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Title should say Discord instead of Fortnite tbh. Nobody needs to be explained the gargantuan presence of Fortnite but where there's a game of Fortnite, there's a Discord server.

I find that gaming serving as a social space is not a new concept in any capacity.
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It's rare for an employer to want to dip into a triple time situation, for obvious reasons, but most of the contracts I see have provisions for it. It's usually for circumstances like the 7th consecutive day, beyond 8 hours, or when it lands on a holiday.

I hope Patreon support staff didn't have to work all through last weekend, but if they did, I hope they're making triple time today!
You're right, but publications have to write glowing articles about these trends because it's easy traffic and will get clicks, especially from older (non-teenager) users who feel out of touch with the youth 'zeitgeist'.

The sheer volume of articles written about Pokemon Go and the future of AR in 2016 was mind-boggling, especially as the popularity of the game peaked in less than a year.
Netflix (or Microsoft?) actually built this in the Xbox 360 days. It seemed to be fairly popular but was discontinued in 2012 or so.
Those assets included the A400/800, which was designed by Jay Miner, same guy that went on designing the Amiga that Commodore bought
It's great that YT did the right thing by giving him ownership back on their platform. The next thing would be to give him any money earned during the time it was wrongfully taken away and in dispute. That should not be dependent on having the asshats paying it back first. YT messed up, so they need to make it right all the way.
This almost makes me feel lucky to be on “sabbatical” while trying to recover from illness.
Minecraft is still fucking huge though.
The sun will not go BOOM, barring collision with another, much larger star.

Stars have to be above a particular weight to go supernova - the sun will grow into a red giant, and then, once it burns most of it's hydrogen, collapse into a brown dwarf.
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Religious flamewar is not ok here. Please don't post like this to HN again. More generally, please don't post unsubstantive comments here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Unfortunately they also encourage much more use, and thus, less idle periods, long-term or otherwise.
Does YouTube have the necessary information to prosecute false claimants? They certainly are unwilling to pass such info on to content creators; I'm unsure what, if any, verification of identity is required to submit a claim.
And what a better alternative world that would be...
Rust can inline cpp code via rust-cpp crate. I've been playing with it several months ago and successfully used dear-imgui and other stuff in some of my rust tech.
Friendships that start online and stay online (without ever involving meeting IRL) have been a minority interest. I can't say whether that's changed now.

It used to imply a decision to spend time interacting through a screen (either in real-time or over email or usenet) rather than socializing in physical space. The people who made that decision, consciously or unconsciously, for whatever reasons, were a self-selected group, and a significant fraction of them would not have identified as mainstream or neurotypical. To judgemental people in the mainstream, that equals weird and strange.
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Fortnite has 80 millions players[1] vs WoW with 5.5 millions at its peak[2].

[1] https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/fortnite/2018/9/20/1788...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/276601/number-of-world-o...
Do you believe in Thor too because people believed in him for thousands of years?

And consciousness does not have the long history you describe.

And "unable to model" is a huge stretch. You can't measure something that has no definition or understood boundaries. When the rest if our perceptual and cognitive faculties are explained, you'll find there's nothing left for consciousness. It's the new god of the gaps argument.
I run https://hackclub.com where we have a community of thousands of high school hackers around the US and internationally. Our Slack is open if anyone wants to join :-).
You don't have to remember them exactly, memorize them all, know them in order or whatever.

Just read about them, make some notes, try some of the ones you didn't know about, and so on. If you did found them useful, revisit over time.
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I’m curious, have we moved passed NAND gate only ICs?

Given that it takes many NAND gates to be logically equivalent to the rest of logic, wouldn’t creating OR and AND gates directly reduce the number of transistors and therefore help Moore’s Law as well?
Humanity has yet to understand the risks of inventing mechanisms of immortality, AI, etc

Wrapping our minds around the hard problem of consciousness may be further off than our ability to put a brain into a vat and keep it alive much longer than 100 years. Heaven and hell are more likely to be simulated before our discovery of any such post physical consciousness.
Where did you find that YouTube has returned ownership to him? As far as I've been able to find with a quick search, the false claimant continues to receive monetization from the video.
Good discussion. My only critique is that a discussion of what is the best kind of failure should always start by discussing how different situations mean different preferences on the kind of failure you get.
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And as they grow up. Other younger children will grow into being into it and wanting to play.

Minecraft is still very popular among certain age groups. Some age out as others age into it.
When I studied in France, my host family taught me that, instead, it was an insult to eat everything on your plate.

Eating everything on your plate indicated that you were ravenously hungry, taking advantage of your host's hospitality.

