skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
when the actual screen pixels are rendered by a gpu on a grid, but what's on top is not

we call this logical /sarcasm

A grid is also used for engineering schematics.

Structures with a grid as common denominator also map nicely to for example 3D.

Not to mention, having a grid based system also means one can transform and make assumptions, with quite literally mathematical precision.

These things conceptually have been solved 2000 years ago, as you can see in engineering feats of ancient greece/rome.

People always say don't reinvent the wheel, so why isn't basic geometry (grid) defacto since the beginning, at least as an option.

In fact I will dare to go further.

I think not using basic geometric concepts from the beginning, gave us a 15 years hangover off issues. Math works, working around math is ignorant.

I think it's a mess, meanwhile these are actual issues:

-Portrait vs Landscape (or square) and how fonts fit in, and how you can present enough information without having a billboard for a webpage.

Our eyes are the real bottleneck.

- mouse vs touch

This is also relevant, a totally change in interfacing with a screen, but one that has natural arguments for it.
Probably not. There's no such thing as title to money, so it's really hard to say "that's my money" in a situation like this. Relevant case[1] re fungibility of money. If money can be tainted, then eventually all money will lose value, which is bad. Especially important for finite supplies like Bitcoin.

A different argument is based on property law[2]. You can't transfer better title than you have, but a "bona fide purchaser" obtains something that's practically pretty close to good title. So you could see the result hinging on whether a charity knew it was receiving stolen money (again, question whether property concepts apply at all to money).

[1]http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/reid-on-scotlan... -- OP didn't ask about jurisdiction, but this principle seems to be somewhat consistent in various places

[2]http://law.jrank.org/pages/9188/Personal-Property-Bona-Fide-...

Disclaimer: this answer is the product of law school, which means it is likely of even worse quality than a Wikipedia search.
It's not quite a complete discussion without mentioning the transaction rate/scaling limitations and also Ethereum's sharding approach to this.
Instant Authentication Gets Global Push,Establishing Next-Gen Security Standards
National Federation for the Blind?

National Film Bureau?

National Federation of Builders ?

National Facility for Biopharmaceuticals?
Yeah, somehow all the crypto naysayers always refuse to put their money where their mouths are. I wonder why.
>>Pine is pretty much the Alfred Nobel of the blockchain.

I wish I had the money and Pine's, or Mr Apple's :) attitude: tens of millions are than I'll ever need so I'll donate the rest.

To be fair a lot of rich people donate, maybe even more now that Gates has pushed the idea of not leaving everything to their kids.
Google’s Chrome ad blocking arrives tomorrow and this is how it works
Wow... this question and the responses really make me realize how little I know about working with teams on projects.

I had to go find descriptions for "Agile", "Scrum", and "Cargo Cult".

I thought software project management would consist of outlining a feature set, selecting the tools to implement it, designing an API, delegating who builds what and the order they work on it, estimating time to delivery, setting goals and monitoring progress, having scheduled meetings to discuss problems and solutions, and an "It's Shipped Party" when the product has been delivered.

No one's even mentioned a shipping "Party" :D
And nearly as fast!
Voice of America, and other media provided by the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau provide a balanced perspective on the U.S. If there are anti-government situations going on, they cover it. Just take a look at the headlines about Trump on voanews.com vs. the headlines about Xi on xinhuanet.com.
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No I'm talking about impassioned nationalistic defenses of China on western social media platforms, not Chinese ones. Even if they are much more critical internally, on issues like Tibet which are seen as hypocritical attempts by western forces to impugn their national sovereignty, my impression is that most of the actions by Chinese internet commentators are undirected.

Again, I could be wrong about this as I am not an expert in internet shills but only a casual observer of them.
It's not only simpler, it's also more reliable. If I ask Google Assistant about the weather in the afternoon and it's 60F, it tells me the weather is great. But that's not the whole picture because if it's 60F now, it may be 50F or 45F in just a few hours. In which case, even though 60F fits some people's (not my) idea of great weather, I need to take a jacket and/or sweater with me when I walk out the door.

