skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a newspaper (as only one example) where they hold editorial control over the content and are therefore (in theory) beholden to the people who pay the bills (the advertisers). Forgetting for a second whether it would have any major impact (I say it would not I mean they scrape web pages in a very clear fashion) it's hard to believe it could go the route of say YELP in their mission. Or that a minor impact to what they do would not be offset by not having to beg for money. (With PBS it was called a begathon when they had to raise money).

And even with donations they could in theory be 'corrupted' just the same. A rich person could give them a large sum of money (as a donation) and then would have some defacto say in how things were done.

Take as another example ball parks (to even counter my point). They sell naming rights. That does not mean that the entity who purchased the naming rights gets to decide who plays on the team or who coaches the team although you could argue that that could happen (and I would say it does not offset the benefit of not having that 'independence'.
This is really something that I can speak to with personal experience. When you believe in open-source software and decide to quit your job because you want to try and build a business around it, it is incredibly scary and fulfilling. You sacrifice a lot so that others can benefit. It's a bit of a life of illusion, but you make do. Good on these guys for providing to the community something that is genuinely awesome.
The trade off makes no sense
>the US becomes increasingly internally focused and isolationist in its world view.

There is a lot of industry built around supplying the half a trillion a year military. They are well practiced in resisting reductions in funding. If the US becomes isolationist does that military might get turned inward.

Which option do you think is more likely

a) Stop buying so many toys

b) Overflow our sandpit into the rest of the yard

c) Play with our toys in other peoples' sandpits

Isolationism requires cutting out c as an option.
Isn't the issue here that a view is causing something, instead of the store?

If a view would just render and dispatch messages on user events, then this wouldn't really be an issue, as far as I understand.

The store and "runtime" can take care of loading stuff, independently of being rendered asynchronously, or not.
glTF was introduced by Khronos for WebGL, then thanks to Microsoft glTF 2.0 was born and became API agnostic.

Khronos YouTube channel has lots of talks on the format.
Unreal is not really open-source and has a restrictive license.
I have no clue.

https://i.imgur.com/qiKBJQf.png
> If you need housing for two million people and you have housing for one million, and you refuse to build any more housing, you don't have enough housing.

California has several times as many unoccupied housing units as homeless people. California doesn't have a hard shortage of housing units, certain people that need housing in California have insufficient material means to convince the people that own existing unoccupied housing units to rent or sell to them.
You would be astonished at some of the non-public (not that they are secret) machine learning things that Uber does that you wouldn't even be aware of.

My favorite is that they do pothole detection, prediction and routing around based on what they classified based on driver accelerometer data. They've also reduced traffic incidents with insights from the same dataset that drove product changes.
Yes, though I don't fiddle with things much day to day with Linux any more.

But I'll tell you what does happen: CADT and shit just randomly breaking from release to release. Fewer things work than did ten years ago as well.

Right now I have gargantuan indicator icons in my Ubuntu Mate panels. They worked fine for the last ten years previously. But here we go on 19.10. Has something to do with my 4k monitors but as mentioned, worked fine until this release.
Unity is not free. Instead of paying once or a fixed subscription, you have to pay a % of all your profits.

Which, in many cases, is way worse than the alternative pricing model.
Awesome! https://victorribeiro.com/isocity/#IjIqKioyIgoxKioqMQoKMRwZG...
Day 615 New Year
Yes, the equality of everyone getting the same amount with UBI is symbolic since you need to look at the overall effect combined with taxes. It's better thought of as a redistribution and insurance program. Most people with average or above income will be getting back their own money, like an income tax refund that happens throughout the year. (Not accounting for this makes the cost look a lot higher than it is.)

Financial security is important though. Paying more in taxes in normal times so you know you'll be okay between jobs would make everyone more secure.

The tends to worry people who think their fellow citizens can't handle financial security and will do crazy things unless forced to worry about money all the time. I think more bad stuff happens due to poverty than due to having some money.
They're moving from their existing Actor/Component model to a Entity/Component/System model.

It might help them get some perf but its not as user friendly, nor trivial, so in Unity fashion they're just going to have several systems available is less than perfect interopt.

They're also rewriting more things in C# but I think that's a pretty good change, personally.
For solid data points and analysis on how the US economy is performing I follow:

https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/

The blog is authored by Bill McBride who correctly called the 2008 downturn and housing market blow-up. I find his data points and corresponding analysis to be much better than any coverage in major media organizations, and it has majorly influenced the financial decisions that I have made over the past decade.

At the moment he is posting about a series of 10 questions about how the US economy will perform in 2020 that are worth checking out.
Your last point got me thinking about people sitting in a dark room waiting for autonomous cars to have trouble on the road then alert them to intervene, turning 1 driver:1 car into 1 driver:20 cars.
I'm sorry, but I don't see how my comment reads that way at all. I was careful to qualify all of my statements so they were not overly general for exactly that reason.

