skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not discounting your experience, but Bioshock 2 was based on UE2.5... from the early to mid 2000's ... and that was a long time ago, not sure how you can realistically expect that to compete with recent Unity. Unrealscript is gone and ... replaced with a new visual scripting engine (which I agree has some problems, being impossible to diff being one of them). UE4/5 also ship with a bunch of templates, including completely blank, flying, wheeled vehicled, advanced wheel vehicles etc.
I've found that tacking 'pdf' onto search queries gets through some of the SEO garbage. For instance I did 'home dust filtration pdf' and found this pdf:

https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2018-07/documents/re...

which cites this paper about deposition rates of different particle sizes:

https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=86094...
Is Charge Robotics open to new grad applications?
"Dear John,
Thanks for getting in touch with us and providing that information! I am so sorry that you are missing bag 14 from your Mos Eisley Cantina! This must be the work of Lord Vader.

Fear not, for I have hired Han to get that bag right out to you.

Have a bricktastic day and may the force be with you."
personally given the option between spending 14 days in a fully catered quarantine hotel room, versus spending 14 days in the comfort of my own house with a big backyard, my home office, my workshop and music instruments etc, with only the caveat being I'd have to check-in on a mobile app once a day - it's just not even a choice and I struggle to see how any one would chose a the former as a preferable option.

However, if your outrage is actually about a states right to enforce a quarantine on potentially infected incoming travellers during a pandemic fullstop .... well my friend, that's a ship that has long since sailed - literally hundreds of years ago.
Twitter implements Super Follows by adding an IAP per user
Awesome Lattice FPGA Boards
It's also not that common to have a sprinkler system here, and watering the lawn is kind of a PITA, especially if you want to avoid dirty looks for watering the sidewalk.
Well, not that I remotely agree with the ridiculous overreaction to COVID, world-wide, nor do I think any of this is reasonable, but you can’t give somebody smoking or obesity by sneezing on them - you can with Coronavirus. So it’s still apples to oranges.
I have tried to do this legitimately for unwanted gifts and its a lot of work. Posting a gift card on the normal buy and sell sites attracts every scammer in the country who all pretend to have sent payments or send fake paypal emails to you and get angry when you don't hand over the code.

And then even when they do pay you they could always tell paypal that the code didn't work.
"Strong moderation" is vague, and can mean a variety of levels of involvement, from commonsense weeding out of spam and malicious trolling (what I will look for), to heavy handed and blatant attempts to steer conversation toward a particular point of view and to "combat" even reasonable disagreement and skepticism on important topics. Covid is the perfect example of this. I get it, some mods on my local subreddit fancy themselves Responsible And Important People On A Mission To Fight Misinformation (in their own minds). I don't care about their precious opinions on what constitutes Evil Covid Misinformation though, I just want an adult discussion that doesn't get siderailed by trolls. That's it, nothing else. Keep the sermonizing to yourselves thanks. So whatever reddit successor gives me that, I'll go to.
Mods get a lot from moderation other than money, maybe money too in some cases. If it was truly without any returns, nobody would do it. They have disproportionate power to ban anyone immediately. They can strut around with their pinned posts, "warnings" to the communities, content deletion. They get to play the community lead despite having unknown credentials for it. Because of that, the quality of moderation is very low, unbalanced, and disproportionate. I think Reddit's moderation structure is cost efficient but suffers from quality and consistency.
A reason I believe why women won't come tech industry is that tech people is considered to nerdy so uncool, and and programmer is hard work (death march is popular word). But now programming become booming popular for kids (I don't know reason) so maybe feelings are changing.
You might implement redundancies and raise costs, but your competitors won't. And we'll be right back to where we were pre pandemic.
my favorite is when I open a thread from a tweet partway through and try to scroll before the page finishes fully loading. it dumps you way back at the top
The regulations are not for COVID. They are for future supply chain shocks. The executive branch has already begun to explore the problem (see citation below).

