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I've been playing a game on my Deck that's been reported as unplayable (Hitman, the remake) and I can't figure out what's supposed to be wrong with it. The stupid online requirement works, for better or for worse, so it's not DRM. The only thing I can think of is that I can't use the controller to click the Play button on start (need to use the touch screen) but that's rather minor.

I've seen other cases where "not working" means "you need to hit Steam+X manually to open the keyboard in certain settings". These playability standards seem rather high, which isn't a bad thing, but can sew the numbers. On the other hand, you an find plenty of stories of users playing verified games that become bad later in the game, presumably because no company is going to spend 100 hours on every game to verify that every single thing works. I haven't run into that yet, though.

Steam Deck and Proton really changed gaming on Linux and otherwise. Certain features of well-integrated games (Euro Truck Sim providing a list of named actions for key binds, for example) are unlike anything I've seen elsewhere. The ability to add overlay menus, with multiple levels even, to any game add even more to the way you can play PC games with a controller.

At this point, I hope Valve releases a second Steam controller: one that's just the Deck without the PC inside. Coupled with the new Steam Big Picture, I'm confident Steam consoles could take off.
He doesn't have hiring authority for the government, so that makes no sense.
"The technocratic illusion is that poverty results from a shortage of expertise, whereas poverty is really about a shortage of rights."

William Easterly.

I too wish they'd know more about what they decide on, but really they should already rely on subject matter experts and otherwise I don't think the problem is lack of knowledge, as the quote indicates. It was said in the context of erradicating poverty but I think it applies to these discussions too.
> much harder than, say, end-to-end encryption over HTTP (which is of course HTTPS), simply due to the fact that the communication over HTTPS is one-to-one

Is it? Now, where the people no longer host their own websevers, but leave their content on services owned and operated by other people?

HTTPS isn't really E2E here.

Can I sign or encrypt some comment before posting it to make sure that only people I granted access to it can decrypt it or people can verify my signature on it with HTTPS?
He means permanent. In times of urgent need, such as in times of war, the government would raise money as necessary. The federal government assessing a permanent tax on people was a huge deal and required a constitutional amendment, the 16th, passed in 1913. The act you're referencing was in response to the Civil War (which started in 1861), and would be allowed to ultimately expire about a decade later.
This is targeted at public sector and other enterprise customers. It doesn't need to actually solve the problem. It just needs to clear the hurdle of giving the people who work at these companies a way to look like they got something done. Bonus points when it does so in terms (like "bill of materials") that they're already familiar with.
It behaves like one though. It is only found in low concentrations and never in pure form or easily accessible ores.
US allows tourists to apply for jobs while on temporary visa
It's not clear to me that this is the "exact same crime". Also, is it significant that Cohen plead guilty? I'm not sure Trump will.
The Quest for Wide Outlines (2020)
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Yesterday I asked chatgpt to compute the probability that two words of five letters both began with the same three letters and it could not solve it.

IMO, this is irrelevant, because "normal people" would never ask this question. Because it has never been asked, there's also not a ChatGPT answer to it, because its answers are based on already existing information.

This thinking that ChatGPT is AI is just wrong. It's not AI, nor GI, so stop comparing it with that.

As a human, I can destroy your problem/question with one claim: you claim that the words must be built on the English alphabet. Let's throw some Æ, Ø and Å in there, shall we?

Can YOU solve that problem?
You're apparently not concerned about good developers who can just evaluate the code, so you must be talking about bad developers.

Bad developers don't even know if the code they write themself is close to correct. AI doesn't make that situation any worse. It actually improves the situation.
Remember, existence is pain to a Meeseeks. So treat your AI with care!
Violations like that are charged all the time. This particular offense was already charged against Trump's lawyer, so it makes sense to charge Trump who directed Trump to do it.

