skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think unreal is easier to use than Unity because Unreal comes with batteries included. Unity you have to fill all the gaps with 3rd party asset store plugins and deal with all their weirdness etc.

Unity's recent changes into everything is a package is a total mess and reminds me of how Rails became a mess after it tried to move everything out of core and into gems.
Stealing local files using Safari Web Share API
I don't understand why an investor would fund unprofitable Uber 2.0. Without a massive differentiator there is no reason to believe their trajectory would be any different from Uber's - except with increased capital requirements from being the third(fourth?) mover.

Uber's burned 10s of billions in the hopes of becoming a few hundred billion dollar company. Would Uber 2.0 need to burn hundreds of billions in the hope of becoming a hundred billion dollar company?
TikTok Inc. vs. U.S. Department of Commerce
Yeah, it's quite bad UX. The subtitles can also only be configured via the website, which is something not many people seem to know. On my TV the default subtitle settings result in blooming so I configured them to be yellow with a black border and transparent background.
The wonderful optimism of the author reminds me of last night's Venkatesh Rao thread on brain calibration:

https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1297743621777580034
> But a much stronger and more relevant form of reproducibility for actually advancing science is running the same study e.g. on different groups of participants (or in computer science / applied math/stats / etc., with different codebases, with different model variants/hyperparameters, on different datasets) and the overall conclusions hold

> Plenty of good science got done before modern devops came to be

This isn't as strong of an argument as you think. This is more-or-less the underlying foundation behind the social sciences, which argues that no social sampling can ever be entirely reproduced since no two people are alike, and even the same person cannot be reliably sampled twice as people change with time.

Has there been "good science" done in the social sciences? Sure. I don't think that you're going to find anybody arguing that the state of the social sciences today is about the same as it was in the Dark Ages.

With that said, one of the reasons why so many laypeople look at the social sciences as a kind of joke is because so many contradictory studies come out of these peer-reviewed journals that their trustworthiness is quite low. One of the reasons why there's so much confusion surrounding what constitutes a healthy diet and how people should best attempt to lose weight is precisely because diet-and-exercise studies are more-or-less impossible to reproduce.

> If you can achieve that, great -- it's certainly a useful property to have for debugging

If you can achieve that, for the area of study in which you conduct your experiment, it should be required. Deciding to forego formal reproducibility should be justified with a clear explanation as to why reproducibility is infeasible for your experiment, and peer-review should reject studies that could have be reproducible but weren't in practice.
AI automatic tuning delivers step forward in Quantum computing
Where should you put the documentation?
This is exactly what I have been looking for, few questions

- why does it need login?
- what does it do with my data?
- does the data live on phone or on your servers?
- is it possible to export all the data somewhere?
I agree with you, but also think that these regulations are about protecting incumbents from business model innovation. The rules mean that existing organizations don't have to bother with finding better ways to serve their customers; they can just keep plodding along without fear.
very cool idea!

edit: you can only use the app if you sign in via Google. Uninstalled.
Hmm, good point. I was trying to simplify a real-world example to shorten it, but ended up with something nonsensical. I was starting to share a better example but then realized I have other things I ought to do right now… I have it saved, will come back if I have more time later.
WolfSSL TLS 1.3 Client Man-in-the-Middle Attack – NCC Group Research
Maybe this article was the one? https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/3/12325104/airbnb-aesthetic-...
It's harder to be too high than too low, especially with enough magnesium and vitamin K2. When high, just lower calcium to the 500-600 mg range and use magnesium to eclipse phosphorus.
Are Your Passwords in the Green?
> And besides, how will you update our map that says that protocol "age" 1 uses rsa, "age" 2 uses ed25519? That's right, with "Registries". Unless you convince the whole world to just instantly switch to the new version at the same time, so that you can also drop the old version.

There is a not so subtle difference here.

Rule: When more than one algorithm is implemented in a protocol, negotiation is unavoidable. What you can choose is to do one of two things:

1. Run-Time Negotiation --- Within a given version of a protocol, you can have multiple simultaneous in-flight algorithms, modes, key sizes, etc. at play.

2. Compile-Time Negotiation -- Version 1 only does Algorithm ABC with config XYZ, Version 2 does Algorithm DEF with config VXW. You cannot get version 1 with another algorithm.

(I use "Compile-Time" somewhat hand-wavy here; some programming languages are interpreted instead of compiled.)

It should be plainly obvious why option 1 is more dangerous and harder to prove secure than option 2.
So where should we draw the line? An 170 year old existing building should never be used for anything because it's not handicap accesible? I can't run an espresso machine that would be perfectly acceptable to use in the same structure for residential reasons but it is magically a fire risk once it is zoned commercial?

