jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Geometry is only a part of the problem; much more compute goes into lighting and textures. Also scenes rarely span enough orders of magnitude of physical scale that the differences in precision matter (except may when using FP16). Finally, you probably can accept reduced precision for faraway objects (usually the camera is at the origin).
Would cities be more desirable for a lot of people if they were only made up of college-educated (or college-viable) people? I think for a lot of suburban dwellers, their main concern is quality of the public schools. Enable them and their kids to be surrounded by other highly educated people who place high value on schooling, and they'll come back in droves.
As I said, in games there's always a need for fast, platform agnostic (and super low overhead API that just works). And I mean truly platform agnostic, PS4, PS5, Switch, etc. Those are new platforms that may or may not have ports of whatever else is "available" and "fast".

Bink fits the bill today and has fit the bill since forever. I don't see any of the alternatives having similar performance characteristics, ease of integration or availability on platforms that are more or less closed and there's no indication of them being open in the future.

In adition to that the switch cost is quite high so any other alternative has to be good, and I haven't yet seen a contender.
Just want to highlight this part of the bill since it seems that it was missed by many commenters.

> INDEMNIFICATION BY PUBLIC BODY.--A judgment awarded pursuant to the New Mexico Civil Rights Act against a person acting on behalf of, under color of or within the course and scope of the authority of the public body shall be paid by the public body.
https://vimeo.com/533792077/e3aabe6c8f
FWIW I'm still looking myself. If you see this, feel free to email me (you don't have an email in your profile), and I can let you know if I turn anything up.
Turns out that it's not about Nixon...
I'm not suggesting to not tip, just correcting the misinformation. Servers are guaranteed minimum wage.
They put him in a position where he might not have a family if he stayed away, and safe.
> This huge leak has definitely killed the
> SMS text messaging service.

So with this breach, one now must use WhatsApp for messaging contacts? That is rather convenient for Facebook.

As someone who has much friction already convincing people to use SMS with me instead of the WhatsApp account that I've never had (nor a Facebook account), making SMS even more problematic is great for Facebook. Many people assume bad intentions or some other undesirable status when telling them that I don't have WhatsApp and that I'm not willing to install it.
> Civil court exist for something.

Sure, but that something isn't criminal law.
I think there is a caveat with IETester: It seems to use the currently installed IE's javascript engine not matter what rendering engine it uses, so testing mileage may vary.
Would have loved to have seen some actual perf numbers, especially in terms of how much of a cost the Multi-AZ writes entail. We're doing Postgres on EC2, which means RDS doesn't quite help, but Postgres 9's hot standby/streaming replication at least gets a bit closer (and could be easily extended to a Multi-AZ set-up if one of our hot standbys was in a different AZ).
How do you know s/he is not an Israeli Arab?
Or perhaps you are attributing company culture to an under educated call center worker?
As a developer myself, I can tell you, code is just code. Pasting code on blogs and sites is just show-off; much like the friendly sales guy in a suit who is flashing the latest smartphone at the airport to appropriate the phone's coolness.

As a developer how can you say this? Code isn't just code, its good code or bad code. I cant count how how many good coding solutions to problems I've found on blogs, and how much time it has saved me.
A limitation on the amount of securities non-accredited investors can purchase in a Tier 2 offering of no more than 10 percent of the greater of the investor’s annual income or net worth.

I think this would contain the risk.
A nice answer to a silly question:

Ultimately the problems to be solved are the same, it's just that java
and c++ give you a lot of padding where you're writing boilerplate and
workarounds for not having closures, monadic values, a nice type
system, etc. It could be relaxing in the same way that playing 3rd
trombone could be: you still get to play technical music every once
and a while, but you also get a lot of downtime to count rests and
listen to the music, or play whole notes. There is a pleasure in
that, even if it's not the same as when you're in the 1st violin
section. Music is still being made, problems are still getting
solved.

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-June/0790...
If it wasnt for Google I/O completely being released on Youtube and Microsoft doing the same thing, Apple would still charge money for this.

