skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very very worthwhile investment of your time.

I dived into the topic two years ago using Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Networking-Top-Down-Approach...)

As someone with about ten years experience in web-dev, but no formal CS education, I found the difficulty level to be just right.
Can you elaborate on your concern? The authors of the 1619 project agree that it's not a neutral historical review - the lead author has consistently said that it's "reframing history", "using history and reporting to make an argument", "explicitly seeks to challenge the national narrative". It's infeasible to expect commenters to provide detailed citations for every fact they reference.
Show HN: Every company working on autonomous vehicles
Yeah apparently the converter I used used a Cyrillic character, the actual "LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL F" is ꜰ. Also apparently there's a "LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL *" for every letter except X[0][1].

[0] https://unicode-table.com/en/search/?q=small+capital
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_caps#Unicode
Are you sure it’s not the other way around?
I couldn't read much at the link, so looked up about the book. Found this line in a review fairly relevant.

>Hirt deliberately spends little time on racism, partly because it's too easy a target and too obvious.

https://www.planetizen.com/node/74628/book-review-zoned-usa
I think this is a really attractive answer, but I’ve never programmed in c or c++. I’m a little scared off by a lot of warning about how easy it is to write unsafe code.

Are there any other cross platform languages with bindings to native GUI frameworks?
I like to use the movie Amadeus as an example of this. The movie portrayed Salieri as a man who could barely play. When that was just not true at all. The problem is they were comparing someone who is top of their field to someone who was extraordinary. In fact if you look at the movie semi closely you would see Mozart could not even keep the rest of his life together.
ADA rules also add a lot of expense that is important, I believe, but certainly limits the amount of 'uniqueness' that is possible when building new structures.
Reflow is still important to support accessibility, and it depends on Tagged PDF, not that I can find any open tools that actually can do this.
Have you done any game programming before? A heavy reliance on an interactive GUI is very common because there are many things for which you want visual interactivity, such as placing 3D objects in relation to each other. That kind of task is either difficult or impossible to do effectively purely in code.
> In what way do idiots making idiotic comments about your correct code invalidate your scientific production? You can still turn out science and let people read and comment freely on it.

How would a layperson identify a faulty critique? It would be picked up by the media who would do their usual “both sides” thing.
The cell does some mind boggling stuff. What the macro organism achieves is boring in comparison. Hence clanking replication could be very hard.
> so you’re fighting a losing battle

That's an odd way of putting it when I was stating "I've always found tons of great Unity stuff on Github - and I'm worried that might change".

The rest of your answer makes sense in itself - it just seemed to be responding to somebody else.

I basically learnt by downloading Unity stuff off Github and playing with it and I follow a lot of great accounts which I check regularly.
I'm not Deva, however this is basically an anecdotal case from one clinic. To garner further scientific consideration, they'd need to expand their idea into an RCT, otherwise there are too many confounding factors and lack of control to say that the hammer is actually effective and that we aren't seeing placebo effects, biases introduced, etc.
Darker complexion mean you need to stay out much longer to get the vitamin D you need. This is why humans lost their natural pigmentation when they migrated to Europe and Asia.
Thank you for writing and sharing this story!

My mother has been plagued many of the same symptoms that your patient had, and she has been searching for a cure for years. All of her blood levels are "within normal ranges", and doctors always dismiss her as being crazy, so she ends up seeking treatment from various "quack" doctors.

It sounds like you are the kind of doctor that is able to analyze the human body holistically and solve underlying problems that other doctors would miss.

How can I find a doctor like you that I can convince my mom to go to?
Quote one sentence where I attacked you personally. I was quite careful to speak about your essay and its conclusions from the perspective of the intended audience, and if you think I’m going to engage after having that called an ad hominem, you don’t really understand the investment of time that would entail and why I’m strongly disincentivized.
How do we move around in a zero-carbon world? (Aug 24th 2020)
If you issued a full refund, you are not obligated to do anything more for them. You already accepted responsibility by issuing a full refund even though the IRS delays are unprecedented and your client needs to understand that. I would say "We are happy to continue the work but we need to re-establish formal relationship again through a new contract/payment in order to ensure we are able to provide quality service to you".