Point being, the AI doesn't know why I'm asking. It could make some reasonable guesses, but currently it doesn't even do that.

I could deal with that by learning the whole landscape of that it guesses about my question, when it's smart and anticipates my needs and when it doesn't, when I can and can't rely on it to do the right thing magically. Or I could just learn how to ask the question the way it needs me to, and that is a lot less to learn and worry about.
I remember those days vividly.

I was just getting to know the world of computers, I think it was the year 97, I had 13 years old and my first PC, Pentium 200mhz with Windows 95, I thought the games were fabulous! Quake 1, Duke Nukem, Carmageddon, Moto Racer.

But one day I bought the Diamond Monster 2 with a Voodoo 2 chip and 12MB Ram (3DFX accelerator card), I put that thing on my PC and it was like traveling to the future, the games looked amazing and I had a performance boost.

I think the game that impressed me most at the time was Need For Speed 2 Special Edition, before the card I had it installed and played, but the "Special Edition" was for being compatible with 3DFX and adding additional features, in addition to the smoothed textures, in a track mosquitoes were sticking to the screen, I do not remember what other special features.

Moto Racer, Descent Freespace and Tomb Raider 2 come to my mind now as others that I feel huge visual gap between regular graphics and 3DFX.

Then came Quake 3 Arena in 1999 and it blew my mind, I think that in 2000/2001 I upgrade to a Pentium 4 and maintain the legendary Diamond Monster 2 because it was still kicking ass. Awesome card, it has a place in my heart.
Not to mention that "operative" has a specific meaning in the Intelligence Community. While the intent of this report appears to imply that operatives are under official control, they are mostly people who might be relied on to support or instigate a policy preference. Contrast with "agent," "handler," etc.
Hah, thanks! I open-sourced the counter separately (although beware, it's a React component): https://github.com/joshwcomeau/react-retro-hit-counter

Also, for any folks who immediately scroll down to see it: the hit-counter only loads a few seconds after the page initializes. This was done intentionally to avoid adding yet another thing to the busy period of initial mount. It means visits of less than a few seconds aren't counted, but -shrugs-.
I see where you're coming from on some points, such as complex character sets and caching. But runtime and spacetime complexity are basic concepts which should be taught in any respectable CS degree program. Looking for edge cases and writing good tests ought to be taught as well. Also I'd hope parallel algorithms would get some time in a CS degree, but that one could be somewhat negotiable.
If you can speak 10x as fast as you type, that cancels out 10x bus size in handwidth.

Correcting typing on a phone in very hard.
Am I correct to assume that the single biggest group not living at their registered home is students? Barely any other group has access to two homes, let alone be able to afford them.

Here in Austria, Vienna also has some incentitives for students to officiall change their main residence.
Living near major roads and the incidence of dementia, Parkinson's disease
Just launched my bootstrapped version of a meditation teacher/class matchmaker
Interesting that the Jit uses GCC or Clang. And that only 1000 methods are cached by default.
Histories of Violence: Neurodiversity and the Policing of the Norm
> There's a reason that copyright assignment agreements are rare. In a lot of jurisdictions, it's not even possible.

How is a software development business possible under those circumstances? In the US one of the core pieces of every employment contract (for software developers) is IP assignment.
I've seen junior devs hired and trained/mentored in pretty much every shop I've worked in (could be an Austin, Texas thing). But, if this is a problem generally, would it not just be a consequence of not expecting to be able to keep junior developers long enough to benefit from them? Or, if the hiring managers intend to flip the company in a year or two, not really caring about the long term pool of senior developers?
2% seems too low to me, but I'd be surprised if it was much over 20%. Professional level bitcoin mining has been a thing for 5+ years now, and it's highly optimized for efficiency. Hydroelectric power is often where the best deals can be cut, so the industrial scale miners have tended in that direction.
I have always thought it would be a fun and inspiring project to deploy a global CDN ... my career and my lifelong hobby have both been "UNIX sysadmin" and I love running networks ...

