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Posted it the other day on another thread, will post it here again so people can see it. Here is my own experience with this.

As crazy as these articles have been about gaming addiction being a medical condition are, I believe it. I'm in my early 20s, ever since I was in my mid teens I was addicted to video games. All through grade school and in college now, I struggle to put the controller down. I routinely don't get enough sleep because I can't stop playing. As soon as I come home I am on, and I won't get off until the early hours of the morning. It's a mixture of reasons why I guess; it keeps my mind off of reality, I enjoy the satisfaction of winning frequently, and it fulfills my desire of being in a progression based system. Achievements, knowing that my actions will eventually unlock achievements and level-ups, it keeps me going. I can't play games that don't have progression systems of some sort because I feel like without progression, it's a waste of time. Sure you can kind of get that in the real world, but it's harder and takes so much longer. Why do that when I have an easy alternative sitting on my desk? I really want to break my addiction to gaming as it really does affect some parts of my life, especially academic.
I believe that falls under the "object container streaming" system slated for 3.3 (end of Q3), which a new engine system for efficiently nesting containers. Situations like a room in a ship in a hangar in a space station in a planet's orbit in a star system, such that the parts you need can load in and out seamlessly.

There's also related work with getting things like ship spawning off the main thread and improving the networking so that it only sends you data that's relevant to areas you're in.

Hopefully this stuff doesn't get pushed further down the schedule because it should make a big difference to performance.

You can see their development roadmap online: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/roadmap/board/1-Star-Citi...
The Metrolink in Manchester - the UK's largest light rail network - is entirely funded by fares and receives no operational subsidy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Metrolink
I read a few articles, and I can understand the viewpoint about how using latino and latina can be seen as problematic. I understood that before.

But I don't understand why we don't just drop the o/a at the end and use "Latin". No article seems to explain this, and nobody here in HN has explained it either.

I'm not trying to be argumentative for the sake of it, I genuinely don't understand what's wrong with simply using "Latin", which would be linguistically more correct in English, and also a contraction of "Latin American".

Maybe there's some cultural nuance I'm missing, as I'm not American. All the Latin American people I know identify as being from their home country (mostly Argentina and Chile), rather than Latin American anyway. The whole Latino/Latina/Latinx thing seems to be some Pan-Latin American thing for US residents, trying to amalgamate a whole continent into a single cultural identity.
Unfortunately it's largely a numbers game.

If possible, be willing to relocate for work. Most entry level seekers are applying to everything they can, all over the place.

Work any and all connections you have. Anything you can do to get past the HR filter will help 10x your chances.

If you are pinched for money, you can always look for temp to hire work. It's unstable and the pay is usually crap, but it will get you in the door at one or multiple places and will get you to broaden your network.

Keep at it. It's discouraging and terrible, and the process is largely broken, but its entirely possible.
> Big cities never seem content to let public transit compete with cars on a level playing field

The idea that they should do so badly misses the entire justification for a public service.

> If the people really want public transportation, why do you have to punish them for using cars?

The main reason to have a public service rather than a private one provided by the free market is to address an externality (either of benefit with the public service or of harm with the private service it displaces.)

Competing with the private service on a level playing field is, in that case, contrary to the purpose of having a public service.
Why do you assume it's astroturfing? In my opinion, a lot of people just don't like Tesla or Elon Musk.

It's dangerous to assume that everyone who disagrees with you on the internet is a bot.
Ask HN: Ressources to find Startups without VC?
Most startups you see and hear about are full of VC, which I suppose makes sense, because they have bigger marketing budgets and the angel investors have lunch with editors and publishers of important publications. I was wondering if there are any ressources out there about finding startups that have taken the VC-less route of building a business?
This is a brilliant insight.

One of the problems I’ve seen in research into technical debt is the lack of a good definition. This insight could form the basis of one.
I've used it for a few things:

* To analyze the bluetooth protocol for a smartwatch so I could reverse-engineer a phone app to talk to it

* To intercept a temperature logger's TCP comms and figure out how it talked to the vendor's (crap) server software so I could write a better server for it

* To track down a weird problem where ffmpeg won't stream from my home CCTV system (it turns out it sends a duplicate PLAY command, still haven't figured out why yet...)

* To snoop for IP addresses on my local network in order to find lost devices (eg. when someone else set a device to a static IP address which has since been lost).

