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There is a mega-thread on the forum[0] where the community has started listing such games. Some of them are single-player games which cannot start offline.

If I cannot run it without the blessings of a company which will inevitably stop hosting a service, that is not DRM free. I should be able to store the bits on an archival DVD which is playable in N decades without the approval of anybody.

A quick skim, I pulled out a few:

- Beat Hazard 2 - online DRM. The game can't be started at all without being online. It is fully DRM-ed!
- F.E.A.R. - arguably a bug that stays unfixed. Securom remnants weren't removed and can cause the single player game not to start. See post 41
- Prison Tycoon: Under New Management - the main game is DRM free. The add-ons require Galaxy. They don't show up in game after an offline installation on an offline computer.
- Spellforce 3 - Skirmishes against the AI require an online connection.
- Two Point Hospital - part of the single-player content is gated through online connectivity. I.e. one has to register online and be online to unlock. Plus: core gamplay mechanics (staff handling, diagnostics) are bugged in offline mode.

[0] https://www.gog.com/forum/general/drm_on_gog_list_of_singlep...

Edit: I was going to add Cult of the Lamb which I previously did not buy from GOG because the developer retained DRM that would progress lock the game. Evidently that block has been removed. Conflicted if I can now buy it- they did correct their bad behavior, but it shouldn’t have been allowed in the first place.
And yet you still keep control of your bowels, do you not?
Telegraph lines were long, unterminated, unisolated stetches. Their effective loop area was absurdly large. Yeah a large CME would likely pop a lot of unprotected transformers which would take years to replace, but it's not like kV are being induced in personal computers. Even then, I zapped my laptop chassis with 10 kV pulses a dozen times this Winter.
This is essentially a scaling problem right?
Seriously. I think it's the relatively dry fruit output + innate waxy toughness, but of all the bearing plants, peppers can take the most "Oops, I forgot to water you for days... weeks?"
You may be underestimating human laziness...
This is big tech or whoever using big money to lock up what they think is the dawn of 'true AI'.

Buying people off is pretty easy! I'm sure I'd feel the same way and take the money.

But just like you can't write an iPhone app without Apple's consent, soon we won't be able to do any serious AI work without the consent of, and payment to, MS or Google or whoever.

I wonder what the talented people at OpenAI or Mistral tell themselves. That they're doing something good for society or technology? Probably, but already AI is being concentrated into a few hands. Nvidia has a virtual monopoly on hardware and training huge models is out of reach, open research got us here but that's looking increasingly shaky.

Personally I think LLMs are a red herring, so there is still a chance to change the outcome, but we should take a lesson from what's transpired with OpenAI and Mistral and only support actual open development.
Elite universities themselves target an acceptance rate when targeting advertising and outreach to prospective students. It's an extremely important metric for even selling their exclusivity. It's why BU went from 50% accept rate to ~17% in ~7 years.
The numbers I can quickly Google for US are ~15-30% spent on administration, not that those zero out under single-payer.

It's not just the physician/surgeon aspect of US healthcare that's expensive, it's all of it.

I'm on the Canadian side, and drugs have never been single-payer outside of a hospital, but that leg of the system is still much cheaper (on average) in Canada.
Memory safety in a general sense of "just" computing things and getting an answer has been solved for a long while by using either garbage collection or static, bounds-checked, allocation with handles and liveness checks. It's the intermediate space where you can allocate byte buffers and make pointer structures willy-nilly that is troublesome, and idiomatic C sends you in that direction like flypaper.

Rust is useful in addressing that specific space - with qualification, since of course it concedes to pragmatism and lets you do an "unsafe" where you want to break the rules.

But I believe the future of low-level is more in the realm of original open-hardware designs, because you CAN design a computer that builds in the kinds of runtime checks that are currently done in software. It just isn't the focus of companies that want to sell a lot of bells-and-whistles silicon.
PTA's journal syntax looks very not-human-friendly, who wants to memorize those category numbers.

I'm sure you can create ledger accounts that match your required chart of accounts.

The example account tree you linked to seems very business oriented, and driven by interests of stakeholders & tax authorities. Ledger gets used by private individuals too, and not everything is tracked for the goal of standard business report.

Personally for me, if I had to use such a standard account tree, then I'd need to use a second system of classification for the things I am interested in.

Example 1: I have 3 heating and 2 cooling mechanisms in this house, with very different costs to operate. Each device gets a separate account. For the pellet stove, I also need to keep track of consumption to buy the right amount of fuel before the next winter, so there's even non-currency items tracked in my accounting. That doesn't sound like it'll fit in a standard scheme.

