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I think of what a missed opportunity Stadia was because they didn't have a culture where people who are knowledgeable about game dev were listened to.

Titanfall was a game that couldn't be made until the cloud and Stadia could have done the same for game streaming -- any new platform needs it's Super Mario Brothers that makes you rethink what games can be, otherwise players will ignore it.
> It is simply immature, arrogant, and selfish.

How is the desire to avoid burdening others selfish?

"You can't choose to kill yourself because that would be suicide" is a tautology, not an argument. What's the basis for these beliefs?
Don't hardcode readline keybindings.
Looks like 66% of people 75+ identify as European Origins

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https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=981003...
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Oh, I can absolutely understand how one would perceive this as a passive aggressive statement.

I guess the ESL part makes me read this literally and maybe have a passing thought in the vein of "I am not, so what".
> What the EU's new software legislation means for developers – The GitHub Blog

... means for American SW corporations. /s
See MessagEase for a similar keyboard (not programmer-focused) with less keys but letting you use the swiping motion to type ordinary — great for fat-fingered people.
Interesting. Would you read news from a bot if the news was custom and automatic?
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Where do I sign up?

My parent and an aunt both have dementia and there's no way I'm going to hang around not remembering who the hell my family is or where I am.

I could hang on like Jimmy Carter (who is mental sound) and go 20+ years as a shadow of my former self.

Not putting my family through that.
there's definitely the odd game where a player suffers an injury in practice or early in the game, and a potentially close matchup becomes a disappointing wash as a result.
If someone became extremely risk taking after a traumatic event, putting their life at stake at several occasions, it's not unreasonable to believe that - at least in some countries - the person would be forced to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, possibly through a temporary involuntary commitment
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I'm reminded of this guy each time this topic comes up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4NU_84eCKI

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/in-2000-walkerton-s-pois...
I remember the handwritten note taped to the door of Color's office in Palo Alto, across the street from the hamburger joint. It had something to do with the founder's principles or something.

At that point I realized it wasn't a serious company.

The last time I walked by the building it was "The Institute for the Future."
There are many cheap ultra low power microcontrollers that can keep a time clock going and a small amount (say 32KB) of ram. 30 years on a coin cell. Pair that with a Bluetooth low energy transceiver to automatically transfer the data when the home base is in range (or any number of base stations). Like at a port in your example.
Yes it's mass hysteria, but most cases of mass hysteria are seeded by a real event. So I'm guessing some agency or police force ran some drones, they were spotted, it hit social media, and became a mind virus.
This was...unexpected...

Unexpectedly good. I am definitely going to relearn typing on my phone just to use this.
That's gushing over edge cases, lauding avoidance.

Fact is, the more you worry, the less success you'll have. Which reminds me of Hamlet -- the original worry-wart -- who said it best:

> 'conscience does make cowards of us all,'
One of my favorite Horizon episodes is the FLT one that features Prof. Andrew Wiles' development of his proof (I have watched it many times). Of course, it is grounded in Fermat's margin note about his having a wonderful proof that couldn't fit in said margin. At the end of the documentary, the various mathematicians in it note that AW's proof certaintly wasn't what PdF had in mind because AW's proof is thorougly modern.

So I have wondered about PdF's possible thinking.

Now, the degenerate case of n=2 is just the Pythagorean Theorem

c^2 = a^2 + b^2

and we now know from AW's proof that the cubic and beyond fail.

Now, the PT is successful because the square b^2 can be "squished" over the corner of a^2, leaving a perfect square c^2. [Let's let the a^n part be the bigger of the two.]

5^2 = 4^2 + 3^2

25 = 16 + 9

25 = 16 + (4 + 4 + 1)

Each of the 4's go on the sides, and the 1 goes on the corner, leaving a pure 5x5 square left over.

Now, for cubes, we now know that a cube cannot be "squished" onto another cube's corner in such a way that makes a bigger cube.

I'm not up for breaking out my (diminishing) algebra right now (as it's a brain off day), but that b^3 cube would need to break down into three flat sides, three linear edges, and the corner.

This fits my physical intuition of the problem and seems to me to be a possible way that PdF might have visualized the cubic form. Now, I have zero mathematical intuition about such things (or necessary math skills either), but the physical nature of the problem, plus the fact that we now know that the cubic and beyond don't work, leads me to wonder if this is an interesting approach. It also makes me curious to know why it isn't, if that is indeed the case, (which I assume is probable).

As to the n=4 and beyond, I would just hand-wave them away and say something like, "Well, of course they are more fractally impossible", which by that I mean that a real mathematician would have to say exactly why the n=3 case failing means that the n>=4 case would also not work. (My guess here is that there just becomes less and less possibility of matching up higher-dimensional versions of a two-term addition.)

