skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Godot isn't quite as robust or mature as Unity yet, but it is open source and it has had the benefit of learning from Unity's mistakes when designing its own workflows.

I think most Unity developers find the switch incredibly easy because most of the principles and many of the idioms are the same (and Godot is also more intuitive and has better documentation imo).

Godot 4 looks like it should remove most of the last few pain points too.

I'd say Godot is the superior prototyping/game jam tool, the superior 2d game engine, superior for building UI, and you don't have to deal with any licensing bullshit. It's also like 300 mb as a base install compared to Unity's 7 gb clusterfuck of spandrels.

I'd say the only situation where I'd recommend Unity over Godot is if you already have a ton of Unity experience and want to build something quickly without learning new stuff, or if there is something critical in the asset store you can't find in Godot's (definitely less content and tutorials because of the smaller userbase)
(I think this is something different, but possibly of interest to people whose imagination is captured by electronic interfaces with the nervous system)

"A research team led by a 2018 BBRF Young Investigator, Sung Il Park, Ph.D., reports that it has developed and tested a new technology enabling unprecedented exploration of nerve-cell function inside organs of the body outside of the brain.

The new technology, called optoelectronics, uses tiny wireless implantable devices to manipulate the activity of individual nerve cells in the organs of awake, freely moving animals. This makes possible experiments with the power to reveal the specific (and often multiple) functions of different kinds of nerve cells in the body's periphery."

https://www.bbrfoundation.org/content/new-technology-enables...
tl;dr: Hospitals are starting to tell nurses "take the COVID vaccine or you don't work here anymore", and so many are choosing the latter that there's a shortage of nurses now.
Or makes you feel frustrated when submitting when you conscientously obey the original title rule, which results in a bad title.
Oh yeah of course in a heartbeat. I think the main objection I have to apple / google hoarding my data isn't actually apple / google having them, it's that the government can make them fork it over and so them having it means the government does by proxy.
That is specifically about enforcement of home quarantine as an alternative to hotel quarantine for interstate travel. It's not generally applicable in any way.
A lot of Christians think they are a parody of their beliefs. They are a very odd form of fundamentalism with some serious shade thrown at certain Christian churches.

I did enjoy Cthulhu Tract as a parody of whatever Chick Tracts are.
No, it doesn't matter who issued the USDC token, in fact it doesn't matter what assets are used to earn yield on. It can be any money surrogate/medium of exchange/barter instead of the actual money, e.g. orange groves.

Any company offering a yield product is ticking all the boxes in the Howey Test[1], and therefore offering a a security.

Only the banks have an exception for CDs.

[1] Howey Test

1. An investment of money
2. In a common enterprise
3. With the expectation of profit
4. To be derived from the efforts of others

https://twitter.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1435452184607576066

https://twitter.com/nivertech/status/1435445880396685314
> The entire enterprise of saying "Kenyans win running, so Kenyans are more genetically talented at running" is unsupported.

Or as my father once framed the argument: "It's because they've only recently come out of the jungle right" and when I yelled at him explained his reasoning with, "That's not racist, stands to reason they'd be better at physical things, we've evolved over millions of years to not need that sort of thing any more." at which point my mum told me not to call my dad a racist and to leave the dinner table, which I most certainly did.

It's amazing looking back how racist the 80s were when I was growing up. The framing has gone from outright racism that was "common knowledge" everyone accepted, and been dog-whistled into this seemingly academic debate about the effects of genetic differences between population groups, which is so far removed from the original that it's hard to tell who really is "just asking questions" and who wants to talk about "coming down from the jungle" without being labelled a racist.

On a more technical level, was your equation meant to be

y_i = D_i theta_i + (1 - D_i) 0

i.e. "theta" was supposed to be "theta_i"
Provided some garbage from either Microsoft or your hardware vendor isn’t sucking up all the I/O or CPU which has consistently been my experience the last few times I’ve suffered Windows.
That is an important point I believe. code is more concrete than plain thoughts, and concrete things give us better feedback than abstract ideas
> There was a new party in that election led by a man named Maxime Bernier called the People's Party. They're a far-right populist party and generally awful.

Describing the PPC as "far-right" is a good way to out yourself as far-left.
Yes, the whole idea of sending “agents” to do processing is poor performing and things like snowflake and Trino, where queries go to already deployed code, run rings around it.

Furthermore, pyspark is by far the most popular and used spark, and it’s also got the absolute world-worst atrocious mechanical sympathy. Why?

Developer velocity trumps compute velocity any day?

(I want the niceness of python and the performance of eg firebolt. Why must I pick?)

(There is a general thing to get spark “off heap” and use generic query compute on the spark sql space, but it is miles behind those who start off there)
I'm looking forward to the return of baroque UX. It's been a few hundred years, but what the hay.
because they love it
Recent data is pretty clear that the vaccines, while certainly very effective at reducing severity, don't affect transmissibility. Which is logical since transmission occurs before antibody response can be brought to bear.

