skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like a way to take larger simulation steps by linearising the movement of projected points on shadow outlines. I'm guessing a bit, but the idea of figuring out how to take larger steps is an established trick for speeding up simulations (e.g. the Siggraph paper "Large Steps in Cloth Simulation")

"Instead of explicitly tracking the movement of the sun, which is how shadow accumulation is usually measured, the researchers are tracking the movement of the shadows. Using the key insight that shadows move linearly within a short time range, they designed an efficient algorithm that performs an order of magnitude faster than those used in existing approaches. “This also allows users to interactively compute and explore shadows over different time ranges and allows them to quickly test multiple scenarios,” said Doraiswamy."
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According to https://github.com/kost/dvcs-ripper/issues/6#issuecomment-11... , .git/objects/info/packs is not reliable.
Hi,

Do you guys offer visa for the junior positions?
Why does it take so long to develop modern military jets?
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Denmark are taxing fuel and requires you to pay "vægtafgift" (weight-tax, based on how much your vehicle weighs) and "grøn ejerafgift" (green owner tax, how efficient your car is per liter of gasoline) to be allowed to drive on the roads.
Not necessarily.

You can actually use git in production, properly.

I personally like to mount gitRepo volumes on Kubernetes, and have my CI pipeline automatically update the revision of the deployment whenever it validates tests. Then I have kubernetes roll out the update automatically.
> Almost everything that you described is microarchitectural, and not tied to the ISA.

They listed these features 'strong memory ordering', '(no) branch delay slots', '(no) stack windows', 'good i-cache efficiency through the use of two-address code and memory operands'.

Every single one of those is a property of the ISA - the instruction set, its semantics and encoding - not the implementation.

Which do you think isn't part of the ISA?
Look not to sound harsh but since you're claiming the "80mm ops/sec" as a technical achievement "not possible with other databases" I found it to be fair to actually review the benchmark you linked. What you're benchmarking for the "read" is this:

benchmark(function(){
gun.val(ok);
});

Looking at what the gun.val call does it seems to be more or less an identitiy/noop function (that simply returns its input).

It appears your benchmark is basically testing how fast you can do a simple javascript function call which has nothing to do with any database operation whatsoever? How is that useful?

The benchmark doesn't reflect the performance of your gun database more than it reflects the performance of _any javascript application_. The only thing that is being benchmarked here is the javascript interpreter. Seriously, this is like somebody claiming their database runs at 4 billions ops/sec because that is how many instructions the CPU can perform.

Given how much effort you (clearly) put into your marketing and the way you worded this as a "cached read" I think you probably know all of this though -- so here's a plea: Please don't pull these kinds of completely dishonest stunts (you even put the BS numbers in the title of this submission). You just make others in the javascript [database] space look bad by association. Cheating on benchmarks will not convince anybody but the most junior web developers.

source (hopefully I'm wrong ;) ): https://github.com/amark/gun/blob/master/test/ptsd/perf.js#L...
What I observe is that in the business if platform vendorship, you either get big players to port or fail. If one of Jolla, Ubuntu Phone or Firefox OS had at least WhatsApp, that would have gained some traction.
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> This is roughly along the lines of the vast majority of the people that would happily vote in a police state

This kind of hyperbole isn't helpful. The differences between voting in a police state and using a walled garden app ecosystem run by a private company should be obvious.

> Freedom is a good thing, even if it comes at the price of some risk, no matter what the context.

What about the freedom to choose an application platform?

Since I'm sure I need to make this disclaimer, I don't own any Apple (or Windows) devices aside from my work-issued macbook.
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Blame the drivers. If most drivers weren't showing utter disregard to traffic laws pretty much all the time, there wouldn't be a dire need for ALPRs to curb speeding.
I think some people need a walled garden. Genuinely - the reason why I gave my Mum a MacBook was because I was fed up of having to deal with the mess of the Windows machine every time I went home.

What would be better is is if in the device settings I was able to say "I know I downloaded this, and I know it's not signed, and I'm OK with running it", just like I do on macOS and have done for some time.

The walled garden approach was there for some time because of carrier concerns initially, but now it's purely commercial: Android has shown a more liberal attitude with better security around key pieces of hardware can still protect the carrier network from malicious attack.

Apple now have such huge value-add in terms of the app store - Apple Pay, discoverability, ratings and so on - that most developers would happily pay to be there. However, yes, it would be nice if I could choose what goes onto my device if I agree it's on me if something goes "wrong".
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Yes? It’s under GPL, after all.
Most people who think about it and are not politicians seem to think that a carbon tax or a cap and trade system would be a very good tool to prevent global warming from getting even worse.
Then you just create a different problem, or in case of Denmark, contribute to an existing one. You're going to make the poor worse of. Taxing on kilometers driven is unfairly hard towards those who cannot afford to live close to their place of employment.