Anyway, just a thought I had some years ago. I even built a lego model of the bits of cube spreading out along the corner of the a^3 cube.

I would enjoy learning why I'm so utterly wrong about this, but I found it a fun mental exercise some years ago that's been swimming around in my brain.

Thanks in advance if there are any takers around here. :-)

[And, my favorite Horizon episode is 'Freak Wave'.]
It's not hard to make a chess bot that plays at a 1300 strength, i.e. its rating would converge to 1300 if it were allowed to compete. But it will not play like a 1300-rated human. It would play like a superhuman genius on most moves and then make beginner-level blunders at random moments.

Making one that realistically plays like a human is an unsolved problem.
It's hard not to read that as sarcasm. They're pointing out some genuine waste, knowing full well that they are actually just going to go after their political opponents and pet peeves.
> Not sure if you grok 100% what we're building.

Yup, fair point. Let me respond with a bit more context.

> It writes to the dom and handles dom events just like any other web framework.

So you have a DOM, but if the target renderer is not webview or browser, you create a DOM in some other way?

> Think electron but you're not shipping a browser

The browser is already there, and called webview on all major platforms. I'd say Electron is popular for maturity reasons, that architecture makes limited sense even if you are using web. Tauri would be a better comparison.

> Our users on native platforms like being able to access system APIs with no intermediary. You can [...] call FFI, etc.

This is so difficult, and I applaud you for taking on the challenge. Rust is a decent choice for FFI, but still, FFI is a mess with largest common denominator being C. In the Tauri community, most users are intimidated by Rust alone. The number of devs who could fix segfaults related to Objective C bindings, wrangle Win32 syscalls and knew enough GTK could be counted on one hand (maybe one finger). So in short, can is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. That also means users have to come up with the cross-platform API surfaces themselves, right?
>>> extremely brutal destruction of capital.

Hell yes.

This chimes with my own experience and attempts to build sane work environments wherever I can.

I think software has a very unusual relationship to the “explore exploit” concept - in that most manual / labour intensive businesses probably work ok with 20% explore - but with software once the explore is done the exploit is a marginal cost - so one should tune software business to be very high explore ratios (lean processes etc).

In other words hire great people and let them experiment.

My general schtick is that software is a form of literacy - and if you hire an illiterate person to for example write your autobiography, the process they would have to come up with would look not dissimilar to most Agile projects.

Or perhaps another way of looking at it - Linus Torvalds accepts patches that have made their way through several layers of “lieutenants” - why shouldn’t the CEO of corporate X be the owner of the codebase that runs the corporation ?

In the end all the discussion should be about the code - if it is not about the code you are discussing the wrong thing.

Anyway - completely agree with your points and your … passion? It’s in the right direction and good luck to your business :-)
I haven’t seen a lot of discussion here of other existing apps moving to Flutter, which surprises me because my experience and my team’s has been so good — the performance, the quality of the code and documentation, and also our experience working with upstream. So I thought I’d share this here.

Happy to answer any questions people have about Flutter and our experience with it. I also plan to write a more detailed technical blog post in a couple of months.
Happy that quantum computing breakthrough and AI 2.0 launches came out "first". Happy for "metaverse" to be a distant distant distant 3rd.
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> People could choose this purelyto avoid additional cost to their relatives.

Why is this a bad thing? If there's a choice between giving $100,000 to my descendants and using it to keep me intubated in a hospital bed for an extra 6 months, I find the former preferable by far. If someone else doesn't, that's fine, but I find comments like this both annoying and creepily authoritarian in saying that the correct choice is obvious and so they're going to make the decision for me.
I don't even know what you're suggesting. That the drones are to distract us from the fact that Trump got elected?
How can you prove that the person sending a death threat was specifically motivated by a specific, broad act of speech?
This is an impossible, unenforceable premise. It has no basis in law either in theory or practice.

Example lines of inquiry: How does one identify the “first mover”? How does one identify the integrity of the “calls”? What if the calls are a single caller represented separately? What if the calls are falsely represented by motive?
I have a glass enterprise edition and it's ok with the sun out. But unobtrusive it is not. I'd rather have something like the Vuzix Blade.

The device is completely abandoned by google by the way, but at least it can run normal Android apps so it can still be useful.
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Just know that I am rooting for you, Dioxus and every other Rust GUI framework out there.

I really hope one cements itself as the "go to" framework in the next couple of years. Good luck!
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> That makes total sense. Do you trust every app developer to look around in your home?

Strawman; n.b. iOS solved that in 2009.
Same, I was a huge Orbital fan back in the day but found their version of the theme lazy and boring.

In contrast, around the same time they put it out, Plaid put out a track named Unbank that I'm convinced was inspired by the Doctor Who theme and is imo rather fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc39YRO8HM4
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> My Google Pixel continuously asks me if I want to enable photo backup.

