jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I was in the same position as you a few months ago. I believe that currently Blender provides a much better workflow on Nvidia cards. The reason is simple: Optix. The speed advantage over CUDA (and openCL, of course) is really, really impressive. With Optix, I think I've seen the greatest performance improvement I've ever witnessed on Blender. Here is a Linux + Nvidia + Optix benchmark from 2019: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=blender-...

And with 2.92 it's even faster and it now supports CPU+GPU rendering with Optix. Unfortunately, AMD doesn't have such good Blender support. You're stuck with OpenCL and slower rendering time. You could try using their Prorender renderer, but to be fair, it's a closed source and non-native to Blender. I'd rather stick to Cycles+Eevee. I wish one day AMD will work with Blender to better support it, as I much prefer them as a company and I like their opensource drivers. But really, Nvidia RTX cards with Blender at the moment are fantastic.
My favorite is オロナミンCドリンク. A few of these and a Pocari Sweat and some Ramen works wonders for hangovers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oronamin_C
Any companies that are known to not take "dirty" cash when trying to fund money?
It's difficult to change habits. What if the needs don't grow, what do?
Why would incognito mode be any more detectable? If it's a question of not giving access to certain data that could be used for fingerprinting (e.g. user agent, screen resolution, storage API, statistics of accelerometer noise, gyroscope drift rate), the browser should respond with fake data instead of no data.
It's pretty funny how quickly the principles behind "net neutrality" (neutral platform, neutral pipes) fall to convenience.
I think the prompt's phrasing is completely fair, especially since facebook can make their case in their pre-consent screen and in the string in the system popup.
Houdini is an exceptional tool! It took me a few tries to get through this press release... this only seems to change things for companies using the engine plugins that make >$100k.
Also my family back there told me it didn't get above -20C for like a week or two in a row.
What about Elixir? Lack of static typing?
the best time saver if you don't have a dishwasher: use throw away cutlery & plates. saved me a lot of time.

people that don't hate doing chores, simply look at them like a game. It does make them feel good, to have everything under control, a clean house, all bills paid...and i think you can train yourself that you will also feel that way and you will want to have everything neatly done. It's like going to the gym, if you go for a while, you will miss it when you stop going.

But i don't want to train myself to give annoying, boring things a meaning.

i guess it all changes when you have kids, then you have to do that stuff.
this is a terrible ui decision. I'm typing in names, and pressing match, then godfather continously comes up.
*star wars isn't even in the drop down, when i type star wars.
Do you mean lifting the weight up with your feet? Pull ups don't really use the abs, do they?
I'm in the middle of pushing out v1.0 of Simple scraper[0] this week which will recreate some of the functionality.

Having a lot of fun building the product but with so many of these types of companies shutting down it has me wondering what it forebodes :/

[0] https://simplescraper.io
Very neat trick! My first reaction was that this must be related to to the Laplace transform, and looking through the Wikipedia article seems that this is basically the same trick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace_transform#Evaluating_i...:

\int f(x) g(x) \dx = \int L[f] L^-1[g] \dt

In their sine wave example we have f(x)=sin(x) and g(x)=1/x, and luckily for us the inverse Laplace of 1/x is just 1 (at least from 0 to \infty). I've learnt that finding the inverse Laplace is practically impossible (no good algorithm), but the regular Laplace can be often be found by "just" integrating. So I'm guessing this technique is mostly useful when we have a term with 1/x^n since the inverse is trivial.

I had no idea Laplace transforms could do this so this was a nice discovery!
> it's crud business apps and reporting.

And yet... as 'boring' as those things are, I constantly see basic errors crop up all the time because people aren't even moderately versed in the technologies.

For example, you don't need to "know every crevice of a technology", but if you're doing LOB reports for business systems, I would reasonably expect you to understand what indexes are, or what joins are and how to use them, in your SQL engine of choice,
I searched for the N95 masks online for months without success - Ordered 20pc box from demetech and the us mask company referenced in the article within 5 mins of reading it.
I didn't even know Kerbal Space Program allowed that kind of plugin!
If the whale would want to follow a ship he would do that. Instead the pattern looks more like he bounces off as soon as he comes close to a ship. Looks more like he wants to avoid ships.

Seagulls on the other hand, have a very different pattern. They also use ships to rest on them and tend to travel along side.
Could we possibly use blockchain to track the state of each item?
Kotlin outside of Android is still a fancy new thing. I am not commenting on its capability but the trend.