I am writing this on my MBP, but I hate the fact that Apple always requires a competitor chasing them to be 'not that evil'.
Baseband aside (a big "aside"), isn't the mobile permissions system much more satisfactory than the desktop? unprivileged user-per-app vs everything-as-one-user-and-sometimes-we-ask-for-root
Google doesn't control all the stuff that all the different manufacturers and carriers are doing with Android so they cant enforce quality. But, Froyo has the front-facing camera in the SDK and Skype is working on their Android app. So, in a year or two Apple will be left in the dust when all these devices are capable of video-chatting with each other across different manufacturers and carriers, and with PCs and Macs and even with WinMos and Nokias, and who knows what else.

Apple has a pretty good headstart but they have to compete against a whole industry, they don't have a shot.
I've also had the experience that they take this as just being difficult and making things seem more complicated than they need to be.

They'll try to simplify or eliminate the problems that you present not understanding the implications or stubbornly believe that what you need to do is simple.

I love dealing with people that think that what I do is as far above their head as brain surgery; much easier to deal with.
Browser changes can make things more convenient, but we have all the tools to create secure though somewhat cumbersome host-proof applications today. Yes, the Javascript environment sucks, but it's what we have - dismissing the possibility that we can do secure crypto with strictly controlled input, where all components are verified, is not reasonable and not backed up by evidence.
That's the first time I've ever heard C++ trumpeted for "short-term ease of prototyping" - and I write C++ fulltime.
Yes, and I know of other companies who also do, but favored candidates come from other technical disciplines (math, physics, stats, etc.) rather than liberal arts.

shameless plug: we're hiring in SF for ruby/scala/angular, email me if interested.
TensorFlow for Java is mostly for running pretrained models. Even though it might have training capabilities, they are extremely limited.
I don't know the name of this type of learning style but I would eat up a tutorial on Git that started with the plumbing commands like this and worked their way up. I think this is oddly one of the clearest explanations of Git I've ever read. I know that wasn't really the point of the post but still.
This is a business relation between two companies, not a company refusing to sell to minorities. It doesn't enjoy nor should it enjoy the same protection. Being able to do business with whoever you chose to is the cornerstone of business everywhere.
Anyone who continues to excuse or support Trump after yesterday's events willfully supports sedition and treason. The Rubicon has been crossed, they no longer get to prevaricate about him being strong on China or jobs or immigration, or being the least worst possible option on the table.

If you're still willing to support Trump or excuse his actions, you're a fascist.
>Some speculate it might descend from PowerVR GPUs, as used in older iPhones, while others believe the GPU to be completely custom. But rumours and speculations are no fun when we can peek under the hood ourselves!

As per IMG CEO, Apple has never not been an IMG customer. ( Referring to period between 2015 and 2019.) Unfortunately that quote, along with that article has simply vanished. It was said during an Interview on a British newspaper / web site if I remember correctly.

"On 2 January 2020, Imagination Technologies announced a new multi-year license agreement with Apple including access to a wider range of Imagination's IP in exchange for license fees. This deal replaced the prior deal signed on 6 February 2014." [1]

The Apple official Metal Feature set document [2], All Apple A Series SoC including the latest A14 supports PVRTC, which stands for PowerVR Texture Compression[3].

It could be a Custom GPU, but it still has plenty of PowerVR tech in it. Just like Apple Custom CPU, it is still an ARM.

Note: I am still bitter at what Apple has done to IMG / PowerVR.

[1] https://www.imaginationtech.com/news/press-release/imaginati...

[2] https://developer.apple.com/metal/Metal-Feature-Set-Tables.p...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PVRTC
woah, that's a mouthful. My grandpa fought fascists and I never heard any of these fancy words from him.
Another way to put it would be I will happily only take 95% if the other option is we don't do anything and people can even commit stuff that doesn't even build let alone pass tests.
Simple has been on the decline for a long time, I remember before their acquisition, their support was great and slowly it declined. I think for a long time Simple has just been a nice UI and slowly fading away. This is the last lap for them.
The FDA is a huge deal if they don't like you or something you have (or are getting shipped into the country). You don't know jackbooted fascists until you've caught the attention of the FDA. Serious as a heart attack.
> It is completely irrelevant, ecologically speaking.

