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> I'm thinking of starting out on my own someday, but I wonder, is it even realistic to have a 9-5 kind of structure in IT/software dev field ?

Yes. I've done it before, and am doing it now. Including at startups. It's about intentionally setting your own boundaries and being firm on them.

Every job in every industry will ask you at some point to give more than is required, and it's up to you to set the boundaries on when and how you say yes and no to these types of requests. My sister works in a non-technical industry and the text of your post could be something she's said to me in the past if you just replace "IT/software" with her industry. And again, her issues are all caused by simply saying yes to everything asked of her without any boundaries.
Same, but working for nonprofits is unlikely to make you the salaries you hear about on HN. Same for small/non-IT companies, I'd guess?

I do feel like OP should definitely start looking at other jobs though, it seems likely they can find something with a more reasonable schedule.

Technically, they didn't even ask for 9-5 strictly, they asked for "structured", and I think the implication is: predictable, regular. Even if it includes some predictable, regular scheduled evening time? This seems to me like it should be do-able, but I'm not sure -- I work in nonprofit sector, where it definitely is.
Rupert Sheldrake also performed similar experiments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnA8GUtXpXY
> There's no doubt at all. The physical sciences have always been, and always will be, an enabler of income inequality.

That claim is the opposite direction of the rest of your comment, which shows income inequality being an enabler of science research.
It would sound less dystopian if you just assimilate.
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Are you comparing 1 frame of a still that hasn't been rendered in real-time to a video game that is being dynamically rendered at at least (I hope) 30 frames per second?

> you can still clearly see it's a computer game

I'll give you that, but we are comparing this footage to footage of other video games from the past. Can you name a video game that looks more realistic than this? Maybe some of those realistic racing games I guess, but that is a different type of video game. My point is: currently, this is as close as we get to real-life, no? Sure, it can be better (and it probably will be in the future), but I'd say this ranks pretty high.
The MWI isn’t “no wave function collapse” it’s an infinite number of universes all collapsing with different outcomes.
This is a great article that really deserves an HN post of its own. Thanks for linking to it.
More money doesn't make the wind blow more often. And there's only.so much capital that can be spent on material science before you hit a limit on the rate of improvement per unit time
China has its own problems, so not sure which portion you are referring to. In China, there is almost nothing to invest in except for houses. The Chinese stock market is filled with scams, and I've heard many Chinese don't dare to touch it. So everyone invests in housing (apartments), and prices go through the roof. Some years ago, the government restricted investment, limiting the number of properties a person can own. So people put properties in their relatives or children's name.

Aside from those issues, recently Evergrande (one of China's biggest real estate developers) failed to service it's debt, and is considered by many to be extremely over leveraged. China recently updated regulation to place stricter limits on real estate developers debt.
Genetic drift occurs due to random chance, unlike natural selection. Presumably, the population that survived Justinian's Plague had beneficial mutations. While it is possible that 40 generations is long enough for genetic drift as populations mix and become heterogeneous, the surviving population was homogeneous in regards to those beneficial mutations. The bacterium Yersinia pestis never actually went away, so plague deaths continued uninterrupted during those 800 years, just not at the level of pandemic. Those mutations would continue to be beneficial and those with them continued to be actively selected for survival.
For reference, our world in data tracks progress on the SDGs: https://sdg-tracker.org/
What I find intriguing is that E2EE was significantly more common long ago than it is today. Multi-protocol chat clients would utilize the OTR libraries meaning 'off the record' and even auto-negotiate with folks over AIM, MSN, ICQ, IRC and others to assist in showing fingerprints and sharing public keys which could be done over the platform or out of band if one so wished.

I would have expected that by today that not only would this be more common but that the technology would have significantly advanced by now. Instead the opposite appears to be true. People are instead using apps that pinky promise to E2EE things and depend on the chat service to handle the trust mechanism for them which in my view entirely defeats the intent and purpose of E2EE. I assume the motivation is the desire to capture and monetize every conversation, especially the private conversations and/or to comply with national security letters. I've heard people try to rationalize this with because non technical people but non technical people were utilizing OTR just fine.

What could realistically be done to reverse this in a way that puts the control back into the individuals hands? i.e. Even if all the kings horses and all the kings men wanted your messages they could only pound sand again and again.
Land*time is the unit that people consume, and the land produces this at an instantaneous rate of 1. So you're wrong about it not producing anything, but right about everything else, in my view.

If you want to properly make land uninvestable, you have to put property taxes at the rental rate.
I clicked the article and got the context, but it did take a click and couple of lines of text to "get".