(On Android however it seems it's pretty much the only thing now. I am finding it the hard way now when I am looking for a job after staying on a project too long where things are still 98% Java)

It's an amazing language. Just try not to write "Java code" (as in the Java way) in Kotlin (like many Android devs I see doing).
So it's in northern Patagonia?
piggybacking on saynay[0], you could make it cheaper to message people you're better matched with. that also helps negate the negative signal that jedberg points out[1].

not sure pricing messages is a good idea, but it's a fun thought experiment.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21629467

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21629401
Stupid question: did they actually translate minicabs to an easy smartphone UX before Uber got involved?
Sure, that is a perfectly valid point. However, I think that "libreoffice breaks" says something quite different than "MS Office's VBA has bad compatibility with anything but MS Office and thus provides very strong lock-in".

Out of interest, is there any non-MS office suite with better VBA compatibility than libreoffice? For instance in view to the whole Adobe Venezuela story.
You need a little bit more than that, cause if that is the limit of your understanding, you will have a bad time when the generator spits back an error message about reduce/reduce conflicts or whatever instead of a function.
Ah, the good old "UI churn for the sake of it" argument, a.k.a. "It's $CURRENT_YEAR, people".

Office 97 was peak Office, UI-wise, for me and a whole lot of other users. If a UI works great, and newer UIs do not offer a clear, significant value add, why should it change? Why should not changing the UI count as a negative against the product?
I swear half the people on this website are social automatons.

"Hey, you're so ugly people get paid to message you! Thanks for using our service!" There is no way this would go over well.
I know it's really hard to be a foreign-born Chinese in China, because the expectations you feel are very great. I get that, and it's not an easy path, so if you've done that, you definitely went through something very difficult.

At the same time, when you say, "not work out", sorry I disagree with that. Which "few" of my points here? I only mention "harmony" in 2 out of 9, and even then it's not like they "do not work out" because of "harmony". Anyway....

What level of acceptance do you expect? As a Chinese you'll have more expectations, sure, but no more than locals, just different. As a foreigner I have different expectations. I have to work to carve out my space here, too. It's not just you who goes through difficulties. Everyone does. Is it really easier for Chinese to "integrate" into a Westner community than vice versa? I don't think so.

But anyway, this is diverging from the points I'm making. At a civilizational level, harmony has utility. It's a good thing for people. I'm not comparing different levels of acceptance / racism towards individuals. I deliberately omitted any comparisons about that in my list because it seems to me there aren't significant differences, and this list is about "What does China do really well that the West can learn from"

But to say the rest of my view on the point you raised, whether you're accepted or not I believe depends on how well you understand the culture and work to adopt it, and adapt yourself. It's not accidental or based on your skin color or where you're born, you have to be deliberate about it. But really, it's not different than a Chinese from one city, going to another city in China with a very different culture. The locals will view them differently, and to get "accepted" they'll have to work at it, just like you do. Why resist that? Don't expect something for nothing.
or, more likely, to end up dead by said country once they realize you have no idea what you're doing
Unfortunately 44 is too old to make a career switch especially to programming/development. In my personal experience, Ageism is much more prevalent in IT and Technology field.

Once you hit mid-forties, it is very difficult to find a programmer/developer job even when you have been in technology all your career. I know people, in 40s and 50s, who took over a year to find a development job after being laid off from their previous development jobs when company got bought out or folded. Personally, I will not recommend a career switch to development in mid-40s.

But not everything is lost. If you can learn development on your own, consider launching side projects in your domain of experience or scratch your own itch. Also, freelance and consulting opportunities will open up with time.
What is the connection between intelligent design and the pulse?
That's interesting, thanks. Were you already familiar with the original study?
Yeah I think you can argue those are the costs of bad policy or reaction, not the attack.

How many people could have been saved from heart disease with the same amount of money?
My only quibble is that since RMS has wrapped himself and this issue in the flag of the GPL and "the [foundation] for which it stands", in terms of the instant controversy, and e.g. conflicts with OpenBSD, they are indivisible.

But I hope I've made it very clear that I indeed view this solely as a stewardship issue that could be true under any FOSS licence, and I repeat that the GPL is a tolerable licence for something like the GCC (well, it might doom serious Ada to the proprietary world, but, eh).
Land of confusion by Genesis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pkVLqSaahk
Soon, I'm working on finishing the framework first, I can only work in weekends.
It beautiful, I really like it!
A lot of state universities (not community colleges) have a police force for jurisdictional purposes.

State universities such as University of Central Florida are owned by the State of Florida, operated on state property (as opposed to county or city property), and thus fall out of the jurisdiction provided by city and county police forces. The university police officers are full police officers, with the same requirements as local police, every ticket they write can be challenged in the court of law (not the university administration).
The University Police can request assistance from local LEA, such as bomb squad or SWAT. In recent years, a mentally unstable student placed multiple bombs around UCF, a campus of 60k+ students on a square mile, UCF PD stopped the individual, but called in OCSO to clear the bombs.
Hey, I beg to differ! HTML and CSS are pretty crappy as well!
Funny, ICantReadThisCamelCaseStuffNearlyAsEasily as_I_can_read_stuff_with_underscores.
I like the idea, I'm using it to force me to do some record keeping of what I'm doing everyday. Can it email everyday at a certain time to answer the questions?
Agreed completely. The BBC certainly aren't without their faults, but at the end of the day they're the most impartial news service I've come across. I'm glad we have them!
>"Judgements like 'well I was poor and now I'm rich - your story is fake' do not fit within this discussion because they are entirely beside the point."