Leaving just a little uneaten meant that you ate as much as you could because you found the food delicious.
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So... fraud?
This was an excellent write-up, a great read, and an awesome mission.

"Hats" off to the author. You did a great thing for her.
For some reason changing color theme isn't working in the experimental client (Firefox 65.0b6 / Linux).
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I hate those picture ones. They all seem to take longer than figuring out the skewed text. But I might be in the minority opinion on this one, idk.
Be the change you want to see in the world. Feel free to contribute back by extending the library to your framework of choice.
If you have not committed the changes, then Git is simply not aware that you want to keep those changes in the first place.

It is like editing a file, and not saving it. Is the editor at fault? Should it autosave the file? Under what name? Under what directory? Or should the editor just do what you tell it to?

For this particular case, git stash might help.

In general (danger: personal opinion), it is good practise to be mindful of dangerous commands and take a deep breath before issuing them, whatever they are. That is what I do after having learnt it the hard way, as I have also messed up stuff with the hard Git reset, dd, rm, chmod, chown, cp, mv, tar, you name it...

So, if you ask me, Git does not have an "objectively bad UI" as some say, it just does what it is told to. (Insert joke about computers being like an Old Testament God.)
This analysis doesn’t fit history.
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Have you ever read any of his books? Bluster and Fluster is his thing. I wanted to put down "The Anti-fragile" until I figured out that his persona is kind of like his advice on prediction. A kind of caustic sorting hat. Now it's sort of his brand and it works fantastically for clickbait.
At least cars don't produce four tons of manure per year

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/cities-paved-dung-urb...
A festive version for today :)

https://github.com/Duroktar/YuleLog
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https://www.wowhead.com/news=170129.3/wow-reaches-12-million...

WoW peaked at 12 million during Wrath of the Lich King.
The growth was superlinear until 2018: https://hub.mybinder.org/user/ipython-ipython-in-depth-gq7r1...

Another interesting things I noticed - pretty consistent ipv6 usage spikes on weekends.
Why would it be YouTube’s job? Someone has claimed ownership and is now making profit on it - that (to me a non lawyer expect same behavior from the legal system ;) ) seems like it would be a standard copyright violation :D
But even traditional social networks change and shift and dont really last the same way. Facebook has had some lasting power but it has decreased and died in many ways. Vine. Snapchat. And many other things have taken huge chunks of mine shares. While Facebook owns or buys some of them. Most more traditional social networks I'd argue also aren't really lasting things either. They are probably longer half life and slower churn than a gaming social network but other than the half life they suffer same problems.
> What China is doing is very logical:

The ends can never justify such means.
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That's a very interesting point. The reason that languages spoken in more countries matters is because there's more room for experimentation. Not to mention more need due to multiple bureaucracies, less streamlined arrangements. Many Europeans suggest to me that Europe was great when each nation was competing, rather than attempting to collaborate. You lose something when you unify. China is very unified in this sense. Yet I think it's also fair to say that the era of nation-state experimentation has already either bore its fruits (or not). We've had hundreds of years of modern states to find their way, the majority (but not all) with a conducive culture to economic success have already achieved it. The top 10 GDP list is almost always consisting of European nations, (Pan-)American nations, India from West Asia and much of Northeast Asia.

Of course, many countries are encouraging English learning, and I think a lot of former French colonies are interested in moving towards English, but after English (59 countries), there is French (29), Arabic (26), Spanish (20), and Portuguese (9). Some of my best friends are "Arabic" speakers, and they're from the heart of the land (Saudi Arabia) and tell me there is not a single "Arabic" language that all nations can entirely mutually understand, so I'm convinced of the validity of that one entirely. Spanish and Portuguese nations definitely have mutual intelligibility and seem very steadfast in maintaining their languages.

I would agree with your general point for sure that an unflinching statement like "Mandarin is objectively going to be the most useful" is more of a flimsy limb, given more information and taking looks from additional perspectives.

If I had to bet my life on a language being the "most useful" going forward, I'm putting my hide on English. I think if Mandarin being most useful were true, it would already be an unquestionable statement today. Not sure how an already mostly-risen power like China has one of it's two languages (and not the one spoken in Hong Kong) become "more useful" tomorrow than it is today, and it's not an especially useful language right now outside of China. I wouldn't even venture to say it's #2 by many metrics.

China and it's official language, Mandarin, have a lot of hype about domination and influence, considering it's a relatively insular culture. Flat statements on the Mandarin topic are tough to swallow. My guess is outside of government interactions, Chinese business will place Chinese management and even Chinese workers in their enterprises, if at all possible[0]. They won't need John Doe to speak Mandarin, nor will that person really even be desirable. Those people are learning English and they prefer their own.

