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There has been an absolute mountain of work done on Star Citizen, it's just not in the areas you would expect. As far as I can tell, all the money went into building an engine that generates more money which in turn allows the project to drag on, with all other considerations being secondary.

That doesn't mean they're not working on an actual game (or games), but it follows that almost all the effort goes into the in-game asset sales funnel. Creation of new assets and selling them.

What you and I would likely consider core parts of game development, namely focusing on technology and gameplay, has never been a priority except in short bursts. But even during those short burst of priorization, development seems to have been hampered by duplication of effort, incompetent programming, and absent project management. Judging by what's being accomplished, the often-repeated reasoning of "it's just very complex and ambitious" is not enough of an explanation. On top of this, I believe there is actually a disincentive of making gameplay progress too quickly, because much like many SV startups there is probably more value in keeping the unicorn phase going.

That being said, I don't think SC is a scam. It's just a victim of its overall design in some respects, while continuing to be very successful financially.
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Maaaybe I do like swords. And I mean, who wouldn't want to use that particular video as a reference sometime?

To be fair I honestly did think that that was the part that was mystifying you. Sorry about that.

I guess you're focusing more on the neural-network self-learning going on? Or... what's the interesting part to you?
Doesn't look too great on mobile, can we get a "Star Citizen Progress Tracker" Progress Tracker as well?
> It could be as simple as just forcing companies to source responsibly and only work with suppliers that have some really strict policies against using child labor.

We can't even do that with coffee, water or palm oil (just to cite these). Cloth/shoes companies are still using child/slaves, most tech product still contain materials mined in very shady mines by kids/slaves in Africa.

"it's simple", "it's just a matter of", "we'll fix it in the future", "it's just an opportunity to find solutions", this is all wishful thinking.
Why not a retrofitted Starship with a circular staircase going up 160 feet. Engines optional, assembled on site.
Cheap wants, expensive needs. This is our economy now.

"I love my iPhone, but I worry about health insurance." as I've heard it put here on HN.

Ironically, the Soviet system fell from opposite. Expensive wants, cheap needs. Everyone saw the West getting cheaper and cheaper consumer goods and central planning failed to keep up.

Now we get to see what happens.
Does math count as "technical?"

I was originally a Physics major and lately I've been on a kick of filling in the mathematics that was used in my Physics classes but that I feel like was never really gone into in much depth.

My current reading list is:

- "Analysis I" (and II) by Terence Tao (I finished the first volume and am now on the second, but I consider them really one book)

- "Understanding Analysis" by Stephen Abbott

- "Topology Through Inquiry" by Starbird and Su

- "Introduction To Topology And Modern Analysis" by George F. Simmons

The Terence Tao books are amazing so far. Extremely readable introduction to Real Analysis. Abbott also came highly recommended and from reading the first couple chapters I can see why as it also seems to be very readable. I don't know if it would be a better introduction than Tao, but it covers mostly the same material and I think having two different perspectives will really help solidify things for me.

Once I finish those, I'll see whether I want to go deeper into Topology or move to Complex Analysis or Differential Geometry.

I also have a copy of Emily Riehl's Category Theory in Context. I've read some Category Theory before and have a basic grasp, but after reading a few pages of her book, I put it aside until I feel like I'm much more well versed in Topology (the content looks amazing and I really want to read it, but it relies on Algegraic Topology more heavily than other Category Theory material I've seen). So I'll see where I'm at after getting through those Topology books.
Litterally the DuckDuckGo blog announcing that they are doing fabulously.
So great they are making >$100mil a year from monetizing peoples search while fighting the evil companines that disgustingly monetize peoples search.
Not using cobalt for batteries doesn't solve the problem. Batteries is not the only place we use cobalt. It's used in fuel refining for instance.

I really don't get this.. why do some people seem to think that not buying EVs or not using cobalt batteries will get rid of child slave labor?

If anything, increasing the amount of cobalt that's produced could improve the situation. It may push produces towards more efficient and industrialized production. It might make DR Congo more wealthy. And using it in a product where people care about environmental and social costs puts more focus on the whole child labor issue (unlike fuel and metal alloys, where it's more "out of sight, out of mind")
That's Windows 11 Pro, not Home.
Still not clear though, why they need to dual list for this purpose. They can commit to the same actions without listing on exchange. I mean, you could have a service that monitors these commitments, but I am not clear as to why this service needs to be an exchange. It could be a product NYSE, NASDAQ just offer if there is demand. The fundamental purpose of an exchange is to facilitate trading.
I feel Star Citizen is a bit of a meta game where the way to play is not by playing the actual finished product but rather by just bikeshedding feature after feature and seeing how many you can cram into a game, never really finishing.
The previous episode is worth checking out at https://www.poeticoding.com/first-contact-with-phoenix-livev...
"I get a little exhasperated whenever I hear people push for an increase to the federal minimum wage"

Fixed.

