skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans enjoys flower blooming gardens .. as do insects.

We can exists in parallel. Mostly. Mosquitos etc. we do not want to coexist in the same place. (at least the blood sucking type, most mosquitos actually do not suck blood)
The post was talking about fleets of machines, where just restricting the number of machines that do things seems to be useful.

But you only seem to have one machine in production (or one for the API plus one for the website), so it doesn't make sense to deploy to 10% of the machines.

What you can do is to arrange things so that each individual upgrade can be rolled back. Let's say you want to rename a parameter in the API. You have to make a backward-compatible change to the API so that the existing website keeps working. In other words, you provide two calls, one with the old parameter name and a different call with the new parameter name. Then you deploy that. If there are problems, you can roll back to the previous API version.

The next step is to change the website to invoke the new API call with the new parameter name. If that fails, you can go back to the previous website.

Let's say it succeeds. Now you have a website using the new API with the new parameter name, and an API providing both the old and the new parameter name.

The next step is to update the API to remove the old parameter name. If it turns out you forgot a place in the website where the old parameter is used, you can roll back to the previous API.

If it goes well, you now have a website that uses the new parameter name, and also an API that provides the new parameter name, and the old parameter name is no longer used.

It took a long time, but now it's mission accomplished and problem solved.
You are still severely underestimating what a modern game engine does. The technical side is only one part of it. Integrated content creation and editing is a huge part of it.
Really who cares about science when the US President comes up with sheer utter garbage like bleach and UV light inside your body and nobody bats an eyelid.
Im sorry, but how people fall for that. If you see covid cure on aliexpress, why do you think it would be a legit thing
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It’s sadly not uncommon for businesses to promise various services and then unilaterally change their minds. While I’m sure that there are some exceptions, most TOS have a ton of “we reserve the right to change our minds whenever for whatever reason, without warning”

Now that’s kind of different from the PR fallout. Amazon is risking a mass walkout of their customers over this; it just depends on whether or not customers see this as a reasonable response to a crazy circumstance, or a greedy move on Amazon’s part to maintain profitability over their commitments to customers.
I would like to suggest "History of Philosophy without any gaps" podcast website which explains in a rather complete way Philosophy in layman's terms. Everything is neatly organized (just check the top menu). Also it includes non western philosophy such as Avicenna's writings, its importance and relation to Aristotle's work.
Here is ths relevant episode on Aristotelian ethics:
https://historyofphilosophy.net/aristotle-ethics
One of the driving forces behind the neonicotinoids theory is a toxicologist called Henk Tennekes, who used to work as a consultant for Solvay, Roche, Monsanto en Sandoz (now known as Syngenta). Basically he claims that the toxicity was underestimated as it grows with time, the damage to the nerve system in insects is irreversible.

The pesticides also go into the surface water, where they found a link between higher surface-water concentrations of imidacloprid - a specific neonicotinoid - and a decline of birds that feed on insects.

Article in Dutch:
https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/toxicoloog-tennekes-had-al-die-...

On the toxicity of exposure time:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03004...

On the decline of insectivorous birds:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13531
It's not just Youtube, it's also Twitter[1] and Facebook[2]. When they all act in concert with each other, it's much harder to hold them accountable.

I think censorship can be dangerous in this context so I'm working on a decentralised fact-checker. I think it could be a more constructive solution to fake news that isn't subject to these problems: https://blog.verifact.io/2020/04/20/A-decentralised-fact-che...

[1] https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/covid-19....

[2] https://nypost.com/2020/04/17/facebook-fact-checkers-foul-ag...
It's involved in a lot of nuclear work. One of the first nuclear reactors in the work like was there. They also have strong ties to Boise State's Micron School of Material Science and engineering (Micron as in Crucial RAM brand) [1].

Yes, I'm biased, as I did PhD work there. Fun to watch talks on nuclear engineering. I'll have to look up the group behind the perovskite. No one ever seems to commercialize perovskite tech. Maybe small applications, but nothing large scale?

1: https://www.boisestate.edu/coen-materials/
The PR is probably more important than the legal in this case.
I am also a bit afraid for the future. The way we're going, harvests will fail more frequently, meaning some areas of the world will have to have overproduction to feed the rest, and which areas that are will be hard to predict. So it's safer to have some overproduction everywhere, at least of basics.