It wasn't just a campaign finance violation. It also was a major financial misstatement, even fraud telling the election bureau, the IRS and state officials this was legal expenses, which it clearly wasn't. There's no way no how one can make the claim "not a big enough deal to charge". Things like that and even more minor get charged all day long. It's just that there is a very long history of Trump and his goons interfering with this charge getting brought and making a much bigger deal about it.
Also from Germany: I have. Please don't assume something does not happen because it doesn't happen to you.
Also check out https://phind.com which is combines search with LLM and gives you more up-to-date information with less hallucination.
You forgot the /s right? Most of the world doesn't have that kind of connection.
The UK has left the EU. They appear to not be abiding by EU privacy laws as a result.
Right, it seems like the machine could have been a success if someone had forced the inventor to ship it when it was good enough, instead of letting him tinker with it for years.
Subroutines and abstraction are orthogonal.
They need to start ignoring the leading GOP candidate who actively conspired to overthrow the election and just received a criminal indictment -- a first ever in this nation's history?
I guess that the "Combining Cyrillic Ten Millions Sign" could do the job: ꙰ ꙰

Though you point it seems is more like using only a small set of symbols. Obviously, to render large number you need to introduce new syntax apparatus if keeping terseness is a desired constraint.

Just like you would wrote 1×10⁷ or 1e7, you can have say a single point on one line, and an heptagon or seven points on an other, still juxtaposing these two columned digits. In Unicode, it seems these last symbols are not present, but instead you can use cards from different games.

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How fun! :D
You certainly have no responsibility at all to help a multi-trillion dollar company fix themselves! Nor to ever shop with that company. You do you!

That said, I hope my comment and the subsequent upvotes make it clear that your experience seems very unusual. I have never felt pressured to buy anything on my numerous visits, and was even talked into buying a cheaper option of two things I considered once, and another time it was suggested I go to Best Buy rather than buy anything from Apple.

They're not paid commission to avoid situations like the one you described, so it's really strange to me that happened. That's all!
> "This is unprecedented. There is no other law from any (lets say first world) country that asserts extraterritorial jurisdiction to anywhere even close to the GDPR."

Here's an example of that not being true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload

Or a more recent example that's related to financial/fraud regulations rather than copyright law, look at the FTX / Sam Bankman-Fried situation. Being registered in the Bahamas didn't make what FTX was doing to US customers any less illegal in the eyes of the US justice system.

Or, I mentioned COPPA earlier, and that's been enforced at least once against a Chinese company - https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2019/02/largest-f...
how do I enforce my right to have my personal data updated/forgotten with a neural network?

or test it has been implemented?
They're publicly traded companies and oddball games don't keep the stock price up -- every quarter, too.
Tbh, in my circles there’s already deep resentment for Adam’s not actually addressing this. Instead we have cops lining up to ticket bike riders for no bells or turning on a red, while bike lanes themselves are notoriously unprotected from cars parking in/driving through them and pedestrians are getting killed in hit and runs that go ignored. The general sentiment is that police presence will always make a situation worse and don’t have incentives aligned with actually improving the lives of people.
> The first step in solving the trust problem is solving the identity problem

I disagree entirely. Knowing that the random "leftpad" library you pulled it was in fact authored by "John Brown, 46 years old, from Milwaukee" does absolutely nothing for your software security.

The only way to audit your dependencies is to actually have someone you trust (e.g. works for you) go and audit your dependencies. The entire system is built on a broken premise.
Because they supported the Linux implementation of EAC.
> 'exposes "minors to absolutely unsuitable answers compared to the their degree of development and self-awareness."'

> So do (certain) books.

Minors are typically given books that are appropriate to "their degree of development and self-awareness."
Yeah, that's 100% him paying his own hush money. Your lawyer is often an extension of you in that respect - that's why a "power of attorney" document is called that. As long as it flows through agents with that kind of close arrangement, the path the money takes doesn't matter - it's coming straight from the client. For example, my patent lawyer pays for my fees at the PTAB and then puts them on my monthly bill, but puts my name (or my corporation's) down on the form as the person who paid the fee.