If they don't like it, you can tell them to go somewhere else politely unless you are at their mercy and begging for their business. A client that takes a full refund AND then still expects free work is not a client you want to work for. They will continue to make your life worse.
An MIT study indicated developing their own FSD technology would yield at most a small margin improvement because the technology wouldn't be exclusive for long, and shortly after it would be utterly commodity. [1]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-lyft-self-driving-taxis...
I checked out the example code for arrays (https://github.com/betty200744/ultimate-go/blob/3de8a053d9f7...) and noticed that OP seems to misunderstand a few things about Go arrays:

- the cheat sheet differentiates between 'declaring' and 'declaring and initializing', but in Go there are no uninitialized arrays (or slices)
- a lot of times in this file, a slice is created instead of an array (lines 18, 21, 25, 31)
- arrays in Go don't really have a capacity (it's always the same as the array's length)
- the built-ins append and copy as well as the sort functions don't accept arrays (I assume this is why slices are created?)
When I see a "it's doomed" article about a company from any newspaper - I look at previous articles for contrast and found this better reading having just read: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/27/how-uber-...

Allows me to give the credibility to the article it deserves.

For me Uber already lost a customer for life due to horrendous customer service that showed a corporate culture of the worst once I picked thru it all. So for me they are already dead.
China trade war could push iPhone contractor Foxconn to build in Mexico
> No one wants to feel like you are looking to make them a load-bearing structure in your psyche.

I think you are correct, but I don't think this is exactly what kypro is getting at. expecting to gain fulfillment by investing effort in a relationship is not a turn-off to most people. expecting fulfillment from a relationship while putting forth minimal effort is indeed toxic and will repel people.

> Potential partners can smell it from a mile away. They may not be consciously aware of it, but they’ll smell it. The personality component of attractiveness for men has a lot to do with already feeling fulfilled in your solo activities.

I would generalize this further. people can sense when another person is significantly needier than they are (having or not having fulfilling solo activities is a subset of this). outside of very specific (eg, parent-child) types of relationships, people hate this.

> At least, I think this is why I’m single.

without knowing much about you, I would guess that you're single for the same reason as most single people who want a relationship: mismatched expectations and/or not meeting and talking to enough new people. timing is very important, and the timing will be wrong for most people you meet.
Agree with the part about profitability, but middlemen can definitely add value.

I’d say that Uber’s wide reach is valuable, the fact that they likely exist in the city you’re visiting, the fact that they likely have enough cars to pick you up in under 5 minutes. These are valuable things that don’t come from individual drivers or small taxi companies, but rather from big aggregators.
It is clear from the financials that in the coming months/years, they will be pressured (or simply need to) cut back massively on R&D, marketing, etc.

They have a gross profit margin of 78% in the last 2 years (revenue - direct operating costs), but then if you subtract R&D, sales + marketing, admin, it drops to -30% net profit.

Not even knowing that much about them, you can see what's about to happen.
This is an anecdotal case where it was problematic. You should definitely talk with a nutrionist/doctor to get your levels checked, but please don't assume that just because this story called out a problem (anything in too much can be a problem) that it's the normal story. I can name several more anecdotal cases of people taking 5,000IU a day for many more years than described here with no harmful effects (and much healthier than similar people).

Anecdotal stories shouldn't be counted either way, but I've seen far more studies that show the deficiency of Vitamin D3 than overdose.

Here's some data:
https://www.medscape.com/answers/819426-102375/what-is-the-p...

It's very, very rare. It can happen, but this is a gross misrepresentation of data.
Except for the people who made a bad mistake and chose someone they would be better of not being married too.
I'm not sure if you are actually referring to nitrogen?

Nitrogen (N2) constitutes 78% of the air we breathe. It's an inert, nontoxic gas and one of the least hazardous gases around -- the primary hazard being that of asphyxiation in closed spaces at high concentrations (due to displacement of O2).

I'm not sure I follow that Belgium has an abundance of nitrogen. Every country in the world has an abundance of nitrogen - it's literally 78% of the air around us. To extract nitrogen, you pull air into a separation column and out comes N2. Any country in the world can do this. The two inputs are air and electricity (to power the compressor and other equipment).
lockdowns destroyed everything
I originally had this mindset. Still kind of do. But the way of managing things through gameobjects, serializable components, and the scene hierarchy UI is very beneficial when you have non-programmers working on your game with you.

It's annoying when you're a solo dev who wants to handle everything in code, but they're definitely trying to optimize the workflow for a small diverse team rather than for a programmer or group of only programmers.

> And then I have no idea how to predict if any given video or documentation or sample project is out of date.

100% agree with this. I wish I could just buy a comprehensive book on an older version of Unity and stay on that as long as I can. But I can't really find much for more advanced Unity that doesn't exist as a video or GDC talk. (though an exception would be the catlikecoding tutorials)
Raising prices != Doomed...

Their business model: request a ride, pay for a ride, is not doomed. Their low prices might be. Yes, their economics pitched to investors relied on automation that's not here, but for medium density spaces, cabs have so much more overhead and will struggle to keep up unless they have a platform/brand that is competitive with lyft and uber.
> AGI could be the ultimate tool to free every human being from toil. It could also be the starting point of a large number of evil genie scenarios where we get what we asked for, in the form we least want it.