How so? It makes the box unrecyclable; worse still, as soon as such an item is detected in the recycling plant it will often cause the whole batch of material to be rejected and dumped[1].

No-one has time to pick-through cardboard removing batteries and circuitry.

[1] Source: anecdote from a colleague who worked in a 'recyclarium'. Contaminated material causes the line to be stopped, batch dumped and machines cleaned.

The actual pre-processing sorting is quite fascinating, using spectrometers to detect the type of materials.
You skipped over it, just to be clear, do you think ISIS recruitment videos should be allowed to stay up?
Really appreciate the advice, thanks. Will try to action some of this.
The CCP consists of 90M+ party members who represent all facets of society--larger than entire population of Germany. Include family members and it's 300M+ almost size of US.

Furthermore, it's an integral part of Chinese society with overwhelming support among its citizens (>90%). The CCP is continuation of past dynasties operating under the 'Mandate of Heaven' to serve the people. Failure to do so and it will be replaced.

So no, this often repeated fallacy by the west that they condemn CCP not the Chinese people is not only ignorant but supremely arrogant and condescending in assuming 1.4B are somehow mindless robots at the mercy of the few.

Demonizing the CCP, is in effect, directly insulting the Chinese people.
Yes that's what I said:

> That China blocked the Who's efforts and the WHO disclosed this is more relevant to future health policy than where this particular outbreak started.

(Obviously the WHO, like any part of the UN can do nothing but document anything a superpower refuses to do.)

Now how does that build a case that the WHO is a problem instead of allowing superpowers to have super power is a problem?

It seems to me like people down voting my original comment are members of superpower states with hypocritical stances.
By the same author (David Griffiths), who is a creative genius and runs the FoAM Kernow studio with his partner Amber:

Pattern Matrix, tangible live coding interface w/ magnetic tokens and AR overlay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLpHBUmwGCk / https://penelope.hypotheses.org/2232

Viruscraft digital/tangible platform for exploring viruses: https://fo.am/activities/viruscraft/

Swarms of live coded robots doing maypole dancing (yes): https://penelope.hypotheses.org/1512

Scheme Bricks, 3D visual live coding in Scheme: http://davesblog.fo.am/?s=bricks / https://github.com/nebogeo/scheme-bricks

Al-Jazari: Minecraft meets Fluxus / Scheme Bricks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Mp6f65nWM / http://davesblog.fo.am/2013/02/al-jazari-2-minecraft-meets-f...
I'm simply amazed by Racket. It stands out because while it is developed by academics and based on a language with a history of caring more about the language than solving real problems it comes with excellent documentation, good performance and decent libraries including unsexy things like a GUI toolkit.
Seems weird to never be contacted by recruiters, are you not using linkedin during your job searches? After my last round of linkedin application spamming I get a steady stream of emails about opportunities even after I stopped looking.
We do have more prospectives for researchers. There’s industry which many go into. Most the time it even gives you much better financials, but the trade off is lower freedom in choosing your area of research.

To me it’s a fair trade off. If your in a big company with a high salary doing research you have to convince management if you want to start working with some new area of research and have them invest into it. If you are in academia you have to convince some grant issuing institution. Either way if you want to be a researcher it’s not enough that you are talented in doing the research itself. You also have to be able to write down your work in high quality, and communicate your past and current work, as well as future work plans in high enough quality to get someone to invest in you.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, it's exactly true. If you say or write something that's offensive to someone people will put a completely disproportionate effort into making sure you're fired from your job, never get to write or publish anything again and in general achieve full censorship through mob justice.

Like, the most recent example - Gina Carano. Do I disagree with what she was saying? Absolutely. Do I think that she deserved the amount of abuse she was getting on Twitter and elsewhere, and her eventual firing from Disney? Absolutely not.

