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You can't build forever anyway.. the demand is going to shrink in the future. Look at those countries where in 80s and 90s built too many houses (Italy, Spain for instance).. most of them are rotting now or are abandoned due to poor economy
Here [1] are the sales figures for various Call of Duty titles overtime. Sales have been plummeting. In my opinion this is not because of the promise:reality dissonance but it's clear evidence that people do respond to changing conditions, even in mass market entertainment. The reason this is obfuscated is because let's say sales drop from 30 million to 20 million. That's a critical decline, yet from a consumer perspective it's still 20 million people buying a video game. That's a really big number, and so from our perspective (lots of people buying a product, lots of advertising for it, so forth and so on) things stay mostly the same.

As an aside the exact same is true in the movie industry. Ticket sales have been on a sharp decline since about 2002. [2] This is masked by similar effects as above, but there's also another one in the movie industry. They focus on "gross receipts" instead of ticket sales. Gross receipts = tickets_sold x price_per_ticket. Far fewer tickets are being sold, but their costs have gone up. So the whole dissonance about Hollywood releasing increasingly rubbish films because this is what people want is clearly untrue. To be clear this was also not just a clever rebalancing of price:demand. Their inflation adjusted revenues also peaked in 2002.

Hollywood's in decline, overhyped games are in decline. It's only our perception that's lagging behind.

[1] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/321374/global-all-time-u...

[2] - https://www.the-numbers.com/market/
> In all honesty I don't know how anyone can make 60$ purchases on games without seeing what it looks like.

It depends on the game, I'd say. While I'd like often playable demos, I try to document myself on what's available (videos - not trailers - and previews) and if it is interesting to me (but again, I don't really get most of the AAA games, although some of the ones I own may be classified as such).

Also, at least releases in Japan and in Asia have actual perks with preordering (and by actual perks I don't mean useless digital items), although that comes as an additional cost.
No, you're confused. A PAC code is used when switching carriers, it has nothing to do with the scam described here where an attacker contacts your carrier and claims "I lost my SIM".
Activating a replacement SIM can happen in minutes (and that's a good thing : would you want to wait 7 days to get service again ?)
The only thing that seems different from the US is that I don't think everything can be done over the phone here : you need to go physically into a shop and (hopefully) show ID.
I used "home" in the metaphorical sense in my former comment. A roof over one's head, place where one lives, etc. One of the pillars of our lives, even in times such as these, where people move around much more.
Easily create a low-cost WordPress blog on Azure
Note that you need to check the 'show sunrise' and 'show sunset' boxes to get the proper visualization.

This is a neat tool that I feel like a lot of people might bookmark. I was using it today to determine where I needed to get my kayak in order to view the unobstructed sunset (you can drag the marker around) - getting a look at a green flash is on the bucket list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_flash
Microsoft Edge Insider (macOS)
I think calling people out would be against the ethos of the site. The first guideline for comments is Be kind. And not snarky. Sure some people may need it but I don't think it contributes anything good to the community. Some discussions could be about or related to the submission's title and not the actual article.
It's merged but not released yet I guess.
> I did not lick the envelope

So what if he did? Even if we had his DNA, we wouldn’t know whose DNA it is. It would be as useful as finding a key on the ground without knowing which house it unlocks.
> Good. The amount of abuse the gaming industry has heaped upon consumers the past ten years is almost beyond belief. Microtransactions.

What's funny about this is that part of the press actually encouraged microtransactions and what not when they were still not widespread (I remember a piece on FFXI/XIV arguing to drop subscriptions and go microtransactions).

Cue a few years later, everyone in the press is screaming about how microtransactions and pay to win ruin everything. Quite ironic.
It surprises me that we haven't worked out a more efficient solar distillation process for desalination. Reverse Osmosis seems so energy intensive at a fundamental level when you consider that the sun naturally distils and desalinates water all day long.

The process described in this article ("Membrane Distillation") seems like a hybridisation of the two techniques and the researchers have found a way to improve efficiency by concentrating heat using lenses. Why can't this concentration of heat be used in straightforward distillation and why does distillation always seem to come in second best in terms of efficiency compared to the use of membranes? Is it because of the large surface area required?
Why conflate gender and sexuality, though? They're two different things.

Gender identity absolutely must be accommodated in the workplace.

But sexuality is on another orthogonal axis. What you do in the bedroom is irrelevant to what you do in the boardroom.
The anonymity of sdf.org accounts and VPS/servers are all limited by association through access and payment. Tor is arguably the most anonymous access method for any of them. Excluding login chaining via Tor through botnets and compromised servers, anyway.

If done carefully, using well-mixed Bitcoin is arguably as anonymous as sending cash through the mail. There are ways to screw both up, but also ways to do both with arbitrary overkill.

