skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you know why? Supermarkets everywhere have self-serve checkouts and they seem to be successful. What skill was needed at your local shop that the self-service checkouts didn't have? Was it preventing theft? Identifying produce?
Wouldn't it irritate AWS if startups left once they got big, despite receiving special care services from AWS? How do they deal with that?
The "interesting" thing about capitalism is that it kills millions of people every year and people defending it don't need to say that this isn't real capitalism. It is. And it made it common to die, kill and fight wars for money and resources.
> That's interesting - I don't know if I've ever heard of someone going the other direction.

You've never dealt with some of the cretins we have in the US.

It's a tradeoff between space vs. time. If square footage is cheap, you can add more lines until there are enough that even with your guaranteed cretin blockage there will always be a line open. If square footage is expensive, then having cashiers to manhandle the cretins is more productive.
> I'd be interested to see in this thread, who here has actually studied aeronautical engineering

I studied Aerospace Engineering (PhD in Aerodynamics), and I stay out of internet conversations over "how" lift is generated. For me it is one of those topics that is just not worth debating. It seems that people get _really_ attached to their personally preferred theory of lift.
> ... Steve Jobs had not been as wealthy and powerful as they had been, they would also both probably be alive.

Steve Jobs got pancreatic cancer, IIRC. Which has a pretty low survival rate, per wikipedia 5% after 5 years from initial diagnosis. So most likely he'd be dead by now no matter what he would have done.
Why? Genuine question.
Unifdef

http://dotat.at/prog/unifdef/

Saved me 100+ hours _this week_ :-). Thanks, Tony Finch &co!
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I've seen images rendered using "path tracing" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_tracing) which look literally photorealistic (indistinguishable from a photograph).
I'm sure they will be if they ever try to retrieve it...
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And the pitch of the wing causes one side of the wing to be hit harder by air molecules than the other, just like GP said. Maybe you hit reply on the wrong post?
Quicker link to the setting: chrome://flags/#enable-quic

I had the same problem this morning. Disabling QUIC solved it.
You die at the end, didn't anyone tell you? Sorry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LUCOcilwjA
>Other issues with the design is huge unattractive margins and the main page containing almost no information when first loaded.

"Huge unattractive margins", or use of ample "negative space", has long been a staple of the design vocabulary. Nothing inherently unattractive about it.

If what you want to say fits in a small space, don't make it take over the screen, and don't try to cram every level of information on a single page.

And it's the opposite of the overly busy, migraine inducing NYT website you mentioned as a good example of web design.
> slavery has a negative impact on both slaves and slaveholders.

What's the negative as a slaveholder again?
"How you can create your frontend and a mediocre backend all in one language, because you're lazy or looking to cash in on the web!"
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Just wanted to say thanks for attempting to point the conversation in a useful direction; I hope someone who can help is willing to share the answer.
Yeah, sorry, if it's 100% of the viewport, kinda like an old fashioned frameset, you won't get the scroll propagation thing - if it's 100% of html,body you still hit it of course.

But yeah, mousewheel scroll propagation is a pain, and you can't even cancel a regular scroll event even after shimming it for the wheel.

Scrolling works well at a basic level, but could definitely do with some love.
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We are not only talking about dying in accidents, hitting your head on the ceiling can still hurt a lot. The risk does not only come from meeting planes, it can also be natural turbulence that you get no warning for.

The reasons there are less accidents in the planes is not because they are inherently more safe (ever read up how helicopters work?), it comes from the rigorous rules around everything flying. The rules exists mostly because something happened and the industry set rules to make it not happen again.

You wear helmets on construction sites because the risk of something falling on your head is so much higher when people are working with loose tools in high altitudes, hanging from ropes or whatever. (And the company is responsible for your safety so will protect their asses from getting sued.)
Is there anything like AutoHotkey for Linux?
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Huh? Over here at least, people (me included) cycle on the same road as cars all the time. Not freeways, of course, but normal city roads with a speed limit of up to 50 km/h. It's actually illegal to cycle on the sidewalk unless there's an explicit traffic sign allowing bicycles.
Developers are more than code monkeys to order around, they can tell you how feasible your ideas are. If you hire efficiently, they also come with market-relevant experience.

So while you probably could do this in your bedroom, alone-alone, chances are you'll end up with an insecure, unstable, broken hacky mutant that costs too much to run and includes things people don't actually want.

