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Having grown up in DC and New York, I would say more strongly that there's no other city in the USA that has comparable mass transit.

The way I would put it is -- in New York, it is more of a hassle to have a car than to go without. In all those other cities, while there is some mass transit, you will find yourself wanting a car.
No idea why you're being downvoted. This meme (rich people buying luxury condos, letting them sit vacant, and then profiting somehow) doesn't make any sense, and that article posted as evidence for it undermines it by depicting those units as being un-rentable due to oversupply in the market.
Your "right way" is the right approach to anchor on but in reality it never works out as nice as it sounds. Common problems:

1. You have some projects that are rigorously time bound (e.g. we absolutely need to ship X by Y date). Maybe scope is negotiable a bit but you definitely need results by a certain date.

2. Implicitly all of your work is time bound. Even if you say "we want to get to a 60% reduction in support calls", the follow up question is "by when?". Tons of internal forces (employee reviews, shifting company priorities) shift the framing from "we think a 60% reduction in support calls is a healthy sustainable level for our business, and that is our goal" to "we are targeting a 20% reduction in support calls over the next six months". Then your multi-quarter big-bet projects need to be broken down into phases which won't have an impact on the support calls by themselves, so you have to take ship goals or create other goals to capture that work (not great)
I recall seeing some discussion on emacs-devel about SQLite being bundled with Emacs too. If that came to pass then it's no longer a true external dependency either.
That's a pretty grim scenario to imagine. Art and artists 'moved' off somewhere, while the putatively rich consume their produce through screens. All so real estate prices can climb higher?
are you suggesting that game dev labor should be valued by society in other ways than via the market? the market finds that this type of monetization is more profitable. why does HN turn anti-capitalism when it comes to games?
Outstanding interview, regardless of what you think of Gehry. Well prepped interviewer, few softball questions, good give-and-take. Gehry's impressively sharp for his age. Ever contrary.
Microsoft held a mock funeral for the iPhone when launching Windows Phone 7
Anecdotally, there's something about Godot's structure that just "clicks" better for me. It's odd because they seem pretty similar on the surface (nested scene graph, nodes with scripts that have hooks, etc), so it's hard to determine what exactly makes it easier to understand.

The only two concrete things I can point to are better documentation (IMO), and the first-class signal/observer support in Godot. I'm not sure if that exists in Unity or not, but it's a really intuitive way to handle entity interaction, and I think that makes it way more easy for beginners to get started.
The Cosmopolitan Libc project has a very modest scope that isn't nearly as big as you suppose. We only support x86-64. We're not trying or claiming to be the ones who will carry the pledge() burden for the whole Linux world like glibc and Musl too, even though (so far) our implementation seems to do a reasonable job at that.

As for the moving target of the Linux system call ABI, we mostly use a whitelist model so I don't see why it should matter. Unless your concern is that we keep up with the latest new features. My humble opinion is there's very few system calls Linux has introduced in the last ten years that I personally care about using. Other people might care about things like io_uring and statx() but I tend to stick with the classic calls.

Keep in mind, Cosmopolitan Libc binaries are designed to run on six operating systems. I'm probably the only person on earth who's written a libc for that many platforms. Here's what I learned. If you look at https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/sysv/s... you can see that there's a point in history where consensus between systems drops off. It probably happened sometime around the year 2000, and since then Linux has mostly just gone its own way as far as UNIX systems are concerned. There's only been a select few system calls introduced in the last twenty years that every single system was quick to adopt, e.g. getrandom(), pipe2(), openat(), fstatat(), etc.

So I really don't think it's as complex as folks here are making it out to be. It's simply a question of focus. We aren't solving every problem. But the few things we are doing, we do very well.
I love this story. The lesson here is that the real world is messy and good engineers have to think on their feet. It also gives me hope that somehow humanity will actually solve climate change.
That's categorically false.
Right, but who cares? Are we trying to soak rich people or are we trying to make sure there's an abundance of housing? Are we trying to help the poor? Or are we mostly concerned with knocking the rich down a peg?
As a Bay Area resident, I have been surprised by how far people will commute for minimum wage jobs. Just Monday, I think, our public radio station had their morning local topics show where the subject was the city of Stockton. There was a lengthy discussion about low-income commuters coming daily from Stockton to Palo Alto, to work in and around the tech campuses of SV. Personally, I have known people to come from Modesto and Merced, even one from the far side of Sacramento. Daily!

Given that, I'm just not sure where the breaking point is.
Agree with everything except the last part. Brooklyn is a fantastic place to live, and takes 20 mins or so door to door to get to most parts of Manhattan.
Property is a tough nut to crack because there are a bunch of different issues creating this problem and some of them are local. NIMBYism is a big one obviously but so many are inveted in the value of their house that increasing property prices becomes a political goal. Worse, property becomes a tool for the ultra-rich to park money in a way that is hedged against inflation.