The current method of monoculture and cash crops makes that even worse since that means an area is susceptible to the same kind of weather problems, eg dry summers. If we planted more varied crops some of them can profit even if others fail.
No, because you don't know how many of these deaths are COVID19-related deaths that just weren't counted in the official figures for some reason.
Having worked for a dying tech startup at one point in the early 2000s - I spent time agonizing over the fact that if I quit, the company would become unviable - I was one of the key technical people and was the only person with a good understanding of our entire product. After much dithering, I did ultimately leave and the company did fold shortly thereafter. I did feel bad at the time but in retrospect, I have come to realize that it was inevitable and I should have left even sooner.
"Drawing bitmaps" with SDL or OpenGL is a trivial part of developing a 2D engine.

Calling SDL/SFML for "other stuff" is, again, a tiny part and it is in no way offloading "the other crap" (as you call it).

I assume you are biased because you have only coded toy examples. When you start anything remotely complex, you have to do way more things than just "drawing bitmaps".

As for Factorio, it is actually a very complex and fast simulation. Downplaying engine devs as "rendering and other crap" is derogatory to say the least.
You have to share values with someone to be their friend?
Bird’s whole strategy from day one was to give away a service for below market price, “grow” and then... crickets? The thing would never be profitable even in the best case scenario and the current situation is far from a best-case scenario. How did they get funding? Did they lie to investors or were the investors extremely stupid?

On that note I have an amazing, high-growth business idea that will give us millions of users and insanely good PR in a matter of days. We’ll just be selling $10 notes for $1. I’m looking for investors; email in my profile.
In our in-house apps we went for the progressive-enhancement, almost-2 option.

When we're presenting data, one of our columns is nearly always a 'primary identifier' of some kind - a name, an id, etc. We make this column a hyper-link and then we also add a click handler to the row. This means it's still fully accessible to screen readers and tab navigators, but users who expect a more 'app'y experience are happy too.

The click handler has to be a little smart to ensure it's not receiving the mouse-up of a selection event, but it's not bad.
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It was about ~$20/oz when it started around 1900 and the government claimed ~$35/oz at the end. That is about 50% value loss, maybe a bit worse, in the 70 years of the gold standard.

$35 to $1,650 looks a lot more like a collapse in value. And that is after the demand for gold presumably plummeted because it wasn't official money any more, and mining got a lot more efficient through the 70s to the 90s. Maybe the Asians made up for that with new wealth and demand or something. If I'd been alive in 1970s, arguing that the dollar would collapse in value, I wouldn't feel like I'd lost the argument looking at how history played out. I'd probably have gotten the timeframe wrong, but the mechanisms are playing out as expected.

The thing that really stuns me is that countries are willing to hold US dollars as a reserve currency. It is a terrible move for value preservation. They aren't aiming to maximise their savings.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_d...
The parent comment was "my dad used to tell me this story", "in rural India in the 60s"

It wasn't about not believing the possibility, it was about noticing how I heard a similar story which featured association and no source, and identifying that this is the same way that all urban legends exist. I also said "or maybe I have been missing an entrepreneurial opportunity" completely, and clearly saying that I am open to believing when referencable information was provided, which it immediately was by the first response while ironically villifying me instead of leaving it at the educational moment.
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In the words of DJB:

"Are you surprised to hear WHO saying that healthy skydivers don't need to and shouldn't use parachutes? This is backed up by a systematic review of randomized controlled trials, published in the British Medical Journal, cited more than 1000 times: https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459"

From https://twitter.com/hashbreaker/status/1245493436939042816
So your objection to what I am saying is that I claim some double standard when there is no instance where they applied one of these standards? Is that it?

Ok, fine. Never mind the fact that this is also a mistake of conflating absence of evidence for evidence of absence. Your objection does not invalidate what I am saying regarding the biggest problem with the WHO: their failure in defending early action and in showing themselves to be a political-bureaucratic organization more preoccupied with its own existence than in achieving the goals it was supposed to.
> rather than inheriting genes from their parents

I understand what the author is getting at, but that is not a good phrase. Apples do inherit genes from their parents, and not from anywhere else!
Been working 3 months at my first job and this realization hit me. I enjoy spending time with my coworkers but is it all in vain?
I'm reminded of the now-vanished JWZ post about "groupware". Enterprise software is nearly always awful in lots of ways that the purchaser insists on. They don't want a cheap, general solution that empowers users. They want an expensive, high-profile, highly customised solution that railroads users into workflows. Often it's less important what the specific railroad is, just that it can be imposed.

Proprietary plugin code serves the need of the purchaser to feel special by getting something customised for them. They can then pretend it's a secret sauce for their business, despite it actually impairing employee productivity compared to, say, stock Wordpress.
>Has anyone ever criticised a bank for lending to someone who needs it most at a rate they are likely to afford to minimise chance of default?

Does any business operate this way, including the one you work at? That is, selling things to the people who need it most for the amount that "minimizes default" (ie lowest price).

