skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll give you Mount and Blade... but Skyrim and especially GTAV were at the highend of graphics (and budget) for open world AAA games when they were released in 2011 and 2013. They also both had very long development cycles, the release of GTAIV was 2008 and Oblivion was 2006. Assuming similar development cycles, the next games in each series will be due in 2018 or 2019.

The bar for "great" graphics is going to change as new hardware comes out, but its a stretch to say those games were not pushing rendering on their target minspec systems (Xbox 360 and PS3) at the time of release, there aren't any examples of open world games that looked better than either of those games and ran on that hardware.

I know it's fun (although tired) to jump on any thread about game graphics and say "Graphics don't matter, games with great graphics don't have good gameplay!", but sharing knowledge about how to tune and implement postprocess to get better image quality isn't hurting gameplay quality and can lead to games both looking and playing better.
Under what circumstances do you update your priors?
CLUT = color look-up table

color grading = adjusting the color in an image, as you might do in Photoshop or whatever

post process = any image adjustment that happens after the image is originally captured

This author is assuming a basic background in lighting / human vision / film technology.
No site can ever make a fortune of me for some article.
I would pay 0 for any article/s.

Everything that anyone needs to read is legally available for free if one cares enough to look for. There may be some very rare negligible exception to this statement like less than 5% or max 10%. And not everyone needs to read everything.

A nano degree course on AI is being offered for free. It is only the certificate that one pays for and that is the ideal payment design. If that can be offered for free should we consider anything and everything else might as well be suitable for free publication?
I am a strange loop.
well, yeah. do you have any idea how massive the world map is in GTA??? Of course they have to scale the textures.
I've been using this for years. USB OTG and a keyboard really help.
Why "Vanity"?
It's a demonstration of neutron irradiation. The lack of residual effects does not negate the coin becoming directly associated with that demonstration in memory.

If it helps making people aware of the process that's a good thing. Think about radioactive waste.
Now that I think about it, self-driving cars might not be all that useful to me because if I'm not the driver I can only sleep or stare out of the window lest I get horrible motion sickness.

I wonder how many people are like this.
Launch Toolkit: checklist for quickly making a landing page for your new project
Why don't we work remotely 90% of the time already?

There are deep seated biological and cultural reasons why current technologies don't replace physical proximity.

Some of the more important ones, such as networking, remote technologies can't even try to address. It's terrible for job seeking, lateral career changes and building connections.
Wear those nos with pride ")
NIMBYism is fine, as long as it is applied to businesses as well as housing. Way too many towns and cities want to maintain their low density small town & suburban characters while attracting employers.
FWIW, PDF is an open standard. There exist both open and proprietary readers and creators. It has been an open standard for nearly a decade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format
It doesn't sound strange. Even as an adult I feel like it's a mixed bag sometimes.
I appreciate your comment. I mean that sincerely. But, here is the rut I can't find any way out of that I tried to avoid commenting on because it seems like a great way to put out the fire with gasoline, but I am a woman. So when I came to Hacker News, if men talked to me at all, I either got shitty condescending pat on the head encouragement ("You should do a website on X topic" by someone who obviously had not looked at my profile to see the link to the website on X topic listed in my profile) or people were clearly talking to me because "Oh my god. It's a Girl!!!!" and they are excited as hell to be talking to a Girl! And not really interested in discussing anything useful with me. Or ..there is probably some other complaint in there. I am having a sucktastic week and whatever.

But, it does not matter what I do, I cannot get serious traction with anything I do, much less turn it into serious money.

I was homeless for nearly 6 years until very recently. I got accused of "panhandling the internet" (Not on HN -- only metafilter would stoop so low) and my constant requests for help in developing an online income were largely ignored. And It does not matter how I ask, how I work on that. It seems to only get very marginally better, extremely slowly. At the rate I am going, I will be 100 years old before I have a middle class lifestyle again.

And I'm broke as hell today and I need more income. This is a serious problem for me. I've been patient. I've worked hard. I've done everything I know how to do. It is never enough.

What is the goddamn secret handshake for being let into the proverbial old boys club so I can be allowed to earn more than a pittance?

/totally ineffectual rant that will either be completely ignored, downvoted to hell or pissed on for some reason, no doubt. But I am at wit's end. So have at it. It won't make my broke ass life any worse.
HSM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_security_module

GSM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM
Hi, I want to like this - but I can't seem to get it to do anything.

Some honest feedback is the UX is not at all friendly, and after 5 minutes of trying I couldn't generate a curve from the example. I got to the point where I had to chose a date that has at least one data point. But how do I know what that date is?

