skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ray traced shadows are noticeably better than rasterized shadows.

In practice, ray-tracing will never fully take over rasterization. At best, a standardized ray-tracing API will perform a few calculations which are superior in the ray-tracing style.

IE: Mirrors, Ambient Occlusion, and Shadow generation. Everything else (texturing, among other things) will likely remain rasterization.
An RCTE is not materialized into a table on disk. There is no disk IO.

I would also argue that network is the narrowest pipe. The sibling solution, where it is materialized into a table, is an excellent one. The amount of disk IO is negligible - the table is tiny.
Slow motion version of Larry Niven's "Flash Crowd" ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Crowd
No one’s ready for GDPR
The article is talking about remote areas (NZ - Lord of the Rings), beaches, camping trails etc. These areas didn't get a lot of traffic. Now they do which is leading to the undesired outcomes. It's not talking about locals vs tourists. It's mainly talking about sudden influx of people coming into an area.
They A/B test the titles. The title I got was "Electric Scooter Charger Culture Is Out of Control"
Contracts Ex Machina
What's with all the tinfoil hats? Google != Facebook.

Unpopular opinion perhaps, but I believe they use the information I share to enrich my user experience. It seems less about monetization and more about providing customized services.

What am I missing?
+1 I read this book years ago, which follows a violin maker in building a custom instrument. It's fascinating - https://www.amazon.com/Violin-Maker-Centuries-Old-Tradition-...
From the release post from CHM themselves [0]:

> The source code we are distributing is what we received from Qualcomm, with only the following changes:

> * addition of the CHM copyright notice and the BSD license

> * sanitization of “bad words”, mostly in comments, as requested by Qualcomm

[0]: http://www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/the-eudora-emai...
If only Hal Clement were around to write hard science fiction set on an eyeball planet...
I expect many destination cities will experience economic inflation, rendering them only available to the international wealthy. People's homes will become where they vacation, as, after all, that'll be the only place many can afford. "VR Vacations" will actually become what people do when they take vacation.
I have a bank of blue LEDs that shines on my white ceiling in the living room. I live at a northern latitude so the big interest was in avoiding the blahs in the dead of winter.

I initially had them on for 12 hours a day centred on solar noon. That produced a feeling I associated with spending the day out in the sun which I did not find pleasant. After some messing around I now have them turn on for 12 minutes every 2 hours during the day. The first blue light interval is an exception, it is 24 minutes. Having 12 minutes for "daybreak" just didn't seem to be enough.

The only objective result I can report is that I no longer find myself opening the blinds on the living room window. Before the blue light system I used to open them daily. So ironically I now spend most of my day in semidarkness.

I leave them running in the summer when the problem is an excess of light. It doesn't seem to make a difference and it means that I no longer notice when the bue light is on or off.
Simpler solution that actually works: buy one of these miracle devices (timer box) and just taper off your smoking. Make decisions that are in your best long term interest when you aren't in a weak "I must have a smoke now" mode.

I admit I use it for a different kind of smoke (legal in California, yay), and for that, no need to completely quit, just keep usage reasonable without having to constantly fight with temptation.

I don't own stock in the company, but I heartily recommend it.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JGFQRN4/ref=oh_aui_deta...
> Yup, but we've long crossed that bridge.

I think young generation simply doesn't care. Dystopian is something normal, natural for them. It is only older people that will struggle with it, but once they die, there will be whole new world, where freedom will be an extremist concept.
1) in this case, Iceland has 300k people, so people might expect a difference experience
2) people also travel to see and understand a different culture, see how life is in another place, so yes, they can be annoyed by tourists that invade an area.
Vitalik has laid out a method for doing the same thing in Bitcoin.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/428tjl/softforking_the...
I don't know how necessary this is with electronic cigs now. I know many people that have switched to e-cig, slowly reduced nicotine and have quit altogether.
the ACLU really needs to update https://www.aclu.org/ordering-pizza
Xiaomi will announce its Mi 8 flagship on May 31st
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Hype: C,B,D; Hope: A,E,G
> As much as I appreciate the sheer balls of this, it's clearly not in compliance with the law according to the recitals; consent gained in this fashion is not "freely given."

I think it's debatable. Yes, if they were denying service unrelated to the consent, that would not be freely given, but everything Facebook does with your account is covered by GDPR, and there doesn't seem to be a clear and explicit rule on the required degree of granularity of consent when multiple functions all require consent.

