skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a paper I recently submitted, the journal demanded a github release of the software.
That's true, but I've always thought that removing components at runtime is such a rare thing to do, and the cost of allowing it on an engine level - inability to statically verify components - is such a high price to pay that the tradeoff just doesn't make sense.

If I was czar of Unity (ha!) I would never have allowed AddComponent and RemoveComponent to be a thing - I would have required the user to add all of the components they expect to need at edit time instead. The dynamism that Unity currently affords rarely improves my game, but it does lead to a lot of bugs. If users really want to turn components on and off, they could have an enabled flag.
In other words, generalists triumphs over specialists.

But the best of them is the multi-specialists. https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/19/the-dual-phd-problem-of-to...
I stop reading the webapp/react specific posts on HN for a year, and now there's such foreign terminology that I can't even understand the comments of one. Hydration? From context I assume it's something to do with rendering trees and the Dom, but really, I'm just grasping.

So out of hand. It feels like Javascript webdev is recursively devouring itself into a completely separate type of programming.
Sam Altman posted a tweet storm about this topic a couple of hours ago. You'd probably find it interesting: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1297912739206242306
TikTok sues Trump administration over US ban
I believe zinc overdose (possibly via copper deficiency) happened to me and caused my fatigue problem -- suddenly, about 5 hours after waking up, I would go from awake to overwhelmingly tired in about 10 or 15 minutes, and physically not be able to keep my eyes open. After an hour in bed I would drag myself back out but feel sluggish and useless the rest of the day.

I stopped taking zinc and it got better pretty quickly. I can't prove it but I believe that's what it was.
I think you forget all of the bad things that come with not having any money. Food is critical, and that is just the start.
> Manufacturing, Business, Recreation, and Habitation each occupied it's own zone.

We have since discovered that this becomes a major problem. If these things are far apart, you need to dedicate a ton of resources to transportation to move people between those areas.
This is just factually wrong. France had generated the majority of it's electricity from nuclear since the 80s, and Belgium now generates the majority of it's power from nuclear. Nuclear had repeatedly been used to satisfy peak demand.

Nobody doubts that fossil fuels are cheaper. Yes, that's why fossil fuels are still in widespread use outside of France, and several countries with lots of hydroelectric power. But if we want to halt climate change we need to eliminate - not just reduce - usage of fossil fuels. Any plan to use renewables as a significant source of energy either involves the continued use of fossil fuels, or the involvement of staggering amounts of energy storage.
I don't think that removes the need to provide enough detail to replicate the original environment though. We write one-off scripts with no expectation that they will see outside usage, whereas research publications are meant for just that! The bar isn't terribly high either: for ML, a requirements.txt + OS version + CUDA version would go a long way, no need to learn docker just for this.
Hi Deva, what do you think about the Vitamin D Hammer?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4463890/

> A colleague of mine and I have introduced vitamin D at doses that have achieved greater than 100 nmol/L in most of our patients for the past number of years, and we now see very few patients in our clinics with the flu or influenzalike illness. In those patients who do have influenza, we have treated them with the vitamin D hammer, as coined by my colleague. This is a 1-time 50 000 IU dose of vitamin D3 or 10 000 IU 3 times daily for 2 to 3 days. The results are dramatic, with complete resolution of symptoms in 48 to 72 hours. One-time doses of vitamin D at this level have been used safely and have never been shown to be toxic.8 We urgently need a study of this intervention.
The debate is simply our age old socialist vs. capitalist. The socialist will say that technology/society has changed to the point where extra safety nets are attainable and will tend to ignore/downplay incentives. Conversely the capitalist will ignore (potentially avoidable) human suffering and focus purely on perfecting incentives.

I tend to align with the capitalist worldview. In a democracy where 'majority' rules, politicians can end up in a precarious situation where welfare blocks feeling marginalized can create an insurmountable opportunity cost perpetuating welfare policies. This could certainly destroy an economy if pushed too far. Strangely, either if non-working individuals couldn't vote or if the government system wasn't majority rule perhaps this trend wouldn't hold true.

