skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If games are so expensive to make and sell so cheap, how come are the game companies getting bigger and making record profits year after year? Not that the median game developer seems to be much better off for it, though.

Besides, many of those $10 games that are $30 on the Switch are made by smaller teams or even solo creators. Just because some video game properties have grown into giant franchises with multimedia companies pouring tens and hundreds of millions dollars and armies of people into them, that doesn't mean the majority of video game titles around are like that.

Come to think of it, in the light of the countless recent stories of overwork and abuse in the games industry and the scandalous quality issues plaguing high-profile releases in recent years, I'm not even sure if we should be incentivizing games having a lot of work go into them.

How come is it entitlement to not buy things that cost more than you think they are worth, anyway? Expensive things don't become cheap just because they're cheaper than four decades ago nor because they happen to be created and marketed by large corporations with lots of employees.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlfyxWaeGCE
Thanks, I'll try it. I'm happy to pay more money for something that saves me time
Run-and-tumble sounds an awful lot like stochastic gradient descent
Exactly. I can live on a pretty small amount of money where I am, and I'd be pretty uninspired about working any extra if 1) my basic living expenses were paid and 2) my extra income was taxed at 50%.

And if a lot of people felt like I did, society wouldn't be producing enough for me to actually live on the UBI, ...
If the competition exists for Sony already, why is it necessary for Microsoft to own that competition?

Activision Blizzard already competed with Sony, which is why people think the market is more healthy prior to this acquisition.

In your comment you point out that Bethesda still has their autonomy. So why is it good again for MS to be acquiring these studios? They continue to make the same product in more or less the same way, but now have to appease their MS gods, all while generating more profit for MS to the benefit of not really anyone, except MS.
Everything gets squirrely and confusing when consciousness tries to look at itself. The recursion breaks everything.
The inflation issue - “it’s the economy, stupid” - is causing food and housing to spike. Shelves are often empty where I live for random things. This week it was chicken, next week it’s cream cheese, and so on. Very abnormal for the US and the people in power are not focusing on this.
Independent does not mean coward. This is a poor take. Believe it or not, there are people who don’t vote a straight red/blue ticket.
> The group of truly indie studios is dwindling unfortunately.

Have you looked at Steam recently? Indie studios are doing just fine, and new indie studios are popping up all the time. I'd argue the indie market is stronger than ever.
This is the sole reason why I don't play Switch games unless I can get them on sale, or they're exclusive like BotW.

I have a 14" gaming notebook (ASUS G14 2021) that's portable enough and offers decent battery life especially for lighter games with access to my Steam library offline, and plenty of key shops to find games for uber cheap when there's no demo available for me to vet the value of a title first.

Win-wins all around!
A couple years after this article was written, Miller tried to rehab his image. In part by distancing himself from Holy Terror, in part by saying he had been drinking heavily: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/27/frank-miller-x...

I dunno, that mostly reads like a guy trying to improve his image to sell some new books. It's hard to imagine writing and drawing a hundred pages while drunk. Or, there's lots of famously drunk artists, none of whom wrote All-Star Batman and Robin.
You completely ignored the "4e. What Space Are We Navigating?" and are thinking in terms of navigating evolutionary fitness/random mutation. I can see how our large brains create a new kind of virtual space we move around in, and it is unlike either of the above.
Nilay Patel had a great interview with John Deere's CTO where he pressed him on the right to repair for farmers. Highly recommend the episode, and all decoder episodes, Nilay is a fantastic reporter and doesn't let his quests squeak away with half answers. https://www.theverge.com/22533735/john-deere-cto-hindman-dec...
Looking forward to trading used games and game assets on ETH L2 (Loopring?).
The world at large is in a long and slow ongoing transition from "this is a strict list of what behaviours are permitted in an intimate relationship and this is a list of punishments for behaviours outside that list" towards "consent is the rule, everything is fine as long as it happens between consenting adults".
Independently of any technical solution, learning to not hold onto past personal memories can be beneficial.
But you get how you’re changing their life for a decision they didn’t make right?
well they also have docs site with all the info that you could miss for mysterious reasons - https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/
Of course, other countries besides the US could also block the merger...
LinkedIn didn’t need to be cleaned out.
> It's disgusting. They have no morals.

You've gone pretty extreme there. There is a much more plausible explanation, which is that they genuinely believe that more people would be saved if the security services could access messaging apps and they don't think the level of potential abuse is worth worrying about.

Don't get me wrong, I think they have made bad decisions etc. but in this case, I think it is simply naive "if you haven't done anything wrong..."
Haha, I checked this against my internal memories from 'Office Space'.
The Climate Conversation No One Wants
Not really.

It's only an issue if this negatively. affects the competitive market. And since games are a creative market - there's hardly any reason to fear that Microsoft can restrict access to new players.