Sorry but that does not hold up under scrutiny.
This is arguing semantics in the way that is being described as a humanities behavior in order to justify how science doesn't have the same or similar discussions.
Bypassing Antivirus with Golang – Gopher It
This sort of thing hasn't been done with the display adapter in a text mode for a decade or so, now, even on PC-compatible hardware. Even terminal emulators of this sort on Linux and the BSDs use the display adapter in graphics mode, drawing glyphs from loadable (bitmap) fonts. The sorts of systems that mysterydip was talking about might not even have hardware that provides an old-style MDA/CGA/EGA/VGA text mode, moreover.

This in addition to the fact that, as others have pointed out, the old-style text mode really doesn't lend itself well to Unicode, to the new (sic!) terminal colour systems of the 1990s, nor to proper boldface+underline+italics. (The latter is one of the reasons that commercial DOS programs from 1-2-3 to Quattro Pro were switching display adapters into graphics mode and rendering their TUIs by drawing graphics, with BGI in the case of Borland, back in the late 1980s and turn of the 1990s.)

With post-VGA blitting capabilities one can of course do things like pre-load glyph bitmaps into off-screen video RAM and blit them into the display, potentially a lot faster than having the main processor write the glyphs directly; but it is still not as simple as writing 16-bit character+attribute pairs, to do what modern users generally regard as the basics of TUIs in these modern Unicode, 24-bit colour, full ECMA-48 attribute support times.
Thanks. That's a good call. I did a test and they were pretty low. That's when I started taking it.

My doctor said that it was fine to take it that way as long as I keep it on a non-daily basis.

I'm taking another serum test soon to see what are the levels and re-adjust as needed.
I never said that Konrad Hinsen's agenda was hidden; in fact, it's not at all hidden (which is why I linked the abstract). It's just that this context isn't at all clear in the Nature write-up, and it's relevant to take into account.

I haven't taken the time to seriously contemplate the merits of CWL vs Leibniz, although my gut instinct is that we don't really need another domain-specific language for science given the profusion of such languages that already exist (Mathematica, Maple, R, MATLAB, etc). That's the extent of my bias, but again, it's a gut instinct and not a comprehensive well-reasoned argument against Leibniz.
All the things that you would choose a rtos or bare metal for.
If they're running their computer with the cameras on, I see no reason why the standard of appropriate dress would be any different in person than it is behind the laptop. Kids often need rules for things that are obvious to adults.
I didn't say "protecting propety [sic] values", I said "protecting rich neighborhoods". If you'd like more details, I'd recommend reading the book, it is very detailed and well-written.
As a Vermonter, I have to ask - does the locale have anything to do with the low Vitamin D levels, any more than most of the rest of the northern United States?

Would 5000 - 10000 IU/day be toxic?
The original Ford Sync, which was developed entirely by Microsoft, was great. Ford decided that they would develop their own UI for the next version on top of Windows Automotive, and it was an absolute mess. They blamed Microsoft, switched the OS to QNX and developed an all new UI, which is still a mess to this day.

I don't think Windows Automotive got a fair shake.
Brain-to-Body Mass Ratio
Both are bad. They hide the real cost from the user.

The manual thing would never work because the rates I pay as a user are astronomically higher than the rates that would get paid for sponsored data. That’s half the reason the huge companies like it. It costs very little to sponsor data where I’d normally pay inflated rates, so it’s “good value” for me. The problem with that is you need to be a huge business to have a chance of negotiating those deals, so it disadvantages anyone who wants to compete as a startup.

Both are bad and should be illegal imo. Let users pay for their data. There’s no reason to obfuscate the costs.
> A lot of open sourced CS research is not reproducible.

I'm not sure if this was meant to be a counter-argument to me, but I completely agree!

> "the code still runs and gives the same output" is not the same as reproducibility.

Yes, bit-for-bit identical results are neither necessary nor sufficient for reproducibility in the usual scientific sense.
in india, the recent internet boom due to reliance JIo and others like airtel have brought incredible change in a short amount of time but sadly, FUP remains. This is somehow seen as "part of the game" when it need not be.
https://www.jio.com/fiber/en-in/plans here speeds range from 100 mbps to 1 gbps but with stupid stupid data caps. like seriously, what is the need for 1 gbps when you can only use high speed internet till 5 tb? same for smaller plans as well. stupid.
https://www.airtel.in/broadband/delhi here the word "unlimited" is used but defined in FAQs as meaning "3 TB" of data.
I'm the physician who wrote the article. And I agree with you. Vitamin D deficiency is a problem because it leads to bone loss (see part 1: https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-part-1-back-to-basi...). And Vitamin D supplements can be very helpful for those with a deficiency. The point that I am trying to make is that Vitamin D should not be thought of as a dietary supplement. I am seeing more and more people with high calcium levels from being on high-dose Vitamin D. If you treat Vitamin D like the steroid hormone that it is, you will treat it like a medicine, and not take outrageous doses because someone online suggested it. At least, that's what I'm trying to get across.
San Jose, CA had a streak of ADA torts that resulted in small businesses closing shop :
https://sanjosespotlight.com/access-v-abuse-crema-coffee-in-...
https://www.ktvu.com/news/times-up-san-jose-deli-closing-its...
If that's what happens, I guess so. I (once a kid) had teachers, and very few if any would do that. They were willing to explain their reasons and to leave open interpretations. They were educators not indoctrinators.
I'm not that familiar with arranged marriages, but what bits I have seen in for instance documentaries suggests that the couple gets a lot of advice about making the marriage work, emphasis on the work.