That's obviously not what he is saying. Your doing way more than paraphrasing with that one.
"The theory that Hitler escaped to Argentina has been widely dismissed by historians," (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theories_about_Adolf...)

The FBI document got released at least a year ago. If there was anything new of substance it would have made news.
Probably because people aren't rational actors.

Additionally, having read a bit of history recently[1][2] it seems there never has been a time where economic certainty, or any certainty about the future, was actually a thing for the majority of people on the planet, throughout all time.

Personal anecdote: I had said this very same thing for years until I had my first child. Interesting how perspectives.

1. The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined - Steven Pinker

2. Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World - Deirdre N. McCloskey

Edit: I didn't downvote you, by the way.
I'd go for a (gasoline) Toyota if I was in the states and reliability and operating costs were my main concern. $1000 / year on average for maintenance is definitely on the high side, but of course it needs a bit more info before I could state that one way or the other with certainty (mileage driven during that time, overall mileage on the car, state of maintenance when you bought it, whether you bought it new or not).

The newer diesels have insanely high injection pressures, I have a campervan that has one of these engines (the 2.5L) and I really hope that there will never be a problem with that because it will make your $3000 look like pocket change if it fails in a serious way.

In a pinch I think I'd rely on the older and much simpler models rather than to go for one of these hyper efficient versions. They seem to trade efficiency in fuel for a much shorter life-span and a higher repair bill.

The government here puts an insane premium on fuel consumption without taking into account the effect of all those fuel saving measures on the total-costs over the lifetime of the car.

At a rough guess it is a toss-up, what you gain in fuel efficiency you lose in expensive repairs.
Than you are describing human fallacy.

Even when you only think you are infected or there is a good chance => wear a mask
Phew. For a second there I thought this was going to be about an obscure new Meyers-Briggs category.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51364382
WHO seems to believe. We would have a prior expectation that a strong lockdown would reduce transmission to below 1 per case. China has a strong lockdown. And it would be extremely hard for them to hide it plus massive downside risk and limited upside. So why don't you believe them.
Rust and Swift can also be added to this list.
There's a Yakov Smirnoff joke in there.
the difference?

Undocumented people are less likely to seek medical care if they become ill. At least in our political climate.

During a pandemic that’s dangerous for everyone. The general population and for them and their families
Since I wasn't the one making the original claim, I could only try my best to find the matching source, this is as close as I could get. Sorry about that.
> I have family from all sorts of sides in WW2. If they managed to feed themselves despite naval blockades and bombings, without the country completely falling apart, I don’t see why we can’t.

I reached this conclusion a few days ago as well. I can't imagine the entire food supply thing having thousands of houses and factories bombed for years and years; and yet it happened. Civilization had a bit of a 'reset', but it was a long way from anarchy and cannibalism.

There's no way this virus is going to be as actually destructive in terms of both life and property; so that makes me optimistic.
as much as I agree on the importance of flatting the curve, I also share this sentiment. there are people who have been living in a precarious state for far too long and for who flatting the curve seems a hypocrit luxury invented by those who have ignored them for far too long. the list would include anyone incarcerated, undocumented workers, addicts on hard drugs now unable to get their fix[1], migrants stuck between borders or in a refugee camp, ... the list is long and incomplete.

then there are those who have fallen prey to politicans telling them it's a hoax and who have made up their mind long ago (once the mind is made up it's impossible to walk them back to another reasoning), and now see it as just another attack by cancel culture on their values.

then there are the politicans who use a blunt tool like closing borders and export stops: notable example any EU country (Germany, France etc) who watched Italy's numbers explode and refused to supply PPE under the justification that it's soon needed by themselves (ignoring that early containment would be a common goal). Especially in Europe the lack of a common coherent response is a disappointment - and instead every country is on its own.

then there is cancel culture itself who like to throw these camps under the bus and use overly simplistic reasoning and resort to name-calling which hardens their opponents views even further.

maybe this is cynical but I doubt we'll win this, instead we'll just muddle through as always and either blame each other or congratulate how well we did depending on the individual outcome.

[1] methadone is only an option if you're already a registered user, and I doubt priority of doctors today is to give appointments to addicts who suddenly see themselves facing a supply problem
"going to a restaurant's home page will bring up a message, reading “I've got directions, hours, and more.” Clicking the message brings up a sidebar with the restaurant's contact information, location, reviews and an OpenTable reservation link" [1]

More pay-per-click than paperclip?

