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The SC2 professional scene is doing really well I think. Lots of games being played at the highest levels. And tons of content for it on YouTube with some of the best play by play commentators out there. I really enjoy that.

What deep pocketed Microsoft could do is really up the ante and make the prize money for tournaments of say Quake (they own ID) or SC2 and others really high and attract even more buzz etc etc.

I just hope these games and IP don’t just become afterthoughts. Will we get a demonic hell on earth new doom game? Will we get an even more hellish Diablo game? Will we get a SC3?

With all these game studios under one roof I wonder how many games will get axed in the pursuit of “synergies”?
I'm surprised, I had pretty much the opposite experience. I used Xbox Cloud Gaming to play through Halo 5 (the only game in the series to not have a PC port) in four sessions over a few months, wrapping up last weekend.

I'm on a high spec desktop playing with an Xbox controller connected by USB. The desktop is on Ethernet, 200 Mbps down / 30 Mbps up.

In my experience, the game frequently failed to start. Most often I would watch the rocket ship loading screen for about a minute, then close it and retry. Probably about 1 in 10 times the game would start instantly, otherwise it would display the loading animation forever.

My understanding is that the game runs in 1080p on the original hardware (launch Xbox One) and runs in 4k on modern hardware (Series X). I'm not sure what the source resolution is for Cloud Streaming, but visually it looked like an old YouTube video. The game was designed with a large visual dynamic range. Video compression made it very hard to see in dark areas (think The Long Night episode of Game of Thrones). In colorful areas with more contrast I experienced lots of macroblocking.

Input lag made the game very frustrating to play. The Halo series is known for having generous aim assist, even so I found precision weapons useless and too hard to line up a shot. Occasional dropped button inputs got me killed too.

All-in-all I can't recommend Cloud Streaming to anyone. Looking at their catalog, maybe it would be more acceptable for games with limited motion like Phoenix Wright or Car Mechanic Simulator, but those run natively on cell phones or low-end hardware. Even then repeatedly failing to start a session is a turn off. Experiencing all of these problems every time I played makes me think it's not just a fluke.
Another cool video about an input sequence that is almost guaranteed to win pokemon run throughs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gjsAA_5Agk no AI needed ;)
It very well could be part of it. Part of it could also be the exclusive API access Apple has as a first-party manufacturer.

It's kinda like saying "The App Store is a great product, this is very likely why it is so popular". They're not really correlated; the App Store is the only product of it's class on iOS. Apple makes sure of that using their monopoly (eg. "vertical") integration. If you wanted to create wireless earbuds the same way Apple does, Apple would not give you the software access you need. Quality aside, Airpods are part of an artificially-enforced market segment.

They could be (and have been) the worst wireless headphones on the market - people buy them anyways. It's why designating Apple as a Gatekeeper is so important for a competitive market.
Stadia worked a lot better than xCloud though.
Muslim Arab armies conquered the region in the 7th century A.D. and treated the existing population relatively well, compared with other conquered populations anyway.

From the transcript:

> The animosity that characterizes the modern Israeli-Palestinian conflict has roots in the late 19th and 20th centuries and shouldn't be projected onto earlier epochs. The current conflict is influenced by nationalist movements, territorial disputes, and political developments of the last two centuries, rather than solely religious differences.
If purchasers could effectively collude to fix the prices they were willing to pay, the market would even out. Unfortunately people need food and shelter far more than any business needs to provide them.
I understand. I meant "bit different" in the nuanced context of this study. As the authors note in their introduction of the paper [1]: "Regrettably, these studies used ascorbic acid, a compound associated with the induction of metabolic acidosis and acidemia [15]. This makes it uncertain whether the unclear effects in human sepsis were due to the administration of a suboptimal preparation of the study medication. In contrast, sodium ascorbate (NaAscorbate) has a physiological pH, does not contribute to acidosis, can be given at a much greater dose, and may carry a different efficacy profile."