This is not like a utility, that could technically force something on you. One company can buy all of game developers/publishers and still not make a dent in competitiveness of the games market.
I remember I read a fighter pilot's analysis on the events:

- Bullet drop and travel time were not modelled, the guns were literally lasers

- Most of the kills the AI did were high aspect shots, meaning the aircraft flew perpendicularly to each other. In real life, these shots are almost impossible to hit, due to the aforementioned ignored factors

- A human pilot in a simulator doesn't have the situational awareness of flying in a physical plane
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-18/xbox-chie...
A Deluge [1] or a NORNS+GRID [2] rig is also a good way to get the shape-based chord understanding without an investment in clavier-thought:

[1] - http://synthstrom.com/

[2] - http://monome.org/

Actually, just the NORNS itself is going to get you booted up with some ridiculously fantastic music theory, especially if you're the kind that reads the source ..
They are painting an exit route for him.
Not so much anymore. That really changed from the late 70s onward with tremendous development of suburbs and very little protection. The word “open space” hadn’t enter the collective conscious yet.

The drive east/west between Philadelphia and Atlantic City before the Atlantic City Expressway was mostly all farm, pine forest, and farm stands. The pine forests are still there (the ones that were state forests, anyway), but not the farms and not the pine forests that were on private land.
The insight is, in my opinion, more related to the attaching of the idea of "rotation" to space-time, and using that to explain why we can't just add velocities at high "rotations".
It's not absurd: it's literally proof of a viable and sustainable business model.

Consoles have always been packaged, standardized, and locked computers. That Nintendo is bad at security isn't proof of any great altruism. It just means they're not good at secure hardware design.
I used Vim for ~7 years, fully switched over to Kakoune a few years ago. My primary reasons are:

1. always selection-first focused

2. multi-cursor support combined with #1 is really intuitive

That's about it really. I have it set up primarily with User Modes, to avoid modifier keys as i don't like reaching for modifiers, and i'm pretty happy.
Wikidata has qualifiers and ranks which can be added to statements that can be used for this.

As an example, Barbados:

(statement) head of state (P35): Queen Elizabeth II (Q9682)

(qualifier) start time (P580): 30 November 1966

(qualifier) end time (P582): 29 November 2021

(statement) head of state (P35): Sandra Mason (Q9333540)

(qualifier) start time (P582): 30 November 2021

the second statement then has the "preferred" rank (the first has a "normal" rank, and there is also a "deprecated" rank for inaccurate information)

See https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q244#P35 for a better visualisation than HN's comment allows
I'm sure we on hacker news are more familiar with the tech side of right to repair, but farming is also a huge problem.

JD walked so that Apple could run
I'm really excited for the Steam deck sometime this year, especially given GPU prices are what they are. Interestingly, Valve's work on Proton/Wine has created a situation where smaller developers are almost less likely to target Linux first class, as the game can just run on the compatability layer and save the dev the work of obscure Linux issues that effect 1% of players.
> The idea that one needs to do something memorable

I agree, which is why I try to view the little things as memorable. Laying on the couch with my dog or cooking for my wife is a little thing, but amazing and memorable. Doom scrolling, not so much.
I love my M1, but it is most certainly not alien technology that can’t be replicated, nor does it imply that other foundries/chip designers can’t catch up. In many respects AMD is already very close (on a previous node, no less), and Intels 12th Gen, while very power hungry, is very good in terms of total performance (obviously not competitive on perf/watt, but it was never going to be, because of the node difference).
Moving through the air is a lot easier than moving on ground. No mud, slopes, or rubble to deal with.
I think my think my argument is mostly based on the precise wording. Make it slightly broader and it would no longer hold.

1) Microsoft holds a very respectable share of the video game market (especially if you ignore mobile). But their share of the PC game market specifically is much smaller.

2) Microsoft is the dominant platform of PC gaming without question. But that doesn't make the market attached to them. Being without alternative or having high switching costs is what makes you attached, not merely using it. Most games are inherently multi-platform, either because they are built in an engine that is or because they are also sold on other platforms (mostly consoles). Not having Linux, Mac or SteamOS builds is usually a business decision, not a technical one. You could argue that they are attached to Microsoft because that's where the consumers are, and that's true in a sense. But that limits what kind of benefit Microsoft can get out of the attachment and what kind of damage they can do - at most as much as it takes to get enough consumers to switch (dual boot, some SteamOS device, etc). In a world where games sell platforms the attachment isn't very strong
> Until you do that you won’t understand.

I already said that I don't even have a degree. All you did in this thread was proving the point of my original comment.
if my understanding is correct then M1 was a one time boost due to the massive decoder and on chip RAM, it's not going to be constantly getting faster
I suspect, like all political shifts of independents, that this would have a strong moderating impact on the Republican Party.