Masks are barely helpful, preventing 1 or 2 transmissions out of a hundred. Makes a difference in large numbers, so if everyone wore one everywhere, some thousands of transmissions would fail to occur, and thus some lives would be spared.

Mask wearing is mostly ineffective on an individual level, but at least you can see the benefit to society at large. It's small, and should be weighed against downsides with schoolchildren for instance, but as a minor inconvenience for adults I'm all for it.
There's a lot of blame to go around here. What you rarely hear these days as being a problem though is the lack of a father.
Dupe.

Discussed 6 days ago w/ 538 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28394035
Black and Hispanic voters are more socially conservative on average, but they vote for the people that don’t actively work against their interests, as anyone who isn’t a push over should.

I’ll gladly vote for a Republican if I feel like the other side is working against my interests, ideology isn’t a determining factor.
This was one day ago:

> An exhausted Iowa ER doctor pleaded with people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in a Facebook Live video: 'We are drowning in people who are dying with this illness' https://www.businessinsider.com/iowa-er-doctor-pleads-get-va...

And:

> Austin region has zero available staffed adult ICU beds, state data shows https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/austin/news/2021/09/06/aust...

I don’t think the problem has gone away. Maybe you’ve just stopped listening?
The foundations of the internet were laid during the post war boom era. It was considered by some a golden age. The modern internet is a product of successive booms in the 90’s and 2000’s.
Thanks for the description. I would like to see a demonstration video of you doing all of the things you just mentioned. I would also like to try out the tool without having to create an account. I don't care if I lose all of my work. I just need to quickly see how the UI works and the experience feels. There are a lot of competitors in this area. Create as little friction as possible so a potential user can try out your tool.
It’s a misconception that Oz has no guns.

In 1997 they banned “defensive” firearms. The guns you want because they work well. Semiautos, center fire handguns, pump shotguns. Bolt actions are still possible to get, but not great at self-defense, or overthrowing your government.

Side note… in 1997 these guns were banned, and crime fell. As it turns out though, not only was crime already going down, but there was an increase of 2x police per capita, and curiously crime in the USA fell at a greater rate with no gun ban or large increase in police, crime was high in the 90s for some reason, some people say lead paint bans but the causation is weak.
Sometimes I feel like microsoft bribes people in free desktop project.
The US isn't Australia and it definitely isn't China. What coercive measures have eroded our civil liberties?
oh wow, that'd be great!
> working
does that mean you've stopped? If so, what happened?
I wish more people read Brave New World. It's a more fitting comparison [0], even if it's a little more "distant" feeling than 1984. The tyranny in it is born from convenience and complacence, not violent compulsion. Comparing it to our current environment requires no awkward contortions around violence and control.

And it's available for free online! https://www.huxley.net/bnw/

[0]: https://biblioklept.org/2013/06/08/huxley-vs-orwell-the-webc...
Sounds very poorly executed.

But the author just hates cryptocurrency.

I heard they were working on a Colon Dollar built on Algorand.
Before the industrial revolution people would only work for like 6 hours a day or so. Romans would start at dawn and end around noon before the heat of the day. A lot of workers would be seasonal, and there also weren't many jobs that even took place at night or could reasonably be done under candlelight to begin with. Artificial light and a factory that can run 24 hours 365 days a year changed that. It wasn't until after the industrial revolution that we got labor laws that enshrined the 40 hour work week in many places, because it was at this point in human history that capital finally had the technology to make labor work for 24 hours of the day and instantly exploited this.
> A narrative that (white) men are uniformly privileged and life is just easy for them. And a narrative that those men aren’t wanted by society any more.

As a brown person I think the former is definitely still true. The latter is definitely not true, at least looking at the average white man's number of tinder matches compared to mine.
As someone from Latin America, it's funny to read about Americans' struggle for a countrywide ID and the sense of government control/ freedom.

Here in Mexico the government has our biometrics, there's a national election ID, SSN and a unique "clave de población " .
In older Windows, the control panel was extendable by 3rd party applications and drivers. So it sticks around mostly for that and mostly because re-writing a UI for changing really esoteric IT-admin level settings is a waste of time.
Microsoft stopped using real hardware for Windows Update testing and instead now rely on virtual machines. Ever since then Windows Update has been the most incompetent, half-assed major software project in the world, bar none. Java has a better track record.
It's not exclusive to right or left but we need to look at which side has the anti-science momentum going on. Which side has leaders who advocate injecting bleach to kill Covid?
Setting aside the question of whether one telescope-sized duck is more formidable than ten duck-sized telescopes, is it really plausible that the funding and management processes that produced the JWST might learn from past mistakes and evolve toward more efficient use of time and money? If we're going to make that shift at all, I personally think sending ~$10B up in smoke will hurt rather than help. We're arguably already on a good trajectory (heh) with increased competition in the launch services market threatening to break up the pork party, and that kind of loss would be a big PR blow for NASA.
You have to remember that tax regimes are different in different places. In the UK I’ve been on about $120 an hour, equivalent after tax to a salary of about $200k, and your health care is already paid.

