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I find it interesting that MMORPGs didn't actually develop in the direction that MMORPGs portrayed themselves as. The idea of an MMORPG was to be an entire world and the player would simply be a participant in it. Ultima Online, at first, tried to have some form of an ecological system where carnivores eat herbivores etc. This didn't work out, but you can clearly imagine that the goal was to create a world. However, somewhere between that and modern day MMOs things seem to have changed. The goal doesn't seem to be to create a world, but to simply provide a multiplayer game with a bigger map. It's as though it's meant to be social media with a game attached.

I'm not sure if I worded things correctly, but it just seems to me that MMORPGs aren't trying to build a game world anymore.
> Do you find them informative? Do they help you somehow?

Yes. For any area in which one is not already a specialist, it's good to have some source that can give you a reliable starting information.

The internet is full of false, misleading or plainly wrong information, to which I stumble all the time. It's even frequently multiplied across many sites where the "content" is produced by rewriting (or mostly stealing) the content from some other site, and the quality of the information multiplied is irrelevant. So you can even get the impression that the answer is right, because you see the same on many places!

So it's worth having a source even for the introduction-level information for which you know that is reliable and nicely summarized. I've already recognized that Julia's material is that. I can surely recommend Julia's work to anybody who needs a reliable start in some of the topics she covered.
Whenever topics like this come up on HN, there are always tons of people in their 30s and 40s posting comments like this, which boil down to something like: "I'm not old enough to experience age discrimination yet, and I'm scared but I'm going to keep up with the latest languages/frameworks so I will be special and not be discriminated against like all the other developers, who allowed their skills to deteriorate when they got older."

On the other hand, when people who are already in their 50s post about this topic, they are saying things like, "My phone interview went really great and they were impressed by my skills, but when I went in their attitude changed the second they saw how old I am."
I’m always skeptical, was the original study a realistic amount of micro plastics in the next 20 years or is it a totally artificial amount for funding and headlines?
Should that happen, you're better off not working for that company anyway. Nobody wants to seldom hire young-er people for the good reasons.

Meanwhile, I find that there are increasingly more opportunities for experienced devs in their 30's and 40's. I suspect boomers were under the impression that 40 was already 'not so young' or 'too old' in terms of performance/productivity, but that's a vision from 1960, not 2019. People are slow to adapt to demographic realities, it's a generation's game.
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At a moment when we need to retool our whole economy to run on carbon free energy, we really can’t afford to still have people running massive super yachts and palatial mansions.
Maybe were you thinking about fakeroot ?

"fakeroot runs a command in an environment wherein it appears to have root privileges for file manipulation. This is useful for allowing users to create archives (tar, ar, .deb etc.) with files in them with root permissions/ownership."

https://man.cx/fakeroot(1)
You are right, the bleaching process is quite bad environmentally. Linen or hemp is better in these terms.
And early on prior to the election, Trump was also talking about repealing Obamacare and putting in single payer.

As much as I despise Trump, this idea wasn't terrible. Obamacare/ACA was only a stepping stone. But the republicans had a 'talking' with him.

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/02/709175203/trump-backs-off-oba...
Warzone 2100 is my favorite RTS. LAN play a lot with my kids.

https://wz2100.net/
I've effectively "fixed" a couple startups built by fresh college grads and interns and made a pretty penny doing it.

I think some companies and some founders have thought engineering was an area where they could cut corners by not hiring experienced people, and they have learned this is a good way to fail.

That being said, you want a mix - more seasoned people leading the direction, processes, and technology selection; and younger people for their energy, enthusiasm, and willingness to learn new things.
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External Intellectual influcences in one's brain hinders muscle brain capacity. It may have gotten the stronger senses in the past and detoriated from its skill level.

If we were at harmony (like monkeys), could we have heard this sound without help of scientific instruments?

Music is our first and the only enjoyable discovery. It comes from within. Ear senses vibration. gravitational waves are also vibrations.

My view is that if we live peacefully as per nature's law than human's law, we will become strongest species biologically rather than implants, machine processing, counting(good for nothing)
And perhaps we could learn more while staying here in earth than roaming out there.

What would you learn if you couldn't learn from yourself.

Your brain is the closest device to think.

Think and learn from it.

There should be a balance between what we learn and we we create out of it.

When we create out, it should like the effect of music.

Scientifically proven that music has its benefits.

Isn't it scientifically proven that living in comfort is the most dangerous thing yet ?