In any case, while Visual Studio is a decent IDE, I don't see how it's exceptional as far as developer experience goes. It has an OK but somewhat underpowered editor, an OK but somewhat overcomplicated project system, etc. It feels quite "heavy" compared to a lot of other tools these days, IME.
The Strangeness of Grief
There will be another factorial increase in, for a lack of a better term, email attachment sizes.

It's still hard to share files that are 500MB in size, and I don't see why. I think it has to do with media companies like Google not wanting individuals to share files, unless it is through them. But the damn will break soon, much like Megaupload changed the scene in 2005.
> Relative to their wealth, Rich people, effectively, do not even pay income tax. The bulk of income tax is paid by the middle class. Does that seem fair to you?

Where are you getting this information? From what I can find, the top 20% of Americans pay 87% of income taxes: https://www.wsj.com/articles/top-20-of-americans-will-pay-87...
On a long term Win install traditionally you have to pay attention to disk space, backups of patches pile up in the system folder until the disk is almost full. Which leads to more fragmentation, which leads to slowdowns. Which leads to anger and fear, then the dark side.

Has this been finally fixed?
Depressing read. I knew the effort was facing PR challenges in South Asia, but I didn’t realize the tricky problems outside that region stepping down from the old vaccine.
Well if we can't agree that each person gets enough [space for enough] sunlight for free just because of birth and gravity, then what is there to talk about?

Keep in mind that, if we can beat gravity just a little bit, there's a lot of space, eh? I mean, nothing but, really.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power
How do you turn off all phoning home and run a stable system with only security and essential compatibility updates applied if and when you choose in an officially supported way with Windows 10 Pro?
I'm not a Godot user, I'm a Unity user, but the fact that you don't have to pay is one of the big draws of Godot. Unity Pro is $150/month per seat.

The fact that it's open source is also big, because there are often bugs in the Unity engine that I can't fix since I don't have source access.

A lot of devs also like jumping on new technology because it feels good to learn new things.

Oh and then because it's open source, you can improve the engine and it gives you the "Ikea effect" where you like something more because you helped to create it.
“Full perceptual override”?
Several of the warts in Terraform were fixed in 0.12.

While I think the HCL DSL was a mistake and prefer the CloudFormation YAML, CloudFormation has its share of warts as well, and the TF community has been doing better than CF in staying up-to-date with the AWS API updates - which reflects quite poorly on AWS actually.

> would not recommend to use terraform at all since you will run into warts and fundamental issues

It's not a good look to be employed by the 800 pound gorilla and bash your company's competitor without mentioning specifics.
This is a blatantly obvious bad faith to start a flame war, and you're doing your side no favour if it becomes associated with this absence of reasoning skills. Luckily, it's going to be flagged befoer I finish this comment, anyway.
FWIW, I'm the primary Redux maintainer, have written large chunks of the current docs (including the FAQ and the Style Guide), have overseen the development of the last three major versions of React-Redux (including writing v7 from scratch myself), and drove the entire development of Redux Toolkit. So yeah, I guess you could call that an "appeal to authority".

The docs content and recommendations are based specifically on the questions I've seen asked, the ways I've seen Redux used, and the concerns I've seen expressed by users. My goal is to simplify how people learn and use Redux, and point them in directions that lead to better codebases. You're always welcome to use other approaches if they work better for you, but there's good reasons for all the patterns we're recommending.
Learn Language Like a Linguist – 1 (JavaScript – Basic Concept) 2020
Please don't take HN threads into brand-fan flamewar or insinuate shillage or astroturfing. These things break the HN guidelines and lead to much lower-quality discussion. Your comments include substantive points—please stick to those.
Ask HN: What advice would you tell yourself ten years ago?
It's such a shame that redux missed the equivalent of returning a Cmd in reducers. It would have made everything much simpler and reasonable, especially the boilerplate.
I don't think its a AAA request, per se. Unity seems to constantly need features to slap on the box. At this point it feels like DOTS is significantly influenced by the marketing team. I mean, engineers would spell out the features and not wrap it up into this vague concepts of "DOTS."
> ”What is it that makes you think formal methods will become more popular?”

Well, we’re hiring those skills into one of the world’s larger banks. As are peers with similar industry challenges.
iOS: You'll still have a really hard time doing anything related to files, by design. Oh and didn't have a dark theme until VERSION 13! Sheesh.
Free remote data storage + cell phone mesh network?
> There are billions of computers out there that are idle most of the time.

They will remain idle unltil untethered energy and bandwidth become free.