1 = https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-02...
They are going about this all wrong.

Make a wearable sensor that records body temperature. The employer must provide them for all workers in the heat. Body temperature gets too high, it sounds an alarm.
Poor people. They do exist, you know.
I'm far less sure about this. We don't understand the neurodynamics of sexual desire that well, and lots of research in sex criminals show a pattern of escalation, similar to some kinds of drug addiction.

I don't understand your comparison with adult porn; that might be nonconsensual but typically isn't, whereas CP is nonconsensual by definition because minors aren't legally capable of agreeing. Obviously there are grey areas like two 17-yos sexting each other, but most courts take that context into account.
>This is only true when prices change slowly.

There is no magic about the speed of price changes. If slow or fast price changes made a difference on amount bought, then companies would do that speed. But they don't.

Similarly, prices rising fast doesn't trick people in aggregate to ignore the increase - they still react to price increases.

This is all pretty basic econ. If this "new" system you are afraid of allowed rampant price increases, everything would cost more, yet things have not increased (except for a recent inflationary period completely predicted due to free COVID cash giveaway and Russian oil shocks).

Algorithmic price discovery lowered consumer cost in stock markets big time. It lowers risk to producers as they get up to dat information, and lower risk means lower spread required.

>A was able to raise the prices of everyone before anyone can adjust their spending accordingly.

Not "everyone" will buy at an increased level - if that were true, then the producer would raise the prices anyways. The algorithms only outprice people until those running them realize they screwed up and improve the algorithms.

>big players are going to continue to learn how to game it to the detriment of all

Again, if prices could be raised to get more profit, than that is what companies would have already done. They cannot because people take their dollars elsewhere.

>BTW I’ve seen this strategy play out in online games with heavy botting. It’s funny to see there.

And if it costs people real money, some price out and stop. Same as in reality.
Unless they all raise together. That's the collusion.
Intel Arc Graphics See Faster Performance on Ubuntu 23.10
Not a lawyer but I imagine the infringement on the input side, during the dataset creation and training would take place wherever the model is being trained? So presumably the us? On the other hand, yeah. Memorizing input data and spitting out protected characters on the output side seems like an issue.
Stupid question: if I have a pokémon red cartridge, how am I supposed to “legally get the ROM”? (Except by downloading it anywhere since I already has a license for it so there's nothing as illegally getting the ROM)
There was the SoLoMo (Social, Local, Mobile) hype train of the late 2000s which indeed came to take over the world as promised. Also the B2B SaaS hype train that Basecamp started in the mid 2010s has taken over as well
Growing up, my dad didn't speak his native French with me. I did, however, pick up enough from hearing him on the phone every day and visiting Switzerland for a few weeks each year that I could loosely understand it. When I got to high school and started taking French classes it came to me extremely easily. In college I spent a semester in France and after a few weeks felt comfortably fluent, and was told I didn't have a discernible American accent. So ultimately if your kids want to pick it back up they may find it fairly easy in the future.
Nonsense. How much do you think bike parts cost? Basic pads for a bike are about $10-15, depending on rim or disc brakes. With most rim brakes you only an allen key. Most cars need a tool to depress the piston, not to mention you have to lift the car and remove, remove lugs, etc. Compared to a disc bike, you can compress the caliper using only a tire lever, and most bikes have quick release hubs or worst case 2 nuts to remove per wheel.
Brood War is incredibly tough for newcomers. Skill-wise, the mid-F rank (barely above the rock bottom) is the equivalent of SC2's low diamond (roughly middle of the playerbase) - people are either this good, or drop out.

If you're looking for a more fair match, and don't mind SC2 being a very different game, you should give it a try. If you can max out on literally anything before 15:00 and a-move your opponent, you will probably get a 50% winrate.
...oh, has someone made a meme now? Truly, we live in the dystopian sci-fi future we deserve.
From April, so not at all new.
Wow - mind blown. I had somehow assumed large creatures can't be cold-blooded
What's the evidence that battery life is substantially worse than native? Take this performance for example.

https://www.orientsoftware.com/blog/flutter-vs-react-native-...

