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> completely shit (Skyrim VR etc)

Definitely agree for the vanilla game. Patching it up with a few mods (functioning hands that collide with the environment, ability to smash containers, attacks impacting enemies, HL:A-like gravity gloves, changing weapons/spells without navigating menus) makes it far more playable, though that shouldn't be required for a full-price game.

It's disappointing with how much more could have been done, but still nice to have a full open-world RPG for VR, and prior to most notable VR titles like Beatsaber/Boneworks/HL:A/etc.
"At 7:30 AM PST, an automated activity to scale capacity of one of the AWS services hosted in the main AWS network triggered an unexpected behavior from a large number of clients inside the internal network. This resulted in a large surge of connection activity that overwhelmed the networking devices between the internal network and the main AWS network, resulting in delays for communication between these networks. These delays increased latency and errors for services communicating between these networks, resulting in even more connection attempts and retries."

So was this in service to something like DynamoDB or some other service?

As in, did some of those extra services that AWS offers for lockin (and that undermines open source projects with embrace and extend) bomb the mainline EC2 service?

Because this kind of smacks of "Microsoft Hidden APIs" that office got to use against other competitors. Does AWS use "special hardware capabilites" to compete against other companies offering roughtly the same service?
I think that staying employed as a software developer for 10+ years is a good indication of skill, far better than any random coding assignment.

Put another way, if someone has 10+ years of experience, in an ideal world there isn't much point in quizzing them on algorithms or giving them homework. They've done all of that before, passed, were promoted, etc. You can see that on their resume, and you can verify that with a few phonecalls.

Of course, in reality, you have to quiz everyone equally, and hire based on this objective metric, because even a whiff of non-objective hiring is dangerous.
We moved our company's support call system to Microsoft Teams when lockdowns were happening, and even that was affected by the AWS outage (along with our SaaS product hosted on AWS).

It turned out our call center supplier had something running on AWS, and it took out our entire phone system. After this situation settles, I'm tempted to ask my supplier to see what they're doing to get around this in the future, but I doubt even they knew that AWS was used further downstream.

AWS operates a lot like Amazon.com, the marketplace now--you can try to escape it, but it's near impossible. If you want to ban usage of Amazon's services, you're going to find some service (AWS) or even a Shopify site (FBA warehouse) who uses it.
Multiple workers trapped after collapse at Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville
I don’t know if any other part of the company worked on OS/2. But in the languages group it was one of those death march projects that helped forge the team into a better working unit. The project was bad but I missed the people I worked with when it was over.

And like I said, IBM footed a lot of the bill for it.

I think the secret to Borland’s fall is mostly that we had to earn our way forward, whereas Microsoft could write huge checks to itself. It’s like we were playing a video game against someone using cheats.
Are you not concerned about the decentralization of Handshake's PoW consensus, considering that it uses a custom hashing algo that seems to be dominated in hardware production by a single company, Goldshell?

I believe you may be missing the forest for the trees by worrying about Ethereum's decentralization when compared to Handshake's.
What were you convicted of?
I understand that. I don’t understand JDNI, LDAP and why it ever downloads and runs remote bytecode and why was that ever considered a good feature.
> "They look like a great fit for the team and our goals, and let's give them a chance to learn the tech"

I wish more were like you.

I've definitely had my fair share of interviews that bombed so I feel like I have a good bearing of when I don't leave a good impression, but it's always the worst feeling to have an interview that you think went well based on the overall mood/feeling, only to receive the eventual rejection later in the day that they went with someone more senior or that they wanted someone with more experience in x.

My mentor who didn't got to a well-known college once told me he joined a very solid company not knowing anything about the frontend framework they used but they gave him documentation and let him learn it for weeks without touching the code base. He said it was honestly one of the strongest engineering teams he's worked on in his career. The idea of managers seeing potential in someone and thinking "let's go with that person who has never done x" seems so foreign to me.
What happens when you throw a teenager into an adult prison? Guess
what's stopping them from pocketing the cash and still releasing it unfinished? after all, releases like cyberpunk 2077 shows that people would still buy it.
Sounds like a poorly managed operation.

