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Unity 2020 reminds me very much of the shockwave authoring tools.

Game Makers Toolkit is just the name of the youtube channel that hosts the jam. Not the name of a tool anyone used for it. Most people used one of the three tools I named. You're probably thinking of Constructor, which is the third one I named and is indeed easier than flash was. But I think recent Unity releases have surpassed my memory of the flash tooling I got to use. Tough to say because I don't have the old shockwave stuff around anymore to do a side by side comparison.

In most of the itch.io jams, browser games are strong. People still do downloads too, but the winners are almost always HTML5/WebGL playable. You just get drastically more plays (and therefore more ratings during the contest) if people don't have to install things.

I think a lot of the creativity you used to find on Kongregate really has gathered at itch.io.
I'm a frontend dev and amateur solo founder interested in tools that empower me to build more with less effort. Should I finally bite the bullet and learn Postgres/SQL? I have the (ill-informed) impression that it's better suited for large and complex systems whereas I'm mostly building SaaS and simple e-commerce apps.

Aren't there usually full-time SREs focused on managing and maintaining SQL databases? I can get really really far, really quick with Cloud Firestore (for free at my scale), and stay focused on my frontend. But as complexity grows and requirements change I can sometimes find myself in sticky situations-- mostly because there are no tools for schema migration in Firestore.

But on the other hand with Firestore and similar noSQL products I can get scaleability, security, speed, stability and a lot more all out of the box.

Curious to hear your input.
I often inquire 'why is happiness the thing we choose to focus on'
No, I think the ideal end-goal is that hate speech is rejected in the private marketplace of ideas whose protection is the goal of the First Amendment, making anti-hate-speech laws unnecessary.
This sounds like what is called a staff/principal engineer these days.
That sounds like they're just setting up a mandatory reporter scenario, akin to how certain private entities are obligated to report child abuse in the USA.
For me the happiest moment is when I'm able to fully utilize my ability to solve a difficult technical problem.
There could be some very interesting meta analytics that could be done on knowledge structured in this way. For example, this research which identifies the structural differences in the fact graphs of conspiracy theories vs accurate accounts: https://phys.org/news/2020-06-conspiracy-theories-emergeand-...
Well that really takes me back! It was pretty cool how classic Mac apps had most images, text strings, that sort of thing in the standardized resource fork structure. Which meant that you usually could alter a bunch of things about an app's appearance and sometimes behavior by editing those resources with a standard editor.
Housing prices can be pretty sticky. A lot of owners would rather try to ride out a downturn rather than make a sale at a depressed price.
>The rising sun flag is the flag of the imperial Japanese army, the one that allied with Nazi Germany.

>The Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force flag is problematic.

The flag of the National Republican Army is the Italian flag with a bird on it. Is the Italian flag also problematic due to its close relationship with the Axis?
I'm not on Facebook and I don't follow this kind of news too closely, so tell me: Is _anyone_ taking a stand in favor of Facebook in this controversy? I suspect that those who agree with Zuckerberg (unless they're nobodies like me) are keeping mum because no one wants to go against the activist left.

What Zuckerberg is trying to uphold is the long-standing democratic notion of freedom of expression. Is it just out of the goodness of his heart? Probably not. Perhaps the Trump administration is putting pressure on him to ensure that Facebook is not a politically biased platform.

We have become a severely divided country ideologically. The civilized, the American way of dealing with it is to live and let live. The expression of an idea that you don't agree with does not hurt you! Ignore it. Trust that, as the Whole Earth Catalog used to say, "Cream rises". The best will win out.
Statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and even Lincoln have already been attacked by the mob. Mount Rushmore is now a symbol of white supremacy. The Emancipation Memorial, paid for by former slaves, is also considered racist now. Boston is going to remove it. The slippery slope has turned into a slide with no end in sight.

https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/boston-art-commissio...
Semantic Web[1] reborn (after alleged[2] death)? Also I wonder how helpful Prolog infrastructure could be since they provided some useful frameworks [3][4] for that.

[1] https://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/

[2] https://twobithistory.org/2018/05/27/semantic-web.html

[3] https://www.swi-prolog.org/web/

[4] https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/doc_for?object=section(%27p...
But then I control it and can deny the free speech of others. That's not what I'm asking for.
Some of the feedback here is a little harsh. This kid applied for YC when he was 18 and now he's only 20 years old. I wish I had launched something and had it fail when I was 18. When I was 18 I wasn't even finishing my software projects. It wasn't until a few years later that I would launch something, it fail and I'd realize I need to re-evaluate my approach.