Rents tend to follow property prices but they lag.

Manhattan also has a big problem with the type of property that gets built, being ultra-luxury property (that sells for >$5k/sq ft). Part of the demand for this is parking money but there are other reasons. Insurance is a big one thanks to the infamous "scaffolding law".

But the main point I want to raise here is that politicians, regardless of party (in the US at least), have zero interest in fixing this problem. Why? Because they're all bought and paid for by the capital-owning class. NYC politics in particular serves property developers first, police unions second and whatever third is nobody cares.

A budget shortfall is built into your existence. This keeps you showing up to work and diminishes your ability to negotiate (since walking away isn't an option). This creates a compliant workforce that doesn't hurt profits by, say, wages going up even with just inflation.

This is what neofeudalism looks like.
The metro in DC is pretty underrated and you can live car free pretty far out into its suburbs even.
> It's obvious that in the absence of state funding there would be non-state funding. It won't be the same and it won't be zero.

From an economic perspective, it's likely the level of funding would be less than the optimal level of funding. If the goal is to maximize public welfare, government funding is necessary.

> Why does the committee's judgement take precedent?

Ultimately someone needs to make decisions on resource allocation. Is a committee necessarily the best way? Maybe, maybe not. I'm not qualified to tell NIH how to operate.

> You can use utilitarian arguments to force people to do things that they otherwise would refuse

Agreed entirely, it's a very difficult issue to grapple with.
For sure - you can often find anecdata that works out well. But I think being conscious about that decision up front as a developer is still a good idea. If you choose to go the Minecraft route then great. Just know what you're getting into and what bets you're making.
IMO it's not clear just from the immediate context in the article that he's actually advocating for MTX or ads.

If he is, then he deserves all the flak. If he's simply talking about having a market fit so your game sells at all, then IMO that's just talking about the viability of the game as a product - and in this case it's just about whether making the game makes financial sense, not whether you can juice the customer for more money.
That’s hardly a solid business plan though. We’ll be the next Minecraft because of magic! What about the 1000s of games released every week that fail to get more than a thousand downloads?
Prices are set at the margin, and demand is largely driven by employment.

> by having higher local tax rates in cities

You already pay taxes on par with Denmark if you live in NYC and have sufficient income to afford to live there without subsidized housing. Tax policy is an insane way to prop up little towns. Cities offer a lot of economic and environmental benefits, and are generally already generating more tax revenue than they receive in benefits.
In the future everyone will have their 15 minutes of exploitation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_minutes_of_fame
> Where I keep my valuables is my business, and it depends on how much gold I have. People kept gold long before safety deposit boxes at banks were a thing.

Sure but the other options often increase risk or have a different cost. Some Vietnamese friends used to keep money in their house and then had their homes invaded. I imagine that's not entirely uncommon.

> And, paraphrasing above: why is secure storage included for gold and not for Bitcoin in your analogy?

Oh that's my point - we should definitely take in storage costs for both.
No affiliation. Haven't investigated much yet, but I'm blown away by the prospect of "standing queries" that you can subscribe to.

It looks like this could provide many of the benefits of Flink/Spark/ksqlDB with much less complexity.
I've been there & seen the houses.

newspapers.com is your resource for stuff that's not on The Google. Searching is much harder, though. You kinda need to know the dates things were published.
The other day at the transit station there was a man sitting on a bench with a shopping cart of his stuff, having a loud argument with nobody in particular. Like shouting at the top of his lungs, for at least a half hour.

A couple of weeks ago I had to avoid an altercation with a woman who talking to herself on the subway, she didn't like the way I "looked" at her as I was doing my best to mind my own business. She starts mad-dogging me and then darts off the train.

Every so often a transient blocks the stoplight at a large, 6-lane intersection near my house, because he decided to ignore the crossing signal, and sometimes even the crosswalks.

My young sister doesn't feel safe walking home on certain routes as there are groups of disheveled men hanging out doing nothing in particular. I've counted over a dozen of them, blocking the sidewalk and sometimes a lane or two on the street.

The strip mall near my house has had to fence off certain areas open spaces because they had a habit of hosting impromptu bike chop shops.

A woman who owns a local tasting room at said strip-mall has told me multiple stories of shenanigans with the local transients, as they like to get into trouble in their outdoor bathrooms, and her business has the closest key.

Last week a man was sucker-punched because he asked a transient, who was sleeping in his car, to leave. (The man who got punched needed to drive to work.)

Last year a woman was stabbed with a needle by a transient while waiting in line at a drive-thru.

My city's local subreddits are rife with complaints and specific altercations. Most city parks are or have homeless encampments, and you can find them pretty much anywhere that there is unattended open space. My city even opened a safe zone for unhoused to camp, with police supervision and outreach resources available, and had to shut it down due to lack of use.

