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Well it would work with traditional financial instruments. But what wouldn't work with traditional financial instruments is an ability to integrate with them in a matter of, literally, an hour or two. These systems are open and nobody can be stopped from inter-operating with them in any way their imagination suggests. If you wanted to write a bot that does arbitrage between Yen and USD you would be able to do it, easily actually.

If we are going to talk "decentralized finance" - I agree it is weird and dangerous, but I see it a proof of concept. You can get a collateralized loan in seconds, even if you live in a country where banking is almost unheard of. Yes, there need to be things of value that you own on the blockchain but value tied to physical world is becoming more of a thing. And, again, yes it's dangerous and untested. But these are the hacking and experimentation years. One must be able to crawl before one can run.
The financial markets?
Game consoles?
Televisions?
That's a fun question. Personally we do not have more than a couple dozen books in total at our house. This is more the product of my generation plus living in Japan where no one can afford the dead space for a book shelf.

For the subject matter I would say your best set of resources is GDC presentations. Our industry's great minds never write books, or even web articles for that matter. Best they give are the occasional GDC presentation. Even then Miyamoto has maybe given a couple hours of publicly accessible teaching material in his entire career.

If you are interested in Rendering that fields has a good number of useful books written. Design itself is more about "theories of games". Everyone has their own theories, mine might be more influenced by Sid Meier than anything.

My experience has been with a couple western designers, but more so stalwart japanese designers. On the Japanese side you'd be surprise how "personal" the design philosophies are. Westerners tend to be more rule driven, and thus if you want a systems driven understanding of design that needs to come from the west.

The training system in Japan is more apprenticeship driven. What the west would call designers first start as planners. Planner being a rather low level job with lots of manual grunt work. Then within a company the senior designers will couch the juniors on the subject of game design.

Thus there indeed does exist tomes on Nintendo's game design: but no one outside Nintendo has ever seen it and no one Ex-Nintendo can talk about it. Just look at how Ojiro (https://twitter.com/moppin_) designer of Downwell went silent after joining Nintendo, then after leaving has remained silent.

Off the top of my head I know for sure Nintendo & Bandai use this "in-company learning" structure. Square Enix being a collection of fiefdoms tends more towards hiring a designer they like then putting them in charge of a team. Hence how you got Tokyo RPG Factory.

Note I'm approaching this with the understanding that a good game only has 1 lead designer. In Japan this is the game's director. It might be that in the west game's have a more group driven approach.
> some other commenters are concerned about the safety of the lithium battery, but what about the Bluetooth?

Being Bluetooth, you probably have to retry a few times to get it to connect and will fail frequently from WiFi interference. Also, the BT software stack is a mess.

For example I have problems connecting AirPods to MacBooks (recent ones), same company on both sides, still not working reliably. BT is a shit technology if there ever was one.
In Germany instead of the "silence is violence" slogan people often use the famous Niemöller quote/poem but I have always understand the slogan to express the same sentiment.

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Democrats think they can distort, ban, and flag people into submission. It won't work. Trump will win again in 2020. No one is attracted to vitriol and hate.
i want apple to do it but here are downsides from their perspective:

1. they don’t get 30% cut
2. other app stores could have pirated content (like cydia)
3. other app stores could have content with viruses
I meant that as a lefty I'm used to my view of what I'm writing being obscured. I think a left hander is less likely to notice or be annoyed by the latency.
Thank you for sharing your project!

Very cool to see a combination of low-level Linux kernel APIs and .NET.

True hacker spirit right there!
I would recommend reshooting the screenshots. Navy blue on a jet black background? Removing new lines in the initial example but not in the diffs? Fixing those would get the point across better.

Also, turn the saturation down. That’s the greenest green and the reddest red next to the darkest blue. My eyes.
Maybe that's just confirmation bias though? Ie the PE-owned well-run companies don't make the news?

I know one example: NXP Semiconductors. Got spun out of Philips, along with all the Philips cultural baggage (which means high bureaucracy and low productivity). A PE firm bought it, kept yelling about the bottom line for years on end, and everybody started cutting away waste, ineffective people (the "human furniture") got fired, prestige projects that had no economic value got killed, and they started shipping.