While the framework had issues with accessibility in the past, seems like they've been adding a lot to improve it.

https://www.kodeco.com/35275067-flutter-accessibility-gettin...

Dart is a simple, no-frills language. It's not used outside of Flutter but what is wrong with its semantics or anything inherent about it?
It would fly for mid-tier e-sports. A lot of those matches are played remotely and the difference between a Chinese player playing an Argentinian player and a Chilean player playing an Argentinian player can be quite noticeable. Being able to level that playing field would be excellent.

Most e-sports events don't fly players into an arena - that's only for really high budget events.
I would say it is exactly the opposite - you invent the integers, you discover a proof. Discovery for me means finding something that already exists, inventing means bringing something into existence. You discover the electron, you invent the transistor.

Before you write down the axioms for integers, they do not exist, you invent them. That there are infinitely many primes is a consequence of the axioms, you just have to notice those special numbers and give them a name. Here I find it actually quite tempting to say you invent the primes, or maybe better the idea of primes, but I still think it is more correct to say you discover them, given the axioms they were always there even if you have not yet noticed, named and described them. The same for the proof that there are infinitely many of them, given the axioms and the laws of logic, the truth of that statement and the possible proofs for it are fixed, you just have to find one.

Maybe back to the integers. Yes, you may play around with different ideas, tweak definitions and so on. But what you are actually doing is inventing a whole bunch of similar structures and then you pick the one that you like the most, that works the best or whatever. Some of your attempts might be inconsistent, some might not do what you want, but you all invented them. And among them you might discover one that works just like wanted it to work.
I know. It’s like Christmas came early this year, and I say that as someone who likes to ride a bike.
And they’ll occupy less memory as well.
There's a wide range of e-ink tablets and displays available. Many of the tablets run Android and are largely the same as any other Android device. The displays can be used with any OS, obviously. There are also e-ink phones (smart and otherwise), watches, and other devices.

For text and graphics, you'd generally want to use a higher-quality, lower-refresh-rate mode. Which is to say that there's quite a bit of established UI/UX knowledge that wants a refresh. I've distilled a set of basic principles: persistence is free, pixels are cheap, paints are slow, colour is (mostly) nonexistent, and the more ambient light the better. Paginated-navigation (whole screen changes in one go), line-art, and dithered or halftoned images work relatively well, raster images not quite so much, though can be acceptable.

<https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/638a8d10e041013afba844...>

For a demonstration of a wide range of displays (the best ones are featured last) as of 2021, see: <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=KdrMjnYAap4>
They cancelled that feature, the guy who owned it left the company, and I was given a poor evaluation for not coming up with a new UX research project idea without a supervisor or team. The supervisor who replaced the one on my offer letter was angry I couldn't work as a full on software engineer, despite being hired on as a UX researcher.

I ended up switching careers after that summer, but it was a huge economic burden and contributed to me eventually becoming homeless, since I wasn't able to get a high paying internship or job due to that being the third summer I'd spent in the bay -- it was kind of an "up or out moment".

(I tried doing policy, but that was proven to be a huge mistake when Brexit happened followed shortly by the election of Trump)

As it currently stands, I'm waiting to see if someone is going to flake on the dishwasher gig they offered me on fourteen dollars an hour, because I have given up on technical companies doing anything but treating interviews as free consulting sessions, and I'm not going to try for a clearance when I specifically warned the CIA that they might see a change in administration followed by a government shutdown causing it to be impossible to fulfull the SFS reqs and musing (pre Snowden) that we were on the path for a USSR style collapse complete with a riot on the capital lawn within the next decade.

TL;DR: I was going to work on the UI for Firefox Persona, then they canned the project.
>Did people buy less food after grocery stores raised prices? I doubt it.