City police generally do nothing; they are underfunded, understaffed, and still butthurt from the BLM protests and imposed COVID policies. Some of the videos that have been posted online have been downright childish.

I know that not everybody is the same, and there are a handful of locals that I see repeatedly and know to be decent folk, but it is extremely difficult to be charitable with a narrative like this. And I am aware of other cities around here that have it much worse.

There are areas of town that I used to enjoy walking through, but now they smell of a shit and piss. People are not quite as destitute as some of the South American cities I've walked around, but it feels like we are getting closer to that.

If the homeless, as a group, would control/behave themselves people might have a different attitude. But they don't, and it takes a long time to recognize whether a specific individual is worth helping or not.
sympathetic DAs are the wrong approach, hampering enforcement is the wrong approach. those are bandaids that are incompatible with society that doesn't have other structural changes. since those structural changes don't exist, all you have is amplified domestic security problems as more violence occurs without penalty, incompatible with the concept of civilization.

you're looking at this through the lens of more enforcement+penalties versus less enforcement+penalties, a false dilemma that's not what the rest of us are talking about.
Another input for VisualBASIC was Apple's MacBASIC:

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=MacBasic.txt
Yeah, Southern Ontario is for the time being not possible but perhaps Northern Ontario.
That does not make sense from a game-theoretic standpoint. You would be helping other landlords at your own expense. It would be better to let other landlords make that sacrifice and rent our your own properties for as much as you can get.
To all the folks complaining it's gross: This is Riccitiello. Of course it's gross. That's who he is.

He's one of the reasons a whole lot of good people left the games industry, and continue to leave.
> The level of coordination that's required in order to unify the legal process here is very significant," Carter said.

It's $10B. They'll spend the time.
The best games aren't Products. Mine never will be :)
cognitive dissonance between loving free market capitalism and having values that the market doesn’t recognize
Not everything in life is a pursuit of profit.
Love it. Simple and effective UI. In the past I've had the opposite problem occasionally where I think I'm taking up much more time than I am (a consequence of nervousness maybe) and this would be helpful for that too -- not just an indicator for when you talk too long, but also when for when you are still "in the green" to combat that nervousness induced timewarp.
I think I remember this process, was so weird. You don't see anyone on the other side. Just a black screen.

Side note, I cringe at that thought, I did some mturk work long time ago, had to scan people's photos on a random social network site. Tinder has this "verify" thing you stick your tongue out to the left, some worker somewhere sees it face #5753 and hits okay.
> if people aren't drawn back over multiple sessions then they're going to walk away thinking they spent money for 2 minutes of playtime and they'll be upset

The solution to that is to git gud and build a game that's actually enjoyable to play, not wireheading players with dirty tactics.
Removing the Witchcraft
As someone from a culture with normalised swearing, yes this happens sometimes. However dickheads are dickheads, and will abuse and exploit regardless of the rules.
Oh dear. Not even Stripe is safe from the market downturn and they are cutting their valuation by 28% - from $98B to $74B.

It's extremely early to write them off but perhaps they should have IPO'd in 2019. Since they didn't, they had to wait it out during 2020, 2021, etc. As long as they are profitable, then they will certainly survive this with ease.

But overall, no-one is safe from this and we will see how the market tests the weakest of companies that are not profitable and completely dependent on constantly raising money.
>"Most valuable game of all time"

Is it though? Yes, it did sell the most copies of any game ever, but how are you justifying to call it "the most valuable"?
And this is the model that's being criticised as archaic and stupid here.
Is there some type of personal, open sourced CRM or something I could spin up at home to solve this? I get these fleeting thoughts that I need to call/text/email someone, then just forget to to it or get distracted.

I'd love to have something that could lump contacts into groups, then have a reminder to contact group A like once a month, group B once a quarter, group C once a year or something.
The freelancer had Work Diary enabled, which took screenshots of their screen as they worked and shared them with me as their client.

From the screenshots, I could identify other projects they worked on and other Upwork accounts they were using.
For the same reason people turn anti-capitalism when it comes to art and music.

There's more reasons for a game to exist besides making big bucks.
Fortnite is also a free to play game, that requires no purchases to be equally competitive to paid players, and it is one of the most profitable games too. Players can pay for skins, celebration dances, theme music, etc.

That said, this is not the only way to make a living as a game developer and I'm happy to pay up front for a game that provides the full richness of the experience to all players.
I hope we'll turn a page on this type of behavior sooner than later. Self made media is a relatively recent phenomena and the etiquette and decency hasn't yet had time to catch up with it all. I'm extremely turned off by forcing unconsenting individuals participate in pranks and other videos, and being made money on their behalf but seeing none of the benefits but unwanted attention.
I've been to the SC Johnson headquarters building in Racine (not the labs, as you said).

