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The development teams even for AAA games are nowhere near 1000 people.

The whole of Take Two Interactive is 4000 people Rockstar is just one subsidiary.

Rockstar San Diego which developed RDR has about 150 employees.
Requiring housing to be accompanied by parking yields more parking but also less housing, as the additional cost takes projects on the margin below profitability and the space occupied by parking can't be used for more units (without expensive underground garages).
> But for replacing addresses, there's no obvious 1-1 correspondance between a plus code and a building. A large building may span 20 or more plus codes, so which one would you use?

This same situation already exists for street numbers and doesn't present a big problem.

Redevelop a single-family house into a duplex and you may need to split an address. The usual solution is to add onto it, so that 1234 Elm Street because 1234A Elm and 1234B Elm.

Or redevelop a block of houses into a single, large apartment community and you might consolidate several parcels of land with their own street address into one. The usual solution is to just pick one arbitrarily. Maybe your property consolidates the land for 1230, 1232, 1234, 1238, and 1240 Elm, so you pick 1234 Elm because it is catchy.

In both cases, you put up a sign on your building or mailbox, and that's enough information for people to start using it.
Game development is hard, it seems like it's completely hit or miss, there is no middle ground. I've released 5 games, but I have to say, spending 2,600+ hours on something without doing market research or at least starting small seems crazy.

My most successful game was an app for iOS which made me a grand total of around $30. The difference is I only spent around 80 hours working on it (40 or so for the game, 20 or so on the level editor, and 20 or so making levels). I had no money for marketing, had done no research beforehand, so I pretty much knew it was going to fail but did it as a fun side project to learn some new stuff and for my CV.

Compare that to the various website side projects I've worked on over the years which have made me hundreds of thousands of dollars (over 10 years). Game dev sounds fun, but if you're looking to make money, I would definitely stay away from it.
> So either there's a Jewish conspiracy (which some people believe...) or Jews tend to be smarter.

You're assuming that intelligence is the determining factor in winning a Nobel prize, which seems spurious at best. Work ethic and training, particularly early in life seem, to me, like they'd be better predictors. I'd posit that Jewish culture is better at nurturing intelligence before I'd conclude that there's some ethnic superiority going on.
I keep looking but i cannot find this confirmation. Would you mind posting a link?
"Left" or "right"? I'm talking about the "nature" versus "nurture" debate in human behavior and performance.
At the risk of sounding like an elitist - Pixel Dungeon isn't a "real" roguelike. Check out something like Nethack, or ADOM, or Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. Or maybe Tales of Maj'eyal if you want something with lots of graphical polish (this one also has a decent amount of actual scripted plot).

These games have the extra depth and detail that cause the kinds of emergent gameplay and "storybuilding" that people are talking about.
> I have a backlog of dozens of purchased-but-never-played Steam games picked up at ridiculously low prices from Humble Bundles, Steam sales, etc. Does the world need any more games at this point?

When I started to find myself with half a dozen of such games, I remembered the year we spent saving money with my brothers to buy a hard copy of Caesar 3. I was just a child. It costed us what would now be 15€. Considering the inflation since then, games were quite expensive.

So, I've decided to stop buying games in those promotions and having games in my library that I will never play. I prefer paying the full price for a game I really want to play, like before. I think it's more honest to the developers. Whether that will mean more money to them in average I don't know. Does someone know if the developers/editors really benefit from the sales on HumbleBundle and the like (the prices really look pretty low)?
Foremost I'd like to excuse myself for my laziness as I'm more engaged by the presumption of words like "racist" being thrown at the innocent and less by reading up individual political leanings - but could you please name some examples that prove what "rationalWiki" says, that she's a racist. Quoting Charles Murray often shouldn't count. And I didn't found an "about" page, just this: https://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2015/03/07/my-politics/
I didn't say we would be able to pay, I said that there's a hidden price. It might be that the price is too high, like 180% Global GDP for a century, but it would be nice to find out right?
The carseat thing is a big deal. So is going to Costco and buying a ton of stuff for the family. I don't think very many people do that in an Uber.
Could you elaborate as to why you believe there is no causation here? Those who use ad-blockers do so for the explicit reason of making the web more tolerable; a more tolerable web is therefore more desirable to browse.
> All nations have equal level of intelligence. The difference might be access to education, environment, common wealth, and social inequality.

Just like height. If you raise a Pygmy in a rich European environment, he will reach standard European height.