We should not be raising the federal MW and should instead prefer more localized measures, such as States, counties, cities, or individual industries developing their own policies.
I've built robots. I've built greenhouses. I like software and the occasional bit of farming. Thirs looks cute and fun, and I hope they iterate, but it's not really solving the right problems, and introduces its own.

1 - there are no straight lines on a farm. Maybe in a hydro setup built on concrete slab, in which case, why robot?

2 - needs a way to cover more ground. If it's not able to travel linearly indefinitely in one direction along a bed, there's no way to scale.

3 - grit. Precision CnC mechanisms and dirt do not mix. You can't keep farm things clean (unless hydro, and even then, things get wet and caked with fertilizer salt)

Ditch the linear ways for something like bike tires. There's an open source solar farm robot which rolls around weeding (can't find at the moment, maybe was a video). Not limited by a box. They need robust mechanisms which can stand up to farm abuse and are easy to service, grease, and replace (unless you hermetically seal the components, which is harder than it sounds).

Weeds are actually pretty easy to manage.

If someone wants to make an impact in the farm tech space, come up with a cheaper alternative for scooping and dumping dirt. A ride-on tractor can be had used for $500-800. But as soon as you start talking loaders, it's $2-3000 used, and tens of thousands for new. Also the smallest tend to be a 4 foot wide bucket and a few hundred pounds lift. I want something half or a quarter of that. Able to scoop 50 lbs of dirt, repeatedly, and dig holes/trenches. That would have a massive impact in agrarian communities around the world.
The first guy in the article is a dev. There's never been a better time to find work as a dev. Jobs are handing out more money with more flexibility than ever seen before. On top of it all, if your firm wants people back in the office soon, now is the time to do loads of remote interviews so that you can keep being remote.

I was interviewing recently and almost everyone is at least partly remote, with a huge number of 100% remote. Even people that I know don't like the idea are bending and giving two or three days remote.

On the restaurant-type work, I'd say a bunch of people have been given a breather from the treadmill, and they're using it to look around. I see this as mostly positive, but it does suggest that a lot of people are completely swamped, working all the time, spending everything. The little bit of credit they got from the pandemic payment has unlocked a great reckoning with the labor market. Previously if you didn't like your job, you were screwed. Somehow find time to interview/upskill, or somehow jump the gap with your savings.
Hmm, this makes me wonder how a US-style sales tax might have compared in the same situation.
The numbers I've seen are something like as low as a few thousand for European population, but more like 5k for African populations

Of course, these are model populations based on idealized breeding right- I believe the way these estimates work is that they represent the idealized minimum bound for a real population that was likely magnitudes greater but had lots of deaths.

And as others have pointed out I believe there were several bottle neck events in the 'recent' past
How did they create the model?

Did they take a bunch of reference pictures where they said "this part here is water, this part here is rocks, this part here grass, etc...", and somehow trained a model from that?
Access Bank launches women programme in Nigeria, eight other African states
I like that you can run your own versions of these studies, e.g. https://github.com/mozilla-rally/rally-study-01 to collect your own data. I think it would be a novel idea to make this the primary focus of the project, enabling users to see and understand their own data before donating it to research projects.

For example, I know that the study above is called "Your Time Online and 'Doomscrolling'", but I don't have much of an idea on how they plan to quantify doomscrolling via attention or audio events. I managed to get a reasonable idea from https://rally.mozilla.org/current-studies/your-time-online-a... and https://github.com/mozilla-rally/rally-study-01/blob/master/... though, so it's possible I just need to put in more effort as a user :)
What is blue host and why should you know it?
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. It is one of the 20 largest web hosts, collectively hosting well over 2 million domains. The company operates its servers in-house in a 50,000 square feet facility in Orem, Utah. Bluehost employs over 750 people in its Utah facility.
What you should know is bluehost provides you
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Free CDN Included
Free SSL Certificate
And all this for $2.95, I mean the basic plan
Unlike some sites that only provide you with an ssl certificate
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Same in Germany (Hausärzte). Even if you have a specific complaint, you'll just be told to go home and drink a lot of water. They just don't have the capacity to test for causes.

I'm not sure if I can even pay someone to make extensive tests here. Never tried. Perhaps one needs to go to the US for that.
Thank you for detailed explanation, this is very beautiful thinking.

Few questions:

1. “The ego itself is void” - how void can feel something, be frustrated etc?

If it’s not there - who is suffering, experiencing problems?

2. Who is “I” if not the sum of all parts working together?

Take out all the parts including ego - will be there anyone to “fix external problems”?