It's basically a fantastic Swiss Army knife for any question that starts with "what" and ends with "on the network".
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A good part of contradiction is not people thinking something and doing otherwise, but people not saying what they really believe because of fear.

That happens in authoritarian regimes where blasphemy against the official truth can mean jail or execution. But even in democratic, liberal societies going against the "right way of thinking" can get you in a lot of trouble.

Edit (accidentally sent before finished): it's reasonable that hypocrisy increases when you share your opinions with the whole world (potentially) instead of a like-minded circle of close friends.
Don't forget fossil fuel subsidies. Around $20B/year but the dollar cost is only part of the destruction here.

http://priceofoil.org/fossil-fuel-subsidies
Noted and agreed - I added to the list of things to work on. Thank you!
Yes, defrauding is fraud by definition. Root comment is clarifying that lying is not always defrauding.
Whoa, I never thought an article about Liberal would be on HN. I'm a Liberal, KS resident since about 2005, and now that I think about it...people here do have a kind of unique accent, but I don't know if it's really as striking as the article makes it out to be. I don't know, maybe I've just gotten used to it.

I was shocked when I opened the article and saw our welcome sign. Hahaha
It seems like a bit of class warfare on the part of the Koch's. Without public transportation people in lower income areas can't get to better jobs, healthcare or schools. People in these areas also don't have access healthy food because grocery stores won't open in areas where the majority of customers use food stamps and government aid. Yes current modes of transportation are becoming out dated the newer modes like self driving cars are not ready for the mass public. What the Koch's fail to grasp is that the more people making a living wage we have means we have less people living off entitlements like food stamps. If we have more people paying taxes instead of living off the taxes of other we will see improvements for all and possibly lower taxes due to a surplus not a deficit. Sorry for the soapbox.
I just now tried again and it works. Maybe it was just bandwidth or they fixed something. Both?
Even denser: people packed into a container.

The point is that these comparisons leave out all but one aspect.
This is why the US subsidizes agriculture so heavily, so they can quickly spin up more farms
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Sorry, I guess I misread with the assumption that the hypothetical was in some way connected to reality.

I mean, if we're removing limits, show me someone who would ever take a car anywhere, as opposed to sitting on the beach of their own private island sipping cocktails made by their butler.
Have you considered embedded programming? Less bloat...
I don't know, maybe the daily CVE reports including some Linux exploits, in spite of the kernel review process and static analyzers?
They are massive specific donors for causes that match their Libertarian beliefs. They are Libertarians and fund quite a few causes that would tick off the average GOP voter.
I'd wager you will continue to see a mix of transportation modes at first, then a proliferation of non-vehicular transport for shorter/medium range trips, with greatest acceleration of change occurring in the highest person-density areas like NYC, LA, Chicago, and other big cities with their eyes on ending the scourges of public parking, local emissions, traffic accidents, and just generally the unsightliness of a car-centric world.

While the ride-hailing self-driving cars will be a great boon to those not wanting to drive, saving parking and potentially preventing accidents, I do believe SDC's will come in waves starting from the SW USA and California before spreading to the rest of the country/world. In these areas, public transit will likely be less useful, since for instance in Tucson, AZ, the city is massively spread out and busses would simply incur a much greater time-cost due to their non-personalized route.

Moving forward, as SDC's become more % of the fleet in urban/suburban areas (still won't be in rural areas for another 5-10 years or more), you will probably see more variety of SDC's. Instead of having a 50 person bus, you can have a 5-7 person SD shuttle/minivan (think Waymo Chrsyler Pacifica) that will take 5 people with similar routes to the same place.

Once SDC is highly penetrant in terms of %, I'd expect a great prolfieration of electric scooters, electric pedal-assist bikes, regular bikes, pedestrians, and all sorts of non-vehicular transport. I myself would ride a bike to work if not for the very low-skill drivers I encounter daily in my commute. This happens to be in an urban area with very poor bike infrastructure and very large hills. SDCs + electric bikes would solve these two issues, IMO, and they are probably ~10-15 years out in my location.
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Small embedded systems.

I have to admit I'm not quite sure why you don't already know that, considering our history is similar, which makes me suspect the question was just poorly-expressed.

Any software you write on any system that's already running a mainstream OS will have multiple layers of abstraction by default. Add anything web-related to that, particularly on the client, and you have another dense layer of abstractions, because browsers are just VMs.

