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Microsoft has all the pieces in place to make the great next gen MMORPG.

They now have the IP to do whatever they want with our mind, they have the distribution channels, they have the capacity to run servers and also the technology to create truly immersive worlds; their planetary rendering engine, GPT-3 for NPCs, Minecraft, for example.

There is a market for it, the latest awesome release in the space has been World of Warcraft, Amazon's New World is turning out to be a major flop and there's also free publicity in terms of Meta's metaverse.. I'm rooting for Microsoft to create the next gen gaming entertainment experience, however that might look.
Personally I prefer ifconfig.me which takes this idea one step further.

Especially: Querying it with curl (or another system requesting plain text) really only returns the IP, not some HTML page. (Opening it in the browser also shows some useful information about the request, but http://ifconfig.me/ip always shows just your IP address)
One of my biggest regrets was passing up an offer to buy over 200 HP48 calculators back in the early 2000s. There was an independent book store across the street from a local tech school that had bought used 48s from students. There was one professor who required them for her class but she left and they could not move their inventory. They did have some black screen 48GX so I got those, but I should have picked up the whole lot.
I just got into astrophotography and Wine has been a blessing to have. There are a lot of tools that are wintel only and being able to just run them without going through the hassle of building a vm has been fantastic.
Even though LAPD's budget is drastically lower per-capita and per-area than other major cities, it sounds like a bigger problem is that even when someone is arrested they can be let out of jail same day with no bail for even repeat offenders.
I will say that pypy nbody benchmark is very impressive, about 25% faster than julia or any other python implementations.
> Yes, and it makes you wonder what other amazing things we're missing out on, but for some quirk of law or successful lobbying.

A few simplified examples from off the top of my head:

pre ww2 most employers didn't provide insurance. during ww2 healthcare was offered as a perk of the job back in the day because wage freezes caused by world war 2 inflation concerns. you can say that because of hitler that it is the way it is now and now there is a huge political donation machinery to prevent single payer health care.(downsides being that if you are rich you can get really good healthcare for less than you'd pay into a single payer system and there are millions of jobs related to the bureaucracy of being in the middle of provider and patient)

china has very lax copyright/patent enforcement and as such places like shenzen's markets where you can find thousands of little electronic bits and pieces and clones are rampant with a very large maker movement. (of course there is a downside to this in that the capitalists don't get to benefit as much on whatever innovation was there originally)

regulatory capture on other industries are also from that lobbying.
The only other option the UP police have is asking a federal prosecutor to take the case. And that's only if there's some credible evidence of a federal law violation.
Normally 10,000 hands would be too small a sample size but we used variance-reduction techniques to reduce the luck factor. Think things like all-in EV but much more powerful. It's described in the paper.
I'd say no, RTP has incredible complexity and does not play well with proxy, NAT, connection forwarding, and many things.

We do need a video transport better than MJPEG, but please don't make it RTP-based
>> This is a remarkably naive (and charmingly optimistic) view of peer-review.

Great way to join a convesation. Well done.

I didn't say anything about "the vast majority of history of academic research". I talked about my experience of peer review of my work. Are you responding to someone else's comment but quoting mine?
You're right (and the parent too); I was using the game shortcuts in my start menu, but I checked and those shortcuts point toward the Galaxy launcher (with additional information on which game to launch), so I was launching Galaxy at the same time as the game. When I used directly, the game executables don't start Galaxy.
This guys blog is simply amazing every time he posts something immediately gets tons of upvotes
It seems the language is backwards; it's not that the HTML document is not copyrightable but rather the resulting web page constructed by your browser from that HTML which is not copyrightable.
There's also icanhazip.com and /cdn-cgi/trace on any Cloudflare-proxied site.
Pitfall with the Halo guy?
> We bought begrudging buy-in from Mike Smith (yes, that* Mike Smith) by having him rewrite the file locking code.*

Anyone know who is that Mike Smith?
I consider it yet another tool in the abstraction stack that allows folks without software backgrounds to use their expertise to fill their operational needs.

Disclaimer: my intention with low/no-code tooling is likely broader and includes everything from WYSWIG form builders to Airtable automations, etc. The key to me is the usage of (1) syntax-free (2) domain-specific tooling to (3) configure software to meet (4) custom business needs (what a mouthful).
Well, there is such a thing as coast FIRE, but otherwise I don't see why people would choose this. This ki d of job is stressfull on a basic level I believe, and work is work, you're not going to squeeze a lot more of job satisfaction out of it.
mpm_event though from Apache 2.4 was async and kind of great.
Doesn't linux stand for "linux is not unix"?
I can make a curl version of it at some point. For now, though, the point is that its JUST your IP. Nothing else. It's made for sending grandma's to.