It seems that the second possibility is much more likely, and freeing humans from toil could be achieved without needing to enslave another intelligence to handle the foil on our behalf.
Poor white people are the difference between "protecting rich neighborhoods" and "protecting racial homogeneity." I don't know of any time that poor white people have ever been included in the rich people enclaves, which takes some of the air out of the race-and-race-alone perspective.
It's not even the underlying business model that's unsound. People will always need to get from point A to B, and the app based ride hailing model has completely revolutionized the fulfillment of this fundamental need. That's not going anywhere. Uber's problem is in their scale. You get essentially zero benefits and all of the drawbacks from massive scale in this industry, with the fact that your technology is trivially replicable by competitors, and brand loyalty is almost non existent. Uber is doomed in its' current incarnation. But my bet is that the future for ride hailing is one of hundreds of different competing local services around the world that focus on their locality, work directly with local officials and regulators, and provide good customer service while keeping overhead extremely low and operating profitably.
Binding is something you can do at home with minimal equipment. I have a fair sized library with lots of old books; got into bookbinding as a side effect to keep everything ticking over.

Even acidic paper is something you can deal with, though it's more difficult than cutting off lousy glue bindings and replacing with something better.
Thanks. Drop me a line when the day comes and let me know how it went :)
Except extraordinary is correlated with excellent because this premise:

> We can all achieve excellence

is false in practice.
put options are fine too, do you know where I can buy them?
> There is nothing Uber/Lyft do that any urban taxi company cannot do just as good if not better.

This has been true for the decade that Uber has been in operation yet no urban taxi company has built anything even close to a comparable app or experience.
It's too easy for rich successful people who have made it to declare that you should follow your passion. We wouldn't hear a quote from the dozens of lesser-known physicists who struggled and wouldn't recommend the field, we just hear the quote from Feynman who was the lucky one.

For instance, I love painting and woodworking, but I suffer no illusions that I would do "well" in those fields, as even far more talented and experienced individuals that I know in those fields are struggling mightily and envy my hobbyist status.
just prescribe sunlight
The biggest reason I would say that the drivers are not independent contractors is that they are not allowed to set their own rates.

Uber's argument that they are not employees is based on the concept that they only a platform facilitating a connection between drivers people who need rides or in this case deliveries. But if the contractors are truly separate entities, then Uber by controlling the cost of the ride/delivery, is fixing prices.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/legal-problem-could-crash-ube...

I am not aware what the current status of legal rulings for or against Uber in this regard, but I believe my point still stands.
Or sensible-editor.

* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/unix-editors-and-pagers.html
Thanks, I'll give it a listen!
On your resume pot you time zone, not your location
Plenty of good physics got done before modern devops came to be, too! Maybe the pace of advancement was slower when the best practice was to publish a cryptographic hash of your discoveries in the form of a poetic latin anagram rather than just straight-up saying it, but it's not like Hooke's law is considered unreproducible today because you can't deterministically re-instantiate his experimental setup with a centuries-old piece of brass and get the same result to n significant figures.
People sending themselves emails or whatsapp messages was certainly one motivation for the interface. I personally also wanted a) reminders associated with notes, and b) simple lists so I don't have to use separate apps for different types of notes.
What do you use Redis for?
no scam fixed pricing instead of opaque complex regulated pricing for whatever country you are in ?
Sounds like you have a good sane approach. Hope you do well.
Tom Chi (Google-X): How to Address Our Carbon Debt to Heal the Planet
Only in a world where more profitable opportunities for investment are sorely lacking can such wild bets on far-flung futuristic technologies become massive multinational companies. Corporations and wealthy individuals have accumulated huge sums of money and cannot figure out where to put it because returns on investments are extremely low. The flip side of falling rates of business investment is a slackening pace of economic growth, which economists have termed “secular stagnation.” It’s this decades-long slowdown that has generated the insecure labour force on which Uber and Lyft rely.

Now that's a very important statement. It's correct.

First, how US-specific is this? Is it true for the EU? Japan? China? India?

Second, why are profitable opportunities for investment lacking? Why are people not building larger solar panels and wind farms in the US? Why is it taking so long to get electric cars going? Why are there no new home appliance companies in the US? Why isn't the return on investment there?
>Equally non snarky, what is something in law enforcement that has led to equitable outcomes?

DNA.

I can't think of anything that was developed by law enforcement for law enforcement though.
I mean, I've been watching this unfold over multiple years, and I fully expect this to continue over the next two at the very least, and it applies across every slice of the engine that I'm aware of, and some that I'm not intimately familiar with (I hear second-hand that networking is somehow in a worse state?)

