skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to Per, the primary rays are traced per block, giving coherent accesses to the high resolution textures. Secondsry rays, especially with higher orders of reflections, are accessing higher mip map levels where it is safe, and as I understand it, these mostly fit into memory by virtue of being filtered down.

However, I don't think they actually do 10 bounces of diffuse reflections just yet. But this is just a guess. I simply doubt that it makes enough of a difference to bother with that.
And yet, the Uber car hit someone crossing the road, walking a bicycle, because it couldn't slot her into either "pedestrian" or "bicycle". What about someone using a walker, bent over and shuffling? It's not going to recognize that person either. The only way to make the "road safe for cars" (of that sort) is to remove all the huge variety of actual road-users from the road.
Adjunct lecturing has terrible working conditions and benefits. It is a hobby, not a job. No one should do it as a job. Anyone who treats it as a job should be dissuaded from doing so as forcefully as possible to prevent further suffering. If you have a spouse with a good job and insurance or a trust fund by all means do it as a hobby, even an especially engrossing one.

Anyone who describes themself as an adjunct professor as if it’s sonetbing other than a hobby should be encouraged to get a job that isn’t shit. Teaching high school is vastly less intellectually rewarding but the holidays are better and so is the insurance and the pension.
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34” 3440x1440 is 110 dpi, which is 1x, not retina. To do retina at those sizes you’re looking at 8k. Only dell has an 8k monitor, and it’s not ultrawide, is very expensive, and most of the mac line-up probably can’t drive that many pixels.
In theory, a unified platform for all three air support roles is a good idea, but I think it's becoming apparent that airframes are too complex of systems to make universal.

I really hope they can overcome the issues because overall it should help with logistics and cost over the long term.
Get more people to use both so they become less unusual seems like a better plan :-)

If you're only connecting to a newspaper's secure drop instance on a .onion the risk of running into malicious code seems low but I do agree that leakers need more than just Tor browser, so let's add whonix to that.

Richochet does sound good and I'll try it at some point.
Yes, I can see the difference too. I just can't tell which one is supposed to be the "blurry" one. They both look equally sharp to me.
1.4 trillion is an absolute joke. Invest that in infrastructure or energy security and I am absolutely certain that you would obtain an order of magnitude better ROI than whatever sort of benefit (protective, preemptive, deterrent, or otherwise) you are getting from these planes.

This is truly an unfathomable amount of money that I feel it's hard to understate.

Edit: I'll admit the helmet cam seemed pretty cool but 600k feels like a lot.
You'd have to do that 24/7 though, if I understand correctly, because these devices can be updated at will.
OK, thanks -- I'll be more careful with language, and next time will back up my point better. (I don't think I was picking an uncharitable interpretation, and elsewhere in this thread I clarify that.)
And most of the complaints boil down to unfinished software and systems. So it’s not that the F35 is ineffective but that there is still more work to do. Happens almost every time a massive new engineering project is undertaken.
Oh interesting! I'd honestly never heard of it, but it seems a useful way to analyze situations like this. Thanks for the info!
It’s Saturday morning, I would do something I enjoy then see how I feel. No point feeling guilty about a side project get outdoors and enjoy life
It's is good we have someone as dedicated as Stallman. I admire his commitment but I have to disagree partly with him here.

I believe DRM in media you buy should not be allowed. But you aren't buying anything from Netflix, just renting.

I'd love a FOSS Netflix client and it doesn't require any loss in security.
To reach the top rank yes... but academia is changing. Most professors now are contract, non-tenure track employees, especially in humanities.
The UX gains from mono -> color vastly outshine slightly smoother fonts on older external monitors.
Smaller kids sleep more. Once they stop napping they have two extra hours per day of making a mess, and you have two fewer hours to clean up after them :)
> Teaching high school

I looked into this in my state. Getting your foot in the door as a teacher in a public school would require someone with a PhD in say, mathematics, physics or computer science, to go back to grad school for a masters in education. Not sure that's an option, and is also ridiculous considering I just spent six years in grad school. You could do TFA as a backdoor, in many states, but that is probably an even worse deal for you physically and emotionally than being an adjunct.
They’re not suffering much though. All these comparisons to USB and monochrome are ridiculous.
Hilariously we spent all that money on R&D and then the chinese hacked the pentagon to stole the designs and made their copy plane for the fraction of the price. It says alot about the military industrial complex.

We'll be at war with them soon enough so hopefully these will perform when the time comes.
The next 50 years? I give it maybe 30, starting from its first flight many years ago. Its replacement(s) are already being discussed. The f-35 is far from "new".
I have no problem with people making a lot of money. I have a problem with people making obscene amounts of money. Elon and Bill can do interesting things without personally being worth more than the GDP of some countries.
I don't even know how to respond to your comment without sounding flippant. 10 billion dollars for a questionable program would upset me, let alone 1.4 trillion. It's blindingly obvious that this is a result of graft.

