skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or there's the time-tested path to gamedev: modding existing games.

Definitely for kids, modding an existing game is the right way to go. It will be way more fun, and it'll be a lot more motivating to share things with friends than to do stuff because dad said so.

I think you're also right that Unity is better but it's still pretty challenging. Programming is really crazy hard, especially for young kids.

That's despite great things like Code.org and Scratch. Those activities are substantiated by good observational (qualitative) evidence measuring creativity, not programming ability.

The only hard quantitative data people have is engagement time--that kids spend more time in apps than equivalent regular instruction when learning idiosyncratic turtle graphics in apps. Pretty unsurprising in my opinion.

As far as I know, there is no evidence that these pre-high school programming experiences retain acceptably-performing students in high school programming like AP Computer Science better than forcing them to take the class. Scratch's educational mission, which I am most familiar with, has for now not made such test-based outcomes an investigative priority.

Honestly an old-school 3D shooter is just about the worst thing you can coerce a disinterested kid into doing. If they're pre-puberty and still care what dad thinks, this sort of activity is exactly what kids drop when they get older. If they're in high school and don't care what dad thinks: it's not a multiplayer game, it doesn't inhabit some social space/it isn't a "third place," it's not taking advantage of the greatest power of the classroom in high school, peer pressure.

This is based on my experience making a game that kids 12+ regularly mod, being the only kid in high school that programmed regularly before 18, and interacting with (but not conducting research with) the wonderful people at Scratch, who really do know how to make algorithmic thinking and creativity work for kids 12 and younger.

Maybe at Stuyvesant parents are making the kids learn C++, but you gotta understand that coercion is the placebo, not the treatment. If you're going to coerce your kids into doing something incredibly boring, it might as well be whatever narrow testing regime is hot these days and not what we fantasize vicariously they should be interested in doing.
According to [1]:

> On average, each cash-using household pays $149 to card-using households and each card-using household receives $1,133 from cash users every year. Because credit card spending and rewards are positively correlated with household income, the payment instrument transfer also induces a regressive transfer from low-income to high-income households in general.

[1] https://www.bostonfed.org/publications/public-policy-discuss...
it's possible that some miners choose to store their data on S3 or some other large/well known cloud provider. However, miners have other options as well. For instance, they could store their data in their own data centers or with more start-up storage providers without needing all the marketing resources that Amazon, Microsoft, Google, etc. have.

One of the use cases I'm looking forward to seeing from Filecoin though is for regular folks with desktops that have extra storage capacity to just rent that capacity out. Right now the extra 500GB of storage space I have is just an unutilized resource waiting to be made use of. Additionally, it allows people to basically swap data capacity so I'll store 500GB of data for other people, and in return I'll use that Filecoin to pay other people to store my data. This is could be very useful for personal data backup where my primary requirement is that my data live somewhere else that is not on my computer.
Metro Exodus Uses Ray Tracing
Consider Yourself a Developer? You Should Solve the Project Euler Problems
ITER won't become fully operational until 2035 and that is just for conducting experiments. We are still decades from commercial fusion power plants.
Of-course, the customer had to explicitly give permission (every time) for Chrome to access any HW device. Also the device had to be manually put into bootloader mode.
Looks like it's also available for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/don-t-fuck-wi...
Idk he might eventually grow tired of living off tuition and taxpayer money.
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Its pretty simple actually. People aren't rational, and expect to apply their logic to areas outside of their own communities.

> The second is that you believe having a homogenous culture in the rural areas would be enough. If it was, then you wouldn't see those same rural people rallying against sanctuary cities and blaming coastal cities for destroying their culture

Case in point: people are irrational. What they want for themselves, they'll campaign for on the national stage (and affect people thousands of miles away).

There's been a loss of true federalism in this country. People think we're all one big country with the same culture, that's for both urban and rural folk. But I think there's a strong possibility of creating a message that will fly in both urban and rural areas.

Imagine if we actually made San Francisco a federally-recognized Sancutary city. Where not only ICE kept out of the immigrant communities there, but maybe dumped a few immigrants into San Francisco (for sake of propaganda, if nothing else) But that's not what these people are seeing right now. They're seeing San Francisco protesters yell "Abolish ICE" to the cameras.

We know what they want, we know what San Francisco wants. There's a solution here that likely can make both sides happy. San Francisco wants ICE to stop destroying the immigrant communities in its city. ("Abolish ICE" is as stupid as the wall BTW. I hope no actual candidate actually pursues that action. Its just a rallying cry that represents what people actually want)

Rural areas nominally want to blame immigrants. So LET them. Give them what they want. Its not our job to enrich their areas, or to run their corner of the country.