Front end UI is slick but at the backend they did not have proper CRM workflows. Marketing mindset and not a product tech one.
Why is America so divided?
How would you solve the problem of spam and squatting without the network requiring payment for domains?

Subsequently, how else besides using a crypto coin would it be feasible for a decentralized network to take payment?
They enabled new users for computers, and killed desktop computing in the process. I don't think the trade off is with it.
Well, I don't know. My personal reason is that 432 has at least some connection to reality, e.g. half day = 43,200 sec, or speed of light = 432 x 432 miles/sec, or Sun's radius = 432,000 miles. This means that if we take distance that light covers in 1/432 sec, then Sun's radius is exactly 1000 such distances, which is pretty cool.

On the other hand, 440 Hz seems just a random number to me picked by someone with little imagination.
How does this compare to IPFS+ENS (InterPlanetary File System + Ethereum Name Service)?
Most one and two dot people are perfectly satisfied with smartphones.

Three dot and upwards people find that a smartphone is too restrictive. I liken it to key-hole surgery. I prefer at least a HD screen with plenty of work area.

But we 3-dot and up people aren't all Linux people. Some prefer Windows, some prefer MacOS.

But where Windows and MacOS must succeed in the mainstream or they will evaporate to nothingness like the 'Wicked Witch of the North' as the Apple and Microsoft companies go under, we Linux users are under no such pressure.

As long as Linux is on OUR Desktops and/or Laptops, that is all that is necessary.
You can't jail people for writing game cheats.
>IMHO, it doesn't matter. The goal is to predict who will perform well on the job, and if having a large favorite number does this, it should be incorporated.

What if it was skin color, how ethnic your name is, or your gender? Did you know the majority of developers are men? Should we throw all the female applications in the trash because they're statistically not as likely to be developers?

Yeesh. Sorry if I sound hostile but... jeez. Correlation is not causation, etc etc.
This idea comes from Mechanical Philosophy, and is represented in the writings of Descartes. According to his dualist view of the world, the soul and body are opposed, but only humans have a soul.

He wanted to show that animals are just automata, and believed that they are incapable of feeling pain.
I have no idea of the status of potential treaties that cover these matters. If I start getting harassed, it’s much easier and safer to block them, rather than escalating things in a direction that could end up in extradition. I would not trust the US government to protect me.

But I like your sentiment.
> You could be you in a tabletop game and bring all the stuff that you wanted to bring into it,” he said. “A tabletop game is limitless. A video game, by its very nature of how it’s designed, has some limits.”

Thats it? Such a uber long article to reach such a feeble insight? Not impressed, New Yorker
Because they entertain, making them primarily entertainers. We should reserve labels like "creators" for people who are actually building things, not streaming their lives on camera for an audience.
Facebook, Twitter, and the MSM.
Same for musicians, artists, actors. It's really not abnormal.
> One is : a society that is not capitalist, ie, the means of production are owned by the workers.

Among living socialists and communists, I'd argue that that is actually their definition of "socialism", while their definition of "communism" is a moneyless, classless and stateless society, the idea being that the former could lead to the later if implemented. All three words have changed their meanings over the last 200 years though. To most people today, "communism" just means an authoritarian state ruled by a communist party with a centralized economy and "socialism" means widely different things to different people depending on where you live and what media you read.
I'm not saying there should be crunch but there is limited money (no idea for The Witcher). If you get funding for X amount of money you calculate your salaries plus overhead and you have a deadline. Miss the deadline then you renegotiate for more funding but at some point the funders will just pull the plug and your team are out of jobs.

It's unrealistic to believe there's no reason for deadlines. For a FAANG company, sure, they're making so much money they can -- mostly -- afford to do things without deadlines but few video game studios are at a level of funding that they can spend another 3, 6, 12, months.

