skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few quotes that I found particularly rough include:

> Several of your points are misunderstandings, several are just wrong

Like I said, I'd be happy to hear ways that I can improve. You saying that I am wrong but not providing specifics makes me feel bad without a way to improve my thinking.

> “that person is going to have a hard time if they pursue professional game development,”

You're passing judgement on my professional abilities, which makes me feel pretty bad. It's also an ad hominem: you've stopped attacking my argument and you've started attacking my professional character.

> “if you don’t do software like FAANG does, you’re doing it wrong and your stuff is terrible.”

Is it really necessary to include the thing about FAANG? I'm not even employed by FAANG. To me it feels like you're casting me out to be a FAANG elitist, which feels pretty alienating. It's also an ad hominem: you've stopped attacking my argument and you've started attacking me as a FAANG employee.

> all of them paint a picture which also gives a lot of AAA shops pause about hiring Web folks

Is the absolute "all of them" really necessary? That you dismissed every one of my points is pretty rough. Can you imagine if you wrote a 4000 word post and someone said "yeah I read it and every point you made gives me pause." and that's all they said, no further explanation? You'd probably be pretty frustrated, wondering what could possibly be wrong, but having no clue with which to even start understanding their different perspective.

> I’m reminded of a friend who does control development for factories and had someone come in straight from a Google internship who started trying to reimplement SCADA from first principles using Kubernetes.

You're comparing me to a friend that overengineers things. If you have specific things you think I'm overengineering, I'm happy to hear them, but a comparison like this without any concrete steps makes me feel bad without providing me a way to improve.
Yes, they weren't written "when Unix was young", but people had thought to write some of them over a decade before this toolset. lckdo and ts came long after setlock and cyclog (also the precursor to multilog) from the 1990s.

* https://cr.yp.to/daemontools/setlock.html

* http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html

* http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/upgrade.html

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/cyclog.xml#CO...
I liked the comment on the page - I will never give up my D
Rosetta won't support this, it's far from "useless". Good programs should detect the lack of support and fall back to earlier extensions.
AKA "Why human identification has lead to such a poor criminal justice outcome"
Too bad they didn't give it an infinite wooden tape :)
How do vitamin D levels decrease over time if you stop supplementing or stop going outside?

For example, say I'm super active and outdoors every day, my D levels are great. Then I get, say, Covid-19, and I stay inside for a week feeling icky. If I'm not recovered yet, are my D levels still good? Or am I now at higher risk for Covid complications because my D has decreased?

There are all sorts of questions that could be answered by understanding this better. If I am outdoorsy and take a day to work inside on a project, should I supplement that day? What if I am a tech worker who is inside most days but I do 2-3 outdoor activities per week? Am I good? Or should I be supplementing?

If I take a D supplement and 2 hours later take a D test, does it matter? What about when I first wake up and haven't been in the sun for 10 hours?

I have no idea the answer to any of these questions (as a tech worker who supplements, goes outside for hikes/rides 2-3/week, and has a Vitamin D test sitting on my self, wondering when I should take it...)
It sounds like Tamiflu, where you're still sick but for a day or two less than without it.
Typically, FaceTime requires knowing people's personal contact info. Zoom,Google,etc have generic looking URL for people to join without giving up personal contact details. I don't necessarily need everyone I work with having my personal contact info.
Who should represent drivers' interests? […] A union?

Yes.
Given the well-documented penchant of police to use “fits the description” as a pretext to harass the public, especially people of color, I would say it is borderline negligent to allow the use of algorithmically generated probable cause justifications.
I think that it doesn't bother people when a non-type-safe language isn't type safe. If you reach for Python, you know what you're getting. But when a type-safe language is type-safe-except-for-X, that bothers people who wanted a type-safe language.

And it's one thing if the except-for-X is "except for conversions", like casts in C, C++, and Java. Non-type-safe generics aren't usually a place where you are deliberately bypassing the type safety; they're a place where you'd like to have the type safety you have everywhere else in the language.
Zoning has been applied against Chinese immigrants, as well as other minorities, but it was also used in many relatively racially homogeneous areas. Again, I strongly disapprove of zoning (and many other city planning activities), but I don't think racism was really 'responsible' for zoning, and I don't think that calling all bad policies 'racist' is a good idea.
Sure, invite sent :)
> approaching it with questions like “why not Git?” or “why no type safety?” or “what about GPL?” marks you as not really understanding the industry,

Sorry - I'm trying to remember the contexts that I've said stuff like that in. You must have delved quite far back in my post history. Posting them as if they are direct quotes without context is a little unfair.

(Plus - I've got no interest in joining the mainstream games industry)
> Getting in on a fast growing platform early

This depends on good timing. As a small team or single developer you don't want to invest months into building a plugin or service for a platform that won't take off. And at the time the platform has great traction, chances are that someone already took the higher risk and implemented something close to your idea.

