skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't paint a proper moral picture of a situation by imagining your responsibility is compartmentalized and that you operate in an environment where others will or at least could in theory operate ideally.

Such an approximation must as part of the moral calculus be incrementally replaced with a more accurate picture that takes into account the actual foibles of your fellow humans actually behave.

If given how people actually behave evil or injustice is done that is your fault. Not partially your fault, your fault guilt doesn't divide it just multiplies. You are I think bound not to do the least you can do but rather the most you can do. The best idea I've heard in this thread is to always show multiple results with no indication of which was higher priority. Force a human into the loop.
I think it's fair to assume that driver's want to be paid at least fair wages – or at least that they don't wish, all other things being equal, to be underpaid.

Now, whether or not Uber/Lyft can actually provide that to a degree that the CA legislature finds acceptable while still being a sustainable business is the question.

If drivers are required to comply with Uber's policies or choose not to drive for Uber, then it's not unexpected to require Uber comply with US / State labor laws or choose not to operate in the US / state. Legal specifics of what "comply" means in this case is up for debate, which is ultimately the court's jurisdiction – or in the case of Prop 22, the people at large – to decide on behalf on all parties, not Uber's and not even the drivers themselves.
One big issue is we Americans are very picky about what rules they choose to obey. Highway speed limits are for entertainment value but parking availability is written in blood.
The parent comment was talking about educational lectures, like in classroom settings. When I was in college, online ed was just taking off at my campus, and I took one CS class with online lectures. It was quite useful to be able to go back to a lecture in that situation.

I agree that for traditional meetings/conferences they're not super useful (though I often find myself enjoying presentations from tech conferences long after the conference was held). But that was a different scenario than I was defending.
The problem is that marriage is really a necessary evil for Christianity, and a required one if you wish to engage in sex at all. It won't exist in heaven (jesus said we shall be as the angels there), and Paul outright says that its better to be unmarried to serve the kingdom of God.

The issue with this kind of view is that without the divine commands, why get married? Why have to deal with wrongness at all? And you kind of see the issue with secular people now, who choose other values over opportunities to exercise grace, as you put it.
I walk for 30 minutes a day in direct sunlight. If I do this for a year (been 5 months so far) do I not need to worry about vitamin d intake? I am also a healthy young male in my 20’s
Great point. This was one of my favorite aspects of it actually.

I started as a rogue and would gradually "harvest" some sort of arcane trophy from various monsters we defeated or quests we went on. I gradually cobbled together a spellbook as I grew my rogue, including some hacked together spells that had some wild magic type surprises at first as I was learning. These were the most fun levels by far.
Few months ago I head how vitamin D is associated with COVID-19 outcomes and went into a rabbit hole to find more information about wtf is Vitamin D, and how our bodies use it/need it.

There are two videos I found particularly informative.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91eDzM0qiJM

Cost/Benefit of Optimal Health with Sunshine Vitamin D

William B. Grant, PhD

2015

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3pK0dccQ38

D is for Debacle - The Crucial Story of Vitamin D and Human Health

Ivor Cummins BE(Chem), CEng MIEI

2014
I'll be honest. I really enjoy Ken M's work as an internet troll.

If you haven't seen what he does, here are some of my favorites:

https://www.reddit.com/r/KenM/comments/2oy2nb/chef_boyardee/

https://www.reddit.com/r/KenM/comments/4e888v/ken_m_on_pampe...

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/39/3a/7e/393a7e7d56c65bc9afd0...

https://www.reddit.com/r/KenM/comments/8ptb4r/kenm_on_kissin...

https://www.reddit.com/r/KenM/comments/8n25qu/first_post_her...
Discord I think raises privacy concerns and in the past, I have had team members complain that it wasn't user friendly BUT I love their tech. They achieve some really impressive stuff
It would be interesting to say how much years of experience actively programming in C# you have.
The problem is that a lot of people taking Vitamin D may not need it. The percentage of the population with vitamin D deficiency depends on your definition of deficiency - and that changes. From large trials in humans, there is very little benefit to most adults in taking Vitamin D. If you are deficient and you are an elderly woman in a nursing home, then yes, we have good evidence that vit D supplementation will help you. If you are a younger healthy male, probably not.
sounds very much like a mind map. i don't know if any mind map programs allow that kind of search though.
A bathroom stall big enough for a wheelchair is also big enough for someone who can manage the stairs but needs assistance with the toilet. Regulatory requirements can have justifications beyond the most apparent one.
Syllable tests is folly. I've heard people pronounce it zoo-oom. Welcome to the south where single syllable words do not exist.
Yep, everyone is jumping into the crazy before it’s over
Time to add to the TODO lists for the second edition of "Against the Grain", I guess.
Central Park was mostly a loose collection of shantytowns full of Irish people. There were evictions but it was not a large group of people, or anything resembling a neighborhood.
Biostatistics: A review sheet [5 pages] [pdf]
How do you do reproducible builds in R? It seems like a huge PITA to specify versions of R and especially the packages used...
I think these guys are early but if you sign up for early access they're letting people in: http://vantage.sh/
I think the intent was to demonstrate an idea through a compelling proof-of-concept. I don’t think the author or anyone expects this to be usable in production settings (yet).
Unity has completely destroyed my faith in their ability to deliver on anything other than marketing.

