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>> EA already tried to make every studio to use Frostbite for every single game and ended up with disasters like Dragon Age Inquisition and Mass Effect Andromeda.

By what measure are these games considered disasters? I was under the impression they were critically well-received and sold a decent amount each. DA:I was a better game than DA:O 2, for example (at least IMO).

Regardless, I fail to see what the engine has to do with anything, considering they both presented noticeable graphical and mechanical upgrades over their prequels.
I've not found much reason to swear or cringe at 1Password... maybe ever. I was a bit frustrated once when it gave the wrong popup when filling out my addresses. What is your use case if you don't mind me asking?
Ask HN: What's your favorite playlist while coding?
> Microsoft bought AB for their IP and lib, I don’t believe they do any VR stuff.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/967490/Microsoft_Maquette...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/mixed-reality/altsp...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/mesh
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You are assuming instead of knowing because you are talking about something you didn't read. LOL
Not if you only did the elderly, as you've suggested.
We have it, and I don't like it. Slow, bad UI, and not very reliable.
The picture at the top of the article is not the $4000 treadmill. I think this is what the article is talking about: https://www.nordictrack.de/laufbander/nordictrack-x32i-incli...

If you're into running on a treadmill, this looks like a very sweet setup. It has a huge touch screen that's just in the right spot, you can easily reach it while running, and it has gimmicks like automatic adjustment of inclination.

It's not cheap, but it looks like really nice hardware. I totally understand why some people would want something like that, especially if you can install generic Android apps on it!
I mean, as soon as F5 bought nginx you could have predicted that.
There are a few auth schemes that cut out of the middleman of the password while providing the same level of security. SQRL and Microsoft Passwordless Login both come to mind.
Bah! Back when I was a young parent, we had to track our baby's processes on stone tablets, that were on top of mountain, scratched with our bare fingers, and still our boy grew up into a fine knob thatcher.

> do you need what the app gives you to fulfill your responsibilities, or do you just want it to satisfy your urges?

There's a third option, which is that while not strictly necessary, certain tools can help make a job easier, so why not take advantage of them? I agree with you about having to be careful about control vs responsibility when raising a kid, but I'm not sure a baby poo tracker is crossing that line.
This seems like an electrochemical process. A simple demonstration I used to do when teaching chemistry was to put an iron (Fe) nail into a silver nitrate solution (AgNO3). Immediately, you would see silver deposited. The Ag and Fe swapped, producing Ag and FeNO3.

Similarly, in this paper, electrochemical activity is converting CO2 and Ga into C and gallium oxide. The C and the Ga swap. The reaction is spontaneous. No need to add any energy for this reaction to occur; it proceeds because the products are more stable than the reactants.

Where is extra energy required in the process? Energy is required to melt the Ga to about 200C. Energy is also required to reverse the oxidation, i.e. to replenish the Ga. A supplement to the article explains that this was done by electrolysis: gallium oxide was converted into Ga and oxygen [0]. I guess, that they figure to use solar energy to generate the needed electricity.

I'm with you as regards the unfeasibility cost-wise. What they are obviously doing is exploring uses of low melting-point metals [1], hoping to strike it lucky with one of their projects. And, yes, these guys have obviously got their publicity department working overtime in order to generate more grants.

In a recent video, the co-lead scientist, Associate Professor Torben Daeneke [1], explains his various projects.

-- 13 min: The melting point temperatures of the metal/alloys they are working with.

-- 61 min: Their latest work , CO2 to coal.

And here's a video showing the bubbling of CO2 through Ga-In (gallium-indium) alloy to form carbon [2].

[0] https://www.rsc.org/suppdata/d1/ee/d1ee03283f/d1ee03283f1.pd...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvsON7af2J0 Jan 2022

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6...
Sun had, by then, mostly given up on the workstation market. They had everything to gain from making Unix mainstream, even if it was OSX instead of Solaris, and pretty much nothing to lose.
> Do you really trust governments to handle the monetary system?

