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In my humble opinion, the immersive version of the internet requires an enabling technology first which would be something akin to a direct neural link or a nerve-link to our central nerve system.

Only if it's perceived on the level of a separate arm can it really become intuitive.

We're definitely several decades out on that type of human-computer interaction.
With docker, effectively we're ending up in that world anyway (lamentable though I find it).
Oracle is in a nice position where they could discontinue or relicense OpenJDK, much in the way they did to OpenSolaris.

Let's be grateful they haven't done so yet. I'm not convinced there is sufficient talent to carry on OpenJDK without Oracle (contrary to the OpenSolaris→illumos situation).
It's certainly possible to find a way to refer to people without gender; plenty of other languages do it! Conceptually, it's a very simple idea, and one programmers certainly can grasp due to our familiarity with typed references/pointers, even if ones natural language doesn't have it (yet).
My straw man alarm is burning a hole through my ear reading your comment.
> Housing prices in my area have inflated 25% in the past year - one year - and real estate companies like Zillow immediately buying up everything on the market is a primary contributor.

Did anything else notable happen in the last year that could have contributed? What city is this?
IDK about Postgres internals, but typically switching to int64 means recompiling all your binaries, plus your existing data format on disk needs to be converted.
I recall these buildings being unlivable with no amenities or facilities. At least that was my impression when this made the rounds last time.

Add to that the $2k closing costs and it’s not a viable solution for a week’s worth of camping.
Oh, sorry for being so dumb. I'm just an Ubiquiti customer wanting to download the JRE v8 that their software requires. Guess I should just... use LISP to write my own solution? I don't know, again, I'm just ignorant and dumb, apparently...
I feel like you are providing an example.

I came to this thread to read a thread about videogame stories. Imagine my surprise (wait, this is HN), when the first thing that I see is your comment about videogames that isn't really about videogames it's a way for you to sell your book, which you admit you are shameless about.

But I just wanted to reed about videogames. If you were more subtle, if you knew how tll me a story without telling me that you are telling a story, then it's not wasting my time and I can get what I came for as well as what you want me to learn.
Network Intersubjectives
> real estate companies like Zillow immediately buying up everything on the market is a primary contributor

I’m not at all sure that Zillow buying a few hundred homes out of the many thousands of listings was a primary contributor.

Phoenix has historically had huge booms when people start to leave California, and many other markets without any Zillow purchases at all are experiencing huge growth.
I read it as after three years the Oracle JDK cannot be used any longer without a license, there is no option to continue using it in production without support.
Bitcoin Pizza accepts Bitcoin this time
View-Source URI Scheme
I can definitely get behind the sentiment, but it becomes a game of "how much is enough?" Like take woodworking. There are a lot of operations on the table saw which require certain techniques to prevent pinching and firing the piece at high speed. Does every video that features a table saw deserve a safety brief on all the things you shouldn't do with a table saw? Or can we just delegate to a safety FAQ and maybe the manual of the saw in question?

More topically, what if we just put all the laser safety stuff in a laser FAQ?

https://styropyro.com/laser-faq/
For the spyware/DRM on CDs in the early 2000's? It helps that I mostly just listen to music on YouTube. It's a little easier to remember to not buy something when you're buying a company product like "Lenovo" I guess than something nebulous like Sony Music.
1. It can promote simpler and easier to understand interfaces, but doesn’t guarantee it.

2. That doesn’t mean they’re “right” or necessarily “better”.

3. It depends a lot on the complexity of the code under test. If it’s really simple code—and especially if the stuff you intend to mock performs well and doesn’t mutate—making it easier to mock is probably going the wrong direction.

4. For most (>50%) things, yes.

5. But also for most things (off the cuff guess: >75%), you might be better off not mocking anyway.

6. If you (like me) prefer unit tests, you’ll probably get even better results by isolating as much of your code as possible from anything you’d want to mock in the first place.
Irrespective of flavor of socialism, just logically capitalism does not make any lick of sense unless you are among the capital class already who benefits from scraping the barrel of revenue to collect an amount as profit. The fact that there exists a profit margin and businesses cannot operate at cost is why manufacturing in China is used in the west vs western manufacturing, since businesses operating at cost can offer product at cost vs cost*profit_margin so these businesses are always more competitive than western counterparts who have to pay for someone else's profit margin down the entire supply chain.
Completely ignoring that all of them now use Bitcoin as payment method.