- It took them YEARS to deliver their new input system. Think about that. A company with Unity's resources took YEARS to develop a system that takes inputs from keyboards, mice, and gamepads and routes them to C# callbacks. YEARS.

- They completely abandoned their networking system (UNET) without a replacement system... This was YEARS ago and we STILL don't have a production-ready replacement.

- They wrote a new render pipeline called the Universal Render Pipeline (URP) and marketed it as a production-ready replacement for the old built-in renderer. However, the new pipeline isn't even close to feature-parity and the remaining features are still in development. How in the world is that a "production-ready replacement"???
No, it's putting your point 'worth' on the same trajectory as the relevance of your code comment ie heading towards zero. There's more than a semantic difference between the two
Ask HN: Would be real examples of cold emailing to investors interesting?
In essentially every discussion about startup fundraising there are always a lot of questions about how to successfully do cold emailing to investors.

Very few resources showing how to do it right are available on the web.

Due to the extreme perfection of the cold emails, I have a 75 percent response rate to them from my list of top early-stage VC's across the EU and US.

Would be detailed summary interesting and useful?
But does being in the top of those combined skills command top pay?
Someone worked hard through the weekend
Every place feels the same because every place is the same place; Earth. I can assure you that the only people who have even been to a different place have no trouble remembering which place they are in.
The US has a tax system that discourages production and stimulates financial investments. That's why it is so easy to create bubbles on companies that have no solid business future. As long as the stock goes up, people think everything is ok, and many will make money. The losses will be left in the hands of later investors and the government (through bail outs).
But that's exactly what Tesla's doing.
What's the source? I can't find these quotes in the complaint document.
> The more accountable we are for our behavior, the less potential we have of becoming trolls. Employing less anonymity may help, but this raises privacy concerns for many. Anonymity can also be a good thing. Benign disinhibition — the friendly sibling of toxic disinhibition — is where users freely discuss their deepest insecurities and concerns with other users. This can be very therapeutic and shouldn’t be discouraged. But by using anonymity only where it is necessary, we reduce the likelihood of toxic disinhibition.

This seems highly unlikely to me.

Consider Twitter, Blue-checkmarks, as well as Facebook. There are countless trolls with verified identities. Indeed, "troll behavior" has permeated into our political system and very public figures are openly using anti-social language... to the benefit of their political movements.

From a Machiavellian perspective: people become trolls because it works. Its an effective strategy for gathering like-minded followers, and to demonstrate a "leadership" quality, one that demonstrates ambitious behavior.

Some political leaders are incredibly similar to trolls. Robespierre, Lenin, Hitler. Yeah, we look down upon them decades later, but these figures were hugely influential during their times and got a lot of things accomplished.

This article assumes that troll-behavior is not beneficial to the troll. That's a horrible miscalculation. Troll-behavior certainly hurts the victim, but it seems to benefit the troll in my experience. At a minimum, it benefits them with followers (other trolls who want to help the greater cause).

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So lets circle back to the top. Why do people become trolls?

Answer: Because its an effective strategy.

The important followup question: How do we build a world (or if not the world... then at least a community) where trolling becomes an ineffective, or counter-productive strategy?
I pin the chat to the top for quick access, but one downside is the notes aren't fully accessible offline.
You should usually only call GetComponent<> in your Awake function, then cache the result in a strongly typed instance variable. This is widely known standard operating procedure with Unity.

IDEs like Rider will highlight and warn you about using GetComponent in performance critical contexts like your Update method.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2019/02/21/performance-ind...

>Unity has a number of methods that get called very frequently. For example, MonoBehaviour.Update is called every frame, as is LateUpdate, and FixedUpdate can even be called multiple times in a single frame. Rider treats all of these methods as performance-critical, and will highlight the method in the editor gutter.

[...]

>Once inside a performance-critical context, Rider enables a number of inspections:

>Avoid usage of GetComponent methods

>Avoid usage of Find methods

>Avoid usage of AddComponent

>Avoid string based method invocation (Invoke, SendMessage, etc.)