All of that being said, we can't turn our backs on all safety nets as responsible policy makers. As for where the line should be drawn? Who knows. Just be wary of giving politicians the authority to decrease voter elasticity (the cost an individual incurs when they vote away a political party).
First off, I should clarify that I'd actually love to see Go add support for proper enums, as I've certainly found it lacking.

My biggest issues would be maintainability and, as you mentioned, using global maps. If your enum itself is not a string value, but you NEED a string representation, then it should just implement `Stringer`.

As far as maintainability:

- The naming convention used here is not consistent with how enums are named in Go. For a good example, see the HTTP package, specifically request methods and response status codes [1]. Really, it isn't even an appropriate naming convention for constant values in any language, with `UPPERCASE_UPPERCASE_minor_note`, it looks a bit silly and took longer for me to grok.

- What if I want to add a new enum variant? I seriously have to add it to three different places? If I start touching this map in places outside the original source file, things will get really ugly really fast.

- A bit nit-picky, but: why use an `int32` here?

This file, in my opinion, is over-engineered. Go code should be simple; many people learning Go for the first time hesitate to work that way, unfortunately.

Other common issues I see with people learning Go for the first time:

- Overuse of concurrency. People like to use the `go` statement wherever possible, and create overly-complex APIs with channels. Unless you have multiple events that need to be done in parallel, yet simultaneously needing to communicate between them, you should not use them in your package's public API. Let your package consumers choose when to make that call.

- Package structure, particularly in modules. People like `src` directories, but Go doesn't work that way. Your top priority as someone learning Go should be to dig through Go's standard library itself and see how it is organized.

[1] https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#pkg-constants
Or cultural norms change over time. Like the institution of marriage in the West, which is now based on romantic feelings and nuclear families. Whereas in the past it was for political, financial or religious reasons, with there being extended family around in the context of living in the same village for life.

To quote Paul Atreides when he became fed up with Fremen customs, "Ways change!".
Hahaha you would be surprised. Compiling complex C++ projects is incredibly difficult.
Thanks! Give it a download and let me know what you think
> These companies are trying to survive legal challenges to their illegal hiring practices

illegal?
>Obviously this is just one narrow example, but it just goes to show things still work this way in some parts of the US.

There's a long dead Greek guy who had a famous quip about laws and corruption that's relevant to this kind of thing.
TikTok vs. Trump administration complaint 08-24-2020
ah good summary. thanks!
I like your examples: those two games were amazing to play and very inspirational to me personally, for the reasons you articulated so well.

I once heard another example of a man who'd washed out of both medical school and art school, lacking the apitude and/or drive to really make it in either field. He wound up finding a very successful career as an illustrator of medical textbooks, as the number of people versed in both medicine and art is extremely small. He's booked up years in advance.

(That man's story was, I believe, part of an NPR news story roughly 15 years ago. I've not been able to find any mention of it since then!)

I've been able to combine good-but-not-elite skills in my own career in order to find success.
WFH might stay in countries except India. Here we have special SEZs and nobody is going to allow employees to work from home because of that.
There is nothing Uber/Lyft do that any urban taxi company cannot do just as good if not better. The taxi companies also have better economics when it comes to their fleet (you can expect states to start mandating that gig drivers be paid some additional amount for vehicle depreciation any day now...) At the end of the day Uber/Lyft will be just another taxi company, albeit with a less professional set of drivers.
Can you share one route uber underpaid by big margin?

For the second part I agree, but without seeing outlier, maybe in some cases google couldn’t find the best route, compared to the app.

