skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not that they can't build anything. URP is ok. It cuts out features that made it slower so its not going to ever hit feature parity. The problem is indeed that the marketing oversold it. They should have never suggested devs "move" to URP. For new games its alright.
I‘m always surprised when I read such statements because I never made such poor experiences with taxis in Europe or Asia.

I think what you are describing is a problem that is very US-specific and it doesn‘t mean taxis are that bad everywhere in the world.
People were marrying the wrong person 100 years ago. They just didn't divorce because they couldn't or because the church told them they'd get booted out of the community if they did. No matter if your spouse was abusive, you were married and that's that.

It's still like that in lots of places, unfortunately.
One pilot study found that a big Vitamin D dose would cut the hospital length in half for people on ventilators.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4939707/

The control group spent on average 36 days in the hospital, the group getting a single 500,000 IU dose of vitamin D3 spent an average of 18 days in the hospital.
Well to play devil's advocate if docker is part of your infrastructure and you need to make more than 200 pulls in 6 hours you should already host your own registry and maybe mirror a few dockerhub repos to your own
Here are a couple recommendations.

Interconnections - Radia Perlman. This is a good introduction to bridging and routing.

Networking Algorithmics - George Varghese. This has a lot of interesting content about removing bottlenecks from network devices. I would appreciate recommendations for a newer book with similar content.
Looks like an oracle attack against malleable encryption. It does something clever to enhance the effectiveness of that attack but nothing there could reasonably be considered negotiation.
Picking randomly from "good enough" relegates you to a 2nd rate contender compared to those who skim off the absolute best.
Yeah, definitely. And over 99% of them won't have any problem in doing it. A significant problem is that people don't know that they have conditions or problems in the first place -- and when there is very, very little downside, it would be defined as "optionality" in the terms of Nicholas Taleb, and provides something we can do that will help in most cases, or at least, not harm.
I imagine there would be one massive connected component and a large number of really tiny ones.
Vitamin D is not actually a vitamin and that is easily googled. You don't have to be a physician to know that.

She is absolutely correct that it is a steroid, not a vitamin. Vitamins are things your body cannot manufacture. Vitamin D is something we can manufacture.

She's apparently new to blogging and medical blogging is hard and I'm sure she will get better at effectively communicating what she wants to say with a little practice.

I agree with you that she shouldn't have stated "It is a medication" and I have stated that elsewhere and she clarified why she chose such phrasing and it's a somewhat minor nitpick because the latter part of the article does make it clear what she is trying to get at.
I can't find it, but I remember reading a study posted here that said the downsides from sun exposure are outweighed by the upsides of getting enough vitamin D. The reasoning was that the issues caused by vitamin D deficiency aren't visible, while skin cancer from too much sunlight is easy to detect at home, and is rarely fatal if you catch it early.
I kinda wonder if Docker as a company is struggling. Redhat made Podman which is a compatible replacement, Then there's swarm but apparently that's not recommended and actively developed anymore, then as far as I know they sold off their enterprise clustering product. Seems Kubernetes is the popular thing now even if a bit complex to setup. Wonder what the current business model? Pretty neat idea of using containers, but seems they put it out in the wild, got popular and sorta lost control with so many competing options being released.
This may apply to the US, not necessarily to the rest of the world.

I‘m from Europe and I‘ve never felt the need to use UBER. Taxis and public transport over here are sufficiently good.
I know and deal with some physicists and they all seem really happy and only one of them is famous/rich. The fact that you can always bail and go to finance seems to be a good backstop for them.
What people haven't realized is you dont need to think in terms of Hierarchy anymore.

Which is the way people have thought about anything for thousands of years. Fitting into domination or skill based hierarchies was optimal when resources where limited.

The Network and its explosion in the last 20-30 (not even one generation old) challenges the reliance on anything Hierarchical. Just one example - I can connect to my boss's boss's boss with a tweet or an email or whatsapp message and establish a connection. A deep one if I am of value. I dont need to go through my boss or through multiple levels anymore. It changes everything. The more networked everything gets the harder and harder its going to get for hierarchies to maintain their stability.

Why are Experts and Famous people's weaknesses so easy to find and pounce on today? Because of the network.

Stop thinking about Hierarchies and how to climb up or what pushes ppl down. Its outdated. Those who climb and pretend there is some safe summit, their weaknesses will be scrutinized by thousands more people than in the past. You can see it from Obama to Gates to Trump to Xi to your favorite scientist or celeb who has fallen from grace.

So think about Networks. Think about how they are created, how connections strengthen, how two networks connect, how to grow them etc. Networks change the value of all people. Just as in the Brain. There is no one extraordinary neuron.