No one has made a clear case that the US is in any sort of danger if we don't upgrade our planes.

Imagine if that 1.4 trillion went towards fighting global warming, cancer, or lack of health care. It's sick.
It’s good to remember these kinds of corrupt disasters whenever someone says we can’t afford to pay for things like universal healthcare and free public universities in the US.
And do what? Create a new $1T bungled project?
Designing patterns on shirts is high-skilled work?
Yes excellent idea to have a carrier and land based shared airframe, like the hornet did. But sharing it also with STOVL?? At what point did they pause to think “wow this will either make it 2/3 almost completely separate planes, or give it a lot of compromises in efficiency for the other roles, or add billions to the cost, or all of the above”?
After reading this, I came across this article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17479508

I was genuinely shocked when I read some of these points. I still have hard time believing things like survivability after the ejection and the need to repaint after every flight.
It does because I can watch that and a whole host of other things for $8 / month. You have to compare the price relative to the alternative. if I purchased everything I watch on Netflix at DVD prices I'd be spending many thousands of dollars / year more.
s/understate/overstate/
Hopefully the FDA will not move to block this.
Unfortunately pollution is not easily reversed. It's easy to say that if someone pollutes your water you'll sue them, but in reality it's unlikely that you'll be able to recoup your damages; pollution is often irreversible and the other guy doesn't have any assets anyway. Example: Libertarians love to hate RoHS and other lead controls. But one standard bar of lead is enough to poison tens of millions of people. Much better to prevent that, hence regulations.

You're right that coastal cities pollute. Large groups of people can make decisions as badly as small groups and individuals. It's an unsolved problem.
You should also check out the PSPI 1000 v4 which is a similar project built into a PSP 1000 case. It's had a few revisions and the work that's been put into it is pretty amazing.
Never said coal was cost free. Economically coal flat out loses. Everyone knows that and it isn't relevant to the discussion of grid reliability/resiliency. A tiny fraction of grid capacity having battery backup would be nice. Well, technically they already have lots of batteries and auxillary power, but you're talking about really big batteries I assume. Regardless, the answer in the short term isn't get rid of coal and replace with batteries and more renewable. Indeed that will most likely happen in the long-term, but not in the ~5 year frame.
I guess that makes an unnecessary 1.4 trillion in spending OK?
Therein lies the issue, the assumption a) that we're stuck with JSF program for the next 50 years and therefore b) we need to fix the fighter... because we're stuck with it. Classic sunk cost fallacy.

Yes, the $1.4 Trillion is an all-in capitalized cost for the cost of the program, but the click-baity article gets to the heart of the issue pretty quickly: that building a product for 3 different users / businesses that each have their own unique needs and requirements is a failure of a product development strategy. You can either throw money at the problem and attempt to fix the product, or come to the conclusion that it's unfixable, admit that you were wrong, come up with a better product strategy and roadmap, and start all over again.
Who doesn't love plausible deniability?

You don't even have to rely on the failed excuse of "just following orders" if you lose, you don't even have to admit that you "didn't know what you didn't know":

The machine inferred the wrong thing based on nobody's orders, and carried it out despite our wishes. The damn jalopy!
Any sources on how much has been spent so far? I'm curious.
I own my own router and the guest network is isolated.
Similar datapoint here. I was never a Rails guy, my server-side comfort zone was always on the JVM, but React makes me so much more productive than I ever was before. I'm definitely not a frontend developer; I keep up with it because as a devops consultant I sometimes have to care, but my primary interests are server-side. When I have to slam out a web frontend to something, nothing I've ever used is faster than React, and nothing I've ever used feels as good when I'm actually using the application.

SEO? Sure, that's a problem...for web sites. I mostly make applications, though, and people who want it are the people who are looking for it.
Of all the FAANG companies, Netflix is certainly the one with the most benign societal impact. They provide entertainment. They don’t take a lot from the consumer to do it. It’s entirely reasonable to use a viewer’s watching history to show them things they might like. It’s less defensible to take someone’s web history to show them things they probably don’t want (ads), track people using facial recognition, turn a blind eye towards work conditions at Chinese suppliers, or treat workers like shit while crushing mom and pop retailers in their wake. Even worse is encouraging people to share things about their lives and using it to hypertarget ads.
How compatible are the various ZFS forks?

Is it possible to create ZFS volume on macOS and mount it on Linux, FreeBSD and Illumos all the same?