To the wealthy it won't matter much if you tax the purchase of the car or the kilometers driven. Those making below the average salary are normally excluded from living in the center of the cities, and is in some cases even forced outside the bus routes. Also Danish public transit is notoriously bad outside the four largest cities.
Most Dutch banks (except for ING, which does still use SMS) use hardware devices that use the chip on your debit card to authenticate. You unlock the chip with your PIN, enter the challenge code supplied by the banking website for the transaction, and the device shows you a one time code you enter in the banking website. This is a decade old technology that works rather well.
"It's as if all forms of customer service needs to go through a third party."

.. and therein lies opportunity for the tech-preneurs
The PayPal account itself might not hold much, but most people have their bank account directly linked to PayPal, without any limits.

In my case, PayPal could take every cent from my account before I’d even get a message. And that’s why 2FA is so important.
Driverless buses would basically have the benefit that we can replace the driver with a fulltime security guard and have nicer buses.
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I used to advocate a similar philosophy to you on this. Now, I'm in a bit of a transition phase, although I'm not sure exactly where I'm transitioning to.

This article [0] has made points that I'm not certain I completely agree with, but has done enough for me to suggest that my original position might need updating.

The point being, essentially, that at some point we might need to consider the trade off of who we're actually afraid of and where we can get the best protection as part of a trade-off, since things like "freedom", "risk", "security", and "privacy" aren't absolutes in any meaningful way.

[0] http://www.newstatesman.com/2015/11/coming-anarchy-john-gray...
You're probably already aware but just to be clear, Signal offers no security related benefit while using ordinary SMS. Only messages sent to another Signal user are encrypted.
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>This is roughly along the lines of the vast majority of the people that would happily vote in a police state if it meant that they were safe.

Or how about it's along the vast majority of the people merely wanting the police to guarantee safe cities?

You don't live in your mobile phone: you use it.

>Freedom is a good thing, even if it comes at the price of some risk, no matter what the context.

"No matter what the context" is BS. I presume you lock your house doors or wear a safety belt -- sacrificing freedom of movement for more security.
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I am sympathetic to your complaint, but it's like saying we went from general-purpose computers to toasters you can't program.

iPads aren't computers in the sense you're talking about. They are appliances that run a limited set of software titles to do a limited set of things that the manufacturer allows.

It's frustrating because they could be really interesting general-purpose computers. But they aren't, and never have been.
What year did you start? That's a lot of Bitcoin, are you still mining?
> Pollution created by making a car

And yet, the tax is not specifically on the pollution. You could argue that this might be difficult to do in practice, but in any case such a pollution tax ought to also apply to other products like computers and TV's, which it doesn't.

The problem with a flat tax, is that it doesn't discourage anything other than buying a nice car. In general, an expensive car is not worse for the environment (including parking etc), than a cheap car. A large, bulky car might be that, but that's not what we're taxing here.
While I disagree with their rationale, the person you were replying to was displeased with how Signal depends on Google Play Services for push notifications. Last I checked that was a dependency that Moxie felt was essential to providing a good UX.
I live in Denmark. I still see a rapidly growing number of electric cars on the streets. It is just smaller, less expensive electrical cars that take over (Renault Zoe, WV e-UP, Nissan Leaf). I would venture to guess that Danes don't want to spend more than X kroner on a new car. And the Tesla price point broke that limit when the tax discount was removed.

Pronouncing the electric car uncompetitive over this is an exaggeration.
Is there a reason why you have linked to a specific comment, and not to the actual article?

Is the comment what you're submitting, or the article?
Reading over the Wikipedia article[1] it seems that you're historically at least somewhat correct, since this tax used to be directly based on the price of the car, but since 2007 it's been partially and then in 2010 entirely based on CO^2 emissions.

There are other tolls & fees for owning a car in The Netherlands. I don't own a car, but from what I've read taken as a whole the tax policy here has nothing to do with "luxury", you're free to buy a million Euro gold-plated scooter.

It's meant to discourage excessively heavy vehicles and those who pollute more. Any sort of a flat fee that doesn't take into account the weight / size of the vehicle doesn't account for the disproportional cost to infrastructure incurred by larger & more polluting vehicles.

1. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belasting_van_personenauto%27s...
Not a Apple apologist, but I do own a bunch of iThings.

