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"We can do this because we can use both of our feet to manipulate our trajectory much more finely that we can in most games."

This is another thing that I think game designers often forget. When trying for a "realistic" game, you have to account for the fact that in the real world we have a lot more "bandwidth" than our computer monitors, sound, and input devices can offer. It is perfectly fine for a "realistic" game to offer some counterbalancing capabilities to address the unrealistic constraints of the game space. A HUD being a classic example that is generally included; it's a cute idea to try to build a game that doesn't need one, but they've mostly been disasters (couple of exceptions), because a HUD is one of those compensations.

Another example: I may not have a minimap in real life, but I do have proprioception, balance input as provided by my inner ears, a nearly 180 degree FOV (albeit with a lot of details and caveats, but I've got decades of experience dealing with those; my eyes saccade much more quickly and accurately than my mouselook even after quite of time working on the latter), tactile connections to the space even down to something as simple as feeling my feet hit the ground and the physical effort of walking. Staying oriented in real space is massively harder if we take those away (see also "people getting disoriented in zero gravity"). It's perfectly fine to have a minimap help me out.

Being able to fudge a trajectory a bit fits right in to that idea. In real life I've got all sorts of extra inputs to help me jump accurately, and years of experience in my body to help me know the likely consequences. Even a realistic game can afford to help me out a bit as I remote-control around the feelingless, proprioceptionless, tunnel-visioned, aurally-challenged, and so on robot that constitutes my player.
Essentially, Apple changed the iPad's user-agent to mimic macOS with the iPadOS 13 release. This makes detecting iPads impossible from the user-agent and requires DOM inspection.
That rescue worker temporarily had a platform high enough to speak with Musk's typical level of reach and attempted to use it to pull back the curtain and reveal Musk's publicity hound ways.

This is an existential threat to Musk's operation and he reacted rashly and extremely aggressively slinging the nastiest mud which might stick. That type of reputational damage is extremely difficult to recover from.

It also drew the public's eye away from the the "Elon the publicity hound" story to "Elon possible defamation" which is a much less serious problem.
Could you point me to the academic, empirical research that quantifies the influence of CO2 on climate? Not a book, but from an academic publication.
The magnetic field is needed to protect life on Mars from radiation. It's one of the bigger problems in terraforming the planet.
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> advances in computing have allowed the reduction of cell size, allowing more detailed and therefore hopefully more accurate physical simulations.

'Hopefully' is doing a lot of work there. In modeling a highly dimensional dynamic system it's not obvious that a smaller cell size will lead to more accurate predictions.
That would not be possible today.

The wartime World War Two economy we learn about in school was only made possible because of two factors:

1) A massive surge in federal government spending, financed by borrowing from public markets (incl. war bonds), to buy the materiel needed to fight a war on two fronts (in Europe against Germany and in the Pacific against Japan). Such spending caused the public debt as a share of GDP to surge to its highest historical level ever, from about 40% at the start of the war to 100% at its peak, as you can see on this graph: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/US_Debt_... . Today, without such a total war effort, we are running trillion dollar deficits. To put it as shortly and bluntly as I could, trying the same thing today would bankrupt the government. Our debt levels are far higher than they were then, in relative terms, and increasing by over a trillion every year. We would be looking at 2 or 3 trillion dollar deficits. Deficits of that magnitude might shake investors' confidence in the U.S.'s ability to service its debt.

2) The United States was coming out of the Great Depression, and the unemployed labor pool was in the double digits, as you can see on this graph: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Un... . In other words, there were a lot of unemployed people with nothing to do who could quickly be put to work to produce stuff for the war economy. This is not the case today. The economy is running at full employment. The large spare labor pool that existed then doesn't exist today.
basic addition is not a skill that atrophies. We are talking the most basic math there is, adding whole numbers. 1+1 = 2, or in this case 50+20+1+1+1+5 = 78
Or that there are multiple inaccuracies in the model which interact, so finding and correcting each one makes progress but still doesn't improve the model overall.
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Literature teachers try, somewhat haphazardly, to expose students to material that they aren't really ready for. There's no one correct route that will connect with all students. Some will get it immediately; others will connect years later; others will never find it resonates with them at all.

I think the most common approaches aren't very effective. They're taught to treat a poem as a puzzle to be decrypted, as if the poet could have spoken more plainly but chose not to. You're taught to look for "symbolism", because a one-to-one matching of symbols to the real world is easy to talk about. But it didn't help me connect with anything, and I suspect for many others.