Anyway, this is cool. I mean, six years is an OK run. But on the other hand, all remote VPS and servers that I setup are just about as anonymous. And yes, it's lots easier now than it was in 2013.
"In America, you watch television. In Soviet Russia, television watches you!" <g>

-Comedian Yakov Smirnoff
(http://wiki.c2.com/?InSovietRussia)
Typical journalism. Percentages are always abused.
I really enjoy the infinite entertainment and presentation format that consoles provide, but I really question their utility next generation

and lol no PC gamers aren't a part of that equation whatsoever

I feel like the potential console gaming crowd is so heavily diluted towards mobile and casual formats. any of the good VR titles are also running in wireless mobile formats with good enough graphics

I hope there is a differentiating quality to make the 'set top box' format a staple in the 2020s instead of "just" better graphics. I feel like it is necessary
He is not pushing against the consensus scientific view. He is advocating the consensus view in opposition to a distorted pop-sci view.
As someone who's also learning how to make music with Logic Pro X because I listened to songs that I wanted to create myself, I can understand you. Your story is absolutely inspiring.

Mastering a skill in solitary is said to be a key aspect of individuation. The amount of personal development I've experienced in the last 2 years is all due to the desire to be able to do something e.g. making music, understanding people and the world, learning to lead others and build a small company, learning how to comfort people in bad times, learning the meaning of real connection with other people and so many more.
We should all embrace those wishes we have and these goals we'd like to achieve and support ourselves. I think this is a very life-affirming and supportive view that can change the people in a profound way.

P.S.: I'm also a fan of beeple. He is very inspirational for me in his regularity, something I'm still struggling with.

P.P.S.: The tool looks amazing. For just 6 months of experience, this is a great thing to achieve. Connecting with the Slack API and building something that looks good (also on mobile) isn't easy. You're doing great!
It's marked up properly, so any "readability" or "outline" tool can reformat it:

https://outline.com/XfnRfk
founding members acting as oracles is the whole problem. this is centralised trust and it’s ripe for abuse. that the minting is recorded is irrelevant - there’s no guarantee the backing funds exist, much in the same way a traditional bank lends money that doesn’t exist.

what if this were to become the universal credit? it’s not impossible given the clout of facebook. placing trust in a few “founding corporations” is not the banking model that we should be pursuing for the future.
Why go through all this just to follow the rule of storing UTC in the database? At what point does it just become the wrong thing to do?

Storing local time and timezone in the database for future dates is easy. It has none of these issues. It produces the correct results that people expect. You can convert to UTC at anytime.
The article reads like wumao propaganda, blaming the Brits, the Hong Kong people, everyone but the murderous, kidnapping, kleptocratic dictator in Beijing.

Face the truth: Hong Kong will protest and fight imposition of Orwellian, communist party governance.
So, someone can just spoof that mac address and have their activity logged as yours? What could possibly go wrong?
Explicitly Conditioned Melody Generation
Kong is a fully fledged Lua/C application running on the LuaJIT VM and leveraging the NIO of Nginx, the same stack that powers the underlying proxy of companies like Cloudflare by the way.
Seems safe to assume we could identify nearly anyone these days using DNA thanks to the services that collect such information for genealogical or medical purposes.
You could make the argument that this behavior precipitated the '84 game crash, of which a major cause was consumers reducing their purchases and expectations after experiencing low quality products.
>> it would be unfair for MV to carry the weight

> The fact that it's perceived as a sacrifice to build housing is one of the core problems.

In the short term, increased housing will decrease property values. This has to be the case because rentals are a direct competitor to real estate ownership.

In the long term, increased housing should increase property values; however, few people are willing to place much value on something even 2 years in the future, much less 20.

> Due to Prop 13, CITIES LOSE MONEY BY HAVING RESIDENTS.

I'm not sure how much I buy this. I'm not super familiar with California, so I'm not going to say it's false, but there should be a number of other methods (sales tax comes to mind) for cities to raise revenue from residents.
>Honestly, I think it's crappy engineering, too. You can't throw this on the feet of generic execs or regulators. The behavior with AoA sensor disagreement (and the treatment of malfunctioning sensors) seems wrong. MCAS should have had failsafes around the number of trim adjustments it could do.

Watch the Australian 60 Minutes Expose on the MAX. A whistleblower has come forward and stated that they had to pipe in only a single sensor's input to avoid costly simulator training, which management pushed as an absolute necessity to avoid.

I love Engineering. I love doing things right. I can't deny though that when you've got business breathing down your back, everyone seems more interested in getting what they want instead of what actually solves the problem in a sound way, that things never degenerate to the point where the engineering teams throw up their hands and say "Eff it! Take your plane and choke on it!"