Swing independents tend to be more political practical and less ideological.
My friend and I built https://pixaver.com. It doesn’t address all of the points you note here, but it does offer some piece of mind if we get locked out of Google Photos.
FSD is different. It's obviously having a would-be accident every few miles from watching Youtube videos (by the biggest fans). And those statistics are ridiculous advertising material comparing the extremely easy fair-weather driving on highways where drivers felt safe enough to use autopilot vs all miles.
> let's assume it's accurate.

This article tries to understand where that number comes from (and fails to do so): https://alecmuffett.com/article/15902
Since I won't ever get to vote for a Pro-Choice Pro-2nd Amendment president, I guess I'll just stop watching the news, because I can not fathom how we can be skewing Republican after everything that's happened.
> Twitter is a fucking horrible format for [..]

... any intelligent thought which takes more than a couple of sentences to type out?
independents, moderates, and people in the center always swing everything, its hardly news

I was curious though, is anyone else bothered by not being able to participate in primaries and party level events and elections?
> Ahi , the serpent demon who captured Apas, the water goddess
> ahi froze the waters

As for the serpent motive, I think it relates to the movement and shape of glaciers.
Here are some pictures.

Snake-like path of a swiss glacier: [1]

The end of a glacier which (with skimming) may look like a snake head releasing streams of melt water: [2]

In these ~110 year old illustrations glaciers are depicted with weird lion head and sluggish lizard body: [3]

Ahi seems to be Azi Dahâka in Zoroastrianism, which also has a lot of long-winter themes [4]:

"The world was imagined as lasting a long year of twelve millenniums. There had been an old myth, connected with that notion, which made the world end in a frightful winter, to be succeeded by an eternal spring, when the blessed would come down from the Vara of Yima to repeople the earth. But as storm was the ordinary and more dramatic form of the strife, there was another version, according to which the world ended in a storm, and this version became the definitive one.

The serpent, Azi Dahâka, let loose, takes hold of the world again. As the temporary disappearance of the light was often mythically described either as the sleeping of the god, or as his absence, or death [...]"

This story about the Vara is also super interesting and similar to the Ark story, though not with a big flood but a long winter and "foul frost". The numbers make more sense, because they gather over a thousand "seeds of men and women" instead of only a single family. [5]

[1] https://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/glossary/valley-glacier-en...

[2] https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CTPcUSfYG3c/maxresdefault.jpg

[3] https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2018/04/02/culture-history...

[4] https://www.sacred-texts.com/zor/sbe04/sbe0405.htm

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29802590
I don’t get it - who would use intel as a fab? How would they competitive? And trustworthy in the sense, not doing competing designs in house?
Exactly! Great for the kids - my 9 year old son loves it. Even though he's got all the hardware here as well, he much prefers giggling away sitting in front of the computer, so much easier entry point!
Eyeo wins German copyright decision, sets legal precedent for who ‘owns’ HTML
With all due respect I don’t believe you’re in tune with what college students are feeling.

—- a college student
Good for consumers, in some cases, I'd say.
Agreed. It's a very deceptive business practice.
Points taken! Which is why I mostly agree with the GP. I can't name a single acquisition that did more for the consumer than what was already on offer, so I am generally against them.

My last comments were more in the shoes of Microsoft.
Souls is part of Kadokawa Corporation (which has investment from Tencent). Ori's studio is independent but they've had pretty close ties to Microsoft.
Novel behavior and random mutations do have an explanation - they help explore possibilities and find better ways. Most of the time it's a loss, but it's still worth it in the long run. It's also a desirable sexual trait to have unusual abilities or achievements, to be the explorer or the conqueror (for men, for women there are other criteria).
Yeah, I gave up on the Play Store very quickly, and so now it's just F-Droid and the occasional play store install with Aurora. I just feel like that if I need to spend energy either way, then I'm better off spending it in the FOSS ecosystem.
To me the interesting vulnerabilities in these schemes previously were the "offline mode," where you need to be able to present a verifiable cryptgram without access to the issuers network. As I remember from several years ago, compatability with chip-on-card schemes that lacked the processing capabilities for RSA or space for ECC keys meant you needed to design the ID scheme to use symmetric key protocols, which forced offline modes to cache single use keys and the security of those were provided by counters and timers.

Once you move to mobile devices and "digital id" like the SMART Health vax passports, you can use asymmetric key based protocols, and you can do the offline verification by distributing the public part of the user certificate signing key to verifier devices. If it requires compatability with physical cards, it's using single use symmetric or stored keys for offline mode, and if it doesn't, it can use asymmetric keys for a verification protocol. In the latter case, my impression was that absractly, the vax passport verification protocol was not unlike JOSE/JWS tokens today.