Bitcoin makes it easier.
Our lifestyle is sustainable. It just doesn't scale for 10 billion people. The only problem what we have is the amount of people. We can do something against it, but we won't.
Brilliant. That way we can never have any defense! It feels like you have an axe to grind.
Can anyone provide some context? I don't know what GLFW is, and the blog post doesn't really explain. From Googling, I see what it is now, but I don't really have a sense of how important GLFW bindings are. Is this very niche? Or, like is this a major contribution to game development? For that matter, is this mainly going to help Zig game developers, or is this a bit of tooling for everyone, kind of like zig cc?
No, but recommending it to a lot of people is. Literally.
What could justify citizenship beyond an accident of birth?
In a very detached way of view kids are a renewable resource. Let Darwin do his thing.
Being technically possible doesn't mean culturally possible though
Nintendo has a different core business model, one which is hard to replicate in another public corporation because it goes against the norm of making the quarterly results look as good as possible: Instead of scoring a hit and immediately trying to line up out yearly sequels, or trying to greenlight productions based on a marketing pitch alone, Nintendo typically rotates out IPs to match with prototypes and marketing concepts that have been on the go for a while. Likewise, they tend not to go the route of filling the shelves with a checklisted set of SKUs(e.g. 1 action, 1 RPG, 1 sports game per business quarter) - they will jump on some trends and occasionally dabble in clones and sequels, but their bread and butter has come from a more gradual approach of making each product focused, coherent and unique versus making it incrementally better than a competitor.

Ubisoft - and most of the publishers - can't do this because they're set up to make games that are large in scope, boast technical excellence(an ever-increasing bar) and are destined to be yearly franchises: quantities of assets and features are given precedence over coherence, which means that you get a trail of papercut discontinuities, dropped balls and lack of focus throughout the experience. Coherence has a degree of power over the game experience that is probably hundreds or thousands of times that of scope alone: it means that the software, assets and design work well together instead of creating "door problems" that dev time is spent solving. This means that a game built around a design that coheres well is automatically more polished since it never had to compromise the experience to solve problems. Nintendo regularly takes design shortcuts to this end, omitting entire categories of assets.

The true polar opposite to a Nintendo-style approach is something more like Bethesda's open world games: the game that's launched is a simulation engine with a large sandbox scenario. It may work and be playable to completion by itself, but the underlying product focus is to use it in a way supportive of tinkering, modding and exploitative gaming - to let the player bring a complicated system "off the rails". This tendency towards simulationism goes all the way back to Bethesda's origins in making stat-heavy sports sims. It makes for a less immediately digestible product, but one that can garner a devoted fanbase because it promises to give you most of the scope of a certain kind of role-playing fantasy, and then you can mod in the last little bit that will make that fantasy complete. So they don't have to worry so much about making it cohere, because the player is using it as a design tool.
I like this idea. At work, we’ve kicked around the need for a better way to share codes when SMS is the only option.

I honestly would prefer 1Password to implement this so we wouldn’t have to use a separate service, though. Having it integrated with the login, using their share tools, would be better and we trust their privacy and security guarantees more because of everything they’ve published and their track record.

For production data, I think we might still prefer a well managed and tested bypass…but I’d have to think about it.

That said, again, this looks like a good stab at the problem and will be coming up next time we’re dealing with this.
I definitely agree. I phrased my comment incorrectly so it sounds like I am being critical, when I was actually thinking of something else.
Starlink, which can be used for both communication and geolocation (and some observation), does, though. I think people don’t understand the scale that Starlink operates at. SpaceX is planning to ramp up Starlink manufacturing capacity for STARSHIP, too. Falcon 9 does 40 200kg satellites at once. And plans to operate them eventually at below 400km, which makes them resistant to debris.
thanks, I fixed the terminology in my post
Who does the work is immaterial to a lot of people. When Oracle bought Sun, literally everyone knew they'd move to a paid commercial license eventually. Which they did. I personally am amused at this sequence of events. It happened to other Sun products as well; open office, and mysql primarily. Commercial licensing didn't work for those open source projects either. What did Oracle actually gain from the Sun acquisition? With this news it seems like nothing. No tears shed for Larry.
> far more complicated.

Or far simpler: not enough homes to satisfy demand.
Private Jets Swarm COP26: Spew More CO2 Than Scots Churn Out in a Year
Yes, great point - but this is only because the animals we domesticate have been brainwashed by us humans into feeling (almost, but never quite) as inadequate as we do.
Been checking the #roblox hashtag on Twitter and the two main themes are addicts going through withdrawal and devs saying how they wouldn't have their llama appreciation fan site be down this long let alone your core business.
Nodevember – the yearly event for everything procedural
I just wish slaac was slaac.
Android Studio recommends versions of Amazon's Corretto distrubutions. That could be a JetBrains IDE feature though, not certain.
Ask HN: Elderly uncle puts phone in silente. Help?
Hello, my uncle is 70 and he sometimes puts his phone on silent and we're nota able to reach him. Is there an app that would check If his volume is maxed out every 30 min, and If It isnt, do It? Thank you.

