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Most networked games are built on UDP that resend the game state many times to ensure a high probability of timely delivery.

Desync is common and is caused by packet loss in UDP games. It's not usually worth while to compare your state with the authoritative state, because that requires a round-trip from client->server. Instead, the server can rank each piece of the state as important (has been altered recently is a good measure of importance), and just spam out a bunch of redundant game state packets hoping some of them arrive.

You can build a guaranteed delivery packet system on top of UDP, but a guarantee has to come from the client meaning you're waiting on round-trips to confirm that the states are fully in-sync. Most games (especially fast paced shooters) don't need this level of assurance, and heavy packet loss over a long period of time should just result in a disconnect for that player.
Astonishingly, this was filed in 2018 and published (?) in March of 2020

But from a quick google I'm seeing effectively no discourse about this

Unfortunately the uspto.gov site is also lacking most of the referenced images and the text of the patent is needlessly dense and repetitive

so i've no idea how broad/evil the patent is - but either way this looks shitty

EDIT: this site also doesn't include the figures, but it does contain links to other Unity patents which are also of a typically "software patent trolling" form https://patents.justia.com/patent/10599560
If you could bankroll it yourself, nothing would stop you --you might have some problem getting big names to sign up. I don't think the CCP would be so petty to come after you abroad for something like this. Big entertainment would not touch it, if they have business in China. So you might be able to get indie houses to play it along with independent domestic distributors. And, oh, don't travel to China after that.
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> Toy Story is probably the most interesting because it doesn't really fit in any major format.

What? It’s clearly Hero’s Journey. I haven't broken the beats down by time, but I’d bet its a reasonable approximation of the Save the Cat ideal times for each part of the plot, as well. The main unusual thing is that it has basically two intertwined Hero’s Journey's, but even that (and the twin protagonists each being antagonist-mentor shapeshifters to each other with, at least initially, diametrically opposed world views) is a not-uncommon paired-lead setup.

> There's a lot of little highs and lows

That's a fairly typical 2nd act pattern, which makes the arrival of the intense crisis more jarring.

> as opposed to the usual where it's all ascends to one really big high (e.g. Guardians of the Galaxy).

That's also a common, especially action-movie, pattern, where the idea is for the central crisis to be an expected payoff. But its not so overwhelming as to be “the usual”.

> Buzz and Woody are both protagonists, antagonists, and mentors to each other, except the story is told through Woody's perspective

Mentor-antagonist (or antagonist-mentor) shapeshifters are a common hero’s journey variation, though.
The point is that these rabbits holes are dangerous for people, as you mention. TikTok is controlled by the CCP, meaning they control the rabbit holes. They may not be doing anything now, but it’s a huge risk to the American society.
And if you want a small init (for very custom systems or containers) look at tini
I don't particularly have a problem accepting that intelligence could be genetic.

But then people use that to argue that the people at the top deserve everything they have.

The exact same argument was made back when we had slavery.

Now its just used to justify wage slavery and gross wealth inequality and policies which punish the poor.

(It also is grossly oversimplified and discounts reversion to the mean and that two dumb parents can absolutely have a smart kid -- along with the fact that a smart kid born in poverty is going have a much more difficult time getting their net worth up into tends of millions than someone who is just literally born with that much -- plus neglects the effects of e.g. malnutrition on childhood development)
Tangentially related, I wish Pandora was still a thing, I used to love it. Currently pandora.com redirects to a 404 page when viewed from outside the US [1]

[1] https://help.pandora.com/s/login/?language=en_US&startURL=%2...
From what I can tell they were laundering money, something harder to do with public transactions.

Operating a financial institution with permits, and identification of participants might not draw the ire of the US government.

With the transparency and lack of anonymity I would imagine the usefulness to criminals would be minimal.
Any given irrational number may not be possible to write down.

a/b is a rational number. The set of real numbers is the union of rational and irrational number sets i.e. all possible rational and irrational numbers combined form the real number set.
At the moment it seems that the best performing countries simply found a way to outsource most of their corruption to other countries.

