skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The counterargument to this is that dependence on the US military keeps other countries from putting in the resources to become military competitors.

You dont need to be a direct military competitor, Afghanistan and Iraq have shown that you can still defeat US with a thousand cuts.
Depends on what you mean by drone. Something like Loyal Wingman might, but not the type of drones people are imagining in the replies.
For real, the old ways aren’t just disappearing overnight, or over 30 years. Our organization and social structures are in many ways baked in.
A password signup option would be appreciated. While the social logins are convenient and I often use them, I prefer to use passwords for services that I'd also like to use at work because I intentionally avoid signing into my personal Google account on my work computer. A username/password login option provides a nice way to share a service without spilling my personal Google account onto work equipment.
> Why is it taking so long to get electric cars going?
Laws of physics haven't changed the way entrepreneurs would like them to change.

Theoretical energy density of an electric battery is low. Practical energy density of electric batteries today is even lower that that. There is no specific known approach to make better batteries, everyone experiments, and tests, and experiments, and tests over and over again hoping to discover a magical combination that keeps lithium stable.

Unless someone discovers a completely new physical effect (I wouldn't bet on that), electric cars are never going to be versatile. And if there is a discovery like that, I doubt they are going to rush to implement new technology in, essentially, rich consumers' toys. There are more important areas.
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Some people can get the pandemic virus twice. That is no reason to panic
They did that in a Star Trek episode, more or less. "You have been assigned as dead. Please report...etc" so they could preserve infrastructure, which is so much more valuable than human life.
Star Trek: The Original Series

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon

> In the episode, the crew of the Enterprise visits a planet engaged in a completely computer-simulated war with a neighboring planet but the casualties, including the Enterprise's crew, are supposed to be real.
I see a lot of people mentioning the low cost, saying that it's no big deal. It's not the cost that I find annoying; it's dealing with credentials and secrets..
The levels of efficiency we are reaching on this thread are mind blowing.
Isn't that the moral equivalent of someone holding a hostage in front of them as a shield? If the only reason to send in human pilots is because the enemy is less likely to shoot them (or because it justifies greater retaliatory response), that seems like it's turning the pilot into little more than a sacrificial lamb. Moreso if the retaliatory response means sending in the drones.
Doesn't gparted do this for you? It will automatically figure even the most complex of operations that require filesystem copy.
There isn't really a distinction to be drawn between "a documentary to inform decision makers" and "propaganda". Everybody in the Soviet Union was lying to everyone else -- they were responding rationally to the incentives they were presented with.
"Cryptonomicon", a Neal Stephenson novel, delves into the idea that you can mask your intelligence gathering by failing to act on it within some statistical margin. Numerous other ideas are explored.
Just checked the wikipedia and it seems that cruise missiles with 2 hours of loitering time have been here for a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loitering_munition
How have either Afghanistan or Iraq defeated the US in any conventional sense of the word?
Not the _other leaders_ in the industry, but the leaders in the _other industries_ they are pushing into, like architectural/automotive/simulation visualization. In each of those they have to face very different competitors with very different feature sets.

E.g. one of my past clients is using Viz4D for interactive architectural visualizations on their website for marketing purposes. For them that existing tool is already so integrated into their processes, and the feature set so well tailored to their industry, that I doubt Unity will be able to offer something competitive to what they have _today_ in the next ~3 years with their slow pace of development.
Not really "northern hemisphere", but rather northern (and, at least in theory, southern) enough latitudes. The amount UV-B exposure needed for vitamin D synthesis depends on the season and the latitude, as well as probably cloud cover etc.