I'm sure it's not all been roses and sunshine but last I checked, NXP is a better company than when they were a part of Philips.
OK no brick and mortar comparison. How is it different than the PS4, Xbox and Switch. They take 30% on digital and brick-and-mortar store sales.
I'm a bit confused on this point. What obligates Apple to treat all business partners the same?
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This is a pretty great analogy and shows why some Apple customers are honestly happy with the current model. Besides, if you allowed more stores, nothing’s going to get cheaper for the customer, Epic will just make slightly more money and charge the same amount and customers will be left with the worse experience. The only advantage of loading apps from anywhere would be to load apps that are banned. Emulators or torrent apps.
180 days to flatten the curve.. Remember, we're all in this together...
Everybody would be confused and late. It’s much simpler to stick to one - DST - and not change it at all
So I keep seeing more and more support for getting rid of DST and a consensus seems to be building. Who are the holdouts? What's their reasoning?
It will be in the Extension itself. Higher the percentage, higher the chances of Google thinking you are a bot.
I believe that Neuralink has potential to do great things. However, like many other Musk ventures, they vastly exaggerate their own accomplishments while downplaying remaining challenges. Most brain-machine interface advances will probably be made elsewhere.
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The difference with game consoles is that the main reason for locking them down is to avoid piracy rather than controlling what the user runs.
More people need to be publishing on federated platforms like WriteFreely and Plumo so we don't have this sort of lock-in and readers can use existing fediverse accounts to comment and boost without signing up for and into these sorts of services.
Walmart and Apple are not equivalent examples. A better analogy for the iphone would be your house. Apple sells you a house and then takes a cut of everything you buy for it. It's able to do that because you can only buy stuff for your house through their shop. To a very meaningful extent your house is not your own despite the fact that it is your property.
Most people seem to have missed that this association of experts in _sleep_ are saying it is better for us to have solar noon and official noon more closely aligned. It's not a popular position, but overall I think it would be better for us to move to standard time permanently and shift our society to accommodate the _sun_ rather than pretending it isn't there.
Could be even the magnesium content of your drinking water. I noticed much better sleep when I take Mg supplements.
Here I was hoping this was something about repurposing RAM as an actual geiger counter by measuring radiation-induced bit flips.
People buy homes where homeowners associations dictate what goes in the yard. They pick schools where children are told how to dress and what they can say. There are whole cities who have kicked out strip joints. Those sorts of choices are made all the time and people should be allowed to live in a safe walled garden if they want to. The instant you let a porn shop open next to your school there are going to be issues that most would prefer to have prevented in the first place.
This one hits me hard, I'm in a very similar situation right now. After finally overcoming social anxiety to the point I could get out I was starting to finally build some connections, but now it pretty much seems hopeless.

By the time this is all over and society resumes I will be pretty far past the cutoff point for fixing my social life and still managing to be relatively "normal"
They won't all the big companies release FPS on iOS are using their own engine (EA, Activision, etc). Using Unreal Engine for a casual mobile game is like buying a Ferrari to get some groceries 2 blocks away.
Yup, the actual time zones still exist. Just because we all switch to UTC doesn't make the differences in time disappear. It's now just hidden.

Meanwhile, days just got really confusing! All sorts of phrases would suddenly become ambiguous. “Dinner at my house on Wednesday?”, “Want to see a movie on Saturday?”.

Both of those phrases would become confusing when dinnertime on a Wednesday could be 01:00 UTC or 23:00 UTC. Same with the movie: did you mean as Saturday is just ending, or just starting?
What’s helped me A LOT is sleeping ear plugs (I use macks silicon) and a face mask. Absolute game changers. My room mates can be watching TV in the living room beside me and I fall right asleep
100 transistors might be enough for a “triangulation” circuit. Hold three RF emitters around the tumor outside the patient’s body and the robot will navigate to the point equidistant from all three emitters and start destroying tissue. You could move the orbs around to eat away the tumor, then filter them out of the bloodstream with a dialysis machine.
You can go with a feature phone or you can look at one of the small open-source Mobile OS. Firefox OS springs to mind.
No, you would not be able to run Fortnite on those.
You need an account to develop for Xbox, Sony and Switch.
My company was asked to make some health and safety induction software. Visitors to the client company would have to self complete the induction process in the reception area whilst waiting for their host to collect them. Client wanted us to present 38 slides worth of information and have them ‘acknowledge’ each point. Instead of doing this we turned it into a game whereby the user has to explore a simplified 3D version of the building and identify the health and safety risks themselves. Graphics were well designed, it had elements of humour and it worked. Our analytics showed that 94% of people who started interacting with the software completed the entire induction process.
Seriously. Seems like electricity & water should be like back taxes in terms of "expenses that can be attached to a house". You shouldn't be turning off anyone's electricity or water (within reasonable usage) if they are still legally allowed to occupy the house.

When that person is evicted, then just like I can buy foreclosed properties that have taxes attached to them, I may also have to pay for the electricity and water that was never paid.
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> As an older millennial and prolific fiction reader (more so when I was younger and had time), there seems to be a 1:1 correlation between lack of consumption of... "intentional" creative media and lack of hope.