[0]https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/06/absolute-fraud-...
Binge watching is not that different from binge drinking - it's a path to oblivion. You might still have enough health to deal with it, but the health itself dwindles in the process.
A court could presumably subpeona that information?
I haven't been in a company that hasn't done code reviews for like 10 years now. Big and small.

I'm surprised there are areas where this isn't true.
Death's robot horse from Hickman's 'East of West', ideally. https://latimesherocomplex.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/easto...
Read the first comment under the video.
I never leave anything on the plate, unless it's so bad I wouldn't eat it even if I was starving. I do this even at all-you-can-eat buffets.

To avoid overeating, I only eat once a day.
> A small country like Cuba could get by on tourism alone and do much better than they do now

Ye they could have done that if America hadn't enacted travel bans.
One of the nice things about having kids is that you have a socially acceptable way to purchase a happy meal for yourself. (Because how are they to know how many kids you have.)

It's the only workable way to get a sensible fast food portion size.
Clojure is practically tied to the JVM and the Java ecosystem (ClojureScript is different enough to count as a different language so I'll focus on Clojure).

To me that's not fun. It's also limited by design to fit the development model Rich Hickey wanted for his consultancy. It is nowhere near as encompassing or paradigm agnostic as Common Lisp. Moreover, you can take old Lisp code that's 40+ years old and run it today on top of Common Lisp with no/minor changes. Clojure breaks compatibility with Lisp code in many different ways. For me these reasons are enough not to consider Clojure a Lisp.
The comment on the video by the author of the video

> UPDATE: It's official! I got my video back and Ramjets channel was deleted for false copyright claim. Huge thanks to everybody who helped. Every share, like comment, everybody who spread the word about what happened. You made the difference. Now let's make sure we protect EVERY content creator from false claims. Please sign the petition, we can make a difference.﻿
From my experience, its really brittle.
We’ve been working with GaAs for a long time. You likely have a fair bit of it in your phone. A few things prevent its use for advanced CMOS - base material quality is inferior to Si, it’s not available in 12” substrates, and the cost is high.

You will likely see material integration of III-V material systems into Si, rather than using standalone GaAs for logic.
That's a really good question and I hope someone comes by to answer it. My guess is that people go beyond this and already design entire adders and stuff at the transistor level if they think it affects their bottleneck.
Well done, juhatl. That doesn't sound like an easy thing.
It was interesting to me. I had to get up early due to the timezone I live in where AoC started at 6am. I didn't really try to make the leaderboard (even less after the first day when I learned how hard it is) but I was in a competitive mode and appropriately nervous. On later days I learned to calm down which also improved my performance.

I was using Python which for me turned out to be the optimal programming language for problems like AoC. My reading of other solution on reddit confirms this. You often have to use maps (dictionaries) or lists and Python can be very concise in working with these. Also learned about convenience modules such as "collections" and defaultdict. Some people were able to produce concise and quite readable solutions with Numpy which I want to explore further in the future.

Overall I was impressed to see that some people were able to produce short but still very readable Python programs as solutions to the problems.

I gave up on day 8 when I didn't have the motivation to cut out the time between (or before) life, work and family to solve more and more complicated puzzles that became more and more arbitrary and didn't show any intrinsic motivation. (Although I did follow on some and found the CPU instruction set puzzle quite interesting).
If YouTube is unwilling to pass along the information, as the parent says, then who are you going to file suit against? You’ll have to sue an unknown person and get a court order to get YouTube to turn over the person’s name. That’s an expensive start to aprocess with an unknown end. Isn’t it even possible the person isn’t in the US? Then you’ve thrown away your money.
Good memory management is never easy on a system level, so if one is overloading new, they'd better be comfortable around the complexities involved.
Social network = attacking other people online. Sounds about right.
FWIW:

I have had a lot of online friends. I do not think of myself as part of some self-selected group. I'm medically handicapped and I was a military wife. For those and other reasons, I happened to spend a lot of time online and it's become a habit. The internet has been very life enhancing for me.

If I were hail and hardy and had not ended up socially isolated for various reasons, I doubt I would choose to spend so much time online. But I made the best of the hand dealt me and this is where I ended up.

From some perspective, that's probably true of a lot of internet devotees. If you are, for example, not neurotypical, the internet may work better than face-to-face interactions.

I also think it's not all that nice to tell a relative their interests are "weird." I kind of feel like someone who would do that probably would come up with excuses to be othering no matter the details of your life.
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The standard scored against was mostly good, although his preferred column width was pretty arbitrary, and the best line-height can depend on the context of a piece of text and its use.
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I don't think it's difficult at all to come up with a mechanistic/reductionist model for attention (or any related functioning: FEF, saccades, salience, etc).