EDIT: Now, best of both worlds. Reload the page and either highlight the page text or look in the source code for how to use it with curl and bash. I'm sure you can figure out your favorite parser for csv.
Between that and his ":)" response to the Google recruiter getting fired because they were unaware of the collusion going on between Apple and Google, he will go down as one of the worst, most abusive tech barons in history.
This blasé attitude toward crime is so infuriating. It's a symbol of the deterioration of trust in modern society where criminals are coddled and law-abiding folks are left to deal with constant nuisance and criminality.
:D yup that's one interpretation lol
> > The fish rots at the head.

> This isn’t a fish.

> And as a kid living on the water, saw plenty of dead fish — usually the head is the last identifiable part to go (middle goes first).

The metaphor isn't about "rotting away", it is about "rotting and stinking". The head definitely goes first. Many languages have this phrase as "the fish stinks from the head".
He gave up his own life trying to fight an unwinnable war against genocidal colonising europeans who had taken over his motherland, forced his people into barely habitable camps, and crushed their souls in a decades-long campaign of violence.

There's nothing beautiful about it. It's all ugly.
Or, the DA for LA needs to start actually prosecuting the criminals handed over by UP instead of just letting them walk.

For that matter, why does Pete Buttigieg not do something? Isn't he in charge of federal transportation? Isn't there a big transportation traffic jam? Isn't LA a really important part of that?

For that matter, why hasn't the president replaced the Secretary of Transportation for lack of confidence in his ability to get anything done?
Got caught hacking. Charged with a couple felonies and a misdemeanor. Did probation for a few years and was supposed to stay off computers but I ended up back online with a 300 baud modem and a green screen terminal.
I would wager, but cannot prove, that if an LA politician's (extra points for being a congresscritter) home was burglarized that it, and the perpetrator, would get more action taken than one of us mere peons.
You need these attributes.
i) Tenacity
ii) Eagerness to learn. Always. Research-orientedness is a must.
iii) Willingness to solve problems, not just your own.
I think it depends on the language you use. Go fmt will do that by default, not sure about other languages though.
I don't necessarily see where "customer consent" really enters the picture. Even if installing updates were optional, at some point you almost certainly want to install the updates, as it will contain bug fixes and enhancements in other areas of the product.

This is much more a question of relying on "off-label" feature / bugs in a product, which will always be an issue. The problem here is that the advertised experience was "you can only use our content" and that should have been enough to scare off potential buyers from considering it as an option.
> From experience inside a major retail chain at the national level, this is the story of retail theft in general.

I thought it was common at some places, like Target, to track but not report shoplifting until it qualified for a felony. Then once the shoplifter had stolen enough to be charged for a felony they were prosecuted.
Yes, but a cheap treadmill + $3 vs a $4000 treadmill? Kind of a hard sell. Like I’m going to have to go pick up the power splitter myself? I don’t have time for that
>UP has insurance, and, I'm sure treats a small percentage of thefts as the cost of doing business.

I had a package go missing in LA, how do I go about filing an insurance claim with UP? I haven't found a way, so I think it's more likely that they're just letting recipients (or generous senders) eat the costs.
I’m floored and amazed. I’ll certainly look into contributing but…how did the devs acquire a language spec for GOAL? My understanding was that that was the major blocker of these types of projects for years.
Asides are allowed on HN as far as I know.
And if you do find your query has turned to treacle, looking for whether you used a wrong query hint is already in your checklist, because it's right there in the query that you're already debugging. You can't forget to double-check it.
If you need a vacation, then take one. Negotiate a couple of months off. Travel, do things that you couldn't try otherwise. When you come back to your job you will be recharged and performing better than before you left.
Something similar recently happened with Toyota actually.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667208
I also found the setup thing from synology doing this http://find.synology.com/
I cannot compare excitement across programming language communities, but I can say that there has been a lot of progress in the Fortran community, centered around the site https://fortran-lang.org/ and forum https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/ and surveyed in a preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.07382. A package manager, standard library, and a compiler with a REPL (LFortran) are being developed, and an annual conference has been held twice https://tcevents.chem.uzh.ch/event/14/. The Fortran standard has coarrays for parallelism, which several compilers have implemented.

A few years ago the main Fortran forum was comp.lang.fortran of Usenet, and although people did release tools and code, their efforts were scattered.
Sounds like projection, then. I chose to take 6 months off between contracts, and within a week I was bored. That period turned out to be the most productive period when it comes to my open source projects, and those projects now have thousands of users who find them useful. Most people want to feel accomplishment, appreciation and a sense of responsibility, and many people create or work towards that end.

I have a friend I made in college who is now on disability. She's using the time to learn and create, and preparing to start a business teaching others what they know. They could easily smoke weed and play video games all day, but that gets old very quickly.
Wow, $10 million in Apple stock...