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- I like to write this kind of articles. Appreciate if someone could point me to sites where I can write content of this type.
We don't need no water let the mother fucker burrrrn
Ask HN: What age should I be concerned if I'm still single?
I have another username at HN, but this is a throwaway account. I don't know if this is the right place for posting this kind of questions, and if it is not I sincerely apologize, but sometimes I see personal questions in Ask HN and I think it's a good place because:
- I'm a tech guy and hopefully some people will relate to what I'll say.
- Unlike other sites, in HN most answers tend to be serious and relevant.

The thing is that I'm in my middle 20s and I have never been in a relationship. Never, as in literally never, not even 1-night things when I was a teen. I never cared, but now I'm starting to worry and I'm getting depressed. It's not that I've been rejected, but I have never asked and I have never been asked. Also, I believe that the time for knowing new people (both friends and SOs) is over (college), and now people of my age just hang out with the social circles they built in highschool or college (which I didn't).

Of course, I'm the one to blame for this situation. However, I think that it has something to do with the fact that I've never been able to overcome the fact that, being a CS guy, both in college and now, at work, there are mostly no women (where I am from, women mostly don't get into STEM), and the men I've found there tend to have hobbies I don't share or be quite socially isolated, so I haven't made any friends either. In my college, I think the people who were socially active hanged out with people they met in highschool or their own town, mostly.

I'm not implying at all that all CS men are in this situation, actually I believe that most HNers have deep social and love relationships, but I think that some people here will relate to this situation and tell me how they escaped this "tech-induced" isolation, if that makes any sense.

Thanks and apologies if this post was not adequate for HN.
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Consider this:

- KSA is at war with Yemen.

- KSA has a land border with Yemen.

- KSA army has not invaded Yemen.

- KSA army is not deployed in Yemen.

Some parts of Yemen have been captured by sympathetic local forces, supported by the UAE and Colombian mercenaries deployed by sea routes.

https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/saudi-arabia-incre...

https://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/news/hundreds-columbian-mer...

It is testament to the terrain; the capability and tenacity of the Houthis; and the lack of capability and tenacity of the KSA army.

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/houthi-forces-destroy-u...

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/houthi-forces-destroy-u...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1yTb3vF35M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Kqsc6bA80
This question is also asked in the RFC by adopting a rather philosphical stance towards assigning a patent to an 'AI based entity'.

4. Should an entity or entities other than a natural person, or company to which a natural person assigns an invention, be able to own a patent on the AI invention? For example: Should a company who trains the artificial intelligence process that creates the invention be able to be an owner?
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I find that, even though you and I are probably no longer religious, such values have huge staying power.

I'll do you one better - it propagated to my, firmly catholic, country and apparently it's here to stay even though no one ever associated it with religion.

We're now among some of the most overworked nations in Europe.
If only Mohammed Bonesaw and the rest of Trump's friends had been touring the facility at the time.
>the casuals that liked to pvp got driven out by the experts and tried to start again in a new game.

I find this to be a really interesting point. Many people would ask why they are playing a PvP game in the first place, if they're not interested in competing. I think it makes a lot of sense though, because they're not actually all that interested in playing against players. They just want more of a human-like challenge than what AI can provide. The only option there is to play against other players.
See I kind of disagree. High speed train would let people live outside of SF which in turn would ease the pressure on the currently existing city transit.
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If you like the Civ and HOMM series, you might wish to try Endless Space 2 as well.

It's perhaps the best TBS I've ever played, and I started with the original Civ.

(Actually, before all that I played Might and Magic on my C64, but that wasn't TBS.)
It would appear that the prefrontal cortex is much less parallel than the rest of the brain.

This is why we often get much better task performance when we allow our gut feelings (which come from subconscious parts of the brain) to inform our reasoning.

Deliberative reasoning in the human brain has a very limited capacity.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memory and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus...
> This includes /proc-related escapes as well as more general VFS attacks.

Right, there are numerous ways to mess up a chroot, just like any other namespace isolation such as process and network namespaces.

Basically as soon as you bind one namespace inside another, the containing namespace will have access to the contained namespace. That much should (hopefully) be obvious. If you mount a procfs inside your application it is no longer contained from the syscalls that procfs necessitates.

But that's not typical for an application that drops privileges. Even decaces old software such as BIND, which has had numerous vulnerabilities over the years, chroots to the data directory and drops to an unprivileged user by default.

There is an important distinction here whether the application itself should drop any unnecessary privileges, as exemplified by chroot, seccomp and pledge, or whether the application should be started with as little privileges as possible, as exemplified by SELinux and Docker. In the former case, the responsibility falls on the application developer, and in the latter case on the system administrator or end user.

The article explicitly argues for SELinux instead of the chroot. That is, arguing the latter approach is superior to the former. That is experimentally verified bad advice by now.