Yes they did. So your premise needs checked. Read any news about what happens to food sales as inflation outpaces income and it's abundantly clear stores cannot simply raise prices without losing sales. There's such easy literature to find you don't need to "doubt it" when you can simply check it. For example [1]

Some consumers purchase at the limit of what they can spend - there's no elasticity for them.

[1] https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2008...
Good luck to SC2. I hope they're smart enough not to touch SCBW and leave it as is.
That's a really good point. It's also weird to talk about the customer impact of monopolies when the cash cow is garbage free to play games
You're right that clicking and dragging the indicator part of the scroll bar to scroll around is silly and nobody really ever did it.

But the scroll bar isn't just for visualization and it was commonly used to jump around the page - you'd click in the "negative space" on the scroll bar, which would then scroll the page to that position.
You're both right, the aircraft position as reported to aircrew, displayed on maps, and fed to the flight director (the autopilots outermost loop) is a blended INS/GPS solution. The opensource drone projects Ardupilot and PX4 have a lot of info and implementations of this actually.

However the autopilots inner loop and Flight Direction Indicator (artificial horizon) are going to be driven almost entirely by INS. This is because GPS positions can't update fast enough, are noisy, and don't provide velocity, acceleration, or orientation (outside of even slower position integration). Also those systems are not particularly involved in where the aircraft is, rather they care about where it is going.

I haven't looked into what the requirements of ADSB position information is, I don't suspect that they mandate GNSS but they may mandate a degree of accuracy. From an ATC perspective within crowded airspaces ADSB would be augmented by primary surveillance radar to prevent mishaps, spoofing, and errors.

For what it's worth my day job is aircraft avionics, navigation equipment is pretty much daily for me.

Ps. Hi HN, Reddit refugee and my first post here.
>Shut down Only Fans, and some of the performers will find work as gardeners or hair-stylists' assistants

Hilarious comment if serious. Do you think women who chose to do onlyfans were making good money in whatever job they were doing before that?[0]

How much money do you think gardeners make? Perhaps one of the most comically out of touch statements I've ever seen. Up there with "what could a banana cost michael, 10$?"

>Learning about fifth-century Roman society may be instructive

Like their countless famously failed attempts to police morality? From augustus imposing the lex julia for adultery only to have the law laughed at because he fucked anything that moved? To the early christian empires acting like worshipping the wrong god was treason. Moral policing is and has always been a farce at best, a vector for general oppression at worst. See: Iran women's protests.

How about you penalize parents lack of parenting their children before you start moral policing other people's lives. Silly that any adult is going to get barriers put up in their way to protect and do the job of some reckless parents who shouldn't have had kids in the first place. Insane policy. Pornhub should be responsible for the content the 12 children you thoughtlessly popped out see on the internet???

Maybe pay people more and provide universal child care and reduce the gilded age inequality that requires both parents work to the bone to provide for a kid in the first place? Maybe then they wouldn't be so inclined to pawn their children off on the internet and then go around on moral crusades because they decide legislators need to parent for them while they work.

[0]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brianna-co...

>an additional $8,000 to $10,000 every month from her OnlyFans earnings, in addition to her $42,000 annual salary as a teacher
The easiest solution is to simply google the ROM.

Edit: you edited your answer after I replied, so I'll edit mine too, it shouldn't be illegal to download the ROM if you physically own a copy. If you want to do it the hard way, buy a GB dumper.
Yeah, but still it is/was very stressful for this person.

Never know when they decide otherwise. "Hacking/cyber crime" is very wide and open term.
OK, but if you read my posts above I am not arguing for mass privacy violations. I'm saying the tech community isn't going to get any traction for its advocacy unless it makes some effect to propose privacy respecting solutions to the CSAM proliferation problem.

I'm sorry that happened to you, but I presume you would also prefer that imagery including you did not continue to circulate?
> In a perfect world, yes. In reality, a friend lost his phone and forgot his Apple password.

