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> Back in the earlier days of Unreal there was an industry joke that Unreal was great if you were making a single player third person space marine game on Xbox or PC

Heh! In the process of implementing custom movement similar to F-Zero, I'd have to say it's still heavily optimized towards character based games.
Nope this isn’t a good phenomenon. Once again this is a result of Fed intervention. The Fed is buying mortgage backed securities as part of the stimulus package that exclude jumbo loans, so banks are being effectively saved from bad conventional loans on their books because they can sell it to the government but can’t sell jumbo loans that are usually taken by more credit worthy and wealthier borrowers.

This is creating a distortion in the mortgage market that isn’t rational.
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Oh I agree with all your conclusions. However, I think politicians have leveraged monetary policy to gain political points for decades. Rather than tell people we have to cut programs and we have to live within our means, we've got an endless series of wars and unsustainable social programs that don't work in a world where a large chunk of the population is old (boomers), while the young population have inherited a consumption-based economy that is currently eating itself.
Other countries are failing, too. It's not a unique feature of the U.S. We're going to see a lot of nation-states struggle under the weight of their existing programs when the debt-fueled growth stops. People have lost all sense of sustainable fiscal and monetary policy.
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Holy crap yes. I don't care for Fedora, but it beats having to scrape Windows off, and hopefully it means these laptops will be engineered for Linux/open source from the start.
Charlatans sell bogus treatment exposing blood to UV light (2016)
The effectiveness of cloth masks has been misrepresented
For those new to philosophy I recommend starting with Plato, Then reading his Republic especially chapter XI , then read some Descartes, Hume, Kant and then read Aristotle who is simply know as The Philosopher
Who did you hear it from first? Who got us talking about it? You can't say he doesn't stimulate discussion.
It is prb about 3 times cheaper than other areas of the country,

- Gas: is still $3 a gallon here while a majority of the nation enjoys close to $1 a gal.

- State taxes: run close to 10% on professional salaries, most other states have 4-5% or no state taxes.

- Housing: This one is the big one, try finding a 3 bedroom house for less than $1M in the san jose/pennisula area, it just isn't possible (I am excluding parts of east san jose where housing is cheaper). A typical house in the US goes for roughly 350k. rent is no better, a 3 bdrm rental in a half decent area runs you 3.5k on up.

- Property taxes: this one is tied to housing, enjoy paying 1.5% a year forever on your $1M+ house, that is 15k+ a year
I don't think luck is as "random" of a factor as much as most people think it is. Checkout "Luck Factor" by Dr. Richard Wiseman.

I do think there are a lot of things you can due to get probability more on your side:

- Keep your eyes open for opportunities and look for the upside ("be optimistic" is the woo-woo version), but it's been proven in experiments that you'll catch things others won't

- Only keep friends around you that actually support you. It's really hard to try to make life changes when people are constantly telling you you can't or shitting on your parade.

- Start making analytical choices. Certain fields pay more than others. Certain businesses treat their employees better than others. A lower position at a better company will increase your probability of "bumping" into those people who might be life changing.

- Learn about probability (Fooled by Randomness is a good start). If you constantly expose yourself to more chances of success, _odds are_, you'll start to find more of it.
All very good points. However, my point is that a student who can't use tools effectively is hampered in their studies. This isn't about getting jobs, just about being able to do their lab studies effectively.

I recall the student who had spent (by his account) half a day trying to find a bug in his program. When he enlisted my help, I pulled up a debugger (which he was supposed to have learned, according to the syllabus) and found the bug in moments.

Or the software engineering project groups in my SE courses. They were all supposed to be using source code control. The ones who actually used it all reported that it helped immensely. The others produced uniformly poorer work.

Learning how to use tools effectively helps a student to do better lab work, and therefore reinforces the theoretical principles we are trying to teach.
> All three indicate a significantly lower IFR than previously expected.

The NY study, if it holds up, suggests an IFR in the 0.8-1.0% range for NYC (depending on whether or not you include the additional excess deaths), which is in the range most experts have been assuming (0.5%-1.0% has been a common range that's been tossed around). For example, the Imperial College model used 0.9% IFR as an input. Additionally, a 10x confirmed cases to actual cases ratio is in the range most experts were assuming.

The two CA studies were outliers (and, had significant and substantive critiques), and suggested an IFR as much as 10x lower than the NY study suggests. I wouldn't call those two studies as aligning with the NY study.
Great diagnosis, questionable conclusion.

> But it's not something that works in politics

The first rule of politics is to win elections. He's currently the most powerful politician in the world. Of course it works in politics.

Governing on the other hand...
Examine the two actions below:

Given a concept, I name that concept "Gloop" and make it part of a defined word in the "English Language."