Another commenter suggested that the real crime was that the expense was named incorrectly on the campaign's books, which makes more sense to me but also seems kind of tenuous.
> But most people don't care or open alternatives would be more popular.

I disagree with your premise.

Whatsapp wasn't always owned by FB/Meta. It had a huge user base then got bought out.

Alternatives like Signal are popular, but it's hard to overcome inertia. Give them time.
It's a pseudo wholly owned subsidiary since a while, isn't it?
No. You completely digressed and your statement has no ground. Because I just remembered that ChatGPT is able to say "sorry I do not acknowledge xxx, would you provide some more informations?" _in__the__first__day_ of launching!!!
This is a myth that the IRS already knows what everyone owes. They usually have most of your income information because it gets reported by employers and banks. They have information on some deductible expenses but not all. They often don’t have the cost basis for capital gains, so unless you want a huge tax bill, it behooves you to provide it. I didn’t fill out 15 pages of information they already have.

Yes, for 90% of the population who have one W2 and take the standard deduction, the IRS could just mail you the bill. But that was the point of my comment: don’t leave the rest of us in Intuit’s clutches!
Yes, I have let it as is, I wonder how it happened. :D
I suspect the results would be quite poor. Incandescent filaments increase their resistance when they get hotter, so driving them at constant RMS voltage means that the power will decrease as they heat up, which will give them a degree of stability. At constant current, though, the power will increase with increasing temperature.

(Of course, they’re quite hot and radiative cooling increases like T^4, so this isn’t necessarily a show stopper. But it’s probably not helpful.)
I think a reference to Q For Mortals https://code.kx.com/q4m3/
Court found that if there’s a crime in progress, police aware of it don’t need to do anything about it. They aren’t crime stoppers. The court case was from when police were alerted to an ongoing break in and rape/battery against several women, the police arrived and left after the attackers told them it was ok (with the women tied up upstairs). One of the women had called the police, which then alerted the attackers that there was another woman in the house they hadn’t known about, who they then found and attacked as well. Court found the police had done nothing wrong by trusting the men and leaving without entering the home or doing anything else, after the woman’s 911 call. The ruling said that the police have no obligation to follow up on reported and active crimes, even if they’re already present at the scene - it’s simply not their purpose.
> Do you think Extinction Rebellion is doing more to fight climate change than the people working with governments to enact good climate policy?

I don't think either have been very effective, at least not recently (getting CFCs banned in the 90s was pretty cool though). And certainly not on the scale that's required at this stage.

> Serious people don't engage in terrorism because the issue is serious. They try to convince the existing power structures to take action.

And the existing power structures dig in their heels, or put on a big show of making changes while really doing almost nothing, or cede some ground for a few years, and then pay to get someone in political power who will reverse all that progress, so that no action ever really gets taken. Fun!
You can't know all the evidence. And the evidence you could know, but probably don't, isn't "weak".

Bragg wouldn't have brought this case if he wasn't sure he can get a conviction. And that's actually unfair treatment: With any other defendant he may take bigger chances, be less hesitant, less careful. And the case wouldn't have been derailed that long. Do you even know the whole history how this got deferred during the Trump presidency and even after?
This is very nice since it is progress towards 2.0 and a LOT of bugs were fixed. Kudos to the contributors! The element of novelty in this case are the error messages (which are very precise although not too easy to parse). In the meantime if you are curious how being on HN homepage affects traffic, analytics of nim website are public: https://plausible.io/nim-lang.org?period=30d
Sin/cos are tightly connected to the complex exponential and exhibit a lot of such behavior.

In particular, sin(x+it) = sin(x)cosh(y) + i cos(x)sinh(y). Set x something to zero out cosine, and rely on the exponential nature of cosh to find a target y value.
Oh thank you for the pointer. I'm exactly at your point where I tried it a few times, but >30 years of VIM keybindings in my fingers make it too painful to switch and stick to it. I'll try those.