I actually think this approach might be the safest thing FB can do regarding GDPR other than unilaterally and without recourse dumping every account of a person protected by the GDPR, perhaps while developing a completely new system with a different fundamental design and business model for the EU.
Here is a video explaining why Socrates didn't like democracy. tldr: demagoguery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLJBzhcSWTk
Well, maybe the EU will prove that such things are easier to see if you actually take a look.
Having been to tourist hot spots in China, it's bad there as well - unless you take the old roads on foot. Nobody takes the long ways any more, so if you want that genuine experience, walk.
There isn't a "low" payout on Zerodium for these bugs; there is no payout for them. Zerodium explicitly will not buy bugs in individual websites. Every vulnerability Zerodium will buy has a half-life.
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False equivalence. Language isn't a subjective language, ideology most definitely is.
It depends on what he's talking about. A standard single shot of espresso is about 7g[0] for 30 mL. A double espresso takes 14g to 18g of coffee[1] for 60 mL. A latte or cappuccino is just an espresso with some form of milk. A caffe Americano is an espresso in hot water. Traditionally brewed coffee should be 10g per 125 mL of water before brewing[2] which should be 20g to 30g for a basic mug, but 8g can be perfectly reasonable for many types of "civilized" coffee.

0: https://coffeefaq.com/many-ounces-shot-espresso/

1: https://www.seattlecoffeegear.com/learn/videos-home/ask-the-...

2: https://coffeefaq.com/just-how-much-ground-coffee-do-i-need-...
Agreed. I've read accounts from several elite players who were told they wouldn't be taken as seriously if they played a contemporary instrument compared to if they played a Strad or Guarneri, independent of their playing ability.
40% of Americans can't cover a $400 emergency expense
You are implying that Vanguard takes 1%. It's under 0.14% for the Total Stock index, which broadly goes f or marketcap weighted US stocks. If the DAFs broker takes that much of a premium, they have the wrong broker. E.g. at the volumes you are talking about, Motif Investing seems to have significantly lower costs.
Please don't think that these are what you should choose, they are just an example for what I'd potentially (depending on what the specific goals are) choose if I'd be running a DAF in the US.
It's tough to say, there is more than one purpose for sleep, and it may have served other purposes in the evolutionary history that no longer benefit all organisms. For example, humans no longer need to be safely holed up while predators roam the Savannah at night.

It's also hard to know of the infinitely many evolutionary twists and turns lifeforms in the Universe may take, how many of those pathways involve something like sleep - especially on planets without a diurnal cycle.

Anything and everything is a wild guess based on a sample of one where extraterrestrial life is concerned.
True, but neither virtual-dom nor lit-html replace the entire tree.
I view non-reified types as a mistake in Java, because it's easy to work-around:

<T> void doStuff(Class<T> type)

There, now you are guaranteed by the compiler to have the type of `T` at runtime. With this simple a work-around, it seems silly that they just didn't properly reify them and call it a day. That being said, it's also such an easy work-around that it's simply annoying at this point when I need to include the extra parameter(s) to get the type.
Any recommendations for cross-platform, light RSS readers? PDF export would be _great_, but not necessary
Fortunately, I believe invasiveness of that type is illegal under HIPAA.
I share a car with my wife, who is much shorter than I am, so yes
Shouldn’t money be Dukka, not Dharma? Or is money too often an amoral scapegoat for many individual acts of greed?
Is this site compliant with GDPR? I thought restricting the user experience depending if user would give up his personal details is forbidden?
This site also doesn't say it doesn't cater to Europeans.
I am confused.
The difference in code bases is striking [0]:

> The Windows version of Eudora is written in C++. The source tree consists of 8,651 files in 565 folders, taking up 458 MB. There are both production (“Eudora71”) and test (“Sandbox”) versions of the code.

> The Macintosh version of Eudora is an entirely different code base and is written in C. The source tree consists of 1,433 files in 47 folders, taking up 69.9 MB.

[0]: http://www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/the-eudora-emai...
It didn't. But supposing it had, a combo newsreader/podcast player wouldn't have been the thing that brought it back.
They do allow "stopovers". Where you can stay in Iceland for few days between the flights. Those are heavily marketed during the flight too.
"but can't make it available at scale to anyone." =- I guess that's the popular misconception. Their system scales awful, rendering it's expense of operation on the high end side, for a weak product. They are simply exploiting their name.
Start with a tribe nestled in an Eastern valley, with just enough shade and a lake, isolated from hostile neighbors to the North and South.

But soon the Bright comes, melting the glacier which holds the lake back from the Dark. They can't cross, it's now full of chunks of ice, and they have to get through hostile neighboring lands.

Call it Sunrise.
This is one reason I refuse to go to typical tourist destinations. The other reason is, tourists are fleeced. My parents paid 6, 7 Euro for a bottle of water in Europe!
That is a letter from a US Senator requiring the CIO of the US DOD to provide him with progress on the deployment of TLS and enforcing with HSTS.

In the UK, the Home Secretary (who really ought to know better) once memorably wittered on about "hashtags" (1). I suggest that Ron Wyden off of Oregon is either or both of well informed and knowledgeable in IT matters.