Yes I do. Why? Because they handled it for hundreds of years, and it works all day everyday.

> No currency in the history of the world has survived in the long run.

Yes, so?

> The number of transactions has nothing to do with the energy spent on mining.

The number of transactions is a measurement of efficiency.

> Besides, the LN can already handle millions, if not billions, of transactions per second.

Only between 2 parties, after opening a channel between them, which requires: A transaction. And neither party can use any of the funds transmitted via the payment-channel in the wider network until the channel gets closed, which requires: Another transaction.

The banking system imposes no such limitations: A transfer can be initiated at any time to any IBAN in the world, with no prior agreement, the energy cost is miniscule, and the moment the transfer is completed, the funds are available to the other party for transactions to whatever other IBAN they want.
> It seems plain as day to me that many people are far more hateful online than in real life,

They’re still thinking it IRL.
That's not what happened. There was a fair election in Gaza, which was won by Hamas. The new government was perfectly within its rights to remove Fatah officials. Fatah launched an armed rebellion in Gaza.

Wikipedia is hopelessly unreliable on anything to do with the Middle East. -> Didn't read.
> There are plenty of good, less complex languages than C++ out there […] But C is non of them.

To this day I cannot understand how anybody can claim that. C++ is so ridiculously complex that it’s not a superset of C mostly because of added keywords and rules, some of them implicit.

> I suggest using a c++ compiler to write C with enum classes, std::span, either a typed std::span wrapper for malloc or std::vector<std::char8_t>, std::string, std::string_view,using, std::variant, std::unique_ptr, std::fmt, std::optional, templates, std::vector for your types, in that order.

How on earth do you write that and expect me to believe it’s simpler than C? You’ve just listed a number of options on how to implement an *enum* of all things. Each one will have different pros and cons, and I’m supposed to weight them before coding?

> Pointers are more complex in C than in C++

That’s impossible from you own statement. Pointers in C can be more dangerous because the compiler won’t stop you from doing crazy shit, I’d buy that, but complex?

C++ feels like the Mikrotik version of C, there’s just too many options and buttons and switches, and I won’t use half of this in my life! I guess some people find it interesting but I’m just trying to get my job done.
I treat my phone like I do Google. Every day I try to be a bit less dependent on it. I usually don't know where my phone is, physically, and only use it for banking and car navigation. I use WhatsApp through the web interface. I dream of a world without smartphones.
Because the 4000$ treadmill looks really neat: https://www.nordictrack.de/laufbander/nordictrack-x32i-incli...

Apparently there's a demand for well designed hardware that runs generic software.
What if Craig Wright is suffering from mental health problems similar to those that affected Terry Davis, the author of Temple OS?

I understand the Craig Wright is violating the norms of public behavior. I think it would be more charitable to not assume that he’s necessarily in his right mind.
You don't show anything with that. Sure you can walk through any schemaless JSON document, because it has generic JSON document structure, but the same can be done for XML too in any language. You can't make sense of the document this way beyond its wellformedness. There being numbers don't help you much, you can't tell anything about them beyond them being numbers.
> In the UK more than half of all "hospitalized" Omicron cases caught it in hospital and of those, most are asymptomatic

Absolutely not true
> If you have an energy source that exceeds the world total carbon usage... then you don't need to burn carbon any more!

You would though? Carbon is dense and easy to store and transport in bulk, in your car/plane/etc. Whereas solar/nuclear/etc. aren't.
Couldn't you revoke the permission for the android app to draw on your screen?
But maybe I misinterpret your comment.
> Though that doesn't explain how DTrace survived.

I think Larry Ellison discovered, much to his dissatisfaction, open source products and their forks, are incredibly hard to kill.

I'd love to have seen his face when he realized that he wouldn't be able to kill MySQL.
I agree partially. Passwords are posing an indirect security issue. But in my opinion this is more due to the handling of those by humans.
So many different places where you can login, you need 20+ passwords. These should all be very long so that they are deemed secure enough.