IMO, loading the example should fill in absolutely everything needed to generate a curve. Including the points, definition, rates, and schedules, and then show something instantly.
Early iPhones and iPod Touches (for the first 3–4 years) had much smaller color gamut than the recent ones, not matching any standard. They also did no color management whatsoever, with the result that colors and color relationships of basically all content were always fairly dramatically wrong [at least to my eyes, as an amateur photographer and amateur graphic designer who cares a lot about precise color rendering].

Some app authors and content producers put in the effort to understand and specifically target the iPhone display, e.g. by gamut mapping their images beforehand. But I would guess that “some” to be significantly less than 1%. (Though I suppose you might consider the exaggerated-color Instagram filters we’re discussing here to be one sort of gamut mapping, targeting the relatively muted display.)

At some point Apple started making all of their devices very precisely hit the sRGB spec, so even though iOS still did no active color management, that made things a lot better, at the expense of making it impossible to accurately target colors at all iPhones for a while because different models had different gamuts. If you go look up the historical tech specs and display teardowns for different iPhone generations, I’m sure you can figure out exactly which version was the first to be close to sRGB. [More recently, I believe they now also do some color management, though I haven’t really investigated this in a few years.]

The first couple iPad mini versions also had a smaller-than-sRGB color gamut and no color management (I have one of these). I’m not sure about the earliest full-sized iPads.

Of course, this is all still better than Android where there is extreme fragmentation and every display looks slightly different.
I got my start in software development by creating bots for neopets. There were many many women involved in the cheating scene but it mostly skewed towards males.
(as a Perl programmer, FWIW) I think Python is beating Perl due to better support for integrating with C++, or at least more modern C/C++ libraries have bindings for Python. Otherwise, if you argue for syntactic simplicity, you at least have to explain why Lisp doesn't dominate (or why do Lisp dialects based on Java become popular instead of directly Lisp?). I don't understand yet the apparent appeal of Go, except maybe its support for concurrency (definitely needed).
Yes, I understand the acronyms, but they are being used as jargon, not in a instructive way.

If I were to talk about a web framework and say, "we've got our JSON files wrong and our package configs are cluttered, and don't get me started on the XML files," it's clear that it is metonymy [1].

Knowing that JSON is JavaScript Object Notation, the package.json is used for Node Package Manager, and that XML is a file format doesn't capture the feeling that a developer might have reading that sentence, and it doesn't instruct.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy

From the article:

>>> It was Reinhard in years past, then it was Hable, now it’s ACES RRT. And it’s stop #1 on the train of Why does every game this year look exactly the goddamn same?

If the problem the author is facing is a gap between art skills and technical skills, then the post could be less angry and more informative about color theory or rendering technology, maybe bridging the needed skills.
IMO, Reading two-column papers on an iPhone (through PDF) is a real pain -- IMO the format relies on you using your eyes to jump from bottom left to top right, rather than having to scroll from the very bottom to the very top (diagonally). Same problem even exists for single-column styles -- you need to zoom in so much that you have to scroll horizontally as well as vertically.

The need to scroll doesn't exist on a large screen or on a piece of A4, but on smaller devices like mobile phones or even tablets, it's annoying. Having a responsive page means you can scroll vertically as you read, rather than having to make a big jumps (or constant horizontal scrolls) that can really break the flow.
Netsil joins the CNCF
But then it becomes more a question of politics instead of (inter)national law.

Heck, the EU and US are already not on good terms on the subject of privacy/intelligence gathering, so i doubt this would be done so easily. Especially with the current US administration.
> But a lot of people would not consider that a good outcome.

If they didn't consider that a good outcome, they would stop paying money to move there, or move out, and cause housing prices to drop, thus solving the problem.
> is the need for additional speed great enough to justify this?

Yep. I did molecular dynamics simulations on the Titan supercomputer, and also tried some on Azure's cloud platform (using Infiniband). The results weren't even close.
Stop reinventing architecture
You can get salary expectations per titles from places like Stack Overflow and Glassdoor.

Most hiring managers shouldn't offer "X% over your current salary" -- and you shouldn't look for that either. You should look at your experience, your capabilities and compare that with market rates for those.

If your current employer is paying you 20% below market rate, then this is an opportunity for you to reset to (or above) the market rate. But in this example, if you were to use your current salary as an input to determining your new one, you'd probably still lose out.

The trickiest bit is mapping titles among different companies. The public salary data is usually indexed by title. You can probably come up with good estimates for which title you think makes the best sense for you.
I think part of the issue is that PDF isn't responsive to the size of the device. A PDF is not much more than an image from the perspective of layout. I'd love to be able to reflow text from a PDF such that a single column fills my screen edge-to-edge and scrolling allows me to advance through the paper, as opposed to requiring me to reposition the viewport every time I reach the end of a column. I know this isn't the purpose of PDFs, and I love them in different contexts where layout (including typography) does matter to me. But I also really want to be able to easily consume papers in a way that isn't constrained by the PDF layout.