Given a concept, I name that concept "Gloop pattern" and make it part of a defined word in "Design patterns."

Both actions have the potential to fulfill either goal you describe above depending on the definition(s) of gloop and "gloop pattern."

Independent of the definitions or assuming both mean the same thing, the two actions are one in the same. There is no benefit of using one technique over the other.

Let's give you another angle: Defining a term under the umbrella of "Design patterns" doesn't make that definition any more precise than if you defined that term under the umbrella of the english language. There is no difference period.

Design patterns is shared vocabulary. English is also shared vocabulary. But the words "Design Patterns" is part of the "English Language." By creating the term "Design patterns" in the "English Language" you are essentially recursively adding complexity to the english language by defining a redundant concept in the same concept.

Just use english. Define the pattern in english, there is no need to define the pattern in "Design patterns."

Additionally, many patterns are better described with existing english words. Why use Facade pattern, when you can just say Object wrapper. The word "Design patterns" inserts a sort of false formalism and elitism into what is essentially just creating new vocabulary in the english language. The claim I'm making in this paragraph is that while yes it's good to have some formal nomenclature, it's excessive to give all of these patterns their own names. Let the naming and the definitions flow naturally.

Other fields of programming have patterns but they don't try to turn these patterns into some kind of theoretical field with it's own nomenclature. Currying is just currying nobody calls it the "Curry pattern". Recursion is just recursion, nobody calls it the "Recursion pattern."
As far as utility you can find numerous similar interpretations online searching Google for: ethics "exists for its own sake".

For a more detailed interpretation see Stanford philosophy text on Aristotelian Ethics: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/#HumaGoo...

Everything I just searched for referred directly back to Nicomachean Ethics, but it appears this idea exists directly at the top of Aristotle's Metaphysics Book 1.

> Similarly, pursuing an objective without distraction could not be less Aristotelian.

Perhaps. It has been a long time since I have looked at any of this. If I remember correctly it is more about the clarity of intention/purpose than the substance of the subject for that substance will reveal itself through the pursuit.

Aristotle wrote a lot about happiness and even had a word for it: eudaimonia. It did not seem to be a goal but rather the journey and ethics were the guidance that provided both direction and the narrow path.
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>He succeeded in business by bullying his opponents and using his power against them by squeezing them. But it's not something that works in politics, because his opponents are generally much smarter than he is.

This depends on what you mean by "works in politics"? He won the presidency after all, and then went on to beat a resistant republican party into submission. He lowered taxes on the rich, packed the supreme court, and is in the process of handing out 6 trillion dollars to wall street. His approval ratings have been constant through impeachment and pandemic [1] and he still has a good shot at reelection.

Assuming you aren't a supporter, I think there is a significant risk in underestimating his political successes. We shall see if Biden and the DNC can "outsmart" him in 2020.

[1] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
I feel like everyone is talking past each other. Or perhaps the definition of wealth is failing this discussion. Telling a family struggling to make ends meet that they are wealthy seems of little value. Depending on the scenario, they could be one job loss away from having nothing just like one of your families a state or two east.

Now that same family, income and house with a paid off mortgage is in an entirely different situation.

The difference is the wealth they accrued in paying down their mortgage. They claimed value in doing so. But merely having a massive mortgage in the Bay Area does not _inherently_ equate to wealth.
The blood is typically not where the virus or bacteria are concentrated.

Also, "treating" the blood would also destroy red and white blood cells which we need to survive. ...not to mention the 10^6 other proteins, antibodies, and many unknown structures in the blood. ...things we'd be breaking that we don't even know what they do yet.
And also, if you are intubating the person, they are probably pretty close to death. And then on top of that you paralyze them (with a medication, temporarily). So you are stopping their breathing. You have a few seconds in these people to get their lungs connected to mechanical ventilation. From what I've seen, if you don't, the outcomes are very bad.

This may be somewhat different from the typical intubation case, for example prior to surgery. Where its a generally more healthy person who has not been hypoxic for hours or days and is not at the last of their reserves...
Isn't this true of Pasteur and his initial application of vaccines?

While he identified the mechanism of inoculation, my understanding is he theorized that it was due to the attenuated pathogen outcompeting the virulent one for nutrients rather than due to stimulation of the immune system.

I think I got that from a lecture by a science historian once. This idea seems to be glossed in the Wikipedia article on Pasteur here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur#Anthrax

Do I have that right?
Yes, for those care about anthropogenic climate change, inflationary debt-backed currencies encourage exponential rates of consumption.
> A game is a thing with a goal (or goals), restrictions, agency, and a lack of real-world relevance.