> That's why we've seen the rise of white supremacists, neo-nazis and abhorrent policies being pushed by our officials.

While its abhorent, they're a good chunk of Trump's base (which is 30%+ of the country). We need to seriously consider them as a major player in US Politics.

I mean, what else is your plan? To call them racist for another 10 years and maybe they'll start to believe it a decade from now?
And another logical argument could be that this causes us to delay cutting emissions enough to prevent massive ecosystem changes resulting in humanity's death in the next few hundred years.

It's just not that simple. We need to look at both sides, weigh the options, and find a solution which probably involves a mix where we compromise on having X m³ of earth dedicated for a long time to nuclear waste to save us in the short term. I'm not informed enough to give exact figures and make proper arguments, but reiterating known one-liners won't get us anywhere.
As does https://accounts.google.com
> I wonder what it's caused by and how we can encourage it

Probably because many Germans have a relatively recent memory of the Stasi in the DDR.
Everyone should be aware of two tools distributed as part of GnuPG:

1. “gpgv”, a stand-alone minimal binary to only verify PGP signatures. https://gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/gpgv.html#gpgv

2. “symcryptrun” – simple symmetric encryption tool: https://gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/symcryptrun.ht...
Part of that problem is that water is actually a decent moderator and neutron reflector, so it helps a lot in keeping a chain reaction with lots of energy output going. Some of the energy also goes into splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen can then collect in some corner of the building until it reaches an concentration where it explodes rather easily. The explosion can then damage the building, ruining containment and scatter radioactive material around. Moral of the story? Keep your box of boronic sand nice and dry.
Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs seeks share of property taxes for Toronto smart city
Regarding a specific building like Penn Station, no. But in general, yes.
It also replaces ssh-agent. I also use monkeysphere to store SSH keys in GPG. It's a far better solution than ssh keys lying around requiring management.
Also here are numbers:

Eli Lilly had a revenue of $22B with a net income of just $204M last year. So roughly they have made $1 profit for every $100 of revenue. Does not look like "endless greed for profit" to me here. In fact I will not buy their stocks.
An open and flexible framework for enclave applications
If someone controls your DNS they can monitor and/or control your internet traffic flow.

Like controlling your phone exchange, one can either watch who you connect to, or connect you to other phones regardless of the phones you try to connect to.
Yes, except Chrome has very liberal definition of what it considers an error.
> If you own a domain and have a webserver running ssl you can distribute your public key in a secure manner.

That means that I'd be trusting GUANG DONG CERTIFICATE AUTHORITY and every other CA not to issue a fraudulent certificate against my domain. I don't think that's very secure.
The fact that your server would be locally on site eases two of the major pain points...
If the Windows games you're playing on your VM are resource intensive, why not instead just do a V2P to a bare metal gaming rig each time you want to refresh the OS from your "reproducible" image? This would eliminate many more difficult scenarios... however if the games you're playing on the VM are not resource-intensive, especially if they're 2D, then sure GPU passthrough stuff may be the easiest and best-performing option for you considering all the overhead of maintaining a separate, physical box.

Use a Type I hypervisor and expect to tweak your configuration endlessly... and once it's working, endlessly still more...

I'd recommend ProxMox... here's a setup that worked for somebody:
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/gpu-passthrough-tutorial-r...

I've set up an online gaming company/system that's rather novel but my implementation is far removed from yours, as you have dedicated graphics on a local hypervisor.
C# doesn't allow fallthrough. Every branch in a case clause must exit the case clause. Fallthrough can only be aachieved with a goto at the end of the case clause. The `break;` requirement is completely superficial; there's no reason why it couldn't be a classical block/statement choice:

case "foo" { /* ... */ }
case "bar" /* ... */;
example:
two functions:
"sub" and "add". both have type signatures (int,int) -> int
yet the types will not help you to proof you are using the functions correctly, and the types are also not helping that the output of these functions is always as promised by the documentation.
GDPR affects backup tapes too
How hard is it to cat two keys together in a profile?
Do you have to treat the output of the drive crusher as hazardous waste?
This might explain why whenever I use a different DNS, some google subdomains refuse to connect.
Also, the time investment to learn a congruent field's jargon is often much greater than just making up words and let the internet peanut gallery sort out the synonyms for you.
I know that it is and understand that amazon got a pretty standard package. Just because it happens all the time doesn't mean that it's right.
The Dutch probably do to a similar extent. We were quite involved in the war, unfortunately, and burning records to avoid involving jews/romas/homos/etc.

But yeah it's the only thing I can think of as well. I still can't pinpoint what argument it is that they are implicitly taught that we aren't.
Keybase is a centralized service but AIUI you don't need to actually trust the centralized Keybase service because all the actual validation is performed client-side (i.e. verifying all the proofs that the people you follow have posted) and all of the changes people make to their profiles are publicly published as a chain that is then periodically embedded into the Bitcoin blockchain.

