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I think you might be missing out on two important points here. As an amazon worker making ~$15 an hour, what avenue would you suggest to go about "demonizing" market conditions? What does that mean from their perspective? What does that mean at all, to demonize a condition? On the other hand, the people making those decisions have names, faces, addresses, and we can apply pressure on them where they personally feel it.

Secondly, a strike that's limited in scope or duration can help build solidarity among workers which can be drawn on again and again for more elaborate and risky actions. Think about it -- would the guy sitting in the cubicle next to you at work put his livelihood on the line for you? What if he didn't have to because every single worker on your floor would do so at the same time? This is all a process of transferring power from the C-suite to the workers where it belongs, and I think we need to evaluate the results of such actions based on those broader goals.
All I'm saying is that Phelps would have still been a champion swimmer if he had also played other sports. He might not have been a champion marathoner (a sport which seems specially selected to disadvantage his long-arms short-legs physique), but his time spent running would not have kept him out of the Olympics as a swimmer. I suspect he probably did all sorts of regular-kid activities between the ages of seven, when he learned to swim, and ten, when he set a national age-group record. I personally learned to dog-paddle at three, so we know that some of his 10yo competitors had years more practice than he had.

Others ITT overestimate the importance of practice. Yeah, sure, Phelps practiced swimming a great deal. We know for a fact that he practiced each particular event less than most of his competitors in that particular event, just from the sheer range of different events he dominated. He only has the same 24 hours in a day that anyone else has.

Perhaps there is a symmetry between "many competitors with maximum talent, differentiated by preparation" and "many competitors with maximum preparation, differentiated by talent". I would nominate auto racing, modern yacht racing, or doping-allowed bicycle racing as sports that fit in the first category, although I'm sure there are aficionados who would disagree. Swimming, and any sport that features human bodies without chemical modification maneuvering under their own power through some medium, is firmly in the second. That comes both from nature and from our collective sense of fairness. Fortunately they've outlawed the polyurethane suits, in no small part due to Phelps's boycott of events allowing them. When he claimed that his records had only been broken through the use of technology, most swim fans agreed.

In fact, in most sports, talent varies to such an extent that superior talent dominates superior preparation, so long as the preparation varies only by a limited amount.
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Well, this game is really just a layer built on top of Turing complete software so is it really all that surprising that the game itself is Turing complete? I wouldn't be surprised if most complex simulation games are Turing complete.
It depends on what theory of time travel we are talking about. If we have the multiverse theory, then you are just creating a new split in the possible timelines.

Other theories would say that your time travel has already been taken into account in the timeline, so anything you are doing to change the future will actually cause it to happen as it has already happened.
Yes but it seems like many video game designs are engineering towards exploiting addictive behavior.

This is predatory business behavior.
You’re exactly right about this. Of course compilers which compile themselves come with their own risks! https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=358210
> let's further assume that the tiny air currents generated in this scenario do not only not cause a tornado as in the original butterfly effect (which, frankly, is not very likely)

You're underestimating the effect now. You only have to play about with a simple chaotic function and see how quickly the most infinitesimal change leads to utterly different results to appreciate that a butterfly flapping its wings sufficiently in advance literally alters the course of all subsequent tornados.

If your home had a 99% chance of making it through tornado season unscathed one year but for the flap of a butterfly's wings, then it may still have a 99% chance, however it would be a completely new role of the dice.
If there's a cause you're interested in supporting, you can show up to volunteer or even just a volunteer training. I learnt about how the ACCFB operates at my volunteer training and it was not what I expected.
Almost all major credit cards have a system to generate virtual card numbers with dollar limits on them. Generate a virtual card number with some limit, give to the kid or configure it on their device. Every time you need to increase the limit you have to login on a site that only the parent has access to.
Yes, and I'm looking forward to USB-C ubiquity in the near future, but these are definitely signs that this rollout could have used some more thought put into it. I'm for "USB-C all the things" but I have sympathy for the gripes about knowing what to use when.
So did I, but where I come from $1k/month of take-home-pay is enough to rent a two bedroom apartment and live comfortably.

The US is, all things considered, expensive.
It's here:

https://github.com/dmo9000/blender-addons

The addon script is ue4-neuron-mapper.py. Only tested with 2.7.

You need to enable the addon as per usual along with UE4 Tools, and then once you have a model loaded and parented to the UE4 rig, and an Axis Neuron animation imported, it should be fairly easy to use. There is a "Bake Animation" control in there somewhere that should bake the animation out to an animation strip. I think you have to specify the name of the source rig (ie. the raw skeleton data imported from Axis Neuron), and there are buttons to enable/disable transferring finger/foot data as well.

