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by bayindirh | 2025-12-04 09:42:11+00:00
I believe the same but,

> they are just protecting their business and protecting their business "accidentally" also protecting the customer's benefits.

part is wrong. From my observation, they are protecting their business through protecting their customers' benefits.

Plus, they're building a moat collectively and from an open source stack. So, given the stack gets enough momentum, having Valve or not as a company won't matter anymore.

It's trying to get the elephant out of the bag, and once it's out, then there's really no way to put it back, because it's being out is better for everybody. Game companies and gamers alike.
by bananapub | 2025-12-04 09:42:13+00:00
if you want anything other than "switch to another full terminal window, no splits, no status bar" then you want tmux or screen or zellij - this tool and the others like it are explicitly avoiding becoming (nested) terminal emulators like tmux and screen and zellij.

at least I think it would be possible to do "switch to another full terminal window, no splits, no status bar" without being a terminal emulator, I haven't tried.
by atoav | 2025-12-04 09:42:15+00:00
The trick is to get your egoistic interests to align with what is good for the world.

Environmentalists also only do what they perceive as doing good (and may as well be objectively good) because not doing so won't jive with their self-image. But that in itself doesn't devalue the thing they did.

If Valve shows anything it is that not being a pushover and trying to align your business interest with your values (and not vice-versa!) can also pay of economically.
by breve | 2025-12-04 09:42:34+00:00
> Wayland is a mess that apps still don't support and doesn't work with NVIDIA GPUs

KDE supports Wayland: https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-f...

Nvidia has had Wayland support for a while. Here are their latest beta drivers. The first item of the release notes is about Wayland: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/258750/
by anthk | 2025-12-04 09:43:18+00:00
I have some text adventure saga (Los extraordinarios casos del Dr. Van Halen) which is about Lovecraftian/Poe themes and such; it's composed of nine tapes.

If you are interested, I can send a zip to you with a PDF and the TAP files.

Also, on modernish platforms, there's "El archipiélago", probably the best Spanish Z Machine game ever. You can get the last one at IFDB. Getting the first saga it's a bit cumbersome because you need to get nine downloads and sort the 'volumes' after that.

Back to "Van Halen", as the games are designed with PAWS/GACG or whatever was called that universal format from the 80's, the Zesarux emulator can trap all the interpretatation (as if it were a ZMachine-like interpreter itself) and giving you options to both debug the adventures and translate them to Portuguese (from any to any language) on the spot with online services (and maybe local, IDK; it shoudn't be difficult to add support to Argos Translate, Apertium and the like). Input is not translated but, well, these games have a really common verb set.
by nicholassmith | 2025-12-04 09:44:01+00:00
The World Endurance Championship has been using synthetic fuels since 2022 from TotalEnergies (https://competition.totalenergies.com/en/auto/endurance/wec/...), there's also Sustain (https://sustain-fuels.com/) in the UK as well who seem to be growing reasonably well but are a mix of sustainable & fossil fuels. There's some variability of how green they are, you still need to burn something so there's going to be emissions as well but they've been validated in the motorsport labs as being viable and they're starting to make their way to consumers.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-12-04 09:44:30+00:00
Right now we're in a stage of the current regs where 5 manufacturers can be within tenths of a second of each other in qualifying, and the other 5 are not that far out. Five different teams have gone away with the technical regulations, gone into completely different factories, wind tunnels and simulator setups, some of them have bought in components like engines and suspension but basically have had to build and test everything else and work out all the aero across the wings and floor, and come out over a 5km track to be within meters of each other.

If you think about that a bit, it's kind of crazy and mad.

But it also means to shake things up you need to throw the dice again. It's like this generation has evolved to find the peak apex design and configuration for each and every circuit to the point where teams with more limited resources can now get competitive (yay for Williams last week!), and it's time for a new generation.

I agree next year could be chaos. I think teams that have been consistently applying discipline and consistency will continue to do well (Red Bull, McLaren, Mercedes), those that are catching on will continue to rise (William, Haas), and those who haven't realised that's the name of the game yet (Ferrari, Alpine), will continue their passion-fuelled mismanaged decline. The new players (Audi taking on Sauber, Cadillac), are going to be interesting to watch.

But within 5 years, everyone will be back to within a few tenths of each other over a 5km circuit, and we'll probably need to go again...
by cg13386 | 2025-12-04 09:45:06+00:00
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by sushibowl | 2025-12-04 09:46:43+00:00
You are absolutely correct. Valve's linux push was driven by developments in the windows platform, specifically around the release of windows 8. Microsoft was pushing a windows store similar to Apple's app store, and Valve was unequivocally stating that they were worried Microsoft would basically lock down the platform and only allow software sales through their own store, destroying their steam business. Gabe said it plainly himself (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18996377):

> Mr Newell, who worked for Microsoft for 13 years on Windows, said his company had embraced the open-source software Linux as a "hedging strategy" designed to offset some of the damage Windows 8 was likely to do.

