may have been influenced by ad money a bit. Bobby123 may not even exist or may be entirely driven by seller compensation. And I'll never see Bobby123 again.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-07-02 18:06:33+00:00
CEOs always "resign" instead of being fired. Is there reason to believe that this particular instance was truly voluntary, unlike every other time a CEO gets fired and then the company lies about it? I'm genuinely asking - I don't know much about corporate culture at Mozilla so maybe it genuinely was a resignation. Just pointing out that companies always claim that, and in other cases it's a lie.
by Volundr | 2025-07-02 18:06:46+00:00
> since I'm just rsyncing code onto a VPS.

I mean, this covers it. Put that code out, and some one else can rysnc it to a VPS. The ask here in not that it's nicely bundled up into a single click deploy. It's that a path exists at all. If I need a fleet of servers and some technical know how, that's fine. Even expected for many games.
by gr4vityWall | 2025-07-02 18:06:52+00:00
I think the most intuitive description for a monad I've ever seen is 'flatMappable'.

Context: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Usually articles that describe them in a very Math-y way go above my head. But the definition above was immediately clear (I saw it on HN).

I think this article is a bit more approachable than others I've read, but it still gets very confusing near the end.
by apparent | 2025-07-02 18:07:13+00:00
Interesting that this is an iOS app, not Android or web app. What percent of illegal immigrants who are worried about being randomly swept up (i.e., those who can be visibly profiled) have iOS devices?

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.
by riffraff | 2025-07-02 18:07:21+00:00
It does not apply if regulation allows it, but this does not need to be the case, and has been debated for decades

> [the New Deal architect, A. A. Berle] argued that corporations should "serve ... all society" through legally enforceable rules

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berle%E2%80%93Dodd_debate

"profit is the only goal" is not a law of nature, it's the outcome of a specific system of laws.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-07-02 18:07:38+00:00
Even if the law only covered non-bankrupt companies, it would already help, because most game companies don't go bankrupt (and IIRC there already are reasonably effective laws against intentionally planning to use bankruptcy to get out of your obligations, so creative company structure design shouldn't be as big of a problem).

If you really wanted to make sure, you could require the company to deliver the corresponding assets to the national library within N days of release.
by swyx | 2025-07-02 18:07:40+00:00
as someone whos worked in a bad figma before, dont forget to give credit to your designers for setting up the design system that well that you can copy and paste like that. there are many designers who do not give two shits about how it looks in the dev handoff - figma tries but often fails to put them on guardrails to keep consistency to THEIR OWN designs lol
by fasterik | 2025-07-02 18:08:25+00:00
The responsible thing to do would be to report the bug to the upstream project and keep the issue open pending the underlying issue's resolution.

This is a broader cultural thing. In large organizations there is a tendency toward deflecting as much responsibility as possible onto other teams. In part it's a lack of resources, but it's also a result of individual contributors not being willing to take ownership of the product they work on.
by MangoToupe | 2025-07-02 18:08:37+00:00
I don't follow at all. Which of these is supposed to correspond to "aggregate economic health"? The problem is that unemployment, particularly U-3, is a bad signal for aggregate economic health by itself. As is GDP. You need an signal for wealth distribution to get a sense of how a given person can interpret to understand how well the economy is serving them. At the very least.

EDIT: Of course, the ultimate issue is people wanting to cherry-pick metrics to push their polemic. If you have any solutions to that I'm all ears. We've been able to articulate an accurate understanding all along, but that doesn't make for easy headlines or simplistic campaign platforms.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-07-02 18:08:37+00:00
i want to assume you have good intent here, but you have to understand that this is kind of tone-deaf in the face of my neighbors being forced into vans and disappeared. i'm truly happy that you haven't had to experience the same kind of abuse and i hope that ICE doesn't start disappearing people who fly private planes alongside fruit vendors and day laborers for the crime of being brown.
by jjk166 | 2025-07-02 18:09:01+00:00
Is it disingenuous to report obituaries without including birth announcements in the same article? Surely only reporting the one gives a skewed view of demographic health.

News is about reporting new information in a timely manner. When a metric gets updated, it's good to let people know, especially if the new value is unexpected. Many people may have various different uses for this update. It is impossible to give every piece of data anyone could consider useful in a single article. Luckily, that is unnecessary. All that information is publicly available and people can go look it up for themselves at any time.

If you don't care enough to look up the metrics that are reported, that's not a problem with the metrics or the reporting.
by danans | 2025-07-02 18:09:04+00:00
> If more goods are made locally then it seems rather that unions would have more leverage.