I'm asking because we are still missing a good cross-platform filesystem with modern journaling and snapshotting.
FAA: Not Our Job to Regulate Seat Size, Legroom on Planes
Maybe it's a disaster in the sense of Windows Vista being a disaster - without it there wouldn't have been Windows 7? So even if the current version is underwhelming, the production chain is set up and the next version will have all quirks ironed out...
Ah, unfortunate, as I uploaded PNG files.
The process is usually one person doing one 20min behavioral phone screen, and maybe one technical person doing one 60min technical phone screen, give or take. Maybe a homework. Then maybe 3-6 one-on-one interviews for a 5 hour onsite. Fiddle with the numbers if you need, but this covers 90% of companies interviewing today. That's way too few phone screens and way too many onsites if you don't get rid of enough candidates at the phone screen stage.

Simply disqualifying the candidate because they don't meet the specs happens anyway- the question is, are you a highly skilled hiring manager by coming to this realization quickly, or only after you have the candidates come in and you waste an afternoon introducing them to everybody?

I personally feel this industry could use more insults going the other way. Until hiring managers realize they have been trying to source talent with their middle finger out the whole time, they're not going to realize they need to change.
Very cool. I had no idea there was a handheld platform so easy to cobble together. I looked at some units from banggood and stuff, but couldn't find a way to upload ROMs to them.

I'd really only use this for when I'm flying for business trips, so the headphone jack is sorta a necessity for me. I hope that gets added soon.
Remember that your solution should be simple to deploy, so it can be useful in
a small scale. And remember not to write it to run under Docker. If it is
Docker-only, you cannot use it without it, and not everybody has or wants
Docker. Keep in mind from the day one deploying the thing from a DEB or RPM
package, and a one that can be easily built with no network access whatsoever.
> So it’s not that the F35 is ineffective but that there is still more work to do.

A full third of the article is about how the F-35 is inferior to the A-10 for the specific application of close air support. The last part of the article is about how the F-35C is poorly designed for maintenance on aircraft carriers.

I don't see how either situation can be resolved with new software.
Part of it I imagine is these hacker game systems are designed and marketed towards other gamer hackers and require, or at least the apparent need for,a more technical skill set than a regular game system.

However I can imagine something like Lego and Ninteno making a package that is designed for children to learn from.
What future Mars and lunar space colonies could look like
I wish the industry had settled on binary diffs (xdelta3 works well) over squashfs for distribution and storage instead of this overwrought layering paradigm.
You've somehow gotten strange ideas about the programs available at US high schools.

For instance, calculus is pretty widely available even if it isn't a diploma requirement.
https://openzfsonosx.org/wiki/ZFS_on_Boot

Not quite "it just works," but it's an option...
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Every change which has occurred has never resulted in a single pure ideology characterizing a civilization.

All change is plural and incremental, even so-called "revolutions" really just exchange the set in power for another set. They leave the plurality of really-existing power structures in place, whilst disturbing only a small number.

This is simply an incremental shift in power at the very top.

Utopian projects take pluralities of lifestyles and pragmatic political systems and attempt to unify them under a single consistent set of criteria.

It's something for the mind of an adolescent, to which this mode of thinking is common.
The 'compare' and 'generic_fizz_buzz' ones in the Generic FizzBuzz example.

edit: Ah, so the algorithm is deterministic (compare is always mapped to o_9277c6cd6b1431c4622b3bb03df7c6ef) and the assumption is that all compilation units are subject to the same obfuscation mechanism? Doesn't really match the use case where you give the obfuscated code to someone else to build into their program.

How does it decide whether a call to compare should be replaced by a call to o_9277c6cd6b1431c4622b3bb03df7c6ef or whether compare is defined in some external library to be resolved at runtime? At the moment, it is unconditionally replaced, probably with some whitelist for libc functions?

edit2: nope, "memcmp(a, b, 42)" is also name-mangled into something else that won't result in a call to memcmp. What's keeping the qsort in the original GenFizzBuzz example?

I'd probably restrict the name mangling to local variables, functions without external linkage and possibly struct field names. Everything else is likely just too hard to do automatically and will require whole-program analysis which you almost certainly can't do if you're handing out obfuscated source code.
Discussed on HN about a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17277830 (212 comments)
why does he have that right?
There’s also, unfortunately, physical limitations such as thrust-to-weight ratios that affect its dogfighting capabilities. AFAIK these can’t be overcome with software updates but better pilot training can improve survivability.
Thousands of Americans Will Be Denied a Passport Because of Unpaid Taxes
I think that sounds like a pretty good "work" to "work break" ratio. 2 hours on, 2 hours off, and then maybe 2 on again? As long as you're feeling like you're flowing for the time that you're actually working, getting 2 solid hours of uninterrupted work in, followed by a couple more later in the day, is probably more productive than many devs!
As much as it sucks, military dominance matters a lot - it's likely better for the US to have the greatest conventional weapons than Russia/China/EU having them.
Miniscule differences between sex chromosomes in genome of Ambystoma mexicanum
Tiny Crystal Language Programs
That number makes sense. Even if much less was spent.. enough was spent that too many politicians, generals, lobbyist dip their fingers and they don't want to look incompetent. Don't count on them pulling the plug on this project; it has to come from Congress so that those I mentioned can blame lack of founds. Otherwise they will continue party with lights on as long as they can (on taxpayers dime, of course)
Are 4K displays still that expensive?