It is an Android. It would be good If the app started working even If the phone restarted
I would totally agree it runs somewhat counter to Moore's ideas of insanely low fat computing, but Moore isn't the sole viewpoint on Forth (big as he is and with being the creator and a freaking genius). How big are other Forth's like GForth? It's still a Forth right? I just think you're being over specific, but to each their own.
I did a mini-sabbatical from January through April of this year.

First few weeks, I was still a wreck from work, and had a lot of lounging in bed. That's ok. That's part of decompressing... I wouldn't characterize it as "be[ing] a slob" just because you're not feeling productive. The whole point of needing a sabbatical is because you've (presumably) forced yourself to be too productive for too long in the face of too much adversity. For me, success in those first few weeks was just getting out of bed and showering every day, even if that's at 5pm.

Then, after getting my second vaccine shot, I took off on a multi-month road trip, checking out national parks I hadn't been to before. By then, I was actually feeling more alive, and spending time outdoors had me realizing that this was what I was actually working for. I made plans 2-3 days in advance, so I was flexible enough to stay in some places a bit longer if I wanted to. And, other than that, didn't do much.

Eventually, I worked my way back to my hometown, and booked an airbnb for a few months, and spent more time with friends. By this point I had a bit better idea of what I wanted to be doing, knew that my current job wasn't going to give me what I needed, so applied for different work. Got offers, accepted a job, quit, and then eventually had to race back to the Bay Area to start my new job.

The funny thing about the whole experience was I wish I had committed to an entire year off. I felt like I was just starting to heal and get my zest back, before being thrown into the stress of starting a new job. But, the overarching learning was that I need to make larger shifts in my life, and the new job is just the first of a number of changes I need to figure out.

I think a sabbatical to combat burnout (as opposed to an academic sabbatical, where you're off learning something new) really shouldn't be planned. Talk to your physician about how you're feeling and see if they have any recommendations. Talk to HR (after you talk to your doc) about what options might be available. Commit to multiple months off. Don't be hard on yourself about having set goals. It'll likely take 2-3 weeks to relax enough to even have any insights into what your next steps could be. Then go with what you find interesting or intriguing. At some point you'll likely naturally start picking up on things that you like or don't like, and directions to take your life. And then that can lead into figuring out your next steps.

I know a dozen or so people who have done this in the past two years. Some have returned to their jobs, some have left for jobs in new areas, some have switched to consulting, some have started companies, and some have decided to pursue more education. If you're lucky enough to have the ability to take time for yourself, then just do it. Not having a plan is terrifying, but it's in that terror that you can really learn a lot about your passions.
Anything over a network is going to have layer 2 framing overhead. Something like a serial port would do the trick.
Home prices and rents are up because of low interest rates and nimbys who block new construction. Corporations buying homes have literally nothing to do with it. If they buy homes to flip they have no net impact on home prices (because they buy and sell in equal quantities). If they buy homes to rent out they exert downward pressure on rents, so they are not responsible for rising rents.

The reason why the government has done nothing to fix it is because

1. The median voter is a homeowner and WANTS homes to be unaffordable so their investment goes up.

2. The median non-homeowner does not understand basic supply and demand and does not understand that the lack of housing is the main driver of high home prices, so they complain about red herrings like Zillow buying up houses instead of pushing the government loosen zoning restrictions on multifamily housing.

You fall into the latter category, which means YOU are part of the problem. You complain about the government not doing anything to fix the housing problem but people like you are literally the reason why it doesn't get fixed.
It might be because managers talk all the time while saying nothing. So nobody really listens anymore. It was certainly true in most meetings I experienced.
Author here, sorry for the missing context. GLFW is very popular among game developers for opening graphics windows in a cross-platform way.

This helps just Zig game developers for now, it's not a major contribution to game development (though I hope other things I do with Mach engine in the future will be.)

I do think with some minor tweaks this could be used to make bindings for GLFW in other languages easier to install, e.g. by just requiring `zig`, but I haven't done that here.
I see this a lot. Don't you like culture or people? There's nothing out there, only ignorant old people.
How are kids bearing responsibility? It seems to me kids are doing fine with social distancing, mask wearing and all. Parents complain about their kids masking up more than the kids do.

But the ultimate way kids are being forced to bear responsibility is their parents dying from covid and leaving them as orphans.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/p1007-covid-19-orpha...

https://time.com/6104829/us-covid-orphans/

If you don’t want kids to have to bear responsibility with covid, don’t let their parents die from it.
I came here to say the exact same thing.
> who the hell wants to live in a remote Italian village?

