skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a person who works on a large online game, I appreciate what they are trying to do and I’m sympathetic to the pain of losing a game you love, in addition to the game preservation issues. However, games just aren’t the same as they were in the 90s. The service architecture is more complex, the ecosystem management is greater (ranked systems and matchmaking health for example), and games evolve in ways that are not backwards compatible.

I don’t want to say what they’re asking for is impossible, but I don’t think it’s realistic depending on competing goals. If you want to preserve a game, you have to decide what parts are important to preserve, because some aspects just won’t exist without centralized services, lots of other players, and experts managing those systems. If you just want to host a single match on your own server, and maybe the other aspects like meta-game systems or matchmaking don’t matter to you as much, you might be able to do it but you then don’t get the real game experience. Matchmaking in particular is a complex problem, and the reason some games have become successful is moving away from the lobby or self-hosted server model toward centralized matchmaking, which needs constant tending and large player populations to be successful.

I’m open to the idea that these are solvable, but I don’t believe requiring it by law is a good idea. It just makes the cost of multiplayer games higher and riskier for publishers, and they’re already very risk averse because of the massive content costs involved.

Should games be cheaper because you’re just leasing them? Maybe, but there are armies of professionals who want to make a living doing just this that are required to make this stuff look like someone pushed a “make game” button. At least that’s how it works today. Should those devs get a larger slice of the pie than publishers or execs or whatever? I mean, hell yeah, but it doesn’t stop the reality that games are just more complex and massively more expensive to make than in the past, and that’s just where the market is. A proposal for how games can be preserved or given back to consumers at end of life really needs a more detailed proposal than “make it the law,” because I just don’t think it’s realistic.

All of the above is about explicitly multiplayer games. Single player games that have little to no multiplayer involvement at the core of the gameplay is an entirely different situation. There could still be complexities there, but you can get closer to the real game experience without centralized services.
I manually moderate the voicemails and run a script locally to build out a static site and upload it to Neocities. The site is relatively fresh (created within the past year); it just hasn't seen much traffic yet.
>have over 100,000 cars in inventory, or over a month of deliveries.

Is that critical to their cash-flow? Seems like that is better than Toyota, which according to [0], has 261,000 new vehicles in inventory (or the dealers do), which is a 43 day supply (the lowest number of days of supply in that list). Or Ford, with 418,000 in inventory, a 108 day supply.

[0] https://caredge.com/guides/new-car-inventory-2024
If you’re missing that now - perhaps a great opportunity.
And since A. K. Dewdney is fresh on my mind, he did a Computer Recreations article generally about this (about simulating orbital mechanics) and the clever bit that I remember: you dial the time slice way down as objects got close, you care little when the objects are far apart.

Not a "solution" of course, but certainly an optimization if you're just generally doing gravitational simulations.
It is funny to consider the wide range of reactions that people have to the presentation of perception without stimulus.
I'm not sure if you can call it “completely solved” if it's only weakly solved, but sure. It's a different goal (and my answer was a response to a “can't we just build a tablebase” comment).
another point is that enforcing invariancts is not the task of the repo but of the checks / review system. it is very simple to enforce your described cross file constraint with a ci check and prevent merging. and floro could also not automatically solve the conflict of inconsistency as concurrent deletion and modification of any data is fundamentally undecidable without knowledge of the application logic and business domain and sometimes even human user intent. this is the problem most conflict "free" replicated datatypes have, most inherently lose data in at least these situations unless they keep conflict markers for all these situations around until an application solves them at some point in the future.
Microsoft wants to make Windows Copilot open automatically on cursor hover
Not only has Microsoft put a button that opens Edge in the taskbar, but that button opens on hover.

Their anticompetitive practices are getting more ridiculous by the day. When I tell you I want to use Firefox, stop asking me if I want to use Edge on every update. Stop breaking Firefox from making a one-click set default button like you do. Stop adding a button which was clearly designed badly as yet another way to force Edge on us. And now stop changing the fundamental UX design of Windows to trick me into opening Edge.

This is ridiculous. I should have switched to Linux as my daily driver a long time ago.
You’re projecting.
Interesting! I just discovered that Anthropic indeed officially support commercial API access in (at least) some EU countries. They just don't support GUI access in all those countries:

https://www.anthropic.com/supported-countries
PERFECT tutorial for something i was looking to do. thanks OP.

i'd love a shortlist of recommended (NSFW friendly but not just NSFW) comfyui resources, tutorials support communities too. i find discords extremely overwhelming.
I implore you to try the product.

The value is in being able to prompt AI something like "Here's my data that comes from endpoint X. Give me a table that shows this data that is also searchable."

