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re: earlier than the 90s, I grabbed this link [0] from another metaverse thread, showing some 80s VR research (Judging by hardware, Sun-3, a macintosh, mentioned 20Mhz 386, otherwise no dates), I wish there was more info of who the people are, I would love to read their papers. At a Q&A near the middle, a researcher suggests allowing anyone to create content is a threat to the old publishers, pretty prescient but also typical 80s silicon valley I guess, but what do I know, I wasn’t born yet.

Also I rewatched Johnny Mnemonic today (set in 2021!) and apparently some form of that was written in 1981.

I realized what irk’d me so much about the Facebook’s presentation was that it had none of the flavor/aesthetic of being inside the computer, just a simulated mansion on the beach, super unimaginative, no attempt to explore the medium.

[0] https://youtu.be/5FC4UQDm_mQ
People construct avatars and profiles about who that want to be in a world they want to be in. Nobody wants a 1:1 with actual reality because we already live in it.

It’s the same reason we watch super hero movies, read comic books and novels. Escapism. If the virtual world is a 1:1 with actual reality then there is literally no reason to enter the virtual world.

And why are text mediums so popular? Because they’re convenient. VR lacks that same convenience.
Writing can also a tool for thinking and for finding flaws in your ideas. It sounds strange to me that you would like something to have said but don't really want to spend the time to make your argument.

That said, podcasts could also be a way to explore ideas without having to write them down.
I doubt the establishment cares whether they are good or not. They care that they are stealing eyes away from their own publications.
It’s not bitter at all. It’s self-deprecating and funny. The author, Jeff, has been making games that I’ve been playing for their story and gameplay alone (the graphics are truly terrible) since the 90’s.

Jeff is irreverent and highly opinionated but absolutely not “holier than thou.” He knows his games are ugly and played only by a tiny niche. The only thing he can remotely claim to be better at than most people is running a video game studio that manages to support his small household.
Any site that supports MusicXML files. See a list of providers here: https://www.musicxml.com/music-in-musicxml/
How exactly are Raiders of the Lost Ark or Breaking Bad storylines better than those of the first Mafia, The Witcher 3, Uncharted 4, Metro Exodus, Kingdom Come: Deliverance or Half-Life 2 + episodes? And I'm not even mentioning artistic pieces like What Remains of Edith Finch or Life is Strange. There are quests in The Witcher 3 you could make a movie from (Bloody Baron).
That is very low for professional pianists.
I think it's fairly natural to want to see where your money is going.

Blockchain currency is an interesting idea but ultimately hamstrung by speculative investment making its value float around wildly and makes transactions prohibitively expensive. It's absolutely clear that it enables an entire industry of online crime as well as money laundering. Oh and demand for POW currency is destroying the planet and contributing to a 2y graphics card shortage.

NFTs are mental. Paying rare art prices for some bits saying you're the owner of something at a single registry? Haha. Good one.

Blockchain in the broader sense is often yet another bullshit buzzword we've had to wade through in client demands, job postings, product specs. Distributed ledgers are rarely the right technology for... Yeah.

HN's tone on Blockchain is entirely appropriate.
I'm working for a non-profit that is heavily involved in COP, because I care about the planet and preserving the environment as much as possible for future generations. This news is very disheartening for me, because there is no way that humanity achieves a sustainable energy future without either nuclear or catastrophic declines in human population. Inside both my organization and other climate organizations, it seems that humanistic science and innovation are being rapidly replaced by a humanity-hating religion that cares more about virtue signaling than actual environmental outcomes.

If anyone knows of any innovative, outcome driven organizations or startups working on sustainable energy, including nuclear, that are hiring, feel free to share.
>>> I definitely wouldn't trade off perfect health for having no privacy.

I suspect that makes you a tiny tiny majority.

>>> I just don't want companies I don't trust to own my data.

Neither do I. So i can have a world where my data is secret so companies do not have your data (not sure this is possible)

or we force the companies to be trustworthy (perhaps almost as hard but we do have many examples of doing this.)

Imagine a world where handling private data requires a professional qualification and membership, like say a banking license.

Regulations require that the location data tracking you and your family (ie Life360) is provided to the NHS researchers via encrypted file transfer, you cannot support your business with targeted advertising.

Imagine I can have my family's screentime data sent for analysis and a weekly review video is sent back to me suggesting my recent videos have been veering towards the usual QAnon gateway path and perhaps I should be careful.

My super market purchase history and credit card use at the takeaway suggests I am eating less healthily than my previously agreed limits - would Inlike to start the middle aged man Supermarket order list which gets me ingredients and recipies that might achieve my goals

I know this sounds dystopian- and I need to spend some time writing it up - but frankly I need help with life, and I think most people who evolved for chasing antelope and intellectually wrestling with a tribe / family no bigger than a wedding guest list need help handling the modern world.

