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> I was involved in the development of a multiplayer mod for GTA5 nearly 10 years ago.

I was one of the developers of Just Cause 2: Multiplayer, which was party to servers with over a thousand simultaneous players. I've also worked on the multiplayer for an unreleased open-world game. So pardon me when I ask this: what are you talking about?

> I couldn't understand the technical direction of FiveM at the time because it was based on the existing peer-to-peer, client-authoritative architecture of GTA Online that caused countless problems with cheats/hacks.

And yet FiveM succeeded where other projects didn't. It's much easier to build on something that already works and evolve it, which is what eventually happened: they switched to server-driven synchronisation half a decade ago.

> These other mods were inspired by MTA/SA:MP and provided a complete reimplantation of multiplayer in the game where the server is the ultimate authority. Much like any MMO or competitive FPS.

That's not what they did, because they couldn't have done it. It is effectively impossible to do that without access to the game's source code - it is intractable to convert a closed-source single-player open-world game into a server because the game is built around the assumption of the world existing around one player, not many.

What every open-world multiplayer mod - including FiveM, MTA, SA:MP, JC2-MP, and others - does is distributed authority: each player is responsible for their slice of the world, including their own state, and they send it to either a central server or other peers. In either case, the client is still implicitly trusted on its view of the world: there is no authoritative simulation to refer to, because that's not logistically or computationally feasible.

What can be done on top of that is validation: other peers, or the server, can verify state changes to make sure they're not too out-of-spec. That's not to be confused with what competitive FPSes do, which is actual server simulation, complete with rewind, lag compensation, and more [0].

> A huge amount of words, a lot which validate the perspective of the people it is directed against.

To conclude: does it really? I read through the entire thing, and it's consistent with what I know of FiveM's development, the people involved, and what happened post-acquisition. There's plenty of evidence that supports the timeline of events as presented here.

[0]: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_Multiplayer_...
> - Chickens are very sweet animals

Personally, I find them rather savory. Although deep fried with a bit of honey is good too.
Given that the planet is not crammed in all dimensions so tightly there'd be no room for humans, and yet we have fresh air outside, I'm doubting your statement a bit.
Love this book. I have three sons and read this when them when they're about 12 or 13.

It takes them a short bit to get into it, but by the time Sid is with the Samanas they're into it. Even though they sometimes get lost in some of the revaltory moments about the "self", the plot holds together and is compelling even at this level.

Best of all, the walk away with a couple good ideas worth considering and remember it fondly.
It's not. But pseudo-intellects and idiots are still under Elon's spell.
I don't follow this logic. Amazon did something bad on their app store so now walled gardens are good?
Totally agree, but unfortunately people (forgive and) forget and that's why those companies keep on doing this.

I myself forgot Microsoft once (cough) sold e-books.
My parents and many family members knew quite close what PIDE/DGS and colonial war meant, so excuse me if I remain sceptical how it goes from here.
> It's not "at random". Every shuttered department had been investigating one of Elmo's properties...

¿Porque no los dos? Firing the folks that maintain nuclear weapons:

* https://apnews.com/article/nuclear-doge-firings-trump-federa...

Firing the folks dealing with bird flu:

* https://apnews.com/article/usda-firings-doge-bird-flu-trump-...

Also firing a whole bunch of folks at the FAA (including maintenance mechanics) even though it's already short staffed:

* https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly9y1e1kpjo

Random and spiteful (?).
You also can't responsibly have a prolific apprentice (intern, first or second year, etc.) plugged directly to production.

On the other hand, today most money for SWEs goes to people who aren't "staff engineer" level. What if most money went to staff engineers who directed these interns and paired with new human apprentices to learn staff eng?

In the past few thousand years, apprentice/journeyman/mastery of trade was how trades worked, with an "up or out" model that kept the role pyramid the right shape for skill to shape the outcomes.

These days, far too many careers stay apprentice skill the entire career, mostly thanks to enterprises failing at engineering management as a skilled trade, so being unable to value and raise staff engineer caliber contributors. The enterprise learning machine is broken by false "efficiency".

LLMs change this. Staff engineer caliber SWEs are able to direct these indefatigable assistants, as if each staff engineer has a team of 10 who never need mental breaks to remain productive. There will of course be some number of junior devs who themselves have enough affinity for the role they will want to stick with the apprentice model and work to the staff engineer level. (And will always be solo or boutique teams of app/saas SWEs.)

As for the enterprise engineering management that couldn't tell the difference between a staff engineer and an apprentice, the LLM multiplies the difference to the point the outcomes are evident even to a non technical observer.

So one possible timeline for this is a raising of the median human skill level by attrition of those unskilled enough or unable to think critically enough to leverage the machine assistants as force multipliers or unable to survive directly mentored skill-up training and observation from the staff engineers.

