skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would assume "in formation" would be more advanced than "kinda jumbled near each other" given the degree of coordination required. The sample video of real-life drones shows them crossing each other's paths (drone on R goes past both on the L) which doesn't seem terribly useful. The fact that the simulation had the drones move in an hourglass shape seems to show the same problem, they're not maintaining any kind of order for the flight, only spread out at the start and end.

I don't see how this is more advanced than each drone getting a start and end point and attempting to maintain a line. Is staying close to each other that significant of a challenge that I'm missing something?

Edit: The article is trash, the actual project is just navigating multiple drones in a highly-obstructed environment, nothing about maintaining formation. That's the impressive part, and this seems pretty damn good.
Up next: a training video that turns on your webcam and pauses if you look away from the screen.
I'm so not surprised. I've worked in a mobile game shop before and seen how pushing ends up with devs getting burnt out. They've been pushing now for years, probably since the very beginning. That kind of thing will just grind everyone to a crawl and if it doesn't ever let up then your team will just be crawling forever. You have to let people get into the rhythm of development and the key is setting reasonable expectations of your team based on what you know that rhythm to be. All the hype here, all the pressure to put out a great game, can be detrimental to development without proper leadership filtering/framing it.
> There's more than one way to do it (TMTOWTDI or TIMTOWTDI, pronounced Tim Toady) is a Perl programming motto.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_more_than_one_way_to...
Ryzen 5800X vs. Apple M1: Programming-focused benchmarks
I’m glad to see this and we need to concentrate on speeding this process up. This isn’t the last pandemic and all things considered this one was a pretty benign one to have to fight. The next one might not just kill mainly the old and weak and might need much more than a mask (that we still can’t get people to wear!) to prevent its spread. Hopefully before then, we can work to get everyone more on the same page and have a rapid vaccine task force ready.

My brother is a doctor and he got his Pfizer shot yesterday. Less than one year has passed since the first case in the USA. I consider this one of the great accomplishments of science. It will go unnoticed by many idiots on social media but it is an amazing achievement by all the scientists and doctors involved.
George W. Bush was a career politician and as President he instituted a pandemic response plan.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1283304/
Indeed. The most senior engineer on a team typically needs to have sufficient broad knowledge to understand (in detail) what everyone else on the team is (or should be) doing.

That said, Carmack clearly has wide-ranging enough knowledge to run rings around entire engineering teams - despite his preference for learning in depth.
Especially since I (the general public) can get an N95 online. If companies aren't protecting their workers they're not trying hard enough.
More like a brick and mortar starts harassing people on the sidewalk for writing down what is on the posters on the side of their building.
Living expenses is a flexible item. You learn to keep your living expenses down.
“One Billion Americans”, by Matt Yglesias
This is the critical bottleneck to supply:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/n95-mask-shortage-melt-blown-fi...
Maybe a new test would look like this:

1. Vaccinate humans and animals and see if they create antibodies and test if they can neutralize the virus.

2. Infect animals on placebo and vaccine on purpose.

3. If it improves outcome, infect humans on the vaccine.

The old system could be run in parallel
Im actually starting a PhD position while having a full time job, at least for the initial course work portion (I don't have a master's).

This was the only way I could do it without incurring expenses since I'm now 33 and have a family with children.
> Google should (and now/soon are?) assess the performance of the page and rank it accordingly

If the reading I've done is accurate, Google tried this for quite a long time before AMP. The issue seems to be that there are just too many other factors with higher ROI for speed to be prioritized consistently.

IMO, AMP put companies in a position where speed mattered and most other things didn't. It focused minds in ways that using speed as a factor in ranking did not.
I can also confirm as a student doctor we've had "used" N95s for weeks at a time (that we might not even be sized for). Often being chastised for using an N95 instead of a surgical mask in efforts to "save PPE". It's difficult as a student seeing patients with covid daily as we're given even less than staff. Some students even offered to buy their own PPE but we're not allowed to use outside equipment. So, here I am with my surgical mask seeing patients that possibly have covid but haven't been swabbed yet until I take a history.

Edit: Similarly to your partner, we are given paper bags for our face shields and kidney bean shaped plastic bins to hold our N95. They installed coat hooks to hang our masks at the end of a shift.
As a full time working adult, WGU was _amazing_ for getting a degree, at my own pace. Which was a lot faster than a standard brick and mortar school. You can see the course catalog here [0]. My work paid tuition for my degree, but they had an upper limit on reimbursement. WGU was what I found that they approved, and came in under cost (I didn't want to pay out of pocket).

I really do recommend WGU for experienced professionals, and self-guided and motivated learners. I would not suggest it for a brand new high schooler, or people who have no experience in the industry they're trying to get a degree in.