The only way to escape that is to work on small (here, by small, I mean bare-metal or small RTOS systems) in a non-VM language. (I add the last because many small systems are now running JS or Python, e.g., NodeMCU/CircuitPython/etc. and as soon as you get in to that, while you're still quite close to the machine, there's a fairly opaque layer unless you decide to dive in.)

It is the nature of systems to increase in complexity. In many ways this makes our lives easier, at the expense of being able to understand each layer individually. It's only when we cross layer boundaries, by design or by accident, that we need to understand more deeply.
I would disagree that the examples you provide are similar. Perhaps similar in the sense that they use the same animal. Take Mr Jumbo and PHP, style is completely different, colour is similar, but then again it's the colour of an elephant. One is wearing a top hat, the other isn't.

cosmos and CircleCI, do you actually think they are similar? watchbob and datadog? Come on.
Many cities use automated light rail or subway systems. Vancouver, Canada has has such a system in place since late 1985.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_urban_metro_...
I see it like being aware of impulse timings in you, for example, I now and then feel the waves of both happiness and sadness, when they come and leave and I understand it's temporary, I realize the mood it leaves and that it will end and as I'm focusing on the effect of it on the body I don't quite take so much place on happiness/depression, more like observe and let it be. This state of acceptance is strange for me when it comes to searching for success/praise at work, it is stranger when remembering new/better job/car/app/travel is needed and it's strangest when searching for a significant other.
if i recall correctly, this is a windows-only limitation. i've had no problems capturing loopback on linux. on windows, you can install npcap rather than winpcap to allow capturing on the loopback with wireshark.
So are some of these public transportation projects. Seattle has started funding train lines that will finally open as late as 2040.
Cool, but so dark? And where are the airports? I only see lined globe in very dark environment...
I've noticed people often object to these types of schemes because they see them as rewarding people for bad behaviour.

I'm not usually one of those people (If it works, it works, right?). But I feel like giving out flying lessons (a lifelong and unaffordable goal for many people) would be a pretty tough idea to sell to the tax paying public.
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Not sure if you're aware, but parts of what was Docker were actually rolled into another project called Moby about a year ago: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3193904/containers/what-is...
Every one of those comparisons I've seen is deceptive - e.g. in this one they have a full bus, but one person per car.
Nice! Two things:

1. Can you put two separate opacity controls for the base map and the Voronoi regions? I like the appearance of the original better than anything I could configure with this single opacity slider.

2. A lot of regions meet at the north and south poles. That's something that the original doesn't have, so I'd guess that's an artifact of numerical errors.
Depends entirely on the domain, hardware, and environment. The typical "embedded systems" of today are orders of magnitude more complex than stuff I worked on twenty and thirty years ago. In order to get back to those days you need to focus on very, very small systems, and even then, you need to define terms carefully, e.g., Apple Watches are embedded systems, but they're non-trivial.
> So you believe that the US is a victim of protectionism in these countries without having protectionism of it's own? That's a pretty hard position to back with evidence.

You need look no further than the USA's gaping trade deficits.
Adjust the Earth opacity level at the bottom of the page.
> Even a tiny fixed fee of $50 per error might be enough

If the fine went to the person who uploaded the work, this would be good because it would force the filter to be robust in the face of adversarial attacks.
This is true, and not just in language - Africa has some of the highest genetic diversity found in relative short distances because of isolated villages. I can imagine local accents and by extension languages form even faster than detectable genetic traits.
If the game ever stops being alpha in the first place. Why leave alpha if people will still buy your game and also defend its flaws?
Could you provide the link? I'm willing to google it but I'd like to get the best article and it sounds like you're knowledgeable about this subject.
Hey Romaniv! I just saw your comment about an idea of open magazines: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=14892944

I am working on something similar myself right now. I would be glad to discuss it with you. Here is my email: garway @ gmx.at. Thx!
used it after I had ssh connections from/to china.

checked to see if system cleanup and hardened firewall kicked them out. After some days with zero traffic (minus broadcast etc) declared red alert over.
Tariffs are anti-competitive, a tax on the economy, and go against all sound economic theories. I am out of the market, you should be too.
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She was fired for mainly upsetting the community by doing things such as firing Victoria, it seems odd we're now blaming supposed 'incels and misogynists' for calling for Ellen's firing and standing up for Victoria.
Go has a built in message passing system in the language but you can share memory between goroutines without friction, and you can lock goroutines to real os threads if you want, too. I did both in my gameswithgo stream. It was a fun time!
Or at least give her/him credit prominently. For 5 years or so, I pretty much lived off from the people that came from a link on the footer on CakePHP, back when I was a freelancer.
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The TX (on-chain transaction) fees have absolutely changed in the last 3-6 months. Before Jan 1, the average TX fee had peaked at about $55USD. In February you could get a transaction on the chain for about $2. Since that time, they've implemented the Lightning network, which is a way to transact over a channel rather than putting every transaction on the chain. I don't know enough about that feature to explain how it works, but that should be easy enough to find information about if you're asking what technologically has changed... but in terms of raw numbers and actual prices, you can find that information too:

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees...