Anecdotal article I found about latitude vs. UV-B exposure: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5037520/

I live at ~60° of northern latitude, and AFAIK people around here commonly don't get enough UV-B exposure for sufficient vitamin D synthesis for half of the year or so, so you need to get it either from nutrition or supplements.
It’s some kind of only those of pure heart may partake in our magic type mentality.
One point about this that I think is overlooked is that if you don't include some sort of randomness, you'll end up over-optimizing for whatever you're measuring, and under-optimizing for the thing you actually care about. More concretely, if we say that there are some underlying factors which correlate to both student "quality" and to admissions scores, and some random factors, we'll find that score and quality are correlated, but the highest quality students and the ones with the highest scores aren't the same ones. This is easier to explain using a graph: if we assume that "score" and "quality" are two gaussian variables, we get a graph that looks like

16 ^ Quality
15 | #####BBBB
14 | ########BBBBA
13 | ###########BBBBAA
12 | #############BBBBAA
11 | ###############CCCCAA
10 | #################CCCCAA
9 | ##################CCCCA
8 | ###################CCCC
7 | ####################CCC
6 | #####################CC
5 | #####################
4 | ###################
3 | #################
2 | #############
1 | #########
+----+----+----+----+----+----+>
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Score

If you do the naive thing, and grab the very highest-scoring students, we set the cutoff at 27, and get all 10 of the students labeled by A in the above diagram, thus have a quality distribution of 10 - 14, with the bulk being around 10 - 13, and the average score being 11.5. If we instead set the cutoff at 23, we get 47 students (labelled B for students above the average of the originally selected ones, and C for the ones below that average) -- if we then pick among them randomly, we'll get a flatter distribution ranging from a low score of 6 to a high score of 15, with an average of 10.98. The distribution of scores looks like

Score | Strict | Cutoff/
| Cutoff | Random
------+--------+--------
15 | 0.00% | 8.51%
14 | 10.00% | 10.64%
13 | 20.00% | 12.77%
12 | 20.00% | 12.77%
11 | 20.00% | 12.77%
10 | 20.00% | 12.77%
9 | 10.00% | 10.64%
8 | 0.00% | 8.51%
7 | 0.00% | 6.38%
6 | 0.00% | 4.26%

So if you care a lot about simply not getting bad students, and not very much about getting the very best ones, you should do a strict cutoff, since that will give you the highest possible average. If you care more about getting the very best students, and are ok if you let in a few relative duds, you'll do better to lower your cutoff and select randomly from everyone who passed your cutoff.

Elite colleges get their reputation from having students who go on to do great things, so I'd argue that at least for them, the "cutoff plus random selection" makes sense.
Thanks for this. Now I have a much better picture of what it is you do. 'The Elevator Pitch' is what I was after.

It really was a bit hard to gauge from the info out there.

If the product is great, then I think you're on to the right kind of thing that times like this need.

(ie: due to far, far more remote workers).
I was fine with netflix because I had a cheap HD only plan.

Prime Video has 4k videos and nobody else can use wifi if I play an Amazon Original and they forcefully opens in 4k and I take up all the bandwidth
Experimental Zink Patches Get OpenGL 4.6 Running Atop Vulkan
What?

Your comparison was nonsensical in the first place, your entire take is painfully uneducated, but the comment you replied to is playing along. Then you're complaining they did?

Unity has created projects on a scale that would have failed if they were using a product that justifies hundred developer engineering departments to build crud apps with dynamic content...

> Unity to me seems like a team with a fantastic marketing department to contrast with a much weaker engineering department.

No one who has used Unity for any extended period of time would ever say this, and really this is where most people who use Unity would stop reading.

It hard to directly refute because Unity marketing was almost non-existent for years of their early success. It wasn't until they shifted to cloud based value-adds their marketing even had any teeth, and that was almost a decade after 2.0, which was where Unity really picked up it's stride

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And that blog post, so much ignorance about the technology you're trying to bash!

You could find the answers to half your complaints by hopping on Stack Exchange or Unity Answers (yes, Stack Exchange, Unity Answers exists because there has an immense amount of knowledge that is Unity specific, and it predates Game Dev SO by years..