In other words how can we know (verify or at least feel) that your model isn’t just a play of words, while objectively exissting and experienced feelings, issues, dissatisfactions are still there?

Or what difference does it make - how we split the cake and how we call our different parts?
How many people are you willing to kill with too excessive testing programs? Because that is part of the equation too. It's easy to ignore because chances of harm from non-invasive-ish testing like a blood test is low.

The problem is that it compounds quickly.

Consider:

* For a rare condition you need a lot of tests to find them. Let's say you look for something that 1 in a million can be expected to have.

* When you find those 1 in a million, the testing needs to save them, which means a proportion of them need to otherwise be significantly affected. Let's say 1 in 10 of them die.

* When you find those 1 in 10 million that has the condition that would have died without intervention, early intervention needs to actually make a difference. Let's say 1 in 10 of those actually survive because of early detection.

Now you have to do ~100 million tests to save one life.

Suddenly 100 million:1 odds of dying as a result of a visit to do a blood test are enough to neutralise the benefit, be it infections or accidents etc.. And that includes secondary effects such as delayed diagnosis because a false negative leads a patient to delay seeking a second opinion once symptoms present.

Additionally there's the opportunity costs in terms of saving lives by spending the money elsewhere, such as e.g. awareness of symptoms and the like, or addressing entirely different issues.

Of course, if you have a more common condition, and/or a condition that is much more lethal, and/or a condition where early intervention makes a difference, this all changes.

But it's worth noting how little mass screening we do - as it turns out, it's hard to find conditions where the benefits are substantial enough to be worthwhile. In some cases, such as the use of mass screening for breast cancer, there has been calls to scale it back some places because it was unclear whether there was a net benefit.
One in which false information and judgemental opinions about thing you know nothing about are not rewarded. Seems fine to me.

It is funny that the parent talks about thugs, because the owner actually paid thugs to physically attack and give death threats to the workers at this restaurant who would not obey him.
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The only missing thing to this is a gun. To automatically shoot at random animals interested in your garden.
And that change in 2009 (Sarkozy) has been very controversial from the start, as the restaurant owners were supposed to use the tax break to boost employment but that did not happen (surprise!).

https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Restaurants-shou...
So this is what the phone-first web looks like - like shit. Just give me a scrollable article with pictures inserted.
> with the capacity to produce up to 60 gigawatt hours of power per year

Maybe a nitpick but it's interesting how often people confuse power with energy/storage. "gigawatt hours" is a measure of energy, not power.

From my understanding Northvolt is manufacturing batteries, so the "60 gigawatt hours" figure is referring to amount of battery storage they're making. If they were generating power it could refer to how much energy they'll generate over a year, but I don't think that's what it is.

I think it's important to get these details right as it can change the meaning significantly

Also

> building a battery factory so large it would fill 100 football pitches and produce enough power to light 6bn light bulbs a year.

Is the factory generating power? How does the factory produce this much power? Or is it referring to the energy stored by batteries it's producing?
Transkribus Is a Handwritten Text Recognition Project
The justification for private property is that the market would force it to be used somewhat optimally. Modern financial instruments and zoning regulation have distorted this to the degree that real estate can be extremely irrational for decades and often people just go without many services (such as housing) due to this.

I'm generally pro private property but at least from the perspective of someone living in the US I sometimes question the idea when it comes to real estate in developed areas.
You can search around for various large companies and deals or discussions they’ve had with Apple. Uber, Netflix, Facebook come to mind.

Please note the specific language I used in my comment as well.

As an example: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/5/22421734/apple-epic-netfli...

You’ll have to do some digging too if you’re interested. I can’t remember exactly and now when I search I just get current news as it relates to pricing for different app categories/subscriptions, etc.
The problem is, what power allows the developer to refuse? If they do, a manager can find someone who won't, and developers who stand by their principles will lose to competition.

A building engineer could probably drop a hint somewhere and have all kinds of inspectors come knocking, but there's no "building code" for software except in very specific cases; it's perfectly legal to develop insecure software otherwise, and to keep that insecurity a secret from users.
This is admirable but the truth is that these jobs will not disappear, they will simply be outsourced abroad. There’s swaths of competent people abroad that are happy to take your (overpaid) place and the major shift to remote work tools has made it all the easier to blend in your team even if they’re working from another country. On top of this, foreign workers usually get paid 1/3 of the American salary, so the employers are extra incentivized to outsource these jobs.
That doesn't seem to be how anything else works. For example, when tech companies colluded to lower wages (anti-"poaching" agreements) I don't believe HR or the executive team was held personally liable. The same holds true for firms who have engaged in racial discrimination in hiring, or covered up risks with a new drug coming to market. Time and time again firms are asked to pay fines in response to executive malfeasance rather then the executives themselves, why is this different?
Actually the chain wanted to close shop due to the high number of union members (which McDonald’s never wants), and planned to sell the restaurant to some other asian fast-food chain, getting rid of the employees at the same time.

