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> Very few new games use their own engine.

On Steam, it seems to be about 20% - pretty much the same share as Unreal's: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/game-engines-on-steam...

There's also a difference between rolling your own in-house engine like Frostbite or REDengine, and making a game on your own with no general-purpose engine using something like SDL. There's little point in doing the former nowadays, but there's plenty of titles that still successfully take the latter approach. General-purpose engines make this whole field obviously more approachable and for some kinds of projects are the only viable option, so the percentage share of no-engine games will likely continue going down, but I don't expect absolute numbers to drop significantly.
> exert some level of control over the genetics of their offspring

Isn’t that what choosing a partner to start a family with does?
> If you have some thing that doesn't exist in all envs it should be obvious and maybe painful.

Exactly this. In $previous_client we had `snowflake_*.tf` files. Anything that couldn't be specialised using Terraform variable files should go on those. One advantage was that we started finding things that should be commoditised to get rid of the snowflakes. Everything else was very obviously out of shape and seen as generally undesirable - although many times necessary.

> control the creation or non-creation ENTIRELY thru env vars with either boolean or count.

I would also highly discourage this. Counts for different scales across environments, sure. Counts or bools to decide whether or not to deploy something depending on the environment are discouraged and should become a snowflake.
It's worse with stronger prescriptions, if that explains anything. And it has in general gotten a lot better in the past 10-20 years or so, so if you're looking through a current pair it may be quite different.

Currently, if I look at any sharp contrast edge in daylight and turn my head a few degrees, it'll be lightly fringed by either blue or orange. In the dark with a three-color RGB LED projecting "white" (rather than a broad-spectrum white source) I can get fairly clearly separated dots of different colors closer to the edges of my lens.
okay, you've changed my opinion
> You might say "but it will make it more confusing for people who already know the FP terms"

People who already know FP would be fine. Newcomers would be the ones to suffer. We already have a large number of tutorials, blogs, books, etc. using the existing terminology. For a programmer new to FP to tap into that they would need to learn both the "friendlier" (whatever that means) terms as well as how they map to the math terms.

We need to stop treating math like some unlearnable alien language—you'd still need to learn it anyway, regardless of what you call the abstractions. Also in many (perhaps most) cases there is no clear choice for the "friendly" term. Words like "chainable" would be highly ambiguous, as many different types of abstractions support some notion of "chaining". This would likely result in bikeshedding and more divergence in terminology and less precision in meaning.

If you think the math terms are bad, try asking a mathematician to rename the terms in their field. They'll tell you the same thing.
That started as a flash animation, right? So. many. wasted. hours. watching flash animations. It's amazing how quickly flash disappeared after the dominos were set in motion.
For obviously fake characters, a Unicode proposal for the Egyptian Hieroglyphics Extended-A block managed to include a hieroglyph for an ancient Egyptian holding a laptop. (Note that this is a proposal, and has not yet made it into the standard.) Presumably it was a copyright trap.

https://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2020-m02/0018....
> You do not need to file your taxes explicitly, or at any rate, rehash the information that's already known to the government, such as your taxes withheld and so on, every year.

That’s a terrible example because that’s strictly a US thing. In most place I have lived the government send you a pre-filled form and the only thing you have to do for your taxes is validate that the form is correct.

And to be fair I pretty much had the same experience with visa. As a European the last time I had to go to Canada everything was online, quick and easy. I think sadly the only reason it remains cumbersome to do if you are citizen of a poorer country is to dissuade people to actually come.
Ironsource is a malware vendor. I'm not sure in what sense you think people are overreacting, but I think that fact alone is worthy of a raised eyebrow or two. Unity has merged with a malware vendor.
Sonic Colors remaster, iirc?

The games in that showcase look pretty decent to me? Plenty of games I play look like that, lol.
If it’s mainly about transferring money between participants, what is the point of each token having its own speculative value? Shouldn’t crypto be just stablecoins then?
Frankly, because optimism is pretty much the only thing that has a chance of making the world of tomorrow better than the world of today. We have to be optimistic (while realist), there is no other way so future generations have a chance.

Turning off the news helps a lot as well imho. Our species isn't built to carry the weight of the world on our shoulders, and it deeply impact our mental health.

If I look locally, I find a lot of reasons to be optimistic
> Also quite a few of the most prolific contemporary mass market authors have "assistants".

I told my new editor what I paid to hire the big-name editor and she said, "You could've gotten a book [as in a ghostwriter] for that."

