skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have DoD clients currently doing app dev on new and replacement (for legacy) systems. This writers attempt at making the DoD contract look like a conspiracy is infuriating. The developer experience in the current data center ecosystem is toxic. The infrastructure and insecurity woes compound daily. I don’t care how much Bezos makes, he has a great product and DoD, nay the country, need this. GovCloud would be ice water for people in hell.

I’m mad about this because this affects individual contributors, on up to the country at large. Currently money is wasted and systems are built in ridiculous ways. Imagine each sub program in a branch of service rolling it’s own IAM. That’s just a glimpse at what’s going on. The undifferentiated heavy lifting is unfathomable.

Before you respond with virtue signaling about war know that most DoD software is for logistics. Done better it boils down to not wasting tax payer money.
I don't really have a dog in that [WWE match], so I don't really care about the he said she said.

I was referencing how it is fundamentally impossible to please everybody all the time, yet centralized services put themselves in the position of having to try.
You're describing a performance optimization. Yes, if you write unoptimized code, it often takes some refactoring to support the optimization. Also, Python and Ruby are proof that languages can be tremendously successful at solving a huge array of problems without shared memory parallelism in v1.0. Besides, Crystal is presumably much faster than either of these languages with a single thread, so the relative advantage of (CPU) parallelization is much less.
In my experience (Austin, TX), drivers usually park in the bike lane for convenience, not because parking is unavailable. I talk to many drivers who park in the bike lane about why they didn't park 100 feet away not in the bike lane (which is available and free) and the typical answers are that they didn't know parking in the bike lane was illegal (despite the signs) or that they didn't want to walk (even though it's rarely a long walk to legal parking where I ride).

I can recall a discussion with someone on here about how parking in the bike lane in San Francisco is usually caused by a lack of options. That might be true, but I think most US cities are a lot closer to Austin than SF.
A Harvard Scientist Thinks He Has a Gene Test for Heart Attack Risk
Fun fact: The exact same argument was used to argue against women's suffrage. Apparently the husband would have too large an influence.
Over the public network. Via fax that's the PSTN. Via internet that's... the internet. A phone number == A publicly routable IP address.
Yep, I was extremely strenuous in keeping up with nurses and doctor's about my father's condition, and luckily he only left with a blood clot that permanently changed his life due to their negligence.

Didn't sue because it was too hard to prove.
If, like Instapaper, Pocket strips out publisher ads and gives you a pleasant reading experience, why would publishers pay a fee for Pocket to promote articles?

If Pocket doesn’t strip publisher ads and give you a pleasant reading experience, why use Pocket?
Except on the same day another world-class hospital decided that she was healthy enough to go home..
As some have pointed out, some countries put more legal weight on a fax. That's just not a thing in Estonia, where everything is digitally signed with your ID card, so you either email or upload official documents.
> I work in a place where my boss is an engineer, his boss is an engineer, and his boss is an engineer

Are You work in SpaceX?
Wifi time logger
IIRC, a guy at a hackerspace bought a charter from a failing/ed local bank to complete some transaction that would otherwise been impossible/ridiculously expensive.
I wonder how many politicians only really have knowledge of politics, how many have an understanding of the Industries and Technologies they are regulating, and how many have any knowledge of what the reality of life is for their constituents.

I think the lack of knowledge among our government representatives is a far larger issue then one person a bit short on life experience.
This is plain stupid. A for-profit hospital will benefit from abusing any patient while a political abuse only targets a small portion of opponents. And political abuse is an issue of the counter-powers in your political system, not of the way hospitals work: a functional political system will have functional public hospitals, but a functional economy will have private hospitals whose interests diverge substantially from the patients ones.
Links between tax havens, deforestation and illegal fishing exposed
Most resources I've seen refer to the whole class of methods that involve tracing rays as "raytracing," and use "path tracing" to refer to the special case of raytracing with a Monte Carlo integrator.

I'm not sure why you are so adamant that it is incorrect; it's fairly common to refer to more than just ray tracing with a Whitted integrator with the term.
$190 million?! What does the architecture consist of? A database, some forms and some integrations/api? I'm 90% sure they could have done that with free software and a good support contract with a UNIX provider for far less :/
It’s probably 150 miles within an availability zone.
So, basically it's digital Voynich Manuscript. Devious.
Your in tech, are debt shy but don't have any money? Doesn't add up, or am I misreading your reply?
I also remember ray-tracing being a primary use-case for the Radeon 4870 ten years ago: https://www.techpowerup.com/64104/radeon-hd4800-series-suppo...