I guess everyone has different tolerances for what may technically be a 'temporary issue.' Yes, I have no doubt that all this engineering will lead to a better, more stable Unity, but for right now I actually have to somehow write real software and ship something to paying customers.
> creators can get just as much value out of creating their original content and connecting with like-minded people.

Strong resonance here. I recently became more prolific about blogging, and this was the mindset that helps me stay consistent. I find that the mere act of writing an essay helps me clarify my own thoughts, and the essay often changes in the process.

As a recent example, I started writing out about how I struggled and got over impostor syndrome. But while writing it I realized: wait, I never actually get over it. Rather, I learned how to use it to my advantage [1]

How to do that became the message of the article.

If my writing never brings fame, I won’t care. It helped me understand myself and it will help me better advise the people I care about

[1] https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/the-impostors-advantage/
Or use the old version of Gradle? It sounds like creating a vm/container/whatever with the old versions of everything is the fastest path, although I understand not wanting to do it after some point.
> The striped logo actually dates from 1972.

No, that's whe the 8-bar logo design was introduced, but a 13-bar version dates from 1966 or 1967, depending on the source:

https://www.paulrand.design/work/IBM.html
There were a few, like Flywheel, but the whole Uber business model is propped up on big money providing utterly unsustainable subsidies to riders. Nobody wants to pay what it actually costs to provide the service as evidenced by the fact they've been unable to raise prices. Once they run out of money to set fire to, there won't be an Uber.

Butts in seats is a strictly commodity business, whoever charges the least gets the ride. Just like airlines. The difference is airlines are roughly equivalently efficient, but Uber and Lyft are strictly less efficient than taxis.
Wouldn’t it be better to measure $profit per customer. 10% margin doesn’t sound like much, but as you increase costs with anticompetitive measures like having the government sell you exclusive access to infrastructure related resources, that 10% increases in value.

Ex: I’d rather pay $100 to an ISP making 20% margin than $200 to an ISP making 10% margin.
On the other hand, trying to be happy without close relationships is fighting an uphill battle against some of the oldest and deepest systems in your brain.
In the 1980s they told me it goes back to the 1960s. It is safe to assume the the grandkids of the first humans said much the same. And their grandparents complained that kids these days dont know how to behave like they did when I was a kid...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_Enhancer might too, if Apple hadn't restricted Input Manager plugins ;)
Something with non-standard asm?
> At the end of the day Uber/Lyft will be just another taxi company, albeit with a less professional set of drivers.

What city do you ride taxis in? Because the taxis I've ridden have spanned a range of tolerably annoying to downright abysmal experiences. Uber/Lyft drivers have unequivocally been more friendly, punctual, and professional. No taxi company I've seen can manage to make a halfway decent app or even guarantee that a driver will show up within an hour of me needing one.

Even if Uber/Lyft become the same price as taxis, I'll take Uber/Lyft any day over a traditional cab company.
This is my first time being involved in a game. Is there a way to make dependency/package management not abysmal? I was legitimately shocked when I realized that if you wanted to install a .net standard 2.0 library, you had to manually walk the dependency tree of that library and download/copy every single DLL into your app. Did I miss something? (probably)
I wouldn't go so far as saying they're "fundamentally unprofitable". They have a couple long-term options: the often-discussed one is autonomous driving (though it's becoming increasingly obvious this is many years out), but the less discussed one is vertical integration.

It's not hard to imagine them choosing to pursue Amazon-style vertical integration where they own the "restaurants" themselves. I put "restaurants" in quotes, because it'll almost certainly just be warehouse-style kitchens, where drivers skid up out front and grab food from heated tables, and you won't be able to dine-in at all. It would fill the same role for aspiring restaurateurs as food trucks do today: a startup cost, low-barrier to entry way to build out a brand, rapidly iterate menu-items, and begin building revenue to eventually secure a business loan to open a proper restaurant.

If UberEats can really squeeze both the drivers AND the restaurants, there's no fundamental reason that food delivery can't be done profitably - pizza companies have been doing it in almost all markets for decades.

Brick and mortar retail stores got eaten by Amazon warehouses, and it seems inevitable that many brick and mortar restaurants will eventually get eaten by a massive tech company as well.
SGX Bootstrap 101
You can, of course, go to far with this and end up with The Island.

Ultimately the crisis in the movie was triggered by denying someone bacon, which honestly is not that implausible.
Retreat of Covid-19 in Amazon's Manaus raises questions of herd immunity
? Source for that?
devboone has previously said that less than 3000 IU per day should be safe, but again this should be determined with the help of a physician, not self-selected. She said she has definitely seen toxicity in some of her patients with doses of over 5000 IU per day.