“The 100-day reports make clear: more secure and resilient supply chains are essential to our national security, our economic security, and our technological leadership. The work of strengthening America’s critical supply chains will require sustained focus and investment.”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/100-da...
Obviously Axios has an agenda here and if you disagree with their agenda, you probably will personally boycott Axios.

I know WikiLeaks evolved into a terrible beast but it did provide a nice neutral platform for leaks to reside. It would be nice for something similar, yet not as maligned, to pop up, perhaps now with blockchain to back it up.
Amazon for Coaches and Consultants
Please try to understand what I wrote in the previous long post. Once you do you'll be able to move on from your infatuation with mv².

To understand it you'll need to have ability to calculate derivatives and integrals.
How to Effectively boost your Service
The Windows 11 store is such a better experience, basically acting like a user-friendly package manager that doesn't arbitrarily restrict which apps can be on it based on runtime or whatever. Why can't I have Chrome in the Mac App Store? Why does Apple need to review every update, why do they need their arbitrary "sandboxing" restrictions when Chrome (which may not pass the MAS requirements) has stronger sandboxing than any Apple app, including Safari? Why restrict devs so much, when it results in a dead Mac App Store, when it could have instead led to a revival of the Mac app landscape? Why the 30% tax? (can you imagine a Linux package manager making devs pay to be on it, and, somehow if package mangaers supported paid apps, taking 30% of the sale price?) Why not allow users to redeem apps on the Mac App Store if purchased elsewhere, like you've been able to do for years on the Windows Store? The Mac App Store is a great example of Apple insisting on defending the indefensible, at the cost of user experience, developer loyalty, their brand, and their ecosystem? So shortsighted.
Maybe SpaceX can send "Of Course I Still Love You" with a bunch of container trailers to be loaded directly. It could then sail back to port with a fleet of semis waiting to pull away. Totally human free, so no covid delays.
What’s that agenda in this case?
I've never really had success doing concept work of any kind with pen and paper. Especially writing, but even diagramming. If I need to step back and work with ideas abstractly, the paper medium is still going to get in the way at least as much as the digital text does. What I really have to do is keep it all conceptual in my mind; that's the only medium that's truly unopinionated and flexible.

Paper/whiteboarding is more for communication to others, in my experience
ToS. They can do whatever they want.
I really want/wanted to get rid of my lawn when I first bought my house, until I realized how easy to maintain it is, especially if you don't care if it's looks nice. Bushes need to be trimmed, garden beds need to be weeded, annuals need to be re-planted, etc. But mow your lawn once a week (20-30 minutes) and that's all you need to do.
I'm willing to bet that the biggest threat to reddit is facebook groups. If you check facebook groups, it's slowly becoming reddit. The only things they're doing wrong is:

- Discoverability. It's hard to find groups on Facebook, whereas reddit puts a lot of effort into this. It's also somewhat of a culture on reddit to mention other subreddits.

- UI. Facebook is copying the news feed UI for its groups instead of going with more customizable (or perhaps closer to reddit) UIs.

- Discussions. Comments in a FB group still suck massively compared to reddit comments.

- Curation. You still can't upvote, or see what posts are trending, etc. on FB Groups. They need to give more options to group moderators for creating different kind of spaces.

I'm convinced that if FB would allow group admins to make their group look like reddit, reddit would die overnight.
I guess Walmart will need to find a new cloud host!
We did ban smoking in public spaces because of the same reasoning as with Covid - it's ok to do dumb things that affect yourself, but not if it affects others.
Whether or not it should be seen as neutral, it usually isn’t: https://www.insidehook.com/article/advice/the-difference-bet...
It's the digital infrastructure you now have in place that is terrifying. If you don't understand how, once these tools are built, they will be abused, I don't know what to tell you, my friend.