I would be interested in knowing more about the decision process that made you confident enough in 2015 to pour resources into a Slack plugin, if you would like to share that.
Slack uses electron if I am not wrong.
I know this is a subjective metric but when was wikipedia in it's prime? Seems like sometime in the past decade there was a mass sweep of edits on articles that stripped out a lot of detailed information for the sake of being a more pure "encyclopedia" and in a more abstract language.

The best data point I can provide is 2004, when a self aware article was created reflecting the emerging game like behavior of wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_an_MMOR...
I favor open code, but like everything, there are issues. For example, the EPA years ago required that research can only inform policy when data is open; open data, however, takes a lot of effort to document and provide. Companies, however, with vested interest in EPA policy can easily produce open (and often very biased) data.

Requirements for open code can lead to similar issues—what happens when a government agency rejects the outcome of a supercomputer simulation because the code wasn't documented well enough? What happens when those with vested interests are the ones best able to produce scientific code?

Scientists already wear many hats. Any shift in policy and norms needs to consider that they have limited time, a fact that can have far-reaching consequences.
Chrome Extension is Making $399,000 / month
I have made a tool which enables me to filter Web Store extensions by almost any criteria.

Here is this list of TOP 5 Chrome extensions by M.R.R.

* Open SEO Stats(Formerly: PageRank Status) $399,000.00
* Beebs- Watch BBC iPlayer, ITV & C4 Abroad $112,475.00
* AMZ Review to Order Matching $49,990.00
* Relay Auto-Refresher $49,990.00
* Relay Auto Booker $25,294.94

The tool for making a market analysis such as the one above is available here:

https://webstoreinsight.com/
How to Ensure Continuous Growth Hacking
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The easiest way to preserve code for posterity is the wrap up the runtime environment in a VM. I can boot up a VM from 15 years ago (when I was in grad school) and it will run.

When you're writing code for science, preserving code for posterity is rarely a priority. Your priority is to iterate quickly because the goal is scientific results, not code.

(this is in fact, correct prioritization. Under most circumstances, though not all, most grad students who try to write pristine code find themselves progressing more slowly than those who don't.)
> The consensus seems to be around 20mcg K2 Mk.7 all-trans per 1000 IU of D3.

Source? My doctor prescribed 45mcg K2 per 1000 IU of D3.
Every US ID and driver's license I've ever seen (and I've seen many) list height and weight.
Can harmful levels of calcium be present even if Vitamin D levels are measured as within the reference range of 30.0 - 100.0 ng/mL?
As I understand it, very effective. But most of the research that correlates low vitamin D levels with various diseases is from observational studies, so there's always a question of whether a low vitamin D level is the causal problem or if it's more complicated, for example maybe lack of sunlight causes other effects in addition to low vitamin D levels and those other effects are the real problem rather than the low vitamin D levels.

IFAICT, most doctors will still prescribe supplements for low vitamin D though. It certainly doesn't seem to hurt, as long as the levels don't get too high as discussed in this article.
backup as the site is down: https://archive.vn/DGhBi

This tweet bubbled up this weekend and it touched me: https://twitter.com/ambernoelle/status/1297191195584663554
I appreciate the response but I completely disagree (I wrote a larger post elsewhere). The amount of people who OD on medication and die or otherwise is significantly higher than any of those on Vitamins, let alone Vitamin D3. When an average of 50% of the population (study linked in other post), and a very small fraction of a % of those will every run into problems (which they can address through going to a physician if they have problems), I _do_ consider it a "very little downside".

I'm happy to look at data that says otherwise, but from my research I haven't found any.
I don't have any issue with this particular article (or this kind), people should be critical to any company anyway.

What shows the "hate" more clearly is when there is "good" news or just an neutral announcement from/about these companies, where you will see most of the comments being negative to a point they are often irrelevant to the article itself.
I’m glad someone else feels this way. It’s an expectation that scientists can share their with other scientists using language. Scientists aren’t always the best writers, but there are standards there. Writing good code is a form of communication. It baffles me that there are absolutely no standards there.
http://archive.is/wip/pqVUh
I'd rather buy a 3rd party asset for the exact type of game I want to make.

You still have to put in effort, but if you find the right assets it can really make things happen faster.