>Avoid Camera.main

>Avoid null comparisons for Unity objects

>The links above will take you to the documentation pages for each of the inspections, which provide more details of why the method calls are highlighted, and what you can do to avoid them. You can get to this documentation straight from Rider, like with many other inspections, with the “Why is Rider suggesting this?” Alt+Enter menu item.
Doesn't matter if anyone wants it, it will come whether asked for or not. We live in a capitalist society, for better or worse. We don't have the infrastructure in place to create strong bodies to govern these types of ethics. If there's no market, someone will invent one. Eventually, something will stick.
Obviously the police deal with crime and disorder every day, this would attract people who are more on the right of the political spectrum.

This is exacerbated by deep-seated structural factors in the US, policing by consent is unknown, there is high income inequality and segregation, the level of training is pitiful, it's no surprise that Amber Guyger's instagram feed looked the way it did. Of course those types would use any tool they are handed to have fun at the people's expense. The system selects for them.
> It seems to me that a big problem with the discussions surrounding Uber and Lyft is that so many people claim they know what drivers want, but it's usually based on little or no evidence.

The thing is: The requirements that legislators are setting for employers are fundamental social security services.

Whether a worker gets paid sick leave and vacation, health insurance and unemployment insurance is therefore not up for the debate in most Western countries.

Some people may claim that they don’t need or want these services, but the reality is that everyone needs them as everyone needs vacation at some point, will get sick or fired.

And because of that it’s good that the law requires them to be mandatory. This is also why so many people from low-income households in the US have trouble to afford a visit to the doctor or vacation.

Those things aren’t a problem for most workers in European countries.
I made no mention of Docker, VMs or any virtualization system. Those would be an implementation detail and would obviously change over time.

A container can be a .tar.gz, a zip or a disk image of artifacts, code, data and downstream deps. The generic word has been co-opted to mean a specific thing which is very unfortunate.
I dont believe we can get AGI without opening the door for super intelligence. So true AGI would either completely liberate us or destroy us. But the sheer power of it would be incredible.

To think about jobs after that event seems absurd.
Not configuration, but some banks in Europe have or had devices to authorize online banking transactions using the principle: A standalone device you put your banking card in and hold it up to the screen, the banking site blinks the transaction information, you confirm the transaction on the device and it gives you TAN code to type in.
That sounds like a big issue. And certainly part of getting 10-year-old code resurrected.
Also love the idea, and required Google sign-in is a dealbreaker for me too. I’d love it I could save notes in iCloud, but I’d be fine just keeping them local if you don’t want to maintain multiple login/sync providers.

I’d also pay a few bucks for this app, FWIW!
> "...from a real doctor."

you're arguing from authority. it may make sense to trust the expertise of this doctor in this instance, because of her demonstrated reasonableness and the relevant information she brings to bear, but her status as an authority has little bearing on whether you should believe her or not. her expertise and specialization confer additional, unique data in making her reasoning, but by themselves are no shield from error, bias, fallacy, and just plain lack of perspective.

for the record, i do find her reasoning compelling, but not because she's a real doctor. but as with any single data point, it's premature to go all-in on belief (or denial) and behavior change.
Nice. Real force feedback, not yet another R/C servo based system. The motors [1] are US$73 each, and you need 9 of them. They're drone prop motors. Not direct drive, though; two stages of reduction, using toothed belts.

[1] https://store.tmotor.com/goods.php?id=438
It's real interesting going through forensics courses and working with computer forensics professionals and seeing the opposite.

Since you're not briefed on the crime and only given a list of tasks to perform (ie, locate pictures of a vehicle), there might be less of a bias here.
Not all sunlight exposure works though. It needs to have enough UV-B in it. And that’s dictated by the time of year, the location, and the time of day. In some places, you may only get an hour or so of the right kind of rays.
It's even larger than that as the other types of jobs available to people who would potentially be gig drivers have gotten worse as technologically driven "improvements" in scheduling have more split shifts (work the lunch rush from 11-1, take 3 hours "off" and come back at 5-9 for dinner rush) and near term (find out the morning of) scheduling happening.

It's impossible to plan for childcare, education, or whatever else with those sorts of setups.
The only reason I could think of to use something like ubereats, deliveroo, justeat, etc would be if I wanted a non-pizza delivered while I was staying in a hotel in a strange city somewhere.

If I'm at home I'll look at the menu of my favourite indian/chineese/whatever place, phone them up, and they deliver it as they have done for decades.

I've spent two nights in a hotel since March, normally it's 70 a year. One night I ordered a dominos as I got back to the hotel just before 2300. The other night I ate out with a supplier.

Likewise with Uber, if I'm at home and not flying off somewhere, I'm not going to be ordering a taxi, either to get to the airport, or when I'm in a strange city on the other side of the planet.

I can see this is the golden age of takeaways and home-delivery (which basically means amazon or groceries), but I don't see it for takeaways.
Anti-competitive behavior is a federal crime. These practices are common in the USA because the Dept. of Justice has more or less stopped enforcing our anti-trust laws. Patents have nothing to do with it.
> I get that I don't want a power plant or steel forge next to my house, but that's not what we are talking about here.