He's young and making mistakes, but if he operates on a long time horizon I think he's doing pretty good. He realizes the he needs to research a market before creating a product (customers own the problem, you own the solution).

His mistake here is that he's angry about YC (which is unjustified, they were right to deny him) so he wants to make an "incubator". That's probably not a good idea, but he's only 20 so has plenty of time to fail more.

I think he knows what to do though. Research an idea first before building. So, the smart thing to do would be to find a vertical that intrigues him and start engaging with people in that industry trying to identify problems they may they need solving. B2B (specifically B2SmallB) is always easier than B2C for a solo founder.
Why did their economy suffer for a century? You would think the landowning class would lose out badly but that, overall, economic activity would increase. We’re all those farms so badly run that they couldn’t compete once they had to pay wages? Or was money just so concentrated that once slavers lost their slaves, nobody had any money at all?
My favorite thing about Go is that I can jump into any codebase, written by any developer, and the mental load required to unwrap their logic is very low.

The "stylistic opportunity" for other languages is such that I can usually tell which developer on the team wrote what just at a glance. Not so with Go. It's all the same bland but beautiful gray.

Something to be said about languages that help external people understand them, as opposed to languages developed to improve developer satisfaction.
> requires a de-humanized constantly replenished underclass to provide us with the cheap good food we want

You're going to get further convincing people to care about human suffering (the goal of the article) here by pointing out what a failure Soylent was. Why?

First you'd have to anticipate that all people are going to talk about here is, "Economics. Costs. Pricing. What about if robots made the food instead? Then there is no underclass." Those people aren't even transhumanists i.e. inhabiting some far-off possibly impossible future.

The kinds of foods you could conceive are harvested and processed entirely by robots, end to end, and thus involves no explicit human suffering, are actually really crappy, and no one wants, even when they were made by humans first. That's what Soylent was, it was one guy's algal flour product that probably, truthfully, could be totally automated. It sucked, let's be real.

It's this sort of capitalistic argument, "if it fails in the marketplace it must be bad," that just gets through to people simpler, and clearer. That's the starting fact that gets people to listen. Not de-humanization. Not that there isn't a place for critical theory.

But that you can just discuss facts, like yes, there is a dehumanized replenished underclass, and yet, here we are buying berries from Costco. Their brains turn off. And I wouldn't just brush that off as ignorance, or claim some conspiracy that people are conditioned to first ask if something does or does not make money, because capitalism.

It's just tough to know which things to pay attention to, so if there's a simple framework that helps you, on average, pay attention to the right things and get through life, buying berries, you'll use it.

Unless you're unfortunately born to pick berries instead. So personally, I believe the reason rich people actually frame regulators literally and John Rawls philosophically as the enemy, unequivocally, is that the veil of ignorance much more clearly threatens capitalism than perpetual human suffering through wage slavery (a factual thing!) ever did.
There’s a lot of grandiosity here. Just before going deeper, what is your position on bookstore that don’t sell porn magazines, night clubs that refuse smelly people, and school fairs that don’t showcase student’s penis drawings.
It takes more than just 4 months in a pandemic to start a trend of new businesses in a new town.
I suppose that's valid. This is the first time I had heard that DDG has a browser too, and I was just assuming that anyone who would use the browser probably also uses the search engine, which they obviously have to trust when they send search queries to it.
I'll give you my personal standard:

Did they act or campaign to make things worse for their fellow man (and woman)? In other words, did they simply act in the context of their time period, as other men in their position would, or did they specifically act to curtail the rights of others. This makes it very easy for me to condemn symbols of the Confederacy, because they specifically acted to preserve slavery.

If anyone believes the Confederates did not rebel and fight specifically to preserve slavery, they should read the words of the seceding states: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declarati...

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Taking it back to your question about Mexico: War is terrible, and flags are used in war. Flags are used after the war is over to show their solidarity with the principles of one side or the other. The flag of Mexico was primarily just a marker to say "We are Mexico"

Some people associate the confederate battle flag with a spirit of rebellion, and that's understandable. But other people associate it with hatred. You don't get to choose how someone else will understand it and be affected by it. It's hard to be a grown up, but part of it is deciding how much you care about offending other people.
"Of course, it may seem like a copy of the Havenly or decorators.com model. But I was in love with the idea so nothing stopped me to make it real."

Rookie mistake.
I don't believe that drug addicts face any real difficulty obtaining their drugs; they do face hazards to their safety and economic security.

The risk of legalization isn't so much ease of access as it is the normalization of drug abuse. We have shown with cigarette usage that education, propaganda and marketing laws can de-normalize drug use.

If anything, by making high risk drugs safely available through official venues, you can provide social services better access to those who need help.

