skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me it is obvious that those things have a lot to do with each other. By doing this now China is clearly ignoring the explicit warnings from the US as said in direct statements by US political figures, the US' threat to end Hong Kong's special trade status, and the ramped up military presence in the South China Sea.

The super powers are clearly aiming for a larger confrontation at this point.

If you want context to the particular change, look at neighbouring Macau where apparently it has been law for more than 10 years:

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3085725...

Two Sessions, two cities: what can Hong Kong learn from Macau’s experience of national security legislation?
I'm not an expert (y'know, like everyone in any given HN comments section), but surely there must be automated systems in place that warn the pilots if the landing gear is not deployed when within x meters of the ground?
In 1985, I was developing a simple serial network for barcode readers, to run on the original IBM PC. It needed to run as a TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) assembler routine and use the 8250 UART chip, and the 8259 Programmable Interupt Controller.

At that point the only documentation we had access to was the IBM Technical Reference Manual, which gave the schematics and BIOS listing, but little else.

I was very familiar with GW-BASIC and had written some BASIC code to use the RS232 serial interface from it, so decided to reverse engineer GW-BASIC itself, to work out how it was addressing those chips.

A month or two later, we came across Peter Norton's "Programmers Guide to the IBM PC", which could have saved us weeks.

Exciting times.
> i don't care what their "priorities" are as long as they are paying me a good salary

Problem is they are not doing that either
Ask HN: What do you use the Windows Task Scheduler for?
Godot is also great for 3D, and increasingly so. We're already making great VR games with it, and it's only going to get better with Godot 4.0 which will support Vulkan (to be released this summer).

I've switched from Unity ~7 months ago and never looked back.
The cringe is very real. You have to push through and fix it in the next draft. :)
Huawei Should IPO in the US
The US population is 320 million, with a current workforce of about 80 million.

The 240 million are essentially on a form of basic income right now, whether being support by unemployment insurance, EITC, a working spouse, being a child, or a senior (social security)

Actual UBI isn't really that far from the current situation.
An engineer has a problem. So he says to himself, "I'll use a remote-enabled auto-capturing whiteboard."

Now he has two problems.
Until you sort lexically, then madness.
More a mindset than economics. Mining is what Australia does. No-one really knows how to set up a manufacturing base. Investors aren't willing to invest in it. There's no end of stories about how it's too small of a domestic market, and too far from export markets (all of which are true for lots of other countries with thriving export markets), or that the labour costs are too high (also true for Germany, which has a thriving manufacturing export industry). And everyone's rich from mining, so why bother?

Same for the solar industry. If there was ever a place to build enough solar to power the planet, it's Western Australia. We could build the batteries, too, from local ingredients. But it's all too hard and too complicated and why do that when we can make enough money from just mining the lithium?
There is also Amazon Lumberyard. Which is totally free, you only have to pay if you use AWS for multiplayer.
It is a fork of CryEngine. It looks really nice.
How iPhone Hackers Got Their Hands on the New iOS Months Before Its Release
From what I've seen reviewing k8s clusters some of the items in your "sensible measures" list aren't considered easy to manage and deploy.

In particular good RBAC design, that doesn't end up leaking information across namespaces, PSPs that are flexible enough for developers but strict enough to prevent privesc and strong network policies present challenges.

For those, less mature, organizations, a solution like this might present an easier option.
I don't think this is an American thing as much as it is a 'country with large population' thing. Internet users all around the world do tend to frequent sites based on regional preferences, and the human brain is exceptionally prone to identifying patterns. I'm sure if I were to hang out on Weibo or VK I'd find a bunch of people assuming everyone was Chinese or Russian.
You are right. Eat is generally considered to have a telic (<- technical term) reading when the object is definite. (See e.g. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=deEUDAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA71&ot...)
I do not trust that web site. Their methodology is suspect (see Southwest Airlines, as you mention) and their data is suspect (Alaska Airlines has no fatalities? No, they have had 9 accidents that resulted in at least one death, including several that resulted in all lives on the plane lost).
I recently read that Tim Sweeney still writes code for UE, something absurd - 80% of the codebase is his?
Looks like the autocomplete is going off alphabetical order rather than some other characteristic of the city?
You can find x to y battery adapters on ebay, in case you found it as annoying as I did.
If the company can get an equally good hire at half the cost, it can and should replace you. As a shareholder I would not only expect this, I would demand it.
In my opinion, studios using Unity were always the ones too cheap to hire external freelancers to help their development, but instead going with copy&paste from (outdated) internet tutorials. I mean with Unity's deprecation speed, a tutorial from 2018 is basically unusable now.

So effectively, my work was mostly UE, because that's where the customers were.