I personally find that valuable (along with not having to think about which auth vendor and component library to use).
It does look like all the references I can find point to engineers at Toshiba in 1980 coining the name, although Google ngrams shows some references to "flash EPROM" prior to 1980, so I can't help but wonder if the idea existed at least in some form prior to 1980
i believe you're correct, other (higher resolution) visualizations of periodic orbits show that "wrapping" behavior more clearly.

example from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem#/media/File...
MSA is used in newspaper, news reading and Quran is it not? (35 year migrated Aussie Palestinian here)
This makes me feel old.

Number of things that need explaining now:

- Computers used analog CRT monitors
- CRTs had burn-in if left static
- Screen savers showed dynamic images
- After Dark / flying toasters was a classic screensaver
- Software was sold on floppy disks
- Purchased at physical computer stores
- After Dark-era floppy disks were hard, not floppy
- "Screen Savers" is also not to be confused with the TechTV show
- TechTV merged with G4 in 2004, then closed in 2014, then restarted in 2020, then reclosed in 2022

I think that brings us back to modern times.

Also, has anyone recreated Snake for the AVP yet? And I don't mean fancy-Snake: I mean Nokia Snake.
> So why do they stay for so long?

Sad thing is because it might actually be interesting work.
It’s kind of mind blowing to me. If it’s true why can’t they use their money to set up sanctuaries for these animals. I understand a lot of, for example, dogs given up are dangerous beasts but can’t they just let them roam free on some 1000 acres with a fence. They seem to have a lot of money, a 100 acres in a temperate climate could be as little as $50k.
Did they try trunk call to reach?
Corra: Correlation-Aware Column Compression
Acquaintance of mine bought an iPad. Proudly showed it to me how he can draw this and that. 6 months later he somehow forgot the password, entered it wrong too many times and the iPad is a brick. He's 75 years old. He can't find a receipt, there's no way to restore it. There's no way to put Linux on it. There's no way to do anything.
Another example - my mom. I was feeling generous, bought her an iPad as a present. Now nothing works on it anymore. You need some type of ID. The one I have never works. The whole thing is a brick. Useless piece of crap. She's 77 years old and uses her small phone screen to do anything.
So that's Apple products for you. They benefit the company, not the owner. You shell out thousands of dollars, end up with a brick. I will never buy another product from Apple again. (My wife just bought a brand new iPhone. Lol). Let's see how long that will work for her.
This idea doesn't sound like that though. Current rice cookers are already what you describe. A rice cooker with an app would be more likely to have a subscription model.
Not a good thing.
Ask HN: How redditors have the time to write long anwsers?
> Many of today's GaaS are single-player games that have no business at all being online-only.

I am still looking for an example and I have yet to see one. From what I can tell The Crew is an online game? What am I missing here.

> many users are totally unaware that after a few years the game they have paid for is basically worthless.

Sorry I don't buy this, online gaming isn't some niche thing anymore. The internet obviously isn't niche. I feel like it is well understood that an online game, like Fortnite, WoW, whatever requires a server to work and may at some point stop working. Also for the record, I just checked every online xbox game I have and on the back it makes it clear that this could change at any point so they can likely all argue that the warning is already there.

> online-only form of DRM

I feel like we are talking about 2 different problems. One is DRM that requires a game to be connected to the internet to play, that is valid and should never be a thing if it is truly a single player game.

However from what I can tell the examples that we are talking about are not just simple single player games that require an internet connection to run and are actually online games.
The same old tale

"Too much wolves, people is not safe!" so they treat with violence unless are allowed to kill them. A year later "wildboars invasion! toddlers in danger" so they require to be hunted (by them). Then is a chain of "too much foxes", that lead to "rabbits destroyed our food", and then is "mice alert!", and then is rats, and then "this asphalt has a plague of fire ants, why we need to suffer so much?"...

Is an endless dismantling spiral of bullshit, and is very profitable for a few.

Botswana has "too much investors" ravaging nature, and elephants have ivory that other countries still crave.
I think those are what I have in my yard as I was not seeing any issues with them. No weird smell, shoots, or lifespan problems.
I guess a lot of the English-speaking world has (mis)appropriated the anglicised name of the football club?

Still, for what it's worth, b7a is my favourite city so far.
Yes, that's a good mental model. Input - high-level description of graphics, output low-level graphics code running in Wasm.
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Peter Drucker learns AI.
> If you really want to keep your browsing private, you should be using guest mode.