> "There's a strong temptation to close the platform," he said, "because they look at what they can accomplish when they limit the competitors' access to the platform, and they say, 'That's really exciting.'"

> This is seen by commentators, external to be a reference to the inclusion of a Windows Store in the Microsoft operating system.

Having an open platform is good for consumers, but Valve is primarily looking out for themselves here. Gabe realized that windows could take Apple's IOS route (i.e. https://blog.codinghorror.com/serving-at-the-pleasure-of-the...) and lock down their OS, and everything he's done since has been an effort to protect his company against that existential threat.
by pjbk | 2025-12-04 09:47:44+00:00
Correct, the famous d*F=J differential form formulation with one of the versions of the Hodge operator, which I have seen named in several ways. Also depending on your definition of the star operator and current density, you often see this as two equations with Hodge duals, like dF=0 plus d*F=*J. The tensor equivalent can be stated as a single equation or as a set, too.

To be fair and looking back at history, the discovery of Maxwell equations, relativity and quantum theory are so intertwined with the discovery, invention and application of new Mathematical ideas, in particular emanating from the work of Hamilton, Grassmann and then Lie, Levi-Civita, Cartan, etc. that is difficult to separate at what extent those concepts influenced over each other in their attempt to explain and describe reality. The ability to express Maxwell equations in a compact form with quaternions before vector calculus was even a thing provides some evidence. One can argue that the classical formulation for electromagnetism could be expressed that way because Hamilton was trying to find the proper framework that could capture his ideas about physics. Fast forward some 60 years and you also have a similar thing happening with Pauli matrices in quantum theory, and the work of Noether in modern physics.
by vee-kay | 2025-12-04 09:47:56+00:00
Hmmm.. You speak as if you control the internet in general, and HN in particular.

But thankfully, you do not.

I shared the info (yes, it is from AI, but the source does not matter really (AI LLMs themselves source such info from public domain sources, I could have simply refered to them and got similar info), the intent does), so that anyone else wondering about this thread context (like I was) can become aware of this bit of info.

And hey, what you do or do not do with ChatGPT, is upto you and it, clanking or otherwise.
by rgmerk | 2025-12-04 09:48:36+00:00
The 15-25% of demand number is pretty similar to the number I've seen in multiple places. Furthermore, cars have an economic lifespan of approximately 20 years, so that increase in demand will take place over a couple of decades.

Furthermore, if you're smart about it, you charge the vehicle at times when the grid is oversupplied with electricity. This typically occurs between midnight and about 5-6am, and in areas with a lot of solar, during the middle of the day. This is already widely implemented, with utilities in many jurisdictions offering things like EV charging time-of-use tariffs, and customers with rooftop solar systems (which are much cheaper in, say, Australia, than they are in the USA) installing smart chargers which are configured to run when they have a surplus of electricity from their home solar systems. This will ensure that EVs are making use of the existing grid, rather than increasing peak demand and requiring new grid infrastructure.

Furthermore, "vehicle to grid" systems can allow EVs to feed electricity back into the grid at peak times (with their owners getting paid for this service).

Given all of the above, while EVs will contribute to an overall increase in demand for electricity, they will do so in such a way as to minimise the need for extra infrastructure, and they will do so slowly enough as to allow such infrastructure to be built.
by lenkite | 2025-12-04 09:48:48+00:00
They did engineer a good browser: original Edge with the Chakra JavaScript Engine. It was faster than Google Chrome and had some unique features: a world-best, butter-smooth and customizable epub reader. I loved it for reading - it beat commercial epub readers - and then Nadella took over and said Microsoft is getting rid of it and Edge will move to Chromium and Microsoft will also get rid of Windows phone. Modern Microsoft will be Cloud/AI and Ads. That was so depressing.
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-04 09:48:49+00:00
>how do we get the economy working again

Just like we always have: a world war, and then the economy works amazing for the ones left on top of the rubble pile where they get unionized high wage jobs and amazing retirements at an early age for a few decades, while everyone else will be left toiling away to make stuff for cheap in sweatshops in exchange for currency from the victors who control the global economy and trade routes.

The next time the monopoly board gets flipped will only be a variation of this, but not a complete framework rewrite.
by Arathorn | 2025-12-04 09:50:16+00:00
https://github.com/element-hq/ess-helm?tab=readme-ov-file#el... is meant to make it pretty easy. I sped-run an install from scratch in about 90 seconds during the Element keynote for the Matrix conference this year: https://youtu.be/TZgcdgv2NXk?list=PLl5dnxRMP1hUgnYEbpEsEEhIq...