I won't let you use my phone's spare cycles and murder my battery while we're still using lipo cells that degrade after 2 years with regular use.
Not sure where you’re getting 3-10x. The discrepancy appears to be closer to 10-20% (~$11k per student in poor districts vs. ~$13k in rich districts). Are you saying there are districts that spend $30k-100k per student?

[0] https://edtrust.org/resource/funding-gaps-2018

[1] https://edbuild.org/content/23-billion#CA
There are things that aren't as obvious and may seem counterintuitive. Because company A derives 95% of their profits from ads it puts pressure on product design to not endanger that and also branch out in other areas. It would be extremely risky for such a business to have a cavalier attitude to how they manage user's trust and the information that the ads depend on because, like you said, they depend on that ad income. That is why, if you have to give your private information and the choice is between a company that depends on (safeguarding) it (like Google) vs a company that doesn't care (like mom&pop store), I would be very afraid of the latter's management of your private information, the security of their systems, etc.

If you have a choice to not give your private information (or limit what you give) to anyone then that's obviously better.
Extinct Operating Systems That Time Forgot
> However, volunteering doesn't pay anything and inventing something is really risky, so as a result I can't contribute in such ways to society and instead am working at a job I hate contributing to my deteriorating quality of life and mental health (i feel like a slave working towards having enough money to buy myself from my owner).

I often wonder how many people feel this.

I don't feel quite as dire about it, but I absolutely agree that my best contributions to society will be those I initiate and see to fruition on my own accord. Unfortunately, I too have many ideas, yet so little time to work on them.

It's too risky to quit work and embark on my own, so I only get 1/10th of my vision done during the evening and weekend hours I can spare. And even then I'm burning the last remaining cycles of effort I have during the day. It's a slow, painful slog. But I am making progress.

If I were in the flip side position of being a CEO with a product vision and lots of workers to see my ideas through to fruition, how many of my employees would be stuck in the same trough of apparent underutilization and under-fulfillment? If I empowered them to follow their own path and dreams, wouldn't they quit and leave me with nobody to work on my vision?

If you get rid of the perhaps boring and mundane "keeping the lights on" jobs, which are ever so important, then the product dies.

This is a hard problem.
I've been a Godot hobbyist for years. Big factors for me at first were that it's open source and that it's lightweight. I started using it for those reasons, and then I found that the node system "clicks" much faster than Unity's model. Once you "get it", Godot is both very easy to work in and program for, and while it's not as polished as Unity, it's basically the perfect tool for solo hobby projects.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20932987
In my experience, I’ve noticed that order confirmation includes order details: shipping confirmation not. Took me a while to notice the pattern, and I still find it frustrating.
Computer, server, internet connection were huge costs back then. As was the web server software.

You could use a $200 refurbished Dell, internet at Starbucks, $5/month VPS these days.

Heck, it was hard to get a 5MB web hosting account back then for $10/month!
As late as 1980, Polio was crippling 300,000 children every year. It's now down to a few hundred, at a bargain price of order $10B (total, not per year). It's natural to wonder whether it makes sense to push to fully eradicate the disease (which will cost billions more) rather than simply controlling it (presumably at a substantially lower cost) for a few decades until the regions become wealthy enough that eradication is cheap (at least relative to the local economy). This is not at all an obvious question; for organizations that are somewhat economically rational like the Gates Foundation, billions spend on eradication is billions not spent on other developing world interventions that might save more lives.

Here's the economic case for eradication:

http://polioeradication.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Econo...
Since before it was HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13852
It's getting even more difficult though because now there is a quickly growing body of research into the effectiveness of the instructional kind of online learning, including for computer science and machine learning pedagogy.

Definitely some SEO issues even in peer reviewed research databases.
If you feel so bad about including a "library", the redux-thunk middleware is trivial to implement yourself in about 6 lines of code.
Is this primarily required because AWS CLI is not good enough at listing resources in desired format (json, jsonpath, yaml, table..)?
How did you find Viaweb as a customer? Google wasn't around in 1995, so I imagine it was hard to find anything.
Does Alexa et al work without internet as well? We need a local closed-circuit voice recognition equivalent to be the brains
You mean Unreal Engine, not Unity. Unity has a regular subscription ($150/month per seat).

With Unreal Engine, there is also an exception for hobbyists, specifically you only have to pay 5% to Epic if you make more than $3000 in a quarter.
Aye, that is disappointing. It's oddly out of character for him and I think he made a big mistake using that label. Not sure what's going on there and hope they revise that.