I do. Those are very popular among tourists as you have beautiful countryside, mild weather, great food, clean air, and amazing sites to visit all around. Friend of mine bought a vacation home there (small village in Tuscany) and an invite is much sought after to go exploring the Tuscan countryside. I can see someone wanting to live there, especially if they work remote. The main problem is really lack of english, but for a young person Italian is pretty easy to pick up.
As a German this is assumptionist at best and plain ignorance at the worst. I don't even get how something so biased and subjective gets voted so high. He doesn't base it on empirical numbers like the article, no, he has feelings.
No risk, no fun. Why so serious?
They are often paid with tax money.
I wonder how much money is wasted trying to engineer ourself out of the mess left from when the secretaries were fired. There is no way to organize data without ongoing work in catalogizing it and purge irrelevant items.
Right, that's why I asked for clarification...
> Dude I’m too busy to argue with you, I literally used to regularly interact with people making these returns.

I don't doubt that many people have managed to accomplish good returns. But you have to do it for the ~30 years to build a nest egg for (e.g.) retirement, and then another 20-30 years post-retirement to preserve said nest egg.

But there's a huge problem:

> Instead, I am going to argue that you shouldn’t pick stocks because of the existential dilemma of doing so. The existential dilemma is simple—how do you know if you are good at picking individual stocks? In most domains, the amount of time it takes to judge whether someone has skill in that domain is relatively short.

> For example, any competent basketball coach could tell you whether someone was skilled at shooting within the course of 10 minutes. Yes, it’s possible to get lucky and make a bunch of shots early on, but eventually they will trend toward their actual shooting percentage. The same is true in a technical field like computer programming. Within a short period of time, a good programmer would be able to tell if someone doesn’t know what they are talking about. […]

> But, what about stock picking? How long would it take to determine if someone is a good stock picker?

> An hour? A week? A year?

> Try multiple years, and even then you still may not know for sure. The issue is that causality is harder to determine with stock picking than with other domains. When you shoot a basketball or write a computer program, the result comes immediately after the action. The ball goes in the hoop or it doesn’t. The program runs correctly or it doesn’t. But, with stock picking, you make a decision now and have to wait for it to pay off. The feedback loop can take years.

[…]

> Just imagine how nerve-racking this must be when [temporary underperformance] finally happens. Yes, you had skill in the past, but what about now? Is your underperformance a normal lull that even the best investors experience, or have you lost your touch? Of course, losing your touch in any endeavor isn’t easy, but it’s so much harder when you don’t know if you have lost it.

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/why-you-shouldnt-pick-individua...

If people think they'll be able to meet their goals picking stocks successfully for several decades, they are free to try. But in my estimation the odds are not on their side. I prefer to play the odds. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> Accepting index returns basically means keeping up with inflation […]

Inflation has been <3% over the last ten years in the US. The S&P 500 (for one) has returned much more than that on an annual basis. Even with the 'Lost Decade' of the S&P 500 in the 2000s, simply having 20% bonds (and perhaps rebalancing) would have been sufficient to overcome inflation.
What bad things happen if you just evaluate everything left to right and use parentheses to force evaluation?

I.e., with no parenthesis it works exactly as a layperson typing numbers into a calculator and feeding the answer into the next calculation. And with parentheses, the layperson can specify some calcs to happen out of order.
This guy's too humble. He's Matheus Valadares, and he's the creator of Agar.io [1]. This is the game that pretty much started the ".io game" genre [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agar.io

[2]: "Around 2015 a multiplayer game, Agar.io, spawned many other games with a similar playstyle and .io domain". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io
To be fair, that is the exact intention of this article.
Motion sickness and tracking are solved problems. The biggest barrier is content (value prop right now is still not huge) and hardware comfort.
It's been so long since we've had a real down market. People are going to be shocked when it happens again.
It is Turing Complete...
Apple’s Siri already pronounces it and the software is already localized like that. For example, gender neutral artist is „Künstler:in“ spoken as „quinstler’in“
Half-Life has a bunch of player/story choices. Most of them small and inconsequential, I'll grant you, like the microwave incident, but Half-Life even ends on a meaningul story player choice - whether to accept the job proposal.

Wolfenstein and Doom have literally zero story choices of any kind. Not even inconsequential ones!

Clearly, Half-Life has superior story telling to Wolfenstein or Doom. Not by much, can be argued, but it clearly does. And at the time, the little bit felt like a whole lot compared to literally nothing.
Elon calling out the UN WFP lmao
I certainly cannot use a vr set longer than 10 minutes or I feel like vomiting
yay... let's quote a book without understanding it. There should be a school of thought for this, I will sponsor it. Let's call it the Pseudo intellectual Institute of Shitty Quotes.
Maybe the author meant continued updates. But they said continued use.

The person you replied to didn't say anything against paying for support.
You are of course correct but usually public and private would reuse some core components of the infra (eg still need to store signed key pair somewhere safe). I’m speculating here but given how long it’s been down some very core and very difficult to recover service must have failed. Security infra tends to have those properties