And half your complaints just read like someone who's used to a web framework that takes 1GB of ram if you leave it's creator's website running for too long.

Null behavior is due to the link between managed and unmanaged code, the two have separate lifecycles, so that's why it works that way. It's a reflection of the fact that a lot of what you use from Unity is written in unmanaged C++ so that you can actually do useful things with it...

GetComponent should be cached in Awake not because it's slow, but because that's common sense, you don't want to do more than you have to while the game is running. You want to be rendering at least every 16.7ms, why would you waste cycles peppering GetComponent calls everywhere?And as a bonus your complaint about missing editor references in code that's not called often becomes non-existant since your component fetch will fail immediately instead of at access

Also how old is this blog post, it's been half a decade since GetComponent didn't cache internally, and even before that it wasn't the reason for problems unless you were doing something really dumb, it was a best practice to cache, not a requirement for a performant game.

Really, for a title like "Unity is fundamentally broken" this list is almost comical. What's broken is your understanding of what it takes to make a game engine as widely useful as Unity, as confirmed by your first comment:

> why is it so hard to make a good game engine?

If you don't know why, you're in no position to be calling anything "fundamentally broken"
UT Austin is allowed to accept only the top 6%. It also creates weird incentives for students. A friend of mine works in the front office of a local high school and she knows a lot of students who have dropped electives such as band because it lowers their grade point. In Austin area schools AP courses are weighted on a 6.0 scale which makes the problem worse if you want broaden your education and take non-weighted classes.
If you use gh-pages [1], then it's as simple as `gh-pages -d public`.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/gh-pages
>They'd have no qualms or legal issues with defending their airspace from manned flight.

It's one thing to go a mile outside your airspace to nab somebody's drone. To do that to nab someone else's pilot is a whole 'nother level of escalation.
> They just lose me as a customer going forward

The thing is, they don't care. Companies don't make their money from individual users, they make it from other big companies.
Topic mapping at its best! Seems to me that this platform is teasing open new avenues of knowledge work.
Last I remember it was the US invading Afghanistan/Iraq and not the other way around. The US funding Saudi Arabia, antagonizing Iran, and collapsing Iraq has the bloody logic that it prevents an oil-rich Islamic superstate from unifying the Middle East like various Turkish/Iranian/Arabic empires have in the past. Keep globally influential competitors from forming.
They are still courts. They are still presided by judges, you can't just get approval without justification or a paper trail. They still leak like crazy to the media.

And again, it isn't binary. You can't say the USA and China's systems are just as bad, one is much worse than the other even if neither is perfect or even good.
I mean bottom of the rung, E1. You can do 2 years of community college and enter a couple of ranks higher.
People's response to all this is so strange.

Sure, this article and "people's response" are indeed a reaction to terrible people driving science without any, uh, mediation.

The development of science from the situation of renaissance proto-scientists requiring noble patrons to NSF grants being evaluated based on ostensibly objective criteria was a progressive development.

The rise of direct grants by the very wealthy - for whatever they believe science should be - is a regressive development. It's a development that likely won't destroy science but one which has the potential distort it by moving results in the directions these very wealthy patrons desire.
how is more, cheaper planes supposed to cost less ?
We are currently in a large, broad recession. Unemployment is at 10%.
I will just say "why" or "that depends, I'm busy but maybe I can make room".

There seems to be an attitude that we shouldn't be rude to people, but to be honest, I learned such things at a young age from blunt responses like this. Along with the old response "Can I ask you a question" "You just asked me one". They forced introspection.
Not historically.

Occitan was once far more popular than English by both royalty and total speakers. It was the language of English king Richard the Lion Heart who couldn’t speak English. Now it’s dead and most people have never heard of it. Not even conquest had anything to do with it.

My name comes from High Norman which was also more popular than English and is also dead. Britain was also more popular than English even after being displaced by Saxon invaders.

Mongol and it’s short lived Phags-pa script were very popular but they lacked influence and never caught on.