Not sure that is the kind of businesspeople you want attract, to be honest.
A lot of people will say exercise and nature, which is definitely a good prescription. If you've got a great job, then it's best to do those as a hobby, but if you don't have a great job and you don't have a tonne of responsibilities I'd recommend working in the bush or otherwise outdoors for a few months for low pay.

Having your actual job be outdoorsy can do wonders for mental health because you're pushed by work forces to do things that are good for you.

Obviously, if you're on HN, you probably won't be looking to do that kind of work long term because it won't be sufficiently mentally challenging or impactful, but it can be wonderful as a stress and mindset reset.
When I started coding PHP professionally about ten years ago I was bothered about the namespace separator too, but now it looks natural too me and I think it is more readable than a dot.

On a Swedish keyboard layout it is easier to type backslash than forward slash, so that is a plus for me.

If you use an IDE like PhpStorm you rarely need to type namespaces anyway.
I love the UI aesthetics on the timeline. Anyone knows of a components library with such sci-fi look and feel?
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We'll just get different art instead. Compositions etc.
I've been pleasantly surprised with DDG's quality. It's definitely not as good as Google (for my usage), but it's good enough.

I've stopped using Google after they've introduced the very (cleverly) intrusive privacy intermediate page, which is really annoying for those permanently using the browser private mode.
Not if the service is hijacked via DNS spoofing, or some other means.
The rich dont want to share thats what climate law really is. There is plenty enough for everyone. Covid lockdowns were practice for climate lockdowns. Welcome to the prison planet for the wealthy. Depopulation is the goal from here on out.
File an FOIA request.
The same used to be said about photography. What is most important in true art is not being skilled with a paintbrush or Photoshop but ability to evoke different emotions and thoughts.
Brilliant take. Especially if you use some sort of roller-coaster-tire style mechanism vs linear ways, which just aren't going to stay aligned.

It would need a position and feedback system outside of the current "servo and home position" method, because even with closed loop motors, the distance traversed isn't exact. We need a cheap, easy way to get accurate-ish absolute position (1-3cm), maybe acoustics and phase-based?
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I just switched my phone's default search engine to duckduckgo and have been pleasantly surprised at how little difference it has made to my life. One major factor that led me to switch was just seeing the vast amount of data google has on me on their data dashboard. Between maps, Android, Gmail, and search I am sure they know more about me than my own family!

Another perk is that duckduckgo plays nice with my pihole ad blocker - the top Google results are often ads which get blocked by default.
Yes, the current store is a very janky UWP app written in HTML and javascript. I believe their original motive was to share the code base between the online store and the desktop client.
Hiring a CTO
Just so you know, the checkbox on the hiring page next to "Software & IT" is shaped unlike all the other checkboxes on the page and does not seem to work. (Clicking on the text does work, however)
I don't understand why this is being praised. If we all start ignoring property rights and other laws that are govern us, we will be living in anarchy. We really have not evolved to some utopia-level, Federation (from star-trek)-like way of behaving with each other. Laws exist for a reason.

Seeing the golden arches on the roof is some bizarre statement. The volunteer patiently explaining this is after McDonalds??? WTF? This is not how trademarks work.

It was not clear but seems the city is involved in this crap? Does that mean residents can stop paying taxes if they are vegan and the mayor was spotted eating a burger? (replace by some other belief system and repeat)

Again, is this being praised? Am I missing something?
No, not mobile. This is a power point presentation.
We can if we want to, but right now it is totally voluntary and so left up to brands that want to look good, but also not pay too much extra.

If a block like the US or EU suddenly puts a whole lot of strong regulation on the coffee market, it likely will result in 90% coffee being problem free, but also costing 2-3 times as much and it just isn't as much a priority to be worth that.
I also sometimes flag submissions when they are essentially duplicates.

Is that acceptable behavior?
CIG know what people really want to know about the development status:
When is the estimated release for S42 or Star Citizen.

They know what this answer is, but they will go to great lengths not to share. For example, this detailed look at what each team/person is doing, but only for 9 months. With no idea how they relate to an actual release.
Let’s see what Betteridge has to say about it.
Which is why developers don't release on Linux, since they would have to test for so many strange driver setups to ensure things works correctly. The bug reports you get from linux are not "this gameplay is bad", but stuff like "my mouse cursor isn't displayed correctly here" which works fine in windows but somehow their setup screws it up. Trying to get graphics to reliably work in all linux versions is a lot of work.
It seems like there are a number of other risk factors as well (see https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-...), that could shrink the pool of people tested.