Book recos -
Niall Ferguson - The Square and the Tower - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07KKYostAJ0

Albert-László Barabási - The Formula

Moises Naim - The end of power

The Hierarchies of Skill and Domination will continue to face major pressure the likes they haven't seen in the past from ever changing network configurations.
EDIT: Fair enough, I'll remove my lecturing.

I understand your point about not elucidating the why. Thing is, I'm not an AAA developer, so often times I don't know.

All I'd like to know is a bit more on why specific points my essay were wrong. Like, if you don't think the thing about clearing the Debug window is correct, I'd like to know why that is.
This! I struggled with this topic in university. I was studying pulsar astronomy, and there was only one or two common tools used at the lower levels of data processing, and had been the same tools used for a couple of decades.

The software was "reproducible" in that the same starting conditions produced the same output, but that didn't mean the _science_ was reproducible, as every study used the same software.

I repeatedly brought it up, but I wasn't advanced enough in my studies to be able to do anything about it. By the time I felt comfortable with that, I was on my way out of the field and into an non-academic career.

I have kept up with the field to a certain extent, and there is now a project in progress to create a fully independent replacement for that original code that should help shed some light (in progress for a few years now, and still going strong).
What's a newspaper?
Even in a professional setting, it's important to remember this and not give up.

Even a person with outsize presence in your field, they can't be everywhere at once. So their rates climb and climb and the size of their projects increases to try accomplish more in the time available. They also literally don't have time for people arguing with their vision.

There are a lot of people that could never be their customers, but could easily be yours, and nobody's perfect. Trying to get skilled at things they overlook will make you your own person.
Maybe it's different in different states. I lived in a 3 storey apartment in MA without any elevators. If a person is bound to wheelchairs then there was no way for that person to get into the apartment.
I would switch to UE but first class C# support is just so nice.
In the US the five year survival rate of melanoma, the most dangerous sort of skin cancer, is something like 99%. In 2015 only 60k people died from it globally; compare that to the billions of people who got more sunlight than the average software engineer practicing sunlight avoidance and I think it's clear there are better things to worry about (for instance, the misery of spending your life in the dark popping pills instead of getting some fresh air for an hour or so a day.)
Could that be in your head? Vitamin D lasts a long time in the body, seems unlikely you'd be able to notice any difference after four days.
Yeah, someone should come up with an alternative that mirrors it or something.
This is such a perfect addition to free as in beer/speech. Really quite surprised I haven't seen this more often, going to be using it haha
Food delivery will probably never be profitable unless you're able to schedule food delivery days ahead... and utilize the same pathing algorithms used for regular deliveries (like UPS and Fedex).

There's a maximum amount of time someone will wait (1 hour) and the product degrades after it's created (cools off)
It may seem absurd but lots of people derive a lot of their self value from the fact that they are able to move the needle. Take that away and you're going to cause some serious social upheaval and quite a bit of that will be a negative.

"Your scientists were so focused on whether they could, they forgot to ask themselves whether they should".

The sheer power of it would be incredible, which is why this is a step that should not be taken lightly or accidentally.
I recall a lot of mentions of cleansing rituals. Including a way to make an antibacterial soap. Been awhile, so I may have some details wrong.

Becoming sick was near equivalent to being a sinner, so good hygiene and righteousness had some overlap.

Follow these rules, you won’t get sick. Got sick? You didn’t follow the rules.

Harsh reality, but a harsh time.
Family owned businesses? It is not rare to see a not too big factory outside a small village ( same for Switzerland ).
> Net tax payers won't be paying for a huge administrative bureaucracy whose entire purpose is the inefficiency of duplicating functions already performed by the progressive income tax system, namely, means testing.

You know that's not what would happen, right? We would end up with our existing systems plus UBI for a long time, because people would not be willing to abolish the existing systems.
Pardon the very basic question, but as someone who just casually sees articles pop up about Uber, I genuinely don't understand how the company continues to exist. Is this very rudimentary attempt at understanding of what's happening correct: investors keep adding funding despite regular losses because they're hopeful for a sizable return in the (far?) future?
Important news from the future: use shade not sunscreen whenever possible. And, as long as you're not often getting peeling-levels of sunburn, don't fear the sun, or the feeling of the hot sun, so much.

Sun exposure is sufficiently correlated with so many health benefits that it is almost certainly causative for those benefits – especially lower rates of heart disease. Endogenous Vitamin-D production is just one mechanism/signal of the sun's influence, not the full story, so supplementation of Vitamin-D can't reproduce all the sun's benefits.