The main failure modes are if the signing key gets compromised (as there was news one recently did) and someone starts generating fake vax passports and dilutes the system, or exploiting the recovery process where people can duplicate someones cert by getting it reissued to them.

Reality is, in a society with an internal passport system where you have to show papers for everyday movements, any constitutional rights or freedoms cannot be guaranteed because by being obligated by law to present ID, you are no longer a protected member of a citizenry with rights to move and associate, and in that instance you are are reduced to a political minority of one.

I get we need ID for online services (I do a lot of work in this field), but we do not need national identity cards to accomplish any goals those services provide.
The license fee thing may have been less of a populist thing and more of an A) shot across the bows at the BBC for its coverage of partygate. B) a sop to murdoch who has been wanting to kill the BBC/license fee since forever.
The index. The have a few other pieces of hardware they have made over the years. Currently they are making the Steam Deck, time will tell how that does.
I do the same. Whitewall are very good quality. They also make excellent gifts.
If you look at the actual data from the past couple decades, far more aircraft were destroyed by SAMs or cruise missiles (on the ground) than in BVR or WVR combat. Dogfights haven't been a significant factor for a long time.
I wonder where do Paradox strategy games fall, Crusader Kings / Europa Universalis ones. They definitely don't look AAA, despite offering a very deep gameplay.
> 42MP. It's not really practical to have any more megapixels.

Reminds me of Bill Gates comment in 1981 on IBM's 640KB usable RAM limit:

> 640K is more memory than anyone will ever need
The gaming industry has been in consolidation mode for years, mostly due to the up-front investment required to produce AAA games. All the large players are buying the smaller ones, it's not just Microsoft.

And I guess you can question my use of the subjective word "lots", my fault. I still think there are _enough_ large publishers around in the gaming industry that you can't really start throwing around terms like "monopoly" or "anti-trust" etc...

I was mostly just pointing out that the original comment was factually inaccurate by saying MS were buying up "all their competitors".

I'm not trying to rationalize or "jump through hoops" here. We're all just debating and guessing, having a conversation..

If you somehow accidentally assigned me to the opposite 'side' from the one you appear to be on, let me gently correct you.. I don't care enough about this to be picking sides.
> If I was in the U.K., this would be enough to forever turn me off the ruling Conservative party. It's disgusting.

Unfortunately this isn't unique to the Tories. Politicians across the whole political spectrum have fought to introduce increasingly authoritarian controls over the internet and technology over the past 30 years.

UK culture as a whole is more authoritarian than you'd expect. Labour would gladly implement their own version of the same if they had the opportunity. To that point, any UK millennial will likely not be able to remember a time where there wasn't some hand wringing campaign about online privacy or porn.
Are there even any games still that are only released on Xbox but not Windows so that you might need an "emulator"?
It's shocking how unaffected the graph is by who "ran" the country 2016-2020 in comparison to the other change-overs in the 90s and 00s. Is social media reinforcing echo chambers which let one have no doubt in their views? Are our areas of discourse now more one-sided? Insular subreddits, feeds that are curated by a self reinforcing algorithms to not show you what you might disagree with...

There is Hypernormalization [0] through popular/state media's simultaenous support of opposing views, i.e. disinformation through doubt and plausible deniability (perfected by world powers, particularly Soviet/Russian regimes in the modern era).

[0] https://youtu.be/thLgkQBFTPw
Pix breaks ground in Brazil, shakes up payments market
Surely the timing of this is coincidence, what with Microsoft announcing their purchase of Blizzard?

Nope, probably not. Kinda sad to see that’s what it took to motivate them to take action. I’m not a gamer and have no horse in this race, but what initially seemed like a change of pace turns out to be the entirely laughable status quo of management giving lip service to these issues.

Given the timing, there should be no question that this was done in direct response to the acquisition, and only expendable tokens have been remove from play. Meanwhile, the management that led this shit show will avoid any consequences and laugh themselves all the way to the bank.
I suppose. I can't say that the interests of these groups are particularly close to my heart. Certainly if I was a game dev I wouldn't be willing to pass up a chance to substantially increase revenue to make life easier for an archivist.

To the extent that there is any value in the history of this game, I think most of it will be sufficiently captured in the large amount of video content being produced about it.
>These results are based on aggregated data from all U.S. Gallup telephone surveys in 2021, which included interviews with more than 12,000 randomly sampled U.S. adults.

I hate to be so cynical but I have no faith in these phone surveys anymore. Most adults I know avoid surveyors on principle. Even further, most adults I know won’t answer any number that isn’t already in their address book. It seems like the only type of person that a survey like this might reach is the stereotypical technology-fearing conservative.

That’s not to say that these results are inaccurate in any way. I just don’t believe the methodology backs up the results here.