I haven't used it in a couple of years however, so if it doesn't work feel free to hit me up with questions. It was just a quick hack, very rough and ready. No warranty :-)

Also any patches which improve the accuracy of the retargeting (hands can still be a problem in general) are very welcome!

This quick test clip I did the weekend I wrote it demonstrates the current quality of the retargeting, although it is rendered in Blender and not UE4:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdA8Z56X768
Nice, it's in homebrew too.
Heheh. That’s not too far off from me. Though my progress has been delayed I was starting to circle back through many basics even taking high school courses to prep for a return to university. Hasn’t panned out so far but I’d still like to do it.

Your point about specifications makes sense. I think that was a point that made some aspects of maths harder for me— contextual differences in notation all over the place. Thanks for the input.
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>Amazon does not have to automate away jobs instead of giving workers fairer conditions and wages.

I'm Amazons competitor, I automate away the jobs and pay the lowest wages possible. Now my goods are cheaper than Amazons and you buy from me instead.
I would argue that most consumers act as follows, based on anecdotal evidence from myself and friends, when they have some game that they want to buy. (so distinct from impulse buys that they see)

If you're buying the game to play with someone, you buy it on whatever platform the other person has it on.

Otherwise, you look at whatever platform you spend the most time on. If it's available there and the price is "reasonable" for you, then you buy it there. End of story. I don't believe that most people actively search out a new platform.

Otherwise, if it's not available or you think you can get it for lower cost elsewhere, then you go to the next store you think is likely to have it or have it cheaper.

Given that framework, it doesn't really matter how good a platform is for a consumer outside of being able to buy a certain game. The main factors for that platform are:

1. How many people are on it.
and
2. How wide the selection on the platform is.

So I would argue that not only does the platform compete for users on 1 (which I've argued is mostly based on 2 and pricing), but also for developers on 2. I think steam's behavior with their features is mostly oriented towards making the platform attractive to developers, and Epic is offering exclusives and $$$ to draw developers in.

As to whether Epic's exclusives are good for that gaming community, you can argue that they will allow for an ecosystem of epic subsidized developers, and lead to more competition from steam for holding developers.
No restarts. The incident was with "fire once" thrusters for use only in the event of a launch escape.
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> I have quit social media

The comments section of Hacker News is social media.
> But that money is going to exist whether you accept it or not

But by accepting the donation you may be signaling that you're ok with how the donor made their money. By turning it down, you may also have a PR opportunity to spread a positive message.
Typically, only partially. I don't even remember what I pay now, but it's more than a couple hundred per month. And that still has out of pocket costs, deductibles, etc. It's a giant scam.
It was originally intended but now these are one time use escape engines.
Did Pichai lie or not? It is a very binary, testable question.
Thank you for clarifying your point. Understood and fair. I think that of course government is one mechanism to create positive change.

However, the problem with our government currently is that there are other outside factors that would get in the way (Like corporate lobbying.) of any kind of labor initiative.

I will say that boycotting used to be a viable means of getting your point across (Civil right boycotts of the 60s as an example.). The problem I think nowadays is that it has lost it's teeth due to lack of a collective follow through (See the most recent Gucci boycott/"protest" from a few months ago.).
The Super Dracos are only intended to be ignited once, either for a launch abort or a propulsive landing.
When you eat out you can probably afford to tip better, why don't you? Do you hate restaurant workers?
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Any idea what people at BAT earn?

30k rmb isn't bad for being in China but also isn't great at global level...
We're only talking about two categories here, "focused preparation" and "native talent". What coaching techniques led to Phelps's physical dimensions? Stop grinding.
There's proper F-keys and Escape on this one!
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> Fortunately, there is a simple way to end the company’s monopoly without breaking up its search engine, and that is to turn its “index”—the mammoth and ever-growing database it maintains of internet content—into a kind of public commons.

Partially bull__it - even forgetting about the $ that anybody would have to pay to Google for I/O traffic to scan its index (on which Google would put its % of fair earnings for at least the I/O generated plus maybe the "discovery" service for new URLs) that way any competing search engine would only have access to what Google decides that is worth indexing => OK from the point of view of the competing market (more search engines can rely on the same source data and potentially extrapolate different results) but in many cases NOK for the end-users as in all search engines that would use such service only the data that Google would decide that is worth to be indexed could be used (therefore a "closed bubble" set by Google).

If I were Google this proposal would probably be OK (more $ earned to cover the fixed costs of indexing by selling I/O to outsiders and at the same time it would lower the pressure/attention from regulators).

