skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every AAA source licensee that I worked at made large changes to the engine source. There are many AAA titles both shipped and in development that change fundamental things about how the engine works. Look at the GDC presentation about Mortal Kombat rollback network, or its predecessor about running UE3 at 60 fps on console for some good examples. Completely avoiding engine changed isn't the reality for AAA, and I imagine it's only true for small indies. Good news is it's pretty easy to merge small engine changes.
Note that she didn't book you a flight to the nearest Boston either.
In the past week:

me: "Hey Google, add half and half to the shopping list."

gh: "I've added those two things."

-----

me: "Set an alarm for 2:30 tomorrow"

gh: <generic alarm set response>

...

wife at 2:30AM: "hey... HEY... why's the alarm in the kitchen downstairs going off?"
Sitting 14 hours a day in front of the screen and not giving up, even when you seem not to be making any progress. Stick to it and don't cave in - the results will follow.

Always share knowledge with those who know less and learn as much as you can from those who know more. Help others, ask questions, practice and try to have fun while doing it!

Good luck :)
I hate having to wear anything on my face, much less a pair of screens beaming the simulacrum directly into my eyes. To me, there is so little gained in visually looking at others in presentations I find it shocking people care so much. With people I’ve never met, I do one introductory video chat to show I’m a real person. Anytime after it’s purely voice or screen sharing.

All the emotional cues are there in the voice and with less lag from not having video hog up all the bandwidth, I find the smaller latency aids in smoother conversations.
+1 It is awesome to see a product manager, dev, and designer actively collaborating and commenting on a feature you're waiting for.
There are no buttons, so there’s a pretty big limit to the accessibility (although I’ve seen the catastrophic UIs on the previous generation of military gear that was mostly resistive touch so maybe this is considered an improvement.)

Plus that still doesn’t answer the complete lack of stability in android; stuff crashing all the time is just how the OS is designed to function.
I recently (3 weeks ago) switched from OS X to Ubuntu 20.04 after a decade of using macs as my primary desktop for software development.

I hadn't used desktop linux in about 15 years and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. Everything that I remembered being difficult was straightforward. My AMD graphics card worked out of the box with dual monitors. Bluetooth, wifi, HiDPI (two 5K displays), USB plug and play, volume buttons on my keyboard, all seamless.

There are still a few quirks here and there (mainly HiDPI in some apps like Spotify, which there are workarounds for), but I'm happy with my setup and don't plan on moving back.

With Firefox, VS Code, Slack, Spotify, and 1Password X all being cross-platform my workflow didn't even change.
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He is going to, as he says at the bottom of the article, and he has bought 2015 refurbished models to avoid the headaches.... lol?
Thanks for the bug report -- it should be fixed now. We were saving a stale state.

The whiteboards are autosaved, so you can return to the URL and see the same board. Planning to add export support soon, but for now, screenshots are the only way to save a copy locally.
I mean, you can become smarter. She does sound stupid, but fortunately, maybe she can change that.
Just mentioned that it was on the list of games in terms of popularity, never said it was AAA.

However, Garry has lots of pull in games including towards AAA developers. I did not say that game was AAA but on the notable Unity list that everyone knows about.

Rust is much bigger than most Unity games, so Garry's opinion on this is highly relevant and influential. Facepunch studios and their forums were also a gamedev spot for a long time.

Garry Newman is also someone speaking from shipping experience in another engine that is for AAA studios, Valve Source Engine. Eventhough that was a mod, and yes not a massive budget or team, it has pull at the AAA level in terms of influence as well.

Rust competes with AAA titles on Steam in terms of playtime/playercount all the time, was top 10 for a while and quite often. [1]

The point is Garry's opinion is more valid than most, even at AAA probably about Unity. A developer of a top 10 Steam game has some pull and is someone to listen to, hopefully Unity hears it. Rust is clearly one of the biggest games in terms of playtime/playercount than most Unity games at least on Steam with the popularity only rising since release in 2013.

