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Many AAA games implement their engines in C++ but use something like Lua for game logic.
> E.g., in Germany you get the entire spectrum from “be a professors slave for 6 years with minimum pay” to “I don’t care where you are - but the publications count”.

Yea... I wanted to start PhD this year. Unfortunately it turned out that the only thing that counts, are my previous and future publications. Any work experience seems like a disadvantage. They value more someone with no experience, but with a couple of, usually not very inventive, publications.

I have over 18 years of work experience. I used to make more complicated things at work, than you can find in many published papers or even PhDs. So I asked a professor about how to start it.

It turned out that: the pay is much below the minimum salary + I will be thrown away if I won't have one publication in a good journal after the first year. If you also think that after sending a paper to a journal, they usually reply in six-nine months with a rejection or a list of comments to fix... it turned out that I have to start my PhD with a bunch of papers already written. And to have them count, they need to be exactly about the same topic as my PhD.

So, after rethinking all this, I stopped dreaming about a PhD. I can publish my paper on arXiv without all the academic fun.
Have any MMOs actually put their economies on the blockchain yet though? I know people have been talking about this for years, but I haven't heard anyone talking about it actually happening yet.
An interesting side effect of Japanese stroke order (at least with Japanese characters) is that character recognition for dictionary apps etc is based around stroke order. If you mess up the stroke order badly enough then it won't recognize the character at all.
Some background: I've worked at companies that do and don't have data catalogs/data discovery tools, and I also spent some time trying to set existing open-source implementations up for friend's startups. But it was surprisingly hard, especially to keep them stable. Considering most people only look at a few tables, I figured there must be a way to make a more lightweight stable version. And since I (and it sounds like a lot of my friends) spend a lot of time on the command-line, I figured I'd try to build out something there...

Enter metaframe! It's easy to install (a single brew command), has a very quick search (leveraging fzf), allows for personal documentation, and uses a text-based backend (no kafka, janus, atlas, neo4j, sns queues), so your metadata and docs are easily accessible and even git versionable. Would love feedback/thoughts.
Philip Wadler's talk on generics for Go (“Featherweight Go”)
Ask HN: How did/do you promote your side project?
Hello everyone. I myself, as a lot of you, have an ongoing side project (I'm an independent musician, recording from my room). However, I haven't been able to drive people to hear my music. I've seen many of you talk about successful side projects with lots of users---I wonder, how do you find your first users, how do you promote your project so people see it? I know all projects are different, I'm looking for common steps one takes to get their first audience.
I've read somewhere that this method is a non-starter, because the methane it produces more than offsets the carbon it sequesters. I'd love to be wrong, of course.
> but I’m not sure I can ever go back to having to wake up early in the morning, sit in a boring seminar, be pressured to take on teaching duties, and not be able to escape to a warm country in the cold winter.

Oh yeah. I went to med school after having an actual career. Going back to a heavy-handed bureaucracy whose primary intention is to herd a mob of people with the least benefit of doubt is incredibly infantilizing. It's hard to endure the first time, when you're in uni, but after you've already been an adult?
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> Execute order 66.
I can't speak for their latest and greatest but the LG TVs I've used running webOS (Oled and LCD) work fine without ever being connected to a network. I have a C7P panel I've connected via Ethernet a couple times to update the firmware and it has continued to work offline just fine.

They also support CEC so if the devices you're plugging into them support CEC you can just put the TV remove into a drawer and not worry about ever accidentally triggering the SMART features.
To quote myself¹ from two years ago:

Any Internet-connected device is, in fact, a server, and must be seen and managed as one. This means strict control of installed services and, first and foremost, regular updates of all its software components (including firmware). If you acquire and install such a server which either can’t be updated or one which you know, realistically, won’t get any updates six months after installation, that’s asking to lose.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18019343
> For all practical and theoretical purposes, what matters is that the machine being considered does not exhaust its ability to recurse while performing the computations being considered.

You're right, and thanks for the more strict definition.

Regardless, the 'recursion limit' of the human brain is really low. (Say, seven things at once or thereabout; not going to links proofs but it's a non-controversial statement.)

Certainly not enough to implement any sort of computing machine. Human brains are notoriously bad at arithmetic and state machines.
containers aren't for binaries/reproducible builds. Actually they're quite bad for it and make caching hard.
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If a majority of people are rebelling, then the pentagon's scenario should be how to help that majority reassert control over a runaway executive branch.

No harm in having a scenario where a minority of people commit a domestic rebellion.
Covid-19 and Supply-Chain Risk
This is actually a big hurdle for legalization, IMO. I have friends who live in states where recreational marijuana is legal, but they can't smoke because their jobs do random drug tests.