BTW: nearly 500 stars for this simple config, that should send a clear message to Helix devs.
Mountain View Los Altos High School District takes the opposite approach of Palo Alto Unified School District. There is no test to get into a particular math class. You can sign up for whatever class you want in whatever grade you want. Similarly, the elementary schools provide differentiated learning. Which private schools do this in California? I know Khan Lab School does, but watching presentations from its students didn't give me much confidence in its approach.
The So Far Non-Existent Vulkan Leaks
Put AI to work and hold it “accountable”
Can we make AI itself liable ? Checkout my discussion with ChatGPT on whether we can make AI liable and why we need to update regulations regarding AI
>But this is a domestic regulator, making a domestic finding.

It's a decision by a domestic DPA based on the GDPR. In practice, it will have an impact across the EU, because any company intending to operate uniformly across the EU has to, in practice, comply with the most onerous GDPR interpretation taken by any domestic DPA.

This ratcheting effect is a practical reality given how the GDPR operates. It's also why orgs like Schrems' NOYB celebrate individual victories with the most activist DPAs. They ultimately do have an impact across the EU.
> the public as a whole there don't really look like they care

Really? The George Floyd protests were the largest protests in US history. That summer in NYC was extremely tense between the NYPD and regular residents (I have plenty of stories). Maybe I lived in an NYC bubble, but nearly everyone I knew was extremely upset with the NYPD, and remains upset.
>> calling for a denser EV charging infrastructure that would reduce range anxiety

I hate that term "range anxiety". It suggests some kind of psychological issue with the driver when in fact there is a real issue with EVs with a small battery.

Stelamtis will save money being late to the party, but they may also have trouble securing volumes if they wait too long.
Face punch?
EasyAntiCheat, and I believe some other common anticheat libraries, have been made compatible with Proton gaming. They've actually been fir a while thanks to Valve working with the companies behind them, but game studios did need to update their libraries to get that support so older games often lag behind the curve there.

Apex Legends was verified on Deck this month. I don't know what changed, but I assume Valve's efforts in the DRM space have paid off.
I got the impression it could be expensive because it seems I just got billed a ~100 usd. Any way to work around this?
Like nearly every comment on this topic, this is basically useless because we don't know the details of the indictment, other than that there are 34 counts -- far more than anyone who was making similar points to the ones you're making now predicted.
Off topic: it'd be interesting to know whether chatGPT decreased the traffic of stack overflow?
That's right and then they go and find stuff that is not appropriate.

This is not about what they are given, it's about what they have access to.
For statically typed languages (java,go,c#,kotlin), I find Jetbrains better than VSCode even when VSCode has copilot and Jetbrains doesn't. The thing is, a Jetbrains IDE makes so many things possible and easy, like refactoring complex chunks of code very quickly, then applying it throughout a large codebase. Unless GPT starts doing more than writing small code for functions, Jetbrains will be fine for some time.
Ask HN: I just heard a radio ad for Tinder. Is this weird?
So I’m currently sat in my barbers and I just heard a radio ad on Kiss FM for Tinder. I can’t ever remember hearing a radio ad for an app company. Maybe a legacy company that has made an app. But not an established tech company like Tinder. Maybe I just don’t catch much radio in the age of streaming but yeah, strikes me as jarring and odd. HN thoughts?
I wanted a mini PC so I bought a Steam Deck. I wish it looked a lot less like a gaming console with removable controllers like the Switch but the two track pads are surprisingly usable on the virtual keyboard.
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Have you looked into why the FEC did not fine Trump?
“Call the Feds” is that sarcasm? If you haven’t read of late the way the federal government uses law enforcement for their own agenda regardless of the US constitution than I will assume calling the feds was made in parody.
it kind of is unless you were to make assumptions or use data not presented above

what's their "agenda", and how does it differ from the "agenda" of any other car manufacturerer (obviously they all have one and all lobby)
I got mine 2 months ago, and had to send it for RMA this week (one of the speakers is busted).