Like, how is that different than Boston banning certain artists because they didn't like what they were saying? Because we(as in, more "liberal" leaning people) disagree with them? It's stupid and I don't agree with the practice.

Edit: and of course this effect exists here as well. If you disagree with something it gets downvoted until it's pushed to the bottom of the site, made nearly invisible, and eventually once enough people complain it disappears entirely behind a flagged tag. Most people don't actually engage in an exchange of ideas, they just make sure to penalize someone for saying something they don't like(downvote) and move on.
You'd be surprised.

Suppose I want to "go to definition" for a class named Saver.

/^class Saver\>

19 times out of 20, this works. It's also instant; my vim will likely get me there faster than your IDE's go to definition functionality. (Looking at you, pycharm!)

Here's my flow.

>>> import tensorflow as tf
>>> tf.train.Saver
<class 'tensorflow.python.training.saver.Saver'>
>>> from tensorflow.python.training import saver
>>> saver
<module 'tensorflow.python.training.saver' from '/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/tensorflow_core/python/training/saver.py'>

Then I open /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/tensorflow_core/python/training/saver.py.

Suppose I want to know: Where are all the places that Saver is used in all of tensorflow?

time find . -type f -name '*.py' | xargs merge | ft py
Vim: Reading from stdin...

real 0m0.930s
user 0m0.243s
sys 0m0.414s

/\<Saver(
:%v//d

Boop: https://i.imgur.com/EJ5bZSW.png

Literally every usage of Saver in all of Tensorflow.

So let's say you're interested in a specific line. This one, for example:

# being added to the GLOBAL_VARIABLES collection, so that Saver()

Boop: https://i.imgur.com/YSAzhCJ.png

I did that by highlighting "being added to the GLOBAL_VARIABLES", ctrl-c, then pressing "u" to undo the :%v//d, then / followed by ctrl-v.

That might sound hard, but with muscle memory I don't even think about it -- it's like explaining how you open a can of food. Do you really think about where you place your fingers, or the pressure of your nail on the flap of the can? No, you just open it up. Same thing here; it's automatic.

Way faster than IDEs, and I get just as much (or more) info.

I'd love to use pycharm, but the slowness keeps pushing me back to this technique.
Yeah that one. Joaquin phoenix first film when he was called leaf pheonix

I liked it when I was a kid
There's no reason for this, either. San Francisco has to relax their brain-dead backlash toward high density construction. Los Angeles, too. Is it a California thing in general?
Thank you. Yes, that was more along the point. I just get punchy about how I say it after 3am.
Always worth noting that "this time may be different." Specifically, this trend may or not be the beginnings of a long-term structural move of the world's wealthy from suburbs to urban areas, with world cities like San Francisco, New York, and London becoming luxury dwellings for the 1%. If so, then prices will continue to rise substantially.
> How do you know they don't have a button to push to make it give a false positive so they can hold people?

That exact thought crossed my mind afterwards.

In the end, they never showed me any evidence that the machine had actually detected any explosive. Nor did they figure out what could have caused the "false positive".

Maybe they did detect something, but then what's equally surprising is the thought that they would then just let someone go after they have walked into JFK with explosives on their body.
Now for the next question: Is this a suitable way to interrogate someone who is not under arrest and is presumed innocent? Is the false negative rate of TSA checks low enough to start assuming that someone is guilty?
Don't forget that his house was potentially searched.
Did you miss the fact that he triggered the explosive residue detector several times?

As the article itself describes... when he skipped the pat-down (and therefore skipped the ERD), no one batted an eye at his race.
> William A. Farrar, the Rialto police chief, believes the cameras may offer more benefits than merely reduced complaints against his force: the department is now trying to determine whether having video evidence in court has also led to more convictions.