A better approach, at least for me, is to take a piece that already connects and then examine why it works. You already know, for example, that popular song lyrics are easy to memorize. Why? What is the structure they're using, and how does that pattern build up more than the same concept expressed in different words? Why did you like Film X and hate Film Y, even when they're superficially similar?

There's no right answer, and that's hard to teach. Especially to students like me, who think of school as "Science and a bunch of classes for students not smart enough to take science." (I suspect that rings bells for many.) I eventually learned that I enjoyed things that were created by those "not smart enough for science", and became interested in how those things worked -- even though there's still no right answer.

I just now have a way to talk about it, lessons that my English teachers tried and failed to get to me. I believe they could have done it better, though what would have worked for me would have failed other people differently.
We already know how to reduce population - education for women and access to contraception. Birth rates have slowed so much in some parts of the world that it is, apparently, worrying for their economic stability.
I am honestly confused how anyone could code themselve up into that python2 only corner. With the release of python2.6 and python3 in 2006, it was clearly described what one had to do to write upwards-compatible python2 code. 2006.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3000/

No one had to have any problems with the transition. If they did, they had to willingly ignore the in-your-face documentation on the migration process.
> I'm not sure who's goal this is. Can you elaborate on this? Who says this?

You cant stop physics so "static" can be interpreted to mean "mainain" over an arbitrary amount of time...although I am not sure why you have focused on to that term.

Leaving aside the troublesome reality of humans being part of the global ecosystem, any forest/wildlife/etc preserve is implicitly maintaining a localized ecosystem over multiple human generations.
well, plenty of places could have moved out of their box. many urban properties are quite narrow; i lived on one not even 2.5 metres wide, so every 3m box would be in use (and potentially then some) on that street. (i didn't have an address living there either, but w3w wasn't going to help that problem much. easier to give a recognisable landmark.)
> Rendering across Jupiter's radiation belts doesn't strike me as an example of understanding anything.

Marketing. He understands that a great visual excites people, accuracy be damned. Never let the truth get in the way of a great story.
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Ask HN: Why didn't I get my karma points?
My last submission was ~3 days ago. It has earned 5 points and I'm wondering my karma hasn't moved yet.

Why is there lag? How does the logic work? Is it lag or do you not earn points, sometimes? It's unclear, but it could be a downvote scenario - but I didn't see my karma points go up or down as points for the article changes.

There is a 'roughly' in the guidelines. What does that mean?

ref - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Sounds like the beginning of excluding women from stem.
Empty string isn't enough for this situation since it doesn't work for data types other than string, I actually prefer null vs undefined in javascript / json here, xml also has the concept of null vs undefined.

Emtpy string vs null is not that useful if you have null and undefined.
It certainly does hurt the credibility of people saying we need drastic changes now based upon the models. If the answer might change next year, then making a drastic change based upon the current projections seems foolhardy.
> Already according to the 3° sensitivity predictions we would need an effort that rivals WW2 to stay below 1.5°.

Comparisons to a war are overly dramatic because it puts the destruction on the opposite side of the effort. If you're in a war and two countries spend a trillion dollars fighting the war, those resources go to causing trillions of dollars of damage to the other country -- most of the cost of the war is getting bombed, not making bombs. With climate change it's the opposite -- the more we do against it, the less damage there is overall. On top of that, most of the "costs" are just replacing other costs -- you have to spend money building solar panels, but then you don't have to spend money doing oil exploration or mining coal, which offsets most to all of the cost.

On top of that, wars are characteristically fought by governments with all the bureaucratic inefficiency that implies, whereas the single biggest thing we could do against climate change is to accurately price carbon and then let the market find the most efficient way to optimize it out.

Obviously that doesn't get us out of actually doing it, but the biggest problem isn't that it's actually that hard from an economic perspective, it's that it's hard from a political perspective because the oil industry has a trillion dollar interest in not ceasing to exist.
> listen to police frequencies that fall in that range even in my car in those five states.

Haven't most services switched over to encrypted Public 25? How much is still accessible?
Yep. I'm Dutch, we've been converting sea to land since the early middle ages. Considering the technology at hand at that time, colonizing Mars is even somewhat comparable.
Back in the day everyone has the PHP manual downloaded in CHM format (that was before broadband was common). Searching in CHM was just 1.5 seconds away.
I completely misread that table. Whoops.
I'm not logged in to google (I only logged in to google on chrome and use firefox for personal browsing) but I do have Privacy Pass extension installed. I haven't see cloudflare captcha for a long time ever since I installed Privacy Pass.
It gives the feeling of a puff-piece for a vapid coffee-table magazine.
This part of climate "science" always makes me put on my Popper hat. The social aspect of being the outlier (grants dry up, career goes away) makes me skeptical of the IPCC reports, just not in the usual direction. I fear reality could be much worse.