Reflecting for a bit, I don't know what you're talking about here.

Either you could get the permit to start a garage, or you couldn't. I don't understand why it's relevant that you'd have a cafe next door.

If on the other hand you're describing some kind of hybrid shared space where food, drink, and combustible engines come together then that is way beyond "doesn't fit a cookie cutter mold." Just off the top of my head safety and noise come to mind.
The point of being able to run ten-year-old code is the ability to replay an analysis (exact replication). This allows an analysis to be verified after the fact, which increases trust and helps figure out what happened when contradictions appear between experiments. However, if the original work involved physical experimentation or any non-automated steps (as is the case for most science) the ability to run the original code provides only partial replication. Overall the ability to re-run old code is a fairly low priority.

From the perspective of someone who primarily uses computers as a tool to facilitate research, the priority list is closer to:

1. Retain documentation of what was meant to happen. Objectives, experimental design, experimental & analysis protocols, relevant background, etc.

2. Retain documentation of what actually happened, usually in terms of noting deviations from the protocol. This is the purpose of a lab notebook. Pen & paper excels here.

3. Retain raw data files.

4. Retain files produced in the course of analysis.

5. Retain custom source code.

6. Version control all the above.

7. Make everything run in the correct order with one command (i.e, full automation).

Only once all the above is achieved would it be worth ensuring that the software used in the analysis can be re-run in 10 years. Solving the "packaging problem" in a typical scientific context (multiple languages, multiple OSes, commercial software, mostly short scripts) is complex. When the outcome of an analysis is suspect, the easiest and most robust approach is to check the analysis by redoing it from scratch. This takes less time than trying to ensure every analysis will run on demand even as the computing ecosystem changes out from under it.

Most of the time spent writing analysis code is deciding what the code should do, not actually writing the code. There is generally very little code because few people were involved, and they probably weren't programmers. So redoing the work from scratch is generally pretty easy, especially for anyone with the skill to routinely produce fully reproducible computational environments.
The watchdog, the article refers to, Tilsynet med Efterretningstjenesterne, was created on 1 January 2014 as a result of the Snowden leaks in 2013. It is government run, but completely independent from the intelligence agencies and members are appointed by a committee in parliament (except the chairman, who must be a judge on the supreme court).
That makes more sense. I think it’s worth framing differently, though.

Big companies aren’t writing the doc, per se. Engineers interested in the material are. And often, they want the opportunity to do so - it’s something of a stamp for “expertise” in their favor.

Assuming the post is actual quality, it’s a marketing win for the company, a professional/developmental win for the employee, and an informational win for everyone else.
Glad to see many mentions of Nix in this thread!

I wonder if Nix and Guix should standardize the derivation format both share to kick that off as the agreed-upon "thin waste" other projects and the the academy can standardize around.
It is hard enough for me to find the time to do the reading, let alone to also do a ton of writing about it. It especially takes me a long time to write by hand, and is just logistically difficult - where do I put the notebook? do I have to do all my reading at a desk? I can type fast, but this has even worse logistical challenges - do I have to do my reading next to a computer? oh, I'll just go check my email real quick while I'm at the computer...

I sometimes daydream about a dedicated writing machine, something small, but with a full-sized keyboard so I can type quickly, and supporting nothing else but text. Sometimes I honestly think about just getting a typewriter, but it seems silly.
It appears to be from here. I have nowhere near enough knowledge to have an opinion on its credibility though

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3982027
I didn't say anything about strictly scientific. I think statistical/study-based + anecdotal is great.
They clearly aren't struggling if you think they are far more talented. They are just struggling financially. Which is what all these hang-ups are about, including your own.
What does Germany do differently? Germany has a strong manufacturing base.
May be the only reason for those barriers is to control growth? If it's too easy to get permissions for building stuff then you'll see new cafes popping up on streets everyday.
My work involves a lot of AWS infra related things. Some time ago, I was tasked with finding a way to route websocket requests to the backend, which is completely dynamic. While I was looking for solutions, I came across posts here in HN about creating simple reverse proxies using Go. This got me interested in Go. I felt Go would be an ideal language for networking related work. Note that I am a complete newbie in all these, so could be wrong.
> there is no such thing as truly random number generation on contemporary computers

well that's just not true. there's no shortage of noise we can sample to get true random numbers. we just often stretch the random numbers for performance purposes.
Piping the text into DuckDuckGo brings up https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3982027 as the only result. GP seems to be the last two paragraphs.
I read it as does your ten-year-old still run code, and was thinking if this was a challenge for scientists to have their kids do better things than coding.
I don’t think people should take anything from Simon Sinek. His presentation skills are great I must admit.