You talk about personal value. Roughly, I agree with you completely, and am adding who I think those persons could be (or have to be given the current level of "thinking" by these tools) for the hype to deliver on value. (At a higher level of machine, closer to "AGI", this scenario changes.)

As is evident by downsizing a mediocre team and observing output go up and work more reliably, these forces could, if playing out this way, make dollars per human go up, productivity go up, quality go up, and enable a return to the millennia-proven model of apprenticeship for the trade.
I could not find a reliable source for this. Got a link?
You probably already know, but in case you don't, python has phidata[1]

[1]: https://docs.phidata.com/introduction
Well at least it makes it easy to know who to avoid
Your proposal may give interesting results in a couple hundred generations of chickens, when evolution has had some time to take profit of the cooked food.
But, concerning the hens that lay the eggs I'm supposed to eat, please refrain from experimenting with them, thanks!
What part of "zero air traffic controllers were let go" don't you understand?
First thing I thought of as well. Every time I go to join an AWS call, in my head I'm thinking "oh, right. ugh."

Hopefully they just adopt Zoom and not something even more obscure.
I mean Apple wasn't the first to drop the jack either, there were other brands that had.
I've used these in rust to record and play audio on embedded devices. The gist is, you set up a static mut array, set the DMA peripheral to write or read to it and circular mode. Use indexes to split the buffer in the middle; you do CPU IO on the half the DMA isn't accessing. Use a Half-Transfer interrupt to trigger these CPU reads/writes.
With regards to (4), it's been well known for a while that since Social Security doesn't check the payments being made into the program with any sort of scrutiny illegal immigrants can often get away with giving the social security numbers of dead people to their employers. Here's an article from 2024 that mentions the problem.

https://bipartisanpolicy.org/explainer/immigration-social-se...

From a policy perspective making it harder for illegal immigrants to be employed might make it worth cracking down on this. But doing so would cost the government money both by preventing these payments into Social Security that don't have to be paid out and also the cost of the crackdown itself.
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If you properly dislocate it (thus severing the nerve) it doesn't even get to twitch. In theory it's slightly cleaner and better even for the chicken.

It does require a bit of technique though, and the consequences of not doing it right at first can be very upsetting.
If I may:

Their is a huge conflict of ingerest of giving this power to a major economical actor that vastly depends on public investment and under public scrutinity.

Executive should have the audit right and in some measure probably it should be widespread to all citizens up to sensitive data not being leaked. But what good is there to give this power solely to one of the richest and more powerful man in the world? This is crazy.
"If you really like eating chicken, you may end up finding it difficult to eat them again in the future after you develop a bond with them."

Or you might find them delicious and need to raise more of them.
There’s a few condescending answers here. You will find this more common in weakly typed languages like PHP and VB and maaaaaybe JavaScript, where null == “null” will probably evaluate to true.
> Maybe they just never develop a bond with these animals.

I love my chickens and I'm really sad when I lose some to predators.
Yet I have no issue to harvest them for eating. They are not pets, I raise them for eggs and meat.

Maybe it's because I was raised on a farm, but I make a difference between pets and farm animals and that does not mean that I don't have a "bond" with some of the latter.
But it is not more than a promise, it just shifts the promise "our company isn't watching" into "our two companies aren't sharing data." I think it is an improvement on the status quo but it is frustrating to see false claims like that.
Fraud means anything that they don't like.
for some reason, i always had problems with the concept of ring buffers - because what happens if end wraps around and overtakes start?

it always takes me a few seconds (well, more than a few actually) to work out that in that case, the buffer is just full (like every other buffer).
It's so funny you think quoting a newspaper that says some random staffer doesn't CURRENTLY have access is some sort of gotcha. Do you know how time works?
Just stop giving Amazon money—at this point you can only blame yourself.

Done. Mostly.

I dropped Prime last year, and have been surprised by the results.

1. I don't buy a bunch of pointless plastic crap that I don't need anymore. It was the thrill/affirmation/addiction of near-instant gratification delivery that made me buy stuff on impulse.

2. I've saved a bunch of money because of #1.

3. Unless it's same-day delivery, "Prime" delivery is meaningless. Even with Prime, about 80% of my same-day, next-day or second-day deliveries were delayed. A couple of times for a week or more. I can't count the number of times the Amazon.com delivery tracker told me "You're next!" with a little cartoon truck on a map next to my home. Then an hour later, "We're doing a few more deliveries first." And then "Delivery date unknown."

I do still occasionally buy from Amazon, when there's something I can't get locally. But without the instant gratification, I buy much less. And sometimes the things I do buy arrive with the same speed of Prime delivery anyway.
This could be like rap genius for code!
What’s especially frustrating, if you care about governance being more serious than pro wrestling, is that we have a couple organizations in government that’d happily provide all kinds of ways to reduce the deficit: the GAO and the CBO.

