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I agree the game definitely did not look like it was intended to and from that perspective it looked bad.

Looking at it without context however, it demonstrated the capability of the platform to run a AAA game without developer optimization/consideration.

And it demonstrates someone could make a stylized game similar to Fortnite.
I hear you. I echo your experience to the letter. It got to me so I had 6 weeks of sick leave. On antidepressants for the second time in my life. Never felt so alone. Working from the office these days because I can't imagine sitting home alone again. Went on a weird tinder bender and knocked out 20 dataes over 7 weeks only to be social...
If you have only one desk that you use for work and recreation, here is a little hack: switch chairs. I have a work chair and a "lazy" chair. Same desk, different feeling. Works for me.
I would agree with the parent here, try to not go into abstractions until they are apparent but there are some pretty solid patterns that have worked thru the years and still hold up today.

The first being pub-sub, this can be an event system or and observer pattern but it is good to have loose coupling of when something happens it can loosely tell it out into the ether and not care about if anyone is listening.

The second being sole responsibility of change, this does not have to be something as formal as a Redux or some other library if you are using a back-end language but there should be one function that changes one segment of data and that is the one function that owns the writing of that data.

The third is more optional but in certain places it really shines and has become kind of a lost art and that is plug-in style interfaces. Say you have a portion of you app that parses text files and stores them in a common data structure and you know that there will be future text file formats but you do not know what they will be. A plugin architecture is a natural fit here, where you define the interface and the data storage side, then you only need to implement a plugin for the parser side for each new file format. I always write these as true plugins where you can drop a new one in a plugin folder and the application picks it up, no recompiling no configuration, no restarting, just a black box that is self contained.
> The goal of every top-tier collider is new physics

I would argue that the goal of a top-tier collider is to go to new energy ranges, plain and simple. Absence of new phenomena is gained knowledge, albeit a bit boring, but still.
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Pharma and mechanical engineering companies need IT people, too, even if their core business is not IT.
Ask HN: How did you find your niche?
This doesn't need to be something from which you make money. I am more interested in the process that led to the discovery.
You could write a Java based virtual kernel designed to run within the JVM and manage child processes I suppose, but what is the real world utility of such a thing?

Almost everything to do with kernels is about directly writing to memory addresses and ports and these things can't be done with a managed language, at least not without a significant runtime doing all the grunt work, at which point you'll need to understand much of the runtime's internals and at that point, you may as well have started out with a small C/C++/Rust kernel, plenty of which exist.
Maybe it is like police and tasers?

In theory, tasers are good because they can substitute shooting.

In practice, you had 5 shootings, and now you have 4 shootings and 200 taser uses
It has been this way for a while. Outrage/cancel culture is an absolute pox upon our population that really needs to stop.
Is the ebook of the textbook a regular PDF/epub/mobi or is it only viewable in their viewer apps? The page doesn't say, and I don't want to spend money on it and then realize it's not a real download.
I lost a friend because I lost hope that we could have normal conversations without frustrating or even hostile arguments over politics.

I banged my head on this for months and finally had to acknowledge (on my birthday, to make it even more depressing) that there was no hope.

And that's really painful.

Plus the circumstances don't make it easy to deal with this extra feeling of loneliness.
I went from being alone for 9 weeks to not being a lone at all for the last 6 weeks at my parents. Different but more tolerable downsides. I'm doing mostly fine and still grinding away on work but wake up finding that I'm more and more angry about everything being disrupted from covid at an age where I should be out kicking ass and taking names and angrier still that I think I'm doing the rational and community focused thing by staying inside minimizing trips to the store and then watching people shirk and go on like nothing is happening.

I know it's temporary but how things have gone during lockdown have changed my opinion on my country and a lot of the people in it and that's not temporary.
What do you think is the reason? Some of the arguments that I heard include the suggestion that some of the radical environmental plans may cause serious losses of jobs and tax revenue, and increase poverty, while other heavy polluters would get ahead and dominate the world's politics and economy.
Imagine asking random commenters on "hacker" "news" for investment advice.

How much have you consistently lost with this strategy?
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I lived in lower Manhattan on Sept 11. The following months were full of anxiety as no one knew if there would be more attacks (hijackings, bombings, perhaps a chemical attack on the subway like what had happened in Tokyo some years earlier). The city was full of missing person posters, who you knew were people who would never be seen again.

After 9/11, a lot of people avoided the subways or going to terrorist targets like Times Square, but life outside of the immediate area around the WTC continued, and even the World Series was played in the Bronx shortly after. 9/11 had a terrible impact, but things returned to almost normal much more quickly than they have with covid-19.
Hang in there, bud. It will get better, or the world will change enough to make our lives more tolerable somehow.