They do safety critical work where being under the influence can cause serious harm (think construction). It makes sense that the employer needs to make sure everyone is sober, but its a huge pain for everyone that the only way to make sure you are sober _right now_ is to make sure you've been sober all month.
I had similar requirements for writing in school in Texas. I went into a special class to help kids falling behind in reading skills and they focused a huge amount of time on the way I wrote my characters. Probably not that important in helping me read as well as other kids at the time but who knows. They also said I would never be able to attend college and I now have a BS and MS so ...
I'm not a lawyer / Je ne suis pas avocat:

https://www.cnt.gouv.qc.ca/conges-et-absences/vacances/vacan...

It says you're supposed to be able to take your vacation uninterrupted. You might want to check with them.
Teaching children unnecessary rote memorization over creativity... Gotta start them early
The article addresses that.
Containers solve a different problem.
Comparing the field of people with PhDs to the field of people with BSs isn't exactly comparable to comparing PhDs to people with Master's degrees who are already doing all the relevant academic work and receiving academic acclaim in the field.

There may be financial benefit, maybe not. There's also the opportunity cost of giving up your career income for four+ years to get a grad student stipend (if it's a program with stipends at all).

I understand you were broadening the point, but I think "first-career PhDs" vs. "second-career PhDs" are the topic under discussion, and broadening it to "bachelor's" is too broad.
Along the lines of correct stroke ordering, I learned from a colleague that studied a large amount of Japanese that they had used a visual dictionary for translating Kanji to English that both allowed you to draw the symbols and required the symbols to be drawn in the correct order. It seems similar to the base requirement for looking up how to spell a word in the dictionary; you have to have some idea of how the word is formed before you can find the full answer.
Hey - we'd love to help you out with this at Mux. Hit us up.
Retrospectively you can justify anything. But the coronavirus outbreak happening now is not proof of the idea that the optimal thing to do in 2010 was to invest in coronavirus research- that could have still been the correct decision based off the probabilities of an outbreak. Just about every virus has a virologist convinced it's the next big one. In recent times next big ones have been the flu (kind of expected), HIV (basically out of nowhere), COVID (we could have done better, but if you'd asked me to bet I'd have bet on avian influenza/H5N1 since that's already dangerously close to becoming an outbreak and has been on radars for a while). Ig a super virulent hantavirus emerged, are those that studied those viruses noe "vindicates" as to pandemic threat? They infect humans and cause small outbreaks too.
He means relativistic speeds which is optimistically .01c making the trip take 300k years. He doesnt actually mean violating physical laws.
My latest side project I've been doing on glitch.com using node.js, React Hooks, and theme-ui.

I miss my Vim bindings, and I wasted a little bit of time trying to get HMR to work with parcel, but other than that it really feels like the tools mostly just get out of the way and let me build my idea, and when I'm done coding I think I'll be happy to just leave it on glitch. (I paid for "boosted apps").
Here's the corresponding paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11710
depends on the laptop. macbooks are among the worst machines for running linux and require much more tinkering than normal.
only thing I can see facial recognition doing is causing police forces to constantly single out individuals for previous crimes by removing their anonymity from the police force.

this doesn't improve safety it causes a feedback loop where the person targeted will struggle to move to a normal life.
Sorry to meta-comment, but I think this really isn't in the spirit of the kind of discussion we try to maintain on HN. It is also demonstrably false and not even a good generalization.
I recently joined a company(for less than ideal reasons) knowing they don't follow basic software practices. I felt frustrated in initial months and then took on challenge of evangelizing and implementing X.

But I'm getting too much resistance from "senior" developers who've been there for 15-16 years. Everyone agreed to do X and circumvented it the very next day.

This consumed so much of my time(outside office hours) and energy that now I feel why do I bother making a change when I'm not getting paid or even recognized for it.
In my opinion, law is a bit irrelevant here. You should know what you want to do, if you don't want to do it then decline and see how it goes; If you feel like doing it accept it. Do not let those small details alter your aspirations, in the end all it matters is what you want to do. You are obviously skilled enough to find another job, so do not be afraid to stand up for yourself.
Yeah, I would be less upset about the ad situation if they had made it clear up front and given me a choice like Amazon does with the Kindle.

That said, when companies price the ad-free premium at 1000x the expected ad revenue, it gets aggravating again.
I expect Nix to become more popular due to its ability to build static binaries.