PS: all this stats used Google
Maps shortest path or best path?
Pyramids are narrative tropes for visualizing prerequisites, eg A is a foundation for B; B is a foundation for C. A numbered list will do. "Pillars" is another trope. Platform X rests on these pillars, P, D, Q. A list will do.
Most people are incompetent. The tax lawyer down the street, the pharmacist, the dental assistant. It's just that most people aren't in a position to hurt others because there are checks:

- the recipient checks the pharmacist's work

- the dentist checks his assistant's work

- the state allows the tax lawyer some leeway

16% of Americans have an IQ less than 85. 50% have an IQ less than 100. If you build a tool that requires a person to have average IQ, it will fail with half of all users.

That doesn't mean it's a bad idea: after all, you only need to convince the buyer, not the user.
Cherry picking much? Returns for anything looks awesome if you are comparing it to its bottom. BTC is up 15% this year which is good but nothing to shout about.
I typically use strings for enum values as well.
Thanks for the feedback. Sounds like google login is an area of concern for many. I'm considering other login providers too, would love to know what you prefer (device-only notes, or synced with a separate account or a different provider).
Ok, protecting rich neighborhoods still sounds like keeping out undesirables. https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/01/us/white-liberals-hypocrisy-r...
I can imagine a UberChef where an Uber driver gets an order, and drives a freelance Chef to a freelance kitchen where the chef cooks the food (groceries provided by an uber shopper who can also get one-off ingredients from specialty stores), the chef cooks the food to order (steak, medium rare, or seafood boil for a party of 2, etc) - and then uber driver delivers the food.
"Already, Zoom is transferring upwards of seven petabytes...through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure servers"

Guessing egress discounts are what drives Zoom's picks for infrastructure.
I'm a ~50somethingish white male experiencing bone loss (via DEXA scan). My two doctors (general and specialist) both said: let's try OTC vitamin D, even though it probably won't do anything because you aren't deficient; if that doesn't do anything we'll provide a prescription for actual vitamin D.

We experimented over two years and OTC VitD didn't help, but my point is, I was confused by two types of Vitamin D: the stuff you can by OTC, and the "real" stuff. How does this compare to the VitD you are referring to?

(I cannot take calcium because I have another disease, and "calcium bolus" is a very real concern for me do to another medication i am on.)
> Unless you live in a northern hemisphere and have darker skin.

Why is this a problem for darker skinned people living in northern hemisphere? Their bodies dont make enough vitamin D even after exposure to the sun?
Almost certainly not, because it would have been written in Python 2.
As a Canadian, many thanks to OP for removing unnecessary requests to Google!
I'm all for reducing avian fatalities from wind turbines. But it's also important to understand that this is not going to make a significant dent in how many birds are killed by human causes. Glass buildings kill 2500 times as many birds as wind turbines. House cats kill 10,000 times as many.

https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/15195/wind-turbines-are-n...
Hmmmm. Is it possible that a tutorial is deprecated without the actual feature itself being deprecated? i.e. there's no intent to get rid of AssetBundles in the near future but they don't want people who are just starting out to go down that path?

I can see that's a gray area (you are kinda deprecating it by doing this) but the strict definition of deprecation probably involves a pledge to remove that feature in a certain timeframe.

I'd be much happier to bitch about the stuff Unity has officially deprecated without having a good timetable for a replacement (Networking, Real-time GI) or done a terrible job of communicating the situation (Steam VR is "not officially supported" sounded pretty apocalyptic whereas it turned out to be not quite so bad - Valve had taken over responsibility for support and their solution was released to beta with a month of the doom and gloom corporate-speak announcement)
Very encouraging, thanks for sharing.
I agree about posts from a real doctor, but this is using an anecdotal case as a basis to shift a definition of a vitamin? That seems pretty poor form for someone in the scientific community. We should be shown stats of of likelihood of this happening compared with the opposite, studies, ways it can be safe and not safe (such as with K2, with calcium supplements, etc.)