If you really want to keep your browsing private, you should be using a browser that doesn’t make its money by knowing everything about you
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/business/ai-tech-economy....
Their demo is so similar to the Devin one I had to go look up the Devin one to check I wasnt watching the same demo. I feel like there might be a reason they both picked Sympy. Also I rarely put weight into demos. They are usually cherry-picked at best and outright fabricated at worst. I want to hear what 3rd parties have to say after trying these things.
You can play all sorts of video games from Apple Arcade, XBox/PS5, Mac, PC etc.

There's loads of options courtesy of apps like MirrorPlay.

And this is the Vision Pro not Vision. So the mainstream price will be significantly cheaper.
Yea the problem with that is the control group - grab any SWE and ask them the same thing. I don’t think most would pass. Unless you want to give an SWE time to learn… then it’s hardly fair. And I vaguely trust the LLM to be able to learn it too.

Also I just asked Claude and Gemini and they both provided an implementation that matches the “bytes to UTF-8” rust docs. Assuming those are right,LLMs can do this (but I haven’t tested the code).

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/string/struct.String.html
I understand, it's hard. But from the opposite end it can be hard for users to trust so you have to make that easier on them by being more transparent.

I'd suggest finding a perfect use case - maybe it's not T-Mobile. Then record a happy path video showing it working perfectly.

Also - as a tip, a lot of these companies will use the same software. So, right now your bot didn't do well with T-Mobile at all because it didn't know how to response to multi-button prompts. But once you teach it how to do that it'll know how to response to any company that uses the same software (LivePerson). Almost always you don't have to 'press' the button, you can just respond with the text of the button.
If they are publishing a story about company A, what’s the ethics on buying in company B, where the latter is a competitor or supplier who will be affected by the story? There’s a murky line here that they haven’t necessarily crossed, but I imagine somebody has or will.
They are not dead. They just refocused to the next trend: AI. Just past the vanity its still the same people doing the same things with the same investment money.
And just like that, the server forfeited his tip.
> SAM missile crews may have one of the toughest jobs on the battlefield.

If so, then SEAD ought to be a worthwhile investment.

What are the lead times on (a) a SAM battery, and (b) a SAM operator?
> You've got everything that can fail in a fairly high tech ICE drivetrain, plus everything that can fail in an EV drivetrain

You should seriously look up the drivetrain of hybrids.

The planetary gearset is a single set of gears that functions as the alternator/generator, the starter/EV motor, the transmission, and the engine driveshaft.

Its not "different" or "new" components. Its a singular design that accomplishes what 3x different parts of the car used to do seperately. There's a reason why Toyota Hybrids are $23k, its a lot cheaper and more efficient to do it this way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofycaXByTc

You needed the starter anyway. When its beefed up to a full-size EV motor that can drive the car, its more powerful and more durable.

You needed the alternator anyway. When its beefed up to a full-sized generator, its more powerful and more durable.

When the ICE engine operates at its ideal RPM (rather than directly connected to the road), it can be made cheaper, more reliable, smaller, more efficiently than when its the only thing moving the car.

Hybrids are superior to ICE, and Prius shows how to do it with more reliability. Now yes, Chrysler is terrible with reliability, but that's nothing to do with Hybrids and everything to do with Chrysler.
Bug: Menu doesn’t work with Skype

(I love the design!)
Yeah, but, just look at that chart! California isn't shaped any differently than anyone else. It's always been somewhat higher on this metric, it was before the pandemic and it is now. But you'd absolutely not look at that chart with fresh eyes and flag it as an outlier. At all. It's doing what the rest of the labor market is doing. Really no state is particularly weird, which is about what you'd expect for a very fluid intra-national labor force.
I’m convinced that thermal power plants in general are very problematic in the coming decades. I think you can ignore the insane challenges of maintaining the plasma itself and just consider the heat energy, the volumetric density of the power production, the challenges of building a good heat exchanger for fusion energy, and the problems with thermal steam turbine power plants in a warming climate with lots of renewable energy… and just from that conclude that thermal fusion power plants are just not viable.

But there’s one interesting solution that avoids this problem entirely: Helions fusion reactor does not use heat exchange to extract electricity. They’re attempting to extract the electric energy directly from the plasma. If it’s work it could be the one path to viable fusion.
Are the readings done via mic + real in the flesh speaker? Or are you using tts?
Interesting idea to provide the Agent-Computer Interface for it to scroll and such, interact easier from its perspective
A Brazilian special-forces unit fighting to save the Amazon
Thanks, looks like the VAX 11/750 was pretty much the same Dhrystone speed as an 8 MHz 68000 (Atari ST, Amiga).