The internet claims Cyberpunk 2077 had 500 to 5000 people working on it. I'm sure that 5000 number is not full time but it's not hard to believe the 500 number. Just paying 500 people $15 an hour, 40 hours a week $1.2 million a month, not counting rent/power/taxes etc... And of course some large percent of those people are probably getting closer or $30 per hour $60k yearly salary) to $60 per hour ($120k a year salary)

Witcher3 claims 150-250 employees so your delay, shipping October instead of May is easily $4 million needed and I suspect that number is low. $12 million if it took an extra year as you suggested and that's a low-ball estimate.
> The automaker got the green light to sell its Drive Pilot package for use on stretches of the country’s Autobahn network at a speed of up to 37 miles per hour, Mercedes said Dec. 9.

Kind of stupid that this headline implies Mercedes is beating Tesla when Autopilot obviously supports speeds above 37mph. It would be like if a car manufacturer offered a package called "Full Self Driving" that wasn't actually level 5 self driving.
I can easily write tests for Cypress without knowing anything about react because Cypress doesn't require react. Strange filter.

https://www.cypress.io/
A powernap (one good audio here - https://soundcloud.com/withandrewjohnson/power-nap-with-andr...) can be helpful to get into some of this state.
Not for ESS batteries.

Please do your homework before you speak.
Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss on Making the Matrix Awakens with Epic Games
The best way to foster and learn about a hobby is reading its subreddit. Also, the quickest and surest way to kill your love for a hobby.. is reading its subreddit.
It’s also further north than Toronto
It does, but ACF[X] at 0 is the sum of X[i] squares, so when sound gets louder, ACF at 0 also gets higher.
In this regard, humans are not complicated. Simply, we learn through repetition -- we are creatures of habit.
theres still billions in fraud, waste, and abuse. I don't think the increased documentatiom addressed the problem you describe and created many new problems of its own.
I used such a program, I think from Altair, in 2000 to design and simulate an 8-bit CPU not all dissimilar from the one in the article as part of an undergrad computer architecture course. It was all drag & drop from a logic gate level. You could build your own components out of gates (or include others). IIRC, we had a module for registers supplied to us, for example.

It was pretty slick. It included a simulator as well. I imagine it probably used verilog or vhdl under the hood (but I wouldn't learn Verilog proper until 3 years after). I think there was functionality to work with an FPGA, but we didn't use it for the class.

It was definitely the sort of project that really got me excited in college and I knew for sure I was on the right track with what I wanted to study.
Temperatures below freezing are not more painful than freezing temp. You just reach pain of freezing faster the further the temp below zero.
I was speaking about Jeff Bezos, not Amazon.

And also, yes, Amazon gets lots of tax loopholes and freebies. They wave "jobs!" around and get property tax breaks and whatnot.
What an ass. I wish there was a way to report bad interviewers.

Maybe some tech media company will do hidden camera interviews and publish a scathing rebuke of the practice.
Uh, no. We've had decades of AI being more than "how long til they think like humans?" That's not what AI is. You're talking about AGI or hard AI.

Hell, even Wikiepdia makes it clear:

> Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, as opposed to natural intelligence displayed by animals including humans. Leading AI textbooks define the field as the study of "intelligent agents": any system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of achieving its goals.[a] Some popular accounts use the term "artificial intelligence" to describe machines that mimic "cognitive" functions that humans associate with the human mind, such as "learning" and "problem solving", however, this definition is rejected by major AI researchers.[b]

> AI applications include advanced web search engines (e.g., Google), recommendation systems (used by YouTube, Amazon and Netflix), understanding human speech (such as Siri and Alexa), self-driving cars (e.g., Tesla), automated decision-making and competing at the highest level in strategic game systems (such as chess and Go).[2][citation needed] As machines become increasingly capable, tasks considered to require "intelligence" are often removed from the definition of AI, a phenomenon known as the AI effect.[3] For instance, optical character recognition is frequently excluded from things considered to be AI,[4] having become a routine technology.[5]