So at least for that segment, it may very much look like something that is 'done' but the reality hits once the well-wishers go home.
> The alternative of doing things old school with server side templates is ok, but it massively slows down your iteration speed through reliance on tight coupling between backend and frontend.

Huh? Something like Rails lets you iterate on server-side stuff extremely quickly. There is a lot of functionality you can implement that doesn't need JS at all
The descriptor protocol is definitely magic!

It normally doesn't matter that it's magic because most people don't need to interact with it. And it causes a very intuitive result in the part of the language that most people actually do interact with: that x = obj.foo; x() is the same as obj.foo() (not true in Javascript!). But that doesn't change the fact that method binding happens in a more complex way under the hood than you'd expect.
I already took a test and my levels were very low. That's when I started supplementing. Taking another test soon to check levels again.
Uber is just a crutch
Animations are choppy and slow.
I guess it all depends on personal experience, but [1] seems pretty extreme to me.

1 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48486672
This seems very similar to slicer [0], no? At least the idea behind the system (to have a general purpose sharding "thing"). Or have I misunderstood what slicer's used for?

[0] - https://research.google/pubs/pub46921/
Ahh, the burden of Anna Karenina principle, "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"- Leo Tolstoy
I mean the 1619 project is education as indoctrination and it's making it's way into curriculum.

The aim isn't to educate (i.e. teach how to think, explore knowledge, form and examine arguments, etc.; not what to think) but form opinion and install ideology.
Being in such a position, I can say that I am appreciated, but not in a manner that results in job stability and promotion. It's a massive problem in academia, and there's an attempt to get the position recognised and call it "Research Software Engineer", with comparable opportunities for promotion and job stability as a researcher. However, it's not going massively well. Academic job progression is still almost completely purely based on the ability to get first or last author papers in top journals. I have lots of papers where I am a middle author, because I wrote the software that did the analysis that was vital for the paper to even exist, but it largely doesn't count. And I'm lucky - many software engineers don't even get put in as a middle author on the paper they contributed to.
Surprised Apple let you publish this with only the option to sign in with a google account and not let you use any functionality until you do. I would also prefer to not sync yet more stuff with Google. Otherwise, seems pretty handy, I'll check it out.
This actually reinforces for me the idea that people need individualized expert advice on this. I know that lay people (and I include myself here) tend to think if x is good for you then more x is even better. So you see vitamins marketed with extreme %s over daily recommended levels. Supplementation really seems it should be last resort.

This reminds me somewhat of how people are so concerned about the health effects of too much salt that they end up getting too little, which is also detrimental.
China has been vaccinating key workers with unapproved Covid-19 vaccines
Only white people have had rich neighborhoods to protect. (When other races have such neighborhoods, they're burned to the ground.)
Doesn't that question simply devolve into, "How much more are you willing to pay for variety and diversity?"

Shopping at boutique stores certainly offer a more memorable shopping experience, better dining, or more engaging products than Amazon or Walmart, but at substantially greater cost/risk. When efficiency/safety becomes primary among your desiderata, variety and diversity will suffer.

This is the exact conundrum covered well in Kunstler's "The Geography of Nowhere" which bemoaned the social cost arising from city/village design that was optimized to serve too narrow a set of priorities, thereby eliminating opportunity to experience and share common spaces in more than one way.
The point is the perception, not the reality.
I'm a highly experienced programmer and I can't get started with Unity. Maybe I'm just an old curmudgeon now. But I just want to see some code and drive from code. The workflow of starting from objects and scenes in a GUI and attaching scripts is totally foreign to me. And then most of the tutorials seem to be videos, which I have no patience for, with text I can skip around and tailor my learning to my personal needs. And then I have no idea how to predict if any given video or documentation or sample project is out of date.
It's extremely frustrating and makes me feel dumb and old.
Your body makes its own vitamin D in response to sunlight exposure.
Thank you. Requires login since data is backed up on the server. Export is a good idea and something I've been planning to add - perhaps Google Drive or a simple file to download.
While I do want the iOS situation fixed, I don't want the Switch or Playstation platforms to be affected in any way. Sony and Nintendo are the only publishers still making decent AAA games with the patience to sink a crazy amount of money and time into their projects. We'd all be worse off without games like Last of Us or Mario. Changing the status quo could turn them into another Ubisoft (devoid of all risk or creativity, and with a massive emphasis on microstransactions and games as a service).