Rust is AAA level in terms of playtime/playercount with a small team, that is exactly the market Unity wants, in fact it highlights the benefits of Unity clearly. They should listen.

[1] https://steamcharts.com/app/252490#All
I've made a bunch of half-finished engines in C++ and Common Lisp over the years, my problem is that I always end up bikeshedding the architecture instead of writing a game. And since I do it in my time off, life eventually intervenes.

E.g. this time around, between a new job and a pandemic, I don't have the headspace to think about my little experimental Roguelike I've been developing over the past year (which BTW. mostly took the form it has from me bikeshedding the ECS pattern).

So when the other day I thought it's time to test out the few things I wanted to test about VR, I eventually decided to screw writing my own code, and now I'm just poking around UE4 and doing everything in blueprints.
great insights.
The GrubHub Hustle
For those curious about the technical details here, here's a dump of the iGrill Android manifest (it's not XML because Android APKs contain a binary manifest):
https://pastebin.com/fwbJ9TjD

It looks like this is the culprit:

E: activity (line=48)
A: android:theme(0x01010000)=@0x7f110149
A: android:name(0x01010003)="com.weber.igrill.pages.splash.SplashActivity" (Raw: "com.weber.igrill.pages.splash.SplashActivity")
A: android:screenOrientation(0x0101001e)=(type 0x10)0x1
E: intent-filter (line=52)
E: action (line=53)
A: android:name(0x01010003)="android.intent.action.VIEW" (Raw: "android.intent.action.VIEW")
E: category (line=55)
A: android:name(0x01010003)="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" (Raw: "android.intent.category.BROWSABLE")
E: data (line=57)
A: android:scheme(0x01010027)="http" (Raw: "http")

This registers an intent filter for all HTTP (but not HTTPS) URLs. I would expect it to require a DEFAULT category though, not sure what happens when that's left out.
I couldn’t agree more, I wish a new innovative platform would emerge. Apple is too comfortable and their products just aren’t worth it anymore.
There's a cloudron 1-click image on Digital Ocean
open-workspaces bring out a lot of opinions from workers and employees

...thoughts?

Yes. It brings opinions out from people with certain personality traits.
Mind explaining why you believe so?
Any suggestions? I've been thinking about this a lot lately.
>The solution, he says, is an HVAC system that dynamically responds to both carbon-dioxide levels and levels of airborne particulate matter, pumping in fresh air while filtering out pollutants. It’s remarkably similar to the kind of air-circulation systems that NASA uses—on spaceships.

Ah yes. The NASA spaceships that pump in fresh air from outside the spaceship.

More seriously, I just bought the parts for a homebrew HRV, ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_recovery_ventilation ) in the hopes of improving the CO2 concentration in my apartment, which is as bad as you'd expect: https://bbot.org/co2/
Epics and roadmaps were moved down to less expensive tiers recently.

Relevant convos https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/1887
> The solution for it is, sadly, more data.

The problem is these "AI"s are plain stupid. The solution for it is moving on from gimmicky and hacky solutions to true AI.
Once per compiler diagnostic isn't quite so bad as POSIX and macOS apps I know that will ring the bell for every wrong key stroke. ;)

(Even if more POSIX terminals these days make the bell actually sound like a bell or use a simple visual "nudge" instead and not the poor buzzsaw of an early DAC wired to a cheap speaker because it was free parts just laying around during the invention of the IBM PC, it's still amazing that terminals ever had a bell signal, as annoying as it can be, much less that apps intentionally used it or that it will forever be ambered into Unicode even. Learning to type a bell was a rite of passage for DOS kids, maybe with pseudo-terminals coming back into fashion it will be a thing kids learn again.)
I've started doing this recently, using VS Code's Remote SSH to develop projects in a virtual machine (or actually remote).

It's so comfortable now, with the advantages of containers I can spin up and destroy, ensuring consistent environments.

For lack of GUI, I first tried VNC and X Window client/server, but a bit awkward.