As long as you're ok with relying on the keybase service being reachable and functional, trust is still decentralized and verifiable.
Apple buys voice app maker Pullstring
Uh, so they will be perfectly happy to pay for something (not to mention change their code and go through the fun of dealing with contracts) they were previously getting for free - rather than, say, send a nice email to a private address or some relationship manager. Yes, this makes total sense.

There sure are a lot of HN folks out there who apparently understand the ins and outs of corporate OSS way better than I do. Apparently I'm a wide-eyed naif who thought that OSS was all about community, and need to be set straight by one HN cynic after another.
Forecasting using incomplete models (2018)
Thank you, but I think your assumption that the only thing that matters is finding 1000x returns is wrong. If you look at VC returns at scale and over time, what's considered acceptable returns are lower than you might expect (12% IRR).

If you're funding people at $2m valuation without customers and with a SAFE, then yes the only way to get there is with the hits. We are betting that's not the only way, but it does mean we cannot compete in the valuation olympics.
Facebook enables ads to target users interested in ‘vaccine controversies’
This is a really interesting point, thank you.

I hadn't realized NYC's population as a whole was only up 300,000 since 1950, either. Maybe most interesting, the 2 boroughs that gained population are larger (combined) than the 3 that lost it, and even today Queens and Staten Island have the lowest population density. The metro area has grown massively, but for the city proper it looks like not only has growth been slow, it's been steadily evening out density.

I wonder how this has played out elsewhere; are there patterns of outcome (and relative unhappiness cause) for population spikes/declines and for lower, prolonged levels of excess demand?
Its interesting that pass[1] uses GPG and was created by the author of wireguard, Jason Donenfeld. I wounder if he would build it differently if he were starting today?

I feel like the one thing that keeps me from abandoning GPG completely is the general lack of smartcard support in any other system. Are there any examples of using yubikeys to store your libsodium keys?

[1]: https://www.passwordstore.org/
For something to become history, it must survive history first. 50 years old is just their parents and possibly grand parents. 100 years old is probably great grandparents, but mostly everyone that age is dead. It is a time completely foreign to their childhood. Some buildings can be historical when they are built, for example weird or innovative designs, but they too must survive the test of time. If they were built like crap, they'll fall apart and be torn down due to excessive costs.
i wanted to like unity but not having low level access to the rendering and physics internals is intolerable.
Australian mining engineer here. Based on some pretty basic evidence [0] I'd assume uranium mining is several orders of magnitude less damaging than other energy sources, and probably has a decisive "carbon free" advantage over wind and solar once you factor those externalities in.

Australia is a top-3 uranium producer [1], we have 3 mines. That rounds to 0 in Australian mining terms. Olympic Dam is a monster in relative terms, and the production numbers are ... by tonnes Olympic Dam isn't even a uranium mine, it is a copper mine. And Olympic Dam [2] is a world class uranium mine afaik.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_p...

[2] https://www.bhp.com/-/media/bhp/documents/investors/reports/...
Tesla Hacker's Open-Source Project 'FreedomEV', WiFi Hotspot and Anti Tracking
CA high speed rail proj canceled OR Americans hate public transit
The politician that grants approval to the developments was just selected. He is the most anti Amazon person, he grants approval or not with a small committee. He refused to even meet with Amazon executives. 3 times they asked for an audience, he rejected all 3 and chose to grandstand. He built a name for himself, saw him on the news this morning and he looked like a complete fool.
That's cool! Printing a hex file! :)

We tried a similar method of playing audio from the browser when its actually serial data. I think there are a few arduino platforms doing this now and it works on PCs and phones.

Yes, unfortunately it is Chrome only. The good news is that our device didnt really have to change at all to support Chrome. Most hardware devices' bootloaders support DFU (Device Firmware Update) so all we had to do was support DFU on our website.
Watch Erik Kennedy redesign the Timezon.es app in less than 10 minutes
Itanium Deathwatch Finally Over
No mystery at all. Google tailors the results to what it thinks you want, rather than what you asked for.

Two people sitting at machines next to each other can perform the same search and get different results. It's what Google's spent billions of dollars on.
Now that convincingly debunks the China syndrome, China is obviously not the antipode to Fukushima
Checkout this Minecraft clone: https://github.com/fogleman/Craft

It is not tutorial, but the code is very clean and readable and it use modern techniques (compared to Wold3D/Doom style raycasters). The codebase could be extended easily.
Would becoming tenured change that? I would have thought both postdocs and tenured researchers would usually be funded mostly by research grants.
> Why information can't flow from the future to the past is an extremely interesting question that is not terribly well answered.

