skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both things are important. The R number tells you which direction you're headed. If you're significantly below 1, you can relatively safely open up a little more and see where that leaves you.

However, new case counts and new deaths matter a lot. Even with, say, R=0.8, with a big outbreak, people will continue to get sick and die. It also means that if you underestimate the effect of opening up and wind up with R>1, you can start running into capacity problems, either contact tracing, testing, or hospital capacity. It's best to get case counts low and declining, and then start opening things up.
I'm not sure I've ever heard of the JVM being used in trading level software before. I've gotten a broad but vague impression that custom applications are the norm.

No criticism, as I've only read others' accounts, but that sounds out of character.
+1 for mobile
Release Highlights for scikit-learn 0.23
I had to laugh a little about your second paragraph. I grew up in the deep south and have actually seen caucasion slaves (they had no freedom or agency in their life), and being a military brat, their reality was almost too funny to bear. If someone was raised in slavery, they have no concept of 1st world perks.

If you were to name/shame them, how would you brand the companies? (ie. Would you accuse them of bringing communist values to America or using 3rd world surveillance protocols in the 1st world)
> a) how much you know that other people do not

this is a particularly confounding problem, and i haven't figured out a way to combat it.

it's so bad, that i'll often learn something new when scrolling twitter or clicking through wikipedia, and then immediately assume that 1) i'm the last person to the party, everybody else already knows, and 2) forget what it was like not-knowing this fact mere seconds before.
Not really: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engines

Plenty of proprietary engines are in use today. And you've got FOSS options like Godot and Blender. UE's definitely the biggest, but other options aren't going away any time soon.
It's strange that the character wasn't more photorealistic in this demo. If you Google Image search you can find more photorealistic characters from previous versions of the Unreal Engine. I wonder if there might be some trade-off being made between photorealistic character and lifelike character movement.
I took it as necessary condition, not a sufficient condition. The other necessary conditions were omitted because they aren't important to the line of reasoning being presented.
There are definitely diminishing returns at this point. However, I think there's a lot of room for impressive Physics demos.
How Skype lost its crown to Zoom
> Unencrypted communication however, is not a solution to that problem.

Could you point out who you are responding to who said that unencrypted communication is a solution to the problem? This strikes me as a straw man argument.
"associated with Java, as once was the custom". Like JavaScript. Yeah, right.
Wow! Quixel looks amazing!

I've been hobbyist in Unity for a long time. But I think I'll switch to Unreal just for that.
that water simulation was pretty bad and blurred out, I went over it a few times. I don't think this is a limitation of the engine because I have seen plenty of games use Unreal Engine 4 and do it differently.
> That maybe "censorship resistance" isn't the universal good some people make it out as

How is it not? Not having it means that certain organisations and governments will be able to remove your ability to see certain things.

> Maybe the people who benefit the most from it, and who make up the majority of those who actually benefit, are criminals

Again, debatable. See all kinds of videos that are removed from youtube because either youtube thinks that they violate their tos or because someone makes a copyright claim on them for example.

But even if the majority of these who did benefit from it were criminals, I will ask again, and?

> Maybe it's not a great idea to make tools that make it easier for criminals to commit crimes.

How so? I would assume that most of these who make such tools have some form of ideology similar to anarchism and who do not think that every action that the government designates as a crime is morally evil. In addition a lot of these people believe that certain elites and government officials are the ones committing the biggest crimes and use such tools to enforce transparency and benefit from censorship resistance and anonimity.
> If you can afford to put one or more GPU's per LED screen, there is little limit what you can render real-time

Umm, Ray tracing would love to have a word :P

In all seriousness, typical animated frames for big budget films easily take hours or longer _per frame_. It really depends on what looks you're trying to achieve. Game engines have come a long way in terms of realistic graphics with realtime rendering, but it's worth noting that it's still not the same quality as a fully ray traced scene (whether that matters depends on the content I guess)
The only difference is a clause in the contract saying the employee agrees to use the software.
Until somebody finds a vulnerability in your JSON parser or other layers of your stack. :)
Lisp has many parallels with Ayahuasca: Both are tough to 'swallow' and not everyone comes out on the other side 'enlightened'.

No doubt about the potency of both though ...
The California state government has said that counties may impose stricter rules than the state. The statewide rules are a baseline, not an upper bound.
Epic Online Services; this is the big take away for UE5, graphics will always improve, but user experience is key to long term success.

We can now all sit back and watch Epic eat Valve’s and Microsoft’s Lunch right in front of them, like some kind of sordid picnic.

I look forward to seeing the pricing details and revenue options based on player base and time.
This study is not exactly rigorous. There doesn't appear to be any controls for age or health risks or anything else. Their methods are literally to take worldometers data and vitamin D concentration data per country from the European Calcified Tissue Society and plug those values into a t-test calculator.