Written Arabic has remained stable and largely resisted evolution regardless of growing and contracting popularity over a large geography.

This is even true in programming. Most programmers seem to hate JavaScript and yet it has emerged as the most prolific programming language. Popular ideas about supplanting it or replacing it have proven ineffective or completely imaginary. The only moderately successful attempt to displace JavaScript is TypeScript, a superset that fully embraces JavaScript.

Popularity is an argument ignorant people hide behind when evidence is too inconvenient.
Local power in the age of digital policing
It talks about bash workarounds for zsh features.
Reminds me of the "if we understand it, it's just a machine, if we don't, that's technology". Nobody calls a bus "technology" anymore, but ML, now that's technology!
> Are the hiring scientists also paid well-below market wages?

Yes. Well, in engineering anyway. That's why most engineers use academia as a stepping stone to something else. Working in science is, I think, sort of like working at a startup that's perpetually short on cash with no possibility of an exit.

With a little digging you can find published tables of job codes and salaries for many universities, e.g., https://www.udel.edu/content/dam/udelImages/human-resources/...

Faculty are listed separately for some reason: https://www.udel.edu/faculty-staff/human-resources/compensat...

Positions requiring a PhD start being listed at 29E (midrange of $55k) or 30E (midrange of $63,800). You could easily get that with a bachelor's degree in engineering 10 years ago. I suspect you will find the "Information Technology" Job Family salaries particularly amusing.
They’re generally allied nations in NATO with compatible technical standards. NATO really doesn’t need member-states with planes that can’t fit American missiles - plus it saves the purchasing country the huge expense of having their own R&D programmes for domestic planes.

As for other countries: it’s still in your geopolitical interests to have countries who aren’t allies using your gear - not just for the money - but because it means you already know their weaknesses and you can sell them nerfed “export editions” to ensure you have technical superiority and to lock them in to buying parts, accessories, training, and upgrades (and successors!) from your own nations’ defence contractors and you can saturate a market that your geopolitical rivals (Russia, PRC, Iran, etc) would otherwise have access to, thus weakening their sphere-of-influence.

For a recent example of it going wrong, see the S-400 sale to Turkey.

Arms sales are an ugly thing - but if NATO states didn’t sell arms to Saudi Arabia, Libya, Turkey, etc what would the alternative be?
The amount we spend to have "the best", per aircraft, is exponentially higher than what "good enough" would be. And not just purchase price. Training, maintenance, longevity of the platform, etc.
Vastly different applications; you have to decide in advance to launch a cruise missiles and once launched it cannot RTB
F-35B's are capable of taking off in less than 150 m. Good luck trying to destroy every single airport and highway.
I once drove from Sacramento to Sugar Bowl ski resort on the I80. Actually I ended in Sugar Bowl, because it was before GPS and all signs along I80 were buried in snow.
Reading HN is fun and interesting.
Sure, but cruise missiles aren't air-to-air missiles. Loiter time for a drone that intends to ram into a stationary or slow-moving ground target and for one that intends to ram (or nearly, because ABF warheads don't actually rely on impact) a combat aircraft have different required performance envelopes.
He'd been convicted before.
Jira free tier has standard roadmaps for up to 10 users: https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/features/roadmaps?ta...
Maybe watch this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon
Do air-to-air engagements beyond-visual-range count as dogfights though?
Easier to remember/link.
Domains are cheap ($10 a year or something).
Signalling that yes, this is an important enough issue to dedicate a whole site to.
SEO (more people stumbling on it by mistake, or a nice cash out later, your choice).
You own it (if it already exists, that page might die one day).
I worked as a professional full-time technical writer, salaried with benefits and options, for four years across two companies. I exited the field entirely because even factoring the costs beyond salary I never came close to clearing US$100k/year spent on the role, nor did any of my colleagues outside of management (which notably wasn't a writing role).

