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How many Unity projects are really bottlenecked by C# scripting performance in ways that couldn't be solved by sticking to well-known best practices, or using the Job System, or in some cases maybe compute shaders?

IMHO, the last thing that Unity needs right now is a new scripting language option and more fragmentation.

What they really need is fewer options. Right now there's 3 render pipelines, 3 UI systems, 3 physics engines, 2 input systems, and so on - competing for resources/attention. They've tried to replace so many systems but never quite made it to the point where they can actually remove the 'legacy' versions of the system, for various reasons.
Love vim, love the Mac. But $49 seems pretty high for something like this.
My first thoughts are (without access to the actual article)

* We have lost the microbiome that primates present

* have we gained other microbes?

* what did those microbes we lost do? If they break down heavy fibre (branches) we may simply not need them, so evolution would stop selecting for them

* This says cities, but it (a) only appears to look at the US, and (b) the article doesn't mention comparing to non-city dwellers in the US. Saying "cities" without also providing a non-city reference seems bogus, but also could simply be left out of the article.

* Following from the "US only" comment above - how stable is this microbiome between geographical regions in the US?, how about different countries in close geographic location (think Europe)?, or geographically separated countries with similar culture? different culture?

All of these things might be answered in the paper, but per-usual Science has given us a fairly useless summary article with a clickbait headline :-(

[Edited to bring back formatting. For a text only, anti-emoji, etc site HN is obnoxiously opposed to basic white space formatting :-/]
Because a bunch of us don't live in the city or urban environments and we're curious.
Unfortunately, the most effective treatment I know of to change gut biome is bacteriotherapy via a method many people find off-putting and violating.

I think, for the time being, people are much more likely to accept a probiotic.
There are loads of Hollywood movies from all eras that meet all these criteria. It's not a new phenomenon. Check out the oh-so-subtle characterization in The Sands of Iwo Jima, for example. Or if you want an idealized do-gooder character, how about Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night? (A great movie, but Tibbs's character is only a little more filled out than 'black and a good guy'.)

It's honestly astonishing to me that people would think that American movies with political messaging are somehow a new phenomenon. I'd have to assume that these folks have just not watched many old movies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sands_of_Iwo_Jima

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Heat_of_the_Night_(film...
Well, it's either a pill, or moving out of the city, or a fecal transplant (assuming that the urban / rural divide is relevant, and not just a proxy for diet).

I don't live in the city, but if I were told that I would be healthier with more of these microbes that my environment doesn't support, I'd opt for the pill.
Did you also build one of the top two game builiding engines of the world or just ranting?
Reason being outdated indexing UX?
I think there's a valid conversation to have here regarding tuning solutions to fit a desired effectiveness target. An ideal solution that's circumvented 99% of the time can be worse than a mediocre solution that's circumvented 50% of the time when looking at the big picture.
Regarding your feedback, thank you. Much appreciated.
A Man WHO Road-Tripped 4k Miles Across the Country on a Lawn Mower
It’s really not. Resiliency and capacity headroom are orthogonal to where they’re located.

Better analogy would be the cloud. You could imagine a number of different points on the cloud vs. self host spectrum:

- Fully dependent on high level APIs of a third party.

- Dependent on commodity VMs and dedicated servers from third parties.

- Purchase equipment from third parties to host on leased premises with leased connectivity.

- Purchase equipment from third parties to host on own land with leased connectivity.

- Fabricate your own equipment to host on your own land and lay your own fiber to customers.

- Dig your own mines to obtain the raw material for such equipment. Fabricate your own machines to make it.
Option 2 has all the problems from Option 1 multiplied.

Bouncer can ask for more information and you can't even lie about it. Asking for phone number and address is somewhat reasonable in our current dystopic present on the basis of KYC and "what if there's an emergency". And you can be sure that the data will be stored in local DB with poor oversight and security and it will be used for marketing and eventually leaked.
The median title on Steam earns only $3,000 in sales over the first year

That number is probably way overstating the median revenue. It is based on a non-random sample (hey devs, send us your data for a survey) of 75 games. Looking at a larger dataset, a majority of developers make <$1,000 (average revenue: $294).

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/blogs/what-can-we-learn-from-t...
Excerpt:

Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have designed a heat engine with no moving parts. It converts heat to electricity with over 40% efficiency—making it more efficient than steam turbines, the industrial standard.

The invention is a thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cell, similar to a solar panel’s photovoltaic cells, that passively captures high-energy photons from a white-hot heat source. It can generate electricity from sources that reach 1,900 to 2,400 °C—too hot for turbines, with their moving parts.
Google’s AI Spotlights a Human Cognitive Glitch: Mistaking Fluent Speech For
> Women now have a right to defend their life with a gun but cannot defend their life with healthcare.