When HN was in a tizzy over p-values a year or so ago, this is what people were concerned about. It's below .05, so what?

Not saying there is or isn't an affect on covid by vit D, but this isn't the study to prove it.
Dell XPS 17
Not licensed to third party studios. The last one that was open sourced was id tech 4 (Doom 3).
Wouldn't be difficult to identify it, probably.
Elix – Component Kitchen
Landlording doesn't work out? Sell your assets, get a real job. You'll still end up much better than your tenants.
...........really?
So did they write their own layout and JS engine? Or does this use Blink / another dependency under the hood?

I found this https://sciter.com/developers/engine-architecture/ but it doesn't say if it's all written from scratch or using other libs.
The Base Rate Fallacy
Catholic Creationism as a Conspiracy Theory
Then you may not have the problem deeply enough to need the solution. It depends on a lot on the context B2B vs B2C, but I've experienced that the B2B customers who won't sign up without an absolutely free trial are much much less likely to convert anyways, to the point where it's not necessarily worth the effort for sales + support.
This is not a great time to be quitting your job.
At the Passover seder, one topic my relative get hung up on many years is "Why did God 'harden Pharaoh's heart'?"

My take on this question is that regardless of "why" this is an objective historical phenomenon—look at the USA today, clearly the hearts of Trump supporters (and the Resistance) have been hardened. Any account of God has to take the observed world as a datum, and the data say that before destruction, the leaders of a nation are stricken with hardness of heart.

Similarly, God suffers monsoons to blow and so forth and so on. That's the data. Today we are again we see that God destroys Towers of Babel. So it goes.
When a News Article Vanishes, We Have More Than Just a Pandemic to Worry About
some suggestions are that in the future, the I/O latency is going to get very low, network speeds very fast, etc.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM3PhGGllL0&feature=youtu.be [1] https://www.ece.rice.edu/~willmann/teng_nics_overview.html
so PC gamers, with 8K textures and UE5, what would you like to see aside from pushed framerates?
Nope!

Really, no reason to protect the guilty here. It was AdKnowledge.
>; I am moving toward options and choices. HTTP should be an option for people depending on what their needs are and how comfortable they feel with various threat models.

That's fine and I agree with "http" sometimes being a valid choice.

I disagree with how you argued it using phrases like "sometimes a website just provides information instead of credit-cards". The "provides information" is a flawed mental model to base a decision tree on and just confuses people about why https is also important for non-credit-card data.

Your later qualifications specifying "threat models" is much better argued. Yes, my internal git web server doesn't need https and I don't want the hassle of getting LetsEncrypt certificate for it. And a toy website on my Raspberry Pi on my local private firewalled NAT'd LAN doesn't need https either.

It's not about "public information"; it's about "threats".
No, but they will eventually become overburdened with ever more rules, regulations, and lose the cohesive team which existed at the beginning.
I don't think this is correct. They have stated in several of their books that they expect their customers to outgrow BaseCamp.
Hiring 10x Execs
Love your case studies, thanks for sharing this.
Snowden's leaks showed that Skype allowed governments to wiretap its video calls since at least 2010, when those wiretaps were ingested into PRISM. That is before the Microsoft acquisition.

It amazes me that people parrot this conspiracy theory without doing 5 minutes of Google searching first before making themselves look silly.
I'm a programmer and I love unreal's blueprint. Unreal's c++ on the other hand, I hate it.
I am confused. If no money exchange was going through the website then how did they found out that you were running it?
I had the exact same experience on my app's website (https://mimestream.com) as well. I think initially, I was nervous about offering a beta download, so I wanted to manually vet each subscriber and manually send invites. Of course, even a 2 or 3 hour gap resulted in very poor conversion. Presenting the beta download link immediately after a user provided an email, obviously, has resulted in a world of difference.
"Niche stuff where you had one or two vendors in the whole arena."

If we didn't have them open to the Internet, we would have no service. There are no choices in that arena besides strawberry and vanilla. That is it, that is all.

In this case, your requirement would result in the service not existing. This is not helpful to what we're trying to do.
I agree - it's completely naive to believe that any software deployed 20 years ago, and open to public attack, with zero maintenance wouldn't be attacked, and compromised.

I'd like that to be the world we live in - and with the continual evolution in secure programming practices, maybe one day it might be, but it's not.

As a profession of software engineers, we have not achieved the level of quality at the costs that is willing to be met to engineer public facing websites that won't be vulnerable to attack at some point in the next 20 years, and will still be running.
If you upload secrets to public sites you're in trouble regardless of whether they claim "secure" hosting or not...