Yes, I want my cake and a pony. Cakepony.
Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start
This is an unnecessary strawman. Additionally, any political/economic system is going to have its fair share of blood on its hands. Capitalism included.

I think the person you replied to was opting for evaluating these and other systems in a different light. Judging by your extreme overreaction, I think you missed this important point.

Edit to add: Also, as feedback, the degree of sincerity you claim to have of your interest is undermined by the rest of your response. It would not surprise me if no one took the risk to have a more productive conversation, so please do not take silence as validation.
EV certificates must be submitted to CT logs, which means ProtonMail and the public will be able to detect the malicious certificate. If it's not a EV certificate, the browser user interface changes and a security-conscious user may notice. That said, if a powerful government is after a user specifically, it is just a matter of time and effort before the government gets in.
It's a shame you can't get a cable to link computers via PCIe (supports cables over 3m[0]). Multiple x16 connections that would lead to some decent bandwidth while being low-latency, without the network overhead or shelling out for high-end switches.

You can skip halfway.
[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5xvwPa3r7M
A bit of wordplay on our favourite Arxiv tool. :) http://arxiv-sanity.com/
Displays matter, but you may be missing the point. In short, low dynamic range means the display has less options to choose from. Better displays are very nice but they will always be limited by dynamic range and tone mapping. The problems of HDR are a pain in the ass, even for myself after working in film production for a decade and now doing CGI. But, when you do it all right (rarely can my projects afford to) it clicks. Games may never be able to in our lifetimes and the returns are diminishing. But, a great display with hacked dynamic range will hardly make a difference.
The thing is we don't have to "consider" anything. Common sense dictates null hypothesis to be "new device equals what's already on market".

It's not? Great. Prove it.
(This logic may not always hold, but surely it does for test-and-measurement devices)
Finding their way out seems more challenging for them based on my anecdotal evidence of finding a very pissed raccoon stuck in my trashcan after the lid closed on him.
There is nothing in your sources that disputes the legitimacy of the election results. Your second citation actually criticizes the first:

In a recent article, Mike Gonzalez pronounced the Bolivarian Revolution dead: “This project has failed.” Needless to say, this cavalier suggestion would come as a surprise to those on the ground... Gonzalez begins with a strange conspiracy theory: that a helicopter attack against government targets was really a false flag operation carried out by the government itself. Unfortunately for him, this unsubstantiated innuendo — which echoed right-wing talking points — didn’t age well: less than a week later, Oscar Pérez made an appearance at an opposition rally.

It continues,

By portraying a chaotic constellation of facts without explaining their causes, by heaping blame onto the government while letting the opposition and imperialism off the hook, Gonzalez’s account shares much with its professed adversaries... left almost entirely out of this picture are the hundreds of thousands struggling for socialism on the grassroots level and having to make difficult decisions — with real consequences — amid the crisis of the present.

And your third source explicitly calls "to reject any and all calls for imperialist interventions aimed at 'saving' Venezuela." In conclusion it calls for us

to stand in solidarity with the majority of Venezuelans who are suffering at the hands of a vengeful, reckless opposition, and an incompetent, unaccountable government. There is little doubt popular-class support for the government has declined in recent years... It is equally clear popular-class support for the opposition remains limited, likely due to the popular classes’ well-founded distrust of and disgust towards the opposition, and particularly its violent, leading edge.

In short, they had an election where the people had to make some hard choices, like many democracies. Your sources do not dispute the validity of the election. A foreign country undermining an election in support of the violent opposition, which was explicitly rejected by the popular vote, is objectively not "in the interests of the people."
Not really, look at the myriad rendering issues between the most popular browsers. PDF should result in pixel-for-pixel reproducibility, browsers don't do that in practice.

That's why we still test pages in different browsers and end up using browser specific code to ensure proper rendering - which often only reaches the 'close enough' format.
Just to play devil's advocate: I do all of that in Postman, which for the last year or so has also been a native app - at least, in the sense of being non-Chrome, it's not using macOS UI elements. I think different environments is a recent feature too.

It's free, and cross-platform. And the team sharing capabilities are cheaper than Paw's. It's odd that Paw seems to bill its single platform nature as a feature.

There's some great FOSS alternatives too!
These increasingly destructive techniques, coupled with the San Francisco peninsula’s population exploding from roughly 1,000 people in 1848 to over 36,000 in 1852, irrevocably changed the landscape of California, pulling up old growth forests, pushing aside rivers, and literally washing away into the Pacific Ocean some of the richest arable land on the North American continent. The Gold Rush turned huge swathes of California into “sacrifice zones” — geographic areas that have been permanently damaged or poisoned by industry.