The key benefit that nixpkgs has over other Linux distributions' package sets on this topic are:

1. It allows you to _program_ your package set, thus adding static-linking overrides to 1000s of libraries/executables in a go, instead of having to modify each package manually.

2. It allows the end user to choose what linking they want, as opposed to the Linux distribution making that decision for them upfront.

3. It allows to do this from any Linux distribution.
BitPay Extension: Accelerating Crypto Adoption
This looks pretty interesting. Seems like a adapter that lets you purchase and use gift card codes with bitcoin at time of checkout
> ... I wanted a 4K monitor.

To all the folks reading at home... I would remind everyone that a TV is not a monitor.

I got a relatively inexpensive LG 43in TV to use as a desktop monitor. I've had issues. Beyond the usual "make sure your graphics card actually supports 4K" and such, you also need to take some time to dig through the TV settings when you are using it on a PC.

In particular, you definitely want to turn on "game mode" or whatever it will be called. This turns off the internal image processing that can add hundreds of milliseconds of lag to the display output. You'll also need to find the settings to turn off the overscan. Many TVs will, by default, zoom into the center of the image, cutting off the edges a little.

I've mostly gotten over the other issues with using a TV as a monitor (color settings and such), but if you want to save yourself some hassle, just get an actual monitor.
Eh, depends on your school? In NYC, I went to a public school where they were pretty strict and repetitive with teaching basic writing down to the stroke direction...
Yup yup yup. Glad someone brought this up.

It would take a lot to prove that they actually had good foresight since it’s so likely that they just happened to be the ones who guessed right out of a large population of equally well informed people who guessed lots of other things using similar reasonings.
Quotes:

'Kubernetes is not magic, but it is an extremely powerful tool when used well by a team that knows it.'

'GitOps Is The Way'

'Whatever language and framework you feel most comfortable with, there is probably an operator toolkit available and you should absolutely use it.'

'[secrets] still needs a lot of work, people should be expecting a workflow that is auditable, versioned, and code-reviewable like for everything else in GitOps land.'

'Native CI And Log Analysis Are Still Open Questions'
Fediverse is such a poor design. It's utterly futile.

The ID is tied to a host, so every time you lose your host, there's a lot of work to do, because you don't own your account - your host do. You basically have to start from scratch every time, so what's the point? Better to use Twitter, at least there's some chance they will not dissapear out of the blue.

Identities should be self-generated, and independent of any hosting. Fediverse hosting should just facilitate passing stuff when peers are offline. Then it wouldn't matter if you're on one server or other, because it wouldn't be even visible in the UI.

https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork had some more interesting ideas, but AFAIK execution was rather poor.
Richard Garriott made Shroud of the Avatar, but the devs didn't hit their timelines on the Kickstarter. It never really took off. But they made it free. I played it and loved the story, but it didn't feel to have the staying power like UO did.
>In a society truth is less important than relationships

Then he should have create a relationship of honesty. it's good to know that somebody wont lie to you, even to make you happy.
One average Joe, no. Thousands of them? Yes, that's harding. And a problem. China got a lot donations, they also were the first to donate to Italy. The mask situation was a mess.

The proble I have is, that now people accuse every institute or offical body of lying. Because they got, in people's minds, the mask thing wrong. Why can't we just accept that even experts can be wrong? Starting to accuse others of lying is the first step towards conspiracy theories, IMHO, as it only leaves black and white. And what is it that the WHO and co. have to be right 100% right from the start and everybody else is just asking questions?
I am not aware of any model on the TensorFlow Hub which could do that.

I also believe that I haven't read a paper with a suitable architecture yet.

Which one are you referring to?
Clearly it was an general example with limited life application. The expert doctor problem is a good example of this. So is the expert financial advisor, etc.

In your case I would ask doctors for doctors recommendations, and test alternatives - through recommendation only - outside of the common doctor. The former since doctors know other doctors, the latter due to most alternatives being non invasive, and with no side effects except the perpetual disappointment you've experienced so far.
In the US the first two years of a PhD are heavily focused on classwork, with a research component; the latter years are the "sabbatical to focus on your own research." People who quit after the first two years are often granted a parting Master's degree, because that's basically what a Master's is - the two years of graduate coursework that kick off a PhD.

This does, of course, differ by program.
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If you want to study diseases you go to places where they originate. It’s odd to me that people assume this is man made when the same thing happens several times a year in other areas and every few decades an unusually bad outbreak happens.

But if it makes you feel better “ Similar logical patterns are absent in SARS-CoV-2, indicating that the virus evolved naturally.”
As the saying goes, don’t let your schooling get in the way of your education.
Again, you continue to describe the role of a FOUNDER, not an employee.