Example 2: We own a van built as a recreational vehicle. I want to track the expenses related to that (potentially expensive) hobby, whether trips, consumables, equipment or repairs. But at the same time, it's just a vehicle, and has "normal vehicle" costs just like the regular car.
The animation in the orginal post was beautiful, I've looked it up to show people on a few occasions (bc i'm fun at parties)
> Just grow your own

How’s that houseplant doing?

> or buy from a farmer's market.

I love to ferment my own hot sauces so I am always on the lookout for new varieties of extremely hot peppers.

There is one, one!, pepperhead in the Bay Area farmers markets. You only hear hushed whispers of him at the other markets, but through a various sequence of flatteries and bribes you will be lead to him at the Clement Street farmer’s market on Sundays. (as of 2024)

Jamil at Raised Roots makes some of the most delicious fermented hot sauces made with only the showcase pepper, salt, water and garlic.

I wish I could give him some traffic but it seems his web presence is a bit outdated, so if you’re in the area check out the scorpion and fatalii. They are absolutely delicious.

As I understand it it’s an “urban farm” so it has multiple plots around the city of Oakland. Meaning the peppers are grown outside, meaning they are seasonal. So raised roots only sells peppers at harvest in November, but you can get the sauce all year round.

That’s the state of wanting hot peppers living in San Francisco.
There is certain intentional randomness in how the tokens are selected, and certain unintentional randomness due to letting some optimizations cause small side-effects, but in any case in that sentence I didn't really intended to talk about the result being identical but rather about the result not being any better just because more compute was available, as by default that extra available potential simply wouldn't get used in any way other than getting a speedup.
Calling it Byzantine instead of Roman would be #1
I'm not so sure. Do you have a source?
Coffee is a fun one, as I absolutely hate the taste of arabica coffee. And that seems to be universally the preferred family of coffee for the everyone.
For what it’s worth, the government stuff this article is based on absolutely focused on the category at large, and not just Rust.
Didn't we agree to stop using logic around here? This is a place for irrational berating of $evilTopic.

Edit to match parent's edit: I like how you turned it from a hardware engineering discussion with large and expensive equipment necessary to some flippant software comment. If I had a dollar for every time someone derails a conversation, I'd be Bezos rich
Interesting, what do you think the rest of us unexceptional people should do if we're condemned to a life like this? Can you name a few unexceptional people that I can consider role models?
I sort of know how things these go, so I know it would be a guess, but I'm curious how soon you think even kicking the tires on it would be. It's hard for me to get a feel when I've looked at the couple of userspace translate-y emus.

edit: Wow, the Monster Hunter demo from two weeks ago is mighty impressive.
More melodrama.
No, because it's a public school.
If the the door contains a car, then it doesn't matter whether you switch or not. If it is a goat you get the problem as intended.

You still have the intended problem as a subproblem, so this is just a distraction and not a serious objection.
We’re working under the assumption that “memory safe languages” can’t be unsafe themselves, which isn’t the case.
Houthis knock out underwater cables linking Europe to Asia
Good luck, and thank you!

I personally really enjoy writing and updating my /now and /ideas pages [0], it's quite clarifying to list the things you really care about :)

[0] https://lindylearn.io/now
Just as you'll never understand Boomers I guess. None of those things you stated are true of my case. I could not afford a home until I was 42 and I did it with a partners help.
Rational investors should favor companies which prioritize investor interests, rather than companies which intentionally prioritize someone else's interests over investors.
In America at least, most cars are automatic transmission now, and a lease requires 6-month maintenance to stay in good standing.

So you know over the 3 years of leasing, there were ~6 maintenance visits, and without manual transmission there's no worries that someone else burned out the clutch.

I've never leased before, and IIRC leasing agreements differ from dealership to dealership. But the overall expectation is "free maintenance", but "required maintenance". You have to come in if you want to keep the lease in good standing, otherwise you have to pay a penalty later.
I am one of those external vendors who did solve a big problem in a now billion-dollar company (though it was a tenth that size when I got involved).

The "proper solution" which uses a "proper" development stack (not MySQL/Delphi) has been in planning for the past 5 years, in fact they have had two other development teams on it and have changed the stack they are going to use twice. The solution to date has been to erode the product carving off the easy parts into other systems while leaving the complicated bits as is.