They are still working there. It took a lot of post-construction work to make it usable and rainproof. And it's beautiful, which you certainly can't say about 99% of the corporate buildings in use nowadays.
I think there have to be more than 7000 OpenBSD users. The link to that claim was not responding when I clicked it.
I'm sure he is making a profit off it but whatever good is happening is still getting done. He could be a famous YouTuber by playing pranks or video games and make millions too - is that better?

I share an unsettled feeling about this. I think it is because things like this are a visceral reminder of differences between the rich and poor. A life altering struggle for a poor person is a solved by ten minutes of amusement from a rich person - "here, take my card and buy whatever you need."
They recently had layoffs and are now merging with a company that has 50% as many employees. More layoffs to be expected?
QA testing doesn't exist for FSD. And you're applying standards used to test apps to share dickpics to a software that's moving killing machines in shared environment with other people.

It's not acceptable to have it fail for limited number of users. As my kid who may get killed by the failure didn't sign up for it.

How would you feel if this was a standard for aircrafts? "Let's just push this change to a small portion of the fleet, and boy, if that plane crashes, it's soooo much better if all our planes would crash. High five, where's my bonus?!".
He bought low, lied about how low he bought, then sold high. It's the middle bit that was problematic.
I've seen already seen this movie, inception...
Haiku (https://www.haiku-os.org/) is a pretty good modern equivalent. It has a very responsive interface and a 90s look and feel.
I wouldn't, that sounds accurate. 58 million views or whatever - she's being used for profit.
First paragraph care more about what whoever does that action feels then about what impact it has.

All in all, it rewards primary doing and saying nothing. Everyone else can be accused of virtue signaling.
I don't think the full context does him any favors. The way he talks of gamedevs that are not engaging in predatory behaviour ("beautiful and pure, brilliant people") is incredibly condescending. Like, "yes children, once you grow up you'll realize how foolish your idealism has been and you'll stuff your game full of gems you can overpay for!". These are his customers he's talking about. And later talking about "compulsion loops"... just, no.

Unity used to be famous for being the game engine of choice for creative indies. Games like Hollow Knight, Return of the Obra Dinn, or Ori and the Blind Forest. It seems to me very clear that Riccitello has no understanding of the value of tools for making games like that. He sees Unity as a way of pumping out endless shitty Candy Crush clones stuffed with predatory microtransactions.

EDIT: by the way, for the full context, this is the question he's answering:

> "Implementing monetisation earlier in the process and conversation is certainly an angle that has seen pushback from some developers."

The pushback the question is referring to is developers being disappointed in the ironSource merger. He's literally being asked about Unity focusing too much on microtransactions and ad technology, and in his answer to the question he refers to his critics (which, again, are his customers!) as "fucking idiots".

This guy should not be in charge of Unity.
I too love the fucking idiots. Or artists as I prefer to call them.
If the median is higher than the mean that probably means the distribution is heavier on the positive side.

Cheap apartments are illegal and the legal ones don't get financed/constructed. There's a cutoff much higher than zero for housing costs everywhere in the US and I'd imagine it's pretty high in NYC.
The best thing for Twitter shareholders is for Musk to pay $54.20 per share, like he promised.
Why are those questions the end all be all of the discussion? Many good things are done in the world that have a variety of motivations. He could get views in a variety of ways but the fact that he's doing it by helping people shouldn't be dismissed just because he wouldn't spend millions of dollars with no one watching.

Not to suggest he's operating in any way like a non-profit, but they all receive money and then distribute that money in ways that either increase the future money they can use for their mission or directly on the mission itself. The fact that he's built a self-sustaining model for helping individuals without merely forking over his own assets is impressive.
Forgot which country (iran, turkey..) but one diacritic on a phone text got a girl killed because it altered the meaning one word. Turning the sentence from loving to threatening or insulting.
Completely agree! I bought a couple of Orange Pi Zero's a while ago to make a small cluster. As soon as you want to do something slightly more than just booting it into linux, you quickly fall into a space with little to no documentation. If you're lucky, you can find a sketchy media share site with some documents, or an abandoned forum post. Incredibly annoying when you just want to get something running.
He just executed a merge of his company with a company that produced know malware delivery platforms for installing scamware.

I think we can guess where his intentions lay
“I’ve seen great games fail because they tuned their compulsion loop to two minutes when it should have been an hour. Sometimes, you wouldn’t even notice the product difference between a massive success and tremendous fail, but for this tuning and what it does to the attrition rate. There isn’t a developer on the planet that wouldn’t want that knowledge.”

Cool. I had to look that up and found Wikipedia informative:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsion_loop

Thanks for the tip!