And what makes you think the operator has nefarious intent?
I wonder if the background in the flight scene is pre-rendered. If not, then PlayStation 5 (which the demo is running on) is going to be a beast of a console.
Amazon is getting in the engine game as well, with Lumberyard.
And there is always the possibility of other studios making their proprietary engine available if there is a profit opportunity. RAGE and Anvil come to mind.
I don't think people have internalized the fact that the US gov has surveillance drones in holding patterns over most US metropolitan areas. Every time I've seen someone poke around one of those persistence ADSB/radar maps, they have gone through the stages of discovery: "What are those circles?" "Surveillance drones." "Haha, no, really, what are they? Planes circling the airport?" "No, that (points to thin circle) is a plane circling the airport. The heavy circles are surveillance drones. Really." "Uhh.... (shifts uncomfortably) so where do you want to go for lunch today?"
Never forget: The Y-Combinator is an overly complicated hack that is only necessary because the language lacked a simple way for closures to refer to themselves.
Shopify Incident - Problems logging into Shopify accounts
Yep. Because the use case that seems to be most common is not running untrusted containers, but rather something more like static compilation, but with ruby or javascript code. So on a single machine just considering it another process, but with better isolation of dependencies is (including encapsulation of distinct processes and in-container network activity) is actually the use case. And once we scale up to multiple machines for resource needs, something like k8s starts to make sense, because it just moves the abstraction to the cluster level rather than the machine. The more you get k8s to be a "cluster systems" the saner the management.
Commodore Amiga Games – How to Retro
Out of curiosity, do you use a rich editor or do you insert those links like that yourself?
Thank you! So far, Memgraph offers and supports C/C++ library (https://github.com/memgraph/mgclient) and Python binding (https://github.com/memgraph/pymgclient). Node.js is going to come shortly. Please stay tuned!
I have to wonder how much of this requires ray tracing hardware. I've noticed for many, many years that the quality of models and textures has been 'good enough', but lighting, for the most part, still sucked. Ray tracing seems to solve a lot of lighting problems.
Centre's Covid-19 communication plan hold back data, gag agencies and scientists
I don't feel this addresses your parent's point.
Also files under #chargemore for B2B, etc.
The study from which they took average vitamin D levels per country is rather flimsy source to make reliable conclusions from. If you look it up, you'll see that the data is gathered from multiple studies with different methodologies.

And it seems they didn't control for various factors which could influence spread and mortality of the virus either.
"Low-fidelity", 2D does not mean no artist.

Pretty much every game needs someone talented in art or design. It can be one of the programmers, of course.

Unreal is not a good choice for a 2D game, anyway.
The real-time GI is amazing. Ray tracing is going to be a game changer, not only in terms of visual quality, but also because it's one of those rare times in computer graphics where the more advanced solution is actually making it easier on graphics programmers by replacing a bag of dirty tricks with a unified, physically based solution.

One interesting note: they say the GI is "instant" but you can actually see that they are using temporal stabilization to achieve this effect, and there's a slight lag between when the light changes and when the GI finds its resting point. I suspect removing this lag will be one of the things which makes graphics feel "next gen" when GPUs can handle enough rays per pixel to handle GI in one or two frames instead of a few dozen.
You can also use SkookumScript, although I wouldn't. Blueprints can also be compiled down to C++.
I think it’s a pretty standard feature of the 5 or so headsets I’ve bought over the past 8-10 years. Price point: USD 25
I live in Barcelona which is almost on par with Madrid. My plan for my next job is to get a remote job with Barcelona salary, then move to Canary Islands which is much cheaper but way nicer.

I'm not really serious, I can probably get a better offer from a US company, but it still irks me.
Julia Evans has an excellent zine on how containers work, including a 15-line bash implementation: https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/04/27/new-zine-how-containers-work...

Definitely worth the $12.
ISO8601. Breathe it, live it, be it.

That's yyyy-mm-dd. yyyy/mm/dd is ambiguous because the slash-separator is shared across all conflicting formats. Dashes are pretty much always ISO compliant formats. (Yes, it's a small difference, but it helps)
Honestly, convolution reverb is already highly accessible. It’s a feature in $50 (and probably free) reverb plug-ins for anybody that does audio. They’re relatively easy to implement and have probably been around for a decade+. As the OP said, the audio things they mentioned aren’t new or adding any accessibility imo
this is like saying have you regularly proven that you are not guilty of crimes?

It is really not how it should work at all.