We should have the modern world set to good defaults (why not have every salary drop 5% into a index fund from age 18) - and this sort of "intrusive" data management is one way to scale that
I can't provide any recommendations on enclosure. I studied it at university, and can't recall what books were recommended.

But if you search for stuff about agricultural productivity, you will find lots. I believe Gregory Clark and Robert Allen have written quite a bit about this.

No idea about the Swing Riots either. I have just read about it in other books. I think Luddism is more interesting. Afaik, there was no real persistent movement like it in agriculture.
I feel that it will just result in more walled gardens.

Eventually, someone would try to ship everything to everyone through the internet, and they'll figure out a way. It's all just byte streams anyway. Perhaps something like java applet or Flash, or some worse version of "Click this to install our plugin".
Domain squatting is like a disease, but how would you regulate it? Where is the line between just a parked domain that a lot of tech (and non-tech) people reserve for their future projects, and a domain acquired for re-sale? Given a good offer you would probably sell one of the domains you own just as well, wouldn't you?
Yes, this is energy storage, but a big tank to put salt in has the potential to be considerably cheaper than lithium ion cells.

To your second point: all technologies have the property that we can't know for sure if they'll deliver on their promises without trying them, and the very reason we don't know in the case of nuclear is because opponents of nuclear power undermine attempts to try out novel architectures, pointing to limitations in current technologies as justification.
Yes, which is why I often don't do it, and only discover my mistakes far later in the process.
When you get up to more advanced music, suggested fingerings often become more initially surprising, though normally you’ll eventually figure out why they suggested it.

I recently came across a score, Debussy or similar I think, where the left hand is following a pattern of a base note, then ascending by something like a fifth, and then again by something like another octave; and in the first roughly four bars, the recommended fingering was along the lines of 3-1-5—yes, it had you turning your hand upside down to finish the run each bar. Then something or other happened after those first few bars so that that wouldn’t work any more (perhaps the third note of the sequence became some chord?), and it switched to the more typical 1-3-5 (or similar), so that I wonder whether it was really worth the fuss of the unusual fingering and hand placement for just the first few bars. Perhaps it is, given that those notes are the focus in those first few bars, and 3-1-5 will let you play it more smoothly, so long as you can contort your hand appropriately.

And that makes me think of Für Elise too: in the section with the rapid repeated A₂, I’ve seen fingerings suggesting rotating through three fingers, but as soon as you get the the D₂/A₂ chords, that’s no longer tenable, and so I wonder whether it was worth the bother in the first place. (My conclusion there is that it actually depends on the piano. On a grand, probably, on an upright, probably not. And indeed when a few weeks ago I seriously played on a halfway decent grand piano for the first time since I was a rank beginner, I found myself finally understanding the reasoning of a few fingerings that I’d never liked. And now I won’t be satisfied until I have a grand piano of my own. I can see I’m doomed to be one of those guys that ends up with half a dozen pianos of various types, as well as half a dozen recumbent tricycles of various types.)
Any effort to improve society looks like work.
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As far as I understand, should Yellowstone erupt again, the whole world has other problems than missing electricity…
And this is third time this submission tries to get an attention; no other links from this domain were added before
Distributing keys gets harder the lower you go.

Although even non authenticated encryption is nice to prevent passive eavesdropping.
I suppose it is my fault for asking about less vagueness.

Who is asking for trillions? Who is flying out of a window?
And if it wasn't enough, there is a new Matrix movie out soon.

On a more serious note, it's not likely that the Meta name will have any bigger impact than Google and it's Alphabet branding.

I don't see Facebook.com going away, just the amount of links alone will keep it alive for many years to come.
I have more than 10 but I also agree. I’m not squatting, I have a plan for each one, and the threat of losing them would be a great motivator to actually build all these little projects!

OTOH there would probably just be “not squatting” services just like there were/are “under construction” landing pages.
I'm British; we would say "batting an eyelid". So correct usage in my book!
If you are classically trained I highly recommend Mark Levine’s book[1]. It digs into the theory of jazz, alongside improvisation. It does assume a working knowledge of basic theory, so not so great for those starting from scratch.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Jazz-Piano-Book-Mark-Levine/dp/096147...
As a user who tried a few of sub-popular DEs in recent decades, I see zero information on why would/should one choose it. ¿Does it have: snap/zones/keybindings for windows, mount features, configurable menu, hw acceleration, exposé, notifications, language menu, etc, etc? It’s not that it must support these (other programs/settings may do that), but their landing sells on completely irrelevant points, if you plan to install and use some software instead of playing with wallpapers all day.