But pure awareness is entirely different. You can't get around qualia. Because in essence, qualia is pointing to the idea that "you are." You have an experience of being. Saying here is an explanation of how the simulation arises just pushes the question back. Now I'm wondering, "to whom is the simulation presented?"

You can say, "to no one—it's all a trick." But who is being tricked. Ultimately I am. The idea that my perceptions arise mechanistically presents no problem to me. The idea that the original background intelligence itself is a simulation seems obviously false. So obvious it precedes a logical argument because it is the intelligence from which logics derive their authority. Crudely speaking, it makes 1+1=2 true.

I think a lot of really smart people look right past the most basic reality that they must exist prior to their perceptions for perceptions, logic, or a simulation to exist at all. If you can say that awareness is secondary and arises from these mechanistic explanations, who is left to evaluate the validity of this proposition?

It's way simpler than we're all making it. People just have to sit alone with the knowledge that they are.
the word logical was used to include "morals aside." China knows what they want and to go there they are smart and dumb ways.
That says WoW had a peak of 12 million.
NOR gates are actually commonly used, as are AOIs/OAIs in many technologies (and or inverters, 3-input circuits that are common in adders).

OR and AND cannot be built directly in CMOS technology. The most efficient way to build them is by combining a NOR/NAND with an inverter.

Edit: To clarify, I believe there are cell libraries that do have OR and AND, but the transistor count is the same as NOR/NAND + inverter, so it's a bit questionable whether there's really an advantage to using them.
> Bach's music does not feel like a work of genius

Speak for yourself.

> Mozart and Beethoven

Both geniuses, for sure. But they didn't create the styles they composed in any more than Bach did.

There was _classical_ music (in the sense in which Mozart is "classical" and Bach and Brahms aren't) before Mozart. Some of it was written by Bach's sons, in fact.

There was quite Beethoven-like music written before Beethoven -- most notably by Haydn, who to my ears is much more Beethoven-like than Mozart is.

None of that detracts from the greatness of Mozart and Beethoven -- or of Bach. Artists don't exist in isolation, even if they're geniuses.
Neo has poweres in the real world! , the theory about the "WIRLESS" Conection is just lame. They should go deep with it, they are onfact carecters inside a screen for us... you see where I'm getting... or we can just assume that the real world in wich we all areis Just a simulation. Much MORE INTERESTING
Probably not rich people when measured by percentage of income or wealth.
You have no evidence that experience is not mechanistic. There is literally no reason to suppose consciousness is any different than any other natural phenomenon we study. So reproducing whatever mechanistic process is at play ensures that such a machine had experience.

You're simply assuming there must be a separate category either because you want one to exist, or because you've been fooled into thinking consciousness has some properties that you consider irreducible to more basic components.
While I feel the people in this article deserve praise, I don't think it's fair to rate billionaires based on the amount of time they spend working in soup kitchens. I wish these doodles praised these people on their own merit, rather than turning it into an article promoting class warfare.
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that’s because the redesigned skin doesn’t (yet) implement tinting - it simply doesn’t have the same opinionated accent colour (default green) of legacy Riot.
They may not, but most are aware, and annoyed, when they can't play their iTunes music on a different device or when things they bought go away when that streaming service changes things
Most of those grants require ridiculous amounts of paperwork, with projections and business plans. That basically forces you to lie and jump through hoops to get through the process.

There are plenty of companies that are experts at getting those funds, which is essentially part of their business model. But it can be a big distraction for a small firm where it would likely be better to find private funding sources.
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Nah, they know they're serving you twice as much food as a human can eat.

Cut everything neatly in half when it arrives and move it off to the side for easy boxing. Then eat a sensible amount and ask for a box for the rest.

Places that don't expect this will signal as much by serving you a portion that wont make you ill.
Fortnite is free and it works on all platforms, WoW costs like $50 every two-three years and $12 a month and works only on computers.
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Investments of Chinese capital outside Chine are now greater than the foreign investments coming into China. If you're going to work in the US or Europe in a local branch of a Chinese global company, speaking Chinese should be a big advantage, esp. when moving up the chain of command.
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thanks for pointing that out. i actually remembered reading a headline of ~8 million at the beginning of WotLK, but when i checked statistics just now, it was pinned to 5 million.

The statistic i checked started after Warlords of Draenor, however... and i didn't notice that
Good idea. I'd take your code coverage down to single digits in one afternoon bam!