As a sibling comment mentioned, I find it simpler to put together and serve a "web frontend" from the container.
I completely agree with all of this. From the costly obsession with creating an ever-thinner MBP at the expense of usability, to the demonstrably hostile removal of Target Display Mode in the iMac and beyond, it’s pretty clear Apple stopped designing their “pro” products for their pro users some time ago.

They’ve gotten way too comfy with their position in the personal computing space and I too am regularly looking at the alternatives. If the last 5 years are any indication of how the rumored ARM migration is going to be, then we’re in for a really rough ride.
Well, what half-life do you think that article implies? I took a shot at the calculation, and I got 1375 years.* That suggests to me that, yes, the popular figure may be off, but what difference does it make when you're talking about dinosaurs?

I mean it seems like you are implicitly saying that it's a huge exaggeration to claim 120,000 half-lives since the dinosaurs went extinct whereas it might be as little as 47,000. I don't think you're wrong. But raising 2 to either power overflows my calculator, so I don't see how it matters.

*my calculation is very imprecise and ignorant of biology, but I think orders of magnitude are good enough when talking about exponentials.

- the sample was 180 mg

- the number of cells in that size sample might be 8e10.[1]

- they had 17x coverage

- log2(17/8e10) is about -32

- 44,000 years / 32 = 1375

[1] I got a number for cells/kg by assuming a human weighs 180 lbs and has the number of cells mentioned in this reference: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23829164/
Presumably the grill temp itself is best addressed through the grill—you can mechanically attenuate gas very effectively and intuitively, plus you'd presumably be at the grill already.

Personally I use charcoal because I like flavor. :)
> You start to suspect that people who actually do know things are behind the racist beagles or the shitposting norse god avatars...

Like the Machines from the Matrix who learned to exploit humanity's inherent mistrust of the status quo and created Zion as a cattle-pen to draw "enlightened" humans who rejected the system into and periodically slaughter, the powers that be have discovered that no mind is easier to enslave than the one that believes itself free.

So yes, people who do actually know things are behind a lot of that, but not for the reasons you might think.
Characterizing a response to a pandemic threat as "self-inflicted" is very disingenuous. Those states have not "forgotten that money doesn't grow on trees" as you so derisively put it, they are trying help people survive while society attempts to mitigate the consequences of this pandemic in every way we can think of.
That’s true.

I was responding to the first sentence, which really wasn’t the whole point of the parent though.
Original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983
With all the sites with CPU intensive Javascript, my phone gets hot enough that sometimes I feel my browser wants to be my default BBQ.
I'm sure there's a word coined for these 'death of Apple' posts.

It is true that my 2020 Macbook Pro 16 is not as much better than the competition as my 2011 Macbook Air was.

But it is still definitely the best laptop I've ever owned. I keep my laptops, and I can reach for whichever one I want: 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018 in Air, 13", 15" and now 16" form factors, and I choose the 2020. I also daily reject a number of windows and Chromebook pieces of hardware in favor of the MBP16.

When I don't choose it, I most often choose my iPad pro at times or my iPhone.

A thorough and hard ecosystem-level look at realistic competitors just doesn't turn up anything that even comes close in terms of just "working".

Probably the closest would be an XPS developer running Ubuntu, but that is a completely different experience than the 'it just works' world I get to live in with my Macbook. And, by "it just works", I include a decent package manager with homebrew, a very solid neovim or spacemacs development environment, a fully working highdpi environment without 'quirks', ... the list goes on. And, Windows has no Unix underneath it plus it contains ads in the start menu. For me, it's just not a serious option for real work.

In all, I'd say that most people agree with me; the market seems to prefer this hardware.
Without HiDPI support lots of applications become useless when you use a HiDPI display. Even Steam does not respect HiDPI settings in Gnome 3 even when setting custom environment variables.
Mars must not be that far off ... Godspeed.
Please, no. Your application belongs on the web. I can already tell when applications are written with middleware, cross-platform tools, electron, etc. because they always run like trash. They offer no benefit over a website and only open up your machine to new attack vectors. I know I'll catch flack for this, but we shouldn't lower the bar to entry here. Native app development is not significantly more difficult than web and it's drastically better for the end user.
The Hidden Secrets of QWERTY (2015)
Others have pointed out that this is meat temp, not grill temp.