The training material for Unity is above and beyond UE4. Any type of game you want to create already has a template on the Asset Store. UE's asset store is still packing .
What's the relevance of what you cite to OP having trouble clearing a commercial venture to apparently serve food, beverages, and test out vehicles with combustible engines?
Still my OS of choice for my first-ever generation Samsung Chromebook (exynos). Unfortunately, they stopped providing images - does anyone know if the build scripts still work for exynos based chromebook? (Or if other distros do?)
Wow, nice. I will be waiting :D
Or to create Central Park, which was previously a black neighborhood in NYC.
Unreal Engine is already very far ahead into the cinema space and already being used in numerous works being produced. Epic has been investing money into supporting toolchains and devices built to support Unreal Engine in cinema to boot. I simply don't see Unity catching up.
I don't think they're hiding that.

> Alibaba compared the chip’s capabilities with that of the Arm Cortex-A73, which is the foundation of Huawei’s Kirin 970 AI-enable mobile platform that was introduced in 2017.

Kirin 970 was used in Mate 10 from years ago.
Well, if we specifically talk about a cafe then I do see that it's problem if the owner can build the cafe only on the second floor. Even in that case it's a simple math to decide if it's worth spending 70K$ and make it accessible to disabled people. It should be left entirely to the owner to decide. City should not force him to install it.
And it's entirely the cafe owner's problem not the disabled person's problem unless it's the only coffee shop on the street.
How can you not notice the difference between the whitewashed houses of Greek islands vs the clay roofs of Porto and Lisbon vs the elaborate facades of Vienna vs the somber everlasting feel of Edinburgh stone masonry? They look NOTHING alike.
I'd argue the opposite is true. All you monkeys staying out of the sun are more insane than those out loving life in the sunshine. Woo!
I'm surprised there hasn't been noise about schools wanting Zoom to reinstate their eye tracking code so the teacher knows when Little Johnny isn't paying attention.
yes please have option to store data locally by default on the phone or for iPhone have option store in iCloud.
I wonder who and why decided that downloading files from the internets into a fixed location is a good idea? A downloaded file may be a PDF document, installer of a software, a song, a photo, CAD file, anything at all. Makes no sense to save everything into a same location.

Hierarchical file systems were invented for a reason. For the same reason, I want browsers and chat apps to ask me where to save each file I download. Fortunately, most of these apps have an option to enable such behavior.

As a nice side effects, this prevents security issues like the one described in the article.
This gets brought up often, and the other comment said is that most drivers say they like their uber gig and the freedom it gives.

I too have asked the question often and similarly gotten positive responses most of the time. But I have also learned that when you question a person's career choice they will almost never belittle it, presumably because that's an affront to their decision making abilities - it's a tacit acknowledgment that they have done goof'd with their lives. I've noticed it in other places too, where arguably similar bad permanent career decisions are made, viz academia.

The only question is if the government needs to be involved here to protect the people from themselves or not; my gut says no. Arguably the porn industry is far more predatory towards women (if documentaries are to be believed) yet no one's vehemently protesting to ban that industry, so I see no reason the government should bother with excessive regulation here (though some basic rules might not hurt, even the porn industry has some rules).
From the article:
"It often takes many months for high Vitamin D levels to drop, and it took six months for Shannon’s level to fall into the 50s."

I don't think a journal will help in these circumstances, the time lapse between cause and effect is just too long. Getting tested is cheap and easy (and here I'm thinking of people who are deficient in vitamin D, if the results are too low then it seems that taking a supplement would be a good idea).
It's deeply integrated into Shopify platform, it's easily worth the 20% bump if only for the exposure, cred, billing etc..
My joke was it takes a much larger team to get anything done in UE4 .

I couldn't imagine solo dev on an Unreal Project .
I totally agree with that! Still, I thought complaining about a linux distro was misguided in this case.
>If not by unit tests, code review or formal logic, then what?

Cross referencing independent experiments and external datasets.

Science doesn't work like software. The code can be perfect and still not give results that reflect reality. The code can be logical and not reflect reality. Most scientists I know go in with the expectation that "the code is wrong" and its results must be validated by at least one other source.
All of my 2010 scientific code runs on the then-current edition of Docker. /s
I think we need to enable technology so people can do these checks themselves/at home. It seems we are holding back the tech because we are afraid of what people will do with the information.
Is this actually helpful in the end?

> The XT910 supports RISC-V 0.7.1 Vector Extension, includes a vector engine for AI acceleration and is based on 12 nanometer FinFET processes from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp.

In other words, it's still one Trump order away from not being able to manufacture it.
> You make an encrypted file. After that the only way to decrypt it is the way it was encrypted.

Check out the linked S3 SDK vulnerability, it's precisely about decrypting a file in a different way from how it was encrypted :)
The benefits of multi-classing go beyond the combat mechanics of the game, as well. If you develop a character-driven reason for multi-classing, that's character growth in action. Great for role-playing as well as for driving the plot of the campaign forwards.
Concur. TNMOC has a few neat interactive toys, too: BBC Micros and the Harwell Dekatron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvDUDGiL9EQ .
>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.