As for UBI, I have the same concern and worry he's too far ahead of the zeitgeist for it. Though he makes a strong case when you hear him talk about it and answer questions in depth, even to many across the aisle. And generally I think he'd have a good shot of at least bringing people together enough that they could have a good faith debate. Outside of UBI I suspect he'd make a surprising amount of progress.
I remember when Second Life was predicted to transform everything from Education to basic human interaction.
But maximizing ad revenue (long term) does also imply not losing user's trust and information.
Heard an interesting idea about the overlap of information theory and physics in one of Sean Carroll's recent podcast discussions. They blew past it but I think it bears its own subject.

The idea goes like this. If you want to talk about simplicity, beauty, or elegance of a physical law--maybe because you think that's more likely to be correct than a complicated law--then we've already got tools like Kolmogorov complexity to talk about such laws.
Carlos Ghosn: How Did the Nissan Ex-Boss Flee from Japan?
They are zero indexed. The first zero is just missing. It's only relevant if you need to work in terms of the nth century, or cross the boundary between CE and BCE.

Calling this the start of a new decade, and 2001 the start of this century, still makes perfect sense with the logical and consistent model that ISO has come up with.

https://www.iso.org/obp/ui#iso:std:iso:8601:-1:ed-1:v1:en

I like ordinals and appreciate the distinction between ordinal and cardinal, and am happy with this edge case.

It gets confusing with centuries and terms like the 2000s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s) but decades tend to always be called 10s, 20s, etc. If you can get people to call this the 202nd decade, more power to you. However, defining the 2020s or 20s as 2021-2030 is wrong.
What do you mean by, "no 3rd party apps"?

You can use F-Droid (https://f-droid.org/) in place of the Play Store.
The Naked Business (2007)
If you need reliable support, you have to pay someone. It does not matter which project you are talking about.
Which Unifi Wireless Access Points You Should Buy for Your Home Network
Get out of academia
Same. Beyond the obvious lack of perspective on the developing world (where meat-eating can only grow), entire cultures are completely wrapped up in the rituals around eating meat and will resist any attempt to go back to the bad old days of meat scarcity.
Thanks for using Twitter to remind Mr. Altman of the bet.
I can see that. Or, even simpler, a delivery person hopes out with a package and the remote driver circles the block. Garbage trucks might be the first to have this system installed. You need two people to operate a truck currently, a driver and a guy in the back. It drives slow along the road, very predicable routes. Needs to be driven back to the yard once filled, and another truck to take over the route.
I do the same, but I do worry about the security aspect. I don’t like the idea of having a bunch of devices on my network. I put the IoT things on a guest network, but I still feel iffy about it. I’m sure there are better solutions, but all of them seem to require flashing your router with DDWRT and doing fancy networking things that I don’t understand well, and frankly I don’t want to put the effort in.
Machine Learning is a technology the same way blockchain is. Customers buy products and solutions, not your tech stack so it doesn't make sense for any company to sell themselves as a machine learning company, unless you're selling APIs.

Alexa / Siri / Google Assistant would not be possible without machine learning. Same goes for Snapchat's filters and any other form of AR. Google's Pixel phones wouldn't have such a great camera without computational photography / machine learning.
Wish these billionaires with good intentions would invest in marketing to revamp public nuclear sentiment. There’s clearly the possibility of progress given how effective other political campaigns are.
WTF, the products and services are the surveillance...
> In 2030, you'll be able to hug anyone on Earth instantly, and that's something to be optimistic about.

Or instantly punch anyone on earth in the face. Based on how the last decade went, I’m not optimistic.
> but a $0.50 analog light switch will last a century

Most will. Some will break within 3 months. Our old home tech (there is nothing analog in a light switch) isn't as flawless as most people claim. Power outlets do short circuit, wires to break, circuit breakers to burn closed.

They are still way more reliable than most electronic trash people push as smart home devices, but at this point, it's a marketing decision not an inherent property of electronics.
Certain services are marked for termination. Others don’t seem to be.
Wonderful work. Hopefully this will go a long way toward accomplishing my related new years resolution to speak at tech conferences :)!
> Why does Windows have two control panels?

Two? Try three. If you did deep enough the original System control panel from old will come up.

I prefer those actually, easy to understand and a lot less wordy. I don't come to the control panel to read a novel.
Isn't the labor participation rate irrelevant here though for talking about "job for everyone who needs to survive"?

In the perfect world technology and economics improve so much that no one has to work to survive.

In that sense, the ideal labor participation rate is 0%.
The fact that it cost merely 10B to get polio infections to this point is an depressing indictment of the greed that consumes the modern world.

How else could 10B save or massively improve tens/hundreds of millions of lives.
Yeah, but even there, he hasn't posted since August :( nowadays I think the only regular public activity is his participation in the podcast All the President's Lawyers - besides @Popehat on Twitter, of course.
Thank you for creating this, I've already shared it with a few people
To be fair everyone wants to tick features on their box.

DOTS doesn't seem that vague to me.