[0]https://www.wgu.edu/about/institutional-catalog.html
I suspect the above poster was referring to the fact that Apple doesn't allow developers to have upgrade pricing. Developers instead must either switch to subscription pricing or release a new app "Tweetbot 5" which resets the apps review count.

It would definitely be nice if Apple allowed developers more flexibility in terms of pricing models.

(I suspect you know this, just wanted to touch all the bases)
Of course if you've thought this far you've determined the answers - the media and their activists are politically motivated. Presenting as activists against tyranny and oppression is part of a strategy, they want to attract and exploit people who hold those values. These strategists and politicians think in terms of achieving outcomes and are more cynical than most can imagine.
Something is off with the math here. I don't doubt your story, but perhaps your numbers are a bit off?

240k over 3 years is $80k/yr in principal alone, substantially more with interest. If your post-tax take-home was $95k, that leaves only $15k/yr for living expenses for your household, which is extremely low.

Maybe that's possible with a lot of beans and rice, paid off used cars, and second-hand clothes and such.

Seems like part of the debt you are paying down is a mortgage, so that means your housing cost at least is part of the $80k/yr debt service. Still doesn't leave much for transportation (often second biggest expense for a household) and the rest.
Fly the night before, then another €150 for a hotel room.

Or you fly in the morning, early taxi (€30? €50?) to the airport, queues at the airport, then the transfer at the far end.

And of course someone else is subsidising your €170 flight via the externalities of air travel.
Here in the US we also take a good hard look at bootcamp graduates. Code school/bootcamp graduates I’ve found to be good enough to do most of the mundane web work broiler-plate we have to write. It gives them experience, it give us that broiler-plate code no one wants to write.

Bootcamp’s here like Turing or Galvanize cost $20k and take 4-6mos but you’ll get an entry level Dev job at $75k or more when you’re done. It’s been a really good experience. Some have been really good programmers, others not so much. Same could be said of any demographic. There’s performers and under performers.
I can only speak to my own experience (east coast). At my current company we won't hire or consider anyone without a degree, however, it doesn't have to be a CS/SE degree. We even have a few people with liberal arts degrees.
Does this mean quantum gizmos will ‘teleport’ the data over space instead of using wires? Like, will a quantum processor pull the data in the quantum ram using teleportation?
Phase one is about dosage at least as much as safety. The most likely reason to fail is probably that it doesn't produce an immune response at any reasonable dosage.
> Man, this reads to me like "My side's media is an angel and the other side is untrustworthy".

NY Times isn’t “my side's media”. It’s just another corporate media outlet.

The actual counterbalance to something like Fox News would be something like Democracy Now. Those outlets don’t really get any air time in popular culture as it exists today. And even then they spend a lot of time on pro-democracy and pro-freedom issues that don’t get airtime in other outlets, it’s not just “all left all the time”. Maybe give it a listen sometime and see what a true counterpart on the other side would sound like - it’s always enlightening to hear what other people hear. And bear in mind - that's what it sounds like for me to listen to Fox, too.

That’s a big part of the problem with the right-wing media bubble at the moment, you think the counterpart to Fox News is NYT but that’s a false equivalency. NYT is ultimately a middle of the road outlet, you’re just so far out of the mainstream that it looks left. I frequently consider NYT articles to be taking too much of a pro-right or pro-corporate stance on an issue (especially Maggie Haberman, she’s just awful).

At the end of the day the US has two right wing parties - one center-right and one far-right, and that's how our news media is structured too. We have two pro-corporate parties, and that's how our news media is structured too. MSNBC is owned by General Electric, with major interests in defense contracting. Washington Post is owned by Bezos. Fox is essentially a media arm of the Republican party. CNN are just sort of chaos monkeys chasing share prices. There is very little "independent media" in the US.

And no, I don’t take Democracy Now too seriously either.
It's an industry filled with highly educated people who spend way too much time idling on twitter and the internet in general.

They don't have money concerns like most people from other walks of life so they need to find something to get worked out about.

I think it's understandable why big tech went in this direction.
There is already exist a mechanism for handling mouse press event.
When mouse press on the picture, it will determine whether any polygon is pointed first. If pointed any point of polygon, it will modify the polygon. If no point of polygon is pointed, it will determine whether corner or edge of rectangle is pointed and modify it. If there is no polygon, edge or corner of rectangle pointed, but pointed inside the rectangle, it will move the rectangle. Otherwise, it will create a new rectangle
Not that important, at least in the SV-centred tech world. I have a journalism degree, and I don't think it's ever been a problem. I've also been a hiring manager, and on hiring committees and never really paid much attention to it. Degrees matter in data science but not software engineering.
Bubonic Plague is still around, quite deadly if untreated, antibiotics work if given quickly enough (and are used as a preventative measure for contact persons). Large outbreaks are rare.
I wish github pages could be hosted with native commenting system instead of finding yet another solution to host comments.
This math doesn't check out. $240k for three years is $80k/year. Assuming you are already factoring interest in. So you and your wife lived off less than $20k a year? Where?
CDC was muzzled by Trump admin. and a lot of that cascaded downwards.