I can't ding the climate scientists too much, though... I'm not sure there's a better way to study this stuff.
> it also could mutate and change it's behavior.

With flu / colds, my understanding is that it's typically milder mutations which end up thriving, as the milder the symptoms, the more likely people are to try to carry on with their normal lives rather than isolating themselves (and thus infect more people).
Yes, I think it is pretty clear that this social structure is the cause and at this point the only solution. Why the only solution? Generally I view the prevention of a strong global government to be a conservative issue and for better or for worse that isn't likely to happen (peacefully). The construction of such a government would speed up solving this issue but then we'd be left with another power hungry government to reign in.
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The costs involved in turning Mars into an experimental environment, call it a "twin", would likely eclipse the sum total of human activity to date (300k years worth) by several orders of magnitude.
> If I were in his position, I would not waste my fortune on colonizing Mars

I might not like Musk and most of his ideas seems bit out there, or like hyper-loop pure bs, but...

At least he is doing something with that wealth as oppose to other billionaires who are only growing and hoarding it.
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...and is not null
A model isn't reality. A lot of climate research is based entirely on experimenting with these climate models. Of course, the climate is a non-linear dynamic system, so even if you had a perfect model (we don't), if your input parameters were off by the slightest bit, reality would veer off wildly from your prediction within a short time. This is why weather forecasts don't work beyond 10 days.
Not being a Chinese citizen, there's very little I can do there (AFAIK there's not very much I could do if I was either). I certainly will vote for any politician that promises to put pressure on China to change their policies.
> Why didn’t they discover that the new number was higher right away?

http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
I would pay good money for the "go home and try again tomorrow" feature. Especially if it was narrated by my favorite celebrity. Like Cookie Monster.
I'm guessing it is 23andMe.
I would love to go. Maybe next time.
I question a lot the models as well. I think pollution is a big problem in general, but CO2 is totally the wrong focus; like focusing on the sniffles and ignoring the flu. The real issue is consumerism and consumption. We cannot buy our way out of environmental disaster, but the CO2 camp is trying to offer that option: buy green, electric cars, etc.

In realize, we need fewer cars, more trains, better transport options, cell phones that last 8 years and that are repairable rather than 1.5 year planned obsolescence Internet of Trash devices.

The debate over climate/CO2 is a religious ideology at this point, and a very unhelpful one at that.
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I guarantee that the only person that will recognize you when you walk in the door is the specific salesperson you worked with—and they likely won't recognize you beyond, "I think I've seen that person before—maybe I sold a car to them."

Making the customer feel that they took the dealer to the cleaners is a time-honored sales technique. They still made money off of you, and will be happy to treat you just like any other customer.
Why do you need a special machine for cloud native development? I have created a GitGub repo with cloud native dev tools which is more than what I usually need.

https://github.com/whirlwin/cloud-native-workspace
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There's certainly a lot of dross out there that's just search & replace glosses of some other language or a respelling of Brainfuck, but there are some gems out there. Search for "piet language" for another example of something genuinely interesting.
That's not how it works. Karma is not a direct addition OR subtraction based on up and downvotes. Also, if your five points are due to a voting ring or similar pattern they might not be counted at all.
Even a 5C (9F) warming is not "CATASTROPHE." See: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ucenergy/2018/12/05/will-global...

> While it is true that we estimated damages as high as 10% of GDP annually at the end of the century for warming of 15°F above pre-industrial levels, the odds of a temperature change that would drive damages of this magnitude are slim. In fact, they are less than 1-in-100 by our original calculation. Under a scenario of continued growth in global emissions, 9-out-of-10 global change temperature projections fall approximately in the range of 4°F to 11°F by 2100. The median change is closer to 6°F. We deliberately incorporate tail risks in our research, not just “most likely” outcomes, because consideration of tail risks is crucial to sound risk management.
> Last fall, 1Password took in $200 million of outside money.

(insert "but why?" meme)

All I want from a password manager is to securely store a list of passwords. That's it. Add in copy/paste functionality, and I'm all set.

I don't want to pay a monthly fee just to store a KB or two of data.
Ratchet works fine.
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If your model suddenly changes its predictions, you need to make 100% sure you know why and that is valid.