Remembering this is a chore leading to one of two things
- the user tends to create short passwords or mneonics that only change a few letters/numbers per password
- the user will use a password manager, completely giving up control in case of a disastrous failure (e.g. data deletion) and having potentially finicky setups.

There should be better options for the broad usership than passwords, but password managers are imho a good solution for today.
https://archive.is/wl0uf
awesome dude, I have a 10Gbps setup at home too, totally not a waste to use what you love!
My earlier attempts at this failed miserably. Mostly due to distance between eyes issues and res being too low for good text reading.

...both surmountable issues given time so I do expect this to take over eventually.
You can set an organisation policy to disable personal ownership, which forces every password to be saved into an org, unless the user is an org owner or administrator.
You probably even don't need gigabit. A Stadia stream ranges from 10Mbit to 50Mbit depending on the quality settings. Latency and other network users are far more influential on gameplay.
Inverting the structure–property map of truss metamaterials by deep learning
> Server-side search would only work if you decrypt the data on the server

Or do not store it encrypted (aside from passwords) in the first place, or have a separate server-side encryption for non secrets, so it would be still encrypted at rest.

It is all understandable, yet I don't have an option (except using almost a decade old RatticDB).
The environmental case for buying a coal mine
A blog post about scraping historic Organic, Cite Google Scholar 2017-2021 year results to CSV, SQLite using Python and SerpApi.
While there are no human computers who actually add and multiply, there is a lot of programmers. But this is not because they replaced human computers 1:1, it's because electronic computers have replaced huge swaths of everything around us. I go to my kitchen, of all places, and I see my microwave oven, my coffee machine, my bread-making machine, even likely my gas stove all run by small embedded computers. To say nothing of the advanced computer attached to a bunch of radio interfaces most everyone carries around these days.

I'd say this has more to do with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
How is the experience with porn and VR Headset. From the past track record porn decides the direction of every new technology.
We don't need to assume, there is "2021-05-10" in the bottom of the article.
> there’s nothing inherent to robots that insulates them from [taxation]

If automation really takes off and entire factories can be run by a handful of people it might make sense to move them to whatever low-tax country with a port. Pay the 5 employees running it extra to fly in there for a few months a year each (like oil workers) and if it's in a lawless region add some automatic turrets that shoot at anything unauthorized entering the perimeter. Makes sense as long as extra pay+extra shipping+ammo costs is less than the hypothetical robot taxes.
Tonga is a tiny island country in the middle of the pacific that lost its main communication channel as the suboceanic cable that connected it with the rest of the world was damaged after the eruption.

As it is a tiny country, there are no permanent BBC or CNN offices there with satellite equipment.

As it was a volcanic eruption, air travel was severely restricted due to the ash both in the atmosphere as well as in the single airstrip that serves the nation's main island. Help is being dispatched both by The Australian and New Zealand governments (the closest nations to Tonga) by ship.

There's also the complication that Tonga was basically spared from COVID, and thus has a population immunologically naive other than from the current vaccines which are not that great against the current dominant variants in circulation, so, there's a great level of care that needs to be taken to ensure that the relief effort doesn't backfire by triggering an outbreak.
I find the attitude of many folks on HN, arguably a forum full of logicians, baffling at times. I don't use 0 dollars to contextualize the cost of 1Password (or any productivity software). I value the time that I save with it. It saves me so much time, I don't mind paying $4, let alone $10.

Not paying for something because it's not free is being penny wise, pound foolish.
Exactly my thoughts. OP needs to read _Thinking, Fast and Slow_ and/or _The Scout Mindset_. Actually COVID as a whole has been yet another revealing of the amazing ability of the irrationality of humans and our failure to understand statistics, numbers, and growth rates, large and small.
You could also say that reddit represents a far wider spectrum of views than normal discourse, just because of stuff like r/childfree or r/witchesagainstpatriarchy. It's all liberal-compatible, but it's still more diverse than normal media, where you have centrists, and the occasional off-center guest, but all exist within an essentially narrow section of possible opinions.
Non-technicals can bikeshed[0] all day long about UI. "Move that a little to the right, what about cornflower blue?" but have to sit around looking useless when it comes to discuss the engine that will drive that UI. People don't like to feel useless, so they don't talk about the tech.