(1) https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/03/uk_home_secretary_a...
In fairness these safe snack foods being marketed as powerbars or meal replacement will be outlawed or restricted in the future for the same reason smoking is now.
Hype: D,G,C; Hope: A,B,E
I'm saying "increase the likelihood of the child going to college by a factor of three" doesn't make a lot of sense as an evaluation of the impact of this intervention, for two reasons:

- It's very easy to increase really small numbers by a factor of three, but this large percentage increase is not particularly meaningful.

- Many demographics go to college at such high rates that it would be impossible to increase those rates by a factor of three. Since it's impossible, the intervention probably can't accomplish it.
Tiny tiny rss, all the way, you have great web based desktop ui and good mobile apps
Lost productivity is a huge cost for smoking (to say: we lose out on the fruits of labor, particularly of some great people). But then most smokers don't just quickly die of cancer, but do have much larger incidents of heart disease, which can pressure the healthcare system.
No, not at all. It marks the places in the DOM that can change and on updates only changes those.
Tapwater is drinkable in many parts of Europe, they should have refilled the bottles instead. Also generates less waste.
I think the story might backfire as an illustration: basically it shows the main character's ultimate experience being improved by the DRM (because it forced her to a different creative solution that apparently impressed the NY Film Institute more than what she originally planned would have).

I'm against DRM, but I'm not sure that trying to write sci-fi is the best way to combat it, at least not if the sci-fi is going to be like this.
HP-42S Calculator and the Space Shuttle Program (2009)
> I‘ll give you no cite, sorry, because we discovered the effect during internal tests

We discovered the issue in internal tests and reported it upstream where it was confirmed; there's nothing to discuss here.

> BTW they may be patched without upgrade, with 5LOC long design document in Erlang.

I don't have to hand-patch other database systems. Further, as of now there are no functioning packages for multiple versions of Ubuntu. Multiple competitors do not have any of these problems.

> Last CVEs has nothing to do with Spidermonkey

It was a full RCE that didn't have vendor packages ready in time.

Sorry, but using seven year old language runtimes is daft. It might be fine for you, but it's not appropriate in environments where you care about security and performance, or care about the overhead of making your team reason about these things unnecessarily.

> We sometimes measure number of docs with M postfix

Yeah, we did this in 2003 on commodity hardware, and even it built indexes faster than CouchDB builds map/reduce indexes. Fix the external view server protocol or be honest with people and kill it off – the status quo is unacceptable.

Finally, here's a five year old issue that's still open admitting what I just explained: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1743
Collateral is staked ahead of time
"Getting to Yes" and "Getting Past No".

"A Pattern Language" by Christopher Alexander.

"The No Asshole Rule".

"How to Lie with Statistics".
It's been a long time since I studied this, and I've forgotten most of it, but I think the key problem is that you don't know in advance what the ray density should be at the eye, so when you start the rays at the eye, you typically emit a fairly even density of rays and see what they do in the scene, but this won't give you correct results for some scenes, where paths emitted from light sources should end up more concentrated in some parts of the eye/image than in others.

There are other hacks too - the typical start-at-the-eye technique doesn't bounce the paths around the scene until they hit a light, it just does a couple of bounces, and at each surface it takes an estimate of how lit it is by looking at the lights that are visible from the intersection. I guess you could simulate the rays bouncing until they hit a light source, but at that point, why not just do the simulation from the light source like in the physical world.

What you really want to do at a surface intersection when you're going from the eye is an integration over all the possible paths light could take to hit that point and reflect along the path you took from the eye. For specular highlights and perfect reflections, this is reasonable, but in other cases there are an infeasibly large number of possible incident paths that could come out along the path you took.
It was just the cafeteria at Cornell, slightly more prosaic than a ship.
Does it mean that you want to marginalise people that are not too wealthy?
Because if you increase prices those better off would still be able to come.
You have to do the diff, which is a thing. lit-html doesn't do the diff because it knows from the template what parts actually change. No need to diff the parts that never change.
Well this level should be abstracted to a common interface , why is the component choosing ??? It can be a config detail like what storage engine to use

Second question ... why use,different rendering engines?
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I wouldn't argue with you, but I'd rather they be horrible than unreadable.
I just wanted to caution that one has to be careful what one is comparing against, as the libraries got significant speed improvements over time, without that being widely advertised. So it matters a lot if one compares this library against CuDNN from 1 month ago, or to CuDNN from 2 years ago. The latter is _much_ slower.

The GEMM example was just there as the details of the optimization have been published, unlike most other hand-tuned assembler routines for DNN workloads.
Why is this a downloadable app instead of a web app? It's built entirely using web technology. I think RSS belongs in my browser, so I can easily access it from whatever computer I might be using.
History reminder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_gap
My initial instinct was to handwave as well but I don't think that holds up. Not explicitly naming tourism doesn't mean it's not applicable, as the point of calling them 'universal' is that they apply no matter the context. Person, government, country, planet. Universal. What do you consider to be a definition of 'travel' that applies to that statement, that wouldn't also include tourism?