I joke that I barely noticed covid19: I was already socially-isolated enough (have been working from home for almost a decade, and in many ways I was/am already depressed for my own reasons) that the only change was my hair getting pretty long and my kids getting bored at home. I know I cannot complain - got a steady job just before the lockdown, my financial situation is not terrible, I have a garden to milk any ray of sunshine that Northern England might grant us...

BUT

I've given up on therapy, as there is no way for me to make any progress on my personal problems in these circumstances. I was supposed to spend a couple of weeks on a beach for the first time in years - it didn't happen and it might not happen for many more months. My parents can only see their grandkids every few months and now we're well overdue. I live in fear that my new employer will eventually feel the hurt and they'll have to cut, with LIFO putting a big target on my back. Even if I keep this job, my dreams of independence were shattered last year and there is no way to try again in these circumstances.

So it's shit really, but what can we do? Sometimes the planet just tries to kills us and all we can do is endure.
Two stories submitted the same minute. The other one seems to be the canonical, changelog.com an aggregator of content. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23613719
That was basically my thought: there are plenty of programs which it can help (almost all business apps) but not all of those are limiting anyone’s work and the feature isn’t free. Having multiple true cores has been common for multiple decades now and I’d be really curious whether a modern chip design team would feel it’s worth investing in if they didn’t already have it. My understanding is that SMT has a power cost comparable to extra cores and given how well Apple’s CPU team has been executing I’d assume there’s been careful analysis behind not implementing it yet.
Classic linking uses a path to a library at link time. I suppose Apple may have patched ld to work around this choice, but it still begs the question — why change this? Who was it hurting?
I endorse this as a temporary solution, thanks for the suggestion!
That sentence is scary... if sending his only son to die is okay what could happen to others?
But that's my point, in the UK this is something that is associated to posh, but it shouldn't be.
No I would not say it did. Being publicly shamed, kicked out of a conference, fired, and having your name posted all over the place are the kinds of things that tend to stay with you. Remember, we're talking about a stupid dick joke between friends.
At the very least the sample size of cities they use is 12, which seems insufficient. The mention they they are diverse selection but half the cities on the list are in desert or near desert climates, where water scarcity comes into play.

I'm not saying that water can't be expensive, and that in some places agricultural uses are just downright wasteful (we grow a lot of food in irrigated deserts), but all of my bias flags have gone up in this article.
Before the Law is my top favorite short story of all time.
you see how much discussion is happening under a 0-point parent?
People are getting fired and publicly shamed for statements and actions made one, two decades ago. It’s entirely reasonable to be afraid of speaking something acceptable but unpopular today out of fear that it will be unacceptable tomorrow.
If somebody is saying hurtful things, what's the due process to address that? Before the digital age, didn't we always manage that kind of thing through a type of social contract?
Starting a new job remotely and it’s quite high pressure. So stressed but overall OK
The Mill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_architecture
Are you me? Seriously hit all the nails on the head for me. Except my country is not yet currently at war. And I used to go out social dancing and that is basically dead until next year most likely.

I ruined two coffees the other day. Put too much peppermint oil in and screwed it up.

And then I let my coffee friend screw with my grinder/machine settings and it got hosed. ugh.

I really recommend getting a workout buddy and making yourselves accountable. It's helping so far.
Different sources of cancer are much harder to compare w.r.t. their effect and ease of taxation, so it is irrelevant comparison (as taxing all foods based on sugar content is not much harder). More apt comparion would be taxing cigarettes and not taxing cigars and loose tobacco.
will this work with Fastmail's caldav?
The Second Great Depression
This is an insane centrally-planned communist enterprise. It would be much more efficient to just give a $1 million research grant to 23K scientists to research whatever they want.

Or you could give $50K to half a million scientists. This would be enough to fund them for 1 year. This is an unfathomable number of scientists. Imagine the impact of allowing half a million minds focus on the problems that they are best at solving.
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Geeky. The owner also wrote Sitecore, a very expensive CMS.
I think you are over-estimating what an auditor is expected to do. Auditor's, to me, seem to be there to make sure you're compliant with the law or regulation that they are auditing for. In these audits, the company gathers and presents all of the data that the auditors will see.

The auditors will do interviews with people, but the company also (somewhat) picks who will get interviewed.

Remember that auditors are paid for by the company they are auditing. They are motivated to do the minimum required to pass the given regulation. They aren't there for true oversight, they are there to make sure all the checkboxes are checked.
This seems like exactly the sort of piece where I'd want to link to By Very Slow Decay but I can't because Slate Star Codex isn't up any more.
This is a shame. I've read Scott's blog for years and have always been impressed with his intelligence, decency, and intellectual honesty. It's unfortunate that the current environment is forcing out people like Scott and replacing him with others who aren't nearly so conscientious and fair.
I've been saying that too, 'reason for downvote' or 'link to profile page'
(Offered in the hopes that this helps someone.)