I would say that you would likely see an initial increase in users but that a well run program would lead to both a overall decrease in users and more importantly a reduction of average harm per user.
It was similar in some ways to the unification conflicts happening in Europe in the 19th century. The contentious issues, slavery and tariffs, forced a disagreement about the nature of the Union. There was not a shared sense of identity across the United States, so when Virginia, for example, seceded, Virginians sided with their state. Generally, only the more cosmopolitan upper classes felt conflict between a duty to preserve the union and a state citizenship; the enlisted ranks and home support were more uniformly provincial. In the north, an almost religious belief in the moral and social good of a nationalist Union drove pro-war sentiment (again, similar to other unifications.)

It’s an expansive topic; I’d encourage you to pick a few accounts of the era as well as biographies of Lincoln and generals Grant and Lee.
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Not an American, so feel free to correct me.

It seems to me that there are already plenty of laws that breach the 1st amendment if you interpret speech as absolutely any speech (e.g. death threats, libel, ...). And it is constitutional because the current interpretation of speech is narrower than "everything".

Doesn't that mean that, if there were the will to do it, free speech could be reinterpreted (by the supreme court?) to not include hate speech, thus not requiring to change the 1st amendment?
I think that is a common misunderstanding. Access is there and not much more difficult than deciding you are curious and going to a specialty shop. Look at marijuana legalization, not a big uptick in consumption by most approximations.
While true if you run something small that goes unnoticed, we still have gatekeepers once you get to a certain size. Good luck taking payments if Mastercard blacklists you.
> downloaded thousands of times

You wish, the Xcode ghost infected apps had 500m installs in total.

They were silently removed.
I'm curious where you fall on the spectrum of this. Do you think that it's good, for example, for people to be displaying Nazi Flags in a racing game? Or if they showed graphic depictions of violence/gore. Where does your line fall, on what is and isn't okay to show?
The rationale for succession had slavery as a primary factor, but the war was fought for the right of States to leave the union if they wished. Federalism and states rights sentiments are tied up with the symbol of the flag, though it might be more accurately framed as anti-federal government than pro-state government. Importantly though I'm not denying that there are also those who use the flag as a symbol of racial animosity, nor are the two groups completely separate.
The NYT opinion page is hardly a barometer of broad public consensus— see the recent scandal of the Tom Cotton "send in the military" piece.
That's also a completely different circumstance to what she found herself in.
I am not saying that "all lives matter" exactly, I fully believe it's not neccessary to say to you, and if I agreed with you on the causality, I wouldn't be saying anything. I wanted to point out that the perceived reason (gender) might not be the actual cause, as I have a lot of experience with women doing it to other women and men (as I worked outside of IT, in a field where women leaders and women contributors are common). IMHO the actual cause is toxic culture - this stuff is even mentioned in stuff like "unethical life tips" as what to do if you want to be seen as expert, and many people do it unconsciously - not based on gender. I don't see any evidence that sexism causes it in IT - I think it's just toxic perception of what to do as managers/toxic habits that people have. I suspect that our way of educating children in a very restrictive environment is the root cause.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_jump

If anything, centralized food production in the modern, western world is extremely efficient.

The blood of animals is turned into high-grade fertilizer. The bones into soup stock. Every portion of the animal is shipped off to a country that finds it tasty (ie: China eats the ears and feet, we Americans eat the belly).

I think we should continuously think about how to optimize our system. But simultaneously, we need to understand how our system is far, far more efficient than the historical norms.

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Today's machines make the processing and harvesting of food incredibly efficient.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcG0jVuThfs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eTWpLZ-Hn8

Some plants are still processed by hand (IIRC: Strawberries still need to be done by hand). But for the most part, we're moving towards highly automated, highly efficient, food producing machines.

The progress of farming and agriculture continues forward today. I think there's issues in our system that need to be discussed, but the modern day is clearly far better than the past.

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EDIT: The issues of today's era, is the production, distribution, and investment of these expensive machines. Who owns the machines? Can small farms afford these machines? Or will farms centralize into monopolies (who can afford the machines, pushing the smaller farms out of business?).

"Who owns the machine" becomes copyright and patent law rather quickly. Right to repair, right to reverse-engineer. Etc. etc.
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Because they are competing against competitors with equal level of product but with majority od developers in low labor cost countries. Thats a recipe for sure loss.
Ugh. Being proud of not knowing things, in any field or subject, is not a virtue.
This may be a silly question, but why were they paying rent during the pandemic? Almost all non-profits I've talked to stopped paying bills months ago aside from payroll and utilities, figuring it is better to be getting complaints from landlords than to shut down.
I don't live in NYC, but NYC will always be a desirable place to live, especially for older population. It's an epicenter for culture. It's a popular tourist destination. It's a home to old money. It has 2 giant international airports nearby. Barring some catastrophic environmental or natural event that makes it undesirable to live, I personally feel people will always want to live in NYC. It's an icon, like Paris and London.
Given that I am involved in the Rust project I'm very likely biased, but given that I've focused on the learnability of the language (diagnostics and ergonomics) I have a bit of context on this subject.