Apple's made a very opinionated choice in choosing what software to allow on the AppStore. On the Mac this isn't a fatal problem for developers due to the ability to side load applications. It’s the fact that apps can't be side loaded on iOS that causes the real damage (imo). But I also think Apple should be able to run their app store as they see fit.

Apple seems to be trying to figure out a way to have it all. They want a vibrant developer community without the all of the hairy cruft that comes with true choice, like viruses and malware. Again, imo, they lose something by forcing this choice down everyone's throat. They create too much friction for developers. There is that bottom-line terror every time a dev thinks about writing an app for iOS: will Apple allow this app to exist? To me, this is a horrible and limiting thing to have to even consider and the reason that in the long run Apple will have to give this idea up or see their platform slowly fade over time.

I'm torn, because I am glad that my Mom can be relatively safe when running her iPad with its limited selection of apps. But the idea that I have to think about whether or not an arbitrary person working at a huge multi-national can terminate my idea for an application is just too much freedom to give up.

Not sure what the answer is, but official app side loading would go a LONG way (for me) towards reducing that friction.
There are also privately-owned companies, for example with IKEA supposedly them moving heavily into Russia was just because Kamprad thought it was a good idea. It went horribly at first but they stuck to it and eventually it paid off.
At the moment driving electric cars is so cheap because we buy electricity at domestic prices. It's as if we were buying utility oil(red diesel) for cars - then it would be stupidly cheap, no? There's a good reason it has been made illegal and you can't use heating oil for your car even though technically it would work just as well.

I suspect that eventually you will be able to charge your electric car only from an approved charger that bills you a higher-rate car tariff, just like you can only use fuel sold at a petrol station in your car.

As for the telematics - excuse me saying so, but the UK government can fuck off with suggesting even more surveillance, it's hard to fight off insurers installing telematics boxes as it is already.
I worked a job where I would use roger in this sense. After I put in my 2 week's notice, a coworker told me that this actually annoyed my boss to no end. We used IRC extensively for communications, so I wrote an IRC bot that would reply "roger" to everything he said (along with some other sayings that annoyed him) and cron'd it to run a week after I had left.*

* The rest of the story is that I wrote two bots to say different things, but forgot that they'd trigger "roger" off of each other, so the end result is that I had two bots constantly spamming the channel with "roger". I guess I should have written tests!
I'm not an expert on sprawl and QoL, but I'm pretty sure sprawl makes it harder to design effective public transportation (among other things). Likewise, the unavailability of effective public transit places a heavy reliance on personal transportation (i.e. cars), and by and large means long commutes in said car. Long daily commutes in a car don't sound very desirable, and probably do negatively impact QoL.
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Regarding your fetch issue: you can just specify the Sha/tag/Branch head that you want to fetch
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I have at various times wanted to start a non-profit that would provide benefits similar to veteran benefits (paid college tuition, paid health insurance, etc) to people who donate kidneys to strangers at the top of the transplant list.

The fact that the kidney goes to the person at the top of the list solves the potential issues of the rich getting better health outcomes because they can pay. Also, we as a society have already accepted these benefits as being acceptable reward for risking life in order to (ostensibly) save American lives in a military context - this simply extends the concept.
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This only holds if you think driverless buses are simply a standard scheduled bus service with no human driver. But I can already imagine on-demand or dynamic bus dispatch/routing that could be an order of magnitude improvement in mass transit service level to some communities.
There are a number of EVs available in the $20-40k price range. A majority of them in fact. In the US we have the Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Bolt. In Europe the two have a number of other options available as well. The Renault Zoe is like a more affordable Leaf. I'm not sure what the VW eGolf clocks in at over there but it's probably in the neighborhood.

So yeah, just because the Model S is a luxury car, don't make the mistake of assuming all other EVs are too.

Here in the US if you can find a used Nissan Leaf you can get a really good deal.
Can you expand on "Much academic work is something of a moonshot these days, and your job is to also carve out some useful incremental advances."?

My own assessment is that there is too much low-risk low-reward work in medicine (and its intersection with biology), and I want to hear/read about how I'm wrong.
Is this just hosted nikto2? It sounds very cool. Do you distribute against different cloud systems? I know you're a pro from the site address but I'd be worried about quick blacklisting; I'm sure you're effective.
>Speaking of morals, is it really moral to not promote and invest in kidney transplants...

This is not an easy subject, but I think there is nothing immoral about letting a human being die if their organs fail...It can be thought of as being sad. But not immoral or evil.