And frankly, anybody bringing up consoles in this context is arguing in bad faith. The similarities are purely surface level.
PyWake an open source wind farm simulation tool
Why not? It's easy to learn from the things that React does right and compare to see if Unity also does them right, or not.

For example, React has a principle that components can freely be removed from the render path of their parents[1], since React (in the general case) does not allow parents to imperatively call methods on their children. Unity has no such prevention, so if you remove a child component you could be triggering a bunch of bugs when GetComponent<> calls fail to find the component you deleted.

It seems clear to me that the way that React guides the user towards avoiding writing bugs is a good strategy.

Why would we NOT compare these two? Why would we NOT say, "aha, it looks like React has a smart design that allows engineers to write code without unintentionally creating bugs, and so we should consider if something like that is possible, or perhaps think of a different way to solve this problem." Putting our heads in the sand and refusing to make comparisons between these two projects to see the similar issues that both projects run into means that Unity developers are doomed to repeat the same problems that React engineers have already solved.

[1]: https://overreacted.io/what-are-the-react-team-principles/
> The statistics about marriage failures are misleading. They are biased by the fact that people who divorce tend to have multiple marriages.

They are also biased because many unhappy couples won't divorce for various reasons.
These days nothing is purely static and very little is purely interactive/dynamic. However most sites lean clearly to one side or the other, no judgment call or personal defensiveness required.
I’m thinking of flagging this since it seems to overweight the risk of high vitamin d vs the more common risk of low vitamin d?
Now do the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
There are a few standardized definitions. The most succinct bring “quality is the adherence to requirements”.

As an example, if your science has the requirement of being replicable (as it should) there are a host of best practices that should flow down to the software development requirements. Not implementing those best practices would be indicative of lower quality
Thanks for sharing this, your podcast sounds really interesting - subscribed :)
Thanks for the link, that's interesting.

All the "self-replicators" I've come across are either digital (e.g. Conway's Game of Life) or like the ones in this video, that is they require specialized parts as their "food." You could say they are all "carnivores" in the sense that they consume other machines. My interest is in "herbivore" self-replicators, those that reproduce by consuming raw materials and energy from their environment.
It's generally not plausible to "approach someone with familiarity with software development expertise" for organizational and budget reasons. Employing dedicated software developers is simply not a thing that happens; research labs overwhelmingly have the coding done by researchers and involved students without having any dedicated positions for software development.

In any case you'd need to teach them the problem domain, and it's considered cheaper (and simpler from organizational perspective) to get some phd students or postdocs from your domain to spend half a year getting up to speed on coding (and they likely had a few courses in programming and statistics anyway) than to hire an experienced software developer and have them learn the basics of your domain (which may well take a third or half of the appropriate undergraduate bachelor's program).
At least over the last 2 yrs I was saying that Uber and Lyft should get out of the self driving tech business. Its not who they are, and there is no reason to invest in it when they could easily consume the best tech out there when it becomes available. I now feel even more strongly so. In fact it feels like these companies might themselves be re-evaluating their priorities at this point. I see absolutely no reason to invest in FSD themselves other than to attract talent.

They should instead accept that their value to the world is they unified the taxi system and turned it into a global service that drivers can use. They should focus on their core business and figure out their issues with drivers and employees. They could cut the FSD costs and instead partner with Google or some other company. Or they could wait and also partner with any other car manufacturer out there that gets to FSD market. These companies could be huge buyers of the tech when available and so auto manufacturers will fall over themselves to get their business.

I wouldn't say its doomed though.
About a year ago I penned a short essay about this exact subject. Central argument is that Uber is the type of organization that should be open to public ownership given that there is no road to profitability for them. Since writing, states like CA have taken firmer stances on gig economy workers and employment status. The alternative is that Uber continues to try and find avenues of financialization instead of continuing to experiment and innovate with their core service model.

Article Link: https://medium.com/swlh/socializing-uber-for-society-shareho...
Does code from ten years ago run ever? Try running something on that runs on Python 2 on the current python interpreter today.
^^^This...Can't be understated what a mess Unity is right now. Meanwhile Epic with Unreal 5 is simplifying its pipeline and looks better and better.
How do you feel about vitamin k2 (and magnesium) for lowering the risk of high calcium?
The helpless baby stage is over in the blink of an eye. For me they start getting fun once they can smile and laugh, which is often in the first six months.
Also, reading through the issues you linked points to: https://github.com/NVIDIA/framework-determinism which is a relatively recent attempt by nVidia to support deterministic computation for TensorFlow. Not perfect yet, but the effort is going there.