And yes requiring 14 day mandatory quarantine for interstate travel is insane. The virus is endemic. You all in Australia are struggling in futility against one of the strongest forces of nature, its virome. Most of the rest of the Western world is looking on in horror. Even writers at The Atlantic. Best of luck, though. Sincerely.
Upvotes/downvotes and reporting on reddit are forms of decentralized strong moderation.
No, but it totally should be, I managed to defend both Parler and ISIS on this thread.
Apple claims they're "secure by design" when clearly they're not.[1] I don't think they're explicitly cooperating with any Government, I just think they have enough disgruntled employees who cooperate with the Government and companies that sell penetration software to put in back doors and enable exploits.

There's much less discontent among the rank-and-file at Microsoft, so this sort of thing happens less with them.

[1] https://www.apple.com/business/docs/site/AAW_Platform_Securi...
Can you explain this? Last year a tropic storm came through north Georgia and our power was out for twice as long as it was out in Texas but for some reason Texas is now the poster child for unreliable power delivery while unless you live in north Georgia, you're probably not even aware there was an extended outage last October. Are those of us in Georgia beneath your notice?
The thing about this scheme is that it seems to amount to an extremely low tax on the accounts of the average user.

The big downside isn't really that people might lose their gift cards but that other horrible things could happen at scale 'cause who knows who the Gift Card Gang are really.

And the thing is here that the state, the broader authorities, are the only ones who have some incentive to act now about this. If it affected me, I'd shrug, I have no incentive. And the story everywhere with this is the state has become as short-term-ist as everyone else. And, what problems could possibly arise from that?? (posts and then checks outside for fire, poison gas and deadly disease).
I use Libby quite a bit with my local library and it is frustrating. But I’m also amazed that publishers allow it at all.

It’s the closest thing we have to a library and unless we special legislation, I think we’re stuck.
Twitter is unbearable for me on mobile web. Takes multiple reloads many times.
We also have to stop shaming information, and the people who want to discuss it.

In many places, especially on the net, You have to say "the vaccine is completely safe all the time", not "the vaccine is overwhelmingly safe and effective, some may be at risk of life threatening blood clots, and vaccination does not entirely prevent infection, nor does it guarantee significant protection from future mutations which are expected to continue".

You especially cannot talk about CDC data, you can't compare death/injury of other things, and you can't talk about the 1920's influenza outbreak that killed half a million people.

If you try to talk about those things, you're shamed as a crazy anti-vaxxer whom is going to kill everyone. Even if you've been vaccinated and follow CDC guidelines.

That's how new anti-vaxxers are being made. Otherwise reasonable people are being told they're crazy anti-vaxxers for simply talking about facts, asking important questions, pointing out inconvenient data. The actual experts whom can talk about such things are being drowned out by the flood of reactionaries.
Wildfire in the Western United States: Past, Present, and Future
This seems neat!
No. I stopped actively using Twitter a few years ago. HN provides a higher level of discourse and posting and replying on HN is not part of someones branding and promotion strategy. Even as I attempted to refine who I was following on Twitter, I still found most tweets to be reactionary, provocative and lacking in substance.
P100's are significantly harder to breath in, and I'd question whether the typical user has a good enough fit to actually get the full filtering performance.

I can't speak for ER healthcare workers, but I know from experience that hospital surgical nurses wear N95 masks. I'm not sure why anyone in healthcare would need a P* mask, since they aren't generally exposed to oil.

If I really thought I needed a P100 mask, I'd get a rubber respirator with screw on filters -- they are easier to fit, and the dual respirators have more surface area for easier breathing.
Why don't we ban driving? We'd save a lot of lives lost to car crashes. And a lot of those lives are passengers and pedestrians, i.e., "others".
I remember reading about an experiment that used genetic algorithms to evolve FPGA layouts to create circuits that achieved some task while minimizing transistor count. I think it might have been NASA trying to develop smaller, more sensitive radios, but I'm not sure. IIRC, they found that they could evolve novel circuits that could perform the task with far fewer transistors than traditional methods. But, they couldn't figure out how to transcribe it to an IC outside of the FPGA, as the circuits would stop working. There were also disconnected sections of the FPGA that the GA had evolved that didn't appear to contribute to the output, but couldn't be removed without again breaking the functionality. Obviously, there were some kind of crosstalk issues going on that the GA could minimax to a solution, but it was extremely brittle to change.