Clearly we need to do a better job of pointing folks there.
by mawadev | 2025-12-04 09:50:28+00:00
We are seeing the realtime result of MS buying Github and buying influence. Put this into context with what happened to twitter when it was bought. I stopped hosting my code on GH, even in private repositories years ago. It is a privacy nightmare to think about LLMs ingesting this information. I believe this is a positive development for Zig to steer away from being entangled with whatever MS is pulling on Github next. It's like avoiding a landmine when you move away from something that is starting to go on a revenue driven tangent relative to its core use case. If you put the claims that Zig needs a big project or stay niche aside, a lot of things Zig brings to the table make working with memory and systems much easier for those who can't get into rust (like me). Just install it and play around with it to see for yourself. I wish we'd go back to being more exploratory instead of focusing so much on economics and careers where corporations can influence what is the right thing to do.
by mopsi | 2025-12-04 09:50:33+00:00
> This is standard European censorship of Russian media and news.

There is not a single media outlet left in Russia anymore. The media crackdown is complete. They are all government propaganda now, repeating the same narratives dictated by the Kremlin and free only to choose the wording. They deserve to be removed from the market the same way a box of cereal is pulled when ingredients do not match the printing on the box.
by creatonez | 2025-12-04 09:50:55+00:00
A disk that is powered off is not holding your data, regardless of whether it is an HDD, SDD, or if it is in redundant RAID or not. Disks are fundamentally a disposable medium. If you don't have them powered on, you have no way to monitor for failures and replace a drive if something goes wrong - it will just disappear someday without you noticing.

Tape, M-DISC, microfilm, and etched quartz are the only modern mediums that are meant to be left in storage without needing to be babysit, in climate controlled warehousing at least.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-12-04 09:51:05+00:00
> You don’t know this a priori, and it turned out that there was significant transmission even when people were asymptomatic.

Again, you can't transmit if you're not infected.

> Strong disagree! Waiting until there’s evidence is a basic tenant of medical ethics, and has been for centuries. “Do no harm” means that we err on the side of natural outcomes when uncertainty is high

The "natural outcome" in this case is mass death. We know how respiratory diseases spread. You're arguing that we should have assumed Covid is a magical disease that refuses to spread in the perfect breeding ground - schools - until we did months of studies. That's an incredibly irresponsible attitude to take in the middle of a pandemic that is killing millions of people in the US alone.

> We also had no data on how much the vaccine reduced spread, so everything you’re arguing would have been purely assumptions (which is bad science!).

Science also works with plausibility and theory. In the middle of a pandemic, you have to base many of your decisions on what you know about other, similar diseases, what is scientifically plausible, etc. If we followed your recommendation, we would throw our hands up, do nothing, and let millions of people die, even though we would have a very good idea of what measures would likely prevent that.

> When you lie and manipulate (or base recommendations and policy on assumptions that later turn out to be false), you create more anti-establishmentism and paranoid-politics (which is pretty rational, given the manipulation).

You're letting all the people who deliberately pushed paranoia for their own political gain off the hook, and blaming the people who did the most to fight the pandemic - the scientific and medical community.
by Lutger | 2025-12-04 09:51:39+00:00
Why not give them credit for that? There is no moral rule that to be virtuous, it has to be self-sacrificial. If you narrow a commendable course of action to some sort of ascetic vision of martyrdom and self-punishment, then yes everybody and everything is evil.

So they may pivot to closed source when the circumstances will benefit it, or they may actually not do that. They have no shareholders that force them to squeeze the bottom line. The perceived benefits may just be slight and their culture will push them to stay the course on the long term, where other companies will do the reverse. Maybe if their survival is at stake, but wouldn't anyone faced with existential danger do anything to stay alive, including the worst imaginable?

Within certain commercial boundaries that keeps the business profitable, companies can and do make all sorts of decisions based on values and visions that are more than just economical, especially companies not beholden to shareholders that only care about short-term profits. Even the economical decisions aren't purely rational and often done from some kind of cultural bias.
by lm28469 | 2025-12-04 09:52:16+00:00
It depends who's in charge of the nation though, you can have people planning for the long term well being of their population, or people planning for the next election cycle and making sure they amass as much power and money in the meantime.

That's the difference between planning nuclear reactors that will be built after your term, and used after your death, vs selling your national industries to foreigners, your ports to china, &c. to make a quick buck and insure a comfy retirement plan for you and your family.
by parkersweb | 2025-12-04 09:52:32+00:00
I also spent quite a bit of time with some quite well known mastering engineers in a former career - many of them talked about the pressure to produce "loud" masters for CD, but how they were given much more creative freedom for vinyl releases.

Hearing the two masters side by side on some incredible speakers really gave me an appreciation for how different 'versions' of an album can transform the experience of the music.
by sensanaty | 2025-12-04 09:52:39+00:00
> I don't understand why people seem so impatient about AI adoption.