But still, horrible to see.
I genuinely hope this is correct.

However NMS is an open-world exploration game. I worry that with Cyberpunk 2077 being fairly linear / story based, they won't make the same investments that Hello Games did re: adding tons of new features.
There plenty of people getting a BS from WGU that go on to Master level degrees at other universities. I know quite a few of them personally. Going to WGU for a BS and then a different university for a Masters, is quite possible and not unheard of.
Tangential diatribes about career politicians are not relevant to a potential holiday nursing strike, regardless of the animosity we may feel towards them.

Edit: changed 'is not' to 'are not'
Nuclear Industry Sees Its Survival in the Need for Carbon Capture
1/2 a billion.
From a business perspective, perhaps. From a social benefit perspective, getting rid of corrupt politicians, exposing pollution, and giving citizens the ability to understand what the powerful are doing has massive benefit. Think of all the fraud and waste that has been uncovered over the years, recouping that money doesn't go to the newspaper, but it may benefit society more broadly. Simple fact is places with less free media have more corruption and misuse of public funds.
Fair summary - I think perhaps a few of us just felt that the comment was a bit abrasive given the time and effort that's clearly gone into this which is being offered for free.

It looks like you see and acknowledge that opinion, which is nice, and fairly uncommon on the Internet still :)

Hope you have a good weekend and a wonderful Christmas - and it's good you found a tool that does fit your needs in the end!
Pretty excellent series. Kudos to the author.
this is about IDFA, not tracking on apps, tracking on ad networks.

So still facebook can track you in facebook apps.
> My coworkers from mainland China were concerned about our well-being and started shipping us KN95 masks

My partner’s friend with family in China did the same thing for us. His dad was getting chemo and they had their family send a couple boxes of KN95s over to help protect him. Depressing, given how much America looks like a failed state relative to the two countries pandemic response, but good that interpersonal relationships trump all the BS “new Cold War” rhetoric.
As someone in the same position that the author was in (dropped out of college, have had a successful career in Silicon Valley) I can understand the allure of doing a 'speedrun' to get a degree. For one, if you want to emigrate to Europe, most work visas will require you to have a degree, no matter how many years of experience you've had in the US. You might also be tempted to do a masters or PhD in a particular topic you are interested in.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the college experience. I loved it and made friends I'm close to to this day. But sometimes you just want the paper.
There are plenty of fixes to this from AI behavior that flushes you out successfully to one that penalizes you being pinned down (cover fire + rush from melee enemies).

The game also has poor incentives to go melee, too many enemies can one shot you at close range with shotguns (as evasion is your main damage avoidance stat) and if you do want to go the melee assassin route you are essentially penalized for it.

For melee to work you need to have the Berserker implant which goes into the same slot as the Operating System which means you lose your quickhack abilities which are both important from a narrative perspective and also needed for stealth play.

The only way I have to sum this game up is one poor design choice after another.
It has all the right pieces or most of them, but it doesn't have the right glue and with all the puns in the world it needs more polish...
A friend of mine has a partner who works for them. She said that employees don't get a free vaccine. Obviously take this rumor with a grain of salt.
Hi neckardt, Thanks for your suggestions!
I will consider it in future optimized!
The goal is to take someone with cancer, and then create a vaccine for the exact cancer mutation that person has. this would be a custom one-off vaccine that wouldn't work for anyone else because their cancer is different in some way. I don't know if this will work, but it would be a great improvement to cancer treatment if it does.
You don't need to rework existing labor law for organized labor and employee ownership to coexist. ESOPs with unions were more popular prior to the Reagan era, but I don't believe they've been made illegal.
Folks who still think that Java is a bad language either from the perspective of developer ergonomics or performance probably haven't programmed in it since the Java 4 days and still think of the language as the language of Enterprise Java Beans, Java Applets and hundreds of lines of XML. It is not that language anymore. Modern Java is blisteringly fast(and has been for a while) and almost the same level as C# in terms of developers ergonomics
There are so many alternatives to Wordpress. And so many of them focus on being a blog and not a CMS. I think Wordpress is not bad at all to start a blog with, but if you want something simpler, have a look at some options. For example, I'm involved with Serendipity, which is around as old as Wordpress but not a CMS. And btw, writing your own blog engine is something every web developer should do (mine is called ursprung).

