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Not the OP, but having used Babylon.JS it works fine for simple things but the codebase is a disaster, particularly anything physics-related. It's clear the architects and devs had never worked on a serious professional engine before starting working on it because the codebase is riddled with rookie game dev mistakes. The biggest is a complete failure to understand the importance of dimensions and units in the camera and character movement code and physics systems. Distances are added to velocities, directions are used as accelerations, time is used as dimensionless factor, if you've ever done serious Physics coding what you find in the codebase is terrifying. There is no way to make the system frame-rate independent as a result because what you're really doing when you garble units like this is making assumptions that the frame rate is constant so time and inverse-time factors can be ignored (hello, 1990's calling! We want our bugs back!). Once this kind of stuff gets embedded in a codebase it's very hard to take out on a piece by piece basis because all the math in your architecture ends up being a hack that happens to collectively mostly work. As you start trying to remove it, the hack stops being mostly self-supporting and starts breaking everywhere until you complete the fix, but there is no way to know where all the flaws are without an exhaustive single-pass code review of the entire codebase by a serious skilled and experienced dev or devs, which is unlikely to happen (particularly when the core mantra of project leadership is "100% backwards compatibility always!" which is a great concept until you find something you really screwed up originally and now you're stuck with it for eternity).

Huge kudos to the team for getting bought by Microsoft. Yes I'd use it again on another very small "show a model but don't need any serious gameplay" project but I'd be very scared of anything where I was intending to invest more than a tiny amount of coding time in the project because the architectural and implementation failings will balloon your coding time dangerously.
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Be aware that going towards a document heavy culture doesn't make the smarmy types any less smarmy, it just changes how it is manifested.

You'll still have those who use the "can we get on a call and discuss" trick so that no decision or todo item for them is seen in a public channel.

There will be those why try to kill a conversation in a channel by replying in a thread.

Often you'll see the thread reply too when its the poor employees answering a question hours/days later and then they'll point to it as giving $teammate all the info they need.

And the ever-present "oh, its in the wiki/knowledgebase/faq/whatever" but links are never sent, nor is anything ever actually there.

All in all it a different medium, but most of the same kind of team dysfunctions continue to exist just fine, and if anything it is tougher to spot them.
This looks a tech support ticket, not HN thread
Quite a few small developers in this space. It's not like indie gaming, but there's also less competition.
I think you need to be a musician/producer to be successful here though.
I think it's also important to have a culture of reading, not just writing. Otherewise, nobody will ever know if the writing is any good. It's like with backups - you don't actually have one until you've successfully restored your system from it.

Onboarding is a good moment for testing a lot of internal documentation. Instead of getting a senior to help set up a new hire, give the newcomer a list of Wiki pages and see if they can set themselves up from it. If they struggle, you'll know what exactly needs fixing.
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I wouldn't expect that in 7-8 weeks that prices would be impacted appreciably. But maybe in 6-18 months. If you have a decent amount of people who over-extended themselves, they default on their mortgages, houses get foreclosed, and the banks resell them. Then prices might start coming done. But that process takes a long time.
Agreed, the NN had that "digital" sound you typically get from a simulated tube screamer, such as in a POD HD or something.

Very impressive given it's from a NN, but I specifically moved to analog for that reason.
Show HN: Wreeto v2.0 – open-source note-taking, knowledge management and wiki
If this is all about online expression, why borrow something from advertising with this horrid neologism, then? We can use regular english, like "persona". We don't need this, and I think it's harmful.
prohibitively: used to emphasize a cost that is so high as to prevent something being done or bought.

Your rebuttal again is how expensive it is to fly. Some would almost say, prohibitively high?
Ask HN: How do I learn (advanced) performance marketing?
I am experimenting on a personal project with Google and FB ads.

Of cause I know the basics about setting up campaigns, testing different ads,
baisc stuff on page that supports conversion and so on.
But it seems a lot of random guessing and trial and error.

Has anyone tried any courses or guided path towards getting better at on-page and off-page conversion?
There is no cloud service for that ... except Google Cloud Build.
I'm not sure they would be anywhere near full occupancy even without government restriction. I can imagine a significant portion of the population self-limiting to essential activities only, regardless of the level of government restrictions.
I’m on the east coast and over 20 years and 6 job changes (first one was based on an internship). I’ve had multiple offers within three weeks maximum after I started looking. The shortest was 4 days.

None have required any serious algorithm/LeetCode type of interview.
That’s a great point, but I was mentally assuming that more AirBnB hosts would liquidate before that since they don’t actually live in their properties.
That’s not really true, though desktop hardware hasn’t improved anywhere near as much as laptops, where the difference is very substantial. Computer hardware of equivalent cost or high-/low-endness has gotten quite a lot faster (and much more power-efficient); for many sorts of tasks similar CPUs will be four or more times as fast. But it’s really SSDs where the most obvious improvements have occurred, and for most practical computing terms, compare a fast and expensive HDD machine of ten years ago with a cheap SSD machine from now and the modern one will be waaaay faster.