The new team are quite good however and I am really hoping the guys will get some traction soon as I am hoping to retire next year. And before anyone asks, Yes, they have known my retirement intentions for the last 3 years
you may be mixing up their `ref` type docs and the `topic` type docs which are more tutorial-y. compare

- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/topics/db/queries/

- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/ref/models/querysets/
I am shocked by the overwhelming negative comments

I do not think the author is arguing for mindlessly expanding the population disregarding our current consequences. I think his concern is that people seem to have forgotten that population growth is generally very good in most situations, especially in the long term. So instead of promoting de-growth as the solution to our problems, we should be trying to solve our current, and temporary, bad externalities of our growing population (climate change, loss of biodiversity), and that is a technological problem
The bites themselves don’t cause the plant to produce more capsaicin. It’s natural selection - plants in areas with lots of insects end up producing more capsaicin as a means of protecting themselves. They are hotter, and insects will not bite them as a result.

Happy to be proven wrong if you have sources saying otherwise, but I’m quite certain this is the science behind it.
I think you're misunderstanding what I'm saying. I enjoy plenty of non-spicy foods, and don't need every meal to be spicy, nor to I think that the only flavorful meals are spicy meals.

My point is exclusively with chili peppers, as the spice increases so does the flavor. I didn't grow up eating spicy food, and my experience has been that as my spice tolerance has grown overtime I have found access to increasingly wonderful flavors that are simply not present at lower spice levels.
The word in question is 'Hottentot', used twice in the movie.
Whilst I realise that it would eat into the weight budget of such landers, I reckon adding a fuel cell with enough fuel to last through the lunar night, which keeps the lander and its batteries alive, should be a standard and integral part of such craft.

Of course, that would mean taking less science with it, and increase the cost of the lander, and quite possibly if I can think of such a thing, engineers more clever than I am have already considered such.

Still, congrats to the team for managing to at least soft land on the moon. No doubt they'll be learning a lot of lessons from this mission.
Yeah it's pretty nice feature wise but surprisingly expensive given all it really does is run API calls in a loop and export to S3
No no no! Scrum doesn’t get to escape that easily! This is blatant retconning by the Scrum folks. Look at how the scrum guide has changed over the years and you’ll see clear evidence of “fine, we’ll stop being so prescriptive”. And there’s such an essentially-first-party certificate culture associated with Scrum, a completely self-imposed one, that it’s the NORM for Scrum practitioners to be prescriptivist rule-followers lacking any sense of nuance.
Why is that funny? "Commercial mass-produced product isnt to your own liking? Here's how you can easily make something better!"
I was in Jamaica a couple of months ago and they use habanero peppers a lot and I was astonished by how much I loved the flavour. I never buy them because I always assumed they were too spicy but you don’t need much for great flavour. I also hear what you’re saying and I’d be tempted to agree, but I wonder if the flavour would be negatively affected by the reduction in heat.
What are the skills a great technical founder needs?
I'm 16 years old and want to found my own impactful and great company. I've also been looking at YC's videos on YouTube and Dalton Caldwell says the technical talent of the founding team is a big factor in becoming accepted. I've recently started learning Python and hope to become great in this domain and I'd like to know the skills necessary to maximize my chance of success when I start my startup. Or is this the wrong question? Or is it dependent on what type of software startup I'm starting? Maybe it's just to be curious, make fun projects that solve problems, and have the right mindset. Any advice and insight into this would be helpful. Thank you!
I think the original title is better, because composing queries is not something SQL does and I was curious to see how it was achieved.
Given that the AMA cartel sets artificial quotas on med school admissions per school, it's not that simple lol
Both responses are incorrect, newspapers cannot perform slander.
What other things are in this category – unlikely bad-seeming events with somewhat recent precedents? I remember seeing a lot about things like super volcanoes when I was young but that’s not what I mean here. I’m thinking of things like:

- Carrington event

- Krakatoa eruption of 1883

- large or prolonged earthquake in the New Madrid seismic zone

- the big one around San Francisco

- non-apocalyptic meteor impact (can’t think of a good example)

- there have been reasonably significant variations in climate in the last 5k years or so, and somewhat significant changes on the scale of centuries but I’m not counting them as they’re too slow. The current anthropogenic climate change is faster but I also want to exclude it (and catastrophes in the technical sense like changes to large-scale air/ocean currents, ocean acidification, etc) from the list.
You didn't write that.
This is a great idea. Just a quick feedback: when I search for "llm", I got quite random results.
Had a similar experience with Superset. A few others have mentioned Metabase and I agree it's better, but if you're looking for a different approach to data, check out Definite (https://www.definite.app/). It's a "data stack in a box". A few things we're doing differently:

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It also came with printed manuals that included a C++ tutorial. I used it to learn C++ back in the day.
It will be interesting to see if/how they walk back from releasing the weights. They have put a lot of effort into the "open" (not open source but very intentionally trying to conflate) approach to AI. But probably almost nobody is paying attention.