Though I really like it, the finishes are really not great compared to a Nintendo Switch. The plastic feels cheap, the case creaks a bit, one of the triggers squeaks, the buttons clicks are super loud, and well, a speaker broke. There are also a few small software issues that are definitely not deal-breakers, but quickly add up as annoyances.

I still find it's a good device, it does what I expected it to do (sometimes even better), but for the price, I expected something a bit more robust.
That’s like saying a diesel-electric train is an electric vehicle because electric motors power the drive wheels. However, this conclusion ignores the fact the electricity is produced by combusting fossil fuel in an onboard generator.
I've often wondered, for a typical steam game, how big is the burden to make a tiny tweak (for example, making the start button clickable with a button not the touchscreen)?

On one end of the scale, it's probably only adding 5 lines of code and could be done in 20 minutes by the right person...

But on the other end of the scale, the company that made the game may no longer exist, the employees working on the game may no longer work there, the build environment for the game might be highly custom and take weeks to re-set-up, etc. When re-built, a bunch of QA and testing ought to be redone, especially if the build environment is new and some stuff might not be at the exact same version, etc.
Where I live moms have husbands, not boyfriends.
They made a lot out of the fact that they'd be launching from the UK, pandering to governments desperate to somehow prove that the country isn't backsliding after brexit.
As an example, Boris Johnson infamously claimed in the runup to brexit that "Prawn Cocktail" flavour crisps were being banned by the EU. It turned out that the UK had simply forgotten to submit this flavour to the list of flavourings when it was being compiled. This error was quietly corrected (by the UK).[1]

[1] From the FT but here's a non-paywalled link https://archive.is/p4H9X
Maybe the govt doesn't want to externally fill this role, and instead give it to their buddy. Hence they are trying to make it as unappealing as possible.
I am maybe not so young and have lived through various hype cycles as well, plus I'm sceptical wrt AGI/sentience via LLMs as well as being a "they should call it ClosedAI" moaner to boot.

So I think I'm pretty hype-averse and a natural scoffer in this instance, but the reality is I've been stunned by the capabilities, and think we are in a transformative cultural moment.

I know "this time it's different" is part of the hype cycle meme, but you know what - this time...
Not much coordinated unrest, not immediately at least. His lawyers said he will voluntarily submit for processing, so that won't be the catalyst. January 6th, 2021 had been advertised as the day for many months, by a more cohesive apparatus. Multiple apparati, really. The 6th fractured that, so that even his most ardent supporters are more paranoid about being baited into unrest.

If/when the Georgian DA and federal special prosecutor move towards indictments, things may get dicier.
It’s taken some getting used to.

Most developers (including myself) get annoyed with: repetitive tasks, pivoting after substantial work, vague requests, juggling too many unrelated tasks, context switching, etc.

With Chat-GPT I’ve had to learn a new paradigm: any request is OK at any time
That’s true, but you still have to follow and think through all the steps of what the code is doing. With regard to new code, I don’t see the sometimes cited 5-10 times increase in productivity if you’re actually diligent about code correctness.
> Does this suggest that a large fraction of laid off employees were in non-tech roles (e.g. pro{ject,duct} managers, scrum masters, sales, etc.)?

A lot of them were in "tech-adjacent" positions. PM, tech recruiters or evangelists, community managers, sales, DEI folks... At one point one layoff announcement had "returning to a healthy ratio of engineers to non-engineers" as a goal.

[0] https://interviewing.io/blog/2022-layoffs-engineers-vs-other...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-24/tech-layo...

[2] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3690309/about-those-te...

[3] https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-03-0...

[4] https://techreport.com/news/3493451/microsoft-layoffs-ethics...