After struggling with it for about twenty years and dealing with a particularly bad episode, exacerbated by 2020 things, I was diagnosed with major clinical depression and started treatment today.

Socially distanced Internet fistbump to anyone else having a rough go of it. Some subset of the problems are within the purview of medical science; consider asking.
In what scenario does it eliminate this?
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I’m very satisfied with a fully maxed-out 2012 Mac Mini (quad i7, 32GB RAM, 2x 1TB SATA SSDs). It’s plenty powerful for my needs (productivity, and occasional use of Mathematica) and at any rate over the past ten years or so I’ve migrated progressively towards using iPads (having been almost compulsive in my upgrading every single generation from the very first back in 2010 to the latest iPad Pro 2020).

When yesterday I saw the news of the new ARM mac, I thought “aha, OK, I want it”.

Keep in mind that at one point I had a quad-G5 PowerMac. I really like power, flexibility, and expandability. I’m not much of a laptop believer either.

But what I’m trying to say is that over the course of the past decade or so the Mac has been sufficiently stagnant that a 2012 Mac Mini, albeit one that is highly upgraded, is an entirely workable platform. I was thinking to myself last night (or this morning, depending on one’s perspective): “What will Apple’s Intel Epoch be known for?” and I had an instant answer for myself: “It will be remembered for stagnation. There was a switch and things were better for five years and then nothing really happened for a decade,.”
Pretty good, all things considered.

We elected to stay in Lanzarote for the duration of the lock downs, working remotely. It’s been great here, with good weather and very few cases, though the Spanish lockdown was very extreme compared to Ireland’s. Working remotely played out better than anticipated — an island far from home is no different to home when the whole company is working remotely. Bit of an eye opener there for sure!

We’re Leaving in four weeks to return to Dublin. Lost a lot of weight due to healthy eating and a lack of junk food and processed food. Cut out the alcohol almost entirely, and the stress levels dropped off a cliff after the first week of lockdown.

The whole experience has raised a lot of questions about where and how we live and work. The first thing I'll be doing when I get home is handing in my notice on my over priced apartment in Dublin.
The thing that comes after Zoom is another app that makes the experience of teleconferencing easier.

If I were to guess maybe some kind of Mixed Reality system. Having Audio, Video with Video sharing is good. For some niche industries like CAD / CAM and also VR /AR / Video game design if you had some kind of Mixed reality system that could allow people to collaborate with 3D data you could actually have an interesting product.
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Except it is, and not because "leftists" are bad or anything. I consider myself a leftist. It is because leftism promotes a resistance and challenging to authority and a prior belief in the goodness of the downtrodden masses. None of those are wrong per se, they are even healthy, but when they are perverted and distorted they can easily led to circuses like the cultural revolution in China. Right-wing ideologies usually promote submission to authority and traditionalism. The problems that come with excesses in that front are of a different kind.
AFAIK, they will be using AArch64, which is from 2011 (AArch64 is not an extension of the old 32-bit ARM ISA, it's a completely new ISA).
But it puts things into perspective. Humanity blows crazy amounts of money on war, entertainment, advertising and the financial industry, within a system where something like two dozen individuals can (collectively) amass trillions of dollars of personal wealth. But $20 billion for fundamental science, spread out among 23 comparatively wealthy nations is too much?
I don't see why it should be any different.
> They are using your statement to appeal to others to listen and accept their clearly racist ideas or provable wrong, anti-science ideas.

“Yes clearly other people are stupid. The only ideas that should be exposed to the public are my own ideas. People other than myself apparently don’t have functioning brains, or they would all think what I think. So instead I must fight to have all opposing ideas erased.”
Is that true? I've gotten hella downvotes but still not shadow banned. I think it's because people read my comments in their own voice rather than in my voice and take offence to the words whereas it's just a way of communicating using signals in order to point to an underlying meaning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIS

GIS is everything location. From modelling pandemics to rainforest loss, to logistics, to Tinder and Pokemon Go.
What's the difference with Elm?
Jay Kreps is an extremely well read man; the reference is surely ironic. Enterprise middleware, after all, is and always has been a bureaucratic rigmarole.

The nightmare has existed since the first ETL job was written, but by democratizing pub/sub access throughout companies, we can't help but be horrified by what we see going on in the dataplane. Apache Kafka, rather than creating this nightmare, brings light to it, just as Franz Kafka's literature brought light to the absurdity of life under evil bureaucracies.