On the other hand non-indexed informations like all what comes from the Android OS (e.g. position of users, apps used by whom&when&etc), usage and actions on web-pages tracked by g-analytics, DNS access (e.g. 8.8.8.8), and etc... would be excluded - these are nowadays probably the most lucrative sources of infos of "what's happening now" + "what are people doing now where" which in turn generate the best answers to what "most" users want to know, which is mostly about "now" and their regional area.
I guess that's what growing up in Europe (where you don't really see guns) did to me. If I would see someone carrying a gun in a grocery store I would run the hell out of there. I'm not risking my life.
Because this isn't a magic fantasy world where you're literally turning cash into bigger cash. When someone says "$5 cash becomes $15 worth of food", they mean "I can spend the $5 to get what would cost you $15 to spend". And when it's broken down into "of the $5, $3 goes to paying for food, and $2 goes to paying people", that $2 pays the people who can use the $3 as effectively as the original person could use $15. If you decide to get rid of those people, and just spend the $2 directly on food, you can no longer use it effectively.
Bell Labs, where the transistor was discovered, did exactly what you suggest, so maybe the transistor did actually appear 10 years early. It's famous for letting its scientists concentrate on research without concern for commercial uses.
Would be easier to rename "USB 3.1 gen 2" -> "USB 3.2".

And the latter two would be "USB 3.3", "USB 3.4", problem solved :)
if you can go to another state and buy a gun, I don't see the point of these laws.
It is unfortunate that people lost in the Comet crashes could not have enjoyed rides on better engineered aircraft, but that is how advancement really happens. Look at the DC-10 and B-737 Max.

As to secondary walls in the pressure vessel, bladders, etc., take a look at actual designs for both windows and cabin pressure outflow valves are designed. They work well and can withstand quite a bit of adverse conditions.

Those outflow valves are complex - usually consisting of motorized doors plus one or two spring loaded check valves for overpressure events. Usually there is another outflow valve for purging smoke or creating extra cooling flow for electronics under the flight deck.

Going back to windows and other cutouts, there just wasn't enough sharing of expertise among ship and aircraft builders. There wasn't deep enough thought about effects of pressurization cycles. Now we know.
IIUC, he's saying that as far as capital is concerned, the worker in Florida is already competing with the worker in Bangladesh.

Not weighing in, just trying to clarify.
Well, their printing press wasn't nearly as useful as Gutenberg's. Mostly because of weak materials.

A printing press isn't as useful if you have to manually verify and fix the types ever other print.
I think you're missing a major component of these deals restrictions: they also want to prevent running 30 headless VMs on a single computer all botting into games to grind whatever free content is available.

This is actually a major component of bot use for f2p games. A lot of companies try really hard to prevent anything that looks like playing in virtual envs. Having these bots fill up your games and play terribly is a bad look for any game that depends on multi-player interactions to keep people involved.
The original version of the C# compiler was written in C and C++, but today's version is indeed itself written in C#!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27513234/in-which-langua...
> I'm just not sure about road surface quality back then. I suspect that was a bigger limiting factor.

It was a limiting factor for modern bikes too, sealed roads were invented to make cycling easier.
This is reminding me of a discussion about Facebook's content enforcement, where I still don't understand the argument: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20222594. Pressuring people to miss bathroom breaks is wrong, I'd agree - I'm all for that being legally punishable if it isn't already. But the argument gets to a point where people are simply saying that the job inherently sucks anyway, and the people who are voluntarily doing it in exchange for the money would be better off not even being given the option and being involuntarily unemployed, and if necessary, the company employing them shouldn't even exist if that job must be done. I don't understand it.
It would be cheaper for baseball or hockey teams to do the same thing, but they don't. It's because they hire players before they know which players are the best.
“the concept that small events can have large, widespread consequences”

If the US spent 1% more on research every year, that would have a large widespread consequence. If the top 10 ten countries did...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_researc...
Not the OP, but I've used Blender and UE (though Unity more), and I would say the main problem with Blender is how undiscoverable the core actions in the interface are. I'm sure for you, as a 15 year user, the shortcuts are all perfectly ingrained, and you can crank out work very efficiently. However, if you don't already know all those shortcuts, it's very difficult to learn them, or even to learn what functionality is available.

Some examples:
If you already know that `Tab` switches between object mode and edit mode, then it's quick and easy. If you don't, then you have to click the drop down mode selection menu, which is one of the dozens of widgets on screen with highly variable levels of usefulness (seriously, what the hell is 'Grease Pencil'?). And if you hover for a tooltip, it doesn't even tell you that tab is the shortcut!