The kind of restriction on tourism we're discussing here appears to run contrary to that particular line. Even at it's most conservative reading it seems to set the bar at 'if you're a citizen of a country then you can travel freely to any public place within it'. The idea of locking down a city to prevent that is exactly what's being proposed here.

Or are we talking about only international tourism here?
One of the stated goals on their Spidermonkey replacement issue (N.B. it still won't fix the view server protocol performance, but at least it'll be a modern engine) is "Get my C skills back out of the closet", and will require https://github.com/jquery/esprima.

It's depressing.
> take a sales class.

Which class you would recommend? :-)
I'm a kiwi, I don't think people are against visitors per-se - it's the enormous amount of poo they leave behind that they ought to be packing out - it's particularly a problem because we have a culture of 'freedom camping' - stopping on the side of the road for the night, but now we have tens of 1000s of camper vans without builtin facilities piling on the roadside poo

PS: Lord of the Rings was a movie it's not actually what we're about
> Alternative explanations justify genocide, neglect, and let adults off the hook.

While possibly true, none of those claims have any bearing on whether or not those alternate explanations are false.
I only object your claim that relativity - as in special or general theory of relativity - has any bearing on the design of distributed systems on Earth. In particular, you can order events occurring at different places if you have properly synchronized clocks. The fact that a common solution is to use logical clocks like Lamport clocks is because it is easier to do so than to maintain a network of precisely synchronized clocks. But that does not mean it can not be done with synchronized clocks, see for example Google's Spanner [1] database.

I never addressed what else is necessary to make this work in the presence of Byzantine faults. But I am also pretty sure that just sending information about events from A and B to C and asking C about the ordering is not sufficient, after all C may be faulty and give a wrong answer, change its mind after every query, or just not respond at all. Admittedly you did not provide many details, so I may very well totally misunderstand what you had in mind.

But, just to repeat, I am not really addressing the requirements of a Byzantine fault tolerant system, I am just saying that the special or general theory of relativity is not relevant for distributed systems on Earth.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanner_(database)
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Could be worse: you could have graduated Summa cum laude and have the store refuse to put that on your graduation cake!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/05/2...
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Faster: general notuon of speed ... we are splitting hairs

Not needed for 99.9% of features
> These labels are all fuzzy,

True

> so self identification is the only reliable way of applying labels in any sense

No, it's not. Self-identification is one of many ways of operationalizing a categorization, and it's useful for some purposes but not others. You can also operationalize by sets of concrete policies, which is useful for different purposes. And there are other options.

The relevant basis of categorization depends on the purpose of categorization.
What is the advantage of using the blockchain rather than creating a fully centralized debt exchange?
bugmenot has plenty of oracle logins you can use to get access to the downloads
Consider finance options contracts. It's math, there aren't ambiguities, "that's not a bug, it's a feature". Also consider that if lawyering was not an available tool in software contracts, there would still be a game theoretic equilibrium, just a different one, but markets would still function. Before contract law there were other coordinating forces, such as royalty and religion, and things worked out well enough. http://home.uchicago.edu/~rmyerson/research/stratofc.pdf
https://youtu.be/cISYzA36-ZY?t=1m30s

Anybody?
Tourism is a subset of "travel".
For a company who wants to "#ReviveRSS", the Stream site seems to avoid the word "RSS" like the plague except in this new blog post.

Do they support RSS in their service, and if so does this product use their service for RSS feed polling, etc.?
Congrats for the Dharma team for this anticipated launch! Been following them for a while, great team and very focused exection!

Our company [0] is building an API platform to transact on digitized real estate assets, and we intend to leverage Dharma as much as possible in the future.

[0]: www.fabrica.city
CuDNN v7 was used in the experiments, in the experiments parts each comparison was listed with version or commit number.
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This is really interesting but I find myself puzzling that even a PC wasn't available instead? Heck, SPARCstation 1 (a truly lovely system) was introduced in '89. I had an older Sun 3 on my desk in '88 coming previously from an employer where I had a personal terminal attached to a VAX 8600 running Unix.

Was NASA requiring its engineers to work frozen in 1968, having to submit punched decks, so a calculator was such a step up?
Obviously personal information is a commodity, which we can trade for comfort, and it doesn't have much value since most of the people are happily giving it up... so I'm not too surprised about this
Totally agree that technology products/services have significant role to play in Africa, especially as we have leapfrogged lines and gone direct to mobile. I think the key point as you highlighted is is that its is homegrown - it took me a while to unlearn/adjust my approach when introducing data-focused products to in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Maybe you don’t realize but this name is offensive to Buddhists...

It’s like an insurance company calling itself “Gospel”