I dislike that this is a measure of "success". More or fewer convictions is not necessarily a good thing, because the existence of the camera does not magically make any particular criminal more or less guilty. What they should be measuring is the increased degree of certainty of the result of any trial, whether the accused is found guilty or not guilty.
It's nice to see that Apple is starting to warm up to the idea of giving "express written consent" to apps doing things that might be considered to run afoul.

If that got implemented on a larger scale, the concerns of developers who say "I don't want to develop an app, then get it rejected with no warning" could be alleviated.

A step in a more moderate direction benefits everyone.
well yes, but I was responding to the following from the GP, rather than discussing the power of calc()

> I rather have vars or defs so I can declare a color once...
depending on the strategy, its possible to build reasonable simulations of the affect your trades will have on the market, though the data you need to do so is harder to get and a lot more expensive. but for a strategy like the one described it'd be reasonable to take the existing market and assume that you could pay offers, hit bids, and maybe build in a little slippage to get a reasonable simulation.

academics though, typically don't care as much about simulating for transaction costs because they're more interested in perceived mispricing in the marketplace as an interesting economic/intellectual phenomenae. Frequently academic papers will assume a 1-price world where the 1-price is midmarket and build the model off that.

If the market were indeed entirely efficient, then the described trade wouldn't be better than chance even with no transaction costs or bid-ask.
I'm confused - are you saying my request for a citation was not well founded?
haha, the image says: probably nobody (no pig) is watching, again. - the little pig says: great
That same write call can exist in C++ too, with exactly the same consequences. Everything ugly in C can be done in C++, but C++ lets you be so much uglier.

int i = 42;
foo->bar(i);

In C, we can tell that foo is either a "struct S* foo" or "union U* foo" which has a member "X (*bar)(Y)". Type X is unknown from this context, but Y is some type compatible with int. We will call the function which bar points to with a single value 42. The value of i will be unchanged.

In C++, it could be the same. Or foo could be not a pointer at all, but some object with "operator->". bar() might take its first parameter by reference and end up changing i. bar() might have additional parameters with default values. bar might not even be a function, but some object with "operator()". etc. etc.

Most of the code I write is C++, so I'm not against it -- but I definitely understand the point that C requires less context.
Ask I2: I don't have a co-incubator. Can I still apply?

Ask I2: We've already launched our incubator. Should we still apply?

Ask I2: We're in a hurry. Can you accelerate our accelerator application?

Ask I2: We want to launch an incubator for start-ups that produce gas pedals for cars, an accelerator accelerator for accelerators. Can you help us?

Ask I2: Our motto is, "Build something people will apply for?" Will that work?

Ask I2: We want to promote virtual start-ups. Do you think we can encourage all of our founders to use airbnb for different office space every day? Should we require that they all get netbooks?

Ask I2: My co-incubator is a cat. If we make it that far, can you assure us that Toby Huang won't chase him during the interview.

Ask I2: We want all of our founders to become egg yolk profitable by demo day demo day. What type of incubator would be best for them?

Ask I2: I love incubator news, but I worry that it's becoming too much like reddit reddit.
Awesome!

Is it possible to authenticate using my shrtn username? The current API generates links using shrtn's own affiliate codes.
Thanks to all of you who replied. Interesting perspectives on things.
It appears number portability and iPod Touch support is not on their priority list. I have no clue why. With those two features, personally, I would be free from cell phone carriers.
Venkat writes some of the most consistently interesting and intelligent blog posts I've found, and this was no exception. Thanks for sharing it.
As pleasant as your experience was, this shouldn't be taken in any way as justification for the procedure. I'm not saying that's what you're trying to do; it's just that I can see people reading this and saying to themselves "Well, what's the big deal? It's not that bad."
As far as I know this is offered for $15/hour call center people in Las Vegas (or something like that). Friend of mine told me that is about $2000 in first week and then after training it is $3000.
This is quite significant chunk of money for Las Vegas area.

I have no reference or proof that above is how it works, just information from person who is familiar with Zappos.
I use Guix on top of Debian right now, but not dmd. Things are getting closer to the point of having a full Guix system, but we're not there yet.