Unions represent only 9.9% of US labor [1], primarily in the public sector and the skilled trades. White collar workers and low skill workers tend not to have the benefit of a union.

Tariffs are maybe OK if you are, for example, an domestic auto assembly worker (assuming no job losses due to demand reduction or supply chain cost increases), but otherwise not great.

1. Union Membership (Annual) News Release - 2024 A01 Results https://share.google/dmIydp7foghcJ1Lo2
by x0x0 | 2025-07-02 18:09:05+00:00
I have one: features I've tried this on in my codebase. Because claude and gemini have both failed pretty badly.

So it's pretty stupid to just assume that critics haven't tried.

Example feature: send analytics events on app start triggered by notifications. Both Gemini and Claude completely failed to understand the component tree; rewrote hundreds of lines of code in broken ways; and even when prompted with the difficulty (this is happening outside of the component tree), failed to come up with a good solution. And even when deliberately prompted not to, like to simultaneously make cosmetic code changes to other pieces of the files they're touching.
by matwood | 2025-07-02 18:09:23+00:00
It depends. I've gotten good prices from CarMax before, but like the other responder said, you have to research.

The other thing is that it's not always low IQ, but many people value simplicity. Do I want to show a car, deal with cashiers check fraud, flakey people, etc... or do I want money literally right now? I've sold cars to CarMax and I've sold cars and boats privately. The private price I think I can get has to be considerably more than what I can get with zero hassle.
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by msgodel | 2025-07-02 18:09:27+00:00
I use qwen2.5-coder via neovim plugin, Qwen3 directly via llama.cpp, aider with qwen3 for big things that need context, and just copy and paste to/from claude using a special "heredoc" shellscript I wrote which lets me just put most of the project directly into the chat and copy changes back out in one operation.

They don't do anything I couldn't but they keep my momentum from dying when I get annoyed/distracted/frustrated which is a game changer.
by magic_hamster | 2025-07-02 18:09:35+00:00
This is just theater. With or without cooperation, western countries will rely on espionage to assess what Iran is doing with its nuclear program.

Iran was probably never fully transparent with the IAEA, and despite declaring everywhere that their nuclear program is "peaceful", they enriched uranium to levels far beyond what is necessary for power - while developing systems and mechanisms required for a nuclear bomb such as a massive ICBM industry and warhead R&D.

It is so blatantly obvious that Iran was doing this while trying to dupe the IAEA, that it somewhat reminds me of the martians from Mars Attacks who keep playing the "we come in peace" message while running around shooting lasers.

Hopefully Iran's facilities suffered enough damage to create new opportunities.
by BeetleB | 2025-07-02 18:09:59+00:00
Sorry, but they are differently abled. Their brains and perceptions are different from people who can hear. You are assuming that those differences are all negatives. They do not believe that to be the case.

Many people here self-diagnose as Asperger's. Can you not see why they would not want a "cure"?

Being an extrovert objectively gives you great advantages in (most) societies. As an introverted parent, I would definitely fight any "cure" for my introverted children.

Furthermore, if both parents are deaf and the kid is not deaf, there's a good chance that in the first so many years of life, the kid will have poorer mental development than the deaf kid. Not quite the same, but an example: Deaf kids born to deaf parents hit the same language milestones as hearing kids born to hearing parents. But deaf kids born to hearing parents do worse, because the parents don't know the appropriate way of thinking/communicating.

Related: Deaf kids who were given cochlear implants, but no sign language training fared a lot worse than both hearing kids and deaf kids who learned sign language.
by ffsm8 | 2025-07-02 18:09:59+00:00
The points you're raising would be valid if they weren't complete straw men.

Publishers aren't required to keep servers up, nor do they need to release the server binaries/code. It just demands that the publisher thinks about the end of life for their game. A great way to do that for online games would be to publish the server, definitely... But it's not required.

These kinds of gotchas and knowitall armchair analysis is way too premature. This isn't an actual legal document, it's a draft that would then become a legal document.
by aeonik | 2025-07-02 18:10:08+00:00
I think you are right. I don't think I've fully mastered the concept yet, but what you are saying resonates with me.

I've been trying to grok monads for almost a decade. More and more I'm beginning to realize how "mundane" the concept is, and the usefulness really is just that specific pattern of mundanity.

Similar to pipelines on Linux, they are pretty basic, but their ubiquity and their use in composing unrelated things together is really, really useful, and you only get that if you use them in a variety of different ways.

Monads are extra cool because of the mathematical rigor behind them, and that's what I'm still trying to appreciate.