I took a whack at it a while back:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2014/10/parallel-universes-and-ar...
It's possible the studding of skyscrapers occurred before the hostility, right?
Ebay removed substring search years ago, and this basically collapsed a whole bunch of industries that were using Ebay as their marketplace. Think hundreds of thousands of similar part numbers. This is why you see pages of part numbers blasted over the listing details.

Ebay's one job is to connect buyers and sellers and they fail miserably at that.

Not even a local minimum, a global minimum. Not a platform, a gated swamp.
Wavefunction collapse (which is actually not a thing in MWI/universal wavefunction theory) is an event or transition that moves strictly forward in time.

Time travel, if possible, would be entirely orthogonal.

There is no movement between the "worlds" in "many worlds" (which is part of the reason why "many worlds" is such a misleading label). At best there's interference between them.
Adblockers Performance Study
In addition to echo chamber effects, this would strongly favor comments in popular threads. This may or may not be appropriate, depending on how you define "high-quality."
Despite almost everyone who has made an attempt on their life saying it's counterproductive and patronizing, this is consistently the first response on any thread or discussion about suicide.

I think this is symptomatic of the broader total failure to understand what could lead someone to suicide, and the tendency to assume what someone in crisis knows or just ditching them off. Maybe just accept that suicide is a human right and engage individuals in crisis as individuals with unique problems.
game engine != game.

learning how to raycast, the maths involved, how to make your own game engine, none of those things are covered in that repo. It's a different thing. This kind of negativity is damaging.
If they would use DNS over HTTPS, then yes they could
No one is being forced to spend money they don't have.
> This is nothing to do with tech companies.

The same companies whose product is customer data and usage patterns? That they use to develop behavioural models, affinities and recommendation engines?

It's one thing when you are a device maker and are required to provide in-country servers and backdoor access as a condition of doing business. Blackberry (then RIM) caught heat for that in 2011 when they provided that to India and the UAE.

It's a different thing entirely when gargantuan companies like Amazon or Google that control a significant part of the Internet's infrastructure begin to shift away from public-facing business models and towards high-margin contract work for governments.

You said it yourself:

> Government have lot more money and resources to fund such efforts

and they're adept at wasting it as well. You don't think Amazon, Google etc look at IT contracts in the public sector and salivate at the opportunity?
This is clickbait done right.
> on top of crap like Flint

Flint's water contamination has absolutely nothing to do with energy production of any kind. It was caused by the city still having lead water pipes.

Edit:

> About 16% of all fracking oil in the US gets spilled in nature every year[1]

> [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39032748

That isn't at all what that article says. It says 16% of wells suffer a spill each year. The industry would never allow 16% of its product to simply go to waste, particularly considering how difficult and expensive those operations are.
It does, but not like you'd think. If the backup is dormant, the right-to-be-forgotten portions can remain there. Once it comes out of cold storage, those RTBF requests have to be processed over the restored data. Although, in most cases, the dormant backups will expire and be deleted as per a data retention plan.
What a fraud that one is; spamming it everywhere.
It would be interesting to see a plot of the error compared to the analytical solution as it trains.
> As others have pointed out ~19 papers (and only 5 first author) over 23 years seems to be a low publication rate, which I think the author is reflecting on.

Low compared to what? Compared to the expectations set by his fellow scientists in a field shaped by the norms and incentives in question.

There's a circularity here (and in the earlier comment by Obi_Juan_Kenobi): apparently this guy's real problem was his own low productivity, which we know because he published less than his colleagues and competitors -- therefore his case can't tell us anything about the warped incentive structure that favours publication maximization over intellectual integrity.
My bad. Thanks for bringing that up.

Also, we're just now getting to see spent fuel at Fukushima?

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201902140041.html

Just because we can doesn't mean we should. Yes, total clickbait, but still.
Please stop your spam.
Sure, but Manhattan is not a ghost town either. The usual crop of employers is present, there's certainly no surfeit of supply on the commercial real estate market, etc. There are cities with mostly-empty skyscrapers and overly ambitious commercial centers. NYC isn't one of them.
It’s a poor choice of words for any headline that isn’t contact with ET.
>Although Ford had taken great care to blend into Earth society, he had "skimped a bit on his preparatory research," and thought that the name "Ford Prefect" would be "nicely inconspicuous." Ford "had simply mistaken the dominant life form." The Ford Prefect was, in fact, a British car manufactured in the 1950s. When he first arrived on Earth, Ford was almost run over while attempting to greet a blue Ford Prefect. He was saved by Arthur and this is how the pair meet.

We will miss you Douglas Adams.