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lrae commented on Helion: A modern fast paced Doom FPS engine in C#   github.com/Helion-Engine/... · Posted by u/klaussilveira
necrosyne · 3 months ago
Allegedly, Nintendo chose to buy them off with millions of dollars to suspend development instead of pursuing legal action.
lrae · 3 months ago
Is there any source on that?

All I'm seeing is they got their hands on the domain, which can be (and was in the past) just part of whatever settlement they agreed on, and the game press spinned that into "Nintendo bought Ryujinx".

lrae commented on SpacetimeDB   spacetimedb.com/... · Posted by u/matthewfcarlson
dicytea · 5 months ago
There's this other team that built an MMORPG with SpacetimeDB, in 3 months with 8 people: https://youtu.be/kzDnA_EVhTU&t=717

Seems to have paid off for them: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lightfoxga...

lrae · 5 months ago
10k downloads, last app store update in November, MMO

Does not feel like it paid off for them. But SpacetimeDB might of course not be the reason for that.

lrae commented on Google to buy Wiz for $32B   reuters.com/technology/cy... · Posted by u/uncertainrhymes
jonjojojon · 5 months ago
Is there lock-in for Wiz customers, besides the quality of the product? I understand the crazy revenue growth, fastest to 100m ARR, but surely this needs to saturate. Maybe half the fortune 500 use Wiz,but can you imagine 100% or even 80%? Who are their competitors?
lrae · 5 months ago
The biggest competitor is Orca (pretty much the same product) and they even accuse Wiz of patent infringement. Trial starts in December. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/ryjc8dgnr

Being owned by Google probably would help in those regards too now.

lrae commented on AI is stifling new tech adoption?   vale.rocks/posts/ai-is-st... · Posted by u/kiyanwang
photochemsyn · 7 months ago
The central issue is high cost of training the models, it seems:

> "Once it has finally released, it usually remains stagnant in terms of having its knowledge updated. This creates an AI knowledge gap. A period between the present and AI’s training cutoff... The cutoff means that models are strictly limited in knowledge up to a certain point. For instance, Anthropic’s latest models have a cutoff of April 2024, and OpenAI’s latest models have cutoffs of late 2023."

Hasn't DeepSeek's novel training methodology changed all that? If the energy and financial cost for training a model really has drastically dropped, then frequent retraining including new data should become the norm.

lrae · 7 months ago
> Hasn't DeepSeek's novel training methodology changed all that? If the energy and financial cost for training a model really has drastically dropped, then frequent retraining including new data should become the norm.

Even if training gets way cheaper or even if it stays as expensive but more money gets thrown at it, you'll still run into the issue of having no/less data to train on?

lrae commented on Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency   reuters.com/world/us/musk... · Posted by u/danso
jdgoesmarching · 7 months ago
Why is this flagged? This seems like a pretty damn important tech story.
lrae · 7 months ago
Because you have two parties of HN users that happily flag, which is enough. Those who are Trump supporters and those who just don't want any politics / the discussions surrounding it on HN. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Doesn't seem to be a duplicate, so dang might unflag it and remove the filter if he sees the thread.

lrae commented on AI slop, suspicion, and writing back   benjamincongdon.me/blog/2... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
yapyap · 7 months ago
> With AI, the insights (or "insights") depend on what questions you ask, and what you know to push back on. We all have access to the same IDEs, but we don't write the same code

Yeah no, an AI is not gonna give you a brilliant answer cause you wrote such a brilliant prompt, you just wrote a different question and got a different answer. Like if I type something into google I don’t get the same result as when you type something into google, why? cause we’re not asking the same damn questions.

lrae · 7 months ago
While I also agree with the sentiment that it's not the same, I think it's interesting that you use "googling" as a comparison.