But even if it were grill temp the gauge on the BBQ lid is more of a guide than an actual temperature. They are highly inaccurate, more like "cold, warm, hot" than "400 degrees".

For most stuff just dialing in the temp comparatively is fine, so the grill gauge works. You know you want to grill your steak when the thing reads 600 degrees, and your chicken at 400. But those temps are certainly not remotely accurate.

For some other things (e.g. BBQ/smokers/etc.) getting exact temps correct is key. In those cases you'll require something much more accurate than the grill gauge even just to measure grill temp. Having something wireless is pretty handy in this case, so you can watch a movie in the basement and check on your meat temps without walking upstairs every 15 minutes.
Would love to get your opinion as I'm building a competing product to ServerPilot in this space. Is the $5 too expensive for the service? or is it just too expensive because the billing increases as you have more servers under management, and they charge you per app as well?

Are there features ServerPilot is missing that would justify the price more for you? Some examples might be monitoring, analytics, automated security patching, containerization of workloads, etc.

Would the plan be more appealing if the cost of the plan, the portal, and the VM hosting itself were all rolled into one? (i.e. you would just pay one company, rather than having to sign up for DO as well as ServerPilot).
I don’t think this means anyone was “ripped off.” If someone offered me $100m/yr hassle free vs needing to run an entire company and making a billion I’d take the $100m every time.
The raw materials for perovskite cells are cheap, but so are the raw materials for silicon cells. There won't be hard cost numbers on perovskite PV modules until they go into volume manufacturing. They won't go into volume manufacturing until they can be stabilized enough to last years in the field.

My personal guess is that single-junction perovskite cells will not ever overtake single-junction silicon cells for rooftop or utility scale solar. Single junction perovskite cells may be used in applications where light weight and flexibility are advantageous, like charging portable electronics, if they can be stabilized.

Perovskite cells may compete in rooftop/utility solar with conventional silicon when incorporated into tandem cell designs -- either perovskite on silicon or a stack of different perovskites with different band gaps. That gives them the potential to exceed conventional crystalline silicon module efficiency rather than merely play catch-up. The company that seems to be furthest along with this approach is Oxford PV, which is pursuing a perovskite/silicon tandem design:

https://www.oxfordpv.com/perovskite-silicon-tandem
With Linux you have to pay for proper support. HP is by far the best company in terms of supporting Linux printers. It isn't the Linux ecosystem's fault that other printer companies do not care.
I went through the same cycle or frustration from apple products, I've bought 6 laptops in the past year trying out all of the competition. The truth is, all of the alternatives, as frustrating as apple products can be, are just not as good. And that's by a very very long shot. However fucked apple products are, the competition is FAR behind. So I just swallow it and keep biting the bullet.

That only applies if you want a LAPTOP, if you can live in with something fixed to a desk, there's plenty of viable better alternatives out there.
I think you're not getting many responses because few people agree with you or don't care. or because you are threadjacking. you may think your post is on topic but I don't think a lot of people would.

Also I can't parse most of your message. I think you are so far into your belief in this premise that no one can follow what you are saying; you are making a LOT of assumptions that others aren't.

For instance I have no idea what "newly collectively-organized white collar workforce in 2020" means. or "open-workspaces bring out a lot of opinions from workers and employees"
> there can be failure without bringing down the whole country

Why not succeed as a country? Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan are doing much better than the US with their country-wide responses:

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
But macOS is very hardware dependent too.
There's a simple solution. Just give up on the idea that we can expect people to work many hours ~continuously, on a regular basis.

Sure, there must be times when ~everyone is available to talk. But otherwise, just let people work when they're ready to work. And let them self report their work time.
My brother has one, sticks a roast in the weber, his iPhone goes ding when it's up to temperature while he's watching tv. It's a great thing.
Please share!

I am VERY interested in your techniques,
and I'm sure many others will benefit directly from your wisdom if you choose to share it.