I'm likely of the same age group as you and have encountered similar observations in just about all other age groups, there simply is a lack of desire for hard-nosed optimism in exchange of numbing escapism (be it in the form social media of contrived/trite traditional media and video games) as its what is sought out most.

I'm not going to try and portray that my early readings of philosophy or even my deep fascination with Aldous Huxley and Neal Stephenson books are solely what compelled me to view the World in an optimistic manner, and then later act up on for most of my young to adult life be it in environmentalism or activism. That came from a lot of often perception shattering and heart-breaking experience of Humanity's myopic toll on this Planet.

But what those books did do is give me a coping mechanism found in a great deal of story telling. It allowed me to endure and try to come to terms with the very uncomfortable truths about the Human Condition that were being discussed since the advent of Western Society in Greece and similarly found in Huxely's novels as well as many other cyberpunk genres which is best summed as the following: In the World of the insane, the rational man doesn't become King, he gets lynched!

And we see that today with the situation with Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, many activists in Hong Kong, citizen journalists and physicians in China during the outbreak of COVID etc...

I think the experiences taken away from those books and novels are that an individual's success (or survival) may not be possible, but the Human Spirit to defy that and try against all odds an inspire others to follow is a worthy and noble path, but it's an entirely ignored aspect for so many.

Which leads to wide-spread pessimism, and even misanthropy, which if I'm honest makes me as worried of the impacts of climate change and warfare sometimes because it makes me re-evaluate if its even worth the MASSIVE undertaking if that is what remains of the Human Spirit for so many.

In short: it's not an age thing, its a Person thing; one that has been exploited by major media (be it traditional or social) as an institution to foment a culture addicted to outrage and cancel culture to onboard them on to their platforms/goods/services which if looked objectively and detached from emotion kind of serve as a pressure release to an otherwise very unjust World.

I can't help but recall the role of Roman circuses, the death of Archimedes or even the burning of the Library of Alexandra in saying all of that and how ingrained that's been in Humans.
Why not give them enough storage? 32 GB of flash is more than enough and now you get to sell a whole new generation of boxes.
well I'm sure as hell not using this on any Haskell* code (imagine we apply the malloc sound effect to generic allocation)

* Any GC'd language really, JS, Java w/generics etc
I think it goes without saying that cultivating and maintaining a strong culture of positive communication and discussion is no easy task, particularly within the context of 2020 and the modern day internet.

The HN moderation team (Dang's name comes to mind) truly does a remarkable job with continuing the high caliber of community here, so it's nice to see praise like this once in a while as it is well deserved.
You do realize that biological circadian rhythms are distributed across the population as a bell curve and so as a natural early riser, you were born compatible with society's schedule -- 50% of the population has a naturally delayed cycle that is incompatible, and I, for one, consider my genes to be a product of "dumb luck."
what is racism? To me giving someone a benefit due to their skin color is racist.

Affirmative action is racist in nature.

A good test is to replace the race with “white European”. And if the statement offends it’s racist.
I was staring at a diff today and longing for better semantic diffing.

I’d changed a shell script, with a chain of commands. I added a second call to the same command with different args and the diff was just... bad.

something && fizz foo && another

something && fizz bar && fizz foo && another

It decided that “bar && fizz” was my edit, and I just stared at it (it was already a tough day). Even if they had just weighted punctuation characters differently, it would have gotten the right answer, as it would with adding new functions or array entries, which it always gets wrong too.

Sort it out please.
When I first read this, I had the (snarky! unfiltered!) thought, "Well why dontcha go Google it? That's not exactly a philosophical question."

But that got me thinking... what if it was a philosophical question, the kind of question that prompts responses that tell you what it's really like to work in [x].

HN, what's it really like to work in [Distributed systems, ML/AI, Crypto]?
> Why buy a device known for the creation of a walled garden as one of its defining personas?

It is possible to like the garden and dislike the walls. I really like my iPad mini, despite hating the fact that I need a Mac to sideload or develop apps for it. The last time I was in the market for an upgrade, I read that Apple had “no competition” [1]. This problem seems to be getting worse over time as tablet developers concentrate their attention on the iPad. And it affects other markets – when buying a phone, I need to consider whether it will play nice with my tablet. It would suit me to put some restraints on Apple’s ability to use its dominance in one field to push me to buy other products I’m less interested in.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/21/18274477/ipad-mini-2019-r...
Yeah, I'd be pretty mad if I had to log into a website every time I opened it or be blinded by a white screen at night when I toggled the dark theme last time I visited. There's so many good uses for storage to make things behave as one would expect. And it'd be a lot of friction to have permission dialogs for things as basic as cookies or localStorage.
And by the sum-of-odd-numbers theorem (sum of 2n-1 = n^2), you don't even need to multiply to generate that table.
I am 27 with a lot of people around me already married or getting closer to getting married. Whereas I am probably not going to be at that place for maybe the next 5-7 years. I fear the next 5-7 years are going to be very lonely, maybe I will get another chance to socialize once I am married myself. But till then, maybe I'll have to contend myself with my own company.