I don't know how long this will work...
>Applications for HV SiC

>Data center distribution - MV AC or DC to the rack, (13.8kV distribution to match gensets

What the hell are they smoking? MV to the row, maybe, but are they seriously proposing MV terminating to a power supply in every rack??? That seems like it'd be an installation and maintenance nightmare. I feel like it'd be much more sensible to at least limit in-rack power to 480V max. Stick with something that doesn't require DC techs to use a hot stick to plug in a new rack.
I absolutely love the idea of simple and beautiful. OpenSSL/GPG are overwhelming in the knobs/dials.

Couple thoughts that I'll never remember after my 5 minutes of using it but will likely be experienced by a lot of people in their first 5 minutes.

o It's odd that -e (encrypt) can recognize an age-keygen file, but -d (decrypt) errors out with:

age: error: failed to parse recipient file "person.pub": "person.pub": malformed recipient at line 1

I mean, I get it - the recipient should be the key, but you would think that age would be able to recognize its own "# public key: " string and parse it? (Like I said - noticed only in the first 5 minutes of use)

o In the vein of user friendliness/simplicity - why not just default to armored? It doesn't hurt anything to be armored, and if someone really wants a binary output, they could specify it specifically. Given they are both (mostly) equivalent, could as well default to the user friendly version. I get that it's too late to make the change now.

o Not available as a brew install, so I had to armwrestle with MacOS to let me even run it (Security was clever enough to recognize when I was copying something downloaded, had to defeat it with `dd if=age of=age2`)

o I do love `age -e -o out.enc -p somefile.txt`
Whelp this is not a trend TikTok really is just that addictive. I created an account and its a firehose.

I post short permaculture videos: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMRfVWm76/
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That demo is _amazing_. It has to be by far one of the best uses for the terminal I have seen in a long time! Impressive what that text console can do!

While watching the demo, I got flashbacks from the talk from Gary Bernhardt, 'A Whole New World'[1].

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world
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You are referring to the $62 million judgement from 30 years ago that the government had issues collecting due to the bankruptcy and trusts?

Hm

My thoughts on that are “hostile corporate takeovers” are completely drama free “Mergers & Acquisitions” now, compared to when they were novel in the 1980s, they perturb no-one and nowadays founders do not start acquirable companies to get married to their company, they start companies to sell the shares they created at a cost basis of $0.00 for billions of dollars. So that specific money would have never had zealous prosecutors looking, and subsequent Supreme Court cases would have made the whole judgement invalid, if there was any due process path remaining for addressing old judgements. But okay, I can play along with the idea that he owes the government what is asked. Which moves me to my next point:

You dont think billions of new money could have been made over the last 30 years that had nothing to do with the 1980s M&A activity?

People that understand capital markets don't just have 1 idea lucrative their whole life.

Its odd to assume its related money, forever.
I wonder if YouTube would let it be or pull it with some twisted excuse? That's a lot of audience.
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Perhaps I was using the wrong word. I was referring that traditionally things fell a bit off when working with SQL. Because often it wasn't a code, just a bit of strings that you were sending.

Because of that, developers started to abstract that with code and objects that were then populated with data.

With IDEs understanding the SQL that's no longer necessary. I can construct a specific SQL to get the exact structure my program needs. Even if it is hierarchical I can use various jsonb aggregation functions. That's a game changer to me.
Laws, standards, regulations?
Looks like the set of reals is simply taken as the number universe (i.e. all numbers are already assumed to be real).
You're getting downvoted on a SV forum for simply pondering such things, if that tells you anything. No doubt very little of Corporate America would back you, it's quite a shame. The CCP is the greatest evil hellbent on doing the most harm in the name of greed and pure expansionistic dominance on the earth since the Nazi's or Stalin, and we're enabling them.
> Dell sells like 30 different laptops. Apple sells 3.

So Dell offers 30 different choices in price/feature ranges, from lowest to highest. Apple only offers at most 3 - likely all in the more expensive range.

Kinda fits and confirms the "telling you want you want" mentioned above.
“ It would assert that the most important difference between the races is racism, with its origins in the horrific institution of slavery only a very few generations ago.” - Ignorance of the world history in this statement is pretty incredible.
Whoever worked at Vine didn't see its demise approaching.
> Any given irrational number may not be possible to write down.

There's no "may" about it!

By definition an irrational number has an infinitely long decimal expantion that does not repeat, so none of them can be written down (other than in symbolic representations like pi)
Money his father hasn't paid to the government 30 years ago?

You really think they couldnt think of anything lucrative over the last 30 years with completely new and separate money?