Assuming everyone is infected at all times is both absurd and most importantly unworkable and counterproductive. The net effect is the opposite of what it wants to achieve.
I haven't fleshed out all the details, because I'm describing the fundamental problem. The economy is a distributed system, precisely because nobody can know all the details. I'm sure the cities themselves are perfectly capable of figuring out how to salvage their situation, when they actually feel the squeeze. By bluntly rejecting my analysis, you're effectively arguing that cities shouldn't have to feel any of the squeeze, by making the pain remain on others instead.

You're right about defined benefit pensions. They also are in the class of economic rent payments, and so should also be drastically reduced during the pullback.
Classic case of causation versus correlation.

Is COVID-19 more severe because of a Vitamin D deficiency or does severe COVID-19 cause vitamin D deficiency? Or perhaps people with Vitamin D deficiencies also not get outside for enough sunlight or eat healthy enough, and poor diet/nutrition results in more severe symptoms of COVID-19?
Richest Cities of India
Water, dust, cloth and hair physics are all still in the uncanny valley...not to take away from the tremendous progress with triangles and lighting!
Landlords are always profiting. Their total equity increases at ridiculous rates with minimal risk. I don't understand why we use a different definition of profit for landlords and for other operation. Profit is the derivative of wealth, the derivative of their wealth is positive, thus they are profiting, even if they don't intake enough money to pay for rent.
Unity doesn't really overlap with Unreal. Unreal is big and cutting edge for AAA titles. Unity is much more simplified. The path of least resistance is usually pretty clear for someone starting a project.
It's so strange to me that these studies seem to generalize findings (eg results by country) when one of the key biological factors for how we get vitamin D is skin colour. And at its most basic relationship, the whiter ones' skin, the better one is at generating Vitamin D from sunlight. Perhaps it points to another way in which this disease could disproportionately affect persons of colour?

If anyone has any literature that explores it more I'd love some direction.
Key points:

* Learn to be ruthless about throwing away work

* Reduce your scope

* Use patterns and keep your code organized

* Build what people are asking for
Ok, after reading it again, by "very clear" I was overstating it, but there is this note:

> [4] Note to nerds: or possibly a lattice, narrowing toward the top; it's not the shape that matters here but the idea that there is at least a partial order.

And in no place he says Lisp is the end-all best language. At most he compares it with other languages his competitors used on the context of Viaweb, what on the bottom of the article means C++, Java, Perl and Python.

He indeed goes on to argue that any language more powerful than Lisp would be Lisp, because macros work that way. If you don't take notice that he is simplifying things into a power continuum to make a point, that can mislead you into the message that Lisp is the most powerful language. But he puts some effort into making the message language agnostic.
I think of languages as a multi-dimensional tree, with branches extending in different directions. I think that the trick is to figure out what the yak-shaving aspects of the project are going to be (which you can think of as a vector), and picking the language that goes the furthest in the direction of that vector (and thereby does the most to minimize the yak-shaving). This requires that you be able to fairly accurately determine what the yak-shaving will be up front (which can be problematic).
Facebook can be viewed through any browser and public pages like those of restaurants can be accessed without an account...
My Thinkpad has a microphone mute button with an indicator light and it works with Ubuntu. I find it very convenient to use.
What do you think are the the ethical concerns around using these design principles to almost manipulate visitors of a website into buying stuff?
So, you will be betting your career/job on that assertion? And your money as well?

Following that, there must be a crypto-averse bank you're using to deposit your paychecks, right? And if so, can I have the URL to their public and unencrypted site?
My Approach to Code Review
They keep doing it because it works. Same reason restaurants tell you the specials when you first get to your table even though you’re going to end up ordering a burger anyway.

You can argue all you want about what they “should” be doing but they wouldn’t be doing it if it didn’t work.
Some of this stuff is reaching the limits of practicality. Many of the costs that a business might incur when doing business are non-linear with respect to a single sale and/or undefined at that point in time.

If a payment processor charges (made up numbers):

* $100/month/account

* $250 flat hardware cost per POS

* $50/month/POS

* $0.30 + 2.9% per transaction for the first $10k transactions per month

* $0.25 + 2.5% per transaction for all transactions after $10k per month

* $50/hr technical support

... then what do you put on any given receipt?
Show HN: Digi.me SDKs to ethically source personal data from individuals
Nobody knows what will happen, really, but so far yes.

I just think it's amusing the idea that London has weathered the Fall of the Roman Empire, the Black Plague, the Blitz, and the Brexit vote, but what will finally dim its star is Twitter sanctioning WFH.
Fetching a weather forecast reveals that I was in a certain location. Depending on circumstances, that could easily be incriminating evidence. Yes, Dark Sky should be HTTPS by default.
Any chance we can get a scalable network backend to go along with the render enhancements? Fan-out workers on actors and a KCP implementation would great!
I noticed this too. They briefly showed it because it's probably still being worked on (guess). The flow didn't look very natural at all.