Insisting that others use your non-standard definition is silly.
This is a brilliant idea and I'm curious if anyone has any opinions on why it wouldn't work. Paid overtime shifts financial responsibility to the PM who ordered overtime, because arguably a more competent PM would either push back against unrealistic deadlines or manage the team more efficiently to avoid overtime crunch. It sets the stage for competent management to prevail while incompetent managers are forced out of the org. I think this is great incentive structuring.
Wells Fargo brokerage. They rehire you to fax documents to them. Thank god they do t require me to burn a CD like the FDA!
Car sales are down double digit percentage across the world and used call prices are up 30%

> Why isn't this excess demand (caused by too much free money) as opposed to a "shortage"?

It might very well be excess demand. The idea is that supply should always be elastic and grow to meet the demand. In this case it didn't.

But this "excess demand" can't be attributable to lower interest rates because people, I imagine, aren't borrowing to buy these goods.
OmniDB – Web tool for database management
I could not modify file properties in S3, uploading new or modified files was spotty, and AWS Console GUI access was broken as well. Was that because of VPC endpoints?
I remember the 90s when people scoffed at the Soviet Navy's rusting fleet. There was no money.

Twenty years later, thirty trillion dollars of national debt seems to have caught up with the US Navy's rusting fleet.
Ask HN: What do you aim to achieve in first 2-4 weeks of a new job?
Interested in hearing about tech jobs but other jobs are welcome too. Thanks!
Negative, for sure. Cars don't start, accidents and illnesses are more common, carbon monoxide poisoning increases, heart attacks are more frequent with stress and snow shoveling. Throw in SAD and vitamin d deficiency - cold places throw a lot of shit at people.
Do you mean that the service (YouTube) will block the operators of Invidious instances? If so, this already happens, thus the constantly-updated open source projects. If you meant something else, ignore me, haha
If you are in a working meeting and don’t speak, what’s the point?

The key is to do your homework and be prepared. That’s how some 20-year old kid gets noticed in a room full of professionals.

Obviously it needs to be role appropriate.
And how do you convince the customer that you are not cutting corners?
> And I think you can't write Delphi apps for the windows app store.

Sure you can: https://blogs.embarcadero.com/deploying-windows-10-apps-thro...

And to the macOS app store: https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Alexandria/en/Subm...

And to the iOS app store: https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Alexandria/en/Depl...

And to Google Play: https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Alexandria/en/Subm...
Your terror group is someone else freedom fighter. What is celebrated today is scorned tomorrow.

Asking what if some group we want to stop uses a technology misses the point. Paper can be used by terrorist to make plans for terror and communicate should we reconsider paper? Who is to blame when paper and pen are used to do things we disapprove of?
The broken packages issue is probably solvable, ask the support channels for your distro about it and they can probably help you figure out the solution.
Japanese companies are no different from other companies all over the world.

Every now and then, I find myself going on an 'Unsubscribe" campaign. And I don't have any spam from Japanese companies.
“There are far more people doing [thing that I personally do] than [thing that I do not personally do, and thus know fewer people who do it].” — everyone ever
Christopher Poole of 4chan was talked about this in 2011:

>Poole complains that Facebook and Google+ are making identity "black and white," forcing users to be the same person in all contexts -- offline, online, at home, at work, etc. "We all have multiple identities. That's not abnormal. It's part of being human. Identity is prismatic," he says.

>"We are multi-faceted. Google and Facebook would have you believe you are a mirror, that there is one reflection that you have, one idea of self... but in fact we are more like diamonds. You can look at people from any angle and can see something totally different, but they are still the same."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2011/10/20/chris-po...
Another way to see the it is to explore it from the matrix exponential structure and the link with trig (esp odd/even functions) or example this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWrt9Fj80Kc&list=PLlXfTHzgMR...

so much structure even in 2x2 rotations
With the pirate bay case and servers being on Swedish soil, any one who uploaded a copyrighted file helped the founders breaking copyright law. This mean millions of people, many located in the US, could be extradited to Sweden to face their crime they committed there.