This was not a refreshing read from my standpoint, just feeding the internet echo-chamber.
Very cool! I have started to build something a little similar but this looks pretty polished! Do you have any API? I would love to pull some of the data out
Is there a better/quicker way of checking these levels rather than going in for a bloodwork panel? I feel like my natural Vitamin D intake can change really dramatically based on the season. I worry that maybe I'm overdoing it in the warmer months. I typically go in once a year for a physical and that's the only time I ever see these levels.
I’m intrigued and would be very interested if you find any tools that can create or verify tag structure.

FYI the file has already been linearized through qpdf.
Uber 2.0 would probably make the same pitch Uber did— that all of this is temporary moat-building as we prepare for a glorious self driving future.

So I think the difficulty is less around investors being more savvy to the economics of ride sharing and delivery services, but that they're more savvy to the realities of how far off those technologies are. And that the entrenched firms like Waymo will be far, far better positioned to offer an autonomous taxi service on day 1 than some plucky startup will be.
Every time you collapse a thread, that's saved on the server. Then, if you return to the page, it will render those threads collapsed. So that's a decent amount of state.
As someone who has just started a 4 week break spurred on by a burnout-induced breakdown at work, this is very timely. I do wonder if it’s reasonable to think that 4 weeks is enough.

I’ve struggled with mental health issues for most of my life due to complex developmental trauma during childhood, and in 2020, I’ve found that it’s very difficult to tell the difference between work burnout, residual issues due to my trauma history, impact of world events, etc.

One thing I do know for sure: research like this is so encouraging. Normalizing the conversation about mental health is so important.
That sounds great, especially the trains part. Glad to know it's a nice place to travel. Thanks!
Uber and Lyft have strictly worse unit economics than taxi companies because taxi companies pool their fleet rentals and insurance -- something Uber in the existing model simply could not do. To obtain the same net revenue, Uber would have to charge more per ride than a taxi company.
The question we want to ask may as well be whether we want to happily live forever in a garden, all watched over by machines of loving grace.

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.

From a morality standpoint, we can't force AGIs to work for us. We also can't restrict their ability to self-evolve.

If we can resolve those conflicts in such ways we can coexist in peace with an intelligence that'll in all likelihood quickly surpass ours and partner with it, I'm in. If we build it and we can't resolve that, our opinion doesn't really matter.
Maybe this is one of the fundamental misunderstandings of these arguments: those who think this statement to be true and those who don’t. You bought the phone, you didn’t buy the ecosystem, buying a $500 phone doesn’t give you the right to dictate the multi-billion dollar business.
Most of the "requirements.txt" I come across in the real world do not actually lock down all deps to Python 2.7 compatible versions. I've been able to get most of them running again, but it's a long porcess looking through changelogs to find the last 2.7-compatible version of each dependency.
If you have darker skin or you’re in a high latitude (or winter) things get trickier.
Ah that's perfect. I always wonder how reliable maps systems are in other countries, so this is really helpful. Thanks!
> There is nothing Uber/Lyft do that any urban taxi company cannot do just as good if not better.

Well they can't seem to manage to be come when you ask them to, to be clean, or to have a basic standard of politeness. Until recently they didn't manage to accept cards, and many seem to still greatly resent it, and they still can't manage to provide nice apps.

So I'm super skeptical that they can do it as good as Uber, let alone better.

It's like Uber's been so good for so long now that people have forgotten how offensively bad normal taxis are.
R2wars
Most "boutique" stores sell the same made in China junk as every other store.
Would it be possible to emit high frequency sound that's undetectable to humans to warn birds away?
> Way to miss the point.

The point wasn't so clear, but I see what you're saying now. Maintainability is normal code review though.

> It's also about making sure the code is maintainable. [..]

> Kernel developers rightly need to be concerned about how

> difficult it will be to extend the NTFS driver to handle new

> NTFS features that Microsoft introduces.