Reading this, I feel like I've done things that were this big... or a decent fraction of it... and never got so much as a thank you
Peloton Is Spying on You, Mozilla Says in New Report
I found that to be an interesting read. They tried to argue that it was infringing on copyrights because it changed code, which it does not. But the court further went on to say if they ruled against adblocking it would encroach on peoples rights when viewing sites (like choices to reduce bandwidth use, etc).
Fun story time: a few years back I worked at a major EU "traditional" (non-FAANG) IT company, and they were using Apache for handling web traffic. Rumour was that nginx, being already a backbone of half of internet, was dismissed as "too new" :) (we're talking mid-2010s)
It is true that on Twitch, when a popular game has drops, the viewer numbers go through the roof. But I don't think you can extrapolate that an unpopular platform could pull viewers away from Twitch by having a bunch of unpopular streamers do drops. You'd probably influence which streamers on Mixer got viewers on Mixer, but would it get people to drop Twitch? I strongly doubt it.

More to the point, no other platform has succeeded here either. Whatever that Facebook streaming thing is is a non-factor, YouTube streams exist but seem to be used primarily as a way for YouTubers to do events rather than a real Twitch competitor, etc. I'm not sure a Twitch competitor can be viable until Twitch does something to drive people away. The network effect is strong.
That's quite the negative view of humanity. People only care about profit? I care about the wellbeing of all people, and I think most people do, they just have little ability to help others because they are atomised as individuals with little power under capitalism. A society where everybody only cares about personal gain is a society of sociopaths - granted, that's the sociological influence of neoliberalism, so you can see in more neoliberal communities that people are more greedy and materialistic, but that's not an essential trait of human beings; just experience more communal cultures or groups, or check out historical social structures. The only reason many people are profit-oriented now is because they're pushed to be so under capitalism.
Certainly. And those people are free to chime in as well. But people put up with a lot of bad shit to experience something. I know I have.
Nifty. I assume this still means using some combination of Envoy + Nginx to "downgrade" to 1.1 in a traditional web service environment if the client defaults to HTTP/2. Is that right?
Cameras don't provide much useful evidence in these cases. The recordings typically show a medium size man wearing a hoodie. Could be anybody.
I've played World of Warcraft since the first Beta and it's been a great ride, at least up until the last expansion. The news of Microsoft's acquisition has me hopeful for great new MMORPG.
An interesting question: which Office version is the best assuming one does not want a modern version with the ribbon interface (so 2007+ is out)?

Looking at wikipedia new feature list, most features following 97 aren't very compelling for a single user: "HTML support"? "Collaboration features"? "Customized XML schemas"? Meh.

However, Office XP IMHO has a few minor improvements (minor UI refresh, print preview in PowerPoint, bulleted lists in Word, better password protection in general and docx/xlsx support via the Open XML Compatibility Pack though that's common for every version from Office 2000 to 2003) that make it worthwhile over 97.
Printer head cleaning can burn through quite a bit of ink if the printer hasn’t been used in a while. And sometimes my parents go long stretches without using the printer.
Yes - this would be my take as well.
Yeah, no, this is bullshit. People don’t just have agencies (Mossad, CIA), they also have agency as in: the power to change reality. And the vast majority of democratic countries are run by people who have a decent appreciation of the rule of law, which is what stands between your actual freedom and your gloomy fantasies.

Then, there’s also a group of countries that simply cannot afford / don’t have the people to do these things.

How do I know? Consider the usual suspects for these operations: the US, Israel, Russia, and China. For every single one of them, we also have examples of their work that got leaked or otherwise exposed.

What are the chances that Belgium happens to be the country that manages to run such a program and keep it secret? Or Equatorial Guinea?

Then, there’s also the growing list of known customers of NSO: if two dozens of them decided to buy this software, chances are they do not have homegrown solutions with similar capabilities. Nor does it seem as if there were any other sellers at NSO’s scale. Meaning: if we successively learn about all of NSO’s business, we might be getting close to knowing everything there is to know about the sector, with the exception of the large countries mentioned above.
No.

>Linus Torvalds had wanted to call his invention Freax, a portmanteau of "free", "freak", and "x" (as an allusion to Unix). During the start of his work on the system, he stored the files under the name "Freax" for about half of a year. Torvalds had already considered the name "Linux", but initially dismissed it as too egotistical.[13]

>In order to facilitate development, the files were uploaded to the FTP server (ftp.funet.fi) of FUNET in September 1991. Ari Lemmke at Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), who was one of the volunteer administrators for the FTP server at the time, did not think that "Freax" was a good name. So, he named the project "Linux" on the server without consulting Torvalds.[13] Later, however, Torvalds consented to "Linux".

