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A "waste of effort" to make it so paid customers can continue to play the games they bought?

Oh no, it might not be an "easy task" to undo all their planned obsolescence. Shucks. Maybe they should have thought of that before they planned the obsolescence in the first place.

Seriously, in most cases it will be completely trivial to do, especially single-player games.

(Yes, single-player games are routinely getting killswitched by spiteful publishers. It's a fucking outrage.)

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[It seems I'm rate-limited so I can't reply further, but I have noticed in this thread a lot of people who don't seem to understand all the context behind this, making a lot of naive and ill-informed points. There are dozens of examples of publishers killing games for arbitrary/spiteful reasons, that have nothing to do with the cost it would take to provide an alternative. Ross Scott has many documented cases on his channel, see here https://www.youtube.com/@Accursed_Farms/search?query=dead%20...

We're not just talking about always-online multiplayer games here. It's also games with single-player campaigns that are rendered unplayable by the deactivation of a central auth server. Or games with a co-op component that are now unplayable because it's gated behind a centralized matchmaking system that shut down. Or games with libraries of shared player-created levels that are now inaccessible, like Super Mario Maker.

Also I have to say, I'm flabbergasted at the unthinking deference being shown to enormous conglomerate publishers in this discussion, and the focus on one side of the ledger to the exclusion of the other. People are saying that this will impose a cost on corporations, and this is in and of itself a reason to reject it. Like ... yes, of course regulations impose a cost on businesses! Obviously! The idea is that this small cost will be offset by a larger increase in consumer welfare. Just saying "this will impose a cost on business" is a fully-general counterargument against any kind of consumer-protection regulation. Nevermind the ethics of it -- people should fucking own what they pay for and they shouldn't have the rug pulled out from under them!

As for the idea that it is too complicated to self-host a modern multiplayer game: this is Hacker News, not Never-Bother-To-Even-Try News. Mod communities have done impressive feats in reverse-engineering game servers. It can be done.]
If it's not economically viable to keep the servers running then it shouldn't be a problem to release the code for the server so that others can run it.
What's the word error rate? Is it the same as the distilled whisper models?
It would be an interesting plot twist if the whole thing was an AI hallucination.
> I will only mention that I don't see LLM output as overly satisfactory.

This is changing very quickly, but even today you many not be aware of how well LLMs can create plausible drafts if you haven't seen what Claude 3 Opus can do with good prompting.
Just do a "fix style" that deletes and re-addds every line-
VS Code: What's the deal with the telemetry? (2022)
Ok...Node is itself written in C++. The V8 and JavaScriptCore JS engines have no concept of a server (they were designed for web browsers), so under the hood JS runtimes implement servers in a lower level language capable of interfacing with Linux syscalls. Bun uses Zig, Deno uses Rust, Node uses C++, etc. I don't think that necessarily makes this an unfair comparison. The database drivers used in these benchmarks are also usually written in C++. Look at the repo for the native Postgres binding for Node: https://github.com/brianc/node-libpq
These are "alternatives" in the same way that "drive a car" is an alternative to a cross-country flight on a jet. Sure, you could theoretically do it...
Google's still got it. This year they announced they were purging data they vacuumed up from Chrome users in incognito mode. Oh Google you little scamp!
The talkie toaster from
Red Dwarf comes to mind… “Does anyone want toast?”
Japanese people are not mystically different, their outcomes are a policy difference and you too can have that policy.

(And that policy wasn't face masks, it was banning large indoor gatherings but not small or outdoor ones, plus immigration quarantine.)
I thought this was going to be commentary on how a disproportionate amount of AAA games are focused on killing and shooting; thus (figuratively) murdering the potential that games have for conveying all sorts of human experiences. It was a bit more literal.
> The fruit is not edible to humans.

This is a feature, not a bug
JetBlue introduces dynamic baggage pricing
People living near railroad crossings would be happy with that outcome.
> patching the game so it does not require a server. Making GaaS are single player games, and are online-only as a form of DRM.

Do you have a single example of this? The Crew does not seem like an example of this since it is a multplayer game. I agree with always on DRM being a bad thing, but online features is not the same as online drm.

> release a closed source binary of the server so that people can run it themselves.

That requires that it was ever a single binary in the first place and not multiple systems. Also would require that the parts that are specific to them, like auth, would need to be able to be toggled or removed before releasing it.

> release documentation so people can implement their own backend.
> release the server as open source

Sure, that's an alternative but it still takes time for them to do it.

> be legally required to put a large sticker on the box saying "THIS GAME WILL EXPIRE. BUYER BEWARE."