I complain because I come here for news, not for riddles.
The items you've listed, as well as "impact", are not the goals of SDG-focused research. From the linked article, it identifies clearly this disconnect:

In both the Global North and Global South — and across areas such as health, food or energy — research and innovation funds tend to be spent on technologies that benefit private interests, rather than on those that more directly address social and environmental problems. The research shows that most high-income countries do not prioritise research on the major environmental challenges associated with unsustainable consumption and production patterns.

In fact, your assertion that things like 4G, high density batteries, and tiny low power SoCs, etc. illustrate this well. Those do not specifically help with the issues of sustainability in low income areas. Think of things like sanitation, access to clean water, sustainable food production, etc. Not everything needed for improving quality of life and opportunities has a high-tech solution.
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> Aren't these two things contradictory?

No. Twitter's terms of use and acceptable conduct policy goes far beyond what they're legally required to remove.
A Møøse once bit my sister.
The analogy breaks down a little here.

We don’t want the dealership to keep the key, but we do want them to give us a new one if we lose it.

So afaik we trust the manufacturer to keep the info, and to keep sufficient logs that anyone that abuses it to steal cars can be caught.

I don’t think the way this is works can be extended to communications apps though.
Look into the company Emcell at emcell.com. They're in Ukraine. Controversial, however they claim that fetal stem cell treatments (used from donated tissue, if that makes a difference to you) - if degeneration of healing systems of the body from MS aren't too far along - will stop MS and regress it, reverse damage/heal/cure it.

Here's their specific page on MS: https://www.emcell.com/treatments/multiple-skleroze/

There are free documentary video(s): https://stemcellsmovie.com/ or https://www.emcellexperience.com/emcell-videos/ - the 2nd video from the top.

Emcell explains that the stem cells they use, from 7-12 weeks, are safe to inject in everyone, as the cells haven't started to differentiate yet into the unique individual - mainly the immune system hasn't started to develop, and that they are the base 1000+ stem cell types that we all start with.

I'll email you too in case you miss this.

Edit to add: They also have a bunch of testimonial videos, including of doctors of patients they had and couldn't help: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7FLNCZlZ7ofwOPeclBr-xA - if that helps build your trust towards what they offer, if they seem genuine or not; it's hard to know with new technologies that aren't mainstream, skepticism is healthy - especially when desperate people can be an easy target to try to extract money from - but then if it is indeed safe as they claim (they've supposedly started doing research on fetal stem cells 35-40 years ago, and have been offering them clinically for 30-35 years now) - then it's a decision that probably lands on the question of risk-benefit analysis, ultimately, what do you have to lose?
Maybe. Considering that the simulation is taking place on a nearly infinite large white sand dessert with a turtle meticulously moving rocks according to a simple set of rules, there are bound to be hiccups in the physics engine part.
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We launched on ProductHunt today and I wanted to see if you would be open to giving us an UpVote? Should only take 30 seconds.

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Additionally you can only test Safari/WebKit on iOS. And there is no Safari on non Apple platforms.

Is there any WebKit browser on Android or are they all based on Blink (apart from Firefox and its forks) ?
Where does my logic imply that the value of that exact house's structure has depreciated to zero or $1?

It's very likely the land is worth more than the structure, but that doesn't mean the value of said structure is literally nothing.
I could see the young people of Scotland voting again given independence is back on the agenda. I wonder what it will feel like for the brexiteers to be on the other end of a simple majority.
Lol, looks pretty realistic to me. This is very much like how most tourist in the city behave!
So every single magazine out there needs to exist in braille so blind people can read them? If I publish stuff on the Internet, I'm the one choosing "how public" it is. It's nobody else's business.
... and all of this is possible because Turkey took advantage of the disarray in Iraq and Syria over the last 20 years and built large dams and aqueducts on the upper Tigris and Euphrates rivers, drastically reducing their flows and causing water levels in Southern Iraqi marsh lands to almost entirely dry up.

It's a humanitarian catastrophe.

Not to say that we should not use this opportunity to do critical archeology. In fact, this situation may not last, so we should invest in digs asap.

...but it is still important to understand the nature of why these sites are being discovered now.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_of_the_devil ?
People are still living in Chernobyl.

He'll, they're growing food there that gets sold to Europe, cos it has below the standard level of contamination.
Are those replacement names or additional names that point to the same underlying object? The former is much more problematic IMO.
How much freedom does the player have in this type of game?

From watching these videos it seems like the player does not influence the story at all?

What if you jump into the river for example? Would you be able to swim around in it? Would bystanders be worried about you, call the police, the police would come and get you out of the water etc?

Or would a magic hand keep you from jumping into the water and you have to stay very closely on track to the scripted story?
This is exactly as realistic as I remember Half-Life 2 looking when it was first shown. There definitely seems to be a "hedonic treadmill"-style effect for realism.

