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The way the psychology of gambling has entered the games industry has indeed produced more money, but at the same kind of costs that the gambling industry has always created.

I don't advocate for killing this new gaming industry, just as I don't advocate for killing the more traditional gambling industry, but both need much stricter supervision than most markets because they attack a weak point in human psychology, and taken too far, they harm humanity more than they generate value.

In the end any "distortion" of the market requires a strong justification, but I think the justifications used against the gambling industry have always been pretty compelling, and they appear to apply just as well to modern games industry techniques.

Another way to put it is that the "value to society" of modern games techniques contains a negative externality: damage to the players comparable to that of gambling addictions. You could solve it with the equivalent of a carbon tax, though defining the cost of different tactics feels impossible, so I'd argue that the traditional gambling restrictions are a better fit (illegal in many places, illegal for children, legal limits, requiring various warnings and protections to discourage extreme behaviours, high taxes, etc).

Many families play boardgames with their children at home. Fewer visit blackjack tables. I think theres a fair argument that these broadly match the different financial strategies in the games industry. How much of this behaviour is parental wisdom and how much is limited accessibility thanks to legal restrictions is a hard question to answer, but I have a suspicion that the world would be a worse place with unrestricted gambling. But kids _do_ sit at home opening lootboxes as their parents watch tv, I'm not sure if the effects are much different.
I recall that episode, but never understood why it was bad thing if there was a cob planet? Earth is water planet, or dirt planet, with everything destined to be dirt or whatever.
What do you actually want them to do, instead of using the computer? I presume they have no job, and friends generally aren't available during the day due to school or work.

There are activities that you can do during the day, but aside from taking a walk, they tend to require those un-available friends, or cost money.
I’m surprised no one has brought up “Threads.” [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)
I wouldn't call a 7 hour game short, I'd define that closer to 2 hours. The reason it's bad is that they usually fail to fully explore whatever idea the game is built around or they never really had an idea good enough to carry an entire game.
> It's based on PostgreSQL but if the rest of the resume stacks up it's not 100% essential that you've worked on PostgreSQL internals before

What would be an ideal resume for someone who never worked on Postgres
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32089013
And in the meantime, they choose not to rent it why? The intuitive answer is: they're hard to rent, because there's way more luxury condos available to be rented than people who want to rent them, and it was a bad investment that the rich person will probably lose money on (if not in absolute dollars, then in comparison to some other property that is desirable to rent). But a lot of people in this thread seem to think it's intentional and rich people have some devious way of making more from a vacant condo than a rented one.
Pushing people towards a non-standard scripting language is definitely not a strategy for long-term growth.

It needs a widely-known language with good performance and high quality debugging support (you can use the Visual Studio debugger with Unity C# or UE C++, for example)
I don't blame them. It can take decades for the kind of change that urbanists want to fully play out, and I bet they would rather experience good city life while they can enjoy it.
I grew up in NYC and currently live in Seattle. The appeal of Seattle over NYC is the outdoors, substantially cheaper housing (you can get a 4br detatched house in seattle that's a 20 minute bus ride to downtown for less than this median apartment price), and better weather but yeah the food doesn't really compare.

This said, I think LA wins over NYC in the food department outside of the very high end michilin type stuff and certain specific kinds of ethnic food like italian.
It's not a great sounding phrase, but a compulsion loop can be a pretty harmless thing. Think about a cliffhanger in a book or a tv show -- something that gets you to come back to the next episode/chapter. That's really the same thing. Right now I'm playing God of War, and there's a compulsion loop of doing side quests to make my character stronger. There's definitely a compulsiveness to that -- I stayed up too late last night doing that -- but it's not particularly evil.
You don't get the guarantees for what code is generated that you do with macros and they take a lot longer to compile. Also you can't just modify the AST of the current scope like you can with macros - pretty much every single time I have to use a macro it's because I need to generate code within the current scope. Fortunately they are usually very short.

The two for me fill different niches - for generic type-safe functions, parametrised types, etc. - templates. For text generation - macros. A hygenic macro system that lets you generate AST nodes and gives you access to type information would be absolutely divine, but it doesn't seem like we're getting it. Imagine if we had a script language that had full access to the compiler's internals.
I use it on macOS and Windows, and it is lovely! I even have Steamworks.NET integrations working on both platforms with it. It can be a bit tricky to setup the `.csproj` correctly to resolve native dependencies, but not anything impossible.
Not personally. I know some of my friends have been who moved back well after the "Covid Discounts" were a thing, got a little bit of an inflated deal, and now are facing like at least 3k for 1 bedrooms in places like around Williamsburg & Lower Manhattan(west village, soho, etc.). That's one of the better case scenarios I've heard as well. Truly a shame :(
Not to my knowledge. It would be antithetical to the game. Games do scale difficulty based on progress but this is the same for everyone. Some games do reverse flipper sides or direction but again, it is based on progress, not a more complex playtime targeting algorithm.