I/O and disk bandwidth is another matter of course.
https://archive.ph/2024.04.01-160136/https://www.newyorker.c...
it does an ok job with this task:

use std::fs::File;
use std::io::{self, BufReader, Read};

fn read_file_character_by_character(path: &str) -> io::Result<()> {
// Open the file in read-only mode.
let file = File::open(path)?;

// Create a buffered reader to read the file more efficiently.
let reader = BufReader::new(file);

// `chars` method returns an iterator over the characters of the input.
// Note that it returns a Result<(char, usize), io::Error>, where usize is the byte length of the char.
for char_result in reader.chars() {
match char_result {
Ok(c) => print!("{}", c),
Err(e) => return Err(e),
}
}

Ok(())
}

fn main() {
let path = "path/to/your/file.txt";

if let Err(e) = read_file_character_by_character(path) {
eprintln!("Error reading file: {}", e);
}
}
I guess Adam Savage thinks it's one of the better ways to experience movies.
> firstly, GNU memmem is slower than memchr::memmem::Finder,

Not only slower than the rust version, also slower than most other >200 string search functions. Whilst musl has the fastest string search function for less than 32 substring chars.

See https://rurban.github.io/smart/results/all/rand2.html with libc1 being GNU libc memmem() and musl1 being musl's memmem().
Also in the background: technical founders often get treated as second class, replaceable citizens that can be pushed out and/or diluted. Consider the developed company equivalent: that as you rise, you must become more and more of a people manager contributing not higher quality, more impactful and difficult technical challenges but pushed into politics and "influence". If you don't bow to that pattern and you don't stay sufficiently outside of anyone's attention you'll be pushed out.
You sure that's the reason?
You seem to know where to find these numbers (I don't), so do you know how that stacks up with luxury car manufacturers?

Most of those companies do compete with Tesla, but the price range of a Tesla ($40k to $90k for most models) lines up much more closely with Audi and BMW than any of those companies. I'd imagine that those companies would have higher gross margins if they didn't sell any cheap models or trims levels.
Can you include some form an MLM scheme into subscriptions as well?
With such a broad definition, sneezing on somebody would be considered vaccination.
I knew a lot of people who bought the original iPod.

And every single one justified it with it being a high-quality 5GB hard drive that just happened to play music.

It definitely wasn’t this breakout music player hit.
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Yes, I told ChatGPT4 what I wanted to say and I left him the wording. I don't really like the style he adopted but, in some way, it is better than my approximative, rough, English.
I think you’re mistaken. Care to link to a single post where the commentary is positive about Apple?
Are the games 2D or 3D? I'm not a big gamer but I'm curious.
Ah, it is a good point that it might be worth comparing to, but it is far worse.

Abstractly, it requires approximately log(45)/log(16) output bits per input bit, an overhead of 37%.

Making this more concrete: each input byte is encoded as two hex digits, and two hex digits have to be encoded as two Alphanumeric characters. It thus takes 11 bits in the QR code bit stream to store 8 bits of input.
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Well written post! However I'd like note that, we commonly hear from users that Debezium for Postgres CDC is hard to setup, manage and less flexible around data format (only json and avro). It requires at least a few months of effort to put to production.

We at PeerDB (https://github.com/PeerDB-io/peerdb) are trying to solve this problem. We already have a connector out for Azure Event Hubs https://blog.peerdb.io/enterprise-grade-replication-from-pos... This blog captures how we are building a more production/enterprise ready solution to Postgres CDC. Connectors for Kafka, Redpanda, PubSub are already merged to main and we plan to GA them soon!
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There's a different person that also has this kind of project going on, it's pretty cool to see people do this more.

https://linktr.ee/at_the_beep
It is interesting but I find Garmin data completely unreliable. For example, it claims I’m awake for 2-3 times each night for 30 minutes or more, it claims I’m asleep when I know I was on Tik Tok because I couldn’t sleep.
That is also an interesting idea. Maybe you can get friends to sign up and upload a bunch of images, and you get cash back.
the retro windows gui is such a perfect match for this. amazing work!
I have the exact same thoughts but in opposite positions. Google Podcasts was a simple, straightforward, and easy to use app that just worked. YT Music is so cluttered and filled with useless garbage when all you want is to listen to a podcast. It's an awful app. As a result of them shutting down Podcasts I'm not going to YT Music despite paying for Premium. I'll have to find a different app that I imagine will be worse than the UX of Podcasts.
This is similar to their Uran-9 UGV which has already been used in combat in Syria.
> It has a better interface than everything else by a long mile

its a joke compared to irc
But the chaos is extremely critical, since we can’t ever perfectly measure the initial conditions.

So, even having a closed form solution isn’t helpful when computing real world situations.
A definition of "antivaxxer" that includes no references to vaccines or vaccination.

Ok.