Also, I gather Call of Duty is a shootyman game so players will presumably be murdering these realistic people in great detail?
It took me a whole few seconds to confirm it's a game. Mind you I've been to that place and I've rendered my first wire mesh in 1991.
Do we fully understand why prehistoric human wanted to live on these watery sites? I find it so hard to understand, since living on dry land and avoiding marshes is a strongly ingrained idea now.

But there are so many archeologic sites like this, is must have had a strong appeal. For example, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Must_Farm_Bronze_Age_settlem...
I watched a documentary over a decade ago which followed Gareth Edwards as he was making the film Monsters. It was pretty revolutionary at the time as he was one of the first people to take advantage of DSLRs being able to shoot HD video and MacBook Pros getting to the level of computing power where you could do your own VFX. He managed to make a film that looked like it came out of Hollywood on equipment that in total cost less than $15,000. The on-set crew consisted of only seven people: Edwards himself, the two lead actors, a sound operator, a line producer, a fixer and a driver.

One of the documentary makers asked him why he had a dedicated sound guy; the rest of the production was so stripped back, there was no lighting guy, why a sound guy? Edwards responded that, as long as you’ve got a good story that keeps them hooked, the audience will forgive bad visuals but they won’t forgive bad sound. It’s a sentiment that I believe was also echoed by Robert Rodriguez in his low budget filmmaking days. Good sound is essential to keeping people tuned in and immersed in your video. It’s why the number one thing recommended to any YouTuber starting out is “get a good microphone”.

The graphics are 80% of the way there now. Weather and character animation still needs work but the most bang for the buck might now have swung round to sound design.
It's funny to me that you took joining leadership as a path to less meetings!

The only time I worked stupid hours in my career was in a director role: I was in the office at 7:30, left no earlier than 6:30 (usually drove people home after that!), and got very friendly with the weekend cleaning staff because I was in there 2 weekends a month, minimum. I was doing at least 4 hours of meetings a day, and then trying to get a full day of work done on top of that. Forget that noise. I quit and went back to IC, where your problems are your problems, and other people's problems are (mostly) their problems.
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I think most of the low hanging fruit like that has been picked unfortunately. Most impactful science these days requires coordinated effort of large teams. I’m sure there are a few exceptions, but I doubt we will get anything like xerox parc again any time soon. But I agree that high performers should be given more resources!
“The winch was rated to handle the moose’s weight—roughly 1,500 pounds”

Permit me on this wonderful Saturday morning to be tangentially pedantic.

I imagine the true “weight” of dragging a moose across the ground is a lot more than 1500lbs by probably many multiples?
Money, imprisonment, trauma, stress, career destroyed...how much "success" do you want?
I bet your pm won’t deliver 8/8 if they picked even 4/8 that would be impressive
Google says "(dalfampridine) Extended Release Tablets, 10 mg, is the first and only brand prescription medicine indicated to help improve walking in adults with multiple sclerosis (MS). This was demonstrated by an increase in walking speed."
> As a Dutch citizen I was simply happy about the fact that they were able to recreate Amsterdam in such a beautiful way.

But if you live in New York, San Francisco or London you would be tired of seeing your city in games. Even games like Assassin's Creed Valhalla, supposedly a Nordic setting, it mainly focus on England and the visit to North America is as important as the time that you spend in actual Scandinavian land.

So, some people is not impressed by the settings while others are grateful just by being represented at all.
Indeed. This is something the the staunch React folks are missing: with vanilla, I can cut out a LOT of excessive payload.
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I tend to use “HP” style decimal floating point types if accuracy is required. The mantissa is stored as one base 10 digit per 4 bits (BCD encoded). A 64 bit int gives 12 digits of precision and 3 digit mantissa plus flags. This can be scaled to 128 bits if needed easily.

I spent several years maintaining a C library that handled these for some embedded instrumentation. This included most key mathematical functions as well. Most interesting thing I ever had to look after.
Some interesting points here:

> Schools are increasingly structured in ways that frustrate boys. We expect young children to sit still and be quiet—which is harder on boys. We cut back on physical activity and push academics to ever earlier grades, meaning that slower maturing boys start failing in school early. We have eliminated much of the hands-on learning opportunities, such as shop, that used to be standard.

Why not shop class?
This is team of 2 engineers that's building + shipping faster than most teams I've seen while having insane number DAUs. Moving fast (and patching problems even faster) is the name of the game here and these guys delivered.
At least I assume it's back to normal. Lots of things changed in my life around the same time, so I don't have perfect reference. But I am happy to report I hear the ringing of my wireless router again.
Have you heard of/has your wife tried low dose naltrexone (LDN)? Major disclaimer - I’m not a doctor/this isn’t medical advice, but LDN has been found somewhat helpful for MS (and a lot of autoimmune conditions) - a friend recommended it to me after he benefited from it himself for his autoimmune condition.