>we're allowed to expect institutions to do things that are in the public interest

This article is about wealthy mortgage borrowers. The first guy is 60 years old with a $700k mortgage who wants a lower rate. How is it in the public's interest to grant him that? Perhaps it's in the public's interest for this man to continue to pay his modestly higher rate in order to cover expected losses from those who truly need it?
Thank you Stephen, much appreciated. Maybe they add something in Xcode 12!
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>Your 0.7-1% fatality rate is not in line with current figures, which peg it closer to 0.35%. I've been rounding up to 0.5% for the US to account for the poor state of health here.

My 0.7-1% fatality rate? What you talking about my? I'm not pulling that out of my keister.

From here.

https://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter/status/1253538428114870277

>11/ Why? 142K confirmed NYC cases, so 21% of city (8.4M) -> 1.76M, or 12.5x confirmed case count, more in sync with other studies. If right, then true mortality rate (~15K deaths in NYC) about 0.8%, which also seems credible. There’ll be lots more of these serology studies soon.

Since you don't know who Robert Watcher is

https://profiles.ucsf.edu/robert.wachter
It might be. I was taking the NYT numbers at face value. They might be wrong of course.
Niels Ryberg Finsen was awarded the Nobel Prize..."in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, whereby he has opened a new avenue for medical science."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Ryberg_Finsen
Those gardens with pretty flowers and bushes are not the natural habitat of the insects. They look diverse but are in fact as sterile as a monoculture field. Insects thrive in the unkempt parcels between fields where man never goes, and those are disappearing, replaced by well kept gardens.
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It definitely is written from a perspective of socioeconomic privilege (it's written for a literate citizen, which implies a free male who's leading a household in at least the top economic quartile if not the top decile, owns land and controls people working on it), but it does not make it a conceptual mess, it makes it focused on a specific question for a specific audience. I don't understand why you consider it a moral failure - of course every reasonable reader of this work in classical Greece is likely to be from 'the wealthy', the poor would not be able to read it (or anything else - they would not be literate), and it makes all sense that it should be written to advise the expected reader instead of someone else.

It's about the question of how a man should live, and how should he choose to act - which presumes the availability of reasonable choices, the practical ability to make these choices, and considers the effect these choices have on the community. Yes, slaves or many other less-than-free laborers of classical Greece are not the target audience of this book - as they don't have the option of freely making many of the choices in their life, it's kind of worthless to discuss what should they choose to do if they can't.

It does not argue about how do develop virtues in others, it does presume taking some responsibility for others and being virtuous "on their behalf" (a very paternalistic approach) - it's reasoning about how to best use power and agency assuming you have it, and if you don't, then presuming that obtaining power and agency is the first prerequisite step, you can't make virtuous choices if you're not in position to choose, you can't make virtuous acts if you don't have the ability to act with meaningful influence. Without free will there's neither virtue or vice, just acts that are outside of ethics.

It's not a conceptual mess, it simply argues for a moral position with which (it seems) you strongly disagree, just as it would disagree with yours. Coming back to the issue of socioeconomic privilege, Nichomachean ethics pretty much argues that you have to have socioeconomic privilege in order to be ethical according to these standards. If you're a slave then you are neither ethical or unethical, the whole concept does not apply to you; It makes an argument that the concept of ethics (in the limited, narrow definition of ethics used there, which substantially differs from what we consider ethics in the modern world) starts to make sense once you're above the "food and necessities" level of life and have the liberty to act freely and deliberately make wide-ranging choices with significant influence; then you should study ethics-as-in-the-science-of-making-these-choices.
Jumbo loans were people wanting more than they could afford and the bank hedging that they could actually afford it. Ends up that they can't.
Anyone else noticed that Amazon started to charge different prices to different users in the last year?
the fuuny part? people do fall for this shit. I personally don't buy anyting from aliexpress, wish and so on. Simply, it's a cat in the bag. You don't know what you get, ESPECIALLY the medecine stuff. But, due to it's price, people take the risk
Yep. It’s a really rough call. I really dislike getting into the key employee role, but it’s happened a couple of times.
I think all the different stories one hears from creative people about their success is at a psychological/sociological awareness level equivalent to pre-Maxwells Equation understanding of Magnetism and Electricity.

Thanks to Zuckerberg & Co collecting more data in a day about behavior, than Psychologists and Sociologists have done through their lifetimes
what is becoming obvious is there is a very WIDE distribution of all kinds of Psychological Traits, Needs and dozen other factors in any population. And they aren't static but dynamic like electric and magnetic fields. Not just 2 fields interacting but 20 or something.