However, I spoke about this to some ISP/NANOG folks that I trust and they said that running a real CDN is a nightmare because all of your links (providers) hate you ... you're producing the exact opposite of the traffic that they want and they will not give you any breaks or help or benefits since you are their worst customer.

How accurate was that assessment ?
Like most controversial technical advice, the point is not to educate but to pontificate. In addition to attention-seeking, the author's previous Github gists and associated twitter drama suggest a pathological need to be the "smartest" guy in the room.

Ugh.
I do this with a side project, except it's SQLite databases on s3 buckets -- that's about as easy as it gets and doesn't require nearly as much of the configuration overhead that Aurora does.
I wish I could upvote this multiple times.
I was reminded of the same article. My first thought was that this is blown a bit out of proportion. While the Confucius Institutes are definitely working for a foreign intelligence service, my impression was that their main function was to eliminate free speech by Chinese students abroad. I believe they also apply pressure to suppress criticism of the regime's policies by Americans. I suspect industrial espionage is a distant third. Surely the Chinese government is pursuing industrial espionage means that are both more effective and less obvious? I'm much more troubled by the suppression of dissent.
Remind them they set up their workspace in a public place
A more likely explanation is that if you can afford to send your child far overseas, pay for international tuition, housing, etc.; then you are likely able to afford a nice car for them to drive around in.
Creator here, also keen to know if anyone has suggestions. The r2d3 one was (obviously) a huge inspiration, it's such a nice way to learn things.

I can't seem to find it now, but either the NY Times or the Washington Post built something similar, for the 2018 US house/senate races. Lots of graphs as you scroll, with scroll-based events, IIRC.

EDIT: ah, how could I forget Nicky Case's explorabl.es! Was a huge inspiration for me as well.
yeah I don't know why terminationGracePeriodSeconds hacks didn't work. It could have been a different, unrelated factor that we didn't discover. It certainly could have been service-loadbalancer/haproxy's fault instead of the termination grace period itself. I'm certainly happy to be proven wrong there.
"late to the game" is the very definition of the future. Those "early to the game" are the past.

We, ourselves are "early to the game" of the next wave, and "late to the game" of previous waves (e.g. personal computer wars, mainframe era, industrial revolution, etc).
Even the ones driving 15 year old Chryslers likely have wealthy parents. University is absurdly expensive for international students of no particular note. On the order of $100k/yr in tuition for a no-name state school.

What's another $50k when you're spending half a million dollars to educate your kid?
If you aren't paying for it, then you are the product.

Even still, apple is still collecting data on you. If their business ever suffers, they can still sell your data. Apple still owns your data even if they aren't currently selling it.
> The original plan for 1000km orbits was a kinda red flag for anybody more space-competent. 1000km is the lower end of a lower radiation belt.

Hardly. Things can and are made to tolerate a high radiation environment. In SpaceX's case, this is done via redundancy (and perhaps shielding, to some extent) and replacing the satellites at regular intervals.

> On 340km, they must have though of putting really big and expensive solar panels to provide enough thrust on ion engines. They will have to compensate for their own weight and, even more importantly, drag.