Besides the increase in raw compute, what is materially different this time around?
Waste of time. I won't entertain this any further.
I think the point was that you still directly depend on a chain of service providers when you use the Internet. You don't free yourself of that.
Pricing [1] since the anandtech live blog doesn't list it.

* Quadro RTX 8000 with 48GB memory: $10,000 estimated street price

* Quadro RTX 6000 with 24GB memory: $6,300 ESP

* Quadro RTX 5000 with 16GB memory: $2,300 ESP

[1] https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-unveils-quadro-rtx...
Not directly related, but here's a couple GDC talks with Zach Barth that are pretty entertaining.

GDC 2013:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH7gL3ivgFA
GDC Vault: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1017983/Ahead-of-the-Curve-The

GDC 2018:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAfcJB1WaDU
GDC Vault: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1024969/Inside-the-Indie-Mind-...
Second this suggestion. As others have noted his books probably aren't going to win any literary awards, but they are fun entertaining reads. There are some similarities in subject matter to some of Dan Brown's books, but Russinovich is a former Microsoft employee (and iirc he wrote the sys intervals suite of tools) so his are much more technically detailed, and accurate then what you would find in Dan Brown.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you don't need to generate every permutation to determine whether or not a given union type can be passed into a method, right? If the parameter is of type `A | B` and the function takes `A | B | C`, you don't need to generate the whole space to determine that `A | B` satisfies `A | B | C`. Also, for v1.0 of the language, it doesn't seem like it would be a big deal to put the onus on developers to recast their `A | B` to a `A | B | C`.
> cryptography does not in fact run on trust

This is true if and only if you can and have read the underlying math/algorithm. I haven't read Speck. My mother hasn't read the details of any type of crypto. So we don't have a basis for trusting Speck from first principles; we have to trust someone else for their expert opinion.

You're only looking at the technical details. In the real world, approximately nobody has the time and training to do that, and we must rely at least somewhat on trust. For those purposes, the NSA is no longer seen as a trustworthy expert.

(I'll point out that I haven't suggested that nobody should use Speck. Also, my opinion of it might change upon seeing some basis for trust (i.e. endorsement by other trusted experts or if I find the time to actually read the technical details myself))
It's legal:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/fare-spli...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19217111

and there are web sites which do split ticketing:

http://www.raileasy.co.uk/home/split-ticketing/

http://www.splitticketing.co.uk

https://www.splityourticket.co.uk
Doesn't calling a phone number rely on a chain of service providers as well? Your fax probably needs to be bounced through several companies and some of that infrastructure ends up shared with internet infra anyway.

Though I agree that for many end users sending a fax is easier and simpler, but that seems mostly because of experience and familiarity.
There was a major difference though. Intel's chips communicated over the front-side-bus (not a great solution considering how FSB was already far inferior to HyperTransport).
This one change cost the government 60K. If changes like this are implemented all over the city, how will they pay for the IBM contract?
You forgot the Golden Rule.

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.¹

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Die size is ridiculous, causing such high prices due to exponential costs associated with die size. It seems like an opening for AMD to use their EPYC Infinity Fabric interconnect for their next-gen GPUs in multi-chip modules with smaller dies.
Ah, you are right. 300 “mips” (peak), 150mhz.

The cryo guys had something faster running in the back lab, but I don’t think they got 2x.
How do screen readers handle other aspects of mathematical equations? For example, if I have an equation like "A equals B to the C", how do I represent this such that a screen reader will say it correctly? As far as I can tell, I can't.

I see the FAQ you linked states that I'm supposed to use markup for this. Unfortunately, that means the screen reader needs to understand math markup to work correctly. If that's the case, it seems like we could just include other concerns like Bold X vs X in the math markup as well.
Your quote, for someone that hasn't read that poem, lacks context, and can be interpreted in the opposite way it was intended.
Tech companies rarely sit on finished engineering work. If they are not released it’s because they are not ready
It'd be kind of nice to have opcodes like some sort of Forth language just for variety and fun.
I'm still waiting for the .corn TLD...
Facebook Page engagement has dropped by more than 50% in last 18 months
That, I can understand, but isn't the CFPB more for financial firms? Would they really intervene to correct Lyft vomit procedures?
You can run the server and client on the same box. It's just pointless for that use case, because Kodi can do that better. Plex is useful for transcoding for different clients. Besides, Plex is proprietary and can't be sold without permission. However, the point I was making was that all these things are for watching primarily pirated media, but Plex doesn't have the stigma. Plex was originally a fork of xbmc btw.
It's giving me flashbacks to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schön_scandal
> that many of the things I spent money on

As I've aged, my perspective has become 'many of the things I spent time on'. I can make more money.