Creative people are able to connect with some subset and produce group behavior that are not always reproducible because the Maxwells Equations of Psychology and Sociology haven't yet been discovered.
Australian Govt to release source code of forthcoming 'Covid trace' app
Ha! That rings true ^_^

Although it has to be said: Takes one to know one, New Yorker. Contemptuousness toward amateurs might be justified though.
Yes, maybe fewer asthma cases and related deaths over the next decades but not sure if a few months of less pollution are sufficient.
To form a long-lasting friendship, you need at least some common ground to touch on.
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Because the overall mortality rate is less than 0.5%.
how did you derive 38%?
As it should be. Food delivery in an emergency is a critical service, and should be rewarded appropriately.
Not a whole lot is new. Highlights (from my perspective) :

* matrices are now a subclass of arrays.

* better reference counting to save on memory.

* stringsAsFactors = FALSE is now default breaking a lot of packages (was this really worth changing?)

* a new way of defining raw strings: r"(...)"

* better default colors for plots. The new default color scheme is less saturated. Apart from looking better, in the old scheme something plotted in bright yellow on a white background was hard to read. Yellow is now more of a mustard.
Kudos to all contributors. Learning R and using it was a lot of fun and really satisfying experience. Great option for someone like me, who has to do some basic analysis of large data sets without rich statistical background.
When Teachers Become Better Listeners, Students Become Better Learners
Regarding the Fox Engine of Konami, in addition to the Pro Evolution Soccer games, it was also used for Metal Gear Solid V
Thanks for the reference. But this is still specific to access patterns: You can use a deque as a queue without iterating, so iterators and their invalidation constraints should not matter.
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Armenia is landlocked and most of its land borders are closed, as they are with Turkic neighbours with whom relations range from frosty (Turkey) to actively militarised (Azerbaijan). That leaves only Iran and Georgia as outlets to the wider world, and the mountainous geography considerably limits options in other respects.

I’m given to understand that Armenian external IP connectivity is somewhat more redundant now than when this story was reported, but still, it merely mirrors the overall precariousness and fragility of Armenia’s existence, or what remains of it.

For what it’s worth, I have Armenian ancestry and lived in Armenia 2012-14. Based on my experience this story is mostly believable, but probably lacks some vital additional details.
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In the medium sized category, Valve is the obvious odd child. They have a small number of employees, but they also famously make Steam. This certainly requires a large amount of engineering effort, but also brings in literal billions in cash. They could almost certainly afford to outsource the creation of a custom game engine, since they have the cash flow and it’s probably not as core an activity as maintaining Steam.

But it could also be in house. I don’t have a feel for how many engineers it takes to make a game engine.
I think it's good every country takes it's own measures because it is very hard to compare countries.

For example Sweden has ~22 people per km² while the state of NY has ~160/km².
but do you really trust medicine that costs few $ compared to store prices? i really cant understand this
COBOL Programmers Are Back in Demand. Seriously
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Interesting. I don't think that would be my first choices of study.

If you want to know more about how constraint programming works under the hood, I can recommend the coursera course Solving algorithms for Discrete Optimization, in particular weeks 1 and 2 for constraint programming. https://www.coursera.org/learn/solving-algorithms-discrete-o...
There have been recent news reports in the English language media that Sweden has adopted a very different and less restrictive covid-19 strategy than most other countries. So while the parent comment may be wrong and even disinformation I would not have known that if not for the conflicting replies.

Example article: https://www.euronews.com/2020/04/21/analysis-is-sweden-right...
Came here to mention Sapiens, an indie written from scratch by this guy named Dave, from NZ. Dave is great and goes through his development process of the custom Lua engine he wrote for his game engine, the AI, as well as design decions. Follow him here: https://www.youtube.com/user/majiDave
Insect hotels are becoming quite the thing here in Denmark, to the point that my local grocery store carries smaller versions. I think it's a very sweet and compassionate idea that kids can learn from and have fun with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect_hotel
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https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

This is a handy resource, though no benchmarks are ever perfect. Rust comes out faster on about half the algorithms. They're pretty close though.
For relatively small objects with no internall allocation, definitely yes.

Otherwise only a qualified yes: if you are copying it anyway in the body, pass by value allow moving object into and actually avoid copies, but the code linked doesn't use move at all anywhere.

As they seem fairly versed in C++, the only reason for doing that is that they want their code to be modificable by non-programmers, so they want to use a style that is safe and avoids possible use after move.

For this scenario, then yes, C++ is going to be slower than a language with a proper garbage collector (although I would like to see a version with a proper shared_string implementation instead of the abomination that is shared_ptr<std::string>).
Shared interest and mutual respect is different than shared values
I am aware, but that restriction shouldn't affect its use for an atomic ref-counted pointer since you can place the count and the pointer next to each other.