I think there is a simpler definition that subsumes the first three points. When I clicked to this definition, I think it gave me a better understanding of not just games, but many of the pursuits humans choose to sink time into:

A game is a thing with bounded consequences.

"Consequences" means you can make choices and those choices matter. Relatively good and bad things can happen in response to them. Good things subsumes Mark's "goals", bad things covers the "restrictions", and "agency" is implicit that in order to have consequences, you must have actions.

But the part that makes games games is that the scope of those consequences has an upper. Bad things can happen, but they can only be so bad. And, importantly, you have a good understanding of how bad they can be before you make the choice.

The reason we actively seek out and play games is because we know the average result of our choices in the game is significantly better than the worst possible result. Therefore, it's a safe experience to opt into. This is what makes games feel like games. It's the sensation of a free lottery ticket.

Looking at games in these terms raises some interesting questions around the fringes. A stock trading simulation where you invest and win fake money is clearly a game. Trading your actual retirement savings on the stock market is clearly not a game. What about a "game" that trades using virtual money but lets you convert that to real money afterwards? What if you have to buy in with real money to play that game? What about trading on the real market but starting with a small enough fixed pool that you can safely afford to lose?

What if you are a professional poker player who needs to win in order to pay your bills? Conversely, what does it mean to hold a regular job with performance reviews if you happen to already be independently wealthy? Is your job now a game? What if you sink thousands of hours into an MMO in order to gain some powerful item only if you beat a dragon. Given the large opportunity cost of that time, is that boss fight still a game?

My claim is that the structure of the activity itself doesn't tell you whether or not it's a game. You need to know the context of the player because that's what determines the severity of the consequences. Chutes and ladders is a game. Chutes and ladders with a mob boss who will murder your family if you lose is not.

Something I've observed in my own life is that when it feels like too many things are not fun, it's often because I'm in a place where the negative consequences of them are too severe, or at least I perceive them to be. In particular, when I'm really pressed for time, then few recreational pursuits feel fun because the lost time itself is too high of a consequence.
I don't know. Can't know. At least one had a possibly-Swedish name, but that doesn't mean all that much. I do suspect that more are Americans, momentarily enamored of Sweden because of this one issue. I'm even more sure that any such will forget their love of Sweden as soon as they realize that Swedish attitudes on just about any other politico-economic subject aren't so convenient to their cause.
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Seagate already did a few days ago: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/seaga...
Sure, one restaurant going away won't change anything (though it would mean a lot to the regular customers, and to the employees). That's true for anything though. We could close one hospital, or shut down one power plant, and life would carry on.

Who is we: Welcome to Hacker News! A sizeable portion of the HN audience works in unicorn startups, or startups that aspire to be unicorns. Some turn into mature businesses that provide value to many people. Most fail fast and disappear. A few of them, like WeWork, subsist on VC cash infusions and hype fumes while providing little value, or negative value. I'd be more sad if restaurants disappeared than if these did.
If chemotherapy had been suggested by the president at the time going on TV and saying "it might be a good idea if people drank poison", _with no basis for that assumption_, then, well, yes, that would have been pretty crazy, and would have lead to a lot of unnecessary death.

Also, of course, lobotomies probably sounded crazy the first time someone suggested them. And as it turns out, they were. For everything that sounds crazy and works, there are a lot of things that sound crazy and prove to be crazy.
> Not Neopolitan, but very good.

I take issue with Neapolitan being a standard of quality. It's just a style.
I suspect that it depends on the play style of your opponents. A lot of people are too hesitant to trade in order to gain monopolies for multiple people early on. I've seen it play out this way with multiple parties not having monopoly and one party having one on Blue (or even purple in one case) and absolutely refusing to trade out of fear that it might help someone else.

The results are inevitable at that point.
I'm not saying that because the lockdown has been a failure you need to save face. Is there something unclear in my reasoning from the rest of my comment that you'd like me to re-word?
I fully agree. In general, any flavor of agile for software development that doesn't include the engineering focus that Extreme Programming's technical practices bring in (fast feedback, refactoring, good testing & design, CI/CD deployment, team ownership of the solution - weather you pair program or not) is doomed to become intractable legacy after 12-18 months at the most optimistic.
Wow, you're allowed to ride side-by-side. Is that common in other countries?