Google Photos does this on non-Pixel android phones too. Many times when I open the gallery app I'm confronted with a dialog where the backup checkbox is enabled and there's a continue button. It's like Google is trying to trick me into enabling it. This is an incredibly user hostile design. One day I will do it by mistake.

I mentioned this to a friend once and he said his kid got ahold of his phone for a few minutes and did enable it, causing a massive upload that put his Google account over quota. Of course it's a huge hassle to go through and unsync the photos without deleting them from the device.
I used to work at a bike shop where they went 100% Apple products. All the POS machines were macs. The entire company was mainly run with Filemaker Pro, which is pretty impressive when you think at the time, the company had over 10 shops.

They had one IT guy that managed everything and I remember him saying it was either going to be Apple or some Linux distro and by using Apple for all their stuff, it greatly reduced the amount spent on tons of other IT stuff that he would have to deal with if it were Windows based.
Compared to lead? Decades and decades of extensive, high quality research.

Low quantities of lead have exactly the long term low-dose exposure effects you describe. They have been identified.
IIRC there's a rule against it now if it's not outright illegal.
> Why can’t people be in charge of their own lives?

I think the obvious counterpoint is that MAID is about people enlisting others to help kill them, which is no longer merely "being in charge of their own lives".
Try to read the rest of the comment before shooting off.

It was clearly represented as a caloric measure. Then instantly worked into a reasonable diet of 10% meet, using much the same numbers you just did.

Everything I wrote was completely accurate. Please work harder to post reasonable, non-slanderous helpful comments.
“rule 5.1: Ctrl-W should delete the last word
[…]
I can’t think of any exceptions to this other than text editors but if there are I’d love to hear about them!”

mysql(1) only links to editline instead of readline, where Ctrl-W by default deletes everything to the start of the line, not just the last word. It drove me mad in the period where I had to use it; you just see your entire nice query disappear. :-)
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Oh, huh that's odd, why provide website access but then not actually product access when your product is a network service. Didn't think to read further than the headline because of that I guess, thanks for correcting me
Eating a small shard of glass will kill you far more quickly than any amount of chemicals from your spatula
> We've had a Meta Quest for years and it's primary use is still Beat Saber. It just isn't going to happen.

Try Metro Awakening. It's a really "full game" story-driven experience, I'm surprised they managed to get so much out of a mobile processor. Even on my old Quest 2 it runs impressively well.

I personally don't like the arcade style gameplay (eg beat saber) at all so I mostly play PCVR but it's really nice to see some real full games are making it to the platform now.
I agree that we should avoid such terms in general in this forum as it degrades the discussion. I think we can all agree that these are complex ethical questions where several values are at stake and there isn't one obviously superior ethical stand.

What I read from your comment, is that you think peoples fear of loss impacts the discussion to much and shouldn't be given much weight in the question?
Gonna use this to train a model off my imessages and emails, the world will never know if its me or my digital clone responding
> allow-listed set of 'safe' PDF operations (layout image

That's the problem right there. PDF supports many image formats, including ones that are useful but you may have never heard of like JBIG2 for scanned documents. And the parser for those image formats needed to be secure as well. One very famous exploit is just exploiting JBIG2 (among other things): https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i...
Yet the topic was all about non-reasonable game management. What would be required to feed people routinely. It was in fact the entire purpose of the conversation to 'think about it' like that.
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I just read the summary for "Fermat's Last Theorem – how it's going" on that page and it completely missed the point of the article
I took a masked image of a tank from a game, in a perspective format, presumably the best case for these models.

Trellis did far worse than BlenderGPT. Particularly Trellis tends to have little to no detail with nearly black texturing in the parts that are "hardest" to imagine.

Somewhat interesting as this seems to use Trellis under the hood, but again, this did a substantially better job.
That is a danger for sure, but every single path we as a society here take can be exploited by people with ill intentions.

The pharma companies and hospitals have a financial incentive to keep people alive indefinitely, even despite horrible suffering.

The folks paying for the treatment (government, insurance, etc) have a financial incentive to terminate lives prematurely.

Family members with ill intentions may have various nefarious reasons to push for either outcome.

So the question with which we should begin is, "what is the right thing?" and build safeguards around that.

We cannot let "fear of corrupting influences" be the primary guiding principle here because every possible choice as a society here because there's a pretty strong financial incentive to corrupt these choices in either direction.
I kinda doubt that. I think Apple is on the wrong track there. Maybe for now it makes sense but I don't think it will stay as the tech improves. It's pretty annoying having to look at everything you interact with. It's unnatural. Also, typing by looking at each individual key will be exhausting and slow.