And yeah, I'm well aware of the authors who farm out their names. If you're writing formulaic commercial work, why not? I don't begrudge their existing; I just wish they didn't take up so much marketing and publicity oxygen (but, on the other hand, if the commercial hacks weren't using that up, it'd go to overconnected MFA "literary" hacks, so... no worse for it?)
Some sites support WebAuthn[0]. It's supported on the latest Yubikeys, but there is the caveat that the Yubikey could get damaged/stolen/lost, and you have to have some recovery method in place. Most services employ a single use recovery code mechanism that you store somewhere trusted and safe. IMHO Passwords are here to stay. 'Passwordless is the future' is a marketing ploy that hasn't gained traction.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAuthn
It goes further than that. If you file a bug on Red Hat's bugzilla with or without a support contract, you will quite often get a response if you put the effort into producing a detailed report. No guarantee, sometimes just others with the same issue, but still pretty good. You will also find Red Hat employees on the mailing lists for the OSS projects they contribute or depend on who actively participate in conversations there.

If you have a support contract though and open a case, the level and quality of support is usually very high.
Honestly, the knowledge gap can be huge, but the usability and accessibility gap is much more important in my opinion. People don’t understand why updates exist, they don’t understand why their 5yo computer doesn’t work as well today as it did before, and they certainly don’t understand why “the button moved”.

Our computers, tablets, phones etc have become such general purpose devices it’s next to impossible for a layperson to even understand how to use them effectively, let alone how they work. So much of our society is now mediated by technology, and it pushes people who struggle with it to the fringes (and imposes a decent cost keeping tech up to date). My grandparents (pushing 90 now) can’t use any modern tech because it all does too much. They can’t remember what direction swiping reveals the hidden controls, or returns them home, or whatever it happens to be.

I hope that as HNers we can remember ordinary people when we’re working on our apps or hardware or whatever. One day it might be you struggling to make a payment because you can’t work the computer.
> If the IA didn't exist, we'd have to invent it.

You know, a part of the original company vision for YouTube prior to the Google acquisition was really something akin to the IA, in that they did pride themselves with hosting footage of the Indian Ocean Earthquake:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Indian+Ocean+ea...

Now, acting as diplomatically as I possibly can, I can say that your suggestions of the IA and YouTube interfacing together were at a previous point in time a continuous process. But a number of factors have made direct cooperation between the IA and Google (thereby YouTube) come to a screeching halt.

At this current point in time, we stand at a historical crossroad. And I'm only here to just act as a humble messenger ;)
Unity merges with IronSource - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32081051 - July 2022 (315 comments)
The music museum next door to the Space Needle is MoPOP (formerly known as the Experience Music Project):

https://www.mopop.org/

That being said, it's definitely much shorter than the Space Needle.
Yeah.

I get pretty tilted when people complain about the banking system, because most of the "problems" they're complaining about are features. A really good metaphor is a programmer complaining about being forced to use a version control system, and wishing they could just dispense with all this pointless waste of time. "All this thing does is cause me trouble" — well, yeah, because you've never experienced the problems it utterly eradicated.

It's a Chesterton's fence issue at best. At worst, it's wolves repealing the laws that prohibit eating sheep.
My own optimism.

I try not to let the situation, setbacks or fleeting emotions affect that.
Yeah, the West Coast Ag School professor in me in flinching at some of this.
I guess you can say that it FADED LIKE A FLASH :}
He doesn't, but he does qualify as someone on the receiving end of content-free smears and libels, and 'eugenicist' is a useful term of abuse if you want to convince others that someone is a bad person.
* the global reduction of poverty

* the potential of our civilization if we could all get better education. in that context, automation is an opportunity, that, if recognized, will allow us to focus more on artistic endeavors and scientific research. education for that is possible and affordable. all it takes is political will to actually do that. imagine what we could achieve if everyone was highly educated.

* the potential the internet has unleashed in allowing people to become creative and share their creativity. yes, there is a lot of trash, but among that trash there are gems, and more great content and code is being self published now than was ever published before.
Any pointer to how that's done (in the context of an "easy" interpreter like this)?
Great idea, I'm sure that would console a lot of people who are grieving over the state of user interfaces.
Bitcoin requires immense amounts of energy. Here’s why there’s a cypto backlash
I'd like to see a comparison of Godot and Stride (formerly Xenko):

https://www.stride3d.net/
Thanks for this. I checked out a YT video about Ioniq 6 and was interested enough to look for the official page. (that matte black one looks pretty cool) [1]

But oof, the web site is just terrible. I can't imagine the effort that went into that car and then have it be paired with what they've come up with there.

I hope that competition rises to the level of Tesla on the product presentation / ordering side as well.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGlmdcS8bZU
There is a limit on how many hives you can have in an area. Flowers only produce so much nectar and pollen.
So, I do have that much water stored. I'm using 7gal water storage containers that are about 1 cubic foot each. Sixteen containers is a lot, but pretty doable if you have as much unfinished underutilized storage space as is typical in this part of the country (most houses here have basements).

