skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By this time I can't tell if you're deliberately misunderstanding reality to virtue signal some sort of privilege?

But I will give you the benefit of the doubt. Vulnerable populations can have their employment opportunities gamed by powerful groups where they are essentially enslaved by their reliance on their paycheck to support their family, food, housing, etc. I don't understand why this doesn't register with you.
The IP of my phone connecting to the IP of Dark Sky is much less precise than the request for GPS coordinates to get block level weather data (the Dark Sky website uses 12.345 digits, so is accurate to block level).
Demos are always beautiful but how about fixing some of the stuff that makes playing UE games unpleasant? The ridiculous load times, the random stutters and pop-ins, crazy high memory usage...
I wonder what the facility in the background of the photos is and why it wasn't airbrushed out. It looks like some kind radio communications station, VLF for subs?
China does stupid shit like this. They're all fake news.
Modern color perception theory is actually way more than 3-dimensional. That's because human perception of color isn't driven by the absolute amount of light hitting our various color receptor cells, but by the relative amounts we see in the various parts of the image, and white balance and fatigue enters the perception as well.
To play devil's advocate - games with this kind of production value require a huge investment in asset production, which means they tend to be very conservative when it comes to gameplay, because they want to be damn sure it doesn't flop. So until the production of something like this comes way down in price, the games that look like this are likely to be clones of existing successful games, e.g. Uncharted, brain-dead first person shooters, etc.
Just - a command runner inspired by make
As the name suggests, this web app is meant to help groups of friends play some common party games over Video Chat. Frontend is Angular 2, backend is Node. Servers run on Google Compute Engine. I'd like to move to a higher level PaaS, but I want to maintain a websocket connection with each client to minimize latency, so I like the control that I have using VMs directly.

Happy to answer any questions about the architecture or implementation. I'd also welcome help if you think this sounds fun to work on.
I think Scala is the ultimate "gateway" FP language, for better or worse. Kotlin would probably meet the requirements, though I've never used it.
> The Georgist proposal is rather to tax the economic rent on land

How do you determine that? Also, here’s the wiki description, which matches what I said very closely:

“ economic value derived from land (often including natural resources and natural opportunities) should belong equally to all members of society.[3][4][5]”

This is not the same as LVT. LVT doesn’t try to determine the source or type of value, and Georgism does.
Not sure if anybody has mentioned this flaw yet, but this supposed "Dead Sea Effect," if real, would rely upon the least-talented engineers being able to accurately asses their own talent level.

This is contrary to the well-known Dunning-Kruger effect which, unlike the "Dead Sea Effect", has at least been backed by some studies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

"[Dunning-Kruger effect] is related to the cognitive
bias of illusory superiority and comes from the
inability of people to recognize their lack of ability.
Without the self-awareness of metacognition, people
cannot objectively evaluate their competence or
incompetence"

Also, as others have said...

Even if the low-skilled engineers were able to recognize their lack of talent -- which they often cannot -- this "effect" would only hold true, if ever, in a company where folks are actively trying to leave.

The company I work for is a pretty happy place. Whether I am the most talented person there, the least talented, or somewhere inbetween... the reason I'm there has nothing to do with a belief that I won't be able to find equivalent or better work elsewhere.
Yup, exactly the same. That's what I use. The only thing Chrome was better in the past was audio pitch correction in sped up videos. Firefox recently fixed that so now for me there is absolutely no need to use Chrome anymore.
For movies industry, a lot of the cost are actors and time involved. Having everything filmed with pre made scenes saves you lots of time comparing to green screen back and forth with VFX. Real world location also means lots of travelling.
Reddit is owned by China too.
When restaurants where closed some local restaurants started creating food boxes you could order for the weekend with recipes and most of the ingredients based on their menu/style. No app, just send an e-mail and pick up on Friday.
I think you're going to have a hard time finding what you're after. Erlang in Anger [1] might be the closest, it will at least show some of the gotchas you run into.

From my experience, the gotchas tend to hit with emergent behavior, which is hard to benchmark, and may be repeatable in production, but is hard to model in a testing framework.