People that understand capital markets dont just have 1 lucrative idea their whole life.

The 2014 service providing in St Kitts and Nevis and parlaying that into Bitcoin and Ether would easily have earned them billions by now on its own. So it is impossible to assume anything.
Not in the sense that I meant. They haven't eradicated all the niches for human intelligence - as a programmer you might overlook the people still making spreadsheets by hand, but I don't think they are endangered, yet.
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I would prefer if it was like 3 or 5 post a month.

Since that way you're never at the end of your line and it would still avoid a lot of the noise which I think this site hopes to achieve.
> Won't these new services require rather significant increases in taxes?

No, because there are no new services, just nationalization of services people are already paying for, and removing to the extent the industry has profits (or surplus revenues in the nonprofit components), nationalization would provide free revenue in first-order effect.
I wonder if it's even remotely feasible to use another neural network to estimate the mesh of the best cherry-picked examples, and then actually 3D print an AI cake!
The boom lasted about 30 years, not 1 year.

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1033027/fertility-rate-u...
Another crucial element distinguishing a Ponzi scheme is that whoever runs it doesn't let the marks escape easily.
a few other options :

- perfect publicity for the new book about to be published

- the wife isn't as innocent but part of the system

- the couple isn't that innocent but was part of a corrupted system

Can't tell wich one is correct, including the original version
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The problem is that china's justice system is a farce. Even if the charges were real, you don't know how much of it gets a blind eye (as long as you're in favor with the party) and whether the accused was being singled out for political reasons. Is it typical for people to be charged with corruption, imprisoned, but not acknowledged by the government? How would you like it if something like this happened in the US? eg. AOC (or the republican equivalent) getting sent to ADX Florence because she accepted an unauthorized gift of $60 (according to google the limit is $50), but it turned out that Pelosi/McConnell regularly received gifts of $100+ without any punishment?
The proliferation of video games, especially online ones could also be a reason (besides the cost-benefit of attending college that is declining which other people already mentioned)
> the reason the NYT got banned from China: an expose on the corporate empire essentially owned by Xi Jinping's family and other top cadres in the CCP

For reference, the New York Times [1] and Bloomberg [2] articles. They hit a nerve because they drive a wedge between the CCP's elite and China's people, something the CCP is sensitive to in a way it's not to international criticism of its actions as a state.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/business/global/family-of...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-06-29/xi-jinpin...
I went to https://www.arebyte.com/ and right-clicked the Twitter feed icon. Right click for this had been disabled.

So then I looked at the source, and saw it was done on Sharespace. So, not sure how much dog food is being eaten in

> Each work is presented as a product that could have come out of an alternative Silicon Valley, interrogating and reimagining how software is created, operated, and sold.

And,

> Utilising custom methods such as software recomposition, techniques such as data obfuscation

But use Google Analytics.

And then, from the speech...

> The last twenty years have been characterized by the rise of software.

Twenty years ago was recovery period from the .com boom. It's been a little more than 20 years. If anything I'd call the past 10 years dull, where walled social networks have sought to raise their walls ever higher, that might be interesting.
Definitely neither. The proposal here is a joke, only intended to grab money from investors - make some small efforts and to then run away with the money.
And Cities Skylines has the large issue of separating housing, work (not really industrial, that belongs separated) and commercial parts; just like the american suburb.
Its illegal not to report and reporting that you did something illegal disclosed the illegal activity you did. Making your assets subject to forfeiture and criminal charges levied against you.
What is the "death" of a car?

Rebuilding a motor or transmission requires less energy and raw materials than making a new one. Replacing a motor or transmission with a new part requires less than making a new car.

But with economies of scale in manufacture, labor costs for repair, plus consumers' perceived need for new vehicles, results in cars being scrapped when they could otherwise be repaired.
These are the very same people who think “reputational cost” is censorship.
Thoughtful criticism is welcome on HN, breathless fulminations are not. There are other venues for the latter.
Trying to coerce and manipulate expats by threatening family is a time honored tradition of the Chinese communist party unfortunately.
If you see the world in such a simple view, you’re likely trapped in a misinformation bubble too.
The local government version of “f*** off, we’re full”
> At this level, associating numbers with potentially infinite decimals would not be too bad.