But they tend to say reality-based things like “no, your tax cuts won’t pay for themselves, in fact they’ll cost $1.2T over ten years” or “no, this war won’t pay for itself, lol, what the fuck even” or “no, you can’t make meaningful progress on cutting the deficit by attacking benefits fraud, because there’s not very much of that.”

All things Republicans would rather pretend aren’t true, and certainly don’t want to act on. So what do you do when you need to show progress but are constrained by operating based on fiction? You tout tiny wins and hope the numbers seem big to people who don’t know much; you make things up; and you cause harm or even incur long-term costs or cause waste and call that savings by doing bad accounting.
It's about €0.35 per organic egg in the Netherlands (€3.19/10 in one store or €5.99/15 at another). The organic eggs have better shells and are so cheap it's not worth bothering with free range eggs, even if you don't care for the chickens. It helps that they're not refrigerated and last a long time, so you don't have to pay for spoilage.
> Seems like an oversight not mentioning IRC in this section.

Fair. I never got much exposure to it. It definitely wasn't available to us at the Poly and then I somehow didn't try it afterwards despite being over-excited about all the other online stuff I encountered from then on.

So even though I see the influence of IRC in all sorts of places (and not least in Slack of course) I don't have much insight into what it was like back in the day.

Weirdly (?) this is the first time I've even heard of Zephyr, so TIL! Thanks!
Do you work in ML research on LLMs? I do, and I don't understand why people are so unbelievable confident they understand how AI and human brains work such that they can definitely tell what functions of the brain LLMs can also perform. Like, you seem to know more than leading neuroscientists, ML researchers, and philosophers, so maybe you should consider a career change. You should maybe also look into the field of mechanistic interpretability, where lots of research has been done on internal representations these models form - it turns out, to predict text really really well, building an internal model of the underlying distribution works really well

If you can rigorously state what "having a world model" consists of and what - exactly - about a transformer architecture precludes it from having one I'd be all ears. As would the academic community, it'd be a groundbreaking paper.
There's little correlation here
I presume the idea of $1 trillion less bonds being issues would decrease supply and decrease the price we need to charge. (More demand for the same supply decreases bond prices). This would have the impact of reducing the interest payments in the federal budget, which is becoming burdensome.

I personally am just as worried that reducing US gov spending will worsen a potential 2025 or 2026 recession (which might lower rates...)
Here some more context: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/googles-career-dreamer-use...
There is always a little asterisk: "unless required by law".

Police can ask the service provider to assign you to a specific exit node.

Once you are on that specific exit node it's over.

It's easy for the police to convince you, the CEO of Obscura wouldn't want to be charged as an aid in a crime.
Where feasible, I like to start a suite with a unit test that validates the unit's intended side effects actually occur, as visible in their mocks being exercised.
Open & tolerant? As a gay man you just made me laugh & cry. Hell, even fairly recently: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8rkx271xe6o a kiss between 2 men on stage got the band banned from the country.

Now, before you completely disregard the point I'm making; yes, they did ignore the laws/warnings they were given but your point is that Malaysia is tolerant and my point is that Malaysia is not tolerant at all.

We should call out intolerance when we see it; saying homophobia is a part of their "culture" is not good enough.
I am from Eastern Europe. You Latin people call it oppression, we call it slow Tuesday. Compared to the communist regimes Franco and Salazar were just talented amateurs.
Do you know anyone where this has been the case?
When you replace "I" with "it" (as in your example with computers) the question becomes meaningless and stupid. As an outside observer both computers are the same, as they act exactly the same way, therefore there is no question. That is actually the "egalitarian" view in Benj Hellie's paper [1]:

> The ‘god’s eye’ point of view taken in setting up the egalitarian metaphysics does not correspond to my ‘embedded’ point of view ‘from here’, staring out at a certain computer screen.

The vertiginous question (or Nagel's Hard Problem [2] to a degree: Why does physical brain activity produce a first-person perspective at all?) is about the subjectivity of consciousness. I see the world through my eyes, therefore there is only one "I" while there are infinitely many others.

The duplication example was something I made up to explain the concept, but to reiterate, if I could make a perfect copy of me, why would I still see the world from the first copy's eyes and not the second, if the physical structure of the brain defines "me"? What stops my consciousness from migrating from the first body to the second, or both bodies from having the same consciousness? Again, this question is meaningless when we are talking about others. It is a "why am I me" question and cannot be rephrased as "why person X is not person Y".

Obviously we don't have the capacity to replicate ourselves, but I, as a conscious being, instinctively know (or think) that I am always unique, regardless of how many exact copies I make.

As I mentioned in another comment, I don't have a formal education on philosophy, so I am probably doing a terrible job trying to explain it. This question really makes sense when it clicks, so I suggest you to read it from a more qualified person's explanation.