EDIT: I was completely wrong about the source and application. Can't believe I was able to find it, because I was way off. This was it: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.50....

Other reading indicates that this technique has been successfully applied in electronics design in the time since 1996. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolvable_hardware

The NASA thing I was thinking of was this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna
Turnkey microcontroller projects can be really quick. Adafruit and Sparkfun sell many of their breakout boards with special cables for I2C now, so you might not even have to solder anything. From there, you can drag a Python script to the microcontroller (which appears on your PC as a flash drive).

Building enclosures for these projects used to be an annoyance, but everyone provides CAD models of their stuff now, so you just kind of lay it out in your CAD program, extrude a box around it, and print it out.

Never been a better time than now to be building sensors and that sort of thing. (Even with the STM32 shortage!)

As for the Raspberry Pi -- my rule is to treat embedded systems like hardware. Download a Linux image with the software you want on it, copy it to an SD card, plug that in, and go. I use this model for Octopi and while I might have changed the password and uploaded a profile for my printer file, that's it. If the RPI blows itself up, $35 and 5 minute fix. What version of systemd is running? Don't care. How close is the clock to Coordinated Universal Time? Don't care. It's an appliance and the time on the front is blinking :P

(I spent most of my free time this week unbreaking my Beaglebone that I ostensibly don't treat that way -- I log in and fuck with shit. Though when debugging failed I just blew everything away and copied over what I saved in the project's Git repo. It was enough to be back up and running with no loss of functionality. I guess the key is: don't let it run away from you -- it can be an endless time and energy sink.)
Have you even read one article about how 737 got its air worthiness certification?
It's funny, this take is way spicier than "I don't use an IDE", but the comments here are so supportive and nice.
It's because people who aren't used to deploying to a maliciously hostile environment don't deal with it and deploy anyway
Are you thinking of "The Craft of Text Editing: Emacs for the Modern World" by Craig A. Finseth?
Taking up the banner from the ACLU, who now suck.
I've thought about this a lot. I really should start working on it.

> 1. pseudo-anonymity, gives people freedom to speak their minds

Making an influential account should be exceptionally difficult. All submissions and comments should be, by default, anonymous, with users only taking an identity when relevant (ie: if you're a scientist on something like r/askscience, or a developer on r/programming). Nobody should have to make a throwaway account to be anonymous, it should just be a flag on the server. Throwaway account comments should not be possible, you should need to build reputation to make a comment that is seen by most.

> 2. moderation ensures people know that they are in a controlled space

Moderation, if granted special powers, will always be taken over by "powerusers" with an agenda. Moderation should be done exclusively through comment and post scoring, not through individual named users. If downvoting and upvoting worked correctly, moderation would be entirely unnecessary. That's the whole point of curation, isn't it?

My main idea is to take a known set of good voters (ie: myself, some friends, early contributors, etc.) who exclusively follow the etiquette and can pick a substantial post from a bad one, and then based on user similarity to the known good set, you can grant a multiplier or a decimation to those that seem to vote similarly or dissimilarity. Essentially, you'll have fractional voting/scoring.

> 3. Ensures that spaces have a branding, shared identity between them but are not being controlled from without, but only within

I don't like the idea of anyone being able to create a namespace. It fractures things too significantly and you get echochambers for each party or each viewpoint. The usenet hierarchy was better, and it should be combined with subscriptions to #tags to get more granularity for individual user interests.
Right, this is a generator that's used in contexts where a timing side-channel is not a concern, but it's still a great distinction to point out.