What I agree with: Medium and Blogger are bad options, and static site generators really are too complicated for many potential bloggers.
I agree with all of your points. Thanks for sharing your experience and especially the break down on the time. Do you plan on going for a Masters, either elsewhere or at WGU ?
I had been referencing someone else with another quote initially, forgot to remove that part. My mistake! Have now edited to fix.
How much did you tally as living expenses during that period? As a rough estimate
Radio JOVE is a STEM project that explores the radio emission of our own Jupiter, which is very similar to what has been detected in Tau Boötes. It's a very fun backyard amateur radioastronomy project that's great for kids.

https://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov/
I found a typo: "Statistic site generators" should be "Static site generators".
Let’s assume that over the next ten years quadrocopters get:

* More range and speed

* More obstacle avoidance autonomy

* More heavily armed

* Much, much cheaper

What’s the effective countermeasure against an enemy sending ten thousand of them at you?
These are good questions.

Proteins are chemical compositions - useful machines. Each one (especially outside the context of a cell) requires custom environments to be kept stable. And the processes to manufacture them require other organisms - from which you must now purify that (unstable) protein. And it’s not self-replicating so if you need weekly doses of Ng of material for X doses, you need to produce that much material. RNA solves all of these issues. RNA is a template of common composition that can encode any protein (same chemistry, but in different orders can encode for any arbitrary protein). It can be synthesized in a chemically defined system. And it can persist long enough to produce many generations of proteins. And it can even sometimes be designed to be self replicating. From a theoretical perspective it’s so much better than delivering a custom-purified shot to your blooodstream - different for each virus.

The second question is the hard part - delivery. With the advent of ‘gene therapies’ we needed easy to deliver DNA and RNA to living human cells. We’ve come a long way here and have a number of technologies (oftentimes co-opted from viruses) that range from permanent integration into the cell’s genome (lentivirus) to transient (AAV [see Oxford’s vaccine]) to chemical transfection (Pfizer and Moderna). The RNA in these vaccines is chemically more stable than normal RNA, so it will have half-lives of weeks rather than hours inside cells - but it will degrade after a time and the cells will no longer produce the protein. Proteins in a cell have half-lives of hours to days and even stabilized RNA will be less than a month. After that the material produced by this 'vaccine' will be degraded and gone. However, at that point, the immune system will have permenantly 'encoded' antibodies for the shape of the produced spike protein.
Any game with full voice acting is going to have certain limitations. Corpo V still grew up with Jackie, and it's pretty common for people from poorer backgrounds to have separate corporate and casual personas.
Crypto: Decentralization Deserves a Chance
The cable company and newspaper would absolutely love to do that if it were possible on their technology.

If you put an ad on TV, the cable company is wasting valuable time showing your ad to a ton of people who will never purchase your product (I wonder how many hours of my childhood was spent in front of things like diabetes ads, funeral home ads, depression medication ads). Same goes for newspapers.

If they could somehow target ads based on who's watching, the ads would be massively more effective and they could charge a lot more for showing ads.

By targeting ads and charging so much more for ad time, some companies can even afford to offer their services for free, which massively increases the audience, which brings in more money, which gives them the budget to build a bigger, better service, which increases their audience, which brings them more money, etc etc

And that's how you end up with Facebook and Google.

Obviously the problem is that this isn't transparent. Many people don't know why they get all of this complex technology for free. It's not explained when you sign up for a new account.
So, you run Linux on your Mac and virtualize MacOS but won't be able to locate and download the installer as others have indicated?
It's not new. Some accredited institutions will give credits for "life experience", and I know some University's work with local community colleges so that students can transfer credits in. Typically these transfers are very limited though and only let you bypass "Intro to X" type classes, or meet requirements for graduation that aren't core to the program.
Apple's ads never used the IDFA [1]. They've said this multiple times on the record already.

>Apple does not access or use the IDFA on a user’s device for any purpose.

The IDFA was only ever used by developers. This change (when users refuse to opt-in) effectively brings everyone up to their level.

[1] https://www.scribd.com/document/485006035/Apple-Privacy-Lett...
Don't you need a control group for stage 3 (no vaccine)? If so, that might be highly problematic/unethical.
Rationality can be induced if the vaccine is highly effective. If I get my family vaccinated and learn that the neighbors died due to the disease, it will be common wisdom that they died due to poor decision making.
Only the politicians we don't like are "career politicians", my friend. ;)
The WordPress criticisms are weak. It's still a good recommendation.
You're most likely right, it exists in every company I've seen as well.

I think the solution is to bite the bullet until you can work in a smaller company (either by accepting less money or by starting your own)
This is why the video game consumers are cancerous. They constantly preorder, buy into all of the hype hook/line/sinker, get mad at delays, and yet still get mad when the game is released half-finished/didn't meet the unreachable expectations. This cycle has happened with virtually every troubled AAA game release in the past decade.

Game companies can't win dealing with amnesiac/bipolar consumers.
Didn’t read the article did you?