And, other than preventing sunburns, the health benefits of sunscreen are suspiciously under-proven, and the potential effects of long-term exposure-to/blood-absorption-of their ingredients under-studied. In another decade or two, the current levels of sunscreen use, and recommendation by expert bodies that should know better, will likely be considered a public health failure up there with "use margarine not butter" or "replace fats with sugars" or "masks don't help against respiratory epidemics".

Use shade not sunscreen whenever possible.
That reminds me of this case in SF, where someone spent 4 years and $1M just trying to get approval to convert their laundromat into an apartment building.

https://reason.com/2018/02/21/san-francisco-man-has-spent-4-...
We need to continue building a pattern of research findings, but existing preliminary research shows that overwhelming numbers of recovered patients develop dangerous complications, such as pericarditis.
I disagree. It is one those things that are said once, repeated enough and make enough sense to be believed, although I suspect they are not true. If you combine an average programmer with an average statistician, you get a profile that is not particularly attractive. If the comment that follows is: but is it not what data scientist are? the answer is that good data scientist have good (or great) programming for what the programming they need to do.

My undergrad and Master's are in an interdisciplinary field, which had at the time felt needed by Universities offering those degrees, but in the end the professional profile was not of interest. An average knowledge of chemistry, engineering, physics, and other sciences does not make you an interdisciplinary scientist, but someone who can do a little bit of many things, but not at the level that is required in order to get paid for it.

The Dilbert's creator has excellent drawing abilities for the comics he is drawing —- here the lesson is that you need to do excellent relative to the quality that is needed, not that if you combine average talents you get world-class results.
A wonderful piece of work!

But this remark in the accompanying document did make me laugh:

> Another search on the internet yielded a small list of machines built by others. Several had electronic controllers controlling the mechanics. I can hear Mr. Turing say, “A computer running a computer. Whaaaat?”

I'm not sure Dr Turing would have expressed surprise in that manner, and even less sure that he would have been surprised that one computing machine could simulate the behaviour of another.
this is the story of almost every tech company at ipo, whats the big deal?
I got into the habit of documenting each file with a file.meta that I could view later on.

I did binary dumps in the past because ascii dumps (remember, 90s) were far more time/space expensive. HDF wasn't quite an option then, either HDF4, or HDF5.

These days I would probably look at something like that, though, to be honest, there is always a danger of choosing something that may not be supported over the long term. This is why I generally prefer open and simple formats for everything. HDF5 is nice and open.

One needs to look carefully at the total risk of using a proprietary format/system for any part of their storage. Chances are you will not be able to even read older data within a small number of decades if any of the format/system dependent technologies goes away.

I've got old word processor files from the mid 80s, that I can't read. What I've written there (mostly college papers) is lost (which may be a net positive for humanity).

My tarballs, and zip files though, are readable 30+ years later. That is pretty amazing.

Simple, documented, and open formats. Picture a time when you can't read/open your pptx/xlsx/docx files any more. Same with data. Simple binary formats are like CSV files, but you do need to maintain metadata on their contents, and document it extensively in the code as to what you are reading/writing, why you are doing this, and how you are doing this.

I think this will get more important over time as we start asking questions on how to maintain open artefact repositories for data and code. The fewer dependencies the better.

And unlike the recent gene renaming snafu in biology[1], you really, never, want your tool to get in the way of the science. Either in terms of formats, or interpretation of data.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...
I've taken taxis in many European cities. It's universally a miserable, sketchy experience.

European taxis are the absolute worst for trying to wiggle out of accepting your credit card. Ever time I get in a European taxi I know I have a fight on my hands.
There's this giant city smack dab in the middle of the country too, you know.
Organizations amplifying QAnon conspiracy theories
How we improved the workflow between product designers and front ends
Yes, you could say that representation in general is a problem with governance.

In corporate governance, this is talked about as the principle-agent problem - does management represent shareholder interests, or their own? Also, how should other stakeholder interests be represented, like customers and employees? Note that formal and informal power can be very different.

But it is also true of representative democracy, the courts, and every alternative you might think of. Governance is a tough problem and you should be suspicious of arguments that ignore the hard problem of representation.

I would like to see more arguments that at least talk about polls of drivers' interests, even though they are flawed too.
There are still some things that are impossible to achieve with CSS alone, even if you have the luxury of only needing to work with evergreen browsers (remember we are speaking of content-heavy sites here, which are the most prone to still have to support older browsers).

Example: I have a stack of boxes of varying heights. On mobile they are fine as is (one below the other). On tablet I want them in two columns but displayed in column order without gaps. On desktops I want three columns. This is dynamic data, so the number of items and their heights will vary, but my CMS allows the user to mark at which box(es) new columns should start:

mobile tablet desktop
a a c' a b* d*
b* b d c
c'
d*

' indicates this element starts a new column for tablets (two-column layout)

* indicates the element starts a new column for desktops (three-column layout)

Can you achieve this with HTML/CSS alone? How?