Weight is basically irrelevant for drag compensation. And the solar panels SpaceX uses are super cheap as they basically just use high-binned terestrial silicon solar cells from Sunpower, then integrate the panels themselves. Conventional space-rated cells are on the order of $100-1000/Watt, while terrestrial cells are less than $1/Watt. So even though terrestrial cells are only, say, 22% efficient vs 29% efficient and even though they degrade a bit faster in space (a lifetime of, say, 12 years vs 30 years), SpaceX can save a LOT of money and be able to throw around massive amounts of solar power on their satellites for a lot cheaper than their competitors who use typical space-rated components.
Amazon Elastic File System on Kubernetes
Yeah I want to add that at a lot of universities there isn’t much financial aid for international students. As a result only the richest families can afford to send their children here.
I think you missed the joke here
Bret Victor has been a major protagonist of interactive visualization: http://worrydream.com/

"The Ladder of Abstraction" is close to this explicit document style, but if you're interested in the history and philosophy of interactive visualization, you can lose days on that site.
The other dynamic to consider is the shift to ride sharing. Somebody who commutes in their private vehicle every day is unlikely to change to a different mode of transport, but an uber rider is more likely to switch to a different mode.

Also, increasing ridership helps to make public transit better, which actually can convince car drivers to switch. in my town, the bus comes every 30 minutes except during special events like festivals when they get a couple extra buses and it comes every 10 minutes. At a 30min frequency, i take my car or bike. at a 10 minute frequency, i take the bus. If you increase the number of riders by making transit free, that can create a political motivation to increase transit service.
I am always buffled by the advances in AI and how Google is still not able to detect malicious Adwords ads.
I find grids too complex to be useful, and their applications are very limited. Now that we have flexbox we can use that to create any sort of layout that's also very responsive and scales well on all sorts of devices. The grid seems kind of redundant. Off the top of my head, I can't think of a scenario where it would be useful that a flexbox won't cover. It's great that we don't have to shove floats everywhere where they don't belong though.
This is exactly how I frame salary negotiations living in a big city. If you want to pay me less, fix the housing market. Otherwise, you need to pay me enough to buy the shittiest home/condo within 4 hours of the office.

That's a six-figure salary in a big city. If boomers and management are upset that they have to pay adults, adult salaries, that is their own over-entitlement causing their distress.

Fuck you, pay me. Garbage-men get paid 85k in the city I am living in with no education required. If you want someone that had to invest lots of time and money into getting two degrees, you need to pay a premium.

I really wish boomers would hurry up and die. Fucking hell, they have turned America into a shithole country.
You don't consider real world work experience relevant when hiring? Just side projects or contributions to open source projects?

That seems like you're looking for someone who lives and breathes programming. Do you have something against developers who work 40 hours a week and instead of programming as a hobby as well, they do other, non-tech, things for their hobby?
> False Starts -- Algorithms textbooks generally present important algorithms as a fait accompli, obscuring the ideas involved in designing them and the subtle reasons why other approaches fail.

I really really like this idea. It is fairly common that I'm working on an algorithm and I have pieces of it and can see goal line, but can't quite figure out to get there.

Learning to see patterns and generalize solutions from past failures is incredibly useful.
Here's a whole page of them: http://explorabl.es/
thanks, definitely will check this out. heard the name, but never listened.
AFAIK it can be done anonymously, for a tiny price and a bit bigger bounty (if found). Since the state of the channel is private, watcher has no information about anything anyway. On top of it - it's only a secondary defense. Your wallet still can do the monitoring by themselves and other party can't know that you dissapeared from the internet and won't appear in next 24 hours in advance. Other party risks reputation and their own funds if they get caught by you or your watcher(s). Because of that attacks like that are very infeasible.
Is it possible to synthesize cryptographic hashing function circuits randomly?
Yeah after I posted it I started thinking about what it would take and what that would actually look like... and how you’d cheat :)

It would probably require a few different categories with some sort of output assertion to validate the query performed right and a means of tracking CPU, usage ram usage, and execution time.