As far as how to spend that time, I try to spend a lot on a few exceptionally valuable things. Donald Knuth expresses it well when talking about email: Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration.[0] (I'm not Knuth so I can't say it's my role, but it's my goal.)

For my personal life, I've decided that nothing is more valuable than loving relationships (platonic or romantic), so that is where I try to spend my time.

[0] https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html
> good old fashioned unhackable paper

I agree with you, but let's not kid ourselves.

"Vote early, vote often" did not originate with electronic voting. Paper systems are hackable as well.
Sounds like an FTP server to me.
The homepage description dives right into “syntax” without even explaining what the project is....!
I have gradually converted to a currency-free lifestyle. I don't use money for almost anything.
Banking is the true oldest profession. It might be that the barriers-to-entry and minimum viable customer base are sufficient to keep out most ventures without serious subject matter expertise and deep pockets backing.
Meanwhile, the USA will dump 1 trillion dollars at a time on things like the Obama stimulus to apparently no effect, a decade of massive subsidies to an insolvent financial sector, billions of dollars on failed school districts... China might overpay, eventually, if they actually invest their claimed amount of money (doubtful), but they do appear to at least get a road when they pay for a road.
Original post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17749330
These are great. And they are expressions of type: "This is a different type of thing from a !. This type of thing is a (string of words that is represented by the new punctuation mark)".

Expressions of type give us new technology and increased leverage: We can further our inquiries because we can communicate those inquiries more objectively (i.e. more easily cross the subjectivity barrier). This objectified information is now information-technology-tooling. Though subtle, the use of these tools can eventually lead to new learning experiences and highly refined and promising new fields of work.

One of my current areas of interest is not so much punctuation, but what I call type-marks. These are unique markers that communicate the type of information that follows, or what is meant to be done with it. I find it's best if these symbols already exist in unicode tables. An example from bullet journaling is the hollow, upward-pointing triangle, which represents a meeting or event. I use other type-marks to indicate things like potential new models or leverage points in new models that may lead to useful new technologies. I use U+2295 or &oplus for that one in particular.

Anyway thanks to OP for posting the article--I love stuff like this.
It is not incorrect to use "ray tracing" as a generic term. Path tracing is a kind of ray tracing. The actual process accelerated by the hardware is finding the intersection of a ray with a set of triangles, which can be used for any kind of ray tracing including path tracing.
An FTP server that also then does some processing on the received file. It’s the processing that opens the machine up to exploit, not the receiving of the data.
Clearly you've never been to grad school in pure maths.
I’m curious if it will extend to k q-flats, or other notions of points being near each other purely by being near to the same subspace, rather than pointwise nearness.
The most important skill every entrepreneur should learn
> and not really because you run a recursive resolver.

"No", because the system depends on running a recursive resolver locally to separate queries onto different nameservers.
404 here. It loaded, initially, but some images were missing, and reloading the page gave me the error.
The problem is the existing tax schedule isn’t so clear. Depreciation of assets for example. By “simplifying” tax filing without simplifying the underlying calculations, there is far less public visibility of just how broken the tax system is. A flat tax is closer to good than our current system. People that oppose flat taxes do so because they want other people to pay more. It’s that simple.

See what Milton Friedman had to say about tax code complexity. TLDR: it gives politicians the ability to curry favor or punish and it’s the source of their real power. The power to tax is the power to destroy. A flat tax with a single standard deduction effectively declaws the government from being able to pick winners and losers based on from whom the campaign donations come.
I was with you on the first sentence.. but where did you get 7.8%? We only spend 3.5%. [Edit: World bank puts it at 3.1: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?locat...]

And according to the military, most of this higher than average spending is due to the military being voluntary, and needing to compete on wages in one of the highest earning countries in the world. Whether you agree with the military's assessment or not, it's true that a significant portion of US military spending is spent on wages/compensation. A lot (not all though) of the difference between the US and russia/china is due to the later having much cheaper labor.

Also the last sentence certainly isn't true... there are many countries that spend far more a percent of GDP on their military: Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the typical example of military excess: north korea.
10 year support contract is certainly a good chunk of that
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://mchap.io/using-foia-dat...
I vouched for the author's comment. Any clue why people are downvoting/flagging it?
I'm not a software engineer, so wages are abysmal. I also live outside of Seattle to be able to have this job in the first place, so rent is 1/2 my pay.
If you haven't already studied Linear Algebra, and want to get a headstart on that, check out the "Coding The Matrix" book/videos from Brown.

http://codingthematrix.com/

https://cs.brown.edu/video/channels/coding-matrix-fall-2014/

https://www.amazon.com/Coding-Matrix-Algebra-Applications-Co...