There is something to be said about as a consumer understanding that an "online game" will eventually shut down. This should be well understood.

Your proposals are all implying that just doing all of this is just free and one day they can just flip a switch and here is everything for the community but that isn't the reality and it is severely flawed.
I don't want to excuse rudeness or a sense of entitlement. But I think we can still understand where it comes from. A lot of these people probably work on crappy codebases where "let's just add a random dependency without any vetting" was the norm, they might have to deal with production issues etc. There's probably a systemic issue behind it, that our industry relies too much on unpaid labour and is usually not willing to contribute back.[0]

[0] Funnily enough, just a week or two ago, I fixed an issue in an OS project that we introduced at work. It was an easy frontend fix even for someone like me who doesn't do frontend and barely knows how to spell Vue. And more importantly, in the issue description somebody already wrote exactly what causes the bug and what would need to change - the only thing left was finding the place where to make the (one-line) change. Somehow that issue had been open for 2 years but nobody of the several people who complained (nor the maintainer) had bothered to fix it. After I made a PR, it was merged within a day.
lol, the why is also no shit too though in this case.... because you are tired.
Looks interesting as a total looker-on of chess. Does the smaller board and reduced rules make the game any easier?
I don't think "superseded" is the right word, in the same way that ordinary relativity [1] hasn't been superseded by special or general relativity. Fuzzy logic is a more straightforward model that works well enough here, so why throw in the additional complexity and illegibility of neural nets?

[1] Also known as "classical mechanics". Despite widespread belief that relativity is a 20th century idea, the first person to describe relativity wasn't Einstein -- it was Galileo. Einstein himself saw his work on relativity as extending what Galileo had done.
Everquest was released in 1999 too. Modern multiplayer games are much closer to MMOs than to session-based games on local servers for small groups without any meta-gameplay.
In this simulation the bodies also collide together. Luckily that never happened in the book.
Everyone makes mistakes but I think you would agree that Apple is known for product excellence overall.

Then people project that approach onto other co's like Google, that have a more experimental bent, and get upset when experiments have undesirable results (of course Google deserves some blame here for how they frame things).
If you read the FAQ on that site, "publishers must run servers indefinitely" is not what this campaign wants to achieve at all. There are other ways of making sure multiplayer games can remain playable (by putting the server in the hands of other people, for example).
It works with Bluetooth keyboards and trackpads.
> I don't think you can encourage low fertility rate. I don't think we did in the west.

Pushing young women into the workplace so they can waste their lives grinding away at meaningless soul crushing fake corporate jobs instead of raising families. Degenerate Tinder/hookup culture. The "west" certainly encouraged it.
This outcome of course needs the volume of writing / illustration to stay constant.

Instead AI has just flooded the market with more content in a way that’s net additive. PLUS we’ll need to consider the energy impact of the AI we’ll all need to filter all this incoming AI spam.
Once upon a time, "dedicated server" was understood to mean something players hosted themselves.

it's like everyone has been lobotomized by cloud computing and SaaS. you know people can run stuff on their own computers, right? or rent their own VPS?
Supplementary video to explain further. As it seems some comments here aren't reading the FAQ.

https://youtu.be/w70Xc9CStoE?si=PNwHYXz8cvHs2AEc
Do we know if this study was written by a LLM?
No, there's a difference between that (using nonpublic information) and what Hunterbrook is doing (using public information).
If airline customers weren't extorted and humiliated enough already. Maybe I'll just swim or bicycle to my destinations from now on.
I’m missing the app already. Somehow I’ve got highly addicted to the idea be click article summary feature of Artifact. There was something highly gratifying of scrolling through articles’ titles and getting bullet point summary and not scrolling and reading through gazzilion of ads and pop ups most of the articles have nowadays. Recommendation part was more subtle, but working for me - there few occasional that I’ve learn something useful or interesting to me…

I would be grateful if somebody would suggest apps or service with similar article summarization functionality on a tip of users’ fingers.
"AI programming emits hundreds of times less carbon than humans" the same would also be true :0
This isn't answering your question, but you might also want to consider https://www.flightcontrol.dev. Here's a comparison with Porter: https://www.flightcontrol.dev/porter-alternatives
I use iTunes match for that. I’m not sure if Apple still lets new people sign up for it, but you can have the master collection of your music on Apple’s servers (there are some limitations on length (but not size, oddly enough) so the lossless single-file recording I have of Richard Strauss’s Elektra is marked ineligible, but otherwise they have my full music collection.
No it's on a mountain ridge on Pico Yeje, the trail begins from the Mirador de cruz Hilda nearby.