Sample article doing some comparisons: https://www.techspot.com/article/1666-old-1000-cpu-vs-budget...
What was the symptom progression like? Did you feel better and then worse again at any point before feeling better again?
Show HN: The new way of buying and selling private businesses
Many locales already have them, including my city. Airbnbs are only legal if the owner lives on the property. This ensures Mom and Pop only, not over-leveraged speculators.
Scraping is LEGAL, all search engines scrape to some degree for example, there is a fair use component, so you can't "scrape" 100% of a site and stick it on your domain, but you can still scrape more than zero. In general it is leaning more acceptable than less.
Yes, it would show up, as that's how it's rendered, artifacts and all.
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HN is Google's end user tech support forum ;)
They shut down many other parts of the government as well, this isn't all targeted at Foreigners. My passport application was sent to them on March 10th, and they have no idea when it will actually be processed. I hope its before Oct, when I have my trip, then again, if things aren't better, I will probably cancel anyways.
I'm definitely glad it worked out for you, I hope you do agree you wasted a lot of time as well though.

I spent a decade doing things in the US and am stuck knowing more about how the system works in the US than how it does in India. All my twenties have been wasted a bit because of this. And India is not the greatest of places to deal with either, though at this point it's up in the air which ones worse! Perhaps that's the state of the entire world as well.

For what it's worth though, in spite of the inequality, healthcare, partisan politics and things, I will much rather still work in the US - it's a more exciting place to be than anywhere else I have ever been
HN and other sites have become de facto support channels for Google products because their own support is too difficult to reach.
I appreciate that you're trying to help but I'm confused why you're constantly trying to explain the notation to me. I'm not saying I never understood the notation, I'm saying I very much did study and understand it, and found it incredibly convoluted, unintitive, unwarranted, and painful to deal with.
I’d gladly critique it!

- The whole interview is practically an advertisement for the product without a lot of actionable insight or interesting information for the listener.

- The product and industry is incredibly boring: software for commercial insurance applications and renewals.
I hit this same issue on some sites, but not others: https://twitter.com/geerlingguy/status/1257714544044052488

It's so strange, because neither webkit/Safari nor Firefox has ever had any issues, but Chrome does this randomly on any Mac with a GPU, it seems.
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I agree with this article, and this lifecycle of social networks is what I am trying to address with my project.

With many other services, instead of being acquired and shut down, they grow to be bloated and filled with advertising.

I allow data export in plaintext format, and I use the very well supported PGP for user identities, with a simplified interface.

The source code is up there. Though I have not yet chosen any license, I'm leaning towards GPL + Artistic, like Perl.

And it is decentralized, allowing anyone to clone and fork an existing forum, and later selectively syncronize.
Ask HN: How do I create that mental reset effect Monday has on me?
For the past year or so, I have discovered that my motivation levels are super high(relatively speaking) on a Monday morning. That is true even when I didn't really have a good week or weekend prior to that. True even when I didn't have enough sleep the night before. I am just up with a resolve to fix things that didn't go my way. I experience more of self-compassion.

I have heard people talk about Monday blues and have experienced it myself for several years when I was working regular tech job. Now, I work on my own startup and it's not like it is doing great esp. in current times. In-spite of that I experience the above quite often.

Do other people feel the same ? Is it just normal 'stuck at job' vs 'excitement at startup' effect ? How long will this last ? I feel like there is more to it. I wished I had a way of creating this effect when I was working at a job. Do people have productivity hacks to trick your brains into recreating this mid- week ? Does this effect have a name in psychology literature ?
I like the idea, but needing a conversion function that isn’t written in the language (on both input _and_ output), IMO, is a bit of a blemish.

If, to add a and b, one first has to compute 2^a 3^b, and afterwards, compute ³logx, how is that better than just using a+b as input, running the empty program, and looking at its output?
I get the SPA movement. I’m a big proponent of it. If a user is navigating between many similar pages or wants high interactivity without a page load then you want to cache the views as js scripts via cdn and only download the data via REST calls to an api. It works well with mobile apps too. Both web app and mobile app talk to the same api.

What I don’t get is the server hydration kungfu. If you’re rendering the template on the server then don’t do the same thing again with js and download the data twice. Just render html serverside and call it a day. Either app or a site.

A tiny bit of jquery like JS snippets for banners and image galleries make sense but that shouldn’t be render blocking nor be in megabytes.