When designing a language there are intrinsic (what things the project wants to focus on, be they features of the language or the associated tooling that affect the language, like generics or compilation speed) and extrinsic (external impositions like being able to run on certain platforms, or interfacing with existing technologies like being able to run a statically linked binary in Linux or being able to debug using gdb or calling C libs without runtime translation) design constraints. All languages have (or should have) an objective of being easy to learn, pick up and use long term. It might just not be the top priority.

For the sake of argument you can take Python where expressiveness at runtime and clean syntax are prioritized over speed, Go where fast compilation and multithreaded microservices are prioritized over more complex language features, and Rust where fast binaries and expressiveness are prioritized over ergonomics (when push comes to shove this is the case, otherwise you wouldn't need to call `.clone()` or add `&` to arguments when calling a method ever), you can see how these objectives permeate every decision throughout the language.

When it comes to Rust in particular, I feel it is still a boring language despite the appearance of too many features, precisely because of how they interact between them and fit together naturally. It is not the best fit for every use case, but it is one of the projects out there that is embracing the fact that it can't be as easy to learn as it could be (without sacrificing some of the constraints that make it interesting as a systems language), but we can rely on the compiler being a necessary part of the developer toolchain to make the compiler understand the user's intent when they do things that make sense from extrapolated misunderstanding of the language and help them write the "correct" code instead. This has the added benefit that reading the code is easier because you have to "guess" much less what it is doing. Remember that if the code can confuse a parser it will also confuse humans. On the opposite end of the spectrum you have JavaScript, where it's grammar has a lot of optional or redundant ways of doing the same thing (think semicolon insertion), which makes the act of reading and debugging code harder. This is a reasonable approach in a case like the web, less so in a compiled language that can evolve independently from the end users' platform.
If you want to ignore the moral implications of my statement, go right ahead.
> Raising interest rates then requires fortitude

Like Paul Volcker, who did an immensely unpopular thing (soaring interest rates that caused unemployment in the short term) but ultimately created a much stronger economy.
Any particular account you would recommend?
> "Go doesn’t have a virtual machine or an LLVM-based compiler."

> How is this any kind of pro or con? It's just an implementation detail.

This is actually one of my favorite things about Go. The fact that you get a single statically-linked binary at the end is so much nicer than having to mess around with JVMs and JAR files and CLASSPATHs. Sure, there's a lot of tooling to handle this in the Java world, but it adds significant complexity, and makes life difficult when you need to do something slightly different.
The act of building something with peers is far from nothing. Having a space to experiment and create is in itself pretty useful and does require some overhead, so there is value being added. Of course it depends on what level of oversight is provided/required that will determine how good it is.
In the "big cheap house" world people host parties.
Southern states by and large seceded over fear that the northern states, which outnumbered the south, would outlaw slavery throughout the country. That's clear from most of the declarations that southern states passed to formally state their reasons for leaving the Union. So it's not true, as sometimes claimed, that the primary reason for the war was "states's rights" (well, yes, but the right of a US state to maintain slavery), or "northern capitalists keeping the agrarian south under their heel".

But that doesn't explain why the average southern soldier—who didn't own any slaves (that was for the rich planter elite minority), who probably personally knew and possibly were friends with slaves, fought and died for the Confederacy. Claiming that "the entire southern United States were overcome by an irresistible race hatred" is as ridiculous (not saying that you are claiming that; you recognize that such a statement is silly) as stating that "every German soldier in WW2 was a Nazi", which was incorrect on both a literal sense (in terms of being a Nazi Party member) and a figurative sense.

Ultimately the average southern soldier fought and died for the same reason the average German soldier did: For his home (and homeland), his family, his friends and comrades, his way of life. Nothing more or less grand than that.
I’m aware of that - as that was the reason I moved to the Bay Area as well. But I’ve been here a few years, I could get a job elsewhere without the leetcode interview. It just wouldn’t pay as well or have the same career growth track.
Agree on being wary of everyone trying to sell a story. This is one of the things I love most about HN, though - people will often share very different thoughtful perspectives, with the sources & data to back it up.

Thanks for sharing your thoughtful perspective with the sources to back it up :)