Gesture tracking on the quest is very hit and miss but this is just due to the tech not being up to snuff yet. I think eventually you will just be able to type on a virtual keyboard. You can even do it now, it's just that the forward/backward tracking is pretty inaccurate still (it's pretty much the worst usecase because your fingers are not well visible to the headset cameras and moving forward/backwards which is also the most difficult to interpret. But I think this will get solved.
It generally isn't possible for grep to "slurp up" the error output because stderr does not get passed through pipes (by default). This is shell behavior and grep cannot do anything about it.

As a side note, some shells have started implementing a shorthand for `foo 2>&1 | grep` which is `foo |& grep`.
Very cool, but I don't think I understand the pricing.

$20/mo gets me 50 credits/mo, but I can buy 50 credits at any time for just $10? Sounds like the subscription is asking me to pay double for the same number of credits.
Yeah, I know about it. However every time I've tried to use it I ran into all kinds of problems.
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Hear, hear. Daphne Oram too.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Oram
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There is no evidence that being made of marshmallows is damaging to one’s reputation, and thus this would not necessarily be classified as defamatory. The law requires proven damage. The details are tricky.
In this case I’d wager they’re just looking to sell to us. If they were malicious however, replying to the email would let the sender know about my position within the organization and how inclined I am to sharing information.

At the end of the day there’s no upside to either me nor my organization to respond to cold emails beyond politeness.
I love parkinson's law because it was one of the first things I learned pretty soon out of college in a hybrid role as developer/PM in an extremely small startup, that was tasked with implementing "scrum" (Didn't yet know what that was outside of a few SE courses I had taken). I realized very quickly that no matter what I set sprint cycle length to be, about the same amount of work got done and at about the same quality. We started at 3 weeks and ended up at 1.
No, and very very few Hacker News users would be interested in that because people have tried that since the rise of ChatGPT years ago and they are all slop.
The US gov't has to approve any military transfers. Russia would be taking a big risk assassinating a US citizen

As far as precedent, two countries are at war, pretty normal to assassinate. Not the first, not the last
This feels like an important finding: perhaps formalising something intuitive.

Aside: some articles or papers just feel important. The lightbulb moment.
> Titanfall was a game that couldn't be made until the cloud

What do you mean by this?
Completely misleading that "Wordpress runs 40%" of the internet when 6/10 packets are also somehow bound for first-party Google properties like YouTube (I guess that means all traffic is bound for either Wordpress or Google? /s).

I'm not sure anybody cares. Really. Wordpress was relevant like 20 years ago. I will probably get downvoted into oblivion by the community of PHP enjoyers that still exist, and good for you guys, I love that you love Wordpress so much. I don't think any of this will change PHP or Wordpress or the thousands of sites that use it. Matt is spending political capital at an unrecoverable rate and the courts are not going to side with him here, I think.
They can pick their own chairs.
> Once the price is known, several parties tend to walk away.

This is why you disclose the current winning bid, which will be <minimum bid increment> over the second highest current bid. If that's already more than you're willing to pay then you weren't going to win anyway. If it isn't, you can put in your bid and then the previous winning bidder has to outbid you again. Which they might do, but you don't know that and until the bid is above what you're willing to pay you don't lose anything by placing bids which as far as you know might actually win.
I've been pretty happy lately with my setup.

Arc browser lets you hover over a link to show a card that summarizes the article.

With Claude Projects, I'm able to quickly build an Arc "Boost" User Script for any site, so I have one to export the HN homepage to JSON to import into an LLM. And I have one on comment pages to do the same. I have a userscript to remove pagination so I can infinitely scroll and then export.

Ad I have a Claude Project specifically for identifying/categorizing comment threads by the patterns of knowledge crystallization etc. It's been fascinating so far.
I thought I would bother me with meta, but it doesn't really. I leave my sex toys out and I really just don't care if it sees them :P

I think personal conversations are much more revealing than the space of my home. But as I live alone I would never speak to anyone while I use the quest.
People seem to forget that any able bodied person can end their life at any time they choose. Denying MAID is only denying this right to people who want to exercise it with dignity.
I appreciate you sharing your perspective. I wondered, when you described feeling "really sad" and the sense that people "might as well have been dead," I'm wondering if you're speaking about your own emotional response or trying to convey how the individuals themselves felt about their situation?

Edited to sound less harsh
You are uninmaginative.
I don't think I'm qualified to make those assessments
Definitely, imagine coming to game studios talking them into rewriting into Linux/Vulkan, using command line and gdb, when the culture is using Windows and Visual Studio, including the devkits plugins for Sony and Nintendo consoles.

This with Google's background in long term investments.

And to come back to my point, many of the talks I was referring to, were in the context of Android games and Stadia, most still available online.