More seriously though, I'm really tired of people somehow believing that evolution only works from the neck down.
How can such a plan exist? Or am I missing something?
If this is true and significant then it does not imply a long-term improvement so much as a specialisation towards (a) not being caught for crimes and (b) being able to become an “elite,” potentially by violence, cruelty, manipulation, and other traits one likely would not consider desirable.
I like how left response is forcing people at the point of a gun when people’s behaviour doesn’t fit into the ideology. If only I’ve seen it somewhere... ah, in the country I was born - Soviet Union.
Looking at the trailer, personally I think it looks awesome. Nice subtle shading and detail on the environment and enemies that doesn't detract from the overall simplicity, and then you get to light up the whole screen with massive firepower when you start shooting with one of the big weapons. What do you think looks bad about it?

(Not a rhetorical question. I'm not a graphic artist. I'm curious if I am missing something that a professional would spot.)
Parking requirements are artificial surplus. Letting businesses decide how much parking they want to build is not artificial scarcity, but just the free market at work.

If the majority of people are like you, businesses will be incentivized by market forces build enough parking to accommodate them. So what are you worried about?
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>>Math and Chess are both indoor activities and also absolutely unpolitical, which is a huge plus in an authoritarian regime.

The history of chess is definitely very political, especially inside the Soviet Union. It was seen as the proxy for intelligence, and if Soviet players were better than Americans, it was their way of demonstrating superiority in yet another domain.
The incentive is just if they want the project to survive and thrive and continue. They may not want this, or may value their pleasure of hacking on it higher than long-term liveness.

I’m not making any normative judgments about _whether_ they want one set of preferences or the other, only commenting that it turns out (normatively) badly, from the perspective of the community around the project, if they don’t prioritize the overall liveness of the project (which comes at the cost of “doing as they please”).
Stardew Valley didn't do much marketing either.

Yeah the name isn't very good. And yeah the base engine is RPG maker (re the other comment here).

But this is kinda my original point. Making a game with a good name, or a different engine, isn't going to mean it's successful. You can always point out something in terms of "well it's clearly failed because X". Hell, people even say the Unity3D logo scares them off. But people really like that game. They like it as much as they like Stardew Valley. And it's probably sold less than 0.1% as much.

And that's just the first game I saw on the list.
This is what we do with Brave (https://brave.com). We stop it from even touching the network; after all, much of the ads and trackers we download aren't benign. Many are aggressively trying to monitor our online activity at best, or infect us with malware at worst. Brave blocks these requests from taking place.

We offer the user an option instead to support online properties (websites, YouTube channels, Twitch streams, etc.) with pro-rata contributions of Attention Token (BAT). Brave stakes users with free BAT grants each month to prime the system.

Understanding that the web runs on advertisements, we're also working on an alternative advertising model wherein the user gives explicit consent to participate, matching happens on-device via machine learning, and revenues are shared with the end-user (as much as 70%).
In-content ads are regulated in many places. You can't do it unless you explicitly mention that it is an ad.
To be honest I believe DCMA is a entirely negative law. Even the legitimate strike claims were used in ways that help noone, sometimes hurting even the person doing the claim in first place, for example Nintendo been so agressive on YouTube, taking down for example videos of conventions that happened to have a Nintendo trailer or game playing somewhere on camera, that journalist stopped covering Nintendo because doing do cause strikes against you.
Mercy killing.
When you visit a site that uses webtorrent, then you don't need to find your own torrent client. The site's javascript does the torrenting in the user's browser automatically.
>> American voters don't expect their governments to be good at this kind of thing. European voters would vote politicians out of office if their transit systems got as bad as the NY subway has become. It would be seen as a failure to execute one of the basic duties of government.

Americans often vote those people out of office and their replacements are equally useless or worse.
How do you handle images/screenshots/handwritten notes?

I am also using Org-Mode and Dropbox for the majority of my notes. I really like it. In particular, Orgzly for Android works great with this system, so check it out if you want mobile notes as well.

The problem is that I also like to take paper notes, and take videos/pictures of stuff, and scan documents, and download webpages. Org-mode kinda stinks for embedding external content that isn't text? As far as I can tell.

I can link to external content, and if I export to HTML it'll show up. But... I never export to HTML, because, as you probably already know, it's way easier to read notes in an editable format. I can turn on picture rending in Org-mode, but it's not responsive, and I can't crop the pictures or annotate them with a stylus, or do any of a dozen different things that I want to do.

What I've thought about is that I really just want the ability to render HTML/CSS inside of an Org-mode buffer, and ideally to be able to set up custom CSS classes that would be applied to every snippet. Just set up a quick region, write some helper functions to compile/render the HTML, etc...