I find number with an infinite number of decimals quite an abstract concept. Another issue with this is that it confuses numbers with their representation.
What value do those commits really provide? In master, I want every commit to represent a change in state that I may want to revert to when rolling back or bisecting. I don’t ever want to go back in time mid-way through someone’s feature development. What use is that? If I’m curious about the specific history of that feature, I’ll go to the branch it came from.
That looks cool! How do I play it if I don't like giving Facebook any data?
There's nothing secret about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23559004
I just pre-ordered it because of this interview.
do you have suggestions on books or others ?
On the one hand, good riddance. Cryptocurrency endorsements will be ushering in a new world of financial hell for this world's disenfranchised communities.

On the other though... do NFL players really have this little control over their own identity? This should be a wakeup call to how exploitative the sports-business complex can be.
I recommend buying YouTube Premium. I’ve been a happy customer for a couple years now. It’s better for the creators compared to blocking ads too and they get paid based on your watch time. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6306276
> underpinned by the mostly individualistic but fundamentally capitalist way of thinking that is both wildly held in the US in general but specifically held among those in power who are personally unaffected by the systems they create

I largely disagree with the first half of this, and agree with the second half. I think ‘individualism’ is a chimera and not a cause.

I do agree that Americans are generally more suspicious of the state than people in most other countries, but that’s to be expected given both the founding and history of the country, and the experiences of minorities.

On the other hand, the disconnectedness of those in power and the lack of solutions is definitely evident.

My dislike of ‘anti-capitalism’ is that is just a complaint, but without any solutions.
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Not LLVM expert, but I don't agree with some of your arguments.

> My side of the code generator had to recognize when a variable had already been defined and keep track of its pointer

For human, it's natural to write code text that reference each variable by its name. However, for a compiler, it's really error prone (and inefficient) to reference a variable by its string name (for example, think about shadowing). The natural way to reference an entity is by its object pointer, which is what LLVM does. This is especially true considering LLVM is designed to perform various complex transformations.

> There is a pass called mem2reg that will convert to SSA, but it needs you to allocate and store variables in memory (instead of in registers).

The purpose of mem2reg is to make your job easier. It's weird to say that it "needs" you to allocate allocas for your variables: that's what it allows you to do (for your own convenience). If you prefer to generate PHI nodes directly, you can just do so.

> LLVM IR has opinions about variable scope

Not sure what you are referencing to. LLVM only has 'alloca', which knows nothing about "scope". It must be defined before being referenced -- but this is true for everything in SSA.
Last time I used it on Amazon Linux 2 with packer. It worked, but 1/3 of the time it failed with some strange error about yum database corruption.

I suspect what was happening is that Amazon Linux on start run yum to apply all available updates, and ansible was not respect yum locks, which is very surprising given that Ansible came from Red Hat so they should have known how important locking is for yum.

I ended up using salt (which has its own set of issues) and never looked back.
Hot take: Just blog with markdown in a git repo and let whoever is reading it do the rest.
I have lived in digital nomad destinations for many years that tend to have huge populations of the burning man/ new age spirituality crowd, a vast majority of which use psychedelics in my experience.

I would say this group is maybe 80-90% self identified liberal but they also deviate from the norms of that group more than other sub populations IMO.

The biggest example is that there are a huge number of anti vaxxers in that group and a lot of them are loosely conspiracy theorist.
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> That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.

The value of the items on the right (per the manifesto, if you disagree on the relative values that part can be debated) is lower than the value of the items on the left, but it is not zero or negative.
No one would see it. No platform/distributor would touch it, similar to what happened with Bryan Fogel's work the Dissident [1], about the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi.

Also 1989 is certainly a horror story reminiscent of Chernobyl, but it's a lot more complex than the cartoonish evil treatment it receives in the west.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dissident
And you'll act this way just as soon as everyone else does first, or do you see yourself as being on the receiving end of the redistribution?
Sometimes it's about the journey not the destination. Not everyone's in a rush.
It's also crazy considering - at least when I visited - there were no public trashcans. Maybe that just attracts mess rather encourage cleanliness.
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In what ways? I would be inclined to agree on some level, seeing what the state of most social media is, but some examples are always useful.
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Easily, if it's 1v1. Unclear for other formats, judging by other answers in the threads.
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Does youtube even care? Aren't there a lot of anti-china documentaries/videos on youtube? Or do you think that those flew under the radar because they're not popular enough?