This is a textbook case of toxic engineering culture yielding toxic engineered product. Richard Feynman said it best after the Challenger disaster, and his words ring as true now as they did back then.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public [or customer] relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
Why did this change get merged without a unit test?
Might as well use PayPal if that’s the case
I think this is fair for games that are a long way away but I often see games for sale now that all the videos on the steam store page are fake renders.
Even more stark when you compare Anthems demo of their signature Cataclysm events, and what they shipped months after release

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7iqzwD3hlI

It's so bad, it's like a low budget porn ripoff version of the game they sold.
Nice constraint..

is it allowed to produce libs in jars from non java languages ? Even though I don't think clojure/kotlin/else support jre5 out of the box anymore.
This is beautiful. It's surreal to read something so aligned with my own experiences on life and the world around me. Unreal
I deeply regret writing my novel. It took an agonising 8 years when I was desperate to get it out as soon as possible. The issue was that I wanted a certain level of quality. I ended up self publishing on Amazon :/

I try not to think about what I could have done with the time: study math, programming, do stand up comedy etc. etc.

It is what it is I guess.
The PR is not merged yet .
India: Draft law proposes 10-year jail term for dealing in cryptocurrency
> Buy a smaller cruise ships and rent a pier to dock it.

Oh yes, no one has thought of that before. It has even been implemented.
Less a tool than a practice, off sites or get togethers, every 2-3 months
Yep the only way to identify someone with DNA from an unknown source is to already have a copy of their DNA on record, that you know is theirs. Or maybe a close relative’s DNA on record.

It would depend on the country whether or not their DNA is likely on record. Most Americans do not have their DNA on record. However it’s interesting that Kenya recently required collection of DNA from all citizens.

But yep those who have signed up for 23 and Me with their real name (or maybe a close relative) can be identified from an anonymous DNA sample. Or previously incarcerated, since then the government would have their DNA on record.

Or if they were already a suspect, then their DNA could then be taken and matched against the anonymous sample.

So maybe by disclosing that he didn’t lick the envelope, he’s inadvertently telling us that his DNA is on record somewhere?
From the text: "George argues that the project succeeded at capturing carbon too. There’s no available evidence to back him up — it’s exceptionally difficult to measure the carbon captured by experiments like these, and the results from more carefully controlled experiments are not promising."
New Zealand man jailed for 21 months for sharing Christchurch shooting video
I don't think that's the point of the quote. If you said 5 years ago that the game was going to include a talking cube, the internet is going to remember that and when you publish is going to expect there to be a talking cube (or accuse you of breaking your promise). The outrage only lasts for a short period of time, but it can be based on promises said ages ago that without the internet would have been long forgotten.
OK, now please tell me how do I block it?
Quick Question: Will Google be using this project, once built out, to test all its future "Home" products? Clearly it will have the leverage to do so and will greatly benefit the company over the long term. If so, great strategic thinking.
1fps Atari 2600 emulator in vanilla Minecraft 1.13
Sad that the guy has to start off his presentation by showing how many Democrats he's voted for in his lifetime (and that still wasn't enough to tame the mob). That's the fever pitch, antagonistic world we find ourselves in. What if global warming isn't the dire catastrophe that so many people seem to desperately cling to? I have conversations with people who think we are going to face extinction from global warming. It's pseudo-religious and it strikes me as very primitive.

Humans live in Antarctica. We grow tropical plants in greenhouses in Canada. We've invented thousands of ways of harvesting electricity. We have climate control systems for indoor environments. Some humans even live in outer space. Some humans spend months at a time in submarines under the ocean.

We're one of the most adaptable species on the planet and that's the very reason for our success
...but global warming is going to kill us all? Give me a break. None of this is constructive.
This article is why I read Hacker News!

To surpass limitations; and see limitations surpassed, in all areas of technology.

This article exemplifies that ethos.

This is the future, or rather a glimpse of it, today.

Well done!
With people these days doing most of their reading on the web, it's crazy that the web doesn't support what would be a basic layout mode in any desktop publisher.

Except it does, because (as you say) it can be done using current layout technology - what you call "fudging with margin and padding" is what I would call "using margin and padding". No doubt a design app to help work out those values, or some computation using CSS's calc(), or even some progressive enhancement using JS, would be helpful if the design calls for it but designers and developers desire to avoid those using what's there now should not be what drives web standards. "This is not possible with current tech" or "The current tech is inefficient and bad for perf" is what should drive standards, not "I don't like the current tech".

Also, as a bit of a side note, the draft spec you linked to includes the following line: "And careful calculations can be thrown off by user stylesheets." The author believes a layout being altered by the user's browser choices is a bad thing. I disagree with that so much. Giving the user the power to completely change their experience of a site is one of the best things browsers do.
generation gaps are shorter for the younger populace, think high schooler, there's not much interaction between seniors and juniors. for ea is like that the markets renews every couple years.