Also, see the Gilbert Strang video series on Linear Algebra:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL49CF3715CB9EF31D

and the amazing 3blue1brown "Essence of Linear Algebra" series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNk_zzaMoSs&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...
A lot can change in a startup in two years. Startup founders are fallible human beings after all, and are as likely as anyone else to say things that, in retrospect, were hopelessly idyllic or optimistic. Everyone who founds a startup on some level believes that they're building a company for the long-term. Either way, it sounds like they were a fairly small company, probably struggling to break through in an incredibly competitive vertical.

Hopefully they all just made a whole bunch of money.
I can't find any evidence that they actually brought it to market.
https://keen.io/pricing/ - per event streamed

https://logentries.com/pricing/ - per gigabyte sent

https://sendgrid.com/pricing/ - per email sent
India had the world's largest GDP under the Mughals and had continued positive growth, but by the end of the British Raj, was facing stagnant population growth and actually reduced agricultural productivity. So contrary to everything you're saying, India was not only productive before the British, it was actually worsened by Britain's exploitation.
> building and rebuilding other country's economies is a boon to the local economy, particularly when that other country is footing the bill. That's literally why the US was on top starting at the end of WWII.

I'm sure it helped, but the U.S. was already by far the dominant power before that economic activity.

At the end of WWII, the U.S. produced half of the world's GDP, a staggering number. It was the only advanced country which was physically untouched by the war, it had troops stationed throughout Europe and the Pacific, and it was the only country with nuclear weapons.

It says a lot, IMHO, that the U.S. didn't pursue a global empire at that point.
> The response to my Strawberry Pop Tart article has been overwhelming. In October 1994 alone it's been accessed more than 2000 times.

The web was a much different place in 1994 :-)
It would have been more clever with a transparent background.
Sell conferences a spam filter?
This is the second similar news story this month.

The thing in common is that both sets of parents were either divorced or not biological, and the hospital tried to use leverage to push them off balance with bogus law citations and police involvement.

The trump card that hospitals play in a dispute is to call police and have you arrested for trespassing.
Bloomberg should hire writers that know how to proofread their writing: "He’s proposed a bill that would lesson utilities’ exposure to damages from fires, citing climate change."
That tends to "lesson" their credibility.
It gets worse: there are u-pick farms where you _come and pick stuff yourself_ and they still charge you more than grocery store.
Its a mission to get a company up and running, let alone to get it funded. I assume you worked your ass of for it and succeeded against the odds. You started with nothing and created something under duress, well done.

Burning out is a bitch. Your not alone, its something that a lot of us have went through. Take a break, take stock. Seek your doctors help or at least talk to good friends and let them know how your feeling - right now. Thats what they are there for.

Later you may be back in the company and happy. Or off somewhere else and happy. Doesn't matter really. Burning out is just your bodies sign that you need a personal refactor before adding more features. And by fixing it your giving yourself the foundation for the next crazy thing your gonna achieve :)

Get well soon man.
The fact that this happened a couple of years ago seems to make the "outrage of the week" angle a bit less likely? Since the patient has recovered, attended high school for another year to great success, and enrolled in college, it's pretty clear that she is competent to make health care decisions. She wanted a second opinion. Decision-makers (perhaps no longer?) at Mayo didn't want her to get that. (A bit rich, considering Mayo's reputation for second-guessing diagnoses across the Midwest...) When she got a second opinion, it was for a different and more successful course of treatment. If this report were false, threats from Mayo's lawyers would have prevented its publication.

There's little in this report to indicate that there is any sort of "culture" of false imprisonment at Mayo, and it seems likely that they're supervising the social workers a bit more closely now, so it's probably a fine hospital at which to receive health care...
My guess is they're for the thousands of people who could potentially invest in the company.
Interrobang survived, not as its own symbol, but in ?! form.
To be clear, are you implying that residence implies consent to every policy? Is that really what you’re saying?

Note: I don’t agree with the GP.
Yep, you have to employ a lot of people to maintain military occupations in an ever-growing list of countries. Clearly we should cut benefits.
Thanks for explaining. I would then say that a quote that actually means the opposite of what it appears to mean is a stupid quote for other reasons.

Even with the explanation, it still comes across more as blaming the linguists than the people who assigned the wrong people to the wrong tasks.

(Why are they fired rather than reassigned? Why were they ever hired if they're the wrong specialty and aren't needed elsewhere?)
Now wouldn't it be funny if you got them to drop a table this way?
Would older people be more inclined to put effort in educating younger people if people over a certain age were not allowed to vote?
Business Community's California Consumer Privacy Act Amendment “Wish List”