(I also have options for handling impure water)
Weeks are equally arbitrary to months (and retain a closer tie to the cycle motivating both.)
A medical condition caused me insomnia that kept me up for four and a half days once. After the second day, my entire body began to hurt. By the end, I couldn't follow the plot to movies to keep myself distracted from how miserable I was and I stopped forming whole memories. I was so disoriented that I was afraid to walk down a steep hill to go to a pharmacy because I was afraid I'd trip and get badly injured.

Months later, I watched a couple of different movies that I thought I'd never seen. But I kept knowing the next couple of plot points. I didn't know how they'd end, but I'd clearly watched them in that dilapidated state because I always knew what was about to happen next in the next scene.

[deleted and reposted where I meant to reply after mis-click]
always make sure the upwork profile has a blue check mark ( freelancer's identity has been verified )
Can be performant, nowadays anyway. Worked with a team who built their own implementation because Amazon's was too slow and expensive.

It's a weird model. Too small of a dataset and it doesn't quite make sense to use Dynamo. Too big of a dataset and it's full of footguns. Medium-sized may be too expensive.
> "I really have no desire of going back until <50% of you people leave"

There are quite a lot of personal attacks and assumptions in your post so I'm just going to ignore them.

I came from a very safe metro area in Canada and had no notion of elitism as you so randomly assumed about me. When I moved, Canada was a lot more balanced and there was not a large income/wealth gap as it currently exists in the US.

I had no rose colored glasses or impression that because I was "sharing a zip code with billionaires" I would be safe. I took every day as it came and discovered that just existing and living near downtown felt unsafe for me and my family.

The most powerful force around discussions of safety and lifestyle is comparison. When you see multiple places with your own eyes and body, it's a lot easier to compare and you get a sense of what feels right or wrong, for you.

Your entire response is very strange, it might be helpful to reflect where your perceptions, biases and opinions around wealth come from because you threw a small net and ended up empty handed.
> weekend project

If Godot lets you make games like that in a weekend, then it's lightyears ahead of Unity.
Plastic trash is mostly from a few sources in Asia. China and Indonesia iirc.
That’s exactly the inverse of copilot and LLM code generation. The computer generates the code, the human checks if it’s correct
An american company can not be trusted, that's as simple as that

I don't have the right to hold that statement?

Should i create a .us/.com website, spread my message and target every american voters so you can understand me?

You didn't like when the Russian did something similar, why should it be ok when it is the americans doing it?
Thats unfortunate. What if there are certain aspects to existing cameras that are only there because a lesson was learned in the past but is no longer ideal in todays context. If there are no new comers that have the cash to burn to 're-evaluate' how everything is done today then we are missing out on potential innovations.

This process is like re-factoring old code but in real life.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean to ask nor am I a Chinese speaker, but I have myself suspected that the massive variety of characters was a side-effect of having a middle class that was differentiated based on their ability to read. You see various in-group signalling systems similar to this in lots of areas.

A good historical example is all the strangly specific words for groups of animals. A history I read of this indicated these terms were first found in books sold to nobility, and they were just made up. But you weren't hip if you weren't reading that literature.
Maybe they realize that being a landlord is an economically and societally destructive measure that saps productive capital from working and middle class. It’s vampiric. And awful.
Hm, for me, fighting climate change is something I'm starting to look vaguely optimistic about.

Some people are very defeatist there - china is just going to pollute more for every reduction so nothing matters and similar arguments. And yes, germany has messed up a lot by exiting nuclear power before exiting coal, but the nuclear train over here is gone. And yes, it's going to be hard, and we'll probably miss the marks and all our lives will change with it.

But on the other hand, looking around in Germany and Hamburg, there's lots of projects starting, progressing or even maturing aiming at reducing the use of fossil fuels. It starts to feel like a lot of systems are starting to slowly start moving.

For example, our local district heating provider is hard at work getting local industries hooked up to re-use their heat, we might see our first geothermal heat plant this year or next year (and it didn't take that long to work), they have concrete plans to replace their last coal-powered heater with several new green systems including one I have to read up on - some station to extract heat from the Elbe herself. Other plants are designed with green hydrogen in mind.

German car manufacturers are finally starting to apply their experience to electric vehicles. The local public transport is trialing electric busses. Recently there was a post on reddit of someone electrifying an asphalt laying machine. The city is funding a project to support EV charging ports in underground garages, which is supposed to dump the surplus of solar and wind power into electric cars when we have it and to throttle the charging of EVs past a certain level if we don't have surplus power.

We're also seeing different prototypes for large-scale power storage being built and going online. Are they all going to work? I don't think so. Are they the solutions we will use in 5 - 10 years? I also don't think so. But the best way to quickly get two good ideas is to try a dozen bad ideas and toss most of them when they fail.