But I would say that. I'm the guy you should hire :)
this is just an argument in whether you want to explain the phenomenon mechanically or in terms of thermodynamics.

pushing a mass of fluid downward is equivalent to creating a net downward pressure. its the same thing, just expressed in different terms. the unit of pressure is force per square inch, for you americans. by integrating over all the area, you get the force that you are talking about.
Bloody Baron is a main quest, though. Anyways, side quests are indeed very well written. The werewolf quest in Velen comes to mind. The one where where you help Cerys an Craite on her own quest is also amazing (the one with the oven).
I heard people say this and thought it was a bit short sited, but the value proposition is actually quite good. I've heard from most friends they have clocked around 70 hours playtime, and the cost of a Switch here is 249 + 50 (Zelda) making it around £4.40 per hour of play. Not bad. And Zelda isn't the only thing I will be playing.
It supports numpy, and conversion from PyTorch tensors to numpy arrays is a matter of calling the numpy() method.
Weird, it's working at max speed for me (8-11MB/s).

I can upload several hundred gigabytes per day without any throttling or other issues, so I suspect your issues are with your ISP and not Amazon.
Have there been any societies that use something else for status where life wasn't horrible? I can think of schools and prisons where status comes from made-up reasons that exist only as a way to provide status and have net negative value to the society. I hope there's something besides jobs that can give people purpose while also not being harmful, otherwise we'll create our own harmful status games.
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Right, it's photorealistic, but the scene content in that example has been carefully chosen to make the task feasible. It's clean and shiny and abstract.
FME. Simply no better tool for slicing and dicing all manner of spatial data.
Ah sorry, I didn't mean producing the radio frequency signal but the modulating one which would be paired with a carrier generated by a separate module. Admittedly I know next to nothing about digital modes so I have no idea if the PRU could stand the necessary bandwidth to do such a thing.
You should listen to Cabin Pressure, best radio series ever:

Explanation of why aeroplanes fly to airhost: https://youtu.be/AaE9j7u3XJA?t=642

From Captain to Airhost:
https://youtu.be/AaE9j7u3XJA?t=1031

From First Officer to Airhost:
https://youtu.be/AaE9j7u3XJA?t=1458
Sooner or later, the robots and AI will be able to provide 100% of humanity material needs. AND The very nature of each societies will be shuffled by that new reality.

When every material need is fulfilled, a lot of questions arise:

1- What's the essence of private property when the working robots can already fulfill all the needs of the humanity ?

2- What's the essence of political power where nobody feels anymore the need to elect good policymakers because their life is already perfect ?

3- What will be the safeguard to prevent a maleficient/egoist minds to lock the access to all that abundancy ? That's quite philosophical question as humanity never experienced that kind of pure evil mindset. Every dictatorship, slavery, oppression were always driven by the context of competition towards the control over a limited economic resources.

4- And fundamentally, what will be the next thing that will drive the humanity towards evolution ? Knowledge curiosity ? Space exploration and adventures ? Spiritual achievement ? Perfection (and what's perfection ?) ? Are these goals philosophically equal ? Do willingness/laziness to adopt such a noble goals affect your share in the pie ? Does even "share in the pie" matter when the pie have an infinite surface ?

Only the future, and futuristic/philosophical writings will tell us where all that game will lead this world.
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Where was this copied from?
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200 GWh/year is a little less than 23 MW. A full power plant is on the order of several hundred MW to around a GW. You also don't need to replace the power plant every year. I agree that standby power usage is terribly wasteful but your calculation is off by a large factor.
Google Home gets ‘Beauty and the Beast’ promo, but Google says it’s not an ad
Google.dk works fine from my newly updated Chrome on macOS.
That might be their goal with Amazon Cloud Photos (unlimited photos, free with Prime), but it's obviously not the goal with Amazon Cloud Storage.
Dwarf Fortress creator talks about simulating the most complex magic system ever
Assuming machines can do everything a human can, what's left to humans and measurable (which is the only things humans can be rewarded for, hence can earn points for) are:

- Art. Can't be replaced by a machine because appreciation for a piece is extremely correlated with the relationship to the author. Ex: I'm fan of [some singer], everything he does looks great to me in some way, and if I knew it were a machine or if I knew the author didn't come from the bottom of the masses, I wouldn't appreciate it. It's ever weirder with close relationships: My father listens in loop to the 10 songs I've written and played on an old tape (and that's the only reason he still has a tape reader in his car), and those songs mean little to anyone else: They are only valuable to him because they're mine. Although machines could produce art, man-made art is specific to humans.

- And leverage. Today it takes 200 people to create a Whatsapp, negociate a treaty or design a new iPhone. Tomorrow, maybe only 3 people will be enough to solve world hunger, one artist to create a massive discography with all marketing material, concerts, interviews of himself and snapchat testimonials.

Love of course is another thing humans can give, but is not measurable. If we agree point-keeping is a way of incentivizing people to drive their life, then how we measure a successful life will be art and leverage.
The image on wikipedia doesn't do it justice.