I wonder what proportion of the cod sold are first or second purchases into the franchise before the infatuation tapers off, my hunch is that it's quite a majority
Interesting. This bug is reproducible in the 'new' Windows 10 calculator store app, but not in the old Windows 7 calc.exe. So looks like a regression, unless they completely re-wrote the whole calculator app (for which there seems to be no reason).
Yap,we will see way,way way more stable coins from a ton of different companies. Soon or later you will get paid in those ( probably not so stable coin anymore)

The world reminds me more and more like the world in the book(s) of shadowrun, minus the magic stuff..really facinating...
For California it depends on both type of work and compensation. You can still be required to pay overtime to a salaried employee if they don't meet certain criterion such as being in a managerial position.
Wow. I've really shed a tear. I've signed up, looking forward to talk with you about your experiences and wishes.
Ask HN: Companies using React-Native, how has been your experience so far?
As long as the node metadata is static and you're still filtering state-of-the-world to produce the same resources. If clients are only subscribing to static resources then yes, however, if you want to perform dynamic traffic shaping across a subset of resources then you have some state to manage.
> Pak has vowed to use tactical nukes on any invading Indian force.

True. But in a nuclear conflict there are no winners.
It’s about the right of the current residents versus the right of the potential residents. The latter include their children, millennials and even younger generations.
The window for detection at different power levels is probably quite small.

Very early radio would be somewhat weak. The middle phase of analog transmission probably has some higher power levels. The digital phase would coincide with rapid decreases in detectability.

That assumes every planet capable of supporting life a) has life and b) develops intelligent life. If only 1% of planets capable of supporting life develops life and only 1% of those develop intelligent life then it is extremely unlikely these two nearby planets would have any life at all. Even if you bump the odds to 10% or even 33% the odds are still against it.

For sake of argument assume we (or they?) won the lottery and intelligent life exists. Make an even larger stretch and assume that life is technologically capable, has been for 10,000 years, and didn't destroy themselves (achieving a stable population size and reasonable resource usage). Even then the odds are against us detecting any kind of radio transmissions.
I'm not hoping for anything, but if a bad actor is playing with people's lives, I also don't have a problem that they get punished for it.

Now the only issue with expropriation would be the panic it cause in the markets, because otherwise who cares whether residential property company #201f exists or not.
Setting some rules around renting, like the government has been and is doing, to prevent abuse and speculation is more palatable, but still has too many people running around screaming, based on a simplistic presentation of supply and demand without keeping into account that there are other factors that would and should trump the raw economic aspects.

It's not like the government has just instituted rent control and that's it. It's a temporary measure, restricted to existing stock. They will try to build more.

In the end it's not clear at all that leaving the situation spiral even more out of control would result in a better outcome than even just rent controls without other measures. Why is it so hard to get an apartment in Berlin that people resort to bribing the landlords? Why does one have to "compete" against dozens of other people, with zero ability to negotiate and having to sacrifice their financial privacy?

Last I read about it these companies had record profits and now you and others are complaining that they won't build any more because they can't get profits? How's that work, mate?
Headline is a little misleading. This is a comparison of power efficient mobile chips. The '3rd gen Ryzen' mobile chips are based on the last generation zen+ architecture. They're not the same '3rd Gen Ryzen' desktop chips based on the new zen 2 design that everyone is getting hype for right now.

edit: after digging in a little more, this link has some more interesting comparisons of supposed benchmarks from Ice Lake vs upcoming zen 2 based chips. https://wccftech.com/intel-10nm-ice-lake-sunny-cove-14nm-com...
I am not sure it is worth repeating, but as I said, the notion that "internet is scary smart" is only true for certain groups and topics, but not internet as general. That does not mean there is no "smart" forums or smart people on the internet, nor I made any remarks about YC News.
Twitter will remove precise location tagging in tweets, citing lack of use
Oh okay, sorry I misunderstood your comment the first time.

The rationale for why Rich Hickey didn't go for the actor model are actually documented here: https://clojure.org/about/state

I agree with you, that the JVM also would have probably made it more difficult to incorporate and leverage, though Scala seems to have pretty successfully done that, and Fantom has gone that route as well successfully (though the language is niche) on the JVM. So I'm not totally sure either.
Every additional payment method supported by XaaS is one more reason for using 3rd party payment processing, meaning that there will be a fee even on independent cryptocurrency. It’s not a solution.
You are incorrect, the code is pretty solid.
This means writing a book is a creative endeavor.

Creativity does not get easier with time.
South Florida is no where close to dense. Dense = Paris/Barcelona. Florida is sprawl with huge landscaping and empty space.
"it can be hard to tell if they studied it or they actually know."

What is the difference? If they studied it, they now know?

Is it because as an interviewer, you are looking for knowledge by experience, not via book-learning?