I've been thinking for a while about taking some time off of work to just try and solve the problem. Is it already solved? I know that at one point people were looking into getting webkit embedded into buffers. Did that go anywhere? I guess you can build GTK widgets for Org-mode as well? But then you lose the ability to define custom styles on the fly.
it's really unfortunate. i would gladly pay $30/month or so for a legal service that did nothing other than replicate the current experience with torrent trackers. i would pay $100/month if every show/movie were guaranteed to be available in high bitrate 720p, 1080p, and (where applicable) 4K at the official airtime/release date, maybe throw in a few seedboxes for good measure.

i don't even care whether the video starts immediately. im perfectly happy to wait ~10mins to get a decent buffer of chunks at the beginning of the file.
Brave is extending ad-blocking beyond the power-user domain, and into the general user base. We recently passed 4 million monthly active users, and 10 million Android downloads. With our built-in ad-blocking, the practice is becoming more ubiquitous among non-technical users. In fact, prior to Brave, ad-blockers had appeared on more than 600M devices. There's a clear and strong trend towards more and more blocking/privacy-by-default on the web.
Technically mental trauma could have done so as well - which you probably heard dozens of times. Even if a doctor believed you I am not sure what they could do that wouldn't be extremely ill advised. Immunosuppressants would be tough to justify even if it was a certain cure instead of a highly tentative one.

I know it is a frustrating situation to be in. Like I know that oral general anesthesia would help me for bloodwork given a severe phobia (multiple panic attacks while maxed oral dose and too tranqed to walk normally bad) but even without asthma and weight the risk would be too off-kilter to do without qualifying as malpractice. Let alone insurance and expenses. Unfortunately the field seems to select for people who see it as a nonissue.
Oh god, I'm not the only one realizing your statement on 25-30 years for the mortgage, on top of the 25-30 years already spent to pay for the down payment.

It is either save for retirement or save for a house.
A model has leverage points if there are parts of it that can be useful for solving a problem. For example, a website-building model might provide useful links to software that can be used to build different kinds of websites. Those links are important leverage points.

Each model has different leverage points. Your comment, taken as part of a model of your psychology, provides leverage for understanding that part of my text was not well received by your psychology.

Regarding the hood, look at it this way: If you don't know much about cars, you might look at a simple toy car _without an opening hood_ and make assumptions about what happens in the front of the car. When you get a car where the hood opens, maybe all of a sudden you make a huge leap: There is stuff under here, and it does something. So at this point, maybe you start working on (by asking around, or reading), or building, a model with a working engine. Or even just a working dipstick, who knows. As the parts are revealed, the model gains leverage. Pretty soon you are able to run more advanced simulations and predict traffic dynamics, things like that. Or you change models and learn the leverage points of the tractor, or motorcycle. You begin to learn why a motorcycle is helpful and even necessary in some circumstances. Texts work the same way as they unfold. And there are also various text-creation methods that expose different leverage points. Reliance on charts and graphs, or emotive graphics, etc. All of it is helpful in some way, and maybe--like my original comment--low-leverage in other ways and for other people.

Anyway I hope that helps, but I know I'm still couching this in metaphor which isn't a high-leverage communications method for everyone. YMMV, which is what makes human psychology so cool.
This seems like a reasonable solution. It's basically how we handle telecom and utility billing.
As I understand it, Patrick and Sam are friends. You don’t think they’re discussing these and other hard questions socially?

Also, Sam founded YC Research and donated $10M of his own money into it to find answers to hard questions about AI, UBI, medicine/health and other big challenges. He also toured the country interviewing Trump voters to find answers to questions about what was underlying the political climate that led to the election result.

What makes you think YC’s leadership think they have all the answers? At least in Sam’s case, the evidence seems to point to the opposite.

For what it’s worth I think there are other questions that are more important and potentially valuable to society than Patrick’s or the ones YCR is currently working on, but that’s just from my own experience and contemplation, and I don’t criticise people whose own journeys have not pointed them to these issues/ideas yet. I commend anyone making serious efforts to understand and solve the biggest issues they can identify with their own experiences and best efforts.
Show HN: NuScenes – largest open-source multi-sensor self-driving dataset
When you say "the true treatment was redirection of his compulsions", do you mean that a regimen of redirection eliminated compulsions, or that the compulsive behavior is replaced by a different behavior that isn't harmful?
> Replication and comparison makes for a good MS or early PhD project

Do you think that might be the solution? That is, to get an MS your final project has to be an attempt at replication, and then a PhD has to be a new contribution. If that became the standard, would it solve a large part of this whole issue?
You are missing the fact that its basically his employer self insuring, as a form of unpaid compensation. The only thing the insurer is doing is acting as a billing agent.
One Man’s Desperate Quest to Cure His Son’s Epilepsy–With Weed
I challenge you to name a single mail client which doesn't use graphics hardware acceleration in some form.

Even an old fashioned DOS computers console display modes are graphics acceleration - that's why it doesn't have to draw the fonts pixel by pixel - the graphics hardware gets them out of a ROM in real-time.
Tangential but interesting: conventional spell checks, in my experience, tend to turn off for all caps words, or words that start with a capital. Turning it on always can be annoying, so you need something smart, which detects common errors, but doesn't hose you with false positives.