But just out of curiosity, can you give me a hint where you found OK-paid freelance Unity work?
The Dangerous Seduction of the Lifetime Value (LTV) Formula (2012)
They want to keep small wholesale prices high. The whole non-EV battery market is still quite, quite sizeable.
My favorite part of that torpedo is the little flag. Because it didn't use steam, it didn't have any wake. So to be guided it had a little flag on a pole above the water.
ASAP: As Static as Possible Memory Management (2017) [pdf]
There was a later also discontinued Basic from Microsoft that a lot of people have been hoping would be open-sourced too.
Sadly this is a continuation of a long trend. In 2005 Inside Higher Ed mentioned:

> Fewer than a third of college degree recipients are “proficient” in everyday literacy, U.S. study finds, and rate is falling.

Do you think its gotten worse or better, 15 years on?

Back in 2017 I wrote about how Cal State replaced no-credit classes with credit bearing ones, and then nixed the requirements for placement exams and remedial classes: https://medium.com/@simon.sarris/higher-education-erodes-a7c...

> At Cal State, about 40% of freshmen each year are considered not ready for college-level work and required to take remedial classes that do not count toward their degrees.

> The hope is that these efforts will also help students obtain their degrees sooner — one of the public university system’s priorities. Cal State has committed to doubling its four-year graduation rate, from 19% to 40%, by 2025.
If the open wholesale price is 2X and the few big customers are paying X, that's equivalent to the ""true"" open market price being 2X and the favoured customers getting a 50% discount.

This isn't unusual in enterprise software sales, but it does seem odd for industrial commodities. What I'm asking is why, if supply is so tight, the favoured customers get favourable prices rather than all prices creeping up.
One of my on-boarding tasks at my first tech job was to evaluate the merits of upgrading to a newer version of unity. I installed the new version, imported our code base, fixed a few bugs, and everything worked. We gained a few niceties, we could remove some of the hacks we had to program in to bypass unity weirdness, and we could start keeping our product up to date. I gave a presentation, we went over the pro/con list, and decided to move forward.

It was awful. Every other programmers' attempts to upgrade failed, and each in a unique way. We had to pause releases to untangle everything. I felt terrible for derailing production my first week on the job, but after a dozen or so people took me aside to tell me some variation of "it's not you, its Unity" I learned a valuable lesson. You said it perfectly: the instability is not temporary.
Haha! I actually flew into the wrong airport because of this. The two airports are about two hours apart by car.
First evidence of a palaeo-nursery area of the great white shark
>67k line PR

Man I'm glad I don't have to review that
https://www.ideaflip.com - it's nice and simple compared to e.g. Miro, and nicely recreates the offline collaboration feeling of working around a whiteboard
This could be quite a handy service for throwaway cloud clusters. In the past I've used https://labs.play-with-k8s.com/ but the availability on that service has been a bit spotty of late.
GitLab 13.0
I can't help noticing that the majority - not all, but the majority - of "No." responses here summarize identically: someone used MongoDB a long time ago (between 5 and 11 years) and ran into a problem, so they stopped using it and will never try or re-evaluate it again.

I'm a bit surprised that developers and systems engineers get burned to the point that they disconnect from the daily reality of their occupation, that software is often shaky in its infancy but almost always improves over time.
Hi, I authored this post, but the credit really goes to the Timescale database team.

Multi-node TimescaleDB is the result of a massive amount of engineering effort over two years, as can be seen in this +67,000 line PR: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/pull/1923

We're thrilled to make this free so that more developers can use it.
There's something beautiful about normalizing the storage of denormalized schemas.
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I think the NYT (and other very large publishers, WSJ, etc.) are the exception rather than the rule when it comes to subscription revenue.

For a newspaper that serves a small town/mid size city there is a fixed number of people they can sell subscriptions to. Compound that with digital ads being worth a fraction of what a print ad is worth and you have a problem. A print ad is still a bigger revenue driver.
We've used it for several years after switching away from it for Docdb last year and then back again in November. We've had applications running on both MongoDB and AWS continuously through 2019, but our clients and team in general needed certain things: Ddb doesn't support everything we've done w/ mongo in the past. Our team also feel it's easier to integrate and translate to clients.
There were multiple posters here on HN advocating for Hydroxychloroquine saying that it's safe, that you have nothing to lose otherwise and that it's better to try something than do nothing.

So unfortunately what we have here is a textbook example of people falling for a cargo cult surrounding a drug whose efficacy wasn't confirmed at all. Even if a drug seems safe and has few side effects, you should never self-dose or listen to people without medical consensus.
Show HN: Working list of companies with new remote-work policies since COVID19
There is one on display at the free Naval museum near Paulsbo WA.
> ... who makes the keys so that you can trust them not to cheat?