There are many path tracing examples from siggraph, on youtube and showing up on images.google.com searches for path tracing.
Great article. I wish/hope/expect everybody to take this type of work/attention as seriously as they have. I am as much of a penny pincher as you can get, so our team built a database adapter on AWS that can handle 100M+ records for $10/day, demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_WqBuEA7s8 .

I'm surprised not more people are price/performance sensitive. My goal is to get a system up to 10K table inserts/second on a free Heroku instance, we're already doing on low end hardware 1750 table inserts/second across a federated system. But price tuning is one of the most important things when engineering for high load, as well.

Glad to see articles like this. :)
This is cool, and is actually quite a nice intro to the model underlying GL even outside the lispy stuff.

If, unlike the presenter, you don't mind higher level engines and stuff, you might like Arcadia, which brings Clojure to Unity:

http://arcadia-unity.github.io/
Yeah, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13750379 is the original thread. I don't know that school personally, just talking in general I don't think I'd trust school admins with that level of access.
Google is basically injecting 'partner' content into the daily summaries for users, and denied this is a form of advertising.

However, since this blew up quickly online they have already pulled the 'partner content'.
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Just got the notice from their lawyer in an email. Sad day.
I posted the Wikipedia link for a description of path rendering, not for its sample image. For photorealistic samples, take a look at some of the photos from the Brigade engine: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.471466862887799.11...
The basic technology to serve people fast food without human interaction (the Automat) has been around for longer than fast food franchises. Fast food franchises invest vast amounts on process optimization and kiosks are still at the experimental stage (and still with human food delivery!).

Obvious conclusion: fast food companies operating on high margins still think they sell more stuff with humans in the chain, and also find that by virtue of its versatility cheap human labour makes less expensive mistakes in preparing the food (which in most aspects is so simple it would appear ideally suited to automation) than a robotic production line would.
Emulation is not inherently illegal, and even if it was I'd imagine that the people who just want to play some NES games probably don't give half a shit.
Australia is a remote island, so the packets need to travel a long way. That's why digital services are more expensive.
Where does the concept of "falsification" come from? Karl Popper was a philosopher. The concept you using to dismiss philosophy is a product of philosophy and wouldn't exist without philosophy.

> In science one can prove a theory false, but one cannot prove a theory true.

This statement concerns logic and epistemology, both branches of philosophy, not science.

Falsification came about as a solution to the demarcation problem and the problem of induction (both products of philosophy, not science).

You are right that most philosophical statements are not falsifiable, but that simply means they are not scientific according to a definition of science that assumes all scientific statements are falsifiable. In short, you haven't really said anything (our understanding of circular reasoning and begging the question also come from philosophy).
If you mention the silver searcher (ag), you gotta mention the platinum searcher (pt) :)

https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher

Since it's pure Go, there's your static binary which makes it easily deployable again.
Have you successfully completed a full restore yet? If not, it is not a backup but just some data on someone else's computer.
Although Zurich's software engineers are as expensive as those in the Bay area, Google employs 1500 of them and they bought a new building next to the main train station to hire hundreds of new ML / AI experts.

(Full disclosure: I am a programmer and I try to match programmers with Zurich's startups for a living.)

So, if you want to move to Zurich, you find my e-mail address in my HN-handle. Read more about Switzerland in my semi-famous blogpost "8 reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in tech": https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t...)
FastStone Photo Resizer is an excellent batch image resizer/watermarker for Windows that is free http://faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm .No affiliation.
Resizing, bursting, and duplicating on the fly aren't exclusive to AWS, though.

A lot of teams rent space from places like OVH or Hetzner because the raw power is so much cheaper, and they already have the talent and tools to scale and manage a computing fleet (people like to think it's harder than it actually is).
Mostly:

function ff() { find ${2:-.} -name "*$1*" ; }
function gg() { grep -n $* ; }
function ggr() { grep -rn --exclude-dir=.git $1 ${2:-.} ; }
function ggi() { grep -in $* ; }
function ggri() { grep -rin --exclude-dir=.git $* ${2:-.} ; }

Oh, and that one:

# display a man page as pdf window
function pman() {
local pdf="/tmp/pman-$RANDOM.pdf" \
(man -t $* | ps2pdf - >$pdf && mupdf -r 96 $pdf 2>/dev/null )&
}
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> Millenials are born into massive entitlement, wealth , privilege and opportunity

Something is strongly wrong with your reasoning if you think that boomers did so much things right and failed miserable in their most important job that is raise kids.
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The problem with radically different approaches is that GPU hardware is optimized for a specific set of techniques. Unless a new technique can work well with current GPUs, it has small chances of being adopted.
Not the parent, but I love FO1 and 2 dearly.