I'm not sure how much impact off-heap messaging has had, but the basic gotcha is that as a process gets bigger, it tends to run slower (because GC over more memory takes longer), and develop a larger message queue, which makes it slower. You need to have backpressure in your system, or small blips in procesing can blow up to huge messaging queues that can't be processed. Monitoring for overall queue size and maximum queue size is an important health indicator.

The other basic gotcha is that Erlang/OTP tends to default to 'unlimited' resource limits and 'infinity' time outs. You often want to have limits, and timeouts, but a general system doesn't know what you want. Sometimes, the unlimited settings result in terrible system behavior if you hit larger numbers than anyone else tested, but if you hit this, it's usually easy to fix.

A good thing about OTP is that they've written as much as possible of the environment in Erlang itself, so it's easier to change things when needed than a system where most of the provided apis are implemented in C.

[1] https://erlang-in-anger.com/
Did Venezuela just secretly hard fork its petro cryptocurrency?
Thanks James! And thanks for sharing 31337. Never heard of ScholarPedia, just took a look. I know what James was referring to (a list of biases), but I couldn't find that on ScholarPedia. I also tried a dozen queries with individual cognitive biases and couldn't find most. Is there a sub-category that I missed?
Did you know there's software to tell you how to unspool fiberoptic cable when laying underwater lines?

It's one massive long integral math equation.

It rents (yes, rents) out for $20K a week.

There's also coffee logistics software. There's software for private club management(tennis, polo, etc), moving and storage, even software just for spa's.

There is so much opportunity out there, the trick is finding it, and finding a working sales method.
if an engineer can't make impact until 6 months later is this engineer even worth hiring? Large organizations typically take longer time to ramp up, but regardless of size I expect to make impact at least to my team within the first month of hiring.
Uber’s attempt to buy Grubhub comes under fire
Having tried (extensively) Instacart, Amazon WF and Freshdirect, Freshdirect is my absolute favorite. The fruit and vegetables are in stock, they're either almost ripe or just ripe, and there's a bunch of organic stuff. Instacart is hit or miss, the shoppers miss a third of the items and you feel guilty making them work harder. Also the constant alerts on the app that (50%+) items aren't available and to accept a substitution or a refund is a huge hassle when you're working and get interrupted once every 5 minutes about 15 to 20 times to make a decision. Amazon WF was the worst for me, items unavailable and the worst part is all the fruit and vegetables were so ripe as to be inedible almost immediately. I'm not sure what happened there. Amazon also screwed up because they were letting people put things in carts while no delivery was available, and auto magically removing items.

Back to the topic here. Fresh Direct has the most experience and has the best customer experience, so I really really hope they don't go out of business or get bought by Amazon!
> but now my traffic is in plaintext for anyone on the local network to trivially intercept

If they are able to trivially intercept your network traffic they are
probably also able to modify it (=> hijack untrusted HTTPS) or what
scenario am I missing here?

Of course unencrypted communication isn't a solution if your goal is to
have secure communication. But so isn't untrusted communication.

Either it's secure or not. You can't have something in-between. The
browser would have to display an icon that says "This connection is
secure but actually we don't really know so maybe it isn't". What are
you supposed to make of such information?
Bandwidth ? someone has to pay for it. users might have bandwidth caps and/or have to pay as well.

Not to mention that streaming high-quality assets from the network is not going to be fast.
SARS-CoV-2, Covid-19, Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) Implied by Antibody Testing
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> any website that upgraded to TLSv1.1 broke on pre-Yosemite.

Tiny addendum, what I saw was different by one version: DarkSky worked fine in Mavericks, just not Mountain Lion.
I don't write Java all that much anymore, but I used to use it and still have it installed so I can fire it up from time to time. I much prefer to IntelliJ.
Cloudflare looked at the options (including building their own) and moved to hcaptcha (but mostly because Google wanted to charge them money), so it must be hard at that kind of scale, since bot writers are monetarily incentivized to defeat the captcha.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/moving-from-recaptcha-to-hcaptch...
FYI though, It's not open source. Open source has a meaning and Unreal doesn't fit that meaning.

https://www.google.com/search?q=open+soruce+definition
the corona virus is an RNA virus
This one looks particularly relevant: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chrom...

It seems like all extension developers play the same game of guess-and-check to find out which permissions they should remove, and the unlucky ones get banned for trying too often.
You can appreciate the technology behind it, but once the graphics in a game (which you play to escape real life) begin to mimic real life, it can feel underwhelming.