You can’t buy 1024x768 displays anymore (well, outside of projectors) even though they would cheaper. The same will be true for 1x sooner or later.
Google AdSense 'banned' web pages on my website - The Online Slang Dictionary - that define terms related to software piracy. For example, "warez": http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/warez

They've also 'banned' all web pages on the site that are related to human sexuality, despite the goal (mostly accomplished) of the site to have high-quality 'non-pornographic' definitions for such terms.

There is no recourse - no way to appeal. You just bend over and comply, lest they block your entire site from using AdSense. When that happens, again, there is no way to appeal: your site is done.
The idea that grid operators don't have an incentive to keep the grid stable is completely false. I work with and talk to and support system operators on a daily basis and it is pretty much the only thing on their minds as they monitor the grid 24/7 and some days can get very tense. To use an analogy, you basically just said Air Traffic Controllers have zero incentive to keep planes from crashing.
Unit cost is always a difficult measure because any purchase also involves agreements on counter investments, how much of the plane you can license build yourself etc (with F-35: probably not much!).

There is also the much more important measure of total lifetime cost. Flight hours are expensive for the F-35 compared to many 4th gen fighters.

I find it difficult to see why a plane designed to work stealthily in contested airspace would be very attractive for the role European air forces like Denmark or Norway have.
Netflix is useful, I guess, but only if you’re willing to compromise. I can’t find there everything I’m interested in, and if you can afford only one streaming service, you’re compromising your intellectual curiosity and allowing someone else control how wide your world should be.

There’s no single company that can provide such a service and humanity cultural heritage should not be ephemeral. The possibilities digital archiving provides are huge and consequential and Netflix and other services like it are the complete opposite of what’s in our own best interest.

In many ways, this is what American capitalism is all about. Containing and replacing everything with something that you can make people pay for. From natural food to cultural artifacts. That’s why the USA is where it is today. They’ve been fed this myth of exceptionalism to cover for extreme and dangerous form of cultural poverty.
I actually did the same and upvote both articles.

Here is THAT line:

OVER A TRILLION DOLLARS. If the plane tries to TURN, it can crash.
True :(

(I don’t even know why I did that)
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I suppose that could work, but you’re still vulnerable at the tech interview, aka test that can’t be studied for, or haven’t encountered in years.

I’ve found the kinds of places that focus on these things tend to coincide.
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I have no idea how well it works or what its capabilities are, but it seems to be exactly what you are looking for.

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I’m not saying it’s a good deal for anyone capable of getting a doctorate. It’s clearly superior to being an adjunct though. They’re low paid, insecure, highly qualified labour. Once you have a doctorate and you have two years on the job market without a tenure track job you’re done. You’re never getting a tenure track job and you’re better off getting the he’ll out. There are some exceptions but assuming you’ll beat the odds is a losing bet. Even those two years of adjuncting, doing teaching and research and hoping is a losing bet but it’s not an insane, fallacious waste. Sometimes people make it out. For all practical purposes no one makes it to tenured Professor, of whatever rank, after two years adjuncting.
Any links? This is very intriguing. I would love any elaboration if not. Also, congrats.
This list is great if all you care about is being productive for some corporation. I'm sure they will love you.

But sooner or later you ask yourself... Why am I spending my life working hard so someone else gets richer? When you reach that career goal, you will absolutely wonder....is this it? What now?

The good thing about people working a lot is that we dont have time to think about how pointless it is. :)
I edited a cloned paragraph with a missing sentence that was accidentally added. I prepared that reply on mobile, and that can happen because you don't see scroll bars.

The literal and figurative content weren't changed. I just removed duplication and improve the flow of the post.
I was playing with a parser generator last summer, and it was immensely frustrating to bump into bugs it had & features it lacked. In the end, it was much easier easier to write the entire parser myself. So if I understand the point you're making, I agree that giving up control can suck!
> I read all 13 pages of that article and didn't find any discussions refuting the possibility that it could be something else, like some piece of equipment on a submarine.

Given the range over which it operates and how long it has been doing so and the fact that no one has admitted it is one of theirs suggests if it is a submarine, it is one from a major military. Those put considerable resources into making it hard to hear their submarines. This thing is way too easy to hear, which probably rules out submarines.
Did you try?
I wonder how much things would.change were all of this legal. I mean, booze and stripping is already legal; consider also legal prostitution and cocaine.

Is this just having physiological fun together, or having an evidence of illegal conduct for each other, potentially usable as a weapon?
VPP is ~15 years old and Cisco already monetized it in their own products.