The sad bit is that its only now that I have finally started to grasp social interactions. Lived a majority of my life in a very depressive state and only been able to get out of all that recently.
> I will be pretty far past the cutoff point for fixing my social life and still managing to be relatively "normal"

There's no cutoff for this, and don't let anyone else decide what's "normal" for you. Or barring that, don't let other people's perceptions of normal prevent you from doing what you need to in order to be happy.
"If an expert says something can be done he is probably correct, but if he says it is impossible then consider getting another opinion." — Richard Hamming
They talked about security and explicitly mentioned that the Bluetooth radio is hardware isolated in some way. They mentioned using encryption without detail but I expect that the radios are treated as untrusted. Also they are using third party penetration testing.
In what way? The same way most people think about what phone they're going to buy?

In no way have I indicated she isn't intelligent. She is. She just doesn't care to know that Apple uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon blah blah blah processor and investigate in depth their app store policies before buying one. And why should she? None of those things tell her "can I send pictures to my friends on Facebook? Can I check email? Will it work on my wifi?" And why should she wonder those things?

What might blow your mind to think about is that her position is the rational one. We can't all be experts in every decision we make. While we might be tempted to (incorrectly) think that more information will inform a better decision, that is not always true and it can lull us into false confidence to believe it is. We rely on "crowdsourcing" knowledge and recommendations (we are, after all, social creatures, and our success as a species is 99.99% predicated on that sole factor) and that is what we do in many many areas of our lives.
Actually me too. I did write a program a while back to investigate the rumors about this though. Spoiler alert: Doesn't really happen. (https://github.com/s9w/MCC)
I hope Epic loses this. I do not want the App Store opened up in any way. One of the reasons I use iOS is so that I have very few worries about a device that I use every day.

To me, and I suspect to almost everyone else, iPhones are not computers. They are devices. Laptops are computers because they are for computing things. This is why I have moved away from MacOS as they have progressively made computing harder, but gravitated even further towards iOS.

If you want a totally open smartphone platform, great. That sounds wonderful for you. But don’t use the law to take away the only secure smartphone platform I have available to me - go find your own open platform and play Fortnite to your heart’s content.
I think Apple requires IAP be the same price as anywhere else.
> or maybe you have absolutely no idea about the services that financial institutions provide to society.

Your posts are interesting, reasonable and founded in facts. That said, I think there's an underlying emotion in other posts: fed up with the discrepancy between the everyday slough to improve your life, but then read about the money games that are played between commercial banks, the central banks and government.
Steve Jobs’ response to the Epic situation: https://youtu.be/rmlUAQamFSc

(Ignore the video’s title)
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I see the topics of biased information and neural input bandwidth as unrelated as the current rate of bandwidth is sufficient. As you mentioned, humans have repeatedly demonstrated the ability to whip themselves up into a frenzy throughout all of recorded history. So it’s a bit strange to suggest we shouldn’t adopt a technology on the basis that it might encourage us to do what we are already doing.

Also filter bubbles in media have generally been created by quite basic algorithms that only meet the definition of AI when you really stretch it. You might argue that a more advanced AI might create more toxic bubbles, but it seems to me that our society has just about perfected toxic bubble creation and any further advancements in the field would suffer severely from diminishing returns.
You're not wrong; the path you're describing is the longer/harder one though.

Incidentally it's probably the more permanent one, too.
True, but it doesn't make a situation unfair. It's just how it is.

The court shouldn't be able to change business models that you don't like.
> 12 Years back I worked with an org who had an AS400 which they considered legacy

What happens when the hardware fails ?
Great reference! Thanks.
Rust structs are not classes. Rust puts structs inline (on the stack), classes are virtual. Since Rust is a systems programming language, it's an actual distinction that makes a difference
Thanks. Need to pick up reading again. Haven't read since I stopped having a commute.
Sometimes I miss being able to hear the hard disk read heads moving around. It was a surprisingly accurate way to tell what your computer was up to. Someone must have made a simulation of this, right?
Cryptography is super fun =)

The things you can do with it are utterly mind-bending, plus you can prove to yourself that things are correct (unlike ML/AI =P)
I strongly doubt that, I’d bet prices would remain the same and Epic would pocket more
Whut is a console not the same class? Modern consoles are locked down pc's.