For instance, a game like Okami on PS2 is far more impressive to me than some 4K tech demo. When it comes down to actually playing a game, I don't give a shit about the polygon count, I give a shit if it's fun to play.
What kind of people make these decision at Google? Engineers? Or did they automate everything with "machine learning"?
Why not use an obscure email?

I have never had to deal with that.
Graphics tech has been good enough for a while. I wish developers would start giving more love to improving other areas like physics, AI, and speech synthesis, that can make a game actually feel and play more realistic than just eye candy would.

But I guess those other technologies depend more on the CPU/RAM etc. which consoles lack in, so they don't want to bother with that.

Here's an example of how games have actually been going backwards in almost all other areas except graphics:

Far Cry 2 vs. Far Cry 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCeEvQ68jY8
Actor frameworks with message passing, just like direct mutation, don't compose.

On Haskell, yes, you can just work off a thread and write shared buffers. But you are better off using STM or Async (these are a bit like futures), which compose, and you can write pipelines out of them.
Yikes! I've used PushBullet for since several years and I can't imagine not using it.

I can understand why Google is doing this though. They have a "Send to device" feature in Chrome. Killing the top 3rd party app is the perfect way to grow adoption of their new & in-built feature.

"Do no evil"
Will you use this new online networking app? What do you think?
Organize gatherings of up to 50 people per party.
There is a map of the entire place - you can see where other people are and move to their location. Drag your avatar close to the desired participants to enter a communication zone which allows you to hear, see and interact with them. You can see the participant's name and picture by tapping on their avatar.

FEATURES:
- Group voice and video chat with up to 50 participants;
- Join online meetings and even parties from your device;
- Create your own virtual place and invite friends;
- Navigate the map to interact with different groups of people;
- Variety of virtual room backgrounds to choose from.
Inferring IFR of Covid-19
"... A lot of people have few prospects of employment - especially right now - and have bills to pay."

Have you considered that you may be engaging with and replying to someone who falls into this category? What makes you think I am or speaking from the POV of an engineer who has employers fawning over them?

Beyond that though - why do you think that people do not have the ability to exercise their own choice in the matter? The final paragraph of this article literally underscores my point:

"Rather than download the software on her computer, she opted out."

So your assumptions of who you are interacting with on this topic appear ignorant, your belief in other people inability to choose whats best for them suggests you do not respect their power, meanwhile you've created the only extreme - as in extremely unlikely scenario - whereby people are forced to choose between self-administered surveillance or starvation.
While Firefox is better than Chrome...

Mozilla is becoming more and more Google Like as time progresses, where a few years ago I would have believed it would be unthinkable for Mozilla do so something like this to an extension, today I am not so sure I would trust them either
Are you "following" or are you actually using it in production for a real service ?

I'm asking, because to my knowledge, the only "huge number of users" recent success story is whatsapp, and after having viewed all the talks about their stack and experience, it seems that the team was so extremely talented that they probably would have made something good with any tech.
"If you have not yet attained Buddhahood, you cannot understand the value of enlightenment." is also a non-controversial tautology, but it also doesn't leave any room for anyone to do anything else.
> the CPU will be stealing performance from the GPU or vice versa

Another way to think about it is that very few games are using 100% CPU capacity and 100% CPU capacity at the same time. This model gives the developer a combined compute budget, which can be allocated as required for the task.
I have a few guesses:

1. iOS 13.5 beta releases have had security fixes that haven't still reached a stable release. See [1] for eg.

2. The Apple iPhones for security researchers program[0] actually led to more security issues being found?

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/8/20756629/apple-iphone-secu...

[1]: https://siguza.github.io/psychicpaper/
> we are in this to help foster worldwide collaboration, not get bogged down in politics.

That was my point. Belgium, a famously neutral country, allows you to do that.
Stop using brittle element selectors
It mostly looks amazing but also very uncanny valley.

The development process improvements sound most promising.

I was amazed until the the character started climbing the rocks.

Seems like no one at Epic has ever climbed a rock in their life.. it sent the whole demo back to PS1 land. It doesn't even look like a super hero rock climbing, just looks totally wrong. Almost no part of the body ever looks angled correctly to reflect gravity being a thing, like the physics engine switches off.