How funny the world would be if laws was enforced equally.
Jeff Bezos’ Space Joyride Emitted a Lifetime’s Worth of Carbon Pollution
there’s a site in Russian, ebanoe.it (translated: f*cked IT) which does exactly that!
I stopped at OpenGL (ES) 3 that has VAO (the last meaningful feature, internal improvements omitted, those can come later behind the scenes), Vulkan only scales the embarrasingly parallel stuff which does not impact gameplay.

(Mostly visual, zero motion-to-photon improvements have been made and again the meaningful practical internal improvements can be added retroactively in the OpenGL drivers.)

The server is allready open-source (under mixed algpl/mit/commercial license): http://fuse.rupy.se/about.html

The last engine has to be modifyable and resellable, so the ownership model should probably avoid corporate models seen the legal/bureaucratic problems that brings. Right now I'm keeping all rights for myself and my son will probably inherit those.

I'm still experimenting with the licence pricing that you can find on my github sponsors page.

The b2c product should cost ~$10/year and gives you the right to mod and redistribute for free independently of me, something both Minecraft and Roblox lack.

Unfortunately the client will initially only be partially open-source; keeping the core engine .exe closed, and the game specific .dll open-source as an implementation example.

Also the cl.exe compiler is not redistributable, so I'm looking at solutions (use another compiler for the game .dll) for that until people move to linux:

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/allow-redistri...

The server is allready prooven in all technical aspects with 350.000 b2c customers, and the client is months away from PoC:

http://talk.binarytask.com/task?id=5959519327505901449

They can't censor TCP/IP, or atleast not in a way I can't work around with my own encryption. The internet removes that possibility permanently, it's binary: either you have global connections and then the world is open or you don't and then we're all screwed back to the stone age.
I mean the answer is pretty simple: Neither is perfect, but the Gregorian calendar is objectively more correct. It has a small amount of drift, but the drift is less than the Julian calendar. This also makes it more useful, because it will be able to predict solstices and equinoxes (and other dates needed for scheduling planting and harvesting of crops) more accurately than the Julian calendar. Its overwhelming dominance is evidence that not many people care about the ~2 weeks that disappeared a couple hundred years ago.
In practice it'd probably end up like the sources.list in Debian. E.g., an enormous number of users just use whatever pasta is copied in there by default. Then special devs change it or copypaste a Debian spell to magically add repos for whatever special cases they have.

And let's be honest-- if someone on HN were to post, "OMG the security updates repo got DDOS'd in Debian" it's not like the entire comment section is going to be filled with confused responses like, "Wait, do you mean the security updates for the gitlab repo that I added for my gitlab instance, or Debian's security repo for Debian the Universal Operating System?"
I don’t have anything particular in mind, just excited about hard stuff getting easier and seeing a lot of different hardware components as essentially input/output devices. With the right duct tape, they may be stuck together by someone more clever than I. Totally on the I can imagine side here :)
I found it disappointing that the implants were largely security keys of one kind or another.

One could put that in an earring or wristband. Under the skin offers very little advantage.

I was hoping for implants that enhanced the body in some way, helped treat an illness, or that it would look cool at least.
This is all hypotheticals of course, but is it really likely that if a major satellite was lost NASA would be willing to bankroll the construction of a second identical one? I think the whole project would be scrapped and something else down the line would be approved to replace it. It certainly wouldn't be a quick turnaround time.
The main software stack used by Certificate authorities rid in Java and includes log4j. Happily their version is so far out of date it precedes the addition of this great feature :D
Probably just evolution. Contemplating the morality of eating antelope doesn't help the lion survive. Assuming that antelope are for eating does.