There was no path toward that number without moving to what were considered "technical" roles on other teams, including when I moved into a tools development role within the tech writing team.

So I wish I, or anyone I've worked with, or any full-time technical writer I've ever spoken to, got that level of compensation for technical writing. I'd still be doing it if I'd gotten paid that much.

I'm not saying nobody gets paid that, someone probably does or I'm sure y'all wouldn't talk about it. But god I _wish_ I'd ever actually seen it, just to know it was out there.
Cliff is an amazing person. Just a joy! Every time I see him on Numberphile, my life is made better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Stoll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU

P.S. Cliff, we know you're on HN. Please continue being yourself, it seems like a really great person to be!
Avoiding Imposter Syndrome Driven Development
The really cool thing, especially for a ship, would be a dome of drones. They could come back to the ship to recharge and fly out again, and even, depending on weather, travel with the ship. Each one could sense incoming ordinance and move to pre-explode it well before it hit the ship. Of course, this wouldn't work against some things, like heavy kinetic stuff, or really fast stuff. But ordinary missiles? Other drones? Sure.
And yet, for someone who certainly had the resources, Epstein seems to have had... no children at all? (Or has he simply successfully hidden his parentage?)
Most sites straddle the muddy line in-between, or start off as webpages and mutate into web-apps over time as more functionality gets added on.
I would advise you to question what you don't like about Spring Boot. I also don't like Spring Boot and React but I write them because money. My personal projects are not in spring boot and react and those keep me plenty happy on the side when I need to detach. Good luck!
Sorry, my bad. Here's the blog post where they announced LunaScript, the ill-fated programming language that they built and then tossed.

https://blog.asana.com/2010/02/lunascript-our-in-house-langu...
Even more, considering the inevitable Iranian counterstrike. Killing people in response to a piece of equipment being lost would have been a horrifying agression that the Iranians couldn't have let slide.
From my understanding Epstein was an intelligence agent, who worked the honey trap line. Compromising politicians, scientists & actors. This is pretty well laid out by now re FBI Charing documents for Maxwell.

Is this not the common understanding of the situation?
right. It's 5x the budget to set up the entire rest of the cafe.
Hi, appreciate the feedback (I'm Jonny, one of the co-authors), writing this we were conscious of framing this report not as a finished artefact, but as the beginning of a multi-year resilience research study and we fully acknowledge that it raises more questions than it provides answers.

However, we also did make an effort to outline some concrete strategies for relieving emotional debt in section 7 and also outlined in the [wiki](http://resilient.wiki/), which include daily/weekly/monthly/annual activities (although by no means an exhaustive list and invite readers to contribute additional suggestions).

> re: Especially in terms of letting corporations and HR departments deflect and ignore fixing toxic work environments rampant with major burnout stressors

This may be well the case in some organisations and part of our intention with the 'Shadow Stressors' framework was to shed light on those sources of stress in the 'ambient/external quadrant' which would likely fall under the responsibility of the organisation's leadership to address.
What's the takeout process like?

I love having an external brain, but "lock-in" and "external brain" are mutually exclusive in my book.
Please read the paper before you comment
Is there a way to export the whole kit and kaboodle as a set of markdown files?
This is an extremely over confident view of NATO and the US. In wargames NATO loses the Baltic states to Russia [1]. And that's WITH US forces. And lets not bring up nukes, no EU member is willing to go nuclear over Tallinn.

[1]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/03/if-russia-started-a-war...
Epstein funded his pet research areas, yes. But all sources of funding including government grants do the same, one way or another

Some grant-making-organization and state and private foundations now may have degenerated to the point that they are nothing but schemes for financing someone's pet ideas. But I will claim that at their best, they are better than that.

It seems like it's fashionable to dump on bureaucracies making decisions based on ostensibly objective criteria and assume that their decisions are no better than the pet of ideas of utterly vile people. But I'll stand against fashion and claim that isn't true.