I went there twice to find it, looking for something on a vertical rock. I found out later that it's actually carved into some rock on the ground.
Does society have an obligation to maintain a plethora of 'Poor Creatives'? What if a portion of society just decided that they must absolutely be paid for their hobby, or rich people are evil.

Capitalism has really done a number on the human pshcye.
There are plenty of hyper-competent technical people in the field who are also kind and patient. Being smart doesn't turn someone into a jerk.
I find my Apple Watch information useful. I don't remember when I fell asleep but my apple watch does. This keeps me honest about going to be too late.

Additionally, when I first got it, I found that I was only getting 40 minutes of deep sleep which is why I was always somewhat tired. After adding magnesium to my diet I am getting around 70 minutes of deep sleep. I wouldn't have been able to pinpoint this without the data. The apple watch is the best sleep tracker [1] so your data might be too noisy to find results.

[1] https://youtu.be/LPqtfC70QTU?si=6tTayfNCkcJwDayW&t=12m30s
5-Star Bird Houses for Picky but Precious Guests: Nesting Swiftlets
How Big Tech is winning the AI talent war
https://archive.is/FCKzo
>The idea that you can't shut down your servers is just wrong.

Personally i find the idea of deceptive advertising and breach of contract with no recourse to be wrong too.

How about we meet in the middle?

No one is forced to keep any servers online any longer than they want to, but if a game is reliant on such a thing, then they must provide such information and state upfront the exact date in which the game will stop working before selling a single copy.

That way would be buyers can decide whether it is worth it with that information in mind.
> But can't you have a custom merge driver for 3 way merges too? So that when you try to merge the changes it does complain?

You kind of could, at least for diffing. This is what difftastic does https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/. Merging is really ambiguous in what the intended behavior of a removed reference is in AST. Do you delete or nullify or something else? How does that affect other upstream references? I'm not sure you'll ever find a satisfying answer there but floro is constrained to static assets, which are a bit more predictable.

> The advantage of building this on top of Git is fairly obvious: you get to use all the existing Git tooling, and you can use Git for other files in the repo that don't need special merge drivers.

So I think there is some confusion here in how this interfaces with code and I'm sorry I didn't think to explain this first. With floro you have a file in your git repository that points to a sha from floro to generate your assets from.

Here's an example https://github.com/florophore/floro-react-native-demo/blob/m...

I think of it sort of like having a package.json and a lockfile. You don't check your dependencies into git because odds are you don't want to deal with merge conflicts in third party dependencies, just the package.json and lockfile. Similarly you wouldn't want to deal with the conflicts of floro in a git repo. So you do still you get to use all the existing Git tooling with respect to your codebase.

The problem really is that git would allow for inconsistent states, which is fine for programmers but tough for anyone who doesn't know how to resolve the inconsistencies.
Xbox Sales in Europe "Flatlining"
That's an issue, but I don't know how relevant it is to the xz thing. One maintainer was specifically targeted. When he had health issues, some fake accounts started to complain and pushed for the malicious contributor to be added as a maintainer.
Just release server binaries, at least when you decide to shutter support (preferably just release them with the game). Then the community can take over at zero cost to the developer.
What are measurements for stress levels? Are they accurate enough?
Similar in my area (in the US). We've had scan-and-go at the local grocery/everything store for many years, but I really don't see that many people actually using it.
I highly doubt mass delusion is real. What other illness is always diagnosed not with supporting evidence, but lack of evidence for alternatives? It’s a bizarre leap given the known incompleteness of medicine, that only gets more bizarre when you dig into specific examples: it happened before the discovery of pathogens, yet we assume doctors didn’t miss a pathogenic cause? Everybody who drinks a certain batch of Coca-Cola gets sick, but if it’s not a contaminant that was tested for, it must not be a contaminant? It spreads more between people who spend more time together, and this is considered evidence is spreads via psychological closeness?

No, this is the same old bullshit: doctors, like politicians and businessmen, depend on an image of expertise, and an assertion of mass psychogenic illness is a non-disprovable way to preserve it when evidence-based diagnosis can’t.
Not sure if this is a strange Meta joke, but wasn't it "You wouldn't download a car" ?
Respectfully, these are the kinds of questions you'd ask if literally the only things you knew about Yemen were that the Houthis oppose Israel and were in a war with the other Arab states. You can Google any of these questions and get pages of answers.

This is the problem with campism. You're finding yourself zestfully defending an organization that has restored chattel slavery to Yemen. Why have this problem? Why go out on this limb?