Tangential to this tangent: Google Docs spell check catches wrong use of "flower" vs "flour" based on context. Try this: open a new doc, type:

Flower

No error. Now add:

Flower, eggs, sugar

Error on flower. But if you do:

Flower, sugar, eggs

No error. Milk also works.

ML? Or regex?
The fact that this administration is trying to roll back a lot of environmental policies is my number one concern. Environmental regulation has been such a huge success story over the least decades. It's just insane to roll this back.
A dog is a dog, a human is a human.

It really pains me when I see friends and family treating dogs like humans and trying to apply or mirror their own disorders on to their pets.

A caption from the article reads:

> Many labradors with CCD compulsively carry objects in their mouth.

Its a fn Labrador, a gun dog. It was bred to carry objects in its mouth.

If your dog is misbehaving, it is probably because its anxious, caused by you being a bad owner (most of the time).

I had a border collie when I was younger, I loved that dog and made sure it was cared for. A friend who had another Collie never gave it the full attention it deserved. This resulted it in wreaking havoc in their family home.

They took it to "doggy school" along with all the housewives who couldn't control their pugs or designer dogs.

The more they tried to treat the dog as a human, the worse its behaviour got.
I looked after it several times and after good long walks and a couple of slaps to the nose for bad behaviour, he was a great dog to look after.

Seriously, some people need to stop self diagnosing. Especially the faux OCD sufferers who complain about how they iike a "tidy bathroom or work desk".

OCD is a debilitating illness, we trivialize it with all these fake mental diagnoses people pick up after reading an article on psychology.com

To those who are thinking of getting a dog please think carefully:

- Make sure you have the time and love to give it

- Make sure you can be firm but not cruel to it

- Make sure you can afford it

- Make sure you try adopting or rehoming before going for a puppy
Here's a comparison between Molten and Hug by the author of the former: https://old.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/8ta3ve/molten_a_mod...
Content creators have been hurting for some time, and it doesn't just impact those who have seen diminished returns. Many have been unable to monetize their content at all (which we see quite often on YouTube, etc).

We built Brave Payments (now Brave Rewards) into the Brave browser to _re-monetize_ the web. Each month we give out BAT grants to our desktop users, which fund their favorite online properties (sites, streams, channels, etc).

Brave is also standing up an alternative ad-model which requires explicit user consent. If a user participates, ad-matching happens locally, on the user's device. This protects privacy, cuts out middle-men, reduces fraud, and more. Furthermore, the users are compensated for their attention (up to 70% of ad revenue), which adds to the sustainability of the web.
Exactly. At an investment bank for which I used to work in NYC, they moved their datacenter to be next door to the exchange's datacenter just to reduce latency.

Because in HFT, every fraction of a second can mean the difference between 10s or even 100s of millions of dollars in profit/loss.
DMCA notices are required to be sworn statements under penalty of perjury. It sounds like that that isn’t being enforced at all by DoJ.

Just another example of how a corrupt government can selectively enforce laws to give its crony friends a leg up.
I would recommend Rogue Survivor. Pixel Dungeon is an ok game, but it doesn't really encourage you to get attached to your character or environment. There's very little backtracking or foreshadowing in it, so learning the lay of the land or remembering where things are just isn't very important.
I maintain a many projects which are not huge, but some are in the thousands of Github stars and often get an issue or two per day. Across all of my projects I probably see 10-20 new issues per week.

My approach is straightforward: help them help themselves. We have some easy things we can do to encourage people to find the information they need to sort out the problem, coaxing out of them debug logs, core dumps, and so on, and sometimes give them our suspicions about the problem. Then we tell them to start digging, and that we're around to answer questions if they need help finding their problem. This process ends with a patch from that user.

My projects also often have an IRC channel, where users often help each other with straightforward issues, and we never have to get involved. Sometimes a dev is paying attention and will give them the same rundown. If someone seems enthusiastic about digging and making a fix, they're invited to the dev IRC where they can receive more developer-oriented support in understanding the code and introducing them to the contribution workflow.

Sure, it's not the friendliest approach for anyone who isn't willing or able to figure it out themselves. But we're all volunteers and no one is going to volunteer their time to do something they dislike. We volunteered to write code because we like writing code. End-user support is not fun for us. If you like it, volunteering to do it is easy and has basically no onboarding time, you just show up in the support channels and start helping people.
The space before punctuation thing might simply indicate a European writer. Several countries in Europe do that deliberately and I notice it with a lot of my colleagues.

It's interesting to note also how they appear to use the Fox News trademark while having no apparent affiliation. Also, although I don't know suite numbers, it's interesting that the address on the domain registration looks to be very close to a UPS store.