Do you have a video?
Why would an IOT thermometer be any better than one that just has a readout on the lid?

I understand that if the thermometer is on th lid and not actually measuring the meat it's crap, but if it's measuring the same way as the IOT version, then the readout is fine on the lid.
My point in the quoted text was that nature is not sentimental. Sentiment doesn't matter. Disasters happen.

You can stockpile against the next disaster to the best of your ability, if you want. Collectively we can prepare for disasters, to the extant we agree on how to do so. And the world keeps going on, some are lucky, some are not, kind of like every other creature in nature. We are no different.
Another way to look at it is that Apple is making it harder to run the system in an insecure fashion. You may not agree with that decision, but I certainly appreciate how Apple is looking out for the safety and security of the user.

"Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."

(Yes, I know the original intent was slightly different, but that old saying has gotten a lot more vivid recently, as companies are increasingly using the excuse of security to further their own interests and control over their users.)

The ability to control exactly what millions of people can or cannot run on "their" computers is an authoritarian wet dream. People may think Apple's interests aligns with theirs --- but that is not a certainty. How many times have you been stopped from doing what you wanted to because of Apple? It might not be a lot so far, but can you break free from that relationship when/if it does turn against you?
Because businesses don't want to pay market rates for summer workers.
Using a meat thermometer (leave-in probe or instant) is a fantastic element of modern cooking, and a huge advancement in food safety. I can't imagine cooking without it. It doesn't mean I don't enjoy experimenting - but it does mean my chicken doesn't dry out or come out undercooked.
I find that paying attention to the transition from inhalation to exhalation is particularly useful in assessing my current emotional state.

Focusing on _allowing_ the natural elasticity of my lungs take care of initiating exhalation -- this will usually be enough to change my mood in a positive way.
You might start to wonder if it's all interconnected.
well, I meant that there are some special firewalls that you can handle dns-rebinding attacks.
good video explaining the mechanics of the Wim Hof method.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWHRumILOOk
Making this about speed is burying the lede. From a privacy and user-freedom perspective, it's horrifying.

Don't think so? Apple now theoretically has a centralized database of every Mac user who's ever used youtube-dl. Or Tor. Or TrueCrypt.
Belief is your word, not mine. If you don't jump in front of the train, you have avoided that hazard. But if you understand why your parent told you not to jump in front of the train, you might also be able to independently figure out why you shouldn't jump in front of a speeding car.

Can you see what I'm getting at here?

EDIT: Sorry. Originally said "what I'm driving at here". It's been a long week and I'm subconsciously making bad puns.
I dunno what's going on with you and some of the other child commenter's phones but my share panel is only people I text every day and always has been.

Also, the share panel is configurable:

https://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/edit-androids-share-m...

Can confirm this works, I just tried it.
Creating a subscription model for the top 5% wouldn't restrict free access. That's the big difference between the model proposed and Howard Stern's Sirius deal. Everyone else (95%) could still listen to the free (ad-funded) show, the same way they do today.
Wow that is fun! Thanks for sharing
Here's some shell script to use a random file name and have friendlier output.

RAND_FILE="/tmp/test-$RANDOM.sh";
time_helper() { /usr/bin/time $RAND_FILE 2>&1 | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}'; } # this just returns the real run time
echo $'#!/bin/sh\necho Hello' $RANDOM > $RAND_FILE && chmod a+x $RAND_FILE;
echo "Testing $RAND_FILE";
echo "execution time #1: $(time_helper) seconds";
echo "execution time #2: $(time_helper) seconds";

Introducing a network delay makes the effect much more obvious. Normally I see a delay of about 0.1 seconds, but after using the XCode network link conditioner (pf rules) to add 500ms latency to everything the delay shoots way up to ~2 seconds.

example output:

Testing /tmp/test-24411.sh
execution time #1: 2.32 seconds
execution time #2: 0.00 seconds

with developer tools checked both executions report "0.0 seconds".
What a ridiculous feature. The people involved in making this decision ought to be fired.