I fail to see how this is relevant concerning unencrypted communication with Apple servers. There is no reason not to have it except malicious as far as I can see.

> targeted at the general public

This is HN, not a general forum. People here who care about privacy should be able to use such devices. So I recommend them.
It might be interesting to write up comparisons of Nature to each of the dominant languages.

My impression is you want to make something as welcoming as Python but more expressive and safer. Which, if true, is indeed a worthy effort.
I get a certificate error on the dot onion, loads fine on the clear

>Tor Browser detected an issue and did not continue to twitter3e4tixl4xyajtrzo62zg5vztmjuricljdp2c5kshju4avyoid.onion. The website is either misconfigured or your computer clock is set to the wrong time.

>It’s likely the website’s certificate is expired, which prevents Tor Browser from connecting securely. If you visit this site, attackers could try to steal information like your passwords, emails, or credit card details.

>What can you do about it?

>Your computer clock is set to Oct 13, 2023. Make sure your computer is set to the correct date, time, and time zone in your system settings, and then refresh twitter3e4tixl4xyajtrzo62zg5vztmjuricljdp2c5kshju4avyoid.onion.

>If your clock is already set to the right time, the website is likely misconfigured, and there is nothing you can do to resolve the issue. You can notify the website’s administrator about the problem.
Wikipedia says that it rains 39.34 inches annually in Seattle. Is that a lot?

EDIT: I looked up NYC and the precipitation (Wikipedia lists precipitation and snow) is 49.52 inches. (I thought of a similar conversation from many years ago on the NYC or some other East Coast city compared to Seattle.)

Seattle has 156.2 rainy days. Not listed for NYC. I guess a lot less.
I tried signing up but was rejected. It did mention energy products so it might include it if you gain access.

It looks like they are just doing a free trial to hook in business focused customers so I'm doubtful it would be a good source for personal use when Elon turns on the money spigot.
I once had the misfortune to be riding a horse when a hailstorm broke out. The horse closed his eyes and almost ran off a cliff; thankfully he hit a fence first and turned away from that.
"Myotragus balearicus" would be a good black metal band name now. The cold-blooded goat.
Agreed. Too many people debating it like arguing for their favorite football team.

It does not matter what the industry is, a 70 billion acquisition from one of the only trillion-dollar companies just is not a good thing.

We live in an unprecedented amount of consolidation, meaning that in every market, there are less and less players competing against each other. How is that a good thing exactly?
That stuff for me is “entrepreneur porn”.

For b2b or b2c your customers don’t want to sit with you to make your product better.

Yes they want your product better.

Myself as a customer I don’t spend time filling in customer reviews. I just want to go on with my life.

I see the same in company I work for, our customers don’t have time - they have stuff to be done - either our software helps them achieve their goals or they leave.
Maybe if your time interval is super short and you have hundreds of years of data? Otherwise, I’m not sure what they’re on about.
I call this the "I don't understand why Europeans don't go for lunch in Paris" puzzlement. I've had variations of this conversation with many American friends over the years ... :)
I still don't get how $69B is a reasonable deal. Acti-Blizzard have been making 7-8B net the last few years, so it will take MS 10 years assuming constant returns just to break even. Why is it a good deal, especially in gaming. What does MS want with the customer base?
>Having boarders that are bigger than 1px would solve that problem.

In a world without borders, there would be no problem of Gates.
Classic cases revisited: Oscar the cat and predicting death (2016)
There are exceptions for the federal government itself and for companies that make devices for the federal government for special (basically defense) purposes.

Obviously, stuff like this is made some how: https://www.rtx.com/raytheon/what-we-do/sea/ngj
> "No wonder he isn't speaking, he's not sure what is going on!"

I'm cracking up imagining a little kiddo looking at their parents super confused wondering if he's hallucinating or just going crazy (～￣▽￣)～
I think it depends on circumstances...

Below a certain dollar amount, the refurbish vs replace from a value standpoint changes quickly.