Now he can't quite say this outright lest he offend some set of his customers who have to live in this reality, so we have that vague quote about "he's one of my favorite writers", but surely we can take a direct literary reference as a wink and a nod and read between the lines?
I don't like Facebook ads, and I wish there was no hateful messages. BUT I hate censorship even more and I think Facebook's approach is better than Twitter's. And personally even if I like Patagonia and North Face (own multiple products of both), I just won't be able to buy their products anymore with a clear conscience because they push censorship. I think it's fine to be a left leaning company, I know North Face and others have support immigration policies, which I'm all for. But trying to force other businesses to shut up is another level.

The beauty of this country is diversity. But if you are applying selective diversity until it fits 100% your views that's not good either.
After dlopen() you are free to examine the in-memory contents, including writing them out to disk if you like. Apple as an attacker could easily hide a backdoor in either model.
In order to stop pollution we need to invest money in an alternative, you simply can’t stop the economy to prevent pollution, Covid-19 style, forever and expect society not to regress to pre-industrial revolution. Hence, in order to fund an alternative you need the funds to fund an alternative, which necessitates not spending limited tax payer dollars on limited impact science experiments.

From my comment elsewhere: spending 20bn+ on lifting people out of poverty or combatting climate change is a much more worthy recipient of tax payer dollars
Living outside the US and watching what's going on (ok, it's not just the US, but it is just a few countries) is like watching a friend's slow motion descent into madness. It's pitiful and sad, and I feel powerless to do anything about it.

At the same time, so long as I stay away from news and social media, I'm pretty much unaffected. Society in the various countries I've spent time in over the last few years (Ireland, Spain, Germany, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia are the main ones) seems much the same as ever.
I have been learning Haskell and Gluon. 100% worth the time investment. In functional programming, the over engineering is one or two lines of code compared to hundreds.
> I am a geologist passionate about sharing Earth's intricacies with you. I received my PhD from Duke University where I studied the geology and climate of the Amazon

I find it hard to believe someone with those credentials would be unfamiliar with mathematical concepts.

It's a shame because the article doesn't need to "hype" up the temperature. It would have gotten my interest regardless
Our source control has to be on-prem (our Azure Devops is on-prem).

I've never used it but I'm old enough to remember Comic Chat. Fair enough, we have different positions and that's ok.
Naw dude your point is not lost -- and all this discussion is happening on a zero-point comment mind you
I feel like the traditional office/working culture is built around extroverts and not compatible for introverts, since extroverts value face to face conversations and feel stimulated and prefer the open office and other noises.

This change made introverts more comfortable, because all the other distractions are gone. I feel the same way like you do, I have more time and I was able to improve my daily life.
I recommend detoxing on the FB poison. It's not real life. It's all pretend.

That shit is basically guaranteed to make you feel worse about yourself. <3

Take care of yourself so you can take care of your kids!
I'm at $450 twice a year. It seems every few weeks I get an email that "a main broke" somewhere and they have to go fix it, and while I appreciate still having water when the power goes out (thanks, gravity!) I don't particularly love having to pay $900 a year - and from the sounds of it, that will go up probably to $1k soon to pay for pipe replacement/repair
Yes it does! The CalDAV URL is https://caldav.fastmail.com/. If you have 2FA enabled you will need to set up an app-specific password. E-mail support@tasks.org if you have trouble getting set up
They also sell flags, somehow im not surprised. Anything the HN community can legally do to hurt this company? From their page:
If you are from or located in a jurisdiction with laws that require us to provide refunds, and you proceed to place an order with us, you waive and forego all rights to a refund, no matter what other factors may be brought into consideration.
IANAL, but this seems dubious to me. Could a wave of credit card chargebacks be fruitful?
So, no impact on agriculture. That's what I figured.
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Who actually knows? The whole reason we exist is to say or do that thing that would not be said or done if we hadn't been there to say or do it..
The fact that it is inconvenient doesn't invalidate the reality.
Too bad Alpha died. Those machines were like lightning (for the 90's, anyway.)
I am subscribed on todoist until september but I will move to tasks.org after that.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" - Upton Sinclair

But more charitably, I could also see people going past worrying to denial/dismissal
I must say, that is a pretty weak result given the humongous amount of money sunk into it. And all those new understandings have no real world implications except for how some smart people think reality works. I'd say, let's not repeat this massively expensive debacle and fund some more promising fields that may actually solve some of the worlds problems.

I know this is not a popular opinion and I'm quite sure they'll build a bigger collider anyway. And after that, they'll build an even bigger one. And still a bigger one after that.
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