An example of this is multiballs. The first one (per player) can start with say three shots. The next one might require six and then the third nine. This is oversimplified but the point is the progress is consistent.

The only dynamically-scaling feature I am aware of is the replay score which (can) set a starting score based on recent plays but will also scale up rapidly when it is reached (say, +50%) until it isn’t reached, at which point it resets to the starting score. But this has no actual in-game effect.
Edible Sticky Tape
> NYC gave up on violent crime. It's Democrat's policy.

Could you explain that? Crime is trending down in NYC over the last 20 years.

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_...
I think the most disturbing variant is where they put animals in dangerous situations (sometimes hurting them) and then "rescue" them.

There's a whole industry of this shit.
I see how you can interpret his comment that way, but I view it differently with the inclusion of cultural attitudes. The fact that some people started doing it because of lack of transportation made it into a cultural value.

Being called a pussy for instance for not wanting to drive while smashed isn’t a result of a lack of transportation.
https://archive.ph/mi0g7
Hate to break it to you and your relatively high paid friends but that bodega cashier is spending an hour on the subway both ways from their current working class neighborhood. Furthermore, half of that persons salary is going to groceries due to inflation. There has to be a breaking point at where NYC will hit stagflation and hopefully all useless instagram coffee shops will be hit by "market conditions".
Trying to solve the lack of progress in simplifying the complexity of standard development scenarios needs to be the next step in framework development. I just don't understand how or why it needs to be polluted by the unnecessary added hidden complexity of ML.
You're just shifting your unknowns into a black box and it's magic output.
What forthcoming improvements to async are you referring to?
Yes I agree we should force employers to pay living wages.

They're definitely closely related issues but I don't know that you can completely solve for one in terms of the other though.
That thing looks fairly to heavy. Funny to see everyone dressed so proper in a fun ride.
A huge percentage of the people living in NYC live in income restricted housing, it's in the millions of people.
Is there any thread you found productive here?
That would be "her"
Seems fishy

You need to configure an account in blockChainBay, but with funds on it
(just to pay for the transactions, no money goes to any person or entity)

Then where does it go to?
> The solution is to build more, and the success of Vienna does not come from public intervention but from the added supply.

Population densities (per sq k):

Manhattan: 38000

Tokyo: 6158

Vienna: ~5000

I don't see how supply is Manhattan's problem here.
I love the concept of this app. Since I’m a very social person and tend to be the opposite of a wallflower during meetings, I’m constantly asking myself “having I been talking too long” or “am I dominating this discussion” and I feel very insecure about it. My only problem is I work in an embedded software space which means almost all of my meetings are in person. I wish I had something like this on my phone so I can check my phone or smart watch during in person meetings.
I want to make a video about the broadcast
Question. What fraudulent practice in cryptocurrency was Vitalik engaged in before the creation of Ethereum?
As a New Yorker who had to move to Seattle for a job five years ago and misses the city every single day, I totally agree with you.

I will say, depending on how close you are to a train station, Brooklyn isn’t bad. Yeah, it’s 45 minutes door to door, but you get to walk and listen to podcasts or whatever on the train. As commutes go, it’s definitely doable. But I totally agree with you that many people don’t want to live anywhere else and people who don’t love New York might not understand that, but New York is different from every other major city in the US.

I’m still carless in Seattle (I don’t drive and have no desire to drive) but it’s so much harder (my husband does have a car but I can’t rely on that for my own needs). And although Seattle is somewhat cheaper than Brooklyn (it’s really not but my luxury building in Capitol Hill definitely costs less than a luxury building in Williamsburg foot for foot — I pay about 70% more in Seattle than I did in Brooklyn, however), the things I’ve lost compared to New York are massive. I’ve definitely considered moving back now that I’m at a fully-remote company (that does have office space in NYC), but there are some practical realities about being in Seattle for my job that makes that hard. Maybe when my lease is up next year, I’ll reassess.
Please don't completely edit your comment after someone replies, it makes it hard to keep track of the discussion.

I am far from advocating for a minor reform. MTX, subscriptions, and basically anything designed to extract money from a customer's pocket after a one-time initial purchase should be very heavily restricted. "Compulsion loops" and dirty tricks used to create artificial addiction should be made outright illegal. In effect, companies that rely on these techniques to survive would struggle, but IMO nothing of value would be lost. Short of establishing a parallel system of funding video game development (such as patronage), that's all we can do.