Comparatively it seems like contractors in the USA get punished by the tax system.
While COVID is closely related to other coronaviruses, it doesn’t act the same way. So, studying them doesn’t help us that much with COVID. And we’ve been studying some of them for over a hundred years.

There is new and novel activity going on here, and we don’t really understand how it works.
Your report rate may be too high.
Delusional blaming CCP for AU surveillance state that is fundementally driven by FVEY interests. Turnbull literally admitted the reason why Huawei was banned from AU networks was because Huawei hardware made it harder to surveil on AU/FVEY citizens. He was worried about denial of access to network that would undermine FVEY capability to spy on each other's citizens vs CCP interception. FVEY's been undermining Kiwi/member populations long before CCP entered the picture.
Sounds like someone may not wish to sit for a deposition.
Coinbase is being willfully naive here if they are pretending like they've never heard of the Howey test.

Coinbase's Lend product pools USDC from customers, and lends them out to ??? who does ??? and pays Coinbase interest for it. Presumably the ???'s are "crypto traders" and "trades crypto, possibly with leverage", respectively. Those specific details dont matter, though.

According to the SEC: "To determine whether a transaction involves an offering of 'securities,' courts employ a four-part test outlined by the Supreme Court’s 1946 decision in SEC v. W.J. Howey Co. Under that test, a transaction qualifies as an offering of 'securities' if it involves:

(1) an investment of money,

(2) in a common enterprise,

(3) with a reasonable expectation of profit,

(4) to be derived from the efforts of others" [0]

I'm not a lawyer or a securities regulator, but it seems hard to see why Coinbase Lend doesn't qualify as a security under those rules.

[0] https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R45301.pdf (coincidentially this PDF is about ICOs, but isnt directly related to the current SEC action against Coinbase).
Here is that part of the repo:

https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/blob/trunk/ai/src/algorit...
Probably:

> You agree not to (and not to attempt to) (i) use the Service for any use or purpose other than as expressly permitted by these Terms;(ii) copy, adapt, modify, prepare derivative works based upon, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast, attempt to discover any source code, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise exploit the Service or any portion of the Service, except as expressly permitted in these Terms;

It's a catch-all but the best restriction that prevents third-party clients is probably 'prepare derivative works based on' and 'reverse engineer' (which you would need if you want your third party client to use any regular client API calls, or if you want to support signing in with the user-facing login page/qr login).
> Do you have to wear a mask when jogging outside? (or walking etc).

Jogging, no you don't have to wear a mask. Walking, depends where you live.

> Can you jog with your family or small group of friends?

Depends where you live. But you're always allowed at least one other person, you're not cut off from humanity.
Follow Elon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRNypdYQoWk&ab_channel=60Min...
So your points arethat “some people like authoritarian measures” and “the censorship isn’t bad because today you can get around it”.

Sounds like you have a vested interest in not realizing what these new laws mean for you.
And in democracies like the UK, people who don’t vote are disregarded as lazy and ignored too.

I agree, you should be able to withhold as a protest, in practice it’s 100% meaningless.
I get it: US is big and bad and really mean. But no one is arguing that "good feelings" are the basis for anything. And it doesn't change the fact that the petrodollar myth completely confuses cause and effect, at such a basic level that it is laughable. This remains true even if you copy/paste a long list with zero support of your underlying claim, namely that every single one of these military actions was done primarily to prop up the USD "empire" as you call it. More USD change hands every day than the total value of oil sold in a year. Its just not a factor.

The use of USD as a reserve currency certainly is a net positive for the US, but the theory that we start major wars over that is not supported by the evidence. Hell, the price of oil and the value of the dollar more often than not have an inverse relationship traditionally based on empirical evidence, which is the opposite of the petrodollar conspiracy theory.
This is one view... but I suspect most people living somewhere that is a proper city as opposed to a resort would say similar things.

Net migration rate provides a more objective view of whether a country has an 'average future'. If you look at the global net migration rates, Australia and particularly the capital cities have some of the highest rates in the world, despite being far away from anywhere.

The factors driving this may not align at all with what you personally want from a country or a city, which is fair enough. But your comment seems like quite a generalisation to make from a very specific position.
All sorts of products ship with 'patent pending' written on them. "Trade secret" doesn't mean that you lose it if someone finds out about it
You are correct I think this is not a good trade-off. However I stand by “my mind is blown” that continuing with these draconian measures and the lock down approach borders on madness.