I’m a big proponent of Preact over React. Same API but much smaller library. The difference is noticeable when browsing on 3G networks and low powered devices.
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Very interesting data set. Appears the average number of people who reply to my comments is 1.03, which suggests a style of writing/thinking can contribute consistent net-growth.

Of course I would promote that idea, but really I'd be willing to bet it looks something like a pareto distribution, and it would be interesting to see what puts a user on one side of that curve or the the other.

patio11's 1.39 average reply rate would be an outlier, and there are people whose comments have the authority to simply close discussions that would need upvote stats to distinguish them might get lost viewed in that narrow dimension, but for all the time people spend on this site, it would be interesting to get a sense of what that might mean.
What is your point exactly? My response, when faced with something like this, is to be excitedly curious, and try to find out what the notation means, maybe by searching "type theory notation" and going a couple of links deep to find at least the start of an explanation – not to publicly throw up my hands on a comment thread. If I was really at a loss I might ask for some pointers to introductions to the topic. The article is clearly written for people at least somewhat familiar with the domain and notation, and a bit of research shows that it's quite standard notation.
You are correct. The original commenter was incorrect in the assertion of the order of the bills "passing" - "it didn't even take a week before the government passed the largest stimulus ever".

I'm referencing the CARE Act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_Aid,_Relief,_and_E...

Granted the one you reference was passed prior, the CARE Act was introduced first. The CARE Act was never in danger of being dropped, as the market was counting on it (it is filled with pork).
No; for Macbooks, this work reduces to BadUSB.
Those thresholds seem reasonable to me. The fact that so many states are "red" on the map (not ready to reopen, not the political "red") is indicative that we wasted a lot of time in the US not getting ready. This failure is going to continue to cost us billions of dollars, to say nothing of lives lost.
Exactly this, restaurants rarely make big bucks unless they have huge takeout already or get multiple uses out of each table. If you have the former you are doing well without your dining room, if you don't 25% is pointless.
Managed versus index is to me, open source versus closed source.

With managed funds, you have lots of participants out there eyeing the value of businesses. Everybody can make a buck by taking a peek.

With Index funds, we all have to trust that S&P is doing the right thing.
Don't get me wrong, there's still plenty of crap. Google dug themselves in a deep hole with their god activities and insane fragment lifecycle. But if anything... The fragment lifecycle is about the worst there is now. The AndroidX libraries have done it a lot of good.
I think market now has moved on to leetcode DP/hard in ~30 mins.

I got this in my last phone screen at tier 2-3 shop

https://leetcode.com/problems/split-array-largest-sum/
In the context of what this paper brings to the reader, this should not have been published. If the paper at least did the chores and proposed some scientifically valuable hypothesis, then it could be OK to publish. But. If one guy had the original idea, worked his way through the required steps and the other discussed with him a little, he should have published himself, possibly with acknowledgement of the others. There is no work for 4 people here. The references are ridiculously long and nobody is going to read them all in order to "get" this paper.

Clearly, this is a product of the cultural, societal and economic pressure to "get published" often, quality or value be damned. My cousin who knows a little about science or academia once told me scientist should publish at least once a month, otherwise they do too little work. Obviously, the academia agrees.
It would seem to make more sense to let the selection functional be a lambda. Neither the original code nor the resulting code are really all that great... It merely exchanges one form of code duplication for another. Nor is the Open Closed Principle in general all that great, as other comments are also noticing.
If you don't do much CPU work, node.js is great. If your load is on the DB (or) you offload the work to a background queue, you're good.

If you already know JavaScript, just go with Node.js. If you end up with performance bottleneck (CPU bound operation), you can always write that in Go. Don't waste time upfront.
You turn this into a question about "having thick skin" or "making excuses". But the article is not at all about how the receiver is supposed the take the criticism, the point is that shallow dismissals (like "garbage") typically indicate the critic does not understand the full picture.
> I don't agree with the assertion that this has a materially negative impact on anyone's privacy or life as a whole.

I haven't asserted that it has any negative impact. To say that it has no tangible impact (as you have) is decidedly wrong. Either the manipulation is working at a grand scale (which is scary in its own right), or people that invest that much money in targeted ads are idiots buying snake oil. Regardless, Facebook and Google now command huge social and political influence, and they're entirely in the business of using my private information to sell ads.