You are just illustrating my exact point. Right to keep and bear arms is explicitly secured in the Constitution that it “shall not be infringed”, whereas nothing of this sort is clearly and explicitly said about abortion rights. Here, again, conservatives focus on what the law actually says, and liberals focus on their preferred policy, and if their preferred policy is not to be clearly and explicitly found in the law, it is instead found in the “emanations of the penumbra”.
This is awesome.

I am disappointed at the "MIT are boasting, nothing really to show" comments here.

This is not Earth shattering. But it is an achievement worthy of our respect.

This vehicle is self contained, has no external power supply, unlike all the other examples quoted.

I am very impressed
> An FTX spokesperson said the company “would not be commenting on the matter.” A BlockFi spokesperson said the company “does not comment on market rumors.”

Ok so how is this substantiated?

Flagged, and this news source is now marked as "Fake News" in my feed. This looks more like a hit piece on BlockFi to trigger a collapse.
“America” is as helpful as “Europe”. The “average” experience is completely irrelevant to your local situation. For many Americans, adding a gun to the home will net increase the danger to its own family members on a statistical basis.

A gun is a pretty terrible means to prevent burglary too. Unless you’re gonna make it really publically clear that you’re a gun nut, it does nothing to act as a deterrent to potential burglars. A simple security system or a dog is often plenty. Conditioned on you being burgled anyway, the probability that you can safely get your gun and load it and defend yourself is pretty abysmal for most means of safe storage. Most burglaries are also just someone getting in, grabbing a handful of crap and leaving. A safe is typically a pretty good defense against this tbh.

Speaking as a gun owner and someone who has been burgled.
I've also seen a large uptick in the number of them (~1/week vs 0 before), and they're not political, they're mostly scammers pretending to know me. I haven't played along enough yet to learn what they're after, but they're from all kinds of US area codes in places I've never lived.
So we sell them the water from the Colorado river, and use the money to build power plants there, with which we will power our expanded desalination for the benefit of agribusiness foreign and domestic?

I mean, it would probably work, right?
And have only one renderer to choose from instead of 3 with all different features.

So you want a fourth renderer? :)
They have a variety of good reasons at https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/ , not just Copilot.

Another critical reason is that GitHub is proprietary and has a pile of services with lock-in that (unlike git) aren't easy to move elsewhere. Some people depend on GitHub for their livelihood (through GitHub Sponsors). Some people's software integrates tightly with GitHub bots, or Actions, or issues, or project management. Everything other than the code itself is incredibly difficult to port over to another service.
I think it's like any social network. It grows in value with how many people use it. Yes, you can host your own public git repo or even your own gitlab, but then there's a barrier of entry to contribute to your code, and it's a lot harder for others to discover it.

disclosure: I work for github
Did I stutter when I said "provide a link"? You're some rando on an internet website.
Devils advocate, if not the Supreme Court, then whom?

Congress makes a law. The Executive branch executes the law. The Supreme Court interprets whether that law was broken during its execution.

If you take out that third leg, is the assumption that Congress must revoke the law to provide a check/balance? What if the intent was good, but the execution was bad?
Neovim occasionally has really basic functionality regressions compared to vim: I switched back to preferring vim after realizing that neovim silently deletes all ACLs on a file (https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/1200).

However, I use Emacs and VS Code for more involved editing, and mostly use vim as a light remote editor via SSH, so my priorities may be very different.
US corporations are significantly controlled by US laws. These laws can do things like stopping them serving enemy countries. (The recent Russia sanctions are an example)

That is power.
Sure, but there's still a big scope difference; "who searched for this one address right before it burned down" versus "who searched about abortion; we don't know anything much more specific than that".

> Google delivered information on 61 queries, according to court filings, along with the IP address — a unique number for each computer on the internet. Investigators focused on a handful of those queries, asking Google to provide detailed user information for them. One of them was linked to the 17-year-old.

That's pretty narrow.
Apple will never buy Unity. They do not care about video games.
I'm not too familiar with what the Supreme Court did with TCPA, but as a developer, we were hit by patent-troll equivalents who leveraged the law to shake down companies.

In our case, someone's sister invited him to join their account. The text message was initiated by the sister but our system sent the SMS via our backend. We were sued because we allegedly sent an unsolicited text message and were considered an autodialer under TCPA guidelines.

We were able to win the suit, but it cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The law needed a tune up, and if the court decision stopped this type of troll suit some good came of it.

I am not defending robocallers. I hope they die. I just highlight that sometimes these laws do need to be tightened up to stop abuse the other way.
I suggest:

C-x C-e in the CLI (not sure if it’s zsh only) will open your command line in your $EDITOR - useful to get code highlighting and write multi line commands if that’s the blocker. The problem is iterating.