- CSS columns won't work because Safari doesn't support break-brefore in a columns context.

- Flexbox won't work because you don't have a defined height for the container (so you can't use flex-direction: column + flex-wrap).

- CSS grid won't work because you'll get a grid (i.e.: gaps between elements when the boxes have varying heights).

- Ye-olde-floats won't work because you'll get weird gaps too when the sizes change.

- You cannot wrap the elements in column-divs because you can't do it for both tablet and desktop simultaneously.

Also, you need to be very confident in all of the above to know that is is not possible, instead of getting sucked into trying, getting to an "almost there" point and then realizing it doesn't work under X condition.

In contrast, with React you can just generate 1/2/3 wrapper divs depending on whether the current width is mobile/tablet/desktop and call it a day. It takes you all of 5 minutes to do so and the margin for surprises is 0.

Edit: reworded why flex won't work to address nawgz's comment.
The pain comes after you finish 80% of the game and start to work on the 2nd 80%.
Ultra-broadband internet is almost here
I'm a scientist in a group that also includes a software production team. For me, the standard of scientific reproducibility is that a result can be replicated by a reasonably skilled person, who might even need to fill in some minor details themselves.

Part of our process involves cleaning up code to a higher state of refinement as it gets closer to entering the production pipeline.

I've tested 30 year old code, and it still runs, though I had to dig up a copy of Turbo Pascal, and much of it no longer exists in computer readable form but would have to be re-entered by hand. Life was actually simpler back then -- with the exception of the built-ins of Turbo Pascal, it has no dependencies.

My code was in fact adopted by two other research groups with only minor changes needed to suit slightly different experimental conditions. It contained many cross-checks, though we were unaware of modern software testing concepts at the time.

For a result to have broader or lasting impact, replication is not enough. The result has to fit into a broader web of results that reinforce one another and are extended or turned into something useful. That's the point where precise replication of minor supporting results becomes less important. The quality of any specific experiment done in support of modern electromagnetic theory would probably give you the heebie jeebies, but the overall theory is profoundly robust.

The same thing has to happen when going from prototype to production. Also, production requires what I call push-button replication. It has to replicate itself at the click of a mouse, because the production team doesn't have domain experts who can even critique the entirety of their own code, and maintaining their code would be nearly impossible if it didn't adhere to standards that make it maintainable by multiple people at once.
> This may apply to the US

I'm not from the US. I'm from Europe.

Taxis in every European city I've ever been to have been fundamentally consumer-hostile. They refuse to accept your card (illegally in some cases), their vehicles are filthy, and their customer service skills are offensive. It's like every ride I take with them is some kind of personal inconvenience for them.
sqlite can't be compared to postgresql since sqlite was specifically designed as file-based DB for embedded applications not as a full-featured RDMS
I'll assume that was a typo and you meant Solaris 11. Solaris 11 has some amazing advancements over 10 in terms of security, packaging, and many other metrics.

Also, for the record, it is objectively untrue that all new and innovative work stopped. My primary disappointment was the silent discontinuation of the OpenSolaris project.
I don't consider accuracy in science to be pedantic, and I suspect most others don't either.

To paraphrase what the other developer said: "I don't want my work to be checked, I'm not here for accuracy, just the act of doing science".

When I was young, the ability to invalidate was the core aspect of science, but apparently that's changed over the years.
Or the set from "Idiocracy"
Never had a problem with taxis in Germany and Europe in general, Taiwan, Japan or Hong Kong.

It tells more about the country you‘re in than taxis in general if it’s so easy to get ripped off for using basic transport services.
The next big startup in the 2020s will be comprised of a team that is aggressively remote, will launch their first product after 4 to 6 months, and conducts regular interviews with customers through video conferences.
Ask HN: Any Good Alternatives to Eventbrite?
Ironic response.
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Too bad society generally doesn't reward that sort of combined expertise due to rigid licensing/credentialing/organizational structures.
This is true, although since kernel 5.2, and continuing to be enhanced, is the tree checker. There's read time and write time tree checking that can catch specific errors in the file system and prevent further confusion. This usually means it goes read-only.

In the most typical case where you have a crash or power failure, you just reboot normally. No file system check happens nor is it needed. It just continues from the most recent successfully committed transaction. Since it's copy-on-write, there's no inconsistency in the file system, even if the most recent changes might be lost.
If you’re interested in this subject, I’d highly recommend reading: “Reprogramming the American Dream“ by Kevin Scott.