[1] http://individual.utoronto.ca/benj/ae.pdf

[2] https://consc.net/papers/facing.pdf
> Disparaging these companies for making products people want while writing angry posts that these companies aren't doing what you want.

I'm not seeing the "angry posts" you are referencing here. Neither the HN post you're replying to nor the linked post come off as angry to me. Disappointed, perhaps.

And that aside... NOT disparaging these companies certainly isn't getting them to do the right thing. Informing others who might not otherwise be in a situation where they are aware of these deficiencies seems to me the most likely way to exert subtle pressure to get these companies to do the right thing eventually.
There must be an interesting backstory here. Did her parents deliberately not name her? Did they forget?
We’ve come a long way from “Hillary shouldn’t be President because she has demonstrated a disrespect for national security information protocol” to “its Trump’s right as POTUS to disrespect national security information protocol”
In Vermont personal ads for relationships are still going strong
I (layperson, non physicist) never understood how the Dyson sphere would work. Anyone far from the equator would experience low to zero gravity and float off into the internal sun.
The Sun and Superflares
Adding a new source for every app becomes tiresome, especially when switching devices.

I do see potential for a closed source repo managed like an app store, but adding a repo for every app adds unnecessary security risks (as the app specific repo can contain any number of apps).
Ease cannot be used to ethically justify an action. But even so, you ignore that, according to research, people who eat meat have worse health than people who don't.
There's no reason to expect models won't be able to handle this even better than humans.
I don't follow this logic. Amazon did something bad on their app store so now walled gardens are good?

No, the logic is that several large companies (Amazon, Apple, Microsoft) have done bad things on their app store, so no stores can be trusted. But for me, I trust a big name store more than I trust an small unknown store.
You can make a good case to spend time sanitising requests to avoid catastrophic failure, but the "null" problem is one that quickly becomes a lot of work and risk to fix after the fact, for no obvious benefit except what's seen as the pedantry of some nerd, so it gets ranked all the way at the back of the list... until someone named Null comes along, and probably still even then.
The number of times that a website rejects my first name because it has a hyphen in it, even in 2025, is astounding. I get told all manner of things by support staff, like "just leave it out" as if it's just not an important part of my name or anything.
This book literally saved my life.

I read it in high school and it was okay. 15 years later I was taking a flight and needed something to read (pre-downloaded video was not quite a thing yet). I was NOT in a good place mentally, and hadn't been for a while. I was depressed and hiding it, suffering in my own head.

I'll be honest: I had a date picked out, and it was coming up.

This was in my library because I had grabbed a handful of free books from somewhere. I beasted the entire thing in 3 hours.

Something about it rung me like a bell. I saw myself in the dark place this character was 2/3rds of the way through the book. Lost, suffering, unfulfilled, failing to rise to his potential, lamenting choices and compromises of my past, looking back and knowing I would be a disappointment to the brilliant young man I used to be.

I can think, I can wait, I can fast.

These became my mantra.

I had the tools I needed. I could find a way out of this hole, I could be patient until the opportunities I needed arrived, and I could endure discomfort and hardship to get there.

I can think, I can wait, I can fast.

I told my wife I needed therapy. I told my therapist I needed meds. I've gotten more than ten years past that date.

I haven't quite found my river yet, but I'm on the road.

... so you should read this book.
> right now I feel like a right melon for voting for him

Balance that with "keeping the Tories in power would have been far, far, far worse than the mild-right Labour of Starmer, especially now the US has gone for the second series of Lunatics In Power."
Stripe is building a Merchant of Record service for startups
You're right, it's possible and common to be recorded without somebody pointing a phone camera at you. That doesn't negate my point, right now the norm is that in many situations you _can_ record to your personal device without informed consent but you shouldn't. That will change if these types of cameras are everywhere.
From what I understand Musk sees/saw Tesla as a vehicle (no pun intended) to fund his real purpose, that being "working towards becoming a multi-planetary species". Whether you consider this to be a sensible or achievable goal is not really relevant but it does seem to be his driving goal. From what I gather in older interviews with him and people around him he was involved in the design of the Tesla Roadster and model S as well as in the design of the Falcon 1. It is difficult to find, let alone put any trust in objective material concerning Musk since he's been designated undesirable #2 (and more recently #1) by those who see him as the one who opened up what they considered to be their playground - Twitter - to the 'deplorables' and 'bitter clingers'. This, by the way, is another reason to compare him to Edison who also had and has a polarising effect with some people seeing him as a true innovator while others see him as an egotistical businessman who was intent on stealing others' credit for personal profit and who wielded patents as weapons to keep out superior competition in the form of (Nikolai Tesla's) AC power networks.
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Maybe you forked a library because of reasons. You can tour the original repo and explain the problems. I have at least one of those examples for each time the legal or confidentiality department stepped in.