I guess wanting to be the constant target of increasingly direct attempts at manipulation is a matter of personal preference, but the fact that it has an obvious material impact on the world is not.
I find monetary policy a hard subject to reason about. It is too complex for me to understand. Yet the political economy of it is such that I would expect the expert classes to be corrupted in some way. Still, I just act like I believe the experts have it under control. The phrase "epistemic learned helplessness" comes to mind.
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Yes I've been using it offline with the electron app and on my phone as an offline website. It works really well that way. The advantage of the electron version is that for local files, it doesn't ask Everytime you want to save, where to save and if you want to overwrite, or save in downloads depending on browser settings.
I'd have thought the point as pertains to UBI - an expensive permanent universal subsidy rather than a payout to the unemployed or job guarantee which fluctuates cyclically according to unemployment levels - was pretty obvious. In conventional economics the government funds its spending by borrowing or taxation. In Randall/Wray economics a unified govt/central bank spends the money into existence and has huge scope for fiscal stimulus in economic downturns with bond issue being unnecessary, but money still derives its value from the taxes the government levies. Under either economic model, the extra cost of funding voluntary economic inactivity under UBI implies net tax rises.
Damn I wanna buy a joystick now :)
No way they make a vaccine in 5 months. Also, what if having sufficient antibodies has a lifespan, like 6 months?
So this is a bit off-topic, but I pulled out my Novena this past weekend to work on an SDR project and after updating the installed packages I started wondering about the process of keeping these devices running up-to-date software and the community around it.

Are you able to offer any insight about how I, a developer with only a little embedded experience, could learn enough about the process to meaningfully contribute to keeping the Novena up-to-date? Is there still a community around the Novena?
Really? It's good enough that Google used clang for fastbuild (tests) for many years before switching release builds off GCC.
I thought we were going to bash on its privacy issues. Mildly disappointed.
Right now people are just not paying bills. I'd guess that your dreams are unlikely -- banks and others will unload to different equity funds, who can use free Federal $$$ to buy up this stuff.

The second and third waves of the economic crisis will be worse, and I'm sure we'll see all sorts of cronyism pushing this stuff. We haven't seen anything yet.
Judging by my facebook, these people are probably real. There aren't a lot of them but in the last month they've been getting more vocal.
> Alas, the price barely moved in my area

You are early. Banks aren't becoming aggressive quite yet.
So true, it hurts. If I see another "Google deleted my account" [3 hours later] "Update: Google reinstated my account after someone spotted this" thread...
A lot of band stopped using analogue hardware for sound also because they tend to be way less reliable than their digital counter part. A lot of analog amp, pedals and synth will tend to change their sound due to the analogue hardware aging. Digital stay virtually the same. And the same can be said about weather condition. Change in temperature and humidity affect analogue hardware, not so much digital.

You will have the same sound from gig to gig and a lot of band really value this.
> I agree with this but I have to admit it is hard as hell to practice.

You may want to self-analyze your need to criticize. What is criticizing satisfying in you? It must be something otherwise you wouldn't have the urge to do it.

It varies from person to person, but for a lot of academic (and perhaps tech) folks, there is a strong history in their training to be correct (in both research and classes) - therefore they are hyperaware of things that seem off.

In the work environment, though, the focus is on being useful, which has overlap with correctness, but the two occasionally differ. A lot of times such people tend to be correct but not useful. Pointing out a flaw in something where there would be no significant impact were the flaw absent is the opposite of being useful.

Unfortunately, people in the audience often get fooled by this and give the comment more weight than it deserves.
It's a meaningless section.
Hardly doodles, aren't they? They are more cartoons, quite satirical, but also metaphorical, and fail where metaphors often fail. He's got a point, but I don't think he has the solution.
I'm a Canadian starting to look for a California retirement property and I'm hoping the same. This is the problem with most desireable real estate markets: there's always people on the sidelines waiting to come in.
In the context of Covid19, I just wrote a blog post outlining 3 megatrends I'm seeing emerging:

- shutdown-cozy
- hygienic-possessive
- locally-remote

Bit too hi-res for a comment, so here's the post if you're interested:

https://fabian.ai/2020/04/29/shutdown-cozy-hygienic-possessi...
Makes me wonder if companies flipping homes and other fast high tech financial types getting into RE will actually lower prices in the long run. Part of the thing keeping prices high is that people see RE as a no brainer safe asset where they can just dump money. A faster market would end that perception.
Having thought about this and my own use of cookbooks as loose inspiration rather than actually to follow in detail, I have come to the conclusion that the "fluff" is what most of the recipe-reading public want. In particular, the fluff has value even if you never cook the recipe! Which saves a lot of time and inconvenience on your part while still giving the same warm fluffy feelings.

Actual "I have these things and want to cook something" could practically be automated.

The big exception is baking, where precision ratios and time matters a lot.

(I'm also reminded of various stories of people trying to trace the origins of much loved family recipes and then discovering that rather than being an authentic traditional Calabrian whatever, their grandmother copied it off the back of a tin. I'm fairly sure my own grandmother's cookies recipe is from Tate&Lyle)