More broadly, the Swift language--like almost every other language--doesn't have any notion of constant-time operation, so it's not clear what you would do with an RNG free of timing side channels if you had one; use it in a computation that can't make any guarantees about side channels?*

You're correct that the number of expected calls collapses to 2 (matching the worst case for Lemire) even in that case, but (for our purposes) it's a "better" 2 (at least with most random sources) since (a) it still never divides (b) it is branch-free, so it never mispredicts and (c) it's always 2 instead of 1 with probability 1/2, 2 with probability 1/4, 3 with probability 1/8 and so on.

* I am generally very (probably too) negative on “best effort” constant time operations in high-level languages, but having seen innumerable schemes undone by compiler optimizations, I’m jaded. If you need to eliminate side channels, use hardware designed to do so.

[All that said, I added a note to the PR to make this clear.]
> But I see no evidence or cause to believe any of the alternate anti-file approaches have anything better to offer, present better.

I think it’s fairly clear that the iOS photos app is easier to navigate than a folder with tens of thousands of files. Even the notes app presents the notes in a more useful way than a folder would. Other obvious examples are things like notion or roam research, or any number of systems where the file metaphor just isn’t natural.

Many people today use a web browser to view pages of text and multimedia connected via hyperlinks. This technology hides the underlying implementation which may be files, or may be databases or other kinds of store. It is more successful than the earlier file based protocols such as FTP and Gopher.

> I'd point out that we have no replacement for the filesystem.

It’s not clear what this is supposed to mean.

We have many other kinds of data store, e.g. relational databases, graph database, time series databases etc.
No and yes. Mostly no.

Because load was a primary concern, we mostly used a test-driven cycle where we'd spin up the server and then attempt to DOS it for every change. Not something you want happening much on your dev machine.

However, for the simpler tests, if the test system hit a failure, it would then drop into a REPL (not on the production server). So it was sort of like a nicer debugger.

The test system was developed in-house, but if I remember, it was something like a 100 lines of code. That's one of the things that Scheme guides you towards - if you don't have a wheel, it's generally five minutes to make one.

I wouldn't generally bother fighting with emacs or configuration for anything. If you're fighting your tools, you're not being productive. Fine to do if you're not being paid, not so fine in a workplace. Keep things simple, and you'll do better than if you try and be clever. Rainbow braces and documentation lookup will get you 99% of the way to where you want to be.

That being said, one of our devs wrote their code with Wisp (SRFI-119), and had a git pre-commit hook that automatically rewrote it back to normal Scheme, and another hook in their editor to turn it into Wisp code when they opened a file. Nobody noticed for over a month.

Scheme makes it easy to write the way that you want to, using the tools that you like.
Ask HN: Which car(s) offer best access to its sensor data?
OBD dongles allow access to some data (rpm, pedal status, gas tank level, etc.) Other manufacturers go further (e.g. Ford's AppLink).

Which car/model would you recommend if API richness is an important element of the buying decision? Thx.
Sure, there are easy workarounds, but the issues are unexpected and secret (and now only in release). In any other scripting language I've worked on you can do some test on a reference to see if its null or doesn't exist. In Godot you have to listen for the object reference leaving the scene.

I can guarantee this is not an issue in Unity where a object that has been removed from the scene is null.
Texas’ power market is dysfunctional. It has no capacity market, so generators aren’t paid to have a certain amount of generation capacity available. It’s every generator for themselves. This is great during normal times, and drives down the cost of power. “Cheap energy is good!”, says Texas. During times of crisis, you end up with bankruptcies, enormous bills, and people going without power (and in extreme weather conditions, ending up dead, as happens in February in Texas) when they otherwise wouldn’t have to in a functioning electrical system where electrical generation capacity was firm and compensated.

ERCOT also didn’t know it was shedding natural gas compressor station circuits when performing rotating blackouts, causing a cascading failure when natural gas generators were starved of fuel. That’s just plain ol’ incompetence.