Also, since death is inevitable, I think in most cases, it is better not to drag it out. And on the whole, it is better not to provide alternatives like this. People, out of obligation, won't let a family member go, (even if they are of old age). So in the end, even people who are not financially sound will be forced to pay huge sums of money...

Just wait until hospitals build a market around this, and you can bet that it will be followed by immense social pressure (perpetuated by these markets), to follow this norm.

In the end, the net suffering increases...

There is also another thing another user pointed out by another user when this topic came up before.

When this has become norm, then you will be expected to pay things via your organs. If you are not financially sound, then your son/daughter will probably expect you to pay for their higher studies via your organs..People will ask, hey why don't get a car, so and so companies have schemes based on the health of your kidneys...(unthinkable today, but hey we are talking about how morals change, right?)

The thing is, for most people, leading a poor (as far as you are not starving) life is better than having some temporary prosperity by selling a kidney and leading degraded life till the end....

Now. That is evil.
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It doesn't need to be. Let's say it's taxed at 25%, then €10,000 of equipment costs €12,500 after the import fees, if I install that €10,000 of equipment in a shitty €1,000 car I've effectively got a €1,500 discount on the equipment and a free car to sell for scrap.
Because the authors opt-in?
I think the UK suffers from lack of 'cost for parking on public roads'. One proposal is to bring in a Location Specific Public Highways Parking Permit with discounts for residents without off-road parking as needed. Commuters could also purchase these permits at inflated prices.
Denmark has the most expensive electricity in Europe.
I don't see the Linux eco-system as being more prone to malware and trash than the so-called curated app-store.

> Or how about it's along the vast majority of the people merely wanting the police to guarantee safe cities?

Which more often than not includes being safe from the police, and that's where the problem lies. This sort of power is bound to be abused.

> "No matter what the context" is BS. I presume you lock your house doors or wear a safety belt -- sacrificing freedom of movement for more security.

Interesting. I've lived in places where unlocked doors were the norm, the village where I live (20 Km from Amsterdam) still has plenty of unlocked doors. People wear safety belts because there are no downsides and because they are required by law so that stretched analogy doesn't hold.
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My experience (Dutch-born student in NL) is that "k" sounds sort-of less interested than "ok" or any longer variety, even in spoken Dutch ("k" is actually a used word in my environment).
It seems that "k" corresponds to "fine"/"acknowledged" while things like "ok" or "oke" (yes my friends spell it like that, probably being too lazy to type é) correspond to "yes"/"agreed"/"acknowledged".
I wrote "acknowledged" in both categories because they both acknowledge something, and sometimes the meanings do get muddled. :)
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This is what I thought as well.
Protest here was more of 'make a comment on'...

I think its a cool site. I was thinking of showing it to high school students I teach summer courses to, but its probably not appropriate for them. That's why labels are helpful - nude images weren't ok in schools or work in the 'old culture' either. As art or entertainment (as this website in general was intended), I think there is wide license to the creator, but I think there is still some duty to a website creator to consider what else people might want to use it for.
Discoverorg.com is a paid service but gets you org charts and contact information. It's pricey so not a fit for small sample sets but if you are looking for information and contact details on lots of companies it's worth looking into.

Zoom info, data.com and LinkedIn can also be used.

If you have a specific list you are targeting a researcher hired off of upwork might be a good option at a decent price.
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Here in Michigan our Republican government has instituted a regressive increase on EV license plate registration/renewal fees. The excuse is that EV owners don't pay the tax on fuel that petrol car owners do, but we still put wear on the road and therefore must pay the price. It's a load of crap though. Michigan's famously bad roads are not due to the very few EVs driving on them. It's semi trucks which are permitted to weigh far beyond what the road was engineered to handle. (Michigan has effectively no regulation of truck weight so the trucking companies overload their hauls and destroy our roads.)
What would you call it then? Market failures can also be created by ineffective regulation, as is the case in my example.

Considering the substance of the transaction isn't a viable strategy, it might be possible at larger scales as in your Ford example, but individuals can and will find clever ways around tariffs that are impossible for the authorities to keep up with.

As an example, I lived in a European country where import tolls on bicycles were much higher than the import fees on spare parts, so if the price of shipping was low enough you could simply ask the seller to send over a bike in multiple packages marked as spare parts to evade the import fees.

How are you going to detect cases like that with perfect accuracy? You'd need some massive tracking system to figure out who bought what, and even then it could be trivially evaded by me and a friend buying 1/2 of two bikes each as spare parts and combining them after they've been imported.
That's why they are doing the Model 3.