I think this is the reason most software just flat out sucks. It's easy to use if you ignore the part where it doesn't work half the time.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
5G modems in every TV are just around the corner.
You lost $50k in a 25/50 online game? Was the pot 2000 BBs??? I've never even heard of anything close to it.
Any claim to fair and equal treatment can be dismissed with "whataboutism".

"Why I [female/transgender/black/etc.] receive half of what that straight white dude gets?" — "That's whataboutism."
Things I like:

Immersed.com (second computer screen): I wish the Quest 2 had 4000x4000 per eye to make this work beautifully but I suppose that will be the future.

Eleven Table Tennis: I practice smashing in this game, the skill transferred. Now I am beating all my friends with real actual table tennis (at an amateur level).

Thrill of the Fight: awesome shadowboxing on steroids workout.

Walkabout minigolf: feels like actual minigolf, except the courses are more fun [1].

Space Pirate Trainer DX: I haven’t played it yet but seems like an enhanced laser tag [1].

What I would like to be solved:

- Excellent passthrough: I want to interior design my rooms with VR

- Excellent screens (i.e. 4000x4000 per eye), it opens up applications/games that are mediocre at the moment

- omnidirectional treadmills fully solved (super hard to do): I want to be able to strafe in place, jump, side jump, duck, crouch, make almost any movement in place IRL and for it to be translated to actual movement in VR. I sometimes muse about how to solve this but I wouldn’t know how.

[1] The biggest benefit that VR/AR has are two things: one, you can make virtual hardware, and in some cases that is about as good as real hardware (e.g. virtual screens). Two, you can make experiences that are as almost as good in real life (e.g. table tennis) but then you can enhance them since a developer has much more control to bend physics than any other engineer does in the real world. The coolest application I saw for that is this model train game, you could scale down and be inside of the train, you could construct train tracks on very small orbs, etc. If I’d be a fan of trains, I’d buy it.
Is there enough public info to reimplement PokerSnowie? I only know it uses neural nets in some way.
From legal standpoint it is interesting case and it can bring precedent to crypto scene. We will know if person can lose coins and retrieve them back lawful way with court order. Even more interesting, that most miners are now located in USA jurisdiction.

We know, that Google and others can adjust results based on courts orders. It's interesting if miners who invested hundred millions into mining operation could follow order and implement changes to mining software.

It its a known secret, that right now, major miners do some changes and implementations, like for example blacklisting/watching big cold wallets of major exchanges for coins to be secure and not stolen by mistake.
The current record[0] in exploiting a timing difference is on the order of 100ns over the Internet. You can do much better if you can get your attack to execute on the same CPU as the victim (eg: the cheaper cloud servers you typically share the cpu with others).

I don’t think it’s a popular way in as there are easier and less noisy vulnerabilities to exploit (misconfigurations, protocol errors, etc).

[0]: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity20/presentat...
Won't be long before a browser extension checks the same page via a signed out user for you, cancelling out this feature. Seems as pointless as a public twitter account blocking someone from seeing their tweets, the blocked party can just sign out or open a private tab.
Plaid Inc. is settling for privacy litigation
The problem with keepass is that you have to manage the password database and key yourself.

(Not for most of us here, but for most people out there.)
That looks interesting I'd be curious to see how it's doing now at least 4 months + later from most recent reviews. I can understand how hard it is to start something from nothing regarding userbase.