We're burning absurd, genuinely farcical amounts of money on these tools now, so of course they're impatient. There's Trillions (with a "T") riding on this massive hypewave, and the VCs and their ilk are getting nervous because they see people are waking up to the reality that it's at best a kinda useful tool in some situations and not the new God that we were promised that can do literally everything ever.
by utopiah | 2025-12-04 09:52:51+00:00
> right now it really is only a drop in the ocean of energy and water we're wasting anyways.

That's not what I heard. Maybe it was in 2024 but now data centers have their own categories in energy consumption whereas until now it was "others". I think we need to update our collective understanding in terms of actual energy consumed. It was all fun & games until recently and slop was kind of harmless consequence ecologically speaking but from what I can tell in terms of energy, water, etc it is not negligible anymore.
by crote | 2025-12-04 09:52:54+00:00
> If it is the same handful of companies the US gets their DRAM from, then why would Europeans pay any less?

... because tariffs are paid for by the buyer?

Importing memory from Korea to the US means the importer had to pay a tariff. Importing memory from Korea to Europe means the importer does not have to pay a tariff. The company selling the memory gets exactly the same amount of money in either case.
by sph | 2025-12-04 09:53:22+00:00
> I still think there’s a third path, one that makes people’s lives better with thoughtful, respectful, and human-first use of AI. But for some reason there aren’t many people working on that.

I am thinking about this third path a lot, but the reality is that it wouldn't make AI more interesting than any other tool humans use to go about their daily lives. Does one get this obsessed about screwdrivers?

The issue is that a human-first world where technology is subservient to our needs is very incompatible with our current society. The AI hype is part and parcel of the capitalistic mode of production where humans are ultimately judged for their ability to produce more commodities; the goal has always been to improve productivity to make more for cheaper — this time, the quest for efficiency has found a viable replacement for many humans activities.
by citrin_ru | 2025-12-04 09:53:44+00:00
But social networks is the reason one needs (benefits from) trolls and AI. If you own a traditional media outlet you need somehow to convince people to read/watch it. Ads can help but it’s expensive. LLM can help with creating fake videos but computer graphics was already used for this.

With modern algorithmic social networks you instead can game the feed and even people who would not choose you media will start to see your posts. End even posts they want to see can be flooded with comment trying to convince in whatever is paid for. It’s cheaper than political advertising and not bound by the law.

Before AI it was done by trolls on payroll and now they can either maintain 10x more fake accounts or completely automate fake accounts using AI agents.
by aperture147 | 2025-12-04 09:53:46+00:00
> From my observation, they are protecting their business through protecting their customers' benefits.

Yeah that's what I mean too, that's why I put the "accidentally" in a double-quote.

This sounds like what Red Hat is doing, they created an open-source software, prove the importance of it in the community then sells the support package to enterprise who interested in using it.

Hope that they will not close the door when Microsoft, AWS or Oracle making their own GabeCube and call it SatyaCube, BozosCube or LarryCube
by rcxdude | 2025-12-04 09:54:18+00:00
They exist as a consequence of how company ownership works (i.e. that it can be bought and sold). You would need to figure out some quite specific wording to prevent this without also preventing all kinds of other kinds of transfer of company ownership.

In principle, private equity firms could be a net positive: they could take over a business that's failing or just not living up to its potential, and turn around the management of it to improve it for all concerned. They often market themselves on this concept. In practice it rarely seems to work this way, where either they fail to make any return on their investment or they basically do this kind of monopolising, short-term extortion of customers. Often both.

(Patrick Boyle has a video on them from the financial side if you want some details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfUOPDOLHvE TLDW: they often aren't a great deal for investors, either)
by metalman | 2025-12-04 09:54:30+00:00
I know a few people born in, or on the edge of the "neolithic", inuit from far up north, and idiginous peoples a bit further south, and more than a few scotts, including a clan of blacksmiths, but allas this space isn't quite suited to the raising of ghosts but as a fact, there is no invention or practice that is not bieng conducted nativly, astounding continuity, though essentialy invisible, as there are no signs, labels, certificates, or verifications, completly unplanned, though closed source in that most essential of ways
by jstanley | 2025-12-04 09:56:02+00:00
> Users who go to http://mysite.example/ would be "redirected" to https://mysite.example/ but that redirection wasn't protected so instead the active bad guy ensures they're redirected to https://scam.example/mysite/ and look, it has the padlock symbol and it says mysite in the bar, what more do you want?

You can do better than this. You can have your mitm proxy follow the SSL redirect itself, but still present plain HTTP to the client. So the client still sees the true "mysite.example" domain in the URL bar (albeit on plain http), and the server has a good SSL session, but the attacker gets to see all of the traffic.