What? I’m talking about something like BOINC or whatever, but with a project dedicated to factoring RSA keys. Similar to how we have one for protein folding, and whatever. Now, I’m not familiar with how RSA factoring works, but I’d assume a node would be given a “project” (a range of divisors to test), and if one works, it’ll report the factors back to the central server. Then the server would verify the work, and if it’s correct, we now would have a factored RSA key.

Now, you could do something like Bitcoin where the project is distributed, and if a node claims to have factored the block’s key, it’ll broadcast it to the network and be verified by the other nodes. Then the factorer(?) would be rewarded (idk, maybe FactorCoin?). The problem I see with that is: you would still need an authoritative node to say what they “keys of the day” are.

Maybe some rich person could set up a fund to pay out people who put effort into factoring? Or do a fund where people donate money that’s paid out based on effort?

Now, I am aware that 2048 bit RSA is virtually “unfactorable” before the heat death of the universe, but maybe 1024 bit keys or smaller?

Ultimately, this idea comes from an extension of the idea behind the RSA Factoring Challenge[0]: pay people for factoring keys.

Related reading: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/70829/how-long-do...

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge
I read somewhere around 80%+ take the lump sum about 12 years ago. Given the risks of inflation over 25+ years it isn’t a bad idea. Most lottery winners get accosted by family members or spend like crazy with their money and wind up broke in the end. However, a great deal of them do at least take care of their health at least (getting teeth fixed was common). A mental trap of scarcity makes it difficult for the perpetually poor to think of money as nothing more than something to be spent rather than invested, but even here the HGTV dream home winner around 2007 sold the house to create... a construction company, which went bankrupt quickly.

Financial literacy can be taught over time though similar to helping people diet and control portions.
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This is an interesting window into their business model. This could be a purely an altruistic decision, which businesses sometimes do, contrary to popular belief. More likely it's a bet that wider adoption from making the clustered version free will drive more revenue through their managed database as a service offering. Which shows that their non-OSI open-source license is actually leading to more code and features being available free and (mostly) open-source. As opposed to gating features for paying customers.

I think we're too hung up on OSI open source licenses. The additional restriction in the timescaledb license that you can't run a paid database as a service offering affects hardly anyone negatively (AWS). It affects us all positively by providing a sustainable business model to support additional development and support of an open-source product we use. Win-win if ever there was one. I'd like to see more open-source and closed-source companies consider this model.
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I once had to write software that would create labels with a date, and said software would be used in both the U.S. and Ireland. I tried to push for the ISO standard of 2020-04-05 but couldn't get buy-in. Was finally forced to compromise on 2020-Apr-05.
I considered that, but in that case it would have suggested New Yarmouth (among other places) first.
Hey, it's correct when sorted alphabetically! Good enough, commit and ship it!
Next industries to benefit by shifting their operations to apps
This is only the C# source code, the internals of Unity is a closed C++ codebase which you can pay $1800/yr for access to
Ancient Fermanagh cure gets modern makeover (2018)
I agree with the first statement. I'd go as far as saying that Unity is the JavaScript of game development.

Sure, when you start out you get out results FAST, but then you run into limitations, weird behaviours and quirks that have to be worked around, and soon everything becomes a mess.

Mind you, I'm a hobbyist in this field so maybe you could chalk it out to inexperience, but I shiver to think to what professional developers have to deal with if the small prototypes I cranked out got so convoluted.

I'm trying out UE4 lately and although it can be daunting at times (and with horrible documentation), it feels much more comfortable to use in the long term.
>All of these capabilities are being released under the Timescale License, our source-available license that permits broad usage, except for where organizations are providing TimescaleDB-as-a-service.

So it's not open-source because AWS hasn't been nice with ElasticSearch and they don't want to be in the same situation?
I grew up in Lucknow, India (a tier 2 city with around 3MM people at the time) and had multiple assistants think I meant Lucknow, Ontario — a town with population of a 1000 people.
Researchers claim internet speed record of 44.2 Tbps
It is most definitely not the hardware. Apple's macOS palm rejection and especially the crispness & smoothness of the gestures are unparalleled, and using the same touchpad on Linux feels like the touchpad has dropped down into some sort of safe mode where all the fancy extras have been disabled.
I mean, its understandable, Apple has been developing this since the original unibody Macs of 2007 so they have nearly a decade of progress vs Windows or Linux touchpad developement, but acting as if they're on par is simply false.
You’re right. I’ve only been doing this professionally for 25 years and as a hobbyist for 10 years before that.

I’ve only developed software from everything from 8 bit computers with 128K of RAM, to DEC mainframes to Android tablets....

What do I know?
I'm not sure a 67k line PR proves anything more than 'noone really reviewed this'.
what are you talking about?