I will give it a shot, the game seems too cheap (cost to own) just my opinion.
Looks like a 2mb initial fluctuation - any idea what Krakatoa was, that circled the world (at least) 7 times?
This is a great demonstration of the State of JS in 2022. Loads a blob of 4.5 MB to show a form, uses a WebSocket to send requests from said form to the backend, the backend is unresponsive on signup (or UI doesn't show any loading/error indictator) and the user is unable to use anything on the site because of it.

10/10 art performance, excited to see how they will do it in 2023, maybe via blockchains somehow?

Edit: Fittingly, when completing the survey, they show you a "Knowledge score" (got 69%), which they explain like this: "You’ve heard or used 22 out of 32 features mentioned in the survey"

Somehow, knowing/hearing about the latest and "greatest" libraries and frameworks is something they call "knowledge" instead of just "Hype score" or something. Another good example of the state of JavaScript ecosystem.
This could be an HN Poll?

Also, we use Passbolt.
How would it have been $200 million to remove the UNIX logo from the marketing materials?
That's not "opposition to the science", that's a sane response to a madman's proposal to intentionally f*k with the biosphere at the grandest scale.
I mean, sure, but, notice that you're still way behind state of the art for the end of the 20th century. I blame Tim (Berners-Lee, the man whose toy hypermedia system we're all stuck with because it became popular)

You note that when you googled "Password hash" you got pointed to a decent password hash. But, knowing what questions to ask is half the battle. Too many people figured hey, I should use a cryptographic hash and got pointed to MD5 (or SHA1 or even SHA256) because that's what those are.

The words you should have googled weren't "password hash" but maybe "web authentication" and then the answer is clearly you shouldn't use passwords or any sort of shared secret.

You can have a copy of the authentication database for the toys system I maintain, but it wouldn't help you sign into it because all the information in it is public, a trick we've known how to do in principle for decades, and which works today, on the public Web, with readily available devices (e.g. my phone) and yet, here we are on Hacker News discussing which password hash is best like it's still 1985.
> In 1975 Wilson began publishing the white race is superior to the black race.

Can you provide a verbatim quote from his published work where he said that?
SimulaVR [1] is introducing a new class of products (virtual reality computer or VRC) that aims to develop a full linux desktop in a headset. I'm excited about using this with Stardust XR [2] and my NixOS configuration.

We're obviously in a very early stage of consumer VR hardware and I agree with most people that AR (passthrough or glasses) would be preferable to VR. There are a lot of open problems in this space - a lot of these problems spoil the user experience, right now. But, engineers are solving them slowly over time and I don't predict a future (say 50 years from now) where people are still using their fingers to peck at keys and are still stuck with a 25" monitor (at least in the majority of cases).

Happy to be an early adopter - maybe I'll even discover some problems that I can solve and benefit from the inevitable deluge of capital.

[1]: https://simulavr.com/
[2]: https://stardustxr.org/
Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
> Wilson wrote about that the white race is superior to the black race.

Do you have a source for this?
"So sad... <...> I immersed myself in the world of Martin Gardner, Douglas Hofstadter, and A. K. Dewdney."

So did I, and it is a sad day that it's come to this. SciAm and other technical mags were my lifeblood as a teenager. When the monthlies were due I'd race to the newsagent after school and occasionally when one was late I'd fret in disappointment.

You're right, I reckon it is difficult for younger generations to grasp not only how important magazines were to us but also many other aspects of life back then. Trying to put the zeitgeist of an earlier era on a young head never works thus the younger generation has to work things out for itself. If we could accurately convey a past ethos then we probably wouldn't have any more wars but then we would never develop as a species either - it's the two-edged sword problem.

Back to SciAm. Unfortunately I've had the impression for quite some time that the mag is near its end. I've seen this happen too many times previously with others that have had a long illustrious lineage. For some reason their editorial quality goes down followed by the circulation, they're then sold off and the new owners have no intrinsic interest in their subject matter, they then lose more and spiral further downward until they're soon defunct.

Still, I hope I'm wrong about SciAm.