Just imagine they would go public with this "Scientists found climate change is worse than previously thought with updated model" and then weeks later find an error in the changes made to the model "Scientists made mistakes, climate change less severe than previously thought".

What do you think would hurt their credibility more?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Neuralink/comments/ce8a5i/new_neura...
It's kind of sad that you consider land being left in it's natural state as a waste. We have more then enough land for crops and everything else, we can just let some of it exist.
Wine/Proton is fine nowadays.
What about this type of scenario, is this something you could see playing out:

People receive UBI, more people are able to move out and buy/rent an apartment or house, landlords are getting more applicants and apartment buildings start filling up, some landlords increase price to compensate for increased demand, average rent for an area goes up, the rest of the landlords increase their prices to match the market
You appear to be unfamiliar with best practices in software project management. User stories (or change requests or whatever you call them) are either done or not done. Progress on tasks is meaningless: from a customer value standpoint either the functionality is ready to deliver or it isn't. If you ask for progress reports then developers will report a lot of "progress" but it's totally meaningless.
This article goes further about fire and fire codes: https://www.archdaily.com/483650/tall-tinder-are-wooden-skys...
Interestingly, I actually use this strategy when I make large personal purchases as well. It has always gone well. There's an element of strategy involved, however, such as buying on the last day of the quarter when sales quotas/bonuses/manufacturer bonuses, etc all come into the forefront of everyone's mind at the dealership.

I never try to put the other person in the unenviable position of actually having to ask the manager (not the fake ask the manager show they put on). I do however call up friends and find out what the thing costs on the invoice and then go in with that as my offer. (If you are diligent enough to poke around online forums and find the right people you could probably get the same information).

Success rate: The last 2 vehicles I've bought I could have sold the same day for more than I paid.
But entire populations don't mutate at once. If a virulent strain is active in thousands of people, it's going to be quite a while before the full impact of that epidemic is felt.
I try new projects constantly which may be for pure personal growth or trying to make some extra money. So far tried youtube channel, blog, photography, music making, video making and such.

Few broke even but I am never short of topics to talk about. I always get intrigued by the process in all my projects, this way learning is less frustrating.

The flow of new projects keeps my inner fire burning and I really like learning and getting interested in new topics.

All of this are on the sides of my primary software career
You need to account for the delay to death in your model here. People don't die the second they're infected. Most of the people in that estimated infected number were infected in the last week. They couldn't possibly have died of the disease. I believe most epidemiological models have a infection to death delay factor to estimate death rate. Your mortality rate with ~300/100k~=flu is too low.
As long as they don't do any advertising they should be okay. But if a single non-accredited investor lands on their website as the result of clicking an ad, the law has been broken.
... beyond a certain (perhaps trivial or intuitive) threshold.
The disadvantage of that would be that high-importance leaders who are in a spacecraft far away won't be high-importance leaders for very long.
The answer is going to change every year, with new inputs from the prior year. That is how prediction models work. Using your logic would lead to never making any changes, which I don't think will really help.
Observe the existence of free webcomics and you see your answer. An awful lot of people will put an awful lot of work into things that enthuse them.

Least-bad capitalist employment piggybacks off that. You get paid for stuff you mostly like.

An awful lot of employment just gets in the way.
Also nothing but opportunity for those looking for kernel flaws, of which their many. The Linux kernel monoculture is a devastating weakness.
not racist ... but have you seen a pure bred French girl? more of those please ... just joking ;)
Building a vehicle that checks two sets of boxes like this (family SUV with an EV carbon footprint and performance) has worked out very, very well for FCA and their 4dr Jeep. A lot of people who didn't go into the dealer looking for a Wrangler bought them because they managed to check so many requirement boxes at once. I think GM may be hoping to do the same.

Husband wants a Model 3, wife wants 4Runner (or vise versa, point is that they want totally different things), joint bank account wants absolutely nothing to do with either. GM swoops in to save the day by checking the snazzy EV and the practical SUV sets of boxes at the same time at a typical GM price point.
Not to rain on your parade, but programs like this from big power companies are essentially meant to allow customers to feel good while simultaneously not going through the work and cost of switching completely to renewable power.

That's because the power companies want to keep people from developing competition to them... if enough individuals install solar plants with battery storage, eventually they power company simply won't be needed any more, which is what they're trying to avoid.

By selling "green" feel good power, they quiet the impulse that people like you get to make changes that would impact their business.

It's still good that you choose to purchase green power over e.g. coal fired power, but it's also the power companies you're keeping in business that are causing a lot of climate change, and who have contributed to it all along.