At the present time, a transaction can be reasonably assured to be mined in the next 1-6 blocks by adding a fee of $0.20 for next block (or down to $0.10 for within ~6 blocks.)

https://bitcoinfees.info/

This is not the only fee you pay when buying and selling, but it can be... exchanges like GDAX permit you to pay a fee to place a market order (buy/sell from the current limit ceiling or floor), or pay no fee to place a limit order (wait for the market price to cross your own preferred price), and those different kinds of exchanges will all have different fee structures, but most markets supporting limit orders I think should not charge fees. This kind of buy/sell fee is basically always a percent, maybe with a flat fee floor (eg. $1 min fee.)

The market order fee is really probably pretty insignificant unless you're actively trading all the time, in which case you'll definitely want to avoid paying them. On Coinbase, for example, you only buy and sell at the market price with a roughly percent-based fee structure, and the fees are low.

Ostensibly you can understand what's changed to be that, now that there are no-fee options available for high-volume traders, all of the high-volume traders are using those options so there is more room on the chain for small-time simple consumers to pay a low fee and keep things simple, doing their transaction in the traditional way. I don't want to run a Lightning node, but I can still benefit from the existence of that protocol through lower fees, because it means there's simply a lot less traffic on the chain.

I don't have numbers to back any of these assertions up about how it happened, other than the actual links I provided regarding the average fee value paid... but all of this reasoning about 'how' is hypothetical and I'm probably wrong about something.
The frame encoder for AV1 would blow away anything we have now but there isn't a push to use it on images unfortunately.

HN tends to dislike abuses of JS but one of the coolest polyfills I've seen tricks browsers into using their video decoders to render WebP and other more modern image formats. Definitely worth looking into if you've got a lot of huge images
Why is it important to have sports in your Organization?
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Apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive
Is it that unrealistic? During rush hour, most buses I've seen are packed, whereas most cars on the road are not carpools.
Only negative comments in this thread...
In WoW it was often a nightmare of dooming between 3 and 39 other people to twenty minutes of trying to find a replacement instead of actually playing the game. Not a big deal for the person who quits, admittedly.
I’m not sure I agree. With flights, wealthy people would just charter a private flight or travel on a luxury or boutique airline, apart from the traditional option of first-class.

What it sounds like you are saying is that there is a group of middle class or upper middle class people who won’t choose to spend the amounts required for the luxury option (the equivalent of not taking the bus), and yet feel grumpy that the slightly higher prices they would prefer to pay end up pricing almost all flights out of the market for other middle class or lower middle class travelers.

“Cleanly separate the cheap vs comfortable use cases” seems simple: airline economics just implies that the prices for the comfortable (“not taking the bus”) option are staggeringly high, and that so many customers strongly prefer the cheap (“just treat the airplane like it’s the subway”) option, that airlines must structure the offerings around that fact.
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Doesn't it make sense for Elon himself to be holding a sizeable short position? Presumably he'd like to hedge his large Tesla holding?
Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

Just a thought, the Linux/BSD community might hugely benefit if someone with your deep knowledge released a set of perf test scripts that anyone can run locally to regression test network perf. That way, the OSS community can integrate those perf test scripts into their commit/regression test pipeline.
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I'm starting to think we have the need of something like the ICAN for facial recognition (FR), promoting the regulation of FR worldwide. There a little valid systems where FR is truly helpful. Most of todays applications are around things like "access control" and "tag your friends here", i.e. banalities which are either unnecessary or can be solved with simpler tech.

On the other hand the risks are incredible, FR in combination with AR systems could completely eradicate privacy. Autocratic governments could use it for a new levels of surveillance. Military usage could perfect the use of autonomous weapons etc.

It's just not worth it and should be internationally outlawed. Just like A-bombs and chemical warfare.
There is no trade deficit with Canada.
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