The term for this is dark kitchens.
I wouldn't over index on that comment, I thought your blog post was effective.

Strictly scientific is appreciated, but I don't think it'll land as effectively with the audience that most needs to read this kind of thing in the first place.
Then the ones who don't want to help a disabled person, can design their place to be accessible without help (and perhaps at the same time explain their motivations so that I'll know to never visit their venue).

In other words, you got slightly confused. I didn't say that all places should be not accessible to disabled people. If I make a place I'd definitely try to make it accessible. However, I did say that if someone can't make such a place, they'll have to take into account that the human thing to do is to personally help disabled people get in it.

If they won't do it I'm sure socially media would know how to handle them.
Reactions to pg's essay on wealth tax
Maybe we're talking about two different things? To me, once you add a new feature intended to replace an old one, the old feature should be deprecated and should eventually be removed. Even if you can use AssetBundles, there's no reason you ever should because they've been superseded.

I've always thought that that is deprecation, but I could see your argument that it's not.

Fortunately I haven't had to deal with the officially deprecated features without a clear replacement. I can imagine that would be very frustrating.
Foxconn, other Asian firms consider Mexico factories as China risks grow
Your 170 year old building can still be used even though it is not handicap accessible.

But construction or renovation of that building done in 2020 has to meet the laws of 2020.
There needs to be some guarantee of the longevity of the service's domain name, since someone could claim the domain as their own when you mistakenly refuse to renew it in advance.

The bad actor sets up a catchall, and then would do password resets for all the accounts registered with that domain name. That's why I treat these email relay/proxy services cautiously as if the domain will change hands sometime in the near future.
We also have a similar place in Lyon called Kargo Kulte: https://www.instagram.com/kargokulte/

No experience with the Motorcycle shop, but the coffee is excellent.
Perhaps your error is marrying yourself to your creative output and taking criticism thereof personally. Your essay is all over the place and plays a tune many folks in AAA have heard from many folks who got their start in Web development, and I was illustrating the broader context that, again, makes your intended audience develop that conclusion. Honestly, it reads like a projection of your expectations of software development, and that’s what I’m trying to tell you.

I was not accusing you of overengineering, I’m not accusing you of working for FAANG (I don’t even know you, come on), I was making the point that people default to where they’re comfortable, and if you’re going to put yourself in a a position of authority and claim that Unity is bad (and Unreal is worse), you need to be comfortable in the environment and practices in which they are intended to be used. There is a minimum level of comprehension required to criticize an implement of another profession, otherwise someone proficient in COBOL would pick up a torque wrench and ask “why is this necessary? This design is just bad.”

You used subjective indictment terms (“bad,” “worse”) to describe positions that you don’t have experience to develop. That’s fine. Elevate your argument and understand the why behind some of them. Example: we don’t give two shits about deprecations because they’re a distraction from a ship date and we ship vendored artifacts including the engine.

You selectively quoted more than one thing I said to twist a personal attack from them, by the way, but that’s your prerogative. It’s also odd to do when you’re crying ad hominem foul.

Edit: I took the time to read your essay, respond to it candidly, and we are ending this conversation with you lecturing me on tone, politeness, and productivity. Even in the face of great hems and haws I doubly endeavored to remain polite. One would be forgiven for thinking you are not approachable with criticism.
No there's no confusion. Maybe you thought I meant it was the default shell, I didn't. It's simply installed with everything else. The list is sh, csh, and zsh.

The executable is on the machine. An operating system can have more than a single shell executable. Do you want me to post the binary? Screen shots? Maybe turn on an ssh hole? Perhaps send the man page? I can do all of this.

You can log in remotely and run it if you so desire.

I might be able to coerce VNC even although I'd probably need up port it to openstep (I've ported vnc before). Maybe there's a virtual box way of doing it as well
Thank you for writing these articles. Even more thanks for coming here and participating in the discussion.
This could be said of most topics. At the end of the day, lawmakers need to weigh studies, polls and legal precedents, to build a vision of what kind of society we want.
Yep, there were studies that Somali refugee populations in MN and Sweden have very low vitamin D levels (and associated high rate of children autism)
Maybe those other things needs much larger initial investments. Meanwhile investors see software startups that scale from two people up to thousands as the concept it proven.
Wouldn't Uber's argument about this be that drivers do get to set their rates by the platform showing them and matching them with jobs that are at a rate they accept? Just because they can't put out a published $ figure on their desired per job rate, doesn't mean they're not setting their own rates that they accept?
Not an airplane, but I have a few HP calculators (50G, 12C, 15C) that run an emulator for a chip that is no longer produced because nobody wants to port the software. They still make the 12C.

I wouldn't trust them to port it without introducing weird bugs after seeing stuff like the 35S anyway.