OR

Pipe your awk input to a file and then use this thing I wrote to build up your awk program. I use it most often with `jq`.

https://github.com/bigH/interactively
And that's totally fine. We all have our own heuristics for determining what we like in a candidate, but we need to be very, very critical of those measures and make sure they aren't masking other less justifiable gut instinct decisions. Bias is generally subconscious— If it really was as cut-and-dried as we like to think, then it wouldn't be a gut feeling metric at all— we'd be able to back up our reasoning with hard facts. As rational as they might seem, 'gut feeling' criteria almost universally favor people we're comfortable with rather than the most qualified candidate. That's a real problem for folks who aren't part of the dominant culture of the industry: Millenial to Gen-X straight white and asian guys.

If a qualified candidate only having certificate credentials merely prompts further investigation, then great. However, it's quite often the tipping point between round-filing a good candidate and calling another one in for an interview. While it might seem innocuous on a micro level, on a macro level this affects big swaths of the population.

In the 2005 Study Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal (https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w9873/w9873...), they responded to 1300 job ads with 5000 equally-weighted resumes with randomly assigned names which were either stereotypically white, like Emily Walsh or Greg Baker, or stereotypically black, like Lakisha Washington or Jamal Jones. Resumes with white sounding names were 50% more likely to receive a callback. Fifty percent! The likelihood of 1300 randomly chosen job ads being run by the KKK is pretty low. Most, if not all of them were probably letting "gut instinct" criteria swing their judgement.

If you had a video game where the sole task was getting a job, one race having a built-in buff where the callback was 50% greater without being balanced somewhere else would be insanely unfair. Not only is it not balanced, but we're literally only talking about these folks names— never mind their appearance, manner of speaking, cultural references, etc.

We all like to think of ourselves as good people but that's not enough to stop this. We need to deliberately interrogate our MO, here.
In many places, the project manager is still the project manager and micromanages the developers including who get to make architectural decisions, even though they are now called "Product Owner".
Do you have a list of other carriers who will not comply? I'll call my senator about these 3. I suggest others do the same.

As mentioned, there is concern about if the FCC can enforce these rules. But Robospam is bi-partisan. This is one issue I think even our dysfunctional government can agree on.
This action is pursuant to the TRACED Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/151

> This bill establishes rules and requirements to deter criminal robocall violations.

> Specifically, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) must [do stuff related to caller ID]. The bill also implements a forfeiture penalty for violations (with or without intent) of the prohibitions on certain robocalls.
Does anyone know of probiotics with a variety of bacteria? Currently they (and yoghurts) seem to be just a single type, which doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If there are unusual bacteria out there where do they come from and how can we get them?

I've done a bunch of anti-biotics in the last few years so what to get back to what I was.
Mathematica is like $3k for a commercial license with the kitchen sink. Matlab can cost that much for like the database toolbox addon or the ML toolbox add-on. Mathematica is cheap in comparison.
He's nothing if not a humorist.

He did a work for "The Outlaws" show. If you're OK with spoilers:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59236187
> People don't like Lua (or just simply prefer VimScript)

:shock:
Link to the Top Tier product https://www.toptierk9.com/virtual-reality-dog-training-cente... because saritasa.com doesn't seem to mention it (other than the long press release here on HN).
What did the lost microbes do? If they helped digest things that aren't part of our diet then the there would be no selective pressure maintaining them, so they could be easily dropped, independent of the issues of vast over-application of antibiotics, etc.

Over application of antibiotics and anti-bacterial stuff is clearly causing problems, but that's not the only thing that is happening that impacts something as complex as the gut. Just as with genes, the microbiome is under constant selective pressure from evolution, and we will - over time - gain new microbes as we lose ones that aren't beneficial.
Why would you prefer to rob someone who has a gun? A gun in a locked safe is hardly a good target compared to the typical valuables. It’s also likely to be deep within the house in a harder to find spot. And, they have a gun.
Well, in my country my taxes are deducted from my salary before I receive it, so the psychology of that is a bit different. But I think we agree, what I'm saying is fiat money is valuable because of the stability of the institutions that order our society/ies, and because there is an unspoken agreement that most of us want things to stay roughly as they are and believe that they will. If too many cracks appear there, people start acting very different.