Software such as Chrome rely on chroot-style compartmentalisation and is much better off because of it.

> tools should have switched to using pivot_root(2) a decade ago

Yet people keep using the simpler tool. The threat model is the same and pivot_root is easier to misuse. In fact, it is probably a good idea to do both.
Guidance. Until quite recently an RC plane required line of sight to both plane and target and even then accuracy would be limited. Now, with common off the shelf parts, open source software, and wireless cell/satellite networks that have almost global availability anyone can create a guidance package that rivals ones that were only available to a handful of nation-states twenty years ago.
Ongoing EOSIO exploit allows attacker to gain 30k EOS as network freezes
The map missions in Railway Empire make it a lot less like Railroad Tycoon than what I'd want. What really made RT great was the open ended ways to succeed, while the very focused missions in RE too often forces me to build specific things in specific order. I really miss the freedom the map objectives in RT3 gave me.

That said, it is a great game and it is one of the highlights of the railroad-building genre.
This is actually an example of age discrimination. Young people can be in leadership too. I always see conversations about ageism in tech drift towards older workers but as someone who was precocious I was often denied opportunities I was ready for because I didn’t have “enough experience”.
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I don’t think you could find even one person who thinks our healthcare system is a free market system. If only we could make it a free market system I think most of the problems would solve themselves. Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s feasible to untangle the decades of junk laws. Instead, it honestly might just be a better idea to implement single-payer. At least the incentives mostly line up unlike 3rd party payer.
Won't this increase the price of goods imported into the US?
unfortunately that's not psychopathy, it's just humanity
I feel this comment is unnecessarily combative.

If you took offense, I apologize. I didn't mean to insult you.
I’m having difficulty finding a full-time role because I fear that, in my 50s, I’ve been thrown out with the trash in favor of “new blood.”

How is this claim falsifiable?

London admits having won no major awards recently in a competitive industry. New York comes across as high falutin’. Maybe they’re overpriced for what they bring to the table. Maybe they’re woe-is-me or brash in person too.

In software, productivity is hard to measure. The pressure to keep costs down is strong. As salary expectations rise, we’ve got to up our game. One route is specializing in a niche of a niche, but that is a risky approach. Stack talents to make unique combinations. Every organization needs project and technical management. Talk to people who know, like, and trust you about the challenges of what they’re trying to do at work and what you can do to solve it. Learn how to grow the business. Start your own business or go out as a freelancer.

Sure, we’d all like to sit at the same desk doing the same job watching the raises and perks pile in. Expect to hit a ceiling with that approach. I miss the days of having one problem to focus on for weeks at a time. These days, I’m not just feeding my own family but making sure that lots of other families are staying fed too. That’s a much harder job.
Sure, but aren't the "fucked retirement/pension systems" a legacy of their generation?
Rails has generators for that. Invaluable for greenfielding projects in an iterative manner. Blow everything away and recreate with a single command.

https://guides.rubyonrails.org/generators.html
To be fair this crapware affected Windows users only, and was removed swiftly in a quickly issued BIOS update after this caused a PR nightmare... back in 2015.

So why are we discussing this now, almost half a decade later? Why is this suddenly relevant again?
Guessing you’re Gen X?

As a millennial (albeit a slightly older one) this is the reason I tend to not worry about this. We’ll be the dominant age group in the workforce for the next 20 years, there’s no reason for us to discriminate against ourselves.
So, how can I disable the Windows functionality that makes this type of thing possible? Surely there's a way?
Do you know how this compares to the real-life concentrations in soil?
I’d be satisfied with executive-class buses like they have in Mexico. Comfortable seats and useful timetables.

I’m a veteran of overnight train service between Chicago and Pittsburgh. One thing I noticed is that cheap flights are still a huge waste of time. If you fly out Friday night, you spend all evening in airports, risk getting bumped off an overbooked flight, and arrive tired at a hotel you have to pay for as well. On the way back you need an early enough flight that you aren’t dead at work on Monday.