Googling and extracting the right information efficiently is clearly a skill, and people do use it in wildly (and often inefficient/bad) ways. That might be less of an issue with your average HN user, but in the real world, people are bad at using Google.

lrae commented on Aligning Automattic's Sponsored Contributions to WordPress   automattic.com/2025/01/09... · Posted by u/dangrossman
legitster · 8 months ago
Trademark abuse is a "business-on-business crime". Even if you were in the right (nobody was confused about branding except for you mother, apparently), this is not a cause you can expect users to rally behind.

Even the staunchest Disney fans don't rally behind Disney when one of their "trademarks gets abused".

lrae · 8 months ago
That's actually not true. E.g. Nintendo fans vs Palworld / Pocket Pair.
lrae commented on Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's   twitter.com/dancantstream... · Posted by u/drones
dadoum · 10 months ago
I have no sources backing this, but I think it could be related to the ban of a big streamer recently who made a "controversial" stance about what's happening in Gaza [0] and that could have lead to some people mass creating accounts on Twitch (that would not be unheard of when that kind of events happen, but again, I haven't seen any report of that happening).

[0]: https://x.com/HasanabiProd/status/1845889127629176966

lrae · 10 months ago
The block seems to be in effect since at least May: https://x.com/Forceultraomega/status/1795189735297605635

So unlikely has anything to do with a recent ban.

lrae commented on WordPress retaliation impacts community   lwn.net/SubscriberLink/99... · Posted by u/chmaynard
thr0w555 · a year ago
The mods never behaved as if they were on "matts payroll" or anything of the like. They had a pinned megathread at the top of the front page, they opened up the sub in the past few days to allow any posts even outside megathreads. They also redirected for a period all posts to r/wpdrama, giving free promotion to that sub.

Whether you agree with the megathread-only policy or not, they never behaved as if they were doing anything but trying to keep the sub clean and not totally overridden by Matt controversy posts which is normal on Reddit.

lrae · a year ago
That's not true.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1g29dhm/petition...

And they did apologize for it, I think.

Also, megathreads are what you do when you want a topic to die on a subreddit. Especially now where pinned threads even have less visibility. Their obviously bad faith poll after ending their "no moderation experiment" after not even two days (while announcing it for a week), also speaks a different language.

Probably slightly biased summary: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1g4pr8f/wor...

Yes, I'm sure some reddit users went too far in DMs (it's reddit...), but ultimately,

- the moderators of the subreddit clearly wanted to suppress that topic.

- one (the remaining one) works for Matt, and thinks the whole thing is a nothingburger (https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1fwvs5z/comment/...)

- the creator of the subreddit still seemed completely pro-Matt and also friendly with him

That said, bluesix seemed like a very helpful mod, so, still not great to see them delete their account. And also, some users are for sure in it just for the blood.

The obvious move on moderation side would've been to allow big news around that "drama" to have their own threads, to remove duplicates and have random opinion tweets, blog posts & influencer's thoughts in the megathread / a pinned comment on each of the "big news'" threads.

This is what most mods who wouldn't want to suppress the topic but keep the sub somewhat clean would've done. For some reason, that wasn't even up for discussion.

It was either a "we go on strike and stop moderating" (which ended quickly when it didn't result in the chaos they anticipated), megathread or complete ban of the topic for them.

lrae commented on WordPress retaliation impacts community   lwn.net/SubscriberLink/99... · Posted by u/chmaynard
Pikamander2 · a year ago
WordPress's core dev team has had a longstanding aversion to including "unnecessary" features in the core to avoid bloat, with the idea that plugins can take care of any gaps in functionality.

It sounds like a reasonable philosophy until you see just how many basic CMS features it's missing and subsequently how many sites are running 20+ poorly-coded plugins that spam the dashboard notifications and have numerous PHP vulnerabilities.

lrae · a year ago
Those 20 poorly written plugins make a good amount of money though, which is why many of those plugins' creators and affiliated "wordpress influencers" also do an outstanding job pushing the sentiment against more integrations into the core.

u/lrae

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