And yes, the games market was smaller back then. Yet, it still produced quality games. So we need to cut back those actors who grew big by employing toxic product techniques, not "solutions for growing the game industry beyond its current size".
You could be user 7001.
Let me introduce you to: https://www.read.ai/

Which tracks real-time talk time among everyone, but also a lot of other statistics, analytics, and transcripts.

Works on meet, teams, zoom and webex. It just joins the meetings as an invitee (will automatically join any integrated calendars). So setup is nearly friction less.

Actual objective is to reduce meetings when possible and improve meetings where people must attend.
Very nice. Seems deterministic, which I value in sound/music visualizers. (I’ve been experimenting with them for ~20+ years, haven’t released anything though)
But that's not how the passive investing works - it's predicated off of curated indexes, so people are still making decisions. And there's not equal weighting in everything. What you're worried about isn't the current situation and it makes no sense that it ever would be.
According to Upwork support, they do something like this before a contract is actually signed. But in my opinion that's way too late in the process - someone impersonating me could completely ruin my reputation before any contract is handed out
In a pregnancy test case. https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1302453805057896448
We use this (trick taken from stackoverflow) to make __COUNTER__ usefully provide unique, reusable names:

https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit/-/blob/master/common/includ...

Example use for MIN and MAX macros which evaluate the parameters once and can be nested to any depth:

https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit/-/blob/master/common/includ...

I don't know what __EXP_COUNTER__ would add.
You don’t need to go to 11.3%. As raise rise, inflation falls (assuming real rates are non-negative, which we haven’t achieved yet)
> You're maintaining both an EV and an ICE at the same time in one car with both needing to interface with each other in complex ways.

The interface does not need to be complex. Hooking them directly together is simple enough. Some designs replace parts of the gearbox with the motors, making the combination simpler than the sum of its parts. And if you have a fully electric drivetrain then you can vastly simplify the ICE.

(Also I don't know how you could possibly reach 4x even if it was as complex as you're saying!)
> dominate everything (embedded, mobile and web)

Do you also think it will displace runtimes on the server? I'm thinking about the JVM and CLR.
I think that would be stretching it, but yeah, everywhere has good and bad. I walked a lot of SF at night when visiting for work and went to some less than savory places that felt no riskier than the worst of Rochester, but that’s a low bar.

That said, I shared a Lyft to the airport pre-dawn one time and where we picked up the other rider was a little more exciting than I would ever want to be.
Archive: http://archive.today/2022.07.14-175634/https://www.ft.com/co...
Just to provide a 3rd party reaction here: it sounds like you've circularly reasoned yourself into a trap of your own making. You don't want to live anywhere else because you like NYC. Because no other city is exactly like NYC, you aren't interested in living anywhere else. The reason it's "circular" is because there are cities with good transit, good arts, great food, have a tech scene, and even have financial districts and you'd be surprised to find out how well diverse cultures get along in a log of smaller towns across the US (far fewer racial/cultural over/under-tones) and how safe they are (safer than NYC). Yeah, no other place is the center for any of these things save SF being the tech nexus and maybe having better renditions of some types of cuisine. So if you have to be in the center of the world, then yeah, you're not going to find other centers of the world.

For me, personally, I'm disappointed by how few world cities the US has. NYC and Chicago are really it. My silly benchmark for what makes a city a world city is that it operates 24hrs a day (at least parts of it). Chicago barely does but I think it counts. Everywhere else in the US just dies past 10pm and especially past 2am.
Even according to this, murder and manslaughter is significantly up in the last 2 years.

But you're also ignoring the fact that in other parts of the country these crime rates are 1-10% of these numbers. NYC could be much safer, if the right policies were applied.
> In NYC the most dangerous areas are pretty far out from Manhattan

That's not true, and my stats above are solely Manhattan.
I assume they’re referring to the CA/B Baseline Requirements, which the browser vendors take extremely seriously.

https://cabforum.org/baseline-requirements-documents/

But the OP webpage is so terrible that I’m really not sure what they’re talking about.
I'm just waiting for archive.today to finish: http://archive.today/2022.07.14-175634/https://www.ft.com/co...

Also, depending on where you are Reuters is actually paywalled.
It has dimensions of energy, which is what's being discussed. Things do not need to be measuring the same thing to have the same dimensions.
Chrome OS‘s easy administration is great, but Google Accounts are just not an option in many environments. Are there any approaches with self-hosted auth/admin/control servers?
According to Upwork support when I spoke to them

> Please know that as soon as the freelancer applies or is offered a contract, we would run an identity verification process which would have them submit a Government-issued ID and have a quick video chat or send us a selfie to prove their identity.

However, this is way too late in the process for my liking...and who knows how strict they actually are?
Consider how laws are set. Politicians answer to their constituents. If the people who live in the city do not want certain things (short term Airbnb rentals here), you can expect them exert pressure on their representatives to make those things go away. That's exactly what has happened in NYC.