LDN is also apparently gaining interest for long covid (https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...).

I wish the best for your wife.
> Is fair to say, for example, that we are about as clueless as our ancestors were with the bubonic plague?

“We” in the collective sense are not clueless about quantum mechanics at all. We have an extremely exact model, and pretty much every attempt
At proving that it’s insufficient fails.
The only “problem” with quantum mechanics is the same as the “problem” we had in Newtonian mechanics when we found that a tennis ball and a bowling ball falling from head height hit the ground at the same time. This was a problem because intuition would have the heavier object fall faster than the lighter. It wasn’t an actual problem with Newtonian mechanics though mind you. Our intuition was counter to reality, the problem was the intuition not the model of reality.

Naturally there were other actual problems with Newtonian mechanics, but none of that had to do with making it more intuitive. And the same is true of quantum mechanics. It doesn’t sound intuitive to most people, but that’s not problem, it just means your intuition about how systems should behave at these scales is wrong.
You missed the part where the main character regenerates faster than Wolverine after taking a bullet
I don’t see anything super impressive that could be attributed to CoD developers. I think most of this really advances in hardware that allows more lighting, higher quality textures and more polygons.
But even with all of that, this isn’t looking incredibly realistic. There are games and engines that done it little more convincing
Atlantis?
So you're saying I should move to Argentina.
Perhaps we should funnel more resources to the problems they quote, but it seems to me we already are doing a lot: global poverty rates have dropped dramatically over the last one hundred years, much attention is given to social justice concerns and debating how to adjust society in response, and clean energy is also a large focus. Society has other concerns… the authors should argue why we need to further neglect those in favor of their preferred areas, but haven’t done it.
Ti84 here, basically the same
Aren't artists still involved in getting assets ready for production? My understanding was that a fair amount of polishing and refinement would still be required after capture (e.g. trimming down a very high poly model to something which can be rendered at 60FPS) - but I don't know to what extent that may have been automated by now.

I guess technologies like Nannite will also reduce the need for this type of grunt work.

But in either case, artists will still be involved in framing and staging the scene, doing the actual capture etc.

Creating a beautiful scene through photogrammetry is still a form of art, the same way photography and painting are each forms of art.
Now imagine what that moose could do if it was an _educated_ moose?

https://globalnews.ca/news/8349864/moose-saskatoon-school/
Clojure really brings out the negativity in a lot of people. I love the language and the ecosystem and it's done wonders for my career. Is it perfect? No. There are definitely warts. But whenever Clojure is brought up I tend to see a lot of the same criticisms. I feel compelled to defend the honor of my favorite language, so here's my perspective on a couple of the perennial issues people bring up. This doesn't mean that if you think these things you're wrong, but this is my perspective having used Clojure for a long time.

Startup times are a non issue. Does the fact your server takes a few extra seconds to start on deploy actually matter? No, it doesn't. In development I hardly restart my REPL unless I update a dependency or pull from a branch. Even in the latter case I can usually use Cider to refresh it. In my 8 years of writing Clojure that other people give me money for I can confidently say it's never been a big issue.

I love that it runs on the JVM and doesn't hide it. There's infinite libraries for every weird enterprise B2B widget so I don't have to screw around (much) to get them to work. The JVM is a great tool and runs on anything.

Types. Everyone always hand wrings about types because they don't understand how anyone could possibly refactor the huge data structures they're used to from OOP without types. It's also, largely, a non issue. For one, data structures are not the abstraction in functional programming. Functions are. You don't need to write class OtherCompanyAccountsGetter, you just write a function that maybe takes a couple parameters and returns the accounts. You then test that function. Then you build more functions on top of it. If the underlying API changes you go change that one function and make sure your tests still pass. If something drastically changes about inputs you can easily find all usages and fix things up. Additionally, in my experience, FP leads to systems that need far less big time refactoring than OOP, since things are encouraged to be broken up into much smaller pieces (functions) and those pieces are meant to be black boxes. The worst Clojure codebase I've worked in was far easier to understand than the worst OOP codebase I've worked in.
That would be spending more than 60% of your paycheck on rent
I did notice the falling leaves which I thought was a nice touch. I didn’t notice any wind but I did watch the video on a iPhone screen so it’s possible that the wind effects are so subtle as to not be noticeable at small screen sizes.
And when the internet connectivity is gone, your files are also gone.