It would be cool to see things like disaster recovery and chaos proofing as well.
What are these scheduled hard forks? Is it a property built into Monero's algorithm or is it a process centrally planned by the governance.
pitch is a function of frequency AND loudness
Yeah I think if restartPolicy were changeable at runtime, we could simply have the pods exit once their connections are drained enough. If we were to exit using the current strategy, they'd just be restarted by kube.
I like how they were turned in by their supplier for failing to pay.
I am glad to hear this is a thing. I was apprehensive about travelling to the other side of the world by myself recently and confessed to my wife I wish I could be more like Jason Bourne. "He never fumbles for his passport, misplaced his tickets, worries about losing his medication". This became a theme as I reported my progress. On one leg I sat opposite a high powered cop (I could see the files he was working on). I reported back to my wife with pride that I overtook the action man in the race to passport control, "just like Jason Bourne".
I have also heard the same. An interesting thing to do would be to also be a commercial ISP (i.e., sell to datacenters and businesses). Now that is the traffic all the ISPs want as outgoing traffic goes to such networks.

Running a Global CDN and ISP might be a tad too ambitious.
Im intrigued by your second paragraph about prices going up. I’ve often wondered if the availability of cheap computing is somehow related to the turnover in consumer electronics due to a fast upgrade cycle, but I don’t know enough about economics to really draw any connections.

I did look at price trends in pcpartpicker (https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/), but didnt really notice clear upward trends for cpu prices. I saw an uptick in gpu prices that I imagine was due to the recent crypto craze. Memory definitely looked like prices were going up across the board. Maybe these windows are too narrow to really identify the kinds of trends you are proposing. I would love to hear more on this topic from someone who knows more about economics and the industry than I do.

Edit: autocorrect apparently doesn’t know about gpus
No Fucking Bueno
https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/265a.html

StGB means criminal law.

(1) means that using public telecommunication services (eg. public phones, maybe paid public wifi?), public transport or entering an event with the intent not to pay the fee can lead to jail up to one year or a fine, unless there's another law that mandates a bigger punishment.

(2) means that even the attempt is a crime (ie. you don't have to succeed), otherwise them catching you would make you exempt from that law (as long as you paid up).

The first few incidents can usually be settled with the fine set by the transportation authority, both to avoid too much work in the legal system and because you might legitimately forget it every now and then (and that means no intent = not criminal = they'd lose a case based on this law).

After too many occurences they'll claim that you can't forget it that often, which helps build a case in court.
Practically every city with a transit system should be giving away free rides all the time. Something along the lines of every citizen can come get a ride card that gives you 4 free rides a week on the tube or 4 free bus rides within city limits.

It accomplishes a ton:

* It gets people who cannot afford regular fares to use these services when appropriate, rather than what might be less desirable (having a friend drive them around if they are too poor, etc).

* It gets people using services they might not use otherwise. A lot of commuters would take the train once or twice just because its free. If you can get people started on using public transit, they might just keep using it.

* You can also give away free rides during low density hours, such as at night. This can help offset daytime load by getting people to do their time-flexible commutes at off hours.

Now there are a lot of tweaks on the model, like making free rides only eligible for non-peak hours. But the whole point of public transit is to increase the efficiency of people and business in the economy where it is built - it is never meant to turn a profit, and if it is profitable it is probably failing on that first premise by costing so much to use. Making it completely free all the time makes it rife for abuse unless you institute a system where riders who ride the most get the least priority. But honestly if anyone were willing to implement such a system making the transit free and just using the tax revenue of booming business to pay for the transit is a much more sensible model than trying to keep your transit system revenue neutral or even cash positive (cough, Amtrak).
I just want to thank you maker. It's things like these that really make the internet a special place, with so much power that can be leveraged. It's great to see someone leveraging it to create rather than try to get people addicted on stuff here.
Those cars are more expensive to purchase in China/Saudi Arabia/Qatar/etc then they are to purchase in the USA/Canada/etc and import later. Additionally, exotic cars tend to hold value well and are easy to sell for liquid assets.

Thus, for wealthy international families sending a student to North America, this is a two-birds-one-stone situation. The child gets a nice way to get around and the parents get a discount on their nice car when they bring it back. The car even doubles as a reasonably stable way to stash cash abroad in a stable asset.