The question of "Why do you think that they should have less rights that people that live in the city full-time?" doesnt really matter. Because the reality is that they have no power/sway over the politicians who are responsible for governing the city.
The insanity. Maybe the gamedev wants people to have fun for a change.
Thanks for sharing. I’m aware of talking over people and the dimensions on which it biases. I ask to uncover “unknown unknowns” of some other (unknown to me) behavior that might also need to be addressed.

To be more specific, I am also afraid of over-indexing on inclusion. Do I call on female coworkers more often to speak up in areas where I know they are experts because I know they may not do so themselves? Is that fair to them? Does it make them feel inadequate or is it appreciated or does it not even register? If I ask Susan to elaborate on a sprint update but don't ask Frank does that signal that I don't trust Susan? What if I am really just interested in her task?

I know the cliches about confident white men in tech. Talking over people, the white savior, etc. But, as a confident white man in tech I need input from everyone to be better. So, thanks for sharing.
My email is my username @gmail.com I might be able to do some consulting.
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Ya, I don't see that happening in authoritarian countries.

As a contrived example if you had a symbol for 'happy' you want to be very cautious that it doesn't get converted to 'gay' because in your language gay and happy mean the same thing, in some repressive regime it means the leadership gets to execute you with the approval of the law.
Whenever someone wants to talk about what's wrong with group of people with skin color (X), you already you're talking to someone with the wrong priorities.
> as long as the links are opened from outside of the current browser

How do you invoke Finicky, then?
4000 in rent is not significantly lower than 5000?
I have a fantasy where a Robert Moses-type figure builds out super fast trains that connect Long Island, NJ, upstate New York, and effectively urbanize the entire tri-state area. New York becomes this super city where you can go from White Plains to the tip of Long Island in an hour. Housing becomes cheaper as neighborhoods that were previously impractical become feasible for New Yorkers. Car ownership drops in the outer suburbs as people embrace public transportation. Gentrification stays an issue but because of more housing, it's less brutal.

Unfortunately this is pretty unlikely unless there happens to be another political genius like Moses who also happens to love public transportation. Maybe an Andy Byford-Robert Moses combo?
Didn't see Last Call BBS on there.
Leaving the biomass on the field results in the CO₂ going back into the atmosphere (~80% within 2 years): https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.4141/cjss2010-055#T0002

By contrast, our process retains the nutrients, improves the soil health relative to the baseline of just leaving it, and you get permanent carbon removal.

Yes, we're hiring for great mechanical engineers with experience in these areas ;) Lots to do!
What's pretty much unique about NYC, especially Manhattan, in the US is that there's no cultural expectation that a well-paid professional will own a car. By comparison, people can get by without owning a car in Boston/Cambridge--I did as an undergrad--but get out of school and a lot of your friends probably live in the suburbs/exurbs, you need a car to head off to the mountains, etc. Sure, you can rent and Uber up to a point but most people find it 1.) gets old and 2.) As a practical matter means they mostly just stay in the city because doing otherwise is too much of a hassle.
Assuming devs are familiar with the usual branch/commit/push workflow, and history rewrites like rebase/cherry-picking are the point of confusion:

I can't recommend highly enough Learn Git Branching[1], an interactive demo for understanding rebases and cherry-picks.

Then try it a couple of tricky times, and you're settled.

[1]: https://learngitbranching.js.org/
Building single family homes is much cheaper in the US because of prefabrication. It's something like 3x less per square foot than a 5/1.
Yea that's pretty much what I did...I added a note to my "headline" on LinkedIn saying if you found me on Upwork, it's not actually me
> It's such a cesspool of fraud now that I can't figure out how to find the honest people.

now? I've heard similar horror stories going back years. Perhaps you were lucky in that you got more positive than negative out of it earlier?
> custom compiler for a TypeScript-like language targeting WebAssembly. The reason I like AssemblyScript (or ASC for short) is because it allows the average web developer to make use of WebAssembly without having to learn a potentially new language like C++ or Rust. It’s important to note that the language is TypeScript-like. Don’t expect your existing TypeScript code to just compile out of the box. That being said, the language is intentionally mirroring the behaviors and semantics of TypeScript (and therefore JavaScript), which means that the act of “porting” TypeScript to AssemblyScript are often mostly cosmetic, usually just adding type annotations.

I haven't had the time to read more, but I'd be curious to learn why they didn't just target full TypeScript compatibility. That would reduce the barrier to entry materially.
Safety in crowds, this is a big generalization. As someone who just moved in from Chicago, I feel exponentially safer in NYC.
Can you clarify what you're asking here? When I read your comment it looks like you're suggesting it's highly ethical to punish people for not wanting to give you money.