FO3 felt too linear and too hand held. FO:NV on the other hand was actually decent.

FO4 is not fun at all if you want the open world RPG element. It's a shooter more than anything else, and you have to avoid settlements completely. The survival difficulty mode was decent in difficulty, but it lacked "oh shit" mechanics so random encounters don't just kill you at will for the first many hours of gameplay until you get some gear.
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because if the terrain is dangerous to drive on (with all that snow, probably yes), the driver will likely judge much better than anything you could do remotely with current technology on whether to risk moving ahead or not
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Can't wait to the next hackathon I am going. I am so going to play around with this!
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Why Bitmex?
It was on 13/03. It was on meetup.com & r/lisp but I wasn't sure of other places to shout about it without being spammy. I'd love to meet up with some other local lispers though.
Yeah this.

The only things I install from the whole package are the display driver and PhysX driver.

There are 5 or 6 things I uncheck that are totally unnecessary.
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Most Self Service Kiosks in stores are not designed for User Experience or Efficiency in mind, that is way the fail

They are designed with Loss Prevention in mind, so they end up treating every customer that walks up to them as a criminal looking to steal something.

This is one of the reason I still use a human checker when I go to the grocery, it is far more efficient and takes less time than the Self Checkout.

Now if they ever perfect what Walmart has been working on, either the "Check out as you shop" system where you scan items with your smart phone as you shop, or the RFID based system where you push your entire cart into a large RFID reader and it scans everything in a matter of seconds... that might get me to use those systems
Thank you. Is there a browser extension that does it automatically for all WSJ articles at HN?
It's very important to avoid photos altogether when dealing with the question of realism. Our brains process videos differently than still-frames. It's why video compression is very different from image compression.

In other words, it's unfair to say that a given graphics technique looks real because it generates photorealistic still-frames. Our target is videorealism, not photorealism. I fell into this trap myself: it's so tempting to start with still frames and think that results are encouraging just because they look good. But string those still-frames together into a video and it'll be obvious why it's artificial, assuming it's a rendering of a fairly complex scene, which is equally important. But then you get into questions of whether the art assets were carefully prepared to match the properties of a real-life object, etc, which is why everybody starts with cubes and spheres, which also happen to be objects that you never see in real life. (When's the last time you were in a room composed of perfect cubes and spheres?)
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Yeah, it's all about the Mario for me. Since the washout that was Super Mario Sunshine they have been brilliant, though I thought SMG2 was a bit hard (as I couldn't finish it!). I still reckon I can remember my run for "Luigi's Purple Coins" in SMG1, and SM 3D World is just a great game, which I completed again in strict course order this year.
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Air does not behave like a bunch of bullets hitting a wing. It's a fluid with velocity and pressure everywhere, not simply in the vicinity of aircraft surfaces. A wing is a pump that sets up circulation in the airflow, upward of the leading edge and downward off the trailing edge. The downward momentum of the air flowing off the trailing edge produces an equal and opposite reaction by Newton's third law which is the lift.

This is clearly demonstrated by this incident. Many tons of air deflected downwards by the A380's wings had enough force to flip the unfortunate plane below several times.
Great talk, I watched this yesterday.

Check out his lisp repos here: https://github.com/cbaggers?tab=repositories

More CEPL and related videos on his Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/CBaggers/videos
Except if he lands on you, that isn't very funny
Just some anecdata, but personally I hate dealing with self-checkout when buying fruits/veggies/buns/bread and other non-barcoded items. Cashiers are so much faster than me to deal with that. Maybe the shop in question have a lot of non-barcode items and it causes serious delay.
There's two ways you can read that quote.

1) That NASA's top three missions are inspiring kids, working more with other nations including reaching out to muslim nations

2) That NASA's three current focuses within its sub-goal of science outreach are the above.

One of these interpretations is ludicrous, and it appears to be the one you've latched onto. You might want to ask yourself why you've let yourself believe something so patently ridiculous. What is going on in your head that leads to you being so angry about something that clearly isn't true?
> In New Zealand, the market is different at this point, but how long can they resist the network effects of the big vendors?

Good point, here all hospitals use software from Orion Health, which is an NZ company - They have a really good hold on the market and I don't see that changing.

> You have mentioned in another post that you are concentrating just on records, … With all due respect, I think you are being naïve.

That thought has definitely crossed my mind. It's a tricky puzzle - part of the reason I think healthcare software is so hard, is that current systems are so monolithic - they do it all. To compete, you need to do it all as well. This impedes improvement, if you know how to build a fantastic appointment system, why should you have to also build invoicing systems? You have to bite off more than you can chew.

I don't really have an answer to this problem, but my approach is to break up the problem as much as possible into smaller parts.
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