For reference in my part of the world we are fully open going on the 5th week of full in person schooling. All athletic teams and events have resumed with full crowds. In a school district of 2600 students we have over 45 positive cases (temp quarantine). The week prior we had 35 cases.

Neither of these case numbers are concerning and we continue to promote vaccination and frequent testing to limit the spread.
The next election is critical, I think. Need a minority Labor Government with a strong crossbench - neither major party ruling in their own right will make any moves in the right direction for the country at this point...
"Displaced by modernity" is such a wonderfully Orwellian description for what the colonisers did to Aboriginal Australians.
I have no idea what the actual answer is, and instead it seems several posts about it got downvoted. Sincerely, what the fuck? Is this some secret code that can’t be discussed?
I may be confused, but https://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/rules/8000-6200.html literally defines notes, bonds, swaps, and evidence of indebtedness as securities. Just because Coinbase currently holds an asset of mine, doesn’t mean that if they offer me to use that to become a debt investor in a fund they’re running, that’s magically no longer a security, right? It seems very much within the SEC’s discretion.

Sure, the SEC’s enforcement and communications are spotty, and they deserve to be called out on that, but why would Coinbase ever assume they wouldn’t consider this a security?
> Are you seeing how this is a silly comparison?

I'll try this one last time.

Quarterbacks aren't anonymous guys who throw a ball around. They're celebrities with a direct connection to the brand of the team they play for, and fans are familiar with whatever they do during a game. If they get involved in some controversy, it affects that brand.

It's a certainty that a greater proportion of football customers (fans) watch games than game studio customers subscribe to CEO tweets or attend to something that will bring them to their attention. That's because watching football games is more integral to being a football customer than paying attention to twitter is to pretty much anything.

Also, IIRC Kaepernick was booed on many occasions during his protests.

If a CEO's controversial personal political tweets can affect revenue to the point he should be fired, a QB's in-game controversial political statements can too.
Melbourne has been in lock down for over 200 days. Sydney is not that far behind.

Massive amounts of people are unable to work, and a lot of us haven't seen our interstate family in almost 2 years.

A few months before Covid started, 180,000 km2 of Australia was burned to the ground, enshrouding our capital and major cities in smoke, making breathing outdoors almost impossible, causing a mass shortage of P2 masks. Many people died. Many more lost their houses.

What sort of additional hardships do you want to prescribe for Australians exactly?
Your first statement was:

> "It’s funny that scientists actually thought an ice nine type situation had a minuscule but non-zero chance of occurring when they set off the first nuclear bomb:"

Note the "when they set off the first nuclear bomb".

This is not correct.
>For example I read on LWN that hardware vendors are starting to look at Linux virtio for hardware agnostic protocols.

It is interesting that abstraction always comes a full Circle.
But isn’t that exactly what we are? Complex biological machines designed by the group through natural selection manufactured in volume in a distributed factory with the express and only purpose to serve our creator - since we were made in its image. (I’m atheist but that fit so well)
Consenting, competent adults should be allowed to opt-out of having the SEC as their ‘white knight’.

(Matt Levine also has a version of this idea, where he suggests people should, with sufficient effort, be allowes to sign a piece of paper to the effect of, “I’m an idiot & won’t sue if I lose all my money” and then put their money into whatever the hell they want –but I can’t find his canonical description of his proposal at the moment.)
By this definition, a player playing at a craps table with other players all sharing the betting on the same outcome is in the process of creating a security each time they roll the dice.

A husband who asks his wife to join him in paying the $25 to sign up for a joint bank account so that they get the free toaster is engaged in Security creation as well it seems.

A club that buys newspapers collectively to cut out the coupons each club member wants meets all four of the criteria as well.
Im New
I don't think they hear anything that'd make them want to emigrate. We just hear that most of the country is desert, even though when I actually went there everyone (in the cities) turned out to be tanned Scots obsessed with beaches and coffee.

If there's places Americans want to go, it's Canada, Europe or Asia, though I think their opinion of Europe is a little overrated if anything.
Unity's ECS source code -- including the archetype-based entity-component model described in the patent -- has been completely public for several years now, so I don't think that's it.
Yea, it's a bit of a meme on TikTok how "old people" took over the app during Covid :D
Could you add NL and USA to your comparison by any chance? Just curious.
Others have mentioned same behaviour with bluetooth headphones. Most of which has multiple batteries that can circumvent the problem by charging cells seperately.
Sounds like the prison psychiatrist was pretty good.

Sometimes it takes someone who has seen real problems to put things in perspective.
Spot fucking on.
This is false. We currently have ~1500 positive cases per day in NSW in Australia.

NSW is planning to lift restrictions in mid October once vaccine rates hit 70%.

ICU capacity is just about at 100%, with the peak to hit in the next few weeks.

I'm pretty happy to be in lockdown for a little bit longer in this situation.