I don’t mean to sound harsh or too negative, but it just doesn’t add up to something meaningful or specific. You can only try and find out by yourself, after reading docs on its config files/utils.

What problems does it solve?
It is, so a simple search for yourselve.
>We did this by mapping biomedical knowledge to help researchers learn a new area or keep up-to-date in a field through precise and flexible feed design, personalized ranking, and surfacing the broadest array of research outputs.

This is it. Moneymaking in 21 century.
Surveillance capitalism in its finest.
Manufacturing consent with "science" and "there is no other option" narrative.

The next logical step after "collecting" users data and "normalizing" biometrical surveillance is Genetic Capitalism. 23andme is one of this "outlets" of future like Gattaka.
>With music you get stuck on the stuff you discovered and made your own. Into punk? Probably born way back in the 60s. Techno? 70s.

I don't listen to particular genres of music or music from a particular period of time.

As for gaming, I would rather watch a film, read a book, go outside, watch a play, meet people, do something else, because I don't have much free time and gaming is not a priority.

I would probably play some games if I would have more free time.

As a matter of fact I worked for 7 years as a game programmer and during that period I never played other games than our own stuff and some stuff from the competition where we wanted to understand some mechanics.
If Java has obviously not outcompeted HTML, one should reflect, in which way HTML is obviously better in things that matter compared to a code sandbox.
Housing is my biggest concern. Unfortunately I have no idea where I want to live, and all the cities are just not appealing to me. I have found like minded people on the west coast of the us but not really ran into similar types in the years I spent inland. So I don’t really know. I want to find a place where I feel at home, because I own a home there and feel like I’m actually part of the community.
In American English we just say "batting an eye".
How do you know if this is really a thing and not just some dramatic story of the week in the media?
Why use both, grammarly and hemmingway?
"if someone has an HN account the answer to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29049511 is works fine on freebsd"

– IRC, #freebsd-desktop

https://matrix.to/#/!KYWCpFvqYdeGYJdkxS:libera.chat/$ZOJrjgp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGL_(API)

Reading that helps a bit, but you still won't understand the complicated graphics stack without prior knowledge. Is there a good introduction that systematically goes through all (or most) of the components for the average Python, C, database etc. programmer who knows absolutely nothing about computer graphics?

Edit: See also thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29048815
What makes them stand out to me is the emersion. The game and rythm let you feel the story on a different level.
Many professional classical musicians of all sorts of instruments will practice 6-8 hours per day or more. Whether that's necessary or not is up for debate. Either way, many of them have an almost obsessive relationship with music and their instrument -- at least at the highest levels -- which means they probably want to be playing that much.

I was wise enough at the early age of 12 or so to realize that whatever that "commitment" gene was, I didn't have it, so I kept piano a personal passion rather than try to go to school for it like my parents wanted.
>The Last of Us has decent gameplay but became a phenomenon by having a story as good as a medium-quality zombie movie

Seems like the writer is just hating AAA games

But I'm also curious what zombie movies does this guy watch that have a so so much better story than TLoU
I understand this completely - English is my mother tongue and I'm American. People do own apartments, especially in larger cities. A lot of folks don't call them condos: It depends on where you live and what the developer decided to call them. In fact, my idea of a "condo" isn't an apartment in a high rise or even half of a house you own, but rather row houses, mostly with a front and back yard (basing this off of condos in places like Kokomo, Indiana and Nashville, Tennessee). Owner keeps up inside, they keep up outside.

Renting is not owning an apartment: You can renovate an apartment you own, but not a rental. This is much the same as renting a house instead of owning it.
Are you really suggesting Uncharted 4 has as good a story as Breaking Bad?
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Yes - something like providing data on people's heart rates, shopping lists (eating habits) and medical records to NHS epidemiologists. I can imagine some interesting double blind experiments to come out of that. Do randomised controlled trial on middle ages men who eat grapefruits and take beta blockers - I mean how did they spot that one?

But I dont believe the good of society outweighs the good of the individual - simply because society is made up of individuals- so we do need to keep individual rights and protections at the top.
I would design a protocol to make access to porn handier.
It doesn't matter.

The international rules you want to set against (eg) gain-of-function research, or rules on moving research abroad to bypass local ethics requirements can be created without knowing what caused SARS-CoV-2.

I don't see any benefit to society trying to punish people for it. It's a colossal waste of focus. Just stop it happening next time.
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Absolutely this. In half-life you were exposed to a world and left to figure out what was going on from that. You were rarely directly told to do anything.

For the first hour or two you were implored to, "Get to the surface" because it was your and your fellow scientists hope of being rescued.

When you run into the marines you aren't told they're bad, they just start trying to kill you and you figure out that you're not getting a rescue.

World-building wise it was leaps ahead of anything that came before it and the in-game (rather than FMV) dialogue was fantastic and immersive.