On the overnight train you hang with friends near the station, hop on the train and go to sleep, waking up fresh on Saturday morning. You have the whole weekend to do whatever and you hop on the train at the end of Sunday. Monday morning you arrive fresh, probably 20 minutes early for work.
The only game that successfully did that was eve and I always find it amazing that nobody else tried it.
This appears to be the original paper:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b03304

There’s a slightly better summary, which at least references the paper, here:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190911193303.h...
this may have been true traditionally but most AI research is completely out in the open, so this seems redundant at best.
I'm curious what Google might be doing to combat content/link farms created for SEO purposes using this.
I wouldn't really go as far as qualifying him as a successful politician for the simple reason that it not really challenging for dictators to consolidate power and build alliances using unethical means, like money and intimidation and in this case murder. For MBS his father is already the monarch of one of the wealthiest nations on earth, which I'm pretty sure helps a lot.
The installer itself lets you choose to enable or disable Siri. Like it's one of the first choices you make when you first set up the machine.
"Taking up space" in an industry where there is serious talent shortage about everywhere in the first world and people who can barely code a sorting algorithm are hired for jobs with 6 figure salaries is just laughable argument. There are so many opportunities and so many ways to make living as a competent programmer, especially when you're young.

You're already in a privileged position by virtue of being born in technology age, having younger brain and better energy levels. It's an industry you can make it in in endless ways if you're willing to work on your skills.

If you're born in US that's another huge advantage as you can skip the language and culture part which is big barrier for many hard working and competent people. You also have access to the best market in the world and you don't need to worry about being denied entry or visa extension.

You know what's right for society? Working hard and not being an entitled brat. You have all the advantages in the world as a young English speaking person born in the first world country and you're complaining about 60+ years old trying to make living. It's honestly pathetic.
This. If you have access to a tunnel, deep basement, or cave, these can serve.
Not different, if "safety" is your only criteria. GC languages provide memory safety at a cost (performance). C, C++ and Rust are preferred in settings where you don't want the GC to capriciously affect performance (e.g. HFT). However, out of the 3, Rust is the only one that is provably "memory safe" at compile time because it provides constructs (ownership, borrowing) that force you to write safe code. If your Rust code can compile it's more than likely safe.
You can write equally performant code in C / C++ but both languages have a lot of foot guns.
Sorry for your loss of your grandmother, congrats for your new life directions and realizations.

> spending a lot of time out in the National Parks

If you don’t mind me asking, which are your favorites?

An ex of one of my relatives loves going off on Yosemite hikes like the
Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne.
It is a very good film though.
(1) is mostly right. The actual restriction is that ".." will be a no-op if the current directory is equal to nd->root (what your current root is).

(2) Yes, each process only has one root at a time.

(3) The restrictions don't apply to file handles at all (an fd doesn't know what chroot it was created in). Instead what happens is that the restriction in (1) is useless once the current directory of the resolution is above the nd->root (after all, a directory above nd->root is not equal to nd->root).
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> Let's not forget that you'd also have to pay at least 3 (8 hours per shift, not accounting for weekends) people to ensure 24/7 service availability through those 15 Hetzner nodes.

This is true if you run your own datacenter, but dedicated server providers typically monitor their servers and immediately intervene if they detect any connectivity/network issue (which is outside our control even if we use cloud providers like AWS).

For individual server failure (disk issue, etc), how you handle failure condition on dedicated servers is not much different than handling failure on cloud servers (remove the bad server from the cluster, re-image a new server and join it to the cluster). The main difference is provisioning new physical server is not instant, so you'll need to plan ahead and either have some spares or slightly over-provision your cluster (so you can take down a few nodes without degrading your service). You can do this automatically or manually, not much different than using cloud servers.

Using dedicated servers is not as scary as what people thought it would be.
GP is referring to the fact that Apple contractors were manually reviewing Siri recordings, which frequently included private conversations in which Siri activated erroneously.

"Hey Siri" may be opt in, but you're encouraged to enable it when you set up a new device, and someone who turns it on isn't necessarily okay with their private conversations being reviewed. Buying a computer in the first place is technically "opt-in" too.
Sure but the “semi-amusing” part varies a lot from person to person. It pattern matches into old neurons and rewards some people (like me) with much delight. It’s valuable nonsense to me at least.
Couldn't find a source for ZTE/Huawei as funding. Can't edit now.
For that exact reason I'm rejecting everybody that puts a picture on a CV in Germany.
You can turtle in Starcraft and people do it all the time.

People don’t want to play long online games though, so they don’t set up maps with enough resources to play for hours.
presentation: https://media.uaf.edu/media/t/0_xf8c7khp
> Actually, I don't see why this syscall isn't worse than chroot due to this.

You can (and everyone does) unmount the oldroot. Then in your mount namespace the old root is not reachable through the VFS alone. You need to make use of procfs's magic-links or other such tricks.
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Good point - although it’s worth clarifying that I’m on Crystal for this, meaning I’m definitely single threaded in this instance. Would that be as simple as a case of 1vCPU per pod?
A legacy of people in their generation with power, yes. You realize there's no moustache-twirling Boomer Conspiracy Society out there, yeah? And that some random working schlub wouldn't be invited if there was?