The Die Hard thing --- it just blows me away that this whole movement is named not after, like, the 3rd Imam, but rather some random dude who was alive at the time Three Men and a Baby was released. He very probably had an opinion about Steve Gutenberg. I think it's important to remember that these people aren't Zaydis; they're a cult splinter group.
> Anyone who did a solid research and even sold his product to people before it even existed won't be worried about putting their own money or taking a loan to finance the development.

Maybe it's just me being overly pragmatic, but if you're willing to personally secure a loan to build a startup that will probably fail, I personally find you too reckless/unintelligent/misguided to work with. Whether you get the money from a bank as a loan or from investors genuinely doesn't matter (money is definitionally fungible), what matters is that you can procure it. If you can't convince any investors to work with you and you have to take a loan out to cover the costs, that's an unimaginably large red flag and a sign of foolishness.
I misread that as "garden path sentience" and imagined that you were a paved walkway who had gained the power of self-reflection.
Directory browsing was enabled and files were uploaded to an exposed directory during a much earlier time. The only issue was that the directory was in the middle of the MediaWiki webroot. Sadly, the institutional knowledge that these were there was lost in the mists of time. I would never have expected non-MediaWiki files to be in the webroot.
That was Twitter. Twitter was just 4chan For Everyone. But it was a company with investors and content with political ramifications, so they changed things to suit advertisers and politicians. They changed the timeline algo. And the reply algo. And the Trending algo. And they added "Verified" accounts. And then Musk bought it.

It can be made again. But whoever does it has to learn from past mistakes.
Linus Torvalds is apparently trying to do better (although I haven't followed up with the progress), but more importantly, while he might be (have been) unnecessarily rude and aggressive, he's not entitled (as far as I know). I don't think he would jump into an issue tracker of some project he doesn't maintain and demand that certain changes be made.
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Very neat. Uses the langchain method, here are some of the prompts:

https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent/blob/main/config/...
That's a great talk, thanks. It was enlightening to learn about basic models and the fine-tuning for an assistant personality. It's also interesting that neither the function of the basic LLM nor its interaction with the assistant model are fully understood, according to Karpathy.
> AI systems emit between 130 and 1,500 times less CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent) per page of text generated than human writers

Wow! The planet is saved, all you have to do is not multiply these values by the number of pages generated per second-
On Product Hunt today if there are any generous souls out there wanted to "support" it ;-)
You have to ask about what it's a dead end for. It seems pretty cool for the moral equivalent of fully 3D photographs. That's a completely legitimate use case.

For 3D gaming engines? I struggle to see how the fundamental primitive can be made to sing and dance in the way that they demand. People will try, though. But from this perspective, gaussians strike me more as a final render format than a useful intermediate representation. If they are going to use gaussians there's going to have to be something else invented to make them practical to use for engines in the meantime, and there's still an awful lot of questions there.

For other uses? Who knows.

But the world is not all 3D gaming and visual special effects.
Don't know the hardware involved, yet that first link is most definitely not 100 FPS on all hardware. Slideshow on the current device.
Yeah I don't think people realize that flying private means you don't have to go through security. You don't even have to go into the airport.

You just drive up and walk onto the plane.

For executives in a tight race with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, where a schedule slipping even 1 day can matter, sometimes flying private does actually make financial sense.
aye, this. RHEL is the industry standard and if you're not using that because you want Enterprise Support than you're using a derivative like Fedora, CentOS, or Rocky. Or else you hang out in the .deb side and use Debian or Ubuntu.

Arch is popular with a niche group of end users, but that ain't what most enterprise architectures are working on.
Mechanical Turk: fraudulent 18th century chess machine
If you want to demonstrate why the three-body problem is chaotic, you can set it up to run a couple hundred very similar simulations in parallel. Just nudge each body by a tiny amount to simulate uncertainty in the initial conditions and watch the resulting configurations diverge as tiny differences become large differences. Rather than points, you get lines of probability that stretch out and wrap around each other. It's quite striking.

Edit: semantics
Agreed. The toaster is made of a loaf of bread? And the slots are sideways.
Yes, it was about the speed of an original Macintosh or a turbo PC/XT, and slower than an 11/70.

https://www.tech-insider.org/unix/research/1986/0219.html
Indeed. I used to play a lot of shooters, and while the mechanic is fun I really wish there were more games that reproduced this type of engagement without the idea that you're wielding a killing machine. Or I wish more games explored other mechanics entirely and that this genre was less popular.