As for Bitcoin, the original Bitcoin paper talks about replacing trust with code, and I just don't buy it. Sure, you can trust that Bitcoin aren't spent more than once and all that, the maths take care of that. But it fails to consider all the institutions that integrate the Bitcoin world with the rest of social/economical reality, and all that arises there like price volatility, transactions taking forever, exchanges getting hacked, and that Bitcoin-as-a-casino, excuse me, object of speculation, has a far bigger impact on its day-to-day than for e.g. the Euro. The paper doesn't consider that reality at all, but those things mean that 1000EUR worth of Bitcoin is a lot less useful than a stack of fifties.
The Lost Art of the Radio Stunt (2021)
I agree.
We used ClickUp at my old work, and I felt like I was the only person who found it extremely unintuitive and confusing. It was about the 5th project management app they switched to, and the worst for me by far. Unfortunately they stuck with it until I left.
I definitely never contributed to open source before github was around.
The matlab licencing will be their downfall. Its the only licence we have in work that is per seat vs being token (floating) based, due to the cost of a floating license. So instead of having a tool any of our engineers can use, we have it assigned to a few engineers, and the others make do with octave or python. The sensible long term is to standardise on one language, and if it were not for certain toolboxes, that would be python or Julia, most likely. If the matlab licenses we had were floating, mathworks would get the same money, but would be more likely to keep our business, instead of pushing us to look into how best we can replace them.
telecom industry here, honestly, nothing. SS7/PSTN are horribly broken.

only thing that will fix it is burning it to the ground.

fcc regulations and penalties mean nothing to shady offshore grey market scam call centers in india using suspicious/unethical voip providers and methods of getting phone traffic to the US/Canada.

shaken/stir is a joke

set up a voip based system with IVR on your incoming DIDs that asks the caller to input a short series of digits to be connected, then have that series of digits ring your real line.

it will filter out about 98% of the crap
In fact, it would be even worse than you say, because it would not be applied in a principled and consistent way. In actual practice, it would be default-allow if convenient, and default-forbid if not.
It was only in the last year or so that neovim really hit its stride. Features like treesitter provide the basis for some really interesting functionally.
Until they have their inter-satellite links working, you and the downlink station have to both be visible to the same satellite.
> And yes, I know facebook hands data over to the us, but that is done with oversight and warrants

Is it? Don't they have their own secret courts where those warrants can't be challenged? Didn't the NSA head lie to congress about what they were doing (with no consequences)? I'd bet the PRC has some kind of "oversight" when getting data from TikTok too, just not the kind where regular people can see or object - but that's no different from what the US is doing.
Well yeah, that is the broader issue for sure. As you say, the change needs to come from regulation or consumer pressure. The power that the data brokers can provide to businesses is too great to ever reasonably expect them to resist. If you are an online business and refuse to utilize their services, you unfortunately are at a very significant disadvantage against your competitors.
I think you're overly discounting the chance of the US devolving into overt authoritarian fascism. We paint a thin veneer of democracy over political actions today, but our rights and protections in the US are disappearing rapidly already.
>have no substantive domestic production, in a nation as large as the USA

The US very much still has a domestic manufacturing sector, it just happens to be the case that fewer people work in it.[1] In fact the US manufacturing output is the second largest in the world, on par with China.[2]

Insofar as the US does struggle, I don't see the connection to free trade. The US has one of the largest domestic economies, and free trade only comprises about 23% of the American GDP. That makes the US the third least free trade reliant country in the world. Compare that to Germany or South Korea, two strong manufacturing countries in the developed world, where trade is about 4 times(!) as important.

[1]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IPMAN

[2]https://www.brookings.edu/research/global-manufacturing-scor...

[3]https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.TRD.GNFS.ZS?most_rec...
Show HN: Homechart, keep your household in sync and simplify your life
Heh you joke but look up laws related to door-to-door sales. Despite the fact there isn't a homeowner in the country that wants people to physically come on their property, interrupt their day and spam them to their face - it is impossible to get a law passed preventing it.
Interesting product; I am also working in this space on a similar concept though geared towards AA/II gamedevelopers.

I didn't get a good grasp, however, of how it compares to something like Photon: https://www.photonengine.com/
So the interest stems from a curiosity about your own gut-microbes? That seems fair enough, I may have been overthinking this...
You know they plot to undermine unionization and going as far as coming up with ways to reduce social trust, skirt tax laws, find ways to pay workers less than a living wage and have the government cover the shortfall, etc.?

It's not that they dearly want to do the right thing but this horrible islamic theocracy is forcing their hand, they've just fooled you with their vapid rainbow-flag-wrapped virtue signaling.
What's a "former PI"?
Although I am currently tip-toeing on NeoVim, I still feel this is a horrible break-up.

Yes, Open Source simply allows you to branch whenever you're unhappy with the original but this comes at a cost for the community. The cost of having two diverging programs to deal with.

In this case, the motivation was simply insufficient. Some people wanted vimscript+lua instead of vimscript. They felt the code was too difficult. They wanted to develop on their own.

Not bad reasons in itself, but does it weigh against the tremendous cost for the community of the split? Isn't a split only justified in situation like OpenOffice/LibreOffice when there is no other choice? Couldn't they not convince Bram Moolenaar of proposed changes, and if not, doesn't this have a good reason.

I hate NeoVim for the reason they've split, even though I understand it might become even better than Vim in the long run. You need better reasons to fork and divide an ecosystem.