[1]http://www.pcworld.com/article/2891948/project-spartan-leake...
Makes you think of a scene straight out of The Hunger Games. These guys, surrounded by opulence, building the perfect society, all while ignoring the reality of the middle class rats that surround them.
The only health studies one should even notice are those not funded by those who sell related products. Since every nutrition study is so funded, I try not to even overhear any of those.
Did he release a tool or source for what he uses in the video?
IMO, this braindrain could possibly synergize with the current trend of increasing remote work and we'll begin to see the stranglehold the SF Bay Area has on tech workers/startups chip away at an even faster pace.

Arguably, the SF rent issue has implications in that sphere, as well.
Thanks for the feedback.

Yeah, certainly the 'high = bad' thing is something we grappled with (and still do). The site is a sister-site to a consumer-complaint/petition website (http://www.groubal.com/), hence we're more interested in measuring/highlighting who is doing 'badly'. But yes, this could be done in a more intuitive way (showing the 'bottom' of a graph that had the axis in the traditional orientation, for example).
Well of course. I'm surprised this article got voted up on HN.
How could you do this in O(1)? Or are you saying you can get a probably right answer in O(1)?
Average comment karma of the poster plays a significant role in determining comment order.
http://www.ncpa.org/pub/bg146?pg=3

That took too long to find. The data backing that up is also available in Global shift by Peter Dicken http://amzn.to/avt5eU

I didn't think the statement was bold at all, but granted I was a TA for a course on Global Food & Hunger.
He's not, but even he acknowledges that Wikileaks is probably the reason he got stopped.
I've never seen one of those.

All the ones I see are for lawyers who do class-action suits against companies that used asbestos or other dangerous materials, or pharmaceutical companies which released drugs with undisclosed/unknown serious side effects.

Both of which, honestly, should be fair game for lawsuits.
The dinging people for not-clever-enough solutions feels like hazing. It's less about competence than about ego. The most important thing in an interview is to make sure the person's level of skill is at least as big as their conception of their skill.
Thank you. The sensible answer of an engineer.

Compare this with the "lol" sub-thread of mockery, sibling to this. Online technical communities die when the incompetent substitute jokes for thought, in their haste to say something.
Javascript comes to mind, since it only functionally has I think 5 types (string, number, boolean, array, object - and the line between array and object is blurry) and no user-added ones. There are no built-in type semantics whatsoever other than what properties are present on an object at the time of its use. Functions of different arities aren't even type-differentiable (although arity is available as a reflectable value).
I am not a big fan of Diaspora, but every-time there is a story on diaspora I have seen you plug Appleseed and sometimes badmouth Diaspora.

First few times it was ok, not it just feels like spamming. Just because its open source, doesn't mean the project can't be spammed.

Maybe there is a better way to promote appleseed.
"How to disclose security vulnerabilities" might be appopriate for HN, but "some technology somewhere is being misused" isn't.

Just because something is worth discussing doesn't mean it's appropriate here: I get my politics news from newspapers and my tech news from HN, and I like it that way.
"The abstract thinkers may not be so reliable after all! The millions of college graduates who are underemployed in wealthy countries all around the globe have unanswered questions. Weren’t these high-level abstract college degrees supposed to pay for themselves?"

Actually, I would view Google's existence as proof that abstract, high-level thinkers actually can do something. Did it not start out as a research project by abstract, high-level thinkers?

I think the author has a point, but the populist, anti-intellectual bent really distracts from that. The point as I see it is that prestige is a benefit for certain jobs, just like money or vacation or insurance. These things are good, but can they make up for a job that you don't see as rewarding?
is this a digital version you could link to..?
We use python on GAE, and chose tornado, and admittedly this is partly because at the time it was the new hotness and I like friendfeed a lot. That said, even though with the wsgi adapter you've neutered what tornado is famous for (evented python framework), it is a nice concise web framework with a flexible templating system that is easy to grok and get working quickly, yet still has some nice features like UI modules, named url matching with reverse_url construction, xsrf protection and secure (in the sense that they are unforgeable) cookies. Its templating system doesn't auto escape, so we hacked it to do so.

Using a minimalist framework is a pretty good match for app engine since other frameworks might assume something about the environment that won't be true of GAE.

And you can always mix in other ala cart libraries. For instance, we use wtforms. That combined with a tornado UI module to render the forms nicely has been a effective.

If I were to choose again, I might just use the built in web.py since they often include utility handlers for things like parsing multipart uploads; we've had to reimplement those for our tornado BaseHandler. Then I might use mustache for templating since we have started using that on the client side.

Kind of random thoughts I guess, hopefully somewhat illuminating nonetheless :)
Here's where: If you don't want to give your company any control of your phone, refuse to use it for work.