>To demonstrate how the word "Linux" should be pronounced ([ˈliːnɵks]), Torvalds included an audio guide (audio speaker iconlisten (help·info)) with the kernel source code.[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux#Naming
I'm only aware of one case where the US government, without warrant, actively hacked its own citizens using a 0day, which was when the FBI exploited a 0day to compromise users of TOR who, as I recall, were looking to access CSAM. Even when going after a bunch of pedophiles I think there was a good bit of controversy there.

I think there may actually have been a warrant for some part of the access, idk.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen but it would be quite a scandal to find that the government was performing warrantless exploitation of citizen's personal devices. Maybe someone can correct me here and show that this has been the case.
It’s really nice being able to use a Cocoa client on macOS, a UWP client on Windows, and a Qt client (and possibly soon a GTK client) on Linux. It’s becoming a rare luxury to have apps that do their best to be good citizens of their host desktops instead of throwing their backs into establishing a brand.
I think if one of the tech giants of the world could create an AGI-ish, they should have no problem becoming a single worldwide monopoly in a couple of years...
The only ads I find acceptable are those served by the site itself. As soon as they load in a third party like Google, I'm out.
it's N^2 if the client is scanning through all the records.

With N records and page size P, with p=N/P pages: the client does list?page=1 then list?page=2 ... list?page=p. the server then does scans P records for the first client request, 2P for the second up to pP=N. The total record scanned is (1+2+...N/P)P = (1+N/P)(N/P)1/2*P ~ O(N^2)
I searched for an excellent, clear and precise explanation of GPS that is clean and ad-free, and landed on your comment.
An MTG limited player named Ryan Saxe created an AI that drafts and builds deck to a highly successfully degree:
https://github.com/RyanSaxe/mtg

He was able to reach Mythic, the highest ranking tier on Magic Arena. Of course this is a different problem to actually playing the game (and probably significantly easier). That being said, this is one guy doing it as a side project with restricted resources.

I imagine that MTG could played quite successfully by an AI if someone where to dedicate the resources. Imo much of the difficulty is in laying the groundwork. Large amounts of data don't exist publicly and laying the framework for a bot to play itself would be quite difficult (and then the computation costs would be extremely expensive).
Is there an enthusiast website/community database of boards with clear documentation of Linux support, 3rd-party dependencies (patches needed, binary blobs), etc.?
From a consumer perspective the death of Yelp is something to be greatly desired. That's the anti-trust perspective of the USA over the last 40 years.
Is Egypt occupying the Gaza strip, and controlling what enters the strip over water or air? Are they allowing one nationality to cross the border and not another (not that there are too many people of Jewish decent left in the Gaza strip)?

And, how is the fact that for every Palestinian terrorist Israel killed 10 civilians Palestine's fault?

Also, Israel didn't "give Gaza control to the Palestinians" in 2005, they only gave them limited self-government power. They still couldn't control their own border, didn't have access to a source of water etc. And none of the people who fled their homes in Israel during the previous wars was allowed to return home, unless they were of Jewish descent.
it's not. it's from "videt'", to see
Persistent-loitering ground support would be one idea. Keeping air support hanging around for ground forces is a big problem, and "more is better" is essentially the order of the day.

So your enemy gets to have a problem: if they do nothing, then you rain close-air down with impunity for your ground forces. But if you start shooting at drones with all your high-tech missiles, you're both spending a lot more per kill then they are per loss, and giving away the location and position of your ground-based anti-air assets (as well as forcing them to commit their high tech anti-air assets to the offensive - and they have pretty limited AA payloads).

People need to stop thinking in terms of single-branch military, because the order of the day for any modern military is combined arms - air power is in support of some objective, not "just because".
OP also posted https://blog.jakspeedruns.com/opengoal-project-update-septem... a while back. It has a section on "How is this possible?"
The markets are booming, money printer goes brrrr, so reality is of little consequence. It's all about pushing paper from one corner to another. Bitcoin will save us, pushing that paper will be better than pushing this paper. Round and round goes the paper, barely managing to do anything for us or our environment on which we depend for everything. No reason to include it in the calculations if it would just bring down the numbers.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
There are ways to make new things safely without selling a technology that absolutely doesn't work to the public.

Waymo and Cruise are bad examples because they are both far, far behind Tesla...
Ah, interesting - and what's the second server?
Yeah, these are general features of mass media that predate the internet.

Much of the hysteria about social media is signal boosted by the traditional media establishment that it disrupted
If the hype for the metaverse is a fraction true, and their distribution channels hold, these acquisitions will have been peanuts compared to the value they'll produce.
Sounds like he didn't get it: https://www.quora.com/Was-Steve-Jobs-a-better-employer-from-...
If this can get past the immense lobbying powers of the usual suspects, this could hit them hard. It seems that it would also prevent Amazon and others from recommending certain products based on knowledge about the buyer if recommendations are considered advertising, but it seems grey in the wording. The bill does not prohibit surveillance which is used for many other products such as credit agencies, market analysis, and other products, but it seems like a good first step.