Or when in the UV workspace, there's literally nothing in the interface window except the vertices/edges. How do I select all vertices? How do I select multiple via box? How do I do numeric input? None of this is obvious.

The defaults are also terrible - eg click to set 3D cursor, instead of select.

Overall, Blender seems to suffer from a classic case of open-source programmer driven development. If you already know how to use it, it's very powerful and customizable - the python scripting is great! But because no one really cares about making it into a product, the UI/UX suffers.

I haven't used Maya/3DSMax, but I have used Fusion 360 (another Autodesk 3D modelling package, but focused on CAD/CAM) extensively, and it is much, much more user friendly. There are easily navigable menus which surface key functionality and respond contextually to the workload - ie if you're modeling, creating components and performing extrusions/rotations is front and center. If you're sketching, applying constraints (and the various types available) is all right there.

Of course, none of this means you CAN'T use Blender with UE, you totally can. And if you're a Blender expert, then none of this probably bothers you, because you don't care about discoverability of functionality since you already know it all. But if you're fresh out of Digipen or whatever, and you have to learn a single software package, then the refined products from Autodesk are going to win.

edit: In fairness, I hear that 2.80 is going to fix a lot of this, and I'm looking forward to trying it.
That terrible keyboard is my only sticking point at the mo. Rumor has it that is getting addressed in the next revision but we will see. Hopefully my trusty 2013 MBA keeps chugging away until then :D
My biggest issue is hitting spacebar 20 times in a row. I usually work in Python via Vim so Google Docs is a pure shitshow for me.

"Do you want tabs or spaces?"

> "Spaces please"

"Fuck... okay I guess..."
> I foresee that in the following 10 years, we will be seeing more and more of these types of works.

On the other hand, people are hard at work trying to automate these jobs. Amazon would love nothing more than to have a completely robotic warehouse and a fleet of delivery robots that run 24/7.
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I do have kids, and make abundantly sure that any payments on my kids' devices go through Play / App store (not a card directly), and always require a password. It does not require technical knowledge; both systems clearly show relevant controls at every purchase.

I see how being a parent of a young and active kid can be exasperating. But, if anything, it should increase the level of healthy paranoia :)
EDIT: it is also worth noting that I believe the Perception Neuron people released a new version of their UE4 plugin a week or two ago. It might be worth checking out yet whether they have improved the workflow or not since the previous version. I wanted the ability to edit the animations directly in Blender and so I wrote this plugin.
Agreed, great article (though I prefer this line from the penultimate paragraph: "Why wait until you’re rolling in money to discover that you’re not living your authentic, fully-empowered, best life? Why not start digging-in now?").

I "retired" at 28 on what, in retrospect, was a laughably small nest egg from stock options. But I was unhappy at my job and wanted freedom from work, and I leapt at the earliest opportunity. It took me a long time to rediscover that meaningful work is one of the great joys in life. If I'd figured that out sooner, I probably could have transitioned into a better role at my current company, or found something suitable at another company ... anything rather than just checking out for years and trying to find a way to fill my time.
I generally think of time travel fiction as a means to explore and develop "what if" type thinking for purposes of enhanced decision making. So I tend to cut them some slack for their myriad shortcomings. I find them useful for developing pragmatic mental models.

I liked The Butterfly Effect. I also like A sound of thunder wherein the death of a moth alters the future.
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The 'Apple way', soon we will sell you a 35% faster upgrade...
Ah, that sounds like a very fair argument to me.

I believe you can get pretty affordable Windows VMs these days, however. I'm not sure that blocking wine really accomplishes a lot. (There are also companies that sell access to consumer Windows PCs on consumer ISPs these days. If you don't play Hearthstone, you probably don't mind $10/month in free money for letting someone bot Hearthstone on your computer. And it's not like Blizzard is going to say "look, enough Comcast, shut these people down or else we lock all Comcast customers out of battle.net". It's pretty tough to run a gaming client these days, I would imagine. So so much stuff is totally out of your control. I do not envy their engineers at all!)
The 2014 University of Texas example is also two materials - "fishing line and sewing thread", so the unique is this new research is something else.
It's not though. They expect shit to run afterwards. As someone who primarily writes Python (whitespace matters) in Vim (it's universal), having to code in Google Docs is a horrifying experience
This looks like the same thing we've had for almost a decade, and is so easily and widely accessible that it is used in cheap super-miniature hobby servos (usually under the MuscleWire name)

Eg: https://www.dfrobot.com/product-761.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwyLDpB...
I usually find expert consensus to be pretty good grounds.