Your use of words like “blow up” and “duty” need some serious reflection. One of the biggest failures of or modern corporate culture is the mindset that we should live to work instead of work to live. A vacation requires disconnect to be truly valuable, if your brain is still in work mode, you may as well have stayed in the office.
>To be perfectly upfront with my own beliefs, I believe economic disparities is the mother of all other disparities and that many of these statistics that show disparities in outcomes for whites vs blacks are just echos of that economic disparity.

I agree my friend, thank you for the measured response.

>given that biology does have a significant role in some disparities in outcomes for men & women (for example life expectancy)

How do we know biology is the most significant factor that causes women to live longer than men?

How do we know biology is not a significant factor that causes white people to live longer than black people? It's a biological fact that black people in the US suffer greatly from vitamin D deficiency[1]

[1]https://www.cooperinstitute.org/2019/09/24/african-americans...
Hmm, unlike "5 axis", it doesn't say that "4 axis" is part of the extension, it specifically says "Rotary", which seems to be this: https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=MFG-MULTI...

On the "4th axis wrap toolpath" page, it doesn't have the same "this is part of an extension" warning: https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-7FF2...

So I think (hope) that some forms of 4-axis machining are still free.
I've been looking at Webiny recently as I wanted a headless CMS that could be hosted as a serverless lambda to reduce costs.

https://headlesscms.org/projects/webiny

EDIT: there's also other headless cms solutions like Netlify CMS, see the list: https://headlesscms.org
At this point what would it require for you to believe it wasn't research gone wrong?
I never hear this sentiment on HN when it comes to writing code. Only the other, less-noble job classes.
His point is that plans like this are generated regardless of the current state of the country, therefore it says nothing about how polarised or at risk of rebellion America is today.
What university is this where tuition plus school-based insurance is < 20% of open market insurance?
I think it's extremely unlikely to be aliens, since each time in the past something like this has come up a non-aliens explanation has been found.

That said, I don't think distances/timescales is a great argument against aliens, since it makes a lot of assumptions. They could use robotic ships, or generation ships (no telling how long their generations might last.) If they're moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light, relativistic effects could be dramatically reducing their perceived mission duration. Maybe the biology of their species is such that cloning or suspended animation is straight forward.
Japan's weird anal-retentive method of primary and secondary education is hostile to language learning; it's bad enough here in Canada, where the typical anglo school will just as likely turn students away from the French language† as help them learn it, but Japan (among others) is on another level.

We know, empirically, that this is not the way that people acquire language; but somehow it is the core of almost every public education body's language curriculum.

† Do you know anyone who acquired French fluency by completing conjugation tables two hours a week for a decade?
> (b) for current purposes, JCS has sided with the people

What do you mean? The closest "current purposes" have come to rebellion is looting and rioting, and there's no indication that anyone in the military has approved of that. Hell, many _protesters_ don't agree with it.
My daughter went to a French school when she was six, and the teaching seemed to be rigorous about stroke order and direction in cursive handwriting.

(Now she’s seven and in an American school where they don’t seem to care about practicing handwriting at all, or indeed any kind of repetition. Instead the focus seems to be on parsing complex and ambiguous written instructions.)
Have you had fun hunting for and turning off all of the awful picture "enhancing" features yet? and then figuring out how to make it persistent.

Modern TVs really seem to ruin the video even though they are perfectly capable of just showing a color adjusted signal, quickly becomes obvious when you plug in a computer.
I believe similarly strict rules were observed for cursive writing when it was still being taught.

I wonder whether such interminable busy-work is an emergent feature of educational institutions arising naturally as a result of how they are structured.
They are your only option. The only other "drivers" are never updated binary blobs, maybe from the vendor that sold you the hardware, possibly extracted from some years old Android firmware image.
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Disappointingly, not “List of lists that do not contain themselves”
You can silence us, but that doesn't make us disappear.
Yes, unfortunately black people are disproportionately poor, so they bear the brunt of issues associated with a lack of money in America. In the present day, I suspect most things people call systemic racism is rooted in and perpetuated by how disproportionately poor blacks in America are.
> "...that gives the content some air."

lots of whitespace and "air" has become especially fashionable in the past many years. it makes design easier in some ways without necessarily pushing it forward. yes, it forces more conscientiousness of essentiality and contribution of each element (a good thing), but it's also used as an ipso facto justification to resist change and meeting needs (a bad thing).

i love seeing designs that are intricate yet coherent. that seems to push boundaries more than "air". that approach seems more challenging than "cut as many elements as necessary to achieve a desired white space ratio".