That and her ankles are fused and never plantar flex so the walking looks bizarre. Again, it's all amazing but now it becomes uncanny valley cause you notice the weird remaining stuff.
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Not try to start a war.

I really don't understand how anyone can use eclipse. When I've used it, it feels incredibly clunky compared to intellij, stuff isn't discoverable, code completion is worse, quickfixes are harder to use etc.
> My best guess is that in the United States especially, it's a combination economic/socitial factors and vitamin D deficiency that's making the virus have higher mortality in populations of racial minorities with darker skin

African American communities are hardest hit because of genetic and especially cultural practices which predispose them toward obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, etc. Further, let's not pretend that African American communities have the same level of respect for authority (i.e. following recommendations/orders) as other groups (though to some degree that disdain may be justified, but that's another discussion).
This seems to be a vastly lower estimate vs this one!
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3590771
UE5 is not open source, it is shared source or "source available". Assuming it follows the model of UE4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software
Any reason that Google doesn't give reasons and ways to comply?

I haven't ever had to deal with a Google person regarding Android development, but when I built stuff for Blackberry (miss that company), they always provided nice and detailed feedback. Blackberry famously let legal influence design, so I would be surprised if it was a cover your ass thing.
The vitamin D deficiency is particularly interesting to me with respect to pregnant women and smokers. There have been cases of pregnant women who were unknowingly infected with Covid-19[1] and it seems there’s some evidence the smokers are less likely to be admitted to the hospital with a severe case.

I would expect both groups to have higher than average vitamin D regardless of their age, background, health issues. Pregnant women consistently take prenatal vitamins for months and (most) smokers consistently get daily sun exposure because they go outside to smoke. And from what little we know it seems both groups fare better when they are infected.

[1]https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2009316
What do you mean by "conspiracy"? I'm not trying to be funny here, I think it's worth examining what precisely you mean by that word when you use it. It's a word with a specific meaning that is frequently abused in wishy-washy ways, often used to describe loony beliefs not grounded in reality, or beliefs that run contrary to the official narrative.
Thank you for showing me that Fourier transform video. I've never understood how it worked because usually they just show the integral and call it good.
Fun fact - because you are associated to the shitty hosts via AirBnB, you get the some of that tar drops.

I'm a consumer and I don't give a hoot about what kind of "policies" AirBnB offers.
I've had hosts cancel a week beforehand, without explanation. Thankfully they paid me back, but rebooking was triple the price.

That's literally the reason why I will only book at chains, that can upgrade or shuffle me around their networks at worst.
That's very kind, thanks Drew! :) Since we're only two indie hackers, honestly it was an insane amount of work to map the product examples and design the page.

It's a good thing we found the work of Buster Benson a few days before we published. That allows us to split the biases in the four categories that he found. (Buster deserves a MAJOR kudos for that. His research summary was brilliant.)
The hard part of the multiverse is the business model. Features like dynamic maps are just that, features. If you have a business model that works you can bring all the tech features to play. If you bring the tech to play without a business model you just crater spectacularly. This is why Fortnite is important.

It may not be the feature list you thought the multiverse would launch with but in hindsight it will be the feature list that the multiverse did launch with.
Startups Face a ‘Fundamental Reset,’ Says VC
But scanning these documents defeats the point. The law isn't saying "it must be signed with wet ink, but after that a scanned copy is sufficient", it says you need the actual paper with the wet ink signature.

> If you’re a solicitor responsible for registration, you need the other parties' solicitors, on closing, to send you the wet-ink signed parts of the documents. You’ll only proceed when you have the wet-ink signed documents, not when you have seen electronic images of them.
As others have mentioned, this is entirely dependent on the organization. The issue is that talented people hit a ceiling faster than anyone else. Organizations aim for stability, and that will usually come at the cost of stifling top performers.

Businesses have their growth cycles, and ambitious people are attracted to growth. Many times, they will ride the growth wave of a company until its crest, then catch a wave at a different company.

I have personally never encountered a company that had an adequate mechanism for retaining these kinds of people, and maybe they shouldn't. As long as they don't burn bridges, maybe they will come back and work on a future project.
Good VCs don't support selling below cost. Only evil and stupid ones do.

In some countries it is even illegal.