Over here cars honk, even if 2 cyclists take only 1/2 a lane of 2 same-direction lanes and <5 cars pass in a minute. OTOH, if you ride the same, except the sheltered cyclist isn't there, they don't make a fuss even in moderate traffic - they just don't like you talking.
Another fast way to double a number is to add it to itself.
Of course Socrates we should let you philosopher rule the world
“being able to voice concerns to upper management where people actually listen“

I think that’s what’s missing in most companies. We have 360 reviews, retrospectives and all kinds of stuff but there is no feedback channel up the chain. At my company whenever there are obvious problems management secludes itself and then a solution will be revealed to the underlings who never got heard. Especially in tech it’s pretty safe to assume that engineers at the bottom of the pyramid are as intelligent and educated as people further up the chain so I think their input is valuable.
The quality of those discussions is extremely poor. ...both his initiation, and the responses.
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Investing the bulk of your money in index funds during the great market run-up following the second World War and having the guts to ride out the storm when the market tanks periodically, I think is not trivial. There was a secretary in NYC who did that and died with an 11M fortune. She was clearly very successful.

I think Trump has been successful. Many people born into wealth lose it or at least don't grow it. So he deserves some kudos here.

I think people don't like to give him credit for anything, but if you "only" grow your fortune at the rate of the market, then you're really tracking the average success of American business. That's by definition better than 50% of public companies and in the top few percent of individuals. That's successful in my books.

This post is attracting quite a bit of negative attention, but I stand by my assessment as fair. If you disagree, maybe you want to point out how it's not fair? I think people just hate Trump (which I do as well, but I can separate concerns.)
Also whatever Sumo Digital uses for their games like Sonic Allstars Racing Transformed.It had such lush water effects, but again no problem rendering it smoothly on low end hardware.
Sure, but on a technical level modding works exactly the same way. Modloaders like forge arose from a few issues with the simplified process I listed: for one, 2 mods that overwrite the same .class files conflict with each other and can’t be installed at the same time. Second, when new Minecraft versions come out it can be a pain to update your mod. Not to mention the update procedure mentioned above is pretty cumbersome for the average user.

Modloaders like Forge are platforms for mod installation because they overwrite the class files, and instead modders would add class files that don’t conflict instead (these days it might patch in code via Reflection, so things might be slightly different, but the fundamental process is the same). Furthermore I believe Mojang has started releasing debug symbols for Minecraft so the decompilation is no longer 100%. community driven as it used to be.

Fundamentally though, Forge is really doing the same thing. My point is that without the ability to easily decompile and patch in code, Minecraft modding would not be nearly as easy to do and platforms like Forge wouldn’t exist

I used to be a MC Modder back in the Beta, and at peak my mod had order 50000+ users, so I have some idea what I’m talking about. Admittedly I didn’t use a Mod loader at this time though.
I was saying in a team meeting the other day that using jira stories as any kind of performance metric is wrong-headed and counterproductive and metrics should focus on the business value provided by the team and people looked at me like I grew a second head.
Ayush!!! As a product junkie, you should think about listing consultation calls. It could lead to some cool conversations.
a friend of mine recently asked a related question: what's the difference between a plaything and a tool? when do you play with tools versus when do you work with tools? what's the line there - and has anyone written philosophy about this
This is all-around great advice. I heard some similar things on Ricky Gervais' show After Life, and I wrote them down:

> It's worth sticking around to maybe make my little corner of the world a slightly better place.

> Happiness is amazing. It's so amazing, it doesn't matter if it's yours.

> You may not like living much, but you can make the world a better place. So don't give up, because then they've won. And they grow in numbers.
I have mixed feelings here. On one hand, more hardware makers supporting Linux is good. On the other, I don’t really feel like I want the kind of pre-installed “support” software Lenovo has given Windows to come to Linux.
I'd love to give bad.city a go but the need to sign up to play is a little offputting. Do you mind if I ask what the reason is, please?
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> Good chance to kill off the filthy undesirables (economic deadweights such as those who dare to be ill or elderly people)

Government members and people in power in general tend to be older, and not always the most healthy. "Senator" means "elder" in latin, that's for a reason. And I don't think they want to be part of the "filthy undesirables".

> Easy to roll out mass increases of police powers and surveillance without any real opposition

Sure, but as the pandemic resolves, opposition comes back

> Fuck it, you can basically do what you want and sycophants will still go "now is not the time to critique, we need to be united"

Again, that's true. But again, the judgment will come later. People will look at how the government managed the crisis, compare it to what happened in other countries, and it will definitely affect the upcoming elections. And the upcoming elections is what politicians live for.

> Modern liberal democracies have been absolutely gasping for the chance to roll out some of these measures. Expect to see a "productive work time tracker" soon!

As if such things don't exist already. But the government already has a very good indicator on how productive you are: your revenue.
And there's a good chance that they rent, not own.
This was many years ago so my memory of such details is quite fuzzy, but to the best of my recollection they were not oily. I remember being a little surprised by that.