It didn't have "level screens", the level transitions were natural rather than forced with loading screen hints and title cards.

While that's all completely standard now, the other competitor titles at the time were games like Quake 2 and half-life's predecessors were games like Duke Nukem 3D and Quake, which while both ground-breaking in their own way weren't a touch on the visceral world of half-life.

The only other FPS games that came close to lore was rainbow six, but that was the "set pieces" style of choosing levels and going through rehearsed action rather than what felt like an emergent world in half-life.

While replaying half-life now it feels far more linear and scripted, that's because we have nearly 15 years of gameplay improvements built on top of where it lay the foundations.

For players at the time, going from games like quake to half-life it really did feel like it was genre defining.
Pidgin – West African lingua franca (2016)
Monarch butterflies are nice and such, but let's not take this as an indication that everything is hunky-dory. The world's still going to hell in a hand basket if we don't address the predatory ecosystem exploitation that's currently driving our global economy. Habitat destruction is continuing, we still poison our fields and rivers and we still continue to cut apart vital ecosystems into smaller and smaller patches get more vulnerable every time.

But still; go little butterfly!
Because not everyone else is bad? It's not like he's the only one writing stories for games that make a profit.

I mean it's fine to like your own achievement. Nothing wrong with that.

But he's certainly not successful enough to be so cocky as to detract everyone else's work (and again, he did so without much evidence or elaboration).
If what we have is electricity, turning it into heat to turn it back into electricity again is very inefficient. If what we have is heat and we're going to turn it into electricity anyway, storing it as heat for now and turning it into electricity later is much better, and comparatively trivial to do. That somewhat limits the applications, though, with concentrated solar being the only obvious renewable one. Solar PV and wind don't generate electricity from heat.
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There are several games I’ve played where I remember playing racing through the action to get further into the story, or games that put storytelling at the center. In no particular order:

- Bastion

- The Stanley Parable

- Bioshock Infinite

- The Elder Scrolls series

- GTA: V

- Control

- Sam and Max

Sure this isn’t high art, but often is deeply compelling regardless. The possibilities of the medium are still yet to be fully explored.

Are there other titles I should look into?
Delta chat look very interesting, thanks for mentioning it. What are the possible downsides? Looks like a winning tech to my non-tech eyes.
if you're going to write a desktop environment with widgets, buttons, list views, GL abstraction, file system explorers, image viewers, etc... you're going to reimplement pretty much the whole of Qt Core / Gui / Widgets anyways
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I watch loads of series, movies, yet agree with text as preferable for most web circumstances.

Most people are barely literate. Literacy figures are based upon grade 6 reading levels, and that's average reading levels. So when you see 99% literacy rate, yes, but that's for reading stop signs.

It also pains some to read. You are doing them a disservice, to ask them to read.

Most adults, pre-internet, never read books, and only some read newspapers. Of those newspapers, many only read tabloids (high school reading level, barely), or looked at magazines with large pictures, quizzes, and such.

The rest often
watched 4 hours of TV a night, no reading required.

The modern internet does not want to exclude, profit is reduced if so.

So picture books for all!
FYI, project-awesome.org just rips off Awesome lists and put ads on them. Can someone change the URL to https://github.com/bvolpato/awesome-userscripts ?
I get you on the excitement of small communities and ha ING people use your scripts when beginning to program. One of my first programming experience was scripting for mIRC.
Scales other than 12-tone equal temperament, mostly.

Awhile ago, I built a keyboard instrument with 156 pressure-sensitive keys. It's 5 octaves, 31 notes per octave, based on a just-intonation tuning system.
Basic sound demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep52Vh6oAOE

The Lumatone has 280 keys. https://www.lumatone.io/

The Tonal Plexus H-Pi is basically a big array of buttons, arranged in 205-tone equal temperament across 6 octaves. That's over 1200 distinct notes. There aren't many of these in existence, but a friend of mine has one. https://hpi.zentral.zone/tonalplexus

For a 12-TET example, one could represent a 6-string guitar with 24 frets as having (24+1) * 6 distinct notes, or 150. Even that is over the limit.

It's possible to work around the the limited number of notes by using the one-note-per-channel trick (formalized as MPE); then you're limited to 16 notes of simultaneous polyphony because that's how many channels MIDI has, but you can pitch-bend to exactly the note you want. But then you're using MIDI in a very different way than it's usually intended, and it's hard to do that without making the user experience worse in various ways.

MIDI 2.0 could have expanded the number of notes so that (with per-note pitch bend), no one would ever have to use the note-per-channel trick again, but that's not the choice they made.
Maybe the mesa fps overlays (no app modification needed) described here can help? https://gazoche.xyz/fps-overlays-on-linux.html