DOTS is even more of a dumpster fire than the URP/HDRP.

They have an unstable base layer that is constantly changing (eg. SystemBase and for each is literally what, two months old and the old stuff is depreciated now?), a version control system for packages that doesn’t work at all (see all the threads on why don’t my packages work?).

...and guess what? They’re using that as a base to build the physics, audio, networking, animation and visual scripting on.

No wonder its taking forever... those poor other teams are royally screwed, because every time they make any progress, the DOTS guys go and re do everything from scratch.

codegen? nah. we’re giving up on that too now, it was too hard.

...I mean, the demos are great and all, but DOTS is a mess.

Its not a “step up”, its a vague pie in the sky idea, and a bunch of people making a big old mess.

Its not even part of the 2020 roadmap.
A suggestion, study very closely how plugins in TC work and even more on which places: like file system plugin also working in search dialog. Implement support for TC plugins, you will gain enormous ecosystem for almost free.

Check its viewer and find in files options (utf8+utf16+regex+office files and then combining everything with git plugin (or one of other plugins) where commit comment contains something not matching to another regexp. And on top of everything it is very simple to make it happen).

Do study TC, it is by far the most complete file manager on any system, in any time and extremely well thought of. There is just nothing that compares beyond "I have two pane file manager".

It is visually outdated and it doesn't run on all platforms but it is really really hard to beat in features (like rename all *.cpp in all directories and subdirectories to #filename#-#dateofcreation#-#gitrevision#-#gitbranch#.cpp or use parts of exif header to rename file). I would love to have multiplatform alternative (as I have dumped the windows due to w8 and w10 abominations) for TC but I just dont see how this could be achived without really, REALLY huge engineering effort.

You might figure out that it is not worth competing against it for its licence price of 37 euros (27 for students) and "shareware" version without limitations except nag screen.
I'm interested to see this thread but posted 6 hours later. This happens on forums that are very EU/NA heavy--or games.

The thread seems overly negative towards Americans and criticizes them heavily because half of America is still asleep and the other half just started working. If OP posted it later Americans would likely be filling the discussion with the reasons why your complaints are happening.

My personal opinion is that US-centrism is obviously a thing, but EU people are so used to seeing it that they then mistake other things for it.

This same thing happens with Spain and Mexico as well!
Is there some other explanation that would please you? I am trying to parse that GP post for an argument and I can't find one. Your old drivers are all still there, they're not going away. You can continue using them but it would be wise to remain aware of the associated caveats, in this case, that the synaptics driver is unmaintained, hard to test, and is at a large risk of having regressions introduced after any changes.
I think UE and Unity has complete different markets. Unity is focused on small mobile game developers, those small shops don’t have expertise to work with UE C++ source code and most of them are new grads themselves.

I’m not sure what is the overall strategy of Unity but I don’t believe they care much about the PC/Console space and frankly at this point I don’t believe they will ever manage to capture it from UE.
Because an 11-year-old answer was just deleted by the SO "not an answer" hammer, here are the links from the SO post you mentioned:

- http://www.thespanner.co.uk/2007/11/26/ultimate-xss-css-inje...

- http://archive.is/20150708191322/http://i8jesus.com/?p=10

- https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Cross_Site_Sc...
Yes there will be an automated warning. On the airbus it calls out "retard" below 20 ft. Edit: This wrong, see reply below.
The issue was not democracy, but rather independence of Hong Kong. China did not recognize the legitimacy of Britain's rule over Hong Kong, and considered it part of China. Any move to establish Hong Kong as an independent state would undermine China's claim to the territory.
>Nothing fundamental seems to prevent the compiler+runtime from: - laying out instances of the same Component next to each other in memory - Burst.Compiling their Update() functions - adding backwards compatible APIs to do parallel loops etc over multiple components

And if those Update functions reference other objects and do something with them? If the engine automatically realigns the order in which Update is called on objects then you can't do something like that, you'd run into weird behavior. Or do I somehow misunderstand?

From what I understand, the whole point of DOTS is to get people to write code that uncouples the data from what operates on the data. Once they have that they can shuffle these calls around.
Twilio tapped to provide communications layer for NYC's contact tracing program
To be clear, it was developed in a branch so all the individual commits have been reviewed beforehand when landing on that branch. And the branch was rebased throughout the development cycle. This is just the final PR to merge that branch back into master :)
One more reason to fix those games, I guess.
Definitely, for most projects. Also the combination of Meteor and MongoDB allows for great development speed.
The $2.5T Debt Binge that has taken SP500 Titans to near Junk
https://app.scratchwork.io/ is a simple collaborative dashboard and support writing math equations by hand or with latex. Nice for researchers or engineers.