Maintainability is one thing, extensibility is another. Preparing your code to implement some changes completely outside of your control seems like a waste of time and something that might bite you later on.
I've talked to multiple nutritionists and they often recommend 5,000IU a day -- we shouldn't be going off gut reaction. There are widespread surveys that show high vitamin D3 deficiency and there are many more stories of people who have taken this vitamin at that dose for years without problems.

The point is, we need more than stories. We need study and analysis, not a random call to change the definition because of a story.
> I think it's the time to leave superstitions and religions behind

So, when the planet is on the brink of going in flames, you choose division instead of commonality. You're choosing to focus on where you disagree than where you have agreement.

> to wait for someone else from sky to fix them up for us.

This is a false perception. Because lcall just said he's trying to "do his part" [1]. They are hoping for a solution, even if you disagree with it being possible.

Again, I want to reiterate this. We have one planet. One. We have one shot at fixing our problems. Are you trying to compound the problems by arguing about someone you believe is a "superstition"? That's effectively what you're doing.

I say this not entirely to you. Many people in the tech community think the way you do. And I'm making a public comment, in hope, that others learn from the clear destructive mob mentality that people engage with. Are you trying to be "right" or are you trying to get more people to solve this very difficult problem that affects everyone?

[1] - "I wholly agree that we should do our best to be clean, care for this wonderful planet, and I try to do my part (conserving, recycling, avoiding pollution, etc)." -lcall
I'll happily hear examples of things which are "misunderstandings" or "just wrong". As your post stands, it's nothing more than a long extended ad-hominem - it roughly boils down to "your post is wrong, but I'm not going to tell you why."

I accept that Unity and Unreal Engine are doing fine financially and will probably continue to do so for a long time. That's no reason that they can also have issues.
Ah, that would make sense. But then I'd have to dip into my jar of opinions on gRPC + Protobufs...

TLDR: Before going down that route, you should make sure you really REALLY need them. Someone learning Go for the first time probably doesn't.
That’s great to hear, I love these kind of community projects.

Do you have a website or some more information about it? I would love to be able to use it as a reference to see if I can convince my local homeowners alliance to invest in this (I don’t have great hopes though, too many old people).
Please let me know what can be better :)
I am the founder of Tempinbox
> To have a defined Erdős–Bacon number, it is necessary to have both appeared in a film and co-authored an academic paper, although this in and of itself is not sufficient.

This surprised me. I guess you could star in a tiny indie film completely closed off from the Bacon graph...
30% for base level developers with little to no publisher support, anything beyond that is intentionally shrouded in industry secrets.

Rumors are some publishers get the 5% deal (or better?), at least for digital-only sales, as some of those publishers have indirectly mentioned higher profit margins on Xbox versus PlayStation, but who knows how accurate the rumors are (or if there are other confounding factors for higher margins on Xbox such Microsoft subsidies or Microsoft's increasing "economy of scale" with keeping PC and Xbox in closer API sync these days) because Xbox keeps a tight lid on publisher specific deals, unlike the rest of the App Store which tries to be much more transparent. The fact that Epic isn't complaining so much about Xbox sales seems to indicate a favorable position on Xbox as well, but again any such details are probably closed room deals we can only guess at from the outside (and probably in constant flux with Xbox marketing as Microsoft wanders between incentives based on favoring Marketing tools/projects like Xbox Play Anywhere, Xbox Game Pass, xCloud, Xbox Smart Delivery, etc).
It's slightly more complicated than that. Steam was using a payment processor called Bitpay which at the time had gone to one side of the small blocks vs big blocks political issue (big blockers went on to form Bitcoin Cash {BCH} and Bitcoin Satoshi Vision {BSV }with Roger Ver and Craig S. Wright, make of that what you will).

Coinbase at that time was spamming the blockchain with dust right before the halving and finally got called out on it over twitter. Transaction fees went back down shortly after that.
This looks like whatsapp - and in whatsapp you can do a chat to yourself
Yes, age and skin color also have a large influence on whether your body can utilize the sunlight you receive.