Also interesting, a lot of different new, and established companies are starting to experiment more and more by diversifying their goods with vegetarian alternatives, or entirely new vegetarian ideas. And sure, it would have a bigger impact if half the world crashed straight into veganism, but that won't happen. And then I'd be happier if campaigns and goods like this gradually reduce the overall meat consumption.

I don't know if we can steer the crazy planet heating and climate back into a safe situation. Probably not. But it starts to feel like a lot of systems especially in Europe are starting to engage the problem at many levels. And that's a lot of scientific and engineering minds suddenly looking at the practical problems and doing something about it.
DNSSEC has been in development since ~1995, and DNSKEY is an early-2000s thing, so a funny thing to look into is why it's DNSKEY and not KEY (this is the infamous "type code roll"), as it was originally.
There is a plugin to export from Unity as well! It's also getting a new Editor soon.
Fully agree with your ideas here; I suspect you and I to be around the same post college age. Is it a lack of morality about "screwing over employers"? No. It's not being disillusioned to the idea that being loyal reaps rewards. If you don't go out of your way to self advocate, you'll end up left far, far behind.
We must have different definitions of Europe because I live in Romania (which has been a member of the European Union since 2007) and yet even national transfers are not instantaneous if you're doing them in the evening, not to mention the weekend. And don't get me started with transfers to other European countries.

I also think you meant cheap, not free. By the way I find it funny that some banks tax the receiver, so in order to get money, you have to lose money :-)
But "roll your own crypto" isn't the same as "become a crypto developer", just like "do your own surgery" isn't the same as "become a surgeon".

"You can't roll your own crypto without becoming a crypto developer first" is just as valid as "You can't do your own surgery without becoming a surgeon first".

Those crypto developers didn't become crypto developers the first time they fucked up rolling their own crypto; it took lots of failures and probably quite a bit of formal study. Exactly like surgeons do lots of formal studying (and do their first fuck-ups on people who are already dead).

So yes, it's pretty much exactly like medicine, down to the most fundamental sense of them both being hard things that one needs to learn by formal studying and lots of preferably harmless fuck-ups.
> And at what point do those people who made the choice to be drug addicts deplete the goodwill that is afforded to them?

With respect, do you believe people choose to become addicts?
A company I have a friend at built their mobile app in Unity. It has no 3D or 2D "game" in the traditional sense. It's all just UI screens. But it's all Unity UI.

Apparently it has some non-native feel issues, but it works better than you'd expect. They had a bunch of custom UI components for recycling views and stuff too.
I work on a project where we design devices that offload certain power intensive devices from the local grid when the current is getting too close to the power limit of the transformer's limit so they don't have to send someone in the field every time.

We have a minimum 15 minutes delay before powering back on a device that was powered off.

I've raised the issue where there could be a problem where there might be a ressonance effect with our devices and similar smart grid devices from other sources due to the 15 and n x 5 minutes delay being ubiquitous.

For now we came to the conclusion that this not an issue, but I still think this is an easily avoidable catastrophe that can be easily mitigated by adding a random offset to the delay.
this is one of the more lovely replies i've seen on HN
> One of my coworkers has spent most of the last year sharing observations and ideas with the team that are things I pointed out three years ago. I don’t know if he’s giving me an overly subtle nod or he just doesn’t know he’s doing it. Like people who accidentally write a story/song they heard once.

I once suggested a product name in a meeting and everyone was like "eh" and then about five minutes later someone else (no, not a manager) suggested the exact same name to instant acclaim, and it was adopted. I don't think she did it on purpose, so I wasn't and am not mad about it, but it was odd.
Do you have any actual numbers for what is up to code insulation in California? California is a very temperate climate. I wouldn't exactly expect their code to have the highest insulation requirements.

Also, building codes should be considered the minimum.

I am keenly aware of how much thermal mass walls hold. My apartment is 3 external walls that are constructed pretty much only of a few inches of concrete, bare. The result is that after a full day of summer sun, even though it drops to 64 degrees outside at night, my air conditioner cannot keep it 76 degrees or lower inside. It's crazy. It's worse in the winter when I can feel the walls sucking heat out of my apartment.
Imaginary numbers describe the fundamental shape of nature
Also recommend having a look at Defold: https://defold.com/
It’s not RISC-V ‘gunning’ for RPi, it’s certain SBC manufacturers who think that a RISC-V board will enable them to compete with RPi.

It may, but the success of these boards will largely depend on other factors. RPi has succeeded because of their clear focus and really strong execution.

It will probably disappoint many but having a CPU with an open ISA isn’t going to be an overriding factor in determining whether any particular SBC succeeds in the market.