On the other hand, Meta has very little to gain by closing off their models. What would they do with them and who would use them? Llama was a coup because even though the license sucked, a passable model with available weights and llama.cpp allowed it to soar over the others of the time. Hopefully the benefit they got from that trumps any calls from the safety crowd to not share weights.
American military junta massacring 5% of Iraqs population in 2003.

Even outside estimates of total "excess deaths" in the entire Iraq war -- regardless of cause or party directly responsible -- don't amount to 5 percent of the population. Or even half that.

In other words -- just another random factoid you vaguely thought you remembered from somewhere. As with your synopsis of Minsk + Istanbul.
Given a choice of either

A. Not changing your habits even a bit, and having the planet all fucked up in 100 years; or

B. Drastically changing your habits, and having the planet all fucked up in 100 years and three hours,

what would you choose?
Yup it’s kinda like cilantro - you might not have the genes for tasting glucosinolates, the bitter compounds that have been bred down to lower levels in modern Brussels sprouts. Some people apparently don’t taste them, but they are very bitter to most.
so progressive just continue to kick the can down the road by providing "safe opiods" only to watch them overdose time and time again.

and get hundreds of millions from state budget for their "nonprofits".

meanwhile Singapore, China, Philippines, Indonesia actually try to solve the problem, that include tackling the traffic and dealers + harsh sentences + they abolish the culture of drug usage
Since Reagan was head of the government it would be easy to draw the conclusion he was saying "this is what we do" (we the government with him as the head). That would not be a criticism. IMO, to know it was a criticism requires more context.
I follow it partially -- in that when several individuals hoard the majority of money, it leaves less for everyone else, which is profoundly undemocratic in a society that aspires to be market-driven.

Money supply is a zero-sum game - yes, you can print more, but that devalues what exists in circulation, so the have-nots remain the have-nots, and the haves remain the haves.

I think the existence of billionaires is absurd, and a giant red flag indicating that this in fact is a broken system. No single person should have command over such a disproportionate amount of resources, if only because not a single person can possibly choose well how to employ such resources.

Money is violence (in that it compels people to do what they otherwise wouldn't) and billionaires are grotesquely mega-violent individuals.
AI has massively increased my productivity. There are real users like me who will continue to pay up. This is not the same.
That simple schema fails to represent split transactions. I went the superstore and bought groceries, computer gear, and a new battery for the car. Oh and my spouse handed me a $100 bill to cover some of the cost.
The only problem I have is when I use the search (which, I know, is not HN itself but a separate service), it won't pick up the dropdown options as clickable.
Similar for me, Earth Abides takes place in Berkeley near where I used to live - giving details of a post apocalyptic Indian Rock Park and the all-revered University Library, that I knew decades later.
This characterisation of Agile methodologies is exactly what I’d expect if someone has spent their career in the US govt contracting machine for long enough to have been convinced that it is a remotely good idea.
FlashPaper: One-time encrypted password/secret sharing
From what I read, it's not the overcharging or the charging that is the issue, it's the cutoff voltage at which a lifepo might be harmed being a higher threshold than a lead acid battery, so you have to have a BMS for the lifepo which increases the cost and can cause the ups system to miscalculate runtime as it may cut off when it thinks it has 10% remaining.

But if there is a hack to recalibrate them, then great. I'll do some searching for it now as I have two little bms's that need batteries.
https://archive.is/TgTZs
> I have very little faith that a multi-trillion-dollar company is going to prioritize what's best for the world

You don't have to have faith. Why would anyone EVER believe that? By definition, a company is just a profit making machine. People believing that making rich people richer will necessarily make the world a better place are living in a koolaid-boosted fantasy world
I said exactly what I meant to say. I got there just fine on my own like the big boy I am.

I've had many a conversation with women that have decided to not have kids. This is where I first heard of a fetus referred to as a parasite. I found it quite humorous. It's their body after all*, and if that's how they think of having some life form growing inside their body, I'm here for it.

* as recognized in fewer places
In the case of Disney, how much of the frustration comes from the fact that their entire success was built on “borrowing” European folk tales? So that now when they lazily remake those same stories with non-white casting, it causes an uproar? I’m not saying that they shouldn’t be focussing more on actually storytelling over DEI, but I also don’t think white people get as upset over movies based on non-white source material, or created whole-cloth.
Mhh, I would love aboutideasnow.com to be interoperable with your project. Seems like you have more things planned!

The redirect option seems good, or supporting subpaths. If there's something I can do to help please write me an email [0] or open a GitHub issue! [1]

We just want more people to write about their ideas, and find others with similar ideas. It doesn't matter to me where that happens :)

[0] See https://lindylearn.io

[1] https://github.com/lindylearn/aboutideasnow/issues