We're still dealing with the environmental impact from those days. Precisely the places one is likely to find gold, one is likely to find other heavy metals like mercury. Those places are also the part of California where SF gets its water from. Fortunately, metallic mercury is fairly nonreactive. Much of that washed-away soil is still making its way down into reservoirs. There are actually plans to safely mine that sediment for the mercury and gold.
Off-topic, but I've been thinking about doing my own sabbatical in order to focus on my own projects and hopefully start a business. Can you share anything about what you did to get started? How much money you had saved? How did you adjust your life?
If you were writing for an audience of people who work with web frameworks all the time, writing JSON and XML and whatever would be entirely reasonable.

Though if you look to the sidebar, you can see the author’s recent tweets:

> Tonight in "alarming discoveries" is that I went into my WP stats to find heavy traffic from Reddit. From r/pcgaming no less - blech.

> Practical consequence is that I'm going to have to write future entries from more basic principles, because this is getting out of hand.

So maybe you’ll get your wish.
How much am I willing to pay? Nothing. Keep your ads classy and relevant and don't have that shit flood me with pop-ups.I find paywalls ruin the reading experience and I'll literally disregard websites and their content if they try slap me with a paywall. Ask me to pay directly for 40 seconds of my time, article by article? Your dreaming. Adds work fine and I've actually had some tech sites through great add placement actually direct me to useful products I actually wind up buying.

I'd be willing to pay you with a small portion of my attention for your article. It's doubtful most articles are providing some rare insight not freely available elsewhere too. so make use of that attention and slip me some subtle advertising.

Context: I'm poor af. I'll open my wallet for food but the concept of paying for articles online I'll leave that to the maybe 1 in 20 friends who are financially comfortable enough for a luxury like that.
Testing for lead paint is not the same as testing for lead in water.

There are test strips for lead testing water, but they're unreliable, unregulated, and not particularly trustworthy. The only great option right now is to call a lab who does water testing and work with them to send in a sample and have it tested via a method like induced plasma mass spectrometry.

Unfortunately many of these labs aren't interested in working with individuals who will only send one or two samples. They prefer to work with companies that will send them hundreds of thousands of samples. Even if you found one willing to work with you, their business processes involve fax machines, invoices, and talking to sales people on the phone.

(Related: That's why I started a company called http://www.testyourwaterforlead.com. We started a company and partnered with a lab, we let you order online, pay with a credit card, and we deal with the lab to help you avoid the hassle.)
Kaspersky pledges independent code review to cast off spying suspicions
Agreed, but this tool is nowhere near the completeness of OmniGraffle, OmniOutline or OmniFocus, all of which I have purchased for full price, and gladly so.

The value doesn't appear to be there for me.
Most games attempt to look realistic, and they fail. They definitely try to look like film, so comparing them to film is perfectly fair: it is an impossible standard that masochist, mannerist or hopeless game art directors have freely chosen for their projects and by which they deserve and demand to be judged.

Failure at realistic game graphics is so common, so taken for granted, that the scale of artistic accomplishment shifts downwards: if HZD looks only slightly bad, not constantly, and without disgusting the player too much, it's considered to have "amazing" graphics.
Yeah, that's a good point. Andreas's site is a bit out of date. I've made them link to more useful places. Thanks!
Pdf pages are usually based on A4 size which is 210mm wide. Even at full size the writing is often tiny. Once rendered on a 10cm wide screen (landscape) it's pretty darn hard to read.

Also in general the mobile pdf reading experience sucks.

For example you have to download a file (rather than browse to) on Android and the hunt it down to open it.

The pdf readers I've used easily accidentally scroll you to a random page if you make a mistake in where you touch the screen. Kindles probably the best but then you have to email yourself the pdf which is a hassle.
Even with a geiger counter, you wouldn't be able to tell, as the longest half life of any of the isotopes created was ~12 hours, and the most common one was 22 seconds. There's basically no radioactivity left in these dimes after a few hours, let alone 50 years.
The same reason IPv4, Unix, and unencrypted email are still dominating: it's good enough, and it's available everywhere, with no fuss.

Coding over SSH is just so convenient. It doesn't matter whether you're using a Raspberry Pi or a DigitalOcean VM.

When you're coding in vim, you're not losing all of your IDE and just getting vim. You're losing all of your IDE and getting all of the Unix userspace. Unix is a great IDE.
Hi, thanks for your feedback i've made some changes to the pricing page what do you think ? Regards
For a non US citizen however, Not having your mail hosted in the US atleast makes spying not completely automatic. Because in the US, the NSA has the legal right to wiretap all foreigh communications.
If SF Bay Area cities can't be bothered to build enough housing, they should at least have the decency to tax the fuck out of business until they start moving out and housing prices regress to 3x the median rent.

If you want the companies, you must take their employees. If you don't want their employees, you shouldn't have the companies.